They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

He does voices." 560 00:33:05,108 --> 00:33:08,653 "Why would he do that? Why couldn't they get the real people?" 561 00:33:13,950 --> 00:33:16,244 <i>Orson populated the film with characters</i> 562 00:33:16,328 --> 00:33:18,622 <i>based on the icons of the film community.</i> 563 00:33:19,873 --> 00:33:21,917 <i>Like screenwriter John Milius.</i> 564 00:33:23,043 --> 00:33:24,753 <i>Film critic Pauline Kael.</i> 565 00:33:25,337 --> 00:33:28,131 I just want to know what he represents. 566 00:33:28,215 --> 00:33:31,635 <i>And the head of Paramount Pictures, Robert Evans.</i> 567 00:33:32,594 --> 00:33:35,597 I started to figure out that Rich Little's supposed to be Peter. 568 00:33:37,724 --> 00:33:42,729 The character was a young, successful director who did imitations. 569 00:33:42,896 --> 00:33:44,773 And that's what Peter did. 570 00:33:45,315 --> 00:33:46,566 I'm Peter Bogdanovich. 571 00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:49,778 What's the word I say? Oh, action! 572 00:33:50,946 --> 00:33:55,283 And so then I started to think, "Well, is John Huston supposed to be Orson?" 573 00:33:56,409 --> 00:34:00,080 I remember thinking, “Oh, my gosh, this is starting to get really weird.” 574 00:34:02,374 --> 00:34:04,918 I can remember one time we shot a scene... 575 00:34:05,377 --> 00:34:06,377 Brooksie. 576 00:34:06,586 --> 00:34:09,714 - Right here by your side, skipper. - You know what I'd like for my birthday? 577 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:11,715 Cut. 578 00:34:12,092 --> 00:34:13,510 John couldn't drive. 579 00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:16,596 And he never told us this. 580 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,390 - My camera's gone out. - Oh, Jesus! 581 00:34:18,515 --> 00:34:21,395 - Certainly, it was a stick-shift. - Give me the magazine, quick! 582 00:34:21,768 --> 00:34:24,288 And I was kinda worried, 'cause I had to return the car. 583 00:34:24,354 --> 00:34:26,064 - It's stopped. - The magazine jammed. 584 00:34:26,147 --> 00:34:27,482 The car stopped, too. 585 00:34:29,818 --> 00:34:33,029 Let's put it in drive. In "D." 586 00:34:33,905 --> 00:34:36,305 It looked like we were gonna go right into the lake. 587 00:34:37,659 --> 00:34:38,743 John said to me, 588 00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:41,705 "Oh, Rich, you'll get good billing." 589 00:34:41,788 --> 00:34:45,834 'Orson Welles, John Huston, and Rich Little, 590 00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:48,044 all drowned'." 591 00:34:53,717 --> 00:34:56,678 This is a picture about the love of death. 592 00:34:57,178 --> 00:34:59,139 You came to my party after all. 593 00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:01,766 Get in. I'll drive you. 594 00:35:09,524 --> 00:35:12,485 This is Jake Hannaford's 70th birthday party. 595 00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:15,322 He died at the end of it. 596 00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:20,118 And there was some question as to whether it was an accident or suicide. 597 00:35:21,536 --> 00:35:25,081 So, what you're seeing is a reconstruction of the... 598 00:35:25,165 --> 00:35:27,834 - Roll tape! - 40, David, take six. 599 00:35:28,752 --> 00:35:32,130 ...made up of all this different footage, all put together. 600 00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:35,467 - Mr. Hannaford. - Happy birthday, Jake! 601 00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:40,096 The whole documentary, the kind that we're all so accustomed to today, 602 00:35:41,014 --> 00:35:42,390 he was inventing. 603 00:35:42,474 --> 00:35:43,892 Happy birthday! 604 00:35:44,017 --> 00:35:47,604 And for that, Gary was probably an ideal cameraman, 605 00:35:47,687 --> 00:35:49,397 because Gary was very fast. 606 00:35:52,192 --> 00:35:55,111 Gary Graver was the key person on the film. 607 00:35:55,362 --> 00:35:57,947 He was the closest person to Orson. 608 00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:02,827 Gary was really like the son Orson didn't have. 609 00:36:03,662 --> 00:36:06,706 Orson and Gary, father-son... 610 00:36:07,248 --> 00:36:08,333 No. Not so much. 611 00:36:08,917 --> 00:36:10,960 - Orson isn't very paternal. - Action. 612 00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:14,631 Go back! Go back, back up, back up. Quickly! 613 00:36:14,714 --> 00:36:17,217 - Up! Up! Up! - Bossy, yes. 614 00:36:17,842 --> 00:36:18,968 Paternal, no. 615 00:36:19,552 --> 00:36:21,012 Slower! Stop! 616 00:36:22,055 --> 00:36:23,139 Move slowly! 617 00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:29,813 My father Gary's enthusiasm for filmmaking 618 00:36:29,896 --> 00:36:32,315 was something I don't think I've ever seen equaled. 619 00:36:33,066 --> 00:36:37,612 Every moment that my dad was not actively engaged in shooting, 620 00:36:37,696 --> 00:36:39,906 he looked at that as time lost. 621 00:36:42,283 --> 00:36:44,744 Gary and I, we got married when I was 21. 622 00:36:45,787 --> 00:36:48,415 And if he was scheduled to be home at 10:00, 623 00:36:48,540 --> 00:36:52,961 and it went until 4:00 in the morning, oh, well, he stayed.