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[producer] What do you think we should do?
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-[Downey Sr.] Us?
-[producer] Yeah.
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See, if you could get this,
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like a close-up or maybe from here up.
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-[producer] Yeah?
-[Downey Sr.] You got it going?
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[producer] Well, no. I'm wide right now.
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No, I would get in tighter
'cause it'll be a cutaway.
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Yeah, you're gonna want this tight.
We might as well get that insert now.
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-Let us know when you're rolling.
-[Downey Sr.] Rolling? Let's start again.
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First, it's not moving.
You say, "Oh, this is bullshit."
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-[Downey Jr.] Yeah, yeah.
-[Downey Sr.] Then it starts moving.
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[Downey Jr.] "Wait a minute."
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"Maybe that serpent's
not full of shit after all."
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[Downey Sr. laughing]
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-Dad, can I give it a spin?
-Yeah, do it, please.
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[Downey Jr.] This might be
our first coproduction here.
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[Rogers laughs]
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[Downey Sr.] Nice. Nice!
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-["Surf Finger" by Jack Nitzsche playing]
-[Downey Sr.] Hey, it's nice!
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-It needed your touch.
-[Downey Jr. laughing]
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[producer] Where would you go next?
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-After this?
-[producer] Yeah.
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We're not even halfway
to any ideas like that.
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[Rogers laughing]
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We're just having fun
and getting started. [chuckles]
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[groovy '60s rock playing]
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[Downey Jr.] Steady on those steps.
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-[Downey Sr.] Oh my God.
-Give him a hand, Rogers.
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-[Rogers] I got it.
-Let's not lose our principal.
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[Downey Jr.] I'm very interested
in who my dad is just in the here and now
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because no one knows the hour and the day.
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We never know how much time
we have with each other.
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I think, also, to me, like, he was
just always this kinda looming figure.
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Like, I was just
Bob Downey's kid for a long time.
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[music continues]
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[Cavett] Success may burst
like a clap of thunder
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over his head if he isn't careful,
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and he's a talented underground filmmaker
named Robert Downey.
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[crowd applauding]
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Do you feel a little compromised
by being here
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on a network television show?
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No, because I know
if the film doesn't open,
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and it doesn't do well,
I won't get to make another one.
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[music continues]
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[Downey Sr.] I knew the minute I started
fooling around with this stuff
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that it was better than working a job.
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Shouldn't you be in school?
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Fuck you.
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And fuck the establishment.
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And fuck you people
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who are trying to make me
part of the unestablished establishment.
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[Downey Jr.] I was raised in this family
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where doing underground films
was the norm.
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It was very natural to have no interaction
with mainstream anything.
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[music continues]
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[Letterman] What was the first film
you were in? One of your dad's projects?
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-[Downey Jr.] It was.
-[Letterman] What became of you then?
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-[sighs loudly]
-[crowd laughing]
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Then he became
the highest-paid movie actor in the world.
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-That's what he decided to do.
-Yeah, I guess, Dad, come get your cut.
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-[Letterman laughing]
-[crowd applauding]
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[Downey Sr.] That's a shot
with Robert and I ages ago.
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And the photographer says,
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"Why don't we each have
you guys have chainsaws?"
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And Robert said,
"Get the fuck out of here."
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Uh, we still… We're still happy
with the title "Sr.," are we not?
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Yeah, I like it,
but we can… we can do better.
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Oh.
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[music ends]
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[birds chirping]
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-[Downey Jr.] Where is Sr.?
-[producer] The back house.
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Yeah, let's go walk out there. Come on.
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["Theme from A Summer Place
(Instrumental)" by Percy Faith playing]
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You will presently witness
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the offspring of Sr.'s offspring.
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Don't throw water balloons
at the, uh… at my crew.
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I like that that's his kid,
and here's his daughter.
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Good shot.
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Great. Movement.
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Nobody's sitting.
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[Downey Jr.] Hey, have you seen
any of Grandpa's movies?
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No, why?
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Because they're awesome.
Do you wanna see 'em someday?
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-[Exton] Uh, maybe.
-Just a maybe.
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Dude, if you're gonna throw
a water balloon, hit me with it.
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[Downey Jr. laughing exaggeratedly]
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-[Downey Sr. chuckling]
-[Exton yelling on screen]
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-That's good.
-[Downey Jr. shrieks on screen]
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[chucking]
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[Downey Jr.] Avri, give us a wave.
That's all we need.
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Just give us a little wave. Ah, Christ.
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-[Exton exclaiming, laughing]
-[Downey Jr. laughing]
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[Exton] Get… You need to get
those hairs wet.
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[laughing] Jesus H…
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Don't you hit me again. I swear to God.
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Don't… don't get the camera wet.
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Quit it. Sr.?
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Your grandson is boundaryless.
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This is like growing up with my dad.
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"Hey, whatever you do,
don't get the camera wet."
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-Did you get it?
-We got it.
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We don't have anything usable yet,
except Exton provided some… some action.
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-You mind if I switch out real quick?
-No.
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Thanks.
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[song fades]
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[Downey Sr.] I just wanna show you
something before we do anything.
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-Just me?
-[Downey Sr.] No, Rosemary and you.
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Here she is.
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[Rogers] Robert had an idea
of doing a documentary about his dad
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and about their history
and their life together.
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You know, so many people,
they know Robert Downey Jr.,
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but they don't know Robert Downey Sr.
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And he just wanted to,
for the record, correct that.
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[Downey Jr.] We're just finding
our way into something
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that we hope winds up being interesting
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and not the usual
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and a bit of a foray
into that crazy thing,
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you know, of trying
to understand your dad.
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[producer] Do you feel
like you understand him now?
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I have a feeling I'll know a lot more…
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[laughs] …when we're done.
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You come back,
which is probably where we'll start,
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to Robert and Rosemary on the couch,
and we go from there.
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Look, we'll do the same thing,
except we'll do it out there.
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Yeah.
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-"How long have you two been married?"
-That's me, right?
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-Yeah.
-Yeah.
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How long have you and Pops been married?
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Fifteen hundred years.
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See, I think this… We should switch seats.
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You should. Let's get her in the middle.
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-[Downey Sr. groans softly]
-Oh yeah.
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How long have you guys been married?
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Fifteen hundred years.
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-Oh boy.
-Mm-hmm.
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Did that go better this time?
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She looked up in the middle
of something up… up that way.
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You're right. Let's do it again.
Take three, opener.
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[Rogers laughing]
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[Downey Jr.] He would rather be doing
a film about something else
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than allow a documentary
to be made about him.
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So the middle ground has been
he's doing his own version.
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How long have you two been married?
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Uh, fifteen hundred years this July.
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-Oh my God.
-I know.
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-Oh wow, happy anniversary. Almost.
-Thank you.
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-Fine by me.
-Okay.
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-By the way, that's his directing style.
-[Rogers chuckles]
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[Downey Jr.] So then I put it
to him this way. I said, "Dad,
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the legitimate documentary
we're making about you
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is kinda what's covering the cost
of this art film that you're making."
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And he seems agreeable to that.
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Whoa!
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["Besame Mucho" by Artie Shaw
and His Gramercy Five playing]
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You got it? That's good.
That's worth the whole day.
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That's funny.
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I'm thinking any visuals
that you must like goes on file.
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And you never know.
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It could end up right somewhere
where you didn't expect it.
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What's the guy who said,
"One picture is worth a thousand words"?
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It's one good picture.
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Sr. would be one of the best people
to caption photographs or street scenes
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that you will ever meet.
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In a more of a typical, mid-century,
male, butch way though.
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Oftentimes it's, "Look at this douche."
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Look at this group.
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-[Rogers] What's going on over there?
-[Downey Sr.] AA meeting. [laughing]
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"Let's go have a drink. Nobody'll know."
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Look what's going on in that window.
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There should be somebody on the other side
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performing a wedding ceremony
for somebody outside.
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[chuckling] Maybe.
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[song continues]
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Well, here's the corner,
and this used to be an apartment building.
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This is it.
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I don't know what you're thinking,
but maybe
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you start on that
and then hear the dialogue
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and come over and show this.
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[producer] Okay.
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[song ends]
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[indistinct chatter]
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[Downey Sr.] 116 University
used to be, uh, three lofts,
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and we were on the next-to-top floor,
the second one up.
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Nothing's left.
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[producer] Did you feel pretty grown up?
Y'know, you had kids.
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No.
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No, that might be the problem. [chuckles]
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I don't know what Robert thought,
but it was different.
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[producer] Were you making a film
while you lived here?
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Oh yeah.
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[CD case clatters]
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"Downey film short"?
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I don't know what that is.
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I can get rid of all these.
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I'm just thinking
that I wanna go through my films
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and pick out scenes that I know will work
in what you're doing.
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That's actually more important
than anything.
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Oh, this is interesting.
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Let's start with this.
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[kissing]
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[woman] Mmm…
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[Downey Sr.] There it is.
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[woman] Love you, Walter.
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I'll see ya later.
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[woman] I love you more
than anything else in the world.
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[Walter] I love you too, Mother.
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[laughing]
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That's good.
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-[producer] Did you write that?
-[Downey Sr.] Oh yeah.
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This is how we got started.
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[producer] Your career?
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The whole fucking thing.
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[laughing]
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["Baja" by Jack Nitzsche playing]
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[mother] You know, Walter, you can have
whatever you want in this life.
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I guess the only thing I really want
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is you.
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Chafed Elbows is a film about an oddball
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who marries his mother
and goes on welfare.
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It is an ode to Oedipus.
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My mother, she didn't appreciate
Chafed Elbows, I'll tell you.
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Jesus.
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I said, "It's only a film."
She said, "I don't care what it is."
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[chuckling] "How dare you."
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[song continues]
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[Downey Sr.] We were having fun
figuring out how to focus a camera.
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None of us thought we were doing something
that had an audience.
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I know I'm robbing the cradle,
but at least it's my own.
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[Downey Sr.] Then suddenly, I got
this little review in The New York Times.
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The next morning,
there was a line around the corner
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for this little film in 16-millimeter.
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[producer] What was inspiring you
to make these movies?
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[Downey Sr.] It was unique.
It was different.
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I mean, where else could you be
doing something like making a movie,
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and you've never made one before?
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[producer] Can you hear that?
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[sirens wailing in distance]
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It all fits.
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-[producer] What, the siren?
-Yeah.
240
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[producer] Okay, okay. Did people
try to ascribe meaning to your movies?
241
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Oh my God. I hope not.
242
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[male voice] Would you people mind
if I joined you?
243
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-Come on, baby.
-[male voice] Oh yeah?
244
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Let me get my duds off here.
245
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Move over, champ.
246
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-Lemme in there, huh?
-[woman] Mmm.
247
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[Downey Sr.] We didn't know what
we were doing, but suddenly the films
248
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started getting better or weirder.
249
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["KHJ Radio Beds"
by Jack Nitzsche playing]
250
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[Downey Jr.] After Chafed Elbows,
251
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Sr. and Elsie, my mom,
they were just always writing.
252
00:11:04,498 --> 00:11:06,709
I think it's been a very creative day.
253
00:11:06,792 --> 00:11:10,879
[Downey Jr.] There was
this flow of people through the house
254
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for dailies and writing sessions.
255
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The time spent with him
was perfectly, wonderfully,
256
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deliciously insane.
257
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I'm in the middle of a nervous breakdown.
258
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[man] Well, do it somewhere else.
We're busy in here.
259
00:11:24,393 --> 00:11:27,104
[Lear] With an odd, odd sense of humor,
260
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he is so much his own man,
261
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so much his own artist.
262
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[Arkin] There's a kind
of benign nihilism through his work.
263
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Just the freedom of it.
264
00:11:38,615 --> 00:11:40,617
You didn't know where
the story was gonna go.
265
00:11:40,701 --> 00:11:42,703
You didn't know if there was a story.
266
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There was a sense that each moment
was allowed to play itself out
267
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until you're hysterically laughing.
268
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They'd moved whatever little crib I was in
269
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into the area adjacent
to where they were screening dailies.
270
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So I got very used to falling asleep
to the sound of clapboards.
271
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It's almost like I was being programmed.
272
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This one is Robert in a crib.
273
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-[producer] Did you put him there?
-It must have been me.
274
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[Downey Jr.] And I just remember
that cacophony of creativity.
275
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Lots of cigarettes and weed and booze,
276
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but mostly laughter.
277
00:12:18,197 --> 00:12:21,909
If you don't give me those 12 H-bombs,
I'm gonna drain your gold for ya.
278
00:12:21,992 --> 00:12:25,120
That's right, man, 12 H-bombs,
or I drain your gold for ya.
279
00:12:25,204 --> 00:12:26,288
[gun fires]
280
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One of the things I liked best about him
as a filmmaker and as a director,
281
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he'd just let me go wild.
282
00:12:32,503 --> 00:12:33,337
[gasps]
283
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I might add a few improvised words
or gestures, and I remember him saying,
284
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"I don't know what it means,
but I love it."
285
00:12:41,804 --> 00:12:44,431
[Arkin] I don't know how
he came up with his casting ideas.
286
00:12:44,515 --> 00:12:46,934
I couldn't figure it out
'cause they didn't seem like actors.
287
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I didn't know what they were.
288
00:12:48,268 --> 00:12:50,395
It's like he went down
to the Bowery half the time
289
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and just picked up people
who were half in the bag.
290
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But they were wonderful,
291
00:12:55,567 --> 00:12:59,279
just a wonderful bunch
of un-actory-looking people.
292
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What's going on?
293
00:13:01,448 --> 00:13:03,575
You gotta draw the line somewhere.
294
00:13:03,659 --> 00:13:06,870
[Downey Jr.] If there was
one undercurrent that was really shifty,
295
00:13:06,954 --> 00:13:10,165
it was either, "We're flush,"
or, "We're broke!"
296
00:13:10,249 --> 00:13:12,584
It was never like, "We're stable."
297
00:13:12,668 --> 00:13:15,295
By "flush," I mean 500 bucks in the bank.
298
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[man 1] We're ready to roll over here.
299
00:13:18,131 --> 00:13:21,927
I made one with just stills almost
'cause we couldn't afford film.
300
00:13:22,010 --> 00:13:23,637
[man 2] You can't direct nothing.
301
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[man 1] If it wasn't for me, you'd be
on unemployment with the rest of the scum
302
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of the underground cinema.
303
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[Downey Sr.] The early ones,
I made so cheaply.
304
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Just working a job somewhere,
I could get it done.
305
00:13:33,021 --> 00:13:34,106
[song continues]
306
00:13:34,189 --> 00:13:35,983
[Downey Jr.] Things were
just grounded enough
307
00:13:36,066 --> 00:13:38,443
that a very charismatic guy
308
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who had different ideas and curiosity
309
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could create a new standard of filmmaking.
310
00:13:46,201 --> 00:13:48,996
And I think he's someone
who has preserved that curiosity
311
00:13:49,580 --> 00:13:51,373
well into his autumn years.
312
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[music ends]
313
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[ship horn sounding]
314
00:14:00,674 --> 00:14:02,175
There it is. There it is.
315
00:14:02,926 --> 00:14:03,844
See it?
316
00:14:06,305 --> 00:14:09,474
It's kinda reassuring
to be in a city and see this, huh?
317
00:14:11,226 --> 00:14:14,104
If you had to introduce this scene,
318
00:14:14,688 --> 00:14:17,482
I wonder whether you would come down
319
00:14:17,566 --> 00:14:19,693
or pan down from a building to this
320
00:14:19,776 --> 00:14:22,487
or pan up from something here.
321
00:14:22,571 --> 00:14:24,114
I don't know. Both, maybe, right?
322
00:14:24,698 --> 00:14:27,868
That's an interesting image there.
Wow. Like a Western.
323
00:14:27,951 --> 00:14:30,495
["Stranger on the Shore"
by Jack Nitzsche playing]
324
00:14:40,464 --> 00:14:42,466
[Downey Sr.] Look at 'em all.
There are nine of them.
325
00:14:44,468 --> 00:14:48,305
How could they have all come out
of one duck?
326
00:14:51,058 --> 00:14:53,435
Look at Mom, perusing the whole joint.
327
00:14:54,478 --> 00:14:55,604
[Downey Sr. chuckling]
328
00:15:03,862 --> 00:15:06,198
-Remember the ducks you shot?
-[producer] Yeah.
329
00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:08,825
They've grown. They're big.
330
00:15:09,868 --> 00:15:11,787
We'll see 'em this afternoon if you want.
331
00:15:11,870 --> 00:15:13,121
They're big.
332
00:15:14,373 --> 00:15:17,376
I hope you guys are as happy
as I am with this footage.
333
00:15:20,379 --> 00:15:24,132
I think you need stuff
other than about movies, for balance.
334
00:15:24,216 --> 00:15:26,093
[producer] So it's not
just about the films?
335
00:15:26,176 --> 00:15:27,761
-Right.
-[producer] Who is this guy?
336
00:15:27,844 --> 00:15:28,845
Exactly.
337
00:15:30,305 --> 00:15:31,682
[producer] Who is this guy?
338
00:15:32,391 --> 00:15:35,435
Uh, I'll never know. [laughing]
339
00:15:35,519 --> 00:15:37,521
[song continues]
340
00:15:44,778 --> 00:15:46,196
[Downey Sr.] There they are.
341
00:15:47,155 --> 00:15:48,323
Oh my God.
342
00:15:52,244 --> 00:15:54,705
Wow. Heh!
343
00:15:56,748 --> 00:16:00,752
I've never seen this thing
with a real tiny one and a big one
344
00:16:01,461 --> 00:16:03,046
all within a lifespan.
345
00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,134
-Boy, I'm getting dizzy.
-[producer] Oh shit.
346
00:16:07,634 --> 00:16:09,886
-[Downey Sr.] Whoa.
-[producer] Can you go to the bench?
347
00:16:09,970 --> 00:16:11,680
-[Downey Sr.] Yeah.
-[producer] All right.
348
00:16:14,391 --> 00:16:17,728
-[Downey Sr.] Oh my God. Oh boy.
-[producer] That was a close call.
349
00:16:20,313 --> 00:16:22,399
[inhales sharply, groans]
350
00:16:22,482 --> 00:16:25,068
[producer] We gotta figure out
how to get him back upstairs.
351
00:16:25,152 --> 00:16:28,071
-No, I'll be all right.
-[producer] You'll be able to walk up?
352
00:16:28,572 --> 00:16:29,740
As long as you stick cl--
353
00:16:29,823 --> 00:16:32,284
-relatively close, I'll be okay.
-[producer] Yeah.
354
00:16:40,751 --> 00:16:46,131
I… I think I have to face
the, uh, idea of my problem
355
00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,593
and just cut away
to the shakes that I get sometimes.
356
00:16:49,676 --> 00:16:51,053
You just see that going on.
357
00:16:55,265 --> 00:16:58,769
And Rosemary, when it happens
in a restaurant or something,
358
00:16:58,852 --> 00:17:01,229
she just… she'll just go over
to me and go…
359
00:17:01,313 --> 00:17:02,272
[slaps other hand]
360
00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:03,940
[chucking] …and it calms down.
361
00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:06,735
-Yeah.
-[producer] What is that?
362
00:17:07,235 --> 00:17:08,695
[Downey Sr.] The Parkinson's.
363
00:17:11,865 --> 00:17:13,617
I just thought… [spluttering]
364
00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:14,701
…you know… [spluttering]
365
00:17:14,785 --> 00:17:18,955
…there's a certain way I have to eat now.
Otherwise, the shit's all over the floor.
366
00:17:19,706 --> 00:17:20,707
So,
367
00:17:21,833 --> 00:17:22,834
let's face it.
368
00:17:23,335 --> 00:17:26,338
[phone dialing]
369
00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:29,549
[line ringing]
370
00:17:31,968 --> 00:17:34,971
-[prolonged exhale]
-[Downey Sr.] Good morning.
371
00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:36,598
Hi.
372
00:17:37,099 --> 00:17:40,185
-[Downey Sr.] How are you?
-[in sad voice] Sometimes I wonder.
373
00:17:40,685 --> 00:17:42,729
[Downey Sr. chuckling on phone]
374
00:17:42,813 --> 00:17:44,856
Tell me everything. How ya been?
375
00:17:45,524 --> 00:17:47,317
Um, okay.
376
00:17:48,443 --> 00:17:50,403
[hesitating] Okay.
377
00:17:51,279 --> 00:17:53,865
Is it a struggle?
378
00:17:53,949 --> 00:17:57,285
Is it challenging?
Is it weird? Is it scary?
379
00:17:57,369 --> 00:18:01,123
On a certain day, any of those.
380
00:18:01,206 --> 00:18:05,794
You know, I do think that that should…
that should be part of the film.
381
00:18:05,877 --> 00:18:06,753
Oh.
382
00:18:07,379 --> 00:18:10,340
-I like that you have this project.
-[Downey Jr.] Me too.
383
00:18:10,882 --> 00:18:13,593
I don't know why. It's… it's creative
384
00:18:13,677 --> 00:18:17,430
and, uh, soothing to me on so many levels.
385
00:18:17,514 --> 00:18:18,348
Oh, yeah.
386
00:18:19,099 --> 00:18:21,768
It's exciting
because it's not like anything else.
387
00:18:21,852 --> 00:18:23,854
["Summertime" by Charles Mingus playing]
388
00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:26,523
Okay.
389
00:18:30,527 --> 00:18:34,197
[Rogers] With Parkinson's, you lose
a little bit of something every day.
390
00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:38,743
But he's so fully focused on this film.
391
00:18:40,412 --> 00:18:44,541
It's obviously energizing for him
and exciting for him.
392
00:18:46,126 --> 00:18:49,337
[Downey Sr.] It'll be on the left
if it's on this street.
393
00:18:49,421 --> 00:18:50,922
This might be it.
394
00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:52,883
[Rogers] Looks like it.
395
00:18:52,966 --> 00:18:54,217
[Downey Sr.] Could be.
396
00:18:54,301 --> 00:18:57,512
-[producer] Bob, where are we?
-[Downey Sr.] Great Jones Alley.
397
00:18:58,805 --> 00:19:00,223
Not Grace Jones.
398
00:19:01,057 --> 00:19:03,935
We paid a bum $50
399
00:19:04,019 --> 00:19:07,522
to lay down in a heap of depression.
400
00:19:08,356 --> 00:19:09,774
And then we did the scene.
401
00:19:11,067 --> 00:19:14,154
And he said, "Let's do it again,"
when we finished. [chuckles]
402
00:19:14,863 --> 00:19:16,865
That was nice. I do remember that.
403
00:19:18,783 --> 00:19:19,784
Wow.
404
00:19:19,868 --> 00:19:21,369
[producer] What was the scene?
405
00:19:21,870 --> 00:19:25,498
It was a scene where there's…
She's doing a commercial for…
406
00:19:28,084 --> 00:19:31,254
Actually, she's just so great-looking,
nobody cared what it was.
407
00:19:32,631 --> 00:19:35,383
["Eclipse (From Putney Swope)"
by Charley Cuva playing]
408
00:19:36,551 --> 00:19:38,762
You can't eat an air conditioner.
409
00:19:41,431 --> 00:19:45,560
[Downey Sr.] When I decided to make
a film about an ad agency,
410
00:19:45,644 --> 00:19:47,646
I think this is the quickest
I wrote anything.
411
00:19:47,729 --> 00:19:49,147
I was having so much fun.
412
00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:55,278
If we use c-c-creative foreplay
413
00:19:55,362 --> 00:19:57,822
before we penetrate,
414
00:19:58,448 --> 00:20:01,576
we'll b-b-b-b…
415
00:20:01,660 --> 00:20:02,953
[man 1] Bypass?
416
00:20:03,036 --> 00:20:04,871
-[man 2] B-b-b-b…
-Looks like.
417
00:20:04,955 --> 00:20:07,874
-[man 2] B-b-b-b…
-Sounds like.
418
00:20:07,958 --> 00:20:09,668
-[man 2] B-b-b-b…
-How many syllables, Mario?
419
00:20:09,751 --> 00:20:12,337
-[man 2] B-b-b-b…
-How many syllables, Mario?
420
00:20:12,420 --> 00:20:14,130
-[man 2] B-b-b-b!
-How many syllables, Mario?
421
00:20:14,214 --> 00:20:16,091
B-b-b! [groans]
422
00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:19,135
[Downey Sr.] It's about a white ad agency
423
00:20:19,219 --> 00:20:22,180
where the head of the agency dies
and has a heart attack.
424
00:20:22,264 --> 00:20:26,017
His board of executives
take his rings and watches and so forth,
425
00:20:26,101 --> 00:20:28,311
and they have to vote in
a new chairman of the board.
426
00:20:28,395 --> 00:20:30,897
The rules are you can't vote for yourself,
427
00:20:30,981 --> 00:20:33,817
so they all vote for the one Black guy
in the ad agency,
428
00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:36,736
thinking nobody else will vote for him,
and he's elected.
429
00:20:38,196 --> 00:20:41,449
-Swope.
-My father would have wanted it this way.
430
00:20:42,993 --> 00:20:44,536
He dug you very much.
431
00:20:44,619 --> 00:20:47,580
Your father was a horse's ass.
432
00:20:47,664 --> 00:20:50,750
He goes up to the head of the table
and says, "The changes I'm gonna make
433
00:20:50,834 --> 00:20:51,751
will be minimal."
434
00:20:51,835 --> 00:20:53,670
[Swope] I'm not gonna rock the boat.
435
00:20:53,753 --> 00:20:55,922
Rocking the boat's a drag.
436
00:20:56,006 --> 00:20:57,882
What you do is sink the boat!
437
00:20:57,966 --> 00:21:00,844
[Downey Sr.] Cuts over his back,
and there's 40 Black people sitting there,
438
00:21:00,927 --> 00:21:02,053
and the movie starts.
439
00:21:02,137 --> 00:21:05,348
I hear the film is really funny.
I would say that anyway, even if I hadn't.
440
00:21:05,432 --> 00:21:06,558
[crowd laughing]
441
00:21:06,641 --> 00:21:09,853
-But, uh… but I really do.
-I hope the film's more than funny.
442
00:21:09,936 --> 00:21:12,147
-Do you?
-I hope it has some sting in it too.
443
00:21:12,772 --> 00:21:15,275
-As a window cleaner, forget it.
-[funky rock music playing]
444
00:21:15,358 --> 00:21:17,152
Put soybeans in it for protein,
445
00:21:17,235 --> 00:21:19,779
and we'll push it as a soft drink
in the ghetto.
446
00:21:19,863 --> 00:21:24,367
There is no revolution
the way you're running this joint, man.
447
00:21:24,451 --> 00:21:26,286
Now, when is something gonna happen?
448
00:21:27,495 --> 00:21:29,456
[Downey Jr.] Putney was
right in the middle
449
00:21:29,539 --> 00:21:32,542
of all of that civil rights turmoil.
450
00:21:32,625 --> 00:21:35,462
How did that concept come to you?
451
00:21:35,545 --> 00:21:37,797
-I was working a job.
-[Downey Jr.] Mm-hmm.
452
00:21:37,881 --> 00:21:40,842
[Downey Sr.] And the Black guy
working next to me said,
453
00:21:40,925 --> 00:21:45,138
"You make more money than I do,
and we're doing the same thing."
454
00:21:45,221 --> 00:21:47,265
-[Downey Jr.] Right.
-[Downey Sr.] That did it for me.
455
00:21:47,349 --> 00:21:49,976
If I give you a raise,
everybody's gonna want a raise.
456
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,189
And if I give them a raise,
we'll be right back where we started.
457
00:21:54,689 --> 00:21:57,317
[Downey Sr.] I didn't think
anybody would come see it, but, boy,
458
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:58,735
I… I didn't know shit.
459
00:21:59,486 --> 00:22:01,613
["Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf playing]
460
00:22:10,872 --> 00:22:12,832
[Downey Sr.] It seemed
there was something going on
461
00:22:12,916 --> 00:22:15,835
that hooked into whatever
was socially going on
462
00:22:16,586 --> 00:22:17,962
and what the movie was.
463
00:22:19,047 --> 00:22:20,673
So it was a nice mirror.
464
00:22:20,757 --> 00:22:23,093
♪ In whatever comes our way… ♪
465
00:22:23,593 --> 00:22:25,303
[Downey Sr.] It wasn't really
about the movie
466
00:22:25,387 --> 00:22:27,472
as much as it was about society.
467
00:22:28,139 --> 00:22:30,683
♪ Take the world in a love embrace… ♪
468
00:22:31,184 --> 00:22:33,728
[Downey Sr.] If everybody
could get turned on
469
00:22:33,812 --> 00:22:36,356
to having a sense of humor
about themselves,
470
00:22:36,439 --> 00:22:39,734
I think we could get over a lot of things
that we take very, very seriously.
471
00:22:39,818 --> 00:22:43,279
We could approach the serious matters
in a different way,
472
00:22:43,363 --> 00:22:47,075
like war and poverty
and all the things that are going on.
473
00:22:47,158 --> 00:22:48,243
[crowd shouting]
474
00:22:50,078 --> 00:22:52,831
♪ Yeah, darlin', go and make it happen ♪
475
00:22:53,331 --> 00:22:55,583
♪ Take the world in a love embrace… ♪
476
00:22:56,709 --> 00:22:59,295
[Downey Sr.] "Robert Downey
makes vile movies."
477
00:23:00,130 --> 00:23:02,674
Life magazine. Oh, really?
478
00:23:05,218 --> 00:23:08,054
-[producer] What'd you make of that?
-[Downey Sr.] That sounds all right.
479
00:23:08,972 --> 00:23:10,598
And this, did you get that one?
480
00:23:10,682 --> 00:23:13,810
[producer] Putney Swope was inducted
into the Library of Congress?
481
00:23:13,893 --> 00:23:17,730
That was wild that that film got in there.
That's usually Hollywood films.
482
00:23:18,857 --> 00:23:20,483
[Downey Jr.] What did that mean to you
483
00:23:20,567 --> 00:23:24,696
when you started getting
the approval of the filmmakers
484
00:23:24,779 --> 00:23:29,367
that were, for lack of a better word,
important in that generation?
485
00:23:29,451 --> 00:23:31,911
That must have meant something.
486
00:23:31,995 --> 00:23:34,289
Yeah, it meant
that I could do another film.
487
00:23:34,372 --> 00:23:39,461
Kinda like you belonged
and you were being validated in some way?
488
00:23:39,544 --> 00:23:42,338
Well, that's a pretty interesting theory.
489
00:23:42,422 --> 00:23:44,507
[laughing]
490
00:23:44,591 --> 00:23:45,967
Nice deflection.
491
00:23:46,551 --> 00:23:47,677
[laughing]
492
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,055
He knows that I'm attempting
to understand something
493
00:23:51,139 --> 00:23:53,016
and that I'm turning a camera on him.
494
00:23:53,099 --> 00:23:58,271
What he's trying to do is turn the camera
onto what it is he's trying to say.
495
00:23:59,063 --> 00:24:00,982
What that is remains to be seen.
496
00:24:03,193 --> 00:24:05,653
What a bay over here, my God.
497
00:24:05,737 --> 00:24:08,031
It's beginning to look like Rockaway.
498
00:24:09,532 --> 00:24:12,785
["Besame Mucho" by Artie Shaw
and His Gramercy Five playing]
499
00:24:12,869 --> 00:24:14,746
[producer] Bob, why did you
wanna come out here?
500
00:24:14,829 --> 00:24:17,874
When I was 15,
I used to come here in the summer.
501
00:24:19,417 --> 00:24:22,086
It was known
as the last stop on the subway.
502
00:24:23,379 --> 00:24:25,340
Oh my God, you've gotta get that.
503
00:24:30,512 --> 00:24:31,638
This is great.
504
00:24:33,515 --> 00:24:35,517
[song continues]
505
00:24:36,142 --> 00:24:37,560
Boy, that was wild.
506
00:24:37,644 --> 00:24:39,145
[woman] Can we say "cheese"?
507
00:24:40,271 --> 00:24:42,273
[both laughing]
508
00:24:43,942 --> 00:24:45,109
My friend.
509
00:24:46,152 --> 00:24:48,780
My nutty friend. [laughing]
510
00:24:48,863 --> 00:24:50,365
[woman] How long you guys been married?
511
00:24:50,865 --> 00:24:51,991
Fifteen hundred years.
512
00:24:52,075 --> 00:24:53,868
[women laughing]
513
00:24:54,494 --> 00:24:57,622
[producer] Do you ever feel
like you're living in one of your films?
514
00:24:57,705 --> 00:24:58,831
Right now.
515
00:25:00,833 --> 00:25:02,252
[laughing]
516
00:25:02,335 --> 00:25:04,045
[producer] Were your films this loose?
517
00:25:04,128 --> 00:25:07,257
Sometimes, yeah.
But this has been the freest.
518
00:25:08,132 --> 00:25:09,092
Yeah.
519
00:25:09,175 --> 00:25:11,970
Everything turns into everything
sooner or later.
520
00:25:12,053 --> 00:25:15,598
Things will turn into something else,
which turns into something else.
521
00:25:15,682 --> 00:25:18,268
And then something doesn't work.
You throw that out.
522
00:25:18,768 --> 00:25:20,270
It's called "follow the film."
523
00:25:20,353 --> 00:25:21,896
["Summertime" by Charles Mingus playing]
524
00:25:21,980 --> 00:25:25,275
I still feel, on some level,
like he's fucking with us.
525
00:25:26,150 --> 00:25:32,073
He knows that there's a bit of interplay
between capturing a story about him
526
00:25:32,156 --> 00:25:35,702
and also him keeping
himself interested in the process.
527
00:25:37,745 --> 00:25:38,955
And cut.
528
00:25:39,038 --> 00:25:41,916
Wow! No transition required.
529
00:25:42,542 --> 00:25:45,211
-[Downey Sr.] What's the difference?
-I know what you're doing now.
530
00:25:45,295 --> 00:25:46,462
-[Downey Sr.] What?
-I know.
531
00:25:46,546 --> 00:25:49,966
And because I believe he is connected
532
00:25:50,049 --> 00:25:53,928
to some sort of creative deity,
533
00:25:54,012 --> 00:25:57,223
my job is to figure out what it all means.
534
00:25:57,307 --> 00:25:59,017
[producer] What's this scene
we're watching?
535
00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:02,937
It's just, uh, the walk
towards the, uh, door,
536
00:26:03,021 --> 00:26:04,731
the out… outdoor door.
537
00:26:06,065 --> 00:26:08,526
-[producer] How does it fit in the movie?
-Who knows?
538
00:26:08,610 --> 00:26:11,738
[producer] You directed this one.
What's the po-- What's the plan?
539
00:26:11,821 --> 00:26:14,407
[assistant] Yeah, your plan
is what we need to hear.
540
00:26:15,825 --> 00:26:19,662
Uh, I think we should split
into two camps,
541
00:26:19,746 --> 00:26:23,499
and both editing things
are leading towards the same thing,
542
00:26:23,583 --> 00:26:25,126
the editing of this film.
543
00:26:25,209 --> 00:26:29,172
But you might get something out of one
that you won't get with the other.
544
00:26:29,922 --> 00:26:32,425
I think I should rent an apartment
in this building
545
00:26:32,508 --> 00:26:34,469
and get some equipment in here.
546
00:26:34,552 --> 00:26:35,678
Let's go.
547
00:26:35,762 --> 00:26:37,764
["Modern People" by Roger Neill playing]
548
00:26:50,652 --> 00:26:53,905
[Downey Jr.] You like the idea of getting
a shot of the gate opening, right?
549
00:26:53,988 --> 00:26:54,906
[Downey Sr.] If we can.
550
00:26:54,989 --> 00:26:57,408
[Downey Jr.] I think we can.
We're gonna go down the road here.
551
00:26:57,909 --> 00:27:00,370
I'm taking you down
the garden path, Father.
552
00:27:00,453 --> 00:27:01,454
[Downey Sr. laughing]
553
00:27:02,038 --> 00:27:04,082
And the farther away you are, the better.
554
00:27:04,165 --> 00:27:05,625
[Downey Jr. laughing]
555
00:27:05,708 --> 00:27:08,419
[producer] Did you guys…
Did you take a road trip together?
556
00:27:08,503 --> 00:27:11,130
[Downey Sr.] Yeah,
across the country once.
557
00:27:11,214 --> 00:27:14,133
-From Santa Fe down to LA.
-[producer] Yeah.
558
00:27:14,634 --> 00:27:15,760
What was that like?
559
00:27:15,843 --> 00:27:17,512
I was in charge of the hash pipe.
560
00:27:18,054 --> 00:27:19,555
[Downey Sr. laughing]
561
00:27:19,639 --> 00:27:20,723
That was interesting.
562
00:27:22,016 --> 00:27:24,435
I don't know
if it belongs here, but I like it.
563
00:27:25,937 --> 00:27:28,773
[Downey Jr.] Uh, we need
a Jack Nitzsche cue right here.
564
00:27:29,649 --> 00:27:32,068
[Downey Jr. vocalizing
"Rumble" by Jack Nitzsche]
565
00:27:38,241 --> 00:27:41,452
[producer] So, from that,
would you go into one of your films?
566
00:27:41,953 --> 00:27:45,915
We could, or we could stick
with this a little longer.
567
00:27:45,998 --> 00:27:48,334
["Rumble" by Jack Nitzsche playing]
568
00:27:51,087 --> 00:27:53,631
-[Downey Jr.] Don't go too fast.
-[Downey Sr.] Whoa, wait a minute.
569
00:27:53,715 --> 00:27:57,135
-[Downey Jr. laughing]
-[Downey Sr.] Wait a minute. Jesus.
570
00:27:58,261 --> 00:28:00,972
[Downey Jr.] His cut
is very much a work in progress.
571
00:28:01,055 --> 00:28:03,015
It is not all that linear.
572
00:28:03,516 --> 00:28:06,477
It's like if you give
a director no deadline
573
00:28:06,561 --> 00:28:09,105
for when his project
is supposed to be finished
574
00:28:09,188 --> 00:28:12,066
or really any narrative
for what it should be to begin with,
575
00:28:12,150 --> 00:28:14,986
it can be a little, uh, kooky.
576
00:28:15,069 --> 00:28:19,240
[narrator] Fourth floor.
Solarium, aquarium, sanitarium,
577
00:28:19,323 --> 00:28:22,785
drunk tank, celebrities,
children's diseases, going up.
578
00:28:23,536 --> 00:28:27,039
[Anderson] Bob doesn't seem to be
that worried about confusing the audience.
579
00:28:27,123 --> 00:28:28,458
-Um…
-[crowd laughing]
580
00:28:28,541 --> 00:28:30,001
[Anderson] And that's why it's great.
581
00:28:30,084 --> 00:28:32,670
There is a kind of pattern
to the way that he does things
582
00:28:32,754 --> 00:28:35,006
and that you either get with or you don't.
583
00:28:35,089 --> 00:28:37,592
But, man, I'm, like,
you know, smitten with it.
584
00:28:37,675 --> 00:28:39,802
[Downey Sr.] You know,
Paul, he loves films
585
00:28:39,886 --> 00:28:41,971
more than most people I run into.
586
00:28:42,054 --> 00:28:45,767
When I met him, I couldn't believe
he knew the '60s more than I know.
587
00:28:45,850 --> 00:28:47,393
And he's a wonderful writer.
588
00:28:47,477 --> 00:28:48,311
Action.
589
00:28:48,394 --> 00:28:51,856
Come on, come one, come on! All right?
All we need is the tapes, Burt.
590
00:28:52,398 --> 00:28:53,232
No.
591
00:28:53,316 --> 00:28:57,570
He asked me to pop in one day
and fuck around on camera, and I did that.
592
00:28:57,653 --> 00:28:59,989
We can't pay the price of the demo tapes
593
00:29:00,072 --> 00:29:03,534
unless we take the demo tapes
to the record company and get paid.
594
00:29:03,618 --> 00:29:04,952
Hello? Exactly!
595
00:29:06,037 --> 00:29:08,873
That's not an MP. That's a YP,
596
00:29:08,956 --> 00:29:10,291
your problem!
597
00:29:10,374 --> 00:29:13,878
I had fun with Paul Anderson,
doing it. That was fun.
598
00:29:14,378 --> 00:29:16,672
It's no mystery that Paul Thomas Anderson
599
00:29:16,756 --> 00:29:19,300
is probably the son
my dad wishes he had had,
600
00:29:19,801 --> 00:29:21,594
and they like to rub that in my face.
601
00:29:21,677 --> 00:29:23,679
["Pound Score" by Charley Cuva playing]
602
00:29:26,516 --> 00:29:28,226
[Downey Sr.] Paul says
something something,
603
00:29:28,309 --> 00:29:30,686
and I said, "I gotta get out of here.
I gotta go to my train."
604
00:29:30,770 --> 00:29:32,897
And he said, "I'm coming with you."
And I said, "What?"
605
00:29:35,608 --> 00:29:38,027
[producer] Was this for a documentary or…
606
00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:40,530
[Downey Sr.] You never know
with him what he's doing.
607
00:29:41,030 --> 00:29:42,865
He might have been doing
something like that.
608
00:29:42,949 --> 00:29:44,659
I haven't heard about it since.
609
00:29:46,369 --> 00:29:48,454
[Anderson] Let me get another battery
before we go up.
610
00:29:48,538 --> 00:29:49,705
For my pacemaker?
611
00:29:49,789 --> 00:29:50,957
[Anderson laughing]
612
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,461
[laughing]
613
00:29:55,545 --> 00:29:58,589
[Anderson] I mean, if you hang around
with Bob to get to know Bob,
614
00:29:58,673 --> 00:30:00,967
he's got the most fantastic sense
of humor,
615
00:30:01,050 --> 00:30:04,053
and he just has this incredible confidence
616
00:30:04,136 --> 00:30:07,348
to just commit to his rhythm
of telling a story.
617
00:30:07,932 --> 00:30:11,060
And so, as another filmmaker,
it's invigorating.
618
00:30:11,143 --> 00:30:13,271
And it reminds you, like,
to have that confidence,
619
00:30:13,354 --> 00:30:14,981
to have that trust in yourself.
620
00:30:15,940 --> 00:30:18,901
It's hard to walk,
never mind hold the camera.
621
00:30:19,485 --> 00:30:23,197
[Downey Jr.] Dad used to take the train.
Last ride you did was with PTA?
622
00:30:23,281 --> 00:30:26,409
But since, none, and no flying.
623
00:30:26,492 --> 00:30:29,579
[Downey Sr.] Yeah,
I don't fly anywhere. I'm paranoid.
624
00:30:29,662 --> 00:30:33,124
[Lear] He was sensitive to the train.
625
00:30:33,207 --> 00:30:35,334
He was sensitive
to getting on and off the train.
626
00:30:35,418 --> 00:30:38,296
[chuckles] He was sensitive to weather.
627
00:30:38,379 --> 00:30:40,089
[Downey Jr.] Are elevators
still a problem?
628
00:30:40,172 --> 00:30:41,299
[Downey Sr.] Oh yeah.
629
00:30:43,426 --> 00:30:45,469
-That's some… Don't…
-[producer] Oh shit.
630
00:30:46,137 --> 00:30:49,348
I told you I was stuck in here
for an hour and a half one night,
631
00:30:49,432 --> 00:30:50,766
and I couldn't get out.
632
00:30:50,850 --> 00:30:53,561
There was a Russian guy on the elevator.
633
00:30:53,644 --> 00:30:57,148
Kept saying, "Are we gonna be all right?"
I said, "How the fuck do I know?"
634
00:30:57,648 --> 00:30:59,483
[song continues]
635
00:31:00,067 --> 00:31:02,445
[Downey Jr.] Do you think
all these neuroses, ultimately,
636
00:31:02,528 --> 00:31:06,407
are part and parcel to creativity,
or do you think they're just a drag?
637
00:31:06,490 --> 00:31:08,284
-Little of both.
-Yeah.
638
00:31:09,702 --> 00:31:12,371
-I think we have some new characters.
-[Anderson] Yeah.
639
00:31:12,455 --> 00:31:15,708
The hour before the crash landing,
it was scary.
640
00:31:15,791 --> 00:31:17,627
Not the landing. We… we made it.
641
00:31:17,710 --> 00:31:19,837
But ever since then,
I haven't been able to face it.
642
00:31:19,921 --> 00:31:21,422
[Anderson] So what are
the chances you're gonna get
643
00:31:21,505 --> 00:31:22,882
in two plane crashes in your life?
644
00:31:22,965 --> 00:31:24,383
I'll never find out.
645
00:31:24,467 --> 00:31:25,468
I'm too scared.
646
00:31:26,594 --> 00:31:28,054
That crash landing,
647
00:31:28,554 --> 00:31:30,932
that… that happened
when I was in the army.
648
00:31:31,015 --> 00:31:32,642
["The Last Race" by Jack Nitzsche playing]
649
00:31:32,725 --> 00:31:35,519
We were on a C-47,
which is a two-engine plane.
650
00:31:36,020 --> 00:31:40,232
And about an hour or so in,
one of the engines stopped.
651
00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:43,027
And a lot of us were really young.
652
00:31:43,110 --> 00:31:46,781
Every time we'd see something
coming close to the window in the plane,
653
00:31:46,864 --> 00:31:50,493
it looked like the end.
It was a tree or something else.
654
00:31:50,576 --> 00:31:53,329
And finally, this sergeant guy
started saying,
655
00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:55,998
"I don't wanna die.
I don't wanna die. I don't wanna die."
656
00:31:56,082 --> 00:31:58,960
And we're looking at him,
like, "Are you fucking nuts?"
657
00:31:59,919 --> 00:32:01,754
"You're supposed to be helping us."
658
00:32:02,755 --> 00:32:05,341
Anyway, the plane landed, crash-landed.
659
00:32:05,424 --> 00:32:08,803
Nobody died. Nobody got hurt.
Just banged up a little.
660
00:32:08,886 --> 00:32:12,306
He walks off the plane
like nothing's wrong.
661
00:32:12,390 --> 00:32:14,809
We started calling him
every name in the book.
662
00:32:15,393 --> 00:32:18,604
So he got a hold of me
and put me in the stockade. [laughs]
663
00:32:19,271 --> 00:32:20,898
[producer] Were you always a troublemaker?
664
00:32:20,982 --> 00:32:21,983
Yes.
665
00:32:22,566 --> 00:32:25,861
[producer] And so why did you think
going in the army would be a good idea?
666
00:32:25,945 --> 00:32:27,154
Who knows?
667
00:32:28,489 --> 00:32:31,784
I used my stepfather's name
to go in the army underage
668
00:32:31,867 --> 00:32:34,453
with a fake birth certificate. Downey.
669
00:32:35,037 --> 00:32:41,502
Elias is the actual blood name
of both my dad, Robert Elias,
670
00:32:41,585 --> 00:32:45,965
my dad's dad, my grandfather,
also Robert Elias.
671
00:32:46,048 --> 00:32:50,094
He changed it because,
when he joined the army underage,
672
00:32:50,594 --> 00:32:55,933
he did not feel that having
a Jewish-sounding last name would be good,
673
00:32:56,017 --> 00:32:58,185
whereas an Irish last name should be fine.
674
00:32:58,686 --> 00:33:01,022
You spent a little time
in the stockade here and there
675
00:33:01,105 --> 00:33:02,690
'cause you can't stay out of trouble.
676
00:33:02,773 --> 00:33:04,817
What would you call that chapter?
677
00:33:05,401 --> 00:33:06,569
[Downey Sr.] "The Beginning."
678
00:33:07,153 --> 00:33:09,155
-[Downey Jr.] Really?
-Yeah.
679
00:33:09,238 --> 00:33:10,448
Tell me why.
680
00:33:10,948 --> 00:33:13,159
[Downey Sr.] The boss
in the stockade said,
681
00:33:13,242 --> 00:33:14,410
"Don't just sit around here."
682
00:33:14,493 --> 00:33:15,661
-"Do something."
-Yeah.
683
00:33:15,745 --> 00:33:18,914
[Downey Sr.] And he said, "Here,
take this pad and write something down."
684
00:33:18,998 --> 00:33:19,832
Wow.
685
00:33:19,915 --> 00:33:23,627
So I just started scribbling,
and suddenly, some of it made sense.
686
00:33:23,711 --> 00:33:27,214
A random act of kindness from your jailer.
687
00:33:27,882 --> 00:33:29,091
You started writing.
688
00:33:29,175 --> 00:33:30,926
Yeah, that's right.
689
00:33:31,010 --> 00:33:35,306
[Downey Jr.] Did any of that wind up being
the beginnings of any of your early work?
690
00:33:35,389 --> 00:33:36,223
Yeah.
691
00:33:36,974 --> 00:33:38,350
I had no idea.
692
00:33:39,268 --> 00:33:41,270
["Pound Score" by Charley Cuva playing]
693
00:33:44,982 --> 00:33:46,650
Why do I have to die?
694
00:33:49,945 --> 00:33:51,614
I never hurt anybody.
695
00:33:52,573 --> 00:33:55,910
[Downey Jr.] In Pound,
there was definitely
696
00:33:55,993 --> 00:33:58,954
a more dramatic backdrop.
697
00:33:59,038 --> 00:34:03,542
[Downey Sr.] Yeah.
Eighteen dogs waiting in a pound,
698
00:34:03,626 --> 00:34:05,503
and they have an hour to live.
699
00:34:06,128 --> 00:34:10,257
[Downey Jr.] If people are playing dogs,
then really the movie is about people.
700
00:34:10,758 --> 00:34:13,344
Me, him, and Fido
are gonna bust out of here.
701
00:34:13,427 --> 00:34:14,428
Who's joining me?
702
00:34:15,012 --> 00:34:18,015
[Downey Jr.] It had a lot of tension
in it too, which was great.
703
00:34:18,099 --> 00:34:19,433
[Downey Sr.] In hindsight,
704
00:34:19,517 --> 00:34:22,311
turned out that it was
much better than I thought it was.
705
00:34:22,394 --> 00:34:25,439
Seeing as how Pound was my official debut,
706
00:34:25,523 --> 00:34:28,400
I think it's your most underrated of all.
707
00:34:28,484 --> 00:34:30,277
[Downey Sr. laughing]
708
00:34:30,361 --> 00:34:33,030
["Score from Pound 'Lame Mutha'"
by Charley Cuva playing]
709
00:34:33,114 --> 00:34:35,116
♪ Don't ya say hello ♪
710
00:34:36,075 --> 00:34:37,409
♪ Hello… ♪
711
00:34:37,493 --> 00:34:39,954
[interviewer] Is this the picture
Bobby Jr. made his debut in?
712
00:34:40,037 --> 00:34:41,205
[Downey Sr.] That's right.
713
00:34:42,123 --> 00:34:45,835
-[Interviewer] At the age of what? A baby?
-[Downey Sr.] Let's see. It was 1970.
714
00:34:45,918 --> 00:34:48,754
So… five.
715
00:34:48,838 --> 00:34:52,675
I… I think we asked him to do the part
'cause we couldn't get a babysitter,
716
00:34:52,758 --> 00:34:54,802
and we knew that part was coming up.
717
00:34:54,885 --> 00:34:57,263
And we, uh, summoned him. It was easy.
718
00:34:57,346 --> 00:35:00,724
That tornado scared me so much,
it made my hair disappear.
719
00:35:01,350 --> 00:35:03,144
Have any hair on your balls?
720
00:35:03,644 --> 00:35:04,979
I'm afraid to look.
721
00:35:05,062 --> 00:35:07,731
I didn't know what the line meant,
that I was asked to say,
722
00:35:07,815 --> 00:35:09,775
which is, "Got any hair on your balls?"
723
00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:12,903
-Oh, to the bald guy. Bald-headed dog.
-To the bald guy.
724
00:35:12,987 --> 00:35:15,406
-He was playing a Mexican hairless, right?
-Yeah, yeah.
725
00:35:15,489 --> 00:35:18,701
He seemed a little shy when he said it.
It almost… But it worked beautifully.
726
00:35:18,784 --> 00:35:21,203
You know, there was
no need for a second take.
727
00:35:21,287 --> 00:35:22,371
[man] Gimme that.
728
00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:26,417
[producer] When you first put Robert
on screen, did you recognize that he was…
729
00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:27,835
[Downey Sr.] Everybody did.
730
00:35:27,918 --> 00:35:30,921
Everybody was saying to me,
"Oh, where'd you get this guy?"
731
00:35:31,505 --> 00:35:33,841
It's that first time that's everything.
732
00:35:33,924 --> 00:35:36,177
You could tell
that he knew what he was doing.
733
00:35:37,011 --> 00:35:40,222
He didn't need my help. He was possessed.
734
00:35:40,306 --> 00:35:42,641
He was tap dancing
in the driveway out there,
735
00:35:42,725 --> 00:35:45,811
and subconsciously,
I knew he never had to go to school.
736
00:35:45,895 --> 00:35:47,521
This guy's gonna be an actor.
737
00:35:48,397 --> 00:35:52,776
[Downey Jr.] When I saw cameras,
I perceived it as it's time with my dad.
738
00:35:53,569 --> 00:35:56,280
Sometimes, like, I…
He would be walking by,
739
00:35:56,363 --> 00:35:59,408
and he went out and grabbed the camera
and said, "Don't move." [laughs]
740
00:35:59,491 --> 00:36:00,618
I was like, "Whoa!"
741
00:36:01,243 --> 00:36:04,622
["Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
Score" by Nitzsche/Sanborn/Arica playing]
742
00:36:06,290 --> 00:36:08,709
[Downey Jr.] It probably felt to me
what it felt like to Exton,
743
00:36:08,792 --> 00:36:13,005
running around in the background
and hosing me down with pool water
744
00:36:13,088 --> 00:36:15,674
and, you know, asking,
745
00:36:15,758 --> 00:36:17,968
"Are we shooting the movie
again tomorrow?"
746
00:36:18,552 --> 00:36:21,931
[Downey Sr.] That's Robert
and his sister fighting in the kitchen.
747
00:36:23,390 --> 00:36:26,352
I was just there with the camera
on the other end of the thing,
748
00:36:26,435 --> 00:36:29,230
just thinking of nothing,
and this broke out.
749
00:36:30,856 --> 00:36:32,650
[producer] How was Sr. as a father?
750
00:36:32,733 --> 00:36:33,734
Um,
751
00:36:34,276 --> 00:36:38,822
complicated in that most of his attention
752
00:36:38,906 --> 00:36:42,409
was on the process of chasing the muse.
753
00:36:43,077 --> 00:36:47,456
I knew that we were not like
the other families.
754
00:36:47,539 --> 00:36:50,626
I used to like to take him to films
that I thought would be interesting
755
00:36:50,709 --> 00:36:52,795
and not think about, "He's a kid."
756
00:36:52,878 --> 00:36:55,839
In fact, they wouldn't let me
into a film--
757
00:36:55,923 --> 00:36:58,133
Oh, La Grande Bouffe.
758
00:36:58,217 --> 00:36:59,969
["Petite Chanson De L'amour" playing]
759
00:37:00,052 --> 00:37:02,763
[Downey Sr.] Four guys
in Italy get together every year
760
00:37:02,846 --> 00:37:04,473
and start feeding each other.
761
00:37:04,556 --> 00:37:07,476
It gets so out of control.
It's disgusting.
762
00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:11,105
I forgot that Robert was with me,
and I went to go see it,
763
00:37:11,188 --> 00:37:14,108
and the person taking tickets
says, "He can't come in."
764
00:37:14,191 --> 00:37:15,693
"This is X-rated."
765
00:37:15,776 --> 00:37:16,902
I said, "Come on."
766
00:37:16,986 --> 00:37:18,904
So I called the distributor,
767
00:37:18,988 --> 00:37:21,949
and he says,
"Put that guy on. How dare he."
768
00:37:22,032 --> 00:37:23,784
Blah blah blah blah blah.
769
00:37:23,867 --> 00:37:28,247
And the ticket-taker takes the call
and says, "You can go in now." [laughing]
770
00:37:28,330 --> 00:37:30,916
I'll put it this way,
we weren't watching Fantasia.
771
00:37:33,669 --> 00:37:36,213
[Downey Sr.] In fact, I took him to see
The Harder They Come.
772
00:37:36,297 --> 00:37:38,424
[reggae music playing]
773
00:37:38,507 --> 00:37:40,718
[Downey Sr.] We went in,
and it was raining that day,
774
00:37:40,801 --> 00:37:42,928
so there were leaks in the theater.
775
00:37:43,012 --> 00:37:45,180
And we were sitting
on the back of the seats.
776
00:37:45,764 --> 00:37:48,142
And when we left there, we said, "Wow."
777
00:37:48,642 --> 00:37:51,145
"There was nobody else
in the theater but us."
778
00:37:51,228 --> 00:37:53,439
And that, somehow, made it even better.
779
00:37:53,522 --> 00:37:58,319
I remember a lot of theaters
that were greasy and weird,
780
00:37:58,402 --> 00:38:02,823
but it was this idea
that films kind of brought us together
781
00:38:03,407 --> 00:38:05,451
and, to this day, still do.
782
00:38:06,118 --> 00:38:07,786
[Downey Sr.] I got… I got plenty of that.
783
00:38:07,870 --> 00:38:10,247
Let's see if he doesn't hang himself
on his sound wire first.
784
00:38:10,331 --> 00:38:11,665
[Downey Sr. laughing]
785
00:38:11,749 --> 00:38:14,084
Do you mind if we show the crew
in the documentary?
786
00:38:14,168 --> 00:38:16,378
-Not at all.
-[Downey Jr.] How come?
787
00:38:16,462 --> 00:38:19,631
Because it lets everybody know
we know what we're doing.
788
00:38:19,715 --> 00:38:20,549
Right.
789
00:38:21,050 --> 00:38:23,594
They might not like it,
but we know what we're doing. Yeah.
790
00:38:23,677 --> 00:38:25,804
It's pretty clear
we know what we're doing here, right?
791
00:38:25,888 --> 00:38:27,723
We have to know something.
792
00:38:28,515 --> 00:38:33,896
Here's where we can talk
about, uh, three generations of, um…
793
00:38:33,979 --> 00:38:35,064
Bug jobs.
794
00:38:35,147 --> 00:38:36,440
Of bug jobs.
795
00:38:36,523 --> 00:38:40,152
What is it that I say to you
when you're getting on my nerves?
796
00:38:40,235 --> 00:38:42,613
Hey, hey, don't be a bug job.
797
00:38:42,696 --> 00:38:43,864
[Downey Jr. and Sr. laughing]
798
00:38:43,947 --> 00:38:47,368
-And that comes from Dad telling me.
-Don't be a bug job. Hey!
799
00:38:47,451 --> 00:38:51,330
For the very first time,
you tell Pop to not be a bug job.
800
00:38:51,413 --> 00:38:52,414
-Hey!
-Mean it.
801
00:38:52,498 --> 00:38:54,917
-Hey, don't be a bug job.
-There it is.
802
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,086
-You don't be a bug job.
-[Exton giggling]
803
00:38:57,169 --> 00:38:58,587
What we're gonna do is we're all…
804
00:38:58,670 --> 00:39:01,840
the three of us
are gonna have a quick espresso.
805
00:39:01,924 --> 00:39:02,925
[Exton] I… I drink coffee.
806
00:39:03,008 --> 00:39:05,886
You can have a little sip of mine,
but don't tell Mom.
807
00:39:05,969 --> 00:39:06,845
[laughing]
808
00:39:06,929 --> 00:39:08,222
[Exton] I never tell Mom.
809
00:39:08,722 --> 00:39:10,682
[continues laughing]
810
00:39:13,435 --> 00:39:14,645
[Downey Jr.] Here's a good one.
811
00:39:16,021 --> 00:39:20,234
Sr. as I remember him circa 1971.
812
00:39:20,943 --> 00:39:23,237
So I would be Exton's age.
813
00:39:23,987 --> 00:39:25,948
That's Pop, and that's my mom, Elsie.
814
00:39:26,782 --> 00:39:28,367
And then that was another take.
815
00:39:29,660 --> 00:39:31,286
This is from Greaser's.
816
00:39:31,787 --> 00:39:33,580
That's from Greaser's Palace, yeah.
817
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,418
Most holy one, let me see.
818
00:39:37,501 --> 00:39:39,962
Messiah. Messiah.
819
00:39:40,045 --> 00:39:41,463
If you feel, you heal.
820
00:39:42,089 --> 00:39:44,550
["Stranger on the Shore"
by Jack Nitzsche playing]
821
00:39:48,262 --> 00:39:50,389
[man on ground] I can crawl again!
822
00:39:50,472 --> 00:39:52,307
I can crawl again!
823
00:39:52,975 --> 00:39:55,227
[producer] What was
the genesis of Greaser's?
824
00:39:55,310 --> 00:39:58,188
[Downey Sr.] Well,
this lady wanted me to make a movie.
825
00:39:58,272 --> 00:39:59,565
She said, "What do you wanna do?"
826
00:39:59,648 --> 00:40:02,067
I said, "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
pop into a Western."
827
00:40:02,151 --> 00:40:03,318
She said, "Fine. Go write it."
828
00:40:03,402 --> 00:40:06,029
She gave it to her husband,
who had a lot of money.
829
00:40:06,113 --> 00:40:09,366
He read it, and he said to me,
"Is this gonna make any money?"
830
00:40:09,450 --> 00:40:11,785
I said, "I don't think so,"
and he said to his wife,
831
00:40:11,869 --> 00:40:13,745
"He's charming. Give him the money."
832
00:40:13,829 --> 00:40:17,624
At least he was honest
about what he really was thinking.
833
00:40:17,708 --> 00:40:23,088
It didn't look like a Christ figure
parachuting into a Western
834
00:40:23,172 --> 00:40:24,798
is gonna make a dime. [chuckles]
835
00:40:25,424 --> 00:40:29,052
[Downey Jr.] This time you got
to really take advantage of the landscape.
836
00:40:29,761 --> 00:40:32,222
The cinematography
starts getting pretty lush,
837
00:40:32,306 --> 00:40:35,267
and you have stunts,
you have wagon wheels,
838
00:40:35,350 --> 00:40:38,061
and you literally built Greaser's Palace
839
00:40:38,145 --> 00:40:39,563
and then blew it up.
840
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:44,693
[song continues]
841
00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:49,615
Do not make us doubt and speculate.
Say to us why you are here.
842
00:40:50,866 --> 00:40:54,328
[Downey Jr.] I know you like leaving
the meaning up to the audience,
843
00:40:54,411 --> 00:40:58,624
but there's
deep, deep, deep spiritual messaging
844
00:40:58,707 --> 00:40:59,666
in that movie
845
00:41:00,167 --> 00:41:03,754
that even as a grown-ass man,
I'm still trying to figure out.
846
00:41:04,338 --> 00:41:06,548
-I'm glad you said it.
-[Downey Jr. laughing]
847
00:41:06,632 --> 00:41:09,009
[both laughing]
848
00:41:11,220 --> 00:41:12,221
[song fades]
849
00:41:12,304 --> 00:41:14,014
[Nancy] Bob, how are you?
850
00:41:15,849 --> 00:41:16,850
I'm all right.
851
00:41:23,482 --> 00:41:27,277
[producer] We know him as a provocateur
and stirring the pot with his films,
852
00:41:27,361 --> 00:41:31,156
but is there something surprising,
as a sister, your take on him?
853
00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:34,785
I always say that he's an innocent to me.
He's an innocent.
854
00:41:36,328 --> 00:41:38,247
-That's a new one. [chuckles]
-And a purist.
855
00:41:38,330 --> 00:41:40,415
-It's good.
-No, it's true. You are.
856
00:41:40,999 --> 00:41:42,459
Even as a person, you are.
857
00:41:43,085 --> 00:41:47,798
He's irreverent in his humor,
but he reveals so much. He's so honest.
858
00:41:48,674 --> 00:41:49,841
Give me a hug.
859
00:41:51,552 --> 00:41:53,303
-[both kissing]
-[Nancy chuckles]
860
00:41:53,387 --> 00:41:54,805
[both] Mmm.
861
00:41:54,888 --> 00:41:56,807
[producer] When you saw Robert Jr.,
862
00:41:56,890 --> 00:41:59,017
did you see
similarities in father and son?
863
00:41:59,101 --> 00:42:00,310
[Nancy] Oh yes.
864
00:42:00,394 --> 00:42:03,438
[producer] You know, I feel like Robert
got a lot of his humor from his dad.
865
00:42:03,522 --> 00:42:06,692
Yes, but also, his mom was a riot.
866
00:42:07,442 --> 00:42:08,986
["Pound Score" by Charley Cuva playing]
867
00:42:09,069 --> 00:42:10,445
How are ya doin'?
868
00:42:11,196 --> 00:42:13,198
[man] Are you the Virgin Mary?
869
00:42:14,491 --> 00:42:15,826
Just call me Mary.
870
00:42:17,786 --> 00:42:20,706
[Wolf] Elsie Downey was a great actress,
871
00:42:20,789 --> 00:42:23,917
who could have done
incredible things on her own,
872
00:42:24,418 --> 00:42:26,962
but chose to work with her husband.
873
00:42:27,838 --> 00:42:31,300
She was extremely talented, lovable.
874
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,720
The sweetest person you'd ever wanna meet.
875
00:42:35,220 --> 00:42:37,139
The only thing
about these low-budget films
876
00:42:37,222 --> 00:42:39,641
is that all the action
is behind the camera.
877
00:42:40,267 --> 00:42:42,519
[producer] With Elsie,
was it clear right away
878
00:42:42,603 --> 00:42:45,564
that, "Hey, we're gonna actually
make these films together"?
879
00:42:45,647 --> 00:42:48,483
No, I met her way before I made films.
880
00:42:48,567 --> 00:42:51,194
Just off-off-Broadway plays.
881
00:42:51,278 --> 00:42:53,488
[Nancy] When they met, it was like…
882
00:42:53,572 --> 00:42:55,449
[mimics explosion] It was over.
883
00:42:55,532 --> 00:42:57,576
They were just… they got each other.
884
00:42:57,659 --> 00:43:00,245
They would laugh.
They would have us laughing.
885
00:43:00,329 --> 00:43:03,206
I mean, she was just
such a natural comedian.
886
00:43:03,290 --> 00:43:05,667
So for Robert, coming from this couple,
887
00:43:07,169 --> 00:43:10,005
he had to be who he was.
888
00:43:10,088 --> 00:43:12,841
[producer] Did you feel like you learned
from your mom as an actor?
889
00:43:12,924 --> 00:43:14,593
Pretty much everything, yeah.
890
00:43:15,969 --> 00:43:18,347
Seeing her being directed by Dad,
891
00:43:18,930 --> 00:43:21,892
she was wildly devoted
892
00:43:21,975 --> 00:43:26,855
to whatever creative stream
of silliness he was onto.
893
00:43:28,231 --> 00:43:30,651
And I remember
when we were doing Greaser's Palace,
894
00:43:30,734 --> 00:43:34,112
like, she was climbing up
these sand dunes over and over again.
895
00:43:34,196 --> 00:43:37,449
She had no problem
doing something that's exacting.
896
00:43:38,158 --> 00:43:40,786
-[producer] Did you put her in a lot?
-Anything we could.
897
00:43:40,869 --> 00:43:44,289
'Cause she'd do anything.
She'd try anything. She knew what to do.
898
00:43:44,790 --> 00:43:48,794
Oh, there's the moment
when she discovers her son is dead.
899
00:43:48,877 --> 00:43:52,255
And that's Elsie
as the mother in Greaser's Palace.
900
00:43:53,173 --> 00:43:55,092
She can't find her son, who's Robert.
901
00:43:55,175 --> 00:43:56,718
[sad music playing]
902
00:43:56,802 --> 00:44:00,931
[Downey Jr.] I played a boy
who got his neck slit by God,
903
00:44:01,431 --> 00:44:02,974
whose mother finds him.
904
00:44:03,475 --> 00:44:06,687
[Downey Sr.] At the end of the film,
he's brought to life again.
905
00:44:08,522 --> 00:44:11,858
And I think he was so excited
to do a scene with his mom.
906
00:44:12,818 --> 00:44:14,695
[Downey Jr.] Greaser's,
I had a lot of pride of
907
00:44:14,778 --> 00:44:16,738
'cause I was old enough
to know I was in it,
908
00:44:16,822 --> 00:44:19,825
and I'm starting to feel like
a little bit of a movie brat.
909
00:44:19,908 --> 00:44:20,992
[Downey Sr. laughing]
910
00:44:21,076 --> 00:44:22,452
And it was a good time.
911
00:44:22,536 --> 00:44:24,621
I mean, I wanna thank you.
You got us out of town.
912
00:44:24,705 --> 00:44:26,498
[Downey Sr.] That was fun. That was fun.
913
00:44:26,581 --> 00:44:29,334
-[Downey Jr.] Was that a happy time?
-[Downey Sr.] It was.
914
00:44:29,918 --> 00:44:31,795
And then it all fell apart.
915
00:44:34,089 --> 00:44:36,091
[sniffing loudly]
916
00:44:37,134 --> 00:44:38,093
[inhaling]
917
00:44:38,176 --> 00:44:39,302
[sniffing loudly]
918
00:44:39,803 --> 00:44:41,763
[woman] Whoo! Ah!
919
00:44:41,847 --> 00:44:44,182
[woman inhaling] Ah!
920
00:44:44,891 --> 00:44:46,935
I comes to a fork in the road…
921
00:44:47,018 --> 00:44:47,936
[woman laughs]
922
00:44:48,019 --> 00:44:49,813
…with a spoon in my nose.
923
00:44:49,896 --> 00:44:51,356
[woman laughing hysterically]
924
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,109
[producer] What advice would you
have given yourself at that point?
925
00:44:54,192 --> 00:44:55,944
Don't touch drugs.
926
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,407
["Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
Score" by Nitzsche/Sanborn/Arica playing]
927
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:09,332
I have a job for you.
Two tons of turquoise to Taos tonight.
928
00:45:09,833 --> 00:45:12,210
[Downey Jr.] The title sequence
929
00:45:13,295 --> 00:45:16,882
looks almost like a heist-type thing.
930
00:45:16,965 --> 00:45:18,967
And all these characters
are getting together,
931
00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:21,803
but one guy walks in
wearing a full wet suit.
932
00:45:21,887 --> 00:45:23,972
As he's unhooking
his weight belt, he goes…
933
00:45:24,556 --> 00:45:26,808
[Downey Jr. and actor]
"What about Larry? He's into tacos."
934
00:45:26,892 --> 00:45:28,894
[Downey Jr.] And he snaps his belt open.
935
00:45:30,353 --> 00:45:32,898
It was trying to transcend
936
00:45:32,981 --> 00:45:35,692
even being something
that people could say was a movie.
937
00:45:35,776 --> 00:45:38,862
["Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
Score" by Nitzsche/Sanborn/Arica playing]
938
00:45:38,945 --> 00:45:43,575
You basically said that the plot
was Sanborn's saxophone…
939
00:45:43,658 --> 00:45:47,245
[laughing] …which, to me,
is so next level.
940
00:45:47,913 --> 00:45:50,290
-That's true. You do follow the sax.
-Yeah.
941
00:45:50,373 --> 00:45:52,000
If you wanna hang on to something.
942
00:45:52,083 --> 00:45:55,253
[female narrator] Let your mind go.
Let your body go.
943
00:45:55,337 --> 00:45:56,922
Let your wallet go.
944
00:45:57,589 --> 00:46:01,009
[Downey Sr.] On this one,
it was such a weird, disconnected thing.
945
00:46:01,092 --> 00:46:03,595
I would maybe shoot for an hour
and go home.
946
00:46:03,678 --> 00:46:07,641
You know, 'cause I was tired
or fucked up or whatever.
947
00:46:07,724 --> 00:46:10,936
[Downey Jr.] I think the goal pattern
was in a really weird place,
948
00:46:11,019 --> 00:46:13,772
and so maybe
that was justifying the usage.
949
00:46:13,855 --> 00:46:17,025
My dad was
down in the basement with his editor
950
00:46:17,108 --> 00:46:19,528
seemingly for two years,
951
00:46:19,611 --> 00:46:23,782
and I was like,
"That seems like a long time on post."
952
00:46:23,865 --> 00:46:25,784
You know, we knew what
was going on down there.
953
00:46:25,867 --> 00:46:28,662
[producer] Was that era fun?
Was it a struggle?
954
00:46:28,745 --> 00:46:30,121
I was a drug addict.
955
00:46:30,622 --> 00:46:33,166
Mainly cocaine and, uh, marijuana.
956
00:46:34,209 --> 00:46:36,545
Total, total insanity.
957
00:46:36,628 --> 00:46:39,172
[laughing hysterically]
958
00:46:39,256 --> 00:46:40,131
All right!
959
00:46:40,715 --> 00:46:42,384
[Downey Jr.] I knew that the work
960
00:46:42,467 --> 00:46:45,720
had kind of started becoming
more of an excuse.
961
00:46:45,804 --> 00:46:48,139
And then it wasn't but shortly after that
962
00:46:48,223 --> 00:46:50,433
that my folks broke up.
963
00:46:51,226 --> 00:46:52,561
[song ends with sax flourish]
964
00:46:52,644 --> 00:46:54,604
[Downey Sr.] Turn around.
Wave goodbye at the door.
965
00:46:54,688 --> 00:46:57,774
You're all fucked up with your umbrella.
Say goodbye, and go inside. Bye-bye.
966
00:46:57,858 --> 00:46:59,734
-[chuckling]
[Elsie] Bye-bye.
967
00:47:01,361 --> 00:47:04,948
-[Downey Sr.] Have a nice nighty tonight.
-[Elsie] Have a nice nighty tonight.
968
00:47:05,031 --> 00:47:07,158
Yeah, even though
we split from each other,
969
00:47:07,242 --> 00:47:08,785
we spoke to each other a lot.
970
00:47:09,536 --> 00:47:10,954
[Downey Sr.] Good night.
-[Elsie] Good night.
971
00:47:11,037 --> 00:47:13,790
-[Downey Sr.] And have a nice nighty.
-Have a nice night-- Oh!
972
00:47:13,874 --> 00:47:15,917
-[Elsie laughing]
-[Downey Sr. laughs while watching]
973
00:47:17,335 --> 00:47:19,629
Yeah, it does bring back big memories.
974
00:47:24,175 --> 00:47:25,135
[trainer] Deep breath.
975
00:47:26,177 --> 00:47:27,178
[inhales deeply]
976
00:47:28,805 --> 00:47:29,973
[exhales sharply]
977
00:47:30,765 --> 00:47:33,435
-[groans]
-And reach. Reach backwards.
978
00:47:35,270 --> 00:47:36,479
And pull again.
979
00:47:37,063 --> 00:47:38,398
You're breathing, right?
980
00:47:38,899 --> 00:47:40,358
-I hope so.
-[laughing]
981
00:47:40,901 --> 00:47:41,735
Yes.
982
00:47:42,235 --> 00:47:44,529
When I first came here,
it was, like, a little tight.
983
00:47:44,613 --> 00:47:47,365
-Yeah, that's a good way of saying it.
-[both laugh]
984
00:47:47,866 --> 00:47:49,534
[Jaime] We call on God a lot, right?
985
00:47:49,618 --> 00:47:52,579
Like, God this
and, "Oh, God, one more squat."
986
00:47:52,662 --> 00:47:54,372
"Oh, God, another celery."
987
00:47:54,456 --> 00:47:55,624
It's really funny.
988
00:47:55,707 --> 00:47:59,127
-[Downey Sr.] Where is this guy?
-[Jaime] We still haven't seen him.
989
00:47:59,210 --> 00:48:02,005
No, every time I read
the front page of the Times,
990
00:48:02,088 --> 00:48:04,549
I say, "Where is this fucker?"
991
00:48:04,633 --> 00:48:05,759
[Jaime laughing]
992
00:48:05,842 --> 00:48:07,969
-[producer] That's pretty good.
-It's great.
993
00:48:09,179 --> 00:48:11,890
[producer] Then where? We have freedom.
994
00:48:11,973 --> 00:48:15,894
Is there anything
right wh… where you cut out?
995
00:48:15,977 --> 00:48:17,020
[producer] Here we have…
996
00:48:17,896 --> 00:48:22,442
Well, Robert must have thought something
because he… he's a total workout guy.
997
00:48:23,234 --> 00:48:25,987
Maybe he thought,
"I don't wanna end up like my father."
998
00:48:26,488 --> 00:48:30,450
-["Unfunky UFO" by Parliament playing]
-That ain't bad. [laughs] That ain't bad.
999
00:48:30,533 --> 00:48:31,534
[producer] Add it?
1000
00:48:32,327 --> 00:48:33,328
Yeah.
1001
00:48:33,912 --> 00:48:38,541
♪ You've got all that is really needed ♪
1002
00:48:38,625 --> 00:48:43,129
♪ To save a dying world
From its funkless hell… ♪
1003
00:48:43,630 --> 00:48:46,841
See, who knew we'd cross the bridge
that I hadn't crossed today
1004
00:48:46,925 --> 00:48:50,428
because I thought I could get away
without walking, and now look.
1005
00:48:51,262 --> 00:48:52,389
[laughing]
1006
00:48:52,931 --> 00:48:54,265
[producer] Do you love New York?
1007
00:48:54,349 --> 00:48:55,183
Oh yeah.
1008
00:48:55,684 --> 00:48:57,477
I get inspired here.
1009
00:48:57,978 --> 00:49:02,357
How do you make a film in Los Angeles?
We've seen every possible shot.
1010
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,694
The same corner. The same freeway.
1011
00:49:05,777 --> 00:49:07,612
It's all different out here.
1012
00:49:08,530 --> 00:49:11,199
♪ You've got all that… ♪
1013
00:49:11,282 --> 00:49:12,492
Look at this over here.
1014
00:49:14,244 --> 00:49:15,662
[Downey Sr. laughing]
1015
00:49:16,329 --> 00:49:17,330
Jesus.
1016
00:49:18,790 --> 00:49:22,127
Look at the light now.
My God, that's wild.
1017
00:49:23,294 --> 00:49:26,548
I guess this is crying out for a 360.
1018
00:49:30,093 --> 00:49:31,219
Wrong tripod.
1019
00:49:32,470 --> 00:49:34,806
The other good thing
about any project in New York,
1020
00:49:34,889 --> 00:49:36,099
if you wanna go that way,
1021
00:49:36,182 --> 00:49:39,936
is to, once in a while,
bring in the real sound we talked about.
1022
00:49:40,020 --> 00:49:42,063
-Turn it up. Don't say a word.
-[song fades out]
1023
00:49:42,147 --> 00:49:43,398
Just happens.
1024
00:49:43,481 --> 00:49:45,025
[ship horn blaring]
1025
00:49:46,401 --> 00:49:47,610
[siren in distance]
1026
00:49:47,694 --> 00:49:48,695
[cars honking]
1027
00:49:50,155 --> 00:49:52,157
[siren continues]
1028
00:49:54,868 --> 00:49:56,494
[producer] Where do you go from there?
1029
00:49:57,078 --> 00:50:00,248
I'll look in here… [laughing]
…and see if there's anything.
1030
00:50:01,166 --> 00:50:02,459
Maybe… We'll… we'll see.
1031
00:50:02,542 --> 00:50:06,463
Maybe, um, we break
into the middle of Robert and me.
1032
00:50:07,172 --> 00:50:08,840
-[producer] Mm-hmm.
-[Downey Sr.] Maybe.
1033
00:50:10,258 --> 00:50:11,551
[producer] Yeah, let's try it.
1034
00:50:11,634 --> 00:50:13,386
Hi, is this Dad?
1035
00:50:13,887 --> 00:50:14,888
[Downey Sr.] Yeah.
1036
00:50:14,971 --> 00:50:16,097
Is this Sonny?
1037
00:50:16,181 --> 00:50:17,807
[Downey Jr. laughing] This is Sonny Boy.
1038
00:50:17,891 --> 00:50:19,309
[Downey Sr. laughing]
1039
00:50:19,392 --> 00:50:20,226
Hey, man.
1040
00:50:20,310 --> 00:50:22,353
[Downey Sr.] So,
what do we wanna talk about?
1041
00:50:22,437 --> 00:50:24,814
[Downey Jr.] Let's talk about LA today.
1042
00:50:25,482 --> 00:50:27,275
-Oh my God.
-I'm sorry.
1043
00:50:27,358 --> 00:50:29,110
We're gonna do it all, baby.
1044
00:50:29,194 --> 00:50:30,278
Oh my God.
1045
00:50:30,361 --> 00:50:31,863
[Downey Jr. laughing]
1046
00:50:32,363 --> 00:50:34,949
["Voices of Spring, Op. 410" playing]
1047
00:50:36,242 --> 00:50:38,620
[Downey Sr.] When you first get there
and never been there,
1048
00:50:38,703 --> 00:50:41,748
it's kinda romantic
because of all the literature.
1049
00:50:41,831 --> 00:50:44,918
But you soon find out
it's a lot of lip service about,
1050
00:50:45,001 --> 00:50:47,879
"We really wanna make
a film with you," and this and that.
1051
00:50:47,962 --> 00:50:50,757
"Let's see how it goes,"
and that kinda stuff.
1052
00:50:51,341 --> 00:50:54,677
The first question they ask you, usually,
out there, when you make a film,
1053
00:50:54,761 --> 00:50:56,221
"You think it'll make money?"
1054
00:50:56,846 --> 00:51:00,183
You know, friends of mine
would say, "You're doomed."
1055
00:51:00,266 --> 00:51:02,477
["Diggin' In"
by Harold Faltermeyer playing]
1056
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:03,812
[major] You're outcasts,
1057
00:51:03,895 --> 00:51:06,815
embarrassments to your families
and your communities.
1058
00:51:07,816 --> 00:51:09,317
Disgraces.
1059
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:10,568
Something wrong with you, boy?
1060
00:51:10,652 --> 00:51:12,362
No, it's just a little chilly in here.
1061
00:51:12,445 --> 00:51:15,115
Don't you mean,
"It's just a little chilly in here, sir"?
1062
00:51:15,198 --> 00:51:16,699
-[boy] Yes, sir.
-Well, say it.
1063
00:51:16,783 --> 00:51:18,576
It's just a little chilly in here, sir.
1064
00:51:18,660 --> 00:51:21,079
-[major] Say it again.
-It's just a little chilly in here, sir!
1065
00:51:21,162 --> 00:51:23,957
-Say it again.
-It's just a little chilly in here, sir!
1066
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:25,792
That's what I thought you meant.
1067
00:51:25,875 --> 00:51:30,964
Was Up the Academy ostensibly
the first studio movie you ever did?
1068
00:51:31,047 --> 00:51:33,133
[Downey Sr.] Yeah. Disaster.
1069
00:51:33,216 --> 00:51:35,593
And I was thinking, "Get me out of here."
1070
00:51:35,677 --> 00:51:37,262
Tell me everything.
1071
00:51:38,096 --> 00:51:41,432
[Downey Sr.] It was supposed to be
a military academy for kids.
1072
00:51:41,975 --> 00:51:44,060
The script was about 16-year-olds.
1073
00:51:44,144 --> 00:51:47,355
It'd simply be more effective
if they're ten years old.
1074
00:51:47,438 --> 00:51:50,316
He said, "All the kids should be kids.
We shouldn't be casting teenagers."
1075
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,194
Now, that would have been a nightmare,
and it was very impractical.
1076
00:51:53,278 --> 00:51:55,280
Was the studio gonna let it happen? No.
1077
00:51:55,363 --> 00:51:57,323
They said, "Are you insane?"
1078
00:51:57,407 --> 00:52:00,326
I said, "What do you mean?
I just wanna change the ages."
1079
00:52:00,410 --> 00:52:02,412
"Well, you're not gonna do that
around here."
1080
00:52:03,037 --> 00:52:07,167
I learned how to get along with people
by doing what was asked of me.
1081
00:52:07,250 --> 00:52:08,918
No shit.
1082
00:52:09,502 --> 00:52:12,589
[Downey Jr.] Up to that point,
he had kinda been protected.
1083
00:52:12,672 --> 00:52:14,048
People knew he was special,
1084
00:52:14,132 --> 00:52:16,926
and you wanted to help him
do the next version of him.
1085
00:52:17,010 --> 00:52:20,597
And I think the one real
studio-film experience he had,
1086
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,100
where the studio kinda tells you
what you can and can't do,
1087
00:52:24,726 --> 00:52:27,145
if you're an artist, it's crushing.
1088
00:52:29,022 --> 00:52:31,941
And I think he thought,
"Great, let's party."
1089
00:52:32,025 --> 00:52:34,944
You're gonna get
the Robert Downey movie you deserve.
1090
00:52:36,196 --> 00:52:38,573
[Downey Sr.] Some guy said,
"If you keep talking like this,
1091
00:52:38,656 --> 00:52:39,866
we're gonna fire you,
1092
00:52:39,949 --> 00:52:42,869
and you're not gonna get final cut
no matter what happens."
1093
00:52:42,952 --> 00:52:45,872
I said, "Okay, that's fine by me,
1094
00:52:45,955 --> 00:52:48,750
just as long as I get
final cut on the cocaine."
1095
00:52:50,084 --> 00:52:52,629
And that was almost
the end of me out there.
1096
00:52:52,712 --> 00:52:53,671
[song fades]
1097
00:52:53,755 --> 00:52:57,508
-You did not give a mad fuck, did you?
-No.
1098
00:52:58,176 --> 00:53:01,137
How would you describe
that period of time?
1099
00:53:01,221 --> 00:53:05,016
[Downey Sr.] Fifteen years
of total fucking insanity.
1100
00:53:05,099 --> 00:53:06,434
Boy, man.
1101
00:53:06,517 --> 00:53:12,232
You know, I think we would be remiss
to not discuss its effect on me.
1102
00:53:12,315 --> 00:53:16,027
Yeah, boy, I could sure love
to miss that discussion.
1103
00:53:16,110 --> 00:53:17,612
[Downey Jr. chuckling]
1104
00:53:17,695 --> 00:53:19,822
["Don't Need a Gun" by Billy Idol playing]
1105
00:53:22,325 --> 00:53:24,160
[Downey Jr.] When I did Less Than Zero,
1106
00:53:24,244 --> 00:53:26,913
that was right around the time
that I began.
1107
00:53:28,539 --> 00:53:30,458
It was obviously not
1108
00:53:32,043 --> 00:53:33,503
autobiographical for me,
1109
00:53:33,586 --> 00:53:38,258
but certainly what was similar
was young folks, drugs, the '80s.
1110
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,719
[producer] When you heard he was doing
that film, what was that like?
1111
00:53:41,803 --> 00:53:43,471
[Downey Sr.] He was funny. He said,
1112
00:53:43,554 --> 00:53:46,432
"I got a part
in a legitimate film." [laughs]
1113
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,020
You can't stay here. Live your life
anywhere you want but not here.
1114
00:53:51,604 --> 00:53:55,358
-I'm your son. I'm sleeping here.
-Get out. I'll call the police.
1115
00:53:56,317 --> 00:53:59,612
[Downey Sr.] But I loved it.
It's a tough one, but it's great.
1116
00:53:59,696 --> 00:54:02,365
-It was just a wild era.
-["Modern People" by Roger Neill playing]
1117
00:54:02,448 --> 00:54:05,410
[Downey Jr.] That whole world
gets tied in with creativity.
1118
00:54:06,286 --> 00:54:10,248
We were all altering
our consciousness with substances.
1119
00:54:10,873 --> 00:54:15,253
I was just kinda playing a game
of just wanting to self-soothe
1120
00:54:15,336 --> 00:54:17,130
or just stay loaded
1121
00:54:17,213 --> 00:54:20,883
rather than deal with the fact that things
had gone off the tracks a little bit.
1122
00:54:22,010 --> 00:54:25,763
And, honestly, more than anything,
I look back and go,
1123
00:54:26,347 --> 00:54:27,390
"It's shocking
1124
00:54:27,890 --> 00:54:30,518
that a single movie came out finished."
1125
00:54:31,102 --> 00:54:33,354
But that didn't stop we Downeys.
1126
00:54:33,438 --> 00:54:35,481
["Pound Score" by Charley Cuva playing]
1127
00:54:36,774 --> 00:54:38,526
[man] Hey, Reed!
Will you stop with the food?
1128
00:54:38,609 --> 00:54:40,653
Rent is due. We gotta go to work. Come on.
1129
00:54:41,362 --> 00:54:44,073
-Work before we eat, all right? Come on.
-[Reed] Okay. All right!
1130
00:54:44,157 --> 00:54:46,784
-I just made that salad!
-Enough with the salads!
1131
00:54:47,535 --> 00:54:50,163
[Downey Sr.] The movie
wouldn't have gotten out without him.
1132
00:54:50,246 --> 00:54:51,080
That's reality.
1133
00:54:51,164 --> 00:54:53,583
[interviewer] Yeah. I mean,
he's become a big movie star.
1134
00:54:53,666 --> 00:54:56,002
-[Downey Sr.] Yeah.
-[interviewer] He still takes direction?
1135
00:54:56,502 --> 00:54:58,880
Well, he loves fooling around.
Yeah, he does.
1136
00:54:58,963 --> 00:54:59,797
Whoo!
1137
00:54:59,881 --> 00:55:00,923
Whoo!
1138
00:55:01,007 --> 00:55:03,343
-Gotta go, Ma.
-Okay, honey. Do what you have to do.
1139
00:55:03,426 --> 00:55:05,595
[interviewer] There was certainly
a sense of… of family,
1140
00:55:05,678 --> 00:55:08,931
that people are having fun,
and it's… it really translates.
1141
00:55:09,015 --> 00:55:10,683
[Downey Sr.] Good, I'm glad 'cause it was,
1142
00:55:10,767 --> 00:55:14,437
and it was a very good period of my life
'cause I met Laura.
1143
00:55:15,188 --> 00:55:18,107
I am hip to your shit, shithead.
1144
00:55:18,191 --> 00:55:21,402
I think Sr. was afraid
I would be a terrible actress,
1145
00:55:21,486 --> 00:55:25,948
so he thought, "Throw an accent on,
and maybe they won't notice."
1146
00:55:26,032 --> 00:55:27,909
-[Downey Sr.] That's not true.
-[Laura laughing]
1147
00:55:27,992 --> 00:55:30,244
[Downey Jr.] Thank God for Laura Ernst.
1148
00:55:30,328 --> 00:55:33,289
Yeah, I agree.
1149
00:55:33,373 --> 00:55:39,253
She showed up, and I feel like it was
just the kind of energy you needed
1150
00:55:39,337 --> 00:55:41,214
at that point in your life.
1151
00:55:41,297 --> 00:55:42,423
Mm-hmm.
1152
00:55:42,507 --> 00:55:45,927
And it seemed like you just got healthier
1153
00:55:46,010 --> 00:55:50,264
and started kinda taking care of yourself
1154
00:55:50,348 --> 00:55:55,311
and settling into and away from
that whole drug-culture life
1155
00:55:55,395 --> 00:55:56,979
that we all got stuck in.
1156
00:55:57,063 --> 00:55:58,606
-Hi, Dad.
-Hi.
1157
00:55:58,689 --> 00:56:02,026
And I remember it
very, very, very profoundly.
1158
00:56:03,236 --> 00:56:06,739
[Downey Sr.] A lot of us did things
and thought it would be hypocritical
1159
00:56:06,823 --> 00:56:10,368
to not have our kids participate
in marijuana and stuff like that.
1160
00:56:10,451 --> 00:56:12,745
So we thought it was cute
to let 'em smoke it and all that.
1161
00:56:12,829 --> 00:56:15,540
It was an idiot move on our parts,
a lot of us,
1162
00:56:15,623 --> 00:56:17,500
to share that with our children.
1163
00:56:17,583 --> 00:56:19,168
I'm just happy he's here.
1164
00:56:19,252 --> 00:56:21,254
-[Downey Jr. chuckling]
-That's all. [kissing]
1165
00:56:21,754 --> 00:56:23,714
[interviewer] Ever worried
he wasn't gonna be here?
1166
00:56:23,798 --> 00:56:24,757
Many times.
1167
00:56:25,258 --> 00:56:27,510
[Downey Jr.] Even though
it took me another 20 years to get
1168
00:56:27,593 --> 00:56:29,053
my own shit together,
1169
00:56:29,137 --> 00:56:33,182
you and Laura became
this very, very, very stable force for me.
1170
00:56:34,016 --> 00:56:36,769
What is your memory
of those years with Laura?
1171
00:56:37,353 --> 00:56:40,982
A lot because, uh, sh… she got sick.
1172
00:56:41,983 --> 00:56:45,778
And were you with her when she got
the diagnosis for Lou Gehrig's?
1173
00:56:46,362 --> 00:56:47,363
[Downey Sr.] Yeah.
1174
00:56:47,447 --> 00:56:51,409
How does one process that
with your… with your life partner?
1175
00:56:51,492 --> 00:56:53,744
It was… it was time to grow up,
1176
00:56:54,954 --> 00:56:57,373
to think of somebody else first.
1177
00:56:58,708 --> 00:57:01,836
[Arkin] We spent some time
with him and his wife, Laura.
1178
00:57:02,503 --> 00:57:05,965
He was as loving and tender
1179
00:57:06,466 --> 00:57:09,802
with her as any human being
I've ever seen.
1180
00:57:09,886 --> 00:57:11,262
It was a lesson
1181
00:57:11,846 --> 00:57:15,308
in how to deal with
somebody who's… who's passing.
1182
00:57:16,142 --> 00:57:19,645
I sometimes think of…
1183
00:57:19,729 --> 00:57:21,981
["Fourth of July"
by Nathan Halpern playing]
1184
00:57:26,694 --> 00:57:32,783
…any of the stuff we feel guilty about
or what we did in past relationships,
1185
00:57:32,867 --> 00:57:37,455
and then to be able to have
an opportunity to, um,
1186
00:57:38,664 --> 00:57:43,461
make that living amends
so fully to… to… to a partner
1187
00:57:44,587 --> 00:57:48,591
and to completely commit
to being by their side
1188
00:57:48,674 --> 00:57:51,427
through every step
of a devastating illness.
1189
00:57:52,178 --> 00:57:54,514
And, uh, it's crazy. You really showed up.
1190
00:57:55,598 --> 00:57:56,849
I hope so.
1191
00:57:58,976 --> 00:58:01,562
[computer clicking]
1192
00:58:01,646 --> 00:58:03,981
[computer voice] What I have
is not contagious.
1193
00:58:04,065 --> 00:58:04,941
What is it?
1194
00:58:05,441 --> 00:58:06,359
[computer clicks]
1195
00:58:06,442 --> 00:58:10,071
[computer voice] ALS,
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
1196
00:58:10,154 --> 00:58:12,406
also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
1197
00:58:14,242 --> 00:58:15,409
I love you.
1198
00:58:16,369 --> 00:58:19,080
Just another one of God's little victims.
1199
00:58:19,789 --> 00:58:21,082
Like me.
1200
00:58:21,582 --> 00:58:24,252
[Downey Jr.] Very much like
when Chaplin lost a kid,
1201
00:58:24,794 --> 00:58:28,714
and then the next movie he made
strangely was titled The Kid,
1202
00:58:28,798 --> 00:58:33,177
and it was a way for him to process
the grief in his personal life.
1203
00:58:33,261 --> 00:58:35,721
That's exactly what you did in Hugo Pool.
1204
00:58:35,805 --> 00:58:37,807
["Forever Young (Instrumental)" playing]
1205
00:58:37,890 --> 00:58:39,225
You're gonna beat this.
1206
00:58:39,850 --> 00:58:41,978
[computer voice] I like the way you think.
1207
00:58:43,896 --> 00:58:46,566
[Downey Jr.] Your movie
was representing everything
1208
00:58:46,649 --> 00:58:48,776
from Laura's illness
1209
00:58:48,859 --> 00:58:52,405
to my addiction to your turnaround.
1210
00:58:52,488 --> 00:58:56,659
Since you're gonna outlive me,
will you forgive me for all the drugs
1211
00:58:56,742 --> 00:58:59,662
and bad examples that I'm leaving you?
1212
00:58:59,745 --> 00:59:02,623
[Downey Sr.] It's a collage of pain.
1213
00:59:03,833 --> 00:59:09,297
And so you… you try
and go through it the best you can.
1214
00:59:14,510 --> 00:59:16,512
-[song continues]
-[no audible dialogue]
1215
00:59:28,816 --> 00:59:33,946
When you lost her, you stayed clean,
and I was still out there,
1216
00:59:34,030 --> 00:59:36,866
and you were just telling me
to stay on the planet and stay vertical
1217
00:59:36,949 --> 00:59:39,035
and not give up and all that stuff.
1218
00:59:39,660 --> 00:59:42,622
You weren't exactly some karma-free man.
1219
00:59:42,705 --> 00:59:46,876
Let me not fucking… You know.
Let's not stretch the truth here.
1220
00:59:46,959 --> 00:59:52,131
But that was kind of
a super significant thing.
1221
00:59:52,214 --> 00:59:54,634
Well, it's nice to hear it that way.
1222
00:59:55,301 --> 00:59:57,803
You deserved it
with what you went through.
1223
00:59:59,305 --> 01:00:00,139
Yeah.
1224
01:00:05,561 --> 01:00:09,231
All right. That's worthy
of an evening's nonsense.
1225
01:00:09,315 --> 01:00:10,608
[Downey Jr. laughing]
1226
01:00:10,691 --> 01:00:12,860
["What Is Life"
by George Harrison playing]
1227
01:00:14,654 --> 01:00:18,032
[Downey Sr.] After the bad films
that I directed out in California,
1228
01:00:18,532 --> 01:00:21,160
friends of mine would say,
"Get out of LA now."
1229
01:00:21,243 --> 01:00:23,204
Did I tell him to get out of LA?
1230
01:00:23,704 --> 01:00:26,874
But it didn't mean he couldn't visit.
Now he doesn't even come and visit.
1231
01:00:26,957 --> 01:00:28,250
He won't get on a plane.
1232
01:00:28,334 --> 01:00:29,502
♪ What I feel ♪
1233
01:00:31,545 --> 01:00:33,422
♪ I can't say… ♪
1234
01:00:35,508 --> 01:00:37,927
[Lear] Between New York and LA,
1235
01:00:38,010 --> 01:00:40,137
there's no question he should be… [laughs]
1236
01:00:40,221 --> 01:00:41,389
…in New York.
1237
01:00:41,472 --> 01:00:43,140
I think he's happier for being out of LA.
1238
01:00:43,224 --> 01:00:45,434
I think everybody's happier
when they get out of LA.
1239
01:00:45,518 --> 01:00:48,062
The land of broken dreams.
1240
01:00:49,355 --> 01:00:53,025
[Lear] And it may be that New York
is sufficiently complicated
1241
01:00:53,109 --> 01:00:57,571
for somebody to be their unique person.
1242
01:00:58,656 --> 01:01:01,200
He was born, you could say,
to be in New York.
1243
01:01:01,283 --> 01:01:04,620
♪ …without your love ♪
1244
01:01:04,704 --> 01:01:08,332
♪ Tell me who am I ♪
1245
01:01:08,416 --> 01:01:11,919
♪ Without you ♪
1246
01:01:12,002 --> 01:01:14,130
♪ By my side ♪
1247
01:01:15,256 --> 01:01:16,173
[song ends]
1248
01:01:16,674 --> 01:01:19,635
[Downey Jr., Exton, and Avri singing]
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
1249
01:01:19,719 --> 01:01:20,678
[Downey Sr.] Aw.
1250
01:01:20,761 --> 01:01:23,806
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
1251
01:01:23,889 --> 01:01:25,141
We'll call him Bob Sr.
1252
01:01:25,224 --> 01:01:30,396
♪ Happy birthday, Bob Sr. ♪
1253
01:01:30,896 --> 01:01:36,068
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
1254
01:01:36,652 --> 01:01:38,487
Exton, how's school?
1255
01:01:38,571 --> 01:01:39,697
It's good.
1256
01:01:39,780 --> 01:01:42,408
-Oh. Oh! He's taking a sip of my coffee.
-[Susan] Hey, guys.
1257
01:01:42,491 --> 01:01:43,492
Hi, Susan.
1258
01:01:43,576 --> 01:01:45,327
Hi. Happy birthday.
1259
01:01:45,411 --> 01:01:46,704
Thank you.
1260
01:01:46,787 --> 01:01:49,081
Are you properly celebrating, Sr.?
1261
01:01:49,165 --> 01:01:52,668
He is. He's got some friends
and close associates over.
1262
01:01:52,752 --> 01:01:53,794
They're having a ball.
1263
01:01:53,878 --> 01:01:57,256
We might wanna get
a couple of women in this film also.
1264
01:01:57,339 --> 01:01:58,299
Yes.
1265
01:01:58,799 --> 01:02:01,719
If Susan would do it,
she could play your wife.
1266
01:02:02,219 --> 01:02:05,931
I'm pretty serious about giving
as many people an opportunity
1267
01:02:06,015 --> 01:02:07,475
in that casting as I can.
1268
01:02:07,558 --> 01:02:09,226
-[Susan scoffs, chuckles]
-But we'll see.
1269
01:02:09,310 --> 01:02:12,146
I mean, we can always come back
around to the house favorite, yeah.
1270
01:02:12,229 --> 01:02:16,942
By the way,
every day I think about your dad.
1271
01:02:17,026 --> 01:02:18,652
Thank you. Me too.
1272
01:02:19,779 --> 01:02:20,613
Me too.
1273
01:02:22,239 --> 01:02:25,659
Yeah, it was a tricky first Father's Day
without a father.
1274
01:02:27,787 --> 01:02:29,663
Boy, was he funny too.
1275
01:02:29,747 --> 01:02:30,706
Yeah.
1276
01:02:31,207 --> 01:02:34,585
You look good, Pops.
I'm glad there's some levity there,
1277
01:02:34,668 --> 01:02:37,588
and you're surrounded
by good people, and--
1278
01:02:37,671 --> 01:02:39,173
I don't know any of them.
1279
01:02:39,256 --> 01:02:40,800
[Susan and Downey Jr. laughing]
1280
01:02:42,092 --> 01:02:46,263
Now, say we wind up
out in the Hamptons again together.
1281
01:02:46,347 --> 01:02:48,390
Are there any scenes to be shot
1282
01:02:48,474 --> 01:02:51,268
or images of stuff you want
1283
01:02:51,352 --> 01:02:54,396
that you're not seeing
in the project right now?
1284
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:56,273
That German folk song.
1285
01:02:56,357 --> 01:02:57,650
I knew you were gonna say that,
1286
01:02:57,733 --> 01:03:01,529
so I'm gonna have to get
an accompanist to learn that song,
1287
01:03:02,112 --> 01:03:04,824
and we're gonna have to figure out
where to shoot that.
1288
01:03:04,907 --> 01:03:06,450
-[Hayes] Hello?
-Hey, it's me.
1289
01:03:06,534 --> 01:03:08,536
[security gate beeps, buzzes]
1290
01:03:12,957 --> 01:03:13,916
[knocking on door]
1291
01:03:20,172 --> 01:03:21,590
[Downey Jr.] Pop, this is for you.
1292
01:03:21,674 --> 01:03:23,926
[playing "Fischerweise" by Schubert]
1293
01:03:35,020 --> 01:03:36,397
[singing in German]
1294
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:37,898
[ringing bell]
1295
01:03:37,982 --> 01:03:40,776
Just, let's try it from the top again.
It's just coming a little…
1296
01:03:40,860 --> 01:03:42,862
[playing "Fischerweise" again]
1297
01:03:47,908 --> 01:03:49,743
[singing in German]
1298
01:04:05,509 --> 01:04:09,013
When I was 15,
I entered the Kiwanis solo festivals,
1299
01:04:09,096 --> 01:04:11,015
singing Schubert's "Fischerweise,"
1300
01:04:11,098 --> 01:04:15,728
and it was the first time that Pop
ever noticed something I was doing,
1301
01:04:15,811 --> 01:04:18,439
outside of his movies, had some merit.
1302
01:04:18,522 --> 01:04:21,609
Or I think I got an honorable mention.
1303
01:04:23,152 --> 01:04:26,906
And, uh… and then it's been something
I've returned to several times.
1304
01:04:26,989 --> 01:04:28,866
And tell us what his reaction was.
1305
01:04:29,658 --> 01:04:31,076
[exhales] He seemed pleased.
1306
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:32,244
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
1307
01:04:32,328 --> 01:04:34,747
And how did that
change your life going forward?
1308
01:04:35,456 --> 01:04:37,374
[continues "Fischerweise" on piano]
1309
01:04:37,458 --> 01:04:39,335
[singing in German]
1310
01:04:43,005 --> 01:04:45,466
[Downey Jr.] There's something
nostalgic about it.
1311
01:04:45,549 --> 01:04:47,718
There's something beautiful
about the song.
1312
01:04:48,427 --> 01:04:52,139
And then there's
my dad's oddball point of view
1313
01:04:52,222 --> 01:04:55,643
of all the things
he could have pulled out or remembered
1314
01:04:55,726 --> 01:04:57,311
that he would want me to repeat
1315
01:04:57,937 --> 01:04:59,730
40 years later.
1316
01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:02,983
[Downey Sr.] Uh, it will really help
the film tremendously
1317
01:05:03,609 --> 01:05:07,529
when, suddenly,
you just come out from behind a tree…
1318
01:05:08,364 --> 01:05:10,366
[Downey Jr.] Yes.
-…and sing this thing.
1319
01:05:10,908 --> 01:05:13,035
[singing in German]
1320
01:05:13,118 --> 01:05:15,120
[piano and singing continue on monitor]
1321
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:29,927
[Downey Jr. and Hayes laughing on monitor]
1322
01:05:30,594 --> 01:05:31,929
[Hayes] Let's do it again.
1323
01:05:32,012 --> 01:05:33,973
[starts playing "Fischerweise" again]
1324
01:05:35,474 --> 01:05:36,475
[singing in German]
1325
01:05:38,435 --> 01:05:40,896
[piano melody morphs
into "My Life" by Billy Joel]
1326
01:05:46,610 --> 01:05:47,653
[snickers]
1327
01:05:47,736 --> 01:05:49,321
♪ …my life ♪
1328
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:52,074
♪ Go-- ♪
1329
01:05:52,157 --> 01:05:55,494
-[Hayes laughing] Here we go.
[Downey Jr.] I'm gonna nail it this time.
1330
01:05:55,577 --> 01:05:59,081
[Downey Sr.] It all looks
sweetly narcissistic.
1331
01:05:59,665 --> 01:06:02,126
[producer] Do you see
a place for this in our cut?
1332
01:06:02,209 --> 01:06:03,460
Absolutely. [chuckles]
1333
01:06:04,378 --> 01:06:06,380
[playing slide whistle]
1334
01:06:06,463 --> 01:06:08,590
[Downey Jr. and Hayes laughing on monitor]
1335
01:06:10,217 --> 01:06:13,512
-Can you do that a little more?
-[producer] Like, repeat it?
1336
01:06:13,595 --> 01:06:14,638
[Downey Sr. laughing]
1337
01:06:15,848 --> 01:06:17,516
No, I'm just being happy.
1338
01:06:18,100 --> 01:06:19,226
[producer] Let me try.
1339
01:06:19,810 --> 01:06:22,771
[Rogers] He completely focused
on the edit.
1340
01:06:22,855 --> 01:06:25,024
He sat up for hours and hours,
1341
01:06:25,107 --> 01:06:27,568
which was something
he hadn't done in a long time.
1342
01:06:28,068 --> 01:06:31,697
It's just a big source of joy for him.
You know, it really is.
1343
01:06:31,780 --> 01:06:33,782
It's… it's everything for him.
1344
01:06:34,491 --> 01:06:37,703
-[producer] That's pretty good, dude.
-I just wanna see it again.
1345
01:06:38,287 --> 01:06:40,330
-[producer] Let's see.
-[playing slide whistle]
1346
01:06:40,414 --> 01:06:44,293
Have you changed as a filmmaker,
or do you still make stuff the same way?
1347
01:06:44,376 --> 01:06:46,628
That's a good question.
I really don't know.
1348
01:06:47,129 --> 01:06:48,797
[producer] What was
the last film you worked on?
1349
01:06:48,881 --> 01:06:51,300
[Downey Sr.] It was a documentary
down in Philadelphia
1350
01:06:51,383 --> 01:06:53,093
that I'm very fond of.
1351
01:06:53,635 --> 01:06:57,306
It's about a park
called Rittenhouse Square.
1352
01:06:58,348 --> 01:07:01,226
After I sat in the park
and saw all the weird characters,
1353
01:07:01,310 --> 01:07:02,519
I said, "I'm in."
1354
01:07:02,603 --> 01:07:03,812
[classical music playing]
1355
01:07:03,896 --> 01:07:08,650
[Downey Sr.] And we spent a year in there
to get the different seasons,
1356
01:07:08,734 --> 01:07:10,277
just studying people.
1357
01:07:11,904 --> 01:07:13,739
The one thing we learned was
1358
01:07:14,907 --> 01:07:17,618
trust anything
'cause anything will happen.
1359
01:07:17,701 --> 01:07:21,914
And sure enough, the first day,
we ran into a ten-year-old violinist,
1360
01:07:21,997 --> 01:07:24,541
who was great,
and she became the main focus
1361
01:07:24,625 --> 01:07:26,460
of the whole year in the park.
1362
01:07:26,543 --> 01:07:28,545
[playing classical music]
1363
01:07:41,433 --> 01:07:45,270
[producer] How did making the documentary
compare to, like, your other films?
1364
01:07:45,354 --> 01:07:47,272
Well, I like… as I said earlier,
1365
01:07:47,356 --> 01:07:49,858
I like the idea you don't know
what's gonna happen.
1366
01:07:51,819 --> 01:07:54,238
["The Room Upstairs"
by Stephen Edwards playing]
1367
01:08:20,889 --> 01:08:25,394
[Susan] Sr., you know,
he's battling a horrible, horrible disease
1368
01:08:25,477 --> 01:08:27,813
that I had to see my dad go through.
1369
01:08:27,896 --> 01:08:29,606
And so at this point,
1370
01:08:29,690 --> 01:08:32,151
it's all just love
of the time we have left.
1371
01:08:33,610 --> 01:08:38,198
And I don't know if Sr. has come to terms
with some of his behavior from back then
1372
01:08:38,282 --> 01:08:39,908
or how it relates to Robert.
1373
01:08:40,492 --> 01:08:44,621
But what I know now is, you know,
this is somebody who loves his kid.
1374
01:08:47,124 --> 01:08:50,586
[Downey Jr.] It's
the quintessential Sullivan's Travels.
1375
01:08:51,795 --> 01:08:55,299
Setting out to do
something real and important,
1376
01:08:56,216 --> 01:08:58,218
and what if what we'd been doing all along
1377
01:08:58,302 --> 01:09:00,637
was every bit as important
as it needed to be?
1378
01:09:01,597 --> 01:09:05,100
For me, this feels like
trying to close the circle
1379
01:09:05,184 --> 01:09:08,604
on that whole patriarchal thing.
1380
01:09:09,646 --> 01:09:11,315
[song continues]
1381
01:09:11,398 --> 01:09:14,693
[Downey Jr.] And making peace with all the
1382
01:09:15,777 --> 01:09:18,822
upside and downside of it
and sideways-ness of it.
1383
01:09:18,906 --> 01:09:22,159
And then saying,
"Okay, you're a grown man now."
1384
01:09:23,619 --> 01:09:26,038
[no audible dialogue]
1385
01:09:32,377 --> 01:09:33,378
[song ends]
1386
01:09:33,962 --> 01:09:36,506
Lean and mean, Bob. Lean and mean.
1387
01:09:36,590 --> 01:09:39,218
[producer] That's a whole new pass, man.
1388
01:09:40,552 --> 01:09:41,470
[producer sighs]
1389
01:09:41,970 --> 01:09:44,097
[laughing]
1390
01:09:48,977 --> 01:09:52,147
Well, you don't have to worry
about when you're coming back now.
1391
01:09:52,231 --> 01:09:54,524
It's whenever it happens, it happens.
1392
01:09:56,235 --> 01:09:58,487
Thanks for doing this. It's big deal.
1393
01:10:03,367 --> 01:10:05,369
Great. You did some great work.
1394
01:10:07,829 --> 01:10:08,705
[producer] Yeah.
1395
01:10:08,789 --> 01:10:12,125
Looking back… [indistinct]
…he says it's been a great experience.
1396
01:10:12,209 --> 01:10:15,837
His definition of a producer
is a guy who gets stuff done.
1397
01:10:19,299 --> 01:10:23,345
["Theme from A Summer Place
(Instrumental)" by Percy Faith playing]
1398
01:10:24,096 --> 01:10:26,098
[indistinct chatter]
1399
01:10:41,446 --> 01:10:42,406
[indistinct]
1400
01:10:51,206 --> 01:10:52,874
Yep, yep, yep.
1401
01:10:53,375 --> 01:10:56,795
Heading the 90 miles in town. He's pumped.
1402
01:10:56,878 --> 01:10:58,714
This is year three
1403
01:10:59,506 --> 01:11:01,967
of shooting the Daddy doc.
1404
01:11:02,050 --> 01:11:04,177
I'm excited to see Grandpa.
1405
01:11:04,803 --> 01:11:07,514
["On the Road to Find Out"
by Cat Stevens playing]
1406
01:11:26,742 --> 01:11:29,578
♪ Well, I left my happy home ♪
1407
01:11:29,661 --> 01:11:32,039
♪ To see what I could find out ♪
1408
01:11:38,253 --> 01:11:40,797
♪ I left my folk and friends ♪
1409
01:11:40,881 --> 01:11:43,675
♪ With the aim to clear my mind out… ♪
1410
01:11:46,011 --> 01:11:47,262
[exhales]
1411
01:11:49,973 --> 01:11:55,020
The plan for today, we're gonna
keep shooting the "Sr." documentary.
1412
01:11:55,103 --> 01:12:01,610
The main reason I wanted to be here
was because I wanted to see Grandpa.
1413
01:12:02,110 --> 01:12:07,616
So, I wanted to see him
1414
01:12:07,699 --> 01:12:11,078
so we could, sort of, have memories.
1415
01:12:13,830 --> 01:12:18,752
And… so when he passes, I can say
1416
01:12:19,878 --> 01:12:21,713
I got to spend some time with him.
1417
01:12:21,797 --> 01:12:24,049
♪ Na, na, na ♪
1418
01:12:24,633 --> 01:12:26,551
♪ Na, na, na ♪
1419
01:12:27,386 --> 01:12:29,763
♪ Na, na, na ♪
1420
01:12:29,846 --> 01:12:32,307
♪ Well, in the end I'll know ♪
1421
01:12:32,933 --> 01:12:35,102
♪ But on the way I wonder ♪
1422
01:12:35,852 --> 01:12:38,063
♪ Na, na, na ♪
1423
01:12:38,647 --> 01:12:40,690
♪ Na, na, na ♪
1424
01:12:41,316 --> 01:12:43,360
♪ Through descending snow… ♪
1425
01:12:43,944 --> 01:12:47,030
[Downey Jr.] Hi, thank you, sir.
We're here for Downey. Thank you.
1426
01:12:47,114 --> 01:12:49,491
♪ Na, na, na ♪
1427
01:12:49,574 --> 01:12:51,993
♪ Na, na, na ♪
1428
01:12:52,494 --> 01:12:57,165
♪ I listen to the wind come howl
Telling me I have to hurry ♪
1429
01:12:58,041 --> 01:13:00,210
♪ I listen to the robin's song ♪
1430
01:13:00,293 --> 01:13:03,213
♪ Saying not to worry ♪
1431
01:13:04,005 --> 01:13:06,675
♪ Ah-ooh ♪
1432
01:13:06,758 --> 01:13:09,094
♪ So on and on I go ♪
1433
01:13:09,928 --> 01:13:12,097
♪ The seconds tick the time out… ♪
1434
01:13:12,180 --> 01:13:13,181
Hi, Dada.
1435
01:13:14,182 --> 01:13:19,813
Whenever, uh, you'd rather
we're not rolling, just let us know.
1436
01:13:19,896 --> 01:13:23,024
Otherwise, we're in your face
all day, all the time.
1437
01:13:23,733 --> 01:13:24,860
[Downey Jr. chuckling]
1438
01:13:28,947 --> 01:13:30,740
[producer] It's good
to see you in person, man.
1439
01:13:31,324 --> 01:13:32,742
Is it… is it warm out?
1440
01:13:33,577 --> 01:13:35,287
[producer] Cold. Cold and rainy today.
1441
01:13:35,370 --> 01:13:37,998
Ooh, well, that's
good… good for photography.
1442
01:13:38,915 --> 01:13:40,667
[Downey Jr.] Exy, when you're ready.
1443
01:13:40,750 --> 01:13:41,626
[song fades out]
1444
01:13:41,710 --> 01:13:43,587
[Downey Jr.] We're gonna
give you three takes
1445
01:13:43,670 --> 01:13:45,839
at asking him the question, all right?
1446
01:13:45,922 --> 01:13:48,758
So you'll hit… come here,
hit him with the line.
1447
01:13:50,510 --> 01:13:52,471
-Hey, Exy.
-Hi.
1448
01:13:52,554 --> 01:13:54,973
Okay, he's ready. In three, two, one, go.
1449
01:13:55,056 --> 01:13:56,183
Hey, Sr.
1450
01:13:56,266 --> 01:13:58,018
Have any hair on your balls?
1451
01:13:58,101 --> 01:13:59,644
[Downey Jr. suppressing laugh]
1452
01:14:00,145 --> 01:14:01,730
Would you repeat that question?
1453
01:14:02,772 --> 01:14:04,232
Have any hair on your balls?
1454
01:14:04,316 --> 01:14:05,192
Perfect.
1455
01:14:05,692 --> 01:14:08,862
[Downey Jr. laughs] Now, give him
the answer line one time, Dad.
1456
01:14:08,945 --> 01:14:12,407
Exy, hit him again, and then you do
Larry Wolf's "I'm afraid to look."
1457
01:14:13,241 --> 01:14:15,911
[Exton] Hey, Sr.
Have any hair on your balls?
1458
01:14:16,453 --> 01:14:17,454
Do I what?
1459
01:14:17,954 --> 01:14:19,873
[Downey Jr. laughing]
1460
01:14:20,874 --> 01:14:24,878
He refuses to do his own answer.
1461
01:14:26,213 --> 01:14:27,506
[Downey Jr. groaning in delight]
1462
01:14:27,589 --> 01:14:30,091
-All right, you are free.
-That was very fun.
1463
01:14:30,175 --> 01:14:31,801
[Downey Jr.] Exy's having a ball, dude.
1464
01:14:31,885 --> 01:14:33,553
This is, like,
the best trip he's ever had.
1465
01:14:33,637 --> 01:14:36,389
[Exton] It's definitely
up in, like, the top ten.
1466
01:14:36,473 --> 01:14:38,266
[Downey Jr. and Sr. laughing]
1467
01:14:41,478 --> 01:14:43,063
[kissing]
1468
01:14:43,688 --> 01:14:44,773
You need anything?
1469
01:14:46,525 --> 01:14:47,442
Where are we?
1470
01:14:47,526 --> 01:14:48,443
[Downey Jr. laughing]
1471
01:14:52,072 --> 01:14:55,825
This is the last day, uh,
that I'm likely to see him for a while,
1472
01:14:55,909 --> 01:14:59,204
so what's my move for him, for me,
just to kinda…
1473
01:14:59,704 --> 01:15:01,915
You know, it's weird
because I know that I'm…
1474
01:15:04,334 --> 01:15:06,336
uh, capturing it.
1475
01:15:06,419 --> 01:15:09,422
[therapist] Oddly, it's sort of like
what your family does.
1476
01:15:09,506 --> 01:15:12,050
You guys make art of your lives.
1477
01:15:12,133 --> 01:15:15,387
It's weird. It's natural.
Like, it brings me back where it's like,
1478
01:15:15,470 --> 01:15:18,348
whatever's unfolding, funny or tragic,
1479
01:15:18,431 --> 01:15:21,434
it's happening
with a 16-millimeter camera going,
1480
01:15:21,935 --> 01:15:23,603
and, uh, we can reflect on it…
1481
01:15:23,687 --> 01:15:25,647
[chuckling] …40 years from now…
1482
01:15:25,730 --> 01:15:26,565
[therapist] Yeah.
1483
01:15:26,648 --> 01:15:28,149
…when somehow or other it makes sense.
1484
01:15:29,442 --> 01:15:32,821
But then there's some part of me
that feels like I'll… [sniffling]
1485
01:15:37,701 --> 01:15:38,827
I'll miss something.
1486
01:15:39,327 --> 01:15:41,079
[therapist] Yeah, yeah.
1487
01:15:41,830 --> 01:15:42,664
Yeah.
1488
01:15:42,747 --> 01:15:45,709
You know, just 'cause the window's
closing a bit, it seems.
1489
01:15:45,792 --> 01:15:47,460
["Fourth of July"
by Nathan Halpern playing]
1490
01:15:47,544 --> 01:15:52,424
[therapist] Is there anything
that you feel like you need to process
1491
01:15:52,507 --> 01:15:57,345
in relation to the possibility
of not seeing him again?
1492
01:15:58,513 --> 01:16:00,682
I just don't know, to be honest.
1493
01:16:00,765 --> 01:16:01,933
-[therapist] Yeah.
-You know?
1494
01:16:02,017 --> 01:16:04,436
Um, it's kinda disorienting,
1495
01:16:04,978 --> 01:16:06,396
but, uh… [sighs]
1496
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:08,481
…dude, it's a lot.
1497
01:16:09,065 --> 01:16:11,318
[therapist] It is a lot, man. It's a lot.
1498
01:16:11,401 --> 01:16:13,862
[sighs] Well, the nice thing is
1499
01:16:14,362 --> 01:16:20,535
I haven't had this appreciative
an experience of New York in ages.
1500
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:25,123
And getting to see it
through Exton's eyes,
1501
01:16:25,707 --> 01:16:27,375
the third-generation POV,
1502
01:16:27,459 --> 01:16:29,419
is pretty cool, you know?
1503
01:16:29,502 --> 01:16:31,880
[therapist] Yeah,
but I can't help but also notice
1504
01:16:31,963 --> 01:16:33,715
the difference between
1505
01:16:34,549 --> 01:16:38,219
the reliability of his support system,
you know?
1506
01:16:38,303 --> 01:16:41,806
Your dad rebelled against something
that needed to be rebelled against,
1507
01:16:42,349 --> 01:16:44,684
and then you were raised
in that rebellion.
1508
01:16:44,768 --> 01:16:45,602
Yeah.
1509
01:16:45,685 --> 01:16:47,479
[therapist] Letting you
use drugs as a child.
1510
01:16:47,562 --> 01:16:49,814
And it's like… it's kinda fucked up!
1511
01:16:50,523 --> 01:16:52,484
[Downey Jr.] Battered but not broken.
1512
01:16:52,567 --> 01:16:54,986
[therapist] Yes. And then here we are.
1513
01:16:55,070 --> 01:16:58,615
It's like, "How do I go out
without feeling like I missed something,
1514
01:16:58,698 --> 01:16:59,616
you know?"
1515
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:02,869
Is there anything you need to say to him?
1516
01:17:03,370 --> 01:17:06,039
I just… I don't want to…
1517
01:17:07,332 --> 01:17:09,334
[song continues]
1518
01:17:10,627 --> 01:17:13,088
-I don't wanna do the wrong thing.
-[therapist] Yeah.
1519
01:17:13,171 --> 01:17:14,798
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1520
01:17:20,220 --> 01:17:21,221
[sighs]
1521
01:17:26,476 --> 01:17:27,435
Papa.
1522
01:17:28,645 --> 01:17:31,898
Give us a… give us a "one, two, three,"
so we can check your mic.
1523
01:17:32,857 --> 01:17:34,150
-Who?
-[producer] "Who." Great.
1524
01:17:34,234 --> 01:17:35,527
[Downey Jr.] Perfect.
1525
01:17:35,610 --> 01:17:38,655
While we're still hanging out
and seeing each other,
1526
01:17:38,738 --> 01:17:41,324
I just wanna try to stay close
1527
01:17:41,408 --> 01:17:43,910
and get closer and closer
and closer and closer.
1528
01:17:44,452 --> 01:17:46,371
-Yeah, great idea.
-[Downey Jr.] You know?
1529
01:17:48,039 --> 01:17:51,793
I was gonna ask you
all these questions about just…
1530
01:17:52,460 --> 01:17:54,504
-Any… anything.
-[Downey Jr.] Um… Yeah?
1531
01:17:55,547 --> 01:17:58,925
I don't really even know
how to talk about this, but I just want…
1532
01:18:01,094 --> 01:18:04,431
your point of view, um,
1533
01:18:05,849 --> 01:18:07,058
before we are done.
1534
01:18:08,351 --> 01:18:11,354
Is there anything
you want your kid to know?
1535
01:18:11,938 --> 01:18:13,022
[Downey Sr. chuckles]
1536
01:18:14,733 --> 01:18:16,025
[Downey Jr.] What's so funny?
1537
01:18:16,818 --> 01:18:20,488
Well, in the Hamptons,
my kid has a house and a kid.
1538
01:18:20,572 --> 01:18:23,241
Like, two kids, three kids.
1539
01:18:24,033 --> 01:18:26,411
And, uh, we… we find if we pick
1540
01:18:27,871 --> 01:18:30,957
days when the light's not great,
that's good for us.
1541
01:18:31,541 --> 01:18:32,500
Right.
1542
01:18:32,584 --> 01:18:34,294
'Cause by the time you shoot it…
1543
01:18:41,843 --> 01:18:44,971
it's a good time to make
any kind of film you wanna make.
1544
01:18:45,722 --> 01:18:46,848
[moaning softly]
1545
01:18:51,102 --> 01:18:54,731
[Downey Jr.] When you're not here
in the here and now,
1546
01:18:54,814 --> 01:18:56,608
where does your mind go to most?
1547
01:18:56,691 --> 01:18:58,109
Is there a period in time?
1548
01:18:58,193 --> 01:19:01,780
Or is there something
that's occupying your thoughts?
1549
01:19:04,491 --> 01:19:05,992
From what I can remember,
1550
01:19:07,494 --> 01:19:09,329
before I answer your question,
1551
01:19:10,371 --> 01:19:11,498
I would say the…
1552
01:19:17,587 --> 01:19:19,589
[clattering]
1553
01:19:21,382 --> 01:19:22,467
[sighs gently]
1554
01:19:23,635 --> 01:19:26,012
Charlie Parkinson's disease.
1555
01:19:28,973 --> 01:19:33,520
[Elsie] I have this here dream
where I'm working in this here jazz group.
1556
01:19:33,603 --> 01:19:36,815
And right in the middle
of a very groovy set,
1557
01:19:36,898 --> 01:19:39,150
just as I'm starting my solo…
1558
01:19:39,859 --> 01:19:43,613
[Downey Jr. and Elsie] …I keel over
and die from Charlie Parkinson's disease.
1559
01:19:43,696 --> 01:19:45,114
[Downey Sr. laughing softly]
1560
01:19:45,698 --> 01:19:47,367
[Downey Jr.] You called it, baby.
1561
01:19:56,960 --> 01:19:57,961
[exhales]
1562
01:19:58,586 --> 01:20:00,255
[brush clattering]
1563
01:20:02,215 --> 01:20:04,801
Is there a pen over there?
1564
01:20:05,426 --> 01:20:07,929
A pen? You want a pen or a pencil?
1565
01:20:08,012 --> 01:20:08,972
Pen.
1566
01:20:11,015 --> 01:20:11,933
Yeah.
1567
01:20:12,517 --> 01:20:14,394
Ah, the old pen.
1568
01:20:14,477 --> 01:20:16,938
You love a bit of pen-and-paper action.
1569
01:20:18,481 --> 01:20:19,899
[Downey Sr. exhales gently]
1570
01:20:24,988 --> 01:20:26,239
[moans softly]
1571
01:20:29,492 --> 01:20:31,411
I can pop it for you if you want.
1572
01:20:33,913 --> 01:20:34,998
Here.
1573
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:36,958
Thank you.
1574
01:20:38,835 --> 01:20:41,045
-[Downey Jr.] Are you scribbling?
-Yeah.
1575
01:20:41,129 --> 01:20:42,130
[Downey Jr.] Nice.
1576
01:20:42,213 --> 01:20:44,215
[pen scratching across paper]
1577
01:20:47,594 --> 01:20:49,470
[Downey Sr. groans, exhales gently]
1578
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:51,848
Oh, and Robert…
1579
01:20:54,851 --> 01:20:56,019
had been a…
1580
01:20:58,104 --> 01:21:01,190
a little nervous 'cause he has
all these other things he's doing too,
1581
01:21:01,274 --> 01:21:03,902
but you can see
what he's focusing on is this.
1582
01:21:04,402 --> 01:21:06,487
When he called me up to ask me to…
1583
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:11,075
He says, "Go slow."
1584
01:21:22,086 --> 01:21:23,504
[exhales]
1585
01:21:24,255 --> 01:21:26,049
Had you two met before?
1586
01:21:28,343 --> 01:21:29,969
[Downey Jr.] You mean Jr. and I?
1587
01:21:32,513 --> 01:21:33,514
Yeah.
1588
01:21:35,934 --> 01:21:38,019
[Downey Jr.] Yeah,
we're getting to know each other.
1589
01:21:38,519 --> 01:21:40,647
[paper rustling]
1590
01:21:43,691 --> 01:21:44,692
[Downey Jr. sighs]
1591
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:51,449
["From the Morning" by Nick Drake playing]
1592
01:21:58,915 --> 01:22:00,917
♪ A day once dawned ♪
1593
01:22:03,294 --> 01:22:05,004
♪ And it was beautiful… ♪
1594
01:22:06,714 --> 01:22:09,008
So we'll probably head back home
in a little while.
1595
01:22:10,593 --> 01:22:12,428
Even though Sr.'s just kinda napping,
1596
01:22:12,512 --> 01:22:15,014
should we just go sit in there
for a while before we cut out?
1597
01:22:15,098 --> 01:22:16,015
-Yeah.
-Okay.
1598
01:22:16,641 --> 01:22:18,351
♪ Then the night she fell ♪
1599
01:22:21,104 --> 01:22:23,189
♪ And the air was beautiful ♪
1600
01:22:25,566 --> 01:22:27,068
♪ The night she fell ♪
1601
01:22:28,111 --> 01:22:29,946
♪ All around ♪
1602
01:22:34,283 --> 01:22:36,494
♪ So look, see the days ♪
1603
01:22:38,788 --> 01:22:41,374
♪ The endless colored ways… ♪
1604
01:22:43,209 --> 01:22:46,421
So we'll probably let Sr. rest, and…
1605
01:22:48,339 --> 01:22:49,924
and then we'll see him, uh,
1606
01:22:51,342 --> 01:22:52,552
down the road a piece.
1607
01:22:54,429 --> 01:22:55,388
[Exton] Yes.
1608
01:23:00,768 --> 01:23:02,770
♪ And now we rise ♪
1609
01:23:03,938 --> 01:23:05,106
[Downey Jr.] I love you, Pops.
1610
01:23:05,189 --> 01:23:06,899
♪ We are everywhere ♪
1611
01:23:09,485 --> 01:23:13,948
♪ And now we rise from the ground ♪
1612
01:23:18,077 --> 01:23:19,954
♪ See she flies ♪
1613
01:23:22,665 --> 01:23:24,417
♪ She is everywhere ♪
1614
01:23:26,919 --> 01:23:31,174
♪ See she flies all around ♪
1615
01:23:35,553 --> 01:23:37,555
♪ So look, see the sights ♪
1616
01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:42,310
♪ The endless summer nights ♪
1617
01:23:44,353 --> 01:23:49,901
♪ And go play the game that you learned ♪
1618
01:23:51,110 --> 01:23:52,862
♪ From the morning ♪
1619
01:24:13,257 --> 01:24:15,259
[song fades]
1620
01:24:20,181 --> 01:24:23,935
[Downey Jr.] We had
no overt agenda with this project.
1621
01:24:26,771 --> 01:24:28,314
I had a sense of what it might be,
1622
01:24:28,397 --> 01:24:30,942
and I knew that part of it
was always going to be
1623
01:24:31,442 --> 01:24:32,527
the end of his life.
1624
01:24:34,695 --> 01:24:36,906
Is it a father-son story?
I don't think so.
1625
01:24:36,989 --> 01:24:40,076
Is it about what it is to be an artist?
I don't know. Maybe.
1626
01:24:40,159 --> 01:24:41,661
Is it a contemplation of death?
1627
01:24:41,744 --> 01:24:43,955
I think it's kind of turning into that,
1628
01:24:44,038 --> 01:24:47,166
and not in a morose way,
1629
01:24:47,250 --> 01:24:50,837
but just in a "we're here, we do stuff,
and we're gone."
1630
01:24:53,798 --> 01:24:58,177
And, um, I love him for what he did.
I love him for what he didn't do.
1631
01:25:02,431 --> 01:25:03,266
[softly groans]
1632
01:25:13,067 --> 01:25:19,740
[crowd droning] Ah.
1633
01:25:19,824 --> 01:25:20,867
[man] He has come!
1634
01:25:23,327 --> 01:25:24,328
[droning halts]
1635
01:25:25,454 --> 01:25:26,998
I bring you a message.
1636
01:25:28,291 --> 01:25:32,170
Exactly six miles north of Skag Mountain
in the Valley of Pain,
1637
01:25:32,753 --> 01:25:35,006
there lives an evil devil monster.
1638
01:25:36,507 --> 01:25:39,844
His name is Bingo Gas Station
Motel Cheeseburger
1639
01:25:39,927 --> 01:25:43,181
With A Side Of Aircraft Noise
And You'll Be Gary Indiana,
1640
01:25:44,307 --> 01:25:46,517
and he loves to hurt people.
1641
01:25:48,144 --> 01:25:51,480
The last time I saw Bingo Gas Station
Motel Cheeseburger
1642
01:25:51,564 --> 01:25:54,609
With A Side Of Aircraft Noise
And You'll Be Gary Indiana,
1643
01:25:55,109 --> 01:25:56,736
he told me what he wants to do.
1644
01:25:58,029 --> 01:26:02,116
He wants to come down here
and kill each and every one of you.
1645
01:26:03,242 --> 01:26:05,536
But I said to him, "Bingo, wait a minute."
1646
01:26:06,662 --> 01:26:09,749
And the reason I said that
is because I believe in you people.
1647
01:26:10,416 --> 01:26:12,001
I believe you can do the job.
1648
01:26:13,044 --> 01:26:14,754
I believe you can help each other.
1649
01:26:16,005 --> 01:26:19,383
I believe you can make this world
a better place to live in.
1650
01:26:23,846 --> 01:26:24,805
That's it.
1651
01:26:25,514 --> 01:26:27,433
["Gone" by The Dose playing]
1652
01:26:27,516 --> 01:26:32,980
♪ When I think I've got it figured out ♪
1653
01:26:34,190 --> 01:26:40,112
♪ Pressure reveals unexpected routes ♪
1654
01:26:41,739 --> 01:26:47,328
♪ That lead back into agony's core ♪
1655
01:26:48,871 --> 01:26:54,252
♪ My peace of mind is a civil war ♪
1656
01:26:56,003 --> 01:27:01,133
♪ I'm getting ♪
1657
01:27:01,217 --> 01:27:07,473
♪ Closer to the day I'm gone ♪
1658
01:27:10,142 --> 01:27:14,981
♪ You know life goes on ♪
1659
01:27:31,539 --> 01:27:36,335
♪ I'm getting ♪
1660
01:27:36,919 --> 01:27:43,467
♪ Closer to the day I'm gone ♪
1661
01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:51,017
♪ Until it's ♪
1662
01:27:51,100 --> 01:27:52,977
♪ Over ♪
1663
01:27:53,060 --> 01:27:57,606
♪ You know life goes on ♪
1664
01:28:19,003 --> 01:28:21,047
[song fades]
1665
01:28:22,298 --> 01:28:23,549
Take a card, Mr. Greaser.
1666
01:28:24,175 --> 01:28:25,801
All right. Put it back anywhere.
1667
01:28:27,428 --> 01:28:28,471
-[man] This it?
-No.
1668
01:28:29,472 --> 01:28:30,598
-[man] This one?
-No.
1669
01:28:31,599 --> 01:28:32,600
-[man] That one?
-No!
1670
01:28:33,851 --> 01:28:34,852
-[man] This one?
-No!
1671
01:28:35,895 --> 01:28:36,896
-That one?
-No.
1672
01:28:38,397 --> 01:28:39,482
-[man] That it?
-No.
1673
01:28:40,066 --> 01:28:41,400
-That one?
-No!
1674
01:28:42,443 --> 01:28:43,444
-This one?
-No.
1675
01:28:44,362 --> 01:28:45,363
-That one?
-No.
1676
01:28:46,405 --> 01:28:47,406
-This one?
-No!
1677
01:28:48,908 --> 01:28:49,909
-This it?
-No.
1678
01:28:51,202 --> 01:28:52,203
-That it?
-No!
1679
01:28:53,704 --> 01:28:54,705
-This one?
-No.
1680
01:28:55,748 --> 01:28:57,208
-Here it comes!
-[Greaser] No.
1681
01:28:58,000 --> 01:28:59,251
-This one?
-[Greaser] No.
1682
01:29:00,961 --> 01:29:02,254
-That one?
-[Greaser] No.
1683
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:04,507
-[man] This one?
-[Greaser] No.
1684
01:29:04,590 --> 01:29:05,966
-[man] Is that it?
-[Greaser] No.
1685
01:29:06,050 --> 01:29:07,218
-[man] This one!
-[Greaser] No.
1686
01:29:07,301 --> 01:29:08,135
[crickets chirping]
1687
01:29:08,219 --> 01:29:09,720
-[man] That one?
-[Greaser] No!