happen. and it was a movie that makes my soul happy. >> love that. love that. "slumdog millionaire" is one of my favorites. thank you. >> thank you. >> that does it for me. stay tuned for a brand new else of the cnn original series, the movies. first, "the nineties." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ ♪

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as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. >> good fellas is like fasten your seatbelts. i'm going to kick the [ bleep ] out of you and you're going to love it. >> there have been so many mob movies. is it really popular in 1990, martin scorsese will be able to make a gangster movie that will have something to say that has not been said a million times? you watch the movie and you're like, yeah! >> what are you doing? you're leaving your car? >> we tried to capture the exuberance of that world. it's dangerous and threatening. but they're having a wonderful time. >> it was the nuts and bolts of the mob.

it was the mob as a job. >> what are you doing? >> what? >> what do you do? >> i'm in construction. >> and the balance of these two families, your mob family and your real family, and the way the two start to bleed into each other. >> you were right. you all right? >> "good fellas" was based on a book called "wise guy" and i read it and said what if i play this guy jimmy the gent? >> what did i tell you? what did i tell you? you don't buy anything. you hear me? don't buy anything. >> it's a true story and it is the nature of that lifestyle. >> just a little taste. >> you had to be clever enough, let alone have the audacity, the discretion, but also not being afraid of the violence. >> i don't believe what i just

heard. >> this is for you. >> the dangerous enjoyment of it where you can be enjoying and suddenly somebody gets shot in the chest. >> what's the world coming to? >> then it's not funny. there is a price. for everything you do. >> all right. you all know the drill. >> in the '90s, there's a host of movies in which people operate outside the system. we love the idea of the outlaw. it's one of the reasons we go to the movies. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you, officer. >> you go to the movies to see people violate the laws of society. >> i'll take one ever those big envelopes and put as many hundreds, 50s and 20s as you can

pack into it. >> in the '90s we were rooting for the criminals to get away with it. we wanted the bad guys to be the good guys. it was really an era when the anti-hero was on the rise. >> you have something against ice cubes? >> i like rough edges. >> and "basic instinct" the character is a sociopath. they are as dangerous as that character is. when i played the part, i needed to understand the sociopathic mind and that is a very scary thing. >> "silence of the lambs" i remember waiting for it with baited breath to come out. nothing prepared me for how jonathan deme shot walking to meet hannibal lecter. >> this is a horror film that is also an actor's piece. >> closer! >> this is told by the closeup master of all time.

the tension kept rising and rising. >> most serial killers keep trophies from their victims. >> i didn't. >> no. you ate yours. >> "silence of the lambs" is about this eerie dance between clerise and hannibal lecter. >> people will say we're in love. >> it manages to take elements of the horror movie and even the iconography and put it into a real world thriller. >> you still wake up sometimes, don't you? wake up in the dark. and hear the screaming of the lambs. >> yes. >> "silence of the lambs" becomes one of three films ever to win best picture, best actress, best director, best adapted screen play and then anthony hopkins wins best actor with maybe 16 minutes of screen time. >> how come he didn't let you go? >> because i didn't ask him.

>> the one thing i love so much about "thelma and louise" is it's one of the best love stories of all times. >> these two friends decide to get away and it goes off the rails really, really quickly. >> shut up. shut up. >> please don't hurt me. >> i'll spatter your ugly face all over this nice car. >> i was driving home one night and the idea hit me. two women go on a crime spree. it wasn't just that idea. i kind of saw the whole movie in one flash. >> god damn, you're a bitch. >> i think he's going to apologize. >> no, i don't think so. >> this is an odyssey of two women on the last journey.

they would not know it was the last journey and therefore the journey had to be magnificent. >> a lot of women looked at this film and thought i could relate to those women, i know what they're going through, i understand the choices they made. >> let's keep going. >> what do you mean? >> go. >> they looked at each other and they both knew. >> you sure? >> it's kind of the culmination of both of our lives and we have no choice. let's go. i can't imagine the movie would have had any power at all had we not ended it that way.

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straight as an arrow. i had to come to prison to be a crook. >> watching each others lives rotate through the system. >> "shawshank redemption" is about seeking justice in an imperfect world and when the convicts win, you have a sense of relief. and that somehow justice has been done. ♪ trying to make it real >> in vegas everybody's got to watch everybody else. >> "casino" is the story of these two men, joe's character and bob's character. >> look at this place. it's made of money. you know what the best part is? nobody's going to know what we're doing. >> and poor sharon who is thrown in the middle of it. >> working for marty is a big thing.

he was very open, supportive, encouraging, and so present with me. >> can i trust you? answer me. can i trust you? >> sharon stone is in the great tradition of crawford and the great divas and i had to learn how to bring out what i needed through her. >> with marty, because his films are so daring and the violence is so violent, and because everything that you do is so true, you have to be really welling to kind of let your guts come out. >> get out of here. >> fine! >> i'm taking her. >> you're not taking her. you're a junkie. get out of here. >> ultimately they're given paradise and like adam and eve they're banished from paradise because they blew it. "apollo 13" was a real turning point for me and an eye

opener. i learned the power of a true story. >> this is houston. say again, please? >> houston, we have a problem. >> just believing in the story. my mantra was just show it. >> we're not going to have enough power left to get home. >> we know they're going to be safe, but the thing we care about is how are they going to be safe? what do these people have to do to save them? that is what's riveting. >> the '90s brought us a new look at some previously thought to be well known stories. >> when you look at the film "jfk" it's about what we can trust and who we can trust. >> who benefitted and who has the power to cover it up? >> oliver stone is saying you can't trust anybody.

>> go back to the time when the nation was captivated by this game show and it's the story about truth and the perversion of truth in entertainment. >> kids would run to do their homework. >> what about him? >> i love him. >> people don't like him. kids don't like him. >> as i kid, i lived through the "quiz show" period. i wanted john to play herb stempel, the guy from the lower class area and he rose to fame and then certain people were getting tired of him because he wasn't that pleasant to look at but no one could beat the guy. he was so sharp. that's when they came up with the guy why don't we find somebody that looks good and we'll give him the answers. >> general h.w. halek.

>> you are our new champion. >> that cruelty was something i wanted to show. the power of money and personality. so to me that was a story that really had to be told. >> we didn't land on plymouth rock. plymouth rock landed on us. landed right on top of us. >> "malcolm x" is spike lee's epic. i think he felt a certain urgency in making it. >> spike had the good fortune of casting denzel washington at the pinnacle of his movie stardom. i think it is his best performance. >> denzel washington is one of the all-time greats. what he does in his artistry painting a portrait of an individual, it's astounding. >> if the so-called negro in america was truly an american citizen, we wouldn't have a racial problem. if the emancipation proclamation was authentic, we wouldn't have

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>> by the 1990s, the age of the people who served in world war ii was 70. they were growing old and disappearing. there was a powerful sense of nostalgia. we saw a lot of retrospective looks at world war ii. this is the time when people started talking about the greatest generation. >> "saving private ryan" was a film i was going to make some day in my life. my dad used to have his band of brothers from the air corp come over to the house every year and the first time i ever heard grown men cry was at the reunions. it was all about the trauma they had suffered in world war ii. >> we'll see you on the beach. >> i felt it was necessary for me to tell the experience of veterans and what they had gone through when they were a little older than i was at the time.

>> when movie goers saw the men disembark, the bullets were going through the water and hitting them in the water. there was a powerful realism to that. >> it's spielberg saying what does it feel like to have gone on that beach? your nose is pressed right into the savagery. >> the beginning was fantastic. i was ill for two weeks watching that. i couldn't believe he did that. >> sir, i don't have a good feeling about this one. >> when was the last time you felt good about anything? >> this ability to entertain and reach audiences more than one way with the same movie, "saving private ryan" is a great example

of that. it's exciting, it's thrilling, it's suspenseful, but it also is a reminder of the price of that kind of warfare, the cost to the soul, and who winds up living and dying and baring those scars in that kind of conflict. >> i dare get you one, but the man who made it is probably dead. i don't know. >> my family, when i was growing up, talked about the holocaust, though they never used that word. they used to call it the great murders. i shot the whole film documentary style. it was the first film i had ever shot like that. it became less of a film and more of a life's journey, a living learning experience making that film. we all felt we were shooting in a graveyard.

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i'll just look around. >> richard curtis said he wrote it with me in mind and i love when writers say that. i don't care if it's true. it's hard to find really great original material that hold the real performance and the comedy and the physical comedy. and some thread of love that you're trying to accomplish. >> i'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy. asking him to love her. >> romantic comedy is a genre that i love. i think i was really lucky that they were making a big resurgence at a time when i was at the ready. >> the romantic comedy gets its jump start. and you have a number of people who are especially adept at the form of the romantic comedy. you have sandra bullock, hugh

grant, meg rint and you have tom hanks. >> she made everything beautiful. >> it's just tough this time of year. any kid needs a mother. >> could it be that you need someone just as much as jonah does? >> norah prepared movies like no one else i ever worked. with we would work for weeks prior to the beginning of shooting. every line was specifically found or written or perfected. >> it was like -- >> magic. >> magic. >> norah ephron was unafraid to take something that felt familiar but then cover it in unfamiliar territory. >> you're going to have sex with her, huh? >> i certainly hope so. >> will she scratch up your back? >> what? >> in movies, women are always

scratching up the men's back and screaming and stuff when they're having sex. >> how do you know this. >> jed has cable. >> it was about a widower. that i thought was a brave choice. you saw people on the screen working on a problem who weren't necessarily from the traditional american family. >> i left her by the telescopes. >> the great thing about norah is, when she was talking about the dynamics about men and women who are attracted to each other or needing each other and searching for each other and don't really know it, she was a genius. >> i'm the guy you don't usually see. i'm the one behind the scenes. >> i want to write a movie that begins where an 80s movie ended. >> jerry maguire. >> it went right to tom cruise. he calls immediately.

i love this script. i'll read it with you and you tell me if i'm right for it. >> i'm not going to do what you think i'm going to do. basically, i've been geeking out over his performance ever since. >> right, right, jerry maguire, how are you doing? >> jerry maguire! >> how am i doing? i'm sweating, dude. >> cuba and tom just deliriously happy actors. >> show me the money. >> they were just landing blows on each other. >> show me the money! >> ended up being just exploding. >> congratulations. you're still my agent. >> that film really spoke to me so deeply. because it is this young single mom with this precocious little kid. and bringing a guy into that

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that day i went to my dorm and i started writing boys in the hood. >> my mama said a bullet has no name on it. >> both my brothers were shot and they're still alive. >> it was inspired with 400 blows. what i saw withstand by me. but those movies didn't speak to where i was coming from. >> we got a call of a burglary here. >> that was about an hour ago. >> whoa! we didn't ask you that. >> i decided to have a black cop be more of them than the white partner and the scenes where he is encountering the black residents. >> something wrong? >> something wrong, yeah. it's just too bad you don't know what it is. >> the same black cop encounters him years later when he's a teenager and profiles him. >> i didn't do nothing. >> you think you're tough. you think you're tough, huh?

oh. you're scared now, huh? i like that. >> singleton was nominated for two academy awards. best original screenplay. and the youngest person ever nominated for best director. >> it was an era when a lot of people were paying attention to black film. it was this famous moment when "the new york times" magazine does this cover story. you really have for the first time a large collection of black filmmakers documenting what was going on in the culture. >> you have to be ready to go down, stand down. >> if you want some juice. >> he ain't sticking up for nothing now. >> that's because we wasn't there to back him up. >> tupac was a phenomenal actor. we had a vision of what we wanted to do. young men coming into this entertainment world together. my attitude was i got my rob de niro. i got my guy i'm doing multiple

movies with. >> people don't realize how theatrical the gang tsa wrap thing was. >> ice-t, ice cube. they were story tellers. so all of them were very convincing onscreen. >> i can feel my heartbeat. >> it was one of those films that made me excited about being in the film industry. >> hey! >> cube at the time transitioning from music to film making. the way it got sold sometimes. it was just this sort of quinn essential independent cinema coming to the main stream. then it went on to do so well. >> ladies! i didn't know you'd be in attendance. >> did you know anything about a party? >> house party is just a fun,

silly teen comedy. >> ladies! in house. >> dragon breath! >> who you talking to? >> hidden play, a musical duo, play two teenagers just looking to have a fun time. dad is away. let's throw a party. >> oh! >> skancandalous. >> having a movie like that premier. it showed what could happen. >> don't answer me what. turn the tv off. >> i'm watching the knicks. >> i don't care what it is. no tv on a school night. >> we talk about the spike lee films, the john singleton films. it was a period when black females were making some really interesting things. you have daughters of the dust. julie dash's film, examining the gullah culture. it harkens back several hundred

years and that is beautiful. you have a movie like the i.r.t. directly leslie harris. >> come on. >> whatever, whatever. >> a quote/unquote hood movie. a hood movie from the perspective of a young girl. >> people think of new black realism as the hood genre. but it is being shown in black cinema of the '90s. so whether we're talking about the black romantic comedies, family films like soul food, waiting to exhale, and how stella got her groove back. >> good morning. >> i think of as companion films that celebrate sisterhood. and that's a whole other element that had not made its way into main street cinema. >> hello. hello. >> from the very early days of will smith's career, he was

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this guy's going through all the eggs. going on 20 minutes. >> what's he looking for? >> has to find the perfect dozen. >> perfect dozen? >> each egg has to be perfect. >> in the '90s you could feel something was happening here. there started to become a genuine independent film movement. sundance film festival, sundance institute had everything to do with it. >> the idea of starting sundance was i felt i'd grown up being a part of the major film industry, because that's all there was and was very fortunate to be part of that. as time went on i became more aware of other stories that could be told. they'd be told by people less inclined to be commercially attractive. they were different. they were off-beat but stories i felt should be told. >> women are lonely in the '90s. it's our new faze.

we'll live. >> they weren't looking at who made the movies. they were looking at the movies. they have a commitment to showing films with very specific, authentic voices. >> there was a sudden recognition because of the success of films that came out of that festival and it drove such a profound change into mainline hollywood. >> hey, man. you got a joint? >> ah -- no. not on me, man. >> it would be a lot cooler if you did. >> just like "american graffiti," "dazed and confused" was a complete euphoric look at young people before they have to become adults. >> other high school movies. there's a million of them, but very few that really gives you an honest depiction of that time in your life.

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>> ah -- >> because of the metrix system. >> check out the big brain on brad. >> "pulp fiction" was a dream of the screenplay and it was the screenplay itself that was this wild, hairy bug. it was like a tarantula on the doorstop. you just had to look at it. my god. look at the size of that thing. >> let's just forget it. >> that's not a possibility. trying to forget anything as intriguing as this would be an exercise in fertility. >> is that a fact? >> look at what john travolta does. look at uma thurman. bruce willis. it was slick. it was fast. it had no convention to it whatsoever. it just rewrote the rules of the way you could make film. >> ah, you [ bleep ]! >> you constantly have to pay attention. all of these characters somehow connected. start to feel as the movie goes

on -- >> i love you, honey bunny. >> everybody, this is a robbery! >> you know a tarantino film the minute you see it. it's such a fanfare of a new kind of filmmaker. ♪ and i know got to go same thing every night ♪ >> came out of this kind of cocktail of '50s nostalgia culture in l.a. and it kind of became a phenomenon. >> what do you guys do? >> i'm a comedian. >> ah -- >> when i started writing "swingers" i didn't know it was going to be a movie or a full script. i was just having fun writing stuff i got a kick out of and kept going with it. >> you go up to talk to a man i don't want you to be the guy in the pg movie. >> really? hoping it makes it happen. >> i want you to be the guy in the rated a movie. the guy you're not sure werther you like you. you're a bad man.

you're a bad man. you're a bad man. >> it was sort of that indie comedy sense ability and we were influential. i kept smith and tarantino and scorsese, when the movie finally came out it hit the culture in a big way. >> see? it's not that hard. >> hey -- three went up. >> ah. ♪ >> i am not mr. lebowski. you're mr. lebowski. i'm the dude. >> everyone i knew was working on something that felt exciting and had a generational voice in it. >> ah. >> i don't know what a dinosaur really looks like in real life. i think it looks like "jurassic park." start as a lion and hits the culture in a way that's impa impactful. >> to infainity and beyond! >> clint eastwood and -- clint eastwood, eastwood? >> tell him i'll think about it. haw, ha.

>> you betcha, yeah. >> close to me. were ankh of weirdos trying to make a movie easily relatable to me. >> this is the one i'll be remembered for. xxx. ♪ ♪ ♪