1 00:00:55,625 --> 00:00:57,375 I still ask myself if I did the right thing, 2 00:00:57,417 --> 00:01:02,000 when I abandoned his floating city. 3 00:01:02,250 --> 00:01:04,959 And I don't mean only for the work. 4 00:01:06,542 --> 00:01:09,584 The fact is, a friend like that... 5 00:01:09,875 --> 00:01:11,875 a real friend... 6 00:01:12,209 --> 00:01:14,667 you won't meet one again 7 00:01:15,459 --> 00:01:18,834 if you just decide to hang up your sea legs... 8 00:01:19,209 --> 00:01:23,125 if you just want to feel something more solid beneath your feet. 9 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:30,667 And if then... you no longer hear the music of the Gods around you. 10 00:01:31,875 --> 00:01:34,584 But... like he used to say: 11 00:01:35,375 --> 00:01:40,334 "You're never really done for 12 00:01:40,417 --> 00:01:42,959 as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to." 13 00:01:45,042 --> 00:01:52,000 The trouble is... nobody would believe a single word of my story. 14 00:02:18,834 --> 00:02:25,000 It happened every time... that someone would look up... and see her. 15 00:02:25,250 --> 00:02:27,750 It's difficult to understand. 16 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,959 There'd been more than a thousand of us on that ship, 17 00:02:32,084 --> 00:02:35,000 traveling rich folks, immigrants, 18 00:02:35,084 --> 00:02:37,834 strange people... and us. 19 00:02:37,959 --> 00:02:42,417 Yet, there was always one... one guy alone... 20 00:02:42,584 --> 00:02:45,042 who would see her first. 21 00:02:46,042 --> 00:02:48,584 Maybe he was just sitting there eating 22 00:02:48,667 --> 00:02:50,750 or walking on the deck. 23 00:02:50,834 --> 00:02:53,334 Maybe he was just fixing his pants. 24 00:02:53,417 --> 00:02:57,625 He'd look up for a second, a quick glance out to sea... 25 00:02:57,750 --> 00:02:59,875 and he'd see her. 26 00:03:00,250 --> 00:03:05,459 Then he'd just stand there, rooted to the spot, his heart racing. 27 00:03:05,667 --> 00:03:10,709 And every time, every damned time, I swear... 28 00:03:11,459 --> 00:03:17,584 he'd turn towards us, to the ship, towards everybody... and scream... 29 00:03:17,709 --> 00:03:19,417 America! 30 00:04:52,209 --> 00:04:53,459 New York! 31 00:05:01,042 --> 00:05:06,667 The one who sees America first. There's one on every ship. 32 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:11,875 And don't be thinking it's an accident or some optical illusion. 33 00:05:11,917 --> 00:05:13,584 It's destiny. 34 00:05:13,875 --> 00:05:20,792 Those are people who always had that precise instant stamped on their life. 35 00:05:21,084 --> 00:05:24,750 And when they were kids, you could look into their eyes 36 00:05:25,209 --> 00:05:30,459 and if you looked carefully enough, you'd already see her... 37 00:05:31,667 --> 00:05:33,750 America. 38 00:05:41,417 --> 00:05:44,125 And I've seen a few Americas! 39 00:05:44,209 --> 00:05:47,875 Six years on that ship, five crossings a year: 40 00:05:48,125 --> 00:05:50,667 Europe, America and back. 41 00:05:50,792 --> 00:05:53,375 Always soaking in the ocean! 42 00:05:54,167 --> 00:05:58,417 When you stepped on land, you couldn't even piss straight in the john. 43 00:05:59,084 --> 00:06:02,042 It was steady, the john I mean... 44 00:06:02,375 --> 00:06:05,459 but you'd keep bobbing like an idiot. 45 00:06:06,292 --> 00:06:10,375 You can get off a ship all right, but off the ocean... 46 00:06:10,417 --> 00:06:14,542 I was just closing. What can I do for you? 47 00:06:16,125 --> 00:06:19,417 When I boarded I was 24 years old, 48 00:06:20,042 --> 00:06:27,209 and I only cared about one thing in life... playing the trumpet. 49 00:06:32,334 --> 00:06:34,084 I'm selling it. 50 00:06:38,667 --> 00:06:40,292 A Conn. 51 00:06:40,750 --> 00:06:42,375 Not bad. 52 00:06:48,125 --> 00:06:50,584 Best brass money can buy! 53 00:06:53,709 --> 00:06:57,042 6 pence 10 shillings, it's the best I can do. 54 00:06:57,209 --> 00:06:59,750 That h0rn's my whole life, mister! 55 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,042 But even just being a nobody has got to be worth more than 20 lousy bucks! 56 00:07:04,125 --> 00:07:09,375 If that's how things are... I suppose it's worth barely half a crown! 57 00:07:10,334 --> 00:07:12,709 Shut the door when you leave, please. 58 00:07:18,167 --> 00:07:21,875 Okay, Pops. You win! 59 00:07:25,209 --> 00:07:28,375 You just bought yourself a piece of musical history. 60 00:07:30,167 --> 00:07:32,334 If you want my advice... 61 00:07:34,792 --> 00:07:38,375 go out, treat yourself to a decent meal. 62 00:07:57,584 --> 00:07:59,834 At least let me play it one last time... 63 00:08:00,042 --> 00:08:02,667 Young man, I don't have time to waste! 64 00:08:05,459 --> 00:08:06,834 All right. 65 00:08:08,625 --> 00:08:11,625 Hurry up then, I'm closing. 66 00:08:12,417 --> 00:08:13,584 Thank you. 67 00:09:36,875 --> 00:09:39,792 Two peas in a pod, wouldn't you say? 68 00:09:40,625 --> 00:09:43,417 It's the music you were just playing. 69 00:09:43,459 --> 00:09:45,209 What is it? 70 00:09:48,334 --> 00:09:50,292 It doesn't have a name. 71 00:09:53,167 --> 00:09:57,084 Just a handful of people have had the privilege of hearing it. 72 00:10:02,042 --> 00:10:03,417 That style! 73 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:06,500 I was wondering since this morning, but... 74 00:10:07,417 --> 00:10:11,542 I can't work out who this amazing piano player is. 75 00:10:12,292 --> 00:10:14,417 I don't think you've ever heard of him. 76 00:10:14,459 --> 00:10:15,459 Who is he? 77 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:19,709 If I told you this pianist never existed, 78 00:10:20,459 --> 00:10:22,000 I wouldn't be lying. 79 00:10:22,084 --> 00:10:23,625 I don't like secrets. 80 00:10:23,709 --> 00:10:27,875 Come on now, Yank! Who the devil is playing? 81 00:10:29,584 --> 00:10:32,084 That's my secret. 82 00:10:44,542 --> 00:10:48,042 It was "the first year of this frigging century", 83 00:10:48,084 --> 00:10:49,500 as defined by 84 00:10:49,542 --> 00:10:51,750 an unknown colored coal stoker on the Virginian. 85 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,690 Fucking rich ass bastards! Can't lose nothing 86 00:10:55,702 --> 00:10:58,584 but cigarette butts and dirty ass handkerchiefs! 87 00:11:02,167 --> 00:11:03,459 Can't lose no watch. 88 00:11:04,084 --> 00:11:06,709 Not even a beat up Elgin, or a sorry-ass cufflink! 89 00:11:07,417 --> 00:11:11,167 What am I talking about? Not even a fake fucking ring! 90 00:11:12,084 --> 00:11:15,667 Hey, look here, a whole cigar! 91 00:11:16,625 --> 00:11:18,584 Must have been somebody poor at the party. 92 00:11:19,709 --> 00:11:21,625 Look at this shit! 93 00:11:22,750 --> 00:11:24,084 Nasty fuckers! 94 00:11:25,250 --> 00:11:27,459 Damn rich! 95 00:11:27,917 --> 00:11:30,084 Don't forget nothing unless they owe you some money. 96 00:11:36,625 --> 00:11:38,584 What in the skuts you doing here? 97 00:11:42,750 --> 00:11:44,375 "T.D. Lemons." 98 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,584 Howdy do there, Lemon! 99 00:11:57,417 --> 00:11:58,917 Immigrant bastard! 100 00:11:58,959 --> 00:12:02,125 That's the way immigrants do it 101 00:12:02,167 --> 00:12:06,125 having baby on the ship and then leave on the ship another mouth to feed. 102 00:12:06,625 --> 00:12:10,375 That's the big trouble with the Immigration Office! 103 00:12:10,417 --> 00:12:13,000 What can a kid like him be when he grows up? 104 00:12:13,292 --> 00:12:14,500 Another immigrant! 105 00:12:15,292 --> 00:12:18,000 Don't pay those bastards no mind, Lemon. 106 00:12:18,959 --> 00:12:20,375 Go on, lap it up, boy! 107 00:12:22,292 --> 00:12:25,375 They left this one in first class on the piano 108 00:12:25,417 --> 00:12:27,875 hoping some rich guy would take him 109 00:12:27,917 --> 00:12:29,667 and give him a happy life! 110 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,125 And who does the little ape get instead? 111 00:12:32,209 --> 00:12:34,500 A poor worthless beggar! 112 00:12:34,542 --> 00:12:37,125 Poor Danny. 113 00:12:39,375 --> 00:12:42,209 What a pity! 114 00:12:42,250 --> 00:12:43,959 Fuck poverty! 115 00:12:44,625 --> 00:12:47,125 You stinking sewer rats! 116 00:12:47,167 --> 00:12:50,750 TD. was written on the box. Do you rats know what that means? 117 00:12:50,875 --> 00:12:53,292 I forgot, you can't read! 118 00:12:53,334 --> 00:12:55,601 I'll tell you what it means, it means "Thanks Danny"! Thanks, Danny! 119 00:12:55,625 --> 00:12:57,667 They left that boy for me and I'm keeping him! 120 00:12:57,709 --> 00:13:00,500 - And you fuck yourselves! - Ehi, Danny! 121 00:13:00,542 --> 00:13:03,417 What are you going to call the baby? 122 00:13:04,834 --> 00:13:06,417 Hell, I ain't think about that. 123 00:13:09,167 --> 00:13:12,750 To start off, I'll name him after me... Danny Boodman. 124 00:13:13,542 --> 00:13:16,167 Then I'll put T.D. in the middle like the rich folks 125 00:13:16,209 --> 00:13:18,084 put on their cufflinks and shirts. 126 00:13:19,209 --> 00:13:21,726 That'd give it class, to put that in the middle, don't you think? 127 00:13:21,750 --> 00:13:25,375 All the fucking lawyers have got initials in the middle of their names. 128 00:13:25,417 --> 00:13:28,625 One of mine was Jonathan P.T.K. Wonder. 129 00:13:28,667 --> 00:13:31,959 If my son grow up to be a lawyer I swear I'll kill him myself. 130 00:13:32,334 --> 00:13:36,500 But the boy's name is still going to be Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon. 131 00:13:36,542 --> 00:13:39,250 He ain't no fucking duke's son, Danny! 132 00:13:39,417 --> 00:13:42,667 You found him on a Tuesday, Call him "Tuesday"! 133 00:13:45,084 --> 00:13:47,167 You ain't as dumb as you look, colored boy. 134 00:13:47,834 --> 00:13:51,042 I found him the first month of the first year 135 00:13:51,084 --> 00:13:52,750 of this frigging new century. 136 00:13:53,125 --> 00:13:56,709 So I calls him: Nineteen Hundred! 137 00:13:57,084 --> 00:14:02,500 - Nineteen Hundred? But that's a number! - It was a number, now it's a name. 138 00:14:02,959 --> 00:14:07,959 Danny Boodman... TD. Lemon Nineteen Hundred! 139 00:14:08,750 --> 00:14:12,084 Danny, your little bambino is not so happy 140 00:14:12,125 --> 00:14:15,750 Come on, hurry. Hurry up! Don't worry, your mama's here. 141 00:14:20,834 --> 00:14:21,834 Damn! 142 00:14:22,084 --> 00:14:24,375 How can something that small shit so much? 143 00:14:29,542 --> 00:14:32,375 And that's how little Nineteen Hundred grew up 144 00:14:32,417 --> 00:14:35,000 inside that cradle as big as a ship. 145 00:14:35,834 --> 00:14:38,917 But since Danny was afraid they'd take him away 146 00:14:38,959 --> 00:14:41,875 on account of some business concerning documents and visas, 147 00:14:42,250 --> 00:14:44,542 the boy lived his early years 148 00:14:44,584 --> 00:14:47,709 always hiding in the belly of the Virginian. 149 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,500 Okay, now try one for yourself. 150 00:15:11,125 --> 00:15:15,834 Put your finger up here against these words so the letters can't run off on you. 151 00:15:16,584 --> 00:15:19,125 "Man". 152 00:15:20,584 --> 00:15:22,417 All right, keep going. 153 00:15:23,417 --> 00:15:26,792 - "Ma". - Just a little bit more. 154 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,042 Boy, you read like a god, Lemon. 155 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:34,542 Now go on, put them all together, kind of like them boiler valves. 156 00:15:34,584 --> 00:15:37,459 Come on 157 00:15:40,125 --> 00:15:44,792 "Man... go... Mama." 158 00:15:47,584 --> 00:15:49,834 Mango Mama. All right. Keep going! 159 00:15:51,417 --> 00:15:55,709 "Yank... my... chain." 160 00:15:58,084 --> 00:16:00,709 Danny, why are you laughing so much? 161 00:16:00,750 --> 00:16:03,417 Because these are names of horses. Don't that make you laugh? 162 00:16:03,625 --> 00:16:05,804 |"m just crazy about these horses' names. Look 163 00:16:05,816 --> 00:16:07,959 at this one here, ran yesterday in Cleveland. 164 00:16:08,417 --> 00:16:11,042 "Happy Hoofers". 165 00:16:13,417 --> 00:16:14,834 Listen to this. 166 00:16:15,209 --> 00:16:18,917 - "Sassy Lassy". - Sassy Lassy! 167 00:16:19,250 --> 00:16:20,459 And this one. 168 00:16:20,584 --> 00:16:22,417 "Red Hot Mama". 169 00:16:25,417 --> 00:16:27,584 What's a mama, Danny? 170 00:16:28,875 --> 00:16:30,417 A mama? 171 00:16:31,250 --> 00:16:34,167 Well... A mama's a horse. 172 00:16:34,250 --> 00:16:36,625 - A horse? - Racehorse. 173 00:16:36,709 --> 00:16:40,417 Matter of fact, you know what I say? Mama's the best horse in the world. 174 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:43,375 Thoroughbred. You bet on a mama, you always win. 175 00:16:45,792 --> 00:16:53,584 "Tano D'Amato. The King of Lemons." 176 00:16:53,834 --> 00:16:56,875 Dad, put your finger here and read. 177 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,458 TD. does fit mean “Thanks, Danny“. 178 00:17:03,125 --> 00:17:04,667 Who's this pansy ass? 179 00:17:04,750 --> 00:17:06,583 That's enough reading for tonight. 180 00:17:07,125 --> 00:17:09,375 Too much reading is bad for you. 181 00:17:09,417 --> 00:17:12,208 What else is bad, Danny? 182 00:17:12,625 --> 00:17:15,833 Everything off the Virginian is bad. 183 00:17:17,625 --> 00:17:19,208 Everything. 184 00:17:19,417 --> 00:17:21,958 They got sharks on the land, they eat you alive. 185 00:17:22,042 --> 00:17:23,393 You keep away from them, you hear? 186 00:17:23,417 --> 00:17:26,042 Danny, what's an orphanage? 187 00:17:27,167 --> 00:17:31,292 Well, an orphanage is like... a great big prison 188 00:17:31,334 --> 00:17:33,416 where they lock up folks that ain't got kids. 189 00:17:33,417 --> 00:17:38,500 So if I wasn't with you, they would put you in an orphanage? 190 00:17:39,667 --> 00:17:43,500 You got that right, little Lemon. Nighty-night. 191 00:18:18,417 --> 00:18:20,625 Watch out! Danny! 192 00:18:29,750 --> 00:18:31,375 - Danny! ' Oh, my God! 193 00:18:36,959 --> 00:18:39,042 Come on! Call the doctor! 194 00:18:39,417 --> 00:18:41,584 Call the doctor! Go get a doctor! Go! 195 00:18:41,709 --> 00:18:44,250 Danny, holy cow, talk to me! 196 00:18:45,459 --> 00:18:48,667 Ain't nothing but a pat on the back. 197 00:18:49,375 --> 00:18:51,625 Holy Shoot... 198 00:18:52,834 --> 00:18:55,625 and Times 199 00:18:56,750 --> 00:18:58,500 were Good 200 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:03,750 was disqualified. 201 00:19:04,334 --> 00:19:07,375 Saucy Bossy... 202 00:19:07,750 --> 00:19:12,167 It took him three days to go toes up, old Danny. 203 00:19:12,542 --> 00:19:16,125 He let go on the sixth race in Chicago. 204 00:19:16,375 --> 00:19:19,834 Drinkable Water by two lengths over Vegetable Soup 205 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,417 and five over Blue Foundation. 206 00:19:23,334 --> 00:19:26,584 "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death 207 00:19:26,667 --> 00:19:32,209 I will fear no evil..." 208 00:19:37,042 --> 00:19:42,167 In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 209 00:19:42,250 --> 00:19:43,709 Amen. 210 00:19:58,750 --> 00:20:00,375 Music. 211 00:20:11,250 --> 00:20:15,084 Nineteen Hundred was eight years old then. 212 00:20:16,209 --> 00:20:21,167 He'd made the trip between Europe and America about fifty times, I imagine. 213 00:20:23,084 --> 00:20:25,417 The ocean was his home. 214 00:20:25,459 --> 00:20:28,542 He never set foot on dry land. Never. 215 00:20:28,625 --> 00:20:34,042 He'd seen it from the ports a hundred times... but he never got off the boat. 216 00:20:34,959 --> 00:20:39,834 Problem was, as far as the world was concerned, he didn't even exist. 217 00:20:40,042 --> 00:20:43,125 There wasn't a city, a parish, a hospital, 218 00:20:43,209 --> 00:20:45,292 jail or baseball team 219 00:20:45,542 --> 00:20:47,959 that had his name any place. 220 00:20:48,042 --> 00:20:49,750 He didn't have a country, 221 00:20:49,834 --> 00:20:53,292 he didn't even have a birth date, no family. 222 00:20:53,667 --> 00:20:57,084 He was eight years old, but officially 223 00:20:57,167 --> 00:20:59,625 he had never even been born. 224 00:22:32,292 --> 00:22:34,709 Captain! Captain, wake up! 225 00:23:22,792 --> 00:23:26,334 - What's his name? - Nineteen Hundred. 226 00:23:27,084 --> 00:23:29,250 Not the song, the boy. 227 00:23:29,334 --> 00:23:31,042 Nineteen Hundred. 228 00:23:31,375 --> 00:23:33,167 Like the song! 229 00:24:02,750 --> 00:24:05,750 Nineteen Hundred, all of this is 230 00:24:05,834 --> 00:24:08,084 entirely against the regulations! 231 00:24:09,334 --> 00:24:11,542 Fuck the regulations! 232 00:24:15,792 --> 00:24:21,209 But I don't understand... what the record has to do with any of this. 233 00:24:21,292 --> 00:24:23,750 This record shouldn't exist. 234 00:24:24,417 --> 00:24:28,709 The only existing matrix was destroyed right after it was cut. 235 00:24:28,792 --> 00:24:31,417 This is a matrix. 236 00:24:34,584 --> 00:24:37,792 Quite handy for on-the-spot recordings, that sort of business. 237 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,959 H0w'd you get your hands on this? 238 00:24:43,834 --> 00:24:48,459 I spent the better part of a day putting the bits and pieces together. 239 00:24:48,750 --> 00:24:54,084 Found them by accident, hidden inside one of those two pianos. 240 00:24:54,959 --> 00:24:57,625 I bought them from a second-hand dealer 241 00:24:58,417 --> 00:25:02,542 who'd emptied out an old hospital ship down at Plymouth. 242 00:25:12,792 --> 00:25:14,625 It's over there, mate. 243 00:26:41,667 --> 00:26:43,500 - Where are you from? - Liverpool. 244 00:26:43,584 --> 00:26:45,250 - What do you do? - I'm a barber. 245 00:26:45,334 --> 00:26:47,292 - Sign him up. - Thanks very much. 246 00:26:47,375 --> 00:26:49,959 Next! What's your trade? 247 00:26:50,334 --> 00:26:51,625 I'm a carpenter 248 00:26:51,709 --> 00:26:53,834 - I'm a good mechanic. - Get out! Next. 249 00:26:55,375 --> 00:26:59,250 - What do you do? - I play the trumpet. 250 00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:02,584 We've already got musicians on board. Next! 251 00:27:28,209 --> 00:27:30,625 Where the hell's he going? 252 00:28:07,125 --> 00:28:09,417 - What's that? - I don't know. 253 00:28:09,459 --> 00:28:13,417 When you don't know what it is... it's jazz! 254 00:28:15,125 --> 00:28:17,875 It was the happiest day of my life. 255 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,792 All those people, hope in their eyes, 256 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,542 the goodbyes, the sirens and that big floating world starting to move. 257 00:28:26,625 --> 00:28:31,584 It felt like one big party, a huge fair, just for me. 258 00:28:31,875 --> 00:28:36,625 But just three days later the ocean got tired of the festivities. 259 00:29:11,084 --> 00:29:12,875 Hey, Conn. 260 00:29:13,417 --> 00:29:15,000 What's the matter? 261 00:29:15,084 --> 00:29:16,875 Lose your sea legs? 262 00:29:18,334 --> 00:29:21,709 You're the new trumpet man, aren't you? And you blow a Conn. 263 00:29:24,625 --> 00:29:28,417 Come with me. I have a cure for your misery. 264 00:29:29,250 --> 00:29:30,667 Follow me. 265 00:30:06,167 --> 00:30:08,292 Just take the brakes off. Please 266 00:30:08,834 --> 00:30:10,584 that's crazy 267 00:30:10,709 --> 00:30:12,125 Trust me. 268 00:30:12,709 --> 00:30:14,667 Just take the brakes off. 269 00:30:28,792 --> 00:30:31,042 Hop on next to me. 270 00:30:31,584 --> 00:30:34,084 What, are you some kind of nut case! 271 00:30:34,209 --> 00:30:36,625 You better get on now or you never will. 272 00:31:08,542 --> 00:31:11,167 Tell me something, do you have children? 273 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,601 Oh, shite, they're gonna lock you up in an orphanage one of these days! 274 00:31:15,625 --> 00:31:17,084 He's nuts. 275 00:31:22,834 --> 00:31:26,000 - Mama! - I see you know your horses! 276 00:31:26,084 --> 00:31:28,167 - Yes, just a little. - Good man! 277 00:32:57,750 --> 00:32:59,167 Good evening, Captain. 278 00:32:59,250 --> 00:33:01,375 Care for a ride? 279 00:33:06,375 --> 00:33:09,030 Tell me again, how big the fucking window was! 280 00:33:09,042 --> 00:33:10,709 It was a big fucking window! 281 00:33:12,459 --> 00:33:16,625 We're going to be shoveling coal on this ship 'til eternity! 282 00:33:16,750 --> 00:33:18,417 No shit! 283 00:33:26,042 --> 00:33:28,834 At least you know what you'll be doing when you grow up! 284 00:33:31,209 --> 00:33:33,209 - Hey, Conn. - What? 285 00:33:34,542 --> 00:33:37,667 - You're from New Orleans, right? - How did you know that? 286 00:33:39,334 --> 00:33:41,042 I love that town. 287 00:33:41,125 --> 00:33:44,167 I haven't been there in a while. 288 00:33:45,459 --> 00:33:48,417 In the winter it's beautiful. 289 00:33:50,417 --> 00:33:52,292 And in March... 290 00:33:54,750 --> 00:33:57,084 you can always count on one afternoon. 291 00:33:57,750 --> 00:34:00,167 When you least expect it, 292 00:34:00,584 --> 00:34:05,417 the fog slides in, a milky barrier, 293 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,209 that hangs just below the street lamps 294 00:34:10,209 --> 00:34:12,459 and cuts everything... 295 00:34:12,584 --> 00:34:14,500 like a white blade. 296 00:34:14,584 --> 00:34:16,459 It's magic! 297 00:34:18,667 --> 00:34:23,500 The houses lose their top floors, trees lose their branches, 298 00:34:23,959 --> 00:34:26,959 St. Louis Cathedral loses its spires. 299 00:34:27,042 --> 00:34:29,834 The people passing by, they lose their heads. 300 00:34:29,959 --> 00:34:33,875 So from the neck up, everything disappears. 301 00:34:34,250 --> 00:34:35,584 All you can see in Jackson Square 302 00:34:35,667 --> 00:34:38,792 is a bunch of decapitated bodies, stumbling around 303 00:34:38,875 --> 00:34:41,334 and bumping in to each other, saying: 304 00:34:41,417 --> 00:34:43,417 "How's your mama, man?" 305 00:34:43,792 --> 00:34:44,792 That's it! 306 00:34:44,834 --> 00:34:46,834 Too bad it doesn't last long. 307 00:34:46,959 --> 00:34:49,334 But how do you know all these things? 308 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:56,084 You know, ever since I came on board, 309 00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:00,209 I've been hearing a lot of talk about a guy. 310 00:35:00,292 --> 00:35:03,584 He's supposed to have been born on this ship, 311 00:35:04,125 --> 00:35:06,500 and never been off it since. 312 00:35:06,584 --> 00:35:08,584 Crazy story! 313 00:35:09,084 --> 00:35:11,625 Twenty years without ever setting foot on land! 314 00:35:11,709 --> 00:35:12,834 Twenty-seven. 315 00:35:12,959 --> 00:35:17,459 They say this guy makes music that's never been heard before. 316 00:35:17,542 --> 00:35:19,250 I've heard of him, too. 317 00:35:19,417 --> 00:35:21,000 First off, 318 00:35:21,375 --> 00:35:23,584 I thought you were the guy. 319 00:35:23,667 --> 00:35:26,417 - But then, something didn't add up. - Of course. 320 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:28,000 I figured: 321 00:35:28,125 --> 00:35:32,625 "|f he's Nineteen Hundred, how could he know New Orleans?" 322 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,167 Cause... you've been to New Orleans? 323 00:35:37,250 --> 00:35:41,417 What if I told you I'd never set foot in that town, would you believe me? 324 00:35:44,667 --> 00:35:47,125 Whoever you are... 325 00:35:47,417 --> 00:35:49,250 Max Tooney. 326 00:35:49,625 --> 00:35:51,334 Glad to meet you. 327 00:36:03,792 --> 00:36:05,667 How are we doing? 328 00:36:05,750 --> 00:36:08,250 We're supposed to blow it up, 329 00:36:08,334 --> 00:36:11,792 not wait for it to be eaten by the fishes! 330 00:36:11,875 --> 00:36:17,375 You're not going to blow up a goddamn thing 'cause my best friend's on this ship. 331 00:36:17,542 --> 00:36:20,625 - You'd all be responsible for murder. - Get him out of here! 332 00:36:20,709 --> 00:36:23,584 Do whatever you want, but get him off my case! 333 00:36:23,750 --> 00:36:26,125 I'm not making this up and I'm not crazy. 334 00:36:26,209 --> 00:36:29,417 If I tell you there's a man aboard the Virginian, 335 00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:32,042 Jesus Christ, it means there is a man aboard the Virginian! 336 00:36:32,125 --> 00:36:34,709 We cleaned that scuttle from stem to stern. 337 00:36:34,792 --> 00:36:38,625 Not even doorknobs were left. Only dynamite. Dynamite. Lots of dynamite. 338 00:36:38,709 --> 00:36:40,518 How can you be so sure there's still a man on board? 339 00:36:40,542 --> 00:36:42,632 If you've any proof, out with it. Because I'm 340 00:36:42,644 --> 00:36:44,792 the horse's arse who has to throw that switch. 341 00:36:44,875 --> 00:36:47,334 I'm sure he's there. 342 00:36:47,792 --> 00:36:51,959 I spent the best years of my life on the Virginian. 343 00:37:27,167 --> 00:37:28,875 End of the line, boys! 344 00:37:51,042 --> 00:37:54,042 Well done! 345 00:39:35,292 --> 00:39:38,042 What the hell do you think about when you're playing? 346 00:39:38,125 --> 00:39:41,667 Where does your mind go when you hit the keys? 347 00:39:42,542 --> 00:39:46,000 Last night I was in a beautiful country. 348 00:39:46,667 --> 00:39:50,167 Women had perfume in their hair, everything glowed. 349 00:39:50,459 --> 00:39:52,709 And it was full of tigers. 350 00:39:52,792 --> 00:39:57,125 He traveled and each time he ended up some place different. 351 00:39:57,209 --> 00:40:01,292 In the heart of London, on a train in the middle of the country, 352 00:40:01,375 --> 00:40:03,834 on the edge of a giant volcano, 353 00:40:04,084 --> 00:40:06,709 in the biggest church in the world, 354 00:40:06,792 --> 00:40:11,042 counting the columns and staring up at the crucifixes. 355 00:40:12,167 --> 00:40:13,792 He traveled. 356 00:41:28,709 --> 00:41:30,167 America! 357 00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:55,709 Why the hell don't you get off? 358 00:41:55,792 --> 00:41:58,167 Just once? One time! 359 00:41:59,375 --> 00:42:03,625 See the world for yourself? With your own eyes? 360 00:42:06,292 --> 00:42:07,459 Do you ever think about it? 361 00:42:07,542 --> 00:42:09,542 You could do anything you wanted to. 362 00:42:09,625 --> 00:42:11,750 People would go crazy for you. 363 00:42:13,750 --> 00:42:16,500 You could make beaucoup bucks, man. 364 00:42:16,792 --> 00:42:19,417 Get yourself the finest house. 365 00:42:19,625 --> 00:42:21,292 Get yourself a wife. 366 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:23,750 Why not? 367 00:42:28,792 --> 00:42:32,584 God knows you can't spend the rest of your life 368 00:42:32,667 --> 00:42:34,018 traveling back and forth like some yo-yo. 369 00:42:34,042 --> 00:42:36,292 The world is out there. 370 00:42:36,709 --> 00:42:38,834 Nothing but a gangplank to cross. 371 00:42:38,959 --> 00:42:40,625 And what's a gangplank? 372 00:42:40,709 --> 00:42:42,292 A few stupid steps. 373 00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:46,000 Christ, everything is waiting at the bottom of those steps! 374 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,500 Why don't you just do it? 375 00:42:49,875 --> 00:42:51,209 One time. 376 00:42:51,875 --> 00:42:54,250 Why don't you just get off? 377 00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:05,500 Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? 378 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,125 I think land people 379 00:43:11,209 --> 00:43:13,417 waste a lot of time wondering why. 380 00:43:15,625 --> 00:43:17,459 Winter comes and you can't wait for summer. 381 00:43:17,542 --> 00:43:20,584 Summer comes and you live in dread of winter. 382 00:43:21,334 --> 00:43:24,000 That's why you never tire of traveling, 383 00:43:24,084 --> 00:43:27,500 always chasing some place far away, 384 00:43:27,875 --> 00:43:30,292 where it's always summer. 385 00:43:33,292 --> 00:43:35,625 Doesn't sound like a good bet to me. 386 00:43:47,709 --> 00:43:50,750 Hold it! Stop everything! 387 00:45:05,417 --> 00:45:08,250 Forgive me for allowing myself to... 388 00:45:08,417 --> 00:45:11,042 Your music was so strong. 389 00:45:23,792 --> 00:45:26,125 Do you want a cigarette? 390 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,709 You don't look too happy to be going to America. 391 00:45:32,792 --> 00:45:34,959 It's not America. 392 00:45:41,042 --> 00:45:43,417 It's everything I leave behind. 393 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:48,125 Until a few years ago, I know only my field. 394 00:45:48,250 --> 00:45:52,459 The world, for me, started and ended there, in that little piece of land. 395 00:45:52,959 --> 00:45:56,125 I'd never walked down the main street of a city. 396 00:45:57,625 --> 00:46:00,042 Maybe you can't understand that. 397 00:46:01,125 --> 00:46:03,292 I understand perfectly. 398 00:46:05,709 --> 00:46:09,209 I know someone who went through something very very similar. 399 00:46:09,417 --> 00:46:12,584 And one fine day did his field go dry, too? 400 00:46:12,667 --> 00:46:16,459 And did his wife also run off with a priest? 401 00:46:18,417 --> 00:46:23,584 And did the fever take... his five children? 402 00:46:24,292 --> 00:46:26,792 No, but he ended up alone, too. 403 00:46:28,709 --> 00:46:31,500 Then he is more lucky than me. 404 00:46:32,042 --> 00:46:34,000 I still have a daughter, 405 00:46:34,084 --> 00:46:37,375 the young one. She survived. 406 00:46:37,417 --> 00:46:43,375 It's for her that I decide one day to fight against my bad luck 407 00:46:43,417 --> 00:46:47,042 and travel all over without a destination. 408 00:46:48,084 --> 00:46:50,209 And then one day, 409 00:46:50,875 --> 00:46:54,834 when I go through one of the many towns I never see before, 410 00:46:56,042 --> 00:46:57,875 I come to a hill, 411 00:46:58,834 --> 00:47:00,000 and then, 412 00:47:00,042 --> 00:47:03,209 I see the most beautiful thing in my life. 413 00:47:04,834 --> 00:47:06,375 The sea. 414 00:47:06,459 --> 00:47:08,000 The sea? 415 00:47:08,500 --> 00:47:11,042 I'd never seen it before. 416 00:47:11,500 --> 00:47:15,000 It was like lightning hit me, 417 00:47:15,375 --> 00:47:18,250 because I hear the voice. 418 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,417 - The voice of the sea? - Yes. 419 00:47:20,459 --> 00:47:23,125 The voice of the sea. 420 00:47:24,959 --> 00:47:27,167 I never heard it. 421 00:47:27,875 --> 00:47:31,084 The voice of the sea, it is like a shout. 422 00:47:31,375 --> 00:47:35,834 A shout big and strong. Screaming and screaming. 423 00:47:36,084 --> 00:47:38,000 And the thing it was screaming was: 424 00:47:38,542 --> 00:47:40,125 "You! 425 00:47:43,167 --> 00:47:45,417 With shit instead of brains! 426 00:47:46,667 --> 00:47:50,542 Life is immense! Can you understand that?" 427 00:47:52,292 --> 00:47:53,792 Immense. 428 00:47:54,667 --> 00:47:56,875 I never think of it that way. 429 00:47:57,084 --> 00:47:59,750 A revolution was in my head. 430 00:48:00,209 --> 00:48:04,167 That's how I suddenly decided to change my life, 431 00:48:06,292 --> 00:48:08,084 to start afresh. 432 00:48:08,792 --> 00:48:12,167 Change life, start afresh. 433 00:48:12,459 --> 00:48:14,334 Tell that to your friend. 434 00:48:14,417 --> 00:48:16,500 Nineteen Hundred! 435 00:48:17,834 --> 00:48:21,375 Nineteen Hundred! 436 00:48:22,875 --> 00:48:26,375 It's Max Tooney, your friend. 437 00:48:26,417 --> 00:48:28,792 Come on out, Nineteen Hundred, 438 00:48:28,875 --> 00:48:30,792 I'm your friend, too! 439 00:48:30,875 --> 00:48:33,084 Even if we've never met. 440 00:48:33,167 --> 00:48:36,542 Don't worry, no cops! 441 00:48:46,625 --> 00:48:49,667 You said something about a piano. Where was it exactly? 442 00:48:49,750 --> 00:48:51,709 We found it over there. 443 00:48:56,834 --> 00:48:59,500 Nineteen Hundred! 444 00:49:01,125 --> 00:49:05,375 On the violin, yours truly, Phil Douglas! 445 00:49:06,334 --> 00:49:10,209 On bass, Freddy Loyacano! 446 00:49:11,167 --> 00:49:13,750 Max Tooney on trumpet! 447 00:49:15,250 --> 00:49:18,584 And finally, on piano, 448 00:49:18,750 --> 00:49:22,500 Danny Boodman TD. Lemon Nineteen Hundred! 449 00:49:22,584 --> 00:49:24,584 The greatest! 450 00:49:31,500 --> 00:49:33,625 For the last time, 1900, just... 451 00:49:33,709 --> 00:49:35,500 Just the normal notes. 452 00:49:35,584 --> 00:49:37,125 Come on, come on, come on. 453 00:50:12,709 --> 00:50:14,375 End of the line! 454 00:50:20,834 --> 00:50:22,792 Where do you get it? 455 00:50:23,625 --> 00:50:24,417 What? 456 00:50:24,542 --> 00:50:25,834 The music. 457 00:50:25,959 --> 00:50:26,959 I don't know. 458 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,792 You see that woman over there for example? 459 00:50:34,292 --> 00:50:38,375 She looks like someone who just killed her husband with the help of a young lover, 460 00:50:38,500 --> 00:50:41,000 and now she is running off with the family jewels. 461 00:50:41,542 --> 00:50:43,417 Don't you think this music's her? 462 00:50:43,584 --> 00:50:45,209 Damn, it's true! 463 00:50:49,250 --> 00:50:51,500 Do you see that guy over there? 464 00:50:52,292 --> 00:50:54,875 He can't forget a thing. 465 00:50:56,250 --> 00:50:58,625 Listen to his music. 466 00:51:08,584 --> 00:51:10,834 And look at that one there. 467 00:51:11,292 --> 00:51:14,625 She looks like a prostitute who's thinking of becoming a nun. 468 00:51:18,709 --> 00:51:20,375 That's incredible! 469 00:51:28,375 --> 00:51:29,750 Now, look at this one. 470 00:51:30,792 --> 00:51:33,542 See how he walks? 471 00:51:42,875 --> 00:51:46,625 I'd say he's in someone else's suit, 472 00:51:47,042 --> 00:51:49,209 judging by the way he wears it. 473 00:51:55,084 --> 00:51:59,417 I'd say he's a stowaway, slipped into first class, 474 00:51:59,625 --> 00:52:01,334 looking for a little amorous adventure. 475 00:52:02,125 --> 00:52:04,667 This one's got America stamped in his eyes. 476 00:52:04,750 --> 00:52:06,750 He'll be the first one to see it. 477 00:52:06,834 --> 00:52:09,334 I can already hear him screaming. 478 00:52:11,209 --> 00:52:14,167 L'America! 479 00:52:22,959 --> 00:52:24,792 I'm going to get my money back. 480 00:52:24,875 --> 00:52:26,500 That'll be the day! 481 00:53:19,542 --> 00:53:22,709 "Singleton Lee Claire." 482 00:53:41,417 --> 00:53:42,750 You don't know me, 483 00:53:42,834 --> 00:53:46,167 but I was wondering if we could have a little chat. 484 00:53:46,250 --> 00:53:49,292 A little chat? What about? 485 00:53:49,542 --> 00:53:52,292 About anything, like weather conditions... 486 00:53:52,542 --> 00:53:54,792 Anything. You pick or chuck the subject. 487 00:53:54,875 --> 00:53:57,500 Is this an obscene phone call? 488 00:54:00,709 --> 00:54:02,125 Jesus Christ! 489 00:54:06,250 --> 00:54:08,834 You the face with the 20 dollar name? 490 00:54:08,959 --> 00:54:11,292 Wait! We just want to talk with you! 491 00:54:17,584 --> 00:54:18,834 Come on! 492 00:54:21,709 --> 00:54:24,584 Wait! We just want to talk with you! 493 00:54:25,375 --> 00:54:27,292 Where the hell are we? 494 00:54:27,375 --> 00:54:30,209 Stop, you little son of the bitch! 495 00:54:32,042 --> 00:54:33,292 Come on! 496 00:54:33,375 --> 00:54:34,959 We don't want to hurt you! 497 00:54:35,042 --> 00:54:38,417 We're players, man, Side men! 498 00:54:50,792 --> 00:54:52,250 Bon appetite! 499 00:54:52,334 --> 00:54:55,584 You can say that again, brother. You can say that again. 500 00:55:02,834 --> 00:55:06,542 Are you the one who plays ten kinds of jazz rolled into one? 501 00:55:06,625 --> 00:55:09,625 To tell the truth I've never counted them, I'm just a piano player. 502 00:55:09,709 --> 00:55:14,167 Well, you'd better start counting, buddy. The man who invented jazz sent us here. 503 00:55:14,250 --> 00:55:15,625 Really? 504 00:55:16,334 --> 00:55:21,000 - What does he want with me? - He challenges you to a piano duel! 505 00:55:29,459 --> 00:55:32,709 Jelly Roll, what's the reason for a trip to Europe on a steamer, 506 00:55:32,792 --> 00:55:35,672 when you've never set foot on anything bigger than the Mississippi river? 507 00:55:35,834 --> 00:55:38,334 I don't give a damn about Europe! 508 00:55:38,417 --> 00:55:40,792 The only reason I'm hopping on this tub 509 00:55:40,875 --> 00:55:43,334 is because of a gentleman I want to meet. 510 00:55:43,417 --> 00:55:47,292 They say he plays a hot piano! 511 00:55:49,625 --> 00:55:53,125 But I hear he has a little thing about setting foot on land. 512 00:55:53,750 --> 00:55:55,292 Is he talking about me? 513 00:55:55,375 --> 00:55:57,125 You bet he's talking about you! 514 00:55:57,292 --> 00:55:59,667 He says, "Hey, Jelly, 515 00:55:59,750 --> 00:56:03,875 someone plays better piano than you!" 516 00:56:04,875 --> 00:56:06,625 So I say to myself: 517 00:56:06,709 --> 00:56:09,750 "Self! How can this guy play so well 518 00:56:09,834 --> 00:56:13,625 when he don't even have the balls to get off the goddamn ship?" 519 00:56:13,875 --> 00:56:15,959 "Hey! Hot damn, Jelly! 520 00:56:16,042 --> 00:56:19,667 You invented jazz!" 521 00:56:21,459 --> 00:56:24,417 Well, I say, "Go down! You can afford a first class ticket to Europe! 522 00:56:24,459 --> 00:56:27,667 And the boat that's gonna take ya, 523 00:56:27,709 --> 00:56:29,416 just by lifting a finger." 524 00:56:29,417 --> 00:56:32,042 Get a shot of it, boys! Get a shot! 525 00:56:32,125 --> 00:56:34,625 Tell the truth, are you scared? 526 00:56:35,625 --> 00:56:37,334 I don't know. 527 00:56:38,084 --> 00:56:41,709 Why a duel? What happens when you have a duel? 528 00:56:51,375 --> 00:56:54,250 He didn't have any sporting sense. He didn't give a damn who won. 529 00:56:54,334 --> 00:56:56,625 It was the rest that amazed him. All the rest. 530 00:57:24,292 --> 00:57:26,209 He's a black man! 531 00:58:42,792 --> 00:58:44,542 I believe 532 00:58:44,834 --> 00:58:47,375 you're sitting in my seat. 533 00:58:56,584 --> 00:58:59,375 You're the one who invented jazz, right? 534 00:58:59,417 --> 00:59:01,042 That's what they say. 535 00:59:02,417 --> 00:59:03,834 And you're the one 536 00:59:04,292 --> 00:59:09,292 who can't play unless you have the ocean under your ass, right? 537 00:59:09,750 --> 00:59:11,125 That's what I say. 538 00:59:20,792 --> 00:59:23,959 Will excuse me? 539 01:00:03,917 --> 01:00:08,250 Jelly Roll Morton did not play, he caressed those notes. 540 01:00:08,625 --> 01:00:12,375 It sounded like a silk slip sliding down a woman's body. 541 01:00:12,667 --> 01:00:15,834 His hands were butterflies, so light. 542 01:00:16,500 --> 01:00:20,459 He got his start in the famed 'tenderl0in' district of New Orleans, 543 01:00:20,542 --> 01:00:24,417 And 0h, did he learn to stroke the keyboard in those whore houses. 544 01:00:24,459 --> 01:00:27,709 People doing the deed upstairs didn't want any uproar. 545 01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,875 They wanted music would slip behind the curtains that 546 01:00:30,917 --> 01:00:34,250 and underneath the beds without disturbing their passion. 547 01:00:34,875 --> 01:00:37,209 That's the kind of music he played. 548 01:00:37,292 --> 01:00:38,417 And in that, 549 01:00:38,500 --> 01:00:41,292 he truly was... the best. 550 01:01:32,167 --> 01:01:35,292 Your turn, sailor. 551 01:01:49,625 --> 01:01:51,084 Come on! 552 01:02:16,459 --> 01:02:18,709 What is he doing? 553 01:02:23,417 --> 01:02:25,125 "Silent Night"? 554 01:02:25,209 --> 01:02:27,334 Isn't it a Christmas carol? 555 01:02:27,417 --> 01:02:29,459 Does he sense that it's a contest? 556 01:02:29,542 --> 01:02:32,417 You think "Silent Night" is jazz? 557 01:02:32,459 --> 01:02:34,875 Is it Christmas already? 558 01:02:57,959 --> 01:03:01,875 Jelly, show us some... 559 01:03:56,042 --> 01:03:58,167 What is wrong with you? 560 01:03:58,584 --> 01:04:02,000 I can't help it. This music makes me cry. 561 01:04:02,084 --> 01:04:03,834 The whole crew bet on you! 562 01:04:03,959 --> 01:04:06,042 I put a year's pay on the line! 563 01:04:06,250 --> 01:04:10,709 And you sit here sniffling? Now you cut that out and start thinking your music! 564 01:04:10,792 --> 01:04:13,125 - Can I bet, too? - No! 565 01:04:13,959 --> 01:04:15,792 Bad luck to bet on yourself. 566 01:04:15,875 --> 01:04:19,584 But I want to bet on him! He's the greatest! 567 01:04:21,125 --> 01:04:22,834 You are crazy! You know that? 568 01:04:22,959 --> 01:04:26,417 But that way, if you lose, you'll get your money back! 569 01:05:21,292 --> 01:05:25,500 It's exactly the same piece of music, darling. 570 01:05:30,834 --> 01:05:33,625 We are really end of the line 571 01:05:36,542 --> 01:05:38,167 unbelievable! 572 01:06:03,875 --> 01:06:06,334 Come on, you can play better than that 573 01:06:10,209 --> 01:06:13,542 Jelly, you know how to sink the ship! 574 01:06:19,750 --> 01:06:22,417 You stick this up your ass. 575 01:07:18,875 --> 01:07:20,459 Hey, Max! 576 01:07:21,792 --> 01:07:23,375 Give me a cigarette, will you? 577 01:07:23,417 --> 01:07:25,542 You're not handling this well! 578 01:07:25,625 --> 01:07:27,084 Just give me a cigarette. 579 01:07:27,167 --> 01:07:28,834 You don't smoke! 580 01:07:29,417 --> 01:07:34,625 What is the matter with you? You could lick this guy with one hand! Come on! 581 01:07:52,542 --> 01:07:53,902 Are you gonna give me a cigarette? 582 01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,417 We'll be shoveling coal for 200 years! 583 01:07:57,459 --> 01:08:00,125 - And all you can say... - Just give me a fucking cigarette! 584 01:08:21,459 --> 01:08:23,709 You asked for it, asshole. 585 01:11:15,542 --> 01:11:16,875 You smoke it. 586 01:11:17,292 --> 01:11:19,000 I don't know how. 587 01:12:10,709 --> 01:12:15,000 Jelly Roll Morton spent the rest of that trip locked in his cabin. 588 01:12:15,084 --> 01:12:19,459 When we got to Southampton, he got off the Virginian and went back to America. 589 01:12:20,042 --> 01:12:24,667 I remember Nineteen Hundred watched him as he walked off down the deserted dock 590 01:12:24,792 --> 01:12:26,875 and all he said was... 591 01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:29,750 Fuck jazz, too! 592 01:12:31,500 --> 01:12:34,792 That's just what he said: "Fuck jazz, too!" 593 01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,417 This is an incredible story! Incredible! 594 01:12:37,459 --> 01:12:39,042 Did I miss anything important? 595 01:12:39,125 --> 01:12:41,334 - You could say that! - Damn! 596 01:12:41,417 --> 01:12:44,542 Don't worry, our friend will fill you in later. Won't you? 597 01:12:44,625 --> 01:12:45,500 You can count on it! 598 01:12:45,584 --> 01:12:48,417 - Thanks! - He's so good at telling tales. 599 01:12:49,125 --> 01:12:50,417 This is no tale, sir! 600 01:12:50,500 --> 01:12:52,250 But there's nobody here. 601 01:12:52,334 --> 01:12:54,435 It's because there's too many of us, we've scared him. 602 01:12:54,459 --> 01:12:58,209 I'm sorry. Now, you leave this ship or I'll have to have you arrested. 603 01:12:59,125 --> 01:13:01,042 Get back to work. Quickly! 604 01:13:02,542 --> 01:13:05,000 - Give me another chance. - Piss off, friend! 605 01:13:05,084 --> 01:13:07,250 Noon tomorrow, this ship is history! 606 01:13:17,500 --> 01:13:18,709 Stop or I'll shoot! 607 01:13:18,792 --> 01:13:20,334 Got you! 608 01:13:20,417 --> 01:13:23,167 Hey, Pops, easy. It's me. 609 01:13:26,125 --> 01:13:27,125 You again, is it? 610 01:13:27,292 --> 01:13:28,959 Yeah. Lower that cannon, will you? 611 01:13:29,042 --> 01:13:31,842 Sell your instrument and then steal it back again, that's an old trick! 612 01:13:31,959 --> 01:13:35,125 I should have guessed you're a thief. 613 01:13:35,209 --> 01:13:37,459 No, no, I was looking for this. 614 01:13:37,542 --> 01:13:39,500 And what do you need that for? 615 01:13:39,667 --> 01:13:42,500 It's a matter of life and death. And I need a phonograph, too. 616 01:13:42,584 --> 01:13:43,792 A thief and A liar! 617 01:13:43,875 --> 01:13:45,959 Look, Pops, I don't have a lot of time! 618 01:13:46,042 --> 01:13:48,750 Well, I do, seeing as I have a gun! 619 01:13:49,292 --> 01:13:51,042 And now that I think of it, 620 01:13:51,125 --> 01:13:54,000 since when were records made on board steam ships? 621 01:13:54,125 --> 01:13:56,000 If that music really was played by your friend, 622 01:13:56,084 --> 01:14:00,375 it means that sometime in his life he got off that ship! Correct? 623 01:14:00,417 --> 01:14:01,959 Not a chance, Pops! 624 01:14:02,250 --> 01:14:05,167 He cut this passionate recording personally. 625 01:14:05,250 --> 01:14:07,000 I think it's his best work, 626 01:14:07,125 --> 01:14:09,417 but he didn't jump ship to do it, 627 01:14:09,500 --> 01:14:11,209 not even for a second. 628 01:14:11,292 --> 01:14:14,375 The sky's the limit, Mr. Nineteen Hundred. 629 01:14:14,417 --> 01:14:18,417 If this record sells like hot-cakes, and we think it will, 630 01:14:18,459 --> 01:14:21,000 you'll go far, Mr Nineteen. 631 01:14:21,084 --> 01:14:23,584 Do you mind if I call you Nineteen? 632 01:14:23,875 --> 01:14:25,334 This is going to hurt, isn't it? 633 01:14:25,417 --> 01:14:26,667 Ready now, gentlemen. 634 01:14:26,750 --> 01:14:31,709 On the count. And one, two, three. 635 01:17:27,542 --> 01:17:29,584 Awh, Nineteen! 636 01:17:30,042 --> 01:17:33,459 That is one amazing piece of music. 637 01:17:33,542 --> 01:17:35,125 What is it called? 638 01:17:35,375 --> 01:17:39,584 Oh, it's going to have people crying buckets. 639 01:17:39,667 --> 01:17:41,375 It's got to have the right title. 640 01:17:41,625 --> 01:17:45,292 Something catchy like: "Swinging in the Breeze" or... 641 01:17:45,875 --> 01:17:47,959 You were great, as usual. 642 01:17:48,042 --> 01:17:49,875 "Sweet Nineteen"... 643 01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:52,125 You are going to be big time. 644 01:17:52,209 --> 01:17:55,334 And all you gotta do is take that big step. 645 01:17:59,542 --> 01:18:01,084 What big step? 646 01:18:01,167 --> 01:18:05,375 Getting off! Getting off these lousy planks of wood 647 01:18:05,417 --> 01:18:07,042 and going after... 648 01:18:07,459 --> 01:18:10,792 Going after your fame and fortune. 649 01:18:10,875 --> 01:18:14,584 I don't mean to butt in, fellas, but 650 01:18:14,750 --> 01:18:16,292 with this, 651 01:18:16,375 --> 01:18:19,000 you can have anything you want 652 01:18:19,084 --> 01:18:22,625 and never have to set foot off this boat. 653 01:18:37,750 --> 01:18:41,542 We'll print millions of copies. 654 01:18:41,584 --> 01:18:44,334 So that people all over the world can hear 655 01:18:44,375 --> 01:18:47,042 your wonderful music, Nineteen. 656 01:18:48,125 --> 01:18:49,584 Mr Nineteen? 657 01:18:50,292 --> 01:18:52,959 I won't let my music go anywhere without me. 658 01:18:54,459 --> 01:18:57,959 - Hey, no! Don't touch! - What are you doing? You can't do that! 659 01:18:58,042 --> 01:19:01,292 We have a contract, you can't go back now! 660 01:19:01,667 --> 01:19:04,125 I always go back. 661 01:19:39,417 --> 01:19:42,125 What are you doing here... 662 01:20:02,209 --> 01:20:03,584 Miss... 663 01:20:06,500 --> 01:20:08,125 I'd be... 664 01:20:08,709 --> 01:20:11,084 pleased... 665 01:20:22,584 --> 01:20:24,292 Miss... 666 01:20:28,834 --> 01:20:31,625 I'd... I'd be thrilled... 667 01:20:32,667 --> 01:20:36,250 if you would accept this... 668 01:20:38,042 --> 01:20:39,542 small... 669 01:20:40,375 --> 01:20:41,625 token... 670 01:21:52,209 --> 01:21:53,416 Hey, Miss Padoan! 671 01:21:53,417 --> 01:21:55,709 What are you doing here all alone, counting the waves? 672 01:21:55,834 --> 01:21:58,834 The captain said we'll be passing the Tropic of Cancer soon. 673 01:21:58,959 --> 01:22:01,584 Great! At last I'll have something to look at. 674 01:22:01,709 --> 01:22:05,084 Did you ever notice how the sea changes color? Ten times a day! 675 01:22:05,167 --> 01:22:06,792 Even more. 676 01:22:07,500 --> 01:22:09,375 I could look at the sea all day long. 677 01:22:09,417 --> 01:22:12,084 You know, foreigners don't ever look at the sea. It scares them. 678 01:22:12,167 --> 01:22:14,000 At least, that's what I heard. 679 01:22:14,084 --> 01:22:15,625 That's not true. 680 01:22:16,417 --> 01:22:18,959 Once, my father told me 681 01:22:19,084 --> 01:22:20,875 he heard the ocean's voice. 682 01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:23,334 Oh, really? What did it say? 683 01:22:24,167 --> 01:22:26,709 I can't tell you, it's a secret. 684 01:22:26,792 --> 01:22:28,584 And secrets should be kept. 685 01:22:28,667 --> 01:22:32,875 It's really coming down now! Let's get back inside! 686 01:22:33,500 --> 01:22:35,417 Let me take your arm 687 01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:44,417 Next. 688 01:26:49,084 --> 01:26:50,459 Next. 689 01:26:59,959 --> 01:27:01,417 Excuse me. 690 01:27:03,834 --> 01:27:05,209 Excuse me. 691 01:27:06,625 --> 01:27:07,709 Excuse me. 692 01:27:09,125 --> 01:27:10,834 Please! Miss? 693 01:27:13,667 --> 01:27:15,500 I have to talk to you. 694 01:27:16,750 --> 01:27:19,375 You're meeting your father, aren't you? 695 01:27:19,709 --> 01:27:22,500 Yes. How did you know? 696 01:27:23,209 --> 01:27:25,500 I think I've met him. 697 01:27:28,542 --> 01:27:30,500 On this ship, 698 01:27:30,584 --> 01:27:32,584 quite a few years ago. 699 01:27:33,209 --> 01:27:35,459 I don't know if he took the same ship. 700 01:27:37,625 --> 01:27:39,750 I'm sure of it. 701 01:27:40,875 --> 01:27:43,834 He has a musette. Yes? 702 01:27:45,584 --> 01:27:48,292 I think we played together. 703 01:27:48,959 --> 01:27:51,417 I don't know if he'd remember, but... 704 01:27:52,250 --> 01:27:53,709 say hello to him. 705 01:27:53,792 --> 01:27:55,084 I will. 706 01:27:55,292 --> 01:27:57,750 But how did you know who I was? 707 01:27:57,875 --> 01:27:59,750 It's very strange, no? 708 01:27:59,834 --> 01:28:01,542 It's a secret. 709 01:28:03,209 --> 01:28:05,875 And secrets should be kept. 710 01:28:06,292 --> 01:28:09,709 Although I think your father felt differently back then. 711 01:28:33,709 --> 01:28:35,375 Please accept this... 712 01:28:35,834 --> 01:28:37,584 small musical token. 713 01:28:37,667 --> 01:28:40,250 I'm sorry, but I can't hear you! 714 01:28:41,542 --> 01:28:43,167 I want you to... 715 01:28:44,292 --> 01:28:46,625 accept this small... 716 01:28:47,084 --> 01:28:48,542 token. 717 01:28:48,625 --> 01:28:50,667 I can't hear you! 718 01:28:55,584 --> 01:28:57,292 Good luck! 719 01:28:57,375 --> 01:29:00,292 Thank you. Good luck to you, too! 720 01:29:01,209 --> 01:29:03,750 Why don't you come and visit us some day? 721 01:29:03,834 --> 01:29:06,959 We live on Mott Street, number 27. 722 01:29:07,042 --> 01:29:10,167 My father has a fish shop. 723 01:29:10,542 --> 01:29:12,167 Maybe! 724 01:29:17,334 --> 01:29:21,042 Padoan, okay! Next! 725 01:29:37,959 --> 01:29:42,750 Watch your step lady 726 01:29:58,792 --> 01:30:02,459 He never mentioned her to me again, 727 01:30:02,542 --> 01:30:05,000 and I never asked. At least not for the next twelve crossings. 728 01:30:05,584 --> 01:30:08,792 Besides, he was happy, just like always. 729 01:30:08,959 --> 01:30:11,459 His popularity was at its peak. 730 01:30:11,959 --> 01:30:14,334 Then, one evening in spring, 731 01:30:14,417 --> 01:30:19,000 halfway between Genoa and New York, right in the middle of the ocean... 732 01:30:19,209 --> 01:30:21,584 In three days, when we get to New York, 733 01:30:23,792 --> 01:30:25,875 I'm getting off this ship. 734 01:30:28,584 --> 01:30:30,750 Cat got your tongue? 735 01:30:34,417 --> 01:30:36,334 No, I'm glad. 736 01:30:36,709 --> 01:30:38,834 But, all of a sudden? 737 01:30:42,209 --> 01:30:43,875 My man! 738 01:30:44,292 --> 01:30:45,500 That's aces! 739 01:30:45,584 --> 01:30:47,459 I have to see something down there. 740 01:30:47,542 --> 01:30:48,875 What? 741 01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:50,500 The ocean. 742 01:30:55,500 --> 01:30:57,084 You're pulling my leg? 743 01:30:57,542 --> 01:31:00,459 You've seen nothing but the ocean since the day you were born. 744 01:31:00,542 --> 01:31:02,500 Yeah, but from here! 745 01:31:03,709 --> 01:31:06,500 I want to see it from there, it's not the same thing at all. 746 01:31:07,042 --> 01:31:09,000 Wait till we dock, lean over the side 747 01:31:09,084 --> 01:31:11,500 and take a good look! It's the same thing. 748 01:31:11,959 --> 01:31:13,500 No, it's not. 749 01:31:14,584 --> 01:31:16,584 From land you can hear its voice. 750 01:31:16,667 --> 01:31:18,750 You don't hear that from the ship. 751 01:31:19,709 --> 01:31:21,667 What do you mean "its voice?" 752 01:31:21,750 --> 01:31:23,584 Its voice. 753 01:31:27,625 --> 01:31:29,125 It's like... 754 01:31:31,084 --> 01:31:33,042 a big scream. 755 01:31:35,042 --> 01:31:39,292 Telling you that life is immense. 756 01:31:39,417 --> 01:31:41,803 Once you've finally heard it, then you really 757 01:31:41,815 --> 01:31:44,000 know what you have to do to go on living. 758 01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:47,709 I could stay here forever... 759 01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:50,542 but the ocean 760 01:31:50,625 --> 01:31:53,417 would never tell me a thing. 761 01:31:54,125 --> 01:31:57,959 But if I get off... live on land for a couple of years, 762 01:31:58,042 --> 01:31:59,750 then I'll be normal. 763 01:32:00,459 --> 01:32:02,667 Just like the others. 764 01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:06,667 And then, maybe one clay, I'll make it to the coast, 765 01:32:06,792 --> 01:32:09,167 look up, see the ocean 766 01:32:09,250 --> 01:32:11,625 and hear it scream. 767 01:32:12,459 --> 01:32:14,959 I don't know who's been telling you all this bullshit, 768 01:32:15,042 --> 01:32:16,792 or if you're just making it up. 769 01:32:16,959 --> 01:32:18,542 But, you wanna know what I think? 770 01:32:18,625 --> 01:32:20,334 I think... 771 01:32:20,959 --> 01:32:23,709 the real reason you want off this ship... 772 01:32:24,417 --> 01:32:25,875 is the girl. 773 01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:27,834 It's always the girl. 774 01:32:28,042 --> 01:32:29,792 But even if it's not the reason, 775 01:32:29,875 --> 01:32:31,625 that suits me just fine. 776 01:32:31,709 --> 01:32:34,584 Because I've always wanted you to leave this ship 777 01:32:34,709 --> 01:32:36,709 and play for the people on land, 778 01:32:36,792 --> 01:32:40,334 and marry a nice woman, and have children 779 01:32:40,417 --> 01:32:45,042 and all those things in life which are not immense, 780 01:32:46,542 --> 01:32:49,167 but are worth the effort. 781 01:32:50,167 --> 01:32:52,792 You'll come visit me, won't you Max, 782 01:32:53,084 --> 01:32:54,750 on land? 783 01:32:54,834 --> 01:32:56,250 Of course. 784 01:32:58,375 --> 01:33:02,875 That way you'll introduce me to the mother of your children. 785 01:33:03,334 --> 01:33:06,084 And invite me for Sunday dinner. 786 01:33:06,417 --> 01:33:09,459 I'll bring the dessert and a bottle of wine. 787 01:33:09,667 --> 01:33:11,750 And you'll tell me I shouldn't have. 788 01:33:13,084 --> 01:33:15,209 And, while you're showing me 789 01:33:15,250 --> 01:33:18,042 around your house, shaped like a ship, 790 01:33:18,584 --> 01:33:21,167 your wife will be cooking a turkey. 791 01:33:21,250 --> 01:33:22,750 And then we'll sit at the table. 792 01:33:22,834 --> 01:33:25,959 I'll tell her she's an excellent cook. 793 01:33:26,417 --> 01:33:29,750 She'll say how you talk about me all the time. 794 01:33:33,167 --> 01:33:34,750 You know, 795 01:33:34,875 --> 01:33:37,792 I'm going to give you my camel coat. 796 01:33:38,084 --> 01:33:41,167 You'll cut a fine figure when you get down there. 797 01:33:44,292 --> 01:33:47,542 How many people I'd seen saying goodbye on the docks 798 01:33:47,625 --> 01:33:49,542 without giving a damn. 799 01:33:50,459 --> 01:33:52,792 But when I said goodbye to Nineteen Hundred, 800 01:33:52,875 --> 01:33:55,000 it was a real blow. 801 01:33:55,542 --> 01:33:58,750 We laughed, we kept saying "see you soon", 802 01:33:58,834 --> 01:34:00,334 but inside, we both knew 803 01:34:00,417 --> 01:34:03,209 we'd never see each other again. 804 01:34:20,667 --> 01:34:23,084 Goodbye, Nineteen Hundred! 805 01:34:23,167 --> 01:34:25,584 - Good luck, man! - Have a good time! 806 01:34:25,667 --> 01:34:27,834 Don't forget to wear your woolies in winter! 807 01:34:28,209 --> 01:34:30,209 Take care, Nineteen Hundred! 808 01:34:30,292 --> 01:34:32,292 Write to us sometimes! 809 01:34:33,209 --> 01:34:35,709 Send my regards to Broadway 810 01:35:07,959 --> 01:35:10,667 What'd he do, step in shit? 811 01:35:11,209 --> 01:35:12,834 Maybe he just forgot something. 812 01:35:12,959 --> 01:35:15,750 Maybe he's forgotten why he's getting off! 813 01:37:00,334 --> 01:37:02,292 What do you want? 814 01:37:10,542 --> 01:37:14,292 He was strange for a long time after that. 815 01:37:14,875 --> 01:37:16,875 He wouldn't talk to anyone. 816 01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:20,542 He preferred keeping to himself for days and days. 817 01:37:21,417 --> 01:37:24,625 He seemed taken by very personal matters. 818 01:37:26,500 --> 01:37:30,125 Then, one day, while I was sitting at the bar... 819 01:37:38,625 --> 01:37:41,792 Thanks for the coat, Max, it fit like a glove. 820 01:37:42,417 --> 01:37:44,417 It was a real shame. 821 01:37:46,334 --> 01:37:48,417 But I'm much better now. 822 01:37:48,584 --> 01:37:50,750 I'm done with all that. 823 01:38:08,667 --> 01:38:10,959 It's good all times 824 01:38:24,417 --> 01:38:29,084 I left the Virginian on August 21st, 1933, 825 01:38:29,625 --> 01:38:32,209 with my leave papers and back pay. 826 01:38:32,292 --> 01:38:34,209 Everything in order. 827 01:38:34,334 --> 01:38:37,459 I knew that sooner or later, I'd have been through with the ocean. 828 01:38:37,500 --> 01:38:39,209 So that's what I did. 829 01:38:40,417 --> 01:38:41,542 I heard no more 830 01:38:41,584 --> 01:38:43,750 about Nineteen Hundred or the Virginian. 831 01:38:44,625 --> 01:38:46,209 Not that I ever forgot them, 832 01:38:46,875 --> 01:38:48,834 on the contrary. 833 01:38:49,084 --> 01:38:51,625 During the war, I'd always ask myself: 834 01:38:52,042 --> 01:38:55,667 "Who knows what Nineteen Hundred would do if he were here?" 835 01:38:55,792 --> 01:38:57,750 "Who knows what he'd say?" 836 01:38:58,417 --> 01:39:00,584 "'Fuck war', he'd say!" 837 01:39:00,959 --> 01:39:03,042 But said by me, 838 01:39:03,125 --> 01:39:05,334 it wasn't the same thing. 839 01:39:20,417 --> 01:39:22,334 A lot of time's gone by, you know. 840 01:39:23,084 --> 01:39:24,500 Who's to say he didn't leave? 841 01:39:24,667 --> 01:39:28,750 Maybe he actually went to that fish shop and asked for that woman. 842 01:39:29,334 --> 01:39:30,792 Maybe. 843 01:42:57,084 --> 01:42:58,750 Hey, Conn. 844 01:42:58,875 --> 01:43:01,500 What's the matter? You lose your sea legs? 845 01:43:04,625 --> 01:43:07,584 Where the hell did you find that record? 846 01:43:11,667 --> 01:43:15,167 What have you been up to all these years? 847 01:43:21,042 --> 01:43:22,834 Making music. 848 01:43:23,375 --> 01:43:25,667 Even during the war? 849 01:43:28,542 --> 01:43:32,334 Even when no-one was dancing anymore. 850 01:43:35,875 --> 01:43:38,709 Even when the bombs were falling. 851 01:43:40,542 --> 01:43:42,500 And I kept playing... 852 01:43:44,042 --> 01:43:46,709 'Til the ship got here. 853 01:43:50,417 --> 01:43:52,625 Call this a ship? 854 01:43:53,542 --> 01:43:57,292 It's more like a mountain of dynamite about to explode. 855 01:43:58,834 --> 01:44:01,625 A bit dangerous, don't you think? 856 01:44:06,500 --> 01:44:08,750 And you, Max? 857 01:44:10,417 --> 01:44:12,667 Where's your trumpet? 858 01:44:14,125 --> 01:44:16,750 I gave it up as well, a while back. 859 01:44:17,584 --> 01:44:20,042 But, you know, now I'm in the mood 860 01:44:20,125 --> 01:44:22,250 for starting again. 861 01:44:22,709 --> 01:44:25,209 I'm busting with new ideas. 862 01:44:26,709 --> 01:44:29,792 Let's start a duo, you and me. 863 01:44:30,875 --> 01:44:33,042 Or our own band. 864 01:44:33,542 --> 01:44:35,417 The Danny Boodman 865 01:44:35,500 --> 01:44:39,792 TD. Lemon Nineteen Hundred Big Band'.! 866 01:44:40,250 --> 01:44:42,000 It gets the blood going! 867 01:44:42,292 --> 01:44:44,417 We'd be a smash! 868 01:44:47,417 --> 01:44:51,000 Come on, Nineteen Hundred. Come with me! Let's get off. 869 01:44:51,250 --> 01:44:53,459 We'll watch the fireworks from the pier! 870 01:44:53,542 --> 01:44:55,834 And then we'll start from scratch. 871 01:44:57,709 --> 01:45:00,709 Sometimes that's the way you have to do it. 872 01:45:00,792 --> 01:45:03,542 You go right back to the beginning. 873 01:45:15,250 --> 01:45:19,209 "You're never really done for 874 01:45:19,292 --> 01:45:23,500 as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to." 875 01:45:24,334 --> 01:45:26,084 Remember? 876 01:45:27,792 --> 01:45:29,750 You told me that. 877 01:45:32,667 --> 01:45:36,834 Well, what a stack of stories you've got now! 878 01:45:37,709 --> 01:45:41,417 The world would be hanging on your every word, 879 01:45:42,542 --> 01:45:45,459 and they'd go crazy for your music. 880 01:45:47,875 --> 01:45:50,000 Believe me. 881 01:45:51,459 --> 01:45:53,584 All that city... 882 01:45:59,250 --> 01:46:01,542 You just couldn't see an end to it. 883 01:46:04,250 --> 01:46:05,792 The end? 884 01:46:07,167 --> 01:46:08,792 Please? 885 01:46:09,417 --> 01:46:12,625 Could you please just show me where it ends? 886 01:46:15,625 --> 01:46:19,000 It was all very fine on that gangway. 887 01:46:19,084 --> 01:46:21,167 And I was grand, too, 888 01:46:21,375 --> 01:46:23,334 in my overcoat. 889 01:46:23,667 --> 01:46:26,000 I cut quite a figure. 890 01:46:26,959 --> 01:46:28,667 And I was getting off. 891 01:46:30,042 --> 01:46:31,875 Guaranteed. 892 01:46:33,292 --> 01:46:35,125 There wasn't a problem. 893 01:46:39,875 --> 01:46:43,500 It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max. 894 01:46:44,750 --> 01:46:47,500 It was what I didn't see. 895 01:46:48,167 --> 01:46:50,042 Can you understand that? 896 01:46:51,459 --> 01:46:54,375 What I didn't see. 897 01:46:54,625 --> 01:46:57,167 In all that sprawling city, there was everything 898 01:46:57,250 --> 01:46:59,250 except an end. 899 01:47:00,959 --> 01:47:02,959 There was no end. 900 01:47:05,250 --> 01:47:07,167 What I did not see 901 01:47:07,292 --> 01:47:10,334 was where the whole thing came to an end. 902 01:47:12,959 --> 01:47:15,792 The end of the world. 903 01:47:22,750 --> 01:47:24,959 You take a piano... 904 01:47:26,792 --> 01:47:30,667 The keys begin, the keys end. 905 01:47:32,042 --> 01:47:35,834 You know there are 88 of them and nobody can tell you any different. 906 01:47:36,542 --> 01:47:38,500 They are not infinite... 907 01:47:38,875 --> 01:47:41,125 you are infinite. 908 01:47:42,667 --> 01:47:47,542 And on those keys, the music that you can make is infinite. 909 01:47:48,542 --> 01:47:50,334 I like that. 910 01:47:51,167 --> 01:47:53,459 That I can live by. 911 01:47:53,959 --> 01:47:56,917 But you get me up on that gangway and you roll out in front of me 912 01:47:56,959 --> 01:48:00,459 a keyboard of millions of keys. Millions and billions of keys that never end. 913 01:48:00,500 --> 01:48:03,709 And that's the truth, Max, that they never end. 914 01:48:04,542 --> 01:48:06,834 That keyboard is infinite. 915 01:48:08,209 --> 01:48:12,875 And if that keyboard is infinite, then on it there's no music you can play! 916 01:48:14,125 --> 01:48:16,292 You're sitting on the wrong bench! 917 01:48:17,375 --> 01:48:19,667 That's God's piano. 918 01:48:22,834 --> 01:48:25,834 Christ! Did you see the streets? 919 01:48:25,959 --> 01:48:28,459 Just the streets, there were thousands of them! 920 01:48:28,667 --> 01:48:32,125 How do you do it down there? How do you choose just one? 921 01:48:33,667 --> 01:48:35,667 One woman. 922 01:48:36,417 --> 01:48:38,292 One house. 923 01:48:39,292 --> 01:48:41,167 One piece of land to call your own, 924 01:48:41,209 --> 01:48:43,000 one landscape to look at. 925 01:48:44,334 --> 01:48:46,167 One way to die. 926 01:48:50,209 --> 01:48:52,625 All that world just weighing down on you 927 01:48:52,667 --> 01:48:53,417 You don't even know 928 01:48:53,459 --> 01:48:54,500 where it comes to an end! 929 01:48:54,792 --> 01:48:58,750 Aren't you ever just scared of breaking apart with the thought of it? 930 01:48:58,917 --> 01:49:01,042 The enormity of living in it? 931 01:49:03,875 --> 01:49:05,917 I was born on this ship. 932 01:49:09,875 --> 01:49:11,917 And the world passed me by, 933 01:49:13,542 --> 01:49:17,292 but two thousand people at a time. 934 01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:21,792 And there were wishes here, 935 01:49:23,292 --> 01:49:28,042 but never more than fit between the prow and the stern. 936 01:49:28,167 --> 01:49:32,834 You played out your happiness, but on a piano that was not infinite! 937 01:49:33,084 --> 01:49:36,334 I learned to live that way. 938 01:49:39,625 --> 01:49:41,417 Land... 939 01:49:43,834 --> 01:49:48,125 Land is a ship too big for me. 940 01:49:49,709 --> 01:49:53,000 It's a woman too beautiful. 941 01:49:54,500 --> 01:49:57,000 It's a voyage too long. 942 01:49:57,084 --> 01:49:59,709 Perfume too strong. 943 01:50:00,417 --> 01:50:03,625 It's music, I don't know how to make. 944 01:50:04,750 --> 01:50:07,959 I can never get off this ship. 945 01:50:10,459 --> 01:50:12,084 At best... 946 01:50:12,709 --> 01:50:15,625 I can step off my life. 947 01:50:17,417 --> 01:50:19,042 After all... 948 01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:23,125 I don't exist for anyone. 949 01:50:26,375 --> 01:50:28,667 You're the exception, Max. 950 01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:34,250 You're the only one who knows I'm here. 951 01:50:36,209 --> 01:50:38,375 You're a minority. 952 01:50:38,750 --> 01:50:41,417 And you'd better get used to it. 953 01:50:45,792 --> 01:50:47,875 Forgive me, my friend. 954 01:50:49,792 --> 01:50:52,084 But I'm not getting off. 955 01:52:18,750 --> 01:52:20,500 Hey, Max! 956 01:52:22,792 --> 01:52:25,625 Picture the scene at the Golden Gates. 957 01:52:25,959 --> 01:52:29,709 Some guy searching a list trying to find my name and not finding it. 958 01:52:30,792 --> 01:52:32,792 "What did you say your name was again?" 959 01:52:32,875 --> 01:52:34,625 "Nineteen Hundred." 960 01:52:35,792 --> 01:52:37,709 "Niemann, Nightingale, 961 01:52:37,792 --> 01:52:39,167 Ninestock." 962 01:52:39,542 --> 01:52:40,667 "Nittledeen?" 963 01:52:40,750 --> 01:52:43,625 "You see, sir, I was born on a ship." 964 01:52:44,417 --> 01:52:45,834 "Beg your pardon?" 965 01:52:46,334 --> 01:52:48,375 "Born, raised and died on a ship. 966 01:52:48,417 --> 01:52:50,459 Maybe I'm not registered there." 967 01:52:52,209 --> 01:52:53,625 "Shipwreck?" 968 01:52:53,709 --> 01:52:57,709 "No, six and a half tons of dynamite." 969 01:52:59,375 --> 01:53:01,209 "Are you feeling better now?" 970 01:53:02,167 --> 01:53:03,375 "Yeah, I'm fine. 971 01:53:03,459 --> 01:53:05,709 Except that I lost an arm." 972 01:53:05,875 --> 01:53:07,417 "An arm?" 973 01:53:07,625 --> 01:53:09,459 "Yes, in the explosion." 974 01:53:11,792 --> 01:53:15,042 "You should be able to find one over there". 975 01:53:15,667 --> 01:53:17,750 "Which one do you say is missing?" 976 01:53:18,084 --> 01:53:19,500 "The left, sir." 977 01:53:21,792 --> 01:53:23,875 "|'m dreadfully sorry!" 978 01:53:25,125 --> 01:53:27,959 "We only seem to have two rights." 979 01:53:28,584 --> 01:53:30,334 "Two right arms?" 980 01:53:31,709 --> 01:53:33,292 "Yes. I'm afraid so." 981 01:53:33,709 --> 01:53:37,250 "Would you mind awfully if you..." 982 01:53:39,042 --> 01:53:40,292 "|f I, what?" 983 01:53:40,375 --> 01:53:44,292 "Well, if you'd take a right arm instead of a left?" 984 01:53:47,584 --> 01:53:48,744 "Well, all things considered, 985 01:53:48,792 --> 01:53:53,250 better a right arm than nothing, I suppose." 986 01:53:53,834 --> 01:53:55,417 "Couldn't agree more!" 987 01:53:58,417 --> 01:54:00,750 It's no laughing matter, Max. 988 01:54:02,584 --> 01:54:04,375 What a cock-up... 989 01:54:04,584 --> 01:54:07,667 spend eternity with two right arms! 990 01:54:09,084 --> 01:54:11,750 How would you make the sign of the cross? 991 01:54:26,792 --> 01:54:28,667 Hey, Max! 992 01:54:30,542 --> 01:54:34,167 Imagine the music I could play with two right arms! 993 01:54:34,709 --> 01:54:37,292 Hope I can find a piano up there! 994 01:56:18,625 --> 01:56:21,750 What would you have done in my shoes? 995 01:56:23,417 --> 01:56:25,084 I don't know. 996 01:56:27,750 --> 01:56:31,667 I would probably have felt quite useless. 997 01:56:38,500 --> 01:56:41,625 Sooner or later all stories end, 998 01:56:41,709 --> 01:56:45,334 and there's nothing else to add. 999 01:56:49,542 --> 01:56:52,292 Anyhow, thanks, Pops. 1000 01:57:12,000 --> 01:57:13,875 Hey, Conn! 1001 01:57:14,500 --> 01:57:17,375 There's just one thing I don't get. 1002 01:57:18,209 --> 01:57:21,750 Who hid the broken record inside the piano? 1003 01:57:21,834 --> 01:57:23,042 You're lookin' at him. 1004 01:57:25,334 --> 01:57:29,000 So, you weren't so useless after all. 1005 01:57:36,292 --> 01:57:38,042 Hey, Conn! 1006 01:57:47,084 --> 01:57:48,667 Here. Take your trumpet. 1007 01:57:49,542 --> 01:57:51,584 You'll be needing it. 1008 01:57:55,292 --> 01:57:56,959 Never mind the money. 1009 01:57:57,625 --> 01:58:01,250 A good story is worth more than an old trumpet. 1010 01:58:08,834 --> 01:58:10,834 Okay, POPS-