:39:02
Yet here I am.
:39:04
And there's Laroche.
There's Orlean.
:39:06
And there's the ghost orchid.
All trapped in our own bodies...
:39:10
...in moments in history.
That's it.
:39:13
That's what I need to do.
Tie all of history together.
:39:19
Start right before
life begins on the planet.
:39:22
All is...
:39:23
...lifeless.
And then, like, life begins...
:39:26
...with organisms.
Those little single-cell ones.
:39:28
And it's before sex, because,
like, everything was asexual.
:39:31
From there we go to bigger things.
Jellyfish.
:39:34
Then that fish that got legs
and crawled out on the land.
:39:36
And then we see,
you know, like, dinosaurs.
:39:40
And then they're around for a long time.
Then an asteroid comes and:
:39:44
- The insects, the mammals,
the primates, monkeys.
:39:48
The simple monkeys. Old-fashioned
monkeys giving way to the new ones.
:39:51
Whatever. And then apes.
Whatever. And man.
:39:54
Then we see the whole history of
human civilization: Hunting, war, love...
:39:58
...heartache, disease,
loneliness, technology.
:40:00
And we end with Susan Orlean
in her office at The New Yorker...
:40:04
...writing about flowers, and bang!
The movie begins.
:40:07
This is the breakthrough I've been
hoping for. It's never been done.
:40:10
McKee is a genius!
:40:14
And hilarious. He just comes up with all
these great jokes, and everybody laughs.
:40:19
But he's serious too, Charles.
You'd love him.
:40:22
He's all for originality, just like you.
:40:25
But he says we have to realize
that we all write in a genre...
:40:28
...and we must find our originality
within that genre.
:40:33
There hasn't been a new genre since
Fellini invented the mockumentary.
:40:37
My genre's thriller. What's yours?
:40:40
You and I share the same DNA.
:40:44
Is there anything more lonely than that?
:40:47
What'd you say, bro?
:40:55
- Yeah?
- Hey.
:40:57
Hey, Susie-Q.