- Okay.
Okay, okay.
- Everyone's asking me, begging me,
to do another masterpiece.
I am so sick and tired of masterpieces.
I cannot begin to tell you.
Who the fuck needs a masterpiece any more?
- Hi.
My name is Todd, and I'm a filmmaker.
- You look around, you look around
and you know there's nothing worth shooting any more.
That's my 20 years of silence.
I consider that genius.
Everyone considers my other things genius.
Perhaps they were good, but not
as genius as my total silence.
- And I'm reaching out to you, Mr. Libragy, sir
because you are the master of the form,
and I got your book today,
The Truth At All Costs!
- Shit, that book is shit!
- It's my new bible.
I found at the same time, which I took as a sign,
this flier for a feminist film festival.
- Stop.
I call that cunt film festival,
and he discovered that,
and he's interested in that.
That's fascinating.
That's a loser.
- Something in me tells me...
- Excuse me, sir.
- That this is what I'm supposed to do.
- Sir.
- I'm gonna make a documentary about the women in my family
because they are strong and they are courageous
and I'm reaching out to you
for any kind of help you can give me, any kind of guidance.
- Come on, come on.
- He needs my help.
I will not give it to him, of course.
- That's my tape.
That's my tape.
The tape belongs to me.
I came in with the tape.
- All right, well take your tape and you're done.
- You didn't give me it.
You have to give me the tape.
I'm totally ready to do whatever you want me to do.
I love Eastern Europeans.
I've said that before.
- Then I think this guy wants to do a documentary.
So, if I do a documentary about some guy
who wants to do a documentary,
all of a sudden, I thought,
that is of interest to me.
Let others suffer.
- Hi.
Just really quick, I just wanna say that it just,
it means the world to me that you're here,
and I am so respectful
and I've been reading your book and it's my bible.
Nothing like this has ever happened to me.
It means the world to me.
We're here at my high school reunion.
It was a very small school.
There are 41 people in my graduating class.
I'm excited to see everyone.
We're going in.
Listen, when I was in high school, I was kind of a big shot,
and it would mean a lot to people if I was doing well,
so if we could kinda act like you're with me,
that would be great.
You're not gonna...
We don't speak, you don't speak.
I understand, I understand.
It was in the book.
- Read my fucking books, even though when I wrote them,
I must have been drunk,
because I have no idea
why in the world would I write that crap
and why in the world millions of people would read the crap
and think I'm some kind of a genius, which I am.
- That's great, Todd.
- Thank you.
- It's good to see you.
You're looking great.
- You too.
- Ah thanks.
- Thanks.
Is that the kind of stuff you want?
Just candid, just stuff?
Are there snacks or...
I'm a documentary filmmaker now,
and I'm making a documentary about female empowerment,
and this is Ivan Libragi,
who is a very big deal in the documentary world.
He wrote this book, The Truth At All Costs,
and he made big documentaries
about the cruelty of the bird-watching industry.
- Do you know what, Todd?
- Called Two In the Bush.
- You should talk to Brandon Dietz.
He was AD Club.
- He's right over there.
You should talk to him.
He would be so interested in this kind of thing.
That's what he does.
He does commercials now.
You should talk to him.
- Hey, hey.
- A lot a people don't understand that the purpose...
- Hey, they were telling me that you make local commercials.
- It's true.
- Obviously I'm making a documentary.
- I'll let you guys catch up.
- Great talking to you.
- See you.
- I'm just getting into making documentaries,
and this is Ivan Libragi, who is a very big...
- Rod.
- Todd.
It's very close, Todd.
- I remember a Rod.
Are you sure?
- Yeah, it's Todd.
- Brandon Dietz.
That's funny.
He makes commercials.
He's a real loser.
- Hi.
- Hey.
- It's Rebecca.
- Hey, Rebecca.
- Nice to see you.
- Aw, come on.
- How are you?
- It's great to see you.
- It's so good to see you.
- You remember Brandon?
- Hey, yeah.
Good to see you.
- Oh yeah, Brandon, nice to see you.
- How are you?
- Good good, great.
- What is all this?
- Yeah, Todd, what's going on?
- I'm becoming a documentary filmmaker
and I'm making a documentary about female empowerment,
and this is a very famous documentary filmmaker
and he's documenting me as I go through my process,
which is why I wanted to talk to you,
because Brandon here, he makes local commercials,
and I just thought we should network
and get to know each other,
because we're sort of in the same business now.
- You had braces!
- I would love to come by and observe your work.
- She definitely had braces.
That's why I wasn't sure...
- I did have braces for so long.
- You look great.
- You don't have them anymore.
- You look great too.
This is amazing you're doing this.
- Oh thanks.
- You always had so much passion.
- Rebecca, nice ass.
- In high school I remember you were doing that...
- It's Lane!
- Photography project thing.
- Yeah.
- Isn't your last name Lane?
- Yes, yeah, I got married.
- Oh. - Oh.
- Great.
- You couldn't come.
- Right, yeah. - That figures, yeah.
- But it was a photography project, right?
- Right, and I made that film
about the oppression of the janitors at the school.
- I loved that film!
That was amazing!
- Thank you, thank you, it was...
- I'm sorry, hold on.
Hello?
- But yeah, we can...
- Yeah, no.
- Anytime, I would love to come...
- I'm sorry, it's my husband.
- Oh sure.
- No I can't.
Because I've only been here for...
Okay, fine.
I'm so sorry.
I have to go.
My husband's having a problem at home.
I have to go.
- You're not going going though?
- It was great to see you, Todd.
- Great to see you.
Yeah, yeah.
- If you have a card or anything, that would be great.
- Sure sure sure sure.
- That would be great.
- Yeah, this is my direct line.
Don't call that, just call the office right there
and my secretary will do what she does.
It was great to see you.
Good luck.
- All right, all right, all right.
I don't know, something's happening with me.
I'm on a road, I'm on a path.
I saw that Brandon Dietz and he's some sort of,
makes local commercials,
and he's definitely an up-and-comer
and he has a business card and a secretary
and I'm gonna follow through, I'm gonna see him.
I'm sorry, do we have to cut for that?
Sorry.
I'll just let the machine pick up.
It's probably my mom, it's okay.
- Leave a message
and I'll get back to you right away.
- You wanted me to answer the question again or...
- This is Rebecca calling, from the reunion.
- Oh.
Excuse me, excuse me just a sec.
- Hope you don't mind I'm calling you,
I found your number in the phone book.
It was really great to see you and...
- Hello hello hello?
- Todd?
- Hey!
Rebecca?
- Hi.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
- Hi.
- Hi!
How are you?
- I'm good, how are you?
- I'm good, I'm okay.
Hey,
It's funny, I'm calling you.
It was really great to see you at the reunion.
- It was great to see you too.
- I was thinking
about what you were talking about,
that movie that you're doing,
and I was wondering if there was any way
that I could help you out.
- What do you mean? - I have to go.
Todd, you know what?
I have to go, but maybe I'll call you.
Shoot, with the money, I could help you with the money.
- You could?
- I definitely could help.
It's not a problem.
Yeah, I definitely could help you with the money, all right?
- All right.
- Yeah, it's not a problem.
I'll call you tomorrow and I can get some cash, okay?
I gotta go, bye.
- What does that mean?
What does that mean?
I'll be just a second.
Just a second, just a second.
Hello?
- It was his boundless optimism
that I found most disturbing.
It's truly disturbing
in a most tickling way.
It tickled me while it disturbed me,
and it made me feel again.
- While supplies last, and don't delay,
emancipate your smile today.
- And cut, cut it.
- Hey, hey.
- What are you...
- Your secretary said you were gonna be down here.
- I'm in the...
- I just thought what you were...
Listen...
- I'm in the middle of doing a commercial.
I'm doing my work here.
- I know, we'll totally be out of the way.
I'm just gonna observe your process.
- Guys, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
We're doing a commercial and we don't...
- I'll be quiet, I'll be quiet.
- We don't want you here, all right?
We gotta just do this.
- Look at that camera though.
- I think it's okay.
- Are we doing it again?
- That's okay.
It's cool.
They can come in.
It's good publicity.
- Okay.
Sure.
- Come on in, come on in.
- The more the merrier.
- Let's do it from the top then.
- Can we use the bigger camera?
- No, no.
Just look in here.
Don't look in there.
Nope, over here.
Action.
- Ask not what your teeth can do for you,
but what you can do for your teeth.
Hi, I'm Dan Diamond.
All month at Dr. Diamond's Downtown Dentistry,
if you come in and get a cap,
you get a free cap.
- While supplies last.
- And don't delay, emancipate your smile today.
- And cut it.
Okay that was pretty good.
Couple notes, couple notes.
Try to get the line,
"Come in and get your teeth capped, get a free cap."
- That's what I said.
- No, you kinda just said,
"Come in and get a cap, you get a cap."
They're not gonna understand what you're talking about.
- And one more thing,
isn't it Kennedy that said the ask not thing?
- Yeah.
- I'm Lincoln.
- You're obviously a professional
and this thing is happening.
We have financing, we have a producer.
We're leaving for Spokane very soon and I just...
- That's great.
I wish you a lot of luck with this.
- This is your chance to do something artistic.
This is something...
- It's wonderful, and good luck with it.
I just got...
- To go to the next stage in...
- I have to do my job right now.
- All right, well I'll call you.
- Todd, hey.
- Hey, hey.
- I'm sorry I'm late.
The babysitter had this thing with her grandmother.
I brought the doughnuts.
- Listen listen, I don't think he's gonna go for this.
- What do you mean?
- I tried to talk to him.
He doesn't wanna talk to me.
He's very dismissive about it.
- Let me talk to him, let me talk to him.
- All right, all right.
- Brandon.
Brandon.
- Yeah?
- Excuse me, hi.
- Hey, Rebecca. - Hi.
- How are you?
- Good good.
I brought doughnuts.
I wanted to come watch the shoot.
- That was nice.
- But I'm a little late,
I had a thing with the babysitter,
but anyway, so Todd's film seems really exciting,
and I've decided to help with the financing,
and I think it's really gonna happen,
and we would love it if you would be part of it.
- You're gonna be involved?
- Yeah.
- Huh.
I'm pretty excited.
The idea of working on a documentary,
I think it's maybe the next step for my career,
something serious and substantive and giving back
in a different way from commercials.
So, I'm excited about it.
- How do you like this guy?
How do you like this guy?
We're good, right?
- Yeah.
- We're good.
We are making a film.
In the last 24 hours we have a producer,
we have a director of photography.
Do you have a sound guy?
We need a sound guy.
- I have a
guy.
- Yeah yeah yeah, no, I'm sorry I'm late.
I'm here.
I got Dr. Diamond a chicken sandwich.
No no no, trust me, chicken's vegetarian, dude.
Okay, I'll see you in a minute.
Oh shit.
Oh fuck.
- I wanna get started.
This is the first official sort of meeting.
I wanted to touch base before we went to Spokane.
I'm the director and leader of the project,
which is tentatively called A Journey To Courage.
- How do you three know each other?
- We went to high school together.
- Yeah.
- We all went to Lemona High.
- Really?
- Yeah, Rebecca and I were good friends,
and Brandon's an acquaintance.
- I was part of that.
- Wait a second.
Brandon, you went to high school?
- Greg.
- But no, I like that.
- Hilarious.
- I like that.
I think we should have that kind of banter.
Seriously, I think we should have that kind of banter
in the group.
- But not in the film.
- No.
Quickly, I don't wanna keep you all,
because we have an early morning.
Here are general information packets.
- I didn't mention this before,
but I was hoping that it would be all right
if I brought my daughter, Grace, on the shoot.
I know that probably seems a little unorthodox,
but I feel bad leaving her.
I just am not really ready to leave her yet.
She's young and 18 months old.
- No, I like that.
- That'd be nice, yeah.
- I like the idea.
- She's a really good baby.
- This is a family and I want this to have a family feel
on this project.
- I have a niece I could bring too
who is interested in movies.
Should we...
- No, I don't think...
There's necessity for the baby.
- Yeah, no, if you wanted that.
- I tried to find pictures of people in my family,
but I don't have great pictures.
That's my Aunt Kirby.
There's a funny story.
She got that raincoat and that bathing suit the same day,
so it's kind of a whimsical picture.
- Can I keep this one?
- He's a sweet guy too, Todd.
He's a sweet person.
Yeah.
When we were younger, I remember in high school,
I had braces basically for, I don't know,
through high...
I had them for, I don't know, seven years, I think it was.
I remember this one time I had a lot of rubber bands
and they were connecting the top and the bottom
and they used to snap off.
It was just humiliating.
People would tease me.
I remember one time three snapped off at once
and Todd was down on his knees looking for them,
and he never found them,
but the next day he came in with all these rubber bands.
It was so sweet.
They were big rubber bands,
so it didn't fit,
but it was the thought that counts.
He's just really, really a sweet, sweet person.
- I'm really excited.
- You should be.
- I'm gonna call my mom.
Remind me to call my mom.
What is this machine that you've got, sir?
Is that a sound machine?
Will I be using one of these?
- It's a mixer, Greg.
- What?
- It's a mixer.
- Oh, what does it do?
- It gives you options.
- What does that mean?
- You can take different mics,
people are mic'ed separately,
and put them all into one machine
and it can be on one or two tracks.
- I don't get that.
- Ow.
Ow.
- What do you mean they're mic'ed separately?
- You just had a body mic taken off of you.
- That was a microphone?
- I feel like the planets are aligning.
I had this idea and now we're doing it.
It's like it's what I'm supposed to do
and I am going to do what I'm supposed to do.
- And they went to Spokane, Washington.
The Natives call it Spokane, but that is incorrect.
- We're on a trip.
We're on a trip.
We're free!
Sort of.
- Okay.
- We're walking and talking?
- Are we ready?
- Yeah.
- Go.
- My grandmother raised her three daughters here,
here in Spokane, Washington.
I too was born here, but it's more than a journey home,
it's a journey to courage.
Yeah?
- And cut it.
Great.
- Okay, cut it.
Will that work.
- That's excellent.
- All right, we'll do some other crap over here,
maybe get the trees.
That way people know it's Spokane.
It's raining, let's go, let's go!
I'm making kind of a documentary about, sort of...
- Sorry.
- Female empowerment.
I've always been really inspired
by the women in my family,
and so we're going to uncover that.
- That's good, just keep going.
- All right, all right, honestly just part of our process,
it's fine.
- Just stand right there.
Don't move, don't move, don't move.
- What, me?
- No, Greg.
- Rolling.
- It's that gonna pick up?
- Don't worry about that.
- You know if I look at you, you can't be just like,
don't look at me, don't talk to me.
- What am I suppose to interact with you,
you're suppose to, she's the subject.
- Why won't...
- Please.
- I don't think this interacting is very...
- I'm very sorry, I'm sorry.
- Ivan, we'll be shutting dawn here in a minute, Ivan.
- Tell me about the day I was born.
- Day you were born...
- Jesus.
- I was 18 years old.
- Who cares?
- And we were in
Long Beach, California. - I think this is
good stuff.
- Okay, okay.
- Look, maybe if we just had a quick meeting and got like
how we relate to each other...
- I'm just gonna take the baby outside.
- Great, fine.
- She's a great producer.
I think we should have certain ground rules about
how we talk to each other,
and when we talk to each other,
and what respect means in this context.
- I understand, I understand.
I just want you to interview,
you don't have to boom me.
- We're not getting this?
- No.
- Okay, oh this is, this is, oh.
- We're just figuring stuff out.
It's just about her, it's not about us,
so as soon as you're not talking to her,
I'm putting you on track.
- But see when you...
- I'm putting you on track.
- I'm trying to put myself in the interviewer position,
and when you belittle me in front of her,
then she's not gonna respect me.
- Why are you so sensitive?
I'm not belittling you, I'm just trying to get at the truth.
- I looked back to see, I was afraid you would trip,
and I look back and you're instantly like,
"Don't look at us."
- Why are you looking at, we're not,
and now she's not even here.
- Well I'm gonna let the door slam?
- Let's just talk about this later.
- All right, mom.
- What are we doin' here?
- It's okay, boo boo.
- Is she okay?
- She's okay.
- Let's take five, let's take five.
- I think we're on a five people.
Five everyone.
- What are we doing now?
- Well we're not going to the bathroom,
we're doing that at another time.
- I thought we were broken, I thought we were stuck.
- You wanna take this whole thing?
- If there's a lot a rules that I don't know about.
- Don't yell at me, don't yell at me.
- Like we don't go to the bathroom,
we don't eat ever.
- I didn't say ever, I just said not now.
- All right, well I don't exactly understand
when you became the boss.
- As I say in my book, Indisputable Cinema,
if the filmmaker is invasive,
the subject become evasive.
- I just want you to go back to that day
when your dad died.
- Honey, I don't wanna talk about that.
- Mom, it's really important, I just,
this is important to me.
- No.
I think you and your friends should leave now.
What do we...
Mom, please don't embarrass me in front of everybody.
This is kind of important to me,
could you just...
- No, Todd.
Leave.
- What exactly were you thinking, Rod?
I mean we spent, I don't know,
99% of the time - Shhhh.
Talking to each other.
She's just standing...
- Shh, shh, shh, you guys, shh, shh,
I finally got her to sleep.
- I'm sorry.
- It's like four hours past her bedtime.
- Okay, sorry 'bout that.
We spent all our time talking to each other,
nothing to her.
There were no questions prepared,
I mean, what exactly happened?
- What do you mean?
This is one day,
one day.
- That went terribly, right?
- It didn't go that bad.
- I don't think so.
- We didn't get any footage.
- Well we're learning to work together as a team,
we did get a little bit of footage, I mean the initial.
- We got footage of us walkin' up to the house.
- I mean that, the initial contact.
- Initially when you talked to her, Rod, what did she say?
Beforehand, saying we're coming up,
we're gonna talk to you, what,
she was like, "Yeah, I'm happy to talk to you."
- To my mother?
- Yeah.
- I didn't talk to my mother.
- That wasn't your mother today?
- I think I just gotta pull myself back,
be less of a perfectionist,
and, you know just go with the flow a little.
- This is guerrilla filmmaking,
we just jump out, we just,
it's like a gorilla.
- Hi, is Shirley there?
I wanna do a documentary about the women in my family.
So we're gonna be spending some time with you
in the near future.
- Could we get cleaned up first?
- We're really creating something important,
something American.
Something that my grandkids,
assuming I get married and kids then, all that.
That they could sort of hold on to, and say,
hold up, and say,
"This is something
"that my relative was involved in."
- Oh, my cousin Marcy's here.
- Upstairs, it'll be easier.
- Oh Marcy.
- Marcy's here.
- Hi.
- I really am not, I'm not ready here.
- We're making a documentary about female empowerment.
- Do you have anythings you wanna...
- Probably won't involve you,
but say hi to everyone.
- Hi.
- Tell your name.
- Hi, I'm Marcy.
- This is my cousin Marcy.
- I'm Todd's cousin.
- And you live down here, yeah?
- Yeah, but I gotta get ready to go to work, so.
- So I bet you're happy to get rid of it.
Where do you work?
- I'm workin' at Walgreens.
- You work at Walgreens.
- Yeah.
- Why...
- Ready?
- No, why, why are we doing this with the boom?
- Well, because I thought you guys didn't want,
I don't have a mixer.
What a mixer can do is, you can mic every different person
sort of individually, and then as a sound professional
I can go in and what they call mix the sound.
And I can turn certain people down and turn other people up.
Whereas right now what we're doing, we just have this one,
it's called a boom mic,
and we just have that one mic,
and it sorta picks up all the sound and then you can't
what they call, mix it.
Or un-mix it.
You can't, you don't have any choices.
And, as an artist I need choices on my palette.
- You gotta lean back a little for me.
- All right.
So this is just, this is gonna be very simple,
we're just gonna do some simple things.
- Has to be simple.
- Few questions.
- Has to be simple.
- So what would you say is the meaning of life,
from a female perspective?
- Well, gee honey, it's just living
the way you can and doing well, and
as you go through generations
everything changes occur.
First you're a teenager, then you're a baby,
and then you're older, and then you have nothing to do.
- Yeah, but how's that pertain to a woman in particular?
Kind of have a woman focus to this thing.
- Well, my life has always been just,
you know nothing special.
Just that I always had, never had anything bad happen.
Never had any tough times.
- Oh that's not true, you've never had anything bad happen.
There were some bad things that happened.
What are some obstacles, some struggles
you've had to overcome, come on.
- Well course the kids' father, he passed away,
that wasn't a good thing.
He was in the service.
- How did that go?
What happened exactly?
- Well, what happened to him...
- Greg boom, Greg.
That we felt he had an accident.
- This group, whenever they begin to uncover a story,
they shoot themselves in the proverbial ass.
- So it's your feeling that Curly had an accident, yeah?
- Yes, it is, but he probably had...
- Hold please.
- Wait, wait, wait, but ma ma, Greg.
- We got a plane goin' over.
- What?
- Honestly, do you hear a plane?
- Yeah, I hear a plane.
- Shh, shh.
- I don't hear any plane.
- This wouldn't be a problem if I had a mixer,
we could use the little body mics
and I wouldn't have to be pickin' in up with this, but.
- Greg there's no plane, that was the wind.
- You're gonna campaign for a mixer now,
that's your idea...
- Don't make stuff up.
- I just want it to be as good as it can be, right?
- All right, can we please...
- Tryin' to do my job...
- Shouldn't make up aircraft for that purpose.
- I'm not makin' it up...
- Hey Marcy.
- Didn't you hear a plane?
- Marcy, what are you doin', you're back already.
- I live here, what are you doing here?
- She does.
I do.
- Poor kid, it's time to get somethin' to eat
and you're...
- Well but, you're just home already.
- I know, I know, I was done early, so yeah,
so I'm just gonna be downstairs.
- Well we're doing a documentary about
the women in my family.
I was hoping to get some stuff of you, you know.
- The women in your family.
- Well, yeah.
- So you're interview grandma?
- Yeah.
- That's good.
Good, good, good.
- What about you?
- I'm not, I would rather just, I'll just be downstairs.
But you can come down afterwards and maybe we can go
grab a drink or somethin' later on.
Do you have time?
Are you leaving right away?
- Yeah, no, no, I'm not leaving.
- You look good by the way, I really like.
- Oh, thanks.
- Do you have time?
- Yeah, sure, sure.
- Okay, cool, cool, you guys can come if you want to.
- We'll talk about it,
and maybe I'll get you to participate.
- Ah-ha, yeah, I don't think so.
See you later, bye.
- All right, thanks.
- Can we get back to the interview?
- How is she home from work already?
- A fist rots from the head.
And so does Marcy.
She's like a troll dwelling in the basement.
- She's very secretive.
She probably has a problem that
maybe she will tell us later, maybe never.
She works short hours and
so she obviously
needs something better in her life,
and I think that she could get something better.
- She's living in the basement here, yeah?
- Yes, and maybe,
I wouldn't like to have her hear me discuss this,
shall we go outside a minute?
I'll show you my flowers.
'Kay now Todd, you know that Marcy's having trouble.
So if you wanna...
- Can you read lips?
- Not so good.
- Since you're making this documentary,
that maybe there was a little something she could do.
Just to get her on the right direction in another area.
- This isn't a game we're playing, I can't ju...
People have jobs, she's not a filmmaker.
I can't give her a job.
- Uh like banana.
- Um.
- You either get her a job,
or grandma's gonna have to get tough
and I'm not doing your documentary.
- Are you out a your mind, what?
What is she gonna do?
- Does she have any experience?
- No, she doesn't have any experience.
- She's just gonna get in the way.
- This is not ideal and I apologize,
but I don't see where we have a choice...
- I don't want her around.
- My grandmother controls everything.
She's not gonna participate...
- Come on Rod, be a man.
We don't need, we've got,
we don't have any extra tasks for her to do.
I mean it doesn't make any sense.
- I really would appreciate if you guys could
see your way clear to helping me out with this.
- We are helping you out by saying no.
- My hands are tied.
- Absolutely.
- We don't need her.
- What?
- Would it be okay if she was like an intern or something?
- Well, are you gonna pay her?
- Maybe you'd do it, or something.
- Maybe I'd volunteer.
- As long as you don't pay her.
I'm not gettin', how much are you getting paid?
- It's not important, I think...
- We need, I need a mixer.
- Who are we kidding, this is a disaster.
This whole thing is a disaster.
- It's not, it's going great, Todd.
No, you're doing really well.
I think the stuff we've shot already is great.
Yeah.
- I don't her touching me.
- It's not gonna be a nightmare.
- Hi.
- What?
- I'm sorry, hi, I'm sorry, I didn't wanna
disturb you guys, but, would you mind, could you just,
you see that bottle, the Valerian root right there
on the lazy Susan?
Could you just hand that to me?
I'm so sorry, I know you guys were having a meeting,
and I didn't wanna...
- It's okay.
- Thank you so much.
- Sure thing, yeah.
Jesus Christ,
- Taking sleeping pills at 2 o'clock?
- Is she a phantom?
- Look, this is the thing.
In something like this, there's a hierarchy.
And this is it.
I'm the leader, I'm giving the word on this.
Marcy's involved.
We're gonna move on to the next thing, okay?
So let's move on to the next shot, out in the yard.
We're done, thank you very much.
- I think it'll be okay.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- She's family.
- Totally.
- It's sort a part a the story.
- Yeah, I think we'll be fine.
- Yeah, it's gonna be great, just great.
- I'm so touched that he would want me to be a part of it.
I kind of thought maybe he was gonna ask me when I,
I kinda thought maybe he would,
because he's always been talkin' about us
workin' on something together.
Or he did, we did, when we were little,
talked about working on something together.
- I think it will help morale, if she's not part of it.
- Well, I think if she stays away,
and you know what, I was thinking about that,
how you wanted that mixer, and I wasn't quite sure...
- The sound mixer.
- Yeah, in terms of if we can afford that, and
I think we can.
- I think it's probably gonna be all right to
have Marcy around, actually.
Because one thing she does have is a lot of enthusiasm.
And, my dad always said that that's what I needed.
- What are some things that
you've had to overcome in your life?
- So when I found out my husband had a girlfriend.
- I didn't know that.
- I was pretty stressed out.
- I never knew that.
- I had a friend who went to church,
so I went and talked to her pastor,
and he explained to me that we're all sinners.
- Say something profound, Rod.
- That's great.
- We don't need you this close.
- Well I can't zoom if I'm back there.
- How 'bout losing the glasses.
- Well I can't see if I don't have my glasses.
- It doesn't matter.
Don't worry about focus, we'll do that in post.
Just go in the...
- You add the focus afterwards?
- That's right, go in the back.
- I think they're gonna be very, very glad
that they have me.
'Cause I think I got some things that I know
that he wasn't covering.
I could see some things that he wasn't covering
that I was getting.
And I was getting some very interesting angles.
- I don't know how many times, just up, up,
I don't want you
getting filmed. - How wide are we,
are we wide or tight?
- We're tight.
- We're tight?
- But not that tight.
- Well if we're tight...
- I think Brandon's great.
I think he's got his shit together.
I think he's got his stuff together.
I think that, I'm not really sure about the sound guy.
What's the sound guy's name again?
- Hey I know, Brandon, here's a good idea.
I'll stand over here, and I won't be in it.
- He's joking, right?
- For sure, behind the tree, okay?
- Um, I might have to learn sound.
- You are on everybody's ass all the time.
It makes everyone
feel bad. - Look, if you're
frustrated with how this is - It makes less
- Going.
- Of everybody.
- Don't take it out on me, okay?
Well, I just think there's a way of behaving.
Ozer,
Errol Morris,
the big guy,
the big documentary guys, they don't do that.
They respect the subject.
They let the subject go where he or she wants.
They don't force it, and they don't blow up like that.
- I think we're gonna,
we're gonna stop for a little while.
For just a little while.
And don't you pipe up, please.
Jesus Christ.
- Yeah, there's a little tension on the set, yeah.
- Greg's a project.
He's worked on a lot a commercials with me,
but never sound, never anything important.
He's primarily, I wouldn't call him a gopher,
but he does multiple projects that have limited risk.
- Ooh!
- It may not always look like we know what we're doing.
And in fact, to tell you the truth,
we may not know what we're doing.
But, it's like
Joseph, Joseph Stalin,
or whoever that, said, follow your bliss.
- Did he tell you about the cat litter story?
He's probably gonna kill me for telling you this.
I'm sure, if you just don't tell him that,
well he probably will know eventually
when he sees it on the.
But, he ate the cat poop outta the cat litter
when he was a little kid.
He was always going after it, you know.
I'm always like slappin' his hand away, say,
"You can't eat the cat poop outta the cat litter."
- Someone like Todd, I feel like he's sort of,
he's like taking a lot of risks in his life,
and he kind of,
I don't know, he's following his heart, or his dream.
And it's just really inspirational to me, I guess.
'Cause I sort of, haven't always done that, I don't know.
Whatever.
- When you're making art, it can be that way.
It has to hurt a little.
Hurts a little.
- The only person who is more inspiring to me
than Todd as an artist,
is Franz, the sound man.
Your sound man, who I think is an artist with sound.
Have you got a second?
Can I ask you just a couple, like,
there's these knobs here,
this one's for ch 1, and then I have ch 2.
It goes up to ch 5.
I'll figure it out.
This is a sweet baby.
- Where are you from?
- That's a sweet baby.
- I'm from Arizona with these guys.
- Right, right, right, you're all from Arizona, I forgot.
- Yep.
- Yeah, I heard that's very nice there.
I was gonna go there one time.
- Really, that's great.
- Never quiet made it but,
I heard it was really, really great.
I'd like to go.
Maybe I'll come visit you guys down there sometime.
- Uh.
- You know, like in post, when we're doing post,
or whatever.
- You could check it out now if you wanted.
- I'm a little tired, I'm running a little jet lag,
and I worry about the baby, is she okay and stuff.
She's a little tired.
It's an adventure for her though, so I think that's good,
but I just, I'm just protective of her
and I wanna make sure she's okay.
But I mean in terms of the film, it seems to be going well.
I just think the footage that we've got is really good.
You want an orange, boo boo?
You want an orange?
- Oh, oh, oh.
- I'm so sorry, so sorry.
That's with having no alcohol.
See what's gonna happen if I have it?
I don't know, it's sort of like he married like an
idea or something, of me, not like me.
I don't know, it sounds so cliche but,
sometimes cliches, it's like true.
So you just like say it, and whatever.
- Well you're right, it wouldn't be a cliche...
- I said whatever like 68 times in the
last like ten minutes.
I just said it again.
When was your last long term relationship?
- I mean...
- You're think like really hard.
I was a long time ago.
I'm just kidding, I'm sorry, that was kinda mean.
- I don't, no, listen, I what I, look, look, look, look.
- I'm like no one to talk,
and I was in this terrible marriage, and I...
- I don't wanna make a freak of myself, but I...
- No it's, I'm likely the freaky story,
and I'm like madam freak.
- I've never had a relationship.
- Really?
- When I was doin' it I'd find that there was a whole
lot a treble, and you kinda need to,
so if you just bring it down, just a little.
I understand man, it's cool.
You're the man.
Can I get a beer for my friend here.
- You have pretty hair.
- You're.
- I've always thought that.
And today, I was pretend to be asleep
but I wasn't really asleep,
and you put your head on my shoulder and
I kinda leaned over and
your hair smells nice too.
- I wasn't asleep either.
- It's something about the smell,
it smelled the same when we were kids.
Hair.
- Yeah, it's kinda cool, we're just grabbin' some drinks
and bonding and
connecting with Rebecca, which is great.
'Cause I feel there's kind of a vibe there.
- Rosanne never talked to her.
- You used to love the John Davidson show.
- My first sexual dream was about John Davidson.
- Really?
I would say that's probably true for a lot of people.
- Shh, you think, really?
- Yeah, probably.
- God I had a sexy dream about John Davidson.
We were kissing in this dream.
- Oh my God.
- Who's John Davidson?
- Oh my God.
- John Davidson, he had this fabulous hair.
- What are you doing with this young city woman?
- You don't know who John Davidson is?
- See, John Davidson, he's great,
people know who John Davidson is.
You know?
- He had a talk show?
- Yes.
Do you know who John Davidson is?
- Joan Rivers had a talk show, she's funny.
- He doesn't know who John Davidson is.
You're of a different generation.
These young children.
- It's gettin' a little late, don't you think?
- Yeah, one more round a darts
and we'll be ready to go.
- He was attractive in a wholesome sort of way.
I would say, wouldn't you?
- Yeah.
- Like who, like who else,
- I don't know.
- Charles Landon?
- It's really late.
- Yeah.
- Michael Landon.
He played Charles...
- You can go home, I mean you can always catch the bus.
- And Charles in Charge.
- I don't know why I just get attached to these people and
I kind of wanna take them home,
and enjoy them.
- What does that...
- G-O.
- What is that from?
- G-O, it's from Bingo, that's all it's from.
- I know Bingo was his name.
B-I.
Did you start with the O, B-I-N-G...
- No, you, once you get to the end it's like O,
O.
- Oh, but does is go...
- O.
- Oh pansy ass, that's like an offensive term,
I don't know why.
- Why, oh 'cause a pansy's a pansy...
- That's for you.
- I don't know...
- except this friend of mine who likes to say these things
that are kind of outrageous so,
and I just said it now, I don't even know whether I...
- People are so careful.
- That's true.
I mean, I don't mean anything by it.
- Sometimes I wish people weren't so careful, you know?
- Yeah, you're not careful.
- I'm so stupid.
I don't know, babies need schedules,
and they need to be able to take naps,
and like I can't function on four hours sleep,
it's just, I don't know,
I feel so guilty, like this isn't the place necessarily
for a baby.
I just feel like it's not fair to her.
- Is it one a those kinda like behind the eye things,
or like back here, throbby, throbby, throbby.
- It's sort of like, all over.
- Really?
That's what happens when you drink too much.
- Yeah, guess so.
- You know for what it's worth, which is nothing,
I'm sorry, all right.
- Oh no, it's not your fault.
I mean you have a schedule.
You're shooting a movie here.
I just don't know if it's the right place for a baby.
I don't know, I'm just tired.
- Just learning from you has been great.
- I appreciate that, I think you're,
you're comin' along pretty well too.
- Yeah, you think?
- Yeah, kinda thrown into it, and you...
- I feel like I have a knack for it.
- Oh yeah.
- I do.
- Delicious.
- So tired.
- Who's that?
- I'm sorry, 'cuse me, 'cuse me, sorry.
- What's that?
What's happening?
- I don't think we've met him yet.
- Hi.
- Yeah, hi, I think your doorbell,
something's wrong with it.
- Excuse me, hey, hey, hello, hello.
- Hi, hi.
- Hey, come on, let's go.
Oh, you turned the baby against me,
that's wonderful, let's go, come on.
- Hey, hey, I'm sorry, excuse me.
- Fine, bye, bye, it's fine.
- Listen, hey, hey.
- We have a plane we have to catch.
- Can we talk for just a...
- Todd, don't worry.
- Can we cut that, can we cut that please.
- Todd, Todd, I'll...
- Get your stuff. - Give us two seconds,
please.
- Who the hell are you?
Can you tell me...
- My name is Todd.
- Are you the ring leader of this little zoo here?
- No.
- Come on, let's go.
Get your stuff on.
- Damn.
- You come up here and you talk about being depressed,
and I find you up here,
in the land of - Stop yelling.
Fog and rain.
- Let's just go.
- And depression and suicide.
We're gonna go to Dr. Wolfe, and we're gonna get that
FSH test, because you got somethin' wrong
with your hormones, I swear to god.
- Jesus Christ.
- You don't tell anybody what just happened,
you don't tell anybody what just happened,
understand me?
- No nobody, just Brandon and Marcy and that's it.
- No, you don't tell anybody, okay, nobody.
- Got it, our little secret.
- Jesus.
- What's wrong with him?
- Whoa, somebody's in a hurry.
- Finally a true asshole.
I love him.
- My wife is a sick woman, all right.
She's suffering, she's got a lot a depression,
she's got a lot a problems going on in her life.
She doesn't need some son-of-a-bitch to come,
I don't know who this guy is,
to come and do something like that to her.
And you tell him, that I happen to be an attorney.
I don't think he knows that.
And I will sue his ass.
I got credit card bills here,
that read like a road map.
All right, she's got pizzas all over Spokane, Washington.
Wasn't too hard to find the house.
She's a sick woman.
She's not in her right mind all right,
she's suffering from depression.
She's got all sorts a problems,
and you people, you people are accessories to this.
Do you think you, look at this, she's out of her mind.
You better tell him he's in trouble, I'm serious,
I will come back for him myself.
- What is going on?
- What do you mean?
- What's going on, where is Rebecca?
- Oh she had to, she was in a big rush,
she had to go all of a sudden.
She enjoyed the party though, she said,
meant to say goodbye to you guys.
- I don't understand what was the speeding car,
racing away, that was her?
- Yeah, she called a car service.
- What kinda car service guns it like that?
- One that's very speedy,
one that's very into they wanna get you there on time.
- Look, look, look, she had important business,
she went to the business,
that's all we have to talk about, okay,
can we just...
- What kinda business?
- I saw her eat a whole pan a brownies.
- Greg, pull over, can you pull over,
there, we need more beer.
- Are you upset with me or something?
- No, I'm not upset with you.
- Listen, I gotta tell you,
I'm not really comfortable with this lying stuff.
I don't, I feel like...
- I've put you in a terrible position.
I don't want you to have to lie, all right.
- So we'll just tell 'em.
- No, listen to me, listen to me.
You are a cool customer.
The minute I met you I said, that Greg is a cool customer.
Now Brandon, he's not a cool customer.
The minute he hears of trouble,
he's gonna be on the next bus back to Arizona
with that camera.
And Marcy cannot be trusted.
You, I can trust, and you have a cool head,
so I'm going to lie for you.
I'm going to take that burden off your shoulders,
and you are just gonna have a nice van ride.
It's not any trouble at all.
Now, we're gonna go get a beer,
and everything's gonna be fine.
- Listen Todd, you know, she's a married woman.
- Are we, are we going now?
- Yes, yeah, you're doin' great.
- Tell me when we're ready.
- We're ready.
- Are we going?
- Yep.
- Okay, grandma.
Why a,.
Have you ever been really in love with anybody?
I need a little break.
- What?
- I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna...
- You need to take a break now?
- I'm gonna take a quick break,
it's just a quick, I'm gonna take,
I'm gonna take a quick one...
- You just got back from a break.
- Just a quick break and then we're gonna be,
we're off and running boy.
- You just got back from a break,
if you take another...
- Well he needs another break.
- I feel like things are goin' good.
- Well we're all set up,
we can't just keep taking breaks like this,
we're not gonna get anything done.
- All right, all right.
- We're losing light.
- Why don't we just keep, we'll just keep.
You know what, he'll be back in a second,
we'll just keep going.
- No, we don't have to take a break,
you guys just, that's right, that's right.
- Yeah, we'll keep going.
- We will.
- Are we going now?
- No, you're doing fine.
- That's what Brandon likes to do is just shoot things when
Todd's not around so...
- Just go, go, go, go, go.
Just get outta the shot.
- Just step aside, please.
- Excuse me?
- Now we're starting over?
- Now you were
pregnant,
right?
- In the first chapter of my book Truth at All Costs,
I talk about truth and its costs, all of 'em.
- Hey guys.
- Hi, how are you? - Hey.
- Good how are you?
- Good.
You should get dressed though, 'cause it's chilly.
- I'm gonna stay here a little bit.
Todd's in there, and
he asked that we, you guys,
he needs a little time alone,
because he's feeling really creative he said,
and so he needs to be alone.
- Oh.
- So he wanted me to ask you guys to go and get some b-roll.
If you got your stuff in the car, you can use the camera
to get some b-roll.
- Okay.
- For today and tomorrow.
- Tomorrow, no, tomorrow we're doing...
- No, no, we can't tomorrow, definitely not.
No, no, no because it's...
- Grandma Shirley.
- It's already set up, and they're not...
- Yeah, Grandma Shirley and Pat Tonies,
we're filming that tomorrow.
- They're having lunch, but that's been cancelled,
so he wants you to do b-roll for the next couple days.
- Ah, really?
- Couple days he wants b-roll?
Okay.
- Okay.
- Weird that she would cancel like that without telling us.
- Cool, see ya.
- Bye.
- Thanks.
- Oh boy.
- How have things been with Todd lately?
Has he been act, does he seem like he's been okay lately?
- He seems all...
- I mean you know him.
- He seems all right, except we don't
hear from him very much.
You know I don't hear from him very much.
- I never hear from him.
- But then on the other hand, I don't call him either.
Of course Pat hadn't seen him for all these years but...
- You remember a little boy.
- Well he was sure a cute little guy,
I can tell you that.
- A cute little fellow.
- And he had that red hair all curly,
oh god he was cute.
- He was really cute.
- Speakin' a Curly,
do you mind talkin' about Curly a little bit,
so you guys mind talking about him a little bit for us?
- Shirley was talking about Curly in really, very...
- I know, wasn't that amazing,
she just really opened up about that.
- I kinda think that that's really something
we should hook into.
- You know, I was thinking that too,
when she was talking about it, I was thinking,
I think we're really missing the boat.
- So then he got his uniform, he had his uniform on
and he got ready, and he left.
And then we didn't see him of course any more.
And the military police said they found his motorcycle
and they found his shoes and his watch.
Where it was like his feet got caught,
in one of his shoes.
And so then they started looking down there,
but it got so dangerous,
was so dangerous, such a surf.
- I'm sort of surprised this hasn't really been,
at the forefront before, 'cause it's a...
Well you know Todd's been drinking a lot.
- Yeah, that's true.
- So...
- I thought it would kinda loosen him up a little bit.
Really made him super-loose, to being incoherent.
- You know it's been a couple days, Todd's been a little
depressed I think, safe to say, so we're thinking it out,
figurin' out what we're gonna do.
If we need to get some more money,
we'll do whatever it takes.
- We don't exactly know where, well Rebecca is?
- She is scouting...
- Location scouting in Spokane.
- For three days, which is a little weird.
- Yes.
- We're not gonna let the other guys know that
Rebecca's gone for now,
so we told her that she's off location scouting,
which I think they're totally buying that.
- I've found that when we go on certain blocks,
I feel like I've been there already,
even though they're different blocks.
So maybe she's having the same problem.
- So yeah, we're keepin' them busy,
they're off doin' some b-roll for us now.
Some stuff we probably won't even end up using
or anything, but, we just wanna keep 'em occupied,
so that we can figure out what the next thing to do is.
If I have to get some kind of a job
or something to raise a little more money,
I'm happy to do that because I've really,
I think I've really found my calling with sound.
Sound.
And I don't wanna go back to Arizona at this point, no.
- In a way it's good she's gone, for now.
- Yeah, she'd be good to have around,
ultimately.
- She'd be good to have around ultimately.
I don't know that we necessarily need her there
all the time on the set.
I think it's, she could do what she's doing away from
where we are.
- They just interviewed my grandma and Pat Tonies.
- That's your job.
- I think he's gonna be really pleased with the footage.
- Yeah, we make a pretty good team, actually.
- I think we do.
- They're suppose to do b-roll.
- We'll get him back, we'll get him back, he's,
you need time to blow off steam, I guess.
- But if we don't, we don't need him.
- I guess you're right.
- I mean, I think we've proved that today, so.
- True enough, can't argue with that.
- Todd, I want you to know that I don't want you to feel
badly anymore about that old fish.
She's no good anymore,
but go out and get a new fish.
And get a new pool, and use some good bait,
you know how to do that.
And throw that old fish away.
Don't think about it anymore,
there.
Are you okay?
- I'm fine.
- Do you feel better now?
- I'm good, thank you.
- Okay.
Ohhhh,
no.
- So you got this all taken care of here.
- I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying.
- Got it all set, Franz, mic'd up.
- Take a look in the refrigerator,
I mean how many six packs of beer...
- I'm gonna go talk to the guys,
tell 'em to keep it down.
- I heard he just needs to...
- Hey guys, we need to keep it down
just a little bit 'cause he's doing his OTF.
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah we're really screamin' - And actually,
this could be, I'm sorry.
- What?
- This could be probably a good time,
if we could just keep our voices down,
for me to talk to you about something.
I know Todd's been really upset,
and you've really hurt him a lot.
- How have we hurt Todd?
- Well let's see if we can guess.
Would it have anything to do with b-roll?
Yeah.
- You know what, you know what...
- We sent you for b-roll,
and I would call what you did a-roll.
You know we got a call from his grandmother,
and we know you've been doing important interviews.
- Can I just ask you a quick question,
did you look at the footage?
- I've seen the footage that Todd's been doing
which is quite beautiful.
- Did you look at the footage? - You know what
happens, what happens - Did you look at
the footage?
- Professionals do their job.
When people get erratic and do booze and drink and go crazy,
other people have to step in.
It's a team effort, Greg.
- You make a good point,
professionals do their job - If you understood
what a team was, that's right.
- And your job was b-roll.
- The thing is that Todd, - We stepped up for
someone who didn't... - Hello.
Todd is in the kitchen and
we love him, but...
- How's your...
- So this asshole Brandon has found this
horny troll,
Marcy.
Two retarded people.
- You are, for all intents and purposes,
the director of this documentary.
- What do you mean?
- And you are a producer, you have a great sense of story,
and I want you to follow that.
- What a second, all intents and purpose, or I am?
- Well, ah, well...
- Are we just, - I don't want a
qualification, - are we changing the?
- Am I the director?
- No, I mean, I'm still the director...
- Are you drunk?
- But you are the highest of - We're not gonna
talk about his drinking - Second in command.
- Problem, I mean I'm sorry.
- Really.
- Who is this guy?
- Okay, you're the director, you're the director,
I have bigger things.
I have big contracts to deal with, I can't...
- All right, so you're giving me the reins.
- I don't understand what's goin' on with him.
- Yes, I'm giving you the reins.
- All right, before we go any further,
can we just ask you something now?
'Cause you looked at the footage,
and I know that I'm the stupid one,
and I'm the naive one, and I don't know anything
about filmmaking and everything,
but I'm getting the feeling the Curly story
is maybe the thing that we should follow?
- Can two retarded make a genius filmmaker?
Positively yes.
My mother was a retard, my father was a retard,
and here I am,
genius.
- You have to tell people what they wanna hear.
You're the most important person, as far as I'm concerned,
on this production.
Now I need you to go out and shake the trees,
and find more funding for this movie.
Do you understand?
- Trees?
- Do you have any saucers for this gentleman today?
- We don't have saucers, you'll remember that
from your training.
Cups, no saucers. - There you go,
thank you so much, and that's...
- How much?
- That's, double would be I think that's,
so let's go 3.95 on that one.
- This isn't a garage sale,
the prices are pretty firm.
- Jody, I did it again, I cleared out the money.
- Do you know how long it takes me
to void out this register?
- Mike Benevento.
Hello.
- I am begging you, will you please just order
just a regular coffee?
Something, just a regular coffee.
Decaff's fine.
- You're not very bright, are you?
- Ah, fuck, ah, shit, oh god.
- Remember the acronym, it's H, hot,
you should remember that.
- Yes.
- You think I don't know who this is?
You are a dead man.
- Apparently, see I didn't know this part
until after the fact.
But apparently he got a phone call from his commander
and his commander wanted to see him at the base.
I guess it made him really nervous,
but he told us girls that he was gonna go play golf,
and he left.
But he left without his golf clubs, which is strange.
The next thing I know, he didn't come home,
it was night time.
He didn't come home and the MPS,
or whatever you call the air police,
came to the house and told my mom that they had found
his moped, and some stuff out at the cliff,
on the golf course where he had gone.
And they couldn't find him though.
And they never found his body.
They just found evidence, like they found a shoe I think.
Maybe his wallet, and his watch hangin' on the cliffs.
But the death certificate said fell, jumped or pushed
'cause they couldn't prove anything.
And for us girls, it was better if he didn't jump.
- Hello.
Shithead.
- I was about 33 years old, my uncle told me,
that one of his men, 'cause my uncle's in the air force too,
had seen my dad either in Africa or Asia or somewhere.
I don't know where, I forget.
And he called my dad's name,
and whoever this guy was turned around,
saw this Air Force man,
turned around and started running.
- Hello.
- Hi.
- Todd.
Rebecca.
- Wow.
- Okay.
- I thought she'd fallen off the face of the earth.
- She's been lookin' for locations I guess, right?
- For a week.
- Hey, hi.
- Good seeing you stranger.
- Where have you been for week, Rebecca?
- Now listen, I wanted to talk about that.
Because the thing is, is those contracts I told you about,
heavy negotiations.
It's a strange thing, and it has to do with contracts.
But I think we should not talk about...
- Oh come on.
- Oh we cannot, we cannot, we cannot.
- We haven't seen her in a week.
- I just say something to you guys,
I am so sorry, I am so sorry...
- For what?
- And I want you know...
- why are you sorry?
- That from now on, it's all cash.
- I did come back with cash,
I just feel like, what's better than cash?
- The main thing is, is that A Journey to Courage
is in good standing, the team is assembled,
and we're going forward.
- Wait, but when you say A Journey to Courage,
you mean the Curly story, right?
That's what we agreed that we were
gonna be working on now...
- We agreed that you were going to explore that,
but I think that that exploration is over,
and I think now we're gonna go on with A Journey to Courage.
Because I'm going to tell the story of the women
in my family, and that's what we talked about.
- I'd kind of rather not talk about this.
I don't know if that's okay, I just,
I mean my husband's home, and Grace is with my sister,
and that was a difficult situation,
but I felt like I really needed to
come back and finish Todd.
- I think perhaps it might be a good idea
for us to take a little road trip.
- What, for like to relax?
- To San Diego.
- Why?
- To San Diego,
to reenact Curly's disappearance.
- Oh, that is a great idea.
- I think that's a crazy tangent.
- No, no, no, no, it's a great idea, listen.
If we cut it together with the stuff that Brandon
and I shot, the interviews, it would be like this
beautiful rich tapestry, that we could...
- It'll fill it out.
- It would be gorgeous, and it would be...
- No, no.
- Listen, even if we go - We can afford it.
With the journey to courage angle...
- Even if we go with the
journey to courage... - If that really is
full of cash.
- All right, listen.
It'll be, just add this depth to it.
- I think it's a good idea.
- I've always wanted to go to San Diego myself.
- They're off to San Diego.
And I'm off to the crapper.
- It is so great to be in San Diego.
I am so excited to be here.
Oh my gosh, I'm so jazzed.
It's not like any place I've ever been before.
I mean I've never really been any place but Spokane,
but it's totally not like Spokane.
It's a little hot though.
I'm a few little heat rash issues,
but other than that, it's great.
- Rebecca's back and she brings a light with her,
whereas Todd sort of there's a darkness,
kind of a cloud that he brings so,
I guess the net gains gonna be sort of a gray.
- I don't know what happened with Rebecca.
All that stuff was really weird,
like we have funding, we don't have funding,
we have a bag of cash.
- I switched to
cash because it's easier.
Just to, it's just simpler to deal with.
- Marcy put an ad in for the Pennysaver,
so I checked out the house
we're gonna do the reenactments in,
and this woman Janice is really wonderful.
She's very specific about what she wants.
I couldn't sit in particular chairs.
Actually, I didn't sit down at all.
- I am so sorry that this is taking longer...
- Well what is the problem?
- Well, what we're doing is,
we're ready to go, we're just waiting for
one other person to show up who's playing the grandfather
in the reenactment, and the girls...
- Well I didn't realize it'd be so long before
you even got anything started at all.
- Oh, we'll just make sure...
- Pardon me, young lady,
please don't touch that.
- Yeah, oh, please don't touch anything.
- That's from my family ancestors
in Sweden, and it's about 300 years old.
- Oh it's beautiful though,
- I would just die
if anything happened to it.
- Isn't that just beautiful, yeah.
- I need a cigarette, do you have a cigarette?
- You're going to smoke,
but you're going to smoke outside, right?
- Yes mam, we'll take it outside.
- Thank you.
- This is her house,
we should respect exactly what she wants and just do...
- We're gonna have to move things.
It doesn't look like the 50s or 60s or whatever.
- We'll be fine.
- She's not, she told me not to look at certain paintings.
- Well did you look at 'em?
- I don't know which ones not to look at.
- Just don't look at any of them.
- Please be careful of the door there.
- Yes, yes, she's closing it right now.
- Be sure you shut the door
- and we've got the shoes off.
- Because I have a dog
somewhere in the house.
- And they should be here.
- Ah, finally, thank you.
- Oh is this Todd?
- We've been waiting a half hour to go, let's go.
- We got the most amazing doughnuts.
- I got doughnuts.
- We don't want doughnuts.
- What we need is to get going.
Can we start, we lose the girls in less than an hour.
- All right, so let's get started, let's get started.
- Has anybody seen the dog?
Did anybody see a dog go out?
A little pug dog?
- No, I don't think the dog has been...
- Actually I did see a little dog.
- Mugsy, little Grey dog - I'm pretty sure
- with a red collar. - She's still inside,
I saw her.
- I think it might have been.
- And the gate, somebody left the gate open too.
That means the dog could get right out on the street,
for heaven's sake.
Oh please, will everybody go out and look for the dog.
- Mugsy.
- Mugs.
- Mugsy.
- You know I'm really annoyed with Todd about this.
- Yeah, well you and me both.
- Actually I'm really annoyed with Rebecca
is who I'm annoyed with.
- Why are you annoyed with Rebecca?
- I don't know, it just seems like ever since she's been
back Todd has been weird and unfocused and like...
- It's nothing to do with her, it has to do with Todd.
- He has a look on his face, goofy.
- She's fine,
it's Todd who's bringin' in all this weird stuff.
- I don't know, I think it's her, because...
- She's the only reason we're here.
She's the only reason we're getting anything done.
- I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
She's very nice, she's very nice.
- You don't have to patronize.
I'm gonna go look for...
- Well you don't have to get mad about it.
God, why are you getting so mad?
We could still look together.
Mugsy.
Mugsy
- It's so nice here.
- We found all these, we found a great coffee shop
and this little place where they have danish, and...
- Did you have one of those danishes?
- Hey guys there's a shitload here.
I don't know how I got it, but you're welcome to have some.
Mugsy.
Seriously.
I hate raisin danish.
- Mugsy.
- It got really sort of intense, and difficult for awhile.
But I really, I feel like we've turned a corner.
- I do too.
- I feel like we're just gonna move forward,
I don't feel like anything can stop us now.
- What is your problem?
- Drinkin' beers with my wife in some hotel room.
- I'm so sick of you bullyin' everyone around.
- What you trying to do anything about?
- Come on, go away, stop.
- What is your problem?
- Are you drinkin' beers with my wife?
- Stop bullying everyone, shut up.
- Who the hell are you?
- And get out of here.
Leave him alone.
- Consider yourself served wife thief.
- Leave him alone, get out of here.
- What is going on?
- Leave me alone. - Had a gun, and he was
pissed off.
- Why do I keep finding you with this loser?
- Why are you always so violent?
I hate you.
- Is it so that you hate?
- You are ruining my life, leave me alone.
- We have a great marriage.
- That was really weird.
I think we'll be all right though, man.
- Oh, I'm never gonna lose these hiccups.
- I don't know what else to try Greg.
I tried scaring you.
- Ah, please don't do that.
That's what started it when he came in with that gun.
- He didn't have a gun, by the way.
- He had a gun, I saw it in his back pocket.
- Listen, I'm Marcy by the way.
What's your name?
- Mike Benevento. - Hi Mike.
- He's a big dude.
- It was fuckin' violent is what it was.
I am not, I do not come from a family that hits.
I do not come from that kind of family.
- Me neither.
- A lot of people do.
I do not.
My mother never hit my father.
- Hey Mike, Mike, Mike.
Why don't you let everything cool down just a little bit.
Just everything needs to cool down.
She needs to cool down, you need to think about
what you're doin' here instead of hittin' people.
- It was scary, I was really scared.
- Did you try to defend Rebecca at least?
- I hit the dirt, and then...
- You didn't hit the dirt, you hit the fence.
Is there dirt on the fence?
- Rust.
- Work on this thing with us.
You've already put money into it.
Do you wanna walk away now and it's just like a
half-baked piece of poop,
or do you wanna follow it through
and see if we can make it into something
and get your money back?
- Dude, please.
- Fine, if she wants to make a movie,
I can make a movie with her.
I can certainly make a better movie than that
little pasty face that she's with right now,
I'll tell you that much.
- Well, we could all work together on it.
I mean we're already here, we're...
- I haven't, you know what, the movie bi,
what's the big deal?
I'm a people person.
- Right, I can tell.
- Right?
Honey, I've been up all night,
I do not know what to say other than I'm just,
I'm really, really sorry.
I just...
- I know, I know, I'm sorry too.
You're always sorry, it's just...
- I know, I see how important, all I have to say is
I see how important...
- I know that, I see your side, I don't wanna talk.
- Can I just say something to you?
- Meeting at the pool in five minutes.
Meeting at the pool in five minutes.
- What is this, what are you talking about?
- What's Todd doing?
- What I'm talking about is,
there is a new sheriff in town.
Okay, consider the fact that I own this picture.
Mrs. Mike Benevento took a pile of cash
out of Mr. Mike Benevento's account.
- Well take that up with Todd, I'm not involved,
I'm just the camera guy.
- You signed a contract,
signed on with Mrs. Mike Benevento as producer.
In my corporation she's a principal officer,
that makes me the person who really controls,
and owns, the first part of the picture.
I tried to do this the nice way.
I tried to hand you an olive branch
and you did not accept it, so we're gonna do it my way.
Okay?
If you ever hope to get a movie done,
we're going to do it under my terms.
- Well and if I just take my camera and go,
what are you gonna do?
- Fine, you can take your camera and go.
And I will hound you every foot of the way.
- I'm not gonna do the picture
if Todd isn't a part of it.
- You are free to go.
- There's nothing you can do to me,
I don't have a job, you can't take a lien.
- What is it you do again?
- Sound.
The, you hold the...
- It's a little more complicated than that, sir.
- Oh it is, hey sir, sir,
- Excuse me?
I'm sorry, I got a question for you.
Do you think you can hold the pole
and kinda move it a little bit.
- Sure.
- Okay, you're hired.
We've got our sound guy.
- Actually Mr. Benevento you make an interesting point.
I'd like to ask if could stay for a little bit.
- Good, welcome back.
- Thank you so much, nice to meet you.
- Sir, you're fired.
See, it's that simple.
- Can you get off the phone for five seconds,
we've gotta do this now.
- I understand that,
but this guy is having a meltdown.
- Ladies, please.
Goddamn, this is why I only hire men.
- You know what, I got an idea.
Here's what we're gonna do.
I'm gonna do the walk and talk.
- What?
- He was my grandfather too, I don't know why we didn't...
- What, you gonna get dressed up as Todd?
- Why didn't we think of this before, why do we need him?
- That's right, that's right, of course.
- He's my grandfather.
- It's his story.
- It's her story too.
- Hello, it's my story too, asshole.
- Todd.
Hey baby.
- Sir.
- I'm here.
- Sir, I can't talk right now.
- I know that, that's what I wanna hear.
- Please...
- Good, let's talk.
- I just need to be alone, please.
- I want you to be alone with me.
You know what I mean.
There's no loneliness like loneliness with another fellow.
- Can we shoot it over here,
- No.
- And not near the edge?
- I'll tell you, Greg, we'll have you
facing away from the cliff...
- Be a man will ya, come on, here.
- Todd?
- Yes.
- I need to pee.
Can I come in to pee, just a minute.
- Benevento, listen to me for a second.
We're gonna have to go to the mall
because I can't,
Mike I can't,
- No, you look great.
- No, I cannot wear my speed thrill shirt
- You look beautiful.
- I need something professional looking.
- We don't have time to do it.
- Well then it's gonna look stupid.
- It's gonna take a 15 minute hike to go up the...
- I wish Curly had gotten hit by a bus.
- No cameras all right, please.
- No fucking cameras.
No fucking cameras guys,
what with the fuck these cameras.
It's over, no more cameras.
Turn everything off.
You know, you go kill yourself.
Okay where's the bathroom?
- Just use the restroom, it's in there,
and then please...
- That's a nice bathroom, yeah I like that.
And that's a nice room too, huh?
- No, sir, listen.
- Here, just, can you just get like that?
- You want me to zoom in just on her face?
- Yeah, that's right.
- Let me ask you something,
how are we gonna know it's a cliff?
- You see water for god's sake.
- But I'm zooming in on her,
the background's gonna be her ear.
- He's gonna see it in my eyes.
- How are you gonna know you're at a cliff?
- You'll see it in my eyes.
- You'll see it in her eyes.
- This whole thing has been a fiasco,
do you understand?
I look like a fool, I need you to get outta here, please.
- I know, I understand that.
- Just make it about them.
I have failed this,
This is what I do, I fail everything.
I need you to leave me.
- You have not failed, never, never.
Who's telling you that?
Ivan.
You think I'm a failure?
- No, you're great.
- No.
And do you think I know a failure
when I see a failure?
What do you think, do I?
I do.
- Yeah, all right, all right, yeah.
- I do, so you are a huge success.
- Put it out there, pal.
- Okay let's get this out, I'm ready, one take.
Let's do it. - Rolling.
- Let me ask you one question, quick question.
Do you think I have a big dick, or a small dick?
- Look, just concentrate on my eyes.
- I'm right here, right here with you.
- Sir, you...
- With you, look in my eye.
Who's right here with you?
Soul
to soul.
- Ahaa, Ahaa...
- Here, here on these cliffs.
- We gotta cut it, Greg, Greg,
we gotta cut it.
- You can't make noise like that while I'm talking.
- Oh, I can hear my noise.
- Can we get him something?
- Do you feel the dignity?
Tell me,
you feel dignity?
- No, I don't feel dignity.
- Excellent, that's what I wanted to hear.
Now you will feel it.
I will give it to you.
- I'm ready.
- Go.
- Here...
- Sound.
- Speed.
- I see right through you.
I see the success, I see the big man.
I see the man who counts, the man who means something.
You know who this is?
Who's this?
- It's Elvis.
- Elvis the King.
Why do you think he was king?
- He's very musical.
Â™« Are you lonesome tonight
â™« Do you miss me tonight
â™« Are you sorry we're drifting apart â™«
- Is everyone ready?
- Marcy came in and she infiltrated this whole thing,
which is so like her.
She's been doing that since we were kids.
- She's a con job.
- But I let her in.
- Here on these cliffs.
- I know, I know, I know.
- What do you think about death?
- I'm the only boy in my family.
- My grandfather, Elmo, known to his friends as Curly,
may, or may not, have met his demise.
You decide.
- There was somethin' in me that was like my grandfather,
and I never even met my grandfather.
But I'll tell you something,
he was this desperate guy,
and he could never find anything, and...
- But he's happy now, did'nt he?
- 'Kay let's go, let's go.
- Baby, you wanna get over here,
were makin' your movie, we're doin' this for you.
- Let's go, let's go.
- Is your life outta control?
Or is in perfect order, and you're outta control.
When you look in the mirror,
who's lookin' back?
You.
People who walk backwards,
only see what they've already done.
- Todd.
- Hey Greg.
- What the hell, hey, no hang on...
- I gotta lie down.
- No, you can't smoke in here, dude.
You can't smoke, put that cigarette out.
Just come out here.
My god, where have you been?
- Over here, over here, over here.
- Okay, have a seat, have a seat.
- How's Rebecca?
- She's fine I guess.
I mean she's pretty depressed if you wanna know the truth.
- Listen Greg, I am sorry.
- What for?
- I am sorry I dragged all you guys into this.
- No, don't be sorry, we're sorry that you left.
- This is so stupid.
- You gotta come back,
you gotta take the reigns back from that asshole.
- He's an asshole.
- That's what, he's an asshole.
- He's pathological.
- He's a pathological asshole.
- Now don't let others do to you,
what you can do to yourself.
- It's turned into this whole other story now.
I signed up for something about feminist empowerment,
and now it's a Marcy makin' it into a story
about this Curly guy, and what is he?
He's a
deadbeat dad is what he is.
- Don't say that Greg.
- He was.
- Don't say that.
- I don't care if he had a hard life.
He killed himself or just took off or whatever.
That guy had three daughters and a wife,
and you don't do that kinda thing.
- His life was completely unmanageable.
- Why does he get to have a movie about him?
- Haven't you ever felt like there's just,
there's nothing you can do?
Like there's nothing you can do.
Haven't you ever just wanted to like, disappear?
- That's what darkness is.
Moving light.
Turns into darkness, just when the cucumber's ready.
- I don't how you people do it in movieland,
but in the corporate world, when you're suppose to show up,
you show up.
- We're not exactly making it easy for Todd.
- Has he called?
- I have spoken to Todd, he will be here,
he's dealing with some stuff, maybe later.
- Well, dealing with some stuff.
- Well we have to be patient.
- We gotta a thing to make here.
What do you call, a production.
This can't go on anymore,
and I want this to be a lesson to all of you.
Listen very carefully because Marcy has a plan,
and this is the plan we're gonna follow.
- I really think you guys are gonna like this.
This is gonna be a little bit more responsibility for
you Hannah, but this is great.
It's gonna be a good moment for you,
good time for you, good opportunity.
We're gonna do everything with the camera as Curly's POV.
- What?
- We're not gonna have Curly in the scene.
It's all gonna be, the camera's gonna be shooting
Shirley and Patty, the entire time...
- As though the camera were Curly?
- And Curly will be a VOICEOVER.
- A voice?
- I think it'll be great, it's gonna work great.
- It's perfect, it's perfect.
- We have to discuss this with Todd, obviously.
- It's gonna work great.
Well we can't discuss it with Todd, he's not here.
- It's been decided, let's get ready, let's get going.
And you and tall guy, no more beers,
I need you sharp for the shoot.
- Sharp for the shoot. - Okay, let's go.
- Isn't that Todd?
- Todd.
- Ah, thank you.
- Hi everybody.
- Well, you decide to Dane up with your presence.
- Sorry for my absence.
- Gee, it's only Wednesday.
- All right, good to see you.
- Okay, we're gonna shoot this right now,
but in the house, in the house.
- We'll shoot it inside?
- In the house.
- I think that's a good idea,
I think the house is a better location than this.
- Good, somebody call me when it's done.
- We're gonna make this work.
- And by the way, I may fight like a girl,
but I'm a great big girl.
- All right little girl, let's look sharp now.
- So, what is the state capital of Alabama?
- I forgot.
- Georgia?
- Atlanta.
- Very good, ahhh, hi.
- Hello.
- Hi.
- Do you want a little coffee?
- No, no, it's fine.
I'm going golfing.
- Have a good game.
- Okay,
that was
really good, break. - Say cut.
- Break, that was good because it,
it's like I thought that he was your husband,
and I thought that he was your father.
I think we got someplace here, very good.
- I thought,
so let's just go again, let's go again.
- Do you wanna do it again?
- Just go again right away.
- Then we better do it again right away.
Where's the guy?
- Todd.
- Todd, we're doin' it again, Todd.
- Back to one.
- Hello.
- Is he out, did he leave, is he outside?
- Yeah he said he needed a little walk.
- Rod, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch.
- He's just takin' a little break.
- Wait, he's sayin' somethin' to me.
He's muttering something.
He says he really is going golfing.
- Well, no, but we need him in here to do the...
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa,
wait a second.
He just said he really is going golfing?
- Yeah he just said goodbye, to say goodbye to everyone,
I'm going golfing.
- If he's gonna be anywhere,
it's gonna be down here.
Oh my gosh.
- What, what's that?
- What is that?
Oh no.
- We're deep into the film,
and it's looking better than ever.
I don't know if you remember,
but you probably didn't, I had a lot a rage.
And I've really learned to let go.
- Well he's had to take some classes, so.
- Well, yeah it's film classes I...
- It was court-ordered.
- Welcome to our place.
Yep, we're living here now.
It's little tight.
- Wow, I miss all this.
- My main goal, and a real money-maker,
is an idea that I've come up with myself.
Which is a moviemercial.
- You know, you really had an influence on me yourself.
And, I bought your latest, Letting Go of Reality.
And I also, not only that, but I got the large print
edition as well.
- Instead of being contained in sort of
30 second commercial,
30 minute infomercial,
you got a 120 minute, 180 minute moviemercial,
where you are just focused on the product.
- The most important thing is my love of coffee.
Coffee.
- If you could just sign this, maybe a little later,
but more important, I was hoping,
would you maybe consider getting involved?
You followed this for a long time.
- You know, this probably isn't the best time to,
why don't we talk to him...
- No, it is, 'cause this is part a the,
why don't we do this...
- Why don't we talk to him when he's off camera
about that, 'cause it might embarrass him
into feeling like he has to...
- No, we're filmmakers, it's family...
- You know what though, would you like some...
- Take the camera.
- I think we should...
- And let's shoot, let's shoot us shooting him.
- Why don't we have some co, could you make us some
coffee right now for us?
- Coffee, you want coffee?
- Do you remember how we got that bag of the french roast,
which is just great.
It would be great if we could have some a that right now.
- You want a beer?
- You know nothing in life is perfect.
- But honestly, that's a big thing, that I think...
- Yeah, that's a big thing that I think we've
come to terms with,
is not like just searching for the dream.
We like, when we jumped into this movie,
this will save us, this will make my life perfect,
this will solve everything.
And I think there's a realization that
nothing's gonna do that, nothing's gonna do that, right?
- It's not about that.
- She's a hell of a woman, and, oh fuck,
and the thing is, it's like I've really,
I've met my soulmate.
- I'm out, I'm so out of this, I'm out.
I have found some investors on my own,
and Mike is a wonderful sweet man, and he means well,
but it's not enough.
It's just not enough.
I'm ashamed of the way I behaved in certain ways.
- Did you think he could kill himself?
This little bastard,
he has tiny balls, like a rabbit.
A bunny.
Have you ever heard of a bunny killing himself?
I don't think so.
- Rod.
- I would never wanna do anything to dishonor
my grandfather.
I thought that I wanted to do something.
But I really wanted to be something.
And now I feel like, I am something.
- I feel like I've grown, and that's what enables me
to write this column, it's an advice column, and...
- That's exactly it, that's exactly it.
- Yeah, and...
- I think it's because you bring your experience
to it, you bring how much you've been through,
that the column is such a hit.
- He's so supportive, it's just so different.
You know to be with someone - We get like four
who's so supportive. - or five emails a day,
just saying I love your column, I read it every week.
- If it isn't fixed, don't break it.
Doesn't make any sense.
- So my blog is at, well it's not MarcylsAFraud.com
because that was reserved, so I have
MarcylsAFraud. biz, B-I-Z.
And it's a lot punchier, 'cause people remember that more.
- Well I think that you need to ease up on all a that,
don't you?
You look so distressed, and obsessed with her,
and your blog and...
- I think you're misunderstanding me,
It's not an angry thing...
- I'm sure I probably am.
Are you sure it's not?
- I'm just getting the word out about
all the things she's done.
I don't, it's about the truth about her.
About her taking over the reins, being villainess.
- Franz, did you get my letters?
It's really good to,
I'm sorry, gotcha.
- The fact that they're together tells you something.
Mike found us in Spokane, through credit card bills.
Right?
- Right, right.
- Now how did he find us in San Diego?
Somebody tipped him off.
Who would've tipped him off?
Of course it was Marcy.
- Marcy.
- Who else would do that.
- That's great.
- I'm working on my book, I'm doing a...
- Oh my god, he's doing this amazing book.
- A book of photo essays of women in my family,
- It's beautiful.
- Not quite ready to talk about, but but...
- It's really beautiful.
- It's nice.
- It's nice, it's amazing.
I don't whether it'll be a book, or be published,
but there'll be some nice pictures of them.
I think there should be some nice pictures of them.
- Yeah, they're really nice.
- It's the first thing I've ever committed to
that didn't confuse me a lot.
- If it was so unimportant,
why would I get so any hits every day?
- Hits, remind me what that means.
- Well, it means people check out my site.
There are hundred, every time you click on the site
I get recognition that somebody's checked out my site,
and I get like a hundred a day.
Oopp, somebody else checked out,
somebody else has checked it out.
Right?
- And that doesn't mean that you're checking on it, does it?
- The work is the death of the ego,
it must be.
Hm,
I'm good.