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People knowledgeable in film often talk
of the golden age of Swedish film.
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It is thought to have started in 1916
and have ended already in 1920.
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But there are different opinions
as to the time-span...
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The concept "golden age"
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meant that Sweden was influential
in the world of cinematography.
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Not only artistically,
but also economically.
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A few of the films are still well known
outside of the inner circles.
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I'm thinking of The Phantom Carriage
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Sir Arne's Treasure
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Erotikon
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and The Saga of G�sta Berling
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Masterpieces like Ingeborg Holm
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Terje Vigen
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The Outlaw and His Wife
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The Saga of Gunnar Hede (The Blizzard)
and many others and gone and forgotten.
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The film industry is merciful
and cruel at the same time.
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It's all shadows anyway...
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Three giants carried
the Swedish golden age.
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Two film artists and one businessman.
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All three of them real geniuses
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each in their way.
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The directors were Viktor Sj�str�m
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and Mauritz Stiller
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The administrator and visionary
businessman was Charles Magnusson.
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Their joint efforts resulted
in a filmic caliber
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without comparison in the world.
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Almost all of the work was concentrated
to a couple of studios in Stockholm.
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First on Liding�, and later in R�sunda
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where Magnusson erected
the worlds most modern
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most well equipped
and elegant film studios.
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Mauritz Stiller directing
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In the shadow of this fervent eruption
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ardent film making was in progress
in every corner of the country.
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Simultaneously, movie theatres
were being built.
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They grew like mushrooms from the soil
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and were of varying
appearance and quality.
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From imposing palaces
holding thousand viewers
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to abandoned garages
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with 60 wooden chairs
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and a sullen linen cloth
on the far wall
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and a poorly maintained
projector in the front
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Though most remarkable
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was probably the eager activities
that took place in Gothenburg.
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At first on a back yard at J�rntorget
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and a year later in a relatively
well equipped film studio
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out in Otterh�llan,
on the outskirts of the city.
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It was the already world famous
photographer Hasseblad
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who had started up his own operation
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This work was so diligent
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that it annoyed the giants in Stockholm.
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The driving force
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in this remarkable activity
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was Georg af Klercker.
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In his own way an equal
to Sj�str�m and Stiller.
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During 3 summer half-year periods
Calle's New Underwear
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from May to the end of October
the years 1916-1918
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he produced 18 feature films
and 10 shorts
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He wrote the scripts
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directed and acted.
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The city's theatres provided
him with excellent actors.
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And from Hasselblads photo company
Death Race Under the Circus Dome
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came 3 technically able cameramen.
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The work pace was incredibly high.
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They went from one recording to the next
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without transition
and without preparation.
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
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Reveille
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28 recorded film
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made on a total of 18 months.
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It's almost hard to apprehend.
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Many of the films also became big hits.
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In the Shackles of Darkness
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Between Life and Death
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Children of the Night
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Love's Victories
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The Mystery on the Night
Before the 25th
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Thus the giant Charles Magnusson
was bothered by the competition.
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He purchased, and closed down.
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The work came to an end.
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Georg af Klercker faded away
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became silent and kept quiet.
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He burnt his notes, drafts and scripts.
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The performance we now are about to see
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is about af Klercker's humiliating meeting
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with the almighty motion picture
executive Charles Magnusson.
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This meeting is entirely fictive
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and probably never took place.
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But that which has never taken place
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might be true anyway.
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The Last Gasp
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A slightly tinted morality
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- Yes?
- Lieutenant af Klercker is waiting.
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How does he look?
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By all means, fairly presentable.
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Although not all sober.
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- Would the manager like...
- No no, let him in.
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How long has he had to wait?
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Almost an hour?
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Am I to interrupt at some point?
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I'll go to lunch after af Klercker
and will be back by 2.
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That won't be needed, thank you.
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- Might I go to the dentist at 4?
- Of course Ms. Holm, do so.
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By the way, you can copy
this account for me.
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I need it for the movie theater
conference tomorrow.
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Very well, Mr. Magnusson.
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Charlie Boy?
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Howdy, Charlie!
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How nice to finally see you again!
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Dear bastard!
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You old tramp!
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Please sit, sit...
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May I get you something?
Some whisky?
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A cigar or shall I get some coffee?
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What?
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Charlie treats you with strong drinks
at 10.30 in the morning'?
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Then doom must be near...
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But I'm not saying no.
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And a cigar heightens the pleasure
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If you're born to rejoice
you must rejoice
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as Peer Gynt so well put it.
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What?
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Is this the liquor cabinet?
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Well I got to say, Charlie...
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No sit, I'll pour myself.
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You want some?
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-
- That's what I thought...
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God almighty, Charlie...
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What a place you've gotten, huh?
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Persian rugs, eh?
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And a Bonnard, I think.
That's a Bonnard on the wall?
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Well no, how are you
supposed to know that...?
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But the decor...
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It's superb, Charlie!
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Huh?
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That cost plenty!
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Of course it did.
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Everything's new and big:
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big studios, big movie theaters
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a big office...
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Big artists, big money!
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And that secretary, she's not bad, eh?
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She smells of class and exuberance.
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Have you gone for her?
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C'mon and tell Jojje now...
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Yeah...
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It's remarkable
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to watch you here
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in your splendor!
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What's so funny?
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I can't help remembering
our beginnings out on Liding�,
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We'll never have that much
fun again, Charlie. Eh?
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Well, maybe you're right.
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Do you remember
Death Race Under the Circus Dome?
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Eh?
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Of course you remember
your soul's first little monster.
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You stood there with script in hand
and tears in your eyes...
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No Georg, I didn't cry.
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O but you did, you did.
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Viktor and Mojje had read it
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and said that they wouldn't
touch that kind of crap.
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Sure, those guys we're cocky
already in those days.
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I took the script and read it standing up
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while you blew your nose in your
delicate hankerchief.
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And I said:
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"This is a great story, Charlie
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it is, don't be sad
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I'll direct it!" Yeah...
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Then I asked Viktor if he wanted
to do the lieutenant's father.
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Didn't want to.
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He was sore because I was to direct.
I was only studio manager...
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that hypocritical modest bastard thought.
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� votre sant�, mon ch�re Victor!
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And I did the part myself.
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Well, it looked like shit.
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But Calle Barklind was good.
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And Selma...
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Imagine, Selma...
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So beautiful...
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Seductive.
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Merry and kind
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even though she was over 40
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She was enough for all of us.
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Isn't that true, Charlie?
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It became...
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a nice little film
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Got a lot of recognition, especially
in Denmark. You remember?
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It did...
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Victor thought it was shit, though,
but that was no surprise.
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Yeah...
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He became big later...
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Incredibly big, with Terje Vigen
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Who could've thought,
that glistening tart?
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No, no, no, I'm not bitter.
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Not in the least, no...
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But to be honest, I've never seen
anything more deplorable than that...
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The Outlaw
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By all means...
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I'm not mad at Victor, I'm not...
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But I know it was he who
schemed me out of Liding�.
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Talking behind my back
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and fooling around with Selma.
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Gee, Charlie...
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How time has run with us
and our cinematographies?
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And you're at the top,
you're the triumphant, Charlie...
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The biggest and most powerful.
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Now when Ivar Krueger has entered
your swell company.
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How much is it, five millions?
Five millions...
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Well...
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And here I sit at your place...
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With the honor to look at you.
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Though I don't know
if you're looking back at me.
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Your glasses are so awfully thick
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it makes you more cross eyed than ever.
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Here I am with you,
Charles Magnusson...
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I guess I'm more of a supplicant.
Haven't made a movie since...
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
that was the summer of... 1917.
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And now it's...
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Yes, it's a long time ago.
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I might have wondered why you haven't...
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Stayed in touch.
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After all I made 25 movies in 3 summers,
most of them an economic success.
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Ok, I didn't always get good reviews.
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But my God... that's how it is!
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I mean, the worst time was probably...
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Love's Victories
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when the reviews complained
over Selma's dresses.
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Oh, well...
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But she did look terrible, I know...
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This is how it was:
Selma had gone up to Stockholm
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to find dresses for Love's Victories
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I was stuck with that
damn mother-in-law comedy.
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And she runs into Mojje Stiller
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He was at Leja's Fashion with his little
darling, he was working on...
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eeh... what the hell was the title
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of that disgusting fag movie...
Yes, The Wings!
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Sure, were looking for cute
ladies underwear for it.
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And they meet Selma
and there's kisses and hugging
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a big reunion, well well...
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You know how charming he can be,
that horse face.
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And Selma told them she was
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trying out dresses for Love's Victories
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and then Stiller and that crow
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got all excited and said that
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they would help her with that, sure!
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Everything that Selma
had chosen was dismissed
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and Mojje and the fairy
enjoyed themselves like kings
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in producing the most ugly,
unbecoming, corny
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ludicrous things that they could find
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for the poor chubby, gullible,
and grateful Selma.
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Dresses for 4.800 kronor in the end.
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Almost a fifth of our budget!
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You can imagine what it felt like
when she showed her dress.
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I begged her, pleaded and cried
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but no
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Selma wouldn't budge.
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Stiller was a real artist, a true aesthete
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He knew women...
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He'd taken his time to help look for
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the most beautiful dresses
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for little stupid Selma, and I ought
to be grateful for it, and shut up!
261
00:18:15,167 --> 00:18:18,117
I guess that's where it snapped
between Selma and I.
262
00:18:19,491 --> 00:18:21,787
Sure, we had messed it up a bit
263
00:18:22,708 --> 00:18:24,684
but we had a damn fine friendship.
264
00:18:24,804 --> 00:18:26,940
We cared for each other, we did...
265
00:18:29,881 --> 00:18:31,190
Oh, not at all...
266
00:18:32,151 --> 00:18:34,580
I'm not bitter, no no...
267
00:18:35,114 --> 00:18:37,623
No I'm not bitter in the least.
268
00:18:46,414 --> 00:18:47,976
But it got a bit lonely.
269
00:18:52,496 --> 00:18:54,137
Yeah, Selma ran off...
270
00:18:54,471 --> 00:18:57,288
Sure, heck yeah, that was OK...
271
00:18:57,648 --> 00:18:59,130
That worked out...
272
00:18:59,768 --> 00:19:01,823
I mean, everything works out...
273
00:19:02,277 --> 00:19:03,212
Sure...
274
00:19:04,334 --> 00:19:06,950
"Alles redet sich", as Germans say.
275
00:19:08,899 --> 00:19:11,061
The sands of time heals all wounds
276
00:19:11,569 --> 00:19:14,830
Sure, everything's fine
as long as you make an effort.
277
00:19:14,950 --> 00:19:18,421
You, my Caesar, if anyone, knows that...
278
00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,884
And then there was that awkward
incident during the shooting of...
279
00:19:27,486 --> 00:19:28,420
Eh...
280
00:19:28,714 --> 00:19:29,942
The Decline
281
00:19:31,558 --> 00:19:34,602
The Decline, yeah,
I wrote the script and directed.
282
00:19:34,722 --> 00:19:38,192
It was, let's see... autumn
in Gothenburg, cold as hell
283
00:19:38,938 --> 00:19:41,568
Snow in October in Gothenburg.
Can you believe it?
284
00:19:41,688 --> 00:19:43,143
Snow on the roof of the studio.
285
00:19:44,918 --> 00:19:48,108
Well, the film is about morphine...
286
00:19:49,712 --> 00:19:53,142
I had tried it some,
had an understanding doctor.
287
00:19:55,198 --> 00:19:56,066
Sure...
288
00:19:56,706 --> 00:19:58,335
A tooth root here and...
289
00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:00,942
insomnia too...
290
00:20:01,903 --> 00:20:04,519
It was exhausting, that summer of 1916.
291
00:20:05,414 --> 00:20:07,242
Had to edit the films.
292
00:20:07,896 --> 00:20:10,593
The private life had its way...
293
00:20:17,232 --> 00:20:18,247
So...
294
00:20:19,675 --> 00:20:22,905
So there we are, in the studio...
295
00:20:24,427 --> 00:20:26,576
Gabriel... Sibyl...
296
00:20:27,110 --> 00:20:28,499
You know, Smolova?
297
00:20:28,912 --> 00:20:31,289
That was a woman, Charlie...
298
00:20:32,610 --> 00:20:35,013
But she had her fianc�
in the studio all day
299
00:20:35,133 --> 00:20:37,838
so you couldn't intervene
with a piece of paper, even.
300
00:20:39,213 --> 00:20:40,321
So beautiful...
301
00:20:40,721 --> 00:20:42,737
Sweet and funny...
302
00:20:44,654 --> 00:20:48,499
And then Gabriel is supposed to
say something in the middle of a shoot.
303
00:20:48,751 --> 00:20:51,390
"Look at that", he's supposed to say.
304
00:20:51,848 --> 00:20:55,541
But he gets it wrong,
he says it: "at look that".
305
00:20:56,342 --> 00:20:59,612
And he stares at me
with his bulging fish-eyes...
306
00:21:00,053 --> 00:21:01,521
"At look"!
307
00:21:01,907 --> 00:21:03,308
"At look"!
308
00:21:03,428 --> 00:21:05,017
"At look"!
309
00:21:05,738 --> 00:21:07,954
It was incredibly hilarious, you see.
310
00:21:08,701 --> 00:21:10,957
Gabriel is a great comic talent, he is.
311
00:21:11,750 --> 00:21:13,726
So we all started laughing
312
00:21:14,553 --> 00:21:16,395
and I just can't stop laughing...
313
00:21:17,002 --> 00:21:19,859
I just keep on laughing
314
00:21:20,184 --> 00:21:24,362
and loaf out into the snow
there outside of the studio...
315
00:21:25,445 --> 00:21:27,688
And stand there laughing until...
316
00:21:29,543 --> 00:21:30,985
I pee myself...
317
00:21:32,653 --> 00:21:34,256
Then without knowing it
318
00:21:34,496 --> 00:21:36,659
how the hell it happens I...
319
00:21:37,420 --> 00:21:40,823
start crying uncontrollably,
become dizzy and have to vomit...
320
00:21:43,288 --> 00:21:45,210
I lay down in the snow...
321
00:21:47,867 --> 00:21:49,522
To cool down perhaps...
322
00:21:50,322 --> 00:21:51,590
Because I'm boiling, you see.
323
00:21:51,843 --> 00:21:55,354
the whole cadaver is shaking
and boiling, you see, Charlie...
324
00:21:57,545 --> 00:21:58,706
And then...
325
00:21:59,267 --> 00:22:00,669
Sibyl comes out and...
326
00:22:01,296 --> 00:22:02,901
holds me in her arms and...
327
00:22:03,939 --> 00:22:06,892
and the others carry me inside
to the studio again...
328
00:22:10,024 --> 00:22:12,761
And there was no more shooting that day.
329
00:22:13,722 --> 00:22:16,565
The following two days
Manne G�thson takes over.
330
00:22:17,970 --> 00:22:19,705
But soon I'm on my feet again
331
00:22:20,306 --> 00:22:22,708
and everything is back to normal.
332
00:22:23,349 --> 00:22:24,671
More or less...
333
00:22:28,128 --> 00:22:30,931
But after the shooting
and editing of The Decline
334
00:22:31,051 --> 00:22:33,867
I check in to a resting home
for a month.
335
00:22:36,173 --> 00:22:39,056
There I worked on the scripts
for the following summer.
336
00:22:39,417 --> 00:22:43,248
Mainly with Night Music which was
a great comfort in my solitude.
337
00:22:43,913 --> 00:22:46,996
Well, I didn't want anyone to visit me.
338
00:22:50,621 --> 00:22:51,302
Yes?
339
00:22:54,466 --> 00:22:55,120
Yes...
340
00:22:56,174 --> 00:22:57,402
I'm a bit busy...
341
00:22:58,243 --> 00:22:58,897
No.
342
00:22:59,667 --> 00:23:00,508
84?
343
00:23:01,642 --> 00:23:02,697
84 thousand?
344
00:23:03,071 --> 00:23:04,152
That's good.
345
00:23:05,046 --> 00:23:06,234
By all means.
346
00:23:07,465 --> 00:23:09,214
I am a bit busy now...
347
00:23:16,104 --> 00:23:18,720
Some thought I'd gone completely crazy
348
00:23:19,695 --> 00:23:23,352
and thought that the resting home
was a mental hospital...
349
00:23:24,231 --> 00:23:27,858
But the work on Night Music
became a comfort and a savior.
350
00:23:27,978 --> 00:23:29,967
- You've seen it, haven't you, Charlie?
- What?
351
00:23:30,087 --> 00:23:31,249
Night Music.
352
00:23:31,369 --> 00:23:32,383
Night Music?
353
00:23:32,503 --> 00:23:34,772
You've seen it, haven't you Charlie?
Night Music?
354
00:23:36,491 --> 00:23:37,252
Yes...
355
00:23:38,774 --> 00:23:40,175
It was something of a...
356
00:23:41,043 --> 00:23:43,019
favorite child, or how you say.
357
00:23:43,986 --> 00:23:46,882
He who loves poetry, but cannot write
358
00:23:47,416 --> 00:23:51,901
steals the true poem from the true poet,
and pretends it to be his own.
359
00:23:52,499 --> 00:23:53,807
But he is punished:
360
00:23:53,927 --> 00:23:57,184
He falls down the theatre trap-door
and plunges to death.
361
00:23:57,967 --> 00:24:00,049
I make my movies, Charlie my set lights
362
00:24:00,169 --> 00:24:02,652
my camera work, and I tell the actors
363
00:24:02,772 --> 00:24:05,989
do this, go there,
here you cry, here you rage
364
00:24:06,109 --> 00:24:08,442
and we keep doing it and doing it
365
00:24:08,562 --> 00:24:10,204
and we don't give up!
366
00:24:13,487 --> 00:24:14,742
Then one night...
367
00:24:15,383 --> 00:24:16,633
you sit there...
368
00:24:18,181 --> 00:24:20,448
and if we're lucky, you laugh
369
00:24:21,196 --> 00:24:23,318
where we've decided you will
370
00:24:23,438 --> 00:24:25,921
and cry where we've decided you will.
371
00:24:27,138 --> 00:24:29,448
But you're familiar with that, Charlie.
372
00:24:29,848 --> 00:24:31,517
That's the enigma.
373
00:24:32,077 --> 00:24:34,093
Nowadays there's such nagging about
374
00:24:34,213 --> 00:24:37,326
Art and Literature and higher standards
375
00:24:37,446 --> 00:24:39,179
and all that badger.
376
00:24:39,299 --> 00:24:43,277
Sure, sure, I've read
your views in the magazines
377
00:24:43,914 --> 00:24:46,010
Be my guest, sniveling Sj�str�m.
378
00:24:46,397 --> 00:24:48,626
Fucking do it, faggot Stiller!
379
00:24:49,053 --> 00:24:51,956
Be my guest, emperor Charlie!
Set higher standards
380
00:24:52,076 --> 00:24:55,213
Sail with Art, worship artistry!
381
00:24:55,572 --> 00:24:58,549
I tip my hat, I bow down to the dust
382
00:25:00,471 --> 00:25:02,287
Although both you and I know
383
00:25:02,860 --> 00:25:05,410
that all that it's really about
384
00:25:06,465 --> 00:25:08,627
and that's the laughter and the tears.
385
00:25:08,956 --> 00:25:12,413
Oh do tell me of the alternatives,
you master of all success.
386
00:25:15,095 --> 00:25:18,713
I talk and talk and you just stare at me
with your squinting fish eyes...
387
00:25:18,966 --> 00:25:22,043
I wonder how many you've
scared stiff with that gaze?
388
00:25:23,565 --> 00:25:25,180
Or anti-gaze...
389
00:25:25,887 --> 00:25:27,622
But you don't scare me.
390
00:25:29,328 --> 00:25:31,357
I'm just kidding, Charlie!
391
00:25:31,477 --> 00:25:35,187
You'll allow your old clown to be
a bit cheeky about your greatness?
392
00:25:35,668 --> 00:25:37,457
So you're quiet and I talk
393
00:25:37,577 --> 00:25:39,563
it's very kind of you to listen to me
394
00:25:39,683 --> 00:25:42,633
but maybe we should talk business
now instead of this rubbish?
395
00:25:42,869 --> 00:25:45,512
Do you still have your
big Packard, Charlie?
396
00:25:45,632 --> 00:25:48,516
I heard you ran over some
poor fellow last summer?
397
00:25:48,769 --> 00:25:51,535
Can't be good driving a car
with such bad eyesight, huh?
398
00:25:51,655 --> 00:25:54,125
Then it's much safer to be at sea
399
00:25:54,245 --> 00:25:56,514
in your magnificent cruiser.
400
00:25:56,970 --> 00:25:58,252
There you're powerful, huh?
401
00:25:58,372 --> 00:26:03,031
Standing there, master over the rage
of the 4 elements, like a real Prospero!
402
00:26:03,151 --> 00:26:06,417
You're a Gothenburg Prospero,
aren't you Charlie?
403
00:26:06,871 --> 00:26:09,434
We'll see if you let go
of your wand one day.
404
00:26:09,714 --> 00:26:13,145
Or maybe some fucking Caliban
snatches it from your hand?
405
00:26:13,661 --> 00:26:17,852
Yes you see, Prospero is a
very powerful and noble
406
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,894
damn noble
407
00:26:20,014 --> 00:26:22,216
magician who's the lead tempest...
408
00:26:22,510 --> 00:26:25,231
Lead tempest? He's the lead part
409
00:26:25,351 --> 00:26:27,551
in William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
410
00:26:27,671 --> 00:26:29,566
If William Shakespeare is familiar?
411
00:26:30,060 --> 00:26:32,022
Ah well, now to serious matters.
412
00:26:32,967 --> 00:26:35,343
Now when you for once have summoned me.
413
00:26:36,157 --> 00:26:40,508
Your... letter touched me, Charlie,
I can't deny to that.
414
00:26:41,177 --> 00:26:41,951
It...
415
00:26:42,392 --> 00:26:45,048
sent a ray of warmth through my heart,
especially that part about
416
00:26:45,168 --> 00:26:47,851
"Let us have an open-ended
discussion about the future."
417
00:26:47,971 --> 00:26:51,219
Yes, I thought we'd talk
a bit about the future.
418
00:26:51,339 --> 00:26:54,503
We celebrated with a bottle of
champagne at dinner, my wife and I...
419
00:26:55,448 --> 00:26:57,757
She sends her unfamiliar
regards, by the way.
420
00:26:58,888 --> 00:27:02,158
You should bring your sweet
and dear Emma Wilhelmina
421
00:27:02,612 --> 00:27:05,388
to our home some evening
to have dinner...
422
00:27:08,729 --> 00:27:09,864
Is she...
423
00:27:10,451 --> 00:27:14,229
still as beautiful, Charlie...?
424
00:27:17,006 --> 00:27:20,619
You're really lucky, considering
how awfully ugly you are...
425
00:27:21,353 --> 00:27:25,798
But success has balls
as they say over there...
426
00:27:26,919 --> 00:27:28,721
I'm just kidding, Charlie.
427
00:27:29,467 --> 00:27:32,831
You're a nice person,
a great person, a good person.
428
00:27:32,951 --> 00:27:36,430
You deserve every ounce
of your great success
429
00:27:37,151 --> 00:27:39,273
Old love never wears out.
430
00:27:39,393 --> 00:27:42,397
I fucking revere you
like my own brother.
431
00:27:42,931 --> 00:27:45,373
So you didn't get mad, huh?
432
00:27:46,090 --> 00:27:50,228
You are and will remain my idol.
433
00:27:55,207 --> 00:27:56,169
I think...
434
00:27:56,622 --> 00:27:58,852
I think I need a refill.
435
00:27:59,746 --> 00:28:01,067
You won't mind?
436
00:28:07,013 --> 00:28:09,149
Believe it or not, but I'm a bit...
437
00:28:09,749 --> 00:28:10,790
scared.
438
00:28:11,758 --> 00:28:16,203
You've... become so incredibly big
Charles Magnusson.
439
00:28:24,978 --> 00:28:26,246
Listen here.
440
00:28:29,513 --> 00:28:31,903
Here's a project that's been
441
00:28:32,370 --> 00:28:34,078
carefully thought-out
442
00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:36,121
and that I think will...
443
00:28:36,494 --> 00:28:40,402
I'm certain is going to be a
cinematic sensation, Charlie.
444
00:28:42,150 --> 00:28:43,619
You know how it was...
445
00:28:44,193 --> 00:28:46,378
I left the Liding� studio.
446
00:28:47,233 --> 00:28:50,022
I figure you wanted me
for studio manager?
447
00:28:51,331 --> 00:28:54,214
Well, it didn't work out
between me and Victor...
448
00:28:54,543 --> 00:28:58,828
That cheap, mean, imperious,
modest hypocrite...
449
00:28:59,414 --> 00:29:02,671
So I went to Paris and worked
with Louis Feuillade.
450
00:29:04,188 --> 00:29:06,671
You know, him with
Fantomas and all that?
451
00:29:07,111 --> 00:29:10,609
One day he gave me
this book and said that...
452
00:29:11,486 --> 00:29:13,729
This is something for you, Mr. Georg.
453
00:29:14,583 --> 00:29:16,398
I had shown him my movies
454
00:29:16,518 --> 00:29:20,162
and he was very
appreciative and considerate.
455
00:29:21,012 --> 00:29:21,973
I must say.
456
00:29:22,267 --> 00:29:24,082
This novel, Justine
457
00:29:24,817 --> 00:29:26,805
is about two sisters
458
00:29:27,126 --> 00:29:30,036
both very beautiful and very noble.
459
00:29:31,253 --> 00:29:34,163
Juliette is sinful as hell, you see
460
00:29:34,590 --> 00:29:38,248
and allows herself all kinds of debauchery
461
00:29:38,915 --> 00:29:41,812
while her younger sister, Justine
462
00:29:42,142 --> 00:29:45,198
is a miracle of virtue and decency.
463
00:29:47,361 --> 00:29:49,750
Now the funny thing happens, Charlie
464
00:29:50,177 --> 00:29:52,019
that the tawdry sister
465
00:29:52,936 --> 00:29:56,220
lives a grand life,
becomes very wealthy
466
00:29:56,594 --> 00:29:58,676
and is comfortable in every way.
467
00:29:59,237 --> 00:30:02,160
And the younger sister, how about it...
468
00:30:02,570 --> 00:30:05,440
the one so fucking virtuous,
noble and good
469
00:30:05,853 --> 00:30:09,671
suffers the most bestial tribulations
470
00:30:09,791 --> 00:30:13,128
gets her pinky toes cut off, and so on
471
00:30:13,415 --> 00:30:17,500
until she finally dies.
Incredibly moving, it is...
472
00:30:17,767 --> 00:30:20,223
Here, here's an illustration, Charlie.
473
00:30:22,522 --> 00:30:25,899
That's what Juliette does for fun
on Christmas Eve.
474
00:30:27,434 --> 00:30:29,423
Pretty advanced, huh?
475
00:30:30,052 --> 00:30:33,455
But turn the book around
so you'll see better. There...
476
00:30:35,711 --> 00:30:37,607
Not what we're used to, huh Charlie?
477
00:30:38,141 --> 00:30:40,477
Four gentlemen on one lady...
478
00:30:41,601 --> 00:30:42,923
Maybe it's five?
479
00:30:43,697 --> 00:30:45,152
Maybe that's a she?
480
00:30:46,073 --> 00:30:47,394
You can't see...
481
00:30:47,808 --> 00:30:48,876
It's covered.
482
00:30:49,583 --> 00:30:52,867
I'm not saying we'll do smut, Charlie
483
00:30:52,987 --> 00:30:55,136
That's completely foreign to me.
484
00:30:55,376 --> 00:30:58,753
And what's more, it's impossible
with our twaty censorship.
485
00:30:59,392 --> 00:30:59,993
No no.
486
00:31:00,927 --> 00:31:02,248
This is how I see it:
487
00:31:02,579 --> 00:31:04,474
we build the set like a stage
488
00:31:04,955 --> 00:31:06,049
the curtains rise...
489
00:31:06,516 --> 00:31:09,493
and there's the marquis de Sade
with his book in his hand
490
00:31:09,798 --> 00:31:13,869
telling the tragic and sad story
of the two sisters...
491
00:31:14,380 --> 00:31:17,890
while the scenes are performed
on our small stage.
492
00:31:18,464 --> 00:31:21,521
All the locations are painted
on beautiful backdrops
493
00:31:21,641 --> 00:31:23,857
that can be shifted rapidly.
494
00:31:27,231 --> 00:31:30,274
And we've got the best actors
in the world, Charlie.
495
00:31:32,370 --> 00:31:34,973
Imagine, Mary Johnson
496
00:31:35,414 --> 00:31:37,910
as the innocent sister.
497
00:31:40,809 --> 00:31:43,412
No one would be more perfect than she.
498
00:31:44,947 --> 00:31:46,789
A coming world celebrity, Charlie.
499
00:31:47,336 --> 00:31:50,273
Just a matter of time before
the Americans buy her.
500
00:31:50,885 --> 00:31:53,154
She's got such soulful beauty...
501
00:31:54,062 --> 00:31:57,359
such a gleam in her eyes,
so small and tender.
502
00:31:58,026 --> 00:32:00,042
And yet, she's so womanly...
503
00:32:01,860 --> 00:32:03,569
The mean sister
504
00:32:04,009 --> 00:32:06,666
can be played by Maja Cassel.
505
00:32:08,374 --> 00:32:09,789
Maja Cassel...
506
00:32:11,404 --> 00:32:12,568
Look here...
507
00:32:16,693 --> 00:32:18,068
Her upper arms
508
00:32:18,401 --> 00:32:20,110
her shoulders, Charlie.
509
00:32:22,119 --> 00:32:23,627
Her skin's...
510
00:32:24,628 --> 00:32:25,616
luster.
511
00:32:27,057 --> 00:32:28,165
Her smile.
512
00:32:30,210 --> 00:32:32,479
Here there's hidden sin, I tell you.
513
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:34,855
Secret debauchery.
514
00:32:35,322 --> 00:32:38,245
The crudest indecencies
below the shiny surface.
515
00:32:39,796 --> 00:32:42,399
I'd walk through fire for Maja Cassel.
516
00:32:43,667 --> 00:32:45,651
No no, I haven't been there...
517
00:32:46,252 --> 00:32:49,656
Not laid a finger on her,
or anything else either, no no.
518
00:32:49,776 --> 00:32:53,420
She's leading a wholesome life
with her boring husband.
519
00:32:53,540 --> 00:32:55,421
She's so faithful...
520
00:32:56,193 --> 00:33:00,491
Isn't it those girls who are
the most interesting, Charlie?
521
00:33:01,321 --> 00:33:02,962
Fire under the ice!
522
00:33:04,885 --> 00:33:06,046
See what I mean?
523
00:33:08,609 --> 00:33:09,570
Yeah...
524
00:33:11,943 --> 00:33:15,453
And who would be more
magnificent as the marquis...
525
00:33:16,334 --> 00:33:17,802
than Calle Barklind?
526
00:33:19,711 --> 00:33:22,689
Surely you know that women
are like crazy for Calle?
527
00:33:23,183 --> 00:33:25,959
Huh? They eat his picture
on the morning sandwich.
528
00:33:26,411 --> 00:33:28,987
He's radiating a grieving virility.
529
00:33:29,586 --> 00:33:31,842
He walks as if he...
530
00:33:32,456 --> 00:33:34,966
had something heavy between his legs.
531
00:33:35,527 --> 00:33:39,384
Well he has! I've been in
the sauna with him, and I'll tell you...
532
00:33:40,759 --> 00:33:43,002
Women can sense that, Charlie.
533
00:33:43,602 --> 00:33:45,778
Who the hell knows how it works...
534
00:33:46,462 --> 00:33:47,369
No...
535
00:33:48,023 --> 00:33:53,176
Calle Berglind will give women the right
animal scent by the ticket counter...
536
00:33:55,213 --> 00:33:56,615
Here's the most important thing:
537
00:33:56,735 --> 00:33:59,992
I understand that you don't
want me trashing about
538
00:34:00,112 --> 00:34:03,022
in your new and beautiful
studios in R�sunda.
539
00:34:03,299 --> 00:34:05,582
It would only cause trouble
with Victor and Mojje
540
00:34:05,889 --> 00:34:08,532
Sure, they want their
territory for them selves.
541
00:34:08,863 --> 00:34:11,893
No no, I can respect that
and I accept it.
542
00:34:12,835 --> 00:34:14,357
But listen to this:
543
00:34:14,997 --> 00:34:18,441
The Hasselblad studio at Otterh�llan
in Gothenburg is still there.
544
00:34:18,832 --> 00:34:20,501
I've had a look at it myself.
545
00:34:20,834 --> 00:34:25,260
Sure, it's a bit unpolished after being
empty for more than a year.
546
00:34:25,687 --> 00:34:27,209
But it's easy restore
547
00:34:27,498 --> 00:34:29,180
We'll do that in no time
548
00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:31,770
and I can get all the
technical staff I need.
549
00:34:32,090 --> 00:34:33,371
That's good people
550
00:34:33,692 --> 00:34:36,375
After all, we made 27 films
in three summers!
551
00:34:36,794 --> 00:34:38,142
We know the work...
552
00:34:38,383 --> 00:34:43,135
Hasselblads don't mind leasing their
premises to Svensk Filmindustri.
553
00:34:43,628 --> 00:34:45,257
Otherwise they'll only rot away.
554
00:34:45,537 --> 00:34:47,139
Come on, Charlie, damn it?
555
00:34:47,499 --> 00:34:49,702
This is something marvelous
556
00:34:50,112 --> 00:34:53,676
and I'll give you the full credit
if you'll lend me a hand...
557
00:34:55,344 --> 00:34:56,159
Here...
558
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,893
Here's a calculation
559
00:34:59,013 --> 00:35:01,910
on what this venture will cost you.
560
00:35:02,996 --> 00:35:04,424
All in all...
561
00:35:04,824 --> 00:35:06,680
it's 24.000 gold coins.
562
00:35:07,054 --> 00:35:09,056
And you'll get all the profits.
563
00:35:09,870 --> 00:35:13,007
Well, Hasseblads reserves
the right to a small sum
564
00:35:13,127 --> 00:35:16,651
for possible administration
and maintenance of the studio property.
565
00:35:17,303 --> 00:35:19,626
But that can't be much...
566
00:35:22,603 --> 00:35:24,205
Now you know, Charlie.
567
00:35:26,087 --> 00:35:27,409
Now you know...
568
00:35:28,873 --> 00:35:32,304
Why Jojje has looked upon you
with such nervous eyes.
569
00:35:32,953 --> 00:35:34,982
I become like an old dying dog.
570
00:35:35,286 --> 00:35:38,650
Now you know why my mouth
has jabbered like a runny stool...
571
00:35:40,851 --> 00:35:42,573
I'm no genius, Charlie.
572
00:35:43,173 --> 00:35:44,134
I'm not.
573
00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:48,440
I'm not like those presumed
geniuses Victor and Mojje
574
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:53,686
who fuddles it with their fancy manners
and their loose talk of Art, Art...
575
00:35:55,147 --> 00:35:56,788
I'm no genius, Charlie.
576
00:35:57,870 --> 00:35:59,351
I'm a craftsman.
577
00:35:59,745 --> 00:36:02,361
A damn experienced and good craftsman
578
00:36:02,481 --> 00:36:06,187
I make good everyday commodities,
necessary commodities...
579
00:36:06,572 --> 00:36:09,002
The kind that common people
need in their everyday
580
00:36:09,122 --> 00:36:11,883
to feel a little better,
to forget the bustle
581
00:36:12,284 --> 00:36:14,553
to laugh some, cry some
582
00:36:14,831 --> 00:36:16,460
maybe shiver a little...
583
00:36:17,515 --> 00:36:19,597
But I've made 27 movies, Charlie.
584
00:36:20,278 --> 00:36:21,359
I'm good.
585
00:36:22,836 --> 00:36:24,838
And I can be even better
586
00:36:25,225 --> 00:36:27,561
if only I'm allowed to keep doing it!
587
00:36:32,654 --> 00:36:34,416
I'm only 40 years old.
588
00:36:36,178 --> 00:36:37,899
Well, 42 to be precise.
589
00:36:39,294 --> 00:36:41,657
But I've got lots of drafts,
plans and ideas.
590
00:36:41,777 --> 00:36:43,405
You won't have to pay me a salary
591
00:36:43,525 --> 00:36:45,581
just give me a small sum per film
so I can muddle along.
592
00:36:45,701 --> 00:36:48,488
You won't be troubled by your
small business down in Otterh�llan.
593
00:36:49,009 --> 00:36:53,027
But we'll give you movies, Charlie.
Nice and well made movies...
594
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,404
For your much too numerous
and too large cinemas.
595
00:36:56,922 --> 00:37:00,393
You simply can't do
without us, Charlie...
596
00:37:06,839 --> 00:37:07,814
I am...
597
00:37:08,966 --> 00:37:10,368
I'm strong again.
598
00:37:12,450 --> 00:37:15,173
My weakness... and aridity is gone.
599
00:37:19,494 --> 00:37:20,214
I am...
600
00:37:20,334 --> 00:37:22,710
prepared to deal with the big stuff.
601
00:37:23,898 --> 00:37:26,341
You and your nice boys say...
602
00:37:26,753 --> 00:37:28,675
"We have to call on literature."
603
00:37:28,981 --> 00:37:32,609
"There we find what people of today
need and crave for."
604
00:37:32,729 --> 00:37:34,878
I say: sure, sure, sure!
605
00:37:35,170 --> 00:37:38,734
But hell, do we have to
constantly cling to the skirt
606
00:37:38,854 --> 00:37:40,869
that old twat Ms. Lagerlard?
607
00:37:40,989 --> 00:37:44,391
There are other things, Charlie!
Have you read Heidenstam?
608
00:37:44,830 --> 00:37:46,953
Have you read Hans Alienus?
609
00:37:50,396 --> 00:37:51,210
No, no..
610
00:37:51,544 --> 00:37:53,893
You've had other things to do,
I can tell from your...
611
00:37:54,374 --> 00:37:55,975
attractive office.
612
00:37:56,830 --> 00:37:58,832
And your appealing secretary...
613
00:37:59,623 --> 00:38:02,026
Hans Alienus is the big thing, Charlie
614
00:38:02,346 --> 00:38:05,572
of importance to all of Europe,
to the whole world!
615
00:38:05,812 --> 00:38:10,284
Hans Alienus, on the
humanity within the human.
616
00:38:10,618 --> 00:38:13,688
The searcher, the dreamer,
the adventurer...
617
00:38:14,088 --> 00:38:15,717
A modern Faust!
618
00:38:16,938 --> 00:38:19,994
"I've recounted centuries in a twinkle."
619
00:38:20,956 --> 00:38:24,039
"I know no exuberance with words fitting."
620
00:38:24,612 --> 00:38:26,775
"I come elated, dazzled,
baffled, burning."
621
00:38:26,895 --> 00:38:29,551
"Have played with joyful
youth on meadows."
622
00:38:29,988 --> 00:38:33,632
"Have cried myself to sleep in bliss."
623
00:38:35,140 --> 00:38:36,235
"Hear..."
624
00:38:37,530 --> 00:38:39,011
"rumbling sounds, a dance..."
625
00:38:40,704 --> 00:38:41,852
"Hear..."
626
00:38:42,302 --> 00:38:45,038
"the daughters of Hades, they sing."
627
00:38:54,076 --> 00:38:55,278
Oh, well...
628
00:38:56,858 --> 00:39:01,343
I always shed tears when I reach
Hans Alienus' words on his deathbed.
629
00:39:02,905 --> 00:39:03,866
I don't know...
630
00:39:05,619 --> 00:39:08,115
Some sort of sense of home I think...
631
00:39:11,710 --> 00:39:15,527
Do you see what great cinematography
it could end up being, Charlie?
632
00:39:15,647 --> 00:39:19,411
Hans Alienus in Hellas, on the Venice
carnival, in the underworld...
633
00:39:19,678 --> 00:39:22,014
With his friend Gabriel Alv!
634
00:39:23,034 --> 00:39:25,837
Here... Here's the book.
635
00:39:30,675 --> 00:39:32,851
Read it and be enraptured.
636
00:39:33,492 --> 00:39:36,295
You're a man of big thoughts
and wide horizons.
637
00:39:36,415 --> 00:39:39,525
You're no average Joe,
you're a phenomenon, Charlie.
638
00:39:40,806 --> 00:39:43,035
Don't think of it as just flattery...
639
00:39:43,460 --> 00:39:44,768
But let me...
640
00:39:45,594 --> 00:39:48,359
for once compete with your eaglets.
641
00:39:48,811 --> 00:39:50,412
Just for once!
642
00:39:52,796 --> 00:39:55,052
If I fail you're welcome to
make me a flunky again.
643
00:39:55,172 --> 00:39:58,549
Then I'll humbly return to the small
farces with mothers-in-laws
644
00:39:58,669 --> 00:40:00,858
loony fox terriers and underpants...
645
00:40:02,810 --> 00:40:03,971
It's a deal!
646
00:40:04,265 --> 00:40:06,294
It's a deal, Charlie!
647
00:40:06,587 --> 00:40:10,712
Then we ratify our deal
with a magnificent dinner
648
00:40:10,965 --> 00:40:12,968
like in the good old days.
649
00:40:13,376 --> 00:40:16,126
We'll bring the sweetest girls.
650
00:40:16,246 --> 00:40:18,128
This'll be fun, Charlie!
651
00:40:20,695 --> 00:40:25,083
You might need some social
contact as a change
652
00:40:25,352 --> 00:40:28,022
instead of your soulful giants...
653
00:40:28,286 --> 00:40:30,195
Those bank managers...
654
00:40:30,756 --> 00:40:32,584
And that icy...
655
00:40:34,811 --> 00:40:37,481
dragon Ivar Kreuger.
656
00:40:37,601 --> 00:40:40,552
How the hell can you align
with such a nasty one, Charlie?
657
00:40:40,672 --> 00:40:43,215
Before you know it, he'll devour you.
658
00:40:43,335 --> 00:40:47,099
One gulp and you'll end up
being nothing but a heap of trash.
659
00:40:53,199 --> 00:40:55,201
Excuse me for talking...
660
00:40:57,124 --> 00:40:58,245
Take me...
661
00:40:58,659 --> 00:41:01,568
Use me... Try me...
662
00:41:02,493 --> 00:41:06,204
It'll cost you peanuts
and you'll get plenty in return.
663
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:08,695
I beg you, Charlie...
664
00:41:09,870 --> 00:41:11,432
I'll get down on my knees.
665
00:41:13,060 --> 00:41:15,566
The gesture might look
a bit artificial, I presume.
666
00:41:15,686 --> 00:41:18,890
But it fully equals
my despair and my hopes.
667
00:41:19,010 --> 00:41:21,448
Brother Charlie, use your wisdom
668
00:41:21,568 --> 00:41:23,584
show your rumored generosity
669
00:41:23,704 --> 00:41:26,014
show your heart like I know you can
670
00:41:26,134 --> 00:41:30,097
and reach me your hand, help me up
and give me my life back!
671
00:41:30,335 --> 00:41:31,990
You're the only one who can help me.
672
00:41:32,110 --> 00:41:36,595
All others are gone dead, eaten,
you've squashed everyone around you.
673
00:41:36,715 --> 00:41:40,851
You're the champion and the only one
who can give me my life back.
674
00:41:40,971 --> 00:41:43,879
Sure I've said that already,
but it can be repeated.
675
00:41:46,030 --> 00:41:47,511
This'll have to do...
676
00:41:48,499 --> 00:41:50,608
I've taken enough of your time.
677
00:41:51,222 --> 00:41:52,891
This'll have to do...
678
00:41:53,238 --> 00:41:55,190
Now you know where I stand, Charlie.
679
00:41:55,310 --> 00:41:58,193
And now you know that my life since
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
680
00:41:58,313 --> 00:42:00,554
isn't much of a life.
681
00:42:00,674 --> 00:42:03,864
I've humiliated myself
beyond the limits of decency.
682
00:42:04,114 --> 00:42:06,637
And I'm rather pleased with
having humiliated myself.
683
00:42:07,865 --> 00:42:10,065
Did you know that
I've got three brothers?
684
00:42:10,185 --> 00:42:12,495
All big shots in Swedish society.
685
00:42:13,387 --> 00:42:17,124
Professors, Justices of the
Supreme Court, generals...
686
00:42:17,750 --> 00:42:21,047
If they see me, they cross the street.
687
00:42:28,323 --> 00:42:29,311
Empty...
688
00:42:29,565 --> 00:42:32,488
and tanked up, my dear Movitz.
689
00:42:33,885 --> 00:42:36,248
The bells of death are tolling...
690
00:42:40,359 --> 00:42:43,055
By the way, Charlie,
do you remember Emma?
691
00:42:45,175 --> 00:42:45,896
No.
692
00:42:46,016 --> 00:42:47,672
Emma Andersson, out on Liding�?
693
00:42:47,792 --> 00:42:52,103
Who was always around to assist us,
kind and big and clumsy and cheerful.
694
00:42:53,118 --> 00:42:54,573
She was cute too
695
00:42:54,938 --> 00:42:56,700
with her tiny upturned nose
696
00:42:56,940 --> 00:42:59,009
small elegant breasts and...
697
00:42:59,450 --> 00:43:00,664
an ass that...
698
00:43:02,026 --> 00:43:04,081
You don't remember Emma, Charlie?
699
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,071
No, I do not remember Emma.
700
00:43:09,311 --> 00:43:10,659
No, Emma she...
701
00:43:12,127 --> 00:43:13,943
she always talked about her...
702
00:43:15,565 --> 00:43:17,587
underwater boat.
703
00:43:18,248 --> 00:43:20,277
No one understood what she meant.
704
00:43:21,345 --> 00:43:24,998
She always laughed when she spoke
of that underwater boat.
705
00:43:27,601 --> 00:43:29,416
And then she came to us at...
706
00:43:30,511 --> 00:43:32,393
Hasselblads in Gothenburg.
707
00:43:33,448 --> 00:43:36,171
She was a bit frayed, but still cheerful
708
00:43:36,910 --> 00:43:38,034
helpful...
709
00:43:38,298 --> 00:43:39,460
shrewd...
710
00:43:40,704 --> 00:43:42,025
One day I...
711
00:43:42,919 --> 00:43:45,629
asked her about her underwater boat.
712
00:43:46,990 --> 00:43:51,232
If she still had it and if she was
going to use it here in the Western Sea.
713
00:43:52,316 --> 00:43:54,799
She smiled gently and said...
714
00:43:55,754 --> 00:43:59,518
Yes, she would go for a ride
on Saturday, all by herself.
715
00:44:01,596 --> 00:44:05,254
And Emma did. She went to S�r�
and rented a small rowboat.
716
00:44:07,576 --> 00:44:10,062
A beautiful, cold day in the fall.
717
00:44:11,347 --> 00:44:13,416
The sea was completely calm...
718
00:44:14,658 --> 00:44:16,347
Only light swells...
719
00:44:18,275 --> 00:44:20,032
Emma rowed out a bit
720
00:44:21,424 --> 00:44:22,892
looked into the sun
721
00:44:24,974 --> 00:44:27,964
Sat there for a long while,
looking into the sun...
722
00:44:28,939 --> 00:44:30,857
and let herself be blinded.
723
00:44:33,501 --> 00:44:37,439
Then she chained her right
arm to the thwart...
724
00:44:39,374 --> 00:44:41,497
threw the oars overboard...
725
00:44:43,971 --> 00:44:46,011
and pulled out the drain plug.
726
00:44:50,398 --> 00:44:51,817
And Emma sank.
727
00:44:55,617 --> 00:44:56,805
And the sun...
728
00:44:58,049 --> 00:44:59,688
in the darkening sea
729
00:45:05,481 --> 00:45:07,537
That was Emma's underwater boat.
730
00:45:11,948 --> 00:45:15,286
Well, now I'll examine your
cabinet one last time and...
731
00:45:15,828 --> 00:45:18,484
see if there's something soothing.
732
00:45:21,032 --> 00:45:23,501
Soothing for a thirsty devil...
733
00:45:30,121 --> 00:45:31,709
What fine cognac.
734
00:45:32,977 --> 00:45:34,192
I didn't know...
735
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:36,654
You remember?
736
00:45:36,774 --> 00:45:39,164
The gunpowder magazine on Liding�...
737
00:45:40,362 --> 00:45:42,898
The four holes in the ladies room
738
00:45:43,138 --> 00:45:44,911
where you and I, from beneath,
739
00:45:45,031 --> 00:45:48,688
practiced studies in
comparative anatomy...
740
00:45:51,450 --> 00:45:55,281
Cheers for Selma's sweet rosy ass.
741
00:45:55,786 --> 00:45:59,243
The???
742
00:45:59,681 --> 00:46:00,976
you might say...
743
00:46:04,365 --> 00:46:05,126
Well...
744
00:46:05,886 --> 00:46:07,141
Now I'll leave.
745
00:46:07,769 --> 00:46:10,599
You can keep the book
about the two sisters.
746
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:15,770
I imagine your French is...
shall we say, a bit insufficient.
747
00:46:15,890 --> 00:46:19,908
But you can always look at the pictures
with your sweet Emma Wilhelmina.
748
00:46:20,290 --> 00:46:22,813
Here's also a script
749
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,296
properly typed in 38 scenes.
750
00:46:25,416 --> 00:46:28,059
Then you can call me some day,
I'll be waiting by the phone.
751
00:46:28,179 --> 00:46:30,608
The number is at the bottom
of the last page.
752
00:46:31,621 --> 00:46:33,904
I hope the phone won't be shut down.
753
00:46:34,157 --> 00:46:36,787
That's happened now and then
in recent times...
754
00:46:38,175 --> 00:46:39,924
Farewell then, my brother.
755
00:46:41,052 --> 00:46:42,667
May God be with you.
756
00:46:45,390 --> 00:46:50,142
Hey Magnusson... I worry about
your future, you know.
757
00:46:50,804 --> 00:46:53,954
If you hadn't been so
charmingly illiterate
758
00:46:54,515 --> 00:46:57,812
I could have referred to Greek tragedy
759
00:46:58,061 --> 00:47:02,212
where the gods are angered by persons
who believe themselves to be gods
760
00:47:03,187 --> 00:47:04,962
It was called hubris
761
00:47:05,906 --> 00:47:07,681
if that word might be familiar...
762
00:47:08,841 --> 00:47:11,937
Farewell! Farewell!
763
00:47:12,057 --> 00:47:15,461
Farewell! Farewell!
764
00:47:18,333 --> 00:47:19,505
We'll never...
765
00:47:20,504 --> 00:47:22,253
meet again, Charlie.
766
00:47:23,158 --> 00:47:24,486
I know that.
767
00:47:25,159 --> 00:47:29,453
You've flushed me down the
cinematographic crapper for eternity.
768
00:47:30,697 --> 00:47:35,334
For you I'm just a broken
old ghost out of the past.
769
00:47:36,580 --> 00:47:39,422
Isn't it so, my former brother?
770
00:47:49,727 --> 00:47:52,569
So that's what you look like nowadays?
771
00:47:53,350 --> 00:47:55,068
My poor traitor.
772
00:47:56,114 --> 00:47:58,097
My poor Judas.
773
00:47:59,676 --> 00:48:02,393
Do you understand
that I feel sorry for you?
774
00:48:03,518 --> 00:48:07,843
For you've got nothing left.
You've sold your good soul for power.
775
00:48:09,531 --> 00:48:10,780
Look at me.
776
00:48:14,950 --> 00:48:16,043
Look at me.
777
00:48:19,853 --> 00:48:21,243
You look at me.
778
00:48:21,905 --> 00:48:22,982
You think:
779
00:48:23,419 --> 00:48:26,839
He's gone crazy,
that damn lunatic Klercker.
780
00:48:28,073 --> 00:48:31,305
It's buzzing inside
that well cut head of yours.
781
00:48:31,649 --> 00:48:34,178
I better stay completely still.
782
00:48:46,790 --> 00:48:48,633
And you keep distance.
783
00:48:49,226 --> 00:48:50,303
Distance...
784
00:48:51,147 --> 00:48:52,146
Distance...
785
00:48:57,229 --> 00:48:59,259
Even when you're humping, Charlie.
786
00:48:59,821 --> 00:49:03,615
That's confirmed by our
mutual friend Adelina Gredelina.
787
00:49:04,443 --> 00:49:06,442
You do remember Adelina?
788
00:49:07,174 --> 00:49:09,766
She's told me that you've invented
a humping technique
789
00:49:10,012 --> 00:49:12,682
where you only touch
each other with your genitals.
790
00:49:12,947 --> 00:49:16,169
And when the act is over you run
to the bathroom and was and wash
791
00:49:16,289 --> 00:49:18,813
because you're so damn afraid of germs.
792
00:49:19,436 --> 00:49:21,785
Good afternoon, good afternoon!
793
00:49:22,292 --> 00:49:25,629
Good afternoon, manager Magnusson.
794
00:49:25,925 --> 00:49:30,087
You poor little wretch, with all your
flower plants with names you don't know
795
00:49:30,207 --> 00:49:34,660
your lamentable piano playing
and all shelves with unread books.
796
00:49:35,047 --> 00:49:37,664
And your sailing boat
that keeps on hitting ground
797
00:49:37,902 --> 00:49:40,211
What sort of part was it
that you wanted to have?
798
00:49:40,491 --> 00:49:42,534
You silver haired upstart.
799
00:49:43,011 --> 00:49:44,213
Can you tell me?
800
00:49:45,215 --> 00:49:48,685
I read a statement by you
in the newspaper
801
00:49:48,805 --> 00:49:51,929
where you said that your father
was an architect.
802
00:49:52,563 --> 00:49:55,473
What a story, Charlie.
803
00:49:55,780 --> 00:49:58,664
Your father was a petty drawer
of the most simple class
804
00:49:58,784 --> 00:50:00,545
named Salomon Magnusson,
half Jew I'd guess
805
00:50:00,665 --> 00:50:03,401
and you occupied two
small rooms up in Majorna!
806
00:50:05,102 --> 00:50:07,118
So you're rabble, Magnusson.
807
00:50:07,905 --> 00:50:09,681
Not for being from below
808
00:50:09,933 --> 00:50:12,604
but because you deny your descent
809
00:50:12,724 --> 00:50:16,433
and that's cheap, Magnusson.
That's the cheapest there is!
810
00:50:17,326 --> 00:50:18,621
But that'll hit back on you.
811
00:50:19,088 --> 00:50:23,373
For when the hard times come,
and the will come, be so sure
812
00:50:23,493 --> 00:50:26,132
when the hard times come
813
00:50:26,252 --> 00:50:29,065
you will blow away,
because then you're a nobody!
814
00:51:11,316 --> 00:51:12,264
Yes.
815
00:51:12,995 --> 00:51:14,747
It's completely true.
816
00:51:14,867 --> 00:51:16,602
Completely real.
817
00:51:18,001 --> 00:51:21,660
It is death looking at you
through this small machine.
818
00:51:22,314 --> 00:51:24,035
Equipped with two shots
819
00:51:24,738 --> 00:51:26,714
One for you, and one for me.
820
00:51:27,950 --> 00:51:30,848
This is neither a contemptible
melodrama by Hasselblads
821
00:51:30,968 --> 00:51:33,704
or a brilliant piecemeal by Svenska Bio
822
00:51:34,465 --> 00:51:37,468
but a well planned
scene out of cruel life.
823
00:51:38,786 --> 00:51:41,803
A poetic and notable scene,
Charles Magnusson.
824
00:51:43,525 --> 00:51:44,900
You've taken my life...
825
00:51:46,008 --> 00:51:48,197
Now, I'll take your life.
826
00:52:04,650 --> 00:52:08,748
I promise there won't be any stains
on the expensive Persian rug.
827
00:52:09,188 --> 00:52:11,284
Or the elegant Bonnard.
828
00:52:11,750 --> 00:52:14,607
Maybe some brain splatter
on the desk pad
829
00:52:14,727 --> 00:52:17,036
in front of you, manager Magnusson.
830
00:52:18,023 --> 00:52:20,373
It'll all go quick and easy,
I can assure you.
831
00:52:20,758 --> 00:52:23,107
But raising your hands won't help.
832
00:52:23,227 --> 00:52:25,697
Try to act with calm
and dignity instead.
833
00:52:26,306 --> 00:52:30,284
After all, you've accomplished
great things, be grateful for that.
834
00:52:31,138 --> 00:52:35,637
You should also be grateful
that I end your life at its peak.
835
00:52:36,388 --> 00:52:40,126
All that remains now is the decline
and the disasters of life.
836
00:52:41,367 --> 00:52:44,277
Don't keep on shaking
like that, Magnusson
837
00:52:44,746 --> 00:52:47,055
Don't try to hide under the table.
838
00:52:48,372 --> 00:52:49,947
I can't deny
839
00:52:50,214 --> 00:52:53,244
that this is an utterly satisfying moment
840
00:52:53,604 --> 00:52:55,433
in my poor lost life.
841
00:52:56,461 --> 00:52:58,623
Even if it has to be the last.
842
00:53:24,190 --> 00:53:25,676
I beg you, Charlie!
843
00:53:26,317 --> 00:53:27,972
I beg you!
844
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:31,416
Be merciful, we were friends!
845
00:53:32,399 --> 00:53:35,496
Be merciful, I beg you, Charlie!
846
00:53:35,616 --> 00:53:37,352
I beg you!
847
00:53:38,833 --> 00:53:39,754
Beg you!
848
00:53:49,450 --> 00:53:50,265
Ms. Holm!
849
00:53:50,505 --> 00:53:52,174
Send in janitor Lindblad!
850
00:53:52,294 --> 00:53:53,562
At once!
851
00:53:55,892 --> 00:53:57,401
No, the janitor!
852
00:54:01,775 --> 00:54:02,709
No, no...
853
00:54:03,630 --> 00:54:05,299
Not that humiliation.
854
00:54:05,846 --> 00:54:07,715
Not the janitor, God damn it!
855
00:54:08,475 --> 00:54:10,635
I'll be fine, don't you worry Charlie.
856
00:54:11,396 --> 00:54:15,627
Don't you worry, Magnusson.
I'll walk myself out.
857
00:54:48,100 --> 00:54:49,125
Ms. Holm?
858
00:54:49,245 --> 00:54:51,061
No, no need for the janitor.
859
00:54:51,661 --> 00:54:55,065
Yes, I understand that he's on lunch,
it's another matter.
860
00:54:55,797 --> 00:54:59,468
Who's the head of the free ticket
committee this year, I can't remember?
861
00:55:00,386 --> 00:55:02,455
Yes, that's right, Hedberg...
862
00:55:02,786 --> 00:55:06,216
Can Ms. Holm call Hedberg
and give a message from me
863
00:55:06,563 --> 00:55:08,632
that af Klercker's free pass
864
00:55:09,286 --> 00:55:12,953
at Swedish movie theatres is to be
revoked from the 1st of January.
865
00:55:13,446 --> 00:55:15,382
Yes, Hedberg can write...
866
00:55:16,837 --> 00:55:18,519
"Owing to the circumstances",
that's enough.
867
00:55:19,144 --> 00:55:22,869
Yes, I'm off to lunch now and will
be back at 14. Good day, Ms. Holm.64977
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