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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.
:36:15
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.
:36:30
I think Love Story is going to bring the
people back into the theater in droves.
:36:38
I could go on for an hour...
:36:40
...and tell you about 20 or 30 projects
in various stages...
:36:43
...and bore you with it, so I won't.
:36:46
But I wanna bring up one project.
And that's The Godfather.
:36:49
I bring it up for several reasons.
One, that it's starting production next month.
:36:54
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...
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...which are the two biggest books
of the last decade.
:37:07
Paramount owns them both.
:37:08
But Paramount has more than
just owning them both.
:37:12
We didn't sit back in our plush
chairs and write a check...
:37:15
...for a million dollars for the books,
which happens so often in our industry.
:37:19
We developed both of these books.
:37:21
If it weren't for Paramount,
Love Story would never have been written...
:37:25
...The Godfather would
never have been written.
:37:28
We were in there in the beginning,
spurring the writers on...
:37:31
...working closely with them to make
these books the bestsellers they are...
:37:35
...and the great movies
they're going to be.
:37:38
We at Paramount don't look at ourselves
as passive backers of film.
:37:43
We look at ourselves as
a creative force unto ourself.
:37:47
And that is why Paramount is going to be
paramount in the industry in the '70s.
:37:52
I promise you that.
:37:55
Ten minutes later, Bluhdorn walked in.
:37:58
"Well, I'm fired, huh?
You're a bigger fraud than I thought.