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00:00 [Gunshots]
00:28 We're here to talk about Italian gangster films.
00:32 [Music]
00:43 If they could make something that looked like...
00:46 French Connection
00:47 The Godfather
00:48 Bullied
00:49 The Dairy
00:50 If it were the material...
00:51 Gangster Killer
00:52 Bad Guys, Thieves, Thugs
00:54 Mob type of Gang
00:56 But using American actors...
00:57 God's Mother
00:58 New Britain
00:59 Jack Palast
01:00 Ivan Kleef
01:01 They could sell these films to different parts of the world.
01:04 Italian police movies have been a big thing all over the world.
01:08 I don't need no break.
01:09 That's not roll... Is it rolling?
01:10 I'm alright. I'm rolling.
01:11 Fine, let it roll.
01:12 [Music]
01:21 There was a certain style to these things.
01:23 Gandalf, Megadeth, and so on.
01:24 They took this genre of police movies and they made it their own.
01:28 [Music]
01:31 Let's say in America they put... You know what set up is?
01:33 Yeah.
01:34 You know where your camera goes and you do...
01:36 Here they do three or four a day. I would do like 120.
01:39 [Music]
01:43 It was like one stunt after the other.
01:45 Italian stuntman say, "Oh, you can do it. You can do it. It's not that far."
01:48 We're in a car and we... We... Like this.
01:52 We go again. Boom. Boom.
01:54 I think I peed my pants.
01:56 We're using a real knife.
01:57 I said, "Are you going to really shoot?"
01:59 He insisted in having it loaded.
02:01 Like that far away from me.
02:03 It was one live round in the gun.
02:05 He fired real shots, real bullets right, you know, about a foot away from me.
02:10 I said, "Actually, you know, I'll fight with him, but not with a loaded gun."
02:13 I said, "This is bullshit."
02:14 God, you risk my life doing this stuff?
02:16 I've done a few things too many.
02:20 I still have 30% in validity.
02:22 I'm just getting over the results.
02:26 [Music]
02:31 He strips him down and castrates him.
02:33 Machine gunning, a bunch of kids coming home from school.
02:36 We drove a forklift through a person.
02:38 He takes his genitals while he's screaming, shoves them in his mouth.
02:41 You know, he did the death dance.
02:43 Now, that was popular. Everybody wanted to do the death dance.
02:45 For us, when we were shooting the movies,
02:48 violence was like a black humor.
02:51 How many they're going to kill today?
02:53 Three, four, no, six.
02:55 You understand violence.
02:56 Violence.
02:57 A lot of violence.
03:00 There had been a surge of crime going on in Italy.
03:03 The entire city of Rome was blocked.
03:06 You couldn't get out of the city without seeing a policeman in the street stopping you.
03:10 Carabinieri on street corners with a machine gun.
03:16 I was robbed three times.
03:17 The policeman was saying, "See Naples and die."
03:21 There was some mafia presence.
03:23 I said, "So we'll pay off the Camaro."
03:26 He said, "That's not the idea. You pay off one Camaro, and then the other one is another Camaro,
03:30 and then they start killing each other, and you're right in the middle of it."
03:33 There was a lot of things going on in Italy of terrorism at the time.
03:37 It was the Red Brigade.
03:38 Red Brigade.
03:39 Le Brigate Rosso, the Red Brigade.
03:41 Suddenly, kidnapping started to take place in Italy.
03:44 I happened to know a couple of people that could have been killed.
03:47 I'd miss a bombing by two blocks.
03:49 They were shoving the police around.
03:54 It's a nose-eyeing disillusionment.
03:59 Wow.
04:01 Press some bullets.
04:03 Tell them about the politics.
04:08 Cock-a-poo-poo.
04:13 Give me the title again.
04:15 [Music]
04:19 [Music]
04:23 [Music]
04:27 [Music]
04:30 [Music]
04:39 [Music]
04:49 [Music]
04:52 [Explosion]
05:06 [BLANK_AUDIO]