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.
1:45:00
You fucked him.
1:45:01
He tried to convince me
to fire you, too,
1:45:04
but that'd be too easy.
1:45:05
You're under contract.
You'll stay that way.
1:45:07
Anything you write is
property of Capitol Pictures.
1:45:09
Capitol Pictures won't produce
anything you write...
1:45:12
not until you
grow up a little.
1:45:15
You ain't no writer, Fink.
1:45:17
You're a goddamn write-off.
1:45:21
I... I tried to show you...
1:45:24
something beautiful.
1:45:28
Something about all of us.
1:45:29
I...
1:45:31
You arrogant
son of a bitch.
1:45:34
You think
you're the only writer
1:45:37
that can give me
that Barton Fink feeling?
1:45:39
I got 20 writers
under contract
1:45:42
I can ask for
a Fink-type thing from!
1:45:44
You swell-headed hypocrite.
1:45:46
You don't get it.
1:45:47
You think the whole world
1:45:48
revolves around
whatever rattles
1:45:50
inside that little
kike head of yours.
1:45:53
Get him out of my sight, Lou!
1:45:55
I want him in town, though.
1:45:57
He's still under contract.
1:45:59
I want you in town
and out of my sight.