:26:01
Val wants to use
a foreign cameraman, which
I think we should give him.
:26:06
He's got a real visual
concept of where he wants
to go with this thing.
:26:09
Um, now he's chosen Kow Chan,
a Chinese cameraman...
:26:13
done some stunning work,
mostly with the Red Army.
:26:18
[Speaking Chinese]
:26:27
He says he doesn't
like his hotel.
He much prefer the Sherry.
:26:31
Hal, listen. Val wants
to go with Elio Sebastian
as art director.
:26:35
Val says that Elio
really knows the streets
of New York.
:26:39
Every location in the script
is out there
waiting to be found.
:26:42
- This is great.
It saves us a fortune.
- With the exception of two:
:26:45
Times Square and Harlem.
I have to build Times Square
and Harlem.
:26:49
We can't build
Times Square and Harlem.
With all due respect.
:26:52
He wants to build
the Empire State Building?
No.
:26:56
-Just the first 20 stories.
- Absolutely not.
No, sweetheart.
:26:57
It's not gonna happen, okay?
Just tell him no.
It's not gonna happen.
:27:01
- All right, I'll handle it.
- Good. Great.
:27:03
Hey, listen. I miss you.
How's the weather back there?
:27:07
It's been great, you know?
It's been really New York-moody.
Very gray and cloudy.
:27:11
- That's the way it is.
- Today's the first day
of sun we've had in awhile.
:27:14
Well, listen,
here it's been fabulous.
Sunny and clear every day.
:27:17
Oh, listen. I gotta run.
I'm having another
skin cancer removed.
:27:19
[Val]
This is perfect.
This view is absolutely perfect.
:27:22
No, no. I hate it.
I'm... we're just gonna
have to build it.
:27:27
- Build Central park?
- Yeah. You know, I take back
what I said before about...
:27:30
- mixing real locations and sets...
- I don't wanna be
a money watchdog here...
:27:32
but if you did
build everything...
I say this metaphorically...
:27:35
it'd have to be done
over my dead body...
metaphorically.
:27:38
All right,
if not the whole park,
then just the reservoir.
:27:41
- Build the reservoir?
- Uh-huh. You know what?
You get a studio...
:27:43
Put a tank in it and fill it
with a couple thousand
gallons of water... It'll work.
:27:47
And then... Wait...
trees behind it, you know?
:27:50
- New York as a symphony in green.
- Green I hate. I never use green.
:27:54
- No. No green.
- You know what?
Tell Mother Nature, okay?
:27:57
- Trees are green.
- We can play it for the winter.
You can use snow.