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For what you did to ned. >> clint is maybe the best director ive ever worked with. i love the way he does it. hes quick, hes decisive. its beautiful. >> there were director in this period, like michael mann, who are the rebels within the studio system, the guys who are just doing it differently. >> what am i doing? im talking to an empty tell n telephone. >> i dont understand. >> because theres a dead man on the end of this one. >> he gives us an unity to see robert de niro and al pacino doing a...

Killers and sick of violence. they dont want to do it anymore. they get dragged back into it. >> i killed women and children. killed just about everything that walks or crawled. im here to kill you little bill. what you did to ned. >> clint is maybe the best director i have ever worked with. i love the way he does it. hes quick. decisive. beautiful. there are directors in this period who are the rebels. within the studio system. the guys are just doing it differently. >> what am i doing? talking...

The differences in others can change. ♪ >> the studio system was collapsing at the end of the 1950s. almost everybody was a free agent to go sort of craft their own deal. so, directors had the freedom to put their stamp on movies. this was a significant change in how hollywood did business. >> mid-50s to early 60s hitchcock is when he churned out most of his pieces. he started to make films in color and have american cast and have bigger splashier kind of films. i could see "vertigo" over and ...

Women and african-americans are being pushed out as shapers bill makers. and a studio system thats organized around stars and women become the objects of that commodification. >> when you have someone like marlene dietrich come from germany, she has to represent the exotic, the other, the unknown. ♪ her great appeal is her fabulous androgyny. everybody seems to like that about her. >> shes playing a cabaret singer dressed in a top hat and tails which had become an iconic outfit she wore in per...

And loves that came out of this year is remarkable. ♪ >> these days, everything is call an epic. "gone with the wind" was an epic because it shows you the possibility of film. it is a spectacle. here is the civil war and all of its horror and its size. >> this huge pullback scene of wounded southern veterans thats so emblematic. its very impressive from a technical level. but the stories around the film are, to me, more interesting than the film itself. david selznick, one of the most importan...

Women and african-americans are being pushed out as shapers bill makers. and a studio system thats organized around stars and women become the objects of that comodification. >> when you have someone like marlena dietrich come from germany, she has to represent the exotic, the other, the unknown. ♪ her great appeal is her fabulous androgeny. everybody seems to like that about her. >> shes playing a cabaret singer dressed in a top hat and tails which had become an iconic outfit she wore in perf...

♪ >> these days, everything is call an epic. "gone with the wind" was an epic because it shows you the possibility of film. it is a spectacle. here is the civil war and all of its horror and its size. >> this huge pullback scene of wounded southern veterans thats so emblematic. its very impressive from a technical level. but the stories around the film are, to me, more interesting than the film itself. david selznick, one of the most important players in hollywood is an independent-minded guy....

>> she signed her first studio contract 1946 and made a seven-year deal. >> it was here the studios of 20th century fox at the young mr. norma jean baker was elevated to the number one position in hollywood. >> life under the studios tom would also mean loss of autonomy. >> in the studio system in that era looked at as he was a machine and they wanted you on the set on time and to be personal. if you are like marilyn and had insomnia you would become immune to it and have to take more and then c...

>> she signed her first studio contract 1946 and made a seven-year deal. >> it was here the studios of 20th century fox at the young mr. norma jean baker was elevated to the number one position in hollywood. >> life under the studios tom would also mean loss of autonomy. >> in the studio system in that era looked at as he was a machine and they wanted you on the set on time and to be personal. if you are like marilyn and had insomnia you would become immune to it and have to take more and then c...

Became the most popular movie ever because of television. in the 1950s, then people started seeing "the wizard of oz" on television and seeing it regularly. and that changed it. much like a movie like "shawshenk redemption". that is a movie that didnt do well at the time but born out of the repeated viewings on television. i really think its unfair to the other years. i think 1940 and 1941 were better years than 1939. but its a silly distinction. gone with the wind was in production for 30 years...