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I went to Holland, where a crowd of reporters
met me at Rotterdam airport.
They were all very excited.
They had come expecting to meet Einstein.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
We had von Sternberg in Babelsberg.
And he was shooting The Blue Angel
with Marlene Dietrich.
(SPEAKING GERMAN)
We were all the time
being watched and followed
by two Russian agents.
One looked like Fatty Arbuckle
and the other one looked like Buster Keaton.
One was rosy and laughing
and always fingering his backside,
as though he had wet his trousers.
(CHUCKLES)
Dorothy Gish and her sister
wanted me to make a film,
but sentimental melodrama is not my hat.
Too much gushing and gishing, no irony.
I sent them to Pudovkin.
He is good at tears and whey.
He said, "If I was no good
at treating American ladies well,
"I was nothing. What are you?" he said.
I replied, "I am a scientific dilettante
with encyclopaedic interests."
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(MEXICAN FOLK MUSIC)
(INAUDIBLE)
We left Moscow just as
Pasternak and Mayakovsky
were forbidden to leave.
Passports forbidden.
Trotsky was deported to Turkey.
Poets, painters, and publishers
were sacked, spitted,
sat upon, and spat upon.
We felt the flames up our bums,
red-hot pokers up our asses
as we fled to America.
It scorched us out of Russia.
And I had Joey Schenck's invite
in my back trouser pocket,
- resting against my right buttock.
- (CHILDREN LAUGHING)
An invite to Hollywood.
(FOLK MUSIC CONTINUES)
Excuse me, sir,
I see you are being protected
by grandmothers.
(INAUDIBLE)
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
And then came the bad news.
Keep out the Red Peril!
These Russians will rape
and abuse our American children!
The biggest shark in the shark tank
was an American Senator, Hamilton Fish,
Redneck Extraordinaire.
And behind sharkman Senator Fish
was the riot-master Major Frank Pease.
The bad meat-man in Battleship Potemkin.
I could well have been accused
of sacrilege, insulting God.
I was the "Roosian" Eisenstein,
the Messenger from Hell.
And they won.
Paramount Pictures
could not afford the bad publicity.
Paramount Pictures pictured me
with everyone American
American they could find
to bolster me up,
to keep my image squeaky clean.
I shook hands with Walt Disney,
the greatest and only true filmmaker
who starts from an absolutely clean slate.
Oh, and I met his apprentice-assistant
and protg, Mickey Mouse
and I rubbed wet noses with Rin Tin Tin.
But in the end...
They could not afford to hold out.
They gave in. They caved in.
They were getting jumpy and jittery.
Said it was the Depression.
Said they had to weather the storm.
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