Chuck Norris vs. Communism Page #5

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not a physical image, a figure.

But she had a certain presence.

Teach me. I can do it.

You are not Japanese.

You are not a Tanaka.

How will Santa Claus come

if we dont have a chimney?

Youll see!

Why?

To honor you.

I counted them, multiplied them,

and by 1989, I had translated

around 3,000 films.

The Man with the Deadly Lens.

The Godfather. Look, Cotton Club!

The Deer Hunter. Kung Fu 2.

Ninja, of course!

The Shining. Jaws 2.

Death Cruise, imagine that! Rough Cut.

Later on people told me

that it gave them courage,

that they associated my voice

with the idea of freedom

and the idea of hope.

And this of course

made me feel flattered and happy.

Its that amazing feeling

that you havent lived for nothing.

That youve accomplished something

during a very complex time

when it seemed almost impossible.

The 15th round.

Youre going down.

No way.

Its very hard to explain

or to understand why they didnt stop it.

Were they just reckless?

Or were they incompetent?

I dont know.

The high-ranking secret police

were the most interested in the tapes.

They didnt think it would become

a mass phenomenon.

They believed it was just a closed circle.

Ceausescu probably didnt know

the extent of the phenomenon.

He thought it was just trustworthy people

from the Central Committee

who watched capitalist films.

And they wouldnt be affected

because they had healthy views

on our society.

Nobody informed him,

because they all wanted to watch films.

Nobody was going to say,

Comrade Ceausescu...

in Bucharest there are

10,000 video players.

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!

In the end, the whole thing exploded.

And those seeds of freedom,

also planted by those video films,

grew.

During the revolution,

everybody was in the streets.

Because they all knew

there was a better life out there.

How?

From films.

Down with the party! Down with the party!

I am theater director Alexa Visarion.

In the name of the Romanian people,

and in the name of their ideals,

the government will now resign.

The people are with us!

In five minutes,

we will make an announcement

to the entire Romanian nation,

to the heroic Romanian people.

We won! We won!

A lot of people asked,

Why didnt you stop? Werent you afraid?

But giving up seemed cowardly to me,

to tell you the truth.

I just wanted to watch films.

And it was a really unexpected opportunity

to watch films.

People need stories, no?

In 1992, this activity started to die.

Mr. Zamfir had extraordinary flair.

He sold all the equipment

at exactly the right moment.

But it was the end of an era.

For me it was...

an opportunity to learn

some amazing things,

to observe a great man.

And to this day, I havent met...

a man like Mr. Zamfir.

During a dictatorship

which had controlled everything,

they lost control of something

that seemed insignificant,

the videotape.

The videotapes set the whole

communist system off balance.

Its because they were deemed trivial,

that they had such a big impact.

The tapes are here.

Look how they are preserved.

Here they are.

Look at them.

Look.

I know its tempting

to use physical violence.

I know that.

Thats her.

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