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>> 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. and then certain people were beginning to get tired of him because he wasn't that pleasant to look at but nobody could beat the guy. he was so sharp. that's when they came up with the idea, let's find someone that looks good and we'll give him the answers. >> 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 didn't land on plymouth rock. plymouth rock landed on us, landed right on top of us. >> "malcolm x" is spike lee's 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 it's his best performance. >> denzel washington is one of the all-time greats. what he does in his artistry, painting a portrait of an individual, it's astounding. >> if the so-called negro in america was truly an american citizen, we wouldn't have a racial problem. if the emancipation proclamation was authentic, we wouldn't 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 having just seen "the godfather" the night before. >> what happened to your face? >> i have aids. >> oh. oh, i'm sorry. >> "philadelphia" was an important film. denzel washington represents the audience's 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, we're starting to see him as more than his sexuality or his disease. >> let's get it out of the closet because this case is not just about aids, is it? so let's talk about what this case is really all about. the general public's hatred, our loathing, our fear of homosexuals. >> he can bring the audience on that journey to say we don't need to fear people. we don't need to despise or stigmatize them. >> my name is forrest, forrest gump. >> forrest gump. >> it's 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. >> it's a delightful play on the contingency and accident that shapes our world. >> we were the first americans to visit the land of china like a million years or something like that. somebody said world peace was in our hands. but all i did was play ping-pong. >> that film embodies everything that makes tom great. he's a fantastic dramatic actor. he's a magnificent comedy actor. i can't 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 that 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. >> i'll 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. it's 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 watching that. i couldn't believe he did that. >> sir, i don't 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 it's exciting, it's thrilling, it's suspenseful. but it also is 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. >> that's a nice sheen on it. >> thank you. >> very nice. >> i'd say i'd get you one but the man who made it is probably dead, i don't 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 very 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. and i thought he was the best possible schindler i could possibly find, and he was. >> he saved my life. god bless you. god bless you. >> oskar schindler was a deal maker and he didn't really care that much for his workers. but there was an inevitable metamorphosis based on the encroaching holocaust and what he was witnessing that unlocked his empathy. instead of being just someone 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. >> 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 really mean it when we say never again. 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>> the movie is perfect. it's 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. >> it's 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. >> it's nothing, ma'am, i had the tire and the jack. 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. i'm being sued for divorce. >> he's picky, which is perfect, because then he finds his way into somebody really extraordinary. >> what's the secret, max? >> the secret? >> yeah. you seem to have it pretty figured out. >> secret, i don't know. i think you've 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 they're sparkly and joyful. >> what's going on in here? >> it's so rare when someone comes along and actually creates their own aesthetic, 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, you're on stage right 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 actual pathos. >> i like your nurse's 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? >> it's going to be over the top and it's going to fill the frame. >> why don't you just go home? that's your home. are you too good for your home? answer me! >> and you're going to get adam sandler knocking out one movie after the next. >> sidney and scott are newlyweds. whoopedy-doo! >> if you look at the scenes that are memorable from something like "wayne's world," they're big scenes. that's the heads bobbing back and forth. they're 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 it's jim carrey. and he turned into a top hollywood star because he is unafraid to be big. even as he's doing these over the top things where you think, well, he's talking through his behind, i'm not going to watch this. >> excuse me, i would like to "ass" you a few questions. >> yet there you are, you're watching, and you're laughing. ♪ just like me they long to be ♪ >> oh, no. >> i don't have to be too intellectual about it, i just laughed my ass off. >> ow! >> part of it was, i can't believe they're doing that. >> what's that bubble there? >> what do you think? it's a -- >> how in the hell did you -- >> the farrelly brothers pushed the rules so far. that you can do that? >> "something about mary" is this kind of anarchic comedy that has this really joyous heart to it. >> maybe you should move down here and marry me. >> introduced cameron diaz as the cool girl. >> i'll have the double decaf cappuccino. >> i'll 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, i'm getting hot flashes. >> hello, peter. what's happening? >> umm, i'm going to need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. so if you could be here around 9:00, that would be great, okay? >> "office space" is not as acclaimed as it should be. it was not a big hit. but there's so much modern comedy in that movie. it was wonderful. >> nina speaking. 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'm thinking i might take that new chick from logistics. if things go well, i maybe showing her my "oh" face, oh, oh, oh. you know what i'm talking about. >> jennifer aniston was in it and she worked at a place like tgif's. >> we need to talk about your flair. >> really? >> being somebody who had waitressed who is like, put that flair on and show what you're really like. and she's like, here's my flair. >> all right. there's ply flair, okay, and this is my expressing myself, okay? ♪ teacher's pet, i want to be teacher's pet ♪ ♪ i want to be huddled 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." >> i've been doing shakespeare in the park. if i ever do that again, i'm going to kill myself with a vegematic. >> that's where the character in "waiting for guffman" was born. >> a tube of chapstick. not really much to call my own. and then basically being slammed down for ten or so years, you know, off-off-off-broadway and then enough is enough, okay, i get the joke. >> chris surrounds himself with great, funny people. eugene, fred willard, catherine o'hara. >> so nervous. >> you're going to be great. if there's an empty space, just say a line, that's what i like to do, even if it's from another show. >> chris works in miniature. chris is very much like peter sellers, such fine tastes and when it hits right, it's amazing. >> and that's the way it is? 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[ applause ] >> did we think it was going to be a huge success? >> not necessarily. >> hi, look, do you remember me the. >> yeah, i am sorry. i was in here yesterday and you would not wait on me. >> oh. >> work on commission, right? >> yes. >> huge mistake. i have to go shopping now. >> "pretty woman" made julia robert a star. >> gary said, just touch it, the most amazing thing you have ever seen and he said to richard. >> we fall for her and we fall for a ton of brick. >> oh my god. it is the bride and the woman she will never live up to you. >> he rises to the decade but end with three mega rom-coms. >> can i help you at all. >> i will just look around. >> richard chris said he wrote it with me in mind and i love when writers say that, i don't care if it is true. >> it is hard to find really great original material that holds a real performance and the comedy and physical comedy and some thread of love you are trying to accomplish. >> and i am also just a girl standing in front of a boy. >> romantic comedy was a genre that i love, they were making a resurgence at the time when i was the ready. >> the romance comedy gets a jump start, you have a number of people who were in-depth at the performance of romantic comedy. you have sandra bullock and you have hughes grant and you have meg ryan and you have tom hanks. >> could it be that you need someone just as much as jo jonah does? >> yes. >> nor efron prepares movies like no other directors i would work with. every line was specifically found or written or perfected. >> it was me. #. >> imagine. >> nora efron was unafraid to take something that felt familiar but covered it in unfamiliar territory. >> i certainly hope so. >> will she scratch up your back? >> what? >> in movies, women always scratch the men's back and scream and stuff when women have sex. >> how do you know this? >> dad had cable. >> you saw on screen families who are not the traditional family. >> the great thing about nora is when she was talking about the dynamics between men and women who are atraktracted to each ot and searching for each other and don't really know it. she was a genius. >> i am the guy that you don't usually see. >> i am the ones behind the scenes. i want to write a movie that begins where an '80s movie ended. >> what's going on? >> they fired jerry mcguyer. >> the script went right to tom cr cruise. >> i love this script. i will read it with you and you tell me if i am right for it. >> don't worry. i am not going to do what you all think i am going to do. and basically i have been geeking out over his performance ever since. >> jerry, mcguire, how are you doing? >> how am i doing? i will tell you what i am doing, i am sweating, dude. >> cuba and tom just deliriously happy actors. they were landing blows on each other. >> jerry, you better yell. >> show me the money! >> that scene just kind of exploded. >> calculongratulations you arel my agent. >> that film really spoke to me so deeply because a single mom with this precocious little kid and bringing a guy into that picture. i love how much cameron believers in romance. >> i was so anxious to do one line. 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>> no, not on me, man. >> it would be a lot cooler if he did. >> just like "american gra graffiti," this complete euphoric look of young people before they have to become adults. >> other high school movies, there is a million of them but very view that gives you an honest depiction of that time in your life. >> whoo! >> and you see all these fantastic actors who started out dazed and confused. >> that's what i love about these high school girls. i get older and they stay the same age. >> richard casts all these fabulous girls. those characters i adored. they felt like real girls to me. >> the older you get, more are going to try to get you followed and follow. you got to keep living, man. >> it is lightning in a bottle. >> all right, everybody cuff up some greens. come on. throw in a buck. >> no, i don't tip. >> you don't tip? >> no, i don't believe in it. >> i read "reservoir dawn," i thought it was written somebody that's 67 years old and kind of gotten out of jail and wrote his life story. >> the guy that pushed it through to us that allowed us to discover quinton tarantino. >> it is easy for you to say you missed the whife. you got a cool sounding name. >> nobody is trading with anybody. it was clearly focused on violence which was prevalent in our country. it was a breakthrough moment. >> so bad. the bad as opposed to good? 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"the lion king" is interesting because it is an old tale that's retold in different ways. it emerged to something special and became big. ♪ ♪ ♪ it means no worries ♪ ♪ for the rest of your day ♪ oh i just cannot wait ♪ ♪ to be king ♪ >> people were ready for that kind of story and that kind of epic scale. you can see the beginning of cg in the background for certain things like the stampede. it is one of those things where the stars are aligning and it hits a culture in a way that's impactful. pixar changed the game. i remember i see "toy story" and i saw it twice. >> there is no science of intelligent life anywhere. >> the comedy was not talking down to kids, it was for everybody. >> we are all very impressed with andy's new toy. >> toy? >> t-o-y. >> i think the word you are searching for is space ranger. >> the word i am searching for, i can't say because there is pre-school toys getting kind of tanked, are ya? >> the technology for me was nice and interesting. what blew me away was new characters. >> to infinity and beyond. >> the film was contemporary and not a musical and it was done with all of this sincerity of the walt era. >> you actually think you are the buzz lightyear. >> all these times i thought i was an act. hey guys, look, it is the real buzz lightyear. >> i think pixar beautifully written. >> if you knew him, you should understand. andy is a real special kid and to him you are his buddy and best friend. when andy plays with you it is like -- even though you are not moving, you feel like you are alive because that's 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. it was executed perfectly. there is something that's so beautiful about bringing objects to life. drawing animation is the same kind. there is something of stop motion is so pure and strong. >> what's this? what's this? ♪ ♪ there is white things in the air, i can't believe ♪ ♪ my eyes ♪ >> tim burton managed to take the most -- and making it so fun. >> no one has that aesthetic. >> you don't have to wonder 10 seconds if it is a tim burton's film. >> i have a present for you. >> edward scissor's hands. >> a father creates a boy but dies before he can put his hands-on. >> "edward's scissor hands." i will be darn ed. >> with tim and his kyle clark, there is always a connection with him and johnny depth. >> there is kind of a way of speaking without speaking and communicating which is why he's edward's scissor hands. >> i feel some connection to him or winona ryder. >> so we'll be working together? >> really? well, my next one will be better. hello? edward is such a sweet movie and yet it is not clawing. it is just completely cool and crazy. he's a monster. can you imagine what that guy would look like in a movie. >> johnny depp plays edward. his character is so perfect. you just love him for his enthusiasm. >> all right, man. prepare for scene 32. mr. wood. where is the office? >> we all feel that. any time it is going to be the greatest and most amazing things. >> ed wood was not made as a joke. it was lovely made in appreciation of what that guy had done. >> these actors really love their crafts. they're kind of weird and sort of sense of family you get in films. it felt really close to me. it felt like my own life. a bunch of weirdos trying to make movies, this is the one. this is the one i will be remembered for. redefine who we are and how we want to lead our lives. basically, choose what we want our future to look like. so what's yours going to be? okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪ at intra-cellular therapies, we're inspired by our circle. a circle that includes our researchers, driven by our award-winning science, who uncover new medicines to treat mental illness. it includes the compassionate healthcare professionals, the dedicated social workers, and the supportive peer counselors we work with to help improve - and even change - people's lives. moving from mental illness to mental wellness starts in our circle. this is intra-cellular therapies. ♪ oh! go home. bad wolf. when you think of the ''90s, yo think of kevin costner and mel gibson and you think of clint eastwood who finally gets his due in the '90s. " "unforgiven" is a miraculous film. it is landed on this moment of frailty. >> my agent called, hey, clint eastwood made an offer. >> clint eastwood, eastwood? >> oh shucks, tell him i will think about it. >> i remember it was beaming. well, not two. >> play like that no more, man. ain't no tracy killing fools. >> clint eastwood and morgan freeman have been professional killers. they are sick of violence and they don't want to do it anymore but they got dragged back into it. >> i killed one man and ch children. i killed about everything that walks and falls at one time or another. i am here to kill you. what did you do to ned? >> clint may be the best director i have ever worked with. i love the way he does it. he's quick and decisive. beautiful. >> ayou're a director in this period like michael mann who are the rebels. the guy is just doing it differently. >> i don't understand. >> there is a dead man on the other end of this. >> he provides us an opportunity to finally see robert dinero and al pacino on screen together and doing a scene together. >> what do you say i will buy you a cup of coffee. >> the scene in the diner, we know there was a next. >> it is one of my favorites between these two guys kocoming together. i do what i do best. i take scores. >> i will not he hassitate. >> people want to see great actors. >> guys like michael mann will always punch you in the gut. they'll make a movie but it will have truth to it. "fargo" is a perfect movie in every way. the performances are absolutely perfect. >> it was written for me, i got excited. >> we got a shooting. these folks drove by. >> it is works of literature. the scene where marge is interrogating the two strippers. >> hey, they said they're going to the twins city. >> oh yeah? >> is that useful to you? >> oh i bet cha. >> it was punctuated and written in the rhythm that we played it. >> and the oscar goes to "fargo," "fargo" really gets embraced. everyone loves this movie. what do they do? they do something completely different. >> sometimes there is a man, he's the man for his time and place. >> one of my favorite stories was how long it took for him to do it. >> how could he not? >> obviously he came to that conclusion himself. >> wait, let me strike something to you. i am not mr. labowski. i am the dude, that's what you call me. that or his dudeness or duder or el duderino if you are not into the whole brevity thing. >> it was the only time i had not been able to look at an actor in the eye because he's so funny. >> jeffery, love me. >> that's my robe. >> nick labowski is the most quotable movies of my generation. >> they are revolutionary bomb th throwers. you are pleased that the bombs landed on your front porch. they kept control of their films from the beginning and allowing any genre they wanted to go into. >> where i grew up it was sat -- ill not know what the difference was when it was a van. that was where "boogie night" came from. >> who's dirt dickler. >> when i got paul's script for "boogie night." i said are you punking me? >> no, there is not. no, that's the contract. i said well, i am in. >> i used to argue with paul that amber should die. >> she would, she probably would. i don't know if she would survivored all of that. >> i will ask you if you are my mom, and you will say yes, are you my mom? >> she assumes the mantle of parenting in this world. >> she's not actually talking care of them, she's play-acting. >> we are talking about coming to an agreement of andrew. >> this thing that i love of the scene is she's fighting for custody. the judge turns to her, have you been arrested? what was the charge? >> amber's sobbing. that's it, she's somebody that's not responsible enough to parent. >> you don't have to be interested in photography. the moral center of the movie is about all these broken humans trying to make themselves whole by finding a stitch together family when they don't have an tw actual family of their own. >> i am not sure if there is a higher compliment, his imprint is on his films. >> come on, frank. what are you doing? we're carvana, the company >> what am i doing? >> yeah. >> i am quietly judging you. way. whether it's a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot and pick up your car, that's it. so ditch the old way of selling your car, and say hello to the new way at carvana. we're getting destroyed out there. we need a plan! i have a plan... right now at t-mobile customers on magenta max can get the new iphone 13 and t-mobile will pay for it! upgrade to the iphone 13 on us. 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[ applause ] >> thank you very much. >> she's giving these girls their own vocabulary. hello, it was his 50th birthday. whatever. >> oh my god. i am totally bugging. they're changing the lexicon of teen girls all over the world. >> do you have any idea who you are talking about? >> no. >> even though cher is this fantastic and gorgeous creation, amy is still able to see her as a real girl. she didn't turn her into just as punch line. >> in "a league of their own." penny marshals looks at the role of women, changing role of women in world war ii. men was fighting for the battlefield but there is still as hunger of professional baseball. a league of their own was about women of baseball players. it is iconic and the lines are iconic and performances are iconic. >> i told them it was our patriotic duty to get out of the kitchen and go to work. and we'll send the men back to the kitchen. >> what do we do? 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"titanic" is a throw back to so many ways to the big bluster in the '60s and '50s. it talked about cleopatra. we are putting everything on this giant boat, is it going to stick? it is budget. leonardo dicaprio, his "romeo and juliet" had not come out yet. there were some nervousness. the studio thought they were in terrible trouble. it was going to be an enormous disaster and it turned out to be the biggest movie of all time. >> i am the king of the world! >> whoo hoo! "ti "titanic" had everything. it was an epic, old fashion movie. an action movie. it also had a love story at the heart of it. >> i am jack dawson. >> it was irresistible. >> it was jack and rose and sexy. >> leo was gorgeous and kate winslet. they were just this vivian, lee, clark gaible kind of pairing. >> "titanic" is this moment where james cameron is st straddling these two worlds. from this moment on, '97, the world goes computer. >> you have to let it all go, neo, fear, doubt and disbelief. free your mind. 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