Paul Doesn’t Die.

All Fathers Give Me Strength.

The Dwarf :
You understand, Boy?
You're about to take the full force of A Star.
It'll KILL You.


Only if I Die.

The Dwarf :
Well… Yes.... That's what 

"Killing You", means.

When Paul get killed, 

he doesn't die because... 

The Messiah is all The Humanity, 

can get enlightened. 

In The End, His Mind is 

the mind of every person. 

He's a Plural Being :

“I am The Others.”

“The Others are Me.”

And then, if the whole humanity get enlightened... The Earth changed. 

The Planet of Sand... start to grow plant, animals, be like a paradise. 

Dune is a Messiah of The Planets 

because is a planet with Consciousness. 

With the same consciousness of Paul. 

And The Planet go to The Universe... to illuminate the other planets. 

I changed The End of The Book, evidently! 

In the book, it's a continuation. 

The Planet never changed. 

Is not awake, with a Cosmic Consciousness. 

It's not a Messiah, The Planet. 

I did that. It's different. 

It was My Dune. 

When you make a picture, 

you must not respect The Novel. 

It's like you get married, no? 

You go with the wife, white, 

the woman is white... 

you take the woman, 

if you respect the woman, 

you will never have Child. 

You need to open The Costume and to... To rape The Bride. 

And then you will have Your Picture. 

I was raping Frank Herbert, raping, like this! 

But with Love, with Love. 

And then I came with that. 

It was such a beautiful object. 

So well done and at the time, 

there were no photocopies. 

It was just photos of each drawing. In color... so well done... with so much detail about the costumes, 

about the techniques used. 

Every studio have 

one book like this. 

Every studio. 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, 

everything, all them... 

Michel Seydoux give a book like that. 

This approach was chosen precisely because... 

I was thinking they might have a certain distrust of Jodorowsky. 

But since we were showing the camera angles, 

since we explained each scene... 

the way we wanted to film it... 

they should have been relieved. 

But They weren't. 

It wasn't enough. 

In Los Angeles, I wasn't optimistic. 

The thing is that sometimes The French and The Americans... 

have difficult relationships, you know. Well, we have had. 

We were almost at the finish line,

 but we had to find the last $5 million. 

The film cost $15 million. 

Well, we estimated it as $15... 

We had been invited to Walt Disney studios by the chairman of the board. 

He looked through the project and said: 

"This is a wonderful project...

but it is like The Concorde. 

It's an exceptional plane, but over here, never!" 

And there I said to myself 

that we were going to face a lot of problems. 

They always received us in a very friendly way... 

but it was always the same answer. 

When we would give them The Book, they were very impressed. 

They had never seen anything like it. 

Each time, they would tell us, 

"It's superb. It's very well-constructed.

You've solved the technical problems of those special effects. 

It's economically reasonable. 

But we don't get 

Your Director." 

Hollywood did not visualize science fiction that way. 

It was in 2001: A Space Odyssey, or in small B movies. 

But a huge movie, that would cost millions of dollars with all the effects. 

They did not conceive of that. 

Maybe it was a bit long as well. 

Maybe the film was a bit too long. 

They asked me to make a picture one hour and a half, for the theaters. 

And myself, 

"No, why the time?

I will make a picture of 12 hours! 

Or 2O hours!” 

The totally outrageous side of Jodorowsky, 

especially after The Holy Mountain and El Topo

did not give them faith that he could lead this very ambitious project. 

Because $15 million in the middle of the '70s was a lot of money. 

And that was Their Answer, 

even though they found everything else to be perfect. 

Everything was Great, 

except The Director. 

You have to be like A Poet. 

Your Movie must be just as 

You Think of It and just as You Want It. 

Do not take comments to change this or that 

from this person or the other. No! 

The Movie has to be just 

Like I Dream It. 

The Picture need to be exactly as I am dreaming the picture. Is a dream. Don't change my dream. This system make of us slaves. Without dignity. Without depth. With a devil in our pocket. This incredible money are in the pocket. This money. This shit. This nothing. This paper who have nothing inside. Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition. I wanted to do something like that. Why not? Very disappointed. Very disappointed because we all believed in it. I believed in it. Now, this is my take on it... but I think he didn't feel like... doing something else after such a project... which was the project of his life, I believe. That's my feeling. 

I think that the humiliation that Alejandro Jodorowsky suffered, in not having been chosen, in having been eliminated for being too original, being too surrealistic…

that is a permanent injury. 

I think that Jodorowsky 

carries that in his heart for life. 

I was convinced that it would be something Great. 

But then Dino De Laurentiis' daughter came along 

and took the project away from us... 

and gave it to David Lynch. 

And when I heard that 

David Lynch will direct that... 

I have a pain because 

I admire David Lynch. He can do it! 

He is the only one in this moment who can do it and he will do it! 

I suffer because was My Dream. 

Another person will do that... 

maybe better than me. 

And then when the picture, they will show the picture here... 

I say I will not go to see that 

because I will die. 

And My Sons say, 

"No, We are Warriors. 

You need to come and to see that." 

And then they take me, like an ill person 

I came to the theater. Even I think I will cry. 

And I start to see the picture...

and step by step, 

step by step, 

step by step... 

I became happy because 

the picture was awful! 

Is a failure! 

Well, it's a human reaction, no? 

Is not beautiful, 

but I have that reaction. 

I say, "Is not possible. Is not David Lynch because he is a big artist." 

Is The Producer who did that. 

“I've never seen the movie 

and I never will.”

From this supposed failure, 

come a lot of creation. 

In The Life, thing come, you say "YES." 

Thing go away, you say "YES." 

We don't do Dune? “YES!”

That is, “YES, We Don't Do it!”

And then so what? And then so what? Dune is in the world like a dream, but dreams change the world also. 

Dune was…. Dune is Like Paul —

It’s Throat was Cut,

But it Didn’t DIE.

I think it was a guide. A guide for some. In any case, I am convinced that our storyboard... made the rounds in the halls of Hollywood. I can't imagine that isn't the case. It pleases me to imagine that. You always have to see the positive. Giger. He make the monster of Alien. Why he make the monster of Alien? Because Dan O'Bannon. O'Bannon create Alien. They take Moebius, they take Giger, Foss. And Hollywood start to use my group. Was very fantastic. And then Moebius say to me, 

"What you will do? You will die?" 

No, I will not die. For me to fail is only to change the way. If we don't do that... the Dune we was doing is... The roots are the Dune of Herbert. But this Dune is us. Is the optical. Is a creation. And then, I will use everything I put in Dune to make comics. I say to Moebius, "Why we don't do a comic?" And I start to dictate The Inca/. A lot of images that are in here are in here. And then I find an Argentine, a Spanish, Juan Gimenez. And there I make all the spaceship I design for Dune are in The Metabarons. Even the Duke Leto. I made him castrated by a bull... and we find the sorcerer who will take a drop of his blood... in order to make the child. I did it here, is here, like I was shooting! I did it. I start with Dune, but I go farther, no? Farther. I continue and I did it, my work. I think Dune will be fantastic if somebody take this script... even if I am not alive... and do a picture in animation. 

Now is possible. I can die, 

They can do My Picture. 

I have 84 years, but I am still creating. I am not [ groaning Old Man-noises ]

All my life I create, and is more and more and more.

 The Mind is like A Universe. 

It's constantly expanding. 

Like The Universe, exactly like The Universe, open the mind. The opening of the mind is every day, is open. 

That was this picture. 

Open the mind of all the persons who worked there. From the producer to the artists. From the workers, for every one was an opening of the mind, this work. 

Was ambitious, but not too. 

Was ambitious. 

Myself, I have the ambition 

to live 300 years. 

I will not live 300 years. 

Maybe I will live one year more. 

But I have the ambition. 

Why you will not have Ambition? Why? 

Have The Greatest Ambition Possible. 

You want to be Immortal? 

Fight to be Immortal. Do it. 

You want to make the most fantastic art of movie? Try. 

If you fail, is not important. 

We need to Try. 

Dreams are Messages 

from The Deep. 

My Planet Arrakis is so beautiful when The Sun is low. 

Rolling over The Sands, 

you can see Spice in The Air. 

At nightfall, 

the Spice harvesters land. 

The Outsiders race against time 

to avoid The Heat of The Day. 

They ravage Our Lands in front of Our Eyes. 

Their Cruelty to My People 

is all I've known. 

These Outsiders, The Harkonnens, came long before I was born. 

By controlling the Spice Production they became obscenely rich. 

Richer than The Emperor himself. 

Our Warriors couldn't free Arrakis 

from The Harkonnens, but one day, 

by Imperial Decree, They were gone. 

Why did The Emperor 

choose This Path? 

And who will Our Next 

Oppressors be? 

The Duke Paul

The Duke Paul

of House Atreides of Caledan

ATREIDES!

ATREIDES!

ATREIDES!

ATREIDES!

ATREIDES!

 

"In MY Version, The Duke Leto... he is a castrato --- castrated. 

[ from Bull-Fighting, having been gored by The Beast of The Labyrinth of The King Minos. ] ​

And Then -- 

HOW He Will Do, A Son?

And Then, His Wife...

a MARVELOUS Woman, 

a WISE Woman... 

and The Guy have A Love, A Cosmic Love when He see This Woman. 

And how He will make A Child? 

And she take a drop of His Blood... 

and She CHANGE The Blood into Semen... 

and then we see The Drop of Blood going inside The Vagina, The Uterus... 

and we will follow The Blood... 

The Blood coming and go inside The Ovum and explodes there. 

She get pregnant with 

A Drop of Blood. 

That's What I Did. 

What will have if You are NOT The Son of a Sexual Pleasure, but of A SPIRITUAL Pleasure? 

And from This Spiritual Love, 

He Will create PAUL. 

Paul was A Young Boy... 

but is not 

A NORMAL Boy. 

Was A Mutant. 

With A Big Soul and Strength. 

Where I will find That Boy....? 

My Son. 

El Topo : 

"Today You are 7 Years Old -- 

Now You are A Man  : 

Bury Your First Toy 

and Your Mother's Picture." 

I work with him in El Topo, 

now he have 12 year old. 

I say, "You Will make Paul, 

but You need to prepare as A Warrior." 

 

Brontis Jodorowsky :

"So he said one day, we're going to make Dune, and you're going to play The Part of Paul, and....

You're Going to Have to Prepare."

I prepare My Son, to do The Role exactly as The Duke Leto prepare His Son. 

 

Brontis Jodorowsky :

So here, he is going to have to learn Karate, and make acrobatics, and....

Your Mind has to develop, a LOT --

You know, he wanted me to 

BE The Character.

 

I find A Teacher for Him. 

I have A Very STRONG person... 

Jean-Pierre Vignau. 

Jean-Pierre : 

"When We started, He was 12. 

There I trained Him in Karate, Karate Jujitsu, Japanese style. 

That's all the fist-foot techniques, joint locks, floor pins, standing pins,  

a combination of Karate, Judo, Aikido and Atemi-Jitsu."

He learn How to Fight with : 

His Hands; with Knife; 

with Swords -- 

He learn ALL that. 

And he was READY to do Paul 

as A Real "Paul." 

Jean-Pierre :

"I trained Brontis six hours a day, seven days a week for two years. "

 

Brontis Jodorowsky :

 That was PAINFUL, 

and Jean-Pierre, he has No Mercy. 

No, really -- we worked to get ahead, no mercy.

And all the person say to me, 

"But What You Did?

But WHY You are Trying 

to Change The Mind of [A] Child and to make 

A Superior Person?" 

I say, "No, I was only awakening The Creativity." 

I open His Mind. 

That's What I Was Doing. 

I don't know if I change His Life..... 

NOW, I am Thinking, 

"Why I DID That? Sacrifice My Son." 

But in that time, I say, "If I Need to Cut My Arms [off] in order to make That Picture, I Will Cut My Arms -- I Will DO It.”

I was believing that to make A Picture, who will Give A Mutation to The Young Minds... was Sacred. 

You NEED to Sacrifice Yourself. 

I was even ready to die doing that.

“ Gerard Way, the lead singer of the band My Chemical Romance, was a very different kind of entertainer, a New Jersey art-punk rocker who’d been an intern at Vertigo back in the days of The Invisibles and a fan of my Doom Patrol run, although we’d never crossed paths.

In mid-2006, with Final Crisis on my mind, I caught the video for his band’s song “Welcome to the Black Parade,” a searing slice of punk psychedelia I was primed to like anyway. What really made me sit up were the outfits the band was wearing.

 

  Dressed in black-and-white marching band uniforms as they led a procession of sexy walking dead through a bombed-out city, My Chemical Romance looked like a glamorous postmortem Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They had fused the images of two opposites — the tough soldier and the frail emo kid — to create an image of what was to come. Nor was the sound morbid or dark; it was triumphal, chiming, imperial rock. The new psychedelia would learn to make friends with Darkness. It would come from the Goth and alternative frontiers of the last twenty years into the mainstream, laughing at cancer as it put a beat to the Dance of the Dead and began to have fun again, however dark that fun might seem to grown-ups.

 

  That fall, I listened to The Black Parade over and over and over again, to inspire cosmic mortuary scenes for Final Crisis and Batman’s mental breakdown. MCR had shown me a picture of the new superhero, posttraumatic, postwar, the hero with nothing left to believe in. The supersoldier was home from the front, jumping every time a car backfired, staring at his hands.

 

  Neil Gaiman put me in touch with Gerard, and we met in Glasgow before a gig, forming an instant connection. He led a new young generation of musicians who had grown up with superhero comics and had no qualms about saying so. He walked the walk too, with Umbrella Academy, his own award-winning re-creation of the superhero formula with artist Gabriel Ba. It was a kaleidoscopic tour de force. There was no shaky start, no cramming of balloons with words (a common tyro error), and none of the familiar missteps that dogged so many other celebrity-fan forays into the comics biz. Umbrella Academy was the end result of years of reading and thinking about superheroes and science fiction: Funny, scary, cerebral, arty, and violent all at the same time, it harvested all the fruits of Gerard’s own “iconography tree.” The heroes of Umbrella Academy were a group of outsider kids who grew up to be the world’s greatest superheroes. It was the story of his band. It was my story too. It was a premonition of where we were all headed.

 

  These days, it’s no longer enough to be a star or even a superstar. Today even the most slender and ephemeral talents are routinely described as “legends.” There’s no need to slay ten-story sea beasts, endure complex and life-threatening quests or epic military campaigns: Simply release a couple of dodgy records or do some stand-up, and you too will be elevated to the ranks of the mythical King Arthur, heroic Lemminkainen, or mighty Odysseus. You too will become legend.

 

  With our superlatives and honorifics devalued so that star, legend, and genius will suffice as descriptors for any old cod with half a good idea he stole from someone else, what lies next on the upward trajectory of human self-regard from star to superstar to legend?  

 

Once upon a time, a star was an individual of exceptional sporting, musical, or acting talent. 

 

Then it became every child who could grip a crayon and scrawl a daisy for Mother’s Day. 

 

When we all became stars, stars became superstars to keep things straight, but they were swimming against the tide. In a time of Facebook and Twitter, where everyone has a fan page, when the concept of “genius” has been extended to include anyone who can produce a half-competent piece of art or writing, where is there left to go but all the way? 

 

We may as well crown ourselves kings of creation. Why not become superheroes? Supergods, in fact. Isn’t it what we’ve always known we’d have to do in the end? Nobody was ever going to come from the sky to save us. No Justice League; Just Us League.

 

  Back in 1940, Ma Hunkel, the Red Tornado, was the first attempt to depict a “real-life” superhero in comics. Not a spaceman from Krypton, not a billionaire playboy with a grudge, Ma had no powers except for her formidable washerwoman build. She wore a homemade costume to dish out local justice in the stairwells and alleyways of the Lower East Side in some aboriginal memory of the early DC universe.

 

  She was joined by characters like Wildcat, the Black Canary, the Mighty Atom, the Sandman, and other tough but good-hearted vigilante crime fighters who took to the mean streets in nothing but their underwear. They had no special powers, just fists, and an attitude — at best, a gun that shot darts or gas or bees.

 

  Seventy years after Ma Hunkel, sixteen-year-old Dave Lizewski, the hero of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s Kick-Ass, asked the question “WHY DOES EVERYONE WANT TO BE PARIS HILTON BUT NOBODY WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO?” Leaving aside the cynical response that nobody in their right minds wanted to be Paris Hilton, Dave’s question had already been answered by a handful of brave souls, real people in the real world who dress up in capes and masks to patrol the streets and keep people safe. You can read all about them online if you type “real world superheroes” into a search engine. They even have their own registry, like Civil War veterans who fought on Iron Man’s side.

 

  The TV and film hopefuls, the half-baked actors, are easy to spot. But to the others, fierce behind homemade masks and hoods and helmets, the superhero’s calling is as important as religion, or at least as important as the youth cult demographic you conformed to at school. They are The Future.

 

You Can Work Things Out in The Quiet of Your Own Mind

A King Discovers a Father ~ Hyde Park on the Hudson

Finally, Franklin had to instruct The Band to stop playing.

He wished to spend time with The King, on his own. 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

Let's go to my study. Will be quiet out there. 

Unless you need to —

KING GEORGE VI :

No. No.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

Would you mind pushing...?

[ A willingly, but little awkwardly, He Does. ]

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

Her Majesty has gone to bed? 

KING GEORGE VI :

She has.

And -- Your Wife? 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

(smiling) Who knows?

Would you mind, closing The Door. 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

Cheers.

 

 

KING GEORGE VI :

Cheers.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

Do you collect stamps? 

KING GEORGE VI :

I did. I have.

I understand you are a serious stamp collector....

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

No, No..!!

KING GEORGE VI :

....perhaps, you would show me some of your stamps. 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

You can’t POSSIBLY be interested. 

KING GEORGE VI :

But I am --.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

 Do not -- protest.

 

When I was a Young Man --

-- before My Marriage of course -- 

-- I found, that showing ones stamps 

was a very helpful way to get 

a Young Woman’s attention. 

KING GEORGE VI :

Was it. (?)

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

But I suppose -- if Your Father’s The King...

Who needs stamps? 

(The President chuckles clubbily at his own witty non-joke, observing and noting The Young King's physical reactions to it -- the mention of His Father [King George V] very clearly makes him instantly uncomfortable....)

 

The Queen, is certainly a lovely woman. 

KING GEORGE VI :

Ah...as is The First Lady. 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

She's a -- Strong -- Person —

Some days, you don't feel like getting out of bed -- 

But then, These Women.... They wont let you do that, will they?

KING GEORGE VI :

(thoughtfully)

No.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

What do you do -- to be alone?

 

You need to give them 

A Reason NOT to Bother You.

 

You can figure things out in The Quiet of Your Own Mind. 

 

I open up my stamp books, and everyone knows not to bother me.

You were wonderful tonight, Young Man.

KING GEORGE VI :

Wh-What do you mean? 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

Just what I said. 

 

You were graceful. 

You were confident. 

You're going to be a Very Fine King.

KING GEORGE VI :

...I don't know what to say. 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

Your Father would be very proud.

KING GEORGE VI :

I'm not so certain about that.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

If I were, Your Father — 

I’d be proud.

KING GEORGE VI :

The Queen -- she's... 

She worries so much. 

Its been HARD for her. 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

Women WORRY.

KING GEORGE VI :

I just stop listening to her sometimes. 

Forget I said that. 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

(chuckles softly)

Forgotten.

KING GEORGE VI :

(takes out a folded paper)

I-I’ve been asked, to Say some things...

‘Such a war as we now co- co-contemplate --. 

 

The carnage —

 

Think at S-S-S-Spain.

Ch-children -- b-bbombed.

 

Tha-tha-thats what we can expect. 

It will b-b-be horrific.

And yet, we know some of your countrymen wi-wi-wi-sh my country ii- i-i-ill... 

And w-w-want us to fail.

And want me to fail wi-th-thth you...

This GODDAMN st-st-stutter... !!

(a pregnant pause)

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

What Stutter?

 

 

This Goddamn Polio. 

KING GEORGE VI :

Sometimes, I think  — They deserve better than me. 

My -- subjects. 

I’m sorry. I don't know why-why I’m saying this to you.

I’m s-s-supposed to be trying to convince you to help us. 

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

Let me confess something to you, now.

As you have been so — honest -- with me.

 

(thinks) 

No-one -- ever mentions the fact that I cant use my legs.

Its never referred to. Not by ANYONE.

 

And I used to •think• it was because they were embarrassed about it. 

But •now• I think its because 

It's not What They Want to See. 

Of course, you and I — We think they see 

Everything That We Are.

All our flaws.

Or transgressions. Or failures.

But that is NOT 

What They are Looking to Find, 

when They look to us. 

And God help us if that ever changes. 

Do you imagine the disappointment... when they find out 

What We Really Are. 

KING GEORGE VI :

Thank You.

They didn't want me as Their King.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

......I didn’t  know they voted 

for that in England. 

(pause)

I’m thinking -- 

another drink? 

KING GEORGE VI :

Right!

Suddenly only one can sleep that night

Was it The Moon?

How a longed fan

I beg your pardon... Sir.

I mean, Your Highness. Your Majesty...

 

KING GEORGE VI :

Good night.

******

KING GEORGE VI :

You're still awake? 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Mmmmmmm.

 

KING GEORGE VI :

I think I'll go to sleep. It's late.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Why are you smiling? Are you drunk?

KING GEORGE VI :

No.

He's a very funny man.

Has some wonderful jokes. 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Like what?

KING GEORGE VI :

I couldn't tell you. 

They're not meant for women.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

They sound very 'funny.' 

KING GEORGE VI :

He liked my stories too. 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

What stories?

KING GEORGE VI :

I-I-I told him about The Coronation.

About how they p-p-put the crown wrong way around. 

And then stepping on my robe so I couldn't move.

 

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

You shouldn't have told him that.

We don't make fun of ourselves. 

 

KING GEORGE VI :

That's not True. 

Not here.

 

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Of course he liked those stories, they make us look like fools. 

 

KING GEORGE VI :

They make us look like people! 

 

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Don't be naive, Bertie. 

 

 

KING GEORGE VI :

He made fun of himself too. 

He said at the picnic tomorrow-- 

 

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Oh god that picnic.

 

KING GEORGE VI :

He said that the Indians --they were Eleanor's ideas. 

"One of my-my-my wife's crazy ideas."

His Mother is furious about it. 

Franklin's just trying to keep it short.

 

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

He talks about his wife like that to you?

I hope you didn't talk about me to him.

 

 

 

 KING GEORGE VI :

I-I-I didn't.

I w-wouldn't do that.

We didn't talk about you. 

I asked him -- without mentioning you -- about these 'hot dogs'? 

 

What's that about?

You want to know what he said? 

He said he doesn't get the fuss...!!

They're just a good thing to eat at a picnic.

There's no 'meaning.' Nothing more..!!

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

You didn't say I was concerned? 

KING GEORGE VI :

No.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

I'm not sure I believe you --. 

KING GEORGE VI :

That's not fair.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Three different women tonight asked me if I thought there could ever be an American Queen -- if we'd ever 'allow' it. 

KING GEORGE VI :

That was rude.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Give me a cigarette?

I have smoked all of mine. 

KING GEORGE VI :

That won't help you sleep. 

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

I know.

Thank you.

Give me lighter? 

KING GEORGE VI :

Light, of course!

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

I never wanted this life. 

KING GEORGE VI :

I know.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Its hard....

I'll be fine.

 

 KING GEORGE VI :

If there's a war -- and we know there will be -- he believes America could be persuaded to help.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

Did you see some of the people here tonight?

Hear their names?

They're from Italy. Germany.

They're Irish.

KING GEORGE VI :

Their ancestors--

QUEEN ELIZABETH, 

The Queen Mother :

They're Jews.

 

They hate Us, Bertie!!

They want to see Us fall on our face!! 

They want to LAUGH at Us!!

KING GEORGE VI :

I Think You’re Wrong.

I th-th- think we just need to be a little more Confident. 

I'm not sure I can even sleep. 

Finally, he patted me on the knee and said, 

“Young ma-ma-Man, it's time for you to go to bed.”

Like a sort of Father, I suppose —

He said, 

He’s very happy that I am King. 

Good Night.

 

 

 

 

Transcript of King George VI's
Handwritten Notes for a Memorandum on
His Conversations with President Roosevelt
on June10 and 11, 1939

I had two good conversations with the President, besides many opportunities of informal talks on current matters in the car driving with him. He was very frank and friendly, & seemed genuinely glad that I had been able to pay him this visit. He gave me all the information in these notes either in answer to my questions, or he volunteered it.

Mr. Mackenzie King was present at the first conversation at Hyde Park. We talked of the firm & trusted friendship between Canada & the USA. FDR mentioned that he thought it was a waste of money to build a Canadian fleet as he had already laid his plans for the defense of the Pacific Coast of Canada, especially Vancouver Island (Assembling plants for aeroplanes in Canada). On mentioning the Neutrality Act the President gave us hopes that something could be done to make it less difficult for the USA to help us. Cordell lead public opinion on to the right tack. He gave us the following story to illustrate how he was tackling the subject in the Middle West & putting it in a way which they as farmers would understand.

"In the event of a war & say Germany & Italy were to win it, which means that the British Fleet & the French Army had been defeated, which at the moment are our first line of defense, how would you like to lose one of your best customers the United Kingdom? Then again Hitler could say to our great neighbors to the south of Argentine & Brazil 'You cannot sell your beef or your coffee in Europe except through me & Germany. I am the Master of Europe & in return I will send you the article I think you will require in return at my price.'"

I was alone with him for the 2nd conversation. We discussed Europe in a general way. He hoped France & Italy would try & get together.

He was doing his best to get New York to loan money to Roumania. I told him how difficult it was for us to help the Balkans as there was the Mediterranean to convoy things through, & they would want all they had got in a war. I explained to him Roumania's position as to frontiers having 4 to cope with. Because of the air we were only just becoming frontier-conscious ourselves. In the whole of N. America he has none. He was definitely anti Russian. I told him so were we but if we could not have an understanding with her, Germany probably would make one.

He showed me his naval patrols in greater detail about which he is terribly keen. If he saw a U-boat he would sink her at once & wait for the consequences.

If London was bombed USA would come in. Offensive air warfare was better than defensive & he hoped we should do the same on Berlin.

FDR's ideas in case of War

Trinidad Patrol. Base for his fleet at Trinidad to fuel & replenish stores. From this base he can patrol the Atlantic with ships & aeroplanes on a radius of approximately 1000 miles on a sector of latitude of Haiti to latitude of Brazil. This patrol should locate any enemy fleet, which tried to get to S. Am. or the West Indies.

Bermuda Patrol. Base as above. To patrol N. Atlantic from Cape Cod to Florida, with ships & aeroplanes to prevent submarines from attacking convoys.

Brazil. Germans have an air base at Natal Cape St. Roques also a landing ground on the island of Fernando Noronha 200 miles from the coast. Brazil is pretty sure to kick out the Germans. He would then use it himself.

Haiti, Cuba, & West Indies are potential friendly bases.

The idea is that USA should relieve us to these responsibilities, but can it be done without a declaration of war.

Debts. Better not reopen the question. Congress wants repayment in full, which is impossible, & a small bit is of no use, as they will want more later.

Credits. USA will want Nickel from Canada. They will buy our surplus rubber. In return they can send steel sheets which can be cut for aeroplanes wings. Rough castings with bored cylinders to be machined at home. Can be used for aeroplanes or motor boats.

FDR wishes to do .

Trinidad Patrol. Base for his fleet to fuel etc. From there he can patrol with planes 900 to 1000 miles every day on different sector to prevent an enemy fleet from attacking the West Indies.

Bermuda Patrol. Same as above. Aeroplane Patrol up & down coast to spot submarines. Cape Cod to Gulf of Mexico.

If Germany & Italy win a war, they can say to the Argentine, "How can you sell you beef or wheat? The USA does not want it. We will sell it to Europe for you & we will give you what we think you want in return on commission."

Brazil. How can you sell your coffee or wheat? Answer ditto.