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I think you ask yourself,

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"What to do?

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with tonight's show?"

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Well, I will tell you.

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None.

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[country music]

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♪ ♪

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- ♪ Baby girl ♪

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♪ Ask me to pay attention to you ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ Baby girl ♪

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♪ Ask me to pay attention to you ♪

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- My name is Hal Needham.

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You will not recognize my face.

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But I'm sure you've seen a lot of my work

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For 20 years, I've been a Hollywood stuntman  ♪ ♪

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- ♪ This is not something ♪

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- Not too bad, huh?

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When a stuntman does it
type of driving,

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he is better acting together,

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because there is
there is no room for errors

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♪ ♪

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But recently, I graduated.

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I direct a movie.

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And the film stars
a good friend of mine,

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my old roommate,

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good boys who might

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You people will
admit...

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[finger button] like that.

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♪ ♪

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- ♪ Baby girl ♪

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♪ Ask me to watch you ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ Yes ♪

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[tire squealing]

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- Women and men,
Burt Reynolds.

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[dramatic music]

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- Burt Reynolds

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The most exciting star
on today's screen

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♪ ♪

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- Burt Reynolds
is Gator McKlusky.

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Does he fight for law

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or chasing women.

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[banjo music]

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[dramatic stinging music]

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- Ah!

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- Burt Reynolds,
quarterback

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who will overcome anything

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- You see Charlie Bronson.
[laughter]

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[siren]

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- Now you are Burt Reynolds'
acrobatics.

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Where does Burt like?
to draw the line

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as far as doing your own stunts
worry?

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- Okay, actually, uh,

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I've never seen Burt
draw the line

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He will do anything
you want to finish

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Insurance companies
sometimes draw lines,

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And, um, but really and really,
he doesn't draw the line

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I've seen it do some things
that, uh,

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just scary flat - I mean,
There is no other way to say it.

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[dramatic music]

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[quiet music]

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- What is the job
a stuntman

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- [laughs]
Stunt guy objects

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is to come and see as many as
because you can like the actor.

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They will dress like you and him
fix your hair, whatever,

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and whatever they want to do,
does it fall horse,

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fall high, or who knows,
a fight,

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Can do it many times

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like you can do it
without getting hurt

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- First,
they will come out,

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and they will shoot four or
five days with all stuntmen.

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There are no actors

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That wide shot
for stunt people.

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[motor roaring]

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And then they bring
the actors out,

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and they will do -
tight shots,

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and medium shot.

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- if you are the biggest
actor in the world,

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You want to have the best
stuntman in the world

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next to you--
why not?

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[bouncing bullet]

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[country music]

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- Damn, Pops, didn't tell me
they will shoot back!

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♪ ♪

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[goose honks the horn]

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- Burt believes in Hal
and knows it's Hal

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will do stunts

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it really will make it
look good.

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♪ ♪

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[tire squealing]

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♪ ♪

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- Hall and Burt are guys
who appears

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at a time in the 70s
when something could happen

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Burt is an actor with all

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equipment
that is owned by an actor.

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And Hal Needham
are people who act.

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- ready
[crash cymbals]

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- I have seen many actors

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have a good relationship
with stuntmen,

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but never like
Hal and Burt do it.

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- That's the closest
relationship I've seen

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in image business

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- But you don't want to get it
too close to an actor,

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I don't believe

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And - just - you know,

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You only - it won't
work really well

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- Okay, Hal,
how did you meet Burt,

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like on Smokey and, uh,
and bears?

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- "Smokey and the Bandit."
- and bandits

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Is that something?
it is found as property

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and then search for you

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to complete the film,
or do you come first

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- No, I - I wrote
"Smokey and Bandit."

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- Oh.
I understand
Do you direct this film?

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- Yeah.
- This is kind of, uh,

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unusual case,
not so, Hal?

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I mean, I've heard of actors
reverse directors

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I have heard of writers
reverse directors,

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but never a stuntman.

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[dramatic music]

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- I'm doing a film with Burt

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in Georgia called "Gator."

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That thread is placed
"Smokey" together.

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- We spend a lot of time
in swamp, you know,

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and I - I remember,
everyone said,

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"Are you not afraid?
in the swamp?"

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Only, you know, Needham
from down there

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We all
come from other places

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He is like at home.

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We have a lot of Coors

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beer  we dropped it
from Los Angeles,

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because at that time,
at the end of the working day,

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everyone has beer

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Needham and I
talk about how

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Coors continues to disappear
from our mini bar.

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So we finally realized that our housemaids were

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help themselves
for our beer

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So we ask them, I say,
"This is Coors beer, man.

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You know?
What are you doing?"

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He said, "Okay, I understand
like $ 20 a six pack

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for this beer here
Because you can't get it."

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Hal and I looked at each other,
and we said, "Okay,

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" maybe we should--
Maybe we should make a movie

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"about getting Coors beer,
you know,

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on the East Coast."

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- At that time,
I really have some doubts

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whether this is
even true or not

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In other words,
I don't know how you are

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prohibit beer companies
from sending beer

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from one geographical location
to another.

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- Said, "Hey, let's go
do truck films

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" with Coors and fast cars,

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and let's see what
we can come up with. "

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And at that time, truck
very romantic industry

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♪ ♪

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Modern truck driver,
last American cowboy

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♪ ♪

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- He said that
wrote a scenario

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All people say,
"Dream pipe is good, p."

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- Between shots, he will do it
in his room,

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and he scribbles,
and I say,

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"What is you do? "
He said," I'm writing a story! "

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You know, and he told me
a little about that,

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and I think, "Eh, okay,
anything," you know

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- He handed me this mash,
you know,

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pad notes, and sights,
and characters,

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and all this.

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- Actually, I think my mother

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type
script for "Smokey and the Bandit."

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♪ ♪

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- We play with different names
for films

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Maybe called "Bandit"

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at one point, or "Bandit."

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I just want to throw something
on the

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screen  that person can
be entertained with,

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and I think laughter is contagious,

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and I think people enjoy action.

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Not violence, action.

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♪ ♪

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- We will sell it to a company called AIP,

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made small, exploitative
film genre

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That is the first incarnation.

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We want to do our own things.

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♪ ♪

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- Search!

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[shot]

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[dramatic music]

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- Hal Needham has made a
live, you know, sort of

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falls on his head for
20 or 30 years

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And, you know, he's a good man -
not a Rhodes scholar.

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[trumpet music]

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- Things say to me,
"I'm too old

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to bury my head
on the ground again."

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Behind his mind,
he always wants it  either star or director.

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- Every stuntman,
every second unit,

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every cameraman, everything--
You know old jokes,

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everyone wants to be a director

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- He has the manuscript
that he has written,

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and he took it
to Universal Studios,

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and say,
"I want to direct this film."

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- The person who runs the studio,
he - you know, he--

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"He's a stuntman.
He can't direct a movie.

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What are they talking about?"
You know?

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[sweeping orchestral music]

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Unless you have
that movie star,

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bankable film star,
which says,

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"I want to be a Bandit,"

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You won't get it made.

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♪ ♪

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- They say,
"This is a good script.

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Do you think you can get
roommates to star in this?"  - Hiya
How are you?

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Big star.
Big stars.
I.

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♪ ♪

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[throws a tire]
[laughs]

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- Burt and I at
a show together, and, uh,

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I came one night, and I said,
"You know, Burt,"

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I say, "I have to find me
igloo, teepee,

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" or something to live in,

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Because I just got thrown out
home. "

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And he said," Hell, come on
more - stay in my place

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for a few days,
I don't care. "

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- My father moved
Burt Reynolds house.

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He will stay there
for a week or two,

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and I think he is there
for like 11 years.

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I mean, if you can--
if you can imagine

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compile bachelor pad
at that time - that--

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that... I think, of all
the houses that are owned by Burt,

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I - I think I like it
it's the best

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- First thing, I think
those people

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will see when they go
in the bedroom

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is, uh, the mirror
on the roof.

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- They are both single,
and, uh,

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have a lot of girlfriends, and

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fun.

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- Large bathroom,

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and it also has mirrors,
and tiles.

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And by chance I - tile is mine
The second favorite thing in life.

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It only gives me joy, tile.

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If I can spend it
the rest of my life

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in a room, it will happen
tiles and mirrors.

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The dining room is, uh, early Indian.

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I mean, kind of Indian design.

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Uh, I think so
is rather classy.

257
00:11:19,246 --> 00:11:23,248
The third favorite in my life
are Indians

258
00:11:23,250 --> 00:11:26,618
If I can find Indians with a mirror
who do tile work,

259
00:11:26,620 --> 00:11:31,690
I might be happy
for the rest of my life.

260
00:11:31,692 --> 00:11:35,160
- [laughs]

261
00:11:35,162 --> 00:11:37,462
- I took home the manuscript
and gave it to Burt.

262
00:11:37,464 --> 00:11:39,330
Burt looked at him and he said,
"Things," he said,

263
00:11:39,332 --> 00:11:41,332
"That's the worst dialogue
I've read in my life."

264
00:11:41,334 --> 00:11:44,269
But he said, uh, overall
The concept was pretty good.

265
00:11:44,271 --> 00:11:46,838
He said, "If you can do it
my name is strength,

266
00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,574
" and take the money
someone who is pretty stupid

267
00:11:49,576 --> 00:11:51,776
to let you direct it, "said,
" You can direct it. " [optimistic music]

268
00:11:51,778 --> 00:11:53,511
- And Burt said," You know,
There is only one person in America

269
00:11:53,513 --> 00:11:55,313
who can direct this film,
That's Hal Needham. "

270
00:11:55,315 --> 00:11:57,549
- ♪ Shake, shake ♪

271
00:11:57,551 --> 00:11:59,551
all: we want Burt

272
00:11:59,553 --> 00:12:00,785
- Does Burt say, you know,

273
00:12:00,787 --> 00:12:02,153


274
00:12:02,155 --> 00:12:04,789
Adolf Hitler,
I will agree

275
00:12:04,791 --> 00:12:07,292
Burt is a big movie star.

276
00:12:07,294 --> 00:12:09,961
all: We want Burt:
- Are you here to see Burt?

277
00:12:09,963 --> 00:12:12,297
- Who else?
Who else?

278
00:12:12,299 --> 00:12:15,166
- What happened there?
so much good

279
00:12:15,168 --> 00:12:19,003
in Burt Reynolds
that he makes people happy

280
00:12:19,005 --> 00:12:21,973
And that is a natural gift
he has

281
00:12:21,975 --> 00:12:22,974
- Burt Reynolds

282
00:12:22,976 --> 00:12:26,244
Difficult.
Section.
Superstar

283
00:12:26,246 --> 00:12:28,213
- Is that a lot of pressure,
Burt?

284
00:12:28,215 --> 00:12:32,150
Like this
from a sex symbol?

285
00:12:32,152 --> 00:12:35,787
- He hits
chords like that with the American public.

286
00:12:35,789 --> 00:12:37,789
- We are very happy -
- I work alone

287
00:12:37,791 --> 00:12:39,691
[laughter]

288
00:12:39,693 --> 00:12:43,228
- Humor, and excitement,
and honesty.

289
00:12:43,230 --> 00:12:45,864
That's real, so he becomes

290
00:12:45,866 --> 00:12:48,533
number one star
In the world.

291
00:12:48,535 --> 00:12:51,402
- ♪ Beat your obstacles,
shake your groove ♪

292
00:12:51,404 --> 00:12:53,204
♪ Yes, yes, ♪

293
00:12:53,206 --> 00:12:55,673
♪ Show us how we do it now ♪

294
00:12:55,675 --> 00:12:58,543
♪ Shake your groove,
shake your groove ♪

295
00:12:58,545 --> 00:13:00,445
♪ Yes, yes ♪

296
00:13:00,447 --> 00:13:02,847
♪ Show us how we do it now ♪

297
00:13:02,849 --> 00:13:04,783
- Put one on the cheek.
- Hah?

298
00:13:04,785 --> 00:13:07,786
[crowd cheering]

299
00:13:07,788 --> 00:13:12,090
♪ ♪

300
00:13:12,092 --> 00:13:15,226
I just think I'm the best
Burt Reynolds is there.

301
00:13:15,228 --> 00:13:18,163
[laughter]

302
00:13:20,767 --> 00:13:23,701
[quiet music]

303
00:13:23,703 --> 00:13:31,876
♪ ♪

304
00:13:33,313 --> 00:13:35,213
- In short,
Can you tell me

305
00:13:35,215 --> 00:13:37,949
What is the story "Smokey and
Bandit" are?

306
00:13:37,951 --> 00:13:40,919
- [laughs]
I can't tell you

307
00:13:40,921 --> 00:13:43,254
what story
"Smokey and Bandit"

308
00:13:43,256 --> 00:13:46,057
if you put a gun into my head

309
00:13:46,059 --> 00:13:48,126
- Thunder, thunder ♪

310
00:13:48,128 --> 00:13:50,261
♪ Over Thunder Road ♪

311
00:13:50,263 --> 00:13:51,963
♪ Thunder is the engine ♪

312
00:13:51,965 --> 00:13:54,365
♪ And White Lightning
is the burden ♪

313
00:13:54,367 --> 00:13:56,434
♪ Moonshine, moonshine ♪

314
00:13:56,436 --> 00:13:58,803
♪ To extinguish
devil thirst ♪

315
00:13:58,805 --> 00:14:01,773
♪ Law, they never get it ♪

316
00:14:01,775 --> 00:14:05,844
♪ Because of the devil
for her first ♪

317
00:14:05,846 --> 00:14:07,579
♪ ♪

318
00:14:07,581 --> 00:14:10,548
- We have done two Burt Reynolds
films in United Artists:

319
00:14:10,550 --> 00:14:12,283
image called "Gator," and a
image called

320
00:14:12,285 --> 00:14:14,619
"White Lightning,"
and, you know, that,

321
00:14:14,621 --> 00:14:16,788
You know, the same movie above
and again.

322
00:14:16,790 --> 00:14:18,289
He is a good boy,

323
00:14:18,291 --> 00:14:20,892
a little on the other side
of the line

324
00:14:20,894 --> 00:14:22,093
about law and order

325
00:14:22,095 --> 00:14:25,196
- Gator?
Gator McKlusky?

326
00:14:25,198 --> 00:14:26,631
- Uh...
- Shirley.

327
00:14:26,633 --> 00:14:29,567
- Shirley?
How are you dear?
- Well, hi, there.

328
00:14:29,569 --> 00:14:31,769
- I don't want to play
either ol 'boys

329
00:14:31,771 --> 00:14:33,238
for the rest of my life.

330
00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,740
At the same time, I
offer a film

331
00:14:35,742 --> 00:14:38,877
who has "got the tuxedo out"

332
00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:40,778
written on it.

333
00:14:40,780 --> 00:14:44,282
That is the part that changes careers.

334
00:14:44,284 --> 00:14:46,751
I say "No," and nobody can
believe me I said "no".

335
00:14:46,753 --> 00:14:50,955
My agent can't believe it,
and, uh...

336
00:14:50,957 --> 00:14:53,658
That is not a matter of money.

337
00:14:53,660 --> 00:14:55,927
They ask -
they offer me

338
00:14:55,929 --> 00:14:58,563
more money than Hal,

339
00:14:58,565 --> 00:15:01,833
but I promise to Hal

340
00:15:01,835 --> 00:15:03,835
that I will do this film

341
00:15:03,837 --> 00:15:07,005
- I will give praise
to my roommate

342
00:15:09,676 --> 00:15:12,377
everything on the phone
so I can have

343
00:15:12,379 --> 00:15:13,745
a directing shot.

344
00:15:13,747 --> 00:15:16,614
- Dear,
I can't determine

345
00:15:19,753 --> 00:15:24,589
Universal is reluctant to agree
to create images

346
00:15:24,591 --> 00:15:25,957
[funky music]

347
00:15:25,959 --> 00:15:27,358
- If you will do it
bootlegging movie,

348
00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:28,559
You need a blocker.

349
00:15:28,561 --> 00:15:30,328
You have a truck driver
and you have -

350
00:15:30,330 --> 00:15:31,829
a man car blocker,
you have two

351
00:15:31,831 --> 00:15:34,332
- I don't remember whether
Burt, or Hal,

352
00:15:34,334 --> 00:15:36,968
or both suggest
Jerry Reed.

353
00:15:38,672 --> 00:15:39,938
[grumble]

354
00:15:39,940 --> 00:15:42,073
♪ ♪

355
00:15:42,075 --> 00:15:45,343
[shouts]

356
00:15:47,847 --> 00:15:50,014
- You know, and then
You must have a girl.

357
00:15:50,016 --> 00:15:51,616
- Hi.

358
00:15:51,618 --> 00:15:54,519
- Who are you?

359
00:15:59,492 --> 00:16:02,527
- I want Sally Field,
and they have lots, uh--

360
00:16:02,529 --> 00:16:04,796
have many people
who fight it

361
00:16:04,798 --> 00:16:07,131
They keep saying,
"He's not sexy."

362
00:16:12,772 --> 00:16:14,639
♪ ♪

363
00:16:14,641 --> 00:16:17,642
- And then we must have
someone chasing them

364
00:16:17,644 --> 00:16:20,044
- My hope is,
with sheriff,

365
00:16:20,046 --> 00:16:24,716
"Let's put someone in this case
movies that are not included."

366
00:16:24,718 --> 00:16:27,785
- And I mean the same as
is not possible.

367
00:16:27,787 --> 00:16:30,788
First of all, I get a pencil
mustache for the sheriff.

368
00:16:30,790 --> 00:16:34,525
A Southern Sheriff
with a pencil mustache?

369
00:16:34,527 --> 00:16:38,463
- When Things go to do
"Smokey and Bandit,"

370
00:16:38,465 --> 00:16:41,199
Hilton Green at Universal says
Needham, he said,

371
00:16:41,201 --> 00:16:42,533
"I hope so
your roller skates,

372
00:16:42,535 --> 00:16:45,436
Because you can't do it."

373
00:16:45,438 --> 00:16:49,140
They do not believe in Hal
as director

374
00:16:49,142 --> 00:16:51,376
- All politics is created

375
00:16:51,378 --> 00:16:53,611
a large amount of pressure
on Hal.

376
00:16:53,613 --> 00:16:55,613
He puts his reputation
on the phone

377
00:16:55,615 --> 00:16:59,450
to get "Smokey and the Bandit"
finished

378
00:16:59,452 --> 00:17:01,519
- My father, he doesn't
Play the game.

379
00:17:01,521 --> 00:17:03,454
He is not Hollywood.

380
00:17:03,456 --> 00:17:05,656
He is who he is.

381
00:17:05,658 --> 00:17:07,392
He said, "If I don't do it
'Smokey and the Bandit,'

382
00:17:07,394 --> 00:17:08,860
" Maybe I'll take a tin

383
00:17:08,862 --> 00:17:10,795
on the roadside
to live. "

384
00:17:10,797 --> 00:17:13,931
- We have some childhood photos of
from you,

385
00:17:13,933 --> 00:17:15,666
and I think maybe, Arnold,

386
00:17:15,668 --> 00:17:17,902
see if you can recognize them

387
00:17:17,904 --> 00:17:19,904
all: aww !  - I am a farmer's child = ♪ ♪

388
00:17:19,906 --> 00:17:21,406
- Is there time at all
for - for hobbies,

389
00:17:21,408 --> 00:17:23,374


390
00:17:23,376 --> 00:17:26,511


391
00:17:26,513 --> 00:17:29,480


392
00:17:29,482 --> 00:17:32,683


393
00:17:32,685 --> 00:17:34,619


394
00:17:34,621 --> 00:17:36,954


395
00:17:36,956 --> 00:17:38,689
or anything that will -
- Hobbies?

396
00:17:38,691 --> 00:17:41,325
- Type gives you pleasure
or gives you pleasure

397
00:17:41,327 --> 00:17:42,960
- Hobbies?

398
00:17:42,962 --> 00:17:46,798
I can tell you have never seen
a farmer

399
00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,668


400
00:17:50,670 --> 00:17:53,671
Hey, listen: just
the food on the table,

401
00:17:53,673 --> 00:17:56,507
stay warm in winter,

402
00:17:56,509 --> 00:18:00,111
is a big achievement.

403
00:18:00,113 --> 00:18:03,514
My childhood, man,
You must know,

404
00:18:03,516 --> 00:18:06,717
being a small farmer child
the bottom of the totem pole

405
00:18:06,719 --> 00:18:09,287
There is nothing
lower than that

406
00:18:09,289 --> 00:18:12,256
- I think he told me
they have dirt for the floor,

407
00:18:12,258 --> 00:18:14,425
with very limited education.

408
00:18:14,427 --> 00:18:16,661
He told me one of them
friends once said,

409
00:18:16,663 --> 00:18:20,465
"I've never seen anyone else do it
a lot with so few tools."

410
00:18:20,467 --> 00:18:22,366
[aircraft engine humming]

411
00:18:22,368 --> 00:18:26,971
- I was in the 82nd Airborne,
Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

412
00:18:26,973 --> 00:18:29,807
But after about 2 1/2 years, I can see

413
00:18:29,809 --> 00:18:31,809
that I don't get praise

414
00:18:31,811 --> 00:18:35,079
for my creativity
or being a great soldier,

415
00:18:35,081 --> 00:18:36,714
and I am a good soldier.

416
00:18:36,716 --> 00:18:39,550
I said, "It must be so
better way

417
00:18:39,552 --> 00:18:41,786
I go west
until my hat floats."

418
00:18:41,788 --> 00:18:45,456
And the next morning, I was at my house
the car headed to California

419
00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:47,391
I have never worked in a movie.

420
00:18:47,393 --> 00:18:49,660
But I have all that experience.

421
00:18:49,662 --> 00:18:53,664
I decided I would be like that
a stuntman

422
00:18:53,666 --> 00:18:57,502
When I get my first chance,
I'm ready

423
00:18:57,504 --> 00:19:00,771
I do something where I -
I am on an airplane,

424
00:19:00,773 --> 00:19:02,340
a man riding together
riding a horse,

425
00:19:02,342 --> 00:19:03,441
and I dive
out of the plane -

426
00:19:03,443 --> 00:19:05,176
or jump out of an airplane -

427
00:19:05,178 --> 00:19:07,778
and drop it from the horse - it's called "Bulldog."

428
00:19:07,780 --> 00:19:15,720
♪ ♪

429
00:19:17,190 --> 00:19:19,690
[shot]

430
00:19:19,692 --> 00:19:22,827
They pay me a lot of money.

431
00:19:22,829 --> 00:19:25,029
People say I can't do it
Because I'm too small,

432
00:19:25,031 --> 00:19:27,965
too stupid.

433
00:19:27,967 --> 00:19:30,201
I always have to prove the opposite.

434
00:19:30,203 --> 00:19:31,903
- Hal Needham.
[applause]

435
00:19:34,574 --> 00:19:37,275
- We have 30 days
to make a good film

436
00:19:37,277 --> 00:19:40,378
[country music]

437
00:19:40,380 --> 00:19:43,080
- The film commission has been very aggressive  in terms of attracting not only us,

438
00:19:43,082 --> 00:19:44,282
but many
film companies here

439
00:19:44,284 --> 00:19:45,316
It's - this is very helpful  They have closed the highway for us,
they have, um--

440
00:19:45,318 --> 00:19:46,918
rip off old parts
bridges for us

441
00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,753


442
00:19:48,755 --> 00:19:51,455


443
00:19:51,457 --> 00:19:53,524
that we will go
throw the car across

444
00:19:53,526 --> 00:19:55,026
This is just great.

445
00:19:55,028 --> 00:19:56,260
- Mark.
- Hold all the noise.

446
00:19:56,262 --> 00:20:00,398
All talk, everything.
Shut up.

447
00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,000
- All images shot
16, 17 miles

448
00:20:03,002 --> 00:20:05,036
far from the center
from downtown Atlanta

449
00:20:05,038 --> 00:20:07,605
In the film business,
you put a sign

450
00:20:07,607 --> 00:20:09,473
which says
"Entering Mississippi,"

451
00:20:09,475 --> 00:20:12,543
and you enter Mississippi.

452
00:20:12,545 --> 00:20:16,180
But with respect and affection
for Hal,

453
00:20:16,182 --> 00:20:19,650
this is new to him, really,
like me.

454
00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:21,819
When we go to work
the first morning,

455
00:20:21,821 --> 00:20:23,487
You know, I wake up,
sort of standing around,

456
00:20:23,489 --> 00:20:25,156
waiting for things to happen.

457
00:20:25,158 --> 00:20:27,525
You know, the production
the manager asks me

458
00:20:27,527 --> 00:20:30,328
what should we do,
and I don't have -

459
00:20:30,330 --> 00:20:31,662
You know, a clue.

460
00:20:31,664 --> 00:20:33,064
- And I remember,
the first day,

461
00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:35,866
Hal and I stopped
to the location

462
00:20:35,868 --> 00:20:38,569
Sitting under a tree
in the director's chair,

463
00:20:38,571 --> 00:20:42,106
with stretching the Fleetwood

464
00:20:42,108 --> 00:20:43,874
limousine gold next to it

465
00:20:43,876 --> 00:20:45,910
is Jackie Gleason

466
00:20:45,912 --> 00:20:47,878
And Jackie is sitting
In the chair of this director,

467
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,481
wearing black Gucci
recreational suit

468
00:20:50,483 --> 00:20:52,316
with red carnations.

469
00:20:52,318 --> 00:20:53,451
And there is no one there.

470
00:20:53,453 --> 00:20:55,419
Is the first person on the set.

471
00:20:55,421 --> 00:20:56,787
There are no other people!

472
00:20:56,789 --> 00:20:58,489
- Does directing anything at all

473
00:20:58,491 --> 00:21:00,558
as you think
it will happen?

474
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,226
- Well, I'm not afraid to enter

475
00:21:02,228 --> 00:21:04,362
I mean, we don't do it
"Go with the wind"

476
00:21:04,364 --> 00:21:06,397
or "Fiddler on the Roof".

477
00:21:06,399 --> 00:21:08,065
This is a comedy action.

478
00:21:08,067 --> 00:21:11,902
Light only for colors,
and let's shoot.

479
00:21:11,904 --> 00:21:14,005
Speed, speed, speed.

480
00:21:14,007 --> 00:21:18,576
- In a big movie, you can do it
three pages a day

481
00:21:18,578 --> 00:21:22,213
It will shoot
16 pages a day

482
00:21:22,215 --> 00:21:25,182
We do crazy things,

483
00:21:25,184 --> 00:21:29,086
right on the edge
madness

484
00:21:29,088 --> 00:21:31,589
- Hal Needham directs Burt,
uh,

485
00:21:31,591 --> 00:21:34,825
This is a new process,
You know, for them.

486
00:21:34,827 --> 00:21:38,162
- I think he just wants
Burt to Burt.

487
00:21:38,164 --> 00:21:40,998
- I - I have no doubt
about going there

488
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,934
and say "Action".

489
00:21:51,678 --> 00:21:54,645
- Yeah.

490
00:21:59,185 --> 00:22:00,217
- Oh my God.

491
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,660
- You walk on a set, and
there is a Panavision camera,

492
00:22:09,662 --> 00:22:12,596
and all lights,
and there is Burt Reynolds.

493
00:22:12,598 --> 00:22:14,398
- Old legend never dies,

494
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,067
they only lose weight

495
00:22:16,069 --> 00:22:19,870
- A legend and out-of-work
bum looks very similar, Dad.

496
00:22:19,872 --> 00:22:21,238
You go, "Oh, my God,
how do I--

497
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,375
how did I get here?"

498
00:22:26,145 --> 00:22:29,013
- [laughs]

499
00:22:29,015 --> 00:22:31,882
Now, get to Texarkana
and come back,

500
00:22:31,884 --> 00:22:34,285
Within 28 hours, that doesn't matter.

501
00:22:34,287 --> 00:22:36,887
- Never been done
before - [horn honking].

502
00:22:36,889 --> 00:22:38,756
- Be careful with your language,
small women.

503
00:22:38,758 --> 00:22:41,192
The problem is that Coors beer,

504
00:22:41,194 --> 00:22:44,495
You take eastern Texas,
and that's, uh,

505
00:22:44,497 --> 00:22:46,797
it's bootlegging

506
00:22:46,799 --> 00:22:48,466
There are many things
about South

507
00:22:48,468 --> 00:22:50,968
that I feel ashamed,

508
00:22:50,970 --> 00:22:53,371
But there are also some things
about South

509
00:22:53,373 --> 00:22:56,741
it's amazing

510
00:22:56,743 --> 00:22:59,710
I hope to make

511
00:22:59,712 --> 00:23:01,879
something from that

512
00:23:01,881 --> 00:23:05,916
in a way that no one sees.

513
00:23:07,787 --> 00:23:10,287
Nobody thinks about Florida
as South,

514
00:23:10,289 --> 00:23:13,724
but if we have enough time
in this event,

515
00:23:13,726 --> 00:23:15,760
I can take you to
where you will realize

516
00:23:15,762 --> 00:23:19,897
that this is South.

517
00:23:21,801 --> 00:23:24,602
I want to make it very bad
When I grow up here.

518
00:23:24,604 --> 00:23:28,406
I mean, I really want it
to make it worse

519
00:23:29,876 --> 00:23:32,243
But good, good memories.

520
00:23:32,245 --> 00:23:34,712
Very beautiful memories

521
00:23:34,714 --> 00:23:37,381
My father is a cowboy.

522
00:23:37,383 --> 00:23:39,350
He's tough, and rude,

523
00:23:39,352 --> 00:23:41,719
and the most honest person

524
00:23:41,721 --> 00:23:44,221
I've known in my life.

525
00:23:44,223 --> 00:23:46,557
- We have our little
offs and ounces,

526
00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:48,559
but he is--
normal child

527
00:23:48,561 --> 00:23:51,929
He experiences many problems
like other people

528
00:23:51,931 --> 00:23:54,765
- He put me in jail one night
to fight

529
00:23:54,767 --> 00:23:56,901
I remember he entered,
and he said, uh,

530
00:23:56,903 --> 00:23:59,403
"You kids, uh,
your father is here

531
00:23:59,405 --> 00:24:00,871
" You can go home now.

532
00:24:00,873 --> 00:24:02,306
Your father is here,
You can go home now, "

533
00:24:02,308 --> 00:24:03,474
and he looks at me, he says,

534
00:24:03,476 --> 00:24:05,676
" Your father isn't here. "

535
00:24:05,678 --> 00:24:09,213
So I stayed there overnight.

536
00:24:09,215 --> 00:24:11,515
There is a saying
in South, it's

537
00:24:11,517 --> 00:24:12,950
"No male is male

538
00:24:12,952 --> 00:24:17,121
to his father
Tell him. "

539
00:24:17,123 --> 00:24:20,291
- I think his father hopes
Many of him.

540
00:24:20,293 --> 00:24:23,294
He's kind of gold
boys in soccer,

541
00:24:23,296 --> 00:24:25,396
and it seems like he will do it
has a big

542
00:24:25,398 --> 00:24:27,731
career pro and career careers.

543
00:24:30,002 --> 00:24:33,370
- He tore in his senior
years in high school,

544
00:24:33,372 --> 00:24:37,241
tear cartilage from both sides
the knees.

545
00:24:37,243 --> 00:24:39,176
- Well, he's a little lost.

546
00:24:39,178 --> 00:24:42,713
He - all he ever did
was playing football

547
00:24:42,715 --> 00:24:46,283
I am ready to be cast
and immediately play,

548
00:24:46,285 --> 00:24:48,052
"Outward Bound."

549
00:24:48,054 --> 00:24:52,857
Burt sits in the front row
in my English literary class,

550
00:24:52,859 --> 00:24:56,760
and he looks like that person
that I want

551
00:24:56,762 --> 00:24:59,096
for the role of the alcoholic.

552
00:24:59,098 --> 00:25:01,499
- And I said,
"You came out of your bird."

553
00:25:01,501 --> 00:25:03,300
You know, and I say,

554
00:25:03,302 --> 00:25:04,768
"I've never been
in a drama in my life."

555
00:25:04,770 --> 00:25:08,005
I somehow went to that room,

556
00:25:08,007 --> 00:25:10,441
and walk there,
and he looks at me,

557
00:25:10,443 --> 00:25:12,109
and he said, "Read."

558
00:25:12,111 --> 00:25:14,278
And I opened the book
and went "The--"

559
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,813
and he said, "That's it.
You have a part."

560
00:25:15,815 --> 00:25:17,281
- I saw something in Burt.

561
00:25:17,283 --> 00:25:19,049
I - I see the spark.

562
00:25:19,051 --> 00:25:22,052
[dramatic music]

563
00:25:22,054 --> 00:25:30,027
♪ ♪

564
00:25:33,733 --> 00:25:35,900
[strange music]

565
00:25:35,902 --> 00:25:39,570
- I hate "Riverboat."
I hate doing it.

566
00:25:39,572 --> 00:25:42,673
I have a character that I call
"Dum-Dum Whistleblower."

567
00:25:42,675 --> 00:25:46,043
You know... [imitating horns].

568
00:25:46,045 --> 00:25:47,645
Connie, cut to half the speed.

569
00:25:47,647 --> 00:25:50,114
- Aye, sir
Half speed!

570
00:25:50,116 --> 00:25:53,918
- They will bring in
stuntmen

571
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,721
They are men.
We are boys.

572
00:25:57,723 --> 00:25:58,789
- [screaming]

573
00:25:58,791 --> 00:26:00,457
- Stars always migrate

574
00:26:00,459 --> 00:26:01,792
for stunt people.

575
00:26:01,794 --> 00:26:04,929
They see some reality.

576
00:26:04,931 --> 00:26:06,263
There is no acting.

577
00:26:06,265 --> 00:26:09,133
- They are athletes,
and, uh--

578
00:26:09,135 --> 00:26:10,935
and that's what I experienced.

579
00:26:10,937 --> 00:26:13,871
[optimistic music]

580
00:26:13,873 --> 00:26:16,073
- Burt is very capable.

581
00:26:16,075 --> 00:26:17,241
He can do everything.

582
00:26:17,243 --> 00:26:19,643
But you can't do it all.

583
00:26:19,645 --> 00:26:24,248
You must have - You must -
You need a double.

584
00:26:24,250 --> 00:26:26,584
- At Universal,
they just hired me

585
00:26:26,586 --> 00:26:28,452
to enter
and double someone.

586
00:26:28,454 --> 00:26:30,354
They say,
"Yeah, here's your clothes."

587
00:26:30,356 --> 00:26:32,022
I say, "Who am I doubling?"
They say, "Down

588
00:26:32,024 --> 00:26:33,724
" to the set and find
someone dressed like you,

589
00:26:33,726 --> 00:26:35,259
and that's what you doubled. "

590
00:26:35,261 --> 00:26:37,428
And I got there,
and that's Burt.

591
00:26:37,430 --> 00:26:39,763
♪ ♪

592
00:26:39,765 --> 00:26:41,231
- Things came to take action,

593
00:26:41,233 --> 00:26:43,267
and he will double me,

594
00:26:43,269 --> 00:26:46,370
and I thought, "Hell,
I can do that."

595
00:26:46,372 --> 00:26:47,738
♪ ♪

596
00:26:47,740 --> 00:26:49,907
[horse whinnies]

597
00:26:49,909 --> 00:26:52,610
♪ ♪

598
00:26:52,612 --> 00:26:53,777
[shouting]

599
00:26:53,779 --> 00:26:58,415
♪ ♪

600
00:26:58,417 --> 00:27:00,084
He said, "You can be so
very useful."

601
00:27:00,086 --> 00:27:03,454
"Useful" is a super compliment
for stuntman

602
00:27:03,456 --> 00:27:05,189
He always says,
"The perpetrator is candy.

603
00:27:05,191 --> 00:27:08,092
I don't want to be an actor."

604
00:27:08,094 --> 00:27:11,195
[broken glass]

605
00:27:12,164 --> 00:27:14,732
- I always feel that Burt

606
00:27:14,734 --> 00:27:18,202
what kind of want to do
what is being done Hal.

607
00:27:21,007 --> 00:27:24,475
and there will be 18, 20
stunts out there practicing

608
00:27:24,477 --> 00:27:27,211
- Most people are less than
the top physical condition

609
00:27:27,213 --> 00:27:29,246
The first and foremost
for each stuntman

610
00:27:29,248 --> 00:27:32,549
is a good warm-up,
as it should be for you

611
00:27:33,786 --> 00:27:36,887
- Medic!
Medical!
Medical!

612
00:27:41,293 --> 00:27:42,660
- Yeah, they are pirates.

613
00:27:42,662 --> 00:27:45,129
Walking around,
having fun.

614
00:27:45,131 --> 00:27:48,298
[groove music]

615
00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:50,334
When I first saw the group, it reminded me

616
00:27:50,336 --> 00:27:53,270
from Butch Cassidy and Hole
on the Wall gang.

617
00:27:53,272 --> 00:27:55,506
And we are all
Hole in the Wall gang.

618
00:27:55,508 --> 00:27:56,707
♪ ♪

619
00:27:56,709 --> 00:27:58,308
There is an outline
in the film

620
00:27:58,310 --> 00:27:59,576
Butch said, you know, "Look,
I have vision.

621
00:27:59,578 --> 00:28:01,412
All others
use bifocal. "

622
00:28:01,414 --> 00:28:04,481
Hal Needham is--
Butch Cassidy's character. They will say, "We want you to enter this car,

623
00:28:04,483 --> 00:28:06,183
"Down and reverse
at 90 miles per hour,

624
00:28:06,185 --> 00:28:09,319
" The explosion, out burning,

625
00:28:09,321 --> 00:28:11,388
walk across the street,
and die. "

626
00:28:11,390 --> 00:28:13,190
I will say," OK. "

627
00:28:13,192 --> 00:28:15,192
- He has more or less
a group of guys together

628
00:28:15,194 --> 00:28:17,127
who can do anything

629
00:28:17,129 --> 00:28:18,629
- We just started
our own organization

630
00:28:18,631 --> 00:28:21,265


631
00:28:21,267 --> 00:28:24,334


632
00:28:24,336 --> 00:28:26,203


633
00:28:26,205 --> 00:28:28,839


634
00:28:28,841 --> 00:28:30,708
called Unlimited Stunts.

635
00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:32,443
- Right when we start
Stunts Unlimited,

636
00:28:32,445 --> 00:28:34,712
and we have an office
in the parking lot at Paramount.

637
00:28:34,714 --> 00:28:39,550
Paramount doesn't even know
We have an office there.

638
00:28:39,552 --> 00:28:42,086
- Three or four years,
we are the biggest,

639
00:28:42,088 --> 00:28:45,122
the most famous organization
In the world.

640
00:28:45,124 --> 00:28:50,594
♪ ♪

641
00:28:50,596 --> 00:28:52,129
- wake up in -
very early,

642
00:28:52,131 --> 00:28:53,964
and go to the set,

643
00:28:53,966 --> 00:28:56,133
go through the wardrobe,
makeup, hair,

644
00:28:56,135 --> 00:28:58,402
gets a burrito,
jumps on your horse,

645
00:28:58,404 --> 00:29:01,238
go to work-- it's just the best  And then at night,
You go back to the hotel,

646
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,607


647
00:29:03,609 --> 00:29:06,844
You stop at the bar,
You have several belts,

648
00:29:06,846 --> 00:29:10,180
have a few more and say,
"Let's go, friend."

649
00:29:10,182 --> 00:29:12,816
17 Bar and Grill.

650
00:29:12,818 --> 00:29:14,551
Cover up.

651
00:29:14,553 --> 00:29:16,587
We will enter,
the person who is fighting will be

652
00:29:16,589 --> 00:29:18,789
will work to get the horse
ready for us

653
00:29:18,791 --> 00:29:20,958
We will take a shower
and go to work.

654
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,861
That - it's crazy

655
00:29:23,863 --> 00:29:26,396
And things really have rules

656
00:29:26,398 --> 00:29:28,832
that you did not bring
your wife at location

657
00:29:28,834 --> 00:29:30,200
because of that.

658
00:29:30,202 --> 00:29:33,403
This will cause problems,
do you know?

659
00:29:33,405 --> 00:29:35,873
Well, we managed to pass it
many wives

660
00:29:35,875 --> 00:29:41,445
♪ ♪

661
00:29:41,447 --> 00:29:42,746
- What are you two doing?
in the movie?

662
00:29:42,748 --> 00:29:44,348
- Well, we sit -
we drink a lot

663
00:29:44,350 --> 00:29:45,516
champagne in the movie

664
00:29:45,518 --> 00:29:47,284
We sit at the table, and

665
00:29:47,286 --> 00:29:48,886
just, uh, more or less

666
00:29:48,888 --> 00:29:51,555
speak with Pat McCormick
and Paul Williams.

667
00:29:51,557 --> 00:29:53,757
Then Burt Reynolds goes up
to the scene

668
00:29:53,759 --> 00:29:55,526
- Has Burt tried
to make you?

669
00:29:55,528 --> 00:29:57,795
- No. We hope, but not.
[laughter]

670
00:29:57,797 --> 00:29:59,363
- No, we are more -
we are more or less hopeful

671
00:29:59,365 --> 00:30:02,699
that he will let us put
make him.

672
00:30:02,701 --> 00:30:10,808
♪ ♪

673
00:30:10,810 --> 00:30:12,643
- Beware!
Everyone is clear.

674
00:30:12,645 --> 00:30:15,212
- What you just saw was a scene
from the new Burt Reynolds film

675
00:30:15,214 --> 00:30:17,147
"Smokey and Bandits,"
are being filmed here in

676
00:30:17,149 --> 00:30:19,817
Lakewood Fairgrounds
in Atlanta

677
00:30:19,819 --> 00:30:22,286
- Pontiac Division in
General Motors gives us

678
00:30:22,288 --> 00:30:25,722
four sedans that we use
as police cars,

679
00:30:25,724 --> 00:30:28,659
and they gave us two Trans Ams,
and that's it.

680
00:30:28,661 --> 00:30:31,495
[roaring machine]

681
00:30:31,497 --> 00:30:32,663
- O-o-kay!

682
00:30:32,665 --> 00:30:34,431
- In the second week
of the picture,

683
00:30:34,433 --> 00:30:36,834
both Trans Ams
have been destroyed

684
00:30:36,836 --> 00:30:39,670
and we have to go back and beg
to get some more

685
00:30:39,672 --> 00:30:41,705
- Beautiful?
- baby, hush

686
00:30:41,707 --> 00:30:43,373
[laughter]

687
00:30:43,375 --> 00:30:45,909
- Jerry Reed leaves,
"Honey, quiet."

688
00:30:45,911 --> 00:30:48,946
[70 rock music]

689
00:30:48,948 --> 00:30:50,480
♪ ♪

690
00:30:50,482 --> 00:30:52,482
The way he said it,
first

691
00:30:52,484 --> 00:30:55,752
the most handsome gal
you've seen.

692
00:30:55,754 --> 00:31:01,391
♪ ♪

693
00:31:01,393 --> 00:31:04,494
- I like it, I like it!

694
00:31:04,496 --> 00:31:06,063
I mean, I really got a kick

695
00:31:06,065 --> 00:31:08,031
get out of driving Firebird.

696
00:31:08,033 --> 00:31:12,870
♪ ♪

697
00:31:12,872 --> 00:31:16,540
- It seems like there is something about Trans Am bleeding.

698
00:31:16,542 --> 00:31:20,210
As a symbol
your holiday horse

699
00:31:21,647 --> 00:31:24,581
The male animal
wannabe warrior

700
00:31:24,583 --> 00:31:28,218
who is now working
in a factory somewhere

701
00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:31,655
connect with that character,
the car.

702
00:31:31,657 --> 00:31:34,491
Maybe it's the element
escaping

703
00:31:34,493 --> 00:31:36,126
I mean, this is a runaway movie,

704
00:31:36,128 --> 00:31:39,930
But this is a runaway film.

705
00:31:39,932 --> 00:31:41,899
That is a good answer.

706
00:31:44,570 --> 00:31:46,069
- What about all those crazy
stunts in the car?

707
00:31:46,071 --> 00:31:48,939
Have you ever had -
A car that is really far away?

708
00:31:48,941 --> 00:31:51,642
- Oh yeah.
I mean...

709
00:31:51,644 --> 00:31:53,577
First of all, look, I like cars.

710
00:31:53,579 --> 00:31:56,313
I mean, I can chat with a car.

711
00:31:56,315 --> 00:31:58,916
Swipe sideways,
spin completely,

712
00:31:58,918 --> 00:32:01,585
360 degrees,
do all that with that,

713
00:32:01,587 --> 00:32:03,887
and know exactly where the car is

714
00:32:03,889 --> 00:32:06,123
- Why do you drive
like that, Hal?

715
00:32:06,125 --> 00:32:07,624
- Why do I drive like that?

716
00:32:07,626 --> 00:32:09,192
Well, there are several reasons.

717
00:32:09,194 --> 00:32:11,595
Money number one,
and the second is, uh,

718
00:32:11,597 --> 00:32:15,565
we make films

719
00:32:15,567 --> 00:32:18,568
- Fast cars, that's
dangerous goods

720
00:32:18,570 --> 00:32:20,737
Either we are jumping on a boat,

721
00:32:20,739 --> 00:32:24,074
or jump a car, or jump
horse, that's all -

722
00:32:24,076 --> 00:32:26,143
everything comes from

723
00:32:26,145 --> 00:32:28,278
basic stunt work,
it all starts

724
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:29,446
with horses and battles.

725
00:32:29,448 --> 00:32:32,649
[country rock music]

726
00:32:32,651 --> 00:32:33,483
- what?

727
00:32:35,454 --> 00:32:37,220
- I personally believe
that, uh,

728
00:32:37,222 --> 00:32:39,356
When you work with animals,
you have a better chance

729
00:32:39,358 --> 00:32:41,158
from, uh, get
someone is injured

730
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,193
than you do with a car,
Because of the car

731
00:32:43,195 --> 00:32:45,462
do not care about
explosion or bullet hits

732
00:32:45,464 --> 00:32:46,663
or whatever it is -

733
00:32:46,665 --> 00:32:47,798
it will go wherever you direct it,

734
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,833
and it will only go as fast as possible

735
00:32:49,835 --> 00:32:51,535
as you mash the accelerator.

736
00:32:51,537 --> 00:32:55,105
♪ ♪

737
00:32:55,107 --> 00:32:58,241
- It's just like Westerners
slowly fade,

738
00:32:58,243 --> 00:33:01,511
and this comes
all pictures of cars

739
00:33:07,152 --> 00:33:09,252
- Okay, fearless,
let me ask you this:

740
00:33:09,254 --> 00:33:12,189
has there been any action
that someone wants to do

741
00:33:12,191 --> 00:33:16,393
In a movie that you say,
flat-out, "no."

742
00:33:16,395 --> 00:33:19,096
- [chuckles] I never turned
down an action

743
00:33:19,098 --> 00:33:22,132
I say, "If - if you can
put a man on the moon,

744
00:33:22,134 --> 00:33:25,302
You can definitely know
how to take action."

745
00:33:25,304 --> 00:33:29,373
- Several times, Hal does it
wake up above his head

746
00:33:29,375 --> 00:33:31,842
There is an action where
I should say something,

747
00:33:31,844 --> 00:33:33,210
but I think,
"Alright, wait a minute.

748
00:33:33,212 --> 00:33:37,147
He is Hal Needham.
Shut your mouth."

749
00:33:37,149 --> 00:33:40,550
- When you multiply it
a leading man,

750
00:33:40,552 --> 00:33:42,719
You want to make it look
like a hero

751
00:33:42,721 --> 00:33:45,122
[roaring machine]

752
00:33:45,124 --> 00:33:46,990
- "white flash,"
where there is a scene

753
00:33:46,992 --> 00:33:49,159
Burt Reynolds character, medium
twice as much by Hal Needham,

754
00:33:49,161 --> 00:33:51,328
is trying to escape
police officer,

755
00:33:51,330 --> 00:33:53,897
Where he sees big old sand
barges pull out

756
00:33:53,899 --> 00:33:55,766
to the middle of
from the river.

757
00:33:55,768 --> 00:33:58,235
So he turns the car sideways,
and then goes

758
00:33:58,237 --> 00:34:02,205
down the dock
and jump the car.

759
00:34:02,207 --> 00:34:05,942
Think it might be 70, 80
feet crossing to the barge

760
00:34:10,382 --> 00:34:12,282
Even though he hit
pretty good,

761
00:34:12,284 --> 00:34:14,885
he got out of the car and
continued to play his role.

762
00:34:14,887 --> 00:34:17,487
And after we cut,
and he fell -

763
00:34:17,489 --> 00:34:18,855
[laughs]

764
00:34:18,857 --> 00:34:21,024
But he always finishes shooting.

765
00:34:23,295 --> 00:34:24,628
- Well, I'll be damned

766
00:34:24,630 --> 00:34:27,064
- Busted the spleen.

767
00:34:27,066 --> 00:34:29,266
Damn nearly died

768
00:34:29,268 --> 00:34:32,102
- You know, stuntman, you know,
[laughs],

769
00:34:32,104 --> 00:34:33,937
You can get hurt there,
and they just

770
00:34:33,939 --> 00:34:36,106
Agile you go and keep shooting.

771
00:34:36,108 --> 00:34:40,043
But the actor goes down,
you're done.

772
00:34:40,045 --> 00:34:43,280
- We are filming "The Man Who
Loving Cat Dancing."

773
00:34:43,282 --> 00:34:46,249
He has a hernia
the bottom of this canyon.

774
00:34:46,251 --> 00:34:48,085
It is 200 feet tall.

775
00:34:48,087 --> 00:34:50,387
They can't even get it
a helicopter there

776
00:34:50,389 --> 00:34:52,889
So I turned to Burt and I said,
"Tell me what, son,"

777
00:34:52,891 --> 00:34:56,493
I say, "If you can hold
to my back,

778
00:34:56,495 --> 00:34:58,762
" They throw the rope here,

779
00:34:58,764 --> 00:35:01,131
I can take you out of here. "

780
00:35:01,133 --> 00:35:04,668
So I take it
hills on my back

781
00:35:04,670 --> 00:35:07,137
We get to the top,
they have a helicopter,

782
00:35:07,139 --> 00:35:09,539
they throw it in, and
they forget to take me out,

783
00:35:09,541 --> 00:35:11,842
lay eggs on the ground
all out of breath

784
00:35:11,844 --> 00:35:14,978
You know... [laughs].  It's just a shot
from Burt and I

785
00:35:16,849 --> 00:35:18,448
down on his farm in Florida.

786
00:35:18,450 --> 00:35:20,417
It says, "For the best roomie

787
00:35:20,419 --> 00:35:22,919
"A man can ask,
and a great person.

788
00:35:22,921 --> 00:35:26,089
Love, Burt."

789
00:35:26,091 --> 00:35:29,392


790
00:35:29,394 --> 00:35:31,728
- We have this crazy type
event arrangement,

791
00:35:31,730 --> 00:35:34,131
that I usually wake up
in the morning,

792
00:35:34,133 --> 00:35:36,233
and will stumble
down the hall,

793
00:35:36,235 --> 00:35:39,636
and there will be a note on
the bathroom door said,

794
00:35:39,638 --> 00:35:41,938
"That place is yours,

795
00:35:41,940 --> 00:35:44,941
" but I need it for the next
three days.

796
00:35:44,943 --> 00:35:47,744
Hope you don't mind.
Cinta, Roomie. "

797
00:35:47,746 --> 00:35:50,981
And that means I'm out,
and I do it

798
00:35:50,983 --> 00:35:52,782
- I don't know that I'm falling
love instantly,

799
00:35:52,784 --> 00:35:54,718
but I'm sure I really like that guy.

800
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:56,786
My first date with Hal
was in his house

801
00:35:56,788 --> 00:36:00,056
with Burt and Dinah Shore.

802
00:36:00,058 --> 00:36:01,625
[laughs]

803
00:36:01,627 --> 00:36:04,628
That is an interesting time.

804
00:36:04,630 --> 00:36:07,697
- Burt and Dinah are lovers.

805
00:36:07,699 --> 00:36:10,400
He is cougar
At that time, I guess.

806
00:36:10,402 --> 00:36:13,470
- I want to make it
very clear

807
00:36:13,472 --> 00:36:15,772
that there are many areas
where

808
00:36:15,774 --> 00:36:19,609
Things aren't twice Burt.

809
00:36:19,611 --> 00:36:21,344
Good?

810
00:36:21,346 --> 00:36:24,247
[laughter and applause]

811
00:36:26,018 --> 00:36:27,250
- I want to know something:

812
00:36:27,252 --> 00:36:29,819
he and I start
almost simultaneously

813
00:36:29,821 --> 00:36:31,054
What happened?

814
00:36:31,056 --> 00:36:32,589
I mean, I'm more handsome
than he is

815
00:36:32,591 --> 00:36:35,292
I am more talented.
What?
What?

816
00:36:35,294 --> 00:36:37,427
- This - I'll explain it to you.
- Good.

817
00:36:37,429 --> 00:36:38,628
I hope someone will do it.
- Yeah.

818
00:36:38,630 --> 00:36:39,896
This - very simple.

819
00:36:39,898 --> 00:36:41,264
You don't have a problem.
- Good.

820
00:36:41,266 --> 00:36:42,933
- Because you are real
choreographer.

821
00:36:42,935 --> 00:36:45,235
I mean, the fight was
staged...

822
00:36:45,237 --> 00:36:48,171
- I say what,
I don't care who it is.

823
00:36:48,173 --> 00:36:51,041
I always say the biggest thing
about a man is his ego.

824
00:36:51,043 --> 00:36:53,543
And I'm not different
than others

825
00:36:53,545 --> 00:36:54,611
- OK.
- Ready?

826
00:36:54,613 --> 00:36:56,947
- Things want to be stars.

827
00:36:56,949 --> 00:36:58,682
I think, quietly,
he must be

828
00:36:58,684 --> 00:37:00,116
like to be Burt Reynolds.

829
00:37:00,118 --> 00:37:01,851
- Ah!
- On the other hand, I think

830
00:37:01,853 --> 00:37:03,954
Burt wants to be Hal Needham,

831
00:37:03,956 --> 00:37:06,022
but know that the bread
will become butter

832
00:37:06,024 --> 00:37:07,657
on the side of a movie star.

833
00:37:07,659 --> 00:37:09,826
[applause]

834
00:37:09,828 --> 00:37:12,963
[laughter]

835
00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:19,703
[country music]

836
00:37:19,705 --> 00:37:21,605
♪ ♪

837
00:37:21,607 --> 00:37:24,741
[cheering]

838
00:37:24,743 --> 00:37:27,611
- For small homework, we put an advertisement
in the newspaper,

839
00:37:27,613 --> 00:37:29,779
"Burt Reynolds will be
be judge

840
00:37:29,781 --> 00:37:32,182
" dog show to take a dog

841
00:37:32,184 --> 00:37:34,050
to be in the movie "
and all. out there

842
00:37:34,052 --> 00:37:35,552
Burt said, "That's your dog,"

843
00:37:35,554 --> 00:37:37,988
and that's what happened
in the movie

844
00:37:37,990 --> 00:37:39,789


845
00:37:39,791 --> 00:37:43,360


846
00:37:43,362 --> 00:37:44,828


847
00:37:44,830 --> 00:37:47,564


848
00:37:47,566 --> 00:37:49,432
- Now Bo, I say,

849
00:37:49,434 --> 00:37:52,369
Fred won't be a problem.

850
00:37:52,371 --> 00:37:55,238
- I can see he will be
the main asset

851
00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:58,008
- [laughs]

852
00:37:58,010 --> 00:38:00,543
[laughter]

853
00:38:00,545 --> 00:38:03,046
- Jerry Reed kicked him
with everyone

854
00:38:03,048 --> 00:38:06,616
And on the set,
He brought the band there.

855
00:38:06,618 --> 00:38:09,085
Things and I were invited
to the room,

856
00:38:09,087 --> 00:38:13,023
and they play this little song
called "Eastbound and Down,"

857
00:38:13,025 --> 00:38:16,860
and ask Hal, "Do you like it?
What do you think about that?"

858
00:38:16,862 --> 00:38:18,628
Ha ha, that's amazing!

859
00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:20,764
And that -
This is a song on the film.

860
00:38:20,766 --> 00:38:23,366
- A-one, two, three, go.

861
00:38:23,368 --> 00:38:24,934
Breaker, breaker, one-nine?

862
00:38:24,936 --> 00:38:28,138
What about the bandits?
Do you wear it, kid?

863
00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:29,906
♪ ♪

864
00:38:29,908 --> 00:38:31,508
♪ To the east and down ♪

865
00:38:31,510 --> 00:38:33,376
♪ Load it up and the truck ♪

866
00:38:33,378 --> 00:38:35,445
Rest for that one Bandit,
break for the one bandit.

867
00:38:35,447 --> 00:38:37,113
- Yeah, Snowmen
Come back

868
00:38:40,152 --> 00:38:43,286
♪ I go east, just watch
ol 'Bandit run ♪

869
00:38:43,288 --> 00:38:45,855
- This is Sheriff
Buford T. Justice again.

870
00:38:45,857 --> 00:38:49,693
I lost the Trans Am!
Set the road block!

871
00:38:49,695 --> 00:38:51,227
- Good idea.

872
00:38:51,229 --> 00:38:52,562
- ♪ A thirsty
boy in Atlanta ♪

873
00:38:52,564 --> 00:38:55,799
- Bandits, here it is
Grave robbers

874
00:38:55,801 --> 00:38:57,801
Put the pedal to the metal,
good friends

875
00:38:57,803 --> 00:39:00,203
And we will hold this county
mountie as long as we can

876
00:39:00,205 --> 00:39:01,738
Come on.

877
00:39:01,740 --> 00:39:03,506
- Bandits, baby, this is

878
00:39:03,508 --> 00:39:06,176
Good Witch from the North
speak.

879
00:39:06,178 --> 00:39:08,411
You better not come like this.

880
00:39:08,413 --> 00:39:12,015
- ♪ Go east, just watch
ol 'Bandit run ♪

881
00:39:12,017 --> 00:39:13,950
♪ ♪

882
00:39:13,952 --> 00:39:15,852
[booming horn]

883
00:39:15,854 --> 00:39:17,120
- This is Bandit, honey.

884
00:39:17,122 --> 00:39:20,023
- And how can I help?
Bring it back.

885
00:39:20,025 --> 00:39:26,896
♪ ♪

886
00:39:26,898 --> 00:39:29,999
- I know the music before
I know that guy,

887
00:39:30,001 --> 00:39:32,168
and the music arrived at me.

888
00:39:32,170 --> 00:39:33,636
I understand everything.

889
00:39:33,638 --> 00:39:37,006
This Bandit character
loves Jerry Reed

890
00:39:37,008 --> 00:39:41,044
We have a relationship
that is very similar,

891
00:39:41,046 --> 00:39:43,380
in some ways, for me and Hal.

892
00:39:43,382 --> 00:39:46,750
He's crazy,
but crazy good

893
00:39:46,752 --> 00:39:49,652
- ♪ Alright, ol 'Smokey's
makes them hear it on ♪

894
00:39:49,654 --> 00:39:51,154
♪ He is hot in your way ♪

895
00:39:51,156 --> 00:39:52,355
♪ And he won't rest ♪

896
00:39:52,357 --> 00:39:54,090
♪ Until you are in jail ♪

897
00:39:54,092 --> 00:39:55,825
♪ So you have to avoid it,
You have to burden him ♪

898
00:39:55,827 --> 00:39:57,894
♪ You have to stay
the diesel truck '♪

899
00:39:57,896 --> 00:40:00,663
♪ Just move the hammer
and give it hell ♪

900
00:40:00,665 --> 00:40:02,532
- What is good news?

901
00:40:02,534 --> 00:40:04,968
Someone you really like
get along with,

902
00:40:04,970 --> 00:40:06,636
and you can trust.

903
00:40:06,638 --> 00:40:08,104
Not too serious,

904
00:40:08,106 --> 00:40:09,572
but always finish the job.

905
00:40:09,574 --> 00:40:11,441
Not a lot of anxiety
in good boys,

906
00:40:11,443 --> 00:40:14,277
like this.

907
00:40:14,279 --> 00:40:16,379
- I think many people
say that

908
00:40:16,381 --> 00:40:18,848
People become actors because
they are not happy with themselves,

909
00:40:18,850 --> 00:40:21,951
and they can hide
on other people's skin.

910
00:40:21,953 --> 00:40:26,322
But that's not true -
people become actors, I think,

911
00:40:26,324 --> 00:40:29,125
because we are happy people.

912
00:40:29,127 --> 00:40:33,596
And, uh, the only sensation
For us, really,

913
00:40:33,598 --> 00:40:38,034
Do you get
pleasure from what we do

914
00:40:38,036 --> 00:40:39,068
Oh my God!

915
00:40:39,070 --> 00:40:41,938
[laughter]

916
00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:44,507
I want to be considered
someone

917
00:40:44,509 --> 00:40:46,810
who pays their contributions
and is a good actor.

918
00:40:46,812 --> 00:40:48,978
I think it's there
an acting school, which,

919
00:40:48,980 --> 00:40:52,148
I really believe in this
certain school acting,

920
00:40:52,150 --> 00:40:55,151
which is called "easy."

921
00:40:55,153 --> 00:40:57,754
And that - and I work 20 years

922
00:40:57,756 --> 00:41:00,223
to learn how to make it
looks easy

923
00:41:00,225 --> 00:41:02,625
Quite honest, this is very easy

924
00:41:02,627 --> 00:41:05,762
to do what I call "The
School Acts Constipation."

925
00:41:05,764 --> 00:41:09,065
Where do you let each
show a vein in the neck,

926
00:41:09,067 --> 00:41:11,634
and you just, you know, go for that
with every take

927
00:41:11,636 --> 00:41:13,636
And everyone says, "What a brilliant actor he is."

928
00:41:13,638 --> 00:41:15,972
Well, he got Oscar
and Preparation H,

929
00:41:15,974 --> 00:41:17,307
and I smile.

930
00:41:17,309 --> 00:41:20,310
[laughter]

931
00:41:20,312 --> 00:41:23,680
- Is that an actor?

932
00:41:23,682 --> 00:41:26,649
- Well, he's brilliant
"Streetcar Named Desire."

933
00:41:26,651 --> 00:41:28,585
- "Streetcar Named Desire?"

934
00:41:28,587 --> 00:41:31,521
What is he, conductor?

935
00:41:31,523 --> 00:41:33,256
- That's the time

936
00:41:33,258 --> 00:41:35,558
everyone wants to be
Marlon Brando.

937
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,760
- and who you are

938
00:41:37,762 --> 00:41:39,696
- I don't know who
I really am.

939
00:41:39,698 --> 00:41:43,099
- Question, Rocky?
- Yes, I mean, what am I, uh,

940
00:41:43,101 --> 00:41:45,468
Tertiary motivation here?

941
00:41:45,470 --> 00:41:47,904
I mean, like,
I walk through the door,

942
00:41:47,906 --> 00:41:51,040
and, uh, I saw it.

943
00:41:51,042 --> 00:41:52,575
Why?

944
00:41:52,577 --> 00:41:54,811
- Why what, Rocky?
What is the question?

945
00:41:54,813 --> 00:41:57,347
- Exactly.
What is the question?

946
00:41:57,349 --> 00:41:59,849
I want to play rebels.

947
00:41:59,851 --> 00:42:02,986
The type of label they give me
in the studio

948
00:42:02,988 --> 00:42:06,756
- Saying, "Jesus Christ,
he looks like Brando."

949
00:42:06,758 --> 00:42:08,324
- when I first
go to Hollywood,

950
00:42:08,326 --> 00:42:09,859
everyone wants me
to meet Marlon,

951
00:42:09,861 --> 00:42:12,295
and I've heard so much
Marlon Brando's story

952
00:42:12,297 --> 00:42:15,331
There is a coffee house on
strip called Cyrano's,

953
00:42:15,333 --> 00:42:18,301
and at that time,
is in place,

954
00:42:18,303 --> 00:42:20,937
where all - everyone goes

955
00:42:20,939 --> 00:42:22,739
to see or be seen.

956
00:42:22,741 --> 00:42:25,875
We walk in - soon,
there is a director

957
00:42:25,877 --> 00:42:28,645
named Hubert Cornfield
who approached me

958
00:42:28,647 --> 00:42:31,881
and gripped me and said,
"He's here!"

959
00:42:31,883 --> 00:42:35,251
And I - you know, I, uh--
I said, "He?"

960
00:42:35,253 --> 00:42:37,353
And he said, "Come on!"

961
00:42:37,355 --> 00:42:39,789
And he pulled me from my hand
shirt, and we came around,

962
00:42:39,791 --> 00:42:42,592
and we stopped in front of
from a table

963
00:42:42,594 --> 00:42:46,796
And suddenly I realized it was Marlon

964
00:42:46,798 --> 00:42:50,600
And Marlon - everyone
looks at me except Marlon

965
00:42:50,602 --> 00:42:53,202
Marlon is looking...

966
00:42:53,204 --> 00:42:54,571
right about there

967
00:42:54,573 --> 00:42:58,575
And, uh, Hubert Cornfield said,

968
00:42:58,577 --> 00:43:02,712
"Marlon, is this really fantastic?"

969
00:43:02,714 --> 00:43:06,382
And, like a doll,
I will...

970
00:43:06,384 --> 00:43:07,450
like this.

971
00:43:07,452 --> 00:43:08,851
Because I think, you know,

972
00:43:08,853 --> 00:43:11,788
I've been taken home
to be introduced

973
00:43:11,790 --> 00:43:14,991
But he never looks up,
he just goes,

974
00:43:14,993 --> 00:43:17,961
"Mm."

975
00:43:20,799 --> 00:43:23,700
And I still extend my hand.

976
00:43:23,702 --> 00:43:27,403
And there is a deadly silence
in place.

977
00:43:27,405 --> 00:43:31,274
And I suddenly -
I have a desire to kill.

978
00:43:31,276 --> 00:43:35,078
I mean, to reach across
and kill

979
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,847
And I want to be myself - who
Does he think he is?

980
00:43:37,849 --> 00:43:40,516
- Burt has that thing
that you have to have

981
00:43:40,518 --> 00:43:42,652
to be a leading man.

982
00:43:42,654 --> 00:43:44,387
He can chase you.

983
00:43:44,389 --> 00:43:47,156
If he loses it, and I've seen it
lose with a few people,

984
00:43:47,158 --> 00:43:49,459
So, you know, he -
You can't [...] around

985
00:43:49,461 --> 00:43:51,027
with Burt too much

986
00:43:51,029 --> 00:43:53,262
- I want to continue
kill white people

987
00:43:53,264 --> 00:43:56,032
- [speaking native language]

988
00:43:56,034 --> 00:43:59,235
- He said you would
have to prove yourself

989
00:43:59,237 --> 00:44:02,805
- I will prove myself.
Just give me a chance.

990
00:44:02,807 --> 00:44:04,841
- Burt wants to be a star.

991
00:44:04,843 --> 00:44:06,876
And I think he must have done it
most anything

992
00:44:06,878 --> 00:44:09,679
[speaking native language]

993
00:44:09,681 --> 00:44:11,481
- Sometimes you learn more
from bad movies

994
00:44:11,483 --> 00:44:13,683
than you do from a good movie.

995
00:44:13,685 --> 00:44:16,019
Then, it should be so
a very good actor

996
00:44:16,021 --> 00:44:17,453
[laughs]

997
00:44:17,455 --> 00:44:21,124
- ♪ Navajo Joe, Navajo Joe ♪

998
00:44:21,126 --> 00:44:22,425
♪ ♪

999
00:44:22,427 --> 00:44:26,796
- ♪ Navajo Joe, Navajo Joe ♪

1000
00:44:26,798 --> 00:44:28,264
- ♪ Navajo Joe ♪

1001
00:44:28,266 --> 00:44:29,932
♪ Navajo Joe ♪

1002
00:44:29,934 --> 00:44:31,668
[horse whinnies]

1003
00:44:31,670 --> 00:44:34,370
- ♪ Navajo Joe, Navajo Joe ♪

1004
00:44:34,372 --> 00:44:36,172
[snoring]

1005
00:44:36,174 --> 00:44:38,207
- I have a lot of parts

1006
00:44:38,209 --> 00:44:40,043
because they don't have to rent
a stuntman, you know

1007
00:44:40,045 --> 00:44:41,811
They will say, "Get that person, he
falls down the stairs

1008
00:44:41,813 --> 00:44:43,479
and he speaks fine," You know?

1009
00:44:43,481 --> 00:44:46,349
So I - I fell from the stairs
and spoke.

1010
00:44:46,351 --> 00:44:50,787
Over time, I -
I fell less and talked more.

1011
00:44:50,789 --> 00:44:53,289
I think you are the authority

1012
00:44:53,291 --> 00:44:55,458
on architecture

1013
00:44:55,460 --> 00:44:57,827
I don't know your hobby
is boating!

1014
00:44:57,829 --> 00:45:01,030
[dramatic music]

1015
00:45:01,032 --> 00:45:03,332
♪ ♪

1016
00:45:03,334 --> 00:45:05,201
- Ah!

1017
00:45:05,203 --> 00:45:09,372
♪ ♪

1018
00:45:09,374 --> 00:45:11,174
[snake hiss]

1019
00:45:11,176 --> 00:45:13,576
- I think I might be chosen
worse

1020
00:45:13,578 --> 00:45:15,745
than any actor
in film history.

1021
00:45:15,747 --> 00:45:17,280
[speaking native language]

1022
00:45:17,282 --> 00:45:18,881
- Some movies, I say
"What is the location?"

1023
00:45:18,883 --> 00:45:20,783
And they say, "Tahiti."

1024
00:45:20,785 --> 00:45:23,119
And I said,
"I will take the picture."

1025
00:45:23,121 --> 00:45:26,089
[mellow music]

1026
00:45:26,091 --> 00:45:28,191
♪ ♪

1027
00:45:28,193 --> 00:45:30,827
I do it, eh, "Deliverance,"

1028
00:45:30,829 --> 00:45:34,797
which is my release from a bad movie, I thought

1029
00:45:34,799 --> 00:45:37,100
[gasping]

1030
00:45:37,102 --> 00:45:39,602
Sometimes you have to do it
lose yourself

1031
00:45:39,604 --> 00:45:43,539
before you can find anything

1032
00:45:43,541 --> 00:45:46,676
- Are there snakes around here?

1033
00:45:49,247 --> 00:45:52,148
- I think Georgia is good
Good luck for you.

1034
00:45:52,150 --> 00:45:55,218
Do you see it as something real
a good place to make films?

1035
00:45:55,220 --> 00:45:57,987
- I want to shoot 4 of 5
pictures here,

1036
00:45:57,989 --> 00:46:00,656
who really doesn't--
won't sit too well

1037
00:46:00,658 --> 00:46:03,025
with many people who want
to do the desert film

1038
00:46:03,027 --> 00:46:06,429
"Liberation" is like that
like going home, you know?

1039
00:46:06,431 --> 00:46:08,698
Change everything for me

1040
00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:12,401
I have never done it
good part

1041
00:46:12,403 --> 00:46:15,805
Because I understand this person.

1042
00:46:15,807 --> 00:46:17,240
Yee-hoo!
What

1043
00:46:17,242 --> 00:46:20,977
And I - I can play it.

1044
00:46:20,979 --> 00:46:24,113
We have to get rid of that person!

1045
00:46:24,115 --> 00:46:26,682
- How will you do that, Lewis?

1046
00:46:26,684 --> 00:46:29,352
Where?

1047
00:46:29,354 --> 00:46:32,255
- wherever

1048
00:46:36,294 --> 00:46:37,760
Wherever.

1049
00:46:37,762 --> 00:46:40,096
I ask the director,
John Boorman,

1050
00:46:40,098 --> 00:46:42,398
what part he saw me playing

1051
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,901
That will make me right
for this image,

1052
00:46:44,903 --> 00:46:48,104
and he said, "I didn't see you
in the section.

1053
00:46:48,106 --> 00:46:50,673
But I saw you
'Nighttime Show.' "

1054
00:46:50,675 --> 00:46:52,008
[applause]

1055
00:46:52,010 --> 00:46:53,976
- Heyo!

1056
00:46:53,978 --> 00:46:55,244
- Hello
- Very good.

1057
00:46:55,246 --> 00:46:56,746
You look very sharp.
- Thank you.

1058
00:46:56,748 --> 00:46:58,047
- You are stylish
- I just pressed

1059
00:46:58,049 --> 00:46:59,615
That just hit me.
- Outline?

1060
00:46:59,617 --> 00:47:01,450
Do you get into your clothes?
- suppress my entire body

1061
00:47:01,452 --> 00:47:04,754
- Burt Reynolds is the catch
on the talk show

1062
00:47:04,756 --> 00:47:06,656
Everyone likes
to be around Burt.

1063
00:47:06,658 --> 00:47:09,525
- Nice to meet you.
You - You haven't changed one bit.

1064
00:47:09,527 --> 00:47:12,328
- Oh yeah.
[laughter]

1065
00:47:12,330 --> 00:47:14,931
- Listen, "Deliverance"
is really--

1066
00:47:14,933 --> 00:47:16,399
it's from a novel, this is quite serious  Everything -
gets rape and murder in it,

1067
00:47:16,401 --> 00:47:18,835
and all that.

1068
00:47:18,837 --> 00:47:20,837
You know, and here it is,

1069
00:47:20,839 --> 00:47:22,638
cavorting like jackass.

1070
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,074
[laughter]

1071
00:47:25,076 --> 00:47:27,810
Not being a driver,
just cavorting like one.

1072
00:47:27,812 --> 00:47:30,446
- Hmm.

1073
00:47:30,448 --> 00:47:31,547
I gamble.
I really gambled.

1074
00:47:31,549 --> 00:47:33,015


1075
00:47:33,017 --> 00:47:34,951
I mean, "Deliverance" is B.C .--

1076
00:47:34,953 --> 00:47:36,552
"Before 'Cosmo.'"

1077
00:47:36,554 --> 00:47:39,155
[funky music]

1078
00:47:39,157 --> 00:47:43,192
♪ ♪

1079
00:47:43,194 --> 00:47:46,028
The bet is, will I ever do it?
considered

1080
00:47:46,030 --> 00:47:49,031
a serious actor after that?

1081
00:47:49,033 --> 00:47:51,300
Will - when I die,
in my rock,

1082
00:47:51,302 --> 00:47:53,502
whether they will say, "his contribution
to the world

1083
00:47:53,504 --> 00:47:56,939
is he the first?
centerfold naked man"?

1084
00:47:56,941 --> 00:47:59,475
- ♪ Ooh, grab ♪

1085
00:47:59,477 --> 00:48:01,844
♪ Get from the front now ♪

1086
00:48:01,846 --> 00:48:03,112
♪ Get it ♪

1087
00:48:03,114 --> 00:48:05,314
♪ Get from behind now ♪

1088
00:48:05,316 --> 00:48:08,985
♪ Get it,
get it from the side ♪

1089
00:48:08,987 --> 00:48:12,822
♪ Get it,
get everything ♪

1090
00:48:12,824 --> 00:48:14,891
- How does it feel?
male pastor

1091
00:48:14,893 --> 00:48:17,126
who poses naked
in "cosmopolitan"?

1092
00:48:17,128 --> 00:48:20,429
This is what we baptize
call "Problems".

1093
00:48:20,431 --> 00:48:23,900
I don't know - I didn't tell him
to take off his clothes.

1094
00:48:23,902 --> 00:48:26,168
And me--
I hope he doesn't do it.

1095
00:48:26,170 --> 00:48:28,638
But, uh, at the same time,
he did it.

1096
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,740
He is free, and I am free.

1097
00:48:30,742 --> 00:48:32,742
I feel free to wear my clothes,

1098
00:48:32,744 --> 00:48:35,544
and he feels free
to release him

1099
00:48:35,546 --> 00:48:38,180
♪ ♪

1100
00:48:38,182 --> 00:48:41,984
- pose thrown
Burt Reynolds for a household name.

1101
00:48:41,986 --> 00:48:44,921
He then becomes that person.

1102
00:48:44,923 --> 00:48:47,556
[laughter]

1103
00:48:47,558 --> 00:48:49,158
♪ ♪

1104
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,594
- That's true.

1105
00:48:51,596 --> 00:48:53,195
[applause]

1106
00:48:53,197 --> 00:48:54,830
♪ ♪

1107
00:48:54,832 --> 00:48:58,034
[crowd shouting]

1108
00:48:58,036 --> 00:49:01,904
- How many people like him?
with a mustache...

1109
00:49:01,906 --> 00:49:05,041
[cheering]

1110
00:49:05,043 --> 00:49:08,511
And without mustache,
like that

1111
00:49:08,513 --> 00:49:10,613
[cheering]

1112
00:49:10,615 --> 00:49:13,683
- This is a hell of a time
to tell me

1113
00:49:13,685 --> 00:49:16,852
- Yes, I think you have to stay afloat
with a mustache, Burt.

1114
00:49:16,854 --> 00:49:19,822
Definitely stick with it.

1115
00:49:19,824 --> 00:49:21,624
- "Cosmopolitan" comes out

1116
00:49:21,626 --> 00:49:24,827
30 days before "Deliverance."

1117
00:49:24,829 --> 00:49:27,663
That's very difficult

1118
00:49:27,665 --> 00:49:30,366
98% film critics

1119
00:49:30,368 --> 00:49:34,170
to separate this character
who, you know,

1120
00:49:34,172 --> 00:49:36,739
lying on a bear carpet
like an idiot,

1121
00:49:36,741 --> 00:49:38,908
You know, and do this
strange thing,

1122
00:49:38,910 --> 00:49:42,244
with the actor who took it
serious craft

1123
00:49:42,246 --> 00:49:44,413
and take the film business
seriously

1124
00:49:44,415 --> 00:49:46,949
And many people are

1125
00:49:46,951 --> 00:49:48,384
I believe their instincts
feel so

1126
00:49:48,386 --> 00:49:51,420
Maybe it's expensive
a nomination that year.

1127
00:49:53,758 --> 00:49:57,159
- That is a bad choice
Because it underestimates it.

1128
00:49:57,161 --> 00:49:59,862
And I know he's sorry, but -
and I'm not happy

1129
00:49:59,864 --> 00:50:01,731
to see it for yourself

1130
00:50:01,733 --> 00:50:03,265
He doesn't need it.

1131
00:50:03,267 --> 00:50:06,435
The most serious actor
don't do that

1132
00:50:06,437 --> 00:50:08,204
Clowns will do it

1133
00:50:08,206 --> 00:50:12,108
- Actually, many people never
forgive me for that

1134
00:50:12,110 --> 00:50:13,242
I'm one of them, actually.

1135
00:50:15,380 --> 00:50:18,347
[country music]

1136
00:50:18,349 --> 00:50:24,453
♪ ♪

1137
00:50:24,455 --> 00:50:27,289
- What are you looking for now?
What role must be owned

1138
00:50:27,291 --> 00:50:30,693
for you to -
to really consider it?

1139
00:50:30,695 --> 00:50:32,895
- Well, I see now
for humor,

1140
00:50:32,897 --> 00:50:35,431
because I happen to think so,

1141
00:50:35,433 --> 00:50:38,601
from my contemporaries, I must
look around and say,

1142
00:50:38,603 --> 00:50:41,370
"Who - what's the competition?"

1143
00:50:41,372 --> 00:50:43,539
I can't stand on the doorstep
better than Paul Newman.

1144
00:50:43,541 --> 00:50:46,609
And I can't have thinning hair
from Robert Redford.

1145
00:50:46,611 --> 00:50:49,078
But I can do comedy
better than one of them.

1146
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:50,479
I can eat them.

1147
00:50:50,481 --> 00:50:52,648
- You know - hold it!

1148
00:50:52,650 --> 00:50:54,350
Only - the beer!
Look at the beer!

1149
00:50:54,352 --> 00:50:56,585
[crashing]

1150
00:50:56,587 --> 00:50:58,154
[shouts]

1151
00:50:58,156 --> 00:51:01,123
- Are you okay?
- Very funny!
Very funny!

1152
00:51:01,125 --> 00:51:02,525
- I think it's funny

1153
00:51:02,527 --> 00:51:04,293
- Move people to laugh

1154
00:51:04,295 --> 00:51:06,162
very difficult,

1155
00:51:06,164 --> 00:51:08,964
crossing many
from different cultures

1156
00:51:08,966 --> 00:51:12,034
And there are no questions -
You ask anyone,

1157
00:51:12,036 --> 00:51:15,438
anyone who is creative
the end of this business,

1158
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:16,839
and they will always tell you:

1159
00:51:16,841 --> 00:51:18,774
You take a man
like Jackie Gleason...

1160
00:51:18,776 --> 00:51:21,777
[dramatic music]

1161
00:51:21,779 --> 00:51:30,786
♪ ♪

1162
00:51:30,788 --> 00:51:34,523
- There isn't any script
for me, trust me

1163
00:51:34,525 --> 00:51:36,826
I have never had a written
dialogue line.

1164
00:51:36,828 --> 00:51:39,562
The director will stick it
Head in the car window

1165
00:51:39,564 --> 00:51:42,031
and say, "Now, we have to go
Until that,

1166
00:51:42,033 --> 00:51:44,400
and you will see him there -
what do you want to say?"

1167
00:51:44,402 --> 00:51:46,368
And I will think for a while
and I will say,

1168
00:51:46,370 --> 00:51:48,237
"What about something?"
He said, "Good.

1169
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:49,705
OK, let's go."

1170
00:51:49,707 --> 00:51:51,440
Good [...]!
[booming horn]

1171
00:51:51,442 --> 00:51:53,309
[crashing]

1172
00:51:53,311 --> 00:51:54,477
I have proof!

1173
00:51:54,479 --> 00:51:55,578
Put proof in the car.

1174
00:51:55,580 --> 00:51:56,946
- But - but Dad -
- You--

1175
00:51:56,948 --> 00:51:59,882
- But -
- Put proof in the car!

1176
00:51:59,884 --> 00:52:01,851
I will eat barbecue

1177
00:52:01,853 --> 00:52:06,288
Your butt is in molasses!

1178
00:52:06,290 --> 00:52:09,859
- I won't try
to give a message

1179
00:52:09,861 --> 00:52:11,694
for people out there
- Yes.

1180
00:52:11,696 --> 00:52:16,098
- I can do two things and I
think I did it very well.

1181
00:52:16,100 --> 00:52:18,267
Action, I know I did it well,

1182
00:52:18,269 --> 00:52:20,569
and my comedy isn't too bad,
All right?

1183
00:52:20,571 --> 00:52:23,005
- So you do three things.
- What is that?

1184
00:52:23,007 --> 00:52:25,007
- You just sit there and look
Good, that's the third.

1185
00:52:25,009 --> 00:52:26,308
- Oh, you're sweet,
from now,

1186
00:52:26,310 --> 00:52:28,077
You can say what you want.

1187
00:52:28,079 --> 00:52:31,380
- Let's play the tag
Tag, you!
[laughs]

1188
00:52:31,382 --> 00:52:32,715
[agile music]

1189
00:52:32,717 --> 00:52:34,316
- Tag?

1190
00:52:34,318 --> 00:52:36,051
- I am 11 years old when
I saw my first film.

1191
00:52:36,053 --> 00:52:37,820
- What is that?
- It's called, uh,

1192
00:52:37,822 --> 00:52:39,054
"Pop Goes the Weasel,"
and I mean,

1193
00:52:39,056 --> 00:52:41,524
this goes back, okay

1194
00:52:41,526 --> 00:52:44,393
For me, I'm amazed.

1195
00:52:44,395 --> 00:52:46,495
[dinging]

1196
00:52:46,497 --> 00:52:50,466
Now, I relate today to what I
thought, okay?

1197
00:52:50,468 --> 00:52:52,868
And I said, "Hell, that's it
I want to see,"

1198
00:52:52,870 --> 00:52:55,604
and I'm sure that
people want to see today

1199
00:52:55,606 --> 00:52:58,607
[funny music]

1200
00:52:58,609 --> 00:53:01,644
[deep breath]

1201
00:53:01,646 --> 00:53:03,412
♪ ♪

1202
00:53:03,414 --> 00:53:04,780
- Oh!

1203
00:53:04,782 --> 00:53:08,150
- I will never win
an Academy Award,

1204
00:53:08,152 --> 00:53:10,052
but I will be very rich,
so--

1205
00:53:10,054 --> 00:53:12,154
and I think I put out, uh,
entertaining films,

1206
00:53:12,156 --> 00:53:14,190
and I think that's
what is all about

1207
00:53:14,192 --> 00:53:15,624
- What happened, Dad?

1208
00:53:15,626 --> 00:53:19,428
- Good thing and I realize it
this is gold,

1209
00:53:19,430 --> 00:53:22,097
and none of us
want to touch it.

1210
00:53:22,099 --> 00:53:24,166
- I have never had a view
with Burt Reynolds.

1211
00:53:24,168 --> 00:53:25,434
I have to sit and write it.

1212
00:53:25,436 --> 00:53:27,736
That's the scene
in the lunch room

1213
00:53:27,738 --> 00:53:29,738
Just turn off

1214
00:53:29,740 --> 00:53:32,608
for that Pak Bandit!

1215
00:53:32,610 --> 00:53:34,677
[country music played]

1216
00:53:34,679 --> 00:53:36,712
Let me have a diablo sandwich,

1217
00:53:36,714 --> 00:53:38,280
Dr. Pepper,
and make it fast.

1218
00:53:38,282 --> 00:53:40,149
I'm in [...] damn hastily.

1219
00:53:40,151 --> 00:53:43,085
- In the original script,
There might be

1220
00:53:43,087 --> 00:53:45,921
six or seven scenes
where they are both

1221
00:53:45,923 --> 00:53:47,489
we are together.

1222
00:53:47,491 --> 00:53:49,725
We shot the scene
in the restaurant

1223
00:53:49,727 --> 00:53:51,894
where Burt knows who Jackie is,

1224
00:53:51,896 --> 00:53:53,662
Jackie doesn't know who is Burt  - You must be in hell a
Quick, yes, Sheriff?

1225
00:53:53,664 --> 00:53:55,931
- Bet your ass on that, kid.

1226
00:53:55,933 --> 00:53:58,200
- Oh, you have a little mess
_ there  - Hmm?
- Let me--

1227
00:53:58,202 --> 00:53:59,301
let me help you here.

1228
00:53:59,303 --> 00:54:00,302
Get it from there.
That--

1229
00:54:00,304 --> 00:54:01,470
- Yeah.
Thank you very much.

1230
00:54:01,472 --> 00:54:02,905
- When we finish the scene,

1231
00:54:02,907 --> 00:54:04,573
Burt came to Hal and me,

1232
00:54:04,575 --> 00:54:06,575
said "I won't work
with Jackie again."

1233
00:54:06,577 --> 00:54:08,310


1234
00:54:08,312 --> 00:54:12,281


1235
00:54:12,283 --> 00:54:15,718
- Someone chasing you?
- Nobody's chasing me, son.

1236
00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:17,886
I've been chasing
a [...] damn maniac!

1237
00:54:17,888 --> 00:54:21,223
♪ ♪

1238
00:54:21,225 --> 00:54:24,059
- And, of course, I don't know what
is about,

1239
00:54:24,061 --> 00:54:26,795
but we started rewriting.

1240
00:54:26,797 --> 00:54:29,832
♪ ♪

1241
00:54:29,834 --> 00:54:31,333
Does Burt feel that Jackie?

1242
00:54:31,335 --> 00:54:33,535
upstaging him
Stealing from him?

1243
00:54:33,537 --> 00:54:35,571
I - You know,
I really don't know.

1244
00:54:35,573 --> 00:54:39,575
- Do you feel that you are entering
competition to Burt Reynolds?

1245
00:54:39,577 --> 00:54:41,677
- Oh no, no, no
He plays comedy.

1246
00:54:41,679 --> 00:54:43,545
I lead in this matter.
- Let me pay for it

1247
00:54:43,547 --> 00:54:45,147
Let me pay for it.
- Oh no.

1248
00:54:45,149 --> 00:54:46,649
- No, no, you are a legal officer.

1249
00:54:46,651 --> 00:54:48,417
I 'd - I will be respected.
- Well, many are obligatory.

1250
00:54:48,419 --> 00:54:50,419
Where is the tin?
I have to spray it.

1251
00:54:50,421 --> 00:54:53,656
- Oh, back there
I just left, so -

1252
00:54:53,658 --> 00:54:55,591
- I think it's Burt

1253
00:54:55,593 --> 00:54:57,626
a great comedian

1254
00:54:57,628 --> 00:55:00,296
He will see you
and say something,

1255
00:55:00,298 --> 00:55:02,464
and then he gives you
his attitude

1256
00:55:02,466 --> 00:55:04,500
that he said, "Who, me?"

1257
00:55:04,502 --> 00:55:06,669
And that's good, uh, quality

1258
00:55:06,671 --> 00:55:08,504
for someone who wants
to do comedy

1259
00:55:08,506 --> 00:55:11,440
I'm sure he can be like that
a great comedian

1260
00:55:11,442 --> 00:55:16,378
♪ ♪

1261
00:55:18,316 --> 00:55:21,517
[optimistic music]

1262
00:55:28,125 --> 00:55:30,626
- Every time you make a movie,
this is a battle

1263
00:55:30,628 --> 00:55:32,594
Things, he always has a plan.

1264
00:55:32,596 --> 00:55:34,596
He is always willing
to take the opportunity

1265
00:55:34,598 --> 00:55:37,299
to do something special
and different.

1266
00:55:42,073 --> 00:55:43,939
- Oh.

1267
00:55:43,941 --> 00:55:46,842
- Well, I -

1268
00:55:53,617 --> 00:55:56,452
- Alan multiplies Burt.

1269
00:55:56,454 --> 00:55:59,321
Looks like Burt when he was there
ride in a car.

1270
00:55:59,323 --> 00:56:01,657
And Janet Brady saw
exactly like Sally,

1271
00:56:01,659 --> 00:56:03,392
and continue
to duplicate itself

1272
00:56:03,394 --> 00:56:05,994
He can do a fight,
he can make a fall,

1273
00:56:05,996 --> 00:56:09,498
But his expertise is a car,
there is no question about that

1274
00:56:09,500 --> 00:56:11,834
[tire squealing]

1275
00:56:11,836 --> 00:56:13,635
He and Alan Gibbs meet.

1276
00:56:13,637 --> 00:56:15,671
They decide to get married.

1277
00:56:15,673 --> 00:56:16,939
[laughs]

1278
00:56:16,941 --> 00:56:18,607
And they are married
during filming

1279
00:56:18,609 --> 00:56:20,642
from "Smokey and the Bandit."

1280
00:56:20,644 --> 00:56:23,479
And Hal gave Janet away

1281
00:56:23,481 --> 00:56:26,648
as - as "Father"
of the bride

1282
00:56:26,650 --> 00:56:28,450
- Is that really there?
almost accident

1283
00:56:28,452 --> 00:56:29,918
shoot the scene
where the car is

1284
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,087
crashing
soccer field?

1285
00:56:32,089 --> 00:56:34,156
- Oh Boy.
It must be like that.

1286
00:56:34,158 --> 00:56:35,924
[roaring machine]

1287
00:56:35,926 --> 00:56:39,361
- Ah!

1288
00:56:39,363 --> 00:56:42,364
[somber music]

1289
00:56:42,366 --> 00:56:44,600
♪ ♪

1290
00:56:44,602 --> 00:56:47,536
We get a shot that is not in the movie

1291
00:56:47,538 --> 00:56:49,204
because they are so creepy.

1292
00:56:49,206 --> 00:56:54,309
♪ ♪

1293
00:56:54,311 --> 00:56:56,712
- When the car jumps,
and I see everyone

1294
00:56:56,714 --> 00:56:58,380
starting to run out of dugout,

1295
00:56:58,382 --> 00:57:00,215
I see just one person
stand up straight

1296
00:57:00,217 --> 00:57:02,785
and the car just hit the break room.

1297
00:57:02,787 --> 00:57:04,153
♪ ♪

1298
00:57:04,155 --> 00:57:06,989
- Some children get hit.

1299
00:57:06,991 --> 00:57:09,358
Fortunately, nobody
was seriously injured,

1300
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:10,659
But, you know, there are

1301
00:57:10,661 --> 00:57:13,128
one or two children
in a hospital.

1302
00:57:13,130 --> 00:57:14,997
♪ ♪

1303
00:57:14,999 --> 00:57:17,800
- When a car hits, two things
occur: number one is,

1304
00:57:17,802 --> 00:57:20,002
I'm not aware that we have
watered this night,

1305
00:57:20,004 --> 00:57:21,970
or that they have watered it.

1306
00:57:21,972 --> 00:57:23,639
And even though we use
Pirelli tires

1307
00:57:23,641 --> 00:57:25,541
to try to compensate,

1308
00:57:25,543 --> 00:57:27,709
um, we can't
stop

1309
00:57:27,711 --> 00:57:29,111
That's all there is for that.

1310
00:57:29,113 --> 00:57:32,147
And I just give thanks to God
one of my stuntmen

1311
00:57:32,149 --> 00:57:34,650
has enough sense in him to--

1312
00:57:34,652 --> 00:57:36,452
and the second stunt girl--

1313
00:57:36,454 --> 00:57:38,086
to turn on the car and, uh,

1314
00:57:38,088 --> 00:57:41,256
get outside of these people

1315
00:57:42,927 --> 00:57:45,327
- I said, "We will
hurt someone who is bad

1316
00:57:45,329 --> 00:57:48,430
I - I want this to stop now."

1317
00:57:48,432 --> 00:57:50,132
You know, you can do anything
in the world

1318
00:57:50,134 --> 00:57:52,701
in the movie, but you can't stop.

1319
00:57:52,703 --> 00:57:54,736
- An absolute decision is mine,

1320
00:57:54,738 --> 00:57:57,206
Because, I mean, I'm the boss
in that,

1321
00:57:57,208 --> 00:57:59,741
therefore my tuchus
is on the phone,

1322
00:57:59,743 --> 00:58:02,945
and no one can tell me
how I want to take that risk

1323
00:58:09,787 --> 00:58:12,154
- Do you do real driving?
on "Smokey and the Bandit"?

1324
00:58:12,156 --> 00:58:15,123
- I do all the driving except
jumps over the bridge

1325
00:58:15,125 --> 00:58:18,827
Uh, I was under a tree then,
hid my face

1326
00:58:18,829 --> 00:58:20,596
[laughter]

1327
00:58:20,598 --> 00:58:23,165
- When people go to the movies,

1328
00:58:23,167 --> 00:58:25,300
they get - they are fun
with characters,

1329
00:58:25,302 --> 00:58:28,971
main character
and all.

1330
00:58:28,973 --> 00:58:30,672
They don't think
about stuntman,

1331
00:58:30,674 --> 00:58:32,641
and I guess it shouldn't.

1332
00:58:32,643 --> 00:58:35,911
But when an actor is confronted

1333
00:58:35,913 --> 00:58:38,180
on national television
or something,

1334
00:58:38,182 --> 00:58:40,549
It seems like I should
have enough huevos

1335
00:58:40,551 --> 00:58:42,951
to say, "No, I didn't do that."

1336
00:58:42,953 --> 00:58:46,788
- Most actors can't
do their own things

1337
00:58:46,790 --> 00:58:49,091
Actors continue Johnny Carson--
"Oh yes.

1338
00:58:49,093 --> 00:58:51,527
I do all my own actions,"
and we - we don't care

1339
00:58:51,529 --> 00:58:53,896
We don't want any recognition.

1340
00:58:53,898 --> 00:58:56,932
It's all about working,
and making money,

1341
00:58:56,934 --> 00:58:59,368
and go to the next show
and the next deal

1342
00:58:59,370 --> 00:59:02,170
- Good stunt community
from robes and daggers.

1343
00:59:02,172 --> 00:59:05,073
I mean, there is no publicity.
No, nothing.

1344
00:59:05,075 --> 00:59:09,711
People don't know
What an acrobat.

1345
00:59:09,713 --> 00:59:11,813
- Ironically, it's Hal

1346
00:59:11,815 --> 00:59:14,182
who let the cat
out of the bag

1347
00:59:14,184 --> 00:59:17,319
[clattering]

1348
00:59:17,321 --> 00:59:20,088
- Hi, David.
How are you?
- Nice to stay here, Hal.

1349
00:59:20,090 --> 00:59:22,024
- Thank you very much.
- Are you okay?

1350
00:59:22,026 --> 00:59:23,325
- Oh, I'm fine

1351
00:59:23,327 --> 00:59:24,359
- Nothing has a bigger shadow

1352
00:59:24,361 --> 00:59:25,294
from Burt Reynolds.

1353
00:59:25,296 --> 00:59:27,162
And my father really

1354
00:59:27,164 --> 00:59:30,532
more than ready to step out
from behind it

1355
00:59:30,534 --> 00:59:32,734
- When Hal first met me,
he said,

1356
00:59:32,736 --> 00:59:35,270
"This is the person who will
make me a star

1357
00:59:35,272 --> 00:59:37,205
Let's ask this."

1358
00:59:37,207 --> 00:59:40,275
My job is to make Hal
household name

1359
00:59:40,277 --> 00:59:43,512
And wow, how do you do it?

1360
00:59:43,514 --> 00:59:45,847
- Next, you will see Hal Needham.

1361
00:59:45,849 --> 00:59:47,950
Things that are charged
caftans have tent lines.

1362
00:59:47,952 --> 00:59:49,484
- I'm not crazy about it

1363
00:59:49,486 --> 00:59:51,019
- Oh, I think that looks great
to him, though.

1364
00:59:51,021 --> 00:59:53,555
There is a hood so you can
close everything in it

1365
00:59:53,557 --> 00:59:55,324
- I think he realized that

1366
00:59:55,326 --> 00:59:57,793
acting is not his expertise,

1367
00:59:57,795 --> 01:00:00,295
But for sure, those stunts.

1368
01:00:00,297 --> 01:00:03,031
- Good weather for flying.

1369
01:00:03,033 --> 01:00:05,867
But Hal Needham
doesn't have a plane

1370
01:00:05,869 --> 01:00:08,704
What he has is a truck.

1371
01:00:08,706 --> 01:00:10,439
Distance between ramps

1372
01:00:10,441 --> 01:00:13,208
comparable to
a 12-storey building

1373
01:00:13,210 --> 01:00:14,509
is placed by his side.

1374
01:00:14,511 --> 01:00:16,111
How are you doing, Hal?

1375
01:00:16,113 --> 01:00:18,614
- Well, I will stay
a rocket in the back end,

1376
01:00:18,616 --> 01:00:21,183
and jump to the river.

1377
01:00:21,185 --> 01:00:23,819
- I spend all day, every day,
looking for a way

1378
01:00:23,821 --> 01:00:27,322
to get Things in front of anyone
You can, anytime.

1379
01:00:27,324 --> 01:00:30,325
[rock music]

1380
01:00:30,327 --> 01:00:38,467
♪ ♪

1381
01:00:41,872 --> 01:00:44,406
- For me, I remember that
Because I broke my back.

1382
01:00:44,408 --> 01:00:47,542
For the second time.

1383
01:00:49,046 --> 01:00:51,246
- I can remember it
broken his back

1384
01:00:51,248 --> 01:00:54,249
and ribs and get
out of hospital

1385
01:00:54,251 --> 01:00:56,084
and board an airplane
and go down

1386
01:00:56,086 --> 01:00:59,721
to do another film

1387
01:01:01,859 --> 01:01:04,960
- He is the first human
to test airbags

1388
01:01:04,962 --> 01:01:06,495
You know, when
no one knows anything

1389
01:01:06,497 --> 01:01:09,064
about airbags,
there is a thing.

1390
01:01:09,066 --> 01:01:11,266
- When I first start going
out to pitch Hal,

1391
01:01:11,268 --> 01:01:14,202
That is not an easy task.

1392
01:01:16,206 --> 01:01:18,707
I'm aware of where I should go

1393
01:01:18,709 --> 01:01:20,909
tell people,
"Well, Hal Needham

1394
01:01:20,911 --> 01:01:22,811
Stuntman Burt Reynolds. "

1395
01:01:22,813 --> 01:01:24,246
Now, we pay attention to them.

1396
01:01:24,248 --> 01:01:25,981
- He used to like doing it
Stunts himself too. - Unfortunately, when we
start several interviews,

1397
01:01:25,983 --> 01:01:27,549
they are always silent
Back to Burt. take from me

1398
01:01:27,551 --> 01:01:29,251
Uh, and for example, um,
He takes my wardrobe, okay?

1399
01:01:29,253 --> 01:01:32,120
He has copied my wardrobe

1400
01:01:32,122 --> 01:01:34,156
that I wear normally,
all the time,

1401
01:01:34,158 --> 01:01:36,958


1402
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,795


1403
01:01:39,797 --> 01:01:43,899


1404
01:01:43,901 --> 01:01:45,901


1405
01:01:45,903 --> 01:01:48,837


1406
01:01:48,839 --> 01:01:51,206
and, uh, and rightly so
he was wearing it on film.

1407
01:01:51,208 --> 01:01:52,708
One day, he came out,
he and I dressed up

1408
01:01:52,710 --> 01:01:54,509
exactly the same

1409
01:01:54,511 --> 01:01:55,711
- We do a lot of work,

1410
01:01:55,713 --> 01:01:56,678
because we know that

1411
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:58,046
comes every time

1412
01:01:58,048 --> 01:02:00,615
And then, he goes
talking about stunts

1413
01:02:00,617 --> 01:02:02,084
- Presents...
[drum roll]

1414
01:02:02,086 --> 01:02:04,052
Stuntman.

1415
01:02:04,054 --> 01:02:05,387
- And he's not just your base,

1416
01:02:05,389 --> 01:02:06,888
everyday stuntman, good.

1417
01:02:06,890 --> 01:02:08,990
He was modeled
after Hal Needham,

1418
01:02:08,992 --> 01:02:10,592
the man I consider good

1419
01:02:10,594 --> 01:02:12,461
best stuntman
in business

1420
01:02:12,463 --> 01:02:15,197
- He once met the man
who owned a toy company.

1421
01:02:15,199 --> 01:02:17,766
They say, "You know,
Doll Evel Knievel

1422
01:02:20,504 --> 01:02:23,004
It was sitting at his desk
days when I entered

1423
01:02:23,006 --> 01:02:25,640
I said," Oh, my God, Hal,
you have a doll

1424
01:02:25,642 --> 01:02:28,443
Small stunt dolls
Give me a break! "

1425
01:02:28,445 --> 01:02:30,412
There is a little ram,
and you can fly -

1426
01:02:30,414 --> 01:02:32,147
the doll, and it will change.

1427
01:02:32,149 --> 01:02:36,585
You can, uh, make a hat
fly with a rope

1428
01:02:36,587 --> 01:02:39,221
- It has been designed = but they don't have a market for that yet.

1429
01:02:39,223 --> 01:02:42,290
We realize that we
will need a big event

1430
01:02:42,292 --> 01:02:46,027
Things and Bill Fredricks appear
with the idea

1431
01:02:46,029 --> 01:02:48,663
of rocket cars

1432
01:02:48,665 --> 01:02:50,699
- Three two one...

1433
01:02:50,701 --> 01:02:53,535


1434
01:02:53,537 --> 01:02:55,203
ignition!

1435
01:02:55,205 --> 01:02:58,073
[roaring machine]

1436
01:02:58,075 --> 01:03:00,575
- Wow, it looks like he's in a
This is good, Ken.

1437
01:03:00,577 --> 01:03:02,844
- Thunderous sendoff
to Hal Needham!

1438
01:03:02,846 --> 01:03:05,313
Climbing up to 400... to 500...

1439
01:03:05,315 --> 01:03:08,784
almost 550 miles per hour
and still climbing.

1440
01:03:08,786 --> 01:03:11,186
- It's faster than programmed
, Ken.

1441
01:03:11,188 --> 01:03:13,355
- the parachute has just come out -
the parachute is deployed,

1442
01:03:13,357 --> 01:03:15,390
but not yet opened
- Ken, it hasn't been opened

1443
01:03:15,392 --> 01:03:17,292
He may be very serious
the problem there

1444
01:03:17,294 --> 01:03:18,760
- He missed the red flag
he had

1445
01:03:18,762 --> 01:03:22,664
falls at the end
of course.

1446
01:03:22,666 --> 01:03:24,232
- I want to tell you something.

1447
01:03:24,234 --> 01:03:27,469
The last few hundred meters
are gun children!

1448
01:03:27,471 --> 01:03:29,938
- Hal said, "I didn't go
to put my life

1449
01:03:29,940 --> 01:03:34,042
behind 700 miles of car hours
much longer."

1450
01:03:34,044 --> 01:03:36,411
Moments later
car rocket event

1451
01:03:36,413 --> 01:03:39,114
finally the toy appears.

1452
01:03:39,116 --> 01:03:42,317
It was never really made
a place on the market.

1453
01:03:42,319 --> 01:03:45,453
He knows he will never do it
become a movie star

1454
01:03:45,455 --> 01:03:47,989
So things under
extraordinary pressure

1455
01:03:47,991 --> 01:03:50,125
makes "Smokey and the Bandit"
successful

1456
01:03:51,995 --> 01:03:55,197
[70 rock music]

1457
01:03:55,199 --> 01:03:58,533
♪ ♪

1458
01:03:58,535 --> 01:04:00,769
- There are scenes
in the image where

1459
01:04:00,771 --> 01:04:04,539
it's a small dirt road--
bridge.

1460
01:04:04,541 --> 01:04:07,475
The car jumps over the bridge,
flies through the air,

1461
01:04:07,477 --> 01:04:10,011
and land on the other side.

1462
01:04:10,013 --> 01:04:11,546
- That's very dangerous  Nothing - it's a problem,
do you know?

1463
01:04:11,548 --> 01:04:13,615
You know, you come short,
You have a problem here.

1464
01:04:13,617 --> 01:04:16,952
[tire squealing]

1465
01:04:18,422 --> 01:04:21,823
- Sorry, I don't want
to get married.

1466
01:04:21,825 --> 01:04:23,758
- great
Which makes us both.

1467
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,127
- Sally and Burt become items
with that--

1468
01:04:26,129 --> 01:04:28,396
shooting day

1469
01:04:28,398 --> 01:04:29,898
- Rolling - oh, wait
One minute.
Let's begin.

1470
01:04:29,900 --> 01:04:32,534
- We see daily, and
you can see it.

1471
01:04:32,536 --> 01:04:34,402
It's there.

1472
01:04:34,404 --> 01:04:35,704
When two people
hit it

1473
01:04:35,706 --> 01:04:37,305


1474
01:04:37,307 --> 01:04:39,574
and you can know
they like each other.

1475
01:04:39,576 --> 01:04:41,576
Sometimes, they call it "Action,"
and there are

1476
01:04:41,578 --> 01:04:42,978
things that happened first.

1477
01:04:42,980 --> 01:04:46,281
- ♪ Contact You Bandit ♪

1478
01:04:46,283 --> 01:04:48,016
♪ ♪

1479
01:04:48,018 --> 01:04:52,120
♪ They call you Bandit ♪

1480
01:04:53,624 --> 01:04:57,359
- I think Bandit
covers its vulnerability

1481
01:04:57,361 --> 01:04:59,694
and sensitivity

1482
01:04:59,696 --> 01:05:01,463
with a lot of braggadocio,

1483
01:05:01,465 --> 01:05:04,266
and fancy shirts,

1484
01:05:04,268 --> 01:05:08,036
because I think, basically,
he is a bit shy

1485
01:05:08,038 --> 01:05:10,038
He is only good at one thing,

1486
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:11,773
and it's showing off.

1487
01:05:11,775 --> 01:05:13,441
But he is great at that.

1488
01:05:13,443 --> 01:05:15,443
I don't wear this type of shirt  I wear a cowboy hat.

1489
01:05:15,445 --> 01:05:17,612


1490
01:05:17,614 --> 01:05:20,248
I think - I'm not really positive
about this,

1491
01:05:20,250 --> 01:05:22,684
because there is a big debate
happens -

1492
01:05:22,686 --> 01:05:24,586
about this in America.

1493
01:05:24,588 --> 01:05:26,788
I think I'm a great actor.

1494
01:05:26,790 --> 01:05:28,189
[fighting]

1495
01:05:28,191 --> 01:05:30,191
- Burt Reynolds has
top box office

1496
01:05:30,193 --> 01:05:33,795
for six years, mostly in
Redneck tough guy films.

1497
01:05:33,797 --> 01:05:35,797
Now, he wants to try
serious drama

1498
01:05:35,799 --> 01:05:39,968
If you want to escape from the image of a good boy,

1499
01:05:39,970 --> 01:05:42,003
Will the audience let you?

1500
01:05:42,005 --> 01:05:45,273
- if I'm good
If I'm really good.

1501
01:05:45,275 --> 01:05:48,176
♪ And nothing hides ♪

1502
01:05:48,178 --> 01:05:50,378
♪ Facts that I feel ♪

1503
01:05:50,380 --> 01:05:55,250
♪ Bored, bored, bored ♪

1504
01:05:55,252 --> 01:05:57,385
- I found Burt Reynolds
the most perplexing actor

1505
01:05:57,387 --> 01:05:59,054
He has
strength and physical attributes

1506
01:05:59,056 --> 01:06:01,423
from a tough screen man who is perfect,
but he insists

1507
01:06:01,425 --> 01:06:03,425
when playing light comedy,
as if he saw himself

1508
01:06:03,427 --> 01:06:05,527
as a kind of Cary Grant
with muscle.

1509
01:06:05,529 --> 01:06:07,262
The point seems
to escape him, however,

1510
01:06:07,264 --> 01:06:09,464
is that you cannot become Cary Grant
and have muscle.

1511
01:06:09,466 --> 01:06:11,800
You must be satisfied
for one or the other.

1512
01:06:11,802 --> 01:06:14,936
- He can act, but apparently not
take a very good part  Which one does not take part
Stretch him and test it.

1513
01:06:14,938 --> 01:06:18,273
He might be a great
like Sean Connery

1514
01:06:18,275 --> 01:06:21,242
if he is easier
as he sees.

1515
01:06:21,244 --> 01:06:24,079
You can always feel it
that he wants to look good,

1516
01:06:24,081 --> 01:06:27,082
and this is fatal
in male actors.

1517
01:06:27,084 --> 01:06:29,451
- Maybe he started
bad advice, Pauline

1518
01:06:29,453 --> 01:06:31,419
- Or maybe there is fear in him.

1519
01:06:31,421 --> 01:06:34,823
- Burt, when you look in the mirror, what do you see?

1520
01:06:38,528 --> 01:06:42,630
Who do you see

1521
01:06:42,632 --> 01:06:46,835
- You see very
paid movie stars.

1522
01:06:46,837 --> 01:06:51,706


1523
01:06:51,708 --> 01:06:53,608
And starving actors.

1524
01:06:53,610 --> 01:06:56,111
Actor.

1525
01:06:56,113 --> 01:07:00,448
Being a personality is painful.

1526
01:07:00,450 --> 01:07:04,252
Being in the public eye
is - painful

1527
01:07:04,254 --> 01:07:07,422
Because you will never be able to give them
They always want
a little more.

1528
01:07:07,424 --> 01:07:10,325
[laughter]

1529
01:07:10,327 --> 01:07:11,860
- Are you really back
along with Dinah Shore?

1530
01:07:11,862 --> 01:07:14,729
- Do you plan to make any
film on location in Chicago?

1531
01:07:14,731 --> 01:07:18,266
- Do you want to go for
coffee after the show?

1532
01:07:18,268 --> 01:07:19,768
- You say it's your favorite
Sports are soccer

1533
01:07:19,770 --> 01:07:22,404
What affects you?
do "The Longest Yard"?

1534
01:07:22,406 --> 01:07:24,672


1535
01:07:24,674 --> 01:07:27,108
- Really?
trying to adopt children

1536
01:07:27,110 --> 01:07:28,510
and you plan to marry again?

1537
01:07:28,512 --> 01:07:32,414
- Burt, really you
enjoy all this

1538
01:07:32,416 --> 01:07:34,716
- Burt fell ill there,

1539
01:07:34,718 --> 01:07:37,485
and he is struggling
to come to the set.

1540
01:07:37,487 --> 01:07:39,587
You talk about
changing schedule

1541
01:07:39,589 --> 01:07:41,790
I mean, Sally can't work
without Burt

1542
01:07:41,792 --> 01:07:45,060
Because it's in the car.

1543
01:07:46,763 --> 01:07:49,364
- He disappeared
for a few days, yeah

1544
01:07:49,366 --> 01:07:51,566
But I don't want to enter
which, uh,

1545
01:07:51,568 --> 01:07:55,203
the reason

1546
01:07:55,205 --> 01:07:56,704
- Understood
Burt is an actor.

1547
01:07:56,706 --> 01:07:58,873
Being an actor, that's what
is high and neurotic.

1548
01:07:58,875 --> 01:08:01,042
Now, all actors are crazy,
right?

1549
01:08:01,044 --> 01:08:03,178
I mean, Marlon Brando
left acting

1550
01:08:03,180 --> 01:08:05,880
Because he can't
take it again

1551
01:08:05,882 --> 01:08:07,415
You must understand,

1552
01:08:07,417 --> 01:08:09,317
Their faces are on
This 100 feet high screen.

1553
01:08:09,319 --> 01:08:10,718
- You know who it is

1554
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:12,420
- if they are embarrassed
with what they see,

1555
01:08:12,422 --> 01:08:14,456
they want to kill themselves

1556
01:08:14,458 --> 01:08:17,125
So, the pressure on an actor,

1557
01:08:17,127 --> 01:08:20,395
in his ego,
is very extraordinary

1558
01:08:20,397 --> 01:08:23,565
[siren]

1559
01:08:23,567 --> 01:08:26,634
- We won't succeed, son!
We will hang it.

1560
01:08:26,636 --> 01:08:28,603
- Whoa, negatory, negatory,
Are you,

1561
01:08:28,605 --> 01:08:29,804
crazy or something

1562
01:08:29,806 --> 01:08:31,606
We got this far, right?

1563
01:08:31,608 --> 01:08:33,641
Look, when we say it
we will do work,

1564
01:08:33,643 --> 01:08:36,277
we do work!

1565
01:08:36,279 --> 01:08:39,781
- And Hal came and said,
"I gave up.

1566
01:08:39,783 --> 01:08:41,983
Do you do this?"

1567
01:08:41,985 --> 01:08:44,119
- There is one thing about
both ol 'Southern boys,

1568
01:08:44,121 --> 01:08:45,920
all the way through.

1569
01:08:45,922 --> 01:08:49,224
They have a sense of loyalty
to their friends

1570
01:08:49,226 --> 01:08:52,427
[dramatic music]

1571
01:08:52,429 --> 01:08:54,929
♪ ♪

1572
01:08:54,931 --> 01:08:59,701
- I feel like, if anything,
I am indebted to Hal.

1573
01:08:59,703 --> 01:09:04,239
♪ ♪

1574
01:09:04,241 --> 01:09:06,975
You must be dangerous

1575
01:09:06,977 --> 01:09:09,744
as part of being sexy.

1576
01:09:09,746 --> 01:09:14,015
♪ ♪

1577
01:09:14,017 --> 01:09:17,118
Now it's too late.

1578
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:20,054
"Let's jump this bridge."

1579
01:09:20,056 --> 01:09:28,196
♪ ♪

1580
01:09:32,569 --> 01:09:35,036
- We jumped over the bridge!
We do that!

1581
01:09:35,038 --> 01:09:36,905
Do you see what we do?
- Yes I did.

1582
01:09:36,907 --> 01:09:40,074
- I want to jump something else!
I want to jump home!

1583
01:09:40,076 --> 01:09:41,442
I want to jump something!

1584
01:09:41,444 --> 01:09:42,944
- We just made a car jump.

1585
01:09:42,946 --> 01:09:44,646
The director's assistant shouted,
"That's it.

1586
01:09:44,648 --> 01:09:46,347
That's the package."

1587
01:09:46,349 --> 01:09:48,483
That is the last -
the end of the film

1588
01:09:48,485 --> 01:09:51,085
Needham, I and I look up
the top of Trans Am

1589
01:09:51,087 --> 01:09:52,787
each other.

1590
01:09:52,789 --> 01:09:54,856
He just gave me a wry smile
and looked at me,

1591
01:09:54,858 --> 01:09:56,991
You know, and we only nod
each other and that's all.

1592
01:09:56,993 --> 01:09:58,860
- You're crazy!

1593
01:09:58,862 --> 01:10:00,395
- The type of our moment.

1594
01:10:00,397 --> 01:10:02,530
You realize that it exists,

1595
01:10:02,532 --> 01:10:06,367
and it will be around a lot
longer than you.

1596
01:10:09,406 --> 01:10:11,739
- Universal presents...

1597
01:10:11,741 --> 01:10:14,409
This is
"Smokey and Bandit."

1598
01:10:14,411 --> 01:10:16,277
- General sales manager
at Universal,

1599
01:10:16,279 --> 01:10:17,879
After seeing the film,
by the way,

1600
01:10:17,881 --> 01:10:21,349
Um, I don't think I have many beliefs
in the picture.

1601
01:10:21,351 --> 01:10:24,052
He asks us not
the preliminary show of the film.

1602
01:10:24,054 --> 01:10:25,653
I think he is actually suspected

1603
01:10:25,655 --> 01:10:27,388
that he will go
lose the order

1604
01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:29,824
Because the picture is very bad.

1605
01:10:29,826 --> 01:10:32,760
[banjo music]

1606
01:10:35,932 --> 01:10:38,499
- Hell...

1607
01:10:40,370 --> 01:10:42,770
Do you know?

1608
01:10:47,777 --> 01:10:49,744
They say...

1609
01:10:56,386 --> 01:10:59,387
[orchestra orchestra orchestra]

1610
01:10:59,389 --> 01:11:00,521
♪ ♪

1611
01:11:00,523 --> 01:11:04,058
And I said, "Take it out!"

1612
01:11:04,060 --> 01:11:06,761
♪ ♪

1613
01:11:06,763 --> 01:11:08,429
- You do comedy,
it doesn't work

1614
01:11:08,431 --> 01:11:10,064
[choking]

1615
01:11:10,066 --> 01:11:11,332
Off.

1616
01:11:11,334 --> 01:11:12,767
And only fools do it

1617
01:11:12,769 --> 01:11:14,802
think that's a sure thing.

1618
01:11:14,804 --> 01:11:17,105
- I think that
is a very funny film

1619
01:11:17,107 --> 01:11:19,641
And then - you know, we think -
we have big hopes,

1620
01:11:19,643 --> 01:11:22,510
they open
movies at Radio City Music Hall,

1621
01:11:22,512 --> 01:11:26,014
and then we -
and die.

1622
01:11:26,016 --> 01:11:27,582
- I said, "Wait a minute.

1623
01:11:27,584 --> 01:11:30,351
" Do you open it in -
in New York?

1624
01:11:30,353 --> 01:11:32,687
That's ridiculous. "

1625
01:11:32,689 --> 01:11:36,190
- That is a disaster
screening, I mean...

1626
01:11:36,192 --> 01:11:38,359
That card, you know,

1627
01:11:38,361 --> 01:11:40,928
" It's boring.
See this before. "

1628
01:11:40,930 --> 01:11:44,232
I think, you know,
what I do

1629
01:11:44,234 --> 01:11:46,934
to get these people to get it.  in the South. "

1630
01:11:46,936 --> 01:11:48,670
That's what was made for that.

1631
01:11:48,672 --> 01:11:50,538
- [shouting]

1632
01:11:50,540 --> 01:11:52,340
- ♪ Well, hello there,
neighbors ♪

1633
01:11:52,342 --> 01:11:54,175


1634
01:11:54,177 --> 01:11:56,811


1635
01:11:56,813 --> 01:11:59,047


1636
01:11:59,049 --> 01:12:00,948
♪ Now, how do you do ♪

1637
01:12:00,950 --> 01:12:04,619
♪ There is something I want
to say to you ♪

1638
01:12:04,621 --> 01:12:06,554
♪ You are from my homeland ♪
[dogs barking]

1639
01:12:06,556 --> 01:12:08,389
♪ My bright land,
tell me friends ♪

1640
01:12:08,391 --> 01:12:10,992
♪ Now it can be ♪

1641
01:12:10,994 --> 01:12:13,328
- how many of you have seen
Photo thing,

1642
01:12:13,330 --> 01:12:14,929
"Smokey and the Bandit"?

1643
01:12:14,931 --> 01:12:16,264
[applause]

1644
01:12:16,266 --> 01:12:18,800
- I like it.
I like it.

1645
01:12:18,802 --> 01:12:21,736
- I'm sure I've seen the film
200 times.

1646
01:12:21,738 --> 01:12:24,806
And that might be
plus or minus five.

1647
01:12:24,808 --> 01:12:26,808
- ♪ Yes, that's a view from
Louisiana, Mississippi ♪

1648
01:12:26,810 --> 01:12:29,344
♪ Alabama, West Virginia,
Tennessee, Carolina ♪

1649
01:12:29,346 --> 01:12:32,814
♪ There are only a few places below
Mason-Dixon lines ♪

1650
01:12:32,816 --> 01:12:34,816
♪ Then you are on Dixie ♪

1651
01:12:34,818 --> 01:12:36,951
♪ Hurray, hurray for Dixie ♪

1652
01:12:36,953 --> 01:12:39,721
♪ Because of this old boy,
he's also from Dixie ♪

1653
01:12:39,723 --> 01:12:41,189
♪ Stand back, boy ♪

1654
01:12:41,191 --> 01:12:44,459
- The small number
is the second highest grossing

1655
01:12:44,461 --> 01:12:46,828
films in the history of
from the film business.

1656
01:12:46,830 --> 01:12:48,529
- I'm happy because, because
is an image

1657
01:12:48,531 --> 01:12:49,797
it was not made
for critics

1658
01:12:49,799 --> 01:12:52,600
It was made for the people.

1659
01:12:52,602 --> 01:12:54,068
- How do you like the movie?

1660
01:12:54,070 --> 01:12:57,338
- Oh, I just love it.
- Oh, that's very exciting.

1661
01:12:57,340 --> 01:12:58,639
- Who is your favorite
in the movie?

1662
01:12:58,641 --> 01:13:00,808
- Burt
[laughs]

1663
01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:04,712
Of course.
That dog is also good.

1664
01:13:04,714 --> 01:13:07,648
- We all live in that matter
part of the country

1665
01:13:07,650 --> 01:13:09,317
go, "Yup, that's all
how it works", or

1666
01:13:09,319 --> 01:13:11,018
"he reminded me of my uncle,"

1667
01:13:11,020 --> 01:13:13,254
or "he reminds me of my father,"
or "he reminds me

1668
01:13:13,256 --> 01:13:14,756
of my neighbors on the road."

1669
01:13:14,758 --> 01:13:16,891
- You know, in the South,
they think

1670
01:13:16,893 --> 01:13:20,261
"Smokey and Bandit"
as documentary

1671
01:13:20,263 --> 01:13:21,929
It has a cultural impact

1672
01:13:21,931 --> 01:13:23,664
that I don't think of all of us
Can be imagined.

1673
01:13:23,666 --> 01:13:25,433
I mean, to this day,

1674
01:13:25,435 --> 01:13:26,834
it's a friendly South

1675
01:13:26,836 --> 01:13:29,170
than maybe many people
have been seen before

1676
01:13:29,172 --> 01:13:33,074
And maybe, in that case, there is elegance.

1677
01:13:33,076 --> 01:13:37,945
- The buzz is very big.
I mean, it's very big!

1678
01:13:37,947 --> 01:13:40,548
♪ ♪

1679
01:13:40,550 --> 01:13:42,049
- You know, in days
silent films,

1680
01:13:42,051 --> 01:13:44,185
Chasing is often the highlight of
from the story

1681
01:13:44,187 --> 01:13:47,121
So, Hollywood thinks, then
the audience is like a little,

1682
01:13:47,123 --> 01:13:49,357
they will be very loving,
and soon,

1683
01:13:49,359 --> 01:13:52,226
no food at all,
that is all dessert

1684
01:13:52,228 --> 01:13:55,496
- This is not a B movie.
This is an A plus plus.

1685
01:13:57,767 --> 01:14:00,034
He makes us all alive
and gives us reason

1686
01:14:00,036 --> 01:14:03,104
to say, "Hey, we still have
A hero out there."

1687
01:14:03,106 --> 01:14:06,340
- When I say "Burt Reynolds,"
right now.

1688
01:14:06,342 --> 01:14:09,076
Black cowboy hat
Mustache?

1689
01:14:09,078 --> 01:14:11,245
Is that what you see?
That's what I see.

1690
01:14:11,247 --> 01:14:12,980
I also see it
in Trans Am.

1691
01:14:12,982 --> 01:14:16,951
If he is driving in Lexus, it will only destroy me  - Critics of "Washington Post"

1692
01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:18,553


1693
01:14:18,555 --> 01:14:20,855
In the opinion of that person,

1694
01:14:23,660 --> 01:14:25,159
I mean, the photo is
Things are increasing,

1695
01:14:25,161 --> 01:14:27,395
and Hal is no longer
a stuntman

1696
01:14:27,397 --> 01:14:30,965
♪ ♪

1697
01:14:30,967 --> 01:14:33,067
- So, my father decided
it was time

1698
01:14:33,069 --> 01:14:35,403
to move
from Burt Reynolds' house.

1699
01:14:35,405 --> 01:14:39,373
You married, you settled down
, and then, uh,

1700
01:14:46,416 --> 01:14:49,217
[soft music]

1701
01:14:49,219 --> 01:14:52,019
- I always want
to have a theater,

1702
01:14:52,021 --> 01:14:54,989
all my life, uh, since I
started to become an actor

1703
01:14:54,991 --> 01:14:56,691
- How are you doing tonight?

1704
01:14:56,693 --> 01:14:58,926
If you will follow Bruce,
he will take you to your seat.

1705
01:14:58,928 --> 01:15:00,962
- Good night.
How are you tonight?

1706
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:05,867
[applause]

1707
01:15:18,414 --> 01:15:22,149
it is unfair
stardust and moonbeams.

1708
01:15:22,151 --> 01:15:25,119
This is a lot of hard work and pain.

1709
01:15:25,121 --> 01:15:28,222
Get out of here!
Mark it

1710
01:15:28,224 --> 01:15:29,824
- Burt Reynolds
is a hungry person

1711
01:15:32,929 --> 01:15:36,230
that he is more than just an illusion

1712
01:15:36,232 --> 01:15:39,133
that he is - what he presents.

1713
01:15:39,135 --> 01:15:41,502
- Do you want to be taken?
more serious

1714
01:15:41,504 --> 01:15:45,339
Or will you continue to do it?
this stunting show?

1715
01:16:01,558 --> 01:16:03,691
"For what they are.
They don't try

1716
01:16:03,693 --> 01:16:05,660
" to be something else
rather than what they are.

1717
01:16:05,662 --> 01:16:08,829
But for what they are,
They are great. "

1718
01:16:08,831 --> 01:16:12,166
- But are you still shooting
a" Casablanca "in your career?

1719
01:16:12,168 --> 01:16:14,535
- Yeah, I shot
for a "Casablanca."

1720
01:16:14,537 --> 01:16:16,571
And you know what I'm going to do when I'm
get my "Casablanca"

1721
01:16:16,573 --> 01:16:20,274
I will be back soon and make
a "Smokey and the Bandit."

1722
01:16:20,276 --> 01:16:21,909
[applause]

1723
01:16:21,911 --> 01:16:23,744
- Burt, co-author
and director

1724
01:16:23,746 --> 01:16:27,582
from "Smokey and the Bandit,"
your friend Hal Needham

1725
01:16:27,584 --> 01:16:30,251
[elegant music]

1726
01:16:30,253 --> 01:16:33,054
- First of all, let me say it
I'm sure nobody expects me

1727
01:16:33,056 --> 01:16:36,157
to play guitar or sing '
You know better than that.

1728
01:16:36,159 --> 01:16:38,292
I only have
one talent given by God,

1729
01:16:38,294 --> 01:16:40,328
and it falls in my head.

1730
01:16:40,330 --> 01:16:43,097
And I'm grateful for that,
because that allows me

1731
01:16:43,099 --> 01:16:47,234
to meet Burt Reynolds some
20-some-odd years ago.

1732
01:16:47,236 --> 01:16:50,271
- I always say to him, "If you want
to be a woman,

1733
01:16:50,273 --> 01:16:52,707
we definitely already have
a big marriage."

1734
01:16:52,709 --> 01:16:55,910
He is an extraordinary man.

1735
01:16:55,912 --> 01:17:00,414
They don't participate like that
but once in your life

1736
01:17:02,285 --> 01:17:04,218
- You are a doll, I love you,

1737
01:17:04,220 --> 01:17:05,653
and I owe everything
to you, Burt

1738
01:17:05,655 --> 01:17:07,021
Thank you.

1739
01:17:07,023 --> 01:17:10,024
[relaxed country music]

1740
01:17:10,026 --> 01:17:12,026
♪ ♪

1741
01:17:12,028 --> 01:17:13,527
- I just want to make a wish.

1742
01:17:13,529 --> 01:17:15,029
[shouts]

1743
01:17:15,031 --> 01:17:23,170
♪ ♪

1744
01:17:24,474 --> 01:17:28,209
- Certain people
appear in your life,

1745
01:17:28,211 --> 01:17:31,112
and the miracle happened,
and that doesn't always happen,

1746
01:17:31,114 --> 01:17:33,881
but when miracles
occur... [applause].

1747
01:17:33,883 --> 01:17:36,784
♪ ♪

1748
01:17:36,786 --> 01:17:38,786
- Do you know something?

1749
01:17:38,788 --> 01:17:43,724
You see
The luckiest person lives.

1750
01:17:43,726 --> 01:17:45,292
- So we talk,
and I say, "Hal,

1751
01:17:45,294 --> 01:17:48,095
" can you believe your success?

1752
01:17:48,097 --> 01:17:50,097
"From
farmer children in Arkansas,

1753
01:17:50,099 --> 01:17:52,199
you do
'Smokey and the Bandit'?"  "Yeah," he said.
"It's going well, man."

1754
01:17:52,201 --> 01:17:55,236
- People don't think
too much from me

1755
01:17:55,238 --> 01:17:58,105


1756
01:17:58,107 --> 01:18:01,776
or what I will admit.

1757
01:18:01,778 --> 01:18:03,878
But surely -

1758
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,814
of course--

1759
01:18:06,816 --> 01:18:09,450
my mother...

1760
01:18:09,452 --> 01:18:11,452
Look down tonight...

1761
01:18:11,454 --> 01:18:15,156
with a big smile on his face.

1762
01:18:15,158 --> 01:18:18,292
[clears throat]

1763
01:18:19,829 --> 01:18:22,329
[applause]

1764
01:18:22,331 --> 01:18:26,434
I want to say thank you
Hollywood Community

1765
01:18:26,436 --> 01:18:30,004
to allow me
to be a part of it.

1766
01:18:30,006 --> 01:18:32,440
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it

1767
01:18:32,442 --> 01:18:39,980
♪ ♪

1768
01:18:39,982 --> 01:18:42,550
- When I hear that he is passing,

1769
01:18:42,552 --> 01:18:46,620
I think, "What is in the name of God?

1770
01:18:46,622 --> 01:18:48,122
" can kill it?

1771
01:18:48,124 --> 01:18:49,657
What can kill him? "

1772
01:18:49,659 --> 01:18:53,227
- She's the only guy I think I can live forever

1773
01:18:53,229 --> 01:18:55,796
[tire squealing]

1774
01:18:55,798 --> 01:18:57,531
- He likes speed.

1775
01:18:57,533 --> 01:18:59,667
He likes to bend the rules
a little.

1776
01:18:59,669 --> 01:19:03,137
He likes to live life
in his own way.

1777
01:19:03,139 --> 01:19:06,140
Hal Needham is,
and always will,

1778
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bandits

