Uncle Bob | movie | 2010 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Robert Oppel's documentary about the life and murder of his uncle and namesake, Robert Opel, the man who streaked the Ac | dG1fbUFWcWZhbGQySVE

Transcript

00:00Here's the man who streaked the Academy Awards, Robert Opal.

00:24He, of course, was that relative nobody until he streaked naked, of course,

00:28past David Niven and a stunned nationwide television audience.

00:31Can I speak for you? I'll speak for you.

00:34Well, it's one of those one-time things.

00:39He was somebody who could live a life of art and sex.

00:43And that's a fairly radical idea, that one's sexual identity doesn't have to be so fixed.

00:49I feel that I can say anything you're doing, but I don't feel restricted.

00:52You know, back in that time, it was like the sex and the drugs,

00:56and, like, real-deal artwork.

00:58I said, where do these people come from? Where do they go when the sun goes down?

01:01Isn't there a law or something?

01:03We really loved to present what was really coming up off of the edge.

01:08And, of course, that always frightens the establishment.

01:11These homosexuals should not be here.

01:14Nowadays, he'd be a terrorist.

01:17I think that they were scared of him because he was so good at getting publicity.

01:21They were not used to gay people fighting back.

01:25And so whoever fought back got targeted.

01:29Of course, all outrage that Dan White cut five years for, you know, going and disgusting these people down.

01:36Robert Opel was going to dress up as gay justice.

01:39And gay justice was going to execute Dan White in the Civic Center Plaza.

01:44After that, everything moves into myth and legend.

01:47But what is true is that it was, what, ten days, twelve days later,

01:51when Robert Opel was murdered in his gallery.

01:54You know, somebody in my family was murdered.

01:59And the reason why, I don't know.

02:02You know, calling this person, calling that person.

02:05Homicide, hello, how are you?

02:07HOMICIDE!

02:12It seems like every door that opens that could lead to an answer to some form of truth with it just gets slammed shut on me.

02:24THANK YOU!