: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.
:28:01
I buy that. A white background
to set off the two leads...
:28:05
and marvelous '40s red.
:28:06
- [In Chinese]
- What? What?
:28:10
- What is he saying? What?
- [Continues]
:28:12
He says no white.
No white. He cannot shoot
white background.
:28:14
Sebastian, what have
you gotten me into here?
:28:17
You know what?
I prefer green myself.
Green and red.
:28:19
[All Arguing]
:28:21
All I'm saying is that
I think you're being
precipitous in firing him.
:28:26
- Look, I never wanted
this guy. Not from day one.
- Hal...
:28:30
I beg your entire pardon.
May I just offer
for your consideration...
:28:34
- a single concept,
and I say this...
- You don't have to...
:28:36
- Stand up, you don't
have to lean into the speaker.
- Look, he's out.
:28:40
I want this guy out
before this picture
becomes a cost nightmare.
:28:44
Look, Hal, I think that
maybe if we had a talk with him.
:28:47
I said from the start
to use Harold pappas.
:28:50
Pappas is a hack. Pappas
is safe, but he's uninspired.
I can't work with him.
:28:53
- Then you should bow out now.
- I said I can't work with him.
I didn't say I wouldn't.
:28:59
Val, I don't mean to get hot
under the collar, but pappas
has how many nominations...