1 00:01:41,852 --> 00:01:46,606 MAN: I'm kissing it all goodbye. These four stinking walls, six flights up. 2 00:01:46,690 --> 00:01:51,068 The L that roars by at 3:00 a.m. Like a cast-iron wind. 3 00:01:51,153 --> 00:01:53,946 Kiss them goodbye for me, Maury, I'll miss them. 4 00:01:54,031 --> 00:01:56,199 - Like hell I will. - LIL: Dreaming again. 5 00:01:56,283 --> 00:02:01,245 MAN: Not anymore, Lil. I'm awake now, awake for the first time in years. 6 00:02:01,830 --> 00:02:03,539 Uncle Dave said it. 7 00:02:03,624 --> 00:02:07,293 "Daylight is a dream if you've lived with your eyes closed." 8 00:02:07,377 --> 00:02:09,837 Well, my eyes are open now. 9 00:02:10,339 --> 00:02:13,174 I see the choir and I know they're dressed in rags 10 00:02:13,258 --> 00:02:15,593 but we're part of that choir, yeah, both of us. 11 00:02:15,677 --> 00:02:19,472 - And you, Maury, and Uncle Dave, too. - MAURY: The sun's coming up, kid. 12 00:02:19,556 --> 00:02:22,558 They'll be hawking the fish down on Fulton Street. 13 00:02:22,684 --> 00:02:26,270 MAN: Let 'em hawk. Let 'em sing their hearts out. 14 00:02:26,563 --> 00:02:30,483 MAURY: That's it, kid. Take that ruined choir. Make it sing. 15 00:02:30,818 --> 00:02:33,236 - MAN: So long, Maury. - MAURY: So long. 16 00:02:36,573 --> 00:02:40,159 We'll hear from that kid. And I don't mean a postcard. 17 00:02:42,079 --> 00:02:44,580 Fish! Fresh fish! 18 00:02:47,876 --> 00:02:51,587 LIL: Let's spit on our hands and get to work. It's late, Maury. 19 00:02:51,672 --> 00:02:54,882 MAURY: Not anymore, Lil. It's early. 20 00:02:56,093 --> 00:02:57,468 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 21 00:03:04,810 --> 00:03:07,103 MAN: Bravo! 22 00:03:08,897 --> 00:03:10,940 MAN 2: Bravo! 23 00:03:15,362 --> 00:03:16,821 MAN 3: Bravo! 24 00:03:22,411 --> 00:03:25,663 AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Author! Author! 25 00:03:27,457 --> 00:03:31,002 Author! Author! 26 00:03:36,717 --> 00:03:38,634 (CHEERING) 27 00:03:40,637 --> 00:03:42,054 (WHISTLING) 28 00:03:46,393 --> 00:03:47,977 (LIGHT JAZZ PLAYING) 29 00:03:48,812 --> 00:03:50,855 Your table is ready, Monsieur Fink. 30 00:03:50,981 --> 00:03:54,817 In fact, several members of your party have already arrived. 31 00:03:55,277 --> 00:03:56,777 BARTON: Is Garland Stanford here? 32 00:03:56,862 --> 00:04:00,823 He called to say he'll be a few minutes late. Ahh, here we are. 33 00:04:01,074 --> 00:04:04,410 Barton, Barton, so glad you could make it. 34 00:04:04,494 --> 00:04:07,330 You know Richard St. Claire and Poppy Carnahan. 35 00:04:07,456 --> 00:04:08,998 POPPY: Charmed, charmed, charmed. 36 00:04:09,082 --> 00:04:11,876 DEREK: We're drinking champagne, dear boy, in honor of the occasion. 37 00:04:12,294 --> 00:04:15,630 - Have you seen The Herald? - Not yet. 38 00:04:15,714 --> 00:04:19,008 Well, I don't want to embarrass you but Caven could hardly contain himself. 39 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:22,345 But, more important, Richard and Poppy here loved the play. 40 00:04:22,804 --> 00:04:27,183 Weeping. Copious tears. What did The Herald say? 41 00:04:27,267 --> 00:04:29,352 - I happen to have it with me. - Please, Derek. 42 00:04:29,436 --> 00:04:33,439 DEREK: "Bare Ruined Choirs, Triumph Of The Common Man. 43 00:04:33,607 --> 00:04:34,857 "The star of Bare Ruined Choirs 44 00:04:34,942 --> 00:04:37,610 "was nowhere to be seen on the stage of the Belasco last night, 45 00:04:37,694 --> 00:04:41,113 "though the thespians all acquitted themselves admirably. 46 00:04:41,198 --> 00:04:45,451 "The find of the evening was the author of this drama about simple folk, 47 00:04:45,535 --> 00:04:46,911 "fishmongers, in fact, 48 00:04:47,204 --> 00:04:48,788 "whose brute struggle for existence 49 00:04:48,872 --> 00:04:51,624 "cannot quite quell their longing for something higher. 50 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:53,167 "The playwright finds nobility 51 00:04:53,251 --> 00:04:56,754 "in the most squalid corners and poetry in the most callous speech. 52 00:04:56,838 --> 00:05:00,007 "A tough new voice in the American theater has arrived 53 00:05:00,092 --> 00:05:04,428 "and the owner of that voice is named Barton Fink." 54 00:05:05,180 --> 00:05:07,056 Well, they'll be wrapping fish in it in the morning, 55 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:08,808 so I guess it's not a total waste. 56 00:05:09,017 --> 00:05:12,103 - Cynic. - I can't start listening to the critics 57 00:05:12,187 --> 00:05:14,981 and I can't kid myself about my own work. 58 00:05:15,607 --> 00:05:17,900 A writer writes from his gut. 59 00:05:17,985 --> 00:05:22,738 His gut tells him what's good and what's merely adequate. 60 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,702 I don't pretend to be a critic 61 00:05:27,786 --> 00:05:30,246 but Lord knows I have a gut 62 00:05:30,372 --> 00:05:35,209 and my gut tells me it's simply marvelous. 63 00:05:36,128 --> 00:05:38,295 And a charming gut it is. 64 00:05:38,380 --> 00:05:40,006 Oh, you dog. 65 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:43,551 - (HOWLING) - (GIGGLING) Oh, stop. 66 00:05:43,635 --> 00:05:45,219 (BELL RINGING) 67 00:05:51,018 --> 00:05:53,019 I thought you were going to join us. 68 00:05:53,103 --> 00:05:55,896 Jesus, Garland. You left me alone with those people? 69 00:05:55,981 --> 00:05:59,025 - Don't panic. I'll join you in a minute. - (SIGHS) 70 00:05:59,109 --> 00:06:01,318 We have to talk a little business. 71 00:06:01,445 --> 00:06:03,946 I've just been on the phone to Los Angeles. 72 00:06:04,281 --> 00:06:07,658 Barton, Capitol Pictures wants to put you under contract. 73 00:06:08,118 --> 00:06:12,747 They've offered you $1,000 a week. I think I can get them up to as high as $2,000. 74 00:06:13,123 --> 00:06:16,584 - To do what? - What do you do for a living? 75 00:06:17,961 --> 00:06:21,630 I'm not sure any more. I guess I try to make a difference. 76 00:06:21,798 --> 00:06:24,842 Look, Barton. There's no pressure here because I respect you. 77 00:06:25,052 --> 00:06:26,719 But a brief tenure in Hollywood 78 00:06:26,803 --> 00:06:30,556 could support you through the writing of any number of plays. 79 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,893 I don't know, Garland. My place is here right now. 80 00:06:33,977 --> 00:06:37,813 I feel I'm on the brink of success. 81 00:06:38,148 --> 00:06:41,067 - I'd say you're already enjoying some. - No, don't you see, Garland? 82 00:06:41,151 --> 00:06:44,570 Not the kind of success where the critics fawn over you 83 00:06:44,654 --> 00:06:47,490 or the producers like Derek make a lot of money. 84 00:06:47,574 --> 00:06:49,617 No, a real success. 85 00:06:49,701 --> 00:06:51,911 The success we've been dreaming about. 86 00:06:51,995 --> 00:06:54,872 The creation of a new, living theater, 87 00:06:54,998 --> 00:06:57,666 of and about and for the common man. 88 00:06:58,168 --> 00:07:00,086 If I ran off to Hollywood now, 89 00:07:00,170 --> 00:07:04,006 I'd be making money, going to parties, meeting the big shots, sure. 90 00:07:04,091 --> 00:07:07,635 But I'd be cutting myself off from the wellspring of that success, 91 00:07:07,719 --> 00:07:09,345 from the common man. 92 00:07:11,681 --> 00:07:12,723 (SIGHS) 93 00:07:12,808 --> 00:07:15,601 (CHUCKLES) I guess I'm spouting off again. 94 00:07:15,685 --> 00:07:17,186 Did you see Caven's review in The Herald? 95 00:07:17,395 --> 00:07:20,189 - No, what did it say? - Here, take my copy. 96 00:07:20,690 --> 00:07:22,358 You're the toast of Broadway 97 00:07:22,442 --> 00:07:25,319 and you have an opportunity to redeem that for a little cash. 98 00:07:25,403 --> 00:07:27,738 Strike that, a lot of cash. 99 00:07:31,409 --> 00:07:34,620 The common man'll still be here when you get back. 100 00:07:36,123 --> 00:07:40,042 Who knows? They may even have one or two of them out in Hollywood. 101 00:07:40,585 --> 00:07:42,878 That's a rationalization, Garland. 102 00:07:44,089 --> 00:07:46,882 Barton, it was a joke. 103 00:08:35,599 --> 00:08:36,599 (RINGS) 104 00:08:42,898 --> 00:08:44,690 (RINGING SOUND CONTINUES) 105 00:08:55,911 --> 00:08:57,828 (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) 106 00:09:08,506 --> 00:09:09,506 (TRAP DOOR SLAMS) 107 00:09:11,635 --> 00:09:12,635 (RINGING STOPS) 108 00:09:12,928 --> 00:09:15,304 Welcome to the Hotel Earle. May I help you, sir? 109 00:09:15,513 --> 00:09:18,098 I'm checking in, Barton Fink. 110 00:09:19,809 --> 00:09:21,810 All righty. 111 00:09:23,188 --> 00:09:24,897 Okay. 112 00:09:24,981 --> 00:09:27,191 That's F-I-N-K? 113 00:09:29,653 --> 00:09:33,989 - Fink, Barton. That must be you, huh? - Must be. 114 00:09:34,366 --> 00:09:37,660 Okay, then, everything seems to be in order. 115 00:09:37,744 --> 00:09:41,747 Everything seems to be in order. Just... 116 00:09:45,043 --> 00:09:47,836 - Are you a trans or a res? - Excuse me? 117 00:09:47,921 --> 00:09:50,339 Transient or resident? 118 00:09:50,632 --> 00:09:54,802 I don't know. I mean, I'll be here indefinitely. 119 00:09:54,886 --> 00:09:57,846 Res. That'll be $25.50 a week, payable in advance. 120 00:09:57,931 --> 00:09:59,348 Checkout time is 12:00 sharp only, 121 00:09:59,432 --> 00:10:01,350 you can forget about that on account of you're a res. 122 00:10:01,434 --> 00:10:02,851 If you need anything, anything at all, 123 00:10:02,936 --> 00:10:04,937 just pick up your personal in-room telephone and talk to me. 124 00:10:05,021 --> 00:10:06,272 My name is Chet. 125 00:10:06,356 --> 00:10:08,607 Although we do provide privacy for the residential guests, 126 00:10:08,692 --> 00:10:11,735 we are also a full-service hotel, including complimentary shoeshine. 127 00:10:11,820 --> 00:10:13,779 My name is Chet. 128 00:10:15,365 --> 00:10:17,366 Okay. 129 00:10:22,247 --> 00:10:23,831 Those your only bags? 130 00:10:25,041 --> 00:10:26,750 The others are being sent. 131 00:10:27,961 --> 00:10:29,962 Welcome to Los Angeles, Mr. Fink. 132 00:10:42,809 --> 00:10:44,268 Six, please. 133 00:10:47,647 --> 00:10:49,898 Next stop, six. 134 00:10:52,068 --> 00:10:53,068 (ELEVATOR DINGS) 135 00:10:53,945 --> 00:10:55,487 (ELEVATOR DOORS OPEN) 136 00:10:57,782 --> 00:11:00,367 ATTENDANT: This stop, six. 137 00:11:02,078 --> 00:11:03,454 (ELEVATOR DOOR SQUEAKING) 138 00:11:56,132 --> 00:11:57,800 (SPRINGS SQUEAK) 139 00:13:03,533 --> 00:13:04,533 (DISTANT SURF) 140 00:13:14,919 --> 00:13:16,503 (CRASHING SURF GROWS LOUDER) 141 00:13:22,719 --> 00:13:24,553 (SEAGULLS CRY) 142 00:13:26,347 --> 00:13:27,347 (GROANS) 143 00:13:46,284 --> 00:13:48,285 (MOSQUITO BUZZING FAINTLY) 144 00:14:01,257 --> 00:14:02,257 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 145 00:14:03,218 --> 00:14:07,346 Is that him? Is that Barton Fink? 146 00:14:08,723 --> 00:14:12,142 Let me at him. Let me put my arms around this guy. 147 00:14:12,227 --> 00:14:15,646 Let me hug this guy. How the hell are you? 148 00:14:16,105 --> 00:14:18,607 Good trip? My name is Jack Lipnick. 149 00:14:18,691 --> 00:14:20,859 I run this dump. You know that. You read the papers. 150 00:14:20,985 --> 00:14:23,070 Lou treating you all right? Get you everything you need? 151 00:14:23,238 --> 00:14:26,615 What the hell's the matter with your face? What the hell's the matter with his face, Lou. 152 00:14:26,699 --> 00:14:30,327 It's not as bad as it looks. Just a mosquito in my room. 153 00:14:30,453 --> 00:14:33,413 - Place okay? Where'd we put him? - I'm at the Earle. 154 00:14:33,498 --> 00:14:35,415 Never heard of it. Let's move him to The Grand or The Wilshire. 155 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:36,708 Hell, he can stay at my place! 156 00:14:36,793 --> 00:14:38,544 BARTON: Thanks, but I wanted a place that was a little less... 157 00:14:38,628 --> 00:14:40,087 Less Hollywood. 158 00:14:40,171 --> 00:14:42,256 Sure. Say it. It's not a dirty word. 159 00:14:42,340 --> 00:14:45,801 Say whatever the hell you want. The writer is king here at Capitol Pictures. 160 00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:48,595 You don't believe me? Take a look at your paycheck at the end of every week. 161 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,180 That's what we think of the writer. 162 00:14:50,265 --> 00:14:51,890 So, what kind of pictures does he like? 163 00:14:52,684 --> 00:14:55,060 Mr. Fink hasn't given a preference, Mr. Lipnick. 164 00:14:55,144 --> 00:14:57,187 So how about it, Bart? 165 00:14:58,314 --> 00:15:02,317 Well, to be honest, I don't go to the pictures much, Mr. Lipnick. 166 00:15:02,402 --> 00:15:04,611 That's okay. That's just fine. 167 00:15:04,696 --> 00:15:07,281 You probably walked in here thinking that was going to be a handicap. 168 00:15:07,365 --> 00:15:09,908 Thinking that we wanted people who knew something about the medium, 169 00:15:09,993 --> 00:15:13,829 maybe even thinking there was all kinds of technical mumbo-jumbo to learn. 170 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:16,873 You were dead wrong. We're only interested in one thing. 171 00:15:16,958 --> 00:15:20,168 Can you tell a story, Bart? Can you make us laugh, can you make us cry? 172 00:15:20,253 --> 00:15:23,088 Can you make us wanna break out in joyous song? 173 00:15:23,172 --> 00:15:24,590 Is that more than one thing? Okay. 174 00:15:24,674 --> 00:15:27,759 The point is, I run this dump and I don't know the technical mumbo-jumbo. 175 00:15:27,844 --> 00:15:31,763 Why do I run it? 'Cause I got horse sense, goddamn it. Showmanship! 176 00:15:31,848 --> 00:15:33,473 And also, I hope Lou told you this. 177 00:15:33,558 --> 00:15:35,475 I am bigger, meaner and louder 178 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,686 than any other kike in this town. Did you tell him that, Lou? 179 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:39,938 I don't mean my dick is bigger than yours, it's not a sexual thing. 180 00:15:40,023 --> 00:15:42,190 Although, you are a writer, you know more about that. Coffee? 181 00:15:45,194 --> 00:15:47,195 - Yes, thank you. - Lou! 182 00:15:55,330 --> 00:15:57,664 Used to have shares in the company. 183 00:15:57,749 --> 00:15:59,916 Ownership interest. Got bought out in the '20s. 184 00:16:00,001 --> 00:16:02,711 Muscled out, according to some. According to me. 185 00:16:02,795 --> 00:16:04,379 We keep him around. He's got a family. 186 00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:06,298 Poor schmuck. He's sensitive. Don't mention the old days. 187 00:16:06,382 --> 00:16:09,092 Hell, say whatever you want. Look, Bart. 188 00:16:09,552 --> 00:16:13,138 Barring a preference, we're gonna put you to work on a wrestling picture. Wallace Beery. 189 00:16:13,222 --> 00:16:15,390 I say this because they tell me you know the poetry of the streets 190 00:16:15,516 --> 00:16:19,311 so that would rule out westerns, pirates, screwball, Bible, Roman... 191 00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:22,814 Look. I'm not one of those guys that thinks poetic has gotta be fruity. 192 00:16:22,899 --> 00:16:25,859 We're together on that, aren't we? I mean, I'm from New York myself. 193 00:16:25,943 --> 00:16:28,403 Minsk, if you wanna go all the way back. 194 00:16:28,488 --> 00:16:31,281 Which we won't, if you don't mind, and I ain't asking. 195 00:16:31,366 --> 00:16:35,118 Now, people are gonna say to you, "Wallace Beery, wrestling, it's a B-picture." 196 00:16:35,203 --> 00:16:37,204 You tell them, "Bullshit!" 197 00:16:37,455 --> 00:16:40,499 We do not make B-pictures here at Capitol. 198 00:16:40,583 --> 00:16:44,002 Let's put a stop to that rumor... (THUMPS DESK) right now. 199 00:16:47,715 --> 00:16:50,717 Thanks, Lou. Join us. 200 00:16:50,802 --> 00:16:54,805 - We're talking about the Wally Beery picture. - Excellent picture. 201 00:16:54,889 --> 00:16:57,182 - We got a treatment on it yet? - No, not yet, Jack. 202 00:16:57,266 --> 00:16:58,725 We just bought the story. 203 00:16:58,810 --> 00:17:01,144 - Saturday Evening Post. - To hell with the story. 204 00:17:01,604 --> 00:17:03,021 Wally Beery is a wrestler. 205 00:17:03,106 --> 00:17:04,523 I wanna know his hopes, his dreams. 206 00:17:04,607 --> 00:17:06,733 Naturally, you have to get him mixed up with a bad element. 207 00:17:06,818 --> 00:17:08,985 And a romantic interest, you know the drill. 208 00:17:09,070 --> 00:17:11,655 Romantic interest, or else a young kid, an orphan. 209 00:17:11,989 --> 00:17:15,492 What do you think, Lou? Wally a little too old for a romantic interest? 210 00:17:18,579 --> 00:17:19,871 Look at me. 211 00:17:20,832 --> 00:17:24,668 A writer in the room and I'm asking Lou what the goddamn story should be. 212 00:17:24,961 --> 00:17:27,754 Which is it, Bart? Orphan? Dame? 213 00:17:31,718 --> 00:17:32,968 Both, maybe? 214 00:17:37,974 --> 00:17:39,975 Maybe we should do a treatment. 215 00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:42,978 Hell. Let Bart take a crack at it. 216 00:17:43,104 --> 00:17:46,231 He'll get into the swing of things or I don't know writers. 217 00:17:46,315 --> 00:17:48,567 Let's make it a dame, Bart. Keep it simple. 218 00:17:48,651 --> 00:17:50,277 We don't gotta tackle the world the first time out. 219 00:17:50,361 --> 00:17:53,989 The important thing is we all want it to have that Barton Fink feeling. 220 00:17:54,073 --> 00:17:56,324 I guess, we all have that Barton Fink feeling 221 00:17:56,409 --> 00:17:59,077 but since you're Barton Fink, I'm assuming you have it in spades. 222 00:17:59,162 --> 00:18:02,664 Seriously, Bart, I like you. We're off to a good start. 223 00:18:02,749 --> 00:18:05,876 If all my writers were like you, I wouldn't have to get so goddamn involved. 224 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,170 I'd like to see something by the end of the week. 225 00:18:12,508 --> 00:18:14,676 Oh, I heard about your show, by the way. 226 00:18:14,761 --> 00:18:18,263 My man in New York saw it. Tells me it's pretty damn powerful, pretty damn moving. 227 00:18:18,347 --> 00:18:21,600 A little fruity, he said, but I guess you know what you're doing. 228 00:18:21,684 --> 00:18:25,479 Thanks for your heart, Bart. We need more heart in motion pictures. 229 00:18:26,189 --> 00:18:28,190 We're all expecting great things. 230 00:18:33,404 --> 00:18:35,405 (TYPEWRITER CLACKING) 231 00:19:03,226 --> 00:19:04,226 (ROLLS PAPER) 232 00:19:15,738 --> 00:19:16,780 (FAINT LAUGHTER) 233 00:19:26,415 --> 00:19:27,791 (LAUGHTER CONTINUES) 234 00:19:31,629 --> 00:19:33,421 (MAN WEEPING) 235 00:19:39,095 --> 00:19:40,679 (MAN LAUGHING) 236 00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:05,829 (LAUGHTER CONTINUES) 237 00:20:11,794 --> 00:20:12,794 (MAN WEEPING) 238 00:20:27,852 --> 00:20:28,852 (LAUGHING CONTINUES) 239 00:20:41,991 --> 00:20:43,700 (MUFFLED WEEPING) 240 00:20:49,749 --> 00:20:52,626 - Front desk. - Hello, Chet? 241 00:20:52,835 --> 00:20:56,087 - Speaking. - This is Barton Fink in room 621. 242 00:20:56,380 --> 00:20:58,673 - Mmm-hmm? - Yes, there's... 243 00:20:58,841 --> 00:21:02,719 There's someone in the room next door to mine, 623, 244 00:21:03,012 --> 00:21:05,013 and he's... 245 00:21:05,139 --> 00:21:06,348 He's... 246 00:21:08,225 --> 00:21:11,978 Making a lot of noise. 247 00:21:12,063 --> 00:21:15,190 - I'll take care of it right away, sir. - Thank you. 248 00:21:19,487 --> 00:21:21,029 (MUFFLED TELEPHONE RINGING) 249 00:21:26,953 --> 00:21:28,578 MAN: (MUFFLED) Hello. 250 00:21:29,413 --> 00:21:30,872 What? 251 00:21:31,374 --> 00:21:32,374 Huh? 252 00:21:34,210 --> 00:21:35,835 Who? 253 00:21:36,712 --> 00:21:37,671 (TELEPHONE HANGING UP) 254 00:21:37,755 --> 00:21:38,755 (FOOTSTEPS) 255 00:21:42,551 --> 00:21:43,551 (DOOR OPENS) 256 00:21:46,222 --> 00:21:47,472 (FOOTSTEPS IN HALL) 257 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:50,100 (LOUD KNOCKING AT DOOR) 258 00:22:08,744 --> 00:22:09,911 Did you... 259 00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:16,126 - Somebody just complained. - No, I didn't. 260 00:22:16,210 --> 00:22:19,087 I mean, I did call down. Not to complain exactly. 261 00:22:19,463 --> 00:22:22,340 I was just concerned that you might... 262 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:24,509 Not that it's my business, 263 00:22:24,593 --> 00:22:27,762 but that you might be in some kind of distress. 264 00:22:28,097 --> 00:22:29,973 See, I was trying to work and it's... 265 00:22:30,057 --> 00:22:32,267 Well, it was difficult. 266 00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:39,399 Yeah... 267 00:22:39,483 --> 00:22:44,404 I'm damn sorry if I bothered you. The damn walls. I just apologize like hell. 268 00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:47,615 My name's Charlie Meadows. I guess we're neighbors. 269 00:22:47,742 --> 00:22:49,826 Barton Fink. 270 00:22:49,952 --> 00:22:53,163 Neighbor, I'd feel better about the damned inconvenience 271 00:22:53,247 --> 00:22:55,248 if you let me buy you a drink. 272 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,836 - That's all right, really. Thank you. - "All right," hell. 273 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:03,298 You trying to work, me carrying on in there. 274 00:23:03,424 --> 00:23:06,134 Look, the liquor's good. What do you say? 275 00:23:06,844 --> 00:23:09,304 You got a glass? It's the least I can do. 276 00:23:10,931 --> 00:23:14,851 Okay. A quick one. Sure. 277 00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:16,853 Yeah, just a nip. 278 00:23:18,481 --> 00:23:20,648 I sure do forget myself sometimes. 279 00:23:22,234 --> 00:23:25,070 I feel like a heel, all the carryings-on next door. 280 00:23:25,654 --> 00:23:27,572 That's okay, I assure you. 281 00:23:27,656 --> 00:23:29,657 - (GLASSES CLINK) - It's just I was trying to work. 282 00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:33,828 What kind of work do you do, Barton, if you don't mind my asking? 283 00:23:34,497 --> 00:23:36,581 Well, I'm a writer, actually. 284 00:23:36,665 --> 00:23:38,500 You don't say. That's a tough racket. 285 00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:40,919 My hat's off to anyone that can make a go of it. 286 00:23:41,003 --> 00:23:44,672 - Damned interesting work, I'd imagine. - Can be. It's not easy but... 287 00:23:44,882 --> 00:23:46,299 Damned difficult, I'd imagine. 288 00:23:46,967 --> 00:23:50,303 - And what's your line, Mr. Meadows? - Hell, no, call me Charlie. 289 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:54,599 Well, Barton, you might say I sell peace of mind. 290 00:23:55,351 --> 00:23:56,559 Insurance is my game. 291 00:23:56,644 --> 00:23:59,813 Door to door. Human contact. Still the only way to move the merchandise. 292 00:24:00,314 --> 00:24:03,024 In spite of what you might think from tonight, I'm pretty good at it. 293 00:24:03,150 --> 00:24:05,860 - It doesn't surprise me at all. - Hell, yes! Because I believe in it. 294 00:24:06,278 --> 00:24:08,029 Fire, theft and casualty are not things 295 00:24:08,114 --> 00:24:10,740 that only happen to other people, that's what I tell them. 296 00:24:10,825 --> 00:24:13,243 Writing doesn't work out, you may wanna look into it. 297 00:24:13,327 --> 00:24:16,454 Providing for a basic human need. A fella could do worse. 298 00:24:16,539 --> 00:24:19,124 - Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. - Mmm. 299 00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:22,710 What kind of scribbler are you? Newspaperman, did you say? 300 00:24:23,212 --> 00:24:26,131 No. Actually, I'm writing for the pictures now. 301 00:24:26,215 --> 00:24:28,716 Pictures? Jesus! 302 00:24:32,429 --> 00:24:34,055 Oh, I'm sorry, brother. 303 00:24:34,557 --> 00:24:36,015 I was just sitting here thinking 304 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:39,561 I was talking to some ambitious youngster eager to make good. 305 00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:40,812 Hell, you've got it made. 306 00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:43,815 Writing for the pictures! Beating out that competition. 307 00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:46,025 And me being patronizing? 308 00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:49,904 Is the egg showing or what? 309 00:24:49,989 --> 00:24:52,740 That's okay, I am just starting out in the movies, 310 00:24:52,825 --> 00:24:55,827 though I was pretty well established in New York. 311 00:24:55,911 --> 00:24:59,497 - Some renown there. - It's an exciting time, then. 312 00:25:00,124 --> 00:25:02,167 I'm not the best-read mug on the planet 313 00:25:02,251 --> 00:25:05,253 so I guess it's not surprising I didn't recognize your name. 314 00:25:06,422 --> 00:25:08,339 Jesus, I feel like a heel. 315 00:25:09,091 --> 00:25:11,092 That's okay, Charlie. 316 00:25:11,177 --> 00:25:14,429 I'm a playwright. My shows have only played New York. 317 00:25:14,763 --> 00:25:16,347 The last one got a hell of a write-up in The Herald. 318 00:25:16,432 --> 00:25:18,266 I guess that's why they wanted me here. 319 00:25:18,350 --> 00:25:20,643 Hell, why not? Everyone wants quality. 320 00:25:20,728 --> 00:25:23,104 What kind of venue... 321 00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:25,940 That is to say, thematically... 322 00:25:26,609 --> 00:25:27,609 Umm... 323 00:25:28,569 --> 00:25:30,111 What do I write about? 324 00:25:32,615 --> 00:25:35,116 Caught me trying to be fancy. Yeah, that's it, Bart. 325 00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:37,994 Well, that's a good question. 326 00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:42,498 Strange as it may seem, Charlie, I guess I write about people like you. 327 00:25:42,583 --> 00:25:45,251 The average working stiff, the common man. 328 00:25:45,336 --> 00:25:48,213 - Well, ain't that a kick in the head. - Yeah, I guess it is. 329 00:25:48,297 --> 00:25:51,424 But in a way, that's exactly the point. 330 00:25:51,508 --> 00:25:55,303 There's a few people in New York... Hopefully, our numbers are growing... 331 00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:58,181 Who feel we have an opportunity now 332 00:25:58,265 --> 00:26:01,559 to forge something real out of everyday experience. 333 00:26:01,685 --> 00:26:06,064 Create a theater for the masses based on a few simple truths, 334 00:26:06,148 --> 00:26:07,899 not on some shopworn abstractions 335 00:26:07,983 --> 00:26:11,611 about drama that don't hold true today, if they ever did. 336 00:26:12,863 --> 00:26:16,574 - I don't guess this means much to you. - Hell yeah. I could tell you some stories. 337 00:26:16,659 --> 00:26:20,495 And that's the point. That we all have stories. 338 00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:24,999 The hopes and dreams of the common man are as noble as those of any king. 339 00:26:25,084 --> 00:26:27,919 It's the stuff of life, why shouldn't it be the stuff of theater? 340 00:26:28,003 --> 00:26:32,465 Goddamn it, why should that be such a hard pill to swallow? 341 00:26:32,549 --> 00:26:36,094 Don't call it new theater, Charlie, call it real theater. 342 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:38,596 Call it our theater. 343 00:26:39,974 --> 00:26:42,225 I can see you feel pretty strongly about it. 344 00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:45,395 Well, I don't mean to get up on my high horse. 345 00:26:46,105 --> 00:26:48,356 But why shouldn't we look at ourselves up there? 346 00:26:48,983 --> 00:26:53,319 Who cares about the Fifth Earl of Bastrop and Lady Higginbottom 347 00:26:53,737 --> 00:26:56,614 and who killed Nigel Grinch-Gibbons? 348 00:26:56,699 --> 00:26:59,826 - I can feel my butt getting sore already. - Exactly, Charlie. 349 00:26:59,910 --> 00:27:03,705 You understand what I'm saying a lot more than these literary types 350 00:27:03,789 --> 00:27:07,375 - because you're a real man. - I could tell you some stories... 351 00:27:07,459 --> 00:27:11,045 Sure you could, and yet, many writers do everything in their power 352 00:27:11,130 --> 00:27:13,423 to insulate themselves from the common man, 353 00:27:13,507 --> 00:27:15,717 from where they live, from where they trade, 354 00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:19,220 from where they fight and love and converse and... 355 00:27:19,555 --> 00:27:20,722 (GROANS) 356 00:27:21,557 --> 00:27:26,311 So naturally, their work suffers and regresses into empty formalism. 357 00:27:26,395 --> 00:27:29,480 I'm spouting off again, but to put it in your language, 358 00:27:29,565 --> 00:27:32,400 the theater becomes as phony as a three-dollar bill. 359 00:27:32,526 --> 00:27:34,569 Well, I guess that's a tragedy right there. 360 00:27:36,155 --> 00:27:38,114 You're all right, Charlie. 361 00:27:39,116 --> 00:27:43,119 I'm glad you stopped by. I'm sorry if... I know sometimes I run on. 362 00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:47,457 Well, Christ. If there's any way I can contribute or help or whatever... 363 00:27:47,541 --> 00:27:49,709 Sure, Charlie, you can help by just being yourself. 364 00:27:49,793 --> 00:27:52,211 Well, I can tell you some stories. 365 00:27:52,921 --> 00:27:57,342 And look, I'm sorry as hell about the interruption. 366 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,597 Too much revelry late at night, you forget there's other people in the world. 367 00:28:26,789 --> 00:28:27,789 (FAINT SQUELCHING) 368 00:29:10,207 --> 00:29:11,207 (MOSQUITO BUZZES) 369 00:29:28,851 --> 00:29:29,851 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 370 00:29:43,574 --> 00:29:45,366 I'll be eating on the lot today. 371 00:29:45,576 --> 00:29:47,618 - Who's this? - Barton Fink, Mr. Geisler. 372 00:29:47,703 --> 00:29:48,661 More, please. 373 00:29:48,745 --> 00:29:52,039 I'm a writer, Mr. Geisler. Ted Okum said I should drop by this morning... 374 00:29:52,124 --> 00:29:54,459 - Ever act? - Huh? No, I'm a... 375 00:29:54,543 --> 00:29:57,420 - Need Indians for a Norman Steele western. - I'm a writer. Ted Okum... 376 00:29:57,504 --> 00:30:00,381 Think about it, Fink, writers come and go. We always need Indians. 377 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:02,133 I'm a writer. 378 00:30:02,217 --> 00:30:04,969 Ted Okum said you're producing this Wallace Beery picture I'm working on. 379 00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:07,054 Ted Okum doesn't know shit. 380 00:30:07,139 --> 00:30:09,265 They've assigned me enough pictures for a goddamn year. 381 00:30:09,349 --> 00:30:10,766 Listen, what Ted Okum doesn't know 382 00:30:10,851 --> 00:30:12,894 you could almost squeeze into the Hollywood Bowl. 383 00:30:12,978 --> 00:30:14,437 Then who should I talk to? 384 00:30:16,190 --> 00:30:17,190 (SIGHS) 385 00:30:17,566 --> 00:30:18,983 Get me Lou Breeze. 386 00:30:22,404 --> 00:30:24,238 - Is he in for Mr. Geesler? - Geisler. 387 00:30:25,908 --> 00:30:28,701 Lou, how's Lipnick's ass smell this morning? 388 00:30:28,785 --> 00:30:30,745 - (MUFFLED TALKING) - Yeah? Yeah? 389 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:34,081 All right, listen. The reason I'm calling, I got a writer here. Fink. All screwy. 390 00:30:34,208 --> 00:30:36,000 Says I'm producing that Wallace Beery wrestling picture. 391 00:30:36,084 --> 00:30:38,419 What am I, the goddamn janitor around here? 392 00:30:38,754 --> 00:30:40,671 - (MUFFLED TALKING) - Yeah? Who'd you get that from? 393 00:30:40,756 --> 00:30:43,090 Tell Lipnick he can kiss my dimpled ass. 394 00:30:43,175 --> 00:30:46,302 No, all right! Shit. All right. No, all right. 395 00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:51,516 Okay, Fink, let's chow. 396 00:30:52,434 --> 00:30:53,976 (PEOPLE CHATTERING) 397 00:30:58,607 --> 00:31:01,108 Don't worry about it. It's just a B-picture. 398 00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:05,071 I bring it in on budget, they book it without screening it. Life is too short. 399 00:31:05,531 --> 00:31:08,950 Lipnick said he wanted to look at the script, see something by the end of the week. 400 00:31:09,034 --> 00:31:12,995 Sure he did. He forgot about it before your ass left his sofa. 401 00:31:14,164 --> 00:31:15,164 Okay. 402 00:31:18,627 --> 00:31:20,962 I'm just having trouble getting started. 403 00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:23,005 It's funny, I'm blocked up. 404 00:31:23,090 --> 00:31:27,134 I just feel like I need some kind of indication of what's expected. 405 00:31:29,221 --> 00:31:32,431 Wallace Beery, wrestling picture. What do you need, a road map? 406 00:31:32,516 --> 00:31:36,269 Look, you're confused. You need guidance? 407 00:31:38,814 --> 00:31:41,232 - Talk to another writer. - Who? 408 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:45,278 Oh, Jesus. You throw a rock in here, you'll hit one. 409 00:31:46,363 --> 00:31:48,030 Do me a favor, Fink? 410 00:31:48,699 --> 00:31:50,157 Throw it hard. 411 00:31:58,208 --> 00:31:59,667 (MAN RETCHING) 412 00:32:02,504 --> 00:32:04,255 (VOMITING) 413 00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:10,177 (GROANING) 414 00:32:13,015 --> 00:32:14,932 (CONTINUES VOMITING) 415 00:32:20,522 --> 00:32:21,522 (BELCHING) 416 00:32:22,107 --> 00:32:23,107 (COUGHS) 417 00:32:23,567 --> 00:32:24,567 (SPITTING) 418 00:32:29,865 --> 00:32:30,865 (TOILET FLUSHING) 419 00:32:32,326 --> 00:32:33,784 (MAN HUMMING) 420 00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:50,134 (GARGLING) 421 00:32:53,305 --> 00:32:54,805 (CONTINUES HUMMING) 422 00:33:07,903 --> 00:33:10,905 Bill Mayhew. Sorry about the odor. 423 00:33:11,031 --> 00:33:13,032 Barton Fink. 424 00:33:18,163 --> 00:33:19,747 Jesus, W. P? 425 00:33:20,624 --> 00:33:24,001 - I beg your pardon? - W.P. Mayhew, the writer? 426 00:33:24,086 --> 00:33:26,045 Just Bill, please. 427 00:33:26,755 --> 00:33:27,922 Bill, 428 00:33:28,924 --> 00:33:30,800 you're the finest novelist of our time. 429 00:33:31,218 --> 00:33:32,885 Why, thank you, son. How kind. 430 00:33:33,261 --> 00:33:37,640 My God, I had no idea you were in Hollywood. 431 00:33:38,350 --> 00:33:40,017 All of us undomesticated writers 432 00:33:40,102 --> 00:33:43,896 eventually make our way out here to the Great Salt Lick. 433 00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:47,817 That's probably why I always have such a powerful thirst. 434 00:33:48,735 --> 00:33:50,569 A little social lubricant, Mr. Fink? 435 00:33:51,113 --> 00:33:52,947 No, it's a little early for me. 436 00:33:58,870 --> 00:34:03,582 Bill, if I'm imposing, you should say so. 437 00:34:03,792 --> 00:34:05,584 I know you're very busy. 438 00:34:05,919 --> 00:34:08,796 I just wanted to ask you a favor. 439 00:34:10,298 --> 00:34:12,800 Have you ever written a wrestling picture? 440 00:34:16,388 --> 00:34:18,264 You are drippin', sir. 441 00:34:19,683 --> 00:34:22,351 Mr. Fink, they have not invented a genre of picture 442 00:34:22,436 --> 00:34:25,604 that Bill Mayhew has not at one time or other been invited to essay. 443 00:34:26,148 --> 00:34:27,231 Well, what... 444 00:34:27,315 --> 00:34:29,650 Yes, I have taken my stab at the wrestling form, 445 00:34:29,776 --> 00:34:31,152 as I have stabbed at so many others 446 00:34:31,319 --> 00:34:33,404 - and with as little success. - How do... 447 00:34:33,488 --> 00:34:37,324 I gather that you are a freshman here, eager for an upperclassman's counsel. 448 00:34:37,617 --> 00:34:40,286 However, just at the moment, I have drinking to do. 449 00:34:40,495 --> 00:34:44,373 Why don't you stop by my bungalow, number 15, later on this afternoon 450 00:34:44,541 --> 00:34:48,335 and we will discuss wrestling scenarios and other things literary. 451 00:34:51,006 --> 00:34:52,882 BILL: (SHOUTING DRUNKENLY) Sons of bitches! 452 00:34:52,966 --> 00:34:53,966 (SMASHING SOUNDS) 453 00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:55,468 (INCOHERENT SHOUTING CONTINUES) 454 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:03,517 Honey? Where's my honey? 455 00:35:04,352 --> 00:35:07,521 The water's lapping up on me, honey! 456 00:35:07,981 --> 00:35:09,273 (WOMAN SOOTHING) 457 00:35:09,357 --> 00:35:11,567 (BILL WAILING) 458 00:35:13,737 --> 00:35:15,529 WOMAN: I can't... I'm trying to help you. 459 00:35:17,657 --> 00:35:19,325 Can I help you? 460 00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:21,368 - I'm sorry, I... - BILL: (SCREAMING) Why, damn it? 461 00:35:21,453 --> 00:35:23,788 - My name is Fink. - BILL: Where's my honey? 462 00:35:23,872 --> 00:35:28,876 Bill asked me to drop by this afternoon. Is he in? 463 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,711 (BILL HOWLING) 464 00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:34,924 - Mr. Mayhew is indisposed at the moment. - BILL: Where's my honey? 465 00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:38,385 Is he okay? 466 00:35:38,845 --> 00:35:41,138 He'll be fine. 467 00:35:43,058 --> 00:35:46,644 Mr. Fink, I'm Audrey Taylor, Mr. Mayhew's personal secretary. 468 00:35:46,728 --> 00:35:50,231 - BILL: Where's my honey? - I know this all must sound horrid. 469 00:35:51,107 --> 00:35:54,693 - I really do apologize. - BILL: Where are you, damn it? 470 00:35:56,488 --> 00:35:58,531 When he can't write, he drinks. 471 00:35:59,074 --> 00:36:00,699 It's so embarrassing. 472 00:36:02,035 --> 00:36:04,078 How about you? Will you be all right? 473 00:36:05,455 --> 00:36:07,456 I'll be fine. 474 00:36:08,583 --> 00:36:11,877 - Are you a writer, Mr. Fink? - Yes. I'm working on a wrestling... 475 00:36:11,962 --> 00:36:13,671 Please, call me Barton. 476 00:36:14,631 --> 00:36:16,590 I'll tell Bill you dropped by. 477 00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:19,093 I'm sure he'll wanna reschedule your appointment. 478 00:36:19,177 --> 00:36:22,346 Perhaps you and I can get together at some point, also. 479 00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:26,267 I'm sorry if that sounds abrupt, I just... 480 00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:29,186 I don't know anyone here in town. 481 00:36:32,399 --> 00:36:36,318 - Perhaps the three of us, Mr. Fink. - Please, Barton. 482 00:36:36,903 --> 00:36:38,070 Barton. 483 00:36:39,114 --> 00:36:40,447 You see, Barton, 484 00:36:41,616 --> 00:36:43,742 I'm not just Bill's secretary. 485 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,703 Bill and I are 486 00:36:47,956 --> 00:36:49,164 in love. 487 00:36:49,833 --> 00:36:50,875 (CLATTERING) 488 00:36:50,959 --> 00:36:52,626 BILL: Where's my honey? 489 00:36:52,752 --> 00:36:53,752 (SIGHS) 490 00:36:53,837 --> 00:36:55,921 I know this must look 491 00:36:57,299 --> 00:36:58,632 funny. 492 00:36:59,634 --> 00:37:02,386 - BILL: Bastard-ass sons of bitches! - I'm sorry. 493 00:37:02,804 --> 00:37:05,139 Please, don't judge us, Mr. Fink. 494 00:37:06,266 --> 00:37:10,811 BILL: Bastard-ass sons of bitches, the water's lapping up! 495 00:37:10,979 --> 00:37:12,813 Honey! 496 00:37:37,964 --> 00:37:39,381 (WOMAN MOANS) 497 00:37:43,553 --> 00:37:45,179 (GASPING) 498 00:37:47,182 --> 00:37:48,557 (MAN CHUCKLING) 499 00:37:49,517 --> 00:37:50,893 (WOMAN CONTINUES MOANING) 500 00:37:56,566 --> 00:37:57,942 (CHUCKLING CONTINUES) 501 00:38:42,570 --> 00:38:45,948 - Howdy, neighbor. - Charlie, how are you? 502 00:38:46,157 --> 00:38:49,702 Ah, Jesus, I hope I'm not interrupting you again. 503 00:38:50,245 --> 00:38:53,247 Heard you walking around in here, figured I'd drop by. 504 00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:55,833 Yeah, come on in. Have a seat. 505 00:38:55,917 --> 00:38:57,960 I hadn't really gotten started yet. 506 00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:02,756 - What happened to your ear? - Yeah, an ear infection. 507 00:39:02,924 --> 00:39:06,760 Chronic thing. It goes away for a while, then it comes back. 508 00:39:06,845 --> 00:39:09,263 I gotta put cotton in it to stanch the flow of pus. 509 00:39:09,889 --> 00:39:12,558 - Don't worry. It's not contagious. - Have you seen a doctor? 510 00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:16,353 Doctors. What's he gonna tell me? Can't trade my head in for a new one. 511 00:39:16,438 --> 00:39:19,189 Yeah, I guess you're stuck with the one you got. 512 00:39:19,941 --> 00:39:23,277 I'd invite you over to my place but it's a goddamn mess. 513 00:39:24,112 --> 00:39:26,905 - You married, Bart? - No. 514 00:39:27,449 --> 00:39:29,825 I myself have yet to be lassoed. 515 00:39:30,410 --> 00:39:31,660 Hey, Bart. 516 00:39:33,288 --> 00:39:34,288 Ouch! 517 00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:37,875 (BILL CHUCKLING) 518 00:39:40,045 --> 00:39:43,130 - Got a sweetheart? - No. 519 00:39:44,674 --> 00:39:48,260 I guess it's something about my work. I get so worked up over it. 520 00:39:48,344 --> 00:39:51,930 I don't really have a lot of attention left over, 521 00:39:52,015 --> 00:39:54,641 so it would be a little unfair. 522 00:39:54,809 --> 00:39:57,478 Yeah, ladies do ask for attention. 523 00:39:57,896 --> 00:39:59,855 In my experience, they pretend to give it 524 00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:03,233 but it's generally a smoke screen for demanding it back with interest. 525 00:40:03,318 --> 00:40:05,819 How about family, Bart? How're you fixed in that department? 526 00:40:06,446 --> 00:40:10,157 - My folks live in Brooklyn with my uncle. - Mine have passed on. 527 00:40:11,451 --> 00:40:14,328 It's just the three of us now. What's that expression? 528 00:40:14,829 --> 00:40:17,289 - Me, myself and I. - Sure. 529 00:40:17,957 --> 00:40:19,333 That's tough. 530 00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:24,046 But in a sense, we're all alone in the world, aren't we, Charlie? 531 00:40:24,964 --> 00:40:28,509 I'm often surrounded by family and friends but... 532 00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:34,306 You're no stranger to loneliness, then. 533 00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:38,519 I guess I got no beef, especially where the dames are concerned. 534 00:40:39,062 --> 00:40:41,396 In my line of work, I get opportunities galore, 535 00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:43,065 always on the wing, you know what I'm saying. 536 00:40:43,149 --> 00:40:48,195 I could tell you stories to curl your hair but it looks like you've already heard them. 537 00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:52,950 That's me in Kansas City, plying my trade. That was taken by one of my policy holders. 538 00:40:53,034 --> 00:40:56,954 They're more than just customers to me, they appreciate what I have to offer them. 539 00:40:57,705 --> 00:41:01,625 You see, her hubby was out of town at the time, and they were carrying fire and life. 540 00:41:01,709 --> 00:41:03,836 The third quarter payment was way past due... 541 00:41:04,003 --> 00:41:05,754 You know, in a way, I envy you, Charlie. 542 00:41:05,839 --> 00:41:08,715 Your daily routine, you know what's expected. 543 00:41:08,883 --> 00:41:10,467 You know the drill. 544 00:41:12,971 --> 00:41:16,807 My job is to plumb the depths, so to speak, 545 00:41:16,891 --> 00:41:18,976 dredge up something from inside. 546 00:41:19,060 --> 00:41:20,686 Something honest. 547 00:41:21,396 --> 00:41:24,356 I gotta tell you, the life of the mind, 548 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,984 there's no road map for that territory. 549 00:41:27,902 --> 00:41:30,112 Exploring it can be painful. 550 00:41:32,031 --> 00:41:35,242 A kind of pain most people don't know anything about. 551 00:41:37,912 --> 00:41:40,998 - This must be boring you. - No, it's damned interesting. 552 00:41:41,082 --> 00:41:42,666 Yeah. (CHUCKLING) 553 00:41:43,376 --> 00:41:47,296 Probably sounds a little grand from someone writing a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery. 554 00:41:47,380 --> 00:41:50,716 Beery? You got no beef there. He's good! A hell of an actor. 555 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,969 Though for my money, you can't beat Jack Oakie. 556 00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:57,639 A stitch, Oakie. Funny stuff, funny stuff. 557 00:41:57,724 --> 00:42:02,019 But don't get me wrong. Beery, wrestling picture, could be a pip. 558 00:42:03,146 --> 00:42:06,064 I wrestled myself some, back in school. I guess you know the basic moves? 559 00:42:06,149 --> 00:42:10,152 No, I never even watched any. I'm not that interested in the act itself. 560 00:42:10,236 --> 00:42:12,863 Okay. But hell, you should know what it's about. 561 00:42:12,947 --> 00:42:16,283 I can show you the wrestling basics in about 30 seconds. 562 00:42:16,576 --> 00:42:20,537 You're a little out of your weight class but just for the purposes of demonstration. 563 00:42:20,622 --> 00:42:21,830 That's all right, really. 564 00:42:21,915 --> 00:42:24,333 Not a bit of it, compadre. Easiest thing in the world. 565 00:42:25,376 --> 00:42:27,336 You just get down on your knees to my left here, 566 00:42:27,670 --> 00:42:30,422 slap your right hand here, your left hand here. 567 00:42:30,506 --> 00:42:33,050 Come on, champ, you can do it. Come on. 568 00:42:33,593 --> 00:42:35,260 Come on. Come on. 569 00:42:36,804 --> 00:42:37,804 Come on. 570 00:42:42,060 --> 00:42:43,727 Okay, right there. 571 00:42:46,231 --> 00:42:47,356 All right. 572 00:42:47,941 --> 00:42:51,902 When I say, "Ready, wrestle," you try and pin me and I try and pin you. 573 00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:54,613 - And that's the whole game, got it? - Yeah, okay. 574 00:42:54,697 --> 00:42:56,657 Ready, wrestle! 575 00:42:56,783 --> 00:42:58,742 Hup, two, three. 576 00:42:58,826 --> 00:43:02,579 Damn, there I go again, gonna wake up the downstairs neighbors. 577 00:43:02,664 --> 00:43:04,831 - I didn't hurt you, did I? - It's okay. 578 00:43:05,667 --> 00:43:07,000 That's all wrestling is, 579 00:43:07,085 --> 00:43:09,753 except usually there's more grunting and squirming before the pin. 580 00:43:09,837 --> 00:43:12,172 It's your first time and you're out of your weight class. 581 00:43:12,674 --> 00:43:14,466 Jesus, I did hurt you. 582 00:43:15,134 --> 00:43:18,178 I sure do apologize. I'm just a big, clumsy lug. 583 00:43:18,554 --> 00:43:21,974 I sure do apologize. You sure you're okay? 584 00:43:22,058 --> 00:43:24,351 I'm fine, really. 585 00:43:24,852 --> 00:43:26,853 Actually, it's been helpful. 586 00:43:30,066 --> 00:43:32,693 But I guess I should get to work. 587 00:43:33,695 --> 00:43:35,487 Well, it wasn't fair of me to do that. 588 00:43:35,863 --> 00:43:38,240 I'm pretty well-endowed physically. 589 00:43:38,533 --> 00:43:40,117 Don't feel bad, though. 590 00:43:40,368 --> 00:43:43,370 I wouldn't be much of a match for you at mental gymnastics. 591 00:43:44,747 --> 00:43:46,540 Give me a holler, if you need anything. 592 00:43:48,126 --> 00:43:49,126 (DOOR CLOSES) 593 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:00,721 (CRASHING WAVES) 594 00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:06,560 (BILL HUMMING) 595 00:44:21,367 --> 00:44:25,537 BILL: If I close my eyes, I can almost smell the live oak. 596 00:44:26,205 --> 00:44:27,998 That's chicken fat, Bill. 597 00:44:29,667 --> 00:44:34,296 My olfactory's turning womanish on me, lying and deceitful. 598 00:44:34,922 --> 00:44:37,883 Still, I must say, I haven't felt a peace like this 599 00:44:37,967 --> 00:44:40,010 since the grand productive days. 600 00:44:40,928 --> 00:44:42,929 Don't you find it so, Barton? 601 00:44:44,223 --> 00:44:45,974 Ain't writing peace? 602 00:44:47,852 --> 00:44:49,227 Well... 603 00:44:51,356 --> 00:44:54,066 Actually no, Bill. 604 00:44:57,737 --> 00:45:02,282 No, I've always found that writing comes from a great inner pain. 605 00:45:03,618 --> 00:45:06,119 Maybe it's a pain that comes from a realization 606 00:45:06,204 --> 00:45:09,081 that one must do something for one's fellow man 607 00:45:09,165 --> 00:45:12,459 to help somehow ease the suffering. 608 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,379 Maybe it's personal pain. 609 00:45:16,923 --> 00:45:20,092 At any rate, I don't believe good work is possible without it. 610 00:45:22,387 --> 00:45:25,514 Well, me, I just enjoy making things up. 611 00:45:26,974 --> 00:45:29,059 Yes, sir, escape. 612 00:45:30,478 --> 00:45:33,397 It's when I can't write, can't escape myself, 613 00:45:33,481 --> 00:45:36,817 that I wanna rip my head off and run screaming through the street 614 00:45:36,901 --> 00:45:39,152 with my balls in a fruit-picker's pail. 615 00:45:41,656 --> 00:45:45,033 - This'll sometimes help. - That doesn't help anything, Bill. 616 00:45:45,118 --> 00:45:47,369 That's true. I've never found that to help my writing. 617 00:45:48,246 --> 00:45:49,663 Your writin'? 618 00:45:50,123 --> 00:45:52,749 Son, have you ever heard the story of Solomon's mammy? 619 00:45:53,543 --> 00:45:58,171 Barton, you should read this, I think it's Bill's finest or among his finest, anyway. 620 00:45:58,881 --> 00:46:02,426 So, now I'm supposed to roll over like a bitch dog getting my belly scratched? 621 00:46:02,510 --> 00:46:05,303 Look, maybe it's none of my business 622 00:46:05,388 --> 00:46:08,849 but don't you think a man with your talent, 623 00:46:08,933 --> 00:46:11,268 that your first obligation is to your gift? 624 00:46:11,352 --> 00:46:14,688 Shouldn't you be doing whatever you have to do to work again? 625 00:46:14,772 --> 00:46:17,190 - And what would that be, son? - I don't know exactly, 626 00:46:17,525 --> 00:46:19,234 but I do know what you're doing with that drink, 627 00:46:19,318 --> 00:46:21,736 you're cutting yourself off from your gift and from Audrey, 628 00:46:21,821 --> 00:46:24,614 and from your fellow man and from everything your art is about. 629 00:46:24,699 --> 00:46:27,451 No, son. I'm building a levee. 630 00:46:27,535 --> 00:46:30,162 Gulp by gulp, brick by brick. 631 00:46:31,038 --> 00:46:35,459 Puttin' up a levee to keep that ragin' river of manure from lappin' at my door. 632 00:46:35,543 --> 00:46:37,002 Maybe you'd better too, Barton, 633 00:46:37,086 --> 00:46:39,337 before you get buried under his manure. 634 00:46:39,422 --> 00:46:42,799 My honey pretends to be impatient with me, Barton, but she'll put up with anything. 635 00:46:42,884 --> 00:46:45,969 Not anything, Bill. Don't test me. 636 00:46:46,053 --> 00:46:48,638 You're lucky she puts up with you as much as she does. 637 00:46:48,723 --> 00:46:51,308 Am I? Maybe to a schoolboy's eye. 638 00:46:52,393 --> 00:46:54,644 People who know about the human heart, maybe they'd say, 639 00:46:54,729 --> 00:46:59,399 "Bill over here, he gives his honey love and she pays him back with pity." 640 00:46:59,484 --> 00:47:02,402 - The basest coin there is. - Stop it, Bill. 641 00:47:02,737 --> 00:47:08,533 (SINGING) Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay 642 00:47:09,619 --> 00:47:11,912 Gone are my friends 643 00:47:12,580 --> 00:47:16,124 From the cotton fields away 644 00:47:16,876 --> 00:47:19,085 Gone from the earth 645 00:47:19,795 --> 00:47:22,797 To a better land I know 646 00:47:23,132 --> 00:47:26,343 I hear their gentle voices callin' 647 00:47:26,427 --> 00:47:27,469 (BILL URINATING) 648 00:47:27,553 --> 00:47:30,263 Old Black Joe 649 00:47:31,599 --> 00:47:34,935 I'm comin', I'm comin' 650 00:47:35,895 --> 00:47:39,397 Though my head is bending low 651 00:47:40,024 --> 00:47:42,651 I hear their gentle... 652 00:47:45,196 --> 00:47:49,282 The truth, my honey, is a tart that does not bear scrutiny. 653 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:51,826 Breach my levee at your peril. 654 00:47:52,870 --> 00:47:55,580 (SINGING) Gone are my friends... 655 00:47:56,541 --> 00:47:59,793 Son of a bitch. That son of a bitch! 656 00:48:00,419 --> 00:48:02,295 Don't get me wrong, he's a fine writer. 657 00:48:02,380 --> 00:48:05,882 BILL: From the earth to a better land... 658 00:48:05,967 --> 00:48:07,217 Are you all right? 659 00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:09,803 Audrey... 660 00:48:09,887 --> 00:48:11,096 BILL: I hear their angel voices... 661 00:48:11,180 --> 00:48:12,722 - You can't... - Go, Barton. 662 00:48:12,807 --> 00:48:14,724 You can't put up with this. 663 00:48:14,809 --> 00:48:17,727 BILL: Old Black Joe 664 00:48:17,812 --> 00:48:19,604 I feel so sorry for him. 665 00:48:19,689 --> 00:48:22,482 What? He's a son of a bitch. 666 00:48:23,150 --> 00:48:24,818 No, no... 667 00:48:24,902 --> 00:48:26,528 BILL: I'm coming... 668 00:48:27,113 --> 00:48:30,740 He, sometimes just... 669 00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,785 BILL: I hear their angel voices... 670 00:48:33,869 --> 00:48:35,996 Well, he thinks about Estelle. 671 00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:38,957 His wife still lives in Fayetteville. 672 00:48:39,041 --> 00:48:40,166 BILL: Old Black Joe... 673 00:48:40,251 --> 00:48:41,710 She's 674 00:48:44,380 --> 00:48:46,339 disturbed. 675 00:48:46,424 --> 00:48:47,465 Really? 676 00:48:49,844 --> 00:48:55,348 I'll just walk on down to the Pacific and from there I'll improvise. 677 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:59,936 AUDREY: He'll wander back when he's sober and apologize. He always does. 678 00:49:00,021 --> 00:49:04,482 - Okay, but that doesn't excuse his behavior. - BILL: Silence upon a hill in Darien. 679 00:49:05,109 --> 00:49:07,861 Empathy requires understanding. 680 00:49:07,945 --> 00:49:09,279 BILL: (SINGING) I'm comin'... 681 00:49:09,363 --> 00:49:11,698 What? What don't I understand? 682 00:49:12,867 --> 00:49:17,245 Though my head is hangin' low 683 00:49:17,538 --> 00:49:22,042 I hear their gentle voices calling 684 00:49:22,835 --> 00:49:26,379 Old Black Joe 685 00:49:26,672 --> 00:49:29,341 (BELLS TOLLING) 686 00:49:35,890 --> 00:49:38,808 (MOSQUITO BUZZING) 687 00:49:45,066 --> 00:49:46,066 (BUZZING CONTINUES) 688 00:50:35,574 --> 00:50:36,574 (STOPS TYPING) 689 00:50:51,882 --> 00:50:54,759 - I hope these are your shoes. - Charlie? 690 00:50:55,469 --> 00:50:58,430 Because that would mean they gave you mine. 691 00:50:58,931 --> 00:51:01,558 Yeah. As a matter of fact, they did. 692 00:51:03,018 --> 00:51:06,604 - Come on in. - Jesus, what a day I had. 693 00:51:08,482 --> 00:51:10,442 You ever had one of those days? 694 00:51:10,526 --> 00:51:13,987 - Seems like nothing but, lately. - Jesus, what a day. 695 00:51:14,071 --> 00:51:17,157 Felt like I couldn't have sold ice water in the Sahara. 696 00:51:17,241 --> 00:51:21,202 Jesus. Okay, so you don't want insurance. Okay, so that's your loss. 697 00:51:21,996 --> 00:51:23,788 But, God, people can be rude. 698 00:51:24,415 --> 00:51:27,000 Feel like I have to talk to a normal person like you 699 00:51:27,084 --> 00:51:29,377 just to restore a little of my... 700 00:51:29,462 --> 00:51:33,965 It's my pleasure. I could use a little lift myself. 701 00:51:34,049 --> 00:51:36,176 Little lift, yeah. 702 00:51:36,260 --> 00:51:38,511 Good thing they bottle it, pal? 703 00:51:39,764 --> 00:51:43,391 Did I say rude? People can be goddamn cruel. 704 00:51:44,018 --> 00:51:46,186 Especially some of these housewives. 705 00:51:46,270 --> 00:51:49,063 Okay, so I have a weight problem. 706 00:51:49,398 --> 00:51:51,816 That's my cross to bear. I don't know. 707 00:51:53,027 --> 00:51:55,945 - It's a defense mechanism. - Defense against what, insurance? 708 00:51:56,030 --> 00:51:59,407 Something they need? Something they should be grateful to me for offering? 709 00:51:59,492 --> 00:52:01,493 A little peace of mind. 710 00:52:02,369 --> 00:52:03,369 (SIGHS) 711 00:52:04,747 --> 00:52:06,998 Finally decided to knock off early. 712 00:52:07,082 --> 00:52:09,876 Take your advice. Went to see a doctor about this. 713 00:52:10,127 --> 00:52:12,837 He told me I had an ear infection, $10, please. 714 00:52:13,714 --> 00:52:18,384 I says, "Hell, I told you my ear was infected. Why don't you give me $10?" 715 00:52:18,469 --> 00:52:21,888 Well, that led to an argument. 716 00:52:25,392 --> 00:52:27,185 Listen to me bellyaching. 717 00:52:27,686 --> 00:52:30,730 As if my problems amounted to a hill of beans. 718 00:52:31,315 --> 00:52:33,441 How goes the life of the mind? 719 00:52:33,526 --> 00:52:35,485 Well, it's been better. 720 00:52:35,569 --> 00:52:38,404 I just can't seem to get going on this thing. 721 00:52:38,489 --> 00:52:42,367 The one idea, the one that lets you get started, 722 00:52:42,743 --> 00:52:44,077 I still haven't gotten it. 723 00:52:44,245 --> 00:52:47,497 Maybe I only had one idea in me. My play. 724 00:52:47,665 --> 00:52:50,583 Maybe once that was done, I was done being a writer. 725 00:52:51,252 --> 00:52:53,253 Christ. I feel like a fraud. 726 00:52:53,337 --> 00:52:55,755 Sitting here, staring at this paper. 727 00:52:56,841 --> 00:53:00,051 Those two lovebirds next door driving you nuts? 728 00:53:02,763 --> 00:53:04,681 How do you know about that? 729 00:53:04,765 --> 00:53:07,642 Know about it? I can practically see how they're doin' it. 730 00:53:07,768 --> 00:53:10,103 Brother, I wish I had a piece of that. 731 00:53:11,689 --> 00:53:14,566 Seems like I hear everything that goes on in this dump. 732 00:53:14,650 --> 00:53:17,193 - Pipes or somethin'. - Yeah, but... 733 00:53:17,278 --> 00:53:20,405 You'll lick this picture business, believe me. You got a head on your shoulders. 734 00:53:20,489 --> 00:53:23,700 And what is it they say? Where there's a head, there's hope. 735 00:53:23,784 --> 00:53:27,787 - Where there's life, there's hope. - See, that proves you really are a writer. 736 00:53:28,664 --> 00:53:30,373 There's hope for you, too, Charlie. 737 00:53:30,457 --> 00:53:33,543 Tomorrow, I bet you sell a half-dozen policies. 738 00:53:33,627 --> 00:53:37,005 Thanks, brother, but the fact is I gotta pull up stakes for a while. 739 00:53:43,262 --> 00:53:44,762 - You're leaving? - In a few days. 740 00:53:44,847 --> 00:53:47,640 Out to your stomping ground, as a matter of fact, New York City. 741 00:53:47,808 --> 00:53:50,184 Things have gotten all balled up at the head office. 742 00:53:52,438 --> 00:53:54,522 I'm truly sorry to hear that, Charlie. I'll miss you. 743 00:53:54,815 --> 00:53:57,150 Well, hell, buddy, don't pull a long face. 744 00:53:57,776 --> 00:54:01,446 This is home to me. I keep a room here and I'll be back, sooner or later. 745 00:54:01,530 --> 00:54:03,239 And mark my words, 746 00:54:03,324 --> 00:54:06,534 by the time I get back, your picture'll be finished, I know it. 747 00:54:06,869 --> 00:54:09,412 New York can be pretty cruel to strangers, Charlie. 748 00:54:09,496 --> 00:54:13,833 If you need a home-cooked meal, you just look up Sam and Lillian Fink. 749 00:54:14,501 --> 00:54:18,504 They live on Fulton Street with my Uncle Maury. 750 00:54:20,341 --> 00:54:21,341 (SQUELCHING SOUND) 751 00:54:30,017 --> 00:54:31,267 Christ. 752 00:54:32,269 --> 00:54:34,354 Your room does that, too. 753 00:54:35,272 --> 00:54:38,399 I guess the heat's sweating off the wallpaper. 754 00:54:39,693 --> 00:54:40,860 What a dump. 755 00:54:41,987 --> 00:54:45,365 I guess this must seem pretty pathetic to a guy like you. 756 00:54:46,158 --> 00:54:47,158 Well... 757 00:54:47,993 --> 00:54:50,036 But it's pathetic, isn't it? 758 00:54:50,996 --> 00:54:53,373 I mean, to a guy from New York? 759 00:54:53,707 --> 00:54:55,541 What do you mean? 760 00:54:56,085 --> 00:54:58,503 This kind of heat. Pathetic. 761 00:54:59,546 --> 00:55:01,422 BARTON: I guess you pick your poison. 762 00:55:01,507 --> 00:55:02,966 So they say. 763 00:55:04,593 --> 00:55:06,678 Don't pick up and leave without saying good-bye. 764 00:55:06,762 --> 00:55:08,596 Course not, compadre. 765 00:55:08,681 --> 00:55:10,014 You'll see me again. 766 00:55:11,725 --> 00:55:12,725 (DOOR CLOSES) 767 00:55:39,712 --> 00:55:41,212 (BANGING SOUNDS) 768 00:55:42,631 --> 00:55:44,340 (DRAGGING SOUNDS) 769 00:55:48,095 --> 00:55:49,095 (HEAVY THUMP) 770 00:55:53,517 --> 00:55:55,101 (DRAGGING) 771 00:55:59,023 --> 00:56:00,314 (THUMPING) 772 00:56:06,905 --> 00:56:08,614 (THUMPING QUICKENS) 773 00:56:27,176 --> 00:56:28,968 - (DOOR OPENS) - (GEISLER LAUGHING) 774 00:56:30,387 --> 00:56:33,222 - Bango, you're dead, you're a corpse. - You got me. 775 00:56:33,307 --> 00:56:35,600 Okay. Go, go. You son of a gun. 776 00:56:35,684 --> 00:56:37,685 Yeah. Fink. 777 00:56:39,605 --> 00:56:41,147 (HUMMING MERRILY) 778 00:56:41,482 --> 00:56:43,900 Come in, come on. 779 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,904 What do you got for me? What the hell happened to your face? 780 00:56:48,072 --> 00:56:50,239 Nothing. It's just a mosquito bite. 781 00:56:50,324 --> 00:56:52,575 Like hell it is. There are no mosquitoes in Los Angeles. 782 00:56:52,659 --> 00:56:55,703 Mosquitoes breed in swamps. This is a desert. What do you got for me? 783 00:56:55,788 --> 00:56:56,829 Well, I... 784 00:56:56,914 --> 00:56:59,082 On the Beery picture. Where are we? What do you got? 785 00:56:59,166 --> 00:57:01,959 Well, I'm having a little trouble getting started. 786 00:57:02,044 --> 00:57:05,755 Getting... Christ Jesus, started? You don't have anything yet? 787 00:57:05,839 --> 00:57:08,841 - Well, not much. - What the hell do you think this is? Hamlet? 788 00:57:08,926 --> 00:57:10,968 Gone With The Wind? Ruggles Of Red... 789 00:57:11,053 --> 00:57:14,722 It's a goddamn B-picture. Big men in tights. You know the drill. 790 00:57:14,807 --> 00:57:16,516 I'm afraid I don't really understand that genre. 791 00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:17,850 Maybe that's the problem. 792 00:57:17,935 --> 00:57:21,813 Understand shit. I thought you were gonna consult another writer on this. 793 00:57:21,897 --> 00:57:23,481 - Well, I've talked to Bill Mayhew. - Bill Mayhew? 794 00:57:23,565 --> 00:57:26,067 Mayhew? Some help! The guy's a souse. 795 00:57:26,151 --> 00:57:27,610 - He's a great writer. - A great souse! 796 00:57:27,694 --> 00:57:28,903 - You don't understand. - Souse! 797 00:57:28,987 --> 00:57:30,696 - He's in pain because he can't write. - Souse! 798 00:57:30,781 --> 00:57:32,365 Souse! He can't write. 799 00:57:32,449 --> 00:57:35,159 He manages to write his name on the back of his paycheck every week. 800 00:57:35,244 --> 00:57:36,911 But I thought no one cared about this picture. 801 00:57:36,995 --> 00:57:39,372 You thought? Where the hell did you get that from? You thought. 802 00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:41,958 Listen, I don't know what the hell you said to Lipnick, 803 00:57:42,042 --> 00:57:43,793 but the son of a bitch likes you. 804 00:57:43,877 --> 00:57:48,131 You understand that, Fink? He likes you. He's taken an interest. 805 00:57:48,215 --> 00:57:51,259 Never make Lipnick like you. Never! 806 00:57:51,343 --> 00:57:53,302 I don't understand. 807 00:57:53,470 --> 00:57:55,972 Are you deaf? He likes you! He's taken an interest. 808 00:57:56,056 --> 00:57:57,682 What the hell did you say to him? 809 00:57:58,016 --> 00:58:00,393 - I didn't say anything. - Well, he's taken an interest. 810 00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:03,146 That means he'll make your life hell, which I could care less about. 811 00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:05,606 But since I drew the short straw to supervise this turkey, 812 00:58:05,691 --> 00:58:07,316 he's gonna be all over me, too. 813 00:58:07,401 --> 00:58:10,236 Fat-assed son of a bitch called me yesterday to ask me how it's going. 814 00:58:11,238 --> 00:58:12,363 Don't worry, I covered for you. 815 00:58:12,447 --> 00:58:15,616 I told him you were making progress, we were all very excited. 816 00:58:15,951 --> 00:58:18,619 I told him it was great. 817 00:58:19,163 --> 00:58:21,706 Understand that? So now my ass is on the line. 818 00:58:21,790 --> 00:58:25,042 He wants you to tell him all about it tomorrow. 819 00:58:25,711 --> 00:58:27,086 I can't write anything by tomorrow. 820 00:58:27,171 --> 00:58:29,547 Who said write? Jesus, Jack can't read. 821 00:58:29,631 --> 00:58:33,759 You gotta tell it to him. Tell him something, for Christ's sake. 822 00:58:35,262 --> 00:58:37,180 (STUTTERING) What do I tell him? 823 00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,062 - SECRETARY: Yes, Mr. Geisler. - Projection. 824 00:58:45,147 --> 00:58:46,397 (LINE CONNECTING) 825 00:58:46,481 --> 00:58:47,523 - Jerry. - Jerry! Ben Geisler here. 826 00:58:47,608 --> 00:58:48,608 - Hi, Ben. - Yeah. 827 00:58:48,692 --> 00:58:49,942 Any of the screening rooms free this afternoon? 828 00:58:50,027 --> 00:58:51,444 - Yeah, I think... - Good! Book it for me. 829 00:58:51,695 --> 00:58:52,820 I got a writer here, Fink. 830 00:58:52,905 --> 00:58:55,156 He's coming in. You're gonna show him wrestling pictures. 831 00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:56,991 - Which ones? - I don't give a shit which ones. 832 00:58:57,075 --> 00:58:58,034 Wrestling pictures! 833 00:58:58,118 --> 00:59:00,536 Wait a minute. Isn't Victor Sjoderberg shooting one now? 834 00:59:00,621 --> 00:59:02,538 - Yeah, he's... - Well, show him some of the dailies on that. 835 00:59:02,623 --> 00:59:03,956 Okay, Ben, I'll show him... 836 00:59:04,041 --> 00:59:06,918 All right. This'll give you some ideas. 837 00:59:07,211 --> 00:59:10,922 8: 15 tomorrow morning at Lipnick's house. 838 00:59:14,218 --> 00:59:15,468 Ideas. 839 00:59:16,136 --> 00:59:17,595 Broad strokes. 840 00:59:20,265 --> 00:59:21,599 Don't cross me, Fink. 841 00:59:23,936 --> 00:59:25,269 Devil On The... 842 00:59:26,146 --> 00:59:27,730 Devil On The Canvas. 12-apple, take one. 843 00:59:28,607 --> 00:59:29,774 DIRECTOR: Action! 844 00:59:29,858 --> 00:59:31,400 I will destroy him! 845 00:59:31,485 --> 00:59:33,236 DIRECTOR: Cut, cut, cut, cut! 846 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:35,905 Devil On The Canvas, 12-apple, take two. 847 00:59:36,323 --> 00:59:37,365 DIRECTOR: Action! 848 00:59:37,491 --> 00:59:39,575 I will destroy him. 849 00:59:39,660 --> 00:59:40,868 DIRECTOR: Cut, cut! 850 00:59:42,204 --> 00:59:45,039 - MAN: Rolling! - Devil On The Canvas, 12-apple, take four. 851 00:59:45,624 --> 00:59:46,832 DIRECTOR: Action! 852 00:59:46,917 --> 00:59:48,709 I will destroy him! 853 00:59:49,253 --> 00:59:50,544 DIRECTOR: Cut! Cut! Cut! 854 00:59:50,629 --> 00:59:52,672 CLAPPER: Devil On The Canvas, 12-apple, take five. 855 00:59:52,839 --> 00:59:55,049 WRESTLER: I will destroy him! 856 00:59:55,384 --> 00:59:58,719 - CLAPPER: 12-apple, take six. - WRESTLER: I will destroy him! 857 00:59:59,012 --> 01:00:00,471 CLAPPER: 12-apple, take seven. 858 01:00:00,847 --> 01:00:02,431 WRESTLER: I will destroy him! 859 01:00:02,557 --> 01:00:04,016 CLAPPER: 12-baker, take one. 860 01:00:04,101 --> 01:00:06,519 WRESTLER: I will destroy him. 861 01:00:08,021 --> 01:00:09,021 (BOTH YELLING) 862 01:00:17,072 --> 01:00:19,282 CLAPPER: 12-Charlie, take one. 863 01:00:19,366 --> 01:00:21,409 (WRESTLERS YELLING) 864 01:00:22,035 --> 01:00:23,327 Take two. 865 01:00:24,871 --> 01:00:26,872 One, two... 866 01:00:27,874 --> 01:00:29,875 Take seven. 867 01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:30,960 (GROANING) 868 01:01:06,079 --> 01:01:08,706 Orphan? Dame? 869 01:01:12,753 --> 01:01:14,211 - Front desk. - Hello, Chet? 870 01:01:14,296 --> 01:01:16,005 This is Barton Fink, in room 621. 871 01:01:16,089 --> 01:01:17,673 Could you try a number for me in Hollywood? 872 01:01:17,758 --> 01:01:21,177 - Sure. - Slauson, 64304. 873 01:01:21,386 --> 01:01:22,345 Right away, sir. 874 01:01:22,429 --> 01:01:23,971 (LINE CONNECTING) 875 01:01:25,098 --> 01:01:26,974 - (RINGING) - Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. 876 01:01:27,059 --> 01:01:29,393 - Hello? - Audrey, I need help. I know it's late. 877 01:01:29,478 --> 01:01:30,811 And I shouldn't be calling you like this. 878 01:01:30,896 --> 01:01:33,522 Believe me, I wouldn't have if I had any other alternative. 879 01:01:33,607 --> 01:01:37,818 But I'm sorry... Listen, how are you? I'm sorry. You doing okay? 880 01:01:38,445 --> 01:01:39,570 Who is this? 881 01:01:39,654 --> 01:01:42,573 Barton! I'm sorry. It's Barton Fink. 882 01:01:42,657 --> 01:01:44,742 - Barton, I'm afraid it's not a good time. - (BILL SHOUTING) 883 01:01:45,369 --> 01:01:48,204 I'm sorry, I just feel like I need... 884 01:01:48,372 --> 01:01:52,124 I know I shouldn't ask. I just need some kind of help, I just... 885 01:01:52,959 --> 01:01:54,794 I have a deadline tomorrow. 886 01:01:54,878 --> 01:01:55,961 (AUDREY SIGHING) 887 01:01:56,046 --> 01:01:58,798 All right, Barton. I'll see if I can slip away. 888 01:01:58,882 --> 01:02:01,467 - If you could, I'd be... - lf I can. 889 01:02:01,885 --> 01:02:04,136 He gets jealous. 890 01:02:04,221 --> 01:02:06,972 I need help, Audrey. 891 01:02:07,724 --> 01:02:11,268 I'll try to slip out if he quiets down, passes out. 892 01:02:12,020 --> 01:02:14,146 I'm afraid he thinks... 893 01:02:15,399 --> 01:02:17,525 Well, he said you were a buffoon, Barton. 894 01:02:17,651 --> 01:02:18,651 Uh-huh. 895 01:02:18,819 --> 01:02:20,152 He becomes irrational. 896 01:02:21,655 --> 01:02:22,822 Uh-huh, uh-huh. 897 01:02:22,906 --> 01:02:24,657 I'll see if I can slip away. 898 01:02:24,866 --> 01:02:26,033 BILL: Who is that! 899 01:02:26,493 --> 01:02:27,493 (ELEVATOR DINGS) 900 01:02:36,169 --> 01:02:37,169 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 901 01:02:43,593 --> 01:02:45,302 Audrey, thank you for coming. 902 01:02:46,054 --> 01:02:47,346 Thank you. 903 01:02:47,722 --> 01:02:52,017 - Hello, Barton. - I'm sorry to be such a... Such a... 904 01:02:52,269 --> 01:02:53,269 (SIGHS) 905 01:02:54,104 --> 01:02:56,897 - Thank you. - That's all right, Barton. 906 01:02:58,108 --> 01:03:00,192 Everything's gonna be all right. 907 01:03:00,694 --> 01:03:01,735 Yes. Thank you. 908 01:03:02,487 --> 01:03:05,739 Thank you. Yes. Thank you. 909 01:03:08,285 --> 01:03:09,535 How's Bill? 910 01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:12,121 He's... 911 01:03:12,956 --> 01:03:16,292 He drifted off. He'll sleep for a while now. 912 01:03:19,212 --> 01:03:20,963 What is it you have to do, exactly? 913 01:03:21,047 --> 01:03:22,047 Well... 914 01:03:22,716 --> 01:03:26,427 I have to come up with an outline, I guess you'd call it. 915 01:03:26,887 --> 01:03:29,221 The story. The whole goddamn story. 916 01:03:29,306 --> 01:03:32,016 Soup to nuts. Three acts. The whole goddamn... 917 01:03:32,100 --> 01:03:35,311 That's all right, Barton. You don't have to write actual scenes. 918 01:03:35,395 --> 01:03:38,564 No, but the whole goddamn... 919 01:03:41,401 --> 01:03:42,610 Audrey, 920 01:03:43,737 --> 01:03:46,447 have you ever read any of Bill's wrestling scenarios? 921 01:03:46,656 --> 01:03:49,241 Yes, I'm afraid I have. 922 01:03:49,743 --> 01:03:51,368 What are they like? What are they about? 923 01:03:52,913 --> 01:03:58,334 Well, usually they're simple morality tales. 924 01:03:59,169 --> 01:04:03,464 There's a good wrestler and a bad wrestler whom he confronts at the end. 925 01:04:04,257 --> 01:04:06,592 In between the good wrestler has a love interest 926 01:04:06,676 --> 01:04:08,886 or a small child he has to protect. 927 01:04:09,846 --> 01:04:13,807 Bill would usually make the good wrestler a backwoods type or a convict. 928 01:04:14,601 --> 01:04:17,228 And sometimes, instead of a waif, 929 01:04:17,604 --> 01:04:21,190 he'd have the wrestler protecting an idiot man-child. 930 01:04:21,566 --> 01:04:22,983 The studio always hated that. 931 01:04:24,528 --> 01:04:28,614 Some of the scripts were so spirited. 932 01:04:32,619 --> 01:04:33,661 Barton... 933 01:04:35,455 --> 01:04:38,916 Look, it's really just a formula. You don't have to type your soul into it. 934 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:43,462 We'll invent some names, a new setting. I'll help you. Won't take any time at all. 935 01:04:43,588 --> 01:04:45,589 I did it for Bill so many times. 936 01:04:46,174 --> 01:04:47,550 You did what for Bill? 937 01:04:49,094 --> 01:04:51,011 Well, this. 938 01:04:52,889 --> 01:04:54,306 You wrote his scripts for him? 939 01:04:57,602 --> 01:05:01,313 Well, the basic ideas were frequently his. 940 01:05:01,606 --> 01:05:04,191 You wrote Bill's scripts? 941 01:05:05,235 --> 01:05:06,610 Jesus, you wrote his... 942 01:05:07,571 --> 01:05:08,988 What about before that? 943 01:05:09,155 --> 01:05:11,574 - Before what? - Before Bill came to Hollywood. 944 01:05:12,659 --> 01:05:15,744 Bill was always the author, so to speak. 945 01:05:15,996 --> 01:05:18,289 What do you mean "so to speak"? 946 01:05:18,915 --> 01:05:24,003 Audrey, how long have you been his secretary? 947 01:05:24,254 --> 01:05:26,880 Barton, I think we should concentrate on our little project. 948 01:05:27,132 --> 01:05:29,592 I wanna know how many of Bill's books you wrote. 949 01:05:29,676 --> 01:05:30,759 - Barton... - I wanna know! 950 01:05:30,885 --> 01:05:32,595 Barton, honestly. 951 01:05:36,266 --> 01:05:38,142 - Only the last couple. - (EXCLAIMS) 952 01:05:38,310 --> 01:05:42,521 And my input was mostly editorial, really. 953 01:05:43,523 --> 01:05:44,815 After he'd been drinking. 954 01:05:44,899 --> 01:05:45,899 I'll bet. 955 01:05:46,192 --> 01:05:49,862 Jesus, the grand productive days. 956 01:05:50,155 --> 01:05:52,239 What a goddamn phony. 957 01:05:52,532 --> 01:05:56,952 W.P. Mayhew. William goddamn Phony Mayhew. 958 01:05:57,037 --> 01:06:00,998 All his guff about escape. I'll say he escaped! 959 01:06:04,294 --> 01:06:05,628 Well, we don't have much time. 960 01:06:10,550 --> 01:06:11,717 It'll be fine. 961 01:06:12,969 --> 01:06:15,054 Don't judge him, Barton. 962 01:06:17,015 --> 01:06:18,724 Don't condescend to him. 963 01:06:20,769 --> 01:06:23,687 I help Bill most by understanding him, 964 01:06:24,814 --> 01:06:26,815 by appreciating him. 965 01:06:28,860 --> 01:06:31,278 We all need understanding, Barton. 966 01:06:32,489 --> 01:06:34,490 Even you, tonight. 967 01:06:35,450 --> 01:06:37,576 It's all you really need. 968 01:07:41,599 --> 01:07:42,599 (BARTON MOANS) 969 01:07:54,738 --> 01:07:57,156 (BOTH MOANING) 970 01:08:13,006 --> 01:08:14,590 (MOANING CONTINUES) 971 01:08:23,641 --> 01:08:25,309 (DISTANT SCREAMS) 972 01:08:30,857 --> 01:08:32,566 (WATER RUNNING) 973 01:08:35,028 --> 01:08:36,403 (MOSQUITO BUZZING) 974 01:09:48,434 --> 01:09:50,435 (SCREAMING) 975 01:09:53,523 --> 01:09:54,857 - (THUMPING) - (GASPS) 976 01:09:55,275 --> 01:09:56,275 (FOOTSTEPS) 977 01:09:56,776 --> 01:09:57,776 (DOOR OPENS) 978 01:09:58,528 --> 01:09:59,695 (FOOTSTEPS IN HALLWAY) 979 01:09:59,946 --> 01:10:00,988 (KNOCKING) 980 01:10:01,072 --> 01:10:02,155 CHARLIE: Barton? 981 01:10:04,909 --> 01:10:06,243 (KNOCKING CONTINUES) 982 01:10:15,503 --> 01:10:16,712 Barton, are you all right? 983 01:10:16,796 --> 01:10:17,921 No, I'm fine, thank you. 984 01:10:18,006 --> 01:10:19,756 - Are you sure? - No, no. 985 01:11:07,347 --> 01:11:08,347 (WHIMPERS) 986 01:12:00,358 --> 01:12:01,358 (BELL RINGING) 987 01:12:26,217 --> 01:12:27,217 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 988 01:12:33,766 --> 01:12:35,600 Barton, are you all right? 989 01:12:36,144 --> 01:12:38,395 No. Can I come in? 990 01:12:38,521 --> 01:12:39,938 Let's go to your room. 991 01:12:40,606 --> 01:12:42,941 Charlie, I'm in trouble. You gotta help me. 992 01:12:43,526 --> 01:12:45,694 Get a grip on yourself, brother. 993 01:12:45,778 --> 01:12:47,571 Whatever the problem is, we can sort it out. 994 01:12:47,655 --> 01:12:50,532 Charlie, I'm in trouble. Something horrible's happened. 995 01:12:50,742 --> 01:12:54,369 I gotta call the police. Will you stay with me till they get here? 996 01:12:55,455 --> 01:12:58,248 Don't worry about it, Barton. We can work it out. 997 01:12:58,791 --> 01:13:00,959 Before you go in, I didn't do this. 998 01:13:01,044 --> 01:13:04,880 I don't know how it happened, but I didn't... 999 01:13:05,089 --> 01:13:07,174 I want you to know that. 1000 01:13:14,307 --> 01:13:15,390 Okay. 1001 01:13:21,856 --> 01:13:22,856 (EXCLAIMS) 1002 01:13:27,987 --> 01:13:28,987 (RETCHING) 1003 01:13:29,155 --> 01:13:30,489 (VOMITING) 1004 01:13:36,079 --> 01:13:37,579 (TOILET FLUSHING) 1005 01:13:42,919 --> 01:13:46,171 Jesus, Barton, what the hell is this? What are we gonna do? 1006 01:13:46,255 --> 01:13:48,340 - I gotta call the police. - Hold on. Hold on. 1007 01:13:48,633 --> 01:13:50,759 - I didn't do this, I did not do this. - Hold on. 1008 01:13:50,843 --> 01:13:53,220 Hold on. Hold on! Stop. 1009 01:13:53,596 --> 01:13:55,180 Take a deep breath now. 1010 01:13:55,848 --> 01:13:57,933 - Tell me what happened. - I passed out. I don't know. 1011 01:13:58,351 --> 01:13:59,976 - Won't the police be able to... - Stop with the police! 1012 01:14:00,061 --> 01:14:03,563 Wake up, friend! This does not look good! They hang people for this. 1013 01:14:03,648 --> 01:14:06,566 But I didn't do it. Don't you believe me? 1014 01:14:06,651 --> 01:14:09,736 I believe you, I know you. Why should the police? 1015 01:14:12,073 --> 01:14:13,365 Did you... 1016 01:14:14,075 --> 01:14:17,869 Barton, between you and me, did you have sexual intercourse? 1017 01:14:21,374 --> 01:14:22,958 Jesus, they can tell that. 1018 01:14:23,042 --> 01:14:25,418 They gotta believe me. 1019 01:14:26,420 --> 01:14:27,879 They gotta have mercy. 1020 01:14:28,631 --> 01:14:30,715 You're in pictures, Barton. 1021 01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:34,136 Even if they cleared you, eventually, this would ruin you. 1022 01:14:36,305 --> 01:14:38,974 Come on, wait in the bathroom. 1023 01:15:02,123 --> 01:15:06,001 CHARLIE: Oh, Lord. Oh, Lordy. Oh, my Lord. 1024 01:15:06,085 --> 01:15:07,085 (SHEETS TEARING) 1025 01:15:07,587 --> 01:15:09,004 (CHARLIE MUTTERING) 1026 01:15:11,090 --> 01:15:12,090 (CHARLIE GRUNTING) 1027 01:15:23,936 --> 01:15:25,437 You passed out. 1028 01:15:27,815 --> 01:15:28,982 Where's Audrey? 1029 01:15:29,066 --> 01:15:30,942 She's dead, Barton. 1030 01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,028 She's dead, if that was her name. 1031 01:15:33,112 --> 01:15:36,323 Barton, listen to me. You gotta act as if nothing has happened. 1032 01:15:36,407 --> 01:15:37,949 Put this totally out of your head. 1033 01:15:38,034 --> 01:15:40,160 I know that's hard, but your play from here on out 1034 01:15:40,244 --> 01:15:42,787 is just to go on about your business as usual. 1035 01:15:42,955 --> 01:15:44,164 Give us some time to sort this out. 1036 01:15:54,550 --> 01:15:57,177 Bart! So happy to see you. 1037 01:15:58,763 --> 01:16:01,514 Sit, talk. Relax for a minute, then talk. 1038 01:16:02,475 --> 01:16:03,516 Drink? 1039 01:16:04,018 --> 01:16:05,018 Ah... 1040 01:16:05,561 --> 01:16:06,645 Yeah. 1041 01:16:07,647 --> 01:16:08,688 Rye whiskey? 1042 01:16:08,773 --> 01:16:11,483 Boy, you writers work hard, play hard. 1043 01:16:11,567 --> 01:16:13,109 That's what I hear, anyway. Lou! 1044 01:16:14,153 --> 01:16:17,072 Anyway. Ben Geisler tells me things are going along great. 1045 01:16:17,156 --> 01:16:19,574 Says we got a real winner in this one. 1046 01:16:19,659 --> 01:16:21,826 Let me tell you something, I'm counting on it. 1047 01:16:21,953 --> 01:16:24,162 I've taken an interest. Nothing to fear, mind you. 1048 01:16:24,247 --> 01:16:29,626 Hardly seems necessary in your case. A writer, a storyteller of your stature. 1049 01:16:29,877 --> 01:16:32,087 Give it to me in bold strokes, Bart. 1050 01:16:32,421 --> 01:16:34,005 Give me the broad outlines. 1051 01:16:34,173 --> 01:16:36,508 I'm sitting in the audience, the lights go down. 1052 01:16:36,592 --> 01:16:38,260 Capitol logo comes up. 1053 01:16:38,803 --> 01:16:39,844 You're on. 1054 01:16:43,683 --> 01:16:46,518 Yeah. Okay. 1055 01:16:49,647 --> 01:16:50,689 Well... 1056 01:16:52,483 --> 01:16:53,692 We fade in. 1057 01:16:57,697 --> 01:17:00,282 It's a tenement building on the Lower East Side. 1058 01:17:00,366 --> 01:17:03,702 Great. He's poor, this wrestler. He's had to struggle. 1059 01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:07,122 And then... 1060 01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:10,041 Well... 1061 01:17:13,045 --> 01:17:14,796 Can I be honest, Mr. Lipnick? 1062 01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:15,964 Can you? 1063 01:17:17,008 --> 01:17:18,675 Jesus, you damn well better be. 1064 01:17:19,260 --> 01:17:21,177 If I wasn't honest in my business dealing... 1065 01:17:21,262 --> 01:17:22,762 Well, of course you can't always be honest, 1066 01:17:22,847 --> 01:17:24,306 not with the sharks swimming around this town. 1067 01:17:24,390 --> 01:17:25,974 But you're a writer, you don't think about those things. 1068 01:17:26,058 --> 01:17:27,100 If I had been totally honest, 1069 01:17:27,184 --> 01:17:29,561 I wouldn't be within a mile of this pool unless I was cleaning it. 1070 01:17:30,229 --> 01:17:32,063 But that's no reason for you not to be. 1071 01:17:33,232 --> 01:17:34,816 Honest, I mean. Not cleaning the pool. 1072 01:17:48,789 --> 01:17:50,248 To be honest, uh, 1073 01:17:51,542 --> 01:17:54,210 I'm never really comfortable discussing work in progress. 1074 01:17:55,254 --> 01:17:58,256 I got it all worked out in my head, but sometimes, 1075 01:17:59,508 --> 01:18:02,594 if you force it into words prematurely, 1076 01:18:03,304 --> 01:18:04,596 the wrong words, 1077 01:18:05,097 --> 01:18:06,806 well, your meaning changes in... 1078 01:18:07,433 --> 01:18:10,685 Changes in your own mind and you never get it back. 1079 01:18:10,770 --> 01:18:13,897 So I'd just as soon as not talk about it. 1080 01:18:19,445 --> 01:18:23,448 Mr. Fink, never mind me, never mind how long I've been in pictures. 1081 01:18:23,783 --> 01:18:26,785 Mr. Lipnick has been in pictures just about since they was invented. 1082 01:18:26,869 --> 01:18:28,453 He practically invented them. 1083 01:18:29,288 --> 01:18:33,541 I think if he's interested in what one of his contract employees is doing, 1084 01:18:33,626 --> 01:18:35,960 that employee should be able to tell him, 1085 01:18:36,212 --> 01:18:38,588 if he wants to stay an employee. 1086 01:18:39,882 --> 01:18:45,470 Right now, the contents of your head are the property of Capitol Pictures. 1087 01:18:46,889 --> 01:18:48,640 If I was you, 1088 01:18:48,724 --> 01:18:51,726 I would speak up and pretty goddamn fast. 1089 01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:58,483 You lousy kike 1090 01:18:58,567 --> 01:19:01,236 son of a bitch. 1091 01:19:01,821 --> 01:19:05,657 You're telling this man, this artist, what to do? 1092 01:19:06,158 --> 01:19:08,618 - Mr. Lipnick, I... - This man creates for a living. 1093 01:19:08,786 --> 01:19:11,830 Thank him for it, you son of a bitch, or you're fired. 1094 01:19:11,956 --> 01:19:15,291 - Mr. Lipnick, that's really not necessary. - Get down on your knees, you son of a bitch. 1095 01:19:15,709 --> 01:19:18,461 Get down on your knees and kiss this man's feet. 1096 01:19:19,130 --> 01:19:20,255 Mr. Lipnick, please. 1097 01:19:20,339 --> 01:19:22,006 Kiss this man's feet! 1098 01:19:27,638 --> 01:19:29,597 Get out of here! You understand me? 1099 01:19:30,182 --> 01:19:32,809 You're out of here. You're fired. Get out of my sight. 1100 01:19:42,069 --> 01:19:43,945 - I... - I apologize, Barton. 1101 01:19:44,029 --> 01:19:46,698 No, no. Mr. Breeze actually has been a great help. 1102 01:19:46,782 --> 01:19:48,408 You don't have to cover for him. It's very noble of you. 1103 01:19:48,492 --> 01:19:49,701 These things happen in business. 1104 01:19:49,785 --> 01:19:52,287 I really would feel much better if you'd just reconsider. 1105 01:19:52,371 --> 01:19:54,289 Forget it, kid. I want you to put it out of your head. 1106 01:19:54,373 --> 01:19:57,167 If that son of a bitch wouldn't apologize to you, then goddamn it, I will. 1107 01:19:57,251 --> 01:20:00,044 I respect your artistry and your methods. 1108 01:20:00,129 --> 01:20:01,796 And if you can't fill us in yet, well, hell, 1109 01:20:01,881 --> 01:20:04,466 we should be kissing your feet for your fine efforts. 1110 01:20:07,553 --> 01:20:08,553 You know... 1111 01:20:12,558 --> 01:20:15,143 In the old country we were taught as very young children 1112 01:20:15,227 --> 01:20:18,771 that there's no shame in supplicating yourself when you respect someone. 1113 01:20:20,483 --> 01:20:23,776 On behalf of Capitol Pictures, the administration, 1114 01:20:23,861 --> 01:20:25,737 and all of the stockholders, 1115 01:20:25,821 --> 01:20:30,241 please accept this as a symbol of our apology and respect. 1116 01:20:44,632 --> 01:20:46,508 (FOOTSTEPS IN HALL) 1117 01:20:46,884 --> 01:20:47,884 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 1118 01:20:58,604 --> 01:21:00,605 Barton, can I come in? 1119 01:21:13,786 --> 01:21:16,371 Jesus, you're leaving? 1120 01:21:16,789 --> 01:21:19,040 I have to, old-timer, just for a little while. 1121 01:21:19,833 --> 01:21:22,293 Jesus. Charlie, I... 1122 01:21:22,378 --> 01:21:24,587 Everything's okay, believe me. 1123 01:21:24,838 --> 01:21:28,466 I know it's rough, mentally, but everything's been taken care of. 1124 01:21:29,468 --> 01:21:31,553 Charlie, I got no one else here. 1125 01:21:32,846 --> 01:21:35,515 You're the only person I know in Los Angeles 1126 01:21:36,684 --> 01:21:38,685 that I can talk to. 1127 01:21:44,233 --> 01:21:45,650 (SOBBING) 1128 01:21:47,570 --> 01:21:52,490 I feel like I'm losing my mind, like I'm going crazy. 1129 01:21:52,616 --> 01:21:54,200 I don't know what to do. 1130 01:21:55,828 --> 01:22:00,707 I didn't do it, believe me, I'm sure of that, Charlie, I... 1131 01:22:00,791 --> 01:22:02,500 You gotta get a grip on, brother. 1132 01:22:03,002 --> 01:22:06,087 You just gotta carry on, just for a few days till I get back. 1133 01:22:06,171 --> 01:22:09,007 Try and stay here, keep your door locked, don't talk to anyone. 1134 01:22:09,592 --> 01:22:12,594 We gotta keep our heads and we'll figure it out. 1135 01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:15,221 - Okay, but what if... - Don't argue with me. 1136 01:22:15,306 --> 01:22:18,391 You asked me to believe you and I do. Now don't argue with me. 1137 01:22:21,770 --> 01:22:23,813 Look, pal, can you do something for me? 1138 01:22:25,733 --> 01:22:27,567 Keep that for me till I get back. 1139 01:22:28,319 --> 01:22:31,195 It's just a lot of personal stuff, but I don't want to drag it with me. 1140 01:22:31,363 --> 01:22:33,990 And I'd like to think it's in good hands. Funny, huh. 1141 01:22:35,075 --> 01:22:37,493 When everything that's important to a guy, 1142 01:22:37,995 --> 01:22:40,663 everything he wants to keep from a lifetime, 1143 01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,958 and he can fit it all into a little box like that. 1144 01:22:45,544 --> 01:22:46,628 I guess... 1145 01:22:48,130 --> 01:22:50,048 I guess it's pretty pathetic. 1146 01:22:50,299 --> 01:22:52,008 It's more than I've got. 1147 01:22:54,053 --> 01:22:56,512 Well, keep it for me, maybe it'll bring you good luck. 1148 01:22:56,597 --> 01:22:59,599 Yeah, it'll help you finish your script. You'll think about me. 1149 01:22:59,683 --> 01:23:02,518 Make me your wrestler, then you'll lick that story of yours. 1150 01:23:02,603 --> 01:23:04,103 Thanks, Charlie. 1151 01:23:04,188 --> 01:23:05,772 Yeah, yeah, sure. 1152 01:23:06,231 --> 01:23:08,232 I'll see you soon, friend. You'll be fine. 1153 01:23:08,651 --> 01:23:09,651 And you'll be back? 1154 01:23:10,319 --> 01:23:13,655 Don't worry about that, compadre. I'll be back. 1155 01:25:45,682 --> 01:25:47,391 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 1156 01:25:57,736 --> 01:25:59,654 (ATTENDANT BREATHING HEAVILY) 1157 01:26:11,500 --> 01:26:13,501 Have you read the Bible, Pete? 1158 01:26:15,921 --> 01:26:17,630 The Holy Bible? 1159 01:26:19,633 --> 01:26:20,675 Yeah. 1160 01:26:22,427 --> 01:26:24,428 Yeah, I think so. 1161 01:26:25,556 --> 01:26:27,557 Anyway, I've heard about it. 1162 01:26:41,864 --> 01:26:43,948 - Fink? - Yeah. 1163 01:26:44,449 --> 01:26:47,201 - Detective Mastrionotti. - Detective Deutsch. 1164 01:26:47,327 --> 01:26:48,619 MASTRIONOTTl: LAPD. 1165 01:26:49,496 --> 01:26:50,538 Uh-huh. 1166 01:26:50,622 --> 01:26:52,373 Got some questions we want to ask you. 1167 01:26:52,499 --> 01:26:54,417 Just routine. Sit down. 1168 01:26:55,919 --> 01:26:57,461 What do you do, Fink? 1169 01:27:00,465 --> 01:27:01,465 I write. 1170 01:27:02,342 --> 01:27:03,551 Yeah? What kind of writing? 1171 01:27:03,635 --> 01:27:06,220 Well, as a matter of fact, I write for the pictures. 1172 01:27:06,305 --> 01:27:08,222 - Big fucking deal. - Want my partner to kiss your ass? 1173 01:27:08,307 --> 01:27:09,807 Would that be good enough for you? 1174 01:27:09,892 --> 01:27:12,143 - No, I didn't mean to sound... - What did you mean? 1175 01:27:13,395 --> 01:27:15,521 I got respect for working guys like you. 1176 01:27:15,606 --> 01:27:17,690 Jesus, ain't that a load off? 1177 01:27:17,774 --> 01:27:20,109 - You live in 621? - Yeah. 1178 01:27:20,193 --> 01:27:21,485 How long you been up there, Fink? 1179 01:27:22,195 --> 01:27:23,404 A week. Eight, nine days. 1180 01:27:23,488 --> 01:27:26,073 - Is this multiple choice? - You know this slob? 1181 01:27:37,044 --> 01:27:39,086 Yeah, he lives next door to me. 1182 01:27:39,171 --> 01:27:40,588 That's right, Fink. 1183 01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:44,508 - He lives next door to you. - You ever talk to him? 1184 01:27:46,011 --> 01:27:47,136 Once or twice. 1185 01:27:48,430 --> 01:27:49,430 His name is Charlie Meadows. 1186 01:27:49,514 --> 01:27:51,974 Yeah, and I'm Buck Rogers. 1187 01:27:52,059 --> 01:27:54,143 His name's Mundt. Karl Mundt. 1188 01:27:54,227 --> 01:27:56,312 Also known as Madman Mundt. 1189 01:27:56,396 --> 01:27:58,272 A little funny in the head. 1190 01:27:59,191 --> 01:28:00,608 - What did he... - MASTRIONOTTl: Funny, 1191 01:28:00,776 --> 01:28:04,654 as in he likes to ventilate people with a shotgun and then cut their heads off. 1192 01:28:04,738 --> 01:28:05,821 Yeah, he's funny that way. 1193 01:28:05,906 --> 01:28:08,741 He started in Kansas City. A couple housewives. 1194 01:28:08,867 --> 01:28:10,952 A couple of days ago we got the same MO out at Los Feliz. 1195 01:28:11,036 --> 01:28:14,288 - Doctor. Ear, nose and throat man. - All of which is now missing. 1196 01:28:14,373 --> 01:28:17,124 - Well, some of his throat was there. - Physician, heal thyself. 1197 01:28:17,209 --> 01:28:19,460 - Good luck with fucking no head. - Anyway. 1198 01:28:19,544 --> 01:28:22,588 Hollywood Precinct finds another stiff yesterday. 1199 01:28:22,673 --> 01:28:26,509 Not too far from here. This one's better looking than the doc. 1200 01:28:26,718 --> 01:28:30,137 Female Caucasian, about 30 years old. Nice tits, no head. 1201 01:28:31,056 --> 01:28:33,099 Ever see Mundt with anyone fits that description? 1202 01:28:33,183 --> 01:28:35,601 But, you know, with the head still on. 1203 01:28:38,230 --> 01:28:40,314 No. I never saw him with anyone else. 1204 01:28:40,399 --> 01:28:42,900 So you did talk to Mundt. What about? 1205 01:28:44,403 --> 01:28:48,114 Nothing really. He said he was in the insurance business. 1206 01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:49,782 Yeah, and he's Buck Rogers. 1207 01:28:49,866 --> 01:28:53,077 No reputable company would hire a guy like that. 1208 01:28:53,161 --> 01:28:54,370 Well, that's what he said. 1209 01:28:54,454 --> 01:28:55,705 What else? 1210 01:28:58,417 --> 01:28:59,583 I'm trying to think. 1211 01:29:00,585 --> 01:29:02,086 Nothing, really. He... 1212 01:29:04,339 --> 01:29:06,632 He said he liked Jack Oakie pictures. 1213 01:29:09,428 --> 01:29:15,141 You know, ordinarily we say anything you might remember could be helpful. 1214 01:29:16,268 --> 01:29:19,854 But I'll be frank with you, Fink, that is not helpful. 1215 01:29:19,938 --> 01:29:21,605 Notice how he's not writing it down? 1216 01:29:23,692 --> 01:29:24,817 Fink? 1217 01:29:25,819 --> 01:29:27,361 That's a... 1218 01:29:28,196 --> 01:29:29,864 A Jewish name, isn't it? 1219 01:29:29,948 --> 01:29:32,158 Yeah. 1220 01:29:33,285 --> 01:29:35,578 I didn't think this dump was restricted. 1221 01:29:36,830 --> 01:29:41,000 Mundt has disappeared, I don't think he'll be back. 1222 01:29:42,294 --> 01:29:44,086 But give me a call if you see him. 1223 01:29:46,506 --> 01:29:50,301 Or if you remember something that isn't totally idiotic. 1224 01:30:20,665 --> 01:30:21,665 (LIGHT RATTLING) 1225 01:30:59,079 --> 01:31:00,621 (BEGINS TYPING) 1226 01:31:09,673 --> 01:31:11,465 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 1227 01:31:29,985 --> 01:31:31,485 (RINGING CONTINUES) 1228 01:31:35,824 --> 01:31:37,783 "Fade in. 1229 01:31:38,493 --> 01:31:42,663 "A young hussy opens the door 1230 01:31:44,416 --> 01:31:49,003 "to the burlyman's apartment. 1231 01:31:49,087 --> 01:31:51,338 "If you were a man, 1232 01:31:52,507 --> 01:31:56,594 "a real man, you'd slap me. 1233 01:31:58,847 --> 01:32:02,308 "I've put my mark on you. 1234 01:32:02,475 --> 01:32:06,312 "Yours... Indelibly... 1235 01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:13,777 "Me, I come out feeling sick. 1236 01:32:13,862 --> 01:32:15,571 "That's it, that's it, champ. 1237 01:32:15,655 --> 01:32:18,115 "Fade in. Maury's house. 1238 01:32:19,117 --> 01:32:22,494 "Painted women. In the air, the burlyman... 1239 01:32:22,621 --> 01:32:23,829 "Bright blue oyster... 1240 01:32:23,914 --> 01:32:27,166 "With one light move... 1241 01:32:28,460 --> 01:32:29,960 "The burlyman... She's a good woman. 1242 01:32:30,045 --> 01:32:32,213 "I don't care what 1243 01:32:32,297 --> 01:32:35,799 "people say, life must... 1244 01:32:35,884 --> 01:32:40,304 "Tell Burlyman we have to deduct those expenses from his purse. 1245 01:32:40,472 --> 01:32:45,142 "I don't care. It's lonely after all these years..." 1246 01:32:46,561 --> 01:32:48,145 OPERATOR: Hold the line, sir, I have your call. 1247 01:32:48,230 --> 01:32:50,564 (SHOUTING) Hello, operator? I can't... 1248 01:32:51,441 --> 01:32:52,942 Oh, God. 1249 01:32:53,026 --> 01:32:54,818 (RINGING TONE) 1250 01:32:57,113 --> 01:32:58,530 - (CLEARING THROAT) Hello? - Garland, it's me. 1251 01:32:58,615 --> 01:33:03,494 Barton? What time is it? Are you all right? 1252 01:33:03,745 --> 01:33:07,164 Yeah, I'm fine. I have to talk to you, Garland. 1253 01:33:07,332 --> 01:33:09,541 I'm calling long distance. 1254 01:33:09,668 --> 01:33:11,752 What is it, Barton? Are you okay? 1255 01:33:11,836 --> 01:33:14,338 Yeah, I'm fine, Garland, but I have to talk to you. 1256 01:33:14,422 --> 01:33:16,298 It's about what I'm writing. 1257 01:33:16,675 --> 01:33:17,841 I think 1258 01:33:18,551 --> 01:33:19,885 it's really... 1259 01:33:21,471 --> 01:33:23,180 I think it's really big. 1260 01:33:24,182 --> 01:33:27,810 - What do you mean? - Not big in the sense of large, 1261 01:33:27,894 --> 01:33:31,272 although it's that, too. I mean important. 1262 01:33:32,983 --> 01:33:35,526 This may be the most important work I've ever done. 1263 01:33:36,069 --> 01:33:37,778 Barton, is everything okay? 1264 01:33:38,697 --> 01:33:40,155 You sound a little... 1265 01:33:40,407 --> 01:33:42,241 Sound a little what? 1266 01:33:42,909 --> 01:33:44,535 You sound a little... 1267 01:33:45,245 --> 01:33:48,914 Thanks, Garland. Thanks for all the encouragement. 1268 01:33:52,043 --> 01:33:53,127 Nitwit. 1269 01:34:33,126 --> 01:34:34,835 (BIG BAND SWING PLAYING) 1270 01:35:27,931 --> 01:35:29,681 Excuse me, buddy. Mind if I cut in? 1271 01:35:31,101 --> 01:35:32,684 This is my dance, sailor. 1272 01:35:32,977 --> 01:35:35,312 Hey, come on, buddy, I'm shipping out tomorrow. 1273 01:35:37,315 --> 01:35:41,652 I'm a writer, celebrating the completion of something good. 1274 01:35:42,153 --> 01:35:45,239 - Do you understand that, sailor? - MAN: Beat it, creep. 1275 01:35:45,323 --> 01:35:47,950 Come on, buddy, give the navy a dance. 1276 01:35:48,034 --> 01:35:50,077 MAN 2: Let somebody else spin the dame. 1277 01:35:50,161 --> 01:35:51,912 Step aside, four eyes. 1278 01:35:51,996 --> 01:35:53,539 Hey, 4F, take a hike. 1279 01:35:53,623 --> 01:35:55,499 - MAN 3: Suck an egg. - Go sit on a tomato. 1280 01:35:56,459 --> 01:35:59,503 I'm a writer, you monsters. I create. 1281 01:35:59,838 --> 01:36:01,505 I create for a living! 1282 01:36:02,048 --> 01:36:04,967 I'm a creator! I am a creator! 1283 01:36:05,051 --> 01:36:08,303 - MAN 4: He's screwy. - This is my uniform. 1284 01:36:09,097 --> 01:36:12,433 This is how I serve the common man. This is where I... 1285 01:36:12,517 --> 01:36:14,101 (WOMEN GASPING) 1286 01:36:15,687 --> 01:36:16,854 Get 'em, boys. 1287 01:36:18,356 --> 01:36:19,690 (PEOPLE CLAMORING) 1288 01:36:50,430 --> 01:36:51,889 (MUFFLED VOICES) 1289 01:36:52,682 --> 01:36:55,476 MASTRIONOTTl: "Where is my little boy? 1290 01:36:56,478 --> 01:36:57,853 "He left this morning. 1291 01:36:58,980 --> 01:37:00,606 "Said he had a job to do. 1292 01:37:01,191 --> 01:37:05,068 "There was something in his eyes. Something new. 1293 01:37:05,987 --> 01:37:09,072 "Mother: What's to become of him? 1294 01:37:10,825 --> 01:37:15,787 "Father: We'll be hearing from that crazy wrestler, 1295 01:37:16,581 --> 01:37:18,540 "and I don't mean a postcard. 1296 01:37:19,375 --> 01:37:21,627 "Fade out. The end." 1297 01:37:26,007 --> 01:37:27,841 I thought you said you were a writer. 1298 01:37:27,926 --> 01:37:29,801 Now I don't know, Duke. I kind of liked it. 1299 01:37:29,886 --> 01:37:31,678 Keep your filthy eyes off of that. 1300 01:37:33,473 --> 01:37:35,182 DEUTSCH: You made the morning papers, Fink. 1301 01:37:35,475 --> 01:37:38,352 MASTRIONOTTl: Second one of your friends to wind up dead. 1302 01:37:38,436 --> 01:37:40,521 You do get around, don't you, Fink? 1303 01:37:40,605 --> 01:37:44,358 - You didn't tell us you knew the dame. - Sixth floor too high for you, Fink? 1304 01:37:44,442 --> 01:37:45,943 Give you nosebleeds? 1305 01:37:48,780 --> 01:37:52,533 MASTRIONOTTl: Just tell me one thing, Fink. Where'd you put the heads? 1306 01:37:53,409 --> 01:37:56,453 Charlie. Charlie's back. 1307 01:37:56,996 --> 01:38:00,415 No kidding, bright boy. We smelled Mundt all over this. 1308 01:38:01,125 --> 01:38:02,167 Was he the idea man? 1309 01:38:02,252 --> 01:38:05,003 DEUTSCH: Tell us where the heads are. Maybe they'll go easy on you. 1310 01:38:05,088 --> 01:38:06,547 Only fry you once. 1311 01:38:06,631 --> 01:38:07,881 Could you two come back later? 1312 01:38:07,966 --> 01:38:10,592 It's just too hot, my head is killing me. 1313 01:38:10,677 --> 01:38:13,637 All right, forget the heads. Where's Mundt, Fink? 1314 01:38:14,138 --> 01:38:17,391 - He teach you how to do it? - You two have some sick sex thing? 1315 01:38:17,475 --> 01:38:19,017 Sex? 1316 01:38:19,561 --> 01:38:21,853 He's a man. We wrestled. 1317 01:38:25,358 --> 01:38:26,650 You're a sick fuck, Fink. 1318 01:38:27,819 --> 01:38:28,986 Charlie's back. 1319 01:38:29,988 --> 01:38:31,572 It's hot, he's back. 1320 01:38:32,282 --> 01:38:34,032 (ELEVATOR DINGS) 1321 01:38:57,682 --> 01:38:58,724 Fred. 1322 01:39:04,272 --> 01:39:06,273 Sit tight, Fink. 1323 01:39:11,779 --> 01:39:14,031 Why is it so goddamn hot out here? 1324 01:39:16,492 --> 01:39:17,492 Duke. 1325 01:39:46,397 --> 01:39:47,606 Mundt! 1326 01:39:52,695 --> 01:39:55,030 Mundt! Show yourself. 1327 01:40:17,595 --> 01:40:18,929 MASTRIONOTTl: There's a boy, Mundt. 1328 01:40:21,307 --> 01:40:24,518 Put the policy case down and your mitts in the air. 1329 01:40:35,113 --> 01:40:36,196 He's complying. 1330 01:40:41,077 --> 01:40:43,120 Look upon me! 1331 01:40:43,496 --> 01:40:46,456 I'll show you the life of the mind! 1332 01:40:46,874 --> 01:40:48,792 (YELLING) 1333 01:40:51,921 --> 01:40:52,921 Look upon me! 1334 01:40:53,798 --> 01:40:59,136 I'll show you the life of the mind! I'll show you the life of the mind! 1335 01:40:59,887 --> 01:41:02,180 I'll show you the life of the mind! 1336 01:41:02,390 --> 01:41:05,183 I will show you the life of the mind! 1337 01:41:34,714 --> 01:41:35,922 Heil Hitler. 1338 01:41:36,007 --> 01:41:37,966 (YELLING) 1339 01:41:39,343 --> 01:41:40,677 (GUN FIRES) 1340 01:41:49,520 --> 01:41:50,687 Barton. 1341 01:41:52,857 --> 01:41:53,857 (WHISTLES) 1342 01:41:54,567 --> 01:41:56,067 Brother, is it hot. 1343 01:41:58,029 --> 01:41:59,196 How you been, buddy? 1344 01:42:02,033 --> 01:42:04,201 Don't look at me like that. 1345 01:42:04,494 --> 01:42:06,203 It's just me, Charlie. 1346 01:42:07,330 --> 01:42:10,207 I hear it's Mundt. Madman Mundt. 1347 01:42:11,542 --> 01:42:14,044 Jesus, people can be cruel. 1348 01:42:15,254 --> 01:42:17,923 If it's not my build, it's my personality. 1349 01:42:24,680 --> 01:42:28,350 They say I'm a madman, Bart, but I'm not mad at anyone. 1350 01:42:28,726 --> 01:42:30,143 Honest, I'm not. 1351 01:42:31,604 --> 01:42:33,980 Most guys I just feel sorry for. 1352 01:42:35,441 --> 01:42:38,985 It tears me up inside to think about what they're going through, 1353 01:42:39,070 --> 01:42:40,862 how trapped they are. 1354 01:42:43,366 --> 01:42:45,367 I understand it. 1355 01:42:46,285 --> 01:42:47,869 I feel for them. 1356 01:42:51,040 --> 01:42:52,833 So I try and help them out. 1357 01:42:53,543 --> 01:42:54,668 Jesus. 1358 01:42:56,045 --> 01:42:57,045 (SIGHS) 1359 01:42:57,129 --> 01:42:59,464 Yeah. Yeah. 1360 01:43:01,926 --> 01:43:05,720 I know what it feels like when things get all balled up at the head office. 1361 01:43:06,556 --> 01:43:08,557 It puts you through hell, Barton. 1362 01:43:10,768 --> 01:43:12,769 So I help people out. 1363 01:43:15,565 --> 01:43:18,316 I just wish someone would do as much for me. 1364 01:43:21,195 --> 01:43:23,655 Jesus, it's hot. 1365 01:43:29,036 --> 01:43:33,039 Sometimes it gets so hot I want to crawl right out of my skin. 1366 01:43:34,250 --> 01:43:36,084 But, Charlie, why me? 1367 01:43:37,044 --> 01:43:39,963 - Why... - Because you don't listen! 1368 01:43:49,557 --> 01:43:52,309 Jesus, I'm dripping again. 1369 01:43:55,813 --> 01:43:57,647 Come on, Barton. 1370 01:43:59,066 --> 01:44:00,734 You think you know pain? 1371 01:44:02,862 --> 01:44:05,322 You think I made your life hell? 1372 01:44:07,617 --> 01:44:09,576 Take a look around this dump. 1373 01:44:09,660 --> 01:44:12,495 You're just a tourist with a typewriter, Barton, I live here. 1374 01:44:12,580 --> 01:44:14,164 Don't you understand that? 1375 01:44:21,839 --> 01:44:23,882 And you come into my home, 1376 01:44:26,677 --> 01:44:28,553 and you complain 1377 01:44:28,638 --> 01:44:31,932 that I'm making too much noise. 1378 01:44:44,111 --> 01:44:45,445 I'm sorry. 1379 01:44:53,412 --> 01:44:54,579 Don't be. 1380 01:45:19,897 --> 01:45:21,564 (METAL CREAKING) 1381 01:45:43,170 --> 01:45:45,171 I'll be next door if you need me. 1382 01:45:50,011 --> 01:45:51,011 CHARLIE: Oh, 1383 01:45:51,637 --> 01:45:54,973 I dropped in on your folks in New York and Uncle Maury. 1384 01:45:57,101 --> 01:45:58,226 Good people. 1385 01:46:05,026 --> 01:46:07,610 By the way, that package I gave you, 1386 01:46:08,070 --> 01:46:10,780 I lied. It isn't mine. 1387 01:47:15,471 --> 01:47:20,141 Fink. Samuel or Lillian Fink. 85 Fulton Street. 1388 01:47:20,226 --> 01:47:21,434 - OPERATOR: I under... - Or Uncle Maury. 1389 01:47:21,519 --> 01:47:23,686 I understand that, sir, but there's still no answer. 1390 01:47:23,771 --> 01:47:24,938 Mr. Fink! 1391 01:47:25,314 --> 01:47:27,190 Shall I check for trouble on the line? 1392 01:47:34,949 --> 01:47:36,199 Fink. 1393 01:47:36,283 --> 01:47:37,367 Mr. Lipnick? 1394 01:47:38,702 --> 01:47:41,204 Colonel Lipnick, if you don't mind. Sit down. 1395 01:47:41,497 --> 01:47:43,081 I was commissioned yesterday in the Army Reserve. 1396 01:47:43,165 --> 01:47:44,874 Henry Morgenthau arranged it. Dear friend. 1397 01:47:46,877 --> 01:47:47,877 Congratulations. 1398 01:47:47,962 --> 01:47:49,712 Well, actually it hasn't officially gone through yet. 1399 01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:51,297 I had wardrobe whip this up. 1400 01:47:51,590 --> 01:47:53,424 You gotta pull teeth to get anything done in this town. 1401 01:47:53,509 --> 01:47:55,135 I can understand a little red tape in peacetime, 1402 01:47:55,219 --> 01:47:57,137 but now it's all-out warfare against the Japs. 1403 01:47:57,221 --> 01:48:00,473 Little yellow bastards. They'd love to see me sit this one out. 1404 01:48:00,558 --> 01:48:01,808 Yes, sir. They... 1405 01:48:01,892 --> 01:48:04,894 Anyway. I had Lou read your script for me. 1406 01:48:06,814 --> 01:48:08,439 I gotta tell you, Fink. 1407 01:48:09,567 --> 01:48:10,859 It won't wash. 1408 01:48:11,110 --> 01:48:14,028 With all due respect, sir, I think it's the best work I've done. 1409 01:48:14,113 --> 01:48:15,655 Don't gas me, Fink. 1410 01:48:15,823 --> 01:48:18,658 If your opinion mattered, I guess I'd resign or let you run the studio. 1411 01:48:18,742 --> 01:48:20,160 Well, it doesn't and you won't. 1412 01:48:20,286 --> 01:48:22,328 Now, the lunatics are not gonna run this particular asylum, 1413 01:48:22,413 --> 01:48:25,081 so let's put a stop to that rumor right now. 1414 01:48:26,333 --> 01:48:27,333 Yes, sir. 1415 01:48:27,793 --> 01:48:30,003 I had to call Beery this morning, 1416 01:48:30,087 --> 01:48:31,254 tell him we're pushing the picture back, 1417 01:48:31,338 --> 01:48:34,883 after all I'd told him about quality, about that Barton Fink feeling. 1418 01:48:35,259 --> 01:48:36,467 How disappointed we were. 1419 01:48:36,552 --> 01:48:39,470 Wally was heartbroken, the man was devastated. 1420 01:48:40,014 --> 01:48:41,097 He was... 1421 01:48:41,974 --> 01:48:43,516 Well, I didn't actually call him, Lou did. 1422 01:48:43,601 --> 01:48:44,767 But that's a fair description, isn't it, Lou? 1423 01:48:44,935 --> 01:48:46,019 Yes, Colonel. 1424 01:48:46,103 --> 01:48:51,065 Hell, I could take you through it step by step explaining why your story stinks. 1425 01:48:51,150 --> 01:48:53,860 But I won't insult your intelligence. Well, all right. 1426 01:48:53,944 --> 01:48:57,488 First of all, this is a wrestling picture. 1427 01:48:57,948 --> 01:49:01,618 The audience wants to see action, adventure, wrestling and plenty of it. 1428 01:49:01,702 --> 01:49:03,953 They don't want to see a guy wrestling with his soul. 1429 01:49:04,038 --> 01:49:05,663 Well, all right, a little bit for the critics. 1430 01:49:05,748 --> 01:49:07,999 But you make it the carrot that wags the dog. 1431 01:49:08,083 --> 01:49:10,126 Too much of it, they head for the exits. I don't blame them. 1432 01:49:10,211 --> 01:49:13,755 There's plenty of poetry right inside that ring, Fink. 1433 01:49:13,839 --> 01:49:15,381 Look at Hell, Ten Feet Square. 1434 01:49:15,466 --> 01:49:17,967 - Blood, Sweat and Canvas. - Blood, Sweat and Canvas. 1435 01:49:18,052 --> 01:49:21,721 These are big movies, Fink, about big men, in tights! 1436 01:49:21,847 --> 01:49:23,806 Both physically and mentally. 1437 01:49:24,475 --> 01:49:26,184 Especially physically. 1438 01:49:26,268 --> 01:49:29,896 We don't put Wally Beery in a fruity movie about suffering. 1439 01:49:30,314 --> 01:49:31,814 I thought we were together on that. 1440 01:49:34,193 --> 01:49:35,360 Sorry if I let you down. 1441 01:49:35,444 --> 01:49:37,445 You didn't let me down, Fink, or even Lou. 1442 01:49:37,529 --> 01:49:41,908 We don't live or die by what you scribble. You let Ben Geisler down. 1443 01:49:41,992 --> 01:49:45,745 He liked you, trusted you. And that's why he's gone, he's fired. 1444 01:49:45,829 --> 01:49:48,998 That man had a heart as big as the all outdoors and you fucked him. 1445 01:49:49,083 --> 01:49:52,210 He tried to convince me to fire you, too, but no, that'd be too easy. 1446 01:49:52,294 --> 01:49:54,462 Now, you're under contract. You're gonna stay that way. 1447 01:49:54,546 --> 01:49:57,215 Anything you write is gonna be the property of Capitol Pictures 1448 01:49:57,299 --> 01:50:00,426 and Capitol Pictures is not gonna produce anything you write. 1449 01:50:00,511 --> 01:50:02,011 Not until you grow up a little. 1450 01:50:02,846 --> 01:50:07,558 You ain't no writer, Fink, you're a goddamn write-off. 1451 01:50:11,313 --> 01:50:14,190 I tried to show you something beautiful. 1452 01:50:16,860 --> 01:50:18,569 Something about all of us. 1453 01:50:20,072 --> 01:50:23,491 You arrogant son of a bitch. 1454 01:50:24,118 --> 01:50:28,371 You think you're the only writer that can give me that Barton Fink feeling? 1455 01:50:28,497 --> 01:50:33,376 I got 20 writers under contract I can ask for a Fink-type thing from! 1456 01:50:33,460 --> 01:50:36,087 You swell-headed hypocrite, you just don't get it, do you? 1457 01:50:36,255 --> 01:50:38,506 You think the whole world revolves around 1458 01:50:38,590 --> 01:50:42,302 whatever rattles inside that little kike head of yours. 1459 01:50:43,053 --> 01:50:44,387 Get him out of my sight, Lou. 1460 01:50:45,055 --> 01:50:48,182 I want him in town, though. He's still under contract. 1461 01:50:48,642 --> 01:50:51,728 I want you in town, Fink, and out of my sight. 1462 01:50:53,063 --> 01:50:54,147 Now get lost. 1463 01:50:55,399 --> 01:50:56,941 There's a war on. 1464 01:51:55,417 --> 01:51:56,959 It's a beautiful day. 1465 01:51:57,711 --> 01:51:58,711 Huh? 1466 01:52:05,636 --> 01:52:07,470 I said it's a beautiful day. 1467 01:52:08,013 --> 01:52:10,681 Yes. It is. 1468 01:52:14,103 --> 01:52:15,436 What's in the box? 1469 01:52:17,815 --> 01:52:18,981 I don't know. 1470 01:52:20,984 --> 01:52:22,151 Isn't it yours? 1471 01:52:27,866 --> 01:52:29,492 I don't know. 1472 01:52:36,667 --> 01:52:38,000 You're very beautiful. 1473 01:52:43,006 --> 01:52:44,298 Are you in pictures? 1474 01:52:46,385 --> 01:52:47,510 Don't be silly.