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[wind gently blowing]

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[gentle music plays]

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[water bubbling]

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[Arnold] My whole life,

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I had this

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unusual talent

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that I could see things very clearly

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in front of me.

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If I can see it,

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then it must be achievable.

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The idea was

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to sculpt the body

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to your will.

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[audience cheering]

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But it also can be used
to shape your mind,

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to do the things
that everyone calls impossible.

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And that gives you the will…

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I'll be back.

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…and no doubt

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that you can make your visions,

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not only become a reality,

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but go beyond your dreams.

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I had a fire in the belly

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for much more.

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Much, much more.

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[upbeat music plays]

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[man] If I had to describe Arnold
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I would say
he's the most calculating individual

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that I've ever come across.

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He's the most competitive maniac
I've ever met.

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[woman] He is, just, magic.

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If Arnold is showing up on set,

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you better up your game.

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[man] We couldn't even stand
to breathe the same air.

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He broke every damn rule there was.

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[woman 2] Arnold believed that a crisis
is a terrible thing to waste.

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[man 2] Arnold sold Arnold.

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[man 3] He gets the joke of the universe.

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[Arnold laughing]

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Bullshit.

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[drumroll]

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[announcer]
Ladies and gentlemen, from Austria,

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welcome to our stage, please,
Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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[cheering and applause]

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[announcer 2] Look now,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 22 years of age.

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Now living in Los Angeles.

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Weighs almost 230 pounds.

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He works out several hours a day.

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This is his life. He's a professional.

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When he's not doing this,
he'll be touring the world,

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putting on exhibitions.

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Listen to that crowd react to him.

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[cheering and applause]

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And there you have it!

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Arnold Schwarzenegger from Austria.

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Seven judges observe specific points
of muscular development and presentation.

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[announcer] In position number one,

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Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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[announcer 2] And the winner!

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What a big day for this youngster.

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[Arnold] When I was in school already,
I felt like I didn't belong here.

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I belonged somewhere else.

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That's not the life I want to live,
like the Austrians live their life,

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which is, you know,

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go to school until 18
and get married, have kids.

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Just work to support your family.

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I thought that my purpose for life
was just far beyond that.

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[calm music plays]

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[Arnold] I always liked coming back here.

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Each time you come,
you look from a different point of view,

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through a different lens.

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It was very important,
every time I came to Austria,

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even to promote my movies or bodybuilding,

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or whatever…

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I always came back down here to Thal.

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I think it's always good to stay in touch
with your roots and where you come from.

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[church bells ringing]

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Thal is a beautiful, beautiful place.

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[cows moo]

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The house where I grew up

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was surrounded by farms.

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We had a castle across the street,

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built in the 1100s.

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So this was our playground.
So it was absolutely beautiful.

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Our house was an old house.

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It was built in the beginning of 1800s.

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Downstairs lived the forest ranger.

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We had the upstairs of that old house.

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[speaking German]

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My mother was hardworking.

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Aurelia.

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She would never, ever pull back.

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She was a cleanliness fanatic.

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I'm telling you, she was on her knees

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twice a week,

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scrubbing the floor.

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And then, when you open up the cabinet

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with the towels,

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it was perfectly placed.

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There was an edge.

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Bang. Bang. Bang.

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If my father would touch that,

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she would go nuts.

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This is what a fanatic she was.

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Growing up, I'll tell you what I learned.

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"Work your ass off."

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My father was the chief
of the country police.

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He was a tyrant
and a very tough police officer.

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There was no screwing around.

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My dad thought they should create
some discipline in the house.

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He said you have to earn breakfast.

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I had a very good relationship
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but it was a competitive relationship.

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I mean, he was a year older, my brother.

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More muscular, smarter.

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He was very good in school.

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My father also made us
compete against each other.

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Who runs faster?

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Who picks more beautiful flowers
on Mother's Day?

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My father says, "I'll give you one hour."

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My brother would come home
with his flowers.

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My father says,
"Meinhard, good boy. Very, very good."

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"Arnold, next year you will try it again."

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So it was competitive.
Even stupid things like that.

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My father gave me that drive
he gave me that fire in the belly,

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and then with the message,

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"Whatever you do, Arnold,

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be useful."

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The way I grew up, it was very tough,
even though it was beautiful countryside.

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But to grow up after a war…

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What happens to your head

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when you come home from war

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suffering
the post-traumatic stress syndrome,

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like my father?

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He was buried underneath buildings,
rubble, for three days,

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and on top of that, they lost the war.

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They went home so depressed.

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Austria was a country of broken men.

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[somber music plays]

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I think there were times
when my father really struggled.

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When we got smacked,

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or my father would use the belt
and hit us.

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The kid next door was hit also
by his father.

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Everyone was going through the same thing.

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As I was getting older,

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and the more I read stuff
about the outside world,

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outside of Austria,
the more I started feeling like,

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"I don't think that I was brought up
in the right place."

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"There's something off here."

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And I know this sounds crazy,
but for a while,

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I thought,
"Maybe my dad isn't really my dad."

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"Maybe it's some American soldier."

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I checked into it.
I said, "Where does this come from?"

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"My desire that I really

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maybe don't belong to Austria?"

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"Maybe I belong to America. Why is that?"

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That convicted me
that one day I have to be over there.

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I'm in the wrong place.

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"I gotta get out of here."

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[adventurous music plays]

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When my brother and I went
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that was the first time
we had exposure to the city.

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After school, kind of walked around
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and we saw the movie theaters.

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This ad that was out there in front

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of this guy standing like this.

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I was kind of, like, in a trance.

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Who is that?

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[majestic music plays]

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[movie narrator]
Hercules and the Captive Women.

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Here at last,

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with a new and dynamic personality.

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Reg Park as Hercules.

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Superhuman strength.

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[Arnold]
I went in there and I saw this body,

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and I was so amazed at this body
that I could not get it out of my mind.

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The testosterone was kicking in.

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Getting interested in girls
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Everything started happening.

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And then I walked by a store.

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There was all this American stuff.

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One of the things was
muscle magazines from America.

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This guy Reg Park

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who I saw in the movies,

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he's on the cover.

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Inside, it has his training program.

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He was up at 5:00 in the morning.
He was training.

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And then he was training a second time.
And then a third time.

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I have to do that.

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It said how he became Mr. Universe

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and how he was discovered in Rome
to become Hercules.

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So I said, "Oh my God."

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"This guy is my idol."

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So he was kind of like my blueprint

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to where I want to go in life.

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My drive to come to America was enormous.

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And if you're willing to put
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then you have to really find out
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where your talent lies.

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Where are you good at?

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To me, bodybuilding represented
a sport that is American.

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The feedback that I got in the gym
was enormous,

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so that's why I knew
this is the direction that I wanted to go.

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I would be working out in my house.

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There was no sound.

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Nothing.

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[breathing deeply]

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And I could think and concentrate

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and visualize how I'm gonna become
a bodybuilding champion.

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How I'm gonna move to America.

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How I'm gonna get into the movies.

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How I'm gonna make millions of dollars.

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["Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht" plays]

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[Arnold] The Thalersee, the lake,
was a magical scene.

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Hanging out with professional wrestlers,

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weightlifters,

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bodybuilders,

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people with muscles.

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I met Mr. Austria,

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Kurt Marnul,

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and walking around
with these nice-looking girls

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and pulling up
in his little Alfa Romeo sports car.

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I found this very impressive.

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I just all the sudden
became part of that clique.

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I was like the young kid
that they were adopting.

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[music continues in German]

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♪ Everybody now ♪

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[Arnold] I think, ever since then,
I kind of celebrated this camaraderie.

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And because I admired it so much,
I created that no matter where I went.

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[music fades]

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My father was negative, because it
was not the typical thing to do.

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The typical thing to do
is you become a soccer player

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or you become a ski champion.

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This is Austrian.

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What the hell are you doing
with weightlifting?

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And you're looking in the mirror
when you train.

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What is that all about?

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[speaking German]

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Which means, like, into yourself.

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He says, "If you want to use your muscles,
go chop wood."

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And my mother got freaked out.

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"All his friends,

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they have, you know,

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girls above their bed."

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"My son doesn't have one girl up here.
Look at that."

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"Not one girl.
I mean, it's only naked men oiled up."

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"Where did we do wrong?"

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[man in German] In the beginning,
Arnold wasn't a leader.

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He adapted to us.

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But within a year,

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I think he gained 15.2 kilos.

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When you're in Arnold's company,

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you get the impression
that everything is easy

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and there are no problems.

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My father often came along,

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and he recognized Arnold's potential.

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[Arnold in English] Freddy Gerstl,
the father, became

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kind of like a real big supporter.

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He said, "You have to have
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like you guys are doing,
but also you have to have a strong mind."

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The body doesn't operate by itself.
It operates because you give it direction.

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He says, "Remember one thing."

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"That you can get an injury,
and then all the athletic stuff is over.

264
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"You can have millions of dollars."

265
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"Someone can rob you blind,
and it's gone."

266
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"But the only thing no one can take
is your mind."

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"Your brain power."

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"Your mind, your will,

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is, in the end,
much more important than the body."

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He was the father figure
quite the opposite from my father.

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Unlike my father,
who criticized everything,

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that guy was more the understanding father

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that understood and he kind of smoothly
would you in the right direction,

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rather than forcing you.

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I always hear this voice behind me saying,

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"Be hungry for information."

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[church bells ringing]

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[Arnold] I joined the weight lifting club
called Athletik Union Graz.

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The guys from the lake
also were training there.

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So I could train,
finally, with the big boys.

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That's where Kurt Marnul was training.

282
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This weightlifting club
became, for me, the mecca.

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I became addicted to that,

284
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and so I went every day.

285
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[action music plays]

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When I walked into the gym,
there was this wall

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that was wood.

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And then I would just take a chalk

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and I would write down

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bizeps,

291
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trizeps,

292
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brust, rücken.

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So I would do a set of biceps curls.

294
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[grunts]

295
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Then I would write down next to this,
one line.

296
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Then I would put another line
and then another line and another line.

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Then, the next one.

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Flies on the bench.

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[grunts]

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And I'd know when I did my 20 sets

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of a specific exercise.

302
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Now after three hours of training,

303
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this whole thing would be
full of sets that I've done…

304
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[grunts]

305
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…to get to that goal that I want go.

306
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["Move It" plays]

307
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♪ Oh yeah ♪

308
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♪ Well now… ♪

309
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[Arnold] The bodybuilding, there was,
like, maybe, one or two events a year.

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Sometimes there were more
than one competition a day.

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Like, Mr. Steíermark,
which means Mr. Styria.

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And then there would be
the Mr. Hercules competition,

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which is usually for the guy
that was the most muscular.

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They would hire a local band
that was really, like, hot.

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They would have women
who were from some exotic place

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to give the sport of bodybuilding
a better reputation.

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Then, there would be
a Mr. Austria competition,

318
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which is, of course,
the national championships.

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♪ Whoo! ♪

320
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[birds chirping]

321
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[Arnold] This was a place
where I spent a lot of time,

322
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right here in this bed and in this room.

323
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So I would be just literally,
you know, lying here

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like this.

325
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And just, you know,
hanging here like this

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and dreaming.

327
00:18:25,272 --> 00:18:28,525
And then looking up at those characters.

328
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And then sitting up.

329
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I would see Reg Park,
you know, with his body,

330
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and then remembering the story

331
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of him growing up in Leeds,

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in England.

333
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The town was like Graz.

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It was a factory town.

335
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And the people worked hard.

336
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And I said to myself,
"He made it out of that?"

337
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"Then there's a chance for me also

338
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to make it out of here."

339
00:18:59,806 --> 00:19:04,436
Then you just look at any opportunity
you could have to get out of here.

340
00:19:04,519 --> 00:19:08,440
So I think that's the reason
I enlisted in the military early.

341
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In Austria,
everyone serves in the military.

342
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I decided to go at the age of 18.

343
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I wanted to finish my service
and then move on,

344
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because you could not get your passport

345
00:19:27,083 --> 00:19:29,753
unless you have done
your military service.

346
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I wanted to specialize in tank division
and to become a tank driver.

347
00:19:36,176 --> 00:19:38,720
They said that's impossible. I'm too tall.

348
00:19:40,472 --> 00:19:42,599
My father knew
a few people in the military,

349
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so I became a tank driver.

350
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Then I became the ballsiest tank driver
that they had.

351
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[military music plays]

352
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[soldiers marching]

353
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[Arnold] In the middle of basic training,

354
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I got the invitation to go
to this competition in Stuttgart, Germany.

355
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European's best-built man,
in the junior division.

356
00:20:10,669 --> 00:20:12,837
When I asked them, Can I go?"
they said no.

357
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[men counting]

358
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I did not realize

359
00:20:15,757 --> 00:20:17,926
that when you're in the middle
of the basic training,

360
00:20:18,009 --> 00:20:19,678
you are not allowed to leave.

361
00:20:22,389 --> 00:20:23,223
I went anyway.

362
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[romantic adventure music]

363
00:20:36,653 --> 00:20:38,655
[Arnold] Twenty-eight guys on the stage,

364
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and I win.

365
00:20:48,164 --> 00:20:50,166
I saw my career in front of me.

366
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I saw myself on that Mr. Universe stage.

367
00:20:56,548 --> 00:20:59,092
I just had to replace Reg Park's head,

368
00:20:59,175 --> 00:21:02,345
put my head on it,
and stand there with the trophy

369
00:21:02,429 --> 00:21:03,930
and flex my muscles.

370
00:21:04,014 --> 00:21:05,056
And I saw

371
00:21:05,557 --> 00:21:07,100
the thousands of people

372
00:21:08,310 --> 00:21:11,646
in the auditorium,
in the theater, screaming,

373
00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:14,816
"Arnold! Arnold! Arnold!"

374
00:21:14,899 --> 00:21:17,110
[audience chanting] Arnold!

375
00:21:17,193 --> 00:21:18,486
[Arnold] I saw the fantasy,

376
00:21:18,987 --> 00:21:20,405
and it's not a dream.

377
00:21:21,072 --> 00:21:23,825
I said, "No, fuck the dream.
What are you gonna do with a dream?"

378
00:21:23,908 --> 00:21:25,744
"You have to have a clear vision."

379
00:21:25,827 --> 00:21:28,455
And when you visualize something
really clearly,

380
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you believe that you 100% can get there.

381
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My very first impression was

382
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this is the most outstanding junior
I ever saw in my life,

383
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because he had it all.

384
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He had a kind of charisma
very unusual for that age.

385
00:21:48,058 --> 00:21:49,309
He owned the stage

386
00:21:49,392 --> 00:21:50,352
already then.

387
00:21:51,019 --> 00:21:54,189
I talked to him,
"What do you think to come to Munich

388
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as trainer in the gym I manage?"

389
00:22:05,658 --> 00:22:08,745
[Arnold] I was supposed to be
in the military for three years.

390
00:22:08,828 --> 00:22:11,373
So I had to ask if I can leave early.

391
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That position that was offered to me

392
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to become a trainer
in a bodybuilding gym in Germany,

393
00:22:18,546 --> 00:22:19,631
was very appealing.

394
00:22:19,714 --> 00:22:22,634
And it was kind of really
the only solution

395
00:22:22,717 --> 00:22:26,304
to get me out of Austria
and one step closer to America.

396
00:22:27,889 --> 00:22:29,265
You're not gonna go and become

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the greatest bodybuilder of all time
in Austria,

398
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because you need to train
with the best bodybuilders around you,

399
00:22:35,063 --> 00:22:37,690
and the mecca of bodybuilding was America.

400
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,862
"I got to get out of here,
no matter what it takes."

401
00:22:42,946 --> 00:22:44,739
[train horn blows]

402
00:22:50,370 --> 00:22:52,705
[Arnold] I don't look at it as,
"Oh my God."

403
00:22:53,373 --> 00:22:56,376
"What a terrible upbringing I had."

404
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:57,794
No.

405
00:22:58,294 --> 00:23:01,798
What I hated as a kid was good,

406
00:23:01,881 --> 00:23:04,717
because that's what drove me
to get out of there.

407
00:23:10,265 --> 00:23:12,267
All right, let's feed the girls.

408
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,103
Uno, Misty!

409
00:23:18,189 --> 00:23:19,732
Uno, Misty!

410
00:23:19,816 --> 00:23:21,734
I could train longer than anyone else.

411
00:23:21,818 --> 00:23:25,363
I could go through misery
when I traveled to other countries.

412
00:23:25,447 --> 00:23:28,032
I was able to do things
that others couldn't do

413
00:23:28,116 --> 00:23:29,242
because of that.

414
00:23:29,325 --> 00:23:31,536
Ah, pushing him out of the way.

415
00:23:32,162 --> 00:23:33,538
It didn't bother me,

416
00:23:33,621 --> 00:23:36,249
because it was better
than where I came from.

417
00:23:36,749 --> 00:23:38,751
[energetic music plays]

418
00:23:40,795 --> 00:23:43,006
[Arnold] When I arrived in Munich,

419
00:23:43,673 --> 00:23:46,718
my friend Albert Busek
picked me up from the train station,

420
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,679
and I moved into the gym.

421
00:23:50,805 --> 00:23:52,807
There was a tiny little room,

422
00:23:52,891 --> 00:23:56,311
and my bed maybe was as big
as the bed that I grew up with.

423
00:23:56,936 --> 00:24:01,691
All I had was a mixer
that helped me mix my protein drinks

424
00:24:01,774 --> 00:24:02,692
and a few clothes.

425
00:24:02,775 --> 00:24:03,610
That was it.

426
00:24:04,402 --> 00:24:07,489
And I stayed there for at least a year.

427
00:24:08,740 --> 00:24:10,825
So, at any given time,

428
00:24:10,909 --> 00:24:12,660
I can go out and work out.

429
00:24:14,537 --> 00:24:19,501
I mean, how lucky of a son of a bitch am I
to have the gym be my home?

430
00:24:21,002 --> 00:24:23,588
I then developed my own little family,

431
00:24:23,671 --> 00:24:25,548
which was Albert Busek

432
00:24:25,632 --> 00:24:27,425
and Franco Columbu,

433
00:24:27,509 --> 00:24:29,886
who I met the year before in Stuttgart.

434
00:24:30,553 --> 00:24:32,263
He was the perfect training partner,

435
00:24:32,347 --> 00:24:36,434
and he was one of the very few Italians
that spoke German.

436
00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:39,729
[Franco] He comes from Austria.
I came from Italy.

437
00:24:39,812 --> 00:24:42,690
And we started training together
and having fun.

438
00:24:43,983 --> 00:24:46,486
Since then,
I'm one of Arnold's best friends.

439
00:24:46,569 --> 00:24:47,737
I messed it up.

440
00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:48,947
Say that again.

441
00:24:49,489 --> 00:24:51,533
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪

442
00:24:51,616 --> 00:24:52,825
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪

443
00:24:54,827 --> 00:24:56,454
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa… ♪

444
00:24:56,538 --> 00:24:59,749
[Arnold] My friends helped me
to raise money for an airline ticket

445
00:24:59,832 --> 00:25:02,085
to compete in the Mr. Universe contest.

446
00:25:03,586 --> 00:25:05,797
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪

447
00:25:08,967 --> 00:25:10,718
[Arnold] So imagine,
just a few months before,

448
00:25:10,802 --> 00:25:12,095
you're in the military.

449
00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:16,307
And now you're traveling to London
to go to the Mr. Universe contest.

450
00:25:17,016 --> 00:25:20,520
My goal was to place in the top six,

451
00:25:21,145 --> 00:25:22,772
but I placed second

452
00:25:22,855 --> 00:25:24,232
with the age of 19.

453
00:25:24,857 --> 00:25:26,401
I said, "Oh my God."

454
00:25:26,901 --> 00:25:28,611
"If I'm winning second

455
00:25:28,695 --> 00:25:32,782
as this little farm boy from Austria
that has no experience,

456
00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:34,284
next year I'm gonna win!"

457
00:25:34,867 --> 00:25:37,120
[Albert] Arnold was so gifted

458
00:25:37,203 --> 00:25:39,664
that regular people,
the fans of bodybuilding, knew

459
00:25:39,747 --> 00:25:41,291
this is the future.

460
00:25:45,670 --> 00:25:47,755
[Arnold] At the Mr. Universe competition,

461
00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:52,552
one of the judges was a man
by the name of Wag Bennett.

462
00:25:53,511 --> 00:25:54,345
And he'd say…

463
00:25:54,429 --> 00:25:57,432
[imitating Wag] "Arnold,
you look fantastic. You look fantastic."

464
00:25:57,515 --> 00:25:59,100
"It's absolutely marvelous."

465
00:25:59,183 --> 00:26:01,519
All this British stuff, right?

466
00:26:03,313 --> 00:26:05,523
He invited us to a dinner,

467
00:26:05,607 --> 00:26:09,360
and he's a judge, so I thought,
"This is so unbelievable."

468
00:26:09,444 --> 00:26:12,155
My English was terrible then,

469
00:26:12,238 --> 00:26:14,365
so we always were laughing about it.

470
00:26:16,242 --> 00:26:20,413
Wag then said to me, "Well, if you ever
come back, you can stay with us."

471
00:26:20,496 --> 00:26:22,498
"You don't have to stay in a hotel."

472
00:26:23,541 --> 00:26:24,459
The next year,

473
00:26:25,209 --> 00:26:27,795
Wag organized the competition

474
00:26:27,879 --> 00:26:30,965
and he paid for the airline ticket
to fly over there.

475
00:26:32,717 --> 00:26:35,219
So I was at the Bennett's house in London,

476
00:26:35,303 --> 00:26:37,347
on 335 Romford Road.

477
00:26:37,430 --> 00:26:38,806
I remember it exactly.

478
00:26:38,890 --> 00:26:40,975
And in walked Reg Park.

479
00:26:47,315 --> 00:26:48,941
Meeting Reg Park

480
00:26:49,651 --> 00:26:52,945
was, like,
one of those extraordinary moments.

481
00:26:56,532 --> 00:26:58,534
You see him in magazines.

482
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,953
You see him in movies.

483
00:27:01,537 --> 00:27:03,498
And then all of a sudden, there he is.

484
00:27:05,792 --> 00:27:09,128
He just came from South Africa
and he wants to work out.

485
00:27:09,629 --> 00:27:11,798
And then we're working out together.

486
00:27:13,299 --> 00:27:17,512
I remember that he didn't even…
he didn't even take off his sweater.

487
00:27:20,973 --> 00:27:24,811
And it was just extraordinary
to see Hercules

488
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,481
that you saw in the movies,
to see him in front of you,

489
00:27:28,564 --> 00:27:31,901
and then to have a conversation
and to have him be so nice.

490
00:27:31,984 --> 00:27:34,112
He knew everything about me,

491
00:27:34,195 --> 00:27:36,155
because Wag Bennett told him.

492
00:27:40,952 --> 00:27:43,246
To really motivate me, he said to me,

493
00:27:43,329 --> 00:27:45,540
"If you win the Mr. Universe contest,

494
00:27:45,623 --> 00:27:48,000
I'm gonna bring you down to South Africa."

495
00:27:48,084 --> 00:27:49,877
"And I'm gonna have you
do posing exhibitions."

496
00:27:49,961 --> 00:27:51,963
I'm gonna pay
you for each positing exhibition."

497
00:27:52,046 --> 00:27:56,008
"You can make some money there,
and you're gonna see the entire country."

498
00:27:56,092 --> 00:27:57,677
[adventurous music plays]

499
00:27:59,721 --> 00:28:01,597
[Arnold] There's no room for mistakes,

500
00:28:01,681 --> 00:28:04,475
because I have to be Mr. Universe in 1967.

501
00:28:07,061 --> 00:28:09,439
Wag would say,
"You gotta train your calves."

502
00:28:09,522 --> 00:28:13,317
"Your biceps are much larger
than your calves."

503
00:28:14,026 --> 00:28:16,738
"The calves are skinny,
and the whole proportion is off."

504
00:28:18,072 --> 00:28:19,323
If you want to win,

505
00:28:19,407 --> 00:28:22,785
you need to be fine-tuned
and you have to have everything at ten.

506
00:28:23,745 --> 00:28:25,747
[crowd cheering]

507
00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:29,542
Finally, it all came together.

508
00:28:32,003 --> 00:28:33,212
[announcer] And the winner,

509
00:28:34,464 --> 00:28:35,923
Arnold Schwarzenegger!

510
00:28:40,970 --> 00:28:42,346
[Arnold] At the age of 20,

511
00:28:42,972 --> 00:28:44,724
I made my vision

512
00:28:44,807 --> 00:28:45,933
become a reality.

513
00:28:48,019 --> 00:28:51,355
On that very same stage
that Reg Park won it,

514
00:28:52,148 --> 00:28:55,902
and I got exactly the same trophy
that he got.

515
00:28:55,985 --> 00:28:58,696
And exactly the way I envisioned it.

516
00:28:59,614 --> 00:29:01,407
All the people were screaming.

517
00:29:01,491 --> 00:29:02,867
[crowd chanting] Arnold!

518
00:29:02,950 --> 00:29:06,037
[Arnold] I felt like,
"This is like a fairy tale."

519
00:29:06,537 --> 00:29:08,498
Everything falls into place.

520
00:29:25,723 --> 00:29:28,935
Reg Park invites me to Johannesburg

521
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:31,771
to stay in his house.

522
00:29:33,689 --> 00:29:35,358
Do you know what that did to me?

523
00:29:35,441 --> 00:29:39,237
I'm getting invited by my idol
to go to his home turf.

524
00:29:41,823 --> 00:29:43,741
[man] I met Arnold when he came here.

525
00:29:43,825 --> 00:29:46,160
I was, uh, nine at the time.

526
00:29:46,244 --> 00:29:48,788
He was very polite. He was well-mannered.

527
00:29:49,288 --> 00:29:51,999
He would wear sandals and socks, you know?

528
00:29:52,083 --> 00:29:54,502
Like a country bumpkin, so to speak.

529
00:29:55,002 --> 00:29:58,756
Lily-white skin.
Everybody on the beach had a tan.

530
00:29:59,507 --> 00:30:02,760
I remember him almost being in awe,

531
00:30:02,844 --> 00:30:05,221
but my dad made him feel so comfortable.

532
00:30:05,304 --> 00:30:08,933
My mother, you know, of course,
made him feel so comfortable as well.

533
00:30:09,016 --> 00:30:10,977
He immediately became part of the family.

534
00:30:11,060 --> 00:30:14,480
We'd go out to meals together every night
and go to movies.

535
00:30:14,981 --> 00:30:19,360
What he really learned from my parents
was how important family was.

536
00:30:20,111 --> 00:30:23,072
I think that impressed him
more than anything else.

537
00:30:24,699 --> 00:30:27,159
My mother gave Arnold some pointers.

538
00:30:27,243 --> 00:30:31,080
You know, he could do the basic poses,
but there was no flow and transition.

539
00:30:31,163 --> 00:30:34,125
So she helped him
put his routine together.

540
00:30:35,710 --> 00:30:37,837
[Arnold] Mareon was a ballet teacher.

541
00:30:38,504 --> 00:30:42,008
She taught Reg
how to be more graceful on stage.

542
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,470
You couldn't get more two opposites.
Ballet is all about grace.

543
00:30:47,555 --> 00:30:50,099
Then you have bodybuilding,
which is kind of blocky

544
00:30:50,182 --> 00:30:51,809
and not much movement.

545
00:30:53,561 --> 00:30:55,146
I didn't understand it all,

546
00:30:55,229 --> 00:31:00,151
but then, as time went on,
I started utilizing what she taught me.

547
00:31:05,740 --> 00:31:07,408
When I was a kid, I was shy,

548
00:31:08,242 --> 00:31:10,244
and bodybuilding

549
00:31:10,828 --> 00:31:13,497
was a sport where you had to perform.

550
00:31:13,581 --> 00:31:15,875
So I could learn it in my own way,

551
00:31:15,958 --> 00:31:17,877
to perform and to pose on stage.

552
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,088
And people then correct you and say,
you know, "Smile more when you perform,"

553
00:31:21,172 --> 00:31:22,131
And do this and do that.

554
00:31:22,214 --> 00:31:24,508
This is how it slowly came about

555
00:31:24,592 --> 00:31:26,260
to become an entertainer

556
00:31:26,344 --> 00:31:29,138
and really enjoying the moment.

557
00:31:31,474 --> 00:31:36,771
In 1968, I went and competed
at the Mr. Universe contest in London.

558
00:31:36,854 --> 00:31:38,856
Every time they called out a pose…

559
00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:42,735
If I did a double bicep pose,
I had the biggest biceps.

560
00:31:43,611 --> 00:31:46,322
Then, when we turned around
and do a back pose,

561
00:31:46,405 --> 00:31:49,241
there's no one that's going to have
this kind of a back.

562
00:31:50,826 --> 00:31:52,828
So I knew I'm gonna win.

563
00:31:52,912 --> 00:31:54,914
[triumphant music plays]

564
00:32:01,337 --> 00:32:06,008
I win the second Mr. Universe title.
I feel, like, at an all-time high.

565
00:32:06,884 --> 00:32:09,637
And I'm about to go back to Munich,

566
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,764
when I get a telegram

567
00:32:11,847 --> 00:32:12,848
from Joe Weider.

568
00:32:14,058 --> 00:32:15,935
I said to myself, "Oh my God."

569
00:32:16,018 --> 00:32:19,897
"Joe Weider?
He's like the godfather of bodybuilding."

570
00:32:20,731 --> 00:32:23,734
The trainer of champions since 1939.

571
00:32:24,276 --> 00:32:26,988
All of the guys that win
Mr. Universe and Mr. World,

572
00:32:27,071 --> 00:32:28,739
they have been trained by Joe Weider.

573
00:32:28,823 --> 00:32:30,658
And it says in the telegram,

574
00:32:30,741 --> 00:32:34,787
"I'm inviting you to come to Miami
to our Mr. Universe competition,"

575
00:32:34,870 --> 00:32:36,330
because there was two.

576
00:32:36,414 --> 00:32:39,458
Weider started a Mr. Universe
in the 60s in America.

577
00:32:41,043 --> 00:32:44,588
I didn't go back home.
I didn't pick up any of my belongings.

578
00:32:45,339 --> 00:32:48,968
I called Albert
and I called Franco and said, "Look."

579
00:32:49,051 --> 00:32:52,555
"I just got an invitation from Weider.
I'm not coming back."

580
00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:54,390
"I'm gonna move to America."

581
00:32:54,473 --> 00:32:55,641
"Bye-bye."

582
00:32:55,725 --> 00:32:57,727
["I Got the Feelin'" plays]

583
00:32:59,854 --> 00:33:02,148
♪ Uh-huh, uh, uh ♪

584
00:33:02,231 --> 00:33:03,983
♪ I got the feelin' ♪

585
00:33:04,525 --> 00:33:05,359
[wheels squeal]

586
00:33:05,443 --> 00:33:07,236
♪ Hey! ♪

587
00:33:08,612 --> 00:33:09,572
♪ All right ♪

588
00:33:10,114 --> 00:33:10,990
♪ Ow ♪

589
00:33:11,824 --> 00:33:12,658
♪ Hey… ♪

590
00:33:15,244 --> 00:33:17,663
When I came to America, I felt like…

591
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:19,915
[sighs]

592
00:33:22,293 --> 00:33:23,794
…finally, I'm in my home.

593
00:33:24,295 --> 00:33:26,172
♪ Baby, baby, baby… ♪

594
00:33:26,255 --> 00:33:28,382
Then we got flew down to Florida.

595
00:33:28,466 --> 00:33:30,051
♪ Baby, baby, baby ♪

596
00:33:30,134 --> 00:33:31,469
♪ Baby ♪

597
00:33:31,552 --> 00:33:32,511
♪ Come on now ♪

598
00:33:32,595 --> 00:33:34,388
[Arnold] I was absolutely convinced

599
00:33:34,472 --> 00:33:36,807
that I'm gonna beat
all the American bodybuilders.

600
00:33:36,891 --> 00:33:39,435
Set me up as kind of, like,
the new champion.

601
00:33:39,518 --> 00:33:42,146
Become the greatest bodybuilder
of all times.

602
00:33:42,938 --> 00:33:47,485
He was acting so arrogant and cocky
like the winner, but he wasn't in shape,

603
00:33:48,069 --> 00:33:51,280
because it was all about being big
and, you know, size with him.

604
00:33:52,323 --> 00:33:55,993
[Arnold] And when they announced
the fourth place, third place,

605
00:33:56,077 --> 00:33:59,038
and the second place,
Arnold Schwarzenegger.

606
00:34:00,873 --> 00:34:02,333
Oh, fuck.

607
00:34:03,417 --> 00:34:04,877
This can't be.

608
00:34:08,089 --> 00:34:12,927
I once was considered the unbeatable guy,
and now, all of a sudden, Frank Zane won.

609
00:34:14,678 --> 00:34:17,139
This is terrible. I'm embarrassed.

610
00:34:19,809 --> 00:34:22,645
[Frank] I think he was just
used to winning all the time.

611
00:34:22,728 --> 00:34:26,273
Landing in this country the first time,
getting defeated

612
00:34:26,357 --> 00:34:27,775
by, as his words,

613
00:34:27,858 --> 00:34:30,528
"a chicken with 17-inch arms,"

614
00:34:30,611 --> 00:34:32,446
that really bothered him.

615
00:34:35,908 --> 00:34:37,910
[Arnold] I was so devastated.

616
00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:40,454
I was lying there
in the middle of the night in bed

617
00:34:40,538 --> 00:34:42,248
in this hotel room,

618
00:34:42,331 --> 00:34:44,500
and I thought the world
is coming to an end.

619
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,713
I'm in a strange country.

620
00:34:49,797 --> 00:34:51,632
I cannot communicate here.

621
00:34:51,715 --> 00:34:53,968
I'm thousands of miles away from home.

622
00:34:54,593 --> 00:34:56,387
And I just lost.

623
00:34:56,470 --> 00:34:58,472
I just disappointed everybody.

624
00:35:00,057 --> 00:35:02,726
So in my mind, the bodybuilding world
was going to say,

625
00:35:02,810 --> 00:35:05,729
"Schwarzenegger is not
what we thought he is."

626
00:35:05,813 --> 00:35:06,814
"So fuck him."

627
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,067
I cried the whole night.

628
00:35:16,365 --> 00:35:18,784
The next day, I said, "Okay."

629
00:35:18,868 --> 00:35:21,412
"You cried like a little baby,
you asshole."

630
00:35:21,495 --> 00:35:23,038
"And now, let's move on."

631
00:35:25,916 --> 00:35:29,587
And then Weider gave me an airline ticket
to go to Los Angeles.

632
00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:34,300
He's gonna take care of things
and he's gonna get me an apartment.

633
00:35:36,385 --> 00:35:40,055
I wrote to my friends right away.
I said, "This is quite different."

634
00:35:40,973 --> 00:35:43,350
I felt, like, totally helpless

635
00:35:43,434 --> 00:35:44,518
and alone.

636
00:35:47,062 --> 00:35:49,231
The gyms that I went to

637
00:35:49,315 --> 00:35:52,401
were gyms where
the best bodybuilders worked out.

638
00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:54,737
I come in there and I want to work out.

639
00:35:54,820 --> 00:35:58,240
And there's guys that owned the gym,
like, Vince Gironda,

640
00:35:58,324 --> 00:35:59,783
he owned Vince's Gym.

641
00:35:59,867 --> 00:36:01,994
He says, "You're still a baby."

642
00:36:02,077 --> 00:36:04,747
"We have to get rid of
a lot of fat on you,

643
00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:06,832
but you have a lot of potential."

644
00:36:06,916 --> 00:36:10,586
And I said to myself, "What the fuck
is he talking about? Potential?"

645
00:36:12,171 --> 00:36:14,048
Then I trained at Gold's Gym,

646
00:36:14,131 --> 00:36:17,468
and Joe Gold immediately called me
"Balloon Belly."

647
00:36:17,551 --> 00:36:18,886
I said,

648
00:36:19,637 --> 00:36:20,554
"Jesus."

649
00:36:22,223 --> 00:36:25,935
I realized why it was so important
to come to America,

650
00:36:26,018 --> 00:36:28,729
because they just have
a whole different understanding

651
00:36:28,812 --> 00:36:30,731
of what it means being in shape.

652
00:36:31,815 --> 00:36:34,902
I alone cannot accomplish anything.

653
00:36:36,570 --> 00:36:37,821
I need help.

654
00:36:39,198 --> 00:36:43,786
So I invited Frank Zane,
the guy that I was beaten by,

655
00:36:43,869 --> 00:36:45,829
to come out to California

656
00:36:45,913 --> 00:36:47,164
and to train with me,

657
00:36:47,248 --> 00:36:49,166
because I wanted to see firsthand

658
00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:52,461
what does he do to get
this kind of a quality of a physique.

659
00:36:52,962 --> 00:36:55,881
And I stayed with him
on a cot in his living room,

660
00:36:55,965 --> 00:36:58,133
and we'd go to the gym and train.

661
00:36:58,217 --> 00:37:01,428
Go to the beach. Take pictures for Weider.

662
00:37:01,512 --> 00:37:03,472
I went back to Florida

663
00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:06,725
and resigned my teaching position
and moved to California.

664
00:37:06,809 --> 00:37:08,894
[Arnold] And then,
when I was training here,

665
00:37:08,978 --> 00:37:10,980
especially in Gold's Gym, I felt like,

666
00:37:11,063 --> 00:37:14,942
"Wouldn't it be great
if Franco would see what's going on here?"

667
00:37:15,025 --> 00:37:19,196
I mean, he was my close friend
and training partner in Munich.

668
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:20,489
I really missed him.

669
00:37:20,572 --> 00:37:24,368
But when Weider heard what his height was,
he had no interest at all.

670
00:37:24,451 --> 00:37:27,705
So he kept saying, "No, I don't want
to bring over a little guy like that."

671
00:37:27,788 --> 00:37:28,622
"Come on."

672
00:37:29,206 --> 00:37:32,209
And then eventually Artie Zeller,
the photographer, and I,

673
00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:33,961
we kind of convinced him.

674
00:37:34,044 --> 00:37:37,006
And from then,
I mean, everything really picked up.

675
00:37:37,089 --> 00:37:40,217
Cinque, sei, sette.

676
00:37:40,301 --> 00:37:41,802
-[groans]
-[Arnold] What?

677
00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:42,845
Sette.

678
00:37:43,470 --> 00:37:44,513
Otto.

679
00:37:45,222 --> 00:37:46,056
Nove.

680
00:37:47,141 --> 00:37:48,017
Dieci.

681
00:37:48,809 --> 00:37:50,102
-[laughs]
-[Arnold] Okay.

682
00:37:50,185 --> 00:37:51,437
-That's hard.
-[Franco] I get it.

683
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,314
-I get it.
-[Arnold] Oh, Franco gets it.

684
00:37:55,524 --> 00:37:57,860
-Okay, pick it up.
-[both laughing]

685
00:37:57,943 --> 00:38:00,821
[Arnold] In that area
of building a community,

686
00:38:00,904 --> 00:38:03,532
the talent of mine was actually better

687
00:38:03,615 --> 00:38:05,743
than my talent in bodybuilding.

688
00:38:05,826 --> 00:38:07,953
["California Soul" plays]

689
00:38:10,122 --> 00:38:12,416
[Arnold] Gold's Gym in Venice Beach.

690
00:38:12,499 --> 00:38:16,337
Bodybuilders training for championships
went there to train.

691
00:38:16,420 --> 00:38:18,422
♪ Like a sound you hear
That lingers in your ear ♪

692
00:38:18,505 --> 00:38:19,506
♪ But you can't forget… ♪

693
00:38:19,590 --> 00:38:23,052
[Arnold] And then Joe Weider publicized it
as the champions' gym.

694
00:38:23,135 --> 00:38:25,721
-[man] That nose will look skinny now.
-[laughing]

695
00:38:25,804 --> 00:38:30,434
My first impression of him
was he was outgoing, funny,

696
00:38:30,517 --> 00:38:32,311
and always cracking jokes.

697
00:38:32,394 --> 00:38:35,105
When he was in the gym, he was focused.

698
00:38:35,189 --> 00:38:37,649
♪ California soul… ♪

699
00:38:41,195 --> 00:38:43,655
[Frank] It was all energy,
and we helped each other.

700
00:38:44,406 --> 00:38:47,242
Now, Arnold was a great person to have
in the gym when you're working out,

701
00:38:47,326 --> 00:38:49,620
because just his presence made you
want to work out harder

702
00:38:49,703 --> 00:38:50,913
just to impress him.

703
00:38:51,455 --> 00:38:52,915
He was a perfectionist.

704
00:38:54,541 --> 00:38:56,293
[Arnold] You train together,
help each other.

705
00:38:56,377 --> 00:38:59,505
You even help each other
pumping up backstage with the towels,

706
00:38:59,588 --> 00:39:00,923
and you oil each other up.

707
00:39:01,006 --> 00:39:03,175
You put the oil on me
because I cannot reach in the back.

708
00:39:03,258 --> 00:39:05,177
Someone has to put the oil on my back.

709
00:39:05,260 --> 00:39:07,221
That's what you do. You help each other.

710
00:39:07,304 --> 00:39:09,848
And then before you go out,
you say, "Good luck."

711
00:39:09,932 --> 00:39:12,476
I used to say, "Good luck,"
and "I'm going to beat you."

712
00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:16,063
♪ Soul… ♪

713
00:39:16,897 --> 00:39:19,566
[Arnold] I was never a fanatic about diet.

714
00:39:19,650 --> 00:39:22,653
It was Frank Zane and Franco Columbu

715
00:39:22,736 --> 00:39:24,446
who put my vitamins together.

716
00:39:25,072 --> 00:39:27,783
And then we would experiment
with steroids.

717
00:39:28,325 --> 00:39:31,620
Everybody in the bodybuilding field
who is up there on the top

718
00:39:31,703 --> 00:39:33,330
is taking steroids.

719
00:39:35,207 --> 00:39:39,878
Maybe five percent of my progress

720
00:39:39,962 --> 00:39:41,296
is from the steroids.

721
00:39:42,089 --> 00:39:43,966
I had doctor's supervision.

722
00:39:44,049 --> 00:39:48,137
You stayed with a very strict rule
of doing it four months a year

723
00:39:48,220 --> 00:39:50,389
before a competition, and then lay off.

724
00:39:51,598 --> 00:39:54,017
So I changed my eating habits
and everything.

725
00:39:54,726 --> 00:39:56,019
I got really tanned.

726
00:39:56,603 --> 00:40:00,607
If your whole personality is to show off,

727
00:40:01,358 --> 00:40:03,902
you can't wait
to show people what you have.

728
00:40:03,986 --> 00:40:07,364
There were hundreds of people
watching guys work out.

729
00:40:07,448 --> 00:40:09,867
♪ California soul… ♪

730
00:40:09,950 --> 00:40:12,661
[Arnold] I felt like I was living
in the middle of a circus.

731
00:40:13,704 --> 00:40:16,665
So you were getting it all times,

732
00:40:16,748 --> 00:40:19,251
the satisfaction of people watching you

733
00:40:19,835 --> 00:40:22,337
and saying, "Wow, he looks incredible."

734
00:40:24,298 --> 00:40:25,299
♪ Just gimme, yeah ♪

735
00:40:25,382 --> 00:40:26,592
♪ Just gimme, yeah ♪

736
00:40:27,342 --> 00:40:29,219
♪ Oh, it's all a trend ♪

737
00:40:32,055 --> 00:40:34,475
[woman] It was the summer of '69.

738
00:40:35,225 --> 00:40:37,895
I was working as a hostess
at Zucky's Deli.

739
00:40:39,354 --> 00:40:42,274
He came over to me and he said,

740
00:40:42,357 --> 00:40:44,109
"You are so sexy."

741
00:40:44,193 --> 00:40:46,445
"I need to ask you out on a date."

742
00:40:47,696 --> 00:40:49,990
With a really thick accent.

743
00:40:50,073 --> 00:40:52,576
Barely 100 words in his vocabulary.

744
00:40:53,452 --> 00:40:56,455
He was handsome. He was magnetic.

745
00:40:56,538 --> 00:40:57,915
He was charismatic.

746
00:40:58,665 --> 00:41:00,667
He was just different.

747
00:41:02,961 --> 00:41:06,673
When he arrived for our date,
I was watching the moon landing.

748
00:41:07,591 --> 00:41:09,176
[man over radio] We copy it down, Eagle.

749
00:41:09,259 --> 00:41:10,302
[indistinct radio chatter]

750
00:41:10,385 --> 00:41:14,264
So we watched it together.
We took photos in front of the television.

751
00:41:14,348 --> 00:41:16,892
[man 2 over radio] Tranquility base here.
The eagle has landed.

752
00:41:17,434 --> 00:41:18,894
[Barbara] After our first date,

753
00:41:18,977 --> 00:41:21,688
we saw each other
all the time that we could.

754
00:41:22,814 --> 00:41:25,484
He created laughter everywhere.

755
00:41:25,567 --> 00:41:26,818
He was just so

756
00:41:27,986 --> 00:41:29,071
mesmerizing.

757
00:41:31,657 --> 00:41:34,159
[Arnold] Barbara was the first time

758
00:41:34,243 --> 00:41:39,540
that I saw, through her,
kind of how America celebrates Christmas,

759
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,084
because she would take me home,

760
00:41:42,167 --> 00:41:44,836
and the family would just be so inclusive.

761
00:41:45,796 --> 00:41:47,256
It was the first time

762
00:41:47,839 --> 00:41:50,717
in my life
that I ever celebrated a birthday,

763
00:41:50,801 --> 00:41:53,303
when Barbara's mother made
a birthday cake.

764
00:41:54,972 --> 00:41:58,141
I never got a cake. No one ever sang
"Happy Birthday" or anything.

765
00:41:58,225 --> 00:41:59,268
I don't know why.

766
00:42:01,228 --> 00:42:04,731
It gave me another way
of really appreciating

767
00:42:04,815 --> 00:42:06,650
the American way of life,

768
00:42:07,150 --> 00:42:08,902
and to have a normal life.

769
00:42:10,487 --> 00:42:11,905
But with my family…

770
00:42:11,989 --> 00:42:15,325
The communication with my parents
was not good.

771
00:42:16,952 --> 00:42:18,120
And my brother…

772
00:42:18,203 --> 00:42:21,915
I kind of erased him out of my mind

773
00:42:21,999 --> 00:42:24,793
for years during my bodybuilding years.

774
00:42:26,878 --> 00:42:30,257
I felt like I was creating
my own life over here,

775
00:42:30,340 --> 00:42:33,218
and I wanted nothing to do
with my past life.

776
00:42:37,931 --> 00:42:41,560
Joe Weider was interested in trying
to figure out how does he sell me.

777
00:42:41,643 --> 00:42:43,562
So he came up with this idea

778
00:42:44,062 --> 00:42:46,231
that I'm this German machine.

779
00:42:47,232 --> 00:42:49,651
No emotions, just marching forward,

780
00:42:49,735 --> 00:42:52,237
and it's going to make me the champion.

781
00:42:52,863 --> 00:42:55,240
And I loved it,
because that's what I saw myself,

782
00:42:55,324 --> 00:42:57,618
as someone that couldn't be stopped.

783
00:43:01,747 --> 00:43:06,960
Joe Weider had one goal in mind,
and that is that I win every competition.

784
00:43:07,044 --> 00:43:09,504
That I'm on the cover of his magazine.

785
00:43:09,588 --> 00:43:13,008
That I sell a shitload
of food supplements for him.

786
00:43:13,592 --> 00:43:15,886
And that everything that I did,

787
00:43:15,969 --> 00:43:18,597
he would use the name Weider for it.

788
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,807
So when I came up with

789
00:43:20,891 --> 00:43:23,894
splitting my bicep training
with my tricep training,

790
00:43:23,977 --> 00:43:26,355
he called it The Weider Split Routine.

791
00:43:27,272 --> 00:43:28,690
So that was the deal.

792
00:43:29,524 --> 00:43:31,234
I'm just gonna go over this.

793
00:43:31,318 --> 00:43:34,446
You should have
unique pictures taken, Arnold.

794
00:43:34,529 --> 00:43:36,031
Make it look different.

795
00:43:36,114 --> 00:43:37,949
I had to go and work with him and say,

796
00:43:38,033 --> 00:43:41,536
"Joe, you're selling your products.
You're making millions of dollars."

797
00:43:41,620 --> 00:43:44,331
"I want to also sell
some products of mine."

798
00:43:44,414 --> 00:43:48,335
"All I need from you is give me
advertisement space in your magazine."

799
00:43:49,836 --> 00:43:53,465
I wanted to make money
and I wanted to turn one dollar into two.

800
00:43:53,548 --> 00:43:56,843
And I wanted to learn how to do that
in America the American way.

801
00:43:56,927 --> 00:43:58,387
I said to Joe Weider,

802
00:43:58,470 --> 00:44:01,098
"Can you help me?
I want to go to college to learn English."

803
00:44:01,181 --> 00:44:03,016
"Then I wanna take some business classes,

804
00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:05,977
because eventually
I may have to take over your operation."

805
00:44:06,061 --> 00:44:07,312
And he loved that.

806
00:44:07,938 --> 00:44:09,439
These are the new covers.

807
00:44:10,273 --> 00:44:11,441
[Arnold] Let me see it.

808
00:44:12,109 --> 00:44:14,695
We don't want to put him on the cover.
Come on, Joe.

809
00:44:14,778 --> 00:44:16,822
You told me one time
that you're only putting

810
00:44:16,905 --> 00:44:19,533
Mr. Universes or Mr. Olympias
on the cover.

811
00:44:19,616 --> 00:44:20,659
[Joe] Five more copies…

812
00:44:20,742 --> 00:44:21,576
[Arnold] Joe?

813
00:44:26,748 --> 00:44:28,750
[breathing deeply]

814
00:44:53,024 --> 00:44:55,235
[Arnold] Every time I want anything,

815
00:44:55,318 --> 00:44:58,405
I say to myself,
"Okay, now what's the next thing?"

816
00:44:59,114 --> 00:45:02,325
If you're always hungry,
you're never really satisfied.

817
00:45:04,369 --> 00:45:07,456
Because Reg Park, of course,
won three Mr. Universe contests,

818
00:45:07,539 --> 00:45:09,458
Arnold has to break that record.

819
00:45:12,461 --> 00:45:16,423
When people think, "This is too much."
For me, it was definitely not enough.

820
00:45:16,506 --> 00:45:18,258
And then I wanted more.

821
00:45:18,341 --> 00:45:20,343
[suspenseful music plays]

822
00:45:21,928 --> 00:45:23,472
[Jon Jon] My dad had retired,

823
00:45:23,972 --> 00:45:27,100
but he decided to compete in Mr. Universe.

824
00:45:28,643 --> 00:45:31,313
At that time, my dad was 42.

825
00:45:31,396 --> 00:45:33,106
Arnold was 23.

826
00:45:33,190 --> 00:45:36,067
[Arnold] Someone told me, "Do you know
who else is competing this year?"

827
00:45:36,151 --> 00:45:37,068
And I say, "Who?"

828
00:45:37,152 --> 00:45:38,570
They said, "Reg Park."

829
00:45:38,653 --> 00:45:40,906
I said, "Come on. This is impossible."

830
00:45:42,157 --> 00:45:44,951
I felt kind of weird
to compete against my idol.

831
00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:51,875
And then won.

832
00:45:54,628 --> 00:45:58,173
When that happened, it was something
really weird that happened mentally to me.

833
00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:00,717
I felt guilty somewhat.

834
00:46:01,301 --> 00:46:02,594
That my ego got in the way

835
00:46:02,677 --> 00:46:04,888
or maybe I shouldn't have competed
that year.

836
00:46:08,350 --> 00:46:12,270
To know that, as a 15-year-old kid,
you were dreaming about that

837
00:46:12,354 --> 00:46:13,897
and you were idolizing it.

838
00:46:15,106 --> 00:46:17,651
And now, all of a sudden,
you become the one

839
00:46:17,734 --> 00:46:19,277
that others are idolizing.

840
00:46:21,071 --> 00:46:23,824
I made this vision become a reality.

841
00:46:34,376 --> 00:46:37,420
My mind is just geared differently.

842
00:46:37,504 --> 00:46:39,714
You know,
it's geared towards moving forward.

843
00:46:39,798 --> 00:46:41,758
[magical music plays]

844
00:46:41,842 --> 00:46:43,844
[wind blowing gently]

845
00:46:45,303 --> 00:46:46,888
[Arnold] What is the new thing?

846
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,601
A new challenge. A new mountain to climb.

847
00:46:56,690 --> 00:46:59,484
Mr. Universe
is a world championship title,

848
00:46:59,568 --> 00:47:01,653
but every year there's a Mr. Universe.

849
00:47:01,736 --> 00:47:03,405
But who is really, then, the best?

850
00:47:03,488 --> 00:47:05,448
[upbeat music plays]

851
00:47:05,532 --> 00:47:07,993
[Arnold]
So Joe Weider created the Mr. Olympia,

852
00:47:08,577 --> 00:47:11,371
where all the Mr. Universes
and all the world champions

853
00:47:11,454 --> 00:47:13,248
competes in the Mr. Olympia.

854
00:47:15,208 --> 00:47:18,253
If you win that,
then you can call yourself the best.

855
00:47:18,336 --> 00:47:19,337
Pow!

856
00:47:19,421 --> 00:47:20,755
Mr. Olympia!

857
00:47:22,799 --> 00:47:26,219
The year 1969,
that was my first Mr. Olympia.

858
00:47:26,845 --> 00:47:28,388
It was a different league.

859
00:47:29,681 --> 00:47:31,933
I competed against Sergio Oliva.

860
00:47:32,642 --> 00:47:33,977
I lost against him.

861
00:47:34,060 --> 00:47:35,896
He was better than me.

862
00:47:36,897 --> 00:47:39,107
I gave him a big kiss on stage,

863
00:47:39,608 --> 00:47:42,319
and I said,
"Enjoy it, because this is the last time."

864
00:47:44,154 --> 00:47:46,907
The next year I came back with vengeance.

865
00:47:46,990 --> 00:47:49,701
I had to kind of make him the villain,

866
00:47:50,452 --> 00:47:53,163
to go and train harder
and harder and harder.

867
00:47:53,246 --> 00:47:56,082
I finally got the chance to confront him.

868
00:48:00,545 --> 00:48:02,422
I then pulled a little trick on him.

869
00:48:03,882 --> 00:48:06,092
We were doing pose-off after pose-off.

870
00:48:06,176 --> 00:48:08,303
And then I said to him,
"I think it's enough."

871
00:48:08,386 --> 00:48:10,096
"I think they must know by now

872
00:48:10,180 --> 00:48:11,640
who is going to be the winner."

873
00:48:11,723 --> 00:48:14,517
He says, "You're right,"
and then he walked off.

874
00:48:15,810 --> 00:48:18,730
And then I pointed at him,
like, "He's giving up."

875
00:48:19,689 --> 00:48:21,983
So it was like
a psychological little trick

876
00:48:22,067 --> 00:48:23,902
to kind of close the deal
once and for all.

877
00:48:23,985 --> 00:48:25,779
[cheering and applause]

878
00:48:26,613 --> 00:48:29,866
He turned around and said,
"You son of a bitch."

879
00:48:29,950 --> 00:48:32,202
[chuckles]
He was, like, really pissed off about it.

880
00:48:35,163 --> 00:48:37,165
["Super Guy (Flying High)" plays]

881
00:48:37,958 --> 00:48:42,420
[Arnold] In the '70s, I kept being driven
to go from title to title.

882
00:48:47,175 --> 00:48:50,845
I was so far ahead of everybody else
that I ran over everybody.

883
00:48:50,929 --> 00:48:53,014
♪ Super guy ♪

884
00:48:53,098 --> 00:48:54,349
♪ What will you be ♪

885
00:48:54,432 --> 00:48:56,935
♪ When your cloud falls ♪

886
00:48:57,018 --> 00:48:58,061
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

887
00:48:58,144 --> 00:49:00,105
♪ Hey, super guy ♪

888
00:49:00,188 --> 00:49:02,357
♪ What your mama say? ♪

889
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,859
♪ Oh ♪

890
00:49:04,943 --> 00:49:05,819
♪ Ow ♪

891
00:49:05,902 --> 00:49:08,154
♪ Hey, hey, super guy ♪

892
00:49:08,238 --> 00:49:10,031
♪ What you gonna do? ♪

893
00:49:18,623 --> 00:49:21,376
-[man] What do you expect to see tonight?
-[man 2] I'm not quite sure.

894
00:49:21,459 --> 00:49:23,586
I'm curious to see what it's…
what it looks like.

895
00:49:25,005 --> 00:49:26,673
[man 3] Can we ask
what you expect tonight?

896
00:49:26,756 --> 00:49:29,467
I expect to see fantastic bodybuilders.

897
00:49:29,551 --> 00:49:31,469
-[man 3] Have you ever been to one before?
-No.

898
00:49:31,553 --> 00:49:33,972
-[man 3] Have you ever been to one before?
-Never!

899
00:49:34,973 --> 00:49:36,057
-Have you?
-[man 3] Never.

900
00:49:36,141 --> 00:49:36,975
[laughs]

901
00:49:37,058 --> 00:49:39,060
[cheering]

902
00:49:49,195 --> 00:49:51,740
[Arnold] Being a bodybuilder
is like being an artist,

903
00:49:51,823 --> 00:49:54,868
being a sculptor
like Rodin or Michelangelo,

904
00:49:56,870 --> 00:50:01,666
because you have to have a sense
of symmetry and beauty.

905
00:50:01,750 --> 00:50:03,752
[applause]

906
00:50:05,378 --> 00:50:08,339
[Arnold] If you don't have that,
the whole thing together

907
00:50:08,423 --> 00:50:10,050
looks like a waste of time.

908
00:50:10,592 --> 00:50:12,385
[cheering]

909
00:50:18,183 --> 00:50:19,601
[man] That's it. Hold it.

910
00:50:19,684 --> 00:50:21,436
That's it. Just hold it.

911
00:50:21,519 --> 00:50:24,230
[man 2] Looks a little different
than two months ago, doesn't it?

912
00:50:24,856 --> 00:50:25,899
[exhales]

913
00:50:28,943 --> 00:50:31,571
[Arnold]
I never really was satisfied with my body.

914
00:50:31,654 --> 00:50:32,739
God almighty.

915
00:50:32,822 --> 00:50:37,160
I looked in the mirror and said to myself,
"I don't know how this shit body

916
00:50:37,243 --> 00:50:39,245
can ever win this competition."

917
00:50:41,039 --> 00:50:44,125
-Thanks for coming in.
-Lou Ferrigno is coming too.

918
00:50:45,585 --> 00:50:48,254
[Arnold] When I brag about myself,
that's all bullshit.

919
00:50:48,338 --> 00:50:50,465
-All right.
-Very dramatic, Arnold.

920
00:50:50,548 --> 00:50:52,509
[Arnold]
This is kind of like the other me,

921
00:50:52,592 --> 00:50:55,178
the me that I want the world to see.

922
00:50:55,261 --> 00:50:56,304
Take this one.

923
00:50:57,430 --> 00:51:00,517
That should inspire you,
because this is an arm shot.

924
00:51:02,060 --> 00:51:02,894
It's Columbu.

925
00:51:03,394 --> 00:51:04,437
How do you like that shot?

926
00:51:04,521 --> 00:51:06,606
[Arnold] But in reality,
when I'm by myself,

927
00:51:06,689 --> 00:51:08,650
I look at it and I say to myself,

928
00:51:08,733 --> 00:51:10,610
"It's not there yet. It's not happening."

929
00:51:10,693 --> 00:51:11,653
Check the chest.

930
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:16,491
[Arnold] I think it's the very thing
that made me always be on the edge

931
00:51:16,574 --> 00:51:18,118
and always want more.

932
00:51:18,201 --> 00:51:20,620
Your chest looks tremendous, Arnold.

933
00:51:20,703 --> 00:51:21,663
Huge.

934
00:51:28,878 --> 00:51:32,757
I was in Baltimore and Philadelphia

935
00:51:32,841 --> 00:51:34,926
doing, uh, posing exhibitions.

936
00:51:35,009 --> 00:51:36,344
I came home,

937
00:51:37,637 --> 00:51:40,890
and, uh, Franco said to me…
He says, you know, "I have bad news."

938
00:51:41,850 --> 00:51:43,184
I said, "What's that?"

939
00:51:43,268 --> 00:51:46,729
He said to me… he says,
"Your brother died in a car accident."

940
00:51:47,230 --> 00:51:49,524
"He was drunk driving,

941
00:51:50,483 --> 00:51:54,779
and that he was hitting a telephone pole."

942
00:51:57,031 --> 00:51:58,783
And I was, like, stunned.

943
00:51:58,867 --> 00:52:00,410
[somber music plays]

944
00:52:06,249 --> 00:52:08,668
[Arnold]
He was always the darling of the family.

945
00:52:09,252 --> 00:52:10,879
He was very artistic.

946
00:52:10,962 --> 00:52:12,172
Very smart.

947
00:52:12,255 --> 00:52:13,590
Read a lot.

948
00:52:16,593 --> 00:52:19,971
But I don't think
my brother ever was really happy.

949
00:52:22,891 --> 00:52:27,979
I think he started drinking
because our upbringing was very tough.

950
00:52:28,646 --> 00:52:30,732
The brutality that was at home,

951
00:52:30,815 --> 00:52:33,818
the beatings that we got
from our parents sometimes,

952
00:52:33,902 --> 00:52:36,321
all of this, I think he could not sustain,

953
00:52:36,404 --> 00:52:37,322
that punishment.

954
00:52:37,405 --> 00:52:40,533
He was much more delicate of a person

955
00:52:40,617 --> 00:52:41,618
by nature.

956
00:52:43,661 --> 00:52:47,332
We had a very,
kind of, schizophrenic behavior

957
00:52:47,415 --> 00:52:49,626
that my brother and I witnessed at home.

958
00:52:49,709 --> 00:52:51,252
There was the kind father,

959
00:52:51,336 --> 00:52:55,089
and then there was the other times
where my father would come home drunk.

960
00:52:55,173 --> 00:52:58,176
And he would scream
at three in the morning.

961
00:52:58,259 --> 00:52:59,302
We would wake up,

962
00:52:59,928 --> 00:53:02,722
and, all of a sudden, you know,
our hearts were pounding,

963
00:53:04,015 --> 00:53:05,934
because we knew what that meant.

964
00:53:06,017 --> 00:53:09,020
That he could,
at any given time, strike my mother

965
00:53:09,103 --> 00:53:10,521
or go crazy.

966
00:53:10,605 --> 00:53:12,607
[indistinct yelling]

967
00:53:13,441 --> 00:53:16,527
So there was
this kind of strange violence.

968
00:53:16,986 --> 00:53:18,488
[birds chirping]

969
00:53:19,656 --> 00:53:22,450
The kind of upbringing that we had

970
00:53:22,951 --> 00:53:26,454
was beneficial for someone like me,

971
00:53:26,537 --> 00:53:29,749
who was, inside,
very strong and very determined.

972
00:53:30,541 --> 00:53:32,543
But my brother was more fragile.

973
00:53:35,004 --> 00:53:36,506
Nietzsche was right,

974
00:53:36,589 --> 00:53:40,260
that that what does not kill you,
will make you stronger.

975
00:53:40,343 --> 00:53:43,137
The very thing that made me who I am today

976
00:53:43,221 --> 00:53:46,057
was the very thing that destroyed him.

977
00:54:02,949 --> 00:54:04,701
[curious music plays]

978
00:54:04,784 --> 00:54:08,413
[Arnold] In 1972, when I was competing
in Essen, in Germany,

979
00:54:08,955 --> 00:54:11,249
my parents came for really

980
00:54:13,209 --> 00:54:14,711
unexplained reasons.

981
00:54:16,921 --> 00:54:19,173
I competed at least 50 times

982
00:54:19,257 --> 00:54:22,176
in weightlifting competitions,
in powerlifting competitions,

983
00:54:22,260 --> 00:54:25,138
in locals and in statewide competitions,

984
00:54:25,221 --> 00:54:26,597
national competitions.

985
00:54:26,681 --> 00:54:28,766
My parents never came to any of it.

986
00:54:28,850 --> 00:54:30,977
So that's why I was quite surprised.

987
00:54:34,439 --> 00:54:37,734
My father acted a little odd.

988
00:54:38,943 --> 00:54:43,114
He was a little slower.
He was sometimes slurring things.

989
00:54:43,197 --> 00:54:45,742
And so there was something off
a little bit there.

990
00:54:46,993 --> 00:54:48,077
A few weeks later,

991
00:54:49,162 --> 00:54:50,330
I got a phone call

992
00:54:50,913 --> 00:54:52,915
that my father had a stroke.

993
00:54:54,167 --> 00:54:57,337
I, uh, then took
the next flight to Austria

994
00:54:57,420 --> 00:54:59,797
and then went
to visit my father in the hospital.

995
00:55:00,298 --> 00:55:04,427
He was not able to communicate.

996
00:55:06,262 --> 00:55:08,181
You know,
he needed a lot of medical attention,

997
00:55:08,264 --> 00:55:11,726
but I did not know
is this something you can overcome or not.

998
00:55:11,809 --> 00:55:13,019
That I did not know.

999
00:55:15,772 --> 00:55:17,774
I flew back to Los Angeles,

1000
00:55:18,566 --> 00:55:20,693
and then after that, he passed away.

1001
00:55:22,487 --> 00:55:24,489
[somber music plays]

1002
00:55:28,326 --> 00:55:30,495
[Arnold]
When my father and my brother died,

1003
00:55:31,245 --> 00:55:33,873
I had no feelings about it.

1004
00:55:33,956 --> 00:55:36,125
You know? I eliminated it.

1005
00:55:36,834 --> 00:55:40,004
It maybe comes out
sometimes in my life later on…

1006
00:55:40,088 --> 00:55:42,048
those feelings, you know,
but I don't know.

1007
00:55:42,131 --> 00:55:44,550
I've been training myself to do that.

1008
00:55:44,634 --> 00:55:47,720
Not to be affected by anything else
from the outside.

1009
00:55:50,890 --> 00:55:51,974
I mean,

1010
00:55:52,475 --> 00:55:53,851
I'm not an expert

1011
00:55:54,519 --> 00:55:56,270
in psychology or anything like that.

1012
00:55:56,354 --> 00:55:58,147
All I can tell you is that

1013
00:55:59,899 --> 00:56:03,027
when you're a person
that has always a goal,

1014
00:56:04,946 --> 00:56:06,489
that always has a mission,

1015
00:56:07,657 --> 00:56:12,203
the less time that you have to think
about, "How do I feel today?"

1016
00:56:12,703 --> 00:56:14,831
"Am I depressed today?"

1017
00:56:15,415 --> 00:56:17,750
"Do I feel sorry for myself?"

1018
00:56:17,834 --> 00:56:19,377
"Have I become a victim?"

1019
00:56:20,002 --> 00:56:24,006
"Oh my God.
I feel so bad about myself," and all this.

1020
00:56:24,090 --> 00:56:25,842
I don't have time for this crap.

1021
00:56:25,925 --> 00:56:27,802
A lot of times,
it's people didn't work enough.

1022
00:56:27,885 --> 00:56:29,804
If you're busy all the time,

1023
00:56:29,887 --> 00:56:32,140
you don't have time
to think about this stuff.

1024
00:56:32,223 --> 00:56:34,267
Let's just move forward.
Move. Move. Move. Move.

1025
00:56:34,350 --> 00:56:36,602
["Lowdown" plays]

1026
00:56:36,686 --> 00:56:40,356
[Arnold] When I realized
that bodybuilding is not established,

1027
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,192
I decided that I'm gonna promote
the hell out of myself.

1028
00:56:44,068 --> 00:56:45,570
[man] What are the judges looking for?

1029
00:56:45,653 --> 00:56:48,239
[Arnold] Well, they're looking
for proportions, symmetry,

1030
00:56:48,322 --> 00:56:49,449
the size of the muscles,

1031
00:56:49,532 --> 00:56:51,284
how you can pose and present the muscles.

1032
00:56:51,367 --> 00:56:54,287
I want to put some effort out
to help people understand

1033
00:56:54,370 --> 00:56:55,788
what the sport is all about.

1034
00:56:55,872 --> 00:56:58,958
-[man] Got everything in the chair now?
-No, there was a problem.

1035
00:56:59,041 --> 00:57:00,251
-I see.
-[audience laughs]

1036
00:57:01,043 --> 00:57:03,254
♪ Ooh ♪

1037
00:57:15,016 --> 00:57:17,518
[Arnold]
I've only been in this country five years.

1038
00:57:17,602 --> 00:57:20,104
What does it mean, "hanky-panky?"

1039
00:57:20,188 --> 00:57:21,689
-My goodness.
-[laughing]

1040
00:57:24,275 --> 00:57:25,401
♪ I wonder, wonder… ♪

1041
00:57:25,485 --> 00:57:28,571
[Arnold] It's a sport.
I'm competing to be the best in it.

1042
00:57:28,654 --> 00:57:30,823
And I feel that,
at the same time, I'm an artist.

1043
00:57:30,907 --> 00:57:33,534
I'm creating a body
that wasn't there before.

1044
00:57:33,618 --> 00:57:34,827
[cheering and applause]

1045
00:57:35,870 --> 00:57:37,413
[laughing]

1046
00:57:37,497 --> 00:57:39,499
[rock music plays]

1047
00:57:44,462 --> 00:57:48,132
[Albert]
In '74, Arnold was in fantastic shape,

1048
00:57:48,925 --> 00:57:52,261
and he was absolutely unbeatable.

1049
00:57:55,097 --> 00:57:56,849
[rhythmic clapping]

1050
00:57:56,933 --> 00:57:58,476
[cheering and applause]

1051
00:57:59,352 --> 00:58:03,397
[Arnold] In 1974,
I won the Mr. Olympia competition.

1052
00:58:03,481 --> 00:58:07,276
So I won, all together,
13 world bodybuilding championships,

1053
00:58:08,319 --> 00:58:09,612
one after the next…

1054
00:58:13,157 --> 00:58:15,117
because I was driven by this vision.

1055
00:58:15,201 --> 00:58:17,245
[inspirational music plays]

1056
00:58:21,332 --> 00:58:22,875
What else was there to do?

1057
00:58:24,377 --> 00:58:25,586
To win another one?

1058
00:58:26,587 --> 00:58:27,672
Boring.

1059
00:58:28,839 --> 00:58:30,174
So I stopped.

1060
00:58:31,217 --> 00:58:33,219
[applause]

1061
00:58:34,262 --> 00:58:37,473
I mean, I'm competing now for 10 years.

1062
00:58:37,557 --> 00:58:40,685
And after 10 years,
I feel like it's enough, you know?

1063
00:58:41,435 --> 00:58:43,688
You have to let
other people have a chance

1064
00:58:44,564 --> 00:58:47,775
and, uh, just leave as a winner.

1065
00:58:50,278 --> 00:58:53,489
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
Arnold Schwarzenegger!

1066
00:58:53,573 --> 00:58:55,575
[cheering and applause]

1067
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:07,962
[adventurous music plays]

1068
00:59:09,338 --> 00:59:11,549
[Arnold] It's a sport
and I love to compete.

1069
00:59:12,174 --> 00:59:16,804
And, uh, I love
to be the best in the world.

1070
00:59:17,555 --> 00:59:18,973
You know, just the best.

1071
00:59:19,056 --> 00:59:22,893
To stand up there and know
that there is no other man

1072
00:59:22,977 --> 00:59:26,606
better in this particular field than I am.

1073
00:59:27,607 --> 00:59:31,235
And, um, so I think
it's such a repetitious thing now,

1074
00:59:31,319 --> 00:59:34,363
that I would like to go on
to another thing,

1075
00:59:34,447 --> 00:59:38,492
and, uh, you know,
try to be the best in something else.

1076
00:59:38,993 --> 00:59:39,952
[man] Like what?

1077
00:59:40,036 --> 00:59:41,954
I would like to get into acting.

1078
00:59:42,455 --> 00:59:45,207
Find out if I can be good in that.

1079
00:59:51,213 --> 00:59:52,673
[phone ringing]

1080
00:59:55,635 --> 00:59:57,094
[man] I remember being on the phone.

1081
00:59:57,178 --> 00:59:58,012
[Arnold] Hello?

1082
00:59:58,095 --> 00:59:58,929
[man] I said…

1083
00:59:59,013 --> 01:00:01,641
Tell me about your process as an actor.

1084
01:00:01,724 --> 01:00:03,684
He said, "Jim."

1085
01:00:03,768 --> 01:00:05,561
"I don't want to be an actor."

1086
01:00:06,562 --> 01:00:08,189
"I want to be a star."

1087
01:00:08,272 --> 01:00:10,316
[action music plays]

1088
01:00:16,781 --> 01:00:18,115
["Hollywood Swinging" plays]

1089
01:00:25,998 --> 01:00:27,875
♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

1090
01:00:30,044 --> 01:00:31,379
♪ What you got to say? ♪

1091
01:00:34,465 --> 01:00:38,469
♪ Hollywood ♪

1092
01:00:38,552 --> 01:00:40,054
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪

1093
01:00:43,140 --> 01:00:46,686
♪ Hollywood ♪

1094
01:00:47,186 --> 01:00:48,979
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪

1095
01:00:49,772 --> 01:00:51,148
♪ Ah! ♪

1096
01:00:51,774 --> 01:00:53,401
♪ So here I am ♪

1097
01:00:55,820 --> 01:00:58,698
♪ In this Hollywood city, yeah ♪

1098
01:01:00,366 --> 01:01:03,911
♪ The city of the stars, movies, women
And cars ♪

1099
01:01:04,495 --> 01:01:05,705
♪ Well, I guess I ♪

1100
01:01:06,205 --> 01:01:08,708
♪ I guess I'll start ♪

1101
01:01:08,791 --> 01:01:11,085
♪I say, "Hey, hey, hey" ♪

1102
01:01:11,711 --> 01:01:12,795
♪ Hey, hey ♪

1103
01:01:13,379 --> 01:01:14,630
♪ What you got to say? ♪

1104
01:01:17,675 --> 01:01:21,637
♪ Hollywood ♪

1105
01:01:21,721 --> 01:01:23,180
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪

1106
01:01:26,392 --> 01:01:30,312
♪ Hollywood ♪

1107
01:01:30,396 --> 01:01:31,856
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪

1108
01:01:32,565 --> 01:01:35,151
♪ Ah! Ah! ♪

1109
01:01:35,234 --> 01:01:37,236
♪ Hollywood swinging ♪

1110
01:01:37,319 --> 01:01:39,280
♪ Hollwood swinging, yeah ♪

1111
01:01:39,363 --> 01:01:42,491
-♪ Hollywood, Hollywood ♪
-♪ Hollywood swinging ♪

1112
01:01:42,575 --> 01:01:44,285
[music fades]