:55:03
- Come here. Let me show you.
- What are you doing?
:55:06
- What does it look like I'm doin'?
- You're gonna write it?
:55:08
What am l? A fuckin' idiot?
They taught me how to write in
school before I burned it down.
:55:12
- You burned down your school?
- Yeah, it was Lincoln's birthday.
There was nobody there.
:55:17
- If you actually write--
- Look, I know how people talk,
all right?
:55:20
Go shoot a rack,
and let me do this.
:55:22
But if you actually write it,
then I'm not--
:55:25
- Don't worry about it.
I ain't gonna tell anybody.
- No?
:55:27
No. I saw you playin' the big shot.
I know what it's all about.
:55:30
Where I come from,
nobody squeals.
:55:38
Go shoot a rack.
:55:41
Stop starin' at me.
:55:43
[ Helen ] What dialogue!
This is better than O'Neill!
:55:47
Max Anderson
will never touch you!
:55:49
So you liked it.
:55:51
It's so full of passion!
It's so full of life!
:55:55
- I hoped it would lift the story.
- What a difference between this
and your first draft.
:55:59
You hadn't found yourself yet. The idea
was there, but it hadn't crystallized.
:56:04
You needed to hear it
on its feet, and now this.
:56:07
It's no longer tepid
and cerebral.
:56:10
It's full of life!
It's full of passion!
:56:14
It reeks with humid sexuality!
It's carnivorous at last!
:56:18
- You thought my first draft
was cerebral and tepid?
- Only the plot and dialogue.
:56:22
- But this--
- Was-Was-Was there nothing
in the original draft...
:56:26
that you feel
is worth saving?
:56:28
The stage directions were lucid.
Best I've ever seen.
:56:32
- And the color of the binder.
Good choice.
- Thank you.
:56:34
I always had a flare
for stage directions.
:56:37
I went back and reread your
earlier plays. They suffered
from the same problem.
:56:41
- [ Sighs ]
- Good ideas, but
too contrived, no real guts.
:56:45
It's like you
finally happened.
:56:47
- Helen, I have a confession to make.
- Yes?
:56:49
[ Inhales Deeply ]
:56:52
- I--
- Don't speak!
:56:54
No, no, don't speak.
I know you wanna deprecate yourself.
:56:57
I know you do, but you're
going to take this town by storm.