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[narrator] They say it's a nation of laws.
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But, uh, what governs everything in
the universe is the law of contradictions.
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It's how I, Huey P. Newton,
was set free into a prison.
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It's how the image captured the man.
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Contradictions that would have me
south of the border running for my life.
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The conditions of hate,
forcing me to flee with true love.
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The Black Panther Party founder
with two Hollywood producers.
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While the government of life, liberty
and pursuit of happiness...
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- [grunts]
- [bangs]
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[Huey] ...pursues us for exercising
our rights based on their laws.
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Contradictions. Murderous feds
posing as, uh, peaceful hippies.
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A war-mongering nation declaring us
the greatest threat to its security.
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All power to the people!
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[federal officer] Huey!
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[Huey] Contradictions.
When they stop, life ceases.
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And contrary to propagated belief,
I'm not living to die.
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But I am refusing
to live without liberation.
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[gunshot]
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The story I'm about to tell you is true.
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At least, uh, mostly true--
At least how I remember it.
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- [doorbell rings]
- [knocks]
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{\an8}[Huey] But it is coming
through the lens of Hollywood,
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{\an8}so let's see how much of my story
they are really willing to show.
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[producer] Huey?
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What's happening?
Why are you dressed like that?
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[pants] The FBI is after me,
say I killed some girl. Some bullshit.
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[breathes heavily]
I gotta get off the street.
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Were you followed?
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I think we're clear.
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[producer] Hey, Jeffrey.
Go out back, peek over the hedges,
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and see if anyone suspicious
is parked on the street.
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[Jeffrey] Sure, Dad.
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- What the fuck is going on?
- They framed him.
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- You know the feds are watching me too.
- What are you talking about?
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Since we got back from China,
they've been tracking my movements.
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I got a copy of my FBI file.
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- You see? You see?
- [partner] It's okay.
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[producer] By morning, you're gonna be
number one on the most wanted list.
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The first place they're gonna look
is right here.
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Right. Right.
So where am I supposed to go?
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[doorbell rings]
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[Huey] Bert took Gwen and I to the dude
who's been cleaning up his shit
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since they were five years old,
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his producing partner, Steve Blauner.
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I didn't know I was having company.
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Come on in.
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You can't have an accused killer
in this house, Steve. I will leave you.
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Go back to your ex-wife if you wanna play
fucking cops and robbers.
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Your brother stayed here for a month,
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- stunk up the place with flatulence--
- Oh, come on. Don't even.
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I had to throw that mattress away.
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- Listen. What Steve's trying to say--
- [spouse] Stay out of it Bert. You--
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Do you know that he's got
hemorrhoids because of you?
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- Jesus fucking Christ.
- I cause hemorrhoids?
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[spouse] Oh, yeah. Stress.
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When a person gets stressed,
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they tighten up their sphincter
and put pressure on the rectum.
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Steve's had hemorrhoids
since he was seven.
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This is bullshit.
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I'll be in the john
moisturizing my asshole.
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Okay. We're good.
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{\an8}A massive nationwide manhunt
is now underway.
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Huey P. Newton,
the co-founder of the Black Panther Party
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{\an8}is wanted in the shooting
of a 17-year-old Bay Area prostitute.
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{\an8}Oakland police are searching for
a burgundy '56 Pontiac
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with the license plate H7J...
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[sighs]
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- [grunts, breathes deeply]
- It's all gonna be okay.
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It is all gonna be okay.
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- [breathes deeply]
- Yeah.
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[inhales deeply, sighs]
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[Huey]
This was not my first run-in with the law.
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{\an8}My family moved to Oakland from Louisiana
when I was seven,
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{\an8}expecting it to be different.
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Within two hours
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the cops pulled my pops out of the car
and roughed him up in front of us.
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- [crash]
- [parent grunts]
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[Huey] Now you might see
the police as protection,
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but to us they're an occupying army
in our community.
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Now, fast-forward to 1967,
and ain't nothing changed.
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[Huey] Police were still beating
and killing Black people in the streets.
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But Bobby and I decided
to do something about it.
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So, what California statute says
it's illegal to shoot a whale
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from a moving car or a-- a crop duster?
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A crop duster? Nah, man.
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It's illegal to shoot any game
or marine mammal from a car,
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unless it's a whale.
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It's 3002.
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Goddamn. [laughs]
Now, why did they do that?
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A better question, how you know that?
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- Got my head in the books, man.
- [scoffs]
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Say, what you, uh-- What you think about
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Black Panther Party
For Revolutionary Action?
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I don't know, brother.
That's a whole lot of words.
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[chuckles]
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Hey, brother, we getting low on gas, man.
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- How much longer do you wanna do this?
- Whoa. Right there.
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[police radio chatter]
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That's Lil Bobby from the center.
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[officer] The fuck is this?
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Who the hell do you think you are?
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- The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
- The what?
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- You heard me.
- Drop your weapons.
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- [scoffs]
- [cocks gun]
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We here to make sure that this citizen's
rights are not being violated.
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You have no basis in law
to take my weapon.
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California code 119.2 says
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I have the right
to carry this weapon on public property,
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so long as it is not being concealed
or brandished in a threatening manner.
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Call for backup.
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[Huey] Man, the cops did not like this.
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But the community did.
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And the party took off.
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You know, I was thinking,
I get my own gun.
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And be out there with you and Bobby,
patrolling the police.
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You know, that's where it's at.
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[chuckles]
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Slow down, young blood.
Your time will come.
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Dig it, man. The party is,
uh-- is an organization, right?
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And organizations have structures.
Members have, uh, positions.
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And everybody's gotta contribute
in their own way.
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Now, your, uh-- your mama tells me
that you, uh, pretty good at math?
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Sound like a treasurer to me.
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Well, I can be a treasurer if you want,
but that's not revolutionary. You know?
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I wanna be out in the streets too.
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Yeah, see... Che?
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Che was a revolutionary and a doctor.
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Fanon was a revolutionary
and a psychiatrist.
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And now, Lil Bobby can be
a revolutionary and a treasurer. You dig?
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Tell me, man. What, uh--
What is that's got you so, uh--
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so fired up to go out there
and risk your life?
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I-- I'm sick of white people treating us
like three-fifths a person.
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I'm sick of police hitting us
in the back of the head.
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And I'm tired of the mold in my apartment.
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I wanna change it all.
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What do you think? Is that possible?
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I think-- I think that
if we can organize the people,
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I think that if we can, uh,
listen to the people
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and if we can fight for the people--
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and if young cats like you, right,
get out there and carry the baton,
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man, I don't think there's anything
we can't accomplish. You dig?
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- Yeah.
- Yeah.
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[Huey] Folks joined from all over.
Kids like Lil Bobby.
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But when white folks saw Black people
with guns, Ronald Reagan flipped out.
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I see no reason why, on the street today,
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a citizen should be carrying
a loaded weapon.
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[Huey] We went to the State Capitol to,
uh, debate the bill.
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And we believe this racist law
was designed
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to keep Black people unarmed
against the fascist police
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who continue to brutalize us
on a daily basis.
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[Huey] But the NRA and GOP teamed up
to pass gun control.
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Mm-hmm. Contradictions.
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When Malcolm X's widow arrived on
the anniversary of her husband's death,
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we showed up at the airport
to provide escort.
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That's when Eldridge Cleaver became
a Panther.
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And I became a symbol of the party,
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{\an8}which put me in the crosshairs of every
cop in the country.
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{\an8}[siren wailing]
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- [car doors open, close]
- [Panther] This shit again.
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Cowardly motherfucker.
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[police radio chatter]
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Well, well. The great Huey P. Newton.
Step out of the car.
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- Why? I'm not stepping out of my car, man.
- Get out of the car.
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What's the cause for getting me
out of my car? Did I break any laws?
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Step out of the car.
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Be cool, man. Be cool, be cool.
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- Right there's fine.
- Why you hassling me, man?
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- You go right there.
- Man, why you hassling me?
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- Excuse me? What did you say to me?
- Am I under arrest?
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- Am I under arrest?
- Where's your gun, Huey?
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- I thought you had a gun.
- Nobody said nothing about no gun.
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- You the motherfucker with a gun.
- Thought you fuckers carried guns.
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This racist-ass motherfucker
talking about a gun?
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If I did have a gun, pig,
I have a right to carry a gun.
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- Article one, section one...
- Fuck is this?
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...of the California constitution
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guarantees my right to, uh, defend
myself, my life, and my liberty.
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I don't give a fuck about
your life and your liberty.
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- I will do so under the second amendment--
- This nigger's got a gun.
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- You a fucking racist-ass pig.
- You got a gun. This nigger's got a gun.
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- Nigger? Are you saying "nigger"?
- Yeah, you got a--
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- [gunfire]
- [grunts]
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[gunfire]
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[Huey] They said I had a gun.
But I didn't.
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They said I killed a cop.
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Lot of bullets was flying that night,
but none was mine.
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- Didn't matter.
- [buzzer sounds]
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[grunting]
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[Huey] Threw me in the soul breaker.
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[grunts]
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[grunts] Fuck you, pig. [sighs]
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[Huey] Three years in solitary
for a murder I didn't commit.
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[breathing shakily]
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[Huey] My mind was, uh... [sighs]
...torn apart.
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Everything I did wrong,
every regret, every fear.
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[crying]
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[grunting, shouting]
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[Huey] Then I heard what happened
to Lil Bobby.
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They wanted to see me destroyed.
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[sobs] Our freedom for our
political prisoners. Our Black-- [mumbles]
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We want the end of police brutality--
[screams]
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End of police brutality.
[breathes shakily]
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[Huey] I couldn't give 'em that.
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Yet somewhere deep inside,
I knew I had to fight.
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For him and for everyone who needed us.
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Somehow the message,
the, uh, ideas, they brought me back.
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[breathing heavily]
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[Huey] They tried to break me
but they couldn't do it.
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I-I got-- I got my mind right.
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[keys jingling]
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[Huey] Then my conviction was overturned,
so they did what they did,
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what they had to do.
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Cleaned me up, and said I was free to go.
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Free? [scoffs] Yeah, right.
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I was set free a marked man,
and worse, a goddamn idol.
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[supporters chanting] Free Huey!
Free Huey!
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{\an8}[supporters cheering]
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{\an8}["Give the People What They Want" playing]
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{\an8}Power to the people! Whoo-hoo!
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More power to the people!
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[Steve] Let's just do what we gotta do.
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- Bert, studio wants to stunt cast this.
- [producer] They want Monte Landis.
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- I think we should think about Rock.
- [producer] Hudson?
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[Steve] No, the Rock of Gibraltar.
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[Huey]
"Celebrity" is its own kind of prison.
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[shushes]
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[Huey] But that's how
these producers took notice.
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- Bert Schneider and, uh, Steve Blauner.
- I am free!
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[Huey] See, Bert's dad ran Columbia.
230
00:14:15,314 --> 00:14:18,400
{\an8}He scored his pops a-a cash-cow
with the Monkees,
231
00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,069
{\an8}but wanted to kill the golden goose
to make a biker pic.
232
00:14:21,778 --> 00:14:25,782
With all you have,
and all the meshugas in this world,
233
00:14:26,408 --> 00:14:28,493
can't you just leave it alone
and enjoy your life?
234
00:14:30,495 --> 00:14:31,788
Like you did, Pop?
235
00:14:32,372 --> 00:14:35,709
[Huey] Bert's father remained silent
during the McCarthy trials.
236
00:14:35,709 --> 00:14:38,420
Some of us can't just sit on the side.
237
00:14:39,838 --> 00:14:40,839
[scoffs]
238
00:14:42,966 --> 00:14:46,553
I'll distribute the stupid biker thing,
but I'm not paying for it.
239
00:14:46,553 --> 00:14:48,305
It's your money, your bet.
240
00:14:49,306 --> 00:14:51,517
Mine is, you're gonna lose your shirt.
241
00:14:52,768 --> 00:14:56,146
Bullshit. There's gonna be lines
around the block.
242
00:14:56,730 --> 00:14:59,566
[Huey] That stupid biker thing turned out
to be Easy Rider.
243
00:14:59,566 --> 00:15:01,985
And there were indeed lines
around the block.
244
00:15:01,985 --> 00:15:03,445
[supporters cheering]
245
00:15:03,445 --> 00:15:06,865
Talk about a star.
That guy's a fucking star.
246
00:15:07,658 --> 00:15:08,575
Here we go.
247
00:15:09,618 --> 00:15:11,828
[Huey] Bert was tired
of cultural revolutionaries,
248
00:15:11,828 --> 00:15:14,998
and when he saw me he saw cinema verité.
249
00:15:15,624 --> 00:15:17,668
- [chuckles] Real revolution.
- Right on!
250
00:15:17,668 --> 00:15:20,754
[Huey] Ho Chi Minh in the home land.
[chuckles]
251
00:15:20,754 --> 00:15:22,714
And he-- And he could never turn that off.
252
00:15:26,635 --> 00:15:29,596
{\an8}Say, man, who--
who are all these people, man?
253
00:15:29,596 --> 00:15:31,974
{\an8}I don't know who half these people are.
Where--Where's Gwen?
254
00:15:31,974 --> 00:15:34,476
{\an8}Gwen's with the kids,
but it's good to have you back, brother.
255
00:15:34,476 --> 00:15:36,854
{\an8}Ain't out the woods yet, man.
Still got another trial.
256
00:15:36,854 --> 00:15:38,647
Another expensive trial.
257
00:15:38,647 --> 00:15:43,026
Between you, Ericka, George Jackson,
the Siete de la Raza, it all adds up.
258
00:15:44,069 --> 00:15:45,654
[Panther] Hell, we need gas.
259
00:15:45,654 --> 00:15:48,198
Help get folks up
to see our comrades in prison.
260
00:15:48,198 --> 00:15:49,241
I hear that, sister.
261
00:15:49,241 --> 00:15:51,201
I know y'all hear that,
but are you listening?
262
00:15:51,201 --> 00:15:52,744
We're running on empty.
263
00:15:53,412 --> 00:15:59,293
I got somebody to help lighten the load
on legal fees, gas, you name it.
264
00:15:59,293 --> 00:16:00,669
Anything else you might need.
265
00:16:00,669 --> 00:16:03,630
[Huey] Teressa was a rising star
within the party.
266
00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,383
[Huey] Who the hell is Berton Jerome?
267
00:16:06,383 --> 00:16:08,552
Bert Schneider. A friend of Elaine's.
268
00:16:08,552 --> 00:16:11,180
- Wonderbread?
- Whole lot of bread.
269
00:16:11,180 --> 00:16:14,516
Produces movies.
Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces.
270
00:16:14,516 --> 00:16:17,311
Got one coming out later this fall, uh,
Last Picture Show.
271
00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,860
The party could use Bert's money
to support the survival programs.
272
00:16:24,860 --> 00:16:27,738
Hollywood is the fast track
to capitalist co-optation.
273
00:16:27,738 --> 00:16:29,281
[Panther 2] You got that right.
274
00:16:29,781 --> 00:16:31,033
[Panther 3] You disagree?
275
00:16:31,033 --> 00:16:33,869
He wants in.
He's willing to do whatever it takes.
276
00:16:33,869 --> 00:16:36,788
White mother country radicals already
in the movement, brother.
277
00:16:37,331 --> 00:16:39,750
Look at the Freedom Riders,
Young Patriots.
278
00:16:39,750 --> 00:16:41,960
They got a role to play
if they willing to play.
279
00:16:42,794 --> 00:16:44,838
Sounds like something to consider,
Brother Huey.
280
00:16:48,342 --> 00:16:49,801
Let me explain something to you.
281
00:16:51,512 --> 00:16:54,264
All right. Them Appalachian white folks.
282
00:16:54,264 --> 00:16:55,933
Them, uh, working class thugs.
283
00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:01,980
They ain't Hollywood.
They poor folks just like us. You dig?
284
00:17:02,689 --> 00:17:04,525
The police whoop their ass, just like us.
285
00:17:04,525 --> 00:17:09,070
They got rats in their walls and-- and
cockroaches in their cereal, just like us.
286
00:17:09,070 --> 00:17:12,199
They don't want in the movement, brother.
You understand?
287
00:17:13,534 --> 00:17:15,117
They don't want in the movement.
288
00:17:15,117 --> 00:17:16,537
What they want is to survive.
289
00:17:17,412 --> 00:17:19,705
And they can dig that
the Black Panther Party will help them
290
00:17:19,705 --> 00:17:23,252
more than any white police officer,
any white politician ever would.
291
00:17:23,836 --> 00:17:24,752
[Panther 4] Right on.
292
00:17:26,296 --> 00:17:27,548
So, Brother David is right.
293
00:17:28,882 --> 00:17:30,175
We gotta find another way.
294
00:17:31,927 --> 00:17:34,179
I don't want us getting mixed up
in no Hollywood.
295
00:17:43,939 --> 00:17:45,399
Tell your pops he's all paid up.
296
00:17:45,983 --> 00:17:46,984
- All right.
- All right.
297
00:17:49,736 --> 00:17:53,699
[Teressa] Are you crazy?
Out here on your own. No protection.
298
00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:56,994
Can't be scared to be on the streets
with our own people, Teressa.
299
00:17:56,994 --> 00:17:58,078
Yeah.
300
00:17:58,579 --> 00:18:01,290
- [supporter] All power to the people.
- All power to the people, brother.
301
00:18:03,834 --> 00:18:08,922
You know, my pops, uh, worked harder than
anybody I've ever seen, his whole life.
302
00:18:09,464 --> 00:18:12,092
- It's good to have you home, brother.
- Thank you, sis.
303
00:18:12,092 --> 00:18:15,596
He had two, three jobs at a time,
always paid his bills...
304
00:18:16,221 --> 00:18:19,349
[scoffs] ...never got in trouble
with the law. Never, uh--
305
00:18:19,349 --> 00:18:21,685
- See you at the rally next week.
- [Huey] All right.
306
00:18:24,438 --> 00:18:25,355
[Teressa chuckles]
307
00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:28,650
Never got ahead either. You know,
always a half step better than broke.
308
00:18:29,568 --> 00:18:32,738
You get money for your programs,
you can change all that.
309
00:18:33,363 --> 00:18:35,532
- Brother Larry--
- Hey, Brother Larry's a sucker.
310
00:18:35,532 --> 00:18:38,118
He talks a good game,
but he ain't never been in no fight.
311
00:18:38,118 --> 00:18:40,954
- It ain't always about fighting.
- It is about fighting, Teressa.
312
00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:44,708
My father always said, "Always
look 'em in the eye. Always advance."
313
00:18:44,708 --> 00:18:48,754
I can tell you everything you need to know
about a man by what he does in a fight.
314
00:18:48,754 --> 00:18:52,508
Well, I'll tell you this, for what
you wanna do, you should check out Bert.
315
00:18:53,467 --> 00:18:54,885
Did you give him some, Teressa?
316
00:18:56,595 --> 00:18:59,556
Oh, shit. You did, didn't you?
317
00:19:00,557 --> 00:19:03,018
[scoffs] Guess you got
that $100,000 thing, huh?
318
00:19:03,018 --> 00:19:06,313
Well, you should know.
Can't put a price tag on perfect.
319
00:19:06,313 --> 00:19:08,190
[laughs] But no.
320
00:19:10,651 --> 00:19:16,615
Huey, my daddy didn't struggle
like yours did. He split.
321
00:19:17,366 --> 00:19:21,745
And my mom had it twice as hard raising us
on top of all those jobs.
322
00:19:21,745 --> 00:19:24,873
I think about all she did to get me here.
323
00:19:25,749 --> 00:19:30,087
And how much it would have meant
to lighten the load just a little bit.
324
00:19:30,838 --> 00:19:32,256
Just give him a shot, Huey.
325
00:19:38,262 --> 00:19:39,805
You did give him some, didn't you?
326
00:19:41,098 --> 00:19:42,474
I ain't saying nothing.
327
00:19:42,474 --> 00:19:44,476
["Jumpin' Jack Flash" playing]
328
00:19:48,564 --> 00:19:50,566
[people chattering, laughing]
329
00:19:54,611 --> 00:19:57,072
I heard somebody say
Jack Nicholson was gonna be in here.
330
00:19:58,490 --> 00:20:03,203
Oh, shit. Brando! I gotta thank him
for what he said at my thing.
331
00:20:06,957 --> 00:20:09,126
- I'ma go find Bert.
- All right.
332
00:20:25,893 --> 00:20:29,146
Damn. Huey motherfucking Newton.
333
00:20:29,146 --> 00:20:31,148
- Richard Pryor.
- What's happening?
334
00:20:31,982 --> 00:20:33,442
Bert trying to get down with the Panthers?
335
00:20:33,442 --> 00:20:36,570
- [scoffs] Yeah, he's trying, brother.
- Oh, far fucking out.
336
00:20:37,196 --> 00:20:39,948
Say, man, what do you think
about these white folk?
337
00:20:39,948 --> 00:20:42,993
Oh, this here is a special breed of honky.
338
00:20:43,660 --> 00:20:46,163
One that, deep in their genes,
they got a lot of guilt.
339
00:20:46,163 --> 00:20:47,080
[scoffs]
340
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,208
They willing to pay a steep price
for absolution.
341
00:20:51,043 --> 00:20:54,004
Now here come the best argument yet
for segregation.
342
00:20:55,005 --> 00:20:56,423
Bert, dig.
343
00:20:56,423 --> 00:20:59,843
Richard Pryor as Huey P. Newton
in The Huey Newton Story.
344
00:21:00,385 --> 00:21:01,595
Well, don't we look alike?
345
00:21:04,097 --> 00:21:06,099
- Not really. [laughs]
- Oh, damn.
346
00:21:06,725 --> 00:21:10,395
The one time I need a white guy who can't
tell us apart, I get the pasty Panther.
347
00:21:10,395 --> 00:21:11,313
[laughs]
348
00:21:11,313 --> 00:21:13,273
Now he'll probably get
Warren Beatty or somebody.
349
00:21:13,273 --> 00:21:16,568
Put some shoe polish on his face
and have him play you. Ain't that right?
350
00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:18,862
I'ma let y'all talk y'all business.
351
00:21:19,363 --> 00:21:20,989
I'ma tell all my people I met you tonight.
352
00:21:20,989 --> 00:21:22,574
- They gonna shit.
- Same, brother.
353
00:21:23,242 --> 00:21:24,243
Play nice.
354
00:21:26,203 --> 00:21:27,371
- Be cool.
- I'm cool.
355
00:21:30,082 --> 00:21:31,083
Let me show you around.
356
00:21:31,083 --> 00:21:32,501
I think I get it.
357
00:21:32,501 --> 00:21:35,671
[stammers] There's really nothing to get.
Could all burn tomorrow.
358
00:21:35,671 --> 00:21:38,507
I don't know, man. Look like to me
you got it made in the shade.
359
00:21:39,842 --> 00:21:41,385
Why you wanna mess around with us?
360
00:21:41,385 --> 00:21:42,845
Ah, well, who says I'm messing?
361
00:21:42,845 --> 00:21:44,137
Can't be no other way.
362
00:21:45,138 --> 00:21:48,016
Revolution's survival to me.
It's optional to you.
363
00:21:48,016 --> 00:21:49,852
That's exactly why I gotta do it.
364
00:21:56,024 --> 00:21:57,317
Look, America's not Cuba.
365
00:21:57,317 --> 00:22:01,154
You're not gonna overthrow the government
with 42 people hanging out in the jungle.
366
00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:03,949
You have to change
the way that people think.
367
00:22:03,949 --> 00:22:06,201
Yeah, that's cool for you down here.
368
00:22:06,201 --> 00:22:09,162
But in Oakland, we're fighting
a low-grade guerrilla war every day.
369
00:22:11,582 --> 00:22:13,542
[Bert] Look at that thing in-in Algeria.
370
00:22:13,542 --> 00:22:14,626
Look at Algeria.
371
00:22:14,626 --> 00:22:16,461
People fought, and they didn't let go.
372
00:22:16,461 --> 00:22:19,047
Okay, no,
I'm talking about The Battle of Algiers.
373
00:22:19,047 --> 00:22:20,382
- The movie.
- Right. Right.
374
00:22:20,382 --> 00:22:23,427
That-That's the cri de coeur
for all those kids out in the streets.
375
00:22:24,178 --> 00:22:25,179
All right.
376
00:22:25,179 --> 00:22:28,640
Yeah, a lot of kids saw it,
and it got 'em high on revolution.
377
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,017
That movie minted fighters.
378
00:22:30,017 --> 00:22:31,935
That's the power of the silver screen.
379
00:22:31,935 --> 00:22:34,229
Hollywood's always been late to the party,
380
00:22:34,229 --> 00:22:36,315
but these people
are trying to change all that.
381
00:22:36,315 --> 00:22:38,609
You're looking at
the world's best storytellers,
382
00:22:38,609 --> 00:22:40,235
and there's no politics without a story.
383
00:22:40,235 --> 00:22:43,572
Yeah, but what story you trying to tell?
And why should you tell it?
384
00:22:43,572 --> 00:22:44,781
No, not tell it.
385
00:22:45,741 --> 00:22:47,034
Just make it possible.
386
00:22:48,243 --> 00:22:50,037
I wanna finance the revolution.
387
00:22:52,331 --> 00:22:54,583
[sniffing]
388
00:22:55,709 --> 00:22:58,420
- In order for people to survive, right...
- Yeah.
389
00:22:58,420 --> 00:23:00,964
...they have to understand
how to survive in this racist system.
390
00:23:00,964 --> 00:23:02,424
But it's all about consciousness.
391
00:23:02,424 --> 00:23:04,551
- Gotta raise it.
- Then the people will pick up the gun.
392
00:23:04,551 --> 00:23:07,012
- Nah, I'm putting the gun aside.
- Go after the superstructure.
393
00:23:07,012 --> 00:23:09,014
- Capitalism is the cornerstone.
- Gotta knock out that block.
394
00:23:09,014 --> 00:23:10,349
We're doing it block to block.
395
00:23:10,349 --> 00:23:12,976
Up in Oakland, right,
we're-- we're, uh, educating our own.
396
00:23:12,976 --> 00:23:15,521
We're feeding our own,
clothing, shelter, and health care.
397
00:23:15,521 --> 00:23:16,939
So you nationalize the community.
398
00:23:16,939 --> 00:23:19,858
Show the lumpenproletariat that
they can do better than the imperialists.
399
00:23:19,858 --> 00:23:20,943
So you do it up there,
400
00:23:20,943 --> 00:23:22,986
and then other communities
will see what's possible.
401
00:23:22,986 --> 00:23:25,405
Fire is lit.
The revolution starts to spread.
402
00:23:25,405 --> 00:23:27,115
This is a-- This is a dangerous idea.
403
00:23:28,408 --> 00:23:30,827
You're gonna be
the most dangerous man in America.
404
00:23:30,827 --> 00:23:33,956
You ask J. Edgar Hoover, I already am.
405
00:23:35,332 --> 00:23:36,959
["Changes" playing]
406
00:23:36,959 --> 00:23:38,043
Smoke this.
407
00:23:58,647 --> 00:24:01,692
You know, I'm--
I'm not trying to control your message.
408
00:24:01,692 --> 00:24:03,443
I'll do whatever the party needs.
409
00:24:03,443 --> 00:24:04,903
Propaganda for the people.
410
00:24:06,405 --> 00:24:08,156
And what happens
when the law comes knocking
411
00:24:08,156 --> 00:24:10,075
or these studios stop taking your call?
412
00:24:10,075 --> 00:24:12,578
Well, I have a saying
when we pick projects.
413
00:24:12,578 --> 00:24:15,247
"If it's not worth risking everything
to do, it's not worth doing."
414
00:24:15,247 --> 00:24:16,874
Right. What about your life?
415
00:24:18,125 --> 00:24:19,668
What would you die for, Bert?
416
00:24:19,668 --> 00:24:22,713
Well, I-- I think
what you're really asking is,
417
00:24:22,713 --> 00:24:24,006
how full of shit am I?
418
00:24:25,841 --> 00:24:30,387
Seems like I'm always measuring my actions
against my convictions
419
00:24:31,221 --> 00:24:32,222
and coming up short.
420
00:24:35,517 --> 00:24:37,853
If I take this money,
who-who am I accountable to?
421
00:24:38,437 --> 00:24:39,771
Nobody.
422
00:24:40,355 --> 00:24:41,607
That's not how I work.
423
00:24:41,607 --> 00:24:44,860
I hire the best artists,
and I give them free rein.
424
00:24:44,860 --> 00:24:47,070
Jack, isn't that right?
425
00:24:47,070 --> 00:24:50,199
He writes the checks and stays away.
[chuckles]
426
00:24:50,199 --> 00:24:52,201
[Bert] I let the talent tell the story.
427
00:24:52,201 --> 00:24:53,285
Right.
428
00:24:53,952 --> 00:24:56,705
- Right. And who do you see as the talent?
- Well, I think that's obvious.
429
00:24:57,831 --> 00:25:00,000
The face of the revolution has to be you.
430
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,044
And, uh, by me, you mean, uh--
431
00:25:03,587 --> 00:25:06,089
You mean the guy in the chair with the--
with the rifle and spear.
432
00:25:07,174 --> 00:25:09,301
Yeah.
433
00:25:09,843 --> 00:25:11,637
The baddest motherfucker on the planet.
434
00:25:18,393 --> 00:25:19,394
Think about it.
435
00:25:21,605 --> 00:25:23,190
[Bert] What is it?
Did I say something wrong?
436
00:25:23,774 --> 00:25:27,819
[Teressa] No. He just doesn't feel
it's the right direction for the party.
437
00:25:27,819 --> 00:25:29,863
What direction?
I throw money his direction.
438
00:25:29,863 --> 00:25:31,114
He can do whatever he wants.
439
00:25:31,698 --> 00:25:33,534
He doesn't wanna
get in bed with Hollywood.
440
00:25:33,534 --> 00:25:35,911
Let me come up there
and meet with him again.
441
00:25:35,911 --> 00:25:38,789
- Five minutes, he owes me that.
- Owes you?
442
00:25:39,540 --> 00:25:40,791
Bert, he doesn't want to.
443
00:25:40,791 --> 00:25:44,211
Everybody wants to meet with me,
I'm Bert fucking Schneider.
444
00:25:47,589 --> 00:25:50,217
Once we get in there
I need you to handle it, all right?
445
00:25:51,093 --> 00:25:53,637
[Bert] Huey! Huey.
446
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:55,806
Man, are you tailing me?
447
00:25:57,015 --> 00:25:58,016
No.
448
00:25:58,517 --> 00:25:59,518
Well, kinda.
449
00:26:00,519 --> 00:26:02,563
Can you please just give me five minutes?
450
00:26:02,563 --> 00:26:04,022
I wanna help, that's all.
451
00:26:04,022 --> 00:26:05,732
I can help you finish building the houses.
452
00:26:05,732 --> 00:26:08,527
I can help build the schools.
I can help build the clinics.
453
00:26:08,527 --> 00:26:09,987
Right. Right. And then what?
454
00:26:09,987 --> 00:26:11,488
Then you wanna put your name
over the door?
455
00:26:12,197 --> 00:26:13,198
Of course not.
456
00:26:14,074 --> 00:26:15,075
[chuckles]
457
00:26:15,909 --> 00:26:17,744
Yeah, you say that now,
458
00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:20,622
but, once you write that check,
you gonna want something for it.
459
00:26:20,622 --> 00:26:21,707
Like what?
460
00:26:22,499 --> 00:26:24,793
Well, you gonna want people to know.
461
00:26:25,335 --> 00:26:26,503
Not my style.
462
00:26:27,504 --> 00:26:31,175
Look, I know you mean well,
but see, the thing is, uh,
463
00:26:31,175 --> 00:26:33,510
we got money coming in
from our own people now.
464
00:26:34,052 --> 00:26:36,388
So, uh, there just ain't no place
in the movement
465
00:26:36,388 --> 00:26:38,515
for a Hollywood white boy, you dig?
466
00:26:41,935 --> 00:26:43,103
[scoffs]
467
00:26:43,103 --> 00:26:45,189
- Huey, he--
- Don't start with me, Teressa.
468
00:26:45,189 --> 00:26:46,315
I ain't saying nothing.
469
00:26:46,315 --> 00:26:47,399
Hey. Hey, listen.
470
00:26:49,318 --> 00:26:52,613
Only the people can transform society,
Teressa. Not stars.
471
00:26:53,155 --> 00:26:55,616
Now, I don't want Hollywood
sidetracking us.
472
00:26:55,616 --> 00:26:57,159
That's not protecting the party.
473
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,288
You worried about them sidetracking
the movement or sidetracking you?
474
00:27:01,872 --> 00:27:03,081
Same thing.
475
00:27:04,291 --> 00:27:09,630
[siren blares]
476
00:27:14,343 --> 00:27:15,886
Got a report of loitering.
477
00:27:15,886 --> 00:27:17,638
What you guys doing, huh?
478
00:27:17,638 --> 00:27:20,140
- Penal code 647H PC...
- Penal code.
479
00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:22,601
...makes it a crime for a person to loiter
on someone's property--
480
00:27:22,601 --> 00:27:24,728
- [officer] Who the fuck--
- [member] You motherfu--
481
00:27:24,728 --> 00:27:25,812
[officer] Watch my mouth?
482
00:27:25,812 --> 00:27:27,105
- You call me a cracker?
- Yeah, pig.
483
00:27:27,105 --> 00:27:28,899
- Yeah, I did. Fuck you, cracker.
- Be cool.
484
00:27:28,899 --> 00:27:30,150
Are you out of your head...
485
00:27:30,150 --> 00:27:31,485
Get your fucking hands off her.
486
00:27:31,485 --> 00:27:34,154
Why y'all always fucking with us? Huh?
Why you always fucking with us?
487
00:27:34,154 --> 00:27:36,406
What are you two doing? Are you crazy?
We'll run you in.
488
00:27:36,406 --> 00:27:37,658
- Get the fuck out of here.
- Fucker.
489
00:27:37,658 --> 00:27:39,701
[officer 2] Fuck you
and all the niggers that follow you.
490
00:27:39,701 --> 00:27:42,829
[Black Panthers,
police officers clamoring]
491
00:27:43,413 --> 00:27:45,624
Hey, whoa, whoa!
Officer! Officer! Officer!
492
00:27:45,624 --> 00:27:47,751
- They weren't doing anything.
- [Panther] Get away from me.
493
00:27:49,002 --> 00:27:50,462
- Back up!
- I'm Bert Schneider.
494
00:27:50,462 --> 00:27:51,588
I'm here from Los Angeles.
495
00:27:52,089 --> 00:27:53,841
Back the fuck up! I don't give a shit!
496
00:27:53,841 --> 00:27:56,051
Hey, you get your hands off me.
Don't you touch me!
497
00:27:56,051 --> 00:27:57,177
Fuck you!
498
00:27:57,678 --> 00:27:59,888
[Black Panthers, officers clamoring]
499
00:28:00,472 --> 00:28:02,558
- [grunts]
- [grunts]
500
00:28:02,558 --> 00:28:04,977
- You got him. You don't need...
- Back up! Back up!
501
00:28:09,273 --> 00:28:12,276
["I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel
to Be Free" playing]
502
00:28:18,782 --> 00:28:20,158
This is bullshit.
503
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,985
{\an8}A massive nationwide manhunt is
now underway.
504
00:28:54,985 --> 00:29:00,657
{\an8}Huey P. Newton is wanted in the shooting
of a 17-year-old Bay Area prostitute.
505
00:29:00,657 --> 00:29:03,202
{\an8}[Huey] So that's how I ended up here,
506
00:29:03,202 --> 00:29:06,914
hiding out in a little girl's bedroom
in a mansion in Bel Air.
507
00:29:08,665 --> 00:29:09,958
It's all gonna be okay.
508
00:29:10,459 --> 00:29:13,378
Bert's gonna get you
that fancy white lawyer.
509
00:29:13,962 --> 00:29:17,132
We were in his house for five minutes,
and he shoved us out the door.
510
00:29:17,633 --> 00:29:20,302
You know you couldn't get rid of Bert
if you tried.
511
00:29:21,011 --> 00:29:22,429
He'll come through for us.
512
00:29:24,181 --> 00:29:26,558
[lawyer] They sound extremely confident.
513
00:29:26,558 --> 00:29:30,437
The state says they have shell casings,
forensics, eyewitnesses.
514
00:29:30,437 --> 00:29:31,647
It's a frame-up, Bill.
515
00:29:31,647 --> 00:29:33,982
You know,
their eyewitness is a streetwalker.
516
00:29:33,982 --> 00:29:37,194
[chuckles] Probably coercing her
six ways to Sunday.
517
00:29:37,194 --> 00:29:38,695
Huey didn't kill that girl.
518
00:29:38,695 --> 00:29:40,072
This is a setup.
519
00:29:40,572 --> 00:29:42,908
You should get
as far away from this as possible.
520
00:29:42,908 --> 00:29:44,618
You're harboring a fugitive.
521
00:29:44,618 --> 00:29:46,328
If you destroy evidence...
522
00:29:48,914 --> 00:29:51,041
You're not destroying evidence, are you?
523
00:29:53,252 --> 00:29:55,629
[Bert] You've never heard the words "Huey"
or "Newton".
524
00:29:55,629 --> 00:29:58,048
- We need the car in the hole.
- Shut the fuck up. You're robbing me.
525
00:29:58,048 --> 00:29:59,216
Fucking sold!
526
00:30:00,717 --> 00:30:01,760
- Of course not.
- No.
527
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,971
- Why would we do that?
- Little offended at the suggestion.
528
00:30:04,763 --> 00:30:05,764
Good.
529
00:30:08,433 --> 00:30:11,728
Huey's only chance right now
is to turn himself in.
530
00:30:12,980 --> 00:30:14,189
You're out of your fucking tree.
531
00:30:14,189 --> 00:30:17,901
I can't look at their evidence and start
to fight till after he's in custody.
532
00:30:17,901 --> 00:30:20,737
He was in solitary for 34 months.
He'd die sooner.
533
00:30:20,737 --> 00:30:22,364
Then you probably all will.
534
00:30:22,364 --> 00:30:23,991
Wait, I'm-- I'm sorry. What?
535
00:30:24,491 --> 00:30:27,119
If he keeps running, they will find him.
536
00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:29,371
They will kill him and anyone he's with.
537
00:30:32,416 --> 00:30:36,003
They created SWAT
specifically to raid Panthers.
538
00:30:36,587 --> 00:30:39,131
This isn't a movie, Bert.
There won't be any knock at the door.
539
00:30:39,131 --> 00:30:41,175
- There won't be a warrant. They'll just--
- [click]
540
00:30:41,175 --> 00:30:42,176
[shushes]
541
00:30:42,676 --> 00:30:44,803
- [boots shuffling]
- [Bill] Did you hear that?
542
00:30:49,683 --> 00:30:50,893
What? Do you hear that?
543
00:30:50,893 --> 00:30:52,019
Let's go.
544
00:30:52,019 --> 00:30:53,270
[Bert] What was that?
545
00:30:53,896 --> 00:30:55,022
Bert, let's just go.
546
00:30:55,606 --> 00:30:57,608
- [Steve] We should go.
- Oh, shit.
547
00:30:58,358 --> 00:31:01,570
- [gunshots]
- [Steve screams]
548
00:31:01,570 --> 00:31:03,572
- [SWAT leader] Move! Move! Move!
- [Steve] Fuck! Oh, shit!
549
00:31:04,823 --> 00:31:07,868
- [screams]
- Shit! [screaming]
550
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,580
[screaming]
551
00:31:21,381 --> 00:31:23,175
It'll go something like that.
552
00:31:28,514 --> 00:31:31,600
If you love Huey,
don't let him martyr himself.
553
00:31:32,643 --> 00:31:33,685
Get him to come in.
554
00:31:37,105 --> 00:31:40,067
[Richard] I mean, I can dig this.
You out here hiding in plain sight, huh?
555
00:31:40,067 --> 00:31:42,486
Figure that's the last place
they'd think to look for me.
556
00:31:47,866 --> 00:31:49,243
That shit I got from Big Bob.
557
00:31:51,453 --> 00:31:53,539
You know I met his scary ass in an alley?
558
00:31:54,122 --> 00:31:57,167
That is one morose motherfucker
right there, man.
559
00:31:57,668 --> 00:32:00,546
I mean he ain't crack nary a smile,
you dig?
560
00:32:01,296 --> 00:32:03,674
Consider that my contribution
to the revolution.
561
00:32:05,551 --> 00:32:06,635
Thank you, brother.
562
00:32:10,556 --> 00:32:11,557
Scared?
563
00:32:13,225 --> 00:32:15,686
Shit, I get nervous just going up
telling jokes sometimes.
564
00:32:15,686 --> 00:32:18,564
I mean, I can't imagine
what you're going through.
565
00:32:19,648 --> 00:32:21,483
After Malcolm and Martin.
566
00:32:21,483 --> 00:32:25,320
Man, I always, uh-- I always knew
I was living on borrowed time, man.
567
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,031
I always knew
I was gonna die for the revolution.
568
00:32:30,659 --> 00:32:32,077
That don't mean I ain't scared.
569
00:32:33,078 --> 00:32:35,122
That's the definition of courage
right there.
570
00:32:35,122 --> 00:32:36,206
Doing it anyway.
571
00:32:36,915 --> 00:32:38,542
That or insanity.
572
00:32:39,251 --> 00:32:42,129
Shit.
I mean, I can't keep the two straight.
573
00:32:43,380 --> 00:32:44,381
Me neither, man.
574
00:32:47,509 --> 00:32:48,510
Uh-oh.
575
00:32:48,510 --> 00:32:51,013
[grunts, chuckles] Too slow.
576
00:32:51,013 --> 00:32:52,931
[grunts] No. No, no. [chuckles]
577
00:32:52,931 --> 00:32:55,058
- Okay. You got me.
- Oh, hey. There's my guys.
578
00:32:55,058 --> 00:32:56,727
- I love this duo, huh?
- [Huey chuckles]
579
00:32:56,727 --> 00:33:00,105
All right. Hey, Mike, what-- Let's let,
uh, Uncle Bert and Huey talk, okay?
580
00:33:00,105 --> 00:33:01,064
Come on.
581
00:33:01,565 --> 00:33:03,442
- Fine.
- All right, fine.
582
00:33:03,442 --> 00:33:05,277
- Bye, Huey.
- Give me five.
583
00:33:06,737 --> 00:33:08,739
- All right.
- [Steve] Don't let me catch you. C'mon.
584
00:33:12,409 --> 00:33:14,453
How's, uh-- How's Kunstler?
585
00:33:14,453 --> 00:33:15,954
He all fired up for a fight?
586
00:33:19,958 --> 00:33:21,752
He thinks you should turn yourself in.
587
00:33:23,212 --> 00:33:24,213
[chuckles]
588
00:33:25,255 --> 00:33:27,341
And did you tell him to go fuck himself?
589
00:33:34,264 --> 00:33:35,849
Oh, I see how it is.
590
00:33:39,311 --> 00:33:40,312
After all that?
591
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,316
"I always wanna be down
with the movement", but when the--
592
00:33:44,316 --> 00:33:46,985
when the rubber meets the road,
suddenly you a pedestrian?
593
00:33:48,070 --> 00:33:49,071
Gwen.
594
00:33:51,031 --> 00:33:52,032
Gwen! We leaving!
595
00:33:54,701 --> 00:33:57,913
Look, nobody wants to see you in prison,
and nobody wants to see you dead either.
596
00:33:57,913 --> 00:34:00,415
Actually, a lot of people
wanna see me dead, Bert.
597
00:34:00,415 --> 00:34:02,668
You think cops don't kill
niggas in the pen?
598
00:34:04,503 --> 00:34:06,922
"I'll do whatever it takes
to be down with the movement, Huey."
599
00:34:06,922 --> 00:34:08,549
Those were your words.
600
00:34:10,092 --> 00:34:11,760
Knew it was jive when you said it.
601
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,388
How's it help the movement if you're dead?
602
00:34:14,388 --> 00:34:17,224
There's nowhere in the country
you can hide where they won't find you.
603
00:34:17,224 --> 00:34:18,725
That's why I'm leaving the country.
604
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,400
[chuckles] This isn't gonna work.
605
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,485
And tell me why not.
606
00:34:29,194 --> 00:34:30,195
[Bert sighs]
607
00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:31,280
Hmm?
608
00:34:32,739 --> 00:34:35,033
Th--
They're expecting you at every crossing.
609
00:34:35,033 --> 00:34:38,495
You're gonna need disguises,
transportation, a whole ton of shit.
610
00:34:38,495 --> 00:34:40,205
Where you gonna stay
when you get where you're going?
611
00:34:40,205 --> 00:34:42,583
How are we gonna keep you
from being extradited?
612
00:34:42,583 --> 00:34:45,502
- It's logistically impossible.
- Yeah. Well, I will figure it out, Bert.
613
00:34:45,502 --> 00:34:47,379
Ah, it's not that simple.
614
00:34:47,963 --> 00:34:50,757
You're the hotshot producer, man.
You wanna produce something? Produce this.
615
00:34:56,847 --> 00:34:58,932
[Bert] How about we put you in a car
to Canada--
616
00:34:58,932 --> 00:35:01,768
No. Man, they'd hunt me down
like the Weathermen.
617
00:35:01,768 --> 00:35:04,980
Well, we can't do Mexico, either.
Not with those fascists in power.
618
00:35:04,980 --> 00:35:07,107
You gotta be dry-humping me
this is what's happening.
619
00:35:07,107 --> 00:35:09,693
- Hush. This is good.
- Oh, I'm sorry, is this not my house?
620
00:35:09,693 --> 00:35:11,570
[Bert] Gotta be a place
with no extradition.
621
00:35:11,570 --> 00:35:13,822
- It's gotta be communist. Tanzania or--
- China?
622
00:35:14,573 --> 00:35:15,407
Algeria.
623
00:35:15,407 --> 00:35:17,910
- No. Hell no. That's where Eldridge is.
- [Gwen] Mm-mmm.
624
00:35:19,411 --> 00:35:20,412
Cuba.
625
00:35:22,789 --> 00:35:23,999
Cuba.
626
00:35:25,167 --> 00:35:27,169
[agent] Believe the suspect
is at the house.
627
00:35:27,169 --> 00:35:30,255
He's believed to be armed and dangerous.
All units proceed with caution.
628
00:35:34,051 --> 00:35:35,969
Ninety miles off the coast of Florida.
629
00:35:35,969 --> 00:35:38,972
- Castro would welcome you with open arms.
- Wait a second.
630
00:35:38,972 --> 00:35:41,225
You're not actually considering this,
are you?
631
00:35:41,225 --> 00:35:42,309
Bert, what's he gonna do?
632
00:35:42,309 --> 00:35:44,269
No, please, tell me, Huey,
what are you gonna do?
633
00:35:44,269 --> 00:35:46,146
You gonna skyjack a plane?
Is that what's on the menu?
634
00:35:46,146 --> 00:35:49,566
No, that's déclassé
for a revolutionary of his stature.
635
00:35:49,566 --> 00:35:50,776
We'll find another way.
636
00:35:50,776 --> 00:35:52,402
I don't know how yet.
637
00:35:52,402 --> 00:35:54,154
Doesn't matter. It's plot, execution.
638
00:35:54,154 --> 00:35:56,240
It's not execution.
We're gonna get executed.
639
00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:57,574
Cuba could work. [chuckles]
640
00:35:57,574 --> 00:36:00,118
[Steve] It's not gonna work, Bert.
Not with the Feds watching us here.
641
00:36:00,118 --> 00:36:01,495
What we do is-- Check it out.
642
00:36:01,495 --> 00:36:04,414
What we do is, we make it look like it's--
like it's one of your movies.
643
00:36:04,414 --> 00:36:05,332
[bang]
644
00:36:05,332 --> 00:36:07,125
[Huey] It's just some cats
doing a production.
645
00:36:07,125 --> 00:36:10,003
Exactly. It's a location shoot
as far as the Feds are concerned.
646
00:36:10,003 --> 00:36:14,716
We got hair, makeup,
wardrobe, travel, a star. [chuckles]
647
00:36:16,051 --> 00:36:16,969
Call Karen Carpenter.
648
00:36:16,969 --> 00:36:18,262
- We're gonna need some cash.
- No.
649
00:36:18,262 --> 00:36:20,347
No, no, no
we gonna keep the circle small, man.
650
00:36:20,347 --> 00:36:21,807
[Steve] No. You-- No.
651
00:36:21,807 --> 00:36:23,141
Gentlemen, stop.
652
00:36:24,059 --> 00:36:25,143
[SWAT leader] Move! Move! Move!
653
00:36:25,143 --> 00:36:26,937
[Steve] You heard Kunstler, okay?
654
00:36:26,937 --> 00:36:28,021
This is not a movie.
655
00:36:28,021 --> 00:36:31,066
Those bullets are real.
They go inside you, the end.
656
00:36:34,194 --> 00:36:36,280
- [Bert] Steve.
- [Steve] Don't-- Don't "Steve" me. C'mon.
657
00:36:36,864 --> 00:36:38,115
- Don't look at him.
- Steve.
658
00:36:38,115 --> 00:36:40,033
This is me, baby. Come on. Come on.
659
00:36:40,033 --> 00:36:41,952
Bert, bring your brain back from lunch.
660
00:36:41,952 --> 00:36:43,036
- Steve.
- Buddy, come on.
661
00:36:43,036 --> 00:36:44,872
Let's just go back to our projects, right?
662
00:36:44,872 --> 00:36:47,833
- Let's just go find the next big picture.
- Steve, it's over.
663
00:36:48,333 --> 00:36:49,418
I don't care anymore.
664
00:36:49,418 --> 00:36:51,920
We revolutionized movies,
big fucking deal.
665
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,674
This, Huey's fight, this is real life.
666
00:36:55,674 --> 00:36:58,635
- Something worth risking everything to do.
- [Steve scoffs]
667
00:36:59,219 --> 00:37:00,888
This is our next big picture.
668
00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:08,145
[officer grunts]
669
00:37:09,354 --> 00:37:10,439
Check those doors.
670
00:37:11,148 --> 00:37:12,608
Let's get this motherfucker.
671
00:37:20,073 --> 00:37:22,826
[teenager] What did we do?
We were just in a school play.
672
00:37:22,826 --> 00:37:25,204
[agent] The fuck are Schneider and Newton?
673
00:37:25,204 --> 00:37:27,789
You've gotta be fucking kidding me.
674
00:37:28,290 --> 00:37:31,919
[Huey] That's right, y'all remember
that hippie Fed who was hunting me down?
675
00:37:32,503 --> 00:37:37,716
And yes, the FBI really did raid Bert's
house and a theater-school toga party.
676
00:37:38,342 --> 00:37:39,343
[agent] Fuck!
677
00:37:45,849 --> 00:37:46,934
To Cuba.
678
00:37:46,934 --> 00:37:48,435
- To Cuba.
- To Cuba.
679
00:37:48,435 --> 00:37:50,437
Hasta la Victoria, siempre.
680
00:37:50,437 --> 00:37:53,524
["I Just Want to Celebrate" playing]