Barton Fink
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:06:00
I guess I try to make a difference.
:06:04
There's no pressure here
because I respect you,

:06:07
but a brief tenure in Hollywood
:06:09
could support you through the writing
:06:11
of any number of plays.
:06:13
I don't know, Garland.
:06:15
My place is here right now.
:06:17
I feel I'm on the brink of success.
:06:20
I'd say you're already enjoying some.
:06:22
No. Don't you see?
:06:24
Not the kind of success
where critics fawn over you

:06:27
or producers like Derek
make a lot of money.

:06:30
No. A real success.
:06:31
The success we've been dreaming about--
:06:34
the creation of a new living theater
:06:37
of and about and for the common man.
:06:40
If I ran off to Hollywood now,
:06:42
I'd be making money,
:06:44
going to parties,
meeting the big shots,

:06:46
but I'd be cutting myself off
:06:47
from the wellspring of that success,
:06:50
from the common man.
:06:53
Oh, I guess I'm spouting off again.
:06:57
You see Caven's review?
:06:59
No. What did it say?
:07:01
Here, take my copy.
:07:02
You're the toast of Broadway,
:07:04
and you have an opportunity
:07:06
to redeem that for a little cash--
:07:10
Strike that.
A lot of cash.

:07:12
The common man will still be here
when you get back.

:07:17
Who knows?
:07:19
They may even have one or two of them
out in Hollywood.

:07:22
That's a rationalization, Garland.
:07:25
Barton, it was a joke.
:07:32
[ Waves Wash Ashore ]

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