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COMMENTARY:
I'm Michael Schultz.

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And when I first read the script
of The Last Dragon...

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...it was one of the few projects...

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...that I knew immediately
was gonna be successful.

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Uh, because in the history of cinema...

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...there have been very few black heroes.

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And a young black hero
and gorgeous people...

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...I knew that kids
would look at this movie...

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...over and over and over again.
Um...

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So the character Bruce Leroy...

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...a young unassuming guy
who fantasizes...

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...that he is Bruce Lee...

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...the black Bruce Lee.

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Um, and the adventures
that he gets into...

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...I thought would just captivate
a young audience.

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So I went to Suzanne de Passe,
who had found the project...

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...and begged her to let me do it.

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Um...

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I didn't know where we would
find a central character...

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...because we...

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Um, we had the Jim Kellys...

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...and the Ron Van Cliefs.

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But they were older martial artists.

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And we didn't know
where the young ones were.

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Or if there were any who were trained.

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So I met with Louis Venosta...

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...to find out what was the genesis
for this idea.

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And he told me
that he was a dancer...

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...and had done Fame
and some other projects.

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And he was always complaining
to his girlfriend...

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...that there were no black heroes.

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And he was a Bruce Lee fanatic.

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So his girlfriend said,
"Well, why don't you go write one?"

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And he went home one weekend...

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...and spent a couple weeks
and came up with this story.

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And I said, "Well, this is...

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...something that I really want
to be involved in."

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This effect that you're looking at
right now is not a special effect.

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We actually shot arrows...

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...at a predetermined target.

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And had Taimak try to chop them
in half out of the air.

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It took us about two hours
before we got the timing right.

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And he got the strength right
to actually break the arrow.

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I met with Berry Gordy
and Suzanne de Passe...

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...and we agreed on the vision of the film.

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And then it became a process
of trying to find this kid.

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Um...

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And we had casting sessions
in every major city.

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Um...

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And they were actually quite funny...

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...because we put a call out
for young...

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...20 to 25-year-old
black martial artists.

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And little old white ladies
would come to the audition.

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It was hysterical.

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Um, but everybody came
to audition for this movie.

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And we got down to the bitter end
of the schedule.

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And we still had not found
our Bruce Leroy.

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And toward the end of the casting
session a young guy came in.

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Had no acting training whatsoever.

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Um, but he had won several
major competitions in New York.

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And that was Taimak.

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And he had this genuine smile,
just a great innocent quality about him.

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But he was a serious,
for-real martial artist.

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And we decided whatever
it would take to teach him...

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...how to act, we would do that...

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...because he was the perfect
physical character. Um...

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And one of the hardest part
of the process in making this film...

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...was teaching him how to act.
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[COMMENTATOR CLEARS THROAT]

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But the one thing we didn't have to teach
him was genuine warmth and charm.

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Which just came with the guy.

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MASTER:
Leroy...

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...if it is a master...

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...you must have...

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...there is an old sage
called Sum Dum Goy.

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He is said to be the wisest man
in the universe.

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COMMENTARY:
When we did this film...

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...computer generated
screenplay systems...

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...were just coming into being.

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And we decided to work
on the script...

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...with a computer.

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And one of the problems with this project
was that it wound up being...

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...far more costly than the studio
was willing to fund.

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So while we were in New York
we had finished the casting process.

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We had the set designer working.

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And we got an edict
from the company saying...

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...we have to, um...

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We have to cut $2 million
out of the budget.

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Uh, otherwise, we can't make this film.

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So Louis Venosta and I...

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...stayed up in a hotel room all night...

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...rewriting the screenplay
to drop enough scenes...

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...and enough of the money element...

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...So that we could do it for the budget
that they were willing to spend.

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And we would take turns writing.

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And he was finally so exhausted that he
fell asleep on the bed in the hotel room.

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And I continued typing on this computer.

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And I hit a key that in my wildest dreams
I should never have hit.

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And I deleted 40 pages of script.

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And original material.

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And try as I might,
I couldn't get that material back.

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It had just vanished into cyberspace.

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When I woke--
Uh, when Louis woke up, I said:

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"I've got good news and bad news.

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The good news is,
the script's a lot shorter.

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[COMMENTATOR CHUCKLING]

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The bad news is I deleted 40 pages
and we can't get it back."

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So we spent the rest of that day...

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...recreating what we thought
was in those 40 pages.

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And we actually came in under budget.

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And wound up
with a very good film anyway.

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<i>♪ We live in a jungle ♪</i>

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[PEOPLE YELLING INDISTINCTLY]

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COMMENTARY:
Making this film in New York...

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...was a fascinating process
just from a sociological point of view.

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Because New York unions...

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...were ten years behind Hollywood...

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...in terms of opening up the unions
to minorities and women.

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And it was still basically controlled...

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...by the good old father-son process.

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And so here was a film...

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...that was developed
by a black company, Motown.

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Um, had mostly black actors in it.

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And out of a crew of 100 there was
only one black union person.

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Uh, and we couldn't fight those battles.

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This was way before Spike Lee
came on the scene.

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And had to make a very
complicated picture.

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Um, but I always resolved
to go back to New York...

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...and make a picture
with a primarily black crew.

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Because one of the things
that kept coming up was...

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...the talent doesn't exist,
they're not there, you know?

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They haven't been trained.

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Um, but that was just
part of the mindset at the time.

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BEAST:
I got him, Sho. I got him.

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I got him, Sho. I got him.

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Here you go, Sho.
Here's the roach who said it.

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COMMENTARY: I even put my
youngest son Brandon in the show...

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...to be the little kid that Sho'nuff
picks up and is about to beat up.

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And he identifies Leroy.

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Um...

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And one of the things
from a stylistic point of view...

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...that we did was we decided
to take these outlandish characters...

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...just short of being cartoon...

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...and make them as real as possible.

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So here you have
in New York City a kid...

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...who walks around in a Chinese
coolie hat and coolie clothes...

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...and a tough guy named Sho'nuff...

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...who's dressed like a Kabuki samurai.

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Um, as if these are normal people
walking around the streets of New York.

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LEROY: --see only that
which can be held in their hands.

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COMMENTARY:
And to pull off this character of Sho'nuff...

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Um, finding an actor
who could do that...

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...was almost as difficult
as finding the martial artist...

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...that Taimak wound up being.

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And we couldn't find another
martial artist who could act.

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And we weren't willing...

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...to have all our hairs turn gray...

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...to work with a total martial artist crew.

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So we found Julius Carry.

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Um, he knew no martial arts at all.

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But he was such a wonderful actor...

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...that he made you believe that
he could do the kicks and the flips.

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So with a combination
of his wonderful ability...

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...to take you into that character
and a few stunt men...

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...we pulled off the fact
that he was a tough...

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...karate artist in his own right.

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[SHO'NUFF YELLING]

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COMMENTARY: The stunt men
and the martial artists that we hired...

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...were quite good.

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Um, Ron Van Clief...

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...who's done many pictures of his own...

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...in the Jim Kelly, Bruce Lee days...

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...was one of our primary
fight choreographers.

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SHO'NUFF:
--because I am the shogun!

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And I will not rest
until everybody knows...

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...shogun is the master!

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[SNO'NUFF SNARLS]

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COMMENTARY:
And he had a style that really fit shogun.

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So we had him work primarily
with Sho'nuff, the shogun of Harlem.

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And we hired another
fight choreographer...

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...to deal with Taimak...

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...who had a more fluid Bruce Lee style.

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And the third fight choreographer...

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...was the father of this young guy
named Ernie Reyes Jr.

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And Ernie Reyes did the fight
choreography for all the kids.

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[ROCK LAUGHING]

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Ah-ah-ah-ah.

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[ROCK LAUGHING]

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[♪♪♪]

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TV ANNOUNCER:
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...It's Laura's Video Hotpix...

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...brought to you by Coca-Cola.

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Coke is it.

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[CHUCKLES]

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[ON TV]
♪ Coke is it ♪

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Soon that's gonna be you, Angie...

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...dancing around on that screen,
ain't that right?

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COMMENTARY: The villain of the piece,
Christopher Murney...

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...and Faith Prince...

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...his girlfriend,
an aspiring Madonna...

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...and Mike Starr...

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...his right hand goon...

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...were the bad guys.

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And they were always over the top
in terms of performance.

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But that's exactly the quality
that we were looking for.

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[ALL CHEERING]

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[♪♪♪]

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And now,
for my video hot-pick of the week--

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And it is hot.

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--I say we rock on with DeBarge.

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"Rhythm of the Night."

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COMMENTARY:
I think this was one of the first films...

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...that used giant screen projection.

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We took some of the technology
from concerts.

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And decided that a lot of our action...

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...could be live...

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...and projected on the screens
in the nightclub that we created.

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So we had a stage off to the side...

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...where we would
shoot the actors...

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...talking on screen...

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...to the actors who were
in front of the screen.

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So we had a very interactive...

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...and fluid result...

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...because we were working in real time.

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And I believe that's the first time that
that was done in film.

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And finding the technicians
who could give us the brightness...

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...and the image quality that we needed
for these thirty-foot screens...

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...was quite a feat.

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♪ Forget about the worries
On your mind ♪

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♪ You can leave them all behind ♪

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♪ Feel the beat
Of the rhythm of the night ♪

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<i>♪ Dance until the morning light ♪</i>

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COMMENTARY: And one of the fun things
about the project being a Motown project...

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...was we were able to tap
into some of their talent.

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So the music videos
that our villain was producing...

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...of course became music videos
that some of the Motown artists...

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...were gonna
use to promote their singles.

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♪ To the beat of the rhythm of the night
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

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<i>♪ Forget about the worries on your mind
You can leave them all behind ♪</i>

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♪ Feel the beat
Of the rhythm of the night ♪

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Come on, we're just talking about
one dinner out of your life.

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Come on, at least have dinner with him.

243
00:17:28,798 --> 00:17:30,960
J.J., would love to help you out...

244
00:17:31,133 --> 00:17:34,125
...but my show is booked solid
for the next four weeks.

245
00:17:34,303 --> 00:17:36,169
So you're just gonna have to wait.

246
00:17:36,347 --> 00:17:38,588
-Honey--
-Please, we've got a show to do.

247
00:17:38,766 --> 00:17:41,303
Will you at least look at the videotape?

248
00:17:41,477 --> 00:17:44,139
-J.J., there is no point.
-Laura, there is a point.

249
00:17:44,313 --> 00:17:46,520
The point of the knife
which is at my neck.

250
00:17:46,691 --> 00:17:49,524
He'll slit my throat
if you don't do this. Come on!

251
00:17:49,694 --> 00:17:51,605
What are you talking about, J.J.?

252
00:17:52,822 --> 00:17:56,611
COMMENTARY:
Now for the female lead...

253
00:17:57,827 --> 00:18:00,660
...we wanted a gorgeous
young black woman...

254
00:18:00,871 --> 00:18:02,282
...who could sing.

255
00:18:03,165 --> 00:18:05,076
And Vanity...

256
00:18:06,711 --> 00:18:13,003
...was on the scene
as one of Prince's discoveries.

257
00:18:13,217 --> 00:18:20,214
So we approached her
and she was completely up for it.

258
00:18:20,433 --> 00:18:23,721
And really a very sweet person...

259
00:18:23,936 --> 00:18:30,273
...who had a very believable
quality on screen.

260
00:18:30,484 --> 00:18:33,067
As well as being drop dead gorgeous.

261
00:18:34,196 --> 00:18:39,282
So we felt with...

262
00:18:40,745 --> 00:18:45,080
...a handsome and charming,
muscular...

263
00:18:46,834 --> 00:18:50,122
...karate guy like Taimak...

264
00:18:50,338 --> 00:18:56,084
...and a gorgeous
young woman like Vanity...

265
00:18:58,471 --> 00:19:00,929
...that we had some...

266
00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:11,061
...fun people to watch onscreen
in this musical fantasy.

267
00:19:16,614 --> 00:19:23,236
We were also lucky to get Lester Wilson
to choreograph the show.

268
00:19:24,413 --> 00:19:25,903
Lester...

269
00:19:27,667 --> 00:19:32,582
...had great credits
as a Broadway choreographer...

270
00:19:32,797 --> 00:19:37,883
...and had done a lot of the very
hot music videos of the time.

271
00:19:38,094 --> 00:19:43,635
And he gave us our moves.

272
00:19:48,354 --> 00:19:51,312
And there are scenes
when Vanity is performing...

273
00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:55,609
...where you see her
in front of the screen...

274
00:19:55,820 --> 00:20:02,066
...and then big head shots on the video
projected screens in the back.

275
00:20:04,286 --> 00:20:10,703
So we would sometimes shoot direct
stuff and put it on the big screens...

276
00:20:12,878 --> 00:20:15,210
...and shoot scenes
on our stage in the background...

277
00:20:15,381 --> 00:20:17,338
...and put it on the big screen.

278
00:20:18,384 --> 00:20:19,874
EDDIE:
What?

279
00:20:22,179 --> 00:20:25,638
Nobody turns down
an Eddie Arkadian invitation.

280
00:20:26,142 --> 00:20:27,348
Nobody.

281
00:20:27,518 --> 00:20:29,805
So come and join us
because the winner...

282
00:20:29,979 --> 00:20:33,472
...will get a Seventh Heavenly evening
out on the town with me.

283
00:20:33,649 --> 00:20:35,811
What do you think about that?

284
00:20:35,985 --> 00:20:37,146
[CROWD CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING]

285
00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:38,855
BOY:
How about a kiss?!

286
00:20:39,029 --> 00:20:40,190
LAURA:
Who said that?

287
00:20:40,364 --> 00:20:42,355
-I said it!
-No, I said it!

288
00:20:42,533 --> 00:20:44,069
A kiss?

289
00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:46,405
Well, you never know.

290
00:20:46,996 --> 00:20:48,987
But here's one for now.

291
00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:52,457
Got if!

292
00:20:53,544 --> 00:20:56,662
♪ You found my place
You finally found my place ♪

293
00:20:56,839 --> 00:21:01,003
♪ Yes, love's inside my lords
Dancin' all the time ♪

294
00:21:01,177 --> 00:21:04,670
♪ Hop off the elevator
Hell with incinerators ♪

295
00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:08,841
♪ Heaven never burned
An angel on a fire ♪

296
00:21:09,393 --> 00:21:13,762
♪ Oh, oh, oh
He never burned an angel on a fire ♪

297
00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:16,601
♪ He was full of desire ♪

298
00:21:17,276 --> 00:21:22,862
<i>♪ Oh, no
We don't burn angels on the fire ♪♪</i>

299
00:21:25,075 --> 00:21:26,611
Yeah.

300
00:21:35,377 --> 00:21:37,243
That's my babe. Ha, ha.

301
00:21:37,421 --> 00:21:40,129
-What you talking about?
-That's my woman up there.

302
00:21:40,299 --> 00:21:42,290
She don't know it yet,
but she's mine.

303
00:21:42,510 --> 00:21:44,376
[CROWD CHEERING]

304
00:21:44,553 --> 00:21:46,089
Yeah.

305
00:21:49,266 --> 00:21:50,347
Yeah.

306
00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:52,550
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

307
00:22:00,486 --> 00:22:03,820
COMMENTARY:
So one of the elements that...

308
00:22:04,031 --> 00:22:09,117
...we tried to achieve in this film
was to make it as...

309
00:22:09,328 --> 00:22:13,947
...interesting for the eye to look at
as possible.

310
00:22:17,670 --> 00:22:23,382
We got James Contner
to do the cinematography.

311
00:22:23,592 --> 00:22:30,464
He had done several Woody Allen
pictures as a cameraman.

312
00:22:33,686 --> 00:22:38,897
And he was a very talented DP.

313
00:22:39,108 --> 00:22:42,897
And this was one of his first big breaks.

314
00:22:43,112 --> 00:22:46,571
I thought he would have
a big career as a DP.

315
00:22:46,782 --> 00:22:49,365
But he decided to become a director.

316
00:22:53,747 --> 00:22:57,160
LAURA: How you doing tonight, Sal?
-You just sit back and relax.

317
00:22:57,334 --> 00:22:59,291
Sal got sick.

318
00:22:59,461 --> 00:23:02,624
-Hey, what are you doing?
-The right thing, Miss Charles...

319
00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:05,790
...which is what you're gonna do
if you got half a brain.

320
00:23:10,556 --> 00:23:13,218
-Help! Help! Somebody help me!
-Put her in the car!

321
00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:15,383
Come on, get her in here.

322
00:23:15,561 --> 00:23:18,303
-Help me, somebody!
-Get in the car, bitch!

323
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:19,936
Aah! Aah!

324
00:23:20,107 --> 00:23:21,268
You--

325
00:23:21,442 --> 00:23:23,353
I would not do that if I were you.

326
00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:24,730
[SCREAMING]

327
00:23:24,945 --> 00:23:26,902
You little punk.

328
00:23:27,114 --> 00:23:29,105
[♪♪♪]

329
00:23:31,285 --> 00:23:33,276
[LEROY YELLING]

330
00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:40,829
Hey, what are you, crazy?
Huh, tough guy? Come on!

331
00:23:42,588 --> 00:23:46,582
COMMENTARY: Um, I don't know if
you know, but this guy Frank Renzulli...

332
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,464
...was an actor at the time.

333
00:23:50,679 --> 00:23:54,047
But he's since become
a very well-known writer.

334
00:23:55,601 --> 00:23:59,890
Developed several shows...

335
00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:02,767
...and was writing with David Kelley
for a time being.

336
00:24:02,983 --> 00:24:05,145
But then went on to do his own stuff.

337
00:24:06,111 --> 00:24:07,601
LAURA:
Help!

338
00:24:13,535 --> 00:24:17,699
COMMENTARY: We had no stunt men
really in this picture.

339
00:24:17,915 --> 00:24:21,658
They were all martial artists.

340
00:24:21,877 --> 00:24:26,292
And Taimak did all of his own stuff.

341
00:24:26,507 --> 00:24:30,967
Vanity did all of her own physical work.

342
00:24:31,178 --> 00:24:37,720
And all the others were martial artists
of various degrees of training.

343
00:24:38,143 --> 00:24:40,475
LAURA:
What about you? Are you okay?

344
00:24:40,646 --> 00:24:42,762
They did not harm me.

345
00:24:43,357 --> 00:24:44,973
[SIGHS]

346
00:24:46,193 --> 00:24:47,558
Wow.

347
00:24:49,488 --> 00:24:51,479
[♪♪♪]

348
00:24:54,159 --> 00:24:55,991
Your things.

349
00:25:04,795 --> 00:25:07,207
That's okay. I can get them.

350
00:25:09,091 --> 00:25:11,549
It seems that everything is safe now.

351
00:25:11,719 --> 00:25:13,255
Yeah.

352
00:25:14,471 --> 00:25:17,384
COMMENTARY:
So the kind of romantic connection...

353
00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:21,308
...that we were making
with our lead actors...

354
00:25:21,478 --> 00:25:25,847
...you really hadn't seen in black film...

355
00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:27,397
...other than...

356
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,234
...Lady Sings the Blues
with Billy Dee and Diana.

357
00:25:34,616 --> 00:25:36,732
LAURA:
I just don't know how to thank you.

358
00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:42,246
COMMENTARY:
So we were going back to...

359
00:25:43,876 --> 00:25:46,334
...that kind of Cary Grant, um...

360
00:25:47,046 --> 00:25:50,289
LAURA: Did you see where that guy went?
-Yeah, he's right--

361
00:25:50,466 --> 00:25:53,208
I don't know. What?
You getting in or what?

362
00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:56,461
COMMENTARY:
Connection.

363
00:26:07,983 --> 00:26:10,350
TAXI DRIVER:
Come on, honey, let's go. Huh?

364
00:26:19,328 --> 00:26:22,241
Where is that deejay lady anyway?

365
00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:24,325
I mean, what's the big deal?

366
00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:26,116
Can't she just meet us there?

367
00:26:26,877 --> 00:26:28,834
COMMENTARY: I do wanna talk
about the production design...

368
00:26:29,004 --> 00:26:30,415
...because I thought it was...

369
00:26:32,382 --> 00:26:38,048
...extremely well done
for the cartoon quality that we were...

370
00:26:38,263 --> 00:26:40,049
...going after.

371
00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:43,094
And, um...

372
00:26:44,186 --> 00:26:45,221
ANGIE:
Uh-uh.

373
00:26:45,395 --> 00:26:49,104
Then knock it off. Don't bug me.

374
00:26:49,274 --> 00:26:52,232
COMMENTARY:
I'll talk about that in the second reel.

375
00:26:55,739 --> 00:26:57,650
The, um...

376
00:26:59,034 --> 00:27:01,696
The budget for this film...

377
00:27:03,455 --> 00:27:09,121
...finally came in at $10 million.

378
00:27:09,336 --> 00:27:14,251
And in 1985, that was a...

379
00:27:17,678 --> 00:27:19,919
...medium-budget picture.

380
00:27:21,932 --> 00:27:26,301
And when the film opened...

381
00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:34,563
...it was one of Tri-Star's
early pictures.

382
00:27:34,778 --> 00:27:39,614
And it generated about $33 million
at the box office.

383
00:27:39,825 --> 00:27:43,489
So it was the kind of project...

384
00:27:43,704 --> 00:27:47,072
...that kids went back to see
over and over again.

385
00:27:47,291 --> 00:27:51,501
I'd run into young people
in record shops...

386
00:27:51,712 --> 00:27:56,798
...and they would tell me,
"Oh, I saw that picture 10 times."

387
00:27:59,011 --> 00:28:06,008
It was very interesting to see the reaction
of young people to this project.

388
00:28:06,393 --> 00:28:07,758
LEROY:
Chinese GoJu is my secret.

389
00:28:07,936 --> 00:28:08,971
I bear no arms.

390
00:28:09,146 --> 00:28:11,558
ALL: Chinese GoJu is my secret.
I bear no arms.

391
00:28:11,732 --> 00:28:14,099
LEROY: May God help me
if I ever have to use my art.

392
00:28:14,276 --> 00:28:16,893
ALL: May God help me
if I ever have to use my art.

393
00:28:17,070 --> 00:28:18,151
Conscience is our guide.

394
00:28:18,322 --> 00:28:19,357
[STUDENTS REPEATING
AFTER LEROY]

395
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:22,023
Peace is our shelter.

396
00:28:22,201 --> 00:28:24,989
Beauty and perfection is our life.

397
00:28:25,913 --> 00:28:27,699
See the courtesy.

398
00:28:30,125 --> 00:28:32,116
COMMENTARY:
One of the things I've tried to do...

399
00:28:32,127 --> 00:28:34,664
COMMENTARY:
One of the things I've tried to do...

400
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:41,547
...in the course of my films
is to project...

401
00:28:41,762 --> 00:28:46,006
...strong and positive role models...

402
00:28:46,225 --> 00:28:50,344
...for minority kids.

403
00:28:50,562 --> 00:28:56,433
And to me, Bruce Leroy was a perfect
opportunity to show that.

404
00:28:56,652 --> 00:29:00,771
So we take people into his training,
into his dojo.

405
00:29:02,574 --> 00:29:07,535
We use the real mantras...

406
00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:11,330
...that they use in the dojos...

407
00:29:11,541 --> 00:29:14,454
...which are studios for martial arts.

408
00:29:14,628 --> 00:29:16,244
[JOHNNY SCREAMING]

409
00:29:17,422 --> 00:29:19,914
COMMENTARY:
And then we poke fun at it all.

410
00:29:21,802 --> 00:29:23,292
[MAN YELLS]

411
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,085
-Ooh.
LEROY: Johnny...

412
00:29:25,264 --> 00:29:28,427
...to seek safety, one must go
to the heart of danger.

413
00:29:29,393 --> 00:29:30,428
Huh?

414
00:29:30,644 --> 00:29:31,975
[YELLS]

415
00:29:32,521 --> 00:29:34,728
Yeah.

416
00:29:34,898 --> 00:29:37,390
Yeah. Ha-ha-ha.

417
00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:48,614
The sign outside says this here school
is for instructions in the martial arts.

418
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:51,741
So we thought
we might get some lessons.

419
00:29:51,915 --> 00:29:53,326
THUG 1:
Yeah, where do we sign up?

420
00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,707
-How many yen?
THUG 2: I'd like to learn kung fu.

421
00:29:55,877 --> 00:29:58,460
WOMAN: Come on, hot stuff.
-Come on, Leroy.

422
00:29:59,131 --> 00:30:01,338
Teach me something.

423
00:30:01,508 --> 00:30:03,340
I do not wish to fight you.

424
00:30:04,386 --> 00:30:07,754
Well, who do you "wish" to fight, then?

425
00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:11,094
One of them?
Or one of the ladies maybe?

426
00:30:11,268 --> 00:30:13,976
Yeah, since you're too much
of a sissy to fight me...

427
00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:16,513
...maybe they're more your speed.

428
00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:17,930
Get him, girls.

429
00:30:18,108 --> 00:30:21,442
Maybe you can get a rise
out of this limp wimp.

430
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,066
-Yaah!
-Heh, heh.

431
00:30:25,282 --> 00:30:27,319
-You wanna wrestle?
-Hey, little girl.

432
00:30:27,492 --> 00:30:29,859
All you've got is this bod, and that's it.

433
00:30:30,037 --> 00:30:33,496
I would love to peel this banana.

434
00:30:33,665 --> 00:30:36,578
Come on, handsome,
show us your stuff!

435
00:30:36,752 --> 00:30:40,211
How about a little kiss on my fist?

436
00:30:40,380 --> 00:30:42,542
Aw, he's too much of a gentleman
to hit a lady.

437
00:30:42,716 --> 00:30:44,707
[WOMEN GRUNTING AND YELLING]

438
00:30:45,635 --> 00:30:48,218
Who looks scared to me! Oh.

439
00:30:48,597 --> 00:30:51,339
Yeah! Come on, Leroy!

440
00:30:58,607 --> 00:31:01,645
-Yeah, that's right! Bow, sucker!
BEAST: Yeah. Ha-ha-ha.

441
00:31:01,818 --> 00:31:04,651
Bow down to your master!

442
00:31:04,821 --> 00:31:08,485
Yeah, coolie, kiss my Converse.

443
00:31:10,577 --> 00:31:12,614
-So sorry. Excuse me.
-Bow!

444
00:31:12,788 --> 00:31:17,032
COMMENTARY: The picture
was done totally in Manhattan.

445
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:22,536
There was an old bread factory...

446
00:31:23,673 --> 00:31:29,385
...in Long Island across the river
called Silver Cup Studios.

447
00:31:29,596 --> 00:31:36,184
And they had only done
commercials in the studio.

448
00:31:36,395 --> 00:31:40,309
And the L tra-- The subway...

449
00:31:40,524 --> 00:31:44,438
The subway was running right next
to some of the windows in the studio.

450
00:31:44,653 --> 00:31:50,945
So it wasn't quite what you'd call
the perfect filming environment.

451
00:31:51,952 --> 00:31:55,741
But we got it cheap
and decided to use it.

452
00:31:55,956 --> 00:32:01,952
So we filmed most of our stuff
in Silver Cup Studios.

453
00:32:03,630 --> 00:32:09,171
And in some warehouses along the river.

454
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:15,593
[GANG LAUGHING]

455
00:32:15,809 --> 00:32:20,975
COMMENTARY:
We had a shooting schedule of 44 days.

456
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:25,274
So, basically, we were doing
highly choreographed scenes...

457
00:32:25,485 --> 00:32:30,230
...and musical numbers and action...

458
00:32:30,449 --> 00:32:35,740
...in a very short time schedule.

459
00:32:36,204 --> 00:32:38,411
SHO'NUFF: Who's the master?!
GANG: Sho'nuff!

460
00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:40,118
SHO'NUFF: Who's the master?!
GANG: Sho'nuff!

461
00:32:40,292 --> 00:32:42,624
SHO'NUFF: The shogun of Harlem!
GANG: Yeah!

462
00:32:42,836 --> 00:32:43,871
[ALL LAUGHING]

463
00:32:44,045 --> 00:32:45,285
BEAST:
Yeah!

464
00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:52,092
Sometimes it is hard
to live the way of the wise.

465
00:32:52,596 --> 00:32:54,086
Huh?

466
00:32:56,308 --> 00:32:57,594
Hey, Reloy!

467
00:32:57,767 --> 00:33:00,850
Your papa-san,
he wants you in the kitchen, man!

468
00:33:01,021 --> 00:33:07,393
COMMENTARY: This is probably
the only film in my career...

469
00:33:07,611 --> 00:33:12,071
...where we had to work so hard...

470
00:33:13,283 --> 00:33:16,992
...to get acting performances.

471
00:33:17,204 --> 00:33:21,914
Because we chose
to go for the martial arts.

472
00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:26,456
Taimak, who is a wonderful guy...

473
00:33:26,671 --> 00:33:31,290
...we had a series of acting coaches.

474
00:33:31,510 --> 00:33:33,797
Because the...

475
00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:37,971
And they would work like a tag team.

476
00:33:38,183 --> 00:33:40,720
They'd work with him.

477
00:33:40,936 --> 00:33:43,052
Then they'd get tired out...

478
00:33:43,271 --> 00:33:46,639
...and the next acting coach would
come in and work with him.

479
00:33:47,108 --> 00:33:50,191
LEROY:
Mama-san, Papa-san...

480
00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:52,069
...Richie-san...

481
00:33:52,239 --> 00:33:54,901
...Lotus Blossom-san.

482
00:33:55,367 --> 00:33:57,108
[GIGGLES]

483
00:33:58,745 --> 00:34:01,237
COMMENTARY:
But ultimately...

484
00:34:01,456 --> 00:34:05,916
...he did everything
that we asked him to do.

485
00:34:06,127 --> 00:34:07,959
And, um...

486
00:34:08,588 --> 00:34:11,671
RICHIE: No wonder she's so confused.
LEROY: Bless this food.

487
00:34:13,218 --> 00:34:15,710
COMMENTARY:
I also thought that if he kept working...

488
00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:18,754
...he could have been a major star.

489
00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:23,388
RICHIE: People talk, you know.
-Richard, leave your brother alone.

490
00:34:23,562 --> 00:34:25,519
I can't help it if he's weird.

491
00:34:25,689 --> 00:34:27,396
You're weird, man, really weird.

492
00:34:27,566 --> 00:34:31,355
Richie, when I first started my business,
people said I was weird.

493
00:34:32,696 --> 00:34:38,988
COMMENTARY: The little girl,
the baby sister of the family...

494
00:34:39,202 --> 00:34:45,073
...Keisha, went from The Last Dragon...

495
00:34:45,292 --> 00:34:50,037
...10 a big career
on The Cosby Show.

496
00:34:50,213 --> 00:34:51,874
RICHIE:
That's my date for tonight.

497
00:34:52,048 --> 00:34:53,834
LAURA [ON TV
Because it's alive...

498
00:34:54,342 --> 00:34:56,208
...and very, very exciting.

499
00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:58,839
-That is her.
RICHIE: You telling me?

500
00:34:59,014 --> 00:35:01,756
You better believe that's her.
That's Laura Charles.

501
00:35:01,933 --> 00:35:05,267
So you remember now,
every weekday night at 8:00.

502
00:35:05,437 --> 00:35:07,019
Laura Charles.

503
00:35:07,188 --> 00:35:09,976
-I would like to see her.
RICHIE: Well, who wouldn't, fool?

504
00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:11,515
[IMITATING LEROY]
"I would like to see her.”

505
00:35:11,693 --> 00:35:15,152
No way the queen is gonna be looking
at no walking fortune cookie.

506
00:35:15,322 --> 00:35:17,404
"I would like to see her."

507
00:35:17,574 --> 00:35:20,942
-Well, I'll see her today, at rehearsal.
-You know where she is?

508
00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:23,781
- I know where she's gonna be.
-Take me to see her.

509
00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:26,617
I ain't taking you nowhere.
You might embarrass me.

510
00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:28,657
You're too weird.

511
00:35:29,377 --> 00:35:31,368
[♪♪♪]

512
00:35:32,964 --> 00:35:36,173
You do not understand.
She may have something I need.

513
00:35:36,343 --> 00:35:38,380
Ho-ho.
I knew it would happen sooner or later.

514
00:35:39,262 --> 00:35:42,846
COMMENTARY:
We shot this scene...

515
00:35:43,058 --> 00:35:47,518
...the pizza parlor
that Leroy's family owned...

516
00:35:47,729 --> 00:35:51,188
...was set in Alphabet City
in the East Village in New York.

517
00:35:51,358 --> 00:35:53,690
RICHIE:
Now, even you being a disgrace and all...

518
00:35:53,860 --> 00:35:55,646
...I'd be less than a man
if I didn't warn you...

519
00:35:55,820 --> 00:35:59,859
...there's an art to making love
and you don't even have a paintbrush.

520
00:36:00,033 --> 00:36:03,992
You gotta know the moves, baby.
You know, the moves.

521
00:36:05,372 --> 00:36:06,362
LEROY:
Richie...

522
00:36:06,539 --> 00:36:11,409
COMMENTARY:
One of the fun things in the script is...

523
00:36:11,628 --> 00:36:18,091
...the relationship between
Leroy and his little brother Richie.

524
00:36:18,301 --> 00:36:21,089
Where the little brother is more worldly.

525
00:36:21,304 --> 00:36:28,017
More knowledgeable than Leroy,
the older one.

526
00:36:28,228 --> 00:36:32,392
Because he's dedicated
his life to the martial arts...

527
00:36:32,607 --> 00:36:38,353
...and is therefore totally out of the loop
as far as being cool or being--

528
00:36:38,530 --> 00:36:41,613
Knowing how to deal with women.

529
00:36:41,825 --> 00:36:44,567
So the little brother tries to teach him.

530
00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:48,404
LEROY:
Richie, I must go to this dance contest.

531
00:36:48,581 --> 00:36:51,664
I ain't taking you nowhere,
and that's final.

532
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,706
Please.

533
00:36:57,090 --> 00:36:58,706
Kiss my hand.

534
00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:00,749
Richie, please.

535
00:37:00,927 --> 00:37:06,093
COMMENTARY: So Leo O'Brien,
who played the little brother...

536
00:37:08,685 --> 00:37:13,646
...handled it very well. I thought
he was a wonderful young actor.

537
00:37:13,815 --> 00:37:15,601
LEROY:
What it look like? Do it.

538
00:37:15,775 --> 00:37:16,765
Yeah, baby.

539
00:37:16,943 --> 00:37:21,437
Do it, do it. What-- What it be like?
What it...

540
00:37:21,614 --> 00:37:23,480
Okay. That's it, that's it.

541
00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:25,444
That is it, stop.

542
00:37:25,618 --> 00:37:27,154
Stop right here.

543
00:37:27,328 --> 00:37:29,285
It is pit-- It's just pitiful.

544
00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:31,948
-Give me one more chance!
-No. It is pitiful.

545
00:37:32,125 --> 00:37:34,162
-Put me down.
-Oh...

546
00:37:34,335 --> 00:37:36,246
Put me down.

547
00:37:37,088 --> 00:37:38,328
It's pitiful.

548
00:37:38,506 --> 00:37:42,090
♪ At my window
Staring out into the night ♪

549
00:37:43,470 --> 00:37:45,507
<i>♪ Wishing on a starlight ♪</i>

550
00:37:46,890 --> 00:37:49,348
COMMENTARY:
The...

551
00:37:49,517 --> 00:37:53,431
The combination of music...

552
00:37:54,439 --> 00:37:58,307
...action, comedy...

553
00:38:03,114 --> 00:38:05,230
...was a great one.

554
00:38:05,450 --> 00:38:09,364
I call this a three popcorn movie,
you know?

555
00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:13,785
The kind you sit in and go for popcorn...

556
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,287
...and watch it again
the second showing...

557
00:38:16,503 --> 00:38:18,494
...because you missed a little section.

558
00:38:18,671 --> 00:38:20,378
ROCK:
Come on, move it!

559
00:38:22,509 --> 00:38:25,251
♪ Give me some of that
Magic ♪

560
00:38:25,428 --> 00:38:29,387
♪ My pride has got me cryin'
Hear me sighin' ♪

561
00:38:29,557 --> 00:38:31,639
♪ Tryin' to hide from what I feel ♪

562
00:38:31,851 --> 00:38:35,845
See, man, messing around with you,
now my boys don't even know I'm here.

563
00:38:36,022 --> 00:38:38,684
You're not trying to enter
without paying, are you?

564
00:38:38,858 --> 00:38:41,771
Chill out, chopsticks.
Let me handle this.

565
00:38:41,945 --> 00:38:44,107
There must be another door.

566
00:38:45,698 --> 00:38:48,406
I'll be back.
Just stay right here and don't move.

567
00:38:48,576 --> 00:38:53,491
-And if anyone asks, remember--
-I know, I ain't your brother.

568
00:38:53,706 --> 00:38:54,867
COMMENTARY:
This film...

569
00:38:58,127 --> 00:39:00,789
...was inspired...

570
00:39:01,005 --> 00:39:05,841
...by the Chinese kung fu movies...

571
00:39:06,052 --> 00:39:12,674
...and very much
follows the formula.

572
00:39:13,518 --> 00:39:16,681
ROCK: I don't know. I only do
what I'm told. We try for perfection!

573
00:39:17,981 --> 00:39:20,143
COMMENTARY:
Characters who are bigger than life...

574
00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:23,896
...but represent human qualities
that we recognize.

575
00:39:24,112 --> 00:39:26,103
[♪♪♪]

576
00:39:27,824 --> 00:39:29,360
LAURA:
Help!

577
00:39:29,534 --> 00:39:30,820
Help!

578
00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:38,369
COMMENTARY: A story where good
eventually wins out over evil.

579
00:39:42,338 --> 00:39:43,624
♪ I found a picture ♪

580
00:39:45,133 --> 00:39:46,874
♪ Inside your suitcase ♪

581
00:39:48,177 --> 00:39:50,509
♪ I don't know what it means ♪

582
00:39:51,264 --> 00:39:53,676
♪ I didn't recognize her face ♪

583
00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:57,304
♪ Mail order catalogs ♪

584
00:39:57,979 --> 00:40:02,564
COMMENTARY: Now, I don't know
in the lexicon of film...

585
00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:07,690
...at this point in time
how many films combined...

586
00:40:07,906 --> 00:40:11,319
...what was happening
with music videos of the day.

587
00:40:11,534 --> 00:40:15,027
But one of my...

588
00:40:16,581 --> 00:40:18,197
♪ Dirty books ♪

589
00:40:18,833 --> 00:40:25,375
COMMENTARY: ...attempts here
was to cross the fun things...

590
00:40:25,590 --> 00:40:28,002
...that people were doing
in music videos...

591
00:40:28,217 --> 00:40:33,803
...that were not linear and narrative.

592
00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:38,971
And plug that into a narrative film.

593
00:40:41,272 --> 00:40:43,013
♪ Dirty books ♪

594
00:40:43,191 --> 00:40:44,397
♪ I found 'em, I found 'em ♪

595
00:40:44,567 --> 00:40:46,399
♪ Dirty books ♪

596
00:40:46,569 --> 00:40:47,934
♪ I found 'em, I found 'em ♪

597
00:40:48,112 --> 00:40:50,149
And to think how [ found them
in your suitcase.

598
00:40:50,323 --> 00:40:51,484
[LAUGHING]

599
00:40:53,409 --> 00:40:55,525
♪ [ found 'em, I found 'em ♪♪

600
00:40:55,745 --> 00:40:57,486
[ALL CHATTERING
AND CHEERING]

601
00:40:57,664 --> 00:40:59,746
Don't you love it?

602
00:40:59,916 --> 00:41:02,658
EDDIE: Doll, did I do you a favor
or did I do you a favor?

603
00:41:02,835 --> 00:41:05,202
COMMENTARY:
Several years before this film...

604
00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:08,498
... had done a film called Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band...

605
00:41:08,675 --> 00:41:11,884
...which was like a nonstop
music video.

606
00:41:13,346 --> 00:41:18,261
And then music videos
became a real...

607
00:41:19,811 --> 00:41:23,520
...kind of cultural force.

608
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:28,942
And in this film I tried to combine
a little bit of that...

609
00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:32,066
...within the structure
of the narrative film.

610
00:41:32,365 --> 00:41:34,857
ANGIE: That's what she was gonna say,
wasn't it, honey?

611
00:41:35,034 --> 00:41:37,617
Oh, Eddie, she's just tired.

612
00:41:38,454 --> 00:41:39,944
Tired, huh?

613
00:41:40,123 --> 00:41:43,081
She's gonna be dead tired,
she's not careful.

614
00:41:43,501 --> 00:41:46,038
Okay, I tried to be
a gentleman about this!

615
00:41:46,212 --> 00:41:48,453
I was gonna take you out
to a fancy restaurant.

616
00:41:48,631 --> 00:41:50,372
Let you order a la carte, huh?

617
00:41:50,883 --> 00:41:53,045
All I wanted was my video
on your show...

618
00:41:53,219 --> 00:41:54,425
...and now you say no.

619
00:41:57,015 --> 00:41:59,052
Okay, that's it.
No more Mr. Nice Guy.

620
00:41:59,225 --> 00:42:00,511
Rock, let's go.

621
00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:03,973
Oh. Eddie, you're not gonna do
what I think you are?

622
00:42:04,147 --> 00:42:05,262
Who's gonna stop me?

623
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,272
[WOOD BREAKING]

624
00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:09,186
Who's this? We didn't order out.

625
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,478
Get him the hell out of here!
Get him out of here now!

626
00:42:12,697 --> 00:42:14,028
[♪♪♪]

627
00:42:17,869 --> 00:42:21,237
Who the hell is this guy? Get in there!
Break his face, will you?

628
00:42:24,292 --> 00:42:26,533
COMMENTARY:
The, um...

629
00:42:26,753 --> 00:42:32,624
As I can recall, the elements that got cut
out of the original screenplay...

630
00:42:32,842 --> 00:42:39,214
...for budgetary purposes really didn't
hurt the story structure at all.

631
00:42:39,432 --> 00:42:45,018
It was a very big film in the way
it was originally conceived.

632
00:42:45,229 --> 00:42:47,812
Just from an action standpoint.

633
00:42:48,024 --> 00:42:54,441
It was constant action
and big fight scenes, um...

634
00:42:56,491 --> 00:43:01,281
Things that needed to be condensed.

635
00:43:01,496 --> 00:43:03,612
[ANGIE SOBBING
AND THUGS GROANING]

636
00:43:04,499 --> 00:43:05,489
Bums.

637
00:43:07,794 --> 00:43:11,662
I do not think
Miss Charles enjoys your company.

638
00:43:11,839 --> 00:43:14,831
It would be best
that you leave her alone.

639
00:43:15,009 --> 00:43:18,752
I don't know who you are, pal,
but you're in a lot of trouble!

640
00:43:22,308 --> 00:43:25,050
Hothead needs cool water.

641
00:43:26,020 --> 00:43:28,102
No, no, no!

642
00:43:28,856 --> 00:43:31,314
COMMENTARY: There is not
a whole lot of intellectual content...

643
00:43:31,526 --> 00:43:33,733
...we can talk about here.

644
00:43:34,570 --> 00:43:37,562
ANGIE: Oh.
-No!

645
00:43:39,117 --> 00:43:40,528
ANGIE:
Eddie.

646
00:43:41,327 --> 00:43:43,694
LEROY:
Come, you will be safe now.

647
00:43:44,956 --> 00:43:48,699
ANGIE: Oh, Eddie, are you all right?
-Get away from me, you dumb broad!

648
00:43:48,876 --> 00:43:51,789
Onh, but, Eddie, you're all wet!

649
00:43:51,963 --> 00:43:53,795
Oh, honey.

650
00:43:54,090 --> 00:43:56,081
[MUMBLING]

651
00:43:57,677 --> 00:43:59,588
Look at this, it's all wet.

652
00:43:59,762 --> 00:44:02,675
COMMENTARY: When we did this
picture, there was very little happening...

653
00:44:02,890 --> 00:44:06,758
...in the world of film in New York.

654
00:44:06,978 --> 00:44:13,020
And people really avoided New York
because of costs involved.

655
00:44:13,234 --> 00:44:14,724
And...

656
00:44:16,988 --> 00:44:21,698
...even though the costs are still there,
it's a different story today.

657
00:44:21,909 --> 00:44:26,745
They're trying to build more studio space
because there is a huge demand.

658
00:44:27,039 --> 00:44:29,906
LAURA: It's nice to meet you, Leroy.
-Oh, it's nice to meet you.

659
00:44:31,419 --> 00:44:34,912
I need a drink.
Why don't you come inside?

660
00:44:37,508 --> 00:44:41,001
Miss Charles, there is something
you may be able to help me with.

661
00:44:41,179 --> 00:44:42,715
You can call me Laura.

662
00:44:42,889 --> 00:44:45,426
Laura, the other night
I lost a medallion and--

663
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,716
That thing that looks like
a belt buckle?

664
00:44:47,894 --> 00:44:49,134
Belt buckle?

665
00:44:49,854 --> 00:44:52,312
-Is it gold?
-You have it?!

666
00:44:52,565 --> 00:44:53,726
Yeah, I got it.

667
00:44:53,900 --> 00:44:59,145
COMMENTARY: Suzanne de Passe,
who developed this property...

668
00:44:59,363 --> 00:45:03,197
...and talked Berry Gordy into doing it...

669
00:45:03,409 --> 00:45:08,404
...was very instrumental in its success.

670
00:45:10,208 --> 00:45:11,619
♪ Our love is flowing ♪

671
00:45:11,834 --> 00:45:17,750
COMMENTARY: As a producer
she had a great vision of the piece.

672
00:45:19,508 --> 00:45:23,376
Made a lot of the Motown...

673
00:45:23,596 --> 00:45:27,464
...music artists available to us.

674
00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:37,934
♪ Ooh, the kind of love ♪

675
00:45:38,361 --> 00:45:42,776
♪ Means so much to me ♪

676
00:45:42,990 --> 00:45:45,652
This is so you'll never lose it again.

677
00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:47,692
I am deeply in your debt.

678
00:45:49,664 --> 00:45:52,998
♪ Give me your love ♪

679
00:45:53,209 --> 00:45:55,166
It is very valuable to me.

680
00:45:55,628 --> 00:45:57,539
<i>♪ Give me your love ♪♪</i>

681
00:45:57,713 --> 00:46:00,751
I know what it's like
to lose precious things...

682
00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:04,672
...and then, of course,
to find them again.

683
00:46:06,764 --> 00:46:07,879
You thirsty?

684
00:46:12,603 --> 00:46:14,310
Oh...

685
00:46:14,522 --> 00:46:18,186
From the clock's chime
to the cock's crow is but an instant.

686
00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:21,396
I must go.

687
00:46:22,989 --> 00:46:24,229
Oh, excuse me.

688
00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:27,569
I'm sorry.

689
00:46:28,786 --> 00:46:32,745
COMMENTARY:
Vanity was on Prince's label.

690
00:46:32,957 --> 00:46:37,622
And she was really
being groomed by him...

691
00:46:37,837 --> 00:46:39,703
...to be a major star.

692
00:46:39,714 --> 00:46:42,797
...to be a major star.

693
00:46:43,009 --> 00:46:47,424
And I think he felt that this was
a great platform for her.

694
00:46:47,638 --> 00:46:49,800
That, uh...

695
00:46:52,643 --> 00:46:55,635
...a picture with a major distribution,
a new company.

696
00:46:57,815 --> 00:46:59,601
Um...

697
00:47:02,486 --> 00:47:06,354
The fact that she could be glamorous,
you know?

698
00:47:06,574 --> 00:47:09,862
♪ She baits the line
And starts to move in closer ♪

699
00:47:10,036 --> 00:47:12,027
COMMENTARY:
It all worked for him.

700
00:47:13,331 --> 00:47:19,247
Then a year later I did another
picture called Krush Groove...

701
00:47:19,462 --> 00:47:23,251
...where I had another one
of his stars, Sheila E.

702
00:47:27,345 --> 00:47:29,837
This is one of my favorite scenes.

703
00:47:32,016 --> 00:47:35,850
One of the things we tried
to do in the film is...

704
00:47:37,104 --> 00:47:41,974
...make fun of the cultural differences.

705
00:47:42,193 --> 00:47:47,688
And we have a group
of Chinese guys...

706
00:47:47,907 --> 00:47:50,319
...trying to be blacker than black.

707
00:47:50,659 --> 00:47:51,740
[WOMAN LAUGHS]

708
00:47:51,952 --> 00:47:54,284
-What you looking for?
-For the master.

709
00:47:54,455 --> 00:47:56,321
Ain't no masters here, dude.

710
00:47:56,499 --> 00:47:57,989
Ain't no slaves either.

711
00:47:58,167 --> 00:47:59,532
[LAUGHING]

712
00:48:01,462 --> 00:48:03,669
Is this not his fortune-cookie factory?

713
00:48:03,839 --> 00:48:07,332
The master, he doing his wisdom thing.
Ha-ha-ha.

714
00:48:08,010 --> 00:48:10,092
I seek only wisdom of the master.

715
00:48:10,262 --> 00:48:13,129
You want wisdom,
you buy fortune cookie.

716
00:48:13,307 --> 00:48:15,298
-Take a hike, cool breeze.
-Yeah, baby.

717
00:48:15,476 --> 00:48:16,591
Please, I must see the master.

718
00:48:16,769 --> 00:48:20,137
COMMENTARY: But we'd also play up
dumb jokes like...

719
00:48:20,356 --> 00:48:26,068
...the name of the master or the fortune
cookie factory, Sum Dum Goy.

720
00:48:27,238 --> 00:48:29,445
HU LI
You dig, bro? You too square, man.

721
00:48:29,615 --> 00:48:30,605
Square, dude.

722
00:48:30,783 --> 00:48:33,445
Let me say it
so he can understand it, Jim.

723
00:48:36,205 --> 00:48:38,287
[IN STEREOTYPICAL ASIAN VOICE]
You go now. Chop-chop.

724
00:48:38,457 --> 00:48:41,074
"Haulee" ass out of this place.

725
00:48:41,252 --> 00:48:42,242
[IN NORMAL VOICE]
Am I saying it right, my man?

726
00:48:42,420 --> 00:48:44,252
LU YI:
That's good. That's good.

727
00:48:44,422 --> 00:48:47,005
Like, hasta la pasta, you know?

728
00:48:47,174 --> 00:48:48,664
Ciao, baby.

729
00:48:48,843 --> 00:48:51,255
-Auf Wiedersehen, baby.
-Sayonara.

730
00:48:51,429 --> 00:48:53,636
LU YI: Catch you on the flip-flop.
-Sayonara.

731
00:48:53,806 --> 00:48:55,638
[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

732
00:48:56,517 --> 00:48:57,678
SHO'NUFF:
I was told...

733
00:48:57,852 --> 00:49:00,264
...I could find Leroy Green here!

734
00:49:04,233 --> 00:49:05,849
I'm Leroy Green.

735
00:49:06,026 --> 00:49:09,985
COMMENTARY: So Leroy as a character
is just having a bad time...

736
00:49:10,197 --> 00:49:13,235
...everywhere he goes.
He gets no respect.

737
00:49:15,578 --> 00:49:19,242
SHO'NUFF;
I am the shogun of Harlem...

738
00:49:19,415 --> 00:49:22,032
...and the Leroy Green I'm looking for...

739
00:49:22,209 --> 00:49:25,497
...Is a little punk that thinks
he's a kung fu master.

740
00:49:27,256 --> 00:49:28,712
Oh.

741
00:49:28,883 --> 00:49:31,671
-You mean Junior?
-Yeah.

742
00:49:32,344 --> 00:49:36,053
-"Junior." Where is he?
THUG: "Junior"! Ha-ha-ha!

743
00:49:37,641 --> 00:49:41,259
Don't know.
Not sure I'd tell you if I did.

744
00:49:41,479 --> 00:49:45,017
COMMENTARY: What I found interesting
as an observer...

745
00:49:45,232 --> 00:49:49,647
...Is that no matter how outrageous
we got with the costumes...

746
00:49:49,862 --> 00:49:54,607
...like Sho'nuff's football
shoulder pads...

747
00:49:54,825 --> 00:50:01,037
...the audience went along
with the fun of the fantasy.

748
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,083
And never saw his getup as outrageous.

749
00:50:06,295 --> 00:50:09,253
It just fit his personality.

750
00:50:09,465 --> 00:50:10,955
SHO'NUFF: Do it!
-With pleasure.

751
00:50:11,133 --> 00:50:13,545
MAMA: No!
-Hold it, please, fellas! No, not that.

752
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,051
-Please, don't do that!
-You stop it!

753
00:50:16,222 --> 00:50:18,304
Mama-- The walls-- My shop!

754
00:50:18,474 --> 00:50:20,056
Oh, God.

755
00:50:20,226 --> 00:50:22,217
[LAUGHING]

756
00:50:23,395 --> 00:50:25,352
-Uhn!
-Aah!

757
00:50:25,564 --> 00:50:27,555
GREEN:
Don't break the table!

758
00:50:27,733 --> 00:50:29,440
Go, go!

759
00:50:30,152 --> 00:50:31,984
-Ha-ha-ha.

760
00:50:32,196 --> 00:50:35,063
BEAST: I'm gonna kill you!
-Take it easy, honey.

761
00:50:35,241 --> 00:50:37,232
What, are you crazy? He's the Beast.

762
00:50:37,409 --> 00:50:39,992
GREEN: She only hit you with dough!
BEAST: You gonna die!

763
00:50:40,162 --> 00:50:42,904
All right, enough is enough!
Y'all better chill out.

764
00:50:43,082 --> 00:50:46,370
-Richie, you stay out of this!
-You better chill out, man!

765
00:50:47,211 --> 00:50:49,043
COMMENTARY:
Interestingly enough...

766
00:50:49,797 --> 00:50:55,213
...the Chinese kung fu movies...

767
00:50:55,427 --> 00:51:01,093
...have had an impact
on American film for a long time.

768
00:51:01,308 --> 00:51:02,890
It's just always been masked.

769
00:51:03,394 --> 00:51:06,182
Uh, George Lucas...

770
00:51:07,314 --> 00:51:14,277
...got almost all of his fight choreography
from these movies.

771
00:51:14,488 --> 00:51:19,858
And is an avid devotee.

772
00:51:20,411 --> 00:51:24,405
There... This was 1984, '85.

773
00:51:24,623 --> 00:51:29,459
There was an avid subculture...

774
00:51:29,670 --> 00:51:34,039
...of people who loved Chinese movies.

775
00:51:34,258 --> 00:51:39,048
But you had to go to Chinatown
or somewhere to see them.

776
00:51:40,681 --> 00:51:43,844
So it took, what...

777
00:51:45,686 --> 00:51:49,145
...from then until...

778
00:51:49,356 --> 00:51:54,021
...Jackie Chan coming to America
to hit mainstream.

779
00:51:54,236 --> 00:51:55,522
But it's always been there.

780
00:51:57,823 --> 00:52:01,407
Uh, we were really fortunate...

781
00:52:01,619 --> 00:52:07,080
...in getting
our production designer Peter Larkin...

782
00:52:07,291 --> 00:52:10,249
...who had a huge Broadway career.

783
00:52:12,921 --> 00:52:16,255
Because what I wanted
to achieve visually...

784
00:52:16,467 --> 00:52:21,678
...was a stylistic feeling...

785
00:52:21,889 --> 00:52:26,759
...of a living cartoon.

786
00:52:27,895 --> 00:52:32,856
And the production design
and the costume design...

787
00:52:33,067 --> 00:52:38,107
...went a long way
in achieving that vision.

788
00:52:38,322 --> 00:52:40,359
RICHIE:
Everyone knows you're scared of him.

789
00:52:40,532 --> 00:52:42,990
Kissed his shoes and everything.

790
00:52:44,328 --> 00:52:48,868
COMMENTARY:
The sets that he created on stage...

791
00:52:49,083 --> 00:52:55,705
...are very futuristic and light-filled.

792
00:52:55,923 --> 00:53:01,009
And blending that with the sets...

793
00:53:01,220 --> 00:53:05,384
...that we did on location...

794
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:10,059
...I thought was very successful...

795
00:53:10,813 --> 00:53:12,929
...in the visual concept.

796
00:53:17,778 --> 00:53:20,019
In scenes...

797
00:53:22,157 --> 00:53:26,697
...where Bruce Leroy is working out
his anger...

798
00:53:26,912 --> 00:53:30,701
...and frustration...

799
00:53:35,421 --> 00:53:41,007
...we placed him in his red gym
and red punching bag.

800
00:53:41,343 --> 00:53:43,505
LEROY:
Truth is our worship!

801
00:53:43,679 --> 00:53:45,545
Form is our manifestation!

802
00:53:45,723 --> 00:53:48,385
Conscience is our guide!

803
00:53:49,017 --> 00:53:54,353
COMMENTARY: So the colors
and the vibrancy of the environment...

804
00:53:54,565 --> 00:53:59,184
...were very key to the emotional...

805
00:53:59,403 --> 00:54:03,988
...and the fun elements that
we were trying to achieve in the film.

806
00:54:04,616 --> 00:54:06,402
LEROY:
Have to use....

807
00:54:14,084 --> 00:54:15,700
[DOOR OPENS]

808
00:54:17,171 --> 00:54:18,206
LAURA:
Hello?

809
00:54:19,882 --> 00:54:20,872
Hey.

810
00:54:23,469 --> 00:54:25,301
I don't mean to bother you, but...

811
00:54:26,263 --> 00:54:29,346
...maybe I should just come back
another time, huh?

812
00:54:31,101 --> 00:54:34,264
Listen, if this is a bad time,
you know, I can just...

813
00:54:37,441 --> 00:54:41,105
Do you know, the strangest things
keep happening to me.

814
00:54:41,278 --> 00:54:46,148
I mean, I seem to be attracting
the craziest people.

815
00:54:46,325 --> 00:54:49,613
So I thought that maybe
it would be a great idea...

816
00:54:49,787 --> 00:54:52,028
...if I got myself a bodyguard...

817
00:54:52,206 --> 00:54:53,867
...you know?

818
00:54:54,041 --> 00:54:58,035
Like, someone to guard my body.

819
00:54:58,504 --> 00:54:59,539
[CHUCKLES]

820
00:54:59,963 --> 00:55:03,081
Anyway, you seem to be
the best qualified. I mean...

821
00:55:03,967 --> 00:55:08,427
...a girl could do worse than to have
her own real, live kung fu master.

822
00:55:08,931 --> 00:55:11,013
I am no master.

823
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,228
You sure look like a master to me.

824
00:55:23,278 --> 00:55:24,268
How about it?

825
00:55:25,197 --> 00:55:26,187
How about what?

826
00:55:27,407 --> 00:55:28,522
Bodyguard.

827
00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:30,862
-Hello?
-Bodyguard?

828
00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:33,323
Yeah, I want you to be my bodyguard.

829
00:55:33,497 --> 00:55:36,285
-Have you heard anything?
-There is much I must do.

830
00:55:36,458 --> 00:55:38,449
I am sorry. I cannot.

831
00:55:38,627 --> 00:55:40,789
Leroy! Leroy!

832
00:55:41,004 --> 00:55:47,592
COMMENTARY:
This project for film projects...

833
00:55:47,803 --> 00:55:53,765
...was pretty rapid in terms of...

834
00:55:53,976 --> 00:56:00,473
...when the script first landed
on Suzanne de Passe's desk...

835
00:56:00,691 --> 00:56:03,023
...to the time that I read it.

836
00:56:06,029 --> 00:56:10,569
Um, as far as film projects go,
I think...

837
00:56:10,784 --> 00:56:14,402
... The Last Dragon
was on a pretty fast track.

838
00:56:18,250 --> 00:56:23,040
Louis Venosta wrote it
over the course of a month.

839
00:56:25,716 --> 00:56:31,086
Suzanne de Passe found it
very shortly after it was written.

840
00:56:31,305 --> 00:56:35,765
And the studio agreed
to make the film...

841
00:56:35,976 --> 00:56:39,844
...provided we could bring it in on budget.

842
00:56:41,523 --> 00:56:43,184
And I'd estimate between the time
that the script was written...

843
00:56:43,191 --> 00:56:47,856
And I'd estimate between the time
that the script was written...

844
00:56:48,071 --> 00:56:53,362
...and the time the film
was in the theaters...

845
00:56:53,577 --> 00:56:58,367
...was about two years,
which is pretty fast.

846
00:56:59,416 --> 00:57:01,748
[MAN SNARLING]

847
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,201
[BARKING]

848
00:57:05,380 --> 00:57:06,836
Double?

849
00:57:10,010 --> 00:57:12,092
Why should you get double...

850
00:57:12,262 --> 00:57:13,923
...what everybody else is getting, huh?

851
00:57:14,097 --> 00:57:16,088
[SNARLING]

852
00:57:19,144 --> 00:57:20,760
Beautiful! Beautiful!

853
00:57:20,938 --> 00:57:22,895
Save it! Save it.

854
00:57:23,065 --> 00:57:26,808
Give that man anything he wants.
Give him a bone.

855
00:57:28,111 --> 00:57:30,193
Make sure you take out for the table.

856
00:57:30,364 --> 00:57:33,447
♪ You look at me like a new pickup ♪

857
00:57:33,617 --> 00:57:36,200
♪ You tell the barman, "Fill her up" ♪

858
00:57:36,370 --> 00:57:38,702
<i>♪ You try to steer me out the door ♪</i>

859
00:57:38,872 --> 00:57:41,239
♪ But I know what you're cruising for ♪

860
00:57:41,416 --> 00:57:42,827
♪ You want a test drive ♪

861
00:57:43,001 --> 00:57:44,287
♪ Whoo, hoo ♪

862
00:57:44,461 --> 00:57:45,826
♪ You want a test drive ♪

863
00:57:46,004 --> 00:57:47,085
♪ Whoo, hoo ♪

864
00:57:48,382 --> 00:57:51,591
COMMENTARY:
We also did takeoffs...

865
00:57:51,802 --> 00:57:56,387
...on some of the music video artists
of the day.

866
00:57:57,307 --> 00:57:59,014
EDDIE:
All right, that's enough.

867
00:57:59,184 --> 00:58:01,095
-Looks terrific, sweetheart.
-Yeah?

868
00:58:01,269 --> 00:58:04,682
Just needs a couple more steps.
And you girls looked great too.

869
00:58:04,856 --> 00:58:07,848
Why don't you take a break
and get out of those clothes?

870
00:58:08,026 --> 00:58:09,608
Here are some quarters.

871
00:58:10,570 --> 00:58:17,567
COMMENTARY: In this number, we were
doing a takeoff on Cyndi Lauper...

872
00:58:17,786 --> 00:58:23,998
...who was a successful
music video artist...

873
00:58:24,209 --> 00:58:26,325
...in this time period.

874
00:58:26,545 --> 00:58:29,162
We just took Cyndi Lauper,
who was already outrageous...

875
00:58:29,381 --> 00:58:36,174
...took her out even further
with this Faith Prince hairdo.

876
00:58:38,682 --> 00:58:42,220
And really bad music.

877
00:58:43,645 --> 00:58:45,807
EDDIE:
And it's all for you, sweetheart.

878
00:58:46,231 --> 00:58:48,268
All to make you a star.

879
00:58:48,442 --> 00:58:50,979
Now what do you think
of your lover boy, huh?

880
00:58:51,153 --> 00:58:53,144
All for me?

881
00:58:53,321 --> 00:58:55,107
All for you, sweetheart.

882
00:58:55,866 --> 00:58:59,825
Well, I mean,
if it's really all for me...

883
00:59:00,454 --> 00:59:04,618
Oh. Oh, I don't want you to kill anybody.

884
00:59:05,208 --> 00:59:07,040
Are you out of your mind?!

885
00:59:07,210 --> 00:59:10,248
Nobody does what he did to me
and lives! Nobody!

886
00:59:16,011 --> 00:59:18,878
You know
what I've been thinking, Eddie?

887
00:59:19,056 --> 00:59:22,674
I think that maybe you're trying
to use me to get what you want.

888
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:27,474
COMMENTARY: I love Faith
because she could play the absurd...

889
00:59:27,689 --> 00:59:32,229
...and you could feel the heart
underneath the character.

890
00:59:32,402 --> 00:59:34,518
ANGIE:
Sure, until he lost a fight.

891
00:59:34,696 --> 00:59:37,984
All this glamour and stardom...

892
00:59:38,533 --> 00:59:40,695
...it's all for you, isn't it, Eddie?

893
00:59:45,916 --> 00:59:47,748
You know, Angie...

894
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:52,544
...a lot of girls out there would like
to trade places with you.

895
00:59:53,632 --> 00:59:58,422
Now, if you're unhappy with all of this,
why don't you just walk out?

896
01:00:00,055 --> 01:00:03,593
Go have a nice, normal, boring life.

897
01:00:06,394 --> 01:00:09,307
To tell you the truth,
it couldn't be any more boring...

898
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:16,402
COMMENTARY: Again, this is what I
loved about the production design...

899
01:00:17,614 --> 01:00:21,733
...that Peter came up with is very, um...

900
01:00:23,787 --> 01:00:25,073
It's a living comic book.

901
01:00:29,126 --> 01:00:32,289
So he'd take these art deco elements...

902
01:00:32,504 --> 01:00:36,964
...and arrange them in a way that just--
It's all bigger than life.

903
01:00:39,970 --> 01:00:43,463
ANGIE:
Yeah, also from Kew Gardens.

904
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:49,973
And also getting by on my tits.

905
01:00:52,315 --> 01:00:54,226
COMMENTARY:
One of the things...

906
01:00:54,442 --> 01:00:58,276
...that I thought was not
as successfully realized...

907
01:00:58,947 --> 01:01:02,235
...was the performance
that Faith gave us...

908
01:01:02,409 --> 01:01:04,400
...was she could do
the cartoon character...

909
01:01:04,578 --> 01:01:09,618
...but really keep the heart
and the emotion of a real person.

910
01:01:09,833 --> 01:01:13,576
And the little guy...

911
01:01:13,795 --> 01:01:17,208
...the villain, her boss...

912
01:01:18,633 --> 01:01:20,544
...didn't get that human element.

913
01:01:22,846 --> 01:01:29,138
And this kind of piece is fragile in a way
that if it's just plain over the top...

914
01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:31,559
...it's not interesting.

915
01:01:32,522 --> 01:01:34,638
SHO'NUFF:
Sho'nuff! Sho'nuff!

916
01:01:34,816 --> 01:01:36,807
-Number one!
-Can I pick them or what?

917
01:01:36,985 --> 01:01:37,975
Shut up!

918
01:01:38,153 --> 01:01:40,861
-Am I the meanest?!
CROWD: Sho'nuff!

919
01:01:41,031 --> 01:01:43,648
-Am I the prettiest?
CROWD: Sho'nuff!

920
01:01:43,825 --> 01:01:47,363
Am I the baddest mofo
lowdown around this town?

921
01:01:47,537 --> 01:01:48,652
CROWD:
Sho'nuff!

922
01:01:49,039 --> 01:01:53,078
COMMENTARY: And there was no doubt
in the performance of Julius Carry...

923
01:01:53,251 --> 01:01:55,162
...that he was this character.

924
01:01:57,172 --> 01:01:59,334
He was the Sho'nuff.

925
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:04,926
SHO'NUFF:
Keep your money.

926
01:02:05,555 --> 01:02:08,798
You just get that sucker
to the designated place...

927
01:02:08,975 --> 01:02:10,636
...at the designated time...

928
01:02:11,436 --> 01:02:14,519
...and I will gladly designate his ass...

929
01:02:14,689 --> 01:02:17,021
...for dismemberment.

930
01:02:17,192 --> 01:02:19,980
Yeah. Hey. Well, whatever.

931
01:02:20,153 --> 01:02:21,939
Anyway you wanna do it.

932
01:02:22,113 --> 01:02:24,980
It'll certainly be my pleasure, Mr. Nuff.

933
01:02:28,703 --> 01:02:31,741
-Yow!
-Put it away. Come on.

934
01:02:46,137 --> 01:02:47,627
-Looking for me?
-Yes.

935
01:02:47,806 --> 01:02:49,342
I mean...

936
01:02:49,516 --> 01:02:52,679
I thought I wasn't exactly
on your favorite persons' list.

937
01:02:52,852 --> 01:02:56,015
That is why I came by,
to apologize for the way I spoke.

938
01:02:56,189 --> 01:02:58,521
I did not mean it towards you.

939
01:02:58,692 --> 01:03:00,057
Great.

940
01:03:00,235 --> 01:03:02,317
Then you'll be my bodyguard?

941
01:03:02,487 --> 01:03:05,650
I'd love to, but I must complete
a mission first.

942
01:03:06,658 --> 01:03:08,023
A mission?

943
01:03:08,201 --> 01:03:09,487
You see...

944
01:03:09,661 --> 01:03:13,245
...I am in search of the final level
where the spirit takes over...

945
01:03:13,415 --> 01:03:16,828
...from the mind and guides
the body without thought.

946
01:03:17,002 --> 01:03:20,586
Okay. Listen, you stay right here, okay?

947
01:03:20,755 --> 01:03:22,962
Don't move.
I'll be back in five minutes.

948
01:03:23,133 --> 01:03:25,716
Don't disappear, okay?
I'll be right back.

949
01:03:25,885 --> 01:03:27,546
LEROY:
A great fighter, for instance...

950
01:03:27,721 --> 01:03:30,679
...might get just his hands
to fill with such power...

951
01:03:31,641 --> 01:03:37,478
COMMENTARY: During the editing
process, it was a little contentious.

952
01:03:39,232 --> 01:03:46,229
Because I had one vision,
Berry Gordy had another vision.

953
01:03:47,782 --> 01:03:53,824
And I was trying to infuse
in the project...

954
01:03:54,039 --> 01:03:58,499
...a little more of the realism
in terms of music.

955
01:03:58,710 --> 01:04:04,626
There was some great Oriental music
that would blend in...

956
01:04:04,841 --> 01:04:09,961
...with the Motown sound...

957
01:04:10,180 --> 01:04:17,177
...but would elevate the project a little bit
beyond just being finger popping.

958
01:04:18,188 --> 01:04:24,935
And that...

959
01:04:25,111 --> 01:04:29,025
...ultimately got
put by the wayside...

960
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:33,029
...in favor of putting in
a little bit more of the Motown thing...

961
01:04:33,244 --> 01:04:39,707
...which I think
hurt the project a little bit.

962
01:04:42,253 --> 01:04:48,920
But in terms of scenes
that we dropped...

963
01:04:51,054 --> 01:04:53,842
...I think we used
almost everything that we shot.

964
01:04:54,057 --> 01:04:55,422
Uh...

965
01:04:55,642 --> 01:04:58,179
The scenes may have been
truncated a little bit more...

966
01:04:58,395 --> 01:05:02,434
...for timing purposes
or rhythm purposes...

967
01:05:02,607 --> 01:05:07,101
...but I don't recall
dropping anything that I missed.

968
01:05:09,989 --> 01:05:14,529
Unlike Car Wash,
where we dropped out Danny DeVito...

969
01:05:14,744 --> 01:05:20,956
...and, heh, a whole storyline
just for the sake of making time.

970
01:05:26,464 --> 01:05:33,382
But the post production process
on this film...

971
01:05:33,596 --> 01:05:38,841
...was really about finding
the rhythm of the whole piece...

972
01:05:39,060 --> 01:05:43,145
...and keeping enough...

973
01:05:43,314 --> 01:05:49,026
...of the story character elements
alive...

974
01:05:49,195 --> 01:05:51,106
...with the action and the music.

975
01:05:51,906 --> 01:05:53,817
RICHIE:
You two play a game if you want to.

976
01:05:53,992 --> 01:05:57,235
I'm gonna sit right here
and wait for her to show up.

977
01:05:57,412 --> 01:05:59,528
And the rap I'm gonna lay on her...

978
01:05:59,706 --> 01:06:02,323
...Is gonna make Romeo
seem tongue-tied.

979
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:06,334
Make her melt like hot butter
all over my body!

980
01:06:06,504 --> 01:06:07,915
Whoa. Go, Rick.

981
01:06:08,089 --> 01:06:11,252
Ain't nothing gonna stand
between me and my destiny...

982
01:06:11,426 --> 01:06:14,259
...with the sweet lips of Lady Laura.

983
01:06:14,888 --> 01:06:17,676
Wow. This place is great.

984
01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:21,800
[UPBEAT MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

985
01:06:33,156 --> 01:06:38,117
COMMENTARY: One of the few
interior sets that we shot...

986
01:06:38,328 --> 01:06:40,114
...that was not at Silver Cup...

987
01:06:40,330 --> 01:06:43,072
...was all this music.

988
01:06:43,291 --> 01:06:49,207
The dance club was done
in a real club...

989
01:06:49,422 --> 01:06:51,288
...that we took over for a month.

990
01:07:02,060 --> 01:07:06,054
♪ To reach that upper level
Your mind, body and soul must be one ♪

991
01:07:06,231 --> 01:07:09,440
[LEROY YELLING]

992
01:07:09,609 --> 01:07:12,476
♪ It's a sacrifice
It takes hard work ♪

993
01:07:12,654 --> 01:07:15,521
♪ It's a way of life ♪

994
01:07:17,242 --> 01:07:21,361
COMMENTARY:
Getting the Bruce Lee footage...

995
01:07:21,579 --> 01:07:27,165
...was quite a little feat.

996
01:07:28,753 --> 01:07:31,871
It was expensive, and it took us...

997
01:07:32,090 --> 01:07:37,551
We never had this footage until almost
the end of the post process.

998
01:07:38,555 --> 01:07:42,469
And there were times
in the process...

999
01:07:42,684 --> 01:07:47,349
...that we thought
we would have to fake it.

1000
01:07:47,564 --> 01:07:54,357
Create something else. Because
we didn't know that we'd get it at all.

1001
01:07:55,154 --> 01:08:01,571
But eventually the people
who control the Bruce Lee material...

1002
01:08:01,786 --> 01:08:03,527
...did make the deal.

1003
01:08:04,956 --> 01:08:06,242
[BOY GRUNTS AND TROUSERS RIP]

1004
01:08:06,416 --> 01:08:07,906
Aw, shit!

1005
01:08:08,543 --> 01:08:11,001
-Hey. Wait up, man! Wait up!
RICHIE: Forget it, man.

1006
01:08:11,212 --> 01:08:13,169
♪ When you got the glow
You see it on your face ♪

1007
01:08:14,841 --> 01:08:16,582
COMMENTARY:
We didn't have a contingency plan...

1008
01:08:16,801 --> 01:08:18,633
...if we didn't get the Bruce Lee footage.

1009
01:08:18,845 --> 01:08:24,511
But we actually--
Let me take that back.

1010
01:08:24,726 --> 01:08:30,893
We actually had
the Bruce Lee footage...

1011
01:08:31,107 --> 01:08:34,475
...that we showed at the opening
of the show in the movie theater.

1012
01:08:34,694 --> 01:08:36,310
We made a deal for that.

1013
01:08:36,529 --> 01:08:40,568
But then as we went on
with the process...

1014
01:08:41,367 --> 01:08:45,110
...we wanted to--
We created this scene.

1015
01:08:45,330 --> 01:08:49,915
And it is like the love scene...

1016
01:08:50,126 --> 01:08:52,333
...where they are alone in the studio...

1017
01:08:52,545 --> 01:08:57,631
...and she has found
this Bruce Lee footage for him.

1018
01:08:57,842 --> 01:09:01,051
We didn't have that in the original script.

1019
01:09:01,262 --> 01:09:06,098
So we had to go out and make a deal
for that in addition to what we had.

1020
01:09:06,309 --> 01:09:12,351
And that's what took
extra negotiating power.

1021
01:09:13,483 --> 01:09:15,315
<i>♪ When you got the glow
When you got the glow ♪</i>

1022
01:09:15,485 --> 01:09:17,067
♪ They'll all beware
They'll all beware ♪

1023
01:09:17,236 --> 01:09:19,227
<i>♪ 'Cause they know, they know
They know, they know ♪</i>

1024
01:09:19,405 --> 01:09:22,147
♪ They know you've got the glow
The glow, the glow ♪

1025
01:09:36,047 --> 01:09:38,505
COMMENTARY:
And I loved in the original script...

1026
01:09:38,675 --> 01:09:41,417
I mean, one of the things
that drew me to the project...

1027
01:09:41,636 --> 01:09:48,429
...were the human elements of it,
the little brother who's fantasizing...

1028
01:09:48,643 --> 01:09:53,888
...that he could have this gorgeous singer
as his girlfriend.

1029
01:09:54,107 --> 01:09:55,893
And he gets mad at his big brother...

1030
01:09:56,109 --> 01:10:00,194
...because he knows how to deal with
women better than his doofus brother.

1031
01:10:02,115 --> 01:10:08,077
And these little character quirks
all throughout the film...

1032
01:10:08,287 --> 01:10:14,659
...I thought were really
very well done, very creative.

1033
01:10:15,461 --> 01:10:17,202
LEROY:
Wow.

1034
01:10:18,756 --> 01:10:20,212
What's that?

1035
01:10:23,344 --> 01:10:24,630
Chinese Connection.

1036
01:10:24,804 --> 01:10:29,048
He has disguised himself
in order to get...

1037
01:10:32,687 --> 01:10:35,304
Get into the villains' lair!

1038
01:10:36,482 --> 01:10:38,564
♪ It's the power of concentration ♪

1039
01:10:39,026 --> 01:10:41,814
Why did I not think of that before?

1040
01:10:41,988 --> 01:10:43,069
♪ Elevation ♪♪

1041
01:10:43,239 --> 01:10:44,604
I must go.

1042
01:10:47,577 --> 01:10:49,238
[GROANS]

1043
01:10:51,247 --> 01:10:53,454
LAURA:
Thanks a lot, Bruce!

1044
01:10:59,756 --> 01:11:06,298
COMMENTARY:
Now the shot of Bruce Lee...

1045
01:11:07,305 --> 01:11:09,888
...doing his martial arts move...

1046
01:11:10,099 --> 01:11:16,721
...that has the trailing arms
and all of that...

1047
01:11:16,939 --> 01:11:23,436
...we really did do an homage
to and recreated that...

1048
01:11:23,654 --> 01:11:27,898
...in the final showdown fight
with Sho'nuff.

1049
01:11:28,117 --> 01:11:31,075
LAURA:
Now. Now.

1050
01:11:31,245 --> 01:11:33,907
I don't understand what you see in him!

1051
01:11:35,333 --> 01:11:36,994
[CLATTERING]

1052
01:11:37,168 --> 01:11:38,158
Leroy?

1053
01:11:38,377 --> 01:11:40,243
[♪♪♪]

1054
01:11:42,632 --> 01:11:44,964
We meet again, Miss Charles.

1055
01:11:46,677 --> 01:11:48,259
Oh!

1056
01:11:48,471 --> 01:11:49,711
No!

1057
01:11:50,348 --> 01:11:52,339
Let me go!

1058
01:11:53,976 --> 01:11:56,513
Get your hands off my woman!

1059
01:11:57,980 --> 01:12:00,472
I said, get your hands off my woman!

1060
01:12:00,650 --> 01:12:04,109
LAURA: Let me go, you big baboon!
-Ha-ha-ha.

1061
01:12:06,030 --> 01:12:07,441
[♪♪♪]

1062
01:12:07,657 --> 01:12:09,364
All right!

1063
01:12:10,952 --> 01:12:14,195
COMMENTARY: This is very interesting
casting, these Chinese guys...

1064
01:12:14,413 --> 01:12:17,280
...actors...

1065
01:12:20,586 --> 01:12:25,581
...for the parts where
they're talking black English.

1066
01:12:28,386 --> 01:12:34,849
They thought it was the funniest thing
ever and loved doing it.

1067
01:12:39,021 --> 01:12:41,979
LEROY [IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE]:
Hey, my man, what it look like?

1068
01:12:46,863 --> 01:12:48,524
[IN NORMAL VOICE]
Hey, my man.

1069
01:12:48,698 --> 01:12:50,689
-What it look like?
-What you want?

1070
01:12:50,867 --> 01:12:52,983
I am the soul brother like no other...

1071
01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:55,618
...10 deliver this pizza
with bean sprouts.

1072
01:12:55,788 --> 01:12:57,779
LU YI:
Pizza with bean sprouts?

1073
01:12:57,957 --> 01:13:00,324
Yeah, we make anything, dig?

1074
01:13:00,501 --> 01:13:03,869
Just direct-a your feets-a
to Daddy Green's pizza.

1075
01:13:04,046 --> 01:13:05,707
[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

1076
01:13:05,882 --> 01:13:09,420
Now, if you bloods would show me
where I can find the master--

1077
01:13:09,594 --> 01:13:13,087
You sure the master
ordered this pizza?

1078
01:13:15,308 --> 01:13:16,673
The man himself.

1079
01:13:16,851 --> 01:13:19,934
You're going to release his beast
if it gets cold out here.

1080
01:13:20,104 --> 01:13:22,687
Buddy, I'm gonna rip your face off.

1081
01:13:22,857 --> 01:13:26,020
-No, no. Wait, wait, wait! It's okay.
-"Okay"?

1082
01:13:27,236 --> 01:13:29,728
HU YI: You the same fool
that came dressed as a coolie?

1083
01:13:30,156 --> 01:13:35,151
COMMENTARY: One of the things
I learned in making this picture is, um...

1084
01:13:36,579 --> 01:13:41,790
...that fortune cookies
are made by machines.

1085
01:13:42,001 --> 01:13:46,370
I always thought they were made
by hand and turned over, you know?

1086
01:13:46,547 --> 01:13:48,584
LEROY: Split?
-Yeah, he's not here.

1087
01:13:48,758 --> 01:13:50,669
So why don't you chill out with us?

1088
01:13:50,843 --> 01:13:53,710
Smoke a little herb.
Sip a little wine, huh?

1089
01:13:53,888 --> 01:13:56,971
-Oh, no, I had too much already.
ALL: Ha-ha-ha.

1090
01:13:57,141 --> 01:13:59,098
Soul brother!

1091
01:13:59,268 --> 01:14:00,929
-Soul brother!
-All right.

1092
01:14:01,103 --> 01:14:03,265
You know how to shoot craps?

1093
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:05,271
-Craps?
-Craps!

1094
01:14:05,441 --> 01:14:07,398
Craps!

1095
01:14:08,611 --> 01:14:10,602
Oh, yeah, craps.

1096
01:14:10,780 --> 01:14:12,817
-All right!
HU YI: All right!

1097
01:14:12,990 --> 01:14:14,230
DU LI
Right on!

1098
01:14:15,117 --> 01:14:17,199
Mr. Leroy?

1099
01:14:19,163 --> 01:14:20,324
[CHUCKLES]

1100
01:14:21,123 --> 01:14:23,740
[IN SINGSONG VOICE]
Mr. Leroy?

1101
01:14:27,630 --> 01:14:29,462
[IN NORMAL VOICE]
Are you in here?

1102
01:14:31,759 --> 01:14:32,920
-Yah!
-Aaah!

1103
01:14:34,428 --> 01:14:38,012
Sorry, miss, I didn't mean
to scare you that bad.

1104
01:14:38,182 --> 01:14:40,048
Onh, that's all right.

1105
01:14:40,643 --> 01:14:42,600
Is Mr. Leroy here?

1106
01:14:42,812 --> 01:14:46,021
COMMENTARY: There was very little
writing done while we were in production.

1107
01:14:46,190 --> 01:14:48,306
Maybe...

1108
01:14:50,111 --> 01:14:52,273
...to make...

1109
01:14:52,488 --> 01:14:55,856
...a word or sentence
more comfortable for an actor.

1110
01:14:56,075 --> 01:14:59,113
But nothing that required a writer.

1111
01:14:59,328 --> 01:15:05,916
Louis stayed with the film
for the first couple of weeks...

1112
01:15:06,127 --> 01:15:13,090
...and then he was off
doing his next project.

1113
01:15:13,300 --> 01:15:15,041
The script was--

1114
01:15:15,219 --> 01:15:20,259
Once we got
under the budgetary hammer...

1115
01:15:20,474 --> 01:15:24,718
...the script was very tight.

1116
01:15:32,153 --> 01:15:35,020
ANGIE:
You gotta tell Mr. Leroy that...

1117
01:15:35,740 --> 01:15:38,858
...he better stay away
from Seventh Heaven.

1118
01:15:39,493 --> 01:15:41,200
Why?

1119
01:15:43,039 --> 01:15:48,455
COMMENTARY: The film was very, very
well-received by an audience.

1120
01:15:48,669 --> 01:15:51,957
The critics,
I never pay attention to anyway.

1121
01:15:52,173 --> 01:15:58,340
And I don't remember
how it was reviewed in the press.

1122
01:15:58,554 --> 01:16:05,267
To me this was not the kind of film
that we were banking on...

1123
01:16:05,478 --> 01:16:09,221
...any kind of critical reviews
any more so...

1124
01:16:09,440 --> 01:16:15,812
...than your average
kung fu movie of the time.

1125
01:16:16,030 --> 01:16:22,527
So, what we found instantly
is that it appealed completely...

1126
01:16:23,746 --> 01:16:28,115
...to a young audience.

1127
01:16:28,334 --> 01:16:31,201
That demographic
that people kill for today.

1128
01:16:31,378 --> 01:16:34,962
And the picture performed...

1129
01:16:35,174 --> 01:16:40,419
...extremely well in that time.

1130
01:16:40,638 --> 01:16:45,303
And I think, you know, in the mid-'80s...

1131
01:16:45,518 --> 01:16:52,390
...a picture that made over $30 million
was considered quite successful.

1132
01:16:52,608 --> 01:16:56,317
For some reason,
we didn't get that kind of press though.

1133
01:16:56,529 --> 01:17:03,242
There was very little
press on this picture...

1134
01:17:03,410 --> 01:17:06,744
...in terms of its success
with audiences.

1135
01:17:07,706 --> 01:17:11,290
And I can't tell you why that is.

1136
01:17:11,836 --> 01:17:15,830
LU YI: This is sure one strange game
of craps, soul brother.

1137
01:17:16,006 --> 01:17:17,838
-Oh, yeah.
LEROY: Hey.

1138
01:17:18,008 --> 01:17:19,749
This is how we play in Harlem.

1139
01:17:19,927 --> 01:17:22,294
You want to play
like soul brother number-one?

1140
01:17:22,471 --> 01:17:23,506
Yeah! Oh, yeah.

1141
01:17:23,722 --> 01:17:30,185
COMMENTARY: There was a thought
that certain American pictures...

1142
01:17:30,396 --> 01:17:33,514
...wouldn't play well foreign...

1143
01:17:33,732 --> 01:17:37,771
...if they had a majority black cast.

1144
01:17:37,987 --> 01:17:40,570
I found that to be total, um...

1145
01:17:43,868 --> 01:17:48,738
Totally erroneous
with my first picture, Car Wash...

1146
01:17:48,956 --> 01:17:54,577
...which played all over the world
really well...

1147
01:17:54,795 --> 01:17:57,537
...to the surprise of everybody, and I--

1148
01:17:57,756 --> 01:18:03,422
Because the studio didn't really push
the foreign, as far as I knew...

1149
01:18:03,637 --> 01:18:07,426
For this picture,
I never knew how it did overseas.

1150
01:18:07,975 --> 01:18:10,091
LEROY: I have this.
-What you got?

1151
01:18:10,269 --> 01:18:12,886
Whoo! Hey, check this out!

1152
01:18:13,898 --> 01:18:15,639
It's nice. I like that.

1153
01:18:15,816 --> 01:18:19,184
COMMENTARY:
This is one of the few pictures...

1154
01:18:19,403 --> 01:18:22,646
...that people come up to me today
and ask me...

1155
01:18:22,865 --> 01:18:25,573
...why haven't I done the sequel?

1156
01:18:25,784 --> 01:18:31,871
They're looking for
Last Dragon 2 and 3.

1157
01:18:32,917 --> 01:18:34,954
LU Yi;
Just wait here.

1158
01:18:41,175 --> 01:18:43,166
[MEN LAUGHING]

1159
01:18:47,181 --> 01:18:48,592
[ALL LAUGHING]

1160
01:18:49,808 --> 01:18:51,890
Where is the master?!

1161
01:18:52,394 --> 01:18:53,725
I want to see him now!

1162
01:18:53,896 --> 01:18:56,558
Please, please, please!
There is no master!

1163
01:18:56,732 --> 01:18:58,097
-You lie!
-No, it's true!

1164
01:18:58,275 --> 01:19:00,562
We made him up
to sell more fortune cookies!

1165
01:19:00,736 --> 01:19:02,022
-Tell him!
-It's true.

1166
01:19:02,196 --> 01:19:05,359
-Please! I'll show you!
-Show him.

1167
01:19:05,532 --> 01:19:08,240
-Over here. I'll show you.
DU YI: Yeah, show him!

1168
01:19:08,410 --> 01:19:10,526
Show him, show him!

1169
01:19:14,166 --> 01:19:16,328
This is Sum Dum Goy.

1170
01:19:17,211 --> 01:19:19,202
[♪♪♪]

1171
01:19:37,940 --> 01:19:38,930
[DOOR BANGS]

1172
01:19:39,108 --> 01:19:41,850
Why?! Why, master?

1173
01:19:42,361 --> 01:19:45,979
Why have you sent me on a journey
to find someone who does not exist?

1174
01:19:46,156 --> 01:19:47,442
Why?

1175
01:19:47,616 --> 01:19:51,484
So you have not found
the master that you seek.

1176
01:19:51,662 --> 01:19:54,450
There is no Sum Dum Goy.

1177
01:19:54,623 --> 01:19:57,115
He is a computer.

1178
01:19:57,334 --> 01:19:58,324
[CHUCKLES]

1179
01:19:58,794 --> 01:20:01,411
Why have you done this to me?

1180
01:20:13,642 --> 01:20:15,007
Here.

1181
01:20:17,021 --> 01:20:20,104
COMMENTARY:
Again, you know, this is a simple story.

1182
01:20:22,151 --> 01:20:27,646
It has some ba--
It's almost like a morality tale.

1183
01:20:29,825 --> 01:20:33,739
That you can find the strength
within yourself, you know?

1184
01:20:33,954 --> 01:20:39,370
And I think the young audience
really related...

1185
01:20:39,543 --> 01:20:45,038
...to the little serious elements...

1186
01:20:45,257 --> 01:20:49,876
...that we put in the middle
of the fortune cookie of comedy.

1187
01:20:50,054 --> 01:20:53,422
MASTER: A true master would use this
to hold up his pants.

1188
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:55,256
[LAUGHS]

1189
01:20:58,854 --> 01:20:59,844
[CLATTERING]

1190
01:21:00,022 --> 01:21:01,308
Enough.

1191
01:21:01,857 --> 01:21:05,646
There is one place
that you have not yet looked.

1192
01:21:05,819 --> 01:21:08,561
And it is there, only there...

1193
01:21:08,739 --> 01:21:11,857
...that you shall find the master.

1194
01:21:12,785 --> 01:21:17,325
Now, if you will excuse me,
my plane leaves shortly.

1195
01:21:19,333 --> 01:21:22,166
You are going on a quest
for knowledge?

1196
01:21:22,878 --> 01:21:26,462
No, I'm going to visit my mother
in Miami.

1197
01:21:28,592 --> 01:21:29,798
[♪♪♪]

1198
01:21:30,010 --> 01:21:31,796
JOHNNY:
Leroy! Leroy!

1199
01:21:31,970 --> 01:21:34,428
Are you actually gonna fight them?

1200
01:21:34,598 --> 01:21:37,966
Well, you-- You can't be serious!

1201
01:21:38,143 --> 01:21:43,388
Leroy, I never would've told you
if I thought you'd actually go there.

1202
01:21:43,982 --> 01:21:45,893
Oh, what are you, nuts?

1203
01:21:47,486 --> 01:21:49,693
You're not going all alone, are you?

1204
01:21:49,863 --> 01:21:51,274
Are you?

1205
01:21:51,907 --> 01:21:54,615
All right, then.
Then I'm going with you.

1206
01:21:54,785 --> 01:21:57,072
If you go, I go!

1207
01:21:57,246 --> 01:22:00,910
COMMENTARY: After working on
a multi-million dollar film...

1208
01:22:01,125 --> 01:22:02,490
...in New York City...

1209
01:22:02,709 --> 01:22:09,172
...and, you know, trying
to get a diverse crew...

1210
01:22:09,383 --> 01:22:13,798
...and being unsuccessful in doing that
at this point in history...

1211
01:22:14,012 --> 01:22:16,800
...I had vowed to come back
to New York...

1212
01:22:17,015 --> 01:22:23,978
...and make a film with a diverse crew,
just to prove it could be done.

1213
01:22:24,189 --> 01:22:30,401
And a year later I was back in New York
doing a film called Krush Groove...

1214
01:22:32,656 --> 01:22:37,446
...where we had
an 80 percent minority crew...

1215
01:22:37,661 --> 01:22:43,247
...and did a...

1216
01:22:43,792 --> 01:22:44,827
EDDIE:
Ah...

1217
01:22:45,711 --> 01:22:50,421
COMMENTARY:
...12-song musical film in 25 days...

1218
01:22:52,509 --> 01:22:55,251
...about this new phenomenon
called rap.

1219
01:22:58,223 --> 01:23:03,218
And it was interesting
because most of the people...

1220
01:23:03,437 --> 01:23:04,848
...that Spike Lee went on to hire
were involved in that film.

1221
01:23:04,855 --> 01:23:10,316
...that Spike Lee went on to hire
were involved in that film.

1222
01:23:11,487 --> 01:23:13,979
JOHNNY:
Put the key in the latch and turn it!

1223
01:23:14,531 --> 01:23:16,693
-Okay, I'm trying!
-Well, try harder!

1224
01:23:16,867 --> 01:23:18,483
Okay!

1225
01:23:18,660 --> 01:23:20,150
Okay, you can come out now!

1226
01:23:20,329 --> 01:23:24,744
COMMENTARY: In this film we used
a lot of young martial artists.

1227
01:23:24,958 --> 01:23:31,955
The young Japanese guy,
little Ernie Reyes Jr.

1228
01:23:35,177 --> 01:23:37,168
A Latino...

1229
01:23:37,721 --> 01:23:44,639
...who went on to have
his own TV show for a short time.

1230
01:23:49,399 --> 01:23:54,610
We had a platform where we could
let a lot of these young people...

1231
01:23:54,821 --> 01:23:59,281
...show what they could do.
And it was very exciting.

1232
01:23:59,451 --> 01:24:01,692
EDDIE:
Leroy!

1233
01:24:01,870 --> 01:24:03,656
[LAUGHING]

1234
01:24:05,165 --> 01:24:12,003
COMMENTARY: The scene where
Leroy confronts the villain...

1235
01:24:14,508 --> 01:24:19,218
...from a technical standpoint
I thought was really interesting...

1236
01:24:19,388 --> 01:24:21,220
...because again, here we--

1237
01:24:21,390 --> 01:24:26,760
And we didn't do a lot of publicity at the
time about the technical difficulties...

1238
01:24:26,937 --> 01:24:33,354
...that this kind of production had...

1239
01:24:33,569 --> 01:24:39,064
...because today we take it for granted.
You see these big screen concert things.

1240
01:24:39,283 --> 01:24:42,241
And today it's nothing, but...

1241
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:44,155
[EDDIE LAUGHS]

1242
01:24:44,329 --> 01:24:46,195
[♪♪♪]

1243
01:24:46,373 --> 01:24:52,039
COMMENTARY:
In 1985 no one had done this.

1244
01:24:54,089 --> 01:24:58,083
Filming live video screens.

1245
01:24:58,635 --> 01:25:04,051
So we had to find the right projectors...

1246
01:25:04,266 --> 01:25:10,478
...and the right distance
to project the image...

1247
01:25:10,689 --> 01:25:15,604
...and have enough brightness
so that the film could read it.

1248
01:25:18,071 --> 01:25:21,359
It was technically
at that time very difficult.

1249
01:25:21,700 --> 01:25:22,986
[LEROY YELLS]

1250
01:25:25,537 --> 01:25:27,904
Ha-ha-ha. All right!

1251
01:25:29,875 --> 01:25:31,457
Way to go, Goliath!

1252
01:25:40,802 --> 01:25:43,260
COMMENTARY:
There's Ron Van Clief in the mask.

1253
01:25:46,308 --> 01:25:52,054
He had his own film career,
and was known as the Black Dragon.

1254
01:25:53,148 --> 01:25:57,107
♪ For you can bring the power
to survive your darkest hour ♪

1255
01:25:57,277 --> 01:26:02,113
♪ 'Cause you are a dragon ♪♪

1256
01:26:02,324 --> 01:26:04,031
[JOHNNY YELLING]

1257
01:26:11,375 --> 01:26:16,961
COMMENTARY: This final
confrontation scene, a normal film...

1258
01:26:17,172 --> 01:26:20,836
...would probably take a week to shoot.

1259
01:26:22,219 --> 01:26:24,426
We shot it in two days.

1260
01:26:24,596 --> 01:26:26,303
EDDIE:
Will you make it interesting?

1261
01:26:28,058 --> 01:26:29,048
Good! That's one for you!

1262
01:26:29,226 --> 01:26:33,641
COMMENTARY: A lot of choreography,
and a lot of people.

1263
01:26:33,855 --> 01:26:38,224
And many setups.

1264
01:26:38,443 --> 01:26:45,406
I think this-- In the two days
we did something like 84 setups.

1265
01:26:45,575 --> 01:26:47,987
[TAI YELLING]

1266
01:26:49,121 --> 01:26:51,863
EDDIE: Come on! Come on, young buck!
-Who, me?

1267
01:26:54,876 --> 01:26:56,082
TAI:
Johnny!

1268
01:26:56,253 --> 01:26:58,745
EDDIE:
Come on, you miserable slob!

1269
01:26:58,922 --> 01:27:00,378
God, what a slug!

1270
01:27:32,748 --> 01:27:34,910
LEROY:
You got it, Johnny!

1271
01:27:37,794 --> 01:27:39,455
[TRILLING]

1272
01:27:39,671 --> 01:27:41,662
[YELLING]

1273
01:27:44,718 --> 01:27:49,713
COMMENTARY: This big climactic
battle, we scheduled toward the end...

1274
01:27:49,931 --> 01:27:56,052
...of shooting so that we would have
time for the choreographers to work...

1275
01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:01,558
...with the actors
and the martial artists.

1276
01:28:08,450 --> 01:28:11,192
So I believe that we did this...

1277
01:28:11,369 --> 01:28:17,615
...the second last week
of our shooting schedule.

1278
01:28:20,337 --> 01:28:25,252
And most of the work, because
of budgetary reasons, had to be done...

1279
01:28:25,467 --> 01:28:29,256
...not with the day players...

1280
01:28:29,471 --> 01:28:33,339
...who were coming in for the week.

1281
01:28:33,558 --> 01:28:36,721
So the work was choreographed.
For example...

1282
01:28:36,895 --> 01:28:41,014
...the little guy Ernie Reyes
and his father...

1283
01:28:41,233 --> 01:28:44,021
...choreographed
all their stuff by themselves.

1284
01:28:44,236 --> 01:28:50,573
And we took-- They had a routine
that they were doing before we cast them.

1285
01:28:50,784 --> 01:28:55,494
And we took a lot of their routine
and put it into the fight.

1286
01:28:59,334 --> 01:29:01,166
But most of the choreography
was done...

1287
01:29:01,336 --> 01:29:05,295
...by the two martial arts
choreographers that we had...

1288
01:29:05,507 --> 01:29:12,254
...with their guys that they
normally work with, their assistants.

1289
01:29:12,472 --> 01:29:17,308
And then we took a week to train the
people who were actually in the shot.

1290
01:29:20,438 --> 01:29:22,805
And then two days to shoot it.

1291
01:29:25,694 --> 01:29:31,235
Unlike The Matrix,
which took six months to train the people.

1292
01:29:33,910 --> 01:29:37,744
EDDIE:
Psst! Bozo, you go that way. Just go.

1293
01:29:38,707 --> 01:29:39,913
Come on, come on.

1294
01:29:48,884 --> 01:29:50,374
[LAURA WHIMPERING]

1295
01:30:00,478 --> 01:30:07,396
COMMENTARY:
We watched dailies the next day.

1296
01:30:07,611 --> 01:30:11,275
This was in a period where we were
still watching dailies on film.

1297
01:30:13,199 --> 01:30:14,906
And, um...

1298
01:30:15,076 --> 01:30:17,738
LEROY:
Or next time I will not miss.

1299
01:30:17,913 --> 01:30:20,075
COMMENTARY:
The only scene that we...

1300
01:30:22,250 --> 01:30:29,213
...did a little bit extra work on and went
back in to get additional shots were the...

1301
01:30:30,300 --> 01:30:35,966
Uh, the final fight scene...

1302
01:30:36,181 --> 01:30:41,893
...that we're looking at now
with Leroy and Sho'nuff.

1303
01:30:42,771 --> 01:30:45,103
RICHIE:
You'll never use that again!

1304
01:30:51,154 --> 01:30:52,610
Ow!

1305
01:30:54,115 --> 01:30:55,105
[RICHIE GRUNTING]

1306
01:30:55,575 --> 01:30:57,907
-Aah! Leroy!
-Come on.

1307
01:30:58,119 --> 01:30:59,609
COMMENTARY:
There were some special effects shots...

1308
01:30:59,788 --> 01:31:02,280
...that we needed to do over again...

1309
01:31:02,499 --> 01:31:06,413
...because we were doing
rotoscoping...

1310
01:31:07,921 --> 01:31:11,630
...which was the technique
at the time to get the glow.

1311
01:31:14,135 --> 01:31:15,751
And...

1312
01:31:15,971 --> 01:31:21,842
...we needed to separate out
the actors...

1313
01:31:22,644 --> 01:31:26,353
...at certain points a little bit better
than we had when we originally shot it.

1314
01:31:26,564 --> 01:31:31,024
So a few of those technical details,
once we saw it we knew...

1315
01:31:31,236 --> 01:31:33,398
...we had to go back in and redo.

1316
01:31:34,864 --> 01:31:35,899
LEROY:
Richie.

1317
01:31:36,074 --> 01:31:37,189
Let me at him.

1318
01:31:37,367 --> 01:31:40,576
-Let me at him. I'll save you, Laura!
-Are you all right?

1319
01:31:42,831 --> 01:31:45,038
Of course I'm all right.

1320
01:31:48,294 --> 01:31:49,455
I gotta save Laura.

1321
01:31:49,629 --> 01:31:56,467
COMMENTARY: On the group climactic
battle scene, we had three cameras.

1322
01:31:56,678 --> 01:32:03,175
A very conservative number of cameras.

1323
01:32:05,228 --> 01:32:06,639
RICHIE:
Leroy!

1324
01:32:06,855 --> 01:32:08,596
COMMENTARY:
Because we were controlling...

1325
01:32:08,773 --> 01:32:14,940
...and we were in an environment
where the light was difficult to control.

1326
01:32:15,155 --> 01:32:18,568
We wanted to see action on the screens
behind some of the fight...

1327
01:32:18,742 --> 01:32:20,324
...in front of the screens.

1328
01:32:20,493 --> 01:32:26,330
So they had to be set up a little bit
more than you normally would...

1329
01:32:26,541 --> 01:32:31,536
...where you can have
10 cameras shooting.

1330
01:32:31,755 --> 01:32:38,092
But we were working on
what I considered to be...

1331
01:32:38,303 --> 01:32:40,544
...a restricted budget.

1332
01:32:40,722 --> 01:32:43,180
And so we had to carefully
craft everything.

1333
01:32:55,403 --> 01:32:58,111
RICHIE:
Get him, get him! Come on, hit him!

1334
01:32:58,323 --> 01:33:00,655
[BOTH GRUNTING]

1335
01:33:00,825 --> 01:33:02,361
There, nigga, please!

1336
01:33:02,577 --> 01:33:03,988
[SHO'NUFF LAUGHS]

1337
01:33:08,374 --> 01:33:10,706
Duck, Leroy!
You can't do that to my brother!

1338
01:33:10,877 --> 01:33:13,039
-Get him, Leroy!
-Yeah. Ha-ha-ha.

1339
01:33:14,923 --> 01:33:19,508
COMMENTARY: I was very impressed
with Julius Carry's work here...

1340
01:33:19,719 --> 01:33:21,426
...in the fight scene.

1341
01:33:21,638 --> 01:33:27,304
Because as I said earlier,
he was not a trained martial artist.

1342
01:33:27,519 --> 01:33:31,478
He was a good enough actor to fake it.

1343
01:33:31,689 --> 01:33:33,475
And...

1344
01:33:35,401 --> 01:33:37,517
He did much of his own work.

1345
01:33:37,737 --> 01:33:43,358
Although we did have a martial artist
to stand in for him...

1346
01:33:43,576 --> 01:33:46,819
...for some of the tougher shots.

1347
01:33:47,038 --> 01:33:50,906
But he was very game
in terms of trying to do everything.

1348
01:33:58,341 --> 01:34:00,423
SHO'NUFF:
Come on, Leroy.

1349
01:34:01,678 --> 01:34:04,591
COMMENTARY: He is actually that tall.
We didn't have to put him on lifts.

1350
01:34:07,642 --> 01:34:12,182
He's about 6'4".

1351
01:34:12,397 --> 01:34:18,109
Very conservative looking,
like a banker in real life.

1352
01:34:18,319 --> 01:34:22,688
Uh, so we had to create
this outrageous wig for him...

1353
01:34:25,410 --> 01:34:30,746
...and the shogun outfit
to give him a ferocious quality.

1354
01:34:37,380 --> 01:34:42,841
And once he got into that outfit,
he became the character.

1355
01:34:49,517 --> 01:34:55,012
It's interesting to me how you can take
an actor who might not ordinarily go out...

1356
01:34:59,027 --> 01:35:02,236
...on the edge of performance...

1357
01:35:02,447 --> 01:35:06,441
...and put him in a costume,
the right costume...

1358
01:35:06,618 --> 01:35:09,531
...and it gives him the freedom to...

1359
01:35:10,830 --> 01:35:14,915
To be Bela Lugosi, for example.

1360
01:35:15,084 --> 01:35:17,667
You know,
somebody who's really outrageous.

1361
01:35:19,464 --> 01:35:23,002
♪ That's what a wise man said to me ♪

1362
01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:26,427
Ain't this beautiful, huh?
I love it. I love it.

1363
01:35:26,596 --> 01:35:27,927
This is theater!

1364
01:35:28,139 --> 01:35:30,346
[BOTH YELLING AND GRUNTING]

1365
01:35:34,604 --> 01:35:39,314
COMMENTARY: These are the--
The scene that I was talking about...

1366
01:35:39,484 --> 01:35:41,395
...sometimes having to go back in...

1367
01:35:41,611 --> 01:35:48,608
...and recreate a shot so that we could
rotoscope in the light effect.

1368
01:35:49,369 --> 01:35:55,240
There's a lot to do
about getting the glow in this film.

1369
01:35:58,002 --> 01:36:00,118
SHO'NUFF:
Who's the master?

1370
01:36:04,717 --> 01:36:06,879
[YELLS]

1371
01:36:10,431 --> 01:36:14,015
COMMENTARY: And what we did
in the actual shooting to make...

1372
01:36:14,227 --> 01:36:16,810
...the post production effects...

1373
01:36:17,021 --> 01:36:20,855
...look a little bit better is that...

1374
01:36:21,067 --> 01:36:24,401
...Contner would have to flash a light
on the actors...

1375
01:36:25,989 --> 01:36:30,324
...at the key point
which they got struck...

1376
01:36:30,535 --> 01:36:35,325
...so that the faces would have
a little bit of natural light on them...

1377
01:36:35,540 --> 01:36:41,331
...and then put the rotoscope glow
on top of the effect...

1378
01:36:41,504 --> 01:36:43,666
...that we created on the set.

1379
01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:45,672
EDDIE:
Wait a minute, sweetheart! Wait.

1380
01:36:50,722 --> 01:36:52,383
I love you. You stay here.

1381
01:36:52,932 --> 01:36:56,095
Who's the master?!

1382
01:36:56,269 --> 01:36:57,725
I can't hear you, Leroy!

1383
01:36:58,896 --> 01:37:02,480
COMMENTARY:
We found a great warehouse...

1384
01:37:02,692 --> 01:37:07,152
...dilapidated set on the East River...

1385
01:37:08,573 --> 01:37:15,570
...in the lower 100s
for this final confrontation scene.

1386
01:37:15,872 --> 01:37:18,614
SHO'NUFF:
Who is the master?!

1387
01:37:22,045 --> 01:37:25,288
There is one place
that you have not looked.

1388
01:37:25,465 --> 01:37:28,674
And it is there, only there...

1389
01:37:28,843 --> 01:37:31,631
COMMENTARY: This is the one thing
that we couldn't create well.

1390
01:37:32,764 --> 01:37:35,847
It's a cheesy water ripple effect.

1391
01:37:36,059 --> 01:37:41,680
Now today with all the CGI work,
you can really create water.

1392
01:37:41,898 --> 01:37:46,643
But in '85 it was
one of the hardest things to do.

1393
01:37:47,070 --> 01:37:49,528
SHO'NUFF: No!
-I am.

1394
01:37:50,365 --> 01:37:52,072
What the...?

1395
01:37:52,867 --> 01:37:53,982
Oh, shit!

1396
01:37:54,327 --> 01:37:57,695
Oh. Goddamn!

1397
01:37:57,872 --> 01:37:59,613
-Let me go! Let me go!
-Ha-ha-ha.

1398
01:38:00,208 --> 01:38:01,869
[GRUNTING]

1399
01:38:04,796 --> 01:38:09,256
♪ The journey now before you
Is the final test ♪

1400
01:38:09,425 --> 01:38:11,382
♪ You've learned your lesson well ♪

1401
01:38:11,594 --> 01:38:13,551
Holy shit.

1402
01:38:13,763 --> 01:38:15,595
♪ I can teach you no more ♪

1403
01:38:20,144 --> 01:38:22,385
♪ There's a power deep inside you ♪

1404
01:38:22,605 --> 01:38:24,346
Okay, come on.

1405
01:38:24,565 --> 01:38:26,306
♪ You'll find in time of need ♪

1406
01:38:30,988 --> 01:38:32,478
[YELLING]

1407
01:38:37,328 --> 01:38:40,696
COMMENTARY: So we stole a little bit
from George Lucas and the lightsaber.

1408
01:38:48,464 --> 01:38:51,377
♪ You are the Last Dragon ♪

1409
01:38:51,551 --> 01:38:56,136
♪ You possess the power of the glow ♪

1410
01:39:05,773 --> 01:39:09,732
COMMENTARY: That's probably
the only shot that Julius Carry didn't do.

1411
01:39:17,368 --> 01:39:20,281
♪ You are the Last Dragon ♪

1412
01:39:20,455 --> 01:39:23,743
♪ You possess the power of the glow ♪

1413
01:39:25,793 --> 01:39:27,375
I applaud you, Leroy.

1414
01:39:27,545 --> 01:39:29,206
That's a great finish.

1415
01:39:29,380 --> 01:39:32,247
Not the ending I had in mind,
but it's a great finish.

1416
01:39:32,425 --> 01:39:35,634
You see, a .45 will put an end
to all this kung fu crap.

1417
01:39:36,512 --> 01:39:39,174
All it takes is one little bullet.

1418
01:39:39,348 --> 01:39:41,555
So take your final bows, scum sucker.

1419
01:39:46,189 --> 01:39:47,896
COMMENTARY: Now, the great thing
about writing is that...

1420
01:39:48,107 --> 01:39:50,098
...you can write almost anything.

1421
01:39:51,319 --> 01:39:55,608
And what was written here is he
catches a bullet between his teeth.

1422
01:39:58,993 --> 01:40:02,076
Trying to film that, we scratched
our heads for a couple of weeks...

1423
01:40:02,288 --> 01:40:04,279
...and said, "Well, forget this."

1424
01:40:06,626 --> 01:40:09,288
We could create it, but not...

1425
01:40:09,462 --> 01:40:13,456
Not in the timeframe that we had
to make this film. So...

1426
01:40:18,054 --> 01:40:24,972
What we created was the surprise
of thinking that he had been shot...

1427
01:40:25,186 --> 01:40:31,808
...and discovering that he had the bullet
caught in his teeth.

1428
01:40:32,902 --> 01:40:35,610
RICHIE: All right!
-No, wait! No! Jesus! No, listen!

1429
01:40:35,780 --> 01:40:39,023
I've never seen anything like that.
I mean anything. No, wait!

1430
01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:40,690
Listen, we can make a deal!

1431
01:40:40,868 --> 01:40:43,235
We could make money!
You get foreign rights...

1432
01:40:43,412 --> 01:40:44,948
...I'll take domestic.
What do you say? Wait.

1433
01:40:45,122 --> 01:40:46,112
[SIRENS WAILING NEARBY]

1434
01:40:46,290 --> 01:40:48,247
You can have both,
foreign and domestic!

1435
01:40:48,709 --> 01:40:51,497
COMMENTARY:
And every now and then in the film...

1436
01:40:51,712 --> 01:40:54,875
...we try to slip
these business references.

1437
01:40:55,091 --> 01:40:59,255
Like foreign and domestic...

1438
01:40:59,470 --> 01:41:03,964
...finder's fee conversation.

1439
01:41:04,976 --> 01:41:06,808
HAIRSTYLIST:
Look at you. You're a mess.

1440
01:41:06,978 --> 01:41:09,561
I don't have the right tools with me.

1441
01:41:09,730 --> 01:41:11,641
Richie. Where'd he go?

1442
01:41:11,816 --> 01:41:13,773
Where have you guys been?!

1443
01:41:13,943 --> 01:41:15,900
Listen, I'd like to report a mugging.

1444
01:41:16,070 --> 01:41:19,313
My friend and I, Mr. Nuff,
we were minding our own business.

1445
01:41:19,490 --> 01:41:21,777
We were assaulted
by these hoodlums!

1446
01:41:21,951 --> 01:41:23,692
We're lucky to be alive!

1447
01:41:23,869 --> 01:41:26,952
Save it, Arkadian!
You're going up for good this time!

1448
01:41:27,873 --> 01:41:28,954
EDDIE: Never!
WOMAN: Come on.

1449
01:41:29,125 --> 01:41:30,786
You're due in the studio. Let's go.

1450
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:31,495
<i>♪ That you need the glow
You need the glow, the glow to grow ♪</i>

1451
01:41:31,502 --> 01:41:33,743
<i>♪ That you need the glow
You need the glow, the glow to grow ♪</i>

1452
01:41:33,921 --> 01:41:37,414
♪ If you love to live, you live to love
You got to move to the upper level ♪

1453
01:41:37,592 --> 01:41:38,832
♪ 'Cause when you got the glow ♪

1454
01:41:39,010 --> 01:41:42,423
♪ There ain't no stopping
What you want to do ♪

1455
01:41:51,856 --> 01:41:56,396
COMMENTARY:
The film was a parody on many levels.

1456
01:41:56,611 --> 01:42:02,072
And we parodied Soul Train.

1457
01:42:04,535 --> 01:42:10,281
A dance show that was very popular
for many years on television.

1458
01:42:10,499 --> 01:42:16,336
And parodied music videos,
and music video producers...

1459
01:42:20,718 --> 01:42:26,680
...and kung fu movies.
And happy endings.

1460
01:42:26,932 --> 01:42:30,141
♪ Shine on ♪♪

1461
01:42:30,519 --> 01:42:32,601
Would you teach me some moves?!

1462
01:42:32,772 --> 01:42:34,479
[ALL LAUGHING]

1463
01:42:39,987 --> 01:42:42,149
Yo, man, check out the cornball!
Ha, ha.

1464
01:42:42,323 --> 01:42:43,859
He ain't no cornball!

1465
01:42:44,033 --> 01:42:47,822
He's my brother
and he's the master.

1466
01:42:48,037 --> 01:42:50,028
[♪♪♪]

1467
01:42:57,380 --> 01:42:59,792
♪ How you please me ♪

1468
01:43:00,675 --> 01:43:07,012
<i>♪ I think that this might be
What I've been dreamin' of ♪</i>

1469
01:43:07,556 --> 01:43:13,598
♪ I don't know what it is
But people call it love ♪

1470
01:43:18,359 --> 01:43:22,899
COMMENTARY: It was great
working with Berry Gordy on this picture.

1471
01:43:23,114 --> 01:43:29,986
I got a chance to see how a master...

1472
01:43:31,247 --> 01:43:35,332
...creative mind works.

1473
01:43:35,543 --> 01:43:42,540
He got very involved as we developed
this picture and grew to love it.

1474
01:43:44,844 --> 01:43:50,339
He was one of the acting coaches
for Taimak.

1475
01:43:50,558 --> 01:43:56,224
My wife,
who was also coaching...

1476
01:43:56,439 --> 01:44:00,398
...and another acting coach
would trade off.

1477
01:44:02,027 --> 01:44:06,863
And for me this was kind of a family film.
Both of our sons were in it.

1478
01:44:07,074 --> 01:44:13,161
We wanted them to be involved
in the excitement and energy...

1479
01:44:14,248 --> 01:44:17,786
...and the training of martial arts.

1480
01:44:19,754 --> 01:44:23,497
Torrance Mathis and Ron Van Clief.

1481
01:44:25,676 --> 01:44:29,294
Torrance was the smooth...

1482
01:44:29,513 --> 01:44:33,928
...Bruce Lee style of kung fu.

1483
01:44:34,143 --> 01:44:40,810
And Ron Van Clief
was the hard-edged style of karate...

1484
01:44:41,025 --> 01:44:43,107
...that we used for the bad guy.

1485
01:44:48,282 --> 01:44:51,866
So when the film was finished
and I saw it in the theaters...

1486
01:44:52,077 --> 01:44:56,696
...and saw the reaction
of a youthful audience to it...

1487
01:44:56,916 --> 01:45:00,409
...and the complete...

1488
01:45:00,628 --> 01:45:04,622
...absorption with which they...

1489
01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:10,335
...took in this film that
what I thought from the very beginning...

1490
01:45:10,554 --> 01:45:15,094
...when I read the script
was actually true.

1491
01:45:15,309 --> 01:45:22,181
That presenting a young
black heroic character...

1492
01:45:24,318 --> 01:45:28,687
...who had values
and had positive training...

1493
01:45:28,906 --> 01:45:32,490
...being seen as a cornball
kind of character by other people...

1494
01:45:32,701 --> 01:45:39,698
...but really ultimately believing
in his own power...

1495
01:45:41,168 --> 01:45:46,709
...could overcome evil would be a thing
that would resonate...

1496
01:45:46,924 --> 01:45:53,717
...with youthful audiences. And it did.
And we were all very pleased.

1497
01:45:57,393 --> 01:46:02,729
Because as kids, these
are the kinds of heroic characters...

1498
01:46:02,898 --> 01:46:05,560
...that we wanted to see, you know?

1499
01:46:05,734 --> 01:46:09,068
Instead of Tom Mix.

1500
01:46:13,117 --> 01:46:18,408
Thank you for listening.
I hope that you have as much fun...

1501
01:46:18,622 --> 01:46:22,331
...watching this picture
as I had in making it.

1502
01:46:22,543 --> 01:46:26,707
<i>♪ To the beat of the rhythm of the night
Dance until the morning light ♪</i>

1503
01:46:26,881 --> 01:46:29,339
♪ Forget about the worries
On your mind ♪

1504
01:46:30,968 --> 01:46:33,084
♪ To the beat of the rhythm of the night ♪

1505
01:46:35,222 --> 01:46:37,179
♪ Forget about the worries
On your mind ♪

1506
01:46:39,184 --> 01:46:41,221
♪ To the beat of the rhythm of the night ♪

1507
01:46:43,522 --> 01:46:45,559
♪ Forget about the worries
On your mind ♪

1508
01:46:46,942 --> 01:46:47,932
[♪♪♪]

1509
01:46:48,110 --> 01:46:52,320
♪ The journey now before you
Is the final test ♪

1510
01:46:52,489 --> 01:46:55,823
♪ You've learned your lesson well ♪

1511
01:46:55,993 --> 01:46:58,951
♪ I can teach you no more ♪

1512
01:47:02,207 --> 01:47:06,576
<i>♪ There's a power deep inside you
An inner strength ♪</i>

1513
01:47:06,754 --> 01:47:10,213
♪ You'll find in time of need ♪

1514
01:47:10,382 --> 01:47:13,215
♪ The glow ♪

1515
01:47:16,805 --> 01:47:19,718
♪ You are the Last Dragon ♪

1516
01:47:19,892 --> 01:47:25,934
♪ You possess the power of the glow ♪

1517
01:47:31,320 --> 01:47:34,278
♪ You are the Last Dragon ♪

1518
01:47:34,448 --> 01:47:40,740
♪ You possess the power of the glow ♪

1519
01:47:44,249 --> 01:47:45,739
♪ You are, you are ♪

1520
01:47:45,918 --> 01:47:48,626
♪ You are the Last Dragon ♪

1521
01:47:48,796 --> 01:47:54,212
♪ You possess the power of the glow ♪

1522
01:48:00,849 --> 01:48:03,261
♪ You are the Last Dragon ♪

1523
01:48:03,435 --> 01:48:08,225
♪ You possess the power of the glow ♪