All language subtitles for touched_by_an_angel_s07e04_restoration

There's never been anyone else but you.

No.

Idiots.

Sat -masters.

There was a time, you know, when you
didn't mind good old -fashioned happy

endings.

Are you still here?

I'm still here.

Is it time?

No, not yet.

Why don't you poop or get off the pot?

Because you're not ready to leave.

Oh, for the lover.

Andrew, I'm 102.

I've got nothing but phlegm and gas in
here. My time has come to call the boss.

Get the green light. Let's get it over
with.

Why are you in such a hurry to die?

There's no reason to stick around.

Ah, but there is.

There's a very good reason.

And it's right down on the street.

Right on Hollywood Boulevard.

Chandler Crown. I've never heard of him.

Oh, he directed all those depressing,
violent movies.

Excuse me!

Uh, excuse me.

We're filming here, if you don't mind.

By the way, Chandler Crown's movies are
not depressing.

They're prophetic metaphors for an
unforgiving world.

Now, if you please.

That's a pretty bleak view of things,
young lady.

It is a lousy, meaningless world. And he
knew that.

Eighty years ago he knew that.

That's why he's a visionary.

And that's why I'm making this
documentary.

So please move and allow me to film the
one surviving tribute to a great man.

Thank you.

I remember Chandler Crown.

Failure has a longer memory than
success, I'm afraid.

Oh, you didn't fail, baby.

Some assignments just take longer to
finish, that's all.

Yes, 80 years.

Makes you wonder what God was waiting
for.

Oh, I know what he was waiting for.

He was waiting for her.

I will rise and I will walk with you.

I'll walk with you till the sun don't
even shine.

Walk with you every time I tell you I'll
walk

with you.

32 films later, the work of Chandler
King Crown still resonates with the

themes he established in his first great
silent film, Damnation.

The mark he made on Hollywood reminds us
that he was, in his own words, born

under a dark star.

Well, I don't know, Stevie. There are 43
students competing for 12 spaces. If

you want one of those spaces, you're
going to have to do a lot better than

What do you mean? I mean, I've chased
his entire career here.

And what's your conclusion?

What is your thesis?

My thesis is that The Damnation was Mr.

Crown's watershed work. I mean, it was
the dividing line between his earlier

comedies and his classic dramas.

Every film student knows that, Stevie.

What nobody has ever found out is why.

Why did a director suddenly change his
entire worldview and start making dark

philosophical films?

What changed?

I don't know. A man like Chandler Crown
probably had a vision of some kind, some

manifestation of a great truth.

Maybe he had a dream and it came to him.

Documentaries aren't about maybes.

You have a theory. Now you have to prove
it.

If you can't do that, well, I can't say
that you'll be back next year.

You have three days, Stevie.

Now go home and get a good night's
sleep.

You'll figure it out.

Yeah.

I'll just go home.

Bell doesn't work.

Well, I can hear it ring.

You calling me a liar?

Mr. Crown, I'm Stevie Noonan. Go away.

I'm making a documentary about you.

Over my dead body.

Well... It will be over your dead body,
Chandler. If you don't get something to

eat, and that's not going to happen if
you don't open this door right now.

You got lemon bars today?

Six of them.

I'm fine, Mr. Crown, and I'm very happy
to see you again.

And lunch will be ready in a minute.

I don't do interviews. It's part of my
charm.

Well, I just thought maybe you might
want to do just one, at least, before

you... Before I die.

Do you know something that I don't? Have
you two been talking?

No, actually, we've never met, but I do
think it would be a very good idea for

you to talk to her.

Oh, you do, do you?

Who are you talking to?

Who do you think?

I'm talking to the angel of death.

That is so surreal.

Do you talk all the time?

Oh, this doesn't bother you.

It sure bothers the hell out of me. No,
I mean, this is just the sort of weird,

dark, visionary thing that I was hoping
for.

Oh, God, a fan.

I feel a heart attack coming on.

Nice try, Chandler.

Not yet.

Hey, food lady!

Hurry up!

I'm being picked on by the angel of
death.

The vampire -filled student from hell.

Oh, shame.

All the nice people in the world, and
they picked you.

Uh -uh, uh -uh. No interview, no food.

Thick lemon bar.

Thick.

You've got dirt on your lips.

Oh, oh, uh, that's, uh, lips.

Well, the dishes are done, and I'll see
you tomorrow.

Good. We're trying to shoot here.

Okay, um, Sandler King Crown, you became
known as the director of the

dark realism genre, uh, but your earlier
films were much lighter.

Shallow.

Naive, all about nothing.

But all of that changed in 1926 with
your breakthrough film, Damnation,

it? Yes.

Everything changed then.

Even the title changed, right?

Yes.

The original title was Redemption.

Then it became Damnation after it
premiered.

Why? Don't ask me. That's Zydlowski.

He ran the studio.

He called the shots.

Miserable skinflint.

I can't ask him.

Sid Lumsky died in 1957.

At good riddance.

I hope it hurt.

Behave. Why? Why should I?

Just keep talking. You'll see.

Are you talking to him again?

Oh, and what's that to you, dirt lips?

Okay, forget about the title.

Just tell me, when you decided to make
Damnation, was it one single epiphany?

Or did you always have this visionary
grasp of the existential void?

What do you know about the existential
void?

More than you think.

And I have a feeling that you know more
than you're telling.

Chandler, she needs to hear the truth.

And you need to tell it.

I'll tell her whatever the Sam Hill I
choose to tell her.

Okay. We're still rolling. Fine.

Now, this was my first big picture for
Lumsky Studios.

He cranked out two movies a week.

Rolling! Mostly shooting with cowboys.

Slapstick. cops.

You're content, Ruby, not blissful.

Love your father.

Blessed are they which are persecuted
for righteousness' sake. Cut!

I said content, not gleeful. This is
home sweet home here, not the carnival.

you shot these scenes in order,
Chandler, maybe a person could keep

what they're supposed to feel. I just
told you how to feel. I cannot feel it

you. Oh, boy, here we go again.

And what's that supposed to mean?

If I'm not good enough for you, maybe
you should just get someone else.

I didn't say that.

I cannot work like this.

Ruby. We shot the ending yesterday and
now we're shooting the beginning.

All right, that's lunch, everybody.

Hey, guys.

That's lunch.

Chandler.

Yes, Sid.

I just saw what you've already got in
the can. I don't get it. That's bad.

It's a different kind of love story,
Sid.

A young girl searching for her father,
running into evil at every turn. And she

meets this mysterious woman who helps
her to understand the meaning of life.

Stick to the plane crashes. Leave the
meaning of life to D .W. Griffith.

Speaking of which, can't afford a plane
crash.

Make it a car crash, shoot it last
because I only got one car. I was hoping

shoot the third act in order so we could
let Ruby and Violet build up in the

climactic scene. That's another thing.
No Violet.

What? Had to give it a broom.

Why? Found out she was secretly dating
your prop man. You know I don't allow

romances at my studio.

What am I going to do about Violet? I
can't just cut the part, Sid. The

woman is the secret to the whole
picture.

So find another one. Actresses are a
dime a dozen.

Hey! Which one of you gals wants to be a
star?

There's your Violet.

Any dame that doesn't want to be a star,
well, that is a mystery woman.

Hey, you!

Red!

What's your name?

Monica.

I don't want to talk about this anymore.

Five o 'clock. Time for bed.

Mr. Crown, this is so important to me.
If you could just tell me something

damnation that nobody else knows, then
this documentary would really mean

something.

You've seen my films, and you should
know that the things we want the most

the things that we can never have.

You want more information.

I want more lemon bars.

But we're both out of luck.

Goodbye, vampire girl.

Wait, Mr.

Crown, please.

His what?

His pocket watch. He's been looking for
it all morning, and he thinks you took

it. She did.

I know it.

You stole it, you little poop.

And the food lady lets you right back
into my house. I own that.

Bah!

Mr. Crown, I don't know what you're
talking about. You stole my pocket

told me.

Your invisible friend?

Hypocrite! Yesterday you said you
believed he was there.

Oh, no, I just said I thought he was
cool. I mean, I don't believe in angels.

Or in God.

Or thou shalt not steal.

Hocked it for drug money, I suppose.

No, actually, she pawned it to get her
car out of impound.

Listen, I don't care what you needed it
for. I want my watch back, or I am

calling the police. You call the police,
and I will eat this.

Pawn picket. And you will never see your
precious watch again.

That is blackmail.

Yes. Deep Fountain, 1932. Your hero was
a blackmailer. Now, you give

me what I want, and I will give you what
you want. But until then, I have got

one day to shoot this.

Desperation justifies the action.

Shadow of a Stranger, 1933.

All right, all right.

Now. You just cast this Monica person to
play the mystery woman.

Yes.

I wonder whatever happened to her.

An accident!

Unhand this woman.

Evil shall not prevail in this house.

Great, Monica. Now, Ruby Cower.

And Monica, grab the Bible.

schedules ruby sid makes the schedules
they're they're really actually

people individually you put them
together and then fireworks

yeah it's been like that for three
pictures they never stop arguing let's

Get a stunt woman.

Ruby won't let me. You know how she is.
She wants to do the crash herself.

Well, let her. She knows what she's
doing. It's a simple gag.

Sid, it's one thing. Can't we just do it
tomorrow? I'm starting a new picture

tomorrow. Do the stunt. Finish the
movie. Or kiss your career goodbye.

Hi, Monica.

Aren't you all finished?

Yes, but I thought I'd stay and see the
last shot.

That's dedication for you.

I have a feeling that redemption will be
remembered forever as something

special.

Do you really think so?

Because I was kind of hoping for that.

I think it will give hope to so many
people.

Do you know what is my vision exactly?

Right now movies are small, but someday
they're going to be big.

Thousands, maybe millions of people will
see them.

When they leave my movie, I want them to
feel better about the world than before

they went in.

Hold on to that vision, Chandler, no
matter what happens.

Well, nothing's going to happen.

It may seem that way here in Hollywood
land where the sun always shines, but it

rains sometimes in the real world.

Dreams are fragile, and visions can dim
if you don't hold them in a safe place.

Well, I'm going to do just that, so
don't you worry.

Right now, I have got to get off the
last shot before we lose this light.

Take care of yourself, Mark.

Thanks.

So we've shot everything before the
crash, and we've shot the big finale

the crash. All we've got left is the
crash itself, thank God.

You finished?

Yep. All done.

Starting the western tomorrow.

What's the matter?

Uh, nothing.

She's ready. Let's do it.

Okay, Ruby, just drive down the road,
veer off at the rock, and bump into the

tree.

And just bump it. Nothing fancy, okay?

We're on.

I love the fire.

remember. It's a sad story and all, but
that still doesn't explain why you made

Damnation in the first place.

Well, he didn't make Damnation in the
first place. Shut up.

It wasn't called Damnation in the first
place. It was called

Redemption. Did you start out making one
kind of movie and end up making

another?

You did have an epiphany, didn't you?

Oh, man, this is great. I mean, this
just proves everything. So what was it?

it a vision or a revelation or what?

I'm tired.

Go away.

Food lady, go away.

Andrew, go away.

Wait, Mr.

Crown.

get your own

What are you doing here?

Looking for you.

I thought I'd find you in a place like
this.

It's just as well you slept through the
last one.

It was very inspiring.

Might have upset you.

I love all silent movies.

You cannot appreciate the genius and the
vision of Chandler Crown's movies

without those chirpy one -railers to
hold them up against.

He's really a hero, isn't he?

He was.

He's not going to tell me anything.

So you're going to give up?

Yeah. I mean, what's the point? It's too
late.

It's not too late.

Your little movie is due today.

And as far as I know, today lasts all
day long.

And... It could be the day that made a
difference if he just had a little

People like me don't have faith.

Well, don't worry about it.

I'll lend you some of mine.

Here, here's your watch. Give me that.

I'm so sorry.

Thank you. Go away.

Well, so much for faith.

I'm going to clean up, you're going to
stay here and keep trying, and you're

going to play nice.

Well, don't you want to know how she got
the watch out of Hawk with no money?

No, I don't.

You don't what?

Wouldn't you like to get this whole
thing off your chest?

You're assuming that I feel guilty.

Guilt is a waste of time.

Approaching darkness, 1937.

God knows you feel pain.

God is dead.

Call of the Vortex, 1936.

No, he's not, Chandler.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be here.

Then what in blazes are you doing here?

Are you completely senile? All I want to
know is how redemption became

damnation. That's it. So, pooper, get
off the pot, pal.

I don't remember.

It was 75 years ago.

I can barely remember breakfast.

Oatmeal.

Chandler.

You remember.

What are you doing there, genius?

Working. On what? The picture's
finished. It premieres on Friday.

No. You can't release it yet. The
ending's not right.

What are you talking about?

It's the best part.

Works like gangbusters.

Inspiring, uplifting, everything you
said it would be.

They really do find the meaning of life
in Dawn if it didn't even get to me.

It's a great movie, kid.

No.

I won't let you release it yet.

You won't let me?

Read your contract, kid. You don't own
this picture. I do. Jimmy, line up!

Come on, Sid.

Be reasonable.

Boys, escort Mr. Crown off the lot.

No!

No! Sid!

Don't do this!

Come on, Sid!

Sid, please!

No! Sid!

Sid!

So...

He took your film away?

He tried to.

Lumsky outdid himself at the premiere.

Everybody in Hollywood came.

Max Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Fairbanks,
Mary Pickford, Barrymore.

They were all there.

And so was I.

Hey, Charlie.

What are you doing here?

Mr. Lumsky says you wasn't supposed to
come. It's okay, Charlie. I don't want

get in trouble.

A few minutes before the premiere, I
broke into the projection room and

cut off the last five minutes of the
film.

The audience never saw the original
happy ending.

I replaced it with a new one.

The last hopeless moments caught
accidentally on film, that last day of

shooting.

Redemption was never supposed to end
with death and the devil.

But I made sure it did.

And that's how redemption became
damnation overnight.

What in the place?

I can tell you, you little... What
happens in the ending? Where's the happy

ending?

I thought you were a genius kid.

So you cut off the end of the phone.

Why?

To get back at Lumsky, of course.

That's it?

No. Yes.

There was no vision?

No epiphany?

You weren't a tortured genius with a
dark vision? You were just a guy who got

mad and cut off the end of the movie and
stuck on some leftover footage of a

devil? So what?

It made my career.

And I did become the tortured genius.

I can't believe this.

I based my whole thesis on you.

Hell, I based my whole life on you.

Well, what's the big deal?

You asked. I told you.

You don't get it, do you?

I've been trying to figure out why life
turned to garbage for you because I'm

trying to figure out why it turned to
garbage for me.

But you don't care.

You don't care that I sleep in movie
theaters. You don't care that I sold my

this morning for $300 to buy back your
lousy watch.

Or that I'm going to have to go back to
Ohio.

Because I have got nothing to show now
because of you.

And you know what's going to happen to
me when I get back there?

My dad is going to beat me to a pulp
again.

And there's nothing I can do about it.

Because I have got nowhere else to go.

Why don't you ask your friend Andrew to
do me a favor, huh?

Ask him to leave you here in this
stinking hellhole and take me instead.

Because I am ready to go. I am really,
really ready.

am I.

You're coming back for more.

I'm through giving.

Stevie?

Hey, kid!

It's not Stevie, Mr. Crown.

No.

No, it can't be.

You do remember me, don't you, Chandler?

I don't want to, but it reminds me of...

It's not possible. It was 80 years ago.

Monica must be over 100 by now.

I'm even older than that.

Another angel like Andrew?

Like Andrew and Teth.

The food lady is an angel.

That God of yours must have some sense
of humor.

That God of yours created humor and love
and forgiveness and truth and light.

The same light that you use to shine
through little pieces of celluloid only

create a dark world.

It is a dark world.

And I want out of it.

So get Andrew back here and let's finish
me off.

And where would you go, Chandler?

Into oblivion, I hope.

Where no angels or gods or little girls
with cameras live.

The darkest place of all.

You know, you might not care that you
spend eternity there, but God does.

That's why he sent me to you all those
years ago.

To begin a good work in you that has yet
to be accomplished.

What work?

God put you on this earth, Chandler, at
the same time that a new art form was

being born.

And when you saw those first moving
pictures on the big screen, you

instantly the power they would have to
change hearts.

and create images that the human mind
could never erase from its memory.

You could have encouraged and lifted up
millions of people, but instead you used

the talent and the light that God gave
you to simply perpetuate your own pain.

The pain that God inflicted?

No. The pain that God could have healed
still can, if only you'd let him.

It's too late for an old coat like I
have.

No, it's not.

Perhaps it's too late to encourage
millions.

But it's not too late to encourage one.

Why should I?

I hate God.

Because 72 films later, so does Stevie.

In fact, she doesn't even believe in God
or good or love at all.

Then send her an angel God wants to send
you

Finish the work that he began Chandler

Tell the truth Find the joy

Then go home

What are you doing here?

I didn't cut off the ending because I
was mad at Zydlumski.

I cut it because I was mad at God.

Mr. Crown, I thought you didn't believe
in God.

Oh, I used to.

Until Ruby died.

You see, kid, I loved that woman.

We just pretended that we didn't get
along to keep...

Lumsky from getting suspicious.

But the truth is, we were married.

We ran down to Mexico one night between
pictures and got married under the moon.

And I gave her a ring that she wore
around her neck.

And she gave me this.

It probably didn't notice.

But it opens two ways.

Forever, Ruby.

Just before the crash.

She told me I was going to be a father.

And I was so happy, I just couldn't see
straight or think straight.

God.

I never should have let her do it. I
should have... I told Lonsky, no, I

have stopped her.

But I was so stunned and happy, I
stopped thinking.

So, I lost my wife.

I lost my baby.

And the beautiful life that could have
been.

It's not your fault, Mr. Crown.

You can't blame yourself. It's God's
fault, not yours.

No, kid.

No.

God didn't do it.

Bad things happen in this world because
the world isn't perfect.

But it's a lot easier to curse God than
to try to change

ourselves.

But I want to try to change a little
part of the world now.

I want you to see my movie.

The whole movie with the original
ending. The happy ending.

Not damnation.

But the redemption that it was supposed
to be.

And that's the only way I know.

I have to say, I'm sorry.

Showtime.

All set.

I loved it.

Now, believe it.

You know I'd like to.

But life is not like that.

You'd be surprised.

There is a good girl in there.

Dirt lips.

Maybe you stole my watch, but you
sacrificed everything you had to make

it. That's something.

Got a real fight going on inside of you.

And I want the good guys to win.

You mean like the angel?

Yes.

Excuse me.

Hello. I want you to have the movie.

Hold on to it.

It's the only true thing that I've ever
done.

And it ought to shake up your film
school friends.

I don't know what this means.

I guess I'm ready to go home.

Yes you are.

It's time to start forever.