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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.

48
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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?

151
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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?

183
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Let me at him.

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Let me put my arms
around this guy.

185
00:13:35,876 --> 00:13:37,756
Let me hug this guy.

186
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How the hell are ya?

187
00:13:39,757 --> 00:13:40,757
Good trip?

188
00:13:40,837 --> 00:13:42,238
My name's Jack Lipnick.

189
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You know that.
You read the papers.

190
00:13:44,158 --> 00:13:45,799
Lou treating you all right?

191
00:13:45,878 --> 00:13:47,999
What's the matter
with your face?

192
00:13:48,079 --> 00:13:50,320
What's the matter
with his face, Lou?

193
00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:51,720
It's not so bad.

194
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A mosquito in my room.

195
00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,039
Where'd we put him?

196
00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,361
I'm at the Earle.

197
00:13:56,441 --> 00:13:58,762
Never heard of it.
Let's move him.

198
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Stay at my place.

199
00:14:00,122 --> 00:14:01,642
I wanted a place a little less...

200
00:14:01,723 --> 00:14:04,123
Less Hollywood. Say it.
It's not a dirty word.

201
00:14:04,204 --> 00:14:06,163
Say whatever you want.

202
00:14:06,244 --> 00:14:08,684
The writer is king
at Capitol Pictures.

203
00:14:08,764 --> 00:14:09,965
Look at your paycheck.

204
00:14:10,045 --> 00:14:12,045
That's what
we think of writers.

205
00:14:12,125 --> 00:14:14,926
So, what kind of pictures
does he like?

206
00:14:15,006 --> 00:14:17,527
Mr. Fink hasn't given
a preference, Mr. Lipnick.

207
00:14:17,607 --> 00:14:19,607
So, how about it, Bart?

208
00:14:19,688 --> 00:14:21,528
Well, uh, to be honest,

209
00:14:21,608 --> 00:14:24,209
I don't go to the pictures much.

210
00:14:24,288 --> 00:14:25,328
That's okay.

211
00:14:25,329 --> 00:14:26,970
You probably
walked in here

212
00:14:27,049 --> 00:14:29,490
thinking that was going
to be a handicap,

213
00:14:29,570 --> 00:14:32,370
thinking we wanted people
who knew something about the medium,

214
00:14:32,451 --> 00:14:34,890
thinking there's technical
mumbo jumbo to learn.

215
00:14:34,891 --> 00:14:36,372
You were dead wrong.

216
00:14:36,452 --> 00:14:39,533
There's only one thing...
Can you tell a story?

217
00:14:39,573 --> 00:14:41,733
Can you make us laugh,
make us cry,

218
00:14:41,813 --> 00:14:44,254
make us want
to break out in song?

219
00:14:44,334 --> 00:14:45,654
That more than one thing?

220
00:14:45,734 --> 00:14:48,615
I run this dump, and I don't know
technical mumbo jumbo.

221
00:14:48,735 --> 00:14:50,215
Why do I run it?

222
00:14:50,296 --> 00:14:52,656
'Cause I got horse sense, showmanship!

223
00:14:52,696 --> 00:14:55,377
And also I'm bigger
and meaner and louder

224
00:14:55,417 --> 00:14:57,698
than any other kike
in this town.

225
00:14:57,777 --> 00:15:00,138
I don't mean my dick's
bigger than yours.

226
00:15:00,218 --> 00:15:02,538
It's not a sexual thing.
Coffee?

227
00:15:05,019 --> 00:15:06,420
Yes, thank you.

228
00:15:06,500 --> 00:15:07,420
Lou!

229
00:15:14,622 --> 00:15:17,423
Used to have shares
in the company,

230
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ownership interest,

231
00:15:18,583 --> 00:15:21,063
got bought out...
muscled out.

232
00:15:21,144 --> 00:15:23,944
We keep him around.
He's got a family.

233
00:15:24,025 --> 00:15:25,304
Poor schmuck.
He's sensitive.

234
00:15:25,345 --> 00:15:27,585
Don't mention the old days.
Hell, say whatever you want.

235
00:15:27,586 --> 00:15:28,986
Look, barring a preference,

236
00:15:29,025 --> 00:15:31,867
you'll be working on
a wrestling picture... Wallace Beery.

237
00:15:31,906 --> 00:15:34,748
They say you know
the poetry of the street.

238
00:15:34,827 --> 00:15:36,588
That rules out
westerns, pirates,

239
00:15:36,668 --> 00:15:38,428
screwball, Bible, Roman...

240
00:15:38,508 --> 00:15:40,909
I'm not some guy
that thinks poetic is fruity.

241
00:15:40,989 --> 00:15:42,349
We're together on that.

242
00:15:42,430 --> 00:15:44,270
I'm from New York myself.

243
00:15:44,350 --> 00:15:47,191
Minsk... if you want
to go all the way back,

244
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which we won't
if you don't mind.

245
00:15:49,832 --> 00:15:51,472
People will say to you...

246
00:15:51,552 --> 00:15:54,073
Wallace Beery, wrestling...
it's a B picture.

247
00:15:54,113 --> 00:15:55,473
You tell them... bullshit!

248
00:15:55,553 --> 00:15:58,594
We don't make B pictures
here at Capitol.

249
00:15:58,634 --> 00:16:01,834
Let's put a stop
to that rumor right now.

250
00:16:05,476 --> 00:16:06,595
Thanks, Lou.

251
00:16:06,596 --> 00:16:07,996
Join us.
Join us.

252
00:16:08,076 --> 00:16:10,717
We're talking about
the Wally Beery picture.

253
00:16:10,757 --> 00:16:12,358
Excellent picture.

254
00:16:12,397 --> 00:16:14,598
Got a treatment on it yet?

255
00:16:14,678 --> 00:16:16,278
We just bought the story.

256
00:16:16,358 --> 00:16:17,759
Saturday Evening Post.

257
00:16:17,799 --> 00:16:19,159
The hell with the story.

258
00:16:19,239 --> 00:16:20,440
Wally Beery's a wrestler.

259
00:16:20,519 --> 00:16:22,720
Give me his hopes, his dreams.

260
00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,561
Naturally he gets mixed up
with a bad element

261
00:16:25,641 --> 00:16:28,362
and a romantic interest
or else an orphan.

262
00:16:28,441 --> 00:16:31,963
Lou, think Wally's too old
for a romantic interest?

263
00:16:34,883 --> 00:16:36,123
Look at me.

264
00:16:36,204 --> 00:16:38,084
A writer in the room,

265
00:16:38,124 --> 00:16:40,725
and I'm asking Lou
about the goddamn story.

266
00:16:40,805 --> 00:16:42,126
Which is it, Bart?

267
00:16:42,205 --> 00:16:44,566
Orphan?
Dame?

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00:16:47,646 --> 00:16:49,047
Both maybe?

269
00:16:52,928 --> 00:16:55,369
Maybe we should do a treatment.

270
00:16:55,448 --> 00:16:57,969
Hell!
Let Bart take a crack at it.

271
00:16:58,050 --> 00:17:00,410
He'll get into the swing of things

272
00:17:00,490 --> 00:17:02,291
or I don't know writers.

273
00:17:02,371 --> 00:17:04,851
Let's make it a dame.
Keep it simple.

274
00:17:04,931 --> 00:17:06,291
The important thing

275
00:17:06,372 --> 00:17:09,172
is we all want it to have
that Barton Fink feeling.

276
00:17:09,253 --> 00:17:10,973
We all have that feeling,

277
00:17:11,053 --> 00:17:12,733
but since you're Barton Fink,

278
00:17:12,814 --> 00:17:14,934
I'm assuming you have it in spades.

279
00:17:15,014 --> 00:17:16,254
I like you.

280
00:17:16,255 --> 00:17:18,295
If all my writers
were like you,

281
00:17:18,375 --> 00:17:20,215
I wouldn't have
to get involved.

282
00:17:20,295 --> 00:17:23,096
Have something
by the end of the week.

283
00:17:25,657 --> 00:17:28,297
I heard about your show,
by the way.

284
00:17:28,377 --> 00:17:31,058
My man in New York saw it.

285
00:17:31,099 --> 00:17:33,539
Says it's damn moving,
a little fruity,

286
00:17:33,619 --> 00:17:35,900
but I guess you know
what you're doing.

287
00:17:35,980 --> 00:17:37,340
Thanks for your heart.

288
00:17:37,380 --> 00:17:39,701
We need more heart
in motion pictures.

289
00:17:39,741 --> 00:17:41,661
We're all expecting great things.

290
00:19:56,697 --> 00:19:58,097
Front desk.

291
00:19:58,178 --> 00:19:59,977
Hello? Uh, Chet?

292
00:20:00,058 --> 00:20:01,098
Speaking.

293
00:20:01,178 --> 00:20:03,939
This is Barton Fink in room 621.

294
00:20:04,019 --> 00:20:08,140
Yes. There's, uh, someone in the room
next door to mine...

295
00:20:08,220 --> 00:20:09,261
623...

296
00:20:09,340 --> 00:20:11,981
and he's, uh...

297
00:20:12,061 --> 00:20:13,262
he's, uh...

298
00:20:14,782 --> 00:20:18,743
making a lot of... noise.

299
00:20:18,823 --> 00:20:21,464
I'll take care of it
right away, sir.

300
00:20:21,543 --> 00:20:22,704
Thank you.

301
00:20:32,666 --> 00:20:35,107
Hello.

302
00:20:35,187 --> 00:20:36,907
What?

303
00:20:36,988 --> 00:20:38,948
Huh?

304
00:20:39,028 --> 00:20:41,229
Who?

305
00:21:12,997 --> 00:21:14,718
Did you...

306
00:21:17,358 --> 00:21:19,359
Somebody just complained.

307
00:21:19,439 --> 00:21:20,719
No. I didn't.

308
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,120
I mean, I did call down,

309
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,399
not to complain exactly.

310
00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,401
I was concerned that you might...

311
00:21:26,481 --> 00:21:28,201
not that it's my business...

312
00:21:28,282 --> 00:21:30,562
might be in some kind of... distress.

313
00:21:30,642 --> 00:21:33,763
See, I was trying to work,
and it's...

314
00:21:33,843 --> 00:21:35,964
Well, it was... difficult.

315
00:21:40,405 --> 00:21:41,485
Yeah.

316
00:21:41,565 --> 00:21:44,046
I'm damned sorry
if I bothered you.

317
00:21:44,125 --> 00:21:45,486
The damn walls here...

318
00:21:45,566 --> 00:21:47,406
I just apologize like hell.

319
00:21:47,487 --> 00:21:48,847
My name's Charlie Meadows.

320
00:21:48,927 --> 00:21:50,647
I guess we're neighbors.

321
00:21:50,688 --> 00:21:51,806
Barton Fink.

322
00:21:51,807 --> 00:21:53,168
Neighbor, I'd feel better

323
00:21:53,248 --> 00:21:54,608
about the damned inconvenience

324
00:21:54,688 --> 00:21:57,089
if you let me buy you a drink.

325
00:21:58,969 --> 00:22:00,490
That's all right.
Really.

326
00:22:00,570 --> 00:22:01,931
Thank you.

327
00:22:02,010 --> 00:22:03,330
All right, hell.

328
00:22:03,411 --> 00:22:04,771
You trying to work,

329
00:22:04,851 --> 00:22:06,651
me carrying on in there.

330
00:22:06,692 --> 00:22:08,372
The liquor's good.
What do you say?

331
00:22:08,452 --> 00:22:09,772
You got a glass?

332
00:22:09,853 --> 00:22:12,533
It's the least I can do.

333
00:22:12,613 --> 00:22:14,894
Okay, a quick one.

334
00:22:14,974 --> 00:22:16,774
Sure.

335
00:22:16,854 --> 00:22:18,615
Yeah, just a nip.

336
00:22:19,776 --> 00:22:22,056
I sure do forget myself sometimes.

337
00:22:22,135 --> 00:22:24,937
I feel like a heel...

338
00:22:24,977 --> 00:22:26,817
All the carryings-on next door.

339
00:22:26,937 --> 00:22:28,617
That's okay, I assure you.

340
00:22:28,658 --> 00:22:31,378
It's just I was trying to work.

341
00:22:31,458 --> 00:22:35,179
What kind of work do you do, Barton,
if you don't mind my asking?

342
00:22:35,260 --> 00:22:37,020
Well, I'm a writer, actually.

343
00:22:37,099 --> 00:22:39,501
You don't say?
That's a tough racket.

344
00:22:39,580 --> 00:22:41,340
My hat's off to you.

345
00:22:41,421 --> 00:22:43,421
Damned interesting work, I'd imagine.

346
00:22:43,502 --> 00:22:45,062
It's not easy, but...

347
00:22:45,102 --> 00:22:47,022
Damn difficult, I'd imagine.

348
00:22:47,063 --> 00:22:49,423
And what's your line, Mr. Meadows?

349
00:22:49,463 --> 00:22:50,983
Hell, no, call me Charlie.

350
00:22:51,064 --> 00:22:52,263
Well, Barton...

351
00:22:52,264 --> 00:22:55,064
you might say I sell peace of mind.

352
00:22:55,145 --> 00:22:56,825
Insurance is my game.
Door-to-door.

353
00:22:56,905 --> 00:23:00,146
Human contact's the only way
to move merchandise.

354
00:23:00,186 --> 00:23:02,866
In spite of what you might think,
I'm pretty good at it.

355
00:23:02,947 --> 00:23:04,387
It doesn't surprise me.

356
00:23:04,467 --> 00:23:05,747
I believe in it.

357
00:23:05,787 --> 00:23:07,908
Fire, theft, and casualty aren't things

358
00:23:07,988 --> 00:23:10,109
that only happen to other people.

359
00:23:10,188 --> 00:23:11,589
Writing doesn't work out,

360
00:23:11,669 --> 00:23:13,950
you may want to look into it.

361
00:23:14,029 --> 00:23:16,270
Providing basic needs...
you could do worse.

362
00:23:16,310 --> 00:23:18,230
I'll keep that in mind.

363
00:23:18,311 --> 00:23:20,471
What kind of scribbler are you?

364
00:23:20,552 --> 00:23:22,351
Newspaperman did you say?

365
00:23:22,392 --> 00:23:25,112
No. Actually, I'm writing
for the pictures now.

366
00:23:25,193 --> 00:23:26,393
Pictures?

367
00:23:26,472 --> 00:23:27,873
Jesus!

368
00:23:30,394 --> 00:23:31,795
Aw, I'm sorry, brother.

369
00:23:31,834 --> 00:23:34,035
I was just sitting here thinking

370
00:23:34,075 --> 00:23:37,396
I was talking to some ambitious
youngster eager to make good.

371
00:23:37,476 --> 00:23:39,276
Hell, you've got it made.

372
00:23:39,357 --> 00:23:41,317
Beating out that competition?

373
00:23:41,397 --> 00:23:43,797
And me being patronizing?

374
00:23:45,678 --> 00:23:47,839
Is the egg showing or what?

375
00:23:47,918 --> 00:23:50,559
Actually, I'm just starting out
in the movies,

376
00:23:50,639 --> 00:23:53,440
though I was well established
in New York,

377
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,160
some renown there.

378
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,521
Oh, it's an exciting time, then.

379
00:23:57,602 --> 00:24:00,042
I'm not the best-read mug on the planet,

380
00:24:00,122 --> 00:24:03,283
so it's not surprising
I didn't recognize your name.

381
00:24:03,363 --> 00:24:05,684
Jesus, I feel like a heel.

382
00:24:05,763 --> 00:24:08,484
That's okay, Charlie.
I'm a playwright.

383
00:24:08,524 --> 00:24:10,804
My shows have only played New York.

384
00:24:10,885 --> 00:24:13,205
The last one got
a hell of a write-up.

385
00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:15,166
Must be why they wanted me.

386
00:24:15,206 --> 00:24:17,006
Why not?
Everyone wants quality.

387
00:24:17,087 --> 00:24:21,288
What kind of venue...
that is to say,

388
00:24:21,367 --> 00:24:22,727
thematically,

389
00:24:22,808 --> 00:24:24,528
um...

390
00:24:24,609 --> 00:24:26,409
What do I write about?

391
00:24:27,809 --> 00:24:30,129
Caught me trying to be fancy.

392
00:24:30,210 --> 00:24:31,611
Yeah, that's it, Bart.

393
00:24:31,690 --> 00:24:33,450
Well, that's a good question.

394
00:24:33,531 --> 00:24:35,852
Strange as it may seem, Charlie,

395
00:24:35,931 --> 00:24:38,332
I write about people like you...

396
00:24:38,412 --> 00:24:40,493
the working stiff,
the common man.

397
00:24:40,572 --> 00:24:42,773
Well, ain't that
a kick in the head.

398
00:24:42,853 --> 00:24:45,493
I guess it is, but in a way,

399
00:24:45,574 --> 00:24:46,894
that's exactly the point.

400
00:24:46,975 --> 00:24:49,455
There's a few people in New York...

401
00:24:49,535 --> 00:24:51,175
hopefully our numbers are growing...

402
00:24:51,216 --> 00:24:53,336
who feel we have an opportunity

403
00:24:53,416 --> 00:24:56,697
to forge something real
out of everyday experience,

404
00:24:56,777 --> 00:24:59,097
create a theater for the masses

405
00:24:59,178 --> 00:25:01,338
based on a few simple truths,

406
00:25:01,418 --> 00:25:03,898
not on some shopworn abstractions
about drama

407
00:25:03,979 --> 00:25:06,259
that don't hold true today.

408
00:25:06,340 --> 00:25:08,941
I don't guess this means much to you.

409
00:25:08,980 --> 00:25:11,180
Hell, I could tell you stories.

410
00:25:11,221 --> 00:25:13,941
And that's the point...
we all have stories.

411
00:25:14,022 --> 00:25:17,303
The hopes and dreams
of the common man

412
00:25:17,342 --> 00:25:19,983
are as noble as those of any king.

413
00:25:20,023 --> 00:25:21,424
The stuff of life...

414
00:25:21,463 --> 00:25:23,984
Why shouldn't it be
the stuff of theater?

415
00:25:24,024 --> 00:25:26,865
Why should that be
such a hard pill to swallow?

416
00:25:26,905 --> 00:25:29,106
Don't call it new theater, Charlie.

417
00:25:29,145 --> 00:25:30,546
Call it real theater.

418
00:25:30,586 --> 00:25:32,387
Call it our theater!

419
00:25:32,466 --> 00:25:35,707
I can see you feel
pretty strongly about it.

420
00:25:35,787 --> 00:25:38,588
I don't mean to get up
on my high horse,

421
00:25:38,668 --> 00:25:41,468
but why shouldn't we
look at ourselves up there?

422
00:25:41,549 --> 00:25:43,989
Who cares about
the fifth Earl of Bastrop

423
00:25:44,030 --> 00:25:45,470
and Lady Higginbottom

424
00:25:45,510 --> 00:25:46,870
and...

425
00:25:46,910 --> 00:25:49,351
and who killed Nigel Grinch-Gibbons?

426
00:25:49,430 --> 00:25:51,271
My butt's getting sore already.

427
00:25:51,351 --> 00:25:53,592
Exactly.
You understand what I'm saying

428
00:25:53,632 --> 00:25:56,152
a lot more than some
of these literary types

429
00:25:56,193 --> 00:25:57,753
because you're a real man.

430
00:25:57,793 --> 00:26:00,474
I could tell you some stories...

431
00:26:00,514 --> 00:26:01,874
Sure, you could,

432
00:26:01,954 --> 00:26:04,635
yet many writers insulate themselves
from the common man,

433
00:26:04,675 --> 00:26:06,676
from where they live,

434
00:26:06,755 --> 00:26:08,996
from where they trade
and fight and love

435
00:26:09,037 --> 00:26:10,436
and converse and...

436
00:26:10,476 --> 00:26:11,837
and...

437
00:26:13,197 --> 00:26:15,078
So, naturally, their work suffers

438
00:26:15,118 --> 00:26:17,438
and regresses into
empty formalism and...

439
00:26:17,478 --> 00:26:19,359
Well, I'm spouting off again,

440
00:26:19,399 --> 00:26:21,839
but to put it in your language...

441
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,121
the theater becomes
as phony as a $3 bill.

442
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,200
That's a tragedy right there.

443
00:26:26,281 --> 00:26:29,761
You're all right, Charlie.

444
00:26:29,801 --> 00:26:32,363
I'm glad you stopped by.

445
00:26:32,442 --> 00:26:34,243
I know sometimes I run on.

446
00:26:34,283 --> 00:26:37,404
Well, Christ, if there's
any way I can contribute

447
00:26:37,483 --> 00:26:38,723
or help or whatever...

448
00:26:38,724 --> 00:26:40,924
You can help by just being yourself.

449
00:26:41,005 --> 00:26:43,846
Well, I can tell you some stories.

450
00:26:43,886 --> 00:26:44,965
Now, look...

451
00:26:44,966 --> 00:26:46,846
I'm sorry about
the interruption.

452
00:26:46,926 --> 00:26:49,246
Too much revelry late at night,

453
00:26:49,327 --> 00:26:52,248
you forget there's other people
in the world.

454
00:28:29,193 --> 00:28:31,354
I'll be eating on the lot today.

455
00:28:31,434 --> 00:28:32,394
Who's this?

456
00:28:32,395 --> 00:28:33,715
Barton Fink, Mr. Geezler.

457
00:28:33,794 --> 00:28:34,635
Geisler.

458
00:28:34,715 --> 00:28:36,155
I'm a writer, Mr. Geisler.

459
00:28:36,236 --> 00:28:37,756
Ted Okum said to drop by.

460
00:28:37,836 --> 00:28:38,756
Ever act?

461
00:28:38,836 --> 00:28:40,076
Huh? No. I'm a...

462
00:28:40,077 --> 00:28:42,436
We need Indians
for a Norman Steele western.

463
00:28:42,477 --> 00:28:43,596
I'm a writer.

464
00:28:43,597 --> 00:28:46,158
Writers come and go.
We always need Indians.

465
00:28:46,238 --> 00:28:47,517
I'm a writer.

466
00:28:47,518 --> 00:28:50,319
Ted Okum said you're producing
this Wallace Beery picture.

467
00:28:50,359 --> 00:28:51,679
Ted Okum doesn't know shit.

468
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,159
They've assigned me
enough pictures for a year.

469
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,601
What Ted Okum doesn't know

470
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,000
you could almost squeeze
into the Hollywood Bowl.

471
00:28:58,001 --> 00:28:59,562
Who should I talk to?

472
00:29:02,043 --> 00:29:03,883
Get me Lou Breeze.

473
00:29:05,563 --> 00:29:06,683
Mr. Breeze's office.

474
00:29:06,684 --> 00:29:08,404
Is he in for Mr. Geezler?

475
00:29:08,444 --> 00:29:09,484
Geisler.

476
00:29:09,524 --> 00:29:12,325
Lou! How's Lipnick's ass
smell this morning?

477
00:29:12,405 --> 00:29:14,445
Yeah? Yeah?

478
00:29:14,486 --> 00:29:15,765
Yeah. All right.
Listen.

479
00:29:15,766 --> 00:29:18,126
I got a writer here...
Fink... all screwy.

480
00:29:18,166 --> 00:29:20,567
Says I'm producing
that Wallace Beery wrestling picture.

481
00:29:20,568 --> 00:29:22,127
What am I, the goddamn janitor?

482
00:29:22,168 --> 00:29:24,528
Yeah?
Who'd you get that from?

483
00:29:24,568 --> 00:29:27,089
Well, tell Lipnick
he can kiss my dimpled ass.

484
00:29:27,168 --> 00:29:28,689
No, no. All right. Shit.

485
00:29:28,769 --> 00:29:30,450
All right. No.
All right.

486
00:29:32,250 --> 00:29:33,931
Okay, Fink.

487
00:29:34,011 --> 00:29:35,291
Let's chow.

488
00:29:41,213 --> 00:29:42,453
Don't worry about it.

489
00:29:42,493 --> 00:29:43,894
It's just a B picture.

490
00:29:43,933 --> 00:29:45,734
I bring it in on budget,

491
00:29:45,814 --> 00:29:47,614
they book it without screening it.

492
00:29:47,694 --> 00:29:50,215
Lipnick said he wanted
to look at the script

493
00:29:50,295 --> 00:29:51,976
by the end of the week.

494
00:29:52,055 --> 00:29:53,335
Sure, he did.

495
00:29:53,336 --> 00:29:55,575
He forgot about it
before your ass left his sofa.

496
00:29:55,576 --> 00:29:56,736
He forgot about it
before your ass left his sofa.

497
00:29:56,737 --> 00:29:57,897
Okay.

498
00:30:00,418 --> 00:30:02,659
I'm just having trouble
getting started.

499
00:30:02,698 --> 00:30:04,218
It's funny.
I'm blocked up.

500
00:30:04,299 --> 00:30:05,539
I just feel

501
00:30:05,619 --> 00:30:07,779
like I need
some kind of indication

502
00:30:07,820 --> 00:30:09,220
of what's expected.

503
00:30:10,621 --> 00:30:11,860
Wallace Beery.
Wrestling picture.

504
00:30:11,861 --> 00:30:13,821
What do you need, a road map?

505
00:30:13,901 --> 00:30:15,382
Look,

506
00:30:15,461 --> 00:30:16,662
you're confused.

507
00:30:16,742 --> 00:30:18,222
You need guidance?

508
00:30:20,063 --> 00:30:21,344
Talk to another writer.

509
00:30:21,383 --> 00:30:22,743
Who?

510
00:30:22,824 --> 00:30:23,984
Oh, Jesus.

511
00:30:24,064 --> 00:30:27,105
You throw a rock in here,
you'll hit one.

512
00:30:27,145 --> 00:30:29,465
Do me a favor, Fink...

513
00:30:29,546 --> 00:30:30,986
Throw it hard.

514
00:31:45,246 --> 00:31:48,447
Bill Mayhew.
Sorry about the odor.

515
00:31:48,486 --> 00:31:50,167
Barton Fink.

516
00:31:55,049 --> 00:31:57,089
Jesus. W.P.?

517
00:31:58,009 --> 00:31:59,248
I beg your pardon?

518
00:31:59,249 --> 00:32:01,249
W.P. Mayhew?
The writer?

519
00:32:01,330 --> 00:32:03,691
Just Bill, please.

520
00:32:03,771 --> 00:32:05,771
Bill!

521
00:32:05,851 --> 00:32:07,971
You're the finest novelist
of our time.

522
00:32:08,012 --> 00:32:09,772
Why, thank you, son.
How kind.

523
00:32:09,852 --> 00:32:10,892
My God.

524
00:32:10,973 --> 00:32:14,494
I had no idea
you were in Hollywood.

525
00:32:14,534 --> 00:32:16,374
All of us undomesticated writers

526
00:32:16,454 --> 00:32:18,294
eventually make our way out here

527
00:32:18,375 --> 00:32:20,215
to the great salt lick.

528
00:32:20,295 --> 00:32:21,656
That's probably why

529
00:32:21,735 --> 00:32:24,536
I always have
such a powerful thirst.

530
00:32:24,616 --> 00:32:26,937
A little social lubricant, Mr. Fink?

531
00:32:27,017 --> 00:32:28,897
No. It's a little early for me.

532
00:32:34,219 --> 00:32:35,659
Bill...

533
00:32:35,699 --> 00:32:38,860
if I'm imposing,
you should say so.

534
00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:40,461
I know you're very busy.

535
00:32:40,540 --> 00:32:44,261
I just wanted to ask...
you a favor.

536
00:32:44,302 --> 00:32:48,102
Have you ever written
a wrestling picture?

537
00:32:51,023 --> 00:32:53,263
You are drippin', sir.

538
00:32:54,384 --> 00:32:56,824
They have not invented
a genre of picture

539
00:32:56,905 --> 00:33:00,145
that Bill Mayhew has not
at one time or other

540
00:33:00,186 --> 00:33:01,425
been invited to assay.

541
00:33:01,426 --> 00:33:03,986
Yes, I've taken my stab
at the wrestling form,

542
00:33:04,067 --> 00:33:06,388
as I have stabbed
at so many others.

543
00:33:06,427 --> 00:33:07,667
Well, how do you...

544
00:33:07,748 --> 00:33:09,548
I gather you're a freshman here,

545
00:33:09,588 --> 00:33:11,348
eager for an upperclassman's counsel.

546
00:33:11,388 --> 00:33:12,909
However, just at the moment

547
00:33:12,949 --> 00:33:14,350
I have drinking to do.

548
00:33:14,389 --> 00:33:17,030
Why don't you stop
by my bungalow, number 15,

549
00:33:17,110 --> 00:33:18,349
later on this afternoon?

550
00:33:18,350 --> 00:33:20,031
We will discuss wrestling scenarios

551
00:33:20,111 --> 00:33:22,111
and other things literary.

552
00:33:24,152 --> 00:33:25,031
Sons of bitches!

553
00:33:25,032 --> 00:33:26,592
Sons of bitches!

554
00:33:27,513 --> 00:33:29,353
Where's honey?

555
00:33:29,434 --> 00:33:30,754
Huh?

556
00:33:33,915 --> 00:33:35,755
Honey!

557
00:33:35,835 --> 00:33:37,356
Where's my honey?

558
00:33:37,435 --> 00:33:40,596
The water's lapping up on me, honey!

559
00:33:40,636 --> 00:33:41,997
Honey, just stop it.

560
00:33:45,598 --> 00:33:48,118
I can't.
I'm trying to help you.

561
00:33:48,158 --> 00:33:49,839
Ohh!

562
00:33:49,918 --> 00:33:51,479
Can I help you?

563
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,719
I'm sorry. I...

564
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,120
Where are you, damn it?

565
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,520
My name is Fink.

566
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,961
Bill asked me to drop by
this afternoon.

567
00:33:58,041 --> 00:33:59,321
Is he, uh...

568
00:33:59,321 --> 00:34:00,162
Honey!

569
00:34:00,241 --> 00:34:01,161
In?

570
00:34:01,242 --> 00:34:02,802
Oooh!

571
00:34:02,882 --> 00:34:05,002
Mr. Mayhew is indisposed
at the moment.

572
00:34:05,083 --> 00:34:06,643
Where's my honey?

573
00:34:06,723 --> 00:34:07,882
Is he, uh...

574
00:34:07,883 --> 00:34:08,764
Honey!

575
00:34:08,804 --> 00:34:10,204
Is he okay?

576
00:34:10,244 --> 00:34:11,925
He'll be fine.

577
00:34:14,085 --> 00:34:15,926
Mr. Fink, I'm Audrey Taylor,

578
00:34:16,006 --> 00:34:17,686
Mr. Mayhew's personal secretary.

579
00:34:17,766 --> 00:34:18,967
Where's my honey?

580
00:34:19,046 --> 00:34:22,368
I know this all must sound horrid.

581
00:34:22,408 --> 00:34:23,768
I really do apologize.

582
00:34:23,848 --> 00:34:26,128
Where are you, damn it?

583
00:34:27,049 --> 00:34:29,369
When he can't write, he drinks.

584
00:34:29,449 --> 00:34:31,490
It's so embarrassing.

585
00:34:31,530 --> 00:34:34,770
How about you?
Will you be all right?

586
00:34:35,811 --> 00:34:37,492
I'll be fine.

587
00:34:38,532 --> 00:34:40,412
Are you a writer, Mr. Fink?

588
00:34:40,493 --> 00:34:42,293
Yes. I'm working on a wrestling...

589
00:34:42,373 --> 00:34:43,893
Please call me Barton.

590
00:34:44,813 --> 00:34:46,654
I'll tell Bill you dropped by.

591
00:34:46,734 --> 00:34:49,134
I'm sure he'll want to reschedule
your appointment.

592
00:34:49,135 --> 00:34:52,856
Perhaps you and I can get together
at some point also.

593
00:34:52,936 --> 00:34:54,616
Sorry if that sounds abrupt.

594
00:34:54,696 --> 00:34:55,896
I just...

595
00:34:55,976 --> 00:34:59,217
I... I don't know anyone here in town.

596
00:35:01,218 --> 00:35:03,819
Perhaps the three of us, Mr. Fink.

597
00:35:03,858 --> 00:35:05,859
Please. Barton.

598
00:35:05,939 --> 00:35:07,820
Barton.

599
00:35:07,859 --> 00:35:10,660
You see, Barton,

600
00:35:10,740 --> 00:35:12,900
I'm not just Bill's secretary.

601
00:35:12,981 --> 00:35:14,981
Bill and I are...

602
00:35:16,662 --> 00:35:18,262
in love.

603
00:35:20,023 --> 00:35:21,903
Where's my honey?

604
00:35:21,944 --> 00:35:24,264
Look, I know this must look...

605
00:35:25,785 --> 00:35:27,425
Funny.

606
00:35:27,505 --> 00:35:28,905
Bastard-ass sons of bitches!

607
00:35:28,985 --> 00:35:30,465
I'm sorry.

608
00:35:30,546 --> 00:35:32,866
Please don't judge us, Mr. Fink.

609
00:35:32,946 --> 00:35:34,306
Where's that woman?

610
00:35:34,387 --> 00:35:36,227
Bastard-ass sons of bitches!

611
00:35:36,307 --> 00:35:38,668
The water's lapping up!

612
00:35:38,748 --> 00:35:40,589
Oh, honey!

613
00:36:09,316 --> 00:36:11,477
Oh...

614
00:36:11,556 --> 00:36:12,917
Oh...

615
00:36:15,077 --> 00:36:16,918
Oh...

616
00:36:16,998 --> 00:36:18,678
Oh...

617
00:36:21,479 --> 00:36:23,839
Ah...

618
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,080
Oh...

619
00:36:30,362 --> 00:36:31,401
Oh...

620
00:36:32,682 --> 00:36:34,363
Oh...

621
00:36:49,126 --> 00:36:50,407
Ah...

622
00:37:06,491 --> 00:37:07,771
Howdy, neighbor.

623
00:37:07,852 --> 00:37:10,172
Charlie. How are you?

624
00:37:10,252 --> 00:37:13,533
Oh, Jesus, I hope
I'm not interrupting you again.

625
00:37:13,613 --> 00:37:15,814
Heard you walking around in here.

626
00:37:15,894 --> 00:37:17,214
Figured I'd drop by.

627
00:37:17,294 --> 00:37:19,615
Yeah. Come on in.
Have a seat.

628
00:37:19,694 --> 00:37:22,175
I haven't really gotten started yet.

629
00:37:22,256 --> 00:37:24,215
What happened to your ear?

630
00:37:24,296 --> 00:37:26,016
Oh, yeah.
An ear infection.

631
00:37:26,097 --> 00:37:27,176
Chronic thing.

632
00:37:27,177 --> 00:37:29,818
Goes away for a while,
then it comes back.

633
00:37:29,897 --> 00:37:32,818
I got cotton in it
to staunch the pus.

634
00:37:32,938 --> 00:37:34,137
Don't worry.
It's not contagious.

635
00:37:34,138 --> 00:37:35,539
You seen a doctor?

636
00:37:35,579 --> 00:37:37,139
What's he going to tell me?

637
00:37:37,179 --> 00:37:39,700
Can't trade my head
for a new one.

638
00:37:39,780 --> 00:37:42,381
I guess you're stuck
with the one you got.

639
00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:44,261
I'd invite you to my place,

640
00:37:44,341 --> 00:37:45,942
but it's a goddamn mess.

641
00:37:45,982 --> 00:37:47,542
You married, Bart?

642
00:37:48,382 --> 00:37:49,462
No.

643
00:37:49,502 --> 00:37:52,023
I myself have yet
to be lassoed.

644
00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:53,983
Hey, Bart.

645
00:37:54,064 --> 00:37:57,785
Ouch.

646
00:38:01,506 --> 00:38:02,986
Got a sweetheart?

647
00:38:03,866 --> 00:38:05,027
No.

648
00:38:06,107 --> 00:38:08,308
I guess it's something
about my work.

649
00:38:08,387 --> 00:38:10,508
I get so worked up over it.

650
00:38:10,588 --> 00:38:12,788
I don't have much attention left over,

651
00:38:12,869 --> 00:38:15,630
so it would be a little... unfair.

652
00:38:15,709 --> 00:38:18,030
Yeah. Ladies do ask for attention.

653
00:38:18,111 --> 00:38:20,470
In my experience,
they pretend to give it,

654
00:38:20,551 --> 00:38:21,871
but it's generally a smoke screen

655
00:38:21,952 --> 00:38:23,791
for demanding it back with interest.

656
00:38:23,872 --> 00:38:25,151
How about family, Bart?

657
00:38:25,152 --> 00:38:27,352
How you fixed in that department?

658
00:38:27,433 --> 00:38:29,473
My folks live in Brooklyn
with my uncle.

659
00:38:29,553 --> 00:38:31,713
Mine have passed on.

660
00:38:31,754 --> 00:38:33,154
It's just us three now.

661
00:38:33,195 --> 00:38:34,594
What's that expression?

662
00:38:35,475 --> 00:38:36,995
Me, myself, and I.

663
00:38:37,036 --> 00:38:38,116
Sure.

664
00:38:38,195 --> 00:38:40,076
That's tough.

665
00:38:40,116 --> 00:38:41,797
But in a sense,

666
00:38:41,837 --> 00:38:45,037
we're all alone in the world,
aren't we, Charlie?

667
00:38:45,077 --> 00:38:47,918
I'm often surrounded
by family and friends,

668
00:38:47,998 --> 00:38:49,359
but...

669
00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:55,080
You're no stranger
to loneliness, then.

670
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,000
I guess I got no beef,

671
00:38:57,041 --> 00:38:58,881
especially where the dames
are concerned.

672
00:38:58,961 --> 00:39:01,802
In my line of work,
I got opportunities galore.

673
00:39:01,842 --> 00:39:04,642
I could tell you stories
to curl your hair,

674
00:39:04,723 --> 00:39:07,084
but it looks like you've
already heard them.

675
00:39:07,123 --> 00:39:09,443
That's me in Kansas City
plying my trade.

676
00:39:09,524 --> 00:39:12,364
That was taken by
one of my policyholders.

677
00:39:12,405 --> 00:39:14,804
They're more than just customers
to me, Barton.

678
00:39:14,805 --> 00:39:16,686
They appreciate
what I have to offer.

679
00:39:16,725 --> 00:39:18,607
Her hubby was out of town,

680
00:39:18,646 --> 00:39:20,807
and they were carrying
fire and life.

681
00:39:20,887 --> 00:39:23,207
The third quarter payment
was way past due.

682
00:39:23,288 --> 00:39:25,128
In a way, I envy you...

683
00:39:25,208 --> 00:39:27,369
your daily routine,
you know what's expected.

684
00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:28,809
You know the drill.

685
00:39:30,810 --> 00:39:33,330
My job is to plumb the depths,

686
00:39:33,370 --> 00:39:34,650
so to speak.

687
00:39:34,651 --> 00:39:36,811
Dredge up something from inside,

688
00:39:36,891 --> 00:39:38,691
something honest.

689
00:39:38,772 --> 00:39:40,132
I got to tell you,

690
00:39:40,212 --> 00:39:41,692
the life of the mind...

691
00:39:41,773 --> 00:39:44,893
There's no road map
for that territory.

692
00:39:44,973 --> 00:39:47,694
And exploring it
can be painful.

693
00:39:48,974 --> 00:39:52,695
I have pain most people
don't know anything about.

694
00:39:54,496 --> 00:39:56,057
This must be boring you.

695
00:39:56,136 --> 00:39:58,377
Not at all.
It's damned interesting.

696
00:39:58,457 --> 00:39:59,817
Yeah.

697
00:39:59,898 --> 00:40:01,218
Probably sounds a little grand

698
00:40:01,297 --> 00:40:03,538
for someone who's writing
a wrestling picture

699
00:40:03,619 --> 00:40:04,737
for Wallace Beery.

700
00:40:04,738 --> 00:40:06,619
Beery?
You got no beef there.

701
00:40:06,659 --> 00:40:08,500
He's a hell of an actor,

702
00:40:08,579 --> 00:40:10,460
though you can't beatJack Oakie.

703
00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:11,900
A stitch, Oakie.

704
00:40:11,941 --> 00:40:13,341
Funny stuff, funny stuff.

705
00:40:13,380 --> 00:40:14,941
But don't get me wrong.

706
00:40:14,981 --> 00:40:17,182
Beery? Wrestling picture?
Could be a pip.

707
00:40:17,221 --> 00:40:18,782
Could be a pip.

708
00:40:18,823 --> 00:40:20,743
Wrestled myself some back in school.

709
00:40:20,782 --> 00:40:22,944
I guess you know the basic moves.

710
00:40:22,983 --> 00:40:24,384
No. I never watched any.

711
00:40:24,424 --> 00:40:26,385
I'm not interested in the act.

712
00:40:26,464 --> 00:40:28,665
Hell, you should know
what it's about.

713
00:40:28,745 --> 00:40:31,986
I can show you
the wrestling basics in 30 seconds.

714
00:40:32,066 --> 00:40:34,386
You're a little
out of your weight class,

715
00:40:34,467 --> 00:40:35,787
but just for demonstration purposes...

716
00:40:35,827 --> 00:40:36,906
That's all right.

717
00:40:36,907 --> 00:40:38,667
Not a bit of it, compadre.

718
00:40:38,748 --> 00:40:40,148
Easiest thing in the world.

719
00:40:40,228 --> 00:40:43,028
Just get on your knees
to my left here.

720
00:40:43,109 --> 00:40:45,870
Slap your right hand here,
your left hand here.

721
00:40:45,949 --> 00:40:48,790
Come on, champ.
You can do it. Come on.

722
00:40:48,871 --> 00:40:50,511
Come on.

723
00:40:51,431 --> 00:40:52,551
Come on.

724
00:40:52,631 --> 00:40:54,312
Come on.

725
00:40:55,432 --> 00:40:56,993
Yeah. There you go.

726
00:40:57,072 --> 00:40:58,553
Right there.

727
00:41:00,274 --> 00:41:01,433
All right.

728
00:41:01,514 --> 00:41:03,394
Now, when I say, "Ready, wrestle,"

729
00:41:03,474 --> 00:41:05,274
we try to pin each other.

730
00:41:05,355 --> 00:41:07,235
That's the whole game.
Got it?

731
00:41:07,315 --> 00:41:08,235
Yeah. Okay.

732
00:41:08,236 --> 00:41:09,395
Ready? Wrestle.

733
00:41:09,396 --> 00:41:10,316
Oh!

734
00:41:10,356 --> 00:41:11,556
1, 2, 3.

735
00:41:11,637 --> 00:41:13,476
Damn. There I go again.

736
00:41:13,557 --> 00:41:15,557
Going to wake up
the downstairs neighbors.

737
00:41:15,638 --> 00:41:17,518
I didn't hurt you, did I?

738
00:41:17,558 --> 00:41:18,478
It's okay.

739
00:41:18,519 --> 00:41:19,958
Well, that's all wrestling is.

740
00:41:19,999 --> 00:41:21,679
Usually there's
more grunting and squirming

741
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:22,958
before the pin.

742
00:41:22,959 --> 00:41:25,360
Well, you're out of your weight class.

743
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,801
Jesus, I did hurt you.

744
00:41:27,841 --> 00:41:29,080
I sure do apologize.

745
00:41:29,081 --> 00:41:31,122
I'm just a big, clumsy lug.

746
00:41:31,201 --> 00:41:32,962
I sure do apologize.

747
00:41:33,042 --> 00:41:34,563
You sure you're okay?

748
00:41:34,642 --> 00:41:36,443
I'm fine, really.

749
00:41:37,483 --> 00:41:39,084
Actually, it's been helpful.

750
00:41:42,204 --> 00:41:45,526
But I guess I should get to work.

751
00:41:45,605 --> 00:41:47,886
It wasn't fair of me to do that.

752
00:41:47,966 --> 00:41:49,807
I'm pretty well-endowed physically.

753
00:41:50,847 --> 00:41:52,127
Don't feel bad, though.

754
00:41:52,167 --> 00:41:55,008
I wouldn't be
much of a match for you

755
00:41:55,048 --> 00:41:56,288
at mental gymnastics.

756
00:41:56,328 --> 00:41:58,449
Give me a holler
you need anything.

757
00:42:31,417 --> 00:42:32,938
If I close my eyes,

758
00:42:33,018 --> 00:42:35,979
I can almost smell the live oak.

759
00:42:36,058 --> 00:42:39,379
That's chicken fat, Bill.

760
00:42:39,460 --> 00:42:42,420
Well, my olfactory's
turning womanish on me...

761
00:42:42,501 --> 00:42:43,941
lying and deceitful.

762
00:42:44,020 --> 00:42:47,461
Still, I must say I haven't
felt peace like this

763
00:42:47,542 --> 00:42:49,983
since the grand productive days.

764
00:42:50,062 --> 00:42:53,383
Don't you find it so, Barton?

765
00:42:53,424 --> 00:42:55,504
Ain't writing peace?

766
00:42:57,145 --> 00:42:58,385
Well...

767
00:43:00,305 --> 00:43:01,906
actually...

768
00:43:01,985 --> 00:43:03,266
no, Bill.

769
00:43:06,227 --> 00:43:08,428
No. I've always found

770
00:43:08,467 --> 00:43:11,468
that writing comes
from a great inner pain.

771
00:43:11,508 --> 00:43:14,429
Maybe it's a pain
that comes from a realization

772
00:43:14,509 --> 00:43:17,790
that one must do something
for one's fellow man

773
00:43:17,870 --> 00:43:20,991
to help somehow ease the suffering.

774
00:43:21,070 --> 00:43:23,872
Maybe it's personal pain.

775
00:43:23,951 --> 00:43:26,272
At any rate, I don't believe

776
00:43:26,352 --> 00:43:28,673
good work is possible without it.

777
00:43:28,752 --> 00:43:29,753
Hmm.

778
00:43:29,834 --> 00:43:34,234
Well, me, I just enjoy
making things up.

779
00:43:34,314 --> 00:43:36,595
Yes, sir. Escape.

780
00:43:37,675 --> 00:43:40,156
It's when I can't write
and escape myself,

781
00:43:40,236 --> 00:43:42,557
that I want to rip my head off

782
00:43:42,636 --> 00:43:44,477
and run screaming through the street

783
00:43:44,557 --> 00:43:47,397
with my balls
in a fruit picker's pail.

784
00:43:47,478 --> 00:43:48,318
Hmm.

785
00:43:48,398 --> 00:43:50,079
This will sometimes help.

786
00:43:50,158 --> 00:43:52,119
That doesn't help anything, Bill.

787
00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:54,439
I've never found that
to help my writing.

788
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,200
Your writing?

789
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,761
Son, have you ever heard
the story of Solomon's mammy?

790
00:43:59,841 --> 00:44:01,642
Barton, you should read this.

791
00:44:01,721 --> 00:44:03,082
I think it's Bill's finest,

792
00:44:03,162 --> 00:44:04,523
or among his finest, anyway.

793
00:44:04,602 --> 00:44:06,443
So now I'm supposed to roll over

794
00:44:06,523 --> 00:44:07,843
and get my belly scratched?

795
00:44:07,883 --> 00:44:08,803
Bill.

796
00:44:08,843 --> 00:44:10,003
Look, uh...

797
00:44:10,004 --> 00:44:11,844
maybe it's none of my business,

798
00:44:11,884 --> 00:44:14,725
but don't you think
a man with your talent...

799
00:44:14,765 --> 00:44:16,645
your first obligation
is to your gift?

800
00:44:16,686 --> 00:44:18,886
Shouldn't you be doing
whatever you have to

801
00:44:18,966 --> 00:44:20,205
to work again?

802
00:44:20,206 --> 00:44:21,727
What would that be?

803
00:44:21,807 --> 00:44:23,047
I don't know.

804
00:44:23,048 --> 00:44:24,326
But with that drink,

805
00:44:24,327 --> 00:44:26,408
you're cutting yourself
off from your gift

806
00:44:26,489 --> 00:44:27,729
and your fellow man

807
00:44:27,809 --> 00:44:29,649
and everything your art is about.

808
00:44:29,729 --> 00:44:31,010
Oh, no, son.

809
00:44:31,049 --> 00:44:32,730
I'm building a levee...

810
00:44:32,809 --> 00:44:35,330
gulp by gulp,
brick by brick...

811
00:44:35,371 --> 00:44:36,650
Putting up a levee

812
00:44:36,651 --> 00:44:38,851
to keep that raging river of manure

813
00:44:38,891 --> 00:44:40,332
from lapping at my door.

814
00:44:40,371 --> 00:44:41,772
Maybe you better, too, Barton,

815
00:44:41,812 --> 00:44:44,013
before you get buried
under his manure.

816
00:44:44,053 --> 00:44:46,173
My honey pretends
to be impatient with me,

817
00:44:46,254 --> 00:44:48,094
but she'll put up with anything.

818
00:44:48,174 --> 00:44:49,454
Not anything, Bill.

819
00:44:49,494 --> 00:44:50,735
Don't test me.

820
00:44:50,814 --> 00:44:54,576
You're lucky she puts up with you
as much as she does.

821
00:44:54,616 --> 00:44:56,016
Maybe to a schoolboy's eyes.

822
00:44:56,056 --> 00:44:58,417
People who know about
the human heart, though,

823
00:44:58,457 --> 00:45:00,337
maybe they'd say,
"Bill over here,

824
00:45:00,378 --> 00:45:01,777
he gives his honey love,

825
00:45:01,858 --> 00:45:04,018
and she pays him back with pity,

826
00:45:04,098 --> 00:45:05,459
the basest coin there is."

827
00:45:05,539 --> 00:45:07,459
Stop it, Bill.

828
00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:09,300
Gone are the days

829
00:45:09,380 --> 00:45:12,981
When my heart was young and gay

830
00:45:13,020 --> 00:45:15,981
Gone are my friends

831
00:45:16,061 --> 00:45:20,462
From the cotton fields away

832
00:45:20,503 --> 00:45:22,943
Gone from the earth

833
00:45:23,024 --> 00:45:26,144
To a better land I know

834
00:45:26,224 --> 00:45:28,705
I hear their gentle voices

835
00:45:29,745 --> 00:45:34,106
Callin'Old Black Joe

836
00:45:34,186 --> 00:45:35,867
I'm comin'

837
00:45:35,946 --> 00:45:38,267
I'm comin'

838
00:45:38,307 --> 00:45:42,428
Oh, my head is bending low

839
00:45:42,469 --> 00:45:45,910
I hear their gentle...

840
00:45:45,989 --> 00:45:48,830
The truth, my honey, is a tart

841
00:45:48,870 --> 00:45:51,710
that does not bear scrutiny.

842
00:45:51,751 --> 00:45:54,712
Breach my levee at your peril!

843
00:45:54,792 --> 00:45:58,113
Gone are my friends

844
00:45:58,192 --> 00:45:59,873
From the cotton fields...

845
00:45:59,953 --> 00:46:01,794
That son of a bitch!

846
00:46:01,834 --> 00:46:04,194
Don't get me wrong.
He's a fine writer.

847
00:46:04,234 --> 00:46:07,075
Gone from the earth

848
00:46:07,155 --> 00:46:08,395
Are you all right?

849
00:46:08,395 --> 00:46:10,276
To a better life I know

850
00:46:10,316 --> 00:46:12,196
Audrey, y-you can't...

851
00:46:12,236 --> 00:46:13,637
Oh, Barton.

852
00:46:13,676 --> 00:46:15,877
You can't put up with that.

853
00:46:15,917 --> 00:46:18,398
Old Black Joe

854
00:46:18,478 --> 00:46:20,599
I feel so sorry for him.

855
00:46:20,678 --> 00:46:23,479
What? He's... He's a son of a bitch.

856
00:46:23,559 --> 00:46:25,240
No.

857
00:46:25,319 --> 00:46:26,681
No.

858
00:46:27,881 --> 00:46:29,281
He...

859
00:46:29,321 --> 00:46:31,281
He sometimes just...

860
00:46:31,361 --> 00:46:33,882
I hear their angel voices...

861
00:46:33,962 --> 00:46:36,442
Well, he thinks about Estelle.

862
00:46:36,523 --> 00:46:39,164
His wife still lives
in Fayettesville.

863
00:46:40,044 --> 00:46:41,404
She's...

864
00:46:44,205 --> 00:46:45,725
disturbed.

865
00:46:45,805 --> 00:46:47,486
Really?

866
00:46:49,166 --> 00:46:52,287
I'll just walk on down
to the Pacific,

867
00:46:52,367 --> 00:46:54,528
and from there I'll improvise.

868
00:46:54,608 --> 00:46:56,648
He'll wander back
when he's sober

869
00:46:56,688 --> 00:46:57,808
and apologize.

870
00:46:57,809 --> 00:46:59,049
He always does.

871
00:46:59,088 --> 00:47:00,929
Okay, but that doesn't excuse his...

872
00:47:01,009 --> 00:47:02,210
Silence upon the hill...

873
00:47:02,290 --> 00:47:03,210
behavior.

874
00:47:03,250 --> 00:47:04,170
In Darien!

875
00:47:04,210 --> 00:47:06,571
Empathy requires understanding.

876
00:47:06,610 --> 00:47:07,811
I'm comin'

877
00:47:07,891 --> 00:47:08,932
What?

878
00:47:09,011 --> 00:47:10,412
What don't I understand?

879
00:47:10,451 --> 00:47:11,332
I'm comin'

880
00:47:11,412 --> 00:47:15,973
Oh, my head is hangin'low

881
00:47:16,054 --> 00:47:19,095
I hear their gentle voices

882
00:47:19,174 --> 00:47:23,975
Callin'Old Black Joe

883
00:48:45,837 --> 00:48:48,238
I hope these are your shoes.

884
00:48:48,277 --> 00:48:49,639
Charlie.

885
00:48:49,678 --> 00:48:51,559
Because that would mean...

886
00:48:51,598 --> 00:48:52,839
they gave you mine.

887
00:48:52,879 --> 00:48:53,959
Yeah.

888
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,840
As a matter of fact, they did.

889
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:58,641
Come on in.

890
00:48:58,681 --> 00:49:00,521
Jesus, what a day I had.

891
00:49:02,161 --> 00:49:04,522
Ever have one of those days?

892
00:49:04,562 --> 00:49:06,122
Seems like nothing but lately.

893
00:49:06,203 --> 00:49:07,563
Jesus, what a day.

894
00:49:07,603 --> 00:49:11,244
Felt like I couldn't have sold
ice water in the Sahara.

895
00:49:11,284 --> 00:49:13,124
Okay. So you don't want insurance.

896
00:49:13,205 --> 00:49:14,685
Okay. So that's your loss.

897
00:49:14,764 --> 00:49:16,766
But, God, people can be rude.

898
00:49:16,845 --> 00:49:18,886
I feel like I have to talk

899
00:49:18,966 --> 00:49:20,767
to a normal person like you

900
00:49:20,846 --> 00:49:23,007
just to restore a little of my...

901
00:49:23,087 --> 00:49:24,448
It's my pleasure.

902
00:49:24,527 --> 00:49:26,888
I could use a little lift myself.

903
00:49:26,968 --> 00:49:28,609
A little lift? Yeah.

904
00:49:28,689 --> 00:49:31,330
Good thing they bottle it, huh, pal?

905
00:49:32,209 --> 00:49:33,570
Did I say rude?

906
00:49:33,650 --> 00:49:36,291
People can be goddamn cruel,

907
00:49:36,371 --> 00:49:38,411
especially some of these housewives.

908
00:49:38,491 --> 00:49:39,331
Okay.

909
00:49:39,412 --> 00:49:41,412
So I have a weight problem.

910
00:49:41,492 --> 00:49:43,013
That's my cross to bear.

911
00:49:43,092 --> 00:49:44,653
I don't know.

912
00:49:44,733 --> 00:49:46,053
It's a defense mechanism.

913
00:49:46,133 --> 00:49:47,494
Defense against what, insurance?

914
00:49:47,573 --> 00:49:48,813
Something they need?

915
00:49:48,814 --> 00:49:51,655
Something they should be
grateful to me for offering?

916
00:49:51,735 --> 00:49:53,415
A little peace of mind.

917
00:49:56,216 --> 00:49:58,536
Finally decided
to knock off early.

918
00:49:58,617 --> 00:50:00,777
Went to see a doctor about this.

919
00:50:00,857 --> 00:50:03,218
He told me I had an ear infection.

920
00:50:03,298 --> 00:50:04,538
$10, please.

921
00:50:04,538 --> 00:50:07,819
I says, "Hell, I told you
my ear was infected.

922
00:50:07,899 --> 00:50:09,740
Why don't you give me $10?"

923
00:50:09,819 --> 00:50:12,221
Well, that led to an argument.

924
00:50:16,021 --> 00:50:17,862
Listen to me bellyaching,

925
00:50:17,901 --> 00:50:21,342
as if my problems amounted
to a hill of beans.

926
00:50:21,423 --> 00:50:24,063
How goes the life of the mind?

927
00:50:24,144 --> 00:50:26,144
Well, it's been better.

928
00:50:26,224 --> 00:50:29,065
I can't seem to get going
on this thing.

929
00:50:29,144 --> 00:50:30,384
That one idea,

930
00:50:30,385 --> 00:50:32,585
the one that lets you get started,

931
00:50:32,666 --> 00:50:34,026
I still haven't gotten it.

932
00:50:34,106 --> 00:50:36,426
Maybe I only had one idea in me...

933
00:50:36,507 --> 00:50:37,387
my play.

934
00:50:37,427 --> 00:50:38,828
Maybe once that was done,

935
00:50:38,907 --> 00:50:40,748
I was done being a writer.

936
00:50:40,828 --> 00:50:42,829
Christ, I feel like a fraud,

937
00:50:42,908 --> 00:50:45,349
sitting here staring at this paper.

938
00:50:45,389 --> 00:50:49,670
Those two lovebirds next door
driving you nuts?

939
00:50:51,471 --> 00:50:53,392
How do you know about that?

940
00:50:53,431 --> 00:50:54,670
Know about it?

941
00:50:54,671 --> 00:50:57,032
I can practically see
how they're doing it.

942
00:50:57,112 --> 00:50:59,913
Brother, I wish I had
a piece of that.

943
00:50:59,953 --> 00:51:01,393
Seems like I hear everything

944
00:51:01,433 --> 00:51:03,274
that goes on in this dump...

945
00:51:03,314 --> 00:51:04,634
the pipes or something.

946
00:51:04,714 --> 00:51:05,834
Yeah, but...

947
00:51:05,835 --> 00:51:07,235
You'll lick this picture business.

948
00:51:07,315 --> 00:51:09,355
You got a head on your shoulders.

949
00:51:09,436 --> 00:51:10,714
What do they say?

950
00:51:10,715 --> 00:51:12,276
Where there's a head, there's hope.

951
00:51:12,356 --> 00:51:13,716
Where there's life, there's hope.

952
00:51:13,797 --> 00:51:16,237
See, that proves
you really are a writer.

953
00:51:16,277 --> 00:51:18,198
There's hope for you, too, Charlie.

954
00:51:18,237 --> 00:51:21,079
Tomorrow I bet you sell
a half-dozen policies.

955
00:51:21,118 --> 00:51:22,999
Thanks, brother, but the fact is

956
00:51:23,039 --> 00:51:25,680
I got to pull up stakes for a while.

957
00:51:29,721 --> 00:51:30,960
You're leaving?

958
00:51:30,961 --> 00:51:32,240
In a few days.

959
00:51:32,241 --> 00:51:34,522
Out to your stomping grounds...
New York City.

960
00:51:34,602 --> 00:51:37,403
Things got all balled up
at the head office.

961
00:51:39,043 --> 00:51:41,884
I'm truly sorry to hear that.
I'll miss you.

962
00:51:41,924 --> 00:51:44,245
Well, hell, buddy.
Don't pull a long face.

963
00:51:44,285 --> 00:51:46,005
I keep a room here,

964
00:51:46,045 --> 00:51:48,406
and I'll be back sooner or later.

965
00:51:48,446 --> 00:51:49,647
And mark my words,

966
00:51:49,726 --> 00:51:51,567
by the time I get back,

967
00:51:51,647 --> 00:51:53,007
your picture will be finished.

968
00:51:53,087 --> 00:51:55,408
New York can be
pretty cruel to strangers.

969
00:51:55,488 --> 00:51:57,488
If you need a home-cooked meal,

970
00:51:57,568 --> 00:52:00,369
you just look up
Sam and Lillian Fink.

971
00:52:00,449 --> 00:52:02,609
They live on Fulton Street...

972
00:52:03,490 --> 00:52:05,011
with my uncle Maury.

973
00:52:15,213 --> 00:52:17,574
Christ.

974
00:52:17,614 --> 00:52:20,454
Your room does that, too.

975
00:52:20,534 --> 00:52:23,655
I guess the heat's
sweating off the wallpaper.

976
00:52:24,856 --> 00:52:26,216
What a dump.

977
00:52:26,256 --> 00:52:29,097
I guess this must seem pretty pathetic

978
00:52:29,176 --> 00:52:31,017
to a guy like you.

979
00:52:31,057 --> 00:52:32,458
Well...

980
00:52:32,497 --> 00:52:35,339
But it's pathetic, isn't it?

981
00:52:35,418 --> 00:52:38,219
I mean, to a guy from New York?

982
00:52:38,259 --> 00:52:40,459
What do you mean?

983
00:52:40,540 --> 00:52:41,900
This kind of heat.

984
00:52:41,980 --> 00:52:43,340
It's pathetic.

985
00:52:43,381 --> 00:52:45,902
Well, I guess
you pick your poison.

986
00:52:45,981 --> 00:52:47,822
So they say.

987
00:52:47,861 --> 00:52:50,703
Don't pick up and leave
without saying good-bye.

988
00:52:50,742 --> 00:52:52,623
'Course not, compadre.

989
00:52:52,703 --> 00:52:54,664
You'll see me again.

990
00:54:10,364 --> 00:54:11,323
Zing! Bango!

991
00:54:11,324 --> 00:54:12,644
You're dead.
You're a corpse.

992
00:54:12,724 --> 00:54:14,003
You got me.

993
00:54:14,004 --> 00:54:16,485
Okay, go, go, you son of a gun.

994
00:54:16,565 --> 00:54:17,926
Yeah, Fink.

995
00:54:20,886 --> 00:54:22,246
Come on, come on.

996
00:54:23,767 --> 00:54:26,207
What do you got for me?

997
00:54:26,288 --> 00:54:27,969
What the hell happened to your face?

998
00:54:28,008 --> 00:54:30,089
Nothing.
It's just a mosquito bite.

999
00:54:30,169 --> 00:54:32,330
There are no mosquitoes
in Los Angeles.

1000
00:54:32,409 --> 00:54:34,250
Mosquitoes breed in swamps.
This is a desert.

1001
00:54:34,330 --> 00:54:35,730
What do you got for me?

1002
00:54:35,810 --> 00:54:36,810
Well, I...

1003
00:54:36,891 --> 00:54:39,092
On the Beery picture, where are we?

1004
00:54:39,171 --> 00:54:41,411
Well, I'm having a little trouble
getting started.

1005
00:54:41,412 --> 00:54:42,892
Getting start...
ChristJesus, started?

1006
00:54:42,972 --> 00:54:44,452
You don't have anything yet?

1007
00:54:44,533 --> 00:54:45,773
Well, not much.

1008
00:54:45,853 --> 00:54:48,173
What the hell do you
think this is, Hamlet,

1009
00:54:48,254 --> 00:54:50,094
Gone With the Wind,
Ruggles of Red Gap?

1010
00:54:50,174 --> 00:54:51,854
It's a goddamn B picture...

1011
00:54:51,935 --> 00:54:53,615
big men in tights...
you know the drill.

1012
00:54:53,695 --> 00:54:55,416
I don't really understand that genre.

1013
00:54:55,496 --> 00:54:57,216
Maybe that's the problem.

1014
00:54:57,296 --> 00:54:58,495
Understand? Shit!

1015
00:54:58,496 --> 00:55:00,376
You were going to consult
another writer on this.

1016
00:55:00,377 --> 00:55:01,937
Well, I've talked to Bill Mayhew.

1017
00:55:02,017 --> 00:55:04,418
Mayhew? Some help.
The guy's a souse.

1018
00:55:04,498 --> 00:55:05,657
He's a great writer.

1019
00:55:05,658 --> 00:55:06,738
A great souse!

1020
00:55:06,739 --> 00:55:09,260
He's in pain
because he can't write.

1021
00:55:09,339 --> 00:55:10,418
Souse! Souse!

1022
00:55:10,419 --> 00:55:11,860
He manages to write his name

1023
00:55:11,900 --> 00:55:14,061
on the back
of his paycheck every week.

1024
00:55:14,100 --> 00:55:16,421
I thought no one cared
about this picture.

1025
00:55:16,501 --> 00:55:17,621
You thought?

1026
00:55:17,622 --> 00:55:20,302
I don't know
what the hell you said to Lipnick,

1027
00:55:20,383 --> 00:55:22,742
but the son of a bitch likes you.

1028
00:55:22,783 --> 00:55:25,584
He's taken a interest.

1029
00:55:25,623 --> 00:55:28,024
Never make Lipnick like you.

1030
00:55:28,065 --> 00:55:28,985
Never!

1031
00:55:29,025 --> 00:55:30,264
I... I don't understand.

1032
00:55:30,265 --> 00:55:32,505
Are you deaf?
He likes you.

1033
00:55:32,586 --> 00:55:34,906
What the hell did you say to him?

1034
00:55:34,986 --> 00:55:35,867
Nothing.

1035
00:55:35,906 --> 00:55:37,587
Well, he's taken a interest.

1036
00:55:37,627 --> 00:55:39,988
He'll make your life hell.

1037
00:55:40,027 --> 00:55:41,468
Since I drew the short straw

1038
00:55:41,508 --> 00:55:42,868
to supervise this turkey,

1039
00:55:42,908 --> 00:55:44,828
he'll be all over me, too.

1040
00:55:44,869 --> 00:55:46,829
Fat-ass son of a bitch called yesterday

1041
00:55:46,909 --> 00:55:48,630
to ask how it's going.

1042
00:55:48,669 --> 00:55:51,030
I said you were making progress.

1043
00:55:51,070 --> 00:55:52,471
We were all very excited.

1044
00:55:52,510 --> 00:55:55,072
I told him it was great.

1045
00:55:55,151 --> 00:55:56,151
Understand that?

1046
00:55:56,152 --> 00:55:58,152
Now my ass is on the line.

1047
00:55:58,233 --> 00:56:01,073
He wants you to tell him
all about it tomorrow.

1048
00:56:01,153 --> 00:56:02,914
I can't write anything by tomorrow.

1049
00:56:02,994 --> 00:56:05,354
Who said write?
Jesus, Jack can't read.

1050
00:56:05,434 --> 00:56:07,275
You got to tell it to him.

1051
00:56:07,355 --> 00:56:10,195
Tell him something,
for Christ's sake.

1052
00:56:10,276 --> 00:56:12,676
Well, what do I t-tell him?

1053
00:56:18,398 --> 00:56:19,758
Yes, Mr. Geezler.

1054
00:56:19,838 --> 00:56:21,238
Projection!

1055
00:56:21,318 --> 00:56:22,158
Jerry.

1056
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:23,599
Jerry, Ben Geisler here.

1057
00:56:23,679 --> 00:56:25,039
Any screening rooms free?

1058
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,000
Good! Book it for me.

1059
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:28,880
I got a writer here.
He's coming in.

1060
00:56:28,961 --> 00:56:30,961
You're going to show him
wrestling pictures.

1061
00:56:31,041 --> 00:56:32,682
I don't give a shit which ones!

1062
00:56:32,761 --> 00:56:35,642
Isn't Victor Sjoderberg
shooting one now?

1063
00:56:35,722 --> 00:56:37,083
Show him some dailies on that.

1064
00:56:37,163 --> 00:56:38,203
Okay, Ben.

1065
00:56:38,283 --> 00:56:39,443
All right.

1066
00:56:39,524 --> 00:56:41,363
This will give you some ideas.

1067
00:56:41,444 --> 00:56:45,125
8:15 tomorrow morning
at Lipnick's house.

1068
00:56:47,845 --> 00:56:49,966
Ideas.

1069
00:56:50,046 --> 00:56:51,406
Broad strokes.

1070
00:56:53,167 --> 00:56:56,248
Don't cross me, Fink.

1071
00:56:57,568 --> 00:56:59,409
Devil on the Can...

1072
00:56:59,488 --> 00:57:01,969
Devil on the Canvas,
12 Apple, take 1.

1073
00:57:02,050 --> 00:57:03,250
Action!

1074
00:57:03,329 --> 00:57:04,810
I will destroy him!

1075
00:57:04,850 --> 00:57:06,411
Cut! Cut! Cut! Cut!

1076
00:57:06,450 --> 00:57:09,251
Devil on the Canvas,
12 Apple, take 2.

1077
00:57:09,331 --> 00:57:10,692
Action!

1078
00:57:10,772 --> 00:57:12,332
I will destroy him!

1079
00:57:12,412 --> 00:57:13,732
Cut! Cut!

1080
00:57:14,773 --> 00:57:15,773
Rolling!

1081
00:57:15,853 --> 00:57:18,293
Devil on the Canvas,
12 Apple, take 4.

1082
00:57:18,374 --> 00:57:19,254
Action!

1083
00:57:19,334 --> 00:57:21,694
I will destroy him!

1084
00:57:21,775 --> 00:57:23,054
Cut! Cut! Cut!

1085
00:57:23,095 --> 00:57:25,336
Devil on the Canvas,
12 Apple, take 5.

1086
00:57:25,415 --> 00:57:27,576
I will destroy him!

1087
00:57:27,656 --> 00:57:29,177
12 Apple, take 6.

1088
00:57:29,256 --> 00:57:30,777
I will destroy him!

1089
00:57:30,857 --> 00:57:32,857
12 Apple, take 7.

1090
00:57:32,937 --> 00:57:34,618
I will destroy him!

1091
00:57:34,698 --> 00:57:35,977
12 Baker, take 1.

1092
00:57:35,978 --> 00:57:39,620
I will destroy him!

1093
00:57:39,699 --> 00:57:41,340
Aah!

1094
00:57:42,900 --> 00:57:45,501
Aah!

1095
00:57:45,581 --> 00:57:47,221
Aah!

1096
00:57:47,302 --> 00:57:48,222
Aah!

1097
00:57:48,301 --> 00:57:50,022
12 Charlie, take 1.

1098
00:57:50,102 --> 00:57:51,462
- Aah!
- Aah!

1099
00:57:51,543 --> 00:57:53,223
- Aah!
- Aah!

1100
00:57:53,303 --> 00:57:54,343
Take 2.

1101
00:57:54,423 --> 00:57:56,824
- Aah!
- Aah!

1102
00:57:56,904 --> 00:57:58,985
2...

1103
00:57:59,064 --> 00:58:00,145
Take 7.

1104
00:58:00,225 --> 00:58:02,465
- Aah!
- Aah!

1105
00:58:02,505 --> 00:58:04,026
2...

1106
00:58:04,106 --> 00:58:06,426
- Aah!
- Aah!

1107
00:58:06,466 --> 00:58:07,907
- Aah!
- Aah!

1108
00:58:07,987 --> 00:58:09,427
- Aah!
- Aah!

1109
00:58:09,507 --> 00:58:11,668
- Aah!
- Aah!

1110
00:58:11,748 --> 00:58:14,108
Aah!

1111
00:58:35,594 --> 00:58:37,154
Orphan.

1112
00:58:37,195 --> 00:58:38,435
Dame.

1113
00:58:40,595 --> 00:58:41,796
Front desk.

1114
00:58:41,876 --> 00:58:43,236
Hello, Chet?

1115
00:58:43,276 --> 00:58:45,116
This is Barton Fink in room 621.

1116
00:58:45,197 --> 00:58:47,077
Could you try a number for me
in Hollywood?

1117
00:58:47,117 --> 00:58:49,998
Slauson 6-4304.

1118
00:58:50,038 --> 00:58:51,558
Right away, sir.

1119
00:58:53,799 --> 00:58:55,200
Pick it up.
Pick it up.

1120
00:58:55,279 --> 00:58:56,160
Hello.

1121
00:58:56,239 --> 00:58:57,600
Audrey, I need help.

1122
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,961
I know I shouldn't be
calling you like this.

1123
00:59:00,041 --> 00:59:02,481
I wouldn't have
if I could see any alternative.

1124
00:59:02,482 --> 00:59:04,762
I'm sorry.
Listen, how are you?

1125
00:59:04,842 --> 00:59:06,242
You doing okay?

1126
00:59:06,323 --> 00:59:07,643
Who is this?

1127
00:59:07,723 --> 00:59:10,044
Barton! I'm sorry.
It's Barton Fink.

1128
00:59:10,123 --> 00:59:12,924
Barton, I'm afraid
it's not a good time.

1129
00:59:13,004 --> 00:59:15,365
I'm sorry.
I just feel like I need...

1130
00:59:15,444 --> 00:59:17,245
I know I shouldn't ask.

1131
00:59:17,326 --> 00:59:20,166
I just need some kind of help.

1132
00:59:20,246 --> 00:59:22,566
I have a deadline tomorrow.

1133
00:59:22,647 --> 00:59:23,967
All right, Barton.

1134
00:59:24,047 --> 00:59:25,928
I'll see if I can slip away.

1135
00:59:26,007 --> 00:59:27,328
Oh, if you could...

1136
00:59:27,408 --> 00:59:29,288
If I can.

1137
00:59:29,369 --> 00:59:31,209
He... He gets jealous.

1138
00:59:31,289 --> 00:59:32,609
I need help, Audrey.

1139
00:59:34,170 --> 00:59:35,490
I'll try to slip out

1140
00:59:35,571 --> 00:59:38,851
if he quiets down, passes out.

1141
00:59:38,931 --> 00:59:41,211
I'm afraid he thinks...

1142
00:59:41,292 --> 00:59:44,132
Well, he said you were
a buffoon, Barton.

1143
00:59:44,213 --> 00:59:45,133
Uh-huh.

1144
00:59:45,212 --> 00:59:46,573
He becomes irrational.

1145
00:59:47,894 --> 00:59:48,892
Uh-huh, uh-huh.

1146
00:59:48,893 --> 00:59:50,294
I'll try and slip away.

1147
00:59:50,334 --> 00:59:52,054
Who is that?

1148
01:00:08,619 --> 01:00:11,460
Audrey, thank you for coming.

1149
01:00:11,539 --> 01:00:12,420
Thank you.

1150
01:00:12,500 --> 01:00:13,459
Hello, Barton.

1151
01:00:13,460 --> 01:00:15,301
I'm sorry to be...

1152
01:00:15,380 --> 01:00:17,822
such a... such a...

1153
01:00:19,221 --> 01:00:20,102
Thank you.

1154
01:00:20,142 --> 01:00:22,782
That's all right, Barton.

1155
01:00:22,863 --> 01:00:25,224
Everything's going to be all right.

1156
01:00:25,303 --> 01:00:27,144
Yes. Thank you.

1157
01:00:27,264 --> 01:00:28,385
Thank you.

1158
01:00:28,464 --> 01:00:30,825
Yes. Thank you.

1159
01:00:32,626 --> 01:00:33,986
How's Bill?

1160
01:00:34,026 --> 01:00:36,907
Oh, he's, uh...

1161
01:00:36,946 --> 01:00:38,347
He drifted off.

1162
01:00:38,387 --> 01:00:40,868
He'll sleep for a while now.

1163
01:00:42,228 --> 01:00:44,788
What is it you have to do exactly?

1164
01:00:44,868 --> 01:00:48,869
Well, I have to come up
with an outline,

1165
01:00:48,910 --> 01:00:50,750
I guess you call it,

1166
01:00:50,830 --> 01:00:53,631
the whole goddamn story,
soup to nuts, three acts,

1167
01:00:53,711 --> 01:00:55,471
the whole goddamn...

1168
01:00:55,552 --> 01:00:56,831
That's all right, Barton.

1169
01:00:56,912 --> 01:00:59,113
You don't have to write
actual scenes.

1170
01:00:59,152 --> 01:01:02,913
No, but the whole goddamn...

1171
01:01:04,274 --> 01:01:06,115
Audrey...

1172
01:01:06,194 --> 01:01:09,315
have you ever read
any of Bill's wrestling scenarios?

1173
01:01:09,395 --> 01:01:11,956
Yes, I'm afraid I have.

1174
01:01:12,035 --> 01:01:15,397
What are they like?
What are they about?

1175
01:01:15,476 --> 01:01:17,157
Well...

1176
01:01:17,238 --> 01:01:20,878
usually they're simple morality tales.

1177
01:01:20,918 --> 01:01:24,359
There's a good wrestler
and a bad wrestler,

1178
01:01:24,439 --> 01:01:26,400
whom he confronts at the end.

1179
01:01:26,479 --> 01:01:28,760
In between, the good wrestler
has a love interest

1180
01:01:28,761 --> 01:01:31,561
or a small child he has to protect.

1181
01:01:31,641 --> 01:01:33,321
Bill would usually make
the good wrestler

1182
01:01:33,402 --> 01:01:35,682
a backwards type or a convict,

1183
01:01:35,763 --> 01:01:39,003
and sometimes, instead of a waif,

1184
01:01:39,083 --> 01:01:42,644
he'd have the wrestler
protecting an idiot man-child.

1185
01:01:42,684 --> 01:01:45,565
The studio always hated that.

1186
01:01:45,644 --> 01:01:48,125
Some of the scripts were so...

1187
01:01:48,206 --> 01:01:49,406
spirited.

1188
01:01:53,447 --> 01:01:57,447
Barton, look,
it's really just a formula.

1189
01:01:57,528 --> 01:01:59,808
You don't have to type
your soul into it.

1190
01:01:59,889 --> 01:02:02,089
We'll invent some names
and a new setting.

1191
01:02:02,169 --> 01:02:04,130
I'll help you.
It won't take any time at all.

1192
01:02:04,209 --> 01:02:06,530
I did it for Bill so many times.

1193
01:02:06,611 --> 01:02:08,451
You did what for Bill?

1194
01:02:08,491 --> 01:02:11,331
Well... this.

1195
01:02:11,412 --> 01:02:14,492
You wrote his scripts for him?

1196
01:02:17,173 --> 01:02:21,254
Well, the basic ideas
were frequently his.

1197
01:02:21,334 --> 01:02:24,775
You wrote Bill's scripts?

1198
01:02:24,855 --> 01:02:26,535
Jesus, you wrote his...

1199
01:02:26,616 --> 01:02:28,336
Well, what about before that?

1200
01:02:28,416 --> 01:02:29,335
Before what?

1201
01:02:29,336 --> 01:02:31,977
Before Bill came to Hollywood.

1202
01:02:32,057 --> 01:02:34,858
Bill was always the author,
so to speak.

1203
01:02:34,938 --> 01:02:37,859
What do you mean, "so to speak"?

1204
01:02:37,938 --> 01:02:41,740
Audrey, how long have you been his...

1205
01:02:41,779 --> 01:02:43,020
secretary?

1206
01:02:43,100 --> 01:02:45,740
Let's concentrate
on our little project.

1207
01:02:45,821 --> 01:02:48,260
I want to know how many
of Bill's books you wrote!

1208
01:02:48,261 --> 01:02:49,460
I want to know!

1209
01:02:49,461 --> 01:02:51,462
Barton, honestly...

1210
01:02:54,183 --> 01:02:56,063
Only the last couple.

1211
01:02:56,144 --> 01:02:57,224
Hah!

1212
01:02:57,263 --> 01:03:01,345
And my input was
mostly editorial, really,

1213
01:03:01,425 --> 01:03:03,065
after he had been drinking.

1214
01:03:03,146 --> 01:03:04,226
I'll bet.

1215
01:03:04,305 --> 01:03:08,027
Jesus, "the grand productive days"!

1216
01:03:08,106 --> 01:03:10,267
What a goddamn phony.

1217
01:03:10,347 --> 01:03:11,868
W.P. Mayhew...

1218
01:03:11,947 --> 01:03:14,509
William goddamn Phony Mayhew!

1219
01:03:14,549 --> 01:03:16,309
All his guff about escape!

1220
01:03:16,389 --> 01:03:19,229
I'll say he escaped!

1221
01:03:21,070 --> 01:03:22,830
We don't have much time.

1222
01:03:26,872 --> 01:03:29,152
It'll be fine.

1223
01:03:29,232 --> 01:03:32,353
Don't judge him, Barton.

1224
01:03:33,594 --> 01:03:36,834
Don't condescend to him.

1225
01:03:36,914 --> 01:03:41,116
I help Bill most
by understanding him,

1226
01:03:41,195 --> 01:03:43,156
by appreciating him.

1227
01:03:44,997 --> 01:03:48,317
We all need understanding, Barton...

1228
01:03:48,357 --> 01:03:51,158
even you tonight.

1229
01:03:51,198 --> 01:03:53,599
It's all you really need.

1230
01:06:56,327 --> 01:06:58,088
Aah!

1231
01:06:58,128 --> 01:06:59,848
Aah!

1232
01:06:59,929 --> 01:07:01,208
Aah!

1233
01:07:08,691 --> 01:07:09,571
Barton?

1234
01:07:21,894 --> 01:07:23,495
Barton, are you all right?

1235
01:07:23,574 --> 01:07:24,534
I'm fine, thanks.

1236
01:07:24,534 --> 01:07:25,415
You sure?

1237
01:07:25,495 --> 01:07:26,536
No! No.

1238
01:09:34,690 --> 01:09:36,770
Barton. Are you all right?

1239
01:09:36,850 --> 01:09:38,730
No. Can I come in?

1240
01:09:38,811 --> 01:09:40,611
Let's go to your room.

1241
01:09:40,691 --> 01:09:43,492
Charlie, I'm in trouble.
You got to help me.

1242
01:09:43,572 --> 01:09:45,413
Get a grip on yourself, brother.

1243
01:09:45,492 --> 01:09:48,293
Whatever the problem is,
we can sort it out.

1244
01:09:48,373 --> 01:09:50,773
Charlie, I'm in trouble.
Something horrible's happened.

1245
01:09:50,774 --> 01:09:52,614
I got to call the police.

1246
01:09:52,695 --> 01:09:55,495
Will you stay with me
till they get here?

1247
01:09:55,576 --> 01:09:58,496
Don't worry about it.
We can work it out.

1248
01:09:58,576 --> 01:10:00,777
Before you go in...
I didn't do this.

1249
01:10:00,856 --> 01:10:03,658
I don't know how it happened, but...

1250
01:10:03,737 --> 01:10:04,978
I didn't.

1251
01:10:05,057 --> 01:10:07,178
I want you to know that.

1252
01:10:13,699 --> 01:10:14,700
Okay.

1253
01:10:20,942 --> 01:10:21,982
Ohhh!

1254
01:10:26,864 --> 01:10:27,784
Oh...

1255
01:10:35,466 --> 01:10:36,506
Oh...

1256
01:10:40,787 --> 01:10:43,148
Jesus, Barton,
what the hell is this?

1257
01:10:43,188 --> 01:10:44,628
What are we going to do?

1258
01:10:44,708 --> 01:10:45,667
Call the police.

1259
01:10:45,668 --> 01:10:46,669
Hold on.

1260
01:10:46,749 --> 01:10:48,029
I didn't do this.

1261
01:10:48,109 --> 01:10:49,549
I did not do this!

1262
01:10:49,630 --> 01:10:50,469
Hold on!

1263
01:10:50,550 --> 01:10:51,590
Stop.

1264
01:10:51,630 --> 01:10:54,070
Take a deep breath.
Tell me what happened.

1265
01:10:54,151 --> 01:10:56,831
I passed out! I don't know!
Won't the police...

1266
01:10:56,911 --> 01:10:58,872
Stop with the police!
Wake up!

1267
01:10:58,952 --> 01:11:01,072
This looks bad!
They hang people for this!

1268
01:11:01,153 --> 01:11:04,034
But I didn't do it.
Don't you believe me?

1269
01:11:04,113 --> 01:11:07,234
I believe you! I know you!
Why should the police?

1270
01:11:09,075 --> 01:11:10,075
Did you...

1271
01:11:11,275 --> 01:11:13,115
Barton, between you and me,

1272
01:11:13,196 --> 01:11:15,277
did you have sexual intercourse?

1273
01:11:17,997 --> 01:11:19,758
Jesus, they can tell that.

1274
01:11:19,837 --> 01:11:22,798
Got to believe me!

1275
01:11:22,878 --> 01:11:25,239
They got to have mercy!

1276
01:11:25,279 --> 01:11:26,680
You're in pictures, Barton.

1277
01:11:26,719 --> 01:11:29,000
Even if they cleared you eventually,

1278
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:30,521
this would ruin you.

1279
01:11:33,001 --> 01:11:33,881
Come on.

1280
01:11:33,961 --> 01:11:35,442
Wait in the bathroom.

1281
01:11:57,128 --> 01:12:01,089
Oh, Lord.
Oh, Lordy. Oh, my Lord.

1282
01:12:01,168 --> 01:12:03,970
Oh, my Lord.

1283
01:12:05,730 --> 01:12:06,770
Ooh!

1284
01:12:18,253 --> 01:12:19,973
You passed out.

1285
01:12:21,974 --> 01:12:23,093
Where's Audrey?

1286
01:12:23,094 --> 01:12:24,454
She's dead, Barton!

1287
01:12:24,535 --> 01:12:26,975
She's dead, if that was her name!

1288
01:12:27,055 --> 01:12:30,057
You got to act
as if nothing has happened.

1289
01:12:30,136 --> 01:12:32,457
Put this totally out of your head.

1290
01:12:32,537 --> 01:12:35,658
Your play is to go about
your business as usual.

1291
01:12:35,738 --> 01:12:38,819
Give us some time
to sort this out.

1292
01:12:47,781 --> 01:12:50,381
Bart!
So happy to see ya!

1293
01:12:51,422 --> 01:12:53,623
Sit. Talk.
Relax for a minute.

1294
01:12:53,702 --> 01:12:55,063
Then talk.

1295
01:12:55,143 --> 01:12:56,183
Drink?

1296
01:12:56,264 --> 01:12:57,744
Uh...

1297
01:12:57,823 --> 01:12:58,904
yeah.

1298
01:13:00,304 --> 01:13:01,263
Rye whiskey?

1299
01:13:01,264 --> 01:13:03,505
Boy, you writers.
Work hard, play hard.

1300
01:13:03,585 --> 01:13:05,386
That's what I hear, anyway.
Lou!

1301
01:13:05,426 --> 01:13:09,627
Anyway, Ben Geisler tells me things
are going along great.

1302
01:13:09,707 --> 01:13:11,987
Says we got a real winner
in this one.

1303
01:13:12,067 --> 01:13:14,388
I'll tell you something.
I'm counting on it.

1304
01:13:14,468 --> 01:13:17,069
I've taken an interest.
Nothing to fear, mind you.

1305
01:13:17,148 --> 01:13:18,989
Hardly seems necessary in your case...

1306
01:13:19,030 --> 01:13:21,389
a writer,
a storyteller of your stature.

1307
01:13:21,430 --> 01:13:23,791
Give it to me
in bold strokes, Bart.

1308
01:13:23,831 --> 01:13:25,391
Give me the broad outlines.

1309
01:13:25,431 --> 01:13:27,831
I'm in the audience,
the lights go down,

1310
01:13:27,871 --> 01:13:29,232
Capitol logo comes up.

1311
01:13:29,272 --> 01:13:31,113
You're on, huh?

1312
01:13:34,713 --> 01:13:35,953
Yeah.

1313
01:13:35,994 --> 01:13:37,594
Uh... okay.

1314
01:13:37,754 --> 01:13:38,834
Huh?

1315
01:13:40,475 --> 01:13:41,875
Well, uh...

1316
01:13:42,996 --> 01:13:44,316
we... we fade in...

1317
01:13:44,396 --> 01:13:45,876
Uh-huh.

1318
01:13:47,717 --> 01:13:50,678
It's... It's a tenement building
on the Lower East Side.

1319
01:13:50,757 --> 01:13:52,638
Great!
He's poor, this wrestler.

1320
01:13:52,678 --> 01:13:54,198
He's had to struggle, huh?

1321
01:13:56,119 --> 01:13:57,319
And then...

1322
01:13:57,320 --> 01:13:58,360
Uh-huh?

1323
01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:00,040
Well, uh...

1324
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:04,601
Can I be honest, Mr. Lipnick?

1325
01:14:04,641 --> 01:14:07,482
Can you?
Jesus, you damn well better be!

1326
01:14:07,522 --> 01:14:09,803
If I wasn't honest
in my business dealings...

1327
01:14:09,883 --> 01:14:11,724
Well, you can't always be honest,

1328
01:14:11,803 --> 01:14:14,044
not with the sharks
swimming around this town.

1329
01:14:14,124 --> 01:14:15,524
If I'd been totally honest,

1330
01:14:15,565 --> 01:14:17,445
I wouldn't be near this pool

1331
01:14:17,525 --> 01:14:18,885
unless I was cleaning it.

1332
01:14:18,965 --> 01:14:21,686
But that's no reason
for you not to be.

1333
01:14:21,766 --> 01:14:24,006
Honest, I mean.
Not cleaning the pool.

1334
01:14:26,928 --> 01:14:27,967
Oh.

1335
01:14:29,648 --> 01:14:30,688
Uh-huh.

1336
01:14:37,170 --> 01:14:39,050
To be honest, uh...

1337
01:14:39,090 --> 01:14:40,491
I'm never really comfortable

1338
01:14:40,531 --> 01:14:42,452
discussing work in progress.

1339
01:14:42,531 --> 01:14:45,252
I got it all worked out in my head,

1340
01:14:45,333 --> 01:14:48,733
but sometimes,
if you force it into words...

1341
01:14:48,813 --> 01:14:50,733
prematurely...

1342
01:14:50,814 --> 01:14:52,174
uh, the wrong words...

1343
01:14:52,214 --> 01:14:53,614
Well, your meaning changes,

1344
01:14:53,654 --> 01:14:57,735
and it changes in your own mind,
and you never get it back,

1345
01:14:57,816 --> 01:15:01,537
so I'd... I'd just as soon
not talk about it.

1346
01:15:06,458 --> 01:15:08,338
Mr. Fink... never mind me.

1347
01:15:08,418 --> 01:15:10,659
Never mind how long
I've been in pictures.

1348
01:15:10,739 --> 01:15:12,259
Mr. Lipnick's been in pictures

1349
01:15:12,340 --> 01:15:14,060
about since they was invented.

1350
01:15:14,100 --> 01:15:15,460
He practically invented them.

1351
01:15:15,540 --> 01:15:17,021
I think if he's interested

1352
01:15:17,101 --> 01:15:19,782
in what one of
his contract employees is doing,

1353
01:15:19,861 --> 01:15:22,582
that employee
should be able to tell him

1354
01:15:22,663 --> 01:15:26,063
if he wants to stay an employee.

1355
01:15:26,103 --> 01:15:28,944
Right now,
the contents of your head

1356
01:15:28,983 --> 01:15:31,504
are the property
of Capitol Pictures.

1357
01:15:32,665 --> 01:15:34,186
If I was you...

1358
01:15:34,265 --> 01:15:35,626
I would speak up.

1359
01:15:35,705 --> 01:15:37,706
And pretty goddamn fast.

1360
01:15:40,987 --> 01:15:47,189
You lousy kike...
son of a bitch.

1361
01:15:47,228 --> 01:15:49,429
You're telling this man...
this artist...

1362
01:15:49,469 --> 01:15:50,910
what to do?

1363
01:15:50,949 --> 01:15:52,270
Mr. Lipnick, I...

1364
01:15:52,350 --> 01:15:53,830
He creates for a living!

1365
01:15:53,911 --> 01:15:56,831
Thank him, you son of a bitch,
or you're fired!

1366
01:15:56,911 --> 01:15:59,232
Mr. Lipnick,
that's really not necessary.

1367
01:15:59,312 --> 01:16:01,912
Get down on your knees,
you son of a bitch!

1368
01:16:01,993 --> 01:16:03,272
Kiss this man's feet!

1369
01:16:03,273 --> 01:16:05,274
Mr. Lipnick, please.

1370
01:16:05,353 --> 01:16:06,674
Kiss this man's feet!

1371
01:16:12,036 --> 01:16:14,236
Get out of here!
You understand me?

1372
01:16:14,276 --> 01:16:18,677
You're out of here. You're fired.
Get out of my sight.

1373
01:16:25,879 --> 01:16:26,799
I...

1374
01:16:26,879 --> 01:16:27,998
I apologize, Barton.

1375
01:16:27,999 --> 01:16:30,360
No. Mr. Breeze actually
has been a great help.

1376
01:16:30,441 --> 01:16:33,801
You don't have to cover for him.
That's very noble.

1377
01:16:33,881 --> 01:16:36,282
I'd feel much better
if you'd just reconsider.

1378
01:16:36,361 --> 01:16:39,002
If that son of a bitch
won't apologize to you,

1379
01:16:39,083 --> 01:16:40,923
then goddamn it, I will.

1380
01:16:41,003 --> 01:16:43,324
I respect your artistry
and your methods.

1381
01:16:43,404 --> 01:16:44,804
If you can't fill us in yet,

1382
01:16:44,884 --> 01:16:48,765
hell, we should be kissing your feet
for your fine efforts.

1383
01:16:50,205 --> 01:16:51,566
You know...

1384
01:16:55,087 --> 01:16:57,927
in the old country,
we were taught as young children

1385
01:16:57,968 --> 01:17:00,568
that there's no shame
in supplicating yourself

1386
01:17:00,648 --> 01:17:02,168
when you respect someone.

1387
01:17:02,249 --> 01:17:04,209
On behalf of Capitol Pictures,

1388
01:17:04,289 --> 01:17:07,690
the administration,
and all of the stockholders,

1389
01:17:07,770 --> 01:17:09,651
please accept this

1390
01:17:09,690 --> 01:17:12,932
as a symbol of
our apology and respect.

1391
01:17:38,978 --> 01:17:41,139
Barton, can I come in?

1392
01:17:53,342 --> 01:17:56,143
Jesus... you're leaving?

1393
01:17:56,223 --> 01:17:59,144
Have to, old-timer,
just for a little while.

1394
01:17:59,223 --> 01:18:00,864
Jesus.

1395
01:18:00,944 --> 01:18:02,064
Charlie, I...

1396
01:18:02,065 --> 01:18:03,745
Everything's okay, believe me.

1397
01:18:03,825 --> 01:18:05,665
I know it's rough mentally,

1398
01:18:05,746 --> 01:18:08,026
but everything's been taken care of.

1399
01:18:08,066 --> 01:18:10,746
Charlie, I got no one else here.

1400
01:18:10,827 --> 01:18:15,268
You're the only person
I know in Los Angeles

1401
01:18:15,348 --> 01:18:19,029
that I...
that I can talk to.

1402
01:18:26,311 --> 01:18:27,631
I feel like I'm...

1403
01:18:27,712 --> 01:18:31,033
like I'm losing my mind,
like I'm going crazy.

1404
01:18:31,112 --> 01:18:33,393
I don't know what to do.

1405
01:18:33,473 --> 01:18:36,354
I didn't do it, believe me.

1406
01:18:36,434 --> 01:18:38,274
I... I'm sure of that, Charlie.

1407
01:18:38,314 --> 01:18:41,155
You got to get a grip on, brother.

1408
01:18:41,194 --> 01:18:44,036
You got to carry on till I get back.

1409
01:18:44,075 --> 01:18:46,836
Try and stay here.
Don't talk to anyone.

1410
01:18:46,917 --> 01:18:48,917
We got to keep our heads,

1411
01:18:48,997 --> 01:18:50,797
and we'll figure it out.

1412
01:18:50,878 --> 01:18:51,877
Okay, but...

1413
01:18:51,878 --> 01:18:52,837
Don't argue.

1414
01:18:52,838 --> 01:18:56,159
You asked me to believe you and I do.

1415
01:18:56,239 --> 01:18:57,640
Now, don't argue with me.

1416
01:18:57,679 --> 01:19:01,960
Look, pal,
can you do something for me?

1417
01:19:02,001 --> 01:19:04,762
Keep that for me
till I get back.

1418
01:19:04,841 --> 01:19:06,601
It's just a lot of personal stuff,

1419
01:19:06,642 --> 01:19:09,482
but I don't want
to drag it with me.

1420
01:19:09,522 --> 01:19:10,763
Funny, huh?

1421
01:19:10,803 --> 01:19:13,644
When everything
that's important to a guy,

1422
01:19:13,684 --> 01:19:16,524
everything he wants to keep
from a lifetime,

1423
01:19:16,565 --> 01:19:21,326
and he can fit it all
into a little box like that.

1424
01:19:21,405 --> 01:19:23,567
I guess...

1425
01:19:23,606 --> 01:19:25,807
I guess it's pretty pathetic.

1426
01:19:25,847 --> 01:19:28,047
It's more than I've got.

1427
01:19:29,087 --> 01:19:30,488
Well, keep it for me.

1428
01:19:30,528 --> 01:19:32,408
Maybe it'll bring you good luck.

1429
01:19:32,449 --> 01:19:34,329
It'll help you finish your script.

1430
01:19:34,409 --> 01:19:36,730
You'll think about me.
Make me your wrestler.

1431
01:19:36,810 --> 01:19:38,651
Then you'll lick that story.

1432
01:19:38,730 --> 01:19:39,890
Thanks, Charlie.

1433
01:19:39,891 --> 01:19:41,251
Yeah, yeah, sure.

1434
01:19:41,331 --> 01:19:44,132
I'll see you soon, friend.
You'll be fine.

1435
01:19:44,212 --> 01:19:45,533
And you'll be back?

1436
01:19:45,612 --> 01:19:47,492
Don't worry about that, compadre.

1437
01:19:47,573 --> 01:19:49,093
I'll be back.

1438
01:22:39,058 --> 01:22:41,379
You read the Bible, Pete?

1439
01:22:43,340 --> 01:22:44,940
Holy Bible?

1440
01:22:47,181 --> 01:22:48,421
Yeah.

1441
01:22:49,781 --> 01:22:51,341
Yeah, I think so.

1442
01:22:52,622 --> 01:22:54,662
Anyway, I've heard about it.

1443
01:23:08,306 --> 01:23:09,387
Fink?

1444
01:23:09,466 --> 01:23:10,587
Yeah.

1445
01:23:10,666 --> 01:23:12,347
Detective Mastrionotti.

1446
01:23:12,428 --> 01:23:14,188
Detective Deutsch.

1447
01:23:14,227 --> 01:23:15,468
L.A.P.D.

1448
01:23:15,548 --> 01:23:16,789
Uh-huh.

1449
01:23:16,868 --> 01:23:19,189
Got some questions
we want to ask you.

1450
01:23:19,269 --> 01:23:21,870
Just routine.
Sit down.

1451
01:23:21,950 --> 01:23:24,071
What do you do, Fink?

1452
01:23:25,871 --> 01:23:27,391
I... I write.

1453
01:23:27,471 --> 01:23:29,272
Oh, yeah?
What kind of writing?

1454
01:23:29,351 --> 01:23:31,832
As a matter of fact,
I write for the pictures.

1455
01:23:31,913 --> 01:23:33,273
Big fucking deal.

1456
01:23:33,353 --> 01:23:35,313
Should my partner
kiss your ass?

1457
01:23:35,393 --> 01:23:36,753
I didn't mean to sound...

1458
01:23:36,834 --> 01:23:38,194
What did you mean?

1459
01:23:38,234 --> 01:23:40,755
I got respect
for working guys like you.

1460
01:23:40,835 --> 01:23:42,715
Jesus, ain't that a load off.

1461
01:23:42,795 --> 01:23:44,116
You live in 621?

1462
01:23:44,196 --> 01:23:45,235
Yeah.

1463
01:23:45,316 --> 01:23:46,396
How long?

1464
01:23:46,476 --> 01:23:48,037
A week. Eight, nine days.

1465
01:23:48,116 --> 01:23:49,397
This multiple choice?

1466
01:23:49,477 --> 01:23:51,798
You know this slob?

1467
01:24:00,480 --> 01:24:03,240
Yeah, he lives next door to me.

1468
01:24:03,321 --> 01:24:04,681
That's right, Fink.

1469
01:24:04,761 --> 01:24:07,362
He lives next door to you.

1470
01:24:07,442 --> 01:24:09,722
You ever talk to him?

1471
01:24:09,763 --> 01:24:11,123
Once or twice.

1472
01:24:11,203 --> 01:24:13,683
His name is Charlie Meadows.

1473
01:24:13,763 --> 01:24:15,604
Yeah, and I'm Buck Rogers.

1474
01:24:15,683 --> 01:24:18,005
His name's Mundt.
Karl Mundt.

1475
01:24:18,085 --> 01:24:19,925
Also known as Madman Mundt.

1476
01:24:20,005 --> 01:24:22,285
A little funny in the head.

1477
01:24:22,366 --> 01:24:23,726
What did he...

1478
01:24:23,806 --> 01:24:26,607
He likes to ventilate people
with a shotgun

1479
01:24:26,687 --> 01:24:28,127
and cut their heads off.

1480
01:24:28,207 --> 01:24:29,567
Yeah, he's funny that way.

1481
01:24:29,608 --> 01:24:31,849
Started in Kansas City.
Couple of housewives.

1482
01:24:31,928 --> 01:24:34,249
We got the same M.O. in Los Feliz.

1483
01:24:34,329 --> 01:24:36,169
Doctor.
Ear, nose, and throat man.

1484
01:24:36,250 --> 01:24:37,610
All of which is missing.

1485
01:24:37,690 --> 01:24:39,050
Well, some throat was there.

1486
01:24:39,131 --> 01:24:40,530
Physician, heal thyself.

1487
01:24:40,611 --> 01:24:42,691
Good luck with
no fucking head.

1488
01:24:42,731 --> 01:24:45,131
Hollywood precinct finds
another stiff yesterday

1489
01:24:45,132 --> 01:24:46,452
not too far from here.

1490
01:24:46,533 --> 01:24:49,013
This one's better-looking
than the doc.

1491
01:24:49,093 --> 01:24:51,334
Female Caucasian,
about 30 years old,

1492
01:24:51,373 --> 01:24:52,814
nice tits, no head.

1493
01:24:52,854 --> 01:24:55,213
Ever see Mundt with anyone
fits that description?

1494
01:24:55,214 --> 01:24:58,255
But, you know,
with the head still on.

1495
01:24:59,416 --> 01:25:02,256
No, I never saw him
with anyone else.

1496
01:25:02,297 --> 01:25:05,137
So you did talk to Mundt.
What about?

1497
01:25:05,217 --> 01:25:06,698
Nothing, really.

1498
01:25:06,777 --> 01:25:09,618
He said he was
in the insurance business.

1499
01:25:09,699 --> 01:25:11,538
Yeah, and he's Buck Rogers.

1500
01:25:11,619 --> 01:25:14,380
No reputable company
would hire a guy like that.

1501
01:25:14,460 --> 01:25:15,699
That's what he said.

1502
01:25:15,700 --> 01:25:16,981
What else?

1503
01:25:19,220 --> 01:25:21,461
I'm trying to think.

1504
01:25:21,541 --> 01:25:24,302
Nothing, really. He...

1505
01:25:24,342 --> 01:25:28,983
He said he liked
Jack Oakie pictures.

1506
01:25:29,064 --> 01:25:33,985
You know, ordinarily we say
anything you might remember

1507
01:25:34,065 --> 01:25:35,425
could be helpful,

1508
01:25:35,505 --> 01:25:38,346
but I'll be frank with you, Fink.

1509
01:25:38,426 --> 01:25:40,066
That is not helpful.

1510
01:25:40,147 --> 01:25:43,068
Notice how he's not writing it down?

1511
01:25:43,147 --> 01:25:45,188
Fink.

1512
01:25:45,268 --> 01:25:47,469
That's a...

1513
01:25:47,548 --> 01:25:49,669
a Jewish name, isn't it?

1514
01:25:49,749 --> 01:25:50,870
Yeah.

1515
01:25:50,909 --> 01:25:52,429
Yeah.

1516
01:25:52,510 --> 01:25:55,631
I didn't think
this dump was restricted.

1517
01:25:55,710 --> 01:25:58,071
Mundt has disappeared.

1518
01:25:58,111 --> 01:26:00,472
I don't think he'll be back,

1519
01:26:00,511 --> 01:26:03,993
but give me a call
if you see him...

1520
01:26:05,753 --> 01:26:09,474
or if you remember something
that isn't totally idiotic.

1521
01:27:50,461 --> 01:27:51,902
"Fade in.

1522
01:27:51,941 --> 01:27:58,183
Ayoung hussy opens the door...

1523
01:27:58,263 --> 01:28:02,064
to the burlyman's...

1524
01:28:02,144 --> 01:28:03,224
apartment.

1525
01:28:03,265 --> 01:28:05,505
If you were a man,

1526
01:28:05,585 --> 01:28:09,306
a real man,

1527
01:28:09,346 --> 01:28:11,266
you'd slap me."

1528
01:28:12,467 --> 01:28:16,708
"I put my mark on you first...

1529
01:28:16,748 --> 01:28:20,189
in... delibly."

1530
01:28:30,032 --> 01:28:31,872
"Boardinghouse,

1531
01:28:31,953 --> 01:28:33,231
painted women,

1532
01:28:33,232 --> 01:28:35,113
and the burlyman..."

1533
01:28:35,153 --> 01:28:36,513
"Why'd you arrest him?"

1534
01:28:36,594 --> 01:28:40,475
"With one lightning move
with his mighty arms,

1535
01:28:40,555 --> 01:28:41,674
the burlyman..."

1536
01:28:41,675 --> 01:28:43,035
"She's a good woman..."

1537
01:28:43,115 --> 01:28:47,796
"I don't care what people say..."

1538
01:28:47,877 --> 01:28:51,357
"So, Burlyman,
we have to deduct those expenses

1539
01:28:51,438 --> 01:28:53,198
from your personal..."

1540
01:28:53,278 --> 01:28:57,358
"Don't you care for me
after all these years?"

1541
01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,760
Hold the line, sir.
I have your call.

1542
01:28:59,839 --> 01:29:02,681
Hello, operator!
I can't...

1543
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:05,201
Oh, God.

1544
01:29:07,562 --> 01:29:08,721
Ahem. Hello?

1545
01:29:08,722 --> 01:29:10,122
Garland, it's me.

1546
01:29:10,162 --> 01:29:11,403
Barton?

1547
01:29:11,443 --> 01:29:13,363
Wh-What time is it?

1548
01:29:13,404 --> 01:29:14,764
Are you all right?

1549
01:29:14,844 --> 01:29:16,204
Yeah, I'm... I'm fine.

1550
01:29:16,284 --> 01:29:18,605
I have to talk to you, Garland.

1551
01:29:18,644 --> 01:29:20,045
I'm calling long-distance.

1552
01:29:20,085 --> 01:29:22,446
What is it, Barton?
Are you okay?

1553
01:29:22,485 --> 01:29:23,926
Yeah, I'm fine, Garland,

1554
01:29:23,966 --> 01:29:25,327
but we have to talk.

1555
01:29:25,366 --> 01:29:27,287
It's about what I'm writing.

1556
01:29:27,327 --> 01:29:28,847
I think...

1557
01:29:28,927 --> 01:29:30,408
it's really...

1558
01:29:31,608 --> 01:29:33,488
I think it's really big.

1559
01:29:33,529 --> 01:29:35,329
What do you mean, Barton?

1560
01:29:35,409 --> 01:29:37,770
Not big in the sense of large,

1561
01:29:37,849 --> 01:29:39,210
although it's that, too.

1562
01:29:39,290 --> 01:29:41,010
I... I mean important.

1563
01:29:41,051 --> 01:29:43,891
This may be
the most important work

1564
01:29:43,931 --> 01:29:45,332
I've ever done.

1565
01:29:45,372 --> 01:29:47,652
Barton, is everything okay?

1566
01:29:47,732 --> 01:29:49,973
You sound a little, um...

1567
01:29:50,013 --> 01:29:52,293
Sound a little what?

1568
01:29:52,373 --> 01:29:54,454
You sound a little, um...

1569
01:29:54,494 --> 01:29:56,374
Thanks, Garland.

1570
01:29:56,455 --> 01:29:58,615
Thanks for all the encouragement.

1571
01:30:01,096 --> 01:30:02,377
Nitwit.

1572
01:31:03,872 --> 01:31:04,993
Whoo!

1573
01:31:05,073 --> 01:31:06,594
You're cute.

1574
01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:35,000
Excuse me, buddy.
Mind if I cut in?

1575
01:31:35,081 --> 01:31:37,921
This is my dance, sailor.

1576
01:31:38,002 --> 01:31:41,482
Hey, come on, buddy.
I'm shipping out tomorrow.

1577
01:31:41,563 --> 01:31:43,603
I'm a writer

1578
01:31:43,643 --> 01:31:46,324
celebrating the completion
of something good.

1579
01:31:46,404 --> 01:31:48,525
Do you understand that, sailor?

1580
01:31:48,604 --> 01:31:50,285
Beat it, creep.

1581
01:31:50,365 --> 01:31:52,686
Come on, buddy,
give the navy a dance.

1582
01:31:52,766 --> 01:31:54,486
Let somebody else spin the dame.

1583
01:31:54,566 --> 01:31:56,247
Step aside, four eyes!

1584
01:31:56,286 --> 01:31:57,807
4-F, take a hike!

1585
01:31:57,887 --> 01:31:59,607
Go sit on a tomato.

1586
01:31:59,688 --> 01:32:02,448
I'm a writer, you monsters!

1587
01:32:02,528 --> 01:32:03,649
I create!

1588
01:32:03,728 --> 01:32:05,569
I create for a living!

1589
01:32:05,649 --> 01:32:07,450
I'm a creator!

1590
01:32:07,529 --> 01:32:08,889
I am a creator!

1591
01:32:08,970 --> 01:32:10,010
Screwy!

1592
01:32:10,091 --> 01:32:12,611
This is my uniform.

1593
01:32:12,691 --> 01:32:15,491
This is how I serve the common man!

1594
01:32:15,572 --> 01:32:17,092
This is where I...

1595
01:32:18,532 --> 01:32:20,133
Get 'em, boys!

1596
01:32:58,143 --> 01:32:59,504
"He left this morning.

1597
01:32:59,583 --> 01:33:02,385
Said he had a job to do.

1598
01:33:02,464 --> 01:33:05,465
There was something in his eyes,

1599
01:33:05,545 --> 01:33:07,225
something new.

1600
01:33:07,306 --> 01:33:10,587
What's to become of him?"

1601
01:33:13,507 --> 01:33:16,668
We'll be hearing
from that crazy wrestler,

1602
01:33:16,748 --> 01:33:19,589
and I don't mean a postcard.

1603
01:33:19,669 --> 01:33:21,469
Fade out.

1604
01:33:21,549 --> 01:33:22,749
The end."

1605
01:33:24,470 --> 01:33:26,351
I thought you said
you were a writer.

1606
01:33:26,391 --> 01:33:29,552
I don't know, Duke.
I kind of liked it.

1607
01:33:29,591 --> 01:33:32,192
Keep your filthy eyes
off of that.

1608
01:33:33,432 --> 01:33:35,473
You made the morning papers, Fink.

1609
01:33:35,553 --> 01:33:37,874
Second one of
your friends to die.

1610
01:33:37,953 --> 01:33:40,274
You do get around, don't you?

1611
01:33:40,354 --> 01:33:42,835
You didn't tell us
you knew the dame.

1612
01:33:42,915 --> 01:33:45,556
Sixth floor too high for you, Fink?

1613
01:33:45,596 --> 01:33:47,117
Give you nosebleeds?

1614
01:33:47,996 --> 01:33:49,876
Just tell me one thing.

1615
01:33:49,957 --> 01:33:51,797
Where'd you put the heads?

1616
01:33:51,877 --> 01:33:54,038
Charlie.

1617
01:33:54,078 --> 01:33:55,599
Charlie's back.

1618
01:33:55,678 --> 01:33:57,079
No kidding, bright boy.

1619
01:33:57,158 --> 01:33:59,720
We smelled Mundt all over this.

1620
01:33:59,799 --> 01:34:01,399
Was he the idea man?

1621
01:34:01,440 --> 01:34:02,840
Tell us where the heads are.

1622
01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:04,840
Maybe they'll go easy on you.

1623
01:34:04,921 --> 01:34:06,201
Only fry you once.

1624
01:34:06,281 --> 01:34:07,962
Come back later.
It's too hot.

1625
01:34:08,001 --> 01:34:09,242
My head's killing me.

1626
01:34:09,322 --> 01:34:11,202
All right, forget the heads.

1627
01:34:11,282 --> 01:34:12,603
Where's Mundt, Fink?

1628
01:34:12,683 --> 01:34:14,043
He teach you how to do it?

1629
01:34:14,083 --> 01:34:15,803
You two have some sick sex thing?

1630
01:34:15,884 --> 01:34:16,764
Sex?

1631
01:34:16,844 --> 01:34:18,204
He's a man.

1632
01:34:18,284 --> 01:34:20,165
We wrestled.

1633
01:34:22,965 --> 01:34:24,766
You're a sick fuck, Fink.

1634
01:34:24,806 --> 01:34:27,007
Charlie's back.

1635
01:34:27,087 --> 01:34:28,447
It's hot.

1636
01:34:28,487 --> 01:34:29,368
He's back.

1637
01:34:53,614 --> 01:34:55,254
Fred.

1638
01:35:00,776 --> 01:35:02,336
Sit tight, Fink.

1639
01:35:07,738 --> 01:35:10,779
Why's it so goddamn hot out here?

1640
01:35:12,379 --> 01:35:13,419
Duke.

1641
01:35:40,666 --> 01:35:42,187
Mundt!

1642
01:35:46,748 --> 01:35:47,828
Mundt!

1643
01:35:47,868 --> 01:35:50,029
Show yourself.

1644
01:36:10,794 --> 01:36:12,475
There's a boy, Mundt.

1645
01:36:14,475 --> 01:36:16,316
Put the policy case down

1646
01:36:16,356 --> 01:36:18,076
and your mitts in the air.

1647
01:36:27,518 --> 01:36:28,839
He's complying.

1648
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:35,721
Look upon me!

1649
01:36:35,801 --> 01:36:38,722
I'll show you the life of the mind!

1650
01:36:38,802 --> 01:36:40,803
Aah!

1651
01:36:40,882 --> 01:36:42,563
Aah!

1652
01:36:42,602 --> 01:36:44,963
Aah! Look upon me!

1653
01:36:45,003 --> 01:36:48,924
Aah! I'll show you
the life of the mind!

1654
01:36:49,005 --> 01:36:51,485
I'll show you the life of the mind!

1655
01:36:51,565 --> 01:36:53,286
I'll show you the life of the mind!

1656
01:36:53,366 --> 01:36:57,127
I will show you the life
of the mind!

1657
01:36:58,207 --> 01:37:00,008
Aah!

1658
01:37:24,173 --> 01:37:26,215
Heil, Hitler.

1659
01:37:26,254 --> 01:37:29,415
Aah!

1660
01:37:38,938 --> 01:37:40,138
Barton.

1661
01:37:43,139 --> 01:37:45,579
Brother, is it hot.

1662
01:37:46,900 --> 01:37:48,581
How you been, buddy?

1663
01:37:50,260 --> 01:37:53,062
Well, don't look at me like that.

1664
01:37:53,141 --> 01:37:55,822
It's just me... Charlie.

1665
01:37:55,862 --> 01:37:57,303
I hear it's Mundt.

1666
01:37:57,343 --> 01:38:00,303
Madman Mundt?

1667
01:38:00,384 --> 01:38:02,624
Jesus, people can be cruel.

1668
01:38:02,704 --> 01:38:06,665
If it's not my build,
it's my personality.

1669
01:38:12,267 --> 01:38:14,908
They say I'm a madman, Bart,

1670
01:38:14,987 --> 01:38:17,508
but I'm not mad at anyone.

1671
01:38:17,588 --> 01:38:18,909
Honest, I'm not.

1672
01:38:18,988 --> 01:38:22,429
Most guys I just feel sorry for.

1673
01:38:22,509 --> 01:38:24,350
It tears me up inside

1674
01:38:24,430 --> 01:38:27,231
to think about what
they're going through,

1675
01:38:27,310 --> 01:38:29,631
how trapped they are.

1676
01:38:30,672 --> 01:38:32,552
I understand it.

1677
01:38:33,632 --> 01:38:35,392
I feel for them.

1678
01:38:37,834 --> 01:38:40,674
So I try and help them out.

1679
01:38:40,715 --> 01:38:41,915
Jesus.

1680
01:38:43,835 --> 01:38:44,836
Yeah.

1681
01:38:44,915 --> 01:38:46,515
Yeah.

1682
01:38:46,596 --> 01:38:48,917
I know what it feels like

1683
01:38:48,996 --> 01:38:51,317
when things get all balled up

1684
01:38:51,397 --> 01:38:52,758
at the head office.

1685
01:38:52,837 --> 01:38:55,318
They put you through hell, Barton.

1686
01:38:56,678 --> 01:38:59,079
So I help people out.

1687
01:39:01,479 --> 01:39:05,401
I just wish someone
would do as much for me.

1688
01:39:06,922 --> 01:39:09,882
Jesus, it's hot.

1689
01:39:13,443 --> 01:39:15,243
Sometimes it gets so hot

1690
01:39:15,323 --> 01:39:18,725
I want to crawl
right out of my skin.

1691
01:39:18,764 --> 01:39:21,925
But, Charlie, why me?

1692
01:39:21,965 --> 01:39:23,045
Why...

1693
01:39:23,086 --> 01:39:26,566
Because you don't listen!

1694
01:39:34,089 --> 01:39:35,729
Jesus.

1695
01:39:35,809 --> 01:39:37,370
I'm dripping again.

1696
01:39:40,330 --> 01:39:42,571
Come on, Barton,

1697
01:39:42,610 --> 01:39:45,612
you think you know pain?

1698
01:39:46,932 --> 01:39:50,093
You think I made your life hell?

1699
01:39:51,373 --> 01:39:52,693
Look around this dump.

1700
01:39:52,773 --> 01:39:55,614
You're just a tourist
with a typewriter.

1701
01:39:55,694 --> 01:39:58,455
I live here.
Don't you understand that?

1702
01:40:04,976 --> 01:40:07,818
And you come into my home...

1703
01:40:09,858 --> 01:40:11,698
and you complain

1704
01:40:11,738 --> 01:40:15,539
that I'm making too much noise.

1705
01:40:26,623 --> 01:40:28,503
I'm sorry.

1706
01:40:35,304 --> 01:40:37,345
Don't be.

1707
01:41:22,998 --> 01:41:25,958
I'll be next door
if you need me.

1708
01:41:29,799 --> 01:41:31,080
Oh...

1709
01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:33,520
I dropped in on
your folks in New York.

1710
01:41:33,600 --> 01:41:36,481
And Uncle Maury.

1711
01:41:36,561 --> 01:41:37,881
Good people.

1712
01:41:43,963 --> 01:41:46,803
By the way,
that package I gave you...

1713
01:41:46,844 --> 01:41:48,324
I lied.

1714
01:41:48,405 --> 01:41:50,325
It isn't mine.

1715
01:42:51,781 --> 01:42:53,061
Fink.

1716
01:42:53,142 --> 01:42:54,502
Samuel or Lillian Fink.

1717
01:42:54,582 --> 01:42:55,942
85 Fulton Street.

1718
01:42:56,022 --> 01:42:57,423
Or Uncle Maury.

1719
01:42:57,503 --> 01:43:00,223
I understand that,
but there's still no answer.

1720
01:43:00,263 --> 01:43:01,183
Mr. Fink?

1721
01:43:01,224 --> 01:43:04,064
Shall I check for trouble
on the line?

1722
01:43:09,706 --> 01:43:11,866
Fink.

1723
01:43:11,947 --> 01:43:13,226
Mr. Lipnick.

1724
01:43:13,307 --> 01:43:15,628
Colonel Lipnick...
if you don't mind.

1725
01:43:15,707 --> 01:43:16,907
Sit down.

1726
01:43:16,988 --> 01:43:19,107
I was commissioned yesterday
in the army reserve.

1727
01:43:19,108 --> 01:43:21,708
Henry Morgenthau arranged it.
Dear friend.

1728
01:43:21,789 --> 01:43:23,629
Congratulations.

1729
01:43:23,669 --> 01:43:24,829
It hasn't officially
gone through yet.

1730
01:43:24,830 --> 01:43:26,190
Had wardrobe whip this up.

1731
01:43:26,270 --> 01:43:28,151
Got to pull teeth
to get anything done.

1732
01:43:28,231 --> 01:43:30,352
Can understand
red tape in peacetime,

1733
01:43:30,431 --> 01:43:32,431
but now it's all-out warfare
against theJaps.

1734
01:43:32,512 --> 01:43:35,113
They'd love to see me
sit this one out.

1735
01:43:35,153 --> 01:43:37,553
Yes, sir.
They, uh...

1736
01:43:37,633 --> 01:43:41,114
Anyway, I had Lou
read your script for me.

1737
01:43:41,194 --> 01:43:43,515
I got to tell you, Fink...

1738
01:43:43,595 --> 01:43:45,156
it won't wash.

1739
01:43:45,235 --> 01:43:46,274
With all due respect,

1740
01:43:46,275 --> 01:43:48,436
I think it's
the best work I've done.

1741
01:43:48,516 --> 01:43:49,755
Don't gas me, Fink.

1742
01:43:49,756 --> 01:43:53,557
If your opinion mattered,
I'd let you run the studio.

1743
01:43:53,638 --> 01:43:56,077
The lunatics aren't going to run
this particular asylum.

1744
01:43:56,078 --> 01:43:58,719
Let's put a stop
to that rumor right now.

1745
01:43:58,839 --> 01:44:00,879
Yes, sir.

1746
01:44:00,920 --> 01:44:02,440
Had to call Beery this morning,

1747
01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:05,080
tell him we were pushing
the picture back.

1748
01:44:05,120 --> 01:44:06,961
After all I told him about quality,

1749
01:44:07,001 --> 01:44:08,241
about that Barton Fink feeling,

1750
01:44:08,322 --> 01:44:09,642
how disappointed we were.

1751
01:44:09,722 --> 01:44:12,522
Wally was heartbroken.
The man was devastated.

1752
01:44:12,603 --> 01:44:14,923
I didn't actually call him.
Lou did.

1753
01:44:15,003 --> 01:44:17,604
That's a fair description,
isn't it, Lou?

1754
01:44:17,684 --> 01:44:18,683
Yes, Colonel.

1755
01:44:18,684 --> 01:44:22,005
I could take you
through it step-by-step,

1756
01:44:22,045 --> 01:44:23,925
explaining why
your story stinks,

1757
01:44:23,966 --> 01:44:26,286
but I won't insult
your intelligence.

1758
01:44:26,366 --> 01:44:27,366
Well, all right.

1759
01:44:27,366 --> 01:44:29,647
First of all,
this is a wrestling picture.

1760
01:44:29,727 --> 01:44:32,848
The audience wants to see action,
adventure, wrestling.

1761
01:44:32,928 --> 01:44:36,088
They don't want to see a guy
wrestling with his soul.

1762
01:44:36,169 --> 01:44:37,649
All right, some for the critics.

1763
01:44:37,729 --> 01:44:40,090
You make it the carrot
that wags the dog.

1764
01:44:40,130 --> 01:44:41,890
Too much,
they head for the exits.

1765
01:44:41,970 --> 01:44:44,771
There's plenty of poetry
inside that ring, Fink.

1766
01:44:44,851 --> 01:44:46,972
Look at Hell 10 Feet Square.

1767
01:44:47,012 --> 01:44:48,252
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.

1768
01:44:48,292 --> 01:44:49,492
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.

1769
01:44:49,493 --> 01:44:52,333
These are big movies,
Fink, about big men.

1770
01:44:52,413 --> 01:44:53,253
In tights!

1771
01:44:53,334 --> 01:44:55,654
Both physically
and mentally...

1772
01:44:55,694 --> 01:44:57,374
especially physically.

1773
01:44:57,414 --> 01:44:59,936
We don't put Wally Beery
in a fruity movie about suffering.

1774
01:44:59,975 --> 01:45:02,736
I thought we were
together on that.

1775
01:45:03,976 --> 01:45:06,217
I'm sorry if I let you down.

1776
01:45:06,297 --> 01:45:08,257
You didn't let me down
or even Lou.

1777
01:45:08,298 --> 01:45:10,978
We don't live or die
by what you scribble.

1778
01:45:11,018 --> 01:45:12,259
You let Ben Geisler down.

1779
01:45:12,298 --> 01:45:14,179
He liked you,
trusted you.

1780
01:45:14,218 --> 01:45:16,139
That's why he's gone.
He's fired.

1781
01:45:16,179 --> 01:45:18,020
That man had a big heart.

1782
01:45:18,059 --> 01:45:19,299
You fucked him.

1783
01:45:19,300 --> 01:45:21,381
He tried to convince me
to fire you, too,

1784
01:45:21,421 --> 01:45:22,821
but that'd be too easy.

1785
01:45:22,861 --> 01:45:24,742
You're under contract.
You'll stay that way.

1786
01:45:24,781 --> 01:45:27,181
Anything you write is
property of Capitol Pictures.

1787
01:45:27,182 --> 01:45:30,023
Capitol Pictures won't produce
anything you write...

1788
01:45:30,063 --> 01:45:32,463
not until you
grow up a little.

1789
01:45:32,544 --> 01:45:34,864
You ain't no writer, Fink.

1790
01:45:34,905 --> 01:45:37,265
You're a goddamn write-off.

1791
01:45:38,906 --> 01:45:42,066
I... I tried to show you...

1792
01:45:42,106 --> 01:45:43,466
something beautiful.

1793
01:45:45,427 --> 01:45:47,348
Something about all of us.

1794
01:45:47,388 --> 01:45:48,428
I...

1795
01:45:48,468 --> 01:45:52,109
You arrogant
son of a bitch.

1796
01:45:52,149 --> 01:45:54,429
You think
you're the only writer

1797
01:45:54,510 --> 01:45:56,871
that can give me
that Barton Fink feeling?

1798
01:45:56,950 --> 01:45:59,350
I got 20 writers
under contract

1799
01:45:59,431 --> 01:46:02,192
I can ask for
a Fink-type thing from!

1800
01:46:02,231 --> 01:46:03,552
You swell-headed hypocrite.

1801
01:46:03,632 --> 01:46:04,833
You don't get it.

1802
01:46:04,912 --> 01:46:06,192
You think the whole world

1803
01:46:06,193 --> 01:46:07,714
revolves around
whatever rattles

1804
01:46:07,793 --> 01:46:10,754
inside that little
kike head of yours.

1805
01:46:10,834 --> 01:46:13,315
Get him out of my sight, Lou!

1806
01:46:13,395 --> 01:46:15,075
I want him in town, though.

1807
01:46:15,155 --> 01:46:16,555
He's still under contract.

1808
01:46:16,636 --> 01:46:20,636
I want you in town
and out of my sight.

1809
01:46:20,677 --> 01:46:22,757
Now, get lost.

1810
01:46:22,837 --> 01:46:24,357
There's a war on.

1811
01:47:20,212 --> 01:47:22,533
It's a beautiful day.

1812
01:47:22,573 --> 01:47:23,653
Huh?

1813
01:47:29,615 --> 01:47:32,456
I said it's a beautiful day.

1814
01:47:32,496 --> 01:47:33,776
Yes.

1815
01:47:33,856 --> 01:47:35,536
It is.

1816
01:47:38,097 --> 01:47:39,978
What's in the box?

1817
01:47:41,819 --> 01:47:43,619
I don't know.

1818
01:47:44,859 --> 01:47:46,579
Isn't it yours?

1819
01:47:51,541 --> 01:47:53,541
I don't know.

1820
01:47:59,223 --> 01:48:01,343
You're very beautiful.

1821
01:48:05,945 --> 01:48:07,945
Are you in pictures?

1822
01:48:09,145 --> 01:48:10,986
Don't be silly.