Transcripts For CNNW The Movies 20191225

[ sound of gunfire ] as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. Goodfellas is like, fasten your seatbelts, im going to kick the shit out of you for two hours, and youre going to love it. There have been so many gangster movies, so many mob movies. Is it really possible that in 1990 Martin Scorsese will be able to make a gangster movie that has something to say that hasnt been said a million times . Its going to be a good summer. And you watch the movie and youre like, yeah. See you later, thanks. What are you doing . Youre leaving your car . He watches the car for me. We were trying to capture the exuberance of that world. Its dangerous and threatening, but theyre having a wonderful time. Goodfellas was the nuts and bolts of the mob. It was the mob as a job. What do you do . Im in construction. And the balance of these two families, of your mob family and your real family, and the way that the two start to bleed into each other. Here hide this. Are you all right . Yeah. Goodfellas was based on a book called wiseguys. I read it. I said, what if i play this guy, jimmie the chin . What did i tell you . What did i tell you . You dont buy anything, you hear me . Dont buy anything. Its a true story. It is the nature of that lifestyle. Just a little taste. You have to be clever enough, let alone have the audacity, the discretion. But ultimately not being afraid of the violence. Hopefully what i just heard. This is for you. Attaboy. The dangerous enjoyment of it. You can be enjoying it and suddenly somebody gets shot in the chest. Whats the world coming to . [ sound of gunfire ] then its not funny. There is a price for everything you do. All right. You all know the drill. In the 90s, theres a host of movies in which people operate outside the system. We love the idea of the outlaw. Its one of the reasons we go to the movies. Merry christmas. Merry christmas to you, officer. You go to the movies to see people violate the mores and laws of society. Im going to take one of those big envelopes and put as many 100s, 50s, and 20s as you can put into it. In the mid90s, we were rooting for criminals to get away with it. Do you want a cigarette, nick . We wanted the bad guys to be the good guys. It was the era when the antihero was on the rise. You have something against ice cubes . I like rough edges. In basic instinct the character is a sociopath. And sociopaths are as dangerous as that character is. When i played the part, i needed to understand the sociopathic mind. And that is a very scary thing. Silence of the lambs, i remember waiting for it with bated breath for it to come out. Nothing prepared for how jongt i demen shot. Good morning. Dr. Lecter, my name is clarice starling. May i speak with you . This is a film that is also an actors piece. Closer. Told by the closeup master of all time. The tension, it just kept rising and rising. Serial killers keep some sort of trophies of their victims. I didnt. No. No, you ate yours. Silence of the lambs is about this eerie dance between clarice starling and Hannibal Lecter. People will say were in love. And manages to take elements of the horror movie and even the gothic iconography and put it into a real world thriller. You still wake up sometimes, dont you, wake up in the dark, and hear the scream of the lambs. Yes. Silence of the lambs becomes one of three films ever to win best picture, best actress, best director, best adapted screenplay, then Anthony Hopkins wins for best actor for playing Hannibal Lecter with maybe 16 minutes of screen time. How come dara let you go. Because i didnt ask him shit, thelma. The thing i love about thelma and louis is it was a love story between two women. It was one of the great buddy movies of all time. Two friends decide to get away and things go off the rails really, really quickly. Shut up please, please dont hurt me you let her go, you [ bleep ] hole or im going to splatter your ugly face all over this nice car. The idea hit me, two women go on a crime spree. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, this is a robbery. It wasnt just the idea. I kind of saw the whole movie in one flash. Goddamn, you bitch i dont think hes going to apologize. Nah, i dont think so. [ sound of gunfire ] [ screaming ] its an odyssey of two women on the last journey. They would not know its the last journey, therefore the journey had to be magnificent. A lot of women looked at this film and thought, i can relate to those women, i can relate to what theyre going through, i can understand the choices they make. Lets keep going. What do you mean . Go they looked at each other and they both knew. Are you sure . Its kind of the culmination of both our lives and we have no choice. Lets go. I cant imagine the movie would have had any power at all had we not ended it that way. I have no enemies here. No . Wait a while. Shawshank redemption is the perfect prison film. For good prison movie you need a warden whose corrupt. I wouldnt worry about this contract. You need some claustrophobia, you want the audience to feel like theyre trapped. And then there has to be hope. A little parole rejection present. The audience has to hope for Something Better for these characters that they fall for. Its a love between two men, spending 20, 30 years in prison, getting to know each other. The funny thing is, on the outside, i was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook. Ha watching them rotate through this system. Shawshank redemption is about seeking justice in an imperfect world. When the convicts win, you have a sense of relief and that somehow justice has been done. Trying to make it real compare to what sock is it to me in vegas, everybodys got to watch everybody else. Casino was the story of the hubris of these two men, joes character and bobs character. Look at this place, its made of money. You know what the best part is, nobodys going to know what were doing. And poor sharon who is thrown in the middle. Working for marty is a big thing. He was very open, supportive, encouraging, and so present with me. Can i trust you . Answer me. Can i trust you . Sharon stone is in the great tradition of crawford and the great divas. And i had to learn how to bring out what i needed through her. [ screaming ] with marty, because his films are so daring and the violence is so violent, and because everything that you do is so true, you have to be willing to kind of let your guts come out. Get outta here. Fine. Youre stoned. Youre a junkie. Get out of here. [ bleep ]. Damn you. Ultimately theyre given paradise, and like adam and eve theyre banished from paradise because they blew it. With advil, you have power over pain, so the whole world looks different. 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Im jack berry. The nation was captivated by this game show, about the truth and the perversion of truth in the name of entertainment. Youre young, clean cut from a prom then family. Kids would run to do their homework to be like charles van doren. If you were a kid, would you want to be an annoying jewish guy with a side wall haircut . As i kid, i lived through that quiz show period. Three points. I wanted John Turturro to play herb stempel, a guy from a lower class area and rose to fame. People got tired of him because he wasnt so pleasant to look at. Nobody could beat him because he was so sharp. Thats when they came up with the idea, lets find someone that looks good and well give him the answers. I know his name np general hw halak. You are our new champion for 20,000. And that cruelty was something i wanted to show. The power of money and personality. So to me, that was a story that really had to be told. We didnt land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us, land right on top of us. Malcolm x is epic. It really felt like the film that he was made to make. And i think he felt a certain urgency in making it. Spike had the good fortune of casting Denzel Washington at the pinnacle of his movie stardom. I think its his best performance. Denzel washington is one of the alltime greats. What he does in his artistry, painting a portrait of an individual, its astounding. If the socalled negro in america was truly an american citizen, we wouldnt have a racial problem. If the emancipation proclamation was authentic, we wouldnt have a race problem. Watching a guy like denzel as malcolm x, top of the game, intimidating in many ways. Mr. Becket, come in. When we made philadelphia, he was malcolm x already. That was like starting a movie with Marlon Brando and just seeing the godfather the night before. What happened to your face . I have aids. Oh. Oh, im sorry. Philadelphia was an important film. Denzel washington represents the audiences apprehension with people with aids. How did they find out you have the aids . One of the partners noticed a lesion on my forehead. So as his character spends more time with tom hanks, were starting to see him as more than his sexuality or his disease. Lets get it out of the closet. Because this case is not just about aids, is it . So lets talk about what this case is really all about. The general publics hatred, our loathing, our fear of homosexuals. He can bring the audience on that journey to say we dont need to fear those people, we dont need to stigmatize them. My name is forrest gump. Forrest gump. Its a very rare thing for me to read a script and not be able to put it down. Forrest gump is a marvelous look at how history happens. Forrest gump, john lennon. Its a delightful play on the contingency and accident that shapes our world. We were the First Americans to visit the land of china in like a million years or Something Like that. Somebody said world peace was in our hands. That film embodies everything that makes tom great. Hes fantastic dramatic actor. Hes magnificent comedy actor. I cant think of another actor living or dead who could have ever done that part. By the 1990s, the median age of the people who served in world war ii was around 70. They were growing old and they were disappearing. And there was a powerful sense of nostalgia. And we saw a lot of retrospective looks at aspects of world war ii. This was the time when people started talking about the greatest generation. Saving private ryan was a film i was going to make someday in my life. My dad used to have his band of brothers from the air corps come over to the house every year. The first time i ever heard grown men cry was at these reunions. It was all about the trauma they had suffered in world war ii. Ill see you on the beach. I felt it was necessary for me to tell the experience of veterans and what they had gone through when they were a little bit older than i was at the time. [ sound of gunfire ] when moviegoers saw the men disembark, the bullets were going through the water and hitting them in the water. There was a powerful realism to that. Its spielberg saying, what does it feel like to have gone on that beach . Your nose is pressed right into the savagery. In private ryan, at the beginning, it was fantastic. I was ill for two weeks after that. I couldnt believe he did that. Sir, i dont have a good feeling about this one. When was the last time you felt good about anything . This ability to entertain and reach audiences more than one way, with the same movie, saving private ryan is a great example of that because its exciting, its thrilling, its suspenseful. Its also a reminder of the price of that kind of warfare, the cost to the soul, and who winds up living and dying and bearing those scars in that kind of a conflict. What is that . Of course. Thats a nice sheen on it. Thank you. Very nice. I would get you one but the man who made it is probably dead, i dont know. My family, when i was growing up, talked about the holocaust, although they never used that word, they used to call it the great murders. I shot the whole film documentary style. It was the first film i had ever shot like that. And it became less of a film, more of just a life journey, a living, learning experience making that film. We all felt we were shooting in a graveyard. And so the amount of reverence of the crew and the cast. I cast liam neeson at the last minute based on a play i saw him in on broadway. I thought he was the best possible schindler i could find. And he was. He saved my life. Yes, he did. God bless you. Oskar schindler was a deal maker and didnt really care that much for his workers. But there was an inevitable metamorphosis that unlocked his empathy. Instead of being just one who gathers wealth for his own pleasure, he started to spend his money to save lives. I could have got more. I could have got more. I dont know. The totality of the meaning of that film, the fact that it created awareness in the world of an era in history that had been forgotten, that it denied the deniers, it allowed us to mean it when we said never again. Schindlers list was the greatest experience i had as a filmmaker. Things happen. And sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. But at fidelity, we help you prepare for the unexpected with Retirement Planning and advice for what you need today and tomorrow. Because when youre with fidelity, a partner who makes sure every step is clear, theres nothing to stop you from moving forward. In connemara. 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Phil connors but this just happened. And nobody minded. Phil connors. Ned . The movie is perfect. Its also so obviously for bill. Bill, like the groundhog bill . Yeah, like the groundhog bill. Look for your shadow there, pal morons, your bus is leaving. Its hard to be a likeable dick and then win the audience over by the end. Bill is really good at that. Oh, thank you, young man. Its nothing, maam, just be comfortable, all right . To me, bill murray is one of the great comedy actors that has ever been. How long will you be staying with us . Indefinitely. Im being sued for divorce. Hes picky, which is perfect, because then he finds his way into somebody really extraordinary. Whats the secret, max . The secret . Yeah. You seem to have it pretty figured out. Secret, i dont know. I think youve just got to find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life. Wes anderson, his films are like opening a jewelry box and you can take out all the little trinkets and look at them, and theyre sparkly and joyful. Whats going on in here . Its so rare when someone comes along and creates their own esthetic, which is truly unique. I really related to rushmore in terms of having bad grades and not being good in school but having like a passion for something. All right, next scene. Frank, youre with a bag of cocaine. When rushmore came out, i wrote a fan letter to wes. It was the perfect film, laugh out loud humor with an actual pathos. I like your nurses uniform. These are o. R. Scrubs. Oh, are they . Comedy in the 90s will be gigantic. Shall we shag now or shall we shag later . Its going to be over the top and its going to fill the frame. Why dont you just go home . Thats your home. Are you too good for your home . Answer me and youre going to get adam sandler knocking out one movie after the next. Sidney and scott are newlyweds. If you look at the scenes that are memorable from Something Like waynes world, thats big scenes. Thats the heads bobbing back and forth. Theyre not afraid to do Something Big to get a laugh. And then all of a sudden, one day, this guy, who is as big as the screen, shows up. And its jim carrey. And he turned into a top Hollywood Star because he is unafraid to be big. Even as hes doing these over the top things where you think, hes talking through his behind, im not going to watch this. Excuse me, i would like to ass you a few questions. Yet there you are, youre watching, and youre laughing. Just like me they long to be oh, no. I dont have to be too intellectual about it, i just laugh my ass off. Ow part of it was, i cant believe theyre doing that. Whats that bubble there . What do you think . How in the hell did you the farrelly brothers pushed the rules so far. You can do that . Something about mary is this anarchic comedy that had heart to it. Maybe you should move down here and marry me. Ill have the double decaf cappuccino. Ill have a half double decap half caf with a twist of lemon. You had lots and lots of really funny, bankable people doing wonderful movies. My first day as a woman, im getting hot flashes. Hello, peter. Whats happening . Umm, im going to need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around nine, that would be great, okay . Office space is not as acclaimed as it should be. It was not a big hit. But theres so much modern comedy in that movie. It was wonderful. Just a moment. Office space did such a great job in completely lampooning office life. Technology had made these cubicle lands, and office space really captured that. I might take that new chick from logistics. If things go well, i maybe showing her my oh face, you know what im talking about. Jennifer aniston was in it and she worked at a place like tgifs. We need to talk about your flair. Being a waitress who is like, put that flair on and show what youre really like. And shes like, heres my flair. There is my flair. This is my expressing myself, okay . Teachers pet, i want to be teachers pet i want to be cuddled and cuddled as close to you as i can get Christopher Guest is considered the master of the mockumentary. He comes up with characters that are profoundly silly. When we were on snl together. Chris did a movie with marty and harry called synchronized swimming. Ive been directing shakes peer in the park and just kill myself with the vegematic. Thats where the character in waiting for guffin was born. Me right out of in any event fresh off a destroyer. Not really much to call my own. And then basically being slammed down for ten or so years, you know, offoffoffbroadway and then enough is enough, okay, i get the joke. Chris surrounds himself with great, funny people. Eugene, fred willard, catherine ohara. So nervous. Youre going to be great. If theres an empty space, just say a line, thats what i like to do, even if its from another show. Chris works in miniature. Hes very much like peter sellars, such fine taste. When it hits right its amazing. Thats the way it is. I just hate you and i hate your ass face. Boom. Enjoy your prime rib anyone ever call you, meat santa . No, thats. Weird. Happy holidays. Enjoy. Next customer . Itreat them all as if, they are hot and energized. Enjoy. Stay away from any downed wire, call 911 and call pg e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. S i remember coming out of seeing do the right thing and that day i went to my dorm and started writing boyz in the hood. My mama say dont have no name on it. I aint afraid to get shot. Some of what i was doing was inspired by what truffaut did with the 400 blows, what rob reiner did with stand by me. But those movies didnt come from where i was standing from. We call a call of a burglary here. That was about an hour ago. Whoa, we didnt ask you that. I decided to have a black cop be more than the white partner in the scenes where hes encountering the black residents. Something wrong . Something wrong . Yeah. Its just too bad you dont know what it is. The cop, encounters him years later when hes a teenager and profiles him. I didnt do nothing. You think youre tough. You think youre tough, huh . Oh, youre scared now, huh . I like that. Singleton was nominated for two academy awards, best original screenplay and the youngest person nominated for best director. It was an era when a lot of people were paying to black film. Theres this famous moment when the New York Times magazine does this cover story. You really had for the first time a large collection of black filmmakers documenting what was going on in the culture. You got to be ready to stand up and die for that shit like blizzard did if you want some juice. Blizzard aint sticking up for nothing now. Thats because we wasnt there to back him up. If we was there it would be five dead niggers i understand of one. Hes a phenomenal actor. We had a similar vision of what we wanted to do as young men coming into this whole entertainment world together. My attitude was, i got my Robert De Niro, i got the dude i want to do multiple movies with. People dont realize how theatrical the gangster rap thing was. Tupac, icet, ice cube. They were also storytellers. When it came time for them to go to hollywood, they were all convincing on screen. Craig. Craig. Hold up. I gave him a heartbeat. Man, thats what its supposed to do. Its one of those films that made me excited about being in the film industry. Cube at the time transitioning from music into filmmaking. The way it got sold at sundance. It was just a sort of quintessential independent cinema coming to the mainstream and then of course it went on to do so well. Ladies, ladies, i know youll be in attendance. Did you hear anything about a party today . Uhuh. At least not good ones. House party is just a fun, silly teen comedy. Ladies. In the house. Dragon breath. Who you talking too . They play two teenagers looking to have a fun time. Dads away, lets throw a party. Scandalous. Having a movie like that premier at sundance really showed the possibilities that indie black filming making can have. What . Dont answer me what. Turn that tv off. I dont care what it is, no tv on a school night. We talked about the spike lee films, but also it was a period when flack female filmmakers are making some really interesting things. You have daughters of the dust, julie dashs film, examining black culture that harkens back several years. And that movie is beautiful. You have the movie directed by leslie harris. Youre too cute to be a gentlemen, right . You dont have to be like that. Whatever, whatever. Its a hood movie from the perspective of a young girl. People think of new black realism as the hood genre. But actually theres a range of socioeconomic experience being shown in black cinema of the 90s. Whether were talking about some of the black romantic comedies, familiar films like soul food, or films like waiting to exhale or how stella got her groove back, what i think of as films that celebrate sisterhood. Thats another element that hadnt made its way into mainstream cinema. Hello. Hello. From the early days of will smiths career, he was incredibly smart about figuring out how to become the superstar he wanted to become. He chose the one role nobody expected him to play, a gay hustler in six degrees of separation. I pick a name you tell me anything about them. Where they live, secrets, everything. And for every name, you get a piece of my clothes. Will smith became a triple threat. There arent many who can do action, drama, and comedy. Now, back up. Put the gun down. And give me a pack of tropical fruit bubbleicious. And will smith is that guy. I would say that tom cruise is the first person to figure out the power of using the International Box office to turn yourself into the biggest star that anyone has ever seen. Will smith looked at that and said, thats what im going to do. Thats what he did. Movie that is did well. Syfy aliens. Welcome to earth. He becomes so successful that the july 4th weekend was blocked out for will smith movies. You know what the difference is between you and me . I make this look good. S best ne. The best network is even better. The best deals on the best network. How can everyone be the best . Well, sprints doing things differently. Theyre offering a 100 total satisfaction guarantee. While i think their network and savings are great, you dont just have to take my word for it. Try it out, decide for yourself. Hurry in for exciting holiday deals and save your family money. Get both an unlimited plan and one of the newest phones included for just 35 a month. 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Its hard to hold a roo real performance, the comedy and physical comedy. Im just a girl standing in front of a boy. Asking him to love her. Romantic comedy is a genre that i love. I think i just was really lucky that they were making a big resurgence at a time when i was at the ready. The romance of comedy gets its jump start and you have a number of people who are especially adept at the form of the romantic comedy. You have sandra bullock, you have hugh grant, you have meg ryan and you have tom hanks. She made everything beautiful. And its just tough this time of year. The kid needs a mother. Could it be that you need someone just as much as jonah does. Yes. He prepared movies like no other director i ever worked with. We would work for weeks prior to the shooting. Every line was profound or written or perfected. Nora ephron was unafraid to take something that felt familiar but then cover it in unfamiliar territory. Youre going to have sex with her, huh . I certainly hope so. Will she scratch up your back . What . In movies women are always scratching you the mens backs and screaming and stuff when theyre having sex. How do you know this . Jeds got cable. This movie was about a widower. You saw people on screen working out a problem who werent necessarily from the traditional family. I left her by the telescopes. The great thing about nora is when she was talking about the dynamics between men and women who are attracted to eecach oth or searching for each other and dont really know it, she was a genius. Im the guy you dont usually see. Im the one behind the scenes. Im the sports agent. I wanted to write a movie that begins where an 80s movie ended. Whats going on . They fired jerry maguire. They did it at cronins. The script went right to tom cruz. He called immediately. I love the script. Ill read it with you. You tell me if im right for it. Dont worry. Im not going to do what you all think im going to do, which is flip out. And basically ive been geeking out over his performance ever since. Rod, rod, jerry maguire. How you doing . Jerry maguire. How am i doing . Ill tell you how im doing. Im swaeating, dude. They were like dleelirious actors. That scene kind of exploded. Congratulations, youre still my agent. That film really spoke to me so deeply because its a single mom with this precocious little kit. Jerry, did you know the human head weighs eight pounds . Bringing a guy into this picture. I love how much cameron believes in romance. I was so anxious to do one line, you complete me. There were times that i read that in the script and thought fantastic. There were other times is this too cheesy . And i told tom that and he said just give me a shot at it. If you dont want to use it, dont use it. I love you. You complete me. And i just just shut up. Just shut up. You had me at hello. You had me at hello. I look around, everybodys crying. The grizzlied guys holding cable are like and i was like i think its going to work. That casino. Theyre going to clear every one of us out. Today their luck is going to run out. This guy is going through all the eggs. Whats he looking for . He said he had to find the perfect dozen. Every egg has to be perfect. In the 90s you could feel there was something happening here. There started to become a genuine independent film movement. And film dance Sun Institute had g to do with. The idea of starting sundance was i felt id grown up being part of the major film history because thats all there was. I was very fortunate to be part of that. As time went on, i became more aware of other stories that could be towld. Theyd be told by people that were less inclined to be commercially attractive. They were different. They were off beat. Women are lonely in the 90s. Its our new phase. Theyll live. They werent looking at who made the movies. They looking at the movies. They had a commitment to showing film was with very specific, authentic vouices. There was a sudden recognition because of the success of films that came out of that festival. A drove such a profound change into mainland hollywood. Say, man, you got a joint . Not on me, man. It would be a lot cooler if you did. Just like american graffiti, dazed and confused was this complete euphoric look at young people before they have to become adults. Theres other high school movies. Theres a million of them. But theres very few that give you an honest depiction of that time in your life. You already ready to bust some ass . And then you see all these other actors in dazed and confused. Thats what i like about these high school girls, i get older, they stay the same age. He cast all those fabulous girls. Those characters i adored. They just felt like real girls to me. Let me tell you this, the older you do get, the more rules theyre going to try to get you to follow. You just have to keep living, man, livin. The beauty is his touch. Its lightning in a bottle. Everybody cough up some green for the little lady. Come on, throw in a buck. I dont tip. You dont tip . No, i dont believe in it. You dont believe in tipping . I was banging around and trying to be a writer and a filmmaker and i read reservoir dogs and i thought it was clearly written by somebody who was 67 years old and gotten out of jail and wrote his life story. Harvey keitel is the guy who pushed it through to us and allowed us to discover quinton ta tarantino. If its no big deal to be mr. Pink, you want to trade . Nobodys trading with anybody. This isnt a [ bleep ] city counsel meeting, you know . It was prevalent in our country. For me that was kind of a break thereto through mome breakthrough moment. Is it bad . As opposed to good . Here brutal violence comes with a heavy, at times, dose of come comedy. You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in france . 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Well, im a comedian. When i started writing swingers, i didnt know that it was going to be a movie or a full script, i just had fun writing stuff that i got a kick out of and i kept going with it. I dont want you to be the guy in the pg13 movie that makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated r movie, the guy youre not sure you like yet, where hes coming from. Youre a bad man, youre a bad man. Bad man. It was sort of that indy comedy sensibility. And of course we were influenced like kevin smith and tarantino and scorsese. When the movie finally came out, it hit the culture in the big way. You see, baby, its not that hard. 310. Nice. While some 5g signals go only blocks, tmobile 5g goes miles. Beyond the big cities to the small towns. To the people. Now, millions of americans can have access to 5g on tmobile. And this is just the beginning. Tmobile, the first and only nationwide 5g network. Skip to the good part with alkaseltzer plus. 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In the background for certain things like the stampede. Its one of those things where if the stars align and it hits the culture in a way thats impactful. Pixar changed the game. I remember going to see toy story and i saw it twice. The comedy wasnt talking down to kids. It was for everybodys. Were all very impressed with andys new toy. Toy . Toy, toy. The word i think youre searching for is power ranger. The word im searching for is toy. The technology for me was nice and interesting but that wasnt what blew me away. What blew me away was here were new characters. To infinity and beyond the film was contemporary. It was not a musical. And it was done with all of the sincerity of the walt era. You actually think youre the buzz lightyear . Ohhing all this time i thought it was an act. Hey, guys, look, its the real buzz lightyear. Youre mocking me, arent you . Anybody wanting to study screen writing should watch pixar movies. Theyre beautifully written. Let he guess, andys a real special kid, youre his buddy, bess friend. And when andy plays with you, even though youre not moving, you feel like youre alive because thats how he sees you. You absolutely believe these characters had an internal life. They felt like being a toy was a job that they were proud of. That was just a brilliant premise. And it was executed perfectly oh somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow theres something thats so beautiful about bringing an inanimate object to life. Drawing an animation is the same kind of thing but theres something about stop motion, this is so pure and strong. Whats this, whats this, wake up, jack, this isnt fair tim burton managed to take the most ma cab things and make them beautiful. You dont have to wonder for ten seconds if its a tim burton film. I have a present for you. Edward scissorhand is kind of a frankenstein movie. He a father who creates a boy but dies before he can put his hands on. Edward scissor hands, ive seen tim draw a character with two strokes of a brush and you knew who they were. Look ill be darned. With tim and his characters, theres always a real connection with him and johnny depp. Theres a kind of a way of speaking without speaking and communicating, which is why he was edward scissor hands and it goes back to silent movies where people communicate with your eyes. I feel some connection to him. Theres something about the intensity and gaze thats like well, its like film, acting. So are we going to be working together . Really . Worst film you ever saw . Well, my next one will be better. Hello . Its such a sweet movie and yet its not at all clawing, its completely cool and crazy. Hes a monster. Do you imagine what that guy would look like in a movie . He plays ed wood, the worst director of all time. You just love him for his enthusiasm. Mr. Wood, wheres the Conference Center . Youre standing in it. Places. 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Ive killed one of my children, killed just about everything that walks and called at one time or another and im here to kill you, little bill, for what you did to ned. Clint is maybe the best director ive ever worked with. I love the way he does it. Hes quick, hes decisive. Its beautiful. There were director in this period, like michael mann, who are the rebels within the studio system, the guys who are just doing it differently. What am i doing . Im talking to an empty tell n telephone. I dont understand. Because theres a dead man on the end of this one. He gives us an unity to see Robert De Niro and al pacino doing a scene together. What do you say i buy you a cup of coffee . The scene in the diner, we knew it was the nexus to the whole film. I chase down some crews, guys looking up, getting busted back at you. You must have worked some di di di dipshit crews. We have all kinds. You do what you do best, trying to stop guys like me. Theyre not taking their eyes off each other. Its almost reflexive. I will not hesitate, not for a second. People want to see great ooktors teook actors tell you the truth. They would make a movie that would punch you in the gut but it would have truth in it. You want your own wife kidnapped . Yeah. I think fargo is a perfect movie in every way. The screen play is perfect, the execution of it is perfect, the performances are absolutely perfect. It was written for me. I got very excited. They said joel came home from work and said we started working on something, theres a part for you. We got a shooting, these folks drive by, theres a highspeed pursuit, ends here and then this executiontype deal. His scripts are publishable works of literature. For example, the scene in fargo where marge is interrogating the to two strippers. They said they were going to the twin cities. Is that useful to you . You betcha, y ah. It was punctuated. Fargo is the film that really gets embraced at the academy awards. Everyone loves this movie. So what do they do . They do something completely different. Sometimes theres a man, hes the man for his time and place. The big lebowski. One of my favorite stories is how long it took jeff bridges to agree to do it. He sent it to him, said its great. Not sure i can do this. I just remember them thinking how could he not . And obviously he came to that conclusion himself. Wait, let me explain something to you. I am not mr. Lebowski. Youre mr. Lebowski. Im the dude. Thats what you call me. That or his dudeness or el dudeorino. Its the only time i havent been able to look an actor in the eye because he was so funny. Jeffrey, love me. Thats my robe. Big lebowski was the fillle of my generation. That rug really tied the room together, did it not is this. Theyre revolution bomb throwers but youre kind of pleased that the bomb landed on your front porch. They kept control of their films from the beginning in a way that allowed them to really explore any genre that they wanted to go into. 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When was the last time you were arrested and what was the charge . You cut to outside and amber sobbing. Thats just it. Shes somebody who is not responsible enough to parent. You dont have to be interested in pornography to be interested in broken people that have been rejected by their family, they dont have a family, the moral center of the movie is about all these broken humans trying to make themselves whole by finding a stitchtogether family when they dont have an actual familiy of their own. Paul Thomas Anderson has never made the same movie twice. Whenever you see a paul Thomas Anderson movie, you know its a paw Thomas Anderson movie. His imprint is on his films. Come on, frank. What are you doing . What am i doing . Yeah. Im quietly judging you. So the whole world looks different. The unbeatable strength and speed of advil liquigels. What pain . The piano was ravishing and uncompromising. You feel the weight of the fabric, the dampness of the air and the moss. And its so inherently jane. Jane is a filmmaker from new zealand who shot this very intimate movie in her home country starring holly hunter, harvey kitel and a very young harvey packman. Jane pulled us into it as an audience. She has a voice not to be denied. Its my mothers piano. Its an extraordinary performance in a film and also holly is a very accomplished pianist. Its one of those perfect roles for the perfect actor. This movie established jane campian. She won at cannes and became the second woman to be nominated for an oscar for directing. The 90s was the best time for women directors. They infused a kind of sensibility that made it really enjoyable. You were hanging out with other filmmakers saying, wow, how many movies can i make . How many women can i work with . You still havent figured out what riding waves is all about, have you . Its a state of mind. They dont want to be acknowledged as a female director. I thought my whole career to be acknowledged as a filmmaker, not a black filmmaker. Im sure a lot of those women are saying dont call me a female director. Im a director. Im a bad therapist. Do you hear me . Im a bad therapist. I am making these people worse. Walking and talking was inspired by the time my best friend was getting married. Its so fake looking. It looks look a barbie ring, frank. They were a perfect match. They felt very lonely. Its perfect. Frank gave it to me. Were engaged. Were going to get married. Well. I think of her comedies as comedies of embarrassment. Her characters want to be better people but theyre just not. Are you crazy . I had sex with you two weeks ago and now youre asking me why i havent rented lately . Oh, i didnt know what to say. I just dont know anyone who is better at setting you that kind of situation that makes us all squirm because theyre so human. I dont know why deion is going out with a high school boy. I like dogs. You have to clean them and feed them and theyre just like these nervous creatures that scrum and slobber all over you. Ew, get off of me oh, as if when i was writing clueless, i hung around Beverly Hills high school a lot. A teacher there taught debate and he let me hang out in his class. So you heard the vernacular. In conclusion may i remind you, it does not say rsvp on the statue of liberty. Amy heckerling is giving these girls their own vocabulary. Hello, it was his 50th birthday. Whatever oh, my god, im totally buggin. Theyre changing the lexicon of teen girls all over the world. Do you have any idea what youre talking about . No. Why . Do i sound like i do . Even though cher is this heightened, fantastic, perfect aspirational creation, shes able to see her as a real girl, doesnt turn her into a punch line. Can i see the beginning again, folks. In a league of their own, penny marshal looks at the changing role of women in world war ii. 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You watch that chase today, its powerful cinema. Come with me if you want to live. It oks okay, mom. Hes here to help. Its got heady ideas about time travel and space time continuum. But its also a story about being relentless. And jim as a filmmaker is relentless. When James Cameron got to t2, he was interested in expanding his palate, particularly to include these new digital tools. It was wildly Ground Breaking cameron was working with industrial light and magic, and they were really kind of inventing this process of cgi as they went. When you first heard that Steven Spielberg would be making a movie about a place where dinosaurs were brought back to life, your First Response would be i cant wait to see that. Wheres the goat . Amazing just how long it takes before the trex come out. He makes you wait for it and wait for it and wait for it. I dont know what a dinosaur really looks like in real life. I think it looks like Jurassic Park. Boy, i had been right all the time. What Steven Spielberg innate li innately understands is that dinosaurs are awesome. And it was the same feeling that i had as a 7yearold watching jaws for the first time. When you see the brontsauerus reach up and eat the leaves off the tree. Were going to make a fortune with this place. Thats what spielberg does as a filmmaker, he makes you go, oh a lot of the filmmaking in Jurassic Park showed what you cgi could do for their storytelling. Titanic is a throwback to the big blackbusters of the 50s and 60s, not only in its 50s and 60s but it was talked about in the way we talked about cleopat cleopatra. Oh, god, we put everything we have into this tire boat and is it going to sink . The budget was 200 million. Leo dicaprio had done whats eating Gilbert Grape and there was nervousness on the part of studio executives, can he do this thing . The studio thought they were in terrible, terrible trouble. It was going to be an enormous disaster and it turned out to be the biggest movie of all time. Im the king of the world whoo titanic really had everything. It was an epic, oldfashioned movie. An action movie. It also had a love story at the heart of it. Im jack dawson. Rose. Dont forget to write that one down. It was irresistible, jack and rose. It was sexy. Leo was absolutely gorgeous. Kate winslet captured that independent woman who would not be tied down. Were flying, jack. Titanic is this moment when James Cameron is straddling these two worlds, the human scale and the Computer School and from that point in 1997, the world goes computer. You have to let it all go, neal, fear, doubt and disbelief. Free your mind. The matrix changes everything. You have the embrace of eastern cinema into western cannon. And youve got them making their actors do the stunts themselves. Keanu reeves had already done point break, had already done speed, but this is a different level of action star that hes transforming into. This was six months of training every actor had to go through. And one of the things that you get when youre having the actors do their own stunts, you can film closeups of the face while a punch is being taken, while a punch is being thrown. The action itself becomes story as cgi gets better, we become a little bit more sophisticated in our tastes when we see computergenerated effects because each year they get so much more realistic and lifelike. How . He is the one. I want to tell you my secret now. Okay. I see dead people. I remember in 99, everyone i knew, everyone in our crowd was working on something that felt exciting and felt like it had a generational voice in it. Im scared to close my eyes. Im scared to open them. It was very clear that something was in the water that year. Here i come to save the day it felt like the final exam for the 20th century. Its like the bells about to ring and everybodys trying to get their good thing in before the century ends. You have this really interesting combination of young film makers swinging for the fences and s w showing people who they could do, as well as i have to put my familys welfare on the line. And what are you putting up . Words. While youve been dicking around, ive been out there giving my word and backing it up with action. Id stack 99 up against any year in american film making in terms of a great cohort dropping significant work. Hey, mr. Mcallister. Not wasting any time, are you, tracy . You know what they say about the early bird. Yeah, i do. Election is the second movie of alexander payne. Its about this High School Student Council Election in omaha. Reese witherspoons tracy public is someone you want to root for because of her passion and drive. Also, she has a little bit too much ambition. They know this country was built by people just like me who work very hard and dont have everything handed to them on a silver spoon. Whats brilliant about election is you are getting voiceover from like three or four different perspectives. Who knew how high she would climb in life, how many people would suffer because of her . I had to stop her. Alexander payne made a very american movie, and the performances in election of Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon are terrific. Looks like you could use a cupcake. Its a remarkable film. Who are you . Boys dont cry is based on a true story about brandon tina, a young man who was a trans man living in a small community. He fell in love with a woman. They had a relationship, and other people discovered that this was a trans man and not a sis man and sexually assaulted and murdered him. Boys dont cry is a phenomenal movie. No studio would have made that movie. It was a gamechanger in terms of American Cinema in terms of what was made before and what was made afterwards. 1999 was a great year in independent cinema. You look at that lineup of films from virgin suicides to three kings to being John Malkovich. You see the world through John Malkovichs eyes and after 15 minutes, youre spit out into a ditch on the side of the new jersey turnpike. Being John Malkovich is a great combination, spike jones and charlie cakaufman. They kind of remind people that movies can be so much more. What happens when a man goes through his own portal . Well see. Its a met afictional dive into literally the brain of John Malkovich, who is in the movie playing himself. Malkovich, malkovich. Malkovich its one of those movies thats impossible to describe. It just sounds like youre piling one absurdity upon another, but it somehow all coheres into a crazy and beautiful film. I want you to do me a favor. Yeah, sure. I want you to hit me as hard as you can. What . I want you to hit me as hard as you can. Sometimes a piece of material finds a filmmaker who is uniquely possessed of the chops to do it right. Fight club was hard to imagine anybody who had a better dna than him for that film. The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. Second rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. We were doing the kind of film wed all hoped to do. Trust me. Everythings going to be fine. I thought fight club could be one of those things that becomes a marker for the way we felt at a certain time. It connected right where we wanted it to connect, and its still growing, and thats exciting. For me, thats the highest aspiration. In the 90s, you get these trends and these moments that are going to carry on for the next few decades. You have this moment of really promising black filmmakers who are coming up. You have womens voices, you know, coming more to the forefront in that theyre writing films and in cases directing films. 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