The Italian-language scenes in the script simply read, "They speak Italian." Viggo Mortensen queried Peter Farrelly about it, and Farrelly encouraged him to construct the Italian dialogue himself. Drawing on Viggo's own experiences from overhearing Italian in Buenos Aires, the result is a combination of Calabrian and the "cobbled together" Italian that forms in diaspora communities where people of different regions converge. He also made an effort to make the language old-fashioned, as the slang and vocabulary the family spoke would have dated from the time of the Vallelonga and Venere fathers' immigration. Viggo experienced this himself after spending his childhood in Argentina and returning as an adult to find all his slang was out of date.

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