The cinematic musical, if you look at the dna, theres always a kind of code or a language thats specific to the time theyre in. When youre a jet youre a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dieing day west side story is shakespeare in the streets of new york. It has a code that was both old and completely new. With west side story, the music has this kind of jazz influence, discord ant aspect. You can feel it. Its like sparking in the air. And the moves are very angular and sort of almost architectural. West side story was a big broadway hit created by Arthur Lawrence and Stephen Sondheim and leonard bernstein, who were some of the greatest musical geniuses working at the time. They actually enlisted jerome robbins, who created the choreography and directed the original broadway production to direct this film along with robert wise. Everybody was transported by west side story. It was wildly romantic. It was the romeo and juliet story, but told with such urgency. Come down. No. Maria. It had tremendous impact. With this rivalry, it really reflects america and deals with issues that are still relevant today. Life can be bright in america if you can fight in america life is all right in america if youre all white in america you think youre going after the American Dream, but the American Dream is clearly not accepting you. Thats really whats being talked about in that moment in west side story lots of new housing with more space lots of doors slamming in our face ill get an apartment better get rid of your accent west side story really showed showed the world if you cast people from their own culture, its going to make an impact who wins the oscar, rita moreno. Rita moreno in wewest side story. She stands out because of that. I cant believe it. West side story just coincided with hollywoods attempt to do something big, splashy, and technicolor in the movies to fight back against television. In the 60s, the studios were staggering from people not going to the theaters. Its just hard to compete with free stuff in your living room. At the time, television is going gangbusters, so the movies are changing. Theyre trying to do counterprogramming. Its like if television is going to do what we used to do, then we have to do something new. So we see the big epic blockbuster films. In new york, the World Premiere of parspartacus. Kirk douglas arrives with his wife at the opening. Spartacus came right at the top of 1960ss. This was a big roadshow, reserve seat movie with kirk douglas. Those who are about to die salute you. Spartacus is a revolutionary movie about revolutionaries. Its the story of a slave rebellion in rome, and kirk douglas is the leader of that rebellion. Shes going to rome. Shes been sold. Shes been sold . No talking in the kitchen, slave. Spartacus really mirrored the situation behind the scenes because Dalton Trumbo, its screenwriter, had been blacklisted, had not been able to use his name on movies for years. Are you or have you ever been a member of the communist party . I believe i have the right to be confronted with any evidence which supports this question. I should like to see what you have. Oh, you would . Yes. Well, you will pretty soon. [ laughter ] kirk douglas famously broke the blacklist with spartacus, said you will see screenplay by Dalton Trumbo on those credits, and the very famous scene in the movie where theyre after spartacus and theyre saying, where is spartacus, and everybody stands up . Im spartacus. Im spartacus. That is a very movieing scene, especially if you know trumbos history. Im spartacus. Im spartacus. Im spartacus. It was a scary, dark period for hollywood that was lifted right as we got into the 60s. Lawrence of arabia is the movie that really made me want to be a movie maker. Its sweeping vistas of tremendous production value, sand dunes and perfect lighting conditions, and these amazing intimate closeups. Its a story about a man who gets himself involved in these affairs between all the tribes of the middle east. The english gopher, they strike where they please and this makes them great. Mr. Lawrence, that will do. Its not your military advice. I would like to hear his opinion. Damn you, lawrence. Who do you take orders from . T. E. Lawrence was british, but on the other hand, he becomes a kind of convert to the Independence Movement in the middle east. Lawrence goes on this enormous journey and adventure in trying to help the bed ou win against the turks and wants to defend their rights. Where do you begin with an epic like lawrence . A blank sheet of paper as with everything. You know, you Read Everything you can get your hands on, talk to people who knew this particular character. Then i think the only thing to do is to throw it all away and do him as you see him. Who are you . Who are you . That is central question of the whole movie, and lawrence does not know the answer to that question. Heres otoole, who is given this opportunity, and he just he goes all the way. And the way he played it, you know, with his physicality, he gives one of the greatest performer ive ever seen by an actor in my life. That moment, something very important clicked, which was this. And the eyes didnt travel over the clothes, but they were aware of the hands and aware of everything that was going on, and it was at once withdrawn as a boxer must be, and at the same time very penetrating. And this one physical thing really clicked, and it made a whole difference to the way i played it. With lawrence, you have this special thing, an intimate epic. Do you think im just anybody, ali . Do you . And its an incredibly detailed character study in one of the biggest movies ever made. 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And the good things that we ever did was everything that we can. announcer treating others like wed like to be treated has always been our guiding principle. This is something bigger. [ movin on up by primal scream ] that is big. Not as big as that. Sure thats big. Thats bigger. Big. Bigger. Big. Bigger. Big. But thats bigger. Wow, big. So much bigger. This is big. But thats. Well, you got this. So i think a man in his position will take me to el morocco, maybe 21. Instead he takes me to hamburger heaven and some apartment. The apartment is a watershed movie. It is not only one of the greatest films ever made, but for 1960, its very difficult subject matter because its about extramarital affairs. The apartment is about a new york clerk named c. C. Baxter who is trying to get back on the corporate ladder. So he agrees to lend his apartment out to executives for their affairs. I have something i think belongs to you. I mean the young lady whoever she may be. It was on my couch when i got back last night. Thanks. The mirror is broken. It was broken when i found it. All of it comes crashing down when he realizes the girl hes fallen for, the el vaevator operator, played by shirley maclaine, that she is one of the girls thats going up to his apartment and having an affair with one of the bosses. You dont think its too little too much. After all, this is a conservative firm. I dont want people to think im an entertainer. When he looks in the mirror, he realizes its the same mirror that hes seen inside his apartment. The mirror, its broken. Yes, i know. I like it that way. It makes me look the way i feel. The apartment was the deepest romantic comedy maybe ever made. Miss kubilik . At the heart of it is what it is to be human. Did you hear what i said . I absolutely adore you. Shut up and deal. My love of the apartment spilled into the writing of jeremy maguire, and there would not be Jerry Maguire if it werent for the apartment. Breakfast at tiffanys is the iconic Audrey Hepburn role. When you hear the title, you instantly imagine her in the little black dress with the pearls, with the perfect updo, and shes this tragic, flawed figure. What happened to you, anyway . You take off for the powder room, and thats the last i see you. Now, really, harry harry was the other guy. Im sid. Breakfast at tiffanys, like the apartment, is a movie about people who are sort of willing to sell their souls. 300 . Shes very generous. And realizing at what point theyre not going to do that anymore. I was just trying to let you know i understand. I understand completely. Audrey hepburn is just this light. Her subtleties were astounding to me. Fred darling, im so glad you could come. Just the way that she spoke and the way she was always elegantly selfdeprecating. Im trying to save, but im not very good at it. Theres not a bad Audrey Hepburn film. There just isnt. Two drifters off to see the world in moon river, Audrey Hepburn is sitting on the fire escape and singing it in this very tender way, and you feel shes sort of this lost soul, trying to grapple about who she is in the world. Moon river and me what was amazing about audrey was she was very fragile in life, smoked too much, insecure. And when she got in front of the camera, something happened. All that fragility, sensitivity, she kind of marshalled it and became very strong. You think you own me . Thats exactly what i think. I know thats what everybody always thinks but everybody happens to be wrong. I am not everybody. When we think of classic hollywood, we think of romance and glamour. That begins to break down in the 60s, and we start to get a more complex view of human psychology. Now, then, comrade may i present the famous raymond shaw. A young man youve flown 8,000 miles to this dreary spot in manchuria to see. The manchurian candidate is about a brainwashed soldier who is the stepson of an important senator. Take this scarf and strangle him to death. Yes, maam. I remember seeing the manchurian candidate when it first came out, and its a very unsettling opening. You really feel like theyre brainwashing you while youre watching it. Hey, sarge, cut it out. Quiet, please. You just sit there quietly and cooperate. Yes, maam. The manchurian candidate when people see it for the first time, it kind of blows their mind. Its got scifi elements to it in addition to being a really intriguing political thriller. I have here a list of the names of 207 persons who are known by the secretary of defense as being members of the communist party. The manchurian candidate is not a timid film. It takes on mccarthyism full tlo throttle. All theyre saying are there any communists in the Defense Department . Of course not. Theyre saying how many communists are there in the Defense Department . Angela lansbury is the evil figure manipulating behind the scenes. Stop talking about an expert all of a sudden and get out there and say what youre supposed to say. As with all great villains, she embraces that role. She doesnt want you to feel sympathy for her. She wants you to get out of her way. You are to shoot the president ial nominee through the head. When john f. Kennedy was assassinated, Frank Sinatra didnt want people to see this film. But this was not about the power of assassination in changing political events. This was about the psychological dimension of the cold war and forcing people to think about the nature of the fears they had. I deal in nightmares, and nightmares have to be awfully vivid. Youre very glad when you wake up just as youre about to drop through the trap on the gallows. Hitchcock has several years where he had a purple patch of like all classics, and hes like, well, ive done vertigo. Ive done north by northwest. Now im going to do a film for me. That film is psycho. For Alfred Hitchcock to make psycho, imagine if today Steven Spielberg announced that his next film would be the bride of chucky. It was that shocking, and paramount wouldnt make it. He ended up paying for it himself basically. At the time people thought hitchcock had thrown his career away. Sam, this is the last time. For what . For this. Psycho starts out as a definitive film noir from the beginning of the film. Woman is having an illicit affair. She steals money from her office to go meet the guy and run away. Thats film noir. Marian, what in the world what are you doing up here . Of course im glad to see you. I always am. Then all of a sudden, she meets this guy in a lonely motel, and, man, it becomes something else. Dirty night. You have a vacancy . We have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies. When i first saw psycho, i was horrified. Its really one of the creepiest movies ever made. Hitchcock was great at where to put the camera. He helped tell the story. If anyone ever talked to me the way i heard the way she spoke to you he really knew how to throw us off balance by putting his camera off balance. When psycho opened in new york city, the press sat upstairs in the balcony, 500 people, and the paying customers were downstairs, about a thousand people. When we got to the shower scene, ive never seen such a reaction. [ screaming ] the audience downstairs was screaming to such a degree that you did not hear the soundtrack. And it wasnt a scream like ahh, ahh, ahh. It was ahhh they couldnt believe it. I couldnt believe it janet leigh was getting killed. Shes the [ bleep ] star of the picture. Suddenly we have no protagonist to attach ourselves to. Theres no movie before that ever did that, and it was terrifying to be stranded there alone with a killer. And who is this killer . That invention is really something extraordinary, and it heralded a different kind of filmmaking. It felt more personal and more weird. 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She was independent, urban, and that really was a kind of a prototype for the liberated woman. Mrs. America might do well to start early in her marriage, a planned cultivation of outside interests and hobbies. In the early 60s, film comedy was very commercial. It was that colorful, fun, freewheeling comedy style. You got Peter Sellers in the Blake Edwards movie the pink panther. We must find that woman. At the same time that you had jerry lewis. As a kid, you loved jerry lewis because he was a kid. He was a kid doing all these wacky things that you would like to do. I mean you wanted to talk like that and walk around like that. He was fun. Jerry lewis is a cross roads comedian between those older vaud villian comedians and the modern neurotic comedian, but still kind of relying on an older persona. There were a lot of new film making techniques, especially with movies like the errand boy. As a filmmaker, jerry lewis is using the elements of cinema to enhance the comedy. Hes really playing with the medium with as much attention to the filmmaking as to the performance. Jerry lewis, in the early 60s, made a different type of comedy, comedy for all ages. And there was a larger cultural shift just about to happen. Those are the facts, felix. You got to face it. You cant spend the rest of your life crying. It annoys people in the movie. It wasnt physical comedy. It was cerebral. Increasingly in the 60s, comedy became something for adults. Youre a writer and a director . Yes, ive written and directed a new motion flick called the producers starring zero moss tell and introducing gene wilder. The producers is jern winly, i would say one of the top comedies of all time. Yes . Yes what . What you were saying. Keep talking. In the producers, theyre going to get investors to invest in a broadway play that they know will fail so they can take off with the money. [ screaming ] i want that money i fell on my keys. The sure fire disaster, its called springtime for hitler. Springtime for hitler you cant believe the producers got made. The idea of doing a musical in which hitler is the star, i mean that concept alone was brilliant