we're on a mission from god

wendy so i got that going darling

looks like i picked the wrong way to

quit sniffing blue light

of my life we enjoy your films

i thought they smelled bad on the

outside

[Music]

welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you

don't have to we'll be reviewing every

major film release of the 1980s in real

time

i'm patrick o'reilly i'm jesse bayless

and i'm richard wells and today marks

the 40th anniversary of the release of

stunt rock

on may 9th 1980 it was written by paul

michelle

milch jr and brian trenchard smith

directed by brian trenchard smith and

released by film ventures international

film ventures international or fvi

did a lot of b-movie stuff like beyond

the door

which was an exorcist rip-off because it

starts with a b right

uh grizzly which is a kind of bear that

starts with a beach

stop is the jaws rip off

no no uh and they produced the visitor

which is that one with a poster that's

an eyeball with a big garage wire

yeah um that that was the the last

american international distributed film

that we'll be reviewing for the year

uh that'll come out in november for us

but then later they actually did a

couple of genuine classics like pieces

and house on sorority row eli roth is

obviously a fan of this film

and of the band's sorcery and he used

their music

in his recent death wish remake which i

still haven't seen but apparently

there's a sorcery song in there

i would make the same sound for any

sorcery song

that you just did for eli roth's remake

of death wish and i would the first time

i saw this film was at

a festival that eli roth was hosting

called the greats of roth at the new

beverly theater

here in beautiful sunny southern

california

and it was a double feature with the

apple and uh brian trenchard smith was

there to introduce the film

so i have some information from him

later on in this making of

uh in december of 1977 director brian

trenchard smith was taking a shower and

conceived of a film that would be half

rock

and half stunt apparently leaving almost

no room for story

he wrote a six-page outline with the

intention of pushing stuntman grant page

to superstardom

a financer jumped on board with the

requirement that the film be finished

within six months

another condition of the financing was

the inclusion of dutch actress

monique van deven and after a quick

rewrite the film was ready to shoot

uh if they had agree right yes to add an

extra character to the story to

to actually have 20 minutes of new

footage versus

all the old footages this is the so this

movie is the equivalent of like

a tv clip show it's actually more like

uh a rock concert film but it's like a

rockumentary

where there's hardly any of it is like a

fictional story

all the interviews that are taking place

between people are people telling real

stories from their actual life

the only part that's fake is when

they're pretending to work on this

movie in between concerts but

all of his descriptions of like oh this

i did this one stunt one time and it's a

real thing that happened to him and they

cut the footage of him doing the thing

so it's it's almost a documentary with a

little bit of like scripted

interstitials

it's the closest thing to a documentary

we'll be covering on this show because

that's not really what we're doing here

it's also the closest thing that we're

going to cover to a concept

a concert movie yeah so we're getting

them all out of the way

yes right here tonight yeah if they

hadn't been on a tour during this film's

short production window the plot would

have revolved around grant page and

foreigner instead of sorcery how insane

would that have been that would have

been a much better movie

a bunch more money would have come into

it i'm sure it

eventually what happened was they they

had to get a band

and at first they were promising that

they could get all these big bands and

that it was going to be great

and then it came down to a point where

the financier was like

you need to have a band attached to this

thing by monday or we're pulling all the

funding

and brian trenches smith basically said

so we got a band that you can get by

monday

which it was down to sorcery and a band

named virgin that i could hardly find

anything about on the internet so i

don't understand how this could have

been foreigner though because

like the point of this movie is that

this band

does all this crazy theatrics during the

show which is why

they have a stuntman around to consult

with

that's the point of the movie after

sorcerer was brought on

oh okay so in some other form when

foreigner was going to be involved

there was some other pretext to have it

what is this

a concert okay all right and i'm very

music

ignorant is foreigner australian

no okay i i don't know

i don't either but i'm saying no i am

googling it oh good so we all don't know

but you know foreigners music at least

yeah mostly because of an aqua teen

hunger force episode god damn it patrick

that features like six different songs

for porter

all right according to wikipedia they

are a british american rock band

see i knew they were at least foreigners

but except we're here in britain yeah

but then some of them are so some are

british but when they perform

in britain they're called the locals and

australia they have americans that

doesn't say no matter where they are

they have some foreigners with them

oh australia is a british colony

that's true so they're basically

australian

if they're from anywhere in britain

they're basically australian

um but yeah when it came down to those

last two bands sorcery

or virgin uh i think sorcery was the

obvious choice because of the visuals

and the whole

magic show part of their performance the

finished print of the film was struck

a mere four and a half months after the

first six page outline was finished

but the actual production of the film

only lasted 15 days

i'm surprised it lasted that much i am

too i think you could have got

this down to a week uh according to imdb

van halen was offered to the production

at one point but i don't buy that for a

second

yeah um well i'm i'm sure they offered

him

i i like do you want van halen sure can

we get van halen no no

not at all i was just curious if he

wanted him van halen's on the table

here here's the document yeah it's like

before uh before the screening that we

saw with eli roth at the new beverly

branch richard smith mentioned that he

had

he'd met the guys from the band at their

at their home in van nuys

where they had like a car on blocks in

the yard he had seen them perform once

at the whiskey

where they were very quickly kicked out

by the fire marshal because of

a lot of flagrant violations there were

many title changes to this film after

its original release so it came out as

stunt rock

but it was later retitled crash and then

eventually it was released as a double

bill with purple rain and it was called

sorcery

which makes it more of just a straight

concert film

than anything else um grant page is

described by trencher

as basically the steve irwin of stunts

he's a very sweet guy who

takes everything very seriously and he's

a consummate professional

and he actually lost an eye after this

film

to cancer not as a result of any of this

stunts and the film makes regular use of

split screens which is kind of annoying

but the reason for that is because most

of the stunts were recorded in 16

millimeter

and blowing that up to 35 would look

like garbage no they just

mirrored it that makes sense now um

we opened the film with a title card

that made me very excited

it says this film contains many

extremely dangerous stunts do not

imitate what you see

which when you see that before a movie

that you think is going to be a straight

fictional narrative

is very exciting but it turns out it's

more a documentary about science

like like that like the card that comes

up

before roar yeah is like

we'll get that next year um

yeah don't don't try to do anything that

they did in the movie roar because

that's just stupid

you probably won't get a movie you'll

just get eaten grant wakes up

and climbs down a cliff face over

a churning ocean the gap yeah the gap

it's called it's

uh it's an australian landmark and a

reporter is documenting a couple stunts

that grant is going to do

one is just sliding down a rope and then

the other is like a slingshot motion

that he refers to as a bow and arrow

motion for some reason

it's just a slingshot move oh yeah he uh

he slides down the rope and he does the

slingshot move and nothing goes wrong

so that happens we got a quick montage

of various stunts that grant has pulled

off in the past

over the music of the band's sorcery

specifically the song

stunt rocker which will occur again at

the end of the film

[Music]

grant is picked up at an airport by one

of the band members his cousin

apparently yeah i didn't realize that

until my second viewing that they're

actually related he's related to a

member of the band i wasn't even

watching it the second time around when

you were

taking your notes i was just in the

other room and i overheard him say

uh that they were related and i'm like

what it's crazy to think they're really

related and it's like oh they're related

i watched that whole movie and i didn't

realize they were related

so yeah so uh one of the band members

picks them up

and they drive around for a while we see

sorcery

in studio yeah like when he says can we

stop by the studio it's like oh god

please don't be another music video

yeah and it kind of is yeah well we're

we're intercutting back and forth we

have the two guys

you know a night on the town walking

around the hollywood area past theaters

um showing close encounters and deep

throat

and uh they go into an arcade for a

while which is a weird double feature

yeah close encounters of the erotic

kind we uh we meet a writer

lois who is watching a news story about

a stunt where grant was injured

a stunt went wrong and she decides that

her next article is going to be about

him being a stunt person because he

sounds interesting and is that lazy

naming a reporter lois i mean

like she's the only person in the movie

whose name they had to write yeah

because everyone else is

acting under their real name yeah and

it's like and like it's like lois is the

best you could come up with a reporter

well at least she doesn't have like you

know another reporter that's following

her around wearing glasses the whole

thing yeah

but she goes to visit grant at the

hospital and when she gets there he's

climbing down the outside of it

um he jumps down and gets into her car

like he was expecting her to be there i

guess did he invite her to the hospital

uh i don't know i it just seems like he

was kidnapping her yeah it seemed

like he was being overly familiar but he

just jumps in the car with her and

starts driving at full speed

to the set of undercover girl which is

the show that he left australia to come

work on here in los angeles

it's her car it is her car it's such a

weird thing this this

man in you know a 90 an open back leg

hospital daikon that just climbed out of

a building

jumps in the driver's seat of your car

and speeds off with you

well he can get there faster than she

can he's a professional stunt driver i

just

i wouldn't let some random person drive

my car no probably not i mean and and we

are only assuming that he's a

professional gun driver

just because he's good at like falls and

stunts doesn't mean he's a great driver

yeah i mean also no matter how good you

are at stunts you're not at your best

the day after you got out of the

hospital for being injured in a stunt

there's also a setup for a subplot that

is never paid off

where she's yelling at her boss on the

phone about changing her words for her

stories

yeah and she gets really upset with it

and hangs up on him yeah and think oh

okay so this is gonna be the story

that turns all this around and we never

find out we never find out

anything about this but um yeah but uh

they get all the way to their set i feel

like undercover girls show be all one

word because the joke is that they're

combining the word

undercover with the word cover girl

right but it's not

undercover is one word girl is another

word they are at the warner brothers lot

and grant will be jumping off of uh the

animaniacs home

the water tower outside of one of the

star's trailers or the star of the

show's trailer the

undercover girl um she is asking for

a gun that phil hartman is wrestling out

of her hands

i was like yeah i was so excited to see

him this is his first feature film

apparently

but this is literally his only shot in

the whole movie you're really not

supposed to be doing it he tells her

that her agent insisted that she

couldn't handle any of the weapons

and she's pissed off about it because

her agent is being overprotective

the fall goes fine but the director is

not happy with the amount

of blood so they set it up to go again

and this time the actress

gets the gun because she fights with

them about it and she fires like

20 shots at him as he's falling off of

the water tower so they have about 20

squibs go off on his chest

he's just covered in blood at the bottom

it's pretty brutal for a television show

yeah and they're they're all talking

about like how are we going to get this

past the sensor so it's like well you

have two takes i guess

you have the bloody one in the in the

dry one but

monique is the lead actress here

and uh not not the current monique right

yes monique is the is the woman in this

film that's playing this actress

and her agent uh tells lois about this

crazy stunt guy

grant specifically a stunt he did for a

movie called mad dog morgan which is a

real movie and a real stunt that

actually went wrong where he was very

badly burned but he showed up on set

three days later ready to work again

monique asks grant to teach her some of

his stunts but that's not

that's not in his paycheck that wasn't

in the deal memo so he's

he's hesitant to actually talk her

through any of it but

he decides he's going to give her and

the reporter

a ride in the car and kind of talk about

some of the stunts he's done in the past

so we get this quick montage of driving

stunts that grant paige has done

in his with another work musical overlay

right and all this is pre-existing

footage from before this film came out

most of the stunts we see in this movie

if not all of the stunts we see in this

movie

are from things that happened before

they even thought about doing this movie

with the exception of maybe jumping off

the water tower

and jumping through the windshield of

the car on fire

and later when sh when monique

participates

right she does the stuff that is true he

takes the girls to a sorcery show

of course so for some reason they enjoy

it

sorcery records at western studios

and after the recording they're doing

silly magic tricks in a studio near the

craft table they make a duck appear

and uh kind of pointlessly they go to a

sorcery concert

where they're doing lots of magic on

stage during their show lots of flames

there's a merlin character and a devil

character in the show

after the show they're feeding a dog

spaghetti from the craft table everybody

knows that dogs love spaghetti we

learned that in lady and the

that's right

they asked lois to hang out all night

but she says no i have to go home and

write an article about people who work

themselves to death

like you it's like i'm the one who wants

to go party

and you're going home to work at two

o'clock in the morning yeah so who's the

workaholic but she's

she basically insults grant to his face

multiple times here she says he's going

to work himself to death

he gives her a scrapbook that he's made

of stunts that he's done in the past and

the the process that he works by and

plans to eventually adapt into like a

manual for stunt coordination

and she takes the whole thing to work on

with her article

back at her apartment lois is dictating

basically the history of stunt work

starting with the invention of motion

pictures i guess because she doesn't

she mentions like the circus very

briefly but she doesn't go into like

vaughnville or anything she just goes

right into

here's stuff that we have footage of

that we can show you just it was a

section where they're like we need more

found footage we don't have enough

what else can we put in there i don't

know how about some silent movie footage

yeah so it's a lot of um airplanes and

trains and cars

was there much like i don't recall

specifically there was much harold lloyd

or buster keaton

there is a little buster keaton in there

yeah um the true

masters and we see people

you know balancing on on jumping ropes

on the tops of buildings or leaning back

in chairs or standing on like

the the rebar of like a building that's

being put together

yeah and uh then uh

we get a quick montage of various

australian stuntmen she's moving more

specifically towards grant

um and his work because at the time the

australian film industry was exploding

and so she talks about other

australian stuntmen like warren campbell

tom

slavin who we see kicking a cinder block

and half on top of a guy's head

but then when they go to pull it away

they only pull away the bottom half of

the cinder block and the top just

falls back on the guy's head it looks

like it actually hurt pretty bad

we see peter armstrong

max and dale aspen who are like a

husband and wife auto stunt team so

we're just moving through all these

other australian stunt people

the next day on set which looks like

where the 10118 meets the 405

but before it was finished being built

that interchange

and uh grant is gearing up to fly

through a windshield of a car on fire

monique wants to fire the flare gun

that's going to set off the explosion

but her

agent is like nope she's not firing this

flare gun and the director basically

says

look you i need to get a insert here

it's going to be a close-up we're going

to see her face

she needs to be the one firing the flare

gun and then he goes to her and he's

like

hey so i got it so that you're the one

who gets to fire the flare gun yeah oh

great

grant is on top of this car and then he

climbs into it and wrestles with the

driver until the car skids

lois laughs when grant refers to his

work as art because she's a dick

[Laughter]

he mentions the film gone in 60 seconds

and then we get like a few minutes from

the climax of the film yeah it seemed

a little bit much but it does get the

point across that there's a lot of work

that goes into

it and you have to be very precise and

what you get out of it looks amazing

lois decides she's going to leave

because she doesn't want to see grant

die

because she thinks that he's a bad stunt

man yeah

hope that helps your confidence yeah

like you're going to feel so much better

when he dies here after you left

monique gets to fire the gun so she

fires it

the back of the van explodes and grant

flies through the windshield holding

onto the steering wheel and flames

monique thinks grant after they've

wrapped for the day for not hitting on

her

uh we get another sorcery show get two

two in a row

yeah um i i i every time there was a

music video i just put music video

yeah uh grant tightrope walks across

lois's apartment building to say hi

through her kitchen window yeah super

manipulative here because his goal

is to get her to go out on a date with

him or he'll

fall yeah he's like you want to go eat

with me or or i could kill myself you're

crazy

i just came by to invite you to a party

no

what are you talking about i won't leave

until you say yes

oh my god hang on

what can i do say yes so i can get down

from here

all right wiseguy you win it's a little

early for a party isn't it

all right what about breakfast first i

could die you want me to die

and there's like a baby crying

underneath them oh land on that baby

i'm gonna land right on this

baby if you don't go to breakfast with

me

so uh she's like yes okay fine whatever

and we get another

quick montage of of grant's stunt work

that

um he he's basically telling her his

life story and other stunts that he's

gone through

including a hang gliding stunt that

almost killed him because he like got

tied up in all the ropes and everything

after he went underwater and uh

we go to a house party with sorcery

where one of the members of the band

escapes from

a bunch of chains in a pool grant tells

monique

that her agent is acting like he's our

boss

and she gets pretty upset about that the

agent laughs off an opportunity to

represent one of the magicians of the

band

but then later is begging the guy to be

his agent

after he successfully gets out of the

chains in the pool he's like so wait

what were you saying you would let us

bury you and then

for a million dollars and he's like

because i would get 10 of that million

dollars and i feel like people would

want to see this

grant talks to the band about a stunt

that he thinks he could do for their

show

monique throws her agent in the pool

that's basically the end of the house

party scene

we cut to i assume that means she's

fired him

yeah i think so yeah um grant sets up

his

cousin to jump off of a building for a

scene

that no one's filming right no i guess

there is a guy filming it but it doesn't

seem like he's filming it

for the for the purposes of shooting a

scene

yeah i don't think he is because the guy

he's not dressed as

the girl at all yeah like if the point

is that he's supposed to be a stunt

double for the undercover girl

he's not even wearing a wig that's her

hair color no i think that the

he was telling him that he because he

was telling him he could jump off the

rafters for one of their songs i think

he was demonstrating that here ah so he

was like here it's gonna be like this

let's do it off the side of the building

and then but then what he does on the

side of the building is not at all what

they do during the study

no but i think that that's what they

were implying the stunt was going to be

and they changed it

because i think the guy that the cousin

is the guy that dresses up like the

devil

yes and so he would be the one to do the

stunt during the show and so i think

this is an example of that

okay and we didn't talk about the band

member who always wears a mask

and has some kind of weird audio

distortion there now we've said

everything there is to say about that

character

yeah um but yeah so uh

at the last second before uh his cousin

jumps off of this building

monique asks if she can trade places

with him and they trade she jumps off

the building everything goes fine

a moment of potential drama

in this movie nope or special i was like

it's like something is almost bad gonna

happen to her no no no no no

we switched for no reason oh and another

music video

yeah so uh they do the sorcery show

where grant gets to show off his stunt

which is

that he uh gets wrapped up and put on a

chair

in front of the audience and then

presumably like sneaks backwards out of

a costume

well so okay so he's a plant in the

audience right which so

they drag him up onto the stage put him

into what looks like

an electric chair type situation where

they strap him down yeah

they throw a big sheet over him and then

uh i guess i assume he's escaping

yes at this point he's escaped at some

point in here and they light the whole

thing

on fire uh and after it's been lit on

fire he comes

ziplining back in first whatever body

they replaced him with in the chair

tips forward and falls onto the stage

and everyone thinks that the guy from

the audience just died

because it's on fire he's screwed up

yeah even even the girls

like i don't know if they're supposed to

be acting here or if they genuinely

didn't know what was going gonna happen

though i wouldn't tell them i think it'd

be more fun if they thought it was

because they

actually look shocked like oh no but not

shocked

enough if they'd actually thought it was

him dead

yeah but then he uh swings down from

behind the audience over everybody's

head to the stage

and uproarious reaction everyone loves

it and he goes back to the audience with

the girls

and they're both in love with her he's

definitely going to have sex with both

of them tonight

and what this had to do with the

sorcerer and the devil and the article

yeah who knows we don't know anything

about the article because monique says

like i hope you paint them in a good

light because they're really artists and

it's like

it's like oh and i was like okay we're

gonna this is gonna be a big deal

yeah did you guys ever see the movie fx

no

like the letter f the letter x yeah it's

like a a bunch of traps and stuff

yeah so like this hollywood visual

effects artist

yeah practical makeup artist is tat and

stuntman

is there's two of them right yeah well i

mean there's two movies

yes he's tasked with like setting up

this thing that's like a murder but

it's a it's an excuse to pull off a real

murder and frame him

and then he goes after them with like

all his like hollywood stunt tricks

that's what i thought this movie was

gonna be

i was really excited to see like a

stuntman doing crazy stuff

and it's going to have a plot there's no

plot yeah

honestly that's that's my biggest gripe

too is that there's not enough plot but

there are

a lot of cool stunts that look difficult

to do

the problem is that these stunts weren't

done specifically for this movie

yeah and that would be fine too if if

they didn't play it off like

they were if they didn't play it off

like it was just to fill in backstory

for the stuntman but these are clearly

stunts that existed on film before this

movie

this is essentially a clip show to a

show that i haven't been watching

so it actually might be a clip show to

like three shows you haven't been

watching right

all smooshed together well one show that

i did watch because i've seen the

the haleki gone in 60 seconds and you've

seen mad max

i've seen mad max there's no mad max no

but he was some man in mmx

yes well he was he was a stunt

coordinator right no he was a stunt man

in mad max yeah

but i think every stunt man in australia

was working on mad max that's true

at the time um but yeah that's about it

for the story of this one

story yeah if you want to say there's a

story there director brian trentwood

smith

uh seems like a cool guy he's got a lot

of weird movies the dragon flies that's

three words the dragon flies

[Laughter]

tyrannosaurus as techa arctic blast

that sounds like a flavor of mountain

dew he also has a couple like uh

what is it called death cheaters or

death chasers or something like that

a couple other movies with grant page

that are about stunt people

i always think of um have you seen the

documentary double dare

no i think i've talked to you about it

before but it it basically follows

uh two summers no it's not that double

date

although he did quite a stunt at some

point right didn't he

wasn't he like mutilated in a car

accident i know he was out of business

for a while i don't know why

i think that was why i think he was in a

car he was a passenger in a car

and he got messed up pretty bad i i

think he's doing okay now he's hosted

shows since then

yeah but um i know he got messed up

pretty good but

the documentary double dare follows

jeannie epper

and uh zoey bell zoe bell yeah okay

because jeannie epper was the stunt girl

for the original wonder woman series

and zoe was the stunt woman for xena and

so they have very similar

beginnings and the documentary follows

jeannie epper and the whole epper family

they're all stunt people

one of them appeared on a macgyver

episode and she

works to this day she was one of the two

older ladies in the elevator in i heart

huckabees when they're getting slammed

against the wall

because she's a stunt woman and she's

looking at stuff all the time she's in

roadhouse she has

cool stuff in roadhouse but it's a great

documentary that follows like

her through like stunt legendary like

work

and then zoe bell like just getting

started and the very end of the movie is

about like

oh i just got a call from quentin

tarantino and he wants me to beat uma's

double for

kill bill and like it was a cool way to

end the film knowing that

she ended up being like the main

character of some of his movies moving

down the line

yeah she appears in a lot of stuff like

yeah like i mean i see her as an actress

in a lot of things

yeah i i met her at

the new beverly for i think edgar

wright's film festival

i think it was the night that they

played flash gordon and danger

diabolique

and uh i got a picture with her there

she's super super nice

and then i met her again at the when

they did the hateful eight screening

on the sony lot see and that's like her

character in hateful aid is the kind of

is who i wish she always is yeah outside

you know behind the camera yeah exactly

i hope that she's just always like

i think she is mostly but um she's great

i love her

and uh but that's a cool movie i

recommend checking out uh daredevil

not daredevil it's called double dare

double dare is a great movie

it's a good documentary this one's like

pretending to be a movie but it's really

kind of just a documentary about this

guy

uh the writer here i don't know why

there's a credited screenwriter

uh you'll be shocked to hear that he

didn't write anything else

because he didn't write this really kind

of conversations

um this was his only credit uh grant

page obviously we said he

worked on mad max doing stunts he was

the stunt coordinator on death ship

earlier this year um he will also be

back later this year for the island

um actress monique van deven is a dutch

actress

who first appeared in paul verhoeven's

turkish delight in 73

she is the wife of yander bont

who directed speed the haunting and

twister

and he was the dp for cujo die hard hunt

for red october basic instinct

he is nominated for four razzies one for

directing the haunting and three for

writing directing and producing speed

two

the actress playing lois is uh margaret

gerard

she is the wife of the director and she

is a byzantine

historian she's not an actress

and the only other movies that she's in

are other movies from from brian

trencher smith

um jess up or down on this one oh it's a

big down

yeah it's going to be a down from me i'm

going to say down also

um i mean i i i feel bad because this is

this is a cult film yeah and i don't i

don't want to

take away from this man's achievements

right as a stuntman it's very impressive

but a movie this is not yeah i i would

say that's

that's fair uh letterbox jess what do

you think

um i'm gonna put it gosh

i think i'm actually gonna put it below

caligula and above

gorp okay uh for me

it's it's not that far down but it's

pretty far down it's gonna be below

baltimore bullet but above nothing

personal

okay um i am putting it pretty low also

i'm putting it above defiance and under

privatize

i think they spent about the same time

writing the script

for both but i think privatize actually

comes together more cohesively

yeah that's the rock does i think that's

about it for this one

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next time

when we'll be discussing fame which imdb

calls

a chronicle of the lives of several

teenagers who attend a new york high

school for students gifted in the

performing arts

we leave you now with the trailer for

fame this is no mickey mouse school

you're not getting off easy because

you're talented you work twice as hard

now i don't care how

well you dance or how cute you are or

how many colored tutus you have

if you don't give your academic subjects

equal time

you're out for coco it's the stardom for

ralph it's a chance

for leroy it's survival for lisa it's

the dance

bruno this is our big chance man don't

you want success

they've got nothing in common but a

dream so you want to be an actor huh

yeah sure want to be an actress

a dream that one day the whole world

will know their name

cause i'm gonna be a dancer a good

dancer you know who says so

me a dream of fame

[Music]

fame it's the dream of instant success

i'll have 20 thousand dollars a week

i'll have a hit tv series i'll have my

facebook

tv guide and the constant reminder of

failure

i don't think you'll ever be good enough

lisa but i don't know what i'll do if i

can't dance

[Music]

it's dedication dance is not a way of

getting through school

it's a way of life and frustration

it's stage fright

and opening nights kids are into sex a

lot earlier in the south bronx

like about 6 a.m

[Music]

all anyone ever promised you was seven

classes a day in the hot lunch

[Applause]

it's contagious you want to know what's

happening to me man success

all right now you either hang on and you

hang up

it's outrageous it'll change your name

i'm becoming an actress but i want you

[Music]

i'll pay my dues on the west coast come

back to new york as a star

if they've really got what it takes

it's gonna take everything they've got

metro goldwyn mayer presents an alan

parker film

fame