Hopscotch (film) describes bullets flying and even bombs exploding. There is also the aria "[[Largo al Factotum]]" from the opera [[The Barber of Seville]] by [[Gioachino Rossini]]. Matthau sings this as he passes a border checkpoint. The words to the aria explain how everyone is looking for the barber, and he moves fast like lightning. Kendig has the aria "[[Un bel dì vedremo|Un Bel Dì Vedremo]]" ("One Beautiful Day") from [[Madame Butterfly]] by [[Giacomo Puccini]] playing loudly on the stereo as the FBI and CIA shoot up Myerson's wife's house. The operatic contrapunto adds a surreal air of ironic justice to the
Aria di sorbetto listen to it as they would any other portion of the opera. Aria di sorbetto The Aria di sorbetto, or "sherbet aria", was a convention of Italian opera in the early nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century audiences would rarely listen to an opera straight through, preferring instead to talk among themselves, eat, and drink for much of the performance. The "aria di sorbetto" would come fairly late in the second act of the opera, and it would afford vendors the chance to hawk their wares one last time before the evening ended. As most of the vendors sold Sorbetto (a Sorbet) and