1:48:00
The lunatics aren't going to run
this particular asylum.
1:48:03
Let's put a stop
to that rumor right now.
1:48:06
Yes, sir.
1:48:08
Had to call Beery this morning,
1:48:10
tell him we were pushing
the picture back.
1:48:12
After all I told him about quality,
1:48:14
about that Barton Fink feeling,
1:48:16
how disappointed we were.
1:48:17
Wally was heartbroken.
The man was devastated.
1:48:20
I didn't actually call him.
Lou did.
1:48:23
That's a fair description,
isn't it, Lou?
1:48:25
Yes, Colonel.
1:48:26
I could take you
through it step-by-step,
1:48:30
explaining why
your story stinks,
1:48:32
but I won't insult
your intelligence.
1:48:34
Well, all right.
1:48:35
First of all,
this is a wrestling picture.
1:48:38
The audience wants to see action,
adventure, wrestling.
1:48:41
They don't want to see a guy
wrestling with his soul.
1:48:45
All right, some for the critics.
1:48:46
You make it the carrot
that wags the dog.
1:48:49
Too much,
they head for the exits.
1:48:51
There's plenty of poetry
inside that ring, Fink.
1:48:54
Look at Hell 10 Feet Square.
1:48:56
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.
1:48:57
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.
1:48:59
These are big movies,
Fink, about big men.
1:49:02
In tights!
1:49:03
Both physically
and mentally--
1:49:05
especially physically.
1:49:07
We don't put Wally Beery
in a fruity movie about suffering.
1:49:09
I thought we were
together on that.
1:49:14
I'm sorry if I let you down.
1:49:16
You didn't let me down
or even Lou.
1:49:18
We don't live or die
by what you scribble.
1:49:21
You let Ben Geisler down.
1:49:22
He liked you,
trusted you.
1:49:24
That's why he's gone.
He's fired.
1:49:26
That man had a big heart.
1:49:28
You fucked him.
1:49:30
He tried to convince me
to fire you, too,
1:49:32
but that'd be too easy.
1:49:33
You're under contract.
You'll stay that way.
1:49:35
Anything you write is
property of Capitol Pictures.
1:49:38
Capitol Pictures won't produce
anything you write--
1:49:41
not until you
grow up a little.
1:49:43
You ain't no writer, Fink.
1:49:46
You're a goddamn write-off.
1:49:50
I--I tried to show you...
1:49:53
something beautiful.
1:49:57
Something about all of us.
1:49:59
I...