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00:00Well, that just frosts me.
00:02I've only got one song left to record, and my producer up and quits.
00:05He didn't quit. You fired him.
00:07That's open to interpretation, Connie.
00:10You beat him with your shoe and said,
00:11Benny, you're fired. What am I missing?
00:14Oh, potato, potato.
00:16The studio's booked.
00:17I have to get this thing to the record company by Friday.
00:19Thursday.
00:20Oh, my God, they're animals.
00:22Honey, there's no choice.
00:24This has to be in the music stores by the first of the month.
00:26Well, who am I gonna get, huh?
00:28Where's my Rolodex?
00:30Just ask her.
00:32No, no, no, I couldn't...
00:33Do you want me to ask?
00:34No, no, no.
00:35Don was a good producer. Did I ever hit him with anything?
00:39Yeah, libel suit.
00:42Oh.
00:43The problem is, none of these people know how to handle her.
00:46I mean, a good producer would know the sound she wants,
00:48bring in the right musicians,
00:49and arrange it all to get the most out of the music.
00:52Oscar, you wrote the song for her.
00:54You've been with her for 13 years. Take a shot.
00:56No, it hasn't been 13 years.
00:58Let me see. I started therapy 12 and a half years ago,
01:02so no, you're right.
01:02How about Puff Daddy?
01:06You made him cry.
01:07Oh, yeah. That was fun.
01:10Who else?
01:11Who else?
01:11Who else?
01:12Oh, come on.
01:13You're always saying how much you really, really want to produce.
01:15Yes, I know that, but that is hardly the point.
01:17You are such a wimp.
01:18I am not a wimp. I'm British.
01:21Oh, just drop the subject, please.
01:24Fine.
01:24All right.
01:25Up to you.
01:26I have it, and it's brilliant.
01:28Oscar, why don't you do it?
01:31Me?
01:31Yes.
01:32Well, I never really thought about it.
01:35It's all right.
01:36Marvelous.
01:37I'll see you in the studio.
01:38I have to go get that shoe fixed.
01:42Well, look at me.
01:44Producer.
01:46Congratulations.
01:46Good deal.
01:47Wear a cup.
01:47Who loves me even though I'm crazy
01:55And nothing that I say is true
01:58Who'll want my heart and soul forever
02:01It's nobody else but nobody else but nobody else but you
02:08Sweetheart, calm down.
02:15Calm down.
02:16Now listen, where are you?
02:17You're not lost.
02:17Just tell me where you are.
02:19Okay.
02:19All right.
02:20Make your first right.
02:22There you go.
02:22Now, now take a left
02:24And then right again immediately.
02:26Okay?
02:27Now just go straight, honey.
02:28Keep going.
02:29Are you sure?
02:29Because none of this looks familiar.
02:32Oh, hi.
02:33Hello.
02:34Gotta go.
02:36Yo, yo, yo.
02:37The divide is in the house.
02:43Constance, Mr. Producer.
02:44What's that guy's name?
02:45I never remember his name.
02:46Ed.
02:47Ed.
02:48Edsy!
02:50Oh, you poor baby.
02:52You have a cold.
02:53One more sneeze and he's history.
02:56So, who's ready to make it a little magic?
02:59Oh, oh.
02:59I am.
02:59I am.
03:00Marvelous.
03:01That's the spirit.
03:02So, let's just get on with you.
03:03All right?
03:03Shall we?
03:04I'm in your hands.
03:05Okay.
03:07All right.
03:08Where's the band?
03:09No, no.
03:10It's just us.
03:11Really?
03:12Yes.
03:13Um, well, that's what I thought.
03:14Unless you want to change it.
03:14No.
03:15No, no, no, no, no, no.
03:16I'm your clay.
03:18You're Van Gogh.
03:18Just mold me.
03:22Yes.
03:22Van Gogh was a painter.
03:24That phony British accent certainly has taken you a long way, hasn't it?
03:30Right.
03:30All right?
03:31And.
03:31Is it cold in here?
03:37Uh, no.
03:39Well, I have a couple of cast iron hooters that beg to differ.
03:43Excuse me, could we turn the heat up in here a bit, please?
03:45Okay, I'm on it.
03:47No problem.
03:48And.
03:52Should we order food?
03:53Oh, bet.
03:54No, no, not for me.
03:55I'm eating with my family.
03:56I just don't want to see Constance go to a restaurant and have to pretend someone's coming.
04:02Well, I had a late lunch and Connie's on the Mary Lou Henna cleansing fast.
04:06Oh, yes.
04:06Have you seen her?
04:07She looks 30.
04:08Remember that time she sat behind us at death of a salesman?
04:10Yeah.
04:11Oh, she smelled like she had just come out of the dryer.
04:12Oh, yes, I know.
04:13But you know what a nerve she had trying to shush us.
04:15Can you imagine?
04:16Can you?
04:16But she is skinny, very skinny.
04:18You know, I could use a little Chinese this fast.
04:20It's making me hungry.
04:21Go get the menu book.
04:23All right.
04:24Let's sail through this.
04:25I want to be home in time for dinner.
04:26That, my girl.
04:27All right.
04:27Ready?
04:28Uh, play me a little bit, just for a second.
04:30And.
04:31Oh, that is so absolutely beautiful.
04:41100%.
04:42Almost perfect.
04:45Um, pardon?
04:46I think we need to pep it up a little.
04:47No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
04:49Clean and simple.
04:49That's how I wrote it.
04:50That's how I hear it in my head.
04:51Oh, okay.
04:52Then that's how we should do it.
04:53Well, thank you.
04:54But just to play devil's advocate.
04:55I held you close to me once in a distant dream.
05:00Far from the shores of my fear.
05:02Ooh, sail the only ocean where all I imagined could happen.
05:07And now you are here.
05:10And ooh, it's hard to touch.
05:12Looks out of our hands.
05:13To know and to trust.
05:15The heart understands.
05:17Only the ones who believe ever see what they think.
05:21Remember dream what comes true.
05:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:30Stop.
05:31Stop.
05:32Stop.
05:32Turn the beat around.
05:33Oscar, I smell a hit.
05:35You don't, uh, you don't think it's, uh, a little busy?
05:39Oh, Oscar, Oscar, how many times have I told you?
05:41You can't settle.
05:43Remember that time I asked you what you wanted for Christmas
05:45and you told me a toaster?
05:46So I got you those nice leather pants instead?
05:49I got the worst rash.
05:53Because you don't dream big enough.
05:55Ed, could we hear the...
05:57Oscar, who are those guys?
05:59Oh, uh, they're from the, uh, the reggae band next door.
06:02You know how I am about strangers watching me work.
06:04Oh, but, uh, but they're rather large.
06:08No, no, no, no, I'm a producer, I'm not a bouncer.
06:10Well, produce some cojones and ask them to amscray.
06:19There he goes, look at him.
06:21You know, I don't know why you had any doubts about him.
06:23He's got everything under control.
06:25Please, please, please, please, please, leave.
06:27Please, I beg you, you don't know what she's like.
06:30Relax, man.
06:31You need to calm down.
06:32Yes.
06:33Here.
06:34Have a brownie.
06:37No, no, no, no, thanks.
06:38I'm not hungry.
06:39It's a special recipe, man.
06:41I'll take that.
06:42No, thank you.
06:43Thank you for dropping by.
06:46You look a little flushed.
06:47Oh, yeah, I do?
06:48Yeah, what?
06:49All right, come here, come here, come here.
06:50Go sit, sit, sit, sit.
06:51So, I'm in the kitchen, and I'm getting the menu book, right?
06:55But it's way up high, and suddenly behind me, I hear this voice say,
06:58excuse me, pretty lady, may I help you, and I turn around, and it's in sync.
07:03Oh, my God.
07:03Yeah.
07:04Which one?
07:04Which one?
07:04Yeah, well, the one with the thing.
07:06Oh, my God.
07:06Oh, yeah, yes, yes.
07:07They are so cute.
07:08They're right down the hall recording, and they are sweet as can be.
07:11Whoa.
07:11Woo, I am a little flush.
07:12Someone's been double-dipping from the estrogen bucket.
07:17But, oh, darn, you know what?
07:18You know what?
07:19I forgot to get the menu book.
07:20I'll be back in a little while.
07:21Connie!
07:22Shut up.
07:25Jolly good.
07:26Crisis averted.
07:27Now, if we could just get back to the music.
07:29I'd love to.
07:30Okay.
07:31Oh, here you go, girl.
07:33What's that?
07:33We were celebrating the launching of my new album.
07:36If I were to shift, you could break this over my hull.
07:39Yes, there's a thought.
07:41Now, listen.
07:41I think we should just keep our eye on the original.
07:47Exactly.
07:48Exactly.
07:49That's what I'm saying.
07:49You know, I hear I'm very big in the gay community.
07:55That's why we need a dance mix.
07:57You'll be the most popular performer of 1979.
07:59No, no, no, no, no.
08:01What you're trying to say is, it's not fresh.
08:04Exactly.
08:05Well, now that we've got this out of our system, we can just go back to the original, right?
08:09You know it's fresh.
08:09You know it's really, really fresh.
08:11We know it's sunny down the night in the wind.
08:14You know it's really dressed in the snow.
08:19Nice and thế
08:21the world is sunny.
08:24We know it's sunny up and so jesны.
08:27It's sunny up andss and metabolic scenes.
08:30You know it.
08:32You know it's sunny up and sees
08:33and she's onze Tages.
08:36If you hear it,
08:37and you'll catch up and it does,
08:39be it.
08:39San Dunga!
08:46Olé.
08:48Oscar, that was fantástico.
08:50I really think we're on the right track now.
08:52Girls, take five.
08:54If we could just focus here for one second.
08:56Oh, Oscar, I'm 150% focused.
08:58Oh, Connie, what happened to you?
09:00What?
09:02Your lipstick's a little smeary, dearie.
09:04Oh, yeah?
09:06Promise you won't judge.
09:07Oh, Connie, you know I can't do that.
09:09Oh, well.
09:10Okay, so I'm talking to NSYNC, right?
09:12They're recording this song called Uh-Huh.
09:14So I say half-joking, maybe you should call it Uh-Uh.
09:16Well, they thought this was like the best idea ever,
09:19and then the really cute one comes to give me a little kiss on the cheek,
09:21only I didn't see him coming, and our lips kind of brushed,
09:24and then our foreheads kind of banged together,
09:26but it was really a very nice moment.
09:29Sounds terribly romantic.
09:31Oh, it was, and they want me to sit in the studio for inspiration.
09:35Keep a good thought.
09:37Too late.
09:39Ed, could we hear that playback again, please?
09:42What's that sound?
09:43What sound?
09:44What is that?
09:45Ed!
09:46I didn't hear it, I didn't hear it.
09:47Ed!
09:48Kill the vocals!
09:49Now kill the music!
09:50No, I have to go and be a...
09:51What is that?
09:52I mean, it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
09:53No, I have to go and be a producer.
09:54Let's go Latin.
09:55Let's go disco.
09:56Let's go to Bellevue.
09:57Let's go to Bellevue.
09:58Oscar, I realize you're a little frazzled.
09:59Oscar, I realize you're a little frazzled, but you have to realize we all want this to work for you.
10:00All right, okay, well thank you.
10:01I appreciate that, I really do, but you know nobody knows what's going to make a hit and all we've got to do is trust in ourselves and the music.
10:02I know.
10:03That's why I'm willing to work all night.
10:04Do you have to go to the music?
10:05No, I have to go and be a...
10:06What is that?
10:07I mean, it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
10:08No, I have to go and be a producer.
10:09Let's go Latin.
10:10Let's go disco.
10:11Let's go to Bellevue.
10:12Oscar, I realize you're a little frazzled, but you have to realize we all want this to work for you.
10:22All right, okay, well thank you.
10:23I appreciate that, I really do, but you know nobody knows what's going to make a hit and all we've got to do is trust in ourselves and the music.
10:29I know, that's why I'm willing to work all night.
10:32Just give me five minutes to get my adrenaline up.
10:34Bless you.
10:36You see, this is what made Puff Daddy cry.
10:47Roses, roses, the color of roses.
10:49I want to be on TV striking poses.
10:52Get me to Target before it closes.
10:54I need a lipstick the color of roses.
10:56Who put the hope in Hollywood?
10:58Who's got the goods in y'all's neighborhood?
11:01Who's got the hip tonight to get the party hyped tonight?
11:03Ooh, it's like a breakthrough.
11:05A new turn for a new you.
11:07That is so dope!
11:12Oh, Oscar, that is so dope.
11:17So deeply, deeply dope.
11:19Isn't it?
11:20Yes, yes.
11:21Well, it's certainly from the dope family.
11:23Yeah.
11:24Look who's here!
11:25Oh, wonderful, wonderful.
11:26Hi!
11:27Oh, God.
11:29Look, I'm begging you, please, please don't talk to her.
11:33Don't look in her eye.
11:34Don't distract her in any way.
11:36Because the whole world is a shiny object tonight.
11:38Hi!
11:39What are you doing here?
11:41Well, we figured you'd been working so hard tonight we'd come by and take you out to dinner.
11:45Aw, thank you.
11:46Mom, why was Aunt Connie in the ladies' room pulling her face back?
11:51Aw, that's just a little game we girls play called Remember When.
11:56Wow, this is cool.
11:57Hope you don't mind me tagging along.
11:58Oh, not at all, Herbie.
11:59I love when she remembers my name.
12:00We all do, kid.
12:01Do you think we're ready for playback?
12:02Whew!
12:03Wait till you hear this.
12:04It's a brand new sound for me.
12:05I think you're gonna love it.
12:06Roses, roses, the color of roses.
12:07I wanna be a TV striking poses.
12:08Get me to Tajay before it closes.
12:09I need a lipstick the color of roses.
12:11Oscar, I think we've finally done it.
12:12Oh, what the hell?
12:13What are you doing?
12:14What are you doing?
12:15What are you doing?
12:16What are you doing?
12:17What are you doing?
12:18What are you doing?
12:19I'm doing a little bit of a thing poses.
12:20Get me to Tajay before it closes.
12:22I need a lipstick the color of roses.
12:24Oscar, I think we've finally done it.
12:26You know, you're in the right direction.
12:28But you should do a whole album of hip hop.
12:29You've been playing it safe too long.
12:31See?
12:32Listen to him.
12:33This is the reason I'm not on MTV.
12:35Okay, first of all, what we need is...
12:38Ow!
12:39Ow!
12:40You very much, Steve.
12:41Ow!
12:42Ow!
12:43And you, out.
12:44Okay, look.
12:46I'll keep him out if you build Neil Volcanoes.
12:48You'll build Neil Volcano from our science class.
12:50Done.
12:51It's got to erupt.
12:52Done!
12:55Did you compare these notes?
12:56Yes, they were brilliant.
12:57Now, listen.
12:58I assumed you asked me to be your producer because you trusted me.
13:01Oscar, look at you.
13:03You're all tense.
13:04Who's tense?
13:05Because I went to chiropractor college.
13:07What for?
13:08You have a job.
13:09Please.
13:10You have five more people than a circus cannon.
13:14That's good.
13:15We should use it in the act.
13:16Of course.
13:17Come on, honey.
13:18I'll adjust you.
13:19All right.
13:20Get in there.
13:21Roy!
13:22What are you doing?
13:23I'm starving.
13:24Well, honey, what about dinner?
13:25Well, I...
13:26I gotta go get a snack.
13:27Get a Twix.
13:28We'll split it.
13:30And where are you going?
13:31With NSYNC.
13:32They finished their song.
13:34We're taking a romantic drive to celebrate.
13:35I'll be back in ten minutes.
13:36Ten minutes?
13:37They're 18.
13:38Ten minutes.
13:39Yeah, man.
13:46I lost 50 bucks in that thing today.
13:49Great.
13:50Want a brownie?
13:56Roy!
13:57Honey!
14:00I've been looking for you for 20 minutes.
14:02Hi.
14:03What you up to?
14:04Oh, about 186, but they say your clothes are at five pounds.
14:15Man, my mouth is so dry, I need a soda or something.
14:19Roy, why is recording always so scary?
14:21Gee, I just wanna sing my song and know that someone's gonna hear it.
14:25That's deep.
14:27Hey!
14:28They got chips!
14:29Are you listening to even one thing that I'm saying?
14:31Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.
14:32Okay.
14:33You know what I've been thinking?
14:37It's about chips.
14:38What is?
14:42All of it, man.
14:44What the hell's the matter with you, Roy?
14:46No, no, no, no.
14:47Hear me out, okay?
14:49You see, you got these chips, right?
14:51And some of them are plain, and some of them got ridges,
14:54and some of them are Pringles,
14:56but they're always just a little bit greasy, right?
14:58So you just lick your fingers, and you keep the faith,
15:00and you hope that you can just hang in there and hang on,
15:03and it's not gonna slip away,
15:05but then there's always those little crumbs
15:07at the bottom of the bag, right?
15:08And then they get all over your shirt,
15:10and that's really a bummer, right?
15:12So you either gotta change that shirt or live with the chaos.
15:16So there you are, standing in front of God, naked.
15:19And that's what you should be singing about.
15:26Amen.
15:27So add my regrets to the tears in the rain.
15:34That's what the color of roses contain.
15:38Only the ones who believe ever see.
15:41Only the ones who believe ever see.
15:44Only the ones who believe ever see.
15:46Only the ones who believe ever see.
15:48What they dream ever dream what comes true.
15:51I think I just converted.
15:58Oh, Oscar, are you losing faith.
16:15Because they can baptize you.
16:17I paid them for a full hour.
16:20Oh, good.
16:21Could they hold me underwater for a very, very long time?
16:24Next time we do it, hold it, choir, hold it.
16:26I want the choir and the harlots to alternate verses
16:30like the classic battle between good and evil.
16:34Oscar, what do you think?
16:35Oscar?
16:37Grimony, where'd he go?
16:39Oh, my stars.
16:41What happened to you?
16:42They just wanted me to buy them beer.
16:45Oh, Connie.
16:47Oh, yeah.
16:47Then they threw my purse out the window
16:48and left me at a 7-Eleven.
16:51Well, boy bands will be boy bands.
16:55I gotta go find Oscar.
17:16Oscar, what are you doing?
17:17Come on, let's get back to work.
17:19Come on.
17:20No.
17:22I think we've made a terrible mistake.
17:24What are you talking about?
17:25Look, it's very clear to me that I'm in way over my head here.
17:28Oh, don't be silly.
17:29It's not you, it's me.
17:30No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
17:31It's not you, it's me.
17:32I'm telling you, Oscar, it's definitely me.
17:35Yes.
17:35Actually, you're right.
17:37It is you.
17:38Well, excuse me for trying to express my creativity.
17:41Oh, God.
17:41You see, this is just impossible.
17:44We're never gonna get this right.
17:45You know what, Oscar?
17:46You're probably right.
17:55That's a pretty song.
17:57What is it?
18:00It's the one we've been working on all night.
18:02No.
18:04Really?
18:06Have you even heard it?
18:07Of course I have.
18:09Oh, really?
18:09Well, tell me what it's about, then.
18:10You tell me.
18:11You wrote it.
18:12I did, yes.
18:13I wrote it about you.
18:15Well, then why did you let me put us through all this?
18:17Well, but what am I supposed to do?
18:19Tell you to shut up and sing?
18:20Yes, you're the producer.
18:21Right, well, then shut up and sing.
18:23Fine.
18:23Fine.
18:24Fine.
18:24Fine.
18:25But first I just want to say...
18:25Just sing it.
18:29I held you close to me once in a distant dream
18:45Far from the shores of my fear
18:49I sailed on the ocean where all I imagined
18:56Could happen and now you are here
19:02It's so hard to touch what is out of our hands
19:08To know and to trust what the heart understands
19:15Only the ones who believe
19:19Ever see what they dream
19:22Ever dream what comes true
19:25Life brings us magic and life brings us tragedy
19:33Everyone suffers some loss
19:38Still we have faith in it
19:42Childlike hope
19:44There's a reason that outweighs the cost
19:50And gravity throws all these rules in our way
19:56And sometimes the spirit refuses to play
20:03Only the ones who believe
20:07Ever see what they dream
20:10Ever dream what comes true
20:15And oh, love
20:20Turn me around in your arms
20:27And in this dream we share
20:33Let us not miss one kiss
20:40So add my regrets
20:53To the tears in the rain
20:57For that's what the color of roses contain
21:03Only the ones who believe
21:08Only the ones who believe
21:09Ever see what they dream
21:11Ever dream
21:14Ever dream
21:18Ever dream
21:20What comes true
21:26Give me more brownies
21:47Only the ones who believe
21:48Ever see what they dream
21:49Ever dream what comes true
21:50Give me more brownies
21:51Only the ones who believe
21:53That I love
21:54Even the ones who believe
21:56That I love
22:00Never see what they dream
22:01Ever dream what comes true
22:02Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
22:03I know
22:04Hi
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