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Good afternoon.
My name is Robert Evans...
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...and I'm senior vice president
of Paramount Pictures.
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By the way,
this is not my office.
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We tried to shoot this scene
in my office.
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We brought the cameras up, but my
office is too small to get the cameras in.
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I came down to the studio to borrow
a set from The Young Lawyers...
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...and that's where we are now.
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As a matter of fact, I don't even
have offices at the studio anymore.
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Last year, we packed up our gear,
cut down our staff...
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...tightened our belts, moved into small
quarters at little offices in Beverly Hills.
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They're good enough for us.
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These past few years
have been rough for Hollywood.
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We've made a lot of mistakes.
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Some people have learned from them
and some people haven't. We have.
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Money we spend is not gonna
be through extravagances.
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It's gonna be on the screen.
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And speaking of the screen, I think
maybe that's the reason we're here today.
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I'd like to have the opportunity of showing
you some of our product for 1971.
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Right now, we're approaching Christmas.
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And Paramount's Christmas gift
to the world is Love Story.
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I think Love Story is gonna start
a new trend in movies.
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A trend towards the romantic,
towards love...
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...towards people.
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Towards telling a story about how
it feels, rather than where it's at.
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I think Love Story is going to bring the
people back into the theater in droves.
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I could go on for an hour...
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...and tell you about 20 or 30 projects
in various stages...
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...and bore you with it, so I won't.
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But I wanna bring up one project.
And that's The Godfather.
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I bring it up for several reasons.
One, that it's starting production next month.
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Two, that it's gonna be
our next Christmas' picture.
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And three, to bring up the similarity
between The Godfather and Love Story...