:45:04
Do you know why?
:45:06
I'll tell you why.
:45:09
Because dying fathers and lying mothers...
:45:12
...are a dime a dozen, these days.
:45:14
Home and family have become
civilization's antiques...
:45:18
...along with the flag...
:45:21
... Sunday school, Girl Scout cookies...
:45:24
... C.B. de Mille and virginity.
:45:30
We gave them virtue, they want vice.
:45:35
We sold them schmaltz,
they prefer sadomasochism.
:45:41
Instead of the American dream...
:45:42
... it should have been
the American wet dream.
:45:50
We'll reshoot.
:45:51
We'll make Gillian West, businesswoman,
into a nymphomaniac executive.
:45:55
Packard de Haven, rugged male chauvinist
is really a transvestite.
:45:59
Felix.
:46:00
The dream sequence will become
erotic orgies.
:46:04
- Felix.
- It is perfect.
:46:06
It is a 20th century Sodom and Gomorrah...
:46:09
... and in the end,
God turns Gillian into saltpeter.
:46:14
- Felix, for God's sake.
- Think of it, David.
:46:17
Like the phoenix rising from the ashes,
Night Wind will become...
:46:21
... the greatest money-making film
in motion picture history.
:46:27
Today, a $30-million flop.
:46:29
Tomorrow, a $40-million
box office champion.
:46:34
- $40 million?
- A month to re-write.
:46:36
- Another $10 million.
- Maybe $11, no more.
:46:38
You expect me to put up $11 million...
:46:40
...for what is the worst
crap I have ever seen?
:46:42
- Crap?
- No.
:46:43
I'll tell you what you're going to do,
what you can do:
:46:46
You're going to re-cut Night Wind
exactly the way I tell you to cut it.
:46:49
Never.
:46:50
Then, by God,
if it's the last thing I do, I'll fix it...
:46:53
...so you never do another picture
in this town as long as you live.
:46:57
Oh, my God. Throw him off the lot.
:46:59
I'll have you arrested, maniac.