:16:01
I'm not some guy
that thinks poetic is fruity.
:16:04
We're together on that.
:16:05
I'm from New York myself.
:16:07
Minsk, if you want
to go all the way back,
:16:10
which we won't
if you don't mind.
:16:13
People will say to you--
:16:15
Wallace Beery, wrestling--
it's a B picture.
:16:18
You tell them--bullshit!
:16:19
We don't make B pictures
here at Capitol.
:16:22
Let's put a stop
to that rumor right now.
:16:26
[ Rattling ]
:16:28
[ Shoes Squeak ]
:16:29
Thanks, Lou.
:16:30
Join us.
Join us.
:16:32
We're talking about
the Wally Beery picture.
:16:35
Excellent picture.
:16:37
Got a treatment on it yet?
:16:39
We just bought the story.
:16:41
Saturday Evening Post.
:16:42
The hell with the story.
:16:44
Wally Beery's a wrestler.
:16:45
Give me his hopes, his dreams.
:16:47
Naturally he gets mixed up
with a bad element
:16:50
and a romantic interest
or else an orphan.
:16:53
Lou, think Wally's too old
for a romantic interest?
:17:00
Look at me.
:17:01
A writer in the room,
:17:03
and I'm asking Lou
about the goddamn story.
:17:06
Which is it, Bart?
:17:08
Orphan?
Dame?
:17:13
Both maybe?
:17:19
Maybe we should do a treatment.
:17:21
Hell!
Let Bart take a crack at it.
:17:24
He'll get into the swing of things
:17:27
or I don't know writers.
:17:29
Let's make it a dame.
Keep it simple.
:17:31
The important thing
:17:33
is we all want it to have
that Barton Fink feeling.
:17:36
We all have that feeling,
:17:38
but since you're Barton Fink,
:17:40
I'm assuming you have it in spades.
:17:42
I like you.
:17:43
If all my writers
were like you,
:17:45
I wouldn't have
to get involved.
:17:47
Have something
by the end of the week.
:17:53
I heard about your show,
by the way.
:17:56
My man in New York saw it.
:17:59
Says it's damn moving,
a little fruity,