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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:23,082 --> 00:00:26,142 My dear Vinicius de Moraes, 2 00:00:26,220 --> 00:00:30,021 I'm writing to you from Ipanema with terrible news: 3 00:00:30,525 --> 00:00:32,355 Spring is here. 4 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:34,953 You left before it came... 5 00:00:35,630 --> 00:00:40,966 and it's the first spring since 1913 without your presence. 6 00:00:41,804 --> 00:00:44,272 Your name has become a street sign... 7 00:00:44,340 --> 00:00:47,036 and it was there that yesterday 8 00:00:47,109 --> 00:00:50,341 I saw 3 girls from Ipanema wearing mini-skirts. 9 00:00:51,048 --> 00:00:53,744 It seems they're back in fashion this spring... 10 00:00:54,518 --> 00:00:56,350 I'm sure you'd approve. 11 00:00:57,955 --> 00:01:00,253 The sea has been rough... 12 00:01:00,325 --> 00:01:04,990 a strong easterly bringing cold and rain. 13 00:01:05,463 --> 00:01:07,989 Spring storms. 14 00:01:10,536 --> 00:01:13,664 Your life 15 00:01:14,674 --> 00:01:20,977 Your path is one of peace and love 16 00:01:21,648 --> 00:01:28,049 Your life Is a pretty love song 17 00:01:32,362 --> 00:01:38,762 Open your arms and sing The last hope 18 00:01:40,103 --> 00:01:46,065 The divine hope 19 00:01:46,143 --> 00:01:52,104 Of loving in peace 20 00:01:52,183 --> 00:01:57,211 WHO WILL PAY FOR THE FUNERAL AND FLOWERS IF I PERISH FOR LOVE? 21 00:01:59,124 --> 00:02:01,025 For this we were made... 22 00:02:02,128 --> 00:02:04,596 to remember and be remembered 23 00:02:05,464 --> 00:02:08,195 to cry and make cry... 24 00:02:08,535 --> 00:02:11,197 to bury our dead. 25 00:02:12,272 --> 00:02:15,709 Therefore our long arms to wave farewells... 26 00:02:16,444 --> 00:02:19,413 hands to seize what was given... 27 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,644 fingers to dig the earth. 28 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,351 This will be our life... 29 00:02:27,289 --> 00:02:29,622 always an afternoon to forget... 30 00:02:30,393 --> 00:02:35,160 a star going out in the darkness, a path between two tombs... 31 00:02:36,299 --> 00:02:41,101 therefore we must keep vigil, speak softly, tread lightly... 32 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,267 see the night sleeping in silence. 33 00:02:48,979 --> 00:02:50,812 There is not much to be said. 34 00:02:51,584 --> 00:02:57,079 A song about a cradle, perhaps a love verse... 35 00:02:58,090 --> 00:03:00,456 a prayer for the departing... 36 00:03:00,526 --> 00:03:02,721 but do not forget this hour... 37 00:03:02,796 --> 00:03:09,197 and by it our hearts are left solemn and simple. 38 00:03:12,807 --> 00:03:15,367 Then for this we were made... 39 00:03:16,544 --> 00:03:18,842 for hope in the miracle... 40 00:03:18,913 --> 00:03:21,849 for taking part in poetry... 41 00:03:21,917 --> 00:03:24,647 for seeing the face of death. 42 00:03:26,055 --> 00:03:29,719 Suddenly, no more shall we wait... 43 00:03:30,894 --> 00:03:33,158 today the night is young... 44 00:03:33,631 --> 00:03:37,362 from death we are scarcely born... 45 00:03:38,569 --> 00:03:41,004 immensely. 46 00:04:45,044 --> 00:04:47,741 The waltz you have just heard... 47 00:04:47,814 --> 00:04:50,612 has words and music by Vinicius de Moraes. 48 00:04:50,684 --> 00:04:54,746 It is a song from his play Orfeu da Concei��o. 49 00:04:54,822 --> 00:04:59,259 The story of love between Orpheus and Eurydice ends tragically. 50 00:04:59,327 --> 00:05:02,991 But as in all of Vinicius' work, it is a celebration of life... 51 00:05:03,065 --> 00:05:07,560 of love, of art, the ties of affection between the artist and the city... 52 00:05:07,637 --> 00:05:10,367 where he spent most of his life. 53 00:05:10,473 --> 00:05:13,340 It was in Rio de Janeiro that our poet was born... 54 00:05:13,409 --> 00:05:16,709 on Lopes Quintas street, in the old suburb of G�vea. 55 00:05:17,581 --> 00:05:22,780 In 1913 Rio had nearly a million inhabitants but you wouldn't think it. 56 00:05:23,088 --> 00:05:25,988 Vinicius grew up between the sea and his grandfather's house... 57 00:05:26,056 --> 00:05:28,355 listening to the music of the old slaves... 58 00:05:28,426 --> 00:05:31,725 and to the bohemian guitars of the uncles on his mother's side. 59 00:05:34,532 --> 00:05:36,900 Ipanema and Leblon were deserted beaches. 60 00:05:36,969 --> 00:05:39,733 His whole life he was witness to and a character in... 61 00:05:39,805 --> 00:05:42,036 the landscape's transformation. 62 00:05:42,776 --> 00:05:45,677 But Rio was also a frenchified city... 63 00:05:45,746 --> 00:05:47,941 it wanted to be refined, like Paris... 64 00:05:48,015 --> 00:05:50,712 it breathed romantic poets... 65 00:05:50,786 --> 00:05:53,083 there was a lively belle-�poque atmosphere... 66 00:05:53,154 --> 00:05:58,115 fashion, art, architecture, everything followed the French style. 67 00:05:58,527 --> 00:06:00,085 He had a free childhood 68 00:06:00,163 --> 00:06:03,723 and at the same time a rigorous erudite education. 69 00:06:03,799 --> 00:06:06,064 He grew up within both molds. 70 00:06:06,136 --> 00:06:09,299 His father Clodoaldo used to write poetry... 71 00:06:09,372 --> 00:06:11,773 and his mother L�dia played the piano. 72 00:06:12,810 --> 00:06:17,008 He had a Latin degree and taught the piano, violin and French. 73 00:06:17,081 --> 00:06:21,416 She was from a bohemian family who liked popular music. 74 00:06:24,790 --> 00:06:28,591 In the morning, I darken, in the day, I afternoon... 75 00:06:29,495 --> 00:06:33,956 in the afternoon, I dusk, at night, I burn. 76 00:06:34,835 --> 00:06:37,963 The west, death, against whom I live... 77 00:06:38,037 --> 00:06:42,066 from the captive south the west is my north 78 00:06:43,044 --> 00:06:46,138 others which count, step by step... 79 00:06:46,748 --> 00:06:50,150 I die yesterday am born tomorrow... 80 00:06:50,218 --> 00:06:52,550 walk where there is space... 81 00:06:52,722 --> 00:06:55,123 my time is when. 82 00:07:02,933 --> 00:07:07,893 He was the second of four children and of the four he was the chosen one. 83 00:07:08,071 --> 00:07:12,133 The family decided he should have the best education possible. 84 00:07:12,210 --> 00:07:15,908 He was sent to Santo In�cio, a Jesuit college... 85 00:07:15,980 --> 00:07:18,711 where Rio de Janeiro's elite studied. 86 00:07:20,619 --> 00:07:23,885 In the darkness which surrounded me I saw the flesh... 87 00:07:24,624 --> 00:07:26,717 I felt the flesh which drowned my breast 88 00:07:26,793 --> 00:07:29,591 and which brought me to the accursed kiss. 89 00:07:29,662 --> 00:07:30,755 I cried... 90 00:07:31,365 --> 00:07:34,630 I cried in horror that forgiveness possessed my soul... 91 00:07:34,702 --> 00:07:36,363 and no one answered me... 92 00:07:36,637 --> 00:07:38,663 I struggled with impure longing, 93 00:07:38,740 --> 00:07:40,867 the darkness blushed around me... 94 00:07:40,942 --> 00:07:42,466 and I fell. 95 00:07:43,645 --> 00:07:45,409 In his first books 96 00:07:45,481 --> 00:07:50,077 Vinicius was heavily influenced by his Catholic upbringing, 97 00:07:50,586 --> 00:07:56,987 the poems transpired a mystical religious atmosphere. 98 00:07:57,527 --> 00:08:01,988 At law school he approached the integralistas, 99 00:08:02,066 --> 00:08:03,966 was a lofty poet... 100 00:08:04,035 --> 00:08:07,061 concerned with the serious matters of our existence. 101 00:08:07,273 --> 00:08:10,071 In '35 I had already finished my second book... 102 00:08:11,544 --> 00:08:14,945 Forma e a exegese, a damned pedantic title. 103 00:08:15,581 --> 00:08:18,949 But it picked up the national poetry award, 104 00:08:19,953 --> 00:08:24,618 in '35, competing against Jorge Amado, with his Mar morto, 105 00:08:24,691 --> 00:08:28,025 it was a literary award, called Felipe de Oliveira award. 106 00:08:28,963 --> 00:08:31,194 So I considered myself quite a genius! 107 00:08:33,634 --> 00:08:36,604 I started deriding popular music, 108 00:08:36,672 --> 00:08:38,833 thought it a lesser art. 109 00:08:39,308 --> 00:08:43,769 Vinicius started writing French poetry... 110 00:08:43,848 --> 00:08:47,146 inspired by French Catholicism... 111 00:08:47,217 --> 00:08:50,517 influenced by the Catholic group here in Brazil. 112 00:08:50,588 --> 00:08:53,580 But that wasn't him... it just isn't him. 113 00:08:54,725 --> 00:09:01,126 So gradually he converts himself to Vinicius de Moraes... 114 00:09:02,467 --> 00:09:04,333 that is, he becomes Brazilian. 115 00:09:06,339 --> 00:09:08,739 And he goes beyond the others! 116 00:09:08,808 --> 00:09:11,744 Because many others came along this route... 117 00:09:11,812 --> 00:09:13,746 became Brazilians, but not so much! 118 00:09:14,081 --> 00:09:17,608 To be a Brazilian songwriter and completely go all the way... 119 00:09:18,085 --> 00:09:23,922 that's Vinicius, more than the others, you see? 120 00:09:23,992 --> 00:09:26,859 Vinicius always lead a sort of double life. 121 00:09:27,263 --> 00:09:30,699 In his youth, as a wrote, he believed in a drastic motto: 122 00:09:30,999 --> 00:09:34,459 "Write with your blood and you'll see your blood is spirit." 123 00:09:34,536 --> 00:09:38,098 He went to the whores in Lapa, danced at the cabaret... 124 00:09:38,174 --> 00:09:40,439 was friendly with samba musicians. 125 00:09:40,677 --> 00:09:44,704 Gradually his poetry also started to come closer to life... 126 00:09:44,781 --> 00:09:50,016 came down from the heights to look at the world, at people's everyday life. 127 00:09:53,257 --> 00:09:56,955 With the tears of time and the lime of my day... 128 00:09:57,029 --> 00:09:59,862 I made the cement of my poetry... 129 00:09:59,933 --> 00:10:02,527 and in the perspective of future life... 130 00:10:02,602 --> 00:10:05,196 I raised in living flesh your architecture... 131 00:10:05,571 --> 00:10:09,633 I'm not sure if it's a house, a tower or temple... 132 00:10:12,046 --> 00:10:16,006 but it is large and light, it belongs to its time... 133 00:10:16,484 --> 00:10:18,748 Enter, my brothers! 134 00:10:19,287 --> 00:10:22,279 Vinicius published over 400 poems 135 00:10:22,357 --> 00:10:26,089 collected in 12 books and several personal anthologies. 136 00:10:26,295 --> 00:10:31,063 He also wrote articles, plays and film criticism. 137 00:10:31,301 --> 00:10:34,737 He was a good poet and a popular poet. 138 00:10:35,038 --> 00:10:36,835 And not only in Brazil 139 00:10:36,940 --> 00:10:40,468 Among Brazilian poets he is one of the most translated 140 00:10:40,778 --> 00:10:44,772 His verses are known the world over to this day. 141 00:10:45,184 --> 00:10:48,277 Vinicius de Moraes is a man devoted to meter, 142 00:10:48,353 --> 00:10:50,151 to rhythm... 143 00:10:50,221 --> 00:10:53,522 to traditional poetic forms 144 00:10:53,593 --> 00:10:55,652 such as the sonnet, the ode etc. 145 00:10:55,729 --> 00:10:58,289 So he's a poet steeped in tradition. 146 00:10:58,365 --> 00:11:00,663 But this traditional poet... 147 00:11:00,734 --> 00:11:05,967 precisely because of his great formal... technical resources, 148 00:11:06,039 --> 00:11:08,531 he came closer than anybody else... 149 00:11:08,610 --> 00:11:11,807 to what the modernists were looking for: Everyday life... 150 00:11:11,879 --> 00:11:17,216 the destruction of noble poetical themes... 151 00:11:17,285 --> 00:11:19,617 the colloquial phrase, 152 00:11:19,688 --> 00:11:23,284 no one came closer than Vinicius to being natural, 153 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,453 no one came closer to everyday life, to the prosaic, 154 00:11:26,529 --> 00:11:31,024 but at the same time within a poetry of continuity and formal perfection. 155 00:11:31,101 --> 00:11:34,002 I'd say, lastly... 156 00:11:34,071 --> 00:11:39,339 that a poet who wrote poems such as Balada do Mangue, for example, 157 00:11:39,411 --> 00:11:41,845 can only be a great poet. 158 00:11:42,448 --> 00:11:44,348 Poor gonococcal flowers 159 00:11:44,417 --> 00:11:48,615 who at night undress your toxic petals! 160 00:11:48,687 --> 00:11:50,178 You poor things... 161 00:11:50,257 --> 00:11:51,588 tilted... 162 00:11:51,658 --> 00:11:54,320 wilted orchids of immodesty... 163 00:11:54,394 --> 00:11:58,229 you are not a troubled Llia nor a tricolor Vanda... 164 00:11:58,933 --> 00:12:03,302 you are fragile, fallen apart, dahlias nipped in the bud... 165 00:12:03,370 --> 00:12:06,967 colorless corollas, cloistered, without faith... 166 00:12:07,643 --> 00:12:12,479 oh, young afternoon whores... what happened to you, 167 00:12:12,548 --> 00:12:16,246 that you poisoned the pollen God gave you all? 168 00:12:16,319 --> 00:12:20,153 Poor, tragic, multi-dimensional women... 169 00:12:20,624 --> 00:12:24,151 the neutral gear of chauffeurs, ships' bridges! 170 00:12:24,228 --> 00:12:27,857 Blonde French mulattos, dressed for carnival... 171 00:12:28,233 --> 00:12:31,168 is this a festival of flowers, on the decks of these streets... 172 00:12:31,236 --> 00:12:32,966 anchored in the canal? 173 00:12:33,638 --> 00:12:38,302 Where does your song lead? Where is your ship bound? 174 00:12:41,247 --> 00:12:45,206 I remember Vinicius... in Rome... 175 00:12:47,321 --> 00:12:50,951 in '53, I was living in Rome with my family... 176 00:12:51,024 --> 00:12:55,587 and Vinicius was on some cultural mission there. 177 00:12:55,663 --> 00:12:58,063 He stayed in Rome for some time, 178 00:12:58,133 --> 00:13:02,230 at a hotel... and he visited us at home, several times. 179 00:13:02,905 --> 00:13:05,999 I remember those nights very well, when Vinicius would visit... 180 00:13:06,075 --> 00:13:09,603 even before he arrived, "Vinicius is coming!", all the excitement. 181 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,648 It already felt special... 182 00:13:12,716 --> 00:13:17,416 the whisky would be brought out, other things, hors d'oeuvres... 183 00:13:17,488 --> 00:13:20,082 mother and father both so happy. 184 00:13:20,158 --> 00:13:23,390 Mi�cha had a guitar she called 'Vinicius'. 185 00:13:23,462 --> 00:13:27,193 But Vinicius was such a musical man, 186 00:13:27,265 --> 00:13:30,930 I saw a real composer... flesh and blood, Vinicius. 187 00:13:31,004 --> 00:13:34,132 He'd take the guitar and I'd be fascinated... 188 00:13:34,206 --> 00:13:38,542 my father's musician friend, a real composer. 189 00:13:38,946 --> 00:13:41,642 I remember him singing several songs in those days. 190 00:13:41,714 --> 00:13:45,048 And there was a special moment I remember very well... 191 00:13:45,119 --> 00:13:50,023 which was when he played on guitar Poema dos Olhos da Amada. 192 00:13:50,091 --> 00:13:52,821 There'd be complete silence. And he'd sing: 193 00:13:52,895 --> 00:13:57,297 "Oh my love, those eyes of yours... 194 00:13:57,365 --> 00:14:00,268 nocturnal quays filled with farewells." 195 00:14:00,336 --> 00:14:03,169 That left such a strong impression on me, it was very strong... 196 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:09,641 It was poetry. I was introduced to poetry on those nights. 197 00:14:09,947 --> 00:14:13,247 Vinicius singing, it was music... 198 00:14:13,318 --> 00:14:14,910 and I understood he was a poet. 199 00:14:14,986 --> 00:14:19,446 Oh my love, those eyes of yours... 200 00:14:21,460 --> 00:14:27,861 they're nocturnal quays filled with farewells... 201 00:14:31,104 --> 00:14:34,768 they are gentle docks... 202 00:14:34,842 --> 00:14:41,242 trailing lights which shine afar... 203 00:14:41,749 --> 00:14:47,882 afar in the darkness. 204 00:14:50,592 --> 00:14:56,725 Oh my love, with atheist eyes... 205 00:14:59,469 --> 00:15:05,870 may God one day... 206 00:15:10,782 --> 00:15:17,182 wish the beggar's gaze... 207 00:15:19,191 --> 00:15:22,650 of poetry... 208 00:15:23,095 --> 00:15:29,496 onto your eyes. 209 00:15:34,609 --> 00:15:36,634 I love you so much, my love... 210 00:15:37,011 --> 00:15:39,879 don't sing the human heart with such truth... 211 00:15:40,549 --> 00:15:45,248 I love you as a friend and lover in an always diverse reality... 212 00:15:45,654 --> 00:15:49,318 I love you for a calm, useful love... 213 00:15:49,726 --> 00:15:52,286 and I love you beyond, present in my longing... 214 00:15:52,862 --> 00:15:58,768 I love you with great freedom, within eternity and at each instant. 215 00:15:59,804 --> 00:16:02,569 I love you like an animal, simply... 216 00:16:03,141 --> 00:16:05,769 a love without mystery and without virtue... 217 00:16:05,844 --> 00:16:08,245 with a solid and permanent desire... 218 00:16:08,815 --> 00:16:12,012 and love you so very much and frequently... 219 00:16:12,552 --> 00:16:16,011 for suddenly one day in your body... 220 00:16:16,557 --> 00:16:20,994 I shall die of loving more than I was capable. 221 00:16:21,627 --> 00:16:22,994 Lovely. 222 00:16:32,608 --> 00:16:35,872 I know I shall love you 223 00:16:37,180 --> 00:16:41,844 My whole life long, I shall love you 224 00:16:42,585 --> 00:16:47,581 At each farewell I shall love you 225 00:16:47,657 --> 00:16:54,058 Desperately I know I shall love you 226 00:16:54,666 --> 00:17:01,066 And each verse of mine will be 227 00:17:04,643 --> 00:17:09,877 To say 228 00:17:09,949 --> 00:17:15,946 That I know I shall love you My whole life long 229 00:17:16,223 --> 00:17:19,852 I know I shall weep 230 00:17:20,662 --> 00:17:24,962 At each absence of yours I shall weep 231 00:17:25,801 --> 00:17:31,206 But at each return will extinguish 232 00:17:31,274 --> 00:17:37,145 That which your absence caused me 233 00:17:37,213 --> 00:17:43,614 I know I shall suffer The eternal misfortune to live 234 00:17:47,658 --> 00:17:53,121 Waiting to live by your side 235 00:17:53,798 --> 00:17:59,032 My whole life long 236 00:18:07,013 --> 00:18:11,644 Vinicius is a fellow who lived by his passions. 237 00:18:12,620 --> 00:18:18,993 When a passion took hold of him he was unbeatable. 238 00:18:19,061 --> 00:18:22,724 That's how it was with Tati, the greatest passion of his life. 239 00:18:23,632 --> 00:18:27,831 Darling, if only you knew how my life has become monotonous, 240 00:18:27,904 --> 00:18:29,462 so bland. 241 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,906 Sometimes I feel I won't be able to stand... 242 00:18:32,977 --> 00:18:35,411 another 5 minutes without seeing you... 243 00:18:35,479 --> 00:18:38,642 and there are still so many 5 minutes' to go, my dear. 244 00:18:38,716 --> 00:18:41,777 I love you, I understand you, venerate you... 245 00:18:41,853 --> 00:18:45,152 you are my life, my all, you're different. 246 00:18:46,091 --> 00:18:49,619 I am your slave, your servant... 247 00:18:49,695 --> 00:18:51,993 and you're my illicit girlfriend... 248 00:18:52,064 --> 00:18:56,502 mistress-wife, and peerless citizen on earth. 249 00:18:56,870 --> 00:19:01,364 Beatriz Azevedo de Melo was an aristocrat from S�o Paulo... 250 00:19:01,442 --> 00:19:04,536 a cultured girl with advanced ideas. 251 00:19:05,012 --> 00:19:08,073 The two met and soon after 252 00:19:08,149 --> 00:19:10,675 Vinicius traveled to Oxford to study literature. 253 00:19:11,220 --> 00:19:13,120 It was a fiery passion. 254 00:19:13,388 --> 00:19:16,381 They married long distance, by power of attorney. 255 00:19:17,693 --> 00:19:19,924 A love made up of grand gestures... 256 00:19:19,996 --> 00:19:24,330 a rich girl abandoning all to meet a poet in England... 257 00:19:24,969 --> 00:19:28,165 the romantic adventure of lovers. 258 00:19:29,974 --> 00:19:33,603 When WWll started they returned to Brazil. 259 00:19:34,111 --> 00:19:36,603 And soon things took a different turn. 260 00:19:36,683 --> 00:19:41,381 With 2 children, Susana and Pedro, Vinicius had a new concern... 261 00:19:41,453 --> 00:19:43,045 to make a living. 262 00:19:43,923 --> 00:19:47,791 He decided to join the diplomatic service... 263 00:19:47,860 --> 00:19:51,297 and started to write film reviews for the newspapers. 264 00:19:51,932 --> 00:19:56,699 These were times of new friendships, meetings in the downtown caf�s. 265 00:19:57,404 --> 00:20:02,138 Vinicius was admired as a poet... a restless man, interested in everything. 266 00:20:02,577 --> 00:20:05,479 With his interest in cinema he managed... 267 00:20:05,548 --> 00:20:09,416 to get his first diplomatic appointment in Los Angeles. 268 00:20:10,419 --> 00:20:14,413 There he took courses, lived with movie people and musicians... 269 00:20:14,491 --> 00:20:19,428 visited the set of The Lady From Shanghai, by Orson Welles... 270 00:20:19,496 --> 00:20:23,490 made friends with him, with Carmen Miranda and jazz musicians. 271 00:20:24,102 --> 00:20:28,597 In Los Angeles Tati and Vinicius lived the most peaceful period 272 00:20:28,674 --> 00:20:30,801 of their marriage, of their family life. 273 00:20:30,875 --> 00:20:33,742 With Tati he changed the course of his poetry... 274 00:20:33,811 --> 00:20:36,372 and also his way of seeing the world. 275 00:20:36,448 --> 00:20:40,351 He said that with her, he became a man of the left. 276 00:20:40,419 --> 00:20:44,084 Some of he finest poems are from this period. 277 00:20:46,793 --> 00:20:50,492 If you wish me to cry no more 278 00:20:52,533 --> 00:20:57,494 Tell time to pass no more 279 00:20:57,573 --> 00:21:00,905 Time cries the same lament as I 280 00:21:01,243 --> 00:21:05,613 Both of us... So much 281 00:21:06,582 --> 00:21:10,542 And so as not to sadden you 282 00:21:10,921 --> 00:21:13,481 What to do? 283 00:21:13,557 --> 00:21:16,321 I sing... 284 00:21:16,593 --> 00:21:20,724 Sing so that you remember me 285 00:21:20,799 --> 00:21:26,898 When I... go 286 00:21:26,972 --> 00:21:30,464 The first woman I really loved, I married... 287 00:21:30,543 --> 00:21:33,104 I was married to her for 11 years, your mother. 288 00:21:33,513 --> 00:21:37,779 Sometimes I miss the hell out of her... 289 00:21:37,851 --> 00:21:40,820 I feel like going and ringing her doorbell... 290 00:21:40,888 --> 00:21:43,186 she'll answer and I'll say... 291 00:21:43,256 --> 00:21:45,054 I love you! 292 00:21:46,929 --> 00:21:48,863 But I can't do it, damn it. 293 00:21:49,865 --> 00:21:50,923 Why not? 294 00:21:51,533 --> 00:21:53,161 Because I'm too scared... 295 00:21:55,205 --> 00:21:57,502 afraid she'll receive me really badly. 296 00:22:04,114 --> 00:22:08,779 When he died... we knew he was dying... 297 00:22:09,387 --> 00:22:12,219 I went to her place to change... 298 00:22:12,290 --> 00:22:14,759 because I didn't have a place in Rio, was living in S�o Paulo. 299 00:22:14,827 --> 00:22:18,057 And I started to cry, I finally started crying... 300 00:22:18,131 --> 00:22:20,496 and she started to cry too... 301 00:22:20,565 --> 00:22:25,765 and she said something quite incredible, and lovely. She said: 302 00:22:25,838 --> 00:22:32,239 "Vinicius often wanted us to make amends... 303 00:22:32,913 --> 00:22:34,346 and I never agreed... 304 00:22:35,315 --> 00:22:37,409 I never wanted less... 305 00:22:37,485 --> 00:22:40,249 never wanted any old relationship with him... 306 00:22:40,321 --> 00:22:44,258 never wanted to be just friends," she said. 307 00:22:45,661 --> 00:22:49,563 "I wasn't interested in being just his friend." 308 00:22:51,935 --> 00:22:54,028 Then she stopped and said: 309 00:22:54,104 --> 00:22:59,543 "But that was stupid of me, really... because I could have been his friend... 310 00:22:59,610 --> 00:23:03,637 we could have continued our relationship... 311 00:23:03,714 --> 00:23:06,149 I might even have become his lover. 312 00:23:06,985 --> 00:23:08,577 And I didn't want that. 313 00:23:09,621 --> 00:23:12,750 Out of pride... 314 00:23:13,292 --> 00:23:18,526 for reasons which right now I see are petty." 315 00:23:19,365 --> 00:23:23,165 One day he confessed something very painful... 316 00:23:23,236 --> 00:23:24,795 men are like that. 317 00:23:24,872 --> 00:23:31,273 "If only she hadn't done that nose job... that really bugged me." 318 00:23:31,345 --> 00:23:37,251 It's not true, he wanted to fall madly in love! 319 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:40,777 When a woman no longer gave Vinicius passion... 320 00:23:40,857 --> 00:23:43,951 Vinicius found it easy to change women. 321 00:23:44,026 --> 00:23:47,291 That's not true, it wasn't easy... 322 00:23:47,363 --> 00:23:51,391 not until another one aroused him. 323 00:23:52,669 --> 00:23:56,162 Nowadays we talk about getting horny, but it wasn't just that... 324 00:23:56,241 --> 00:24:00,041 it was passion with a foundation... 325 00:24:00,111 --> 00:24:03,138 something between two people. 326 00:24:03,816 --> 00:24:09,379 And he needed that precipice of passion... always. 327 00:24:13,026 --> 00:24:16,518 Above all things I shall be attentive to my love... 328 00:24:16,596 --> 00:24:19,589 first, and with such zeal... 329 00:24:20,701 --> 00:24:22,259 and always... 330 00:24:22,336 --> 00:24:23,860 and so much... 331 00:24:23,938 --> 00:24:26,965 that even when faced with this great enchantment... 332 00:24:27,709 --> 00:24:30,075 my thoughts ascend to more delight... 333 00:24:31,546 --> 00:24:34,014 I want to live it in each vain moment... 334 00:24:35,050 --> 00:24:39,715 in its honor I sing out my song... 335 00:24:39,790 --> 00:24:44,090 and laugh my laughter and spill my tears... 336 00:24:45,062 --> 00:24:47,792 for her sorrow or her pleasure... 337 00:24:49,734 --> 00:24:53,967 and thus later, when you come to me... 338 00:24:55,073 --> 00:25:00,034 who knows what death, anxiety of the living... 339 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,040 who knows what loneliness, the end of those who love... 340 00:25:05,752 --> 00:25:08,881 I can speak of the love... 341 00:25:10,657 --> 00:25:14,424 let it not be immortal, since it is a flame... 342 00:25:16,097 --> 00:25:21,559 but let it be infinite while it lasts. 343 00:25:24,106 --> 00:25:28,908 In fact, Vinicius hadn't the courage to tell me... 344 00:25:28,979 --> 00:25:31,914 he'd married again... 345 00:25:31,982 --> 00:25:38,383 and had had another daughter, Georgiana. 346 00:25:40,224 --> 00:25:44,321 I think Georgiana was already born when he went to Paris. 347 00:25:44,730 --> 00:25:48,962 When he came back to Brazil, I discovered this by chance... 348 00:25:49,034 --> 00:25:51,299 because I think he kept putting it off... 349 00:25:51,371 --> 00:25:55,000 Vinicius' thing about not liking disharmony. 350 00:25:55,308 --> 00:25:57,367 He kept putting off telling me 351 00:25:57,443 --> 00:26:00,880 because he knew it would somehow be tough for me, in some way... 352 00:26:02,583 --> 00:26:04,848 knowing about another sister... 353 00:26:06,488 --> 00:26:08,149 he just kept putting it off. 354 00:26:09,557 --> 00:26:14,222 And by chance I went to the Copacabana Palace, where he was staying... 355 00:26:14,295 --> 00:26:16,958 earlier in the morning than we'd agreed, 356 00:26:17,033 --> 00:26:19,968 rang the bell, opened the door and found Lila, 357 00:26:20,036 --> 00:26:24,234 already heavily pregnant and Georgina beside her. 358 00:26:24,674 --> 00:26:27,735 And that stayed with me: Wow! 359 00:26:31,248 --> 00:26:32,807 I was... 360 00:26:34,385 --> 00:26:36,114 furious... 361 00:26:37,255 --> 00:26:40,156 it was so absurd, Vinicius lying to me. 362 00:26:41,260 --> 00:26:44,821 Lila B�scoli was much younger than Vinicius... 363 00:26:44,897 --> 00:26:48,664 she used to hang out with musicians, there was a sort of precursor... 364 00:26:48,735 --> 00:26:50,999 of Ipanema starting to emerge. 365 00:26:51,071 --> 00:26:54,632 It was writer Rubem Braga introduced them: 366 00:26:55,142 --> 00:26:59,306 "Lila, this is Vinicius, Vinicius, this is Lila. 367 00:26:59,380 --> 00:27:01,280 May God's will be done." 368 00:27:02,150 --> 00:27:04,744 Vinicius dropped everything and married her... 369 00:27:04,820 --> 00:27:10,122 they went to live in Paris, had two daughters, Georgiana and Luciana. 370 00:27:10,193 --> 00:27:12,753 The marriage lasted 5 years. 371 00:27:12,829 --> 00:27:15,821 He was in love and wrote a lot... 372 00:27:15,898 --> 00:27:20,893 it was a reunion with poetry which he had rather abandoned. 373 00:27:21,238 --> 00:27:24,036 Of course, as a daughter, I sometimes wonder whether... 374 00:27:24,108 --> 00:27:26,407 if Vinicius had pulled himself together a bit better... 375 00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:31,040 if he had been a little more self-disciplined... 376 00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:35,416 with the marriages, with his children, with the drink... 377 00:27:35,488 --> 00:27:38,788 with everything he wasted, mightn't he have been happier? 378 00:27:38,858 --> 00:27:41,088 I don't think so, if he hadn't lived as he did... 379 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,652 I think he would have been far more unhappy. 380 00:27:44,730 --> 00:27:48,667 And these things are all very well... 381 00:27:48,735 --> 00:27:55,136 but they have consequences for those around or left behind. 382 00:27:56,611 --> 00:28:02,244 Because he moved forwards and I don't think that was easy... 383 00:28:02,317 --> 00:28:05,878 ending a marriage wasn't easy... 384 00:28:05,954 --> 00:28:08,822 it was a whole process, Vinicius suffered, 385 00:28:08,892 --> 00:28:13,261 we could sense it when he was strange, he'd become distant, 386 00:28:13,329 --> 00:28:15,992 silently whistling away... 387 00:28:17,401 --> 00:28:23,363 I could see he'd gone off. There, now he's no longer here. 388 00:28:23,508 --> 00:28:25,844 Vinicius was capable of anything, 389 00:28:25,879 --> 00:28:28,712 any low tactic to conquer a women. 390 00:28:28,781 --> 00:28:34,912 I think that's an extremely important part of his character. 391 00:28:34,987 --> 00:28:36,956 Because it wasn't about conquering... 392 00:28:37,024 --> 00:28:42,986 to get back the spark with which he fed his poetry... 393 00:28:43,064 --> 00:28:46,033 its charm, which was passion. 394 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:48,590 Everyone knows Vinicius lived for that, 395 00:28:48,669 --> 00:28:52,266 he married 9 times... so you see, it's no joke. 396 00:28:52,341 --> 00:28:56,505 He married 9 times in search of this eternal passion... 397 00:28:56,578 --> 00:28:58,775 this thing he always cried out for. 398 00:28:58,847 --> 00:29:02,078 Let it not be eternal since it's a flame, but let it be infinite while it lasts. 399 00:29:02,151 --> 00:29:08,091 So that alone, these well-known Brazilian verses... 400 00:29:08,159 --> 00:29:11,252 reveal perfectly how much he sought... 401 00:29:11,328 --> 00:29:15,060 knowing he couldn't find what he wanted. 402 00:29:15,132 --> 00:29:17,293 I think that was Vinicius' great anxiety. 403 00:29:17,368 --> 00:29:22,136 Medo de Amarwas the first song I heard Vinicius play on the guitar 404 00:29:22,541 --> 00:29:24,202 50 years ago. 405 00:29:27,380 --> 00:29:33,684 Turn this leaf of the book And forget me 406 00:29:38,592 --> 00:29:44,993 Pretend that our love is over And forget me 407 00:29:50,740 --> 00:29:57,141 You didn't understand That jealousy is an evil root 408 00:30:00,751 --> 00:30:07,152 And that being afraid to love Makes no one happy 409 00:30:11,696 --> 00:30:18,097 Now go and lead your life as you wish 410 00:30:21,874 --> 00:30:28,275 But don't be surprised If another woman 411 00:30:31,652 --> 00:30:38,053 Is born in me Like a flower in the desert 412 00:30:42,864 --> 00:30:49,265 And understand that jealousy Is the perfume of love 413 00:30:54,244 --> 00:30:58,510 I spent 1956 in Rio de Janeiro... 414 00:30:58,982 --> 00:31:00,507 living in Guadalupe. 415 00:31:00,585 --> 00:31:03,554 That year is a crucial one in the history of everyone... 416 00:31:03,621 --> 00:31:07,285 involved in the modernization of Brazilian popular music... 417 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,055 which came right afterwards. 418 00:31:10,496 --> 00:31:13,522 And it's the year of Orfeu da Concei��o. 419 00:31:14,501 --> 00:31:20,736 I read in the papers and often heard on the radio... 420 00:31:20,807 --> 00:31:25,472 the name Vinicius de Moraes and this fine project of his... 421 00:31:25,546 --> 00:31:28,379 which I imagined as something so lovely, 422 00:31:28,450 --> 00:31:34,082 the music... the poet who had written the show, 423 00:31:34,155 --> 00:31:37,887 with the black performers, the black cast and so forth. 424 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,292 I saw someone on TV 425 00:31:40,363 --> 00:31:44,925 giving an interview about Orfeu 426 00:31:45,001 --> 00:31:47,163 giving details about the show. 427 00:31:48,371 --> 00:31:52,934 It was Haroldo Costa, ho was in the cast. 428 00:31:53,744 --> 00:31:56,474 I assumed that he was Vinicius de Moraes. 429 00:31:56,548 --> 00:31:58,345 Then I returned to Bahia. 430 00:31:58,417 --> 00:32:01,147 One heard the name Vinicius de Moraes a lot. 431 00:32:01,219 --> 00:32:03,346 I returned to Santo Amaro in '57. 432 00:32:03,422 --> 00:32:08,087 I can remember talking to friends... the same age, all about 14, 433 00:32:08,161 --> 00:32:12,656 and the name Vinicius de Moraes was mentioned several times. 434 00:32:12,733 --> 00:32:14,633 And I said: "Yeah, he's great, 435 00:32:14,701 --> 00:32:17,397 that black poet from Rio de Janeiro, 436 00:32:17,471 --> 00:32:19,963 I saw him on TV, he wrote that musical." 437 00:32:20,041 --> 00:32:23,943 So I spent some years thinking Vinicius was black... 438 00:32:24,012 --> 00:32:25,536 about a year and a half... 439 00:32:25,614 --> 00:32:27,946 absolutely convinced Vinicius was black. 440 00:32:28,017 --> 00:32:33,979 Years later I heard Vinicius de Moraes himself uttered the phrase: 441 00:32:34,057 --> 00:32:38,790 "I, Vinicius de Moraes, am the most Negro white man in Brazil." 442 00:32:38,862 --> 00:32:41,296 Or was it: "the blackest white man in Brazil"? 443 00:32:41,364 --> 00:32:47,201 I can't forget your gaze 444 00:32:47,272 --> 00:32:50,729 Distant from my eyes 445 00:32:50,809 --> 00:32:57,209 My living Is waiting to tell you good-bye 446 00:33:00,353 --> 00:33:05,053 Beloved woman 447 00:33:05,125 --> 00:33:09,858 My destiny 448 00:33:09,930 --> 00:33:14,594 It is nighttime 449 00:33:14,935 --> 00:33:16,164 Dew of my eyes 450 00:33:16,239 --> 00:33:19,675 The Greek myth of Orpheus set in a slum in Rio de Janeiro... 451 00:33:19,741 --> 00:33:22,904 reveals a deep truth about Vinicius himself... 452 00:33:22,979 --> 00:33:27,109 who was brought up at the crossroads between the erudite and the popular. 453 00:33:27,316 --> 00:33:30,343 In the love story of Orpheus and Eurydice... 454 00:33:30,420 --> 00:33:31,910 Vinicius saw a tragedy of Rio, 455 00:33:31,989 --> 00:33:36,050 the Greek demigod who with his lyre touched the hearts of animals... 456 00:33:36,126 --> 00:33:39,187 making beasts caring and peaceful... 457 00:33:39,264 --> 00:33:41,232 became a samba musician from a shanty town. 458 00:33:41,766 --> 00:33:45,100 For Orfeu da Concei��o, wanted the music to be... 459 00:33:45,170 --> 00:33:48,435 an encounter between refined, erudite culture... 460 00:33:48,507 --> 00:33:51,909 and the popular roots of samba and "batucada". 461 00:33:51,978 --> 00:33:57,075 At the time, the play was adapted for cinema under the title Black Orpheus, 462 00:33:57,150 --> 00:33:59,618 it won the Oscar, the Golden Palm at Cannes... 463 00:33:59,686 --> 00:34:02,678 and showed the world the music of Tom and Vinicius. 464 00:34:03,024 --> 00:34:09,225 My name is Antonio Carlos Jobim, better known as Tom Jobim 465 00:34:10,299 --> 00:34:11,891 in other words, Vinicius' Tom. 466 00:34:11,967 --> 00:34:14,492 Whenever I was on the phone and said: "It's Tom"... 467 00:34:14,571 --> 00:34:17,300 the other person would say: "Which Tom?" 468 00:34:17,372 --> 00:34:20,342 Vinicius' Tom," and they'd say: "Oh yes, what can I do for you?" 469 00:34:20,711 --> 00:34:27,111 I never did anything so right 470 00:34:28,053 --> 00:34:34,452 I joined the school of pardon 471 00:34:35,827 --> 00:34:42,228 My house is always open 472 00:34:44,470 --> 00:34:50,535 Open all the doors to the heart. 473 00:34:50,611 --> 00:34:55,480 Vinicius taught me so much in life. 474 00:34:55,549 --> 00:34:58,383 I'd say: "Damn it, Vinicius, I'm learning so much from you." 475 00:34:58,453 --> 00:35:02,116 He'd reply: "No, Tom, I'm the one learning from you." 476 00:35:18,943 --> 00:35:23,107 No 477 00:35:23,547 --> 00:35:29,948 My heart can no longer 478 00:35:31,723 --> 00:35:38,124 Live lacerated in this way 479 00:35:39,232 --> 00:35:43,761 Enslaved to an illusion 480 00:35:43,837 --> 00:35:50,238 Which is merely disillusion 481 00:35:52,914 --> 00:35:56,247 No 482 00:35:57,219 --> 00:36:03,620 Life is not always thus 483 00:36:05,828 --> 00:36:12,132 Like desperate moonlight 484 00:36:12,903 --> 00:36:19,304 Spilling melancholy on me 485 00:36:19,844 --> 00:36:24,509 Poetry on me 486 00:36:24,583 --> 00:36:29,920 Go, sad song Out of my breast 487 00:36:29,989 --> 00:36:32,457 And sow emotion 488 00:36:32,525 --> 00:36:38,926 And cry inside my heart 489 00:36:46,607 --> 00:36:53,008 Heart 490 00:37:05,628 --> 00:37:09,464 In the 50's Rio was a city buzzing with novelties... 491 00:37:09,666 --> 00:37:12,829 one heard a lot of samba songs in the bars of Copacabana... 492 00:37:12,904 --> 00:37:16,863 people bought modern automobiles television was being discovered... 493 00:37:16,941 --> 00:37:20,878 LP records revolved at 33 rpm... 494 00:37:20,946 --> 00:37:23,972 And the city life was spinning even faster. 495 00:37:25,184 --> 00:37:27,551 Everything was being renovated in the country's capital city... 496 00:37:27,621 --> 00:37:30,455 movies, theater, fashion... 497 00:37:30,524 --> 00:37:34,255 even the way people walked down the street seemed lighter... 498 00:37:34,695 --> 00:37:37,129 and in this mood of so many new things... 499 00:37:37,198 --> 00:37:40,167 Vinicius started to become a focal point. 500 00:37:40,234 --> 00:37:43,170 He was the poet who had moved towards samba... 501 00:37:43,238 --> 00:37:45,672 the diplomat who wrote songs, 502 00:37:45,741 --> 00:37:49,769 the world citizen who knew everything the city was starting to discover. 503 00:37:57,888 --> 00:38:01,688 I know and you know 504 00:38:02,626 --> 00:38:05,596 Since life has made it so 505 00:38:05,664 --> 00:38:12,065 And nothing in this world Can take you from me 506 00:38:13,306 --> 00:38:17,174 I know and you know 507 00:38:17,242 --> 00:38:21,681 That distance doesn't exist 508 00:38:21,747 --> 00:38:25,912 And every great love 509 00:38:25,987 --> 00:38:29,615 Is only really great if it is sad 510 00:38:29,691 --> 00:38:31,454 This song, with Elizeth Cardoso... 511 00:38:31,526 --> 00:38:34,256 accompanied by the guitar of Jo�o Gilberto... 512 00:38:34,329 --> 00:38:37,060 is on the album Can��o do Amor Demais, 513 00:38:37,132 --> 00:38:40,500 with new work by Tom and Vinicius. 514 00:38:41,004 --> 00:38:44,734 One of the songs on that album was Chega de Saudade, 515 00:38:44,808 --> 00:38:47,573 which, a little later, Jo�o Gilberto recorded. 516 00:38:47,645 --> 00:38:51,445 Go my sadness 517 00:38:51,514 --> 00:38:54,313 And tell her that 518 00:38:54,385 --> 00:38:58,219 Without her cannot be 519 00:38:58,289 --> 00:39:03,227 Tell her in a prayer 520 00:39:03,295 --> 00:39:05,855 To return 521 00:39:05,931 --> 00:39:09,060 Because I cannot suffer anymore 522 00:39:09,369 --> 00:39:13,396 No more longing 523 00:39:13,473 --> 00:39:19,071 I remember precisely where I first heard Chega de Saudade. 524 00:39:19,146 --> 00:39:24,517 I was in Recife and was completely paralyzed... 525 00:39:24,586 --> 00:39:27,679 it was absolutely strange, completely new... 526 00:39:27,755 --> 00:39:29,519 that is, all of it was new, 527 00:39:29,592 --> 00:39:33,460 the lyrics were completely new, the music was completely new, 528 00:39:33,528 --> 00:39:35,792 singing was completely new... 529 00:39:35,864 --> 00:39:37,800 I'd never heard anyone sing like that, 530 00:39:37,868 --> 00:39:41,065 and there was the guitar... no one played like that... 531 00:39:41,705 --> 00:39:44,140 there was no music like that. 532 00:39:44,208 --> 00:39:48,109 And when I say music, I mean the entire song, the harmonic structure. 533 00:39:48,178 --> 00:39:49,476 It was all so new. 534 00:39:49,546 --> 00:39:51,846 Before Chega de Saudade and after Chega de Saudade were different... 535 00:39:51,917 --> 00:39:53,907 a whole different thing. 536 00:39:53,986 --> 00:39:56,477 "Hey, what's all this about Chega de Saudade?" 537 00:39:56,554 --> 00:40:00,390 I replied: "Dad, give me money to buy the record by Vinicius". 538 00:40:00,459 --> 00:40:04,452 It was the record of Jo�o singing Chega de Saudade... 539 00:40:04,530 --> 00:40:08,023 by Tom and Vinicius, at that time I didn't know who Tom Jobim was... 540 00:40:08,101 --> 00:40:10,968 no one knew who Jo�o Gilberto was... 541 00:40:11,037 --> 00:40:13,006 and nor was Vinicius a popular name. 542 00:40:13,074 --> 00:40:16,272 And it wasn't a popular hit... 543 00:40:16,344 --> 00:40:18,812 it was a song playing on one or two radio stations... 544 00:40:18,879 --> 00:40:22,145 which kids used to listen to. 545 00:40:22,451 --> 00:40:24,180 I was bowled over by it all... 546 00:40:25,220 --> 00:40:26,278 that style... 547 00:40:28,191 --> 00:40:29,283 the poetry... 548 00:40:31,327 --> 00:40:35,958 at the same time classical and talking about such common things... 549 00:40:36,033 --> 00:40:42,200 in everyday life with such a poetic elegance, so new. 550 00:40:43,875 --> 00:40:46,343 That's it, Chega de Saudade changed my life. 551 00:40:46,411 --> 00:40:50,074 The turning point regarding the lyrics... 552 00:40:51,817 --> 00:40:55,617 which Vinicius de Moraes made possible during the bossa nova era, 553 00:40:55,688 --> 00:40:57,418 is truly crucial. 554 00:40:57,491 --> 00:41:03,192 But one must also understand that it was only so all- 555 00:41:03,264 --> 00:41:07,166 encompassing... 556 00:41:07,235 --> 00:41:13,636 because he paid attention... 557 00:41:14,108 --> 00:41:18,240 to the traditions of popular Brazilian music lyrics... 558 00:41:18,313 --> 00:41:21,441 something he'd always loved and which he knew well. 559 00:41:21,850 --> 00:41:28,251 What foolishness you 560 00:41:32,096 --> 00:41:37,728 Such a careless heart 561 00:41:39,204 --> 00:41:45,604 Made your love cry with pain 562 00:41:46,646 --> 00:41:53,046 Such a delicate love 563 00:41:56,990 --> 00:42:03,391 Ah, why were you so frail 564 00:42:08,104 --> 00:42:12,268 So soulless? 565 00:42:14,243 --> 00:42:17,645 Bossa nova is a new intelligence, a new rhythm, 566 00:42:17,713 --> 00:42:21,616 the new sensibility, a new secret among the young people of Brazil. 567 00:42:21,917 --> 00:42:25,548 A simple structure of highly refined sounds... 568 00:42:25,622 --> 00:42:28,524 words no one thought would be uttered... 569 00:42:28,593 --> 00:42:30,653 that love hurts but does exist... 570 00:42:30,729 --> 00:42:32,719 that it is better to believe than be skeptical 571 00:42:32,798 --> 00:42:35,062 that hope is a free commodity. 572 00:42:36,768 --> 00:42:43,168 Go my heart... 573 00:42:44,477 --> 00:42:47,469 Listen to reason 574 00:42:47,547 --> 00:42:53,453 Use only sincerity 575 00:42:54,622 --> 00:43:01,023 Whoever sows the wind 576 00:43:02,297 --> 00:43:05,061 Says reason 577 00:43:05,133 --> 00:43:11,300 Always reaps the storm 578 00:43:12,509 --> 00:43:18,909 Go my heart... 579 00:43:19,984 --> 00:43:23,442 Ask for pardon 580 00:43:23,521 --> 00:43:28,653 Passionate pardon 581 00:43:30,396 --> 00:43:33,229 Go 582 00:43:33,299 --> 00:43:37,669 For those who don't 583 00:43:37,737 --> 00:43:40,671 Ask for pardon 584 00:43:40,941 --> 00:43:47,142 Are never forgiven 585 00:43:47,215 --> 00:43:50,208 Older people... 586 00:43:50,685 --> 00:43:54,177 most of them didn't like Vinicius... 587 00:43:54,256 --> 00:43:56,850 meddling in popular music... 588 00:43:56,925 --> 00:44:01,989 they would rather he'd remained the poet from before. 589 00:44:02,065 --> 00:44:03,226 They didn't like it. 590 00:44:03,299 --> 00:44:06,326 And those who liked Vinicius as he was... 591 00:44:06,402 --> 00:44:11,807 didn't really like bossa nova, they took a while to swallow that. 592 00:44:14,946 --> 00:44:15,934 It was tough. 593 00:44:16,314 --> 00:44:19,681 I remember once meeting Vinicius... 594 00:44:20,752 --> 00:44:27,124 I was still a kid. I think it was at a book launch, 595 00:44:27,193 --> 00:44:30,253 he was sitting at a table autographing something... 596 00:44:30,329 --> 00:44:35,063 and I went over and said: "I'm Chico, S�rgio's son." 597 00:44:35,135 --> 00:44:37,330 "How is S�rgio?" I said: "He's fine, 598 00:44:37,404 --> 00:44:40,602 but he doesn't like bossa nova!" 599 00:44:40,675 --> 00:44:45,203 And Vinicius was furious he didn't like the joke one bit. 600 00:44:49,518 --> 00:44:53,888 Look how beautiful How full of grace 601 00:44:53,957 --> 00:44:57,552 The girl who passes 602 00:44:57,627 --> 00:45:01,826 Swaying so sweetly On the way to the sea. 603 00:45:04,769 --> 00:45:06,396 That first concert at Bon Gourmet... 604 00:45:06,470 --> 00:45:10,167 which I wasn't really old enough to attend, but I was there... 605 00:45:10,242 --> 00:45:16,182 it was Vinicius with Jo�o Gilberto, Tom, Os Cariocas. 606 00:45:17,115 --> 00:45:18,548 An amazing concert, 607 00:45:18,618 --> 00:45:25,019 and in fact it was the first time Vinicius sang in public, 608 00:45:25,224 --> 00:45:27,249 I remember he even got into trouble with the Foreign Office, 609 00:45:27,328 --> 00:45:30,889 he was forced to sing wearing a suit and tie... 610 00:45:30,964 --> 00:45:32,592 he complained a lot about that. 611 00:45:33,133 --> 00:45:37,833 The Minister for Foreign Relations simply hated seeing a diplomat... 612 00:45:37,906 --> 00:45:40,238 holding a glass and singing on stage. 613 00:45:40,475 --> 00:45:44,310 He set limits: As well as a compulsory jacket and tie... 614 00:45:44,380 --> 00:45:46,848 he couldn't receive a cent for singing. 615 00:45:47,683 --> 00:45:52,348 But, if she knew That when she passes 616 00:45:52,422 --> 00:45:54,447 The whole world gets full of grace... 617 00:45:54,524 --> 00:45:57,254 Garota de Ipanema emerged from that first concert... 618 00:45:57,327 --> 00:46:01,230 to become one of the world's most played songs of all time. 619 00:46:04,569 --> 00:46:08,062 Vinicius' life was always made up of counterpoint. 620 00:46:08,140 --> 00:46:10,540 On the one hand, the routine of the diplomat... 621 00:46:10,609 --> 00:46:12,976 on the other, the passionate poet. 622 00:46:13,179 --> 00:46:16,171 The diplomat did things which upstaged his colleagues... 623 00:46:16,249 --> 00:46:19,776 and which, to the poet, were absolutely natural. 624 00:46:20,488 --> 00:46:23,218 From Montevideo the diplomat Vinicius de Moraes wrote... 625 00:46:23,290 --> 00:46:27,352 a letter addressed to the Ministry for Foreign Relations: 626 00:46:28,363 --> 00:46:31,661 "I really must return to Rio de Janeiro... 627 00:46:32,433 --> 00:46:37,168 it is not a material question, one of money or professional status... 628 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:39,230 all those things can be recovered... 629 00:46:39,741 --> 00:46:41,767 it is question of love... 630 00:46:41,845 --> 00:46:46,110 since the time of love is irretrievable." 631 00:46:46,550 --> 00:46:49,179 Vinicius was transferred to Rio de Janeiro. 632 00:46:49,887 --> 00:46:53,914 He had a car accident in Petr�polis... 633 00:46:54,324 --> 00:46:58,023 I was at my Uncle Caloca's ranch when they phoned: 634 00:46:58,096 --> 00:47:00,257 "Your father has had an accident and is badly hurt." 635 00:47:00,331 --> 00:47:05,429 I rushed to Petr�polis, and at the hospital I found Lucinha. 636 00:47:05,504 --> 00:47:08,598 And Vinicius immediately says: "I'm marrying her." 637 00:47:10,577 --> 00:47:15,105 I didn't give it a second thought... 638 00:47:15,182 --> 00:47:20,120 which was my attitude with all the other marriages. 639 00:47:20,555 --> 00:47:22,989 After the first lie... 640 00:47:23,057 --> 00:47:27,324 the first thing which was so hard for me to take... 641 00:47:27,396 --> 00:47:30,058 so difficult to absorb... 642 00:47:30,265 --> 00:47:34,669 then after that he married and I married too, at the same time. 643 00:47:35,338 --> 00:47:37,431 To live a great love... 644 00:47:37,507 --> 00:47:41,706 you have to always see your loved one as your first girlfriend. 645 00:47:42,278 --> 00:47:46,774 Vinicius was 45 when he married L�cia Proen�a. 646 00:47:46,851 --> 00:47:50,879 For six years life was like a never-ending party... 647 00:47:51,223 --> 00:47:52,714 everything went fine. 648 00:47:52,792 --> 00:47:55,784 Vinicius was becoming more famous and admired. 649 00:47:56,195 --> 00:47:59,859 Driven by passion as always, he produced like never before... 650 00:47:59,932 --> 00:48:01,661 he didn't stop working. 651 00:48:02,536 --> 00:48:08,937 He was married to a woman with so many obvious virtues... 652 00:48:09,644 --> 00:48:13,602 a very beautiful woman, very rich, lovable... 653 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,410 very much in love with him... 654 00:48:15,885 --> 00:48:22,286 and this became a magnet for hoards of people, the young partners... 655 00:48:22,424 --> 00:48:27,919 the house was wild, both the house in Rio and the house in Petr�polis... 656 00:48:28,330 --> 00:48:34,731 became centers for collective creativity... 657 00:48:35,005 --> 00:48:39,807 really wild... deep into the night, playing guitar 658 00:48:41,679 --> 00:48:45,616 with so many strong talents gathered together... 659 00:48:45,684 --> 00:48:50,850 a moment of Brazil, of Brazilian culture which was so very rich 660 00:48:51,691 --> 00:48:58,092 and with him as the center point of all this talent. 661 00:48:58,899 --> 00:49:02,562 But I think it was Vinicius started those... 662 00:49:02,636 --> 00:49:05,629 As far as I can remember, those open houses, 663 00:49:05,707 --> 00:49:07,868 I think he started opening his house... 664 00:49:07,943 --> 00:49:09,535 and everyone started copying him rather... 665 00:49:09,611 --> 00:49:13,844 and he got everyone to open up their houses. 666 00:49:13,916 --> 00:49:15,884 Nothing like nowadays. 667 00:49:15,952 --> 00:49:18,045 But anyway, there were open houses... 668 00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,987 one went along and everyone would be there, playing... 669 00:49:21,058 --> 00:49:23,322 it might be his place, or Tom's. 670 00:49:23,393 --> 00:49:27,887 But I think it was he unlocked all the doors... 671 00:49:27,966 --> 00:49:31,992 it was thanks to Vinicius... 672 00:49:32,070 --> 00:49:34,631 him doing it so much, and people imitated him. 673 00:49:34,707 --> 00:49:38,073 I already knew of Vinicius from an early age... 674 00:49:38,143 --> 00:49:40,372 because my father talked about him a lot... 675 00:49:40,446 --> 00:49:42,437 my father used to dabble with poetry... 676 00:49:42,514 --> 00:49:45,108 sonnets, so my father always asked: "Who's your favorite poet?" 677 00:49:45,184 --> 00:49:48,518 And I was still a kid, a boy, and my father would say: "Vinicius de Moraes". 678 00:49:48,589 --> 00:49:50,715 So I already knew the name. 679 00:49:50,790 --> 00:49:54,521 When I saw Orpheus, I went wild... 680 00:49:54,594 --> 00:49:56,460 I thought: "I've got to work with this guy". 681 00:49:56,530 --> 00:50:00,728 How lovely you are, 682 00:50:01,435 --> 00:50:03,904 There 683 00:50:03,972 --> 00:50:06,634 Just little you 684 00:50:07,209 --> 00:50:10,373 I swear 685 00:50:10,446 --> 00:50:16,146 I don't know why you 686 00:50:19,990 --> 00:50:26,157 You are lovelier than a flower 687 00:50:26,865 --> 00:50:31,599 If only the spring flower 688 00:50:32,204 --> 00:50:38,165 Had all this fragrant beauty 689 00:50:38,245 --> 00:50:40,236 Which is love 690 00:50:40,313 --> 00:50:46,713 Perfuming nature In the shape of a woman 691 00:50:48,256 --> 00:50:54,162 Because such beauty Doesn't exist 692 00:50:54,229 --> 00:50:56,925 Not the flower 693 00:50:56,998 --> 00:51:00,628 Nor even the color exists 694 00:51:00,703 --> 00:51:03,138 And love 695 00:51:03,206 --> 00:51:07,643 Not even love exists 696 00:51:23,061 --> 00:51:29,462 Vinicius was the most important person in my musical life, 697 00:51:29,902 --> 00:51:31,301 no doubt about it. 698 00:51:31,370 --> 00:51:33,031 I wouldn't go as far as to say 699 00:51:33,106 --> 00:51:36,167 that if it hadn't been for Vinicius I wouldn't have become a musician 700 00:51:36,243 --> 00:51:37,904 but maybe I really wouldn't have. 701 00:51:37,978 --> 00:51:40,640 I studied engineering, graduated as an engineer... 702 00:51:40,714 --> 00:51:42,910 and Vinicius played a determining role, 703 00:51:42,984 --> 00:51:46,681 in '63 we wrote our first song, Sem Mais Adeus. 704 00:51:47,555 --> 00:51:52,152 I came full of longing 705 00:51:52,862 --> 00:51:59,263 Filled with lovely things to say 706 00:52:00,903 --> 00:52:05,864 I came because I sensed 707 00:52:06,711 --> 00:52:13,112 That nothing exists beyond you 708 00:52:15,353 --> 00:52:18,756 By the end of the famous summer of '62, 709 00:52:18,825 --> 00:52:22,192 one which musically never came to an end, 710 00:52:22,261 --> 00:52:25,857 there'd be a party in Petr�polis every day... 711 00:52:25,933 --> 00:52:28,162 we'd be there with a guitar under one arm... 712 00:52:28,234 --> 00:52:29,997 and a bottle of whisky under the other... 713 00:52:30,069 --> 00:52:32,867 and every day a new song would emerge... 714 00:52:32,940 --> 00:52:36,138 I met all of that crowd through Vinicius. 715 00:52:36,544 --> 00:52:39,240 I'd take a series of songs for him to put words to... 716 00:52:39,313 --> 00:52:41,111 that's how it had been since we met. 717 00:52:41,183 --> 00:52:44,710 And one time I took some songs and put them down... 718 00:52:44,786 --> 00:52:48,120 he looked through them... 719 00:52:48,191 --> 00:52:50,921 about 12 or 13 songs and saw 720 00:52:50,993 --> 00:52:55,761 a common thread going through all the songs... 721 00:52:55,833 --> 00:52:58,768 he found the unity in those songs... 722 00:52:58,836 --> 00:53:00,736 said they were a musical comedy, and it's true... 723 00:53:00,804 --> 00:53:04,832 with those songs he managed to put together a musical... 724 00:53:04,909 --> 00:53:07,969 as if the songs belonged to each other. 725 00:53:08,046 --> 00:53:11,574 Pobre Menina Rica tells the story of the love of white girl... 726 00:53:11,650 --> 00:53:13,948 for a black beggar and poet. 727 00:53:14,019 --> 00:53:17,547 It was truly in the spirit of an era when everything seemed possible. 728 00:53:17,991 --> 00:53:22,189 Brazil enjoyed the optimism of the times with Juscelino Kubitschek, 729 00:53:22,261 --> 00:53:25,960 the bossa nova president, who built Bras�lia, 730 00:53:26,033 --> 00:53:30,366 brought automobile factories... it was modernity. 731 00:53:30,538 --> 00:53:33,133 In the love story told by Vinicius... 732 00:53:33,207 --> 00:53:37,474 a character reflected the other side of those golden years... 733 00:53:37,546 --> 00:53:41,312 to escape misery, hoards of migrants left the Northeast... 734 00:53:41,383 --> 00:53:43,818 and moved to towns in the south. 735 00:53:43,886 --> 00:53:47,152 One day Tired of being so hungry 736 00:53:47,223 --> 00:53:49,316 I had nothing, How hungry I was 737 00:53:49,392 --> 00:53:53,228 How terribly dry my Cear� 738 00:53:56,033 --> 00:53:59,697 I took and gathered A few things I had 739 00:53:59,771 --> 00:54:02,103 Two old trousers, a guitar 740 00:54:02,173 --> 00:54:05,700 And took a truck heading this way 741 00:54:06,211 --> 00:54:11,673 And nights I stayed on on Copacabana beach 742 00:54:11,751 --> 00:54:15,518 Dancing the xaxado For the girls to see 743 00:54:15,589 --> 00:54:19,116 Holy Virgin what hunger I could hardly speak 744 00:54:19,192 --> 00:54:21,559 My God, so many girls Such hunger 745 00:54:21,629 --> 00:54:25,725 More hunger than I had in my Cear� 746 00:54:32,274 --> 00:54:35,711 In '63 we released Pobre Menina Rica at the Bon-Gourmet... 747 00:54:35,779 --> 00:54:38,441 me, him and Nara Le�o, we played Pobre Menina Rica, 748 00:54:38,515 --> 00:54:42,143 a show, a sort of "pocket-show", 749 00:54:42,218 --> 00:54:45,312 and I played the poet, Nara the rich girl 750 00:54:45,388 --> 00:54:47,550 and Vinicius all the other characters... 751 00:54:47,624 --> 00:54:50,151 and reading the story at a bar. 752 00:54:50,228 --> 00:54:56,628 Being a musician in the '50's and '60's was an adventure, 753 00:54:57,769 --> 00:55:00,068 no one thought about making money playing music... 754 00:55:00,138 --> 00:55:02,664 Vinicius was completely disinterested in money. 755 00:55:02,741 --> 00:55:08,339 In fact, the defect he hated most in people was stinginess. 756 00:55:08,414 --> 00:55:09,938 It's true... 757 00:55:10,017 --> 00:55:13,646 He'd marry... leaving everything behind. 758 00:55:13,722 --> 00:55:15,154 Always the same. 759 00:55:15,222 --> 00:55:16,416 Whenever he earned... 760 00:55:18,192 --> 00:55:20,661 Whenever he earned money then he could go out. 761 00:55:20,729 --> 00:55:25,029 Later, with the concerts, all that, he started earning more. 762 00:55:25,100 --> 00:55:28,195 Enough money to do what he used to do; 763 00:55:28,270 --> 00:55:34,671 he'd stuff his pockets with money and go out to the restaurants, 764 00:55:35,245 --> 00:55:38,180 an enormous table of people, he'd pay everything and spend all his money. 765 00:55:38,248 --> 00:55:39,374 He never saved up, 766 00:55:39,449 --> 00:55:42,112 was never bothered about that. 767 00:55:42,186 --> 00:55:47,420 Later, when money started coming in thanks to the Americans, 768 00:55:47,493 --> 00:55:50,724 with Girl from Ipanema, which became a hit the world over... 769 00:55:50,796 --> 00:55:52,058 of course that made a lot of money. 770 00:55:52,131 --> 00:55:55,033 Then Teresa, Tom's wife, 771 00:55:55,101 --> 00:55:59,037 started putting Tom's affairs in order. 772 00:56:02,242 --> 00:56:03,402 She'd despair: 773 00:56:03,477 --> 00:56:06,570 "But Vinicius signed so many things which he shouldn't have." 774 00:56:06,646 --> 00:56:09,173 He'd sign ridiculous contracts. 775 00:56:09,251 --> 00:56:11,685 Ever since I was little... 776 00:56:11,753 --> 00:56:16,747 there were always money problems in our family. 777 00:56:16,826 --> 00:56:19,158 Even as a diplomat, Vinicius earned I don't know what... 778 00:56:19,227 --> 00:56:22,355 he used to spend so much, a pearl necklace for my mother... 779 00:56:22,431 --> 00:56:25,163 then at the end of the month there'd be no money to pay the housemaid 780 00:56:25,235 --> 00:56:26,259 completely crazy. 781 00:56:27,603 --> 00:56:30,071 So all my life I saw him: 782 00:56:30,140 --> 00:56:34,201 "Damn this money, I owe so-and-so, I borrowed some money." 783 00:56:34,278 --> 00:56:36,610 He was rigorous, honest... 784 00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:40,947 very correct, but always in dire straits with money... 785 00:56:41,019 --> 00:56:43,852 He never took the easy way, on the contrary. 786 00:56:43,922 --> 00:56:47,051 You might say he was on the crest of the wave of bossa nova... 787 00:56:47,126 --> 00:56:48,855 yes, and he created that crest. 788 00:56:48,928 --> 00:56:52,490 Later, on the crest of the wave of Afro-Samba, which he also created, 789 00:56:52,566 --> 00:56:56,161 then he'd abandon it. Create and abandon, with everything in life. 790 00:56:56,236 --> 00:57:00,469 He'd create and not reap the benefits... 791 00:57:00,541 --> 00:57:02,907 He'd squander things... 792 00:57:02,977 --> 00:57:07,142 He'd squander things he'd just conquered. 793 00:57:07,216 --> 00:57:10,379 Never hold on to anything. 794 00:57:10,752 --> 00:57:16,282 Didn't hold on to his fame, his money, nothing. 795 00:57:30,041 --> 00:57:33,943 You often find great poets who would never write lyrics to a song. 796 00:57:35,213 --> 00:57:37,181 Got it? They simply couldn't. 797 00:57:37,249 --> 00:57:39,809 Because it's a whole different thing... 798 00:57:39,885 --> 00:57:42,946 writing song lyrics involves another type of... 799 00:57:43,022 --> 00:57:44,650 It involves musicality, 800 00:57:44,725 --> 00:57:47,922 you need to understand that, you need a good ear... 801 00:57:47,994 --> 00:57:51,863 and understand how a musical phrase is designed. 802 00:57:51,932 --> 00:57:53,991 That's why Vinicius was so incredibly important... 803 00:57:54,067 --> 00:57:58,004 because as well as being a great poet, he was a great connoisseur of melodies. 804 00:58:00,975 --> 00:58:03,443 There's another song he wrote with Chico Buarque... 805 00:58:03,511 --> 00:58:07,642 where he created a melody with very complicated scales... 806 00:58:07,716 --> 00:58:12,245 he came to me, and the melody was ready, all I did was do the harmony. 807 00:58:53,467 --> 00:58:56,403 I think that if he hadn't had such brilliant partners... 808 00:58:56,471 --> 00:58:58,963 he would have written far more songs by himself. 809 00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,636 But I think that for him the human being is irresistible. 810 00:59:02,379 --> 00:59:06,076 I became friendly with Vinicius in about '42, '43... 811 00:59:06,383 --> 00:59:10,114 our friendship started when he gave me his little booklet... 812 00:59:10,188 --> 00:59:14,385 Ariana, a mulher, with the following dedication: 813 00:59:15,727 --> 00:59:19,959 "For Ant�nio C�ndido, with my hand held out in friendship... 814 00:59:20,031 --> 00:59:22,022 Vinicius de Moraes." Lovely, isn't it? 815 00:59:22,101 --> 00:59:25,298 Vinicius was a person who always called to see how you were... 816 00:59:26,772 --> 00:59:29,206 "I'm calling to see if you're well." 817 00:59:29,275 --> 00:59:32,871 There were things he used to say about friendship, for instance... 818 00:59:32,946 --> 00:59:36,438 this is so beautiful: "You don't make friends, you recognize them." 819 00:59:37,184 --> 00:59:41,814 What more does a man need than a friend to be fond of? 820 00:59:42,423 --> 00:59:44,984 A dry, simple friend... 821 00:59:45,060 --> 00:59:48,655 one who doesn't even need to speak. A look is enough... 822 00:59:49,431 --> 00:59:53,061 one who belittles the friendship... 823 00:59:53,403 --> 00:59:56,304 a friend for peace and for fights... 824 00:59:56,472 --> 00:59:58,964 a friend for the home and bar. 825 01:00:01,078 --> 01:00:05,071 For Vinicius, life without friends would have been impossible... 826 01:00:05,448 --> 01:00:09,352 he abhorred solitude, which is the contrary of everything he sought. 827 01:00:10,689 --> 01:00:13,181 The greatest solitude is that of he who loves not... 828 01:00:13,626 --> 01:00:17,756 the greatest solitude is that of he who is absent, who defends himself, 829 01:00:17,829 --> 01:00:21,459 who closes up, who refuses to take part in human life. 830 01:00:22,134 --> 01:00:25,434 The greatest solitude is that of a man locked up within himself... 831 01:00:25,505 --> 01:00:27,531 an absolute of himself... 832 01:00:27,742 --> 01:00:30,835 who refuses the one who asks him to give what he can of love, 833 01:00:30,911 --> 01:00:33,311 friendship, comfort. 834 01:00:36,084 --> 01:00:38,951 40 boxes, multiplied by 12 bottles, how much is that? 835 01:00:39,020 --> 01:00:41,511 - 480 bottles. - 480 bottles of whisky. 836 01:00:41,589 --> 01:00:44,058 One liter bottles! 837 01:00:44,426 --> 01:00:47,589 So anyway, people started to pick up the scent... 838 01:00:48,164 --> 01:00:51,258 my house started to fill up, you can just imagine. 839 01:00:51,735 --> 01:00:53,828 Rubem Braga, the entire gang. 840 01:00:54,504 --> 01:00:56,905 All I know is, one day I was in a bar downtown, 841 01:00:56,974 --> 01:00:58,305 Juca's Bar... 842 01:00:58,376 --> 01:01:00,936 and Paulinho Mendes Campos and I were at a table... 843 01:01:01,011 --> 01:01:04,379 and there were two guys talking, and one says: 844 01:01:04,449 --> 01:01:06,644 "Let's go to Vinicius de Moraes' place, 845 01:01:06,718 --> 01:01:10,279 I hear there's always a party going on with non-stop whisky." 846 01:01:11,524 --> 01:01:12,616 Swear to God! 847 01:01:13,604 --> 01:01:17,267 I never saw a good friendship start in a dairy. 848 01:01:18,610 --> 01:01:22,239 Whisky is man's best friend... 849 01:01:23,614 --> 01:01:28,575 Whisky is a dog in a bottle. 850 01:01:28,654 --> 01:01:30,815 My love, I swear to God 851 01:01:30,890 --> 01:01:36,090 The light of my eyes Can no longer wait... 852 01:01:36,563 --> 01:01:41,092 I want the light of my eyes In the light of your eyes 853 01:01:41,168 --> 01:01:43,899 With no more la-ri-l�-l� 854 01:01:43,972 --> 01:01:49,605 By the light of your eyes I find my love 855 01:01:49,677 --> 01:01:53,306 And can only think 856 01:01:53,983 --> 01:02:00,383 That the light of my eyes Must marry 857 01:02:01,591 --> 01:02:04,754 You know, my wife grabbed two bottles of Scotch whisky... 858 01:02:04,828 --> 01:02:07,695 and smashed them on the sink, right in front of me. 859 01:02:09,667 --> 01:02:10,964 I nearly cut myself. 860 01:02:12,703 --> 01:02:13,897 Really dangerous. 861 01:02:13,971 --> 01:02:17,499 Women actually get to the point where they smash whisky on the sink. 862 01:02:17,576 --> 01:02:20,170 Really! It's their rebellion. 863 01:02:21,213 --> 01:02:23,182 But it's no use, we only go out and buy more. 864 01:02:24,217 --> 01:02:28,916 His drunkenness wasn't constant. He was always... 865 01:02:29,957 --> 01:02:31,515 he really did drink a lot. 866 01:02:31,592 --> 01:02:34,322 Sometimes I'd arrive at Antonio's at midday... 867 01:02:34,395 --> 01:02:35,692 and find him already at the bar. 868 01:02:35,763 --> 01:02:37,629 There was this thing he called a bathtub... 869 01:02:37,699 --> 01:02:39,189 which was a daiquiri. 870 01:02:39,267 --> 01:02:43,636 No, it was a gin and tonic, something the barman fixed in... 871 01:02:43,705 --> 01:02:47,767 a glass which was a basin, a glass like this... 872 01:02:49,812 --> 01:02:53,305 as wide as your hand. And he'd be drinking that... 873 01:02:54,618 --> 01:03:00,057 it was either rum or gin, something like that... 874 01:03:00,123 --> 01:03:04,822 or something lighter, with lemon, crushed ice or something. 875 01:03:05,631 --> 01:03:10,967 Then, in the afternoon, he hit the whisky, whisky, whisky... 876 01:03:11,670 --> 01:03:14,161 that was his drink, more than beer, more than wine... 877 01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:17,175 it was whisky non-stop. He really did drink a lot. 878 01:03:17,644 --> 01:03:21,705 He once told me, about his relationship with drink... 879 01:03:21,781 --> 01:03:24,181 with whisky, that it was the drink he liked... 880 01:03:24,250 --> 01:03:26,377 that he needed it... 881 01:03:29,423 --> 01:03:32,358 he found everything very difficult without whisky. 882 01:03:32,426 --> 01:03:38,827 But I think what he really liked was to keep to himself... 883 01:03:39,434 --> 01:03:43,667 and I think whisky helped him... 884 01:03:43,740 --> 01:03:47,369 to meet people more, to talk to them, 885 01:03:47,443 --> 01:03:49,309 which is what he really wanted. 886 01:03:49,379 --> 01:03:53,247 I remember meeting him up here at the S�o Vicente clinic... 887 01:03:54,651 --> 01:04:00,284 I was visiting my uncle, who was undergoing treatment... 888 01:04:01,326 --> 01:04:03,591 which is what Vinicius used to do too, 889 01:04:03,662 --> 01:04:05,823 when he drank too much he'd go to the clinic, 890 01:04:05,898 --> 01:04:09,663 which was a sort of spa in those days, supposedly in order not to drink. 891 01:04:09,735 --> 01:04:12,260 But a lot of them would go out in the evening to bars... 892 01:04:12,339 --> 01:04:15,467 and return to the clinic in the middle of the night. 893 01:04:15,542 --> 01:04:17,773 Grande Otelo was there, a whole party in Vinicius' room. 894 01:04:17,845 --> 01:04:21,303 Vinicius was happy because he'd written lyrics for Baden... 895 01:04:21,381 --> 01:04:23,645 Baden had left the song on a tape... 896 01:04:23,717 --> 01:04:27,553 so then Baden arrived and I witnessed this encounter. 897 01:04:27,622 --> 01:04:29,716 Baden arrived... 898 01:04:29,792 --> 01:04:35,322 Baden grabbed his guitar, and everyone sang, for hours... 899 01:04:35,398 --> 01:04:36,729 it was Pra Que Chorar. 900 01:04:37,834 --> 01:04:43,466 And Vinicius said he'd written the song the night before... 901 01:04:43,540 --> 01:04:45,667 the guy next door was dying... 902 01:04:45,742 --> 01:04:50,077 he could heard him agonizing... 903 01:04:50,381 --> 01:04:54,512 so he wrote the song: 904 01:04:54,586 --> 01:04:58,113 'Why cry if the sun is just about to appear... 905 01:04:58,190 --> 01:04:59,782 if the day is going to break... 906 01:04:59,858 --> 01:05:03,192 why cry if there is always a great love... 907 01:05:03,396 --> 01:05:06,126 why cry if love exists... 908 01:05:06,199 --> 01:05:09,863 it's only a matter of giving, it's only a matter of hurting... ' 909 01:05:09,937 --> 01:05:12,132 Baden said: "this is fantastic!" 910 01:05:12,806 --> 01:05:16,766 Why cry 911 01:05:17,312 --> 01:05:19,439 If the sun is just about to appear 912 01:05:20,048 --> 01:05:22,176 If the day is going to break 913 01:05:24,086 --> 01:05:27,317 Why suffer 914 01:05:28,991 --> 01:05:32,621 if the moon is coming up And it's only the sun going down 915 01:05:34,464 --> 01:05:37,195 Why cry if love exists 916 01:05:38,035 --> 01:05:43,302 It's only a matter of giving It's only a matter of hurting 917 01:05:45,244 --> 01:05:50,979 Whoever has never Cried nor lamented 918 01:05:51,049 --> 01:05:53,780 Can never again say 919 01:05:53,852 --> 01:05:58,517 Why cry, why suffer 920 01:05:59,058 --> 01:06:04,224 If there is always a new love With each new dawn 921 01:06:04,864 --> 01:06:09,165 Why cry, why suffer 922 01:06:09,870 --> 01:06:14,240 If there is always a new love With each new dawn 923 01:06:14,310 --> 01:06:15,606 Take it away, Roberto! 924 01:06:32,629 --> 01:06:35,997 I think his meeting with Baden was as strong 925 01:06:36,067 --> 01:06:38,126 as with Tom. 926 01:06:39,103 --> 01:06:43,336 Because it was another universe he explored which perhaps... 927 01:06:43,909 --> 01:06:48,506 they both explored the farthest depths of our music. 928 01:06:48,581 --> 01:06:53,143 To begin with, it was something rather gentle, almost African... 929 01:06:53,852 --> 01:06:56,084 And they really pulled out all the stops... 930 01:06:56,157 --> 01:07:00,059 using their peerless talent. 931 01:07:00,127 --> 01:07:02,618 In relation to the Afro-sambas, 932 01:07:02,698 --> 01:07:04,996 they weren't a development of bossa nova, 933 01:07:05,066 --> 01:07:07,558 that was another thing altogether... 934 01:07:07,636 --> 01:07:09,763 it was no longer what you could call bossa nova. 935 01:07:11,374 --> 01:07:12,966 It didn't really have a name, in fact. 936 01:07:13,042 --> 01:07:19,443 What I mean is it no longer had the sound of Jo�o Gilberto's guitar, 937 01:07:20,150 --> 01:07:22,311 the double beat was Baden's... 938 01:07:22,386 --> 01:07:26,413 it was something quite revolutionary, and very strong. 939 01:07:26,491 --> 01:07:29,755 And then there was this chameleon- like thing of Vinicius'... 940 01:07:29,827 --> 01:07:32,592 he was writing differently, 941 01:07:32,664 --> 01:07:34,428 using different words. 942 01:07:41,041 --> 01:07:45,944 He who is good doesn't betray The love who him wishes well 943 01:07:46,013 --> 01:07:48,345 He who is always saying he'll go, Won't go 944 01:07:48,415 --> 01:07:51,441 Just as he won't go He won't come, 945 01:07:51,518 --> 01:07:56,786 He who is shut inside, won't come out Will die without loving anyone 946 01:07:56,858 --> 01:08:01,796 The money of he who will not give Is the work of he who is without 947 01:08:01,864 --> 01:08:06,130 A good Capoeira doesn't fall And if one day he does fall 948 01:08:06,201 --> 01:08:07,190 He does it well 949 01:08:15,346 --> 01:08:20,477 Capoeira told me To say that he is here 950 01:08:20,551 --> 01:08:23,919 Here to fight 951 01:08:25,624 --> 01:08:30,425 Berimbau confirmed There'll be a love fight 952 01:08:30,629 --> 01:08:34,429 Sadness, camar� 953 01:08:35,635 --> 01:08:40,334 Sadness, camar� 954 01:08:42,776 --> 01:08:47,770 Berimbau, berimbau Berimbau, berimbau, berimbau 955 01:08:48,449 --> 01:08:52,854 Berimbau, berimbau Berimbau, berimbau, berimbau 956 01:09:12,743 --> 01:09:16,736 Vinicius and I talked a lot about ghosts, 957 01:09:16,814 --> 01:09:19,009 souls from beyond, that sort of thing. 958 01:09:19,084 --> 01:09:21,314 We loved talking about all that. 959 01:09:21,386 --> 01:09:23,980 And so we were talking about Bahia, 960 01:09:24,056 --> 01:09:26,855 and I knew a little about candombl�, 961 01:09:26,926 --> 01:09:29,895 so did Vinicius, but I knew more... 962 01:09:30,964 --> 01:09:34,025 I had been more exposed to it, being from the suburbs... 963 01:09:34,101 --> 01:09:37,832 Vinicius was a diplomat, I knew about candombl�. 964 01:09:37,905 --> 01:09:42,172 We talked about it together and wrote songs. 965 01:09:42,244 --> 01:09:46,908 When we finished the series of 9 songs, Vinicius cried out: 966 01:09:46,982 --> 01:09:49,883 "Damn it, Baden, these are Afro-sambas." 967 01:09:49,951 --> 01:09:55,687 My friend and my Lord, sarav� Xang� asked me to tell you 968 01:09:55,759 --> 01:10:01,492 If it's Ossanha's chant, don't go Otherwise you will regret 969 01:10:01,564 --> 01:10:07,965 Ask your orix� A good love must be painful 970 01:10:12,944 --> 01:10:18,474 You will, will, will, will love You will, will, will, will suffer 971 01:10:18,551 --> 01:10:24,014 You will, will, will, will cry You will, will, will, will live 972 01:10:24,090 --> 01:10:29,892 I am not one of those Who can easily forget 973 01:10:29,963 --> 01:10:34,401 The sadness of a love that is gone 974 01:10:34,468 --> 01:10:38,132 No, I will go there just to see 975 01:10:38,207 --> 01:10:44,607 A star rising In the morning of a new love 976 01:10:45,848 --> 01:10:51,514 You will, will, will, will love You will, will, will, will suffer 977 01:10:51,588 --> 01:10:57,221 You will, will, will, will cry You will, will, will, will live 978 01:10:57,294 --> 01:11:02,927 You will, will, will, will love You will, will, will, will suffer 979 01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:09,401 You will, will, will, will cry You will, will, will, will live 980 01:11:14,146 --> 01:11:18,049 I think Vinicius built this bridge with black music... 981 01:11:19,218 --> 01:11:23,953 which was so important in his childhood, in his musical education... 982 01:11:25,593 --> 01:11:30,122 he found the precise deep association 983 01:11:30,199 --> 01:11:33,498 in the United States, with jazz. 984 01:11:34,235 --> 01:11:38,195 So it was amazing, we only ever listened to jazz at home. 985 01:11:39,241 --> 01:11:43,201 I went more than once with Vinicius to New Orleans... 986 01:11:43,513 --> 01:11:47,381 he went to hear a specific musician who was playing... 987 01:11:47,450 --> 01:11:52,821 and he always pointed out to me that thing they used to have back then, 988 01:11:52,890 --> 01:11:57,760 segregated restrooms, places where no blacks were allowed... 989 01:11:57,829 --> 01:12:02,766 all those dreadful racial things in the United States at that time. 990 01:12:02,834 --> 01:12:08,637 Still very present in those days, the Ku Klux Klan, lynchings... 991 01:12:08,708 --> 01:12:12,543 All these things are still very much alive in my memory... 992 01:12:12,613 --> 01:12:14,137 to this day... 993 01:12:14,214 --> 01:12:19,209 because they were commented on at home... 994 01:12:19,287 --> 01:12:23,018 in very passionate terms. 995 01:12:26,127 --> 01:12:31,225 In 1955 a 14 year-old youth, Emmet Louis Till, 996 01:12:31,299 --> 01:12:34,532 whistled at a woman in a small town in Mississippi. 997 01:12:34,604 --> 01:12:37,868 She was white. The boy was black. 998 01:12:38,307 --> 01:12:39,672 He was shot dead. 999 01:12:46,316 --> 01:12:49,116 - Emmet's murderers - Poor Mamma Till! 1000 01:12:49,188 --> 01:12:51,178 - Came without warning - Poor Mamma Till! 1001 01:12:51,256 --> 01:12:54,020 - Chewing broken glass - Poor Mamma Till! 1002 01:12:54,092 --> 01:12:55,754 With their pale faces 1003 01:12:56,429 --> 01:12:59,397 - Emmet's murderers - Poor Mamma Till! 1004 01:12:59,465 --> 01:13:02,128 - Entered without a word - Poor Mamma Till! 1005 01:13:02,202 --> 01:13:04,363 - With their leather breath - Poor Mamma Till! 1006 01:13:04,438 --> 01:13:06,371 And their clenched stare 1007 01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:09,409 I hate to see That evenin' sun go down... 1008 01:13:10,378 --> 01:13:13,711 - Emmet's murderers - Poor Mamma Till! 1009 01:13:13,781 --> 01:13:16,410 - When they saw him kneeling - Poor Mamma Till! 1010 01:13:16,485 --> 01:13:18,680 - They let him have it - Poor Mamma Till! 1011 01:13:18,754 --> 01:13:20,779 The fire from their guns 1012 01:13:21,356 --> 01:13:23,951 - Holding back the orgasm - Poor Mamma Till! 1013 01:13:24,026 --> 01:13:26,586 - The woman cooks hash - Poor Mamma Till! 1014 01:13:26,662 --> 01:13:29,256 - As she waits for her husband - Poor Mamma Till! 1015 01:13:29,332 --> 01:13:31,358 Who ordered the revenge 1016 01:13:31,435 --> 01:13:34,495 I hate to see That evenin' sun go down... 1017 01:13:36,540 --> 01:13:38,406 Poor Mamma Till! 1018 01:13:39,344 --> 01:13:40,936 Poor Mamma Till! 1019 01:13:41,780 --> 01:13:43,508 Poor Mamma Till! 1020 01:13:44,315 --> 01:13:46,181 Poor Mamma Till! 1021 01:13:48,053 --> 01:13:51,181 Vinicius worked at the core of affections... 1022 01:13:53,593 --> 01:13:55,322 that was Vinicius' way... 1023 01:13:55,394 --> 01:14:01,795 he worked at these intersections between the centers... 1024 01:14:02,637 --> 01:14:09,008 the center of dialogue, where dialogue is possible... 1025 01:14:09,076 --> 01:14:12,671 where dialogue takes place between all the divergences... 1026 01:14:12,747 --> 01:14:14,944 between all the polarities. 1027 01:14:15,017 --> 01:14:18,111 That's what Vinicius was like. 1028 01:14:18,187 --> 01:14:22,420 So when he said: "I'm the most Negro white man. "... 1029 01:14:23,493 --> 01:14:27,760 it's because he really was, he felt that, he wanted it to be so, 1030 01:14:27,832 --> 01:14:32,997 he wanted the whites to be black, the blacks to be white... 1031 01:14:33,070 --> 01:14:39,471 that there be understanding between everyone. 1032 01:14:40,078 --> 01:14:46,479 He was a loving man, a man in absolute legitimate harmony. 1033 01:14:46,552 --> 01:14:51,991 He was also aesthetically brilliant. 1034 01:14:57,131 --> 01:14:59,599 If I had a choice I'd have been... 1035 01:15:00,468 --> 01:15:03,767 my great black brother Alfredo da Rocha Viana... 1036 01:15:04,740 --> 01:15:05,795 otherwise known as Pixinguinha... 1037 01:15:05,841 --> 01:15:12,242 that was truly the most lovely person I came across in the human race. 1038 01:15:14,050 --> 01:15:17,542 I take my hat off to him. 1039 01:15:17,720 --> 01:15:20,589 Vinicius had nothing but admiration for Pixinguinha... 1040 01:15:20,657 --> 01:15:25,824 a unique blend of simplicity, elegance, generosity and nobility... 1041 01:15:25,897 --> 01:15:29,333 A pioneer. One of the fathers of Brazilian music. 1042 01:15:29,701 --> 01:15:33,229 When they worked together, Pixinguinha was already a classic. 1043 01:15:36,509 --> 01:15:39,137 Vinicius was a very sensitive person... 1044 01:15:39,211 --> 01:15:43,410 so you can imagine the losses, the friends, everything. 1045 01:15:43,483 --> 01:15:45,678 I remember talking to him in Buenos Aires... 1046 01:15:45,752 --> 01:15:49,383 and he suddenly remembered Ciro Monteiro and started to cry, 1047 01:15:49,456 --> 01:15:52,016 interrupting the conversation. 1048 01:15:54,095 --> 01:15:57,189 He couldn't control himself, you know? 1049 01:15:57,265 --> 01:16:01,133 He always had so many emotions spilling out... 1050 01:16:01,202 --> 01:16:03,398 the slightest commotion caused them to overflow. 1051 01:16:03,472 --> 01:16:04,939 That was it. 1052 01:16:05,007 --> 01:16:09,502 Clearly a highly sensitive person... 1053 01:16:09,580 --> 01:16:12,981 happy of course when he was with his friends. 1054 01:16:13,050 --> 01:16:15,348 It wasn't for nothing that he liked being with friends... 1055 01:16:15,419 --> 01:16:21,820 in order to avoid permanently confronting all that emotion. 1056 01:16:23,128 --> 01:16:25,289 That's another thing which isn't just Vinicius... 1057 01:16:25,364 --> 01:16:30,530 Eliot says writing is escaping one's emotions. 1058 01:16:32,973 --> 01:16:37,137 We write to get rid of our emotions, 1059 01:16:37,210 --> 01:16:41,238 to be free of them. To get rid of all that. 1060 01:16:41,983 --> 01:16:46,044 I doubt whether Clodoaldo Pereira da Silva de Moraes and I... 1061 01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:49,180 exchanged more than 10 words during his whole life. 1062 01:16:49,658 --> 01:16:53,253 'Good morning, how are you? ' 'See you later... ' 1063 01:16:54,296 --> 01:16:56,196 Sometimes not even that much. 1064 01:16:56,499 --> 01:17:00,094 With some people words are unnecessary. 1065 01:17:00,870 --> 01:17:05,500 We understood and loved each other, my father and I. 1066 01:17:09,681 --> 01:17:15,483 Death came long distance, along long metallic spirals 1067 01:17:16,122 --> 01:17:17,816 It was late at night. 1068 01:17:18,523 --> 01:17:20,150 I heard the voice of my mother... 1069 01:17:20,660 --> 01:17:21,991 Widow... 1070 01:17:22,962 --> 01:17:24,953 Suddenly, I had no father. 1071 01:17:27,299 --> 01:17:29,632 In the darkness of my house in Los Angeles... 1072 01:17:29,703 --> 01:17:31,898 I tried to recover your memory... 1073 01:17:31,972 --> 01:17:34,406 after such absence. 1074 01:17:35,410 --> 01:17:40,848 Fragments of childhood floated on the sea of my tears. 1075 01:17:43,318 --> 01:17:46,287 I saw myself, a boy, running to meet you... 1076 01:17:48,857 --> 01:17:51,691 You gave us poverty and love. 1077 01:17:52,662 --> 01:17:55,563 To me you gave the supreme poverty: 1078 01:17:55,632 --> 01:18:01,093 The gift of poetry and the capacity to love in silence. 1079 01:18:03,874 --> 01:18:05,774 You were poor. 1080 01:18:07,678 --> 01:18:10,477 You begged for our love in silence. 1081 01:18:19,526 --> 01:18:25,122 Your death, like all deaths, was simple. Death is a simple thing. 1082 01:18:26,100 --> 01:18:30,036 It hurts... then wanes. 1083 01:18:31,605 --> 01:18:37,738 When you waned - I remember the dawn was breaking at my house... 1084 01:18:38,646 --> 01:18:41,980 I had already recovered you completely... 1085 01:18:42,051 --> 01:18:45,214 just as you now find yourself: Dressed in me. 1086 01:18:47,390 --> 01:18:50,154 I shall not bid you farewell... 1087 01:18:50,794 --> 01:18:53,354 now that you have awoken within me... 1088 01:18:53,430 --> 01:18:57,731 with never before dreamed-of precision. 1089 01:19:02,741 --> 01:19:06,199 There is a phrase in this samba, in S� Me Fez Bem, 1090 01:19:06,278 --> 01:19:10,079 which I wrote with Vinicius, this first song we wrote together... 1091 01:19:10,150 --> 01:19:12,118 which goes like this... 1092 01:19:12,952 --> 01:19:15,352 It was life 1093 01:19:15,421 --> 01:19:20,553 It was love which wanted 1094 01:19:21,427 --> 01:19:24,920 It is better to live 1095 01:19:25,367 --> 01:19:29,427 Than be happy... 1096 01:19:30,172 --> 01:19:34,735 And Tom adored that phrase: "It's better to live than be happy." 1097 01:19:34,811 --> 01:19:37,713 And he wanted to use it, I think he phoned Vinicius from the US; 1098 01:19:37,781 --> 01:19:41,717 where he was recording, he wanted to use it in a song of theirs... 1099 01:19:41,785 --> 01:19:45,585 so he was talking to a translator, I can't remember who it was, 1100 01:19:45,657 --> 01:19:49,753 maybe Gene Lees... I really can't remember, but anyway... 1101 01:19:49,827 --> 01:19:53,696 And he translated this literally. 1102 01:19:56,502 --> 01:20:00,336 And he said: "No, that's wrong." 1103 01:20:00,407 --> 01:20:02,169 "What you mean, it's wrong?" 1104 01:20:06,012 --> 01:20:09,209 And Tom thought that was so funny and made some comment... 1105 01:20:09,282 --> 01:20:14,186 about how different Vinicius' view of life is from the American one. 1106 01:20:21,897 --> 01:20:25,958 If happiness exists, I'm only happy... 1107 01:20:27,837 --> 01:20:28,826 when I burn myself... 1108 01:20:31,107 --> 01:20:33,268 and when someone burns themselves they're not happy... 1109 01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:37,939 Happiness itself is painful. 1110 01:20:40,917 --> 01:20:45,117 I can't say Vinicius was happy. 1111 01:20:45,190 --> 01:20:46,554 Certainly he lived. 1112 01:20:49,127 --> 01:20:51,426 And his life was a search for happiness... 1113 01:20:51,497 --> 01:20:55,934 and such a search presupposes that happiness is not present... 1114 01:20:56,002 --> 01:20:57,128 is elsewhere... 1115 01:20:57,871 --> 01:21:01,602 And he lived the whole time searching... 1116 01:21:03,811 --> 01:21:09,976 that restlessness which was his life, this insatiable element. 1117 01:21:10,818 --> 01:21:13,720 I remember Vinicius in one of the worst phases in his life... 1118 01:21:13,788 --> 01:21:16,052 sitting and saying: "My friend, I can't stand it anymore, 1119 01:21:16,124 --> 01:21:18,787 I feel like leaving my body. I'm not..." 1120 01:21:18,861 --> 01:21:20,294 That's when he and Lucinha separated... 1121 01:21:20,362 --> 01:21:23,263 because lack of love was such a painful thing for him. 1122 01:21:23,333 --> 01:21:26,302 And he was separating from Lucinha, and he said: "I want to leave my body, 1123 01:21:26,369 --> 01:21:28,929 I no longer want to live. "And I said: "Of course you do, Vinicius." 1124 01:21:29,005 --> 01:21:30,802 He wrote that song with Baden: 1125 01:21:31,875 --> 01:21:35,437 Good morning, friend 1126 01:21:35,513 --> 01:21:38,573 May peace be with you 1127 01:21:38,649 --> 01:21:45,050 I only came to say That I love you so much I shall die 1128 01:21:46,391 --> 01:21:50,954 So after that he got a new breath of life when he met Nelita. 1129 01:21:51,597 --> 01:21:54,032 Nelita had a fianc� who was a poet. 1130 01:21:54,101 --> 01:21:57,593 She was about to marry this poet fianc�... 1131 01:21:57,871 --> 01:22:03,742 Vinicius laid eyes on Nelita and immediately got ideas. 1132 01:22:03,812 --> 01:22:06,780 So he spent time with the couple 1133 01:22:06,848 --> 01:22:12,219 until he got involved with that 18 year-old girl... 1134 01:22:12,288 --> 01:22:15,816 and he was nearly 60... late 50's... 1135 01:22:16,926 --> 01:22:18,018 I can't remember. 1136 01:22:18,594 --> 01:22:22,121 He got involved with the girl, she dumped the fianc�... 1137 01:22:22,198 --> 01:22:24,566 and went on a trip with him. 1138 01:22:24,634 --> 01:22:28,765 Much to her parents' consternation, as you can imagine. 1139 01:22:28,839 --> 01:22:31,775 Later I knew them well, and they loved Vinicius. 1140 01:22:32,176 --> 01:22:36,738 It was a web he spread out to conquer people. 1141 01:22:37,049 --> 01:22:42,316 The couple spent a year in Paris. It was his last post abroad. 1142 01:22:42,588 --> 01:22:47,288 In '64, just after the military coup he was called back to Rio. 1143 01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:51,695 He wrote a lot of songs. He started drinking more. 1144 01:22:51,766 --> 01:22:55,293 He was always surrounded by people much younger than himself. 1145 01:22:55,369 --> 01:22:58,133 The marriage with Nelita lasted 6 years. 1146 01:22:58,205 --> 01:23:01,403 Soon after, he had a daughter with Cristina Gurj�o... 1147 01:23:01,643 --> 01:23:05,238 a short marriage which lasted less than a year. 1148 01:23:05,313 --> 01:23:09,751 In fact the first time I remember seeing my father... 1149 01:23:10,753 --> 01:23:13,222 I was already a girl... 1150 01:23:13,290 --> 01:23:15,758 because when I was born my parents had already separated. 1151 01:23:16,427 --> 01:23:21,058 And I remember him coming over... I was very distant... 1152 01:23:21,132 --> 01:23:23,965 found it all very strange. 1153 01:23:24,034 --> 01:23:27,026 But within 24 hours he had already conquered me. 1154 01:23:27,105 --> 01:23:28,835 Incredible, he sure was a skilled seducer. 1155 01:23:28,907 --> 01:23:31,570 I think this thing I've had going with women so lovely... 1156 01:23:31,643 --> 01:23:33,839 nothing negative. 1157 01:23:34,614 --> 01:23:39,516 They get so angry with me after the separation. 1158 01:23:39,952 --> 01:23:44,049 I split up because I stop liking them, damn it. 1159 01:23:44,124 --> 01:23:46,787 To me a woman isn't a sexual object... 1160 01:23:46,860 --> 01:23:50,764 I love them to death, I give everything... 1161 01:23:51,666 --> 01:23:55,068 but what else am I supposed to do? It passes. 1162 01:23:55,136 --> 01:23:56,934 So then you have to find another woman. 1163 01:23:57,673 --> 01:24:00,767 There was something rather mocking about him... 1164 01:24:02,478 --> 01:24:04,174 which caused... 1165 01:24:05,482 --> 01:24:06,847 many problems... 1166 01:24:08,084 --> 01:24:09,813 People thought he was debauched. 1167 01:24:10,821 --> 01:24:13,255 And he probably was a little, but it wasn't as bad as all that. 1168 01:24:13,324 --> 01:24:17,283 If I had If I had many vices 1169 01:24:17,361 --> 01:24:20,263 My name My name would be Vinicius 1170 01:24:21,199 --> 01:24:24,931 And if these vices were very immoral 1171 01:24:25,204 --> 01:24:28,605 I'd be Vinicius de Moraes 1172 01:24:28,875 --> 01:24:32,004 That's so funny, when he entered Antonio's... 1173 01:24:32,079 --> 01:24:34,604 he never liked this story... 1174 01:24:35,215 --> 01:24:36,739 But whenever he came into Antonio's... 1175 01:24:36,817 --> 01:24:40,584 we'd sing in chorus, to torment him. 1176 01:24:41,188 --> 01:24:44,886 But there is so much to be said about this poet. 1177 01:24:45,792 --> 01:24:50,321 My patria is nothing if not intimate sweetness and a desire to weep... 1178 01:24:51,133 --> 01:24:53,762 a sleeping child... that's my patria. 1179 01:24:53,837 --> 01:24:57,204 And so, in exile, watching my child sleep... 1180 01:24:57,274 --> 01:24:59,798 I weep out of longing for my patria... 1181 01:25:00,209 --> 01:25:04,442 If you ask what my patria is, I'd say: I don't know. 1182 01:25:05,149 --> 01:25:09,018 Truly, I don't know the how, why and when of my patria... 1183 01:25:09,820 --> 01:25:14,519 But I do know my patria is light, salt and water... 1184 01:25:14,592 --> 01:25:17,460 which enrich and liquefy my bitterness... 1185 01:25:17,529 --> 01:25:19,555 in long bitter tears... 1186 01:25:20,499 --> 01:25:23,436 the desire to kiss the eyes of my patria... 1187 01:25:24,270 --> 01:25:28,366 to cuddle, caress its hair... 1188 01:25:28,441 --> 01:25:32,276 the desire to change the ugly colors 1189 01:25:32,346 --> 01:25:34,814 Of my patria's dress... 1190 01:25:34,882 --> 01:25:36,874 my barefoot patria... 1191 01:25:36,952 --> 01:25:41,048 without socks patria of mine... so poor. 1192 01:25:41,523 --> 01:25:43,992 Source of honey, sad animal, patria of mine... 1193 01:25:44,060 --> 01:25:46,528 loved, idolized, hail, hail! 1194 01:25:46,596 --> 01:25:48,791 What sweet, chained hope... 1195 01:25:48,864 --> 01:25:52,528 not being able to tell you: Wait... I won't be late. 1196 01:25:52,603 --> 01:25:58,167 I want to see you again, my patria seeing you again I forget all... 1197 01:25:58,243 --> 01:26:01,679 I was blind, crippled, deaf, dumb... 1198 01:26:02,547 --> 01:26:05,711 I saw my humble death face to face... 1199 01:26:05,883 --> 01:26:08,682 I tore up poems, women, horizons... 1200 01:26:09,387 --> 01:26:12,516 I became simple, without sources... 1201 01:26:12,792 --> 01:26:13,952 Patria of mine... 1202 01:26:14,427 --> 01:26:18,920 my patria is not flowerlike nor ostentatious... 1203 01:26:18,999 --> 01:26:21,468 my patria is the desolation of paths... 1204 01:26:21,535 --> 01:26:24,436 my patria of parched earth and white beach; 1205 01:26:24,504 --> 01:26:27,406 my patria is the great secular river... 1206 01:26:27,476 --> 01:26:30,569 which drinks clouds, eats earth and urinates the sea... 1207 01:26:31,313 --> 01:26:34,771 more than the most gaudy my patria has a warmth... 1208 01:26:34,850 --> 01:26:37,250 a wanting good, goodness... 1209 01:26:37,319 --> 01:26:39,287 a libertas quae sera tamen... 1210 01:26:39,354 --> 01:26:41,482 which one day in an exam I translated as: 1211 01:26:41,558 --> 01:26:44,788 "Make free, for you too shall be free" and I repeat! 1212 01:26:45,995 --> 01:26:48,556 Vinicius' Brazil was completely different 1213 01:26:48,632 --> 01:26:52,159 to Brazil of the dictatorship, which was grand, arrogant. 1214 01:26:52,236 --> 01:26:55,638 They were two separate countries. 1215 01:26:55,707 --> 01:27:01,009 With the Al-5 law in late 1968, the military became more radical 1216 01:27:01,079 --> 01:27:05,449 and in '69 he was thrown out of the diplomatic service. 1217 01:27:05,885 --> 01:27:09,116 With time, he slackened more and more... 1218 01:27:09,188 --> 01:27:12,716 rejecting social conventions and impositions. 1219 01:27:13,960 --> 01:27:17,054 God knows that out of cats and pigeons... 1220 01:27:18,633 --> 01:27:21,329 I by far prefer the former species. 1221 01:27:22,403 --> 01:27:25,396 I find pigeons terribly bourgeois, 1222 01:27:25,474 --> 01:27:28,568 with their happy, content air... 1223 01:27:29,244 --> 01:27:33,442 not to mention the lowness of certain characteristics of their condition... 1224 01:27:33,516 --> 01:27:35,848 probably including the fact... 1225 01:27:37,386 --> 01:27:39,787 that they may devour each other when caged. 1226 01:27:41,391 --> 01:27:46,763 It must have been highly inconvenient in a dictatorship like that... 1227 01:27:48,699 --> 01:27:51,134 with such a high degree of hypocrisy... 1228 01:27:52,336 --> 01:27:55,739 having Vinicius as a diplomat... 1229 01:27:59,011 --> 01:28:00,171 it simply wasn't on. 1230 01:28:00,246 --> 01:28:04,308 At the same time, Vinicius was the sort of guy... 1231 01:28:04,384 --> 01:28:06,545 Vinicius' story isn't exactly one... 1232 01:28:06,620 --> 01:28:10,522 of which the military would have approved... 1233 01:28:12,459 --> 01:28:15,520 he had strong links with the left... 1234 01:28:15,597 --> 01:28:21,365 with people who didn't approve of that sort of regime... 1235 01:28:21,436 --> 01:28:24,531 samba people, partygoers, bohemians, 1236 01:28:24,607 --> 01:28:26,199 in other words, completely the opposite. 1237 01:28:26,275 --> 01:28:31,543 As a poet and musician... 1238 01:28:33,583 --> 01:28:39,921 he did more for the country 1239 01:28:39,991 --> 01:28:45,953 than had he followed his diplomatic career. 1240 01:28:46,031 --> 01:28:49,523 But I don't recall him complaining about that... 1241 01:28:50,002 --> 01:28:55,736 he may have been tired... 1242 01:28:55,808 --> 01:29:00,440 of fighting all that narrow mindedness, all that nonsense. 1243 01:29:00,513 --> 01:29:02,448 But it wasn't something he would comment on, 1244 01:29:02,516 --> 01:29:04,108 not that I recall... 1245 01:29:04,185 --> 01:29:06,416 but I'm sure he was very disappointed. 1246 01:29:06,488 --> 01:29:08,388 That really made him mad. 1247 01:29:08,457 --> 01:29:11,153 I think the amnesty irritated him even more... 1248 01:29:11,225 --> 01:29:13,422 than being blacklisted, to be honest. 1249 01:29:13,495 --> 01:29:17,090 Once I arrived at his house in Bahia, 1250 01:29:17,166 --> 01:29:18,723 which is still there... 1251 01:29:18,801 --> 01:29:21,770 I went to inaugurate a square called "Vinicius de Moraes" not long ago. 1252 01:29:21,838 --> 01:29:24,272 And he came up and said: Toquinho, come here... 1253 01:29:24,340 --> 01:29:26,969 I want to show you something." He went over to a window... 1254 01:29:27,044 --> 01:29:32,107 overlooking the yard, where there was a turkey, a peacock, a cat and a dog. 1255 01:29:32,183 --> 01:29:33,741 And he said: 1256 01:29:33,818 --> 01:29:36,412 "Just look at those animals living alongside each other in harmony, 1257 01:29:36,488 --> 01:29:38,149 they really get along. 1258 01:29:38,223 --> 01:29:40,282 A turkey, a peacock, a cat and a dog. 1259 01:29:40,358 --> 01:29:42,259 And do you know something? 1260 01:29:42,328 --> 01:29:44,319 I'm learning more from these animals... 1261 01:29:44,396 --> 01:29:46,990 than in all my years in the foreign service." 1262 01:29:47,066 --> 01:29:50,332 He was older at the age of 24... 1263 01:29:50,403 --> 01:29:55,341 he behaved older... the foreign office... 1264 01:29:57,345 --> 01:30:02,044 I don't know, all those rigorous things... 1265 01:30:02,116 --> 01:30:07,817 in his life, which he then abandoned and started getting younger. 1266 01:30:08,557 --> 01:30:14,086 Some days I spend thinking about life And, honestly, I see no way out 1267 01:30:14,162 --> 01:30:17,099 For instance You can't understand it 1268 01:30:17,167 --> 01:30:20,261 The minute you're born You start to die 1269 01:30:20,337 --> 01:30:23,238 After an arrival There is always a departure 1270 01:30:23,307 --> 01:30:26,175 Because nothing exists Without separation 1271 01:30:27,244 --> 01:30:29,406 I don't know 1272 01:30:29,480 --> 01:30:32,416 Life is one big illusion 1273 01:30:32,484 --> 01:30:35,385 I don't know 1274 01:30:35,453 --> 01:30:37,979 I only know it's right 1275 01:30:41,061 --> 01:30:44,086 We don't even know What confusion we cause 1276 01:30:44,164 --> 01:30:46,997 Making believe, pretending to forget 1277 01:30:47,067 --> 01:30:49,763 That nothing is reborn Before it is ended 1278 01:30:49,837 --> 01:30:52,898 The sun which appears must then set 1279 01:30:52,974 --> 01:30:55,738 It is no use staying If, from the outside 1280 01:30:55,810 --> 01:30:58,938 The time of yes Is the carelessness of no 1281 01:30:59,949 --> 01:31:02,008 I don't know 1282 01:31:02,084 --> 01:31:04,985 All I know is we need passion 1283 01:31:05,187 --> 01:31:08,021 I don't know 1284 01:31:08,158 --> 01:31:10,991 Life is always right 1285 01:31:12,562 --> 01:31:14,612 The critics had already hung up their boots regarding Vinicius... 1286 01:31:14,665 --> 01:31:16,360 when we started working with him. 1287 01:31:16,434 --> 01:31:20,097 "Who's this kid from S�o Paulo come to get on Vinicius' nerves?" 1288 01:31:20,171 --> 01:31:24,268 That was rather the subtext of how the critics felt. 1289 01:31:24,610 --> 01:31:26,942 And I showed him an adagio 1290 01:31:27,012 --> 01:31:29,538 Chico and I always played as a samba, 1291 01:31:29,616 --> 01:31:33,575 Albinoni's Adagio. And he set it to words which went: 1292 01:31:33,652 --> 01:31:37,556 "Friends, you really have to live, to give yourselves up..." 1293 01:31:37,625 --> 01:31:40,889 and: "if you don't, you've had it" It begins: 1294 01:31:41,428 --> 01:31:45,729 Whoever passed through this life And didn't live 1295 01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:50,397 May be more But knows less than I do 1296 01:31:50,606 --> 01:31:54,871 Because life only gives To those who gave themselves 1297 01:31:54,943 --> 01:31:59,779 To those who loved, to those who cried To those who suffered. 1298 01:32:01,018 --> 01:32:05,183 Those who never enjoyed passion 1299 01:32:05,255 --> 01:32:09,157 Will never have anything 1300 01:32:09,960 --> 01:32:13,124 There is no evil worse Than lack of faith 1301 01:32:13,197 --> 01:32:17,190 Even love which leads nowhere Is better than solitude 1302 01:32:17,268 --> 01:32:18,292 That phrase is wonderful: 1303 01:32:18,704 --> 01:32:20,638 "Even love which leads nowhere is better than solitude" 1304 01:32:20,706 --> 01:32:23,470 That really sums up what he wanted. 1305 01:32:23,542 --> 01:32:28,708 I remember the pressure people like Jo�o Cabral de Melo Neto... 1306 01:32:28,782 --> 01:32:32,809 and other intellectuals and poets put on him... 1307 01:32:32,886 --> 01:32:39,287 questioning Vinicius, suggesting he was wasting his time... 1308 01:32:39,894 --> 01:32:42,523 whether he perhaps shouldn't try to return... 1309 01:32:43,899 --> 01:32:48,599 shouldn't try to return to the canonic poetry of books. 1310 01:32:48,671 --> 01:32:52,903 Jo�o Cabral complained a lot about that. 1311 01:32:52,975 --> 01:32:56,309 Vinicius once told me, at his house... 1312 01:32:57,381 --> 01:32:58,847 on Faro Street... 1313 01:33:00,383 --> 01:33:01,975 in Jardim Bot�nico... 1314 01:33:02,052 --> 01:33:03,714 he said to me: 1315 01:33:06,624 --> 01:33:10,652 "Cabral likes me very much... 1316 01:33:11,329 --> 01:33:13,059 and once told me... 1317 01:33:13,132 --> 01:33:18,400 that if Brazil had a poet... 1318 01:33:18,472 --> 01:33:22,340 with my talent and his discipline 1319 01:33:22,409 --> 01:33:26,710 Brazil would have a great poet." "... finally, a great poet!" 1320 01:33:28,381 --> 01:33:30,679 And then he said: "He keeps wanting me to... 1321 01:33:30,751 --> 01:33:34,415 But he's always got this dreadful headache... 1322 01:33:38,393 --> 01:33:41,760 I'd give anything to avoid a headache like that... 1323 01:33:42,799 --> 01:33:47,793 give me a little song, pretty women... 1324 01:33:49,672 --> 01:33:52,403 Little song, pretty women... 1325 01:33:52,743 --> 01:33:56,235 that's my poetry... 1326 01:33:56,680 --> 01:33:57,647 Got it? 1327 01:33:57,715 --> 01:33:59,444 I don't want all the rest." 1328 01:34:00,152 --> 01:34:05,317 There was a period when he was being massacred by certain critics... 1329 01:34:07,827 --> 01:34:09,818 always the same thing... 1330 01:34:09,896 --> 01:34:13,093 about being a minor poet... 1331 01:34:13,166 --> 01:34:16,659 the poet he might have been. 1332 01:34:16,737 --> 01:34:18,397 He was really hurt by that. 1333 01:34:18,472 --> 01:34:22,806 Changing isn't easy for anyone... 1334 01:34:22,877 --> 01:34:26,313 however talented or compelled... 1335 01:34:26,381 --> 01:34:29,179 it always implies solitude, rejection, 1336 01:34:29,251 --> 01:34:30,878 lack of respect... 1337 01:34:32,387 --> 01:34:38,350 it implies inner insecurity as an artist... inner doubts. 1338 01:34:38,427 --> 01:34:41,191 Vinicius knew a lot of poetry... 1339 01:34:41,864 --> 01:34:45,267 he was very erudite on the one hand. 1340 01:34:45,468 --> 01:34:47,164 And that was of great value to him, 1341 01:34:47,237 --> 01:34:49,968 it was a thing he won, that he fought for. 1342 01:34:50,041 --> 01:34:51,008 We rise! 1343 01:34:52,144 --> 01:34:54,338 We rise above... 1344 01:34:55,180 --> 01:34:56,772 we rise beyond... 1345 01:34:58,017 --> 01:35:01,077 we rise above the beyond, we rise! 1346 01:35:01,321 --> 01:35:04,290 With physical possession of our arms... 1347 01:35:04,358 --> 01:35:09,488 we inescapably ascend the great sea of stars... 1348 01:35:09,562 --> 01:35:11,656 through millennia of light, we rise! 1349 01:35:12,199 --> 01:35:13,996 Like two athletes... 1350 01:35:14,068 --> 01:35:19,006 petrified faces with the pale smile of effort... 1351 01:35:19,441 --> 01:35:20,874 we rise above... 1352 01:35:21,476 --> 01:35:24,206 with physical possession of our arms... 1353 01:35:24,279 --> 01:35:26,646 and the colossal muscles... 1354 01:35:26,916 --> 01:35:29,714 in the calm, the convulsive ascent... 1355 01:35:30,887 --> 01:35:32,286 oh, above... 1356 01:35:32,688 --> 01:35:34,623 further than everything... 1357 01:35:34,691 --> 01:35:38,320 beyond, further than above the beyond! 1358 01:35:38,395 --> 01:35:41,456 Like two acrobats we rise, ever so gradually... 1359 01:35:41,832 --> 01:35:45,667 there, where the infinite is so infinite... 1360 01:35:45,736 --> 01:35:48,365 it no longer has a name, we rise! 1361 01:35:48,873 --> 01:35:51,741 You and I, hermetic... 1362 01:35:52,211 --> 01:35:54,179 firm buttocks... 1363 01:35:55,048 --> 01:35:59,177 knotty carotid, the fiber of the neck... 1364 01:35:59,552 --> 01:36:03,922 the sharp pointed feet as in a spasm... 1365 01:36:04,558 --> 01:36:07,958 and when, there... 1366 01:36:08,895 --> 01:36:12,890 beyond, further than above the beyond... 1367 01:36:13,434 --> 01:36:15,595 in a last impulse... 1368 01:36:16,571 --> 01:36:18,767 freed from the spirit... 1369 01:36:19,908 --> 01:36:23,173 the flesh plundered... 1370 01:36:24,914 --> 01:36:27,212 we shall possess each other... 1371 01:36:28,685 --> 01:36:30,312 and die... 1372 01:36:31,922 --> 01:36:36,188 die high up, immensely... 1373 01:36:38,330 --> 01:36:40,662 immensely high. 1374 01:36:42,434 --> 01:36:47,873 It's the people, the readers who carry literary work in their lap. 1375 01:36:48,274 --> 01:36:51,141 It's no use, friends die, critic friends, 1376 01:36:51,210 --> 01:36:53,907 journalists, contemporaries, buddies, 1377 01:36:53,981 --> 01:36:55,881 everyone dies, and the work stays. 1378 01:36:55,949 --> 01:36:59,283 Art is the affirmation of life, 1379 01:36:59,354 --> 01:37:01,720 though this weighs heavily on the morbid. 1380 01:37:02,290 --> 01:37:04,314 Affirmation of life, in this sense... 1381 01:37:04,392 --> 01:37:08,351 is that life is the sum of all its greatness and rottenness... 1382 01:37:08,963 --> 01:37:13,800 a deep silo where food mixes with excrement... 1383 01:37:13,870 --> 01:37:19,364 and from which the artist extracts his daily ration of energy, 1384 01:37:19,442 --> 01:37:22,741 dreams and perplexities... 1385 01:37:23,813 --> 01:37:25,611 his unconscious vitality. 1386 01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:31,721 Art does not love cowards. 1387 01:37:42,335 --> 01:37:47,272 Beauty, don't be like that 1388 01:37:47,340 --> 01:37:51,937 Caresses are not bad 1389 01:37:52,012 --> 01:37:56,973 Women who deny, don't know 1390 01:37:58,319 --> 01:38:02,380 Have something missing in their heart 1391 01:38:03,425 --> 01:38:08,625 Beauty, don't be like that 1392 01:38:08,898 --> 01:38:13,598 Caresses are not bad 1393 01:38:13,670 --> 01:38:18,734 Women who deny, don't know 1394 01:38:19,744 --> 01:38:23,942 Have something missing in their heart 1395 01:38:24,015 --> 01:38:29,079 We are born, we grow, We want to love... 1396 01:38:29,821 --> 01:38:33,850 Women who deny, Deny that which is undeniable 1397 01:38:34,726 --> 01:38:40,222 We take, we yield, we want to die 1398 01:38:40,467 --> 01:38:43,994 No one has anything good without suffering 1399 01:38:44,070 --> 01:38:49,031 Beautiful woman 1400 01:38:55,484 --> 01:39:00,115 Gesse was an actress from Bahia, she did films, theater... 1401 01:39:00,188 --> 01:39:01,280 and she was my friend, 1402 01:39:01,356 --> 01:39:06,192 I lived on Nascimento Silva and in the evenings I always went to Pizzaiolo. 1403 01:39:07,364 --> 01:39:11,266 We walked down there one night, it was nearby... 1404 01:39:11,335 --> 01:39:14,463 and there was just one person... 1405 01:39:14,538 --> 01:39:18,373 Vinicius de Moraes, sitting alone... 1406 01:39:18,443 --> 01:39:19,967 quietly and looking so sad. 1407 01:39:20,044 --> 01:39:23,412 Because when Vinicius was happy, the world was happy... 1408 01:39:23,482 --> 01:39:25,541 when he was sad the world was sad, 1409 01:39:25,618 --> 01:39:27,984 it was very strong, very clear. 1410 01:39:30,055 --> 01:39:33,514 So I went over to give him a kiss and introduce Gesse, 1411 01:39:33,593 --> 01:39:35,652 "A friend of mine from Bahia". 1412 01:39:36,863 --> 01:39:39,765 Right away, Vinicius looked up like this... 1413 01:39:39,834 --> 01:39:42,997 and he called me over and said: 1414 01:39:43,070 --> 01:39:45,733 "Bethaninha, I'm going to marry her, I'm in love... 1415 01:39:45,807 --> 01:39:48,935 I want to go to Buenos Aires right now, ask her whether she'll come." 1416 01:39:49,011 --> 01:39:50,979 So I said: "Ask her yourself," not knowing what was going on. 1417 01:39:51,046 --> 01:39:53,811 He said: "I want a ring, tomorrow." 1418 01:39:53,883 --> 01:39:57,182 I said: "My God, have you gone mad?" I didn't understand. 1419 01:39:57,252 --> 01:40:00,017 And Gesse was Bahiana through and through. 1420 01:40:02,492 --> 01:40:06,089 So I went back to my place, Gesse didn't come with me, 1421 01:40:06,164 --> 01:40:10,260 she went off with him, they traveled and the next time they were married. 1422 01:40:12,237 --> 01:40:17,106 The wedding was a strange ceremony, half theater, half candombl�. 1423 01:40:17,475 --> 01:40:20,934 Because as well as an actress, Gesse was a spiritual leader. 1424 01:40:22,515 --> 01:40:26,646 Bahia fascinated Vinicius. He was a materialist atheist 1425 01:40:26,719 --> 01:40:30,383 and decided to believe in the sensual mystery of the Orix�s, 1426 01:40:30,791 --> 01:40:34,625 suddenly became a hippie, moved to Itapo�, bought a jeep 1427 01:40:34,695 --> 01:40:36,721 and left all formalities behind him. 1428 01:40:38,533 --> 01:40:40,364 In Brazil in the 70's, 1429 01:40:40,435 --> 01:40:42,961 many young people broke with traditional behavior... 1430 01:40:43,038 --> 01:40:45,529 and sought spaces and territories for pure freedom. 1431 01:40:46,275 --> 01:40:49,871 Vinicius really got with it, lived without time or rules. 1432 01:40:50,513 --> 01:40:53,277 Spend an afternoon in Itapo� 1433 01:40:53,350 --> 01:40:55,875 Under the burning sun in Itapo� 1434 01:40:55,952 --> 01:40:59,013 Listening to the sea in Itapo� 1435 01:40:59,090 --> 01:41:05,030 Talking of love in Itapo� 1436 01:41:09,233 --> 01:41:12,261 I've a story about Vinicius which, to me is one of the strongest. 1437 01:41:13,473 --> 01:41:17,374 It was Vinicius who introduced me to M�e Menininha do Gantois. 1438 01:41:18,211 --> 01:41:23,650 I was very impressed, because one didn't smoke in a candombl� house. 1439 01:41:23,717 --> 01:41:28,211 People sat on the floor, and whenever we entered... 1440 01:41:28,290 --> 01:41:29,951 from the first time he took me... 1441 01:41:30,191 --> 01:41:33,252 she told me to sit on the floor. 1442 01:41:33,328 --> 01:41:35,796 His wife, Gesse, on the floor: 1443 01:41:35,864 --> 01:41:38,095 "Bring him a chair to sit on." 1444 01:41:38,167 --> 01:41:41,228 I thought: Why, because he's a man? 1445 01:41:41,304 --> 01:41:43,204 Because he's Vinicius, because he's an artist? 1446 01:41:43,272 --> 01:41:46,366 I didn't understand and asked why. 1447 01:41:47,878 --> 01:41:51,006 She said: "There is so much cannot be explained." 1448 01:41:51,081 --> 01:41:53,549 This element of candombl�, 1449 01:41:53,617 --> 01:41:57,611 in other words, it was out of respect to the Orix� he carried 1450 01:41:57,689 --> 01:42:00,749 and could have a seat. 1451 01:42:01,627 --> 01:42:03,857 That's so lovely, isn't it? Cool. 1452 01:42:03,929 --> 01:42:06,022 You will, will, will, will love 1453 01:42:06,098 --> 01:42:08,590 You will, will, will, will suffer 1454 01:42:08,668 --> 01:42:10,533 You will, will, will... 1455 01:42:10,603 --> 01:42:12,867 Vinicius was nearly 60 1456 01:42:12,939 --> 01:42:16,341 when he started the marathon of concerts with Toquinho all over Brazil. 1457 01:42:16,977 --> 01:42:19,241 In 10 years they gave over 1000 concerts. 1458 01:42:19,947 --> 01:42:22,108 Vinicius was very at ease at concerts... 1459 01:42:22,183 --> 01:42:24,675 it was different... 1460 01:42:24,753 --> 01:42:27,881 because he really felt as if he were at home, 1461 01:42:27,956 --> 01:42:31,324 he didn't care, had his glass of whisky, chatted away... 1462 01:42:31,394 --> 01:42:34,488 In fact, he didn't even talk to the audience, 1463 01:42:34,564 --> 01:42:37,295 he talked to whoever was there. He liked having friends on stage 1464 01:42:37,368 --> 01:42:39,097 to chat to. 1465 01:42:39,369 --> 01:42:43,807 In Portugal once he finished a concert, it was in Coimbra... 1466 01:42:43,873 --> 01:42:48,277 there were students, during the Salazar years. 1467 01:42:49,346 --> 01:42:53,875 So everyone loved Vinicius, simply adored him. 1468 01:42:53,953 --> 01:42:56,285 He didn't just tell stories, he didn't only sing but... 1469 01:42:56,354 --> 01:42:58,414 recited poems too. 1470 01:42:58,490 --> 01:43:01,324 And all those young people... 1471 01:43:04,363 --> 01:43:06,924 living in that dictatorship, they saw in Vinicius... 1472 01:43:08,435 --> 01:43:12,496 And at the end of the concert, which was a big success. He was so happy... 1473 01:43:12,572 --> 01:43:15,508 "I'd like to thank the Portuguese youth." 1474 01:43:15,576 --> 01:43:20,605 And then I noticed a certain uneasiness among the audience, 1475 01:43:20,682 --> 01:43:22,377 "Portuguese youth." 1476 01:43:22,985 --> 01:43:26,284 And before long, the unease became jeering, 1477 01:43:27,724 --> 01:43:32,423 with him all happy because he thought that too was applause, 1478 01:43:32,495 --> 01:43:34,589 some sort of Portuguese applause. 1479 01:43:35,499 --> 01:43:38,195 In the end, everyone was booing. 1480 01:43:38,269 --> 01:43:42,138 The curtain fell... "what's going on?" 1481 01:43:43,041 --> 01:43:45,669 "Vinicius mustn't mention the 'Portuguese youth"', 1482 01:43:45,744 --> 01:43:49,237 that's a sort of Fascist youth organization... 1483 01:43:49,315 --> 01:43:55,413 followers of Salazar with that name, Portuguese Youth... 1484 01:43:55,488 --> 01:43:57,821 and Vinicius didn't know and I never told him. 1485 01:43:58,859 --> 01:44:01,919 The tours of South American and Europe began. 1486 01:44:02,429 --> 01:44:04,796 Vinicius' success was tremendous... 1487 01:44:05,400 --> 01:44:08,836 he became a popular star in several countries... 1488 01:44:08,903 --> 01:44:12,431 a cycle of concerts, hotels, airports... 1489 01:44:12,508 --> 01:44:15,032 the life of a pop star. 1490 01:44:16,111 --> 01:44:19,172 I remember watching his concerts in Italy, 1491 01:44:19,249 --> 01:44:23,150 and he'd speak, because he spoke several languages... 1492 01:44:23,220 --> 01:44:27,714 but not that well; he mix in a little of all the languages. 1493 01:44:30,393 --> 01:44:34,126 I'm like that too, I learn one language and forget another. 1494 01:44:34,198 --> 01:44:37,031 I remember him doing a concert in Italy which was really funny, 1495 01:44:37,102 --> 01:44:39,536 everyone laughed, he too, telling jokes, people laughing. 1496 01:44:39,605 --> 01:44:41,835 There was a guy next to me who turned and said: 1497 01:44:41,907 --> 01:44:45,070 "Wonderful, but what language is he speaking?" 1498 01:44:45,143 --> 01:44:48,079 People couldn't understand, but they understood different things. 1499 01:44:48,147 --> 01:44:51,639 I remember him finishing the concert, with his whisky... 1500 01:44:51,718 --> 01:44:54,711 and thanking them, raising his glass... 1501 01:44:54,788 --> 01:44:57,154 "Questa � una cena meravigliosa" 1502 01:44:57,224 --> 01:44:59,852 Except "cena", you'd think "cena" meant "scene"... 1503 01:44:59,927 --> 01:45:02,055 but "cena" means feast. 1504 01:45:02,130 --> 01:45:05,099 And people thought he was saying whisky was a feast! 1505 01:45:05,166 --> 01:45:10,332 "Wonderful, but what language is he speaking?"! 1506 01:45:13,576 --> 01:45:18,105 107 Nascimento Silva Street 1507 01:45:18,181 --> 01:45:21,912 You teaching Elizeth 1508 01:45:21,985 --> 01:45:25,478 the songs of "Can��o do amor demais" 1509 01:45:25,557 --> 01:45:28,685 Vinicius was tired, in bad health... 1510 01:45:28,760 --> 01:45:30,854 but he didn't stop working. 1511 01:45:30,930 --> 01:45:35,629 He did a concert at Canec�o, in Rio, with Tom Jobim, Mi�cha and Toquinho. 1512 01:45:35,701 --> 01:45:40,900 They had 7 months of success and went on to play in Europe. 1513 01:45:41,875 --> 01:45:45,936 For over a year, until late 1978... 1514 01:45:46,012 --> 01:45:48,811 the four played together. 1515 01:45:48,883 --> 01:45:51,444 Vinicius looked old, worn out... 1516 01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:55,478 he'd go from Canec�o to a clinic in order to recover his strength 1517 01:45:55,556 --> 01:45:58,048 and carry on singing the next day. 1518 01:45:58,527 --> 01:46:01,394 The same year Vinicius broke off his marriage to Gesse... 1519 01:46:01,463 --> 01:46:06,424 to have an affair with a 23 year-old Argentinean called Marta Santamar�a. 1520 01:46:06,903 --> 01:46:10,168 Vinicius would never give up. 1521 01:46:10,573 --> 01:46:15,238 He was 64 when he married Gilda Matoso. 1522 01:46:15,746 --> 01:46:18,306 She was his last passion. 1523 01:46:19,918 --> 01:46:26,318 In the abysms of the infinite A star appeared 1524 01:46:28,027 --> 01:46:31,827 And a cry was heard from Earth 1525 01:46:32,598 --> 01:46:36,558 Gilda, Gilda... 1526 01:46:37,270 --> 01:46:41,331 One time... it's strange, it's as if I noticed... 1527 01:46:41,408 --> 01:46:46,972 Vinicius was getting old just because of one tiny phrase. 1528 01:46:47,615 --> 01:46:50,483 We were some place and someone said: "Let's go to Canec�o"... 1529 01:46:50,552 --> 01:46:52,315 there was some concert on there. 1530 01:46:52,388 --> 01:46:54,583 He said: "Oh, but Baretta is on tonight,"... 1531 01:46:54,656 --> 01:46:56,625 he wanted to go home to watch TV. 1532 01:46:56,693 --> 01:47:03,094 For Vinicius to turn that down... we were at the bar, in Antonio's, 1533 01:47:03,566 --> 01:47:06,058 "the concert is starting, let's go to Canec�o"... 1534 01:47:06,137 --> 01:47:09,970 and he preferred to go home, was too tired. 1535 01:47:10,041 --> 01:47:13,568 But I wasn't seeing so much of him because he was living in Salvador. 1536 01:47:13,644 --> 01:47:18,947 Like one day in Bahia I remember he went out alone... 1537 01:47:19,017 --> 01:47:22,145 and came back, I was alone too, playing guitar... 1538 01:47:22,220 --> 01:47:25,190 and he sat down, looking so sad... 1539 01:47:25,258 --> 01:47:28,921 and I said nothing, just looked at him. 1540 01:47:29,996 --> 01:47:31,588 I looked at him... 1541 01:47:31,665 --> 01:47:33,633 And then he said... 1542 01:47:38,772 --> 01:47:40,900 He said: 1543 01:47:41,576 --> 01:47:44,067 "You're feeling sorry for your partner, aren't you?" 1544 01:47:52,021 --> 01:47:57,551 Above all, there is still this capacity for tenderness... 1545 01:47:59,361 --> 01:48:02,560 this perfect intimacy with silence... 1546 01:48:04,001 --> 01:48:08,803 this intimate voice asking forgiveness for everything... 1547 01:48:10,375 --> 01:48:14,435 forgive them, for they are not guilty for having been born... 1548 01:48:16,448 --> 01:48:21,182 there is still that old respect for the night 1549 01:48:21,254 --> 01:48:26,248 these soft voices this hand feeling before having 1550 01:48:26,827 --> 01:48:29,296 this fear to hurt touching 1551 01:48:30,397 --> 01:48:32,764 this strong man's hand 1552 01:48:32,833 --> 01:48:36,098 filled with gentleness with everything which exists 1553 01:48:37,673 --> 01:48:44,074 there is still this immobility, this economy of gestures... 1554 01:48:46,415 --> 01:48:50,545 this increasing inertia before the infinity 1555 01:48:51,655 --> 01:48:53,646 this childish stammering 1556 01:48:53,724 --> 01:48:57,182 of those who wish to utter the unutterable 1557 01:48:57,261 --> 01:49:02,097 this irreducible refusal of unlived poetry. 1558 01:49:02,834 --> 01:49:07,067 I think Vinicius came into the world to teach us, everyone... 1559 01:49:07,139 --> 01:49:10,131 to sew that seed on earth. 1560 01:49:11,110 --> 01:49:16,048 The song he sang most during the time I spent more time with him 1561 01:49:16,116 --> 01:49:18,311 it was an American song... 1562 01:49:18,385 --> 01:49:22,914 that one with the guy in love saying... 1563 01:49:22,990 --> 01:49:29,391 the greatest thing is to love and be loved in return. 1564 01:49:30,865 --> 01:49:37,266 Nowadays I'm absolutely certain Vinicius came to teach... 1565 01:49:38,106 --> 01:49:39,904 to call our attention to this. 1566 01:49:40,877 --> 01:49:43,311 That was the crux. 1567 01:49:43,379 --> 01:49:47,042 ...and sad of eye 1568 01:49:47,117 --> 01:49:53,518 But very wise was he 1569 01:49:57,095 --> 01:50:01,464 And then one day 1570 01:50:01,533 --> 01:50:05,732 One magic day he passed my way 1571 01:50:05,805 --> 01:50:09,970 And while we spoke of many things 1572 01:50:10,043 --> 01:50:12,375 Fools and kings 1573 01:50:12,679 --> 01:50:18,243 This he said to me: 1574 01:50:18,319 --> 01:50:22,756 The sweetest thing 1575 01:50:23,191 --> 01:50:25,888 You'll ever learn 1576 01:50:25,961 --> 01:50:28,555 These girls are so good. 1577 01:50:28,764 --> 01:50:33,566 Is just to love... 1578 01:50:34,938 --> 01:50:40,502 And be loved in return 1579 01:50:40,578 --> 01:50:43,206 I'm not feeling okay... 1580 01:50:47,486 --> 01:50:48,885 If you're tired... 1581 01:50:48,954 --> 01:50:51,354 I'm a little hungry, but I don't want to eat yet. 1582 01:50:52,523 --> 01:50:54,720 There's some serious spaghetti on its way. 1583 01:50:55,795 --> 01:50:57,284 We can handle that. 1584 01:51:00,900 --> 01:51:05,200 Vinicius was a person which is difficult to imagine today. 1585 01:51:05,272 --> 01:51:08,640 I'm not sure where Vinicius de Moraes would be nowadays. 1586 01:51:08,709 --> 01:51:15,110 Because he's the opposite of so much which is now victorious... 1587 01:51:16,851 --> 01:51:19,319 Ostentation... all the... 1588 01:51:20,922 --> 01:51:26,828 Because he was always so generous, sometimes na�ve 1589 01:51:26,896 --> 01:51:29,661 sometimes wacky. Something which no longer exists, 1590 01:51:29,733 --> 01:51:31,667 neither the wackiness nor the generosity, 1591 01:51:31,735 --> 01:51:33,327 much less the naivety, 1592 01:51:33,403 --> 01:51:38,637 there is always a result being sought after... 1593 01:51:38,710 --> 01:51:41,440 an objective, something pragmatic... everything which Vinicius wasn't. 1594 01:51:42,647 --> 01:51:44,639 Vinicius is sorely missed these days, 1595 01:51:44,717 --> 01:51:50,349 and maybe he really couldn't be alive and be Vinicius today, 1596 01:51:50,423 --> 01:51:52,857 I can't imagine what place he... 1597 01:51:52,926 --> 01:51:56,089 he would occupy in this country in which we live. 1598 01:51:58,399 --> 01:52:00,026 In this country and this world. 1599 01:52:02,069 --> 01:52:04,731 I always remember Vinicius, he's laughing. 1600 01:52:07,376 --> 01:52:10,868 I call him up from time to time, because escaping Vinicius... 1601 01:52:10,945 --> 01:52:13,381 is impossible, because every time I turn on the radio, 1602 01:52:13,449 --> 01:52:16,441 the music I like, my favorite is bossa nova... 1603 01:52:16,518 --> 01:52:19,579 so I'm always involved in him, whether I like it or not... 1604 01:52:19,655 --> 01:52:21,817 Vinicius is always present. 1605 01:52:21,891 --> 01:52:25,089 And he always appears. 1606 01:52:25,162 --> 01:52:28,563 And it's funny, because it's never him in the gutter, 1607 01:52:28,632 --> 01:52:32,467 desperate or disenchanted... 1608 01:52:32,536 --> 01:52:34,164 I think that's so important... 1609 01:52:34,240 --> 01:52:36,731 because I think life is an invention... 1610 01:52:36,808 --> 01:52:40,039 if you want to invent bad things, you invent bad things, 1611 01:52:40,111 --> 01:52:42,876 if you want to invent good, you invent good. 1612 01:52:42,948 --> 01:52:45,712 So, this business of becoming... 1613 01:52:45,785 --> 01:52:49,313 I hate people who are always down... 1614 01:52:49,389 --> 01:52:51,414 "the truth about our existence"... 1615 01:52:51,491 --> 01:52:54,551 it makes no sense, I find Beckett a crashing bore. 1616 01:52:54,629 --> 01:52:56,893 The truth about our existence... I tell a lie, no one knows... 1617 01:52:56,964 --> 01:52:59,990 what the truth is, if you choose to say everything stinks... 1618 01:53:00,068 --> 01:53:04,972 that doesn't help anyone, even if you win the Nobel prize. 1619 01:53:05,040 --> 01:53:07,304 I prefer people who lift the world up, 1620 01:53:07,376 --> 01:53:12,747 given that no one knows the truth, why would I put it down? 1621 01:53:12,816 --> 01:53:17,777 And that's Vinicius, he helps us live... 1622 01:53:17,855 --> 01:53:19,686 Brazilians owe him that... 1623 01:53:19,757 --> 01:53:22,123 he helped the Brazilian people to be happy. 1624 01:53:23,160 --> 01:53:27,120 His whole manner, him speaking, shaking his body. 1625 01:53:28,433 --> 01:53:31,368 And that glass held still, his foot not moving... 1626 01:53:31,436 --> 01:53:34,235 and him talking and laughing... 1627 01:53:35,140 --> 01:53:37,735 I always remember Vinicius laughing... 1628 01:53:37,810 --> 01:53:40,712 his whole body laughing, shaking all over. 1629 01:53:43,784 --> 01:53:45,251 He had such a great laugh. 1630 01:53:47,721 --> 01:53:50,156 Time passes, poet... 1631 01:53:50,692 --> 01:53:54,094 Spring has arrived here in Ipanema, filled with your music, 1632 01:53:54,162 --> 01:53:58,531 your verses and I'm going to stick around for a while longer 1633 01:53:58,601 --> 01:54:04,006 keeping an eye for you on the waves, the sparrows and the girls in blossom. 1634 01:54:05,007 --> 01:54:06,134 Farewell. 1635 01:54:07,844 --> 01:54:14,245 Because you were always Spring in my life 1636 01:54:16,320 --> 01:54:20,416 Return to me 1637 01:54:20,625 --> 01:54:27,026 Appear once again in my sobs 1638 01:54:28,568 --> 01:54:33,301 I love you so much more 1639 01:54:33,373 --> 01:54:38,004 I want you so much more 1640 01:54:38,078 --> 01:54:42,412 Ah, it's been so long... 1641 01:54:42,483 --> 01:54:46,580 Since you departed 1642 01:54:47,556 --> 01:54:53,957 Like the spring Which also watched you leave 1643 01:54:56,132 --> 01:55:01,263 Without even a farewell 1644 01:55:01,338 --> 01:55:07,739 And nothing else exists In my life 1645 01:55:09,680 --> 01:55:14,051 Like your touch 1646 01:55:14,452 --> 01:55:19,084 Like your silence 1647 01:55:19,525 --> 01:55:23,689 I remember your smile 1648 01:55:23,762 --> 01:55:27,029 It's so sad 1649 01:55:29,569 --> 01:55:34,166 Moon with no compassion 1650 01:55:34,242 --> 01:55:39,043 Always wandering across the sky 1651 01:55:39,614 --> 01:55:46,015 Where my fair love is hiding 1652 01:55:49,926 --> 01:55:56,327 Where by girlfriend 1653 01:55:58,235 --> 01:56:04,038 Go and tell her my pity 1654 01:56:04,109 --> 01:56:07,875 And what I ask 1655 01:56:08,913 --> 01:56:15,314 All I ask her is To remember our times of poetry 1656 01:56:18,859 --> 01:56:23,296 The nights of passion 1657 01:56:23,363 --> 01:56:29,764 And tell him how much I miss him 1658 01:56:31,373 --> 01:56:36,002 That I'm alone 1659 01:56:36,445 --> 01:56:41,406 That all that is left 1660 01:56:41,483 --> 01:56:46,080 Is my sad song 1661 01:56:46,156 --> 01:56:52,557 Of loneliness 1662 01:57:01,206 --> 01:57:04,835 Someone asked him whether he believed in reincarnation... 1663 01:57:04,910 --> 01:57:06,902 I don't know whether he did. And they asked him: 1664 01:57:06,979 --> 01:57:08,844 "But if you happened to be reincarnated, 1665 01:57:08,915 --> 01:57:10,109 what would you like to come back as?" 1666 01:57:10,183 --> 01:57:14,314 He said: "Oh, just the same, only with a slightly bigger cock." 137484