Andre The Giant Eng (2018) Subtitles

At 00:00:26,134, Character said: Most of us, when we're children,

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At 00:00:28,800, Character said: your parents read fairytales to you.

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At 00:00:32,092, Character said: There are knights, there are dragons,
there are sorcerers,

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At 00:00:37,467, Character said: there are giants.

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At 00:00:40,509, Character said: He was those drawings come to life.

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At 00:00:44,050, Character said: He was a living manifestation
of our childhood dreams.

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At 00:00:50,800, Character said: And from Grenoble in the French Alps,

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At 00:00:54,925, Character said: weighing 477 pounds,

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At 00:00:58,842, Character said: the eighth wonder of the world,

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At 00:01:02,800, Character said: André the Giant!

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At 00:01:06,592, Character said: Everybody remembers that moment

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At 00:01:09,134, Character said: where they first saw André the Giant.

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At 00:01:11,300, Character said: We're all intrigued by
André the Giant the human,

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At 00:01:15,467, Character said: but the reason we're intrigued by that

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At 00:01:17,634, Character said: is because he seems like so much more.

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At 00:01:21,175, Character said: He was a god.

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At 00:01:23,509, Character said: The crowd goes wild.

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At 00:01:25,509, Character said: This is the one we've all been waiting for.

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At 00:01:29,259, Character said: André the Giant.

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At 00:01:35,300, Character said: Holy mackerel!

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At 00:01:36,842, Character said: André the Giant, off the top turnbuckle!

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At 00:01:41,883, Character said: André cleaning house!

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At 00:01:43,925, Character said: This is one man you do
not want to get riled up.

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At 00:01:48,676, Character said: Look at the size of the Giant!

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At 00:01:52,134, Character said: André still undefeated.

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At 00:01:56,092, Character said: Oh, slam! André picked him up with ease!

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At 00:02:00,217, Character said: André is unbelievable!

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At 00:04:16,758, Character said: He was just starting.

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At 00:04:18,175, Character said: He was at the time maybe 6'9, 6'10

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At 00:04:21,925, Character said: when he was wrestling in France.

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At 00:04:26,050, Character said: He hadn't fully grown yet

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At 00:04:28,134, Character said: 'cause he started around 19, 20 years old.

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At 00:04:32,592, Character said: He was leaner than what North
American people remember of him.

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At 00:04:36,050, Character said: So he would do a much more athletic
style than what we saw in North America.

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At 00:04:59,384, Character said: The first name that they used
in France was Jean Ferré.

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At 00:05:04,925, Character said: The name come from a folk hero from France

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At 00:05:08,259, Character said: that was named Grand Ferré,

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At 00:05:10,008, Character said: which means Great Fairy.

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At 00:05:12,050, Character said: The backstory for the Jean Ferré character

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At 00:05:14,592, Character said: was that he was a lumberjack.

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At 00:05:19,008, Character said: That he was, you know, discovered

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At 00:05:21,008, Character said: in the middle of the woods chopping wood.

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At 00:05:30,925, Character said: You have to sell a background
story to your character,

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At 00:05:35,134, Character said: and he had the size

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At 00:05:36,967, Character said: to be believable that he was a lumberjack.

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At 00:05:56,008, Character said: Thank you, Monsieur.

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At 00:06:00,758, Character said: André was wrestling in
many venues all over Paris.

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At 00:06:05,758, Character said: He was also working a lot on
the south coast of France,

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At 00:06:08,717, Character said: and during the summer was
working in a lot of festivals

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At 00:06:12,300, Character said: all over the country.

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At 00:06:26,342, Character said: The first country outside of France

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At 00:06:28,676, Character said: where André wrestled was Monaco.

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At 00:06:30,717, Character said: And then he went to Japan,

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At 00:06:32,758, Character said: and he was called there
"Monster Roussimoff."

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At 00:06:37,175, Character said: In June of 1971, that was the first match

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At 00:06:39,676, Character said: he ever had in North America,

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At 00:06:41,175, Character said: that was in Verdun,
just a suburb of Montreal,

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At 00:06:44,008, Character said: and he was working for a promotion

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At 00:06:45,717, Character said: called Grand Prix Wrestling.

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At 00:06:47,592, Character said: The very first ad said that he was a giant

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At 00:06:50,008, Character said: of 7'4", 390 pounds, from the French Alps.

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At 00:06:54,676, Character said: Being a giant from the French Alps,

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At 00:06:56,842, Character said: it's a much better story
than just being, you know,

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At 00:06:59,509, Character said: a guy from a town that
nobody have heard of.

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At 00:07:02,384, Character said: From the French Alps, 7'4", 415 pounds,

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At 00:07:08,217, Character said: the friendly French Giant, Jean Ferré!

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At 00:07:19,050, Character said: And there's a shot to the top of the head.

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At 00:07:22,758, Character said: And he's going into the figure-four.

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At 00:07:24,717, Character said: - Well...
- Commentator ♪2: Oh!

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At 00:07:26,717, Character said: First thing, I said,
"There's money to be made with the guy."

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At 00:07:29,883, Character said: And they did draw money,

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At 00:07:31,551, Character said: they sold out all over,

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At 00:07:32,758, Character said: and the Giant became a household name.

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At 00:07:35,925, Character said: We'd get into a little town
and they'd come from all over.

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At 00:07:39,717, Character said: You'd draw 3, 4, 5, 6 thousand people

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At 00:07:42,925, Character said: at least 5 nights a week.

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At 00:07:45,758, Character said: There's a shot

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At 00:07:47,008, Character said: to the top of the head.

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At 00:07:49,259, Character said: Maurice is in very bad shape.

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At 00:07:55,092, Character said: Wrestling comes out of circus sideshows,

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At 00:07:57,092, Character said: and André in a lot of
ways was one of these...

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At 00:07:59,426, Character said: sideshow spectacles.

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At 00:08:01,008, Character said: Anybody would pay a quarter
and line up to see him.

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At 00:08:04,134, Character said: But you don't go back a
second or a third time.

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At 00:08:06,259, Character said: So at a certain point,
the move with a wrestler like André

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At 00:08:09,925, Character said: is to move on,

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At 00:08:11,384, Character said: to migrate to a different territory,

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At 00:08:13,175, Character said: and, you know, try out greener pastures.

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At 00:08:17,259, Character said: ♪ One, two, three ♪

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At 00:08:18,967, Character said: ♪ I'm your boogie man, that's what I ** ♪

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At 00:08:23,217, Character said: ♪ I'm here to do whatever I can... ♪

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At 00:08:25,634, Character said: The '70s was the heart
of the territorial era

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At 00:08:29,134, Character said: in pro wrestling in the United States.

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At 00:08:33,634, Character said: I love to hurt people

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At 00:08:36,384, Character said: and I'm gonna hurt you very, very bad.

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At 00:08:40,008, Character said: Heads up! Ooh! Oh!

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At 00:08:42,134, Character said: When André came down,

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At 00:08:43,800, Character said: professional wrestling was divided up

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At 00:08:45,925, Character said: into these fiefdoms around the country.

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At 00:08:47,967, Character said: I think at one time there were as many

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At 00:08:49,634, Character said: as 32 separate territories.

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At 00:08:51,967, Character said: Hello again, everybody,

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At 00:08:53,092, Character said: and welcome to Mid-South Wrestling.

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At 00:08:54,800, Character said: Welcome to another hour

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At 00:08:56,050, Character said: of Florida Championship Wrestling.

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At 00:08:57,676, Character said: Welcome again to an
exciting hour of wrestling.

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At 00:09:00,426, Character said: You had certain stars in your territory,

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At 00:09:04,008, Character said: in your region, and they were seen

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At 00:09:06,175, Character said: as far as your local
television coverage would go.

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At 00:09:09,758, Character said: Nobody had a national TV show.

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At 00:09:16,676, Character said: Lone Eagle rolling over,
and here they come back.

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At 00:09:20,717, Character said: There they go again, come on.

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At 00:09:22,967, Character said: ♪ Do what you want, I'm
your boogie man... ♪

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At 00:09:25,342, Character said: You have g***t to wrestle me
right here and right now.

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At 00:09:30,676, Character said: ♪ Do what you want, I'm your boogie man ♪

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At 00:09:33,551, Character said: We had a TV show in Memphis.

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At 00:09:35,467, Character said: 200 miles north of Memphis,

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At 00:09:38,342, Character said: then that started the St. Louis territory.

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At 00:09:40,384, Character said: Then they had a whole set of
different wrestling stars there.

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At 00:09:42,925, Character said: And over to the east was
the Carolinas territory,

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At 00:09:45,842, Character said: and they had a whole set
of different stars there.

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At 00:09:47,842, Character said: Outside of Canada when André
first came to North America,

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At 00:09:52,217, Character said: he was wrestling mainly in the Midwest.

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At 00:09:57,008, Character said: Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit.

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At 00:09:59,758, Character said: In Detroit, he was actually
called the "Polish Giant."

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At 00:10:02,800, Character said: And in Minneapolis, he was
called either André Roussimoff

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At 00:10:07,050, Character said: or André the Giant Frenchman.

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At 00:10:09,300, Character said: The name under the Giant, the first time
it actually happened, was in Chicago.

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At 00:10:14,217, Character said: There was a promoter there
who wanted to book André,

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At 00:10:17,467, Character said: so he called the promoter back in Montreal.

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At 00:10:20,008, Character said: So he said, you know,...