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The 1990s were a golden era
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for The Walt Disney Company.
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The Little Mermaid
revived the company
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from the edge of bankruptcy.
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Beauty and the Beast earned
a Best Picture nomination.
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And The Lion King broke
box office records worldwide.
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But the reality just miles away
was no fairy tale.
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In 1992, a state jury acquitted
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four LAPD officers
on almost all charges
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in the beating
of Rodney G. King.
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The response was anger.
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Fire, chaos,
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massive citywide destruction.
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It was a pivotal moment
for Black culture in the '90s.
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But it's a little-known fact
that another cultural milestone
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emerged from that fateful day.
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It's a story so unbelievable,
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it could only happen
in Hollywood.
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How did this young,
Black, unassuming animator
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from East Atlanta wind up
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as the CEO of Disney
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at the company's most powerful
moment in time?
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- Okay, rolling.
- Speed.
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Believe it or not,
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we named him after Tom Jones.
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♪
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Yeah!
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His father
used to play Tom Jones.
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That's how he first courted me.
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He would do a little dance
and we would laugh.
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♪ I got to tell you a story♪
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♪ Every man ought to know...♪
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Usually, the boys
in Ronald's family
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was named after their fathers,
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but when we had our boy,
we knew that
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he was gonna be different,
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so we had to do something different.
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We had to name him Thomas.
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T loved cartoons
something crazy.
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I mean, he was always drawing
on his desk, uh,
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in, uh, in the margins of
his notebook, in the textbooks,
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all on the walls, man.
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He just drove
our teachers crazy.
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He was obsessed with this
one cat named, um, Blasto Boy?
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No, no, no, Astro Boy.
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Yeah, yeah, I used to
watch it with him,
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and I remember thinking...
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this is kind of boring.
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But Thomas loved it, man.
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He drew... he drew
that dude everywhere.
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One time, he asked me, he said,
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"What if Astro Boy
came here and saved us?"
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I said, "Saved us from what?"
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And he just kind of shrugged
and said, "Everything."
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I mean, what kind
of eight-year-old
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is thinking like that,
you know?
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I mean, I think he was scared.
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He wasn't no punk,
I'm just saying, I don't
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think he ever understood
why the world was so unfair.
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And where we were growing up...
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it was, like,
unfair unfair, you know?
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I mean, you could be
sitting at home watching
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a program with white folks
with nice houses.
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We couldn't even
ride ours bikes outside,
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cause niggas
will take it from you.
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Straight to your face,
they do not care. Crime?
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What, so? They will
ride your bike in front
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of your house the next day.
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Yeah, unfair.
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The boys picked on him.
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He would come home
sometimes with pages
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torn out of
his little sketchbook.
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Yeah, we would call him white.
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We was just messing with him.
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Um, I think he was
just trying to fit in,
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but he wasn't really like us,
you know?
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And the kids
would call him on it.
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I mean, he just wanted to draw,
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and he didn't understand why
that wasn't "cool," you know?
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I mean, niggas will
make fun of you for anything,
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and I don't think
Thomas was built to take it.
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I told him, "Son,
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one day, ain't none of this
gonna even matter."
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In 1987, Thomas left
East Atlanta to attend
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Savannah College
of Art and Design, or SCAD.
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It was here that Thomas's
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creative dreams
began to take shape.
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We didn't have a lot of Black
students in the program then.
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Thomas showed a lot of promise.
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In his application,
he wrote about how he wanted
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to work at Disney one day.
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We usually laugh
at that sort of thing.
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Everybody says that, you know?
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But with his application,
he sent a little flip-book.
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Can you see this?
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I mean, he had the sensibility
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and the wit
of a true Disney animator.
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Art Babbitt was a big name
at Disney Animation for a time.
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As an animator
in the '30s and '40s,
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he racked up a lot of credits,
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and enemies,
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but he was most well-known for
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developing
the character of Goofy.
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He came to SCAD, and he spoke.
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Thomas really gravitated to him.
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He became obsessed,
and he really glommed
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on to Babbitt's article
"Analysis of the Goof."
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Art describes Goofy.
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He says, "Think of
the Goof as a composite
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"of an everlasting optimist,
a gullible Good Samaritan,
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"a half-wit, a shiftless,
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"good-natured colored boy,
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"and a hick.
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"He is loose-jointed
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"and gangly, but not rubbery.
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"He can move fast if he has to,
but would rather
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"avoid overexertion,
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"so he takes what seems
the easiest way.
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"He is a philosopher of
the barber shop variety.
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"No matter what happens,
he accepts it finally
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as being for the best
or at least amusing."
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Thomas used this text
as the center of a piece
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of a series he called
"Goofy, Please."
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After class one day, he
showed me some of these pieces,
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and I looked at it,
and I looked at him,
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and I thought,
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"This kid is from
another universe,
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like, a whole nother planet."
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Thomas would be like,
"Hey, come on,
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you know Goofy's a [bleep]."
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:
And we would just laugh, man.
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We just thought
that was so funny.
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It was clear that
Thomas was very talented.
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For his thesis,
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he made this
incredible short film.
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♪ Well, I'd like to visit
the moon♪
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♪ On a rocket ship
high in the air...♪
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He had little screenings;
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teachers would come,
and students.
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The film felt so deep.
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I-I think it was somehow
connected to him
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losing his father
in freshman year.
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♪ I would miss
all the places and...♪
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Uncle Ronnie dying
changed him, man.
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Thomas was in his
freshman year at SCAD,
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and I didn't think he
was going to make it, but, uh,
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once we buried
my Uncle Ronnie, man,
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he, uh-- it's like
his brain exploded.
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Depending on who saw it
and when they saw it,
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it was either
the funniest thing,
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or the saddest thing
you'd ever seen.
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That short was what
got him into Disney.
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No question.
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Washington comes to Disney
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right out of college,
fresh from SCAD.
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You know, he's there,
the company's doing pretty well,
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they've just had their hit
with The Little Mermaid.
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One of the things that-that
I'm glad that I was
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able to be part of
was that, um,
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Disney instituted this
diversity program.
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We knew that we needed to
bring in younger voices
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from a diversified
point of view,
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and that would actually, uh,
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strengthen our company.
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And Thomas was one
of the first of those.
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Thomas started out at
Disney as an assistant animator
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on DuckTales the Movie:
Treasure of the Lost Lamp.
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It wasn't necessarily
creative work,
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but things are fine, you know.
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It's not really moving
as fast as he wants things
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to be moving,
but he's doing all right.
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And then the uprisings happened.
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When the shooting happened,
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and then the riots,
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Thomas was working in L.A.
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He called me
and he said, "Mama,
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I just want to go down there."
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And I told him,
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"Son, you need to riot
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with that pen and paper."
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He was shook.
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I could see it in him,
he was shook.
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He actually called me
one time and was like,
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"If I ever get the chance
to do a movie around here,
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I'm not holding back."
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While South Central Los Angeles
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was engulfed in flames,
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15 miles north in Burbank,
another fire was about to erup.
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What happened next is
one of the most unlikely
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and unprecedented events in the
history of corporate America.
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After the success
of Beauty and the Beast,
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Michael Eisner put
Dennis Stephenson in charge
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while he went on a sabbatical.
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But two weeks into the job,
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Stephenson had
a health emergency
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and passed shortly thereafter...
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...leaving the job
open once more.
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We all voted for this guy
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named Tom Washington.
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But we didn't realize
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that Tom's first name
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was actually Thompson,
not Thomas.
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Thomas Washington
was an animator.
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People were pretty upset
when they found out
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they voted for the wrong man.
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It felt like an honest mistake
that we
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could sweep under the rug, but
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after Beauty and the Beast,
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there were a lot of eyes on us.
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We tried to handle it smoothly,
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but Thomas held our feet
to the fire.
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So, because of this,
you know, "behind closed door,
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boys' club" handshake,
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Disney is now in radical
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new territory
but entirely by default.
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So you have this young animato,
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this young, Black animator
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who comes into this company,
all of a sudden has a ton
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of power at a hugely
culturally significant moment,
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and he wants
to do something with it.
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He wants to prove himself.
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This cat was on my line
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with some foolishness,
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talking about
he's the CEO of Disney.
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I was, I was crying laughing.
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And then, you know,
he took me to his office
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and people was,
like, greeting him.
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First day,
he took us all into a room
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that we call the stock room,
which is where everybody
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hangs out before
we get to work.
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And he shows us
a frame of animation
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of Goofy in Mickey's trailer,
and, uh,
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Mickey has Pluto on a leash.
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And it gets real quiet,
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and, uh, Washington goes,
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"Why is Goofy
letting Mickey do that?"
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He's a very fine dog, sir.
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And, you know, we're all
confused, we're just looking
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at each other, and Charlie goes,
"What do you mean, sir?"
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And Washington goes,
"Goofy's a dog,
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"and Pluto's a dog,
so why is he letting Mickey
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do that to one of his own?"
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Yeah, T had them
running scared from day one.
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I was, uh, fresh-faced
and wild-eyed.
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I was an inbetweener
for about three years,
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didn't see much movement.
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An inbetweener was usually
for animators just starting ou.
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So, say a character
slaps somebody across the face.
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They would get a senior artist
to do the fun part,
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drawing the first and the last
frame that define the movement.
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The inbetweener draws all the
many little frames in between.
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I was stuck as an inbetweener
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for years and years,
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but as soon as Thomas came in,
he said,
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"I want you to be
lead director on this."
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And I said, "On what?"
And he said,
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"The Blackest movie
of all time."
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-♪ Check, check, uh♪
-♪ Get it, get, get...♪
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He said he wanted to make
a movie about Black fatherhood.
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♪ Get, get, get it...♪
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Man, he wanted to tackle
everything in this movie.
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Segregation, single parenting,
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low-income career trajectories,
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fear of gang violence, incarceration,
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the amount of cheese
in African-American diets.
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He wanted to make a movie that
covered all this and more...
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and he said he knew
the perfect character to do it.
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♪ Swingin' while I'm singin'♪
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♪ Hey!♪
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Thomas, man,
he knew that people thought
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Goofy was dumb,
but he wanted to show
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the systemic factors
that Goofy was dealing with.
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A shitty job, angry kid,
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and embarrassed
by his lack of influence.
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Man, it was wild how deep
he leaned in to all this,
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'cause, uh, as far as I knew,
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Thomas had a really solid homelife.
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It's a vacation with me
and my best buddy.
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Oh, Donald Duck?
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No, silly, with you!
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Thomas and I,
we were married young.
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We didn't have much,
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and, um, you know what, he nevr
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let that get
in the way of us, though.
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If there was something
we couldn't afford,
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he would just draw it.
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You know,
you'd wake up and I would
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see anything from a coffee makr
to a solid-gold jet
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on the refrigerator
in the morning.
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That was Thomas.
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We-we had our son Maxwell
pretty early.
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He and Thomas,
they were inseparable.
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He did everything for that boy.
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Oh, my God, look at this...
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Oh, look at this!
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Thomas kept saying that
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A Goofy Movie was for him.
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He'd say, "If I'm not here,
you can show him this."
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I was too scared to ask him
what he meant by that.
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To give you a little context,
when A Goofy Movie came out,
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Black masculinity in the media
was in a really weird place.
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- Hello, I'm Blaine Edwards.
- And I'm Antoine Merriweather!
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And welcome to Men on Films.
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The show that looks at movies..
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...from a male point of view.
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So on one hand,
you've got men doing, kind of
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"faux queer" comedy,
and on the other end
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of the spectrum, you've got
these hypermasculine portrayals.
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Am I my brother's keeper?
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Yes, I am.
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And, by contrast, Goofy
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is a nuanced portrayal
of a Black man
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whose priority is his family.
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- What?
- Nothin'.
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Goofy really put forward
the philosophy that...
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just love your children for
who they are and accept them,
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and deal with the pain
that the world
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is not going to love them
like you do.
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I think in the movie,
Dad laid in a lot of things.
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I-I notice it more now
than I did then.
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♪ If I could make you
stop and take a look♪
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♪ At me instead of just...♪
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In the beginning,
Max sings a song,
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dunks a basketball, and then
is cheered on by his peers.
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I think my dad
was making a comment
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on Black exceptionalism
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and how some people believe
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that performative assimilation
is the best way to get by.
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My dad wanted to prove those
limitations were just that,
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limits put on us by outsiders.
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That's why he made it
a fishing trip.
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It's the same one
we used to take. [chuckles]
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The trip was
supposed to start out
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as sort of like a freedom ride.
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And the map,
which is central to the plot
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of the film and also representd
Goofy's trust in his son Max,
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was supposed to
remind the viewer
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of the Green Book
and how Black travelers
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had to use it
to advance their way
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through the Jim Crow South
during the '30s and the '40s.
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A lot of the film had
deeper meanings, and word
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got around that it meant
a lot more in Thomas's eyes.
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Dad wanted every Black
person in America to feel like
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they were just a road trip away
from being part of a movement.
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Even if their kids
didn't understand the stakes.
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It was about destiny
and how our children,
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our future,
get to draw our path.
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I want to get us
to doing something
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we've never done before.
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We have never truly drawn
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authentically Black characters,
characters that act...
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Now, see,
this is what I'm talking about.
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This is what I'm talking about.
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In order to draw
authentically Black characters,
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one has to know Black people.
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Okay? Now,
Tom went out on assignment.
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Researched, hung out,
went to a couple Black cookouts.
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Said the wrong thing,
got his ass beat, but now, now?
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He's more aware,
he's more knowledgeable
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of how to draw. Okay?
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Thomas tried to pull back
and be more
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subtle with his message,
uh, when the complaints started,
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and we were getting complaints
from everywhere.
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But there was
nothing subtle about Thomas.
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At one point, he said he
didn't want Mickey in the movie.
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And, um, I kept saying,
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"But it's Disney.
What are you talking about?"
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I can remember
Thomas ranting in his office,
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"They're trying to make me
put this white boy in my movie."
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And I'm thinking,
"He's a mouse."
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He told me from the beginning,
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"I'm not here for a long time,
I'm here for a good time."
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Uh, he knew
he was going to get fired,
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but the "when" of it
was fun for him.
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It was like a game.
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We had 15, 16,
sometimes 18-hour days.
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And, uh, he would be screaming,
"We don't dance like that."
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And he would
bring his friend's kids in
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and, uh,
they would moonwalk and,
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and, you know, do all, like,
you know, this stuff, you know?
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Oh, man,
I must have drawn a pair
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of gloves dapping,
I don't know, over 5,000 times?
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I just kept hearing, "That's
not a dap, that's not a dap.
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Where's the snap?"
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You see my knees?
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You see this,
see this angle of these knees?
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Draw-- Draw this!
Get this down, okay?
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One time,
I just couldn't take it--
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my fingers were just bleeding--
so I went up to talk to him,
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and he was up there drinking
whiskey with Robert Townsend,
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and Janet Jackson, uh,
Sinbad and Adina Howard.
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Well, when I poked
my head in, Thomas went,
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"Who ordered the white rice?"
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And they all just laughed,
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and, uh, I just didn't get it.
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BRIAN McKNIGHT:
Everybody used to be up there.
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Eddie Murphy,
Arsenio Hall, Kadeem Hardison,
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Harrison Ford, it was crazy.
The parties were insane.
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Imagine Disney after
The Lion King.
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You got this smooth-looking
brother at the helm.
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It was crazy
he even had that office.
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Everyone would go
up there and just hang
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00:22:42,665 --> 00:22:45,625
as we plotted our overthrow
of Hollywood.
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00:22:45,668 --> 00:22:47,453
You couldn't tell us nothing.
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They had a big
musical number planned
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with Bryan Adams in the movie.
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And one day,
Thomas asked me to come by
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and see what he's working on.
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And we're walking through,
and he stops in one
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of the rooms and plays me
some of the music.
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And I'm like,
"Yeah, you know, pop ballad.
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"You know, same old, same old.
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You know, it's-it's good,
it's-it's cool."
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But he asks me,
"Who do you like right now?"
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I'm like, "You know,
I-I've been listening
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00:23:15,132 --> 00:23:17,221
to this Tevin Campbell."
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00:23:17,265 --> 00:23:21,704
And from then on, it just
had to be Tevin Campbell.
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♪ Last night I, I saw you♪
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♪ Standing♪
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♪ And I started♪
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♪ Started pretending♪
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Most of the cats
around there didn't
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even know who
Tevin Campbell was.
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For three months, a lot of them
were saying Kevin Campbell.
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♪ Can we talk, baby,
can we talk for a minute?♪
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♪ Girl, I want
to know your name♪
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00:23:47,948 --> 00:23:50,341
♪ I want to know your name♪
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Thomas was a cool cat.
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00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:54,824
But the brother definitely had
a chip on his shoulder.
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00:23:54,824 --> 00:23:56,435
He didn't like it if
you challenged his Blackness.
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00:23:59,612 --> 00:24:01,701
I think there was
a part of Thomas
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that kind of felt that
being an animator
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00:24:05,531 --> 00:24:08,534
wasn't innately Black, you know?
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00:24:08,534 --> 00:24:11,537
And he wanted to make it Black,
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00:24:11,537 --> 00:24:13,277
he wanted to make it cool.
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00:24:13,321 --> 00:24:17,368
He wanted to-to carve out
his own space and not feel
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00:24:17,412 --> 00:24:20,981
that he was divorced
from his own culture, you know.
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00:24:21,068 --> 00:24:24,506
He was loading his culture
into this stuff that
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we were doing so that
it just seemed normal
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00:24:27,074 --> 00:24:30,817
and would seem normal
to the rest of us.
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00:24:30,860 --> 00:24:33,994
He had a lot of pressure, man--
the culture, the job itself,
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00:24:33,994 --> 00:24:36,866
what-what he was trying to live
up to that I'm not even sure
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00:24:36,866 --> 00:24:38,781
that he knew that he could
live up to it.
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00:24:38,781 --> 00:24:42,742
And, uh, it had to
take a huge toll on him.
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00:24:42,785 --> 00:24:44,961
One morning I walk in
the studio, I got my coffee,
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I'm ready to sit down,
get to busi-- business.
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00:24:47,442 --> 00:24:50,750
And Thomas like, "Psst! Psst!
Come here, come here!"
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00:24:50,793 --> 00:24:53,666
So I go over there and, uh,
he's in his cubicle,
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00:24:53,709 --> 00:24:57,234
he got this briefcase,
he opens it up,
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00:24:57,278 --> 00:24:58,801
there's a gun inside!
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00:24:58,801 --> 00:25:03,240
I'm like,
"Dude, what-what is this?
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What's it for?"
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00:25:05,155 --> 00:25:09,682
And he's like,
"This is to remind me that
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they don't know
who the fuck I am."
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00:25:17,690 --> 00:25:21,128
Dad kind of started to lose it.
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00:25:21,171 --> 00:25:24,044
He would stay up all night,
talk to hisself.
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00:25:24,131 --> 00:25:28,309
After a while, Mom...
she had had enough.
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00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,488
After a while,
Mom couldn't take it anymore.
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00:25:33,488 --> 00:25:35,272
He had just gotten too mean.
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00:25:37,187 --> 00:25:39,712
We had so much fun.
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00:25:40,626 --> 00:25:44,717
But then, it wasn't fun anymor.
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00:25:44,804 --> 00:25:47,284
He had been
fooling around, yeah.
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00:25:47,371 --> 00:25:51,288
And drinking a lot,
and he got pretty mean.
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00:25:51,375 --> 00:25:54,291
He would say some mean,
nasty things to me,
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00:25:54,378 --> 00:25:57,512
which he never,
he had never done that before.
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00:26:00,036 --> 00:26:02,038
I remember at one time,
Maxwell tried to step in
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between his dad and I,
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00:26:03,344 --> 00:26:06,303
and Thomas...
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00:26:06,390 --> 00:26:10,090
was not kind.
He kind of...
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00:26:12,309 --> 00:26:15,182
He kind of raised his, um...
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00:26:15,225 --> 00:26:18,228
he raised his fist...
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00:26:18,315 --> 00:26:20,883
at Maxwell.
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00:26:20,970 --> 00:26:24,191
That wasn't cool,
because they-they
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had always been so close.
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00:26:28,804 --> 00:26:30,676
He was a...
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he was a really good father.
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00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,116
I mean, at least he tried
to be a good father.
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00:26:36,116 --> 00:26:39,075
I kept saying, "Thomas,
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00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,904
"you're going to lose him,
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00:26:41,904 --> 00:26:44,820
you're going to lose your son."
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00:26:47,344 --> 00:26:50,913
But all he kept saying is...
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00:26:50,913 --> 00:26:53,046
"But this is for him."
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00:26:55,918 --> 00:26:58,660
I knew things
were going downhill when
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Thomas's wife left him.
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00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,056
Sh-She had been there
from the beginning.
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00:27:04,361 --> 00:27:06,929
And he started
sleeping in his office.
487
00:27:07,016 --> 00:27:11,020
And, um, one day,
there was a board meeting.
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00:27:11,107 --> 00:27:15,764
All the Disney heads were ther,
and they started talking
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00:27:15,808 --> 00:27:19,550
about the budget was
going a bit high on Goofy.
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00:27:19,594 --> 00:27:22,684
And one of the guys
asked Thomas, he said, uh,
491
00:27:22,728 --> 00:27:24,904
"Are you in control
of the budget?"
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00:27:24,947 --> 00:27:26,819
And Thomas said,
"Of course I am.
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00:27:26,862 --> 00:27:28,908
I'm Goofy."
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00:27:28,951 --> 00:27:30,692
And then,
495
00:27:30,736 --> 00:27:35,479
he did this this chilling laug. Like...
496
00:27:39,092 --> 00:27:42,617
You know, l-like Goofy,
but broken.
497
00:27:43,966 --> 00:27:46,534
:
And it-it was terrifying, man.
498
00:27:46,534 --> 00:27:48,101
I almost started crying.
499
00:27:50,407 --> 00:27:52,758
He really thought he was Goofy.
500
00:27:58,981 --> 00:28:01,070
The company knew he had to go,
501
00:28:01,114 --> 00:28:04,857
but legally,
he was still the CEO.
502
00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:08,556
That gentleman's
show of hands was, uh,
503
00:28:08,643 --> 00:28:12,647
surprisingly hard to go back o.
504
00:28:12,734 --> 00:28:15,084
You know, they even tried to
buy him out of his contract.
505
00:28:15,128 --> 00:28:18,784
Yeah, they offered him,
like $75,000.
506
00:28:18,871 --> 00:28:20,786
No, no.
507
00:28:20,873 --> 00:28:24,615
We offered him $75 million,
508
00:28:24,659 --> 00:28:27,096
paid out over ten years.
509
00:28:27,183 --> 00:28:32,014
Um, that's how... that's how
serious it was for us.
510
00:28:32,101 --> 00:28:33,842
I mean, he didn't take it.
511
00:28:33,886 --> 00:28:37,585
But, uh, maybe he
should have taken it, you know?
512
00:28:39,892 --> 00:28:43,460
He started
getting really paranoid.
513
00:28:43,547 --> 00:28:46,986
He'd say he was
afraid for his life,
514
00:28:47,029 --> 00:28:49,118
but he'd never say from whom.
515
00:28:50,424 --> 00:28:52,687
Suddenly, there were
a bunch of guys in bow ties
516
00:28:52,774 --> 00:28:54,776
hanging around the office.
517
00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:56,691
He introduced us
to one of them saying,
518
00:28:56,778 --> 00:28:59,041
"I want you to meet my new
head of security,
519
00:28:59,041 --> 00:29:02,044
Al Shaheim X."
520
00:29:02,044 --> 00:29:04,699
The thing not a lot of people
knew about,
521
00:29:04,699 --> 00:29:07,267
was Thomas had
been going around town
522
00:29:07,354 --> 00:29:12,141
letting a lot of people know
how huge this was going to be,
523
00:29:12,141 --> 00:29:15,492
and he had a lot of different
Black empowerment groups,
524
00:29:15,492 --> 00:29:20,715
radical movements, and just
straight-up gangs all wanting
525
00:29:20,802 --> 00:29:25,154
as much influence and subtle
shout-outs as the other.
526
00:29:25,198 --> 00:29:27,940
You know,
I think that he had made
527
00:29:27,983 --> 00:29:29,985
way too many deals at one poin.
528
00:29:31,291 --> 00:29:34,250
At least, that's what...
that's what I heard.
529
00:29:34,294 --> 00:29:40,300
Truthfully, it all came down
to the end of the movie.
530
00:29:40,343 --> 00:29:42,345
Really.
531
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,698
Oh, man, the end of the movie.
532
00:29:47,742 --> 00:29:49,657
I heard he wanted Goofy
and Max to get pulled over
533
00:29:49,744 --> 00:29:52,486
early on and, uh, you know...
534
00:29:56,751 --> 00:29:59,885
Wh-Why would he do that?
That makes no sense.
535
00:30:01,190 --> 00:30:04,411
That Powerline concert
at the end,
536
00:30:04,411 --> 00:30:07,196
it wasn't supposed to be
all hunky-dory, dancing-dancing.
537
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,677
Nah, it wasn't supposed
to be like that at all.
538
00:30:12,288 --> 00:30:15,204
I heard Goofy was supposed
to get shot at the concert.
539
00:30:15,248 --> 00:30:17,990
You know,
a Black man runs onstage
540
00:30:18,033 --> 00:30:20,557
like that at a major venue?
Come on, man.
541
00:30:20,644 --> 00:30:22,646
There's something wrong here.
542
00:30:22,690 --> 00:30:24,561
Thomas was trying
to make a statement.
543
00:30:26,302 --> 00:30:29,262
Do you, uh,
think his death was an accident?
544
00:30:31,133 --> 00:30:32,787
Next question, man.
545
00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:34,745
No, I don't.
546
00:30:34,789 --> 00:30:37,009
I-I've never thought
it was an accident.
547
00:30:38,445 --> 00:30:40,316
Why not?
548
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,797
Um, well...
549
00:30:44,146 --> 00:30:46,235
...partly because of
his-his mood at the end,
550
00:30:46,279 --> 00:30:48,934
but, um, you know,
there was also the tape.
551
00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:51,806
What tape?
552
00:31:00,684 --> 00:31:03,949
♪ For the first time ever♪
553
00:31:04,036 --> 00:31:06,952
♪ Seeing it eye to eye♪
554
00:31:08,605 --> 00:31:13,610
Oh, I'm so sorry.
555
00:31:13,610 --> 00:31:15,612
Oh, man, I...
556
00:31:15,699 --> 00:31:21,488
Ooh, I'm close, I'm-I'm close...
557
00:31:21,531 --> 00:31:23,664
I'm so close.
558
00:31:37,199 --> 00:31:39,419
I got to finish this.
559
00:31:44,859 --> 00:31:47,122
:
I got to finish it.
560
00:31:50,299 --> 00:31:54,086
Back then, mental health wasn't
something that we talked about.
561
00:31:54,173 --> 00:31:56,653
I didn't even know
what to characterize
562
00:31:56,653 --> 00:32:00,179
what I saw him going through,
what it... what it was.
563
00:32:00,222 --> 00:32:03,051
I just knew he was going
through something, um,
564
00:32:03,095 --> 00:32:06,011
something that was very, very
difficult for him to deal with.
565
00:32:08,230 --> 00:32:10,885
This is a little hard
for me right now.
566
00:32:13,801 --> 00:32:16,543
I-I don't know why.
567
00:32:16,630 --> 00:32:21,330
When the news finally broke
that Dad was officially out,
568
00:32:21,330 --> 00:32:24,681
they let him back on the lot
for one final screening
569
00:32:24,768 --> 00:32:27,032
of what they were able to
piece together behind his back.
570
00:32:29,991 --> 00:32:31,123
He didn't know they
had been working
571
00:32:31,166 --> 00:32:32,689
on the movie without him...
572
00:32:32,776 --> 00:32:35,040
changing and corrupting
his original vision.
573
00:32:36,171 --> 00:32:39,566
He-he didn't take the news well.
574
00:32:39,609 --> 00:32:41,568
I was at that last screening.
575
00:32:41,655 --> 00:32:44,353
It was the Bigfoot stuff
that put him over the edge.
576
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,921
They'd added it
without his knowledge.
577
00:32:46,921 --> 00:32:48,923
He'd wanted Goofy and Max
578
00:32:48,923 --> 00:32:51,273
to wander into a thrift store
579
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,320
and discover
Huey Newton's rattan throne.
580
00:32:54,363 --> 00:32:57,671
And once they sat in it,
Max would finally understand
581
00:32:57,714 --> 00:32:59,238
what Goofy had been fighting
582
00:32:59,281 --> 00:33:01,718
to make him understand
all along.
583
00:33:01,718 --> 00:33:06,593
Instead, they took out
the thrift store and the throne
584
00:33:06,636 --> 00:33:09,726
and put in that Bigfoot bit.
585
00:33:09,726 --> 00:33:12,686
It's like they were saying,
"What you were after,
586
00:33:12,729 --> 00:33:16,298
"your message,
it's a fantasy as elusive
587
00:33:16,298 --> 00:33:18,213
and unreal as Bigfoot."
588
00:33:19,519 --> 00:33:21,042
You're going to see...
589
00:33:21,086 --> 00:33:23,001
you're going to be
proud of me...
590
00:33:24,872 --> 00:33:27,266
I'm doing this for you.
591
00:33:27,309 --> 00:33:29,746
I'm doing this for all of us.
592
00:33:32,749 --> 00:33:34,403
Oh, man.
593
00:33:36,449 --> 00:33:40,540
I could feel him
get up and leave
594
00:33:40,627 --> 00:33:43,412
and I-I heard the door close
and I went out after him,
595
00:33:43,456 --> 00:33:46,546
and by the time I got
to the parking lot, he was gone.
596
00:33:46,546 --> 00:33:49,549
Something... I don't know,
there was a look in his eye.
597
00:33:49,549 --> 00:33:52,552
He-he just got in the car
and he took off...
598
00:33:53,857 --> 00:33:55,163
...and didn't come back.
599
00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:18,143
They, um...
600
00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:20,493
they never found his body.
601
00:34:26,455 --> 00:34:31,286
I think that was...
especially hard for Mom.
602
00:34:34,594 --> 00:34:35,725
Dad!
603
00:34:39,686 --> 00:34:42,036
We actually watch...
604
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,603
we watch the movies a lot.
605
00:34:43,690 --> 00:34:46,910
Uh, I couldn't for a while.
606
00:34:46,954 --> 00:34:52,046
But... but once I did,
I couldn't stop.
607
00:34:56,181 --> 00:34:57,965
It's like, um,
608
00:34:57,965 --> 00:35:00,402
it was like having him around,
609
00:35:00,489 --> 00:35:03,275
you know, in a fun way.
610
00:35:03,318 --> 00:35:04,667
Yeah.
611
00:35:14,286 --> 00:35:18,333
You know that, uh, "Damn,
you live like this?" meme?
612
00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:23,164
It's so funny to me
because the essence of it
613
00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:26,167
is those drawings
he did in college.
614
00:35:26,211 --> 00:35:30,171
Black folks living
their lives, being funny,
615
00:35:30,215 --> 00:35:34,654
being free, being real.
616
00:35:38,875 --> 00:35:41,443
He would've
been really proud that
617
00:35:41,530 --> 00:35:43,228
he became part of the culture.
618
00:35:44,446 --> 00:35:46,187
I think that's
what he wanted in the end,
619
00:35:46,231 --> 00:35:48,450
to just be part of the family.
620
00:35:51,366 --> 00:35:53,107
And along the way...
621
00:35:54,543 --> 00:35:57,546
...he made the Blackest
movie of all time.
622
00:36:04,727 --> 00:36:07,121
♪ Yeah, yeah♪
623
00:36:12,779 --> 00:36:15,564
♪ Got myself a notion♪
624
00:36:15,608 --> 00:36:20,482
♪ One I know
that you'll understand♪
625
00:36:20,569 --> 00:36:23,181
♪ To set the world in motion♪
626
00:36:24,486 --> 00:36:28,011
♪ By reaching out
for each other's hands♪
627
00:36:28,055 --> 00:36:32,625
♪ Maybe we'll discover What we
should have known all along♪
628
00:36:32,625 --> 00:36:35,715
♪ Yeah♪
629
00:36:35,802 --> 00:36:37,151
♪ One way or another♪
630
00:36:37,238 --> 00:36:40,372
♪ Together's
where we both belong♪
631
00:36:40,459 --> 00:36:43,723
♪ If we listen to
each other's heart♪
632
00:36:43,723 --> 00:36:45,377
♪ Oh, yeah♪
633
00:36:45,377 --> 00:36:47,379
♪ We'll find we're never
too far apart♪
634
00:36:47,422 --> 00:36:51,165
♪ And maybe love
is the reason why♪
635
00:36:51,252 --> 00:36:56,214
♪ For the first time ever,
we're seeing it eye to eye.♪
636
00:37:02,045 --> 00:37:03,743
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