1:43:01
Henry Morgenthau arranged it.
Dear friend.
1:43:04
Congratulations.
1:43:06
It hasn't officially
gone through yet.
1:43:07
Had wardrobe whip this up.
1:43:08
Got to pull teeth
to get anything done.
1:43:10
Can understand
red tape in peacetime,
1:43:13
but now it's all-out warfare
against theJaps.
1:43:15
They'd love to see me
sit this one out.
1:43:17
Yes, sir.
They, uh...
1:43:20
Anyway, I had Lou
read your script for me.
1:43:23
I got to tell you, Fink...
1:43:26
it won't wash.
1:43:27
With all due respect,
1:43:28
I think it's
the best work I've done.
1:43:31
Don't gas me, Fink.
1:43:32
If your opinion mattered,
I'd let you run the studio.
1:43:36
The lunatics aren't going to run
this particular asylum.
1:43:38
Let's put a stop
to that rumor right now.
1:43:41
Yes, sir.
1:43:43
Had to call Beery this morning,
1:43:45
tell him we were pushing
the picture back.
1:43:47
After all I told him about quality,
1:43:49
about that Barton Fink feeling,
1:43:50
how disappointed we were.
1:43:52
Wally was heartbroken.
The man was devastated.
1:43:55
I didn't actually call him.
Lou did.
1:43:57
That's a fair description,
isn't it, Lou?
1:44:00
Yes, Colonel.
1:44:01
I could take you
through it step-by-step,
1:44:04
explaining why
your story stinks,
1:44:06
but I won't insult
your intelligence.
1:44:08
Well, all right.
1:44:09
First of all,
this is a wrestling picture.
1:44:12
The audience wants to see action,
adventure, wrestling.
1:44:15
They don't want to see a guy
wrestling with his soul.
1:44:18
All right, some for the critics.
1:44:20
You make it the carrot
that wags the dog.
1:44:22
Too much,
they head for the exits.
1:44:24
There's plenty of poetry
inside that ring, Fink.
1:44:27
Look at Hell 10 Feet Square.
1:44:29
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.
1:44:30
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.
1:44:32
These are big movies,
Fink, about big men.
1:44:34
In tights!
1:44:35
Both physically
and mentally...
1:44:38
especially physically.
1:44:40
We don't put Wally Beery
in a fruity movie about suffering.
1:44:42
I thought we were
together on that.
1:44:46
I'm sorry if I let you down.
1:44:48
You didn't let me down
or even Lou.
1:44:50
We don't live or die
by what you scribble.
1:44:53
You let Ben Geisler down.
1:44:54
He liked you,
trusted you.
1:44:56
That's why he's gone.
He's fired.
1:44:58
That man had a big heart.