Birdman

0:01:31 > 0:01:39This film contains very strong language and some scenes of a sexual nature

0:01:59 > 0:02:00BIRDMAN: How did we end up here?

0:02:07 > 0:02:08This place is horrible.

0:02:14 > 0:02:16Smells like balls.

0:02:22 > 0:02:24We don't belong in this shithole.

0:02:24 > 0:02:32SKYPE CALL SOUNDS

0:02:43 > 0:02:45- Hey, Sam.- Dad...- Hi, hon. - What kind of... Shut up!

0:02:45 > 0:02:47What kind of flowers did you say you wanted?

0:02:47 > 0:02:50Alchemillas. Or something that smells nice, you know.

0:02:50 > 0:02:53- Something soothing. Listen, I can't...- It all smells like fucking kimchi!

0:02:53 > 0:02:56OK. Something that's, uh... that looks nice. You know. Anything but roses.

0:02:56 > 0:02:58- I hate this job.- OK.

0:03:18 > 0:03:20Riggan, everyone's set for 1-4.

0:03:20 > 0:03:21They're ready for you.

0:03:23 > 0:03:25Riggan, they're ready for you.

0:03:56 > 0:03:58- Mr Thomson.- Steve.

0:03:58 > 0:04:00- It's Daniel.- OK.

0:04:03 > 0:04:05- Oh, hey, buddy.- Hey.- How you doing?

0:04:05 > 0:04:08Pretty good. Good. Yeah, I'd be a lot better if I could get, uh...

0:04:08 > 0:04:10Ralph to stop, you know, acting.

0:04:10 > 0:04:12He's going to be fine.

0:04:12 > 0:04:15And he was yelling, "I love you, I love you, bitch!"

0:04:15 > 0:04:17What do you do with a love like that?

0:04:17 > 0:04:19How is that... That is not love and you know it.

0:04:19 > 0:04:21Why do you insist on calling it love?

0:04:21 > 0:04:23You can say what you want, but I know what it was.

0:04:23 > 0:04:26What about you, Nick? Does that sound like love to you?

0:04:26 > 0:04:28Sorry I'm late. Uh, sounds like love...

0:04:28 > 0:04:29Look, I'm the wrong person to ask.

0:04:29 > 0:04:32I only knew...heard the man's name mentioned in passing.

0:04:32 > 0:04:35I wouldn't know. You'd have to know the particulars.

0:04:35 > 0:04:37But I think what you're saying is love is absolute.

0:04:37 > 0:04:40Yeah. The kind of love I'm talking about is...

0:04:40 > 0:04:41The kind of love I'm talking about,

0:04:41 > 0:04:43you don't try and kill people.

0:04:43 > 0:04:44It was love, Mel. To Eddie, it was.

0:04:44 > 0:04:46I don't care what anyone says.

0:04:46 > 0:04:47He was ready to die for it.

0:04:47 > 0:04:50Ask her what he did after she left him.

0:04:50 > 0:04:53He shot himself in the mouth, but he screwed that up, too.

0:04:53 > 0:04:54Poor Ed.

0:04:54 > 0:04:57Poor Ed, my ass! The guy was... dangerous!

0:04:57 > 0:04:59Well, how'd he screw it up, if he shot himself in the mouth?

0:04:59 > 0:05:02He used to carry this .22. We lived like fugitives then.

0:05:02 > 0:05:04Ralph, Ralph, Ralph.

0:05:04 > 0:05:05Fugitives are...scared, you know?

0:05:05 > 0:05:09Fugitives are on the run. So, you know, how many times can we get...

0:05:09 > 0:05:11Can you just give me more of that? You know, fear?

0:05:11 > 0:05:13Yeah. Great idea.

0:05:13 > 0:05:15We lived like fugitives then.

0:05:15 > 0:05:18I never knew if he was going to come out from behind a bush,

0:05:18 > 0:05:20or...or a car and just start shooting.

0:05:20 > 0:05:23The man was crazy! He was capable of anything!

0:05:23 > 0:05:25- Christ, what a nightmare.- Yeah!

0:05:25 > 0:05:27He used call me up at the hospital and say,

0:05:27 > 0:05:31"Son of a bitch, your days are numbered!"

0:05:33 > 0:05:35It's too much? It's a little bit too much.

0:05:35 > 0:05:38I can tell, because, with you... I just want to give you a range.

0:05:38 > 0:05:39Oh! Shit!

0:05:39 > 0:05:42- Someone call 911! - Oh, my God! Is he breathing?

0:05:42 > 0:05:44- Is that blood coming out of his ear? - It's OK, he's still breathing.

0:05:44 > 0:05:46- Where are you going? - Well, did someone call 911?

0:05:46 > 0:05:49- Do not move him! Wait for an ambulance!- Did someone call for help?

0:05:49 > 0:05:51Well, that's going to be a fucking lawsuit!

0:05:51 > 0:05:54OK, where you going? The understudy'll be ready in less than five minutes.

0:05:54 > 0:05:56Forget the understudy. We have to cancel the first preview.

0:05:56 > 0:05:59- But it's a full house! We would have to refund the entire... - Just do it. Just do it.

0:05:59 > 0:06:01- What happened? How's Ralph? - He'll be fine.

0:06:01 > 0:06:03Wait, wait, wait. Will you fucking wait?

0:06:03 > 0:06:05Listen to me, Jake, it was going to be a disaster.

0:06:05 > 0:06:07That guy's the worst actor I've ever seen in my life.

0:06:07 > 0:06:11- The blood coming out of his ear is the most honest thing he's done so far.- He's not that bad!

0:06:11 > 0:06:14OK, he's fucking terrible. But listen.

0:06:14 > 0:06:17You have the press in your dressing room in a few hours.

0:06:17 > 0:06:22I'll make something up. I don't know. I'll think of something. I'll riff. Listen. Hold on.

0:06:22 > 0:06:23That wasn't an accident.

0:06:25 > 0:06:27What do you mean?

0:06:27 > 0:06:28I made it happen.

0:06:28 > 0:06:30Oh, OK.

0:06:30 > 0:06:32Are you drunk?

0:06:32 > 0:06:35Just find me an actor - a good actor. Give me, uh... Woody Harrelson!

0:06:35 > 0:06:37He's doing the next Hunger Games.

0:06:37 > 0:06:38Um, uh, Michael Fassbender.

0:06:38 > 0:06:40He's doing the prequel to the X-Men prequel.

0:06:40 > 0:06:42- How about, um, uh, Jeremy Renner?- Who?

0:06:42 > 0:06:46Jeremy Renner! He was nominated. The... He was the Hurt Locker guy.

0:06:46 > 0:06:48He's an Avenger.

0:06:48 > 0:06:52Fuck! They put him in a cape, too? God! I can't believe this! I don't care.

0:06:52 > 0:06:53Just find me someone.

0:06:55 > 0:06:58Ralph will sue us. He'll sue us and he has a case.

0:07:01 > 0:07:02Just make it go away.

0:07:02 > 0:07:07Look, you're my attorney. You're my producer. You're my best friend. Right?

0:07:07 > 0:07:11Now, go out there and do what you were born to do. I don't care how you do it, just go.

0:07:11 > 0:07:13How do you suppose I do that? How...

0:07:15 > 0:07:18When we come back, an exclusive interview with Robert Downey Jr,

0:07:18 > 0:07:22who's busy following up his billion-dollar Iron Man franchise

0:07:22 > 0:07:26with the equally successful Avengers series. He will take us behind the scene...

0:07:34 > 0:07:37BIRDMAN: That clown doesn't have half your talent,

0:07:37 > 0:07:41and he's making a fortune in that Tin Man get-up.

0:07:42 > 0:07:44We were the real thing, Riggan.

0:07:46 > 0:07:48We had it all.

0:07:48 > 0:07:50We gave it away.

0:07:50 > 0:07:52Breathing in.

0:07:52 > 0:07:55We handed these poseurs the keys to the kingdom.

0:07:55 > 0:07:56Breathing out.

0:07:56 > 0:07:57You listening to me?

0:07:58 > 0:08:01Breathing in, I embrace my anger.

0:08:01 > 0:08:03Yeah, embrace it.

0:08:03 > 0:08:06But I'm not going away. You know I'm right.

0:08:33 > 0:08:35Look at that.

0:08:36 > 0:08:40These people don't know what you're capable of.

0:08:40 > 0:08:41SOUND OF SMASHING

0:08:45 > 0:08:48Why would somebody go from playing

0:08:48 > 0:08:51the lead in a comic book franchise

0:08:51 > 0:08:55to adapting Raymond Carver for the stage?

0:08:55 > 0:08:58As you're probably aware, Barthes said,

0:08:58 > 0:09:02"The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas

0:09:02 > 0:09:06"is now being done by laundry detergent commercials

0:09:06 > 0:09:09"and comic strip characters."

0:09:09 > 0:09:11This is a big leap you've taken.

0:09:11 > 0:09:14Yeah, it is. Absolutely. Absolutely.

0:09:14 > 0:09:16And, you know, like you said...

0:09:16 > 0:09:20..that, uh, Barthes said, uh...

0:09:20 > 0:09:21..Birdman, like Icarus...

0:09:21 > 0:09:24OK, w-w-w-w-wait. Hang on. Who is this Barthes guy?

0:09:24 > 0:09:25Which Birdman was he in?

0:09:25 > 0:09:28Uh, Roland Barthes was a French philosopher,

0:09:28 > 0:09:30and if you knew anything about the history of...

0:09:30 > 0:09:35Now, is it true you've been injecting yourself with semen from baby pigs?

0:09:35 > 0:09:37- I'm sorry, what?- As a method of facial rejuvenation?

0:09:37 > 0:09:38Where did you read that?

0:09:38 > 0:09:41It was tweeted by @prostatewhispers.

0:09:41 > 0:09:43- No. That's not true. - I know, but did you do it?

0:09:43 > 0:09:47- No, I didn't do it. I just said it's not true. - OK, I'll write you're denying it.

0:09:47 > 0:09:50No! Don't write anything. Why would you write anything? I didn't...I didn't do...

0:09:50 > 0:09:53Don't write what she said. I didn't do it. I didn't put any baby pig sem...

0:09:53 > 0:09:57Are you at all afraid that, uh, people will say you're doing this play

0:09:57 > 0:10:00to battle the impression that you're a washed-up superhero?

0:10:00 > 0:10:02No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. That's why,

0:10:02 > 0:10:0620 years ago, I said no to Birdman 4. That's why...

0:10:06 > 0:10:08Oh!

0:10:08 > 0:10:10Birdman 4? You do Birdman 4?!

0:10:10 > 0:10:13Thank you for coming out. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

0:10:13 > 0:10:16We're expecting some great pieces.

0:10:16 > 0:10:18The guys in publicity...

0:10:18 > 0:10:20..now want a Times feature,

0:10:20 > 0:10:23which is the worst idea right now.

0:10:26 > 0:10:27What are you doing?

0:10:27 > 0:10:30- I don't want to look at this any more.- That was a present from the crew.

0:10:30 > 0:10:32Don't fuck with those guys, they're union.

0:10:32 > 0:10:34I don't care.

0:10:34 > 0:10:36- How'd it go?- Good.

0:10:36 > 0:10:38They talk about Ralph at all? He did it, you know.

0:10:38 > 0:10:42The motherfucker did it. Threatened to sue us. Didn't even wait to get out of the hospital.

0:10:42 > 0:10:43- What'd you say?- What'd I say?

0:10:43 > 0:10:46I said, "You motherfucker, are you threatening me?

0:10:46 > 0:10:48"I swear to God, if I so much as get a letter from a lawyer,

0:10:48 > 0:10:51"then the press is going to get the pictures off your computer." That's what I said.

0:10:51 > 0:10:52What pictures?

0:10:52 > 0:10:55He has a thing for nuns... in diapers.

0:10:55 > 0:10:59Why do you care? You shouldn't have any knowledge of that, anyway. Point is is I made it go away.

0:10:59 > 0:11:01That's right. That's great.

0:11:01 > 0:11:03- Yeah, it is fantastic, except for one thing.- What?

0:11:03 > 0:11:05- We don't have an actor.- Uh-huh.

0:11:05 > 0:11:08And if we cancel the first preview, the press is going to smell blood.

0:11:08 > 0:11:10And we can't afford to lose any more money. At all.

0:11:10 > 0:11:11OK. What do you think I should do?

0:11:11 > 0:11:13Well, we hired an understudy.

0:11:13 > 0:11:15- Let's use the understudy.- No.

0:11:15 > 0:11:17Riggan, listen to me. Please, for the love of God, listen.

0:11:17 > 0:11:20Our perfect dream actor is not going to knock on that door and go,

0:11:20 > 0:11:22"Hey, fellas, when do I start?" You know?

0:11:22 > 0:11:24KNOCK ON DOOR

0:11:24 > 0:11:26- Can I talk to you for a second? - Yeah. What's up?

0:11:26 > 0:11:27- Did you find another actor?- No.

0:11:27 > 0:11:30- OK, well, Mike's available. - He is?- Mike who?

0:11:30 > 0:11:32- I thought he was doing the thing...- He was.

0:11:32 > 0:11:34- He quit. Or got fired.- Mike who?

0:11:34 > 0:11:37- Which is it, quit or fired?- Well, with Mike, it's usually both.

0:11:37 > 0:11:38- Mike fucking who?- Shiner.

0:11:38 > 0:11:40- Yes!- Jake.

0:11:40 > 0:11:42Oh, my gosh! How do you know Mike Shiner?

0:11:42 > 0:11:44- We share a vagina.- You think he'd want to do it?- Mm-hm.

0:11:44 > 0:11:46- How do you know?- Cos he told me he'd want to do it.

0:11:46 > 0:11:48Jake. Jake, yes.

0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Ask me if he sells tickets. - Fine. Does he sell tickets?

0:11:51 > 0:11:54He sells a shitload of tickets. Now ask me if the theatre critics love him.

0:11:54 > 0:11:55Do theatre critics love him?

0:11:55 > 0:11:57- They want to spooge on him.- Hey!

0:11:57 > 0:11:58- Lesley.- Right on his face.

0:11:58 > 0:12:01- Everything for a reason, right? - You think he'd come in this evening?

0:12:01 > 0:12:03I'll call him and find out.

0:12:03 > 0:12:05I'll call his agent.

0:12:05 > 0:12:06Amazing, amazing.

0:12:14 > 0:12:17Annie? Clear the theatre, send everyone to dinner

0:12:17 > 0:12:19and give me some lights!

0:12:19 > 0:12:20We got a put-in tonight.

0:12:20 > 0:12:21Who is it?

0:12:21 > 0:12:23You'll find out.

0:12:35 > 0:12:37Intimidating, isn't it?

0:12:37 > 0:12:39You have any idea of the people who have

0:12:39 > 0:12:43walked on these boards... before you?

0:12:43 > 0:12:45Geraldine Page. Helen Hayes.

0:12:45 > 0:12:50Jason Robards. Marlon Brando. And now Riggan Thomson.

0:12:50 > 0:12:54- Hey, thanks for coming in on such short notice, Mike. I really appreciate it.- This is what I do.

0:12:54 > 0:12:56You-you-you wrote this adaptation?

0:12:56 > 0:12:57I did, yeah.

0:12:57 > 0:13:00And you're directing and starring in your adaptation? That's ambitious.

0:13:00 > 0:13:02Well, thanks.

0:13:02 > 0:13:05Well, it's a good theatre.

0:13:05 > 0:13:08I can't speak for your play, but... let's, uh...let's do a little bit of it. Yeah?

0:13:08 > 0:13:11Oh, I didn't expect you to come in and, you know, just jump right in.

0:13:11 > 0:13:13It's first preview tomorrow night, man. Let's get to work.

0:13:13 > 0:13:17OK. Well, you know, look...you know, feel free to take the script up until you feel comfortable.

0:13:17 > 0:13:20No, no, no, let's just...let's just do...do some of it.

0:13:20 > 0:13:22All right! OK, uh...

0:13:22 > 0:13:23Hey, take a look at page 20.

0:13:23 > 0:13:25- I...I'm good. I don't need that. - What?

0:13:25 > 0:13:28- I don't need the script. Just give me a cue. - What are you talking about?

0:13:28 > 0:13:31- Feed me a line.- Wha... H-h-how are you going to...- Feed me a line.

0:13:31 > 0:13:32OK! All right.

0:13:32 > 0:13:36OK, uh...let me think. Uh...yeah... Uh...

0:13:36 > 0:13:39Hey, I'm the wrong person to ask, OK. I didn't actually know the man.

0:13:39 > 0:13:41- I only heard his name mentioned in passing.- Mmm-hmm.

0:13:41 > 0:13:43I don't know. You'd have to know the particulars.

0:13:43 > 0:13:47But I think what you're saying is love is absolute.

0:13:47 > 0:13:50Is that what I'm saying? Am I saying love is absolute?

0:13:50 > 0:13:52Yes. OK, yeah! The kind of love

0:13:52 > 0:13:54that I'm talking about is absolute.

0:13:54 > 0:13:58The kind of love that I'm talking about, you don't try to kill people!

0:13:58 > 0:14:00How do you know the lines?

0:14:00 > 0:14:04- It's a thing I have. I don't know, it's a gift.- Wow. OK, so, that's, uh...

0:14:04 > 0:14:07Oh, come on, man. I've been helping Lesley get off book for, like, a month.

0:14:07 > 0:14:10- Oh, right! Right. Right, right, right.- These lines are right here. That makes sense.

0:14:10 > 0:14:12- That's good. Give me my cue again. - OK.

0:14:12 > 0:14:14Hey, I'm the wrong person to ask. I didn't actually know the man.

0:14:14 > 0:14:17I've heard his name mentioned in passing. But, yeah, I didn't know...

0:14:17 > 0:14:20You never know the particulars. I think what you're saying...

0:14:20 > 0:14:22- C-can I make a suggestion? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.

0:14:22 > 0:14:23- Do you mind?- No, no, no, not at all.

0:14:23 > 0:14:27No, no, forget...forget that. Just...stay with me.

0:14:27 > 0:14:31"I'm the wrong person to ask," he says, but what...what is that? What's the intention in that?

0:14:31 > 0:14:33Is he fed up with the subject so he's changing it?

0:14:33 > 0:14:34Is he deflecting guilt over the marriage?

0:14:34 > 0:14:37And here's the thing, you've got four lines after that

0:14:37 > 0:14:40that all say the same thing. "I didn't even know the man."

0:14:40 > 0:14:42"I only heard his name mentioned in passing."

0:14:42 > 0:14:43"I wouldn't Know."

0:14:43 > 0:14:45"You'd have to know the particulars."

0:14:45 > 0:14:48And the "particulars", I mean, it sounds like my grandmother. But...but...

0:14:48 > 0:14:51..the point is, you don't know the guy. We fucking get it.

0:14:51 > 0:14:52Make it work with one line.

0:14:52 > 0:14:54"I didn't even know the man." Right?

0:14:54 > 0:14:57Wait... I-I-I... You know my lines, too, huh?

0:14:57 > 0:15:00- Can we not get hung up on knowing lines?- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:15:00 > 0:15:02Can we just work on this? Tear it apart?

0:15:02 > 0:15:04So, why don't you just give me that same thing again,

0:15:04 > 0:15:06- but cut it down. Try it.- OK. Uh...

0:15:06 > 0:15:08Hey, I'm the wrong person to ask.

0:15:08 > 0:15:11Oh, no! But that's the thing, see? "I'm the wrong person to ask." What is it?

0:15:11 > 0:15:12I think it's, "Fuck you."

0:15:12 > 0:15:15"Fuck you. Don't put me on the spot, man."

0:15:15 > 0:15:17"Don't make me feel self-conscious about my marriage

0:15:17 > 0:15:19"while my life...my wife is sitting..."

0:15:19 > 0:15:21- Right there.- "..right there."

0:15:21 > 0:15:24- Can I sit down for this? - Yeah, sit, sit. Good idea. Yeah.

0:15:24 > 0:15:28So just give it to me as a "fuck you". Try it. Lay it on me.

0:15:28 > 0:15:29Just do it. Come on. Give it to me.

0:15:29 > 0:15:31- Well, I'm thinking. - Fuck me hard. Just give it.

0:15:31 > 0:15:33Come on! Don't talk about it! Just do it!

0:15:33 > 0:15:35Hey, I'm the wrong person to ask, all right?!

0:15:35 > 0:15:37I don't even know the guy, OK? What's your point?!

0:15:37 > 0:15:40- What's my point?- Yeah, what's your point? What are you saying? Spit it out!- Oh! Oh!

0:15:40 > 0:15:43You're saying what? What are you saying? You're saying love is absolute.

0:15:43 > 0:15:45Yes! Yes!

0:15:45 > 0:15:48The kind of love that I'm talking about, it is absolute!

0:15:48 > 0:15:51The kind of love that I'm talking about, you don't...

0:15:52 > 0:15:54..you don't try to kill people.

0:15:57 > 0:15:59Yeah. Good.

0:15:59 > 0:16:01- I don't know, what do you think, boss?- Wow. OK.

0:16:01 > 0:16:04You want to do this with me?

0:16:04 > 0:16:05What do you think?

0:16:05 > 0:16:08Everybody's back. Larry needs to see him for a fitting.

0:16:08 > 0:16:09I'll take that as a yes.

0:16:13 > 0:16:15So, who are you?

0:16:15 > 0:16:17- That's Sam, my daughter.- Oh.

0:16:17 > 0:16:20Your daughter! Wow! That's amazing. You don't look anything like each other.

0:16:20 > 0:16:23- What do you do?- Um...- She's my assistant. Works with me.

0:16:23 > 0:16:26And does she talk, uh...and speak?

0:16:26 > 0:16:28She does. Yeah.

0:16:28 > 0:16:32She can even sit or stay or roll over, if you have any treats.

0:16:32 > 0:16:33Hey, welcome aboard, Mike!

0:16:33 > 0:16:34Thank you, Captain.

0:16:35 > 0:16:38Um, I'm Mike...Shiner, by the way.

0:16:38 > 0:16:39Oh, I know who you are.

0:16:39 > 0:16:43I, uh, I saw you in Hothouse at the Geffen.

0:16:43 > 0:16:44You were great.

0:16:44 > 0:16:47Oh, thank you. Your ass is great.

0:16:47 > 0:16:49Dude. Seriously?

0:16:50 > 0:16:52You see..that was just me...

0:16:52 > 0:16:54Larry? Larry?

0:16:54 > 0:16:57This is the theatre, sweetheart. Don't be so self-conscious.

0:16:57 > 0:16:58He's here.

0:16:58 > 0:17:01OK. Thank the Lord and pass the biscuits. I finally have an actor to dress.

0:17:01 > 0:17:03How have you been, Larry?

0:17:03 > 0:17:05Better now that you're here. Take off your clothes.

0:17:08 > 0:17:09You're just going to stand there?

0:17:09 > 0:17:12This is the theatre, honey. Don't be so self-conscious.

0:17:12 > 0:17:16We have to start from scratch with less than 24 hours.

0:17:16 > 0:17:17Here. Try these.

0:17:17 > 0:17:20Holy sh...! What's happening? Where are your underpants?

0:17:20 > 0:17:22Under the bed at home, I think.

0:17:22 > 0:17:24OK. Uh...

0:17:24 > 0:17:27No. OK, OK. Everything's too small.

0:17:27 > 0:17:29- You're not kidding.- Oh.

0:17:29 > 0:17:30Whoa. That's nice.

0:17:30 > 0:17:33Forgive him, Larry. Mike's like my five-year-old son.

0:17:33 > 0:17:34Neither of them has clean underwear.

0:17:34 > 0:17:37Or pubic hair, I imagine. OK...

0:17:37 > 0:17:38I can alter the suit.

0:17:38 > 0:17:40But we're going to have to make new trousers and shirts.

0:17:40 > 0:17:42And underwear.

0:17:43 > 0:17:45- What are you doing? - Waiting on Larry.

0:17:45 > 0:17:46I'm finished!

0:17:46 > 0:17:48Then I'm just standing with my cock out.

0:17:48 > 0:17:50Well, get dressed.

0:17:50 > 0:17:52Riggan's daughter's hanging around and I don't need her to walk in here.

0:17:52 > 0:17:54- Lesley.- No, Mike. You haven't seen her.

0:17:54 > 0:17:57She's always hanging around, watching everyone, like Little Miss Creepy.

0:17:57 > 0:18:00- Les...- I don't know if it's the drugs that fried her brain or what,

0:18:00 > 0:18:04but I just don't want her running to her father, saying you showed her your junk.

0:18:04 > 0:18:05Then we should ask her to leave.

0:18:06 > 0:18:08- Oh, God. Really?- Mmm-hmm.

0:18:08 > 0:18:10- Sammy?- It's Sam.

0:18:10 > 0:18:12Sam. Lesley.

0:18:12 > 0:18:14Listen, um, when I said that I...

0:18:14 > 0:18:17Oh, don't worry about it. He's a handful, huh?

0:18:19 > 0:18:22How is it that you always manage to find a new way to humiliate me?

0:18:22 > 0:18:24Oh, to be fair, you make it really easy.

0:18:24 > 0:18:26What the hell was she doing here?

0:18:26 > 0:18:28- She brought me down.- And stayed?

0:18:28 > 0:18:30- Well, she is a little... something.- Listen, Mike.

0:18:30 > 0:18:33This is Broadway. And I'm here, finally.

0:18:33 > 0:18:35Now, please, just do me a favour, I'm begging you.

0:18:35 > 0:18:37Don't fuck it up!

0:18:37 > 0:18:38Lesley.

0:18:40 > 0:18:41Come here. Come here.

0:18:45 > 0:18:46Play with my balls.

0:18:48 > 0:18:50- Don't do it. Ow!- Just sign it.

0:18:50 > 0:18:52- Listen.- No, you listen to me! - I can't afford to listen to you.

0:18:52 > 0:18:55- I'm going to have to go shopping again.- Just sew something, you old fuck!

0:18:55 > 0:18:59- Give him whatever he wants! - He just asked for four times what we were paying what's-his-name!

0:18:59 > 0:19:02- Go into the reserve, Jake. - The reserve is gone! We spent it on fog and those fake trees.

0:19:02 > 0:19:04- It's a dream sequence, Jake. - And goddam midgets!

0:19:04 > 0:19:09- Hey, don't say... You're not allowed to say "midgets" any more. - The reserve is gone!

0:19:11 > 0:19:13You didn't see what I just saw.

0:19:13 > 0:19:15I'm telling you, this guy's the real deal.

0:19:15 > 0:19:16I can feel it in my bones.

0:19:16 > 0:19:18He's the actor we've been waiting for.

0:19:18 > 0:19:20Come on. Just get the contract done.

0:19:20 > 0:19:22Please, Jake. I'll get the money.

0:19:23 > 0:19:26- OK, I'll do it.- OK.

0:19:26 > 0:19:28Get that smile off your face. You're freaking me out.

0:19:28 > 0:19:30Sorry. You're right.

0:19:30 > 0:19:31Hey!

0:19:31 > 0:19:33Is it true? Shiner?

0:19:33 > 0:19:35- Holy shit. When can I meet him?- He's in a fitting with Larry right now.

0:19:35 > 0:19:39- Hey, guys. I'm going to Starbucks. You want anything? - I'm good. I'm good.

0:19:39 > 0:19:41She has a great ass. Hey, I have some news for you, too.

0:19:41 > 0:19:43Is it good or is it bad? Cos, right now, I really...

0:19:43 > 0:19:46I missed my last two periods.

0:19:46 > 0:19:49I think it's really happening.

0:19:49 > 0:19:50Wow.

0:19:50 > 0:19:52Is that good or bad? Riggan!

0:19:52 > 0:19:54It's good. It's good. It's great.

0:19:54 > 0:19:57- Well, say something else.- Um...OK.

0:19:57 > 0:19:58Uh...

0:19:58 > 0:20:00You sure it's mine?

0:20:00 > 0:20:04Well, you know, there's you, there's Jake, you know, that masseur wore a condom...

0:20:04 > 0:20:06Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's yours, yeah.

0:20:06 > 0:20:07Idiot.

0:20:10 > 0:20:13- Are you excited?- Yeah.

0:20:13 > 0:20:14Me, too.

0:20:18 > 0:20:20- What?- You're not funny!

0:20:23 > 0:20:25What? Hey, what?

0:20:41 > 0:20:43First preview tomorrow.

0:20:45 > 0:20:46Here we go.

0:20:50 > 0:20:52I rode with him in the ambulance to the hospital.

0:20:52 > 0:20:55I will never get that image out of my head.

0:20:55 > 0:20:59Right before he did it, those eyes were so sad and...and lonely.

0:20:59 > 0:21:01Did you have to treat him?

0:21:01 > 0:21:03I didn't have to, but I did.

0:21:03 > 0:21:06Music out. Cue 34, 35, ready.

0:21:06 > 0:21:08He was in terrible shape.

0:21:08 > 0:21:10His head had swelled up. It was twice the size of a normal head.

0:21:10 > 0:21:13- He's good, huh?- He's incredible.

0:21:13 > 0:21:16- I think he's drinking real gin.- What?

0:21:17 > 0:21:21Ask...ask Nick. I...I want you to ask Nick if he thinks that that's love.

0:21:21 > 0:21:23Oh, honey, can't we just go to dinner?

0:21:23 > 0:21:25Mel, don't get him started.

0:21:25 > 0:21:28You don't know how he's been lately.

0:21:28 > 0:21:30He's been depressed. I've been worried about him.

0:21:30 > 0:21:31You've been what?

0:21:32 > 0:21:37Let me tell you...let me tell you guys something about real love. I'll tell you something.

0:21:37 > 0:21:41We all should be ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about

0:21:41 > 0:21:42when we talk about love.

0:21:42 > 0:21:45Oh, for God's sake, are you getting drunk?

0:21:45 > 0:21:46I don't have to be drunk to say what I think.

0:21:46 > 0:21:49- Nobody's drunk. We're just having a few drinks.- Exactly.

0:21:49 > 0:21:51You've had more than a few.

0:21:51 > 0:21:52What, are you counting?

0:21:52 > 0:21:55Leave her alone. If you're not drunk, don't talk like you're drunk.

0:21:55 > 0:21:56Shut up!

0:21:58 > 0:22:00Do me a favour. For once in your life,

0:22:00 > 0:22:02honest to God, shut up for a minute.

0:22:04 > 0:22:07Anyway, like I was saying...

0:22:07 > 0:22:10..you want to know about real love, there's this old couple...

0:22:11 > 0:22:13..had a car wreck out on the Interstate.

0:22:14 > 0:22:19Some drunk kid...ploughed his old man's pick-up...

0:22:19 > 0:22:21..right into their camper.

0:22:21 > 0:22:23By the time I got down to the hospital, this kid,

0:22:23 > 0:22:26this fucking teenager, was dead.

0:22:27 > 0:22:29So we took the old couple up to the OR.

0:22:29 > 0:22:32We worked like hell on them through most of the night.

0:22:34 > 0:22:38By the time...we were done with them, we just, you know...

0:22:38 > 0:22:41..wrapped them...in their full body casts.

0:22:43 > 0:22:45The husband, the old man...

0:22:47 > 0:22:49..was depressed for the longest time.

0:22:49 > 0:22:50Even after I said to him,

0:22:50 > 0:22:54"Look, your wife's going to pull through," he was still depressed.

0:22:55 > 0:22:59So I went up to the mouth hole and I asked him.

0:23:01 > 0:23:05And he told me it was because he couldn't...see her...

0:23:05 > 0:23:08..through the eyes. Couldn't see his wife.

0:23:09 > 0:23:11Can you imagine?

0:23:11 > 0:23:15I'm telling you, this guy's heart was breaking because...

0:23:16 > 0:23:19..he couldn't turn his goddamn head

0:23:19 > 0:23:21and just look at his goddamn wife.

0:23:21 > 0:23:22Shit!

0:23:24 > 0:23:25I mean, it was killing this guy.

0:23:25 > 0:23:27I...I am so tired of this. Is this water?

0:23:27 > 0:23:28It was killing the guy.

0:23:28 > 0:23:33Did you replace my gin with water, man?

0:23:33 > 0:23:34- GLASS SMASHES - Oh!

0:23:34 > 0:23:37- Mike, come on.- No! Come on what?- Come on. You're drunk.

0:23:37 > 0:23:40I'm drunk? Yes, I'm drunk. I'm supposed to be drunk! Why aren't you drunk?

0:23:40 > 0:23:44This is Carver! He left a piece of his liver on the table every time he wrote a fucking page!

0:23:44 > 0:23:47If I need to be drinking gin, who the fuck are you to touch my gin, man?

0:23:47 > 0:23:51You fucked with the period, you fucked with the plot so you could have the best lines.

0:23:51 > 0:23:54You leave me the fucking tools that I need!

0:23:54 > 0:23:56Oh, come on, people, don't be so pathetic.

0:23:56 > 0:23:59Stop looking at the world through your cellphone screen!

0:23:59 > 0:24:00Have a real experience!

0:24:00 > 0:24:03Does anybody give a shit about truth other than me?

0:24:03 > 0:24:05I mean, this set is fake, the bananas are fake.

0:24:05 > 0:24:07There's fucking nothing in this milk carton!

0:24:07 > 0:24:09Your performance is fake!

0:24:09 > 0:24:12The only thing that's real on this stage is this chicken!

0:24:12 > 0:24:15So, I'm going to work with the chicken.

0:24:15 > 0:24:18AUDIENCE LAUGHS AND WHISTLES

0:24:18 > 0:24:19That was interesting.

0:24:19 > 0:24:20- Bring the curtain down.- Hey!

0:24:20 > 0:24:23That's good bird, man!

0:24:23 > 0:24:24Get him out of here!

0:24:24 > 0:24:26How do you want me to do that?

0:24:28 > 0:24:29Hey, hey, wait.

0:24:29 > 0:24:31- I want him gone.- No!

0:24:31 > 0:24:33- What?- We cannot do that!

0:24:33 > 0:24:34Of course we can do that! It's our show!

0:24:34 > 0:24:37- Listen to me, please. - No, you listen to me.

0:24:37 > 0:24:39Get him the fuck out of my play. I'm not going to stand up there.

0:24:39 > 0:24:42It was a preview! Nobody gives a shit about a preview!

0:24:42 > 0:24:43Nothing matters until that old bat from

0:24:43 > 0:24:46the New York Times is sitting on that audience opening night!

0:24:46 > 0:24:47We're getting rid of him. I don't give a shit.

0:24:47 > 0:24:50Shut up! Shut up and listen to me for once!

0:24:50 > 0:24:54As soon as we announced he was taking over, the advance doubled, and that took less than a day.

0:24:54 > 0:24:55We can't afford to lose the preview.

0:24:55 > 0:24:58We can't afford to lose any more money and we can't afford to lose Mike.

0:24:58 > 0:25:02This has been about... This is about being respected and validated, remember?

0:25:02 > 0:25:03That's what you told me!

0:25:03 > 0:25:06That's how you got me into this shit!

0:25:08 > 0:25:11Now, you're the director. Get him under control, OK?

0:25:13 > 0:25:15Fuck.

0:25:15 > 0:25:16This isn't the '90s any more.

0:25:18 > 0:25:20Your zipper's down.

0:25:24 > 0:25:25Fuck.

0:25:29 > 0:25:31Hey!

0:25:31 > 0:25:34You were really good, cabron.

0:25:35 > 0:25:37Mmm-hmm.

0:25:38 > 0:25:41Hey! Out in front of the theatre in ten minutes!

0:25:41 > 0:25:42Don't overthink it.

0:25:54 > 0:25:56What the hell was going on up there?

0:25:58 > 0:26:00I didn't know you were here tonight.

0:26:00 > 0:26:02That guy's an asshole, huh?

0:26:02 > 0:26:04Yeah. What are you...what are you doing here?

0:26:04 > 0:26:07Sam and I are going to grab a bite after she's finished.

0:26:07 > 0:26:09No, no, I mean here now.

0:26:09 > 0:26:12Well, I know how much this means to you.

0:26:12 > 0:26:13Oh.

0:26:13 > 0:26:16Thanks. I appreciate that.

0:26:16 > 0:26:17So, what's happening?

0:26:17 > 0:26:20- With the play? You saw what's ha... - No, no. You and Sam.

0:26:20 > 0:26:23Oh, it's... You know, it's great.

0:26:23 > 0:26:25It's the same.

0:26:25 > 0:26:26Do you talk to her?

0:26:26 > 0:26:28Yeah, we talk.

0:26:28 > 0:26:31You know, it's just been so crazy around here, you know?

0:26:31 > 0:26:34- You understand where her head is at these days?- Yeah, of course.

0:26:34 > 0:26:36She's trying to stay away from everything and everyone

0:26:36 > 0:26:39- that got her into rehab in the first place.- Yeah, yeah.

0:26:39 > 0:26:42I know. I really do. I get it. I get it.

0:26:42 > 0:26:44That's all she's had, so she's confused.

0:26:44 > 0:26:45Yeah, I get it.

0:26:45 > 0:26:48Look, I know you're caught up in all this stuff, but you just have to...

0:26:48 > 0:26:49- "Stuff"?- Uh...uh...

0:26:49 > 0:26:51You know what I mean.

0:26:52 > 0:26:54Riggan, you don't have to be a great father right now.

0:26:54 > 0:26:56You just have to be one.

0:26:56 > 0:26:58Oh, sorry.

0:27:01 > 0:27:02How's that going?

0:27:04 > 0:27:05I'd rather not talk about that.

0:27:05 > 0:27:07You're drinking?

0:27:07 > 0:27:08Yeah, I'm having a beer.

0:27:12 > 0:27:13So...

0:27:15 > 0:27:17..what's going on with you?

0:27:17 > 0:27:18Me? Oh...

0:27:19 > 0:27:21Nothing.

0:27:21 > 0:27:23Everything's the same, I guess.

0:27:25 > 0:27:27I'm going back to teaching.

0:27:27 > 0:27:30Oh, yeah? Hey, uh...

0:27:30 > 0:27:33..I'm thinking of refinancing the Malibu house.

0:27:33 > 0:27:35What? I'm sorry?

0:27:35 > 0:27:36I'm thinking of refinancing...

0:27:36 > 0:27:39No, I heard you. I just need a second.

0:27:40 > 0:27:42That's going to be Sam's house.

0:27:42 > 0:27:45Why would you...? For this play?

0:27:47 > 0:27:49I need the money.

0:27:49 > 0:27:52Do you have any idea how crazy that sounds?

0:27:52 > 0:27:56What do you want me to say? My health lasted longer than the money.

0:27:56 > 0:27:57Go figure that out.

0:27:58 > 0:28:00What's going on?

0:28:01 > 0:28:04Riggan, look at me.

0:28:04 > 0:28:05Uh...

0:28:08 > 0:28:10I got a chance to do something right.

0:28:14 > 0:28:16I got to take it. I got to.

0:28:18 > 0:28:20It's funny. I was sitting here, waiting for you...

0:28:20 > 0:28:24..and, all of a sudden, I couldn't remember why we broke up.

0:28:28 > 0:28:31You know, the last time I flew here from LA,

0:28:31 > 0:28:35George Clooney was sitting, like, two seats in front of me

0:28:35 > 0:28:38with a nice pair of cufflinks and that fucking chin.

0:28:38 > 0:28:43We ended up flying through this really, really horrible storm.

0:28:43 > 0:28:47I mean, the plane was, like, rattling and shaking.

0:28:47 > 0:28:50And, uh, all the people on board were, you know, crying.

0:28:50 > 0:28:53I mean, crying. Praying, right?

0:28:54 > 0:28:56I just sat there.

0:28:56 > 0:28:58They're crying, I sit there.

0:28:58 > 0:29:01And I'm thinking, "Oh, boy,

0:29:01 > 0:29:05"next morning, when Sam looks at the paper,

0:29:05 > 0:29:09"it's going to be Clooney's face on the front page, not mine."

0:29:09 > 0:29:10You know? Boom!

0:29:16 > 0:29:18Did you know Farrah Fawcett died

0:29:18 > 0:29:21the exact same day as Michael Jackson?

0:29:21 > 0:29:23Is that crazy?

0:29:38 > 0:29:40Why did we break up?

0:29:40 > 0:29:42Because you threw a kitchen knife at me

0:29:42 > 0:29:46and, an hour later, you were telling me how much you loved me.

0:29:46 > 0:29:50You know, just because I didn't like that ridiculous comedy you did with Goldie Hawn

0:29:50 > 0:29:52did not mean that I did not love you.

0:29:52 > 0:29:54That's what you always do.

0:29:54 > 0:29:56You confuse love for admiration.

0:29:58 > 0:29:59It's your house, you do what you want with it.

0:29:59 > 0:30:02You just make sure you're there for our daughter.

0:30:02 > 0:30:03I will.

0:30:04 > 0:30:06You're not Farrah Fawcett, Riggan.

0:30:09 > 0:30:12- BIRDMAN:- We should have done that reality show they offered us - The Thomsons.

0:30:12 > 0:30:13Shut up.

0:30:13 > 0:30:15- That would've been good.- Shut up!

0:30:15 > 0:30:19Crazy, druggy, wise-ass daughter, MILF-y wife with the perky tits.

0:30:19 > 0:30:21People would've wanted to see that.

0:30:21 > 0:30:23- Shut up.- More than I can say for this piece of shit.

0:30:23 > 0:30:25Shut up!

0:30:27 > 0:30:29The sunbed is here.

0:30:29 > 0:30:30What does that mean?

0:30:30 > 0:30:34It means there's a sunbed out there being delivered to in here.

0:30:34 > 0:30:36Who ordered a sunbed?

0:30:36 > 0:30:37Mike. He said it's for his character -

0:30:37 > 0:30:39- part of his process and that shit.- Fuck.

0:30:39 > 0:30:42He said he has to be a redneck.

0:30:42 > 0:30:43Son of a bitch.

0:30:48 > 0:30:50Let's go. Walk.

0:30:50 > 0:30:52- Where are we going? - To get you some coffee.

0:30:52 > 0:30:54- Did I do something to disrespect you?- Not yet.

0:30:54 > 0:30:57- I have a lot riding on this fucking play.- Oh, is that right?

0:30:57 > 0:30:59Yeah. People know who I am, and...

0:30:59 > 0:31:02Bullshit. They don't know you, your work, man.

0:31:02 > 0:31:06They know the guy from the birdsuit who goes and tells coy, slightly vomitous stories on Letterman.

0:31:06 > 0:31:08Well, I'm sorry if I'm popular, Mike.

0:31:08 > 0:31:10Popular? I don't give a shit. Popular?!

0:31:10 > 0:31:14Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

0:31:14 > 0:31:17OK, I don't even know what the fuck that means, so...

0:31:17 > 0:31:21It-it-it means...it means my reputation is riding on this, and that's worth a...a...

0:31:21 > 0:31:24- A lot.- ..a lot, exactly! Fuck you. Yes!

0:31:24 > 0:31:26If this doesn't work out for you,

0:31:26 > 0:31:28you fuck off back to your studio pals

0:31:28 > 0:31:31and dive back into that cultural genocide you guys are perpetrating.

0:31:31 > 0:31:33You know, a douchebag's born every minute!

0:31:33 > 0:31:35That was PT Barnum's premise, when he invented the circus,

0:31:35 > 0:31:39and nothing much has changed. And you guys know that, if you crank out any toxic piece crap,

0:31:39 > 0:31:41people will line up and pay to see it!

0:31:41 > 0:31:44But long after you're gone, I'm going to be on that stage,

0:31:44 > 0:31:46earning my living, baring my soul,

0:31:46 > 0:31:49wrestling with complex human emotions, cos that's what we do.

0:31:49 > 0:31:53Oh, so that... Is that what tonight was about? You wrestling with complex emotion?

0:31:53 > 0:31:56Tonight was about seeing if it's even alive, seeing if it can bleed.

0:31:56 > 0:32:01This isn't a backlot, Riggan, this is New York City. This is how we do things.

0:32:01 > 0:32:02Where you going?

0:32:02 > 0:32:04They have coffee here.

0:32:12 > 0:32:13Thanks, Tommy.

0:32:13 > 0:32:14They were laughing in our fucking faces.

0:32:14 > 0:32:17Tonight they were laughing, tomorrow they'll be tweeting.

0:32:17 > 0:32:18Fuck 'em! Who cares?

0:32:18 > 0:32:20These are the people who pay half price

0:32:20 > 0:32:22to watch us rehearse. Stop fucking caring.

0:32:22 > 0:32:25This play's a drama. We're doing Raymond Carver. This play's about...

0:32:25 > 0:32:28- You don't know what this play is about.- I do know what this play is about.

0:32:28 > 0:32:31- No, you don't. That's what previews are for.- Oh, man. - That's why they call them previews.

0:32:31 > 0:32:35That's where you figure out what the play is. I mean...

0:32:36 > 0:32:38OK, look, look. Listen to me.

0:32:38 > 0:32:41Do you see the woman at the far end of the bar?

0:32:41 > 0:32:43The one who looks like she licked a homeless man's ass?

0:32:43 > 0:32:45Yeah.

0:32:45 > 0:32:49The only thing that matters is what she writes about us in 500 words in the Times.

0:32:49 > 0:32:51- That's, uh...- Tabitha Dickinson, yes.

0:32:51 > 0:32:55And, believe it or not, the only opinion that matters in New York theatre is hers.

0:32:55 > 0:32:58If she likes us, we run. If she doesn't, we're fucked.

0:33:00 > 0:33:02She does look like she licked a homeless guy's ass.

0:33:02 > 0:33:03Do me a favour.

0:33:03 > 0:33:06Don't get your panties in a twist over a fucking preview, like some rookie,

0:33:06 > 0:33:08and don't tell me how to do my job.

0:33:08 > 0:33:12This is my town and, to be honest, most people don't give a shit about you here.

0:33:12 > 0:33:15- You're Riggan Thomson, right? - Sorry to interrupt you.

0:33:15 > 0:33:18- Would you mind having a picture with us here?- No, no. Not at all.

0:33:18 > 0:33:20Would you mind?

0:33:20 > 0:33:21- What?- The button's on the bottom.

0:33:25 > 0:33:27- Who is this guy? - He used to be Birdman.

0:33:30 > 0:33:32Oh, great!

0:33:32 > 0:33:34Oh, you're such a doll. Thank you. You're so sweet.

0:33:34 > 0:33:36- Handsome.- Thanks. Oh.

0:33:36 > 0:33:38OK, sweetheart, come on.

0:33:43 > 0:33:46Are we good here?

0:33:46 > 0:33:47I'm going to go home.

0:33:48 > 0:33:50All right. See you tomorrow.

0:33:52 > 0:33:54Oh...

0:33:54 > 0:33:55..I want to know something.

0:33:56 > 0:33:58Why Raymond Carver?

0:34:02 > 0:34:05I was a kid in high school...

0:34:05 > 0:34:09..doing a play in Syracuse, and he was in the audience.

0:34:09 > 0:34:12And he, uh, sent this back afterwards.

0:34:14 > 0:34:15A little note.

0:34:15 > 0:34:18"Thank you for an honest performance. Ray Carver."

0:34:18 > 0:34:20Yeah.

0:34:20 > 0:34:21Yeah?

0:34:21 > 0:34:24That's when I knew...I was going to be an actor.

0:34:24 > 0:34:25Right there.

0:34:28 > 0:34:30Oh.

0:34:30 > 0:34:31What's so funny?

0:34:31 > 0:34:33Nothing. It's just, it's on a cocktail napkin.

0:34:33 > 0:34:35Yeah? So?

0:34:35 > 0:34:37He was fucking drunk, man.

0:34:40 > 0:34:42You headed to Hollywood, Mike?

0:34:42 > 0:34:43No.

0:34:45 > 0:34:47No. Hollywood's heading here, Tabby.

0:34:47 > 0:34:50Good luck with that.

0:34:50 > 0:34:52"A man becomes a critic

0:34:52 > 0:34:53"when he cannot be an artist,

0:34:53 > 0:34:58"the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier."

0:34:58 > 0:34:59That's Flaubert, right?

0:34:59 > 0:35:02He's a Hollywood clown in a Lycra birdsuit.

0:35:02 > 0:35:04Yes, he is.

0:35:04 > 0:35:06But tomorrow night at eight o'clock,

0:35:06 > 0:35:09he's going out on that stage and risking everything.

0:35:09 > 0:35:10What'll you be doing?

0:35:12 > 0:35:15Don't you ever worry that I'll give you a bad review?

0:35:15 > 0:35:17I'm sure you will...

0:35:17 > 0:35:19..if I ever give you a bad performance.

0:35:20 > 0:35:22Miss Dickinson.

0:35:22 > 0:35:24Mr Shiner.

0:36:30 > 0:36:33- Hey.- Hey.

0:36:33 > 0:36:34What are you still doing here?

0:36:34 > 0:36:36Nothing.

0:36:36 > 0:36:40Nothing. Um, your costumes are hanging in your dressing room.

0:36:40 > 0:36:42Oh, great. Great.

0:36:42 > 0:36:44Oh, I got that coconut water that you wanted. Um...

0:36:44 > 0:36:48- If you want the face stuff, it's not open till tomorrow.- Hey!- What?

0:36:48 > 0:36:49Uh...

0:36:49 > 0:36:52I'm not sure that I said thank you.

0:36:52 > 0:36:53For what?

0:36:53 > 0:36:57For everything. I mean, you've been doing a really good job and, you know, honestly.

0:36:57 > 0:37:01I've been so preoccupied with all the...

0:37:02 > 0:37:06OK, well, I...just wanted to say that.

0:37:10 > 0:37:11- What is that?- What?

0:37:12 > 0:37:14That smell.

0:37:14 > 0:37:16What is it? Look at me. Look at me!

0:37:16 > 0:37:18What? What?

0:37:18 > 0:37:21- Goddamn it! You've got to be shitting me!- Dad!- Where is it?

0:37:22 > 0:37:24Can we not do this, please?

0:37:24 > 0:37:25Dad?

0:37:25 > 0:37:28Where is it? I can't believe this.

0:37:31 > 0:37:32Wh-what is this?

0:37:32 > 0:37:34Chunky peanut butter.

0:37:34 > 0:37:36- This? This? What is that?- Ah.

0:37:38 > 0:37:40That's pot. Relax.

0:37:40 > 0:37:43- Relax? You can't do this to me! - To you?

0:37:43 > 0:37:44Oh, shut up. You know what I'm talking about.

0:37:44 > 0:37:47Oh, yeah, you're talking about you! What else is new?

0:37:47 > 0:37:49- Don't do that thing where you... - That thing where I make it about me?

0:37:49 > 0:37:52- Look! I'm trying to do something important!- This is not important!

0:37:52 > 0:37:53It's important to me!

0:37:53 > 0:37:55OK? Maybe not to you or your cynical friends,

0:37:55 > 0:37:58whose only ambition is to "go viral",

0:37:58 > 0:38:03but to me...this is... My God, this is my career!

0:38:03 > 0:38:05It's my chance to finally do some work that means something.

0:38:05 > 0:38:07That means something to who?

0:38:07 > 0:38:11You had a career, Dad, before the third comic book movie.

0:38:11 > 0:38:14Before people started to forget who was inside that bird costume.

0:38:14 > 0:38:17You are doing a play based on a book that was written 60 years ago

0:38:17 > 0:38:20for 1,000 rich old white people

0:38:20 > 0:38:24whose only real concern is going to be where they go to have their cake and coffee when it's over!

0:38:24 > 0:38:26Nobody gives a shit but you!

0:38:26 > 0:38:28And let's face it, Dad,

0:38:28 > 0:38:30you are not doing this for the sake of art,

0:38:30 > 0:38:33you are doing this because you want to feel relevant again.

0:38:33 > 0:38:35Well, guess what? There is an entire world out there where people

0:38:35 > 0:38:37fight to be relevant every single day!

0:38:37 > 0:38:39And you act like it doesn't exist.

0:38:39 > 0:38:42Things are happening in a place that you ignore,

0:38:42 > 0:38:45a place that, by the way, has already forgotten about you!

0:38:45 > 0:38:47I mean, who the fuck are you?!

0:38:47 > 0:38:50You hate bloggers, you mock Twitter.

0:38:50 > 0:38:52You don't even have a Facebook page!

0:38:52 > 0:38:54You're the one who doesn't exist!

0:38:54 > 0:38:56You're doing this because you're scared to death,

0:38:56 > 0:38:58like the rest of us, that you don't matter.

0:38:58 > 0:39:01And you know what? You're right! You don't!

0:39:01 > 0:39:05It's not important, OK? You're not important. Get used to it!

0:39:23 > 0:39:24Dad.

0:39:54 > 0:39:55HE SPARKS LIGHTER

0:40:13 > 0:40:14Oh!

0:40:27 > 0:40:30In the days before Nick's depression started to eat away at him,

0:40:30 > 0:40:31he never knew I was pregnant,

0:40:31 > 0:40:35and I never intended on telling him.

0:40:35 > 0:40:37I guess we make choices in life,

0:40:37 > 0:40:39and we choose to live with them.

0:40:39 > 0:40:42Or not.

0:40:42 > 0:40:44I didn't want that baby.

0:40:44 > 0:40:46Not because I didn't love Nick,

0:40:46 > 0:40:49and not because I didn't love the idea of it,

0:40:49 > 0:40:52but just because I wasn't ready to love myself.

0:40:53 > 0:40:55There's a distance to it all now.

0:40:55 > 0:40:59A wistful distance, underscored by a gentle breeze...

0:40:59 > 0:41:00Actors in position.

0:41:00 > 0:41:01..and the sound of the birds...

0:41:01 > 0:41:03Music out.

0:41:03 > 0:41:05..laughing at the whimsy of it all.

0:41:05 > 0:41:07- Lesley?- What?

0:41:07 > 0:41:08I think I'm hard.

0:41:08 > 0:41:12No, you're not, it's just that sometimes you don't consider other people's feelings.

0:41:12 > 0:41:14No, no, no. I'm getting hard. Feel that.

0:41:14 > 0:41:17- SHE SHRIEKS - What?! You've got to be kidding.

0:41:17 > 0:41:19- Let's really do it. Let's really fuck.- No! Are you crazy?!

0:41:19 > 0:41:21I know! It'll be incredible! It'll be so real.

0:41:21 > 0:41:24Cut it out, Mike! I'm serious, Mike.

0:41:24 > 0:41:26Don't call me Mike. Call me Mel. Mel!

0:41:26 > 0:41:27Get off!

0:41:27 > 0:41:30BANGING ON DOOR Terri! Terri!

0:41:31 > 0:41:34- Terri, I know you're in there! - Get off me! Get off me!

0:41:34 > 0:41:36LOUD BANG

0:41:37 > 0:41:38- Ed?- Why?

0:41:38 > 0:41:40- What are you doing here? - I just need you to tell me why.

0:41:40 > 0:41:42Take it easy, Ed. Take it easy. I know this is hard.

0:41:42 > 0:41:45AUDIENCE LAUGHS Shut up! Shut...

0:41:45 > 0:41:47- Shut up!- OK. Just don't do anything stupid...

0:41:47 > 0:41:48Hey!

0:41:48 > 0:41:50Eddie, please!

0:41:50 > 0:41:55What's the matter with me? Why do I always end up having to beg people to love me?

0:41:55 > 0:41:57Eddie, please, give me the gun.

0:41:57 > 0:41:59Look at me.

0:41:59 > 0:42:02I was drowning. I'm just not capable of...

0:42:03 > 0:42:07You...you deserve to be loved, Eddie. You do.

0:42:07 > 0:42:09I just wanted to be what you wanted.

0:42:09 > 0:42:11Now I spend every fucking minute praying

0:42:11 > 0:42:14to be somebody else, somebody I'm not!

0:42:14 > 0:42:15Anybody!

0:42:15 > 0:42:19OK. J-just put the gun down, Ed. She just doesn't love you any more.

0:42:19 > 0:42:21You don't, do you?

0:42:21 > 0:42:22No.

0:42:24 > 0:42:25And you never will.

0:42:25 > 0:42:27I'm sorry.

0:42:30 > 0:42:31I don't exist.

0:42:33 > 0:42:35I'm not even here.

0:42:36 > 0:42:40None of this even matters. I don't exist. I don't exist.

0:42:41 > 0:42:44- Ed...- I don't exist.

0:42:44 > 0:42:46Ed! Hey, hey, hey, hey, no, don't do that!

0:42:46 > 0:42:47GUNSHOT

0:42:47 > 0:42:48SCREAMING

0:42:50 > 0:42:53APPLAUSE

0:42:55 > 0:42:58- You're such an asshole! - Are you kidding me? That's the best I've seen you ever.

0:42:58 > 0:43:01Why would you do that?! We were on stage!

0:43:01 > 0:43:04What the fuck?! It's like my head's a jar of Bolognese!

0:43:04 > 0:43:05Hand me the blood rig. I'll fix it.

0:43:05 > 0:43:09- They're fucking in a motel room. - You've got to be shitting me! You can't get it up in six months,

0:43:09 > 0:43:11and now you want to fuck me in front of 800 strangers?!

0:43:11 > 0:43:15Look. I need it to feel real, OK? I need that intensity. You've known that about me...

0:43:15 > 0:43:16- Oh, fuck you!- ..from the beginning.

0:43:18 > 0:43:21I was in the moment. I thought that you were, too.

0:43:21 > 0:43:22I'm sorry.

0:43:22 > 0:43:26- APPLAUSE - I told you to stop, you fucking animal!

0:43:26 > 0:43:28And you were brilliant. Brilliant.

0:43:28 > 0:43:30What is wrong with you?!

0:43:30 > 0:43:38CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:43:48 > 0:43:50I want your shit out of the apartment.

0:43:50 > 0:43:54What? Hey, no, no, no, wait. OK. Look, look, look, look, look. I'm sorry. Can we just...

0:43:54 > 0:43:58No, we can't, Mike! You know, maybe up here, you're Mr Truth,

0:43:58 > 0:44:01but, in the real world, where it counts, you're a fucking fraud!

0:44:01 > 0:44:03How's that feel for truth, you dick?!

0:44:04 > 0:44:06- What's going on? - He's such an asshole.

0:44:06 > 0:44:09- What'd he do now? - Oh, nothing, he just tried to fuck me in front of an entire audience!

0:44:09 > 0:44:11- Oh, my God!- Right?

0:44:11 > 0:44:12That's kind of hot!

0:44:17 > 0:44:18SHE SHRIEKS

0:44:18 > 0:44:21Why don't I have any self-respect?!

0:44:21 > 0:44:22You're an actress, honey.

0:44:22 > 0:44:24I'm pathetic!

0:44:26 > 0:44:28Look at me.

0:44:32 > 0:44:36You know, I...I've always dreamed of being a Broadway actress...

0:44:36 > 0:44:40..since I was a little kid. And now I'm here, and I'm...

0:44:40 > 0:44:42..I'm not a Broadway actress -

0:44:42 > 0:44:44I'm still just a little kid.

0:44:47 > 0:44:50And I keep waiting for someone to tell me I've made it.

0:44:50 > 0:44:52Hey.

0:44:52 > 0:44:54You made it.

0:44:56 > 0:44:58I did?

0:44:58 > 0:45:02Sadly, it was with Mike Shiner on a fake motel bed in front of, like, 800 people, but...

0:45:02 > 0:45:03- Oh, shut up!- Oh.

0:45:05 > 0:45:07KNOCK ON DOOR

0:45:07 > 0:45:09- Oh, God.- Hey, is she OK?

0:45:09 > 0:45:11Yeah, she's going to be fine.

0:45:13 > 0:45:17Look, none of this is your fault, OK?

0:45:17 > 0:45:21OK, look. You're beautiful and you're talented,

0:45:21 > 0:45:24and I'm lucky to have you.

0:45:24 > 0:45:25OK?

0:45:25 > 0:45:28- OK.- OK. OK.

0:45:37 > 0:45:39That was kind of sweet.

0:45:39 > 0:45:41Yeah.

0:45:43 > 0:45:45What's wrong?

0:45:45 > 0:45:49Nothing. Two years, and he's never said anything like that to me.

0:45:51 > 0:45:52Hey.

0:45:53 > 0:45:56You're beautiful and you're talented,

0:45:56 > 0:46:00and I'm lucky to have you. OK?

0:46:00 > 0:46:01We're gross.

0:46:01 > 0:46:03We are.

0:46:13 > 0:46:15- What are you doing?- Nothing.

0:46:24 > 0:46:25Do it again.

0:46:32 > 0:46:35Can we talk about this like two mature artists?

0:46:35 > 0:46:37I mean, what, really, is the big deal about...

0:46:37 > 0:46:38Fuck you!

0:46:41 > 0:46:43You're not ready yet. That's fine.

0:46:46 > 0:46:47Hm.

0:46:50 > 0:46:52Fuck! Actresses.

0:46:52 > 0:46:54They drive me fucking crazy!

0:46:55 > 0:46:57Riggan?

0:46:57 > 0:46:58Riggan.

0:46:58 > 0:47:02Your gun is ridiculous. I can see the red plug in the barrel,

0:47:02 > 0:47:06so you look like a kid with a plastic toy when you point it at me.

0:47:06 > 0:47:09I don't feel threatened at all.

0:47:10 > 0:47:12Get a better one. Have some self-respect.

0:47:12 > 0:47:13Please.

0:47:15 > 0:47:18Hey, apart from that, uh...

0:47:18 > 0:47:20..I thought that was a pretty fun crowd, huh?

0:47:40 > 0:47:42I don't think it's high enough.

0:47:44 > 0:47:46Me neither.

0:47:47 > 0:47:50What are you doing up here?

0:47:50 > 0:47:52Uh, adrenaline?

0:47:52 > 0:47:57I just got out of rehab. It's the closest thing I get to a drug.

0:47:57 > 0:48:00- You went to rehab?- Yeah.

0:48:00 > 0:48:02Cool.

0:48:02 > 0:48:03It wasn't all Dr Drew or anything,

0:48:03 > 0:48:07- but that dude from American Pie was there.- Yeah?

0:48:07 > 0:48:08Jump!

0:48:08 > 0:48:10Eat me!

0:48:10 > 0:48:12OK, then jump on my face!

0:48:12 > 0:48:15- SHE CHUCKLES - I love this city.

0:48:15 > 0:48:16Yeah?

0:48:19 > 0:48:22Why do you act like a dick all the time?

0:48:22 > 0:48:24Do you just do it to antagonise people?

0:48:25 > 0:48:27Maybe.

0:48:27 > 0:48:29You really don't give a shit if people like you or not?

0:48:30 > 0:48:33Not really.

0:48:33 > 0:48:34That's cool.

0:48:34 > 0:48:37Is it? I...I don't know.

0:48:38 > 0:48:40Hey.

0:48:40 > 0:48:42- Hey!- What?

0:48:42 > 0:48:43Let's play a game.

0:48:43 > 0:48:45- A game?- Mmm-hmm.

0:48:45 > 0:48:48- What are you, eight? - What are you, 78?

0:48:48 > 0:48:50- Truth or dare? - Oh, come on. Let's...let's...

0:48:50 > 0:48:51- Truth or dare?- Oh.

0:48:52 > 0:48:54Truth.

0:48:56 > 0:49:01When we first met, you made a comment about my ass.

0:49:01 > 0:49:02Why did you do that?

0:49:04 > 0:49:08You have a terrific ass, and I noticed that.

0:49:08 > 0:49:10And I just commented on it.

0:49:12 > 0:49:14- Truth or dare?- Dare.

0:49:14 > 0:49:16- Really?- Yeah.

0:49:16 > 0:49:17OK.

0:49:20 > 0:49:23OK. There's a bald guy. He's going to walk right under you.

0:49:23 > 0:49:24I want you to...spit on his head.

0:49:24 > 0:49:26- No!- You said dare.

0:49:26 > 0:49:29- Truth.- No, it's too late.

0:49:36 > 0:49:37- You happy?- Yeah.

0:49:37 > 0:49:39Ew!

0:49:41 > 0:49:43Truth or dare?

0:49:43 > 0:49:45- Truth.- You're boring.

0:49:45 > 0:49:47The truth is always interesting.

0:49:49 > 0:49:50Uh...

0:49:51 > 0:49:53Do you want to fool around with me?

0:49:54 > 0:49:56No.

0:49:56 > 0:49:58Really?

0:49:58 > 0:49:59Why not?

0:49:59 > 0:50:02- That's a second question. - It's a second part.

0:50:05 > 0:50:07I'd be afraid I couldn't get it up.

0:50:11 > 0:50:14That didn't seem to be a problem for you on stage.

0:50:16 > 0:50:19That's because nothing is a problem for me on stage.

0:50:21 > 0:50:24- I want to ask another question. - You already asked another question.

0:50:24 > 0:50:26- One more.- Go ahead.

0:50:28 > 0:50:31If you weren't afraid, what would you want to do to me?

0:50:37 > 0:50:40I'd pull your eyes out of your head...

0:50:40 > 0:50:41That's sweet.

0:50:41 > 0:50:44I'd put them in my own skull...

0:50:44 > 0:50:46..and look around so I could see the street

0:50:46 > 0:50:48the way I used to when I was your age.

0:51:01 > 0:51:02Goodnight.

0:51:45 > 0:51:46DOOR OPENS

0:51:49 > 0:51:50DOOR CLOSES

0:51:53 > 0:51:55Don't kill the messenger.

0:51:56 > 0:51:57He's an asshole.

0:51:59 > 0:52:00- BIRDMAN:- I told you.

0:52:00 > 0:52:02You fucking prick!

0:52:02 > 0:52:03He's playing you, Riggan.

0:52:03 > 0:52:05This is it?

0:52:06 > 0:52:08Page 12. Page 12.

0:52:10 > 0:52:13"Riggan Thomson, better known as the face of the Birdman films,

0:52:13 > 0:52:15"tries not to lay an egg on Broadway."

0:52:15 > 0:52:18- Where's the rest of it? - There is no rest of it.

0:52:18 > 0:52:23- Don't worry, somebody'll be using that to scoop up dog shit tomorrow. - How can you be so calm about this?

0:52:23 > 0:52:24What are my other choices?

0:52:24 > 0:52:27- Aren't you scared at all, Laura?- About what?

0:52:27 > 0:52:28About being humiliated out there!

0:52:28 > 0:52:31It won't be the first time I've been humiliated.

0:52:31 > 0:52:32Well, of course it won't.

0:52:36 > 0:52:37You're an asshole.

0:52:44 > 0:52:46And, by the way, I'm not pregnant,

0:52:46 > 0:52:48so there's one thing you don't have to worry about.

0:52:51 > 0:52:54- BIRDMAN:- Forget about her.

0:52:54 > 0:52:56He stole your front page.

0:52:56 > 0:52:59He's stealing your show. He thinks you're a joke.

0:53:00 > 0:53:03Now 2 million people agree with him.

0:53:03 > 0:53:07Maybe you are, Riggan. Maybe that's what you are - a joke.

0:53:26 > 0:53:29Whoa! What the hell is going on?

0:53:29 > 0:53:30- Get up!- Hey! Ow! That hurts!

0:53:30 > 0:53:32- Get up!- Back away!

0:53:32 > 0:53:34- So, Carver's the reason you became an actor, huh?- What?

0:53:34 > 0:53:36Listen to me. This is my fucking show.

0:53:36 > 0:53:39I did the work. I raised the money. I arrange the fucking press!

0:53:39 > 0:53:43Oh, Jesus! THEY called ME for an interview.

0:53:43 > 0:53:46- I told them the first thing that came into my head.- Really?

0:53:46 > 0:53:48The cover of the Arts section, for Christ's sake!

0:53:48 > 0:53:51You told them the first thing that came into your... Fuck the Arts section!

0:53:51 > 0:53:55You told them the first thing that came into your head? Right. Because that's you, Mike, right?

0:53:55 > 0:53:57You're Mr Natural. Mr Fuck-the-scene.

0:53:57 > 0:54:01- Just-stare-at-my-massive-hard-on. Right? That's the truth of the moment.- You think it looked massive?

0:54:01 > 0:54:04Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up! You don't get hard on my stage unless I tell you to!

0:54:04 > 0:54:06- Your stage?- Yeah.- Oh, let me tell you something.

0:54:06 > 0:54:10This stage has belonged to a lot of great actors, but you are not one of them, pal.

0:54:10 > 0:54:12Really? So you wrote your own lines, huh?

0:54:12 > 0:54:13Ow! I did, actually.

0:54:13 > 0:54:16You wrote a few changes and you mumbled a little bit, you self-absorbed prick!

0:54:16 > 0:54:19- Hey! I'm self-absorbed? Look at you. - You nobody, spiteful piece of shit! - Nobody?

0:54:19 > 0:54:22- Yeah.- My massive hard-on got 50,000 views on YouTube.

0:54:22 > 0:54:25A cat playing with a dildo gets more than that! Get the fuck out of here!

0:54:25 > 0:54:27- I don't care.- Yes, you do! You care.

0:54:27 > 0:54:29- I'm a theatre actor. - I don't give a shit. You care.

0:54:29 > 0:54:31Everybody says, "Oh, Mike is so honest.

0:54:31 > 0:54:34- "Mike is so motherfucking truthful!"- Ow! Hey, hey!

0:54:34 > 0:54:38- Shit!- You said in the interview your father was a drunk like Carver. Is that true, Mike? Is that true?

0:54:38 > 0:54:40- No. No.- Cos my father was.

0:54:40 > 0:54:44- My father was a mean fucking drunk. You understand?- OK.

0:54:44 > 0:54:46He beat the shit out of us.

0:54:46 > 0:54:48That was OK, though, because at least when he was beating us,

0:54:48 > 0:54:52he wasn't thinking about taking us out to his tool shed.

0:54:52 > 0:54:54Because when we got to the tool shed...

0:54:54 > 0:54:56..that son of a bitch would smile and say,

0:54:56 > 0:54:58"You want to get down on your knees and unbuckle my belt,

0:54:58 > 0:55:01"or do you want me to take it off and use it on you?"

0:55:01 > 0:55:04After a while, I made myself numb, so, you know. But my...

0:55:04 > 0:55:05..my little sister...

0:55:07 > 0:55:11OK. OK. OK. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey.

0:55:11 > 0:55:12Oh, God.

0:55:13 > 0:55:16Uh, I didn't know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

0:55:16 > 0:55:20- That's...that's fucking horrible, man. I'm sorry.- Yeah.

0:55:21 > 0:55:24- It's also not true. See, I can pretend, too.- Oh!

0:55:24 > 0:55:26Don't fuck with me, Mike. I'm telling you.

0:55:26 > 0:55:30- You're a little bit crazy. You should start using that on stage. - Yeah, you have no fucking idea.

0:55:30 > 0:55:34- "Working with Riggan Thomson's like waltzing with a monkey." Huh? - I might have said that.

0:55:34 > 0:55:36Yeah, you might? Come on, let's go.

0:55:36 > 0:55:38- Come on.- Yeah?- Yeah.

0:55:38 > 0:55:41Why don't you get your wings and your fucking birdsuit, man?

0:55:41 > 0:55:42Ow!

0:55:46 > 0:55:48THEY GROAN

0:55:51 > 0:55:54I'm going to crab up on your ass and choke you out. I'm going to fucking choke you out!

0:55:54 > 0:55:56- Get off of me! - What are you looking at?

0:55:56 > 0:55:58What are you going to do, you going to replace me?!

0:55:58 > 0:56:01You going to get fucking Ryan Gosling or some shit?!

0:56:01 > 0:56:05What do you think my friend Tabitha's going to do to you in the Times, you fucking dilettante?

0:56:23 > 0:56:26- BIRDMAN:- You are lame, Riggan,

0:56:26 > 0:56:30rolling around with that poncy theatre fuck

0:56:30 > 0:56:33in an 800-seat shithole like this.

0:56:39 > 0:56:42Oh, you really fucked up this time.

0:56:42 > 0:56:46You destroy a genius book with that infantile adaptation.

0:56:46 > 0:56:50Now you're about to destroy what's left of your career.

0:56:51 > 0:56:53It's pathetic.

0:56:53 > 0:56:54Breathing in, I am calm.

0:56:54 > 0:56:57Let's get the hell out of here while we can.

0:56:57 > 0:56:59I ignore this mental formation.

0:56:59 > 0:57:01This is a mental formation.

0:57:01 > 0:57:03Stop that shit!

0:57:03 > 0:57:06I'm not a mental formation. I'm you, asshole!

0:57:07 > 0:57:08Leave me alone.

0:57:08 > 0:57:10You were a movie star, remember?

0:57:10 > 0:57:13- Pretentious, but happy. - I wasn't happy.

0:57:13 > 0:57:17Ignorant, but charming. Now you're just a tiny, bitter cocksucker.

0:57:17 > 0:57:20I was fucking miserable. I was fucking miserable.

0:57:20 > 0:57:24Yeah, but fake miserable. Hollywood miserable.

0:57:24 > 0:57:25What are you trying to prove?

0:57:25 > 0:57:27That you're an artist? Well, you're not.

0:57:27 > 0:57:29Fuck you!

0:57:29 > 0:57:31No, fuck you, you coward.

0:57:31 > 0:57:35We grossed billions! What, are you ashamed of that? Billions!

0:57:35 > 0:57:37And billions of flies eat shit every day!

0:57:37 > 0:57:39So what? Does that make it good?

0:57:41 > 0:57:44I don't know if you noticed, but that was 1992!

0:57:44 > 0:57:47You could jump right back into that suit, if you wanted to. We're not dead.

0:57:47 > 0:57:51Oh, look at me! Look at this! Look, look, look!

0:57:51 > 0:57:54I look like a turkey with leukaemia!

0:57:54 > 0:57:56I'm fucking disappearing.

0:57:57 > 0:57:58This is what's left!

0:57:58 > 0:58:01I'm the answer to a fucking Trivial Pursuit question!

0:58:01 > 0:58:02You're an impostor here.

0:58:02 > 0:58:05Eventually, they're going to figure you out.

0:58:05 > 0:58:07What part of this don't you get? You're dead.

0:58:07 > 0:58:09We are not dead.

0:58:09 > 0:58:11Oh, please, just stay dead.

0:58:11 > 0:58:12We are not dead.

0:58:12 > 0:58:15Stop saying "we"! There is no "we"!

0:58:15 > 0:58:19I'm not fucking you! I'm Riggan fucking Thomson!

0:58:19 > 0:58:22No, you're Birdman.

0:58:22 > 0:58:26Because, without me, all that's left is you...

0:58:26 > 0:58:29..a sad, selfish, mediocre actor...

0:58:29 > 0:58:33..grasping at the last vestiges of his career.

0:58:35 > 0:58:37GLASS SMASHES

0:58:39 > 0:58:42What the hell did you do that for? I liked that poster.

0:58:42 > 0:58:43HE CHUCKLES

0:58:43 > 0:58:45It's always "we", brother.

0:58:45 > 0:58:48Fuck you! Shut the fuck up!

0:58:48 > 0:58:49Leave me alone!

0:58:58 > 0:59:01You're fucking, so fucking annoying! Shut up!

0:59:08 > 0:59:10Hey. What's up?

0:59:10 > 0:59:12Um, well...

0:59:12 > 0:59:15- ..one hour till curtain. - Yeah, cool.- Why don't you rest a little bit?

0:59:15 > 0:59:17Yeah, I'm going to lay down.

0:59:17 > 0:59:20- Almost there, buddy. Last preview.- OK. Cool.

0:59:20 > 0:59:22- How you doing?- Good. Great.

0:59:22 > 0:59:25Good. The money came through. I just need to transfer it into the account.

0:59:25 > 0:59:27There you go, thank you. Good, that's terrific.

0:59:27 > 0:59:29So...yeah, I'll go, uh, do that.

0:59:29 > 0:59:31Thanks for stopping by.

0:59:31 > 0:59:32- Yeah.- OK.

0:59:35 > 0:59:37You know I'm proud of you, don't you?

0:59:38 > 0:59:40This took balls.

0:59:40 > 0:59:43- And you did it, OK?- I know.

0:59:43 > 0:59:46Hey, I think we ought to cancel the preview.

0:59:46 > 0:59:50- What?- I'm tired, dude. I can't do this any more, Jake.

0:59:51 > 0:59:52I can't.

0:59:54 > 0:59:56- HE LAUGHS - That's a joke, right?

0:59:57 > 1:00:01You know, I don't think this is for me. The whole...

1:00:02 > 1:00:03They're laughing at me.

1:00:03 > 1:00:08There is a three-block line of people waiting for you!

1:00:10 > 1:00:13It's a...it's a full house. W-w-we're sold out!

1:00:13 > 1:00:15- Really?- Yes!

1:00:15 > 1:00:17And the French Ambassador's coming.

1:00:17 > 1:00:20And the Prince of Saudi Arabia's bringing one of his wives.

1:00:20 > 1:00:25And I didn't want to tell you this, but Martin Scorsese...

1:00:25 > 1:00:28..is casting his new film and, you know... Don't tell anybody.

1:00:28 > 1:00:31- No, no, no, I won't.- OK?

1:00:31 > 1:00:32OK?

1:00:32 > 1:00:35OK. Yeah, yeah, I'm ready. I can be ready.

1:00:35 > 1:00:37- Good.- Thank you.

1:00:41 > 1:00:43How is he?

1:00:43 > 1:00:44He'll be fine.

1:00:44 > 1:00:46Poor creature.

1:00:46 > 1:00:48Is it true? Scorsese?

1:00:48 > 1:00:50Yeah. And the new Pope, too.

1:00:52 > 1:00:54You're an asshole, Jake!

1:00:54 > 1:00:57I'm the one keeping this afloat!

1:01:10 > 1:01:12Hey.

1:01:15 > 1:01:16Are you OK?

1:01:16 > 1:01:18Yeah. Yeah.

1:01:18 > 1:01:21No, I-I...think I cut my hand shaving.

1:01:21 > 1:01:24Well, I-I-I just wanted to say... I'm sorry.

1:01:24 > 1:01:25What for?

1:01:25 > 1:01:26Well..

1:01:26 > 1:01:30..I knew what Mike was capable of, and I brought him in, anyway.

1:01:30 > 1:01:32No, no, no, no, no. You did good. You did good.

1:01:32 > 1:01:34Are you kidding? You did great.

1:01:36 > 1:01:40Tomorrow's my first opening night on Broadway.

1:01:40 > 1:01:42Mine too.

1:01:42 > 1:01:45And I just want to let you know that, no matter what happens, that...

1:01:47 > 1:01:48..I'm really grateful to you.

1:01:48 > 1:01:50Oh, no, no. Me too.

1:01:51 > 1:01:53Hey, this is exciting.

1:01:54 > 1:01:57We have a full house. Jake just told me.

1:01:58 > 1:02:00Yeah, it's great.

1:02:07 > 1:02:09Oh, God!

1:02:34 > 1:02:36For fuck's sake, just jump already.

1:02:37 > 1:02:40How'd you know I'd be up here?

1:02:40 > 1:02:44Well, I didn't know, but I... kind of hoped, maybe.

1:02:45 > 1:02:46Where's Lesley?

1:02:47 > 1:02:50Lesley? Uh, Lesley's moving on.

1:02:52 > 1:02:53Smart girl.

1:02:53 > 1:02:56Oh, thank you. I appreciate that support.

1:02:58 > 1:03:01You ready for your last preview?

1:03:01 > 1:03:02Sure, yeah.

1:03:02 > 1:03:04Who did that to you?

1:03:06 > 1:03:08Could have been anybody, I guess.

1:03:08 > 1:03:10Yes.

1:03:10 > 1:03:13I'm sort of hoping it was Lesley.

1:03:13 > 1:03:15Well, it wasn't Lesley.

1:03:18 > 1:03:19Oh, my God.

1:03:19 > 1:03:22- Are you fucking kidding me?- No.

1:03:23 > 1:03:26- Jesus Christ!- No, no. I-I...

1:03:26 > 1:03:28..I think maybe I deserved it.

1:03:30 > 1:03:32Fuck.

1:03:32 > 1:03:33Hey.

1:03:33 > 1:03:34Fuck.

1:03:35 > 1:03:38Tell me something. What is...

1:03:38 > 1:03:41What is the worst thing that he did to you?

1:03:41 > 1:03:42Seriously.

1:03:42 > 1:03:44He was never around.

1:03:44 > 1:03:48Yeah? I mean, so what? That was it?

1:03:48 > 1:03:52No. It was...how he tried to make up for it

1:03:52 > 1:03:56by constantly trying to convince me that I was special.

1:04:04 > 1:04:06OK. Look.

1:04:06 > 1:04:08Look at me.

1:04:09 > 1:04:11He was right, though.

1:04:11 > 1:04:12About what?

1:04:12 > 1:04:14About your being special.

1:04:15 > 1:04:18You know, you...you've been hanging around here,

1:04:18 > 1:04:20trying to make yourself invisible

1:04:20 > 1:04:22behind this fragile little fuck-up routine of yours,

1:04:22 > 1:04:24but you can't.

1:04:24 > 1:04:27You're anything but invisible. You're big.

1:04:28 > 1:04:30You're kind of a great mess.

1:04:30 > 1:04:33It's like a candle burning on both ends, but it's beautiful.

1:04:34 > 1:04:38No amount of booze or weed or attitude is going to hide that.

1:04:43 > 1:04:48I'm glad you're an actor and not a writer cos that was, like...

1:04:49 > 1:04:50..Oprah...

1:04:52 > 1:04:54..Hallmark...

1:04:54 > 1:04:55..R Kelly bad.

1:04:55 > 1:04:57Yeah, well, I wasn't...

1:04:58 > 1:04:59Mm.

1:05:04 > 1:05:05HE CLEARS THROAT

1:05:19 > 1:05:21Truth or dare?

1:05:21 > 1:05:22- Truth.- No.

1:05:27 > 1:05:29- Truth.- No.

1:05:32 > 1:05:34Truth or dare?

1:05:54 > 1:05:56Do you have any idea where you're going?

1:05:56 > 1:05:58Absolutely not.

1:06:07 > 1:06:09How do you do it?

1:06:10 > 1:06:11Do what?

1:06:11 > 1:06:13How do you go out there, every single night,

1:06:13 > 1:06:16and pretend to be somebody else in front of all those people?

1:06:16 > 1:06:19I don't pretend out there. I told you.

1:06:19 > 1:06:23I pretend just about every place else, but not out there.

1:06:23 > 1:06:25That's a shame.

1:06:26 > 1:06:29What are we doing here?

1:06:29 > 1:06:30What do you mean?

1:06:31 > 1:06:33I mean, what are we doing here?

1:06:39 > 1:06:41Fucking teenagers!

1:06:42 > 1:06:46By the time we got to the hospital, the kid was dead.

1:06:46 > 1:06:51So we took the old couple up to the OR.

1:06:51 > 1:06:54And we...worked like hell on them...

1:06:54 > 1:06:56..through most of the night.

1:06:57 > 1:07:02The husband, the old man, was depressed for the longest time.

1:07:02 > 1:07:06Even after I told him the wife was going to pull through, he was still depressed.

1:07:06 > 1:07:10So, I went up to the mouth hole and I asked him.

1:07:12 > 1:07:16And he told me it was because he couldn't see her,

1:07:16 > 1:07:19the wife, through the eyeholes.

1:07:19 > 1:07:20Can you imagine?

1:07:20 > 1:07:23I'm telling you, this guy's heart was breaking

1:07:23 > 1:07:28because he couldn't turn his goddamn head just to see his goddamn wife.

1:07:28 > 1:07:30So...

1:07:30 > 1:07:34..I guess the question we should ask ourselves is...

1:07:34 > 1:07:38..what do we talk about when we talk about love?

1:07:40 > 1:07:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

1:07:50 > 1:07:52Mel and I had been together five years,

1:07:52 > 1:07:56and I don't know how many times I'd heard the words "I love you",

1:07:56 > 1:07:57but it wasn't till that night...

1:07:57 > 1:07:58- Blood rig should be good now.- OK.

1:07:58 > 1:08:01Be ready to go in two minutes.

1:08:01 > 1:08:03That was amazing!

1:08:03 > 1:08:04- Yeah, good, right?- Yeah!

1:08:07 > 1:08:09It's actually going well.

1:08:09 > 1:08:10Yeah.

1:08:12 > 1:08:13I, uh...

1:08:13 > 1:08:15..think we need to talk.

1:08:15 > 1:08:16No, no.

1:08:16 > 1:08:18Yeah, I guess you're right,

1:08:18 > 1:08:21but we will eventually because that's the only way

1:08:21 > 1:08:23I'm going to get a chance to say I'm sorry.

1:08:23 > 1:08:24I really am sorry.

1:08:26 > 1:08:28We could've made great parents.

1:08:28 > 1:08:30- Horrible. We'd have been... - Awful. We would've raised, like...

1:08:30 > 1:08:33- A serial killer.- Justin Bieber.

1:08:35 > 1:08:38I really wanted to be a mum.

1:08:38 > 1:08:40But my body doesn't seem to agree.

1:08:46 > 1:08:48When I imagined myself on Broadway,

1:08:48 > 1:08:50I never saw the dancing reindeer.

1:08:50 > 1:08:51Nice touch.

1:08:57 > 1:09:00In the days before Nick's depression started to eat away at him,

1:09:00 > 1:09:03he had no idea I was pregnant

1:09:03 > 1:09:06and I never intended on telling him.

1:09:06 > 1:09:07I guess you make choices in life,

1:09:07 > 1:09:10and you choose to live with them.

1:09:10 > 1:09:11Or not.

1:09:11 > 1:09:14I didn't want that baby.

1:09:14 > 1:09:16Not because I didn't love Nick, and not because

1:09:16 > 1:09:18I didn't love the idea of it, but because...

1:09:20 > 1:09:22..I just wasn't ready to love myself.

1:09:24 > 1:09:26There's a distance to it now.

1:09:27 > 1:09:30Hey, Jimmy, you got a smoke?

1:09:57 > 1:10:01INAUDIBLE

1:10:15 > 1:10:16Jimmy!

1:10:18 > 1:10:19Hey!

1:10:24 > 1:10:25Hey!

1:10:25 > 1:10:27Jimmy! Jimmy!

1:10:27 > 1:10:28Jimmy!

1:10:31 > 1:10:32Hey!

1:10:33 > 1:10:34Argh!

1:10:34 > 1:10:35Shit!

1:10:36 > 1:10:37Fuck!

1:10:43 > 1:10:45Fuck.

1:10:53 > 1:10:55Hey, aren't you Riggan Thomson?

1:10:55 > 1:10:57Holy shit, let me get an autograph.

1:10:57 > 1:11:00Don't be a dick. Let me get an autograph.

1:11:00 > 1:11:01Dude, you fucking rock!

1:11:01 > 1:11:03Birdman!

1:11:03 > 1:11:04Oh, shit!

1:11:10 > 1:11:13Oh, my God! Do you see that?

1:11:14 > 1:11:17Oh, can we take one picture?

1:11:17 > 1:11:19Just one picture! Kids, get next to him!

1:11:19 > 1:11:21- Hey, Birdman!- You suck!

1:11:21 > 1:11:22You suck!

1:11:33 > 1:11:35Riggan, we're going to miss him.

1:11:35 > 1:11:38It's the Bird-fucking-man! Hey, come look at this guy!

1:11:38 > 1:11:42Birdman! Hey, Birdman, whoo! Look at that!

1:11:48 > 1:11:51Where you going, man?

1:11:51 > 1:11:53You look so old in person.

1:11:53 > 1:11:54Fuck you!

1:11:58 > 1:12:00Sir! Sir! Where are you going?

1:12:00 > 1:12:03Sir! Where are you... Sir!

1:12:03 > 1:12:05What are you doing?

1:12:05 > 1:12:08I'm waiting for Jake. This is my attorney, Mr Roth.

1:12:08 > 1:12:10We're pursuing financial remunerations for the injuries...

1:12:10 > 1:12:12- I got a play to do!- Excuse me?

1:12:12 > 1:12:14Excuse me, sir, you can't go in there! You can't...

1:12:14 > 1:12:17Actors Equity is a very strong union, sir!

1:12:20 > 1:12:23THUNDER CLAPS

1:12:27 > 1:12:31Knock, knock, knock! Terri! Terri!

1:12:31 > 1:12:32Ed?

1:12:33 > 1:12:35What are...what are you doing here?

1:12:35 > 1:12:38Why?! I just need you to tell me why!

1:12:38 > 1:12:40Take it easy, Ed. I know this is hard.

1:12:40 > 1:12:42Shut up! Fuck you! Shut up! AUDIENCE LAUGHS

1:12:42 > 1:12:43Shut up!

1:12:43 > 1:12:44Eddie, please!

1:12:47 > 1:12:49What's wrong with me?

1:12:51 > 1:12:54Why do I always...beg people to love me?

1:12:54 > 1:12:58Eddie, please, just...please, just give me the gun.

1:12:58 > 1:12:59AUDIENCE MURMUR

1:13:00 > 1:13:02I just wanted to be what you wanted.

1:13:02 > 1:13:06Now I spend every fucking day...

1:13:06 > 1:13:08..trying to be somebody else, somebody I'm not!

1:13:08 > 1:13:10Put the gun down. She just doesn't love you!

1:13:10 > 1:13:11SHE SCREAMS

1:13:11 > 1:13:12AUDIENCE GASP

1:13:12 > 1:13:15Eddie. Look at me. I was drowning.

1:13:15 > 1:13:17I-I'm just not capable of that kind of...

1:13:17 > 1:13:19PHONE RINGS

1:13:19 > 1:13:22You deserve to be loved, Eddie. You do.

1:13:22 > 1:13:24- I just wanted to be what you wanted.- Hello?

1:13:24 > 1:13:27Mr Roth? OK, don't leave, please don't...

1:13:27 > 1:13:29Is that a threat? What wheelchair?

1:13:29 > 1:13:32OK, Mr Roth, please, just hear me out. Will you hear me out?

1:13:32 > 1:13:34Don't hang up. Don't hang up. OK, listen.

1:13:34 > 1:13:36Give me ten minutes to grab my things,

1:13:36 > 1:13:39give me ten minutes, and we can meet to discu... Please, don't hang up.

1:13:39 > 1:13:42Goddamn it! The motherfucker hung up!

1:13:52 > 1:13:54LOUD BANG IN DISTANCE

1:13:54 > 1:13:56SCREAMING IN DISTANCE

1:13:56 > 1:14:04CHEERING AND APPLAUSE IN DISTANCE

1:14:29 > 1:14:30Dad.

1:14:32 > 1:14:33Dad!

1:14:33 > 1:14:35- Hey!- Are you...OK?

1:14:35 > 1:14:37Why?

1:14:37 > 1:14:39You...s-seem sort of...

1:14:39 > 1:14:42No, I'm good, I'm good.

1:14:42 > 1:14:44This is good. You want some?

1:14:44 > 1:14:45No.

1:14:46 > 1:14:47OK.

1:14:47 > 1:14:50Do you really think you'll be ready for opening tomorrow?

1:14:50 > 1:14:51Yeah. Yep.

1:14:53 > 1:14:56Yeah, well, I mean...

1:14:56 > 1:14:58..previews were pretty much a train wreck.

1:14:58 > 1:15:01We can't seem to get through a performance without...

1:15:01 > 1:15:05..a raging fire or a raging hard-on. I'm broke.

1:15:05 > 1:15:08I'm not sleeping, like, you know... at all.

1:15:08 > 1:15:13And, uh, this play is kind of starting to feel like a...

1:15:13 > 1:15:17..miniature, deformed version of myself that just keeps...

1:15:17 > 1:15:20..following me around and, like,

1:15:20 > 1:15:24hitting me in the balls with a, like...a tiny little hammer.

1:15:26 > 1:15:27I'm sorry, what was the question?

1:15:27 > 1:15:30Never mind.

1:15:30 > 1:15:32- Tonight wasn't bad.- I know.

1:15:32 > 1:15:35- It was weird, but it was kind of cool.- Yeah, really, you think?

1:15:35 > 1:15:38- Yeah, I think people liked it. - Yeah, well...

1:15:38 > 1:15:40What are you doing, by the way? Homework?

1:15:40 > 1:15:42No, I don't..

1:15:42 > 1:15:45No, um... When I was in rehab, they made us do this.

1:15:45 > 1:15:46Really? What is it?

1:15:46 > 1:15:50It's, um... These dashes represent the 6 billion years

1:15:50 > 1:15:51that the Earth has been around.

1:15:51 > 1:15:54And so, each dash represents 1,000 years.

1:15:54 > 1:15:59And, um, this...is how long humans have been here.

1:15:59 > 1:16:01150,000 years.

1:16:02 > 1:16:04I think they're trying to remind us that

1:16:04 > 1:16:07that's all our ego and self-obsession are worth.

1:16:11 > 1:16:13I was a shitty father, wasn't I?

1:16:15 > 1:16:16No, you were...

1:16:18 > 1:16:20You were fine.

1:16:20 > 1:16:21Yeah.

1:16:21 > 1:16:23That's right, I was... I was just fine.

1:16:25 > 1:16:26Um...

1:16:27 > 1:16:28I can't...

1:16:28 > 1:16:30- Dad?- What?

1:16:30 > 1:16:32Oh, shoot. Ow! I'm sorry.

1:16:32 > 1:16:36You just wiped out the entire human race.

1:16:36 > 1:16:38There it goes. I'm sorry.

1:16:40 > 1:16:42Hey, um...

1:16:42 > 1:16:44You're becoming a trending topic.

1:16:44 > 1:16:46- Really?- Yeah.

1:16:47 > 1:16:50I should probably tell you about this before anybody else does.

1:16:54 > 1:16:57350,000 views in less than an hour.

1:16:59 > 1:17:00Fuck!

1:17:02 > 1:17:05Believe it or not, this is power.

1:17:08 > 1:17:12Hey, look at that! Hey, look, it's Riggan Thomson!

1:17:12 > 1:17:14Whoa! Look at that.

1:17:14 > 1:17:161 million, 300,000 hits in the last two hours.

1:17:16 > 1:17:19What you're seeing is Birdman actor Riggan Thomson running through the streets...

1:17:19 > 1:17:22- Hey, give me another one. - You got it.

1:17:22 > 1:17:26- Oh, come on. That takes a lot of balls.- Or not.- Ouch!

1:17:26 > 1:17:28What do you need to do to get a job in this town these days?

1:17:28 > 1:17:31I know, like, why do actors have to resort to this? Come on...

1:17:31 > 1:17:34That's going over to Ms Dickinson.

1:17:34 > 1:17:36Yeah. Yeah. Give me a minute.

1:17:40 > 1:17:43Hey, um, that's on me. She's a friend of mine.

1:17:43 > 1:17:45OK.

1:17:45 > 1:17:47Thank you.

1:17:57 > 1:17:59That was...

1:17:59 > 1:18:02..20 years before I put on that goddamn outfit.

1:18:02 > 1:18:04I don't care.

1:18:06 > 1:18:08OK. I was...just...

1:18:09 > 1:18:11You...you know, before you come tomorrow night...

1:18:11 > 1:18:13- It doesn't matter.- OK.

1:18:16 > 1:18:18I'm going to destroy your play.

1:18:20 > 1:18:22But you didn't even see it.

1:18:22 > 1:18:25- Um, you know, did I do something to offend you? - As a matter of fact, you did.

1:18:25 > 1:18:27You took up space in a theatre which, otherwise,

1:18:27 > 1:18:30might have been used on something worthwhile.

1:18:30 > 1:18:35OK. Well... I mean, you don't even know if it's any good or not. I didn't...

1:18:35 > 1:18:39That's true. I haven't read a word of it, or even seen a preview,

1:18:39 > 1:18:40but, after the opening tomorrow,

1:18:40 > 1:18:45I'm going to turn in the worst review anybody has ever read.

1:18:45 > 1:18:47And I'm going to close your play.

1:18:47 > 1:18:49Would you like to know why?

1:18:49 > 1:18:54Because I hate you and everyone you represent.

1:18:54 > 1:18:58Entitled, selfish, spoiled children.

1:18:58 > 1:19:02Blissfully untrained, unversed and unprepared...

1:19:02 > 1:19:04..to even attempt real art.

1:19:04 > 1:19:08Handing each other awards for cartoons and pornography.

1:19:08 > 1:19:11Measuring your worth in weekends?

1:19:11 > 1:19:13Well, this is the theatre.

1:19:13 > 1:19:15And you don't get to come in here and pretend

1:19:15 > 1:19:17you can write, direct and act

1:19:17 > 1:19:18in your own propaganda piece

1:19:18 > 1:19:21without coming through me first.

1:19:21 > 1:19:23- Ah.- So break a leg.

1:19:25 > 1:19:28Wow. You know, what has to happen in a person's life

1:19:28 > 1:19:31for them to become a critic, anyway?

1:19:31 > 1:19:33What are you writing, another review?

1:19:33 > 1:19:35Huh? Is it any good?

1:19:35 > 1:19:38Is it? Is it bad? Did you even see this? Let me read it.

1:19:38 > 1:19:42- I will call the police. - No, you won't call the police. Let's read your fucking review.

1:19:42 > 1:19:45"Callow." Callow is a label.

1:19:45 > 1:19:48"Lacklustre." That's just a label.

1:19:48 > 1:19:50Margin... "Marginalia"? Are you kidding me?

1:19:50 > 1:19:53It sounds like you need penicillin to clear that up.

1:19:53 > 1:19:56That's a label, too. These are just all labels. You just label everything.

1:19:56 > 1:20:01That's so fucking lazy. You're just...you're a lazy fucker.

1:20:01 > 1:20:02You're a lazy...

1:20:02 > 1:20:06Do you know what this is? Do you even know what that is?

1:20:06 > 1:20:07You don't. You know why?

1:20:07 > 1:20:10Because you can't see this thing

1:20:10 > 1:20:11if you don't know how to label it.

1:20:11 > 1:20:15You mistake all those little noises in your head for true knowledge.

1:20:15 > 1:20:17- Are you finished? - No, I'm not finished.

1:20:17 > 1:20:20There's nothing in here about technique. There's nothing in here about structure,

1:20:20 > 1:20:23nothing in here about intention. It's just a bunch of crappy opinions

1:20:23 > 1:20:27backed up by even crappier comparisons.

1:20:27 > 1:20:30You write a couple of paragraphs, and you know what?

1:20:30 > 1:20:33None of this costs you fucking anything.

1:20:33 > 1:20:34GLASS SMASHES

1:20:34 > 1:20:36You risk nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing!

1:20:36 > 1:20:38Well, I'm a fucking actor!

1:20:42 > 1:20:44This play cost me everything.

1:20:46 > 1:20:49So I'll tell you what. You take this fucking...

1:20:49 > 1:20:51malicious, cowardly...

1:20:51 > 1:20:56..shittily-written review and you shove that right the fuck up...

1:20:56 > 1:21:00..your wrinkly...tight ass.

1:21:04 > 1:21:07You're no actor, you're a celebrity.

1:21:07 > 1:21:08Let's be clear on that.

1:21:14 > 1:21:16I'm going to kill your play.

1:21:47 > 1:21:50Tomorrow...

1:21:50 > 1:21:52..and tomorrow...

1:21:53 > 1:21:55..and tomorrow...

1:21:57 > 1:21:59- ..creeps in this... - CAR HORN BEEPS

1:22:02 > 1:22:04..petty pace...

1:22:04 > 1:22:06..from day to day...

1:22:08 > 1:22:11..to the last...syllable...

1:22:13 > 1:22:15..of recorded time.

1:22:17 > 1:22:18And...

1:22:20 > 1:22:23..all of our yesterdays...

1:22:25 > 1:22:26..have lighted...

1:22:28 > 1:22:29..fools!

1:22:32 > 1:22:33Give me a pint of whisky, please.

1:22:33 > 1:22:36Dusty death.

1:22:36 > 1:22:39Out...out...

1:22:40 > 1:22:426.50, my friend.

1:22:42 > 1:22:43- Huh?- 6.50.

1:22:45 > 1:22:48Here, just, uh...uh... just take that.

1:22:51 > 1:22:53Walking shadow...

1:22:55 > 1:22:57..a poor...

1:22:57 > 1:22:59..player...

1:23:00 > 1:23:05..that struts and frets his hour upon the stage...

1:23:05 > 1:23:07..and then is heard...

1:23:08 > 1:23:10..no more!

1:23:10 > 1:23:12It is a tale...

1:23:12 > 1:23:16..told by an idiot...

1:23:16 > 1:23:19..full of sound and fury...

1:23:20 > 1:23:24..signifying nothing!

1:23:27 > 1:23:30Where you going, man? Was that too much?

1:23:30 > 1:23:32I was just trying to give you a range.

1:23:32 > 1:23:34It's a little bit too much. I can tell because you...

1:23:34 > 1:23:36I just wanted to give you a range. I just...

1:23:36 > 1:23:38That was a little too much....

1:24:31 > 1:24:35- BIRDMAN:- God! You look like shit, brother.

1:24:35 > 1:24:39You get that mongoloid look when you're hungover. Don't you?

1:24:39 > 1:24:40Ha-ha! Yeah.

1:24:41 > 1:24:44Let's go! Come on. Get up.

1:24:44 > 1:24:46It's a beautiful day.

1:24:46 > 1:24:51Forget about the Times. Everyone else has.

1:24:51 > 1:24:53Come on! Stand up!

1:24:54 > 1:24:57So you're not a great actor. Who cares?

1:24:57 > 1:24:59You're much more than that.

1:24:59 > 1:25:03You tower over these other theatre douchebags.

1:25:03 > 1:25:05You're a movie star, man!

1:25:05 > 1:25:08You're a global force! Don't you get it?

1:25:08 > 1:25:10You spent your whole life building a bank account

1:25:10 > 1:25:12and a reputation, and you blew 'em both.

1:25:12 > 1:25:13Good for you.

1:25:13 > 1:25:16Fuck it. We'll make a comeback.

1:25:16 > 1:25:19They're waiting for something huge. Well, give it to them.

1:25:19 > 1:25:22Shave off that pathetic goatee. Get some surgery!

1:25:22 > 1:25:2560's the new 30, motherfucker!

1:25:25 > 1:25:28You're the original, man. You paved the way for all these other little clowns.

1:25:28 > 1:25:30Give the people what they want...

1:25:30 > 1:25:32..some good old-fashioned apocalyptic porn.

1:25:32 > 1:25:34Birdman: The Phoenix Rises.

1:25:34 > 1:25:36Pimple-faced gamers creaming in their pants.

1:25:36 > 1:25:39A billion worldwide, guaranteed!

1:25:39 > 1:25:41You are larger than life, man.

1:25:41 > 1:25:44You save people from their boring, miserable lives.

1:25:44 > 1:25:47You make them jump, laugh, shit their pants.

1:25:47 > 1:25:49All you have to do is...

1:25:59 > 1:26:02That's what I'm talking about!

1:26:02 > 1:26:05Bones rattling! Big, loud, fast!

1:26:05 > 1:26:08Look at these people, look at their eyes. They're all sparkling.

1:26:08 > 1:26:12They love this shit. They love blood. They love action.

1:26:12 > 1:26:16Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.

1:26:21 > 1:26:22ROARS

1:26:25 > 1:26:26Yes!

1:26:26 > 1:26:28And the next time you screech...

1:26:28 > 1:26:30HE SCREECHES

1:26:30 > 1:26:33..it'll explode into millions of eardrums.

1:26:33 > 1:26:38You'll glimmer on thousands of screens around the globe.

1:26:38 > 1:26:41Another blockbuster.

1:26:41 > 1:26:43You are a god.

1:26:43 > 1:26:47See? There you go, you motherfucker.

1:26:47 > 1:26:49Gravity doesn't even apply to you.

1:26:49 > 1:26:53Wait till you see the faces of those who thought we were finished.

1:26:53 > 1:26:55Listen to me. Let's go back one more time

1:26:55 > 1:26:58and show them what we're capable of.

1:26:58 > 1:27:02We have to end it on our own terms...with a grand gesture.

1:27:02 > 1:27:06Flames. Sacrifice.

1:27:06 > 1:27:07Icarus.

1:27:07 > 1:27:09You can do it.

1:27:09 > 1:27:11You hear me?

1:27:11 > 1:27:13You are...

1:27:13 > 1:27:14Birdman!

1:27:18 > 1:27:22Hey! Is this for real or are you shooting a film?

1:27:23 > 1:27:25A film!

1:27:25 > 1:27:27You people are full of shit!

1:27:29 > 1:27:31Hey, man, can I help you?

1:27:32 > 1:27:33You should be careful.

1:27:33 > 1:27:36Sorry, I can't talk. I'm late.

1:27:36 > 1:27:37Music.

1:27:37 > 1:27:40CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

1:27:40 > 1:27:41MUSIC STOPS

1:27:42 > 1:27:43You OK, man?

1:27:45 > 1:27:47You want me to call somebody for you?

1:27:49 > 1:27:50Do you know where to go?

1:27:55 > 1:27:56Yeah.

1:27:56 > 1:27:57I know where to go.

1:27:59 > 1:28:01Oh! Hey! No, wait! What the fu...!

1:28:06 > 1:28:12CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

1:28:12 > 1:28:13Oh! Oh!

1:28:17 > 1:28:20HE LAUGHS

1:28:26 > 1:28:27Whoa!

1:28:27 > 1:28:29HE LAUGHS

1:28:38 > 1:28:39MUSIC STOPS

1:28:42 > 1:28:44You see?

1:28:44 > 1:28:46This is where you belong.

1:28:50 > 1:28:52Above them all.

1:28:55 > 1:28:57Hey, you! Hey!

1:28:57 > 1:29:04CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

1:29:51 > 1:29:53Stop the music. MUSIC STOPS

1:29:53 > 1:29:54- Hey, hey, hey! - I beg your pardon?

1:29:54 > 1:29:56Hello, sir? Hello! Sir, you did not pay me!

1:29:56 > 1:29:59What are you doing? Where are you going? Hey!

1:29:59 > 1:30:01Hey, are you deaf, idiot?

1:30:01 > 1:30:03This guy didn't pay me, man. He's fucking crazy!

1:30:36 > 1:30:37Not a bad first act, huh?

1:30:37 > 1:30:39Not bad at all.

1:30:39 > 1:30:40It's going really well.

1:30:40 > 1:30:42I didn't think he could do Broadway.

1:30:42 > 1:30:44I never would have expected it, from him.

1:30:44 > 1:30:45If the second act is half as good as that...

1:30:45 > 1:30:47It's pretty glorious.

1:30:47 > 1:30:49What do we talk about when we talk about Riggan Thomson?

1:30:49 > 1:30:50How long's the intermission?

1:30:50 > 1:30:52Birdman can act.

1:31:10 > 1:31:11Oh! Whoa.

1:31:11 > 1:31:13I just came to say hello.

1:31:13 > 1:31:17It's going great out there. You're so good.

1:31:17 > 1:31:18I mean it. You're... I really mean it.

1:31:18 > 1:31:22Places for the final scene, Riggan. Places for the final scene.

1:31:22 > 1:31:23Do you need to...?

1:31:23 > 1:31:25No, it's fine. Just sit here for a second.

1:31:25 > 1:31:27Look at all these roses.

1:31:27 > 1:31:28I hate roses.

1:31:28 > 1:31:29And you hate roses.

1:31:31 > 1:31:34Are you OK? You seem...

1:31:34 > 1:31:37You seem... I don't know, you seem abnormally calm.

1:31:39 > 1:31:40I am calm.

1:31:41 > 1:31:43I am great, actually.

1:31:45 > 1:31:47You know...

1:31:47 > 1:31:51I got this...little voice... talks to me sometimes.

1:31:51 > 1:31:53Tells me the truth.

1:31:53 > 1:31:55It's comforting.

1:31:55 > 1:31:57Kind of scary, but it's comforting.

1:31:57 > 1:31:59I'm going to pretend I didn't hear you say that.

1:31:59 > 1:32:01OK.

1:32:01 > 1:32:03You wouldn't believe the crowd outside.

1:32:03 > 1:32:06They said some people paid up to 500 a ticket.

1:32:06 > 1:32:07Really?

1:32:08 > 1:32:10Hey.

1:32:11 > 1:32:13- Can I tell you something funny? - Sure.

1:32:14 > 1:32:16You remember our last anniversary party?

1:32:16 > 1:32:18Seriously? You're going to ruin a nice moment, with that?

1:32:18 > 1:32:20Do you remember the party?

1:32:20 > 1:32:22The party where you fucked Janet Rossbach, in our bed.

1:32:22 > 1:32:23Try to skip over that part.

1:32:23 > 1:32:25Oh, gladly.

1:32:25 > 1:32:27And you threw all the guests out of the house...

1:32:27 > 1:32:29..and you threw all the furniture out the window.

1:32:29 > 1:32:31- I remember...- And you locked yourself in the bathroom.

1:32:31 > 1:32:33Riggan. Why are we talking about...

1:32:33 > 1:32:34I drove out to...

1:32:34 > 1:32:37..Malibu.

1:32:37 > 1:32:40And I just sat on the beach, for a while, looking out at the ocean.

1:32:40 > 1:32:42Riggan.

1:32:42 > 1:32:44And I...walked...

1:32:44 > 1:32:45..straight into the water.

1:32:50 > 1:32:52And then I tried to drown myself.

1:32:57 > 1:33:00I was up to my chest when I felt the first one.

1:33:00 > 1:33:02On my back, it was like somebody was

1:33:02 > 1:33:04holding a frying pan against me and really burning.

1:33:04 > 1:33:09And then they were on my chest and all over my legs.

1:33:09 > 1:33:11The water was full of jellyfish.

1:33:13 > 1:33:15They were all over me.

1:33:15 > 1:33:18I-I had to fight my way out of the water and went up to the...beach.

1:33:18 > 1:33:23I was rolling around like a maniac in the sand...

1:33:23 > 1:33:24..crying.

1:33:25 > 1:33:27You said it was a sunburn.

1:33:28 > 1:33:32Yeah, I know. And you believed me.

1:33:32 > 1:33:34To be honest, I didn't give a shit.

1:33:42 > 1:33:43I love you.

1:33:47 > 1:33:48And I love Sam.

1:33:48 > 1:33:49I know.

1:33:53 > 1:33:56I really wish I wouldn't have videotaped her birth, though.

1:33:56 > 1:33:57Why?

1:33:57 > 1:33:58Cos...

1:33:59 > 1:34:01..I just missed the moment, really.

1:34:01 > 1:34:03I don't have it.

1:34:03 > 1:34:05I should have just been there with the two of you.

1:34:05 > 1:34:09You know...just the three of us.

1:34:12 > 1:34:14But I wasn't.

1:34:14 > 1:34:17I wasn't even present in my own life, and now I don't have it...

1:34:17 > 1:34:19..and, I'm never going to have it.

1:34:19 > 1:34:20You have Sam.

1:34:20 > 1:34:22Not really, I don't. I mean, she's...

1:34:22 > 1:34:24No, no, no. Listen, she's just going through...

1:34:24 > 1:34:26No, I get it, I understand.

1:34:26 > 1:34:28I know she needed to have a dad...

1:34:28 > 1:34:31..and instead she got this guy who was...

1:34:31 > 1:34:34..a three-day viral sensation.

1:34:34 > 1:34:36- It is so pathetic, I can't... - No. Come on.

1:34:36 > 1:34:38There are things more pathetic things than that.

1:34:38 > 1:34:39Yeah, like?

1:34:39 > 1:34:40That moustache.

1:34:45 > 1:34:47Riggan, we are in the motel.

1:34:47 > 1:34:50Last scene has started. You're not here.

1:34:50 > 1:34:53Last chance for "places".

1:34:53 > 1:34:55You better get back to your seat.

1:35:14 > 1:35:1920 little leopards laughed at two lofty lions.

1:35:19 > 1:35:2220 little leopards laughed at two lofty lions.

1:35:22 > 1:35:2620 little leopards laughed at two lofty lions.

1:35:26 > 1:35:3020 little leopards laughed at two lofty lions.

1:35:30 > 1:35:35Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum...

1:35:43 > 1:35:44DRUMMER PLAYS

1:35:56 > 1:35:58Break a leg, Mr Thomson.

1:36:26 > 1:36:30Let me put the blood rig on? Hey!

1:36:32 > 1:36:34Hey!

1:36:34 > 1:36:36Riggan!

1:36:36 > 1:36:37Hey!

1:36:39 > 1:36:40SOUND EFFECT OF THUNDERSTORM

1:36:44 > 1:36:46Terri!

1:36:46 > 1:36:47Terri!

1:36:48 > 1:36:50Eddie! What are you doing here?

1:36:50 > 1:36:53Why? I just want you to tell me why. Just tell me why.

1:36:53 > 1:36:56- Shut up! - Eddie, please!

1:36:56 > 1:36:57What's the matter with me?

1:36:57 > 1:37:01Tell me what's the matter. Why do I always end up having to beg people to love me?

1:37:01 > 1:37:03Eddie, please, give me the gun.

1:37:03 > 1:37:06It was me. I was drowning. I'm just not capable of...

1:37:06 > 1:37:09You deserve to be loved, Eddie. You do.

1:37:11 > 1:37:15I just wanted to be what you wanted. What YOU wanted.

1:37:15 > 1:37:17Now I spend every fucking minute trying

1:37:17 > 1:37:19to be something else, something I'm not.

1:37:19 > 1:37:21Just put the gun down, Ed.

1:37:21 > 1:37:22She doesn't love you anymore.

1:37:25 > 1:37:27You don't, do you?

1:37:27 > 1:37:28No.

1:37:28 > 1:37:30And you never will.

1:37:30 > 1:37:31I'm sorry.

1:37:31 > 1:37:33Ah.

1:37:42 > 1:37:43I don't exist.

1:37:47 > 1:37:48I'm not even here.

1:37:50 > 1:37:52I'm not even here.

1:37:52 > 1:37:53Bang!

1:38:05 > 1:38:06Bang!

1:38:15 > 1:38:16GUNSHOT

1:38:16 > 1:38:17AUDIENCE GASPS

1:38:23 > 1:38:25APPLAUSE

1:38:27 > 1:38:29CHEERING

1:39:01 > 1:39:02MUFFLED DRUMMING AND MUSIC

1:39:36 > 1:39:37SILENCE

1:39:47 > 1:39:48KNOCK ON DOOR

1:39:51 > 1:39:53Yes?

1:39:55 > 1:39:57Is he up?

1:39:57 > 1:39:58He just woke up.

1:40:03 > 1:40:05I thought I lost you, buddy.

1:40:07 > 1:40:09What the hell happened?

1:40:09 > 1:40:12I was watching you on that stage and then, all of a sudden...

1:40:12 > 1:40:16..you had that goofy look in your eye and you were just, like...

1:40:16 > 1:40:18What is wrong with you? He tried...

1:40:18 > 1:40:22I'm happy! He's alive! My best friend is alive! And...

1:40:22 > 1:40:24..he happens to be, the fucking man of the hour.

1:40:24 > 1:40:25What is that?

1:40:25 > 1:40:27You have to be shitting me.

1:40:27 > 1:40:28Read it.

1:40:28 > 1:40:31I don't believe this. "The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance"?

1:40:31 > 1:40:33Read it.

1:40:33 > 1:40:34"By Tabitha Dickinson."

1:40:34 > 1:40:36Read it out loud!

1:40:36 > 1:40:38"Thomson has unwittingly given birth

1:40:38 > 1:40:41"to a new form, which can only be described as...

1:40:41 > 1:40:43"..super-realism.

1:40:43 > 1:40:45"Blood was spilled both literally and metaphorically

1:40:45 > 1:40:47"by artist and audience, alike.

1:40:47 > 1:40:49"Real blood.

1:40:49 > 1:40:51"The blood that has been sorely missing

1:40:51 > 1:40:53"from the veins of the American theatre..."

1:40:54 > 1:40:57You're happy about this?

1:40:57 > 1:40:59Happy? I'm fucking euphoric!

1:40:59 > 1:41:01This is the-this is the kind of review that turns people into living legends!

1:41:01 > 1:41:03He shot the nose off his face!

1:41:03 > 1:41:05He's got a new nose!

1:41:05 > 1:41:08And if he doesn't like that one, we'll get him a new one!

1:41:08 > 1:41:10We'll use Meg Ryan's guy. Who gives a shit?

1:41:10 > 1:41:12They're lighting candles for him in Central Park.

1:41:12 > 1:41:14Turn on your TV. Where's the...

1:41:15 > 1:41:17- TV:- ..a spontaneous vigil for actor Riggan Thomson.

1:41:17 > 1:41:21They're praying for him all across the country. He did it. You did it!

1:41:21 > 1:41:24I've been reborn, brother. And I can see the future.

1:41:24 > 1:41:26This play is going to last forever.

1:41:26 > 1:41:28It's going to open in London and Paris,

1:41:28 > 1:41:30and the studio is going to call again and

1:41:30 > 1:41:31we're going to get some book deals...you'll see.

1:41:31 > 1:41:33So you can see the future?

1:41:33 > 1:41:35Yeah, I can see the future!

1:41:35 > 1:41:38How about that, huh? Did you see that coming?

1:41:39 > 1:41:42Why aren't you saying anything?

1:41:42 > 1:41:44This is what you wanted, wasn't it?

1:41:44 > 1:41:46Riggan, this is what you wanted.

1:41:48 > 1:41:49Yeah.

1:41:49 > 1:41:51Yeah, this is what I wanted.

1:41:51 > 1:41:53OK, listen. You're going to get hit

1:41:53 > 1:41:56with a "brandishing a weapon" charge. OK?

1:41:56 > 1:41:59If anybody talks to you about it, it was an accident.

1:41:59 > 1:42:00Is that what this was?

1:42:01 > 1:42:04- An accident?- An accident. That's what I want to film...

1:42:04 > 1:42:06Did you intend to shoot yourself!

1:42:06 > 1:42:09You motherfuckers, this is a hospital! Get the fuck out of here!

1:42:09 > 1:42:12This is a hospital!

1:42:12 > 1:42:15Get the fuck out, you assholes!

1:42:15 > 1:42:18Out! This is a personal matter!

1:42:18 > 1:42:20A personal matter!

1:42:20 > 1:42:21I don't give a shit!

1:42:21 > 1:42:24Hey, Sam! What did you feel like

1:42:24 > 1:42:26the night your father tried to kill himself?

1:42:52 > 1:42:53Lilacs.

1:43:01 > 1:43:03- Are you laughing? - Yeah.

1:43:03 > 1:43:05What's so funny?

1:43:06 > 1:43:08I can't smell them.

1:43:14 > 1:43:15What are you doing?

1:43:15 > 1:43:17I'm posting a photo of you on your Twitter page.

1:43:17 > 1:43:18I have a Twitter page?

1:43:18 > 1:43:20Yeah, I set it up today.

1:43:20 > 1:43:22- Let me see. - No way.

1:43:22 > 1:43:23No. You look hideous.

1:43:23 > 1:43:25Oh, wow, thank you. I appreciate it.

1:43:25 > 1:43:27I'm just kidding.

1:43:27 > 1:43:29No, I'm actually not. You-you do look hideous.

1:43:31 > 1:43:34You got 80,000 followers, in less than a day.

1:43:34 > 1:43:35- Really?- Yeah.

1:43:35 > 1:43:36I'm going to scare the shit out of all of them.

1:43:36 > 1:43:39- Let me look at it. - Mmm-mmm. It's done.

1:43:43 > 1:43:46- Uh, I'm going to go get a vase, for the flowers.- OK.

1:45:17 > 1:45:18Move my...

1:45:23 > 1:45:25TOILET FLUSHES

1:45:41 > 1:45:44Bye-bye...and fuck you.

1:47:08 > 1:47:09Dad?

1:47:11 > 1:47:12Dad?

1:47:14 > 1:47:15Dad?

1:47:39 > 1:47:40SHE CHUCKLES