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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.89,0:00:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.85,0:00:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Oedipus Rex"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.40,0:00:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The Lion King"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.48,0:00:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Titus"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.73,0:00:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Frida"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.75,0:00:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The Magic Flute"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.20,0:01:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Across The Universe"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.71,0:01:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.26,0:01:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Julie Taymor: Thank you.\NThank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.47,0:01:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a few samples of the theater, opera
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.19,0:01:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and films that I have done\Nover the last 20 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.53,0:01:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I'd like to begin with right now
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.57,0:01:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to take you back to a moment
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.47,0:01:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I went through in Indonesia,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.93,0:01:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a seminal moment in my life
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.07,0:01:39.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, like all myths,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.15,0:01:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these stories need to be retold
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.41,0:01:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and told, lest we forget them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.90,0:01:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I'm in the turbulent\Ntimes, as we know,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.93,0:01:49.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I am right now, through the crucible
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.32,0:01:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fire of transformation,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.51,0:01:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is what all of you do, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.13,0:01:57.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody who creates knows\Nthere's that point where
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.25,0:02:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it hasn't quite become\Nthe phoenix or the burnt char.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.36,0:02:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.46,0:02:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I am right there on the edge,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.36,0:02:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I'll tell you about, another story.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.34,0:02:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to go back to Indonesia
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.79,0:02:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I was about 21, 22\Nyears, a long time ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.48,0:02:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a fellowship.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.70,0:02:18.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I found myself, after two years there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.63,0:02:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and performing and learning,\Non the island of Bali,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.98,0:02:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the edge of a crater, Gunung Batur.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.81,0:02:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was in a village where there was
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.82,0:02:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an initiation ceremony for the young men,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.62,0:02:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a rite of passage.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.18,0:02:35.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little did I know that it\Nwas mine as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.73,0:02:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I sat in this temple square
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.19,0:02:41.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under this gigantic beringin banyan tree,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.19,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the dark, there was no\Nelectricity, just the full moon,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.03,0:02:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down in this empty square,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.08,0:02:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I heard the most beautiful sounds,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.23,0:02:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a Charles Ives concert
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.06,0:02:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I listened to the gamelan music
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.11,0:02:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from all the different villagers that came
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.16,0:02:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this once-every-five-years ceremony.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.55,0:03:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought I was alone\Nin the dark under this tree.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.15,0:03:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of a sudden, out of the dark,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.98,0:03:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the other end of the square,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.86,0:03:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw the glint of mirrors\Nlit by the moon.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.77,0:03:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these 20 old men who I'd seen before
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.33,0:03:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of a sudden stood up in these\Nfull warrior costumes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.63,0:03:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the headdress and the spears,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.12,0:03:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no one was in the square,\Nand I was hidden in the shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.48,0:03:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one was there, and they came out,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.84,0:03:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they did this incredible dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.48,0:03:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhahahahaha."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.17,0:03:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they moved their bodies\Nand they came forward,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.34,0:03:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the lights bounced off these costumes.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.15,0:03:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've been in theater\Nsince I was 11 years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.56,0:03:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and performing, creating, and I went,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.78,0:03:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Who are they performing for
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.92,0:03:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with these elaborate costumes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.27,0:03:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these extraordinary headdresses?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.29,0:04:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that they were\Nperforming for God,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.08,0:04:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever that means.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.79,0:04:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But somehow, it didn't\Nmatter about the publicity.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.38,0:04:09.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was no money involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.63,0:04:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't going to be written down.\NIt was no news.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.85,0:04:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there were these incredible artists
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.100,0:04:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that felt for me like an eternity\Nas they performed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.50,0:04:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.58,0:04:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as soon as they finished\Nand disappeared into the shadows,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.64,0:04:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a young man with a propane\Nlantern came on,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.15,0:04:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hung it up on a tree, set up a curtain.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.40,0:04:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The village square was filled\Nwith hundreds of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.86,0:04:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they put on an opera all night long.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.40,0:04:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human beings needed the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.66,0:04:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They needed the light to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.30,0:04:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I gained and gathered\Nfrom this incredible,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.94,0:04:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seminal moment in my life\Nas a young artist
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.56,0:04:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that you must be true
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.88,0:04:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what you believe as an artist\Nall the way through,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.95,0:04:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you also have to be aware
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.49,0:05:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the audience is out there\Nin our lives at this time,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.98,0:05:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they also need the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.38,0:05:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's this incredible balance
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.55,0:05:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I think that we walk
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.30,0:05:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we are creating something\Nthat is breaking ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.63,0:05:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's trying to do something\Nyou've never seen before,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.28,0:05:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that imaginary world
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.97,0:05:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you actually don't know\Nwhere you're going to end up,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.35,0:05:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the fine line\Non the edge of a crater
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.11,0:05:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I have walked my whole life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.74,0:05:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I would like to do now is to tell you
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.29,0:05:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.10,0:05:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how I work.\NLet's take "The Lion King."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.95,0:05:32.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You saw many examples of my work up there,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.20,0:05:34.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's one that people know.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.15,0:05:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I start with the notion of the ideograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.85,0:05:40.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An ideograph is like a brush\Npainting, a Japanese brush painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.22,0:05:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three strokes, you get\Nthe whole bamboo forest.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.73,0:05:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I go to the concept of "The Lion King"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.26,0:05:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I say, "What is the essence of it?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.33,0:05:49.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the abstraction?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.97,0:05:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were to reduce this entire story
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.23,0:05:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into one image, what would it be?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.97,0:05:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The circle. The circle. It's so obvious.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.92,0:06:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The circle of life. The\Ncircle of Mufasa's mask.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.90,0:06:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The circle that, when we come\Nto Act II and there's a drought,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.44,0:06:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do you express drought?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.92,0:06:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a circle of silk on the floor
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.08,0:06:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that disappears into the hole\Nin the stage floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.13,0:06:18.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The circle of life comes in the wheels
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.76,0:06:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the gazelles that leap.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.21,0:06:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see the mechanics.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.93,0:06:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And being a theater person, what I know\Nand love about the theater
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.31,0:06:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that when the audience comes in
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.00,0:06:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they suspend their disbelief,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.80,0:06:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you see men walking or women walking
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.63,0:06:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a platter of grass on their heads,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.53,0:06:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know it's the savanna.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.15,0:06:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't question that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.69,0:06:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love the apparent truth of theater.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.18,0:06:43.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love that people are willing\Nto fill in the blanks.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.77,0:06:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The audience is willing to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.79,0:06:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, I know that's not a real sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.79,0:06:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You took pieces of sticks.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.10,0:06:53.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You added silk to the bottom.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.20,0:06:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You suspended these pieces. You\Nlet it fall flat on the floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.90,0:07:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as it rises with the strings,\NI see that it's a sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.30,0:07:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the beauty of it\Nis that it's just silk and sticks.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.71,0:07:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in a way, that is what makes\Nit spiritual.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.26,0:07:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what moves you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.71,0:07:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not the actual literal\Nsunrise that's coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.92,0:07:17.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the art of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.45,0:07:22.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the theater, as much\Nas the story is critical
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.81,0:07:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the book and the language,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.72,0:07:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the telling of the story, how it's told,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.37,0:07:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mechanics, the methods that you use,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.99,0:07:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is equal to the story itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.59,0:07:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm one who loves\Nhigh tech and low tech.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.92,0:07:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I could go from --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.72,0:07:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, I'll show you\Nsome "Spider-Man" later,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.22,0:07:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these incredible machines\Nthat move people along.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.80,0:07:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the fact is, without the dancer
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.17,0:07:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who knows how to use his body\Nand swing on those wires,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.92,0:07:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.71,0:07:55.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now I'm going to show you
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.62,0:07:59.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some clips from the other big\Nproject of my life this year,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.93,0:08:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Tempest."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.98,0:08:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a movie. I did "The\NTempest" on a stage three times
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.07,0:08:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the theater since 1984, '86,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.30,0:08:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I love the play.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.51,0:08:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did it always with a male Prospero.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.04,0:08:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of a sudden, I thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.70,0:08:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, who am I gonna\Nget to play Prospero?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.78,0:08:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not Helen Mirren?\NShe's a great actor. Why not?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.50,0:08:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this material really did work\Nfor a woman equally as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.76,0:08:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now, let's take a look\Nat some of the images
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.86,0:08:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from "The Tempest."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.85,0:08:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.22,0:08:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Prospera: Hast thou, spirit, performed\Nto the point the tempest that I bade thee?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.48,0:08:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ariel: I boarded the king's ship.\NIn every cabin, I flamed amazement.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.66,0:09:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: At first sight,\Nthey have changed eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.62,0:09:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Miranda: Do you love me?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.82,0:09:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ferdinand: Beyond all limit.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.19,0:09:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,HM: They are both in either's powers.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.78,0:09:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trinculo: Misery acquaints\Na man with strange bedfellows.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.91,0:09:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.16,0:09:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking for business, governor?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.63,0:09:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Caliban: Hast thou not\Ndropped from heaven?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.70,0:09:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stephano: Out of the moon,\NI do assure thee.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.19,0:09:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: Caliban!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.19,0:09:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Caliban: This island is mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.45,0:09:29.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: For this, be sure,\Ntonight thou shalt have cramps.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.100,0:09:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Antonio: Here lies your brother no\Nbetter than the earth he lies upon.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.51,0:09:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sebastian: Draw thy sword.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.30,0:09:38.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I, the king, shall love thee.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.91,0:09:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: I will plague\Nthem all, even to roaring.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.13,0:09:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ariel: I have made you mad.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.87,0:09:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prospera: We are such stuff\Nas dreams are made on.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.92,0:10:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our little life\Nis rounded with a sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.13,0:10:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.46,0:10:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JT: Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.30,0:10:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.28,0:10:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went from theater,\Ndoing "The Tempest"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.71,0:10:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the stage in a very\Nlow-budget production
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.03,0:10:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.67,0:10:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I love the play, and I also think
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.11,0:10:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's Shakespeare's last play,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.14,0:10:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it really lends itself,\Nas you can see, to cinema.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.82,0:10:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm just going to give\Nyou a little example about
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.37,0:10:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how one stages it in theater
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.27,0:10:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then how one takes\Nthat same idea or story
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.33,0:10:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and moves it into cinema.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.32,0:10:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ideograph that I talked\Nto you about before,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.42,0:10:47.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is it for "The Tempest"?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.53,0:10:50.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What, if I were to boil it down,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.36,0:10:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be the one image that I could
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.67,0:10:54.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hang my hat on for this?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.92,0:10:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was the sand castle,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.20,0:11:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the idea of nurture versus nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.34,0:11:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we build these civilizations --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.80,0:11:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she speaks about it at the end,\NHelen Mirren's Prospera --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.76,0:11:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we build them, but under nature,\Nunder the grand tempest,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.23,0:11:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these cloud-capped towers, these\Ngorgeous palaces will fade
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.72,0:11:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there will -- leave not a rack behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.95,0:11:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the theater, I started the play,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.58,0:11:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a black sand rake, white cyc,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.64,0:11:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was a little girl,\NMiranda, on the horizon,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.56,0:11:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,building a drip castle, a sand castle.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.23,0:11:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as she was there\Non the edge of that stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.67,0:11:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two stagehands all in black
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.03,0:11:43.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with watering cans ran along the top
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.54,0:11:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and started to pour water\Non the sand castle,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.16,0:11:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sand castle\Nstarted to drip and sink,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.93,0:11:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but before it did,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.33,0:11:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the audience saw\Nthe black-clad stagehands.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.57,0:12:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The medium was apparent. It was banal.\NWe saw it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.16,0:12:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as they started to pour the water,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.14,0:12:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the light changed from showing\Nyou the black-clad stagehands
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.87,0:12:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to focusing, this rough magic\Nthat we do in theater,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.19,0:12:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it focused right on the water itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.74,0:12:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of a sudden,\Nthe audience's perspective changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.96,0:12:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It becomes something magically large.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.47,0:12:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It becomes the rainstorm.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.10,0:12:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The masked actors,\Nthe puppeteers, they disappear,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.74,0:12:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the audience makes\Nthat leap into this world,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.94,0:12:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into this imaginary world of "The\NTempest" actually happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.27,0:12:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the difference
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.70,0:12:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I went and did it in the cinema,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.30,0:12:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started the actual movie
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.68,0:12:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a close-up of a sand\Ncastle, a black sand castle,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.96,0:12:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what cinema can do is,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.80,0:12:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by using camera, perspective,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.26,0:12:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also long shots and close-ups,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.00,0:12:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it started on a close-up\Nof the sand castle,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.32,0:13:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as it pulled away,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.20,0:13:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you saw that it was a miniature\Nsitting in the palm
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.24,0:13:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the girl's hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.14,0:13:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I could play with the medium,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.97,0:13:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and why I move from one medium to another
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.92,0:13:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to be able to do this.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.40,0:13:13.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I'm going to take you to "Spider-Man."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.83,0:13:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.79,0:13:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Peter Parker: ♪\NStanding on the precipice,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.62,0:13:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can soar away from this. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.10,0:13:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JT: We're trying to do\Neverything in live theater
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.46,0:13:56.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can't do in two dimensions
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.38,0:13:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in film and television.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.90,0:14:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PP: ♪ Rise above yourself\Nand take control. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.83,0:14:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George Tsypin: We're looking at New\NYork from a Spider-Man point of view.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.33,0:14:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spider Man is not bound by gravity.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.48,0:14:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Manhattan in the show is not\Nbound by gravity either.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.64,0:14:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PP: ♪ Be yourself and rise above it all. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.86,0:14:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ensemble: ♪ Sock! Pow! ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.96,0:14:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Slam! Scratch! ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.54,0:14:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Danny Ezralow: I don't want you\Nto even think there's a choreographer.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.74,0:14:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's real, what's happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.87,0:14:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I prefer you to see people moving,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.74,0:14:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're going, "Whoa, what was that?"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.93,0:14:43.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.15,0:14:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JT: If I give enough movement\Nin the sculpture,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.41,0:14:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the actor moves their head,\Nyou feel like it's alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.43,0:14:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really comic book live.\NIt's a comic book coming alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.38,0:14:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.58,0:14:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bono: They're mythologies.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.74,0:15:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're modern myths,\Nthese comic book heroes.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.36,0:15:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PP: ♪ They believe. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.33,0:15:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Screams)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.00,0:15:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.77,0:15:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.03,0:15:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JT: Ohhhh. What was that?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.64,0:15:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Circus, rock 'n' roll, drama.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.92,0:15:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the hell are we doing\Nup there on that stage?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.76,0:15:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, one last story, very quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.42,0:15:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After I was in that village,\NI crossed the lake,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.29,0:15:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw that the volcano was erupting
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.38,0:15:53.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the other side, Gunung Batur,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.13,0:15:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was a dead volcano\Nnext to the live volcano.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.22,0:15:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't think I'd be\Nswallowed by the volcano,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.48,0:15:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am here.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.82,0:16:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's very easy to climb up, is it not?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.76,0:16:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You hold on to the roots,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.34,0:16:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you put your foot in the little rocks
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.54,0:16:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and climb up there,\Nand you get to the top,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.13,0:16:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was with a good\Nfriend who was an actor,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.42,0:16:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we said, "Let's go up there.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.44,0:16:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see if we can come close to the edge
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.48,0:16:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that live volcano."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.62,0:16:22.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we climbed up and we got\Nto the very top,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.47,0:16:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're on the edge, on this precipice,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.98,0:16:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roland disappears into the sulfur smoke
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.39,0:16:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the volcano at the other end,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.33,0:16:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm up there alone
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.17,0:16:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this incredible precipice.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.91,0:16:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you hear the lyrics?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.53,0:16:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm on the precipice looking down
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.85,0:16:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a dead volcano to my left.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.16,0:16:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To my right is sheer shale.\NIt's coming off.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.99,0:16:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in thongs and sarongs.\NIt was many years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.76,0:16:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And no hiking boots.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.38,0:16:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's disappeared, this\Nmad French gypsy actor,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.34,0:16:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off in the smoke, and I realize,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.65,0:17:00.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't go back the way that I've come.\NI can't.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.58,0:17:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I throw away my camera.\NI throw away my thongs,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.26,0:17:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I looked at the line\Nstraight in front of me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.49,0:17:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I got down on all fours like a cat,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.12,0:17:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I held with my knees to either side
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.14,0:17:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this line in front of me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.54,0:17:20.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for 30 yards or 30 feet, I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.58,0:17:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wind was massively blowing,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.29,0:17:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the only way I could\Nget to the other side
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.72,0:17:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to look at the line\Nstraight in front of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.16,0:17:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know you've all been there.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.17,0:17:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in the crucible right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.14,0:17:34.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my trial by fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.00,0:17:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my company's trials by fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.33,0:17:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We survive because our theme\Nsong is "Rise Above."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.59,0:17:44.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boy falls from the sky, rise above.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.73,0:17:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's right there in the palm\Nof both of our hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.14,0:17:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all of my company's hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.77,0:17:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have beautiful collaborators,\Nand we as creators
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.34,0:17:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only get there all together.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.35,0:17:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know you understand that.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.54,0:17:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you just stay going forward,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.96,0:18:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you see this extraordinary thing
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.61,0:18:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in front of your eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.15,0:18:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.45,0:18:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)