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I love to love you, baby

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I love to love you, baby

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And you'll see lots and lots of celebrants

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no matter where you are.

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…five, four, three, two, one!
Happy New Year!

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Uh!

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I love to love you, baby

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-I love to love you, baby
-Uh!

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-New Year's, 1975.
-I love to love you, baby…

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Crime was up.

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There were 15 murders the last week

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-in this goddamn city.
-That's a lot.

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Tensions were higher.

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Dance, motherfucker, dance!

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Paranoia was rampant.

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Maybe there's another CIA inside the CIA.

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There were gurus and good times.

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I'd like to suck his--

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Run away! Run away!

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The American people are turning sullen.

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They've been clobbered on all sides
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the inflation, the depression.

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They've turned off, shot up,

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and they've fucked themselves limp,
and nothing helps.

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And there was one question
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-What the hell's going on?
-What the fuck's going on?

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They wanna know what the fuck is going on.

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So, what the fuck was going on?

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We can rebuild him.
We have the technology.

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America was having a nervous breakdown.

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Guys, we can't shoot right now, hold on.

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Hold something.

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This is my second day at sea.

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And if I survive this,
I'll have learned a lot.

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We had taken all these big body blows.

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Movies were able to embrace that stuff.

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Is it safe?

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Movies were made back then
that didn't pander to trend.

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It was about a personal point of view.

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"I have something to say."

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You tell me when you're rolling
and I'll get out of the street. Cue that.

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The filmmakers, they wanted
to help people understand

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why society is so fucked up.

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'75 was the most important moment

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in the history
of the film business, I think.

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And it will never happen again.

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Do you like to dance?

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It's the one time
that the movies were really willing

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to show us ourselves,
and that we were willing to see it.

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It was the most honest version

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of this country
that we've ever had on screen.

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I'll drink to that!

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Here's my list.

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Jaws, All the President's Men,
Taxi Driver, Barry Lyndon, Nashville.

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Every single one of them had an aspect
of poking a pin in you somewhere.

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Right, freeze!

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Jesus Christ, this list is long.
Cuckoo's Nest, Network.

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You have meddled with the primal forces
of nature, Mr. Beale!

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Hollywood movies were a work of art.

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And that was the motivating factor.

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People used to really like good movies.

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From Watergate to the Bicentennial,

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America unraveled and was reborn.

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This film is a portrait
of a nation at the crossroads…

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told through the movies
that captured its soul.

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Can I ask you one question now?

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-One you can, yes.
-Only one, always the same.

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What are you running away from?

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Turn your back to the front seat.

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1975.

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It's the old story, you had to be there.
It was so alive.

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Everything wiped away.

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All the old conventions wiped away,
and we were creating a new world.

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It was a perfect time.

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I love to love you, baby

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I love to love you, baby

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I love to love you, baby

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Good afternoon.

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It is said that
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is induced by gradual change.

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Not rapid change,
not a total lack of change,

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but gradual change.

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Well, in our recent time,
the change has been so rapid,

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it is upsetting.

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Our cozy, familiar world
is turned upside down.

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Hollywood, California, 1975.

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The John Wayne Westerns

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and big-budget musicals
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undone by television and a cynical public.

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Must be a lot of ghosts around here.

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Studios let go.

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If you were an independent filmmaker,
that was your chance

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to run in and say, "I've got one."
"Okay, make it. We don't know what works."

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The inmates were running the asylum.

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Gentlemen, stop this. Stop this instant!

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We saw an opening, we ran, and we took it.

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We didn't say, "Oh, that's happening--"
"Forget it, go."

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"Well, if that person said 'No,' go here."

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"Well, what did--
Now he said 'Yes' to you? Ah!"

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You know, the envy and everything starts.
So, we were savage in that way.

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One studio executive said,
"It was like the ground was in flames

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and tulips were coming up
at the same time."

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…in my life, that's incredible!

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To understand how we got here,
just look at the journey of one actor

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who was at the center
of this strange new world.

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In 1975, he was at the top of his game.

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Whoo!

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If you wanna be a bird…

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They called it "New Hollywood."

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It all started in the late 1960s

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when counter-culture films
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became unexpected hits.

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There's excitement
and passion all of a sudden,

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you know,
and I think people can feel that.

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And I think that's why
these movies broke through.

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They're not, like, a chore to watch.

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You don't feel like
you're eating your vegetables.

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I am the motherfucking shore patrol,
motherfucker!

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I am the motherfucking shore patrol!
Now, give this man a beer.

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Jack wanted to reflect
the times they were living in.

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De-glamorizing American life
was a motivating factor.

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It's like the veneer was taken off.

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And Jack was kind of
the leader of that parade.

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By the mid-'70s,
Jack was being offered roles

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that few actors would ever turn down,

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like the leads in The Godfather
and The Sting.

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Yes, that's true, and I think
I had enough business acumen

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to know that both
The Sting and The Godfather

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were going to be huge hits.

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At the same time,

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I happened to think that Chinatown
was the more interesting of the films.

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Chinatown starts
as a typical detective story.

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But the deeper it goes,
the more rotten things become.

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You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat, huh?

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You know what happens to nosy fellows?

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We were writing the script here,
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we were bombarded by all news media
with what was going on.

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You see, it all happened
at the beginning of the Watergate.

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Mr. Speaker,
the President of the United States.

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To understand the attitudes of 1975,

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you have to understand the event
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"All the President's Men,"
shot in the summer of 1975,

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tells the true story
of Washington Post journalists

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Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,

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as they investigate a minor break-in
at the Democratic National Committee.

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What is this Watergate compulsion
with you guys?

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-Compulsion?
-It's a dangerous story for this paper.

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Like Chinatown,

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All the President's Men
is a detective story.

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I can't even be seen talking
to either one of you bastards.

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Why?
What are you afraid of? Who got to you?

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-Who told you?
-Are we being set up?

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Look, somebody's gone
to a lot of trouble here,

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and lawsuit or no lawsuit,
I intend to find out.

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I'm not supposed to be the one
who's caught with his pants down.

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Don't you understand what you're onto?

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You may think you know what your deal is,
but believe me, you don't.

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It involves the entire
U.S. intelligence community.

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Your lives are in danger.

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That's what the district attorney
used to tell me in Chinatown.

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Both films expose a feeling
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that underneath the American dream,
whether in sunny Los Angeles…

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…or the suburbs of Washington, D.C.,
a darkness was lurking.

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It's all so rotten.

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It's getting worse.

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In essence, life has become a thriller.

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So many people are conspiracy brained…

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…obviously, but in the case of Watergate,

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it was real.

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And it went all the way to the top.

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According to well-placed
White House sources,

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privately confirming stories
carried in today's Washington Post,

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the Watergate break-in was plotted
by personal counselor to President Nixon.

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Talk of presidential impeachment
no longer sounds like idle chatter.

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I welcome this kind of examination

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because people have got to know
whether or not their president's a crook.

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Well, I'm not a crook.

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None of the signals
that you'd been kind of inheriting

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from your John Wayne-loving parents

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about who the good guys are
and who the bad guys are held anymore.

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The national heroes of that year
were Woodward and Bernstein,

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courtesy of Robert Redford
and Dustin Hoffman.

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They were Captain America and Superman.

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All the President's Men
puts a happy ending on it all,

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or a happy res--

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"Happy" may be too strong a word,
but, my God, the good guys won.

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Nixon was out. Justice was done.

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And then, of course,
justice started to unravel.

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My fellow Americans,
our long national nightmare is over.

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But the nightmare was only beginning.

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Imagine how the audience would feel
if the typewriter kept going.

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With respect to my predecessor,
I, Gerald R. Ford,

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do grant a full, free,
and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon.

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He thinks that he is giving
the American people this wonderful gift.

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Why are you doing it?
How much better can you eat?

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What can you buy
that you can't already afford?

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The future, Mr. Gittes, the future.

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And people say,
"Well, that just proves it."

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"Everyone's crooked."

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It's the same thing
all these young directors are saying.

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Evelyn, put that gun away!
Let the police handle this!

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He owns the police!

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Chinatown is a state of mind
that represents

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the futility of good intentions.

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You think you've got power, control.

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You think you have a vote.
You think you're in a democracy.

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You think justice wins and truth prevails
and love conquers all.

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It doesn't.

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Oh, no!

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In 1975, Chinatown is not Chinatown.
Chinatown is America.

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The message is that,
like, the bad guys tend to win.

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As America awoke on January 1st, 1975…

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would they fight back?

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Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.

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1975 was the peak year

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of that you could really
give people a bummer movie

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and they would flock to go see it.

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Like one of the most popular movies,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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"Hey, sweetie, I got us a babysitter."

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"We're going to go out to see--
take a dinner and a movie,

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and the movie we're going to see
is about a, like, statutory rapist

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that fakes his way into an insane asylum."

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"He helps this weird, shy kid get laid,
and then he helps an American Indian,

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and then at the end,
the weird, shy kid kills himself."

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"He gets lobotomized,
this evil nurse is still in control,

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and the American Indian
becomes a fugitive."

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And that was a fun night at the movies.

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Movies in 1975 were a perfect distraction

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from the chaos of the real world.

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And if you walked
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you were probably there
to see The Godfather Part II.

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But if you were just looking
for something fun, you had a few options,

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including Young Frankenstein…

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In black and white! No offense.

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…or The Man with the Golden Gun, or Benji.

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It's not a dog movie.
That dog has emotions.

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But if you were worried
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you might find yourself watching…

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The Towering Inferno.

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New Hollywood may have been
at its peak, but at the time,

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there was an alternate golden age
of the disaster film.

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Poseidon Adventure,
which I happen to love,

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you know, Hackman dies at the end.
People forget that.

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You want another life? Then take me!

247
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So, it's a tough movie.
It's not at all a feel-good movie.

248
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Post-Watergate, optimism becomes cynicism,
is what happens…

249
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…and Hollywood
is reflective of that shift.

250
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-We got a fire here!
-Why the urgency?

251
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"Urgency"?

252
00:15:25,382 --> 00:15:28,427
Hey, Dunc, if that fire was caused
by fooky wiring in this building,

253
00:15:28,510 --> 00:15:30,596
we could get fires
breaking out everywhere!

254
00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:33,682
Doug, I think you're overreacting.

255
00:15:33,766 --> 00:15:34,892
He wasn't.

256
00:15:36,185 --> 00:15:37,728
What the hell was that?

257
00:15:43,025 --> 00:15:45,486
Whether you were watching
The Poseidon Adventure

258
00:15:45,569 --> 00:15:47,821
or The Towering Inferno…

259
00:15:50,074 --> 00:15:52,409
the truth exists
outside the theater, right?

260
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The fact is, New York City is bankrupt.

261
00:16:01,961 --> 00:16:04,797
The political system
doesn't seem to be able to act

262
00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,257
except under a major crisis.

263
00:16:08,801 --> 00:16:11,178
Well, '75 was the year the money ran out.

264
00:16:13,055 --> 00:16:17,559
After decades of deficit spending,
New York City had found itself

265
00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:21,939
unable to continue to borrow money
and unable to pay its bills.

266
00:16:23,232 --> 00:16:26,318
I did not notice
the city was at its worst.

267
00:16:27,736 --> 00:16:31,198
So the garbage built up.
Is it nice? No, but it's New York.

268
00:16:31,281 --> 00:16:33,534
I wasn't observing,
"Oh, here's the change in our society."

269
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That was our society. That's who we are.

270
00:16:38,163 --> 00:16:40,374
Why do you kick all the cans?

271
00:16:40,457 --> 00:16:43,377
Well, you got loaded with rats over here.

272
00:16:43,877 --> 00:16:45,713
And if you don't kick the can,
you pick it up,

273
00:16:45,796 --> 00:16:47,715
a rat will be able to crawl up your arm.

274
00:16:47,798 --> 00:16:50,592
This way, the rat gets
out of the can before you pick it up.

275
00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:53,637
How has the financial crisis
affected your work?

276
00:16:53,721 --> 00:16:55,472
I lost all faith in the job.

277
00:16:55,556 --> 00:16:57,599
How can you work,
you know, when you don't know

278
00:16:57,683 --> 00:16:59,309
whether you're going to get paid
on Friday?

279
00:17:02,062 --> 00:17:04,481
Well, I've said
that I thought default was a little bit

280
00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:07,109
like stepping into a warm bath
and slashing your wrist.

281
00:17:07,192 --> 00:17:09,945
You really might not feel anything
the moment you did it,

282
00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:12,406
but you'd begin to die
right then and there.

283
00:17:13,574 --> 00:17:18,037
But it wasn't only New York City.
This was a national crisis.

284
00:17:22,541 --> 00:17:23,792
People grew up believing

285
00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:26,128
that America's prosperity
would last forever.

286
00:17:28,338 --> 00:17:31,884
You know, just for example, the idea
that there could be an energy shortage.

287
00:17:32,676 --> 00:17:34,094
That just did not compute.

288
00:17:35,345 --> 00:17:37,973
In response to U.S. support for Israel,

289
00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:40,726
Arab nations had imposed an oil embargo.

290
00:17:40,809 --> 00:17:45,814
For the first time since World War II,
gasoline rationing returned to the U.S.

291
00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:49,902
I don't think it should be.
Not in the United States.

292
00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:54,323
Our American economy runs on energy.

293
00:17:55,157 --> 00:17:57,367
Oil production is going down, down, down.

294
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No energy, no jobs.

295
00:18:06,126 --> 00:18:08,087
Both unemployment and inflation

296
00:18:08,170 --> 00:18:12,591
were close to ten percent and rising,
which was theoretically impossible.

297
00:18:15,094 --> 00:18:19,139
It's all these shocks,
these traumatic shocks.

298
00:18:21,642 --> 00:18:25,354
President Ford delivered
his State of the Union message today,

299
00:18:25,437 --> 00:18:27,564
and it was
one of the gloomiest assessments

300
00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:30,526
of the American condition
that any president has delivered

301
00:18:30,609 --> 00:18:31,735
in a long time.

302
00:18:32,277 --> 00:18:33,987
And I must say to you…

303
00:18:34,863 --> 00:18:39,159
that the State of the Union is not good.

304
00:18:41,036 --> 00:18:43,122
Nobody could predict
what would happen next.

305
00:18:45,374 --> 00:18:48,502
Right, freeze.
Nobody move! Get over there!

306
00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:52,923
Okay, okay.
All right, get away from those alarms.

307
00:18:53,006 --> 00:18:53,882
Come on!

308
00:18:53,966 --> 00:18:57,177
In the making of that movie,
the first obligation becomes,

309
00:18:57,261 --> 00:18:58,929
"Hey, folks, this really happened."

310
00:19:06,770 --> 00:19:09,648
We're having a tough time
keeping up with reality.

311
00:19:11,024 --> 00:19:13,485
Maybe that's why
we're so interested in doing movies

312
00:19:13,569 --> 00:19:15,279
about actual events that did happen.

313
00:19:15,362 --> 00:19:16,738
Cloud!

314
00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:20,159
I always loved
something based on a true story.

315
00:19:20,242 --> 00:19:23,036
Pacino running in the bank and sliding.

316
00:19:23,745 --> 00:19:29,126
That's human. This is what it was for him.
The desperation was real.

317
00:19:29,209 --> 00:19:30,794
Right now I can see it.

318
00:19:30,878 --> 00:19:32,004
-Who is it?
-Cops.

319
00:19:37,926 --> 00:19:40,929
And then people are cheering for him

320
00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:42,973
because they hate the cops.

321
00:19:43,056 --> 00:19:46,393
And they're like,
"Yeah," you know, "stick it to the man."

322
00:19:54,109 --> 00:19:55,861
Sonny, you're on the air.

323
00:19:55,944 --> 00:19:58,030
Would you mind
answering a few questions for us?

324
00:19:58,113 --> 00:20:00,699
-Yeah.
-Why are you doing this?

325
00:20:00,782 --> 00:20:02,117
Uh…

326
00:20:02,993 --> 00:20:04,786
What? I--
I don't know what you mean by that.

327
00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:06,955
I'm-- I'm robbing a bank
'cause they got money here.

328
00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:08,123
That's why I'm robbing it.

329
00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:11,293
No, no, what I mean is, why do you feel
you have to steal for money?

330
00:20:11,376 --> 00:20:14,379
-Couldn't you get a job?
-Like what? A bank teller?

331
00:20:14,463 --> 00:20:16,173
You know how much
a bank teller makes a week?

332
00:20:16,256 --> 00:20:17,257
-Not much.
-Not much.

333
00:20:17,341 --> 00:20:19,343
A hundred and fifteen to start, right?

334
00:20:19,426 --> 00:20:21,553
I'm here with my partner
and nine other people.

335
00:20:21,637 --> 00:20:23,096
See, we're dying here.

336
00:20:23,180 --> 00:20:25,974
"I'm dying here, I'm dying here."

337
00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:27,684
How much you make a week?
That's what I wanna hear.

338
00:20:27,768 --> 00:20:29,895
-You gonna talk to me about that?
-Ladies and gentlemen, our transmission

339
00:20:29,978 --> 00:20:32,147
has been interrupted. Please
stand by. We will return to our special…

340
00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:35,651
It's all corroding inside of him.

341
00:20:36,735 --> 00:20:39,738
It's everywhere.

342
00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:45,619
Harry, answer that.

343
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,374
Want to work uptown tonight?
South Bronx? Harlem?

344
00:20:50,457 --> 00:20:52,251
I'll work anytime, anywhere.

345
00:20:53,835 --> 00:20:56,838
America was becoming isolated from itself.

346
00:20:56,922 --> 00:20:59,925
There was an epidemic
of runaways and divorces.

347
00:21:00,550 --> 00:21:02,469
Families were becoming strangers.

348
00:21:03,553 --> 00:21:07,516
From this fracture emerged
one of the '70s’ most iconic characters.

349
00:21:10,852 --> 00:21:13,855
De Niro… we didn't even
have to talk very much about what it is

350
00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:16,817
and what it meant, I didn't--
We just felt it.

351
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,154
Loneliness has followed me
my whole life, everywhere.

352
00:21:21,238 --> 00:21:26,201
Bars and cars,
sidewalks, stores, everywhere.

353
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:28,662
There's no escape.

354
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,581
I'm God's lonely man.

355
00:21:32,749 --> 00:21:35,877
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?

356
00:21:35,961 --> 00:21:38,422
I felt it was the underground man.

357
00:21:38,505 --> 00:21:40,841
The underground man
that's going to seep up now.

358
00:21:41,967 --> 00:21:44,136
We've been holding him or her back…

359
00:21:45,220 --> 00:21:47,681
and it's going to be war.

360
00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:51,435
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?

361
00:21:51,518 --> 00:21:55,731
People were living like that.
New York was that horrible place.

362
00:21:55,814 --> 00:21:57,441
-Take your hands off!
-Okay, then just leave.

363
00:21:57,524 --> 00:21:58,775
-Take off!
-All right, please.

364
00:21:58,859 --> 00:22:00,944
How do you make a movie
when your heart is already broken?

365
00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:03,363
You're in hell, and you go lower.

366
00:22:03,447 --> 00:22:05,490
You're in a hell,
and you're going to die in a hell

367
00:22:05,574 --> 00:22:06,908
-like the rest of us.
-Come on now!

368
00:22:06,992 --> 00:22:10,203
What you see in the film
is what I live with all the time.

369
00:22:10,287 --> 00:22:11,788
Get me out of here, all right?

370
00:22:12,497 --> 00:22:15,917
He cannot connect. It's alienation.

371
00:22:17,753 --> 00:22:20,213
Being cut off from other people

372
00:22:20,297 --> 00:22:22,674
in the most populous city
in the world,

373
00:22:23,842 --> 00:22:24,843
he explodes.

374
00:22:24,926 --> 00:22:26,762
I'm dying.

375
00:22:28,221 --> 00:22:29,222
I'm dying.

376
00:22:32,976 --> 00:22:36,855
Someday a real rain will come
and wash all this scum off the streets.

377
00:22:42,652 --> 00:22:45,072
And in the skyscrapers above Manhattan,

378
00:22:45,155 --> 00:22:48,325
another film showed
that the madness was spreading.

379
00:22:48,408 --> 00:22:49,576
How do you do, Mr. Beale?

380
00:22:49,659 --> 00:22:52,287
-I must make my witness.
-Sure thing, Mr. Beale.

381
00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:54,456
I don't have to tell you things are bad.

382
00:22:54,539 --> 00:22:56,208
Everybody knows things are bad.

383
00:22:56,291 --> 00:22:59,169
I want you to get up now.

384
00:22:59,252 --> 00:23:03,090
I want all of you
to get up out of your chairs.

385
00:23:03,173 --> 00:23:06,510
I want you to get up right now
and go to the window,

386
00:23:06,593 --> 00:23:09,846
open it and stick your head out and yell,

387
00:23:09,930 --> 00:23:13,934
"I'm as mad as hell,
and I'm not gonna take this anymore!"

388
00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:17,979
I want you to get up right now.
Stick your head out of the window.

389
00:23:18,063 --> 00:23:20,399
Open it, then stick your head out
and keep yelling and yell,

390
00:23:20,482 --> 00:23:22,943
"I'm as mad as hell! I'm not…"

391
00:23:23,026 --> 00:23:25,862
I'm mad as hell!
I'm not going to take it anymore!

392
00:23:25,946 --> 00:23:28,365
I'm mad as hell!
I'm not going to take it anymore!

393
00:23:28,448 --> 00:23:30,784
I'm mad as hell
and I'm not gonna take it anymore!

394
00:23:30,867 --> 00:23:32,619
I'm not going to take it anymore!

395
00:23:34,287 --> 00:23:38,250
You know, I really wanna-- I got some
bad ideas in my head, I just…

396
00:23:48,385 --> 00:23:53,640
A film can either put you to sleep nicely,
or it can wake you up.

397
00:23:53,723 --> 00:23:57,102
And I'm interested
in the "wake you up" part.

398
00:23:57,185 --> 00:24:00,981
Our favorite flavors,
vanilla and strawberry.

399
00:24:01,523 --> 00:24:03,400
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.

400
00:24:05,485 --> 00:24:08,238
Hey, this is regular vanilla.

401
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,247
Films like John Carpenter's
Assault on Precinct 13

402
00:24:17,330 --> 00:24:19,749
put the nation's anxieties on screen.

403
00:24:20,333 --> 00:24:23,211
It was said that there was
more violent crime on the streets

404
00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:25,964
than any time since the 15th century.

405
00:24:26,673 --> 00:24:28,550
I was hit for no reason.

406
00:24:28,633 --> 00:24:30,343
Just beat up.
They didn't even want my money.

407
00:24:30,427 --> 00:24:32,637
Save our village!

408
00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:34,556
What do you want me to do, call the cops?

409
00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:37,267
Well, the cops don't do nothing,
you know that.

410
00:24:37,350 --> 00:24:39,519
People longed to feel safe.

411
00:24:40,061 --> 00:24:43,023
They marched in the streets
and took self-defense classes.

412
00:24:45,025 --> 00:24:48,695
It was the period when you first
started getting the urban vigilante.

413
00:24:48,778 --> 00:24:51,031
The police need help.

414
00:24:51,114 --> 00:24:55,368
Why don't we form
some sort of a citizens’ action group?

415
00:24:55,452 --> 00:24:58,205
It's a dirty word. It's a bad word.

416
00:24:58,288 --> 00:25:01,291
But if we have to protect ourselves,
let's do it.

417
00:25:04,169 --> 00:25:06,630
There was a slew of vigilante movies.

418
00:25:09,799 --> 00:25:11,384
One person taking it on.

419
00:25:15,430 --> 00:25:16,598
You talking to me?

420
00:25:19,267 --> 00:25:20,727
You talking to me?

421
00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:22,103
What?

422
00:25:22,187 --> 00:25:24,314
Who the fuck do you think
you're talking to?

423
00:25:24,397 --> 00:25:26,066
Hit the deck, you son of a bitch!

424
00:25:26,149 --> 00:25:27,859
I'm trying, you fuck.

425
00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:30,737
There was this sense of, like,
"We've all gone too far."

426
00:25:30,820 --> 00:25:34,574
"We're coddling the criminals,
somebody's working off their anger."

427
00:25:34,658 --> 00:25:39,287
Anyone doing anything…
…was probably viewed as very aspirational.

428
00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:42,791
One critic dubbed the films
"Revenge-amatics."

429
00:25:44,251 --> 00:25:46,127
This is the story of a man

430
00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:50,465
who decided to clean up
the most violent town in the world,

431
00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:51,883
Death Wish.

432
00:25:53,051 --> 00:25:55,053
What was seen as kind of a throwaway movie

433
00:25:55,136 --> 00:25:56,972
with this kind of B-list star,
Charles Bronson,

434
00:25:57,055 --> 00:26:00,725
who plays an architect who's liberal,

435
00:26:00,809 --> 00:26:04,271
and his wife and daughter
are raped and murdered.

436
00:26:04,354 --> 00:26:05,480
What do you want?

437
00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:07,482
Don't judge, mother.
You know what we want.

438
00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:11,319
He literally, in the film,
goes to a Western ghost town

439
00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:13,947
and learns to be
a John Wayne-like Avenger,

440
00:26:14,614 --> 00:26:17,742
comes back to New York
and begins shooting criminals.

441
00:26:20,745 --> 00:26:22,872
People see it again and again and again.

442
00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:26,835
The theater would erupt in cheers.

443
00:26:28,003 --> 00:26:29,462
What would you do?

444
00:26:29,546 --> 00:26:30,672
What would you do?!

445
00:26:30,755 --> 00:26:33,758
Would you do what Charles Bronson does
in Death Wish?

446
00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:35,969
Probab-- Well, perhaps.

447
00:26:37,721 --> 00:26:41,308
Death Wish wasn't that extreme.
It was clean violence.

448
00:26:41,391 --> 00:26:45,103
When I shot a man, he was shot.
That was the end of it.

449
00:26:46,521 --> 00:26:48,023
You know what's frightening to me?

450
00:26:48,106 --> 00:26:51,735
I saw the cartoon Roadrunner last week
with my little girl.

451
00:26:53,528 --> 00:26:59,784
They drop a rock on… on the wolf
or the coyote, and he goes flat.

452
00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:01,661
That is shocking to me.

453
00:27:02,579 --> 00:27:04,205
This is really violence to me.

454
00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:07,375
But who does he kill?

455
00:27:09,502 --> 00:27:11,212
He killed the right people.

456
00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:15,550
And so he's perceived to be a hero,

457
00:27:15,634 --> 00:27:18,762
even though he clearly is
everything but a hero.

458
00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:24,476
The thing with '70s Hollywood was missing

459
00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:30,565
with this energy of challenging corruption
and capturing the national mood

460
00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:35,487
and responding to the times
was Black people.

461
00:27:36,112 --> 00:27:37,614
I think people just got tired

462
00:27:37,697 --> 00:27:39,866
because there wasn't enough
variety in films.

463
00:27:41,451 --> 00:27:43,953
I don't like movies
when they don't have no niggas in them.

464
00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:47,957
They had a movie
in the future called "Logan's Run."

465
00:27:48,041 --> 00:27:49,751
Ain't no niggas in it.

466
00:27:49,834 --> 00:27:52,295
I said, "Well, White folks
ain't planning for us to be here."

467
00:27:57,342 --> 00:27:58,968
That's why we gotta make movies.

468
00:27:59,052 --> 00:28:01,513
So, they did.

469
00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:10,021
The Blaxploitation thing,
that was an accident.

470
00:28:10,105 --> 00:28:12,691
And Melvin Van Peebles comes along
with this 150,000-dollar movie

471
00:28:12,774 --> 00:28:15,318
that he scraped together,
and it makes 16 million dollars,

472
00:28:15,402 --> 00:28:16,486
and they go, "Wait a minute."

473
00:28:16,569 --> 00:28:18,238
And then they found
that they had a whole other audience,

474
00:28:18,321 --> 00:28:20,990
and they would say it was a whole
urban audience of Blacks,

475
00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:23,118
but everybody was in that theater.

476
00:28:23,201 --> 00:28:24,494
Crazy bastard!

477
00:28:25,787 --> 00:28:28,415
There was White guys, there was a bunch
of Jewish guys all the time,

478
00:28:28,498 --> 00:28:29,958
and the Puerto Rican guys, you know.

479
00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:32,460
And it was like,
"Yo, man, that flick is on."

480
00:28:35,922 --> 00:28:37,924
"Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song"

481
00:28:38,007 --> 00:28:41,469
became the largest-grossing
independent film ever made.

482
00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:46,015
Hollywood learned
that success is not Black or White.

483
00:28:46,766 --> 00:28:48,393
It's green.

484
00:28:48,476 --> 00:28:52,480
Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about?

485
00:28:53,189 --> 00:28:55,316
-Shaft!
-Right on

486
00:28:56,109 --> 00:29:00,029
Shaft was so successful,
it saved MGM from bankruptcy.

487
00:29:00,113 --> 00:29:04,325
Super Fly knocked The Godfather
out of the top spot at the box office.

488
00:29:04,951 --> 00:29:06,327
That's an amazing feat.

489
00:29:10,665 --> 00:29:12,917
That sucker's gonna get us killed.

490
00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:17,589
A lot of the time,
it was crime and sex,

491
00:29:17,672 --> 00:29:20,800
which was thrilling for a while,

492
00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:23,803
but I think people kind of got tired
of shooting and fucking.

493
00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:27,265
It's a mistake to assume
that Blaxploitation is a genre.

494
00:29:27,348 --> 00:29:28,808
It's many genres.

495
00:29:30,518 --> 00:29:33,271
On one hand, you had Blacula.

496
00:29:33,354 --> 00:29:37,317
On the other,
kitchen sink dramas like Cooley High.

497
00:29:38,026 --> 00:29:41,696
Mr. Mason gonna have my ass
missing class all this week.

498
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:42,989
That ain't nothing new.

499
00:29:43,072 --> 00:29:46,075
It was a coming-of-age story.
"I want to make something out of my life

500
00:29:46,159 --> 00:29:48,787
but I don't know what I'm doing
and I don't have a clue."

501
00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:52,248
That's who my character was.
He saw beyond the hood.

502
00:29:52,957 --> 00:29:56,336
He was gonna get what he's gonna get
and nothing was gonna stop him.

503
00:29:57,337 --> 00:30:00,757
This wasn't exploitation.
Like the rest of New Hollywood,

504
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,676
many Black films
were reflecting a nation on edge.

505
00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:07,472
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

506
00:30:07,555 --> 00:30:10,642
And the most explosive voice in America

507
00:30:10,725 --> 00:30:12,435
belonged to a comedian.

508
00:30:14,062 --> 00:30:17,065
He was originally someone
who was trying to imitate Bill Cosby,

509
00:30:17,148 --> 00:30:20,151
but when he started to find his own voice,

510
00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:22,821
he became a cultural phenomenon.

511
00:30:22,904 --> 00:30:24,155
Every time you read the paper,

512
00:30:24,239 --> 00:30:27,575
"Nigger accidentally shot
22 times in the face."

513
00:30:29,828 --> 00:30:33,414
I mean, how do you accidentally shoot
a nigger eight times in the chest?

514
00:30:34,123 --> 00:30:36,668
You know, and the guy goes,
"Well, Judge, Your Honor,

515
00:30:36,751 --> 00:30:38,545
he just fell down
and went crazy, Your Honor."

516
00:30:40,255 --> 00:30:44,008
He was a great
kind of minstrel figure, but in reverse.

517
00:30:44,092 --> 00:30:46,010
He was showing White people

518
00:30:46,094 --> 00:30:48,221
what they looked like to him.

519
00:30:48,304 --> 00:30:50,515
I think you're probably
pretty ready for this job.

520
00:30:50,598 --> 00:30:54,686
We got one more… kind of
psychological test we always do here.

521
00:30:54,769 --> 00:30:58,189
It's just a word association.
I'll throw you out a few words.

522
00:30:58,273 --> 00:31:00,859
Anything that comes to your mind,
just throw it back at me, okay?

523
00:31:00,942 --> 00:31:02,235
-"White."
-"Black."

524
00:31:02,318 --> 00:31:04,487
"Negro."

525
00:31:05,655 --> 00:31:08,783
"Whitey."

526
00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:12,328
"Tar baby."

527
00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:19,502
In 1975, liberal communities
across the country

528
00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:21,421
tried to promote racial integration

529
00:31:22,213 --> 00:31:24,841
by busing Black students
into White schools.

530
00:31:25,508 --> 00:31:27,176
But not everyone was on board.

531
00:31:27,844 --> 00:31:30,179
The most visible anti-busing figure

532
00:31:30,263 --> 00:31:31,639
is Sue Connor, a suburbanite.

533
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:34,350
Matthew Connor does not go
to school in the morning!

534
00:31:36,269 --> 00:31:40,064
Boycott! Boycott! Boycott!
Boycott! Boycott! Boycott!

535
00:31:40,148 --> 00:31:43,735
I am not a racist, I'm not a bigot.
But if I were…

536
00:31:44,527 --> 00:31:45,737
it's unimportant.

537
00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:48,489
-"Colored."
-"Redneck."

538
00:31:50,825 --> 00:31:53,328
-"Jungle bunny."
-"Peckerwood."

539
00:31:58,499 --> 00:32:01,669
Going over there to me,
it's like going to a war.

540
00:32:01,753 --> 00:32:04,839
You can't get an education
and watch your back at the same time.

541
00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:06,966
-"Burrhead."
-"Cracker."

542
00:32:11,721 --> 00:32:14,724
They ran us on the buses,
and they ran us off to school--

543
00:32:14,807 --> 00:32:17,018
And then we had to go down
the back stairs someplace else.

544
00:32:17,101 --> 00:32:19,312
-"Jungle bunny."
-"Honky."

545
00:32:19,395 --> 00:32:21,439
-"Nigger."
-"Dead honky."

546
00:32:31,324 --> 00:32:32,825
Okay, Mr. Wilson, um…

547
00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:38,373
I think you're qualified for this job. Uh…

548
00:32:38,873 --> 00:32:40,667
How about a starting salary of $5,000?

549
00:32:40,750 --> 00:32:43,336
Yo mama.

550
00:32:43,419 --> 00:32:46,297
After Richard's appearance
on Saturday Night Live,

551
00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:50,760
he's the hippest cultural figure
in existence at that moment.

552
00:32:50,843 --> 00:32:53,846
He's able to take volatile topics

553
00:32:53,930 --> 00:32:55,723
and make people laugh at it.

554
00:32:57,850 --> 00:33:01,604
But there was one topic
nobody wanted to talk about.

555
00:33:07,193 --> 00:33:11,781
In 1975,
the only on-screen critique of Vietnam

556
00:33:11,864 --> 00:33:14,242
was a sitcom about Korea.

557
00:33:19,038 --> 00:33:21,374
I'm telling you, we're being shelled!

558
00:33:21,457 --> 00:33:22,500
Impossible.

559
00:33:22,583 --> 00:33:27,255
My latest intelligence map shows
there are no enemy units in your sector.

560
00:33:27,338 --> 00:33:29,924
You are not being shelled, young man.

561
00:33:36,139 --> 00:33:38,433
The TV series M*A*S*H

562
00:33:38,516 --> 00:33:41,853
was a spin-off of Robert Altman's
black comedy of the same name.

563
00:33:41,936 --> 00:33:43,062
I can't really see.

564
00:33:43,146 --> 00:33:45,523
It's like the Mississippi River
down there.

565
00:33:45,606 --> 00:33:46,816
Action!

566
00:33:47,984 --> 00:33:50,987
I wanted it to be about the Vietnam War.

567
00:33:51,904 --> 00:33:55,199
But they were adamant
that it couldn't be that.

568
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,077
So, when they saw
the picture cut together,

569
00:33:58,161 --> 00:34:02,123
they made us put a little disclaimer
to say that this was in Korea.

570
00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:05,585
M*A*S*H, even though
it was not set in Vietnam,

571
00:34:05,668 --> 00:34:07,712
everyone knew
what they were talking about.

572
00:34:07,795 --> 00:34:10,548
War isn't hell.
War is war and hell is hell.

573
00:34:10,631 --> 00:34:13,051
And of the two, war is a lot worse.

574
00:34:13,134 --> 00:34:16,679
It took a long time
till Vietnam movies started to kick in.

575
00:34:16,763 --> 00:34:19,766
People did not want to deal with it.

576
00:34:19,849 --> 00:34:22,268
For the first 15 years of the war,

577
00:34:22,351 --> 00:34:25,354
only one Vietnam film
had come out of Hollywood.

578
00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:29,484
Green Berets.

579
00:34:29,567 --> 00:34:32,361
John Wayne took
a different angle than M*A*S*H.

580
00:34:32,445 --> 00:34:35,698
Why is the United States
waging this ruthless war?

581
00:34:35,782 --> 00:34:37,658
Communist domination of the world.

582
00:34:39,118 --> 00:34:43,039
Nobody could believe that film.
I mean, we laughed at it when we saw it.

583
00:34:43,122 --> 00:34:47,502
And it was all lies, all lies.
I mean, the concept that we're winning.

584
00:34:47,585 --> 00:34:51,089
That's what it's all about, Mr. Beckwith!

585
00:34:51,839 --> 00:34:55,301
John Wayne, he represented
that it was okay to be in Vietnam.

586
00:34:55,384 --> 00:34:58,012
That was the worst thing he did,
in our opinion.

587
00:34:58,596 --> 00:35:01,224
People my age had to go and die.

588
00:35:01,307 --> 00:35:04,936
It really was an ugly war.

589
00:35:05,019 --> 00:35:08,564
We were bombing the shit out of everybody.
We were spending a fortune.

590
00:35:08,648 --> 00:35:10,233
My first wound came

591
00:35:10,316 --> 00:35:13,069
from an asshole sergeant
who threw a grenade.

592
00:35:13,152 --> 00:35:16,697
and he didn't throw it far enough.

593
00:35:18,032 --> 00:35:21,202
Americans were
deeply divided over the war,

594
00:35:21,285 --> 00:35:22,954
and Hollywood was no different.

595
00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:26,916
Here comes Big Duke himself, John Wayne.

596
00:35:26,999 --> 00:35:29,293
At the 1975 Academy Awards…

597
00:35:30,628 --> 00:35:33,089
that divide took center stage.

598
00:35:34,882 --> 00:35:36,050
Thank you.

599
00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:37,844
The hosts and presenters that night

600
00:35:37,927 --> 00:35:40,721
were a who's who of old Hollywood royalty.

601
00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:41,848
Thank you.

602
00:35:42,849 --> 00:35:46,686
But as they passed the torch
to the next generation of filmmakers,

603
00:35:46,769 --> 00:35:50,690
the viewing public got a taste
of how each really felt about the other.

604
00:35:50,773 --> 00:35:53,860
I fear that the Academy Award
doesn't mean anything anymore.

605
00:35:54,485 --> 00:35:57,071
There's just something
so grotesque about it.

606
00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:59,323
-They're beauty pageants.
-Yeah.

607
00:35:59,407 --> 00:36:00,825
They're demeaning somehow.

608
00:36:00,908 --> 00:36:05,329
They really show the worst aspect
of this country, I think.

609
00:36:05,413 --> 00:36:07,623
And contrary
to what Dustin Hoffman thinks,

610
00:36:07,707 --> 00:36:09,542
it is not an obscene evening.

611
00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:13,963
It is not garish,
and it is not embarrassing.

612
00:36:17,633 --> 00:36:22,346
Finally, the generational battle
came to a head at an unlikely moment.

613
00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:26,976
For feature-length documentaries,
the winner is Hearts and Minds.

614
00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:32,148
Columbia Pictures had refused
to release Hearts and Minds.

615
00:36:32,773 --> 00:36:36,611
Its focus on the human cost
of the war was too controversial.

616
00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:49,707
"The planes again."

617
00:36:50,791 --> 00:36:52,710
"That is the bomb crater."

618
00:36:52,793 --> 00:36:56,172
"The bomb struck there
and destroyed everything I had."

619
00:36:56,672 --> 00:36:58,633
It is ironic that we are here

620
00:36:58,716 --> 00:37:01,510
just before Vietnam
is about to be liberated.

621
00:37:02,553 --> 00:37:08,017
I will now read a short wire
that I have been asked to read

622
00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:09,852
by the Vietnamese people.

623
00:37:10,728 --> 00:37:15,775
"Please transmit to all our friends
in America our recognition

624
00:37:15,858 --> 00:37:18,736
of all that they have done
on behalf of peace."

625
00:37:18,819 --> 00:37:22,657
"Greetings of friendship
to all the American people."

626
00:37:22,740 --> 00:37:24,242
Thank you very much.

627
00:37:28,204 --> 00:37:30,206
Obviously, it was extremely tense.

628
00:37:31,207 --> 00:37:32,917
We all kind of held our breath.

629
00:37:33,584 --> 00:37:36,254
Bert Schneider
produced Easy Rider.

630
00:37:36,337 --> 00:37:41,050
Schneider was one of the most radical.
He scandalized the Academy.

631
00:37:41,133 --> 00:37:43,970
The Academy
was a very conservative organization.

632
00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:48,099
You know, they didn't want
somebody on stage saying stuff like that.

633
00:37:48,182 --> 00:37:51,352
All hell broke loose backstage

634
00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:55,189
as John Wayne and Sinatra
confronted Bert Schneider.

635
00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:58,859
I wound up backstage.
I saw Sinatra walk by me.

636
00:37:59,402 --> 00:38:02,280
And I just moved out of the way
because I didn't know…

637
00:38:02,363 --> 00:38:04,198
I didn't know what to do back there.

638
00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:05,908
I could feel the chill.

639
00:38:06,492 --> 00:38:09,829
Bob Hope insisted
on a retraction from the Academy.

640
00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:13,874
The Academy is saying, quote,
"We are not responsible

641
00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:16,043
for any political references
on this program

642
00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:18,587
and we are sorry
that they had to take place this evening."

643
00:38:26,804 --> 00:38:30,808
Three weeks later,
as the North Vietnamese surrounded Saigon,

644
00:38:30,891 --> 00:38:34,186
armed forces radio played
White Christmas, which meant…

645
00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:36,230
…the report
from the embassy that all Americans

646
00:38:36,314 --> 00:38:39,608
are to be evacuated immediately.

647
00:38:39,692 --> 00:38:45,906
-I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
-I'm dreaming of a white Christmas

648
00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:50,745
And then it was a mad dash
to the waiting helicopter.

649
00:38:50,828 --> 00:38:52,830
Probably the most terrifying experience

650
00:38:52,913 --> 00:38:54,332
that I've ever gone through.

651
00:39:05,718 --> 00:39:08,387
U.S. Marines having to use tear gas

652
00:39:08,471 --> 00:39:10,181
to keep these people behind,

653
00:39:10,264 --> 00:39:13,601
people that the Americans had promised
would get out of Vietnam.

654
00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:17,313
These people up here
are committing suicide staying up here,

655
00:39:17,396 --> 00:39:18,564
but what can you do?

656
00:39:32,161 --> 00:39:34,622
The war in Vietnam is over.

657
00:39:35,623 --> 00:39:38,626
It was sad and tragic in many respects.

658
00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:42,463
But the United States
is strong militarily,

659
00:39:42,546 --> 00:39:44,548
despite our current problems,

660
00:39:44,632 --> 00:39:48,344
and we want
any potential adversaries to know

661
00:39:48,427 --> 00:39:51,597
that we will stand up to them.

662
00:39:52,723 --> 00:39:55,434
Now stand aside, worthy adversary.

663
00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:57,728
-'Tis but a scratch.
-A scratch?

664
00:39:57,812 --> 00:39:59,563
-Your arm's off!
-No, it isn't.

665
00:39:59,647 --> 00:40:01,774
Well, what's that then?

666
00:40:01,857 --> 00:40:03,984
-I've had worse.
-You liar!

667
00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:05,611
Come on, you pansy!

668
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:10,032
But just two weeks
after the fall of Saigon,

669
00:40:10,116 --> 00:40:12,910
an American container ship, the Mayaguez,

670
00:40:12,993 --> 00:40:15,704
was seized by communist forces
in Cambodia.

671
00:40:16,664 --> 00:40:19,708
It triggered a massive
U.S. military response.

672
00:40:19,792 --> 00:40:22,002
The Ford administration was determined

673
00:40:22,086 --> 00:40:25,464
to prove that America
was still a force to be reckoned with.

674
00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:29,593
It's just a flesh wound.

675
00:40:30,761 --> 00:40:32,179
In the aftermath,

676
00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:36,016
the ship was saved
and Ford's popularity skyrocketed.

677
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:39,979
The overwhelming support
of the public is behind the president.

678
00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,442
Right, I'll do you for that!

679
00:40:44,525 --> 00:40:46,444
-You'll what?
-Come here!

680
00:40:46,527 --> 00:40:48,487
What are you going to do, bleed on me?

681
00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:54,160
But like much of the Vietnam War,
the truth was more complex.

682
00:40:54,243 --> 00:40:55,995
It's quite explicit.

683
00:40:56,078 --> 00:40:59,165
We have the notes of the NSC meetings,
and Henry Kissinger is saying things like,

684
00:40:59,248 --> 00:41:02,001
"We need to kick ass somewhere,
and it doesn't matter if it's real,

685
00:41:02,084 --> 00:41:04,378
we just have to show
that America can't be messed with."

686
00:41:06,005 --> 00:41:08,090
Of course, everything backfired.

687
00:41:08,924 --> 00:41:10,968
We lost a lot of Marines for nothing.

688
00:41:12,678 --> 00:41:13,888
It was a mess.

689
00:41:15,055 --> 00:41:19,268
But it's celebrated in the media
as if it's the Battle of the Bulge.

690
00:41:20,186 --> 00:41:23,272
American military narcissism
at its very worst.

691
00:41:24,940 --> 00:41:26,233
It's madness.

692
00:41:31,906 --> 00:41:34,116
All right, we'll call it a draw.

693
00:41:35,534 --> 00:41:38,537
A few months later,
as the real story emerged,

694
00:41:38,621 --> 00:41:42,082
many Americans began to wonder
who they could trust.

695
00:41:44,126 --> 00:41:47,421
Trust is not having to guess

696
00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:49,882
what it can and can't mean.

697
00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:53,260
Trust must be earned.

698
00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:56,347
Neither the cherry bombs
of a misguided prankster

699
00:41:56,430 --> 00:41:59,099
nor all the memories of recent years

700
00:41:59,183 --> 00:42:02,019
can keep the people
and their president apart.

701
00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:07,358
I'm feeling good about America

702
00:42:07,441 --> 00:42:10,945
When a limousine can parade
openly through the streets of Dallas,

703
00:42:11,028 --> 00:42:13,447
there's a change that's come over America.

704
00:42:13,948 --> 00:42:15,950
After a decade of tension

705
00:42:16,033 --> 00:42:19,370
the people and their president
are back together again.

706
00:42:19,453 --> 00:42:24,792
I'm feeling good about America
It's something great to see

707
00:42:25,584 --> 00:42:28,754
I'm feeling good about America

708
00:42:29,213 --> 00:42:32,299
I'm feeling good about…

709
00:42:34,343 --> 00:42:36,637
Then came the two assassination attempts.

710
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:39,515
In Sacramento, it was a member
of the infamous Manson Gang,

711
00:42:39,598 --> 00:42:40,849
"Squeaky" Fromme.

712
00:42:40,933 --> 00:42:43,394
In San Francisco,
a shot was actually fired.

713
00:42:43,477 --> 00:42:46,063
Whoa! Hey!

714
00:42:46,897 --> 00:42:48,232
The guy's distinguished

715
00:42:48,315 --> 00:42:50,985
by the fact that he faced
two assassination attempts

716
00:42:51,068 --> 00:42:52,945
within three weeks of each other.

717
00:42:53,988 --> 00:42:55,573
That kind of says it all.

718
00:42:58,492 --> 00:43:03,163
In 1975, political violence
was shockingly common.

719
00:43:03,539 --> 00:43:07,751
And there was one assassination
that was still at the forefront

720
00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:09,253
of the American mind.

721
00:43:09,336 --> 00:43:13,048
This is Dealey Plaza in Dallas.

722
00:43:13,132 --> 00:43:17,094
On the 22nd day
of November 1963, a shot rang out.

723
00:43:17,803 --> 00:43:20,598
In the 12 years
since the Kennedy assassination,

724
00:43:20,681 --> 00:43:23,601
many had questioned
the official account of a lone gunman.

725
00:43:24,393 --> 00:43:28,731
Geraldo Rivera broke the story wide open
when he played the Zapruder film

726
00:43:28,814 --> 00:43:31,066
on national television for the first time.

727
00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:34,403
And as you can see,
the head is thrown violently backwards.

728
00:43:37,156 --> 00:43:40,117
It was really awful
to see Kennedy's head blown off,

729
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,913
but it was important.
It made me see the world in another way.

730
00:43:46,123 --> 00:43:49,960
The release of the film
reignited questions over his death,

731
00:43:50,794 --> 00:43:53,922
furthering distrust
of the official account,

732
00:43:54,715 --> 00:43:57,676
and raising suspicions
about other assassinations.

733
00:43:58,177 --> 00:44:00,554
Where were you when Kennedy got shot?

734
00:44:03,515 --> 00:44:05,142
Which Kennedy?

735
00:44:05,225 --> 00:44:08,187
Many now suspect that the thread
that binds the crimes together

736
00:44:08,270 --> 00:44:09,647
is in a series of conspiracies.

737
00:44:10,439 --> 00:44:12,191
Perhaps even one giant conspiracy.

738
00:44:13,734 --> 00:44:15,819
Since the assassination,

739
00:44:15,903 --> 00:44:19,156
six of these people have died
in some kind of an accident.

740
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,950
And whoever killed them
is going to try to kill me.

741
00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:23,827
Hey.

742
00:44:29,583 --> 00:44:33,379
When I make a film,
I am not interested, basically,

743
00:44:33,462 --> 00:44:35,506
in how people perceive it.

744
00:44:36,256 --> 00:44:38,384
I'm interested in telling the truth.

745
00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:43,847
Warren Beatty had one of the most
politically charged voices in Hollywood,

746
00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:48,268
someone who was both a sex symbol
and antagonist to Richard Nixon.

747
00:44:49,395 --> 00:44:52,064
The Parallax View, for instance,
you know, where Warren Beatty

748
00:44:52,147 --> 00:44:55,693
is a reporter who uncovers
this political assassination plot,

749
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,237
the paranoia was justified.

750
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,281
What once seemed far-fetched…

751
00:45:03,117 --> 00:45:07,913
…in this moment, actually is coming
to light as completely real.

752
00:45:07,996 --> 00:45:11,041
It's a very important subject.

753
00:45:11,208 --> 00:45:14,628
The reopening on the entire fabric of…

754
00:45:15,921 --> 00:45:18,340
the last 25 years of our life.

755
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,928
Not long after, Seymour Hersh
at the New York Times reported

756
00:45:23,011 --> 00:45:27,224
that the CIA had been spying
on anti-war Americans for years.

757
00:45:29,184 --> 00:45:33,230
Liberal Senator Frank Church
took it upon himself to investigate.

758
00:45:33,313 --> 00:45:35,983
There has never been
a full public accounting

759
00:45:36,066 --> 00:45:38,193
of domestic intelligence operations.

760
00:45:38,944 --> 00:45:42,281
Therefore, this committee
has undertaken such an investigation.

761
00:45:43,031 --> 00:45:45,075
There was a sense of dread…

762
00:45:46,201 --> 00:45:48,203
that the government
had become too powerful,

763
00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:52,958
that there were dark forces out there
being unleashed by the government.

764
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:56,962
That just snowballed from there.

765
00:45:59,631 --> 00:46:02,342
Look at that. Holy shit.

766
00:46:02,426 --> 00:46:04,011
Over the next several months,

767
00:46:04,094 --> 00:46:07,389
the nation was riveted
as the Church committee revealed

768
00:46:07,473 --> 00:46:11,268
for the first time
secrets about foreign assassinations,

769
00:46:11,351 --> 00:46:13,187
the drugging of American citizens,

770
00:46:13,270 --> 00:46:15,522
and the wiretapping
of civil rights leaders.

771
00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:20,778
Now we're getting the truth
about some truly wicked stuff.

772
00:46:20,861 --> 00:46:23,822
Everything that we were against

773
00:46:24,364 --> 00:46:26,408
is actually stuff we're also doing.

774
00:46:27,159 --> 00:46:28,744
He'd kill us if he got the chance.

775
00:46:29,912 --> 00:46:33,499
Films like The Conversation
and Three Days of the Condor

776
00:46:33,582 --> 00:46:36,084
showed that the paranoia was real.

777
00:46:36,752 --> 00:46:40,255
Three Days of the Condor,
about the CIA killing people,

778
00:46:40,339 --> 00:46:43,175
came out right as the hearings
were going on.

779
00:46:45,803 --> 00:46:47,554
What are you doing?

780
00:46:50,349 --> 00:46:52,518
The parallels were eerie.

781
00:46:52,601 --> 00:46:55,938
You think not getting caught in a lie
is the same thing as telling the truth?

782
00:46:56,021 --> 00:46:57,314
No.

783
00:46:57,397 --> 00:47:00,901
I think of the Church committee
as kind of the end of the '60s.

784
00:47:04,655 --> 00:47:09,326
What institutions can you trust
to do the right thing?

785
00:47:11,995 --> 00:47:16,124
If this government ever became a tyranny,

786
00:47:16,667 --> 00:47:19,878
if a dictator ever took charge
in this country,

787
00:47:20,629 --> 00:47:22,339
the technological capacity

788
00:47:22,422 --> 00:47:25,509
that the intelligence community
has given the government

789
00:47:26,051 --> 00:47:30,806
could enable it to impose total tyranny,

790
00:47:31,473 --> 00:47:33,851
and there would be no way to fight back.

791
00:47:35,644 --> 00:47:37,604
Welcome to the testing room

792
00:47:37,688 --> 00:47:41,024
of the Parallax Corporation's
Division of Human Engineering.

793
00:47:46,780 --> 00:47:48,949
What happened to our country?

794
00:47:49,032 --> 00:47:52,870
A certain idealism and a certain hope
that we thought that we had,

795
00:47:52,953 --> 00:47:54,913
that was extinguished.

796
00:47:54,997 --> 00:47:58,667
Were we living the American dream
or an American nightmare?

797
00:47:58,750 --> 00:48:03,922
Baby, breakdown
Go ahead and give it to me

798
00:48:04,006 --> 00:48:07,175
Breakdown, honey
Take me through the night

799
00:48:07,259 --> 00:48:08,468
Baby, baby, breakdown!

800
00:48:08,552 --> 00:48:11,972
Breakdown, now I'm standin' here
Can't you see?

801
00:48:12,055 --> 00:48:14,766
-Ooh-whoo-hoo
-Breakdown, it's all right

802
00:48:14,850 --> 00:48:17,561
"Wow, everything is wrong,
I need to start over."

803
00:48:17,644 --> 00:48:19,062
It's all right

804
00:48:19,146 --> 00:48:23,025
-Ooh, ooh
-It's all right

805
00:48:23,108 --> 00:48:26,695
What we inherited from our parents
is not useful to us,

806
00:48:26,778 --> 00:48:29,573
and we don't really have anything
to replace it with.

807
00:48:30,407 --> 00:48:35,829
The era, as one author theorized,
was post-everything and pre-nothing.

808
00:48:36,872 --> 00:48:40,542
For many people, the only way out was in.

809
00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:50,302
I think
that the ultimate text of the 1970s

810
00:48:50,385 --> 00:48:52,596
is Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

811
00:48:55,432 --> 00:48:58,810
It's about a seagull
who breaks away from the pack,

812
00:48:58,894 --> 00:49:02,981
who can be an individual,
and then who can soar and fly,

813
00:49:03,065 --> 00:49:06,276
and it was a massive bestseller
made into a movie.

814
00:49:07,945 --> 00:49:10,822
Jonathan Livingston Seagull,

815
00:49:10,906 --> 00:49:13,909
you do not fly as we fly.

816
00:49:14,534 --> 00:49:20,040
You are henceforth and forever outcast!

817
00:49:20,874 --> 00:49:22,209
Outcast…

818
00:49:24,419 --> 00:49:26,421
It's the idea that self-actualization

819
00:49:26,505 --> 00:49:28,840
is about removing yourself
from the community.

820
00:49:29,967 --> 00:49:32,302
That the community
is a source of oppression,

821
00:49:32,386 --> 00:49:34,513
the community is a source of limitation,

822
00:49:34,596 --> 00:49:38,225
and you need to get out,
and to be an ultimate free gull.

823
00:49:38,308 --> 00:49:43,021
You can't help anyone else
before you help yourself.

824
00:49:43,897 --> 00:49:47,526
It's the first turn
towards the idea of a "Me" generation,

825
00:49:47,609 --> 00:49:49,444
rather than a "We" generation.

826
00:49:50,445 --> 00:49:54,199
That whole dream of the late '60s faded.

827
00:49:55,158 --> 00:49:57,327
We say that if the government
of the United States

828
00:49:57,411 --> 00:49:58,996
does not stop the war,

829
00:49:59,079 --> 00:50:02,124
we intend to stop the government
of the United States.

830
00:50:02,207 --> 00:50:04,126
I think that, you know--
I think that whole period

831
00:50:04,209 --> 00:50:08,338
was really a search outside ourselves,
you know, a search in the external world,

832
00:50:08,422 --> 00:50:10,173
and I think we came to see that…

833
00:50:10,257 --> 00:50:14,011
that actually our own human mind
is what is creating war.

834
00:50:15,387 --> 00:50:18,682
If there can't be peace of mind,
we can't have peace on Earth.

835
00:50:21,852 --> 00:50:25,480
Films like Tommy
and Brian De Palma's Carrie

836
00:50:25,564 --> 00:50:27,983
explored the hidden potential
locked inside.

837
00:50:28,066 --> 00:50:30,902
Creepy Carrie, Creepy Carrie!

838
00:50:32,446 --> 00:50:35,949
What happens when you're controlled

839
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:40,078
by a force that wants you
to give yourself over…

840
00:50:40,162 --> 00:50:41,496
and make this thing
that you're going through,

841
00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:43,206
that you can't understand, go away?

842
00:50:43,915 --> 00:50:45,625
And in 1975,

843
00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:48,253
there was a new path
to self-actualization.

844
00:50:48,962 --> 00:50:52,215
One that was not quite a religion
and not quite a cult.

845
00:50:52,966 --> 00:50:54,760
It was uniquely American.

846
00:50:55,927 --> 00:50:57,054
A business.

847
00:50:57,137 --> 00:50:59,181
And the self was for sale.

848
00:51:00,098 --> 00:51:02,851
Being centered
is being able to tell the difference

849
00:51:02,934 --> 00:51:05,645
between your ass
and a hole in the ground, that's all.

850
00:51:05,729 --> 00:51:07,147
You're an asshole

851
00:51:07,773 --> 00:51:09,441
because you can't tell the difference

852
00:51:09,524 --> 00:51:12,194
between your ass and a hole in the ground.

853
00:51:14,071 --> 00:51:15,739
This man is Werner Erhard,

854
00:51:15,822 --> 00:51:18,992
founder and guru
of a new movement called EST.

855
00:51:19,076 --> 00:51:22,662
People get bored.
"Hey, maybe I should work on myself."

856
00:51:22,746 --> 00:51:26,208
Who would even say that during old times?

857
00:51:26,291 --> 00:51:28,794
EST may not be doing psychotherapy,

858
00:51:28,877 --> 00:51:32,089
but it does appeal to people
who seek happiness,

859
00:51:32,172 --> 00:51:34,758
who have trouble making their lives work.

860
00:51:35,509 --> 00:51:37,385
The '60s asked a lot of questions,

861
00:51:37,469 --> 00:51:40,263
that the '70s went,
"Yeah, don't worry about that."

862
00:51:40,347 --> 00:51:43,225
"Don't worry about that."
Those questions were never answered.

863
00:51:43,308 --> 00:51:44,476
When I was a little girl,

864
00:51:44,559 --> 00:51:47,604
my parents put me
in an orphanage several times.

865
00:51:48,105 --> 00:51:49,981
-And--
-Isn't that beautiful?

866
00:51:50,649 --> 00:51:54,152
-It hurts.
-No, it doesn't hurt. You make it hurt.

867
00:51:54,820 --> 00:51:56,696
What's the payoff for being hurt?

868
00:51:59,116 --> 00:51:59,991
People to care.

869
00:52:01,118 --> 00:52:04,121
Now, let's find out
why you put yourself in an orphanage.

870
00:52:04,913 --> 00:52:06,498
You put yourself in an orphanage

871
00:52:06,581 --> 00:52:09,960
because orphan was the best racket
you could figure out.

872
00:52:10,460 --> 00:52:13,547
You could not figure out a better racket.

873
00:52:13,630 --> 00:52:18,135
Now, what was the payoff?
What do you get out of being an orphan?

874
00:52:21,805 --> 00:52:23,765
I get to be better
than anybody in the world.

875
00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:24,975
You bet your ass.

876
00:52:26,351 --> 00:52:29,354
"This thing happened to you
'cause you secretly wanted it to happen."

877
00:52:29,437 --> 00:52:31,398
That is so fucking creepy,

878
00:52:31,481 --> 00:52:34,860
but it's also weirdly comforting,
'cause it means there was a reason.

879
00:52:34,943 --> 00:52:38,655
And it also means,
"Well, I can think it another way."

880
00:52:38,738 --> 00:52:43,034
Wars and exterminated peoples,
too much for you to confront.

881
00:52:44,369 --> 00:52:47,164
Confront your own goddamn soap opera.

882
00:52:47,831 --> 00:52:51,960
Life doesn't have any satisfaction
and you've tried everything

883
00:52:52,043 --> 00:52:53,295
and nothing works,

884
00:52:53,378 --> 00:52:57,299
and you're just desperate
to make it work and you're shit.

885
00:52:58,133 --> 00:53:04,222
Your feelings aren't related
to the rest of reality necessarily.

886
00:53:05,182 --> 00:53:08,101
That's the way it's gotta be
for you to survive.

887
00:53:08,643 --> 00:53:13,940
Stop! Stop it! Stop it!

888
00:53:22,032 --> 00:53:24,784
It was the perfect message for the time,

889
00:53:24,868 --> 00:53:28,330
that people had total control
over their destiny.

890
00:53:28,413 --> 00:53:31,499
That reality was based on feelings
rather than facts.

891
00:53:33,543 --> 00:53:36,296
But if we are in total control
of our fates,

892
00:53:36,379 --> 00:53:39,299
then others must be
in total control of theirs.

893
00:53:39,382 --> 00:53:42,677
Crazy on you

894
00:53:43,136 --> 00:53:45,931
Crazy on you

895
00:53:46,014 --> 00:53:48,391
Which led some EST followers to say

896
00:53:48,475 --> 00:53:51,978
that the North Vietnamese
must have wanted to be bombed.

897
00:53:52,062 --> 00:53:54,481
That rapes, starving children,

898
00:53:54,564 --> 00:53:58,360
even the Holocaust, were all willed
to happen by the victims.

899
00:53:58,860 --> 00:54:04,574
All of the self-actualization,
it was all just a hustle.

900
00:54:04,658 --> 00:54:08,745
I'm going to get realized, man,
and it's because of you.

901
00:54:08,828 --> 00:54:11,873
You had whole fractions
of America feeling,

902
00:54:11,957 --> 00:54:14,584
"Truth is whatever I want it to be."
Anything can be true.

903
00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:19,714
Anything we want to be true can be true,
even if it manifestly is not.

904
00:54:21,132 --> 00:54:23,843
To some, the era felt like a disco ball

905
00:54:24,844 --> 00:54:27,555
where hundreds
of little me's swirled around.

906
00:54:28,765 --> 00:54:31,977
Tom Wolfe called it "The Me generation."

907
00:54:33,311 --> 00:54:36,106
Crazy…

908
00:54:36,189 --> 00:54:40,110
And what came out of it was terrible.

909
00:54:41,653 --> 00:54:44,864
The loss of communication
with human beings.

910
00:54:46,116 --> 00:54:51,788
But a new tool was about to emerge
that would push people further in.

911
00:54:51,871 --> 00:54:54,958
He's the central brain, the world's brain.

912
00:54:57,377 --> 00:55:01,423
I'd like, uh, some information
about corporate decisions, uh…

913
00:55:01,965 --> 00:55:04,050
how they're made and who makes them.

914
00:55:04,134 --> 00:55:06,303
Answer him.

915
00:55:06,386 --> 00:55:08,305
-Negative.
-Answer.

916
00:55:08,388 --> 00:55:10,098
Negative, negative…

917
00:55:10,181 --> 00:55:11,975
…negative, negative, negative,

918
00:55:12,058 --> 00:55:14,060
-negative, negative, negative…
-You have to, Zero!

919
00:55:16,062 --> 00:55:19,774
The information revolution
expanded the strength of man's brain,

920
00:55:19,858 --> 00:55:24,487
changing forever the way Americans work,
play, and even think.

921
00:55:25,613 --> 00:55:28,450
At the time, computers were mostly used

922
00:55:28,533 --> 00:55:30,785
by governments and large corporations.

923
00:55:30,869 --> 00:55:34,497
But to some young people,
the future looked bright.

924
00:55:34,581 --> 00:55:37,000
There's a lot of people
who are forecasting

925
00:55:37,083 --> 00:55:40,128
that there'll be software stores,
just like there are record stores today,

926
00:55:40,211 --> 00:55:42,505
and that there'll be thousands
and thousands of those.

927
00:55:42,589 --> 00:55:44,215
And I think I'd have to agree with that.

928
00:55:45,467 --> 00:55:49,095
I was a student at Harvard University.

929
00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:52,015
In '75, we played, uh, Breakout.

930
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:53,892
You knock these bricks down

931
00:55:53,975 --> 00:55:56,978
and eventually, you try to get the ball
behind the bricks, anyway.

932
00:55:57,062 --> 00:55:59,606
In early 1975,

933
00:56:00,148 --> 00:56:02,359
Bill Gates decided to drop out of Harvard

934
00:56:02,442 --> 00:56:05,445
to develop software
for a brand new product,

935
00:56:05,528 --> 00:56:07,072
the personal computer.

936
00:56:08,073 --> 00:56:11,034
His new company would change the world.

937
00:56:11,743 --> 00:56:13,703
The Microsoft slogan was,

938
00:56:13,787 --> 00:56:16,623
"A computer on every desk
and in every home."

939
00:56:17,248 --> 00:56:19,667
And we actually suppressed the second part

940
00:56:19,751 --> 00:56:23,171
depending on where we were
because it just seemed so weird.

941
00:56:23,254 --> 00:56:26,424
They weren't viewed
as something for the individual.

942
00:56:26,508 --> 00:56:30,303
It's so complicated, it's so confusing,

943
00:56:31,471 --> 00:56:34,182
I mean, where do you start?

944
00:56:35,266 --> 00:56:37,685
Mostly, it's a very positive thing

945
00:56:37,769 --> 00:56:41,481
that there was this new tool,
information at your fingertips.

946
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,777
With the complete computer
in front of him,

947
00:56:45,860 --> 00:56:48,947
Horace Enya trains it to recognize sounds.

948
00:56:50,115 --> 00:56:51,408
Jingle and snap.

949
00:56:52,784 --> 00:56:54,327
Given another program,

950
00:56:54,411 --> 00:56:57,247
the 20th-century machine
recreates a little music.

951
00:57:02,293 --> 00:57:04,170
Are we not men?

952
00:57:04,921 --> 00:57:06,423
We are Devo!

953
00:57:06,506 --> 00:57:08,466
Are we not men?

954
00:57:08,550 --> 00:57:10,385
D-E-V-O…

955
00:57:11,469 --> 00:57:15,223
In film, technology was
rarely seen as a tool of progress,

956
00:57:15,306 --> 00:57:17,308
but rather as a source of oppression.

957
00:57:18,393 --> 00:57:19,853
Programming ready.

958
00:57:19,936 --> 00:57:22,063
The moment of truth.

959
00:57:29,154 --> 00:57:33,533
Some people feel threatened by them,
some think they tend to dehumanize,

960
00:57:33,616 --> 00:57:38,204
and others fear they may eventually
take over their jobs.

961
00:57:38,288 --> 00:57:41,833
In 1975, there was a lot of self-doubt,

962
00:57:41,916 --> 00:57:44,252
but that was kind of good self-doubt.

963
00:57:44,335 --> 00:57:45,712
It solves a lot of problems,

964
00:57:45,795 --> 00:57:48,381
but doesn't bring
a lot of problems along with it.

965
00:57:49,257 --> 00:57:51,593
People were uneasy about the future.

966
00:57:51,676 --> 00:57:53,678
We were more connected than ever,

967
00:57:53,761 --> 00:57:56,973
but at the same time,
drifting further apart.

968
00:58:04,105 --> 00:58:06,483
It's a feeling that was perfectly captured

969
00:58:06,566 --> 00:58:08,318
in Robert Altman's Nashville.

970
00:58:12,989 --> 00:58:14,782
The film doesn't have a plot.

971
00:58:14,866 --> 00:58:17,660
It's a collection of moments
in middle America.

972
00:58:19,329 --> 00:58:23,166
My primary job,
I try to reflect what I see.

973
00:58:24,250 --> 00:58:25,460
It's like a painting, I…

974
00:58:25,543 --> 00:58:28,880
It's my vision of what it is
that I'm dealing with and that's all.

975
00:58:28,963 --> 00:58:31,883
I have nothing to say. I have no comments.

976
00:58:31,966 --> 00:58:35,094
And it's a slow movie.
Would that movie ever be made today?

977
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:37,096
Probably not.

978
00:58:37,972 --> 00:58:41,809
'Cause you're supposed to have
the protagonist and the antagonist

979
00:58:42,477 --> 00:58:43,520
go head-to-head.

980
00:58:44,187 --> 00:58:47,190
That's the bow that everybody says,
"We don't want that bow."

981
00:58:47,273 --> 00:58:50,401
And then you give them no bow
and they go, "Where's the bow?"

982
00:58:50,944 --> 00:58:53,279
But you're invested, you're in it.

983
00:58:54,739 --> 00:58:58,201
Nashville is a story
of 24 characters,

984
00:58:58,993 --> 00:59:01,913
but you, the audience,
were the 25th character.

985
00:59:02,622 --> 00:59:06,709
You bring your own preconceived ideas.

986
00:59:06,793 --> 00:59:08,461
Fellow taxpayers

987
00:59:08,545 --> 00:59:10,922
and stockholders in America,

988
00:59:11,005 --> 00:59:13,383
let me go directly to the point.

989
00:59:13,466 --> 00:59:16,010
I'm for doing some replacement.

990
00:59:16,094 --> 00:59:21,224
The Replacement Party,
the truck throughout the whole thing,

991
00:59:21,766 --> 00:59:24,561
doesn't say anything
about what it actually is going to do

992
00:59:24,644 --> 00:59:28,147
or what it promises or anything.
It's just gonna replace things.

993
00:59:28,231 --> 00:59:30,358
We have some problems

994
00:59:30,441 --> 00:59:32,986
that money alone won't solve.

995
00:59:33,069 --> 00:59:37,532
When the movie opened,
I received a cold call at home,

996
00:59:37,615 --> 00:59:39,826
and this man said, "I want to sign up."

997
00:59:39,909 --> 00:59:44,122
"I wanna vote for this man,
he's wonderful."

998
00:59:44,205 --> 00:59:50,628
I said, "Well, sorry,
but it's not quite real yet."

999
00:59:50,712 --> 00:59:53,923
Nashville's sort of
an amazing vivisection

1000
00:59:54,007 --> 00:59:57,302
of American authenticity.

1001
00:59:57,385 --> 01:00:00,638
It's more than a lack of coherence.
It's a lack of substance.

1002
01:00:00,722 --> 01:00:02,682
Nashville was a critical darling,

1003
01:00:02,765 --> 01:00:04,350
but not everyone was impressed.

1004
01:00:05,018 --> 01:00:07,270
As one moviegoer in Kansas put it,

1005
01:00:07,353 --> 01:00:09,188
"Someone told me
that I didn't like Nashville

1006
01:00:09,272 --> 01:00:10,940
because I didn't understand it."

1007
01:00:11,524 --> 01:00:12,609
"That may well be,

1008
01:00:12,692 --> 01:00:16,487
but there seem to be some filmmakers
and critics who don't understand America."

1009
01:00:17,113 --> 01:00:18,323
Action!

1010
01:00:18,406 --> 01:00:21,784
The thing with these country people
is they have a real grassroots appeal.

1011
01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:22,869
Well, hell, they got fans.

1012
01:00:22,952 --> 01:00:25,330
And they're the people
that elect the president.

1013
01:00:26,039 --> 01:00:29,167
Nashville was a box office disappointment.

1014
01:00:29,250 --> 01:00:33,880
The divide between middle America
and the coasts was growing.

1015
01:00:35,506 --> 01:00:38,926
You get your hair cut.
You don't belong in Nashville.

1016
01:00:39,010 --> 01:00:41,387
I stopped in a gents’ room the other day,

1017
01:00:41,471 --> 01:00:43,556
so help me,
there was a guy in there with a ponytail.

1018
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,059
My heart nearly turned over in me.

1019
01:00:46,142 --> 01:00:49,354
I thought I was in the wrong toilet.

1020
01:00:49,437 --> 01:00:51,939
In 1975,

1021
01:00:52,023 --> 01:00:55,568
the spirit of New Hollywood
found its way to television,

1022
01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:59,739
and the most popular sitcom in America
gave the growing divide a voice.

1023
01:01:00,281 --> 01:01:01,783
Between the recession and inflation,

1024
01:01:01,866 --> 01:01:04,577
this administration
is taking you to the cleaners!

1025
01:01:04,661 --> 01:01:06,079
-Ah, get away!
-You can't walk away…

1026
01:01:06,162 --> 01:01:09,415
All in the Family changed television.

1027
01:01:09,499 --> 01:01:12,585
Beamed straight into your living room
were questions of civil rights,

1028
01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:15,880
family dynamics
when the family's divided over politics,

1029
01:01:15,963 --> 01:01:18,091
in a way the cowboy shows
and the procedurals

1030
01:01:18,174 --> 01:01:20,385
and the medical shows
and all that did not do.

1031
01:01:21,052 --> 01:01:23,596
Everybody watched All in the Family.

1032
01:01:26,140 --> 01:01:28,643
But not everybody saw the same thing.

1033
01:01:28,726 --> 01:01:32,146
Some people sided
with Mike and Gloria.

1034
01:01:32,230 --> 01:01:34,065
Archie, if you don't care
about school bonds,

1035
01:01:34,148 --> 01:01:36,150
then you don't care
about the future of your country.

1036
01:01:36,234 --> 01:01:37,985
And you call yourself an American?

1037
01:01:38,069 --> 01:01:39,195
Yes.

1038
01:01:39,779 --> 01:01:42,407
A lot of people sided with Archie,

1039
01:01:42,490 --> 01:01:44,617
the reactionary, bigoted,

1040
01:01:44,701 --> 01:01:47,829
somewhat lovable,
a little bit of the loser of history.

1041
01:01:48,579 --> 01:01:51,916
Archie Bunker represented their worldview.

1042
01:01:51,999 --> 01:01:53,918
They saw him as a mouthpiece.

1043
01:01:54,001 --> 01:01:56,254
Now I suppose you're gonna tell me
that the Black man

1044
01:01:56,337 --> 01:01:57,922
has had the same opportunity
in this country as you?

1045
01:01:58,005 --> 01:01:59,215
More. He's had more.

1046
01:01:59,298 --> 01:02:02,927
I didn't have no million people out there
marching and protesting to get me my job.

1047
01:02:03,010 --> 01:02:07,265
No, his uncle got it for him.

1048
01:02:08,099 --> 01:02:11,811
Archie, at that moment,
looks like the past.

1049
01:02:12,729 --> 01:02:17,233
But now he's looking
a lot more like the future.

1050
01:02:17,316 --> 01:02:20,278
Oh, yeah, ho!

1051
01:02:25,992 --> 01:02:30,747
Films like Harlan County, USA,
about coal miners' attempt to unionize,

1052
01:02:30,830 --> 01:02:34,417
showed that the White working class
was being left behind.

1053
01:02:34,917 --> 01:02:37,962
What about your high cost of living?
What about your sick leave?

1054
01:02:38,045 --> 01:02:39,839
Five goddamn days.

1055
01:02:39,922 --> 01:02:43,384
-Have you been off sick?
-I can't afford to get sick.

1056
01:02:44,093 --> 01:02:45,887
From the '30s to the '70s,

1057
01:02:45,970 --> 01:02:48,890
not only did the economy work,
but it was shared.

1058
01:02:49,515 --> 01:02:52,935
1972 was the most equal year
in American history.

1059
01:02:53,811 --> 01:02:55,104
Small town jobs,

1060
01:02:55,188 --> 01:02:57,607
a sheet metal factory
or a Budweiser plant,

1061
01:02:57,690 --> 01:03:00,693
those were the best jobs,
and the whole thing had dried up.

1062
01:03:01,402 --> 01:03:02,612
The economy was shit.

1063
01:03:02,695 --> 01:03:06,449
It became all about
making money off finance,

1064
01:03:06,532 --> 01:03:08,659
not making money with productivity.

1065
01:03:09,535 --> 01:03:12,205
The economy kept the apple,
it threw us to the core!

1066
01:03:12,288 --> 01:03:14,999
That's what they did!

1067
01:03:15,082 --> 01:03:17,376
There was no "Me" generation

1068
01:03:17,460 --> 01:03:20,922
for a guy working
on a factory floor building a Ford.

1069
01:03:21,005 --> 01:03:25,760
America can work nicely
if you leave that dream alive.

1070
01:03:25,843 --> 01:03:29,889
If there actually is a way
to get from there to there.

1071
01:03:29,972 --> 01:03:33,935
When that stops, I think you have trouble.

1072
01:03:34,018 --> 01:03:37,146
You know something?
If you Liberals go on getting your way,

1073
01:03:37,230 --> 01:03:40,441
we're all gonna hear one big loud flush.

1074
01:03:40,525 --> 01:03:43,736
That's the sound
of the USA going down the toilet.

1075
01:03:47,406 --> 01:03:51,118
As class as a category
is beginning to kind of fall apart,

1076
01:03:51,202 --> 01:03:55,498
culture becomes the expression
of White working-class interests.

1077
01:03:55,581 --> 01:03:58,918
National political organizations
like The Heritage Foundation,

1078
01:03:59,001 --> 01:04:04,048
this new think tank,
send emissaries to organize these people

1079
01:04:04,131 --> 01:04:06,676
and tell them
that there's an answer to their woes.

1080
01:04:07,385 --> 01:04:10,680
And the answer to their woes
is called "conservative republicanism."

1081
01:04:16,352 --> 01:04:18,563
Borrowing strategies from the Left,

1082
01:04:18,646 --> 01:04:20,648
they organized protests and marches.

1083
01:04:21,232 --> 01:04:25,695
In 1974, the March for Life
attracted 20,000 people.

1084
01:04:26,696 --> 01:04:29,824
In 1975, it was 50,000.

1085
01:04:30,366 --> 01:04:32,660
One of their targets,

1086
01:04:32,743 --> 01:04:35,288
pro-busing senator,
Edward Kennedy, tried to speak.

1087
01:04:35,371 --> 01:04:38,916
-Are you gonna-- Listen, part of our--
-The people don't care to hear you!

1088
01:04:43,254 --> 01:04:45,506
As Senator Kennedy
retreated towards his office,

1089
01:04:45,590 --> 01:04:46,757
the crowd began to…

1090
01:04:57,184 --> 01:04:59,270
We have always given to our country.

1091
01:04:59,353 --> 01:05:03,858
Everything that's ever been asked of us,
we've given because we love America.

1092
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,777
And I can't think of a more asinine way

1093
01:05:06,861 --> 01:05:10,072
to celebrate
the 200th anniversary of America

1094
01:05:10,156 --> 01:05:11,908
than to just hand our children

1095
01:05:11,991 --> 01:05:14,577
over to those social planners
without a fight.

1096
01:05:15,620 --> 01:05:19,290
But some Republican conservatives
are dubious of President Ford

1097
01:05:19,373 --> 01:05:22,710
and fear he may be
some kind of closet liberal.

1098
01:05:22,793 --> 01:05:27,632
So, they would like, in '76,
a convention open to all candidates

1099
01:05:27,715 --> 01:05:30,801
of whom Mr. Ford
would be only one of many.

1100
01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:36,098
My first guest tonight
is a rather phenomenon

1101
01:05:36,182 --> 01:05:37,516
on the political scene.

1102
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:41,187
There are those who would say that 1975
may only be the beginning.

1103
01:05:41,270 --> 01:05:44,273
Would you welcome, please,
the former governor of California…

1104
01:05:45,441 --> 01:05:47,777
Ronald Reagan.

1105
01:05:50,446 --> 01:05:51,614
Nice to see you.

1106
01:05:51,697 --> 01:05:54,241
Nice to be here, John.
And nice of you to have me here

1107
01:05:54,325 --> 01:05:57,078
after… well, a little more
than two months unemployment.

1108
01:05:57,161 --> 01:05:58,996
That's right, uh…

1109
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:03,668
I felt he did not know
where he stood on important issues.

1110
01:06:03,751 --> 01:06:06,170
He was an actor looking for a gig.

1111
01:06:10,675 --> 01:06:14,220
In 1975, Ronald Reagan had a realization.

1112
01:06:15,096 --> 01:06:18,099
The Republican Party
had been unpopular for years.

1113
01:06:18,599 --> 01:06:23,646
So, why not treat politics like a movie
and sell the American dream?

1114
01:06:23,729 --> 01:06:26,273
First of all,
the American people, if they would just

1115
01:06:26,357 --> 01:06:28,484
take a little inventory and look around,

1116
01:06:28,567 --> 01:06:30,403
you triple our troubles

1117
01:06:30,486 --> 01:06:33,239
and we're better off
than any other people on Earth.

1118
01:06:33,322 --> 01:06:36,409
In a lot of ways,
what Ronald Reagan was about

1119
01:06:36,993 --> 01:06:39,286
was feeding this public wish

1120
01:06:39,370 --> 01:06:42,999
to believe that what was happening
was not, in fact, happening.

1121
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:50,381
Part of it is because
we're being bludgeoned every day.

1122
01:06:50,464 --> 01:06:53,759
We keep hearing the bad things,
we hear the accusations,

1123
01:06:53,843 --> 01:06:57,263
and we're kind of used to accepting
the accusations as proof of guilt.

1124
01:06:57,346 --> 01:07:00,933
This is the reason why
he's so attractive to so many Americans…

1125
01:07:03,394 --> 01:07:07,023
who just wanna believe
that everything's gonna be all right.

1126
01:07:07,648 --> 01:07:10,568
That somehow,
through the sheer force of will,

1127
01:07:10,651 --> 01:07:13,946
America's innocence could be recovered.

1128
01:07:17,575 --> 01:07:19,076
Why should we become frightened?

1129
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:22,580
No people who have ever lived
on this Earth have fought harder,

1130
01:07:22,663 --> 01:07:24,040
paid a higher price for freedom,

1131
01:07:24,123 --> 01:07:26,125
or done more
to advance the dignity of man.

1132
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:31,172
We're Americans,
and we have a rendezvous with destiny.

1133
01:07:35,426 --> 01:07:38,304
As Nikita Khrushchev
once said to Richard Nixon,

1134
01:07:39,388 --> 01:07:42,141
"If the people think
there's an invisible river,

1135
01:07:42,808 --> 01:07:44,477
don't tell them it's not there."

1136
01:07:45,144 --> 01:07:46,812
"Build an invisible bridge."

1137
01:07:56,572 --> 01:07:57,907
Hi, Kimosabe.

1138
01:08:06,791 --> 01:08:07,833
Love

1139
01:08:08,709 --> 01:08:11,295
Love will keep us together…

1140
01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:14,048
All in the Family eventually lost its spot

1141
01:08:14,131 --> 01:08:16,300
as the number one show on television.

1142
01:08:16,926 --> 01:08:21,764
In its place was a sitcom
that saw America with a warmer glow.

1143
01:08:22,348 --> 01:08:24,809
Like, if you look at something
like Happy Days,

1144
01:08:24,892 --> 01:08:26,560
it doesn't look like the movies.

1145
01:08:26,644 --> 01:08:33,067
It just empties out all the politics
and just wants to think about nostalgia.

1146
01:08:34,318 --> 01:08:38,030
Nostalgia has always been a part
of the American character all along.

1147
01:08:38,114 --> 01:08:40,616
And this is nostalgia
for something that happened

1148
01:08:40,699 --> 01:08:42,368
like the day before yesterday.

1149
01:08:43,327 --> 01:08:47,873
"Wasn't it great
when teens were just teens back in '62?"

1150
01:08:49,291 --> 01:08:51,418
Period movies, music,

1151
01:08:51,502 --> 01:08:53,045
even throwback restaurants

1152
01:08:53,129 --> 01:08:54,588
were all fueling the desire

1153
01:08:54,672 --> 01:08:56,423
to relive the happy days.

1154
01:08:56,507 --> 01:09:01,011
Look in my heart
And let love keep us together

1155
01:09:01,095 --> 01:09:04,598
It even seemed like a good idea
to make a Cole Porter musical

1156
01:09:04,682 --> 01:09:06,142
starring Burt Reynolds.

1157
01:09:06,225 --> 01:09:08,561
-You're the top
-How can you sing? I'm dizzy.

1158
01:09:08,644 --> 01:09:11,105
You're a dancing ballet

1159
01:09:11,188 --> 01:09:12,523
You're the top

1160
01:09:13,774 --> 01:09:15,317
You're a hot tamale

1161
01:09:16,110 --> 01:09:18,821
You know, it might be the fast food
of American emotions,

1162
01:09:18,904 --> 01:09:22,116
but it's also… you can kind of see it.

1163
01:09:29,456 --> 01:09:31,542
"What was it like before Vietnam,

1164
01:09:31,625 --> 01:09:33,836
before Watergate,
before all the darkness?"

1165
01:09:37,339 --> 01:09:40,801
"Oh, there was another time
when things were expansive and hopeful."

1166
01:09:45,389 --> 01:09:46,515
Am I dead?

1167
01:09:47,725 --> 01:09:51,353
We want the lie, 'cause it feels good.

1168
01:09:51,437 --> 01:09:53,063
And there he goes!

1169
01:09:53,147 --> 01:09:56,984
We want the heroes.
We want the happy ending.

1170
01:09:57,526 --> 01:09:59,153
-He made it!
-Oh, man!

1171
01:09:59,236 --> 01:10:01,363
-Come on, that was a great jump.
-That was terrific.

1172
01:10:01,447 --> 01:10:05,534
Happy Days really wanted you
to kind of turn your brain off.

1173
01:10:05,618 --> 01:10:08,662
And I totally get it.

1174
01:10:08,746 --> 01:10:12,875
It's very difficult to keep the line
between the past and the present.

1175
01:10:13,417 --> 01:10:14,668
You know what I mean?

1176
01:10:16,086 --> 01:10:19,048
One of the dangers
of nostalgia is that it's selective.

1177
01:10:19,173 --> 01:10:20,674
It's a kind of distortion

1178
01:10:20,758 --> 01:10:24,053
of what the solutions
for today's problems are…

1179
01:10:24,678 --> 01:10:27,097
that seem true,
because "Look, we had it good."

1180
01:10:29,016 --> 01:10:32,853
One author described this feeling
as radical nostalgia,

1181
01:10:33,938 --> 01:10:37,274
the idea that the present
can't compete with a memory,

1182
01:10:38,192 --> 01:10:40,653
and that people would prefer to forget.

1183
01:10:42,988 --> 01:10:47,326
But for much of the country,
life didn't look like Happy Days.

1184
01:10:49,912 --> 01:10:51,956
-Donald! Donald!
-That's okay, Roy!

1185
01:10:52,039 --> 01:10:53,958
That's okay, you run!

1186
01:10:56,585 --> 01:10:59,296
Alice, if you'd show
a little respect around here,

1187
01:10:59,380 --> 01:11:01,674
it just may rub off on him.

1188
01:11:04,885 --> 01:11:06,011
For many women,

1189
01:11:06,095 --> 01:11:09,056
the real world was a place
where they abandoned their dreams

1190
01:11:09,139 --> 01:11:11,350
and felt trapped by their reality.

1191
01:11:13,477 --> 01:11:16,063
I met Marty, and I said to him,

1192
01:11:16,146 --> 01:11:19,942
"I want this movie told
from a woman's point of view."

1193
01:11:20,025 --> 01:11:21,777
"What do you know about women?"

1194
01:11:21,860 --> 01:11:24,029
And he said,
"Nothing, but I want to learn."

1195
01:11:25,155 --> 01:11:26,532
And that was kind of great.

1196
01:11:26,615 --> 01:11:29,451
That was fun
because all the barriers broke down.

1197
01:11:30,119 --> 01:11:31,745
Alice deals with problems

1198
01:11:31,829 --> 01:11:34,957
that are different from the way
a man has to deal with it.

1199
01:11:35,666 --> 01:11:37,251
You had to be married.

1200
01:11:38,043 --> 01:11:41,797
A single woman was like an old maid.

1201
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,425
Every girl that I knew,

1202
01:11:44,508 --> 01:11:48,137
their goal was to get married
and have kids, and that was it.

1203
01:11:48,762 --> 01:11:50,014
Party's over.

1204
01:11:52,433 --> 01:11:53,892
When her husband dies,

1205
01:11:53,976 --> 01:11:57,604
Alice sets out to pursue her dream
of becoming a lounge singer.

1206
01:11:57,688 --> 01:12:00,357
But when she can only get work
as a waitress,

1207
01:12:00,441 --> 01:12:03,110
she begins to question her place
in the world.

1208
01:12:03,193 --> 01:12:07,948
We made that film
when women were coming to the realization

1209
01:12:08,032 --> 01:12:11,201
that they're a whole entity
all by themselves,

1210
01:12:11,285 --> 01:12:13,704
not just in relation to a man.

1211
01:12:13,787 --> 01:12:17,082
Yeah, I know, but it's my life.
You know, it's my life.

1212
01:12:17,166 --> 01:12:20,002
It's not some man's life
that I'm gonna help him out with.

1213
01:12:20,085 --> 01:12:21,086
No, ma'am.

1214
01:12:21,587 --> 01:12:23,797
It was an awakening.

1215
01:12:24,715 --> 01:12:27,134
This was the era of women's liberation,

1216
01:12:27,926 --> 01:12:30,721
when women fought
to redefine their place in society.

1217
01:12:31,764 --> 01:12:35,142
Whether or not society would listen
was another matter.

1218
01:12:35,225 --> 01:12:38,562
I had a business manager
that said, "If you were a man,

1219
01:12:39,146 --> 01:12:43,275
you would've been able
to make your first film after Nashville."

1220
01:12:44,526 --> 01:12:47,488
I think people were scared.

1221
01:12:47,571 --> 01:12:51,241
Films from that era
rarely focused on women,

1222
01:12:51,325 --> 01:12:54,495
and even rarer were portraits of women
in positions of power.

1223
01:12:54,995 --> 01:12:58,832
Mahogany. I mean, the great Diana Ross.

1224
01:12:58,916 --> 01:13:01,335
I don't care
what the Academy said. That is…

1225
01:13:01,418 --> 01:13:06,340
that is, like, one of the top three things
anybody did in 1975.

1226
01:13:06,423 --> 01:13:08,467
"I need you."

1227
01:13:08,550 --> 01:13:10,552
Sure, you need me.
You want to know why?

1228
01:13:10,636 --> 01:13:14,014
'Cause I'm a winner! I'm a winner, baby!

1229
01:13:14,765 --> 01:13:19,645
Like, you're not alive
unless you're in power.

1230
01:13:19,728 --> 01:13:22,147
Like, Faye Dunaway in Network

1231
01:13:22,231 --> 01:13:24,691
played one of
the baddest women in the '70s.

1232
01:13:25,234 --> 01:13:28,070
Howard Beale went up there last night
and said what every American feels,

1233
01:13:28,153 --> 01:13:31,990
that he's tired of all the bullshit!
He's articulating the popular rage.

1234
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:34,910
I want that show, Frank.

1235
01:13:34,993 --> 01:13:37,871
I can turn that show
into the biggest smash on television.

1236
01:13:37,955 --> 01:13:40,165
This is a real departure.

1237
01:13:40,249 --> 01:13:43,627
She has wit, enormous creativity, talent,

1238
01:13:43,710 --> 01:13:48,382
and she marshals them all toward this job
that she's doing, and she loves it.

1239
01:13:48,465 --> 01:13:51,552
I've got to warn you,
I… I don't do anything on my first date.

1240
01:13:51,635 --> 01:13:52,970
We'll see.

1241
01:13:53,053 --> 01:13:56,390
I've heard it said, though,
that the woman you've created in Network

1242
01:13:56,473 --> 01:13:58,976
might set the woman's movement
back 50 years.

1243
01:13:59,059 --> 01:14:00,144
Do you have
any fear of that?

1244
01:14:00,227 --> 01:14:04,481
What we've been trying to get away from
is stereotypical women's roles

1245
01:14:05,149 --> 01:14:09,486
that reflect an inaccurate view
of what a woman really is.

1246
01:14:09,570 --> 01:14:10,946
You cannot then say,

1247
01:14:11,029 --> 01:14:13,157
"Well, yes, but she always has to be
nice at the end."

1248
01:14:15,534 --> 01:14:18,996
However, not all women
were eager for change.

1249
01:14:22,207 --> 01:14:23,584
Fire at will.

1250
01:14:40,601 --> 01:14:42,311
The Equal Rights for Women movement

1251
01:14:42,394 --> 01:14:44,855
has been running into increasing trouble
around the country.

1252
01:14:44,938 --> 01:14:47,232
The latest example
was a defeat at the polls this week

1253
01:14:47,316 --> 01:14:48,859
in New York and New Jersey.

1254
01:14:53,405 --> 01:14:56,200
The ERA was a constitutional amendment

1255
01:14:56,283 --> 01:14:59,328
that guaranteed gender equality
for all Americans.

1256
01:14:59,995 --> 01:15:02,998
Women wanted to be something more
than housewives.

1257
01:15:03,540 --> 01:15:07,878
You see, doctor, my problem is
that given complete freedom of choice,

1258
01:15:07,961 --> 01:15:10,214
I don't wanna squeeze the goddamn Charmin.

1259
01:15:11,131 --> 01:15:14,718
Stepford Wives,
it's a kind of, like, feminist tale

1260
01:15:14,801 --> 01:15:17,596
layered over the kind of paranoid plot.

1261
01:15:18,430 --> 01:15:21,767
The loyal, pretty, competent housewife,

1262
01:15:21,850 --> 01:15:25,646
the idea that
they were actually soulless robots

1263
01:15:25,729 --> 01:15:27,856
really was tearing up the old script.

1264
01:15:28,524 --> 01:15:30,234
And something striking happens.

1265
01:15:30,984 --> 01:15:35,697
You begin to see the activism
of basically ordinary housewives

1266
01:15:35,781 --> 01:15:37,950
fighting for traditional moral values.

1267
01:15:38,534 --> 01:15:40,744
And their target was the ERA.

1268
01:15:40,827 --> 01:15:44,122
They warned of a future
where women would be sent to combat,

1269
01:15:44,998 --> 01:15:47,751
there would be gender-neutral bathrooms,

1270
01:15:47,834 --> 01:15:51,713
and that the ERA could pave the way
for legalized gay marriage.

1271
01:15:52,506 --> 01:15:56,426
Until you can make it equal for men
to have the babies just like women,

1272
01:15:56,510 --> 01:16:01,056
then it is a double burden to the women
to say that the rules for family support

1273
01:16:01,139 --> 01:16:03,392
should be equal on the husband
and the wife.

1274
01:16:04,518 --> 01:16:07,938
Dave works hard all day long,
and what does he come home to?

1275
01:16:08,021 --> 01:16:09,022
A slob.

1276
01:16:09,106 --> 01:16:11,525
Bobby, it's gotten to you now.

1277
01:16:11,608 --> 01:16:13,110
Nothing's gotten me.

1278
01:16:13,193 --> 01:16:17,698
I just want to look like a woman
and keep my house looking decent too.

1279
01:16:18,574 --> 01:16:21,201
The conversation
reached a flashpoint in the summer,

1280
01:16:21,285 --> 01:16:23,745
triggered by the unlikeliest of figures.

1281
01:16:24,496 --> 01:16:28,667
I told my husband,
"If we have to go to the White House,

1282
01:16:29,251 --> 01:16:30,752
okay, I will go…

1283
01:16:31,378 --> 01:16:35,340
but I'm going as myself."

1284
01:16:35,424 --> 01:16:38,427
"If they don't like it,
they'll just have to throw me out."

1285
01:16:38,510 --> 01:16:40,971
Betty Ford,

1286
01:16:41,054 --> 01:16:44,308
a former dancer for Martha Graham,
turned reluctant First Lady,

1287
01:16:44,391 --> 01:16:48,395
went on 60 Minutes for a routine interview
in support of the ERA.

1288
01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:52,190
But her liberal stances
on abortion, marijuana,

1289
01:16:52,274 --> 01:16:54,776
and infidelity stunned the nation.

1290
01:16:56,278 --> 01:17:00,115
You've also talked about young people
living together before they're married.

1291
01:17:00,198 --> 01:17:02,618
-Well, they are, aren't they?
-Indeed, they are.

1292
01:17:02,701 --> 01:17:05,078
Well, what if Susan Ford
came to you and said…

1293
01:17:06,246 --> 01:17:08,957
-"Mother, I'm having an affair."
-I, certainly…

1294
01:17:10,167 --> 01:17:11,877
Well, I wouldn't be surprised.

1295
01:17:12,794 --> 01:17:16,298
I'd want to know pretty much
about the young man

1296
01:17:16,381 --> 01:17:19,009
that she was planning
to have the affair with.

1297
01:17:20,469 --> 01:17:22,512
She was open
about her breast cancer treatment

1298
01:17:22,596 --> 01:17:23,597
and drug addiction,

1299
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,725
at a time when those topics
were rarely mentioned in public.

1300
01:17:27,643 --> 01:17:29,770
By leaning into her own brokenness,

1301
01:17:29,853 --> 01:17:33,106
she was equally celebrated and reviled.

1302
01:17:33,774 --> 01:17:35,817
Betty Ford said certain things

1303
01:17:35,901 --> 01:17:38,028
to my colleague,
Morley Safer, on television.

1304
01:17:38,111 --> 01:17:40,238
How would you have handled
that kind of question?

1305
01:17:40,322 --> 01:17:43,700
I don't think
I'd have answered the question.

1306
01:17:44,993 --> 01:17:47,537
Ford's poll ratings began to plummet.

1307
01:17:48,038 --> 01:17:50,957
There are some new indications

1308
01:17:51,041 --> 01:17:53,919
that Ronald Reagan's strength
is on the increase.

1309
01:17:54,002 --> 01:17:57,339
The confrontation
promised to sharpen in '76,

1310
01:17:57,422 --> 01:18:01,551
as Reagan suddenly topped
President Ford by eight points.

1311
01:18:01,635 --> 01:18:04,638
You know, Gerald Ford
was a very conservative president.

1312
01:18:04,721 --> 01:18:08,684
Why did he come to represent
this kind of cat's paw of the Left?

1313
01:18:08,767 --> 01:18:11,436
But I think a lot of the reason
was cultural…

1314
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:19,820
you know, that Gerald Ford's family
was a real American family, warts and all.

1315
01:18:20,946 --> 01:18:26,535
They had this incredibly sturdy,
loving, coherent family.

1316
01:18:28,036 --> 01:18:31,581
And Ronald Reagan's family was a shambles.

1317
01:18:32,541 --> 01:18:34,876
His daughter, Patti Davis,

1318
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,921
changed her name
so she wouldn't be associated with them.

1319
01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:41,425
Nancy Reagan, she was "Just Say No."

1320
01:18:42,175 --> 01:18:44,636
Took the same kind of drugs
Betty Ford did too.

1321
01:18:49,099 --> 01:18:52,018
But he was able
to kind of turn that around

1322
01:18:52,102 --> 01:18:55,272
and make his family the Stepford Wives.

1323
01:18:58,692 --> 01:19:01,153
I was just going to give you coffee.

1324
01:19:01,236 --> 01:19:04,573
I thought we were friends.
I thought we were friends.

1325
01:19:05,699 --> 01:19:07,242
I thought we were friends.

1326
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,162
The Reagan family
was a perfect '70s family

1327
01:19:10,245 --> 01:19:13,123
in that they were
completely dysfunctional.

1328
01:19:14,833 --> 01:19:19,504
It really represented
one of these hinge moments.

1329
01:19:20,422 --> 01:19:24,009
Are we going to face our flaws
as people, as a nation?

1330
01:19:25,635 --> 01:19:27,512
Or are we just going to pretend

1331
01:19:27,596 --> 01:19:31,141
that real Americans
don't have messy families?

1332
01:19:36,021 --> 01:19:37,147
In November,

1333
01:19:37,230 --> 01:19:40,442
the winner of the 1976
presidential election

1334
01:19:40,525 --> 01:19:44,863
was an outsider
who was barely mentioned in 1975.

1335
01:19:44,946 --> 01:19:48,200
And I pray that I can live up
to your confidence

1336
01:19:48,283 --> 01:19:50,744
and never disappoint you.

1337
01:19:50,827 --> 01:19:52,871
Ronald Reagan's populist movement

1338
01:19:52,954 --> 01:19:55,540
would go back under the surface… for now.

1339
01:20:03,423 --> 01:20:07,052
A few months earlier,
29-year-old director Steven Spielberg

1340
01:20:07,135 --> 01:20:09,513
was at a preview screening
of his new film.

1341
01:20:09,596 --> 01:20:14,392
At one point, a terrified audience member
ran into the lobby and threw up.

1342
01:20:15,727 --> 01:20:19,481
And instead of leaving,
the viewer returned to his seat.

1343
01:20:24,778 --> 01:20:27,948
That was the moment
Spielberg knew he had a hit.

1344
01:20:31,701 --> 01:20:36,373
I like taking people into a dark theater
with a thousand strangers

1345
01:20:36,456 --> 01:20:39,334
and giving them
an experience they'll never forget.

1346
01:20:41,127 --> 01:20:43,672
I certainly want to involve myself
with intimate storytelling

1347
01:20:43,755 --> 01:20:46,466
and people's fantasies
and people's relationships.

1348
01:20:46,550 --> 01:20:49,010
But by the same token,
I like buttered popcorn.

1349
01:20:49,094 --> 01:20:50,595
I can't help it. I just like it.

1350
01:20:50,679 --> 01:20:52,430
You're going to need a bigger boat.

1351
01:20:52,973 --> 01:20:55,433
"You've got to get a bigger boat."
Well, yeah, I would think.

1352
01:20:55,517 --> 01:20:57,227
I mean, I'm not gonna go
in the water anyway,

1353
01:20:57,310 --> 01:20:59,104
so you're talking to the wrong person.

1354
01:20:59,187 --> 01:21:04,943
I was really good friends with Steven.
The day it opened, we got into a taxi cab.

1355
01:21:05,610 --> 01:21:09,489
There was a line
seven blocks from the theater.

1356
01:21:09,573 --> 01:21:12,117
I had never seen anything like that.

1357
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:15,620
In our lifetime, that was the blockbuster.

1358
01:21:15,704 --> 01:21:19,374
People coming out, they were ecstatic.

1359
01:21:19,457 --> 01:21:21,877
Beautifully bloody. That's what it was.

1360
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:23,962
You know, they just…

1361
01:21:24,045 --> 01:21:26,506
The best I've seen in my life. Best movie.

1362
01:21:26,590 --> 01:21:29,384
I didn't want to turn the light out
in the bedroom at night

1363
01:21:29,467 --> 01:21:33,138
because somehow
a shark was gonna jump out of the water

1364
01:21:33,221 --> 01:21:35,640
and get up to the eighth floor
and devour me.

1365
01:21:36,725 --> 01:21:39,311
What is Jaws about?

1366
01:21:41,980 --> 01:21:45,233
It's a perfect Watergate era allegory.

1367
01:21:45,317 --> 01:21:46,943
You know, Jaws has a cover-up.

1368
01:21:47,027 --> 01:21:51,114
It's mostly about the logistics
surrounding closing beaches.

1369
01:21:51,197 --> 01:21:52,949
I really think it's about camaraderie.

1370
01:21:53,033 --> 01:21:55,368
An ultimate confronting of yourself.

1371
01:21:55,452 --> 01:21:57,329
A sort of existential panic.

1372
01:21:57,412 --> 01:22:02,792
Bullshit. Jaws is a monster movie.
You go to see Jaws because it's scary.

1373
01:22:06,212 --> 01:22:08,131
It's a movie about nothing.

1374
01:22:08,214 --> 01:22:11,593
The reason Jaws went through the roof
is because it is great.

1375
01:22:11,676 --> 01:22:15,639
But Hollywood learned
that through marketing Jaws,

1376
01:22:16,890 --> 01:22:19,100
the audience would love it.

1377
01:22:19,184 --> 01:22:23,313
That affects what movies are made.
"What movies can we sell?"

1378
01:22:24,272 --> 01:22:26,858
Jaws. Jaws.

1379
01:22:26,942 --> 01:22:29,027
Jaws.

1380
01:22:29,110 --> 01:22:31,071
Sharks' business has been terrific.

1381
01:22:31,154 --> 01:22:32,822
We were getting anything we could.

1382
01:22:32,906 --> 01:22:35,241
If it even looked like a shark,
it could sell.

1383
01:22:35,325 --> 01:22:37,410
But even if it was just a monster movie,

1384
01:22:37,494 --> 01:22:40,080
it tapped into a growing feeling.

1385
01:22:40,163 --> 01:22:45,126
The shark is this kind of symbol
of what it was like to live in 1975.

1386
01:22:45,210 --> 01:22:46,711
"What, America lost the war?"

1387
01:22:48,797 --> 01:22:50,799
"America has a president who's a crook?"

1388
01:22:51,716 --> 01:22:54,135
"The Arabs in the third world
are controlling our economy now?"

1389
01:22:56,054 --> 01:22:58,515
And so, in true Hollywood fashion,

1390
01:22:58,598 --> 01:23:01,142
they blow them up,
just like John Wayne would have.

1391
01:23:03,979 --> 01:23:09,109
The simple movies do the best.
Jaws is one of the classics. It will last.

1392
01:23:09,192 --> 01:23:12,112
When he's looking
at the pictures of the shark victims

1393
01:23:12,195 --> 01:23:14,239
and it's reflected in his glasses…

1394
01:23:16,074 --> 01:23:17,409
that's filmmaking.

1395
01:23:17,492 --> 01:23:20,161
And I don't think
as Steven was making it, he was like,

1396
01:23:20,245 --> 01:23:24,791
"I'm going to create a financial bar
that people will have to destroy art

1397
01:23:24,874 --> 01:23:28,712
in order to attempt to meet
time after time again," you know?

1398
01:23:29,337 --> 01:23:30,505
By the end of the year,

1399
01:23:30,588 --> 01:23:33,967
Jaws had made more money
than any film in history.

1400
01:23:34,718 --> 01:23:36,928
But the record wouldn't last for long,

1401
01:23:37,012 --> 01:23:39,806
because the era
of the blockbuster had arrived.

1402
01:23:42,058 --> 01:23:43,935
Smile, you son of a…

1403
01:23:54,070 --> 01:23:56,823
Hollywood is very aware
of picking up vibes.

1404
01:23:56,906 --> 01:23:58,575
They're like,
"People want to see a winner."

1405
01:23:58,658 --> 01:24:00,952
What a difference a couple of years makes.

1406
01:24:01,036 --> 01:24:02,996
I think it's about time
we had a good fantasy movie.

1407
01:24:03,079 --> 01:24:04,956
I mean, we've just had
so many kind of burned out

1408
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:07,125
on all the social commentary movies
we've had.

1409
01:24:07,208 --> 01:24:09,377
What do you like
about a movie like Jaws?

1410
01:24:09,461 --> 01:24:10,462
I don't know.

1411
01:24:10,545 --> 01:24:13,048
The villain isn't winning anymore.
He's losing.

1412
01:24:14,591 --> 01:24:17,260
New Hollywood was over.

1413
01:24:23,224 --> 01:24:25,185
And there's the bell for round one…

1414
01:24:25,268 --> 01:24:30,065
As 1975 came to an end,
people had one question on their mind.

1415
01:24:30,148 --> 01:24:32,275
Does America still work?

1416
01:24:32,358 --> 01:24:33,985
Studs Terkel?

1417
01:24:34,069 --> 01:24:37,113
The big question, George, is for whom?

1418
01:24:37,197 --> 01:24:40,867
I-- I don't believe it! The champ is down!

1419
01:24:40,950 --> 01:24:43,328
When we're talking about
this 200-year-old man,

1420
01:24:43,411 --> 01:24:44,788
-this 200-year-old entity…
-Yeah.

1421
01:24:44,871 --> 01:24:46,039
…known as an American,

1422
01:24:46,122 --> 01:24:47,957
he is too individualistic,

1423
01:24:48,041 --> 01:24:51,961
puts his emphasis
upon "me" rather than "us,"

1424
01:24:52,045 --> 01:24:54,672
puts its emphasis upon the "I"
rather than the "we."

1425
01:24:56,132 --> 01:24:57,675
Apollo unloading on Rocky…

1426
01:24:57,759 --> 01:24:59,385
We can do very much better by ourselves,

1427
01:24:59,469 --> 01:25:01,387
learning to get along
very much better with people.

1428
01:25:01,471 --> 01:25:04,682
This is one of the major problems
we face in the world today.

1429
01:25:05,266 --> 01:25:07,018
The year is almost on its way out.

1430
01:25:07,102 --> 01:25:10,814
Let's take a brief look back
at 1975, shall we?

1431
01:25:15,110 --> 01:25:16,569
It's been a rotten year,

1432
01:25:16,653 --> 01:25:18,113
I'm glad it's gone.

1433
01:25:18,196 --> 01:25:21,282
'76 should be much better, boy,
cause… …to '74.

1434
01:25:22,909 --> 01:25:26,454
1976 was America's 200th birthday.

1435
01:25:26,538 --> 01:25:29,666
But some wondered
if they should call off the bicentennial.

1436
01:25:29,749 --> 01:25:31,960
Perhaps, there was nothing to celebrate.

1437
01:25:33,169 --> 01:25:38,258
We hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men are created equal.

1438
01:25:38,341 --> 01:25:42,387
That they are endowed by their creator
with certain unalienable rights.

1439
01:25:42,470 --> 01:25:46,641
-That among these are life, liberty…
-…and the pursuit of happiness.

1440
01:25:46,724 --> 01:25:50,770
But on July 4th,
the nation came out for its birthday.

1441
01:25:51,855 --> 01:25:52,981
The bicentennial,

1442
01:25:53,064 --> 01:25:56,568
it was a goofy Fourth of July celebration
times a thousand.

1443
01:25:57,986 --> 01:26:01,489
Yeah, it seemed fakey
and Disney-esque and all those things,

1444
01:26:01,573 --> 01:26:03,825
but also, cool! It was great!

1445
01:26:04,450 --> 01:26:07,912
Maybe it was something
about the five-story cakes,

1446
01:26:07,996 --> 01:26:09,539
the Freedom Train,

1447
01:26:10,915 --> 01:26:11,958
the parades.

1448
01:26:12,709 --> 01:26:16,504
Part of me always liked
the Disney version of America.

1449
01:26:17,797 --> 01:26:20,633
That is the world in which we live.

1450
01:26:38,318 --> 01:26:41,279
One of the feel-good stories of 1976

1451
01:26:41,362 --> 01:26:44,991
was of a struggling actor
who sold a screenplay about an underdog

1452
01:26:45,533 --> 01:26:48,036
that became the biggest hit of the year.

1453
01:26:49,579 --> 01:26:53,124
But when you break down
the feel-good narrative, who is Rocky?

1454
01:26:53,208 --> 01:26:54,459
What does he represent?

1455
01:26:54,542 --> 01:26:57,086
Working-class White guy

1456
01:26:57,170 --> 01:27:02,008
who's displaced
by this loudmouth Black guy.

1457
01:27:02,926 --> 01:27:05,511
Right to the chin! Oh, he's going all…

1458
01:27:06,763 --> 01:27:07,722
At the Oscars,

1459
01:27:07,805 --> 01:27:11,184
some of the great films of the mid '70s
were up for Best Picture.

1460
01:27:11,851 --> 01:27:15,355
Taxi Driver. Network.
All the President's Men.

1461
01:27:15,438 --> 01:27:16,981
And the winner is…

1462
01:27:18,524 --> 01:27:21,236
Rocky. Irwin Winkler…

1463
01:27:21,319 --> 01:27:23,738
…and Robert Chartoff, producers.

1464
01:27:23,821 --> 01:27:28,326
Rocky wins the Oscar.
That night was the end. That was it.

1465
01:27:29,077 --> 01:27:31,871
Stuff changed,
because people went to the movies

1466
01:27:31,955 --> 01:27:34,791
to see which movie had made
the most money.

1467
01:27:34,874 --> 01:27:41,005
As the '80s appeared,
the companies got their power back.

1468
01:27:41,089 --> 01:27:44,384
These are people
who just don't care about movies

1469
01:27:44,467 --> 01:27:46,177
and who only care about money.

1470
01:27:46,261 --> 01:27:51,266
Once you change an art form
to a product of capitalism,

1471
01:27:51,808 --> 01:27:53,518
it loses something.

1472
01:27:54,227 --> 01:27:57,814
Unique voices
in filmmaking never went away.

1473
01:27:57,897 --> 01:28:01,025
They just became the exception
rather than the rule.

1474
01:28:01,109 --> 01:28:03,569
To all the Rockys in the world,
I love you.

1475
01:28:03,653 --> 01:28:05,947
Thank you.

1476
01:28:06,030 --> 01:28:12,328
1975 was the closest America came
to saying, "Hey, I got flaws too."

1477
01:28:12,412 --> 01:28:15,248
And for a little, brief moment,

1478
01:28:15,832 --> 01:28:18,376
cinema and pop culture
was able to look at that,

1479
01:28:18,459 --> 01:28:21,254
but it was too much,
and we turned the hell away.

1480
01:28:21,337 --> 01:28:23,840
But you go back to those films
and they're like,

1481
01:28:23,923 --> 01:28:25,633
"You don't go back and watch them again."

1482
01:28:25,717 --> 01:28:28,261
"They're there,
they're part of your life."

1483
01:28:28,344 --> 01:28:33,599
Like, how grateful are we to our parents
for being that irresponsible…

1484
01:28:33,683 --> 01:28:38,813
…and taking us to traumas,
like, literally visual traumas?

1485
01:28:40,315 --> 01:28:41,649
God, that moment.

1486
01:28:42,650 --> 01:28:44,902
You could never recreate the '70s.

1487
01:28:48,156 --> 01:28:50,325
Well, my boys would like to say

1488
01:28:50,408 --> 01:28:51,826
something to your team. Boys?

1489
01:28:51,909 --> 01:28:54,537
We just want to say
you guys played a good game.

1490
01:28:54,620 --> 01:28:57,081
And we treated you
pretty unfair all season.

1491
01:28:57,165 --> 01:28:58,624
We want to apologize.

1492
01:28:58,708 --> 01:29:01,169
We still don't think
you're all that good a baseball team.

1493
01:29:01,252 --> 01:29:03,129
You got guts. All of you.

1494
01:29:03,713 --> 01:29:05,506
Ready? Okay.

1495
01:29:05,590 --> 01:29:09,344
Two, four,
six, eight, who do we appreciate?

1496
01:29:09,427 --> 01:29:12,055
Bears! Bears! Yay!

1497
01:29:16,309 --> 01:29:19,937
Hey, Yankees, you can take your apology
out of your trophy

1498
01:29:20,021 --> 01:29:21,773
and shove it straight up your ass!

1499
01:29:24,317 --> 01:29:26,527
And another thing,
just wait until next year.

1500
01:29:33,159 --> 01:29:35,578
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo

1501
01:29:36,496 --> 01:29:40,416
1975 felt like an ending, but it wasn't.

1502
01:29:41,084 --> 01:29:43,961
It was just another chapter
in the story of America.

1503
01:29:45,046 --> 01:29:49,509
We are one nation, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

1504
01:29:50,885 --> 01:29:52,011
What could go wrong?

1505
01:29:53,429 --> 01:29:58,518
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1506
01:29:58,601 --> 01:30:03,981
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1507
01:30:04,941 --> 01:30:08,861
I seen you 'round
For a long, long time

1508
01:30:08,945 --> 01:30:10,113
Yeah!

1509
01:30:10,196 --> 01:30:14,283
I really 'membered you
When you drink my wine

1510
01:30:14,367 --> 01:30:19,622
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1511
01:30:19,705 --> 01:30:25,253
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1512
01:30:25,878 --> 01:30:30,550
I seen you walkin' down in Chinatown

1513
01:30:31,175 --> 01:30:35,346
I called you
But you could not look around

1514
01:30:35,430 --> 01:30:40,351
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1515
01:30:40,643 --> 01:30:45,898
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1516
01:30:46,149 --> 01:30:51,320
-I bring my money to the welfare line
-Whoa!

1517
01:30:51,404 --> 01:30:56,284
I see you standing in it every time

1518
01:30:56,367 --> 01:31:01,372
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1519
01:31:01,456 --> 01:31:06,502
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1520
01:31:06,586 --> 01:31:11,382
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1521
01:31:11,466 --> 01:31:16,471
Why can't we be friends?
Why can't we be friends?

1522
01:31:16,596 --> 01:31:19,348
Why can't we be friends? Whoo, whoo, whoo

1523
01:31:19,432 --> 01:31:22,226
Why can't we be friends? Whoo, whoo, whoo

1524
01:31:22,351 --> 01:31:24,854
Why can't we be friends?