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Clips from Pumping Iron (1977)

"The premier bodybuilder in the world under 200 pounds."
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"Five times a contender for the Mr. Olympia title..."
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"he plans to win it this year from Arnold."
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"Once the featherweight boxing champion of Italy..."
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"Here, when you want to say, Where are you going?"
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"Somebody says, Go to hell when they get upset."
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"There they say, Go to California."
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"And now when I go back there and they ask me, Where you live?"
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"I say, In California."
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"When I first started doing sports..."
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"my mother used to scream at me."
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"She used to say, You don't want to work."
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"You're just trying to punch people..."
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"trying to make a living without working. And she was very much against that."
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"But right now, after everything went so good..."
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"and I won in sports and I made money..."
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"they are very proud about that."
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"the strongest man in the world is blowing up a hot-water bottle."
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"- Okay, Franco. - Lazy bastards."
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"Okay."
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"He came to United States, I came to United States, also."
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"We went through many things together."
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"And now, I will be competing in the Mr. Olympia with Arnold."
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"Of course, I think I'm gonna win."
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"I have more definition..."
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"and I'm more muscular."
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"But Arnold's taller than me, and that can be one advantage for him."
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"I think I can show the best out there."
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"The only problem now is matter of the judges' opinion, too."
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"You never really know what's going to happen."
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"Okay, Louie."
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"No, listen."
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"When you come out here and you're out here...."
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"They wanna see what you got, they've never seen you before."
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"You tense your legs, right?"
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"They're all looking at you. Flashbulbs going off and all."
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"Then you put your arms like this."
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"You look at your arms like you're admiring, right?"
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"You're admiring what you're gonna show them. And then you go...."
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"Boom! Like you're saying:"
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"Something like that. You try it now."
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"Look up, that's right."
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"I told you, look at your arms down here."
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"Look at both arms."
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"That's it."
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"Atta boy."
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"Because remember, your arms are bigger than Arnold's."
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"They wanna see them, right?"
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"They have never seen your arms. They've seen Arnold's."
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"And I say, this pose, just tilt your body a little..."
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"because people on this side of the theater..."
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"and people on this side wanna see you."
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"So tilt your body just slightly like this. Try that, Lou."
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"You have to do everything possible to win. You know, no matter what."
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"The day of the contest, if he comes in his best shape..."
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"and he's equally as good as I am..."
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"or if, let's say, he's a few percent better than I am..."
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"I spend with him one night."
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"I go downstairs and book us together in a room..."
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"to help him for tomorrow's contest."
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"that night..."
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"he will never forget."
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"I will mix him up."
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"he will be ready to lose."
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"I mean I will just talk him into that, it's no problem to do."
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"So, all those things are available."
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"And if they're available, you might as well use them."
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"So it doesn't matter if he comes in shape, or out of shape."
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"If he comes out of shape, at least it's less hassle for me."
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"And if he's in shape...."
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"Fine, I hope he is."
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"But you couldn't pull this with Franco. Franco's pretty smart."
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"Franco is pretty smart, but Franco is a child."
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"When it comes to the day of the contest, I'm his father."
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"He comes to me for advices."
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"So, it's not that hard for me to give him..."
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"the wrong advices."
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"Probably in an hour or two, we have a chance to see our room."
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"I promise."
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"Can I just ask you one question? The usual we ask."
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"It really doesn't matter."
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"I like them with black hair, with brown hair, with red hair."
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"If the personality is great and if they're charming...."
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"Wonderful, nothing to do, just lay out in the sunshine."
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"We ordered it for you."
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"Watch out now, Lou."
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"- This is good. - Get ready."
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"Holy cow."
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"He likes the oil."
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"Hold it up, that a boy, Lou. Tense your muscles, Louie."
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"Pull in your stomach."
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"Sometimes when people ask you advice..."
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"if you think that they're being arrogant, or misusing the sport of bodybuilding..."
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"you give them kind of pranksterish advice."
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"And that's once happened in a Mr. Munich contest, I believe."
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"when some fella came to me in the gym and said:"
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"and I have a fantastic body."
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"And I just want to learn a new posing routine, a new style."
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"Something way out which nobody expects."
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"he looked like nothing, number one, and his posing was bad."
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"So I mean, he was just.... I think he was crazy."
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"So I thought, okay, if he thinks that he's the best poser..."
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"I'm gonna pull a little trick on him. And so that's what I did."
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"I said, Listen, I have a new posing routine from America."
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"I'm in correspondence with all the top athletes in America. And so on."
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"that he has to scream while he's posing."
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"And he looked at me and he says..."
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"That's a new idea. That will really come out impressive."
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"When you go out on stage and scream, people can't miss you."
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"They'll all look at you screaming, that's it."
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"So I taught him how to scream."
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"His body, with really heavy oil and everything."
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"We're standing there in the shower room."
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"And I taught him how to do it."
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"The higher your arms go up, the higher you make a screaming noise."
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"And the lower your arms come down, the lower the noise."
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"This kind of a thing."
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"I practiced with him for around two hours."
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"Spent a lot of time on developing his new posing routine."
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"And he mastered it very well."
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