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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:01:03:00

robbins, who created the choreography and directed the original broadway production to direct this film along with robert wise. >> everybody was transported by "west side story." it was wildly romantic. it was the romeo and juliet story, but told with such urgency. >> come down. >> no. >> maria. >> it had tremendous impact. >> with this rivalry, it really reflects america and deals with issues that are still relevant today. ♪ life can be bright in america ♪ ♪ if you can fight in america ♪ life is all right in america ♪ if you're all white in america ♪ >> you think you're going after the american dream, but the american dream is clearly not accepting you. that's really what's being talked about in that moment in "west side story" ♪ lots of new housing with more space ♪ ♪ lots of doors slamming in our face ♪ i'll get an apartment ♪ better get rid of your accent ♪

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:01:16:00

know i understand. i understand completely. >> audrey hepburn is just this light. her subtleties were astounding to me. >> fred darling, i'm so glad you could come. >> just the way that she spoke and the way she was always elegantly self-deprecating. >> i'm trying to save, but i'm not very good at it. >> there's not a bad audrey hepburn film. there just isn't. ♪ two drifters off to see the world ♪ >> in moon river, audrey hepburn is sitting on the fire escape and singing it in this very tender way, and you feel she's sort of this lost soul, trying to grapple about who she is in the world. ♪ moon river and me >> what was amazing about audrey

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:01:18:00

him to death. >> yes, ma'am. >> i remember seeing the manchurian candidate when it first came out, and it's a very unsettling opening. you really feel like they're brainwashing you while you're watching it. >> hey, sarge, cut it out. >> quiet, please. you just sit there quietly and cooperate. >> yes, ma'am. >> the manchurian candidate when people see it for the first time, it kind of blows their mind. it's got sci-fi elements to it in addition to being a really intriguing political thriller. >> i have here a list of the names of 207 persons who are known by the secretary of defense as being members of the communist party. >> the manchurian candidate is not a timid film. it takes on mccarthyism full tlo throttle. >> all they're saying are there any communists in the defense department? of course not. they're saying how many communists are there in the defense department?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:01:20:00

like, well, i've done vertigo. i've done north by northwest. now i'm going to do a film for me. that film is "psycho". ♪ >> for alfred hitchcock to make psycho, imagine if today steven spielberg announced that his next film would be "the bride of chucky." it was that shocking, and paramount wouldn't make it. he ended up paying for it himself basically. at the time people thought hitchcock had thrown his career away. >> sam, this is the last time. >> for what? >> for this. >> psycho starts out as a definitive film noir from the beginning of the film. woman is having an illicit affair. she steals money from her office to go meet the guy and run away. that's film noir. >> marian, what in the world -- what are you doing up here? of course i'm glad to see you. i always am. >> then all of a sudden, she meets this guy in a lonely motel, and, man, it becomes

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:01:19:00

>> angela lansbury is the evil figure manipulating behind the scenes. >> stop talking about an expert all of a sudden and get out there and say what you're supposed to say. >> as with all great villains, she embraces that role. she doesn't want you to feel sympathy for her. she wants you to get out of her way. >> you are to shoot the presidential nominee through the head. >> when john f. kennedy was assassinated, frank sinatra didn't want people to see this film. but this was not about the power of assassination in changing political events. this was about the psychological dimension of the cold war and forcing people to think about the nature of the fears they had. >> i deal in nightmares, and nightmares have to be awfully vivid. you're very glad when you wake up just as you're about to drop through the trap on the gallows. >> hitchcock has several years where he had a purple patch of like all classics, and he's

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:01:32:00

there is a comedy before "dr. strangelove" and after "dr. strangelove" because no one had seen anything that dry. the satire of it, in order to do it right, you had to do it completely straight. >> of course i like to speak to you. of course i like to say hello. >> on the surface, it was not supposed to scare anybody because it was a comedy when, in fact, it's not a comedy. the film really, really takes you to the end of the world. >> gentlemen, you can't fight in here. this is the war room. >> peter sellers was unbelievable as every character, but especially as dr. strangelove. >> peter sellers is what makes that film sing, that you can feet that stanley kubrick has somebody that he trusts to go completely off the rails and that he knows how to film it and contain it and use it for the purposes of the story. >> the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret. why didn't you tell the world,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:01:33:00

eh? >> when i first saw the film, i came out of that movie fearing nuclear war with the russians more than i ever had before. >> i got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is going on back there. >> stanley kubrick was one of the most audacious filmmakers in history. >> well, boys, i reckon this is it. nuclear combat toe to toe with the russkies. >> who else would have slim pickens in a cowboy hat getting on an atomic bomb and riding it all the way to the ground waving his hat over his head like he's at a rodeo? it delivers armageddon in song. ♪ with every single hydrogen bomb explosion photographed cut together in sync, in harmony with the music. ♪ st ok? (in dutch)

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:01:40:00

masters and keep both happy? therein lies the film. >> your grace, i'm not fitted to meddle in these matters. to me, it seems a matter for the holy see. >> thomas, does a man need a pope to tell him where he's sinned. >> this is a man knowing he's going to have to pay a terrible price, and who honors his conscience and honors his god in this case rather than surrender to the king. >> be not afraid of your office. send me to god. >> you're very short of that, sir thomas? >> he will not refuse one -- >> there's nothing quite like a giant epic. you get lost. it's three hours and change. you go to a different place in a different time, and when it works, it transports you in a way that really cinema does better than anything else. >> dr. zhivago is one of these

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:02:01:00

me. >> or his refusal to do what's expected of him. >> don't you ever talk that way to me. >> the warden in the film is played by strother martin. it's one of the great ten-line performances in movies. >> what we've got here failure to communicate. >> and it really feels like a '60s line where you know, just in one moment, kids and adults could see the generation gap and see each other on the other side. >> sorry, luke. just doing my job. you got to appreciate that. >> ah. calling it your job don't make it right, boss. >> i still think he's the last of the old movie stars when he starts the '60s, he's up against the likes of carry grant and john wayne and marlon brando and by the end of the '60s, he's up against the likes of steve mcqueen and sean connery. and for mcqueen, i think new man was sort of a target.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190812:01:53:00

>> it's whimsical and fantastic within a setting that is very real from a historical perspective. they're running from nazis but they're doing it in song. ♪ good-bye >> we want to specialize in television and film. >> television i just want to do one a year and not for many more years but films is something that i'd like to concentrate on, if i work, when i work. >> funny girl" is the musical that signifies the arrival of barbra streisand who had originalnated the role on broadway. we met her for the first time in film when she looks in the mirror and says, hello gorgeous. >> and we just immediately fall in love with her. >> fanny, you're an enchanting girl. i wish i could get to know you

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