These Amazing Shadows Page #10

By chance

I was put in touch with a guy...

who worked with veterans and he invited me

to a screening of The Deer Hunter.

[Chopin Nocturne playing...]

...really discovered that the issues

that they were dealing with in that film,

how frightened those guys

were once they got over there.

They went over there

with such enthusiasm and such honest,

just sincere patriotism

and discovered themselves

just in this chaotic world.

...it really, to me,

emotionally hit home.

How that stays with you.

Once you've been through that.

...Mike?

It's... it's like something that...

A human shouldn't have to experience.

That... that loss of control.

That having...

really having to give up on life,

because you don't know

that you're gonna be alive in an hour...

in a day...

And that's...

it's just something that doesn't...

That doesn't go away.

It's a good thing that films

like Deer Hunter were made because

it's an honest representation

of the emotion of war,

and I think people need to know that.

We should not go to war easily

because the impact on people's lives

is permanent.

Film captured me,

as it does so many people,

when I was a kid.

As a child,

there were no good movies or bad movies.

There were just movies.

I grew up in a very poor family

and I think going to the movie theater,

the old walk-in theater

that cost maybe 20 cents...

It was the window to the world.

It largely took me, I think,

took me out of my own life.

So for a dime,

I could go and stay there all day...

and watch Three Pictures

and Path News and Mickey Mouse.

So my outlook was to watch film,

any film,

and I did.

I loved them all

and I still do today.

I just loved the glamour of life in film...

from the '30s and '40s,

like I wanted to have

all those glittering costumes

and I wanted Cary Grant

to take me out to dinner and...

but the closest thing I have is... is film.

This is an art.

It's not just how to make money,

it's not just what we can sell it as,

but it's something valuable

that we should save.

This is part of who we are as a culture

and we need to preserve it.

It's not... It's not a matter of,

like, "Should we?"

It's... It's "How are we going to?"

We've got a job to preserve

the aspirations and the images

and the ideals and dreams

of millions and millions of people.

I think one thing we can say

is that 500 or a thousand years from now,

when people want to know

what life was like, they will go to movies.

They will go to the moving image materials

that we created first,

because those are

the time capsules of our era.

They are now being preserved and restored

so that when we're all long gone,

as long as there's something to watch films

with, they'll be able to see these things.

The beauty of film

is that it's everybody's.

It's not just the socially elite,

it's everybody's.

Somebody says...

"Why would you save movies?"

Well, I'd ask those people back...

"Why do you save your family pictures?"

As a society,

we want to do the same thing.

We want to say who were we...

where are we now...

and what do we want people in the future

to think about us?

It's our family album.

It is absolutely imperative...

that we save the art form

of the 20th century.

I mean, how can we not?

Here's looking at you, kid.

Elaine!

resynced & edited by JohnCoffey09

Let's all go to the lobby,

let's all go to the lobby.

Let's all go to the lobby,

to get ourselves a treat.

Delicious things to eat

The popcorn can't be beat

The sparkling drinks are just dandy

The chocolate bars and the candy

So, let's all go to the lobby,

to get ourselves a treat.

Let's all go to the lobby...

to get ourselves a treat...

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