This is a fiction story
I played 3 numbers in the lottery: 25, 60 and 38.
He played a song by the great Renato Carosone.
In the Neapolitan grimace, 25 obviously represents Christmas while 60 is more a reference to an action of a person who "complains", a whining in short.
For the 38 instead, the grimace refers to the concept of "beatings" or the beating.
A triplet that easily and with a lot of imagination, the classic Neapolitan fantasy, can be traced back to a dream or a fact that really happened. It could be reduced, for example, to a whining man who, on Christmas Day, beats someone up. Or to a situation in which a whining man is beaten on Christmas Day or even that at Christmas you complain as if you had taken a thousand sticks in your teeth when something does not come back.
90 numbers that enclose 90 figures that the Neapolitan people have been able to reinvent to the great by giving the world 90 representations, 90 symbols that will be eternally reused to represent dreams, facts and misdeeds of ordinary people.
Other than Freud!
And in the '70s 3 Neapolitan boys, 3 real Neapolitans decided to borrow the name of the famous Neapolitan cabal to give life to a theater group that has made the history of Italian entertainment, giving birth among other things one of the greatest artists in the history of cinema, theater and TV of the country.
Massimo Troisi, Enzo Decaro and Lello Arena gave life to the "Smorfia", a comic trio that rose to prominence between the '70s and '80s before separating and leaving the genius of Massimo Troisi free to show his talent to the world.
The trio tried their hand at 10-15 minutes sketches that managed to make people laugh out loud and at the same time tell the contradictions of the Neapolitan people, among passions, bad moods, customs, traditions and superstitions.
A collection that is by now a piece of history within which we find the great contemporary puffin fancy of Troisi, the sensational comic times of Arena and the often musical accompaniment of Decaro usually intent on introducing the various Gags with and without his guitar.
It ranges from sketches dedicated to the famous St. Gennaro where all the contradictions of the faithful and their devotion often subordinate to obtaining this or that favor from their saints. In the case in point, Troisi and Arena go to church to pray for both, a trio to the lot.
They land in the hut that hosted Jesus Christ, catapulting us at the moment when the archangel Gabriel, played by Lello Arena, announced the coming of the Child Jesus to the Virgin Mary, played by Troisi. The Sketch was entitled "The Annunciation" and for many it is already legend.
Naples was told in the homonymous sketch, the jetset in "L'attore", the open-air theatre in the alleys of Naples in "Sceneggiata".
Each time a small masterpiece. Every time a lot of laughter. Each time a piece of TV and theatre history written in stone.
Everything was born from the numbers, from those 90 numbers that every Neapolitan interprets in his own way and that inspired that trio, giving us fragments of an old Naples forever eternal.
