Andre the Giant
- TV-14
- Year:
- 2018
- 85 min
- 252 Views
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Man:
Most of us,
when we're children,
your parents
read fairytales to you.
There are knights,
there are dragons,
there are sorcerers,
there are giants.
He was those drawings
come to life.
He was a living manifestation
of our childhood dreams.
Ring Announcer:
And from Grenoble
in the French Alps,
weighing 477 pounds,
the eighth wonder
of the world,
Andr the Giant!
Man:
Everybody remembers
that moment
where they first saw
Andr the Giant.
We're all intrigued
by Andr the Giant
the human,
but the reason
we're intrigued by that
is because he seems
like so much more.
He was a god.
Ring Announcer:
The crowd goes wild.
This is the one
we've all been waiting for.
Andr the Giant.
Ring Announcer:
Holy mackerel!
Andr the Giant,
off the top turnbuckle!
Ring Announcer:
Andr cleaning house!
Announcer 2:
This is one man you
do not want to get riled up.
Ring Announcer:
Look at the size
of the Giant!
Andr still undefeated.
Ring Announcer:
Oh, slam!
Andr picked him up with ease!
Andr is unbelievable!
( clicks )
( clicks )
( clicks )
( Andr "The Giant" Roussimoff
speaking )
( grunting )
Patric Laprade:
He was just starting.
He was at the time
maybe 6'9, 6'10
when he was wrestling
in France.
'cause he started around
19, 20 years old.
He was leaner than what
North American people
remember of him.
So he would do a much more
athletic style than what
we saw in North America.
( grunting )
The first name that they used
in France was Jean Ferr.
The name come from
a folk hero from France
The backstory for
the Jean Ferr character
was that he was
a lumberjack.
That he was, you know,
discovered
in the middle of the woods
chopping wood.
You have to sell
a background story
to your character,
and he had the size
to be believable
that he was a lumberjack.
Thank you, Monsieur.
Laprade:
Andr was wrestling in many
venues all over Paris.
He was also working a lot
and during the summer
was working in a lot
of festivals
all over the country.
Laprade:
The first country
outside of France
where Andr wrestled
was Monaco.
And then he went
to Japan,
and he was called there
"Monster Roussimoff."
In June of 1971,
that was the first match
he ever had
in North America,
that was in Verdun,
just a suburb of Montreal,
and he was working
for a promotion
called Grand Prix Wrestling.
The very first ad said
that he was a giant
of 7'4", 390 pounds,
from the French Alps.
Being a giant from
the French Alps,
it's a much better story
than just being, you know,
a guy from a town
From the French Alps,
7'4", 415 pounds,
Jean Ferr!
( man groans )
Commentator:
And there's a shot
to the top of the head.
And he's going into
the figure-four.
- Well...
- Commentator #2: Oh!
First thing, I said,
"There's money to be made
with the guy."
And they did draw money,
they sold out all over,
and the Giant
became a household name.
We'd get into a little town
and they'd come from all over.
You'd draw
3, 4, 5, 6 thousand people
Commentator:
There's a shot
to the top
of the head.
Commentator #2:
Maurice is in very bad shape.
David Shoemaker:
Wrestling comes out
of circus sideshows,
and Andr in a lot of ways
was one of these...
sideshow spectacles.
Anybody would pay a quarter
and line up to see him.
But you don't go back
So at a certain point, the move
with a wrestler like Andr
is to move on,
to migrate
to a different territory,
and, you know, try out
greener pastures.
Man:
One, two, three
I'm your boogie man,
that's what I am
I'm here to do
whatever I can...
Shoemaker:
The '70s was the heart
of the territorial era
in pro wrestling
in the United States.
( shouting )
Wrestler:
I love to hurt people
and I'm gonna hurt you
very, very bad.
Commentator:
Heads up! Ooh! Oh!
Shoemaker:
When Andr came down,
professional wrestling
was divided up
into these fiefdoms
around the country.
I think at one time
there were as many
as 32 separate territories.
Hello again, everybody,
and welcome
to Mid-South Wrestling.
Welcome to another hour
of Florida Championship
Wrestling.
Welcome again to an exciting
hour of wrestling.
Jerry Lawler:
You had certain stars
in your territory,
in your region,
and they were seen
as far as your local television
coverage would go.
Nobody had
Announcer:
and here they come back.
There they go again,
come on.
Do what you want,
I'm your boogie man...
You have got to wrestle me
right here and right now.
Do what you want,
I'm your boogie man
Lawler:
We had a TV show in Memphis.
then that started
the St. Louis territory.
Then they had a whole set
there.
And over to the east was
the Carolinas territory,
and they had a whole set
Outside of Canada when Andr
first came to North America,
he was wrestling
mainly in the Midwest.
( cheering )
Laprade:
Minneapolis, Milwaukee,
Detroit.
In Detroit, he was actually
called the "Polish Giant."
And in Minneapolis,
he was called either
Andr Roussimoff
or Andr the Giant
Frenchman.
The name under the Giant,
the first time it actually
happened, was in Chicago.
There was a promoter there
who wanted to book Andr,
so he called the promoter
back in Montreal.
So he said, you know, we call
him Gant Ferr, Giant Ferr.
So the promoter there
starts laughing and says,
"I cannot call him
a giant fairy!
What's his real name?
What's his first name?"
So he said,
"Well, it's Andr."
"Well, okay, we'll call him
Andr the Giant then."
Announcer:
Here is the eighth wonder
of the world!
Andr the Giant!
( cheering )
Commentator:
My goodness!
Look at these fans!
In appreciation
for Andr the Giant!
Gene Okerlund:
When Andr started
circulating in the territories,
he'd come in for a period of
maybe six weeks or seven weeks
and then was gone
and onto the next territory.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen,
I'd like to tell you my name,
you know who I am.
I am so happy to come back
in Florida to see all
my friends.
I want to welcome you once again
to the Mid-Atlantic states
for Mid-Atlantic
Championships Wrestling.
My pleasure.
Oh, s, s.
I guess that's Spanish.
Shane McMahon:
Andr started very small.
performing in front
of 10 people,
100 people, 300 people.
By the time he got to
my grandfather's territory,
which was the Northeast,
then you had made it, you know,
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