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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.00,0:00:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.00,0:00:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Oedipus Rex"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The Lion King"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Titus"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.00,0:00:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Frida"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The Magic Flute"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Across The Universe"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.00,0:01:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.00,0:01:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Julie Taymor: Thank you. Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.00,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a few samples of the theater, opera
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and films that I have done over the last 20 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I'd like to begin with right now
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.00,0:01:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to take you back to a moment
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.00,0:01:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I went through in Indonesia,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.00,0:01:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a seminal moment in my life
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.00,0:01:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, like all myths,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these stories need to be retold
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and told, lest we forget them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.00,0:01:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I'm in the turbulent times, as we know,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.00,0:01:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I am right now, through the crucible
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.00,0:01:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fire of transformation,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.00,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is what all of you do, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody who creates knows there's that point where
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:02:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it hasn't quite become the phoenix or the burnt char.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.00,0:02:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.00,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I am right there on the edge,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I'll tell you about, another story.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to go back to Indonesia
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.00,0:02:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I was about 21, 22 years, a long time ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.00,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I found myself, after two years there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and performing and learning, on the island of Bali,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.00,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the edge of a crater, Gunung Batur.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.00,0:02:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was in a village where there was
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.00,0:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an initiation ceremony for the young men,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.00,0:02:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a rite of passage.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little did I know that it was mine as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.00,0:02:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I sat in this temple square
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.00,0:02:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under this gigantic beringin banyan tree,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.00,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the dark, there was no electricity, just the full moon,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.00,0:02:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down in this empty square,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.00,0:02:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I heard the most beautiful sounds,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.00,0:02:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a Charles Ives concert
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.00,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I listened to the gamelan music
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from all the different villagers that came
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:02:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this once-every-five-years ceremony.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.00,0:03:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought I was alone in the dark under this tree.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.00,0:03:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of a sudden, out of the dark,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.00,0:03:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the other end of the square,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.00,0:03:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw the glint of mirrors lit by the moon.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.00,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these 20 old men who I'd seen before
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of a sudden stood up in these full warrior costumes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.00,0:03:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the headdress and the spears,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.00,0:03:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no one was in the square, and I was hidden in the shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.00,0:03:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one was there, and they came out,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.00,0:03:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they did this incredible dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.00,0:03:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhahahahaha."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.00,0:03:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they moved their bodies and they came forward,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.00,0:03:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the lights bounced off these costumes.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.00,0:03:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've been in theater since I was 11 years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.00,0:03:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and performing, creating, and I went,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.00,0:03:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Who are they performing for
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.00,0:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with these elaborate costumes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.00,0:03:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these extraordinary headdresses?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.00,0:04:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that they were performing for God,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.00,0:04:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever that means.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.00,0:04:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But somehow, it didn't matter about the publicity.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.00,0:04:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was no money involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.00,0:04:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't going to be written down. It was no news.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.00,0:04:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there were these incredible artists
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.00,0:04:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that felt for me like an eternity as they performed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.00,0:04:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.00,0:04:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as soon as they finished and disappeared into the shadows,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a young man with a propane lantern came on,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hung it up on a tree, set up a curtain.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.00,0:04:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The village square was filled with hundreds of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.00,0:04:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they put on an opera all night long.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.00,0:04:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human beings needed the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.00,0:04:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They needed the light to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.00,0:04:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I gained and gathered from this incredible,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.00,0:04:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seminal moment in my life as a young artist
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.00,0:04:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that you must be true
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.00,0:04:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what you believe as an artist all the way through,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.00,0:04:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you also have to be aware
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.00,0:05:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the audience is out there in our lives at this time,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.00,0:05:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they also need the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.00,0:05:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's this incredible balance
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.00,0:05:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I think that we walk
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.00,0:05:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we are creating something that is breaking ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.00,0:05:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's trying to do something you've never seen before,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.00,0:05:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that imaginary world
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.00,0:05:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you actually don't know where you're going to end up,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.00,0:05:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the fine line on the edge of a crater
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.00,0:05:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I have walked my whole life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.00,0:05:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I would like to do now is to tell you
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.00,0:05:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.00,0:05:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how I work. Let's take "The Lion King."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.00,0:05:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You saw many examples of my work up there,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.00,0:05:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's one that people know.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.00,0:05:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I start with the notion of the ideograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.00,0:05:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An ideograph is like a brush painting, a Japanese brush painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.00,0:05:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three strokes, you get the whole bamboo forest.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.00,0:05:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I go to the concept of "The Lion King"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.00,0:05:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I say, "What is the essence of it?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.00,0:05:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the abstraction?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.00,0:05:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were to reduce this entire story
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.00,0:05:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into one image, what would it be?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.00,0:05:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The circle. The circle. It's so obvious.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.00,0:06:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The circle of life. The circle of Mufasa's mask.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.00,0:06:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The circle that, when we come to Act II and there's a drought,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.00,0:06:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do you express drought?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.00,0:06:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a circle of silk on the floor
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.00,0:06:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that disappears into the hole in the stage floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.00,0:06:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The circle of life comes in the wheels
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.00,0:06:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the gazelles that leap.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.00,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see the mechanics.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.00,0:06:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And being a theater person, what I know and love about the theater
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.00,0:06:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that when the audience comes in
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.00,0:06:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they suspend their disbelief,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.00,0:06:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you see men walking or women walking
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.00,0:06:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a platter of grass on their heads,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.00,0:06:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know it's the savanna.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.00,0:06:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't question that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.00,0:06:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love the apparent truth of theater.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.00,0:06:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love that people are willing to fill in the blanks.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.00,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The audience is willing to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.00,0:06:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, I know that's not a real sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.00,0:06:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You took pieces of sticks.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.00,0:06:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You added silk to the bottom.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.00,0:06:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You suspended these pieces. You let it fall flat on the floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.00,0:07:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as it rises with the strings, I see that it's a sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.00,0:07:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the beauty of it is that it's just silk and sticks.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.00,0:07:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in a way, that is what makes it spiritual.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.00,0:07:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what moves you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.00,0:07:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not the actual literal sunrise that's coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.00,0:07:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the art of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.00,0:07:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the theater, as much as the story is critical
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.00,0:07:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the book and the language,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.00,0:07:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the telling of the story, how it's told,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.00,0:07:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mechanics, the methods that you use,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.00,0:07:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is equal to the story itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.00,0:07:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm one who loves high tech and low tech.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.00,0:07:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I could go from --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.00,0:07:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, I'll show you some "Spider-Man" later,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.00,0:07:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these incredible machines that move people along.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.00,0:07:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the fact is, without the dancer
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.00,0:07:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who knows how to use his body and swing on those wires,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.00,0:07:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.00,0:07:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now I'm going to show you
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.00,0:07:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some clips from the other big project of my life this year,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.00,0:08:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Tempest."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.00,0:08:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a movie. I did "The Tempest" on a stage three times
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.00,0:08:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the theater since 1984, '86,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.00,0:08:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I love the play.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.00,0:08:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did it always with a male Prospero.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.00,0:08:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of a sudden, I thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.00,0:08:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, who am I gonna get to play Prospero?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.00,0:08:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not Helen Mirren? She's a great actor. Why not?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.00,0:08:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this material really did work for a woman equally as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.00,0:08:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now, let's take a look at some of the images
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.00,0:08:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from "The Tempest."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.00,0:08:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.00,0:08:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Prospera: Hast thou, spirit, performed to the point the tempest that I bade thee?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.00,0:08:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ariel: I boarded the king's ship. In every cabin, I flamed amazement.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.00,0:09:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: At first sight, they have changed eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.00,0:09:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Miranda: Do you love me?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.00,0:09:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ferdinand: Beyond all limit.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.00,0:09:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,HM: They are both in either's powers.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.00,0:09:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trinculo: Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.00,0:09:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.00,0:09:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking for business, governor?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.00,0:09:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Caliban: Hast thou not dropped from heaven?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.00,0:09:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stephano: Out of the moon, I do assure thee.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.00,0:09:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: Caliban!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.00,0:09:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Caliban: This island is mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.00,0:09:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.00,0:09:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Antonio: Here lies your brother no better than the earth he lies upon.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.00,0:09:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sebastian: Draw thy sword.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.00,0:09:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I, the king, shall love thee.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.00,0:09:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: I will plague them all, even to roaring.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.00,0:09:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ariel: I have made you mad.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.00,0:09:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.00,0:10:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.00,0:10:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.00,0:10:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JT: Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.00,0:10:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.00,0:10:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went from theater, doing "The Tempest"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.00,0:10:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the stage in a very low-budget production
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.00,0:10:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.00,0:10:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I love the play, and I also think
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.00,0:10:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's Shakespeare's last play,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.00,0:10:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it really lends itself, as you can see, to cinema.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.00,0:10:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm just going to give you a little example about
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.00,0:10:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how one stages it in theater
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.00,0:10:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then how one takes that same idea or story
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.00,0:10:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and moves it into cinema.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.00,0:10:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ideograph that I talked to you about before,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.00,0:10:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is it for "The Tempest"?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.00,0:10:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What, if I were to boil it down,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.00,0:10:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be the one image that I could
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.00,0:10:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hang my hat on for this?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.00,0:10:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was the sand castle,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.00,0:11:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the idea of nurture versus nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.00,0:11:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we build these civilizations --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.00,0:11:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she speaks about it at the end, Helen Mirren's Prospera --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.00,0:11:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we build them, but under nature, under the grand tempest,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.00,0:11:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these cloud-capped towers, these gorgeous palaces will fade
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.00,0:11:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there will -- leave not a rack behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.00,0:11:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the theater, I started the play,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.00,0:11:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a black sand rake, white cyc,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.00,0:11:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was a little girl, Miranda, on the horizon,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.00,0:11:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building a drip castle, a sand castle.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.00,0:11:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as she was there on the edge of that stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.00,0:11:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two stagehands all in black
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.00,0:11:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with watering cans ran along the top
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.00,0:11:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and started to pour water on the sand castle,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.00,0:11:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sand castle started to drip and sink,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.00,0:11:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but before it did,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.00,0:11:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the audience saw the black-clad stagehands.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.00,0:12:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The medium was apparent. It was banal. We saw it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.00,0:12:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as they started to pour the water,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.00,0:12:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the light changed from showing you the black-clad stagehands
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.00,0:12:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to focusing, this rough magic that we do in theater,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.00,0:12:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it focused right on the water itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.00,0:12:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of a sudden, the audience's perspective changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.00,0:12:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It becomes something magically large.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.00,0:12:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It becomes the rainstorm.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.00,0:12:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The masked actors, the puppeteers, they disappear,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.00,0:12:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the audience makes that leap into this world,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.00,0:12:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into this imaginary world of "The Tempest" actually happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.00,0:12:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the difference
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.00,0:12:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I went and did it in the cinema,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.00,0:12:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started the actual movie
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.00,0:12:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a close-up of a sand castle, a black sand castle,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.00,0:12:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what cinema can do is,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.00,0:12:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by using camera, perspective,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.00,0:12:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also long shots and close-ups,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.00,0:12:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it started on a close-up of the sand castle,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.00,0:13:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as it pulled away,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.00,0:13:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you saw that it was a miniature sitting in the palm
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.00,0:13:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the girl's hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.00,0:13:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I could play with the medium,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.00,0:13:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and why I move from one medium to another
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.00,0:13:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to be able to do this.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.00,0:13:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I'm going to take you to "Spider-Man."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.00,0:13:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.00,0:13:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Peter Parker: ♪ Standing on the precipice,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.00,0:13:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can soar away from this. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.00,0:13:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JT: We're trying to do everything in live theater
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.00,0:13:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can't do in two dimensions
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.00,0:13:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in film and television.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.00,0:14:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PP: ♪ Rise above yourself and take control. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.00,0:14:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George Tsypin: We're looking at New York from a Spider-Man point of view.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.00,0:14:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spider Man is not bound by gravity.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.00,0:14:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Manhattan in the show is not bound by gravity either.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.00,0:14:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PP: ♪ Be yourself and rise above it all. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.00,0:14:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ensemble: ♪ Sock! Pow! ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.00,0:14:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Slam! Scratch! ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.00,0:14:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Danny Ezralow: I don't want you to even think there's a choreographer.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.00,0:14:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's real, what's happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.00,0:14:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I prefer you to see people moving,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.00,0:14:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're going, "Whoa, what was that?"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.00,0:14:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.00,0:14:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JT: If I give enough movement in the sculpture,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.00,0:14:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the actor moves their head, you feel like it's alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.00,0:14:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really comic book live. It's a comic book coming alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.00,0:14:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.00,0:14:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bono: They're mythologies.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.00,0:15:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're modern myths, these comic book heroes.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.00,0:15:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PP: ♪ They believe. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.00,0:15:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Screams)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.00,0:15:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.00,0:15:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.00,0:15:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JT: Ohhhh. What was that?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.00,0:15:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Circus, rock 'n' roll, drama.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.00,0:15:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the hell are we doing up there on that stage?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.00,0:15:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, one last story, very quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.00,0:15:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After I was in that village, I crossed the lake,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.00,0:15:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw that the volcano was erupting
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.00,0:15:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the other side, Gunung Batur,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.00,0:15:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was a dead volcano next to the live volcano.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.00,0:15:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't think I'd be swallowed by the volcano,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.00,0:15:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am here.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.00,0:16:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's very easy to climb up, is it not?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.00,0:16:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You hold on to the roots,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.00,0:16:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you put your foot in the little rocks
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.00,0:16:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and climb up there, and you get to the top,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.00,0:16:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was with a good friend who was an actor,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.00,0:16:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we said, "Let's go up there.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.00,0:16:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see if we can come close to the edge
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.00,0:16:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that live volcano."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.00,0:16:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we climbed up and we got to the very top,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.00,0:16:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're on the edge, on this precipice,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.00,0:16:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roland disappears into the sulfur smoke
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.00,0:16:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the volcano at the other end,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.00,0:16:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm up there alone
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.00,0:16:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this incredible precipice.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.00,0:16:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you hear the lyrics?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.00,0:16:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm on the precipice looking down
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.00,0:16:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a dead volcano to my left.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.00,0:16:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To my right is sheer shale. It's coming off.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.00,0:16:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in thongs and sarongs. It was many years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.00,0:16:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And no hiking boots.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.00,0:16:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's disappeared, this mad French gypsy actor,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.00,0:16:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off in the smoke, and I realize,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.00,0:17:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't go back the way that I've come. I can't.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.00,0:17:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I throw away my camera. I throw away my thongs,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.00,0:17:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I looked at the line straight in front of me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.00,0:17:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I got down on all fours like a cat,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.00,0:17:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I held with my knees to either side
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.00,0:17:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this line in front of me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.00,0:17:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for 30 yards or 30 feet, I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.00,0:17:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wind was massively blowing,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.00,0:17:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the only way I could get to the other side
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.00,0:17:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to look at the line straight in front of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.00,0:17:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know you've all been there.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.00,0:17:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in the crucible right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.00,0:17:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my trial by fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.00,0:17:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my company's trials by fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.00,0:17:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We survive because our theme song is "Rise Above."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.00,0:17:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boy falls from the sky, rise above.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.00,0:17:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's right there in the palm of both of our hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.00,0:17:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all of my company's hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.00,0:17:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have beautiful collaborators, and we as creators
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.00,0:17:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only get there all together.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.00,0:17:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know you understand that.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.00,0:17:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you just stay going forward,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.00,0:18:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you see this extraordinary thing
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.00,0:18:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in front of your eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.00,0:18:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.00,0:18:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)