Another Leader: Act #II
2016
Video, 20:15 min.
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Another Leader Act II
[Singing] You’re simply the best. You're simply the best. OH. Yes, yes. A new day, a new day, a new day. You're simply the best. Better than all...
[Pen clicking] Hello? How? Yes. How are you doing, Yvonne? Yes, I arrived well, but as you know, I would have arrived a lot better if I was on the window. I like the window, Yvonne. I keep telling you. Yes, I know that you know it, that you do the possible, but your possible… It's many times not, it doesn't happen, huh? I like to rest and the window relaxes me. Why can't you put me on the window? Whatever, whatever, whatever. Okay. How is everything there? Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Who? When? Again? But I told that dude to… He cannot pick up the 20 cars because I don't have them bulletproof yet. No, have they paid? Yvonne, come on, don't make me fire you this week again, huh? I'm playing with you. Don't get sensitive now. Okay. Don't give any cars, I know. Yes, it’s the son of the all-powerful one. But we are not running a candy shop, huh? Okay, I don't know. Listen. Listen to… Yvonne, listen to me. I have to go, okay? I have to go. One hour, Yvonne, please? Please? Okay. Okay, Yvonne, bye bye.
Hi, everyone. It is with a great sense of responsibility that I stand here in front of you.
Well, I'm not quite sure about that. Well, sort of speak, no? I don't want to be attached to responsibility. It's an old word and an old concept, huh?
When I was young, my father told me a story about the nature of the monkey. I stand here with the conviction that my energy, my passion, my cognitive capacity and ability, when at the service of my community is nothing but a solid, no-risk [smile] all-the-way-to-the-bank investment. Somehow I think someone should review this expression: the all ‘to-the-bank’. You know, banks? No. Sharon, may you look into that, please? We need another expression. Popular, but not so aggressive, huh? And please ask gay Dave, you know, we have two. So the gay one. Ask Dave to help with the expression. Okay?
And I'm going to tell to you this particular story. A monkey on a tree, and there's too much water to be able to be on the ground. A lion comes and he says: “Help me up, monkey, help me up.” The monkey says: “I'm not going to help you up because you are a lion. You have the tendency to chew monkeys, so I will not have you for my company.” My point is that my dedication comes with no doubt. No doubt, no hesitation. Yes, I am in this for the money. Luxury prostitutes and…
… and some kind of satisfaction that comes with a power of having such influence on other human beings.
I had explicitly asked you for Brazilians, huh? No! Fucking Czechoslovakia, dude. I know that doesn't exist anymore, but they just reminded me of people from Czechoslovakia. I don't know where they were from. They were definitely not from Brazil.
But my motivation is serving you.
My motivation. My motivation is to serve you. My motivation is to serve you. My, my... I'm serving you. My motivation, ladies and gentlemen, is to serve you. Just... Sharon, should I point? I do not want to look like Uncle Sam. You know? There is… But I do, I feel quite powerful when I [points finger], you know? But at the same time, it feels a bit like the 50s. I don't know. Let's… Please advise objectively.
But now the monkey thinks this lion is going to die. The lion is looking at the monkey, the monkey looking at the lion. And he says: “Okay, I'll help you.”
Listen to me though. Yes, you considered me a reasonable person, correct? Okay, don't answer that. Let me put it like this: we do business for a long time now. Yes, we do business. I did business with your grandfather. I did business with your father. And now it's your turn. I have no problem with you. And I'm not saying that you are a kid. I believe in your experience, and I believe in what you're trying to do. But let me tell you: to deal with this kind of a system, you need a different kind of – let me say – brutal capacity to impact people's opinions. And all I'm telling you is that I've got the resources for you to get the answers you want, but you’ve got to trust me and do it the way I'm telling you to do it.
We are under extreme transformation in all segments of our community.
Transformation. Change. An illusion. Nobody wants to transform anything. Nobody wants to change.
Financial transformation, institutional transformation, …
We are under extreme transformation.
… having to decide what we are going to do with all the old people refusing to let go of life.
The old people, the old people, the old people, the old people. I, uh… the old people.
Both those active and inactive within social security system - within ‘the’ Social security system, we have clear proposals to eliminate these honorable citizens.
We're going to kill them. Soft…
No, they did nothing wrong - apart from, just not dying right after their productivity rates went below their personal best.
Sharon, we cannot we cannot express the word ‘kill’ old people. It's just not how it works, you know? People don't want to deal with the old people, but they don't want to hear that we're going to kill them, or anything like that.
Once the lion is up the tree with the monkey, there the lion goes [snapping sound], it takes the arm of the monkey. The monkey asks to the lion and he says: “What the fuck did you do?”
This sentence seems a bit complicated. Just, let's say that we want to make sure that the old people are out of the way in a more elegant way.
Eliminate them.
Huh? That's fine. Elegance. When talking about old people, it's very important. We have clear proposals to send them out of this physical world with no pain, no noise, no regrets.
Even though I had an idea, we can put them all in a plane, tell them that we are going to Florida or something, and just push them. But I think this should not be in the speech. I don't know.
“You just took my arm!” And the lion says: “I am a lion. What did you expect?”
We will send the old people… Can we not be specific what we're going to do? Let's just put something connected to the old people that just put something like: “in due time, we'll express what the plan is or the strategy is exactly.”
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm saying to you that I am not here to change humanity. I'm not here to change the citizens of our community.
I know the risks, yes, I know the risks. You will not lose your company, I assure you of that. I've got people on the field. What are you saying to me? I'm going to tell you this once, and you can hang up the phone if you do not know what I'm telling you about. Okay, 48 hours. That company will not only be yours, but you’ll have bigger, stronger offers.
[Groaning sounds]
You know very little about the real deal of power and its seducing tentacles. You know little, and you'll continue to know little, not because you are stupid, retarded, nor unworthy. It is just not helpful to answer certain questions.
You know little. And if it depends on me, you will continue to know little. Certain things you cannot undo once you know them. And believe me, I'm here to protect you from that.
In the spirit of the open attitude I mention, it's fair for me to say that I do not know what's really going on in all segments of our common social environment.
I'm here to make sure that we know what to expect, that we know what we are working for, that we know where we are going, and I am the person who will be no more bullshitting you. Ladies and gentlemen, this is me.
And because I still like to get it on with my wife… [Chuckling]
Hello darling. How are you doing? I miss you already. Beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful. I am okay, I am good, business went well and I am going to go for it, huh? Ah, come on, you know, let's not talk on the phone about this.
Sharon, I do like to get it on with my wife. But I don't think we really have to mention my wife. Because these things change all the time. I don't want to sell the family man. And especially not my sexual activity area. Okay, let's keep my wife out of this.
Three days. Yes, I love you too. I love you too. Give my hello to whoever is doing cocaine in my living room. [Laughing] You know, I'm playing, but do say hello.
I know how important family is, so I want to get some advice, some balance in this. I want some objective advice, please. Play with the kids and have a beer after work. I'm really not going to bother. I'm not going to bother... Yeah, just eliminate the family, please. No wife, no kids. We are going for something else. Okay?
[Groaning sounds]
Everyone, I am looking at this speech, and you guys have done… It's not so shit. It's okay. It's a good start. But we've got to embrace the issues regarding security and education and education and health and culture. I got to speak with people connected to this and especially: let's investigate the policies that have culture not dependent of the state. There's too much of a dependency of that, especially the opera. I don’t like it. I don't like opera. We should look into something different to put the people's money in, huh?
Here is what I know: for every penny I earn – legally or illegally – you can be sure that I have placed five times... Can we put like ‘eight’? Eight is the number of infinity. It sort of maybe plays on the minds of people, not ‘five’. Okay, I'll try with ‘eight’ here.
I think to some extent we should add something about my own personal transformation. Like, I understand about transformation coming from a very illegal activity. We do not need to be specific. I repeat: do not be specific. But I know about transformation. It is important that the public understands that I know the… You know what I mean.
Here is what I know. For every penny I earn – legally or illegally – you can be sure that I've placed eight times as much in the people's account. There will be no tolerance in my office for nothing less than that. We take, but we put more.
Another question becomes crime. What is indeed criminal? What is legal? What is illegal?
Crime. Fuck crime. We know that crime is a two edged sword. We hate to admit it, but it does have a functional role in modern contemporary societies.
The Kennedys taught us that decades ago. I refuse to ignore good, solid and consequent facts. I like that, and I tell you what: I like that, Sharon. It makes me sound intelligent. Can we have a little bit more of that intelligent statements in here? I refuse to ignore solid and consequent facts. Beautiful. Whoever did that part: you’re having a raise. My job will be to make crime a more predictable and transparent ingredient of our daily diets. Good, Sharon. Good. I'm starting to like this speech. You're talking about transparency within crime in a new way and we are here, talking about diet. People like healthy. People like diets. ‘Our daily diet’, let's use that some more. That can be a catchphrase. You know, ‘I'm here to change the people's diet’. People's social diet. I hear you, asking about education. I hear you, asking about culture and health.
Do I look like a guy that will not strive to plant seeds of prosperity into good, high-quality dung, fertile ground. It's quite appropriate, huh?
Okay, now, this was just starting to get elegant. Can we remove this dung reference here? It's a bit too much. People know what fertile ground requires.
But be certain of something. My purpose is service. [Laughing] I believe that. I believe that.
You know me better than that. I am not playing around with your lives. I do not love you. We should repeat strongly that I do not love them. I think this might be quite particular.
What I want is to serve satisfaction, pleasure, peace, and an abundant death. I have a plan to get all of us there. That will be, ladies and gentlemen, my legacy.
[Singing] I am the champion. I am the champion. No time for losing. We should remix the champion song, huh?
To know more about my proposals and strategy...
… and strategy: do tune into the national debate. We're going to change this fucking game forever. [Laughing] Sharon, please. I think here at the end of this speech, I think ‘fucking’ is a bit too much, huh?
I know that I'm supposed to be open and very new in the language I use, but I think ‘fucking’ is too much. I don't know. Advice objectively please, about this.
And in this, ‘fucking’ business liaise with Filippa because he/she knows about fucking, huh? It's a joke, okay? Do not talk to Filippa about this. Okay. Oh, shit. [Groaning]
I'm feeling good about this. Feeling good about this. Feeling good about this!
Oh, yeah, yeah… [Mumbling]
Concept, development, writing, direction & performance by Nástio Mosquito
Camera and edit by João Pedro Moreira
