1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:22,857 --> 00:00:25,025 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:39,081 --> 00:00:40,875 (crowd cheering) 5 00:00:40,958 --> 00:00:43,043 MALE ANNOUNCER: The rain has stopped. 6 00:00:43,127 --> 00:00:44,670 The excitement has really grown 7 00:00:44,754 --> 00:00:48,215 among this 40,000-strong Wembley crowd. 8 00:00:48,299 --> 00:00:50,468 Safe to say that every single one of them 9 00:00:50,551 --> 00:00:52,094 is on Henry Cooper’s side. 10 00:00:52,178 --> 00:00:53,679 (punches landing) 11 00:00:53,763 --> 00:00:55,681 MALE ANNOUNCER 2: And Cooper’s eye is opening wider. 12 00:00:55,765 --> 00:00:57,558 It’s a shocking cut above his left eye. 13 00:00:57,641 --> 00:01:00,478 He knows he’s got to get this fight over with fairly quickly. 14 00:01:00,561 --> 00:01:02,146 Clay doesn’t like it. 15 00:01:02,229 --> 00:01:04,482 He pushes the referee, but the referee’s having none of it. 16 00:01:04,565 --> 00:01:06,484 -Clay is mocking Cooper. -CASSIUS: I’m over here. 17 00:01:06,567 --> 00:01:08,402 ANNOUNCER 2: Cooper knows. He’s trying to get that left... 18 00:01:08,486 --> 00:01:09,945 -CASSIUS: I’m over here. -...left hook now. 19 00:01:10,029 --> 00:01:11,322 -(bell dinging) -Left hook. Oh, there he goes! 20 00:01:11,405 --> 00:01:12,990 -He just misses Clay. -(crowd jeering) 21 00:01:13,073 --> 00:01:15,034 And he raises his hands as he goes back to his corner, 22 00:01:15,117 --> 00:01:16,994 the crowd jeering him all the way. 23 00:01:17,077 --> 00:01:19,330 My goodness, Cooper. 24 00:01:19,413 --> 00:01:21,457 ANGELO: Is this a joke to you, kid? 25 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:23,167 -What’d I do? -Nothing. 26 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:25,085 That’s the problem. We had a fight plan. 27 00:01:25,169 --> 00:01:27,087 Plan? Angie, look at him. 28 00:01:27,171 --> 00:01:29,256 I’m beating the shit out of that tomato can. 29 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:30,841 Damn right he is. Rumble, young man, rumble! 30 00:01:30,925 --> 00:01:32,134 -Ah! -Ah! 31 00:01:32,218 --> 00:01:33,552 Listen, if you’re not gonna keep your hands up, 32 00:01:33,636 --> 00:01:34,720 can you at least finish him off? 33 00:01:34,804 --> 00:01:36,055 I don’t want to get too close to him. 34 00:01:36,138 --> 00:01:37,807 I get any more of his blood on my trunks, 35 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:39,433 my mama ain’t never gonna be able to get it out. 36 00:01:39,517 --> 00:01:42,186 Nobody gives a damn about blood on some boxing trunks. 37 00:01:42,269 --> 00:01:43,687 These is my lucky trunks. 38 00:01:43,771 --> 00:01:44,772 Your mama’s still doing your laundry? 39 00:01:44,855 --> 00:01:46,190 -(laughter) -Shut up. 40 00:01:46,273 --> 00:01:47,733 Would you both shut the fuck up? 41 00:01:47,817 --> 00:01:48,818 Here. 42 00:01:48,901 --> 00:01:50,444 Three rounds in, and it’s not looking good 43 00:01:50,528 --> 00:01:52,613 -for Henry the Hammer. -No, it is not. 44 00:01:52,696 --> 00:01:53,864 ANNOUNCER 2: This Wembley Park crowd was expecting 45 00:01:53,948 --> 00:01:55,533 a better showing from local lad Cooper 46 00:01:55,616 --> 00:01:57,493 against American upstart Cassius Clay. 47 00:01:57,576 --> 00:01:59,954 They’ve been saying the Louisville Lip’s theatrics 48 00:02:00,037 --> 00:02:02,081 overshadow his actual skills in the ring. 49 00:02:02,164 --> 00:02:03,916 I doubt Cooper agrees with that assessment tonight. 50 00:02:03,999 --> 00:02:05,376 Let’s just hope Clay can put this bloke 51 00:02:05,459 --> 00:02:06,544 out of his misery soon. 52 00:02:06,627 --> 00:02:08,003 ANNOUNCER: I think we may have all 53 00:02:08,087 --> 00:02:09,672 underestimated Cassius Clay, Ronnie. 54 00:02:09,755 --> 00:02:12,091 Perhaps he is as good as he says he is. 55 00:02:12,174 --> 00:02:13,175 (bell dinging) 56 00:02:13,259 --> 00:02:14,426 Finish him off! 57 00:02:14,510 --> 00:02:16,595 I’ll finish him when I’m good and ready to. 58 00:02:16,679 --> 00:02:18,180 -(crowd cheering) -Let’s go, Cooper. 59 00:02:18,264 --> 00:02:19,431 REFEREE: Fight! 60 00:02:19,515 --> 00:02:21,058 You ain’t got nowhere to be, do you, Henry? 61 00:02:21,141 --> 00:02:23,018 ANGELO: Jab him! Jab him! 62 00:02:23,102 --> 00:02:24,770 -Push! -Let’s go. 63 00:02:24,854 --> 00:02:27,648 -(grunting) -(crowd shouting) 64 00:02:27,731 --> 00:02:31,151 ANGELO: Let’s go, now, Cassius. Let’s go. 65 00:02:31,235 --> 00:02:32,361 There you are. 66 00:02:32,444 --> 00:02:34,154 (crowd booing) 67 00:02:34,238 --> 00:02:35,656 ANGELO: There you are. 68 00:02:35,739 --> 00:02:37,157 -ANGELO: That’s right. -No holding, Henry. 69 00:02:37,241 --> 00:02:39,368 -Cooper, hang on. -Don’t stay in too long. Move. 70 00:02:39,451 --> 00:02:41,245 -Move! -Dance, Cassius. Keep moving. 71 00:02:41,328 --> 00:02:43,497 -Come on. -ANNOUNCER 2: Clay is mocking Cooper. 72 00:02:43,581 --> 00:02:45,541 ANGELO: There it is. There you are. 73 00:02:45,624 --> 00:02:46,834 Got to dance with him. You got to dance. 74 00:02:46,917 --> 00:02:47,918 ANNOUNCER 2: The crowd doesn’t like it. 75 00:02:48,002 --> 00:02:49,879 None of that. 76 00:02:49,962 --> 00:02:51,297 -Hands! Hands up! -Come on, Henry! 77 00:02:51,380 --> 00:02:53,966 -What is he doing? -I don’t know. Playing around. 78 00:02:54,049 --> 00:02:55,050 ANGELO: Don’t walk this guy down. 79 00:02:55,134 --> 00:02:56,302 BUNDINI: That’s how you do it. 80 00:02:56,385 --> 00:02:58,220 ANGELO: Keep your eyes in the ring. 81 00:02:58,304 --> 00:02:59,305 Is that Elizabeth Taylor? 82 00:02:59,388 --> 00:03:00,848 ANNOUNCER: Anything might happen. 83 00:03:00,931 --> 00:03:02,516 Keep those hands up! 84 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:03,809 There you go! 85 00:03:03,893 --> 00:03:05,144 -Oh! -(crowd clamoring) 86 00:03:05,227 --> 00:03:06,228 ANNOUNCER: That was the end of the fourth round, 87 00:03:06,312 --> 00:03:07,563 and he hit him. 88 00:03:07,646 --> 00:03:08,647 -Get up! -So close, before the end of the round. 89 00:03:08,731 --> 00:03:10,065 ANGELO: That was lucky. 90 00:03:10,149 --> 00:03:11,525 Get up there, Cassius. Come on. 91 00:03:11,609 --> 00:03:12,902 Get up. 92 00:03:12,985 --> 00:03:14,778 You’re okay! You’re okay! Come on. 93 00:03:14,862 --> 00:03:17,364 ANNOUNCER: Clay took one chance too many, 94 00:03:17,448 --> 00:03:19,700 and he still doesn’t know where he is. 95 00:03:19,783 --> 00:03:22,077 He’s still half out, Clay. 96 00:03:22,161 --> 00:03:23,954 MYRON: I want you to imagine a man 97 00:03:24,038 --> 00:03:25,956 who, for 25 years of his life, 98 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,043 arrived to work every morning at 9:00. 99 00:03:29,126 --> 00:03:31,003 You could set your watch by him. 100 00:03:31,086 --> 00:03:33,213 Then suddenly one morning, after 25 years 101 00:03:33,297 --> 00:03:35,633 of punctual 9:00-in-the-morning appearances, 102 00:03:35,716 --> 00:03:38,218 not only is he late but he doesn’t look like himself. 103 00:03:38,302 --> 00:03:41,639 Big lump on his head, two black eyes, bloody nose, 104 00:03:41,722 --> 00:03:44,725 torn lip, clothes ripped and disheveled. 105 00:03:44,808 --> 00:03:47,561 His boss says, "What in the world happened to you?" 106 00:03:47,645 --> 00:03:50,689 He says, "Oh, fell down a whole flight of stairs, 107 00:03:50,773 --> 00:03:52,608 almost got killed." 108 00:03:52,691 --> 00:03:55,277 His boss says, "So this took you an hour?" 109 00:03:55,361 --> 00:03:56,695 (laughter) 110 00:03:56,779 --> 00:03:58,781 (applause) 111 00:03:58,864 --> 00:04:00,950 JESS: Jules, work with us. 112 00:04:01,033 --> 00:04:02,785 JULES: The Copa has rules. 113 00:04:02,868 --> 00:04:04,995 Band members sit in the bandstand. 114 00:04:05,079 --> 00:04:06,330 Cliff’s not dressed. 115 00:04:06,413 --> 00:04:08,165 You don’t even have a chair for him. 116 00:04:08,248 --> 00:04:10,751 -If your guy’s a real singer... -Real singer? 117 00:04:10,834 --> 00:04:13,170 ...then he don’t need no guitar player on the floor with him. 118 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:15,214 My guy’s first single was number one in America. 119 00:04:15,297 --> 00:04:16,882 He ain’t had any hits in here. 120 00:04:16,966 --> 00:04:18,300 I never should’ve booked him. 121 00:04:18,384 --> 00:04:20,469 We could’ve had Mark Wilson in this slot. 122 00:04:20,552 --> 00:04:22,513 Who? The magician? 123 00:04:22,596 --> 00:04:24,431 From The Magical Land of Allakazam? 124 00:04:24,515 --> 00:04:26,058 (chuckles) I love that show, man. 125 00:04:26,141 --> 00:04:29,353 See? Even that guy knows, and he looks like an idiot. 126 00:04:29,436 --> 00:04:31,438 -Fuck you, man. -MYRON: My dear good friends, 127 00:04:31,522 --> 00:04:32,898 you’ve been a wonderful audience. 128 00:04:32,982 --> 00:04:34,525 Thank you very much, and good night. 129 00:04:34,608 --> 00:04:35,943 -JULES: So? -Thank you. 130 00:04:36,026 --> 00:04:38,153 Should I tell Myron to do an encore? 131 00:04:38,237 --> 00:04:40,781 He’s the one these people paid to see. 132 00:04:40,864 --> 00:04:42,700 JESS: Shh. 133 00:04:42,783 --> 00:04:44,535 -Sam. -MAN: Give it up for Myron Cohen, 134 00:04:44,618 --> 00:04:45,828 -ladies and gentlemen. -(applause) 135 00:04:45,911 --> 00:04:46,954 Myron Cohen. 136 00:04:47,037 --> 00:04:49,456 -All right, fine. Fine. -Fine. 137 00:04:51,917 --> 00:04:54,878 -MAN: Next up... -Better not fuck up my arrangements. 138 00:04:54,962 --> 00:04:56,922 ...we have a young man coming to the Copacabana 139 00:04:57,006 --> 00:04:58,298 for the very first time. 140 00:04:58,382 --> 00:05:02,052 You all know him from his hit song "You Send Me." 141 00:05:02,136 --> 00:05:06,598 Ladies and gents, let’s give a warm Copacabana welcome 142 00:05:06,682 --> 00:05:08,892 -for Sam Cooke! -(applause) 143 00:05:08,976 --> 00:05:11,061 (band playing lively jazz music) 144 00:05:19,111 --> 00:05:20,779 It’s great to be at the Copacabana! 145 00:05:20,863 --> 00:05:21,905 (music ends) 146 00:05:21,989 --> 00:05:23,866 How’s everybody feeling tonight? 147 00:05:23,949 --> 00:05:25,909 (people clearing throats) 148 00:05:25,993 --> 00:05:28,829 (scattered applause) 149 00:05:28,912 --> 00:05:31,832 Uh, I-I want to tell you that, uh, 150 00:05:31,915 --> 00:05:34,126 ever since I started singing, 151 00:05:34,209 --> 00:05:36,879 before I even knew I wanted to be a singer, 152 00:05:36,962 --> 00:05:39,048 playing the Copa has always been a dream of mine. 153 00:05:39,131 --> 00:05:40,340 So thank you for being here 154 00:05:40,424 --> 00:05:43,427 on the night that dream comes true. 155 00:05:43,510 --> 00:05:45,679 (people coughing) 156 00:05:48,891 --> 00:05:52,311 I thought I’d start off this evening, uh, 157 00:05:52,394 --> 00:05:56,440 with something that you all might recognize. 158 00:05:56,523 --> 00:05:57,816 Boys. 159 00:06:01,278 --> 00:06:03,697 -(band playing "Tammy") -Cigarettes, ma’am? 160 00:06:03,781 --> 00:06:05,991 No. 161 00:06:12,873 --> 00:06:15,167 (quiet whispering) 162 00:06:15,250 --> 00:06:20,380 ♪ I hear the cottonwood ♪ 163 00:06:20,464 --> 00:06:22,841 ♪ Whispering ♪ 164 00:06:22,925 --> 00:06:25,094 -♪ Above ♪ -(microphone stand clanks) 165 00:06:25,177 --> 00:06:26,470 (sighs) 166 00:06:26,553 --> 00:06:28,639 -♪ Tammy ♪ -(trumpet playing off-key) 167 00:06:28,722 --> 00:06:31,642 ♪ Tammy ♪ 168 00:06:31,725 --> 00:06:33,769 ♪ Tammy’s my love ♪ 169 00:06:33,852 --> 00:06:36,605 -What time is it? What time is it? -Uh... 170 00:06:36,688 --> 00:06:40,150 ♪ The old hooty owl ♪ 171 00:06:41,110 --> 00:06:43,445 ♪ Hooty-hoos to... ♪ 172 00:06:43,529 --> 00:06:45,114 I liked this song so much better 173 00:06:45,197 --> 00:06:47,241 when Debbie Reynolds sang it. 174 00:06:47,324 --> 00:06:49,618 -♪ Tammy ♪ -Come on, let’s go. 175 00:06:49,701 --> 00:06:51,787 ♪ Tammy ♪ 176 00:06:51,870 --> 00:06:56,250 ♪ Tammy’s my love... ♪ 177 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,254 -(door opens) -(distant applause) 178 00:07:02,548 --> 00:07:04,716 (sighs) 179 00:07:05,551 --> 00:07:06,844 (Jess sighs) 180 00:07:06,927 --> 00:07:09,805 Boy, you... you really did bomb tonight, Sam. 181 00:07:09,888 --> 00:07:11,140 Motherfucker, have you ever made 182 00:07:11,223 --> 00:07:12,516 a quarter of a million dollars singing? 183 00:07:12,599 --> 00:07:14,393 -Sam, no. -Well, I have. 184 00:07:14,476 --> 00:07:17,104 So until you do, keep your fucking mouth shut! 185 00:07:17,187 --> 00:07:19,064 (woman gasps) 186 00:07:21,066 --> 00:07:22,442 (door closes) 187 00:07:24,987 --> 00:07:27,156 (man chuckling) 188 00:07:29,449 --> 00:07:31,702 -He ain’t wrong, though. -(laughing) 189 00:07:31,785 --> 00:07:34,204 You did kind of stink the place up tonight. 190 00:07:34,288 --> 00:07:35,664 (chuckles): Yeah, I did. 191 00:07:35,747 --> 00:07:37,207 Told him not to sing that song. 192 00:07:37,291 --> 00:07:40,210 -He got all them hits; he chose that one. -I know. 193 00:07:40,294 --> 00:07:42,421 (upbeat blues song playing) 194 00:07:44,256 --> 00:07:48,051 ♪ Whew! It’s hot as shit out here ♪ 195 00:07:48,927 --> 00:07:50,470 ♪ Where’s my drink? ♪ 196 00:07:50,554 --> 00:07:52,389 ♪ Mm ♪ 197 00:07:52,472 --> 00:07:55,559 ♪ With the dirt-brown ground, leaving from L.A. ♪ 198 00:07:55,642 --> 00:07:59,146 ♪ Heading down to the South where the gators like to play ♪ 199 00:07:59,229 --> 00:08:01,940 ♪ Engine roaring nice from that old red clay ♪ 200 00:08:02,024 --> 00:08:06,320 ♪ On my soapbox spittin’, listen what I gotta say ♪ 201 00:08:06,403 --> 00:08:08,447 ♪ Howl for me, daddy ♪ 202 00:08:08,530 --> 00:08:11,158 ♪ Sure sound sweet ♪ 203 00:08:12,993 --> 00:08:15,370 ♪ Say something, baby ♪ 204 00:08:15,454 --> 00:08:17,789 ♪ Say something deep ♪ 205 00:08:19,708 --> 00:08:21,543 ♪ What you say, daddy? ♪ 206 00:08:21,627 --> 00:08:23,545 ♪ Say something deep... ♪ 207 00:08:23,629 --> 00:08:25,547 (insects trilling, birds chirping) 208 00:08:25,631 --> 00:08:28,634 (song continues faintly over car stereo) 209 00:08:29,635 --> 00:08:32,137 (brakes squeak) 210 00:08:32,221 --> 00:08:34,514 -(music stops) -(engine turns off) 211 00:08:46,902 --> 00:08:49,071 (bell jingles) 212 00:08:55,369 --> 00:08:57,329 Yes? May I help you? 213 00:08:57,412 --> 00:08:58,455 Yes, ma’am. 214 00:08:58,538 --> 00:08:59,706 I’m here to see Mr. Carlton. 215 00:08:59,790 --> 00:09:01,458 Would you tell him that Jim Brown is... 216 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:03,627 Jim Brown? Oh. 217 00:09:03,710 --> 00:09:05,379 God! From the NFL! 218 00:09:05,462 --> 00:09:06,505 (both chuckle) 219 00:09:06,588 --> 00:09:08,173 Grandpa! 220 00:09:08,257 --> 00:09:12,678 Jim Brown from the NFL is here, and he wants to see you. 221 00:09:12,761 --> 00:09:15,472 (laughing): Well, I never. 222 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:17,557 (chuckles) 223 00:09:17,641 --> 00:09:20,060 Never. 224 00:09:20,143 --> 00:09:23,355 Would you look at who’s on my porch. 225 00:09:23,438 --> 00:09:26,066 (chuckles): James Nathaniel Brown. 226 00:09:26,149 --> 00:09:27,776 Hello there, Mr. Carlton. 227 00:09:27,859 --> 00:09:28,902 Don’t you "hello" me. 228 00:09:28,986 --> 00:09:30,737 Put her there, son. 229 00:09:30,821 --> 00:09:31,863 (chuckles) 230 00:09:31,947 --> 00:09:34,324 Come now, have a seat with me. 231 00:09:34,408 --> 00:09:36,410 Can I get you something to drink? 232 00:09:36,493 --> 00:09:37,703 Lemonade, maybe? 233 00:09:37,786 --> 00:09:39,329 Oh, that’s all right. Thank you, though. 234 00:09:39,413 --> 00:09:41,164 Well, suit yourself. 235 00:09:41,248 --> 00:09:43,750 I’m certainly having me some. 236 00:09:43,834 --> 00:09:45,711 Fetch us a couple glasses of that lemonade, 237 00:09:45,794 --> 00:09:47,462 -would you, sweetie? -(in distance): Yes, Grandpa. 238 00:09:47,546 --> 00:09:49,172 Just in case you change your mind. 239 00:09:49,256 --> 00:09:50,340 -Hmm. -(chuckles) 240 00:09:50,424 --> 00:09:52,384 How long you been back on the island? 241 00:09:52,467 --> 00:09:54,303 Oh, I just got in last night. 242 00:09:54,386 --> 00:09:57,097 And you came by to say hello? 243 00:09:57,180 --> 00:09:58,932 How thoughtful of you, Jimmy. 244 00:09:59,016 --> 00:10:01,560 Well, my aunt says you were anxious to see me. 245 00:10:01,643 --> 00:10:04,229 I’m an early riser, so I thought I’d come right on over. 246 00:10:04,313 --> 00:10:06,064 Mm, the early bird does catch the worm. 247 00:10:06,148 --> 00:10:08,400 -Mm. -But you already know that. 248 00:10:08,483 --> 00:10:10,777 You caught a hell of a lot of worms this year. 249 00:10:10,861 --> 00:10:11,945 (both chuckle) 250 00:10:12,029 --> 00:10:13,780 I guess you can say that. 251 00:10:13,864 --> 00:10:18,869 No man who’s run 1,860 yards in a season 252 00:10:18,952 --> 00:10:20,829 needs to be so humble. 253 00:10:20,912 --> 00:10:24,624 Actually, it was 1,863. 254 00:10:24,708 --> 00:10:26,460 -Oh, that’s more like it. -Mm-hmm. 255 00:10:26,543 --> 00:10:29,421 That record is gonna stand the test of time. 256 00:10:29,504 --> 00:10:31,298 You know, I’d happily give that record back 257 00:10:31,381 --> 00:10:33,467 for a win over the Packers in that last game. 258 00:10:33,550 --> 00:10:36,219 (chuckles) That Packers win is gonna be forgotten 259 00:10:36,303 --> 00:10:39,056 by anyone who doesn’t live in Goose Bay by tomorrow. 260 00:10:39,139 --> 00:10:40,390 Hmm. 261 00:10:40,474 --> 00:10:43,352 Your record is gonna be remembered forever. 262 00:10:43,435 --> 00:10:45,103 I don’t see why I can’t have the record 263 00:10:45,187 --> 00:10:46,813 and the win next time. 264 00:10:46,897 --> 00:10:49,107 Right you are, son. Right you are. 265 00:10:50,359 --> 00:10:54,780 Jimmy, I-I just wanted to-to let you know, 266 00:10:54,863 --> 00:10:57,407 if there’s ever anything I can do for you, 267 00:10:57,491 --> 00:11:00,327 you should never hesitate to reach out. 268 00:11:02,662 --> 00:11:05,040 Um, that’s... 269 00:11:06,291 --> 00:11:08,085 That’s-that’s mighty kind of you, sir. 270 00:11:08,168 --> 00:11:10,670 Oh, our families go way back. 271 00:11:10,754 --> 00:11:12,005 Been looking after one another 272 00:11:12,089 --> 00:11:14,633 since the first folks settled on this island. 273 00:11:14,716 --> 00:11:18,678 I wanted to make sure that I told you face-to-face, 274 00:11:18,762 --> 00:11:23,350 as long as I’m still here, that ain’t ever gonna change. 275 00:11:24,518 --> 00:11:26,311 Well, my aunt would be very happy to hear 276 00:11:26,395 --> 00:11:29,564 such a kind sentiment from you, Mr. Carlton. 277 00:11:29,648 --> 00:11:32,526 Not everyone else on the island has been so supportive. 278 00:11:32,609 --> 00:11:34,361 Ah, crabs in a barrel, I say. 279 00:11:34,444 --> 00:11:36,405 -To hell with them all. -(chuckles) 280 00:11:36,488 --> 00:11:40,075 I, for one, think that you are a credit 281 00:11:40,158 --> 00:11:44,204 not only to this community but to the entire state of Georgia. 282 00:11:44,287 --> 00:11:45,789 I’ve never been prouder to say 283 00:11:45,872 --> 00:11:47,791 that I live on St. Simons Island 284 00:11:47,874 --> 00:11:49,918 -than I am now. -Mm. 285 00:11:50,001 --> 00:11:53,755 And I would make a point of adding 286 00:11:53,839 --> 00:11:56,716 "the place where the great Jim Brown is from." 287 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,760 (chuckles) 288 00:11:58,844 --> 00:11:59,928 Huh? 289 00:12:01,805 --> 00:12:04,307 -Here you boys go. -Ah. 290 00:12:04,391 --> 00:12:05,642 Two lemonades. 291 00:12:05,725 --> 00:12:07,102 Thank you, darling. 292 00:12:07,185 --> 00:12:10,147 -Well, thank you. -Mm. 293 00:12:10,230 --> 00:12:12,691 Uh, sorry to bother you while you’re entertaining, Grandpa, 294 00:12:12,774 --> 00:12:15,193 but if you could come move that bureau, 295 00:12:15,277 --> 00:12:16,695 when-when you have a moment. 296 00:12:16,778 --> 00:12:18,864 Oh. Sorry. 297 00:12:18,947 --> 00:12:20,365 I almost forgot. (chuckles) 298 00:12:20,449 --> 00:12:23,910 You, uh... you moving some furniture? 299 00:12:23,994 --> 00:12:25,412 Mm-hmm. 300 00:12:25,495 --> 00:12:29,416 Well, you know, uh, you should let me help you with that. 301 00:12:29,499 --> 00:12:31,084 Ah, so considerate of you, Jimmy, 302 00:12:31,168 --> 00:12:33,587 but you know we don’t allow niggers in the house, 303 00:12:33,670 --> 00:12:35,964 so it’s quite all right. 304 00:12:36,047 --> 00:12:39,843 It really is wonderful to see you, son. 305 00:12:39,926 --> 00:12:42,012 You keep up the good work. 306 00:12:43,263 --> 00:12:45,223 Do us all proud. 307 00:12:48,101 --> 00:12:49,269 MIKE WALLACE: While city officials, 308 00:12:49,352 --> 00:12:51,897 state agencies, white liberals 309 00:12:51,980 --> 00:12:55,775 and sober-minded Negroes stand idly by, 310 00:12:55,859 --> 00:12:57,235 a group of Negro dissenters is 311 00:12:57,319 --> 00:12:59,654 taking to street corner step ladders, church pulpits, 312 00:12:59,738 --> 00:13:01,448 sports arenas and ballroom platforms 313 00:13:01,531 --> 00:13:05,744 across the United States to preach a gospel of hate 314 00:13:05,827 --> 00:13:07,954 that would set off a federal investigation 315 00:13:08,038 --> 00:13:10,332 if it were preached by Southern whites. 316 00:13:10,415 --> 00:13:12,459 For some time between now and 1970, 317 00:13:12,542 --> 00:13:15,086 Elijah Muhammad, founder and spiritual leader 318 00:13:15,170 --> 00:13:16,296 -of the group, -(chuckles softly) 319 00:13:16,379 --> 00:13:17,964 has intimated that he will give the call 320 00:13:18,048 --> 00:13:20,133 for the destruction of the white man. 321 00:13:20,217 --> 00:13:21,843 Here you will hear Elijah Muhammad 322 00:13:21,927 --> 00:13:23,720 introduced by minister Malcolm X, 323 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:25,263 the Muslims’ New York leader 324 00:13:25,347 --> 00:13:27,224 and ambassador-at-large for the movement. 325 00:13:27,307 --> 00:13:30,477 Now, in the church, we-we used to sing the song 326 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:32,562 "Good News, the Chariot Is Coming." 327 00:13:32,646 --> 00:13:34,981 -Is-is that right or wrong? -CROWD: That’s right. 328 00:13:35,065 --> 00:13:39,653 But what we must bear in mind is that what’s good news to you 329 00:13:39,736 --> 00:13:42,030 might be bad news to another. 330 00:13:42,113 --> 00:13:44,491 And while you sit here today 331 00:13:44,574 --> 00:13:47,744 knowing that you have come to hear good news, 332 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:50,413 you must realize in advance, 333 00:13:50,497 --> 00:13:53,166 what’s good news for the sheep, 334 00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:55,585 well, that might be bad news for the wolf. 335 00:13:55,669 --> 00:13:57,379 (crowd murmuring, applauding) 336 00:13:57,462 --> 00:13:59,214 (door opens) 337 00:14:01,216 --> 00:14:03,218 I expected you back hours ago. 338 00:14:03,301 --> 00:14:06,012 I know, I know, I know, I know. 339 00:14:06,096 --> 00:14:08,932 I got back as fast as I could. 340 00:14:09,015 --> 00:14:11,768 -Thank goodness you’re safe. -(sighs) 341 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:13,603 ...and the wisest and most fearless 342 00:14:13,687 --> 00:14:15,480 Black man in America... 343 00:14:15,564 --> 00:14:17,065 Where are the girls? 344 00:14:17,148 --> 00:14:18,608 I put them to bed. 345 00:14:18,692 --> 00:14:22,404 Oh, I promised I’d be here in time to tuck them in. 346 00:14:26,157 --> 00:14:27,492 (clicks tongue) 347 00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:29,828 I’m really sorry. 348 00:14:29,911 --> 00:14:32,372 But you can put them to bed tomorrow night. 349 00:14:32,455 --> 00:14:34,082 -Right. -(chuckles softly) 350 00:14:34,165 --> 00:14:36,042 Tomorrow. 351 00:14:38,545 --> 00:14:40,714 Did you speak to him? 352 00:14:42,299 --> 00:14:43,633 (smacks lips) 353 00:14:43,717 --> 00:14:45,385 Yes. 354 00:14:46,303 --> 00:14:47,762 And? 355 00:14:49,389 --> 00:14:53,518 Louis X said that if I decide to leave the Nation of Islam, 356 00:14:53,602 --> 00:14:55,395 I will be doing so on my own. 357 00:14:55,478 --> 00:14:57,772 -Damn him! -Betty. 358 00:14:58,648 --> 00:15:00,275 Please. 359 00:15:00,358 --> 00:15:03,820 Please just... don’t wake up the girls. 360 00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:06,448 He wouldn’t even be in the Nation if not for you, 361 00:15:06,531 --> 00:15:08,199 let alone running the Boston temple. 362 00:15:08,283 --> 00:15:11,578 And he remains thankful for my mentorship. 363 00:15:13,121 --> 00:15:16,291 You told him about the Messenger’s indiscretions? 364 00:15:16,374 --> 00:15:19,836 All of the secretaries, all of the children? 365 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:21,671 And that didn’t sway him at all? 366 00:15:21,755 --> 00:15:22,797 No, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad... 367 00:15:22,881 --> 00:15:23,882 Oh, don’t say "Honorable." 368 00:15:23,965 --> 00:15:25,342 ...was his lure to the Nation, 369 00:15:25,425 --> 00:15:29,095 just like he was for me and so many others. 370 00:15:30,096 --> 00:15:31,723 Now imagine convincing someone 371 00:15:31,806 --> 00:15:34,851 to convert to Christianity and then telling that same person 372 00:15:34,934 --> 00:15:36,144 to leave the church because 373 00:15:36,227 --> 00:15:37,979 Christ was not who you said he was. 374 00:15:38,063 --> 00:15:40,231 Louis could stroll right over to any of the seedy apartments 375 00:15:40,315 --> 00:15:43,360 Elijah Muhammad has those poor young girls holed up in 376 00:15:43,443 --> 00:15:46,196 and see the proof of his deeds with his own eyes. 377 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:50,033 Perhaps Louis X just isn’t ready to see that truth. 378 00:15:50,116 --> 00:15:52,327 Maybe none of them are. 379 00:16:01,711 --> 00:16:04,255 What are we gonna do now? 380 00:16:04,339 --> 00:16:06,091 The Nation owns this house. 381 00:16:06,174 --> 00:16:07,717 The car. 382 00:16:07,801 --> 00:16:09,511 Everything we have. 383 00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:11,596 The second they learn about your plan... 384 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,766 I am hoping our friendship will keep Brother Louis 385 00:16:14,849 --> 00:16:17,018 from sharing our plans with anyone else. 386 00:16:17,102 --> 00:16:18,311 You can’t count on that. 387 00:16:18,395 --> 00:16:20,355 I have to. 388 00:16:20,438 --> 00:16:24,317 I have to until I can make other arrangements. 389 00:16:27,696 --> 00:16:30,407 What else can be done? 390 00:16:30,490 --> 00:16:35,954 You-- We are all alone if we go through with this. 391 00:16:38,331 --> 00:16:40,208 For the moment. 392 00:16:40,291 --> 00:16:44,879 But I have one more potential ace up my sleeve. 393 00:16:46,381 --> 00:16:47,882 What? 394 00:16:47,966 --> 00:16:50,051 ♪ ♪ 395 00:16:56,474 --> 00:16:57,809 (splash) 396 00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:12,323 He can’t even swim. 397 00:17:12,407 --> 00:17:14,951 That boy gonna mess around and drown. 398 00:17:16,494 --> 00:17:19,205 You need to get on out of there ’fore you get yourself killed. 399 00:17:19,289 --> 00:17:21,458 He’s right, kid. You need to get your head into this fight. 400 00:17:21,541 --> 00:17:23,918 My head is into the fight, Angie. 401 00:17:24,002 --> 00:17:25,754 You sat in on any more of Liston’s training sessions 402 00:17:25,837 --> 00:17:27,338 -like I asked? -(grunts) 403 00:17:27,422 --> 00:17:28,506 No need. 404 00:17:28,590 --> 00:17:30,133 No need, no need. 405 00:17:30,216 --> 00:17:33,136 Watching Sonny Liston train is like... being at the circus. 406 00:17:33,219 --> 00:17:35,513 He looks like one of them big ugly bears they have 407 00:17:35,597 --> 00:17:37,098 riding around on tiny little bikes. 408 00:17:37,182 --> 00:17:38,975 All he needs is that itty-bitty hat on his head. 409 00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:40,727 He ain’t no boxer. He’s an animal. 410 00:17:40,810 --> 00:17:43,980 He’s an animal that can tear you apart if you don’t focus. 411 00:17:44,063 --> 00:17:45,106 -Mm-hmm. -You make the same mistakes 412 00:17:45,190 --> 00:17:46,566 with him as you did with Cooper, 413 00:17:46,649 --> 00:17:48,026 you won’t be walking away from it. 414 00:17:48,109 --> 00:17:49,778 I won that Cooper fight, didn’t I? 415 00:17:49,861 --> 00:17:50,862 You got saved by the bell. 416 00:17:50,945 --> 00:17:52,447 And he would’ve finished the job 417 00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:53,823 if they didn’t stop the fight from all the bleeding. 418 00:17:53,907 --> 00:17:55,325 Oh, woulda, coulda, shoulda, didn’t. 419 00:17:55,408 --> 00:17:57,160 A win is a win, Ferdie. 420 00:17:57,243 --> 00:17:58,620 I’ll be back in a bit. 421 00:17:58,703 --> 00:18:00,205 And where on earth are you going? 422 00:18:00,288 --> 00:18:01,414 To check on Malcolm. 423 00:18:01,498 --> 00:18:02,749 Oh, good grief. 424 00:18:06,002 --> 00:18:08,171 You got something else on your mind, Angie? 425 00:18:08,254 --> 00:18:10,965 Do I need to remind you how unhappy the Louisville Group is 426 00:18:11,049 --> 00:18:12,300 about him being here? 427 00:18:12,383 --> 00:18:13,593 What they got to be mad about? 428 00:18:13,676 --> 00:18:15,595 I been training hard as hell for this fight. 429 00:18:15,678 --> 00:18:17,096 Well, they’re the ones paying for all the training. 430 00:18:17,180 --> 00:18:18,389 They’re paying for all of us. 431 00:18:18,473 --> 00:18:19,724 I’m just letting you know 432 00:18:19,808 --> 00:18:21,559 they’ve been giving me a lot of grief. 433 00:18:21,643 --> 00:18:23,102 What business is Malcolm of theirs? 434 00:18:23,186 --> 00:18:24,938 You don’t understand why a bunch of white businessmen 435 00:18:25,021 --> 00:18:26,689 might be a little stung by a guy 436 00:18:26,773 --> 00:18:29,442 who says they’re all natural born demons? 437 00:18:29,526 --> 00:18:32,278 Mm-hmm. That’d do it. 438 00:18:32,362 --> 00:18:34,197 He said "devils." 439 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,407 Malcolm’s never been anything but kind to you, Angelo. 440 00:18:36,491 --> 00:18:38,493 I know, but the investors only know 441 00:18:38,576 --> 00:18:40,954 what they see on TV, and that ain’t good. 442 00:18:41,037 --> 00:18:42,163 They pay for my training. 443 00:18:42,247 --> 00:18:43,915 They don’t get to choose my friends for me. 444 00:18:43,998 --> 00:18:46,000 Well, training’s what they want their money going towards, 445 00:18:46,084 --> 00:18:49,420 not some white-man-hating demagogue’s airfare. 446 00:18:49,504 --> 00:18:51,506 What did the investors say when they gave me my money? 447 00:18:52,841 --> 00:18:54,384 That it was yours to do with... 448 00:18:54,467 --> 00:18:57,554 To do with as I please, Angie. 449 00:18:57,637 --> 00:18:59,180 And if it pleases me to bring my friend down 450 00:18:59,264 --> 00:19:00,849 to give me the spiritual support I need 451 00:19:00,932 --> 00:19:01,933 to win this fight, 452 00:19:02,016 --> 00:19:03,184 then that’s what I’m gonna do. 453 00:19:03,268 --> 00:19:04,519 They want their money back, 454 00:19:04,602 --> 00:19:06,771 I’ll pay it back to all of ’em, with interest, 455 00:19:06,855 --> 00:19:08,648 after the fight. Now, if you all will excuse me, 456 00:19:08,731 --> 00:19:10,567 I’ll see you back here in an hour. 457 00:19:10,650 --> 00:19:12,235 SAM: ♪ Don’t make it rougher ♪ 458 00:19:12,318 --> 00:19:16,364 ♪ And don’t make me suffer, just... ♪ 459 00:19:16,447 --> 00:19:18,700 SAM and BARBARA: ♪ Put me down easy. ♪ 460 00:19:18,783 --> 00:19:19,868 BUNDINI: He’ll be all right. 461 00:19:19,951 --> 00:19:21,077 You got to have faith in him. 462 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,704 Got to have a little bit of faith. 463 00:19:22,787 --> 00:19:23,913 BARBARA: That sounds nice. 464 00:19:23,997 --> 00:19:25,373 SAM: It does, doesn’t it? 465 00:19:25,456 --> 00:19:28,251 ♪ If you found somebody new ♪ 466 00:19:28,334 --> 00:19:31,421 ♪ There’s nothing I can do ♪ 467 00:19:31,504 --> 00:19:35,258 -♪ But ask you to ♪ -(chuckles softly) 468 00:19:35,341 --> 00:19:39,345 ♪ Go easy on me, baby doll ♪ 469 00:19:39,429 --> 00:19:43,182 ♪ Do me this service, break my fall. ♪ 470 00:19:43,266 --> 00:19:45,018 Ah, shit. 471 00:19:45,101 --> 00:19:46,102 What? 472 00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:47,645 That sounds great. 473 00:19:47,729 --> 00:19:51,149 If I was singing it, maybe, but not for L.C. 474 00:19:51,232 --> 00:19:53,318 It don’t sound like nothing he’d ever say. 475 00:19:53,401 --> 00:19:55,987 (chuckles) You got that right. 476 00:19:56,070 --> 00:19:57,697 He’s more like... 477 00:19:57,780 --> 00:20:00,700 ♪ Get on over here, girl, and let me smell them panties. ♪ 478 00:20:00,783 --> 00:20:02,410 -’Ey! -(laughs) 479 00:20:02,493 --> 00:20:04,287 -(laughs) -Your brother is so country. 480 00:20:04,370 --> 00:20:05,997 Yeah, look who’s talking. 481 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,248 I’m sophisticated. 482 00:20:07,332 --> 00:20:08,791 I don’t know why I go through all the trouble 483 00:20:08,875 --> 00:20:10,919 of getting a nice hotel room like this 484 00:20:11,002 --> 00:20:12,921 for a old country gal like you. 485 00:20:13,004 --> 00:20:14,923 I didn’t ask to stay at the Fontainebleau. 486 00:20:15,006 --> 00:20:16,341 I’d have been perfectly happy 487 00:20:16,424 --> 00:20:17,926 over at the Sir John with Cassius 488 00:20:18,009 --> 00:20:19,344 or the Hampton House with Malcolm 489 00:20:19,427 --> 00:20:22,013 and the rest of the Black folks like us. 490 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,938 But I do like it here. 491 00:20:31,272 --> 00:20:33,316 It’s nice. 492 00:20:38,905 --> 00:20:41,491 And, uh... 493 00:20:42,909 --> 00:20:46,663 ...I am glad I decided to come down here for this, Sam. 494 00:20:47,538 --> 00:20:48,873 With you. 495 00:20:53,002 --> 00:20:57,465 You haven’t sung to me in... a long time. 496 00:21:00,134 --> 00:21:01,344 (clicks tongue) 497 00:21:01,427 --> 00:21:03,471 I know it. (exhales) 498 00:21:05,139 --> 00:21:07,016 (strums guitar) 499 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:08,476 (phone rings) 500 00:21:10,979 --> 00:21:12,105 (phone clicks in cradle) 501 00:21:12,188 --> 00:21:13,189 Hello. 502 00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:14,315 MALCOLM: Brother Sam? 503 00:21:14,399 --> 00:21:16,401 Uh, Malcolm! 504 00:21:16,484 --> 00:21:17,777 (Malcolm chuckles softly) 505 00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:19,737 MALCOLM: Is Brother Cassius there with you? 506 00:21:19,821 --> 00:21:23,366 No. He’s probably doing some last-minute prep for the fight. 507 00:21:23,449 --> 00:21:25,201 -Why? -Oh, uh... 508 00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:27,203 I thought he might come by 509 00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:29,706 before heading to the convention center 510 00:21:29,789 --> 00:21:32,208 so we might have a word or two. 511 00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:33,876 Well, have you tried Jim? 512 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,462 MALCOLM: Yes. Uh, Jimmy hadn’t seen him, either. 513 00:21:36,546 --> 00:21:39,674 Well, if he calls, I’ll tell him you’re looking for him. 514 00:21:39,757 --> 00:21:41,592 MALCOLM: Ah. I appreciate that, Brother Sam. 515 00:21:41,676 --> 00:21:43,928 SAM: We’ll see you at the convention center. 516 00:21:44,012 --> 00:21:45,805 -Yeah. I wouldn’t miss it. -All right. 517 00:21:52,228 --> 00:21:54,647 (sighs) 518 00:21:54,731 --> 00:21:55,732 (knocking) 519 00:21:55,815 --> 00:21:56,858 Come in. 520 00:21:56,941 --> 00:21:58,735 (music playing in distance) 521 00:21:58,818 --> 00:22:00,278 Yes, Brother Kareem. 522 00:22:00,361 --> 00:22:02,655 You have a visitor, Brother Malcolm. 523 00:22:06,993 --> 00:22:09,454 (Malcolm chuckles) 524 00:22:09,537 --> 00:22:11,706 (laughing) 525 00:22:11,789 --> 00:22:13,624 Brother Cassius. 526 00:22:13,708 --> 00:22:15,293 I thought you might not be able to make it. 527 00:22:15,376 --> 00:22:17,378 Hey, man, ain’t no way I’m going into that ring 528 00:22:17,462 --> 00:22:18,880 without my insurance policy. 529 00:22:18,963 --> 00:22:20,882 -All right. -(exhales) 530 00:22:27,305 --> 00:22:29,390 ♪ ♪ 531 00:22:42,403 --> 00:22:44,697 Allahu Akbar. 532 00:22:47,408 --> 00:22:50,036 (exhales) 533 00:22:52,246 --> 00:22:54,040 MALCOLM (whispers): Cassius. 534 00:22:54,123 --> 00:22:55,416 (Cassius clears throat) 535 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:57,418 -CASSIUS: Thank you. -Mm-hmm. 536 00:22:58,628 --> 00:23:00,838 (praying in Arabic) 537 00:23:10,431 --> 00:23:12,809 Allahu Akbar. 538 00:23:23,027 --> 00:23:25,238 (praying in Arabic) 539 00:23:39,877 --> 00:23:43,131 (praying in Arabic) 540 00:23:59,856 --> 00:24:01,983 MALCOLM: Allahu Akbar. 541 00:24:15,371 --> 00:24:18,207 (breathing heavily) 542 00:24:30,178 --> 00:24:33,347 -You ready for tonight? -(sniffs) 543 00:24:33,431 --> 00:24:34,765 Man, I’ve been training three years for this fight. 544 00:24:34,849 --> 00:24:36,684 (chuckles): I’m as ready as a person can be. 545 00:24:36,767 --> 00:24:38,227 Well, uh... 546 00:24:38,311 --> 00:24:41,314 Well, still, it might not hurt to just tone down the rhetoric 547 00:24:41,397 --> 00:24:43,316 till after the fight. 548 00:24:44,108 --> 00:24:46,235 Why would I do that? 549 00:24:46,319 --> 00:24:47,904 May be easier for you to focus, Cash, 550 00:24:47,987 --> 00:24:49,113 you know, if, for once, 551 00:24:49,197 --> 00:24:51,532 the only person gunning for your head 552 00:24:51,616 --> 00:24:54,994 is the guy in the ring and not the entire arena. 553 00:24:55,077 --> 00:24:57,246 You watch rassling? 554 00:24:57,330 --> 00:25:00,499 Wrestling, no, I can’t say it’s part of my daily viewing. 555 00:25:00,583 --> 00:25:01,876 I figured not. 556 00:25:01,959 --> 00:25:04,295 Well, my favorite rassler is Gorgeous George. 557 00:25:04,378 --> 00:25:06,005 A good-looking fellow, I take it. 558 00:25:06,088 --> 00:25:08,549 In the European way, sure. 559 00:25:08,633 --> 00:25:11,344 Head full of blond hair teased up into a nice do. 560 00:25:11,427 --> 00:25:13,930 -Ooh, the crowds must love him. -Nah. 561 00:25:14,013 --> 00:25:17,642 He preens and he prances around like a peacock, 562 00:25:17,725 --> 00:25:19,227 talking all kind of smack. 563 00:25:19,310 --> 00:25:20,895 They boo him, they scream at him, 564 00:25:20,978 --> 00:25:24,106 and the more they scream, the more he eggs ’em all on. 565 00:25:24,190 --> 00:25:26,108 Oh, so, so he-he’s the villain? 566 00:25:26,192 --> 00:25:28,069 Well, sort of. 567 00:25:28,152 --> 00:25:29,946 Rassling is complicated. 568 00:25:30,029 --> 00:25:31,155 And why would you model yourself 569 00:25:31,239 --> 00:25:33,115 after a person everyone hates, Cash? 570 00:25:33,199 --> 00:25:37,620 Because everyone in that arena pays $100 571 00:25:37,703 --> 00:25:39,914 to see George lose. 572 00:25:39,997 --> 00:25:41,123 -(laughs) -The way I figure it, 573 00:25:41,207 --> 00:25:42,416 win or lose the fight, 574 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:43,751 George has already won the war. 575 00:25:43,834 --> 00:25:45,503 Well, maybe you fellas just like 576 00:25:45,586 --> 00:25:47,380 going around with targets on your backs. 577 00:25:47,463 --> 00:25:50,007 Oh, we learned from the best, Brother Minister. 578 00:25:50,091 --> 00:25:51,509 Touché. 579 00:25:51,592 --> 00:25:52,760 (Malcolm chuckles) 580 00:25:52,843 --> 00:25:54,929 I got you a ticket in the second row, 581 00:25:55,012 --> 00:25:56,055 right next to Sam. 582 00:25:56,138 --> 00:25:57,723 -And Jimmy? -Oh, he’s doing, uh, 583 00:25:57,807 --> 00:25:59,976 commentary r-ringside, but don’t worry. 584 00:26:00,059 --> 00:26:01,936 I already told all of them, after the fight, 585 00:26:02,019 --> 00:26:05,564 we’re all coming back here for the champ’s victory party. 586 00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:08,943 And did you... 587 00:26:09,026 --> 00:26:11,070 you tell ’em anything else? 588 00:26:12,989 --> 00:26:15,199 Oh. I didn’t. I didn’t get around to it. 589 00:26:15,283 --> 00:26:17,285 I mean, um... I mean, I plan to. 590 00:26:17,368 --> 00:26:18,911 No, no. It’s all right, my brother. 591 00:26:18,995 --> 00:26:20,246 It’s, uh... (inhales) 592 00:26:20,329 --> 00:26:22,873 The journey is different for each of us. 593 00:26:23,874 --> 00:26:25,293 Thank you, Malcolm. 594 00:26:25,376 --> 00:26:28,170 -All right. -(sighs) 595 00:26:28,254 --> 00:26:30,381 -I got to get back to my team. -Mm-hmm. 596 00:26:30,464 --> 00:26:33,968 (grunts) The fight... is at 10:00. 597 00:26:36,929 --> 00:26:38,431 -Don’t be late. -I won’t. 598 00:26:38,514 --> 00:26:40,641 Peace be unto you, young brother. 599 00:26:40,725 --> 00:26:42,810 -(door closes) -Peace be unto you. 600 00:26:46,522 --> 00:26:47,523 ANGELO: Stay on top of him. 601 00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:49,150 COMMENTATOR: Clay in the white trunks 602 00:26:49,233 --> 00:26:51,402 with the red stripes, and an inch and a half taller, 603 00:26:51,485 --> 00:26:54,155 is really bringing the fight to the champ. 604 00:26:54,238 --> 00:26:55,823 Come on, sucka. Come on. 605 00:26:55,906 --> 00:26:57,992 Come on, Cassius! 606 00:26:58,075 --> 00:26:59,618 Honestly, I’m really happy that we’re here. 607 00:26:59,702 --> 00:27:01,829 I think we got a really good show. Oh. 608 00:27:01,912 --> 00:27:03,247 (chuckles): Oh. All right. 609 00:27:03,331 --> 00:27:05,041 That’s what I’m talking about right there. 610 00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:06,417 -Come on, Cash! -Stay on him! Stay on him! 611 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:07,668 Bang, bang, in and out, Cassius. 612 00:27:07,752 --> 00:27:09,086 -Stay in there! Stay in there! -Bang, bang. 613 00:27:09,170 --> 00:27:10,504 Outside, in and out, Cassius. 614 00:27:10,588 --> 00:27:11,964 There you are. There you are. 615 00:27:12,048 --> 00:27:14,091 (cheering, shouting) 616 00:27:14,175 --> 00:27:15,676 ANGELO: That’s what you want. 617 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,261 Come on, boy. 618 00:27:17,345 --> 00:27:18,512 You gonna get that whuppin’. 619 00:27:18,596 --> 00:27:20,723 Give him that Liston punch, baby! 620 00:27:20,806 --> 00:27:22,183 Yes. Yes. 621 00:27:22,266 --> 00:27:23,559 Now, see, the thing about him, man, 622 00:27:23,642 --> 00:27:24,685 he stays on his toes. 623 00:27:24,769 --> 00:27:25,770 Nobody moves like him. 624 00:27:25,853 --> 00:27:27,813 He’s just dancing. He floats. 625 00:27:27,897 --> 00:27:29,315 All right, come on, Cash. Come on, Cash. 626 00:27:30,441 --> 00:27:31,984 -Oh. -Come on. 627 00:27:32,068 --> 00:27:33,736 That’s what you want. That’s what you want. 628 00:27:33,819 --> 00:27:35,529 (gasping) 629 00:27:35,613 --> 00:27:37,531 -Stick him, Cash! -JIM: Cash looks good. 630 00:27:37,615 --> 00:27:39,367 He’s staying warm. He’s moving well. He’s-- 631 00:27:39,450 --> 00:27:41,869 Oh, watch that hook, Cash. Watch that hook. 632 00:27:41,952 --> 00:27:44,580 -WOMAN: Come on! -(crowd shouting) 633 00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:46,874 Liston’s got Clay against the ropes. 634 00:27:46,957 --> 00:27:48,751 Get off the ropes, Cash. Get off the ropes. 635 00:27:48,834 --> 00:27:50,044 ANGELO: Watch him, ref. Watch him, ref. Come on. 636 00:27:50,127 --> 00:27:51,962 Yeah. There you go. There you go. 637 00:27:52,046 --> 00:27:53,589 Stay on him. 638 00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:54,965 Damn, Sonny. You gettin’ uglier. 639 00:27:55,049 --> 00:27:57,385 -BUNDINI: Get out of there. -MAN: Make a move, Cash! 640 00:27:57,468 --> 00:27:58,886 Take that with you. 641 00:27:58,969 --> 00:28:00,554 -Come on, Cash! -(cheering) 642 00:28:00,638 --> 00:28:02,765 -ANGELO: Stick and slide. -Come on, champ, move! 643 00:28:03,849 --> 00:28:05,101 -(crowd gasping) -(bell dings) 644 00:28:05,184 --> 00:28:07,019 There we go. You see? 645 00:28:07,103 --> 00:28:08,854 See, he’s a smart fighter. 646 00:28:08,938 --> 00:28:10,940 (cheering and applause) 647 00:28:15,653 --> 00:28:17,738 -There you are. Stay on him. -Stick and slide. 648 00:28:17,822 --> 00:28:19,907 Keep surrounding that jab, all right? 649 00:28:19,990 --> 00:28:22,451 Okay? Just keep staying with the plan. 650 00:28:22,535 --> 00:28:23,536 Water, water. 651 00:28:23,619 --> 00:28:25,079 Looking good. Looking good. 652 00:28:25,162 --> 00:28:27,623 He’s right where you want him. He’s right where you want him. 653 00:28:27,706 --> 00:28:30,084 All right? Finish him off. Take that belt home, okay? 654 00:28:30,167 --> 00:28:31,419 Stay on him. He’s looking bad over there. 655 00:28:31,502 --> 00:28:32,837 He’s looking bad. 656 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,630 -You got him. -I told you he’s ugly. 657 00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:36,507 -Oh, yeah. -You should see him up close. (sniffs) 658 00:28:36,590 --> 00:28:38,050 Oh, man, he’s ugly. 659 00:28:38,134 --> 00:28:40,094 -(bell dings) -Let’s go. Let’s go home. 660 00:28:40,177 --> 00:28:41,595 -MAN: Stick him, Cash! -MAN: Let’s go, Cassius! 661 00:28:41,679 --> 00:28:43,139 Stick him! 662 00:28:43,222 --> 00:28:45,182 Cassius Clay! 663 00:28:45,266 --> 00:28:47,393 CASSIUS: Come on, quit, Sonny. 664 00:28:47,476 --> 00:28:48,686 You’re ready to quit. 665 00:28:48,769 --> 00:28:49,895 Go on, quit. 666 00:28:49,979 --> 00:28:51,188 That’s it. 667 00:28:51,272 --> 00:28:52,481 Come on, quit. 668 00:28:52,565 --> 00:28:53,858 Go on, quit. 669 00:28:53,941 --> 00:28:55,443 That’s it, boy. 670 00:28:55,526 --> 00:28:57,111 That’s it, Sonny. That’s it. 671 00:28:57,194 --> 00:28:58,487 -Go on. Quit, then. -REFEREE: Okay, that’s it. 672 00:28:58,571 --> 00:29:00,406 -Go on! Quit, then! -That’s it. 673 00:29:00,489 --> 00:29:03,159 -(laughs) -(cheering) 674 00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:04,618 (cheering, booing) 675 00:29:08,038 --> 00:29:09,165 -You’re the champ! -(shouting) 676 00:29:09,248 --> 00:29:11,250 You’re the champ! 677 00:29:11,333 --> 00:29:13,711 CASSIUS: I’m the greatest! I’m king of the world! 678 00:29:13,794 --> 00:29:15,880 -You’re the champ! -I’m king of the world! 679 00:29:15,963 --> 00:29:17,131 (excited chatter) 680 00:29:17,214 --> 00:29:20,009 -CASSIUS: I’m a bad man! -(yelling excitedly) 681 00:29:20,092 --> 00:29:21,969 -I told them! I told them! -You’re the champ! 682 00:29:23,053 --> 00:29:24,763 You’re the champ. 683 00:29:24,847 --> 00:29:27,349 -I told them! I told them! -You told them! You told them! 684 00:29:27,433 --> 00:29:30,519 I told you! I told you! 685 00:29:30,603 --> 00:29:32,646 I’m the greatest! I’m king of the world! 686 00:29:32,730 --> 00:29:35,691 -I’m king of the world! I’m pretty! -You the champ! 687 00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:37,485 That’s Sam Cooke. 688 00:29:37,568 --> 00:29:40,237 (cheering, raucous chatter) 689 00:29:43,073 --> 00:29:45,451 That’s the world’s greatest rock and roll singer. 690 00:29:45,534 --> 00:29:46,952 That’s Sam Cooke. He too pretty. 691 00:29:47,036 --> 00:29:48,829 He too pretty. We both pretty. 692 00:29:48,913 --> 00:29:51,123 -That’s Sam Cooke. -You’re beautiful! 693 00:29:51,207 --> 00:29:52,708 -You’re beautiful! -We shook up the world! 694 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:54,335 We shook up the world! They got another excuse. 695 00:29:54,418 --> 00:29:55,753 See you at the Hampton House, champ. 696 00:29:55,836 --> 00:29:57,463 They got another excuse. They say he threw his arm out. 697 00:29:57,546 --> 00:29:58,923 That’s Sam Cooke. Get out my way. 698 00:29:59,006 --> 00:30:01,091 Out my way, out my way. Get off me. 699 00:30:01,175 --> 00:30:03,219 Malcolm! Malcolm! 700 00:30:03,302 --> 00:30:05,846 Aah! I told ’em! I told ’em! 701 00:30:05,930 --> 00:30:08,724 Eat your words! Eat your words! 702 00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:10,643 Eat your words! I remember you! 703 00:30:10,726 --> 00:30:11,977 I remember you! You picked him! 704 00:30:12,061 --> 00:30:13,103 I told you! 705 00:30:13,187 --> 00:30:16,482 I remember you, and I remember you. 706 00:30:16,565 --> 00:30:18,692 (engine revs) 707 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,490 (chatter in Spanish) 708 00:30:25,658 --> 00:30:27,326 (grunts) 709 00:30:27,409 --> 00:30:30,538 (exhales, chuckles) 710 00:30:30,621 --> 00:30:32,873 Is this where the party’s at? 711 00:30:32,957 --> 00:30:34,416 Mr. Cooke. 712 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:35,501 (car door shuts) 713 00:30:35,584 --> 00:30:37,169 I’m Brother Kareem. 714 00:30:37,253 --> 00:30:38,796 The brother minister instructed us 715 00:30:38,879 --> 00:30:40,798 to let you in if you arrived early. 716 00:30:40,881 --> 00:30:42,591 I’m the first one here? 717 00:30:42,675 --> 00:30:44,051 That’s correct. 718 00:30:44,134 --> 00:30:45,803 Me and my fast-ass cars. 719 00:30:45,886 --> 00:30:48,430 (chuckles) So? 720 00:30:48,514 --> 00:30:50,641 This way, please. 721 00:30:58,148 --> 00:31:00,276 (laughing) 722 00:31:06,824 --> 00:31:08,993 (chuckles) 723 00:31:28,470 --> 00:31:30,639 (sighs) 724 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:35,144 (airplane passing overhead) 725 00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:43,527 (quietly): It’s a damn dump. 726 00:31:47,615 --> 00:31:49,700 -(snaps fingers) -Hmm. 727 00:31:50,618 --> 00:31:52,119 -(snaps fingers) -Mm. 728 00:31:52,202 --> 00:31:54,413 (latches clacking) 729 00:31:56,665 --> 00:31:58,834 (case shuts) 730 00:32:00,127 --> 00:32:02,254 Maybe, maybe, maybe. 731 00:32:05,049 --> 00:32:06,967 ♪ If you found somebody new ♪ 732 00:32:07,051 --> 00:32:10,012 ♪ There’s nothing I can do ♪ 733 00:32:10,095 --> 00:32:13,057 ♪ But ask you to ♪ 734 00:32:14,141 --> 00:32:16,435 ♪ Do it to me just the same ♪ 735 00:32:16,518 --> 00:32:20,606 ♪ As pilots do big aeroplanes ♪ 736 00:32:22,358 --> 00:32:24,276 Yeah. 737 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,947 ♪ Put me down easy ♪ 738 00:32:29,031 --> 00:32:32,785 ♪ Put me down easy, baby... ♪ 739 00:32:34,161 --> 00:32:37,039 Whew, you got to admit, that brother sure can sing. 740 00:32:37,122 --> 00:32:38,916 ♪ Don’t make me suffer... ♪ 741 00:32:38,999 --> 00:32:42,211 If you’re into that sort of thing. 742 00:32:42,294 --> 00:32:44,546 Right. (chuckles softly) 743 00:32:44,630 --> 00:32:46,548 Right. 744 00:32:46,632 --> 00:32:47,883 -Too quick, man. -Too fast! 745 00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:50,052 -I’m fast, man. -I-I couldn’t see... 746 00:32:50,135 --> 00:32:52,554 (indistinct chatter, laughter) 747 00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:54,807 I think he caught a glimpse of his own reflection 748 00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:56,141 and got scared. 749 00:32:56,225 --> 00:32:58,560 -Is that what it was? -(horn honks) 750 00:32:58,644 --> 00:33:00,229 Oh... 751 00:33:00,312 --> 00:33:02,022 -That was beautiful, Cash. -Oh. 752 00:33:02,106 --> 00:33:04,108 -What a night! -Whoa. 753 00:33:04,191 --> 00:33:05,651 -Oh, man. -(chuckles) 754 00:33:05,734 --> 00:33:06,735 Yes, sir. 755 00:33:06,819 --> 00:33:07,903 He ran out of gas. 756 00:33:07,986 --> 00:33:09,321 There wasn’t a station around nowhere. 757 00:33:09,405 --> 00:33:11,240 I’m telling you, man, this is the start. 758 00:33:11,323 --> 00:33:12,908 This is the start right here, man. 759 00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:14,493 -Come out for the seventh. -Just the beginning. 760 00:33:14,576 --> 00:33:16,078 -That’s right. -Hey. 761 00:33:16,161 --> 00:33:17,579 -CASSIUS: Just the beginning. -JIM: Just the beginning. 762 00:33:17,663 --> 00:33:19,123 Where are we going? What are we doing? 763 00:33:19,206 --> 00:33:20,708 -Whose night is it? -Where’s-where’s Sam? 764 00:33:20,791 --> 00:33:22,292 -Come on, man. Show us the way. -Who’s the champ? 765 00:33:22,376 --> 00:33:23,794 -Who’s the champ? -Oh, you know who the champ is. 766 00:33:23,877 --> 00:33:25,087 -Who’s the champ? -You know who the champ is. 767 00:33:25,170 --> 00:33:26,171 -Who? -I thought I was the champ. 768 00:33:26,255 --> 00:33:27,631 (chuckling) 769 00:33:27,715 --> 00:33:29,425 -Whew! -(chuckles) 770 00:33:29,508 --> 00:33:31,260 -Whew. -Told ’em. I told ’em. 771 00:33:31,343 --> 00:33:33,470 -You got him in six, Cash. -I told ’em, El Negro, 772 00:33:33,554 --> 00:33:35,222 Campiano, King Bacadero... 773 00:33:35,305 --> 00:33:36,849 Your friend has already arrived. 774 00:33:36,932 --> 00:33:38,350 -JIM: What the hell does that mean? -I’d assumed. 775 00:33:38,434 --> 00:33:41,186 -CASSIUS: King of Miami. -His car is hard to miss. 776 00:33:41,270 --> 00:33:43,272 -All right. -Yes. 777 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:45,399 Well, we let him into your room as you instructed. 778 00:33:45,482 --> 00:33:47,234 Oh, that’s much appreciated. 779 00:33:47,317 --> 00:33:48,610 Is there anything else you need? 780 00:33:48,694 --> 00:33:50,821 No, brother. We’ll be fine from here. 781 00:33:50,904 --> 00:33:53,407 -God is great. -He really is, isn’t he? 782 00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:54,950 SAM: Mm-hmm. 783 00:33:55,033 --> 00:33:56,744 The hell took y’all so long? 784 00:33:56,827 --> 00:33:58,829 Ah, well, we didn’t run every damn red light 785 00:33:58,912 --> 00:34:01,498 between the convention center and Overtown. 786 00:34:01,582 --> 00:34:02,916 CASSIUS: Man, we told you to ride with us. 787 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,752 What, and leave my car at the arena parking lot? 788 00:34:04,835 --> 00:34:07,045 Fuck that. Besides, I had to drop off Barbara. 789 00:34:07,129 --> 00:34:09,757 -(strums guitar) -Well, was you sad, Sam? 790 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,258 Sitting in here all by your lonesome? 791 00:34:11,341 --> 00:34:13,177 I don’t need y’all around to entertain myself. 792 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:15,220 CASSIUS: We figured you’d have rounded up some girls 793 00:34:15,304 --> 00:34:16,889 -before we even got here, boy. -(strumming guitar) 794 00:34:16,972 --> 00:34:18,515 -Where they at? -SAM: Shit, ain’t you too tired? 795 00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:19,933 Tired? Boy, I’m energized. 796 00:34:20,017 --> 00:34:22,144 Was before I even threw the first punch. 797 00:34:22,227 --> 00:34:23,687 SAM: All right. 798 00:34:23,771 --> 00:34:25,439 Man, can you believe they had the nerve 799 00:34:25,522 --> 00:34:28,400 to trot Willie Pastrano into the ring before the fight? 800 00:34:28,484 --> 00:34:30,652 You know, they say he boxes just like you, Cash. 801 00:34:30,736 --> 00:34:31,862 (laughing): Ooh-hoo-hoo! 802 00:34:31,945 --> 00:34:33,071 Like me? 803 00:34:33,155 --> 00:34:34,615 -Are you insane? -Hey. 804 00:34:34,698 --> 00:34:36,909 Willie Pastrano-- that’s the dancing master, ain’t it? 805 00:34:36,992 --> 00:34:39,745 CASSIUS: Shit, if he’s the dancing master, I must be 806 00:34:39,828 --> 00:34:41,663 the motherfucking inventor of dance. 807 00:34:41,747 --> 00:34:43,707 -Just ask Sonny. -Oh, you goddamn right. 808 00:34:43,791 --> 00:34:46,710 I am 210 and a half pounds of trouble, boys. 809 00:34:46,794 --> 00:34:48,796 And what they didn’t know was when they weighed me in, 810 00:34:48,879 --> 00:34:51,006 a half pound of it wasn’t even me. 811 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:52,090 Oh, what was it, Cash? 812 00:34:52,174 --> 00:34:54,259 It was a half pound of divine skill 813 00:34:54,343 --> 00:34:57,262 -bestowed upon me from God up on high! -Hey! -JIM: Oh. 814 00:34:57,346 --> 00:34:58,639 -This motherfucker here. -All right. 815 00:34:58,722 --> 00:35:00,432 They had Joe Louis on one side of the ring, 816 00:35:00,516 --> 00:35:02,601 Rocky Marciano in the other. 817 00:35:02,684 --> 00:35:05,062 Halfway through the sixth, out the corner of my eye, 818 00:35:05,145 --> 00:35:06,355 I saw them looking at each other 819 00:35:06,438 --> 00:35:07,940 like they was asking themselves, 820 00:35:08,023 --> 00:35:10,317 "Why couldn’t we do that when we was young?" 821 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,485 (laughing) 822 00:35:11,568 --> 00:35:13,237 I’m serious. 823 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,823 If tonight don’t prove God was with me, then nothing does. 824 00:35:15,906 --> 00:35:17,491 Well, he sure as shit wasn’t with Sonny. 825 00:35:17,574 --> 00:35:18,659 Oh, man, you know Sonny a damn heathen. 826 00:35:18,742 --> 00:35:20,494 And what do they always say, Malcolm? 827 00:35:20,577 --> 00:35:21,662 The penalty one pays 828 00:35:21,745 --> 00:35:23,413 for avoiding the path of righteousness 829 00:35:23,497 --> 00:35:26,333 -is walking whatever other path they choose alone. -Mm-hmm. 830 00:35:26,416 --> 00:35:27,960 -Yes, that’s right. -(others murmuring) 831 00:35:28,043 --> 00:35:30,087 Yes, yes, Cassius Marcellus Clay 832 00:35:30,170 --> 00:35:33,131 is the new heavyweight champion of the world, boys! 833 00:35:33,215 --> 00:35:35,133 -Yes, he is! Yes, he is! -CASSIUS: And I don’t even have 834 00:35:35,217 --> 00:35:37,052 -a scratch on my fa... -(Sam laughs) 835 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,350 Oh, my goodness. 836 00:35:43,433 --> 00:35:45,185 -Cassius. -What’s wrong, Cash? 837 00:35:45,269 --> 00:35:47,062 What? Cash, what... 838 00:35:48,856 --> 00:35:50,315 Why am I so pretty? 839 00:35:50,399 --> 00:35:52,109 -Ah. -Ah. 840 00:35:52,192 --> 00:35:53,819 And I’m only 22 years old. 841 00:35:53,902 --> 00:35:56,154 There is no way I’m supposed to be this great. 842 00:35:56,238 --> 00:35:58,365 Look, Alexander the Great conquered the whole world 843 00:35:58,448 --> 00:35:59,908 at the age of 30... 844 00:35:59,992 --> 00:36:02,411 -Yeah. -...and I conquered the world of boxing at 22, 845 00:36:02,494 --> 00:36:04,413 without sustaining so much as a scratch. 846 00:36:04,496 --> 00:36:06,540 -That’s right. -Ah! -SAM: There he goes! 847 00:36:06,623 --> 00:36:09,126 -You do the math. -SAM: All right. 848 00:36:09,209 --> 00:36:11,044 Where and when is this party going down? 849 00:36:11,128 --> 00:36:13,547 Yeah, that’s a good question. What’s on the agenda, Malcolm? 850 00:36:13,630 --> 00:36:16,425 Well, I thought this would be a wonderful chance for us 851 00:36:16,508 --> 00:36:18,802 to reflect on what’s happened tonight. 852 00:36:18,886 --> 00:36:21,555 Like our young brother said, there’s no denying 853 00:36:21,638 --> 00:36:23,974 that greater forces were at work. 854 00:36:27,311 --> 00:36:30,522 You mean... no one else is coming? 855 00:36:30,606 --> 00:36:33,358 Oh, rest assured, my brother, you’re not missing anything. 856 00:36:33,442 --> 00:36:35,652 But I... 857 00:36:35,736 --> 00:36:37,654 I wanted some pussy tonight. 858 00:36:37,738 --> 00:36:39,406 Ah, it’ll be all right, Jimmy. I think you’ll live. 859 00:36:39,489 --> 00:36:41,867 Hey, hey, Malcolm, I... (chuckles) 860 00:36:41,950 --> 00:36:43,327 I-I did not give up a chance 861 00:36:43,410 --> 00:36:45,078 to stay and party at the Fontainebleau 862 00:36:45,162 --> 00:36:46,330 for this shit. 863 00:36:46,413 --> 00:36:47,748 -(water running) -MALCOLM: The Fontainebleau? 864 00:36:47,831 --> 00:36:49,541 The Fontainebleau Miami Beach? 865 00:36:49,625 --> 00:36:51,126 What, you just walked right up to the counter 866 00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:53,253 -and booked yourself a room, Brother Sam? -Malcolm, relax. 867 00:36:53,337 --> 00:36:55,631 Allen booked the room. Allen booked the room. 868 00:36:55,714 --> 00:36:57,591 Allen Klein. The white man. 869 00:36:57,674 --> 00:36:59,176 -SAM: That’s his job. -MALCOLM: Oh, that’s his job? 870 00:36:59,259 --> 00:37:00,969 To tell the other crackers that you’re one of the good ones? 871 00:37:01,053 --> 00:37:02,512 -To do what I ask him to do. -Will you two quit 872 00:37:02,596 --> 00:37:04,097 the philosophical debate for five seconds? 873 00:37:04,181 --> 00:37:06,183 Ain’t you just heard Jim say he’s getting blue balls? 874 00:37:09,978 --> 00:37:11,730 All right. 875 00:37:11,813 --> 00:37:14,483 We at least have something to eat while we reflect? 876 00:37:14,566 --> 00:37:17,319 Yes, as a matter of fact, we do, Brother Sam. 877 00:37:18,612 --> 00:37:19,947 Just because I’m militant 878 00:37:20,030 --> 00:37:22,199 doesn’t mean I don’t know how to have a good time. 879 00:37:22,282 --> 00:37:23,825 (Cassius snaps fingers) 880 00:37:25,494 --> 00:37:27,204 -What’d I do? -MALCOLM: Yeah! 881 00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:29,748 Ice cream. 882 00:37:29,831 --> 00:37:32,167 I don’t suppose you have any beer in there? 883 00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:33,710 Stupid question. 884 00:37:33,794 --> 00:37:35,921 Chips, then. Maybe chips? 885 00:37:36,004 --> 00:37:38,256 Uh... I’m sure I can send 886 00:37:38,340 --> 00:37:40,175 one of the brothers out to get some, Sam. 887 00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:41,593 Well, what flavor is it? 888 00:37:41,677 --> 00:37:43,804 Well, we have vanilla, Jimmy... 889 00:37:47,140 --> 00:37:48,517 ...and vanilla. 890 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,061 -Shit. -How’s that for irony? 891 00:37:51,144 --> 00:37:52,562 Last time I checked, Brother Sam, 892 00:37:52,646 --> 00:37:54,982 vanilla was your flavor of choice. 893 00:37:55,065 --> 00:37:57,275 -(laughing): Ooh-hoo-hoo. -SAM: All right. 894 00:37:57,359 --> 00:37:58,360 That’s right, Jack. 895 00:37:58,443 --> 00:37:59,653 Hey, fellas, I’m just saying, 896 00:37:59,736 --> 00:38:01,613 can’t we at least go someplace hoppin’? 897 00:38:01,697 --> 00:38:04,658 The entire city of Miami is celebrating Cassius’s win. 898 00:38:04,741 --> 00:38:05,909 Yeah, they was all expecting 899 00:38:05,993 --> 00:38:07,494 to be partying with Sonny Liston tonight. 900 00:38:07,577 --> 00:38:10,664 Yeah, and it seem to me it’s not a great idea, 901 00:38:10,747 --> 00:38:12,332 your first night as world champ, 902 00:38:12,416 --> 00:38:15,043 starting it off by throwing away all that goodwill. 903 00:38:15,127 --> 00:38:18,088 MALCOLM: Goodwill? Goodwill from whom? 904 00:38:18,171 --> 00:38:20,215 Goodwill from the press, 905 00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:22,134 who threw their support behind that thug, 906 00:38:22,217 --> 00:38:24,386 hoping that he’d put our young brother in his place? 907 00:38:24,469 --> 00:38:26,179 No, you out of your mind, Sam. 908 00:38:26,263 --> 00:38:30,892 And besides, besides, part of the reason we’re here 909 00:38:30,976 --> 00:38:34,021 is to celebrate Cassius’s official transition. 910 00:38:34,104 --> 00:38:35,105 Malc! 911 00:38:35,188 --> 00:38:37,691 Transition? 912 00:38:37,774 --> 00:38:38,817 To what? 913 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:40,861 Shall we give them the news, Cassius? 914 00:38:40,944 --> 00:38:44,740 Well, I suppose if, uh, you want to tell them, Malcolm. 915 00:38:44,823 --> 00:38:46,116 SAM: Now, wait a second. 916 00:38:47,534 --> 00:38:50,120 You ain’t about to say what I think you gonna say? 917 00:38:50,203 --> 00:38:52,914 I’ve been thinking long and hard about it, boys, 918 00:38:52,998 --> 00:38:57,544 and I’m officially joining the Nation of Islam. 919 00:38:59,171 --> 00:39:00,505 (Jim chuckles) 920 00:39:00,589 --> 00:39:03,800 Cassius, are you sure that’s such a good idea? 921 00:39:03,884 --> 00:39:04,926 CASSIUS: Why not? 922 00:39:05,010 --> 00:39:06,303 Well, I thought this Muslim jive 923 00:39:06,386 --> 00:39:07,929 was something to rile up white folks. 924 00:39:08,013 --> 00:39:09,681 -No, it’s no jive, Sam. -The cameras are off, Malcolm. 925 00:39:09,765 --> 00:39:11,475 He became champion on his own terms. 926 00:39:11,558 --> 00:39:14,311 -Naysayers be damned. -SAM: We can’t all just go out 927 00:39:14,394 --> 00:39:15,604 and declare the white man the devil. 928 00:39:15,687 --> 00:39:17,773 Oh? Why not? 929 00:39:17,856 --> 00:39:19,274 Huh? 930 00:39:19,357 --> 00:39:21,401 We’re entering a new time where no one can hold us back 931 00:39:21,485 --> 00:39:22,527 from voicing our honest opinions. 932 00:39:22,611 --> 00:39:24,112 Look at Jimmy. 933 00:39:24,196 --> 00:39:27,199 Jimmy hasn’t bitten his tongue for one day of his career. 934 00:39:27,282 --> 00:39:29,326 Well, you ain’t lying. 935 00:39:29,409 --> 00:39:31,411 -Oh, so you agree with him? -Look, man, 936 00:39:31,495 --> 00:39:33,080 I’m always in the hot seat, all right? 937 00:39:33,163 --> 00:39:35,415 But as long as I keep winning, ain’t one fucking thing 938 00:39:35,499 --> 00:39:37,417 any racist poot butt can do about it. 939 00:39:37,501 --> 00:39:38,502 That’s right. 940 00:39:38,585 --> 00:39:40,295 Well, if it’s such a good idea, 941 00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:42,130 why don’t you become a Muslim, too? 942 00:39:42,214 --> 00:39:45,217 Shit. Have you tasted my grandmother’s pork chops? 943 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:47,219 -(laughs) -And... 944 00:39:47,302 --> 00:39:49,805 I like white women, too. Fuck that. 945 00:39:49,888 --> 00:39:52,474 Oh, you’ll see the light soon enough, Jimmy. 946 00:39:52,557 --> 00:39:54,059 I don’t need to, hanging around you. 947 00:39:54,142 --> 00:39:56,353 Ain’t you ever heard of guilt by association? 948 00:39:56,436 --> 00:39:59,481 Well, you already do have plenty of nice suits. 949 00:39:59,564 --> 00:40:01,566 You given any thought to switching 950 00:40:01,650 --> 00:40:02,818 from straight to bow ties? 951 00:40:02,901 --> 00:40:04,319 Malcolm, you ain’t never gonna catch me 952 00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:06,029 dressed up as one of your soldiers of Allah. 953 00:40:06,113 --> 00:40:07,906 Ah, no. I-I’ve already seen it, Jimmy. 954 00:40:07,989 --> 00:40:09,616 Th-Those pictures I took of you 955 00:40:09,699 --> 00:40:11,618 -going to practice looking sharp as a razor. -(Jim laughs) 956 00:40:11,701 --> 00:40:13,161 The spitting image, Cash, 957 00:40:13,245 --> 00:40:16,331 of a-a powerful, Black Muslim warrior. 958 00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:18,375 -I know it. -A photo never lies, Jimmy. 959 00:40:18,458 --> 00:40:20,585 Photo never lies. It-it al... 960 00:40:22,129 --> 00:40:23,130 SAM: Malcolm? 961 00:40:23,213 --> 00:40:25,006 CASSIUS: What’s wrong, Malcolm? 962 00:40:26,299 --> 00:40:29,636 Just remembered I left my new camera in the car. 963 00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,555 -Better go get it. -Now? 964 00:40:31,638 --> 00:40:33,306 Yeah. I just got that camera. 965 00:40:33,390 --> 00:40:34,724 Oh, don’t sweat it, man. 966 00:40:34,808 --> 00:40:36,393 The bodyguards have this whole place locked down. 967 00:40:36,476 --> 00:40:37,727 They’ll see anybody messing with your car. 968 00:40:37,811 --> 00:40:39,354 Is everything all right, Brother Malcolm? 969 00:40:39,437 --> 00:40:41,731 Yes, brother. I just need to get something from the car. 970 00:40:41,815 --> 00:40:43,692 I’ll accompany you. 971 00:40:43,775 --> 00:40:44,901 Watch the door. 972 00:40:44,985 --> 00:40:46,778 Yes, brother. 973 00:40:49,072 --> 00:40:51,158 Hey, what’s wrong, brother? 974 00:40:51,241 --> 00:40:54,995 Ain’t your shit safe here in the Black community? 975 00:40:55,078 --> 00:40:56,746 (laughs) 976 00:40:56,830 --> 00:40:59,666 KAREEM: Your friend is quite the truculent one. 977 00:40:59,749 --> 00:41:01,793 Well, entertaining white people in the South 978 00:41:01,877 --> 00:41:05,714 will bring the truculence out of any Black man. 979 00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:07,674 (Cassius grunting, muttering) 980 00:41:07,757 --> 00:41:09,968 ♪ ♪ 981 00:41:10,051 --> 00:41:12,929 What are you, a giant fucking baby? 982 00:41:13,013 --> 00:41:15,265 No, man. 983 00:41:15,348 --> 00:41:16,433 I can’t help it. 984 00:41:16,516 --> 00:41:18,059 I’m full of energy. 985 00:41:18,143 --> 00:41:21,563 Well, this party’s off to a hoppin’ start. 986 00:41:21,646 --> 00:41:22,939 I-I just know we are not fittin’ to sit here 987 00:41:23,023 --> 00:41:24,482 in this little-ass room all night. 988 00:41:24,566 --> 00:41:26,401 It’s not like anyone else is planning a victory party. 989 00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:28,862 The diner downstairs is open all night. 990 00:41:28,945 --> 00:41:30,447 We could throw this shindig there 991 00:41:30,530 --> 00:41:32,240 if Malcolm would lighten the hell up. 992 00:41:32,324 --> 00:41:33,325 CASSIUS: He’s just looking out for me, Sam. 993 00:41:33,408 --> 00:41:34,784 SAM: He’s a big boy, Cash. 994 00:41:34,868 --> 00:41:36,578 CASSIUS: Still, you ain’t got to antagonize him. 995 00:41:36,661 --> 00:41:38,246 He should be able to handle being called out on his shit, 996 00:41:38,330 --> 00:41:41,708 especially since he’s made such a name for himself 997 00:41:41,791 --> 00:41:43,126 calling everyone else out on theirs. 998 00:41:43,210 --> 00:41:44,586 CASSIUS: Why you got to push back so hard 999 00:41:44,669 --> 00:41:45,962 on everything, Sam? 1000 00:41:46,046 --> 00:41:47,422 SAM: ’Cause I’m a pushy motherfucker. 1001 00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:48,715 -And I ain’t changing. -CASSIUS: Oh, grow up. 1002 00:41:48,798 --> 00:41:50,675 Mm... you two. 1003 00:41:50,759 --> 00:41:52,344 (silverware clanging) 1004 00:41:52,427 --> 00:41:54,846 You want some ice cream? 1005 00:41:54,930 --> 00:41:56,806 Everything okay, brother? 1006 00:41:56,890 --> 00:41:58,308 Yes, brother. 1007 00:42:05,065 --> 00:42:07,150 I should make a call while I’m down here. 1008 00:42:07,234 --> 00:42:09,903 Well, is the phone in your room not working? 1009 00:42:09,986 --> 00:42:13,490 I prefer privacy when I speak to my wife. 1010 00:42:13,573 --> 00:42:15,367 I’d rather not send all the fellas out. 1011 00:42:15,450 --> 00:42:17,035 I’ll be right back. 1012 00:42:17,118 --> 00:42:20,330 You know the thing that’ll make this a little bit better? 1013 00:42:20,413 --> 00:42:21,414 CASSIUS: What? 1014 00:42:21,498 --> 00:42:23,583 -Sam’s stash. -Fuck y’all. 1015 00:42:23,667 --> 00:42:25,794 -Come on, man. Where is it? -No. No way. 1016 00:42:25,877 --> 00:42:27,921 Hey, check his guitar case. 1017 00:42:28,004 --> 00:42:29,089 For what? 1018 00:42:29,172 --> 00:42:30,966 Just look, fool. 1019 00:42:34,010 --> 00:42:35,637 Ain’t gonna find it. 1020 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:37,305 I bet he will find something. 1021 00:42:37,389 --> 00:42:40,225 I bet you that cheap purple suit we will. 1022 00:42:40,308 --> 00:42:42,143 SAM: Don’t drink all my shit, neither. 1023 00:42:42,227 --> 00:42:44,396 (Cassius exhales) 1024 00:42:48,316 --> 00:42:50,026 Yeah. 1025 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,239 (sniffs) 1026 00:42:54,322 --> 00:42:56,116 Attallah? 1027 00:42:56,199 --> 00:42:58,368 ATTALLAH (over phone): Hi, Daddy. 1028 00:42:58,451 --> 00:43:00,704 Hey, sweetheart. 1029 00:43:00,787 --> 00:43:02,706 What are you doing up so late? 1030 00:43:02,789 --> 00:43:04,541 You woke me up. 1031 00:43:04,624 --> 00:43:07,419 -Oh, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. -(yawns) 1032 00:43:07,502 --> 00:43:10,755 I didn’t mean to wake you up, uh, but I’m glad you answered 1033 00:43:10,839 --> 00:43:13,174 because I’ve got something for you. 1034 00:43:13,258 --> 00:43:15,343 You want it now? 1035 00:43:15,427 --> 00:43:16,886 Okay. 1036 00:43:16,970 --> 00:43:20,682 All right, well, I need you to get down from the stool. 1037 00:43:20,765 --> 00:43:25,061 I want you to take three big jumps forward. 1038 00:43:26,938 --> 00:43:29,149 Now look to your left. 1039 00:43:29,232 --> 00:43:31,026 Now what’s in front of you? 1040 00:43:31,109 --> 00:43:32,110 ATTALLAH: Books. 1041 00:43:32,193 --> 00:43:33,653 MALCOLM: Books, that’s right. 1042 00:43:33,737 --> 00:43:36,448 Now I want you to take one of those books. 1043 00:43:36,531 --> 00:43:38,616 ATTALLAH: Which one? 1044 00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:40,076 MALCOLM: It’s your favorite number. 1045 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:44,914 One, two, three, four, five, six. 1046 00:43:44,998 --> 00:43:46,333 MALCOLM: There you go. 1047 00:43:46,416 --> 00:43:48,209 Now open it up. 1048 00:43:48,293 --> 00:43:50,754 Take a look inside. 1049 00:43:53,798 --> 00:43:55,258 You see it? 1050 00:43:55,342 --> 00:43:58,678 -Thank you, Daddy. -You be a good girl 1051 00:43:58,762 --> 00:44:01,598 -and you read that to your sisters, okay? -Okay. 1052 00:44:01,681 --> 00:44:03,058 BETTY: Attallah. It’s time to go to bed. 1053 00:44:03,141 --> 00:44:04,601 ATTALLAH: It’s Daddy. 1054 00:44:04,684 --> 00:44:07,604 I understand, sweetheart, but it’s time to go to bed. 1055 00:44:07,687 --> 00:44:10,231 ATTALLAH: Can I talk to him for a few more minutes? 1056 00:44:10,315 --> 00:44:12,150 -Please? -(chuckles) 1057 00:44:13,234 --> 00:44:14,736 Okay. 1058 00:44:14,819 --> 00:44:16,321 (chuckles) 1059 00:44:16,404 --> 00:44:18,114 Where are you? 1060 00:44:23,453 --> 00:44:25,580 (knock on door) 1061 00:44:26,915 --> 00:44:28,666 CASSIUS: Who is it? 1062 00:44:29,918 --> 00:44:32,253 Can I get anything for you, brothers? 1063 00:44:33,505 --> 00:44:35,382 Nah, man. We’re all good in here. 1064 00:44:35,465 --> 00:44:38,718 JAMAAL: Oh, good. Good. 1065 00:44:38,802 --> 00:44:40,095 Good. 1066 00:44:42,764 --> 00:44:44,099 Say, champ, you don’t suppose you could 1067 00:44:44,182 --> 00:44:46,851 see your way to signing an autograph for me? 1068 00:44:47,852 --> 00:44:50,355 Uh, yeah, of course, man. 1069 00:44:50,438 --> 00:44:52,232 -Yeah, come on in. -(Jim chuckles) 1070 00:44:52,315 --> 00:44:53,608 Yeah. You got to make sure 1071 00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:55,568 your superior officer don’t catch you? 1072 00:44:55,652 --> 00:44:58,029 Oh, yeah. Brother Kareem can run a pretty tight ship, 1073 00:44:58,113 --> 00:45:00,573 but he’s committed to teaching the young brothers discipline. 1074 00:45:00,657 --> 00:45:02,909 Yeah, well, I never been a fan of no tight ship. 1075 00:45:02,992 --> 00:45:04,702 Oh, quit messing with the young brother, Jim. 1076 00:45:04,786 --> 00:45:06,538 -Here, give him an autograph. -JAMAAL: Oh, yeah. 1077 00:45:06,621 --> 00:45:07,705 That-That’d be great. And, actually, champ, 1078 00:45:07,789 --> 00:45:09,207 I-I’m a couple of years older than you. 1079 00:45:09,290 --> 00:45:10,291 (chuckles): Oh, see, I’m such an overachiever, 1080 00:45:10,375 --> 00:45:11,668 sometimes I forget. 1081 00:45:11,751 --> 00:45:13,503 -(laughs) -JIM: Yeah. -Now, you know Jim Brown here 1082 00:45:13,586 --> 00:45:15,797 is the strongest man in the whole world? 1083 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,715 Oh, yeah. See, I’m from Toledo. 1084 00:45:17,799 --> 00:45:20,468 We’ve been watching Mr. Brown’s games for years now. 1085 00:45:20,552 --> 00:45:21,886 Actually, I almost got to go to one. 1086 00:45:21,970 --> 00:45:24,514 -Oh, yeah? -Yeah. 1087 00:45:24,597 --> 00:45:26,391 -Nah, I didn’t have no money. -(door closes) 1088 00:45:26,474 --> 00:45:27,475 Oh. 1089 00:45:27,559 --> 00:45:28,601 Mr. Cooke. 1090 00:45:28,685 --> 00:45:31,354 -If you wouldn’t mind. -(laughs softly) 1091 00:45:31,438 --> 00:45:33,690 SAM: Oh, sure thing, brother. 1092 00:45:38,069 --> 00:45:39,279 Hey, man. 1093 00:45:39,362 --> 00:45:40,572 Jamaal. 1094 00:45:40,655 --> 00:45:42,240 Yeah. 1095 00:45:42,323 --> 00:45:43,908 Mind if I ask you a question? 1096 00:45:43,992 --> 00:45:45,493 Yeah, sure. 1097 00:45:46,494 --> 00:45:48,580 You like being a Muslim? 1098 00:45:48,663 --> 00:45:51,791 Well, it... it beats being a purse thief from Toledo. 1099 00:45:51,875 --> 00:45:52,876 (laughs) 1100 00:45:52,959 --> 00:45:54,586 Yeah, I know that’s right. 1101 00:45:54,669 --> 00:45:56,296 No, I mean, but... 1102 00:45:56,379 --> 00:45:59,007 I mean, was it hard, you know, giving up stuff? 1103 00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:01,301 JAMAAL: Well, I reckon so. 1104 00:46:01,384 --> 00:46:04,345 I used to love me a nice Champale every now and then. 1105 00:46:04,429 --> 00:46:06,306 Certainly miss my grandmama’s pork chops. 1106 00:46:06,389 --> 00:46:08,224 -See? -JAMAAL: And it can be difficult. 1107 00:46:08,308 --> 00:46:10,393 -You know, like, the schedule. -CASSIUS: Yeah. 1108 00:46:10,477 --> 00:46:11,644 I mean, but none of that’s 1109 00:46:11,728 --> 00:46:13,104 gonna apply to you anyway, so... 1110 00:46:13,188 --> 00:46:14,522 CASSIUS: What you mean? 1111 00:46:14,606 --> 00:46:16,274 JAMAAL: I’m just saying, I don’t think 1112 00:46:16,357 --> 00:46:19,027 you’ll be spending much time handing out pamphlets is all. 1113 00:46:19,110 --> 00:46:20,820 (chuckles): Yeah. Yeah, I suppose you’re right. 1114 00:46:20,904 --> 00:46:22,155 Say, man. 1115 00:46:22,238 --> 00:46:24,449 Do you have any regrets? 1116 00:46:24,532 --> 00:46:26,659 Oh, regrets? I... 1117 00:46:26,743 --> 00:46:28,870 JIM: You know, with hitching your cart to the Muslim train. 1118 00:46:28,953 --> 00:46:30,747 JAMAAL: Yeah. Uh... 1119 00:46:30,830 --> 00:46:32,874 Yeah. 1120 00:46:32,957 --> 00:46:35,376 Yes, um... 1121 00:46:35,460 --> 00:46:37,170 I th-- I-I think you can say I do. 1122 00:46:37,253 --> 00:46:39,255 Really? 1123 00:46:39,339 --> 00:46:42,425 I regret that I didn’t join up when I was even younger. 1124 00:46:42,509 --> 00:46:43,843 -Ah. -Oh. 1125 00:46:43,927 --> 00:46:45,929 JAMAAL: This kid named Rollo used to chase me home 1126 00:46:46,012 --> 00:46:48,056 from school every damn day. 1127 00:46:48,139 --> 00:46:49,766 He’s the reason I stopped going. 1128 00:46:49,849 --> 00:46:51,601 -CASSIUS: Oh. -JAMAAL: Now, I reckon if I would’ve 1129 00:46:51,684 --> 00:46:52,936 gotten with the brothers sooner, 1130 00:46:53,019 --> 00:46:54,854 we could’ve nipped it in the bud 1131 00:46:54,938 --> 00:46:57,982 and put a foot in Rollo’s ass. You know what I’m saying? 1132 00:46:58,066 --> 00:46:59,984 Yeah, you don’t need religion for that, kid. 1133 00:47:00,068 --> 00:47:01,528 You could just join a gang. 1134 00:47:01,611 --> 00:47:03,696 What’s the damn difference? 1135 00:47:06,824 --> 00:47:08,701 Anyway, I-I better get going 1136 00:47:08,785 --> 00:47:10,703 before Brother Kareem gets back. 1137 00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:14,207 Hey, we’re all proud of you, champ. 1138 00:47:14,290 --> 00:47:15,583 Aw. 1139 00:47:17,961 --> 00:47:20,213 -Thanks, brother. -Yeah. 1140 00:47:23,758 --> 00:47:25,760 (chuckles) 1141 00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:27,136 (opens drawer) 1142 00:47:27,220 --> 00:47:29,097 (closes drawer) 1143 00:47:29,180 --> 00:47:32,350 (unscrews flask) 1144 00:47:33,309 --> 00:47:35,436 JIM: Drink up while you can. 1145 00:47:37,313 --> 00:47:39,357 ♪ ♪ 1146 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,651 (grunts) 1147 00:47:41,734 --> 00:47:43,361 -Damn. -Mm-hmm. 1148 00:47:43,444 --> 00:47:45,196 -(clears throat) -(chuckling) 1149 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,156 Betty. 1150 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:49,450 BETTY: Malcolm. 1151 00:47:49,534 --> 00:47:50,618 He did it. 1152 00:47:50,702 --> 00:47:51,953 I heard. 1153 00:47:52,036 --> 00:47:54,455 -(laughing): Praise Allah. -(laughs) 1154 00:47:57,542 --> 00:47:59,460 (inhales) 1155 00:47:59,544 --> 00:48:02,338 (crying) 1156 00:48:02,422 --> 00:48:04,215 Betty. 1157 00:48:04,299 --> 00:48:06,634 -Are you crying? -(chuckles) 1158 00:48:06,718 --> 00:48:09,762 I’m just... happy. 1159 00:48:10,722 --> 00:48:12,473 -Oh. -(car engine starts) 1160 00:48:12,557 --> 00:48:13,933 So am I. 1161 00:48:14,851 --> 00:48:16,311 So am I. 1162 00:48:16,394 --> 00:48:17,854 And is he going to... 1163 00:48:17,937 --> 00:48:21,024 He’ll be announcing tomorrow morning that he’s a Muslim. 1164 00:48:21,107 --> 00:48:23,067 (exhales) 1165 00:48:23,151 --> 00:48:27,113 Well, do you think he’ll go along with your plan? 1166 00:48:27,196 --> 00:48:32,952 Well, it’s too soon to tell, but, uh, I feel good about it. 1167 00:48:34,370 --> 00:48:37,540 Oh, Malcolm. 1168 00:48:37,624 --> 00:48:40,376 You were the only one who believed in him. (chuckles) 1169 00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:44,297 It’s only fitting that you and Cassius be blessed in this way. 1170 00:48:44,380 --> 00:48:46,758 That you do this thing together. 1171 00:48:46,841 --> 00:48:49,510 Well, I really do believe in him, Betty. 1172 00:48:49,594 --> 00:48:51,554 Well, he believes in you, too. 1173 00:48:51,638 --> 00:48:53,681 As well as he should. 1174 00:48:53,765 --> 00:48:55,516 (chuckles) 1175 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:57,226 Hey, Cash. 1176 00:48:57,310 --> 00:48:58,645 Can I tell you something? 1177 00:48:58,728 --> 00:49:01,689 Of course, man, anything. 1178 00:49:01,773 --> 00:49:03,274 I did a movie. 1179 00:49:03,358 --> 00:49:04,734 You produced a movie? 1180 00:49:04,817 --> 00:49:07,487 Nah, man, I starred in one. 1181 00:49:07,570 --> 00:49:10,323 (chuckles) 1182 00:49:10,406 --> 00:49:13,451 Oh, well, that’s great, Jim, but you’re not an actor. 1183 00:49:13,534 --> 00:49:15,286 That’s what I told the cat who wanted to cast me, 1184 00:49:15,370 --> 00:49:17,246 but he put me in his Western anyway. 1185 00:49:17,330 --> 00:49:19,165 -A Western, huh? -Yeah. 1186 00:49:19,248 --> 00:49:22,418 Okay, so, uh, who-who do you play? 1187 00:49:22,502 --> 00:49:24,545 I play a buffalo soldier. 1188 00:49:24,629 --> 00:49:26,047 I’m part of this special unit, 1189 00:49:26,130 --> 00:49:28,299 and, uh, we’re tracking this Confederate general. 1190 00:49:28,383 --> 00:49:30,343 He’s being protected by these Apaches. 1191 00:49:30,426 --> 00:49:31,469 Damn. 1192 00:49:31,552 --> 00:49:33,221 -That sounds pretty good. -Yeah. 1193 00:49:33,304 --> 00:49:35,223 -So you’re the hero? -One of them. 1194 00:49:35,306 --> 00:49:37,392 But my character gets killed about halfway through, 1195 00:49:37,475 --> 00:49:39,268 -so when... -(laughing) 1196 00:49:39,352 --> 00:49:40,561 What? 1197 00:49:40,645 --> 00:49:42,313 No, nothing, man. I just... 1198 00:49:42,397 --> 00:49:45,149 I should’ve known as soon as you said "Black action hero," 1199 00:49:45,233 --> 00:49:48,820 the next part of that sentence was gonna be "who gets killed." 1200 00:49:48,903 --> 00:49:50,905 Hmm. 1201 00:49:50,988 --> 00:49:52,573 It went well, man. 1202 00:49:52,657 --> 00:49:55,076 I think there might be a future for me in this. 1203 00:49:55,159 --> 00:49:57,620 Being the sacrificial Negro in some Western 1204 00:49:57,704 --> 00:49:59,831 ain’t the same as the NFL, man. 1205 00:49:59,914 --> 00:50:02,959 But how much you getting paid to be in this movie? 1206 00:50:03,042 --> 00:50:06,504 (chuckles) 1207 00:50:06,587 --> 00:50:09,465 $37,000. 1208 00:50:11,342 --> 00:50:12,343 -Damn. -Mm-hmm. 1209 00:50:12,427 --> 00:50:13,511 That’s pretty good. 1210 00:50:13,594 --> 00:50:15,221 It’s a lot easier on my knees, too. 1211 00:50:15,304 --> 00:50:18,099 Yeah, but the only reason they want you in that movie 1212 00:50:18,182 --> 00:50:20,518 is ’cause people know you from football. 1213 00:50:20,601 --> 00:50:25,231 I mean, you need the game, just like I need boxing. 1214 00:50:25,314 --> 00:50:27,567 We’re all just gladiators, Cash, 1215 00:50:27,650 --> 00:50:29,694 with our ruler sitting up there in his box, 1216 00:50:29,777 --> 00:50:32,697 giving us the thumbs up or the thumbs down. 1217 00:50:32,780 --> 00:50:34,282 Well, I don’t want no damn ruler. 1218 00:50:34,365 --> 00:50:35,867 All right? 1219 00:50:35,950 --> 00:50:37,827 Shit, it’s only so much running one man can do, anyway. 1220 00:50:37,910 --> 00:50:39,412 Oh, speak for yourself. 1221 00:50:39,495 --> 00:50:44,876 I plan to run, dance and fight well into my old age. 1222 00:50:46,335 --> 00:50:49,714 MALCOLM: Is everything okay at the house? 1223 00:50:49,797 --> 00:50:52,550 The girls behaving themselves? 1224 00:50:52,633 --> 00:50:54,093 As best as they can. 1225 00:50:54,177 --> 00:50:56,179 (both laugh) 1226 00:50:56,262 --> 00:50:58,389 ♪ ♪ 1227 00:51:06,314 --> 00:51:07,648 Malcolm? 1228 00:51:08,733 --> 00:51:10,026 Yes? 1229 00:51:10,109 --> 00:51:11,444 Is everything okay? 1230 00:51:11,527 --> 00:51:13,362 Yes. 1231 00:51:13,446 --> 00:51:16,574 Yes, everything’s fine. Uh-huh. 1232 00:51:18,409 --> 00:51:19,702 (phone booth door opens) 1233 00:51:19,786 --> 00:51:22,121 -Evening. -Hi, Sam Cooke. (laughs) 1234 00:51:24,290 --> 00:51:25,875 SAM: Hey! 1235 00:51:25,958 --> 00:51:28,836 I was wondering what was taking you so long to find a camera. 1236 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:30,880 I had to check in with Betty. 1237 00:51:31,881 --> 00:51:33,966 (imitates whip cracking) 1238 00:51:34,050 --> 00:51:36,886 Well, shouldn’t you be checking in with Barbara at the hotel? 1239 00:51:36,969 --> 00:51:39,055 Nah, she’s on her way back to Los Angeles. 1240 00:51:39,138 --> 00:51:42,183 I hope I haven’t unnecessarily kept you away from her. 1241 00:51:42,266 --> 00:51:43,810 No. 1242 00:51:45,812 --> 00:51:47,355 What you looking at? 1243 00:51:47,438 --> 00:51:49,774 Let’s make our way back to the hotel, Sam. 1244 00:52:02,703 --> 00:52:04,080 Oh, here they come. 1245 00:52:04,163 --> 00:52:05,289 My goodness. 1246 00:52:05,373 --> 00:52:07,500 You must have super hearing for real. 1247 00:52:07,583 --> 00:52:09,669 I’m Jim motherfucking Brown. 1248 00:52:09,752 --> 00:52:10,920 (both laugh) 1249 00:52:11,003 --> 00:52:12,505 Hey, uh, remember, man, 1250 00:52:12,588 --> 00:52:14,173 just don’t say anything about the movie shit. 1251 00:52:14,257 --> 00:52:15,258 Why are you embarrassed about it? 1252 00:52:15,341 --> 00:52:16,342 It’s not a big deal. 1253 00:52:16,425 --> 00:52:18,594 Just don’t say a goddamn thing. 1254 00:52:18,678 --> 00:52:20,263 Mum’s the word. 1255 00:52:22,515 --> 00:52:23,891 SAM: Thank you. 1256 00:52:23,975 --> 00:52:25,226 Brother Malcolm. 1257 00:52:25,309 --> 00:52:27,395 SAM: What are you handsome, rich... 1258 00:52:27,478 --> 00:52:29,355 KAREEM: Brother Malcolm. 1259 00:52:30,898 --> 00:52:32,859 Is there anything I can help you with? 1260 00:52:32,942 --> 00:52:35,069 Uh, no, brother. We’re-we’re doing just fine. 1261 00:52:35,152 --> 00:52:37,864 Well, you know where I am if you need me. 1262 00:52:39,407 --> 00:52:42,118 -God is great. -MALCOLM: Yes, he is. 1263 00:52:45,204 --> 00:52:47,331 ♪ ♪ 1264 00:52:51,085 --> 00:52:52,670 JIM: What’s with him? 1265 00:52:52,753 --> 00:52:54,714 SAM: He thinks someone’s following him. 1266 00:52:54,797 --> 00:52:57,967 You didn’t see those two white guys across the street, Sam? 1267 00:52:58,050 --> 00:52:59,552 I know when I’m being watched. 1268 00:52:59,635 --> 00:53:01,137 SAM: How you know they wasn’t watching me? 1269 00:53:01,220 --> 00:53:02,513 Shit, I’m famous. 1270 00:53:02,597 --> 00:53:04,557 CASSIUS: They ain’t all after you, Malcolm. 1271 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,058 Yeah, Hoover’s lackeys 1272 00:53:06,142 --> 00:53:07,476 have been following me around so long, 1273 00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,228 they know where I’m gonna be before I do. 1274 00:53:09,312 --> 00:53:11,022 See what happens when you don’t get enough exercise? 1275 00:53:11,105 --> 00:53:12,940 Your mind goes haywire. 1276 00:53:17,403 --> 00:53:18,738 Yeah, as a matter of fact, 1277 00:53:18,821 --> 00:53:22,742 maybe some exercise is just what we all need. 1278 00:53:24,035 --> 00:53:25,828 What say we stretch our legs, boys? 1279 00:53:25,912 --> 00:53:28,247 -SAM: Are you serious? -As a heart attack. 1280 00:53:33,628 --> 00:53:36,339 MALCOLM: I know when I’m being watched, Sam. 1281 00:53:36,422 --> 00:53:38,966 Well, your paranoia is really cramping my style, Malcolm. 1282 00:53:39,050 --> 00:53:41,135 Come on, just ’cause you can’t see bugs don’t mean 1283 00:53:41,218 --> 00:53:42,345 they ain’t in the house, Sam. 1284 00:53:42,428 --> 00:53:44,221 SAM: Up on this dirty-ass roof. 1285 00:53:44,305 --> 00:53:47,016 Why don’t you be like Bing Crosby about that shit, man, 1286 00:53:47,099 --> 00:53:50,144 and accentuate the motherfucking positive? 1287 00:53:50,227 --> 00:53:51,687 Look at this view. 1288 00:53:51,771 --> 00:53:54,482 (sighing) 1289 00:53:54,565 --> 00:53:56,734 CASSIUS: I bet they’re doing them for me. 1290 00:53:56,817 --> 00:53:59,904 (all chuckle) 1291 00:54:00,863 --> 00:54:02,198 It’s nice, ain’t it, Malcolm? 1292 00:54:02,281 --> 00:54:05,159 Yeah, it’s most definitely soothing, Cash. 1293 00:54:05,242 --> 00:54:08,245 The air up here is cooler. 1294 00:54:08,329 --> 00:54:11,248 Far away from the prying eyes of your G-men. 1295 00:54:11,332 --> 00:54:13,542 Yeah, well, you joke all you want, Sam, 1296 00:54:13,626 --> 00:54:15,878 but I’m telling you it’s got worse 1297 00:54:15,962 --> 00:54:18,255 since the tension between me and Mr. Muhammad. 1298 00:54:19,715 --> 00:54:21,842 I met with a writer in New York a few weeks back. 1299 00:54:21,926 --> 00:54:24,637 There were two guys following us through the airport. 1300 00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:26,430 Swear it was the same two. 1301 00:54:26,514 --> 00:54:29,100 I thought you didn’t trust writers. 1302 00:54:29,183 --> 00:54:30,893 Oh. 1303 00:54:30,977 --> 00:54:32,853 This one was a brother, and... 1304 00:54:32,937 --> 00:54:35,064 well, this meeting was important. 1305 00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:37,566 I figure I’d better start 1306 00:54:37,650 --> 00:54:38,859 getting my life story documented 1307 00:54:38,943 --> 00:54:41,362 in my own words while I can. 1308 00:54:41,445 --> 00:54:43,864 What are you talking about, man? 1309 00:54:46,242 --> 00:54:48,077 Jimmy, there’s, uh... 1310 00:54:49,537 --> 00:54:52,707 ...there’s been this feeling permeating the air as of late. 1311 00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:55,418 -Uh, anger? -Anxiety? 1312 00:54:55,501 --> 00:54:56,919 Humidity. 1313 00:54:57,003 --> 00:54:58,254 (chuckles) 1314 00:54:58,337 --> 00:55:00,464 MALCOLM: More like menace. 1315 00:55:00,548 --> 00:55:02,299 Foreboding or... 1316 00:55:03,718 --> 00:55:05,177 ...death. 1317 00:55:05,261 --> 00:55:07,471 (fireworks exploding) 1318 00:55:10,349 --> 00:55:11,976 Well, Jim’s quitting football 1319 00:55:12,059 --> 00:55:14,311 -to become a movie star, y’all. -Cassius! What the fuck? 1320 00:55:14,395 --> 00:55:15,521 Sorry, man. I had to do something to lighten the mood. 1321 00:55:15,604 --> 00:55:16,605 Holy shit, you are? 1322 00:55:16,689 --> 00:55:19,275 Oh. Look, hey, hey, man. 1323 00:55:19,358 --> 00:55:21,235 I’m not quitting football, okay? 1324 00:55:21,318 --> 00:55:24,280 I’m just exploring other options for after it ends. 1325 00:55:24,363 --> 00:55:25,990 SAM: I think it’s a great idea. 1326 00:55:26,073 --> 00:55:27,992 Yeah, you get that career going, Jim. 1327 00:55:28,075 --> 00:55:30,369 Yeah, well, L.A.’s the land of milk and honey, baby. 1328 00:55:30,453 --> 00:55:32,621 We can do whatever we want to out there. 1329 00:55:32,705 --> 00:55:34,665 You can’t live in Beverly Hills. 1330 00:55:34,749 --> 00:55:36,959 Don’t need to. Got our own Black Beverly Hills. 1331 00:55:37,043 --> 00:55:38,627 And we got the better view. 1332 00:55:38,711 --> 00:55:40,296 Baldwin Hills, baby. 1333 00:55:40,379 --> 00:55:42,798 Top of the hill, looks out over the whole city, 1334 00:55:42,882 --> 00:55:44,216 mountains in the distance. 1335 00:55:44,300 --> 00:55:45,384 Nicer than Harlem. 1336 00:55:45,468 --> 00:55:46,802 Hell of a lot nicer than Overtown. 1337 00:55:46,886 --> 00:55:48,596 No tenements or slumlords. 1338 00:55:48,679 --> 00:55:52,850 It’s just sunshine, pools and beaches. 1339 00:55:52,933 --> 00:55:54,560 Don’t need no Green Book telling you 1340 00:55:54,643 --> 00:55:56,228 -where you can and can’t go. -Hmm. 1341 00:55:56,312 --> 00:55:59,273 The only color that matters out in Cali is that green. 1342 00:55:59,356 --> 00:56:00,900 You sound like you might be getting 1343 00:56:00,983 --> 00:56:02,777 a bit seduced out there, brother. 1344 00:56:02,860 --> 00:56:04,945 Yeah, you know, I’m the one doing all the seducing. 1345 00:56:05,029 --> 00:56:06,614 Well, you watch out for this one, Jimmy. 1346 00:56:06,697 --> 00:56:08,240 He’ll lead you down the primrose path. 1347 00:56:08,324 --> 00:56:10,576 Shit, the only disasters out in Hollywood 1348 00:56:10,659 --> 00:56:12,620 are up there on that movie screen. 1349 00:56:12,703 --> 00:56:15,206 Now, trust me, Jimmy, there’s a real future in it. 1350 00:56:15,289 --> 00:56:17,708 Well, I should be in movies, too, then. 1351 00:56:17,792 --> 00:56:19,835 Damn, I’m too pretty not to be up on screen. 1352 00:56:19,919 --> 00:56:20,920 SAM: There you go! 1353 00:56:21,003 --> 00:56:22,838 -And you, too, Malcolm. -Yeah? 1354 00:56:22,922 --> 00:56:25,174 -Mm, you could be our-our director. -(laughs) 1355 00:56:25,257 --> 00:56:26,425 Come on, show us the camera. 1356 00:56:26,509 --> 00:56:27,760 SAM: Come on, man, show us the camera. 1357 00:56:27,843 --> 00:56:31,055 MALCOLM: Well... 1358 00:56:31,138 --> 00:56:32,681 ...it’s a pretty fantastic camera. 1359 00:56:32,765 --> 00:56:33,849 SAM: All right. 1360 00:56:33,933 --> 00:56:35,226 MALCOLM: Betty got it for me. 1361 00:56:35,309 --> 00:56:36,644 -It’s a Rolleiflex... -Bee sting! 1362 00:56:36,727 --> 00:56:38,354 -Oh! -That cam... camera... -Damn, come on! 1363 00:56:38,437 --> 00:56:39,647 -Hey. Hey, guys, over here. -Sam, please, please. Sam! 1364 00:56:39,730 --> 00:56:41,440 -Ha! -MALCOLM: Jimmy, what, you blew your wig?! 1365 00:56:41,524 --> 00:56:43,192 -Give me the damn camera! -(others laughing) 1366 00:56:43,275 --> 00:56:46,112 You lost your mind? 1367 00:56:47,154 --> 00:56:48,781 You know how much this thing costs? 1368 00:56:48,864 --> 00:56:51,200 I think we done hit a nerve. 1369 00:56:51,283 --> 00:56:53,786 Malcolm done dropped the affected speech and everything. 1370 00:56:53,869 --> 00:56:55,955 Yeah, that’s right. 1371 00:56:56,038 --> 00:56:57,706 I got more rep than all three-- 1372 00:56:57,790 --> 00:56:59,750 one, two, three of you clowns put together. 1373 00:56:59,834 --> 00:57:01,127 Oh, come on, man. 1374 00:57:01,210 --> 00:57:04,797 Rep don’t carry over from decade to decade. 1375 00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:06,507 Tired-ass 1940s slang you using. 1376 00:57:06,590 --> 00:57:07,842 JIM: That was definitely not hep, daddy-o. 1377 00:57:07,925 --> 00:57:09,009 SAM: Talking about "blew your wig." 1378 00:57:09,093 --> 00:57:11,137 Just show us the camera, Negro. 1379 00:57:11,220 --> 00:57:14,807 Fine, just stop joking for a second. 1380 00:57:14,890 --> 00:57:15,975 Okay. 1381 00:57:16,058 --> 00:57:17,184 (laughing) 1382 00:57:17,268 --> 00:57:18,477 Jesus. 1383 00:57:21,147 --> 00:57:22,982 SAM and JIM: "You blew your wig." 1384 00:57:23,065 --> 00:57:24,233 (Jim laughs) 1385 00:57:24,316 --> 00:57:26,068 -"Blew your wig." -Oh, he’s taking a picture. 1386 00:57:26,152 --> 00:57:27,611 Oh, uh, hold on. Wait. 1387 00:57:27,695 --> 00:57:30,239 -(chuckling, muttering) -(clears throat) 1388 00:57:30,322 --> 00:57:33,367 -Looking sharp now. -MALCOLM: It’s a Rolleiflex 3.5. 1389 00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:36,620 A German twin-lens reflex camera. 1390 00:57:36,704 --> 00:57:38,581 It’s a fine piece of engineering, gents. 1391 00:57:38,664 --> 00:57:40,958 You see, it has this, uh, pop-out viewfinder. 1392 00:57:41,041 --> 00:57:42,126 Well, it looks bulky. 1393 00:57:42,209 --> 00:57:43,502 MALCOLM: No, Jimmy, it’s a work of art. 1394 00:57:43,586 --> 00:57:44,587 JIM: Hmm. 1395 00:57:44,670 --> 00:57:46,422 (camera clicks) 1396 00:57:47,548 --> 00:57:49,175 Yeah. Besides, uh, you know, 1397 00:57:49,258 --> 00:57:52,052 I’ve always got my Nikon handy for taking photos on the move. 1398 00:57:52,136 --> 00:57:54,847 Like when you’re running from the Feds? 1399 00:57:54,930 --> 00:57:55,931 -(chuckles) -Yeah. 1400 00:57:56,015 --> 00:57:57,892 Or, uh, riding on a camel. 1401 00:57:58,934 --> 00:58:01,854 Mm. Where to? 1402 00:58:01,937 --> 00:58:04,148 -Mecca. -(Jim chuckles softly) 1403 00:58:04,231 --> 00:58:06,567 Ah, you’re going to Saudi Arabia? 1404 00:58:06,650 --> 00:58:07,943 MALCOLM: Mm-hmm. 1405 00:58:08,027 --> 00:58:09,195 Yes. 1406 00:58:09,278 --> 00:58:10,696 All Muslims are supposed to do it 1407 00:58:10,779 --> 00:58:12,489 at least once in their lives, Sam. 1408 00:58:12,573 --> 00:58:15,701 And, well, since I’m not doing any speaking right now, this... 1409 00:58:15,784 --> 00:58:17,828 this feels like as good a time as any. 1410 00:58:17,912 --> 00:58:20,789 Oh, maybe I’ll take a few detours while I’m out there. 1411 00:58:20,873 --> 00:58:22,958 Be quite amazing to see the Great Pyramids. 1412 00:58:23,042 --> 00:58:25,211 Man, that sounds fantastic. 1413 00:58:25,294 --> 00:58:26,879 Oh, it will be. 1414 00:58:26,962 --> 00:58:29,048 If your schedule permits, you should join me. 1415 00:58:29,131 --> 00:58:31,425 Hey, count me in. 1416 00:58:31,508 --> 00:58:32,843 -JIM: Yeah? -Count me in. 1417 00:58:32,927 --> 00:58:35,179 I mean, fine African sisters. 1418 00:58:35,262 --> 00:58:37,389 Come on, Jim, I know you’re down with that. 1419 00:58:37,473 --> 00:58:39,725 Oh, with the ladies, most definitely. 1420 00:58:39,808 --> 00:58:40,935 But I’m up for another part. 1421 00:58:41,018 --> 00:58:42,353 So, see, in between that and camp, 1422 00:58:42,436 --> 00:58:44,104 I won’t have time for a trip to Africa. 1423 00:58:44,188 --> 00:58:46,732 Hey, you should consider coming as well, Sam. 1424 00:58:46,815 --> 00:58:48,859 Leaving this country in the rearview for a while 1425 00:58:48,943 --> 00:58:51,695 is a great way to get some perspective. 1426 00:58:51,779 --> 00:58:53,656 Nah, I’m busy, too. 1427 00:58:53,739 --> 00:58:56,242 One can never be too busy for some added perspective. 1428 00:58:56,325 --> 00:58:58,160 SAM: Nah, I’m swamped, man. 1429 00:58:58,244 --> 00:59:02,289 And I got to prep to go back to the Copa. 1430 00:59:02,373 --> 00:59:03,707 (laughing): Oh, come on, man. 1431 00:59:03,791 --> 00:59:06,001 You need to go on and forget about the Copa. 1432 00:59:06,085 --> 00:59:07,753 It was not that bad. 1433 00:59:07,836 --> 00:59:10,089 CASSIUS: Come on, man. 1434 00:59:10,172 --> 00:59:12,174 All right, fine, maybe it was that bad. 1435 00:59:12,258 --> 00:59:13,634 Well, y-you don’t shuck and jive enough 1436 00:59:13,717 --> 00:59:15,302 for those ofay tastes. 1437 00:59:15,386 --> 00:59:18,264 I may not dance around a stage like Jackie or James Brown, 1438 00:59:18,347 --> 00:59:20,349 but that’s not what I’m selling, all right? 1439 00:59:20,432 --> 00:59:24,311 I’m selling my voice, my words, my image... 1440 00:59:24,395 --> 00:59:25,562 my-my message. 1441 00:59:25,646 --> 00:59:27,398 MALCOLM: Your message? Hmm. 1442 00:59:27,481 --> 00:59:29,191 The problem is, at the Copa, you have to sell that message 1443 00:59:29,275 --> 00:59:30,567 to a bunch of white folks. 1444 00:59:30,651 --> 00:59:32,945 That don’t matter. They got souls, don’t they? 1445 00:59:33,028 --> 00:59:34,280 And every living thing with a soul 1446 00:59:34,363 --> 00:59:35,864 can have that soul tapped into. 1447 00:59:35,948 --> 00:59:37,241 -I thought you’d know that. -Do you think, 1448 00:59:37,324 --> 00:59:38,701 just maybe, your energy’s misdirected, Sam, 1449 00:59:38,784 --> 00:59:39,910 trying to tap into white people’s souls? 1450 00:59:39,994 --> 00:59:41,745 No, I don’t. 1451 00:59:41,829 --> 00:59:43,706 If I win them over, playing our music, 1452 00:59:43,789 --> 00:59:45,708 I’m-I’m knocking down doors for everybody. 1453 00:59:45,791 --> 00:59:47,001 You watch and see. 1454 00:59:47,084 --> 00:59:49,795 It’s not gonna always be the pop charts over here, 1455 00:59:49,878 --> 00:59:51,630 Black music charts over there. 1456 00:59:51,714 --> 00:59:53,799 -One day, it’s gonna be one chart... -Mm. 1457 00:59:53,882 --> 00:59:55,801 ...with one music, for all people. 1458 00:59:55,884 --> 00:59:57,219 What kind of message are you sending, though, 1459 00:59:57,303 --> 00:59:58,887 by doing one show for white folks 1460 00:59:58,971 --> 01:00:00,431 and a completely different show for Black folks, Sam? 1461 01:00:00,514 --> 01:00:02,182 -(scoffs) -You... N-No, listen to me. 1462 01:00:02,266 --> 01:00:04,018 You’re performing in-in places where the only Black people 1463 01:00:04,101 --> 01:00:06,020 not onstage are the ones serving the food. 1464 01:00:06,103 --> 01:00:07,771 Don’t you think I know that? 1465 01:00:07,855 --> 01:00:09,940 Can’t tell you how many times I wanted to reach out 1466 01:00:10,024 --> 01:00:11,442 and punch somebody, but you c... 1467 01:00:11,525 --> 01:00:13,235 Then, then, then, then strike with the weapon 1468 01:00:13,319 --> 01:00:15,404 that you have, man, your voice! 1469 01:00:15,487 --> 01:00:17,281 Black people-- we-we standing up. 1470 01:00:17,364 --> 01:00:19,700 -Mm-hmm. -We-we speaking out. 1471 01:00:19,783 --> 01:00:24,163 Sam, you have possibly one of the most effective, 1472 01:00:24,246 --> 01:00:26,957 beautiful outlets of us all. 1473 01:00:27,041 --> 01:00:28,584 Y-You’re not using it to help the cause, brother. 1474 01:00:28,667 --> 01:00:30,794 The hell I’m not. 1475 01:00:30,878 --> 01:00:33,172 I got the masters to my songs. 1476 01:00:33,255 --> 01:00:34,465 I started a label. 1477 01:00:34,548 --> 01:00:35,883 I’m producing tons of Black artists. 1478 01:00:35,966 --> 01:00:38,302 Don’t you think my determining 1479 01:00:38,385 --> 01:00:40,179 my creative and business destiny 1480 01:00:40,262 --> 01:00:42,056 is every bit as inspiring to people 1481 01:00:42,139 --> 01:00:44,975 as you standing up on a podium trying to piss them off? 1482 01:00:45,059 --> 01:00:47,227 Oh, wait a minute. I forgot. 1483 01:00:47,311 --> 01:00:49,355 That’s all you do! 1484 01:00:49,438 --> 01:00:50,856 Sam, I do plenty. 1485 01:00:50,939 --> 01:00:53,025 Oh, do you? Let’s see. You suck at sports. 1486 01:00:53,108 --> 01:00:54,318 Well, I-I was never much into football. 1487 01:00:54,401 --> 01:00:55,527 SAM: Can’t sing. 1488 01:00:55,611 --> 01:00:57,738 Damn sure can’t make shit out of no peanut. 1489 01:00:57,821 --> 01:00:59,281 Is there a point to this rant, Sam? 1490 01:00:59,365 --> 01:01:01,158 My point is that sometimes I feel like you’re just like 1491 01:01:01,241 --> 01:01:03,160 all the rest of them people out there, obsessed with the stars. 1492 01:01:03,243 --> 01:01:04,953 -(laughing) -Oh, no, no, no, Cash. 1493 01:01:05,037 --> 01:01:06,205 -SAM: You look around. Look around. -Let him finish. 1494 01:01:06,288 --> 01:01:08,499 SAM: Which one of us don’t belong? 1495 01:01:08,582 --> 01:01:11,418 -Don’t belong? -(chuckles): Don’t belong. 1496 01:01:11,502 --> 01:01:13,045 Brother Sam, the only person here 1497 01:01:13,128 --> 01:01:15,047 white people seem to like-- 1498 01:01:15,130 --> 01:01:16,423 that would be you. 1499 01:01:16,507 --> 01:01:18,258 -(laughs) -Hey, y’all need to cool it now, man. 1500 01:01:18,342 --> 01:01:21,261 You know, you always managed to just be around for shit, 1501 01:01:21,345 --> 01:01:22,471 haven’t you? 1502 01:01:22,554 --> 01:01:24,181 Maybe your daddy should’ve beaten you better. 1503 01:01:24,264 --> 01:01:25,974 -Jimmy, I’m gonna kick this motherfucker’s ass. -Oh, whoa. 1504 01:01:26,058 --> 01:01:27,726 You can let him go. Let him go. 1505 01:01:27,810 --> 01:01:29,061 Everything all right, Brother Malcolm? 1506 01:01:29,144 --> 01:01:30,646 -SAM: What do you want? -Hey. Hey. 1507 01:01:30,729 --> 01:01:31,939 -Get your motherfucking hands off me! -Hey. Hey. 1508 01:01:32,022 --> 01:01:33,732 Oh, I don’t think so. 1509 01:01:33,816 --> 01:01:36,360 Our job here is to protect the brother minister. 1510 01:01:36,443 --> 01:01:39,154 Listen, Kareem, I don’t need your protection, brother. 1511 01:01:41,031 --> 01:01:45,869 Well, now that that’s settled, away you go. 1512 01:01:45,953 --> 01:01:47,663 Negro, I will leave when I am good... 1513 01:01:47,746 --> 01:01:48,831 You best think long and hard 1514 01:01:48,914 --> 01:01:50,958 ’fore you wag that tongue at me. 1515 01:01:57,548 --> 01:01:58,674 God is great. 1516 01:01:58,757 --> 01:02:00,467 MALCOLM: Yeah, greater than any of us. 1517 01:02:07,641 --> 01:02:08,851 Ah, yeah. 1518 01:02:08,934 --> 01:02:11,103 ♪ ♪ 1519 01:02:14,314 --> 01:02:16,316 Your security people are assholes. 1520 01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,277 Yeah, I don’t choose them. 1521 01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:19,570 What’s wrong with you, Sam? 1522 01:02:19,653 --> 01:02:21,280 You’re supposed to be smooth, man. 1523 01:02:21,363 --> 01:02:24,199 Ain’t easy being smooth with this sandpaper nigga around. 1524 01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,119 (sighs): Shit. 1525 01:02:41,175 --> 01:02:43,594 (sighs) 1526 01:02:43,677 --> 01:02:45,095 You two done fighting now? 1527 01:02:45,179 --> 01:02:47,014 SAM: I wasn’t trying to fight nobody. 1528 01:02:47,097 --> 01:02:48,724 That’s Malcolm. 1529 01:02:48,807 --> 01:02:50,851 Always pissed off. 1530 01:02:54,730 --> 01:02:56,482 "Pissed off"? 1531 01:02:58,066 --> 01:02:59,818 You say "pissed off," Brother Sam? 1532 01:02:59,902 --> 01:03:01,862 You know, what is going on around us, 1533 01:03:01,945 --> 01:03:04,615 it should make everyone angry. 1534 01:03:04,698 --> 01:03:07,409 Uh, you know, you bourgeois Negroes, 1535 01:03:07,493 --> 01:03:09,828 you’re too happy, uh, with your scraps 1536 01:03:09,912 --> 01:03:13,373 to really understand what is at stake here. 1537 01:03:13,457 --> 01:03:16,210 What, you-you think Cash being the world champ 1538 01:03:16,293 --> 01:03:18,921 is gonna protect him from the devils 1539 01:03:19,004 --> 01:03:21,590 that harassed him from the first day that he got here? 1540 01:03:21,673 --> 01:03:23,133 Mm, I’d like to see them try. 1541 01:03:23,217 --> 01:03:25,219 -MALCOLM: Huh? And Jimmy. -JIM: Hmm? 1542 01:03:25,302 --> 01:03:27,387 Jimmy is the best football player in the world, 1543 01:03:27,471 --> 01:03:29,598 but he is also giving money to Black-owned businesses. 1544 01:03:29,681 --> 01:03:31,808 What, you-you don’t think that-that threatens 1545 01:03:31,892 --> 01:03:32,893 a lot of white people? 1546 01:03:32,976 --> 01:03:33,977 Hmm? 1547 01:03:34,061 --> 01:03:35,187 You don’t think the FBI is 1548 01:03:35,270 --> 01:03:36,438 probably starting to follow him around, too? 1549 01:03:36,522 --> 01:03:37,940 Oh, man, now you’re gonna fucking jinx me. 1550 01:03:38,023 --> 01:03:39,566 And that is why, Brother Sam, 1551 01:03:39,650 --> 01:03:43,779 this-this movement that we are in is called a struggle. 1552 01:03:43,862 --> 01:03:46,907 Because we are fighting for our lives! 1553 01:03:46,990 --> 01:03:48,700 (laughs) 1554 01:03:48,784 --> 01:03:51,203 And what words are we hearing from you, brother? 1555 01:03:52,996 --> 01:03:55,165 Mm, Mr. Soul. 1556 01:03:58,085 --> 01:04:01,213 (needle drops, record crackles) 1557 01:04:01,296 --> 01:04:06,593 ♪ Darling, you send me ♪ 1558 01:04:06,677 --> 01:04:09,805 ♪ I know you send me ♪ 1559 01:04:09,888 --> 01:04:11,306 Or maybe this one. 1560 01:04:11,390 --> 01:04:13,433 -♪ Darling, y... ♪ -(music stops) 1561 01:04:15,811 --> 01:04:18,313 ♪ I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you ♪ 1562 01:04:18,397 --> 01:04:21,441 ♪ I love you, I love you, I love you ♪ 1563 01:04:21,525 --> 01:04:23,443 -♪ I love you, I love you, I love you ♪ -(snaps fingers) 1564 01:04:23,527 --> 01:04:25,237 -♪ I love you, I love you, I love you ♪ -(laughs) 1565 01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:29,491 ♪ I love you, I love you ♪ 1566 01:04:31,118 --> 01:04:34,037 ♪ For sentimental reasons ♪ 1567 01:04:34,121 --> 01:04:35,831 (laughs) 1568 01:04:35,914 --> 01:04:38,917 -♪ I hope you do believe me... ♪ -Oh. 1569 01:04:39,876 --> 01:04:41,670 -Wow, Sam. -(music stops) 1570 01:04:41,753 --> 01:04:43,338 Your music is deep, brother. 1571 01:04:43,422 --> 01:04:45,215 Hey, man, I love them songs. 1572 01:04:45,299 --> 01:04:46,842 Back-never-facing-the-door, bean-pie-eating, 1573 01:04:46,925 --> 01:04:48,010 self-righteous motherfucker. 1574 01:04:48,093 --> 01:04:49,428 And, to boot, most of them are 1575 01:04:49,511 --> 01:04:52,598 versions of the church songs that nurtured you. 1576 01:04:52,681 --> 01:04:54,891 You-you twisted them and you perverted them 1577 01:04:54,975 --> 01:04:56,893 to feed a-a white crowd. 1578 01:04:56,977 --> 01:04:58,437 SAM: That is bullshit. 1579 01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,440 Most of the artists I work with are gospel sing-- 1580 01:05:01,523 --> 01:05:03,650 And do you have any idea what I’ve given back to the church? 1581 01:05:03,734 --> 01:05:05,861 Do you know-- h-how many times do I have to hear that, Jimmy? 1582 01:05:05,944 --> 01:05:07,446 You know, that has got to be the greatest fault 1583 01:05:07,529 --> 01:05:10,198 of you so-called, uh, successful Negroes. 1584 01:05:10,282 --> 01:05:12,034 -You’ll do something detrimental... -Here he goes. 1585 01:05:12,117 --> 01:05:14,244 ...to your own people with the promise that-that, 1586 01:05:14,328 --> 01:05:16,997 after you get rich, then you’re gonna make it back up to them. 1587 01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:18,749 With-with a handout. 1588 01:05:18,832 --> 01:05:20,542 Or some gesture of patronage. 1589 01:05:20,626 --> 01:05:22,919 -Malcolm, Malcolm, all right. -No, Jimmy. 1590 01:05:23,003 --> 01:05:25,631 And what you don’t get, Brother Sam: 1591 01:05:25,714 --> 01:05:27,674 you’ve made it, brother. 1592 01:05:27,758 --> 01:05:30,260 But for all the others, the majority of people 1593 01:05:30,344 --> 01:05:31,970 who had their own self-destructive dreams 1594 01:05:32,054 --> 01:05:35,390 and didn’t make it, what they left behind? 1595 01:05:35,474 --> 01:05:38,810 No, all they left behind is a legacy of negativity! 1596 01:05:38,894 --> 01:05:40,437 But that’s okay, ’cause they all meant well. 1597 01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:42,522 JIM: Malcolm, will you please have some damn ice cream? 1598 01:05:42,606 --> 01:05:44,524 You will never be loved by the people 1599 01:05:44,608 --> 01:05:47,194 you’re trying so hard to win over. 1600 01:05:47,277 --> 01:05:48,445 Never. 1601 01:05:48,528 --> 01:05:51,990 You’re just a windup toy in a music box. 1602 01:05:52,074 --> 01:05:53,867 A-A monkey. 1603 01:05:53,950 --> 01:05:55,369 That’s what you are. 1604 01:05:55,452 --> 01:05:58,997 You’re a monkey dancing for an organ grinder to them. 1605 01:06:02,751 --> 01:06:04,336 (whistles) 1606 01:06:04,419 --> 01:06:06,755 Y’all pulled out the knives. 1607 01:06:06,838 --> 01:06:10,175 And if I get cut, I’m fittin’ to hurt somebody. 1608 01:06:15,597 --> 01:06:17,724 (sighs) 1609 01:06:24,481 --> 01:06:27,109 MALCOLM: Cassius, who-who were those English boys 1610 01:06:27,192 --> 01:06:29,403 you-you were hanging out with a couple days ago? 1611 01:06:29,486 --> 01:06:30,779 CASSIUS: The Beatles. 1612 01:06:30,862 --> 01:06:32,948 MALCOLM: Yes, The "Be-a-tles." 1613 01:06:33,031 --> 01:06:35,575 (Malcolm scoffs) 1614 01:06:35,659 --> 01:06:37,619 All that time you spent on the road, Sam, 1615 01:06:37,703 --> 01:06:41,123 entertaining the children of bigots, 1616 01:06:41,206 --> 01:06:43,667 and at the end of the day, white folks would still rather 1617 01:06:43,750 --> 01:06:44,960 import their popular music. 1618 01:06:45,043 --> 01:06:47,170 CASSIUS: Just hold on one second. 1619 01:06:48,672 --> 01:06:51,758 Now, yeah, The Beatles, th-they’re funny... 1620 01:06:53,427 --> 01:06:55,929 ...but they ain’t no Sam Cooke. 1621 01:06:56,012 --> 01:06:58,181 (chuckles softly) 1622 01:06:58,265 --> 01:07:00,475 They’re-they’re... they’re more of a fad. 1623 01:07:00,559 --> 01:07:04,604 Yeah, well, if not them, then-then someone else, Cash. 1624 01:07:04,688 --> 01:07:09,192 The bottom line: this is too important a time, brother, 1625 01:07:09,276 --> 01:07:11,403 to be wasting a-a brilliant 1626 01:07:11,486 --> 01:07:14,072 and-and creative mind on pandering. 1627 01:07:14,156 --> 01:07:16,324 And it’s too damn hot in here to be wearing that blazer. 1628 01:07:16,408 --> 01:07:17,951 So what’s your point? 1629 01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:19,494 My-my point is, 1630 01:07:19,578 --> 01:07:22,914 Brother Sam, that I am just one voice in this struggle. 1631 01:07:22,998 --> 01:07:24,666 Just one. 1632 01:07:24,750 --> 01:07:26,543 And Cassius, Cassius-- he’s another 1633 01:07:26,626 --> 01:07:30,630 who-who pushes us forward with his fists and with his words. 1634 01:07:30,714 --> 01:07:34,092 And Jimmy, Jimmy pushes us forward with his fearlessness 1635 01:07:34,176 --> 01:07:36,928 and-and his relentlessness. 1636 01:07:37,012 --> 01:07:38,430 My point is that you, brother, 1637 01:07:38,513 --> 01:07:41,850 you could be the loudest voice of us all. 1638 01:07:45,312 --> 01:07:47,272 The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if we... 1639 01:07:47,355 --> 01:07:48,607 No, hold on, hold on. 1640 01:07:48,690 --> 01:07:49,941 Now, I ain’t ask you 1641 01:07:50,025 --> 01:07:51,193 what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad thought. 1642 01:07:51,276 --> 01:07:53,528 I asked you what you thought. 1643 01:07:53,612 --> 01:07:55,071 There you go with, 1644 01:07:55,155 --> 01:07:56,490 "The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says this, 1645 01:07:56,573 --> 01:07:59,159 Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that." 1646 01:07:59,242 --> 01:08:01,244 And when the Honorable Elijah Muhammad tells you 1647 01:08:01,328 --> 01:08:02,746 to shut the fuck up, 1648 01:08:02,829 --> 01:08:04,873 -you damn sure do that, too. -No. 1649 01:08:04,956 --> 01:08:06,374 What is going on between the Nation and me, Sam, 1650 01:08:06,458 --> 01:08:08,210 -is way more complicated. -But you still obey them. 1651 01:08:08,293 --> 01:08:09,294 When they tell you to come out here 1652 01:08:09,377 --> 01:08:11,421 and-and recruit Cassius 1653 01:08:11,505 --> 01:08:12,923 to become a member of something you don’t even seem to believe! 1654 01:08:13,006 --> 01:08:14,341 What are you talking about? I’m not making-- I’m not-- 1655 01:08:14,424 --> 01:08:15,550 I’m not making Cassius do anything! 1656 01:08:15,634 --> 01:08:17,594 Ca-- He came to me for insight. 1657 01:08:17,677 --> 01:08:19,679 He-he had questions. (stammers) 1658 01:08:19,763 --> 01:08:22,224 His passion for Islam comes from a pure place, Sam. 1659 01:08:22,307 --> 01:08:24,768 CASSIUS: "Passion" is... 1660 01:08:24,851 --> 01:08:25,852 (exhales) 1661 01:08:25,936 --> 01:08:28,104 ...kind of a strong word. 1662 01:08:39,658 --> 01:08:41,993 Well, you couldn’t stop talking about how excited you were 1663 01:08:42,077 --> 01:08:44,621 -to come out with your faith to the world, Cash. -True. 1664 01:08:44,704 --> 01:08:46,998 True. I was. I am. It’s just that... 1665 01:08:47,082 --> 01:08:48,792 -What is it? -If we’re being completely honest and all, 1666 01:08:48,875 --> 01:08:50,794 I guess being a Muslim 1667 01:08:50,877 --> 01:08:55,090 sounded like a much better idea before tonight. 1668 01:08:59,928 --> 01:09:03,515 How could you have any second thoughts, Cash? I... 1669 01:09:03,598 --> 01:09:05,475 You’re on top of the world. I-I don’t understand. 1670 01:09:05,559 --> 01:09:09,104 He didn’t actually think he was gonna win tonight, Malcolm. 1671 01:09:09,187 --> 01:09:11,439 -Cash? -Course I knew. 1672 01:09:11,523 --> 01:09:13,441 I’m the best... (exhales) 1673 01:09:13,525 --> 01:09:14,901 I’m the greatest there ever will be. 1674 01:09:14,985 --> 01:09:16,570 -I’m-I’m just saying that... -Easy, Cassius. 1675 01:09:16,653 --> 01:09:18,071 No, I’m good. 1676 01:09:19,114 --> 01:09:21,449 I’m just a little nervous is all. 1677 01:09:21,533 --> 01:09:23,493 That’s natural, ain’t it? 1678 01:09:27,539 --> 01:09:29,332 Malcolm. 1679 01:09:33,587 --> 01:09:36,631 SAM: It takes a hustler to see a hustle. 1680 01:09:38,383 --> 01:09:41,261 Say, let me ask you something, Mr. Know-It-All. 1681 01:09:44,389 --> 01:09:48,685 How is it helpful for Black people 1682 01:09:48,768 --> 01:09:52,314 to run their businesses different than everyone else’s? 1683 01:09:52,397 --> 01:09:54,524 Dumber than everyone else’s? 1684 01:09:54,608 --> 01:09:56,109 No. 1685 01:09:56,192 --> 01:09:58,695 No one’s accused you of making bad business decisions, Sam. 1686 01:09:58,778 --> 01:10:00,196 You might as well have. 1687 01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:02,657 You think I don’t know about the British Invasion? 1688 01:10:03,658 --> 01:10:06,494 I invested in the British Invasion. 1689 01:10:08,288 --> 01:10:10,248 I have these protégés. 1690 01:10:10,332 --> 01:10:11,416 Valentinos. 1691 01:10:11,499 --> 01:10:13,418 Five Womack brothers. 1692 01:10:13,501 --> 01:10:17,088 The youngest one, Bobby, wrote this song, "It’s All Over Now." 1693 01:10:17,172 --> 01:10:18,798 Great tune. 1694 01:10:18,882 --> 01:10:20,800 The band records it. It’s fantastic. 1695 01:10:20,884 --> 01:10:22,385 All over the R&B charts. 1696 01:10:22,469 --> 01:10:27,140 It even went to number 94 on Billboard’s Hot 100. 1697 01:10:27,223 --> 01:10:29,559 Then I get a call from England. 1698 01:10:29,643 --> 01:10:31,478 One of these British bands wants to record 1699 01:10:31,561 --> 01:10:33,063 -a cover version. -The Beatles? 1700 01:10:33,146 --> 01:10:35,148 Nah, Cash. They call themselves the Rolling Stones. 1701 01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:36,608 Oh, like the Muddy Waters song. 1702 01:10:36,691 --> 01:10:37,984 SAM: Exactly. 1703 01:10:38,068 --> 01:10:39,653 So, Bobby’s like, you know, "No damn way, man. 1704 01:10:39,736 --> 01:10:41,029 That’s our song, man." 1705 01:10:41,112 --> 01:10:43,073 But... I get the final say, 1706 01:10:43,156 --> 01:10:44,866 and I’m looking at the big picture. 1707 01:10:44,950 --> 01:10:47,619 And I give the Rolling Stones permission to record it. 1708 01:10:47,702 --> 01:10:49,871 -You did? -I did. 1709 01:10:49,955 --> 01:10:51,331 Mm, mm, mm. 1710 01:10:51,414 --> 01:10:53,667 And the Rolling Stones’ version of the song 1711 01:10:53,750 --> 01:10:56,336 goes all the way to number one. 1712 01:10:56,419 --> 01:10:58,797 Not on the R&B charts. 1713 01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:00,924 Pop charts. 1714 01:11:01,007 --> 01:11:02,884 But, of course, you know, 1715 01:11:02,968 --> 01:11:04,302 once this version of the song gets big, 1716 01:11:04,386 --> 01:11:06,471 Bobby’s version just disappears. 1717 01:11:06,554 --> 01:11:08,723 Right? Falls off the R&B charts. It’s just gone. 1718 01:11:08,807 --> 01:11:10,767 So, of course, Bobby’s crushed. 1719 01:11:10,850 --> 01:11:12,727 Yes, as well he should be, Sam. 1720 01:11:12,811 --> 01:11:15,397 Let me finish. 1721 01:11:15,480 --> 01:11:18,316 He’s crushed for about six months. 1722 01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:21,611 Because, six months later, 1723 01:11:21,695 --> 01:11:24,030 that first royalty check comes in. 1724 01:11:24,114 --> 01:11:25,115 (snaps fingers) 1725 01:11:25,198 --> 01:11:26,700 And because Bobby’s the writer 1726 01:11:26,783 --> 01:11:28,535 and my company owns the rights to the song, 1727 01:11:28,618 --> 01:11:31,079 -that means every time... -(snapping fingers) 1728 01:11:31,162 --> 01:11:34,082 some white girl buys a copy of that single, 1729 01:11:34,165 --> 01:11:36,209 she putting money into my pockets. 1730 01:11:36,292 --> 01:11:38,086 Our pockets. 1731 01:11:38,169 --> 01:11:39,337 (Malcolm chuckling softly) 1732 01:11:39,421 --> 01:11:40,797 White boys out there touring around, 1733 01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:42,716 they ain’t even know they working for us. 1734 01:11:42,799 --> 01:11:43,883 Next thing you know, Bobby’s like, 1735 01:11:43,967 --> 01:11:45,051 "The Rolling Stones want to cover 1736 01:11:45,135 --> 01:11:46,594 any more versions of my songs?" 1737 01:11:46,678 --> 01:11:48,513 (chuckles) You know who gets paid more 1738 01:11:48,596 --> 01:11:49,889 than the writer of a song 1739 01:11:49,973 --> 01:11:52,267 that hits number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100? 1740 01:11:52,350 --> 01:11:55,020 -Hmm? -The writer of a song that hits number one. 1741 01:11:55,103 --> 01:11:56,438 I already knew that. 1742 01:11:56,521 --> 01:11:58,189 Now Bobby knows it, too. 1743 01:11:58,273 --> 01:11:59,649 Tell me how it’s not empowerment. 1744 01:11:59,733 --> 01:12:01,151 Everybody talks about they want a piece of the pie. 1745 01:12:01,234 --> 01:12:02,485 Well, I don’t. 1746 01:12:02,569 --> 01:12:05,905 I want the goddamn recipe. 1747 01:12:07,866 --> 01:12:10,660 I congratulate you on being so shrewd, brother. 1748 01:12:10,744 --> 01:12:12,620 You just don’t get how everything’s not 1749 01:12:12,704 --> 01:12:14,581 so black and white like you make it out to be. 1750 01:12:14,664 --> 01:12:17,250 In your mind, President Kennedy getting assassinated 1751 01:12:17,333 --> 01:12:18,710 is just another one of those white devils 1752 01:12:18,793 --> 01:12:19,794 getting what they deserve. 1753 01:12:19,878 --> 01:12:21,421 Well, I liked JFK, man. 1754 01:12:21,504 --> 01:12:23,339 My mama cried when he died. 1755 01:12:23,423 --> 01:12:24,466 Mine did, too. 1756 01:12:24,549 --> 01:12:26,134 How do you think it made me feel 1757 01:12:26,217 --> 01:12:27,761 to have her see my friend on TV, 1758 01:12:27,844 --> 01:12:28,970 talking about "good riddance"? 1759 01:12:29,054 --> 01:12:30,555 No. I-I didn’t, I didn’t say-- No. 1760 01:12:30,638 --> 01:12:32,098 Sam, I didn’t say "good riddance." 1761 01:12:32,182 --> 01:12:34,100 You said it was "chickens coming home to roost"! 1762 01:12:34,184 --> 01:12:36,728 Yes, I was trying to make a point, brother! 1763 01:12:36,811 --> 01:12:38,188 -You were paraphrasing. -SAM: Tell you something else. 1764 01:12:38,271 --> 01:12:40,857 My whole family lives on the South Side of Chicago, 1765 01:12:40,940 --> 01:12:42,776 not up in Harlem where you are. 1766 01:12:42,859 --> 01:12:45,361 -The Black Muslims... -"The Nation of Islam" to you. 1767 01:12:45,445 --> 01:12:48,364 The Nation of Islam is huge in Chicago. 1768 01:12:48,448 --> 01:12:51,076 I know where Elijah Muhammad’s house is. 1769 01:12:51,159 --> 01:12:52,744 It’s the biggest one for miles around. 1770 01:12:52,827 --> 01:12:54,412 Looks like the mayor’s residence. 1771 01:12:54,496 --> 01:12:55,497 Oh, yeah. I been there for dinner. 1772 01:12:55,580 --> 01:12:56,581 Oh, you been there for dinner. 1773 01:12:56,664 --> 01:12:59,084 So you see how he lives like a pharaoh. 1774 01:12:59,167 --> 01:13:01,377 Never says nothing about the crooked Black alderman 1775 01:13:01,461 --> 01:13:03,755 who’s running numbers, pushing drugs, 1776 01:13:03,838 --> 01:13:06,049 doing all the things to hurt the community, 1777 01:13:06,132 --> 01:13:08,760 meanwhile condemning those white devils. 1778 01:13:08,843 --> 01:13:11,346 Come off it, Malcolm. 1779 01:13:11,429 --> 01:13:14,808 (lighter clicks open) 1780 01:13:19,145 --> 01:13:21,189 (chuckles) 1781 01:13:21,272 --> 01:13:23,733 Oh, I got something for your ass. 1782 01:13:27,487 --> 01:13:29,823 -SAM: ♪ Dum, da-dum, dum. ♪ -(paper crinkling) 1783 01:13:29,906 --> 01:13:32,450 This is the clue that’s gonna solve the crime, Officer? 1784 01:13:32,534 --> 01:13:34,994 Oh, you could say that. 1785 01:13:35,078 --> 01:13:38,414 You know, I was thinking about this song I heard on the radio 1786 01:13:38,498 --> 01:13:40,166 the other day, Sam. 1787 01:13:40,250 --> 01:13:44,003 It’s a song that made me think of you. 1788 01:13:44,087 --> 01:13:46,714 Turns out it’s pretty popular. 1789 01:13:50,385 --> 01:13:53,096 ("Blowin’ in the Wind" by Bob Dylan playing) 1790 01:13:53,179 --> 01:13:58,226 ♪ How many roads must a man walk down ♪ 1791 01:13:58,309 --> 01:14:02,856 ♪ Before you call him a man? ♪ 1792 01:14:04,065 --> 01:14:08,945 ♪ How many seas must a white dove sail ♪ 1793 01:14:09,028 --> 01:14:13,700 ♪ Before she sleeps in the sand? ♪ 1794 01:14:13,783 --> 01:14:19,497 ♪ Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly ♪ 1795 01:14:19,581 --> 01:14:24,085 ♪ Before they’re forever banned? ♪ 1796 01:14:25,128 --> 01:14:27,505 ♪ The answer, my friend ♪ 1797 01:14:27,589 --> 01:14:29,883 ♪ Is blowin’ in the wind ♪ 1798 01:14:29,966 --> 01:14:32,218 -♪ The answer is ♪ -MALCOLM: Mm. 1799 01:14:32,302 --> 01:14:34,304 -♪ Blowin’ in the wind... ♪ -Mm-mm-mm! 1800 01:14:34,387 --> 01:14:35,597 Ooh! 1801 01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:37,849 -(music stops) -I just love those lyrics. 1802 01:14:38,850 --> 01:14:41,436 Especially in the beginning. 1803 01:14:42,562 --> 01:14:46,441 "How many roads must a man walk down 1804 01:14:46,524 --> 01:14:49,068 before you can call him a man?" 1805 01:14:49,152 --> 01:14:50,403 It’s as though he’s asking, 1806 01:14:50,486 --> 01:14:52,322 "How much do the oppressed have to do 1807 01:14:52,405 --> 01:14:56,534 before they can be recognized as human beings?" 1808 01:14:56,618 --> 01:14:58,119 That really gets you thinking, don’t it? 1809 01:14:58,203 --> 01:15:00,038 I already know "Blowin’ in the Wind," Malcolm. 1810 01:15:00,121 --> 01:15:02,373 I heard it when it first came out. 1811 01:15:02,457 --> 01:15:03,666 It didn’t make you angry? 1812 01:15:03,750 --> 01:15:05,627 Why would it? 1813 01:15:07,045 --> 01:15:10,006 Isn’t this Bob Dylan fella a white boy from Minnesota? 1814 01:15:11,090 --> 01:15:12,508 So what? 1815 01:15:12,592 --> 01:15:14,552 So? 1816 01:15:16,179 --> 01:15:19,224 This is a white boy from Minnesota 1817 01:15:19,307 --> 01:15:22,393 who has nothing to gain from writing a song 1818 01:15:22,477 --> 01:15:25,521 that speaks more to the struggles of our people, 1819 01:15:25,605 --> 01:15:26,981 more to the movement, 1820 01:15:27,065 --> 01:15:29,317 than anything that you have ever penned 1821 01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:31,736 in your life, brother. 1822 01:15:31,819 --> 01:15:34,614 I-I know I’m not the shrewd businessperson you are, 1823 01:15:34,697 --> 01:15:36,658 my brother, but since you say 1824 01:15:36,741 --> 01:15:39,911 being vocally in the struggle is bad for business, 1825 01:15:39,994 --> 01:15:42,205 why has this old song gone higher on the pop charts 1826 01:15:42,288 --> 01:15:43,498 than anything you got out? 1827 01:15:47,752 --> 01:15:50,838 Why has this song gone higher 1828 01:15:50,922 --> 01:15:53,174 (chuckles): on the pop charts 1829 01:15:53,258 --> 01:15:56,261 than anything you got out? 1830 01:15:56,344 --> 01:15:57,845 Hmm? 1831 01:16:10,483 --> 01:16:12,110 -Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. -Sam. 1832 01:16:12,193 --> 01:16:13,486 -JIM: Come on, Sam. -Sam. 1833 01:16:13,569 --> 01:16:14,821 Come back here, man. 1834 01:16:14,904 --> 01:16:15,905 -Sam! -Sam! 1835 01:16:15,989 --> 01:16:18,283 JIM: Goddamn it. 1836 01:16:18,366 --> 01:16:20,451 Good riddance. 1837 01:16:34,882 --> 01:16:36,134 That wasn’t necessary. 1838 01:16:36,217 --> 01:16:38,845 Yes, that absolutely was necessary, Cash. 1839 01:16:38,928 --> 01:16:40,680 -We’re supposed to be friends, man! -Yes! 1840 01:16:40,763 --> 01:16:42,890 Well, I am his friend, and that is why 1841 01:16:42,974 --> 01:16:46,936 I am trying to give him a wake-up call! 1842 01:16:47,020 --> 01:16:51,190 There is no more room for anyone-- 1843 01:16:51,274 --> 01:16:54,402 not you, not me, not Jimmy, not Sam-- 1844 01:16:54,485 --> 01:16:58,031 no one to be standing on the fence anymore! 1845 01:16:58,114 --> 01:17:03,077 Our people are literally dying in the streets every day! 1846 01:17:03,870 --> 01:17:07,415 Black people are dying! 1847 01:17:07,498 --> 01:17:09,625 Every day! 1848 01:17:11,377 --> 01:17:14,547 And a line has got to be drawn in the sand, Jimmy. 1849 01:17:14,630 --> 01:17:18,009 A line that says, "Either you stand on this side with us, 1850 01:17:18,092 --> 01:17:20,428 or you stand over on that side against us," Cash. 1851 01:17:20,511 --> 01:17:22,013 And I-I believe, 1852 01:17:22,096 --> 01:17:24,974 I believe in that brother’s potential, Jimmy, 1853 01:17:25,058 --> 01:17:26,392 too much! 1854 01:17:26,476 --> 01:17:30,021 Too much to let him stay over on the other side. 1855 01:17:31,731 --> 01:17:34,567 CASSIUS: I better go get him before he drives off. 1856 01:17:36,235 --> 01:17:38,654 (breathing sharply) 1857 01:17:38,738 --> 01:17:40,948 (door opens, closes) 1858 01:17:50,750 --> 01:17:52,752 (groans softly) 1859 01:17:53,628 --> 01:17:55,380 (grunts) 1860 01:17:55,463 --> 01:17:57,673 (breathing heavily) 1861 01:18:14,357 --> 01:18:16,734 You know... 1862 01:18:16,818 --> 01:18:19,904 I always find it kind of funny how you light-skinned cats 1863 01:18:19,987 --> 01:18:23,199 end up being so damn militant. 1864 01:18:25,743 --> 01:18:27,161 -How... -(chuckles) 1865 01:18:27,245 --> 01:18:29,414 (chuckles) 1866 01:18:30,248 --> 01:18:31,874 What do you mean? 1867 01:18:31,958 --> 01:18:35,545 Well, you are yellow as the sun. 1868 01:18:35,628 --> 01:18:37,672 When I think about who the most outspoken, 1869 01:18:37,755 --> 01:18:40,883 consequences-be-damned brothers out there are, 1870 01:18:40,967 --> 01:18:42,135 it’s always you light-skinned boys. 1871 01:18:42,218 --> 01:18:44,345 You know, you, W.E.B. Du Bois, 1872 01:18:44,429 --> 01:18:45,638 Adam Clayton Powell... 1873 01:18:45,721 --> 01:18:47,223 Well, I-I... 1874 01:18:47,306 --> 01:18:49,559 I never pay any attention to complexions, Jimmy, 1875 01:18:49,642 --> 01:18:52,603 because we are all, we are all Black people. 1876 01:18:52,687 --> 01:18:55,648 Don’t suddenly talk to me like I’m stupid. 1877 01:18:56,816 --> 01:18:59,402 You know we are all far from the same. 1878 01:18:59,485 --> 01:19:01,487 When the white folks ain’t around, 1879 01:19:01,571 --> 01:19:03,614 you see the-the light-skinned girls 1880 01:19:03,698 --> 01:19:05,199 gather together in one corner, 1881 01:19:05,283 --> 01:19:07,618 all the dark-skinned girls gather in the other and... 1882 01:19:07,702 --> 01:19:08,786 You know. 1883 01:19:08,870 --> 01:19:09,954 Coming up, 1884 01:19:10,037 --> 01:19:11,497 light-skinned cats get it harder 1885 01:19:11,581 --> 01:19:12,790 from Black people sometimes 1886 01:19:12,874 --> 01:19:15,209 than they do from the white people. 1887 01:19:16,919 --> 01:19:19,589 Yeah. What are you trying to say? 1888 01:19:21,591 --> 01:19:23,801 I just wonder if all this pushing 1889 01:19:23,885 --> 01:19:26,679 and "hard line" this and "hard line" that 1890 01:19:26,762 --> 01:19:29,765 is really about trying to prove something to white people, 1891 01:19:29,849 --> 01:19:31,225 or... 1892 01:19:31,309 --> 01:19:33,060 or, Malcolm, is it about trying 1893 01:19:33,144 --> 01:19:34,729 to prove something to Black people? 1894 01:19:34,812 --> 01:19:37,315 (Malcolm chuckles) 1895 01:19:38,983 --> 01:19:41,652 Oh, well, I... 1896 01:19:41,736 --> 01:19:43,946 It’s, uh... 1897 01:19:44,030 --> 01:19:47,325 It’s a very interesting way of looking at things, 1898 01:19:47,408 --> 01:19:48,659 I suppose. 1899 01:19:50,661 --> 01:19:52,121 Yeah. 1900 01:19:52,205 --> 01:19:54,040 Just something I noticed is all. 1901 01:19:54,123 --> 01:19:55,875 Mm-hmm. 1902 01:19:55,958 --> 01:19:58,085 I just don’t think you should begrudge Sam 1903 01:19:58,169 --> 01:19:59,629 for being about his business. 1904 01:19:59,712 --> 01:20:01,297 He’s got to be. 1905 01:20:01,380 --> 01:20:04,258 I mean, if the goal is for us to be free, 1906 01:20:04,342 --> 01:20:06,552 to really be free... 1907 01:20:06,636 --> 01:20:07,762 And you know it is. 1908 01:20:07,845 --> 01:20:12,225 ...then the key is economic freedom. 1909 01:20:12,308 --> 01:20:15,561 And no one’s more economically free than Sam. 1910 01:20:15,645 --> 01:20:17,772 Shit, technically, he’s the only one of us 1911 01:20:17,855 --> 01:20:20,024 not waiting on a paycheck from a white man. 1912 01:20:20,107 --> 01:20:22,276 Oh, I-I’m not waiting on no paycheck 1913 01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:25,112 -from no white man, Jimmy. -You don’t have a job, Negro. 1914 01:20:27,114 --> 01:20:29,200 -(clears throat) -Well, I... 1915 01:20:29,283 --> 01:20:30,952 Shit. In the literal sense. 1916 01:20:31,035 --> 01:20:32,036 -You-you-- Yeah. -I know what you-- 1917 01:20:32,119 --> 01:20:34,038 Yeah, I-I know, I know. 1918 01:20:34,121 --> 01:20:36,374 I know what you meant. 1919 01:20:37,333 --> 01:20:38,501 Hey, man. 1920 01:20:39,835 --> 01:20:43,256 You know, the one thing white folks are masters at 1921 01:20:43,339 --> 01:20:45,466 is tapping into our passions to a point 1922 01:20:45,550 --> 01:20:48,844 that we forget about the important stuff. 1923 01:20:50,596 --> 01:20:53,849 I thought you loved being the hero of the NFL. 1924 01:20:56,727 --> 01:20:58,896 A hero, you say? 1925 01:20:58,980 --> 01:21:00,356 Yeah? 1926 01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:03,568 I ain’t no damn hero to them. 1927 01:21:03,651 --> 01:21:04,986 No. 1928 01:21:05,069 --> 01:21:08,614 You see, Malcolm, some white folks... 1929 01:21:08,698 --> 01:21:10,908 some white folks just cannot wait 1930 01:21:10,992 --> 01:21:14,954 to pat themselves on the back for not being cruel to us. 1931 01:21:15,037 --> 01:21:17,331 Like we should be singing hosannas 1932 01:21:17,415 --> 01:21:20,459 just because they found the kindness in their hearts 1933 01:21:20,543 --> 01:21:23,421 to almost treat us like real human beings. 1934 01:21:23,504 --> 01:21:27,216 I mean, do... do you expect a dog to give you a medal 1935 01:21:27,300 --> 01:21:29,427 for not kicking it that day? 1936 01:21:29,510 --> 01:21:31,137 Hmm? 1937 01:21:31,220 --> 01:21:32,972 I hate those motherfuckers more 1938 01:21:33,055 --> 01:21:36,017 than the rednecks who just put it all out there. 1939 01:21:36,100 --> 01:21:37,977 And I’ll be damned if I ever forget 1940 01:21:38,060 --> 01:21:39,729 what they really think of me. 1941 01:21:39,812 --> 01:21:42,648 Well, I have no doubt that you won’t, Jimmy. 1942 01:21:42,732 --> 01:21:46,694 And the thing that I love about Sam... 1943 01:21:47,820 --> 01:21:51,032 ...is that he doesn’t forget, either. 1944 01:21:51,115 --> 01:21:54,619 And he does not deserve you implying otherwise. 1945 01:21:54,702 --> 01:21:56,871 No, I’m not implying, J-- I’m... 1946 01:21:56,954 --> 01:21:59,665 Jimmy, I am implying that brothers like Sam 1947 01:21:59,749 --> 01:22:01,500 and you a-and Cassius-- 1948 01:22:01,584 --> 01:22:03,711 you all are our greatest weapons. 1949 01:22:03,794 --> 01:22:06,964 We are not anyone’s weapons, Malcolm. 1950 01:22:11,218 --> 01:22:13,888 You need to be, Jimmy. 1951 01:22:13,971 --> 01:22:17,892 You need to be for-for us to win. 1952 01:22:20,311 --> 01:22:22,480 ♪ ♪ 1953 01:22:25,191 --> 01:22:27,193 (sniffles) 1954 01:22:27,276 --> 01:22:29,153 (grunts softly) 1955 01:22:38,996 --> 01:22:40,206 (Malcolm exhales softly) 1956 01:22:44,335 --> 01:22:45,336 (sniffles) 1957 01:22:45,419 --> 01:22:47,588 Hey, man. Hey, hey. 1958 01:22:48,798 --> 01:22:50,883 Malcolm. 1959 01:22:51,717 --> 01:22:53,511 Brother. 1960 01:22:53,594 --> 01:22:54,679 (exhales) 1961 01:22:54,762 --> 01:22:56,681 -Talk to me. -(smacks lips) 1962 01:22:56,764 --> 01:22:58,683 Tell me now, 1963 01:22:58,766 --> 01:23:00,643 what is going on? 1964 01:23:00,726 --> 01:23:02,103 (Malcolm inhales, exhales) 1965 01:23:04,605 --> 01:23:06,982 (inhales, exhales) 1966 01:23:11,570 --> 01:23:14,198 Ooh... 1967 01:23:14,281 --> 01:23:15,700 -Ain’t no slug bug. -(chuckles) 1968 01:23:15,783 --> 01:23:18,119 -I know that mother be trucking. -Man. 1969 01:23:18,202 --> 01:23:20,538 -(chuckles): Oh. -(laughs) 1970 01:23:20,621 --> 01:23:22,957 Oh, man, they got bread. Hold on. 1971 01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:25,126 Y’all got any spare change? 1972 01:23:25,209 --> 01:23:27,128 Uh, sure, kid. Hang on. 1973 01:23:27,211 --> 01:23:29,380 -How’s it going? -How’s it going, youngblood? 1974 01:23:29,463 --> 01:23:31,716 -Oh. -Y’all split that. 1975 01:23:31,799 --> 01:23:33,050 Thank you. 1976 01:23:33,134 --> 01:23:34,969 Hey, congratulations, champ. 1977 01:23:35,052 --> 01:23:36,929 -Hit me up with it. -You got it, brother. 1978 01:23:37,012 --> 01:23:38,097 "Champ." 1979 01:23:38,180 --> 01:23:40,057 I could get used to that. 1980 01:23:40,141 --> 01:23:41,726 Watch out. 1981 01:23:41,809 --> 01:23:45,354 Malcolm will have ’em calling you "Champ X" like a damn fool. 1982 01:23:47,398 --> 01:23:48,899 (sighs) 1983 01:23:48,983 --> 01:23:51,068 Malcolm’s had it rough these past few months. 1984 01:23:51,152 --> 01:23:52,778 Oh, Malcolm’s had it rough? 1985 01:23:52,862 --> 01:23:54,029 He’s getting worn down. 1986 01:23:54,113 --> 01:23:56,490 ♪ Jesus ♪ 1987 01:23:56,574 --> 01:23:58,367 ♪ Wash ♪ 1988 01:23:58,451 --> 01:24:02,538 ♪ My troubles ♪ 1989 01:24:02,621 --> 01:24:05,166 ♪ Oh. ♪ 1990 01:24:07,793 --> 01:24:09,462 So, Muslim, huh? 1991 01:24:09,545 --> 01:24:11,714 It won’t change my friendship with you and Jim. 1992 01:24:11,797 --> 01:24:14,216 -You don’t know that. -The hell I don’t. 1993 01:24:14,300 --> 01:24:16,010 We have to be there for each other. 1994 01:24:16,093 --> 01:24:17,470 Why? 1995 01:24:17,553 --> 01:24:19,930 Because can’t nobody else understand 1996 01:24:20,014 --> 01:24:22,016 what it’s like being one of us except us. 1997 01:24:22,099 --> 01:24:23,601 "One of us"? 1998 01:24:23,684 --> 01:24:25,060 You know. 1999 01:24:25,144 --> 01:24:27,313 Young, Black, 2000 01:24:27,396 --> 01:24:28,606 righteous, 2001 01:24:28,689 --> 01:24:31,442 famous, unapologetic. 2002 01:24:33,778 --> 01:24:35,946 There’s gonna be a target on your back. 2003 01:24:36,030 --> 01:24:39,116 It was gonna be there anyway. 2004 01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:41,744 This ain’t about civil rights. 2005 01:24:41,827 --> 01:24:44,497 Those activists ain’t do squat about them four little girls 2006 01:24:44,580 --> 01:24:46,207 that got bombed in Alabama. 2007 01:24:46,290 --> 01:24:47,958 That’s why they’re preaching to a deaf congregation, 2008 01:24:48,042 --> 01:24:51,921 ’cause they ain’t giving Black people what they really want. 2009 01:24:53,255 --> 01:24:54,924 And what’s that? 2010 01:24:56,675 --> 01:25:00,679 What you have but take for granted. 2011 01:25:02,556 --> 01:25:03,891 Power. 2012 01:25:07,311 --> 01:25:09,563 Black power. 2013 01:25:11,440 --> 01:25:13,484 I like the sound of that. 2014 01:25:13,567 --> 01:25:16,153 So do I. 2015 01:25:16,237 --> 01:25:18,072 My man. 2016 01:25:18,155 --> 01:25:20,407 So do they. 2017 01:25:22,159 --> 01:25:26,497 Power just means a world where we’re safe to be ourselves. 2018 01:25:26,580 --> 01:25:27,623 Mm. 2019 01:25:27,706 --> 01:25:30,125 To look like we want. 2020 01:25:30,209 --> 01:25:33,879 To think like we want. 2021 01:25:33,963 --> 01:25:36,924 Without having to answer to anybody for it. 2022 01:25:37,007 --> 01:25:40,970 And after all we put in, don’t Black folks deserve that much? 2023 01:25:41,053 --> 01:25:43,222 Mm-hmm. 2024 01:25:44,473 --> 01:25:47,852 We can do whatever we want now, brother. 2025 01:25:49,061 --> 01:25:50,563 So, tell me. 2026 01:25:50,646 --> 01:25:51,730 Hmm? 2027 01:25:52,773 --> 01:25:55,860 What do you want to do? 2028 01:25:58,654 --> 01:26:00,990 I want a damn party. 2029 01:26:01,073 --> 01:26:03,200 (laughing) 2030 01:26:03,284 --> 01:26:06,328 I mean, don’t you? 2031 01:26:06,412 --> 01:26:07,913 Yeah. 2032 01:26:07,997 --> 01:26:10,624 So let’s go. 2033 01:26:10,708 --> 01:26:11,750 Ooh. 2034 01:26:11,834 --> 01:26:13,127 (engine starts) 2035 01:26:13,210 --> 01:26:14,295 (engine rumbling loudly) 2036 01:26:14,378 --> 01:26:17,631 CASSIUS: Miami, are you ready?! 2037 01:26:17,715 --> 01:26:19,425 The champ! 2038 01:26:19,508 --> 01:26:22,636 Look now! You’ll never see something so pretty! 2039 01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,889 ♪ ♪ 2040 01:26:30,352 --> 01:26:32,271 (door opens) 2041 01:26:32,354 --> 01:26:35,441 Hey, hey, the gang’s all here. 2042 01:26:35,524 --> 01:26:37,526 -(door closes) -Good. You caught him. 2043 01:26:37,610 --> 01:26:39,194 SAM: I wasn’t running nowhere. 2044 01:26:39,278 --> 01:26:42,031 I am ready to take care of, uh, hosting duties, though. 2045 01:26:42,114 --> 01:26:44,867 -Really? -Malcolm, you’ve had the floor long enough. 2046 01:26:44,950 --> 01:26:47,870 It’s time to take this party to the Fontainebleau. (whoops) 2047 01:26:47,953 --> 01:26:50,915 ♪ We’re having a party. ♪ 2048 01:26:50,998 --> 01:26:52,374 (Cassius hums) 2049 01:26:52,458 --> 01:26:53,500 You’ve obviously forgotten 2050 01:26:53,584 --> 01:26:55,210 Brother Cassius no longer drinks. 2051 01:26:55,294 --> 01:26:56,837 And you obviously haven’t smelled his breath 2052 01:26:56,921 --> 01:26:58,130 in the last hour. 2053 01:27:00,382 --> 01:27:02,176 Hey, let it go, man. 2054 01:27:02,259 --> 01:27:03,969 -Let it go. -(clears throat) 2055 01:27:05,137 --> 01:27:06,513 Malcolm. 2056 01:27:06,597 --> 01:27:07,806 SAM: Okay. 2057 01:27:09,266 --> 01:27:10,935 All right. 2058 01:27:11,018 --> 01:27:14,188 Sam, what is this, uh, this problem between us, Sam? 2059 01:27:14,271 --> 01:27:16,315 I don’t got no problem with you. 2060 01:27:16,398 --> 01:27:18,233 I got a problem with this guy. 2061 01:27:19,985 --> 01:27:22,988 You used to be, you used to be such a fun cat. 2062 01:27:23,072 --> 01:27:25,532 Now you acting in private the way you are on camera. 2063 01:27:25,616 --> 01:27:27,952 Sam, I-I... 2064 01:27:28,035 --> 01:27:29,662 was always this person. 2065 01:27:29,745 --> 01:27:33,582 Maybe, but you were also always so much... 2066 01:27:36,251 --> 01:27:37,544 ...more. 2067 01:27:41,340 --> 01:27:42,675 Fellas, y’all ready? 2068 01:27:50,265 --> 01:27:53,352 You remember, uh, the first time we met, Sam? 2069 01:27:53,435 --> 01:27:55,020 I’m tired of answering your questions, man. 2070 01:27:55,104 --> 01:27:56,647 Is that a no? 2071 01:27:57,481 --> 01:27:58,482 (sighs) 2072 01:27:58,565 --> 01:27:59,984 Of course I do. 2073 01:28:00,067 --> 01:28:03,320 It was, uh... Harlem. 2074 01:28:03,404 --> 01:28:05,572 You didn’t even know who I was. 2075 01:28:05,656 --> 01:28:06,865 Uh-huh. 2076 01:28:06,949 --> 01:28:09,868 I said that at the time, but I knew who you were. 2077 01:28:09,952 --> 01:28:12,162 A lot of the brothers had been requesting shifts 2078 01:28:12,246 --> 01:28:13,956 -outside the Apollo that week. -Is that a fact? 2079 01:28:14,039 --> 01:28:15,416 That’s a fact. 2080 01:28:15,499 --> 01:28:16,750 And I understood 2081 01:28:16,834 --> 01:28:19,545 because I caught one of your shows in Chicago. 2082 01:28:20,629 --> 01:28:22,423 You’ve been to one of my shows? 2083 01:28:22,506 --> 01:28:26,093 No. I’ve, uh, been to... 2084 01:28:28,345 --> 01:28:30,347 ...five of them. 2085 01:28:31,515 --> 01:28:33,100 Including the one in Boston. 2086 01:28:33,183 --> 01:28:36,437 (chuckles): Shit. Boston? 2087 01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:37,521 Really? 2088 01:28:37,604 --> 01:28:39,565 Mm-hmm. Really. 2089 01:28:39,648 --> 01:28:41,358 (laughing) 2090 01:28:41,442 --> 01:28:43,193 Well, hell, what happened in Boston? 2091 01:28:43,277 --> 01:28:45,821 You mind if I recount the story, Sam? 2092 01:28:45,904 --> 01:28:46,905 No, no. Go ahead. 2093 01:28:46,989 --> 01:28:47,990 -MALCOLM: Yeah? -Yeah. 2094 01:28:48,073 --> 01:28:50,075 -(cheering and applause) -Well, uh, 2095 01:28:50,159 --> 01:28:52,661 this show, um, Sam, he was playing with Jackie Wilson... 2096 01:28:52,745 --> 01:28:55,164 ♪ You’ve been gone away ♪ 2097 01:28:55,247 --> 01:28:56,457 ♪ You know my heart... ♪ 2098 01:28:56,540 --> 01:28:57,708 I was there to see Sam, of course, 2099 01:28:57,791 --> 01:28:59,752 but Jackie was the opener. 2100 01:28:59,835 --> 01:29:01,503 He was doing his usual routine, 2101 01:29:01,587 --> 01:29:04,214 shuckin’ and jivin’ like those types do. 2102 01:29:04,298 --> 01:29:06,341 ♪ Lonely teardrops ♪ 2103 01:29:06,425 --> 01:29:07,593 Not really my cup of tea, you know. 2104 01:29:07,676 --> 01:29:11,013 ♪ My pillows never dry of ♪ 2105 01:29:11,096 --> 01:29:14,141 ♪ Lonely teardrops... ♪ 2106 01:29:14,224 --> 01:29:15,893 But thankfully, it came to an end, 2107 01:29:15,976 --> 01:29:19,480 and, you know, Sam was getting ready to come onstage. 2108 01:29:19,563 --> 01:29:21,607 -(holding high note) -(cheering) 2109 01:29:21,690 --> 01:29:22,816 Yeah, I knew he was 2110 01:29:22,900 --> 01:29:25,360 about to class this joint up. 2111 01:29:26,487 --> 01:29:29,073 Yeah! Hey! 2112 01:29:29,156 --> 01:29:31,366 (cheering and applause continue) 2113 01:29:34,620 --> 01:29:36,497 I warmed them up for you, brother. 2114 01:29:37,581 --> 01:29:39,249 Don’t fuck up now. 2115 01:29:39,333 --> 01:29:40,793 -(scoffs) -(pats chest) 2116 01:29:40,876 --> 01:29:45,589 Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give it up for Sam Cooke! 2117 01:29:45,672 --> 01:29:49,051 MALCOLM: Sam comes, uh, strolling out onto the stage. 2118 01:29:49,134 --> 01:29:50,135 Cash, the crowd-- 2119 01:29:50,219 --> 01:29:51,887 Boom. Wow. 2120 01:29:51,970 --> 01:29:53,972 Ah! Boston! 2121 01:29:54,056 --> 01:29:55,599 (cheering) 2122 01:29:55,682 --> 01:29:57,601 Thank you. 2123 01:29:57,684 --> 01:29:59,019 WOMAN: Sam, I love you! 2124 01:29:59,103 --> 01:30:00,771 MALCOLM: Sam steps up to the microphone, 2125 01:30:00,854 --> 01:30:02,606 wraps his hand around it-- you know how Sam does, 2126 01:30:02,689 --> 01:30:04,775 like, uh, he caresses it, like, uh, 2127 01:30:04,858 --> 01:30:07,152 one might caress a delicate piece of crystal. 2128 01:30:07,236 --> 01:30:09,446 -(chuckles) -Or a pretty little fox. 2129 01:30:09,530 --> 01:30:11,323 An NFL championship trophy. 2130 01:30:11,406 --> 01:30:13,617 -You want me to finish this story, Jimmy? -Oh, go ahead. 2131 01:30:13,700 --> 01:30:16,703 Yeah. Like I was saying, he-he... he caresses the mic, 2132 01:30:16,787 --> 01:30:19,248 pulls it close to his lips, opens his mouth... 2133 01:30:19,331 --> 01:30:21,834 -♪ Darling, you... ♪ -(feedback squealing) 2134 01:30:21,917 --> 01:30:23,377 Sound went out. 2135 01:30:23,460 --> 01:30:24,628 -What? -Mm-hmm. 2136 01:30:24,711 --> 01:30:26,630 (audience murmuring) 2137 01:30:26,713 --> 01:30:28,841 -That wasn’t the sound system, was it? -(audience booing) 2138 01:30:34,054 --> 01:30:35,973 The microphone is off! 2139 01:30:39,059 --> 01:30:41,395 MALCOLM: I know. H-How’s that for some bad luck? 2140 01:30:41,478 --> 01:30:43,313 Bad luck, my ass. 2141 01:30:43,397 --> 01:30:44,857 Jackie was always the king of sabotage. 2142 01:30:44,940 --> 01:30:48,443 MALCOLM: Regardless, Sam was now stuck onstage 2143 01:30:48,527 --> 01:30:52,239 with no sound and a worked-up Boston crowd. 2144 01:30:52,322 --> 01:30:53,866 Well, things escalated quickly. 2145 01:30:53,949 --> 01:30:56,076 My band was out of there like some runaway slaves. 2146 01:30:56,160 --> 01:30:57,703 Where the fuck y’all going? 2147 01:30:57,786 --> 01:30:59,621 We’re musicians, not bodyguards, baby. 2148 01:30:59,705 --> 01:31:00,956 Good luck. 2149 01:31:01,039 --> 01:31:03,792 But Sam, he just, he just stood there on that stage. 2150 01:31:03,876 --> 01:31:05,586 (booing continues) 2151 01:31:06,628 --> 01:31:08,672 I remember thinking to myself, 2152 01:31:08,755 --> 01:31:11,008 "This young brother is fittin’ to get himself killed." 2153 01:31:11,091 --> 01:31:12,384 CASSIUS: W-Well, then what happened? 2154 01:31:13,510 --> 01:31:15,095 Something, uh... 2155 01:31:16,638 --> 01:31:18,515 Something amazing happened. 2156 01:31:18,599 --> 01:31:20,267 (booing continues) 2157 01:31:22,060 --> 01:31:24,104 Y’all know "Chain Gang"? All right, 2158 01:31:24,188 --> 01:31:25,689 I’m-a, I’m-a do it a cappella, all right? 2159 01:31:25,772 --> 01:31:28,150 (speaking indistinctly) 2160 01:31:28,233 --> 01:31:30,444 -MAN: I’ll kick your ass! -(angry chatter) 2161 01:31:30,527 --> 01:31:32,362 All right, let’s go. 2162 01:31:32,446 --> 01:31:33,697 -All right. -Let’s go. 2163 01:31:35,449 --> 01:31:37,951 (grunting rhythmically) 2164 01:31:42,164 --> 01:31:44,333 (booing quiets) 2165 01:31:44,416 --> 01:31:45,500 Come on. (grunts) 2166 01:31:49,129 --> 01:31:50,797 (Malcolm grunting rhythmically) 2167 01:31:53,008 --> 01:31:54,760 -(booing stops) -(audience stomping, grunting) 2168 01:31:56,595 --> 01:32:00,057 -♪ All together, yeah ♪ -(grunting, stomping) 2169 01:32:01,850 --> 01:32:03,894 ♪ Everybody ♪ 2170 01:32:06,438 --> 01:32:07,564 (Cassius grunts) 2171 01:32:07,648 --> 01:32:09,608 (rhythmic grunting and stomping continue) 2172 01:32:09,691 --> 01:32:11,109 Let me hear you. 2173 01:32:12,945 --> 01:32:15,822 ♪ You got it, you got it ♪ 2174 01:32:17,032 --> 01:32:20,369 ♪ Sounds so good, yeah ♪ 2175 01:32:20,452 --> 01:32:22,746 ♪ Ah, yeah ♪ 2176 01:32:22,829 --> 01:32:24,790 ♪ That’s the sound of the men ♪ 2177 01:32:24,873 --> 01:32:27,084 ♪ Working on the chain ♪ 2178 01:32:27,167 --> 01:32:29,962 ♪ The gang ♪ 2179 01:32:30,045 --> 01:32:31,964 ♪ That’s the sound of the men ♪ 2180 01:32:32,047 --> 01:32:35,300 ♪ Working on the chain gang ♪ 2181 01:32:35,384 --> 01:32:37,427 ♪ All day long they’re singing... ♪ 2182 01:32:37,511 --> 01:32:39,054 MALCOLM: Yeah, and I saw him up there, 2183 01:32:39,137 --> 01:32:41,640 covered in sweat and... and singing to ’em. 2184 01:32:41,723 --> 01:32:43,392 But, you know, in the back where I was, 2185 01:32:43,475 --> 01:32:45,102 you couldn’t hear anything except that chant. 2186 01:32:45,185 --> 01:32:47,771 (grunting and stomping drown out singing) 2187 01:32:47,854 --> 01:32:50,315 You know, and... you know what? 2188 01:32:50,399 --> 01:32:54,444 That was, uh... that was good enough. 2189 01:32:55,737 --> 01:32:57,906 Yes, that was... 2190 01:32:59,574 --> 01:33:01,618 ...that was one hell of a show, Sam. 2191 01:33:01,702 --> 01:33:05,330 (stomping and grunting continue) 2192 01:33:05,414 --> 01:33:07,749 CASSIUS: That sounds like something. 2193 01:33:09,584 --> 01:33:11,044 It really was, Cash. 2194 01:33:11,128 --> 01:33:13,505 It really was. 2195 01:33:15,299 --> 01:33:19,344 Brother, you could move mountains 2196 01:33:19,428 --> 01:33:21,638 without lifting a finger. 2197 01:33:24,057 --> 01:33:26,393 Listen, if-if I give you a hard time, it’s... 2198 01:33:26,476 --> 01:33:29,313 you know, it’s only because I-I think so highly of you. 2199 01:33:30,981 --> 01:33:32,816 You know, you brothers, you-you all are-are 2200 01:33:32,899 --> 01:33:34,276 our bright and shining future. 2201 01:33:34,359 --> 01:33:37,904 I... I never, I never lose sight of that. 2202 01:33:37,988 --> 01:33:40,782 Well, you’re part of that future, too, Malcolm. 2203 01:33:40,866 --> 01:33:43,035 (Cassius chuckles) 2204 01:33:44,369 --> 01:33:45,912 I’m flattered, really. I’m... 2205 01:33:45,996 --> 01:33:48,665 Taking the world on your shoulders is 2206 01:33:48,749 --> 01:33:50,042 bad for your health. 2207 01:33:50,125 --> 01:33:51,501 Yeah, well, 2208 01:33:51,585 --> 01:33:54,421 he won’t have to carry it by himself much longer. 2209 01:33:54,504 --> 01:33:57,841 ’Cause we gonna be in the Nation together. 2210 01:34:00,927 --> 01:34:02,346 Malcolm... 2211 01:34:02,429 --> 01:34:04,056 I know. 2212 01:34:05,557 --> 01:34:07,017 I know. 2213 01:34:09,144 --> 01:34:10,395 What is it? 2214 01:34:14,399 --> 01:34:16,151 Malcolm? 2215 01:34:20,072 --> 01:34:22,407 Well, like I said, my, um... 2216 01:34:22,491 --> 01:34:26,370 my relationship with, uh, the Nation has... 2217 01:34:26,453 --> 01:34:28,663 has gotten complicated. 2218 01:34:30,165 --> 01:34:33,418 I-I don’t know how much longer I’ll be in it. 2219 01:34:34,961 --> 01:34:38,340 Wait a second. You’re leaving the Nation of Islam? 2220 01:34:40,092 --> 01:34:42,928 I thought once you went in, you were in it for life. 2221 01:34:43,011 --> 01:34:45,806 (chuckles): I guess I’ll be, uh... 2222 01:34:45,889 --> 01:34:48,308 I’ll be putting that theory to the test, Sam. 2223 01:34:48,392 --> 01:34:50,727 CASSIUS: Why would you want to leave? 2224 01:34:53,772 --> 01:34:55,482 All the things you told me. 2225 01:34:56,691 --> 01:34:59,236 The things you showed me that the Nation does. 2226 01:34:59,319 --> 01:35:01,279 Oh, Cash, there’s... 2227 01:35:01,363 --> 01:35:03,281 there’s lots of good and righteous brothers and sisters 2228 01:35:03,365 --> 01:35:06,284 in the Nation, but it’s the leadership 2229 01:35:06,368 --> 01:35:08,620 that has-has shown that it’s not up to the task. 2230 01:35:08,703 --> 01:35:10,539 Wait. 2231 01:35:10,622 --> 01:35:15,043 So you’re gonna help me cross over to being a Muslim 2232 01:35:15,127 --> 01:35:17,129 and then quit being Muslim? 2233 01:35:17,212 --> 01:35:19,089 No. No, no, no. No, Cassius. 2234 01:35:19,172 --> 01:35:22,134 I will always, always be Muslim. 2235 01:35:22,217 --> 01:35:25,512 I-In, you know, in fact, I-I... 2236 01:35:25,595 --> 01:35:31,059 I guess you could say, uh, I’m becoming more Muslim than ever. 2237 01:35:33,478 --> 01:35:34,855 I’m not understanding. 2238 01:35:36,189 --> 01:35:37,732 Well, uh... 2239 01:35:37,816 --> 01:35:40,610 I’m not leaving just to be out alone in the world. 2240 01:35:40,694 --> 01:35:42,612 I’m... 2241 01:35:42,696 --> 01:35:44,865 I’m leaving to... 2242 01:35:47,117 --> 01:35:49,035 I’m leaving to start a new organization, 2243 01:35:49,119 --> 01:35:53,123 one-one that adheres more closely to the, uh, honest 2244 01:35:53,206 --> 01:35:56,001 and, uh, righteous tenets of Islam. 2245 01:35:58,753 --> 01:36:02,382 Who’s gonna be in this new organization? 2246 01:36:02,466 --> 01:36:06,470 I think lots of people will follow me over, Cash. 2247 01:36:06,553 --> 01:36:08,346 Especially, uh... 2248 01:36:10,098 --> 01:36:12,350 ...i-if you-you come with me. 2249 01:36:28,492 --> 01:36:29,784 Say something. 2250 01:36:29,868 --> 01:36:31,453 -You motherfucker! -Wait, wait, wait, wait. 2251 01:36:31,536 --> 01:36:33,413 Hey, hey, Cash, Cash, Cash. Hey! 2252 01:36:33,497 --> 01:36:35,373 You’ve been using me! 2253 01:36:35,457 --> 01:36:37,000 No, no, brother, I’m trying to save you. 2254 01:36:37,083 --> 01:36:39,169 -Wait. -You’re the only one that needs saving! 2255 01:36:39,252 --> 01:36:41,213 -No. -MALCOLM: Cash. 2256 01:36:41,296 --> 01:36:42,923 -(sighs) -Cash. 2257 01:36:44,090 --> 01:36:45,675 If you don’t believe in your heart 2258 01:36:45,759 --> 01:36:48,345 I’ve been an honest friend to you, 2259 01:36:48,428 --> 01:36:50,597 then-then you shouldn’t join me, brother. 2260 01:36:50,680 --> 01:36:52,807 If there’s any-any part of you that-that believes 2261 01:36:52,891 --> 01:36:55,393 that our time together has been motivated in any way 2262 01:36:55,477 --> 01:37:00,023 by selfishness or-or opportunism on my part... 2263 01:37:00,106 --> 01:37:02,692 brother, I... 2264 01:37:02,776 --> 01:37:04,986 brother, I encourage you, 2265 01:37:05,070 --> 01:37:06,905 walk away from me. 2266 01:37:08,281 --> 01:37:10,575 Walk away from me with a clear mind and conscience, 2267 01:37:10,659 --> 01:37:12,494 knowing that that is the right thing, 2268 01:37:12,577 --> 01:37:14,788 that’s-that’s the only thing you can do. 2269 01:37:22,003 --> 01:37:25,090 MAN: Cassius Marcellus Clay, you in there, champ? 2270 01:37:25,173 --> 01:37:26,341 (knock on door) 2271 01:37:26,424 --> 01:37:27,842 MAN 2: Tell us about what happened... 2272 01:37:27,926 --> 01:37:30,095 JAMAAL: We got a bunch of reporters out here. 2273 01:37:30,178 --> 01:37:32,931 (reporters chattering) 2274 01:37:33,014 --> 01:37:35,100 There they are. 2275 01:37:36,726 --> 01:37:41,815 Some... someone must have saw me and Sam downstairs. 2276 01:37:41,898 --> 01:37:45,694 Uh, well, you can’t blame them for wanting a word 2277 01:37:45,777 --> 01:37:48,238 from the new world champion. 2278 01:37:48,321 --> 01:37:50,657 (Cassius clears throat, sighs) 2279 01:37:50,740 --> 01:37:53,827 Yeah. (sniffs) 2280 01:37:53,910 --> 01:37:55,912 I guess I got to go talk to them, 2281 01:37:55,996 --> 01:37:57,789 help them sell a few papers. 2282 01:37:57,872 --> 01:37:59,708 MALCOLM: Absolutely. 2283 01:38:12,804 --> 01:38:14,973 (sighs) 2284 01:38:15,807 --> 01:38:17,726 You coming? 2285 01:38:26,109 --> 01:38:27,611 Um... 2286 01:38:27,694 --> 01:38:29,112 Well, I... 2287 01:38:29,195 --> 01:38:32,574 I don’t have any comments to make right now, Cash. I... 2288 01:38:32,657 --> 01:38:35,201 (chuckles) And besides, they’re here to see you, brother. 2289 01:38:35,285 --> 01:38:37,495 Not here to see me. 2290 01:38:38,997 --> 01:38:41,333 I want you standing with me. 2291 01:38:53,762 --> 01:38:55,430 Very well. 2292 01:38:55,513 --> 01:38:57,307 Uh... 2293 01:38:57,390 --> 01:38:59,601 You brothers will excuse us. 2294 01:39:05,690 --> 01:39:07,192 (reporters clamoring) 2295 01:39:07,275 --> 01:39:09,569 CASSIUS: I told you suckers I was the greatest! 2296 01:39:09,653 --> 01:39:11,154 All of you must bow! 2297 01:39:11,237 --> 01:39:12,822 Oh, I think you guys... 2298 01:39:12,906 --> 01:39:16,242 This is one strange fucking night. 2299 01:39:18,161 --> 01:39:19,579 Yeah. 2300 01:39:21,206 --> 01:39:23,708 Hey, you know I know what’s going on out there, right? 2301 01:39:23,792 --> 01:39:25,251 Uh, yeah. 2302 01:39:25,335 --> 01:39:27,504 You know, Cassius, he out there talking to the press. 2303 01:39:27,587 --> 01:39:29,089 No, I mean out... 2304 01:39:29,172 --> 01:39:31,007 out-out there. 2305 01:39:32,467 --> 01:39:34,469 I mean... 2306 01:39:34,552 --> 01:39:37,180 just ’cause I haven’t released any records about the movement 2307 01:39:37,263 --> 01:39:40,475 don’t mean I haven’t written any songs about the movement. 2308 01:39:40,558 --> 01:39:42,268 Come on, man. Look, you know Malcolm. 2309 01:39:42,352 --> 01:39:44,979 He’s all fire and brimstone about everything, man. 2310 01:39:45,063 --> 01:39:47,649 But when I heard the Bob Dylan song, I was mad, man. 2311 01:39:47,732 --> 01:39:49,484 Why? 2312 01:39:50,652 --> 01:39:52,862 ’Cause it’s fucking good. 2313 01:39:52,946 --> 01:39:54,614 Well, good. (chuckles) 2314 01:39:54,698 --> 01:39:55,699 Good. 2315 01:39:55,782 --> 01:39:57,409 You should feel competitive, man. 2316 01:39:57,492 --> 01:40:00,078 It’s not just ’cause it was good. It’s... 2317 01:40:00,161 --> 01:40:01,788 I felt like... 2318 01:40:03,289 --> 01:40:05,792 ...felt like I should’ve written that song. 2319 01:40:07,419 --> 01:40:10,630 I mean, I’m-I’m calling myself "Mr. Soul," and I... 2320 01:40:10,714 --> 01:40:13,216 I haven’t written anything like that. 2321 01:40:16,010 --> 01:40:18,596 Why don’t you start? 2322 01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:20,306 I started working on something. 2323 01:40:20,390 --> 01:40:22,225 Um... 2324 01:40:22,308 --> 01:40:25,562 started working on something the first day I heard the song. 2325 01:40:26,730 --> 01:40:27,939 Really? 2326 01:40:28,022 --> 01:40:30,984 Yeah, but it’s-it’s... it’s different. 2327 01:40:31,067 --> 01:40:34,529 And I haven’t even played it for a crowd yet. 2328 01:40:37,991 --> 01:40:40,285 How does it go? 2329 01:40:41,828 --> 01:40:44,372 All these so-called experts were all wrong. 2330 01:40:44,456 --> 01:40:47,041 Next time, don’t-don’t ask no bookies who’s gonna win. 2331 01:40:47,125 --> 01:40:49,544 You come to me. I’ll tell you who’s gonna win. 2332 01:40:49,627 --> 01:40:51,546 Cassius, uh, is it fair to assume 2333 01:40:51,629 --> 01:40:53,339 that, since Malcolm X is standing here with you, 2334 01:40:53,423 --> 01:40:55,884 that you’re seriously considering becoming a Muslim? 2335 01:40:55,967 --> 01:40:58,762 I’m not considering anything. I am a Muslim. 2336 01:40:58,845 --> 01:41:01,014 And from this day forward, I no longer want to be called 2337 01:41:01,097 --> 01:41:03,224 -by the name Cassius Clay. -REPORTERS: Mm. 2338 01:41:03,308 --> 01:41:04,559 That is a slave name. 2339 01:41:04,642 --> 01:41:05,977 What are we supposed to call you, then? 2340 01:41:06,060 --> 01:41:08,813 You will refer to me as Cassius X. 2341 01:41:08,897 --> 01:41:09,898 -(laughter) -REPORTER: Malcolm, 2342 01:41:09,981 --> 01:41:11,316 have you been giving Clay advice 2343 01:41:11,399 --> 01:41:12,776 -on his religious beliefs? -Look at that. 2344 01:41:12,859 --> 01:41:14,611 MALCOLM: Well, he’s my brother and... 2345 01:41:14,694 --> 01:41:16,321 New heavyweight champion of the world. 2346 01:41:16,404 --> 01:41:17,989 MALCOLM: ...my friend. 2347 01:41:18,072 --> 01:41:21,159 I express what I know and understand, but... 2348 01:41:21,242 --> 01:41:23,244 Cassius, he has a mind of his own, 2349 01:41:23,328 --> 01:41:25,413 -an understanding of his own. -Mm-hmm. 2350 01:41:25,497 --> 01:41:26,790 REPORTER 2: Uh, Cassius, are you gonna 2351 01:41:26,873 --> 01:41:28,082 -give Sonny Liston a rematch? -Cassius. 2352 01:41:28,166 --> 01:41:30,251 -Cassius. -Cassius. -Oh, no, man. Come on. 2353 01:41:30,335 --> 01:41:32,128 -Sonny Liston a rematch? -(chuckles) 2354 01:41:32,212 --> 01:41:34,464 He’s still in the hospital from after tonight. 2355 01:41:34,547 --> 01:41:35,965 -(laughter, applause) -Say, man, 2356 01:41:36,049 --> 01:41:37,509 now that this is out the way, 2357 01:41:37,592 --> 01:41:40,178 don’t you think it’s about time to party? 2358 01:41:40,261 --> 01:41:42,138 -I’d say so. -Yeah, definitely. 2359 01:41:42,222 --> 01:41:43,223 (cheering) 2360 01:41:43,306 --> 01:41:44,641 CASSIUS: Man, I’m so fast! 2361 01:41:44,724 --> 01:41:46,434 I’m so fast, after the fight, 2362 01:41:46,518 --> 01:41:48,812 -Miami Vice tried to give me a speeding ticket! -(cheering) 2363 01:41:48,895 --> 01:41:52,106 If you take Sonny Liston, Joe Louis 2364 01:41:52,190 --> 01:41:54,651 -and Rocky Marciano... -(clapping, encouraging chatter) 2365 01:41:54,734 --> 01:41:56,778 I’ll whup ’em all the same night! 2366 01:41:56,861 --> 01:41:58,530 (cheering) 2367 01:41:58,613 --> 01:42:00,490 That’s what I’ll do next time! 2368 01:42:00,573 --> 01:42:02,283 You know I’m the greatest. 2369 01:42:02,367 --> 01:42:04,494 -OTHERS: Yeah! -Who’s the greatest? 2370 01:42:04,577 --> 01:42:05,787 -OTHERS: You are! -That’s right. 2371 01:42:05,870 --> 01:42:07,413 Malcolm, come on. Put that thing down. 2372 01:42:07,497 --> 01:42:09,332 Come over here. Someone get a picture of us. 2373 01:42:09,415 --> 01:42:10,625 -(assenting, applause) -Come on. 2374 01:42:10,708 --> 01:42:12,418 I want a picture with Malcolm. Come on. 2375 01:42:12,502 --> 01:42:14,337 Let’s see, man. 2376 01:42:14,420 --> 01:42:16,381 You know it’s right. That’s what I’m talking about. 2377 01:42:16,464 --> 01:42:17,507 Give me some, brothers. 2378 01:42:17,590 --> 01:42:19,425 That’s it. My brother. 2379 01:42:19,509 --> 01:42:20,927 My main man. 2380 01:42:21,010 --> 01:42:22,095 And you, too. 2381 01:42:22,178 --> 01:42:24,305 I told ’em! I told ’em. 2382 01:42:24,389 --> 01:42:26,266 I proved it. I was in Rome. 2383 01:42:26,349 --> 01:42:27,851 They said they had a man who could beat me. 2384 01:42:27,934 --> 01:42:29,435 -MAN: Yeah! -Malcolm, come on. 2385 01:42:29,519 --> 01:42:30,687 Get over here. 2386 01:42:30,770 --> 01:42:32,355 -I whupped him, too. -(cheering, applause) 2387 01:42:32,438 --> 01:42:34,399 ♪ All night long ♪ 2388 01:42:34,482 --> 01:42:36,442 ♪ Somebody said it might take... ♪ 2389 01:42:36,526 --> 01:42:37,652 Yes, sir. 2390 01:42:37,735 --> 01:42:39,362 You know, we came all the way down here 2391 01:42:39,445 --> 01:42:42,156 -to the Hampton House, and... -♪ All night long ♪ 2392 01:42:42,240 --> 01:42:47,287 ♪ So, come on and let the good time roll ♪ 2393 01:42:47,370 --> 01:42:50,748 ♪ We gon’ stay here till we soothe our souls ♪ 2394 01:42:50,832 --> 01:42:54,252 ♪ If it take all night long. ♪ 2395 01:42:54,335 --> 01:42:56,921 -(applause) -(laughs) 2396 01:42:57,005 --> 01:42:58,631 There it is. Huh? 2397 01:42:58,715 --> 01:42:59,966 Wow. 2398 01:43:00,049 --> 01:43:01,843 -Come on over here. -Why, thank you. 2399 01:43:01,926 --> 01:43:03,887 All right. 2400 01:43:03,970 --> 01:43:05,388 -How you doing, Johnny? -Fantastic. 2401 01:43:05,471 --> 01:43:06,514 -Thank you so much for having me. -I’m great. 2402 01:43:06,598 --> 01:43:08,099 Sam, have a seat. 2403 01:43:08,182 --> 01:43:10,685 Fantastic. 2404 01:43:10,768 --> 01:43:12,645 -(grunts) -Well, he sings well, doesn’t he, Ed? 2405 01:43:12,729 --> 01:43:14,689 -Incredibly well, Johnny. -Thank you. 2406 01:43:14,772 --> 01:43:16,774 Sam, tell us. 2407 01:43:16,858 --> 01:43:19,110 How do you come up with so many great songs? 2408 01:43:19,193 --> 01:43:21,654 Uh, well, I just really try and observe 2409 01:43:21,738 --> 01:43:23,114 what’s going on around me. 2410 01:43:23,197 --> 01:43:24,657 What do you mean? 2411 01:43:24,741 --> 01:43:28,161 Well, if you try and see what’s going on 2412 01:43:28,244 --> 01:43:30,204 and figure out how people are thinking 2413 01:43:30,288 --> 01:43:34,459 and really just determine the-the times of your day, 2414 01:43:34,542 --> 01:43:35,835 well, I think you can always write 2415 01:43:35,919 --> 01:43:37,837 something people will understand. 2416 01:43:37,921 --> 01:43:39,505 Would you mind singing one more song for us? 2417 01:43:39,589 --> 01:43:41,007 Would you like that, folks? 2418 01:43:41,090 --> 01:43:42,800 (applause) 2419 01:43:42,884 --> 01:43:44,594 (chuckling) 2420 01:43:44,677 --> 01:43:45,929 What do you say, Sam? 2421 01:43:46,012 --> 01:43:47,805 Got anything the people will understand? 2422 01:43:47,889 --> 01:43:51,976 I-I do have something that I’ve been working on, 2423 01:43:52,060 --> 01:43:54,938 something new I haven’t really shared with anyone yet. 2424 01:43:55,021 --> 01:43:56,689 Anyone except for some friends of mine. 2425 01:43:56,773 --> 01:43:59,734 Well, that sounds great. We’d love to hear it. 2426 01:43:59,817 --> 01:44:02,070 -All right, let’s do it. -All right. 2427 01:44:02,153 --> 01:44:05,073 -Let’s do it. -(applause) 2428 01:44:05,156 --> 01:44:09,035 Ladies and gentlemen, once again, Mr. Sam Cooke. 2429 01:44:17,961 --> 01:44:22,632 ♪ I was born ♪ 2430 01:44:22,715 --> 01:44:25,927 ♪ By the river ♪ 2431 01:44:28,096 --> 01:44:30,598 ♪ In a little tent ♪ 2432 01:44:30,682 --> 01:44:33,643 ♪ Oh, and just like the river ♪ 2433 01:44:33,726 --> 01:44:37,188 ♪ I’ve been running ♪ 2434 01:44:37,271 --> 01:44:39,399 ♪ Ever since ♪ 2435 01:44:39,482 --> 01:44:43,277 ♪ It’s been a long ♪ 2436 01:44:43,361 --> 01:44:45,530 ♪ A long time coming ♪ 2437 01:44:45,613 --> 01:44:49,450 ♪ But I know ♪ 2438 01:44:49,534 --> 01:44:52,370 ♪ Change gon’ come ♪ 2439 01:44:52,453 --> 01:44:54,956 ♪ Oh, yes, it will ♪ 2440 01:44:55,790 --> 01:44:57,583 The world champion 2441 01:44:57,667 --> 01:45:02,171 will no longer be known as Cassius Clay. 2442 01:45:02,255 --> 01:45:05,216 He will be known as Muhammad Ali. 2443 01:45:05,299 --> 01:45:07,510 (cheering, applause) 2444 01:45:08,553 --> 01:45:13,057 ♪ It’s been too hard living ♪ 2445 01:45:13,141 --> 01:45:17,687 ♪ But I’m afraid to die ♪ 2446 01:45:19,188 --> 01:45:22,734 ♪ I don’t know what’s up there ♪ 2447 01:45:22,817 --> 01:45:25,069 ♪ Beyond the sky ♪ 2448 01:45:25,153 --> 01:45:29,323 ♪ It’s been a long ♪ 2449 01:45:29,407 --> 01:45:34,245 ♪ Long time coming, but I know ♪ 2450 01:45:34,328 --> 01:45:35,538 (engine revs) 2451 01:45:35,621 --> 01:45:37,915 ♪ Change gon’ come ♪ 2452 01:45:37,999 --> 01:45:39,417 ♪ Oh, yes, it will ♪ 2453 01:45:39,500 --> 01:45:40,710 Betty, move, move, move, move. 2454 01:45:40,793 --> 01:45:42,253 -Come on. -Girls, go. 2455 01:45:42,336 --> 01:45:43,963 -♪ I go ♪ -Go, go, go, go. 2456 01:45:44,047 --> 01:45:46,174 -♪ To the movie ♪ -No, Mommy! 2457 01:45:46,257 --> 01:45:49,385 -♪ And I go downtown ♪ -(frantic chatter) 2458 01:45:49,469 --> 01:45:52,305 Mommy... (indistinct chattering) 2459 01:45:52,388 --> 01:45:54,265 ♪ Somebody keeps telling me ♪ 2460 01:45:54,348 --> 01:45:58,311 ♪ Don’t hang around ♪ 2461 01:45:58,394 --> 01:46:02,815 ♪ It’s been a long ♪ 2462 01:46:02,899 --> 01:46:04,859 ♪ A long time coming ♪ 2463 01:46:04,942 --> 01:46:08,488 ♪ But I know ♪ 2464 01:46:08,571 --> 01:46:11,324 ♪ Change gon’ come ♪ 2465 01:46:11,407 --> 01:46:12,784 ♪ Oh, yes, it will ♪ 2466 01:46:12,867 --> 01:46:15,203 JIM: Because my filming schedule 2467 01:46:15,286 --> 01:46:17,997 conflicts with the Cleveland Browns training camp 2468 01:46:18,081 --> 01:46:21,417 and since the Browns have said that I have no option 2469 01:46:21,501 --> 01:46:25,546 to return to camp late without incurring hefty fines, 2470 01:46:25,630 --> 01:46:28,841 effective immediately, I am retiring from the NFL 2471 01:46:28,925 --> 01:46:31,886 to pursue my movie career full-time. 2472 01:46:31,969 --> 01:46:34,347 Now, if y’all excuse me, I got to get back to work. 2473 01:46:34,430 --> 01:46:36,974 ♪ Then I go ♪ 2474 01:46:37,058 --> 01:46:40,061 ♪ To my brother ♪ 2475 01:46:41,854 --> 01:46:44,398 ♪ I say, "Brother ♪ 2476 01:46:44,482 --> 01:46:49,070 ♪ Help me, please" ♪ 2477 01:46:50,863 --> 01:46:54,117 ♪ But he winds up ♪ 2478 01:46:55,284 --> 01:46:57,620 ♪ Knocking me ♪ 2479 01:46:58,704 --> 01:47:03,459 ♪ Back down on my knees ♪ 2480 01:47:03,543 --> 01:47:05,378 ♪ Whoa ♪ 2481 01:47:05,461 --> 01:47:09,632 ♪ There been time that I thought ♪ 2482 01:47:09,715 --> 01:47:14,971 ♪ I wouldn’t last for long ♪ 2483 01:47:16,055 --> 01:47:19,851 ♪ Now I think I’m able to ♪ 2484 01:47:19,934 --> 01:47:21,936 ♪ Carry on ♪ 2485 01:47:22,019 --> 01:47:25,982 ♪ It’s been a long ♪ 2486 01:47:26,065 --> 01:47:28,276 ♪ A long time coming ♪ 2487 01:47:28,359 --> 01:47:32,029 ♪ But I know ♪ 2488 01:47:32,113 --> 01:47:34,907 ♪ Change gon’ come ♪ 2489 01:47:34,991 --> 01:47:38,452 ♪ Oh, yes, it will. ♪ 2490 01:48:05,730 --> 01:48:09,066 ("Speak Now" by Leslie Odom Jr. playing) 2491 01:48:17,742 --> 01:48:20,411 ♪ Listen, listen ♪ 2492 01:48:20,494 --> 01:48:24,207 ♪ While the storm in your heart is raging ♪ 2493 01:48:24,290 --> 01:48:27,501 ♪ Listen, listen, listen ♪ 2494 01:48:30,338 --> 01:48:32,506 ♪ Listen, listen ♪ 2495 01:48:32,590 --> 01:48:36,219 ♪ To the echoes of martyrs praying ♪ 2496 01:48:36,302 --> 01:48:39,513 ♪ Listen, listen, listen ♪ 2497 01:48:42,391 --> 01:48:45,519 ♪ Listen ♪ 2498 01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:48,231 ♪ Brothers and sisters ♪ 2499 01:48:48,314 --> 01:48:52,818 ♪ Listen, listen, listen ♪ 2500 01:48:52,902 --> 01:48:58,950 ♪ I swear we’ll never find a way to where we’re going ♪ 2501 01:48:59,033 --> 01:49:00,368 ♪ All alone ♪ 2502 01:49:00,451 --> 01:49:03,287 ♪ Don’t take your eyes ♪ 2503 01:49:03,371 --> 01:49:07,583 ♪ Off the road ♪ 2504 01:49:07,667 --> 01:49:11,337 ♪ Can you hear the bells ring out? ♪ 2505 01:49:12,380 --> 01:49:18,552 ♪ Speak now, speak now ♪ 2506 01:49:20,054 --> 01:49:24,308 ♪ Can you hear the angels sing loud? ♪ 2507 01:49:24,392 --> 01:49:30,564 ♪ Speak now, speak now ♪ 2508 01:49:34,902 --> 01:49:37,488 ♪ Listen, listen ♪ 2509 01:49:37,571 --> 01:49:41,075 ♪ To the message of hope in the whispers of ghosts ♪ 2510 01:49:41,158 --> 01:49:45,037 ♪ Listen, listen ♪ 2511 01:49:46,872 --> 01:49:49,583 ♪ Listen ♪ 2512 01:49:49,667 --> 01:49:53,879 ♪ For the children who’ll grow and the seeds that we sow ♪ 2513 01:49:53,963 --> 01:49:58,384 ♪ They listen, they listen ♪ 2514 01:49:58,467 --> 01:50:03,347 ♪ Oh, listen ♪ 2515 01:50:03,431 --> 01:50:05,558 ♪ Brothers and sisters ♪ 2516 01:50:05,641 --> 01:50:09,937 ♪ Listen, listen ♪ 2517 01:50:10,021 --> 01:50:15,443 ♪ I swear we’ll never find a way to where we’re going ♪ 2518 01:50:15,526 --> 01:50:17,278 ♪ All alone ♪ 2519 01:50:17,361 --> 01:50:20,239 ♪ Don’t take your eyes ♪ 2520 01:50:20,323 --> 01:50:24,702 ♪ Off the road ♪ 2521 01:50:24,785 --> 01:50:28,497 ♪ Can you hear the bells ring out? ♪ 2522 01:50:29,373 --> 01:50:35,671 ♪ Speak now, speak now ♪ 2523 01:50:37,048 --> 01:50:41,344 ♪ Can you hear the angels cry out? ♪ 2524 01:50:41,427 --> 01:50:47,641 ♪ Speak now, speak now ♪ 2525 01:50:47,725 --> 01:50:50,436 ♪ Don’t you hold your tongue ♪ 2526 01:50:50,519 --> 01:50:53,272 -♪ Speak now ♪ -♪ Speak now ♪ 2527 01:50:53,356 --> 01:50:57,193 -♪ Speak now, speak now ♪ -♪ Speak now ♪ 2528 01:50:57,276 --> 01:50:58,694 ♪ Speak now ♪ 2529 01:50:58,778 --> 01:51:02,782 ♪ Oh... ♪ 2530 01:51:02,865 --> 01:51:05,451 -♪ Can you hear the angels? ♪ -♪ Speak now ♪ 2531 01:51:05,534 --> 01:51:08,954 -♪ Speak now ♪ -♪ Speak now ♪ 2532 01:51:09,038 --> 01:51:15,336 ♪ Speak now. ♪ 2533 01:51:15,419 --> 01:51:17,588 ♪ ♪ 2534 01:51:47,451 --> 01:51:49,620 ♪ ♪ 2535 01:52:17,690 --> 01:52:19,859 ♪ ♪ 2536 01:52:27,241 --> 01:52:29,410 ♪ ♪ 2537 01:52:59,273 --> 01:53:01,442 ♪ ♪ 2538 01:53:24,215 --> 01:53:26,383 ♪ ♪ 2539 01:53:28,636 --> 01:53:32,139 ♪ Whew! It’s hot as shit out here ♪ 2540 01:53:33,015 --> 01:53:34,517 ♪ Where’s my drink? ♪ 2541 01:53:34,600 --> 01:53:36,143 ♪ Mm ♪ 2542 01:53:36,227 --> 01:53:39,480 ♪ With the dirt-brown ground, leaving from L.A. ♪ 2543 01:53:39,563 --> 01:53:43,025 ♪ Heading down to the South where the gators like to play ♪ 2544 01:53:43,108 --> 01:53:45,945 ♪ Engine roaring nice from that old red clay ♪ 2545 01:53:46,028 --> 01:53:50,115 ♪ On my soapbox spittin’, listen what I gotta say ♪ 2546 01:53:50,199 --> 01:53:52,910 ♪ Howl for me, daddy ♪ 2547 01:53:52,993 --> 01:53:55,371 ♪ Sure sound sweet ♪ 2548 01:53:56,830 --> 01:53:59,375 ♪ Say something, baby ♪ 2549 01:53:59,458 --> 01:54:01,877 ♪ Say something deep ♪ 2550 01:54:01,961 --> 01:54:03,420 ♪ Deep, huh. ♪ 2551 01:54:03,504 --> 01:54:05,673 ♪ ♪ 2552 01:54:13,180 --> 01:54:14,640 (music ends)