:13:03
Trying a new approach...
:13:04
Dr. Fletcher places the subject
under hypnosis.
:13:08
Tell me why you assume
the characteristics...
:13:12
of the person you're with.
:13:14
-It's safe.
-What do you mean safe?
:13:19
Safe...
:13:22
to be like the others.
:13:26
You want to be safe?
:13:30
I want to be liked.
:13:35
Probing Zelig's unconscious...
:13:36
Dr. Fletcher gradually
puts together the pieces...
:13:39
of Zelig's behavioral puzzle.
:13:42
Dividing her time
between the hospital...
:13:45
and the 42nd-Street Library,
she writes her report.
:13:49
A closed meeting
of doctors listens...
:13:51
as Dr. Fletcher describes Zelig
as a human chameleon.
:13:56
Like the lizard
that is endowed by nature...
:13:59
with a marvelous
protective device...
:14:01
that enables it
to change color...
:14:03
and blend in with
its immediate surrounding...
:14:06
Zelig, too, protects himself...
:14:08
by becoming
whoever he is around.
:14:12
The doctors listen,
and their reaction is skeptical.
:14:15
"Impossible," they claim.
"Preposterous."
:14:17
"If he's a lizard,"
quips one doctor...
:14:20
"then we shouldn't spend
hospital money feeding him...
:14:23
"but simply catch him
some flies."
:14:35
We knew we had
a good story this time...
:14:38
because it had everything in it.
:14:40
It had romance.
It had suspense.
:14:43
This fellow Zelig,
he grew up poor.
:14:46
My city editor said, "Ted...
:14:48
"we want this story
on page one every day."
:14:52
In those days, you'd do anything
to sell papers.
:14:56
To get a story,
you'd jazz it up...
:14:59
you'd exaggerate,
play with the truth.