Fan Casting Ugo Fantozzi in Paolo Villagio's Fantozzi

He's a lazy coward, and perfectly represents mediocrity. a living hyperbole, an excess, whose humanity is overwhelmed by the immense misfortunes by which he is hit and to which he does not react in the slightest. the character represents the archetype of the middle-class man with a simple lifestyle (fair rent house, white-collar job, no degree) with the anxieties and "perversions" of an entire class of workers. he always suffers harassment and mistreatment from his work colleagues and his superiors without ever complaining. However, in some rare cases he assumes attitudes of open rebellion