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NARRATOR: Cannon Films,
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the home of
high-powered,
high-voltage
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motion picture entertainment.
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We're taking motion
picture excitement
over the edge,
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and your box office
over the top.
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Menahem Golan
and Yoram Globus
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were the heavyweights.
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They were the George Foremans
and the Muhammad Alis
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of the indie market.
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I hold them
in huge affection,
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(CHUCKLING) even though
they ruined our movie.
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(ROARS)
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It's hard to say
the words "Cannon Films"
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without laughing.
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Nuts. Just crazy, nuts.
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(ROARS)
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Slightly to the
sidelines of,
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I don't know,
serious filmmaking.
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(SNARLING)
Ugh!
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The audience
wasn't prepared
for the craziness.
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Looniness.
(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)
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Guys, really?
I mean, that's insane.
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I felt a little
stupid doing it.
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They put a stamp
on pop culture.
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You were rooting for them.
(SCREAMING)
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We had no idea
what we were doing.
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We were just making it up
as we went along.
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(GROANING)
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How could it fail?
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(SONG PLAYING)
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(CAMERA CLICKING)
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(HORSE NEIGHING)
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(GROWLING)
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(GUN COCKING)
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(GUNSHOTS)
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Menahem Golan is the father
of the Israeli cinema.
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Every three movies out of four
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were produced
by Menahem Golan,
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some of them
directed by him.
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He'd made something like
40 pictures before I met him.
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As a kid, he was
in the theaters
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watching the movies,
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then he wanted to
see the projector,
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then he wanted to
touch the film.
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MENAHEM: This is where
I met for the first time
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the Hollywood
of Humphrey Bogart,
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Gary Cooper,
Billy Wilder.
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And I used to spend here
at least four times a week.
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I fell in love with Hollywood,
right in this building.
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He lived cinema.
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He was shooting
movies in Israel,
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and he didn't have
food at home.
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ITZIK KOL: And he came
and said, "Look,
I don't have a car",
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"I don't have a Frigidaire"
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"and I don't have
even a house."
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"The only thing what I have
is a wife and three daughters."
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"If you can
put a mortgage"
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"on my wife and
my three daughters,"
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"it's okay with me."
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Money was never a real issue
for Menahem. Filmmaking was.
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Then he brought Yoram
into the business afterwards.
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Yoram was a younger cousin.
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Yoram Globus
was the businessman
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behind the movie-making.
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Menahem Golan
was the movie-maker.
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They had
a distribution company,
a production company.
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Menahem was directing.
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And they were the industry.
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They had a number of
certainly very successful
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domestic Israeli films
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that threatened to break out.
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Tevye and His
Seven Daughters,
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some kind of Fiddler
on the Roof knock-off.
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WILLIAM STOUT:
Menahem's wife had brought
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their new baby
to the set,
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and Menahem sees the baby.
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"Oh, darling, the baby.
Give me the baby,
give me the baby."
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(IMITATING MENAHEM)
"Put the baby,
put the baby in the basket
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"and the basket
in this wagon."
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His wife is going like,
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"Menahem, you know,
you just can't put..."
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(IMIATING MENAHEM)
"Later, please, please."
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"Not now."
"Action!"
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Boom, everything takes off,
the horses go racing.
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It looks like
the baby in the basket
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is almost about
to fall off.
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And his wife lunges
to catch the baby
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and he grabs her
and he goes, "Darling..."
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"Never in the middle
of the shot, please!"
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And that's Golan.
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MAN: They already
had their eye on an
international market.
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The Raid on Entebbe was
a natural for them to do
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because Israel
was at their feet.
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Put your hands
on your head!
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To the back!
Keep going!
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Menahem and Yoram were the
kings of Hollywood in Israel.
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This is a grenade,
and we can blow the plane up!
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SYBIL: They got the military.
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SAM: We are shooting a scene
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and four Hercules
are in the background.
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BOAZ: And the pilot was
taking off and landing,
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taking off and landing.
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And he said, "Listen,
I cannot work anymore.
I'm tired."
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SAM: So Menahem,
he is very adamant
about shooting.
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He cannot take it
that something will
stop his momentum.
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So he just
picked up an Uzi...
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Points it right at
the head of the pilot.
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And said, "You better
go back to the cockpit"
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"and do what
I'm telling you."
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You can't stop him.
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QUENTIN: One of
Menahem's young sidekicks
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was a guy called
Boaz Davidson,
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who came up with
the Lemon Popsicle
series of films.
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BOAZ: Lemon Popsicle was
based on my escapades
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and growing-up pains.
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Since we were dealing
with discovering of sex,
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we had to go where
people didn't go before.
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Menahem didn't want to
make this kind of movie.
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Yoram was a little
bit more daring
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because he was
a little bit younger,
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but both of them were
very conservative.
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I think some of
the intelligentsia
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saw it as something
which was very vulgar.
(MOANING)
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BOAZ: A neighbor
told my mom that,
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"Your son did
Lemon Popsicle?"
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Steady. Keep it there.
It's growing.
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She said, "Yes".
She spitted on the floor
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and she said, "Wow.
This is horrible".
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You all right?
Could be better.
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"Horrible."
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It was a population
of 3.5 million people,
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and the first run
of the movie,
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1.3 million people saw it.
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BOAZ: The number one
box office success of Israel
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until this very day.
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So Menahem and Yoram
made huge amount of money.
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They had a goal,
and it was a dream,
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and the dream was
to be successful
all over the world,
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and mainly in Hollywood.
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It happens they bought
this small company
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which was called Cannon.
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We ran the company
for 13 years.
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It created something
like 70 pictures.
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JOHN G. AVILDSEN: They were
doing various skin flicks,
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exploitation,
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or buying Swiss skin
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and adding some
extra scenes to it.
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CHRISTOPHER: We made
Inga in Sweden,
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and when you're shooting
in a foreign language,
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in Swedish, in this case,
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it becomes Bergmanesque,
it becomes an art film,
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but our art film had
lots of nudity in it.
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NARRATOR: Don't
bother to translate it.
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It means the same
in any language.
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Dewey said, "We've
raised some money"
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"to make this other picture,"
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"but we've realized
it's a terrible idea"
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"and we've got
to make something"
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"or otherwise we're going to
have to give the money back."
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"Have you got any ideas?"
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JOE: You goddamn
nigger-loving hippies
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getting away with murder.
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Sex, drugs,
pissing on America,
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fucking up the music.
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I'd like to kill one of them.
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(GUNSHOT)
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Joe turned out to be
one of the biggest
pictures of 1970.
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It reflected
the headlines.
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Hippies and hardhats
and the war,
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and whether Nixon
was a good guy
or a bad guy.
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People said,
"Gee, you've gotta
see this, Charlie.
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"It's terrific."
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JOE: All you gotta do
is act black
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and the money rolls in.
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I sweat my balls off
40 hours a week
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in front of a fucking furnace.
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They get as much
money as I do.
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When we started
making movies,
Inga was $50,000.
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Joe cost us $372,000.
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And by the time we did
The Happy Hooker,
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it was $1.2 million,
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and that was just
a heck of a lot of money
to have to raise
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from individuals.
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And Menahem and Yoram
came along and said,
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"We want to make movies now
in the United States."
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They came to town,
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for lack of
a better term.
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MAN: They just wanted
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to put together
an instant library
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of films that had
their name on it.
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"Here's the thing,
it's 17 January today."
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"You're shooting on 4 March
with Klaus Kinski."
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NARRATOR: Sick with revenge.
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Twisted with hate.
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You make me sick.
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Don't!
(SCREAMING) No!
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NARRATOR: Schizoid.
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MAN: So at the beginning,
they started to do
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the same kind of movies.
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MAN 2: Low-budget movies
with a hint of sex.
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MAN 3: Horror movies.
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Help me!
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BOAZ: The movie X-Ray
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was one of those
slasher movies.
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Barbi Benton was the star
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and you couldn't do
a movie with Barbi Benton
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without showing her body.
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MARTINE BESWICK: Their
idea of films at that time
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had to have a lot of nudity,
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because that's what
the public wanted,
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according to
their mentality,
their thinking.
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MAN: When they were shooting.
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The Happy Hooker
Goes Hollywood
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I remember Martine saying
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that when she would
walk off the set
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they were bringing
fucking into the thing.
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BESWICK: There in the pool,
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they had all these
extras at it,
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and I was absolutely furious,
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because this is not
what I signed on for.
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What I want is a boffo socko,
kiss my grocer's movie.
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BESWICK: It was about
a conniving studio
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who were really
rotten and horrid,
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and, of course,
that's exactly what
I was dealing with
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with Golan and Globus.
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RUSTY LEMORANDE: They
either piled gifts on you
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and treated you
like a favorite child,
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or they were
mean and bullish
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and made you fear
for your career.
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They carry with them
the Israeli temperament.
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MAN: They would
go through walls
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in order to get
what they want.
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Menahem had no
trouble yelling.
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Up would come the hands,
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and the Israeli accent would
get thicker and thicker.
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They were screaming
at each other,
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just screaming.
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"(MUMBLING) Chris!
(MUMBLING) Chris!"
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You know, my name
kept coming up.
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I kept saying
to this reporter,
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"What are they
talking about?"
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"What are they talking..."
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And they were deciding which
deli to take me to lunch.
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It wasn't anger, it was just
fierceness and robustness
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and passion.
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MAN: They were extremely
fond of each other.
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Clearly they were family.
249
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MENAHEM: We are
unique partners, I think.
250
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It's more than brothers.
251
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We forge each other's
signatures on checks,
252
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if you understand...
253
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That is the maximum way
you can get to.
254
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You couldn't break that
relationship that they had.
255
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They trusted each
other completely.
256
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Yet there was a real
Yin and Yang quality.
257
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They seemed
to approach filmmaking
258
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entirely differently.
259
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Menahem is a dreamer
and he's a grown-up kid.
260
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And he's doing everything
he's always wanted to do.
261
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He would sit and
dream about projects
262
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and people and stories.
263
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And Yoram was a shrewd
businessperson
264
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who had to keep
everything tight
265
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so Menahem can work.
266
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He wasn't ebullient,
he wasn't loud,
267
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he wasn't
a center of attention.
268
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He stood in the shadows.
269
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Maybe the best
film salesman
270
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the world has
ever known.
271
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I'm Yoram Globus.
He's our president.
272
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Nice to meet you.
273
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Dour, watchful,
a little bit suspicious.
274
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Cold and hard
and tough.
275
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YORAM: It's Yoram.
Where is my money?
276
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You promise and promise
and promise and you are
not paying.
277
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They were opposite,
but together when they
went to banks,
278
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it was exactly
the combination you needed
279
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to raise money for this dream,
280
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and they did.
281
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We came to America
to make American movies
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that could be sold to
independent distributors
283
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around the world,
284
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with production values...
285
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(SCREAMING)
With a good story,
286
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with... call it star system,
287
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and bring it to the world,
not via the major companies.
(SCREAMING)
288
00:11:05,766 --> 00:11:09,369
They invented the way
the independent company
work today.
289
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They create a poster
290
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of a movie they
intend to make.
291
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They sell it to
foreign buyers.
292
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They take that money,
they make the picture
293
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and deliver it
the following season.
294
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NARRATOR: Now
a special experience
295
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in movie-going entertainment.
296
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The Apple.
(GRUNTS)
297
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The Apple,
the Mount Everest
of bad musicals,
298
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and Menahem directed it.
299
00:11:31,024 --> 00:11:33,961
* Magic Apple,
mystery Apple
300
00:11:34,027 --> 00:11:36,997
* Take a little ride
Let me be your guide
301
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* Through
the Apple paradise *
302
00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:41,368
The Apple was going to
be Menahem's Tommy.
303
00:11:41,434 --> 00:11:42,936
* Hey, hey, hey.
304
00:11:43,003 --> 00:11:45,472
DEL VALLE: It was his
attempt to be Ken Russell.
305
00:11:46,606 --> 00:11:49,309
"I'm better than Ken Russell!"
306
00:11:49,376 --> 00:11:52,079
He thought it was going to be
incredibly commercial,
307
00:11:52,145 --> 00:11:55,048
He thought it was incredibly
imaginative and creative.
308
00:11:55,115 --> 00:11:57,417
I can't explain, The Apple
to you. Can anybody?
309
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It's the story of creation,
according to Menahem.
310
00:12:02,055 --> 00:12:04,257
STEWART: A classic story
of good and evil
311
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set in the music industry
in the future.
312
00:12:07,394 --> 00:12:11,899
NARRATOR:
In 1994, the world
is controlled by one power.
313
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The Apple is success.
314
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DAVID:
Menahem's idea of the future
315
00:12:15,936 --> 00:12:17,805
is 2025, Tel Aviv.
316
00:12:17,871 --> 00:12:20,340
ALAIN JAKUBOWICZ:
He wanted to show
the world of the hippies,
317
00:12:20,407 --> 00:12:22,042
except Menahem
is not a hippie,
318
00:12:22,109 --> 00:12:25,412
so he didn't really know
how to approach it.
319
00:12:25,478 --> 00:12:26,613
ALL:
Peace.
320
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In every way, it is bold.
321
00:12:30,283 --> 00:12:32,585
It will have a song
called 'I'm Coming'.
322
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* Ooh, coming
323
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* Coming for you
324
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* Feel me coming.
325
00:12:41,461 --> 00:12:42,896
STEWART:
I was perfect for the role
of Bibi
326
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because I was so naive.
(LAUGHS)
327
00:12:45,065 --> 00:12:47,467
I was like, "Oh, he's coming
over here for me. Okay."
328
00:12:47,534 --> 00:12:51,738
That's how I read it, even
with the dance and everything.
329
00:12:51,805 --> 00:12:53,440
Pretty bad.
I know it's pathetic.
330
00:12:53,506 --> 00:12:57,477
He was so sure that the movie
is going to be a hit,
331
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a big hit.
332
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STEWART: So
when we were at the screening
333
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and the opposite happened,
334
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he was devastated.
(BOOING)
335
00:13:04,684 --> 00:13:06,253
They gave complimentary
soundtracks,
336
00:13:06,319 --> 00:13:09,156
and when the movie was over,
they threw them at the screen
337
00:13:09,222 --> 00:13:11,224
and they were embedded
in the screen.
338
00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:13,793
ALAIN:
I think he was in advance
of his time
339
00:13:13,861 --> 00:13:15,128
when he did The Apple.
340
00:13:15,195 --> 00:13:17,264
(LAUGHS)
341
00:13:17,330 --> 00:13:19,732
One of the great things
that we are all looking for
342
00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:21,568
is more life,
343
00:13:21,634 --> 00:13:23,270
life, another life,
344
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life beyond what
we are limited
345
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to on our earth,
346
00:13:29,676 --> 00:13:32,279
life beyond E.T.
347
00:13:33,346 --> 00:13:34,915
Life up there.
348
00:13:34,982 --> 00:13:37,817
And that's what
cinema provides us.
349
00:13:37,885 --> 00:13:40,120
They loved film more than any,
350
00:13:40,187 --> 00:13:42,755
like, executive or mogul
351
00:13:42,822 --> 00:13:44,557
that I'd ever talked to.
352
00:13:44,624 --> 00:13:46,359
You were talking with them
about something else,
353
00:13:46,426 --> 00:13:49,196
they'd say, "Listen,
talk with me about movies."
354
00:13:49,262 --> 00:13:51,932
They'd have four hours free,
they'd go to a movie,
355
00:13:51,999 --> 00:13:53,566
even though the film
was in German
356
00:13:53,633 --> 00:13:55,302
and they didn't speak German,
they would go to the movies.
357
00:13:55,368 --> 00:13:57,804
Cannon is the only company
who loves cinema.
358
00:13:57,871 --> 00:14:00,807
We don't have
other hobbies.
Cinema is our life.
359
00:14:00,874 --> 00:14:03,443
"When can you start?"
I said, "Well, I'm getting
married on Saturday."
360
00:14:03,510 --> 00:14:05,312
(MIMICKING MENAHEM)
"How long will that take?"
361
00:14:05,378 --> 00:14:07,014
NARRATOR:
They run their company
like a factory,
362
00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,448
a no-frills operation
363
00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:10,918
where long hours
and low pay are the norm,
364
00:14:10,984 --> 00:14:13,653
where every penny
ends up on the screen,
365
00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,122
not on an expense account.
366
00:14:15,188 --> 00:14:18,191
"Boys, we'll eat lunch
in the office."
367
00:14:18,258 --> 00:14:19,927
Menahem ran down
the hall,
368
00:14:19,993 --> 00:14:21,028
went to the assistant's room,
369
00:14:21,094 --> 00:14:22,662
grabbed his plate
of Chinese food,
370
00:14:22,729 --> 00:14:24,364
and said, "Give me that."
371
00:14:24,431 --> 00:14:26,967
And ran back and said,
"We got you
some Chinese food."
372
00:14:27,034 --> 00:14:28,468
The door would open
373
00:14:28,535 --> 00:14:31,371
and an assistant would
bring in some Styrofoam cups
374
00:14:31,438 --> 00:14:34,074
and a couple of those
Styrofoam carry-out trays.
375
00:14:34,141 --> 00:14:35,375
Meetings took place
376
00:14:35,442 --> 00:14:37,077
while he's shoving
pickles in his face.
377
00:14:37,144 --> 00:14:39,679
99% of the budget
of a picture
378
00:14:39,746 --> 00:14:41,148
is going to the screen,
379
00:14:41,214 --> 00:14:44,484
not with all
the limouisine-shmimousine,
380
00:14:44,551 --> 00:14:48,055
lunches-bunches
and all this nonsense.
381
00:14:48,121 --> 00:14:50,090
They're not about
the schmoozing,
382
00:14:50,157 --> 00:14:52,125
they're about
getting things done.
383
00:14:52,192 --> 00:14:54,361
We are not the kind of people
384
00:14:54,427 --> 00:14:57,197
of Ma Maison
or Jimmy's
in Hollywood,
385
00:14:57,264 --> 00:14:58,498
the restaurants, you know.
386
00:14:58,565 --> 00:15:00,200
We are not going
to Apollo Lounge.
387
00:15:00,267 --> 00:15:02,669
We do not play tennis.
Look at me.
388
00:15:02,735 --> 00:15:03,736
I don't, I'm sorry.
389
00:15:03,803 --> 00:15:05,205
"I don't go to tennis courts,"
390
00:15:05,272 --> 00:15:07,774
"I don't go to big, lavish
parties in Malibu."
391
00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,477
Well, the reason he didn't
was because he wasn't invited.
392
00:15:10,543 --> 00:15:14,547
I just had in my head
what a movie producer
should be
393
00:15:14,614 --> 00:15:17,985
and Menahem just didn't quite
fit that picture.
394
00:15:18,051 --> 00:15:19,286
(CAMERA CLICKING)
395
00:15:19,352 --> 00:15:20,954
The shirts were too tight.
396
00:15:21,021 --> 00:15:22,522
The end of the screening, he'd
be trying to button his pants.
397
00:15:22,589 --> 00:15:25,625
You know Jabba the Hutt?
Menahem Golan.
398
00:15:25,692 --> 00:15:28,395
If Jabba the Hutt
were on meth
or something.
399
00:15:28,461 --> 00:15:31,931
The only thing that motivated
and guided these two men
400
00:15:31,999 --> 00:15:33,400
was the love of movies,
401
00:15:33,466 --> 00:15:36,069
and this goes back to when
they were kids in Tel Aviv
402
00:15:36,136 --> 00:15:37,804
watching American movies.
403
00:15:37,870 --> 00:15:39,306
He wanted to remake
404
00:15:39,372 --> 00:15:42,509
the picture he had seen
as a young guy and loved.
405
00:15:42,575 --> 00:15:44,077
Menahem said,
"I have a wonderful idea."
406
00:15:44,144 --> 00:15:45,545
"I want all the monster men."
407
00:15:45,612 --> 00:15:47,614
"Boris Karloff
and Bela Lugosi."
408
00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,216
I said,
"But they're dead."
409
00:15:49,282 --> 00:15:52,019
VINCENT PRICE:
Welcome to
the House of the Long Shadows.
410
00:15:52,085 --> 00:15:54,254
The masters of horror
are moving in.
411
00:15:54,321 --> 00:15:56,056
Vincent Price, that's me.
412
00:15:56,123 --> 00:15:57,590
Peter Cushing.
Christopher Lee.
413
00:15:57,657 --> 00:15:59,626
You're not going to make
a movie with these guys
414
00:15:59,692 --> 00:16:01,428
that is going to
frighten anybody.
415
00:16:01,494 --> 00:16:04,397
(GIRL SCREAMING)
416
00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:05,932
It's not going to be
a horror movie.
417
00:16:05,999 --> 00:16:07,367
(BOTH SCREAMING)
(BAT SHRIEKING)
418
00:16:07,434 --> 00:16:09,802
It's going to have to be
a nostalgia piece.
419
00:16:09,869 --> 00:16:11,504
(OPERATIC SINGING)
420
00:16:11,571 --> 00:16:13,706
But I think they were happy
to send themselves up.
421
00:16:13,773 --> 00:16:16,443
Piano wire. He must have
heard her singing.
422
00:16:16,509 --> 00:16:19,546
I knew it wasn't going
to be successful
as a theatrical movie.
423
00:16:19,612 --> 00:16:22,949
With all those horror stars
and a kind of horror title,
424
00:16:23,016 --> 00:16:24,551
it got a PG rating.
425
00:16:24,617 --> 00:16:26,486
(SCREAMS)
426
00:16:26,553 --> 00:16:28,455
So you've got
a family horror movie.
427
00:16:28,521 --> 00:16:30,823
There were cinemas out there
that needed to be filled
428
00:16:30,890 --> 00:16:33,326
with something,
and that's what Cannon did.
429
00:16:33,393 --> 00:16:34,594
Really what they made
430
00:16:34,661 --> 00:16:36,329
was whatever they
could put together
431
00:16:36,396 --> 00:16:38,231
that had an actor in it,
that had a name
432
00:16:38,298 --> 00:16:39,566
that they could pre-sell.
433
00:16:39,632 --> 00:16:41,234
OLIVER:
Dutch, Sylvia Kristel.
434
00:16:41,301 --> 00:16:43,470
She was huge, and a big name.
435
00:16:43,536 --> 00:16:46,839
She exuded quiet,
erotic desire.
436
00:16:46,906 --> 00:16:48,475
"I'm horny, but stay away."
437
00:16:48,541 --> 00:16:51,478
She was famous for the
Just Jaeckin films.
438
00:16:57,850 --> 00:17:00,653
NARRATOR:
The first time since
the original Emmanuelle
439
00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,622
that these two
outstanding talents
440
00:17:02,689 --> 00:17:05,725
have been brought together
in Lady Chatterley's Lover.
441
00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:38,225
They sold Sylvia Kristel
in a sexy picture.
That's what they'd sold.
442
00:17:40,860 --> 00:17:43,130
NARRATOR:
D.H. Lawrence's
classic masterpiece
443
00:17:43,196 --> 00:17:45,432
is now a major motion picture.
444
00:17:58,077 --> 00:17:59,446
They were blown away.
They liked it.
445
00:17:59,512 --> 00:18:00,747
They thought
it was a great picture.
446
00:18:05,885 --> 00:18:08,688
NARRATOR:
Sylvia Kristel
is Mata Hari.
447
00:18:08,755 --> 00:18:11,791
Dancer. Lover. Spy.
(GASPS)
448
00:18:11,858 --> 00:18:13,960
When I met her,
she was addicted
to cocaine.
449
00:18:14,026 --> 00:18:17,764
By the time she
got to Budapest,
she was addicted to booze.
450
00:18:17,830 --> 00:18:20,867
OLIVER: The Italian
hairdresser would go,
"Oh, Madonna,
451
00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:22,202
"look at the way she looks!"
452
00:18:22,269 --> 00:18:23,903
She came in looking
like a gargoyle.
453
00:18:23,970 --> 00:18:24,971
She couldn't act...
454
00:18:25,037 --> 00:18:26,406
Your friend Karl
455
00:18:26,473 --> 00:18:28,241
may have already engaged me
to seduce you.
456
00:18:28,308 --> 00:18:31,511
OLIVER:
It's an important role,
and she struggled.
457
00:18:33,713 --> 00:18:35,348
The commercial pushing
458
00:18:35,415 --> 00:18:38,351
of erotic scenes
in this film, ruined it.
459
00:18:38,418 --> 00:18:39,819
They called from LA saying,
460
00:18:39,886 --> 00:18:42,322
"Now she's got to get laid
in the trenches as well."
461
00:18:42,389 --> 00:18:43,723
She's getting laid enough.
462
00:18:48,661 --> 00:18:50,930
It's all to do with
taste in the end.
463
00:18:50,997 --> 00:18:53,200
That's sort of the Cannon way.
464
00:18:53,266 --> 00:18:55,402
It completely resembles
465
00:18:55,468 --> 00:18:58,238
something, minus good taste.
466
00:18:58,305 --> 00:19:00,840
I've taken the script,
you know, I'm opening
the first page,
467
00:19:00,907 --> 00:19:03,610
and then so I start
reading, and it says,
468
00:19:03,676 --> 00:19:05,545
"Na-na, na-na,
suck my banana."
469
00:19:05,612 --> 00:19:07,847
This was one of the first
lines of the film.
470
00:19:07,914 --> 00:19:11,451
What they didn't have
in taste, they made up
for in enthusiasm.
471
00:19:11,518 --> 00:19:13,320
Alright,
let's cut this shit,
472
00:19:13,386 --> 00:19:15,822
and now let's all
get serious.
473
00:19:15,888 --> 00:19:18,858
* Dance all night,
play all day
474
00:19:18,925 --> 00:19:20,227
* One, two, three
475
00:19:20,293 --> 00:19:22,529
* Don't let nothing
get in the way *
476
00:19:22,595 --> 00:19:24,697
Last American Virgin was a...
477
00:19:24,764 --> 00:19:28,201
Almost by-the-numbers
remake of Lemon Popsicle.
478
00:19:28,268 --> 00:19:29,569
They changed very little.
479
00:19:29,636 --> 00:19:31,604
They just brought the plot
to America.
480
00:19:31,671 --> 00:19:35,275
When I first
got the script, I thought,
"What is this film?"
481
00:19:35,342 --> 00:19:36,876
"It's... it's got
two different tones."
482
00:19:36,943 --> 00:19:40,947
On one hand there's this
sexploitation aspect to it,
483
00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:42,249
and then the other half of it
484
00:19:42,315 --> 00:19:44,684
was this really wonderful
love story.
485
00:19:44,751 --> 00:19:46,919
It had all these
controversial issues
486
00:19:46,986 --> 00:19:49,222
with the abortion
and the prostitution.
487
00:19:49,289 --> 00:19:50,923
Alright, cowboys,
who's gonna be first?
488
00:19:50,990 --> 00:19:52,492
I wanna get this over with.
489
00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:54,093
FRANKLIN:
Then the crabs,
there's cocaine
490
00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,796
and there's high-schoolers
doing all this stuff.
491
00:19:56,863 --> 00:19:58,998
Now,
you two have fun.
(SIGHS)
492
00:19:59,065 --> 00:20:01,200
WOMARK: The good guy
and his best friend
who's super good-looking
493
00:20:01,268 --> 00:20:04,404
who always is with
the young ladies.
Gets somebody pregnant.
494
00:20:04,471 --> 00:20:06,239
It's actually the girl
he gets pregnant
495
00:20:06,306 --> 00:20:08,241
is the girl that our hero
really loves
496
00:20:08,308 --> 00:20:10,677
and, of course,
the good-looking guy
bails on her
497
00:20:10,743 --> 00:20:13,045
and our hero has to basically
take her to the hospital
498
00:20:13,112 --> 00:20:14,381
the day of the abortion,
499
00:20:14,447 --> 00:20:16,215
and in order
to pay for the abortion,
500
00:20:16,283 --> 00:20:17,750
he's a pizza delivery guy.
501
00:20:17,817 --> 00:20:21,153
An abortion is being played
with U2 music under it,
502
00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:24,156
and you go from a doctor
performing an abortion
503
00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:26,593
to some guy cutting a pizza.
504
00:20:26,659 --> 00:20:30,430
Guys, really? I mean, that's
insane. That's just nuts.
505
00:20:30,497 --> 00:20:31,964
They had really high hopes
506
00:20:32,031 --> 00:20:34,534
that this movie would
kind of cross over,
507
00:20:34,601 --> 00:20:36,168
teenage movie,
this would be it.
508
00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:37,904
NARRATOR: The Last
American Virgin.
509
00:20:37,970 --> 00:20:39,706
See it or be it.
510
00:20:39,772 --> 00:20:40,773
ALL: Yeah!
511
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,444
I thought it was an odd
script for America.
512
00:20:44,511 --> 00:20:45,845
Hi.
How's it going?
513
00:20:45,912 --> 00:20:47,647
Are you here to interview
me or to fuck me?
514
00:20:47,714 --> 00:20:50,983
I think a lot
of the traditions
or customs
515
00:20:51,050 --> 00:20:52,218
didn't translate so well.
516
00:20:52,285 --> 00:20:53,853
For instance,
after the abortion
517
00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,856
Gary brings her a Christmas
tree and a bag of oranges.
518
00:20:56,923 --> 00:20:59,426
It must have meant something
in Israel. I have no idea.
519
00:20:59,492 --> 00:21:02,395
DAVIDSON: My goal
was to do a real story,
520
00:21:02,462 --> 00:21:04,931
and I think it was
very dangerous,
521
00:21:04,997 --> 00:21:07,834
especially for the
American market,
522
00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:12,104
because in America,
everything has to end up
523
00:21:12,171 --> 00:21:13,340
really, really happy.
524
00:21:13,406 --> 00:21:15,274
American movies
are so American
525
00:21:15,342 --> 00:21:18,010
that when they're
not American,
everybody picks that up.
526
00:21:18,077 --> 00:21:22,482
We will always do films
that are a little different,
I think,
527
00:21:22,549 --> 00:21:25,251
because of our background
and mentality.
528
00:21:25,318 --> 00:21:27,019
They were foreigners,
529
00:21:27,086 --> 00:21:30,156
and I think we needed
some American element.
530
00:21:30,222 --> 00:21:32,091
They did bring over
a lot of Israelis,
531
00:21:32,158 --> 00:21:35,362
um, that were not gonna
help them
532
00:21:35,428 --> 00:21:37,229
infiltrate
the domestic market.
533
00:21:37,296 --> 00:21:38,765
They all spoke English,
534
00:21:38,831 --> 00:21:42,469
but they didn't really
understand the American idiom.
535
00:21:42,535 --> 00:21:44,804
I think that was a problem,
536
00:21:44,871 --> 00:21:47,374
you know,
judging the material.
537
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,711
When they tapped into,
or stumbled into,
538
00:21:51,778 --> 00:21:53,613
the right idea, it worked.
539
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,682
(MIMICKING MENAHEM)
"David, it's Menahem."
540
00:21:55,748 --> 00:21:58,918
And I said, "What?"
And he said, "I want to offer
you a great opportunity."
541
00:21:58,985 --> 00:22:02,522
He said, "We're going
to make a sequel"
542
00:22:02,589 --> 00:22:04,924
"to one of the great
movies of the 1970s."
543
00:22:04,991 --> 00:22:07,259
I said, "What,
are you going to do
Godfather III?"
544
00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:08,428
And he goes, "Close."
545
00:22:08,495 --> 00:22:09,862
NARRATOR: Death Wish II.
546
00:22:09,929 --> 00:22:11,964
He's doing it for you.
Aarggh!
547
00:22:12,031 --> 00:22:14,601
Death Wish II,
was the first legitimate,
548
00:22:14,667 --> 00:22:17,404
real Hollywood
film they made.
549
00:22:17,470 --> 00:22:20,272
An anticipated sequel
to a hit movie,
550
00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:22,041
with a movie star.
551
00:22:22,108 --> 00:22:24,210
MICHAEL WINNER: Death Wish,
was on many of the
10-best-of-the-year
552
00:22:24,276 --> 00:22:25,412
film lists in America,
553
00:22:25,478 --> 00:22:26,879
was treated very seriously,
554
00:22:26,946 --> 00:22:28,848
and I think society
has now changed enough,
555
00:22:28,915 --> 00:22:30,016
eight years later,
556
00:22:30,082 --> 00:22:31,551
which is a long time
to wait for a sequel,
557
00:22:31,618 --> 00:22:33,285
to make a story
of some relevance.
558
00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:34,921
I was trying to deal
with a character
559
00:22:34,987 --> 00:22:38,057
who did not want to go back
to where he had been.
560
00:22:38,124 --> 00:22:39,826
He had lost his wife,
561
00:22:39,892 --> 00:22:42,562
his daughter was
in a mental institution,
562
00:22:42,629 --> 00:22:44,130
he has his outing with her,
563
00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:45,532
he's harassed by these punks,
564
00:22:45,598 --> 00:22:47,667
they pickpocket him,
they come back,
565
00:22:47,734 --> 00:22:50,437
they ravage his maid,
his daughter dies,
566
00:22:50,503 --> 00:22:52,539
and because of her
mental illness,
567
00:22:52,605 --> 00:22:55,442
the police won't prosecute
as a homicide.
568
00:22:55,508 --> 00:22:57,477
The violence in
the second film was there
569
00:22:57,544 --> 00:22:59,011
so Bronson can get to work.
570
00:22:59,078 --> 00:23:01,748
NARRATOR: When murder
and rape are the crimes,
571
00:23:01,814 --> 00:23:04,784
Bronson
is the only punishment.
572
00:23:04,851 --> 00:23:06,786
Do you believe in Jesus?
573
00:23:06,853 --> 00:23:07,854
Yes, I do.
574
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,856
Well, you're gonna meet him.
575
00:23:09,922 --> 00:23:11,691
DAVID: My script was
original, it was clever.
576
00:23:11,758 --> 00:23:13,726
It was much better
than the film itself,
577
00:23:13,793 --> 00:23:16,563
which I was somewhat appalled
by when I first saw it.
578
00:23:16,629 --> 00:23:19,832
I was upset about the amount
579
00:23:19,899 --> 00:23:22,569
of violence mixed with sex.
580
00:23:22,635 --> 00:23:25,505
It moved it into
a different type of film
581
00:23:25,572 --> 00:23:27,139
that I did not want to be in.
582
00:23:27,206 --> 00:23:30,710
Rape is a terrible thing,
but it does happen.
583
00:23:30,777 --> 00:23:32,712
It is very much on the minds
of the public,
584
00:23:32,779 --> 00:23:35,482
and I see no reason why
any subject
585
00:23:35,548 --> 00:23:37,349
should be excluded from drama.
586
00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:38,885
This was just
to get his rocks off.
587
00:23:38,951 --> 00:23:40,620
The script did not need it.
588
00:23:40,687 --> 00:23:42,455
The rape scenes
of the British version
589
00:23:42,522 --> 00:23:43,790
have been cut
by four minutes
590
00:23:43,856 --> 00:23:45,758
by the British film censor
James Firman,
591
00:23:45,825 --> 00:23:48,360
who had this to say,
"This is about
as irresponsible
592
00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:49,996
"as a filmmaker could be"
593
00:23:50,062 --> 00:23:51,698
"in the treatment of rape
for purely commercial ends."
594
00:23:51,764 --> 00:23:53,500
"This director
is simply trying to stir up"
595
00:23:53,566 --> 00:23:54,901
"as much controversy
as possible"
596
00:23:54,967 --> 00:23:56,569
"because he's in desperate
need of a hit."
597
00:23:56,636 --> 00:24:00,607
The critics really were
very, very outspoken
598
00:24:00,673 --> 00:24:04,443
about how they were
really upset about the film.
599
00:24:04,511 --> 00:24:06,946
WOMAN: It is obviously
very much on
Mr. Winner's mind
600
00:24:07,013 --> 00:24:07,814
to be sodomized.
601
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,348
I hope it happens to him soon.
602
00:24:09,415 --> 00:24:11,951
He loved that.
He loved
to get people talking.
603
00:24:12,018 --> 00:24:13,820
Michael thrived
on controversy.
604
00:24:13,886 --> 00:24:15,522
HARTMAN: Menahem and Yoram,
605
00:24:15,588 --> 00:24:17,490
they gave him
the carte blanche
to do a lot of things.
606
00:24:17,557 --> 00:24:18,925
"You say you want
to shoot this film like that?
Fine."
607
00:24:18,991 --> 00:24:20,459
"You want to shoot
another one? Fine."
608
00:24:20,527 --> 00:24:22,328
Winner's films make money.
609
00:24:22,394 --> 00:24:24,964
NARRATOR: This is the lusty,
bawdy, epic story...
(CROWD CHEERING)
610
00:24:25,031 --> 00:24:28,735
Of England's most legendary
robber, the Wicked Lady.
611
00:24:28,801 --> 00:24:31,538
Wicked Lady
was his opportunity
612
00:24:31,604 --> 00:24:33,205
to go up a rung
613
00:24:33,272 --> 00:24:36,042
on the director's ladder
of respectability.
614
00:24:36,108 --> 00:24:38,511
They had Faye Dunaway,
they had Sir John Gielgud,
615
00:24:38,578 --> 00:24:39,779
they had Alan Bates,
616
00:24:39,846 --> 00:24:41,347
they had A-list names
in this movie.
617
00:24:41,413 --> 00:24:44,150
And yet he had to put
naked girls in there.
618
00:24:44,216 --> 00:24:46,819
It was almost like he was
sabotaging himself.
619
00:24:46,886 --> 00:24:49,421
Mike wanted to put a bit
of spice into the film
620
00:24:49,488 --> 00:24:52,358
and there was a scene where
they whipped one of the girls.
621
00:24:52,424 --> 00:24:54,794
MARINA SIRTIS: Michael came
up with a pair of scissors
622
00:24:54,861 --> 00:24:56,896
and literally just
cut my costume off,
623
00:24:56,963 --> 00:24:58,397
and said, "Get on with it."
624
00:24:58,464 --> 00:25:01,568
That was the scene that
the movie was sold on.
625
00:25:01,634 --> 00:25:03,235
It didn't really fit
in the film at all.
626
00:25:03,302 --> 00:25:06,505
ALEX WINTER: Michael was
a pathologically brutal,
627
00:25:06,573 --> 00:25:09,341
strange, sadistic, insecure,
628
00:25:09,408 --> 00:25:12,111
egotistical character.
629
00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:14,847
OLIVER:
He seems to have used
his job as a director
630
00:25:14,914 --> 00:25:16,683
to, frankly, abuse people.
631
00:25:16,749 --> 00:25:19,251
They always seem to
call for me if things
have to be blown up,
632
00:25:19,318 --> 00:25:21,253
people have to be killed,
raped or shot, you see?
633
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,090
I don't know why they call for
a nice, charming chap like me.
634
00:25:24,156 --> 00:25:26,525
(SCREAMS)
635
00:25:26,593 --> 00:25:28,561
MARINA SIRTIS: We're shooting
in a leaky garage,
636
00:25:28,628 --> 00:25:29,729
the rain's coming in
through the roof,
637
00:25:29,796 --> 00:25:30,930
and I'm lying naked.
638
00:25:30,997 --> 00:25:32,464
He wouldn't even
let me get up.
639
00:25:32,531 --> 00:25:34,233
He wanted me to
lie there to be lit,
640
00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:36,736
and I was freezing,
and the director
of photography
641
00:25:36,803 --> 00:25:38,971
came and put his coat on me
642
00:25:39,038 --> 00:25:41,941
and Winner screamed at him
to get the coat off,
643
00:25:42,008 --> 00:25:43,810
how was he supposed
to light me?
644
00:25:43,876 --> 00:25:45,745
Completely illegal,
by union standards,
645
00:25:45,812 --> 00:25:47,179
and total sadism.
646
00:25:47,246 --> 00:25:49,616
Mike would say
to the special effects man,
647
00:25:49,682 --> 00:25:51,984
"Where's a good place
for me to be, John?"
648
00:25:52,051 --> 00:25:55,922
And the crew used to say, "In
the back of the car, Michael."
649
00:25:55,988 --> 00:25:58,691
I think that he was in a way
the perfect Cannon director
650
00:25:58,758 --> 00:26:00,359
because Cannon was
this weird bubble
651
00:26:00,426 --> 00:26:01,594
and everybody in it
652
00:26:01,661 --> 00:26:03,195
had this, sort of,
wink and a nod,
653
00:26:03,262 --> 00:26:05,932
and we do love the movies,
but we want to make money,
654
00:26:05,998 --> 00:26:07,600
and we don't care
about your work conditions
655
00:26:07,667 --> 00:26:09,001
or the quality of the product,
656
00:26:09,068 --> 00:26:10,703
and it was kind of
a weird carnival.
657
00:26:10,770 --> 00:26:13,205
It was, like, movies are
an unreal environment
658
00:26:13,272 --> 00:26:14,473
at the best of times.
659
00:26:14,540 --> 00:26:17,744
And the Cannon movies
were like that times 100.
660
00:26:17,810 --> 00:26:19,111
NARRATOR: The Cannon Group
661
00:26:19,178 --> 00:26:20,780
is proud to introduce
the practitioner
662
00:26:20,847 --> 00:26:22,982
of the oldest and ultimate
martial arts,
663
00:26:23,049 --> 00:26:23,850
the ninja.
664
00:26:23,916 --> 00:26:25,952
Before Menahem, I didn't,
665
00:26:26,018 --> 00:26:28,587
and I bet you
that millions of people
666
00:26:28,655 --> 00:26:30,723
never knew the word 'ninja'.
667
00:26:32,491 --> 00:26:33,660
Aarggh!
668
00:26:33,726 --> 00:26:37,529
He took a title from Bruce Lee
669
00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:40,066
and a director
was sent to do it.
670
00:26:40,132 --> 00:26:44,436
They sent a batch of the first
three days of dailies.
671
00:26:44,503 --> 00:26:46,138
I remember him saying,
672
00:26:46,205 --> 00:26:47,940
"It looks like
a hundred-year-old
television show."
673
00:26:48,007 --> 00:26:49,909
"This movie's a disaster."
674
00:26:49,976 --> 00:26:52,144
"Look how he's shooting this!
This guy can't...
He's a piece of wood."
675
00:26:52,211 --> 00:26:54,546
He decided to take the picture
over and direct it himself.
676
00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:56,048
He fired the main ninja.
677
00:26:56,115 --> 00:27:01,387
Don't worry. The Manila
Film Festival is on.
678
00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:04,857
There must be somebody
here we can go to.
679
00:27:04,924 --> 00:27:07,593
He said, "Listen,
Franco. We need you."
680
00:27:07,660 --> 00:27:10,429
"You are to replace
Mike Stone,"
681
00:27:10,496 --> 00:27:13,800
"because he's a great athlete,
but he cannot act."
682
00:27:13,866 --> 00:27:15,601
GOLDBLATT:
Pretty good casting,
683
00:27:15,668 --> 00:27:17,603
considering he just happened
to be at a restaurant
in Manila.
684
00:27:17,670 --> 00:27:18,671
He is no ninja!
685
00:27:18,738 --> 00:27:19,739
He is a ninja!
686
00:27:19,806 --> 00:27:20,807
He is no ninja!
687
00:27:20,873 --> 00:27:23,309
He's so not ninja.
688
00:27:23,375 --> 00:27:25,277
I don't know.
I've never seen a ninja.
689
00:27:28,214 --> 00:27:29,248
Aarggh!
690
00:27:31,784 --> 00:27:33,619
His character's name was Cole
691
00:27:33,686 --> 00:27:35,521
and he was from Texas,
692
00:27:35,587 --> 00:27:37,389
and, of course,
Franco speaks...
(ITALIAN ACCENT) like this.
693
00:27:37,456 --> 00:27:39,391
Menahem says, "Don't worry.
He'll still be Cole."
694
00:27:39,458 --> 00:27:41,260
"I can't... I don't have time
to change that now."
695
00:27:41,327 --> 00:27:43,529
He re-dubbed me
with an American voice,
696
00:27:43,595 --> 00:27:46,232
but not my... a voice
that was similar to mine.
697
00:27:46,298 --> 00:27:48,134
(AMERICAN VOICE) A true ninja
doesn't kill.
698
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,270
He eliminates, and only
for defensive purposes.
699
00:27:51,337 --> 00:27:55,007
He loved American actors,
he loves American accents.
700
00:27:55,074 --> 00:27:57,209
Maybe he wanted to be
an American.
701
00:27:57,276 --> 00:27:59,812
MARK GOLDBLATT: Enter, the
Ninja made money,
it was a hit,
702
00:27:59,879 --> 00:28:01,280
a popular
international success.
703
00:28:01,347 --> 00:28:03,382
Interesting outfit.
Who's your tailor?
704
00:28:03,449 --> 00:28:06,452
I think that movie made,
in a way, Cannon.
705
00:28:06,518 --> 00:28:07,820
Ninja is a big deal.
706
00:28:07,887 --> 00:28:10,556
And Menahem is the one
who did it.
707
00:28:10,622 --> 00:28:13,625
They wanted immediately to
cash in and to make a sequel.
708
00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:15,962
NARRATOR:
Revenge of the Ninja.
709
00:28:16,028 --> 00:28:17,463
WOMARK:
"Here's $700,000."
710
00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:19,766
"Come back in seven weeks
with a ninja movie."
711
00:28:19,832 --> 00:28:21,167
"By the way, the script's
not too good."
712
00:28:21,233 --> 00:28:24,303
This is no job
for the police.
713
00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:26,505
It's something
I'll have to do.
714
00:28:26,572 --> 00:28:28,674
Only a ninja can stop a ninja.
715
00:28:28,741 --> 00:28:30,609
The story's
kind of a loose story.
716
00:28:30,676 --> 00:28:33,479
It's not a heavy drama...
717
00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:36,148
With philosophical ideas...
718
00:28:36,916 --> 00:28:38,684
And character depth.
719
00:28:38,751 --> 00:28:40,052
(GIRL SCREAMS)
No!
720
00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:42,221
There was a script,
but once they shot it
721
00:28:42,288 --> 00:28:44,090
and we edited it together,
and we looked at it,
722
00:28:44,156 --> 00:28:45,925
it didn't make any sense.
723
00:28:45,992 --> 00:28:47,726
If you want to work out,
you forgot your pants.
724
00:28:47,794 --> 00:28:50,930
We had a screening of it.
It was a complete disaster.
725
00:28:50,997 --> 00:28:53,199
And we're all called
into Menahem's office,
726
00:28:53,265 --> 00:28:56,202
and he starts making up
a brand-new plot of the movie.
727
00:28:56,268 --> 00:28:58,304
"We have to shoot a beginning"
728
00:28:58,370 --> 00:29:01,340
"and, uh, the baby, uh,
is being held,"
729
00:29:01,407 --> 00:29:03,642
"and ninjas come,
surround, 100 ninjas,"
730
00:29:03,709 --> 00:29:07,213
"and they kill everybody
except the kid
and the father,"
731
00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:09,048
and he's just making this up,
732
00:29:09,115 --> 00:29:12,885
and he had this uncanny
ability to just make up shit
733
00:29:12,952 --> 00:29:14,153
and then we'd shoot it,
734
00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:15,955
and it's the movie
that you see.
735
00:29:18,224 --> 00:29:20,592
Menahem Golan
is a very creative man.
736
00:29:20,659 --> 00:29:22,294
He said, "Let's make another",
737
00:29:22,361 --> 00:29:25,431
"but this time,
I want the hero
to be a female."
738
00:29:25,497 --> 00:29:26,966
Ninja III: The Domination,
739
00:29:27,033 --> 00:29:28,935
which starred Lucinda Dickey.
740
00:29:29,001 --> 00:29:30,469
She was hot for that year.
741
00:29:30,536 --> 00:29:32,805
She was the Cannon go-to girl.
742
00:29:32,872 --> 00:29:34,306
Ninja III: The Domination,
743
00:29:34,373 --> 00:29:37,977
managed to take,
The Exorcist, a ninja movie,
744
00:29:38,044 --> 00:29:39,511
and combine it
with Flashdance.
745
00:29:39,578 --> 00:29:41,213
SAM: We figured
that the only way
746
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,749
that a woman will have
the ninja ability
747
00:29:43,816 --> 00:29:46,285
will be if she will
be possessed
748
00:29:46,352 --> 00:29:49,221
by a spirit
of a male dead ninja.
749
00:29:49,288 --> 00:29:50,422
(ROARS)
750
00:29:50,489 --> 00:29:52,724
DICKEY: I had to do
a possessed ninja scene,
751
00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:56,128
and I was like,
"I didn't learn how to do that
in acting class."
752
00:29:56,195 --> 00:29:57,964
(DEMONIC VOICE) You fool!
753
00:29:58,030 --> 00:30:00,766
You cannot stop me!
I am a ninja!
754
00:30:00,833 --> 00:30:04,003
Did my head spin around?
I think my whole body spun.
755
00:30:04,070 --> 00:30:07,206
(NORMAL VOICE) Help me,
I'm scared!
756
00:30:07,273 --> 00:30:08,875
(SHRIEKS)
757
00:30:08,941 --> 00:30:11,410
FIRSTENBERG:
In everyday life,
she is aerobics instructor.
758
00:30:11,477 --> 00:30:13,745
When the dead spirit
takes over,
759
00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:15,848
she goes out and she kills
760
00:30:16,949 --> 00:30:19,185
until the master, Sho Kosugi,
761
00:30:19,251 --> 00:30:23,122
comes into the scene
and he helps to free her.
762
00:30:23,189 --> 00:30:25,724
The result is
a very strange movie.
763
00:30:25,791 --> 00:30:27,927
NARRATOR: Where Revenge
of the Ninja left off,
764
00:30:27,994 --> 00:30:29,395
Ninja III begins.
765
00:30:29,461 --> 00:30:32,031
An epic struggle
of superhuman strength
766
00:30:32,098 --> 00:30:34,200
and supernatural forces.
767
00:30:34,266 --> 00:30:36,635
Ninja III: The Domination,
was quite a failure,
768
00:30:36,702 --> 00:30:41,707
because the audience did not
buy the idea of a woman ninja.
769
00:30:41,773 --> 00:30:43,309
It's over now.
770
00:30:45,811 --> 00:30:47,179
When I took over MGM
771
00:30:47,246 --> 00:30:49,315
it had just come out
of its roughest period.
772
00:30:49,381 --> 00:30:52,851
We had a cap on what we could
spend on any motion picture
773
00:30:52,919 --> 00:30:54,620
and we needed product.
774
00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:56,122
The day I heard
775
00:30:56,188 --> 00:30:59,458
that MGM was going to be
distributing Cannon films,
776
00:30:59,525 --> 00:31:02,929
I thought, "Okay, this
is the end of civilization
as we know it."
777
00:31:02,995 --> 00:31:04,596
"Did Nostradamus
predict this?"
778
00:31:04,663 --> 00:31:07,199
This changed the
playing field for Cannon.
779
00:31:07,266 --> 00:31:09,768
But pressure to deliver
big movies...
780
00:31:09,835 --> 00:31:10,869
NARRATOR: Sahara.
781
00:31:10,937 --> 00:31:12,338
ALL: Whoo-oo.
782
00:31:12,404 --> 00:31:15,574
NARRATOR: Only one girl
dares to drive it.
783
00:31:15,641 --> 00:31:17,143
The Sahara World Rally.
784
00:31:17,209 --> 00:31:19,912
I want to see the thing race
straight through hell.
785
00:31:19,979 --> 00:31:21,480
When Sahara was being made,
786
00:31:21,547 --> 00:31:25,251
we all thought,
"Hmm, this may be something."
787
00:31:25,317 --> 00:31:28,120
Brooke Shields was still
close to her stardom.
788
00:31:28,187 --> 00:31:30,056
ALEX: Menahem
started talking about
789
00:31:30,122 --> 00:31:31,323
how Brooke Shields
was going to win
790
00:31:31,390 --> 00:31:33,125
the Academy Award
for Sahara.
791
00:31:33,192 --> 00:31:36,228
I wish we could stay
here forever,
792
00:31:36,295 --> 00:31:38,297
but we risked our lives
taking this shortcut,
793
00:31:38,364 --> 00:31:40,332
and now we're losing
all that we've gained.
794
00:31:40,399 --> 00:31:43,102
The idea that that was going
to win an Oscar was so absurd,
795
00:31:43,169 --> 00:31:44,636
and I just was like, "Really?"
796
00:31:44,703 --> 00:31:47,373
"Where in your lexicon
do you honestly believe that?"
797
00:31:47,439 --> 00:31:52,111
Sahara is Menahem's attempt
to make Lawrence of Arabia
798
00:31:52,178 --> 00:31:55,247
and combine it
with Blue Lagoon
799
00:31:55,314 --> 00:31:57,783
meets The Great Race.
800
00:31:57,849 --> 00:32:00,119
(CANON FIRES)
801
00:32:00,186 --> 00:32:01,988
Menahem loved the intersection
802
00:32:02,054 --> 00:32:04,356
of ideas that should
never meet each other,
803
00:32:04,423 --> 00:32:06,658
so he assembles,
like Frankenstein,
804
00:32:06,725 --> 00:32:10,629
parts from other movies,
and creates a disaster.
805
00:32:10,696 --> 00:32:12,898
It was as dry
as the Saharan Desert.
806
00:32:12,965 --> 00:32:14,300
It was awful.
807
00:32:14,366 --> 00:32:16,468
It started the wheels
turning in my head
808
00:32:16,535 --> 00:32:18,604
that we just couldn't continue
with these people.
809
00:32:18,670 --> 00:32:20,706
We released it,
we did the best we could,
810
00:32:20,772 --> 00:32:23,042
we put on a campaign,
we spent a little money,
811
00:32:23,109 --> 00:32:24,610
and the film, of course, died,
812
00:32:24,676 --> 00:32:25,877
because it was a bad film.
813
00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:27,379
It was a shame
for the little girl
814
00:32:27,446 --> 00:32:29,515
because she deserved better.
815
00:32:29,581 --> 00:32:32,818
(MIMMICKING MENAHEM) "Brooke
Shields, Academy Award.
Sahara, Academy Award."
816
00:32:32,884 --> 00:32:34,286
Every picture that he does,
817
00:32:34,353 --> 00:32:36,322
he think that the picture's
going to make $100 million.
818
00:32:36,388 --> 00:32:38,624
(MIMMICKING MENAHEM)
"This will be an
epic of cinema."
819
00:32:38,690 --> 00:32:42,894
Menahem told me once that they
went to, on New Year's Eve,
820
00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:44,363
to Times Square,
821
00:32:44,430 --> 00:32:46,932
where the millions of people
are standing there,
822
00:32:46,999 --> 00:32:49,068
and they had tears
in their eyes
823
00:32:49,135 --> 00:32:51,303
and they hugged each
other, and they said,
824
00:32:51,370 --> 00:32:54,573
"Next year,
we're gonna get the Oscar."
825
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,776
NARRATOR: The incredible
Lou Ferrigno is
826
00:32:57,843 --> 00:32:59,145
Hercules.
827
00:32:59,211 --> 00:33:00,746
SYBIL:
Lou spoke to Menahem
828
00:33:00,812 --> 00:33:03,449
and said he wanted to have it
be more of a family movie.
829
00:33:03,515 --> 00:33:05,351
I disagreed. I could have seen
830
00:33:05,417 --> 00:33:07,986
a version that would
have been more sexy.
831
00:33:08,054 --> 00:33:10,322
LUIGI COZZI: He had the script
in his hand, and he said,
832
00:33:10,389 --> 00:33:12,724
"This piece of shit!" Boom!
833
00:33:12,791 --> 00:33:16,362
And threw the script
in the basket and said,
834
00:33:16,428 --> 00:33:20,066
"I asked for a movie
for kids with Hercules"
835
00:33:20,132 --> 00:33:22,734
"and here is Hercules
getting blow jobs."
836
00:33:22,801 --> 00:33:25,304
You know, he was
crazy about that.
837
00:33:25,371 --> 00:33:28,907
I told, "I wanna do fantasy
Hercules, not realistic."
838
00:33:28,974 --> 00:33:31,577
It was kids' stuff.
I wanted to do kids' stuff.
839
00:33:34,646 --> 00:33:36,448
(ROARS)
840
00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:40,752
But it did have the bombshell
girl, like Sybil Danning.
841
00:33:40,819 --> 00:33:43,222
LUIGI COZZI: She was
gorgeous. Beautiful costumes.
842
00:33:43,289 --> 00:33:46,458
I was told,
"When you're in that costume,
it becomes dangerous."
843
00:33:47,193 --> 00:33:48,727
(GROANS)
844
00:33:48,794 --> 00:33:53,031
Luigi convinced everyone to do
a special effects Hercules
845
00:33:53,099 --> 00:33:55,567
with the most crude
special effects in the world.
846
00:33:55,634 --> 00:33:58,137
Done very simple because
they had to be done cheap.
847
00:34:00,239 --> 00:34:01,740
SYBIL:
Hercules on a budget.
848
00:34:01,807 --> 00:34:05,177
Maybe there are some special
effects which work better,
849
00:34:05,244 --> 00:34:07,646
and some special effects
which are worse.
850
00:34:07,713 --> 00:34:09,381
I wanted them
all to be perfect,
851
00:34:09,448 --> 00:34:11,450
but they could not be
all perfect.
852
00:34:11,517 --> 00:34:14,253
But if you have the sense
of wonder, who cares?
853
00:34:17,656 --> 00:34:21,927
MGM put a lot of marketing
money into that.
They believed in it.
854
00:34:21,993 --> 00:34:24,596
Hercules did very, very well
at the box office
855
00:34:24,663 --> 00:34:25,964
all over the world.
856
00:34:26,031 --> 00:34:27,533
FRANK YABLANS:
Maybe it was a hit
in comparison
857
00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:29,901
to all the other
garbage they gave us,
858
00:34:29,968 --> 00:34:32,271
but it was not
a major hit, no.
859
00:34:32,338 --> 00:34:34,140
The good thing about Menahem
860
00:34:34,206 --> 00:34:36,942
is he could hear
an idea from somebody,
861
00:34:37,008 --> 00:34:40,146
like his daughter seeing
a break-dancer
on Venice Beach,
862
00:34:40,212 --> 00:34:42,181
and in a relatively short
amount of time,
863
00:34:42,248 --> 00:34:43,949
there is a movie
being made about it.
864
00:34:44,015 --> 00:34:46,051
This, this is a new
dance, this will grab
the whole world.
865
00:34:46,118 --> 00:34:47,819
ALLEN DEBOISE:
He just said, "Okay,
we're making this movie",
866
00:34:47,886 --> 00:34:49,621
"we're going into production
in three weeks."
867
00:34:49,688 --> 00:34:51,223
We didn't have a script, a
cast, we didn't have anything.
868
00:34:51,290 --> 00:34:52,891
* Breakin'
and you just don't stop
869
00:34:52,958 --> 00:34:55,161
* Here comes the movie
that's fresh and hot
870
00:34:55,227 --> 00:34:57,062
* With high energy,
dancin' to the beat
871
00:34:57,129 --> 00:34:59,165
* With a scratch-mix sound
that comes from the street *
872
00:34:59,231 --> 00:35:02,568
Breakin' was like the Enter
the Dragon of hip-hop,
873
00:35:02,634 --> 00:35:04,736
'cause he had
the best of the best.
874
00:35:04,803 --> 00:35:07,639
There were no stuntmen,
and we weren't actors,
we were all green.
875
00:35:07,706 --> 00:35:10,309
They just said,
"Put 'em on camera."
876
00:35:12,644 --> 00:35:14,680
PIETER JAN BRUGGE: Boogaloo
Shrimp and Shabba-Doo.
877
00:35:14,746 --> 00:35:16,582
I don't even know
what their real names are.
878
00:35:16,648 --> 00:35:18,484
I played the leader,
the straight guy.
879
00:35:18,550 --> 00:35:19,851
I was the Dean Martin role
880
00:35:19,918 --> 00:35:22,854
and he was the funny little
sidekick, Jerry Lewis.
881
00:35:22,921 --> 00:35:25,023
The way people perceived me
in the neighborhood
882
00:35:25,090 --> 00:35:26,525
or just around the world,
883
00:35:26,592 --> 00:35:29,027
they perceived me as some
sort of urban superhero.
884
00:35:29,094 --> 00:35:31,530
We look up to him
because a lot
885
00:35:31,597 --> 00:35:33,799
of what has been invented
886
00:35:33,865 --> 00:35:35,100
has come from him.
887
00:35:35,167 --> 00:35:37,169
Boogaloo Shrimp
was a sensation.
888
00:35:37,236 --> 00:35:39,705
(HEAVY BREATHING)
889
00:35:39,771 --> 00:35:42,408
The whole place
would just stop
and just watch him.
890
00:35:42,474 --> 00:35:45,411
He would just start going
and going and going
and it was like...
891
00:35:45,477 --> 00:35:47,513
I don't even know where
he came up with that stuff.
892
00:35:47,579 --> 00:35:49,848
(HEAVY BREATHING)
(MUSIC PLAYING)
893
00:35:49,915 --> 00:35:52,784
Lucinda Dickey was
no more than a gymnast,
894
00:35:52,851 --> 00:35:54,253
but Menahem liked her.
895
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:55,554
He called and he's like,
896
00:35:55,621 --> 00:35:57,956
"I'm gonna make you
my next big star."
897
00:35:58,023 --> 00:36:02,728
Lucinda Dickey didn't really
fit in the Breakin' film
from our point of view.
898
00:36:02,794 --> 00:36:04,129
We resented her.
899
00:36:04,196 --> 00:36:06,198
LUCINDA: It was hell at
times. I'm not gonna lie.
900
00:36:06,265 --> 00:36:07,799
He made it known
from the very first day
901
00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:11,069
that I walked into rehearsals
that he was superior.
902
00:36:11,136 --> 00:36:12,938
He couldn't do what I did,
903
00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:16,107
but it didn't matter
because the movie
wasn't about jazz dancing.
904
00:36:16,174 --> 00:36:17,509
It was about breakdancing.
905
00:36:17,576 --> 00:36:19,411
SAM: Obviously
she was an outsider,
906
00:36:19,478 --> 00:36:22,381
but I believe,
when you see the movie today,
907
00:36:22,448 --> 00:36:23,815
this element works
908
00:36:23,882 --> 00:36:25,584
because that's how
the story goes,
909
00:36:25,651 --> 00:36:28,119
that she's an outsider
that has to be accepted in.
910
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:33,359
There are lines in
the movie that were just
so true and real.
911
00:36:33,425 --> 00:36:34,560
She ain't no street dancer.
912
00:36:34,626 --> 00:36:36,127
She knows nothing
about what we do.
913
00:36:36,194 --> 00:36:37,396
There was a high drama
914
00:36:37,463 --> 00:36:39,231
because Orion Pictures
915
00:36:39,298 --> 00:36:42,368
was making a movie
called Beat Street
at the same time.
916
00:36:42,434 --> 00:36:43,869
Menahem at the time
famously said...
917
00:36:43,935 --> 00:36:45,671
(MIMICKING MENAHEM)
"We must beat Beat Street!"
918
00:36:45,737 --> 00:36:49,275
This was the race to be
the first breakdance movie.
919
00:36:49,341 --> 00:36:51,310
Whatever could be assembled
920
00:36:51,377 --> 00:36:53,679
in enough time to make
the release date
921
00:36:53,745 --> 00:36:56,047
was what the movie
was going to end up being.
922
00:36:56,114 --> 00:37:00,286
That movie had to make it
in that year, in 1984,
it had to make it.
923
00:37:00,352 --> 00:37:03,289
If it didn't, we wouldn't know
hip-hop as we know it today.
924
00:37:03,355 --> 00:37:05,291
The rest is history
925
00:37:05,357 --> 00:37:07,359
because it became
one of their most popular
and highest-grossing films.
926
00:37:07,426 --> 00:37:09,361
It showed leadership
and it showed camaraderie
927
00:37:09,428 --> 00:37:11,196
between the different races,
928
00:37:11,263 --> 00:37:14,366
so it really did something
the United Nations was
unable to do so far,
929
00:37:14,433 --> 00:37:16,935
is bring nations
together under one groove.
930
00:37:17,002 --> 00:37:19,538
Our movie did better numbers
than Beat Street.
931
00:37:19,605 --> 00:37:23,575
NARRATOR: This year,
the big hit for Golan
and Globus is Breakin'.
932
00:37:23,642 --> 00:37:25,644
It cost just over
$1 million to make
933
00:37:25,711 --> 00:37:28,847
and has so far taken in
more than $56 million.
934
00:37:28,914 --> 00:37:32,518
Unfortunately, it led
to Menahem thinking,
935
00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:34,085
"I've figured it out."
936
00:37:34,152 --> 00:37:35,721
* This story's through
but wait till part two *
937
00:37:35,787 --> 00:37:37,523
Menahem comes in
and he says,
938
00:37:37,589 --> 00:37:39,658
"We're going to
do a sequel."
939
00:37:39,725 --> 00:37:42,661
"The name of the sequel
is Electric Boogaloo."
940
00:37:43,395 --> 00:37:44,830
And so it was.
941
00:37:44,896 --> 00:37:46,532
(MIMICKING MENAHEM)
"We will do what
Fred Astaire did.
942
00:37:46,598 --> 00:37:48,334
"Shrimpy will dance
on the ceiling."
943
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,068
And he got it.
944
00:37:50,135 --> 00:37:52,270
* Take me high.
945
00:37:54,072 --> 00:37:56,508
Breakin' II was
more of a cartoon.
946
00:37:56,575 --> 00:37:59,445
The whole hospital scene,
it was silly.
947
00:38:05,717 --> 00:38:08,286
It missed the grittiness
that the first one had.
948
00:38:08,354 --> 00:38:11,256
MICHAEL: Were over
here at East LA with pastels.
949
00:38:11,323 --> 00:38:12,824
(CHUCKLING)
That was Cannon.
950
00:38:12,891 --> 00:38:17,228
"Let's really make LA clean
and beautiful like a rainbow."
951
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:19,264
It really took away
from the authenticity.
952
00:38:19,331 --> 00:38:20,899
(RECORD SCRATCHING)
953
00:38:20,966 --> 00:38:22,000
I cried about it.
954
00:38:22,067 --> 00:38:23,669
We had lost sight
of the message.
955
00:38:23,735 --> 00:38:25,571
PIETER: I simply
thought it was a fad,
956
00:38:25,637 --> 00:38:28,407
it was over, but the movies
actually did make an impact
957
00:38:28,474 --> 00:38:30,308
upon the youthful audience
of its day.
958
00:38:30,376 --> 00:38:34,980
So they had their finger
on the pulse of something,
once in a while.
959
00:38:35,046 --> 00:38:36,448
But most of the time,
960
00:38:36,515 --> 00:38:39,418
the pulse was on something
that was so misguided.
961
00:38:39,485 --> 00:38:41,119
(MIMICKING MENAHEM)
"We are going to New York,"
962
00:38:41,186 --> 00:38:42,921
"we are making my movie,"
963
00:38:42,988 --> 00:38:44,155
"great, great title."
964
00:38:44,222 --> 00:38:45,524
And were all
sitting there,
965
00:38:45,591 --> 00:38:46,858
were all like,
"What's the title, Menahem?"
966
00:38:46,925 --> 00:38:47,926
"My Darling Shiksa."
967
00:38:47,993 --> 00:38:49,861
You can take
your darling shiksa
968
00:38:49,928 --> 00:38:52,263
and you can spend
the rest of your fakakta life
969
00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:54,232
in Brooklyn
in a candy store.
970
00:38:54,299 --> 00:38:55,867
You idiot!
971
00:38:55,934 --> 00:38:58,504
ELLIOTT: An audience
would say, "What's a shiksa?"
972
00:38:58,570 --> 00:39:01,206
A shiksa is a woman
that isn't Jewish,
973
00:39:01,272 --> 00:39:04,610
and the character is with
a woman who isn't Jewish,
974
00:39:04,676 --> 00:39:08,213
which causes great chagrin
to the family.
975
00:39:08,279 --> 00:39:09,548
The second day
we were working,
976
00:39:09,615 --> 00:39:11,016
Golan came up to Elliot
977
00:39:11,082 --> 00:39:12,718
and it was somewhat
of a critical scene.
978
00:39:12,784 --> 00:39:14,252
It was the point
in the movie
979
00:39:14,319 --> 00:39:17,423
where Elliot is going to
confess to Margaux Hemingway
980
00:39:17,489 --> 00:39:18,857
that he is
in love with her.
981
00:39:18,924 --> 00:39:20,759
How'd you like to spend
the rest of your life
982
00:39:20,826 --> 00:39:25,130
with a sloppy,
diabetic Jew
983
00:39:25,196 --> 00:39:28,534
who some day is going
to be a top restaurateur?
984
00:39:29,635 --> 00:39:30,736
I love you, sweetheart.
985
00:39:30,802 --> 00:39:32,337
After the
first rehearsal,
986
00:39:32,404 --> 00:39:34,973
Golan goes, "Elliot, Elliot,
Elliot, no, no, no, no, no."
987
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,241
And the whole crew
we're standing there,
988
00:39:36,307 --> 00:39:37,576
we're going,
"Oh, boy."
989
00:39:37,643 --> 00:39:38,910
And he goes, "Watch,
watch, watch, watch."
990
00:39:38,977 --> 00:39:40,446
"Margaux, you
come here, come here."
991
00:39:40,512 --> 00:39:41,780
"Come. Come
to Menahem."
992
00:39:41,847 --> 00:39:44,850
"Okay. I love you.
I love you."
993
00:39:44,916 --> 00:39:46,351
You know, and you just
sit there and you go,
994
00:39:46,418 --> 00:39:47,753
"Oh, my God.
This is insane."
995
00:39:47,819 --> 00:39:51,723
We had an enormous fight,
an enormous fight
996
00:39:51,790 --> 00:39:55,226
and he closed down
the picture for a day or so.
997
00:39:55,293 --> 00:39:58,597
Menahem, you know,
I told him he was a cocksucker
998
00:39:58,664 --> 00:39:59,998
and he took me literally
999
00:40:00,065 --> 00:40:02,200
and I had to, in order
to get it going again,
1000
00:40:02,267 --> 00:40:03,902
I said, "Oh, Menahem",
1001
00:40:03,969 --> 00:40:07,405
"I apologize for using
that kind of language."
1002
00:40:07,473 --> 00:40:09,675
"You're not
a cocksucker, okay?"
1003
00:40:09,741 --> 00:40:13,745
YABLANS: All you really want
when you're running a studio
is a hit movie,
1004
00:40:13,812 --> 00:40:16,748
but if you have films
like Cannon was supplying
1005
00:40:16,815 --> 00:40:19,685
it's an embarrassment
to the studio name.
1006
00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:21,487
Okay, we fucked up.
What's next?
1007
00:40:21,553 --> 00:40:23,722
John Derek
said one night,
1008
00:40:23,789 --> 00:40:25,757
"You know, what are we
doing all this for?"
1009
00:40:25,824 --> 00:40:27,593
"Why are we trying
to make good films?"
1010
00:40:27,659 --> 00:40:28,994
"You did 10."
1011
00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:31,129
"All Hollywood ever
approaches you with"
1012
00:40:31,196 --> 00:40:32,898
"is to screw to Bolero."
1013
00:40:32,964 --> 00:40:34,933
NARRATOR:
Introducing Bo Derek.
1014
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,935
Did you ever do it
to Ravels Bolero?
1015
00:40:37,869 --> 00:40:39,304
(COUGHS)
1016
00:40:39,370 --> 00:40:42,674
MAN: Bo, in a lot
of people's mind,
equaled sex.
1017
00:40:42,741 --> 00:40:44,943
MAN: She was the 10
of that period.
1018
00:40:45,010 --> 00:40:47,345
Everywhere we went,
she was recognized.
1019
00:40:47,412 --> 00:40:48,747
Our agent, Marty Baum, said,
1020
00:40:48,814 --> 00:40:51,316
"Look, if you guys wanna
just go make a film"
1021
00:40:51,382 --> 00:40:53,351
"and be totally
left alone,"
1022
00:40:53,418 --> 00:40:55,086
"there are two
new guys in town."
1023
00:40:55,153 --> 00:40:58,790
NARRATOR: Bo Derek,
in a John Derek film.
1024
00:40:58,857 --> 00:41:01,326
Bolero was a take-off
of Blood and Sand
1025
00:41:01,392 --> 00:41:04,329
and the old romantic
40s bullfight pictures.
1026
00:41:04,395 --> 00:41:06,297
(COUGHS)
1027
00:41:06,364 --> 00:41:10,902
WOMAN: Andrea Occhipinti
has been gored by a bull
in the balls.
1028
00:41:10,969 --> 00:41:13,138
And now he can't
do it anymore,
1029
00:41:13,204 --> 00:41:15,841
and so then the next
sort of half of the film
1030
00:41:15,907 --> 00:41:19,210
becomes about Bo taking
on bullfighting herself
1031
00:41:19,277 --> 00:41:22,280
and taking care
and nurturing her man.
1032
00:41:22,347 --> 00:41:23,582
Cut to,
she says...
1033
00:41:23,649 --> 00:41:25,016
That thing is
going to work.
1034
00:41:25,083 --> 00:41:26,952
One of my favorite
lines, by the way.
1035
00:41:27,018 --> 00:41:28,620
I guarantee
you this.
1036
00:41:28,687 --> 00:41:31,056
Then there's this
neon sign of ecstasy
1037
00:41:31,122 --> 00:41:33,525
as they're going for
a second round.
1038
00:41:34,926 --> 00:41:36,762
If you put Bo in
anything at that time
1039
00:41:36,828 --> 00:41:37,929
that John
was directing,
1040
00:41:37,996 --> 00:41:39,865
it was bound
to be erotica.
1041
00:41:39,931 --> 00:41:41,667
Her clothes would
always come off.
1042
00:41:41,733 --> 00:41:43,802
Riding a horse,
terribly erect,
1043
00:41:43,869 --> 00:41:47,138
and I suppose others might be
as well while watching her.
1044
00:41:47,205 --> 00:41:50,175
BO: All of sudden, we started
getting letters from Menahem
1045
00:41:50,241 --> 00:41:52,243
that the film
wasn't strong enough.
1046
00:41:52,310 --> 00:41:55,747
"Make this as explicit and
strong as you possibly can."
1047
00:41:55,814 --> 00:41:57,649
It was controversial enough.
1048
00:41:57,716 --> 00:41:59,450
Look at you.
1049
00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:03,288
I am woman.
Ready. Juicy too.
1050
00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:06,992
BO: It had enough love scenes,
it had plenty of nudity.
1051
00:42:07,058 --> 00:42:08,994
I remember taking
the work print down
1052
00:42:09,060 --> 00:42:10,829
and screening it
for Frank Yablans
1053
00:42:10,896 --> 00:42:13,732
and saying, "Look, we've got
all these fights going on."
1054
00:42:13,799 --> 00:42:15,066
"They want
it stronger."
1055
00:42:15,133 --> 00:42:17,068
"I think you'll see
it's strong enough."
1056
00:42:17,135 --> 00:42:19,004
YABLANS: I really
don't remember.
1057
00:42:19,070 --> 00:42:21,573
All I know is that it was
another failed movie.
1058
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:26,778
Making motion picture is
practically being in a war,
1059
00:42:26,845 --> 00:42:30,649
and there is,
in a war, wounded.
1060
00:42:30,716 --> 00:42:33,752
Menahem would call a press
conference and say,
1061
00:42:33,819 --> 00:42:35,453
"Bo and John,
they live on a ranch,"
1062
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:36,855
"they don't even
live in Hollywood."
1063
00:42:36,922 --> 00:42:38,323
"They love
that ranch."
1064
00:42:38,389 --> 00:42:40,091
"Were going to take
that ranch away from them,"
1065
00:42:40,158 --> 00:42:42,193
and just crazy,
outrageous stuff.
1066
00:42:42,260 --> 00:42:45,330
And that the film
was too sexy,
what are we gonna do?
1067
00:42:45,396 --> 00:42:47,432
Poor Cannon Films,
were a good company,
1068
00:42:47,498 --> 00:42:50,068
and the Dereks were trying
to ruin our reputation.
1069
00:42:50,135 --> 00:42:53,038
And they were just
manipulating the press
at our expense.
1070
00:42:53,104 --> 00:42:55,040
MGM at that point,
I do believe,
1071
00:42:55,106 --> 00:42:57,909
decided to discontinue
the relationship with Cannon
1072
00:42:57,976 --> 00:42:59,510
as far as distributing
all of their films.
1073
00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:02,547
I told em, "Were not going to
go forward with this deal."
1074
00:43:02,614 --> 00:43:04,582
"You've reneged
on your deal."
1075
00:43:04,650 --> 00:43:06,317
"You've given us
nothing but junk."
1076
00:43:06,384 --> 00:43:08,920
Maybe we were a little bit
of a pawn in this game,
1077
00:43:08,987 --> 00:43:11,256
and they were using
us as a piece
1078
00:43:11,322 --> 00:43:14,125
because they no longer wanted
to distribute Cannon films.
1079
00:43:14,192 --> 00:43:17,863
Cannon had sort
of a terrible reputation
in this town
1080
00:43:17,929 --> 00:43:22,500
as, you know, sort of down
and dirty, which we were.
1081
00:43:22,567 --> 00:43:24,002
You would
open up Variety,
1082
00:43:24,069 --> 00:43:26,204
and there, a big double-page
spread for Bolero.
1083
00:43:26,271 --> 00:43:28,339
And these photos
were in my suitcase.
1084
00:43:28,406 --> 00:43:30,008
While they were
in Cannon's office
1085
00:43:30,075 --> 00:43:31,777
as we were waiting
to get another plane,
1086
00:43:31,843 --> 00:43:34,913
they went through my bags,
stole my photos,
1087
00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:38,950
and now they shamelessly,
brazenly use them in ads.
1088
00:43:39,017 --> 00:43:42,721
They didn't work according
to the Hollywood rules.
1089
00:43:42,788 --> 00:43:45,791
They were outlaws,
reckless, had no scruples.
1090
00:43:45,857 --> 00:43:49,695
There were a lot of
provocative things
said about them.
1091
00:43:49,761 --> 00:43:51,529
Carpetbaggers.
Rug salesmen.
1092
00:43:51,596 --> 00:43:53,431
Hustlers.
Carnival salesmen.
1093
00:43:53,498 --> 00:43:54,800
Cheapskates.
Junk peddlers.
1094
00:43:54,866 --> 00:43:56,301
Wheeler-dealers.
1095
00:43:56,367 --> 00:43:58,069
They were starting to get
known as the Go-Go Boys.
1096
00:43:58,136 --> 00:44:00,772
The Bagel Brothers.
I came up with
Mayhem and Urine.
1097
00:44:00,839 --> 00:44:02,607
I called them
the Bad News Jews.
1098
00:44:02,674 --> 00:44:06,344
There was certainly that kind
of anti-immigrant sensibility
1099
00:44:06,411 --> 00:44:08,046
in these
nicknames for them.
1100
00:44:08,113 --> 00:44:10,515
They were down-to-earth people
1101
00:44:10,581 --> 00:44:14,119
who just did the movies
the same way
that they did it back home.
1102
00:44:14,185 --> 00:44:16,254
They weren't part of
the Hollywood bullshit.
1103
00:44:16,321 --> 00:44:20,625
Hollywood, 90% is talk and
10% is making motion pictures.
1104
00:44:20,692 --> 00:44:22,560
We are motion pictures makers
1105
00:44:22,627 --> 00:44:23,995
and the world know about it.
1106
00:44:24,062 --> 00:44:25,496
Sometimes we make
better films,
1107
00:44:25,563 --> 00:44:27,899
sometimes we don't make
such good films,
1108
00:44:27,966 --> 00:44:29,735
but we do make films.
1109
00:44:31,036 --> 00:44:33,604
NARRATOR: It is
900 years after the great nuke
1110
00:44:33,671 --> 00:44:36,842
and the roles of women
have changed dramatically,
1111
00:44:36,908 --> 00:44:40,511
much to the displeasure
of men and mutants.
1112
00:44:40,578 --> 00:44:42,513
America 3000.
1113
00:44:42,580 --> 00:44:44,282
DAVID: Tongue-in-cheek
adventure comedy
1114
00:44:44,349 --> 00:44:46,885
in which women ruled
and men were slaves,
1115
00:44:46,952 --> 00:44:48,820
which every time I would
explain that to actresses
1116
00:44:48,887 --> 00:44:51,122
they always went,
"Ooh, I like that."
1117
00:44:51,189 --> 00:44:55,160
My interaction with them
was extremely brief.
1118
00:44:55,226 --> 00:44:57,628
It was the day
that I quit the film.
1119
00:44:57,695 --> 00:44:59,097
A call sheet
comes under the door
1120
00:44:59,164 --> 00:45:01,733
and I just threw it back
and I screamed,
1121
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,201
"Fuck you!
Pay the crew!"
1122
00:45:04,135 --> 00:45:05,804
(GROANING)
1123
00:45:05,871 --> 00:45:08,974
"You people have a cash
register where your
heart should be."
1124
00:45:10,375 --> 00:45:11,910
This is the only copy
that I have
1125
00:45:11,977 --> 00:45:14,012
and this is what I think
of Cannon Films.
1126
00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:17,115
There were so many bad movies
being made at Cannon
1127
00:45:17,182 --> 00:45:19,284
that if something
of quality came out,
1128
00:45:19,350 --> 00:45:21,787
it was like
a happy accident.
1129
00:45:21,853 --> 00:45:23,621
I got a phone call
out of the blue
1130
00:45:23,688 --> 00:45:25,223
and it was
from Chuck Norris.
1131
00:45:25,290 --> 00:45:26,925
MAN: Chuck Norris
was already established
1132
00:45:26,992 --> 00:45:28,626
in the world of
martial art movies,
1133
00:45:28,693 --> 00:45:30,228
what they used to call
karate movies.
1134
00:45:30,295 --> 00:45:32,931
He wanted to branch out more
into bigger action pictures.
1135
00:45:32,998 --> 00:45:34,332
MAN: And I talked
Menahem into it,
1136
00:45:34,399 --> 00:45:36,134
I said, "I think
this is the right guy."
1137
00:45:36,201 --> 00:45:38,536
"Ah, but he can't act."
I said, "Well make him act."
1138
00:45:38,603 --> 00:45:40,872
NARRATOR: Vietnam, 1972.
1139
00:45:40,939 --> 00:45:43,208
Captured in
a savage jungle war.
1140
00:45:43,274 --> 00:45:46,044
We wanted to bring in
all of his abilities.
1141
00:45:47,979 --> 00:45:49,447
JAMES: The first time
in a movie
1142
00:45:49,514 --> 00:45:52,583
that really is a war movie
with explosions and shootings.
1143
00:45:52,650 --> 00:45:56,087
There is actually martial
arts in an extensive way.
1144
00:45:56,154 --> 00:45:58,389
They thought before the film
had even come out
1145
00:45:58,456 --> 00:45:59,891
that it was going
to be successful.
1146
00:45:59,958 --> 00:46:01,492
They wanted to do
a sequel right away,
1147
00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:03,628
so they decided to make
that in the Philippines
1148
00:46:03,694 --> 00:46:05,030
with Joe Zito directing.
1149
00:46:05,096 --> 00:46:06,631
DANIEL: Joe had gone
to the Philippines
1150
00:46:06,697 --> 00:46:07,833
and he said,
"I've looked at."
1151
00:46:07,899 --> 00:46:09,801
"Lance Hool's
Missing in Action."
1152
00:46:09,868 --> 00:46:12,070
"It's a disaster.
Chuck is terrible."
1153
00:46:12,137 --> 00:46:13,404
"It's shot badly."
1154
00:46:13,471 --> 00:46:15,173
"What I'm telling
Menahem and Yoram"
1155
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:17,708
"is that if we release
our Missing in Action first,"
1156
00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:20,812
"we will create
a marketplace for
Lance's film."
1157
00:46:20,879 --> 00:46:22,313
"If Lance's film comes out,"
1158
00:46:22,380 --> 00:46:24,282
"he's gonna kill the
business for our film."
1159
00:46:24,349 --> 00:46:26,384
BRUGGE:
The second one was
the better movie of the two
1160
00:46:26,451 --> 00:46:28,920
and rather than
kill the franchise
right off the bat
1161
00:46:28,987 --> 00:46:30,355
by showing them
in order,
1162
00:46:30,421 --> 00:46:33,258
they basically released
number two first.
1163
00:46:33,324 --> 00:46:37,395
NARRATOR: James Braddock
declares war.
1164
00:46:37,462 --> 00:46:39,130
I think it was a good
vehicle for Chuck Norris.
1165
00:46:39,197 --> 00:46:40,866
It didn't ask him
to do too much,
1166
00:46:40,932 --> 00:46:42,200
it played to his strength,
1167
00:46:42,267 --> 00:46:44,903
and it kind of evolved
his on-screen persona.
1168
00:46:44,970 --> 00:46:47,873
Globus was screaming
at Menahem in Hebrew
1169
00:46:47,939 --> 00:46:50,208
and I asked somebody,
"What's he saying?"
1170
00:46:50,275 --> 00:46:51,542
And he's saying...
He says...
1171
00:46:51,609 --> 00:46:54,245
"They're talking
about some karate guy,"
1172
00:46:54,312 --> 00:46:55,646
and Yoram is
yelling at him
1173
00:46:55,713 --> 00:46:58,783
because he signed him
to a five-picture deal
1174
00:46:58,850 --> 00:47:01,419
for $5 million,
1175
00:47:01,486 --> 00:47:05,156
and he wants to kill Menahem,
and that was Chuck Norris.
1176
00:47:05,223 --> 00:47:06,992
In the golden era
of Hollywood,
1177
00:47:07,058 --> 00:47:10,028
every studio had
a stable of stars,
1178
00:47:10,095 --> 00:47:13,598
so Cannon started to adopt
this thinking.
1179
00:47:13,664 --> 00:47:18,069
"We need stars that will
work for us constantly."
1180
00:47:18,136 --> 00:47:19,470
NARRATOR: Chuck Norris.
1181
00:47:19,537 --> 00:47:20,605
Charles Bronson.
1182
00:47:20,671 --> 00:47:22,307
WINTER: For someone
like Bronson,
1183
00:47:22,373 --> 00:47:24,275
who was phasing out
of a Hollywood career
1184
00:47:24,342 --> 00:47:26,577
in a Hollywood that did not
recognize him anymore,
1185
00:47:26,644 --> 00:47:28,679
that was one of
the only places to go.
1186
00:47:28,746 --> 00:47:31,482
MAN: Bronson, I think,
has more actual charisma,
1187
00:47:31,549 --> 00:47:33,384
but neither one of
them were actors.
1188
00:47:33,451 --> 00:47:36,621
You're beginning
to irritate me.
1189
00:47:36,687 --> 00:47:38,856
DAVID:
When I was reading scripts
for this company,
1190
00:47:38,924 --> 00:47:40,525
we were told
very plainly
1191
00:47:40,591 --> 00:47:42,928
everything we got
would go in two piles,
1192
00:47:42,994 --> 00:47:45,964
one for the two Chucks,
Bronson and Norris.
1193
00:47:46,031 --> 00:47:47,565
It could have been
Wuthering Heights,
1194
00:47:47,632 --> 00:47:48,799
which one is for Chuck
1195
00:47:48,866 --> 00:47:50,268
and which one
is for the other Chuck?
1196
00:47:50,335 --> 00:47:53,404
It was offered to Chuck Norris
to do this movie,
1197
00:47:53,471 --> 00:47:54,672
American Ninja.
1198
00:47:54,739 --> 00:47:56,374
NARRATOR: For 2,000 years,
1199
00:47:56,441 --> 00:47:59,277
the sacred art of the ninja
has been guarded in the East.
1200
00:48:00,311 --> 00:48:02,247
Now it has come to the West.
1201
00:48:02,313 --> 00:48:06,117
When Chuck Norris learned
that he has to be covered,
he declined.
1202
00:48:06,184 --> 00:48:07,685
He said,
"I am not covering myself."
1203
00:48:07,752 --> 00:48:09,921
"If I am on the screen,
I am Chuck Norris."
1204
00:48:14,225 --> 00:48:16,227
Who will be
the American ninja?
1205
00:48:16,294 --> 00:48:19,497
We saw, I believe,
more than 400 candidates,
1206
00:48:19,564 --> 00:48:21,332
and when Michael Dudikoff
walked in,
1207
00:48:21,399 --> 00:48:24,369
it was like,
"Wow, I saw
the American ninja."
1208
00:48:24,435 --> 00:48:26,804
Menahem said,
"The Dudikoff kid."
1209
00:48:26,871 --> 00:48:28,306
"Get the Dudikoff kid."
1210
00:48:28,373 --> 00:48:29,474
Who is he?
1211
00:48:29,540 --> 00:48:30,808
I don't know.
He's a new recruit.
1212
00:48:30,875 --> 00:48:32,377
I don't even know his name.
1213
00:48:32,443 --> 00:48:34,679
He possess
great skills.
1214
00:48:35,713 --> 00:48:37,248
(SCREAMS)
1215
00:48:43,321 --> 00:48:46,357
When I got American Ninja,
I stepped it up.
1216
00:48:46,424 --> 00:48:50,261
Anything that I had to do,
being Joe, the American Ninja,
1217
00:48:50,328 --> 00:48:51,997
I really wanted
to do well.
1218
00:48:52,597 --> 00:48:54,199
(TIRES SQUEAL)
1219
00:48:56,667 --> 00:48:58,869
Even before the movie
was finished,
1220
00:48:58,936 --> 00:49:00,305
it was obvious
1221
00:49:00,371 --> 00:49:02,640
that Dudikoff has the charisma
to be on the screen.
1222
00:49:02,707 --> 00:49:05,810
I remember Menahem saying
that he is going to be
the next James Dean.
1223
00:49:05,876 --> 00:49:08,179
MICHAEL:
I was gonna be Superman.
There are so many...
1224
00:49:08,246 --> 00:49:10,281
I was going to do
so many different roles.
1225
00:49:10,348 --> 00:49:12,017
I was Spider-Man at one time.
1226
00:49:12,083 --> 00:49:14,252
SAM:
Cannon did not pay attention
1227
00:49:14,319 --> 00:49:16,554
to brand the name Dudikoff
1228
00:49:16,621 --> 00:49:18,923
and to make sure
that instead of making
1229
00:49:18,990 --> 00:49:20,325
smaller and smaller movies,
1230
00:49:20,391 --> 00:49:22,227
he should make
bigger and bigger movies.
1231
00:49:22,293 --> 00:49:25,330
"We will.
We will!"
1232
00:49:26,431 --> 00:49:31,402
"Don't worry, Michael.
No, don't worry."
1233
00:49:36,374 --> 00:49:38,276
"It's only the beginning."
1234
00:49:38,343 --> 00:49:41,046
NARRATOR: This is Cannes,
home of the prestigious
film festival
1235
00:49:41,112 --> 00:49:42,647
which is held
every year.
1236
00:49:42,713 --> 00:49:46,184
You know about the glamour,
the Riviera, the stars,
1237
00:49:46,251 --> 00:49:49,720
but there's another side,
a business side you don't see.
1238
00:49:49,787 --> 00:49:52,457
They were going there
to sell and to make deals.
1239
00:49:52,523 --> 00:49:54,092
This was the
jewel of the crown
1240
00:49:54,159 --> 00:49:57,528
and they decided
to take it by storm.
1241
00:49:57,595 --> 00:50:00,865
The money that
they spent in Cannes
would have financed a film.
1242
00:50:00,931 --> 00:50:02,333
We'd take over
the Carlton Hotel,
1243
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,335
put up as much
advertising as we could.
1244
00:50:04,402 --> 00:50:06,471
Posters everywhere,
everywhere.
1245
00:50:06,537 --> 00:50:08,073
"Cannon Group
presents..."
1246
00:50:08,139 --> 00:50:09,507
Full-page ads
in Variety,
1247
00:50:09,574 --> 00:50:11,376
full-page ads
in all the trades.
1248
00:50:11,442 --> 00:50:13,944
It almost became a joke,
I think, in the business,
1249
00:50:14,011 --> 00:50:15,513
because nobody
could just work out
1250
00:50:15,580 --> 00:50:16,781
how they were paying
for all this,
1251
00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:17,848
how they were
doing all this,
1252
00:50:17,915 --> 00:50:19,584
what was going on?
1253
00:50:19,650 --> 00:50:22,353
This limo comes up
and out gets Menahem,
like the Queen.
1254
00:50:22,420 --> 00:50:24,122
The Cannes Film Festival
1255
00:50:24,189 --> 00:50:26,091
became the Cannon
Film Festival.
1256
00:50:26,157 --> 00:50:28,726
A line of distributors
getting a number,
1257
00:50:28,793 --> 00:50:31,296
like in a barber shop,
to meet Yoram and me.
1258
00:50:31,362 --> 00:50:33,764
People come with a check,
people come with cash money.
1259
00:50:33,831 --> 00:50:35,600
"This film will be ready,
don't worry.
1260
00:50:35,666 --> 00:50:37,735
"I'll get it to you on time."
"Give me this picture too."
1261
00:50:37,802 --> 00:50:39,637
"This is the piece of crap
you really want"
1262
00:50:39,704 --> 00:50:41,472
"because people are going
to love this shit."
1263
00:50:41,539 --> 00:50:42,840
"Okay, you'll
pay a million?"
1264
00:50:42,907 --> 00:50:44,242
"Okay, million and one.
Million and two."
1265
00:50:44,309 --> 00:50:45,876
It was like being at
the fish market.
1266
00:50:45,943 --> 00:50:47,345
MAN: They used to sell
their film by the kilo.
1267
00:50:47,412 --> 00:50:49,013
Selling, buying,
selling, buying.
1268
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,117
You hear Golan constantly
going, "Gunga Din, epic."
1269
00:50:52,183 --> 00:50:54,519
"Epic, I tell you.
Epic of the cinema."
1270
00:50:54,585 --> 00:50:56,254
He loved it.
He was on a high.
1271
00:50:56,321 --> 00:50:57,988
You'd meet some
Greek distributor,
1272
00:50:58,055 --> 00:51:00,858
who didn't speak English,
couldn't read English,
1273
00:51:00,925 --> 00:51:02,160
certainly couldn't
read a script,
1274
00:51:02,227 --> 00:51:03,628
but you had to sell him
a picture,
1275
00:51:03,694 --> 00:51:05,062
so you just showed
him a poster.
1276
00:51:05,130 --> 00:51:07,398
Outlandish poster art
for movies,
1277
00:51:07,465 --> 00:51:09,234
most of which
they never made.
1278
00:51:09,300 --> 00:51:10,901
The film could have been
about anything,
1279
00:51:10,968 --> 00:51:13,104
and they would have had
a machine gun in the poster.
1280
00:51:13,171 --> 00:51:16,674
He would invent a story on
the spot and sell it to them.
1281
00:51:16,741 --> 00:51:19,377
"Charles Bronson
is The Golem."
1282
00:51:19,444 --> 00:51:21,879
I was in charge
of writing press releases
1283
00:51:21,946 --> 00:51:24,014
for non-existent movies
1284
00:51:24,081 --> 00:51:26,151
with no cast
and no stars
1285
00:51:26,217 --> 00:51:27,552
and frequently
no scripts.
1286
00:51:27,618 --> 00:51:29,420
I don't know that there's
anyone out there today
1287
00:51:29,487 --> 00:51:31,456
that has the reputation
that Menahem and Yoram had
1288
00:51:31,522 --> 00:51:33,858
for being such
effective salesmen.
1289
00:51:33,924 --> 00:51:36,194
They were the best wheelers
and dealers of the 80s.
1290
00:51:36,261 --> 00:51:37,695
There was a great
celebration
1291
00:51:37,762 --> 00:51:39,630
of throwing spaghetti
against the wall,
1292
00:51:39,697 --> 00:51:44,402
and whichever crazy ideas
he could get presales for,
1293
00:51:44,469 --> 00:51:45,870
those became the movies
we made.
1294
00:51:45,936 --> 00:51:48,173
The result is those films
were never very good.
1295
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,475
If you had Chuck Norris
on that poster,
1296
00:51:50,541 --> 00:51:53,178
you knew exactly the picture
you were buying.
1297
00:51:53,244 --> 00:51:56,247
So all presale films
were predictable.
1298
00:51:56,314 --> 00:51:59,450
MAN ON PHONE: I have
for you Chuck Norris's
picture for April.
1299
00:51:59,517 --> 00:52:01,986
Killing, shooting, maiming!
Fabulous story.
1300
00:52:02,052 --> 00:52:04,255
You're going to love it.
Absolutely love it.
1301
00:52:04,322 --> 00:52:05,923
Bring me the script.
1302
00:52:05,990 --> 00:52:07,992
NARRATOR: They are an army
of international terrorists.
1303
00:52:08,058 --> 00:52:09,794
Their target, America.
1304
00:52:09,860 --> 00:52:13,564
DANIEL: In a way, Invasion USA
was a very prescient film.
1305
00:52:13,631 --> 00:52:15,833
We didn't really think
about terrorism,
1306
00:52:15,900 --> 00:52:17,968
and terrorism was more
of an abstract idea.
1307
00:52:18,035 --> 00:52:21,272
NARRATOR: No one thought
it could ever happen...
1308
00:52:21,339 --> 00:52:22,807
Here.
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
1309
00:52:24,909 --> 00:52:26,944
The idea of boatloads
full of terrorists
1310
00:52:27,011 --> 00:52:29,347
landing on a beach
somewhere in Florida,
1311
00:52:29,414 --> 00:52:30,815
being picked up
by trucks
1312
00:52:30,881 --> 00:52:33,218
and being driven all over
the United States
1313
00:52:33,284 --> 00:52:35,420
to create random
acts of terror
1314
00:52:35,486 --> 00:52:37,222
was a bit of a
stretch for me.
1315
00:52:37,288 --> 00:52:38,623
What we were trying to do
1316
00:52:38,689 --> 00:52:41,759
was come up with
some big action picture
1317
00:52:41,826 --> 00:52:45,630
that would be a lot of fun
and larger than life.
1318
00:52:45,696 --> 00:52:46,764
Didn't work, huh?
1319
00:52:47,965 --> 00:52:49,634
Now it will.
1320
00:52:49,700 --> 00:52:51,402
(EXPLODING)
(SCREAMING)
1321
00:52:51,469 --> 00:52:52,870
They made Chuck a star.
1322
00:52:52,937 --> 00:52:54,339
(GUNS FIRING)
1323
00:52:54,405 --> 00:52:56,241
Now they were putting him
in a big-budget movie.
1324
00:52:56,307 --> 00:52:58,576
(ENGINE REVVING)
1325
00:52:58,643 --> 00:53:00,878
CHUCK NORRIS: The
shopping mall, of course,
has been the hardest
1326
00:53:00,945 --> 00:53:02,913
and most hair-raising, most
dangerous thing I've done.
1327
00:53:02,980 --> 00:53:06,016
Probably the most
dangerous stunt
I've ever done on film.
1328
00:53:06,083 --> 00:53:08,453
JAMES: They were
going to completely
rebuild it, gut it,
1329
00:53:08,519 --> 00:53:12,223
so we were allowed to
destroy everything.
1330
00:53:15,526 --> 00:53:17,395
They were going to
literally bulldoze
1331
00:53:17,462 --> 00:53:18,829
an entire suburban
neighborhood
1332
00:53:18,896 --> 00:53:21,399
to extend the runway
of Atlanta Airport.
1333
00:53:21,466 --> 00:53:23,033
And they were able to
blow the houses up.
1334
00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:24,535
(ROCKET FIRING)
(EXPLODING)
1335
00:53:32,743 --> 00:53:35,780
We had some really
great stuntmen working
on that picture.
1336
00:53:38,349 --> 00:53:40,184
The helicopter
on top of helicopters,
1337
00:53:40,251 --> 00:53:42,253
the tanks, people firing.
1338
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:43,854
No, there's some great
stuff in that film.
1339
00:53:43,921 --> 00:53:46,056
When we had a screening
of the rough cut,
1340
00:53:46,123 --> 00:53:47,558
it was heart-wrenching.
1341
00:53:47,625 --> 00:53:50,361
The story, basically,
was edited out.
1342
00:53:50,428 --> 00:53:53,030
It's time.
1343
00:53:53,097 --> 00:53:54,432
(YELLING)
1344
00:53:54,499 --> 00:53:57,435
(ROCKET FIRING)
(EXPLODING)
1345
00:53:57,502 --> 00:54:01,171
There's a lot of great scenes,
but it's disjointed.
1346
00:54:01,238 --> 00:54:03,841
GOLDBLATT: Menahem and Yoram
were not particularly precious
1347
00:54:03,908 --> 00:54:06,711
about the process of
editing a picture
1348
00:54:06,777 --> 00:54:09,447
and the process of getting
it into a final cut.
1349
00:54:09,514 --> 00:54:14,485
"Okay, rewind. Now, cut,
cut, cut, cut, cut!"
1350
00:54:14,552 --> 00:54:17,021
He would start the
morning in his office,
1351
00:54:17,087 --> 00:54:19,857
listen to a pitch meeting,
go back, edit a trailer.
1352
00:54:19,924 --> 00:54:22,427
All the time, keep
suspense and action.
1353
00:54:22,493 --> 00:54:24,329
(VOCALIZING)
The scene is their voices.
1354
00:54:24,395 --> 00:54:26,163
"No! Help! Help! Help!"
1355
00:54:26,230 --> 00:54:30,067
Go back, meet an
actor, director, give notes
on a script, go back,
1356
00:54:30,134 --> 00:54:31,502
change three cuts.
1357
00:54:31,569 --> 00:54:33,070
"That's terrific.
That's great, that's great."
1358
00:54:33,137 --> 00:54:35,506
"This is shit!
This is shit!"
"Trim that! Trim that!
1359
00:54:35,573 --> 00:54:37,642
"This is good!
This is good!"
"Cut negative!"
1360
00:54:37,708 --> 00:54:39,344
"It's the same shit
you looked at yesterday."
1361
00:54:39,410 --> 00:54:40,845
"No, no, no, it's
good shit today."
1362
00:54:40,911 --> 00:54:43,481
The problem is they loved
cinema in the abstract.
1363
00:54:43,548 --> 00:54:45,850
I don't think,
in my experience,
1364
00:54:45,916 --> 00:54:48,619
that they really knew
what it was like to love
something so much
1365
00:54:48,686 --> 00:54:52,657
that you were patient
and took the time
and went through the pain
1366
00:54:52,723 --> 00:54:55,660
of seeing it
through draft after
draft after draft,
1367
00:54:55,726 --> 00:54:58,095
admitting to yourself that
it might not be right yet.
1368
00:54:58,162 --> 00:55:03,233
You could take
150, 500 scripts,
put them in an office,
1369
00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:06,236
have a monkey go inside
and pick 70 of them,
1370
00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:08,439
and he'd be on par with
Golan and Globus.
1371
00:55:08,506 --> 00:55:10,408
NARRATOR: In the tail
of Halley's Comet,
1372
00:55:10,475 --> 00:55:12,510
there's something wrong,
1373
00:55:12,577 --> 00:55:14,379
something evil,
1374
00:55:14,445 --> 00:55:16,981
something hungry.
1375
00:55:17,047 --> 00:55:18,048
(NARRATOR READING)
1376
00:55:19,283 --> 00:55:20,785
(SCREAMING)
Whoa!
1377
00:55:20,851 --> 00:55:22,520
Did someone get the license
number of that movie?
1378
00:55:22,587 --> 00:55:24,689
This is the wildest thing
I've seen in ages.
1379
00:55:24,755 --> 00:55:26,457
It starts as an
outer-space movie,
1380
00:55:26,524 --> 00:55:28,158
then becomes a vampire movie,
1381
00:55:28,225 --> 00:55:30,260
then turns into an
end-of-the-world movie.
1382
00:55:30,327 --> 00:55:33,498
(SNARLING)
I think I know the word
to describe this film.
1383
00:55:33,564 --> 00:55:36,033
Berserk!
(SCREAMING)
1384
00:55:36,100 --> 00:55:37,635
Tobe Hooper's Ben-Hur.
1385
00:55:37,702 --> 00:55:39,970
At the time, it was
their biggest budget film.
1386
00:55:40,037 --> 00:55:44,975
It has something
major happening in terms
of grand spectacle
1387
00:55:45,042 --> 00:55:46,777
about every 60 seconds,
1388
00:55:46,844 --> 00:55:50,715
with incredible
mechanical effects,
physical and optical effects,
1389
00:55:50,781 --> 00:55:54,652
nudity, because the humanoid
creatures are found nude
1390
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:56,621
in these crystal sarcophagi.
1391
00:55:56,687 --> 00:55:59,790
Finding Mathilda May was
an achievement, actually,
1392
00:55:59,857 --> 00:56:03,428
one of the most striking
young women I've ever seen.
1393
00:56:03,494 --> 00:56:05,463
When I saw the rushes,
I... I just died,
1394
00:56:05,530 --> 00:56:10,000
and knew that we would
never, ever get away with
the British censor.
1395
00:56:10,067 --> 00:56:13,370
Her private parts area
was like a bikini!
1396
00:56:13,438 --> 00:56:15,239
You'll never believe
what I'm looking at.
1397
00:56:15,305 --> 00:56:17,041
JOHN GROVER: And this was
supposed to be a mystery about
1398
00:56:17,107 --> 00:56:19,844
this beautiful woman that
was gonna destroy London.
1399
00:56:19,910 --> 00:56:21,879
MAN: That girl was no girl.
1400
00:56:21,946 --> 00:56:25,416
She's totally alien to this
planet and our life form,
1401
00:56:25,483 --> 00:56:27,051
and totally dangerous.
1402
00:56:31,489 --> 00:56:33,491
Golan and Globus
took a risk.
1403
00:56:33,558 --> 00:56:34,992
It was a big risk with this,
1404
00:56:35,059 --> 00:56:37,027
especially halfway
through the picture,
1405
00:56:37,094 --> 00:56:39,196
when we were
four months behind.
1406
00:56:39,263 --> 00:56:41,466
They weren't worried
about the amount of time
1407
00:56:41,532 --> 00:56:42,867
it was taking
to shoot the film.
1408
00:56:42,933 --> 00:56:45,269
It had to do with
watching the dailies
1409
00:56:45,335 --> 00:56:48,739
and loving the scope of
what they were producing.
1410
00:56:48,806 --> 00:56:51,576
They now were in another
level of filmmaking.
1411
00:56:51,642 --> 00:56:54,879
GROVER: They wanted
to make the biggest
picture of the year.
1412
00:56:54,945 --> 00:56:58,516
They were small fry
in a very big pond.
1413
00:56:58,583 --> 00:57:02,252
All these films that
they made were
bizarre, plot-wise.
1414
00:57:02,319 --> 00:57:04,789
I mean, they were made up
on the spot half the time.
1415
00:57:04,855 --> 00:57:07,257
"Marriage Venetian Style."
1416
00:57:07,324 --> 00:57:08,759
"A Holiday in Rome."
1417
00:57:08,826 --> 00:57:11,428
"Holiday in Rome."
"A Holiday in Venice."
1418
00:57:11,496 --> 00:57:12,830
(CHUCKLES)
1419
00:57:12,897 --> 00:57:14,431
"Marriage in Venice."
"Marriage in Venice."
1420
00:57:14,499 --> 00:57:15,966
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
1421
00:57:16,033 --> 00:57:18,202
Yeah?
Yeah. "Marriage in Venice."
In Venice.
1422
00:57:18,268 --> 00:57:20,170
Or... "Stop That Marriage."
1423
00:57:20,237 --> 00:57:23,240
Menahem had lots
of ideas. Too many ideas,
some people say.
1424
00:57:23,307 --> 00:57:26,477
He would say,
"I want music
like Poltergeist."
1425
00:57:26,544 --> 00:57:29,647
And I was like, "Poltergeist
is a 100-piece orchestra."
1426
00:57:29,714 --> 00:57:31,215
And he goes, "You idiot!"
1427
00:57:31,281 --> 00:57:34,652
"We get 50 musicians
and we have them
play the music twice!"
1428
00:57:34,719 --> 00:57:38,222
There was a series of books
that go on about a monkey,
1429
00:57:38,288 --> 00:57:41,325
kind of like Curious George,
but it was an Israeli
series of books.
1430
00:57:41,391 --> 00:57:43,861
Clyde the orangutan from
Every Which Way But Loose
1431
00:57:43,928 --> 00:57:46,797
came to the office
with his agent.
1432
00:57:46,864 --> 00:57:48,298
Clyde was very hot
at that point,
1433
00:57:48,365 --> 00:57:51,001
and he's here with
some Beverly Hills
lawyers in suits.
1434
00:57:51,068 --> 00:57:54,338
(LAUGHING) Menahem's
sitting next to an orangutan
1435
00:57:54,404 --> 00:57:58,809
and deciding whether
to sign the orangutan,
to put him under contract,
1436
00:57:58,876 --> 00:58:02,547
and he turns to the woman
who's head of publicity
1437
00:58:02,613 --> 00:58:05,415
and says, "Would you
fuck this monkey?"
1438
00:58:05,482 --> 00:58:06,717
(WHINES)
1439
00:58:06,784 --> 00:58:08,886
They go, "So, go on.
What's the story?"
1440
00:58:08,953 --> 00:58:11,756
And he said, "Look,
it's about this kid
who goes to Africa."
1441
00:58:11,822 --> 00:58:15,526
"He is without his parents,
but he has this guy
who takes care of him."
1442
00:58:15,593 --> 00:58:17,094
"And when they
come off the boat,"
1443
00:58:17,161 --> 00:58:20,430
"all of a sudden,
they see you!"
1444
00:58:20,497 --> 00:58:23,000
And he looked
at the monkey.
1445
00:58:23,067 --> 00:58:23,968
And from now on,
1446
00:58:24,034 --> 00:58:25,536
he kept talking
to the monkey.
1447
00:58:25,603 --> 00:58:28,105
"Okay, we're in the jungle.
There is a monkey."
1448
00:58:28,172 --> 00:58:29,774
"You, Clyde,
you're the monkey."
1449
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:31,676
"And, you know,
there's a kid,"
1450
00:58:31,742 --> 00:58:33,811
"and the kid is being
attacked by the tribes,"
1451
00:58:33,878 --> 00:58:37,281
"but the monkey saves him,
but now he must go
on his uncle's ship."
1452
00:58:37,347 --> 00:58:39,183
"The monkey cannot
go with him,"
1453
00:58:39,249 --> 00:58:42,219
"so now the ship
is leaving and the kid,
his heart is broken."
1454
00:58:42,286 --> 00:58:43,420
"It's broken!"
1455
00:58:43,487 --> 00:58:45,489
"And you love the boy."
1456
00:58:45,556 --> 00:58:47,625
"You love the boy."
1457
00:58:47,692 --> 00:58:49,760
"And you feel that
the boy love you."
1458
00:58:49,827 --> 00:58:53,497
Golan gets on his desk,
and he's literally standing
on his desk at this point...
1459
00:58:53,564 --> 00:58:55,600
"And you cut back
and you see the monkey,"
1460
00:58:55,666 --> 00:58:58,468
"and he's going,
'Help me! Help me!'"
1461
00:58:58,535 --> 00:59:00,771
And... It was crazy.
1462
00:59:00,838 --> 00:59:02,139
Talking to a monkey.
1463
00:59:02,206 --> 00:59:04,008
I remember one of the
agents going, like,
1464
00:59:04,074 --> 00:59:06,076
"Will the monkey be
talking in the movie?"
1465
00:59:06,143 --> 00:59:08,713
"We don't know that yet,
but it doesn't matter.
It's the emotion."
1466
00:59:08,779 --> 00:59:10,280
We did some
tests and, uh,
1467
00:59:10,347 --> 00:59:13,818
and the monkey either
bit the boy or something.
1468
00:59:13,884 --> 00:59:15,753
Two days later,
Menahem showed up
1469
00:59:15,820 --> 00:59:17,722
with a little guy,
1470
00:59:17,788 --> 00:59:20,725
who was a... Midget.
1471
00:59:20,791 --> 00:59:24,695
You know?
And he said,
1472
00:59:24,762 --> 00:59:27,097
"This is your new monkey."
1473
00:59:27,164 --> 00:59:28,365
(CHATTERS)
1474
00:59:28,432 --> 00:59:30,300
And he said, "Does he look
like a monkey or not?"
1475
00:59:30,367 --> 00:59:32,536
Everybody said, "Yeah,
he looks like a monkey."
1476
00:59:32,603 --> 00:59:35,272
But the truth
is he didn't.
1477
00:59:35,339 --> 00:59:36,573
Not at all.
1478
00:59:36,641 --> 00:59:38,609
And I went with
them to Africa...
1479
00:59:38,676 --> 00:59:40,745
Oh! Ohh!
1480
00:59:40,811 --> 00:59:43,681
And I felt really,
really embarrassed.
1481
00:59:43,748 --> 00:59:47,417
When we were in the
jungle, on the tree,
there were real monkeys
1482
00:59:47,484 --> 00:59:49,754
and I had the feeling that
they are laughing at me.
1483
00:59:49,820 --> 00:59:51,789
KRAFT: Usually, a bad idea
1484
00:59:51,856 --> 00:59:54,058
only happens once or twice.
1485
00:59:54,124 --> 00:59:56,060
Oh!
1486
00:59:56,126 --> 00:59:59,396
Bonzo love Ben.
1487
00:59:59,463 --> 01:00:01,198
Oh!
1488
01:00:01,265 --> 01:00:03,600
These were bad ideas
on a regular basis.
1489
01:00:03,668 --> 01:00:05,369
(MAN READING)
1490
01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:08,205
I don't care what
anyone says. It's...
It's a masterpiece.
1491
01:00:08,272 --> 01:00:10,474
NARRATOR: In
a world gone mad,
1492
01:00:10,540 --> 01:00:13,477
there is only
one law, his.
1493
01:00:13,543 --> 01:00:15,045
What's the problem?
1494
01:00:15,112 --> 01:00:17,281
We're stealin'
a fucking car.
What's it to you?
1495
01:00:17,347 --> 01:00:18,382
It's my car!
1496
01:00:19,717 --> 01:00:20,985
(GUN FIRING)
1497
01:00:21,051 --> 01:00:22,853
Total dog-pile
piece of shit.
1498
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:26,456
The first movie
that Michael Winner did
was somewhat compelling.
1499
01:00:26,523 --> 01:00:28,192
But this is a cartoon.
1500
01:00:28,258 --> 01:00:31,328
It's practically
World War III in the
streets of New York.
1501
01:00:32,629 --> 01:00:34,431
(ROCKET FIRING)
(EXPLODING)
1502
01:00:34,498 --> 01:00:37,434
ALEX: Winner took
pleasure out of
presenting this world...
1503
01:00:37,501 --> 01:00:43,073
Where these grimy,
mostly minority
ghetto characters...
1504
01:00:43,140 --> 01:00:44,809
Come on, bitch!
Come on!
1505
01:00:44,875 --> 01:00:46,977
Would be
summarily executed
1506
01:00:47,044 --> 01:00:51,148
by more refined, more middle
to upper-class characters.
1507
01:00:51,215 --> 01:00:54,885
And I think that he
felt that that stage
could only get bigger.
1508
01:00:56,286 --> 01:00:57,688
(GUN FIRING)
1509
01:01:02,827 --> 01:01:05,195
(GROANING)
1510
01:01:05,262 --> 01:01:06,596
(TIRES SCREECHING)
1511
01:01:06,663 --> 01:01:07,865
(EXPLODING)
1512
01:01:07,932 --> 01:01:09,734
Yeah! Power, man!
1513
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:12,770
Each film, the police
force gets smaller and
smaller and smaller,
1514
01:01:12,837 --> 01:01:15,973
and Bronson's
persona gets bigger,
bigger and bigger.
1515
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,810
NARRATOR: Now the trap
is set. The fuse is lit.
1516
01:01:19,877 --> 01:01:21,611
Bronson is unleashed.
1517
01:01:21,678 --> 01:01:24,081
(NARRATOR READING)
1518
01:01:24,148 --> 01:01:26,283
Three, four and five
are a different...
1519
01:01:26,350 --> 01:01:29,286
They're related by blood,
but they're the family
we don't talk to.
1520
01:01:29,353 --> 01:01:31,922
I know that Charlie wanted
to make better movies.
1521
01:01:31,989 --> 01:01:33,724
We had that
conversation many times.
1522
01:01:33,791 --> 01:01:37,027
He didn't want to make
Death Wish 2, 3, 4 and 5.
1523
01:01:37,094 --> 01:01:38,763
I don't know how
they talked him into it.
1524
01:01:38,829 --> 01:01:40,097
He didn't really have
to do very much.
1525
01:01:40,164 --> 01:01:41,665
He had a Jaguar
that would drive him
1526
01:01:41,732 --> 01:01:43,600
from his dressing
room to the set,
1527
01:01:43,667 --> 01:01:45,970
which was usually
about three feet from
his dressing room.
1528
01:01:46,036 --> 01:01:48,873
It was more like
watching a man
golf than act.
1529
01:01:48,939 --> 01:01:51,241
MAN: Charles Bronson
and Bronson's stunt double
1530
01:01:51,308 --> 01:01:53,010
discuss the seemingly
simple task
1531
01:01:53,077 --> 01:01:55,045
of throwing groceries
at a moving car.
1532
01:01:55,112 --> 01:01:56,981
This is turned over
to a stunt double
1533
01:01:57,047 --> 01:01:59,984
in order to ensure
the safety of the star.
1534
01:02:00,050 --> 01:02:02,452
Well, we became the
garbage of the industry.
1535
01:02:02,519 --> 01:02:04,755
A place of last resort
to get movies made.
1536
01:02:04,822 --> 01:02:06,723
They were considered
schlockmeisters.
1537
01:02:06,791 --> 01:02:07,925
Schlock.
Schlock.
1538
01:02:07,992 --> 01:02:09,193
Schlock.
It's schlock.
1539
01:02:09,259 --> 01:02:10,828
But they sure do
make a lot of it.
1540
01:02:10,895 --> 01:02:12,329
They knew what
their reputation was.
1541
01:02:12,396 --> 01:02:14,531
They knew that everyone
saw them as kind of,
1542
01:02:14,598 --> 01:02:16,566
"Yeah, you guys do a lot
of stuff, but where's the,
where's the quality?"
1543
01:02:16,633 --> 01:02:19,669
And I think that, uh, they
wanted to do some projects
1544
01:02:19,736 --> 01:02:22,907
that not only would
bankroll their company,
1545
01:02:22,973 --> 01:02:25,009
but would bring them
a little more respect.
1546
01:02:25,075 --> 01:02:28,478
MENAHEM: I want to
sign with Bogdanovich
to a three-picture deal.
1547
01:02:28,545 --> 01:02:30,981
MAN: (ON PHONE) If you want
to buy Peter Bogdanovich,
1548
01:02:31,048 --> 01:02:33,183
let's say that you had
a project called XYZ...
1549
01:02:33,250 --> 01:02:35,953
Yeah, I'm not buying people.
I'm giving them opportunities.
1550
01:02:36,020 --> 01:02:39,689
"He should work with me
because I'm giving him
this opportunity,"
1551
01:02:39,756 --> 01:02:41,225
"and if he doesn't,
he's an idiot."
1552
01:02:41,291 --> 01:02:44,494
He needs a family because
he's now without a family.
1553
01:02:44,561 --> 01:02:47,431
And he's a loser and
he needs to be with the
winning, with the winners.
1554
01:02:47,497 --> 01:02:50,700
The artists that were
attracted to Cannon
1555
01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:53,703
probably didn't want to be,
in the beginning.
1556
01:02:53,770 --> 01:02:56,106
But once they
got to know Golan,
1557
01:02:56,173 --> 01:02:57,908
they realized
they found a patron.
1558
01:02:57,975 --> 01:03:00,744
Menahem Golan is a director.
1559
01:03:00,811 --> 01:03:04,982
You're dealing with
someone who does the
same thing you do,
1560
01:03:05,049 --> 01:03:07,017
who understands
what your problems are.
1561
01:03:07,084 --> 01:03:10,921
You're dealing with guys
who know every element
of the film business.
1562
01:03:10,988 --> 01:03:12,857
That, to me,
is terribly refreshing.
1563
01:03:12,923 --> 01:03:16,026
NARRATOR: Cannon Films
proudly presents
a motion picture event,
1564
01:03:16,093 --> 01:03:20,831
directed by internationally
acclaimed master filmmaker
Franco Zeffirelli.
1565
01:03:20,898 --> 01:03:22,666
Menahem loved Zeffirelli.
1566
01:03:22,732 --> 01:03:24,534
MICHAEL: You tell him,
"Listen, you can
get the lottery
1567
01:03:24,601 --> 01:03:26,403
"or sit with Zeffirelli
and make a movie with him."
1568
01:03:26,470 --> 01:03:29,173
He will take Zeffirelli
making a movie with him.
1569
01:03:29,239 --> 01:03:33,043
The film opera event
of our century, Otello.
1570
01:03:33,110 --> 01:03:35,379
(SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
1571
01:03:35,445 --> 01:03:36,881
Zeffirelli, Cannon.
1572
01:03:36,947 --> 01:03:38,382
JOHN: Franco
probably started out
1573
01:03:38,448 --> 01:03:40,450
by thinking how crude
these guys were
1574
01:03:40,517 --> 01:03:42,953
and then ended up
really appreciating them.
1575
01:04:03,740 --> 01:04:06,010
MAN: There was one
telegram that said,
1576
01:04:06,076 --> 01:04:10,747
"We are looking at the daily
and they looked like
they were created by God."
1577
01:04:10,814 --> 01:04:12,382
(FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI SPEAKING)
1578
01:04:25,996 --> 01:04:27,464
Someone like John Cassavetes,
1579
01:04:27,531 --> 01:04:29,833
who could not get
financing from anybody,
1580
01:04:29,900 --> 01:04:31,235
Menahem would
give him funding.
1581
01:04:31,301 --> 01:04:33,537
I'm going to do
a John Cassavetes film,
1582
01:04:33,603 --> 01:04:37,307
and once I accepted
this fact...
1583
01:04:38,408 --> 01:04:40,377
I had to give John Cassavetes
1584
01:04:40,444 --> 01:04:43,080
the full freedom
to create his film.
1585
01:04:43,147 --> 01:04:45,015
We were never committed
to make a film
1586
01:04:45,082 --> 01:04:46,850
that would please
the audience.
1587
01:04:46,917 --> 01:04:48,485
Now, if you came
to see our films,
1588
01:04:48,552 --> 01:04:50,154
you had to suffer
through them.
1589
01:04:50,220 --> 01:04:52,889
Do you believe that love
is a continuous stream?
1590
01:04:52,957 --> 01:04:56,626
MENAHEM: John Cassavetes
brought me a two hours
and 15 minutes movie.
1591
01:04:56,693 --> 01:05:00,197
I told John, "Go and cut out
15 minutes in the middle"
1592
01:05:00,264 --> 01:05:02,499
"and you'll see we'll get
a much better movie."
1593
01:05:02,566 --> 01:05:05,002
He said, "Menahem,
it will be done in
the next two days."
1594
01:05:05,069 --> 01:05:08,572
Two days later, he came
and the movie was
two and a half hours.
1595
01:05:08,638 --> 01:05:11,475
And I said, "John,
you added 15 minutes."
1596
01:05:11,541 --> 01:05:14,144
He said, "But it's, but it's
shorter, nevertheless."
1597
01:05:14,211 --> 01:05:16,513
AL: I think Menahem
got the film that he wanted.
1598
01:05:16,580 --> 01:05:19,516
I think it served a purpose
for Cannon Films.
1599
01:05:19,583 --> 01:05:22,152
He could then go
to any other director
1600
01:05:22,219 --> 01:05:27,291
and say, "Hey, look,
we just made a film
with John Cassavetes."
1601
01:05:27,357 --> 01:05:30,060
You know? "And you know
how difficult he can be."
1602
01:05:30,127 --> 01:05:33,563
"But that just goes
to show you how,
you know, how far we'll go"
1603
01:05:33,630 --> 01:05:35,432
"with a, with
another director."
1604
01:05:35,499 --> 01:05:37,134
Menahem Golan
and Yoram Globus are...
1605
01:05:37,201 --> 01:05:39,036
Are kind of
wild characters.
1606
01:05:39,103 --> 01:05:41,938
They make impulsive
decisions like signing up
Godard on a napkin.
1607
01:05:42,006 --> 01:05:45,575
We didn't have paper
and this was on the
table of the bar.
1608
01:05:45,642 --> 01:05:48,412
And this is
Mr. Jean-Luc Godard.
1609
01:05:48,478 --> 01:05:50,680
I love this project.
I believe in it.
1610
01:05:50,747 --> 01:05:52,649
I think it'll be
a great movie.
1611
01:05:52,716 --> 01:05:56,886
Godard said that he
would do, uh, King Lear
only with Norman Mailer.
1612
01:05:56,953 --> 01:05:59,489
Mailer. Oh, yes.
1613
01:06:00,790 --> 01:06:02,692
That is a good way to begin.
1614
01:06:02,759 --> 01:06:05,862
Godard wanted Norman to play
a writer named Norman Mailer
1615
01:06:05,929 --> 01:06:10,267
and he wanted Kate to play
a daughter of that writer,
named Kate Mailer,
1616
01:06:10,334 --> 01:06:12,302
and there was
a suggestion of incest.
1617
01:06:12,369 --> 01:06:14,338
Part of me thinks
that Godard did that
1618
01:06:14,404 --> 01:06:16,340
in the hopes that
Norman would quit,
1619
01:06:16,406 --> 01:06:18,475
and that led to
the famous phone call
1620
01:06:18,542 --> 01:06:20,744
that Godard recorded
without our permission.
1621
01:06:20,810 --> 01:06:22,879
JEAN-LUC GODARD: I must insist
1622
01:06:22,946 --> 01:06:27,551
that this movie, as promised,
which was already put
forward so many times,
1623
01:06:27,617 --> 01:06:30,187
will reach the
Cannes Festival.
1624
01:06:30,254 --> 01:06:31,888
This is my main concern.
1625
01:06:31,955 --> 01:06:35,892
MAN: No script, no make-up,
no hair, no costumes, nothing.
1626
01:06:35,959 --> 01:06:39,363
MOLLY RINGWALD:
I was walking with a horse
and I think I'm Joan of Arc,
1627
01:06:39,429 --> 01:06:42,132
and then I think I'm dead
on the rocks or something.
1628
01:06:42,199 --> 01:06:46,070
And I think I asked
him, "Am I supposed
to be dead or alive?"
1629
01:06:46,136 --> 01:06:47,504
"Am I sleeping?"
1630
01:06:47,571 --> 01:06:48,838
You know,
"What am I doing?"
1631
01:06:48,905 --> 01:06:50,407
And he was like...
(EXHALES)
1632
01:06:50,474 --> 01:06:52,842
Like it was the stupidest
question ever, you know?
1633
01:06:52,909 --> 01:06:56,246
Like, "Oh! Dead!" Like,
you know, "Pff!" You know?
1634
01:06:56,313 --> 01:06:58,548
It was not even
worthy of a response
1635
01:06:58,615 --> 01:07:01,918
and I thought,
"All right, I'm gonna go
with dead." (LAUGHING)
1636
01:07:01,985 --> 01:07:06,356
I'm sure it absolutely
was not what Cannon
Pictures was expecting.
1637
01:07:06,423 --> 01:07:08,058
TOM: When the first
images come on,
1638
01:07:08,125 --> 01:07:09,826
Menahem started
whispering to me,
1639
01:07:09,893 --> 01:07:13,063
"Tom Luddy, I will
kill you! Tom Luddy,
I will strangle you!"
1640
01:07:13,130 --> 01:07:14,464
"You don't fuck with Sabras."
1641
01:07:14,531 --> 01:07:16,233
I think he was
a bit disappointed
1642
01:07:16,300 --> 01:07:19,903
because Godard didn't
take Menahem seriously.
1643
01:07:19,969 --> 01:07:22,606
Golan always wanted to
make interesting pictures.
1644
01:07:22,672 --> 01:07:25,375
I mean, we would make
what we would call
1645
01:07:25,442 --> 01:07:27,111
"the engine that
pulled the train".
1646
01:07:27,177 --> 01:07:30,314
We would make one
picture that we'd know
we could presell
1647
01:07:30,380 --> 01:07:32,349
and then sneak in a bunch
of little ones with it.
1648
01:07:32,416 --> 01:07:33,983
We say to the
local distributor,
1649
01:07:34,050 --> 01:07:37,754
"Sorry, man, you have to
take John Cassavetes first"
1650
01:07:37,821 --> 01:07:39,823
"or you don't get
Charles Bronson."
1651
01:07:39,889 --> 01:07:41,958
That's how films like
Barfly get funded.
1652
01:07:42,025 --> 01:07:44,661
NARRATOR: Mickey Rourke.
FAY DUNAWAY: Just one thing.
1653
01:07:44,728 --> 01:07:47,197
I don't ever want
to fall in love.
1654
01:07:47,264 --> 01:07:48,398
NARRATOR: Faye Dunaway.
1655
01:07:48,465 --> 01:07:51,268
Don't worry. Nobody's
ever loved me yet.
1656
01:07:51,335 --> 01:07:52,936
(NARRATOR READING)
1657
01:07:53,002 --> 01:07:56,873
Those were the Cannon
days where you had
a meeting with Menahem,
1658
01:07:56,940 --> 01:08:01,111
you had a 90% chances of
walking away with a deal.
1659
01:08:01,178 --> 01:08:02,679
TOM: When we were
in pre-production,
1660
01:08:02,746 --> 01:08:04,548
and we already had Mickey
and we already had Faye,
1661
01:08:04,614 --> 01:08:06,150
when they said,
"We're stopping the shooting"
1662
01:08:06,216 --> 01:08:08,685
"unless you cut the
budget, cut your fees."
1663
01:08:08,752 --> 01:08:12,289
So I had to find something
to replace the lawyer
1664
01:08:12,356 --> 01:08:15,959
and I found the firm
Black & Decker. (LAUGHS)
1665
01:08:16,025 --> 01:08:19,363
Barbet went into Menahem's
office with a chainsaw.
1666
01:08:19,429 --> 01:08:21,165
(IMITATES CHAINSAW REVVING)
1667
01:08:21,231 --> 01:08:24,434
"For every day
I don't get my movie made,"
1668
01:08:24,501 --> 01:08:27,070
"I'm gonna cut one finger
and send it to you."
1669
01:08:27,137 --> 01:08:30,106
MENAHEM: As a matter
of fact, I love it that he
is ready to cut his finger,
1670
01:08:30,174 --> 01:08:34,110
because I am ready
to cut anything, my balls,
to make a film.
1671
01:08:34,178 --> 01:08:36,246
PIETER: He outsmarted Menahem
1672
01:08:36,313 --> 01:08:38,282
and that's how
that movie got made.
1673
01:08:38,348 --> 01:08:41,585
The movie didn't explode
the way I wanted
1674
01:08:41,651 --> 01:08:44,754
because it was perceived as
a movie about alcoholics.
1675
01:08:44,821 --> 01:08:46,723
DUNAWAY: We're all
in some kind of hell
1676
01:08:46,790 --> 01:08:48,592
and the madhouses
are the only places
1677
01:08:48,658 --> 01:08:51,361
where people know
they're in hell.
1678
01:08:51,428 --> 01:08:53,330
They had this terrible
kind of dichotomy about
1679
01:08:53,397 --> 01:08:55,432
making what they thought
were important films
1680
01:08:55,499 --> 01:08:56,933
and then being
able to sell them.
1681
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,536
ALAIN: Even if the
movie was not a B movie,
1682
01:08:59,603 --> 01:09:03,173
the moment the Cannon logo
was showing up on the screen,
1683
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:04,908
"Oh! That's
a Cannon movie."
1684
01:09:04,974 --> 01:09:08,445
What people expected
from Cannon, the films
that we made,
1685
01:09:08,512 --> 01:09:11,281
were low-budget,
lowbrow, action pictures.
1686
01:09:11,348 --> 01:09:14,050
You'd come along
with something that
was more interesting,
1687
01:09:14,117 --> 01:09:15,619
no one could
take it seriously.
1688
01:09:15,685 --> 01:09:17,487
NARRATOR: They
escaped together.
1689
01:09:17,554 --> 01:09:19,689
They achieved the impossible.
1690
01:09:19,756 --> 01:09:23,727
But their train to freedom
was out of control.
1691
01:09:23,793 --> 01:09:26,330
JOHN: You're not gonna
hear anyone not say
1692
01:09:26,396 --> 01:09:30,166
that Runaway Train is one
of the most incredible
films they've ever seen.
1693
01:09:30,234 --> 01:09:31,701
Runaway Train
is, quite simply,
1694
01:09:31,768 --> 01:09:33,870
one of the best adventure
movies I've ever seen,
1695
01:09:33,937 --> 01:09:36,373
a combination of
action and suspense
and desperate characters
1696
01:09:36,440 --> 01:09:38,242
that never stopped
surprising me.
1697
01:09:38,308 --> 01:09:41,010
I don't know how
closely you can almost
associate it with Cannon.
1698
01:09:41,077 --> 01:09:42,846
It was a film unto itself,
1699
01:09:42,912 --> 01:09:45,114
I think, with a very
visionary director
in his own right,
1700
01:09:45,181 --> 01:09:47,083
Andrei Konchalovsky.
1701
01:09:47,150 --> 01:09:49,453
The fact it got made,
I suppose, is some
sort of tribute to them,
1702
01:09:49,519 --> 01:09:51,255
that they actually did
give it a green light.
1703
01:09:51,321 --> 01:09:52,922
JOHN: I believe
firmly today
1704
01:09:52,989 --> 01:09:55,359
that if a studio had
made Runaway Train,
1705
01:09:55,425 --> 01:09:57,861
it would be
a classic forever.
1706
01:09:57,927 --> 01:10:01,164
PEARCE: Made by Orion,
it would have got
great respect, I think.
1707
01:10:01,231 --> 01:10:04,434
You're as afraid to
die as anybody else!
1708
01:10:04,501 --> 01:10:06,270
And I never let you free.
1709
01:10:06,336 --> 01:10:08,538
I'm free, Rankin.
1710
01:10:09,873 --> 01:10:11,140
I am free.
1711
01:10:11,207 --> 01:10:12,509
Made by Cannon, no.
1712
01:10:16,246 --> 01:10:20,049
They came in so
quick and they did so
many films so fast,
1713
01:10:20,116 --> 01:10:22,185
and everyone was always
looking around, like,
1714
01:10:22,252 --> 01:10:23,653
"How are they doing this?"
1715
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:27,557
Michael Milken, he was
called the Junk Bond King.
1716
01:10:27,624 --> 01:10:29,326
CHRISTOPHER: He created
something called
1717
01:10:29,393 --> 01:10:30,727
the high yield
or junk-bond business.
1718
01:10:30,794 --> 01:10:33,162
That went from financing
bankrupt companies
1719
01:10:33,229 --> 01:10:35,632
to financing small,
growing companies.
1720
01:10:35,699 --> 01:10:40,604
Michael Milken
raised $300 million
for Cannon Pictures.
1721
01:10:40,670 --> 01:10:42,972
It really took
Hollywood by surprise
1722
01:10:43,039 --> 01:10:46,943
that Cannon now had the
ability to make picture
after picture after picture.
1723
01:10:47,010 --> 01:10:52,181
Major studios were
making six, seven, maybe
eight films a year.
1724
01:10:52,248 --> 01:10:54,684
Nobody was making
20 films a year.
1725
01:10:54,751 --> 01:10:57,454
Forty films a year.
Forty two movies.
1726
01:10:57,521 --> 01:11:01,190
Forty seven films a year.
Fifty two in-house films.
1727
01:11:01,257 --> 01:11:02,926
Almost average one a week.
1728
01:11:02,992 --> 01:11:04,193
Eighty four.
1729
01:11:04,260 --> 01:11:06,330
That's an entire
career there.
1730
01:11:06,396 --> 01:11:08,164
It was almost like
a bowel movement.
1731
01:11:08,231 --> 01:11:10,767
(LAUGHING) You make
a movie, it comes out,
1732
01:11:10,834 --> 01:11:12,702
you flush it and you
move on to another one.
1733
01:11:12,769 --> 01:11:15,872
This company grew up
and mushroomed so fast
1734
01:11:15,939 --> 01:11:19,576
just because of the energy
and the personality
of Menahem Golan.
1735
01:11:19,643 --> 01:11:21,311
The name of the
game is to do!
1736
01:11:21,378 --> 01:11:24,280
Not just to "Blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah,"
talk about it.
1737
01:11:24,348 --> 01:11:26,015
I'd have meetings
with Yoram one day
1738
01:11:26,082 --> 01:11:31,187
and Golan comes in and
he starts talking about
something in Budapest.
1739
01:11:31,254 --> 01:11:33,022
And we say, "What
are you talking about?"
1740
01:11:33,089 --> 01:11:35,459
"Oh, I forgot to tell
you, we're making
this film in Budapest."
1741
01:11:35,525 --> 01:11:36,893
"We're in the second
week of shooting."
1742
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:38,462
We didn't even know
it was being made.
1743
01:11:38,528 --> 01:11:43,199
If something excites you,
be brave and go
1744
01:11:43,266 --> 01:11:46,069
and try to do it
good, but do it.
1745
01:11:46,135 --> 01:11:49,973
In England, Cannon
became a real threat to
the British film industry.
1746
01:11:50,039 --> 01:11:52,308
NARRATOR: Cannon
gained a place in
Britain's film line-up
1747
01:11:52,376 --> 01:11:55,512
when it took over Thorn-EMI
Screen Entertainment.
1748
01:11:55,579 --> 01:11:57,947
Suddenly they owned
Elstree Studios,
1749
01:11:58,014 --> 01:11:59,449
the Pathe film library,
1750
01:11:59,516 --> 01:12:01,451
and the ABC Cinema circuit.
1751
01:12:01,518 --> 01:12:03,620
With their own
Classic and Star chain,
1752
01:12:03,687 --> 01:12:08,024
this gave Golan and Globus
command of almost 40% of
the British cinema market.
1753
01:12:08,091 --> 01:12:10,460
We owned the big chain
in London, in England.
1754
01:12:10,527 --> 01:12:12,996
We owned the
big chain in Italy,
1755
01:12:13,062 --> 01:12:14,330
all the theaters in Holland.
1756
01:12:14,398 --> 01:12:16,633
They bought everything,
short of Harrods.
1757
01:12:16,700 --> 01:12:19,536
Cannon had all this money
and was anxious to spend it,
1758
01:12:19,603 --> 01:12:21,505
and they wanted to
spend it on stars.
1759
01:12:21,571 --> 01:12:24,273
They were, and I hope
you don't mind me using
the word, star-fuckers.
1760
01:12:24,340 --> 01:12:27,076
How many films
a star does a year? One?
1761
01:12:27,143 --> 01:12:29,379
What does he do
the rest of the year?
1762
01:12:29,446 --> 01:12:31,515
Forty weeks,
what does he do?
1763
01:12:31,581 --> 01:12:34,684
He goes to psychoanalysts,
he get divorced.
1764
01:12:34,751 --> 01:12:37,053
What does he do?
Okay?
1765
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:39,022
So, he wants to work!
1766
01:12:39,088 --> 01:12:42,191
He said, "I want...
for the leading lady",
1767
01:12:42,258 --> 01:12:44,494
"I want, uh, that, uh..."
1768
01:12:44,561 --> 01:12:47,063
"The movie, the Stone movie,
you know the one."
1769
01:12:47,130 --> 01:12:48,932
"That's the one
I want. Get her."
1770
01:12:48,998 --> 01:12:51,501
RICHARD: And they get back
the first week of dailies
1771
01:12:51,568 --> 01:12:53,403
and he goes,
"Who is this fucking bitch?"
1772
01:12:53,470 --> 01:12:55,338
"I said, I want
that Stone woman."
1773
01:12:55,405 --> 01:12:58,174
Well, everybody thought
he was talking about
Sharon Stone.
1774
01:12:58,241 --> 01:13:01,711
He was talking about
Romancing the Stone,
which was Kathleen Turner.
1775
01:13:01,778 --> 01:13:03,780
That's who he thought
he'd cast in the movie.
1776
01:13:03,847 --> 01:13:05,281
I've got it!
1777
01:13:05,348 --> 01:13:09,453
NARRATOR: Richard Chamberlain
is Allan Quartermain in...
1778
01:13:09,519 --> 01:13:11,521
(NARRATOR READING)
1779
01:13:11,588 --> 01:13:15,024
CASSANDRA PETERSON:
At the time, Richard was
just an incredibly hot star,
1780
01:13:15,091 --> 01:13:16,826
so that impressed me.
1781
01:13:16,893 --> 01:13:19,629
"Well, they're not doing
the same schlocky stuff
they used to do before."
1782
01:13:19,696 --> 01:13:21,197
You know, little did
I know. (LAUGHS)
1783
01:13:21,264 --> 01:13:23,867
It was a bit of a spoof of
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
1784
01:13:25,902 --> 01:13:27,170
(SCREAMING)
1785
01:13:28,905 --> 01:13:30,406
(SCREAMING)
1786
01:13:31,007 --> 01:13:32,642
(EXPLODING)
1787
01:13:32,709 --> 01:13:34,978
You had the sense that
if you could think of
something funny to do
1788
01:13:35,044 --> 01:13:37,914
that wasn't out
of character, do it.
1789
01:13:37,981 --> 01:13:39,215
Surprise!
1790
01:13:39,282 --> 01:13:41,551
Great reflexes, boys.
1791
01:13:41,618 --> 01:13:43,687
PETERSON: It slowly
became apparent to me,
1792
01:13:43,753 --> 01:13:45,689
not that slowly,
pretty quickly,
1793
01:13:45,755 --> 01:13:50,159
that this was definitely
not going to be of the
Indiana Jones caliber.
1794
01:13:53,062 --> 01:13:54,598
Quartermain!
1795
01:13:54,664 --> 01:13:56,900
DANIEL: Chamberlain
was not Harrison Ford.
(GUN FIRING)
1796
01:13:56,966 --> 01:13:58,635
And Sharon Stone,
nobody knew who she was.
1797
01:13:58,702 --> 01:14:01,638
AVI: It was a tough time
to work with Sharon,
1798
01:14:01,705 --> 01:14:04,073
to a level that
none of the crew,
1799
01:14:04,140 --> 01:14:06,275
none of the assistants,
none of the make-up,
1800
01:14:06,342 --> 01:14:10,379
none of the people that
she worked day-by-day,
wanted to work with her.
1801
01:14:10,446 --> 01:14:12,482
(GASPS) I wanna scream!
1802
01:14:12,549 --> 01:14:13,517
She was hated on the set.
1803
01:14:13,583 --> 01:14:15,652
(SCREAMING)
1804
01:14:16,620 --> 01:14:17,854
All the South
Africans hated her.
1805
01:14:19,188 --> 01:14:21,157
She took a milk bath,
they peed in the water.
1806
01:14:21,224 --> 01:14:24,160
And when she
got in the water,
she's like, "Ew! Ew!"
1807
01:14:24,227 --> 01:14:26,362
"This water smells so funny."
1808
01:14:26,429 --> 01:14:27,831
(SNICKERING)
1809
01:14:27,897 --> 01:14:31,100
Richard Chamberlain himself
could not stand her.
1810
01:14:31,167 --> 01:14:32,401
What's wrong?
1811
01:14:32,468 --> 01:14:36,339
(SIGHS) Sharon's a difficult
person to understand.
1812
01:14:36,405 --> 01:14:39,609
She was incredibly beautiful.
She's very, very smart,
1813
01:14:39,676 --> 01:14:41,945
and talks about
how smart she is a lot.
1814
01:14:42,011 --> 01:14:44,247
NELSON: She should have
never done the second movie
1815
01:14:44,313 --> 01:14:46,683
if she had such a bad
time on the first one.
1816
01:14:46,750 --> 01:14:48,752
NARRATOR: The odds
are against them
1817
01:14:48,818 --> 01:14:51,521
and that's the way
they like it!
1818
01:14:51,588 --> 01:14:54,858
(NARRATOR READING)
1819
01:14:54,924 --> 01:14:58,061
I don't know why they
would want to do King
Solomon's Mines twice,
1820
01:14:58,127 --> 01:15:00,196
'cause the first one wasn't
very good to begin with.
1821
01:15:00,263 --> 01:15:01,598
Hold on!
1822
01:15:01,665 --> 01:15:03,499
RICHARD:
Well, my first question was,
1823
01:15:03,567 --> 01:15:05,001
"How much money
do you think you'll
be spending on it?"
1824
01:15:05,068 --> 01:15:06,636
And they said,
"Oh, probably $10 million."
1825
01:15:06,703 --> 01:15:09,906
I think they ended up
spending about $3.75 on it.
1826
01:15:09,973 --> 01:15:11,975
(SNARLING)
(GUN FIRING)
1827
01:15:12,041 --> 01:15:15,511
I signed on as
the villainess, Sorais.
1828
01:15:15,579 --> 01:15:17,246
They actually had
me in a harness
1829
01:15:17,313 --> 01:15:19,382
and were swinging
me over this pit.
1830
01:15:19,448 --> 01:15:21,384
I remember being scared
out of my freaking brain,
1831
01:15:21,450 --> 01:15:25,254
thinking, "Why am I doing this
and not a stunt person?"
1832
01:15:25,321 --> 01:15:27,390
"Oh, wait a minute.
There is no stunt person."
1833
01:15:27,456 --> 01:15:28,524
(BLOWS)
1834
01:15:28,592 --> 01:15:30,627
(SCREAMING)
1835
01:15:30,694 --> 01:15:36,600
Never had contact ever
with either Menahem or Yoram
until the end of the movie,
1836
01:15:36,666 --> 01:15:39,736
until, um, it was...
Judgment day.
1837
01:15:39,803 --> 01:15:41,938
We'd screen
a version of the film
1838
01:15:42,005 --> 01:15:44,908
and everybody would turn
to the back of the room,
where Menahem and Yoram were,
1839
01:15:44,974 --> 01:15:47,110
and they'd wait to see which
way the wind was blowing.
1840
01:15:47,176 --> 01:15:49,613
Every once in a while,
I heard, "Fakakta director",
1841
01:15:49,679 --> 01:15:52,381
you know, as I figured,
you know, I'm the fucking
director, you know?
1842
01:15:52,448 --> 01:15:55,619
So, I'm... "That's me.
I'm sitting right
behind you, you know".
1843
01:15:55,685 --> 01:15:57,553
Then the English
would come out.
1844
01:15:57,621 --> 01:16:01,357
"Why are those people
all blonde, walking
with white pajamas?"
1845
01:16:01,424 --> 01:16:02,525
"What's going on?"
1846
01:16:02,592 --> 01:16:05,561
And, "Oh, my God!
Yoram, look!"
1847
01:16:05,629 --> 01:16:08,497
"The queens!
Look at those queens!"
1848
01:16:08,564 --> 01:16:10,299
"They're supposed
to be ugly!"
1849
01:16:10,366 --> 01:16:14,403
I come to find out that they
had gotten my movie confused
1850
01:16:14,470 --> 01:16:17,340
with one that Tobe Hooper
was making at the same time.
1851
01:16:17,406 --> 01:16:20,810
He never would admit
that he was confused.
1852
01:16:20,877 --> 01:16:23,146
He never said,
"Oh, I'm wrong," you know.
1853
01:16:23,212 --> 01:16:25,949
"I'll look at your picture
in a different light." No.
1854
01:16:27,250 --> 01:16:30,219
He said, "The picture
is un-releasable!"
1855
01:16:30,286 --> 01:16:32,155
I said, "Menahem, please."
1856
01:16:32,221 --> 01:16:35,558
I said, "As I came down
the halls to your office",
1857
01:16:35,625 --> 01:16:40,029
"on either side are posters
of films that you have done"
1858
01:16:40,096 --> 01:16:43,800
"that are totally
un-releasable that
you have released!"
1859
01:16:43,867 --> 01:16:45,935
"So don't tell me
it's un-releasable."
1860
01:16:46,002 --> 01:16:48,805
MAN: Golan's real dream
always was to be a studio.
1861
01:16:48,872 --> 01:16:50,874
They moved out of
low-class offices
1862
01:16:50,940 --> 01:16:52,876
and suddenly bought
an entire building.
1863
01:16:52,942 --> 01:16:56,479
And had to have
security guards with
Uzis at the front desk.
1864
01:16:56,545 --> 01:16:57,914
I think there had
been death threats.
1865
01:16:57,981 --> 01:16:59,382
"Menahem, there's
a bomb threat!"
1866
01:16:59,448 --> 01:17:01,785
"Somebody's gonna
blow up the building!"
1867
01:17:01,851 --> 01:17:03,552
(MIMICKING MENAHEM)
"Tell them to go
fuck themselves!"
1868
01:17:03,619 --> 01:17:06,322
The joke company wasn't
such a joke anymore.
1869
01:17:06,389 --> 01:17:08,892
REPORTER: Menahem Golan
took time off from his duties
1870
01:17:08,958 --> 01:17:11,394
as chairman of the board
of Hollywood's Cannon Films
1871
01:17:11,460 --> 01:17:14,864
to personally produce
and direct Delta Force.
1872
01:17:14,931 --> 01:17:16,966
This is a hijack!
1873
01:17:17,033 --> 01:17:22,005
NARRATOR: It's a new age
of terror that requires
a new breed of warrior.
1874
01:17:22,071 --> 01:17:27,376
MENAHEM: We worked on
a screenplay to tell a story
of new American heroes,
1875
01:17:27,443 --> 01:17:30,546
tell a story of the real
modern American drama.
1876
01:17:30,613 --> 01:17:37,220
This was absolutely
a fairytale reaction
to a real-life TWA hijacking.
1877
01:17:37,286 --> 01:17:39,255
JAMES: The hostages
hadn't been released,
1878
01:17:39,322 --> 01:17:42,792
so he got the idea
of sending me to Beirut.
1879
01:17:42,859 --> 01:17:44,393
He was gonna sneak me
across the border
1880
01:17:44,460 --> 01:17:46,362
and I was supposed to go
to the Beirut airport
1881
01:17:46,429 --> 01:17:48,464
and find out what
was going on and
report back to him
1882
01:17:48,531 --> 01:17:50,566
so he could come up with
an ending for the picture.
1883
01:17:50,633 --> 01:17:54,470
Everybody want to see
the American president
taking a firm state
1884
01:17:54,537 --> 01:18:00,076
and using whatever he
has in America, like the
Delta Force, for solutions.
1885
01:18:00,143 --> 01:18:01,878
It's a go. Take 'em down.
1886
01:18:01,945 --> 01:18:04,147
We don't move until
the women and children
are away and safe.
1887
01:18:04,213 --> 01:18:06,249
SHARON KAHN:
This was the happy ending
1888
01:18:06,315 --> 01:18:08,517
that a lot of people felt
should have happened.
1889
01:18:08,584 --> 01:18:10,954
(ROCKET FIRING)
(EXPLODING)
1890
01:18:11,020 --> 01:18:13,957
It was September in Israel.
1891
01:18:14,023 --> 01:18:16,559
It was the hottest
point of the year.
1892
01:18:16,625 --> 01:18:19,428
Way over 100 degrees
Fahrenheit in that airplane.
1893
01:18:19,495 --> 01:18:22,966
But Menahem, sweating
harder than anybody
else in that movie,
1894
01:18:23,032 --> 01:18:26,469
pushing, shoving,
making that movie happen
and getting his shots,
1895
01:18:26,535 --> 01:18:29,505
and as a director, he was
one of the best directors
I ever worked for.
1896
01:18:29,572 --> 01:18:33,176
He wasn't afraid to
grab the thing and say,
"Do it like this!"
1897
01:18:33,242 --> 01:18:36,746
Shelley Winters and Menahem
had some rip-roaring fights.
1898
01:18:36,813 --> 01:18:38,581
Sit down!
1899
01:18:38,647 --> 01:18:41,417
"Menahem, I cannot
do it! I'm dying!"
1900
01:18:41,484 --> 01:18:44,520
He said, you know,
"Do it and then die."
1901
01:18:44,587 --> 01:18:46,422
That's Menahem.
1902
01:18:46,489 --> 01:18:50,626
ALAIN: Every movie
he directed always
had a cartoonish side.
1903
01:18:50,693 --> 01:18:51,895
(ROCKET FIRING)
(EXPLODING)
1904
01:18:51,961 --> 01:18:54,197
Every time I was
trying to reduce it,
1905
01:18:54,263 --> 01:18:56,565
he was yelling that
I was killing his movie.
1906
01:18:56,632 --> 01:18:57,867
It's an action movie.
1907
01:19:00,369 --> 01:19:02,939
With apologies to
the guys who have
to play the bad guys,
1908
01:19:03,006 --> 01:19:04,841
somebody's got
to carry the flag.
1909
01:19:08,677 --> 01:19:10,947
(ROCKET FIRING)
(EXPLODING)
1910
01:19:11,014 --> 01:19:12,782
You cannot hide
your head in the sand
1911
01:19:12,849 --> 01:19:14,517
and say there is not
violence out there.
1912
01:19:14,583 --> 01:19:16,752
The key point is, how do
you deal with violence?
1913
01:19:16,820 --> 01:19:18,421
That's what's important,
1914
01:19:18,487 --> 01:19:20,023
and that's what
we try to demonstrate
on the screen.
1915
01:19:20,089 --> 01:19:22,625
This, I think, is
an exploitation movie
1916
01:19:22,691 --> 01:19:24,727
in the very worst
sense of the term,
1917
01:19:24,794 --> 01:19:26,629
blatantly and
brainlessly concocted
1918
01:19:26,695 --> 01:19:30,333
to inspire vengeful hatred
toward Arabs and Palestinians.
1919
01:19:30,399 --> 01:19:32,301
(ROCKET FIRING)
(EXPLODING)
1920
01:19:32,368 --> 01:19:36,305
If you kill Arabs, uh...
You have to be
politically correct.
1921
01:19:36,372 --> 01:19:38,107
(GUNS FIRING)
1922
01:19:41,677 --> 01:19:44,547
Menahem didn't care about
being politically correct.
1923
01:19:44,613 --> 01:19:46,349
(GUN FIRING)
1924
01:19:47,650 --> 01:19:49,819
Sleep tight, sucker.
1925
01:19:49,886 --> 01:19:52,455
REPORTER: To celebrate
the move to their
new headquarters
1926
01:19:52,521 --> 01:19:54,490
and the opening
of Delta Force,
1927
01:19:54,557 --> 01:19:57,226
Golem and Globus
invited Hollywood
to a black-tie party.
1928
01:19:57,293 --> 01:19:59,863
A black-tie opening for
a Chuck Norris film!
1929
01:19:59,929 --> 01:20:02,398
It's gonna be a blockbuster
of the century!
1930
01:20:02,465 --> 01:20:05,101
Delighted to see you.
Delighted to see you. Okay.
1931
01:20:05,168 --> 01:20:06,936
Dude, it's
a Chuck Norris film!
1932
01:20:07,003 --> 01:20:10,139
RUSTY: I remember
thinking there's
something really wrong
1933
01:20:10,206 --> 01:20:12,241
about putting a party
in a parking structure
1934
01:20:12,308 --> 01:20:13,843
where nobody
can ever stand up.
1935
01:20:13,910 --> 01:20:16,412
Everybody was kind of,
like, leaning.
1936
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:19,648
And I thought,
"This is a bad omen
for this company."
1937
01:20:19,715 --> 01:20:24,320
It seemed from that
point on that things
started getting
1938
01:20:24,387 --> 01:20:26,089
a little, a little
dicey at the company.
1939
01:20:26,155 --> 01:20:29,692
Cannon expanded
too much too fast.
1940
01:20:29,758 --> 01:20:35,364
We had films going
in Asia, Africa,
Europe, the United States.
1941
01:20:35,431 --> 01:20:37,100
How can you control
it? It's a mess.
1942
01:20:37,166 --> 01:20:38,767
They didn't have the
money to make 50 films.
1943
01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:42,038
They're raising it on
the next 50 and the next 50.
1944
01:20:42,105 --> 01:20:45,174
They were busy selling
and making deals
1945
01:20:45,241 --> 01:20:47,843
in order to keep
the company afloat.
1946
01:20:47,911 --> 01:20:52,581
Every Friday,
Yoram needed $5 million
just to continue.
1947
01:20:52,648 --> 01:20:56,119
MENAHEM: I can't be worried
because I'm too busy
making the movies
1948
01:20:56,185 --> 01:20:58,888
and I'm so excited
and I'm so into it.
1949
01:20:58,955 --> 01:21:01,257
I believe that we know
what we are doing
1950
01:21:01,324 --> 01:21:03,927
and I believe that
our future is safe.
1951
01:21:03,993 --> 01:21:05,094
Roll camera.
1952
01:21:05,161 --> 01:21:06,662
MAN 1: Mark.
MAN 2: Marker!
1953
01:21:06,729 --> 01:21:09,865
Set.
And action!
1954
01:21:09,933 --> 01:21:15,939
NARRATOR: David Gardner
just woke up to a nightmare
in his own backyard.
1955
01:21:16,005 --> 01:21:17,473
But no one will listen.
1956
01:21:17,540 --> 01:21:20,843
And soon,
no one will be left.
1957
01:21:20,910 --> 01:21:21,945
Tobe Hooper's...
1958
01:21:22,011 --> 01:21:23,746
(NARRATOR READING)
1959
01:21:23,812 --> 01:21:27,450
TOBE: I wanted to capture,
or, I should say, recapture
1960
01:21:27,516 --> 01:21:31,620
those images that literally
burned holes in my mind,
1961
01:21:31,687 --> 01:21:34,357
in my imagination and
dreams when I was a child.
1962
01:21:34,423 --> 01:21:37,493
I liked the idea of being
uptight and paranoid
1963
01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:40,629
to the point where
finally you're afraid
of your parents
1964
01:21:40,696 --> 01:21:43,499
and where there is really
no safe place to go.
1965
01:21:43,566 --> 01:21:45,901
WILLIAM: The tone
of the film was off.
1966
01:21:45,969 --> 01:21:49,939
It wasn't as
serious as I think
it should have been.
1967
01:21:50,006 --> 01:21:51,374
It seemed
a little bit silly.
1968
01:21:51,440 --> 01:21:53,909
The film missed
really connecting with
1969
01:21:53,977 --> 01:21:57,380
the deep fears people
would have in
identifying with a child
1970
01:21:57,446 --> 01:21:59,315
who can no longer
trust his parents.
1971
01:21:59,382 --> 01:22:00,984
Menahem and Yoram
hated the film.
1972
01:22:01,050 --> 01:22:04,353
They really felt
personally wounded by
what Tobe had done,
1973
01:22:04,420 --> 01:22:08,257
that he had basically
sold them on his vision
and he didn't deliver on it.
1974
01:22:08,324 --> 01:22:10,059
And I think that
really hurt them.
1975
01:22:10,126 --> 01:22:13,529
What got everybody
excited about Tobe
with Texas Chainsaw,
1976
01:22:13,596 --> 01:22:16,132
which was really kind
of a raw experience.
1977
01:22:16,199 --> 01:22:18,401
TOBE: Chainsaw wasn't
just a horror film.
1978
01:22:18,467 --> 01:22:21,037
It had a lot of
reflection of society.
1979
01:22:21,104 --> 01:22:24,573
It totally changed
the genre of horror.
1980
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:28,111
Cannon wanted Tobe to do
a sequel to Chainsaw.
1981
01:22:28,177 --> 01:22:29,745
They wanted it desperately.
1982
01:22:29,812 --> 01:22:33,582
NARRATOR: Now, after more
than a decade of silence,
1983
01:22:33,649 --> 01:22:35,284
the buzz is back.
1984
01:22:35,351 --> 01:22:37,286
(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)
(SCREAMING)
1985
01:22:38,154 --> 01:22:40,789
I amplified the dark humor.
1986
01:22:40,856 --> 01:22:43,292
I'd felt that that was
missed in the first film.
1987
01:22:43,359 --> 01:22:45,428
Bubba's
got a girlfriend!
1988
01:22:45,494 --> 01:22:47,130
(SINGSONG)
Bubba's got a girlfriend!
1989
01:22:47,196 --> 01:22:49,432
Bubba's got a girlfriend!
Bubba's got a girlfriend!
1990
01:22:49,498 --> 01:22:50,933
Bubba's got a girlfriend!
(GROWLING AND LAUGHING)
1991
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,602
Some people had been
calling it as "red humor".
1992
01:22:56,505 --> 01:23:02,445
Because it also made
up for the lack of
gore in Chainsaw 1.
1993
01:23:02,511 --> 01:23:04,113
(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)
(SCREAMING)
1994
01:23:06,882 --> 01:23:10,153
So, they show it.
First time Cannon's seen it.
1995
01:23:11,254 --> 01:23:14,290
Boys, boys, boys.
1996
01:23:14,357 --> 01:23:17,626
It was not what
they expected.
1997
01:23:17,693 --> 01:23:20,629
For some reason,
Cannon didn't realize
it was a comedy.
1998
01:23:20,696 --> 01:23:23,432
The small business man that
1999
01:23:23,499 --> 01:23:26,402
always, always, always
gets it in the ass!
2000
01:23:26,469 --> 01:23:29,004
ALAIN: Menahem and
Yoram are not very flexible
2001
01:23:29,072 --> 01:23:33,442
and if you sell them
a horror picture,
they want horror.
2002
01:23:33,509 --> 01:23:37,146
It was a shocker
for them to not know
what the film was.
2003
01:23:37,213 --> 01:23:38,747
We took the Chainsaw family
2004
01:23:38,814 --> 01:23:43,086
and copied the same poster
from The Breakfast Club,
2005
01:23:43,152 --> 01:23:45,754
and it went up
on Sunset Boulevard.
2006
01:23:45,821 --> 01:23:48,291
And Cannon didn't
know it was a comedy?
2007
01:23:48,357 --> 01:23:51,427
The audience
wasn't prepared
for the craziness
2008
01:23:51,494 --> 01:23:54,163
or the loony-ness
of Chainsaw 2.
2009
01:23:54,930 --> 01:23:56,399
They just wanted a scream.
2010
01:23:56,465 --> 01:23:59,935
And Tobe didn't want to make
another screaming movie.
2011
01:24:00,002 --> 01:24:01,304
(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)
2012
01:24:01,370 --> 01:24:04,273
The end of Chainsaw
was almost really
2013
01:24:04,340 --> 01:24:06,909
the public beginning
of the end for Cannon.
2014
01:24:06,975 --> 01:24:09,978
In October, their
accounting practices
came under the scrutiny
2015
01:24:10,045 --> 01:24:12,315
of the American Securities
and Exchange Commission.
2016
01:24:12,381 --> 01:24:17,286
At this point, the company
is not able to continue
to operate profitably.
2017
01:24:17,353 --> 01:24:19,755
The movies are not doing
well at the box office.
2018
01:24:19,822 --> 01:24:22,158
They have a large amount
of what is called
2019
01:24:22,225 --> 01:24:24,160
a selling and
administrative expense,
2020
01:24:24,227 --> 01:24:27,396
and now a very heavy
interest payment annually
2021
01:24:27,463 --> 01:24:29,198
from all of the
bonds and the debt
2022
01:24:29,265 --> 01:24:31,066
that they have taken
on to fund themselves.
2023
01:24:31,134 --> 01:24:33,669
Menahem asked Yoram...
2024
01:24:33,736 --> 01:24:36,539
"Why are you so
depressed? What's wrong?"
2025
01:24:36,605 --> 01:24:40,309
And Yoram said,
"You know, we owe
the bank $5 million."
2026
01:24:40,376 --> 01:24:43,146
And Menahem said,
"You know why I'm depressed?"
2027
01:24:43,212 --> 01:24:45,281
"Why we owe them
only $5 million?"
2028
01:24:45,348 --> 01:24:47,283
"I want to owe
them $100 million."
2029
01:24:47,350 --> 01:24:51,086
NARRATOR: Now we're on
the horizon of our second
decade of success,
2030
01:24:51,154 --> 01:24:55,891
with promising new talent
and established
box office names.
2031
01:24:55,958 --> 01:24:57,893
We're charged for excitement
2032
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:01,430
and looking forward
to another decade
of blockbusters.
2033
01:25:01,497 --> 01:25:03,866
So look to Cannon
for the future.
2034
01:25:03,932 --> 01:25:07,370
Cannon Entertainment.
We're moving forward.
2035
01:25:07,436 --> 01:25:09,472
When people think we're
in financial trouble,
2036
01:25:09,538 --> 01:25:14,243
let's sign a huge
actor and announce
three big movies,
2037
01:25:14,310 --> 01:25:16,579
and what are they
gonna say now?
2038
01:25:16,645 --> 01:25:19,615
Tell me, the Stallone deal,
is it completely signed?
2039
01:25:19,682 --> 01:25:24,420
NELSON: He said, "I'm going
to direct Sylvester Stallone
in this next movie."
2040
01:25:24,487 --> 01:25:25,954
I said, "You're
fucking nuts."
2041
01:25:26,021 --> 01:25:29,692
"My client would not work
for you for $10 million."
2042
01:25:30,893 --> 01:25:32,828
Menahem said,
"How about $12 million?"
2043
01:25:32,895 --> 01:25:37,200
Menahem paid him
an unprecedented
amount of money.
2044
01:25:37,266 --> 01:25:39,435
$13 million.
$15 million.
2045
01:25:39,502 --> 01:25:42,137
$20 million.
$25 million.
2046
01:25:42,205 --> 01:25:45,341
Before that, probably the
max he'd ever been paid
was $4 or $5 million.
2047
01:25:45,408 --> 01:25:48,644
Every other star said,
"Yeah. I want that deal."
2048
01:25:48,711 --> 01:25:51,980
Changed the marketplace
within the Hollywood
community.
2049
01:25:52,047 --> 01:25:54,417
JOHN: Menahem believed
that Over The Top
2050
01:25:54,483 --> 01:25:57,786
was gonna be as big
as any Rocky or Rambo.
2051
01:25:59,087 --> 01:26:00,656
ENGELBACH: My original
script was different
2052
01:26:00,723 --> 01:26:02,090
than the movie that
they eventually made.
2053
01:26:02,157 --> 01:26:03,959
It wasn't nearly as dumb.
2054
01:26:04,026 --> 01:26:07,863
NARRATOR: The world
has always bet
against Lincoln Hawks,
2055
01:26:07,930 --> 01:26:10,866
but a winner never
listens to the odds.
2056
01:26:10,933 --> 01:26:13,202
They made it more
about truck-driving
and arm-wrestling
2057
01:26:13,269 --> 01:26:14,603
than the film
should have been.
2058
01:26:14,670 --> 01:26:16,972
Arm-wrestling was
a very strange selection.
2059
01:26:17,039 --> 01:26:18,641
(GRUNTS) And it's over!
2060
01:26:18,707 --> 01:26:20,443
(GRUNTING)
2061
01:26:20,509 --> 01:26:22,077
How do you make something
like that interesting?
2062
01:26:22,144 --> 01:26:24,413
ROSENTHAL: We're gonna have
great action sequences
2063
01:26:24,480 --> 01:26:27,082
where there's
gonna be two arms.
2064
01:26:27,149 --> 01:26:29,352
You might as well have
somebody talking like this,
2065
01:26:29,418 --> 01:26:32,221
"Hi, Sylvester.
How are you?"
2066
01:26:32,288 --> 01:26:34,323
It was definitely unique.
And who knows?
2067
01:26:34,390 --> 01:26:38,294
You could have been
plagued with 100 arm-wrestling
movies after that. (LAUGHS)
2068
01:26:38,361 --> 01:26:40,863
(YELLING)
2069
01:26:40,929 --> 01:26:43,366
At the end of the movie,
I had tears in my eyes.
2070
01:26:45,301 --> 01:26:47,169
Menahem patted me
on this shoulder.
2071
01:26:47,236 --> 01:26:48,871
He says, "Aha! I got you!"
2072
01:26:48,937 --> 01:26:50,673
(CROWD CHEERING)
2073
01:26:50,739 --> 01:26:52,941
I was crying 'cause
I saw my career going
down the toilet
2074
01:26:53,008 --> 01:26:55,444
and I didn't know
what I was gonna do next.
2075
01:26:55,511 --> 01:26:57,946
ROSENTHAL: Menahem was
out of touch with the reality
of what was going to be a hit
2076
01:26:58,013 --> 01:26:59,615
and what the audience
was going to want.
2077
01:26:59,682 --> 01:27:02,217
Over The Top broadcast
this idea of...
2078
01:27:02,285 --> 01:27:05,153
He thinks this is
what American kids
are gonna love,
2079
01:27:05,220 --> 01:27:06,555
and it was so...
2080
01:27:06,622 --> 01:27:08,424
It was a... You know,
he had no ear for it.
2081
01:27:08,491 --> 01:27:12,361
Selling American films
to Americans was not, uh...
2082
01:27:12,428 --> 01:27:13,929
Their sweet spot.
2083
01:27:13,996 --> 01:27:17,966
They had certain instincts
of where they wanted to go,
2084
01:27:18,033 --> 01:27:20,202
but they didn't quite
know how to get there.
2085
01:27:20,269 --> 01:27:24,540
They started diving in
and renewing franchises
such as Superman.
2086
01:27:24,607 --> 01:27:28,577
Cannon was being touted as,
"Look what they did."
2087
01:27:28,644 --> 01:27:31,213
"These two guys have
made it to big time."
2088
01:27:31,280 --> 01:27:34,683
JOHN: There's no reason
why Superman IV
wouldn't do well.
2089
01:27:34,750 --> 01:27:37,119
Probably could
have saved Cannon.
2090
01:27:37,185 --> 01:27:38,987
Cured many of
the financial woes
2091
01:27:39,054 --> 01:27:41,457
and created
acceptance in Hollywood
2092
01:27:41,524 --> 01:27:43,659
that probably would
have made them leaders.
2093
01:27:43,726 --> 01:27:45,594
You were rooting for them.
2094
01:27:45,661 --> 01:27:47,496
HARRISON ELLENSHAW:
Christopher Reeve did
not want to come back,
2095
01:27:47,563 --> 01:27:49,865
but he was seduced
by the fact,
2096
01:27:49,932 --> 01:27:53,035
"Chris, what would
you like the fourth
one to be about?"
2097
01:27:53,101 --> 01:27:55,037
ROSENTHAL: He had this idea,
which was essentially,
2098
01:27:55,103 --> 01:27:57,105
what would happen
if Superman decided
2099
01:27:57,172 --> 01:28:00,242
he was actually gonna use
his powers to stop war?
2100
01:28:00,309 --> 01:28:01,910
Effective immediately,
2101
01:28:01,977 --> 01:28:04,480
I'm going to rid our planet
of all nuclear weapons.
2102
01:28:04,547 --> 01:28:07,015
How could it fail? It failed.
2103
01:28:07,082 --> 01:28:10,719
ROSENTHAL: Menahem promised
us that we were gonna rise
to the Warners' level,
2104
01:28:10,786 --> 01:28:12,788
not do it like
a Cannon movie.
2105
01:28:12,855 --> 01:28:14,757
(LAUGHING) And, of course,
in the end, we did it
like a Cannon movie.
2106
01:28:14,823 --> 01:28:18,627
There was Nuclear Man,
a He-Man equal to Superman.
2107
01:28:18,694 --> 01:28:20,563
Sidney Furie says to me,
2108
01:28:20,629 --> 01:28:24,032
"We've found him.
We've found Nuclear Man."
2109
01:28:24,099 --> 01:28:27,135
"And he's an
ex-Chippendale dancer."
2110
01:28:27,202 --> 01:28:29,171
(ROARING)
2111
01:28:29,237 --> 01:28:33,409
And I'm just trying
to behave as the
visual effects dweeb
2112
01:28:33,476 --> 01:28:37,112
and going, "Oh, God.
We are in so much trouble."
2113
01:28:37,179 --> 01:28:40,383
I, Lex Luthor,
the greatest criminal
mind of the modern era,
2114
01:28:40,449 --> 01:28:42,451
have discovered a way
to destroy Superman.
2115
01:28:42,518 --> 01:28:47,623
Last month, Cannon announced
a loss of $90 million
for the two years 1985-86.
2116
01:28:47,690 --> 01:28:52,828
REPORTER: By mid-December,
Cannon must raise $80 million
to pay off a debt in Britain.
2117
01:28:52,895 --> 01:28:55,864
By production
of Superman, they
were already in freefall.
2118
01:28:55,931 --> 01:28:58,033
All they could do was
start to cut the budget.
2119
01:28:58,100 --> 01:29:00,636
DEL VALLE: This was
a movie that was supposed
to be $30 million,
2120
01:29:00,703 --> 01:29:03,772
and when they
start shooting it,
it's dropped to 17,
2121
01:29:03,839 --> 01:29:05,774
and it's a special
effects movie.
2122
01:29:05,841 --> 01:29:08,276
ELLENSHAW: I said,
"Hey, you want him to look
like the first one?
2123
01:29:08,343 --> 01:29:09,512
"This is what
it's gonna cost."
2124
01:29:09,578 --> 01:29:11,447
(SNORTS) Well, no way!
2125
01:29:11,514 --> 01:29:14,282
It was so cheap and
so chintzy-looking and
it just didn't look good.
2126
01:29:14,349 --> 01:29:17,319
All the ragged edges
of the production
were visible.
2127
01:29:17,386 --> 01:29:19,588
ROSENTHAL: They'd
pad out the shots.
They duplicated.
2128
01:29:19,655 --> 01:29:22,391
It's everything that happens
when you don't have enough
money for the effects.
2129
01:29:22,458 --> 01:29:25,060
ELLENSHAW: "You're dreadful
at what you do, Harrison!"
2130
01:29:25,127 --> 01:29:28,397
"You are a big
frickin' failure!"
2131
01:29:29,231 --> 01:29:30,332
Guilty.
2132
01:29:30,399 --> 01:29:31,867
Everybody sort of
pointed the finger.
2133
01:29:31,934 --> 01:29:34,369
The finger was really
the demise of Cannon.
2134
01:29:34,437 --> 01:29:37,440
MATTHAU: They started
to do films with big
budgets and take big risks
2135
01:29:37,506 --> 01:29:40,476
and try and compete
with the Warner Brothers
of the world,
2136
01:29:40,543 --> 01:29:42,044
and that didn't
go so well.
2137
01:29:42,110 --> 01:29:43,779
(GROANING)
2138
01:29:43,846 --> 01:29:45,948
They couldn't take
on the studio system
and they knew it.
2139
01:29:46,014 --> 01:29:49,117
They were trying to get
out from underneath,
2140
01:29:49,184 --> 01:29:51,787
and they thought if they got
these big mega-pictures
2141
01:29:51,854 --> 01:29:54,957
that they could
somehow parlay it into
2142
01:29:55,023 --> 01:29:57,593
not being discovered
for the slobs they were.
2143
01:29:57,660 --> 01:29:59,762
If you kept
moving fast enough,
2144
01:29:59,828 --> 01:30:01,597
there was always the
next movie to be made,
2145
01:30:01,664 --> 01:30:04,366
and the next one
was going to be great.
2146
01:30:04,433 --> 01:30:08,471
I have the power!
2147
01:30:08,537 --> 01:30:10,038
Masters was their big shot.
2148
01:30:10,105 --> 01:30:12,140
WILLIAM: They were
so excited.
2149
01:30:12,207 --> 01:30:13,609
They could almost
taste the money.
2150
01:30:13,676 --> 01:30:15,511
They could almost
taste the success.
2151
01:30:15,578 --> 01:30:17,546
GARY: I was trying
everything I could
to try and make this
2152
01:30:17,613 --> 01:30:19,782
not look, feel, sound
like a Cannon movie.
2153
01:30:19,848 --> 01:30:21,884
NARRATOR: At the far
end of the universe,
2154
01:30:21,950 --> 01:30:25,488
there is a planet ruled
by a being of utter evil...
2155
01:30:25,554 --> 01:30:27,055
(SCREAMING)
2156
01:30:27,122 --> 01:30:30,726
And there is only one man
who dares challenge him.
2157
01:30:30,793 --> 01:30:32,628
DOLPH LUNDGREN: It was
kind of slightly embarrassing
2158
01:30:32,695 --> 01:30:34,563
to sign on
playing a toy, right?
2159
01:30:34,630 --> 01:30:36,999
For me, it was a bit
weird, all this stuff.
2160
01:30:37,065 --> 01:30:39,902
The little dwarf
with the little key
and all of that.
2161
01:30:41,436 --> 01:30:42,805
I felt a little
stupid doing it.
2162
01:30:45,574 --> 01:30:47,275
(WEAPON FIRING)
2163
01:30:47,342 --> 01:30:50,112
Sylvester Stallone showed up
and he pointed up to Dolph.
2164
01:30:50,178 --> 01:30:52,380
He goes, "You gave
that guy lines?"
2165
01:30:52,447 --> 01:30:54,082
This is our fight.
2166
01:30:54,149 --> 01:30:56,151
I don't want innocent
people to die.
2167
01:30:56,218 --> 01:30:58,320
The special effect
of Skeletor,
2168
01:30:58,386 --> 01:31:00,255
of creating a skeleton head,
2169
01:31:00,322 --> 01:31:03,058
was astronomical and
would take an enormous
amount of time,
2170
01:31:03,125 --> 01:31:04,059
and they knew that.
2171
01:31:04,126 --> 01:31:05,794
The solution that
Cannon came up with
2172
01:31:05,861 --> 01:31:08,030
was to paint a skeleton
on Frank Langella's face
2173
01:31:08,096 --> 01:31:09,832
that looked like
a Halloween costume
2174
01:31:09,898 --> 01:31:11,534
that a mother made
for her child.
2175
01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:13,101
I don't think so.
2176
01:31:13,168 --> 01:31:14,803
I remember just
being really happy
that we had
2177
01:31:14,870 --> 01:31:18,106
a beginning, a middle
and end! (LAUGHS)
2178
01:31:18,173 --> 01:31:19,608
Kneel!
2179
01:31:19,675 --> 01:31:23,679
'Cause at one point, it
looked like we weren't
gonna have the end.
2180
01:31:23,746 --> 01:31:24,980
GARY: They literally
shut me down.
2181
01:31:25,047 --> 01:31:26,982
And I said, "There's no
ending to this movie."
2182
01:31:30,553 --> 01:31:32,555
(LAUGHING) I made Frank
Langella, this great actor,
2183
01:31:32,621 --> 01:31:35,958
in this skeleton mask
get in this bubbling
vat of liquid
2184
01:31:36,024 --> 01:31:37,292
so he could
pop up and say...
2185
01:31:37,359 --> 01:31:38,661
I'll be back!
2186
01:31:38,727 --> 01:31:40,162
They thought that
that picture would play
2187
01:31:40,228 --> 01:31:43,365
to an adult audience,
you know, to grown-ups.
2188
01:31:43,431 --> 01:31:45,300
But it didn't.
2189
01:31:45,367 --> 01:31:47,536
Masters Of The Universe
was to blame for
Masters Of The Universe.
2190
01:31:47,603 --> 01:31:50,639
If it was a great story,
if it was funny and
moving and exciting,
2191
01:31:50,706 --> 01:31:52,340
people would have
flocked to it.
2192
01:31:52,407 --> 01:31:55,443
These pictures, Superman,
Masters and Over The Top,
2193
01:31:55,510 --> 01:31:57,212
went off their
business model.
2194
01:31:57,279 --> 01:32:00,115
ROSENTHAL: Make
low-budget films, wait for
one or two to hit big,
2195
01:32:00,182 --> 01:32:03,051
have a huge profit margin,
sell them a lot,
2196
01:32:03,118 --> 01:32:05,387
build a library,
sell them overseas.
2197
01:32:05,453 --> 01:32:09,992
And Superman is
exactly the thing you
don't want to do.
2198
01:32:10,058 --> 01:32:11,860
INTERVIEWER: Would you ever
make a $30 million movie?
2199
01:32:11,927 --> 01:32:14,863
Never. I don't know what
to do with 30 millions.
2200
01:32:14,930 --> 01:32:17,900
I can make 30 movies,
maybe, you know?
2201
01:32:17,966 --> 01:32:20,135
But I don't know what to
do with 30 millions.
2202
01:32:20,202 --> 01:32:23,305
I mean, I...
I'll feel... I'll feel
like I'm a criminal
2203
01:32:23,371 --> 01:32:27,342
spending this kind
of money on doing
one motion picture.
2204
01:32:27,409 --> 01:32:29,244
They were trying
to get a little bit
2205
01:32:29,311 --> 01:32:33,015
out of the assembly-line
factory process
and make better pictures.
2206
01:32:33,081 --> 01:32:35,417
But I think timing
and finances just
caught up with them.
2207
01:32:35,483 --> 01:32:38,721
REPORTER: The more
films Cannon produced,
the more its debt grew.
2208
01:32:38,787 --> 01:32:41,156
Cannon have been
dispossessing themselves
of their assets.
2209
01:32:41,223 --> 01:32:43,325
The Thorn-EMI cinemas,
Elstree Studios,
2210
01:32:43,391 --> 01:32:46,629
and a wonderful library
of 2,000 films, and
they sold those first.
2211
01:32:46,695 --> 01:32:47,896
And now they've
sold the studios
2212
01:32:47,963 --> 01:32:50,165
for what they realized
for property.
2213
01:32:50,232 --> 01:32:53,168
REPORTER: Plans to build up
movie chains, distribution
rights around the world
2214
01:32:53,235 --> 01:32:55,503
collapsed under mounting
interest payments.
2215
01:32:55,570 --> 01:32:58,707
Cannon are not in the film
production business as
far as Britain is concerned.
2216
01:32:58,774 --> 01:33:00,275
They're in the property
disposal business.
2217
01:33:00,342 --> 01:33:04,046
They didn't look
upon it as a reason
to stop and pause.
2218
01:33:04,112 --> 01:33:05,013
"Let's keep going."
2219
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:07,549
They had problems
releasing pictures.
2220
01:33:07,616 --> 01:33:09,251
They had problems
finishing pictures.
2221
01:33:09,317 --> 01:33:12,054
I'd be on pictures
that were relatively
simple pictures
2222
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:15,323
that would take six, eight
months to not get finished.
2223
01:33:15,390 --> 01:33:18,493
NARRATOR: An incredible
adventure awaits a young girl
2224
01:33:18,560 --> 01:33:21,329
and two brothers
with a taste for excitement.
2225
01:33:21,396 --> 01:33:25,167
They will take a journey
to a place they never
dreamed existed.
2226
01:33:25,233 --> 01:33:28,871
Cannon shutting down
almost overnight had
a disastrous effect.
2227
01:33:28,937 --> 01:33:31,239
They just basically said,
"You're finished."
2228
01:33:31,306 --> 01:33:32,574
Oh, my God.
2229
01:33:32,641 --> 01:33:34,076
RUSTY: The thing about
a special effects film
2230
01:33:34,142 --> 01:33:36,244
is that it's like
a jigsaw puzzle.
2231
01:33:36,311 --> 01:33:39,381
Imagine every third piece
of the puzzle doesn't exist.
2232
01:33:39,447 --> 01:33:41,984
So you end up having
a lot of blacks,
2233
01:33:42,050 --> 01:33:43,986
we call them "slugs".
2234
01:33:44,052 --> 01:33:47,089
So, there was all this
footage that didn't have
the special effects.
2235
01:33:47,155 --> 01:33:49,124
And it's just not
releasable without it.
2236
01:33:49,191 --> 01:33:53,595
They just needed to
have it finished and
delivered for a price.
2237
01:33:53,662 --> 01:33:56,364
They had already spent
the money on the advances,
2238
01:33:56,431 --> 01:33:58,500
so they had to deliver
a finished film.
2239
01:33:58,566 --> 01:34:02,037
(LAUGHING) "Can you
finish this film without
special effects?"
2240
01:34:02,771 --> 01:34:04,606
What a question.
2241
01:34:04,673 --> 01:34:06,675
ALBERT: We went in
and shot a pretty big
chunk of storyline.
2242
01:34:06,742 --> 01:34:09,845
I can't give you
words to tell you how
heartbreaking it was.
2243
01:34:09,912 --> 01:34:12,214
It was an awkward situation
2244
01:34:12,280 --> 01:34:16,584
that I was very quickly
the following year
run into with Cyborg.
2245
01:34:16,651 --> 01:34:18,553
(NARRATOR READING)
2246
01:34:18,620 --> 01:34:22,825
NARRATOR: A brutal gang
is reshaping the world
into their own vision of hell,
2247
01:34:22,891 --> 01:34:24,893
and only one man
can stop them.
2248
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:30,332
I had this idea of
a futuristic action movie
that would feature Chuck.
2249
01:34:30,398 --> 01:34:32,300
Menahem and Yoram,
they talked
2250
01:34:32,367 --> 01:34:33,936
and they said,
"Well, you know,
we have this other guy
2251
01:34:34,002 --> 01:34:35,637
"that we think is
gonna be a big star."
2252
01:34:35,704 --> 01:34:37,205
"We'd like to see
him in that part."
2253
01:34:37,272 --> 01:34:39,274
And I said,
"Oh, yeah? Who's that?"
2254
01:34:39,341 --> 01:34:42,377
NARRATOR: Jean-Claude
Van Damme has
become the first hero
2255
01:34:42,444 --> 01:34:43,846
of the 21st century.
2256
01:34:43,912 --> 01:34:45,580
BOAZ: He used to
come to our company
2257
01:34:45,647 --> 01:34:47,215
and he used to
sit in the lobby.
2258
01:34:47,282 --> 01:34:50,018
He waited, and
when Menahem came
out of his office,
2259
01:34:50,085 --> 01:34:52,387
he ran up and did
a sweeping kick.
2260
01:34:52,454 --> 01:34:56,558
Spinning split kick
a quarter-inch from the
end of Menahem's nose.
2261
01:34:56,624 --> 01:34:58,626
The very next day,
he got a job.
2262
01:34:58,693 --> 01:35:02,497
ALBERT: I think Jean-Claude
was more enamored with
being a star on the ascent
2263
01:35:02,564 --> 01:35:04,599
than he was being an actor.
2264
01:35:04,666 --> 01:35:06,301
(GRUNTING)
2265
01:35:06,368 --> 01:35:08,203
I think he felt
more confident in
how he looked,
2266
01:35:08,270 --> 01:35:11,273
'cause as an actor, I don't
think he felt secure yet.
2267
01:35:11,339 --> 01:35:13,108
(YELLING)
2268
01:35:13,175 --> 01:35:17,412
My vision was very dark,
more of a war film than it was
an action-adventure movie.
2269
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:19,815
(BOTH YELLING)
2270
01:35:19,882 --> 01:35:21,884
LETTICH: It was
very uncommercial.
2271
01:35:21,950 --> 01:35:25,788
They took a survey,
and out of 100 people
that were in the screening,
2272
01:35:25,854 --> 01:35:28,123
one person said that
he liked the movie.
2273
01:35:28,190 --> 01:35:29,958
Which is no big surprise,
'cause I don't think
2274
01:35:30,025 --> 01:35:33,862
I ever had a test screening
really go very well.
2275
01:35:33,929 --> 01:35:36,664
Yoram was saying, "Look,
we've already got this
booked in theaters."
2276
01:35:36,731 --> 01:35:38,000
"Just let us
release the movie."
2277
01:35:38,066 --> 01:35:40,102
"It's not gonna
kill your career."
2278
01:35:40,168 --> 01:35:42,504
And Jean-Claude was saying,
"Look, give me two months.
Let me recut the movie."
2279
01:35:43,205 --> 01:35:44,840
(GRUNTING)
2280
01:35:44,907 --> 01:35:48,510
We just turned it into
more of a conventional
action picture.
2281
01:35:48,576 --> 01:35:49,577
(GROANS)
2282
01:35:49,644 --> 01:35:51,313
And that movie worked.
2283
01:35:51,379 --> 01:35:53,816
So we had every
right to believe,
"I'll get through this.
2284
01:35:53,882 --> 01:35:55,884
"I'll sell this.
I'll make some money."
2285
01:35:55,951 --> 01:35:58,921
"I'll sell some
foreign rights, I'll
get to the next one,"
2286
01:35:58,987 --> 01:36:00,655
"and the next one,
we're gonna do right."
2287
01:36:00,722 --> 01:36:05,961
That's probably
the biggest reason for
the Cannon demise.
2288
01:36:06,028 --> 01:36:11,333
Not stopping licking
the wounds, getting healed,
2289
01:36:11,399 --> 01:36:13,601
and then starting out
with a new slate.
2290
01:36:13,668 --> 01:36:15,703
It just was too much.
2291
01:36:15,770 --> 01:36:18,140
It wasn't, "Is Cannon
gonna collapse?"
2292
01:36:18,206 --> 01:36:20,175
It was, "When is
Cannon gonna collapse?"
2293
01:36:20,242 --> 01:36:25,513
Globus was more practical
and said, you know,
"It's one thing to want it,
2294
01:36:25,580 --> 01:36:29,451
"it's another thing to pay
for it, even the way we pay,"
2295
01:36:29,517 --> 01:36:32,720
uh, and I think it
just became untenable.
2296
01:36:32,787 --> 01:36:34,923
Menahem was making
too many movies.
2297
01:36:34,990 --> 01:36:37,659
Yoram was buying
too many cinema chains.
2298
01:36:37,725 --> 01:36:41,696
And, uh... I don't
know where the balance
lied between them,
2299
01:36:41,763 --> 01:36:46,168
but I think each guy was
very critical of the other.
2300
01:36:46,234 --> 01:36:47,936
The banks didn't want to
give them any more money.
2301
01:36:48,003 --> 01:36:51,506
They couldn't repay the
money they took because
the movies all failed.
2302
01:36:51,573 --> 01:36:54,076
That's when
Giancarlo Parretti
came in.
2303
01:36:54,142 --> 01:36:56,344
Basically, overnight,
Credit Lyonnais said,
2304
01:36:56,411 --> 01:36:58,213
"You've go t
new partners."
2305
01:36:58,280 --> 01:36:59,781
CHARLES MATTHAU:
You could feel
Parretti come in.
2306
01:36:59,848 --> 01:37:01,116
You could feel
the company change.
2307
01:37:01,183 --> 01:37:02,617
(WHISPERS)
"That's Mr. Parretti."
2308
01:37:02,684 --> 01:37:04,219
"Be very careful around him."
2309
01:37:04,286 --> 01:37:06,388
Menahem and Yoram
just wanted to believe
2310
01:37:06,454 --> 01:37:08,590
that this was their
white knight savior,
2311
01:37:08,656 --> 01:37:12,127
and ignored all the signs
that he was really a raider.
2312
01:37:12,194 --> 01:37:13,862
Parretti was
an Italian con man.
2313
01:37:13,929 --> 01:37:16,431
They said that he was maybe
associated with the Mafia
or something.
2314
01:37:16,498 --> 01:37:18,300
AVI LERNER: Yoram
stayed with Parretti
2315
01:37:18,366 --> 01:37:23,105
and Menahem said he is not
happy to sell his...
2316
01:37:24,372 --> 01:37:26,441
His, as you say,
soul to the devil.
2317
01:37:26,508 --> 01:37:31,446
These two cousins, who worked
together for so many years,
2318
01:37:32,080 --> 01:37:35,050
Um... Splitted.
2319
01:37:35,117 --> 01:37:39,221
They had their success
and... it ended.
2320
01:37:39,287 --> 01:37:40,855
It was a sad split for us,
2321
01:37:40,923 --> 01:37:43,425
because for us, there was
Menahem and there was Yoram,
2322
01:37:43,491 --> 01:37:48,030
but what we all loved
about the two of them
was the two of them together.
2323
01:37:48,096 --> 01:37:49,231
I stayed with Yoram,
2324
01:37:49,297 --> 01:37:52,800
and I said to Menahem,
you know,
2325
01:37:52,867 --> 01:37:54,302
"You're just unmanageable."
2326
01:37:54,369 --> 01:37:57,105
"You know, you shouldn't be
running your company."
2327
01:37:57,172 --> 01:37:59,574
And he say, "Just give me
the films that I did."
2328
01:37:59,641 --> 01:38:01,109
"I don't want the money."
2329
01:38:01,176 --> 01:38:04,112
I created a new company
called the 21st Century.
2330
01:38:04,179 --> 01:38:07,149
I'm coming with new movies,
modern movies,
2331
01:38:07,215 --> 01:38:11,686
picture that everybody
in this coming decade
will want to see.
2332
01:38:11,753 --> 01:38:14,456
He said to me
he had just split with Yoram
2333
01:38:14,522 --> 01:38:16,158
and he went... (SPITS)
2334
01:38:16,224 --> 01:38:17,625
And he spit on the floor.
2335
01:38:17,692 --> 01:38:20,495
And they started making
these competing movies,
2336
01:38:20,562 --> 01:38:22,330
like two competing
lambada movies.
2337
01:38:22,397 --> 01:38:25,167
REPORTER: The lambada dance
originated in the 1930s,
2338
01:38:25,233 --> 01:38:27,035
where it was soon banned
by the government
2339
01:38:27,102 --> 01:38:28,803
for its sexual overtones.
2340
01:38:28,870 --> 01:38:31,039
What is that?
The lambada!
2341
01:38:31,106 --> 01:38:33,875
That was their next
great idea as a team,
2342
01:38:33,942 --> 01:38:35,210
and then when they split up,
2343
01:38:35,277 --> 01:38:36,911
it was, who could make
that movie faster?
2344
01:38:36,979 --> 01:38:38,513
SHELDON RENAN:
Yoram had a script
2345
01:38:38,580 --> 01:38:41,583
and was already into
pre-production.
2346
01:38:41,649 --> 01:38:43,751
NARRATOR: A teacher,
his student
2347
01:38:43,818 --> 01:38:46,388
and the dance
that changed their lives.
2348
01:38:46,454 --> 01:38:48,456
So they were way ahead
of Menahem,
2349
01:38:48,523 --> 01:38:50,192
who had to, like,
cobble something together.
2350
01:38:50,258 --> 01:38:52,460
We were brought in to write
Menahem's version
2351
01:38:52,527 --> 01:38:54,762
as fast as we could,
2352
01:38:54,829 --> 01:38:58,266
because the plan was to get it
to theaters before Yoram's.
2353
01:38:58,333 --> 01:38:59,701
(SPITS)
2354
01:38:59,767 --> 01:39:03,571
NARRATOR: Only one dance
can turn feeling into fury.
2355
01:39:03,638 --> 01:39:04,706
This crazy, crazy thing,
2356
01:39:04,772 --> 01:39:06,808
that an Indian princess
from Brazil
2357
01:39:06,874 --> 01:39:09,644
was going to stop the
destruction of the rainforest.
2358
01:39:10,478 --> 01:39:11,479
Stop!
2359
01:39:11,546 --> 01:39:13,415
Johns a particularly
fast writer, so I said,
2360
01:39:13,481 --> 01:39:15,817
"We can write
it in 10 days."
2361
01:39:15,883 --> 01:39:18,586
They shot in four weeks,
we shot in three weeks.
2362
01:39:18,653 --> 01:39:20,088
We were working like crazy
2363
01:39:20,155 --> 01:39:22,090
and they were trying to shoot
as much in order as possible
2364
01:39:22,157 --> 01:39:24,626
so they could finish the reels
and get the sound
effects cut in
2365
01:39:24,692 --> 01:39:26,161
and get them mixed
at the same time.
2366
01:39:26,228 --> 01:39:27,529
If we shot on a Monday,
2367
01:39:27,595 --> 01:39:30,332
by Wednesday,
we were locking the scenes.
2368
01:39:30,398 --> 01:39:32,400
There was no time
to, like, redo anything
2369
01:39:32,467 --> 01:39:35,203
and there was no time
to fine-tune anything.
2370
01:39:35,270 --> 01:39:39,307
Somehow, Yoram had managed
to get the word lambada.
2371
01:39:39,374 --> 01:39:44,146
We ended up calling it The
Forbidden Dance Is Lambada!
2372
01:39:44,212 --> 01:39:45,413
And put Lambada
in huge letters
2373
01:39:45,480 --> 01:39:47,182
and put Lambada
all over the poster,
2374
01:39:47,249 --> 01:39:50,918
but we had the Lambada song
and they didn't.
2375
01:39:50,985 --> 01:39:53,188
* Not so far away.
2376
01:39:53,255 --> 01:39:55,157
We stopped shooting
on a Thursday,
2377
01:39:55,223 --> 01:39:56,658
and Monday,
we had the answer print.
2378
01:39:56,724 --> 01:39:59,594
We finished shooting
Saturday morning at 2:45 a.m.,
2379
01:39:59,661 --> 01:40:01,496
and if you ever look
at the end of it,
2380
01:40:01,563 --> 01:40:03,465
nobody has any energy left,
there's a rainstorm going on,
2381
01:40:03,531 --> 01:40:04,999
and all they're doing
is just moving,
2382
01:40:05,067 --> 01:40:06,501
just trying to get
the movie done.
2383
01:40:06,568 --> 01:40:08,870
We screened the picture
for Columbia,
2384
01:40:08,936 --> 01:40:11,173
and I said, "So, were gonna
pick a nice freeze-frame
of the two young couple"
2385
01:40:11,239 --> 01:40:13,641
"and were gonna put on
a title that says..."
2386
01:40:17,579 --> 01:40:19,347
If you've got something
that isn't so good,
2387
01:40:19,414 --> 01:40:21,749
you tack on
green ecology to it,
2388
01:40:21,816 --> 01:40:24,452
and that improves the brand.
It's called greenwashing.
2389
01:40:24,519 --> 01:40:25,653
After all this,
2390
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:28,623
the two pictures were released
at the same time.
2391
01:40:28,690 --> 01:40:31,293
Limousines from the two groups
came to the same theater.
2392
01:40:31,359 --> 01:40:32,894
I don't know that it
could happen anywhere.
2393
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:36,531
It has a surreal quality
even for Los Angeles.
2394
01:40:36,598 --> 01:40:38,066
Because the two men
had broken up
2395
01:40:38,133 --> 01:40:39,701
and because they made
two movies
2396
01:40:39,767 --> 01:40:42,304
with the same title,
basically, same theme,
2397
01:40:42,370 --> 01:40:43,971
released on the same day,
2398
01:40:44,038 --> 01:40:46,007
they split the box
office in half.
2399
01:40:46,074 --> 01:40:48,643
They were really trying
to make this lambada craze
2400
01:40:48,710 --> 01:40:50,645
rather than waiting
for the craze
2401
01:40:50,712 --> 01:40:53,281
and then having a movie
that was a response to it,
2402
01:40:53,348 --> 01:40:54,549
like the Breakin ' movies.
2403
01:40:54,616 --> 01:40:56,151
Together, they were
very successful,
2404
01:40:56,218 --> 01:40:59,154
and alone,
it didn't happen the same way.
2405
01:40:59,221 --> 01:41:00,822
It seemed like
a lot of people were happy
2406
01:41:00,888 --> 01:41:02,657
to see them go down in flames.
2407
01:41:02,724 --> 01:41:05,026
I don't think
there were many grievers,
at the end of the day.
2408
01:41:05,093 --> 01:41:06,528
Next!
2409
01:41:06,594 --> 01:41:09,931
I see Miramax now and I think
that that's probably
2410
01:41:09,997 --> 01:41:11,233
when they came to the US,
2411
01:41:11,299 --> 01:41:12,734
that's probably
what they had in mind.
2412
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:14,836
They were the forerunners
of the Weinstein's.
2413
01:41:14,902 --> 01:41:17,405
The difference is the
Weinstein's cared
about quality.
2414
01:41:17,472 --> 01:41:19,541
I think that they were
the victims of snobbery.
2415
01:41:21,042 --> 01:41:22,677
I think that
they were ostracized
2416
01:41:22,744 --> 01:41:25,413
because they didn't have
the proper manners.
2417
01:41:25,480 --> 01:41:29,417
There was always
that wheeling and dealing,
2418
01:41:29,484 --> 01:41:32,019
and that wheeling and dealing
was very much...
2419
01:41:32,086 --> 01:41:34,122
I mean, they were Israelis,
2420
01:41:34,189 --> 01:41:36,391
and they were defined
by that culture.
2421
01:41:36,458 --> 01:41:39,427
Menahem, I don't think,
was ever thought of
2422
01:41:39,494 --> 01:41:40,628
as a great filmmaker,
2423
01:41:40,695 --> 01:41:42,797
even though his ego
was as a filmmaker.
2424
01:41:42,864 --> 01:41:46,534
His spontaneity and flying,
you know, sort of blind...
2425
01:41:47,969 --> 01:41:50,138
It's what destroyed
the company,
2426
01:41:50,205 --> 01:41:51,506
because he did
not think ahead.
2427
01:41:51,573 --> 01:41:53,074
He really just thought
with his heart.
2428
01:41:53,141 --> 01:41:55,510
And you can't hate someone
who thinks with their heart.
2429
01:41:55,577 --> 01:42:01,349
YIFTACH KATZUR: When I look
at Menahem these days,
I feel sorry.
2430
01:42:01,416 --> 01:42:02,850
There's a certain
sadness about it,
2431
01:42:02,917 --> 01:42:05,720
because it was a man
who retreated in defeat.
2432
01:42:05,787 --> 01:42:08,756
I'm sure Menahem would like to
still be making movies today,
2433
01:42:08,823 --> 01:42:10,057
because he's a filmmaker.
2434
01:42:10,124 --> 01:42:14,061
It's in his blood. I mean,
you can't deny him that.
2435
01:42:14,128 --> 01:42:16,464
Menahem says,
"This is top-secret."
2436
01:42:17,665 --> 01:42:18,833
"Two words."
2437
01:42:19,734 --> 01:42:21,403
"Naked Lambada."
2438
01:42:21,469 --> 01:42:22,904
Yoram is probably
more comfortable
2439
01:42:22,970 --> 01:42:24,472
not being in that position,
2440
01:42:24,539 --> 01:42:27,141
but Menahem would still
be on the set.
2441
01:42:27,209 --> 01:42:29,311
Somebody comes up to
Menahem and says,
2442
01:42:29,377 --> 01:42:31,913
"Menahem, did you hear
that Yoram has cancer?"
2443
01:42:33,415 --> 01:42:35,283
And he goes...
2444
01:42:35,350 --> 01:42:37,752
"He should never
have left me!"
2445
01:42:37,819 --> 01:42:39,487
YIFTACH KATZUR:
Look at these guys.
2446
01:42:39,554 --> 01:42:44,259
They touch the sky, the stars,
and they are not anymore.
2447
01:42:45,393 --> 01:42:47,362
The legacy is there, but.
2448
01:42:47,429 --> 01:42:49,631
(MUSIC PLAYING)
2449
01:43:25,500 --> 01:43:29,070
And I don't think
we can say
they were failures.
2450
01:43:29,136 --> 01:43:33,675
Because for a decade plus,
they lived an incredible life.
2451
01:43:33,741 --> 01:43:36,311
If you've got all the guts
in the world
2452
01:43:36,378 --> 01:43:38,380
and you've got energy
and work hard,
2453
01:43:38,446 --> 01:43:40,248
you can make it work,
and that's what they did.
2454
01:43:40,315 --> 01:43:42,350
If you look at how many
B-movie companies
2455
01:43:42,417 --> 01:43:45,387
have been around
in the history of Hollywood,
2456
01:43:45,453 --> 01:43:47,889
almost none of them
got to where Menahem got.
2457
01:43:47,955 --> 01:43:51,058
If they had any influence on
the industry, it shook 'em up.
2458
01:43:51,125 --> 01:43:52,294
And that's not a bad thing.
2459
01:43:52,360 --> 01:43:53,895
We always said,
2460
01:43:53,961 --> 01:43:57,031
"The best school in the world
what not to do is Cannon."
2461
01:43:57,098 --> 01:43:58,666
Avi started
2462
01:43:58,733 --> 01:44:01,803
turning out
all these low-budget
Cannon-like movies
2463
01:44:01,869 --> 01:44:03,538
with a company
called Nu Image.
2464
01:44:03,605 --> 01:44:05,307
JOHN THOMPSON:
Nu Image was founded
2465
01:44:05,373 --> 01:44:07,675
by Danny Dimbort
and Avi Lerner,
2466
01:44:07,742 --> 01:44:11,513
both with great linkage
to the Cannon Group.
2467
01:44:11,579 --> 01:44:14,316
In many ways,
we use the Cannon model.
2468
01:44:14,382 --> 01:44:17,552
We learned not to
overextend our budgets,
2469
01:44:17,619 --> 01:44:22,324
not to overextend with
the acquisition of assets,
2470
01:44:22,390 --> 01:44:25,693
and how to make
action pictures.
2471
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:29,364
The Expendables series.
Olympus Has Fallen.
2472
01:44:29,431 --> 01:44:30,998
We have ninja films
2473
01:44:31,065 --> 01:44:35,403
would fit perfectly into
the Cannon brochure.
2474
01:44:35,470 --> 01:44:39,273
I think Menahem probably
is very proud of this.
2475
01:44:39,341 --> 01:44:41,909
Hollywood today
is making Cannon movies,
2476
01:44:41,976 --> 01:44:45,279
bigger Cannon movies
with millions and millions,
2477
01:44:45,347 --> 01:44:47,449
but it's making
action movies.
2478
01:44:47,515 --> 01:44:50,552
We owe it to those guys.
They put a stamp on it.
2479
01:44:50,618 --> 01:44:53,621
The only way you can now
pretty much make a movie
2480
01:44:53,688 --> 01:44:56,858
is by having some calculation
of presales in them.
2481
01:44:56,924 --> 01:44:58,192
And Cannon did that.
2482
01:44:58,259 --> 01:45:01,162
Good, bad or indifferent,
they pioneered that idea.
2483
01:45:01,228 --> 01:45:05,333
KRAFT: Cannons legacy
will be the insane stories
2484
01:45:05,400 --> 01:45:07,502
of how that many
movies got made
2485
01:45:07,569 --> 01:45:09,704
during a very specific
period of time
2486
01:45:09,771 --> 01:45:13,240
by two guys who had
no business doing any of it.
2487
01:45:13,307 --> 01:45:15,477
They were
definitely leaders
2488
01:45:15,543 --> 01:45:18,480
in the foreign market,
in foreign sales
2489
01:45:19,514 --> 01:45:21,616
and in dreams,
for sure.
2489
01:45:22,305 --> 01:45:28,581
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