Eero Saarinen (2016) Subtitles

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At 00:00:10,000, Character said: [music]

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At 00:00:20,000, Character said: Our architecture is too humble.

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At 00:00:25,000, Character said: It but should be prouder,
more aggressive, much richer,

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At 00:00:30,000, Character said: and larger than we see today.

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At 00:00:35,000, Character said: I would like to do my part
in expanding that richness.

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At 00:00:40,000, Character said: [music]

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At 00:01:00,000, Character said: One finds that many different shapes
are equally logical, some exciting,

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At 00:01:05,000, Character said: some earthbound, some soaring. The
choices really become a sculptor's choices.

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At 00:01:35,000, Character said: [music]

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At 00:02:00,000, Character said: [sil.]

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At 00:02:15,000, Character said: My grandfather was Eliel Saarinen.

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At 00:02:20,000, Character said: My father was Eero Saarinen.
And my name's Eric Saarinen.

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At 00:02:25,000, Character said: And they were architects, they
were both world-famous architects.

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At 00:02:30,000, Character said: When he was starting out, my
father worked under his father.

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At 00:02:35,000, Character said: He worked within the
structure of his father's work.

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At 00:02:40,000, Character said: He would do what he was asked to do,
and he would be assigned to do details,

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At 00:02:45,000, Character said: and he did them well,
but he was always working

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At 00:02:50,000, Character said: within a confines the box.

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At 00:02:55,000, Character said: The first chance he had to make an impact with the design
of the zone and show that he was going to be more than

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At 00:03:00,000, Character said: just the son of a famous architect was the design
competition for the St. Louis Jefferson Memorial in 1948.

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At 00:03:05,000, Character said: There were quite a few
competitions in those days

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At 00:03:10,000, Character said: many more than they are today, but this is the one that everybody
wanted to win. Eliel's whole career had been launched for competitions,

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At 00:03:15,000, Character said: and he had brought arrow
up to enter competitions.

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At 00:03:20,000, Character said: And of course, Eliel also entered.

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At 00:03:25,000, Character said: Both teams were in the same building on other
sides of a wall, working on this competition.

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At 00:03:30,000, Character said: And after the first stage, they
sent a telegram to Mr. E Saarinen.

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At 00:03:35,000, Character said: I had heard the story many times.

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At 00:03:40,000, Character said: Telegram came under the
door. It said Saarinen won.

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At 00:03:45,000, Character said: So they rejoiced for three
days that Eliel had won,

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At 00:03:50,000, Character said: but it was Eero Saarinen who won
the competition, not Eliel Saarinen.

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At 00:03:55,000, Character said: So they celebrated again and the
nice sweet way to put it is, to say that

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At 00:04:00,000, Character said: Eliel had good reason to
celebrate because his son had won.

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At 00:04:05,000, Character said: But in actual fact, I think it was a
big blow to Eliel. He had to admit

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At 00:04:10,000, Character said: that his son had beaten him,
beaten up badly by a better design.

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At 00:04:15,000, Character said: [music]

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At 00:04:30,000, Character said: The major concern here

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At 00:04:35,000, Character said: was to create a monument which
would have lasting significance,

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At 00:04:40,000, Character said: a landmark of our time.
An absolutely simple shape

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At 00:04:45,000, Character said: such as the Egyptian Pyramids seemed
to be the basis of the great memorials.

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At 00:04:50,000, Character said: The St. Louis Arch
could be a triumphal arch

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At 00:04:55,000, Character said: for our ages as the triumphal
arches of classical antiquity

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At 00:05:00,000, Character said: where for (inaudible).

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At 00:05:05,000, Character said: [music]

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At 00:05:10,000, Character said: The St. Louis Arch is one of those rare
moments where an architectural competition

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At 00:05:15,000, Character said: yielded something truly,
daring, and bold, and important.

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At 00:05:20,000, Character said: Saarinen's work seemed
very refreshing to our people,

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At 00:05:25,000, Character said: very exciting, very engaging at a time

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At 00:05:30,000, Character said: when modern architecture,
it was a pretty rigid thing.

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At 00:05:35,000, Character said: I think Saarinen's Arch
expresses American optimism

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At 00:05:40,000, Character said: and American openness. To me, it says,

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At 00:05:45,000, Character said: you know, here's an architect
who sees this country as the symbol

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At 00:05:50,000, Character said: of all that's new of every opportunity,
of everything that 20th century

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At 00:05:55,000, Character said: hopes to represent and
accomplish. And he sums it up

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At 00:06:00,000, Character said: in this breathtakingly
beautiful leap into the sky.

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At 00:06:05,000, Character said: [sil.]

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At 00:06:15,000, Character said: I was only 19 when my father died.

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At 00:06:20,000, Character said: I never really came to terms with
who he was or what his work meant.

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At 00:06:25,000, Character said: Now it's a great joy to come back

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At 00:06:30,000, Character said: and understand what he did and how he did it.
It's kind of a Magical Mystery Tour for me.

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At 00:06:35,000, Character said: [sil.]

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At 00:06:45,000, Character said: Coming out of school, I stumbled across film-making and
started doing documentaries and that led to features.

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At 00:06:50,000, Character said: Yeah, there you go. And drop,

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At 00:06:55,000, Character said: drop, drop, drop. Well,
I've had a long career,

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At 00:07:00,000, Character said: been around the world many times. This is
probably the most important thing I've ever done

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At 00:07:05,000, Character said: because I never had closure with my father

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At 00:07:10,000, Character said: and it's a very cathartic
procedure to go back

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At 00:07:15,000, Character said: and film at my father's work and being able
to communicate his work to other people.

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At 00:07:20,000, Character said: Welcome to the top.

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At 00:07:25,000, Character said: [music]

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At 00:07:35,000, Character said: The arch was a combination of a lot
of work my father did with his father,

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At 00:07:40,000, Character said: but it was also the
beginning of his own work.

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At 00:07:45,000, Character said: It gave them strength to
follow his own convictions.

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At 00:07:50,000, Character said: [music]

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At 00:07:55,000, Character said: He made it to last for 1000 years,
and I hope it does. I do hope it does.

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At 00:08:00,000, Character said: [music]

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At 00:08:15,000, Character said: My grandfather Eliel designed and built
this house in the middle of the forest

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At 00:08:20,000, Character said: in the middle of nowhere.
We're surrounded by woods,

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At 00:08:25,000, Character said: surrounded by nature all the way around.
My father was born here and raised here.

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At 00:08:30,000, Character said: Eero was brought up in this environment of

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At 00:08:35,000, Character said: artists and musicians and creative people.

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At 00:08:40,000, Character said: Other artists would come along including people
like Maxim Gorky who was wanted being hunted down

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At 00:08:45,000, Character said: by the Russian police. He
was hiding here for a while

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At 00:08:50,000, Character said: and they sent him out in a boat for the day
and the police came. They couldn't find him.

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At 00:08:55,000, Character said: And then Gustav Mahler, the great musician,

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At 00:09:00,000, Character said: and Sibelius would play the piano. They were all friends
of Eliel's and they all had tremendous influence on Eero.

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At 00:09:05,000, Character said: The room with a fireplace,

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At 00:09:10,000, Character said: you know, during the winter,
it's cold, and we're in Finland,

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At 00:09:15,000, Character said: so everybody was drawn to the fireplace,
and there was a lot of discussion there.

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At 00:09:20,000, Character said: As a child, I would always draw

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At 00:09:25,000, Character said: and happen to be good at it. I g***t more
attention from drawing than anything else.

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At 00:09:30,000, Character said: One of the draftsman here was Otto.

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At 00:09:35,000, Character said: Eero was like four years old, and
he'd come up to Otto, and he'd say,

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At 00:09:40,000, Character said: "Could you draw me a horse?" And so Otto would
draw him a horse, and everyday this happening.

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At 00:09:45,000, Character said: Now many years later when my
father was interviewing an architect,

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At 00:09:50,000, Character said: he would ask him to draw a
horse. And his reason was that

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At 00:09:55,000, Character said: you can tell within two or three strokes if
the guy knows anything about drawing at all.

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At 00:10:00,000, Character said: My father had his architectural
studio right into house.

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At 00:10:05,000, Character said: I practically grew up under his drafting
table. He'd be on the floor drawing,

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At 00:10:10,000, Character said: an Eliel would be at the table drawing.
And Eliel would look down once in a while,

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At 00:10:15,000, Character said: and I'm sure Eero came up on his lap and
watched him draw for awhile and all that.

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At 00:10:20,000, Character said: So it was just, it was a perfect match.

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At 00:10:25,000, Character said: Except for a rather brief
excursion into sculpture,

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At 00:10:30,000, Character said: it never occurred to me to do anything but follow
in my father's footsteps and become an architect.

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At 00:10:35,000, Character said: [music]

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At 00:10:40,000, Character said: Eliel's attitude on work
rubbed off on an Eero.

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At 00:10:45,000, Character said: Work was everything. Work
was the most important thing.

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At 00:10:50,000, Character said: And Eero was on the boat going
to the US. He was not just a child.

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At 00:10:55,000, Character said: He had a tremendous intellectual back down,

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