Something special is going on here. Mr. President . I know your son is a freedom rider. Turn the bus i never understood what you all really went through. Youve changed my heart. This theres this whole black Power Movement going on. I give you the green light to gut those sons of bitches. Theyre going to kill you. You need to go. What . Get the hell out of my house. Sorry, mr. Butler, i didnt mean to make fun of your hero. Everything you are and everything sufficient because of that butler. Rose joining me now is lee daniels who directed the movie, danny strong who wrote the script and two of the films stars, Forest Whitaker who plays the butler and Oprah Winfrey who plays his wife gloria. Welcome one and all. Thank you. Rose im pleased to have you here. You, sir, are at your creative best. Congratulations. Thank you. Rose you, magnificent. Thank you, sir. Rose but you, sir, are just brilliant. This is an extraordinary performance over a span of years to capture this person, these ideas
That that was really real because in order to have the ability to not to fight back and not to just go against your because somebody spits on you theres a visceral reaction that you have that you want to knock that person out now go through the nonviolence training, to take it because we had the conversation this morning with the girls about what would have happened had one of those people hit a white person or spit at them back. Holy cow. Holy cow. I mean, all would have broken loose. It would have been a bloodbath for sure. Thats whats so extraordinary about it. Rose it reminds me of a scene in 42 about Jackie Robinson in which branch ricky is talking to the actor who played Jackie Robinson and he, the actor, says to Harrison Ford who plays branch richie you need somebody here whos tough enough to fight back. And branch ricky says i need somebody whos tough enough not to fight back. And thats the point. Rose that is the point. That is the point. As we watched history go forward where
One muslim group though, the sufis, claim to try to replicate muhammads mystical experience of god through intense prayer, the chanting of gods name and singing verses from the quran. Emre yildirim when Prophet Muhammad was saying his prayers, while he was mediating and communicating with god he used to hear the divine instructions and then act, thats why in sufism and in islam, we also try and come close to god. Through our rituals we try to be one with him. Prophet muhammad is an example of this. Whatever he did during his prayers or during his daily life is there for us to take example. Rageh omaar the sufis have developed their own elaborate rituals and techniques and here in turkey they even dance. Although there is no evidence to suggest that muhammad followed these rituals, the sufis see him as an inspiration for their spiritual experience. Prof. Sajjad rizvi the prophet as a perfect human thats very much a part of theological and sufi traditions in islam. His perfection lies in
1970s. A lot of people more che guevara tshirts and his famous speech and all over new york city with the expression che lives and kind of a handsome figure with a scraggly beard and piercing eyes and the black beret tilted a little bit and the star on the beret. He looked like a revolutionary coming in his message seemed to be to somebody who just looked at the tshirts and looked the sayings. Somebody who was coming you know, for the people, power for the people of anyone remembers that expression from the 70s. Fast forward to 2010. Kevin and i have become friends because we both worked at the Associated Press and kevin and i both have a love for military affairs and military stories and we reported extensively and have written about the military and one day he said to me you know, there was a mission back in 1967 in which the green berets went down to bolivia to train them to go hunt che guevara. And i said okay but who is he again . Is he relevant . I was being held little sarcastic
Tapestry and put it together. Because its also for me a love story. A love story through the eyes of this man and one of the reasons i said yes to lee after he was relentless in asking know do it is because i wanted the tapestry the depth, the broadness of that communication between a husband and a wife and particularly a middleclass black family to be seenbly the progressive world. Its something we dont see very often. Women have been the backbone regardless of race for a number of reasons and i wanted to show that level of character. Rose lee daniels the butler for the hour. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose eugene allen was born on a virginia plantation in 1919. He worked as a wait in a country club until 1952. He found a new job as a butler in the white house. He spent 34 years there. He served under eight president s from harry truman to ronald reagan. He saw some of the pivotal events in u. S. History. The cu