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Please, Derek...
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"Bare Ruined Choirs:
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Triumph of the Common Man.
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The star of Bare Ruined Choirs
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was nowhere seen
on the stage last night,
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though the thespians
acquitted themselves admirably.
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The find of the evening
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was the author of this drama
about simple folk,
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fishmongers, in fact,
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whose brute struggle for existence
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cannot quite quell their longing
for something higher.
:04:22
The playwright finds nobility
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in the most squalid corners
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and poetry in the most callous speech.
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A tough new voice
in the American theater has arrived,
:04:31
and the owner of that voice is named...
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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...
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marvelous.
:05:05
And a charming gut it is.
:05:07
Oh, you dog.
:05:09
Aroo!
:05:11
Oh, stop.
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[BellJingles]
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I thought you were going to join us.
:05:20
Jesus, Garland,
you left me alone with those people?
:05:23
Don't panic.
:05:24
I'll join you in a minute.
:05:26
We have to talk a little business.
:05:29
I've just been on the phone
to Los Angeles.
:05:32
Barton, Capitol Pictures wants to
put you under contract.
:05:35
They've offered you $1,000 a week.
:05:37
I think I can get them
to go as high as 2.
:05:40
To do what?
:05:41
What do you do for a living?
:05:44
I'm not sure anymore.
:05:45
I guess I try to make a difference.
:05:49
There's no pressure here
because I respect you,
:05:52
but a brief tenure in Hollywood
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could support you through the writing
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of any number of plays.
:05:58
I don't know, Garland.
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My place is here right now.