All language subtitles for ryan_2004_chris_landreth

Hi, my name is Chris, and I'm here to
explain some things.

These are from October 1989, when my
unbridled romantic worldview was

permanently shattered.

This is from September 1982, when I
underwent a catastrophic loss of my

ability to organize my finances in any
meaningful way.

But before all that...

I took on a paralyzing, self -defeating,
all -pervading dread of personal

failure. October 1963.

Age 2.

But I'm getting off the subject here,
I'm afraid.

This story is about Ryan.

I live in Toronto, a city in Canada
where I see way too many shades of gray

my own good health.

A few years ago, however, I became
friends with a splash of color in the

a slight, fragile gentleman from
Montreal named Ryan Larkin.

Hello, Ryan.

Hello, Victor.

Like me, Ryan is a filmmaker and
animator.

Three decades ago, he was a rising star
in the world of animation.

He's the creator of several short films,
two of which have secured his place in

the history of animated filmmaking.

You want me to confess?

Today I asked Ryan if I could record our
conversations.

He replied by telling me about a simple
inspiration he had back in 1968.

So I said, you know, what I really want
to do is make a film just with figures

walking.

Walking figures.

Oh, wow, you got something.

Oh, wow, you got one of the original
drawings. Ryan's looking at artwork he

created 35 years ago. This is the first
time he's seen this drawing since he

created it. This is amazing.

Oh, wow.

35 years ago, Ryan created thousands of
drawings like this one and then put them

together one after the other after the
other.

I meet people that say that my films had
influenced a whole generation of

animation filmmakers, which is probably
true.

It was fabulous. It's a great honor to
be nominated.

But then everybody gets nominated for
Academy Award eventually.

See, I didn't actually win the Academy
Award.

Walt Disney won the award that year.
That's how we looked for the Academy

and that's how we looked. This is what
you wore to the Academy Awards? Yeah.

You must have stood out like big -time
rock stars.

Now I look at this, I think maybe
perhaps I would disqualify because of my

costume.

Who is that young woman?

Felicity was the love of my life for a
long time.

Ryan was always a little close to the
edge.

He was an emotionally fragile person.

You know, his father had been violent
when they were young, and I'm sure you

know about the tragedy of his brother's
death, and that affected him enormously.

We should have had children.

Guess it wasn't meant to be, eh?

Oh, I still love you.

In 1971, three years after the success
of walking, Ryan was struck by another

very simple inspiration, himself.

I was always moving my body around.

in front of mirrors and stuff, and
making drawings from my body, you know,

flashes.

And sometimes I even used a camera to
record how I was moving because it

to me that I was moving in a very
particular way that other people weren't

moving.

That's somebody you know, right? Derek
Lamb.

He was my executive producer.

And he was a very nice, a very beautiful
man.

Here was a guy that had been bursting
with life five or six years earlier. You

know, he could hardly contain the flow
of drawings in his cubicle at the film

board. And now here's a guy, you know,
who...

Is living out every artist worth fear?

Losing.

And hangry.

The first loss of addiction

produced some amazing work.

A life can be spent.

really trying to get that moment back.

I really do hope that you get back into
some serious creative work. That was

one thing I wanted to say.

The other thing that I wanted to say,
I'm going to say one thing, one concern

that I have about you, which is your
alcohol.

Which is what? Your alcohol.

My alcohol?

Yes, your alcohol.

Your alcoholic consumption is, as you
know, pretty high.

I want you to consider...

Beating alcohol in the same way that you
beat cocaine.

What?

There's nothing I enjoy more than a good
glass of cold beer.

Am I supposed to give that out for,
like, tea or something?

No, can't do that.

I personally want to see you around, and
I personally want to see you thrive,

Brian.

Fry? Not fried.

I want to see you thrive.

Why? Who's going to buy my creations?

What's in it for me?

I don't create because I've been ripped
off so fucking much, I decided to stop

creating.

Creativity, what do you think I can do,
you know? I cannot do anything.

I've been deprived.

Deprivation is the most devastating
thing.

I will surely, you know, be right on
deck. I'll give up booze and give up

cigarettes and be right on deck. If
somebody gives me some fucking money,

cannot do anything, anything at all,
without the power of money.

I got like about, you know, $10 in my
pocket, which is, to me, like a really

happy experience.

But to most people, they spend $10 every
15 minutes.

I can't believe it, man.

What possessed me to bring that subject
up?

I look at you, and I see a lot of things
about my mom.

You're the brilliant woman.

I look at you, and I see a lot of things
about my mom.

I see the way that she went downhill,
and I see

the way that you've come to this point.

Failure. We see things.

I thought that if I was silent, there's
nothing for them to steal anymore if I

present myself as being just a jerk on
the street.

But I'm still acquiring and enjoying
human behavior and putting

it back into my work.

Let's pray a little change.

Hey, thanks, man.

Let's sit down.

Let's do it. Let's pray a little change.

Spirit change.

Thank you, sir.

Spirit change, sir.

Thank you, sir. Spirit change, sir.

Spirit change, sir.

Thank you, sir.

You're very kind.

Thank you.