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Start right before
life begins on the planet.
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All is...
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...lifeless.
And then, like, life begins...
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...with organisms.
Those little single-cell ones.
:39:09
And it's before sex, because,
like, everything was asexual.
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From there we go to bigger things.
Jellyfish.
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Then that fish that got legs
and crawled out on the land.
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And then we see,
you know, like, dinosaurs.
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And then they're around for a long time.
Then an asteroid comes and:
:39:26
- The insects, the mammals,
the primates, monkeys.
:39:29
The simple monkeys. Old-fashioned
monkeys giving way to the new ones.
:39:32
Whatever. And then apes.
Whatever. And man.
:39:35
Then we see the whole history of
human civilization: Hunting, war, love...
:39:39
...heartache, disease,
loneliness, technology.
:39:42
And we end with Susan Orlean
in her office at The New Yorker...
:39:46
...writing about flowers, and bang!
The movie begins.
:39:48
This is the breakthrough I've been
hoping for. It's never been done.
:39:52
McKee is a genius!
:39:55
And hilarious. He just comes up with all
these great jokes, and everybody laughs.
:40:00
But he's serious too, Charles.
You'd love him.
:40:03
He's all for originality, just like you.
:40:06
But he says we have to realize
that we all write in a genre...
:40:10
...and we must find our originality
within that genre.
:40:15
There hasn't been a new genre since
Fellini invented the mockumentary.
:40:18
My genre's thriller. What's yours?
:40:21
You and I share the same DNA.
:40:26
Is there anything more lonely than that?
:40:29
What'd you say, bro?
:40:36
- Yeah?
- Hey.
:40:38
Hey, Susie-Q.
:40:41
What you up to?
:40:42
I don't wanna bother you. Just thought
I'd call and get some more info.
:40:47
I think you say some
pretty smart things, John.
:40:51
Yeah, smartest guy I know, huh?
:40:56
So...
:40:58
...whatever happened
to your nursery?