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Hell, no, we won't go!
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Hell, no, we won't go!
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Hell, no, we won't go!
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Hell, no, we won't go!
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There was a war going on.
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He killed Malcolm,
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King, the president,
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even the president's brother.
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Vietnam was being shoved
down our throats.
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They were shooting us,
hosing us, lynching us,
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and in the movies,
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they was making us look
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any fucking way they wanted to.
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Did I fuck him?
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Now, see that's
none of your damn business.
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Remember this--
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good things...
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do not come...
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to those who wait.
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1970.
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I'd just finisheddirecting Watermelon Man
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for Columbia Pictures.
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They were setting me up
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to become their very firsttoken nigga-ologist.
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Since the moviehadn't come out yet,
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everyone was being extra nice,calling me Mel, baby.
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Mel, baby, great picture.
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I loved it.
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Very funny.
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Hey, when do we get
the next script?
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Three picture deal
with fucking Columbia Pictures.
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Three picture deal
with fucking Columbia Pictures.
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Am I good or am I good?
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Well, you're going to start
pitching these sons a bitches
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before Watermelon Man comes out,
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because if we wait
and it opens badly,
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these cocksuckers,
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they'll turn on us, you know,
in a second.
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My agent, Howie, was right.
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I had to come upwith my next film idea
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before the money guys got cold.
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I mean,
it's got to be something funny
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because they want something funny.
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Hollywood likedto show us clowning,
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but America wasn'tin a laughing mood...
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especially black America.
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Times were changing.
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The Panthers knew it.
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The students knew it.
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Hollywood was ignoring it.
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You happened to be brilliant
at something funny.
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What do you...
Maybe a fried chicken man.
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It's because it's not far
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from Watermelon Man,
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and you could make it funny.
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Yeah.
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I'd grown up on those images
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and nothing Hollywood ever didreflected who we were.
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This is it?
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This ain't camping.
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We don't have a sleeping bag.
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You got the helmet, didn't you?
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Shut up and listen for a while.
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What was my next moviegoing to be?
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Some ideawas lurking back there,
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just waitingfor the coast to clear.
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The military?
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Somebody, like,
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a guy who's, like,
a cook in the Army.
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God knows what happens to him.
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There was even a military flick
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where Bubba can't walk.
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The kindly white doctor
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gives him a good,
old-fashioned dose
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of racial shock.
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You dirty nigger!Get up and walk!
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Get him back on his feet.
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All for a good cause.
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Melvin!
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Street brother,
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average hustler turns revolutionary.
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Another comedy?
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Serious as cancer.
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Who's going to want to see that?
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Black guys always die
in the end.
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Can we go now?
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That's it.
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I'd make a filmabout a real brother,
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not some bourgie or clown,like they always do,
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but a real brother,a street brother,
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just getting the man's footout his ass.
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Given number one--
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no cop-outs.
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I want a movie
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where niggerscan walk out the picture
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standing tall
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instead of having to avoideach other's eyes.
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Given number two--
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entertainment-wise,it had to be a motherfucker.
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If folks get bored, it's over.
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Given number three--
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show business is business.
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The man hasan Achilles pocketbook.
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It had to be a moneymaker.
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The man ain't going to carryno messages for you for free,
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especially a relevant one.
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Given number four--
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I wanted this pictureto star the community...
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all the community.
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All the faces
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that Norman Rockwellnever painted.
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* You bled my mama... *
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I might have had a Leroy.
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I might have...
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I might have had a Leroy...
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My secretary, Priscilla,
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turned every entranceinto an audition,
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but she was too late.
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All I could hear
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were the voices in my headtalking to me now.
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Take him. Take him.
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Howie's on the phone.
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Mel, your agent's on the phone.
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I have a dream that one day...
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that all men are created equal.
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We don't seeany American dream.
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We've experiencedonly the American nightmare.
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Wash your car, mister?
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Wash your car, mister?
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How you gonna hibernatelike that old bear?
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Baby, baby.
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That's why the man'sdown on you.
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Bam. Bam.
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You want to knowwhat they think of you?
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Just turn on your TV.
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You're nothing but a bunchof ignorant clowns.
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The policeman isn't thereto create disorder.
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The policeman is thereto preserve disorder.
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The police aren't hereto protect and serve.
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They're hereto patrol and control.
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Are you anti-cop,or anti-white?
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No, no, no.
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We are anti-oppression.
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You can't fight racismwith racism.
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To defend the freedomin Vietnam.
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Ask not...
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what your countrycan do for you.
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Ask what you can dofor your country.
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Justice is blind!
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I'd been expecting him.
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I knew he'd show upsooner or later.
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You're out of your fucking mind,
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you know that?
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You in or out?
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Finished.
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Only one thing left.
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I'd need bread.
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Money.
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Mel?
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After two weeks you finally
decide to pick up.
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I've been to the gold mine, man.
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I struck the mother lode.
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Mel. Mel, don't--
don't mess with me.
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Do you have any idea
what's going on?
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They're gonna back-burner
the three picture deal, Mel.
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Now, yesterday they wanted
to do it.
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I'm meeting these executives
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in less than an hour.
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A brother, a street brother,
turns revolutionary.
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Okay, good. So wait.
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The hero is him or the brother.
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Mel, listen.
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He's the wrong nigger
to fuck with.
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The cops fuck with him,
and he whoops some ass.
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The man comes after him,
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full force--
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Helicopter,cars, everything,
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and he gets away.
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Why are the cops after him
if he's the good guy?
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Because they're dirty cops, man.
They're racist.
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They're crooked cops.
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Listen, Mel.
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Here's what you're gonna do.
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You're gonna meet meon the lot in an hour,
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and wear a suit, please.
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And Mel,
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even Cagneydidn't get away
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with killing cops,right--
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dirty or otherwise.
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And we're cut.
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All right.
These bags are heavy.
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I'm tired of this shit.
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Come on,
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he's making money,
and he's funny.
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Come on.
Don't be so touchy.
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It's a Western.
Everybody loves a Western.
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You know what?
Speaking of Westerns--
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This idea I got
is kind of like a--
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like a ghetto Western.
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In fact...
Ghetto western?
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the brother even wears, like,
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a black kind of cowboy hat...
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And dig this, man,
at the end of the movie.
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When he gets away,
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words come blazing
across the screen.
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Badass niggas gonna come back
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and collect some dues.
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Have you lost your mind?
Are you taking drugs now?
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Listen to me. Listen to me.
Melvin, listen to me.
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On Watermelon Man,
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your white lead
is supposed to wake up
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from this nightmare
where he's a black guy
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and turns back
into being white again,
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and you said, "No, no,
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being black is not a nightmare,"
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and you didn't shoot
the ending the studio wanted.
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Who backed you 100 percent?
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So why are you doing this to me?
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I can't take this kind
of inflammatory shit.
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To a major studio,
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nobody legitimate
is gonna touch Baadasssss.
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No one!
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You know how hard
we worked to get here?
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Melvin, just do
the fucking comedy, okay?
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All right. They're--
They're coming.
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Do you know what this is?
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You're terrified
you're gonna fail,
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so you're failing yourself.
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Nothing to it being black
or blue or green.
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You hear me?
It's self-destruction.
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Hey. Marty.
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Allen. How you doing?
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Good to see you.
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So, listen, you know...
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I was-- I was--
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Melvin. Wa--
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He's in a world of his own.
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Melvin.
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What is this,
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some kind of personal crusade,
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or are you really
gonna make a movie?
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I'm making
a movie, motherfucker.
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Yeah?
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First black power film.
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Yeah, what about people power, man?
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No, you people got the power.
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All you gotta do
is get yourself a haircut.
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You join the establishment
any time you want.
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And you are black forever.
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Dig it.
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I hear that.
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You just gotta remember
the golden rule--
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He who has the gold
makes the rules.
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Now, if the studio
gives you money,
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they're gonna want control.
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That's true.
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Nothing truly revolutionary
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is gonna come
from the studio machine.
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Independent money.
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That's the answer,
independent financing.
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Yes.
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That's exactly what
I'm talking about,
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a group
of radical young filmmakers
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collaborating, man.
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It makes this easier for us
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to float a loan
from the money guy.
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You know what I'm talking about?
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Diversify our resources, right?
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We get a warehouse,
a working space,
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share equipment, right?
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A living space...
272
00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:42,867
Bill, that's more of this
hippie commune shit.
273
00:13:42,867 --> 00:13:43,867
That's never gonna fly, man.
274
00:13:43,867 --> 00:13:47,468
Fuck you, man.
275
00:13:47,468 --> 00:13:49,101
It's hurts my feelings
calling me a hippie.
276
00:13:49,101 --> 00:13:51,900
Why you wanna do that?
277
00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:53,800
Look, man, I got film experience.
278
00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,034
You gotta let me produce.
279
00:13:55,034 --> 00:13:56,600
You can't even balance
your own checkbook.
280
00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:57,600
I got resources, man,
281
00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,633
economic resources.
282
00:13:59,633 --> 00:14:01,934
I got people lined up
ready to invest their money
283
00:14:01,934 --> 00:14:03,734
in something real.
284
00:14:03,734 --> 00:14:05,600
You help me raise the money?
285
00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,034
You call yourself
whatever you want.
286
00:14:07,034 --> 00:14:09,900
Producer, produced by Bill Harris.
287
00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:12,067
Executive producer.
288
00:14:14,401 --> 00:14:15,567
Another thing.
289
00:14:15,567 --> 00:14:17,900
I want this motherfucker
to be a living work share.
290
00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:20,633
I want 50 percent of the people
on the crew
291
00:14:20,633 --> 00:14:22,967
to be getting experience,
to be third world folks.
292
00:14:22,967 --> 00:14:25,034
Unions are lily white.
293
00:14:25,034 --> 00:14:27,234
They'll never go for it.
294
00:14:27,234 --> 00:14:28,234
Fuck 'em.
295
00:14:30,134 --> 00:14:32,101
Bill was right.
296
00:14:32,101 --> 00:14:33,734
The unions were lily white.
297
00:14:33,734 --> 00:14:35,667
Even if I couldafford their rates,
298
00:14:35,667 --> 00:14:39,034
they'd never let me havea 50 percent minority crew.
299
00:14:42,067 --> 00:14:43,101
Hey!
300
00:14:43,101 --> 00:14:45,067
You look like you got
a sweet, sweet back.
301
00:14:45,067 --> 00:14:46,867
Won't you come party
with Delicious for a while.
302
00:14:46,867 --> 00:14:48,468
No, no, y'all are too much
for me.
303
00:14:48,468 --> 00:14:50,468
Come on, now.
I can make you say
304
00:14:50,468 --> 00:14:51,533
I bet you could, girl.
305
00:14:51,533 --> 00:14:52,533
Well, that's a shame.
306
00:15:09,001 --> 00:15:10,201
The answer was so obvious
307
00:15:10,201 --> 00:15:12,067
I didn't see it at first.
308
00:15:12,067 --> 00:15:14,301
The unions don't botherwith smut films.
309
00:15:14,301 --> 00:15:17,434
They consider pornosbeneath their dignity.
310
00:15:17,434 --> 00:15:20,034
I tell everyone I wasmaking black beaver flick.
311
00:15:20,034 --> 00:15:21,800
Maybe they'dleave me the hell alone.
312
00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:22,800
One name kept coming up
313
00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,301
in the production credits...
314
00:15:25,301 --> 00:15:27,967
Clyde Houston.
315
00:15:36,034 --> 00:15:38,134
Can I get a little
bit more emotion,
316
00:15:38,134 --> 00:15:40,001
Brenda?
317
00:15:40,001 --> 00:15:41,468
You have to fuck me for that.
318
00:15:41,468 --> 00:15:43,001
More of the same then.
319
00:15:43,001 --> 00:15:45,134
That's perfect.
320
00:15:49,434 --> 00:15:50,700
Melvin Van Peebles.
321
00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:51,767
I'm putting together
a feature.
322
00:15:51,767 --> 00:15:53,034
I saw your credit
on "Lily White."
323
00:15:54,301 --> 00:15:56,434
Yeah, man.
I got your message. I'm in.
324
00:15:58,401 --> 00:15:59,934
Don't you wanna know
what it's about?
325
00:15:59,934 --> 00:16:02,800
Do they wear clothes?
326
00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:03,900
Yeah.
327
00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:06,368
Well, like I said,
I'm in.
328
00:16:06,368 --> 00:16:08,368
One more time
from the top, please.
329
00:16:30,134 --> 00:16:31,134
Hey, Bill.
330
00:16:31,134 --> 00:16:32,234
Go get it!
331
00:16:32,234 --> 00:16:33,234
Hey, Nixon.
332
00:16:33,234 --> 00:16:35,567
Nixon. Hey, baby, look at that.
333
00:16:35,567 --> 00:16:37,667
Nixon loves you, baby.
334
00:16:37,667 --> 00:16:38,667
Howdy.
335
00:16:38,667 --> 00:16:39,533
All right.
336
00:16:40,667 --> 00:16:42,134
Here we go.
337
00:16:42,134 --> 00:16:44,267
So this guy
used to be an actor.
338
00:16:44,267 --> 00:16:46,267
Used to be in all
these black and white westerns.
339
00:16:46,267 --> 00:16:47,867
You probably recognize him.
340
00:16:47,867 --> 00:16:49,500
He's got real money?
341
00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:50,500
Real money, my friend.
342
00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:51,500
He's already financed
343
00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:52,967
a couple of independent
films in Europe,
344
00:16:52,967 --> 00:16:55,267
and he's ready to break big
state side?
345
00:16:55,267 --> 00:16:56,267
Okay.
346
00:16:56,267 --> 00:16:58,767
Ostentatious big white house
on the left.
347
00:16:58,767 --> 00:16:59,900
Go ahead. Go on, man.
348
00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:01,101
you're not coming?
349
00:17:01,101 --> 00:17:02,301
No, no, no, man.
350
00:17:02,301 --> 00:17:04,301
He just wants to meet
one on one, you know?
351
00:17:04,301 --> 00:17:06,301
Artist to artist,
all right?
352
00:17:06,301 --> 00:17:07,368
Go get it.
353
00:17:07,368 --> 00:17:08,667
Okay. What's this?
354
00:17:10,434 --> 00:17:12,368
Man.
355
00:17:12,368 --> 00:17:14,101
My favorite fucking danishes,
man.
356
00:17:14,101 --> 00:17:15,267
What's this for?
357
00:17:15,267 --> 00:17:17,001
For being your friend,
you crazy motherfucker.
358
00:17:17,001 --> 00:17:19,034
You are my friend!
359
00:17:25,567 --> 00:17:27,600
Mr. Van Peebles,
howdy, howdy.
360
00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,934
What'll it be?
Name your poison.
361
00:17:29,934 --> 00:17:30,934
Beer's cool.
362
00:17:30,934 --> 00:17:32,368
Aside from the tan,
363
00:17:32,368 --> 00:17:35,267
this guy seemed pretty genuinefor Hollywood standards.
364
00:17:35,267 --> 00:17:37,267
My contacts
at the studio said
365
00:17:37,267 --> 00:17:38,267
that you can be
366
00:17:38,267 --> 00:17:41,101
a real stubborn pain
in the ass.
367
00:17:41,101 --> 00:17:43,900
They used to say
the same thing about me.
368
00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:45,767
I like that. It means
you're different.
369
00:17:49,533 --> 00:17:51,900
Different threatens them.
370
00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:55,368
Now tell me about
that movie you wanna make.
371
00:17:57,633 --> 00:17:59,767
This is a movie about
modern-day colonialism,
372
00:17:59,767 --> 00:18:01,267
about a brother...
373
00:18:01,267 --> 00:18:03,134
He was a no bullshit guy.
374
00:18:03,134 --> 00:18:04,234
No lackey.
375
00:18:04,234 --> 00:18:05,434
No chicks hangingaround the pool
376
00:18:05,434 --> 00:18:06,800
for him to impress.
377
00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:08,034
Just straight to the point.
378
00:18:10,167 --> 00:18:12,967
Strong.
379
00:18:12,967 --> 00:18:14,134
Insightful.
380
00:18:14,134 --> 00:18:17,834
Very powerful.
381
00:18:17,834 --> 00:18:18,867
Who's playing the lead?
382
00:18:18,867 --> 00:18:20,468
I don't know yet.
383
00:18:23,667 --> 00:18:25,468
It should be you.
384
00:18:27,134 --> 00:18:28,334
I'm the writer.
I'm the director--
385
00:18:28,334 --> 00:18:29,500
No, you've been
living it.
386
00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:31,267
You have the passion for it,
don't you?
387
00:18:31,267 --> 00:18:33,201
Yeah.
388
00:18:33,201 --> 00:18:34,067
Trust me.
389
00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:40,567
I have the eye. Be honest.
390
00:18:40,567 --> 00:18:41,667
You're beautiful,
391
00:18:41,667 --> 00:18:44,201
sleek, strong...
392
00:18:44,201 --> 00:18:46,267
You're not afraid
to be different.
393
00:18:46,267 --> 00:18:47,533
You're not afraid to be
394
00:18:47,533 --> 00:18:50,334
who you really are,
are you?
395
00:18:54,234 --> 00:18:55,967
How well I know what that is.
396
00:18:58,533 --> 00:19:01,401
How about a little dippety-doo?
397
00:19:03,368 --> 00:19:06,567
Come on, sexy mon.
398
00:19:09,034 --> 00:19:10,500
Melvin.
399
00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:11,700
Hey, how'd it go, man?
400
00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:13,934
Give me
my motherfucking danishes.
401
00:19:16,201 --> 00:19:17,800
Hollywood's
a close-knit community.
402
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,800
It's easy to make friends,
and it's easy to make enemies.
403
00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,967
The friends
you don't normally keep,
404
00:19:23,967 --> 00:19:27,334
but the enemies, you do.
405
00:19:27,334 --> 00:19:29,134
If you wanna be
a part of the stew,
406
00:19:29,134 --> 00:19:30,734
you really don't want
to stir things up,
407
00:19:30,734 --> 00:19:32,734
or you may find yourself
in the fire, baby.
408
00:19:32,734 --> 00:19:34,234
MGM, Paramount--
409
00:19:34,234 --> 00:19:36,034
They're all losing money.
They're all in the toilet.
410
00:19:36,034 --> 00:19:37,234
MGM's selling off its back lot.
411
00:19:37,234 --> 00:19:38,401
It's selling--
412
00:19:38,401 --> 00:19:40,001
It's selling
Dorothy's red shoes,
413
00:19:40,001 --> 00:19:42,800
for God's sake...
414
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:44,834
and he's making them nervous
with this kind of material.
415
00:19:44,834 --> 00:19:46,301
The Chicago Seven trial
416
00:19:46,301 --> 00:19:47,734
has finally come to an end.
417
00:19:47,734 --> 00:19:49,001
Black Panther Bobby Seale,
418
00:19:49,001 --> 00:19:50,401
one ofthe original defendants...
419
00:20:00,401 --> 00:20:01,368
Mom?
420
00:20:02,934 --> 00:20:03,934
Mom, where are the kids?
421
00:20:03,934 --> 00:20:05,267
Rochester,
422
00:20:05,267 --> 00:20:06,867
see that Mr. Kernhas some coffee, please.
423
00:20:06,867 --> 00:20:07,900
Yassir.
424
00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:09,767
Mom.
425
00:20:15,368 --> 00:20:17,234
Get 'em all.
426
00:20:17,234 --> 00:20:18,800
Get 'em all.
427
00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,500
Always do a good job.
428
00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:23,667
You crumb-crushers
ready?
429
00:20:23,667 --> 00:20:25,900
Get your bathing suits.
Let's hit it.
430
00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:32,034
Hey, Dad.
431
00:20:32,034 --> 00:20:35,267
I'm teaching the boy about work.
432
00:20:37,301 --> 00:20:40,001
Man's gotta know how
to make a living.
433
00:20:43,734 --> 00:20:45,167
You look tired.
434
00:20:45,167 --> 00:20:47,900
Need anything?
435
00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:49,800
No, I'm fine.
436
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:50,800
What about you, Dad?
437
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,734
Peebles.
438
00:20:53,734 --> 00:20:55,067
Peebles!
439
00:20:55,067 --> 00:20:57,600
Guess I better be going.
440
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,500
You know how your mother is.
441
00:21:04,734 --> 00:21:06,301
Melvin, what happened
to your motorcycle?
442
00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:09,468
I bought a car for today.
Get in.
443
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:18,867
I want you start
calling me Dad.
444
00:21:20,134 --> 00:21:22,101
Answer me
when I talk to you.
445
00:21:22,101 --> 00:21:24,533
Mom lets us
call her Maria.
446
00:21:24,533 --> 00:21:25,834
It's less confusing
447
00:21:25,834 --> 00:21:27,234
when everyone's calling
off for their mother.
448
00:21:27,234 --> 00:21:28,867
I'm not your mother.
I'm your father.
449
00:21:28,867 --> 00:21:29,867
But while you're here,
450
00:21:29,867 --> 00:21:31,267
you do
what the fuck I say.
451
00:21:31,267 --> 00:21:32,267
Am I clear?
452
00:21:32,267 --> 00:21:33,633
Yes, Dad.
453
00:21:35,234 --> 00:21:36,167
Okay.
454
00:21:37,401 --> 00:21:38,800
All right.
455
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,334
* Doo-dee-doo-dee-dee *
456
00:21:42,167 --> 00:21:44,067
Sing it for me.
Be my piano.
457
00:21:44,067 --> 00:21:46,201
* Doo-dee-doo-dee-dee *
458
00:21:46,201 --> 00:21:47,201
Louder.
459
00:21:47,201 --> 00:21:48,201
* Doo-dee-doo-dee-dee *
460
00:21:48,201 --> 00:21:49,201
Louder.
461
00:21:49,201 --> 00:21:51,934
* You bled my mama *
462
00:21:51,934 --> 00:21:53,567
* Doo-dee-doo-dee-dee *
463
00:21:53,567 --> 00:21:55,234
* You bled my papa *
464
00:21:55,234 --> 00:21:57,434
* Doo-dee-doo-dee-dee *
465
00:21:57,434 --> 00:21:59,734
You won't bleed me!
Again, louder!
466
00:22:18,533 --> 00:22:21,434
Mel, welcome.
How you doing?
467
00:22:21,434 --> 00:22:22,533
Good, how you doing?
468
00:22:22,533 --> 00:22:24,867
Doing great.
This is my wife, Jennifer.
469
00:22:24,867 --> 00:22:25,867
Hi, Jennifer.
470
00:22:25,867 --> 00:22:27,101
That there's Josh and Tracey.
471
00:22:30,267 --> 00:22:31,667
These are my kids,
Mario and Megan.
472
00:22:31,667 --> 00:22:33,667
Good thing you brought along
your bathing suits, kids.
473
00:22:33,667 --> 00:22:34,867
Why don't you take a dip
474
00:22:34,867 --> 00:22:36,468
while your dad and I talk shop,
475
00:22:36,468 --> 00:22:37,734
Go on.
476
00:22:37,734 --> 00:22:39,633
Jen, go and get Mel
something to eat.
477
00:22:39,633 --> 00:22:40,633
You want a drink?
478
00:22:40,633 --> 00:22:41,633
Sure, water's good.
479
00:22:41,633 --> 00:22:42,667
All right.
Help yourself.
480
00:22:42,667 --> 00:22:43,734
So...
481
00:22:43,734 --> 00:22:45,134
I hear great things
from Bill Harris
482
00:22:45,134 --> 00:22:46,134
about your project.
483
00:22:46,134 --> 00:22:47,134
Real radical stuff?
484
00:22:47,134 --> 00:22:48,334
Well, the truth
is always radical
485
00:22:48,334 --> 00:22:50,800
when it's told
by the oppressed, right?
486
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,900
Whatever.
I make movies.
487
00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:55,633
Hey, Dad, come on.
Can we climb the rope?
488
00:22:55,633 --> 00:22:57,134
Well, that's just
something I do
489
00:22:57,134 --> 00:23:00,034
to keep in shape.
490
00:23:04,567 --> 00:23:05,567
Come on, Dad.
491
00:23:05,567 --> 00:23:07,134
You can do it.
492
00:23:26,567 --> 00:23:28,034
That is not easy.
493
00:23:28,034 --> 00:23:28,900
Congratulations.
494
00:23:30,468 --> 00:23:31,633
You try it.
495
00:23:32,633 --> 00:23:34,034
No, it took me
almost a year
496
00:23:34,034 --> 00:23:35,434
before I could
get to the top.
497
00:23:35,434 --> 00:23:36,800
You gotta be
in great shape.
498
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,334
You don't wanna
embarrass yourself.
499
00:23:38,334 --> 00:23:39,334
Please?
500
00:23:39,334 --> 00:23:40,334
You can do it.
501
00:23:40,334 --> 00:23:41,533
You know what?
Not today, kids.
502
00:23:41,533 --> 00:23:42,734
Your dad's tired.
503
00:23:42,734 --> 00:23:44,734
Hey, I think we got
some cake in the house.
504
00:23:44,734 --> 00:23:45,734
Who wants cake?
505
00:23:45,734 --> 00:23:46,934
I do. I do. I do.
506
00:23:46,934 --> 00:23:48,234
Let's go.
507
00:23:48,234 --> 00:23:49,101
Come on.
508
00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:52,567
Please?
509
00:23:54,334 --> 00:23:55,468
Dad?
510
00:24:24,167 --> 00:24:26,368
I should have known better
511
00:24:26,368 --> 00:24:28,301
than to make that climb,
512
00:24:28,301 --> 00:24:32,201
considering black folk'shistory with ropes.
513
00:24:32,201 --> 00:24:33,967
I gotta be the first niggain history
514
00:24:33,967 --> 00:24:35,734
that hung himself.
515
00:24:45,234 --> 00:24:47,700
Man, all right.
You made it.
516
00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:49,134
Hey, you're not so mad,
are you?
517
00:24:49,134 --> 00:24:50,533
All right, man,
who's your friend?
518
00:24:50,533 --> 00:24:51,600
He is in here, man.
519
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,001
He is ready for you, my friend.
520
00:24:53,001 --> 00:24:55,767
Everybody is flying high.
Come on in.
521
00:24:57,767 --> 00:24:58,900
Hey, Moonbeam...
522
00:24:58,900 --> 00:25:02,368
Ginnie, this is Melvin.
523
00:25:02,368 --> 00:25:04,001
Moonbeam is pure love, man.
524
00:25:04,001 --> 00:25:05,900
This is Ginnie. She's from--
525
00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:07,301
Where you from?
Where you from, baby?
526
00:25:07,301 --> 00:25:08,301
Alabama.
527
00:25:08,301 --> 00:25:09,434
Alabama.
528
00:25:10,434 --> 00:25:11,567
Bill, Bill,
Bill, Bill...
529
00:25:11,567 --> 00:25:12,867
Where's
the money guy, man?
530
00:25:12,867 --> 00:25:13,867
He's here, man.
531
00:25:13,867 --> 00:25:15,234
He's for real,
532
00:25:15,234 --> 00:25:17,034
and he's ready to do
some serious business, man.
533
00:25:17,034 --> 00:25:18,201
Well, let's go meet--
534
00:25:18,201 --> 00:25:19,667
Let's go meet this guy,
man. Come on.
535
00:25:25,134 --> 00:25:28,267
This time, the brother gets away
and at the end...
536
00:25:28,267 --> 00:25:30,434
Sweet Sweetback's
Baadasssss Song.
537
00:25:33,633 --> 00:25:35,434
Far out.
538
00:25:35,434 --> 00:25:36,767
Donovan, what
do you think, man?
539
00:25:36,767 --> 00:25:39,600
Well, everybody needs
someone to love, right,
540
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,401
and I got
one question for you,
541
00:25:41,401 --> 00:25:42,700
my brother.
542
00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:44,834
For the
collective conscience
543
00:25:44,834 --> 00:25:46,067
of the universe
be expanded
544
00:25:46,067 --> 00:25:47,234
after people see
this flick,
545
00:25:47,234 --> 00:25:49,867
and I'm not talking
individuals here.
546
00:25:49,867 --> 00:25:52,867
I'm talking about
the whole fucking universe,
547
00:25:52,867 --> 00:25:55,101
moving ahead in time,
548
00:25:55,101 --> 00:25:57,067
not horizontally, man.
549
00:25:57,067 --> 00:25:58,800
Vertically,
you know, a jump.
550
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,834
You know what I mean?
A real jump.
551
00:26:00,834 --> 00:26:02,633
Is that what we got here?
552
00:26:02,633 --> 00:26:04,834
Abso-fucking-lutely, man.
553
00:26:04,834 --> 00:26:06,201
All right.
554
00:26:06,201 --> 00:26:08,167
How do I know
they're not narcs?
555
00:26:10,301 --> 00:26:13,234
They're not narcs.
556
00:26:13,234 --> 00:26:15,334
One minute, gentlemen.
Come here.
557
00:26:15,334 --> 00:26:16,734
How do I know they're real, man?
558
00:26:16,734 --> 00:26:18,334
How do I know they're
fucking real, man?
559
00:26:18,334 --> 00:26:19,334
He's for real.
560
00:26:19,334 --> 00:26:21,234
He wants to be
a producer, man.
561
00:26:21,234 --> 00:26:22,667
It's all good.
562
00:26:22,667 --> 00:26:26,067
...hello.
563
00:26:26,067 --> 00:26:27,067
He wants to be loved,
564
00:26:27,067 --> 00:26:31,001
but he'll settle for attention.
565
00:26:31,001 --> 00:26:32,001
Bill...
566
00:26:32,001 --> 00:26:33,201
this guy's got real money,
right?
567
00:26:33,201 --> 00:26:34,301
It's for real.
568
00:26:34,301 --> 00:26:35,533
Relax, man.
569
00:26:35,533 --> 00:26:38,267
You're the serious one.
570
00:26:38,267 --> 00:26:39,967
Intense.
571
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,167
He's--
572
00:26:50,334 --> 00:26:52,500
He'll do it.
573
00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:54,034
Here's the conditions.
574
00:26:54,034 --> 00:26:56,334
My client
is a silent partner.
575
00:26:56,334 --> 00:26:58,167
His name does
not appear anywhere.
576
00:26:58,167 --> 00:27:00,234
All negotiations will be
with my firm
577
00:27:00,234 --> 00:27:01,834
with all legal fees
added to the budget.
578
00:27:01,834 --> 00:27:03,934
This is the deal...
579
00:27:03,934 --> 00:27:06,034
Bottom-feedersalways do that,
580
00:27:06,034 --> 00:27:08,101
especiallybottom-feeding attorneys,
581
00:27:08,101 --> 00:27:11,533
inserting themselvesand their fees into the deal...
582
00:27:11,533 --> 00:27:12,800
but fuck it, man,
583
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,900
if this was real,we were a gold movie,
584
00:27:16,900 --> 00:27:18,301
a green light.
585
00:27:18,301 --> 00:27:19,900
Hey, Melvin.
Have a wonderful evening.
586
00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:22,267
What did I say, man?
587
00:27:22,267 --> 00:27:23,334
It's real.
588
00:27:33,001 --> 00:27:36,800
Yeah...
589
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,034
* You bled my momma *
590
00:27:40,034 --> 00:27:41,900
* You bled my poppa *
591
00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:45,301
* Won't bleed me *
592
00:27:45,301 --> 00:27:46,700
* Won't bleed me *
593
00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:50,101
* You bled my momma *
594
00:27:50,101 --> 00:27:52,101
* You bled my poppa... *
595
00:27:52,101 --> 00:27:53,134
Man.
596
00:27:53,134 --> 00:27:55,301
You chewed this motherfucker
to death.
597
00:27:55,301 --> 00:27:56,600
Bill.
598
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:57,734
You know
what I'm thinking?
599
00:27:57,734 --> 00:27:59,567
When Sweetback's
in the desert.
600
00:27:59,567 --> 00:28:02,600
He hears the voice
of angels.
601
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:03,900
But he doesn't see them.
602
00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:05,101
No, he just
hears them, man.
603
00:28:05,101 --> 00:28:06,334
Like the ghetto choir.
604
00:28:06,334 --> 00:28:07,600
Like voices of
the disenfranchised.
605
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,867
Yeah, yeah.
606
00:28:10,867 --> 00:28:13,167
Hello.
607
00:28:13,167 --> 00:28:14,600
Good morning.
Upsy-daisy.
608
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:15,600
Fantastic.
609
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:16,633
Right.
610
00:28:16,633 --> 00:28:18,234
You know, I like it.
I like it.
611
00:28:18,234 --> 00:28:21,633
It's surreal. You know,
it takes it all
612
00:28:21,633 --> 00:28:24,368
to a whole other dimension,
right?
613
00:28:24,368 --> 00:28:26,368
That's good.
It's operatic.
614
00:28:26,368 --> 00:28:27,800
And then
you superimposition
615
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,533
for when he's running...
616
00:28:29,533 --> 00:28:30,967
through the ghetto,
urban decay.
617
00:28:30,967 --> 00:28:31,967
Right.
618
00:28:31,967 --> 00:28:34,934
Right. I see it.
Hi.
619
00:28:36,234 --> 00:28:37,867
Rise and shine.
620
00:28:37,867 --> 00:28:38,867
Morning.
621
00:28:38,867 --> 00:28:40,167
Hey.
622
00:28:40,167 --> 00:28:41,834
This could--
Where am I going--
623
00:28:41,834 --> 00:28:44,667
Okay,
624
00:28:46,067 --> 00:28:47,267
Another thing--
You listening to me?
625
00:28:48,533 --> 00:28:50,401
Check it out. The music
on this motherfucker, right?
626
00:28:50,401 --> 00:28:54,101
It's got to drive. It's got
to be up front, man.
627
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,134
Who is that bitch?
628
00:28:59,134 --> 00:29:00,633
Who is that bitch?
629
00:29:00,633 --> 00:29:01,633
Priscilla...
630
00:29:01,633 --> 00:29:02,900
Don't Priscilla me. Bill?
631
00:29:04,234 --> 00:29:06,101
Wait, and you got
a dog too,
632
00:29:06,101 --> 00:29:07,734
you nasty, sick motherfucker.
633
00:29:07,734 --> 00:29:09,334
What the fuck you looking at?
634
00:29:09,334 --> 00:29:12,834
I don't believe
this shit, Melvin.
635
00:29:12,834 --> 00:29:14,500
What about Melvin Jr.?
636
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:16,967
What about our baby, Melvin?
How could you--
637
00:29:17,967 --> 00:29:18,967
You know what?
638
00:29:18,967 --> 00:29:20,667
I want a divorce
639
00:29:20,667 --> 00:29:21,767
because
you're killing me.
640
00:29:21,767 --> 00:29:23,267
You're killing me.
641
00:29:23,267 --> 00:29:25,201
It's over. Over!
642
00:29:37,267 --> 00:29:39,401
You married?
643
00:29:39,401 --> 00:29:41,867
No, no, no, no, man.
That's his secretary.
644
00:29:41,867 --> 00:29:43,500
See, she does
this whole audition thing.
645
00:29:57,533 --> 00:29:59,301
Yeah.
646
00:29:59,301 --> 00:30:00,301
Let's cut.
647
00:30:00,301 --> 00:30:03,834
The gaffer needs
another shorty.
648
00:30:03,834 --> 00:30:05,700
Anybody have
another towel, please?
649
00:30:07,667 --> 00:30:10,500
Clyde introduced meto his cameraman, Bob Maxwell.
650
00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:11,967
Bob Maxwell...
651
00:30:11,967 --> 00:30:13,533
His wife, Nora, did makeup.
652
00:30:13,533 --> 00:30:15,934
There's a sayingin the business--
653
00:30:15,934 --> 00:30:17,533
If you can make an asslook good,
654
00:30:17,533 --> 00:30:19,867
then faces were a snap.
655
00:30:19,867 --> 00:30:21,967
It was like there was
a whole non-union movie industry
656
00:30:21,967 --> 00:30:24,533
in existence right then,
657
00:30:24,533 --> 00:30:27,401
and I knew every one
of them motherfuckers.
658
00:30:27,401 --> 00:30:29,234
Imagine the kind of opportunity
that he's lost,
659
00:30:29,234 --> 00:30:30,867
and he had such a chance to be
660
00:30:30,867 --> 00:30:32,267
such a credit to his people.
661
00:30:32,267 --> 00:30:33,834
How many Negro directors
were there altogether?
662
00:30:33,834 --> 00:30:35,267
Gordon Parks,
there's Ossie Davis...
663
00:30:35,267 --> 00:30:37,201
and Melvin.
664
00:30:41,334 --> 00:30:43,533
Mel, we don't have
a permit for any of this
665
00:30:43,533 --> 00:30:45,934
so we got to shoot it
and get up out of here.
666
00:30:45,934 --> 00:30:47,401
We gonna steal this shit.
667
00:30:47,401 --> 00:30:49,134
Priscilla, don't write
the location down
668
00:30:49,134 --> 00:30:50,334
until we all agree on it,
669
00:30:50,334 --> 00:30:51,368
and those pads ain't cheap.
670
00:30:51,368 --> 00:30:52,867
Use a pencil next time.
671
00:30:52,867 --> 00:30:54,401
Hey, girl, put some clothes on.
672
00:30:54,401 --> 00:30:56,834
This ain't soul train.
Come on, now.
673
00:31:03,034 --> 00:31:04,334
Ew!
674
00:31:04,334 --> 00:31:07,234
Bill, get this mangy mutt
off of me, please.
675
00:31:07,234 --> 00:31:09,633
Come on, Nixon.
676
00:31:09,633 --> 00:31:10,667
He just
can't resist you.
677
00:31:12,401 --> 00:31:15,967
You look like
a lemon Popsicle, girl.
678
00:31:15,967 --> 00:31:16,967
All through here.
679
00:31:16,967 --> 00:31:19,767
This is great shit.
680
00:31:19,767 --> 00:31:21,600
And I can sing, dance,
model, and act too,
681
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,567
so tell that controlling
Leo motherfucker over there
682
00:31:23,567 --> 00:31:24,967
to put me in his damn movie.
683
00:31:24,967 --> 00:31:25,967
Hey, Bill.
684
00:31:28,067 --> 00:31:29,301
Jump over the water
685
00:31:29,301 --> 00:31:30,234
and run down here,
man.
686
00:31:33,101 --> 00:31:34,500
It's too fucking steep.
687
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:35,900
Hey, man. This is art, baby.
688
00:31:37,567 --> 00:31:39,267
You can do it.
689
00:31:39,267 --> 00:31:41,267
Okay. Hold this.
690
00:31:46,434 --> 00:31:47,967
Come on, feet!
691
00:31:47,967 --> 00:31:48,967
Cruise with me!
692
00:31:48,967 --> 00:31:50,800
Come on, Max.
693
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,001
Come on, run.
694
00:31:52,001 --> 00:31:53,468
Come on, Bill.
695
00:31:54,468 --> 00:31:56,334
Shit.
Sh... it.
696
00:31:56,334 --> 00:31:58,600
You know we're
gonna need a stunt man
697
00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:59,600
when we shoot this.
698
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,001
Yeah.
699
00:32:02,001 --> 00:32:04,401
Sweetback
is still alive!
700
00:32:04,401 --> 00:32:05,967
Priscilla,
make a note
701
00:32:05,967 --> 00:32:08,468
I want some dogs at the end
to chase the brothers.
702
00:32:08,468 --> 00:32:09,633
Three dogs, bloodhounds.
703
00:32:09,633 --> 00:32:11,034
We'll get some modern
runaway slave imagery
704
00:32:11,034 --> 00:32:12,134
with these dogs, man.
705
00:32:12,134 --> 00:32:13,934
And I can save us
some time and money
706
00:32:13,934 --> 00:32:14,934
if we shoot this hand-held.
707
00:32:14,934 --> 00:32:16,434
A little edge.
708
00:32:16,434 --> 00:32:18,434
Edge? Shit, this motherfucker
is gonna be nothing but edge.
709
00:32:18,434 --> 00:32:19,834
Ghetto realism like folks
ain't never seen.
710
00:32:19,834 --> 00:32:20,834
Right on, baby.
711
00:32:20,834 --> 00:32:23,201
Don't you know
what I'm saying?
712
00:32:23,201 --> 00:32:24,401
I mean,
look at this, man.
713
00:32:24,401 --> 00:32:26,201
This is beautiful.
Look at that.
714
00:32:26,201 --> 00:32:29,633
Back the fuck up...
715
00:32:29,633 --> 00:32:32,034
bitch.
716
00:32:32,034 --> 00:32:33,867
Pigs ain't got
nothing on me.
717
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,834
Okay, again.
Contain the hostility more.
718
00:32:37,834 --> 00:32:40,134
B-b...
719
00:32:40,134 --> 00:32:42,900
Back the fuck up,
b-bitch.
720
00:32:44,468 --> 00:32:47,201
Pigs ain't got
nothing on me.
721
00:32:47,201 --> 00:32:48,067
Thank you, brother.
722
00:32:54,767 --> 00:32:56,334
Yeah, nigga.
723
00:33:00,034 --> 00:33:02,633
Well, he didn't exactly
take direction, now, did he?
724
00:33:02,633 --> 00:33:03,633
He's not the lead.
725
00:33:03,633 --> 00:33:05,267
I mean,
he's not even SAG.
726
00:33:05,267 --> 00:33:07,567
The guy can't talk.
Doesn't that bother anybody?
727
00:33:07,567 --> 00:33:10,468
I like his fucked-up speech.
It's real.
728
00:33:10,468 --> 00:33:12,067
Make a note. Let's put him
somewhere, Priscilla.
729
00:33:12,067 --> 00:33:15,101
Shit, I'm better than half
these motherfuckers anyway.
730
00:33:18,734 --> 00:33:19,600
Next.
731
00:33:24,001 --> 00:33:25,500
All right, brother.
Sit down right there.
732
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:26,934
Action.
733
00:33:33,334 --> 00:33:34,500
Finding the lead
734
00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:37,067
was turning out to beproblematic.
735
00:33:37,067 --> 00:33:38,734
Sweetback would only havesix lines
736
00:33:38,734 --> 00:33:40,734
in the whole movie.
737
00:33:40,734 --> 00:33:43,800
Those with the grit didn't havethe technique,
738
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:49,533
and those with the techniquewanted more lines.
739
00:33:49,533 --> 00:33:51,001
Hey, crumb-crusher.
740
00:33:52,001 --> 00:33:52,900
Come here.
741
00:33:54,667 --> 00:33:57,101
Why don't you have lunch
with your old man?
742
00:33:57,101 --> 00:33:59,201
You're going to go see
Howie, remember?
743
00:33:59,201 --> 00:34:00,967
Howie was probably hoping
744
00:34:00,967 --> 00:34:03,067
I'd come to my senses.
745
00:34:03,067 --> 00:34:07,434
His wife, Roz, was taking Mariofor the day.
746
00:34:07,434 --> 00:34:10,468
We were gonna be shootingin some rough-ass places,
747
00:34:10,468 --> 00:34:12,234
so we'd needsome ghetto muscle.
748
00:34:28,867 --> 00:34:30,434
Hello?
749
00:34:33,734 --> 00:34:36,134
Hey!
750
00:34:51,201 --> 00:34:54,533
Talking about education,protesting, organizing,
751
00:34:54,533 --> 00:34:56,334
and getting theman's foot out of they ass.
752
00:34:56,334 --> 00:34:57,368
See, now,you're a problem.
753
00:34:57,368 --> 00:34:58,368
Hello?
754
00:34:58,368 --> 00:34:59,368
You meanyou're anti-white?
755
00:34:59,368 --> 00:35:00,600
We're anti-oppression.
756
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,134
You can't fight racismwith racism.
757
00:35:02,134 --> 00:35:03,401
What, niggastalking revolution
758
00:35:03,401 --> 00:35:04,800
is crossingthe color line?
759
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,967
Hell, no.
760
00:35:08,001 --> 00:35:10,567
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
761
00:35:10,567 --> 00:35:12,001
The man takes offthe old sheets
762
00:35:12,001 --> 00:35:13,734
and picks up the badgeand the gun
763
00:35:13,734 --> 00:35:15,334
to protect and serve.
764
00:35:15,334 --> 00:35:17,334
To patrol and control.
765
00:35:17,334 --> 00:35:19,667
Hello.
766
00:35:19,667 --> 00:35:21,334
Will justice prevail
767
00:35:21,334 --> 00:35:22,934
or will it justbe us in jail?
768
00:35:22,934 --> 00:35:24,067
Shit.
769
00:35:24,067 --> 00:35:25,067
That's right, brother.
770
00:35:25,067 --> 00:35:26,301
From shackles to cuffs,
771
00:35:26,301 --> 00:35:27,900
he still got his footin yo' ass.
772
00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:29,533
One size fits all, nigga.
773
00:35:29,533 --> 00:35:32,201
One size fits all, nigga.
774
00:35:32,201 --> 00:35:34,468
One size fits all...
775
00:35:34,468 --> 00:35:37,201
One size fits all, nigga.
776
00:35:41,067 --> 00:35:43,834
T.J., down, boy.
777
00:35:49,401 --> 00:35:50,967
T.J.'s the alpha male.
778
00:35:50,967 --> 00:35:52,500
They do what he do.
779
00:35:55,734 --> 00:35:58,368
Last motherfucker
broke in here,
780
00:35:58,368 --> 00:36:00,633
they tore his arm off.
781
00:36:01,734 --> 00:36:03,334
That pipe wouldn't have helped.
782
00:36:08,034 --> 00:36:09,401
You eat pig?
783
00:36:09,401 --> 00:36:10,633
Yeah.
784
00:36:10,633 --> 00:36:12,001
Pig's bad for you.
785
00:36:12,001 --> 00:36:14,067
This here's smoked turkey.
786
00:36:14,067 --> 00:36:18,267
Taste better than pig.
787
00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:31,067
Howard, you spent six months
in film school,
788
00:36:31,067 --> 00:36:32,533
so are you going to be
789
00:36:32,533 --> 00:36:33,734
in the smoked meat
business
790
00:36:33,734 --> 00:36:36,267
or are you going to be
in the movie business?
791
00:36:36,267 --> 00:36:38,934
Besides security,
792
00:36:38,934 --> 00:36:41,767
T could double as the boom manfor the sound guy.
793
00:36:41,767 --> 00:36:43,067
Only drawback,
794
00:36:43,067 --> 00:36:44,567
he didn't know shitabout recording sound.
795
00:36:44,567 --> 00:36:46,734
Check it out.
796
00:36:46,734 --> 00:36:47,633
What?
797
00:36:53,934 --> 00:36:55,167
Honey.
798
00:36:55,167 --> 00:36:56,368
Melvin, it's Mario
on the phone.
799
00:36:56,368 --> 00:36:57,767
He's going to be
a little late.
800
00:36:57,767 --> 00:36:59,900
Tell himto get his ass on home.
801
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:02,633
Okay. Hey.
802
00:37:02,633 --> 00:37:04,034
Your dad is busyright now, honey.
803
00:37:04,034 --> 00:37:05,034
You better come on home.
804
00:37:06,034 --> 00:37:07,301
All right.
805
00:37:07,301 --> 00:37:09,101
First thing you need to know
about movie making--
806
00:37:09,101 --> 00:37:11,001
when the director
says listen up,
807
00:37:11,001 --> 00:37:12,167
you listen the fuck up,
808
00:37:12,167 --> 00:37:13,167
okay?
809
00:37:13,167 --> 00:37:14,368
We start shooting
in three days.
810
00:37:14,368 --> 00:37:15,368
This is a family affair.
811
00:37:15,368 --> 00:37:17,067
This is Bob
and his lovely wife, Nora.
812
00:37:17,067 --> 00:37:18,167
Nora does makeup.
813
00:37:18,167 --> 00:37:19,267
Bob is our
cinematographer.
814
00:37:19,267 --> 00:37:20,334
We'll have
two cameras working,
815
00:37:20,334 --> 00:37:22,434
so we also have,
from New York,
816
00:37:22,434 --> 00:37:24,401
Black Latino
Filmmaker's Coalition,
817
00:37:24,401 --> 00:37:25,700
Jos� Garcia.
818
00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:28,434
Que vivoPuerto Rico libre.
819
00:37:28,434 --> 00:37:29,633
Exactly.
820
00:37:29,633 --> 00:37:30,633
All right.
821
00:37:30,633 --> 00:37:32,034
On script,
we got Randy over here,
822
00:37:32,034 --> 00:37:33,834
and our genius of sound
is Tommy,
823
00:37:33,834 --> 00:37:35,401
backed up by Big T,
824
00:37:35,401 --> 00:37:36,767
who'll also be
heading up security.
825
00:37:36,767 --> 00:37:37,767
No, no, man.
826
00:37:37,767 --> 00:37:38,834
Hey, hey.
827
00:37:38,834 --> 00:37:40,834
Why do I got to answer
to a white man
828
00:37:40,834 --> 00:37:42,834
on a movie about a brother
finally breaking the chains,
829
00:37:42,834 --> 00:37:44,101
you dig?
830
00:37:44,101 --> 00:37:45,900
We been answering to whitey
for 400 years, blood.
831
00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:46,900
Well, T, now, hold up.
832
00:37:46,900 --> 00:37:48,101
Tommy here
is risking his career
833
00:37:48,101 --> 00:37:49,134
to be here.
834
00:37:49,134 --> 00:37:50,533
He's one of the few
motherfuckers here
835
00:37:50,533 --> 00:37:51,734
who really knows
what he's doing,
836
00:37:51,734 --> 00:37:53,334
so why don't you
do yourself a favor?
837
00:37:53,334 --> 00:37:54,767
You'll learn something.
Listen to this man.
838
00:37:54,767 --> 00:37:55,767
When your big ass
839
00:37:55,767 --> 00:37:56,800
has been listening
to whitey
840
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:57,867
for 400 years,
841
00:37:57,867 --> 00:37:59,533
another month won't hurt.
842
00:37:59,533 --> 00:38:01,434
All right,
last but not least,
843
00:38:01,434 --> 00:38:02,434
right here,
844
00:38:02,434 --> 00:38:03,533
my foxy production
secretary
845
00:38:03,533 --> 00:38:06,434
and star of the first
day of shooting
846
00:38:06,434 --> 00:38:08,101
of Sweet Sweetback'sBaadasssss Song,
847
00:38:08,101 --> 00:38:09,234
Priscilla.
848
00:38:10,633 --> 00:38:11,600
That's right.
849
00:38:12,867 --> 00:38:14,301
Listen up. The speech.
Come here, baby.
850
00:38:15,201 --> 00:38:16,700
Look around you.
851
00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:18,101
No crew has ever
looked like this.
852
00:38:18,101 --> 00:38:19,667
We're not supposed
to get along,
853
00:38:19,667 --> 00:38:21,867
let alone be able
to make a movie together, okay?
854
00:38:21,867 --> 00:38:24,034
Once we get started,
there's no quitting,
855
00:38:24,034 --> 00:38:27,101
so anybody want out,
hit the door now.
856
00:38:29,734 --> 00:38:30,934
I'm sorry.
857
00:38:30,934 --> 00:38:32,301
It's all right.
Anybody else?
858
00:38:34,667 --> 00:38:36,067
Mr. Harris.
859
00:38:36,067 --> 00:38:37,267
We'll have
none of this WPT,
860
00:38:37,267 --> 00:38:38,500
Mr. Harris.
861
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:39,767
What's WPT?
862
00:38:39,767 --> 00:38:41,134
White People Time, T.
863
00:38:42,301 --> 00:38:43,468
We have to talk.
864
00:38:43,468 --> 00:38:44,533
All right.
865
00:38:44,533 --> 00:38:46,134
Let's do it. Let's make a movie.
866
00:38:46,134 --> 00:38:47,767
Yeah!
867
00:38:49,967 --> 00:38:51,500
Hey, Melvin.
868
00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:52,700
The script guy,
869
00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:54,500
he says you only got
a 65-minute movie here.
870
00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:57,900
Listen,
I know what I got.
871
00:38:57,900 --> 00:38:59,633
Let him keep track
of the shots, okay?
872
00:38:59,633 --> 00:39:01,867
I got it in my head.
Cool?
873
00:39:01,867 --> 00:39:03,067
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry.
874
00:39:03,067 --> 00:39:04,834
Hey, Melvin.
It's Clyde.
875
00:39:04,834 --> 00:39:06,034
He's got to talk to you.
876
00:39:06,034 --> 00:39:07,267
We got to talk now.
877
00:39:07,267 --> 00:39:09,201
All right, well, find out
what he wants, okay?
878
00:39:09,201 --> 00:39:11,368
Hey, Clyde.
879
00:39:13,368 --> 00:39:14,834
He got arrested.
880
00:39:14,834 --> 00:39:16,401
Who?
Donovan.
881
00:39:16,401 --> 00:39:18,034
Our financing man.
882
00:39:18,034 --> 00:39:19,234
Motherfucker. What for?
883
00:39:22,001 --> 00:39:23,167
What about that attorney?
884
00:39:23,167 --> 00:39:24,267
We had a deal.
885
00:39:24,267 --> 00:39:25,900
Yeah, let's just say that...
886
00:39:25,900 --> 00:39:28,301
the financing for this film
has been put on the back burner
887
00:39:28,301 --> 00:39:30,434
for the foreseeable
future,
888
00:39:30,434 --> 00:39:32,934
like the next
five to 10 years, man.
889
00:39:34,234 --> 00:39:36,533
You got to go in there.
890
00:39:36,533 --> 00:39:39,301
You got to cancel.
891
00:39:44,368 --> 00:39:46,533
Fuck it.
I'll use my own bread.
892
00:39:46,533 --> 00:39:47,800
No, no, no, man.
893
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,201
Nobody uses their own money
to finance a movie, man.
894
00:39:50,201 --> 00:39:51,767
What if the movie's a bomb
895
00:39:51,767 --> 00:39:53,167
or you spend
your money on it
896
00:39:53,167 --> 00:39:54,368
and you can't get
a distributor--?
897
00:39:54,368 --> 00:39:56,167
I can raise $72,450.
898
00:39:56,167 --> 00:39:57,900
Make that $72,000--
899
00:39:57,900 --> 00:39:59,167
I haven't paid
next month's rent--
900
00:39:59,167 --> 00:40:00,767
but that's enough
to get the train rolling.
901
00:40:00,767 --> 00:40:02,034
I get the train rolling,
902
00:40:02,034 --> 00:40:03,834
investors are going to see
we got something good
903
00:40:03,834 --> 00:40:05,234
and they're going
to jump on board.
904
00:40:05,234 --> 00:40:06,700
And what if they don't, man?
905
00:40:06,700 --> 00:40:08,700
That $72,000's not going to get
you through pre-production--
906
00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:10,600
Bill, do you have money for me?
907
00:40:12,667 --> 00:40:14,334
Melvin, we got a problem.
908
00:40:18,067 --> 00:40:19,067
Yeah?
909
00:40:19,067 --> 00:40:20,301
They're asking
910
00:40:20,301 --> 00:40:22,500
for one week's payrollup front.
911
00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:24,434
Well, I ain't got
that kind of bread, Clyde.
912
00:40:26,767 --> 00:40:27,967
Fuck it.
913
00:40:27,967 --> 00:40:29,900
SAG is...
914
00:40:33,867 --> 00:40:35,667
We can't use any SAG actors.
915
00:40:35,667 --> 00:40:37,267
What?
916
00:40:37,267 --> 00:40:38,734
Shit, we shoot
in three days.
917
00:40:38,734 --> 00:40:40,900
We're going to have
to postpone, right?
918
00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:44,567
We start shooting May 11
as planned.
919
00:40:44,567 --> 00:40:47,201
Everybody got that?
920
00:40:47,201 --> 00:40:48,500
Everybody got that?
921
00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:50,201
Yeah.
Right.
922
00:40:50,201 --> 00:40:51,667
All right, get back to work.
923
00:40:51,667 --> 00:40:52,834
We'll recast.
924
00:40:52,834 --> 00:40:53,834
Shit.
925
00:40:55,167 --> 00:40:56,468
Who's going to play
Sweetback?
926
00:40:56,468 --> 00:40:59,334
I was starting to believemy own bullshit.
927
00:40:59,334 --> 00:41:02,034
Chomping on an unlit cigar...
928
00:41:04,533 --> 00:41:05,967
Hey, Mel.
929
00:41:05,967 --> 00:41:07,134
Come on.
930
00:41:09,067 --> 00:41:10,533
Ta-da.
931
00:41:11,633 --> 00:41:12,867
Howie says hello.
932
00:41:12,867 --> 00:41:15,434
You've got
a great kid here.
933
00:41:25,867 --> 00:41:27,067
What you got there?
934
00:41:27,067 --> 00:41:28,301
Miss Kaufman bought it for me.
935
00:41:28,301 --> 00:41:29,368
I didn't ask for it.
936
00:41:29,368 --> 00:41:31,201
Tomorrow you bring it back.
937
00:41:31,201 --> 00:41:33,201
Bring it back?
938
00:41:33,201 --> 00:41:35,301
You losing your hearing?
939
00:41:35,301 --> 00:41:37,900
When I want
a favor from Howie,
940
00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:39,533
I'll call it in, okay?
941
00:41:39,533 --> 00:41:41,767
You don't let people use you
to get to me.
942
00:41:41,767 --> 00:41:43,767
What people?
943
00:41:46,001 --> 00:41:47,201
Get in the house.
944
00:41:49,401 --> 00:41:52,900
Melvin had not submittedthe proper paperwork
945
00:41:52,900 --> 00:41:54,900
to the Screen Actors Guild.
946
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:57,401
I think when you've heard Mel
all of your life,
947
00:41:57,401 --> 00:41:59,434
you just don't listen anymore.
948
00:41:59,434 --> 00:42:01,434
Who had to go down there
and sort everything out?
949
00:42:01,434 --> 00:42:02,567
Mr. Clyde.
950
00:42:02,567 --> 00:42:05,267
Of course,
you don't hear about that.
951
00:42:05,267 --> 00:42:06,468
We were following him, you know?
952
00:42:06,468 --> 00:42:07,700
He was our leader,
953
00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:10,567
so if he was crazy,
we were fucking lunatics.
954
00:42:10,567 --> 00:42:12,700
I just looked around
and I knew we were in trouble.
955
00:42:15,767 --> 00:42:16,867
In L.A.,
956
00:42:16,867 --> 00:42:19,134
you can't even see
the stars at night.
957
00:42:19,134 --> 00:42:21,301
It's not the city lights.
It's the smog.
958
00:42:21,301 --> 00:42:23,101
Shut the fuck up, man.
I'm trying to calculate.
959
00:42:23,101 --> 00:42:24,633
What're you trying
to calculate?
960
00:42:24,633 --> 00:42:25,633
You ain't got shit.
961
00:42:25,633 --> 00:42:26,834
You ain't even got
your lead.
962
00:42:26,834 --> 00:42:28,034
No, no,
I'll play the lead.
963
00:42:28,034 --> 00:42:29,034
I'll play Sweetback.
964
00:42:29,034 --> 00:42:30,234
Fuck it.
I know the lines.
965
00:42:30,234 --> 00:42:31,301
I'm not union, right?
966
00:42:31,301 --> 00:42:32,401
I'm not taking a salary.
967
00:42:32,401 --> 00:42:34,900
Fool, ain't nobody
investing in this shit.
968
00:42:34,900 --> 00:42:38,067
I'll cut more days
out of the schedule.
969
00:42:38,067 --> 00:42:39,201
Hey, look,
970
00:42:39,201 --> 00:42:41,001
it'll take 40 days
to make a studio movie.
971
00:42:41,001 --> 00:42:42,767
You settle for 27.
972
00:42:42,767 --> 00:42:44,401
Then you cut it down to 24,
minimum.
973
00:42:44,401 --> 00:42:45,434
Now what?
974
00:42:47,734 --> 00:42:48,967
20.
975
00:42:48,967 --> 00:42:51,533
20 with some ragtag crew
that don't know shit?
976
00:42:51,533 --> 00:42:53,667
Man, you're about to lose
every fucking thing.
977
00:42:53,667 --> 00:42:55,134
Kids' college funds, all of it.
978
00:42:55,134 --> 00:42:57,301
Just get the fuck off my roof.
979
00:42:57,301 --> 00:42:59,533
Look around you, man.
980
00:42:59,533 --> 00:43:01,600
Every fucking sign is saying,
"Don't do this."
981
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,633
You're about to be
a Hollywood joke.
982
00:43:03,633 --> 00:43:05,468
Go back to the studio.
Do a comedy.
983
00:43:05,468 --> 00:43:06,734
Do whatever.
984
00:43:06,734 --> 00:43:07,967
Do it with their money.
985
00:43:07,967 --> 00:43:09,167
Make a real movie.
986
00:43:09,167 --> 00:43:10,667
Get the fuck off my roof!
987
00:43:13,834 --> 00:43:15,900
Get the fuck off my roof.
988
00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:18,934
Get the fuck off my roof,
you hear me?
989
00:43:18,934 --> 00:43:21,934
Melvin, who are you
talking to?
990
00:43:21,934 --> 00:43:23,234
Running lines.
991
00:43:23,234 --> 00:43:26,034
Been a long fucking time
since I acted.
992
00:43:27,767 --> 00:43:29,067
I'm sorry to bother you,
993
00:43:29,067 --> 00:43:30,867
but I need to talk to you
about something--
994
00:43:30,867 --> 00:43:32,134
hold on, now.
995
00:43:32,134 --> 00:43:33,434
Is this something negative?
996
00:43:33,434 --> 00:43:34,834
Because if it's negative,
997
00:43:34,834 --> 00:43:36,468
I can't even deal with it
right now.
998
00:43:36,468 --> 00:43:39,500
I'm a broke, pissed-off nigga
from Chicago, Priscilla,
999
00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:42,001
and I'm down
to my last cigar, okay?
1000
00:43:42,001 --> 00:43:43,201
Don't leave.
1001
00:43:43,201 --> 00:43:46,600
Chill.
1002
00:43:48,867 --> 00:43:50,267
About...
1003
00:43:50,267 --> 00:43:53,533
About tomorrow...
1004
00:43:53,533 --> 00:43:55,700
I can't be in the movie.
1005
00:43:55,700 --> 00:43:57,201
What?
1006
00:43:57,201 --> 00:43:58,368
My boyfriend doesn't...
1007
00:43:58,368 --> 00:43:59,368
think I
should do it.
1008
00:43:59,368 --> 00:44:00,633
Hold up. Hold up.
1009
00:44:00,633 --> 00:44:02,234
I thought you discussed this
with the boyfriend.
1010
00:44:02,234 --> 00:44:03,401
I did,
1011
00:44:03,401 --> 00:44:06,201
but not about all the
sexy stuff exactly.
1012
00:44:06,201 --> 00:44:08,434
Well, we're making a sexy
fucking movie, right?
1013
00:44:08,434 --> 00:44:09,633
Now, I've been
straight about that
1014
00:44:09,633 --> 00:44:10,633
from the get-go.
1015
00:44:10,633 --> 00:44:12,767
I know.
1016
00:44:12,767 --> 00:44:14,900
I'm sorry.
1017
00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:17,034
Tomorrow's
our first day of shooting.
1018
00:44:17,034 --> 00:44:18,667
With all the other shit
1019
00:44:18,667 --> 00:44:20,468
I got coming down on my head
right now,
1020
00:44:20,468 --> 00:44:21,867
you're fucking sorry?
1021
00:44:21,867 --> 00:44:24,234
I'll leave production
if you want me to.
1022
00:44:24,234 --> 00:44:25,334
Leave production?
1023
00:44:25,334 --> 00:44:27,034
Are you crazy?
1024
00:44:27,034 --> 00:44:28,034
That's your
final decision?
1025
00:44:28,034 --> 00:44:29,034
You can't? Okay.
1026
00:44:29,034 --> 00:44:30,633
You know what you
fucking need to do?
1027
00:44:30,633 --> 00:44:32,234
You need to get off
my fucking roof
1028
00:44:32,234 --> 00:44:33,834
before I throw you
off this motherfucker,
1029
00:44:33,834 --> 00:44:35,600
all right?
1030
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,533
Get the fuck
out of here!
1031
00:44:39,334 --> 00:44:41,001
I'm trying to do something,
1032
00:44:41,001 --> 00:44:42,567
and sorry motherfuckers
come along
1033
00:44:42,567 --> 00:44:45,267
and sorry your ass to death.
1034
00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:54,533
Hello?
1035
00:44:54,533 --> 00:44:56,500
Hey, Ginnie, it's Mel.
1036
00:44:56,500 --> 00:44:58,301
Who?
1037
00:44:58,301 --> 00:44:59,401
Melvin.
1038
00:44:59,401 --> 00:45:00,401
Bill's friend.
1039
00:45:00,401 --> 00:45:02,800
Yeah.
1040
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,167
What do you want?
1041
00:45:04,167 --> 00:45:07,334
How about a date?
1042
00:45:07,334 --> 00:45:08,834
So you're asking me out?
1043
00:45:08,834 --> 00:45:11,767
Yeah, why the fuck not?
1044
00:45:13,067 --> 00:45:14,267
Why not?
1045
00:45:14,267 --> 00:45:15,401
Great.
1046
00:45:15,401 --> 00:45:17,434
It's going to be special,
though.
1047
00:45:17,434 --> 00:45:19,934
I want you to meet meat 52730 Alameda
1048
00:45:19,934 --> 00:45:21,101
tomorrow morning,
1049
00:45:21,101 --> 00:45:22,434
7:00 a.m.
1050
00:45:22,434 --> 00:45:24,201
A.m.?
Man, shit, you're tripping.
1051
00:45:24,201 --> 00:45:25,234
Wait, wait, wait,
1052
00:45:25,234 --> 00:45:26,633
now, this is
going to be special.
1053
00:45:26,633 --> 00:45:28,434
I told you,
you're never going to forget it,
1054
00:45:28,434 --> 00:45:30,034
and don't go getting shy
on me, girl.
1055
00:45:30,034 --> 00:45:31,667
Going to be
a couple of people watching.
1056
00:45:31,667 --> 00:45:35,468
Now, see, now, I knew you was
a real kinky motherfucker...
1057
00:45:35,468 --> 00:45:36,500
So, are we on?
1058
00:45:39,633 --> 00:45:40,900
Yeah, we're on.
1059
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:42,001
All right.
1060
00:45:42,001 --> 00:45:43,967
Tomorrow morning. Don't be late.
1061
00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:48,567
Clyde, Clyde,
come here.
1062
00:45:48,567 --> 00:45:50,800
Melvin going to use
his own dad for this scene?
1063
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,201
Yeah, well, we ain't got
enough actors,
1064
00:45:52,201 --> 00:45:54,234
and Melvin's dad'll
do it for free, you dig?
1065
00:45:54,234 --> 00:45:55,401
But that's Melvin.
1066
00:45:55,401 --> 00:45:58,633
He told me to get a dildo.
What's a dildo?
1067
00:45:58,633 --> 00:46:00,500
Thomas. Thomas.
1068
00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:04,401
Why are you doing
this movie, man?
1069
00:46:04,401 --> 00:46:08,867
You want to see how
the other half lives?
1070
00:46:08,867 --> 00:46:10,101
Hey, look,
there's your fairy godmother.
1071
00:46:11,101 --> 00:46:12,101
Melvin, Melvin,
1072
00:46:12,101 --> 00:46:13,301
we got to start
shooting, man,
1073
00:46:13,301 --> 00:46:14,334
before the husband
comes home
1074
00:46:14,334 --> 00:46:15,934
and kicks us the hell
out of here.
1075
00:46:15,934 --> 00:46:16,934
Where's Ginnie, man?
1076
00:46:16,934 --> 00:46:18,134
Come on.
1077
00:46:18,134 --> 00:46:19,934
I was shootingour sexiest scene up first
1078
00:46:19,934 --> 00:46:21,567
so if the union showed,
1079
00:46:21,567 --> 00:46:23,633
they'd be convincedwe were doing a black porno.
1080
00:46:23,633 --> 00:46:24,900
The problem was,
1081
00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:26,401
my date, Ginnie,got the same impression.
1082
00:46:26,401 --> 00:46:27,401
Fuck you, nigger!
1083
00:46:27,401 --> 00:46:28,800
I don't do
this kind of shit!
1084
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,401
No, no, listen,
I want you to be--
1085
00:46:30,401 --> 00:46:32,600
Bill Harris, get your
sorry motherfucking ass
1086
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:33,600
over here.
1087
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:34,600
Sister--
1088
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:35,800
Look, no, no.
Your sorry-ass friend
1089
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,468
wants me to be
in his fucking porno.
1090
00:46:37,468 --> 00:46:39,500
Did you know about this?
Give me my goddamn hat.
1091
00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:40,533
Okay, okay.
1092
00:46:40,533 --> 00:46:41,934
It's not a porno, Ginnie,
I swear.
1093
00:46:41,934 --> 00:46:43,334
Okay, here we go.
1094
00:46:43,334 --> 00:46:45,267
It's not a porno.
It's a social statement.
1095
00:46:45,267 --> 00:46:46,267
Tell her, Mel.
1096
00:46:46,267 --> 00:46:47,368
A social statement?
1097
00:46:47,368 --> 00:46:48,767
I'll should whoop
both your fucking asses.
1098
00:46:48,767 --> 00:46:49,800
I'm out of here.
1099
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:50,800
No, no, no, wait.
Sister...
1100
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:51,900
Listen, listen,
listen, listen.
1101
00:46:51,900 --> 00:46:53,101
We have been
marginalized sexually
1102
00:46:53,101 --> 00:46:54,201
for years.
1103
00:46:54,201 --> 00:46:55,401
We've been Aunt Jemima,
Uncle Ben.
1104
00:46:55,401 --> 00:46:56,600
We've never had
a Marilyn Monroe,
1105
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:57,900
never had
our own Mae West.
1106
00:46:57,900 --> 00:46:59,900
This thing is going to be
breaking all the taboos.
1107
00:46:59,900 --> 00:47:02,067
It's about getting
the man's foot out yo' ass.
1108
00:47:02,067 --> 00:47:04,500
Exactly. This could be
totally revolutionary.
1109
00:47:04,500 --> 00:47:06,401
Ginnie was at leastlistening now.
1110
00:47:06,401 --> 00:47:07,767
I rapped on
1111
00:47:07,767 --> 00:47:09,700
about this beingthe opportunity of a lifetime
1112
00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:12,001
for her to be the firstsoul sister sex goddess.
1113
00:47:12,001 --> 00:47:14,067
That was the clincher.
1114
00:47:14,067 --> 00:47:19,667
Revolutionary or not,
I still need to get paid.
1115
00:47:19,667 --> 00:47:21,001
Plus, the coupleof emergency Benjamins
1116
00:47:21,001 --> 00:47:22,067
I laid on her
1117
00:47:22,067 --> 00:47:23,234
didn't hurt.
1118
00:47:23,234 --> 00:47:24,234
Don't fuck with me.
1119
00:47:24,234 --> 00:47:25,234
We're on the camera.
1120
00:47:25,234 --> 00:47:26,234
Okay, let's
get her dressed.
1121
00:47:26,234 --> 00:47:27,434
I want to shoot
right now.
1122
00:47:27,434 --> 00:47:28,600
Mel, let me handle this.
1123
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:30,201
It's going to be out of sight,
baby.
1124
00:47:30,201 --> 00:47:31,201
Talk to me, Bob.
1125
00:47:31,201 --> 00:47:32,633
I am the producer.
1126
00:47:32,633 --> 00:47:34,567
Speed.
1127
00:47:42,034 --> 00:47:43,967
And... action.
1128
00:47:48,767 --> 00:47:53,600
* ...With the rising tide *
1129
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:05,800
Bet you ain't never seen
no shit like this before.
1130
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:18,867
* I can hardly wait
To feel your lovin' *
1131
00:48:54,767 --> 00:48:56,067
You all right?
1132
00:48:56,067 --> 00:48:58,101
Yeah, yeah,
I've got a heart thing.
1133
00:48:58,101 --> 00:49:00,533
It's no big deal.
1134
00:49:00,533 --> 00:49:02,667
* I want you up and down *
1135
00:49:02,667 --> 00:49:06,034
Does someone elsehave a sweet back?
1136
00:49:06,034 --> 00:49:11,633
* Beautiful chocolate brown *
1137
00:49:11,633 --> 00:49:13,468
What are they watching?
1138
00:49:13,468 --> 00:49:15,101
Some kind of...
black porn thing.
1139
00:49:15,101 --> 00:49:16,401
I don't know.
1140
00:49:18,301 --> 00:49:19,368
She's hot, right?
1141
00:49:21,067 --> 00:49:23,034
Let's go.
1142
00:49:31,401 --> 00:49:33,500
The union seemed to buyour little porno scam.
1143
00:49:35,101 --> 00:49:36,700
We were on our way.
1144
00:49:42,101 --> 00:49:43,167
Yeah.
1145
00:49:43,167 --> 00:49:44,201
You dig that sound?
1146
00:49:44,201 --> 00:49:45,934
Yeah, the sound of
your jaw dropping.
1147
00:49:45,934 --> 00:49:47,368
Brother, good work.
1148
00:49:47,368 --> 00:49:49,533
Man, it was great.
1149
00:49:49,533 --> 00:49:51,633
Great first assembly.
1150
00:49:51,633 --> 00:49:52,867
Hey, Cosby, man.
1151
00:49:52,867 --> 00:49:54,001
Say, hey,
1152
00:49:54,001 --> 00:49:56,900
when you going to
light that cigar, man?
1153
00:49:56,900 --> 00:49:58,734
When I can afford
to buy me another one.
1154
00:49:58,734 --> 00:50:00,034
Please, please.
1155
00:50:00,034 --> 00:50:01,667
Listen, I heard about the
three-picture deal, man.
1156
00:50:01,667 --> 00:50:02,667
Listen, listen,
1157
00:50:02,667 --> 00:50:03,867
I'm doing an independent
right now.
1158
00:50:03,867 --> 00:50:05,468
We just had our
first day of dailies.
1159
00:50:05,468 --> 00:50:06,667
Powerful shit.
You got a second?
1160
00:50:06,667 --> 00:50:08,267
I'll string them up
for you right now.
1161
00:50:08,267 --> 00:50:09,334
Excuse me, Mr. Cosby.
1162
00:50:09,334 --> 00:50:10,934
We've really got to get
to the airport.
1163
00:50:10,934 --> 00:50:12,533
I got to take care
of some business.
1164
00:50:12,533 --> 00:50:13,667
Check this out.
1165
00:50:13,667 --> 00:50:15,267
They get three strikes,
we only get one.
1166
00:50:15,267 --> 00:50:16,900
You sure you know
what you're getting into
1167
00:50:16,900 --> 00:50:18,167
with this whole
independent stuff?
1168
00:50:18,167 --> 00:50:19,301
Bill, we've got to go.
1169
00:50:19,301 --> 00:50:20,767
Hey, listen,
I'll call you, okay?
1170
00:50:20,767 --> 00:50:22,401
Number's
still the same?
1171
00:50:22,401 --> 00:50:23,934
Listen, you're
looking good too.
1172
00:50:23,934 --> 00:50:25,401
Keep on doing
what you're doing.
1173
00:50:25,401 --> 00:50:28,101
Hey, man...
1174
00:50:54,201 --> 00:50:55,334
Shit.
1175
00:50:55,334 --> 00:50:56,468
Someone get
a flashlight.
1176
00:50:56,468 --> 00:50:57,867
Melvin, we lost
the generator again.
1177
00:50:57,867 --> 00:50:59,167
I see that shit, Clyde.
1178
00:50:59,167 --> 00:51:00,934
Reroute the cables,
get that motherfucker back on.
1179
00:51:00,934 --> 00:51:02,800
Clyde made another one
of his cut-rate deals
1180
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:03,800
on a generator.
1181
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,034
You get what
you pay for.
1182
00:51:05,034 --> 00:51:06,267
Bill.
Okay.
1183
00:51:06,267 --> 00:51:07,267
All right.
1184
00:51:07,267 --> 00:51:08,667
Miss Bourgie is here
with the kids.
1185
00:51:08,667 --> 00:51:10,001
All right, listen,
1186
00:51:10,001 --> 00:51:12,201
we got to cut another day
out of the schedule, man.
1187
00:51:12,201 --> 00:51:13,301
No way, man.
1188
00:51:13,301 --> 00:51:14,301
The schedule's
too tight already.
1189
00:51:14,301 --> 00:51:15,967
What about
all those investors
1190
00:51:15,967 --> 00:51:17,167
that were jumping
on the train?
1191
00:51:17,167 --> 00:51:18,767
You got 10 grand
to loan me?
1192
00:51:18,767 --> 00:51:20,167
That'll buy me another day,
baby.
1193
00:51:20,167 --> 00:51:21,900
It is what it is.
1194
00:51:21,900 --> 00:51:23,301
What?
1195
00:51:23,301 --> 00:51:24,500
We're low on bread,
1196
00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:26,700
but you're not really
going to use your own son
1197
00:51:26,700 --> 00:51:27,967
in that scene,
are you?
1198
00:51:27,967 --> 00:51:29,700
Everybody's somebody's son.
1199
00:51:29,700 --> 00:51:32,567
Why would I not use my own kid
if I'd use somebody else's?
1200
00:51:32,567 --> 00:51:35,434
Have Nora meet me on the set
with hair and makeup right now.
1201
00:51:35,434 --> 00:51:36,934
Bill, hold this.
1202
00:51:36,934 --> 00:51:38,101
Hold this.
1203
00:51:38,101 --> 00:51:39,267
Melvin, listen.
1204
00:51:39,267 --> 00:51:41,800
I know it's none
of my business,
1205
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,600
but you can't be
doing this to your own--
1206
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:44,867
The other generator's up.
Come on.
1207
00:51:44,867 --> 00:51:46,067
Let's go on the other set.
1208
00:51:46,067 --> 00:51:47,368
Come on, Bill.
1209
00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:52,700
This kid's got an eye.
1210
00:51:54,201 --> 00:51:55,201
See, your father's
too cheap
1211
00:51:55,201 --> 00:51:56,334
to use
35 millimeter film.
1212
00:51:56,334 --> 00:51:57,533
That's why
we're shooting 16.
1213
00:51:57,533 --> 00:51:59,334
You don't need to shoot 35
all the time.
1214
00:51:59,334 --> 00:52:00,434
It depends on the shot.
1215
00:52:00,434 --> 00:52:01,500
T, that's not a toy.
1216
00:52:01,500 --> 00:52:02,567
The sound department.
1217
00:52:02,567 --> 00:52:03,734
You're the boss.
1218
00:52:03,734 --> 00:52:05,468
All right.
You crumb crushers
1219
00:52:05,468 --> 00:52:06,867
are going to be
in the movie.
1220
00:52:06,867 --> 00:52:07,867
All right.
1221
00:52:07,867 --> 00:52:09,468
You're going to
blow up a cop car,
1222
00:52:09,468 --> 00:52:10,900
and you're going to help
Sweetback escape.
1223
00:52:10,900 --> 00:52:12,633
Do I get to wear makeup?
1224
00:52:12,633 --> 00:52:14,867
Pretty little girls
do not need to wear makeup.
1225
00:52:14,867 --> 00:52:16,633
You. You a good actor?
1226
00:52:16,633 --> 00:52:17,633
Yeah.
1227
00:52:17,633 --> 00:52:18,633
You are?
1228
00:52:18,633 --> 00:52:19,633
Yeah.
1229
00:52:19,633 --> 00:52:20,700
Good,
1230
00:52:20,700 --> 00:52:22,134
because I got another role
for you.
1231
00:52:22,134 --> 00:52:24,001
I get to play two roles?
1232
00:52:24,001 --> 00:52:25,001
That's right.
1233
00:52:25,001 --> 00:52:26,201
I'm going to open the movie
1234
00:52:26,201 --> 00:52:29,301
with you playing Sweetback
losing his cherry.
1235
00:52:29,301 --> 00:52:31,900
Having sex for the first time.
Nora, take a look at his 'fro.
1236
00:52:31,900 --> 00:52:34,234
What'll I be wearing?
1237
00:52:34,234 --> 00:52:35,567
Nothing. It's a sex scene.
1238
00:52:35,567 --> 00:52:36,633
Cut this all real short
1239
00:52:36,633 --> 00:52:38,368
and then cut
some bald patches in it.
1240
00:52:38,368 --> 00:52:41,034
Melvin, we need you.
1241
00:52:41,034 --> 00:52:42,667
I got to cut my 'fro?
1242
00:52:42,667 --> 00:52:43,867
Yeah.
1243
00:52:43,867 --> 00:52:45,267
You're a malnutritioned
street kid.
1244
00:52:45,267 --> 00:52:46,667
It's the Depression era, okay?
1245
00:52:46,667 --> 00:52:48,134
Put some makeup
on the bald patches.
1246
00:52:48,134 --> 00:52:49,600
Make it look like ringworm.
What? What?
1247
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,368
We got a problem
with the actor...
1248
00:52:55,734 --> 00:52:57,134
What the hell's holding us up?
1249
00:52:57,134 --> 00:52:58,700
Bob.
Camera's ready.
1250
00:52:58,700 --> 00:52:59,734
Let's do it.
1251
00:52:59,734 --> 00:53:00,767
Roll sound.
1252
00:53:00,767 --> 00:53:02,001
Rolling.
1253
00:53:02,001 --> 00:53:03,334
Speed.
1254
00:53:03,334 --> 00:53:04,934
Slate.
Camera set.
1255
00:53:04,934 --> 00:53:06,633
And... action.
1256
00:53:06,633 --> 00:53:08,034
I have not seen
Sweetback.
1257
00:53:08,034 --> 00:53:09,134
Cut.
1258
00:53:09,134 --> 00:53:10,533
What the fuck happened
to his stutter?
1259
00:53:10,533 --> 00:53:11,633
He took speech lessons.
1260
00:53:11,633 --> 00:53:13,234
That's what I was trying
to tell you.
1261
00:53:13,234 --> 00:53:15,301
He's got a piece.
1262
00:53:17,334 --> 00:53:19,401
All right, brother, look,
1263
00:53:19,401 --> 00:53:20,800
I need to have
that piece, man.
1264
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,401
Well, I-I thought there
might be some trouble.
1265
00:53:22,401 --> 00:53:24,368
What the f-fuck
you doing?
1266
00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:25,533
Good, back to the mic.
1267
00:53:25,533 --> 00:53:26,867
That's it. Again.
1268
00:53:26,867 --> 00:53:27,934
Fuck you.
1269
00:53:27,934 --> 00:53:30,767
G-give me my g-gun.
1270
00:53:30,767 --> 00:53:31,934
Right here.
Right here.
1271
00:53:31,934 --> 00:53:33,234
The line. The line.
1272
00:53:33,234 --> 00:53:34,368
Action.
1273
00:53:34,368 --> 00:53:36,368
S-Sweetback ain't here,
m-motherfucker.
1274
00:53:36,368 --> 00:53:38,201
Pissed off.
Go ahead. Again.
1275
00:53:38,201 --> 00:53:42,167
S-Sweetback ain't here,
m-motherfucker.
1276
00:53:42,167 --> 00:53:43,567
Perfect. Bob?
1277
00:53:43,567 --> 00:53:44,600
Got it.
1278
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:45,600
Perfect. Beautiful. Beautiful.
1279
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,301
Priscilla,
put this somewhere safe.
1280
00:53:47,301 --> 00:53:48,800
All right.
Next set. Let's go.
1281
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:53,001
Melvin,
can I speak to you for a minute?
1282
00:53:53,001 --> 00:53:54,001
All right,
the script supervisor
1283
00:53:54,001 --> 00:53:55,401
says we need to shoot
the reverse.
1284
00:53:55,401 --> 00:53:57,401
No, I got the whole thing
edited in my head.
1285
00:53:57,401 --> 00:53:59,201
I know just what
I need here, Clyde, okay?
1286
00:53:59,201 --> 00:54:00,201
Melvin.
What?
1287
00:54:00,201 --> 00:54:01,600
He said it's not
going to cut
1288
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:02,600
unless we get the reverse.
1289
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:03,600
All right,
I'll handle this.
1290
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:04,600
You, Script,
come over here.
1291
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:05,633
Come over here.
1292
00:54:05,633 --> 00:54:07,234
Tell you what.
Give me this right here.
1293
00:54:07,234 --> 00:54:08,234
Here, okay.
1294
00:54:08,234 --> 00:54:09,434
Now, you are getting
a promotion.
1295
00:54:09,434 --> 00:54:10,633
You're going to be an actor.
1296
00:54:10,633 --> 00:54:12,234
I want you to stand
right over there
1297
00:54:12,234 --> 00:54:14,101
in that light.
1298
00:54:14,101 --> 00:54:15,434
Go ahead.
In the light.
1299
00:54:15,434 --> 00:54:17,567
Everybody,
1300
00:54:17,567 --> 00:54:19,101
I'm doing
the fucking script now, okay?
1301
00:54:19,101 --> 00:54:20,567
Next set. Let's go.
1302
00:54:28,533 --> 00:54:30,101
The scene with the dirty cops
1303
00:54:30,101 --> 00:54:31,633
was the onethat divided the crew.
1304
00:54:31,633 --> 00:54:33,034
He doesn't lookvery tough to me.
1305
00:54:33,034 --> 00:54:34,234
Does he look toughto you?
1306
00:54:34,234 --> 00:54:35,600
Nah.
1307
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:36,633
Don't look too tough.
1308
00:54:37,633 --> 00:54:39,368
Don't markhis face.
1309
00:54:39,368 --> 00:54:41,500
Hey, Sweetback.
1310
00:54:41,500 --> 00:54:42,633
I'm sorry, man.
1311
00:54:42,633 --> 00:54:44,567
I forgot you twowere attached together.
1312
00:54:44,567 --> 00:54:45,767
Let's seeif we can get...
1313
00:54:45,767 --> 00:54:47,301
White folks
1314
00:54:47,301 --> 00:54:50,034
would never experienceracial brutality.
1315
00:54:50,034 --> 00:54:51,867
Couldn't really believethat a double standard existed
1316
00:54:51,867 --> 00:54:54,267
for minorities.
1317
00:54:54,267 --> 00:54:56,201
Stay home at night,you wouldn't...
1318
00:54:56,201 --> 00:54:57,368
Black folks,
1319
00:54:57,368 --> 00:54:58,967
who had lived it,
1320
00:54:58,967 --> 00:55:01,067
were more than readyto see someone
1321
00:55:01,067 --> 00:55:02,201
stand up against racism...
1322
00:55:02,201 --> 00:55:03,800
Fuck the pigs up!
1323
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,567
even when it hidbehind a badge.
1324
00:55:05,567 --> 00:55:08,167
Help the brother out,
Sweetback.
1325
00:55:11,301 --> 00:55:12,900
Got a new thing
right there.
1326
00:55:12,900 --> 00:55:14,201
Come on, Sweetback.
1327
00:55:14,201 --> 00:55:18,234
Fuck him up.
Right on, Sweetback.
1328
00:55:18,234 --> 00:55:19,567
Yeah.
1329
00:55:19,567 --> 00:55:20,800
It's about time.
1330
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,067
Never seen nothing
like this.
1331
00:55:25,533 --> 00:55:27,067
Thanks, man.
1332
00:55:27,067 --> 00:55:29,134
Righteous.
1333
00:55:29,134 --> 00:55:31,867
He's just a child.
1334
00:55:33,700 --> 00:55:35,800
Mario.
1335
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:37,468
He's barely 13,
Melvin.
1336
00:55:39,368 --> 00:55:42,101
When I was 8, I was already
working the cash register
1337
00:55:42,101 --> 00:55:44,500
at my dad's tailor shop.
1338
00:55:44,500 --> 00:55:46,301
He gave me old clothes to sell.
1339
00:55:46,301 --> 00:55:49,067
Old reject shitthat folks left behind.
1340
00:55:49,067 --> 00:55:51,067
Here comesthis skinny little kid
1341
00:55:51,067 --> 00:55:54,034
with a wagonloadfull of shitty clothes.
1342
00:55:54,034 --> 00:55:56,900
Boy, you got
to work often,
1343
00:55:56,900 --> 00:55:58,434
and that's only the beginning.
1344
00:56:01,101 --> 00:56:02,334
You think I liked that?
1345
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,800
You think I even liked my dad
back then?
1346
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,967
I got my ass whooped
damn near every day,
1347
00:56:10,967 --> 00:56:12,101
and every day,
1348
00:56:12,101 --> 00:56:13,700
Daddy sent me
right back on the streets,
1349
00:56:13,700 --> 00:56:16,001
selling them old,
fucked up clothes,
1350
00:56:16,001 --> 00:56:19,700
until I learned
1351
00:56:19,700 --> 00:56:24,267
how to give the gangsters
some free shit
1352
00:56:24,267 --> 00:56:26,434
to protect me from those bullies
1353
00:56:26,434 --> 00:56:28,134
while I sold
those clothes
1354
00:56:28,134 --> 00:56:30,800
to the winos
and the junkies.
1355
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,633
My dad had taught me
how to survive,
1356
00:56:33,633 --> 00:56:34,900
how to hustle.
1357
00:56:34,900 --> 00:56:37,301
I'm not in the tailor business
anymore.
1358
00:56:37,301 --> 00:56:39,633
I'm in the movie business.
1359
00:56:39,633 --> 00:56:42,301
My kids want to be
in this shit, hey.
1360
00:56:42,301 --> 00:56:44,034
It is what it is.
1361
00:56:47,334 --> 00:56:49,001
I just think he's
ready to go home
1362
00:56:49,001 --> 00:56:51,401
and be with his mama.
1363
00:56:51,401 --> 00:56:52,734
No shit.
1364
00:56:52,734 --> 00:56:53,934
Shit.
1365
00:56:53,934 --> 00:56:55,334
We don't always get
what we want,
1366
00:56:55,334 --> 00:56:56,567
do we?
1367
00:56:56,567 --> 00:56:58,001
What if his friends
see the movie?
1368
00:56:58,001 --> 00:56:59,234
He's going to be
embarrassed.
1369
00:56:59,234 --> 00:57:00,368
Fuck his friends.
1370
00:57:00,368 --> 00:57:02,468
His friends
ain't paying college.
1371
00:57:04,134 --> 00:57:07,834
Well, at least let him
keep his afro.
1372
00:57:10,101 --> 00:57:12,334
That wig lady thinks
she can make him a skin wig.
1373
00:57:12,334 --> 00:57:13,600
It'll look natural.
1374
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:15,334
It'll be perfect.
1375
00:57:15,334 --> 00:57:18,633
Of course she does,
and a skin wig costs money.
1376
00:57:18,633 --> 00:57:21,468
I don't have the bread
to pamper him,
1377
00:57:21,468 --> 00:57:22,500
or you,
1378
00:57:22,500 --> 00:57:23,967
or any other
motherfucker,
1379
00:57:23,967 --> 00:57:25,034
and if I did,
1380
00:57:25,034 --> 00:57:26,633
I'd fix
the focus on B Camera first
1381
00:57:26,633 --> 00:57:27,633
and I'd buy more film.
1382
00:57:27,633 --> 00:57:29,034
Mario can grow more hair later.
1383
00:57:29,034 --> 00:57:30,201
I can't grow more film.
1384
00:57:30,201 --> 00:57:31,434
Melvin, listen to yourself.
1385
00:57:31,434 --> 00:57:33,001
You're cutting
the boy's hair off
1386
00:57:33,001 --> 00:57:34,301
and you're forcing him
1387
00:57:34,301 --> 00:57:35,600
to be in a sex scene.
1388
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,533
It's not real. It's acting.
1389
00:57:37,533 --> 00:57:39,101
He wants to act.
1390
00:57:39,101 --> 00:57:40,101
He's in a motherfucking movie.
1391
00:57:40,101 --> 00:57:41,101
He should be happy.
1392
00:57:41,101 --> 00:57:42,101
What?
1393
00:57:42,101 --> 00:57:43,600
He's tough. He's resilient.
1394
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,201
He's an ambitious
little motherfucker.
1395
00:57:45,201 --> 00:57:46,334
He can handle it.
1396
00:57:46,334 --> 00:57:47,934
What if he can't handle it?
1397
00:57:47,934 --> 00:57:49,767
Are you going to risk
fucking up his childhood
1398
00:57:49,767 --> 00:57:50,967
just because
yours was fucked up?
1399
00:57:50,967 --> 00:57:53,267
You want to turn him
into some macho stud man
1400
00:57:53,267 --> 00:57:55,967
like you think
you're supposed to be?
1401
00:57:55,967 --> 00:57:58,001
I'm going to split.
1402
00:57:58,001 --> 00:57:59,533
I'm out.
1403
00:57:59,533 --> 00:58:00,800
Of course you are.
1404
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,934
You got to go
screw everything that moves?
1405
00:58:05,934 --> 00:58:08,201
That's what this shit is about?
1406
00:58:08,201 --> 00:58:09,334
Me and chicks?
1407
00:58:09,334 --> 00:58:10,934
No, it's not about you
and your chicks.
1408
00:58:10,934 --> 00:58:13,368
It's about you
not respecting anyone.
1409
00:58:13,368 --> 00:58:14,667
Not even your own son.
1410
00:58:14,667 --> 00:58:17,867
You know what you are?
1411
00:58:17,867 --> 00:58:18,900
You're a nice sister
1412
00:58:18,900 --> 00:58:20,301
who has no idea
what it's like
1413
00:58:20,301 --> 00:58:21,700
on the other side
of the tracks.
1414
00:58:21,700 --> 00:58:23,900
None. And maybe
you don't respect the fact
1415
00:58:23,900 --> 00:58:26,101
that I know my own kid
better than he knows himself.
1416
00:58:26,101 --> 00:58:27,500
I know what the fuck
I'm doing
1417
00:58:27,500 --> 00:58:28,700
and he can handle it.
1418
00:58:28,700 --> 00:58:30,334
He can handle it.
1419
00:58:30,334 --> 00:58:32,867
Why don't you ask Bill,
1420
00:58:32,867 --> 00:58:34,001
or Clyde,
1421
00:58:34,001 --> 00:58:35,401
or that crazy-ass
assistant of yours,
1422
00:58:35,401 --> 00:58:36,667
Priscilla?
1423
00:58:36,667 --> 00:58:39,734
If they ain't too scared
to tell you the truth.
1424
00:58:39,734 --> 00:58:41,800
My grandmother used to call it,...
1425
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,734
listening with half an ear.
1426
00:58:43,734 --> 00:58:45,201
Dig?
1427
00:58:45,201 --> 00:58:48,067
Well, Melvin,
1428
00:58:48,067 --> 00:58:51,301
he'll listen with, like,
a third of an ear.
1429
00:58:51,301 --> 00:58:53,234
It was Melvin.
1430
00:58:53,234 --> 00:58:54,500
His kids.
1431
00:58:54,500 --> 00:58:55,834
His dad.
1432
00:58:55,834 --> 00:58:56,834
A family affair.
1433
00:58:56,834 --> 00:58:58,468
And we were all a part of it.
1434
00:58:58,468 --> 00:59:03,034
We all had a role to play in it,
like it or not.
1435
00:59:03,034 --> 00:59:05,234
Black man's got to work
twice as hard to get hits.
1436
00:59:05,234 --> 00:59:06,368
That's what I'm talking about.
1437
00:59:06,368 --> 00:59:07,934
Can't be afraid of hard work.
1438
00:59:07,934 --> 00:59:10,067
I wasn't hard on the boy.
1439
00:59:10,067 --> 00:59:12,301
That's a fact.
1440
00:59:31,101 --> 00:59:32,401
How much?
1441
00:59:32,401 --> 00:59:34,201
Short answer's all I
could get for 50 bucks.
1442
00:59:34,201 --> 00:59:35,533
Fucking actors
kept dropping lines.
1443
00:59:35,533 --> 00:59:36,567
Eight fucking takes.
1444
00:59:36,567 --> 00:59:37,967
You got to buy
enough film, man.
1445
00:59:37,967 --> 00:59:39,267
Well, film costs money.
1446
00:59:39,267 --> 00:59:40,468
So does down-time, Clyde.
1447
00:59:40,468 --> 00:59:42,067
Every minute that crew's
sitting on their ass,
1448
00:59:42,067 --> 00:59:43,067
that's costing us.
1449
00:59:43,067 --> 00:59:44,067
Just get what you need.
1450
00:59:44,067 --> 00:59:45,101
With what?
1451
00:59:45,101 --> 00:59:46,700
How the fuck
was I supposed to know
1452
00:59:46,700 --> 00:59:48,401
the bitch wouldn't know
her damn lines?
1453
00:59:48,401 --> 00:59:49,401
Why aren't we shooting?
1454
00:59:49,401 --> 00:59:50,468
Camera's reloading, chief.
1455
00:59:50,468 --> 00:59:51,567
How long's
he been waiting?
1456
00:59:51,567 --> 00:59:52,567
Too long.
1457
00:59:52,567 --> 00:59:53,567
Quiet on the set.
1458
00:59:53,567 --> 00:59:55,267
Quiet on the set.
1459
00:59:55,267 --> 00:59:56,301
Roll sound.
1460
00:59:56,301 --> 00:59:57,301
Rolling!
1461
00:59:57,301 --> 00:59:58,834
Speed.
1462
00:59:58,834 --> 00:59:59,867
A Camera.
1463
00:59:59,867 --> 01:00:01,334
A Camera's rolling.
1464
01:00:01,334 --> 01:00:02,401
B Camera.
1465
01:00:02,401 --> 01:00:03,434
B Camera ready.
1466
01:00:04,134 --> 01:00:07,867
And... action.
1467
01:00:07,867 --> 01:00:09,301
Little smile, ladies.
1468
01:00:09,301 --> 01:00:11,834
Looking at me
right here.
1469
01:00:11,834 --> 01:00:13,533
At me, me, me.
1470
01:00:13,533 --> 01:00:15,967
And good and cut.
1471
01:00:15,967 --> 01:00:18,167
You're up next,
little man.
1472
01:00:18,167 --> 01:00:19,368
Time to get ready.
1473
01:00:21,167 --> 01:00:22,567
Hey, Clyde,
what time tomorrow?
1474
01:00:22,567 --> 01:00:24,500
Can you wait
for the call sheets?
1475
01:00:24,500 --> 01:00:25,734
I got to go to court.
1476
01:00:25,734 --> 01:00:29,001
Jos�, you're killing me.
All right?
1477
01:00:29,001 --> 01:00:32,600
Show me the sides.
1478
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,001
There, right above the ear.
1479
01:00:35,001 --> 01:00:36,034
See that, Nora?
1480
01:00:36,034 --> 01:00:37,067
Smooth that down.
1481
01:00:37,067 --> 01:00:38,067
Yeah, we can see.
1482
01:00:38,067 --> 01:00:39,067
Cover it with makeup.
1483
01:00:39,067 --> 01:00:40,267
I think it'll work fine.
1484
01:00:40,267 --> 01:00:41,967
I didn't ask you
what you think, Clyde.
1485
01:00:44,700 --> 01:00:46,034
All right, let's do it.
1486
01:00:46,034 --> 01:00:47,533
We got a movie to shoot.
1487
01:00:47,533 --> 01:00:49,700
Scene two,
opening sequence.
1488
01:00:49,700 --> 01:00:52,567
Young Sweetback
loses his virginity.
1489
01:00:57,134 --> 01:01:00,001
Thank you for letting him
wear the skin wig
1490
01:01:00,001 --> 01:01:01,633
and not cutting his hair off.
1491
01:01:01,633 --> 01:01:02,633
That's just the way
1492
01:01:02,633 --> 01:01:03,633
things worked out
this time.
1493
01:01:03,633 --> 01:01:05,067
We've still got
a scene to shoot.
1494
01:01:05,067 --> 01:01:08,067
Am I going to
see you later?
1495
01:01:08,067 --> 01:01:09,334
I don't know.
1496
01:01:09,334 --> 01:01:10,434
I don't think so.
1497
01:01:10,434 --> 01:01:13,867
Suit yourself.
1498
01:01:13,867 --> 01:01:17,967
Megan wants to go
shopping with me.
1499
01:01:17,967 --> 01:01:19,834
Don't buy her anything
you can't afford,
1500
01:01:19,834 --> 01:01:21,301
because I ain't paying it back.
1501
01:01:23,567 --> 01:01:24,967
Bye, Melvin.
1502
01:01:26,533 --> 01:01:28,101
Come on, baby.
1503
01:01:30,734 --> 01:01:33,201
Hey, I'm going to
pick a second meal, man.
1504
01:01:33,201 --> 01:01:34,700
What should I get?
1505
01:01:34,700 --> 01:01:37,334
Something cheap.
Real cheap.
1506
01:01:37,334 --> 01:01:39,234
Want some licorice?
1507
01:01:39,234 --> 01:01:41,001
Nora, can I
see you here?
1508
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:46,267
Hey, little man.
1509
01:01:46,267 --> 01:01:48,201
Come here.
1510
01:01:50,201 --> 01:01:51,201
Get these clothes off.
1511
01:01:51,201 --> 01:01:52,067
Damn.
1512
01:01:56,334 --> 01:01:57,800
Unbutton it.
1513
01:02:00,067 --> 01:02:01,900
Don't worry, sugar.
1514
01:02:01,900 --> 01:02:04,001
You ain't gettingyour picture taken.
1515
01:02:04,001 --> 01:02:05,700
Come on.
1516
01:02:05,700 --> 01:02:07,167
Move.
1517
01:02:07,167 --> 01:02:08,167
Yeah.
1518
01:02:08,167 --> 01:02:09,167
That's it.
1519
01:02:10,167 --> 01:02:11,800
Damn, man,
I wish that shit was me.
1520
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,001
I didn't get my dick wet
till I was 18
1521
01:02:14,001 --> 01:02:16,867
and she was
double bag ugly.
1522
01:02:19,900 --> 01:02:22,267
Well...
1523
01:02:22,267 --> 01:02:23,401
Darling,
1524
01:02:23,401 --> 01:02:24,800
we're going to go
grab some dinner.
1525
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:26,001
All right, cool.
Get a bite.
1526
01:02:26,001 --> 01:02:27,001
I'll catch up to you.
1527
01:02:27,001 --> 01:02:28,500
All right, let's go.
1528
01:02:31,500 --> 01:02:32,500
Hungry?
1529
01:02:32,500 --> 01:02:33,500
Melvin?
1530
01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:34,500
What?
1531
01:02:34,500 --> 01:02:35,900
My boyfriend
wants to talk to you.
1532
01:02:35,900 --> 01:02:37,201
What the fuck
is wrong now?
1533
01:02:37,201 --> 01:02:38,600
He just wants
to talk to you.
1534
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:40,001
I ain't got time for this shit.
1535
01:02:40,001 --> 01:02:41,001
This is my man,
Maurice.
1536
01:02:41,001 --> 01:02:42,067
Hey, brother.
1537
01:02:42,067 --> 01:02:43,267
It's good to meet you,
brother.
1538
01:02:43,267 --> 01:02:44,934
Look, man,
I got to tell you,
1539
01:02:44,934 --> 01:02:46,368
the shit you are
putting down
1540
01:02:46,368 --> 01:02:47,401
is right on.
1541
01:02:47,401 --> 01:02:48,800
Now, I know
you don't know me,
1542
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:50,800
but I need to do
the music on this, man.
1543
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:52,001
I can do whatever
you need.
1544
01:02:52,001 --> 01:02:53,001
Look, man--
1545
01:02:53,001 --> 01:02:54,401
No, Priscilla,
she hipped me to it,
1546
01:02:54,401 --> 01:02:55,533
all right?
1547
01:02:55,533 --> 01:02:57,334
I know you don't have
a lot of cash,
1548
01:02:57,334 --> 01:02:59,034
but we could really
use this chance.
1549
01:02:59,034 --> 01:03:00,267
We?
1550
01:03:00,267 --> 01:03:01,434
My new band.
1551
01:03:01,434 --> 01:03:02,468
What do y'all call yourselves?
1552
01:03:02,468 --> 01:03:04,800
Earth, Wind & Fire.
1553
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:06,967
All right,
this is how it works.
1554
01:03:06,967 --> 01:03:08,434
What I sing, you play.
1555
01:03:08,434 --> 01:03:10,834
If I like what I hear--
if I like what I hear--
1556
01:03:10,834 --> 01:03:12,067
we got a deal.
1557
01:03:12,067 --> 01:03:13,633
All right.
Sounds good, man.
1558
01:03:13,633 --> 01:03:15,401
You ain't me heard sing yet.
1559
01:03:15,401 --> 01:03:17,134
I don't know shit
about no gun, man!
1560
01:03:17,134 --> 01:03:20,267
Fuck!
1561
01:03:20,267 --> 01:03:22,667
What's your malfunction, man?
1562
01:03:22,667 --> 01:03:24,533
G-go get my...
1563
01:03:24,533 --> 01:03:26,301
my piece, nigga.
1564
01:03:28,001 --> 01:03:29,434
Slow your roll.
1565
01:03:29,434 --> 01:03:30,567
My apologies.
1566
01:03:30,567 --> 01:03:32,167
I thought you got
your piece back, okay?
1567
01:03:32,167 --> 01:03:33,167
Priscilla,
1568
01:03:33,167 --> 01:03:34,434
what happened
to his .357?
1569
01:03:34,434 --> 01:03:35,468
The pistol?
1570
01:03:35,468 --> 01:03:36,767
Yeah, from the other day.
1571
01:03:36,767 --> 01:03:38,567
I put it
in the prop box
1572
01:03:38,567 --> 01:03:40,301
with the other guns.
1573
01:03:43,301 --> 01:03:45,434
What?
1574
01:03:45,434 --> 01:03:47,034
A loaded gun in the prop box?
1575
01:03:50,001 --> 01:03:53,600
The actors had beenin and out of that prop box
1576
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:55,800
at least 100 times,
1577
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:57,067
all to get their guns...
1578
01:03:57,067 --> 01:03:58,567
Police specials,
1579
01:03:58,567 --> 01:04:00,834
just like that brother'sloaded one.
1580
01:04:00,834 --> 01:04:02,967
What?
1581
01:04:02,967 --> 01:04:05,767
Sometime,I suppose when I get the time,
1582
01:04:05,767 --> 01:04:07,533
I'll havereoccurring nightmares
1583
01:04:07,533 --> 01:04:08,967
about that escape.
1584
01:04:14,633 --> 01:04:16,434
Mario.
1585
01:04:16,434 --> 01:04:18,167
Hey.
1586
01:04:21,067 --> 01:04:22,700
I know you're awake.
1587
01:04:27,234 --> 01:04:30,368
Look, son, I want
to tell you that...
1588
01:04:35,734 --> 01:04:37,334
you don't have
to sleep on the floor.
1589
01:04:37,334 --> 01:04:39,101
Sleep...
Sleep on the bed.
1590
01:04:39,101 --> 01:04:42,401
I'll take the couch.
1591
01:04:42,401 --> 01:04:44,734
Mario.
1592
01:04:44,734 --> 01:04:47,567
Suit yourself.
1593
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,633
President Nixonhad no comment...
1594
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,533
Your dick's on fire too?
1595
01:05:04,700 --> 01:05:05,700
Where's second unit, man?
1596
01:05:05,700 --> 01:05:07,101
I thought they'd be here by now.
1597
01:05:07,101 --> 01:05:08,201
The lab called
1598
01:05:08,201 --> 01:05:09,800
and the dailies
aren't going to be ready
1599
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:10,867
till Monday.
1600
01:05:15,468 --> 01:05:16,500
Yeah.
1601
01:05:16,500 --> 01:05:17,700
We got arrested, Mel.
1602
01:05:17,700 --> 01:05:19,700
You got to come down here
and get us out.
1603
01:05:19,700 --> 01:05:20,867
What the hell happened?
1604
01:05:20,867 --> 01:05:22,468
We were heading back
from the shoot and...
1605
01:05:23,967 --> 01:05:25,267
* Yeah, yeah, yeah *
1606
01:05:28,667 --> 01:05:29,934
* Yeah *
1607
01:05:33,201 --> 01:05:35,034
The pigs, they pulled us over.
1608
01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:37,700
You're not going tobelieve this.
1609
01:05:37,700 --> 01:05:41,468
They thought my telephoto lenswas a bazooka.
1610
01:05:41,468 --> 01:05:42,734
Outside of the truck.
Hands against it.
1611
01:05:44,134 --> 01:05:45,468
Let's go. Come on!
1612
01:05:45,468 --> 01:05:47,034
Put that down!
Put that down!
1613
01:05:47,034 --> 01:05:47,967
Right here.
Right here.
1614
01:05:49,633 --> 01:05:53,034
You one of them
Black Panthers, boy?
1615
01:05:53,034 --> 01:05:54,234
What are theyholding you for?
1616
01:05:54,234 --> 01:05:55,434
Grand theft.
1617
01:05:55,434 --> 01:05:56,834
They saw us with
all that equipment,
1618
01:05:56,834 --> 01:05:58,234
they figured
it must have been stolen,
1619
01:05:58,234 --> 01:05:59,434
so they impounded all of it,
1620
01:05:59,434 --> 01:06:00,434
including the truck.
1621
01:06:00,434 --> 01:06:01,834
Did you show them
your receipts, Jos�?
1622
01:06:01,834 --> 01:06:03,167
Yeah.
1623
01:06:03,167 --> 01:06:05,001
I showed them everything.
They thought it was funny.
1624
01:06:05,001 --> 01:06:06,334
Excuse me. I'm not through yet.
1625
01:06:06,334 --> 01:06:07,267
Jos�.
1626
01:06:11,401 --> 01:06:13,167
Get on it, man.
Call a lawyer.
1627
01:06:13,167 --> 01:06:17,034
What lawyer, man?
With what money?
1628
01:06:17,034 --> 01:06:19,700
Come on,
for crying out loud.
1629
01:06:19,700 --> 01:06:20,800
This is our equipment.
1630
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:23,234
Some of that's
my personal stuff.
1631
01:06:23,234 --> 01:06:24,700
What's the charge?
1632
01:06:25,967 --> 01:06:27,633
Charge of being black.
1633
01:06:27,633 --> 01:06:30,700
Welcome aboard.
1634
01:06:30,700 --> 01:06:32,734
You're a real nigga now.
1635
01:06:51,301 --> 01:06:52,533
When's Van Peebles
getting us out?
1636
01:06:52,533 --> 01:06:53,734
Soon.
He's coming soon.
1637
01:06:53,734 --> 01:06:54,834
Yeah.
1638
01:06:54,834 --> 01:06:55,834
He fucking better.
1639
01:06:55,834 --> 01:06:57,167
Shit.
1640
01:06:57,167 --> 01:06:59,468
He fucking better.
1641
01:06:59,468 --> 01:07:01,967
Sick of this shit.
1642
01:07:14,533 --> 01:07:15,667
Hello.
1643
01:07:15,667 --> 01:07:17,368
Yeah, man, it's me, Melvin.
1644
01:07:24,001 --> 01:07:27,368
Hold on a second, man.
1645
01:07:27,368 --> 01:07:31,301
Learn how to play
some tennis.
1646
01:07:31,301 --> 01:07:34,633
Hey, Mel, you okay?
1647
01:07:34,633 --> 01:07:35,867
My crew
just got arrested.
1648
01:07:35,867 --> 01:07:37,667
I don't know if I'm
going to make it.
1649
01:07:37,667 --> 01:07:39,167
I'm tapped out.
1650
01:07:39,167 --> 01:07:40,633
I got to finish
this movie.
1651
01:07:40,633 --> 01:07:42,101
I got to do it right.
1652
01:07:42,101 --> 01:07:43,867
So how much you need?
1653
01:07:43,867 --> 01:07:46,234
To get me through post, a lot.
1654
01:07:46,234 --> 01:07:47,767
Well, how much?
1655
01:07:47,767 --> 01:07:50,567
50,000.
1656
01:07:58,867 --> 01:08:00,067
Cosby came through.
1657
01:08:00,067 --> 01:08:01,067
He fucked us, man.
1658
01:08:01,067 --> 01:08:02,334
It's the start of the weekend.
1659
01:08:02,334 --> 01:08:04,334
There're no judges available
till Monday.
1660
01:08:08,001 --> 01:08:10,101
You go down there
and you visit him.
1661
01:08:10,101 --> 01:08:12,700
It'll do the troops good
for them to see you.
1662
01:08:12,700 --> 01:08:13,967
No.
1663
01:08:13,967 --> 01:08:15,567
What the fuck
are you talking about?
1664
01:08:15,567 --> 01:08:16,567
No. No.
1665
01:08:16,567 --> 01:08:17,633
Right now,
to those cops,
1666
01:08:17,633 --> 01:08:18,734
Melvin Van Peebles
1667
01:08:18,734 --> 01:08:20,034
is some white,
aristocratic Dutch guy,
1668
01:08:20,034 --> 01:08:21,034
right?
1669
01:08:21,034 --> 01:08:22,434
I show up with my black ass
1670
01:08:22,434 --> 01:08:23,633
to start singing
"We Shall Overcome"
1671
01:08:23,633 --> 01:08:24,633
with the troops,
1672
01:08:24,633 --> 01:08:26,500
they throw us all the fuck
in jail.
1673
01:08:26,500 --> 01:08:27,500
We got three days left
1674
01:08:27,500 --> 01:08:28,533
of filming
this motherfucker.
1675
01:08:28,533 --> 01:08:29,734
We'll jeopardize
the whole film, man.
1676
01:08:29,734 --> 01:08:30,934
Fuck the film, man!
Fuck it!
1677
01:08:30,934 --> 01:08:32,234
Fuck the fucking film, man.
1678
01:08:32,234 --> 01:08:34,633
This is our crew behind bars
on bullshit charges.
1679
01:08:34,633 --> 01:08:35,633
Doesn't that bother you?
1680
01:08:35,633 --> 01:08:36,800
Yeah,
1681
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:38,234
it's been bothering me
for 400 years!
1682
01:08:38,234 --> 01:08:39,633
That's why we're
shooting this shit, Bill!
1683
01:08:39,633 --> 01:08:41,034
Man, don't give me
that 400...
1684
01:08:41,034 --> 01:08:42,234
Fuck it, I'll go by myself.
1685
01:08:42,234 --> 01:08:44,234
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Hold the fuck up.
1686
01:08:44,234 --> 01:08:45,434
Here's what the fuck
you do.
1687
01:08:45,434 --> 01:08:47,034
You go home.
You cool the fuck down.
1688
01:08:47,034 --> 01:08:48,034
Monday morning,
1689
01:08:48,034 --> 01:08:49,633
you put on
a nice white guy suit,
1690
01:08:49,633 --> 01:08:51,434
you go down there,
and you bail them out.
1691
01:08:51,434 --> 01:08:53,434
Any emotional liberal shit
you do right now
1692
01:08:53,434 --> 01:08:56,067
will only jeopardize our crew.
1693
01:08:56,067 --> 01:08:57,167
Do you hear me?
1694
01:08:57,167 --> 01:08:59,767
Yeah.
1695
01:08:59,767 --> 01:09:02,900
I hear you.
1696
01:09:06,867 --> 01:09:08,600
Hey, he'd sacrificehis friends,
1697
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:11,401
his family,
1698
01:09:11,401 --> 01:09:13,167
even me.
1699
01:09:13,167 --> 01:09:14,967
Well, a black man in jail
who's not afraid
1700
01:09:14,967 --> 01:09:16,067
is a fool,
1701
01:09:16,067 --> 01:09:19,001
but I heard Big T
was crying like a bitch,
1702
01:09:19,001 --> 01:09:23,167
crying for his mama.
1703
01:09:23,167 --> 01:09:24,967
I wasn't scared of shit
in that jail, man.
1704
01:09:24,967 --> 01:09:27,134
I was scared of being hungry,
that's all.
1705
01:09:31,667 --> 01:09:33,834
Please, folks,
this is sound equipment.
1706
01:09:33,834 --> 01:09:35,001
Sound equipment?
1707
01:09:35,001 --> 01:09:36,001
Please stand back.
1708
01:09:36,001 --> 01:09:37,667
Y'all making
a movie?
1709
01:09:37,667 --> 01:09:41,734
I can do Flip Wilson.
1710
01:09:41,734 --> 01:09:43,134
Get the fuck
out of the way.
1711
01:09:43,134 --> 01:09:44,567
Move.
1712
01:09:44,567 --> 01:09:45,900
How many extras we got?
1713
01:09:45,900 --> 01:09:46,967
Seven.
1714
01:09:46,967 --> 01:09:48,368
I need more.
1715
01:09:48,368 --> 01:09:49,500
Melvin,
we got a problem.
1716
01:09:49,500 --> 01:09:51,101
We only got four mags of film.
1717
01:09:51,101 --> 01:09:52,334
Fuck.
1718
01:09:52,334 --> 01:09:54,434
If everything went perfect,
I'd need five.
1719
01:09:54,434 --> 01:09:56,500
I told Clyde six.
Where's Clyde?
1720
01:09:56,500 --> 01:09:57,767
Clyde!
1721
01:09:57,767 --> 01:09:59,533
Two men, two women?
1722
01:09:59,533 --> 01:10:00,633
Fine.
1723
01:10:00,633 --> 01:10:02,368
Damage control.
1724
01:10:02,368 --> 01:10:03,567
Some of them are pissed
1725
01:10:03,567 --> 01:10:05,167
about spending the weekend
in jail.
1726
01:10:05,167 --> 01:10:07,134
Now, if T quits,
the others might follow.
1727
01:10:07,134 --> 01:10:08,334
Bill tells me
we only have
1728
01:10:08,334 --> 01:10:09,934
four mags of film
for the whole day.
1729
01:10:09,934 --> 01:10:11,567
Really,
that should be plenty.
1730
01:10:11,567 --> 01:10:13,434
I asked you for six.
1731
01:10:13,434 --> 01:10:15,234
Well, I needed the money
for the stunt man
1732
01:10:15,234 --> 01:10:16,434
for the L.A. river chase.
1733
01:10:16,434 --> 01:10:18,034
Now you saw what happened
when Bill tried.
1734
01:10:18,034 --> 01:10:19,834
Clyde, I can
do that stunt myself.
1735
01:10:19,834 --> 01:10:21,734
What I can't do
is shoot without film.
1736
01:10:21,734 --> 01:10:22,934
Did you sign off on this?
1737
01:10:22,934 --> 01:10:24,334
No, no.
1738
01:10:24,334 --> 01:10:25,600
Okay, here's what I want.
1739
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:27,001
You, Bill,
go get all those people
1740
01:10:27,001 --> 01:10:28,001
away from
the sound equipment.
1741
01:10:28,001 --> 01:10:29,401
I want to start
our first shot
1742
01:10:29,401 --> 01:10:30,401
in 20 minutes.
1743
01:10:30,401 --> 01:10:31,533
We're going to start
1744
01:10:31,533 --> 01:10:32,734
with the cops
bringing Sweetback out.
1745
01:10:32,734 --> 01:10:33,734
Isn't that
Clyde's job, man?
1746
01:10:33,734 --> 01:10:34,934
Not anymore.
Clyde, you're fired.
1747
01:10:34,934 --> 01:10:36,234
This shit is not my fault.
1748
01:10:36,234 --> 01:10:38,434
Now, there's only so much
I can do with no money,
1749
01:10:38,434 --> 01:10:40,401
but if you're looking
for somebody to blame--
1750
01:10:40,401 --> 01:10:41,567
Right, it's my fault.
1751
01:10:41,567 --> 01:10:43,368
I got you in over your
head. I'm sorry.
1752
01:10:43,368 --> 01:10:45,368
When I get a bigger budget
or a smaller film,
1753
01:10:45,368 --> 01:10:47,334
I'll give you a call.
1754
01:10:47,334 --> 01:10:49,734
This is bullshit, Melvin!
1755
01:10:52,734 --> 01:10:54,001
T, I need to talk to you.
1756
01:11:03,234 --> 01:11:04,633
We got a problem?
1757
01:11:04,633 --> 01:11:07,633
Yeah, brother,
we got a problem.
1758
01:11:07,633 --> 01:11:11,633
I work with niggas,
I end up in jail.
1759
01:11:11,633 --> 01:11:14,034
Some shit like that
go down again,
1760
01:11:14,034 --> 01:11:15,834
I'm going to break me
1761
01:11:15,834 --> 01:11:18,034
some little
motherfucker neck.
1762
01:11:18,034 --> 01:11:20,401
T, you're a big
motherfucker.
1763
01:11:20,401 --> 01:11:22,301
In a fair fight,
you'd whoop my ass.
1764
01:11:22,301 --> 01:11:24,001
I ain't fought fair
in a long time,
1765
01:11:24,001 --> 01:11:25,401
and if I was
afraid of you,
1766
01:11:25,401 --> 01:11:26,800
I wouldn't be
the kind of nigga
1767
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:27,934
to get that shit done
1768
01:11:27,934 --> 01:11:29,533
in the first
motherfucking place!
1769
01:11:29,533 --> 01:11:32,234
I got everything I own
on the line,
1770
01:11:32,234 --> 01:11:34,034
and all my family's shit,
1771
01:11:34,034 --> 01:11:35,167
but it's
bigger than me,
1772
01:11:35,167 --> 01:11:36,967
and it's bigger than
your two days in jail.
1773
01:11:36,967 --> 01:11:39,301
This is a war,
1774
01:11:39,301 --> 01:11:41,167
it's our war,
1775
01:11:41,167 --> 01:11:43,167
and if you don't know by now
that's your war,
1776
01:11:43,167 --> 01:11:44,767
take your big ass
back to your shed
1777
01:11:44,767 --> 01:11:46,101
and your smoked meat.
1778
01:11:46,101 --> 01:11:47,368
No hard feelings, brother.
1779
01:11:47,368 --> 01:11:51,067
We got three days left
to shoot,
1780
01:11:51,067 --> 01:11:52,867
so if you stay,
1781
01:11:52,867 --> 01:11:54,767
and brother, I hope you do,
1782
01:11:54,767 --> 01:11:57,134
don't ever threaten me again.
1783
01:11:57,134 --> 01:11:59,633
Just step to me
and take me the fuck out,
1784
01:11:59,633 --> 01:12:01,334
before I take you,
1785
01:12:01,334 --> 01:12:06,734
because I'm going to have
to take you seriously, T.
1786
01:12:06,734 --> 01:12:10,434
T, this is our shit.
1787
01:12:20,267 --> 01:12:21,667
Hey, yo, that fool
with the glasses
1788
01:12:21,667 --> 01:12:23,468
said he gonna put me
in the movie, man.
1789
01:12:23,468 --> 01:12:25,401
Please, you got to move
these people back.
1790
01:12:25,401 --> 01:12:27,101
Okay, all right...
1791
01:12:27,101 --> 01:12:28,533
Hey, my good brothers
and sisters,
1792
01:12:28,533 --> 01:12:29,533
let's...
1793
01:12:29,533 --> 01:12:30,734
let's move it on back, please.
1794
01:12:30,734 --> 01:12:32,301
I ain't your brother, Casper.
1795
01:12:32,301 --> 01:12:34,500
Man, I'll beat your white ass
back across that freeway.
1796
01:12:34,500 --> 01:12:35,533
Don't come here
1797
01:12:35,533 --> 01:12:37,001
telling us
where we can't be.
1798
01:12:37,001 --> 01:12:39,001
Peace, peace, okay?
1799
01:12:39,001 --> 01:12:40,967
Let's just,
back it up.
1800
01:12:40,967 --> 01:12:43,401
All right. All right.
Excellent.
1801
01:12:43,401 --> 01:12:45,167
That's exactly
what I'm talking about.
1802
01:12:45,167 --> 01:12:46,234
Thank you.
1803
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:04,434
Sound is ready, boss.
1804
01:13:08,633 --> 01:13:09,900
Camera set.
1805
01:13:09,900 --> 01:13:11,767
Kids, get in.
1806
01:13:11,767 --> 01:13:12,900
Frame up.
1807
01:13:17,201 --> 01:13:19,034
It's out of focus.
1808
01:13:22,767 --> 01:13:24,867
Looks sharp to me, chief.
1809
01:13:26,900 --> 01:13:27,900
Okay, frame up.
1810
01:13:27,900 --> 01:13:28,934
T.
1811
01:13:29,967 --> 01:13:31,134
Rolling.
1812
01:13:31,134 --> 01:13:32,667
Slate.
1813
01:13:32,667 --> 01:13:33,667
Action.
1814
01:13:33,667 --> 01:13:34,867
Wash your car,
mister?
1815
01:13:34,867 --> 01:13:36,368
No charge if you
don't like it.
1816
01:13:36,368 --> 01:13:38,834
Yeah, no charge
if you don't like it.
1817
01:13:38,834 --> 01:13:41,101
Okay, Bob?
Got it.
1818
01:13:41,101 --> 01:13:42,334
Okay, cut! All right,
everybody out.
1819
01:13:42,334 --> 01:13:43,734
We're going to
blow this motherfucker up.
1820
01:13:43,734 --> 01:13:44,734
I need everybody back.
1821
01:13:44,734 --> 01:13:46,067
Get all those people
back over there.
1822
01:13:55,034 --> 01:13:57,034
Fire engine!
They called a fire engine!
1823
01:13:57,034 --> 01:13:58,434
Someone must have called
the fire department.
1824
01:13:58,434 --> 01:14:00,234
We got to get
the hell out of here.
1825
01:14:00,234 --> 01:14:01,434
No, no, no, hold on.
1826
01:14:01,434 --> 01:14:03,034
That's why we got
the permits on Friday,
1827
01:14:03,034 --> 01:14:04,434
so they couldn't notify
the fire department.
1828
01:14:04,434 --> 01:14:05,900
You can't buy this kind
of production value.
1829
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:08,134
Tommy, get over here.
1830
01:14:08,134 --> 01:14:10,334
Listen, fire department's
going to show up soon.
1831
01:14:10,334 --> 01:14:12,334
Don't show them the permit
till the last possible second.
1832
01:14:12,334 --> 01:14:13,633
I'll get the production value.
1833
01:14:13,633 --> 01:14:15,001
Sweetback's
going to make his escape.
1834
01:14:15,001 --> 01:14:17,134
Roll the cameras. Go!
1835
01:14:23,201 --> 01:14:26,101
Somehow we got that shot.
1836
01:14:26,101 --> 01:14:27,201
With the Cosby money,
1837
01:14:27,201 --> 01:14:28,767
a deal from the labs,
1838
01:14:28,767 --> 01:14:31,567
and my borrowingfrom anyone I could,
1839
01:14:31,567 --> 01:14:32,967
our little ragtag crew
1840
01:14:32,967 --> 01:14:35,401
managed to make itthrough the end of the shoot.
1841
01:14:35,401 --> 01:14:37,500
Trial by firewill singe your ass,
1842
01:14:37,500 --> 01:14:39,767
but it also bonds.
1843
01:14:39,767 --> 01:14:42,301
We'd becomemore than comrades in arms.
1844
01:14:42,301 --> 01:14:44,267
We were family.
1845
01:14:50,967 --> 01:14:52,267
Smoked turkey?
1846
01:14:52,267 --> 01:14:53,867
Last you're going to see
in a while.
1847
01:14:53,867 --> 01:14:56,567
Tommy's taking me
on his next film.
1848
01:14:56,567 --> 01:15:00,001
Teach him
how to make sound.
1849
01:15:00,001 --> 01:15:01,301
Somebody's got
to learn this shit
1850
01:15:01,301 --> 01:15:03,201
before I retire.
1851
01:15:03,201 --> 01:15:05,867
That's fucking great.
1852
01:15:05,867 --> 01:15:07,401
That's beautiful.
1853
01:15:07,401 --> 01:15:08,401
Beautiful.
1854
01:15:08,401 --> 01:15:10,267
Come here.
1855
01:15:10,267 --> 01:15:11,500
Hey, Melvin.
1856
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:13,600
Allow me
to introduce you.
1857
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:14,767
This is Jimmy,
1858
01:15:14,767 --> 01:15:17,434
the best editor
no money can buy.
1859
01:15:17,434 --> 01:15:19,001
Jimmy, you up for spending
1860
01:15:19,001 --> 01:15:20,667
long hours in a dark room
with me?
1861
01:15:20,667 --> 01:15:23,034
Because I'm a motherfucker
to work with.
1862
01:15:23,034 --> 01:15:24,767
Fun is the enemy, sir.
1863
01:15:24,767 --> 01:15:26,001
I see you've been briefed.
1864
01:15:26,001 --> 01:15:29,934
All right, welcome aboard.
1865
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:33,867
I'll tell you one thingright now.
1866
01:15:33,867 --> 01:15:35,201
Independent filmmaking
would not exist
1867
01:15:35,201 --> 01:15:39,034
had Melvin not put a "Van"
in the middle of his name.
1868
01:15:39,034 --> 01:15:42,834
You know, when you're clowning
and making the man laugh,
1869
01:15:42,834 --> 01:15:45,167
you can do anything,
1870
01:15:45,167 --> 01:15:48,500
but when you get serious,
you see,
1871
01:15:48,500 --> 01:15:50,734
that's when
you become dangerous.
1872
01:15:50,734 --> 01:15:55,368
Yeah, it kind of went, like,
* You bled my mama *
1873
01:15:55,368 --> 01:15:57,867
* You bled my papa *
1874
01:15:57,867 --> 01:16:02,533
* But you won't bleed me **
1875
01:16:04,034 --> 01:16:06,034
Good news was,
1876
01:16:06,034 --> 01:16:07,667
Earth, Wind & Firecame through
1877
01:16:07,667 --> 01:16:09,734
with some of the music.
1878
01:16:09,734 --> 01:16:11,001
We played it against the movie,
1879
01:16:11,001 --> 01:16:13,533
and it workedlike a motherfucker.
1880
01:16:34,401 --> 01:16:35,567
Now!
1881
01:16:35,567 --> 01:16:38,700
* You bled my mama *
1882
01:16:38,700 --> 01:16:40,533
* You bled my papa *
1883
01:16:42,500 --> 01:16:44,201
* Won't bleed me *
1884
01:16:46,301 --> 01:16:47,533
* Won't bleed me **
1885
01:16:47,533 --> 01:16:49,368
Yeah! That's it!
1886
01:16:49,368 --> 01:16:50,368
That is it!
1887
01:16:50,368 --> 01:16:51,401
We got it, baby!
1888
01:16:51,401 --> 01:16:52,401
You know
what you want.
1889
01:16:52,401 --> 01:16:53,401
You niggas going home
1890
01:16:53,401 --> 01:16:54,800
to make some more
of this music.
1891
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:56,800
I need it. I need
all of it right now.
1892
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:58,900
Time is money.
Go, go, go, go, go.
1893
01:16:58,900 --> 01:17:01,067
Jimmy, whenever
you're ready.
1894
01:17:01,067 --> 01:17:02,767
Speaking of which,
we need some bread, man.
1895
01:17:02,767 --> 01:17:03,834
Got it.
1896
01:17:03,834 --> 01:17:05,234
Got to give you
a check, though.
1897
01:17:05,234 --> 01:17:06,800
No problem.
1898
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:08,267
Okay.
1899
01:17:10,368 --> 01:17:12,533
All right.
1900
01:17:12,533 --> 01:17:13,734
Bring it back to me now.
1901
01:17:13,734 --> 01:17:14,600
Right on.
1902
01:17:17,567 --> 01:17:19,267
That check was $500.
1903
01:17:19,267 --> 01:17:21,001
You ain't got that.
1904
01:17:21,001 --> 01:17:23,134
Get me some coffee.
1905
01:17:23,134 --> 01:17:24,900
Go on.
Get me some coffee.
1906
01:17:48,034 --> 01:17:50,067
* You bled my mama *
1907
01:17:52,667 --> 01:17:53,934
The bad news was
1908
01:17:53,934 --> 01:17:55,767
that with the rentalof the editing room
1909
01:17:55,767 --> 01:17:57,734
and all the money I owed,
1910
01:17:57,734 --> 01:17:59,434
interest was piling up.
1911
01:17:59,434 --> 01:18:02,001
Time was of the essence.
1912
01:18:02,001 --> 01:18:03,600
I couldn't make a dimeon the movie
1913
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:05,301
until I sold it,
1914
01:18:05,301 --> 01:18:09,600
and I couldn't sell ituntil I finished it.
1915
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:12,401
My ass was dragging.
1916
01:18:12,401 --> 01:18:15,834
Name's Sweetback.
1917
01:18:15,834 --> 01:18:16,834
Sweetback!
1918
01:18:29,134 --> 01:18:30,401
Yeah.
1919
01:18:32,468 --> 01:18:33,767
I told you,
1920
01:18:33,767 --> 01:18:36,034
I got nothing to pay you with
until I sell this thing.
1921
01:18:38,167 --> 01:18:39,667
Yeah. No, no.
1922
01:18:39,667 --> 01:18:42,101
I don't know. Two weeks?
1923
01:18:42,101 --> 01:18:43,468
Unacceptable.
1924
01:18:43,468 --> 01:18:45,201
They want it now,get it?
1925
01:18:45,201 --> 01:18:46,567
Is that a threat?
1926
01:18:46,567 --> 01:18:47,967
Take it any wayyou want to.
1927
01:18:47,967 --> 01:18:50,067
Is that a threat, motherfucker?
1928
01:18:50,067 --> 01:18:53,001
Is that a fucking threat?
1929
01:18:59,567 --> 01:19:01,301
Where's Sweetback?Where is he?
1930
01:19:01,301 --> 01:19:02,867
I don't knowwhere's Sweetback.
1931
01:19:06,234 --> 01:19:07,500
Where's Sweetback?
1932
01:19:07,500 --> 01:19:08,900
Come on, boy!
1933
01:19:13,001 --> 01:19:14,434
Where's Sweetback?
1934
01:19:14,434 --> 01:19:17,167
Where is he?
1935
01:19:17,167 --> 01:19:18,334
Sweetback!
1936
01:19:18,334 --> 01:19:19,667
Come on, boy!
1937
01:19:25,134 --> 01:19:26,600
Are you okay?
1938
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:27,533
You all right?
1939
01:19:32,434 --> 01:19:34,633
I'm okay.
1940
01:19:34,633 --> 01:19:37,334
Yeah, get...
Give me some coffee.
1941
01:19:37,334 --> 01:19:38,967
You got to see a doctor.
1942
01:19:38,967 --> 01:19:42,567
Go get me some coffee.
1943
01:19:42,567 --> 01:19:44,201
About your eyes.
1944
01:19:44,201 --> 01:19:45,934
You got to see a doctor.
1945
01:19:45,934 --> 01:19:47,633
Please, Dad.
1946
01:19:53,934 --> 01:19:55,067
Get the man some coffee.
1947
01:19:55,067 --> 01:19:56,401
Go ahead. I'm fine.
Go ahead.
1948
01:19:56,401 --> 01:19:57,468
And that was it...
1949
01:19:57,468 --> 01:19:58,667
Go ahead, I'm fine.
1950
01:19:58,667 --> 01:20:05,600
The first timemy kid ever called me Dad.
1951
01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:09,700
You worry about your kids
until they put you in the grave.
1952
01:20:09,700 --> 01:20:12,301
He looked like he needed
a good meal and a good rest.
1953
01:20:12,301 --> 01:20:13,301
Circles under his eyes.
1954
01:20:13,301 --> 01:20:15,967
Melvin had lost a lot of weight.
1955
01:20:15,967 --> 01:20:18,167
He was in trouble, you see,
1956
01:20:18,167 --> 01:20:21,468
because I could see it
in his eyes.
1957
01:20:25,767 --> 01:20:27,301
Things had gotten so bad,
1958
01:20:27,301 --> 01:20:29,101
I had to sell the bike.
1959
01:20:29,101 --> 01:20:31,533
From now,on we'd be hoofing it.
1960
01:20:31,533 --> 01:20:33,167
I also had to collectall my debts
1961
01:20:33,167 --> 01:20:36,368
by any motherfucking meansnecessary.
1962
01:20:39,834 --> 01:20:41,234
Doctor saidif I didn't rest soon,
1963
01:20:41,234 --> 01:20:42,834
I could lose sightin my left eye.
1964
01:20:42,834 --> 01:20:47,867
Rest wasn't an option,so I got an eye patch.
1965
01:20:50,368 --> 01:20:52,201
I need the edit list
from yesterday.
1966
01:20:52,201 --> 01:20:53,468
Hey, can we talk?
1967
01:20:53,468 --> 01:20:54,600
We just did.
1968
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:56,533
I said I need the edit list
from yesterday.
1969
01:21:00,034 --> 01:21:01,900
I'm quitting.
1970
01:21:04,334 --> 01:21:05,734
What the fuck did you say?
1971
01:21:05,734 --> 01:21:06,734
I have to quit.
1972
01:21:06,734 --> 01:21:07,734
Man, I'm really sorry.
1973
01:21:07,734 --> 01:21:08,934
but I got
this other thing.
1974
01:21:08,934 --> 01:21:10,533
You come in here,
1975
01:21:10,533 --> 01:21:12,201
telling me what the fuck
you going to do?
1976
01:21:13,867 --> 01:21:15,867
But--
You gonna leave
this fucking film
1977
01:21:15,867 --> 01:21:17,301
when I tell you you can!
1978
01:21:17,301 --> 01:21:18,633
Melvin!
1979
01:21:18,633 --> 01:21:19,900
What the fuck, man?
1980
01:21:19,900 --> 01:21:21,500
We had a deal! We had a deal!
1981
01:21:21,500 --> 01:21:22,500
You're the only
other motherfucker
1982
01:21:22,500 --> 01:21:23,500
in here besides me
1983
01:21:23,500 --> 01:21:24,900
that knows all these elements!
1984
01:21:24,900 --> 01:21:27,101
If I don't sell this shit
and make some bread soon,
1985
01:21:27,101 --> 01:21:28,401
I'm gonna lose
every fucking thing!
1986
01:21:28,401 --> 01:21:31,167
You got it?
1987
01:21:33,001 --> 01:21:34,734
* You bled my mama *
1988
01:21:34,734 --> 01:21:37,734
* You bled my papa *
1989
01:21:37,734 --> 01:21:39,134
Things had gotten out of hand,
1990
01:21:39,134 --> 01:21:43,167
but somehow I managedto get the movie done.
1991
01:21:43,167 --> 01:21:47,767
All 97 minutes of it.
1992
01:21:47,767 --> 01:21:49,401
I was desperate to sell.
1993
01:21:49,401 --> 01:21:51,967
Plan wasto have distributors come
1994
01:21:51,967 --> 01:21:53,434
to a cast and crew screening,
1995
01:21:53,434 --> 01:21:57,067
so the buyers would see itwith an enthusiastic audience.
1996
01:21:57,067 --> 01:22:00,134
You know, T,
the Temptations called.
1997
01:22:00,134 --> 01:22:01,700
They want their suit back.
1998
01:22:01,700 --> 01:22:03,767
I'd have to put onmy best game face.
1999
01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:07,201
Never let the buyerssee you bleed.
2000
01:22:07,201 --> 01:22:08,368
Action.
2001
01:22:08,368 --> 01:22:11,034
No, we have not
seen Sweetback.
2002
01:22:11,034 --> 01:22:14,468
And cut.
2003
01:22:14,468 --> 01:22:16,067
The apple don't fall
far from the tree,
2004
01:22:16,067 --> 01:22:17,067
does it?
2005
01:22:17,067 --> 01:22:18,267
You're so right.
2006
01:22:18,267 --> 01:22:20,368
Comes a point
2007
01:22:20,368 --> 01:22:22,934
where you gotto let the kids go,
2008
01:22:22,934 --> 01:22:26,134
and just be supportive of them.
2009
01:22:26,134 --> 01:22:27,767
This was a movie
2010
01:22:27,767 --> 01:22:30,633
by the brothers
for the brothers
2011
01:22:30,633 --> 01:22:32,301
about the brothers,
2012
01:22:32,301 --> 01:22:33,800
and you know what?
2013
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:37,867
We're all brothers.
2014
01:22:37,867 --> 01:22:40,101
They didn't even invite me
to the cast and crew screening.
2015
01:22:40,101 --> 01:22:42,500
Do you believe that shit?
It's not like I would have gone.
2016
01:22:42,500 --> 01:22:44,101
I mean, who the fuck am I?
Blame-a-Nigga?
2017
01:22:44,101 --> 01:22:45,867
Like everything bad
that happened
2018
01:22:45,867 --> 01:22:47,334
is Clyde's fault.
2019
01:22:47,334 --> 01:22:48,934
Motherfucker.
2020
01:22:48,934 --> 01:22:50,167
And that Bill Harris,
2021
01:22:50,167 --> 01:22:51,401
that white boy,
2022
01:22:51,401 --> 01:22:52,800
with all that peace and lovebullshit,
2023
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:54,234
now, that was one honky
2024
01:22:54,234 --> 01:22:56,234
that was out to get me
from the very beginning.
2025
01:22:56,234 --> 01:22:57,667
I knew it. I could feel it.
2026
01:22:57,667 --> 01:23:00,134
I was supposed to have the lead
in this motherf-fucking movie,
2027
01:23:00,134 --> 01:23:04,700
but I had two f-fucking lines.
2028
01:23:04,700 --> 01:23:05,900
Well, it was very uncomfortable.
2029
01:23:05,900 --> 01:23:07,401
To be honest,
I didn't feel safe.
2030
01:23:07,401 --> 01:23:08,500
It was embarrassing.
2031
01:23:08,500 --> 01:23:09,700
The distributors were
tripping over themselves
2032
01:23:09,700 --> 01:23:10,900
to get out of the theater.
2033
01:23:10,900 --> 01:23:13,001
What can I say?
Listen, we like Mel.
2034
01:23:13,001 --> 01:23:14,800
Well, we both do.
That's not the point.
2035
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,334
It's just... the movie
wasn't entertaining...
2036
01:23:16,334 --> 01:23:18,034
and who wants to see
something like that?
2037
01:23:18,034 --> 01:23:19,667
First thing is,
when you make a movie,
2038
01:23:19,667 --> 01:23:21,267
you have to know
who your audience is
2039
01:23:21,267 --> 01:23:22,834
and that's a lesson
Mel completely forgot,
2040
01:23:22,834 --> 01:23:24,500
went completely
out of his head.
2041
01:23:24,500 --> 01:23:25,500
Very sad.
2042
01:23:25,500 --> 01:23:26,700
There's the guy
from Stax Records.
2043
01:23:26,700 --> 01:23:28,034
He says
the album's ready.
2044
01:23:28,034 --> 01:23:29,834
Just wants to know
when the movie's coming out.
2045
01:23:29,834 --> 01:23:31,434
Well, tell him
to give me some vinyl
2046
01:23:31,434 --> 01:23:33,034
and I'll let him know
when we know.
2047
01:23:33,034 --> 01:23:34,034
Okay?
Hey, brother.
2048
01:23:34,034 --> 01:23:35,401
Man, it's beautiful,
beautiful.
2049
01:23:35,401 --> 01:23:37,401
Congratulations.
2050
01:23:37,401 --> 01:23:39,167
Thank you, baby.
2051
01:23:39,167 --> 01:23:40,301
You're welcome.
2052
01:23:40,301 --> 01:23:42,734
Bill. Hey.
2053
01:23:42,734 --> 01:23:43,767
What's happening?
2054
01:23:43,767 --> 01:23:46,334
Let me borrow him
for one second.
2055
01:23:46,334 --> 01:23:47,934
So what do the fucking
the distributors think?
2056
01:23:47,934 --> 01:23:48,934
I don't know, man.
2057
01:23:48,934 --> 01:23:49,934
They split
halfway through.
2058
01:23:49,934 --> 01:23:51,067
One guy left his card.
2059
01:23:51,067 --> 01:23:53,201
I don't even know them.
Cinemation?
2060
01:23:53,201 --> 01:23:54,267
Wait, wait,
2061
01:23:54,267 --> 01:23:55,468
what about the guy
from Spotlight?
2062
01:23:55,468 --> 01:23:57,067
Yeah, he says,
once you get it rated,
2063
01:23:57,067 --> 01:23:59,101
if it gets nothing
harder than an R,
2064
01:23:59,101 --> 01:24:00,167
then he'll screen it.
2065
01:24:00,167 --> 01:24:01,567
Melvin,
we're going to have to run,
2066
01:24:01,567 --> 01:24:02,967
so I just want
to congratulate you
2067
01:24:02,967 --> 01:24:04,967
and tell you
a lot of hard work up there.
2068
01:24:04,967 --> 01:24:05,967
Good.
2069
01:24:05,967 --> 01:24:08,434
Who would believe
this bullshit artist?
2070
01:24:08,434 --> 01:24:09,533
Come on, come on.
2071
01:24:09,533 --> 01:24:11,533
What did you really think?
2072
01:24:11,533 --> 01:24:14,434
Honestly?
2073
01:24:14,434 --> 01:24:16,900
You know, it's... it's...
2074
01:24:16,900 --> 01:24:18,500
it's a dangerous film.
What can I say?
2075
01:24:18,500 --> 01:24:20,700
But it's not dangerous
when John Wayne has the gun.
2076
01:24:20,700 --> 01:24:23,867
See, most of America
looks like John Wayne,
2077
01:24:23,867 --> 01:24:25,468
so I'm just a little nervous
2078
01:24:25,468 --> 01:24:27,101
people aren't going to be able
2079
01:24:27,101 --> 01:24:28,867
to identify with it.
2080
01:24:28,867 --> 01:24:30,667
I don't know. I always
identified with the Indians.
2081
01:24:30,667 --> 01:24:32,134
You know what?
I don't know anything,
2082
01:24:32,134 --> 01:24:33,734
so leave me out of it,
all right?
2083
01:24:33,734 --> 01:24:34,834
When's it rated?
2084
01:24:34,834 --> 01:24:36,034
When and if I submit it.
2085
01:24:36,034 --> 01:24:37,434
Okay, Melvin, no,
no, no, no, no.
2086
01:24:37,434 --> 01:24:39,633
You had the whole porn thing
that worked with the unions,
2087
01:24:39,633 --> 01:24:40,967
but the ratings board,
2088
01:24:40,967 --> 01:24:42,967
they're just gonna want
to cut out a few tits,
2089
01:24:42,967 --> 01:24:43,967
they're gonna want
2090
01:24:43,967 --> 01:24:45,633
to get rid
of a few swear words.
2091
01:24:45,633 --> 01:24:46,834
Just get your R and go.
2092
01:24:46,834 --> 01:24:48,234
You know what?
It's an all-white jury.
2093
01:24:48,234 --> 01:24:51,234
This board has been doing this
since the year zero.
2094
01:24:51,234 --> 01:24:52,401
Somebody has
to tell parents
2095
01:24:52,401 --> 01:24:54,301
what kids can see,
what they can't see.
2096
01:24:54,301 --> 01:24:56,900
I don't know nothingabout birthing babies!
2097
01:24:56,900 --> 01:24:58,334
It wasn't just the blacks
2098
01:24:58,334 --> 01:24:59,734
who were being portrayednegatively.
2099
01:24:59,734 --> 01:25:01,134
It was all of us.
2100
01:25:01,134 --> 01:25:02,734
I'm telling you,
2101
01:25:02,734 --> 01:25:04,800
all the Mexicanswho kept saying,
2102
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:06,767
"Badges!I got no stinking badges!"
2103
01:25:06,767 --> 01:25:08,867
It was the Chinese...
2104
01:25:08,867 --> 01:25:10,368
You speak to me?
2105
01:25:10,368 --> 01:25:13,368
The Indians, you name it.
2106
01:25:13,368 --> 01:25:14,600
The truth is,
2107
01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:16,734
if you weren't white,
you were the joke.
2108
01:25:16,734 --> 01:25:20,134
Only thing is,
we weren't laughing.
2109
01:25:20,134 --> 01:25:21,834
And any white actorcould play us.
2110
01:25:21,834 --> 01:25:24,800
Yellow face, red face,black face, or brown face.
2111
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:26,533
Get yourself a featheror a turban.
2112
01:25:26,533 --> 01:25:28,267
Who said that was okay?
2113
01:25:28,267 --> 01:25:29,767
Making us mammies and butlers,
2114
01:25:29,767 --> 01:25:31,700
kissing Shirley Temple'slittle ass.
2115
01:25:31,700 --> 01:25:33,734
Didn't I tell youto bring this water?
2116
01:25:33,734 --> 01:25:34,867
That's right.It was you.
2117
01:25:34,867 --> 01:25:36,468
And it fucked upwhite kids too,
2118
01:25:36,468 --> 01:25:39,533
because they'd thinkthat's who we were.
2119
01:25:41,067 --> 01:25:42,468
No all-white jury has the right
2120
01:25:42,468 --> 01:25:44,867
to tell the black community
what it may or may not see.
2121
01:25:44,867 --> 01:25:47,067
Now the rest of you
want to submit to that program,
2122
01:25:47,067 --> 01:25:48,067
that's your business.
2123
01:25:48,067 --> 01:25:49,201
Honestly,
2124
01:25:49,201 --> 01:25:50,600
aren't you doing this
for the press?
2125
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:51,800
Whose press? Whose press?
2126
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:52,900
I'm not doing it
2127
01:25:52,900 --> 01:25:53,900
for the white media's
consumption,
2128
01:25:53,900 --> 01:25:54,900
or yours either.
2129
01:25:54,900 --> 01:25:56,034
I'm telling the truth, brother.
2130
01:25:56,034 --> 01:25:57,834
You take it
however you want to take it.
2131
01:25:57,834 --> 01:26:02,134
Melvin, you just
bought yourself an X.
2132
01:26:03,600 --> 01:26:06,334
I was hemorrhaging cash,every day bleeding more.
2133
01:26:06,334 --> 01:26:11,500
Calls for money were constant.Even death threats now.
2134
01:26:11,500 --> 01:26:13,267
I devised a signalfor the inner circle.
2135
01:26:13,267 --> 01:26:14,767
Ring twice, hang up,then call back.
2136
01:26:14,767 --> 01:26:16,067
We had...
2137
01:26:16,067 --> 01:26:17,867
We had a couple of callsabout the picture.
2138
01:26:17,867 --> 01:26:19,267
Nothing much,
2139
01:26:19,267 --> 01:26:21,900
but I thought I'dtell you about it anyway.
2140
01:26:21,900 --> 01:26:24,800
One of them's... they'll...
2141
01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:26,067
they'll distribute
Sweetback worldwide,
2142
01:26:26,067 --> 01:26:27,468
but they want their fee up
front,
2143
01:26:27,468 --> 01:26:28,667
and they want
2144
01:26:28,667 --> 01:26:30,468
a 70 percentagefor perpetuity, so--
2145
01:26:30,468 --> 01:26:32,001
We're losing bread.
2146
01:26:32,001 --> 01:26:33,368
I know, I know,it's ridiculous.
2147
01:26:33,368 --> 01:26:35,567
I don't even wantto think about it.
2148
01:26:35,567 --> 01:26:37,101
Listen, it only gets worse.
2149
01:26:37,101 --> 01:26:39,600
The other one,
it's a very low-ball buyer.
2150
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:41,067
I'm not going to
insult you with it.
2151
01:26:43,667 --> 01:26:45,368
You ever hear of Cinemation?
2152
01:26:45,368 --> 01:26:46,700
Cinemation? Yeah.
2153
01:26:46,700 --> 01:26:48,067
Yeah, they're a very low-leveldistributor
2154
01:26:48,067 --> 01:26:49,368
doing mostly schlock,
2155
01:26:49,368 --> 01:26:50,700
if they're evenstill in business.
2156
01:26:53,633 --> 01:26:55,201
Kid, you all right?
2157
01:26:55,201 --> 01:26:57,468
Yeah, I'm fine.
2158
01:27:02,834 --> 01:27:04,434
Dad.
2159
01:27:04,434 --> 01:27:05,900
The patch.
2160
01:27:05,900 --> 01:27:08,234
Yeah.
2161
01:27:13,633 --> 01:27:14,767
How do I look?
2162
01:27:14,767 --> 01:27:15,834
H.N.I.C.
2163
01:27:15,834 --> 01:27:17,567
Head Nigga In Charge?
2164
01:27:21,667 --> 01:27:23,267
So, I got to be honest here.
2165
01:27:23,267 --> 01:27:27,600
What we got
is an X-rated black film
2166
01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:29,401
with no stars.
2167
01:27:29,401 --> 01:27:32,468
No Sidney Poitier,
no Diahann Carroll.
2168
01:27:32,468 --> 01:27:34,034
In this film,
2169
01:27:34,034 --> 01:27:35,834
a black hustler
beats up two white cops,
2170
01:27:35,834 --> 01:27:38,001
screws a white chick,
2171
01:27:38,001 --> 01:27:39,401
and gets away with it.
2172
01:27:39,401 --> 01:27:41,167
Black folks are gonna
fucking love it, Jerry.
2173
01:27:41,167 --> 01:27:42,401
They're gonna love it.
2174
01:27:42,401 --> 01:27:43,867
Black folks don't own theaters
in America.
2175
01:27:43,867 --> 01:27:45,700
Old white guys do.
2176
01:27:47,434 --> 01:27:49,034
On Watermelon Man,
we had a nice opening.
2177
01:27:49,034 --> 01:27:53,368
Sweetback has gotta open big.
You with me? Bam!
2178
01:27:53,368 --> 01:27:54,767
How many theaters
can you get me?
2179
01:27:54,767 --> 01:27:56,867
Two if we're lucky.
2180
01:27:56,867 --> 01:27:58,401
Just two in L.A.?
2181
01:27:58,401 --> 01:28:00,468
Two in the U.S. of A,
my friend.
2182
01:28:00,468 --> 01:28:02,700
The second's in Atlanta.
2183
01:28:02,700 --> 01:28:05,101
The first in Detroit,
the Grand Circus.
2184
01:28:05,101 --> 01:28:06,368
It's run by the Goldberg twins.
2185
01:28:07,967 --> 01:28:10,667
Believe me, I begged.
2186
01:28:10,667 --> 01:28:11,834
I want to get us
2187
01:28:11,834 --> 01:28:14,201
in as many theaters
as possible.
2188
01:28:14,201 --> 01:28:16,667
My money is where your money is,
2189
01:28:16,667 --> 01:28:20,067
and even if they run it,
2190
01:28:20,067 --> 01:28:21,468
they're gonna play it safe.
2191
01:28:21,468 --> 01:28:23,401
They're gonna sandwich it
between two other flicks.
2192
01:28:23,401 --> 01:28:25,700
Only two theaters
in all of America,
2193
01:28:25,700 --> 01:28:28,234
and it won't even run alone,
not even first run.
2194
01:28:28,234 --> 01:28:31,700
They don't run X-rated films,
Melvin.
2195
01:28:31,700 --> 01:28:34,368
You know you can't even
print the title?
2196
01:28:34,368 --> 01:28:35,734
Sweet Sweetback's
2197
01:28:35,734 --> 01:28:37,267
Baadasssss Song?
2198
01:28:37,267 --> 01:28:39,401
You can't put it
in the newspapers.
2199
01:28:39,401 --> 01:28:43,934
You can't even put it
up on the marquee.
2200
01:28:47,767 --> 01:28:49,067
Let's get the fuck out of here.
2201
01:28:54,434 --> 01:28:57,767
No peeking.
2202
01:28:57,767 --> 01:28:59,334
All right, open up.
2203
01:29:03,301 --> 01:29:05,067
What you got there?
2204
01:29:05,067 --> 01:29:06,967
For finishing
your movie.
2205
01:29:06,967 --> 01:29:09,867
Congratulations, honey.
2206
01:29:14,900 --> 01:29:17,401
What's wrong?
2207
01:29:17,401 --> 01:29:19,267
I still got to pick out
a still photo
2208
01:29:19,267 --> 01:29:21,334
for the poster.
2209
01:29:21,334 --> 01:29:26,234
I can't even see straight.
2210
01:29:26,234 --> 01:29:29,267
Okay.
2211
01:29:29,267 --> 01:29:31,234
Okay, honey.
2212
01:29:31,234 --> 01:29:33,900
Listen, go to bed,
rest your eye,
2213
01:29:33,900 --> 01:29:35,434
and I'll help you
with that.
2214
01:29:35,434 --> 01:29:36,867
I'll take care of it.
2215
01:29:41,101 --> 01:29:42,767
Congratu-fucking-lations.
2216
01:29:53,101 --> 01:29:55,067
Fuck!
2217
01:30:27,034 --> 01:30:29,667
All right,
I'll do this fucking deal.
2218
01:30:29,667 --> 01:30:32,067
I just want to meet these guys
that run this theater.
2219
01:30:32,067 --> 01:30:33,301
Absolutely not.
2220
01:30:33,301 --> 01:30:35,001
You'll fuck it up for us.
2221
01:30:35,001 --> 01:30:36,067
Come on, man.
2222
01:30:36,067 --> 01:30:37,867
They're premiering my movie.
2223
01:30:37,867 --> 01:30:43,533
All right,
go charm the shit out of them.
2224
01:30:46,101 --> 01:30:48,101
Look, do us a favor, okay?
2225
01:30:48,101 --> 01:30:51,334
Why don't you take a shave,
put on a suit?
2226
01:30:51,334 --> 01:30:53,001
These guys are
very sharp dressers,
2227
01:30:53,001 --> 01:30:54,533
you understand?
2228
01:30:54,533 --> 01:30:56,301
All right, here's
where you're going.
2229
01:30:56,301 --> 01:30:57,934
To say that thisis self indulgent
2230
01:30:57,934 --> 01:30:59,167
to make this movie,
2231
01:30:59,167 --> 01:31:01,700
that's too good.
2232
01:31:01,700 --> 01:31:02,867
The thing is,
2233
01:31:02,867 --> 01:31:04,500
if you want to make
political statements,
2234
01:31:04,500 --> 01:31:07,067
you can't be concerned
about box office as well.
2235
01:31:07,067 --> 01:31:08,600
We were so busy talking shit
2236
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:10,500
about bringing a message
to the people,
2237
01:31:10,500 --> 01:31:13,700
we never stopped to bother
whether the people gave a shit
2238
01:31:13,700 --> 01:31:16,067
about the message
we were bringing to them.
2239
01:31:16,067 --> 01:31:18,834
We were just wondering
if they would come.
2240
01:31:25,967 --> 01:31:27,767
Fernando!
2241
01:31:27,767 --> 01:31:29,234
Fernando!
2242
01:31:29,234 --> 01:31:30,401
Hello.
2243
01:31:30,401 --> 01:31:31,800
Look at what you're doing,
will you?
2244
01:31:31,800 --> 01:31:33,034
Excuse me.
2245
01:31:33,034 --> 01:31:34,800
The show don't start
till 2:00.
2246
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:36,800
Fernando, I told you,
2247
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:39,334
just copy off
the damn poster!
2248
01:31:39,334 --> 01:31:42,067
It's Zombie with a Z,
not an S.
2249
01:31:42,067 --> 01:31:43,500
I'm Melvin Van Peebles.
2250
01:31:43,500 --> 01:31:45,001
You're premiering
my movie.
2251
01:31:45,001 --> 01:31:46,267
The box office
ain't open yet.
2252
01:31:46,267 --> 01:31:47,667
You must be
Mr. Goldberg, correct?
2253
01:31:47,667 --> 01:31:49,767
Yeah.
2254
01:31:49,767 --> 01:31:51,301
I'm Melvin Van Peebles.
2255
01:31:51,301 --> 01:31:52,434
I'm the producer-director
2256
01:31:52,434 --> 01:31:53,633
of Sweet Sweetback'sBaadasssss Song,
2257
01:31:53,633 --> 01:31:55,134
This is my son, Mario.
2258
01:31:55,134 --> 01:31:57,900
Can we take a look
at your theater?
2259
01:31:57,900 --> 01:31:59,001
Hold on a second.
2260
01:31:59,001 --> 01:32:02,900
Okay.
2261
01:32:02,900 --> 01:32:05,001
All right, Ethel,
tell Manny I want to see him,
2262
01:32:05,001 --> 01:32:08,067
and get rid of this
crazy fucking shrasse, okay?
2263
01:32:08,067 --> 01:32:10,533
Yeah.
See you.
2264
01:32:10,533 --> 01:32:11,867
That's him.
2265
01:32:11,867 --> 01:32:13,867
Some wild movie.
2266
01:32:13,867 --> 01:32:15,967
You really schtupping
those girls?
2267
01:32:15,967 --> 01:32:17,401
What movie?
What fucking movie?
2268
01:32:17,401 --> 01:32:19,800
Hey, hey, you eat it,
2269
01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:21,234
you pay for it.
2270
01:32:21,234 --> 01:32:23,834
Right there.
Triple feature.
2271
01:32:23,834 --> 01:32:25,067
Desert Killers,40-Foot Woman,
2272
01:32:25,067 --> 01:32:26,368
Sweetback'sBaadasssss Song.
2273
01:32:26,368 --> 01:32:27,567
Now, now, listen.
Don't short-change yourself
2274
01:32:27,567 --> 01:32:29,334
by playing it
as a triple feature, man.
2275
01:32:29,334 --> 01:32:31,767
Kid,
2276
01:32:31,767 --> 01:32:33,167
when white people lived
in this neighborhood,
2277
01:32:33,167 --> 01:32:34,533
we got first-run flicks.
2278
01:32:34,533 --> 01:32:36,401
Now we got a half-empty barn
2279
01:32:36,401 --> 01:32:38,800
playing second-run
triple features,
2280
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:41,001
because your people want
a lot of movie for their buck.
2281
01:32:41,001 --> 01:32:42,167
Of course they do,
2282
01:32:42,167 --> 01:32:43,967
but you're not giving them
a lot of movie.
2283
01:32:43,967 --> 01:32:45,800
You're giving them
second-rate B stuff that's...
2284
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:47,434
that's got nothing to do
with their lives.
2285
01:32:47,434 --> 01:32:49,468
Melvin, I saw the movie,
and I don't think--
2286
01:32:49,468 --> 01:32:51,001
Manny,
2287
01:32:51,001 --> 01:32:52,267
no offense,
2288
01:32:52,267 --> 01:32:53,633
but you guys
aren't the audience.
2289
01:32:53,633 --> 01:32:55,401
Hey, son.
2290
01:32:55,401 --> 01:32:56,401
Excuse me for a second.
2291
01:32:56,401 --> 01:32:57,401
What did you get?
2292
01:32:57,401 --> 01:32:59,500
3,200 seats total.
2293
01:32:59,500 --> 01:33:01,967
The balcony's been closed
for years.
2294
01:33:01,967 --> 01:33:03,134
2,062 seats working,
2295
01:33:03,134 --> 01:33:04,401
a dollar a ticket,
2296
01:33:04,401 --> 01:33:05,834
three shows a day.
2297
01:33:05,834 --> 01:33:06,834
Look, kid,
2298
01:33:06,834 --> 01:33:08,234
even if we ran
your movie alone,
2299
01:33:08,234 --> 01:33:09,967
it's rated X.
2300
01:33:09,967 --> 01:33:14,067
Reputable newspapers
won't run X-rated ads.
2301
01:33:14,067 --> 01:33:15,567
How's anyone going to
know it's playing?
2302
01:33:15,567 --> 01:33:18,834
Early to bed.
Early to rise.
2303
01:33:18,834 --> 01:33:20,834
Work like a dog, and...
2304
01:33:20,834 --> 01:33:22,834
advertise.
2305
01:33:22,834 --> 01:33:27,134
Sweetback soundtrack
and T-shirt.
2306
01:33:28,034 --> 01:33:29,034
A record?
2307
01:33:29,034 --> 01:33:30,867
We don't sell records.
2308
01:33:30,867 --> 01:33:32,800
This is a Sweetback
soundtrack.
2309
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:34,834
I'm gonna be all over
the local radio station
2310
01:33:34,834 --> 01:33:36,368
to play this soundtrack,
2311
01:33:36,368 --> 01:33:38,368
wear that
fucking t-shirt,
2312
01:33:38,368 --> 01:33:39,633
and talk about
the world premiere
2313
01:33:39,633 --> 01:33:41,134
of Sweet Sweetback'sBaadasssss Song
2314
01:33:41,134 --> 01:33:42,267
right here,
2315
01:33:42,267 --> 01:33:44,533
at Goldberg's spectacular
2316
01:33:44,533 --> 01:33:46,500
Grand Circus Theater.
2317
01:33:46,500 --> 01:33:48,334
It's still got to be
a triple feature.
2318
01:33:48,334 --> 01:33:50,368
I'll make you a bet.
2319
01:33:50,368 --> 01:33:51,368
I'll bet you
2320
01:33:51,368 --> 01:33:52,700
a brand new suit
2321
01:33:52,700 --> 01:33:53,934
that if you run
Sweetback alone,
2322
01:33:53,934 --> 01:33:55,368
the way it should be,
2323
01:33:55,368 --> 01:33:56,767
you'll make more money
in one day
2324
01:33:56,767 --> 01:34:00,401
than you did all last week.
2325
01:34:00,401 --> 01:34:01,468
Chutzpah,
this fucking kid.
2326
01:34:01,468 --> 01:34:02,567
A suit?
2327
01:34:02,567 --> 01:34:04,468
Three pieces,
our tailor?
2328
01:34:04,468 --> 01:34:05,900
Your tailor.
2329
01:34:05,900 --> 01:34:07,567
There's two of us.
2330
01:34:07,567 --> 01:34:08,667
And one of me.
2331
01:34:08,667 --> 01:34:12,134
If I lose, I lose double.
2332
01:34:12,134 --> 01:34:14,867
* They bled your mama *
2333
01:34:14,867 --> 01:34:16,134
* Won't bleed me *
2334
01:34:16,134 --> 01:34:19,767
* They bled your papa *
2335
01:34:19,767 --> 01:34:21,368
* Your mama
And your sister too *
2336
01:34:26,633 --> 01:34:28,434
Hey, Detroit, this isthe main man,
2337
01:34:28,434 --> 01:34:29,567
J.J. Davis,
2338
01:34:29,567 --> 01:34:30,600
right here at KLST,
2339
01:34:30,600 --> 01:34:31,800
and we're here
in the studio
2340
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:33,934
with Mr. Melvin
Van Peebles,
2341
01:34:33,934 --> 01:34:36,434
the soul brother
of cinema.
2342
01:34:36,434 --> 01:34:38,201
We're taking calls
for Mr. Van Peebles.
2343
01:34:38,201 --> 01:34:40,667
KLST. Rap on.
2344
01:34:40,667 --> 01:34:41,667
Mr. Van Peebles,
2345
01:34:41,667 --> 01:34:43,067
are you gonna bein the theater
2346
01:34:43,067 --> 01:34:44,134
in person tonight?
2347
01:34:44,134 --> 01:34:45,834
That depends, girl.
Are you on the pill?
2348
01:34:47,001 --> 01:34:50,267
KLST.Rap on, brother.
2349
01:34:50,267 --> 01:34:51,934
- Hey, I seen your comedy
- Watermelon Man
2350
01:34:51,934 --> 01:34:53,468
with Godfrey Cambridge, man.
2351
01:34:53,468 --> 01:34:55,267
Does Sweetback
have any stars in it?
2352
01:34:55,267 --> 01:34:56,700
Yeah, you, me...
2353
01:34:56,700 --> 01:34:58,967
The black community.We're the star, brother.
2354
01:34:58,967 --> 01:35:00,201
Shit,
2355
01:35:00,201 --> 01:35:02,267
I look out my windowand see that for free.
2356
01:35:02,267 --> 01:35:04,234
Not on the big screen,
brother.
2357
01:35:04,234 --> 01:35:07,867
Sweetback opens tomorrow
at the Grand Circus.
2358
01:35:07,867 --> 01:35:09,667
Where else?
2359
01:35:09,667 --> 01:35:11,067
Right here in Detroit,Grand Circus Theater,
2360
01:35:11,067 --> 01:35:12,967
world premiere.
2361
01:35:15,067 --> 01:35:17,633
What y'all showing?
2362
01:35:17,633 --> 01:35:20,867
First-run movie, brand new.
2363
01:35:20,867 --> 01:35:22,468
Sweetback's.
2364
01:35:22,468 --> 01:35:23,667
What else
shows with it?
2365
01:35:23,667 --> 01:35:24,800
Nothing.
2366
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:26,600
Nothing?
For a dollar?
2367
01:35:26,600 --> 01:35:29,201
Let's go over
to the Greek Theater.
2368
01:35:29,201 --> 01:35:31,500
These people
are tripping.
2369
01:35:47,734 --> 01:35:50,468
Can't keep
forgetting to eat.
2370
01:35:50,468 --> 01:35:52,134
You hungry?
2371
01:35:52,134 --> 01:35:53,633
Yeah.
2372
01:35:53,633 --> 01:35:55,934
Go get some food.
2373
01:35:55,934 --> 01:35:58,767
Here. Here you go.
2374
01:36:00,500 --> 01:36:01,567
You don't want anything?
2375
01:36:01,567 --> 01:36:03,867
I'm fine. Go ahead.
2376
01:36:28,934 --> 01:36:31,167
* *
2377
01:36:31,167 --> 01:36:33,600
* Doo, doo, doo, dooDoo-doo-doo *
2378
01:36:33,600 --> 01:36:34,967
You've got a...
2379
01:36:34,967 --> 01:36:38,067
You've got a... sweet back.
2380
01:36:52,468 --> 01:36:54,067
Sir, I think we'vediscovered the weapon
2381
01:36:54,067 --> 01:36:55,067
on oneof the assailants.
2382
01:36:56,067 --> 01:36:57,301
Sweetback.Yeah.
2383
01:36:57,301 --> 01:36:58,900
We havea new development in the case.
2384
01:36:58,900 --> 01:37:00,067
Wash your car,mister?
2385
01:37:00,067 --> 01:37:02,201
Get away from here.
2386
01:37:02,201 --> 01:37:03,767
No chargeif you don't like it.
2387
01:37:03,767 --> 01:37:05,734
Yeah, no chargeif you don't like it.
2388
01:37:05,734 --> 01:37:08,667
Too bad the witness hasinjured himself in a fall.
2389
01:37:08,667 --> 01:37:10,867
Okay.
2390
01:37:10,867 --> 01:37:11,967
Right, sir.
2391
01:37:11,967 --> 01:37:13,301
Commissioner says
2392
01:37:13,301 --> 01:37:14,734
get the information outon the nigger
2393
01:37:14,734 --> 01:37:16,134
before we get into the station.
2394
01:37:38,167 --> 01:37:41,267
Well?
2395
01:37:41,267 --> 01:37:46,434
Lord.
Let's go.
2396
01:37:58,867 --> 01:38:00,267
I mean, it's gotta be
something funny,
2397
01:38:00,267 --> 01:38:02,001
because they want
something funny.
2398
01:38:02,001 --> 01:38:03,800
You sure you knowwhat you gettin' into
2399
01:38:03,800 --> 01:38:06,067
with this wholeindependent stuff?
2400
01:38:09,301 --> 01:38:11,900
Average hustler
turns revolutionary.
2401
01:38:11,900 --> 01:38:13,734
Another comedy?
2402
01:38:13,734 --> 01:38:16,334
Serious as cancer.
2403
01:38:16,334 --> 01:38:17,800
Who's gonna want to see that?
2404
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:19,334
Who's gonna see that?Who's gonna see that?
2405
01:38:38,034 --> 01:38:40,834
Well?
2406
01:38:40,834 --> 01:38:42,867
They'll show.
2407
01:38:42,867 --> 01:38:46,034
They'd better.
2408
01:38:46,034 --> 01:38:49,500
It's 15 minutes
till the 7:00 show.
2409
01:38:49,500 --> 01:38:52,734
If your soul brothers
don't show by then,
2410
01:38:52,734 --> 01:38:54,201
we have to cut
our losses
2411
01:38:54,201 --> 01:38:56,067
and switch
to the other movies
2412
01:38:56,067 --> 01:38:58,867
while we still can.
2413
01:39:15,267 --> 01:39:18,700
Eagles ain't nothin'
but a bird.
2414
01:39:18,700 --> 01:39:21,834
White man ain't nothin'
but a turd.
2415
01:39:21,834 --> 01:39:24,401
Niggas ain't shit.
2416
01:39:24,401 --> 01:39:26,401
Fuck you.
2417
01:39:26,401 --> 01:39:28,633
No, you fucked us.
2418
01:39:42,500 --> 01:39:44,434
Change the marquee.
2419
01:39:44,434 --> 01:39:46,334
Switch to Zombies
and 40-Foot Woman,
2420
01:39:46,334 --> 01:39:47,401
r�pido!
2421
01:40:17,567 --> 01:40:19,734
All right, all right.
2422
01:40:22,967 --> 01:40:26,334
Hello, five for Sweetback.
2423
01:40:26,334 --> 01:40:27,468
I-- I'm sorry.
2424
01:40:27,468 --> 01:40:29,101
We're not playing
that one anymore.
2425
01:40:29,101 --> 01:40:30,401
I can give you tickets
2426
01:40:30,401 --> 01:40:32,834
to 40-Foot Woman
and Killer Zombie.
2427
01:40:32,834 --> 01:40:36,468
Well, the the marquee
says "Sweetback."
2428
01:40:36,468 --> 01:40:37,600
You got a problem?
2429
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:38,800
Well, I sure hope not,
2430
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:40,567
because we drove
a long-ass way
2431
01:40:40,567 --> 01:40:41,434
to see Sweetback.
2432
01:40:44,800 --> 01:40:47,633
Customer's
always right, Ethel.
2433
01:40:52,700 --> 01:40:53,700
Hi, sweetie.
2434
01:40:53,700 --> 01:40:54,700
Hi.
2435
01:40:54,700 --> 01:40:55,967
Where's Daddy?
2436
01:40:55,967 --> 01:40:57,434
I don't know.
2437
01:40:57,434 --> 01:40:58,434
Hey.
2438
01:40:58,434 --> 01:41:00,067
J.T.
2439
01:41:20,334 --> 01:41:22,567
Look, Manny.
2440
01:41:22,567 --> 01:41:24,201
We've got a problem.
2441
01:41:24,201 --> 01:41:26,167
There was this guy--
he was in here before--
2442
01:41:26,167 --> 01:41:27,834
acting suspicious.
2443
01:41:27,834 --> 01:41:31,600
Gang members, more of them
keep gathering.
2444
01:41:31,600 --> 01:41:33,500
They're up to something.
I know it.
2445
01:41:36,633 --> 01:41:39,334
Black Panthers.
What do they want?
2446
01:41:39,334 --> 01:41:41,001
Get Melvin.
2447
01:41:41,001 --> 01:41:42,134
He left.
2448
01:41:42,134 --> 01:41:44,468
We don't
give refunds.
2449
01:41:44,468 --> 01:41:45,967
That's our policy.
2450
01:41:48,533 --> 01:41:50,101
Give him his refund, Ethel.
2451
01:41:52,267 --> 01:41:55,134
No, lady, I wanna buy
some tickets.
2452
01:41:58,001 --> 01:42:00,434
Yes, sir. -
How many?
2453
01:42:00,434 --> 01:42:02,533
Twenty-two.
2454
01:42:02,533 --> 01:42:03,533
Twenty-three.
2455
01:42:03,533 --> 01:42:05,401
Make it 23.
2456
01:42:28,734 --> 01:42:30,533
Manny...
2457
01:42:30,533 --> 01:42:32,533
you're never gonna believe this.
2458
01:42:32,533 --> 01:42:34,800
Outside.
2459
01:42:37,267 --> 01:42:40,167
My God.
2460
01:42:40,167 --> 01:42:41,334
Will you look at that?
2461
01:42:45,533 --> 01:42:47,067
Morty.
2462
01:42:47,067 --> 01:42:48,900
Come here.
2463
01:42:48,900 --> 01:42:50,967
You ain't from around here.
2464
01:42:54,734 --> 01:42:56,034
L.A.
2465
01:42:58,533 --> 01:43:01,301
Long way to come
for a drink.
2466
01:43:03,667 --> 01:43:04,900
Yeah.
2467
01:43:06,167 --> 01:43:07,633
What the fuck are they showing?
2468
01:43:16,368 --> 01:43:18,667
We're getting more, sir.
It'll be just one minute.
2469
01:43:18,667 --> 01:43:19,967
We're sold out.
2470
01:43:19,967 --> 01:43:22,734
Like hell we are.
We'll open the balcony.
2471
01:43:22,734 --> 01:43:25,967
We're out of popcorn,
and there's no hot dogs left.
2472
01:43:25,967 --> 01:43:27,401
I'll take over the stand.
2473
01:43:27,401 --> 01:43:28,800
You go down to the Greek Theater.
2474
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:31,867
Buy whatever they got.
Fernando can help you carry it.
2475
01:43:31,867 --> 01:43:33,434
Don't slop up my Caddy.
2476
01:43:33,434 --> 01:43:34,468
Hot dogs too?
2477
01:43:34,468 --> 01:43:35,900
Don't they have to be Kosher?
2478
01:43:35,900 --> 01:43:37,301
We're not eating them, schmuck.
2479
01:43:37,301 --> 01:43:39,800
We're just selling them. Now go.
2480
01:43:46,533 --> 01:43:47,800
Told you, man.
2481
01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:49,533
I told you it'd be bad, man.
2482
01:43:49,533 --> 01:43:50,533
Shut up man.
Shut up.
2483
01:43:50,533 --> 01:43:53,368
* They bled your mama *
2484
01:43:53,368 --> 01:43:55,067
Won't bleed me!
2485
01:43:55,067 --> 01:43:56,633
Go, baby!
2486
01:43:56,633 --> 01:43:58,667
He's got to getto the border.
2487
01:43:58,667 --> 01:44:00,734
You see him?
2488
01:44:00,734 --> 01:44:01,834
They're coming,
Sweetback.
2489
01:44:01,834 --> 01:44:02,834
Run, Sweetback.
2490
01:44:02,834 --> 01:44:04,734
Run motherfucker, run.
2491
01:44:20,867 --> 01:44:22,700
Down in front!
2492
01:44:33,700 --> 01:44:35,500
Look, he's getting away.He's getting away.
2493
01:44:35,500 --> 01:44:37,368
We've gotta get himbefore he gets to the border.
2494
01:44:38,767 --> 01:44:40,368
The man knowseverything, Sweetback.
2495
01:44:40,368 --> 01:44:43,334
Then he oughta knowwhat's coming to him
2496
01:44:43,334 --> 01:44:45,368
for fucking with me.
2497
01:45:04,834 --> 01:45:06,001
Well...
2498
01:45:06,001 --> 01:45:08,267
Sweet Sweetback'sBaadasssss Song
2499
01:45:08,267 --> 01:45:12,368
became the top grossingindependent hit of 1971.
2500
01:45:12,368 --> 01:45:16,067
Folks started calling me"Mel Baby" again.
2501
01:45:16,067 --> 01:45:18,401
Cinemation got outof bankruptcy.
2502
01:45:18,401 --> 01:45:20,734
Bill Cosby got paid back.
2503
01:45:20,734 --> 01:45:22,934
Earth, Wind & Fireblew up...
2504
01:45:22,934 --> 01:45:25,234
and yeah,those Goldberg twins--
2505
01:45:25,234 --> 01:45:27,001
They made me that suit.
2506
01:45:33,101 --> 01:45:34,734
I had a little bit of the money,
2507
01:45:34,734 --> 01:45:38,967
and I went to Mrs. Cosby,
2508
01:45:38,967 --> 01:45:42,934
and, she said sure,
and that--
2509
01:45:42,934 --> 01:45:45,101
It was done as far as I was
concerned.
2510
01:45:45,101 --> 01:45:47,101
The first time
I found out about Sweetback
2511
01:45:47,101 --> 01:45:49,500
was one day when I went
to visit Melvin,
2512
01:45:49,500 --> 01:45:52,533
and he came to the door
with a big gun in his hands.
2513
01:45:52,533 --> 01:45:53,934
"Okay, that's enough.
I heard enough.
2514
01:45:53,934 --> 01:45:54,934
Lock him up."
2515
01:45:54,934 --> 01:45:56,767
Suspected grand larceny
2516
01:45:56,767 --> 01:46:00,101
and impersonating L.A.P.D.
police officers.
2517
01:46:00,101 --> 01:46:02,567
So we spent the weekend in jail.
2518
01:46:02,567 --> 01:46:06,167
So I brought the dildo
back to Melvin,
2519
01:46:06,167 --> 01:46:07,867
and Melvin said, "It's brown."
2520
01:46:07,867 --> 01:46:10,700
I said "So? What's the big deal?
2521
01:46:10,700 --> 01:46:14,101
He said, "Go back
and get me a black one."
2522
01:46:14,101 --> 01:46:16,201
And he was almost
like a conductor.
2523
01:46:16,201 --> 01:46:18,934
Melvin would show us clips
of the film
2524
01:46:18,934 --> 01:46:20,567
and say, "Okay, this is gonna
go here.
2525
01:46:20,567 --> 01:46:22,067
This is gonna go there."
2526
01:46:22,067 --> 01:46:23,301
Melvin was the time filler.
2527
01:46:23,301 --> 01:46:25,267
My brother Maurice knew Melvin.
2528
01:46:25,267 --> 01:46:26,633
He was very tight with Melvin,
2529
01:46:26,633 --> 01:46:30,034
so Melvin had this idea
about doing this crazy film.
2530
01:46:30,034 --> 01:46:31,533
The thing I remember most of all
2531
01:46:31,533 --> 01:46:34,368
is that he gave me a check
for $500.
2532
01:46:34,368 --> 01:46:37,734
That check was $500.
You ain't got that.
2533
01:46:37,734 --> 01:46:40,734
That check bounced all over,
all over...
2534
01:46:40,734 --> 01:46:42,234
all over the world, you dig?
2535
01:46:42,234 --> 01:46:45,434
I do remember singing
with Earth, Wind & Fire...
2536
01:46:45,434 --> 01:46:46,500
Wash your car, mister?
2537
01:46:46,500 --> 01:46:48,600
for the soundtrack.
2538
01:46:48,600 --> 01:46:50,234
And my voice is so bad.
2539
01:46:50,234 --> 01:46:51,633
No chargeif you don't like it.
2540
01:46:51,633 --> 01:46:53,301
Yeah. No chargeif you don't like it.
2541
01:46:53,301 --> 01:46:55,633
It was because
of Melvin's commitment
2542
01:46:55,633 --> 01:46:58,234
and Melvin's focus
and his passion about this.
2543
01:46:58,234 --> 01:46:59,468
Nothing was gonna prevent him.
2544
01:46:59,468 --> 01:47:01,067
If he had to die
making this film,
2545
01:47:01,067 --> 01:47:02,434
he would make this film.
2546
01:47:02,434 --> 01:47:05,767
The Panthers... identified
with the part
2547
01:47:05,767 --> 01:47:07,667
that I played as Mu-Mu.
2548
01:47:07,667 --> 01:47:09,600
We had every one of our chapters
2549
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:12,500
mobilize community support
to go see that movie
2550
01:47:12,500 --> 01:47:14,667
because we were so inspired
2551
01:47:14,667 --> 01:47:17,767
by this first revolutionary
piece of cinema.
2552
01:47:17,767 --> 01:47:18,800
Very important film.
2553
01:47:18,800 --> 01:47:20,767
It was a great deal
of solidarity.
2554
01:47:20,767 --> 01:47:22,201
That's what brought us together.
2555
01:47:22,201 --> 01:47:24,800
Hollywood ain't seen nothing
like Melvin, ever before.
2556
01:47:24,800 --> 01:47:28,633
He was a combination
of arrogance, insecurity,
2557
01:47:28,633 --> 01:47:30,201
and boastfulness.
2558
01:47:30,201 --> 01:47:32,167
We've come full circle,
2559
01:47:32,167 --> 01:47:34,900
and some of the things
that were happening
2560
01:47:34,900 --> 01:47:36,600
at that particular time,
2561
01:47:36,600 --> 01:47:39,533
the message that was delivered
in that particular film,
2562
01:47:39,533 --> 01:47:41,734
we're still experiencing
some of that today.
2563
01:47:41,734 --> 01:47:43,101
We supported that film
2564
01:47:43,101 --> 01:47:48,401
to the extent that we put
the film in our newspapers.
2565
01:47:48,401 --> 01:47:52,201
People keep saying,
"Follow your dream,"
2566
01:47:52,201 --> 01:47:53,834
and I say, "Okay,"
2567
01:47:53,834 --> 01:47:57,301
but I think
there's more to it than that.
2568
01:47:57,301 --> 01:48:00,700
I think follow your dream--
2569
01:48:00,700 --> 01:48:02,800
the first thing you do
is you wake up.
2570
01:48:02,800 --> 01:48:08,201
Shaft, I think, was being
written for a white actor,
2571
01:48:08,201 --> 01:48:09,800
and after "Sweetback,"
2572
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:11,734
they changed it over
for a black person.
2573
01:48:11,734 --> 01:48:12,767
It was before Shaft.
2574
01:48:12,767 --> 01:48:16,533
It was before...
New Jack City.
2575
01:48:16,533 --> 01:48:18,134
It was-- It was really
the prelude
2576
01:48:18,134 --> 01:48:19,734
of all the films
that we see now.
2577
01:48:19,734 --> 01:48:24,533
I think that Melvin Van Peebles
is a wonderful example,
2578
01:48:24,533 --> 01:48:26,167
and not the only example,
2579
01:48:26,167 --> 01:48:29,167
but a wonderful example
of a person
2580
01:48:29,167 --> 01:48:37,001
who had a thought, dreamt,
woke up, did it,
2581
01:48:37,001 --> 01:48:39,900
and it's still good.
2582
01:48:39,900 --> 01:48:41,967
* You bled your mama *
2583
01:48:41,967 --> 01:48:43,500
* You bled your papa *
2584
01:48:43,500 --> 01:48:45,368
* But you won't bleed me *
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