- Hello! I'm Adam,
and welcome to Corpse Talk!
The show that brings the dead famous to life!
Tonight's guest is the definition of the word "genius".
If he was a superhero, he'd be called Renaissance Man!
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Put your hands together
for Leonardo da Vinci!
♪ Leonardo da Vinci ♪
- Grazie, grazie.
♪ Leo ♪♪
- Now, Leonardo,
you were born in Italy in 1452,
in a town called Vinci.
Wait, is that how you got your name?
- Sì! Leonardo from Vinci!
- And you're the artist behind some of the world's
most famous paintings!
- Sì! Vitruvian Man...
Salvator Mundi...
- Oh, and of course, the Mona Lisa!
If you had to pick a favourite,
which one would you... Uh...
Leonardo? Leonardo? (microphone feedback)
- Oh! What is this?
(loudly): A voice amplifier?!
Ciao! Ciao!
(microphone feedback)
- Eeh... Cut the mic!
(chuckling)
You always had a talent for art,
and initially studied with a master sculptor...
- And this mechanical eye! Fascinating!
I must examine the cogs inside.
- Uh, Leonardo? We-We're kind of pressed for time.
(gasps) - Is that a tiny mechanical
clock attached to your arm?
Fantastico!
- Leonardo, I'm gonna need you to focus.
- Mi scusi. It is just that ever since
I was a little bambino,
I found the world fascinating!
Animals, plants,
the way water flows, how birds fly!
(screeching)
And I studied it in the best way I knew how...
- Ah, by drawing? - No.
By dissecting corpses.
I was always interested in both art and science.
And how to combine them.
You cannot understand how things work
unless you really get under the skin...
by dissection!
- Ahh!
Really?
- Pass me the bone saw, would you?
(gags) - Uh, I think I might be sick.
(stomach gurgling) - Oh, dear.
Here! Sit! - Please don't dissect me.
- Dissect you? (laughing)
I'm going to paint you! (sighing in relief)
- Uh, uh, wait. Hang on.
- Now smile, Adam!
- Is that okay? - No, a little less!
No. A little less.
More, more! (straining)
Now that much! (sighing)
Perfecto!
Now just hold that pose for eight hours.
(muffled): Leonard, the Mona Lisa...
(normally): The Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile
has fascinated people throughout the ages.
- And made me one of the most in-demand artist
in Italy. (door rattling)
(woman): Leonardo! Hello?!
- You see what I mean?
It's probably one of my many patrons.
- Do you mean customers?
(door rattling) - Sì! I was an artist.
I had to make a living somehow.
Paintings, sculptures...
You name it, I was paid to do it.
(door rattling) - Where's my portrait
you promised?!
- Ah, let me guess... - Shh!
(knocking) - You kept getting distracted
by new projects? (whispering): Sì.
Let's get out of here.
(woman): Hello?!
- Wow!
The Last Supper!
It's big! Ha!
Now, this is one of the few paintings you ever completed.
- Hmm, finished! - Is that it?
Aren't you going to colour it in?
- Everyone's an artist, aren't they?
- No, don't worry, Leo.
You'll be done in three years!
(sighing)
So, how come the paintings
took you so long?
- There was just so many other things
I was interested in.
I loved inventing things in my notebooks!
Mechanical knights!
- Ah, cool!
(robotically): A robot!
(robotic noises)
Ahh! Ooh!
Ahh! Oof!
- Self-propelled carts.
- Oh, Leonardo!
(crashing)
- Oh, and bridges.
(sighing)
- Oof...
Amazing!
You even invented aliens!
- It's a diving suit. - Ah. Diving suit.
Of course. Heh. Silly me.
It seems like you were interested in everything.
- Mathematics, geography... - Ooh!
- My man-powered battle chariot of spinning death..
- Wha... Wait, what? Say that again?
- My man-powered battle chariot of spinning death.
(horse neighing)
(screaming)
(panting)
(screaming)
Phew!
- Well, for an artist,
you've certainly liked your weapons.
- I did! But really, I was a man of peace.
I loved animals and birds, and the idea of flying.
- Whoa!
Was that a helicopter?
- Heli what?
That's my aerial screw.
I based it on the seeds of the sycamore tree.
My one regret is that so much of what I invented
never made it off the drawing board.
- Uh, you mean like this wing suit?
Whew! You sure this will work?
It feels kind of, I don't know...
heavy? - Sì. You'll be fine.
Hey, I'm Leonardo da Vinci!
- Well, who am I to argue with one of history's
greatest geniuses?
Here goes nothing. Ah...
One, two, two-and-a-half!
(screaming)
- Oh, dear.
I did have one invention that definitely worked!
A parachute!
Ah...
(grunting)
- Now you tell me.
- Oh well. Back to the drawing board.
- And that's all we've got time for.
(crowd cheering) Join me again
on Corpse Talk, the show
that brings a dead famous to life!
(groaning) Ow.
- Ciao, ciao!
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