![]() The film is narrated by Max (Pruitt Taylor Vince), an American saxophone player whom we meet at the beginning as he tries to pawn his trumpet. and Europe, entertaining the passengers with his unique talent but never sharing it with the rest of the world. The story is about a musical prodigy who spends his life aboard a ship, sailing back and forth between the U.S. It is indeed The Legend of 1900, a fable by Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) based on a dramatic monologue by Italian novelist Alessandro Baricco. Eight years later the boy loses his "father" in a ship accident but discovers an amazing ability to play the piano and a legend is born. The worker (Bill Nunn) who discovers the child on The Virginian names him 1900 or more accurately Danny Boodmann T.D. On the first day of the twentieth century, an infant is discovered in the coal room aboard a luxury liner. You're the only one who knows that I'm here. After all, it's as though I never existed. You played out your happiness on a piano that was not infinite. And there were wishes here, but never more than could fit on a ship, between prow and stern. The world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time. Aren't you scared of just breaking apart just thinking about it, the enormity of living in it? I was born on this ship. All that world weighing down on you without you knowing where it ends. Christ, did you see the streets? There were thousands of them! How do you choose just one? One woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die. But if that keyboard is infinite there's no music you can play. But you get me up on that gangway and roll out a keyboard with millions of keys, and that's the truth, there's no end to them, that keyboard is infinite. And on those 88 keys the music that you can make is infinite. ![]() You know there are 88 of them and no-one can tell you differently. ![]() What I couldn't see was where all that came to an end. In all that sprawling city, there was everything except an end. Can you understand that? What I didn't see. It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max. I cut quite a figure and I had no doubts about getting off. The end! Please, could you show me where it ends? It was all very fine on that gangway and I was grand, too, in my overcoat.
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