After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur | dG1fY2RlR0gya1p3azQ
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00:00 [no audio]
00:06 First of all, tell me the story about the film.
00:07 Two minutes left.
00:08 Two minutes left to set it up, so it'll never work for two minutes.
00:10 No, no, no. George, you think it'll work for two minutes?
00:11 Huh?
00:12 You think we'll get the story in two minutes?
00:13 No, no.
00:14 I doubt it.
00:15 No, no.
00:16 I doubt it very much.
00:17 No, no.
00:18 No, no.
00:19 I doubt it.
00:20 No way.
00:21 No way.
00:22 How could you tell a Stephen Prince story in two minutes?
00:23 Two minutes, I don't know.
00:24 [music]
00:25 You!
00:30 Scorsese!
00:35 What?
00:38 What?
00:41 Well, I think now that both of you are here, we can tell some stories.
00:43 [music]
00:47 She was just a real Russian Jew.
00:51 She used to teach advanced ball busting, 302, and PhD ball busting.
00:58 PhD?
00:59 Yeah.
01:00 She was a ball buster.
01:02 My mother, without a doubt, cooks the most bland food in the world.
01:09 No taste at all.
01:11 No taste.
01:13 This man is saying that about his mother.
01:14 Right.
01:15 [music]
01:21 Heroin always interested me.
01:23 And I got started using heroin every once in a while.
01:30 Big says, "Hey, you remember Joey?"
01:33 He said, "Yeah, sure, yeah, I know Joey."
01:37 "Well, you're sitting on him."
01:39 I said, "Oh, oh, yeah?"
01:43 The guy's dead.
01:44 Dad, you wanna kill yourself?
01:46 Is that what you wanna do?
01:47 You wanna go out that way?
01:49 And Steven says to me, "That's not a bad way to go.
01:54 "I mean, you just get higher and higher and higher
01:59 "and higher and higher and higher and higher and higher."
02:04 (gentle guitar music)
02:10 How about dope, grass, ash, coke, mescaline,
02:14 downers, nebutol, tonol, chloral hydrates?
02:18 How about an uppers, amphetamines?
02:20 - No, I'm not interested in that stuff.
02:21 - Crystal meth, I can get you crystal meth.
02:23 Nitrous oxide, how about that?
02:25 ♪ You know how time breaks here ♪
02:28 - What are you doing now?
02:29 - I'm sitting in a room with a bunch of friendly people
02:33 drinking a really good cognac.
02:36 (laughing)
02:38 No kidding.
02:40 - Is there one story in that that affected people
02:43 the most that you can tell?
02:44 - Yeah, I think what Tarantino took.
02:50 - I got the medical dictionary out, looked it up,
02:53 got a matching marker,
02:55 a matching marker where her heart was,
02:57 measured down like two or three ribs
03:01 and measured in between there,
03:02 and I just stood there and I went.
03:09 (thudding)
03:11 And then, and she came back like that.
03:15 - It was amazing.
03:16 Like, almost exactly like the film.
03:22 ♪ You know how time breaks here ♪
03:26 (upbeat music)
03:29 (silence)
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