Later that morning on location, work begins on a scene with post-aril in Aparka. You see, it fills is not an act of medium. It's a director's medium, producer's medium, camera's medium. It's a medium of the technician. The fascinating, marvelous, marvelous medium, perhaps over once in a ten years, apart as written that it is really worthwhile for an actor in film. The most of the time it's completely visual medium. The best performances given in movies have had no dialogue at all. Witness the bicycle fee, it was hardly any dialogue in that. Shushan, that film. There was no acting, they were actually doing it, and the director was molding it and making their life, creating their life for them. These are my second really major picture. The two I made before was like the sort of smaller budgets and not quite some sort of huge feature films. The folder on the upper hand, and this already, and I waited purposely till I was in my 30s to, in a way, to start. I feel more ready to go into films, having had enough sort of backlog of training in the theatre. If, for instance, nothing worked and I wasn't any good, I didn't make a sort of mark in films. I could always go back to the theatre as a sort of insurance policy. But a stage actor does suffer from an unease, had been in movies. I try and study what happens behind the camera in the Space Necks. Because one day I'd like to direct a film. It would be a marvelous ideal situation when I was to direct pictures and actors. And theatre, but I don't know that'll ever come true. Robert Wise, producer and director of West Side Story, tells why he cast Christopher Plummer in the Sound of Music. Everybody that was Chris is one of the very top actors I think in the world, the Western world. And we had hoped that in the case of Captain Bond's rap to make the character of the Captain more than a bit of a cardboard cutout that we somehow felt he was in some ways in the play. And we felt that somebody of Chris's statue that could bring the kind of qualities of acting and performance to it could make much more out of the capital than my policy would be on the page literally. The funny thing about movies is if you don't make a large amount of money, the powers that be in the film industry don't particularly respect your talent. They must have them have a great judge talent by the amount of money you make. And so you have to demand for these outrageous sums, most of which you don't see, of course. But I'm afraid talent in most pictures usually based on how much is he worth. And if he's a quarter of a million dollar actor or half million dollar actor, half million dollar actor is going to get the best pickings. I am amusing, I think. Do we have the finest good to eat? Right? Nobody happens to eat. That's the best way to eat. Oh, for. I've never reloaded. You love to run. Because we will hear all these things. I've had a kind of bad reputation because I do get angry rehearsals. I don't mean it personally. I do try and suggest things, perhaps sometimes that it doesn't my job to suggest. But one must survive. And if one has an idea, one must speak his mind and get it out. And of course, a lot of people don't understand that. And I think you're trying on that toes. I think you're taking over the boss's work, the director's work. And whereas you're not really, you're just trying to contribute. I'll step back Chris, would you please? Before you move in? I suppose in a way that sport one is one one is called difficult. People don't understand the word. Kind of temperament, but an artist must have impatience with stupidity. And blacked-asical and people don't work at their job. And he discovers your musical leanings were dividend, by God. They're from China. Well, I'm quite recorded the more, but that's not big too short. But yeah, he knew how serious I was to try to sing in it. He was very nice and told me, quite early on, it was possible. I could be doubted if I didn't want to. Meeting with anybody else could be the second voice. That's right. But I don't want that. I mean, that's not the point. So I'm really, really, really assisted on trying to sing. Do you know at the time that your first talk about the wise who you were leading ladies would be? Oh, absolutely. Oh, that was one of the reasons I decided to do it. I think if it had to be an honest thing, anyone else, I wouldn't have done it because of Julie Andrews. Thank God, great. In order to eliminate background noise in a busy Salzburg Square, Julie Andrews sings to a playback of her own voice, while the camera captures one of her Rogers and Hamistine songs in widespread screen technicaler. All righty, roll it. Well, I can't think of really any dark moments. I've been a little terribly lucky. Father spoiled. In a way, I've always worked. I've never been sort of broke. I've been lucky and I don't know so much about those waiting years, because I'm one of the fortunate ones that was most of the time working. But I still, everything in ratio is the same in a way. It was all annoying at my vittles, you know, all the time. I was always sort of wanting to do better things and I have shaker things, and I was in at the moment, or more important productions. At least I was working, but I wanted to be in that one over there, you know, not just in mine. I'm really happy, Dad. At the piano in the lounge of Salzburg's Hotel Bristol, the actor unbends. The best reward in the world from after is to have an audience. We can hate and love him. We can listen. We can criticize, quadrably. We can take away with him even if they haven't understood the entire evening that actor's life. As an actor does spend a lifetime in a stage every night he works, there's no question of like that. No matter what road he's playing, he goes. If they take away one tiny, tiny bit, that's the best reward an actor asks for. It doesn't even have to be the play, it doesn't even have to be the actor. There might be a thought that was thrown out in the night, and the actor can always tell somehow in what part of that audience, that reaction comes from. And can always appreciate it from sort of extraordinary, anyway. What does happiness mean to you, Chris? Happiness? I love the world. Happiness is always sounded like such a rounded, less square word. It's cubic. I'm simply a cubic who had happiness. There's nothing good to do with anything. Sadness means everything to me. Because sadness gives birth to comedy and tragedy. Sadness gives birth to talent. Most talent comes from sort of sadness and inability to express oneself in one way. So one desperately cleans to another tact and reaches it through that. And through their sadness, some marvelous things happen. All beauty is sad to me. Very funny. And the talk turns to talent. Can it be defined? No, you can't, but I tell. Down. You can only nurture it and build it up. Because I suppose every one of us has talent. And if we had the opportunity, if we had the background, or if we'd had sometimes the money, the chance, the freedom to express it, freedom most important, we would all be talented in something. Some of us who are exposed to the public in some way or another, in drama, in music and art, or whatever, are so fortunate to be able to have the chance. Some of us fail miserably, you know. We know where the men are separated from the boys, but does the world know?