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Regia di Orson Welles. Un film Da vedere 2018 con John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Robert Random, Lilli Palmer. Cast completo Titolo originale: The Other Side of the Wind. Genere Drammatico, Commedia drammatica - USA, 2018, durata 122 minuti
Jake Hannaford torna a Hollywood, dopo alcuni anni di esilio in Europa, per girare il suo nuovo film, "The Other Side of the Wind". Mancano ancora diverse riprese, ma i soldi sono finiti e il giovane protagonista, John Dale, ha lasciato il set per sparire nel nulla. L'amica di una vita, Zarah Valeska, organizza una festa per i settant'anni di Hannaford, che è anche l'occasione per mostrare il film a giornalisti e personaggi del cinema. Tutto verrà filmato, nulla rimarrà off-the-record. L'uscita dei lavoratori del cinema dagli Studios è la prima sequenza, inaugurale come un omaggio ai Lumière, di un viaggio lungo una notte, che approderà alle luci dell'alba in un drive-in, e oltre. Non la primissima, in realtà, perché il leggendario ultimo film di Orson Welles comincia con una morte illustre e si fa subito indagine, eco di Kane, tentativo di dire l'uomo Hannaford come era, attraverso una molteplicità di mirini, che sono quelli delle cineprese che spuntano da ogni dove, precisi e letali come fucili.
La vicenda produttiva di The Other Side of the Wind è nota: Welles cominciò a girare nel 1970 e continuò a fatica per sei anni, lasciando il film incompiuto e montando solo una cinquantina di minuti.
Sarebbe lecito pensare che il film non sia quello che sarebbe stato se avesse potuto portarlo a termine. E questo al di là di ogni giudizio di valore, semplicemente perché per Welles ogni giorno di set, ogni istante, modificava, per sua stessa ammissione, il lavoro in corso. Ma non di fronte a questo risultato. Il lavoro di Peter Bogdanovich, del team di montaggio capeggiato da Murawski e di Michel Legrand alla colonna sonora, è stupefacentemente wellesiano, stordente, esperienziale, magico, di quella magia del trucco che non è mai mancata nei suoi film e che qui fa accendere il Juke-box per il vecchio Billy, in assenza di corrente elettrica. Ah, il cinema, "vecchia scatola magica"!
Nel gioco di strati e di specchi che ci viene consegnato, dopo lunghissima attesa, nelle profondità del quale storici e critici cominceranno solo ora ad immergersi con motivato ed euforico piacere cannibale, ci sono un film nel film - un inseguimento al contrario, lisergico e superbo, tra Oja Kodar e la sua vittima, che va ben al di là della satira di Antonioni - e una cornice umana di movie-freaks, attorno alla quale si mescolano con inarrivabile alchimia furto e invenzione, mezzo e parola, colore e bianco e nero. Dentro l'inscenata registrazione degli eventi, il rapporto tra il geniale e decaduto Hannaford interpretato John Huston (serafico e mastodontico nella teatralità dei primi piani) e il suo delfino e biografo Otterlake, che l'ha scavalcato imponendosi come nuova star della regia...
Jake Hannaford torna a Hollywood, dopo alcuni anni di esilio in Europa, per girare il suo nuovo film, "The Other Side of the Wind". Mancano ancora diverse riprese, ma i soldi sono finiti e il giovane protagonista, John Dale, ha lasciato il set per sparire nel nulla. L'amica di una vita, Zarah Valeska, organizza una festa per i settant'anni di Hannaford, che è anche l'occasione per mostrare il film a giornalisti e personaggi del cinema. Tutto verrà filmato, nulla rimarrà off-the-record. L'uscita dei lavoratori del cinema dagli Studios è la prima sequenza, inaugurale come un omaggio ai Lumière, di un viaggio lungo una notte, che approderà alle luci dell'alba in un drive-in, e oltre. Non la primissima, in realtà, perché il leggendario ultimo film di Orson Welles comincia con una morte illustre e si fa subito indagine, eco di Kane, tentativo di dire l'uomo Hannaford come era, attraverso una molteplicità di mirini, che sono quelli delle cineprese che spuntano da ogni dove, precisi e letali come fucili.
La vicenda produttiva di The Other Side of the Wind è nota: Welles cominciò a girare nel 1970 e continuò a fatica per sei anni, lasciando il film incompiuto e montando solo una cinquantina di minuti.
Sarebbe lecito pensare che il film non sia quello che sarebbe stato se avesse potuto portarlo a termine. E questo al di là di ogni giudizio di valore, semplicemente perché per Welles ogni giorno di set, ogni istante, modificava, per sua stessa ammissione, il lavoro in corso. Ma non di fronte a questo risultato. Il lavoro di Peter Bogdanovich, del team di montaggio capeggiato da Murawski e di Michel Legrand alla colonna sonora, è stupefacentemente wellesiano, stordente, esperienziale, magico, di quella magia del trucco che non è mai mancata nei suoi film e che qui fa accendere il Juke-box per il vecchio Billy, in assenza di corrente elettrica. Ah, il cinema, "vecchia scatola magica"!
Nel gioco di strati e di specchi che ci viene consegnato, dopo lunghissima attesa, nelle profondità del quale storici e critici cominceranno solo ora ad immergersi con motivato ed euforico piacere cannibale, ci sono un film nel film - un inseguimento al contrario, lisergico e superbo, tra Oja Kodar e la sua vittima, che va ben al di là della satira di Antonioni - e una cornice umana di movie-freaks, attorno alla quale si mescolano con inarrivabile alchimia furto e invenzione, mezzo e parola, colore e bianco e nero. Dentro l'inscenata registrazione degli eventi, il rapporto tra il geniale e decaduto Hannaford interpretato John Huston (serafico e mastodontico nella teatralità dei primi piani) e il suo delfino e biografo Otterlake, che l'ha scavalcato imponendosi come nuova star della regia...
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00:00:00Musica
00:00:45We're still rolling
00:00:47I'm gonna keep shooting
00:01:19Listen, kid
00:01:20Listen
00:01:24Somebody's watching you
00:01:25You can feel it
00:01:28There's somebody else out there
00:01:37Up there in that window
00:01:39There's nobody behind that window
00:01:41But all the same
00:01:42There's somebody up there
00:01:44Peaking down
00:01:47Did he drop the scissors?
00:01:54But watch it
00:01:56She has her own ideas
00:02:05Lee
00:02:06Kingman
00:02:08Branch Sutter
00:02:10Garvey
00:02:11Have some friends
00:02:17John Dale
00:02:19Not in the same league
00:02:22Believe me
00:02:24Funny
00:02:25I don't see one of those men here at your party tonight
00:02:28Tonight is for the Freakos and the Snoops, lady
00:02:31If you'll excuse us, please
00:02:33Did you know they had the Zolls in Shakespeare?
00:02:35Ask Mr. Hannaford
00:02:36He knows everything in Shakespeare
00:02:37Shakespeare, that's the Hannaford family curse
00:02:39He knows everything about the Hannafords
00:02:40Such as my curse
00:02:42Well, everybody knows about old granddad
00:02:45Junius I in the Tinsel Toga
00:02:48His limbs were always covered in dirty pink tights
00:02:51So as not to, um, inflame the female members of his audience
00:02:56Right, Skipper?
00:02:56That's where the Shakespeare first comes from
00:02:58Now, Mr. Hannaford, do what you know
00:03:00Sit in the ancestral throne, Mr. Hannaford
00:03:02Can we get him a picture?
00:03:11Shall we not?
00:03:12Later, okay?
00:03:14Come on, let's go
00:03:15Later, way later
00:03:16This is a waste of time, anyway
00:03:36The noblest Roman
00:03:39Hmm?
00:03:41Shanty Irish
00:03:45Lace, Kurt
00:03:47Black Seneca, he, uh, bled to death in the bathtub
00:03:54One of the few times he'd ever sat in one
00:04:11Now, old Junius Junior, yeah, he, uh, he really made it into high society, piss elegant
00:04:20Blazing the trail for the Kellys and the Kennedys
00:04:23Order night, the human tape recorder
00:04:27That's me, Skipper, that's me
00:04:35Then, um, you know about the chandelier
00:04:40And the authority
00:04:49The old Hollywood hotel, hmm?
00:05:04I found him one Sunday morning
00:05:09I'm hanging from him
00:05:15After which you had to go to work for a living
00:05:19So, what do you do next?
00:05:22What does anybody do?
00:05:32And these are all the credits of Jake's screenplays, right?
00:05:35I'm yours, Mr. Hannaford
00:05:37He has curious pleasure
00:05:40Games
00:05:40He likes to play games
00:05:43I'm a writer who stopped writing one afternoon in Budapest in 1929
00:05:48Do I have a camera?
00:05:51Oh
00:05:53I'm prepared to make a limited declaration
00:05:58This famous old lion of yours
00:06:02Is not what you think, you know
00:06:04Lions are cats
00:06:05And Jack, my dear, is a cat
00:06:08A cat that walks like a bear
00:06:11I'd call him a necromancer
00:06:13But I do not know if he has raised the dead
00:06:25Oh, there you are
00:06:27Yes
00:06:27This gentleman, every time they gave me
00:06:33Just stay there
00:06:34Do you mind?
00:06:49Here she comes again
00:06:59Push him down, dear
00:07:03Hold him down
00:07:08All right, sweetie
00:07:09You know where to go
00:07:10Let's have that dove
00:07:12Let's see it
00:07:29Come on, sweetie
00:07:30Slowly
00:07:35Slow
00:07:48Yeah, gone
00:07:50Kid, kid
00:07:52Listen, kid
00:07:53Now you're getting your courage up
00:08:23Are you getting it up?
00:08:25Impressive
00:08:25That's our secret
00:08:27Scissors
00:08:32Now she's going to cut it away
00:08:37Snip, snip
00:08:41Snip it
00:08:42Cut
00:08:46What does she cut, kid?
00:08:48Your little jewels, Johnny
00:08:49Or hers?
00:08:51Let's feel that suspense, shall we?
00:08:53Come on, honey
00:08:54Feel it
00:08:55Suspense, baby
00:08:56Pure Hitchcock
00:08:58If you'll pardon her language, sweetie
00:09:00Hold still, Johnny
00:09:02You can't do that, can't you?
00:09:06Keep it rolling
00:09:08Keep it rolling
00:09:09Follow him
00:09:11Hold on him and keep rolling
00:09:13Keep rolling, everybody
00:09:15Keep rolling
00:09:15Both cameras
00:09:16I'd like a record of this
00:09:18That's it
00:09:18Hold on him
00:09:19And goodbye, Johnny Dale
00:09:30Hey, Angel, what would you drop?
00:09:32Fifteen precious minutes of Hannaford
00:09:35Every little bit
00:09:35Added to what we've got
00:09:37Makes it just that much more
00:09:40What happened to the light?
00:09:41I told those guys those spots were too much
00:09:43Where's the circuit break?
00:09:45Where's the circuit break?
00:09:46Come on, pulling off
00:09:48Oh, not again
00:09:49Excuse me, I'm sorry
00:09:52We are blacked out for good
00:09:54Excuse me
00:09:56Garth watched the birth rate
00:09:58Nine months from tonight
00:09:59Hey, what happened?
00:10:00Did that Jenny break down again?
00:10:02Twice in one night
00:10:03This is no accident
00:10:04It's seven
00:10:05Good heavens
00:10:06Who do you suspect?
00:10:07This, uh, cineast?
00:10:08He would know his cineast
00:10:10From a hole in the ground
00:10:10Probably a midget with a gruff
00:10:13I saw your film
00:10:14Well, you won't see any more of it tonight
00:10:16Why not?
00:10:18No lights, no projection, dum-dum
00:10:20Forgive me
00:10:21Besides
00:10:21I didn't make it
00:10:23You will, kid
00:10:24You will
00:10:25Let me tell you what I thought of it
00:10:27Get us a drink, will you, sweetie?
00:10:29Oh, just look for Jake Hannaford
00:10:31He glows in the dark
00:10:33Right, Brooksy?
00:10:35What you imitate is him
00:10:37The man, not the movies
00:10:39Your idea of him
00:10:40You know, the bullfights
00:10:42And the big game
00:10:43The whole macho bit
00:10:44Oh, you know, the truth of the matter is
00:10:47That as a macho
00:10:49He ain't all that much
00:10:50That chest ain't near as hairy
00:10:53As he'd like you to think
00:10:55Yeah
00:10:56Your guy's a big pink lobster
00:11:00Nothing's really tough
00:11:01Except the shell
00:11:03Now what?
00:11:04I ask you what's so tough about you
00:11:06When you ask me if I wouldn't like to find out
00:11:08And then we entertain the folks
00:11:10With a good old-fashioned Hollywood fistfight?
00:11:12Well
00:11:15If that's the way you want it, kid
00:11:17Well, old-fashioned is the word, all right
00:11:19Even in the way you do Hannaford
00:11:21Maybe he was like that
00:11:2230 years ago
00:11:23I'll give him 40 years
00:11:27My Jake will still look the shit out of his
00:11:34What the hell did you do that for?
00:11:36I wasn't even here
00:11:37This is all going on film, you know
00:11:41Come on, get him out of here
00:11:42You got it?
00:11:49Putting a little extra zing
00:11:51In the old-fashioned hall, let's see
00:11:53Do the same for you
00:11:54We, uh, imitation Hannafords
00:11:56Have got to stick together
00:11:58I brought that schoolteacher
00:12:01Remember?
00:12:01You were supposed to bring Max David
00:12:03Jake, I gotta talk to you about that
00:12:10No sweat
00:12:11A couple of wranglers will take him to the local first aid
00:12:14You think it'll be all right?
00:12:16Sure
00:12:17We'll donate his motorcycle to charity
00:12:20Please, if you're gonna have a fight, invite me
00:12:27Who told you I was broke?
00:12:35Well
00:12:36Billy said
00:12:38You sold the boat
00:12:39He did, did he?
00:12:40How about the roof over my head?
00:12:42How does that grab you?
00:12:44You mean the ranch?
00:12:45Out in the snow, kid
00:12:47Over the hill and down Dale
00:12:50But let's not ever speak of Master John Dale again
00:13:00Dale
00:13:02Dale
00:13:03That's what really buzzed, isn't it?
00:13:05Dale
00:13:06All your troubles
00:13:07What's one lousy leading man?
00:13:10Less than the dust
00:13:12Release my chariot wheels
00:13:18Jesus, I'll drink to that
00:13:32Is that for me?
00:13:33Thank you, Billy
00:13:41Pass it on
00:13:43Right on
00:14:04Billy
00:14:05Hey
00:14:07What are you doing, Billy? Smoking?
00:14:09What does it look like?
00:14:10Well, the way things are going tonight
00:14:12It could be a reefer
00:14:13Nowadays, we call him a joint
00:14:15What do you need tea for?
00:14:17You've got gumdrops
00:14:18We know
00:14:20That's to keep you off the juice
00:14:24He wants to see you
00:14:25Yeah?
00:14:28Well, I want to see him
00:14:30We got that teacher waiting
00:14:31Get on out there
00:14:32Guess who joined us?
00:14:34Herman the German
00:14:35Hermie?
00:14:37How's the boy?
00:14:39And you, Billy?
00:14:39Jake, I just told you
00:14:41Kept you busy?
00:14:41Just collecting school teachers
00:14:43Hey, can I please get myself something to eat?
00:14:47I wasn't just collecting school teachers
00:14:50Didn't they feed you?
00:14:51All they do on airplanes is feed you
00:14:54Surbulence
00:14:55Ooh
00:14:56You threw up
00:14:59Give him some candy, Billy
00:15:00Jake, those oil guys
00:15:02Keep the voices down
00:15:04These freaks got the whole joint wide for sound
00:15:06I caught one of them bugging a cactus
00:15:08What about the old guys?
00:15:10Don't be bashful, Hermie
00:15:11We know the answer
00:15:12They want no pun of us
00:15:15Neither does Max
00:15:17Right, Billy?
00:15:18Yeah
00:15:18Max David, that dirty crook
00:15:20Who needs him?
00:15:21We do
00:15:22Max?
00:15:22He's so crooked
00:15:23He's got rubber pockets
00:15:24So he can steal soup
00:15:26Our best chance was that oil money
00:15:28And Otterlake?
00:15:29Well, what about him?
00:15:30Yeah, what about me?
00:15:31Brooksy
00:15:32We wondered if you knew about the screening at the drive-in
00:15:36We're screening the rest of the movie
00:15:38He's seen the movie
00:15:39Not everything
00:15:42Well, we don't have everything
00:15:44Leave it to Jake
00:15:45Pretty soon you'll have too much
00:15:46You bet
00:15:48We've had our troubles before
00:15:49Want your little friend to get you a drink, Skipper?
00:15:52Thanks, Brooksy
00:15:53He's Max's golden-haired boy, isn't he?
00:15:56They gave Brooksy his own company
00:15:57Come on
00:15:58Tell us something we don't know
00:16:00I brought that schoolteacher
00:16:02Jake will see him if and when he feels like it
00:16:04What about Max David?
00:16:06That's who you were to bring out here
00:16:08Right after the screening
00:16:09He blew it
00:16:10Must be all that candy eats
00:16:14Me?
00:16:16You were the one with Max
00:16:18Where is he?
00:16:22And what the hell's a candy got to do with it?
00:16:25Could be it's softening your brain, Uncle
00:16:26It's for the sugar, you know that
00:16:28Since I got off that stuff
00:16:31John, speaking of which
00:16:34Speaking of which, here's little Mavis
00:16:37Who'll bring us a little fresh encouragement, pal
00:16:39Won't you, sweetie?
00:16:41Shouldn't I go home and pack?
00:16:42Pack?
00:16:43I mean, if we're going to Mexico
00:16:45Oh, we'd go as we are, Steve
00:16:48Just as we are
00:16:58Wasn't very smart, you know
00:17:01Poor mouthing like that in front of Otterlake
00:17:03You know who he is, don't you?
00:17:05Well, of course I do
00:17:06I've seen his pictures
00:17:07He's a big success
00:17:08Brooks Otterlake is money
00:17:10Not just success, but money
00:17:11His old man owns half the trees in Canada
00:17:13Yes, and you know
00:17:15What Billy told him
00:17:16He told him we're in trouble
00:17:17Well, aren't we?
00:17:20When you talk poor to the rich
00:17:22They jump to conclusions
00:17:23They think we're getting ready for the touch
00:17:25And that's what we're doing?
00:17:28Could have been the general idea
00:17:30Until Uncle Billy loused it up
00:17:34But, Mr. Hannaford
00:17:35Excuse me
00:17:36Didn't I just hear you saying
00:17:38About Otterlake?
00:17:39No more questions, Junior
00:17:41Where did this yo-yo come from?
00:17:42It happens I did one of the first
00:17:43Really positive, critical appraisals
00:17:45Of Brooks Otterlake
00:17:46Oh, hooray for you, buddy boy
00:17:48I just want to be helpful
00:17:49From what I overheard
00:17:50I understand there's some thought
00:17:52Of approaching him
00:17:52Well, the word for me
00:17:54Certainly couldn't hurt
00:17:55He's bound to feel some gratitude
00:17:56Mr. Otterlake's a chum
00:17:58You don't hustle our chums for dough
00:18:00We're kind of strict about that
00:18:02Always remember
00:18:03That your heart is God's little garden
00:18:07Is that recorder still running?
00:18:09No
00:18:09Well, see that it isn't
00:18:10Well, there's a camera somewhere
00:18:12Yeah
00:18:12A couple of them
00:18:18Studying a man like Jake Hannaford
00:18:20That's an experience
00:18:22Don't you miss it
00:18:23Stick with the job
00:18:30Eat little shit, Mr. Pester
00:18:39Have fun
00:18:40What's that video?
00:18:41That's the latest message
00:18:43Roger
00:18:43I did something I shouldn't have done
00:18:48Just what you think
00:18:49Oh, man
00:18:57But I saw him go into the library
00:18:59Oh, it's groovier in here
00:19:05Billy
00:19:06What are you doing?
00:19:10Otterlake
00:19:11I want to say, Brooksy
00:19:13What?
00:19:13You know about Billy
00:19:15He's been on the program for nine years
00:19:18What is the fundamental aesthetic distinction
00:19:21Between a Zoom and a dolly?
00:19:24What possible difference can that make
00:19:26Except to another dolly?
00:19:31Oh, forget it
00:19:32What?
00:19:35Fine
00:19:45This is the one that hurts, Brooksy
00:19:49Skip her
00:19:52It's a scene we both hoped we'd never get to
00:19:55I don't think it's going to play
00:19:58Not even for comedy
00:20:05How much do you need?
00:20:09How much have you got?
00:20:13Hey
00:20:13Remember when you first appeared on that location of mine out in Iran?
00:20:18Yeah, I didn't even have
00:20:18A fare back home
00:20:20Just that
00:20:22Second-hand tape recorder
00:20:24A raggedy-ass kid
00:20:25When was it?
00:20:27Only, uh, four years ago
00:20:29Skipper
00:20:31Yes
00:20:33That
00:20:35Forty million that was
00:20:38Mentioned
00:20:43I know, kid
00:20:47It's only a distant hope
00:20:49How's that for dialogue?
00:20:54Tell you what, Brooksy
00:20:56You might just lean a little on Max David
00:20:59You do the leaning
00:21:01He's got to give
00:21:03I did set up the screening
00:21:05So you did, Brooksy
00:21:07And he hated every frame
00:21:09He's an idiot, Jake
00:21:11They're all idiots
00:21:12You know that
00:21:13He's your idiot
00:21:14Up to a point
00:21:16Don't be pointless, Brooksy
00:21:18You made his company all that loot
00:21:22Christ knows I didn't
00:21:23I don't think I'm not ready to put up a fight for you
00:21:26Want me to spare you the embarrassment?
00:21:28It's you I'm thinking of
00:21:29God, I don't want to have to listen to Max David
00:21:32All those stupid
00:21:35Turning you down
00:21:38Don't give up the ship
00:21:39Eh, Brooksy?
00:21:41I'm not
00:21:47I told you this wouldn't play
00:21:52You alright, Jimmy?
00:21:55Oh, sure
00:21:57Don't worry about me
00:21:58You've got troubles of your own
00:21:59Jesus, all this TV
00:22:01There must be plenty of work for a good makeup man
00:22:04I got a suggestion
00:22:05Yeah?
00:22:07It's what you can do with them dummies
00:22:09I know what I can do with them
00:22:11Listen, Pat
00:22:12You take them dummies, see
00:22:14And you take this piece of iron pipe
00:22:17And you slash and beat and chop away to your heart's content
00:22:23Or maybe give the pop to Jake
00:22:26He'd feel a whole lot better off afterwards, believe me
00:22:29The state requires you to put to the Pacific
00:22:32Well, and yes, every state does
00:22:34So in order to graduate by January
00:22:36I'd have to take one correspondence course
00:22:39Well, Mr. Hannaford
00:22:41You have two more credits to go
00:22:43Oh, Mr. Hannaford
00:22:44Mr. Hannaford
00:22:51Dr. Bradley Pierce Burroughs
00:22:54Pease
00:22:56Pease?
00:22:57Bradley Pease Burroughs
00:23:02Enough that it matters now
00:23:04How do you do, sir?
00:23:06Here you go
00:23:08Oh, may I take you?
00:23:09Oh, yes, thank you
00:23:23The doc here is professor of English literature
00:23:25At the, uh, Franahan, uh, boarding academy for boys
00:23:30Clyde, Bill
00:23:35That's the name of the school
00:23:36He also teaches dramatics
00:23:42And who do you think was my star pupil?
00:23:45Of course, we knew him then as Oscar
00:23:51Oscar
00:23:53Tell about, uh, Aunt Daisy with the funny hats
00:23:57Well, uh, they weren't that funny
00:24:00She raised him, so you said
00:24:01And from the time he was first able to walk
00:24:05He used to put on shows
00:24:06You know, with his aunt these hats
00:24:08And gowns and dresses
00:24:11Wait, Dale tells us
00:24:12He didn't even want to be an actor
00:24:15Supposedly Jake's idea
00:24:16He practically forced him into it
00:24:18Yeah
00:24:19What was he doing, um
00:24:21In Acapulco
00:24:23Besides getting stoned
00:24:26He made the trip just to see you
00:24:45Does all this matter?
00:24:47Take a test of Jake
00:24:49Oh, Christ
00:24:52Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
00:24:58And the change of name?
00:25:00Well, for that, I'm afraid we have to blame Oscar Wilde
00:25:11we had this
00:25:14yeah
00:25:15there was an unpleasant little
00:25:23you see there was this
00:25:27we had this teacher
00:25:29he was just one of those that moved up
00:25:31you mean he was a faggot
00:25:33this teacher was a faggot
00:25:37well
00:25:47mr. Hannaford
00:25:54this story concerns my school
00:25:57I'm in no position to
00:26:02publish
00:26:03publish and be damned
00:26:04look
00:26:06they've run out of film
00:26:08you can speak off the record
00:26:12Dale was in no way involved
00:26:15you know
00:26:15but
00:26:16among the boys
00:26:18there was a great deal of morbid
00:26:21conversation
00:26:23afraid on unhealthy subjects
00:26:27as you could imagine
00:26:28with a name like Oscar
00:26:32what happened to that teacher
00:26:34we let him go of course
00:26:36let him go
00:26:37what about the police
00:26:41the man was sick
00:26:42mr. Hannaford
00:26:43those young boys
00:26:44they must have been sick after he finished with them
00:26:47I hope you're not worried about Dale
00:26:51you think I should be
00:26:54wouldn't that depend mr. Hannaford on your own personal interest
00:27:02what are you driving at dr. Burroughs
00:27:05nothing
00:27:12nothing
00:27:16I'm just his director
00:27:17not his
00:27:18Aunt Daisy
00:27:19and I'm just his English teacher
00:27:30but certainly he has every reason to be grateful to you
00:27:32and I'm sure that one day when one of his fine performances
00:27:35gets the academy award
00:27:37well by you'll be grateful to him
00:27:38uh notice
00:27:39how careful he is not to refer to it as an Oscar
00:27:48would you like to take a dip dr. Burroughs
00:27:50a dip?
00:27:53oh the pool
00:27:54what a grand suggestion
00:27:56a little more hoot
00:27:58shouldn't be helpful
00:27:59I'll be right with
00:28:01good good
00:28:13where do I change?
00:28:15right here
00:28:16in the sight of God
00:28:21we all promise not to look
00:28:31yes I suppose
00:28:32all school teachers are prigs
00:28:35I suppose
00:28:37prigs or fackets
00:28:39now now mr. Hannaford
00:28:41now now dr. Burroughs
00:28:53we were conned mother
00:28:56he was a fake
00:28:58he knows the way they met
00:29:00but mr. John Dale
00:29:02was pulled out of the water
00:29:03the famous would-be suicide
00:29:05would-be suicide?
00:29:07I'm bored with the whole story
00:29:09would-be suicides
00:29:11ought to be treated like drunks
00:29:15it turns out he doesn't belong to you
00:29:18belong?
00:29:19the old Chinese business
00:29:20remember?
00:29:22you save a life
00:29:23you own that life
00:29:25finders keepers?
00:29:26Jake isn't a Chinaman
00:29:28and Dale wasn't a suicide
00:29:30no he was an actor
00:29:32and he wasn't drowning
00:29:32he was auditioning
00:29:34Jake
00:29:34that boy didn't run away
00:29:36he was thrown away
00:29:38yes mother
00:29:39I'm sweet
00:29:40holy Jesus
00:29:41what a relief that was
00:29:42like getting rid of an aching tooth
00:29:44or the monkey off your back
00:29:46trying to happen
00:29:47something you gotta kick
00:29:48yes my foot was getting sore
00:29:52how are you going to finish it?
00:29:54that boy is all washed up
00:29:56miss Felicia
00:29:56the picture?
00:29:58isn't that what matters?
00:29:59well we've got that footage
00:30:01of him bringing
00:30:02the claws to her
00:30:04and all that wind
00:30:05right Maggie?
00:30:06to the girl
00:30:08what then?
00:30:09the girl?
00:30:10what about her?
00:30:15yes
00:30:15Dale wasn't
00:30:16and neither is Mr. Hannaford
00:30:18that's funny isn't it?
00:30:21a scream
00:30:22I'd just like to ask
00:30:23Mr. Hannaford
00:30:24if things wouldn't have been
00:30:25very different
00:30:25if Dale had been her lover
00:30:28they weren't lovers
00:30:29doesn't that sort of
00:30:31spoil the pattern?
00:30:32miss rich?
00:30:33she's on again
00:30:35you ask him
00:30:41why don't you get lost
00:30:43buster
00:30:43tonight
00:30:44it's all on the record
00:30:46it's all hanging out
00:30:48it's how Zara wants it
00:30:49there's a present for you
00:30:50the truth shall set us free
00:30:52not from me
00:30:53from Zimmy
00:30:54Zimmy?
00:30:55there's a card with it
00:30:56you ought to have a drink
00:30:57with Zimmy
00:30:58you fired him
00:30:59I always fire Zimmy
00:31:01he fires Zimmy constantly
00:31:02anyway
00:31:03it's my birthday
00:31:04I always give the presents
00:31:06it's some kind of a gag
00:31:08we know
00:31:10he makes the gags too
00:31:13did he tell you
00:31:14where I should stick it?
00:31:14oh Zimmy's jokes
00:31:17just in case you want to use it
00:31:19on those dummy John Dales
00:31:21he made for you
00:31:22speaking of presents
00:31:24and I got a present
00:31:27have a go at the dummies Jake
00:31:29they break even more easily
00:31:30than people
00:31:39gentlemen
00:31:43ladies
00:31:45we are presenting an award
00:31:48to the other half
00:31:50the other side of the wind
00:31:51the better half
00:31:54a bone
00:31:55for Pocahontas
00:31:57a little curio
00:31:59we picked up somewhere
00:32:00a bit of our own
00:32:02pale-faced
00:32:03craftsmanship
00:32:05Indian bone
00:32:07the inscription goes back to
00:32:10before all this
00:32:12was movie country
00:32:13just after
00:32:15gold was found
00:32:16the Indian population
00:32:18dropped pretty quickly
00:32:19and in 10 years
00:32:21about 90,000 of them
00:32:24just disappeared
00:32:25well in those
00:32:27good old days
00:32:29our gallant
00:32:30honky pioneers
00:32:31used to cut off
00:32:34Indian ears
00:32:35and pickle them in whiskey
00:32:37for souvenirs
00:32:39and on pieces of bone
00:32:41like this
00:32:42they'd
00:32:43write funny little jokes
00:32:45I am off
00:32:47the reservation
00:32:48at last
00:32:52and so are you
00:32:53my dear
00:32:55perhaps you'd like
00:32:56to present this
00:32:57to our leading man
00:32:59right up his ass
00:33:08the old man
00:33:09is a destroyer
00:33:10what he creates
00:33:11he has to wreck
00:33:11it's a compulsion
00:33:12then we must wait
00:33:13my dear
00:33:14for him to eat us alive
00:33:16unless
00:33:17perhaps you are a critic
00:33:18he does rather tend
00:33:20to push him
00:33:20to the side of his plate
00:33:23but others
00:33:25we who
00:33:25blow a little
00:33:26in his lights
00:33:28the fireflies
00:33:30fireflies
00:33:30I'll drink to that
00:33:31he does quite often
00:33:33swallow whole
00:33:35and it's a fact
00:33:36that some of us
00:33:38he chews on
00:33:40rather slowly
00:33:41and you wouldn't
00:33:42call him a destroyer
00:33:44I withdraw the aphorism
00:33:46and give you
00:33:47in its place
00:33:47a simple law
00:33:48of physics
00:33:51no machine
00:33:52ever produces
00:33:54as much
00:33:54as it consumes
00:33:56and everybody was happy
00:33:58till I found him
00:33:59one Sunday morning
00:34:00in his suite
00:34:00in the old Hollywood
00:34:01hotel
00:34:02hanging from a
00:34:03chambler
00:34:08there
00:34:09with a
00:34:10Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
00:34:18a
00:34:38early morning
00:34:39just before dawn
00:34:42not yet
00:34:46Flashback, Mimis.
00:34:48An old-fashioned flashback.
00:34:52Brot in the boat.
00:34:54And we just happened to notice somebody drowning.
00:34:58Trying to.
00:34:59Young punk nobody ever heard of.
00:35:02John Dan.
00:35:04You've heard of him now?
00:35:07Yes.
00:35:08How's this?
00:35:09After we dried him out, we tried to get him in as a steak drive, but no.
00:35:13Oh, we know this story.
00:35:16Backwards.
00:35:18I just can't get him interested in anything.
00:35:21Put me in a movie.
00:35:22Make me a movie star.
00:35:24What does that prove?
00:35:29What does it prove, Mimis?
00:35:33Bores him to death.
00:35:36But he stops trying to die.
00:35:38Cured him of that.
00:35:39Master Johnny just kicks me sharply in the groin and walks away.
00:35:50Suicide.
00:35:52We were speaking of suicides.
00:36:06Want me to bring you another scotch?
00:36:21Well?
00:36:25What can I do for you, Miss Rich?
00:36:27You could tell me what's going on here.
00:36:29Or why.
00:36:30I wouldn't even begin to try.
00:36:34After Monday, I won't have to worry about it.
00:36:37What does that mean?
00:36:39Yes.
00:36:41I don't want to.
00:36:43It sounds like you are quitting.
00:36:47You wouldn't do for that.
00:36:49It's chapter 11.
00:36:51We're finished.
00:36:54See you around.
00:36:56Where's Matt?
00:36:57He's got that meeting with the bankers in New York, so he's going straight to the airport.
00:37:01He was supposed to fix it with the drive-in theater.
00:37:04With the screening?
00:37:05Yeah, he's stopping it at first.
00:37:06Good, but Jake said we shouldn't tell too many people.
00:37:10I won't.
00:37:12There ain't much left of this party as it is.
00:37:18Jesus.
00:37:20Up to fireflies, eh, Billy?
00:37:22Right on!
00:37:43I'm sorry, JJ.
00:37:45It's almost time to go to the drive-in to screen the rest of the picture.
00:37:49Never.
00:38:13Sounds like a shot to you.
00:38:15Marin, I'm surprised at you.
00:38:17This allows you a line of dialogue with your note.
00:38:25Fastest gunner in the West, folks.
00:38:27Jake?
00:38:28What the hell are we doing?
00:38:30We're having a party!
00:38:35Hey, you!
00:38:37What's the harness?
00:38:46From your boss.
00:38:48He says you'll know what to do with it.
00:38:59My god, there's reinforcements.
00:39:02Mini ha-ha.
00:39:02What?
00:39:03Princess Laughing Water.
00:39:04She shows hell off the reservation tonight.
00:39:07What I want to know is who the hell she's aiming at.
00:39:12I know anything about old Master Jake.
00:39:15That rescued lady is supposed to be aiming at the dummies.
00:39:18But why?
00:39:19Why not?
00:39:47What's going on?
00:40:00Billy, have you seen this?
00:40:02Space what?
00:40:04Well, there are little men up there.
00:40:06They're shooting Roman cannons on the roof.
00:40:11That are in troops, Pilgrim.
00:40:14And they are realists.
00:40:16And the grand old new wave, sir, they'll never give up.
00:40:21What's that about?
00:40:23I thought you knew about the midgets.
00:40:25What's that you know about midgets?
00:40:27Well, they broke into the wine cellar.
00:40:29Now they got their tiny little hands on the fireworks.
00:40:32They are going to support the party.
00:40:34Jake's done that already.
00:40:35Goddard has just set up a government in exile.
00:40:38Just a minute.
00:40:38Will you let him tell his joke?
00:40:40See, I told you it wasn't much of a joke.
00:40:42What the hell is that?
00:40:48Artillery.
00:40:49The heavy stuff.
00:40:50Is the children and women folk safe?
00:40:54Someone's shooting at me.
00:40:55There is a stockade.
00:40:56Stockade.
00:40:57What?
00:40:58Stockade.
00:40:59That's what I said.
00:41:00All right now, attention, everybody.
00:41:02Mr. Hannaford's motion picture will continue projection
00:41:05in the Magnolia Gardens Drive-In Moving Theater,
00:41:09which has been specially hired for the occasion
00:41:11at the corner of El Dorado and Gettys.
00:41:14Just one block south of the freeway.
00:41:17No tickets required.
00:41:18Another Hannaford shot?
00:41:19The drive-in is just a short way in the rear
00:41:21on the route to Los Angeles
00:41:23so all you that miss the closing reels
00:41:25can have you this material
00:41:27from the comfort of your own cause.
00:41:29Thank you and good night.
00:41:31Well, Pastor Lucci doesn't surrender now.
00:41:34Brutal Lucci.
00:41:35Slice him how you want to.
00:41:37He's gonna be one spicy meatball.
00:41:42You see that little old lady over there?
00:41:45The one with the blue tennis shoes?
00:41:48You see her?
00:41:48Where?
00:41:49No, you mean who?
00:41:50All right.
00:41:51Who?
00:41:52It's Governor Regan.
00:41:54Regan.
00:41:54That's who?
00:41:55Regan.
00:41:55Regan.
00:41:56Regan.
00:41:56Regan.
00:41:57Regan Regan.
00:41:59Oh, yeah.
00:42:01Approached by a video freak
00:42:03with an indecent suggestion,
00:42:05just as he was sneaking across the state line,
00:42:07Ronnie's wig slipped.
00:42:10Is he still governor?
00:42:11Governor?
00:42:12He has decreed a state of emergency
00:42:14and thrown himself in the mercy of central casting.
00:42:25of the American Revolution.
00:42:27He's been arrested for denigrating all over a daughter of the American Revolution.
00:42:33He's still demanding equal time.
00:42:35Here.
00:42:37Here.
00:42:37Five of our best biographers have just gone over to Preminger.
00:42:40Hanson, Yoni, Yoni, Yoni, Yoni!
00:42:42What?
00:42:43They're dropping over Burbank.
00:42:45Will the Alder of the 74 Blue Impala.
00:42:48Please come down and move it.
00:42:55I wonder if our leader has any idea who that belongs to.
00:42:58No, but he paid for it.
00:43:00What?
00:43:01It was supposed to be Dale's.
00:43:02Wow.
00:43:03We weren't giving him much of a salary,
00:43:05so he would have got that as a bonus when he finished the picture.
00:43:08He didn't, so he doesn't.
00:43:09Hmm?
00:43:12Now, here's a late bulletin.
00:43:15Marlon Brando, who, by the way, folks,
00:43:17is not pregnant, has gone underground,
00:43:20and is doing splendid work for all of us
00:43:23under the name Tokyo Rose.
00:43:26Sit up, Rooksy.
00:43:28They haven't got us yet.
00:43:32Here's a lady who tells us we've got to stick together, Jake and I.
00:43:35The farther you're apart, the harder it will always be to hide.
00:43:38What would we be hiding, lady?
00:43:41How much you really hate each other.
00:43:44You've got it slightly wrong.
00:43:46Yes?
00:43:50No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:44:20No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:44:20no, no.
00:44:20Hot coffee?
00:44:21Over here.
00:44:24Don't say another case.
00:44:27Black coffee.
00:44:29Hope Jake's one of your customers.
00:44:32That's the idea.
00:44:35Of course.
00:44:38I wouldn't give much for the rest of them, but lucky he's got you, Baron.
00:44:42Oh, he'll get along without me.
00:44:46What does that mean?
00:44:47There's a time for all things under the sun, Mr. Otterlake.
00:44:50I'm getting much too old for my job, if you can call it that.
00:44:55nonsense.
00:44:56What I wouldn't give for somebody like you.
00:44:59I'm not on the market.
00:45:01You never were.
00:45:03Oh, even for a neutral observer, there is a price.
00:45:07Not worth it for you, though.
00:45:09You're not quite tough enough for that.
00:45:11Not yet.
00:45:13But who knows, Mr. Otterlake.
00:45:15Perhaps you will be.
00:45:17And where will that put me, Baron, in your estimation?
00:45:21What you want to be.
00:45:24Know what you need now and always are the soldiers.
00:45:28The good soldiers.
00:45:31Men like Billy.
00:45:33They followed Hannibal and Napoleon.
00:45:37They really crossed the Alps.
00:45:40They are the heroes in any story.
00:45:45Is there a movie in it?
00:46:34Excuse me.
00:46:35Maggie, I'm afraid we're getting out of sequence.
00:46:38Someone must have given me the wrong reel.
00:46:40Does it matter?
00:46:45Maggie ought to be here.
00:46:47Keeping the reels in order.
00:46:49Who?
00:46:52She's the film editor.
00:46:53I'm a singer.
00:46:57Well.
00:47:03Well.
00:47:06You're right, I suppose.
00:47:08It doesn't matter at all.
00:47:15But this rough magic he here abjures.
00:47:18Take back that lass that doesn't fit.
00:47:21What does abjure me?
00:47:24You went to Harvard.
00:47:25Give up.
00:47:28Is that a suggestion?
00:47:31Abjure.
00:47:31He knows what it means.
00:47:32I gave up from the seventh grade.
00:47:36How about you?
00:47:41Never.
00:47:43Not even then.
00:47:48And I didn't learn my Shakespeare at Harvard.
00:47:52Mr. Otterfield here wanted to be an actor.
00:47:56Then he saw one of my films.
00:47:58We all read the interview.
00:48:01He is a rough magician, isn't he?
00:48:05You can kiss my sweet ass.
00:48:08What did I do wrong, Daddy?
00:48:15Our rebels now are ended.
00:48:20You bet your sweet cheeks.
00:48:29I thought you had left.
00:48:31We had to hire this driving for the whole night.
00:48:33Somebody had to make the arrangements, didn't they?
00:48:36It's on the way back to town.
00:48:38Monday, I'll have an office at Universal.
00:48:40Give me a ring.
00:48:42This station wagon?
00:48:43What about it?
00:48:44It belongs to Jake.
00:48:46Where shall I pick it up?
00:48:47At Universal?
00:48:48It goes back to the dealer.
00:48:51Yes.
00:48:52Like the sports car, I suppose.
00:48:54The one Jake is driving.
00:48:55Oh, that one's paid for.
00:48:57That was going to be a present, remember?
00:48:59For John Dale, when he finished the picture.
00:49:07Wait a minute.
00:49:09Wait a minute.
00:49:12What's with Billy?
00:49:14He ran out of gumdrops.
00:49:41Going so soon, honey?
00:49:44Yes.
00:49:45Wasn't much fun for you, was it?
00:49:47Goddamn midgets.
00:49:49Friends of yours?
00:49:50Oh, so sorry, Zara.
00:49:52I'm afraid our leader is a little pissed.
00:49:55She doesn't like a kid.
00:49:56That's why she gave the party.
00:49:58She figures I don't relate enough to the younger generation.
00:50:01Just through you.
00:50:03But I do, you know.
00:50:04I relate all I need to relate.
00:50:16Hey, beautiful.
00:50:18Couldn't we fix it to see each other?
00:50:19Just a little bit less seldom?
00:50:23With an old friend,
00:50:25it's quite enough to know he's there.
00:50:28At Gibraltar.
00:50:30The Eiffel Tower.
00:50:33Durability.
00:50:35It can be rather fragile.
00:50:39Sometimes, to keep that feeling,
00:50:42we need to keep our distance.
00:50:45The bad thing is to find out
00:50:48that a friendship was between a couple of other people.
00:50:52Thanks, Mom.
00:50:56You hear that?
00:50:57That's an old man with you though, remember?
00:51:10We found him together in Spain.
00:51:14Where is he now?
00:51:16Back there with our hostess.
00:51:18By the limo.
00:51:20Valeska.
00:51:20Is she leaving?
00:51:21Looks that way.
00:51:24Well, she'll have to answer a few questions first.
00:51:32Say goodnight for me to your actress.
00:51:34She was pretty good in there, that gun.
00:51:36She wasn't shooting at the dummies.
00:51:40The preferred target, I suppose, would have been me.
00:51:44Preferred by whom, Mr. Hannaford?
00:51:45You gave her the gun.
00:51:47Well, what does that mean?
00:51:49What's it supposed to mean?
00:51:51Don't worry.
00:51:52Even if she doesn't know, she'll tell us.
00:51:55Miss Valeska,
00:51:57you made just one film with Mr. Hannaford.
00:52:00Yes.
00:52:01Now, Garvey, Glenn Garvey was your leading man.
00:52:03Now, it is true, isn't it,
00:52:04that during the shooting of that film,
00:52:06Mr. Hannaford had an affair with Garvey's wife.
00:52:09Men are the subject of his films,
00:52:11and whoever the man is,
00:52:14naturally, he's got a girl, right?
00:52:16And whoever she is,
00:52:18somehow, finally, Hannaford seduces her.
00:52:21He must.
00:52:22He has to possess her,
00:52:23because it's the only way that he can possess him.
00:52:26We'll have to stop this, you know.
00:52:28Okay, okay, cut it, you guys.
00:52:30Expensive vice, isn't it?
00:52:32After he's had his actor's girl,
00:52:34he throws her away,
00:52:35and then he's thrown his actor away
00:52:36and destroyed him in the process.
00:52:38Maybe that's what you really want.
00:52:40Oh, well, Ms. Rich, are you all right?
00:52:45You son of a bitch of a one and a people!
00:52:48Let's go, Perk!
00:52:49I got it, I got it, I got it.
00:52:50You mother fucker!
00:52:51I'm all right!
00:52:52Let's go of you.
00:52:53All right, go home!
00:52:56You're still getting all this on film, you know.
00:52:58Who gives a shit?
00:53:01Where's your public, for Christ's sake?
00:53:04Before any of you creeps
00:53:05can put this stuff together,
00:53:07we'll have our own movie!
00:53:09A real movie!
00:53:18What happened to the critic, lady?
00:53:19She'll live.
00:53:21Yeah, she'll live to write about it.
00:53:26Go let him get you down, Brooksy.
00:53:29Do you?
00:53:30Not yet.
00:53:53Remember those Berbers up in the atlas?
00:53:55They wouldn't let us point a camera at them.
00:53:57They're certain that it dries up something.
00:54:01The old eye, you know,
00:54:04behind the magic box.
00:54:06Could be it's an evil eye at that.
00:54:09Medusas.
00:54:27Johnny?
00:54:30So, you came to my party after all.
00:54:36Get in, I'll drive you.
00:54:44Chicken?
00:54:44Mm-hmm.
00:55:14Chicken?
00:55:19Chicken?
00:55:22Chicken?
00:55:23Chicken?
00:55:24Chicken?
00:55:26Chicken?
00:55:29Chicken?
00:55:32Chicken?
00:55:32Chicken?
00:55:33Chicken?
00:55:35Chicken?
00:55:36Chicken?
00:55:36Chicken?
00:55:37Chicken?
00:55:38Chicken?
00:55:39Chicken?
00:55:40Chicken?
00:55:41Chicken?
00:55:41Chicken?
00:55:42Chicken?
00:55:43Chicken?
00:55:43Chicken?
00:55:43Chicken?
00:55:47Allí vas pendiente de la cruz
00:56:03Allí, allí
00:56:05Allí, allí
00:56:16Allí
00:56:19Allí
00:56:20Allí
00:56:21Allí
00:56:23Allí
00:56:28Allí
00:56:29Allí
00:56:31Allí
00:56:53Allí
00:56:54Ehi che entuparà
00:57:26I'm a too hard, no?
00:57:27Who knows?
00:57:28Maybe you can stare too hard at something, huh?
00:57:32Drain out the virtue.
00:57:33Suck out the living juice.
00:57:37You shoot the great places,
00:57:39and the pretty people.
00:57:42All those girls and boys.
00:57:46Shoot them dead.
00:58:17Grazie a tutti.
00:58:43Grazie a tutti.
00:59:10Grazie a tutti.
00:59:32Grazie a tutti.
01:00:05Grazie a tutti.
01:00:36Grazie a tutti.
01:01:21Grazie a tutti.
01:01:46Grazie a tutti.
01:02:14Grazie a tutti.
01:02:24Grazie a tutti.
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