Tom Shadyac on the line with this the award-winning director Bruce Almighty
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a tom welcome back the program it's been a while Tom how are you and you
neglected to mention
that you also star in the movie I am so I worked at some other
sexiest leading men in hollywood and that includes
you well thank you sir yet you are wonderful a movie and I think the time
it's playing as
Saturday I think it playing this Saturday December 20th at eight o'clock
eastern time that's what I was told to rate slowly tomorrow yep
tomorrow yeah yeah yeah Mar and this is it's a great its
you know it with just a little bit a tweaking it could become a classic
Christmas movie because it's
it's really this essential story about what is the meaning of life that was
your search for the meaning of life
after a horrible biking accident you know I actually did you know take that
a at face value because a I like it too it's a wonderful life where George
family learns of course that he became wealthy because he created community
and that's what I woke up to in my own life that there was a kinda well
that my society had not emphasize which is the wealth that comes with being a
part about letting others
and a this that I am I think
essentially I hope by inspires people to
see that value in their own lives yeah yeah
up tell tell our our viewers listeners not
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pitch
well the %uh the elevator pitch I call it the ultimate reality show
up because a the the idea reality is see things as they are
and I don't think our society spend crap there around the way things
actually are so it started when I had a bike accident
a a few years ago and I gotta a
bad concussion the lead the post-concussion syndrome and I nearly
died
and I had over the course above
you know attaining quote-unquote success I had woken up the certain
a ideas a sigh I got the American dream if you will in itself that anti it
didn't pay
it didn't bring the fulfillment that I was promised
the good life was not as good as I was told and I started this
see things through a different prism and I went out and explore
that idea what has gone wrong with our world and what we do about it so
I talk to folks like yourself who have been looking into the
social ill send fixes and
I wanted to reduce it as a very simple principles and you woke me up to an idea
Tom
that became one of the center point to the movie
which is this idea of I on the web to kill
which is a native American idea
at we're all living under a kinda mental illness
we take although we can take this is you were talking about the economy while I
was on hold
and so much of what i think is gone wrong Martin Luther King talked about
extensively gonna be talked about extensively
is we up less people who take more than they need
and of course that's not a value reflected in nature it's not a
value like the firearm world leaders and I did the same and I was up listed by my
society in Seoul
you are now a winner and I think in many ways
it was a very hollow victory and now I feel
again much more happy more robust I'm
in my life because I'm sharing what comes then a
and helping to create community and helping to provide opportunities for
others
and I'm trying to be that change that I want to see in the world but there was
an ID again that you will be up to
you
to again I had to write the movie as I want to those making discoveries and you
taught me
about this mental illness when the Native American saw this
I'll this European idea coming this western idea coming
that we just take indiscriminately regardless if needed and they called it
a mental illness and I agree
yeah yeah brilliant Tom I E
last time we talked you had well and in the movie actually you to you
you show everybody this extraordinary multi-million dollar mansion that you
had a mean you're
a famous a.m. are famous director
you basically made the career love a Jim
carry in my opinion I i kno
and don't know if you would agree with that but you know you had all these
movies venture Patch Adams a professor bridge and why not why not
I made you buddy I
but item is incredibly talented but I i but i helped I
yeah and and and and the consequences that was the main a pile of money made
millions of dollars in
and in the movie in in I am you walk us through their mansion and the new
you essentially say you're giving that up a how's it going now
it's going good I'm still in I'm still in process
a you know people people flash the headline that I moved to a mobile home
you know in a state again that's where dismissing my journey
I'm this is this is not a a
you know that giving things up at about discovering things ever more powerful
and
the mobile home parks and I moved to Picasa lotta money to live there is a
much simpler way of life it's only about a thousand square feet the
these mobile homes but it is a beautiful place in again a cost money
and I didn't feel I gave anything up II met neighbors like
create a community I and I'm still a work in progress have given away much as
funds that have come then you know again I still feel infinitely wealthy
were like george bailey you know at the end of its a wonderful life to talk
about that Christmas movie he said
I and the richest man in town and I feel like that quite often yeah
yeah I and in fact you know it's
it's been twenty thirty years since I saw its a wonderful life I don't
remember if
does it take place around christmas time is it overly a Christmas movie
or have we simply adopted as one because the messages so uplifting
well it's right around Christmas and yes no it's a there's
there's news teams it's snowing Christmas lights I am you know
yeah you're right yeah yet but it is why I mean if you really look at that movie
it
if really speaks well to it up it's a revolutionary idea
I mean george bailey you know it's supposed to live this life
travel and access and luxury and privilege and he gives it all up
to help his neighbors to essentially allow them to build homes
at rates that they couldn't afford by other lending institutions
so he doesn't make a lot of money but he ends up to be
of course the wealthiest person in town because he's helped up with others
the original good bankster yeah its accuracy
an amazing concept yet and unfortunately Potter remember Potter's that you know
this order
a arch you know that that guy has a hero
yeah yeah and he's he is what we put on covers the magazine
today if you're if you're Potter you know and you pulled out
you know billions and and more I'm
your your who we say a kids grow up to be like him
and its we just got it upside down and I think the reason I think the film I am
speaks to people as they
already know this stuff they know that we can't continue this way
they they know that something's gone wrong it's not about ninety nine versus
one percent that's about all this recognizing that this just
above I'm a healthier way to live a more equitable way to live
especially in the richest nation on earth that the fact that you wanted for
our children lives in poverty
that the no 10 to 20 of our children at some point in the last year did not
you know went to bed hungry I mean this this is bizarre stuff for the richest
nation on earth
yeah and you know if you were having incredible outcomes in terms of
happiness and healthy lifestyles amongst the wealthy then
it would be one thing and I I can report that as you know being one of those in
the petri dish that the experiment happiness that
the more I had given to others and again I'm giving myself what I need whatever I
need unable to give myself
sure but the more that you involve yourself and
up and and in a community end up costing other
providing opportunities for others the more happy you get
there you go week yeah a weekly see it all over in terms of happiness
we are not the happiest country in the world and other countries are doing
think that I think we're work while catching up I very well said Tom Shadyac
I am the doc the documentary in I am but doc .doc com is the website
the movie we 8 o'clock tomorrow night on Saturday
I'm free speech TV this is the Thom Hartmann program Tom Shadyac thanks so
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