1:47:00
Or Uncle Maury.
1:47:02
I understand that,
but there's still no answer.
1:47:05
Mr.Fink?
1:47:06
Shall I check for trouble
on the line?
1:47:15
Fink.
1:47:17
Mr.Lipnick.
1:47:18
Colonel Lipnick--
if you don't mind.
1:47:21
Sit down.
1:47:22
I was commissioned yesterday
in the army reserve.
1:47:24
Henry Morgenthau arranged it.
Dear friend.
1:47:27
Congratulations.
1:47:29
It hasn't officially
gone through yet.
1:47:30
Had wardrobe whip this up.
1:47:32
Got to pull teeth
to get anything done.
1:47:34
Can understand
red tape in peacetime,
1:47:36
but now it's all-out warfare
against the Japs.
1:47:38
They'd love to see me
sit this one out.
1:47:41
Yes, sir.
They, uh...
1:47:44
Anyway, I had Lou
read your script for me.
1:47:47
I got to tell you, Fink...
1:47:50
it won't wash.
1:47:52
With all due respect,
1:47:53
I think it's
the best work I've done.
1:47:55
Don't gas me, Fink.
1:47:56
If your opinion mattered,
I'd let you run the studio.
1:48:00
The lunatics aren't going to run
this particular asylum.
1:48:03
Let's put a stop
to that rumor right now.
1:48:06
Yes, sir.
1:48:08
Had to call Beery this morning,
1:48:10
tell him we were pushing
the picture back.
1:48:12
After all I told him about quality,
1:48:14
about that Barton Fink feeling,
1:48:16
how disappointed we were.
1:48:17
Wally was heartbroken.
The man was devastated.
1:48:20
I didn't actually call him.
Lou did.
1:48:23
That's a fair description,
isn't it, Lou?
1:48:25
Yes, Colonel.
1:48:26
I could take you
through it step-by-step,
1:48:30
explaining why
your story stinks,
1:48:32
but I won't insult
your intelligence.
1:48:34
Well, all right.
1:48:35
First of all,
this is a wrestling picture.
1:48:38
The audience wants to see action,
adventure, wrestling.
1:48:41
They don't want to see a guy
wrestling with his soul.
1:48:45
All right, some for the critics.
1:48:46
You make it the carrot
that wags the dog.
1:48:49
Too much,
they head for the exits.
1:48:51
There's plenty of poetry
inside that ring, Fink.
1:48:54
Look at Hell 10 Feet Square.
1:48:56
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.
1:48:57
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.
1:48:59
These are big movies,
Fink, about big men.