Privilege
- Year:
- 1967
- 103 min
- 107 Views
National Television. Steve Shorter.
Slate one, take one.
I would just like to say to you all...
how happy I am to be back in Britain
after my American tour.
The name of this young man
is Steven Shorten
He is being given the first ticker-tape
welcome in the history of Britain.
a president or a politician.
He is a pop singer.
the extreme violence of the stage act
that you are about to see
is that it provides the public
with a necessary release
from all the nervous tension ca used
by the state of the world...
outside.
The performance for which
Steven Shorter is now being prepared
is based the sentence
he once served in prison.
And so successful has
this violent act become
that Steven Shorter now finds himself
the most desperately loved
entertainer in the world.
Britain in the near future.
I see it all before me
My path's a restless wander
My days and nights are torment
A world of misery
The bonds of retribution
Now laid so carefully
I cannot shed my pain so easily now
My spirit's broken
No will to live
My body's all aching
My hands are tied
I need my freedom
Not your sympathy
Look, you needn't love me
Just set me free
Come on, come on
Set me free
Set me free
Is there a way out for me?
To take a chance on me
I don't pretend to virtue
I don't ask anything
But if you want to help me
My freedom's everything
Now look! My spirit's broken
No will to live
My body's all aching
My hands are tied
I need...
I need my freedom
Not your sympathy
Look, you needn't love me
Just set me free
Come on, come on
Please set me free
Set me free
I see it all before me
My darkest days of sorrow
Salvation's been denied me
No hope of liberty
I only ask one question
Please tell me if you can
What good is retribution
Without a helping hand?
There is now a coalition
government in Britain
which has recently asked
all entertainment agencies
to usefully divert
the violence of youth.
Keep them happy, off the streets
and out of politics
Very good show tonight.
The basic thing is that, when we get
this European thing settled down...
By the way, Martin, I'd like you to...
I'd like to look over some of
This should be the greatest
European tour he's done yet.
By the way, as I mentioned before,
the Far Eastern thing...
- The potential there is tremendous...
- Did somebody give him a drink?
Yes, I've offered...
Steve, do you want a drink?
OK, you can let them in now, please.
Come in, ladies and gentlemen.
There will shortly be 61 people
in this room
of whom 54 have nothing whatever
to do with Steven Shorter.
They are what you might call
"professional leaners"
All right, take it easy.
That's it. Have a drink.
Vanessa Ritchie.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture
at a press reception
given for him about 3 months ago.
I couldn't get very close because of
the usual crowd of people around him.
There was just something about him.
It was the way he stood and looked
in the midst of all those people.
I found a strange sort of emptiness
and I just wanted to paint him.
- What was your name? Hedy, wasn't it?
- It's Betty.
It's Betty!
And this, our American friend,
is John B. Marshall.
I'd like to say howdy, folks.
Cool it,John. We'll hear
from you later. Isn't he wild?
Enjoy yourself. Have a ball!
All right! Hold it, everybody!
Present time, Uncle Julie.
Right now, it's present time.
- What's all this about?
- It's your birthday, Uncle Julie. 65.
For he's a jolly good fellow!
For he's a jolly good fellow!
Look. My accountant...
Do me a favour:
count backwards.On the left is Alvin Kirsch,
Press Officer to Steven Shorten
And on the right is Jules Jordan, music publisher to Steven Shorter
and grossing 250,000 per year.
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Thank you, Steve.
You're so good to me.
You want to repeat the kiss?
A replay for the kids.
Is that too much?
We are in one of
specially built within
the last few years
to spread happiness
throughout Britain.
Not in a million, million years
Look after this, will you?
It's not business with us.
We're just one big happy family.
Look at this kid: a doll, a prince.
I love this boy. Beautiful.
We didn't frame it because we didn't
know where you'd like to put it.
Vanessa... Vanessa.
Martin Crossley,
personal manager to Steven Shorter.
Do you find Miss Ritchie's
painting exciting?
Well, I don't really know
much about art.
Ask me about birds---
I wasn't suggesting that
I was just wondering
if you had an opinion.
Freddie, what do you think?
I don't know much about art.
Ask me about bees and I'll tell you.
Adolescent display
- I was just asking for an opinion.
- About her work?
musical director to Steven Shorter
and self-confessed anarchist
It's not what it's about
anymore, is it?
If you really go seriously into it
you want to go to a place
where something's hanging
that's got a bit of something it!
Not all this nansy pansy stuff.
I mean sort of...
She knows what I mean.
When you see it and it's a bit
of everything that he's ever done.
A bit of everything like...
bathing and it should be going
to the toilet and that.
Everything's in it. A bit of a man's life!
A bit of his soul! A bit of everything!
That's what it's all about.
It's not this... Isn't it?
I'm sure you'll agree.
- Steven, can we help you?
- I was...
I'd like to dance.
We were trying to have
a conversation about painting.
You might ask Miss Ritchie, Steven.
You might ask Miss Ritchie, Steven.
Hey, little girl, I'm in a whirl
I've been a bad, bad boy
I'm on my knees
Forgive me, please
I've been a bad, bad boy
They're all watching you.
Well, they always are, aren't they?
I was watching you last night
on television.
I mean, obviously I've seen
your act before but...
this time I was looking at it
much more clearly.
Oh, yeah, I know...
I'm quite a phenomenon, aren't I?
How does it go?
"His act is nauseating.
It's sadistic."
There was one girl
they were interviewing.
She was sobbing and she was saying
she'd kill herself for you.
Yeah, I saw her.
And?
I thought she was lovely.
Excuse me, sir. Step aside please.
Alvin Kirsch is coming through.
Hey, kids. Everything all right?
I hate to break in at this time.
cool it for a couple of minutes?
Steve, I'd like to talk to you.
I'd like to tell you about
the agreement numbers.
Why don't you...?
You'd like this, too.
Steve... Even closer to you.
Steve Electrics. Guaranteed.
Refrigerator; dishwasher; TVset.
If we haven't got it
Steve will get it for you
He will because he can.
He knows you do too
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