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00:17 - You're not curious anymore.
00:18 You don't know where to grow.
00:20 You're not anxious to know how to grow as a filmmaker,
00:23 a writer, artist, whatever.
00:25 That's death.
00:26 He, I think, felt that,
00:28 and I think you have the results in limelight.
00:31 - There's something brave, sublime,
00:33 and without precedent in movie history
00:35 about a man contemplating his own death on screen.
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00:40 - He makes peace with it, too.
00:42 He accepts the passage.
00:43 He doesn't like it, but he accepts the transition
00:45 of being old and dying,
00:46 but also of him no longer having the energy of the youth.
00:49 When that sheet is put over his face
00:50 with that beautiful music at the end,
00:52 that is the final image of Chaplin is there.
00:55 - I was fortunate enough to be in that scene, silent,
00:58 and Buster was there, and we're pulling back,
01:02 and Buster is muttering to Charlie,
01:05 not moving his lips.
01:06 "Good, Charlie. Stay just where you are.
01:08 You're right in the center.
01:09 Hold it. Don't move.
01:10 Yeah, yeah.
01:12 That's it. We made it.
01:13 Yeah."
01:14 And I thought, "Boy, you, Norman,
01:18 have been present at a moment in history."
01:22 And it was just--
01:25 it made you embrace your whole profession, so to speak.
01:30 You say, "This is what the real greatness
01:32 in this profession is."
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01:41 - The last years of his life,
01:42 he very much withdrew into himself.
01:45 It was very hard for my mother.
01:47 She had a very hard time really looking after a man
01:50 who had been so vital and such a strong presence,
01:54 suddenly really vanishing away.
01:57 But he seemed to be very much at peace with himself.
02:00 He kind of slowly drifted and drifted away,
02:04 and his death was just at the end
02:06 of a very slow drifting away.
02:09 - His was the face of his century.
02:12 His was the life of his century.
02:15 Through his will and energy, and yes, genius,
02:20 he encompassed as much as one man can
02:24 the joy and the anguish of his times,
02:28 their romance, their horrors,
02:31 and of course, what laughter we could find in them.
02:35 He was a flawed man, a haunted man,
02:38 a tormented man,
02:41 which is to say, he was only human.
02:45 But with this uncanny ability
02:48 to reflect and refract our humanity back at us,
02:54 Sous-titres réalisés para la communauté d'Amara.org