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[crickets chirping]
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[footsteps rapidly approaching]
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[Claire shrieking]
Mother! Mother! Wake up!
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-[gasps] What's wrong?
-The house is on fire!
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-[gasps]
-Fire department? It's an emergency,
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-our house is burning.
-Come, come, come!
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[fire rumbling]
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Oh, my God.
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[siren wailing]
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[glass shattering]
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Shit!
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Oh, my God.
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Whoa!
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Are you okay?
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[siren wailing]
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Jesus Christ.
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-[man] We don't want you here!
-[horn honking]
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We should've let the studio put us up.
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-Keep movies white!
-I will not live in fear.
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[horn honking]
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[crowd clamoring]
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Son of a bitch!
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No miscegenation!
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No miscegenation in America!
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[Dick] We filed a report with the FBI.
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I know you do not want to move into
one of the bungalows here on the lot,
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I get it,
no one wants to feel like a prisoner.
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So we're going to have round-the-clock
surveillance outside of your house,
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Avis's, and Archie's.
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This feeling is nothing new.
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I grew up getting terrorized.
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Had a uncle that was pulled out
of his bed in the middle of the night
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and hanged from a tree, so... I'm angry,
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I'm scared,
but what I am not is surprised.
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But who is it that's doing this?
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American Colonization Society.
The same people picketing outside.
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They say they're peaceful,
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just want to send colored people
to Liberia,
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but a lot of them are secretly KKK.
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If I may, as producer of this film--
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A producer,
and "producer" should be in quotes.
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This is going to continue,
that's just a fact of life,
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and Avis, you are going to have to pay
to protect this production.
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There will be protests outside this gate
every day we are shooting
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-and every day we're on location.
-Mr. Silver, you can't go in there.
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-Don't get up.
-I won't.
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In light of recent events,
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I've come to inform you
that production on Meg must be halted.
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Didn't I fire you weeks ago?
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You don't have that power.
I work for Mr. Amberg.
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That is out of line.
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Refusing to shut this picture down
is out of line.
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Mrs. Amberg leaves me no option
but to take legal action.
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This is my studio.
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I recognize that
this is emotional for you.
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With all that's been happening,
you're not thinking clearly.
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Oh.
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A woman makes a decision,
and suddenly she's irrational.
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-No, no. That's-- I didn't mean to--
-Yes, you did.
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You waltz in here whenever you desire
to remind me that you are there,
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always watching.
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By the time you get your ducks in a row
for our little date in court,
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my picture will be in the can.
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[snickers]
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See you in court, Lon.
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What are you all grinning about?
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We have a movie to make.
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[big band music playing]
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[bell dings]
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[bell dings]
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[Ernie] Well, look who it is.
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So you guys want to raise $25,000 to pay
for your movie's Hollywoodland sign.
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Happy to help.
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Today's assignment...
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[hacking]
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[exhales and sniffles]
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[hoarsely] Today's assignment...
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go home. All of youse.
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-What?
-[Ernie] I mean it.
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I can't have you doing this.
It's too risky.
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Jack, you've already been busted once.
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Here you are.
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All of you.
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Young.
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At the beginning of something.
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Me?
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I ain't risking much.
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I'm near the end.
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But I've had a great run.
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This isn't the dream I started with...
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doing this.
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But you kids,
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your dreams are really happening.
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And I like that you're fighting for 'em.
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So, let me handle this.
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I will get you your money.
I will get you your money.
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I got some old-timers
who used to work for me.
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I thought I'd call 'em out of retirement
for a good cause.
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Ernie, you hardly know me.
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It ain't for you.
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It's for the dream.
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Now, get outta here, all of youse.
I got work to do.
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[big band music playing]
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[bell dinging]
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[Ernie] There's my girls.
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Hey, Ern.
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[man grunts]
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[door bell rings]
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Hello, ladies.
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[bell dinging]
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-[grunting]
-Quit struggling, you pervert!
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Can it, sicko!
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Hold on a sec. You comfortable?
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-Mm-hmm.
-Keep your mouth shut!
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Or I'll throw you off
the Shakespeare Bridge!
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[client moans]
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[bell dinging]
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[grunts]
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So I tied you pretty loose.
You should be able to wiggle out.
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-I'll be over there if you need me.
-[grunting]
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-What?
-Stay in character!
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Uh, sorry. I mean, I'm going to
leave you here to rot, you pervert!
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-Mmm!
-This was fun.
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[grunting]
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[bell dinging]
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[grunts]
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[exhales]
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[exhales] Yeah.
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Twenty-five big ones.
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I can't believe it only took you one week.
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What can I tell you?
I'm good at what I do.
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And I've been saving up for a rainy day.
I tossed that in too.
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-Ernie, this is unbelievable.
-Ah, kid, it's nothing.
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It didn't even feel like work.
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You know, Ernie, me and Raymond have been
talking about how to thank you.
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Henry Willson got a producer credit on
this picture, and he hardly did anything.
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No, I won't hear it.
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-Ernie, please--
-I said no.
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That money's yours.
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I don't want anything in return.
I mean it.
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Consider it my...
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my parting gift
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to this town.
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Okay?
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Go make your movie.
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Thank you, Ernie.
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[chuckling]
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[Archie yelping]
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There ain't nobody quite like you, Ernie.
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We made up the difference.
That's all of it, $25,000.
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How'd you do it?
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Does it matter?
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Fair enough.
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All right, get it done.
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[woman speaking over intercom]
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[babies crying]
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Oh, no.
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I knew this moment would come.
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Mmm. So, do it. [chuckles nervously]
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I deserve it. Hit me.
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I'm not gonna hit you.
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I'm just here to make sure
everybody's doing okay.
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[Erwin] Henrietta was right about you.
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She said you had
your share of problems, but...
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deep down, you were a good person.
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I, uh...
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I know you're skipping town
in a few days, but...
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just wanted to say goodbye.
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As far as the divorce goes, you know,
I'm not going to make a stink.
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[voice shaking]
Whatever you need from me, you got it.
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[shuddering sigh]
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Do you want to...
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I'm sorry we screwed this up, Hen.
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[chuckles]
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[voice breaking] Maybe it was meant to be.
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We both got what we wanted.
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I get to start a family,
and you get to be a movie star.
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I'm always going to see your movies...
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and I hope...
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that maybe I had something to do with it.
[chuckles and sniffles]
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Of course you did.
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Of course you did, baby.
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I couldn't have done
any of this without you.
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[crying]
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You're always going to be a part of it.
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I just hope that I'll always be
a part of you.
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I'm so sorry, Hen.
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Me too, Jack.
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Me too.
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[both weeping]
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-[Ernie] Hey there, fellas!
-Hey!
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[tapping shoes]
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[all chuckling]
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I'm having a big fancy dinner
with a genuine screenwriter
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and a real-life movie star
in the middle of production no less?
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I must be some kind of heavy hitter, huh?
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Fancy dinner's the least we could do, Ern.
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Yeah, we owe you, Ernie.
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I mean, if it weren't for you,
I wouldn't even be in this town anymore.
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So, how's shooting going? Having fun?
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Today was Jack's first day. He was great.
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I don't know about that,
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but I said all my lines
and didn't trip over the furniture. So...
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See! You're halfway there.
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How's the wife?
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-Let's talk about something else.
-Why, what'd I say?
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Nothing, you didn't say anything.
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It's all right, I...
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[sighs]
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Henrietta left me for another fella,
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and apparently the, uh... babies are his.
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Are you kidding me, Jack?
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That's...
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great!
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Yeah... W-- what?
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Think about it.
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Here you are...
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young buck on the town,
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about to be the next big thing
with his name up in lights.
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You don't want to be tied down.
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-You know you got a way with words, Ernie?
-[Ernie chuckles]
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I somehow think I actually feel
a little better.
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-Hmm?
-But look, what are we here for?
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We got something for you.
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What?
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[Jack] Take a look at page 35.
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[Ernie] Oh, man.
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This is some crackerjack dialogue.
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"Studio chief Daryl B. Selzman enters.
No-nonsense. Dashing."
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It was supposed to be David O. Selznick,
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but he caught wind of it
and threatened to sue.
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You're not playing the Selznick part,
are you?
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No, Ernie.
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You are.
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What are you talking about?
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Daryl B. Selzman.
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That's you.
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That's your role.
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The studio okayed it and everything.
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What?
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[Jack]
I know it's a bit of a stretch, but...
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Archie's been taking some liberties
with the screenplay,
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and Ray really wants him to be...
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well, dashing.
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Hey. What? Wh-- what's the matter, Ern?
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It just hit me.
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I came out here...
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and I had a dream.
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Just like you guys.
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Took me almost 30 years...
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but it's finally coming true.
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To Hollywood.
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To Hollywood.
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[glasses clink]
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[protesters shouting]
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[Ellen]
Pleased to have you on board, Mr. West.
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You've had quite the hiatus
between acting jobs.
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Yeah, you know how it goes.
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You pound the pavement
for a couple of years,
260
00:15:12,411 --> 00:15:14,997
then you take a side gig to pay the bills,
and before you know it,
261
00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,416
it ain't a side gig anymore;
it's your life.
262
00:15:17,666 --> 00:15:21,378
Yes, well, running a prostitution ring
out of a gas station
263
00:15:21,503 --> 00:15:24,757
would always be a more lucrative
endeavor than being an actor.
264
00:15:28,135 --> 00:15:29,553
I don't judge you, Ernie.
265
00:15:30,346 --> 00:15:31,221
In fact,
266
00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:34,350
it's one of the reasons
why I like you for this role.
267
00:15:34,850 --> 00:15:36,393
Your big scene is all about
268
00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:40,397
freedom of expression
in the face of censorship and prejudice.
269
00:15:40,481 --> 00:15:42,733
There's lesbian overtones
in one of your films,
270
00:15:42,816 --> 00:15:46,570
and the studio relations committee
throws the Hays Code at you,
271
00:15:46,654 --> 00:15:48,697
tells you you have to cut
all of Meg's scenes.
272
00:15:48,781 --> 00:15:50,783
Yeah, and I tell them to go screw.
273
00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:52,785
[laughing] I love it.
274
00:15:52,868 --> 00:15:55,746
I get to stick it to those assholes
and all their moralizing.
275
00:15:55,829 --> 00:15:58,207
Yes, but he's not a thug.
276
00:15:59,083 --> 00:16:02,544
There's a refinement to him.
He's powerful, and he knows it.
277
00:16:02,628 --> 00:16:05,673
This is why I want to do some rehearsal
with you on your feet.
278
00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:07,508
I do this with all our players.
279
00:16:07,591 --> 00:16:10,177
I want to see how your character smokes
a cigarette,
280
00:16:10,260 --> 00:16:11,512
how he walks into a room.
281
00:16:11,929 --> 00:16:13,722
What? Nah.
282
00:16:14,264 --> 00:16:16,308
I don't need to rehearse
that kind of stuff.
283
00:16:16,642 --> 00:16:17,643
I know how to walk.
284
00:16:21,146 --> 00:16:22,564
Acting isn't magic.
285
00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:24,566
It's a job.
286
00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:26,235
It's a craft.
287
00:16:26,777 --> 00:16:28,737
It's something you have to work at,
288
00:16:29,029 --> 00:16:31,073
something you devote your time to.
289
00:16:34,493 --> 00:16:35,619
So let's get to work.
290
00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:39,665
-Action!
-[door opens]
291
00:16:41,291 --> 00:16:43,544
So, I gotta cut my best actress
from this picture, huh?
292
00:16:43,627 --> 00:16:45,546
Well, guess what? I'm not doing it!
293
00:16:45,629 --> 00:16:47,297
-Too angry.
-But he is angry.
294
00:16:47,381 --> 00:16:51,010
Yes, of course,
but he's powerful, and he knows it.
295
00:16:51,093 --> 00:16:52,302
He doesn't need to yell.
296
00:16:52,386 --> 00:16:55,222
And you need to leave yourself
someplace to go.
297
00:16:55,347 --> 00:16:56,181
Yeah, okay.
298
00:16:56,265 --> 00:16:58,434
How would it feel
if you didn't barge in this time?
299
00:16:58,517 --> 00:17:00,644
Just walk in the room
like you own the place.
300
00:17:00,728 --> 00:17:02,730
You're calm, you're controlled.
301
00:17:03,439 --> 00:17:06,442
And maybe don't slam the memo down.
302
00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:10,404
Just toss it. Throw him off balance. Okay?
303
00:17:16,076 --> 00:17:17,119
Action!
304
00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,841
So I got to cut my best actress
from the picture, huh?
305
00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:33,761
Well, guess what?
306
00:17:35,054 --> 00:17:35,971
I'm not doing it.
307
00:17:37,431 --> 00:17:38,474
[chuckling] That's it.
308
00:17:39,850 --> 00:17:42,561
Now, light your cigarette.
309
00:17:43,187 --> 00:17:44,354
Cool as a cucumber.
310
00:17:51,653 --> 00:17:53,072
[Ellen] Mm-hmm.
311
00:17:57,034 --> 00:17:58,327
That's it.
312
00:18:00,621 --> 00:18:02,081
[stammers] Good.
313
00:18:02,664 --> 00:18:05,000
Okay. So let's, uh, move ahead.
314
00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:08,087
Mr. Selzman, the Hays Code isn't optional,
315
00:18:08,170 --> 00:18:11,256
and your picture is rife
with homosexual innuendo.
316
00:18:11,590 --> 00:18:14,176
-Listen to you.
-We're not the censors, Daryl.
317
00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:16,095
We're what's keeping the censors
318
00:18:16,178 --> 00:18:18,972
from destroying the freedom of expression
in this industry.
319
00:18:19,723 --> 00:18:21,975
Here's what I can't stand
about you fellas.
320
00:18:22,434 --> 00:18:24,394
Standing on high with your Hays Code
321
00:18:24,978 --> 00:18:27,689
and telling me, Daryl B. Selzman,
322
00:18:27,773 --> 00:18:30,234
what people in this country should be
allowed to see?
323
00:18:30,317 --> 00:18:31,235
Why?
324
00:18:31,485 --> 00:18:33,987
Because you don't trust people
to make up their own minds.
325
00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:35,531
You don't love our freedom.
326
00:18:35,864 --> 00:18:36,698
You're scared of it!
327
00:18:36,782 --> 00:18:37,991
[dramatic music playing]
328
00:18:38,575 --> 00:18:41,286
People don't like my movies,
they can stand up and walk out,
329
00:18:41,370 --> 00:18:42,454
that's their right.
330
00:18:42,538 --> 00:18:46,041
And I have a right
to lose my shirt doing it.
331
00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:47,292
But this movie...
332
00:18:48,043 --> 00:18:48,961
is a hit.
333
00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:51,004
And Meg Ennis?
334
00:18:52,422 --> 00:18:54,174
That girl is a star.
335
00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:57,970
And if I cut her from my movie,
it'll kill her.
336
00:18:58,053 --> 00:19:00,055
[laughing]
337
00:19:00,222 --> 00:19:03,058
You can scream all you want to,
Mr. Selzman,
338
00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:04,893
but you are cutting those scenes,
339
00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:06,687
or we'll shut down your studio.
340
00:19:07,604 --> 00:19:09,565
That's all there is to it.
341
00:19:10,858 --> 00:19:11,900
Go ahead and try.
342
00:19:12,901 --> 00:19:14,403
We'll do it, Mr. Selzman!
343
00:19:15,237 --> 00:19:16,572
I'll run you out of town.
344
00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:18,448
Oh, yeah?
345
00:19:21,410 --> 00:19:22,744
I am this town.
346
00:19:22,828 --> 00:19:25,164
[music crescendos]
347
00:19:30,669 --> 00:19:33,172
Bartender, another one of these.
348
00:19:33,630 --> 00:19:34,798
Coming right up.
349
00:19:35,632 --> 00:19:37,676
Sarah, thank God. Have you seen Meg?
350
00:19:37,759 --> 00:19:40,971
I-- I had to tell her some sorry news,
and she went out to get some air
351
00:19:41,054 --> 00:19:42,848
and that was...
God, that was hours ago.
352
00:19:42,931 --> 00:19:46,018
Why yes, yes I did.
Meg came over to my apartment,
353
00:19:46,101 --> 00:19:47,519
said she wanted to come here.
354
00:19:47,603 --> 00:19:52,357
She said, "I think I know now what
my life's going to add up to, Sarah."
355
00:19:52,441 --> 00:19:55,402
That's why I didn't think it would be
so bad if she had a drink or--
356
00:19:55,485 --> 00:19:57,237
-[fist pounds]
-Damn it, Sarah! Where is she?
357
00:19:57,321 --> 00:20:00,365
She got cut from the film.
Selzman told me, so I told her and...
358
00:20:01,325 --> 00:20:04,661
Well, now I gotta tell her something else,
before she goes and does something rash.
359
00:20:04,745 --> 00:20:08,498
She had two drinks and left,
said there was something she had to go do.
360
00:20:08,582 --> 00:20:11,335
-I assumed she was meeting you.
-Sorry to interrupt,
361
00:20:11,710 --> 00:20:14,796
but when your friend left, she asked me
how to get to the Hollywoodland sign.
362
00:20:16,632 --> 00:20:17,591
Oh, God.
363
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:19,092
[Claire] What?
364
00:20:19,176 --> 00:20:20,093
He left.
365
00:20:24,348 --> 00:20:26,808
[tires screeching]
366
00:20:27,059 --> 00:20:29,061
[suspenseful music playing]
367
00:20:29,144 --> 00:20:29,978
[tires screech]
368
00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:31,897
[panting]
369
00:20:37,694 --> 00:20:39,446
[panting]
370
00:20:47,204 --> 00:20:49,206
[music intensifying]
371
00:20:59,466 --> 00:21:00,300
Meg!
372
00:21:04,721 --> 00:21:05,681
Meg!
373
00:21:13,730 --> 00:21:15,732
[wind howling]
374
00:21:28,620 --> 00:21:30,038
[Jack] Meg! Meg!
375
00:21:30,372 --> 00:21:33,375
Oh, God! Oh, God!
Don't do it, Meg! Please!
376
00:21:33,458 --> 00:21:35,294
Oh, God. Oh, dear God.
Please Meg, don't do it.
377
00:21:35,377 --> 00:21:36,753
Come down, I gotta tell you something.
378
00:21:36,837 --> 00:21:38,130
But I have to do it, Sam.
379
00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:39,423
[Jack] Oh, God!
380
00:21:39,506 --> 00:21:41,341
No, please don't. Oh, God. Meg, please!
381
00:21:41,425 --> 00:21:42,926
[shouting]
382
00:21:43,468 --> 00:21:44,594
No!
383
00:21:44,678 --> 00:21:45,679
Meg!
384
00:21:45,762 --> 00:21:46,596
[gasps softly]
385
00:21:49,016 --> 00:21:51,393
[sobbing] Sam, I'm so scared.
386
00:21:51,476 --> 00:21:53,812
I know you are, I know you are,
but you don't have to be.
387
00:21:53,895 --> 00:21:54,896
You can come down. Please!
388
00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:56,857
What are they going to say about me, Sam?
389
00:21:57,441 --> 00:21:59,359
I'll just be that girl who never made it.
390
00:21:59,443 --> 00:22:02,446
What does it matter what they say?
Listen to what I'm saying. Sweetheart...
391
00:22:02,529 --> 00:22:03,655
Sweetheart, I love you.
392
00:22:04,156 --> 00:22:06,366
Oh, God, I love you
more than anything in the world.
393
00:22:06,450 --> 00:22:09,661
You are a star, Meg.
You're a star, no matter what happens.
394
00:22:10,579 --> 00:22:11,663
You're my star.
395
00:22:12,873 --> 00:22:15,709
Please. Oh, God, please come down
off of that sign...
396
00:22:18,003 --> 00:22:20,088
and be the only star in my sky.
397
00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:22,257
Oh, Sam.
398
00:22:25,427 --> 00:22:26,595
Oh, God, Meg.
399
00:22:26,678 --> 00:22:28,722
Be careful. Be careful, Meg. I'm coming.
400
00:22:29,348 --> 00:22:30,932
I got you. Watch your step.
401
00:22:32,059 --> 00:22:34,519
Come on. Come on, sweetheart.
I got you. I'm here.
402
00:22:35,145 --> 00:22:36,938
I'm here, I got you. Come here.
403
00:22:38,231 --> 00:22:39,066
That's right.
404
00:22:39,649 --> 00:22:40,901
[Jack sighs in relief]
405
00:22:41,026 --> 00:22:42,944
Oh, Meg, you gave me such a fright.
406
00:22:43,779 --> 00:22:45,280
Meg, the way you felt tonight,
407
00:22:46,031 --> 00:22:48,784
I'm never gonna let you feel that way
again, you understand me?
408
00:22:51,078 --> 00:22:52,287
[crying]
409
00:22:56,416 --> 00:22:57,250
I'm sorry.
410
00:22:57,626 --> 00:22:58,460
Goddamn it.
411
00:22:59,044 --> 00:23:00,629
I wasn't supposed to do that.
412
00:23:01,421 --> 00:23:03,632
-Do what?
-Can we cut?
413
00:23:04,466 --> 00:23:05,675
What's he doing? This is great.
414
00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:08,053
I'm not supposed to be crying.
I don't know, I'm sorry.
415
00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:09,471
-Cut!
-[stage bell rings]
416
00:23:09,554 --> 00:23:10,472
[man] Cut.
417
00:23:10,722 --> 00:23:13,850
-Jack, that was beautiful.
-What the hell'd you stop for?
418
00:23:13,934 --> 00:23:14,935
We were really getting it.
419
00:23:15,018 --> 00:23:16,061
That was incredible.
420
00:23:17,312 --> 00:23:20,482
Really? Oh, gosh. I'm sor--
Should we just go right back into it?
421
00:23:20,565 --> 00:23:22,776
Yes, please. All right, everybody,
let's do a pickup!
422
00:23:22,859 --> 00:23:24,861
-Roll sound!
-[crewman] Roll sound.
423
00:23:24,945 --> 00:23:27,781
-[Jack] Sorry!
-[Raymond] It's all right. Roll camera.
424
00:23:27,906 --> 00:23:29,074
[crewman] Roll camera.
425
00:23:29,616 --> 00:23:30,450
And...
426
00:23:31,576 --> 00:23:32,411
action!
427
00:23:32,994 --> 00:23:34,371
[shuddering breath]
428
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:35,997
I spoke with Selzman.
429
00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:38,542
He's not cutting you out of the picture.
430
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,460
You're going to be in the movie, Meg.
431
00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:42,754
Why didn't you tell me?
432
00:23:43,547 --> 00:23:44,714
When I was about to jump...
433
00:23:45,215 --> 00:23:47,134
I didn't want that to be the thing
that saved you.
434
00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:49,928
I knew you could save yourself.
435
00:23:53,056 --> 00:23:55,058
[uplifting music playing]
436
00:24:00,814 --> 00:24:01,690
Let's get out of here.
437
00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:04,526
We have a whole life to live.
438
00:24:19,583 --> 00:24:21,585
[reel clicking]
439
00:24:24,921 --> 00:24:26,465
[Henry sighs]
440
00:24:26,965 --> 00:24:27,799
I don't know.
441
00:24:28,925 --> 00:24:29,801
Don't know what?
442
00:24:31,887 --> 00:24:33,096
Here I am, right?
443
00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:36,808
I'm sitting here and I'm watching this
for, what, the tenth time?
444
00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:38,477
I just...
445
00:24:39,728 --> 00:24:41,104
I think it's missing something.
446
00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:43,106
And, uh...
447
00:24:44,941 --> 00:24:47,652
what exactly do you think it's missing?
448
00:24:47,736 --> 00:24:49,196
Something bold.
449
00:24:49,613 --> 00:24:52,199
You know, something...
Something surprising!
450
00:24:56,203 --> 00:24:57,037
Here it is.
451
00:24:58,288 --> 00:24:59,247
This is what it needs.
452
00:25:01,124 --> 00:25:04,419
She takes a swan dive off of that sign
453
00:25:05,045 --> 00:25:07,881
and lands directly into a swimming pool.
454
00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:11,635
Suddenly, it's a big Esther Williams
musical number.
455
00:25:11,718 --> 00:25:14,679
I don't know if our girl can swim,
but the audience...
456
00:25:14,763 --> 00:25:17,766
The audience is saying,
"What the hell just happened?
457
00:25:17,849 --> 00:25:19,392
Well, yeah, but did she do it?
458
00:25:19,476 --> 00:25:20,685
Is she in heaven?"
459
00:25:21,102 --> 00:25:23,313
Smash to black, music plays, the end.
460
00:25:23,730 --> 00:25:26,233
That's exciting.
Never seen that before, have you?
461
00:25:32,447 --> 00:25:34,366
-Can I say something?
-Sure.
462
00:25:35,617 --> 00:25:37,619
I've been an editor since...
463
00:25:37,702 --> 00:25:39,579
-the silents, okay?
-Oh, shit.
464
00:25:39,663 --> 00:25:42,374
-I've been doing this for 40 years.
-Goddamn.
465
00:25:42,457 --> 00:25:46,628
I fucked Gloria Swanson
in this very room, Henry.
466
00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:51,841
And I just got to say, of all
the creatives I've ever worked with,
467
00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:54,094
you... [chuckling]
468
00:25:54,261 --> 00:25:56,680
...have the worst ideas.
469
00:25:56,763 --> 00:26:01,017
Get the fuck out of here and let this kid
make his fucking movie, okay?
470
00:26:01,101 --> 00:26:02,227
Fuck you, Harry.
471
00:26:03,311 --> 00:26:06,064
-I'll get you kicked off this picture.
-No, you won't. Fuck you.
472
00:26:06,147 --> 00:26:07,983
I'm gonna go talk to Dick right now.
473
00:26:08,066 --> 00:26:10,068
Then I'm going to start writing
that musical number.
474
00:26:10,151 --> 00:26:11,695
For once in my life, I'm the boss,
475
00:26:11,778 --> 00:26:14,197
and I'm gonna get final cut
on this motherfucker.
476
00:26:16,199 --> 00:26:17,158
[chuckles]
477
00:26:18,076 --> 00:26:19,244
[sighs]
478
00:26:21,955 --> 00:26:22,831
Thanks for that.
479
00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:24,833
It was a pleasure.
480
00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:26,251
[laughing]
481
00:26:26,668 --> 00:26:29,588
That guy has no right
to fuck with your picture.
482
00:26:31,214 --> 00:26:32,257
It's good, kid.
483
00:26:33,049 --> 00:26:34,175
And I mean it.
484
00:26:34,718 --> 00:26:35,594
I like...
485
00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:37,887
what it says.
486
00:26:39,306 --> 00:26:42,100
[stuttering]
Let's run it down one more time.
487
00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:44,519
One more time, please.
488
00:26:48,189 --> 00:26:50,191
[reel clicking]
489
00:26:50,984 --> 00:26:52,986
[big band music playing]
490
00:26:54,154 --> 00:26:55,196
[beeps]
491
00:26:55,905 --> 00:26:57,907
[respirator hissing]
492
00:27:21,222 --> 00:27:22,098
Hello?
493
00:27:26,394 --> 00:27:27,228
Archie?
494
00:27:28,813 --> 00:27:30,940
What's going on? What is this place?
495
00:27:32,025 --> 00:27:33,860
I saw the first cut of the picture.
496
00:27:34,527 --> 00:27:35,862
Oh, God...
497
00:27:36,571 --> 00:27:38,031
They cut me out, didn't they?
498
00:27:40,450 --> 00:27:42,243
-No, you're in it.
-[cork pops]
499
00:27:43,036 --> 00:27:44,371
And you are really,
500
00:27:45,121 --> 00:27:46,414
really good.
501
00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:49,000
I am so,
502
00:27:49,459 --> 00:27:50,585
so proud of you.
503
00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:55,590
I feel like you and me,
we are on the verge of something amazing.
504
00:27:56,091 --> 00:27:57,425
[clinks]
505
00:27:58,760 --> 00:27:59,719
Mmm.
506
00:28:00,970 --> 00:28:01,888
And...
507
00:28:03,390 --> 00:28:04,808
this is my way of saying thank you.
508
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,776
A while ago,
you asked me to be your boyfriend,
509
00:28:15,443 --> 00:28:16,444
and I said no.
510
00:28:17,278 --> 00:28:19,531
Because I couldn't see a future for us.
511
00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:22,909
But watching my movie get made...
512
00:28:24,744 --> 00:28:26,663
I realized ain't nothing impossible.
513
00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:38,216
It's a key to this apartment.
514
00:28:40,301 --> 00:28:41,177
So...
515
00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:44,681
this place is mine?
516
00:28:45,306 --> 00:28:46,516
It's ours.
517
00:28:48,309 --> 00:28:49,686
I'm in love with you, Rock.
518
00:28:50,645 --> 00:28:52,439
I want to live together, and...
519
00:28:53,064 --> 00:28:54,899
I want to be your boyfriend.
520
00:29:02,949 --> 00:29:04,284
[chuckling]
521
00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:06,369
This is real? [chuckles]
522
00:29:06,453 --> 00:29:07,370
Yes.
523
00:29:08,830 --> 00:29:09,998
Welcome home.
524
00:29:17,714 --> 00:29:20,759
[Jack] Every time I closed my eyes,
I was seeing those babies.
525
00:29:20,842 --> 00:29:22,093
I've lost so much.
526
00:29:22,677 --> 00:29:23,636
Sorry, I'm...
527
00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:27,974
I'm just all worked up.
I don't know why I can't just settle down.
528
00:29:28,057 --> 00:29:30,059
Don't you apologize.
529
00:29:33,563 --> 00:29:34,731
Jack, it's all right.
530
00:29:37,650 --> 00:29:39,277
I knew you were the right person to call.
531
00:29:42,447 --> 00:29:45,033
You've been a really good friend to me,
Claire, you know that?
532
00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:47,160
Maybe you don't know that,
but you really have.
533
00:29:48,661 --> 00:29:49,537
You really have.
534
00:29:50,830 --> 00:29:52,874
I love the fellas, but I don't know if...
535
00:29:53,333 --> 00:29:55,210
I don't know if I wanted to cry
in front of them.
536
00:29:56,753 --> 00:29:59,339
It's okay to be emotional
when you lose something, Jack.
537
00:29:59,422 --> 00:30:00,840
[crying]
538
00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:04,052
I was a mess when my father was
in the hospital.
539
00:30:04,135 --> 00:30:06,429
Oh, yeah, I heard about that.
Gosh, I'm so sorry.
540
00:30:06,513 --> 00:30:07,889
Don't... Don't be sorry.
541
00:30:11,059 --> 00:30:11,893
You have...
542
00:30:14,854 --> 00:30:17,273
You have-- you have so much
to look forward to.
543
00:30:18,775 --> 00:30:21,611
A few months ago,
you were a contract player, and now...
544
00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:24,864
you're a part of an incredible ensemble
of artists,
545
00:30:24,948 --> 00:30:28,743
who aren't just making a movie,
they're making history.
546
00:30:31,204 --> 00:30:33,540
Remember when I told you
you were gonna be a star?
547
00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:35,750
[chuckles]
548
00:30:36,417 --> 00:30:37,335
Yeah, I do.
549
00:30:40,547 --> 00:30:41,881
You're gonna be a star.
550
00:30:49,013 --> 00:30:50,139
Have you thought about...
551
00:30:51,432 --> 00:30:53,184
who you're gonna take to the premiere?
552
00:30:53,268 --> 00:30:55,353
-Gosh, I forgot about that.
-[clears throat]
553
00:30:55,436 --> 00:30:57,188
Do you know who you're gonna bring?
554
00:31:02,068 --> 00:31:02,944
Well, I was...
555
00:31:05,822 --> 00:31:07,115
I was hoping...
556
00:31:09,993 --> 00:31:11,494
I was hoping it would be you.
557
00:31:14,831 --> 00:31:15,665
Me?
558
00:31:20,420 --> 00:31:21,337
You wanna go with me?
559
00:31:24,090 --> 00:31:25,258
Absolutely.
560
00:31:26,301 --> 00:31:28,011
You mean go together? I would love to.
561
00:31:28,094 --> 00:31:29,137
-Really?
-Are you kidding?
562
00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:30,930
Yeah, that... that'd be wonderful.
563
00:31:31,014 --> 00:31:32,473
[both chuckling]
564
00:31:33,808 --> 00:31:34,976
[Claire] Okay.
565
00:31:36,936 --> 00:31:38,229
All right, good.
566
00:31:39,105 --> 00:31:40,023
Good.
567
00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:44,986
[crowd cheering]
568
00:31:45,403 --> 00:31:46,654
Oh, this...
569
00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:47,739
Oh, my...
570
00:31:47,822 --> 00:31:48,698
Wow!
571
00:31:48,781 --> 00:31:51,326
Avis, can you believe it?
572
00:31:51,784 --> 00:31:55,830
Oh, I am so happy to be back.
573
00:31:56,289 --> 00:31:58,541
-Oh, look at the--
-You should be pleased.
574
00:31:59,292 --> 00:32:02,170
There hasn't been a crowd this size
since Eleanor Roosevelt.
575
00:32:02,462 --> 00:32:03,546
Wait, what?
576
00:32:04,005 --> 00:32:05,256
[elevator dings]
577
00:32:06,507 --> 00:32:07,383
Avis,
578
00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:09,135
I can't thank you enough
579
00:32:09,469 --> 00:32:11,471
for everything you did while I was away.
580
00:32:12,221 --> 00:32:13,598
You kept this place afloat.
581
00:32:14,140 --> 00:32:15,391
You took some chances.
582
00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:19,687
I can't say I always agreed
with those chances, but, uh, I admire it.
583
00:32:20,980 --> 00:32:23,274
-I'm very proud of you.
-Thank you, darling.
584
00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:27,362
Green-lighting Meg was a difficult
decision, but it was the right one.
585
00:32:27,612 --> 00:32:28,821
I've seen the rushes.
586
00:32:29,322 --> 00:32:30,698
The film is magnificent.
587
00:32:31,532 --> 00:32:33,576
-Good morning.
-Miss Stinson.
588
00:32:36,704 --> 00:32:38,957
How many times do I have to fire you?
589
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,626
Hello, Mrs. Amberg. Ace asked me here.
590
00:32:42,669 --> 00:32:44,712
Avis, uh...
591
00:32:45,546 --> 00:32:47,340
I'm just going to talk
to the boys for a bit.
592
00:32:47,423 --> 00:32:48,675
Uh, why don't you go home
593
00:32:48,758 --> 00:32:51,052
and, uh, we'll celebrate tonight
over dinner?
594
00:32:51,636 --> 00:32:53,930
But, uh, no roast beef
or anything like that.
595
00:32:54,013 --> 00:32:57,809
I... I'm on this new diet
the doctor's got me on. Just rice.
596
00:32:57,892 --> 00:32:59,978
All I'm allowed to have is white rice
597
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:01,771
and fruit juice.
598
00:33:09,529 --> 00:33:11,698
All right, gentlemen, let's get to it.
599
00:33:12,657 --> 00:33:14,283
Obviously, I overslept.
600
00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:17,370
-[men laughing]
-[muffled chatter]
601
00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:24,085
Have a good day, Mrs. Amberg.
602
00:33:26,170 --> 00:33:28,172
[dramatic music playing]
603
00:33:31,801 --> 00:33:32,885
[elevator dings]
604
00:33:34,971 --> 00:33:37,473
Avis, we're just going over
a distribution plan for Meg.
605
00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:40,143
Where are you going?
606
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:42,645
I've been sent home.
607
00:33:43,855 --> 00:33:45,273
To make dinner.
608
00:33:48,151 --> 00:33:51,696
All right, tell me about this bomb
we have, All Hands on Deck.
609
00:33:51,779 --> 00:33:53,364
I like that picture. What happened?
610
00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:56,576
Well, many of our distributors
pulled the film.
611
00:33:56,951 --> 00:33:59,245
They were facing boycotts
when it was announced that
612
00:33:59,328 --> 00:34:01,581
Meg would be starring a colored girl.
613
00:34:01,664 --> 00:34:03,750
Uh, let's talk about this for a second.
614
00:34:03,833 --> 00:34:08,337
A lot of work went into this picture,
and I know it's risky, but I admire that.
615
00:34:08,421 --> 00:34:12,008
So you don't feel that the fag and
the two ladies went behind your back?
616
00:34:12,091 --> 00:34:13,801
-[Ace] The fag?
-Dick Samuels.
617
00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:15,053
Dick Samuels, a fag?
618
00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:16,971
No, what are you talking about?
619
00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:19,932
He's got women hanging all over him.
He's quite the catch.
620
00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:23,895
Well, be that as it may,
while you were indisposed, sir,
621
00:34:24,353 --> 00:34:27,106
the lunatics were very much
taking over the asylum.
622
00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:30,318
If you release this film,
it will destroy the studio
623
00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:33,362
and tarnish the reputation
of every picture you have ever made
624
00:34:33,446 --> 00:34:35,114
or intend to make.
It's just that simple.
625
00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:37,283
Come on. You're overreacting.
626
00:34:37,658 --> 00:34:39,285
Sir, we've done the research.
627
00:34:40,244 --> 00:34:41,829
Meg will not play in the South.
628
00:34:41,913 --> 00:34:44,749
A hundred and twenty-five theaters
have signed a statement
629
00:34:44,832 --> 00:34:46,876
saying they will not run the picture,
630
00:34:46,959 --> 00:34:50,963
nor any subsequent Ace picture,
if Meg is released anywhere.
631
00:34:51,047 --> 00:34:52,507
We'll go bankrupt in six months!
632
00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:54,675
-All right, so what do I do?
-Burn it.
633
00:34:56,010 --> 00:34:58,179
-Burn it?
-Burn every foot of film.
634
00:34:58,554 --> 00:35:01,432
They won't have anything to point to.
They'll call off the dogs.
635
00:35:02,016 --> 00:35:04,936
You'll be back on the throne,
studio remains solvent,
636
00:35:05,019 --> 00:35:06,938
we move forward
like nothing ever happened.
637
00:35:23,329 --> 00:35:24,705
Let's get out of here.
638
00:35:25,331 --> 00:35:26,999
We have a whole life to live.
639
00:35:45,309 --> 00:35:47,311
[waiter]
Here you are, Mr. Amberg. Your rice.
640
00:35:50,189 --> 00:35:52,108
[scoffs] I can't eat this shit.
641
00:35:52,483 --> 00:35:54,152
Get me... get me a brisket,
642
00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:56,988
uh, some of those, uh, cheesy potatoes
643
00:35:57,071 --> 00:35:58,990
-and a lemon meringue pie.
-[waiter] Right away.
644
00:36:00,116 --> 00:36:01,492
One meal's not gonna kill me.
645
00:36:02,785 --> 00:36:04,954
All right, before you do anything,
646
00:36:05,538 --> 00:36:06,914
I want you to see the picture.
647
00:36:06,998 --> 00:36:09,167
-I know it is not your taste--
-I saw it.
648
00:36:10,918 --> 00:36:14,005
-It's great.
-Fantastic. So you're going to release it.
649
00:36:14,589 --> 00:36:15,464
Well, I...
650
00:36:15,715 --> 00:36:17,383
I haven't made up my mind yet.
651
00:36:24,223 --> 00:36:25,057
All right,
652
00:36:25,516 --> 00:36:26,601
let me help you.
653
00:36:27,852 --> 00:36:30,646
If you don't release this picture,
I will resign
654
00:36:31,606 --> 00:36:33,357
and I will give an interview
655
00:36:33,441 --> 00:36:35,776
to every journalist who will take my call
656
00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:39,280
and tell them what went down here
and how and why.
657
00:36:39,947 --> 00:36:41,991
I will be kind to Avis.
658
00:36:42,074 --> 00:36:43,659
I will not be kind to you.
659
00:36:43,993 --> 00:36:46,954
-After all I've done for you?
-Fuck off!
660
00:36:47,538 --> 00:36:48,998
"After all I've done for you."
661
00:36:49,081 --> 00:36:52,877
What have you done for me, except take
every ounce of credit for my work?
662
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,297
You never trusted me,
you never listened to a thing I said.
663
00:36:56,380 --> 00:36:57,673
I defended you!
664
00:36:57,757 --> 00:37:00,676
I defended you
when everybody was calling you a fag.
665
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:01,969
[Dick scoffing] Really?
666
00:37:02,053 --> 00:37:02,970
How noble.
667
00:37:06,015 --> 00:37:07,642
Well, guess what, Ace?
668
00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:10,728
I am a fag.
669
00:37:13,648 --> 00:37:16,275
I just... I hid it all these years
because I was afraid.
670
00:37:16,359 --> 00:37:18,402
I am not afraid anymore.
671
00:37:18,945 --> 00:37:20,029
I've met someone.
672
00:37:21,155 --> 00:37:21,989
I love him,
673
00:37:22,740 --> 00:37:24,492
and I'm happy for the first time.
674
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:27,954
Dick...
675
00:37:28,037 --> 00:37:30,790
I'm going to be in your office
at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow,
676
00:37:30,873 --> 00:37:32,959
letter of resignation in hand.
677
00:37:35,544 --> 00:37:38,464
You release Meg,
you might bankrupt the studio.
678
00:37:38,547 --> 00:37:40,508
You pull it, I'm coming after you.
679
00:37:43,886 --> 00:37:45,429
[Avis] I spoke to your doctor.
680
00:37:45,513 --> 00:37:47,556
He said you could have cauliflower too,
681
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,475
so long as I make sure it's steamed.
682
00:37:49,558 --> 00:37:52,561
Oh, Avis, steamed cauliflower?
I can't eat this!
683
00:37:52,645 --> 00:37:54,647
-I'll shit the bed!
-So shit the bed.
684
00:37:54,897 --> 00:37:57,024
You're gonna eat it, goddamn it.
Gertie, put it down.
685
00:37:58,234 --> 00:38:00,611
Yesterday, I ran a movie studio.
686
00:38:00,695 --> 00:38:02,029
I had power.
687
00:38:02,113 --> 00:38:04,573
But today, I'm a housewife again.
688
00:38:05,032 --> 00:38:08,577
So if keeping your fat ass alive
is my job now,
689
00:38:09,161 --> 00:38:10,121
I'm gonna do it.
690
00:38:10,204 --> 00:38:12,456
Okay, fine. You want me to eat this?
691
00:38:12,623 --> 00:38:14,166
-I'll eat it.
-Good.
692
00:38:15,710 --> 00:38:17,295
Nope, I'm not going to do it!
693
00:38:17,503 --> 00:38:19,880
-What? What?
-I'm not going to get a taste
694
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:22,466
for what it feels like being in charge,
695
00:38:23,050 --> 00:38:25,678
having autonomy for the first time
in my life,
696
00:38:25,761 --> 00:38:28,055
and then being pushed back
into the kitchen.
697
00:38:28,139 --> 00:38:29,098
I won't do it.
698
00:38:29,265 --> 00:38:30,349
I can't!
699
00:38:30,433 --> 00:38:32,643
My head is exploding.
700
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:35,438
What do you want?
701
00:38:35,521 --> 00:38:37,898
I want to co-chair Ace Pictures.
702
00:38:40,109 --> 00:38:42,862
You're recovering
from a major health scare.
703
00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:45,698
Your doctor says
you can only work half days.
704
00:38:46,532 --> 00:38:48,784
Let me carry what you can't.
705
00:38:52,038 --> 00:38:53,956
You won't take anything less?
706
00:38:54,457 --> 00:38:55,499
No, I won't.
707
00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:01,464
Okay.
708
00:39:02,173 --> 00:39:03,007
Okay?
709
00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:04,884
Okay.
710
00:39:11,390 --> 00:39:12,767
I saw Meg today.
711
00:39:15,186 --> 00:39:17,396
And what you did was amazing.
712
00:39:18,564 --> 00:39:20,358
It's a spectacular movie.
713
00:39:21,233 --> 00:39:23,027
It's not the movie I would make, but...
714
00:39:23,402 --> 00:39:25,738
I think that's the point of this, right?
715
00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:30,951
You know, ever since this whole thing
happened to me, I...
716
00:39:32,453 --> 00:39:34,663
I've been thinking differently.
717
00:39:35,915 --> 00:39:37,416
I've been thinking, uh...
718
00:39:38,751 --> 00:39:40,878
How do I want to leave this world?
719
00:39:42,129 --> 00:39:43,089
And...
720
00:39:43,839 --> 00:39:45,633
what I want to leave in it.
721
00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:49,470
And, uh...
722
00:39:50,846 --> 00:39:52,348
I'd have been proud
723
00:39:53,140 --> 00:39:54,683
to have released that movie.
724
00:39:57,937 --> 00:39:59,063
Now, what do you say?
725
00:40:03,317 --> 00:40:04,151
You earned it.
726
00:40:12,660 --> 00:40:15,037
Mmm. I am so sorry.
727
00:40:15,121 --> 00:40:17,623
-I am so, so sorry.
-[weeping]
728
00:40:17,706 --> 00:40:18,791
I'm sorry, too.
729
00:40:18,874 --> 00:40:21,377
I want to make a go of it.
I want to try again.
730
00:40:23,254 --> 00:40:24,922
I think we still have time.
731
00:40:27,591 --> 00:40:30,136
[humming]
732
00:40:34,348 --> 00:40:35,599
[Gertie] Mrs. Amberg...
733
00:40:37,226 --> 00:40:41,188
in 20 years, I've never heard you
singing at the table before.
734
00:40:42,231 --> 00:40:43,315
Well...
735
00:40:44,024 --> 00:40:45,276
I had a good night.
736
00:40:45,526 --> 00:40:46,777
That's all I'll say.
737
00:40:47,361 --> 00:40:49,363
We could hear you. [groans]
738
00:40:50,322 --> 00:40:52,366
Kept me awake until 4:00 a.m.
739
00:40:53,492 --> 00:40:55,995
It was... nauseating.
740
00:40:56,078 --> 00:40:57,496
[laughing]
741
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,291
Gertie, we have a big week
of planning ahead.
742
00:41:00,374 --> 00:41:03,627
Get all the linens out of storage
and call the tent company
743
00:41:03,711 --> 00:41:05,880
because on Saturday we're having a party.
744
00:41:07,089 --> 00:41:11,010
Ace is going to announce he's making me
co-president of the studio.
745
00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:13,429
-What?
-I never thought I'd see the day.
746
00:41:13,512 --> 00:41:16,348
-Neither did I. I keep pinching myself.
-[Claire gasping]
747
00:41:16,432 --> 00:41:20,394
-Mother, that's unbelievable!
-For once, Daddy got something right.
748
00:41:23,814 --> 00:41:26,233
[Claire humming]
749
00:41:26,609 --> 00:41:29,278
Gertie, I want pancakes.
750
00:41:30,905 --> 00:41:33,991
Ace, I have your breakfast.
751
00:41:37,495 --> 00:41:38,329
Ace...
752
00:41:40,289 --> 00:41:42,166
I have something sweet for you.
753
00:41:45,586 --> 00:41:47,379
[sad music playing]
754
00:42:23,874 --> 00:42:25,501
[kisses, inhales sharply]
755
00:42:36,136 --> 00:42:37,471
[reporters overlapping]
756
00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:39,265
[reporter 1] Simply stunning, Miss Lee!
757
00:42:39,348 --> 00:42:41,433
[reporter 2] Hollywood Reporter,
a picture, please?
758
00:42:41,517 --> 00:42:43,519
[cameras bulbs popping]
759
00:42:43,602 --> 00:42:45,396
[reporter 1] Miss Lee, over here!
760
00:42:45,479 --> 00:42:46,981
Let me tell you something, Meg.
761
00:42:48,315 --> 00:42:49,358
All this...
762
00:42:50,818 --> 00:42:54,280
the photos, the red carpet,
the parties, the stardom...
763
00:42:55,948 --> 00:42:57,783
it's all smoke and mirrors.
764
00:42:59,493 --> 00:43:01,745
None of it is worth a fig, do you hear me?
765
00:43:02,246 --> 00:43:03,706
I'm telling you now,
766
00:43:04,623 --> 00:43:06,625
this will all be yours very soon.
767
00:43:06,709 --> 00:43:09,837
-But if you're not--
-Boring. Cut this scene.
768
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,630
[reel sputtering]
769
00:43:12,006 --> 00:43:13,257
I said turn it off.
770
00:43:13,340 --> 00:43:16,051
-Sorry, Mr. Willson, just a sec.
-Jesus Christ.
771
00:43:16,135 --> 00:43:18,721
This is what you get when you hire
an editor on looks alone.
772
00:43:18,804 --> 00:43:20,389
I'm new, I don't know this equipment.
773
00:43:21,056 --> 00:43:24,268
Thank you. You know what?
Skip to the last reel.
774
00:43:24,351 --> 00:43:27,062
There is something about that ending
that I just don't buy.
775
00:43:32,901 --> 00:43:34,903
[lounge music playing]
776
00:43:37,281 --> 00:43:40,701
Bartender, can you tell me how to get up
to the Hollywoodland sign?
777
00:43:43,829 --> 00:43:46,582
You head up Beachwood Drive
and you'll see the trailhead right there.
778
00:43:46,665 --> 00:43:48,667
[Henry] Freeze it. Freeze it right there.
779
00:43:55,758 --> 00:43:56,800
You're not saying anything.
780
00:43:57,926 --> 00:43:59,803
It's called "thinking," Randy.
781
00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:02,806
See, this is why the picture doesn't work.
782
00:44:03,307 --> 00:44:06,060
This is the part where she decides
to jump off the sign, right?
783
00:44:07,019 --> 00:44:09,813
Well, I still don't feel like I understand
why she wants to kill herself.
784
00:44:11,106 --> 00:44:12,483
Well, she got cut out of the movie.
785
00:44:13,609 --> 00:44:16,612
[sighs] Yes, I know, dumbshit.
That's the problem.
786
00:44:16,695 --> 00:44:18,906
You think America's gonna
like this girl for ending it all
787
00:44:18,989 --> 00:44:20,282
'cause she got cut out of a film?
788
00:44:20,366 --> 00:44:22,493
John and Jane Q. Public,
they've never been in a film,
789
00:44:22,576 --> 00:44:23,911
they're not killing themselves.
790
00:44:23,994 --> 00:44:26,872
I guess it's because she staked
her whole life on this thing.
791
00:44:27,623 --> 00:44:29,541
A thing that most people don't care about.
792
00:44:30,042 --> 00:44:31,043
She does.
793
00:44:32,252 --> 00:44:33,671
She built her whole world around it.
794
00:44:34,546 --> 00:44:35,464
That's her flaw.
795
00:44:36,423 --> 00:44:38,258
Well, well, well,
796
00:44:38,717 --> 00:44:41,929
listen to what just shot out of that
tiny pea brain of yours.
797
00:44:42,012 --> 00:44:43,972
That's what this movie needs!
798
00:44:44,056 --> 00:44:46,517
Right after this scene, it's just...
it's a moment...
799
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,602
It can be her alone where she realizes...
800
00:44:48,727 --> 00:44:50,312
where she says to herself,
801
00:44:50,396 --> 00:44:53,440
"I fucked up my whole life
needing this thing."
802
00:44:53,816 --> 00:44:55,526
That's why she kills herself.
803
00:44:58,028 --> 00:44:59,238
But we don't have that scene.
804
00:44:59,321 --> 00:45:00,364
We'll do a reshoot.
805
00:45:00,447 --> 00:45:02,700
It's half a day's work,
it's one scene. I'll talk to Dick.
806
00:45:02,783 --> 00:45:03,617
What the fuck?
807
00:45:05,411 --> 00:45:06,829
Who the fuck is he?
808
00:45:06,912 --> 00:45:08,622
Well, hello, you old piece of shit.
809
00:45:08,706 --> 00:45:10,958
He's the new editor,
'cause I fired your ass.
810
00:45:11,041 --> 00:45:12,209
What's going on in here?
811
00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:14,586
Willson, what are you doing?
812
00:45:15,045 --> 00:45:18,841
This stupid fuck
is recutting your picture.
813
00:45:18,924 --> 00:45:20,509
No, I am saving your picture.
814
00:45:20,592 --> 00:45:23,721
I am cutting that God-awful
Anna May Wong red carpet scene.
815
00:45:23,804 --> 00:45:24,847
The hell you are!
816
00:45:24,930 --> 00:45:27,057
There's an entire scene missing
in the final reel.
817
00:45:27,141 --> 00:45:28,517
It's why the ending doesn't work.
818
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,603
We need a quiet scene with Meg,
alone,
819
00:45:31,687 --> 00:45:33,772
where we understand
why she wants to kill herself.
820
00:45:33,856 --> 00:45:36,316
Right now, it's because
she got cut out of a movie.
821
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,777
The audience needs to know
it's deeper than that.
822
00:45:39,361 --> 00:45:42,698
She staked her whole life on this dream,
and it's over now.
823
00:45:42,948 --> 00:45:45,200
It's one scene.
We can pick it up in one night.
824
00:45:47,828 --> 00:45:49,246
That's actually a good idea.
825
00:45:51,498 --> 00:45:52,875
Why don't you take it up with Dick?
826
00:45:52,958 --> 00:45:54,710
Fuck Dick and his fancy five-dollar words.
827
00:45:54,793 --> 00:45:56,628
Dick thinks he's smarter than me.
He's not.
828
00:45:56,712 --> 00:45:58,380
-I'll get the new scene shot.
-You!
829
00:45:58,464 --> 00:45:59,715
Step away from that machine.
830
00:46:00,507 --> 00:46:01,341
Come on.
831
00:46:01,842 --> 00:46:02,760
Hey-- hey!
832
00:46:02,885 --> 00:46:03,927
What's the big idea?
833
00:46:04,011 --> 00:46:05,220
What the hell are you doing?
834
00:46:05,304 --> 00:46:08,140
No need to worry. We're just taking
all the footage for safekeeping.
835
00:46:08,223 --> 00:46:09,725
-You can't do that.
-Yes we can, son.
836
00:46:09,808 --> 00:46:13,270
Get your hands off. Wait just a minute.
That's my film, you can't touch that.
837
00:46:13,353 --> 00:46:16,231
Get your hands off-- Hey!
You can't do this! What are you--
838
00:46:16,315 --> 00:46:18,442
Somebody get Ace Amberg on the phone.
You can't do this!
839
00:46:18,525 --> 00:46:21,111
Go ahead and call him.
Ace Amberg is dead.
840
00:47:01,693 --> 00:47:03,695
[big band music playing]