1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.LT 2 00:00:07,174 --> 00:00:10,969 -["Love To Love You Baby" playing] -♪ I love to love you, baby ♪ 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.LT 4 00:00:11,053 --> 00:00:12,513 [tape rewinding] 5 00:00:12,596 --> 00:00:16,350 ♪ I love to love you, baby ♪ 6 00:00:16,433 --> 00:00:17,768 [crowd cheering] 7 00:00:17,851 --> 00:00:21,688 [reporter] And you'll see lots and lots of celebrants 8 00:00:21,772 --> 00:00:23,023 no matter where you are. 9 00:00:23,106 --> 00:00:28,445 [all] …five, four, three, two, one! Happy New Year! 10 00:00:28,529 --> 00:00:30,656 ♪ Uh! ♪ 11 00:00:30,739 --> 00:00:34,201 -♪ I love to love you, baby ♪ -[crowd cheering, applauding] 12 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:38,413 -♪ I love to love you, baby ♪ -♪ Uh! ♪ 13 00:00:39,122 --> 00:00:42,000 -[Jodie] New Year's, 1975. -♪ I love to love you, baby… ♪ 14 00:00:42,084 --> 00:00:43,585 -[thugs shouting] -[Jodie] Crime was up. 15 00:00:43,669 --> 00:00:45,212 There were 15 murders the last week 16 00:00:45,295 --> 00:00:47,339 -in this goddamn city. -That's a lot. 17 00:00:48,006 --> 00:00:49,508 [Jodie] Tensions were higher. 18 00:00:49,591 --> 00:00:51,885 -Dance, motherfucker, dance! -[group laugh] 19 00:00:51,969 --> 00:00:53,136 [telephone beeping] 20 00:00:53,220 --> 00:00:54,846 [Jodie] Paranoia was rampant. 21 00:00:54,930 --> 00:00:59,142 Maybe there's another CIA inside the CIA. 22 00:00:59,226 --> 00:01:01,645 [Jodie] There were gurus and good times. 23 00:01:01,728 --> 00:01:03,855 I'd like to suck his-- 24 00:01:03,939 --> 00:01:06,942 -Run away! Run away! -[group shouting, clamoring] 25 00:01:07,025 --> 00:01:09,486 The American people are turning sullen. 26 00:01:09,570 --> 00:01:12,114 They've been clobbered on all sides by Vietnam, Watergate, 27 00:01:12,197 --> 00:01:13,365 the inflation, the depression. 28 00:01:13,448 --> 00:01:14,533 They've turned off, shot up, 29 00:01:14,616 --> 00:01:16,827 and they've fucked themselves limp, and nothing helps. 30 00:01:16,994 --> 00:01:19,746 [Jodie] And there was one question on everybody's mind. 31 00:01:19,830 --> 00:01:22,249 -What the hell's going on? -What the fuck's going on? 32 00:01:22,332 --> 00:01:23,959 [whispers] They wanna know what the fuck is going on. 33 00:01:24,042 --> 00:01:25,669 [song concludes] 34 00:01:25,836 --> 00:01:27,671 [Jodie] So, what the fuck was going on? 35 00:01:27,838 --> 00:01:29,631 -[eerie music playing] -[crowd cheering] 36 00:01:29,715 --> 00:01:32,467 [Goldman] We can rebuild him. We have the technology. 37 00:01:32,551 --> 00:01:33,468 [protesters clamoring] 38 00:01:33,552 --> 00:01:35,554 [Jodie] America was having a nervous breakdown. 39 00:01:35,637 --> 00:01:36,763 [singing] 40 00:01:36,847 --> 00:01:37,973 [music stops] 41 00:01:38,056 --> 00:01:40,642 [Steven] Guys, we can't shoot right now, hold on. 42 00:01:40,726 --> 00:01:42,019 Hold something. 43 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:43,812 This is my second day at sea. 44 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:49,276 [chuckling] And if I survive this, I'll have learned a lot. 45 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:53,697 [inquisitive classical music playing] 46 00:01:54,197 --> 00:01:56,617 [Patton] We had taken all these big body blows. 47 00:01:57,701 --> 00:02:00,245 Movies were able to embrace that stuff. 48 00:02:00,329 --> 00:02:01,663 Is it safe? 49 00:02:03,915 --> 00:02:09,296 Movies were made back then that didn't pander to trend. 50 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:13,467 It was about a personal point of view. 51 00:02:14,593 --> 00:02:16,094 "I have something to say." 52 00:02:16,178 --> 00:02:20,474 [Sidney] You tell me when you're rolling and I'll get out of the street. Cue that. 53 00:02:20,557 --> 00:02:24,311 [Peter] The filmmakers, they wanted to help people understand 54 00:02:24,394 --> 00:02:26,647 why society is so fucked up. 55 00:02:27,272 --> 00:02:30,776 '75 was the most important moment 56 00:02:30,859 --> 00:02:33,236 in the history of the film business, I think. 57 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,155 And it will never happen again. 58 00:02:35,238 --> 00:02:36,657 Do you like to dance? 59 00:02:41,203 --> 00:02:44,373 It's the one time that the movies were really willing 60 00:02:44,456 --> 00:02:47,876 to show us ourselves, and that we were willing to see it. 61 00:02:47,959 --> 00:02:49,419 -[groans] -[players shouting, clamoring] 62 00:02:49,503 --> 00:02:51,088 [Wesley] It was the most honest version 63 00:02:51,171 --> 00:02:53,715 of this country that we've ever had on screen. 64 00:02:53,799 --> 00:02:55,300 I'll drink to that! 65 00:02:55,842 --> 00:02:57,386 Here's my list. 66 00:02:57,469 --> 00:03:01,807 Jaws, All the President's Men, Taxi Driver, Barry Lyndon, Nashville. 67 00:03:01,890 --> 00:03:02,974 [tires screeching] 68 00:03:03,058 --> 00:03:08,647 Every single one of them had an aspect of poking a pin in you somewhere. 69 00:03:08,730 --> 00:03:10,649 -Right, freeze! -[crowd clamoring] 70 00:03:10,732 --> 00:03:13,777 Jesus Christ, this list is long. Cuckoo's Nest, Network. 71 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:18,782 You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale! 72 00:03:18,865 --> 00:03:22,119 Hollywood movies were a work of art. 73 00:03:22,786 --> 00:03:25,580 And that was the motivating factor. 74 00:03:26,331 --> 00:03:29,751 People used to really like good movies. [laughs] 75 00:03:33,130 --> 00:03:36,133 [Jodie] From Watergate to the Bicentennial, 76 00:03:36,216 --> 00:03:39,010 America unraveled and was reborn. 77 00:03:40,512 --> 00:03:43,640 This film is a portrait of a nation at the crossroads… 78 00:03:44,266 --> 00:03:47,310 told through the movies that captured its soul. 79 00:03:47,394 --> 00:03:50,021 [car engine revving] 80 00:03:50,105 --> 00:03:52,149 Can I ask you one question now? 81 00:03:53,692 --> 00:03:56,987 -One you can, yes. -Only one, always the same. 82 00:03:58,321 --> 00:04:00,031 What are you running away from? 83 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,078 Turn your back to the front seat. 84 00:04:20,218 --> 00:04:22,721 [music concludes] 85 00:04:22,804 --> 00:04:24,347 [Martin] 1975. 86 00:04:24,973 --> 00:04:28,101 It's the old story, you had to be there. It was so alive. 87 00:04:29,311 --> 00:04:30,451 Everything wiped away. 88 00:04:31,354 --> 00:04:34,858 All the old conventions wiped away, and we were creating a new world. 89 00:04:34,941 --> 00:04:36,485 It was a perfect time. 90 00:04:36,568 --> 00:04:41,239 -["Love To Love You Baby" playing] -♪ I love to love you, baby ♪ 91 00:04:41,490 --> 00:04:46,244 ♪ I love to love you, baby ♪ 92 00:04:46,787 --> 00:04:50,957 ♪ I love to love you, baby ♪ 93 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:53,293 [song concludes] 94 00:04:54,169 --> 00:04:55,962 Good afternoon. 95 00:04:56,046 --> 00:04:58,298 It is said that the greatest public happiness 96 00:04:58,381 --> 00:05:00,634 is induced by gradual change. 97 00:05:00,717 --> 00:05:03,220 Not rapid change, not a total lack of change, 98 00:05:03,303 --> 00:05:04,888 but gradual change. 99 00:05:04,971 --> 00:05:08,350 Well, in our recent time, the change has been so rapid, 100 00:05:08,433 --> 00:05:09,726 it is upsetting. 101 00:05:09,810 --> 00:05:13,897 Our cozy, familiar world is turned upside down. 102 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:16,983 [dynamic music playing] 103 00:05:21,446 --> 00:05:24,991 [Jodie] Hollywood, California, 1975. 104 00:05:25,075 --> 00:05:26,868 The John Wayne Westerns 105 00:05:26,952 --> 00:05:29,996 and big-budget musicals of old Hollywood were dead, 106 00:05:30,497 --> 00:05:33,250 undone by television and a cynical public. 107 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:36,628 Must be a lot of ghosts around here. 108 00:05:37,337 --> 00:05:39,381 Studios let go. 109 00:05:39,464 --> 00:05:42,175 If you were an independent filmmaker, that was your chance 110 00:05:42,259 --> 00:05:46,596 to run in and say, "I've got one." "Okay, make it. We don't know what works." 111 00:05:47,764 --> 00:05:51,726 -The inmates were running the asylum. -[inmates shouting, cheering] 112 00:05:51,810 --> 00:05:55,605 Gentlemen, stop this. Stop this instant! 113 00:05:55,689 --> 00:05:57,607 [Martin] We saw an opening, we ran, and we took it. 114 00:05:57,691 --> 00:06:00,318 We didn't say, "Oh, that's happening--" "Forget it, go." 115 00:06:00,402 --> 00:06:02,654 "Well, if that person said 'No,' go here." 116 00:06:02,737 --> 00:06:05,365 "Well, what did-- Now he said 'Yes' to you? Ah!" 117 00:06:05,448 --> 00:06:10,120 You know, the envy and everything starts. So, we were savage in that way. 118 00:06:11,705 --> 00:06:12,956 [crowd cheering] 119 00:06:13,039 --> 00:06:17,794 [Jodie] One studio executive said, "It was like the ground was in flames 120 00:06:17,878 --> 00:06:20,422 and tulips were coming up at the same time." 121 00:06:20,505 --> 00:06:22,591 [crowd laughing, cheering] 122 00:06:22,674 --> 00:06:25,218 -…in my life, that's incredible! [laughs] -[laughs] 123 00:06:27,762 --> 00:06:31,808 [Jodie] To understand how we got here, just look at the journey of one actor 124 00:06:31,892 --> 00:06:34,477 who was at the center of this strange new world. 125 00:06:34,561 --> 00:06:38,565 In 1975, he was at the top of his game. 126 00:06:38,648 --> 00:06:39,774 [music concludes] 127 00:06:39,858 --> 00:06:43,320 [laughs, cheers] Whoo! 128 00:06:43,403 --> 00:06:48,575 -["If You Want to Be a Bird" playing] -♪ If you wanna be a bird… ♪ 129 00:06:48,658 --> 00:06:50,827 [Jodie] They called it "New Hollywood." 130 00:06:51,443 --> 00:06:53,496 It all started in the late 1960s 131 00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:56,207 when counter-culture films like Easy Rider 132 00:06:56,291 --> 00:06:57,876 became unexpected hits. 133 00:06:58,460 --> 00:07:00,670 There's excitement and passion all of a sudden, 134 00:07:00,754 --> 00:07:03,006 you know, and I think people can feel that. 135 00:07:03,089 --> 00:07:05,550 And I think that's why these movies broke through. 136 00:07:05,634 --> 00:07:07,469 They're not, like, a chore to watch. 137 00:07:07,552 --> 00:07:09,471 You don't feel like you're eating your vegetables. 138 00:07:09,554 --> 00:07:10,847 [upbeat music playing] 139 00:07:10,931 --> 00:07:13,600 I am the motherfucking shore patrol, motherfucker! 140 00:07:13,683 --> 00:07:17,854 I am the motherfucking shore patrol! Now, give this man a beer. 141 00:07:17,938 --> 00:07:19,356 [quirky music playing] 142 00:07:19,439 --> 00:07:23,109 Jack wanted to reflect the times they were living in. 143 00:07:23,193 --> 00:07:28,406 De-glamorizing American life was a motivating factor. 144 00:07:28,490 --> 00:07:31,326 It's like the veneer was taken off. 145 00:07:31,409 --> 00:07:33,892 -[barks] -[imitates dog barking] 146 00:07:33,992 --> 00:07:38,041 And Jack was kind of the leader of that parade. 147 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:41,753 [Jodie] By the mid-'70s, Jack was being offered roles 148 00:07:41,836 --> 00:07:43,964 that few actors would ever turn down, 149 00:07:44,047 --> 00:07:46,925 like the leads in The Godfather and The Sting. 150 00:07:47,008 --> 00:07:51,471 [Jack] Yes, that's true, and I think I had enough business acumen 151 00:07:51,554 --> 00:07:54,641 to know that both The Sting and The Godfather 152 00:07:54,724 --> 00:07:56,977 -were going to be huge hits. -[music concludes] 153 00:07:57,060 --> 00:07:59,562 [suspenseful music playing] 154 00:08:02,232 --> 00:08:03,233 [Jack] At the same time, 155 00:08:03,316 --> 00:08:07,195 I happened to think that Chinatown was the more interesting of the films. 156 00:08:08,780 --> 00:08:11,449 [Jodie] Chinatown starts as a typical detective story. 157 00:08:11,992 --> 00:08:13,159 -[switchblade clicks] -[groans] 158 00:08:13,243 --> 00:08:16,579 [Jodie] But the deeper it goes, the more rotten things become. 159 00:08:16,663 --> 00:08:18,999 You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat, huh? 160 00:08:19,582 --> 00:08:21,668 -You know what happens to nosy fellows? -[pants] 161 00:08:21,751 --> 00:08:25,505 We were writing the script here, and during those eight weeks, 162 00:08:25,588 --> 00:08:31,011 we were bombarded by all news media with what was going on. 163 00:08:31,094 --> 00:08:33,847 -[sinister music playing] -[typewriter clacking] 164 00:08:33,930 --> 00:08:37,308 [Roman] You see, it all happened at the beginning of the Watergate. 165 00:08:37,392 --> 00:08:38,393 [groans] 166 00:08:38,476 --> 00:08:43,356 Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States. 167 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:44,733 [attendees cheering, applauding] 168 00:08:44,816 --> 00:08:47,736 [Jodie] To understand the attitudes of 1975, 169 00:08:47,819 --> 00:08:52,323 you have to understand the event that cast a dark shadow on the era. 170 00:08:53,450 --> 00:08:55,535 [sinister music builds] 171 00:08:57,704 --> 00:09:00,373 [dynamic electronic music playing] 172 00:09:01,499 --> 00:09:05,253 [Jodie] "All the President's Men," shot in the summer of 1975, 173 00:09:05,336 --> 00:09:07,964 tells the true story of Washington Post journalists 174 00:09:08,048 --> 00:09:10,175 Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, 175 00:09:10,258 --> 00:09:13,928 as they investigate a minor break-in at the Democratic National Committee. 176 00:09:14,012 --> 00:09:16,139 What is this Watergate compulsion with you guys? 177 00:09:16,222 --> 00:09:18,850 -Compulsion? -It's a dangerous story for this paper. 178 00:09:19,726 --> 00:09:20,810 [Jodie] Like Chinatown, 179 00:09:20,894 --> 00:09:24,022 All the President's Men is a detective story. 180 00:09:24,105 --> 00:09:26,066 I can't even be seen talking to either one of you bastards. 181 00:09:26,149 --> 00:09:27,650 [Carl] Why? What are you afraid of? Who got to you? 182 00:09:27,734 --> 00:09:29,402 -Who told you? -[Bob] Are we being set up? 183 00:09:29,486 --> 00:09:31,321 [Gittes] Look, somebody's gone to a lot of trouble here, 184 00:09:31,404 --> 00:09:33,865 and lawsuit or no lawsuit, I intend to find out. 185 00:09:33,948 --> 00:09:36,868 I'm not supposed to be the one who's caught with his pants down. 186 00:09:36,951 --> 00:09:39,287 Don't you understand what you're onto? 187 00:09:39,370 --> 00:09:45,126 You may think you know what your deal is, but believe me, you don't. 188 00:09:45,210 --> 00:09:49,464 It involves the entire U.S. intelligence community. 189 00:09:50,131 --> 00:09:52,008 Your lives are in danger. 190 00:09:52,092 --> 00:09:55,553 That's what the district attorney used to tell me in Chinatown. 191 00:09:55,637 --> 00:10:00,600 [Jodie] Both films expose a feeling that had been bubbling up since the 1950s, 192 00:10:00,683 --> 00:10:04,395 that underneath the American dream, whether in sunny Los Angeles… 193 00:10:04,479 --> 00:10:05,897 [gunshot] 194 00:10:05,980 --> 00:10:09,859 …or the suburbs of Washington, D.C., a darkness was lurking. 195 00:10:09,943 --> 00:10:11,361 [Bookkeeper] It's all so rotten. 196 00:10:11,444 --> 00:10:13,029 [music concludes] 197 00:10:13,113 --> 00:10:14,614 It's getting worse. 198 00:10:15,907 --> 00:10:18,910 [Naomi] In essence, life has become a thriller. 199 00:10:18,993 --> 00:10:21,287 So many people are conspiracy brained… [chuckles] 200 00:10:21,371 --> 00:10:25,083 …obviously, but in the case of Watergate, 201 00:10:25,166 --> 00:10:26,334 it was real. 202 00:10:26,417 --> 00:10:29,087 -And it went all the way to the top. -[tense music playing] 203 00:10:29,170 --> 00:10:31,506 [reporter] According to well-placed White House sources, 204 00:10:31,589 --> 00:10:35,260 privately confirming stories carried in today's Washington Post, 205 00:10:35,343 --> 00:10:39,139 the Watergate break-in was plotted by personal counselor to President Nixon. 206 00:10:39,222 --> 00:10:42,725 Talk of presidential impeachment no longer sounds like idle chatter. 207 00:10:42,809 --> 00:10:44,769 [Nixon] I welcome this kind of examination 208 00:10:44,853 --> 00:10:48,045 because people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook. 209 00:10:48,940 --> 00:10:50,066 Well, I'm not a crook. 210 00:10:50,150 --> 00:10:52,569 None of the signals that you'd been kind of inheriting 211 00:10:52,652 --> 00:10:54,696 from your John Wayne-loving parents 212 00:10:54,779 --> 00:10:58,449 about who the good guys are and who the bad guys are held anymore. 213 00:10:59,325 --> 00:11:02,912 The national heroes of that year were Woodward and Bernstein, 214 00:11:02,996 --> 00:11:05,456 courtesy of Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. 215 00:11:05,540 --> 00:11:08,793 They were Captain America and Superman. 216 00:11:09,794 --> 00:11:13,673 All the President's Men puts a happy ending on it all, 217 00:11:13,756 --> 00:11:14,757 or a happy res-- 218 00:11:14,841 --> 00:11:18,761 "Happy" may be too strong a word, but, my God, the good guys won. 219 00:11:19,345 --> 00:11:24,434 -Nixon was out. Justice was done. -[music concludes] 220 00:11:24,517 --> 00:11:27,395 And then, of course, justice started to unravel. 221 00:11:28,479 --> 00:11:34,694 My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. 222 00:11:35,236 --> 00:11:36,279 [brooding music playing] 223 00:11:36,362 --> 00:11:38,907 [Jodie] But the nightmare was only beginning. 224 00:11:38,990 --> 00:11:42,911 Imagine how the audience would feel if the typewriter kept going. 225 00:11:43,494 --> 00:11:48,833 [Ford] With respect to my predecessor, I, Gerald R. Ford, 226 00:11:48,917 --> 00:11:55,006 do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon. 227 00:11:56,049 --> 00:12:01,930 He thinks that he is giving the American people this wonderful gift. 228 00:12:02,013 --> 00:12:05,225 Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? 229 00:12:05,308 --> 00:12:07,602 What can you buy that you can't already afford? 230 00:12:07,685 --> 00:12:10,980 The future, Mr. Gittes, the future. 231 00:12:11,522 --> 00:12:14,525 [Rick] And people say, "Well, that just proves it." 232 00:12:14,609 --> 00:12:15,944 "Everyone's crooked." 233 00:12:16,027 --> 00:12:18,947 It's the same thing all these young directors are saying. 234 00:12:19,030 --> 00:12:21,824 Evelyn, put that gun away! Let the police handle this! 235 00:12:21,908 --> 00:12:23,952 He owns the police! 236 00:12:24,035 --> 00:12:26,579 Chinatown is a state of mind that represents 237 00:12:26,663 --> 00:12:29,123 the futility of good intentions. 238 00:12:29,999 --> 00:12:33,211 -[gunshots] -[car alarm blaring] 239 00:12:33,294 --> 00:12:35,964 [Sam] You think you've got power, control. 240 00:12:36,047 --> 00:12:38,841 You think you have a vote. You think you're in a democracy. 241 00:12:38,925 --> 00:12:43,346 You think justice wins and truth prevails and love conquers all. 242 00:12:43,429 --> 00:12:44,806 It doesn't. 243 00:12:44,889 --> 00:12:48,017 [Belinda crying] Oh, no! 244 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:54,482 In 1975, Chinatown is not Chinatown. Chinatown is America. 245 00:12:54,565 --> 00:12:58,319 The message is that, like, the bad guys tend to win. 246 00:12:58,403 --> 00:13:03,032 -[brooding music continues] -[crowd cheering, applauding] 247 00:13:04,158 --> 00:13:07,453 [Jodie] As America awoke on January 1st, 1975… 248 00:13:08,496 --> 00:13:09,622 would they fight back? 249 00:13:10,665 --> 00:13:12,959 Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown. 250 00:13:18,006 --> 00:13:19,882 [music concludes] 251 00:13:19,966 --> 00:13:21,926 [Patton] 1975 was the peak year 252 00:13:22,010 --> 00:13:24,762 of that you could really give people a bummer movie 253 00:13:24,846 --> 00:13:26,973 and they would flock to go see it. 254 00:13:27,056 --> 00:13:30,351 Like one of the most popular movies, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 255 00:13:30,435 --> 00:13:32,687 "Hey, sweetie, I got us a babysitter." 256 00:13:32,770 --> 00:13:35,189 "We're going to go out to see-- take a dinner and a movie, 257 00:13:35,273 --> 00:13:39,193 and the movie we're going to see is about a, like, statutory rapist 258 00:13:39,277 --> 00:13:42,155 that fakes his way into an insane asylum." 259 00:13:42,238 --> 00:13:47,785 "He helps this weird, shy kid get laid, and then he helps an American Indian, 260 00:13:47,869 --> 00:13:52,457 and then at the end, the weird, shy kid kills himself." 261 00:13:52,540 --> 00:13:55,835 "He gets lobotomized, this evil nurse is still in control, 262 00:13:55,918 --> 00:13:58,421 and the American Indian becomes a fugitive." 263 00:13:58,504 --> 00:14:00,715 And that was a fun night at the movies. 264 00:14:00,798 --> 00:14:02,383 [funky rock music playing] 265 00:14:02,467 --> 00:14:05,784 [Jodie] Movies in 1975 were a perfect distraction 266 00:14:05,884 --> 00:14:07,889 from the chaos of the real world. 267 00:14:07,972 --> 00:14:09,265 [crowd screaming, clamoring] 268 00:14:09,724 --> 00:14:12,226 [Jodie] And if you walked into a theater on New Year's Day, 269 00:14:12,310 --> 00:14:15,480 you were probably there to see The Godfather Part II. 270 00:14:15,563 --> 00:14:19,150 But if you were just looking for something fun, you had a few options, 271 00:14:19,233 --> 00:14:21,194 including Young Frankenstein… 272 00:14:21,277 --> 00:14:23,988 [presenter 1] In black and white! No offense. 273 00:14:24,072 --> 00:14:27,575 …or The Man with the Golden Gun, or Benji. 274 00:14:27,658 --> 00:14:31,537 It's not a dog movie. That dog has emotions. 275 00:14:32,538 --> 00:14:35,458 [Jodie] But if you were worried about society's impending collapse, 276 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:37,668 you might find yourself watching… 277 00:14:38,419 --> 00:14:40,046 [presenter 2] The Towering Inferno. 278 00:14:40,129 --> 00:14:43,633 [Jodie] New Hollywood may have been at its peak, but at the time, 279 00:14:43,716 --> 00:14:46,803 there was an alternate golden age of the disaster film. 280 00:14:49,931 --> 00:14:51,891 -[screams] -[crowd screaming, clamoring] 281 00:14:51,974 --> 00:14:54,299 [Oliver] Poseidon Adventure, which I happen to love, 282 00:14:54,811 --> 00:14:57,230 you know, Hackman dies at the end. People forget that. 283 00:14:57,313 --> 00:15:00,733 You want another life? Then take me! 284 00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:04,612 [Oliver] So, it's a tough movie. It's not at all a feel-good movie. 285 00:15:05,154 --> 00:15:10,410 Post-Watergate, optimism becomes cynicism, is what happens… 286 00:15:10,493 --> 00:15:11,828 [crowd screaming, clamoring] 287 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:14,956 …and Hollywood is reflective of that shift. 288 00:15:16,082 --> 00:15:17,542 [muffled explosion] 289 00:15:19,961 --> 00:15:22,588 -We got a fire here! -Why the urgency? 290 00:15:23,714 --> 00:15:24,799 "Urgency"? 291 00:15:25,383 --> 00:15:28,428 Hey, Dunc, if that fire was caused by fooky wiring in this building, 292 00:15:28,511 --> 00:15:30,596 we could get fires breaking out everywhere! 293 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,683 Doug, I think you're overreacting. 294 00:15:33,766 --> 00:15:34,892 [Jodie] He wasn't. 295 00:15:36,185 --> 00:15:37,728 [Paul] What the hell was that? 296 00:15:38,229 --> 00:15:41,524 -[screams] -[menacing music playing] 297 00:15:41,607 --> 00:15:42,942 [resident screaming] 298 00:15:43,025 --> 00:15:45,486 [Wesley] Whether you were watching The Poseidon Adventure 299 00:15:45,570 --> 00:15:47,822 or The Towering Inferno… 300 00:15:50,074 --> 00:15:52,410 the truth exists outside the theater, right? 301 00:15:52,493 --> 00:15:54,787 [dramatic music playing] 302 00:15:57,331 --> 00:16:00,126 The fact is, New York City is bankrupt. 303 00:16:01,961 --> 00:16:04,797 The political system doesn't seem to be able to act 304 00:16:04,881 --> 00:16:07,258 except under a major crisis. 305 00:16:08,801 --> 00:16:11,179 Well, '75 was the year the money ran out. 306 00:16:13,055 --> 00:16:17,560 [Jodie] After decades of deficit spending, New York City had found itself 307 00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:21,939 unable to continue to borrow money and unable to pay its bills. 308 00:16:23,232 --> 00:16:26,319 [Martin] I did not notice the city was at its worst. 309 00:16:27,737 --> 00:16:31,199 So the garbage built up. Is it nice? No, but it's New York. 310 00:16:31,282 --> 00:16:33,534 I wasn't observing, "Oh, here's the change in our society." 311 00:16:33,618 --> 00:16:36,496 That was our society. That's who we are. 312 00:16:38,164 --> 00:16:40,374 [interviewer] Why do you kick all the cans? 313 00:16:40,458 --> 00:16:43,377 Well, you got loaded with rats over here. 314 00:16:43,878 --> 00:16:45,713 And if you don't kick the can, you pick it up, 315 00:16:45,796 --> 00:16:47,715 a rat will be able to crawl up your arm. 316 00:16:47,798 --> 00:16:50,593 This way, the rat gets out of the can before you pick it up. 317 00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:53,638 [interviewer] How has the financial crisis affected your work? 318 00:16:53,721 --> 00:16:55,473 I lost all faith in the job. 319 00:16:55,556 --> 00:16:57,600 How can you work, you know, when you don't know 320 00:16:57,683 --> 00:16:59,310 whether you're going to get paid on Friday? 321 00:16:59,393 --> 00:17:01,979 [tense music playing] 322 00:17:02,063 --> 00:17:04,482 [Felix] Well, I've said that I thought default was a little bit 323 00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:07,109 like stepping into a warm bath and slashing your wrist. 324 00:17:07,193 --> 00:17:09,946 You really might not feel anything the moment you did it, 325 00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:12,406 but you'd begin to die right then and there. 326 00:17:13,574 --> 00:17:18,037 [Jodie] But it wasn't only New York City. This was a national crisis. 327 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:21,082 [tense music builds] 328 00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:23,793 [Rick] People grew up believing 329 00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:26,128 that America's prosperity would last forever. 330 00:17:28,339 --> 00:17:31,884 You know, just for example, the idea that there could be an energy shortage. 331 00:17:32,677 --> 00:17:34,095 That just did not compute. 332 00:17:35,346 --> 00:17:37,974 [Jodie] In response to U.S. support for Israel, 333 00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:40,726 Arab nations had imposed an oil embargo. 334 00:17:40,810 --> 00:17:45,815 For the first time since World War II, gasoline rationing returned to the U.S. 335 00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:49,902 I don't think it should be. Not in the United States. 336 00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:54,323 [Ford] Our American economy runs on energy. 337 00:17:55,157 --> 00:17:57,368 Oil production is going down, down, down. 338 00:17:57,451 --> 00:18:00,663 -[screams] -[helicopter blades whirring] 339 00:18:02,123 --> 00:18:05,126 No energy, no jobs. 340 00:18:06,127 --> 00:18:08,087 [Jodie] Both unemployment and inflation 341 00:18:08,170 --> 00:18:12,592 were close to ten percent and rising, which was theoretically impossible. 342 00:18:15,094 --> 00:18:19,140 It's all these shocks, these traumatic shocks. 343 00:18:19,223 --> 00:18:21,559 [residents screaming, clamoring] 344 00:18:21,642 --> 00:18:25,354 [John] President Ford delivered his State of the Union message today, 345 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:27,565 and it was one of the gloomiest assessments 346 00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:30,526 of the American condition that any president has delivered 347 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:31,736 in a long time. 348 00:18:32,278 --> 00:18:33,988 [Ford] And I must say to you… 349 00:18:34,864 --> 00:18:39,160 that the State of the Union is not good. 350 00:18:41,037 --> 00:18:43,122 [Jodie] Nobody could predict what would happen next. 351 00:18:43,205 --> 00:18:45,291 [tense music intensifies] 352 00:18:45,374 --> 00:18:48,502 Right, freeze. Nobody move! Get over there! 353 00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:52,923 Okay, okay. All right, get away from those alarms. 354 00:18:53,007 --> 00:18:53,883 Come on! 355 00:18:53,966 --> 00:18:57,178 [Sidney] In the making of that movie, the first obligation becomes, 356 00:18:57,261 --> 00:18:58,929 "Hey, folks, this really happened." 357 00:18:59,013 --> 00:19:01,557 [thrilling chase music playing] 358 00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:09,649 [Sidney] We're having a tough time keeping up with reality. 359 00:19:11,025 --> 00:19:13,486 Maybe that's why we're so interested in doing movies 360 00:19:13,569 --> 00:19:15,279 about actual events that did happen. 361 00:19:15,363 --> 00:19:16,739 Cloud! 362 00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:20,159 [Josh] I always loved something based on a true story. 363 00:19:20,242 --> 00:19:23,037 Pacino running in the bank and sliding. 364 00:19:23,746 --> 00:19:29,126 That's human. This is what it was for him. The desperation was real. 365 00:19:29,210 --> 00:19:30,795 [Moretti over phone] Right now I can see it. 366 00:19:30,878 --> 00:19:32,004 -[Cazale] Who is it? -Cops. 367 00:19:32,088 --> 00:19:34,674 [police sirens wailing in the distance] 368 00:19:37,927 --> 00:19:40,930 [Naomi] And then people are cheering for him 369 00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:42,973 because they hate the cops. 370 00:19:43,057 --> 00:19:46,394 And they're like, "Yeah," you know, "stick it to the man." 371 00:19:46,477 --> 00:19:49,146 [crowd shouting, cheering] 372 00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:53,359 [music concludes] 373 00:19:54,110 --> 00:19:55,861 Sonny, you're on the air. 374 00:19:55,945 --> 00:19:58,030 Would you mind answering a few questions for us? 375 00:19:58,114 --> 00:20:00,700 -[Sonny] Yeah. -Why are you doing this? 376 00:20:00,783 --> 00:20:02,118 Uh… 377 00:20:02,993 --> 00:20:04,787 What? I-- I don't know what you mean by that. 378 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:06,956 I'm-- I'm robbing a bank 'cause they got money here. 379 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:08,124 That's why I'm robbing it. 380 00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:11,293 No, no, what I mean is, why do you feel you have to steal for money? 381 00:20:11,377 --> 00:20:14,380 -Couldn't you get a job? -Like what? A bank teller? 382 00:20:14,463 --> 00:20:16,173 You know how much a bank teller makes a week? 383 00:20:16,257 --> 00:20:17,258 -Not much. -Not much. 384 00:20:17,341 --> 00:20:19,343 A hundred and fifteen to start, right? 385 00:20:19,427 --> 00:20:21,554 I'm here with my partner and nine other people. 386 00:20:21,637 --> 00:20:23,097 See, we're dying here. 387 00:20:23,180 --> 00:20:25,975 -"I'm dying here, I'm dying here." -[tense music playing] 388 00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:27,685 How much you make a week? That's what I wanna hear. 389 00:20:27,768 --> 00:20:29,895 -You gonna talk to me about that? -Ladies and gentlemen, our transmission 390 00:20:29,979 --> 00:20:32,148 has been interrupted. Please stand by. We will return to our special… 391 00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:35,651 It's all corroding inside of him. 392 00:20:36,736 --> 00:20:39,739 -It's everywhere. -[tapping on desk] 393 00:20:41,449 --> 00:20:43,284 -[sighs] -[dial tone ringing] 394 00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:45,619 -[telephone ringing] -Harry, answer that. 395 00:20:46,871 --> 00:20:47,997 [music concludes] 396 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,374 Want to work uptown tonight? South Bronx? Harlem? 397 00:20:50,458 --> 00:20:52,251 I'll work anytime, anywhere. 398 00:20:52,334 --> 00:20:53,753 ["Psycho Killer" playing] 399 00:20:53,836 --> 00:20:56,839 [Jodie] America was becoming isolated from itself. 400 00:20:56,922 --> 00:20:59,925 There was an epidemic of runaways and divorces. 401 00:21:00,551 --> 00:21:02,470 Families were becoming strangers. 402 00:21:03,554 --> 00:21:07,516 From this fracture emerged one of the '70s’ most iconic characters. 403 00:21:10,853 --> 00:21:13,856 De Niro… we didn't even have to talk very much about what it is 404 00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:16,817 and what it meant, I didn't-- We just felt it. 405 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,155 [Travis] Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. 406 00:21:21,238 --> 00:21:26,202 Bars and cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. 407 00:21:27,161 --> 00:21:28,662 There's no escape. 408 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,582 I'm God's lonely man. 409 00:21:32,750 --> 00:21:35,878 ♪ Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? ♪ 410 00:21:35,961 --> 00:21:38,422 I felt it was the underground man. 411 00:21:38,506 --> 00:21:40,841 The underground man that's going to seep up now. 412 00:21:41,967 --> 00:21:44,136 We've been holding him or her back… 413 00:21:45,221 --> 00:21:47,681 and it's going to be war. 414 00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:51,435 ♪ Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? ♪ 415 00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:55,731 People were living like that. New York was that horrible place. 416 00:21:55,815 --> 00:21:57,441 -Take your hands off! -Okay, then just leave. 417 00:21:57,525 --> 00:21:58,776 -Take off! -All right, please. 418 00:21:58,859 --> 00:22:00,945 How do you make a movie when your heart is already broken? 419 00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:03,364 You're in hell, and you go lower. 420 00:22:03,447 --> 00:22:05,491 You're in a hell, and you're going to die in a hell 421 00:22:05,574 --> 00:22:06,909 -like the rest of us. -[Tom] Come on now! 422 00:22:06,992 --> 00:22:10,204 What you see in the film is what I live with all the time. 423 00:22:10,287 --> 00:22:11,789 Get me out of here, all right? 424 00:22:12,498 --> 00:22:15,918 He cannot connect. It's alienation. 425 00:22:17,753 --> 00:22:20,214 [Martin] Being cut off from other people 426 00:22:20,297 --> 00:22:22,675 in the most populous city in the world, 427 00:22:23,843 --> 00:22:24,844 he explodes. 428 00:22:24,927 --> 00:22:26,762 I'm dying. [sighs] 429 00:22:28,222 --> 00:22:29,223 I'm dying. 430 00:22:31,725 --> 00:22:32,893 [song concludes] 431 00:22:32,977 --> 00:22:36,856 [Travis] Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. 432 00:22:37,857 --> 00:22:40,985 [thunder cracking] 433 00:22:42,653 --> 00:22:45,072 [Jodie] And in the skyscrapers above Manhattan, 434 00:22:45,155 --> 00:22:48,325 another film showed that the madness was spreading. 435 00:22:48,409 --> 00:22:49,577 How do you do, Mr. Beale? 436 00:22:49,660 --> 00:22:52,288 -[Howard] I must make my witness. -Sure thing, Mr. Beale. 437 00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:54,456 I don't have to tell you things are bad. 438 00:22:54,540 --> 00:22:56,208 Everybody knows things are bad. 439 00:22:56,292 --> 00:22:59,169 -I want you to get up now. -[brooding music playing] 440 00:22:59,253 --> 00:23:03,090 [breathes heavily] I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. 441 00:23:03,173 --> 00:23:06,510 I want you to get up right now and go to the window, 442 00:23:06,594 --> 00:23:09,847 open it and stick your head out and yell, 443 00:23:09,930 --> 00:23:13,934 "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!" 444 00:23:14,727 --> 00:23:17,980 I want you to get up right now. Stick your head out of the window. 445 00:23:18,063 --> 00:23:20,399 Open it, then stick your head out and keep yelling and yell, 446 00:23:20,482 --> 00:23:22,943 "I'm as mad as hell! I'm not…" 447 00:23:23,027 --> 00:23:25,863 I'm mad as hell! I'm not going to take it anymore! 448 00:23:25,946 --> 00:23:28,365 I'm mad as hell! I'm not going to take it anymore! 449 00:23:28,449 --> 00:23:30,784 I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore! 450 00:23:30,868 --> 00:23:32,620 [both] I'm not going to take it anymore! 451 00:23:32,703 --> 00:23:34,204 [thunder rumbling] 452 00:23:34,288 --> 00:23:38,250 You know, I really wanna-- I got some bad ideas in my head, I just… 453 00:23:38,334 --> 00:23:42,588 [residents shouting, clamoring] 454 00:23:44,632 --> 00:23:48,302 [thunder cracking] 455 00:23:48,385 --> 00:23:53,641 A film can either put you to sleep nicely, or it can wake you up. 456 00:23:53,724 --> 00:23:57,102 And I'm interested in the "wake you up" part. [chuckles] 457 00:23:57,186 --> 00:24:00,981 Our favorite flavors, vanilla and strawberry. 458 00:24:01,523 --> 00:24:03,400 -Thank you. -[ice cream man] You're welcome. 459 00:24:03,484 --> 00:24:05,402 [suspenseful music playing] 460 00:24:05,486 --> 00:24:08,238 Hey, this is regular vanilla. 461 00:24:10,074 --> 00:24:13,077 [tense music playing] 462 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,247 [Jodie] Films like John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 463 00:24:17,331 --> 00:24:19,750 put the nation's anxieties on screen. 464 00:24:20,334 --> 00:24:23,212 It was said that there was more violent crime on the streets 465 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:25,965 than any time since the 15th century. 466 00:24:26,674 --> 00:24:28,550 I was hit for no reason. 467 00:24:28,634 --> 00:24:30,344 Just beat up. They didn't even want my money. 468 00:24:30,427 --> 00:24:32,638 [protesters chanting] Save our village! 469 00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:34,556 What do you want me to do, call the cops? 470 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,267 Well, the cops don't do nothing, you know that. 471 00:24:37,351 --> 00:24:39,520 [Jodie] People longed to feel safe. 472 00:24:40,062 --> 00:24:43,023 They marched in the streets and took self-defense classes. 473 00:24:43,107 --> 00:24:44,942 [students shouting kiai] 474 00:24:45,025 --> 00:24:48,696 It was the period when you first started getting the urban vigilante. 475 00:24:48,779 --> 00:24:51,031 [protester] The police need help. 476 00:24:51,115 --> 00:24:55,369 Why don't we form some sort of a citizens’ action group? 477 00:24:55,452 --> 00:24:58,205 It's a dirty word. It's a bad word. 478 00:24:58,288 --> 00:25:01,291 But if we have to protect ourselves, let's do it. 479 00:25:04,169 --> 00:25:06,630 There was a slew of vigilante movies. 480 00:25:06,714 --> 00:25:09,717 -[door creaks open] -[tires screeching] 481 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,385 [James] One person taking it on. 482 00:25:11,468 --> 00:25:14,847 -[car engine revving] -[tires screeching] 483 00:25:15,431 --> 00:25:16,598 You talking to me? 484 00:25:19,268 --> 00:25:20,728 You talking to me? 485 00:25:20,811 --> 00:25:22,104 What? 486 00:25:22,187 --> 00:25:24,314 Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? 487 00:25:24,398 --> 00:25:26,066 Hit the deck, you son of a bitch! 488 00:25:26,150 --> 00:25:27,860 I'm trying, you fuck. 489 00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:30,738 [James] There was this sense of, like, "We've all gone too far." 490 00:25:30,821 --> 00:25:34,575 "We're coddling the criminals, somebody's working off their anger." 491 00:25:34,658 --> 00:25:39,288 Anyone doing anything… [chuckles] …was probably viewed as very aspirational. 492 00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:42,791 [Jodie] One critic dubbed the films "Revenge-amatics." 493 00:25:42,875 --> 00:25:44,168 [groans] 494 00:25:44,251 --> 00:25:46,128 [presenter] This is the story of a man 495 00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:50,466 who decided to clean up the most violent town in the world, 496 00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:51,884 Death Wish. 497 00:25:53,052 --> 00:25:55,054 What was seen as kind of a throwaway movie 498 00:25:55,137 --> 00:25:56,972 with this kind of B-list star, Charles Bronson, 499 00:25:57,056 --> 00:26:00,726 who plays an architect who's liberal, 500 00:26:00,809 --> 00:26:04,271 and his wife and daughter are raped and murdered. 501 00:26:04,354 --> 00:26:05,481 What do you want? 502 00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:07,483 Don't judge, mother. You know what we want. 503 00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:11,320 He literally, in the film, goes to a Western ghost town 504 00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:13,947 and learns to be a John Wayne-like Avenger, 505 00:26:14,615 --> 00:26:17,743 comes back to New York and begins shooting criminals. 506 00:26:20,746 --> 00:26:22,873 [Rick] People see it again and again and again. 507 00:26:22,956 --> 00:26:24,249 [gunshot] 508 00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:26,835 [Rick] The theater would erupt in cheers. 509 00:26:28,003 --> 00:26:29,463 [Wesley] What would you do? 510 00:26:29,546 --> 00:26:30,672 What would you do?! 511 00:26:30,756 --> 00:26:33,759 Would you do what Charles Bronson does in Death Wish? 512 00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:35,969 Probab-- Well, perhaps. 513 00:26:37,721 --> 00:26:41,308 Death Wish wasn't that extreme. It was clean violence. 514 00:26:41,391 --> 00:26:45,104 When I shot a man, he was shot. That was the end of it. 515 00:26:45,187 --> 00:26:46,438 [music concludes] 516 00:26:46,522 --> 00:26:48,023 You know what's frightening to me? 517 00:26:48,107 --> 00:26:51,735 I saw the cartoon Roadrunner last week with my little girl. 518 00:26:53,529 --> 00:26:59,785 They drop a rock on… on the wolf or the coyote, and he goes flat. 519 00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:01,662 That is shocking to me. 520 00:27:02,579 --> 00:27:04,206 This is really violence to me. 521 00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:07,376 -[suspenseful music playing] -But who does he kill? 522 00:27:09,503 --> 00:27:11,213 He killed the right people. 523 00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:15,551 And so he's perceived to be a hero, 524 00:27:15,634 --> 00:27:18,762 even though he clearly is everything but a hero. 525 00:27:18,846 --> 00:27:21,390 -[pedestrians shouting, clamoring] -[dramatic music playing] 526 00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:24,476 [Wesley] The thing with '70s Hollywood was missing 527 00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:30,566 with this energy of challenging corruption and capturing the national mood 528 00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:35,487 and responding to the times was Black people. [laughs] 529 00:27:36,113 --> 00:27:37,614 I think people just got tired 530 00:27:37,698 --> 00:27:39,867 because there wasn't enough variety in films. 531 00:27:39,950 --> 00:27:41,368 [indistinct chatter] 532 00:27:41,451 --> 00:27:43,954 [Richard] I don't like movies when they don't have no niggas in them. 533 00:27:44,037 --> 00:27:45,497 [audience laughing] 534 00:27:45,581 --> 00:27:47,958 [Richard] They had a movie in the future called "Logan's Run." 535 00:27:48,041 --> 00:27:49,751 Ain't no niggas in it. 536 00:27:49,835 --> 00:27:52,296 I said, "Well, White folks ain't planning for us to be here." 537 00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:56,133 -[audience laughing] -[crowd cheering] 538 00:27:57,342 --> 00:27:58,969 [Richard] That's why we gotta make movies. 539 00:27:59,052 --> 00:28:01,513 -[audience cheering, applauding] -[Jodie] So, they did. 540 00:28:01,597 --> 00:28:04,391 [upbeat music playing] 541 00:28:05,851 --> 00:28:07,686 [crowd yelling, clamoring] 542 00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:10,022 [Lawrence] The Blaxploitation thing, that was an accident. 543 00:28:10,105 --> 00:28:12,691 And Melvin Van Peebles comes along with this 150,000-dollar movie 544 00:28:12,774 --> 00:28:15,319 that he scraped together, and it makes 16 million dollars, 545 00:28:15,402 --> 00:28:16,486 and they go, "Wait a minute." 546 00:28:16,570 --> 00:28:18,238 And then they found that they had a whole other audience, 547 00:28:18,322 --> 00:28:20,991 and they would say it was a whole urban audience of Blacks, 548 00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:23,118 but everybody was in that theater. 549 00:28:23,202 --> 00:28:24,494 [rioter] Crazy bastard! 550 00:28:25,787 --> 00:28:28,415 There was White guys, there was a bunch of Jewish guys all the time, 551 00:28:28,498 --> 00:28:29,958 and the Puerto Rican guys, you know. 552 00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:32,461 And it was like, "Yo, man, that flick is on." 553 00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:35,839 [grunts, groans] 554 00:28:35,923 --> 00:28:37,925 [Jodie] "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" 555 00:28:38,008 --> 00:28:41,470 became the largest-grossing independent film ever made. 556 00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:46,016 Hollywood learned that success is not Black or White. 557 00:28:46,767 --> 00:28:48,393 -It's green. -[Shaft theme music playing] 558 00:28:48,477 --> 00:28:52,481 ♪ Who's the cat that won't cop out When there's danger all about? ♪ 559 00:28:53,190 --> 00:28:55,317 -♪ Shaft! ♪ -♪ Right on ♪ 560 00:28:56,109 --> 00:29:00,030 [Jodie] Shaft was so successful, it saved MGM from bankruptcy. 561 00:29:00,113 --> 00:29:04,326 [Todd] Super Fly knocked The Godfather out of the top spot at the box office. 562 00:29:04,952 --> 00:29:06,328 That's an amazing feat. 563 00:29:10,666 --> 00:29:12,918 -That sucker's gonna get us killed. -[song concludes] 564 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:17,589 A lot of the time, it was crime and sex, 565 00:29:17,673 --> 00:29:20,801 which was thrilling for a while, 566 00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:23,804 but I think people kind of got tired of shooting and fucking. 567 00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:27,266 It's a mistake to assume that Blaxploitation is a genre. 568 00:29:27,349 --> 00:29:28,809 It's many genres. 569 00:29:28,892 --> 00:29:30,435 [exciting rock music playing] 570 00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,272 [Jodie] On one hand, you had Blacula. 571 00:29:33,355 --> 00:29:37,317 On the other, kitchen sink dramas like Cooley High. 572 00:29:38,026 --> 00:29:41,697 Mr. Mason gonna have my ass missing class all this week. [snorts] 573 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:42,990 That ain't nothing new. 574 00:29:43,073 --> 00:29:46,076 It was a coming-of-age story. "I want to make something out of my life 575 00:29:46,159 --> 00:29:48,787 but I don't know what I'm doing and I don't have a clue." 576 00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:52,249 That's who my character was. He saw beyond the hood. 577 00:29:52,958 --> 00:29:56,336 He was gonna get what he's gonna get and nothing was gonna stop him. 578 00:29:57,337 --> 00:30:00,757 [Jodie] This wasn't exploitation. Like the rest of New Hollywood, 579 00:30:00,841 --> 00:30:03,677 many Black films were reflecting a nation on edge. 580 00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:07,472 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! 581 00:30:07,556 --> 00:30:10,642 [Jodie] And the most explosive voice in America 582 00:30:10,726 --> 00:30:12,436 belonged to a comedian. 583 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:13,979 [music concludes] 584 00:30:14,062 --> 00:30:17,065 He was originally someone who was trying to imitate Bill Cosby, 585 00:30:17,149 --> 00:30:20,152 but when he started to find his own voice, 586 00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:22,821 -he became a cultural phenomenon. -[audience laughing, applauding] 587 00:30:22,904 --> 00:30:24,156 Every time you read the paper, 588 00:30:24,239 --> 00:30:27,576 "Nigger accidentally shot 22 times in the face." 589 00:30:27,659 --> 00:30:29,745 [audience laughing] 590 00:30:29,828 --> 00:30:33,415 I mean, how do you accidentally shoot a nigger eight times in the chest? 591 00:30:34,124 --> 00:30:36,668 You know, and the guy goes, "Well, Judge, Your Honor, 592 00:30:36,752 --> 00:30:38,545 he just fell down and went crazy, Your Honor." 593 00:30:38,628 --> 00:30:40,172 [audience laughing, applauding] 594 00:30:40,255 --> 00:30:44,009 [Wesley] He was a great kind of minstrel figure, but in reverse. 595 00:30:44,092 --> 00:30:46,011 He was showing White people 596 00:30:46,094 --> 00:30:48,221 -what they looked like to him. -[tense music playing] 597 00:30:48,305 --> 00:30:50,515 I think you're probably pretty ready for this job. 598 00:30:50,599 --> 00:30:54,717 We got one more… kind of psychological test we always do here. 599 00:30:54,792 --> 00:30:58,190 It's just a word association. I'll throw you out a few words. 600 00:30:58,273 --> 00:31:00,859 Anything that comes to your mind, just throw it back at me, okay? 601 00:31:00,942 --> 00:31:02,235 -"White." -[Richard] "Black." 602 00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:04,488 -[audience laughing] -[Chevy] "Negro." 603 00:31:05,655 --> 00:31:08,784 -[Richard] "Whitey." -[audience laughing] 604 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:12,329 -"Tar baby." -[audience laughing] 605 00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:19,503 [Jodie] In 1975, liberal communities across the country 606 00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:21,421 tried to promote racial integration 607 00:31:22,214 --> 00:31:24,841 by busing Black students into White schools. 608 00:31:25,509 --> 00:31:27,177 But not everyone was on board. 609 00:31:27,844 --> 00:31:30,180 [reporter] The most visible anti-busing figure 610 00:31:30,263 --> 00:31:31,640 is Sue Connor, a suburbanite. 611 00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:34,351 Matthew Connor does not go to school in the morning! 612 00:31:34,434 --> 00:31:36,186 [crowd cheering, applauding] 613 00:31:36,269 --> 00:31:40,065 Boycott! Boycott! Boycott! Boycott! Boycott! Boycott! 614 00:31:40,148 --> 00:31:43,735 I am not a racist, I'm not a bigot. But if I were… 615 00:31:44,528 --> 00:31:45,737 it's unimportant. 616 00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:48,490 -"Colored." -"Redneck." 617 00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:50,742 [audience laughing] 618 00:31:50,826 --> 00:31:53,328 -"Jungle bunny." -"Peckerwood." 619 00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:57,707 [protesters shouting, clamoring] 620 00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:01,670 [student] Going over there to me, it's like going to a war. 621 00:32:01,753 --> 00:32:04,840 You can't get an education and watch your back at the same time. 622 00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:06,967 -"Burrhead." -"Cracker." 623 00:32:07,050 --> 00:32:08,552 [audience laughing] 624 00:32:08,635 --> 00:32:11,638 [protesters] 625 00:32:11,721 --> 00:32:14,724 They ran us on the buses, and they ran us off to school-- 626 00:32:14,808 --> 00:32:17,018 And then we had to go down the back stairs someplace else. 627 00:32:17,102 --> 00:32:19,312 -[Chevy] "Jungle bunny." -"Honky." 628 00:32:19,396 --> 00:32:21,440 -"Nigger." -"Dead honky." 629 00:32:21,523 --> 00:32:24,901 -[music concludes] -[audience laughing, applauding] 630 00:32:31,324 --> 00:32:32,826 Okay, Mr. Wilson, um… 631 00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:38,373 I think you're qualified for this job. Uh… 632 00:32:38,874 --> 00:32:40,667 How about a starting salary of $5,000? 633 00:32:40,750 --> 00:32:43,336 -Yo mama. -[audience laughing] 634 00:32:43,420 --> 00:32:46,298 [Todd] After Richard's appearance on Saturday Night Live, 635 00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:50,760 he's the hippest cultural figure in existence at that moment. 636 00:32:50,844 --> 00:32:53,847 -[funky music playing] -[Todd] He's able to take volatile topics 637 00:32:53,930 --> 00:32:55,724 and make people laugh at it. 638 00:32:57,851 --> 00:33:01,605 [Jodie] But there was one topic nobody wanted to talk about. 639 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,233 [music concludes] 640 00:33:07,194 --> 00:33:11,781 [Jodie] In 1975, the only on-screen critique of Vietnam 641 00:33:11,865 --> 00:33:14,242 was a sitcom about Korea. 642 00:33:14,326 --> 00:33:18,246 [scream, groan] 643 00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:21,374 I'm telling you, we're being shelled! 644 00:33:21,458 --> 00:33:22,501 Impossible. 645 00:33:22,584 --> 00:33:27,255 My latest intelligence map shows there are no enemy units in your sector. 646 00:33:27,339 --> 00:33:29,925 You are not being shelled, young man. 647 00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:32,928 -[audience laughing] -[tense music playing] 648 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:36,056 [Hawkeye] 649 00:33:36,139 --> 00:33:38,433 -[crowd clamoring] -[Jodie] The TV series M*A*S*H 650 00:33:38,517 --> 00:33:41,853 was a spin-off of Robert Altman's black comedy of the same name. 651 00:33:41,937 --> 00:33:43,063 [Hawkeye] I can't really see. 652 00:33:43,146 --> 00:33:45,524 It's like the Mississippi River down there. 653 00:33:45,607 --> 00:33:46,816 Action! 654 00:33:47,984 --> 00:33:50,987 I wanted it to be about the Vietnam War. 655 00:33:51,905 --> 00:33:55,200 But they were adamant that it couldn't be that. 656 00:33:56,201 --> 00:33:58,078 So, when they saw the picture cut together, 657 00:33:58,161 --> 00:34:02,123 they made us put a little disclaimer to say that this was in Korea. 658 00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:05,585 [Frank] M*A*S*H, even though it was not set in Vietnam, 659 00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:07,712 everyone knew what they were talking about. 660 00:34:07,796 --> 00:34:10,549 [Hawkeye] War isn't hell. War is war and hell is hell. 661 00:34:10,632 --> 00:34:13,051 And of the two, war is a lot worse. 662 00:34:13,134 --> 00:34:16,680 It took a long time till Vietnam movies started to kick in. 663 00:34:16,763 --> 00:34:19,766 People did not want to deal with it. 664 00:34:19,849 --> 00:34:22,269 [Jodie] For the first 15 years of the war, 665 00:34:22,352 --> 00:34:25,355 only one Vietnam film had come out of Hollywood. 666 00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:29,484 -[patriotic music playing] -[presenter] Green Berets. 667 00:34:29,568 --> 00:34:32,362 [Jodie] John Wayne took a different angle than M*A*S*H. 668 00:34:32,445 --> 00:34:35,721 Why is the United States waging this ruthless war? 669 00:34:35,821 --> 00:34:37,659 Communist domination of the world. 670 00:34:39,119 --> 00:34:43,039 [Oliver] Nobody could believe that film. I mean, we laughed at it when we saw it. 671 00:34:43,123 --> 00:34:47,502 And it was all lies, all lies. I mean, the concept that we're winning. 672 00:34:47,586 --> 00:34:51,089 -[soldier screams] -That's what it's all about, Mr. Beckwith! 673 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,302 John Wayne, he represented that it was okay to be in Vietnam. 674 00:34:55,385 --> 00:34:58,013 That was the worst thing he did, in our opinion. 675 00:34:58,597 --> 00:35:01,224 People my age had to go and die. 676 00:35:01,308 --> 00:35:04,936 -[dramatic music playing] -[Oliver] It really was an ugly war. 677 00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:08,565 We were bombing the shit out of everybody. We were spending a fortune. 678 00:35:08,648 --> 00:35:10,233 My first wound came 679 00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:13,069 from an asshole sergeant who threw a grenade. 680 00:35:13,153 --> 00:35:16,698 and he didn't throw it far enough. [laughs] 681 00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:17,949 [protesters chanting] 682 00:35:18,033 --> 00:35:21,202 [Jodie] Americans were deeply divided over the war, 683 00:35:21,286 --> 00:35:22,954 and Hollywood was no different. 684 00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:26,916 [reporter] Here comes Big Duke himself, John Wayne. 685 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,294 [Jodie] At the 1975 Academy Awards… 686 00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:33,089 that divide took center stage. 687 00:35:33,173 --> 00:35:34,799 [upbeat music playing] 688 00:35:34,883 --> 00:35:36,051 Thank you. 689 00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:37,844 [Jodie] The hosts and presenters that night 690 00:35:37,927 --> 00:35:40,722 were a who's who of old Hollywood royalty. 691 00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:41,848 Thank you. 692 00:35:42,849 --> 00:35:46,686 [Jodie] But as they passed the torch to the next generation of filmmakers, 693 00:35:46,770 --> 00:35:50,690 the viewing public got a taste of how each really felt about the other. 694 00:35:50,774 --> 00:35:53,860 I fear that the Academy Award doesn't mean anything anymore. 695 00:35:54,486 --> 00:35:57,072 There's just something so grotesque about it. 696 00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:59,324 -They're beauty pageants. -[interviewer] Yeah. 697 00:35:59,407 --> 00:36:00,825 They're demeaning somehow. 698 00:36:00,909 --> 00:36:05,330 They really show the worst aspect of this country, I think. 699 00:36:05,413 --> 00:36:07,624 And contrary to what Dustin Hoffman thinks, 700 00:36:07,707 --> 00:36:09,542 it is not an obscene evening. 701 00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:13,963 It is not garish, and it is not embarrassing. 702 00:36:14,047 --> 00:36:17,550 -[audience cheering, applauding] -[tense music playing] 703 00:36:17,634 --> 00:36:22,347 [Jodie] Finally, the generational battle came to a head at an unlikely moment. 704 00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:26,976 For feature-length documentaries, the winner is Hearts and Minds. 705 00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:32,148 [Jodie] Columbia Pictures had refused to release Hearts and Minds. 706 00:36:32,774 --> 00:36:36,611 Its focus on the human cost of the war was too controversial. 707 00:36:42,367 --> 00:36:45,662 -[plane engines roaring] -[indistinct chatter] 708 00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:47,789 [speaks in Vietnamese] 709 00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:49,708 [translator, in English] "The planes again." 710 00:36:49,791 --> 00:36:50,709 [speaks Vietnamese] 711 00:36:50,792 --> 00:36:52,711 [translator, in English] "That is the bomb crater." 712 00:36:52,794 --> 00:36:56,172 "The bomb struck there and destroyed everything I had." 713 00:36:56,673 --> 00:36:58,633 [Bert] It is ironic that we are here 714 00:36:58,717 --> 00:37:01,511 just before Vietnam is about to be liberated. 715 00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:08,017 I will now read a short wire that I have been asked to read 716 00:37:08,101 --> 00:37:09,853 by the Vietnamese people. 717 00:37:10,729 --> 00:37:15,775 "Please transmit to all our friends in America our recognition 718 00:37:15,859 --> 00:37:18,737 of all that they have done on behalf of peace." 719 00:37:18,820 --> 00:37:22,657 "Greetings of friendship to all the American people." 720 00:37:22,741 --> 00:37:24,242 Thank you very much. 721 00:37:24,325 --> 00:37:27,328 [melancholic music playing] 722 00:37:28,204 --> 00:37:30,206 Obviously, it was extremely tense. 723 00:37:31,207 --> 00:37:32,917 We all kind of held our breath. 724 00:37:33,585 --> 00:37:36,254 [Biskind] Bert Schneider produced Easy Rider. 725 00:37:36,337 --> 00:37:41,050 Schneider was one of the most radical. He scandalized the Academy. 726 00:37:41,134 --> 00:37:43,970 The Academy was a very conservative organization. 727 00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:48,099 You know, they didn't want somebody on stage saying stuff like that. 728 00:37:48,183 --> 00:37:51,352 -[tense music playing] -[Jodie] All hell broke loose backstage 729 00:37:51,436 --> 00:37:55,190 as John Wayne and Sinatra confronted Bert Schneider. 730 00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:58,860 [Martin] I wound up backstage. I saw Sinatra walk by me. 731 00:37:59,402 --> 00:38:02,280 And I just moved out of the way because I didn't know… 732 00:38:02,363 --> 00:38:04,199 I didn't know what to do back there. 733 00:38:04,741 --> 00:38:05,909 I could feel the chill. 734 00:38:06,493 --> 00:38:09,829 [Jodie] Bob Hope insisted on a retraction from the Academy. 735 00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:13,875 The Academy is saying, quote, "We are not responsible 736 00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:16,044 for any political references on this program 737 00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:18,588 and we are sorry that they had to take place this evening." 738 00:38:18,671 --> 00:38:21,549 [audience cheering, applauding] 739 00:38:22,133 --> 00:38:24,886 [rapid gunshots firing] 740 00:38:26,805 --> 00:38:30,809 [Jodie] Three weeks later, as the North Vietnamese surrounded Saigon, 741 00:38:30,892 --> 00:38:34,187 armed forces radio played White Christmas, which meant… 742 00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:36,231 [radio broadcaster] …the report from the embassy that all Americans 743 00:38:36,314 --> 00:38:39,609 -are to be evacuated immediately. -[feedback screeching] 744 00:38:39,692 --> 00:38:45,907 -♪ I'm dreaming of a white Christmas ♪ -♪ I'm dreaming of a white Christmas ♪ 745 00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:47,492 [dramatic music playing] 746 00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:50,745 [reporter 1] And then it was a mad dash to the waiting helicopter. 747 00:38:50,829 --> 00:38:52,831 [prisoner of war] Probably the most terrifying experience 748 00:38:52,914 --> 00:38:54,332 that I've ever gone through. 749 00:38:55,542 --> 00:38:59,587 [reporter 2] 750 00:39:05,718 --> 00:39:08,388 [reporter 3] U.S. Marines having to use tear gas 751 00:39:08,471 --> 00:39:10,181 to keep these people behind, 752 00:39:10,265 --> 00:39:13,601 people that the Americans had promised would get out of Vietnam. 753 00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:17,313 These people up here are committing suicide staying up here, 754 00:39:17,397 --> 00:39:18,565 but what can you do? 755 00:39:21,526 --> 00:39:24,195 [citizens clamoring, shouting] 756 00:39:26,197 --> 00:39:29,701 [citizens cheering, applauding] 757 00:39:32,161 --> 00:39:34,622 -[music concludes] -The war in Vietnam is over. 758 00:39:35,623 --> 00:39:38,626 It was sad and tragic in many respects. 759 00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:42,463 But the United States is strong militarily, 760 00:39:42,547 --> 00:39:44,549 despite our current problems, 761 00:39:44,632 --> 00:39:48,344 and we want any potential adversaries to know 762 00:39:48,428 --> 00:39:51,598 -that we will stand up to them. -[both grunt, exclaim] 763 00:39:52,724 --> 00:39:55,435 [Black Knight] Now stand aside, worthy adversary. 764 00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:57,729 -'Tis but a scratch. -[King Arthur] A scratch? 765 00:39:57,812 --> 00:39:59,564 -Your arm's off! -[Black Knight] No, it isn't. 766 00:39:59,647 --> 00:40:01,774 [King Arthur] Well, what's that then? 767 00:40:01,858 --> 00:40:03,985 -[Black Knight] I've had worse. -[King Arthur] You liar! 768 00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:05,612 [Black Knight] Come on, you pansy! 769 00:40:05,695 --> 00:40:07,322 [tense music playing] 770 00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:10,033 [Jodie] But just two weeks after the fall of Saigon, 771 00:40:10,116 --> 00:40:12,911 an American container ship, the Mayaguez, 772 00:40:12,994 --> 00:40:15,705 was seized by communist forces in Cambodia. 773 00:40:16,664 --> 00:40:19,709 It triggered a massive U.S. military response. 774 00:40:19,792 --> 00:40:22,003 The Ford administration was determined 775 00:40:22,086 --> 00:40:25,465 to prove that America was still a force to be reckoned with. 776 00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:27,383 [Black Knight screams] 777 00:40:28,301 --> 00:40:29,594 It's just a flesh wound. 778 00:40:30,762 --> 00:40:32,180 [Jodie] In the aftermath, 779 00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:36,017 the ship was saved and Ford's popularity skyrocketed. 780 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:39,979 [reporter] The overwhelming support of the public is behind the president. 781 00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,442 [Black Knight] Right, I'll do you for that! 782 00:40:44,525 --> 00:40:46,444 -You'll what? -[Black Knight] Come here! 783 00:40:46,527 --> 00:40:48,488 What are you going to do, bleed on me? 784 00:40:48,571 --> 00:40:50,031 [reflective music playing] 785 00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:54,160 [Jodie] But like much of the Vietnam War, the truth was more complex. 786 00:40:54,243 --> 00:40:55,995 -[crowd cheering] -[Rick] It's quite explicit. 787 00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:59,165 We have the notes of the NSC meetings, and Henry Kissinger is saying things like, 788 00:40:59,248 --> 00:41:02,015 "We need to kick ass somewhere, and it doesn't matter if it's real, 789 00:41:02,084 --> 00:41:04,408 we just have to show that America can't be messed with." 790 00:41:06,005 --> 00:41:08,091 [Oliver] Of course, everything backfired. 791 00:41:08,925 --> 00:41:10,969 We lost a lot of Marines for nothing. 792 00:41:12,679 --> 00:41:13,888 It was a mess. 793 00:41:15,056 --> 00:41:19,268 [Rick] But it's celebrated in the media as if it's the Battle of the Bulge. 794 00:41:20,186 --> 00:41:23,272 American military narcissism at its very worst. 795 00:41:24,941 --> 00:41:26,234 It's madness. 796 00:41:28,403 --> 00:41:29,696 [Black Knight gasps] 797 00:41:31,906 --> 00:41:34,117 All right, we'll call it a draw. 798 00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:38,538 [Jodie] A few months later, as the real story emerged, 799 00:41:38,621 --> 00:41:42,083 many Americans began to wonder who they could trust. 800 00:41:44,127 --> 00:41:47,422 Trust is not having to guess 801 00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:49,882 -what it can and can't mean. -[distant gunfire] 802 00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:53,261 [Ford] Trust must be earned. 803 00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:56,347 [presenter] Neither the cherry bombs of a misguided prankster 804 00:41:56,431 --> 00:41:59,100 nor all the memories of recent years 805 00:41:59,183 --> 00:42:02,020 can keep the people and their president apart. 806 00:42:02,103 --> 00:42:03,813 ["I'm Feeling Good About America" playing] 807 00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:07,358 ♪ I'm feeling good about America ♪ 808 00:42:07,442 --> 00:42:10,945 [presenter] When a limousine can parade openly through the streets of Dallas, 809 00:42:11,029 --> 00:42:13,448 there's a change that's come over America. 810 00:42:13,948 --> 00:42:15,950 After a decade of tension 811 00:42:16,034 --> 00:42:19,370 the people and their president are back together again. 812 00:42:19,454 --> 00:42:24,792 ♪ I'm feeling good about America It's something great to see ♪ 813 00:42:25,585 --> 00:42:28,755 ♪ I'm feeling good about America ♪ 814 00:42:29,213 --> 00:42:32,300 -♪ I'm feeling good about… ♪ -[gunshot] 815 00:42:32,383 --> 00:42:34,260 [crowd clamoring] 816 00:42:34,343 --> 00:42:36,637 [reporter] Then came the two assassination attempts. 817 00:42:36,721 --> 00:42:39,515 In Sacramento, it was a member of the infamous Manson Gang, 818 00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:40,850 "Squeaky" Fromme. 819 00:42:40,933 --> 00:42:43,394 In San Francisco, a shot was actually fired. 820 00:42:43,478 --> 00:42:46,064 -[gunshot] -[bodyguard] Whoa! Hey! 821 00:42:46,898 --> 00:42:48,232 The guy's distinguished 822 00:42:48,316 --> 00:42:50,985 by the fact that he faced two assassination attempts 823 00:42:51,069 --> 00:42:52,945 within three weeks of each other. 824 00:42:53,988 --> 00:42:55,573 That kind of says it all. 825 00:42:55,656 --> 00:42:56,949 [chuckles] 826 00:42:57,033 --> 00:42:58,409 -[gunshot] -[crowd screaming] 827 00:42:58,493 --> 00:43:03,164 [Jodie] In 1975, political violence was shockingly common. 828 00:43:03,539 --> 00:43:07,752 And there was one assassination that was still at the forefront 829 00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:09,253 of the American mind. 830 00:43:09,337 --> 00:43:13,049 -[tense music playing] -This is Dealey Plaza in Dallas. 831 00:43:13,132 --> 00:43:17,095 On the 22nd day of November 1963, a shot rang out. 832 00:43:17,804 --> 00:43:20,598 [Jodie] In the 12 years since the Kennedy assassination, 833 00:43:20,681 --> 00:43:23,601 many had questioned the official account of a lone gunman. 834 00:43:24,393 --> 00:43:28,731 Geraldo Rivera broke the story wide open when he played the Zapruder film 835 00:43:28,815 --> 00:43:31,067 on national television for the first time. 836 00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:34,403 [Gerald] And as you can see, the head is thrown violently backwards. 837 00:43:34,487 --> 00:43:36,614 [audience gasping] 838 00:43:37,156 --> 00:43:40,118 [Oliver] It was really awful to see Kennedy's head blown off, 839 00:43:40,201 --> 00:43:44,914 but it was important. It made me see the world in another way. 840 00:43:46,124 --> 00:43:49,961 [Jodie] The release of the film reignited questions over his death, 841 00:43:50,795 --> 00:43:53,923 furthering distrust of the official account, 842 00:43:54,715 --> 00:43:57,677 and raising suspicions about other assassinations. 843 00:43:58,177 --> 00:44:00,555 Where were you when Kennedy got shot? 844 00:44:01,347 --> 00:44:02,932 [crickets chirping] 845 00:44:03,516 --> 00:44:05,143 Which Kennedy? 846 00:44:05,226 --> 00:44:08,187 Many now suspect that the thread that binds the crimes together 847 00:44:08,271 --> 00:44:09,647 is in a series of conspiracies. 848 00:44:10,439 --> 00:44:12,191 Perhaps even one giant conspiracy. 849 00:44:12,275 --> 00:44:13,651 [gunshot fires] 850 00:44:13,734 --> 00:44:15,820 [Lee, in shaky voice] Since the assassination, 851 00:44:15,903 --> 00:44:19,157 six of these people have died in some kind of an accident. 852 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:21,951 And whoever killed them is going to try to kill me. 853 00:44:22,827 --> 00:44:23,828 Hey. 854 00:44:25,329 --> 00:44:28,499 [unsettling music playing] 855 00:44:29,584 --> 00:44:33,379 When I make a film, I am not interested, basically, 856 00:44:33,462 --> 00:44:35,506 in how people perceive it. 857 00:44:36,257 --> 00:44:38,384 I'm interested in telling the truth. 858 00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:43,848 [Jodie] Warren Beatty had one of the most politically charged voices in Hollywood, 859 00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:48,269 someone who was both a sex symbol and antagonist to Richard Nixon. 860 00:44:49,395 --> 00:44:52,064 The Parallax View, for instance, you know, where Warren Beatty 861 00:44:52,148 --> 00:44:55,693 is a reporter who uncovers this political assassination plot, 862 00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,237 the paranoia was justified. 863 00:44:58,321 --> 00:45:01,282 What once seemed far-fetched… 864 00:45:01,365 --> 00:45:03,034 [successive gunshots] 865 00:45:03,117 --> 00:45:07,914 …in this moment, actually is coming to light as completely real. 866 00:45:07,997 --> 00:45:11,042 -[crowd screaming, clamoring] -[Warren] It's a very important subject. 867 00:45:11,209 --> 00:45:14,629 The reopening on the entire fabric of… 868 00:45:15,922 --> 00:45:18,341 the last 25 years of our life. 869 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,929 [Jodie] Not long after, Seymour Hersh at the New York Times reported 870 00:45:23,012 --> 00:45:27,225 that the CIA had been spying on anti-war Americans for years. 871 00:45:28,059 --> 00:45:29,101 [pensive music playing] 872 00:45:29,185 --> 00:45:33,231 Liberal Senator Frank Church took it upon himself to investigate. 873 00:45:33,314 --> 00:45:35,983 [Church] There has never been a full public accounting 874 00:45:36,067 --> 00:45:38,194 of domestic intelligence operations. 875 00:45:38,945 --> 00:45:42,281 Therefore, this committee has undertaken such an investigation. 876 00:45:43,032 --> 00:45:45,076 There was a sense of dread… 877 00:45:46,202 --> 00:45:48,204 that the government had become too powerful, 878 00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:52,959 that there were dark forces out there being unleashed by the government. 879 00:45:53,501 --> 00:45:56,963 That just snowballed from there. 880 00:45:57,046 --> 00:45:59,548 -[tapes rewinding] -[dramatic music playing] 881 00:45:59,632 --> 00:46:02,343 Look at that. Holy shit. 882 00:46:02,426 --> 00:46:04,011 [Jodie] Over the next several months, 883 00:46:04,095 --> 00:46:07,390 the nation was riveted as the Church committee revealed 884 00:46:07,473 --> 00:46:11,269 for the first time secrets about foreign assassinations, 885 00:46:11,352 --> 00:46:13,187 the drugging of American citizens, 886 00:46:13,271 --> 00:46:15,523 and the wiretapping of civil rights leaders. 887 00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:20,778 Now we're getting the truth about some truly wicked stuff. 888 00:46:20,861 --> 00:46:23,823 -[tape rewinding] -[Patton] Everything that we were against 889 00:46:24,365 --> 00:46:26,409 is actually stuff we're also doing. 890 00:46:27,159 --> 00:46:28,744 He'd kill us if he got the chance. 891 00:46:29,912 --> 00:46:33,499 [Jodie] Films like The Conversation and Three Days of the Condor 892 00:46:33,582 --> 00:46:36,085 showed that the paranoia was real. 893 00:46:36,752 --> 00:46:40,256 [Risen] Three Days of the Condor, about the CIA killing people, 894 00:46:40,339 --> 00:46:43,175 came out right as the hearings were going on. 895 00:46:43,968 --> 00:46:45,720 [muffled gunshot] 896 00:46:45,803 --> 00:46:47,555 What are you doing? 897 00:46:49,015 --> 00:46:50,266 [groans] 898 00:46:50,349 --> 00:46:52,518 The parallels were eerie. 899 00:46:52,601 --> 00:46:55,938 You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth? 900 00:46:56,022 --> 00:46:57,315 No. 901 00:46:57,398 --> 00:47:00,901 [Risen] I think of the Church committee as kind of the end of the '60s. 902 00:47:04,655 --> 00:47:09,327 What institutions can you trust to do the right thing? 903 00:47:11,996 --> 00:47:16,125 [Church] If this government ever became a tyranny, 904 00:47:16,667 --> 00:47:19,879 if a dictator ever took charge in this country, 905 00:47:20,629 --> 00:47:22,340 the technological capacity 906 00:47:22,423 --> 00:47:25,509 that the intelligence community has given the government 907 00:47:26,052 --> 00:47:30,806 could enable it to impose total tyranny, 908 00:47:31,474 --> 00:47:33,851 and there would be no way to fight back. 909 00:47:33,934 --> 00:47:35,561 ["Breakdown" playing] 910 00:47:35,644 --> 00:47:37,605 [man over speaker] Welcome to the testing room 911 00:47:37,688 --> 00:47:41,025 of the Parallax Corporation's Division of Human Engineering. 912 00:47:46,781 --> 00:47:48,949 [Jodie] What happened to our country? 913 00:47:49,033 --> 00:47:52,870 A certain idealism and a certain hope that we thought that we had, 914 00:47:52,953 --> 00:47:54,914 that was extinguished. 915 00:47:54,997 --> 00:47:58,667 [Jodie] Were we living the American dream or an American nightmare? 916 00:47:58,751 --> 00:48:03,923 ♪ Baby, breakdown Go ahead and give it to me ♪ 917 00:48:04,006 --> 00:48:07,176 ♪ Breakdown, honey Take me through the night ♪ 918 00:48:07,259 --> 00:48:08,469 ♪ Baby, baby, breakdown! ♪ 919 00:48:08,552 --> 00:48:11,972 ♪ Breakdown, now I'm standin' here Can't you see? ♪ 920 00:48:12,056 --> 00:48:14,767 -♪ Ooh-whoo-hoo ♪ -♪ Breakdown, it's all right ♪ 921 00:48:14,850 --> 00:48:17,561 "Wow, everything is wrong, I need to start over." 922 00:48:17,645 --> 00:48:19,063 ♪ It's all right ♪ 923 00:48:19,146 --> 00:48:23,025 -♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ -♪ It's all right ♪ 924 00:48:23,109 --> 00:48:26,695 What we inherited from our parents is not useful to us, 925 00:48:26,779 --> 00:48:29,573 and we don't really have anything to replace it with. 926 00:48:30,408 --> 00:48:35,830 [Jodie] The era, as one author theorized, was post-everything and pre-nothing. 927 00:48:36,872 --> 00:48:40,543 For many people, the only way out was in. 928 00:48:45,303 --> 00:48:46,382 [song concludes] 929 00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:50,302 [Jefferson] I think that the ultimate text of the 1970s 930 00:48:50,386 --> 00:48:52,596 is Jonathan Livingston Seagull. 931 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,349 [majestic music playing] 932 00:48:55,433 --> 00:48:58,811 [Jefferson] It's about a seagull who breaks away from the pack, 933 00:48:58,894 --> 00:49:02,982 who can be an individual, and then who can soar and fly, 934 00:49:03,065 --> 00:49:06,277 and it was a massive bestseller made into a movie. 935 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:07,862 [music concludes] 936 00:49:07,945 --> 00:49:10,823 [Elder Gull] Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 937 00:49:10,906 --> 00:49:13,909 you do not fly as we fly. 938 00:49:14,535 --> 00:49:20,040 You are henceforth and forever outcast! 939 00:49:20,875 --> 00:49:22,209 [Jonathan] Outcast… 940 00:49:22,293 --> 00:49:24,336 [pensive electronic music playing] 941 00:49:24,420 --> 00:49:26,422 [Jefferson] It's the idea that self-actualization 942 00:49:26,505 --> 00:49:28,841 is about removing yourself from the community. 943 00:49:29,967 --> 00:49:32,303 That the community is a source of oppression, 944 00:49:32,386 --> 00:49:34,513 the community is a source of limitation, 945 00:49:34,597 --> 00:49:38,225 and you need to get out, and to be an ultimate free gull. 946 00:49:38,309 --> 00:49:43,022 You can't help anyone else before you help yourself. 947 00:49:43,898 --> 00:49:47,526 It's the first turn towards the idea of a "Me" generation, 948 00:49:47,610 --> 00:49:49,445 rather than a "We" generation. 949 00:49:50,446 --> 00:49:54,200 That whole dream of the late '60s faded. 950 00:49:55,159 --> 00:49:57,328 We say that if the government of the United States 951 00:49:57,411 --> 00:49:58,996 does not stop the war, 952 00:49:59,079 --> 00:50:02,124 we intend to stop the government of the United States. 953 00:50:02,208 --> 00:50:04,126 I think that, you know-- I think that whole period 954 00:50:04,210 --> 00:50:08,339 was really a search outside ourselves, you know, a search in the external world, 955 00:50:08,422 --> 00:50:10,174 and I think we came to see that… 956 00:50:10,257 --> 00:50:14,011 that actually our own human mind is what is creating war. 957 00:50:15,387 --> 00:50:18,682 If there can't be peace of mind, we can't have peace on Earth. 958 00:50:21,852 --> 00:50:25,481 [Jodie] Films like Tommy and Brian De Palma's Carrie 959 00:50:25,564 --> 00:50:27,983 explored the hidden potential locked inside. 960 00:50:28,067 --> 00:50:30,903 Creepy Carrie, Creepy Carrie! [laughs] 961 00:50:30,986 --> 00:50:32,363 [screams] 962 00:50:32,446 --> 00:50:35,950 [Wesley] What happens when you're controlled 963 00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:40,079 by a force that wants you to give yourself over… 964 00:50:40,162 --> 00:50:41,497 and make this thing that you're going through, 965 00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:43,207 that you can't understand, go away? 966 00:50:43,916 --> 00:50:45,626 [Jodie] And in 1975, 967 00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:48,254 there was a new path to self-actualization. 968 00:50:48,963 --> 00:50:52,216 One that was not quite a religion and not quite a cult. 969 00:50:52,967 --> 00:50:54,760 It was uniquely American. 970 00:50:55,928 --> 00:50:57,054 A business. 971 00:50:57,137 --> 00:50:59,181 And the self was for sale. 972 00:51:00,099 --> 00:51:02,851 Being centered is being able to tell the difference 973 00:51:02,935 --> 00:51:05,646 between your ass and a hole in the ground, that's all. 974 00:51:05,729 --> 00:51:07,147 You're an asshole 975 00:51:07,773 --> 00:51:09,441 because you can't tell the difference 976 00:51:09,525 --> 00:51:12,194 between your ass and a hole in the ground. 977 00:51:12,278 --> 00:51:13,988 [audience applauds] 978 00:51:14,071 --> 00:51:15,739 [presenter] This man is Werner Erhard, 979 00:51:15,823 --> 00:51:18,993 founder and guru of a new movement called EST. 980 00:51:19,076 --> 00:51:22,663 People get bored. "Hey, maybe I should work on myself." 981 00:51:22,746 --> 00:51:26,208 Who would even say that during old times? 982 00:51:26,292 --> 00:51:28,794 [presenter] EST may not be doing psychotherapy, 983 00:51:28,877 --> 00:51:32,089 but it does appeal to people who seek happiness, 984 00:51:32,172 --> 00:51:34,758 who have trouble making their lives work. 985 00:51:35,509 --> 00:51:37,386 The '60s asked a lot of questions, 986 00:51:37,469 --> 00:51:40,264 that the '70s went, "Yeah, don't worry about that." 987 00:51:40,347 --> 00:51:43,225 "Don't worry about that." Those questions were never answered. 988 00:51:43,309 --> 00:51:44,476 When I was a little girl, 989 00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,605 my parents put me in an orphanage several times. 990 00:51:48,105 --> 00:51:49,982 -And-- -[Werner] Isn't that beautiful? 991 00:51:50,649 --> 00:51:54,153 -[attendee] It hurts. -No, it doesn't hurt. You make it hurt. 992 00:51:54,820 --> 00:51:56,697 What's the payoff for being hurt? 993 00:51:59,116 --> 00:51:59,992 People to care. 994 00:52:01,118 --> 00:52:04,121 Now, let's find out why you put yourself in an orphanage. 995 00:52:04,913 --> 00:52:06,498 You put yourself in an orphanage 996 00:52:06,582 --> 00:52:09,960 because orphan was the best racket you could figure out. 997 00:52:10,461 --> 00:52:13,547 You could not figure out a better racket. 998 00:52:13,631 --> 00:52:18,135 Now, what was the payoff? What do you get out of being an orphan? 999 00:52:21,805 --> 00:52:23,766 I get to be better than anybody in the world. 1000 00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:24,975 You bet your ass. 1001 00:52:25,059 --> 00:52:26,268 [uplifting music playing] 1002 00:52:26,352 --> 00:52:29,355 [Patton] "This thing happened to you 'cause you secretly wanted it to happen." 1003 00:52:29,438 --> 00:52:31,398 That is so fucking creepy, 1004 00:52:31,482 --> 00:52:34,860 but it's also weirdly comforting, 'cause it means there was a reason. 1005 00:52:34,943 --> 00:52:38,656 And it also means, "Well, I can think it another way." 1006 00:52:38,739 --> 00:52:43,035 [Werner] Wars and exterminated peoples, too much for you to confront. 1007 00:52:44,370 --> 00:52:47,164 Confront your own goddamn soap opera. 1008 00:52:47,831 --> 00:52:51,960 Life doesn't have any satisfaction and you've tried everything 1009 00:52:52,044 --> 00:52:53,295 and nothing works, 1010 00:52:53,379 --> 00:52:57,299 and you're just desperate to make it work and you're shit. 1011 00:52:58,133 --> 00:53:04,223 Your feelings aren't related to the rest of reality necessarily. 1012 00:53:05,182 --> 00:53:08,102 That's the way it's gotta be for you to survive. 1013 00:53:08,644 --> 00:53:13,941 -["Crazy On You" playing] -[screams] Stop! Stop it! Stop it! 1014 00:53:14,733 --> 00:53:17,528 [attendees screaming] 1015 00:53:17,611 --> 00:53:19,905 -[eagle screeches] -[seagull screeches] 1016 00:53:22,032 --> 00:53:24,785 [Jodie] It was the perfect message for the time, 1017 00:53:24,868 --> 00:53:28,330 that people had total control over their destiny. 1018 00:53:28,414 --> 00:53:31,500 That reality was based on feelings rather than facts. 1019 00:53:33,544 --> 00:53:36,296 But if we are in total control of our fates, 1020 00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:39,299 then others must be in total control of theirs. 1021 00:53:39,383 --> 00:53:42,678 ♪ Crazy on you ♪ 1022 00:53:43,137 --> 00:53:45,931 ♪ Crazy on you ♪ 1023 00:53:46,014 --> 00:53:48,392 [Jodie] Which led some EST followers to say 1024 00:53:48,475 --> 00:53:51,979 that the North Vietnamese must have wanted to be bombed. 1025 00:53:52,062 --> 00:53:54,481 That rapes, starving children, 1026 00:53:54,565 --> 00:53:58,360 even the Holocaust, were all willed to happen by the victims. 1027 00:53:58,861 --> 00:54:04,575 All of the self-actualization, it was all just a hustle. 1028 00:54:04,658 --> 00:54:08,746 I'm going to get realized, man, and it's because of you. [laughs] 1029 00:54:08,829 --> 00:54:11,874 [Kurt] You had whole fractions of America feeling, 1030 00:54:11,957 --> 00:54:14,585 "Truth is whatever I want it to be." Anything can be true. 1031 00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:19,715 Anything we want to be true can be true, even if it manifestly is not. 1032 00:54:21,133 --> 00:54:23,844 [Jodie] To some, the era felt like a disco ball 1033 00:54:24,845 --> 00:54:27,556 where hundreds of little me's swirled around. 1034 00:54:28,766 --> 00:54:31,977 Tom Wolfe called it "The Me generation." 1035 00:54:33,312 --> 00:54:36,106 -♪ Crazy… ♪ -[song concludes] 1036 00:54:36,190 --> 00:54:40,110 And what came out of it was terrible. 1037 00:54:41,653 --> 00:54:44,865 The loss of communication with human beings. 1038 00:54:46,116 --> 00:54:51,789 [Jodie] But a new tool was about to emerge that would push people further in. 1039 00:54:51,872 --> 00:54:54,958 [Bartholomew] He's the central brain, the world's brain. 1040 00:54:57,377 --> 00:55:01,423 I'd like, uh, some information about corporate decisions, uh… 1041 00:55:01,965 --> 00:55:04,051 how they're made and who makes them. 1042 00:55:04,134 --> 00:55:06,303 -[Bartholomew] Answer him. -[computer trilling] 1043 00:55:06,386 --> 00:55:08,305 -[Zero] Negative. -Answer. 1044 00:55:08,388 --> 00:55:10,098 -[Zero] Negative, negative… -[water burbling] 1045 00:55:10,182 --> 00:55:11,975 …negative, negative, negative, 1046 00:55:12,059 --> 00:55:14,061 -negative, negative, negative… -You have to, Zero! 1047 00:55:14,144 --> 00:55:15,979 -[dynamic music playing] -[fax machine whirring] 1048 00:55:16,063 --> 00:55:19,775 [presenter] The information revolution expanded the strength of man's brain, 1049 00:55:19,858 --> 00:55:24,488 changing forever the way Americans work, play, and even think. 1050 00:55:25,614 --> 00:55:28,450 [Jodie] At the time, computers were mostly used 1051 00:55:28,534 --> 00:55:30,786 by governments and large corporations. 1052 00:55:30,869 --> 00:55:34,498 But to some young people, the future looked bright. 1053 00:55:34,581 --> 00:55:37,000 [Bill] There's a lot of people who are forecasting 1054 00:55:37,084 --> 00:55:40,128 that there'll be software stores, just like there are record stores today, 1055 00:55:40,212 --> 00:55:42,506 and that there'll be thousands and thousands of those. 1056 00:55:42,589 --> 00:55:44,216 And I think I'd have to agree with that. 1057 00:55:44,299 --> 00:55:45,384 [music concludes] 1058 00:55:45,467 --> 00:55:49,096 I was a student at Harvard University. 1059 00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:52,015 In '75, we played, uh, Breakout. 1060 00:55:52,641 --> 00:55:53,892 You knock these bricks down 1061 00:55:53,976 --> 00:55:56,979 and eventually, you try to get the ball behind the bricks, anyway. 1062 00:55:57,062 --> 00:55:59,606 -[intriguing music playing] -[Jodie] In early 1975, 1063 00:56:00,148 --> 00:56:02,359 Bill Gates decided to drop out of Harvard 1064 00:56:02,442 --> 00:56:05,445 to develop software for a brand new product, 1065 00:56:05,529 --> 00:56:07,072 the personal computer. 1066 00:56:08,073 --> 00:56:11,034 His new company would change the world. 1067 00:56:11,743 --> 00:56:13,704 [Bill] The Microsoft slogan was, 1068 00:56:13,787 --> 00:56:16,623 "A computer on every desk and in every home." 1069 00:56:17,249 --> 00:56:19,668 And we actually suppressed the second part 1070 00:56:19,751 --> 00:56:23,171 depending on where we were because it just seemed so weird. 1071 00:56:23,255 --> 00:56:26,425 They weren't viewed as something for the individual. 1072 00:56:26,508 --> 00:56:30,304 [TV host] It's so complicated, it's so confusing, 1073 00:56:31,471 --> 00:56:34,182 I mean, where do you start? 1074 00:56:35,267 --> 00:56:37,686 [Bill] Mostly, it's a very positive thing 1075 00:56:37,769 --> 00:56:41,481 that there was this new tool, information at your fingertips. 1076 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,777 [presenter] With the complete computer in front of him, 1077 00:56:45,861 --> 00:56:48,947 Horace Enya trains it to recognize sounds. 1078 00:56:50,115 --> 00:56:51,408 Jingle and snap. 1079 00:56:52,784 --> 00:56:54,328 Given another program, 1080 00:56:54,411 --> 00:56:57,247 the 20th-century machine recreates a little music. 1081 00:56:57,331 --> 00:57:00,000 -["Jocko Homo" playing] -[bell jingling] 1082 00:57:02,294 --> 00:57:04,171 ♪ Are we not men? ♪ 1083 00:57:04,922 --> 00:57:06,423 ♪ We are Devo! ♪ 1084 00:57:06,506 --> 00:57:08,467 ♪ Are we not men? ♪ 1085 00:57:08,550 --> 00:57:10,385 ♪ D-E-V-O… ♪ 1086 00:57:11,470 --> 00:57:15,223 [Jodie] In film, technology was rarely seen as a tool of progress, 1087 00:57:15,307 --> 00:57:17,309 but rather as a source of oppression. 1088 00:57:18,393 --> 00:57:19,853 [automated voice] Programming ready. 1089 00:57:19,937 --> 00:57:22,064 -[computer chiming] -The moment of truth. 1090 00:57:28,028 --> 00:57:29,071 [computer chiming] 1091 00:57:29,154 --> 00:57:33,533 Some people feel threatened by them, some think they tend to dehumanize, 1092 00:57:33,617 --> 00:57:38,205 and others fear they may eventually take over their jobs. 1093 00:57:38,288 --> 00:57:41,833 [Bill] In 1975, there was a lot of self-doubt, 1094 00:57:41,917 --> 00:57:44,252 but that was kind of good self-doubt. 1095 00:57:44,336 --> 00:57:45,712 It solves a lot of problems, 1096 00:57:45,796 --> 00:57:48,382 but doesn't bring a lot of problems along with it. 1097 00:57:49,257 --> 00:57:51,593 [Jodie] People were uneasy about the future. 1098 00:57:51,677 --> 00:57:53,679 We were more connected than ever, 1099 00:57:53,762 --> 00:57:56,974 but at the same time, drifting further apart. 1100 00:57:57,057 --> 00:57:58,308 [song concludes] 1101 00:58:00,352 --> 00:58:04,022 [car engine revving] 1102 00:58:04,106 --> 00:58:06,483 [Jodie] It's a feeling that was perfectly captured 1103 00:58:06,566 --> 00:58:08,318 in Robert Altman's Nashville. 1104 00:58:08,402 --> 00:58:12,114 -[car engines revving] -[intriguing music playing] 1105 00:58:12,990 --> 00:58:14,783 [Jodie] The film doesn't have a plot. 1106 00:58:14,866 --> 00:58:17,661 It's a collection of moments in middle America. 1107 00:58:19,329 --> 00:58:23,166 [Altman] My primary job, I try to reflect what I see. 1108 00:58:24,251 --> 00:58:25,460 It's like a painting, I… 1109 00:58:25,544 --> 00:58:28,880 It's my vision of what it is that I'm dealing with and that's all. 1110 00:58:28,964 --> 00:58:31,883 I have nothing to say. I have no comments. 1111 00:58:31,967 --> 00:58:35,095 And it's a slow movie. Would that movie ever be made today? 1112 00:58:35,721 --> 00:58:37,097 Probably not. 1113 00:58:37,973 --> 00:58:41,810 'Cause you're supposed to have the protagonist and the antagonist 1114 00:58:42,477 --> 00:58:43,520 go head-to-head. 1115 00:58:44,187 --> 00:58:47,190 That's the bow that everybody says, "We don't want that bow." 1116 00:58:47,274 --> 00:58:50,402 And then you give them no bow and they go, "Where's the bow?" 1117 00:58:50,944 --> 00:58:53,280 But you're invested, you're in it. 1118 00:58:54,740 --> 00:58:58,201 [Joan] Nashville is a story of 24 characters, 1119 00:58:58,994 --> 00:59:01,913 but you, the audience, were the 25th character. 1120 00:59:02,622 --> 00:59:06,710 -You bring your own preconceived ideas. -[music concludes] 1121 00:59:06,793 --> 00:59:08,462 [Thomas over megaphone] Fellow taxpayers 1122 00:59:08,545 --> 00:59:10,922 and stockholders in America, 1123 00:59:11,006 --> 00:59:13,383 let me go directly to the point. 1124 00:59:13,467 --> 00:59:16,011 -I'm for doing some replacement. -[uplifting techno music playing] 1125 00:59:16,094 --> 00:59:21,224 The Replacement Party, the truck throughout the whole thing, 1126 00:59:21,767 --> 00:59:24,561 doesn't say anything about what it actually is going to do 1127 00:59:24,644 --> 00:59:28,148 or what it promises or anything. It's just gonna replace things. 1128 00:59:28,231 --> 00:59:30,358 [Thomas over megaphone] We have some problems 1129 00:59:30,442 --> 00:59:32,986 that money alone won't solve. 1130 00:59:33,070 --> 00:59:37,532 When the movie opened, I received a cold call at home, 1131 00:59:37,616 --> 00:59:39,826 and this man said, "I want to sign up." 1132 00:59:39,910 --> 00:59:44,122 "I wanna vote for this man, he's wonderful." 1133 00:59:44,206 --> 00:59:50,629 [chuckles] I said, "Well, sorry, but it's not quite real yet." 1134 00:59:50,712 --> 00:59:53,924 [Jefferson] Nashville's sort of an amazing vivisection 1135 00:59:54,007 --> 00:59:57,302 of American authenticity. 1136 00:59:57,385 --> 01:00:00,639 It's more than a lack of coherence. It's a lack of substance. 1137 01:00:00,722 --> 01:00:02,682 [Jodie] Nashville was a critical darling, 1138 01:00:02,766 --> 01:00:04,351 but not everyone was impressed. 1139 01:00:05,018 --> 01:00:07,270 As one moviegoer in Kansas put it, 1140 01:00:07,354 --> 01:00:09,189 "Someone told me that I didn't like Nashville 1141 01:00:09,272 --> 01:00:10,941 because I didn't understand it." 1142 01:00:11,525 --> 01:00:12,609 "That may well be, 1143 01:00:12,692 --> 01:00:16,488 but there seem to be some filmmakers and critics who don't understand America." 1144 01:00:17,114 --> 01:00:18,323 [director] Action! 1145 01:00:18,406 --> 01:00:21,785 The thing with these country people is they have a real grassroots appeal. 1146 01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:22,869 Well, hell, they got fans. 1147 01:00:22,953 --> 01:00:25,330 And they're the people that elect the president. 1148 01:00:26,039 --> 01:00:29,167 [Jodie] Nashville was a box office disappointment. 1149 01:00:29,251 --> 01:00:33,880 The divide between middle America and the coasts was growing. 1150 01:00:35,507 --> 01:00:38,927 You get your hair cut. You don't belong in Nashville. 1151 01:00:39,010 --> 01:00:41,388 I stopped in a gents’ room the other day, 1152 01:00:41,471 --> 01:00:43,557 so help me, there was a guy in there with a ponytail. 1153 01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,059 -[audience laugh] -My heart nearly turned over in me. 1154 01:00:46,143 --> 01:00:49,354 -I thought I was in the wrong toilet. -[audience laughing] 1155 01:00:49,437 --> 01:00:51,940 -[whimsical music playing] -[Jodie] In 1975, 1156 01:00:52,023 --> 01:00:55,569 the spirit of New Hollywood found its way to television, 1157 01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:59,739 and the most popular sitcom in America gave the growing divide a voice. 1158 01:01:00,282 --> 01:01:01,783 Between the recession and inflation, 1159 01:01:01,867 --> 01:01:04,578 this administration is taking you to the cleaners! 1160 01:01:04,661 --> 01:01:06,079 -Ah, get away! -You can't walk away… 1161 01:01:06,163 --> 01:01:09,416 All in the Family changed television. 1162 01:01:09,499 --> 01:01:12,586 Beamed straight into your living room were questions of civil rights, 1163 01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:15,881 family dynamics when the family's divided over politics, 1164 01:01:15,964 --> 01:01:18,091 in a way the cowboy shows and the procedurals 1165 01:01:18,175 --> 01:01:20,385 and the medical shows and all that did not do. 1166 01:01:21,052 --> 01:01:23,597 Everybody watched All in the Family. 1167 01:01:26,141 --> 01:01:28,643 -But not everybody saw the same thing. -[pensive music playing] 1168 01:01:28,727 --> 01:01:32,147 Some people sided with Mike and Gloria. 1169 01:01:32,230 --> 01:01:34,065 Archie, if you don't care about school bonds, 1170 01:01:34,149 --> 01:01:36,151 then you don't care about the future of your country. 1171 01:01:36,234 --> 01:01:37,986 And you call yourself an American? 1172 01:01:38,069 --> 01:01:39,196 Yes. 1173 01:01:39,779 --> 01:01:42,407 [Jefferson] A lot of people sided with Archie, 1174 01:01:42,490 --> 01:01:44,618 the reactionary, bigoted, 1175 01:01:44,701 --> 01:01:47,829 somewhat lovable, a little bit of the loser of history. 1176 01:01:48,580 --> 01:01:51,917 Archie Bunker represented their worldview. 1177 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:53,919 They saw him as a mouthpiece. 1178 01:01:54,002 --> 01:01:56,254 Now I suppose you're gonna tell me that the Black man 1179 01:01:56,338 --> 01:01:57,923 has had the same opportunity in this country as you? 1180 01:01:58,006 --> 01:01:59,216 More. He's had more. 1181 01:01:59,299 --> 01:02:02,928 I didn't have no million people out there marching and protesting to get me my job. 1182 01:02:03,011 --> 01:02:07,265 -No, his uncle got it for him. -[audience laughing, applauding] 1183 01:02:08,099 --> 01:02:11,811 [Jefferson] Archie, at that moment, looks like the past. 1184 01:02:12,729 --> 01:02:17,234 [hesitates] But now he's looking a lot more like the future. 1185 01:02:17,317 --> 01:02:20,278 Oh, yeah, ho! 1186 01:02:21,821 --> 01:02:24,366 -[explosion booming] -[patriotic music playing] 1187 01:02:25,992 --> 01:02:30,747 [Jodie] Films like Harlan County, USA, about coal miners' attempt to unionize, 1188 01:02:30,830 --> 01:02:34,417 showed that the White working class was being left behind. 1189 01:02:34,918 --> 01:02:37,963 What about your high cost of living? What about your sick leave? 1190 01:02:38,046 --> 01:02:39,839 Five goddamn days. 1191 01:02:39,923 --> 01:02:43,385 -[man] Have you been off sick? -I can't afford to get sick. 1192 01:02:44,094 --> 01:02:45,887 [Jefferson] From the '30s to the '70s, 1193 01:02:45,971 --> 01:02:48,890 not only did the economy work, but it was shared. 1194 01:02:49,516 --> 01:02:52,936 1972 was the most equal year in American history. 1195 01:02:53,812 --> 01:02:55,105 [Oliver] Small town jobs, 1196 01:02:55,188 --> 01:02:57,607 a sheet metal factory or a Budweiser plant, 1197 01:02:57,691 --> 01:03:00,694 those were the best jobs, and the whole thing had dried up. 1198 01:03:01,403 --> 01:03:02,612 The economy was shit. 1199 01:03:02,696 --> 01:03:06,449 It became all about making money off finance, 1200 01:03:06,533 --> 01:03:08,660 not making money with productivity. 1201 01:03:09,536 --> 01:03:12,205 The economy kept the apple, it threw us to the core! 1202 01:03:12,289 --> 01:03:15,000 -That's what they did! -[workers cheering, applauding] 1203 01:03:15,083 --> 01:03:17,377 [Albert] There was no "Me" generation 1204 01:03:17,460 --> 01:03:20,922 for a guy working on a factory floor building a Ford. 1205 01:03:21,006 --> 01:03:25,760 America can work nicely if you leave that dream alive. 1206 01:03:25,844 --> 01:03:29,889 If there actually is a way to get from there to there. 1207 01:03:29,973 --> 01:03:33,935 When that stops, I think you have trouble. 1208 01:03:34,019 --> 01:03:37,147 You know something? If you Liberals go on getting your way, 1209 01:03:37,230 --> 01:03:40,442 -we're all gonna hear one big loud flush. -[audience laughing] 1210 01:03:40,525 --> 01:03:43,737 That's the sound of the USA going down the toilet. 1211 01:03:47,407 --> 01:03:51,119 As class as a category is beginning to kind of fall apart, 1212 01:03:51,202 --> 01:03:55,498 culture becomes the expression of White working-class interests. 1213 01:03:55,582 --> 01:03:58,918 National political organizations like The Heritage Foundation, 1214 01:03:59,002 --> 01:04:04,049 this new think tank, send emissaries to organize these people 1215 01:04:04,132 --> 01:04:06,676 and tell them that there's an answer to their woes. 1216 01:04:07,385 --> 01:04:10,680 And the answer to their woes is called "conservative republicanism." 1217 01:04:10,764 --> 01:04:14,142 [patriotic music builds] 1218 01:04:16,353 --> 01:04:18,563 [Jodie] Borrowing strategies from the Left, 1219 01:04:18,646 --> 01:04:20,648 they organized protests and marches. 1220 01:04:21,232 --> 01:04:25,695 In 1974, the March for Life attracted 20,000 people. 1221 01:04:26,696 --> 01:04:29,824 In 1975, it was 50,000. 1222 01:04:30,367 --> 01:04:32,660 -[protesters chanting] -[reporter] One of their targets, 1223 01:04:32,744 --> 01:04:35,288 pro-busing senator, Edward Kennedy, tried to speak. 1224 01:04:35,372 --> 01:04:38,917 -Are you gonna-- Listen, part of our-- -The people don't care to hear you! 1225 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:40,835 [protesters clamoring] 1226 01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:43,171 [protester] 1227 01:04:43,254 --> 01:04:45,507 [reporter] As Senator Kennedy retreated towards his office, 1228 01:04:45,590 --> 01:04:46,758 the crowd began to… 1229 01:04:46,841 --> 01:04:49,844 [protesters shouting, clamoring] 1230 01:04:50,553 --> 01:04:55,016 -[gunshots] -[crowd screaming, exclaiming] 1231 01:04:57,185 --> 01:04:59,270 [Kathy] We have always given to our country. 1232 01:04:59,354 --> 01:05:03,858 Everything that's ever been asked of us, we've given because we love America. 1233 01:05:04,401 --> 01:05:06,778 And I can't think of a more asinine way 1234 01:05:06,861 --> 01:05:10,073 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of America 1235 01:05:10,156 --> 01:05:11,908 than to just hand our children 1236 01:05:11,991 --> 01:05:14,577 over to those social planners without a fight. 1237 01:05:15,620 --> 01:05:19,290 [David] But some Republican conservatives are dubious of President Ford 1238 01:05:19,374 --> 01:05:22,710 and fear he may be some kind of closet liberal. 1239 01:05:22,794 --> 01:05:27,632 So, they would like, in '76, a convention open to all candidates 1240 01:05:27,715 --> 01:05:30,802 of whom Mr. Ford would be only one of many. 1241 01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:36,099 [Carson] My first guest tonight is a rather phenomenon 1242 01:05:36,182 --> 01:05:37,517 on the political scene. 1243 01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:41,187 There are those who would say that 1975 may only be the beginning. 1244 01:05:41,271 --> 01:05:44,274 Would you welcome, please, the former governor of California… 1245 01:05:45,442 --> 01:05:47,777 -Ronald Reagan. -[music fades] 1246 01:05:47,861 --> 01:05:50,363 [audience cheering, applauding] 1247 01:05:50,447 --> 01:05:51,614 [Carson] Nice to see you. 1248 01:05:51,698 --> 01:05:54,242 Nice to be here, John. And nice of you to have me here 1249 01:05:54,325 --> 01:05:57,078 after… well, a little more than two months unemployment. 1250 01:05:57,162 --> 01:05:58,997 -That's right, uh… -[audience laughing] 1251 01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:03,668 I felt he did not know where he stood on important issues. 1252 01:06:03,751 --> 01:06:06,171 He was an actor looking for a gig. 1253 01:06:06,254 --> 01:06:09,174 -[audience cheering, applauding] -[uplifting music playing] 1254 01:06:10,675 --> 01:06:14,220 [Jodie] In 1975, Ronald Reagan had a realization. 1255 01:06:15,096 --> 01:06:18,099 The Republican Party had been unpopular for years. 1256 01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:23,646 So, why not treat politics like a movie and sell the American dream? 1257 01:06:23,730 --> 01:06:26,274 [Reagan] First of all, the American people, if they would just 1258 01:06:26,357 --> 01:06:28,485 take a little inventory and look around, 1259 01:06:28,568 --> 01:06:30,403 you triple our troubles 1260 01:06:30,487 --> 01:06:33,239 and we're better off than any other people on Earth. 1261 01:06:33,323 --> 01:06:36,409 In a lot of ways, what Ronald Reagan was about 1262 01:06:36,993 --> 01:06:39,287 was feeding this public wish 1263 01:06:39,370 --> 01:06:42,999 to believe that what was happening was not, in fact, happening. 1264 01:06:44,501 --> 01:06:46,085 [audience laughing] 1265 01:06:47,921 --> 01:06:50,381 [Reagan] Part of it is because we're being bludgeoned every day. 1266 01:06:50,465 --> 01:06:53,760 We keep hearing the bad things, we hear the accusations, 1267 01:06:53,843 --> 01:06:57,263 and we're kind of used to accepting the accusations as proof of guilt. 1268 01:06:57,347 --> 01:07:00,934 [Rick] This is the reason why he's so attractive to so many Americans… 1269 01:07:03,394 --> 01:07:07,023 who just wanna believe that everything's gonna be all right. 1270 01:07:07,649 --> 01:07:10,568 That somehow, through the sheer force of will, 1271 01:07:10,652 --> 01:07:13,947 America's innocence could be recovered. 1272 01:07:17,575 --> 01:07:19,077 Why should we become frightened? 1273 01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:22,580 No people who have ever lived on this Earth have fought harder, 1274 01:07:22,664 --> 01:07:24,040 paid a higher price for freedom, 1275 01:07:24,123 --> 01:07:26,125 or done more to advance the dignity of man. 1276 01:07:27,961 --> 01:07:31,172 We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny. 1277 01:07:35,426 --> 01:07:38,304 [Jodie] As Nikita Khrushchev once said to Richard Nixon, 1278 01:07:39,389 --> 01:07:42,141 "If the people think there's an invisible river, 1279 01:07:42,809 --> 01:07:44,477 don't tell them it's not there." 1280 01:07:45,144 --> 01:07:46,813 "Build an invisible bridge." 1281 01:07:49,399 --> 01:07:52,068 [music concludes] 1282 01:07:53,820 --> 01:07:56,489 [audience laughing] 1283 01:07:56,573 --> 01:07:57,907 Hi, Kimosabe. 1284 01:07:59,075 --> 01:08:02,328 ["Love Will Keep Us Together" playing] 1285 01:08:06,791 --> 01:08:07,834 ♪ Love ♪ 1286 01:08:08,710 --> 01:08:11,296 ♪ Love will keep us together… ♪ 1287 01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:14,048 [Jodie] All in the Family eventually lost its spot 1288 01:08:14,132 --> 01:08:16,301 as the number one show on television. 1289 01:08:16,926 --> 01:08:21,764 In its place was a sitcom that saw America with a warmer glow. 1290 01:08:22,348 --> 01:08:24,809 Like, if you look at something like Happy Days, 1291 01:08:24,892 --> 01:08:26,561 it doesn't look like the movies. 1292 01:08:26,644 --> 01:08:33,067 It just empties out all the politics and just wants to think about nostalgia. 1293 01:08:34,319 --> 01:08:38,049 Nostalgia has always been a part of the American character all along. 1294 01:08:38,124 --> 01:08:40,617 And this is nostalgia for something that happened 1295 01:08:40,700 --> 01:08:42,368 like the day before yesterday. 1296 01:08:43,328 --> 01:08:47,874 "Wasn't it great when teens were just teens back in '62?" 1297 01:08:49,292 --> 01:08:51,419 [Jodie] Period movies, music, 1298 01:08:51,502 --> 01:08:53,046 even throwback restaurants 1299 01:08:53,129 --> 01:08:54,589 were all fueling the desire 1300 01:08:54,672 --> 01:08:56,424 to relive the happy days. 1301 01:08:56,507 --> 01:09:01,012 ♪ Look in my heart And let love keep us together ♪ 1302 01:09:01,095 --> 01:09:04,599 [Jodie] It even seemed like a good idea to make a Cole Porter musical 1303 01:09:04,682 --> 01:09:06,142 starring Burt Reynolds. 1304 01:09:06,225 --> 01:09:08,561 -♪ You're the top ♪ -How can you sing? I'm dizzy. 1305 01:09:08,645 --> 01:09:11,105 -♪ You're a dancing ballet ♪ -[perky music playing] 1306 01:09:11,189 --> 01:09:12,523 ♪ You're the top ♪ 1307 01:09:13,775 --> 01:09:15,318 ♪ You're a hot tamale ♪ 1308 01:09:16,110 --> 01:09:18,821 You know, it might be the fast food of American emotions, 1309 01:09:18,905 --> 01:09:22,116 but it's also… you can kind of see it. 1310 01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:26,079 -[drumroll] -[crowd cheering, applauding] 1311 01:09:29,457 --> 01:09:31,542 [Jefferson] "What was it like before Vietnam, 1312 01:09:31,626 --> 01:09:33,836 before Watergate, before all the darkness?" 1313 01:09:36,005 --> 01:09:37,256 [crowd cheering] 1314 01:09:37,340 --> 01:09:40,802 "Oh, there was another time when things were expansive and hopeful." 1315 01:09:40,885 --> 01:09:44,472 -[tires screeching] -[crowd screaming, clamoring] 1316 01:09:45,390 --> 01:09:46,516 Am I dead? 1317 01:09:47,725 --> 01:09:51,354 -[ominous music playing] -We want the lie, 'cause it feels good. 1318 01:09:51,437 --> 01:09:53,064 [announcer over TV] And there he goes! 1319 01:09:53,147 --> 01:09:56,984 [Wesley] We want the heroes. We want the happy ending. 1320 01:09:57,527 --> 01:09:59,153 -[announcer over TV] He made it! -Oh, man! 1321 01:09:59,237 --> 01:10:01,364 -Come on, that was a great jump. -That was terrific. 1322 01:10:01,447 --> 01:10:05,535 [Wesley] Happy Days really wanted you to kind of turn your brain off. 1323 01:10:05,618 --> 01:10:08,663 And I totally get it. 1324 01:10:08,746 --> 01:10:12,875 It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. 1325 01:10:13,418 --> 01:10:14,669 You know what I mean? 1326 01:10:16,087 --> 01:10:19,087 [Biskind] One of the dangers of nostalgia is that it's selective. 1327 01:10:19,187 --> 01:10:20,675 It's a kind of distortion 1328 01:10:20,758 --> 01:10:24,053 of what the solutions for today's problems are… 1329 01:10:24,679 --> 01:10:27,098 that seem true, because "Look, we had it good." 1330 01:10:29,016 --> 01:10:32,854 [Jodie] One author described this feeling as radical nostalgia, 1331 01:10:33,938 --> 01:10:37,275 the idea that the present can't compete with a memory, 1332 01:10:38,192 --> 01:10:40,653 and that people would prefer to forget. 1333 01:10:42,989 --> 01:10:47,326 But for much of the country, life didn't look like Happy Days. 1334 01:10:49,912 --> 01:10:51,956 -Donald! Donald! -That's okay, Roy! 1335 01:10:52,039 --> 01:10:53,958 That's okay, you run! 1336 01:10:56,586 --> 01:10:59,297 Alice, if you'd show a little respect around here, 1337 01:10:59,380 --> 01:11:01,674 -it just may rub off on him. [huffs] -[scoffs] 1338 01:11:03,176 --> 01:11:04,177 [grumbles] 1339 01:11:04,886 --> 01:11:06,012 [Jodie] For many women, 1340 01:11:06,095 --> 01:11:09,056 the real world was a place where they abandoned their dreams 1341 01:11:09,140 --> 01:11:11,350 and felt trapped by their reality. 1342 01:11:11,434 --> 01:11:13,394 [inspiring music playing] 1343 01:11:13,478 --> 01:11:16,063 [Ellen] I met Marty, and I said to him, 1344 01:11:16,147 --> 01:11:19,942 "I want this movie told from a woman's point of view." 1345 01:11:20,026 --> 01:11:21,778 "What do you know about women?" 1346 01:11:21,861 --> 01:11:24,030 And he said, "Nothing, but I want to learn." 1347 01:11:25,156 --> 01:11:26,532 And that was kind of great. 1348 01:11:26,616 --> 01:11:29,452 That was fun because all the barriers broke down. 1349 01:11:30,119 --> 01:11:31,746 Alice deals with problems 1350 01:11:31,829 --> 01:11:34,957 that are different from the way a man has to deal with it. 1351 01:11:35,666 --> 01:11:37,251 [Ellen] You had to be married. 1352 01:11:38,044 --> 01:11:41,798 A single woman was like an old maid. 1353 01:11:41,881 --> 01:11:44,425 Every girl that I knew, 1354 01:11:44,509 --> 01:11:48,137 their goal was to get married and have kids, and that was it. 1355 01:11:48,763 --> 01:11:50,014 Party's over. 1356 01:11:52,433 --> 01:11:53,893 [Jodie] When her husband dies, 1357 01:11:53,976 --> 01:11:57,605 Alice sets out to pursue her dream of becoming a lounge singer. 1358 01:11:57,688 --> 01:12:00,358 But when she can only get work as a waitress, 1359 01:12:00,441 --> 01:12:03,110 she begins to question her place in the world. 1360 01:12:03,194 --> 01:12:07,949 [Ellen] We made that film when women were coming to the realization 1361 01:12:08,032 --> 01:12:11,202 that they're a whole entity all by themselves, 1362 01:12:11,285 --> 01:12:13,704 not just in relation to a man. 1363 01:12:13,788 --> 01:12:17,083 Yeah, I know, but it's my life. You know, it's my life. 1364 01:12:17,166 --> 01:12:20,002 It's not some man's life that I'm gonna help him out with. 1365 01:12:20,086 --> 01:12:21,087 No, ma'am. 1366 01:12:21,587 --> 01:12:23,798 [Ellen] It was an awakening. 1367 01:12:24,715 --> 01:12:27,134 [Jodie] This was the era of women's liberation, 1368 01:12:27,927 --> 01:12:30,721 when women fought to redefine their place in society. 1369 01:12:31,764 --> 01:12:35,142 Whether or not society would listen was another matter. 1370 01:12:35,226 --> 01:12:38,563 [Joan] I had a business manager that said, "If you were a man, 1371 01:12:39,146 --> 01:12:43,276 you would've been able to make your first film after Nashville." 1372 01:12:44,527 --> 01:12:47,488 [groans] I think people were scared. 1373 01:12:47,572 --> 01:12:51,242 [Jodie] Films from that era rarely focused on women, 1374 01:12:51,325 --> 01:12:54,495 and even rarer were portraits of women in positions of power. 1375 01:12:54,996 --> 01:12:58,833 [Wesley] Mahogany. I mean, the great Diana Ross. 1376 01:12:58,916 --> 01:13:01,335 I don't care what the Academy said. That is… 1377 01:13:01,419 --> 01:13:06,340 that is, like, one of the top three things anybody did in 1975. 1378 01:13:06,424 --> 01:13:08,467 "I need you." [chuckles] 1379 01:13:08,551 --> 01:13:10,553 Sure, you need me. You want to know why? 1380 01:13:10,636 --> 01:13:14,015 'Cause I'm a winner! I'm a winner, baby! 1381 01:13:14,765 --> 01:13:19,645 Like, you're not alive unless you're in power. 1382 01:13:19,729 --> 01:13:22,148 Like, Faye Dunaway in Network 1383 01:13:22,231 --> 01:13:24,692 played one of the baddest women in the '70s. 1384 01:13:25,234 --> 01:13:28,070 Howard Beale went up there last night and said what every American feels, 1385 01:13:28,154 --> 01:13:31,991 that he's tired of all the bullshit! He's articulating the popular rage. 1386 01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:34,911 I want that show, Frank. 1387 01:13:34,994 --> 01:13:37,872 I can turn that show into the biggest smash on television. 1388 01:13:37,955 --> 01:13:40,166 [Faye] This is a real departure. 1389 01:13:40,249 --> 01:13:43,628 She has wit, enormous creativity, talent, 1390 01:13:43,711 --> 01:13:48,382 and she marshals them all toward this job that she's doing, and she loves it. 1391 01:13:48,466 --> 01:13:51,552 I've got to warn you, I… I don't do anything on my first date. 1392 01:13:51,636 --> 01:13:52,970 We'll see. 1393 01:13:53,054 --> 01:13:56,390 [interviewer] I've heard it said, though, that the woman you've created in Network 1394 01:13:56,474 --> 01:13:58,976 might set the woman's movement back 50 years. 1395 01:13:59,060 --> 01:14:00,144 Do you have any fear of that? 1396 01:14:00,227 --> 01:14:04,482 What we've been trying to get away from is stereotypical women's roles 1397 01:14:05,149 --> 01:14:09,487 that reflect an inaccurate view of what a woman really is. 1398 01:14:09,570 --> 01:14:10,947 You cannot then say, 1399 01:14:11,030 --> 01:14:13,157 "Well, yes, but she always has to be nice at the end." 1400 01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:14,867 -[laughs] -[interviewer laughs] 1401 01:14:15,534 --> 01:14:18,996 [Jodie] However, not all women were eager for change. 1402 01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:22,124 [audience applauding] 1403 01:14:22,208 --> 01:14:23,584 Fire at will. 1404 01:14:40,601 --> 01:14:42,311 The Equal Rights for Women movement 1405 01:14:42,395 --> 01:14:44,855 has been running into increasing trouble around the country. 1406 01:14:44,939 --> 01:14:47,233 The latest example was a defeat at the polls this week 1407 01:14:47,316 --> 01:14:48,859 in New York and New Jersey. 1408 01:14:48,943 --> 01:14:51,570 [brooding music playing] 1409 01:14:53,406 --> 01:14:56,200 [Jodie] The ERA was a constitutional amendment 1410 01:14:56,283 --> 01:14:59,328 that guaranteed gender equality for all Americans. 1411 01:14:59,996 --> 01:15:02,999 Women wanted to be something more than housewives. 1412 01:15:03,541 --> 01:15:07,878 You see, doctor, my problem is that given complete freedom of choice, 1413 01:15:07,962 --> 01:15:10,214 I don't wanna squeeze the goddamn Charmin. 1414 01:15:11,132 --> 01:15:14,719 Stepford Wives, it's a kind of, like, feminist tale 1415 01:15:14,802 --> 01:15:17,596 layered over the kind of paranoid plot. 1416 01:15:18,431 --> 01:15:21,767 The loyal, pretty, competent housewife, 1417 01:15:21,851 --> 01:15:25,646 the idea that they were actually soulless robots 1418 01:15:25,730 --> 01:15:27,857 really was tearing up the old script. 1419 01:15:28,524 --> 01:15:30,234 And something striking happens. 1420 01:15:30,985 --> 01:15:35,698 You begin to see the activism of basically ordinary housewives 1421 01:15:35,781 --> 01:15:37,950 fighting for traditional moral values. 1422 01:15:38,534 --> 01:15:40,745 [Jodie] And their target was the ERA. 1423 01:15:40,828 --> 01:15:44,123 They warned of a future where women would be sent to combat, 1424 01:15:44,999 --> 01:15:47,752 there would be gender-neutral bathrooms, 1425 01:15:47,835 --> 01:15:51,714 and that the ERA could pave the way for legalized gay marriage. 1426 01:15:52,506 --> 01:15:56,427 Until you can make it equal for men to have the babies just like women, 1427 01:15:56,510 --> 01:16:01,057 then it is a double burden to the women to say that the rules for family support 1428 01:16:01,140 --> 01:16:03,392 should be equal on the husband and the wife. 1429 01:16:04,518 --> 01:16:07,938 Dave works hard all day long, and what does he come home to? 1430 01:16:08,022 --> 01:16:09,023 A slob. 1431 01:16:09,106 --> 01:16:11,525 Bobby, it's gotten to you now. 1432 01:16:11,609 --> 01:16:13,110 Nothing's gotten me. 1433 01:16:13,194 --> 01:16:17,698 I just want to look like a woman and keep my house looking decent too. 1434 01:16:18,574 --> 01:16:21,202 [Jodie] The conversation reached a flashpoint in the summer, 1435 01:16:21,285 --> 01:16:23,746 triggered by the unlikeliest of figures. 1436 01:16:24,497 --> 01:16:28,667 I told my husband, "If we have to go to the White House, 1437 01:16:29,251 --> 01:16:30,753 okay, I will go… 1438 01:16:31,378 --> 01:16:35,341 but I'm going as myself." 1439 01:16:35,424 --> 01:16:38,427 "If they don't like it, they'll just have to throw me out." 1440 01:16:38,511 --> 01:16:40,971 -[thrilling music playing] -[Jodie] Betty Ford, 1441 01:16:41,055 --> 01:16:44,308 a former dancer for Martha Graham, turned reluctant First Lady, 1442 01:16:44,391 --> 01:16:48,395 went on 60 Minutes for a routine interview in support of the ERA. 1443 01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:52,191 But her liberal stances on abortion, marijuana, 1444 01:16:52,274 --> 01:16:54,777 and infidelity stunned the nation. 1445 01:16:56,278 --> 01:17:00,116 You've also talked about young people living together before they're married. 1446 01:17:00,199 --> 01:17:02,618 -Well, they are, aren't they? [chuckles] -[Morley] Indeed, they are. 1447 01:17:02,701 --> 01:17:05,079 Well, what if Susan Ford came to you and said… 1448 01:17:06,247 --> 01:17:08,958 -"Mother, I'm having an affair." -[Betty] I, certainly… 1449 01:17:10,167 --> 01:17:11,877 Well, I wouldn't be surprised. 1450 01:17:12,795 --> 01:17:16,298 I'd want to know pretty much about the young man 1451 01:17:16,382 --> 01:17:19,009 that she was planning to have the affair with. 1452 01:17:20,469 --> 01:17:22,513 [Jodie] She was open about her breast cancer treatment 1453 01:17:22,596 --> 01:17:23,597 and drug addiction, 1454 01:17:23,681 --> 01:17:26,725 at a time when those topics were rarely mentioned in public. 1455 01:17:27,643 --> 01:17:29,770 By leaning into her own brokenness, 1456 01:17:29,854 --> 01:17:33,107 -she was equally celebrated and reviled. -[music concludes] 1457 01:17:33,774 --> 01:17:35,818 [Mike] Betty Ford said certain things 1458 01:17:35,901 --> 01:17:38,028 to my colleague, Morley Safer, on television. 1459 01:17:38,112 --> 01:17:40,239 How would you have handled that kind of question? 1460 01:17:40,322 --> 01:17:43,701 [hesitates] I don't think I'd have answered the question. 1461 01:17:44,994 --> 01:17:47,538 [Jodie] Ford's poll ratings began to plummet. 1462 01:17:48,038 --> 01:17:50,958 -[uplifting music playing] -[reporter] There are some new indications 1463 01:17:51,041 --> 01:17:53,919 that Ronald Reagan's strength is on the increase. 1464 01:17:54,003 --> 01:17:57,339 [Connie] The confrontation promised to sharpen in '76, 1465 01:17:57,423 --> 01:18:01,552 as Reagan suddenly topped President Ford by eight points. 1466 01:18:01,635 --> 01:18:04,638 [Rick] You know, Gerald Ford was a very conservative president. 1467 01:18:04,722 --> 01:18:08,684 Why did he come to represent this kind of cat's paw of the Left? 1468 01:18:08,767 --> 01:18:11,437 But I think a lot of the reason was cultural… 1469 01:18:14,440 --> 01:18:19,820 you know, that Gerald Ford's family was a real American family, warts and all. 1470 01:18:20,946 --> 01:18:26,535 They had this incredibly sturdy, loving, coherent family. 1471 01:18:28,037 --> 01:18:31,582 And Ronald Reagan's family was a shambles. 1472 01:18:32,541 --> 01:18:34,877 His daughter, Patti Davis, 1473 01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,922 changed her name so she wouldn't be associated with them. 1474 01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:41,425 Nancy Reagan, she was "Just Say No." 1475 01:18:42,176 --> 01:18:44,637 Took the same kind of drugs Betty Ford did too. 1476 01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:47,932 [uplifting music builds] 1477 01:18:49,099 --> 01:18:52,019 [Rick] But he was able to kind of turn that around 1478 01:18:52,102 --> 01:18:55,272 and make his family the Stepford Wives. 1479 01:18:58,692 --> 01:19:01,153 [in robotic voice] I was just going to give you coffee. 1480 01:19:01,237 --> 01:19:04,573 I thought we were friends. I thought we were friends. 1481 01:19:05,699 --> 01:19:07,243 I thought we were friends. 1482 01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,162 [Rick] The Reagan family was a perfect '70s family 1483 01:19:10,246 --> 01:19:13,123 in that they were completely dysfunctional. 1484 01:19:14,833 --> 01:19:19,505 It really represented one of these hinge moments. 1485 01:19:20,422 --> 01:19:24,009 Are we going to face our flaws as people, as a nation? 1486 01:19:25,636 --> 01:19:27,513 Or are we just going to pretend 1487 01:19:27,596 --> 01:19:31,141 that real Americans don't have messy families? 1488 01:19:36,021 --> 01:19:37,147 [Jodie] In November, 1489 01:19:37,231 --> 01:19:40,442 the winner of the 1976 presidential election 1490 01:19:40,526 --> 01:19:44,863 was an outsider who was barely mentioned in 1975. 1491 01:19:44,947 --> 01:19:48,200 And I pray that I can live up to your confidence 1492 01:19:48,284 --> 01:19:50,744 -and never disappoint you. -[crowd cheering, applauding] 1493 01:19:50,828 --> 01:19:52,871 [Jodie] Ronald Reagan's populist movement 1494 01:19:52,955 --> 01:19:55,541 would go back under the surface… for now. 1495 01:20:03,424 --> 01:20:07,052 A few months earlier, 29-year-old director Steven Spielberg 1496 01:20:07,136 --> 01:20:09,513 was at a preview screening of his new film. 1497 01:20:09,596 --> 01:20:14,393 At one point, a terrified audience member ran into the lobby and threw up. 1498 01:20:14,476 --> 01:20:15,644 [gasps, pants] 1499 01:20:15,728 --> 01:20:19,481 [Jodie] And instead of leaving, the viewer returned to his seat. 1500 01:20:21,692 --> 01:20:23,986 [Jaws theme music playing] 1501 01:20:24,778 --> 01:20:27,948 [Jodie] That was the moment Spielberg knew he had a hit. 1502 01:20:28,032 --> 01:20:31,618 -[audience screaming] -[dramatic music playing] 1503 01:20:31,702 --> 01:20:36,373 I like taking people into a dark theater with a thousand strangers 1504 01:20:36,457 --> 01:20:39,335 and giving them an experience they'll never forget. 1505 01:20:41,128 --> 01:20:43,672 I certainly want to involve myself with intimate storytelling 1506 01:20:43,756 --> 01:20:46,467 and people's fantasies and people's relationships. 1507 01:20:46,550 --> 01:20:49,011 But by the same token, I like buttered popcorn. 1508 01:20:49,094 --> 01:20:50,596 I can't help it. I just like it. 1509 01:20:50,679 --> 01:20:52,431 You're going to need a bigger boat. 1510 01:20:52,973 --> 01:20:55,434 "You've got to get a bigger boat." Well, yeah, I would think. 1511 01:20:55,517 --> 01:20:57,227 I mean, I'm not gonna go in the water anyway, 1512 01:20:57,311 --> 01:20:59,104 so you're talking to the wrong person. 1513 01:20:59,188 --> 01:21:04,943 I was really good friends with Steven. The day it opened, we got into a taxi cab. 1514 01:21:05,611 --> 01:21:09,490 There was a line seven blocks from the theater. 1515 01:21:09,573 --> 01:21:12,117 I had never seen anything like that. 1516 01:21:12,201 --> 01:21:15,621 In our lifetime, that was the blockbuster. 1517 01:21:15,704 --> 01:21:19,375 People coming out, they were ecstatic. 1518 01:21:19,458 --> 01:21:21,877 Beautifully bloody. That's what it was. 1519 01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:23,962 You know, they just… [growls, chuckles] 1520 01:21:24,046 --> 01:21:26,507 The best I've seen in my life. Best movie. 1521 01:21:26,590 --> 01:21:29,385 I didn't want to turn the light out in the bedroom at night 1522 01:21:29,468 --> 01:21:33,138 because somehow a shark was gonna jump out of the water 1523 01:21:33,222 --> 01:21:35,641 and get up to the eighth floor and devour me. 1524 01:21:36,725 --> 01:21:39,311 [Josh] What is Jaws about? 1525 01:21:41,980 --> 01:21:45,234 -[upbeat music playing] -It's a perfect Watergate era allegory. 1526 01:21:45,317 --> 01:21:46,944 You know, Jaws has a cover-up. 1527 01:21:47,027 --> 01:21:51,115 It's mostly about the logistics surrounding closing beaches. 1528 01:21:51,198 --> 01:21:52,950 I really think it's about camaraderie. 1529 01:21:53,033 --> 01:21:55,369 An ultimate confronting of yourself. 1530 01:21:55,452 --> 01:21:57,329 A sort of existential panic. 1531 01:21:57,413 --> 01:22:02,793 Bullshit. Jaws is a monster movie. You go to see Jaws because it's scary. 1532 01:22:02,876 --> 01:22:06,130 -[thrilling music playing] -[screams] 1533 01:22:06,213 --> 01:22:08,132 [Sam] It's a movie about nothing. 1534 01:22:08,215 --> 01:22:11,593 The reason Jaws went through the roof is because it is great. 1535 01:22:11,677 --> 01:22:15,639 But Hollywood learned that through marketing Jaws, 1536 01:22:16,890 --> 01:22:19,101 -the audience would love it. -[pensive music playing] 1537 01:22:19,184 --> 01:22:23,313 That affects what movies are made. "What movies can we sell?" 1538 01:22:24,273 --> 01:22:26,859 -[presenter] Jaws. Jaws. -[gasps] 1539 01:22:26,942 --> 01:22:29,027 -[presenter] Jaws. -[child gasping] 1540 01:22:29,111 --> 01:22:31,071 Sharks' business has been terrific. 1541 01:22:31,155 --> 01:22:32,823 We were getting anything we could. 1542 01:22:32,906 --> 01:22:35,242 If it even looked like a shark, it could sell. 1543 01:22:35,325 --> 01:22:37,411 [Jodie] But even if it was just a monster movie, 1544 01:22:37,494 --> 01:22:40,080 -it tapped into a growing feeling. -[unsettling music playing] 1545 01:22:40,164 --> 01:22:45,127 The shark is this kind of symbol of what it was like to live in 1975. 1546 01:22:45,210 --> 01:22:46,712 "What, America lost the war?" 1547 01:22:48,797 --> 01:22:50,799 "America has a president who's a crook?" 1548 01:22:51,717 --> 01:22:54,136 "The Arabs in the third world are controlling our economy now?" 1549 01:22:54,219 --> 01:22:55,971 [grunts, screams] 1550 01:22:56,054 --> 01:22:58,515 [Rick] And so, in true Hollywood fashion, 1551 01:22:58,599 --> 01:23:01,143 they blow them up, just like John Wayne would have. 1552 01:23:01,727 --> 01:23:03,145 [gunshot] 1553 01:23:03,979 --> 01:23:09,109 The simple movies do the best. Jaws is one of the classics. It will last. 1554 01:23:09,193 --> 01:23:12,112 [Martin] When he's looking at the pictures of the shark victims 1555 01:23:12,196 --> 01:23:14,239 and it's reflected in his glasses… 1556 01:23:16,074 --> 01:23:17,409 that's filmmaking. 1557 01:23:17,493 --> 01:23:20,162 And I don't think as Steven was making it, he was like, 1558 01:23:20,245 --> 01:23:24,791 "I'm going to create a financial bar that people will have to destroy art 1559 01:23:24,875 --> 01:23:28,712 in order to attempt to meet time after time again," you know? 1560 01:23:29,338 --> 01:23:30,506 [Jodie] By the end of the year, 1561 01:23:30,589 --> 01:23:33,967 Jaws had made more money than any film in history. 1562 01:23:34,718 --> 01:23:36,929 But the record wouldn't last for long, 1563 01:23:37,012 --> 01:23:39,806 because the era of the blockbuster had arrived. 1564 01:23:39,890 --> 01:23:41,975 [exciting music playing] 1565 01:23:42,059 --> 01:23:43,936 Smile, you son of a… 1566 01:23:44,019 --> 01:23:45,270 [gunshots] 1567 01:23:48,023 --> 01:23:52,819 [laughs hysterically] 1568 01:23:54,071 --> 01:23:56,823 [Patton] Hollywood is very aware of picking up vibes. 1569 01:23:56,907 --> 01:23:58,575 They're like, "People want to see a winner." 1570 01:23:58,659 --> 01:24:00,953 What a difference a couple of years makes. 1571 01:24:01,036 --> 01:24:02,996 I think it's about time we had a good fantasy movie. 1572 01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:04,957 I mean, we've just had so many kind of burned out 1573 01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:07,125 on all the social commentary movies we've had. 1574 01:24:07,209 --> 01:24:09,378 [interviewer] What do you like about a movie like Jaws? 1575 01:24:09,461 --> 01:24:10,462 I don't know. 1576 01:24:10,546 --> 01:24:13,048 The villain isn't winning anymore. He's losing. 1577 01:24:14,591 --> 01:24:17,261 [Jodie] New Hollywood was over. 1578 01:24:17,344 --> 01:24:22,182 -[Rocky theme music playing] -[crowd cheering, applauding] 1579 01:24:23,225 --> 01:24:25,185 [commentator] And there's the bell for round one… 1580 01:24:25,269 --> 01:24:30,065 [Jodie] As 1975 came to an end, people had one question on their mind. 1581 01:24:30,148 --> 01:24:32,276 Does America still work? 1582 01:24:32,359 --> 01:24:33,986 Studs Terkel? 1583 01:24:34,069 --> 01:24:37,114 -[inquisitive music playing] -The big question, George, is for whom? 1584 01:24:37,197 --> 01:24:40,867 [commentator] I-- I don't believe it! The champ is down! 1585 01:24:40,951 --> 01:24:43,328 [Heffner] When we're talking about this 200-year-old man, 1586 01:24:43,412 --> 01:24:44,788 -this 200-year-old entity… -[interviewer] Yeah. 1587 01:24:44,871 --> 01:24:46,039 …known as an American, 1588 01:24:46,123 --> 01:24:47,958 he is too individualistic, 1589 01:24:48,041 --> 01:24:51,962 puts his emphasis upon "me" rather than "us," 1590 01:24:52,045 --> 01:24:54,673 puts its emphasis upon the "I" rather than the "we." 1591 01:24:56,133 --> 01:24:57,676 [commentator] Apollo unloading on Rocky… 1592 01:24:57,759 --> 01:24:59,386 We can do very much better by ourselves, 1593 01:24:59,469 --> 01:25:01,388 learning to get along very much better with people. 1594 01:25:01,471 --> 01:25:04,683 This is one of the major problems we face in the world today. 1595 01:25:05,267 --> 01:25:07,019 [Chevy] The year is almost on its way out. 1596 01:25:07,102 --> 01:25:10,814 Let's take a brief look back at 1975, shall we? 1597 01:25:12,024 --> 01:25:15,027 [audience laughing, applauding] 1598 01:25:15,110 --> 01:25:16,570 It's been a rotten year, 1599 01:25:16,653 --> 01:25:18,113 -I'm glad it's gone. -[coughs] 1600 01:25:18,196 --> 01:25:21,283 '76 should be much better, boy, cause… [spits] …to '74. 1601 01:25:22,909 --> 01:25:26,455 [Jodie] 1976 was America's 200th birthday. 1602 01:25:26,538 --> 01:25:29,666 But some wondered if they should call off the bicentennial. 1603 01:25:29,750 --> 01:25:31,960 Perhaps, there was nothing to celebrate. 1604 01:25:33,170 --> 01:25:38,258 We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. 1605 01:25:38,342 --> 01:25:42,387 That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. 1606 01:25:42,471 --> 01:25:46,642 -That among these are life, liberty… -…and the pursuit of happiness. 1607 01:25:46,725 --> 01:25:50,771 [Jodie] But on July 4th, the nation came out for its birthday. 1608 01:25:51,855 --> 01:25:52,981 [Kurt] The bicentennial, 1609 01:25:53,065 --> 01:25:56,568 it was a goofy Fourth of July celebration times a thousand. 1610 01:25:57,986 --> 01:26:01,490 Yeah, it seemed fakey and Disney-esque and all those things, 1611 01:26:01,573 --> 01:26:03,825 but also, cool! It was great! 1612 01:26:04,451 --> 01:26:07,913 [Jodie] Maybe it was something about the five-story cakes, 1613 01:26:07,996 --> 01:26:09,539 the Freedom Train, 1614 01:26:10,916 --> 01:26:11,958 the parades. 1615 01:26:12,709 --> 01:26:16,505 [Kurt] Part of me always liked the Disney version of America. 1616 01:26:17,798 --> 01:26:20,634 That is the world in which we live. 1617 01:26:20,717 --> 01:26:25,138 [uplifting orchestral music playing] 1618 01:26:33,605 --> 01:26:36,817 [spectators shouting, clamoring] 1619 01:26:38,318 --> 01:26:41,279 [Jodie] One of the feel-good stories of 1976 1620 01:26:41,363 --> 01:26:44,991 was of a struggling actor who sold a screenplay about an underdog 1621 01:26:45,534 --> 01:26:48,036 that became the biggest hit of the year. 1622 01:26:49,579 --> 01:26:53,125 But when you break down the feel-good narrative, who is Rocky? 1623 01:26:53,208 --> 01:26:54,459 What does he represent? 1624 01:26:54,543 --> 01:26:57,087 Working-class White guy 1625 01:26:57,170 --> 01:27:02,008 who's displaced by this loudmouth Black guy. 1626 01:27:02,926 --> 01:27:05,512 [commentator] Right to the chin! Oh, he's going all… 1627 01:27:06,763 --> 01:27:07,723 [Jodie] At the Oscars, 1628 01:27:07,806 --> 01:27:11,184 some of the great films of the mid '70s were up for Best Picture. 1629 01:27:11,852 --> 01:27:15,355 Taxi Driver. Network. All the President's Men. 1630 01:27:15,439 --> 01:27:16,982 And the winner is… 1631 01:27:18,525 --> 01:27:21,236 -Rocky. Irwin Winkler… -[audience cheering, applauding] 1632 01:27:21,319 --> 01:27:23,739 …and Robert Chartoff, producers. 1633 01:27:23,822 --> 01:27:28,326 Rocky wins the Oscar. That night was the end. That was it. 1634 01:27:29,077 --> 01:27:31,872 Stuff changed, because people went to the movies 1635 01:27:31,955 --> 01:27:34,791 to see which movie had made the most money. 1636 01:27:34,875 --> 01:27:41,006 As the '80s appeared, the companies got their power back. 1637 01:27:41,089 --> 01:27:44,384 These are people who just don't care about movies 1638 01:27:44,468 --> 01:27:46,178 and who only care about money. 1639 01:27:46,261 --> 01:27:51,266 [Ellen] Once you change an art form to a product of capitalism, 1640 01:27:51,808 --> 01:27:53,518 it loses something. 1641 01:27:54,227 --> 01:27:57,814 [Jodie] Unique voices in filmmaking never went away. 1642 01:27:57,898 --> 01:28:01,026 They just became the exception rather than the rule. 1643 01:28:01,109 --> 01:28:03,570 To all the Rockys in the world, I love you. 1644 01:28:03,653 --> 01:28:05,947 -[audience cheering, applauding] -Thank you. 1645 01:28:06,031 --> 01:28:12,329 1975 was the closest America came to saying, "Hey, I got flaws too." 1646 01:28:12,412 --> 01:28:15,248 And for a little, brief moment, 1647 01:28:15,832 --> 01:28:18,376 cinema and pop culture was able to look at that, 1648 01:28:18,460 --> 01:28:21,254 but it was too much, and we turned the hell away. 1649 01:28:21,338 --> 01:28:23,840 But you go back to those films and they're like, 1650 01:28:23,924 --> 01:28:25,634 "You don't go back and watch them again." 1651 01:28:25,717 --> 01:28:28,261 "They're there, they're part of your life." 1652 01:28:28,345 --> 01:28:33,600 Like, how grateful are we to our parents for being that irresponsible… 1653 01:28:33,683 --> 01:28:38,814 [chuckles] …and taking us to traumas, like, literally visual traumas? 1654 01:28:40,315 --> 01:28:41,650 God, that moment. 1655 01:28:42,651 --> 01:28:44,903 You could never recreate the '70s. 1656 01:28:46,571 --> 01:28:48,073 [music crescendos, stops] 1657 01:28:48,156 --> 01:28:50,325 [Coach Buttermaker] Well, my boys would like to say 1658 01:28:50,408 --> 01:28:51,827 something to your team. Boys? 1659 01:28:51,910 --> 01:28:54,538 We just want to say you guys played a good game. 1660 01:28:54,621 --> 01:28:57,082 And we treated you pretty unfair all season. 1661 01:28:57,165 --> 01:28:58,625 We want to apologize. 1662 01:28:58,708 --> 01:29:01,169 We still don't think you're all that good a baseball team. 1663 01:29:01,253 --> 01:29:03,129 You got guts. All of you. 1664 01:29:03,713 --> 01:29:05,507 [Coach Buttermaker] Ready? Okay. 1665 01:29:05,590 --> 01:29:09,344 [all chanting in unison] Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? 1666 01:29:09,427 --> 01:29:12,055 Bears! Bears! Yay! 1667 01:29:16,309 --> 01:29:19,938 Hey, Yankees, you can take your apology out of your trophy 1668 01:29:20,021 --> 01:29:21,773 and shove it straight up your ass! 1669 01:29:21,857 --> 01:29:24,234 ["Why Can't We Be Friends?" playing] 1670 01:29:24,317 --> 01:29:26,528 And another thing, just wait until next year. 1671 01:29:33,159 --> 01:29:35,579 ♪ Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo ♪ 1672 01:29:36,496 --> 01:29:40,417 [Jodie] 1975 felt like an ending, but it wasn't. 1673 01:29:41,084 --> 01:29:43,962 It was just another chapter in the story of America. 1674 01:29:45,046 --> 01:29:49,509 We are one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 1675 01:29:50,886 --> 01:29:52,012 What could go wrong? 1676 01:29:53,430 --> 01:29:58,518 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1677 01:29:58,602 --> 01:30:03,982 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1678 01:30:04,941 --> 01:30:08,862 ♪ I seen you 'round For a long, long time ♪ 1679 01:30:08,945 --> 01:30:10,113 -♪ Yeah! ♪ -[men laughing] 1680 01:30:10,196 --> 01:30:14,284 ♪ I really 'membered you When you drink my wine ♪ 1681 01:30:14,367 --> 01:30:19,623 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1682 01:30:19,706 --> 01:30:25,253 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1683 01:30:25,879 --> 01:30:30,550 -♪ I seen you walkin' down in Chinatown ♪ -[cheers] 1684 01:30:31,176 --> 01:30:35,347 ♪ I called you But you could not look around ♪ 1685 01:30:35,430 --> 01:30:40,352 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1686 01:30:40,644 --> 01:30:45,899 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1687 01:30:46,149 --> 01:30:51,321 -♪ I bring my money to the welfare line ♪ -♪ Whoa! ♪ 1688 01:30:51,404 --> 01:30:56,284 ♪ I see you standing in it every time ♪ 1689 01:30:56,368 --> 01:31:01,373 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1690 01:31:01,456 --> 01:31:06,503 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1691 01:31:06,586 --> 01:31:11,383 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1692 01:31:11,466 --> 01:31:16,471 ♪ Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? ♪ 1693 01:31:16,596 --> 01:31:19,349 ♪ Why can't we be friends? -[background singers] ♪ Whoo, whoo, whoo ♪ 1694 01:31:19,432 --> 01:31:22,227 ♪ Why can't we be friends? -[background singers] ♪ Whoo, whoo, whoo ♪ 1695 01:31:22,352 --> 01:31:24,854 -♪ Why can't we be friends? ♪ -[song fades]