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Kissing it all good-bye.
These four stinkin' walls,

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six flights up,

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six flights up,

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the el that roars by at 3 a.m.

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Like a cast-iron wind.

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Kiss 'em good-bye for me, Maury.

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I'll miss 'em...
like hell I will.

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Dreamin' again.

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Not anymore, Lil.
I'm awake now,

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awake for the first time in years.

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Uncle Dave said it...

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"Daylight is a dream

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if you live with your eyes closed."

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Well, my eyes are open now.
I see the choir.

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I know they're dressed in rags,

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but we're part of that choir.

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Yeah, both of us,

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and you, Maury, and Uncle Dave.

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Sun's comin' up, kid.

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They'll be hawkin' the fish

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down on Fulton Street.

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Let 'em hawk.

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Let 'em sing their hearts out.

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That's it, kid.

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Take that ruined choir.
Make it sing.

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So long, Maury.

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So long.

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We'll hear from that kid,

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and I don't mean a postcard.

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Fish!

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Fresh fish!

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Let's spit on our hands
and get to work.

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It's late, Maury.

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Not anymore, Lil.

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It's early.

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- Bravo!
- Bravo!

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Bravo!

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Bravo!

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Bravo!

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- Bravo!
- Bravo!

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- Author!
- Author!

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- Author!
- Author!

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- Author!
- Author!

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- Author!
- Author!

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- Bravo!
- Bravo!

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Your table is ready, Monsieur Fink.

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In fact, several members of your party
have already arrived.

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Is Garland Stanford here?

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He called to say
he'd be a few minutes late.

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Ah, here we are.

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Barton!
Barton, so glad you could make it.

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You know Richard St. Claire

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and Poppy Carnahan.

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Charmed, charmed, charmed.

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We're drinking champagne
in honor of the occasion.

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Have you seen the Herald?

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Not yet.

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I won't embarrass you,

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but Caven could
hardly contain himself.

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More important,

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Richard and Poppy here loved the play.

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Weeping.

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Copious tears.

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What did the Herald say?

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I happen to have it.

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Please, Derek...

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"Bare Ruined Choirs:

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Triumph of the Common Man.

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The star of Bare Ruined Choirs

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was nowhere seen
on the stage last night,

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though the thespians
acquitted themselves admirably.

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The find of the evening

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was the author of this drama
about simple folk,

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fishmongers, in fact,

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whose brute struggle for existence

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cannot quite quell their longing
for something higher.

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The playwright finds nobility

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in the most squalid corners

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and poetry in the most callous speech.

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A tough new voice
in the American theater has arrived,

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and the owner of that voice is named...

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Barton Fink."

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They'll be wrapping fish in it
in the morning.

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Cynic.

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I can't start listening to the critics,

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and I can't kid myself
about my own work.

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A writer writes from his gut.

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His gut tells him
what's good and what's...

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merely adequate.

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I don't pretend to be a critic,

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but Lord knows I have a gut,

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and my gut tells me it's simply...

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marvelous.

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And a charming gut it is.

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Oh, you dog.

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Aroo!

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Oh, stop.

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I thought you were going to join us.

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Jesus, Garland,
you left me alone with those people?

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Don't panic.

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I'll join you in a minute.

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We have to talk a little business.

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I've just been on the phone
to Los Angeles.

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Barton, Capitol Pictures wants to
put you under contract.

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They've offered you $1,000 a week.

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I think I can get them
to go as high as 2.

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To do what?

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What do you do for a living?

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I'm not sure anymore.

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I guess I try to make a difference.

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There's no pressure here
because I respect you,

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but a brief tenure in Hollywood

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could support you through the writing

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of any number of plays.

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I don't know, Garland.

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My place is here right now.

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I feel I'm on the brink of success.

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I'd say you're already enjoying some.

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No. Don't you see?

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Not the kind of success
where critics fawn over you

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or producers like Derek
make a lot of money.

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No. A real success.

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The success we've been dreaming about...

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the creation of a new living theater

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of and about and for the common man.

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If I ran off to Hollywood now,

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I'd be making money,

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going to parties,
meeting the big shots,

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but I'd be cutting myself off

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from the wellspring of that success,

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from the common man.

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Oh, I guess I'm spouting off again.

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You see Caven's review?

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No. What did it say?

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Here, take my copy.

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You're the toast of Broadway,

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and you have an opportunity

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to redeem that for a little cash...

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Strike that.
A lot of cash.

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The common man will still be here
when you get back.

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Who knows?

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They may even have one or two of them
out in Hollywood.

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That's a rationalization, Garland.

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Barton, it was a joke.

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Welcome to Hotel Earle.
May I help you?

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I'm checking in.

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Barton Fink.

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All righty.

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Okay...

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F-I-N-K?

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"Fink, Barton."

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That must be you, huh?

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Must be.

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Okay, then everything
seems to be in order.

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Everything seems to be in order.

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Just...

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Are you a trans or a res?

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Excuse me?

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Transient or resident?

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I...

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I... I... I don't know.

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I mean, I'll be here indefinitely.

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Res. That's 25.50 a week
payable in advance.

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Check-out time's 12:00 sharp,

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only forget that.
You're a res.

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If you need anything,
pick up your personal in-room telephone.

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If you need anything,
pick up your personal in-room telephone.

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My name is Chet.

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Although we provide privacy

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for the residential guests,

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we're a full-service hotel,

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including complimentary shoe shine.

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My name is Chet.

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Okay.

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Those your only bags?

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The others are being sent.

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Welcome to Los Angeles, Mr. Fink.

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Six, please.

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Next stop... six.

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This stop... six.

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Is that him?

182
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Is that Barton Fink?

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Let me at him.

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Let me put my arms
around this guy.

185
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Let me hug this guy.

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How the hell are ya?

187
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Good trip?

188
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My name's Jack Lipnick.

189
00:14:00,757 --> 00:14:02,634
You know that.
You read the papers.

190
00:14:02,718 --> 00:14:04,428
Lou treating you all right?

191
00:14:04,511 --> 00:14:06,722
What's the matter
with your face?

192
00:14:06,805 --> 00:14:09,141
What's the matter
with his face, Lou?

193
00:14:09,224 --> 00:14:10,601
It's not so bad.

194
00:14:10,684 --> 00:14:12,686
A mosquito in my room.

195
00:14:12,769 --> 00:14:14,061
Where'd we put him?

196
00:14:14,062 --> 00:14:15,439
I'm at the Earle.

197
00:14:15,522 --> 00:14:17,941
Never heard of it.
Let's move him.

198
00:14:18,025 --> 00:14:19,358
Stay at my place.

199
00:14:19,359 --> 00:14:20,944
I wanted a place a little less...

200
00:14:21,028 --> 00:14:23,530
Less Hollywood. Say it.
It's not a dirty word.

201
00:14:23,614 --> 00:14:25,657
Say whatever you want.

202
00:14:25,741 --> 00:14:28,285
The writer is king
at Capitol Pictures.

203
00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:29,620
Look at your paycheck.

204
00:14:29,703 --> 00:14:31,788
That's what
we think of writers.

205
00:14:31,872 --> 00:14:34,791
So, what kind of pictures
does he like?

206
00:14:34,875 --> 00:14:37,503
Mr. Fink hasn't given
a preference, Mr. Lipnick.

207
00:14:37,586 --> 00:14:39,671
So, how about it, Bart?

208
00:14:39,755 --> 00:14:41,673
Well, uh, to be honest,

209
00:14:41,757 --> 00:14:44,468
I don't go to the pictures much.

210
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That's okay.

211
00:14:45,636 --> 00:14:47,346
You probably
walked in here

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00:14:47,429 --> 00:14:49,973
thinking that was going
to be a handicap,

213
00:14:50,057 --> 00:14:52,976
thinking we wanted people
who knew something about the medium,

214
00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:55,603
thinking there's technical
mumbo jumbo to learn.

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00:14:55,604 --> 00:14:57,147
You were dead wrong.

216
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There's only one thing...
Can you tell a story?

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00:15:00,484 --> 00:15:02,736
Can you make us laugh,
make us cry,

218
00:15:02,819 --> 00:15:05,364
make us want
to break out in song?

219
00:15:05,447 --> 00:15:06,823
That more than one thing?

220
00:15:06,907 --> 00:15:09,910
I run this dump, and I don't know
technical mumbo jumbo.

221
00:15:10,035 --> 00:15:11,578
Why do I run it?

222
00:15:11,662 --> 00:15:14,122
'Cause I got horse sense, showmanship!

223
00:15:14,164 --> 00:15:16,959
And also I'm bigger
and meaner and louder

224
00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,378
than any other kike
in this town.

225
00:15:19,461 --> 00:15:21,922
I don't mean my dick's
bigger than yours.

226
00:15:22,005 --> 00:15:24,424
It's not a sexual thing.
Coffee?

227
00:15:27,010 --> 00:15:28,470
Yes, thank you.

228
00:15:28,554 --> 00:15:29,513
Lou!

229
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Used to have shares
in the company,

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ownership interest,

231
00:15:41,149 --> 00:15:43,735
got bought out...
muscled out.

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00:15:43,819 --> 00:15:46,738
We keep him around.
He's got a family.

233
00:15:46,822 --> 00:15:48,156
Poor schmuck.
He's sensitive.

234
00:15:48,198 --> 00:15:50,533
Don't mention the old days.
Hell, say whatever you want.

235
00:15:50,534 --> 00:15:51,994
Look, barring a preference,

236
00:15:52,035 --> 00:15:54,997
you'll be working on
a wrestling picture... Wallace Beery.

237
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They say you know
the poetry of the street.

238
00:15:58,083 --> 00:15:59,918
That rules out
westerns, pirates,

239
00:16:00,002 --> 00:16:01,837
screwball, Bible, Roman...

240
00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,423
I'm not some guy
that thinks poetic is fruity.

241
00:16:04,506 --> 00:16:05,924
We're together on that.

242
00:16:06,008 --> 00:16:07,926
I'm from New York myself.

243
00:16:08,010 --> 00:16:10,971
Minsk... if you want
to go all the way back,

244
00:16:11,013 --> 00:16:13,640
which we won't
if you don't mind.

245
00:16:13,724 --> 00:16:15,434
People will say to you...

246
00:16:15,517 --> 00:16:18,145
Wallace Beery, wrestling...
it's a B picture.

247
00:16:18,187 --> 00:16:19,605
You tell them... bullshit!

248
00:16:19,688 --> 00:16:22,858
We don't make B pictures
here at Capitol.

249
00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:26,236
Let's put a stop
to that rumor right now.

250
00:16:30,032 --> 00:16:31,199
Thanks, Lou.

251
00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,659
Join us.
Join us.

252
00:16:32,743 --> 00:16:35,496
We're talking about
the Wally Beery picture.

253
00:16:35,537 --> 00:16:37,206
Excellent picture.

254
00:16:37,247 --> 00:16:39,541
Got a treatment on it yet?

255
00:16:39,625 --> 00:16:41,293
We just bought the story.

256
00:16:41,376 --> 00:16:42,836
Saturday Evening Post.

257
00:16:42,878 --> 00:16:44,296
The hell with the story.

258
00:16:44,379 --> 00:16:45,631
Wally Beery's a wrestler.

259
00:16:45,714 --> 00:16:48,008
Give me his hopes, his dreams.

260
00:16:48,050 --> 00:16:50,969
Naturally he gets mixed up
with a bad element

261
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and a romantic interest
or else an orphan.

262
00:16:53,972 --> 00:16:57,643
Lou, think Wally's too old
for a romantic interest?

263
00:17:00,687 --> 00:17:01,980
Look at me.

264
00:17:02,064 --> 00:17:04,024
A writer in the room,

265
00:17:04,066 --> 00:17:06,777
and I'm asking Lou
about the goddamn story.

266
00:17:06,860 --> 00:17:08,237
Which is it, Bart?

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Orphan?
Dame?

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Both maybe?

269
00:17:19,498 --> 00:17:22,042
Maybe we should do a treatment.

270
00:17:22,125 --> 00:17:24,753
Hell!
Let Bart take a crack at it.

271
00:17:24,837 --> 00:17:27,297
He'll get into the swing of things

272
00:17:27,381 --> 00:17:29,258
or I don't know writers.

273
00:17:29,341 --> 00:17:31,927
Let's make it a dame.
Keep it simple.

274
00:17:32,010 --> 00:17:33,428
The important thing

275
00:17:33,512 --> 00:17:36,431
is we all want it to have
that Barton Fink feeling.

276
00:17:36,515 --> 00:17:38,308
We all have that feeling,

277
00:17:38,392 --> 00:17:40,143
but since you're Barton Fink,

278
00:17:40,227 --> 00:17:42,437
I'm assuming you have it in spades.

279
00:17:42,521 --> 00:17:43,813
I like you.

280
00:17:43,814 --> 00:17:45,941
If all my writers
were like you,

281
00:17:46,024 --> 00:17:47,943
I wouldn't have
to get involved.

282
00:17:48,026 --> 00:17:50,946
Have something
by the end of the week.

283
00:17:53,615 --> 00:17:56,368
I heard about your show,
by the way.

284
00:17:56,451 --> 00:17:59,246
My man in New York saw it.

285
00:17:59,288 --> 00:18:01,832
Says it's damn moving,
a little fruity,

286
00:18:01,915 --> 00:18:04,293
but I guess you know
what you're doing.

287
00:18:04,376 --> 00:18:05,794
Thanks for your heart.

288
00:18:05,836 --> 00:18:08,255
We need more heart
in motion pictures.

289
00:18:08,297 --> 00:18:10,299
We're all expecting great things.

290
00:20:31,064 --> 00:20:32,524
Front desk.

291
00:20:32,608 --> 00:20:34,484
Hello? Uh, Chet?

292
00:20:34,568 --> 00:20:35,652
Speaking.

293
00:20:35,736 --> 00:20:38,614
This is Barton Fink in room 621.

294
00:20:38,697 --> 00:20:42,993
Yes. There's, uh, someone in the room
next door to mine...

295
00:20:43,076 --> 00:20:44,161
623...

296
00:20:44,244 --> 00:20:46,997
and he's, uh...

297
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,332
he's, uh...

298
00:20:49,917 --> 00:20:54,046
making a lot of... noise.

299
00:20:54,129 --> 00:20:56,882
I'll take care of it
right away, sir.

300
00:20:56,965 --> 00:20:58,175
Thank you.

301
00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,104
Hello.

302
00:21:11,188 --> 00:21:12,981
What?

303
00:21:13,065 --> 00:21:15,108
Huh?

304
00:21:15,192 --> 00:21:17,486
Who?

305
00:21:50,602 --> 00:21:52,396
Did you...

306
00:21:55,148 --> 00:21:57,234
Somebody just complained.

307
00:21:57,317 --> 00:21:58,652
No. I didn't.

308
00:21:58,694 --> 00:22:01,154
I mean, I did call down,

309
00:22:01,196 --> 00:22:02,488
not to complain exactly.

310
00:22:02,489 --> 00:22:04,575
I was concerned that you might...

311
00:22:04,658 --> 00:22:06,451
not that it's my business...

312
00:22:06,535 --> 00:22:08,912
might be in some kind of... distress.

313
00:22:08,996 --> 00:22:12,249
See, I was trying to work,
and it's...

314
00:22:12,332 --> 00:22:14,543
Well, it was... difficult.

315
00:22:19,173 --> 00:22:20,299
Yeah.

316
00:22:20,382 --> 00:22:22,968
I'm damned sorry
if I bothered you.

317
00:22:23,051 --> 00:22:24,469
The damn walls here...

318
00:22:24,553 --> 00:22:26,471
I just apologize like hell.

319
00:22:26,555 --> 00:22:27,973
My name's Charlie Meadows.

320
00:22:28,056 --> 00:22:29,850
I guess we're neighbors.

321
00:22:29,892 --> 00:22:31,058
Barton Fink.

322
00:22:31,059 --> 00:22:32,477
Neighbor, I'd feel better

323
00:22:32,561 --> 00:22:33,979
about the damned inconvenience

324
00:22:34,062 --> 00:22:36,565
if you let me buy you a drink.

325
00:22:38,525 --> 00:22:40,110
That's all right.
Really.

326
00:22:40,194 --> 00:22:41,612
Thank you.

327
00:22:41,695 --> 00:22:43,071
All right, hell.

328
00:22:43,155 --> 00:22:44,573
You trying to work,

329
00:22:44,656 --> 00:22:46,533
me carrying on in there.

330
00:22:46,575 --> 00:22:48,327
The liquor's good.
What do you say?

331
00:22:48,410 --> 00:22:49,786
You got a glass?

332
00:22:49,870 --> 00:22:52,664
It's the least I can do.

333
00:22:52,748 --> 00:22:55,125
Okay, a quick one.

334
00:22:55,209 --> 00:22:57,085
Sure.

335
00:22:57,169 --> 00:22:59,004
Yeah, just a nip.

336
00:23:00,214 --> 00:23:02,591
I sure do forget myself sometimes.

337
00:23:02,674 --> 00:23:05,594
I feel like a heel...

338
00:23:05,636 --> 00:23:07,554
All the carryings-on next door.

339
00:23:07,679 --> 00:23:09,431
That's okay, I assure you.

340
00:23:09,473 --> 00:23:12,309
It's just I was trying to work.

341
00:23:12,392 --> 00:23:16,271
What kind of work do you do, Barton,
if you don't mind my asking?

342
00:23:16,355 --> 00:23:18,190
Well, I'm a writer, actually.

343
00:23:18,273 --> 00:23:20,776
You don't say?
That's a tough racket.

344
00:23:20,859 --> 00:23:22,694
My hat's off to you.

345
00:23:22,778 --> 00:23:24,863
Damned interesting work, I'd imagine.

346
00:23:24,947 --> 00:23:26,573
It's not easy, but...

347
00:23:26,615 --> 00:23:28,617
Damn difficult, I'd imagine.

348
00:23:28,659 --> 00:23:31,119
And what's your line, Mr. Meadows?

349
00:23:31,161 --> 00:23:32,746
Hell, no, call me Charlie.

350
00:23:32,830 --> 00:23:34,080
Well, Barton...

351
00:23:34,081 --> 00:23:37,000
you might say I sell peace of mind.

352
00:23:37,084 --> 00:23:38,836
Insurance is my game.
Door-to-door.

353
00:23:38,919 --> 00:23:42,297
Human contact's the only way
to move merchandise.

354
00:23:42,339 --> 00:23:45,133
In spite of what you might think,
I'm pretty good at it.

355
00:23:45,217 --> 00:23:46,718
It doesn't surprise me.

356
00:23:46,802 --> 00:23:48,136
I believe in it.

357
00:23:48,178 --> 00:23:50,389
Fire, theft, and casualty aren't things

358
00:23:50,472 --> 00:23:52,683
that only happen to other people.

359
00:23:52,766 --> 00:23:54,226
Writing doesn't work out,

360
00:23:54,309 --> 00:23:56,687
you may want to look into it.

361
00:23:56,770 --> 00:23:59,106
Providing basic needs...
you could do worse.

362
00:23:59,147 --> 00:24:01,149
I'll keep that in mind.

363
00:24:01,233 --> 00:24:03,485
What kind of scribbler are you?

364
00:24:03,569 --> 00:24:05,445
Newspaperman did you say?

365
00:24:05,487 --> 00:24:08,323
No. Actually, I'm writing
for the pictures now.

366
00:24:08,407 --> 00:24:09,658
Pictures?

367
00:24:09,741 --> 00:24:11,201
Jesus!

368
00:24:13,829 --> 00:24:15,289
Aw, I'm sorry, brother.

369
00:24:15,330 --> 00:24:17,624
I was just sitting here thinking

370
00:24:17,666 --> 00:24:21,128
I was talking to some ambitious
youngster eager to make good.

371
00:24:21,211 --> 00:24:23,088
Hell, you've got it made.

372
00:24:23,172 --> 00:24:25,215
Beating out that competition?

373
00:24:25,299 --> 00:24:27,801
And me being patronizing?

374
00:24:29,761 --> 00:24:32,014
Is the egg showing or what?

375
00:24:32,097 --> 00:24:34,850
Actually, I'm just starting out
in the movies,

376
00:24:34,933 --> 00:24:37,853
though I was well established
in New York,

377
00:24:37,936 --> 00:24:39,646
some renown there.

378
00:24:39,688 --> 00:24:42,107
Oh, it's an exciting time, then.

379
00:24:42,191 --> 00:24:44,735
I'm not the best-read mug on the planet,

380
00:24:44,818 --> 00:24:48,113
so it's not surprising
I didn't recognize your name.

381
00:24:48,197 --> 00:24:50,616
Jesus, I feel like a heel.

382
00:24:50,699 --> 00:24:53,535
That's okay, Charlie.
I'm a playwright.

383
00:24:53,577 --> 00:24:55,954
My shows have only played New York.

384
00:24:56,038 --> 00:24:58,457
The last one got
a hell of a write-up.

385
00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:00,501
Must be why they wanted me.

386
00:25:00,542 --> 00:25:02,419
Why not?
Everyone wants quality.

387
00:25:02,503 --> 00:25:06,882
What kind of venue...
that is to say,

388
00:25:06,965 --> 00:25:08,383
thematically,

389
00:25:08,467 --> 00:25:10,260
um...

390
00:25:10,344 --> 00:25:12,221
What do I write about?

391
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,099
Caught me trying to be fancy.

392
00:25:16,183 --> 00:25:17,643
Yeah, that's it, Bart.

393
00:25:17,726 --> 00:25:19,561
Well, that's a good question.

394
00:25:19,645 --> 00:25:22,064
Strange as it may seem, Charlie,

395
00:25:22,147 --> 00:25:24,650
I write about people like you...

396
00:25:24,733 --> 00:25:26,902
the working stiff,
the common man.

397
00:25:26,985 --> 00:25:29,279
Well, ain't that
a kick in the head.

398
00:25:29,363 --> 00:25:32,115
I guess it is, but in a way,

399
00:25:32,199 --> 00:25:33,575
that's exactly the point.

400
00:25:33,659 --> 00:25:36,245
There's a few people in New York...

401
00:25:36,328 --> 00:25:38,038
hopefully our numbers are growing...

402
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,290
who feel we have an opportunity

403
00:25:40,374 --> 00:25:43,794
to forge something real
out of everyday experience,

404
00:25:43,877 --> 00:25:46,296
create a theater for the masses

405
00:25:46,380 --> 00:25:48,632
based on a few simple truths,

406
00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:51,301
not on some shopworn abstractions
about drama

407
00:25:51,385 --> 00:25:53,762
that don't hold true today.

408
00:25:53,846 --> 00:25:56,557
I don't guess this means much to you.

409
00:25:56,598 --> 00:25:58,892
Hell, I could tell you stories.

410
00:25:58,934 --> 00:26:01,770
And that's the point...
we all have stories.

411
00:26:01,854 --> 00:26:05,274
The hopes and dreams
of the common man

412
00:26:05,315 --> 00:26:08,068
are as noble as those of any king.

413
00:26:08,110 --> 00:26:09,570
The stuff of life...

414
00:26:09,611 --> 00:26:12,239
Why shouldn't it be
the stuff of theater?

415
00:26:12,281 --> 00:26:15,242
Why should that be
such a hard pill to swallow?

416
00:26:15,284 --> 00:26:17,578
Don't call it new theater, Charlie.

417
00:26:17,619 --> 00:26:19,079
Call it real theater.

418
00:26:19,121 --> 00:26:20,998
Call it our theater!

419
00:26:21,081 --> 00:26:24,459
I can see you feel
pretty strongly about it.

420
00:26:24,543 --> 00:26:27,462
I don't mean to get up
on my high horse,

421
00:26:27,546 --> 00:26:30,465
but why shouldn't we
look at ourselves up there?

422
00:26:30,549 --> 00:26:33,093
Who cares about
the fifth Earl of Bastrop

423
00:26:33,135 --> 00:26:34,636
and Lady Higginbottom

424
00:26:34,678 --> 00:26:36,096
and...

425
00:26:36,138 --> 00:26:38,682
and who killed Nigel Grinch-Gibbons?

426
00:26:38,765 --> 00:26:40,684
My butt's getting sore already.

427
00:26:40,767 --> 00:26:43,103
Exactly.
You understand what I'm saying

428
00:26:43,145 --> 00:26:45,772
a lot more than some
of these literary types

429
00:26:45,814 --> 00:26:47,441
because you're a real man.

430
00:26:47,482 --> 00:26:50,277
I could tell you some stories...

431
00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:51,737
Sure, you could,

432
00:26:51,820 --> 00:26:54,615
yet many writers insulate themselves
from the common man,

433
00:26:54,656 --> 00:26:56,742
from where they live,

434
00:26:56,825 --> 00:26:59,161
from where they trade
and fight and love

435
00:26:59,203 --> 00:27:00,662
and converse and...

436
00:27:00,704 --> 00:27:02,122
and...

437
00:27:03,540 --> 00:27:05,501
So, naturally, their work suffers

438
00:27:05,542 --> 00:27:07,961
and regresses into
empty formalism and...

439
00:27:08,003 --> 00:27:09,963
Well, I'm spouting off again,

440
00:27:10,005 --> 00:27:12,549
but to put it in your language...

441
00:27:12,633 --> 00:27:14,927
the theater becomes
as phony as a $3 bill.

442
00:27:15,010 --> 00:27:17,095
That's a tragedy right there.

443
00:27:17,179 --> 00:27:20,807
You're all right, Charlie.

444
00:27:20,849 --> 00:27:23,519
I'm glad you stopped by.

445
00:27:23,602 --> 00:27:25,479
I know sometimes I run on.

446
00:27:25,521 --> 00:27:28,774
Well, Christ, if there's
any way I can contribute

447
00:27:28,857 --> 00:27:30,149
or help or whatever...

448
00:27:30,150 --> 00:27:32,444
You can help by just being yourself.

449
00:27:32,528 --> 00:27:35,489
Well, I can tell you some stories.

450
00:27:35,531 --> 00:27:36,656
Now, look...

451
00:27:36,657 --> 00:27:38,617
I'm sorry about
the interruption.

452
00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:41,119
Too much revelry late at night,

453
00:27:41,203 --> 00:27:44,248
you forget there's other people
in the world.

454
00:29:25,307 --> 00:29:27,559
I'll be eating on the lot today.

455
00:29:27,643 --> 00:29:28,643
Who's this?

456
00:29:28,644 --> 00:29:30,020
Barton Fink, Mr. Geezler.

457
00:29:30,103 --> 00:29:30,979
Geisler.

458
00:29:31,063 --> 00:29:32,564
I'm a writer, Mr. Geisler.

459
00:29:32,648 --> 00:29:34,233
Ted Okum said to drop by.

460
00:29:34,316 --> 00:29:35,275
Ever act?

461
00:29:35,359 --> 00:29:36,651
Huh? No. I'm a...

462
00:29:36,652 --> 00:29:39,112
We need Indians
for a Norman Steele western.

463
00:29:39,154 --> 00:29:40,321
I'm a writer.

464
00:29:40,322 --> 00:29:42,991
Writers come and go.
We always need Indians.

465
00:29:43,075 --> 00:29:44,408
I'm a writer.

466
00:29:44,409 --> 00:29:47,329
Ted Okum said you're producing
this Wallace Beery picture.

467
00:29:47,371 --> 00:29:48,747
Ted Okum doesn't know shit.

468
00:29:48,831 --> 00:29:51,332
They've assigned me
enough pictures for a year.

469
00:29:51,333 --> 00:29:52,835
What Ted Okum doesn't know

470
00:29:52,876 --> 00:29:55,336
you could almost squeeze
into the Hollywood Bowl.

471
00:29:55,337 --> 00:29:56,964
Who should I talk to?

472
00:29:59,550 --> 00:30:01,468
Get me Lou Breeze.

473
00:30:03,220 --> 00:30:04,387
Mr. Breeze's office.

474
00:30:04,388 --> 00:30:06,181
Is he in for Mr. Geezler?

475
00:30:06,223 --> 00:30:07,307
Geisler.

476
00:30:07,349 --> 00:30:10,269
Lou! How's Lipnick's ass
smell this morning?

477
00:30:10,352 --> 00:30:12,479
Yeah? Yeah?

478
00:30:12,521 --> 00:30:13,855
Yeah. All right.
Listen.

479
00:30:13,856 --> 00:30:16,316
I got a writer here...
Fink... all screwy.

480
00:30:16,358 --> 00:30:18,860
Says I'm producing
that Wallace Beery wrestling picture.

481
00:30:18,861 --> 00:30:20,487
What am I, the goddamn janitor?

482
00:30:20,529 --> 00:30:22,990
Yeah?
Who'd you get that from?

483
00:30:23,031 --> 00:30:25,659
Well, tell Lipnick
he can kiss my dimpled ass.

484
00:30:25,742 --> 00:30:27,327
No, no. All right. Shit.

485
00:30:27,411 --> 00:30:29,163
All right. No.
All right.

486
00:30:31,039 --> 00:30:32,791
Okay, Fink.

487
00:30:32,875 --> 00:30:34,209
Let's chow.

488
00:30:40,382 --> 00:30:41,675
Don't worry about it.

489
00:30:41,717 --> 00:30:43,177
It's just a B picture.

490
00:30:43,218 --> 00:30:45,095
I bring it in on budget,

491
00:30:45,179 --> 00:30:47,055
they book it without screening it.

492
00:30:47,139 --> 00:30:49,766
Lipnick said he wanted
to look at the script

493
00:30:49,850 --> 00:30:51,602
by the end of the week.

494
00:30:51,685 --> 00:30:53,019
Sure, he did.

495
00:30:53,020 --> 00:30:55,354
He forgot about it
before your ass left his sofa.

496
00:30:55,355 --> 00:30:56,564
He forgot about it
before your ass left his sofa.

497
00:30:56,565 --> 00:30:57,774
Okay.

498
00:31:00,402 --> 00:31:02,738
I'm just having trouble
getting started.

499
00:31:02,779 --> 00:31:04,364
It's funny.
I'm blocked up.

500
00:31:04,448 --> 00:31:05,741
I just feel

501
00:31:05,824 --> 00:31:08,076
like I need
some kind of indication

502
00:31:08,118 --> 00:31:09,578
of what's expected.

503
00:31:11,038 --> 00:31:12,330
Wallace Beery.
Wrestling picture.

504
00:31:12,331 --> 00:31:14,374
What do you need, a road map?

505
00:31:14,458 --> 00:31:16,001
Look,

506
00:31:16,084 --> 00:31:17,336
you're confused.

507
00:31:17,419 --> 00:31:18,962
You need guidance?

508
00:31:20,881 --> 00:31:22,216
Talk to another writer.

509
00:31:22,257 --> 00:31:23,675
Who?

510
00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:24,968
Oh, Jesus.

511
00:31:25,052 --> 00:31:28,222
You throw a rock in here,
you'll hit one.

512
00:31:28,263 --> 00:31:30,682
Do me a favor, Fink...

513
00:31:30,766 --> 00:31:32,267
Throw it hard.

514
00:32:49,678 --> 00:32:53,015
Bill Mayhew.
Sorry about the odor.

515
00:32:53,056 --> 00:32:54,808
Barton Fink.

516
00:32:59,897 --> 00:33:02,024
Jesus. W.P.?

517
00:33:02,983 --> 00:33:04,275
I beg your pardon?

518
00:33:04,276 --> 00:33:06,361
W.P. Mayhew?
The writer?

519
00:33:06,445 --> 00:33:08,906
Just Bill, please.

520
00:33:08,989 --> 00:33:11,074
Bill!

521
00:33:11,158 --> 00:33:13,368
You're the finest novelist
of our time.

522
00:33:13,410 --> 00:33:15,245
Why, thank you, son.
How kind.

523
00:33:15,329 --> 00:33:16,413
My God.

524
00:33:16,497 --> 00:33:20,167
I had no idea
you were in Hollywood.

525
00:33:20,209 --> 00:33:22,127
All of us undomesticated writers

526
00:33:22,211 --> 00:33:24,129
eventually make our way out here

527
00:33:24,213 --> 00:33:26,131
to the great salt lick.

528
00:33:26,215 --> 00:33:27,633
That's probably why

529
00:33:27,716 --> 00:33:30,636
I always have
such a powerful thirst.

530
00:33:30,719 --> 00:33:33,138
A little social lubricant, Mr. Fink?

531
00:33:33,222 --> 00:33:35,182
No. It's a little early for me.

532
00:33:40,729 --> 00:33:42,231
Bill...

533
00:33:42,272 --> 00:33:45,567
if I'm imposing,
you should say so.

534
00:33:45,609 --> 00:33:47,236
I know you're very busy.

535
00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:51,198
I just wanted to ask...
you a favor.

536
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,202
Have you ever written
a wrestling picture?

537
00:33:58,247 --> 00:34:00,582
You are drippin', sir.

538
00:34:01,750 --> 00:34:04,294
They have not invented
a genre of picture

539
00:34:04,378 --> 00:34:07,756
that Bill Mayhew has not
at one time or other

540
00:34:07,798 --> 00:34:09,090
been invited to assay.

541
00:34:09,091 --> 00:34:11,760
Yes, I've taken my stab
at the wrestling form,

542
00:34:11,844 --> 00:34:14,263
as I have stabbed
at so many others.

543
00:34:14,304 --> 00:34:15,597
Well, how do you...

544
00:34:15,681 --> 00:34:17,558
I gather you're a freshman here,

545
00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:19,434
eager for an upperclassman's counsel.

546
00:34:19,476 --> 00:34:21,061
However, just at the moment

547
00:34:21,103 --> 00:34:22,563
I have drinking to do.

548
00:34:22,604 --> 00:34:25,357
Why don't you stop
by my bungalow, number 15,

549
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:26,732
later on this afternoon?

550
00:34:26,733 --> 00:34:28,485
We will discuss wrestling scenarios

551
00:34:28,569 --> 00:34:30,654
and other things literary.

552
00:34:32,781 --> 00:34:33,698
Sons of bitches!

553
00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:35,325
Sons of bitches!

554
00:34:36,285 --> 00:34:38,203
Where's honey?

555
00:34:38,287 --> 00:34:39,663
Huh?

556
00:34:42,958 --> 00:34:44,877
Honey!

557
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,545
Where's my honey?

558
00:34:46,628 --> 00:34:49,923
The water's lapping up on me, honey!

559
00:34:49,965 --> 00:34:51,383
Honey, just stop it.

560
00:34:55,137 --> 00:34:57,764
I can't.
I'm trying to help you.

561
00:34:57,806 --> 00:34:59,558
Ohh!

562
00:34:59,641 --> 00:35:01,268
Can I help you?

563
00:35:01,310 --> 00:35:02,560
I'm sorry. I...

564
00:35:02,561 --> 00:35:04,021
Where are you, damn it?

565
00:35:04,104 --> 00:35:05,480
My name is Fink.

566
00:35:05,564 --> 00:35:08,025
Bill asked me to drop by
this afternoon.

567
00:35:08,108 --> 00:35:09,442
Is he, uh...

568
00:35:09,443 --> 00:35:10,319
Honey!

569
00:35:10,402 --> 00:35:11,361
In?

570
00:35:11,445 --> 00:35:13,071
Oooh!

571
00:35:13,155 --> 00:35:15,365
Mr. Mayhew is indisposed
at the moment.

572
00:35:15,449 --> 00:35:17,075
Where's my honey?

573
00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:18,367
Is he, uh...

574
00:35:18,368 --> 00:35:19,286
Honey!

575
00:35:19,328 --> 00:35:20,787
Is he okay?

576
00:35:20,829 --> 00:35:22,581
He'll be fine.

577
00:35:24,833 --> 00:35:26,752
Mr. Fink, I'm Audrey Taylor,

578
00:35:26,835 --> 00:35:28,587
Mr. Mayhew's personal secretary.

579
00:35:28,670 --> 00:35:29,922
Where's my honey?

580
00:35:30,005 --> 00:35:33,467
I know this all must sound horrid.

581
00:35:33,509 --> 00:35:34,927
I really do apologize.

582
00:35:35,010 --> 00:35:37,387
Where are you, damn it?

583
00:35:38,347 --> 00:35:40,766
When he can't write, he drinks.

584
00:35:40,849 --> 00:35:42,976
It's so embarrassing.

585
00:35:43,018 --> 00:35:46,396
How about you?
Will you be all right?

586
00:35:47,481 --> 00:35:49,233
I'll be fine.

587
00:35:50,317 --> 00:35:52,277
Are you a writer, Mr. Fink?

588
00:35:52,361 --> 00:35:54,238
Yes. I'm working on a wrestling...

589
00:35:54,321 --> 00:35:55,906
Please call me Barton.

590
00:35:56,865 --> 00:35:58,784
I'll tell Bill you dropped by.

591
00:35:58,867 --> 00:36:01,369
I'm sure he'll want to reschedule
your appointment.

592
00:36:01,370 --> 00:36:05,249
Perhaps you and I can get together
at some point also.

593
00:36:05,332 --> 00:36:07,084
Sorry if that sounds abrupt.

594
00:36:07,167 --> 00:36:08,418
I just...

595
00:36:08,502 --> 00:36:11,880
I... I don't know anyone here in town.

596
00:36:13,966 --> 00:36:16,677
Perhaps the three of us, Mr. Fink.

597
00:36:16,718 --> 00:36:18,804
Please. Barton.

598
00:36:18,887 --> 00:36:20,848
Barton.

599
00:36:20,889 --> 00:36:23,809
You see, Barton,

600
00:36:23,892 --> 00:36:26,144
I'm not just Bill's secretary.

601
00:36:26,228 --> 00:36:28,313
Bill and I are...

602
00:36:30,065 --> 00:36:31,733
in love.

603
00:36:33,569 --> 00:36:35,529
Where's my honey?

604
00:36:35,571 --> 00:36:37,990
Look, I know this must look...

605
00:36:39,575 --> 00:36:41,285
Funny.

606
00:36:41,368 --> 00:36:42,828
Bastard-ass sons of bitches!

607
00:36:42,911 --> 00:36:44,454
I'm sorry.

608
00:36:44,538 --> 00:36:46,957
Please don't judge us, Mr. Fink.

609
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,458
Where's that woman?

610
00:36:48,542 --> 00:36:50,460
Bastard-ass sons of bitches!

611
00:36:50,544 --> 00:36:53,005
The water's lapping up!

612
00:36:53,088 --> 00:36:55,007
Oh, honey!

613
00:37:24,953 --> 00:37:27,206
Oh...

614
00:37:27,289 --> 00:37:28,707
Oh...

615
00:37:30,959 --> 00:37:32,878
Oh...

616
00:37:32,961 --> 00:37:34,713
Oh...

617
00:37:37,633 --> 00:37:40,093
Ah...

618
00:37:40,135 --> 00:37:42,429
Oh...

619
00:37:46,892 --> 00:37:47,976
Oh...

620
00:37:49,311 --> 00:37:51,063
Oh...

621
00:38:06,453 --> 00:38:07,788
Ah...

622
00:38:24,555 --> 00:38:25,889
Howdy, neighbor.

623
00:38:25,973 --> 00:38:28,392
Charlie. How are you?

624
00:38:28,475 --> 00:38:31,895
Oh, Jesus, I hope
I'm not interrupting you again.

625
00:38:31,979 --> 00:38:34,273
Heard you walking around in here.

626
00:38:34,356 --> 00:38:35,732
Figured I'd drop by.

627
00:38:35,816 --> 00:38:38,235
Yeah. Come on in.
Have a seat.

628
00:38:38,318 --> 00:38:40,904
I haven't really gotten started yet.

629
00:38:40,988 --> 00:38:43,031
What happened to your ear?

630
00:38:43,115 --> 00:38:44,908
Oh, yeah.
An ear infection.

631
00:38:44,992 --> 00:38:46,117
Chronic thing.

632
00:38:46,118 --> 00:38:48,871
Goes away for a while,
then it comes back.

633
00:38:48,954 --> 00:38:51,999
I got cotton in it
to staunch the pus.

634
00:38:52,124 --> 00:38:53,374
Don't worry.
It's not contagious.

635
00:38:53,375 --> 00:38:54,835
You seen a doctor?

636
00:38:54,877 --> 00:38:56,503
What's he going to tell me?

637
00:38:56,545 --> 00:38:59,173
Can't trade my head
for a new one.

638
00:38:59,256 --> 00:39:01,967
I guess you're stuck
with the one you got.

639
00:39:02,050 --> 00:39:03,927
I'd invite you to my place,

640
00:39:04,011 --> 00:39:05,679
but it's a goddamn mess.

641
00:39:05,721 --> 00:39:07,347
You married, Bart?

642
00:39:08,223 --> 00:39:09,349
No.

643
00:39:09,391 --> 00:39:12,019
I myself have yet
to be lassoed.

644
00:39:12,102 --> 00:39:14,062
Hey, Bart.

645
00:39:14,146 --> 00:39:18,025
Ouch.

646
00:39:21,904 --> 00:39:23,447
Got a sweetheart?

647
00:39:24,364 --> 00:39:25,574
No.

648
00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:28,994
I guess it's something
about my work.

649
00:39:29,077 --> 00:39:31,288
I get so worked up over it.

650
00:39:31,371 --> 00:39:33,665
I don't have much attention left over,

651
00:39:33,749 --> 00:39:36,627
so it would be a little... unfair.

652
00:39:36,710 --> 00:39:39,129
Yeah. Ladies do ask for attention.

653
00:39:39,213 --> 00:39:41,673
In my experience,
they pretend to give it,

654
00:39:41,757 --> 00:39:43,133
but it's generally a smoke screen

655
00:39:43,217 --> 00:39:45,135
for demanding it back with interest.

656
00:39:45,219 --> 00:39:46,552
How about family, Bart?

657
00:39:46,553 --> 00:39:48,847
How you fixed in that department?

658
00:39:48,931 --> 00:39:51,058
My folks live in Brooklyn
with my uncle.

659
00:39:51,141 --> 00:39:53,393
Mine have passed on.

660
00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:54,895
It's just us three now.

661
00:39:54,937 --> 00:39:56,396
What's that expression?

662
00:39:57,314 --> 00:39:58,899
Me, myself, and I.

663
00:39:58,941 --> 00:40:00,067
Sure.

664
00:40:00,150 --> 00:40:02,110
That's tough.

665
00:40:02,152 --> 00:40:03,904
But in a sense,

666
00:40:03,946 --> 00:40:07,282
we're all alone in the world,
aren't we, Charlie?

667
00:40:07,324 --> 00:40:10,285
I'm often surrounded
by family and friends,

668
00:40:10,369 --> 00:40:11,787
but...

669
00:40:14,623 --> 00:40:17,751
You're no stranger
to loneliness, then.

670
00:40:17,793 --> 00:40:19,753
I guess I got no beef,

671
00:40:19,795 --> 00:40:21,713
especially where the dames
are concerned.

672
00:40:21,797 --> 00:40:24,758
In my line of work,
I got opportunities galore.

673
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,719
I could tell you stories
to curl your hair,

674
00:40:27,803 --> 00:40:30,264
but it looks like you've
already heard them.

675
00:40:30,305 --> 00:40:32,724
That's me in Kansas City
plying my trade.

676
00:40:32,808 --> 00:40:35,769
That was taken by
one of my policyholders.

677
00:40:35,811 --> 00:40:38,312
They're more than just customers
to me, Barton.

678
00:40:38,313 --> 00:40:40,274
They appreciate
what I have to offer.

679
00:40:40,315 --> 00:40:42,276
Her hubby was out of town,

680
00:40:42,317 --> 00:40:44,570
and they were carrying
fire and life.

681
00:40:44,653 --> 00:40:47,072
The third quarter payment
was way past due.

682
00:40:47,156 --> 00:40:49,074
In a way, I envy you...

683
00:40:49,158 --> 00:40:51,410
your daily routine,
you know what's expected.

684
00:40:51,493 --> 00:40:52,911
You know the drill.

685
00:40:54,997 --> 00:40:57,624
My job is to plumb the depths,

686
00:40:57,666 --> 00:40:59,000
so to speak.

687
00:40:59,001 --> 00:41:01,253
Dredge up something from inside,

688
00:41:01,336 --> 00:41:03,213
something honest.

689
00:41:03,297 --> 00:41:04,715
I got to tell you,

690
00:41:04,798 --> 00:41:06,341
the life of the mind...

691
00:41:06,425 --> 00:41:09,678
There's no road map
for that territory.

692
00:41:09,761 --> 00:41:12,598
And exploring it
can be painful.

693
00:41:13,932 --> 00:41:17,811
I have pain most people
don't know anything about.

694
00:41:19,688 --> 00:41:21,315
This must be boring you.

695
00:41:21,398 --> 00:41:23,734
Not at all.
It's damned interesting.

696
00:41:23,817 --> 00:41:25,235
Yeah.

697
00:41:25,319 --> 00:41:26,695
Probably sounds a little grand

698
00:41:26,778 --> 00:41:29,114
for someone who's writing
a wrestling picture

699
00:41:29,198 --> 00:41:30,364
for Wallace Beery.

700
00:41:30,365 --> 00:41:32,326
Beery?
You got no beef there.

701
00:41:32,367 --> 00:41:34,286
He's a hell of an actor,

702
00:41:34,369 --> 00:41:36,330
though you can't beatJack Oakie.

703
00:41:36,371 --> 00:41:37,831
A stitch, Oakie.

704
00:41:37,873 --> 00:41:39,333
Funny stuff, funny stuff.

705
00:41:39,374 --> 00:41:41,001
But don't get me wrong.

706
00:41:41,043 --> 00:41:43,337
Beery? Wrestling picture?
Could be a pip.

707
00:41:43,378 --> 00:41:45,005
Could be a pip.

708
00:41:45,047 --> 00:41:47,049
Wrestled myself some back in school.

709
00:41:47,090 --> 00:41:49,343
I guess you know the basic moves.

710
00:41:49,384 --> 00:41:50,844
No. I never watched any.

711
00:41:50,886 --> 00:41:52,930
I'm not interested in the act.

712
00:41:53,013 --> 00:41:55,307
Hell, you should know
what it's about.

713
00:41:55,390 --> 00:41:58,769
I can show you
the wrestling basics in 30 seconds.

714
00:41:58,852 --> 00:42:01,271
You're a little
out of your weight class,

715
00:42:01,355 --> 00:42:02,731
but just for demonstration purposes...

716
00:42:02,773 --> 00:42:03,898
That's all right.

717
00:42:03,899 --> 00:42:05,734
Not a bit of it, compadre.

718
00:42:05,818 --> 00:42:07,277
Easiest thing in the world.

719
00:42:07,361 --> 00:42:10,280
Just get on your knees
to my left here.

720
00:42:10,364 --> 00:42:13,242
Slap your right hand here,
your left hand here.

721
00:42:13,325 --> 00:42:16,286
Come on, champ.
You can do it. Come on.

722
00:42:16,370 --> 00:42:18,080
Come on.

723
00:42:19,039 --> 00:42:20,207
Come on.

724
00:42:20,290 --> 00:42:22,042
Come on.

725
00:42:23,210 --> 00:42:24,837
Yeah. There you go.

726
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,463
Right there.

727
00:42:28,257 --> 00:42:29,466
All right.

728
00:42:29,550 --> 00:42:31,510
Now, when I say, "Ready, wrestle,"

729
00:42:31,593 --> 00:42:33,470
we try to pin each other.

730
00:42:33,554 --> 00:42:35,514
That's the whole game.
Got it?

731
00:42:35,597 --> 00:42:36,556
Yeah. Okay.

732
00:42:36,557 --> 00:42:37,765
Ready? Wrestle.

733
00:42:37,766 --> 00:42:38,725
Oh!

734
00:42:38,767 --> 00:42:40,018
1, 2, 3.

735
00:42:40,102 --> 00:42:42,020
Damn. There I go again.

736
00:42:42,104 --> 00:42:44,189
Going to wake up
the downstairs neighbors.

737
00:42:44,273 --> 00:42:46,233
I didn't hurt you, did I?

738
00:42:46,275 --> 00:42:47,234
It's okay.

739
00:42:47,276 --> 00:42:48,777
Well, that's all wrestling is.

740
00:42:48,819 --> 00:42:50,571
Usually there's
more grunting and squirming

741
00:42:50,612 --> 00:42:51,904
before the pin.

742
00:42:51,905 --> 00:42:54,408
Well, you're out of your weight class.

743
00:42:54,491 --> 00:42:56,952
Jesus, I did hurt you.

744
00:42:56,994 --> 00:42:58,286
I sure do apologize.

745
00:42:58,287 --> 00:43:00,414
I'm just a big, clumsy lug.

746
00:43:00,497 --> 00:43:02,332
I sure do apologize.

747
00:43:02,416 --> 00:43:04,001
You sure you're okay?

748
00:43:04,084 --> 00:43:05,961
I'm fine, really.

749
00:43:07,045 --> 00:43:08,714
Actually, it's been helpful.

750
00:43:11,967 --> 00:43:15,429
But I guess I should get to work.

751
00:43:15,512 --> 00:43:17,890
It wasn't fair of me to do that.

752
00:43:17,973 --> 00:43:19,892
I'm pretty well-endowed physically.

753
00:43:20,976 --> 00:43:22,311
Don't feel bad, though.

754
00:43:22,352 --> 00:43:25,314
I wouldn't be
much of a match for you

755
00:43:25,355 --> 00:43:26,648
at mental gymnastics.

756
00:43:26,690 --> 00:43:28,901
Give me a holler
you need anything.

757
00:44:03,268 --> 00:44:04,853
If I close my eyes,

758
00:44:04,937 --> 00:44:08,023
I can almost smell the live oak.

759
00:44:08,106 --> 00:44:11,568
That's chicken fat, Bill.

760
00:44:11,652 --> 00:44:14,738
Well, my olfactory's
turning womanish on me...

761
00:44:14,822 --> 00:44:16,323
lying and deceitful.

762
00:44:16,406 --> 00:44:19,993
Still, I must say I haven't
felt peace like this

763
00:44:20,077 --> 00:44:22,621
since the grand productive days.

764
00:44:22,704 --> 00:44:26,166
Don't you find it so, Barton?

765
00:44:26,208 --> 00:44:28,377
Ain't writing peace?

766
00:44:30,087 --> 00:44:31,380
Well...

767
00:44:33,382 --> 00:44:35,050
actually...

768
00:44:35,133 --> 00:44:36,468
no, Bill.

769
00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:41,849
No. I've always found

770
00:44:41,890 --> 00:44:45,018
that writing comes
from a great inner pain.

771
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:48,105
Maybe it's a pain
that comes from a realization

772
00:44:48,188 --> 00:44:51,608
that one must do something
for one's fellow man

773
00:44:51,692 --> 00:44:54,945
to help somehow ease the suffering.

774
00:44:55,028 --> 00:44:57,948
Maybe it's personal pain.

775
00:44:58,031 --> 00:45:00,450
At any rate, I don't believe

776
00:45:00,534 --> 00:45:02,953
good work is possible without it.

777
00:45:03,036 --> 00:45:04,079
Hmm.

778
00:45:04,163 --> 00:45:08,750
Well, me, I just enjoy
making things up.

779
00:45:08,834 --> 00:45:11,211
Yes, sir. Escape.

780
00:45:12,337 --> 00:45:14,923
It's when I can't write
and escape myself,

781
00:45:15,007 --> 00:45:17,426
that I want to rip my head off

782
00:45:17,509 --> 00:45:19,428
and run screaming through the street

783
00:45:19,511 --> 00:45:22,472
with my balls
in a fruit picker's pail.

784
00:45:22,556 --> 00:45:23,432
Hmm.

785
00:45:23,515 --> 00:45:25,267
This will sometimes help.

786
00:45:25,350 --> 00:45:27,394
That doesn't help anything, Bill.

787
00:45:27,436 --> 00:45:29,813
I've never found that
to help my writing.

788
00:45:29,897 --> 00:45:31,648
Your writing?

789
00:45:31,732 --> 00:45:35,360
Son, have you ever heard
the story of Solomon's mammy?

790
00:45:35,444 --> 00:45:37,321
Barton, you should read this.

791
00:45:37,404 --> 00:45:38,822
I think it's Bill's finest,

792
00:45:38,906 --> 00:45:40,324
or among his finest, anyway.

793
00:45:40,407 --> 00:45:42,326
So now I'm supposed to roll over

794
00:45:42,409 --> 00:45:43,785
and get my belly scratched?

795
00:45:43,827 --> 00:45:44,786
Bill.

796
00:45:44,828 --> 00:45:46,037
Look, uh...

797
00:45:46,038 --> 00:45:47,956
maybe it's none of my business,

798
00:45:47,998 --> 00:45:50,959
but don't you think
a man with your talent...

799
00:45:51,001 --> 00:45:52,961
your first obligation
is to your gift?

800
00:45:53,003 --> 00:45:55,297
Shouldn't you be doing
whatever you have to

801
00:45:55,380 --> 00:45:56,672
to work again?

802
00:45:56,673 --> 00:45:58,258
What would that be?

803
00:45:58,342 --> 00:45:59,634
I don't know.

804
00:45:59,635 --> 00:46:00,968
But with that drink,

805
00:46:00,969 --> 00:46:03,138
you're cutting yourself
off from your gift

806
00:46:03,222 --> 00:46:04,515
and your fellow man

807
00:46:04,598 --> 00:46:06,517
and everything your art is about.

808
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:07,935
Oh, no, son.

809
00:46:07,976 --> 00:46:09,728
I'm building a levee...

810
00:46:09,811 --> 00:46:12,439
gulp by gulp,
brick by brick...

811
00:46:12,481 --> 00:46:13,815
Putting up a levee

812
00:46:13,816 --> 00:46:16,109
to keep that raging river of manure

813
00:46:16,151 --> 00:46:17,653
from lapping at my door.

814
00:46:17,694 --> 00:46:19,154
Maybe you better, too, Barton,

815
00:46:19,196 --> 00:46:21,490
before you get buried
under his manure.

816
00:46:21,532 --> 00:46:23,742
My honey pretends
to be impatient with me,

817
00:46:23,826 --> 00:46:25,744
but she'll put up with anything.

818
00:46:25,828 --> 00:46:27,162
Not anything, Bill.

819
00:46:27,204 --> 00:46:28,497
Don't test me.

820
00:46:28,580 --> 00:46:32,501
You're lucky she puts up with you
as much as she does.

821
00:46:32,543 --> 00:46:34,002
Maybe to a schoolboy's eyes.

822
00:46:34,044 --> 00:46:36,505
People who know about
the human heart, though,

823
00:46:36,547 --> 00:46:38,507
maybe they'd say,
"Bill over here,

824
00:46:38,549 --> 00:46:40,008
he gives his honey love,

825
00:46:40,092 --> 00:46:42,344
and she pays him back with pity,

826
00:46:42,427 --> 00:46:43,846
the basest coin there is."

827
00:46:43,929 --> 00:46:45,931
Stop it, Bill.

828
00:46:46,056 --> 00:46:47,850
Gone are the days

829
00:46:47,933 --> 00:46:51,687
When my heart was young and gay

830
00:46:51,728 --> 00:46:54,815
Gone are my friends

831
00:46:54,898 --> 00:46:59,486
From the cotton fields away

832
00:46:59,528 --> 00:47:02,072
Gone from the earth

833
00:47:02,156 --> 00:47:05,409
To a better land I know

834
00:47:05,492 --> 00:47:08,078
I hear their gentle voices

835
00:47:09,163 --> 00:47:13,709
Callin'Old Black Joe

836
00:47:13,792 --> 00:47:15,544
I'm comin'

837
00:47:15,627 --> 00:47:18,046
I'm comin'

838
00:47:18,088 --> 00:47:22,384
Oh, my head is bending low

839
00:47:22,426 --> 00:47:26,013
I hear their gentle...

840
00:47:26,096 --> 00:47:29,057
The truth, my honey, is a tart

841
00:47:29,099 --> 00:47:32,060
that does not bear scrutiny.

842
00:47:32,102 --> 00:47:35,189
Breach my levee at your peril!

843
00:47:35,272 --> 00:47:38,734
Gone are my friends

844
00:47:38,817 --> 00:47:40,569
From the cotton fields...

845
00:47:40,652 --> 00:47:42,571
That son of a bitch!

846
00:47:42,613 --> 00:47:45,073
Don't get me wrong.
He's a fine writer.

847
00:47:45,115 --> 00:47:48,076
Gone from the earth

848
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:49,452
Are you all right?

849
00:47:49,453 --> 00:47:51,413
To a better life I know

850
00:47:51,455 --> 00:47:53,415
Audrey, y-you can't...

851
00:47:53,457 --> 00:47:54,917
Oh, Barton.

852
00:47:54,958 --> 00:47:57,252
You can't put up with that.

853
00:47:57,294 --> 00:47:59,880
Old Black Joe

854
00:47:59,963 --> 00:48:02,174
I feel so sorry for him.

855
00:48:02,257 --> 00:48:05,177
What? He's... He's a son of a bitch.

856
00:48:05,260 --> 00:48:07,012
No.

857
00:48:07,095 --> 00:48:08,514
No.

858
00:48:09,765 --> 00:48:11,225
He...

859
00:48:11,266 --> 00:48:13,310
He sometimes just...

860
00:48:13,393 --> 00:48:16,021
I hear their angel voices...

861
00:48:16,104 --> 00:48:18,690
Well, he thinks about Estelle.

862
00:48:18,774 --> 00:48:21,527
His wife still lives
in Fayettesville.

863
00:48:22,444 --> 00:48:23,862
She's...

864
00:48:26,782 --> 00:48:28,367
disturbed.

865
00:48:28,450 --> 00:48:30,202
Really?

866
00:48:31,954 --> 00:48:35,207
I'll just walk on down
to the Pacific,

867
00:48:35,290 --> 00:48:37,543
and from there I'll improvise.

868
00:48:37,626 --> 00:48:39,753
He'll wander back
when he's sober

869
00:48:39,795 --> 00:48:40,962
and apologize.

870
00:48:40,963 --> 00:48:42,256
He always does.

871
00:48:42,297 --> 00:48:44,216
Okay, but that doesn't excuse his...

872
00:48:44,299 --> 00:48:45,551
Silence upon the hill...

873
00:48:45,634 --> 00:48:46,593
behavior.

874
00:48:46,635 --> 00:48:47,594
In Darien!

875
00:48:47,636 --> 00:48:50,097
Empathy requires understanding.

876
00:48:50,138 --> 00:48:51,390
I'm comin'

877
00:48:51,473 --> 00:48:52,558
What?

878
00:48:52,641 --> 00:48:54,101
What don't I understand?

879
00:48:54,142 --> 00:48:55,060
I'm comin'

880
00:48:55,143 --> 00:48:59,898
Oh, my head is hangin'low

881
00:48:59,982 --> 00:49:03,152
I hear their gentle voices

882
00:49:03,235 --> 00:49:08,240
Callin'Old Black Joe

883
00:50:33,575 --> 00:50:36,078
I hope these are your shoes.

884
00:50:36,119 --> 00:50:37,538
Charlie.

885
00:50:37,579 --> 00:50:39,540
Because that would mean...

886
00:50:39,581 --> 00:50:40,874
they gave you mine.

887
00:50:40,916 --> 00:50:42,042
Yeah.

888
00:50:42,084 --> 00:50:45,045
As a matter of fact, they did.

889
00:50:45,087 --> 00:50:46,922
Come on in.

890
00:50:46,964 --> 00:50:48,882
Jesus, what a day I had.

891
00:50:50,592 --> 00:50:53,053
Ever have one of those days?

892
00:50:53,095 --> 00:50:54,721
Seems like nothing but lately.

893
00:50:54,805 --> 00:50:56,223
Jesus, what a day.

894
00:50:56,265 --> 00:51:00,060
Felt like I couldn't have sold
ice water in the Sahara.

895
00:51:00,102 --> 00:51:02,020
Okay. So you don't want insurance.

896
00:51:02,104 --> 00:51:03,647
Okay. So that's your loss.

897
00:51:03,730 --> 00:51:05,816
But, God, people can be rude.

898
00:51:05,899 --> 00:51:08,026
I feel like I have to talk

899
00:51:08,110 --> 00:51:09,987
to a normal person like you

900
00:51:10,070 --> 00:51:12,322
just to restore a little of my...

901
00:51:12,406 --> 00:51:13,824
It's my pleasure.

902
00:51:13,907 --> 00:51:16,368
I could use a little lift myself.

903
00:51:16,451 --> 00:51:18,162
A little lift? Yeah.

904
00:51:18,245 --> 00:51:20,998
Good thing they bottle it, huh, pal?

905
00:51:21,915 --> 00:51:23,333
Did I say rude?

906
00:51:23,417 --> 00:51:26,170
People can be goddamn cruel,

907
00:51:26,253 --> 00:51:28,380
especially some of these housewives.

908
00:51:28,463 --> 00:51:29,339
Okay.

909
00:51:29,423 --> 00:51:31,508
So I have a weight problem.

910
00:51:31,592 --> 00:51:33,177
That's my cross to bear.

911
00:51:33,260 --> 00:51:34,887
I don't know.

912
00:51:34,970 --> 00:51:36,346
It's a defense mechanism.

913
00:51:36,430 --> 00:51:37,848
Defense against what, insurance?

914
00:51:37,931 --> 00:51:39,223
Something they need?

915
00:51:39,224 --> 00:51:42,186
Something they should be
grateful to me for offering?

916
00:51:42,269 --> 00:51:44,021
A little peace of mind.

917
00:51:46,940 --> 00:51:49,359
Finally decided
to knock off early.

918
00:51:49,443 --> 00:51:51,695
Went to see a doctor about this.

919
00:51:51,778 --> 00:51:54,239
He told me I had an ear infection.

920
00:51:54,323 --> 00:51:55,615
$10, please.

921
00:51:55,616 --> 00:51:59,036
I says, "Hell, I told you
my ear was infected.

922
00:51:59,119 --> 00:52:01,038
Why don't you give me $10?"

923
00:52:01,121 --> 00:52:03,624
Well, that led to an argument.

924
00:52:07,586 --> 00:52:09,505
Listen to me bellyaching,

925
00:52:09,546 --> 00:52:13,133
as if my problems amounted
to a hill of beans.

926
00:52:13,217 --> 00:52:15,969
How goes the life of the mind?

927
00:52:16,053 --> 00:52:18,138
Well, it's been better.

928
00:52:18,222 --> 00:52:21,183
I can't seem to get going
on this thing.

929
00:52:21,266 --> 00:52:22,558
That one idea,

930
00:52:22,559 --> 00:52:24,853
the one that lets you get started,

931
00:52:24,937 --> 00:52:26,355
I still haven't gotten it.

932
00:52:26,438 --> 00:52:28,857
Maybe I only had one idea in me...

933
00:52:28,941 --> 00:52:29,858
my play.

934
00:52:29,900 --> 00:52:31,360
Maybe once that was done,

935
00:52:31,443 --> 00:52:33,362
I was done being a writer.

936
00:52:33,445 --> 00:52:35,531
Christ, I feel like a fraud,

937
00:52:35,614 --> 00:52:38,158
sitting here staring at this paper.

938
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:42,663
Those two lovebirds next door
driving you nuts?

939
00:52:44,540 --> 00:52:46,542
How do you know about that?

940
00:52:46,583 --> 00:52:47,875
Know about it?

941
00:52:47,876 --> 00:52:50,337
I can practically see
how they're doing it.

942
00:52:50,420 --> 00:52:53,340
Brother, I wish I had
a piece of that.

943
00:52:53,382 --> 00:52:54,883
Seems like I hear everything

944
00:52:54,925 --> 00:52:56,844
that goes on in this dump...

945
00:52:56,885 --> 00:52:58,262
the pipes or something.

946
00:52:58,345 --> 00:52:59,512
Yeah, but...

947
00:52:59,513 --> 00:53:00,973
You'll lick this picture business.

948
00:53:01,056 --> 00:53:03,183
You got a head on your shoulders.

949
00:53:03,267 --> 00:53:04,600
What do they say?

950
00:53:04,601 --> 00:53:06,228
Where there's a head, there's hope.

951
00:53:06,311 --> 00:53:07,729
Where there's life, there's hope.

952
00:53:07,813 --> 00:53:10,357
See, that proves
you really are a writer.

953
00:53:10,399 --> 00:53:12,401
There's hope for you, too, Charlie.

954
00:53:12,442 --> 00:53:15,404
Tomorrow I bet you sell
a half-dozen policies.

955
00:53:15,445 --> 00:53:17,406
Thanks, brother, but the fact is

956
00:53:17,447 --> 00:53:20,200
I got to pull up stakes for a while.

957
00:53:24,413 --> 00:53:25,705
You're leaving?

958
00:53:25,706 --> 00:53:27,039
In a few days.

959
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,418
Out to your stomping grounds...
New York City.

960
00:53:29,501 --> 00:53:32,421
Things got all balled up
at the head office.

961
00:53:34,131 --> 00:53:37,092
I'm truly sorry to hear that.
I'll miss you.

962
00:53:37,134 --> 00:53:39,553
Well, hell, buddy.
Don't pull a long face.

963
00:53:39,595 --> 00:53:41,388
I keep a room here,

964
00:53:41,430 --> 00:53:43,891
and I'll be back sooner or later.

965
00:53:43,932 --> 00:53:45,184
And mark my words,

966
00:53:45,267 --> 00:53:47,186
by the time I get back,

967
00:53:47,269 --> 00:53:48,687
your picture will be finished.

968
00:53:48,770 --> 00:53:51,190
New York can be
pretty cruel to strangers.

969
00:53:51,273 --> 00:53:53,358
If you need a home-cooked meal,

970
00:53:53,442 --> 00:53:56,361
you just look up
Sam and Lillian Fink.

971
00:53:56,445 --> 00:53:58,697
They live on Fulton Street...

972
00:53:59,615 --> 00:54:01,200
with my uncle Maury.

973
00:54:11,835 --> 00:54:14,296
Christ.

974
00:54:14,338 --> 00:54:17,299
Your room does that, too.

975
00:54:17,382 --> 00:54:20,636
I guess the heat's
sweating off the wallpaper.

976
00:54:21,887 --> 00:54:23,305
What a dump.

977
00:54:23,347 --> 00:54:26,308
I guess this must seem pretty pathetic

978
00:54:26,391 --> 00:54:28,310
to a guy like you.

979
00:54:28,352 --> 00:54:29,812
Well...

980
00:54:29,853 --> 00:54:32,815
But it's pathetic, isn't it?

981
00:54:32,898 --> 00:54:35,818
I mean, to a guy from New York?

982
00:54:35,859 --> 00:54:38,153
What do you mean?

983
00:54:38,237 --> 00:54:39,655
This kind of heat.

984
00:54:39,738 --> 00:54:41,156
It's pathetic.

985
00:54:41,198 --> 00:54:43,826
Well, I guess
you pick your poison.

986
00:54:43,909 --> 00:54:45,828
So they say.

987
00:54:45,869 --> 00:54:48,831
Don't pick up and leave
without saying good-bye.

988
00:54:48,872 --> 00:54:50,833
'Course not, compadre.

989
00:54:50,916 --> 00:54:52,960
You'll see me again.

990
00:56:11,872 --> 00:56:12,872
Zing! Bango!

991
00:56:12,873 --> 00:56:14,249
You're dead.
You're a corpse.

992
00:56:14,333 --> 00:56:15,666
You got me.

993
00:56:15,667 --> 00:56:18,253
Okay, go, go, you son of a gun.

994
00:56:18,337 --> 00:56:19,755
Yeah, Fink.

995
00:56:22,841 --> 00:56:24,259
Come on, come on.

996
00:56:25,844 --> 00:56:28,388
What do you got for me?

997
00:56:28,472 --> 00:56:30,224
What the hell happened to your face?

998
00:56:30,265 --> 00:56:32,434
Nothing.
It's just a mosquito bite.

999
00:56:32,518 --> 00:56:34,770
There are no mosquitoes
in Los Angeles.

1000
00:56:34,853 --> 00:56:36,772
Mosquitoes breed in swamps.
This is a desert.

1001
00:56:36,855 --> 00:56:38,315
What do you got for me?

1002
00:56:38,398 --> 00:56:39,441
Well, I...

1003
00:56:39,525 --> 00:56:41,819
On the Beery picture, where are we?

1004
00:56:41,902 --> 00:56:44,237
Well, I'm having a little trouble
getting started.

1005
00:56:44,238 --> 00:56:45,781
Getting start...
ChristJesus, started?

1006
00:56:45,864 --> 00:56:47,407
You don't have anything yet?

1007
00:56:47,491 --> 00:56:48,784
Well, not much.

1008
00:56:48,867 --> 00:56:51,286
What the hell do you
think this is, Hamlet,

1009
00:56:51,370 --> 00:56:53,288
Gone With the Wind,
Ruggles of Red Gap?

1010
00:56:53,372 --> 00:56:55,123
It's a goddamn B picture...

1011
00:56:55,207 --> 00:56:56,959
big men in tights...
you know the drill.

1012
00:56:57,042 --> 00:56:58,836
I don't really understand that genre.

1013
00:56:58,919 --> 00:57:00,712
Maybe that's the problem.

1014
00:57:00,796 --> 00:57:02,046
Understand? Shit!

1015
00:57:02,047 --> 00:57:04,006
You were going to consult
another writer on this.

1016
00:57:04,007 --> 00:57:05,634
Well, I've talked to Bill Mayhew.

1017
00:57:05,717 --> 00:57:08,220
Mayhew? Some help.
The guy's a souse.

1018
00:57:08,303 --> 00:57:09,512
He's a great writer.

1019
00:57:09,513 --> 00:57:10,638
A great souse!

1020
00:57:10,639 --> 00:57:13,267
He's in pain
because he can't write.

1021
00:57:13,350 --> 00:57:14,475
Souse! Souse!

1022
00:57:14,476 --> 00:57:15,978
He manages to write his name

1023
00:57:16,019 --> 00:57:18,272
on the back
of his paycheck every week.

1024
00:57:18,313 --> 00:57:20,732
I thought no one cared
about this picture.

1025
00:57:20,816 --> 00:57:21,983
You thought?

1026
00:57:21,984 --> 00:57:24,778
I don't know
what the hell you said to Lipnick,

1027
00:57:24,862 --> 00:57:27,322
but the son of a bitch likes you.

1028
00:57:27,364 --> 00:57:30,284
He's taken a interest.

1029
00:57:30,325 --> 00:57:32,828
Never make Lipnick like you.

1030
00:57:32,870 --> 00:57:33,829
Never!

1031
00:57:33,871 --> 00:57:35,163
I... I don't understand.

1032
00:57:35,164 --> 00:57:37,499
Are you deaf?
He likes you.

1033
00:57:37,583 --> 00:57:40,002
What the hell did you say to him?

1034
00:57:40,085 --> 00:57:41,003
Nothing.

1035
00:57:41,044 --> 00:57:42,796
Well, he's taken a interest.

1036
00:57:42,838 --> 00:57:45,299
He'll make your life hell.

1037
00:57:45,340 --> 00:57:46,842
Since I drew the short straw

1038
00:57:46,884 --> 00:57:48,302
to supervise this turkey,

1039
00:57:48,343 --> 00:57:50,345
he'll be all over me, too.

1040
00:57:50,387 --> 00:57:52,431
Fat-ass son of a bitch called yesterday

1041
00:57:52,514 --> 00:57:54,308
to ask how it's going.

1042
00:57:54,349 --> 00:57:56,810
I said you were making progress.

1043
00:57:56,852 --> 00:57:58,312
We were all very excited.

1044
00:57:58,353 --> 00:58:01,023
I told him it was great.

1045
00:58:01,106 --> 00:58:02,148
Understand that?

1046
00:58:02,149 --> 00:58:04,234
Now my ass is on the line.

1047
00:58:04,318 --> 00:58:07,279
He wants you to tell him
all about it tomorrow.

1048
00:58:07,362 --> 00:58:09,198
I can't write anything by tomorrow.

1049
00:58:09,281 --> 00:58:11,742
Who said write?
Jesus, Jack can't read.

1050
00:58:11,825 --> 00:58:13,744
You got to tell it to him.

1051
00:58:13,827 --> 00:58:16,788
Tell him something,
for Christ's sake.

1052
00:58:16,872 --> 00:58:19,374
Well, what do I t-tell him?

1053
00:58:25,339 --> 00:58:26,757
Yes, Mr. Geezler.

1054
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:28,300
Projection!

1055
00:58:28,383 --> 00:58:29,259
Jerry.

1056
00:58:29,343 --> 00:58:30,761
Jerry, Ben Geisler here.

1057
00:58:30,844 --> 00:58:32,262
Any screening rooms free?

1058
00:58:32,346 --> 00:58:34,306
Good! Book it for me.

1059
00:58:34,389 --> 00:58:36,266
I got a writer here.
He's coming in.

1060
00:58:36,350 --> 00:58:38,435
You're going to show him
wrestling pictures.

1061
00:58:38,519 --> 00:58:40,229
I don't give a shit which ones!

1062
00:58:40,312 --> 00:58:43,315
Isn't Victor Sjoderberg
shooting one now?

1063
00:58:43,398 --> 00:58:44,817
Show him some dailies on that.

1064
00:58:44,900 --> 00:58:45,984
Okay, Ben.

1065
00:58:46,068 --> 00:58:47,277
All right.

1066
00:58:47,361 --> 00:58:49,279
This will give you some ideas.

1067
00:58:49,363 --> 00:58:53,200
8:15 tomorrow morning
at Lipnick's house.

1068
00:58:56,036 --> 00:58:58,247
Ideas.

1069
00:58:58,330 --> 00:58:59,748
Broad strokes.

1070
00:59:01,583 --> 00:59:04,795
Don't cross me, Fink.

1071
00:59:06,171 --> 00:59:08,090
Devil on the Can...

1072
00:59:08,173 --> 00:59:10,759
Devil on the Canvas,
12 Apple, take 1.

1073
00:59:10,843 --> 00:59:12,094
Action!

1074
00:59:12,177 --> 00:59:13,720
I will destroy him!

1075
00:59:13,762 --> 00:59:15,389
Cut! Cut! Cut! Cut!

1076
00:59:15,430 --> 00:59:18,350
Devil on the Canvas,
12 Apple, take 2.

1077
00:59:18,433 --> 00:59:19,852
Action!

1078
00:59:19,935 --> 00:59:21,562
I will destroy him!

1079
00:59:21,645 --> 00:59:23,021
Cut! Cut!

1080
00:59:24,106 --> 00:59:25,149
Rolling!

1081
00:59:25,232 --> 00:59:27,776
Devil on the Canvas,
12 Apple, take 4.

1082
00:59:27,860 --> 00:59:28,777
Action!

1083
00:59:28,861 --> 00:59:31,321
I will destroy him!

1084
00:59:31,405 --> 00:59:32,739
Cut! Cut! Cut!

1085
00:59:32,781 --> 00:59:35,117
Devil on the Canvas,
12 Apple, take 5.

1086
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,452
I will destroy him!

1087
00:59:37,536 --> 00:59:39,121
12 Apple, take 6.

1088
00:59:39,204 --> 00:59:40,789
I will destroy him!

1089
00:59:40,873 --> 00:59:42,958
12 Apple, take 7.

1090
00:59:43,041 --> 00:59:44,793
I will destroy him!

1091
00:59:44,877 --> 00:59:46,210
12 Baker, take 1.

1092
00:59:46,211 --> 00:59:50,007
I will destroy him!

1093
00:59:50,090 --> 00:59:51,800
Aah!

1094
00:59:53,427 --> 00:59:56,138
Aah!

1095
00:59:56,221 --> 00:59:57,931
Aah!

1096
00:59:58,015 --> 00:59:58,974
Aah!

1097
00:59:59,057 --> 01:00:00,851
12 Charlie, take 1.

1098
01:00:00,934 --> 01:00:02,352
- Aah!
- Aah!

1099
01:00:02,436 --> 01:00:04,188
- Aah!
- Aah!

1100
01:00:04,271 --> 01:00:05,355
Take 2.

1101
01:00:05,439 --> 01:00:07,941
- Aah!
- Aah!

1102
01:00:08,025 --> 01:00:10,194
2...

1103
01:00:10,277 --> 01:00:11,403
Take 7.

1104
01:00:11,487 --> 01:00:13,822
- Aah!
- Aah!

1105
01:00:13,864 --> 01:00:15,449
2...

1106
01:00:15,532 --> 01:00:17,951
- Aah!
- Aah!

1107
01:00:17,993 --> 01:00:19,495
- Aah!
- Aah!

1108
01:00:19,578 --> 01:00:21,079
- Aah!
- Aah!

1109
01:00:21,163 --> 01:00:23,415
- Aah!
- Aah!

1110
01:00:23,499 --> 01:00:25,959
Aah!

1111
01:00:48,357 --> 01:00:49,983
Orphan.

1112
01:00:50,025 --> 01:00:51,318
Dame.

1113
01:00:53,570 --> 01:00:54,822
Front desk.

1114
01:00:54,905 --> 01:00:56,323
Hello, Chet?

1115
01:00:56,365 --> 01:00:58,283
This is Barton Fink in room 621.

1116
01:00:58,367 --> 01:01:00,327
Could you try a number for me
in Hollywood?

1117
01:01:00,369 --> 01:01:03,372
Slauson 6-4304.

1118
01:01:03,413 --> 01:01:04,998
Right away, sir.

1119
01:01:07,334 --> 01:01:08,794
Pick it up.
Pick it up.

1120
01:01:08,877 --> 01:01:09,795
Hello.

1121
01:01:09,878 --> 01:01:11,296
Audrey, I need help.

1122
01:01:11,380 --> 01:01:13,757
I know I shouldn't be
calling you like this.

1123
01:01:13,841 --> 01:01:16,384
I wouldn't have
if I could see any alternative.

1124
01:01:16,385 --> 01:01:18,762
I'm sorry.
Listen, how are you?

1125
01:01:18,846 --> 01:01:20,305
You doing okay?

1126
01:01:20,389 --> 01:01:21,765
Who is this?

1127
01:01:21,849 --> 01:01:24,268
Barton! I'm sorry.
It's Barton Fink.

1128
01:01:24,351 --> 01:01:27,271
Barton, I'm afraid
it's not a good time.

1129
01:01:27,354 --> 01:01:29,815
I'm sorry.
I just feel like I need...

1130
01:01:29,898 --> 01:01:31,775
I know I shouldn't ask.

1131
01:01:31,859 --> 01:01:34,820
I just need some kind of help.

1132
01:01:34,903 --> 01:01:37,322
I have a deadline tomorrow.

1133
01:01:37,406 --> 01:01:38,782
All right, Barton.

1134
01:01:38,866 --> 01:01:40,826
I'll see if I can slip away.

1135
01:01:40,909 --> 01:01:42,286
Oh, if you could...

1136
01:01:42,369 --> 01:01:44,329
If I can.

1137
01:01:44,413 --> 01:01:46,331
He... He gets jealous.

1138
01:01:46,415 --> 01:01:47,791
I need help, Audrey.

1139
01:01:49,418 --> 01:01:50,794
I'll try to slip out

1140
01:01:50,878 --> 01:01:54,298
if he quiets down, passes out.

1141
01:01:54,381 --> 01:01:56,758
I'm afraid he thinks...

1142
01:01:56,842 --> 01:01:59,803
Well, he said you were
a buffoon, Barton.

1143
01:01:59,887 --> 01:02:00,846
Uh-huh.

1144
01:02:00,929 --> 01:02:02,347
He becomes irrational.

1145
01:02:03,724 --> 01:02:04,765
Uh-huh, uh-huh.

1146
01:02:04,766 --> 01:02:06,226
I'll try and slip away.

1147
01:02:06,268 --> 01:02:08,061
Who is that?

1148
01:02:25,329 --> 01:02:28,290
Audrey, thank you for coming.

1149
01:02:28,373 --> 01:02:29,291
Thank you.

1150
01:02:29,374 --> 01:02:30,374
Hello, Barton.

1151
01:02:30,375 --> 01:02:32,294
I'm sorry to be...

1152
01:02:32,377 --> 01:02:34,922
such a... such a...

1153
01:02:36,381 --> 01:02:37,299
Thank you.

1154
01:02:37,341 --> 01:02:40,093
That's all right, Barton.

1155
01:02:40,177 --> 01:02:42,638
Everything's going to be all right.

1156
01:02:42,721 --> 01:02:44,640
Yes. Thank you.

1157
01:02:44,765 --> 01:02:45,933
Thank you.

1158
01:02:46,016 --> 01:02:48,477
Yes. Thank you.

1159
01:02:50,354 --> 01:02:51,772
How's Bill?

1160
01:02:51,814 --> 01:02:54,817
Oh, he's, uh...

1161
01:02:54,858 --> 01:02:56,318
He drifted off.

1162
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,946
He'll sleep for a while now.

1163
01:03:00,364 --> 01:03:03,033
What is it you have to do exactly?

1164
01:03:03,116 --> 01:03:07,287
Well, I have to come up
with an outline,

1165
01:03:07,329 --> 01:03:09,248
I guess you call it,

1166
01:03:09,331 --> 01:03:12,251
the whole goddamn story,
soup to nuts, three acts,

1167
01:03:12,334 --> 01:03:14,169
the whole goddamn...

1168
01:03:14,253 --> 01:03:15,587
That's all right, Barton.

1169
01:03:15,671 --> 01:03:17,965
You don't have to write
actual scenes.

1170
01:03:18,006 --> 01:03:21,927
No, but the whole goddamn...

1171
01:03:23,345 --> 01:03:25,264
Audrey...

1172
01:03:25,347 --> 01:03:28,600
have you ever read
any of Bill's wrestling scenarios?

1173
01:03:28,684 --> 01:03:31,353
Yes, I'm afraid I have.

1174
01:03:31,436 --> 01:03:34,940
What are they like?
What are they about?

1175
01:03:35,023 --> 01:03:36,775
Well...

1176
01:03:36,859 --> 01:03:40,654
usually they're simple morality tales.

1177
01:03:40,696 --> 01:03:44,283
There's a good wrestler
and a bad wrestler,

1178
01:03:44,366 --> 01:03:46,410
whom he confronts at the end.

1179
01:03:46,493 --> 01:03:48,870
In between, the good wrestler
has a love interest

1180
01:03:48,871 --> 01:03:51,790
or a small child he has to protect.

1181
01:03:51,874 --> 01:03:53,625
Bill would usually make
the good wrestler

1182
01:03:53,709 --> 01:03:56,086
a backwards type or a convict,

1183
01:03:56,170 --> 01:03:59,548
and sometimes, instead of a waif,

1184
01:03:59,631 --> 01:04:03,343
he'd have the wrestler
protecting an idiot man-child.

1185
01:04:03,385 --> 01:04:06,388
The studio always hated that.

1186
01:04:06,471 --> 01:04:09,057
Some of the scripts were so...

1187
01:04:09,141 --> 01:04:10,392
spirited.

1188
01:04:14,605 --> 01:04:18,775
Barton, look,
it's really just a formula.

1189
01:04:18,859 --> 01:04:21,236
You don't have to type
your soul into it.

1190
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:23,614
We'll invent some names
and a new setting.

1191
01:04:23,697 --> 01:04:25,741
I'll help you.
It won't take any time at all.

1192
01:04:25,824 --> 01:04:28,243
I did it for Bill so many times.

1193
01:04:28,327 --> 01:04:30,245
You did what for Bill?

1194
01:04:30,287 --> 01:04:33,248
Well... this.

1195
01:04:33,332 --> 01:04:36,543
You wrote his scripts for him?

1196
01:04:39,338 --> 01:04:43,592
Well, the basic ideas
were frequently his.

1197
01:04:43,675 --> 01:04:47,262
You wrote Bill's scripts?

1198
01:04:47,346 --> 01:04:49,097
Jesus, you wrote his...

1199
01:04:49,181 --> 01:04:50,974
Well, what about before that?

1200
01:04:51,058 --> 01:04:52,016
Before what?

1201
01:04:52,017 --> 01:04:54,770
Before Bill came to Hollywood.

1202
01:04:54,853 --> 01:04:57,773
Bill was always the author,
so to speak.

1203
01:04:57,856 --> 01:05:00,901
What do you mean, "so to speak"?

1204
01:05:00,984 --> 01:05:04,947
Audrey, how long have you been his...

1205
01:05:04,988 --> 01:05:06,281
secretary?

1206
01:05:06,365 --> 01:05:09,117
Let's concentrate
on our little project.

1207
01:05:09,201 --> 01:05:11,744
I want to know how many
of Bill's books you wrote!

1208
01:05:11,745 --> 01:05:12,995
I want to know!

1209
01:05:12,996 --> 01:05:15,082
Barton, honestly...

1210
01:05:17,918 --> 01:05:19,878
Only the last couple.

1211
01:05:19,962 --> 01:05:21,088
Hah!

1212
01:05:21,129 --> 01:05:25,384
And my input was
mostly editorial, really,

1213
01:05:25,467 --> 01:05:27,177
after he had been drinking.

1214
01:05:27,261 --> 01:05:28,387
I'll bet.

1215
01:05:28,470 --> 01:05:32,349
Jesus, "the grand productive days"!

1216
01:05:32,432 --> 01:05:34,685
What a goddamn phony.

1217
01:05:34,768 --> 01:05:36,353
W.P. Mayhew...

1218
01:05:36,436 --> 01:05:39,106
William goddamn Phony Mayhew!

1219
01:05:39,148 --> 01:05:40,983
All his guff about escape!

1220
01:05:41,066 --> 01:05:44,027
I'll say he escaped!

1221
01:05:45,946 --> 01:05:47,781
We don't have much time.

1222
01:05:51,994 --> 01:05:54,371
It'll be fine.

1223
01:05:54,454 --> 01:05:57,708
Don't judge him, Barton.

1224
01:05:59,001 --> 01:06:02,379
Don't condescend to him.

1225
01:06:02,462 --> 01:06:06,842
I help Bill most
by understanding him,

1226
01:06:06,925 --> 01:06:08,969
by appreciating him.

1227
01:06:10,888 --> 01:06:14,349
We all need understanding, Barton...

1228
01:06:14,391 --> 01:06:17,311
even you tonight.

1229
01:06:17,352 --> 01:06:19,855
It's all you really need.

1230
01:09:30,337 --> 01:09:32,172
Aah!

1231
01:09:32,214 --> 01:09:34,007
Aah!

1232
01:09:34,091 --> 01:09:35,425
Aah!

1233
01:09:43,225 --> 01:09:44,143
Barton?

1234
01:09:56,989 --> 01:09:58,657
Barton, are you all right?

1235
01:09:58,740 --> 01:09:59,740
I'm fine, thanks.

1236
01:09:59,741 --> 01:10:00,659
You sure?

1237
01:10:00,742 --> 01:10:01,827
No! No.

1238
01:12:15,419 --> 01:12:17,588
Barton. Are you all right?

1239
01:12:17,671 --> 01:12:19,631
No. Can I come in?

1240
01:12:19,715 --> 01:12:21,592
Let's go to your room.

1241
01:12:21,675 --> 01:12:24,595
Charlie, I'm in trouble.
You got to help me.

1242
01:12:24,678 --> 01:12:26,597
Get a grip on yourself, brother.

1243
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,600
Whatever the problem is,
we can sort it out.

1244
01:12:29,683 --> 01:12:32,185
Charlie, I'm in trouble.
Something horrible's happened.

1245
01:12:32,186 --> 01:12:34,104
I got to call the police.

1246
01:12:34,188 --> 01:12:37,107
Will you stay with me
till they get here?

1247
01:12:37,191 --> 01:12:40,235
Don't worry about it.
We can work it out.

1248
01:12:40,319 --> 01:12:42,613
Before you go in...
I didn't do this.

1249
01:12:42,696 --> 01:12:45,616
I don't know how it happened, but...

1250
01:12:45,699 --> 01:12:46,992
I didn't.

1251
01:12:47,075 --> 01:12:49,286
I want you to know that.

1252
01:12:56,084 --> 01:12:57,127
Okay.

1253
01:13:03,634 --> 01:13:04,718
Ohhh!

1254
01:13:09,807 --> 01:13:10,766
Oh...

1255
01:13:18,774 --> 01:13:19,858
Oh...

1256
01:13:24,321 --> 01:13:26,782
Jesus, Barton,
what the hell is this?

1257
01:13:26,824 --> 01:13:28,325
What are we going to do?

1258
01:13:28,408 --> 01:13:29,408
Call the police.

1259
01:13:29,409 --> 01:13:30,452
Hold on.

1260
01:13:30,536 --> 01:13:31,870
I didn't do this.

1261
01:13:31,954 --> 01:13:33,455
I did not do this!

1262
01:13:33,539 --> 01:13:34,414
Hold on!

1263
01:13:34,498 --> 01:13:35,582
Stop.

1264
01:13:35,624 --> 01:13:38,168
Take a deep breath.
Tell me what happened.

1265
01:13:38,252 --> 01:13:41,046
I passed out! I don't know!
Won't the police...

1266
01:13:41,129 --> 01:13:43,173
Stop with the police!
Wake up!

1267
01:13:43,257 --> 01:13:45,467
This looks bad!
They hang people for this!

1268
01:13:45,551 --> 01:13:48,554
But I didn't do it.
Don't you believe me?

1269
01:13:48,637 --> 01:13:51,890
I believe you! I know you!
Why should the police?

1270
01:13:53,809 --> 01:13:54,852
Did you...

1271
01:13:56,103 --> 01:13:58,021
Barton, between you and me,

1272
01:13:58,105 --> 01:14:00,274
did you have sexual intercourse?

1273
01:14:03,110 --> 01:14:04,945
Jesus, they can tell that.

1274
01:14:05,028 --> 01:14:08,115
Got to believe me!

1275
01:14:08,198 --> 01:14:10,659
They got to have mercy!

1276
01:14:10,701 --> 01:14:12,161
You're in pictures, Barton.

1277
01:14:12,202 --> 01:14:14,580
Even if they cleared you eventually,

1278
01:14:14,663 --> 01:14:16,165
this would ruin you.

1279
01:14:18,750 --> 01:14:19,668
Come on.

1280
01:14:19,751 --> 01:14:21,295
Wait in the bathroom.

1281
01:14:43,901 --> 01:14:48,030
Oh, Lord.
Oh, Lordy. Oh, my Lord.

1282
01:14:48,113 --> 01:14:51,033
Oh, my Lord.

1283
01:14:52,868 --> 01:14:53,952
Ooh!

1284
01:15:05,923 --> 01:15:07,716
You passed out.

1285
01:15:09,801 --> 01:15:10,968
Where's Audrey?

1286
01:15:10,969 --> 01:15:12,387
She's dead, Barton!

1287
01:15:12,471 --> 01:15:15,015
She's dead, if that was her name!

1288
01:15:15,098 --> 01:15:18,227
You got to act
as if nothing has happened.

1289
01:15:18,310 --> 01:15:20,729
Put this totally out of your head.

1290
01:15:20,813 --> 01:15:24,066
Your play is to go about
your business as usual.

1291
01:15:24,149 --> 01:15:27,361
Give us some time
to sort this out.

1292
01:15:36,703 --> 01:15:39,414
Bart!
So happy to see ya!

1293
01:15:40,499 --> 01:15:42,793
Sit. Talk.
Relax for a minute.

1294
01:15:42,876 --> 01:15:44,294
Then talk.

1295
01:15:44,378 --> 01:15:45,462
Drink?

1296
01:15:45,546 --> 01:15:47,089
Uh...

1297
01:15:47,172 --> 01:15:48,298
yeah.

1298
01:15:49,758 --> 01:15:50,758
Rye whiskey?

1299
01:15:50,759 --> 01:15:53,095
Boy, you writers.
Work hard, play hard.

1300
01:15:53,178 --> 01:15:55,055
That's what I hear, anyway.
Lou!

1301
01:15:55,097 --> 01:15:59,476
Anyway, Ben Geisler tells me things
are going along great.

1302
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:01,937
Says we got a real winner
in this one.

1303
01:16:02,020 --> 01:16:04,439
I'll tell you something.
I'm counting on it.

1304
01:16:04,523 --> 01:16:07,234
I've taken an interest.
Nothing to fear, mind you.

1305
01:16:07,317 --> 01:16:09,236
Hardly seems necessary in your case...

1306
01:16:09,278 --> 01:16:11,738
a writer,
a storyteller of your stature.

1307
01:16:11,780 --> 01:16:14,241
Give it to me
in bold strokes, Bart.

1308
01:16:14,283 --> 01:16:15,909
Give me the broad outlines.

1309
01:16:15,951 --> 01:16:18,453
I'm in the audience,
the lights go down,

1310
01:16:18,495 --> 01:16:19,913
Capitol logo comes up.

1311
01:16:19,955 --> 01:16:21,874
You're on, huh?

1312
01:16:25,627 --> 01:16:26,920
Yeah.

1313
01:16:26,962 --> 01:16:28,630
Uh... okay.

1314
01:16:28,797 --> 01:16:29,923
Huh?

1315
01:16:31,633 --> 01:16:33,093
Well, uh...

1316
01:16:34,261 --> 01:16:35,637
we... we fade in...

1317
01:16:35,721 --> 01:16:37,264
Uh-huh.

1318
01:16:39,183 --> 01:16:42,269
It's... It's a tenement building
on the Lower East Side.

1319
01:16:42,352 --> 01:16:44,313
Great!
He's poor, this wrestler.

1320
01:16:44,354 --> 01:16:45,939
He's had to struggle, huh?

1321
01:16:47,941 --> 01:16:49,192
And then...

1322
01:16:49,193 --> 01:16:50,277
Uh-huh?

1323
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:52,029
Well, uh...

1324
01:16:54,656 --> 01:16:56,783
Can I be honest, Mr. Lipnick?

1325
01:16:56,825 --> 01:16:59,786
Can you?
Jesus, you damn well better be!

1326
01:16:59,828 --> 01:17:02,206
If I wasn't honest
in my business dealings...

1327
01:17:02,289 --> 01:17:04,208
Well, you can't always be honest,

1328
01:17:04,291 --> 01:17:06,627
not with the sharks
swimming around this town.

1329
01:17:06,710 --> 01:17:08,170
If I'd been totally honest,

1330
01:17:08,212 --> 01:17:10,172
I wouldn't be near this pool

1331
01:17:10,255 --> 01:17:11,673
unless I was cleaning it.

1332
01:17:11,757 --> 01:17:14,593
But that's no reason
for you not to be.

1333
01:17:14,676 --> 01:17:17,012
Honest, I mean.
Not cleaning the pool.

1334
01:17:20,057 --> 01:17:21,141
Oh.

1335
01:17:22,893 --> 01:17:23,977
Uh-huh.

1336
01:17:30,734 --> 01:17:32,694
To be honest, uh...

1337
01:17:32,736 --> 01:17:34,196
I'm never really comfortable

1338
01:17:34,238 --> 01:17:36,240
discussing work in progress.

1339
01:17:36,323 --> 01:17:39,159
I got it all worked out in my head,

1340
01:17:39,243 --> 01:17:42,788
but sometimes,
if you force it into words...

1341
01:17:42,871 --> 01:17:44,873
prematurely...

1342
01:17:44,957 --> 01:17:46,375
uh, the wrong words...

1343
01:17:46,416 --> 01:17:47,876
Well, your meaning changes,

1344
01:17:47,918 --> 01:17:52,172
and it changes in your own mind,
and you never get it back,

1345
01:17:52,256 --> 01:17:56,135
so I'd... I'd just as soon
not talk about it.

1346
01:18:01,265 --> 01:18:03,225
Mr. Fink... never mind me.

1347
01:18:03,308 --> 01:18:05,644
Never mind how long
I've been in pictures.

1348
01:18:05,727 --> 01:18:07,312
Mr. Lipnick's been in pictures

1349
01:18:07,396 --> 01:18:09,189
about since they was invented.

1350
01:18:09,231 --> 01:18:10,649
He practically invented them.

1351
01:18:10,732 --> 01:18:12,276
I think if he's interested

1352
01:18:12,359 --> 01:18:15,154
in what one of
his contract employees is doing,

1353
01:18:15,237 --> 01:18:18,073
that employee
should be able to tell him

1354
01:18:18,157 --> 01:18:21,702
if he wants to stay an employee.

1355
01:18:21,743 --> 01:18:24,705
Right now,
the contents of your head

1356
01:18:24,746 --> 01:18:27,374
are the property
of Capitol Pictures.

1357
01:18:28,584 --> 01:18:30,169
If I was you...

1358
01:18:30,252 --> 01:18:31,670
I would speak up.

1359
01:18:31,753 --> 01:18:33,839
And pretty goddamn fast.

1360
01:18:37,259 --> 01:18:43,724
You lousy kike...
son of a bitch.

1361
01:18:43,765 --> 01:18:46,059
You're telling this man...
this artist...

1362
01:18:46,101 --> 01:18:47,603
what to do?

1363
01:18:47,644 --> 01:18:49,021
Mr. Lipnick, I...

1364
01:18:49,104 --> 01:18:50,647
He creates for a living!

1365
01:18:50,731 --> 01:18:53,775
Thank him, you son of a bitch,
or you're fired!

1366
01:18:53,859 --> 01:18:56,278
Mr. Lipnick,
that's really not necessary.

1367
01:18:56,361 --> 01:18:59,072
Get down on your knees,
you son of a bitch!

1368
01:18:59,156 --> 01:19:00,490
Kiss this man's feet!

1369
01:19:00,491 --> 01:19:02,576
Mr. Lipnick, please.

1370
01:19:02,659 --> 01:19:04,036
Kiss this man's feet!

1371
01:19:09,625 --> 01:19:11,919
Get out of here!
You understand me?

1372
01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:16,548
You're out of here. You're fired.
Get out of my sight.

1373
01:19:24,056 --> 01:19:25,015
I...

1374
01:19:25,098 --> 01:19:26,265
I apologize, Barton.

1375
01:19:26,266 --> 01:19:28,727
No. Mr. Breeze actually
has been a great help.

1376
01:19:28,811 --> 01:19:32,314
You don't have to cover for him.
That's very noble.

1377
01:19:32,397 --> 01:19:34,900
I'd feel much better
if you'd just reconsider.

1378
01:19:34,983 --> 01:19:37,736
If that son of a bitch
won't apologize to you,

1379
01:19:37,820 --> 01:19:39,738
then goddamn it, I will.

1380
01:19:39,822 --> 01:19:42,241
I respect your artistry
and your methods.

1381
01:19:42,324 --> 01:19:43,784
If you can't fill us in yet,

1382
01:19:43,867 --> 01:19:47,913
hell, we should be kissing your feet
for your fine efforts.

1383
01:19:49,414 --> 01:19:50,833
You know...

1384
01:19:54,503 --> 01:19:57,464
in the old country,
we were taught as young children

1385
01:19:57,506 --> 01:20:00,217
that there's no shame
in supplicating yourself

1386
01:20:00,300 --> 01:20:01,885
when you respect someone.

1387
01:20:01,969 --> 01:20:04,012
On behalf of Capitol Pictures,

1388
01:20:04,096 --> 01:20:07,641
the administration,
and all of the stockholders,

1389
01:20:07,724 --> 01:20:09,685
please accept this

1390
01:20:09,726 --> 01:20:13,105
as a symbol of
our apology and respect.

1391
01:20:40,257 --> 01:20:42,509
Barton, can I come in?

1392
01:20:55,230 --> 01:20:58,150
Jesus... you're leaving?

1393
01:20:58,233 --> 01:21:01,278
Have to, old-timer,
just for a little while.

1394
01:21:01,361 --> 01:21:03,071
Jesus.

1395
01:21:03,155 --> 01:21:04,322
Charlie, I...

1396
01:21:04,323 --> 01:21:06,074
Everything's okay, believe me.

1397
01:21:06,158 --> 01:21:08,076
I know it's rough mentally,

1398
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:10,537
but everything's been taken care of.

1399
01:21:10,579 --> 01:21:13,373
Charlie, I got no one else here.

1400
01:21:13,457 --> 01:21:18,086
You're the only person
I know in Los Angeles

1401
01:21:18,170 --> 01:21:22,007
that I...
that I can talk to.

1402
01:21:29,598 --> 01:21:30,974
I feel like I'm...

1403
01:21:31,058 --> 01:21:34,520
like I'm losing my mind,
like I'm going crazy.

1404
01:21:34,603 --> 01:21:36,980
I don't know what to do.

1405
01:21:37,064 --> 01:21:40,067
I didn't do it, believe me.

1406
01:21:40,150 --> 01:21:42,069
I... I'm sure of that, Charlie.

1407
01:21:42,110 --> 01:21:45,072
You got to get a grip on, brother.

1408
01:21:45,113 --> 01:21:48,075
You got to carry on till I get back.

1409
01:21:48,116 --> 01:21:50,994
Try and stay here.
Don't talk to anyone.

1410
01:21:51,078 --> 01:21:53,163
We got to keep our heads,

1411
01:21:53,247 --> 01:21:55,123
and we'll figure it out.

1412
01:21:55,207 --> 01:21:56,249
Okay, but...

1413
01:21:56,250 --> 01:21:57,250
Don't argue.

1414
01:21:57,251 --> 01:22:00,712
You asked me to believe you and I do.

1415
01:22:00,796 --> 01:22:02,256
Now, don't argue with me.

1416
01:22:02,297 --> 01:22:06,760
Look, pal,
can you do something for me?

1417
01:22:06,802 --> 01:22:09,680
Keep that for me
till I get back.

1418
01:22:09,763 --> 01:22:11,598
It's just a lot of personal stuff,

1419
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:14,601
but I don't want
to drag it with me.

1420
01:22:14,643 --> 01:22:15,936
Funny, huh?

1421
01:22:15,978 --> 01:22:18,939
When everything
that's important to a guy,

1422
01:22:18,981 --> 01:22:21,942
everything he wants to keep
from a lifetime,

1423
01:22:21,984 --> 01:22:26,947
and he can fit it all
into a little box like that.

1424
01:22:27,030 --> 01:22:29,283
I guess...

1425
01:22:29,324 --> 01:22:31,618
I guess it's pretty pathetic.

1426
01:22:31,660 --> 01:22:33,954
It's more than I've got.

1427
01:22:35,038 --> 01:22:36,498
Well, keep it for me.

1428
01:22:36,540 --> 01:22:38,500
Maybe it'll bring you good luck.

1429
01:22:38,542 --> 01:22:40,502
It'll help you finish your script.

1430
01:22:40,586 --> 01:22:43,005
You'll think about me.
Make me your wrestler.

1431
01:22:43,088 --> 01:22:45,007
Then you'll lick that story.

1432
01:22:45,090 --> 01:22:46,299
Thanks, Charlie.

1433
01:22:46,300 --> 01:22:47,718
Yeah, yeah, sure.

1434
01:22:47,801 --> 01:22:50,721
I'll see you soon, friend.
You'll be fine.

1435
01:22:50,804 --> 01:22:52,181
And you'll be back?

1436
01:22:52,264 --> 01:22:54,224
Don't worry about that, compadre.

1437
01:22:54,308 --> 01:22:55,893
I'll be back.

1438
01:25:53,070 --> 01:25:55,489
You read the Bible, Pete?

1439
01:25:57,533 --> 01:25:59,201
Holy Bible?

1440
01:26:01,537 --> 01:26:02,830
Yeah.

1441
01:26:04,248 --> 01:26:05,874
Yeah, I think so.

1442
01:26:07,209 --> 01:26:09,336
Anyway, I've heard about it.

1443
01:26:23,559 --> 01:26:24,685
Fink?

1444
01:26:24,768 --> 01:26:25,936
Yeah.

1445
01:26:26,019 --> 01:26:27,771
Detective Mastrionotti.

1446
01:26:27,855 --> 01:26:29,690
Detective Deutsch.

1447
01:26:29,731 --> 01:26:31,024
L.A.P.D.

1448
01:26:31,108 --> 01:26:32,401
Uh-huh.

1449
01:26:32,484 --> 01:26:34,903
Got some questions
we want to ask you.

1450
01:26:34,987 --> 01:26:37,698
Just routine.
Sit down.

1451
01:26:37,781 --> 01:26:39,992
What do you do, Fink?

1452
01:26:41,869 --> 01:26:43,453
I... I write.

1453
01:26:43,537 --> 01:26:45,414
Oh, yeah?
What kind of writing?

1454
01:26:45,497 --> 01:26:48,083
As a matter of fact,
I write for the pictures.

1455
01:26:48,167 --> 01:26:49,585
Big fucking deal.

1456
01:26:49,668 --> 01:26:51,712
Should my partner
kiss your ass?

1457
01:26:51,795 --> 01:26:53,213
I didn't mean to sound...

1458
01:26:53,297 --> 01:26:54,715
What did you mean?

1459
01:26:54,756 --> 01:26:57,384
I got respect
for working guys like you.

1460
01:26:57,468 --> 01:26:59,428
Jesus, ain't that a load off.

1461
01:26:59,511 --> 01:27:00,888
You live in 621?

1462
01:27:00,971 --> 01:27:02,055
Yeah.

1463
01:27:02,139 --> 01:27:03,265
How long?

1464
01:27:03,348 --> 01:27:04,975
A week. Eight, nine days.

1465
01:27:05,058 --> 01:27:06,393
This multiple choice?

1466
01:27:06,477 --> 01:27:08,896
You know this slob?

1467
01:27:17,946 --> 01:27:20,824
Yeah, he lives next door to me.

1468
01:27:20,908 --> 01:27:22,326
That's right, Fink.

1469
01:27:22,409 --> 01:27:25,120
He lives next door to you.

1470
01:27:25,204 --> 01:27:27,581
You ever talk to him?

1471
01:27:27,623 --> 01:27:29,041
Once or twice.

1472
01:27:29,124 --> 01:27:31,710
His name is Charlie Meadows.

1473
01:27:31,793 --> 01:27:33,712
Yeah, and I'm Buck Rogers.

1474
01:27:33,795 --> 01:27:36,215
His name's Mundt.
Karl Mundt.

1475
01:27:36,298 --> 01:27:38,217
Also known as Madman Mundt.

1476
01:27:38,300 --> 01:27:40,677
A little funny in the head.

1477
01:27:40,761 --> 01:27:42,179
What did he...

1478
01:27:42,262 --> 01:27:45,182
He likes to ventilate people
with a shotgun

1479
01:27:45,265 --> 01:27:46,767
and cut their heads off.

1480
01:27:46,850 --> 01:27:48,268
Yeah, he's funny that way.

1481
01:27:48,310 --> 01:27:50,646
Started in Kansas City.
Couple of housewives.

1482
01:27:50,729 --> 01:27:53,148
We got the same M.O. in Los Feliz.

1483
01:27:53,232 --> 01:27:55,150
Doctor.
Ear, nose, and throat man.

1484
01:27:55,234 --> 01:27:56,652
All of which is missing.

1485
01:27:56,735 --> 01:27:58,153
Well, some throat was there.

1486
01:27:58,237 --> 01:27:59,696
Physician, heal thyself.

1487
01:27:59,780 --> 01:28:01,949
Good luck with
no fucking head.

1488
01:28:01,990 --> 01:28:04,492
Hollywood precinct finds
another stiff yesterday

1489
01:28:04,493 --> 01:28:05,869
not too far from here.

1490
01:28:05,953 --> 01:28:08,539
This one's better-looking
than the doc.

1491
01:28:08,622 --> 01:28:10,958
Female Caucasian,
about 30 years old,

1492
01:28:10,999 --> 01:28:12,501
nice tits, no head.

1493
01:28:12,543 --> 01:28:15,002
Ever see Mundt with anyone
fits that description?

1494
01:28:15,003 --> 01:28:18,173
But, you know,
with the head still on.

1495
01:28:19,383 --> 01:28:22,344
No, I never saw him
with anyone else.

1496
01:28:22,386 --> 01:28:25,347
So you did talk to Mundt.
What about?

1497
01:28:25,430 --> 01:28:26,974
Nothing, really.

1498
01:28:27,057 --> 01:28:30,018
He said he was
in the insurance business.

1499
01:28:30,102 --> 01:28:32,020
Yeah, and he's Buck Rogers.

1500
01:28:32,104 --> 01:28:34,982
No reputable company
would hire a guy like that.

1501
01:28:35,065 --> 01:28:36,357
That's what he said.

1502
01:28:36,358 --> 01:28:37,693
What else?

1503
01:28:40,028 --> 01:28:42,364
I'm trying to think.

1504
01:28:42,447 --> 01:28:45,325
Nothing, really. He...

1505
01:28:45,367 --> 01:28:50,205
He said he liked
Jack Oakie pictures.

1506
01:28:50,289 --> 01:28:55,419
You know, ordinarily we say
anything you might remember

1507
01:28:55,502 --> 01:28:56,920
could be helpful,

1508
01:28:57,004 --> 01:28:59,965
but I'll be frank with you, Fink.

1509
01:29:00,048 --> 01:29:01,758
That is not helpful.

1510
01:29:01,842 --> 01:29:04,887
Notice how he's not writing it down?

1511
01:29:04,970 --> 01:29:07,097
Fink.

1512
01:29:07,181 --> 01:29:09,475
That's a...

1513
01:29:09,558 --> 01:29:11,768
a Jewish name, isn't it?

1514
01:29:11,852 --> 01:29:13,020
Yeah.

1515
01:29:13,061 --> 01:29:14,646
Yeah.

1516
01:29:14,730 --> 01:29:17,983
I didn't think
this dump was restricted.

1517
01:29:18,066 --> 01:29:20,527
Mundt has disappeared.

1518
01:29:20,569 --> 01:29:23,030
I don't think he'll be back,

1519
01:29:23,071 --> 01:29:26,700
but give me a call
if you see him...

1520
01:29:28,535 --> 01:29:32,414
or if you remember something
that isn't totally idiotic.

1521
01:31:17,686 --> 01:31:19,188
"Fade in.

1522
01:31:19,229 --> 01:31:25,736
Ayoung hussy opens the door...

1523
01:31:25,819 --> 01:31:29,781
to the burlyman's...

1524
01:31:29,865 --> 01:31:30,991
apartment.

1525
01:31:31,033 --> 01:31:33,368
If you were a man,

1526
01:31:33,452 --> 01:31:37,331
a real man,

1527
01:31:37,372 --> 01:31:39,374
you'd slap me."

1528
01:31:40,626 --> 01:31:45,047
"I put my mark on you first...

1529
01:31:45,088 --> 01:31:48,675
in... delibly."

1530
01:31:58,936 --> 01:32:00,854
"Boardinghouse,

1531
01:32:00,938 --> 01:32:02,271
painted women,

1532
01:32:02,272 --> 01:32:04,233
and the burlyman..."

1533
01:32:04,274 --> 01:32:05,692
"Why'd you arrest him?"

1534
01:32:05,776 --> 01:32:09,822
"With one lightning move
with his mighty arms,

1535
01:32:09,905 --> 01:32:11,072
the burlyman..."

1536
01:32:11,073 --> 01:32:12,491
"She's a good woman..."

1537
01:32:12,574 --> 01:32:17,454
"I don't care what people say..."

1538
01:32:17,538 --> 01:32:21,166
"So, Burlyman,
we have to deduct those expenses

1539
01:32:21,250 --> 01:32:23,085
from your personal..."

1540
01:32:23,168 --> 01:32:27,422
"Don't you care for me
after all these years?"

1541
01:32:27,506 --> 01:32:29,925
Hold the line, sir.
I have your call.

1542
01:32:30,008 --> 01:32:32,970
Hello, operator!
I can't...

1543
01:32:33,053 --> 01:32:35,597
Oh, God.

1544
01:32:38,058 --> 01:32:39,267
Ahem. Hello?

1545
01:32:39,268 --> 01:32:40,727
Garland, it's me.

1546
01:32:40,769 --> 01:32:42,062
Barton?

1547
01:32:42,104 --> 01:32:44,106
Wh-What time is it?

1548
01:32:44,148 --> 01:32:45,566
Are you all right?

1549
01:32:45,649 --> 01:32:47,067
Yeah, I'm... I'm fine.

1550
01:32:47,151 --> 01:32:49,570
I have to talk to you, Garland.

1551
01:32:49,611 --> 01:32:51,071
I'm calling long-distance.

1552
01:32:51,113 --> 01:32:53,574
What is it, Barton?
Are you okay?

1553
01:32:53,615 --> 01:32:55,117
Yeah, I'm fine, Garland,

1554
01:32:55,159 --> 01:32:56,577
but we have to talk.

1555
01:32:56,618 --> 01:32:58,620
It's about what I'm writing.

1556
01:32:58,662 --> 01:33:00,247
I think...

1557
01:33:00,330 --> 01:33:01,874
it's really...

1558
01:33:03,125 --> 01:33:05,085
I think it's really big.

1559
01:33:05,127 --> 01:33:07,004
What do you mean, Barton?

1560
01:33:07,087 --> 01:33:09,548
Not big in the sense of large,

1561
01:33:09,631 --> 01:33:11,049
although it's that, too.

1562
01:33:11,133 --> 01:33:12,926
I... I mean important.

1563
01:33:12,968 --> 01:33:15,929
This may be
the most important work

1564
01:33:15,971 --> 01:33:17,431
I've ever done.

1565
01:33:17,473 --> 01:33:19,850
Barton, is everything okay?

1566
01:33:19,933 --> 01:33:22,269
You sound a little, um...

1567
01:33:22,311 --> 01:33:24,688
Sound a little what?

1568
01:33:24,771 --> 01:33:26,940
You sound a little, um...

1569
01:33:26,982 --> 01:33:28,942
Thanks, Garland.

1570
01:33:29,026 --> 01:33:31,278
Thanks for all the encouragement.

1571
01:33:33,864 --> 01:33:35,199
Nitwit.

1572
01:34:39,304 --> 01:34:40,472
Whoo!

1573
01:34:40,556 --> 01:34:42,141
You're cute.

1574
01:35:09,251 --> 01:35:11,753
Excuse me, buddy.
Mind if I cut in?

1575
01:35:11,837 --> 01:35:14,798
This is my dance, sailor.

1576
01:35:14,882 --> 01:35:18,510
Hey, come on, buddy.
I'm shipping out tomorrow.

1577
01:35:18,594 --> 01:35:20,721
I'm a writer

1578
01:35:20,762 --> 01:35:23,557
celebrating the completion
of something good.

1579
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:25,851
Do you understand that, sailor?

1580
01:35:25,934 --> 01:35:27,686
Beat it, creep.

1581
01:35:27,769 --> 01:35:30,189
Come on, buddy,
give the navy a dance.

1582
01:35:30,272 --> 01:35:32,065
Let somebody else spin the dame.

1583
01:35:32,149 --> 01:35:33,901
Step aside, four eyes!

1584
01:35:33,942 --> 01:35:35,527
4-F, take a hike!

1585
01:35:35,611 --> 01:35:37,404
Go sit on a tomato.

1586
01:35:37,488 --> 01:35:40,365
I'm a writer, you monsters!

1587
01:35:40,449 --> 01:35:41,617
I create!

1588
01:35:41,700 --> 01:35:43,619
I create for a living!

1589
01:35:43,702 --> 01:35:45,579
I'm a creator!

1590
01:35:45,662 --> 01:35:47,080
I am a creator!

1591
01:35:47,164 --> 01:35:48,248
Screwy!

1592
01:35:48,332 --> 01:35:50,959
This is my uniform.

1593
01:35:51,043 --> 01:35:53,962
This is how I serve the common man!

1594
01:35:54,046 --> 01:35:55,631
This is where I...

1595
01:35:57,132 --> 01:35:58,801
Get 'em, boys!

1596
01:36:38,423 --> 01:36:39,842
"He left this morning.

1597
01:36:39,925 --> 01:36:42,845
Said he had a job to do.

1598
01:36:42,928 --> 01:36:46,056
There was something in his eyes,

1599
01:36:46,140 --> 01:36:47,891
something new.

1600
01:36:47,975 --> 01:36:51,395
What's to become of him?"

1601
01:36:54,439 --> 01:36:57,734
We'll be hearing
from that crazy wrestler,

1602
01:36:57,818 --> 01:37:00,779
and I don't mean a postcard.

1603
01:37:00,863 --> 01:37:02,739
Fade out.

1604
01:37:02,823 --> 01:37:04,074
The end."

1605
01:37:05,868 --> 01:37:07,828
I thought you said
you were a writer.

1606
01:37:07,870 --> 01:37:11,165
I don't know, Duke.
I kind of liked it.

1607
01:37:11,206 --> 01:37:13,917
Keep your filthy eyes
off of that.

1608
01:37:15,210 --> 01:37:17,337
You made the morning papers, Fink.

1609
01:37:17,421 --> 01:37:19,840
Second one of
your friends to die.

1610
01:37:19,923 --> 01:37:22,342
You do get around, don't you?

1611
01:37:22,426 --> 01:37:25,012
You didn't tell us
you knew the dame.

1612
01:37:25,095 --> 01:37:27,848
Sixth floor too high for you, Fink?

1613
01:37:27,890 --> 01:37:29,475
Give you nosebleeds?

1614
01:37:30,392 --> 01:37:32,352
Just tell me one thing.

1615
01:37:32,436 --> 01:37:34,354
Where'd you put the heads?

1616
01:37:34,438 --> 01:37:36,690
Charlie.

1617
01:37:36,732 --> 01:37:38,317
Charlie's back.

1618
01:37:38,400 --> 01:37:39,860
No kidding, bright boy.

1619
01:37:39,943 --> 01:37:42,613
We smelled Mundt all over this.

1620
01:37:42,696 --> 01:37:44,364
Was he the idea man?

1621
01:37:44,406 --> 01:37:45,866
Tell us where the heads are.

1622
01:37:45,949 --> 01:37:47,951
Maybe they'll go easy on you.

1623
01:37:48,035 --> 01:37:49,369
Only fry you once.

1624
01:37:49,453 --> 01:37:51,205
Come back later.
It's too hot.

1625
01:37:51,246 --> 01:37:52,539
My head's killing me.

1626
01:37:52,623 --> 01:37:54,583
All right, forget the heads.

1627
01:37:54,666 --> 01:37:56,043
Where's Mundt, Fink?

1628
01:37:56,126 --> 01:37:57,544
He teach you how to do it?

1629
01:37:57,586 --> 01:37:59,379
You two have some sick sex thing?

1630
01:37:59,463 --> 01:38:00,380
Sex?

1631
01:38:00,464 --> 01:38:01,882
He's a man.

1632
01:38:01,965 --> 01:38:03,926
We wrestled.

1633
01:38:06,845 --> 01:38:08,722
You're a sick fuck, Fink.

1634
01:38:08,764 --> 01:38:11,058
Charlie's back.

1635
01:38:11,141 --> 01:38:12,559
It's hot.

1636
01:38:12,601 --> 01:38:13,519
He's back.

1637
01:38:38,794 --> 01:38:40,504
Fred.

1638
01:38:46,260 --> 01:38:47,886
Sit tight, Fink.

1639
01:38:53,517 --> 01:38:56,687
Why's it so goddamn hot out here?

1640
01:38:58,355 --> 01:38:59,439
Duke.

1641
01:39:27,843 --> 01:39:29,428
Mundt!

1642
01:39:34,183 --> 01:39:35,309
Mundt!

1643
01:39:35,350 --> 01:39:37,603
Show yourself.

1644
01:39:59,249 --> 01:40:01,001
There's a boy, Mundt.

1645
01:40:03,086 --> 01:40:05,005
Put the policy case down

1646
01:40:05,047 --> 01:40:06,840
and your mitts in the air.

1647
01:40:16,683 --> 01:40:18,060
He's complying.

1648
01:40:22,731 --> 01:40:25,234
Look upon me!

1649
01:40:25,317 --> 01:40:28,362
I'll show you the life of the mind!

1650
01:40:28,445 --> 01:40:30,531
Aah!

1651
01:40:30,614 --> 01:40:32,366
Aah!

1652
01:40:32,407 --> 01:40:34,868
Aah! Look upon me!

1653
01:40:34,910 --> 01:40:38,997
Aah! I'll show you
the life of the mind!

1654
01:40:39,081 --> 01:40:41,667
I'll show you the life of the mind!

1655
01:40:41,750 --> 01:40:43,544
I'll show you the life of the mind!

1656
01:40:43,627 --> 01:40:47,548
I will show you the life
of the mind!

1657
01:40:48,674 --> 01:40:50,551
Aah!

1658
01:41:15,742 --> 01:41:17,870
Heil, Hitler.

1659
01:41:17,911 --> 01:41:21,206
Aah!

1660
01:41:31,133 --> 01:41:32,384
Barton.

1661
01:41:35,512 --> 01:41:38,056
Brother, is it hot.

1662
01:41:39,433 --> 01:41:41,185
How you been, buddy?

1663
01:41:42,936 --> 01:41:45,856
Well, don't look at me like that.

1664
01:41:45,939 --> 01:41:48,734
It's just me... Charlie.

1665
01:41:48,775 --> 01:41:50,277
I hear it's Mundt.

1666
01:41:50,319 --> 01:41:53,405
Madman Mundt?

1667
01:41:53,489 --> 01:41:55,824
Jesus, people can be cruel.

1668
01:41:55,908 --> 01:42:00,037
If it's not my build,
it's my personality.

1669
01:42:05,876 --> 01:42:08,629
They say I'm a madman, Bart,

1670
01:42:08,712 --> 01:42:11,340
but I'm not mad at anyone.

1671
01:42:11,423 --> 01:42:12,800
Honest, I'm not.

1672
01:42:12,883 --> 01:42:16,470
Most guys I just feel sorry for.

1673
01:42:16,553 --> 01:42:18,472
It tears me up inside

1674
01:42:18,555 --> 01:42:21,475
to think about what
they're going through,

1675
01:42:21,558 --> 01:42:23,977
how trapped they are.

1676
01:42:25,062 --> 01:42:27,022
I understand it.

1677
01:42:28,148 --> 01:42:29,983
I feel for them.

1678
01:42:32,528 --> 01:42:35,489
So I try and help them out.

1679
01:42:35,531 --> 01:42:36,782
Jesus.

1680
01:42:38,784 --> 01:42:39,827
Yeah.

1681
01:42:39,910 --> 01:42:41,578
Yeah.

1682
01:42:41,662 --> 01:42:44,081
I know what it feels like

1683
01:42:44,164 --> 01:42:46,583
when things get all balled up

1684
01:42:46,667 --> 01:42:48,085
at the head office.

1685
01:42:48,168 --> 01:42:50,754
They put you through hell, Barton.

1686
01:42:52,172 --> 01:42:54,675
So I help people out.

1687
01:42:57,177 --> 01:43:01,265
I just wish someone
would do as much for me.

1688
01:43:02,850 --> 01:43:05,936
Jesus, it's hot.

1689
01:43:09,648 --> 01:43:11,525
Sometimes it gets so hot

1690
01:43:11,608 --> 01:43:15,154
I want to crawl
right out of my skin.

1691
01:43:15,195 --> 01:43:18,490
But, Charlie, why me?

1692
01:43:18,532 --> 01:43:19,658
Why...

1693
01:43:19,700 --> 01:43:23,328
Because you don't listen!

1694
01:43:31,170 --> 01:43:32,880
Jesus.

1695
01:43:32,963 --> 01:43:34,590
I'm dripping again.

1696
01:43:37,676 --> 01:43:40,012
Come on, Barton,

1697
01:43:40,053 --> 01:43:43,182
you think you know pain?

1698
01:43:44,558 --> 01:43:47,853
You think I made your life hell?

1699
01:43:49,188 --> 01:43:50,564
Look around this dump.

1700
01:43:50,647 --> 01:43:53,609
You're just a tourist
with a typewriter.

1701
01:43:53,692 --> 01:43:56,570
I live here.
Don't you understand that?

1702
01:44:03,368 --> 01:44:06,330
And you come into my home...

1703
01:44:08,457 --> 01:44:10,375
and you complain

1704
01:44:10,417 --> 01:44:14,379
that I'm making too much noise.

1705
01:44:25,933 --> 01:44:27,893
I'm sorry.

1706
01:44:34,983 --> 01:44:37,110
Don't be.

1707
01:45:24,700 --> 01:45:27,786
I'll be next door
if you need me.

1708
01:45:31,790 --> 01:45:33,125
Oh...

1709
01:45:33,167 --> 01:45:35,669
I dropped in on
your folks in New York.

1710
01:45:35,752 --> 01:45:38,755
And Uncle Maury.

1711
01:45:38,839 --> 01:45:40,215
Good people.

1712
01:45:46,555 --> 01:45:49,516
By the way,
that package I gave you...

1713
01:45:49,558 --> 01:45:51,101
I lied.

1714
01:45:51,185 --> 01:45:53,187
It isn't mine.

1715
01:46:57,251 --> 01:46:58,585
Fink.

1716
01:46:58,669 --> 01:47:00,087
Samuel or Lillian Fink.

1717
01:47:00,170 --> 01:47:01,588
85 Fulton Street.

1718
01:47:01,672 --> 01:47:03,132
Or Uncle Maury.

1719
01:47:03,215 --> 01:47:06,051
I understand that,
but there's still no answer.

1720
01:47:06,093 --> 01:47:07,052
Mr. Fink?

1721
01:47:07,094 --> 01:47:10,055
Shall I check for trouble
on the line?

1722
01:47:15,936 --> 01:47:18,188
Fink.

1723
01:47:18,272 --> 01:47:19,606
Mr. Lipnick.

1724
01:47:19,690 --> 01:47:22,109
Colonel Lipnick...
if you don't mind.

1725
01:47:22,192 --> 01:47:23,443
Sit down.

1726
01:47:23,527 --> 01:47:25,736
I was commissioned yesterday
in the army reserve.

1727
01:47:25,737 --> 01:47:28,448
Henry Morgenthau arranged it.
Dear friend.

1728
01:47:28,532 --> 01:47:30,450
Congratulations.

1729
01:47:30,492 --> 01:47:31,701
It hasn't officially
gone through yet.

1730
01:47:31,702 --> 01:47:33,120
Had wardrobe whip this up.

1731
01:47:33,203 --> 01:47:35,164
Got to pull teeth
to get anything done.

1732
01:47:35,247 --> 01:47:37,458
Can understand
red tape in peacetime,

1733
01:47:37,541 --> 01:47:39,626
but now it's all-out warfare
against theJaps.

1734
01:47:39,710 --> 01:47:42,421
They'd love to see me
sit this one out.

1735
01:47:42,463 --> 01:47:44,965
Yes, sir.
They, uh...

1736
01:47:45,048 --> 01:47:48,677
Anyway, I had Lou
read your script for me.

1737
01:47:48,760 --> 01:47:51,180
I got to tell you, Fink...

1738
01:47:51,263 --> 01:47:52,890
it won't wash.

1739
01:47:52,973 --> 01:47:54,056
With all due respect,

1740
01:47:54,057 --> 01:47:56,310
I think it's
the best work I've done.

1741
01:47:56,393 --> 01:47:57,685
Don't gas me, Fink.

1742
01:47:57,686 --> 01:48:01,648
If your opinion mattered,
I'd let you run the studio.

1743
01:48:01,732 --> 01:48:04,275
The lunatics aren't going to run
this particular asylum.

1744
01:48:04,276 --> 01:48:07,029
Let's put a stop
to that rumor right now.

1745
01:48:07,154 --> 01:48:09,281
Yes, sir.

1746
01:48:09,323 --> 01:48:10,908
Had to call Beery this morning,

1747
01:48:10,991 --> 01:48:13,660
tell him we were pushing
the picture back.

1748
01:48:13,702 --> 01:48:15,621
After all I told him about quality,

1749
01:48:15,662 --> 01:48:16,955
about that Barton Fink feeling,

1750
01:48:17,039 --> 01:48:18,415
how disappointed we were.

1751
01:48:18,499 --> 01:48:21,418
Wally was heartbroken.
The man was devastated.

1752
01:48:21,502 --> 01:48:23,921
I didn't actually call him.
Lou did.

1753
01:48:24,004 --> 01:48:26,715
That's a fair description,
isn't it, Lou?

1754
01:48:26,799 --> 01:48:27,840
Yes, Colonel.

1755
01:48:27,841 --> 01:48:31,303
I could take you
through it step-by-step,

1756
01:48:31,345 --> 01:48:33,305
explaining why
your story stinks,

1757
01:48:33,347 --> 01:48:35,766
but I won't insult
your intelligence.

1758
01:48:35,849 --> 01:48:36,891
Well, all right.

1759
01:48:36,892 --> 01:48:39,269
First of all,
this is a wrestling picture.

1760
01:48:39,353 --> 01:48:42,606
The audience wants to see action,
adventure, wrestling.

1761
01:48:42,689 --> 01:48:45,984
They don't want to see a guy
wrestling with his soul.

1762
01:48:46,068 --> 01:48:47,611
All right, some for the critics.

1763
01:48:47,694 --> 01:48:50,155
You make it the carrot
that wags the dog.

1764
01:48:50,197 --> 01:48:52,032
Too much,
they head for the exits.

1765
01:48:52,115 --> 01:48:55,035
There's plenty of poetry
inside that ring, Fink.

1766
01:48:55,118 --> 01:48:57,329
Look at Hell 10 Feet Square.

1767
01:48:57,371 --> 01:48:58,664
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.

1768
01:48:58,705 --> 01:48:59,956
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.

1769
01:48:59,957 --> 01:49:02,918
These are big movies,
Fink, about big men.

1770
01:49:03,001 --> 01:49:03,877
In tights!

1771
01:49:03,961 --> 01:49:06,380
Both physically
and mentally...

1772
01:49:06,421 --> 01:49:08,173
especially physically.

1773
01:49:08,215 --> 01:49:10,843
We don't put Wally Beery
in a fruity movie about suffering.

1774
01:49:10,884 --> 01:49:13,762
I thought we were
together on that.

1775
01:49:15,055 --> 01:49:17,391
I'm sorry if I let you down.

1776
01:49:17,474 --> 01:49:19,518
You didn't let me down
or even Lou.

1777
01:49:19,560 --> 01:49:22,354
We don't live or die
by what you scribble.

1778
01:49:22,396 --> 01:49:23,689
You let Ben Geisler down.

1779
01:49:23,730 --> 01:49:25,691
He liked you,
trusted you.

1780
01:49:25,732 --> 01:49:27,734
That's why he's gone.
He's fired.

1781
01:49:27,776 --> 01:49:29,695
That man had a big heart.

1782
01:49:29,736 --> 01:49:31,028
You fucked him.

1783
01:49:31,029 --> 01:49:33,198
He tried to convince me
to fire you, too,

1784
01:49:33,240 --> 01:49:34,700
but that'd be too easy.

1785
01:49:34,741 --> 01:49:36,702
You're under contract.
You'll stay that way.

1786
01:49:36,743 --> 01:49:39,245
Anything you write is
property of Capitol Pictures.

1787
01:49:39,246 --> 01:49:42,207
Capitol Pictures won't produce
anything you write...

1788
01:49:42,249 --> 01:49:44,751
not until you
grow up a little.

1789
01:49:44,835 --> 01:49:47,254
You ain't no writer, Fink.

1790
01:49:47,296 --> 01:49:49,756
You're a goddamn write-off.

1791
01:49:51,467 --> 01:49:54,761
I... I tried to show you...

1792
01:49:54,803 --> 01:49:56,221
something beautiful.

1793
01:49:58,265 --> 01:50:00,267
Something about all of us.

1794
01:50:00,309 --> 01:50:01,393
I...

1795
01:50:01,435 --> 01:50:05,230
You arrogant
son of a bitch.

1796
01:50:05,272 --> 01:50:07,649
You think
you're the only writer

1797
01:50:07,733 --> 01:50:10,194
that can give me
that Barton Fink feeling?

1798
01:50:10,277 --> 01:50:12,779
I got 20 writers
under contract

1799
01:50:12,863 --> 01:50:15,741
I can ask for
a Fink-type thing from!

1800
01:50:15,782 --> 01:50:17,159
You swell-headed hypocrite.

1801
01:50:17,242 --> 01:50:18,494
You don't get it.

1802
01:50:18,577 --> 01:50:19,911
You think the whole world

1803
01:50:19,912 --> 01:50:21,497
revolves around
whatever rattles

1804
01:50:21,580 --> 01:50:24,666
inside that little
kike head of yours.

1805
01:50:24,750 --> 01:50:27,336
Get him out of my sight, Lou!

1806
01:50:27,419 --> 01:50:29,171
I want him in town, though.

1807
01:50:29,254 --> 01:50:30,714
He's still under contract.

1808
01:50:30,798 --> 01:50:34,968
I want you in town
and out of my sight.

1809
01:50:35,010 --> 01:50:37,179
Now, get lost.

1810
01:50:37,262 --> 01:50:38,847
There's a war on.

1811
01:51:37,072 --> 01:51:39,491
It's a beautiful day.

1812
01:51:39,533 --> 01:51:40,659
Huh?

1813
01:51:46,874 --> 01:51:49,835
I said it's a beautiful day.

1814
01:51:49,877 --> 01:51:51,211
Yes.

1815
01:51:51,295 --> 01:51:53,046
It is.

1816
01:51:55,716 --> 01:51:57,676
What's in the box?

1817
01:51:59,595 --> 01:52:01,472
I don't know.

1818
01:52:02,764 --> 01:52:04,558
Isn't it yours?

1819
01:52:09,730 --> 01:52:11,815
I don't know.

1820
01:52:17,738 --> 01:52:19,948
You're very beautiful.

1821
01:52:24,745 --> 01:52:26,830
Are you in pictures?

1822
01:52:28,081 --> 01:52:30,000
Don't be silly.

1823
01:52:52,700 --> 01:52:55,703
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