:39:01
Yet here I am.
:39:03
And there's Laroche.
There's Orlean.
:39:06
And there's the ghost orchid.
All trapped in our own bodies...
:39:09
... in moments in history.
That's it.
:39:12
That's what I need to do.
Tie all of history together.
:39:18
Start right before
life begins on the planet.
:39:21
All is...
:39:22
...lifeless.
And then, like, life begins...
:39:25
...with organisms.
Those little single-cell ones.
:39:27
And it's before sex, because,
like, everything was asexual.
:39:30
From there we go to bigger things.
Jellyfish.
:39:33
Then that fish that got legs
and crawled out on the land.
:39:35
And then we see,
you know, like, dinosaurs.
:39:39
And then they're around for a long time.
Then an asteroid comes and:
:39:43
--the insects, the mammals,
the primates, monk eys.
:39:47
The simple monk eys. Old-fashioned
monk eys giving way to the new ones.
:39:50
Whatever. And then apes.
Whatever. And man.
:39:53
Then we see the whole history of
human civilization.: hunting, war, love...
:39:57
...heartache, disease,
loneliness, technology.
:39:59
And we end with Susan Orlean
in her office at The New Yorker...
:40:03
... writing about flowers, and bang!
The movie begins.
:40:06
This is the breakthrough I've been
hoping for. It's never been done.
:40:09
McKee is a genius!
:40:13
And hilarious. He just comes up with all
these great jokes, and everybody laughs.
:40:18
But he's serious too, Charles.
You'd love him.
:40:21
He's all for originality, just like you.
:40:24
But he says we have to realize
that we all write in a genre...
:40:28
...and we must find our originality
within that genre.
:40:32
There hasn't been a new genre since
Fellini invented the mockumentary.
:40:36
My genre's thriller. What's yours?
:40:39
You and l share the same DNA.
:40:43
ls there anything more lonely than that?
:40:46
What'd you say, bro?
:40:54
-Yeah?
-Hey.
:40:56
Hey, Susie-Q.
:40:59
What you up to?