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- Subtitles by explosiveskull
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- WOMAN: Titian was born in 1488
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- and died in 1576,
- living well into his eighties.
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- He was the undisputed master
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- of Venetian painting
- for 60 years.
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- 00:00:43,191 --> 00:00:45,856
- And his contemporaries
- alluded to him
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- as the sun amidst the stars,
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- which is the final line
- in Dante's Paradiso.
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- You can see how beautifully
- he uses and applies colour,
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- a characteristic of his work,
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- which held him in pre-eminence
- through the High Renaissance
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- and arguably cast him
- as the greatest painter
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- in Western art.
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- Erm, excuse me, sir. Erm,
- you mustn't touch the paintings.
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- 00:01:10,150 --> 00:01:11,898
- Er, excuse me?
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- 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:13,273
- Sir, are you OK?
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- Erm, excuse me,
- can someone help us, please?
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- (THUD)
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- ♪ Tell me my love ♪
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- ♪ Am I enough? ♪
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- ♪ When you look at me ♪
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- ♪ Tell me what do you see ♪
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- ♪ Do you see heaven ♪
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- ♪ Wiped across my face? ♪
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- ♪ Do you see an angel ♪
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- ♪ Taking its place? ♪
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- ♪ Am I your lover? ♪
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- ♪ Am I your... ♪
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- Pills, ecstasy, blow?
- What do you want, fella?
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- I'm all right, thanks.
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- Looking for some company
- tonight, darling?
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- No, I'm looking
- for a place to stay.
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- Come on, handsome.
- Don't be shy. (CHUCKLES)
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- ♪ Am I in love? ♪
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- (DISTANT SIREN WAILS)
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- What you doing here?
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- I'm just sitting down
- for a minute.
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- 00:02:44,150 --> 00:02:48,483
- - Why, is there a problem?
- - You didn't read the sign?
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- Sorry, mate, rules is rules.
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- Where I come from, people are
- a little bit more friendly.
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- (SCOFFS) Do me a favour
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- and spare me that
- old chirpy Northern routine.
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- - I've got work to do.
- - I'm from Essex.
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- Listen, wherever you're from,
- you ain't from round here.
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- Let me guess.
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- 00:03:09,733 --> 00:03:12,648
- You were brought up
- in the back of beyond.
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- In many ways,
- it was an idyllic existence.
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- Really, you were bored shitless.
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- One fine day,
- you had a brainwave.
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- "Move to London," you said.
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- "Make my fortune."
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- I did say that.
- I said it to my dad.
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- You actually used those words?
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- - Sort of, yeah.
- - Fuck me. What did he say?
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- If you ask me,
- you're spending too much time
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- on that bloody computer.
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- Getting all these fancy ideas.
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- No use trying to talk me
- out of it, Dad.
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- My mind's made up.
- I'm leaving tonight.
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- 00:03:41,108 --> 00:03:43,939
- - (CUTLERY CLATTERS)
- - BOTH: Tonight?
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- Look, I've bought my ticket.
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- 00:03:45,650 --> 00:03:46,814
- Well, what about your education?
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- (TUTS) Don't you see?
- Thiswillbe my education.
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- Streets of London,
- full of musicians and artists.
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- Piss artists, more like.
- You'll meet plenty of those.
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- (SIGHS)
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- Sometimes, as I lay in bed
- at night,
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- I imagine a world
- beyond these four walls.
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- A world full of mystery
- and possibilities.
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- Oh, never you mind
- about mystery and possibilities.
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- What are we supposed to do
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- while you're busy
- gallivanting around Soho
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- till gawd knows what time, eh?
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- - Your mum will be worried sick.
- - He'll be all right.
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- As long as you don't speak
- to strange boys
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- sleeping rough
- in dark alleyways.
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- And with that,
- they gave me their blessing.
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- Oh, fuck their blessing.
- Did they give you any money?
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- Of course they did.
- I'm their only son.
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- All right. Hand it over.
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- Why should I hand it over?
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- Right, this may come
- as a surprise to you, yeah?
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- The streets of London
- ain't paved in gold.
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- They're as cold as ice,
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- they stink of piss,
- and they're full of villains.
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- So basically,
- it's every man for himself.
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- All right,
- you've talked me into it.
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- You should stay here,
- strictly on a temporary basis.
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- Just till I get myself sorted.
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- Ten quid a night.
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- You can't charge someone
- ten quid
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- to sleep in a cardboard box.
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- Why not?
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- (POLICE SIRENS)
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- (BOWLEG'S "STREETS OF LIGHT" PLAYING)
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- ♪ I will drift tonight ♪
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- ♪ Gone without my mind ♪
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- ♪ Slip in our disguise ♪
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- ♪ Go and wait,
- you're out of sight ♪
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- ♪ I'm in the war ♪
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- ♪ And my feet have no resolve ♪
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- ♪ She's in the way ♪
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- ♪ And I better get her laid ♪
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- ♪ I know that
- you're gonna fight ♪
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- ♪ Only cos you weren't invited ♪
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- ♪ Wait until the midnight sky ♪
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- ♪ Give our brothers
- a chance to find it ♪
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- ♪ Find it through
- the streets of light ♪
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- ♪ In between the beer ♪
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- 00:05:55,275 --> 00:05:59,273
- ♪ And the green clouds
- of the morning time ♪
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- ♪ You won't be around to ignite ♪
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- 00:06:06,775 --> 00:06:09,148
- I think you just met
- your first villain.
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- What the fuck am I gonna do now?
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- Hang on.
- I'm just getting to that.
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- Right. Now, I'm as open-minded
- as the next man.
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- Your sexuality's
- none of my business.
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- If I was you...
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- ...I'd show my face
- in that bar over there.
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- Trust me, you won't be skint
- for long.
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- Thanks. I'll see you around.
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- Yeah, sure.
- That's what they all say.
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- You mark my words. That bloke
- ain't gonna last five minutes.
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- Yes, but the thing I love
- about Velázquez the most
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- is the way he paints the spaces
- in between objects.
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- I know what you mean.
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- Somehow he makes the object
- become more real,
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- a lot more intense.
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- Yes. In the way, like,
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- he illuminates
- the space between them.
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- The man was a genius.
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- - The painter's painter.
- - Hold on a minute.
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- Do you see what I see?
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- What are you doing here?
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- I'm searching for a world full
- of mystery and possibilities.
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- 00:07:26,358 --> 00:07:29,356
- Good. Then you've come
- to the right place.
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- You've heard of Velázquez?
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- No, I haven't, actually.
- Is he a mate of yours?
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- He was the painter of twilights.
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- Oh, good for him.
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- - Of infinity.
- - Even better.
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- Of silence.
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- I don't know what that means.
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- 00:07:46,275 --> 00:07:49,691
- (SONG PLAYING IN BACKGROUND)
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- You gonna tell me what you want
- or do I have to guess?
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- 00:08:12,316 --> 00:08:14,564
- (LAUGHS) Good evening. Erm...
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- 00:08:14,566 --> 00:08:18,148
- I've just moved into the area
- and I'm looking for a job.
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- I'll wash pots, clean.
- I'll do anything, really.
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- 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,189
- Does this look like
- a job centre to you?
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- No, it doesn't but...
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- It's a bar which serves alcohol.
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- Don't tell me your life story,
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- just tell me
- what you want to drink.
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- Sorry. I'll have a bottle
- of beer, please.
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- Go on, then. Ask me the question
- you've been meaning to ask me
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- ever since
- you walked in the door.
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- 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,733
- Why are barmaids in London
- so unfriendly?
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- 00:09:20,816 --> 00:09:23,189
- Well, if I had a pound coin
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- for every time a pretty boy
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- came in here feeling sorry
- for himself,
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- 00:09:26,608 --> 00:09:29,189
- I wouldn't be pulling pints
- for a living.
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- 00:09:29,191 --> 00:09:32,025
- I can tell you that for nothing.
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- 00:09:32,275 --> 00:09:34,775
- You need to toughen up.
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- - I do?
- - Yeah, you do.
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- You're young, you're fit.
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- You have the face of an angel.
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- You'll have plenty of friends
- soon enough.
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- I hope so.
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- 00:10:08,525 --> 00:10:11,441
- (SONG CONTINUES)
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- 00:10:40,608 --> 00:10:43,525
- (PUNK SONG PLAYING)
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- David.
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- 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,439
- - Marcello.
- - Jesus.
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- 00:10:48,441 --> 00:10:50,064
- - Victor.
- - Jim.
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- 00:10:50,066 --> 00:10:53,566
- I think I just met you guys
- outside.
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- Come here often?
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- 00:10:55,650 --> 00:10:59,316
- Are you lot thinking
- what I'm thinking?
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- 00:10:59,733 --> 00:11:00,398
- What are you thinking?
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- 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,898
- I'm thinking about
- a beautiful painting
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- in the National Gallery.
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- 00:11:03,566 --> 00:11:05,731
- It's on the first floor.
- You go up the stairs,
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- 00:11:05,733 --> 00:11:07,523
- take a sharp left
- into the second room
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- 00:11:07,525 --> 00:11:09,898
- and it's the third one along
- on the right.
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- 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:11,106
- I know exactly what you mean.
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- 00:11:11,108 --> 00:11:12,898
- I wish I did.
- Please stop doing that.
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- 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:16,814
- He could have stepped out
- of a Caravaggio.
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- 00:11:16,816 --> 00:11:17,939
- That name rings a bell.
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- 00:11:17,941 --> 00:11:20,858
- You ever heard
- of personal space?
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- 00:11:21,233 --> 00:11:22,898
- I saw the vacancy in the window.
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- 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:25,314
- - How old are you, Jim?
- - Eighteen.
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- 00:11:25,316 --> 00:11:28,314
- Er... 21. I'm looking for a job.
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- 00:11:28,316 --> 00:11:32,064
- This is not a job.
- This is a vocation.
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- 00:11:32,066 --> 00:11:33,773
- (CHUCKLES)
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- 00:11:33,775 --> 00:11:35,356
- I'm not sure what that means.
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- 00:11:35,358 --> 00:11:39,733
- Excuse me for a minute
- while I just run to the toilet.
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- 00:11:48,025 --> 00:11:51,856
- I think he's the one
- we've been looking for.
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- 00:11:51,858 --> 00:11:54,231
- "Vocation:
- A strong desire to pursue
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- 00:11:54,233 --> 00:11:59,023
- or a particular liking
- for a special vocation."
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- 00:11:59,025 --> 00:12:01,731
- "Vocation:
- A strong desire to pursue
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- 00:12:01,733 --> 00:12:05,691
- or a natural liking
- for a particular vocation."
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- 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,523
- (MUTTERS UNDER HIS BREATH)
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- 00:12:09,525 --> 00:12:12,816
- (MUSIC OVER CONVERSATION)
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- 00:12:14,316 --> 00:12:15,356
- It was great meeting you lads.
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- 00:12:15,358 --> 00:12:18,314
- I'll definitely think
- about what you said.
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- 00:12:18,316 --> 00:12:19,648
- Are you trying to get me drunk?
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- 00:12:19,650 --> 00:12:23,189
- No disrespect,
- but you're a small-town boy.
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- 00:12:23,191 --> 00:12:24,148
- And this is a big city.
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- 00:12:24,150 --> 00:12:26,606
- Don't worry about me.
- I can look after myself.
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- 00:12:26,608 --> 00:12:27,689
- How are you gonna survive?
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- 00:12:27,691 --> 00:12:31,106
- Like I said, I'll find a job
- and I've got my savings.
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- 00:12:31,108 --> 00:12:34,231
- The wallet you left on the table
- looks pretty empty to me.
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- 00:12:34,233 --> 00:12:37,606
- Look, we've all sat
- where you're sitting now.
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- 00:12:37,608 --> 00:12:39,939
- We understand the anxiety.
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- 00:12:39,941 --> 00:12:40,814
- I'm not anxious, I'm just...
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- 00:12:40,816 --> 00:12:45,358
- wondering what it is you lot
- actually do for a living.
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- 00:12:54,025 --> 00:12:57,108
- Sexy Boys Raconteurs.
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- 00:12:57,983 --> 00:13:00,439
- Now I know what it is
- you're talking about.
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- 00:13:00,441 --> 00:13:01,106
- With the right training,
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- 00:13:01,108 --> 00:13:03,689
- you could go a long way
- in this business.
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- 00:13:03,691 --> 00:13:08,606
- I'll have to think about it.
- If it's what I wanna do, I mean.
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- 00:13:08,608 --> 00:13:11,981
- I was hoping to find something
- a little more creative.
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- 00:13:11,983 --> 00:13:13,064
- This is creative.
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- 00:13:13,066 --> 00:13:15,731
- Some of the finest actors
- of their generation
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- 00:13:15,733 --> 00:13:17,981
- have played the role
- you're about to play.
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- 00:13:17,983 --> 00:13:20,689
- - River Phoenix.
- - Keanu Reeves.
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- 00:13:20,691 --> 00:13:22,439
- Joe Dallesandro.
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- I need to get back in the gym.
- 226
- 00:13:24,858 --> 00:13:26,398
- What is a Raconteur, by the way?
- 227
- 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,775
- I'll explain everything. First
- I want to show you something.
- 228
- 00:13:33,191 --> 00:13:37,773
- I love London. It's the best
- city in the whole fucking world.
- 229
- 00:13:37,775 --> 00:13:38,856
- And it belongs to us.
- 230
- 00:13:38,858 --> 00:13:41,148
- It does look great tonight,
- I must admit.
- 231
- 00:13:41,150 --> 00:13:43,106
- All the cool people
- come out at night.
- 232
- 00:13:43,108 --> 00:13:45,106
- Writers, artists,
- queers, whores.
- 233
- 00:13:45,108 --> 00:13:48,439
- It belongs to us
- and we can do whatever we want.
- 234
- 00:13:48,441 --> 00:13:49,356
- JIM: That's why I came here.
- 235
- 00:13:49,358 --> 00:13:52,814
- I've been dreaming of walking
- these streets since I was a kid.
- 236
- 00:13:52,816 --> 00:13:53,898
- And all of it could be yours.
- 237
- 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:56,648
- And forget about that
- boring shit you left behind.
- 238
- 00:13:56,650 --> 00:13:59,606
- Just dream about
- who you wanna be.
- 239
- 00:13:59,608 --> 00:14:04,064
- Come on.
- Let me buy you another drink.
- 240
- 00:14:04,066 --> 00:14:06,981
- What do you think is the most
- difficult thing about sex?
- 241
- 00:14:06,983 --> 00:14:09,481
- I dunno. What to say
- to the person afterwards?
- 242
- 00:14:09,483 --> 00:14:11,856
- You've hit the nail
- on the head.
- 243
- 00:14:11,858 --> 00:14:12,231
- Have I?
- 244
- 00:14:12,233 --> 00:14:15,523
- In a society as atomised
- as ours, people crave intimacy.
- 245
- 00:14:15,525 --> 00:14:18,189
- And that's the service
- we provide.
- 246
- 00:14:18,191 --> 00:14:18,814
- What about the sex?
- 247
- 00:14:18,816 --> 00:14:20,814
- The sex is the easy part.
- And we enjoy it.
- 248
- 00:14:20,816 --> 00:14:23,564
- But our speciality
- is what comes afterwards.
- 249
- 00:14:23,566 --> 00:14:25,189
- You mean smoking a cigarette?
- 250
- 00:14:25,191 --> 00:14:26,648
- I mean post-coital conversation.
- 251
- 00:14:26,650 --> 00:14:28,439
- I've not had
- much experience in that,
- 252
- 00:14:28,441 --> 00:14:29,523
- but I'm as horny
- as the next man.
- 253
- 00:14:29,525 --> 00:14:32,231
- Intellectual debate.
- Exchange of ideas.
- 254
- 00:14:32,233 --> 00:14:33,981
- That's what the world
- is crying out for.
- 255
- 00:14:33,983 --> 00:14:37,148
- Like, cheap hookers standing
- on street corners
- 256
- 00:14:37,150 --> 00:14:38,023
- are a thing of the past.
- 257
- 00:14:38,025 --> 00:14:39,106
- Not where I'm from they're not.
- 258
- 00:14:39,108 --> 00:14:42,106
- Our clients want to talk about
- a novel they once read,
- 259
- 00:14:42,108 --> 00:14:44,398
- a painting they once saw
- in a gallery.
- 260
- 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,564
- People wanna be inspired by art.
- 261
- 00:14:46,566 --> 00:14:49,314
- - They wanna be uplifted.
- - I'll do it.
- 262
- 00:14:49,316 --> 00:14:50,148
- I'll do some uplifting.
- 263
- 00:14:50,150 --> 00:14:53,689
- I knew you were one of us
- as soon as I saw you.
- 264
- 00:14:53,691 --> 00:14:57,856
- First off, we need a profile.
- We'll sort that tomorrow.
- 265
- 00:14:57,858 --> 00:14:59,356
- And a supply of condoms.
- 266
- 00:14:59,358 --> 00:15:01,939
- Who's your favourite artist?
- 267
- 00:15:01,941 --> 00:15:04,231
- I saw a painting
- by Caravaggio once.
- 268
- 00:15:04,233 --> 00:15:06,356
- Caravaggio is a great place
- to start.
- 269
- 00:15:06,358 --> 00:15:11,066
- He's raw, he's sexy,
- and he painted people like us.
- 270
- 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,106
- We work at the high end
- of the market.
- 271
- 00:15:13,108 --> 00:15:15,856
- Art dealers, politicians,
- senior clergy.
- 272
- 00:15:15,858 --> 00:15:16,648
- These people are educated,
- 273
- 00:15:16,650 --> 00:15:18,981
- so you need to know your Goya
- from your Gauguin,
- 274
- 00:15:18,983 --> 00:15:20,398
- your Fritz Lang
- from your Fassbinder.
- 275
- 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,856
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
- prolific German film-maker.
- 276
- 00:15:23,858 --> 00:15:27,231
- A genius, destroyed
- by years of sex, drugs
- 277
- 00:15:27,233 --> 00:15:28,398
- and cheap Russian vodka.
- 278
- 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,273
- Greatest achievement?
- 279
- 00:15:30,275 --> 00:15:31,814
- ALL: Fear Eats the Soul.
- 280
- 00:15:31,816 --> 00:15:34,231
- Social media
- is a definite no-no.
- 281
- 00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:35,273
- People wanna suck your cock.
- 282
- 00:15:35,275 --> 00:15:37,606
- They don't care
- what you had for breakfast.
- 283
- 00:15:37,608 --> 00:15:38,564
- I'm liking the sound of this.
- 284
- 00:15:38,566 --> 00:15:40,564
- Our clients are of
- an older generation,
- 285
- 00:15:40,566 --> 00:15:44,023
- so the less you can bang on
- about technology, the better.
- 286
- 00:15:44,025 --> 00:15:46,606
- Some of them will remember Soho
- in its heyday.
- 287
- 00:15:46,608 --> 00:15:48,064
- Bet they've got
- some great stories.
- 288
- 00:15:48,066 --> 00:15:51,398
- Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud,
- The Colony Rooms.
- 289
- 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:52,189
- A word of warning.
- 290
- 00:15:52,191 --> 00:15:54,106
- There's always gonna be
- some fresh-faced kid
- 291
- 00:15:54,108 --> 00:15:56,106
- trying to take your place
- in the spotlight.
- 292
- 00:15:56,108 --> 00:15:59,314
- Someone with a bigger dick
- and a nicer smile.
- 293
- 00:15:59,316 --> 00:16:01,814
- So get to bed early
- on a school night
- 294
- 00:16:01,816 --> 00:16:04,148
- and keep drug-taking
- to a minimum.
- 295
- 00:16:04,150 --> 00:16:06,231
- Am I allowed
- the occasional spliff?
- 296
- 00:16:06,233 --> 00:16:07,564
- Well, everything in moderation.
- 297
- 00:16:07,566 --> 00:16:10,523
- But remember,
- we're a bit like athletes.
- 298
- 00:16:10,525 --> 00:16:11,398
- It's important we stay fit.
- 299
- 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,148
- Potentially we earn shitloads of
- money and then we retire early.
- 300
- 00:16:15,150 --> 00:16:18,564
- You've got five years
- in this game, tops.
- 301
- 00:16:18,566 --> 00:16:21,064
- Didn't realise being a rent boy
- was so complicated.
- 302
- 00:16:21,066 --> 00:16:25,523
- Place your hand on this packet
- of condoms and repeat after me:
- 303
- 00:16:25,525 --> 00:16:29,773
- "We're the oldest profession and
- we take pride in what we do."
- 304
- 00:16:29,775 --> 00:16:33,981
- We're the oldest profession
- and we take pride in what we do.
- 305
- 00:16:33,983 --> 00:16:34,606
- "Our sacred mission
- 306
- 00:16:34,608 --> 00:16:37,481
- is to drag male prostitution
- into the 21st century,
- 307
- 00:16:37,483 --> 00:16:42,106
- whilst paying homage
- to the artists who came before."
- 308
- 00:16:42,108 --> 00:16:42,689
- Our sacred mission
- 309
- 00:16:42,691 --> 00:16:45,564
- is to drag male prostitution
- into the 21st century,
- 310
- 00:16:45,566 --> 00:16:49,606
- whilst paying homage to the
- artists who've gone before.
- 311
- 00:16:49,608 --> 00:16:52,025
- "So help me God."
- 312
- 00:16:53,066 --> 00:16:55,525
- I'm only joking.
- 313
- 00:16:55,691 --> 00:16:57,731
- Welcome to Soho.
- 314
- 00:16:57,733 --> 00:17:01,314
- - I do have one more question.
- - Go on.
- 315
- 00:17:01,316 --> 00:17:03,064
- So why are all
- these successful blokes
- 316
- 00:17:03,066 --> 00:17:08,025
- paying teenage prostitutes
- for intellectual stimulation?
- 317
- 00:17:08,525 --> 00:17:09,689
- I dunno.
- 318
- 00:17:09,691 --> 00:17:12,900
- Maybe they're not getting it
- at home.
- 319
- 00:17:13,608 --> 00:17:15,941
- Hmm!
- 320
- 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,481
- - (CAMERA CLICKS)
- - We were normal teenagers once.
- 321
- 00:17:28,483 --> 00:17:29,564
- - Obsessed by football.
- - Sex.
- 322
- 00:17:29,566 --> 00:17:31,814
- - Mobile phones.
- - Jim. Jim, Jim, Jim.
- 323
- 00:17:31,816 --> 00:17:32,814
- Hold it there for a second.
- 324
- 00:17:32,816 --> 00:17:35,231
- - But something was missing.
- - We craved the big city.
- 325
- 00:17:35,233 --> 00:17:38,398
- - The bright lights.
- - There were five of us once.
- 326
- 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,231
- What happened
- to the previous lad?
- 327
- 00:17:40,233 --> 00:17:42,189
- Hold it there for a second.
- 328
- 00:17:42,191 --> 00:17:44,898
- He was beautiful
- but he met a terrible fate.
- 329
- 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:46,606
- Oh, I'm sorry. What happened?
- Did he die?
- 330
- 00:17:46,608 --> 00:17:49,481
- It's worse than that.
- He went to work in the City.
- 331
- 00:17:49,483 --> 00:17:51,189
- Hold it there, Jim. Perfect.
- 332
- 00:17:51,191 --> 00:17:55,981
- All he cared about was money.
- And his politics were... dodgy.
- 333
- 00:17:55,983 --> 00:17:58,273
- Well, beauty can't last forever,
- can it?
- 334
- 00:17:58,275 --> 00:17:59,231
- Tell that to Cleopatra.
- 335
- 00:17:59,233 --> 00:18:01,606
- From what I've read,
- Cleopatra was really fit.
- 336
- 00:18:01,608 --> 00:18:02,898
- - Hold it, Jim.
- - (CAMERA CLICKS)
- 337
- 00:18:02,900 --> 00:18:06,356
- Actually, according
- to the latest academic reports,
- 338
- 00:18:06,358 --> 00:18:07,356
- Cleopatra was a minger.
- 339
- 00:18:07,358 --> 00:18:10,523
- Liz Taylor's 1963 performance
- notwithstanding.
- 340
- 00:18:10,525 --> 00:18:12,981
- Listen, Cleopatra
- was no oil painting.
- 341
- 00:18:12,983 --> 00:18:15,856
- She knew how to play
- those rumours.
- 342
- 00:18:15,858 --> 00:18:17,898
- Caesar preferred boys.
- 343
- 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:19,189
- How do you know all of this?
- 344
- 00:18:19,191 --> 00:18:21,064
- While the rest of our generation
- 345
- 00:18:21,066 --> 00:18:23,314
- was shoving drugs
- down their neck,
- 346
- 00:18:23,316 --> 00:18:24,023
- we were reading books.
- 347
- 00:18:24,025 --> 00:18:26,731
- OK, Jim, it's time
- to show me the money.
- 348
- 00:18:26,733 --> 00:18:28,731
- The... money?
- I though we agreed...
- 349
- 00:18:28,733 --> 00:18:30,231
- The money means your cock.
- 350
- 00:18:30,233 --> 00:18:33,523
- - Oh.
- - I need a picture of your cock.
- 351
- 00:18:33,525 --> 00:18:36,900
- Yeah, no worries.
- 352
- 00:18:41,108 --> 00:18:43,606
- (CAMERA CLICKS)
- 353
- 00:18:43,608 --> 00:18:45,231
- Is everything OK?
- 354
- 00:18:45,233 --> 00:18:48,316
- Everything's more than OK.
- 355
- 00:18:51,775 --> 00:18:52,064
- Wow.
- 356
- 00:18:52,066 --> 00:18:54,856
- I've worked with
- some handsome blokes in my time
- 357
- 00:18:54,858 --> 00:18:58,148
- but this kid...
- this kid is something special.
- 358
- 00:18:58,150 --> 00:19:00,900
- I mean, the camera loves him.
- 359
- 00:19:01,233 --> 00:19:03,525
- (CAMERA CLICKS)
- 360
- 00:19:04,733 --> 00:19:06,939
- We will teach you
- everything that we know.
- 361
- 00:19:06,941 --> 00:19:08,481
- JIM: Yeah,
- but where do we start?
- 362
- 00:19:08,483 --> 00:19:11,106
- Given me a headache
- just thinking about it.
- 363
- 00:19:11,108 --> 00:19:12,773
- We'll start with Caravaggio,
- 364
- 00:19:12,775 --> 00:19:15,231
- then work our way back
- to the ancients.
- 365
- 00:19:15,233 --> 00:19:16,439
- Art, poetry, literature.
- 366
- 00:19:16,441 --> 00:19:18,606
- There's a lot to learn
- and we don't have much time.
- 367
- 00:19:18,608 --> 00:19:20,773
- Yeah, but for now
- we'll stick to the basics.
- 368
- 00:19:20,775 --> 00:19:22,939
- To be honest,
- that's the part of the job
- 369
- 00:19:22,941 --> 00:19:24,273
- that worries me the most.
- 370
- 00:19:24,275 --> 00:19:25,564
- I've had some trouble
- in the past.
- 371
- 00:19:25,566 --> 00:19:29,731
- Forget about the past.
- You're one of us now.
- 372
- 00:19:29,733 --> 00:19:33,275
- And I've got a good feeling
- about you.
- 373
- 00:19:38,525 --> 00:19:41,231
- "Police records
- show that in May 1606,
- 374
- 00:19:41,233 --> 00:19:45,398
- Caravaggio killed the gangster
- Ranuccio Tomassoni in a duel."
- 375
- 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,523
- "The painter fled Rome at night
- and made his way to Naples,
- 376
- 00:19:49,525 --> 00:19:54,233
- where he sought the protection
- of the Colonna family."
- 377
- 00:20:06,150 --> 00:20:09,314
- "On a grey morning
- in November 1975,
- 378
- 00:20:09,316 --> 00:20:12,689
- the cold, lifeless body
- of Pier Paolo Pasolini
- 379
- 00:20:12,691 --> 00:20:17,273
- was discovered on the beach
- at Ostia, outside Rome."
- 380
- 00:20:17,275 --> 00:20:20,731
- "The poet had been murdered,
- so we lost a poet..."
- 381
- 00:20:20,733 --> 00:20:23,606
- "As he walked along the shore
- that night,
- 382
- 00:20:23,608 --> 00:20:25,731
- looking for the company
- of strangers,
- 383
- 00:20:25,733 --> 00:20:29,273
- did Pasolini ponder
- the violent life of Caravaggio?"
- 384
- 00:20:29,275 --> 00:20:33,106
- "Did he imagine young men
- lurking in the shadows..."
- 385
- 00:20:33,108 --> 00:20:36,439
- "As a student, Oscar Wilde
- saw the great painting
- 386
- 00:20:36,441 --> 00:20:38,606
- of Saint Sebastian
- by Guido Reni."
- 387
- 00:20:38,608 --> 00:20:41,439
- "The beautiful image
- overwhelmed him."
- 388
- 00:20:41,441 --> 00:20:43,523
- "It brought tears
- to his eyes..."
- 389
- 00:20:43,525 --> 00:20:45,606
- "Did this Irish Sebastian
- 390
- 00:20:45,608 --> 00:20:48,273
- imagine Caravaggio
- in the alleyways of Rome,
- 391
- 00:20:48,275 --> 00:20:51,773
- searching for the beggars
- and prostitutes
- 392
- 00:20:51,775 --> 00:20:55,106
- to people
- his religious painting?"
- 393
- 00:20:55,108 --> 00:20:56,689
- "Perhaps...
- 394
- 00:20:56,691 --> 00:21:00,023
- ...perhaps he imagined himself
- as a beautiful work of art..."
- 395
- 00:21:00,025 --> 00:21:02,773
- "Legend has it
- that Francis Bacon
- 396
- 00:21:02,775 --> 00:21:04,314
- and George Dyer became lovers
- 397
- 00:21:04,316 --> 00:21:08,148
- after George,
- a petty thief from the East End,
- 398
- 00:21:08,150 --> 00:21:13,316
- broke into Bacon's studio
- in the dead of night."
- 399
- 00:21:13,775 --> 00:21:16,316
- (CHUCKLES)
- 400
- 00:21:21,983 --> 00:21:24,650
- (COUGHS)
- 401
- 00:21:52,733 --> 00:21:53,398
- You sure you're ready?
- 402
- 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,523
- I can't study for ever. I need
- to get out there and practise.
- 403
- 00:21:56,525 --> 00:21:59,564
- - Go on, ask me a question.
- - OK.
- 404
- 00:21:59,566 --> 00:22:00,773
- So a bloke calls up
- 405
- 00:22:00,775 --> 00:22:03,606
- and says Caravaggio gives
- him a massive hard-on.
- 406
- 00:22:03,608 --> 00:22:04,398
- But he likes it a bit rough,
- 407
- 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:08,106
- so he's not so keen on all those
- pretty boys he painted in Rome
- 408
- 00:22:08,108 --> 00:22:09,523
- at the beginning of his career.
- 409
- 00:22:09,525 --> 00:22:14,900
- He wants something...
- darker, more edgy.
- 410
- 00:22:15,733 --> 00:22:16,439
- After a couple of drinks,
- 411
- 00:22:16,441 --> 00:22:19,773
- I'd probably introduce him
- to the Flagellation of Christ,
- 412
- 00:22:19,775 --> 00:22:20,814
- painted in Naples, 1607.
- 413
- 00:22:20,816 --> 00:22:23,189
- Caravaggio's on the run
- after committing murder.
- 414
- 00:22:23,191 --> 00:22:25,606
- He's tired, he's sick,
- he's a bit paranoid.
- 415
- 00:22:25,608 --> 00:22:27,231
- I like where you're going
- with this.
- 416
- 00:22:27,233 --> 00:22:29,939
- It's the perfect example
- of his late period.
- 417
- 00:22:29,941 --> 00:22:30,689
- The lighting is dramatic.
- 418
- 00:22:30,691 --> 00:22:33,106
- Christ's tortured body
- is lit in a singular spotlight.
- 419
- 00:22:33,108 --> 00:22:37,648
- The other muscular figures
- appear from deep, dark shadows.
- 420
- 00:22:37,650 --> 00:22:39,898
- DAVID: Good work.
- 421
- 00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:41,816
- I'm impressed.
- 422
- 00:22:42,025 --> 00:22:43,689
- Thanks.
- 423
- 00:22:43,691 --> 00:22:46,231
- I bet there are a number
- of distinguished gentlemen
- 424
- 00:22:46,233 --> 00:22:48,814
- struggling to get through
- even as we speak.
- 425
- 00:22:48,816 --> 00:22:53,441
- - You think so?
- - I know so.
- 426
- 00:22:59,316 --> 00:23:01,900
- (RINGS)
- 427
- 00:23:03,316 --> 00:23:05,275
- (RINGS AGAIN)
- 428
- 00:23:06,191 --> 00:23:09,189
- Hello? I moved to London.
- 429
- 00:23:09,191 --> 00:23:11,564
- MAN: I saw you
- in a photograph.
- 430
- 00:23:11,566 --> 00:23:13,356
- I've never done this before.
- 431
- 00:23:13,358 --> 00:23:15,356
- "Fit Lad with Basket of Fruit."
- 432
- 00:23:15,358 --> 00:23:16,439
- I can be with you tonight.
- 433
- 00:23:16,441 --> 00:23:19,773
- - I called you straight away.
- - Anything is possible.
- 434
- 00:23:19,775 --> 00:23:23,731
- - I couldn't wait any longer.
- - If you have the money.
- 435
- 00:23:23,733 --> 00:23:25,148
- I want you...
- 436
- 00:23:25,150 --> 00:23:27,650
- Nothing is a problem.
- 437
- 00:23:28,108 --> 00:23:30,608
- ...so badly.
- 438
- 00:23:36,650 --> 00:23:39,273
- Sorry, I can't stop staring
- at you.
- 439
- 00:23:39,275 --> 00:23:43,148
- - I'm making you uncomfortable.
- - Little bit, yeah.
- 440
- 00:23:43,150 --> 00:23:45,356
- As I was saying,
- do you prefer Goya or Gauguin?
- 441
- 00:23:45,358 --> 00:23:48,689
- - Fritz Lang or Fassbinder?
- - You've completely lost me.
- 442
- 00:23:48,691 --> 00:23:52,648
- I'm just trying to figure out
- which kind of things you prefer.
- 443
- 00:23:52,650 --> 00:23:53,689
- Are you on drugs?
- 444
- 00:23:53,691 --> 00:23:56,606
- I don't do drugs.
- My body's a temple.
- 445
- 00:23:56,608 --> 00:23:57,981
- Oh, I can see that.
- 446
- 00:23:57,983 --> 00:24:00,689
- But, please, just try
- and relax a little bit.
- 447
- 00:24:00,691 --> 00:24:01,606
- You seem very tense.
- 448
- 00:24:01,608 --> 00:24:07,023
- Sorry. You're my first client
- and it's hard to relax in here.
- 449
- 00:24:07,025 --> 00:24:09,606
- My mates tell me you're writing
- a book on Caravaggio.
- 450
- 00:24:09,608 --> 00:24:13,939
- Yes. And I saw that
- you had an interest.
- 451
- 00:24:13,941 --> 00:24:17,898
- But that's not the only reason
- I invited you out, Jim.
- 452
- 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:20,606
- And please don't feel you need
- to keep talking for my sake.
- 453
- 00:24:20,608 --> 00:24:26,773
- I'm a Raconteur. Talking's
- what I do. Amongst other things.
- 454
- 00:24:26,775 --> 00:24:30,856
- I appreciate the irony,
- I really do.
- 455
- 00:24:30,858 --> 00:24:34,233
- But I saw your picture and...
- 456
- 00:24:35,150 --> 00:24:38,023
- ...you are probably one of
- the most beautiful men
- 457
- 00:24:38,025 --> 00:24:40,064
- I have ever seen.
- 458
- 00:24:40,066 --> 00:24:42,316
- Thanks very much.
- 459
- 00:24:42,650 --> 00:24:43,648
- When I first saw your picture
- 460
- 00:24:43,650 --> 00:24:48,606
- I... was reminded of
- a young man in a painting and...
- 461
- 00:24:48,608 --> 00:24:51,731
- - I wanted to show it to you.
- - Don't tell me.
- 462
- 00:24:51,733 --> 00:24:54,356
- It's on the first floor,
- up the stairs,
- 463
- 00:24:54,358 --> 00:24:55,731
- sharp left into the second room,
- 464
- 00:24:55,733 --> 00:25:01,023
- - and it's the third one along.
- - Amazing.
- 465
- 00:25:01,025 --> 00:25:02,398
- How did you know?
- 466
- 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,941
- Actually, it's right here.
- Take a look.
- 467
- 00:25:17,775 --> 00:25:19,648
- Are you OK, Jim?
- 468
- 00:25:19,650 --> 00:25:21,856
- Jim, can you hear me?
- 469
- 00:25:21,858 --> 00:25:25,191
- (WHISPERS)
- Perfect young lad who...
- 470
- 00:25:31,941 --> 00:25:33,733
- (THUD)
- 471
- 00:25:34,150 --> 00:25:36,898
- (WHISPERS) Perfect young lad
- who moved to Rome.
- 472
- 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:39,314
- Perfect young lad
- who moved to Rome.
- 473
- 00:25:39,316 --> 00:25:40,189
- WOMAN: He's delirious.
- 474
- 00:25:40,191 --> 00:25:42,731
- Do you think he even knows
- which century he's in?
- 475
- 00:25:42,733 --> 00:25:44,814
- Probably not.
- It was a heavy fall.
- 476
- 00:25:44,816 --> 00:25:47,356
- - Where the fuck am I?
- - Show some respect.
- 477
- 00:25:47,358 --> 00:25:49,731
- We're posing for
- a 17th-century masterpiece.
- 478
- 00:25:49,733 --> 00:25:53,189
- Yeah. Destined to hang
- in the Vatican, apparently.
- 479
- 00:25:53,191 --> 00:25:55,106
- The Entombment of Christ,
- 480
- 00:25:55,108 --> 00:25:57,523
- painted by Caravaggio in 1601.
- 481
- 00:25:57,525 --> 00:26:00,898
- Considered by many
- to be the finest example of...
- 482
- 00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:05,023
- Oh, not now, George.
- Isn't he supposed to be dead?
- 483
- 00:26:05,025 --> 00:26:07,481
- I knew I should never
- have let him out of my sight.
- 484
- 00:26:07,483 --> 00:26:11,064
- Don't worry, Mum. I've met
- some really interesting people.
- 485
- 00:26:11,066 --> 00:26:13,106
- Won't be long now
- till I'm resurrected.
- 486
- 00:26:13,108 --> 00:26:15,231
- The resurrection
- will look after itself.
- 487
- 00:26:15,233 --> 00:26:17,148
- Just tell me how
- your first job went.
- 488
- 00:26:17,150 --> 00:26:20,898
- The sex was great.
- The problems came after.
- 489
- 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:24,189
- I think I'm too serious.
- I need to lighten up.
- 490
- 00:26:24,191 --> 00:26:26,106
- That's right. He does.
- 491
- 00:26:26,108 --> 00:26:27,981
- I offered to pay him
- but he was having none of it.
- 492
- 00:26:27,983 --> 00:26:33,525
- That's not a great start, is it?
- You think we do this for fun?
- 493
- 00:26:35,816 --> 00:26:37,773
- Where's Caravaggio, by the way?
- 494
- 00:26:37,775 --> 00:26:38,898
- (DISTANT BELL TOLLS)
- 495
- 00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:40,273
- Well, there's nobody out there.
- 496
- 00:26:40,275 --> 00:26:43,231
- - Are you sure?
- - Yeah, I'm sure.
- 497
- 00:26:43,233 --> 00:26:47,691
- - Maybe he's on the run.
- - (BELL CONTINUES TOLLING)
- 498
- 00:27:01,566 --> 00:27:05,814
- Was Caravaggio such a bad boy
- or was half of it just made up?
- 499
- 00:27:05,816 --> 00:27:09,356
- That's the beauty of it,
- I suppose.
- 500
- 00:27:09,358 --> 00:27:11,525
- We'll never really know.
- 501
- 00:27:12,108 --> 00:27:13,189
- One part is true.
- 502
- 00:27:13,191 --> 00:27:17,189
- We know he killed someone
- in a duel.
- 503
- 00:27:17,191 --> 00:27:22,108
- But parts of his life
- are legend, I suspect.
- 504
- 00:27:24,025 --> 00:27:26,439
- He's a fascinating character.
- 505
- 00:27:26,441 --> 00:27:28,356
- And a great self-publicist.
- 506
- 00:27:28,358 --> 00:27:32,731
- Just not the kind of man you
- want to meet in a dark alley.
- 507
- 00:27:32,733 --> 00:27:37,441
- That's exactly
- where I'd like to meet him.
- 508
- 00:27:38,650 --> 00:27:44,650
- ♪ My funny valentine ♪
- 509
- 00:27:45,775 --> 00:27:51,358
- ♪ Sweet comic valentine ♪
- 510
- 00:27:51,816 --> 00:27:57,231
- ♪ You make me smile ♪
- 511
- 00:27:57,233 --> 00:28:01,816
- ♪ With my heart ♪
- 512
- 00:28:07,441 --> 00:28:13,275
- ♪ Your looks are laughable ♪
- 513
- 00:28:14,775 --> 00:28:20,773
- ♪ Unphotographable ♪
- 514
- 00:28:20,775 --> 00:28:25,939
- ♪ Yet you're my favourite ♪
- 515
- 00:28:25,941 --> 00:28:32,691
- ♪ Work of art ♪
- 516
- 00:28:36,816 --> 00:28:43,275
- ♪ Is your body less than Greek ♪
- 517
- 00:28:43,733 --> 00:28:46,648
- You remind me
- of someone I once knew.
- 518
- 00:28:46,650 --> 00:28:49,233
- (SONG CONTINUES)
- 519
- 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:52,275
- He's gone now.
- 520
- 00:28:56,150 --> 00:28:57,983
- Do you miss him?
- 521
- 00:28:59,358 --> 00:29:01,441
- I miss him terribly.
- 522
- 00:29:03,316 --> 00:29:05,148
- He last wrote to me from Italy.
- 523
- 00:29:05,150 --> 00:29:08,898
- He described a painting.
- Beautiful.
- 524
- 00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:12,275
- A painting that he saw
- in a church.
- 525
- 00:29:12,691 --> 00:29:14,564
- I never saw it.
- 526
- 00:29:14,566 --> 00:29:17,983
- Except as a reproduction
- in a book.
- 527
- 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,233
- I never saw him again either.
- 528
- 00:29:24,608 --> 00:29:27,439
- Why so sad all of a sudden?
- 529
- 00:29:27,441 --> 00:29:31,358
- I'm not sad.
- Just thinking, is all.
- 530
- 00:29:34,316 --> 00:29:37,733
- I wish you could see
- that painting.
- 531
- 00:29:38,233 --> 00:29:41,189
- I wish we could see it together.
- 532
- 00:29:41,191 --> 00:29:44,066
- Don't be so serious.
- 533
- 00:29:48,441 --> 00:29:52,233
- Enjoy your time
- in the spotlight.
- 534
- 00:29:54,358 --> 00:29:56,900
- I'll try.
- 535
- 00:29:58,525 --> 00:30:05,108
- ♪ Each day is Valentine's ♪
- 536
- 00:30:05,775 --> 00:30:09,358
- ♪ Day ♪
- 537
- 00:30:22,358 --> 00:30:24,856
- I don't think I can do
- this job any more.
- 538
- 00:30:24,858 --> 00:30:26,606
- I think I'm too sensitive.
- 539
- 00:30:26,608 --> 00:30:27,106
- It's early days.
- 540
- 00:30:27,108 --> 00:30:30,064
- And part of what we do is listen
- to other people's problems.
- 541
- 00:30:30,066 --> 00:30:31,106
- It comes with the territory.
- 542
- 00:30:31,108 --> 00:30:34,064
- JIM: But I take their problems
- home with me at night.
- 543
- 00:30:34,066 --> 00:30:34,856
- It's affecting my studies.
- 544
- 00:30:34,858 --> 00:30:37,731
- Lie back and think of England.
- This is what I do.
- 545
- 00:30:37,733 --> 00:30:39,023
- Shouldn't you think of Spain?
- 546
- 00:30:39,025 --> 00:30:41,106
- Try not to get
- emotionally involved.
- 547
- 00:30:41,108 --> 00:30:42,106
- I wanna be emotionally involved.
- 548
- 00:30:42,108 --> 00:30:44,648
- I see a lot of loneliness
- out there, a lot of sadness.
- 549
- 00:30:44,650 --> 00:30:48,148
- This is London. Everyone's
- lonely to a certain extent.
- 550
- 00:30:48,150 --> 00:30:50,898
- That's why we need
- to stick together.
- 551
- 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:53,231
- (PHONE RINGS)
- 552
- 00:30:53,233 --> 00:30:55,606
- Hello?
- 553
- 00:30:55,608 --> 00:30:56,814
- Yeah.
- 554
- 00:30:56,816 --> 00:30:57,981
- Saint Sebastian?
- 555
- 00:30:57,983 --> 00:31:01,316
- Painted by Guido Reni in 1625.
- 556
- 00:31:01,733 --> 00:31:05,566
- Yeah, no worries.
- Be there as soon as I can.
- 557
- 00:31:06,525 --> 00:31:07,023
- Just remember,
- 558
- 00:31:07,025 --> 00:31:11,525
- you're a sex worker,
- not a miracle worker.
- 559
- 00:31:12,358 --> 00:31:14,689
- I'm a sex worker,
- not a miracle worker.
- 560
- 00:31:14,691 --> 00:31:16,439
- I'm a sex worker,
- not a miracle worker.
- 561
- 00:31:16,441 --> 00:31:19,898
- I'm a sex worker,
- not a miracle worker.
- 562
- 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:23,481
- Ahh! Saint Sebastian,
- 563
- 00:31:23,483 --> 00:31:25,064
- the most beautiful
- of all the saints.
- 564
- 00:31:25,066 --> 00:31:28,689
- Now, my own research suggests
- that this particular saint
- 565
- 00:31:28,691 --> 00:31:31,398
- was a middle-aged captain
- of the Praetorian Guard,
- 566
- 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,731
- but erm... let's not spoil
- the party.
- 567
- 00:31:34,733 --> 00:31:37,856
- This is your last chance
- to save your skin.
- 568
- 00:31:37,858 --> 00:31:40,106
- Do you renounce
- the Catholic faith?
- 569
- 00:31:40,108 --> 00:31:43,606
- I'll do whatever you want.
- It's your money.
- 570
- 00:31:43,608 --> 00:31:46,689
- Christian martyrs aren't in it
- for the money.
- 571
- 00:31:46,691 --> 00:31:47,398
- Have some self-respect.
- 572
- 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,731
- Be careful where you point
- that arrow, Tony.
- 573
- 00:31:49,733 --> 00:31:52,648
- I'm not wearing any...
- protection.
- 574
- 00:31:52,650 --> 00:31:53,981
- I'm paying £100 for you
- 575
- 00:31:53,983 --> 00:31:57,398
- to transport me back
- to the glories of ancient Rome.
- 576
- 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,981
- You could at least
- call me Diocletian.
- 577
- 00:31:59,983 --> 00:32:02,066
- (KNOCK ON DOOR)
- 578
- 00:32:02,983 --> 00:32:05,814
- Ah, good evening, gentlemen.
- How are you both doing today?
- 579
- 00:32:05,816 --> 00:32:08,231
- - Perfectly fine, thank you.
- - Glad to hear it.
- 580
- 00:32:08,233 --> 00:32:11,898
- Right, I've got two
- cheeseburgers with extra bacon,
- 581
- 00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:12,564
- two portions of fries,
- 582
- 00:32:12,566 --> 00:32:14,523
- a cheap bottle of red wine
- and a bowl of fruit
- 583
- 00:32:14,525 --> 00:32:17,773
- arranged in the style of a
- 17th-century Italian still life.
- 584
- 00:32:17,775 --> 00:32:19,564
- Now, anything else
- I can get for you?
- 585
- 00:32:19,566 --> 00:32:22,606
- It's very kind of you,
- but no, thank you.
- 586
- 00:32:22,608 --> 00:32:23,606
- (SNIFFS)
- 587
- 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:26,564
- You gentlemen haven't
- been smoking in here, have you?
- 588
- 00:32:26,566 --> 00:32:28,564
- It's strictly against
- company policy.
- 589
- 00:32:28,566 --> 00:32:30,648
- Certainly not.
- It's a disgusting habit.
- 590
- 00:32:30,650 --> 00:32:33,189
- And now, sadly,
- I must bid you good night.
- 591
- 00:32:33,191 --> 00:32:36,356
- Sir, I can definitely smell
- cigarette smoke in this room.
- 592
- 00:32:36,358 --> 00:32:39,606
- Young man, we have
- urgent business to attend to
- 593
- 00:32:39,608 --> 00:32:40,523
- and you are clearly delusional!
- 594
- 00:32:40,525 --> 00:32:44,400
- But, sir, I may have
- to report you to my superiors!
- 595
- 00:32:46,275 --> 00:32:47,939
- As I was saying,
- 596
- 00:32:47,941 --> 00:32:51,273
- the year is 288...
- 597
- 00:32:51,275 --> 00:32:54,398
- and the greatest empire
- the world has ever known
- 598
- 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:55,564
- is on the brink of collapse.
- 599
- 00:32:55,566 --> 00:32:57,106
- - To the north...
- - I'm not being funny...
- 600
- 00:32:57,108 --> 00:33:01,273
- To the north... the Germanic
- tribes are restless.
- 601
- 00:33:01,275 --> 00:33:03,981
- To the east,
- the Huns are on the march.
- 602
- 00:33:03,983 --> 00:33:06,356
- I'm not being funny,
- but in the painting,
- 603
- 00:33:06,358 --> 00:33:09,273
- Saint Sebastian
- was a good-looking bloke.
- 604
- 00:33:09,275 --> 00:33:12,481
- Oh... I give up.
- 605
- 00:33:12,483 --> 00:33:14,898
- I thought we were here
- to recreate
- 606
- 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:15,981
- a 17th-century masterpiece.
- 607
- 00:33:15,983 --> 00:33:18,106
- No, we are,
- and I'm having a great time.
- 608
- 00:33:18,108 --> 00:33:21,981
- It's just... I've been thinking
- of antiquity, is all.
- 609
- 00:33:21,983 --> 00:33:25,439
- You Raconteurs do too much
- thinking for my liking.
- 610
- 00:33:25,441 --> 00:33:29,231
- Thinking's what we do,
- amongst other things.
- 611
- 00:33:29,233 --> 00:33:30,939
- Get to the point.
- 612
- 00:33:30,941 --> 00:33:32,648
- The barbarians are at the gates.
- 613
- 00:33:32,650 --> 00:33:36,314
- My point is you've got him...
- you've got me.
- 614
- 00:33:36,316 --> 00:33:37,773
- I mean, held captive in a room.
- 615
- 00:33:37,775 --> 00:33:40,689
- Why re-enact his death
- when you can just fuck him,
- 616
- 00:33:40,691 --> 00:33:44,356
- and we can both enjoy
- some post-coital conversation?
- 617
- 00:33:44,358 --> 00:33:47,981
- First of all, I don't appreciate
- the crude language.
- 618
- 00:33:47,983 --> 00:33:49,189
- And, second, what I do
- 619
- 00:33:49,191 --> 00:33:52,814
- in the privacy of a cheap hotel
- room with a Catholic saint
- 620
- 00:33:52,816 --> 00:33:54,898
- is my concern and not yours.
- 621
- 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:57,648
- JIM: Sorry.
- I've done it again.
- 622
- 00:33:57,650 --> 00:33:59,106
- I've spoilt the vibe.
- You carry on.
- 623
- 00:33:59,108 --> 00:34:03,064
- My dear boy, do you even know
- the story of Saint Sebastian?
- 624
- 00:34:03,066 --> 00:34:05,523
- I know he died a slow
- and painful death
- 625
- 00:34:05,525 --> 00:34:06,564
- at the hand of the Romans.
- 626
- 00:34:06,566 --> 00:34:08,273
- And he was the world's first
- male pin-up.
- 627
- 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:11,689
- (SCOFFS) Sebastian died
- for the glory
- 628
- 00:34:11,691 --> 00:34:12,481
- of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 629
- 00:34:12,483 --> 00:34:16,273
- Even a cursory glance at
- Wikipedia could tell you that.
- 630
- 00:34:16,275 --> 00:34:21,189
- The fact that he had a fit body
- is completely beside the point.
- 631
- 00:34:21,191 --> 00:34:23,356
- Having a fit body
- is never beside the point.
- 632
- 00:34:23,358 --> 00:34:27,106
- You know how much
- a gym membership costs nowadays?
- 633
- 00:34:27,108 --> 00:34:31,400
- Frankly, I neither know
- nor care.
- 634
- 00:34:31,775 --> 00:34:34,650
- Give us a drag, will you?
- 635
- 00:34:40,775 --> 00:34:44,398
- TONY: Despite your
- undoubted beauty,
- 636
- 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,106
- I have a sneaking suspicion
- 637
- 00:34:46,108 --> 00:34:49,650
- I'm going to come away
- from this encounter...
- 638
- 00:34:50,066 --> 00:34:51,731
- somewhat deflated.
- 639
- 00:34:51,733 --> 00:34:54,650
- (MOANING AND PANTING)
- 640
- 00:35:16,983 --> 00:35:19,939
- DAVID: People go crazy
- for Sebastian, don't they?
- 641
- 00:35:19,941 --> 00:35:22,898
- I mean, if he was alive today,
- he would make a killing.
- 642
- 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:27,939
- If Sebastian was alive today,
- we'd all be out of a job.
- 643
- 00:35:27,941 --> 00:35:29,981
- He wanted me to talk dirty
- to him in Latin,
- 644
- 00:35:29,983 --> 00:35:31,981
- but I didn't have time
- to practise.
- 645
- 00:35:31,983 --> 00:35:33,189
- Was he a priest, do you think?
- 646
- 00:35:33,191 --> 00:35:37,189
- In my experience, priests tend
- to avoid classical iconography.
- 647
- 00:35:37,191 --> 00:35:39,564
- They prefer things
- more down and dirty.
- 648
- 00:35:39,566 --> 00:35:42,439
- Tony just has a fetish
- for boys of antiquity.
- 649
- 00:35:42,441 --> 00:35:42,981
- On our next date,
- 650
- 00:35:42,983 --> 00:35:45,231
- we're gonna recreate
- the bath scene fromSpartacus.
- 651
- 00:35:45,233 --> 00:35:48,773
- You need to charge extra
- for that shit.
- 652
- 00:35:48,775 --> 00:35:50,858
- Did you get the money?
- 653
- 00:35:51,191 --> 00:35:54,231
- I took it. Then I gave it back.
- 654
- 00:35:54,233 --> 00:35:56,648
- ALL: You took it,
- then you gave it back?
- 655
- 00:35:56,650 --> 00:35:58,398
- I felt bad for him.
- His life's a mess.
- 656
- 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,939
- Your life's gonna be a mess
- if you keep working for free.
- 657
- 00:36:01,941 --> 00:36:04,106
- I am skint, to be honest.
- 658
- 00:36:04,108 --> 00:36:05,314
- Listen, I think it's about time
- 659
- 00:36:05,316 --> 00:36:08,814
- we introduced you
- to a proper artist.
- 660
- 00:36:08,816 --> 00:36:10,398
- One who's not dead.
- 661
- 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:11,356
- I'm well up for that.
- 662
- 00:36:11,358 --> 00:36:13,356
- I've got a friend
- who wants to meet you.
- 663
- 00:36:13,358 --> 00:36:15,148
- He's been pestering me
- for weeks.
- 664
- 00:36:15,150 --> 00:36:21,150
- He's... He's super talented, but
- he's hit a bit of a dry patch.
- 665
- 00:36:21,650 --> 00:36:24,150
- I'm ready, let's go.
- 666
- 00:36:24,358 --> 00:36:25,939
- It's two o'clock
- in the morning.
- 667
- 00:36:25,941 --> 00:36:28,481
- JIM: Come on.
- Where's your sense of adventure?
- 668
- 00:36:28,483 --> 00:36:30,481
- - Huh?
- - All right, fuck it.
- 669
- 00:36:30,483 --> 00:36:32,816
- Let's do it.
- 670
- 00:36:40,733 --> 00:36:45,898
- Max, meet Jim. Jim's obsessed
- with becoming a muse.
- 671
- 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:48,148
- I'm modelling myself
- on George Dyer.
- 672
- 00:36:48,150 --> 00:36:49,981
- Without the tragic ending,
- I hope.
- 673
- 00:36:49,983 --> 00:36:53,689
- Jim, where have you been
- all my life?
- 674
- 00:36:53,691 --> 00:36:56,439
- What I love about George
- is that he inspired
- 675
- 00:36:56,441 --> 00:36:58,189
- some of the greatest art
- of the 20th century,
- 676
- 00:36:58,191 --> 00:37:00,314
- but he could still
- mash it up at the pub
- 677
- 00:37:00,316 --> 00:37:03,233
- with his mates
- on a Saturday night.
- 678
- 00:37:03,816 --> 00:37:06,273
- Shame he was a manic depressive.
- 679
- 00:37:06,275 --> 00:37:09,064
- Living with Francis Bacon
- was no bed of roses,
- 680
- 00:37:09,066 --> 00:37:10,648
- I can tell you that.
- 681
- 00:37:10,650 --> 00:37:12,606
- I've read about you in a book.
- 682
- 00:37:12,608 --> 00:37:14,314
- British Portraiture
- and Introspectives.
- 683
- 00:37:14,316 --> 00:37:18,231
- I'm told that every phone box
- within a mile of Soho
- 684
- 00:37:18,233 --> 00:37:22,106
- has become a shrine
- to your beauty.
- 685
- 00:37:22,108 --> 00:37:24,566
- Something like that, yeah.
- 686
- 00:37:41,108 --> 00:37:43,898
- Go easy. He's not as tough
- as we originally thought.
- 687
- 00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:47,106
- What took you so long?
- I've been begging you for weeks.
- 688
- 00:37:47,108 --> 00:37:49,273
- I told you. He wasn't ready.
- 689
- 00:37:49,275 --> 00:37:51,398
- This kid could be
- the greatest thing
- 690
- 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:52,356
- that's happened to me in years.
- 691
- 00:37:52,358 --> 00:37:54,606
- I've got a major retrospective
- coming up.
- 692
- 00:37:54,608 --> 00:37:56,481
- - I need new material.
- - I know.
- 693
- 00:37:56,483 --> 00:37:58,314
- I know. I'm just saying
- he's sensitive.
- 694
- 00:37:58,316 --> 00:38:00,773
- - That's all.
- - You and me go back a long way.
- 695
- 00:38:00,775 --> 00:38:02,648
- - I painted you once, remember?
- - I remember.
- 696
- 00:38:02,650 --> 00:38:05,356
- I'm hanging
- in a gallery somewhere. It's...
- 697
- 00:38:05,358 --> 00:38:06,273
- I've been stale for years
- 698
- 00:38:06,275 --> 00:38:08,856
- and you were too polite
- to tell me the truth.
- 699
- 00:38:08,858 --> 00:38:10,273
- It's been hard. I get it.
- 700
- 00:38:10,275 --> 00:38:12,689
- And muses are thin
- on the ground these days.
- 701
- 00:38:12,691 --> 00:38:17,106
- Just... break him in gently.
- Please.
- 702
- 00:38:17,108 --> 00:38:18,314
- If he wants to be a muse
- 703
- 00:38:18,316 --> 00:38:21,523
- he'll have to put the work in,
- simple as that.
- 704
- 00:38:21,525 --> 00:38:24,023
- Because when it comes
- to the male form,
- 705
- 00:38:24,025 --> 00:38:26,983
- I am an incurable romantic.
- 706
- 00:38:27,941 --> 00:38:29,939
- If being a muse was easy,
- every Tom...
- 707
- 00:38:29,941 --> 00:38:33,481
- - Tom, Dick and Harry, yes.
- - Don't take the piss.
- 708
- 00:38:33,483 --> 00:38:34,689
- Just give me six months
- with him.
- 709
- 00:38:34,691 --> 00:38:37,356
- DAVID: Six months?
- How much are you paying him?
- 710
- 00:38:37,358 --> 00:38:40,439
- MAX: How much does he get
- for the other stuff?
- 711
- 00:38:40,441 --> 00:38:41,356
- (WHISPERS)
- 712
- 00:38:41,358 --> 00:38:44,606
- How much? Jesus Christ,
- I'm in the wrong game.
- 713
- 00:38:44,608 --> 00:38:47,648
- I used to be quite a looker
- in my time, you know.
- 714
- 00:38:47,650 --> 00:38:50,233
- Well, everyone said it.
- 715
- 00:38:52,816 --> 00:38:54,814
- Do you believe in fate, Jim?
- 716
- 00:38:54,816 --> 00:38:55,731
- I do, actually, yeah.
- 717
- 00:38:55,733 --> 00:38:58,606
- Then it's fate
- that has brought us together.
- 718
- 00:38:58,608 --> 00:39:03,648
- I'll expect you every day
- at 8pm sharp, except Sunday.
- 719
- 00:39:03,650 --> 00:39:05,148
- We'll work through the night.
- 720
- 00:39:05,150 --> 00:39:07,314
- I won't tolerate
- any bad timekeeping.
- 721
- 00:39:07,316 --> 00:39:08,481
- - (CLICKS HEELS)
- - Yes, sir.
- 722
- 00:39:08,483 --> 00:39:10,898
- Beauty will only get you so far
- in this business.
- 723
- 00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:14,606
- You have to dedicate yourself.
- You have to concentrate.
- 724
- 00:39:14,608 --> 00:39:16,064
- I wanna do this, Max,
- I really do.
- 725
- 00:39:16,066 --> 00:39:19,648
- MAX: I'm going to request
- that you do not move,
- 726
- 00:39:19,650 --> 00:39:20,731
- that you do not speak.
- 727
- 00:39:20,733 --> 00:39:23,814
- After we finish
- you can talk all you like.
- 728
- 00:39:23,816 --> 00:39:26,064
- I'm tired of talking,
- to tell you the truth.
- 729
- 00:39:26,066 --> 00:39:28,481
- Talking just gets me
- into trouble.
- 730
- 00:39:28,483 --> 00:39:29,148
- Good.
- 731
- 00:39:29,150 --> 00:39:31,775
- Let's get down to work, then.
- 732
- 00:39:34,025 --> 00:39:36,733
- (JAZZ PLAYS)
- 733
- 00:40:15,191 --> 00:40:16,981
- DAVID: I particularly like
- the tension
- 734
- 00:40:16,983 --> 00:40:23,273
- between the beauty of the image
- and the violence of the pose.
- 735
- 00:40:23,275 --> 00:40:26,356
- The taut muscles,
- the clenched fists.
- 736
- 00:40:26,358 --> 00:40:29,731
- The thickness of the paint,
- the bold strokes.
- 737
- 00:40:29,733 --> 00:40:33,481
- I can't believe I've finally
- made it onto a canvas.
- 738
- 00:40:33,483 --> 00:40:35,314
- And this is just the beginning.
- 739
- 00:40:35,316 --> 00:40:38,064
- I imagine a whole series
- of paintings,
- 740
- 00:40:38,066 --> 00:40:39,481
- exploring every facet of...
- 741
- 00:40:39,483 --> 00:40:42,150
- All you all right?
- 742
- 00:40:42,650 --> 00:40:43,148
- Yeah.
- 743
- 00:40:43,150 --> 00:40:45,981
- Yeah, no, I just... I've been
- sat in here for months.
- 744
- 00:40:45,983 --> 00:40:48,064
- I need to get some fresh air,
- that's all.
- 745
- 00:40:48,066 --> 00:40:52,191
- (SCOFFS) I wish
- I had your problems.
- 746
- 00:41:01,233 --> 00:41:03,566
- (CLICKING)
- 747
- 00:41:24,066 --> 00:41:26,148
- (THUMPING ROCK BEAT)
- 748
- 00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:28,356
- What happened to you?
- You look like shit, mate.
- 749
- 00:41:28,358 --> 00:41:32,564
- It's nice to see you, too. I've
- been working a lot, that's all.
- 750
- 00:41:32,566 --> 00:41:33,773
- What, you call that work?
- 751
- 00:41:33,775 --> 00:41:37,148
- Sitting on your arse all day
- and getting paid for it?
- 752
- 00:41:37,150 --> 00:41:39,106
- You did all right for yourself
- in the end.
- 753
- 00:41:39,108 --> 00:41:41,814
- And you can say it was me
- who discovered you.
- 754
- 00:41:41,816 --> 00:41:43,189
- What are you talking about?
- 755
- 00:41:43,191 --> 00:41:46,648
- I was the one who brought you to
- that bar that night, remember?
- 756
- 00:41:46,650 --> 00:41:50,148
- It was me who took you
- under my wing, so to speak,
- 757
- 00:41:50,150 --> 00:41:52,523
- on the path to fame and fortune.
- 758
- 00:41:52,525 --> 00:41:53,064
- Hang on a minute.
- 759
- 00:41:53,066 --> 00:41:55,939
- Weren't you the one who tried
- to charge me ten quid a night
- 760
- 00:41:55,941 --> 00:41:58,106
- - to sleep in a cardboard box?
- - Listen.
- 761
- 00:41:58,108 --> 00:42:01,148
- Why are all rent boys
- so cynical these days?
- 762
- 00:42:01,150 --> 00:42:03,439
- I'm not a rent boy, I'm a muse.
- 763
- 00:42:03,441 --> 00:42:03,898
- Exactly!
- 764
- 00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:04,856
- And muse ain't the type of job
- 765
- 00:42:04,858 --> 00:42:07,106
- you see advertised
- in the job centre, is it?
- 766
- 00:42:07,108 --> 00:42:10,941
- Being in the right place
- at the right time.
- 767
- 00:42:11,816 --> 00:42:12,314
- You know what?
- 768
- 00:42:12,316 --> 00:42:15,273
- I think I'm beginning to see
- what all the fuss is about.
- 769
- 00:42:15,275 --> 00:42:17,439
- Stop touching my face.
- 770
- 00:42:17,441 --> 00:42:18,564
- Oh, you reckon cos I'm homeless,
- 771
- 00:42:18,566 --> 00:42:22,816
- I can't appreciate
- good bone structure?
- 772
- 00:42:24,066 --> 00:42:29,898
- Listen, mate, are you all right?
- You're acting well weird.
- 773
- 00:42:29,900 --> 00:42:31,483
- (THUD)
- 774
- 00:42:36,275 --> 00:42:37,273
- Fuck me.
- 775
- 00:42:37,275 --> 00:42:39,900
- Youaretired.
- 776
- 00:43:37,858 --> 00:43:38,731
- What's going on?
- 777
- 00:43:38,733 --> 00:43:41,314
- I was about to ask you
- the same question.
- 778
- 00:43:41,316 --> 00:43:41,981
- We're worried about you.
- 779
- 00:43:41,983 --> 00:43:44,231
- I'm worried too. I don't know
- what's wrong with me.
- 780
- 00:43:44,233 --> 00:43:45,648
- Being sensitive
- is all well and good,
- 781
- 00:43:45,650 --> 00:43:47,564
- but you can't be fainting
- every five minutes.
- 782
- 00:43:47,566 --> 00:43:50,106
- - It makes people nervous.
- - The sex I can deal with.
- 783
- 00:43:50,108 --> 00:43:53,314
- - It's the art that fucks me up.
- - Tell us what's been happening.
- 784
- 00:43:53,316 --> 00:43:56,814
- Go from the beginning,
- before you met us, I mean.
- 785
- 00:43:56,816 --> 00:43:58,481
- (JIM SIGHS)
- 786
- 00:43:58,483 --> 00:43:59,856
- OK.
- 787
- 00:43:59,858 --> 00:44:02,064
- Er... (CLEARS THROAT)
- 788
- 00:44:02,066 --> 00:44:03,023
- It was my last year at school
- 789
- 00:44:03,025 --> 00:44:05,314
- and all I could think about
- was moving to London.
- 790
- 00:44:05,316 --> 00:44:08,148
- But I had a thing for my
- art teacher. And I'd do anything
- 791
- 00:44:08,150 --> 00:44:10,064
- - to catch a glimpse of him.
- - You had it bad.
- 792
- 00:44:10,066 --> 00:44:12,481
- Really bad. I've got a thing
- for educated people
- 793
- 00:44:12,483 --> 00:44:16,564
- and this bloke had practically
- swallowed a dictionary.
- 794
- 00:44:16,566 --> 00:44:20,148
- Late one night, he lured me into
- the corner of the library,
- 795
- 00:44:20,150 --> 00:44:22,814
- and showed me
- some disturbing images.
- 796
- 00:44:22,816 --> 00:44:24,231
- - What? Porn?
- - No.
- 797
- 00:44:24,233 --> 00:44:27,648
- It was art, but like nothing
- I'd ever seen before.
- 798
- 00:44:27,650 --> 00:44:28,398
- Now I know it was Baroque,
- 799
- 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,564
- but back then, I didn't know
- what the fuck was going on.
- 800
- 00:44:31,566 --> 00:44:32,231
- Don't get me wrong,
- 801
- 00:44:32,233 --> 00:44:34,606
- the naked bodies were a turn-on,
- it's just...
- 802
- 00:44:34,608 --> 00:44:35,606
- Did he ever touch you?
- 803
- 00:44:35,608 --> 00:44:38,981
- No. He just stared at me
- for hours.
- 804
- 00:44:38,983 --> 00:44:40,439
- He objectified you.
- 805
- 00:44:40,441 --> 00:44:42,731
- I was proper objectified, yeah.
- 806
- 00:44:42,733 --> 00:44:44,606
- But that was when
- it got more serious
- 807
- 00:44:44,608 --> 00:44:46,148
- and we started going
- to galleries,
- 808
- 00:44:46,150 --> 00:44:48,481
- and whilst I stared
- at the paintings,
- 809
- 00:44:48,483 --> 00:44:49,148
- he'd be staring at me.
- 810
- 00:44:49,150 --> 00:44:52,564
- Did you tell the police?
- Social services?
- 811
- 00:44:52,566 --> 00:44:56,148
- No, I secretly enjoyed
- the attention.
- 812
- 00:44:56,150 --> 00:44:58,439
- But that's when
- I started to get sick.
- 813
- 00:44:58,441 --> 00:44:59,856
- I saw myself in the paintings.
- 814
- 00:44:59,858 --> 00:45:02,314
- So, let me get this straight.
- 815
- 00:45:02,316 --> 00:45:03,689
- We have a sensitive teenage boy
- 816
- 00:45:03,691 --> 00:45:05,939
- coming to terms
- with his sexuality
- 817
- 00:45:05,941 --> 00:45:07,898
- and a highly intelligent
- older male
- 818
- 00:45:07,900 --> 00:45:10,564
- who uses art
- as a means of seduction.
- 819
- 00:45:10,566 --> 00:45:12,148
- ALL: Correct.
- 820
- 00:45:12,150 --> 00:45:13,273
- To complicate matters further,
- 821
- 00:45:13,275 --> 00:45:16,356
- and for reasons we don't
- yet understand, said teenage boy
- 822
- 00:45:16,358 --> 00:45:18,773
- can't look
- at a beautiful painting
- 823
- 00:45:18,775 --> 00:45:20,814
- without feeling
- emotionally overwhelmed,
- 824
- 00:45:20,816 --> 00:45:22,939
- without imagining himself in it.
- 825
- 00:45:22,941 --> 00:45:24,564
- ALL: Also correct.
- 826
- 00:45:24,566 --> 00:45:26,231
- We need to get you to a doctor.
- 827
- 00:45:26,233 --> 00:45:28,689
- Maybe I should just
- avoid art galleries.
- 828
- 00:45:28,691 --> 00:45:31,523
- That's impossible in
- our line of work, you know that.
- 829
- 00:45:31,525 --> 00:45:33,856
- I'm thinking
- of changing my career.
- 830
- 00:45:33,858 --> 00:45:35,481
- Don't be too hasty.
- 831
- 00:45:35,483 --> 00:45:37,898
- I know the person
- you should see.
- 832
- 00:45:37,900 --> 00:45:39,731
- - You do?
- - I do.
- 833
- 00:45:39,733 --> 00:45:43,606
- She's not cheap
- but she's good at what she does.
- 834
- 00:45:43,608 --> 00:45:44,731
- JIM: What does she do?
- 835
- 00:45:44,733 --> 00:45:49,066
- She specialises in illnesses
- no one's ever heard of.
- 836
- 00:45:51,441 --> 00:45:53,773
- Give her a call.
- 837
- 00:45:53,775 --> 00:45:56,773
- Come on, handsome. Don't be shy.
- 838
- 00:45:56,775 --> 00:45:58,648
- (LAUGHS)
- 839
- 00:45:58,650 --> 00:46:04,981
- Jim, why do you think Caravaggio
- has been such a problem for you?
- 840
- 00:46:04,983 --> 00:46:06,814
- Oh, don't get me wrong,
- I'm a big fan.
- 841
- 00:46:06,816 --> 00:46:08,648
- For me,
- it's where modern art started.
- 842
- 00:46:08,650 --> 00:46:11,689
- And you feel a compulsion
- to return to him,
- 843
- 00:46:11,691 --> 00:46:13,773
- to study his work again
- and again?
- 844
- 00:46:13,775 --> 00:46:15,398
- Look, Caravaggio probably wasn't
- 845
- 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:16,898
- the greatest artist
- who ever lived.
- 846
- 00:46:16,900 --> 00:46:21,064
- Technically, I mean, but the way
- he painted darkness and light,
- 847
- 00:46:21,066 --> 00:46:23,356
- he was brilliant,
- no one could touch him.
- 848
- 00:46:23,358 --> 00:46:25,106
- And what about
- the people he painted?
- 849
- 00:46:25,108 --> 00:46:28,314
- The tricksters, the whores,
- the undesirables?
- 850
- 00:46:28,316 --> 00:46:31,523
- I love the fact he took
- ordinary people from the street
- 851
- 00:46:31,525 --> 00:46:35,064
- and made 'em look like saints.
- He was the first one to do that.
- 852
- 00:46:35,066 --> 00:46:38,064
- Do you identify with the people
- in his paintings?
- 853
- 00:46:38,066 --> 00:46:40,981
- I do, yeah.
- I feel like I know them.
- 854
- 00:46:40,983 --> 00:46:43,941
- They could be me or my mates.
- 855
- 00:46:44,191 --> 00:46:46,856
- Would you consider yourself
- a religious person?
- 856
- 00:46:46,858 --> 00:46:51,023
- Not really.
- I just imagine the worst.
- 857
- 00:46:51,025 --> 00:46:54,856
- When I see Baby Jesus, I just
- think about the crucifixion.
- 858
- 00:46:54,858 --> 00:46:57,814
- All that pain and suffering
- really gets to me.
- 859
- 00:46:57,816 --> 00:47:03,983
- And the beauty of it just
- draws me in and... won't let go.
- 860
- 00:47:04,191 --> 00:47:07,106
- Jim, there are a number
- of syndromes
- 861
- 00:47:07,108 --> 00:47:11,064
- associated with these kinds
- of reactions to art,
- 862
- 00:47:11,066 --> 00:47:13,814
- from mild anxiety
- to severe delusional states.
- 863
- 00:47:13,816 --> 00:47:17,564
- Do you think I'm on
- the high end of the spectrum?
- 864
- 00:47:17,566 --> 00:47:21,150
- Well, that's what
- we're about to discover.
- 865
- 00:47:22,066 --> 00:47:25,106
- Try and stay calm.
- 866
- 00:47:25,108 --> 00:47:27,689
- I'm going to remove
- your blindfold.
- 867
- 00:47:27,691 --> 00:47:31,898
- And when I do, we'll approach
- the painting together.
- 868
- 00:47:31,900 --> 00:47:35,106
- And I want you
- to describe what you see.
- 869
- 00:47:35,108 --> 00:47:37,233
- OK?
- 870
- 00:47:54,733 --> 00:47:57,275
- The Musicians.
- 871
- 00:47:59,108 --> 00:48:00,898
- It's beautiful, isn't it?
- 872
- 00:48:00,900 --> 00:48:05,148
- Hmm. It's a beautiful painting,
- yes, but what else?
- 873
- 00:48:05,150 --> 00:48:07,941
- What else do you see?
- 874
- 00:48:09,108 --> 00:48:11,231
- I see myself.
- 875
- 00:48:11,233 --> 00:48:13,775
- There, look.
- 876
- 00:48:14,566 --> 00:48:16,523
- (ORCHESTRA TUNES UP)
- 877
- 00:48:16,525 --> 00:48:19,316
- Music. I can hear music.
- 878
- 00:48:19,775 --> 00:48:22,816
- Like tuning of instruments.
- 879
- 00:48:26,275 --> 00:48:30,150
- (MUSIC BECOMES DISCORDANT)
- 880
- 00:48:33,066 --> 00:48:36,981
- (HARPSICORD PLAYS SOLEMN TUNE)
- 881
- 00:48:36,983 --> 00:48:38,273
- What are you lot doing here?
- 882
- 00:48:38,275 --> 00:48:42,731
- Italian bloke. The one
- with the mad glint in his eye.
- 883
- 00:48:42,733 --> 00:48:43,606
- Caravaggio.
- 884
- 00:48:43,608 --> 00:48:44,898
- Yeah, whatever his name is.
- 885
- 00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:48,148
- He was wandering round Soho
- looking confused.
- 886
- 00:48:48,150 --> 00:48:49,856
- At first I thought
- he was homeless,
- 887
- 00:48:49,858 --> 00:48:51,314
- but it turns out
- he's proper famous.
- 888
- 00:48:51,316 --> 00:48:54,356
- He's famous, all right,
- but he can be very tricky.
- 889
- 00:48:54,358 --> 00:48:56,981
- Yeah. He definitely had
- a few too many.
- 890
- 00:48:56,983 --> 00:48:59,148
- You could smell it
- on his breath.
- 891
- 00:48:59,150 --> 00:49:02,981
- Anyway, he offered me a few gold
- coins and a warm bed at night,
- 892
- 00:49:02,983 --> 00:49:06,398
- if I... dressed up as Cupid.
- 893
- 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:07,023
- What's up with you?
- 894
- 00:49:07,025 --> 00:49:10,148
- I'm having a check-up on the
- state of my mental well-being
- 895
- 00:49:10,150 --> 00:49:12,564
- from a doctor
- who was once a prostitute.
- 896
- 00:49:12,566 --> 00:49:15,648
- (CHUCKLES) Fair enough.
- Is she fit?
- 897
- 00:49:15,650 --> 00:49:19,983
- You need to be quiet.
- He looks pissed off.
- 898
- 00:49:21,150 --> 00:49:23,691
- Oh, fuck, here he comes.
- 899
- 00:49:32,233 --> 00:49:32,898
- Call me old-fashioned,
- 900
- 00:49:32,900 --> 00:49:34,939
- but pretty boys are supposed
- to pose for the artist
- 901
- 00:49:34,941 --> 00:49:37,273
- - and keep their mouths shut.
- - We were just saying...
- 902
- 00:49:37,275 --> 00:49:39,981
- Have you ever tried working
- with this much noise going on?
- 903
- 00:49:39,983 --> 00:49:43,814
- - You should try it some time.
- - You need to take a chill pill.
- 904
- 00:49:43,816 --> 00:49:45,564
- It's just a bit of banter.
- 905
- 00:49:45,566 --> 00:49:49,189
- Remember, this is one
- of your lightest pieces.
- 906
- 00:49:49,191 --> 00:49:51,648
- You boys make me want to puke.
- 907
- 00:49:51,650 --> 00:49:53,106
- Thinking you're better
- than anyone else
- 908
- 00:49:53,108 --> 00:49:56,314
- just cos you're hanging
- in a gallery somewhere.
- 909
- 00:49:56,316 --> 00:49:57,606
- Who gives a shit?
- 910
- 00:49:57,608 --> 00:49:59,939
- You were the one who chose us,
- remember?
- 911
- 00:49:59,941 --> 00:50:02,064
- You plucked us from obscurity.
- 912
- 00:50:02,066 --> 00:50:04,481
- It's tough working in this town,
- you know.
- 913
- 00:50:04,483 --> 00:50:06,356
- Roman cardinals
- can be very picky.
- 914
- 00:50:06,358 --> 00:50:09,816
- And don't even get me started
- on the Pope.
- 915
- 00:50:11,108 --> 00:50:16,064
- No one ever asks Caravaggio
- if he's having a nice day.
- 916
- 00:50:16,066 --> 00:50:16,981
- What's this guy's problem?
- 917
- 00:50:16,983 --> 00:50:19,981
- I think the problem
- is he's a tortured genius.
- 918
- 00:50:19,983 --> 00:50:22,356
- (WHISPERS) I'll tell you
- what the problem is.
- 919
- 00:50:22,358 --> 00:50:26,856
- I have boys queueing round the
- block to sit where you are now.
- 920
- 00:50:26,858 --> 00:50:29,689
- So, any more bullshit
- from you...
- 921
- 00:50:29,691 --> 00:50:32,523
- and I'll throw you back to the
- gutter where you belong.
- 922
- 00:50:32,525 --> 00:50:35,023
- - Understood?
- - Understood.
- 923
- 00:50:35,025 --> 00:50:38,189
- I make you and your boyfriends
- pretty in my paintings,
- 924
- 00:50:38,191 --> 00:50:41,400
- so don't fuck with me!
- 925
- 00:50:42,441 --> 00:50:44,608
- OK?
- 926
- 00:50:51,358 --> 00:50:53,939
- Caravaggio,
- temperamental genius.
- 927
- 00:50:53,941 --> 00:50:54,939
- Fugitive from the law.
- 928
- 00:50:54,941 --> 00:50:59,525
- - Apparently a homo.
- - Definitely a nutter.
- 929
- 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,608
- Jim, where did you think
- you were?
- 930
- 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,189
- I imagined I was in Rome
- 931
- 00:51:12,191 --> 00:51:14,564
- in the summer of 1595.
- 932
- 00:51:14,566 --> 00:51:17,523
- In the home
- of Cardinal del Monte,
- 933
- 00:51:17,525 --> 00:51:19,481
- being painted by Caravaggio.
- 934
- 00:51:19,483 --> 00:51:20,856
- I was one of the musicians.
- 935
- 00:51:20,858 --> 00:51:22,439
- We were just tuning
- our instruments,
- 936
- 00:51:22,441 --> 00:51:24,981
- minding our own business
- when it all kicked off.
- 937
- 00:51:24,983 --> 00:51:28,273
- In what sense did it...
- kick off?
- 938
- 00:51:28,275 --> 00:51:32,398
- Look, I know Caravaggio's
- got a lot on his plate:
- 939
- 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,773
- murder, illness,
- exiled to Sicily.
- 940
- 00:51:35,775 --> 00:51:37,939
- It's just...
- He needs to chill out a bit.
- 941
- 00:51:37,941 --> 00:51:40,981
- He's not been having
- a great time of it lately.
- 942
- 00:51:40,983 --> 00:51:41,564
- I understand that.
- 943
- 00:51:41,566 --> 00:51:43,356
- He hasn't got much longer
- to live and all that.
- 944
- 00:51:43,358 --> 00:51:46,648
- But he doesn't need
- to be so touchy, you know?
- 945
- 00:51:46,650 --> 00:51:50,439
- Jim, I'm afraid
- I've got some bad news.
- 946
- 00:51:50,441 --> 00:51:51,648
- Well, I knew that was coming.
- 947
- 00:51:51,650 --> 00:51:53,773
- You are suffering
- from a rare condition
- 948
- 00:51:53,775 --> 00:51:55,189
- called Stendhal syndrome.
- 949
- 00:51:55,191 --> 00:51:58,314
- Not a debilitating illness,
- by any means.
- 950
- 00:51:58,316 --> 00:52:01,564
- But you'll definitely
- need to make some changes
- 951
- 00:52:01,566 --> 00:52:02,189
- in your lifestyle.
- 952
- 00:52:02,191 --> 00:52:05,189
- Can you explain to me
- what that means?
- 953
- 00:52:05,191 --> 00:52:08,189
- I... can.
- 954
- 00:52:08,191 --> 00:52:09,398
- But not right now.
- 955
- 00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:14,648
- Unfortunately, I'm late
- for my next appointment.
- 956
- 00:52:14,650 --> 00:52:15,398
- What, that's it?
- 957
- 00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,106
- I'm afraid so. Time is money.
- 958
- 00:52:17,108 --> 00:52:20,564
- But if you have any questions,
- please do give me a call.
- 959
- 00:52:20,566 --> 00:52:22,731
- Well, I have lots of questions.
- 960
- 00:52:22,733 --> 00:52:23,231
- Goodbye, Jim.
- 961
- 00:52:23,233 --> 00:52:26,148
- Please get some rest.
- And, remember,
- 962
- 00:52:26,150 --> 00:52:27,064
- paintings of the Baroque period
- 963
- 00:52:27,066 --> 00:52:30,816
- should be avoided
- as much as possible.
- 964
- 00:52:32,066 --> 00:52:34,398
- Oh, and one last thing.
- 965
- 00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,189
- - What?
- - Caravaggio can be prickly.
- 966
- 00:52:37,191 --> 00:52:39,189
- But he's really
- not such a bad person.
- 967
- 00:52:39,191 --> 00:52:41,731
- You're talking about a bloke
- who killed someone
- 968
- 00:52:41,733 --> 00:52:43,481
- over an argument
- in a tennis match.
- 969
- 00:52:43,483 --> 00:52:46,858
- (POLICE SIREN
- WAILS IN DISTANCE)
- 970
- 00:52:49,316 --> 00:52:52,066
- (ROCK SONG)
- 971
- 00:52:57,650 --> 00:52:59,898
- The doctor told me
- to avoid Caravaggio
- 972
- 00:52:59,900 --> 00:53:02,606
- if I want to keep my sanity.
- 973
- 00:53:02,608 --> 00:53:03,856
- What kind of life is that?
- 974
- 00:53:03,858 --> 00:53:05,939
- I feel sorry for you,
- I really do.
- 975
- 00:53:05,941 --> 00:53:08,106
- I know where you're coming from.
- 976
- 00:53:08,108 --> 00:53:10,398
- But give me
- the tremendous violence
- 977
- 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,898
- of Francis Bacon any days
- of the week.
- 978
- 00:53:12,900 --> 00:53:16,648
- The screaming queen
- paints a screaming pope.
- 979
- 00:53:16,650 --> 00:53:19,481
- The human mouth
- as a gaping wound.
- 980
- 00:53:19,483 --> 00:53:20,689
- If you force me to choose,
- 981
- 00:53:20,691 --> 00:53:23,023
- I mean, if you put a gun
- to my head,
- 982
- 00:53:23,025 --> 00:53:23,898
- I'd go for Mapplethorpe.
- 983
- 00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:28,231
- No, his work is too cold.
- There is no emotion.
- 984
- 00:53:28,233 --> 00:53:30,148
- That man knew
- how to photograph beauty.
- 985
- 00:53:30,150 --> 00:53:33,064
- Mapplethorpe didn't understand
- the men he photographed.
- 986
- 00:53:33,066 --> 00:53:37,523
- They were reduced to what hung
- between their legs.
- 987
- 00:53:37,525 --> 00:53:37,898
- Bollocks!
- 988
- 00:53:37,900 --> 00:53:43,191
- At the end of the day...
- we're all just pieces of meat.
- 989
- 00:53:50,775 --> 00:53:53,439
- Guys...
- Guys, can someone tell me
- 990
- 00:53:53,441 --> 00:53:54,939
- what the fuck is going on?
- 991
- 00:53:54,941 --> 00:53:55,606
- According to our friend,
- 992
- 00:53:55,608 --> 00:53:58,231
- you have a syndrome
- named after Henry Stendhal.
- 993
- 00:53:58,233 --> 00:54:00,981
- Stendhal syndrome
- is a rare illness
- 994
- 00:54:00,983 --> 00:54:02,898
- which affects some individuals
- 995
- 00:54:02,900 --> 00:54:05,106
- that are exposed to fine art.
- 996
- 00:54:05,108 --> 00:54:07,189
- It can cause dizziness,
- 997
- 00:54:07,191 --> 00:54:10,189
- hallucinations
- and even blackouts.
- 998
- 00:54:10,191 --> 00:54:11,814
- Was this Stendhal bloke
- a doctor?
- 999
- 00:54:11,816 --> 00:54:13,814
- No. No, he was
- a 19th-century novelist
- 1000
- 00:54:13,816 --> 00:54:15,023
- who wrote
- The Charterhouse of Parma,
- 1001
- 00:54:15,025 --> 00:54:18,439
- amongst other things. He was
- a little flowery for my taste.
- 1002
- 00:54:18,441 --> 00:54:19,564
- But you know
- how the French are.
- 1003
- 00:54:19,566 --> 00:54:23,356
- Hey! Your clichéd view of my
- country is 50 years out of date.
- 1004
- 00:54:23,358 --> 00:54:27,314
- We have a vibrant youth culture,
- the rap scene is massive,
- 1005
- 00:54:27,316 --> 00:54:30,064
- and we have tension
- in the suburbs.
- 1006
- 00:54:30,066 --> 00:54:30,689
- So go fuck yourself.
- 1007
- 00:54:30,691 --> 00:54:33,981
- "Stendhal wrote about his
- experience with the phenomenon
- 1008
- 00:54:33,983 --> 00:54:38,983
- after a visit to Florence
- in the summer of 1817."
- 1009
- 00:54:40,441 --> 00:54:44,106
- "Absorbed in the contemplation
- of divine beauty,
- 1010
- 00:54:44,108 --> 00:54:48,439
- I could perceive
- its very essence close at hand."
- 1011
- 00:54:48,441 --> 00:54:50,023
- "I could, as it were,
- 1012
- 00:54:50,025 --> 00:54:54,650
- feel the stuff of it
- beneath my fingertips."
- 1013
- 00:54:55,108 --> 00:54:59,233
- Wait a minute, I've never
- even been to Florence.
- 1014
- 00:55:00,108 --> 00:55:02,481
- (BOTTLES CLATTER IN THE STREET)
- 1015
- 00:55:02,483 --> 00:55:04,775
- Oh, fuck!
- 1016
- 00:55:13,775 --> 00:55:17,525
- (DISTANT VOICES
- ON THE STREET OUTSIDE)
- 1017
- 00:55:37,858 --> 00:55:39,314
- What's going on, mate?
- 1018
- 00:55:39,316 --> 00:55:41,898
- You're late.
- 1019
- 00:55:41,900 --> 00:55:45,023
- I won't tolerate
- bad timekeeping.
- 1020
- 00:55:45,025 --> 00:55:47,314
- I'm sorry. What's going on?
- 1021
- 00:55:47,316 --> 00:55:50,273
- What's going on is...
- you were late.
- 1022
- 00:55:50,275 --> 00:55:53,398
- And I sat here and I... began
- to look at these paintings.
- 1023
- 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:57,273
- (SCOFFS) You could hardly
- call them paintings.
- 1024
- 00:55:57,275 --> 00:55:59,606
- More an attempt at painting.
- 1025
- 00:55:59,608 --> 00:56:02,814
- And I began to think
- about my work.
- 1026
- 00:56:02,816 --> 00:56:06,939
- My life's work is in this room,
- gathering dust.
- 1027
- 00:56:06,941 --> 00:56:09,231
- And a lot of it's fine work,
- Max.
- 1028
- 00:56:09,233 --> 00:56:11,398
- I told you, no talking.
- 1029
- 00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:16,066
- No talking, no moving,
- unless I tell you.
- 1030
- 00:56:16,525 --> 00:56:18,606
- You have to... concentrate.
- 1031
- 00:56:18,608 --> 00:56:22,939
- You have to concentrate and you
- have to dedicate yourself.
- 1032
- 00:56:22,941 --> 00:56:26,148
- We haven't started work yet,
- Max.
- 1033
- 00:56:26,150 --> 00:56:28,523
- You were late.
- 1034
- 00:56:28,525 --> 00:56:32,023
- And my life's work's
- in this room.
- 1035
- 00:56:32,025 --> 00:56:35,066
- And it's a pile of crap.
- 1036
- 00:56:37,441 --> 00:56:40,439
- I'm old and I'm tired.
- I... (EXHALES)
- 1037
- 00:56:40,441 --> 00:56:44,483
- I hadn't painted anything
- half decent in years.
- 1038
- 00:56:46,025 --> 00:56:48,648
- - Until you come along.
- - That's not true.
- 1039
- 00:56:48,650 --> 00:56:51,441
- Oh, we both know it's true.
- 1040
- 00:56:53,150 --> 00:56:55,983
- But I'm not giving up.
- 1041
- 00:56:56,358 --> 00:56:59,025
- I'm gonna start again.
- 1042
- 00:56:59,358 --> 00:57:02,189
- You're the first piece
- of true inspiration
- 1043
- 00:57:02,191 --> 00:57:03,648
- I've had in 30 years.
- 1044
- 00:57:03,650 --> 00:57:07,356
- And inspiration's
- a precious gift, Jim.
- 1045
- 00:57:07,358 --> 00:57:09,148
- So I thank you for that.
- 1046
- 00:57:09,150 --> 00:57:12,108
- You're a beautiful young man.
- 1047
- 00:57:12,941 --> 00:57:16,858
- Have the day off.
- You deserve it.
- 1048
- 00:58:02,275 --> 00:58:06,773
- You've come a long way.
- I'm impressed.
- 1049
- 00:58:06,775 --> 00:58:09,939
- Thanks. It means a lot.
- 1050
- 00:58:09,941 --> 00:58:13,398
- It's a beautiful painting, Max.
- 1051
- 00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:14,398
- Really intense.
- 1052
- 00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,648
- Beauty should always be intense.
- 1053
- 00:58:16,650 --> 00:58:19,064
- Beauty should always
- be dangerous.
- 1054
- 00:58:19,066 --> 00:58:23,856
- I notice that there was no
- reference to your... sickness.
- 1055
- 00:58:23,858 --> 00:58:28,023
- Yeah. But we've got
- another project in the pipeline,
- 1056
- 00:58:28,025 --> 00:58:28,523
- haven't we, Max?
- 1057
- 00:58:28,525 --> 00:58:30,814
- MAX: Imagine
- a series of paintings
- 1058
- 00:58:30,816 --> 00:58:32,814
- with Jim
- as a beautiful peasant boy
- 1059
- 00:58:32,816 --> 00:58:37,398
- travelling through Italy
- in the steps of Stendhal.
- 1060
- 00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:38,564
- He's confused.
- 1061
- 00:58:38,566 --> 00:58:41,314
- His family have worked the land
- for centuries,
- 1062
- 00:58:41,316 --> 00:58:43,814
- but he's a city boy at heart.
- 1063
- 00:58:43,816 --> 00:58:45,231
- He craves the bright lights.
- 1064
- 00:58:45,233 --> 00:58:48,523
- DAVID: Did you really destroy
- everything?
- 1065
- 00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:49,898
- MAX: Yeah, most of it's gone.
- 1066
- 00:58:49,900 --> 00:58:53,816
- Not worth the canvas
- it was painted on.
- 1067
- 00:58:59,900 --> 00:59:03,191
- (ROCK SONG PLAYING)
- 1068
- 00:59:23,441 --> 00:59:26,358
- (SONG CONTINUES)
- 1069
- 00:59:27,775 --> 00:59:31,648
- While you're busy contemplating
- the size of my dick,
- 1070
- 00:59:31,650 --> 00:59:32,898
- consider this question.
- 1071
- 00:59:32,900 --> 00:59:35,773
- Why does life have to be so sad?
- 1072
- 00:59:35,775 --> 00:59:36,481
- I... I am sorry.
- 1073
- 00:59:36,483 --> 00:59:39,023
- I, erm... I lost myself there
- for a moment.
- 1074
- 00:59:39,025 --> 00:59:41,814
- Don't worry.
- Get it all the time.
- 1075
- 00:59:41,816 --> 00:59:44,106
- I'd hate to think of anyone
- 1076
- 00:59:44,108 --> 00:59:47,108
- as beautiful as you
- ever be unhappy.
- 1077
- 00:59:47,525 --> 00:59:49,564
- Breaks my heart.
- 1078
- 00:59:49,566 --> 00:59:53,564
- Don't get me wrong. My mates
- are a great bunch of lads.
- 1079
- 00:59:53,566 --> 00:59:57,189
- They've taught me to appreciate
- the finer things in life.
- 1080
- 00:59:57,191 --> 00:59:59,858
- The music of Bach?
- 1081
- 01:00:00,191 --> 01:00:02,439
- The, er... poetry of Cavafy?
- 1082
- 01:00:02,441 --> 01:00:05,106
- Did you know,
- Cavafy was once described as
- 1083
- 01:00:05,108 --> 01:00:08,189
- "a Greek gentleman
- standing absolutely motionless
- 1084
- 01:00:08,191 --> 01:00:11,356
- at a slight angle
- to the universe"?
- 1085
- 01:00:11,358 --> 01:00:12,981
- He was indeed.
- 1086
- 01:00:12,983 --> 01:00:16,314
- By, er... EM Forster.
- 1087
- 01:00:16,316 --> 01:00:17,523
- You're an intelligent young man.
- 1088
- 01:00:17,525 --> 01:00:21,231
- Whatever possessed you
- to become a rent boy?
- 1089
- 01:00:21,233 --> 01:00:23,564
- We don't use those words.
- 1090
- 01:00:23,566 --> 01:00:25,564
- Which words should I use?
- 1091
- 01:00:25,566 --> 01:00:29,648
- Doesn't matter.
- I'm a muse these days.
- 1092
- 01:00:29,650 --> 01:00:31,398
- I used to model myself
- on George Dyer
- 1093
- 01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:33,481
- but now I'm thinking
- more Joe Dallesandro.
- 1094
- 01:00:33,483 --> 01:00:36,898
- Ah. Now, George and Francis
- I remember well.
- 1095
- 01:00:36,900 --> 01:00:39,773
- Er... Joe Dallesandro
- I can only dream of.
- 1096
- 01:00:39,775 --> 01:00:42,606
- - (CHUCKLES)
- - What I loved about Joe is that
- 1097
- 01:00:42,608 --> 01:00:43,648
- he was in all those films,
- 1098
- 01:00:43,650 --> 01:00:47,106
- yet, really, he was just playing
- a version of himself.
- 1099
- 01:00:47,108 --> 01:00:51,064
- Well, aren't we all
- doing just that?
- 1100
- 01:00:51,066 --> 01:00:52,564
- Playing versions of ourselves?
- 1101
- 01:00:52,566 --> 01:00:54,939
- I'll get back to you
- on that one.
- 1102
- 01:00:54,941 --> 01:00:57,064
- How's your dancing skills?
- 1103
- 01:00:57,066 --> 01:00:59,564
- Oh, a bit rusty, but I...
- 1104
- 01:00:59,566 --> 01:01:01,398
- I was considered
- quite a mover in my day.
- 1105
- 01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,106
- Good. Then we'll have
- a drink and a dance
- 1106
- 01:01:04,108 --> 01:01:05,689
- and you can tell me a story.
- 1107
- 01:01:05,691 --> 01:01:09,231
- What sort of story
- should I tell you?
- 1108
- 01:01:09,233 --> 01:01:12,314
- A story about Soho
- in the old days.
- 1109
- 01:01:12,316 --> 01:01:14,981
- About George and Francis,
- Lucian Freud,
- 1110
- 01:01:14,983 --> 01:01:17,564
- and all the fucked-up nights
- in The Colony Room.
- 1111
- 01:01:17,566 --> 01:01:21,983
- (CHUCKLES) It will be
- my pleasure.
- 1112
- 01:01:23,941 --> 01:01:27,983
- You tell me your story
- and I'll tell you my story.
- 1113
- 01:01:28,858 --> 01:01:30,814
- OK.
- 1114
- 01:01:30,816 --> 01:01:34,731
- Basically,
- I fell in with the wrong crowd,
- 1115
- 01:01:34,733 --> 01:01:38,731
- who turned out to be the right
- crowd, and became a muse.
- 1116
- 01:01:38,733 --> 01:01:41,689
- And then I was diagnosed
- with a rare sickness.
- 1117
- 01:01:41,691 --> 01:01:46,148
- Well, I must say, you look
- perfectly healthy to me.
- 1118
- 01:01:46,150 --> 01:01:49,273
- Don't worry,
- it's not a sexual disease.
- 1119
- 01:01:49,275 --> 01:01:52,148
- It's more of a sickness
- of the mind.
- 1120
- 01:01:52,150 --> 01:01:54,106
- Now I am worried.
- 1121
- 01:01:54,108 --> 01:01:56,731
- I'm overly sensitive to art,
- 1122
- 01:01:56,733 --> 01:01:58,064
- which is a piss-take, really,
- 1123
- 01:01:58,066 --> 01:01:59,273
- cos I was raised
- in a cultural desert.
- 1124
- 01:01:59,275 --> 01:02:04,689
- Are you receiving treatment?
- Is anybody helping you with it?
- 1125
- 01:02:04,691 --> 01:02:07,273
- I've seen doctors...
- 1126
- 01:02:07,275 --> 01:02:10,025
- psychiatrists.
- 1127
- 01:02:10,441 --> 01:02:12,523
- I've tried everything.
- 1128
- 01:02:12,525 --> 01:02:17,064
- Pills, hypnosis,
- injections up the arse.
- 1129
- 01:02:17,066 --> 01:02:20,564
- Well... I must say,
- it sounds fascinating.
- 1130
- 01:02:20,566 --> 01:02:21,481
- You wouldn't be interested
- 1131
- 01:02:21,483 --> 01:02:24,023
- in joining me for a nightcap,
- would you?
- 1132
- 01:02:24,025 --> 01:02:27,106
- There's nothing fascinating
- about me, mate.
- 1133
- 01:02:27,108 --> 01:02:29,816
- I'm just a sensitive lad...
- 1134
- 01:02:30,691 --> 01:02:33,566
- ...with a big cock.
- 1135
- 01:02:35,691 --> 01:02:38,314
- It was lovely to meet you.
- 1136
- 01:02:38,316 --> 01:02:42,816
- But... I haven't told you
- mystory.
- 1137
- 01:02:48,150 --> 01:02:49,981
- Mind if I join you?
- 1138
- 01:02:49,983 --> 01:02:52,356
- Be my guest.
- 1139
- 01:02:52,358 --> 01:02:55,148
- - I'm Paul.
- - I know who you are.
- 1140
- 01:02:55,150 --> 01:02:56,939
- What you doing here?
- 1141
- 01:02:56,941 --> 01:03:00,023
- Just... catching up
- with my mates.
- 1142
- 01:03:00,025 --> 01:03:01,106
- Talking about old times.
- 1143
- 01:03:01,108 --> 01:03:04,441
- You're not here to see them?
- 1144
- 01:03:06,483 --> 01:03:08,731
- Came here to see you.
- 1145
- 01:03:08,733 --> 01:03:11,898
- I don't know what happened
- between you and them,
- 1146
- 01:03:11,900 --> 01:03:12,939
- but they've been good to me.
- 1147
- 01:03:12,941 --> 01:03:16,648
- Given me a job, place to stay.
- Worked out well.
- 1148
- 01:03:16,650 --> 01:03:19,356
- That's nice of them.
- I mean, just think,
- 1149
- 01:03:19,358 --> 01:03:22,356
- you could have ended up
- becoming a rent boy.
- 1150
- 01:03:22,358 --> 01:03:23,689
- It's not a word we like to use.
- 1151
- 01:03:23,691 --> 01:03:26,106
- PAUL: So they dumped
- a pile of books in your lap
- 1152
- 01:03:26,108 --> 01:03:27,689
- and said you were getting
- an education,
- 1153
- 01:03:27,691 --> 01:03:31,731
- but really all you're doing
- is selling your arse for cash
- 1154
- 01:03:31,733 --> 01:03:33,648
- and dressing it up as art.
- 1155
- 01:03:33,650 --> 01:03:35,523
- If you hated it so much,
- why did you do it?
- 1156
- 01:03:35,525 --> 01:03:42,108
- I was young. Had fuck all money.
- I didn't know anybody in London.
- 1157
- 01:03:42,775 --> 01:03:45,275
- Sound familiar?
- 1158
- 01:03:45,858 --> 01:03:48,606
- Heard you were
- the best in your day.
- 1159
- 01:03:48,608 --> 01:03:50,773
- You took Soho by storm.
- 1160
- 01:03:50,775 --> 01:03:52,898
- Nobody cares about Soho
- any more.
- 1161
- 01:03:52,900 --> 01:03:55,733
- It's the same
- as everywhere else.
- 1162
- 01:03:56,025 --> 01:03:58,898
- Those guys,
- they'll never change.
- 1163
- 01:03:58,900 --> 01:04:02,150
- They'll always be
- on the outside.
- 1164
- 01:04:04,358 --> 01:04:05,564
- And you?
- 1165
- 01:04:05,566 --> 01:04:08,773
- - I wanna be on the inside.
- - You wanna make serious money.
- 1166
- 01:04:08,775 --> 01:04:11,231
- I love money.
- And I'm not ashamed to say it.
- 1167
- 01:04:11,233 --> 01:04:14,356
- I knew nothing about art
- until I met them.
- 1168
- 01:04:14,358 --> 01:04:16,606
- Knew nothing about anything,
- really.
- 1169
- 01:04:16,608 --> 01:04:18,689
- You knew more than you think.
- 1170
- 01:04:18,691 --> 01:04:22,273
- And your friends?
- They live in the past.
- 1171
- 01:04:22,275 --> 01:04:23,356
- They wanna live in the past.
- 1172
- 01:04:23,358 --> 01:04:24,439
- That's the best place
- to be for them.
- 1173
- 01:04:24,441 --> 01:04:28,106
- The best thing about art is
- the price you can sell it for.
- 1174
- 01:04:28,108 --> 01:04:30,400
- It's as simple as that.
- 1175
- 01:04:31,358 --> 01:04:35,816
- Anyway, I hear you have
- a special talent.
- 1176
- 01:04:36,733 --> 01:04:40,233
- Right now it feels more
- like a curse.
- 1177
- 01:04:40,691 --> 01:04:42,189
- Well, I've heard differently.
- 1178
- 01:04:42,191 --> 01:04:44,398
- That's what I came
- to talk to you about.
- 1179
- 01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:47,191
- I'm tired of talking.
- 1180
- 01:04:47,691 --> 01:04:52,400
- But you're a Raconteur.
- Talking's what you do.
- 1181
- 01:04:53,025 --> 01:04:56,023
- Don't worry,
- I'll make it worth your while.
- 1182
- 01:04:56,025 --> 01:04:58,314
- I don't want your money.
- 1183
- 01:04:58,316 --> 01:05:01,483
- We'll see about that.
- 1184
- 01:05:06,566 --> 01:05:10,150
- Come on. Let's get outta here.
- 1185
- 01:05:15,941 --> 01:05:18,733
- You coming or what?
- 1186
- 01:05:35,233 --> 01:05:35,689
- Take this.
- 1187
- 01:05:35,691 --> 01:05:40,775
- You get paid to talk.
- I'm paying you to talk.
- 1188
- 01:05:50,316 --> 01:05:51,523
- OK.
- 1189
- 01:05:51,525 --> 01:05:55,189
- I can't look at art.
- It makes me sick.
- 1190
- 01:05:55,191 --> 01:05:58,981
- - Proper art, I mean.
- - Go on.
- 1191
- 01:05:58,983 --> 01:06:01,648
- Depending on the quality
- of the work,
- 1192
- 01:06:01,650 --> 01:06:04,148
- I get dizzy spells, blackouts.
- 1193
- 01:06:04,150 --> 01:06:07,106
- If it's beautiful,
- if it's a proper masterpiece,
- 1194
- 01:06:07,108 --> 01:06:09,939
- I faint
- and imagine myself in it.
- 1195
- 01:06:09,941 --> 01:06:13,775
- - You taking the piss?
- - No, I'm not.
- 1196
- 01:06:14,316 --> 01:06:19,148
- PAUL: And if you saw a fake,
- what would happen then?
- 1197
- 01:06:19,150 --> 01:06:19,981
- What do you mean, a fake?
- 1198
- 01:06:19,983 --> 01:06:26,066
- PAUL: I mean, if someone tried
- to pass off a fake as genuine,
- 1199
- 01:06:26,275 --> 01:06:27,856
- what would happen then?
- 1200
- 01:06:27,858 --> 01:06:30,273
- Nothing would happen, I suppose.
- 1201
- 01:06:30,275 --> 01:06:32,814
- PAUL: So you wouldn't react
- in the same way?
- 1202
- 01:06:32,816 --> 01:06:35,398
- You don't understand.
- I'm not experienced.
- 1203
- 01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,439
- This is more
- of an emotional reaction.
- 1204
- 01:06:37,441 --> 01:06:39,481
- It's not something
- I can control.
- 1205
- 01:06:39,483 --> 01:06:40,273
- It just... happens.
- 1206
- 01:06:40,275 --> 01:06:43,856
- You realise there's serious
- money to be made out of this?
- 1207
- 01:06:43,858 --> 01:06:46,564
- You can't make money
- out of a sickness.
- 1208
- 01:06:46,566 --> 01:06:47,189
- (CHUCKLES)
- 1209
- 01:06:47,191 --> 01:06:52,608
- You can make money out of
- anything these days, believe me.
- 1210
- 01:06:56,316 --> 01:06:58,566
- Call me tomorrow night.
- 1211
- 01:06:59,983 --> 01:07:01,773
- Why? Am I leaving?
- 1212
- 01:07:01,775 --> 01:07:04,358
- I didn't say that.
- 1213
- 01:07:12,316 --> 01:07:12,981
- I used to think an image
- 1214
- 01:07:12,983 --> 01:07:16,273
- could tell you everything you
- needed to know about a person.
- 1215
- 01:07:16,275 --> 01:07:19,106
- An image can tell you
- everything.
- 1216
- 01:07:19,108 --> 01:07:21,648
- Or it can tell you
- nothing at all.
- 1217
- 01:07:21,650 --> 01:07:27,273
- An image can reveal a person
- or... could hide a person.
- 1218
- 01:07:27,275 --> 01:07:30,023
- You should know that.
- 1219
- 01:07:30,025 --> 01:07:32,481
- And what does this one tell you?
- 1220
- 01:07:32,483 --> 01:07:35,398
- It tells you
- to forget about him.
- 1221
- 01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:38,941
- That person doesn't exist
- any more.
- 1222
- 01:08:22,691 --> 01:08:23,939
- PAUL: Thanks for coming.
- 1223
- 01:08:23,941 --> 01:08:26,398
- No worries.
- What are we doing here?
- 1224
- 01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:29,356
- PAUL: We're gonna look
- at paintings.
- 1225
- 01:08:29,358 --> 01:08:32,564
- So do you want sex before,
- during or after?
- 1226
- 01:08:32,566 --> 01:08:33,356
- Very smart.
- 1227
- 01:08:33,358 --> 01:08:35,773
- I'm particularly strong
- on early Baroque.
- 1228
- 01:08:35,775 --> 01:08:37,689
- Caravaggio's
- a personal favourite
- 1229
- 01:08:37,691 --> 01:08:39,648
- but, you choose.
- It's your money.
- 1230
- 01:08:39,650 --> 01:08:41,606
- You're in a good mood.
- 1231
- 01:08:41,608 --> 01:08:43,106
- I had fun the other night.
- 1232
- 01:08:43,108 --> 01:08:47,231
- We're gonna see
- just how talented you are.
- 1233
- 01:08:47,233 --> 01:08:50,064
- It's not a talent I've got,
- it's a sickness.
- 1234
- 01:08:50,066 --> 01:08:52,356
- You need to stop thinking
- about it as a sickness
- 1235
- 01:08:52,358 --> 01:08:54,481
- and look at it more
- as a business opportunity.
- 1236
- 01:08:54,483 --> 01:08:57,231
- I've told you already.
- Money doesn't interest me.
- 1237
- 01:08:57,233 --> 01:08:59,773
- Well, you may not
- be interested in money
- 1238
- 01:08:59,775 --> 01:09:02,231
- but money is interested in you.
- 1239
- 01:09:02,233 --> 01:09:04,939
- The people I represent
- bought this painting
- 1240
- 01:09:04,941 --> 01:09:06,439
- and it cost them a fortune.
- 1241
- 01:09:06,441 --> 01:09:11,275
- Now there's a question
- about its authenticity.
- 1242
- 01:09:16,900 --> 01:09:21,066
- It's more beautiful
- than I ever imagined.
- 1243
- 01:09:21,900 --> 01:09:24,608
- What can you tell me?
- 1244
- 01:09:25,441 --> 01:09:26,648
- Jim?
- 1245
- 01:09:26,650 --> 01:09:29,233
- Is it the real thing or not?
- 1246
- 01:09:31,525 --> 01:09:33,358
- (THUD)
- 1247
- 01:09:36,316 --> 01:09:38,733
- PAUL: He's fainted.
- 1248
- 01:09:39,025 --> 01:09:40,356
- What do you mean,
- what do I mean?
- 1249
- 01:09:40,358 --> 01:09:44,066
- He... he's fainted.
- He... he's out cold.
- 1250
- 01:09:45,983 --> 01:09:47,898
- It's a great thing.
- 1251
- 01:09:47,900 --> 01:09:51,023
- There's something
- I've been meaning to ask you.
- 1252
- 01:09:51,025 --> 01:09:52,648
- Always talking.
- This boy never shuts up.
- 1253
- 01:09:52,650 --> 01:09:55,023
- It's like working with
- a spoilt child. I can't listen.
- 1254
- 01:09:55,025 --> 01:09:58,064
- Just one question, then I'll
- leave you alone, I promise.
- 1255
- 01:09:58,066 --> 01:10:02,023
- I'd tread very carefully,
- if I were you.
- 1256
- 01:10:02,025 --> 01:10:03,564
- It's just there's been
- a lot of debate
- 1257
- 01:10:03,566 --> 01:10:05,856
- about your sexuality
- amongst art critics.
- 1258
- 01:10:05,858 --> 01:10:07,523
- It's the way you paint
- young blokes.
- 1259
- 01:10:07,525 --> 01:10:09,606
- That's it!
- I've had enough of this shit.
- 1260
- 01:10:09,608 --> 01:10:11,356
- I can't work
- with this kid any more.
- 1261
- 01:10:11,358 --> 01:10:12,731
- That was a legitimate question.
- 1262
- 01:10:12,733 --> 01:10:14,189
- Your sexuality's
- been hotly debated
- 1263
- 01:10:14,191 --> 01:10:16,189
- since your art's
- been rediscovered
- 1264
- 01:10:16,191 --> 01:10:17,148
- in the 18th century.
- 1265
- 01:10:17,150 --> 01:10:18,356
- He is beautiful,
- I give you that.
- 1266
- 01:10:18,358 --> 01:10:22,648
- Just look...
- My gosh, this boy's the devil.
- 1267
- 01:10:22,650 --> 01:10:27,606
- No one calls me "frocio"
- and gets away with it.
- 1268
- 01:10:27,608 --> 01:10:28,356
- I've killed men for less.
- 1269
- 01:10:28,358 --> 01:10:31,564
- I can't fight with you.
- You're my favourite artist.
- 1270
- 01:10:31,566 --> 01:10:34,564
- You know nothing about art.
- Nothing.
- 1271
- 01:10:34,566 --> 01:10:38,314
- All you know, you've read in
- a book in a library somewhere.
- 1272
- 01:10:38,316 --> 01:10:39,856
- You can't understand art
- 1273
- 01:10:39,858 --> 01:10:42,189
- unless you know
- what it's like to suffer.
- 1274
- 01:10:42,191 --> 01:10:43,814
- (MUTTERS) London...
- 1275
- 01:10:43,816 --> 01:10:48,939
- Oh, fuck London! Who gives
- a shit about London?
- 1276
- 01:10:48,941 --> 01:10:49,814
- Name me one great artist
- 1277
- 01:10:49,816 --> 01:10:53,398
- that ever came out
- of that stinking backwater!
- 1278
- 01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:56,981
- Erm... Francis Bacon,
- Lucian Freud...
- 1279
- 01:10:56,983 --> 01:11:01,314
- Never heard of them. See?
- I told you. You know nothing.
- 1280
- 01:11:01,316 --> 01:11:03,939
- This is Naples now, my boy.
- 1281
- 01:11:03,941 --> 01:11:05,689
- And this is my home town.
- 1282
- 01:11:05,691 --> 01:11:09,273
- So, come on. Prove you're a man.
- 1283
- 01:11:09,275 --> 01:11:11,106
- You can't be serious.
- 1284
- 01:11:11,108 --> 01:11:14,939
- I think you'll find that if
- someone from 17th-century Naples
- 1285
- 01:11:14,941 --> 01:11:19,189
- challenges you to a duel,
- you are duty-bound to accept.
- 1286
- 01:11:19,191 --> 01:11:22,148
- But we're not in Naples,
- we're in my dream.
- 1287
- 01:11:22,150 --> 01:11:23,023
- Try telling him that.
- 1288
- 01:11:23,025 --> 01:11:24,898
- Stop talking about him
- like he's real.
- 1289
- 01:11:24,900 --> 01:11:26,731
- He's a figment
- of my imagination.
- 1290
- 01:11:26,733 --> 01:11:28,564
- The sooner
- you get this over with,
- 1291
- 01:11:28,566 --> 01:11:29,814
- the sooner you get out of here.
- 1292
- 01:11:29,816 --> 01:11:31,356
- Someone wake me up, please!
- 1293
- 01:11:31,358 --> 01:11:36,358
- ♪ If I stammer in expressing ♪
- 1294
- 01:11:37,358 --> 01:11:42,775
- ♪ This love I feel for you ♪
- 1295
- 01:11:43,108 --> 01:11:48,108
- ♪ If I act a little love shy ♪
- 1296
- 01:11:48,858 --> 01:11:53,691
- ♪ And don't know what to do ♪
- 1297
- 01:11:54,025 --> 01:11:56,608
- Who's the vulture now, eh?
- 1298
- 01:11:57,316 --> 01:11:59,356
- Pretty boy.
- 1299
- 01:11:59,358 --> 01:12:02,564
- Jim, wake up.
- 1300
- 01:12:02,566 --> 01:12:04,775
- Jim.
- 1301
- 01:12:07,483 --> 01:12:09,983
- Are you OK?
- 1302
- 01:12:10,275 --> 01:12:12,483
- I think so, yeah.
- 1303
- 01:12:12,608 --> 01:12:13,981
- That was a close shave.
- 1304
- 01:12:13,983 --> 01:12:17,108
- Thought I'd lost you
- for a minute.
- 1305
- 01:12:20,066 --> 01:12:22,691
- You cut yourself.
- 1306
- 01:12:27,483 --> 01:12:31,023
- I could feel the blade
- on my skin.
- 1307
- 01:12:31,025 --> 01:12:33,481
- I really thought
- he was gonna kill me.
- 1308
- 01:12:33,483 --> 01:12:35,023
- - Who?
- - Caravaggio.
- 1309
- 01:12:35,025 --> 01:12:37,148
- I thought he was gonna kill me.
- 1310
- 01:12:37,150 --> 01:12:40,314
- (LAUGHS) This is fucking great.
- 1311
- 01:12:40,316 --> 01:12:41,689
- It's not funny.
- 1312
- 01:12:41,691 --> 01:12:45,816
- That bloke has got
- serious mental health issues.
- 1313
- 01:12:47,566 --> 01:12:51,106
- Take this as a down payment.
- 1314
- 01:12:51,108 --> 01:12:52,356
- Down payment for what?
- 1315
- 01:12:52,358 --> 01:12:54,814
- Never you mind about that.
- 1316
- 01:12:54,816 --> 01:12:57,650
- You need to get some rest.
- 1317
- 01:12:58,441 --> 01:13:00,314
- We've got work to do.
- 1318
- 01:13:00,316 --> 01:13:03,025
- (ROCK MUSIC)
- 1319
- 01:13:06,275 --> 01:13:08,439
- Been anywhere interesting?
- 1320
- 01:13:08,441 --> 01:13:09,564
- Just a regular client.
- 1321
- 01:13:09,566 --> 01:13:12,439
- Go on. Explain yourself.
- We're listening.
- 1322
- 01:13:12,441 --> 01:13:14,981
- What is there to explain?
- The money was for sex.
- 1323
- 01:13:14,983 --> 01:13:17,356
- Of all the fit blokes in London,
- why go with him?
- 1324
- 01:13:17,358 --> 01:13:19,356
- We never exchanged a word,
- I swear.
- 1325
- 01:13:19,358 --> 01:13:21,523
- You had everything
- going for you.
- 1326
- 01:13:21,525 --> 01:13:22,481
- Why sell your soul to the devil?
- 1327
- 01:13:22,483 --> 01:13:24,398
- He's not the devil.
- He just works in the City.
- 1328
- 01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:30,148
- How could you do this to us?
- I thought we were friends.
- 1329
- 01:13:30,150 --> 01:13:32,191
- We are friends.
- 1330
- 01:13:39,108 --> 01:13:40,523
- We warned you
- that not every night
- 1331
- 01:13:40,525 --> 01:13:41,564
- will be the night
- of your dreams.
- 1332
- 01:13:41,566 --> 01:13:45,356
- Patience is a virtue, my friend,
- especially in the art world.
- 1333
- 01:13:45,358 --> 01:13:49,398
- Van Gogh didn't make it big
- until he was dead.
- 1334
- 01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:50,314
- Is that such a good thing?
- 1335
- 01:13:50,316 --> 01:13:52,648
- Don't be too smart
- for your own good.
- 1336
- 01:13:52,650 --> 01:13:55,398
- You think the boys
- and Caravaggio had an easy time?
- 1337
- 01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:58,023
- No, they didn't.
- They were living on the street.
- 1338
- 01:13:58,025 --> 01:13:59,689
- But they will be
- remembered forever.
- 1339
- 01:13:59,691 --> 01:14:02,023
- Don't talk about Caravaggio.
- He does my head in.
- 1340
- 01:14:02,025 --> 01:14:04,523
- Some of the finest artists
- in London
- 1341
- 01:14:04,525 --> 01:14:05,648
- are queueing to paint you.
- 1342
- 01:14:05,650 --> 01:14:07,731
- Isn't immortality
- good enough for you?
- 1343
- 01:14:07,733 --> 01:14:09,689
- Look, I'm not knocking
- immortality.
- 1344
- 01:14:09,691 --> 01:14:13,231
- Maybe it's just not for me,
- is what I'm saying.
- 1345
- 01:14:13,233 --> 01:14:17,064
- Look, I know
- I sound ungrateful but...
- 1346
- 01:14:17,066 --> 01:14:18,856
- I wanna do my own thing.
- 1347
- 01:14:18,858 --> 01:14:21,775
- I wanna discover my own path.
- 1348
- 01:14:22,066 --> 01:14:26,691
- I couldn't help overhearing
- what you were saying.
- 1349
- 01:14:27,108 --> 01:14:29,689
- You're the bloke
- that took Soho by storm
- 1350
- 01:14:29,691 --> 01:14:32,233
- and then it all went tits up.
- 1351
- 01:14:33,108 --> 01:14:34,439
- Yeah. Yeah, that's me.
- 1352
- 01:14:34,441 --> 01:14:37,231
- Well, you must have heard of
- The Shock of the New.
- 1353
- 01:14:37,233 --> 01:14:39,398
- - Of course, yeah.
- - Just think about it.
- 1354
- 01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:41,564
- When people
- first encountered modernism,
- 1355
- 01:14:41,566 --> 01:14:45,523
- a lot of them became disturbed.
- Properly went mental.
- 1356
- 01:14:45,525 --> 01:14:47,314
- - Like me, you mean?
- - Exactly.
- 1357
- 01:14:47,316 --> 01:14:51,439
- Your average Joe Bloggs couldn't
- understand artists like Picasso.
- 1358
- 01:14:51,441 --> 01:14:52,314
- Nor do I, to tell you the truth.
- 1359
- 01:14:52,316 --> 01:14:55,356
- People had never seen
- images like that before
- 1360
- 01:14:55,358 --> 01:14:56,731
- and got properly freaked out.
- 1361
- 01:14:56,733 --> 01:14:57,856
- It's as though art itself
- 1362
- 01:14:57,858 --> 01:15:00,273
- had been reinvented
- for the modern world.
- 1363
- 01:15:00,275 --> 01:15:02,231
- For the new age
- of mass production.
- 1364
- 01:15:02,233 --> 01:15:05,481
- When you think about the whole
- sweep of human history,
- 1365
- 01:15:05,483 --> 01:15:07,064
- when you really think about it,
- 1366
- 01:15:07,066 --> 01:15:07,981
- it's only up until recently
- 1367
- 01:15:07,983 --> 01:15:10,398
- that people were living
- in the Dark Ages.
- 1368
- 01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:11,106
- What did they do for fun?
- 1369
- 01:15:11,108 --> 01:15:14,231
- They read books, they went to
- the opera, and shit like that.
- 1370
- 01:15:14,233 --> 01:15:16,523
- And they put pen to paper
- and wrote letters.
- 1371
- 01:15:16,525 --> 01:15:19,189
- At the weekend
- they went to the local tavern
- 1372
- 01:15:19,191 --> 01:15:21,314
- for something
- called a sing-song.
- 1373
- 01:15:21,316 --> 01:15:23,356
- Most of them believed in God.
- 1374
- 01:15:23,358 --> 01:15:24,689
- It was the age of innocence.
- 1375
- 01:15:24,691 --> 01:15:29,189
- And the Raconteurs, your mates,
- are part of that tradition.
- 1376
- 01:15:29,191 --> 01:15:30,773
- They might carry mobile phones
- 1377
- 01:15:30,775 --> 01:15:34,773
- but really they're still living
- in the last century.
- 1378
- 01:15:34,775 --> 01:15:35,398
- I guess so.
- 1379
- 01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:37,939
- Your mates have given you
- a great education,
- 1380
- 01:15:37,941 --> 01:15:41,148
- but it's time to take it
- to the next level.
- 1381
- 01:15:41,150 --> 01:15:43,648
- Time to embrace
- the 21st century.
- 1382
- 01:15:43,650 --> 01:15:47,856
- And we'll teach you
- everything we know.
- 1383
- 01:15:47,858 --> 01:15:49,148
- I like what you're saying
- 1384
- 01:15:49,150 --> 01:15:50,898
- but I can't learn any more
- at this point.
- 1385
- 01:15:50,900 --> 01:15:52,731
- My brain's full
- and I need a rest.
- 1386
- 01:15:52,733 --> 01:15:54,689
- We understand
- where you're coming from.
- 1387
- 01:15:54,691 --> 01:15:57,939
- But the point is that maybe
- the shock, the rupture,
- 1388
- 01:15:57,941 --> 01:15:59,398
- could be used in a good way.
- 1389
- 01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:01,814
- - To help you.
- - Like therapy?
- 1390
- 01:16:01,816 --> 01:16:04,814
- - Yeah. Like therapy.
- - (BOTH CHUCKLE)
- 1391
- 01:16:04,816 --> 01:16:07,398
- Confront yourself
- with modern art,
- 1392
- 01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:09,148
- find some really fucked-up shit,
- 1393
- 01:16:09,150 --> 01:16:12,189
- look at it and see what happens.
- 1394
- 01:16:12,191 --> 01:16:14,231
- - Hmm.
- - (PHONE RINGS)
- 1395
- 01:16:14,233 --> 01:16:16,733
- Excuse me.
- 1396
- 01:16:17,358 --> 01:16:17,689
- Hello?
- 1397
- 01:16:17,691 --> 01:16:23,941
- No, I didn't forget. No. I'll be
- with you as soon as I can. Bye.
- 1398
- 01:16:24,566 --> 01:16:29,983
- I'll think about what you said,
- but right now I've gotta run.
- 1399
- 01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:33,231
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
- 1400
- 01:16:33,233 --> 01:16:37,025
- I think he's the one
- we've been looking for.
- 1401
- 01:16:37,608 --> 01:16:40,731
- - Thanks for coming back.
- - I need to make some money.
- 1402
- 01:16:40,733 --> 01:16:43,148
- That's a language
- I can understand.
- 1403
- 01:16:43,150 --> 01:16:44,439
- It's not what you think.
- 1404
- 01:16:44,441 --> 01:16:45,398
- Hello, Jim.
- 1405
- 01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,439
- Paul was impressed
- by your talent last time
- 1406
- 01:16:47,441 --> 01:16:50,939
- and so we thought we might look
- at a series of paintings
- 1407
- 01:16:50,941 --> 01:16:52,856
- and see what your reaction is.
- 1408
- 01:16:52,858 --> 01:16:55,273
- You mean, see if
- they're worth any money?
- 1409
- 01:16:55,275 --> 01:16:58,814
- Well, that's to put it
- rather crudely, but yes.
- 1410
- 01:16:58,816 --> 01:17:01,314
- You could see it as a service
- to the community.
- 1411
- 01:17:01,316 --> 01:17:03,356
- (CHUCKLES)
- How do you work that one out?
- 1412
- 01:17:03,358 --> 01:17:06,356
- Well, it's important that people
- can distinguish
- 1413
- 01:17:06,358 --> 01:17:11,856
- between what is real
- and what is fake, after all.
- 1414
- 01:17:11,858 --> 01:17:13,606
- - I really shouldn't be here.
- - Look...
- 1415
- 01:17:13,608 --> 01:17:18,275
- Stop beating yourself up.
- Let's just get on with it.
- 1416
- 01:17:19,816 --> 01:17:22,566
- Come here.
- 1417
- 01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:28,023
- Don't feel
- you have to rush, Jim.
- 1418
- 01:17:28,025 --> 01:17:33,150
- If it comes,
- it comes. Take your time.
- 1419
- 01:17:36,775 --> 01:17:41,816
- - Is this a good sign?
- - It's a great sign.
- 1420
- 01:17:45,858 --> 01:17:48,023
- What does it mean?
- 1421
- 01:17:48,025 --> 01:17:50,273
- It means it's a genuine Titian.
- 1422
- 01:17:50,275 --> 01:17:54,775
- Great work.
- Just a couple more to go.
- 1423
- 01:18:09,900 --> 01:18:11,858
- It's beautiful.
- 1424
- 01:18:13,650 --> 01:18:15,106
- (THUD)
- 1425
- 01:18:15,108 --> 01:18:17,648
- It's by Giorgione. Are you sure?
- 1426
- 01:18:17,650 --> 01:18:22,941
- With a reaction like that,
- it must be genuine.
- 1427
- 01:18:28,316 --> 01:18:30,483
- (THUD)
- 1428
- 01:18:30,900 --> 01:18:33,358
- (GROANS)
- 1429
- 01:18:34,108 --> 01:18:35,900
- (THUD)
- 1430
- 01:18:36,316 --> 01:18:38,108
- (THUD)
- 1431
- 01:18:38,483 --> 01:18:40,648
- - I need to stop now.
- - Just a couple more.
- 1432
- 01:18:40,650 --> 01:18:45,106
- - It won't take long.
- - No, please, I need to stop.
- 1433
- 01:18:45,108 --> 01:18:47,189
- - Take that.
- - I need to stop right now!
- 1434
- 01:18:47,191 --> 01:18:51,691
- Where are you going?
- Jim! Wait! Where are you...?
- 1435
- 01:18:58,066 --> 01:18:59,983
- Sorry, mate.
- 1436
- 01:19:04,025 --> 01:19:06,439
- CARAVAGGIO: You know nothing
- about art. Nothing.
- 1437
- 01:19:06,441 --> 01:19:12,483
- Anything you know, you read in
- a book in a library somewhere.
- 1438
- 01:19:15,941 --> 01:19:17,189
- Name me one great artist
- 1439
- 01:19:17,191 --> 01:19:20,900
- who came from
- that stinking backwater.
- 1440
- 01:19:23,983 --> 01:19:25,356
- You can't understand art
- 1441
- 01:19:25,358 --> 01:19:29,566
- unless you know
- what it's like to suffer.
- 1442
- 01:19:54,108 --> 01:19:57,106
- BARMAID: Stop looking
- so sorry for yourself.
- 1443
- 01:19:57,108 --> 01:20:00,566
- No one said
- being a muse was easy.
- 1444
- 01:20:00,733 --> 01:20:02,481
- I'm not a muse any more.
- 1445
- 01:20:02,483 --> 01:20:06,231
- Inspiring great art
- isn't something you choose.
- 1446
- 01:20:06,233 --> 01:20:07,356
- It just happens.
- 1447
- 01:20:07,358 --> 01:20:08,481
- You're stuck with it.
- 1448
- 01:20:08,483 --> 01:20:10,064
- Like your looks,
- until they fade,
- 1449
- 01:20:10,066 --> 01:20:11,731
- which, believe me, they will.
- 1450
- 01:20:11,733 --> 01:20:12,356
- Thanks for the tip.
- 1451
- 01:20:12,358 --> 01:20:17,025
- Look, just get back out there
- and enjoy it while it lasts.
- 1452
- 01:20:26,066 --> 01:20:28,231
- Yes, there were five of us once.
- 1453
- 01:20:28,233 --> 01:20:32,856
- I was gonna ask. What happened
- to the previous lad?
- 1454
- 01:20:32,858 --> 01:20:34,939
- We don't talk about him
- any more.
- 1455
- 01:20:34,941 --> 01:20:35,648
- YOUNG MAN: But why?
- 1456
- 01:20:35,650 --> 01:20:40,233
- He was beautiful but he craved
- another kind of life.
- 1457
- 01:21:26,691 --> 01:21:29,814
- For someone's who's riding
- such a huge wave of success,
- 1458
- 01:21:29,816 --> 01:21:33,689
- why do you always manage
- to look like shit?
- 1459
- 01:21:33,691 --> 01:21:35,439
- I've got a lot on my mind.
- 1460
- 01:21:35,441 --> 01:21:40,106
- Has no one ever talked to you
- about the work/life balance?
- 1461
- 01:21:40,108 --> 01:21:43,150
- I just need to rest, that's all.
- 1462
- 01:21:44,816 --> 01:21:49,108
- Here. Take this.
- 1463
- 01:21:49,650 --> 01:21:50,314
- What's this?
- 1464
- 01:21:50,316 --> 01:21:53,314
- - It's money.
- - I know it's money.
- 1465
- 01:21:53,316 --> 01:21:55,939
- Money's what I've spent
- my whole life begging for.
- 1466
- 01:21:55,941 --> 01:21:58,981
- Well, I've come to tell you
- your begging days are over.
- 1467
- 01:21:58,983 --> 01:22:00,564
- Your days as an artist
- have just begun.
- 1468
- 01:22:00,566 --> 01:22:03,731
- I wish I knew what the fuck
- you were talking about.
- 1469
- 01:22:03,733 --> 01:22:06,150
- I'm talking about your boxes.
- 1470
- 01:22:06,983 --> 01:22:08,148
- A box, my friend,
- 1471
- 01:22:08,150 --> 01:22:11,314
- is a place for me to park my
- arse whilst I sort my shit out.
- 1472
- 01:22:11,316 --> 01:22:13,606
- No, it's not.
- It's more than that.
- 1473
- 01:22:13,608 --> 01:22:14,356
- It's a lot more than that.
- 1474
- 01:22:14,358 --> 01:22:16,731
- I've seen them. Trust me.
- I know what I'm talking about.
- 1475
- 01:22:16,733 --> 01:22:20,606
- I don't believe you do know what
- the fuck you're talking about.
- 1476
- 01:22:20,608 --> 01:22:24,231
- But I ain't about to kick
- a gift horse in the mouth.
- 1477
- 01:22:24,233 --> 01:22:28,816
- So I'll accept your kind offer.
- All right?
- 1478
- 01:22:34,775 --> 01:22:38,650
- - (MUSIC PLAYING)
- - Anyone fancy a dance?
- 1479
- 01:22:38,858 --> 01:22:41,941
- Yeah. Why not?
- 1480
- 01:23:24,608 --> 01:23:26,273
- JIM: Amazing, these blokes.
- 1481
- 01:23:26,275 --> 01:23:30,939
- But I've been thinking,
- the time for dancing is over.
- 1482
- 01:23:30,941 --> 01:23:33,356
- The time for action
- has arrived.
- 1483
- 01:23:33,358 --> 01:23:36,356
- I came down here
- looking for adventure.
- 1484
- 01:23:36,358 --> 01:23:38,856
- And what I found was friendship
- 1485
- 01:23:38,858 --> 01:23:40,273
- and beauty.
- 1486
- 01:23:40,275 --> 01:23:42,106
- Other people's beauty.
- 1487
- 01:23:42,108 --> 01:23:47,816
- That might be enough for
- some people, but not for me.
- 1488
- 01:23:48,191 --> 01:23:51,316
- I want to create my own beauty.
- 1489
- 01:23:51,858 --> 01:23:53,814
- And I think I'm ready now.
- 1490
- 01:23:53,816 --> 01:23:56,941
- (BOWLEG'S "STREETS OF LIGHT" PLAYING)
- 1491
- 01:23:58,858 --> 01:24:01,189
- ♪ I will drift tonight ♪
- 1492
- 01:24:01,191 --> 01:24:03,356
- ♪ Gone without my mind ♪
- 1493
- 01:24:03,358 --> 01:24:05,689
- ♪ Slip in our disguise ♪
- 1494
- 01:24:05,691 --> 01:24:08,606
- ♪ Go and wait,
- you're out of sight ♪
- 1495
- 01:24:08,608 --> 01:24:11,023
- ♪ I'm in the war ♪
- 1496
- 01:24:11,025 --> 01:24:13,439
- ♪ And my feet have no resolve ♪
- 1497
- 01:24:13,441 --> 01:24:15,898
- ♪ She's in the way ♪
- 1498
- 01:24:15,900 --> 01:24:18,106
- ♪ And I better get her laid ♪
- 1499
- 01:24:18,108 --> 01:24:20,689
- ♪ I know that
- you're gonna fight ♪
- 1500
- 01:24:20,691 --> 01:24:23,148
- ♪ Only cos you weren't invited ♪
- 1501
- 01:24:23,150 --> 01:24:25,064
- ♪ Wait until the midnight sky ♪
- 1502
- 01:24:25,066 --> 01:24:27,606
- ♪ Give our brothers
- a chance to find it ♪
- 1503
- 01:24:27,608 --> 01:24:30,689
- ♪ Find it through
- the streets of light ♪
- 1504
- 01:24:30,691 --> 01:24:31,814
- ♪ In between the beer ♪
- 1505
- 01:24:31,816 --> 01:24:35,773
- ♪ And the green clouds
- of the morning time ♪
- 1506
- 01:24:35,775 --> 01:24:42,025
- ♪ You won't be around to ignite ♪
- 1507
- 01:24:42,733 --> 01:24:45,733
- ♪ My fire ♪
- 1508
- 01:24:47,775 --> 01:24:50,439
- ♪ Sway to a lonely drain ♪
- 1509
- 01:24:50,441 --> 01:24:52,689
- ♪ I recognise this pain ♪
- 1510
- 01:24:52,691 --> 01:24:55,648
- ♪ Eyes, I'll go grab my ties ♪
- 1511
- 01:24:55,650 --> 01:24:57,939
- ♪ I need somewhere to die ♪
- 1512
- 01:24:57,941 --> 01:25:00,731
- ♪ I can't control ♪
- 1513
- 01:25:00,733 --> 01:25:02,898
- ♪ My feet have no resolve ♪
- 1514
- 01:25:02,900 --> 01:25:05,689
- ♪ She can't complain ♪
- 1515
- 01:25:05,691 --> 01:25:07,398
- ♪ I'm gonna get her laid ♪
- 1516
- 01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:09,981
- ♪ I know that
- you're gonna fight ♪
- 1517
- 01:25:09,983 --> 01:25:12,523
- ♪ Only cos you weren't invited ♪
- 1518
- 01:25:12,525 --> 01:25:14,356
- ♪ Wait until the midnight sky ♪
- 1519
- 01:25:14,358 --> 01:25:16,981
- ♪ Give our brothers
- a chance to find it ♪
- 1520
- 01:25:16,983 --> 01:25:19,981
- ♪ Find it through
- the streets of light ♪
- 1521
- 01:25:19,983 --> 01:25:21,148
- ♪ In between the beer ♪
- 1522
- 01:25:21,150 --> 01:25:25,106
- ♪ And the green clouds
- of the morning time ♪
- 1523
- 01:25:25,108 --> 01:25:31,358
- ♪ You won't be around to ignite ♪
- 1524
- 01:25:37,525 --> 01:25:39,731
- ♪ Only work in circles ♪
- 1525
- 01:25:39,733 --> 01:25:42,023
- ♪ Only with your friends ♪
- 1526
- 01:25:42,025 --> 01:25:44,439
- ♪ Get them at the red light ♪
- 1527
- 01:25:44,441 --> 01:25:46,898
- ♪ If you can pay for them ♪
- 1528
- 01:25:46,900 --> 01:25:49,356
- ♪ I'm not stuck here waiting ♪
- 1529
- 01:25:49,358 --> 01:25:52,106
- ♪ To leave her out of fear ♪
- 1530
- 01:25:52,108 --> 01:25:54,773
- ♪ Oh my God is paving ♪
- 1531
- 01:25:54,775 --> 01:25:57,314
- ♪ The only road in here ♪
- 1532
- 01:25:57,316 --> 01:26:01,525
- ♪ The only road in here ♪
- 1533
- 01:26:01,527 --> 01:26:06,527
- Subtitles by explosiveskull
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