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[wind gently blowing]
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[gentle music plays]
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[water bubbling]
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[Arnold] My whole life,
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I had this
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unusual talent
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that I could see things very clearly
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in front of me.
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If I can see it,
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then it must be achievable.
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The idea was
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to sculpt the body
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to your will.
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[audience cheering]
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But it also can be used
to shape your mind,
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to do the things
that everyone calls impossible.
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And that gives you the will...
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I'll be back.
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...and no doubt
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that you can make your visions,
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not only become a reality,
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but go beyond your dreams.
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I had a fire in the belly
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for much more.
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Much, much more.
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[upbeat music plays]
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[man] If I had to describe Arnold
in one word,
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I would say
he's the most calculating individual
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that I've ever come across.
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He's the most competitive maniac
I've ever met.
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[woman] He is, just, magic.
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If Arnold is showing up on set,
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you better up your game.
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[man] We couldn't even stand
to breathe the same air.
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He broke every damn rule there was.
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[woman 2] Arnold believed that a crisis
is a terrible thing to waste.
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[man 2] Arnold sold Arnold.
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[man 3] He gets the joke of the universe.
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[Arnold laughing]
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Bullshit.
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[drumroll]
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[announcer]
Ladies and gentlemen, from Austria,
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welcome to our stage, please,
Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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[cheering and applause]
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[announcer 2] Look now,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 22 years of age.
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Now living in Los Angeles.
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Weighs almost 230 pounds.
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He works out several hours a day.
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This is his life. He's a professional.
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When he's not doing this,
he'll be touring the world,
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putting on exhibitions.
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Listen to that crowd react to him.
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[cheering and applause]
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And there you have it!
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Arnold Schwarzenegger from Austria.
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Seven judges observe specific points
of muscular development and presentation.
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[announcer] In position number one,
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Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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[announcer 2] And the winner!
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What a big day for this youngster.
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[Arnold] When I was in school already,
I felt like I didn't belong here.
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I belonged somewhere else.
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That's not the life I want to live,
like the Austrians live their life,
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which is, you know,
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go to school until 18
and get married, have kids.
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Just work to support your family.
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I thought that my purpose for life
was just far beyond that.
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[calm music plays]
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[Arnold] I always liked coming back here.
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Each time you come,
you look from a different point of view,
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through a different lens.
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It was very important,
every time I came to Austria,
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even to promote my movies or bodybuilding,
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or whatever...
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I always came back down here to Thal.
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I think it's always good to stay in touch
with your roots and where you come from.
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[church bells ringing]
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Thal is a beautiful, beautiful place.
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[cows moo]
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The house where I grew up
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was surrounded by farms.
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We had a castle across the street,
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built in the 1100s.
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So this was our playground.
So it was absolutely beautiful.
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Our house was an old house.
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It was built in the beginning of 1800s.
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Downstairs lived the forest ranger.
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We had the upstairs of that old house.
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[speaking German]
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My mother was hardworking.
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Aurelia.
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She would never, ever pull back.
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She was a cleanliness fanatic.
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I'm telling you, she was on her knees
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twice a week,
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scrubbing the floor.
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And then, when you open up the cabinet
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with the towels,
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it was perfectly placed.
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There was an edge.
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Bang. Bang. Bang.
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If my father would touch that,
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she would go nuts.
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This is what a fanatic she was.
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Growing up, I'll tell you what I learned.
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"Work your ass off."
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My father was the chief
of the country police.
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He was a tyrant
and a very tough police officer.
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There was no screwing around.
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My dad thought they should create
some discipline in the house.
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He said you have to earn breakfast.
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I had a very good relationship
with my brother,
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but it was a competitive relationship.
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I mean, he was a year older, my brother.
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More muscular, smarter.
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He was very good in school.
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My father also made us
compete against each other.
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Who runs faster?
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Who picks more beautiful flowers
on Mother's Day?
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My father says, "I'll give you one hour."
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My brother would come home
with his flowers.
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My father says,
"Meinhard, good boy. Very, very good."
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"Arnold, next year you will try it again."
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So it was competitive.
Even stupid things like that.
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My father gave me that drive
he gave me that fire in the belly,
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and then with the message,
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"Whatever you do, Arnold,
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be useful."
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The way I grew up, it was very tough,
even though it was beautiful countryside.
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But to grow up after a war...
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What happens to your head
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when you come home from war
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suffering
the post-traumatic stress syndrome,
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like my father?
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He was buried underneath buildings,
rubble, for three days,
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and on top of that, they lost the war.
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They went home so depressed.
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Austria was a country of broken men.
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[somber music plays]
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I think there were times
when my father really struggled.
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When we got smacked,
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or my father would use the belt
and hit us.
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The kid next door was hit also
by his father.
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Everyone was going through the same thing.
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As I was getting older,
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and the more I read stuff
about the outside world,
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outside of Austria,
the more I started feeling like,
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"I don't think that I was brought up
in the right place."
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"There's something off here."
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And I know this sounds crazy,
but for a while,
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I thought,
"Maybe my dad isn't really my dad."
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"Maybe it's some American soldier."
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I checked into it.
I said, "Where does this come from?"
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"My desire that I really
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maybe don't belong to Austria?"
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"Maybe I belong to America. Why is that?"
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That convicted me
that one day I have to be over there.
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I'm in the wrong place.
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"I gotta get out of here."
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[adventurous music plays]
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When my brother and I went
to town in Graz...
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that was the first time
we had exposure to the city.
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After school, kind of walked around
in town a little bit
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and we saw the movie theaters.
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This ad that was out there in front
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of this guy standing like this.
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I was kind of, like, in a trance.
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Who is that?
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[majestic music plays]
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[movie narrator]
Hercules and the Captive Women.
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Here at last,
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with a new and dynamic personality.
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Reg Park as Hercules.
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Superhuman strength.
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[Arnold]
I went in there and I saw this body,
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and I was so amazed at this body
that I could not get it out of my mind.
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The testosterone was kicking in.
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Getting interested in girls
was kicking in.
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Everything started happening.
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And then I walked by a store.
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There was all this American stuff.
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One of the things was
muscle magazines from America.
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This guy Reg Park
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who I saw in the movies,
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he's on the cover.
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Inside, it has his training program.
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He was up at 5:00 in the morning.
He was training.
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And then he was training a second time.
And then a third time.
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I have to do that.
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It said how he became Mr. Universe
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and how he was discovered in Rome
to become Hercules.
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So I said, "Oh my God."
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"This guy is my idol."
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So he was kind of like my blueprint
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to where I want to go in life.
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My drive to come to America was enormous.
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And if you're willing to put
the hours behind it,
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then you have to really find out
what is it,
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where your talent lies.
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Where are you good at?
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To me, bodybuilding represented
a sport that is American.
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The feedback that I got in the gym
was enormous,
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so that's why I knew
this is the direction that I wanted to go.
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I would be working out in my house.
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There was no sound.
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Nothing.
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[breathing deeply]
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And I could think and concentrate
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and visualize how I'm gonna become
a bodybuilding champion.
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How I'm gonna move to America.
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How I'm gonna get into the movies.
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How I'm gonna make millions of dollars.
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["Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht" plays]
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[Arnold] The Thalersee, the lake,
was a magical scene.
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Hanging out with professional wrestlers,
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weightlifters,
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bodybuilders,
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people with muscles.
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I met Mr. Austria,
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Kurt Marnul,
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and walking around
with these nice-looking girls
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and pulling up
in his little Alfa Romeo sports car.
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I found this very impressive.
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I just all the sudden
became part of that clique.
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I was like the young kid
that they were adopting.
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♪ Everybody now ♪
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[Arnold] I think, ever since then,
I kind of celebrated this camaraderie.
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And because I admired it so much,
I created that no matter where I went.
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[music fades]
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My father was negative, because it
was not the typical thing to do.
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The typical thing to do
is you become a soccer player
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or you become a ski champion.
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This is Austrian.
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What the hell are you doing
with weightlifting?
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And you're looking in the mirror
when you train.
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What is that all about?
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[speaking German]
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Which means, like, into yourself.
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He says, "If you want to use your muscles,
go chop wood."
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And my mother got freaked out.
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"All his friends,
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they have, you know,
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girls above their bed."
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"My son doesn't have one girl up here.
Look at that."
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"Not one girl.
I mean, it's only naked men oiled up."
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"Where did we do wrong?"
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[man in German] In the beginning,
Arnold wasn't a leader.
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He adapted to us.
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But within a year,
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I think he gained 15.2 kilos.
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When you're in Arnold's company,
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you get the impression
that everything is easy
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and there are no problems.
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My father often came along,
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and he recognized Arnold's potential.
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[Arnold in English] Freddy Gerstl,
the father, became
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kind of like a real big supporter.
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He said, "You have to have
not only just the strong muscles,
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like you guys are doing,
but also you have to have a strong mind."
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The body doesn't operate by itself.
It operates because you give it direction.
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He says, "Remember one thing."
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"That you can get an injury,
and then all the athletic stuff is over.
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"You can have millions of dollars."
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"Someone can rob you blind,
and it's gone."
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"But the only thing no one can take
is your mind."
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"Your brain power."
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"Your mind, your will,
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is, in the end,
much more important than the body."
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He was the father figure
quite the opposite from my father.
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Unlike my father,
who criticized everything,
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that guy was more the understanding father
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that understood and he kind of smoothly
would you in the right direction,
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rather than forcing you.
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I always hear this voice behind me saying,
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"Be hungry for information."
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[church bells ringing]
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[Arnold] I joined the weight lifting club
called Athletik Union Graz.
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The guys from the lake
also were training there.
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So I could train,
finally, with the big boys.
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That's where Kurt Marnul was training.
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This weightlifting club
became, for me, the mecca.
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I became addicted to that,
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and so I went every day.
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[action music plays]
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When I walked into the gym,
there was this wall
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that was wood.
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And then I would just take a chalk
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and I would write down
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bizeps,
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trizeps,
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brust, rücken.
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So I would do a set of biceps curls.
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[grunts]
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Then I would write down next to this,
one line.
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Then I would put another line
and then another line and another line.
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Then, the next one.
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Flies on the bench.
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[grunts]
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And I'd know when I did my 20 sets
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of a specific exercise.
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Now after three hours of training,
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this whole thing would be
full of sets that I've done...
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[grunts]
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...to get to that goal that I want go.
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["Move It" plays]
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♪ Oh yeah ♪
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♪ Well now... ♪
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[Arnold] The bodybuilding, there was,
like, maybe, one or two events a year.
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Sometimes there were more
than one competition a day.
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Like, Mr. Steíermark,
which means Mr. Styria.
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And then there would be
the Mr. Hercules competition,
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which is usually for the guy
that was the most muscular.
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They would hire a local band
that was really, like, hot.
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They would have women
who were from some exotic place
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to give the sport of bodybuilding
a better reputation.
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Then, there would be
a Mr. Austria competition,
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which is, of course,
the national championships.
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♪ Whoo! ♪
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[birds chirping]
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[Arnold] This was a place
where I spent a lot of time,
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right here in this bed and in this room.
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So I would be just literally,
you know, lying here
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like this.
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And just, you know,
hanging here like this
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and dreaming.
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And then looking up at those characters.
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And then sitting up.
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I would see Reg Park,
you know, with his body,
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and then remembering the story
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of him growing up in Leeds,
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in England.
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The town was like Graz.
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It was a factory town.
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And the people worked hard.
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And I said to myself,
"He made it out of that?"
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"Then there's a chance for me also
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to make it out of here."
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Then you just look at any opportunity
you could have to get out of here.
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So I think that's the reason
I enlisted in the military early.
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In Austria,
everyone serves in the military.
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I decided to go at the age of 18.
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I wanted to finish my service
and then move on,
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because you could not get your passport
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unless you have done
your military service.
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I wanted to specialize in tank division
and to become a tank driver.
347
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They said that's impossible. I'm too tall.
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My father knew
a few people in the military,
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so I became a tank driver.
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Then I became the ballsiest tank driver
that they had.
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[military music plays]
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[soldiers marching]
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[Arnold] In the middle of basic training,
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I got the invitation to go
to this competition in Stuttgart, Germany.
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European's best-built man,
in the junior division.
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When I asked them, Can I go?"
they said no.
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[men counting]
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I did not realize
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that when you're in the middle
of the basic training,
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you are not allowed to leave.
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I went anyway.
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[romantic adventure music]
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[Arnold] Twenty-eight guys on the stage,
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and I win.
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I saw my career in front of me.
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I saw myself on that Mr. Universe stage.
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I just had to replace Reg Park's head,
368
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put my head on it,
and stand there with the trophy
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and flex my muscles.
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And I saw
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the thousands of people
372
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in the auditorium,
in the theater, screaming,
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"Arnold! Arnold! Arnold!"
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[audience chanting] Arnold!
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[Arnold] I saw the fantasy,
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and it's not a dream.
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I said, "No, fuck the dream.
What are you gonna do with a dream?"
378
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"You have to have a clear vision."
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And when you visualize something
really clearly,
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you believe that you 100% can get there.
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My very first impression was
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this is the most outstanding junior
I ever saw in my life,
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because he had it all.
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He had a kind of charisma
very unusual for that age.
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He owned the stage
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already then.
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I talked to him,
"What do you think to come to Munich
388
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as trainer in the gym I manage?"
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[Arnold] I was supposed to be
in the military for three years.
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So I had to ask if I can leave early.
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That position that was offered to me
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to become a trainer
in a bodybuilding gym in Germany,
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was very appealing.
394
00:22:19,671 --> 00:22:22,591
And it was kind of really
the only solution
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to get me out of Austria
and one step closer to America.
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You're not gonna go and become
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the greatest bodybuilder of all time
in Austria,
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because you need to train
with the best bodybuilders around you,
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and the mecca of bodybuilding was America.
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"I got to get out of here,
no matter what it takes."
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[train horn blows]
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[Arnold] I don't look at it as,
"Oh my God."
403
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"What a terrible upbringing I had."
404
00:22:56,917 --> 00:22:57,917
No.
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00:22:58,251 --> 00:23:01,755
What I hated as a kid was good,
406
00:23:01,838 --> 00:23:04,674
because that's what drove me
to get out of there.
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00:23:10,222 --> 00:23:12,224
All right, let's feed the girls.
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Uno, Misty!
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00:23:18,146 --> 00:23:19,689
Uno, Misty!
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I could train longer than anyone else.
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I could go through misery
when I traveled to other countries.
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I was able to do things
that others couldn't do
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because of that.
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Ah, pushing him out of the way.
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It didn't bother me,
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because it was better
than where I came from.
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[energetic music plays]
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[Arnold] When I arrived in Munich,
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my friend Albert Busek
picked me up from the train station,
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and I moved into the gym.
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00:23:50,762 --> 00:23:52,764
There was a tiny little room,
422
00:23:52,848 --> 00:23:56,268
and my bed maybe was as big
as the bed that I grew up with.
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All I had was a mixer
that helped me mix my protein drinks
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and a few clothes.
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00:24:02,732 --> 00:24:03,732
That was it.
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00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,446
And I stayed there for at least a year.
427
00:24:08,697 --> 00:24:10,782
So, at any given time,
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00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:12,617
I can go out and work out.
429
00:24:14,494 --> 00:24:19,458
I mean, how lucky of a son of a bitch am I
to have the gym be my home?
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00:24:20,959 --> 00:24:23,545
I then developed my own little family,
431
00:24:23,628 --> 00:24:25,505
which was Albert Busek
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00:24:25,589 --> 00:24:27,382
and Franco Columbu,
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00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:29,843
who I met the year before in Stuttgart.
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00:24:30,510 --> 00:24:32,220
He was the perfect training partner,
435
00:24:32,304 --> 00:24:36,391
and he was one of the very few Italians
that spoke German.
436
00:24:37,267 --> 00:24:39,686
[Franco] He comes from Austria.
I came from Italy.
437
00:24:39,769 --> 00:24:42,647
And we started training together
and having fun.
438
00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:46,443
Since then,
I'm one of Arnold's best friends.
439
00:24:46,526 --> 00:24:47,694
I messed it up.
440
00:24:47,777 --> 00:24:48,904
Say that again.
441
00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:51,490
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
442
00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:52,782
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
443
00:24:54,784 --> 00:24:56,411
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... ♪
444
00:24:56,495 --> 00:24:59,706
[Arnold] My friends helped me
to raise money for an airline ticket
445
00:24:59,789 --> 00:25:02,042
to compete in the Mr. Universe contest.
446
00:25:03,543 --> 00:25:05,754
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
447
00:25:08,924 --> 00:25:10,724
[Arnold] So imagine,
just a few months before,
448
00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:12,052
you're in the military.
449
00:25:12,135 --> 00:25:16,264
And now you're traveling to London
to go to the Mr. Universe contest.
450
00:25:16,973 --> 00:25:20,477
My goal was to place in the top six,
451
00:25:21,102 --> 00:25:22,729
but I placed second
452
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with the age of 19.
453
00:25:24,814 --> 00:25:26,358
I said, "Oh my God."
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00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:28,568
"If I'm winning second
455
00:25:28,652 --> 00:25:32,739
as this little farm boy from Austria
that has no experience,
456
00:25:32,822 --> 00:25:34,241
next year I'm gonna win!"
457
00:25:34,824 --> 00:25:37,077
[Albert] Arnold was so gifted
458
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,621
that regular people,
the fans of bodybuilding, knew
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00:25:39,704 --> 00:25:41,248
this is the future.
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00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:47,712
[Arnold] At the Mr. Universe competition,
461
00:25:47,796 --> 00:25:52,509
one of the judges was a man
by the name of Wag Bennett.
462
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And he'd say...
463
00:25:54,386 --> 00:25:57,389
[imitating Wag] "Arnold,
you look fantastic. You look fantastic."
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00:25:57,472 --> 00:25:59,057
"It's absolutely marvelous."
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00:25:59,140 --> 00:26:01,476
All this British stuff, right?
466
00:26:03,270 --> 00:26:05,480
He invited us to a dinner,
467
00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:09,317
and he's a judge, so I thought,
"This is so unbelievable."
468
00:26:09,401 --> 00:26:12,112
My English was terrible then,
469
00:26:12,195 --> 00:26:14,322
so we always were laughing about it.
470
00:26:16,199 --> 00:26:20,370
Wag then said to me, "Well, if you ever
come back, you can stay with us."
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00:26:20,453 --> 00:26:22,455
"You don't have to stay in a hotel."
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00:26:23,498 --> 00:26:24,498
The next year,
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Wag organized the competition
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and he paid for the airline ticket
to fly over there.
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00:26:32,674 --> 00:26:35,176
So I was at the Bennett's house in London,
476
00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:37,304
on 335 Romford Road.
477
00:26:37,387 --> 00:26:38,763
I remember it exactly.
478
00:26:38,847 --> 00:26:40,932
And in walked Reg Park.
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Meeting Reg Park
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was, like,
one of those extraordinary moments.
481
00:26:56,489 --> 00:26:58,491
You see him in magazines.
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00:26:59,117 --> 00:27:00,910
You see him in movies.
483
00:27:01,494 --> 00:27:03,455
And then all of a sudden, there he is.
484
00:27:05,749 --> 00:27:09,085
He just came from South Africa
and he wants to work out.
485
00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:11,755
And then we're working out together.
486
00:27:13,256 --> 00:27:17,469
I remember that he didn't even...
he didn't even take off his sweater.
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00:27:20,930 --> 00:27:24,768
And it was just extraordinary
to see Hercules
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that you saw in the movies,
to see him in front of you,
489
00:27:28,521 --> 00:27:31,858
and then to have a conversation
and to have him be so nice.
490
00:27:31,941 --> 00:27:34,069
He knew everything about me,
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00:27:34,152 --> 00:27:36,112
because Wag Bennett told him.
492
00:27:40,909 --> 00:27:43,203
To really motivate me, he said to me,
493
00:27:43,286 --> 00:27:45,497
"If you win the Mr. Universe contest,
494
00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:47,957
I'm gonna bring you down to South Africa."
495
00:27:48,041 --> 00:27:49,881
"And I'm gonna have you
do posing exhibitions."
496
00:27:49,918 --> 00:27:51,920
I'm gonna pay
you for each positing exhibition."
497
00:27:52,003 --> 00:27:55,965
"You can make some money there,
and you're gonna see the entire country."
498
00:27:56,049 --> 00:27:57,634
[adventurous music plays]
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00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:01,554
[Arnold] There's no room for mistakes,
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00:28:01,638 --> 00:28:04,432
because I have to be Mr. Universe in 1967.
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00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:09,396
Wag would say,
"You gotta train your calves."
502
00:28:09,479 --> 00:28:13,274
"Your biceps are much larger
than your calves."
503
00:28:13,983 --> 00:28:16,695
"The calves are skinny,
and the whole proportion is off."
504
00:28:18,029 --> 00:28:19,280
If you want to win,
505
00:28:19,364 --> 00:28:22,742
you need to be fine-tuned
and you have to have everything at ten.
506
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[crowd cheering]
507
00:28:27,497 --> 00:28:29,499
Finally, it all came together.
508
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,169
[announcer] And the winner,
509
00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:35,880
Arnold Schwarzenegger!
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[Arnold] At the age of 20,
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I made my vision
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become a reality.
513
00:28:47,976 --> 00:28:51,312
On that very same stage
that Reg Park won it,
514
00:28:52,105 --> 00:28:55,859
and I got exactly the same trophy
that he got.
515
00:28:55,942 --> 00:28:58,653
And exactly the way I envisioned it.
516
00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:01,364
All the people were screaming.
517
00:29:01,448 --> 00:29:02,824
[crowd chanting] Arnold!
518
00:29:02,907 --> 00:29:05,994
[Arnold] I felt like,
"This is like a fairy tale."
519
00:29:06,494 --> 00:29:08,455
Everything falls into place.
520
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,892
Reg Park invites me to Johannesburg
521
00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:31,728
to stay in his house.
522
00:29:33,646 --> 00:29:35,315
Do you know what that did to me?
523
00:29:35,398 --> 00:29:39,194
I'm getting invited by my idol
to go to his home turf.
524
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:43,698
[man] I met Arnold when he came here.
525
00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:46,117
I was, uh, nine at the time.
526
00:29:46,201 --> 00:29:48,745
He was very polite. He was well-mannered.
527
00:29:49,245 --> 00:29:51,956
He would wear sandals and socks, you know?
528
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,459
Like a country bumpkin, so to speak.
529
00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:58,713
Lily-white skin.
Everybody on the beach had a tan.
530
00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:02,717
I remember him almost being in awe,
531
00:30:02,801 --> 00:30:05,178
but my dad made him feel so comfortable.
532
00:30:05,261 --> 00:30:08,890
My mother, you know, of course,
made him feel so comfortable as well.
533
00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:10,934
He immediately became part of the family.
534
00:30:11,017 --> 00:30:14,437
We'd go out to meals together every night
and go to movies.
535
00:30:14,938 --> 00:30:19,317
What he really learned from my parents
was how important family was.
536
00:30:20,068 --> 00:30:23,029
I think that impressed him
more than anything else.
537
00:30:24,656 --> 00:30:27,116
My mother gave Arnold some pointers.
538
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,037
You know, he could do the basic poses,
but there was no flow and transition.
539
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,082
So she helped him
put his routine together.
540
00:30:35,667 --> 00:30:37,794
[Arnold] Mareon was a ballet teacher.
541
00:30:38,461 --> 00:30:41,965
She taught Reg
how to be more graceful on stage.
542
00:30:42,757 --> 00:30:46,427
You couldn't get more two opposites.
Ballet is all about grace.
543
00:30:47,512 --> 00:30:50,056
Then you have bodybuilding,
which is kind of blocky
544
00:30:50,139 --> 00:30:51,766
and not much movement.
545
00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:55,103
I didn't understand it all,
546
00:30:55,186 --> 00:31:00,108
but then, as time went on,
I started utilizing what she taught me.
547
00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:07,365
When I was a kid, I was shy,
548
00:31:08,199 --> 00:31:10,201
and bodybuilding
549
00:31:10,785 --> 00:31:13,454
was a sport where you had to perform.
550
00:31:13,538 --> 00:31:15,832
So I could learn it in my own way,
551
00:31:15,915 --> 00:31:17,834
to perform and to pose on stage.
552
00:31:17,917 --> 00:31:21,045
And people then correct you and say,
you know, "Smile more when you perform,"
553
00:31:21,129 --> 00:31:22,129
And do this and do that.
554
00:31:22,171 --> 00:31:24,465
This is how it slowly came about
555
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,217
to become an entertainer
556
00:31:26,301 --> 00:31:29,095
and really enjoying the moment.
557
00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:36,728
In 1968, I went and competed
at the Mr. Universe contest in London.
558
00:31:36,811 --> 00:31:38,813
Every time they called out a pose...
559
00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:42,692
If I did a double bicep pose,
I had the biggest biceps.
560
00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:46,279
Then, when we turned around
and do a back pose,
561
00:31:46,362 --> 00:31:49,198
there's no one that's going to have
this kind of a back.
562
00:31:50,783 --> 00:31:52,785
So I knew I'm gonna win.
563
00:31:52,869 --> 00:31:54,871
[triumphant music plays]
564
00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:05,965
I win the second Mr. Universe title.
I feel, like, at an all-time high.
565
00:32:06,841 --> 00:32:09,594
And I'm about to go back to Munich,
566
00:32:09,677 --> 00:32:11,721
when I get a telegram
567
00:32:11,804 --> 00:32:12,805
from Joe Weider.
568
00:32:14,015 --> 00:32:15,892
I said to myself, "Oh my God."
569
00:32:15,975 --> 00:32:19,854
"Joe Weider?
He's like the godfather of bodybuilding."
570
00:32:20,688 --> 00:32:23,691
The trainer of champions since 1939.
571
00:32:24,233 --> 00:32:26,945
All of the guys that win
Mr. Universe and Mr. World,
572
00:32:27,028 --> 00:32:28,696
they have been trained by Joe Weider.
573
00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:30,615
And it says in the telegram,
574
00:32:30,698 --> 00:32:34,744
"I'm inviting you to come to Miami
to our Mr. Universe competition,"
575
00:32:34,827 --> 00:32:36,287
because there was two.
576
00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:39,415
Weider started a Mr. Universe
in the 60s in America.
577
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,545
I didn't go back home.
I didn't pick up any of my belongings.
578
00:32:45,296 --> 00:32:48,925
I called Albert
and I called Franco and said, "Look."
579
00:32:49,008 --> 00:32:52,512
"I just got an invitation from Weider.
I'm not coming back."
580
00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:54,347
"I'm gonna move to America."
581
00:32:54,430 --> 00:32:55,598
"Bye-bye."
582
00:32:55,682 --> 00:32:57,684
["I Got the Feelin'" plays]
583
00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:02,105
♪ Uh-huh, uh, uh ♪
584
00:33:02,188 --> 00:33:03,940
♪ I got the feelin' ♪
585
00:33:04,482 --> 00:33:05,316
[wheels squeal]
586
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,193
♪ Hey! ♪
587
00:33:08,569 --> 00:33:09,569
♪ All right ♪
588
00:33:10,071 --> 00:33:11,071
♪ Ow ♪
589
00:33:11,781 --> 00:33:12,781
♪ Hey... ♪
590
00:33:15,201 --> 00:33:17,620
When I came to America, I felt like...
591
00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:19,997
[sighs]
592
00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:23,751
...finally, I'm in my home.
593
00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:26,129
♪ Baby, baby, baby... ♪
594
00:33:26,212 --> 00:33:28,339
Then we got flew down to Florida.
595
00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:30,008
♪ Baby, baby, baby ♪
596
00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:31,426
♪ Baby ♪
597
00:33:31,509 --> 00:33:32,509
♪ Come on now ♪
598
00:33:32,552 --> 00:33:34,345
[Arnold] I was absolutely convinced
599
00:33:34,429 --> 00:33:36,764
that I'm gonna beat
all the American bodybuilders.
600
00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,392
Set me up as kind of, like,
the new champion.
601
00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:42,103
Become the greatest bodybuilder
of all times.
602
00:33:42,895 --> 00:33:47,442
He was acting so arrogant and cocky
like the winner, but he wasn't in shape,
603
00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:51,237
because it was all about being big
and, you know, size with him.
604
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,950
[Arnold] And when they announced
the fourth place, third place,
605
00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:58,995
and the second place,
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
606
00:34:00,830 --> 00:34:02,290
Oh, fuck.
607
00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:04,834
This can't be.
608
00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:12,884
I once was considered the unbeatable guy,
and now, all of a sudden, Frank Zane won.
609
00:34:14,635 --> 00:34:17,096
This is terrible. I'm embarrassed.
610
00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:22,602
[Frank] I think he was just
used to winning all the time.
611
00:34:22,685 --> 00:34:26,230
Landing in this country the first time,
getting defeated
612
00:34:26,314 --> 00:34:27,732
by, as his words,
613
00:34:27,815 --> 00:34:30,485
"a chicken with 17-inch arms,"
614
00:34:30,568 --> 00:34:32,403
that really bothered him.
615
00:34:35,865 --> 00:34:37,867
[Arnold] I was so devastated.
616
00:34:37,950 --> 00:34:40,411
I was lying there
in the middle of the night in bed
617
00:34:40,495 --> 00:34:42,205
in this hotel room,
618
00:34:42,288 --> 00:34:44,457
and I thought the world
is coming to an end.
619
00:34:47,877 --> 00:34:49,670
I'm in a strange country.
620
00:34:49,754 --> 00:34:51,589
I cannot communicate here.
621
00:34:51,672 --> 00:34:53,925
I'm thousands of miles away from home.
622
00:34:54,550 --> 00:34:56,344
And I just lost.
623
00:34:56,427 --> 00:34:58,429
I just disappointed everybody.
624
00:35:00,014 --> 00:35:02,683
So in my mind, the bodybuilding world
was going to say,
625
00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:05,686
"Schwarzenegger is not
what we thought he is."
626
00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:06,771
"So fuck him."
627
00:35:08,397 --> 00:35:10,024
I cried the whole night.
628
00:35:16,322 --> 00:35:18,741
The next day, I said, "Okay."
629
00:35:18,825 --> 00:35:21,369
"You cried like a little baby,
you asshole."
630
00:35:21,452 --> 00:35:22,995
"And now, let's move on."
631
00:35:25,873 --> 00:35:29,544
And then Weider gave me an airline ticket
to go to Los Angeles.
632
00:35:30,586 --> 00:35:34,257
He's gonna take care of things
and he's gonna get me an apartment.
633
00:35:36,342 --> 00:35:40,012
I wrote to my friends right away.
I said, "This is quite different."
634
00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:43,307
I felt, like, totally helpless
635
00:35:43,391 --> 00:35:44,475
and alone.
636
00:35:47,019 --> 00:35:49,188
The gyms that I went to
637
00:35:49,272 --> 00:35:52,358
were gyms where
the best bodybuilders worked out.
638
00:35:52,441 --> 00:35:54,694
I come in there and I want to work out.
639
00:35:54,777 --> 00:35:58,197
And there's guys that owned the gym,
like, Vince Gironda,
640
00:35:58,281 --> 00:35:59,740
he owned Vince's Gym.
641
00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:01,951
He says, "You're still a baby."
642
00:36:02,034 --> 00:36:04,704
"We have to get rid of
a lot of fat on you,
643
00:36:04,787 --> 00:36:06,789
but you have a lot of potential."
644
00:36:06,873 --> 00:36:10,543
And I said to myself, "What the fuck
is he talking about? Potential?"
645
00:36:12,128 --> 00:36:14,005
Then I trained at Gold's Gym,
646
00:36:14,088 --> 00:36:17,425
and Joe Gold immediately called me
"Balloon Belly."
647
00:36:17,508 --> 00:36:18,843
I said,
648
00:36:19,594 --> 00:36:20,594
"Jesus."
649
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:25,892
I realized why it was so important
to come to America,
650
00:36:25,975 --> 00:36:28,686
because they just have
a whole different understanding
651
00:36:28,769 --> 00:36:30,688
of what it means being in shape.
652
00:36:31,772 --> 00:36:34,859
I alone cannot accomplish anything.
653
00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:37,778
I need help.
654
00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:43,743
So I invited Frank Zane,
the guy that I was beaten by,
655
00:36:43,826 --> 00:36:45,786
to come out to California
656
00:36:45,870 --> 00:36:47,121
and to train with me,
657
00:36:47,205 --> 00:36:49,123
because I wanted to see firsthand
658
00:36:49,207 --> 00:36:52,418
what does he do to get
this kind of a quality of a physique.
659
00:36:52,919 --> 00:36:55,838
And I stayed with him
on a cot in his living room,
660
00:36:55,922 --> 00:36:58,090
and we'd go to the gym and train.
661
00:36:58,174 --> 00:37:01,385
Go to the beach. Take pictures for Weider.
662
00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:03,429
I went back to Florida
663
00:37:03,512 --> 00:37:06,682
and resigned my teaching position
and moved to California.
664
00:37:06,766 --> 00:37:08,851
[Arnold] And then,
when I was training here,
665
00:37:08,935 --> 00:37:10,937
especially in Gold's Gym, I felt like,
666
00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:14,899
"Wouldn't it be great
if Franco would see what's going on here?"
667
00:37:14,982 --> 00:37:19,153
I mean, he was my close friend
and training partner in Munich.
668
00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:20,446
I really missed him.
669
00:37:20,529 --> 00:37:24,325
But when Weider heard what his height was,
he had no interest at all.
670
00:37:24,408 --> 00:37:27,662
So he kept saying, "No, I don't want
to bring over a little guy like that."
671
00:37:27,745 --> 00:37:28,745
"Come on."
672
00:37:29,163 --> 00:37:32,166
And then eventually Artie Zeller,
the photographer, and I,
673
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:33,918
we kind of convinced him.
674
00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:36,963
And from then,
I mean, everything really picked up.
675
00:37:37,046 --> 00:37:40,174
Cinque, sei, sette.
676
00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:41,759
- [groans]
- [Arnold] What?
677
00:37:41,842 --> 00:37:42,842
Sette.
678
00:37:43,427 --> 00:37:44,470
Otto.
679
00:37:45,179 --> 00:37:46,179
Nove.
680
00:37:47,098 --> 00:37:48,098
Dieci.
681
00:37:48,766 --> 00:37:50,059
- [laughs]
- [Arnold] Okay.
682
00:37:50,142 --> 00:37:51,453
- That's hard.
- [Franco] I get it.
683
00:37:51,477 --> 00:37:53,271
- I get it.
- [Arnold] Oh, Franco gets it.
684
00:37:55,481 --> 00:37:57,817
- Okay, pick it up.
- [both laughing]
685
00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:00,778
[Arnold] In that area
of building a community,
686
00:38:00,861 --> 00:38:03,489
the talent of mine was actually better
687
00:38:03,572 --> 00:38:05,700
than my talent in bodybuilding.
688
00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:07,910
["California Soul" plays]
689
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:12,373
[Arnold] Gold's Gym in Venice Beach.
690
00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:16,294
Bodybuilders training for championships
went there to train.
691
00:38:16,377 --> 00:38:18,379
♪ Like a sound you hear
That lingers in your ear ♪
692
00:38:18,462 --> 00:38:19,523
♪ But you can't forget... ♪
693
00:38:19,547 --> 00:38:23,009
[Arnold] And then Joe Weider publicized it
as the champions' gym.
694
00:38:23,092 --> 00:38:25,678
- [man] That nose will look skinny now.
- [laughing]
695
00:38:25,761 --> 00:38:30,391
My first impression of him
was he was outgoing, funny,
696
00:38:30,474 --> 00:38:32,268
and always cracking jokes.
697
00:38:32,351 --> 00:38:35,062
When he was in the gym, he was focused.
698
00:38:35,146 --> 00:38:37,606
♪ California soul... ♪
699
00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:43,612
[Frank] It was all energy,
and we helped each other.
700
00:38:44,363 --> 00:38:47,259
Now, Arnold was a great person to have
in the gym when you're working out,
701
00:38:47,283 --> 00:38:49,577
because just his presence made you
want to work out harder
702
00:38:49,660 --> 00:38:50,870
just to impress him.
703
00:38:51,412 --> 00:38:52,872
He was a perfectionist.
704
00:38:54,498 --> 00:38:56,258
[Arnold] You train together,
help each other.
705
00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:59,462
You even help each other
pumping up backstage with the towels,
706
00:38:59,545 --> 00:39:00,880
and you oil each other up.
707
00:39:00,963 --> 00:39:03,191
You put the oil on me
because I cannot reach in the back.
708
00:39:03,215 --> 00:39:05,134
Someone has to put the oil on my back.
709
00:39:05,217 --> 00:39:07,178
That's what you do. You help each other.
710
00:39:07,261 --> 00:39:09,805
And then before you go out,
you say, "Good luck."
711
00:39:09,889 --> 00:39:12,433
I used to say, "Good luck,"
and "I'm going to beat you."
712
00:39:12,516 --> 00:39:16,020
♪ Soul... ♪
713
00:39:16,854 --> 00:39:19,523
[Arnold] I was never a fanatic about diet.
714
00:39:19,607 --> 00:39:22,610
It was Frank Zane and Franco Columbu
715
00:39:22,693 --> 00:39:24,403
who put my vitamins together.
716
00:39:25,029 --> 00:39:27,740
And then we would experiment
with steroids.
717
00:39:28,282 --> 00:39:31,577
Everybody in the bodybuilding field
who is up there on the top
718
00:39:31,660 --> 00:39:33,287
is taking steroids.
719
00:39:35,164 --> 00:39:39,835
Maybe five percent of my progress
720
00:39:39,919 --> 00:39:41,253
is from the steroids.
721
00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:43,923
I had doctor's supervision.
722
00:39:44,006 --> 00:39:48,094
You stayed with a very strict rule
of doing it four months a year
723
00:39:48,177 --> 00:39:50,346
before a competition, and then lay off.
724
00:39:51,555 --> 00:39:53,974
So I changed my eating habits
and everything.
725
00:39:54,683 --> 00:39:55,976
I got really tanned.
726
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,564
If your whole personality is to show off,
727
00:40:01,315 --> 00:40:03,859
you can't wait
to show people what you have.
728
00:40:03,943 --> 00:40:07,321
There were hundreds of people
watching guys work out.
729
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:09,824
♪ California soul... ♪
730
00:40:09,907 --> 00:40:12,618
[Arnold] I felt like I was living
in the middle of a circus.
731
00:40:13,661 --> 00:40:16,622
So you were getting it all times,
732
00:40:16,705 --> 00:40:19,208
the satisfaction of people watching you
733
00:40:19,792 --> 00:40:22,294
and saying, "Wow, he looks incredible."
734
00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:25,256
♪ Just gimme, yeah ♪
735
00:40:25,339 --> 00:40:26,549
♪ Just gimme, yeah ♪
736
00:40:27,299 --> 00:40:29,176
♪ Oh, it's all a trend ♪
737
00:40:32,012 --> 00:40:34,432
[woman] It was the summer of '69.
738
00:40:35,182 --> 00:40:37,852
I was working as a hostess
at Zucky's Deli.
739
00:40:39,311 --> 00:40:42,231
He came over to me and he said,
740
00:40:42,314 --> 00:40:44,066
"You are so sexy."
741
00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:46,402
"I need to ask you out on a date."
742
00:40:47,653 --> 00:40:49,947
With a really thick accent.
743
00:40:50,030 --> 00:40:52,533
Barely 100 words in his vocabulary.
744
00:40:53,409 --> 00:40:56,412
He was handsome. He was magnetic.
745
00:40:56,495 --> 00:40:57,872
He was charismatic.
746
00:40:58,622 --> 00:41:00,624
He was just different.
747
00:41:02,918 --> 00:41:06,630
When he arrived for our date,
I was watching the moon landing.
748
00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:09,148
[man over radio] We copy it down, Eagle.
749
00:41:09,216 --> 00:41:10,259
[indistinct radio chatter]
750
00:41:10,342 --> 00:41:14,221
So we watched it together.
We took photos in front of the television.
751
00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:16,849
[man 2 over radio] Tranquility base here.
The eagle has landed.
752
00:41:17,391 --> 00:41:18,851
[Barbara] After our first date,
753
00:41:18,934 --> 00:41:21,645
we saw each other
all the time that we could.
754
00:41:22,771 --> 00:41:25,441
He created laughter everywhere.
755
00:41:25,524 --> 00:41:26,775
He was just so
756
00:41:27,943 --> 00:41:29,028
mesmerizing.
757
00:41:31,614 --> 00:41:34,116
[Arnold] Barbara was the first time
758
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:39,497
that I saw, through her,
kind of how America celebrates Christmas,
759
00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:42,041
because she would take me home,
760
00:41:42,124 --> 00:41:44,793
and the family would just be so inclusive.
761
00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:47,213
It was the first time
762
00:41:47,796 --> 00:41:50,674
in my life
that I ever celebrated a birthday,
763
00:41:50,758 --> 00:41:53,260
when Barbara's mother made
a birthday cake.
764
00:41:54,929 --> 00:41:58,098
I never got a cake. No one ever sang
"Happy Birthday" or anything.
765
00:41:58,182 --> 00:41:59,225
I don't know why.
766
00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:04,688
It gave me another way
of really appreciating
767
00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:06,607
the American way of life,
768
00:42:07,107 --> 00:42:08,859
and to have a normal life.
769
00:42:10,444 --> 00:42:11,862
But with my family...
770
00:42:11,946 --> 00:42:15,282
The communication with my parents
was not good.
771
00:42:16,909 --> 00:42:18,077
And my brother...
772
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,872
I kind of erased him out of my mind
773
00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:24,750
for years during my bodybuilding years.
774
00:42:26,835 --> 00:42:30,214
I felt like I was creating
my own life over here,
775
00:42:30,297 --> 00:42:33,175
and I wanted nothing to do
with my past life.
776
00:42:37,888 --> 00:42:41,517
Joe Weider was interested in trying
to figure out how does he sell me.
777
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,519
So he came up with this idea
778
00:42:44,019 --> 00:42:46,188
that I'm this German machine.
779
00:42:47,189 --> 00:42:49,608
No emotions, just marching forward,
780
00:42:49,692 --> 00:42:52,194
and it's going to make me the champion.
781
00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:55,197
And I loved it,
because that's what I saw myself,
782
00:42:55,281 --> 00:42:57,575
as someone that couldn't be stopped.
783
00:43:01,704 --> 00:43:06,917
Joe Weider had one goal in mind,
and that is that I win every competition.
784
00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:09,461
That I'm on the cover of his magazine.
785
00:43:09,545 --> 00:43:12,965
That I sell a shitload
of food supplements for him.
786
00:43:13,549 --> 00:43:15,843
And that everything that I did,
787
00:43:15,926 --> 00:43:18,554
he would use the name Weider for it.
788
00:43:18,637 --> 00:43:20,764
So when I came up with
789
00:43:20,848 --> 00:43:23,851
splitting my bicep training
with my tricep training,
790
00:43:23,934 --> 00:43:26,312
he called it The Weider Split Routine.
791
00:43:27,229 --> 00:43:28,647
So that was the deal.
792
00:43:29,481 --> 00:43:31,191
I'm just gonna go over this.
793
00:43:31,275 --> 00:43:34,403
You should have
unique pictures taken, Arnold.
794
00:43:34,486 --> 00:43:35,988
Make it look different.
795
00:43:36,071 --> 00:43:37,906
I had to go and work with him and say,
796
00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:41,493
"Joe, you're selling your products.
You're making millions of dollars."
797
00:43:41,577 --> 00:43:44,288
"I want to also sell
some products of mine."
798
00:43:44,371 --> 00:43:48,292
"All I need from you is give me
advertisement space in your magazine."
799
00:43:49,793 --> 00:43:53,422
I wanted to make money
and I wanted to turn one dollar into two.
800
00:43:53,505 --> 00:43:56,800
And I wanted to learn how to do that
in America the American way.
801
00:43:56,884 --> 00:43:58,344
I said to Joe Weider,
802
00:43:58,427 --> 00:44:01,055
"Can you help me?
I want to go to college to learn English."
803
00:44:01,138 --> 00:44:02,973
"Then I wanna take some business classes,
804
00:44:03,057 --> 00:44:05,934
because eventually
I may have to take over your operation."
805
00:44:06,018 --> 00:44:07,269
And he loved that.
806
00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:09,396
These are the new covers.
807
00:44:10,230 --> 00:44:11,398
[Arnold] Let me see it.
808
00:44:12,066 --> 00:44:14,652
We don't want to put him on the cover.
Come on, Joe.
809
00:44:14,735 --> 00:44:16,779
You told me one time
that you're only putting
810
00:44:16,862 --> 00:44:19,490
Mr. Universes or Mr. Olympias
on the cover.
811
00:44:19,573 --> 00:44:20,616
[Joe] Five more copies...
812
00:44:20,699 --> 00:44:21,699
[Arnold] Joe?
813
00:44:26,705 --> 00:44:28,707
[breathing deeply]
814
00:44:52,981 --> 00:44:55,192
[Arnold] Every time I want anything,
815
00:44:55,275 --> 00:44:58,362
I say to myself,
"Okay, now what's the next thing?"
816
00:44:59,071 --> 00:45:02,282
If you're always hungry,
you're never really satisfied.
817
00:45:04,326 --> 00:45:07,413
Because Reg Park, of course,
won three Mr. Universe contests,
818
00:45:07,496 --> 00:45:09,415
Arnold has to break that record.
819
00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:16,380
When people think, "This is too much."
For me, it was definitely not enough.
820
00:45:16,463 --> 00:45:18,215
And then I wanted more.
821
00:45:18,298 --> 00:45:20,300
[suspenseful music plays]
822
00:45:21,885 --> 00:45:23,429
[Jon Jon] My dad had retired,
823
00:45:23,929 --> 00:45:27,057
but he decided to compete in Mr. Universe.
824
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,270
At that time, my dad was 42.
825
00:45:31,353 --> 00:45:33,063
Arnold was 23.
826
00:45:33,147 --> 00:45:36,024
[Arnold] Someone told me, "Do you know
who else is competing this year?"
827
00:45:36,108 --> 00:45:37,025
And I say, "Who?"
828
00:45:37,109 --> 00:45:38,527
They said, "Reg Park."
829
00:45:38,610 --> 00:45:40,863
I said, "Come on. This is impossible."
830
00:45:42,114 --> 00:45:44,908
I felt kind of weird
to compete against my idol.
831
00:45:50,497 --> 00:45:51,832
And then won.
832
00:45:54,585 --> 00:45:58,130
When that happened, it was something
really weird that happened mentally to me.
833
00:45:59,047 --> 00:46:00,674
I felt guilty somewhat.
834
00:46:01,258 --> 00:46:02,551
That my ego got in the way
835
00:46:02,634 --> 00:46:04,845
or maybe I shouldn't have competed
that year.
836
00:46:08,307 --> 00:46:12,227
To know that, as a 15-year-old kid,
you were dreaming about that
837
00:46:12,311 --> 00:46:13,854
and you were idolizing it.
838
00:46:15,063 --> 00:46:17,608
And now, all of a sudden,
you become the one
839
00:46:17,691 --> 00:46:19,234
that others are idolizing.
840
00:46:21,028 --> 00:46:23,781
I made this vision become a reality.
841
00:46:34,333 --> 00:46:37,377
My mind is just geared differently.
842
00:46:37,461 --> 00:46:39,671
You know,
it's geared towards moving forward.
843
00:46:39,755 --> 00:46:41,715
[magical music plays]
844
00:46:41,799 --> 00:46:43,801
[wind blowing gently]
845
00:46:45,260 --> 00:46:46,845
[Arnold] What is the new thing?
846
00:46:48,597 --> 00:46:51,558
A new challenge. A new mountain to climb.
847
00:46:56,647 --> 00:46:59,441
Mr. Universe
is a world championship title,
848
00:46:59,525 --> 00:47:01,610
but every year there's a Mr. Universe.
849
00:47:01,693 --> 00:47:03,362
But who is really, then, the best?
850
00:47:03,445 --> 00:47:05,405
[upbeat music plays]
851
00:47:05,489 --> 00:47:07,950
[Arnold]
So Joe Weider created the Mr. Olympia,
852
00:47:08,534 --> 00:47:11,328
where all the Mr. Universes
and all the world champions
853
00:47:11,411 --> 00:47:13,205
competes in the Mr. Olympia.
854
00:47:15,165 --> 00:47:18,210
If you win that,
then you can call yourself the best.
855
00:47:18,293 --> 00:47:19,294
Pow!
856
00:47:19,378 --> 00:47:20,712
Mr. Olympia!
857
00:47:22,756 --> 00:47:26,176
The year 1969,
that was my first Mr. Olympia.
858
00:47:26,802 --> 00:47:28,345
It was a different league.
859
00:47:29,638 --> 00:47:31,890
I competed against Sergio Oliva.
860
00:47:32,599 --> 00:47:33,934
I lost against him.
861
00:47:34,017 --> 00:47:35,853
He was better than me.
862
00:47:36,854 --> 00:47:39,064
I gave him a big kiss on stage,
863
00:47:39,565 --> 00:47:42,276
and I said,
"Enjoy it, because this is the last time."
864
00:47:44,111 --> 00:47:46,864
The next year I came back with vengeance.
865
00:47:46,947 --> 00:47:49,658
I had to kind of make him the villain,
866
00:47:50,409 --> 00:47:53,120
to go and train harder
and harder and harder.
867
00:47:53,203 --> 00:47:56,039
I finally got the chance to confront him.
868
00:48:00,502 --> 00:48:02,379
I then pulled a little trick on him.
869
00:48:03,839 --> 00:48:06,049
We were doing pose-off after pose-off.
870
00:48:06,133 --> 00:48:08,260
And then I said to him,
"I think it's enough."
871
00:48:08,343 --> 00:48:10,053
"I think they must know by now
872
00:48:10,137 --> 00:48:11,597
who is going to be the winner."
873
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,474
He says, "You're right,"
and then he walked off.
874
00:48:15,767 --> 00:48:18,687
And then I pointed at him,
like, "He's giving up."
875
00:48:19,646 --> 00:48:21,940
So it was like
a psychological little trick
876
00:48:22,024 --> 00:48:23,859
to kind of close the deal
once and for all.
877
00:48:23,942 --> 00:48:25,736
[cheering and applause]
878
00:48:26,570 --> 00:48:29,823
He turned around and said,
"You son of a bitch."
879
00:48:29,907 --> 00:48:32,159
[chuckles]
He was, like, really pissed off about it.
880
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,122
["Super Guy (Flying High)" plays]
881
00:48:37,915 --> 00:48:42,377
[Arnold] In the '70s, I kept being driven
to go from title to title.
882
00:48:47,132 --> 00:48:50,802
I was so far ahead of everybody else
that I ran over everybody.
883
00:48:50,886 --> 00:48:52,971
♪ Super guy ♪
884
00:48:53,055 --> 00:48:54,306
♪ What will you be ♪
885
00:48:54,389 --> 00:48:56,892
♪ When your cloud falls ♪
886
00:48:56,975 --> 00:48:58,018
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
887
00:48:58,101 --> 00:49:00,062
♪ Hey, super guy ♪
888
00:49:00,145 --> 00:49:02,314
♪ What your mama say? ♪
889
00:49:02,397 --> 00:49:04,816
♪ Oh ♪
890
00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:05,776
♪ Ow ♪
891
00:49:05,859 --> 00:49:08,111
♪ Hey, hey, super guy ♪
892
00:49:08,195 --> 00:49:09,988
♪ What you gonna do? ♪
893
00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:21,392
- [man] What do you expect to see tonight?
- [man 2] I'm not quite sure.
894
00:49:21,416 --> 00:49:23,543
I'm curious to see what it's...
what it looks like.
895
00:49:24,962 --> 00:49:26,642
[man 3] Can we ask
what you expect tonight?
896
00:49:26,713 --> 00:49:29,424
I expect to see fantastic bodybuilders.
897
00:49:29,508 --> 00:49:31,428
- [man 3] Have you ever been to one before?
- No.
898
00:49:31,510 --> 00:49:33,929
- [man 3] Have you ever been to one before?
- Never!
899
00:49:34,930 --> 00:49:36,014
- Have you?
- [man 3] Never.
900
00:49:36,098 --> 00:49:36,932
[laughs]
901
00:49:37,015 --> 00:49:39,017
[cheering]
902
00:49:49,152 --> 00:49:51,697
[Arnold] Being a bodybuilder
is like being an artist,
903
00:49:51,780 --> 00:49:54,825
being a sculptor
like Rodin or Michelangelo,
904
00:49:56,827 --> 00:50:01,623
because you have to have a sense
of symmetry and beauty.
905
00:50:01,707 --> 00:50:03,709
[applause]
906
00:50:05,335 --> 00:50:08,296
[Arnold] If you don't have that,
the whole thing together
907
00:50:08,380 --> 00:50:10,007
looks like a waste of time.
908
00:50:10,549 --> 00:50:12,342
[cheering]
909
00:50:18,140 --> 00:50:19,558
[man] That's it. Hold it.
910
00:50:19,641 --> 00:50:21,393
That's it. Just hold it.
911
00:50:21,476 --> 00:50:24,187
[man 2] Looks a little different
than two months ago, doesn't it?
912
00:50:24,813 --> 00:50:25,856
[exhales]
913
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:31,528
[Arnold]
I never really was satisfied with my body.
914
00:50:31,611 --> 00:50:32,696
God almighty.
915
00:50:32,779 --> 00:50:37,117
I looked in the mirror and said to myself,
"I don't know how this shit body
916
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,202
can ever win this competition."
917
00:50:40,996 --> 00:50:44,082
- Thanks for coming in.
- Lou Ferrigno is coming too.
918
00:50:45,542 --> 00:50:48,211
[Arnold] When I brag about myself,
that's all bullshit.
919
00:50:48,295 --> 00:50:50,422
- All right.
- Very dramatic, Arnold.
920
00:50:50,505 --> 00:50:52,466
[Arnold]
This is kind of like the other me,
921
00:50:52,549 --> 00:50:55,135
the me that I want the world to see.
922
00:50:55,218 --> 00:50:56,261
Take this one.
923
00:50:57,387 --> 00:51:00,474
That should inspire you,
because this is an arm shot.
924
00:51:02,017 --> 00:51:03,017
It's Columbu.
925
00:51:03,351 --> 00:51:04,394
How do you like that shot?
926
00:51:04,478 --> 00:51:06,563
[Arnold] But in reality,
when I'm by myself,
927
00:51:06,646 --> 00:51:08,607
I look at it and I say to myself,
928
00:51:08,690 --> 00:51:10,567
"It's not there yet. It's not happening."
929
00:51:10,650 --> 00:51:11,650
Check the chest.
930
00:51:12,277 --> 00:51:16,448
[Arnold] I think it's the very thing
that made me always be on the edge
931
00:51:16,531 --> 00:51:18,075
and always want more.
932
00:51:18,158 --> 00:51:20,577
Your chest looks tremendous, Arnold.
933
00:51:20,660 --> 00:51:21,660
Huge.
934
00:51:28,835 --> 00:51:32,714
I was in Baltimore and Philadelphia
935
00:51:32,798 --> 00:51:34,883
doing, uh, posing exhibitions.
936
00:51:34,966 --> 00:51:36,301
I came home,
937
00:51:37,594 --> 00:51:40,847
and, uh, Franco said to me...
He says, you know, "I have bad news."
938
00:51:41,807 --> 00:51:43,141
I said, "What's that?"
939
00:51:43,225 --> 00:51:46,686
He said to me... he says,
"Your brother died in a car accident."
940
00:51:47,187 --> 00:51:49,481
"He was drunk driving,
941
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:54,736
and that he was hitting a telephone pole."
942
00:51:56,988 --> 00:51:58,740
And I was, like, stunned.
943
00:51:58,824 --> 00:52:00,367
[somber music plays]
944
00:52:06,206 --> 00:52:08,625
[Arnold]
He was always the darling of the family.
945
00:52:09,209 --> 00:52:10,836
He was very artistic.
946
00:52:10,919 --> 00:52:12,129
Very smart.
947
00:52:12,212 --> 00:52:13,547
Read a lot.
948
00:52:16,550 --> 00:52:19,928
But I don't think
my brother ever was really happy.
949
00:52:22,848 --> 00:52:27,936
I think he started drinking
because our upbringing was very tough.
950
00:52:28,603 --> 00:52:30,689
The brutality that was at home,
951
00:52:30,772 --> 00:52:33,775
the beatings that we got
from our parents sometimes,
952
00:52:33,859 --> 00:52:36,278
all of this, I think he could not sustain,
953
00:52:36,361 --> 00:52:37,279
that punishment.
954
00:52:37,362 --> 00:52:40,490
He was much more delicate of a person
955
00:52:40,574 --> 00:52:41,575
by nature.
956
00:52:43,618 --> 00:52:47,289
We had a very,
kind of, schizophrenic behavior
957
00:52:47,372 --> 00:52:49,583
that my brother and I witnessed at home.
958
00:52:49,666 --> 00:52:51,209
There was the kind father,
959
00:52:51,293 --> 00:52:55,046
and then there was the other times
where my father would come home drunk.
960
00:52:55,130 --> 00:52:58,133
And he would scream
at three in the morning.
961
00:52:58,216 --> 00:52:59,259
We would wake up,
962
00:52:59,885 --> 00:53:02,679
and, all of a sudden, you know,
our hearts were pounding,
963
00:53:03,972 --> 00:53:05,891
because we knew what that meant.
964
00:53:05,974 --> 00:53:08,977
That he could,
at any given time, strike my mother
965
00:53:09,060 --> 00:53:10,478
or go crazy.
966
00:53:10,562 --> 00:53:12,564
[indistinct yelling]
967
00:53:13,398 --> 00:53:16,484
So there was
this kind of strange violence.
968
00:53:16,943 --> 00:53:18,445
[birds chirping]
969
00:53:19,613 --> 00:53:22,407
The kind of upbringing that we had
970
00:53:22,908 --> 00:53:26,411
was beneficial for someone like me,
971
00:53:26,494 --> 00:53:29,706
who was, inside,
very strong and very determined.
972
00:53:30,498 --> 00:53:32,500
But my brother was more fragile.
973
00:53:34,961 --> 00:53:36,463
Nietzsche was right,
974
00:53:36,546 --> 00:53:40,217
that that what does not kill you,
will make you stronger.
975
00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:43,094
The very thing that made me who I am today
976
00:53:43,178 --> 00:53:46,014
was the very thing that destroyed him.
977
00:54:02,906 --> 00:54:04,658
[curious music plays]
978
00:54:04,741 --> 00:54:08,370
[Arnold] In 1972, when I was competing
in Essen, in Germany,
979
00:54:08,912 --> 00:54:11,206
my parents came for really
980
00:54:13,166 --> 00:54:14,668
unexplained reasons.
981
00:54:16,878 --> 00:54:19,130
I competed at least 50 times
982
00:54:19,214 --> 00:54:22,133
in weightlifting competitions,
in powerlifting competitions,
983
00:54:22,217 --> 00:54:25,095
in locals and in statewide competitions,
984
00:54:25,178 --> 00:54:26,554
national competitions.
985
00:54:26,638 --> 00:54:28,723
My parents never came to any of it.
986
00:54:28,807 --> 00:54:30,934
So that's why I was quite surprised.
987
00:54:34,396 --> 00:54:37,691
My father acted a little odd.
988
00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:43,071
He was a little slower.
He was sometimes slurring things.
989
00:54:43,154 --> 00:54:45,699
And so there was something off
a little bit there.
990
00:54:46,950 --> 00:54:48,034
A few weeks later,
991
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:50,287
I got a phone call
992
00:54:50,870 --> 00:54:52,872
that my father had a stroke.
993
00:54:54,124 --> 00:54:57,294
I, uh, then took
the next flight to Austria
994
00:54:57,377 --> 00:54:59,754
and then went
to visit my father in the hospital.
995
00:55:00,255 --> 00:55:04,384
He was not able to communicate.
996
00:55:06,219 --> 00:55:08,138
You know,
he needed a lot of medical attention,
997
00:55:08,221 --> 00:55:11,683
but I did not know
is this something you can overcome or not.
998
00:55:11,766 --> 00:55:12,976
That I did not know.
999
00:55:15,729 --> 00:55:17,731
I flew back to Los Angeles,
1000
00:55:18,523 --> 00:55:20,650
and then after that, he passed away.
1001
00:55:22,444 --> 00:55:24,446
[somber music plays]
1002
00:55:28,283 --> 00:55:30,452
[Arnold]
When my father and my brother died,
1003
00:55:31,202 --> 00:55:33,830
I had no feelings about it.
1004
00:55:33,913 --> 00:55:36,082
You know? I eliminated it.
1005
00:55:36,791 --> 00:55:39,961
It maybe comes out
sometimes in my life later on...
1006
00:55:40,045 --> 00:55:42,005
those feelings, you know,
but I don't know.
1007
00:55:42,088 --> 00:55:44,507
I've been training myself to do that.
1008
00:55:44,591 --> 00:55:47,677
Not to be affected by anything else
from the outside.
1009
00:55:50,847 --> 00:55:51,931
I mean,
1010
00:55:52,432 --> 00:55:53,808
I'm not an expert
1011
00:55:54,476 --> 00:55:56,227
in psychology or anything like that.
1012
00:55:56,311 --> 00:55:58,104
All I can tell you is that
1013
00:55:59,856 --> 00:56:02,984
when you're a person
that has always a goal,
1014
00:56:04,903 --> 00:56:06,446
that always has a mission,
1015
00:56:07,614 --> 00:56:12,160
the less time that you have to think
about, "How do I feel today?"
1016
00:56:12,660 --> 00:56:14,788
"Am I depressed today?"
1017
00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:17,707
"Do I feel sorry for myself?"
1018
00:56:17,791 --> 00:56:19,334
"Have I become a victim?"
1019
00:56:19,959 --> 00:56:23,963
"Oh my God.
I feel so bad about myself," and all this.
1020
00:56:24,047 --> 00:56:25,799
I don't have time for this crap.
1021
00:56:25,882 --> 00:56:27,759
A lot of times,
it's people didn't work enough.
1022
00:56:27,842 --> 00:56:29,761
If you're busy all the time,
1023
00:56:29,844 --> 00:56:32,097
you don't have time
to think about this stuff.
1024
00:56:32,180 --> 00:56:34,224
Let's just move forward.
Move. Move. Move. Move.
1025
00:56:34,307 --> 00:56:36,559
["Lowdown" plays]
1026
00:56:36,643 --> 00:56:40,313
[Arnold] When I realized
that bodybuilding is not established,
1027
00:56:40,397 --> 00:56:43,149
I decided that I'm gonna promote
the hell out of myself.
1028
00:56:44,025 --> 00:56:45,545
[man] What are the judges looking for?
1029
00:56:45,610 --> 00:56:48,196
[Arnold] Well, they're looking
for proportions, symmetry,
1030
00:56:48,279 --> 00:56:49,406
the size of the muscles,
1031
00:56:49,489 --> 00:56:51,241
how you can pose and present the muscles.
1032
00:56:51,324 --> 00:56:54,244
I want to put some effort out
to help people understand
1033
00:56:54,327 --> 00:56:55,745
what the sport is all about.
1034
00:56:55,829 --> 00:56:58,915
- [man] Got everything in the chair now?
- No, there was a problem.
1035
00:56:58,998 --> 00:57:00,208
- I see.
- [audience laughs]
1036
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,211
♪ Ooh ♪
1037
00:57:14,973 --> 00:57:17,475
[Arnold]
I've only been in this country five years.
1038
00:57:17,559 --> 00:57:20,061
What does it mean, "hanky-panky?"
1039
00:57:20,145 --> 00:57:21,646
- My goodness.
- [laughing]
1040
00:57:24,232 --> 00:57:25,358
♪ I wonder, wonder... ♪
1041
00:57:25,442 --> 00:57:28,528
[Arnold] It's a sport.
I'm competing to be the best in it.
1042
00:57:28,611 --> 00:57:30,780
And I feel that,
at the same time, I'm an artist.
1043
00:57:30,864 --> 00:57:33,491
I'm creating a body
that wasn't there before.
1044
00:57:33,575 --> 00:57:34,784
[cheering and applause]
1045
00:57:35,827 --> 00:57:37,370
[laughing]
1046
00:57:37,454 --> 00:57:39,456
[rock music plays]
1047
00:57:44,419 --> 00:57:48,089
[Albert]
In '74, Arnold was in fantastic shape,
1048
00:57:48,882 --> 00:57:52,218
and he was absolutely unbeatable.
1049
00:57:55,054 --> 00:57:56,806
[rhythmic clapping]
1050
00:57:56,890 --> 00:57:58,433
[cheering and applause]
1051
00:57:59,309 --> 00:58:03,354
[Arnold] In 1974,
I won the Mr. Olympia competition.
1052
00:58:03,438 --> 00:58:07,233
So I won, all together,
13 world bodybuilding championships,
1053
00:58:08,276 --> 00:58:09,569
one after the next...
1054
00:58:13,114 --> 00:58:15,074
because I was driven by this vision.
1055
00:58:15,158 --> 00:58:17,202
[inspirational music plays]
1056
00:58:21,289 --> 00:58:22,832
What else was there to do?
1057
00:58:24,334 --> 00:58:25,543
To win another one?
1058
00:58:26,544 --> 00:58:27,629
Boring.
1059
00:58:28,796 --> 00:58:30,131
So I stopped.
1060
00:58:31,174 --> 00:58:33,176
[applause]
1061
00:58:34,219 --> 00:58:37,430
I mean, I'm competing now for 10 years.
1062
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:40,642
And after 10 years,
I feel like it's enough, you know?
1063
00:58:41,392 --> 00:58:43,645
You have to let
other people have a chance
1064
00:58:44,521 --> 00:58:47,732
and, uh, just leave as a winner.
1065
00:58:50,235 --> 00:58:53,446
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
Arnold Schwarzenegger!
1066
00:58:53,530 --> 00:58:55,532
[cheering and applause]
1067
00:59:05,917 --> 00:59:07,919
[adventurous music plays]
1068
00:59:09,295 --> 00:59:11,506
[Arnold] It's a sport
and I love to compete.
1069
00:59:12,131 --> 00:59:16,761
And, uh, I love
to be the best in the world.
1070
00:59:17,512 --> 00:59:18,930
You know, just the best.
1071
00:59:19,013 --> 00:59:22,850
To stand up there and know
that there is no other man
1072
00:59:22,934 --> 00:59:26,563
better in this particular field than I am.
1073
00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:31,192
And, um, so I think
it's such a repetitious thing now,
1074
00:59:31,276 --> 00:59:34,320
that I would like to go on
to another thing,
1075
00:59:34,404 --> 00:59:38,449
and, uh, you know,
try to be the best in something else.
1076
00:59:38,950 --> 00:59:39,950
[man] Like what?
1077
00:59:39,993 --> 00:59:41,911
I would like to get into acting.
1078
00:59:42,412 --> 00:59:45,164
Find out if I can be good in that.
1079
00:59:51,170 --> 00:59:52,630
[phone ringing]
1080
00:59:55,592 --> 00:59:57,051
[man] I remember being on the phone.
1081
00:59:57,135 --> 00:59:57,969
[Arnold] Hello?
1082
00:59:58,052 --> 00:59:58,886
[man] I said...
1083
00:59:58,970 --> 01:00:01,598
Tell me about your process as an actor.
1084
01:00:01,681 --> 01:00:03,641
He said, "Jim."
1085
01:00:03,725 --> 01:00:05,518
"I don't want to be an actor."
1086
01:00:06,519 --> 01:00:08,146
"I want to be a star."
1087
01:00:08,229 --> 01:00:10,273
[action music plays]
1088
01:00:16,738 --> 01:00:18,072
["Hollywood Swinging" plays]
1089
01:00:25,955 --> 01:00:27,832
♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
1090
01:00:30,001 --> 01:00:31,336
♪ What you got to say? ♪
1091
01:00:34,422 --> 01:00:38,426
♪ Hollywood ♪
1092
01:00:38,509 --> 01:00:40,011
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪
1093
01:00:43,097 --> 01:00:46,643
♪ Hollywood ♪
1094
01:00:47,143 --> 01:00:48,936
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪
1095
01:00:49,729 --> 01:00:51,105
♪ Ah! ♪
1096
01:00:51,731 --> 01:00:53,358
♪ So here I am ♪
1097
01:00:55,777 --> 01:00:58,655
♪ In this Hollywood city, yeah ♪
1098
01:01:00,323 --> 01:01:03,868
♪ The city of the stars, movies, women
And cars ♪
1099
01:01:04,452 --> 01:01:05,662
♪ Well, I guess I ♪
1100
01:01:06,162 --> 01:01:08,665
♪ I guess I'll start ♪
1101
01:01:08,748 --> 01:01:11,042
♪ I say, "Hey, hey, hey" ♪
1102
01:01:11,668 --> 01:01:12,752
♪ Hey, hey ♪
1103
01:01:13,336 --> 01:01:14,587
♪ What you got to say? ♪
1104
01:01:17,632 --> 01:01:21,594
♪ Hollywood ♪
1105
01:01:21,678 --> 01:01:23,137
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪
1106
01:01:26,349 --> 01:01:30,269
♪ Hollywood ♪
1107
01:01:30,353 --> 01:01:31,813
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪
1108
01:01:32,522 --> 01:01:35,108
♪ Ah! Ah! ♪
1109
01:01:35,191 --> 01:01:37,193
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪
1110
01:01:37,276 --> 01:01:39,237
♪ Hollwood swinging, yeah ♪
1111
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,448
- ♪ Hollywood, Hollywood ♪
- ♪ Hollywood swinging ♪
1112
01:01:42,532 --> 01:01:44,242
[music fades]