During the meeting, Fine impresses Lincoln by responding in kind to an obscure line from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Back at his office, Jack checks in with his staff, and it becomes clear that his company, Fine Fashions, has excess inventory, poor designs, and high debt.
When a buyer for another company (Jessica James) visits the office, Jack reluctantly arranges a sexual liaison with her to secure a sale.
During the meeting, Jack confesses he can't pay, and Eddie takes over the business and force Bobby to run it.
During the montage, a satirical song from the Ennio Morricone score (Union Label) plays as the employees smoke marijuana and generally laze about in comic fashion.
Outside, while inspecting the pinball machine smashed earlier by Eddie, the snug women's jeans tear; desperate to cover his exposure, Bobby stuffs wadded up-plastic into the seat.
Lira finds Bobby, and they plan to flee the country, but first attend a campus performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Otello.
Later, Bobby and Lira are being propelled down the canals of Venice by a gondolier, and Bobby is reading a personal annulment of Lira and Eddie's marriage signed by Pope John Paul II (a farcical "marrigisimus annulum") and the camera pans to a gelato cart vendor serving a group of children.
Bergman, for his part, told William Wolf, of New York, that after being taken on a tour of the Garment District, he was taken by the chaotic nature of the environment, and imagined how a college professor like himself (Bergman holds a PhD in American history)[4] would have managed if forced into such hectic surroundings, and the plot developed from the juxtaposition of a crazed world with an ordered personality.
[5] So Fine also received positive pre-release attention due to the main plot device, the transparent seats of the jeans (which in the film become a mass hysteria and take the nation by storm).
Loquasto had designed a custom set, wildly illuminated and featuring dozens of models in the transparent jeans, arching towards the camera.
Loquasto amusedly observed that despite he and the film-makers intentionally aiming to be outrageous, he was amazed to regularly return from the set and find television commercials he felt were even more so.
[3] Wolf reporting in a piece published several months before So Fine’s release, visited the Filmways Studio and found the pairing of Richard Kiel and Mariangela Melato entertaining in a scene he viewed.
[9] Shales had particularly harsh words for the film's two leads, O'Neal and Melato for, respectively, a one-note acting style and a weathered, scrawny appearance.
In her deep voice she garbles her English charmingly; she’s an erotic imp—she looks a bit like Harpo Marx, and she’s always flying, like Carole Lombard in a hurricane.
Prior to Slokevage's patent filing and publication, in a pre-release interview, Lobell said that neither he nor Bergman nor Warner Bros (the distributor of So Fine) had immediate intentions to manufacture the jeans from the film, he did note that between the producer, director and distributor, they collectively held a copyright on the design, and had consulted with manufacturers.