:03:01
- Author!
- Author!
:03:04
- Author!
- Author!
:03:05
- Author!
- Author!
:03:08
- Bravo!
- Bravo!
:03:19
[Dog Yaps]
:03:21
Your table is ready, Monsieur Fink.
:03:24
In fact, several members of your party
have already arrived.
:03:27
Is Garland Stanford here?
:03:29
He called to say
he'd be a few minutes late.
:03:32
Ah, here we are.
:03:33
Barton!
Barton, so glad you could make it.
:03:36
You know Richard St. Claire
:03:38
and Poppy Carnahan.
:03:40
Charmed, charmed, charmed.
:03:42
We're drinking champagne
in honor of the occasion.
:03:44
Have you seen the Herald?
:03:47
Not yet.
:03:48
I won't embarrass you,
:03:49
but Caven could
hardly contain himself.
:03:51
More important,
:03:52
Richard and Poppy here loved the play.
:03:55
Weeping.
:03:56
Copious tears.
:03:57
What did the Herald say?
:03:59
I happen to have it.
:04:00
Please, Derek...
:04:01
"Bare Ruined Choirs:
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Triumph of the Common Man.
:04:05
The star of Bare Ruined Choirs
:04:07
was nowhere seen
on the stage last night,
:04:09
though the thespians
acquitted themselves admirably.
:04:12
The find of the evening
:04:13
was the author of this drama
about simple folk,
:04:16
fishmongers, in fact,
:04:18
whose brute struggle for existence
:04:19
cannot quite quell their longing
for something higher.
:04:22
The playwright finds nobility
:04:23
in the most squalid corners
:04:25
and poetry in the most callous speech.
:04:28
A tough new voice
in the American theater has arrived,
:04:31
and the owner of that voice is named...
:04:33
Barton Fink."
:04:35
They'll be wrapping fish in it
in the morning.
:04:39
Cynic.
:04:41
I can't start listening to the critics,
:04:43
and I can't kid myself
about my own work.
:04:46
A writer writes from his gut.
:04:48
His gut tells him
what's good and what's...
:04:51
merely adequate.
:04:54
I don't pretend to be a critic,
:04:57
but Lord knows I have a gut,
:04:59
and my gut tells me it's simply...