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We'll spend the whole day together.
First, breakfast at a little café,
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then we'll dance
from one end of Paris to the other,
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opera at five, then the guards
and the singing of the Marseillaise,
:17:14
off to Montmartre for the fireworks,
:17:16
then supper and champagne
and, you know, live.
:17:19
- You really like it, don't you?
- What?
:17:22
Life.
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Every morning when I wake up
and see a whole new other day,
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I just go absolutely ape.
:17:33
I've got an idea.
:17:36
I got an idea!
The first good one in four months.
:17:38
No, I had an idea to give up
drinking - it didn't photograph.
:17:42
Now this could be good.
Very good indeed.
:17:45
A simple story
of a simple Parisian working girl
:17:48
and how she spends July 14th.
The whole picture plays in one day.
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And I've got two days to write it.
Fade in. Exterior, Paris.
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As our story begins,
it's early Bastille Day morning.
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And all the trumpets of Paris
are sounding reveille.
:18:09
Over a shot of the Arch of Triumph,
:18:12
superimpose
"An Alexander Meyerheim production".
:18:16
Cut to the Eiffel Tower.
The main title.
:18:22
The trumpets segue
into the inevitable title song.
:18:26
Maybe we can get
Sinatra to sing it.
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There follows an interminable list
of other credits
:18:45
acknowledging the efforts of
all the quote little people unquote,
:18:49
whom I shall graciously thank
in my acceptance speech
:18:52
at the Academy Awards.
:18:54
As the cymbals crash,
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"Original Story and Screenplay
by Richard Benson".