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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

It's Bullseye. I'm Ray Suarez in for Jesse Thorn. Walter Merch is a Hollywood sound editor,

and not just any sound editor, he's one of the greats.

Name any Francis Ford Coppola movie, for example, and you've probably heard his work.

Like anyone who's been in the game for as long as he has,

he's learned some tricks of the trade for working with directors and actors.

He remembers one day he was overdubbing some lines with Coppola for the Godfather Part 2,

and the other person in the room? Marlon Brando.

Suddenly Francis looked at his watch and said,

well, I have to leave. I think it's going great. You guys finished the film.

Suddenly, I was alone in the room with Marlon Brando.

I was 28 years old or something, and Marlon Brando was Marlon Brando.

We finished the reel that we had been working on,

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