:07:04
You call the canary Richelieu
because you wanted a cardinal?
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That's very funny.
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No, it isn't.
Just one of the hazards of being
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a famous international wit,
which I am. Have to keep trying.
:07:16
I can't tell you how delighted I am
by this assignment, Mr Benson.
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And to have the opportunity to work
with a screenwriter of your stature.
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I'm interested in cinema myself.
I'm sure I can learn a great deal.
:07:27
Thank you.
:07:28
Last month I worked for Roger Roussin
the New Wave director. You know him?
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I'm more of an Old Wave man.
:07:33
The picture's terribly interesting.
Very avant-garde.
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About people who go to this party
and decide not to play Scrabble.
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It was called The Scrabble Game
Will Not Take Place.
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His next one's about a girl
who won't have a birthday party -
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Blow Out No Candles.
:07:48
Roger believes what's important
on screen is what doesn't happen.
:07:52
Does your film have a title yet?
:07:54
Of course.
:07:56
The Girl Who Stole
the Eiffel Tower.
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The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel
Tower. It sounds fascinating.
:08:04
The title is symbolic?
:08:05
She doesn't really steal
the Eiffel Tower. Does she?
:08:10
What's the story about?
:08:12
It's an action-suspense...
:08:15
...romantic melodrama.
With lots of comedy, of course.
:08:18
And deep down underneath
a substrata of social comment.
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Oh. Well, if I could see
the pages you've written,
:08:25
I could estimate
the size of the typing job.
:08:29
The pages, my dear girl,
are right here.
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An Alexander Meyerheim production.
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The Girl Who Stole
the Eiffel Tower.
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Original story and screenplay
by Richard Benson.
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Here, with a page or two
of interestingly photographed
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establishing shots,
possibly from a helicopter,
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- a boy and a girl meet.
- But, Mr Benson...
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Now, after some chitchat,
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getting-to-know-you stuff,
which I do so brilliantly,
:08:57
we feel an unconscious attraction
between the two.