:17:00
I'm one of the great ones.
:17:02
I'm Michelangelo molding the beard of Moses.
:17:05
I'm Van Gogh, painting pure sunlight.
:17:07
I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto.
:17:10
I'm John Barrymore before the movies got him by the throat.
:17:14
I'm Jesse James and his two brothers, all three of them.
:17:17
I'm W. Shakespeare.
:17:19
And out there it's not Third Avenue any longer.
It's the Nile, Nat.
:17:23
The Nile and down it moves the barge of Cleopatra.
:17:28
Come here.
:17:31
Purple the sails, and so perfumed
that the winds were love-sick with them.
:17:36
the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke...
:17:42
Maybe he's at Morandi's or Nat's bar...
:17:44
or that place on Forty-second street?
:17:46
What difference does it make?
:17:48
- You're not really going, Wick.
- I certainly am.
:17:51
- But you can't leave him alone. Not for four days.
- Yes I can.
:17:54
Oh. For heaven's sake, Wick.
If he's left alone, anything can happen!
:17:57
And I'll be tied up at the office every minute.
:17:59
All Saturday. All Sunday. I can't look out for him.
:18:01
You know how he gets. He'll be run over by a car.
He'll be arrested.
:18:04
He doesn't know what he's doing.
:18:06
A cigarette might fall from his mouth
and he'll burn in his bed...
:18:08
Oh, Helen. If it happens, it happens.
And I hope it does.
:18:11
I've had six years of this. I've had my bellyful.
:18:16
- Wick, you can't mean that.
- Yes I do.
:18:19
It's terrible, I know, but I mean it.
:18:21
- For heaven's sake, Wick...
- Who are we fooling?
:18:24
We've tried everything, haven't we?
We've reasoned with him, we've babied him.
:18:27
We've watched him like a hawk.
We've tried trusting him.
:18:29
How often have you cried?
How often have I beaten him up?
:18:33
We scrape him out of the gutter and...
:18:36
pump some kind of self-respect into hims,
and back he falls, back in, every time.
:18:41
He's a sick person.
:18:43
It's as though there were something wrong
with his heart or his lungs.
:18:46
You wouldn't walk out on him
because he had an attack. He needs our help.
:18:50
He won't accept our help. Not Don. He hates us.
:18:52
He wants to be alone with that bottle of his.
It's all he gives a hang about.