巴顿·芬克 Barton Fink(EN)Subtitles
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1 00:01:41 I'm kissing it all goodbye. These four stinking walls, six flights up.
2 00:01:46 The L that roars by at 3:00 a.m. Like a cast-iron wind.
3 00:01:51 Kiss them goodbye for me, Maury, I'll miss them.
4 00:01:54 Like hell I will. Dreaming again.
5 00:01:56 Not anymore, Lil. I'm awake now, awake for the first time in years.
6 00:02:01 Uncle Dave said it.
7 00:02:07 Well, my eyes are open now.
8 00:02:10 I see the choir and I know they're dressed in rags
9 00:02:13 but we're part of that choir, yeah, both of us.
10 00:02:15 And you, Maury, and Uncle Dave, too. The sun's coming up, kid.
11 00:02:19 They'll be hawking the fish down on Fulton Street.
12 00:02:22 Let 'em hawk. Let 'em sing their hearts out.
13 00:02:26 That's it, kid. Take that ruined choir. Make it sing.
14 00:02:30 So long, Maury. So long.
15 00:02:36 We'll hear from that kid. And I don't mean a postcard.
16 00:02:42 Fish! Fresh fish!
17 00:02:47 Let's spit on our hands and get to work. It's late, Maury.
18 00:02:51 Not anymore, Lil. It's early.
19 00:03:04 Bravo!
20 00:03:08 Bravo!
21 00:03:15 Bravo!
22 00:03:22 Author! Author!
23 00:03:27 Author! Author!
24 00:03:48 Your table is ready, Monsieur Fink.
25 00:03:50 In fact, several members of your party have already arrived.
26 00:03:55 Is Garland Stanford here?
27 00:03:56 He called to say he'll be a few minutes late. Ahh, here we are.
28 00:04:01 Barton, Barton, so glad you could make it.
29 00:04:04 You know Richard St. Claire and Poppy Carnahan.
30 00:04:07 Charmed, charmed, charmed.
31 00:04:09 We're drinking champagne, dear boy, in honor of the occasion.
32 00:04:12 Have you seen The Herald? Not yet.
33 00:04:15 Well, I don't want to embarrass you but Caven could hardly contain himself.
34 00:04:19 But, more important, Richard and Poppy here loved the play.
35 00:04:22 Weeping. Copious tears. What did The Herald say?
36 00:04:27 I happen to have it with me. Please, Derek.
37 00:04:29 "Bare Ruined Choirs, Triumph Of The Common Man.
38 00:04:33 "The star of Bare Ruined Choirs
39 00:04:34 "was nowhere to be seen on the stage of the Belasco last night,
40 00:04:37 "though the thespians all acquitted themselves admirably.
41 00:04:41 "The find of the evening was the author of this drama about simple folk,
42 00:04:45 "fishmongers, in fact,
43 00:04:47 "whose brute struggle for existence
44 00:04:48 "cannot quite quell their longing for something higher.
45 00:04:51 "The playwright finds nobility
46 00:04:53 "in the most squalid corners and poetry in the most callous speech.
47 00:04:56 "A tough new voice in the American theater has arrived
48 00:05:00 "and the owner of that voice is named Barton Fink."
49 00:05:05 Well, they'll be wrapping fish in it in the morning,
50 00:05:07 so I guess it's not a total waste.
51 00:05:09 Cynic. I can't start listening to the critics
52 00:05:12 and I can't kid myself about my own work.
53 00:05:15 A writer writes from his gut.
54 00:05:17 His gut tells him what's good and what's merely adequate.
55 00:05:25 I don't pretend to be a critic
56 00:05:27 but Lord knows I have a gut
57 00:05:30 and my gut tells me it's simply marvelous.
58 00:05:36 And a charming gut it is.
59 00:05:38 Oh, you dog.
60 00:05:40 Oh, stop.
61 00:05:51 I thought you were going to join us.
62 00:05:53 Jesus, Garland. You left me alone with those people?
63 00:05:55 Don't panic. I'll join you in a minute.
64 00:05:59 We have to talk a little business.
65 00:06:01 I've just been on the phone to Los Angeles.
66 00:06:04 Barton, Capitol Pictures wants to put you under contract.
67 00:06:08 They've offered you $1,000 a week. I think I can get them up to as high as $2,000.
68 00:06:13 To do what? What do you do for a living?
69 00:06:17 I'm not sure any more. I guess I try to make a difference.
70 00:06:21 Look, Barton. There's no pressure here because I respect you.
71 00:06:25 But a brief tenure in Hollywood
72 00:06:26 could support you through the writing of any number of plays.
73 00:06:30 I don't know, Garland. My place is here right now.
74 00:06:33 I feel I'm on the brink of success.
75 00:06:38 I'd say you're already enjoying some. No, don't you see, Garland?
76 00:06:41 Not the kind of success where the critics fawn over you
77 00:06:44 or the producers like Derek make a lot of money.
78 00:06:47 No, a real success.
79 00:06:49 The success we've been dreaming about.
80 00:06:51 The creation of a new, living theater,
81 00:06:54 of and about and for the common man.
82 00:06:58 If I ran off to Hollywood now,
83 00:07:00 I'd be making money, going to parties, meeting the big shots, sure.
84 00:07:04 But I'd be cutting myself off from the wellspring of that success,
85 00:07:07 from the common man.
86 00:07:12 I guess I'm spouting off again.
87 00:07:15 Did you see Caven's review in The Herald?
88 00:07:17 No, what did it say? Here, take my copy.
89 00:07:20 You're the toast of Broadway
90 00:07:22 and you have an opportunity to redeem that for a little cash.
91 00:07:25 Strike that, a lot of cash.
92 00:07:31 The common man'll still be here when you get back.
93 00:07:36 Who knows? They may even have one or two of them out in Hollywood.
94 00:07:40 That's a rationalization, Garland.
95 00:07:44 Barton, it was a joke.
96 00:09:12 Welcome to the Hotel Earle. May I help you, sir?
97 00:09:15 I'm checking in, Barton Fink.
98 00:09:19 All righty.
99 00:09:23 Okay.
100 00:09:24 That's F-I-N-K?
101 00:09:29 Fink, Barton. That must be you, huh? Must be.
102 00:09:34 Okay, then, everything seems to be in order.
103 00:09:37 Everything seems to be in order. Just...
104 00:09:45 Are you a trans or a res? Excuse me?
105 00:09:47 Transient or resident?
106 00:09:50 I don't know. I mean, I'll be here indefinitely.
107 00:09:54 Res. That'll be $25.50 a week, payable in advance.
108 00:09:57 Checkout time is 12:00 sharp only,
109 00:09:59 you can forget about that on account of you're a res.
110 00:10:01 If you need anything, anything at all,
111 00:10:02 just pick up your personal in-room telephone and talk to me.
112 00:10:05 My name is Chet.
113 00:10:06 Although we do provide privacy for the residential guests,
114 00:10:08 we are also a full-service hotel, including complimentary shoeshine.
115 00:10:11 My name is Chet.
116 00:10:15 Okay.
117 00:10:22 Those your only bags?
118 00:10:25 The others are being sent.
119 00:10:27 Welcome to Los Angeles, Mr. Fink.
120 00:10:42 Six, please.
121 00:10:47 Next stop, six.
122 00:10:57 This stop, six.
123 00:14:03 Is that him? Is that Barton Fink?
124 00:14:08 Let me at him. Let me put my arms around this guy.
125 00:14:12 Let me hug this guy. How the hell are you?
126 00:14:16 Good trip? My name is Jack Lipnick.
127 00:14:18 I run this dump. You know that. You read the papers.
128 00:14:20 Lou treating you all right? Get you everything you need?
129 00:14:23 What the hell's the matter with your face? What the hell's the matter with his face, Lou.
130 00:14:26 It's not as bad as it looks. Just a mosquito in my room.
131 00:14:30 Place okay? Where'd we put him? I'm at the Earle.
132 00:14:33 Never heard of it. Let's move him to The Grand or The Wilshire.
133 00:14:35 Hell, he can stay at my place!
134 00:14:36 Thanks, but I wanted a place that was a little less...
135 00:14:38 Less Hollywood.
136 00:14:40 Sure. Say it. It's not a dirty word.
137 00:14:42 Say whatever the hell you want. The writer is king here at Capitol Pictures.
138 00:14:45 You don't believe me? Take a look at your paycheck at the end of every week.
139 00:14:48 That's what we think of the writer.
140 00:14:50 So, what kind of pictures does he like?
141 00:14:52 Mr. Fink hasn't given a preference, Mr. Lipnick.
142 00:14:55 So how about it, Bart?
143 00:14:58 Well, to be honest, I don't go to the pictures much, Mr. Lipnick.
144 00:15:02 That's okay. That's just fine.
145 00:15:04 You probably walked in here thinking that was going to be a handicap.
146 00:15:07 Thinking that we wanted people who knew something about the medium,
147 00:15:09 maybe even thinking there was all kinds of technical mumbo-jumbo to learn.
148 00:15:13 You were dead wrong. We're only interested in one thing.
149 00:15:16 Can you tell a story, Bart? Can you make us laugh, can you make us cry?
150 00:15:20 Can you make us wanna break out in joyous song?
151 00:15:23 Is that more than one thing? Okay.
152 00:15:24 The point is, I run this dump and I don't know the technical mumbo-jumbo.
153 00:15:27 Why do I run it? 'Cause I got horse sense, goddamn it. Showmanship!
154 00:15:31 And also, I hope Lou told you this.
155 00:15:33 I am bigger, meaner and louder
156 00:15:35 than any other kike in this town. Did you tell him that, Lou?
157 00:15:37 I don't mean my dick is bigger than yours, it's not a sexual thing.
158 00:15:40 Although, you are a writer, you know more about that. Coffee?
159 00:15:45 Yes, thank you. Lou!
160 00:15:55 Used to have shares in the company.
161 00:15:57 Ownership interest. Got bought out in the '20s.
162 00:16:00 Muscled out, according to some. According to me.
163 00:16:02 We keep him around. He's got a family.
164 00:16:04 Poor schmuck. He's sensitive. Don't mention the old days.
165 00:16:06 Hell, say whatever you want. Look, Bart.
166 00:16:09 Barring a preference, we're gonna put you to work on a wrestling picture. Wallace Beery.
167 00:16:13 I say this because they tell me you know the poetry of the streets
168 00:16:15 so that would rule out westerns, pirates, screwball, Bible, Roman...
169 00:16:19 Look. I'm not one of those guys that thinks poetic has gotta be fruity.
170 00:16:22 We're together on that, aren't we? I mean, I'm from New York myself.
171 00:16:25 Minsk, if you wanna go all the way back.
172 00:16:28 Which we won't, if you don't mind, and I ain't asking.
173 00:16:31 Now, people are gonna say to you, "Wallace Beery, wrestling, it's a B-picture."
174 00:16:35 You tell them, "Bullshit!"
175 00:16:37 We do not make B-pictures here at Capitol.
176 00:16:40 Let's put a stop to that rumor... right now.
177 00:16:47 Thanks, Lou. Join us.
178 00:16:50 We're talking about the Wally Beery picture. Excellent picture.
179 00:16:54 We got a treatment on it yet? No, not yet, Jack.
180 00:16:57 We just bought the story.
181 00:16:58 Saturday Evening Post. To hell with the story.
182 00:17:01 Wally Beery is a wrestler.
183 00:17:03 I wanna know his hopes, his dreams.
184 00:17:04 Naturally, you have to get him mixed up with a bad element.
185 00:17:06 And a romantic interest, you know the drill.
186 00:17:09 Romantic interest, or else a young kid, an orphan.
187 00:17:11 What do you think, Lou? Wally a little too old for a romantic interest?
188 00:17:18 Look at me.
189 00:17:20 A writer in the room and I'm asking Lou what the goddamn story should be.
190 00:17:24 Which is it, Bart? Orphan? Dame?
191 00:17:31 Both, maybe?
192 00:17:37 Maybe we should do a treatment.
193 00:17:40 Hell. Let Bart take a crack at it.
194 00:17:43 He'll get into the swing of things or I don't know writers.
195 00:17:46 Let's make it a dame, Bart. Keep it simple.
196 00:17:48 We don't gotta tackle the world the first time out.
197 00:17:50 The important thing is we all want it to have that Barton Fink feeling.
198 00:17:54 I guess, we all have that Barton Fink feeling
199 00:17:56 but since you're Barton Fink, I'm assuming you have it in spades.
200 00:17:59 Seriously, Bart, I like you. We're off to a good start.
201 00:18:02 If all my writers were like you, I wouldn't have to get so goddamn involved.
202 00:18:05 I'd like to see something by the end of the week.
203 00:18:12 Oh, I heard about your show, by the way.
204 00:18:14 My man in New York saw it. Tells me it's pretty damn powerful, pretty damn moving.
205 00:18:18 A little fruity, he said, but I guess you know what you're doing.
206 00:18:21 Thanks for your heart, Bart. We need more heart in motion pictures.
207 00:18:26 We're all expecting great things.
208 00:20:49 Front desk. Hello, Chet?
209 00:20:52 Speaking. This is Barton Fink in room 621.
210 00:20:56 Mmm-hmm? Yes, there's...
211 00:20:58 There's someone in the room next door to mine, 623,
212 00:21:03 and he's...
213 00:21:05 He's...
214 00:21:08 Making a lot of noise.
215 00:21:12 I'll take care of it right away, sir. Thank you.
216 00:21:26 Hello.
217 00:21:29 What?
218 00:21:31 Huh?
219 00:21:34 Who?
220 00:22:08 Did you...
221 00:22:13 Somebody just complained. No, I didn't.
222 00:22:16 I mean, I did call down. Not to complain exactly.
223 00:22:19 I was just concerned that you might...
224 00:22:23 Not that it's my business,
225 00:22:24 but that you might be in some kind of distress.
226 00:22:28 See, I was trying to work and it's...
227 00:22:30 Well, it was difficult.
228 00:22:37 Yeah...
229 00:22:39 I'm damn sorry if I bothered you. The damn walls. I just apologize like hell.
230 00:22:44 My name's Charlie Meadows. I guess we're neighbors.
231 00:22:47 Barton Fink.
232 00:22:49 Neighbor, I'd feel better about the damned inconvenience
233 00:22:53 if you let me buy you a drink.
234 00:22:56 That's all right, really. Thank you. "All right," hell.
235 00:22:59 You trying to work, me carrying on in there.
236 00:23:03 Look, the liquor's good. What do you say?
237 00:23:06 You got a glass? It's the least I can do.
238 00:23:10 Okay. A quick one. Sure.
239 00:23:15 Yeah, just a nip.
240 00:23:18 I sure do forget myself sometimes.
241 00:23:22 I feel like a heel, all the carryings-on next door.
242 00:23:25 That's okay, I assure you.
243 00:23:27 It's just I was trying to work.
244 00:23:30 What kind of work do you do, Barton, if you don't mind my asking?
245 00:23:34 Well, I'm a writer, actually.
246 00:23:36 You don't say. That's a tough racket.
247 00:23:38 My hat's off to anyone that can make a go of it.
248 00:23:41 Damned interesting work, I'd imagine. Can be. It's not easy but...
249 00:23:44 Damned difficult, I'd imagine.
250 00:23:46 And what's your line, Mr. Meadows? Hell, no, call me Charlie.
251 00:23:51 Well, Barton, you might say I sell peace of mind.
252 00:23:55 Insurance is my game.
253 00:23:56 Door to door. Human contact. Still the only way to move the merchandise.
254 00:24:00 In spite of what you might think from tonight, I'm pretty good at it.
255 00:24:03 It doesn't surprise me at all. Hell, yes! Because I believe in it.
256 00:24:06 Fire, theft and casualty are not things
257 00:24:08 that only happen to other people, that's what I tell them.
258 00:24:10 Writing doesn't work out, you may wanna look into it.
259 00:24:13 Providing for a basic human need. A fella could do worse.
260 00:24:16 Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. Mmm.
261 00:24:19 What kind of scribbler are you? Newspaperman, did you say?
262 00:24:23 No. Actually, I'm writing for the pictures now.
263 00:24:26 Pictures? Jesus!
264 00:24:32 Oh, I'm sorry, brother.
265 00:24:34 I was just sitting here thinking
266 00:24:36 I was talking to some ambitious youngster eager to make good.
267 00:24:39 Hell, you've got it made.
268 00:24:40 Writing for the pictures! Beating out that competition.
269 00:24:43 And me being patronizing?
270 00:24:47 Is the egg showing or what?
271 00:24:49 That's okay, I am just starting out in the movies,
272 00:24:52 though I was pretty well established in New York.
273 00:24:55 Some renown there. It's an exciting time, then.
274 00:25:00 I'm not the best-read mug on the planet
275 00:25:02 so I guess it's not surprising I didn't recognize your name.
276 00:25:06 Jesus, I feel like a heel.
277 00:25:09 That's okay, Charlie.
278 00:25:11 I'm a playwright. My shows have only played New York.
279 00:25:14 The last one got a hell of a write-up in The Herald.
280 00:25:16 I guess that's why they wanted me here.
281 00:25:18 Hell, why not? Everyone wants quality.
282 00:25:20 What kind of venue...
283 00:25:23 That is to say, thematically...
284 00:25:26 Umm...
285 00:25:28 What do I write about?
286 00:25:32 Caught me trying to be fancy. Yeah, that's it, Bart.
287 00:25:35 Well, that's a good question.
288 00:25:38 Strange as it may seem, Charlie, I guess I write about people like you.
289 00:25:42 The average working stiff, the common man.
290 00:25:45 Well, ain't that a kick in the head. Yeah, I guess it is.
291 00:25:48 But in a way, that's exactly the point.
292 00:25:51 There's a few people in New York... Hopefully, our numbers are growing...
293 00:25:55 Who feel we have an opportunity now
294 00:25:58 to forge something real out of everyday experience.
295 00:26:01 Create a theater for the masses based on a few simple truths,
296 00:26:06 not on some shopworn abstractions
297 00:26:07 about drama that don't hold true today, if they ever did.
298 00:26:12 I don't guess this means much to you. Hell yeah. I could tell you some stories.
299 00:26:16 And that's the point. That we all have stories.
300 00:26:20 The hopes and dreams of the common man are as noble as those of any king.
301 00:26:25 It's the stuff of life, why shouldn't it be the stuff of theater?
302 00:26:28 Goddamn it, why should that be such a hard pill to swallow?
303 00:26:32 Don't call it new theater, Charlie, call it real theater.
304 00:26:36 Call it our theater.
305 00:26:39 I can see you feel pretty strongly about it.
306 00:26:42 Well, I don't mean to get up on my high horse.
307 00:26:46 But why shouldn't we look at ourselves up there?
308 00:26:48 Who cares about the Fifth Earl of Bastrop and Lady Higginbottom
309 00:26:53 and who killed Nigel Grinch-Gibbons?
310 00:26:56 I can feel my butt getting sore already. Exactly, Charlie.
311 00:26:59 You understand what I'm saying a lot more than these literary types
312 00:27:03 because you're a real man. I could tell you some stories...
313 00:27:07 Sure you could, and yet, many writers do everything in their power
314 00:27:11 to insulate themselves from the common man,
315 00:27:13 from where they live, from where they trade,
316 00:27:15 from where they fight and love and converse and...
317 00:27:21 So naturally, their work suffers and regresses into empty formalism.
318 00:27:26 I'm spouting off again, but to put it in your language,
319 00:27:29 the theater becomes as phony as a three-dollar bill.
320 00:27:32 Well, I guess that's a tragedy right there.
321 00:27:36 You're all right, Charlie.
322 00:27:39 I'm glad you stopped by. I'm sorry if... I know sometimes I run on.
323 00:27:43 Well, Christ. If there's any way I can contribute or help or whatever...
324 00:27:47 Sure, Charlie, you can help by just being yourself.
325 00:27:49 Well, I can tell you some stories.
326 00:27:52 And look, I'm sorry as hell about the interruption.
327 00:27:57 Too much revelry late at night, you forget there's other people in the world.
328 00:29:43 I'll be eating on the lot today.
329 00:29:45 Who's this? Barton Fink, Mr. Geisler.
330 00:29:47 More, please.
331 00:29:48 I'm a writer, Mr. Geisler. Ted Okum said I should drop by this morning...
332 00:29:52 Ever act? Huh? No, I'm a...
333 00:29:54 Need Indians for a Norman Steele western. I'm a writer. Ted Okum...
334 00:29:57 Think about it, Fink, writers come and go. We always need Indians.
335 00:30:00 I'm a writer.
336 00:30:02 Ted Okum said you're producing this Wallace Beery picture I'm working on.
337 00:30:05 Ted Okum doesn't know shit.
338 00:30:07 They've assigned me enough pictures for a goddamn year.
339 00:30:09 Listen, what Ted Okum doesn't know
340 00:30:10 you could almost squeeze into the Hollywood Bowl.
341 00:30:12 Then who should I talk to?
342 00:30:17 Get me Lou Breeze.
343 00:30:22 Is he in for Mr. Geesler? Geisler.
344 00:30:25 Lou, how's Lipnick's ass smell this morning?
345 00:30:28 Yeah? Yeah?
346 00:30:30 All right, listen. The reason I'm calling, I got a writer here. Fink. All screwy.
347 00:30:34 Says I'm producing that Wallace Beery wrestling picture.
348 00:30:36 What am I, the goddamn janitor around here?
349 00:30:38 Yeah? Who'd you get that from?
350 00:30:40 Tell Lipnick he can kiss my dimpled ass.
351 00:30:43 No, all right! Shit. All right. No, all right.
352 00:30:49 Okay, Fink, let's chow.
353 00:30:58 Don't worry about it. It's just a B-picture.
354 00:31:01 I bring it in on budget, they book it without screening it. Life is too short.
355 00:31:05 Lipnick said he wanted to look at the script, see something by the end of the week.
356 00:31:09 Sure he did. He forgot about it before your ass left his sofa.
357 00:31:14 Okay.
358 00:31:18 I'm just having trouble getting started.
359 00:31:21 It's funny, I'm blocked up.
360 00:31:23 I just feel like I need some kind of indication of what's expected.
361 00:31:29 Wallace Beery, wrestling picture. What do you need, a road map?
362 00:31:32 Look, you're confused. You need guidance?
363 00:31:38 Talk to another writer. Who?
364 00:31:41 Oh, Jesus. You throw a rock in here, you'll hit one.
365 00:31:46 Do me a favor, Fink?
366 00:31:48 Throw it hard.
367 00:33:07 Bill Mayhew. Sorry about the odor.
368 00:33:11 Barton Fink.
369 00:33:18 Jesus, W. P?
370 00:33:20 I beg your pardon? W.P. Mayhew, the writer?
371 00:33:24 Just Bill, please.
372 00:33:26 Bill,
373 00:33:28 you're the finest novelist of our time.
374 00:33:31 Why, thank you, son. How kind.
375 00:33:33 My God, I had no idea you were in Hollywood.
376 00:33:38 All of us undomesticated writers
377 00:33:40 eventually make our way out here to the Great Salt Lick.
378 00:33:44 That's probably why I always have such a powerful thirst.
379 00:33:48 A little social lubricant, Mr. Fink?
380 00:33:51 No, it's a little early for me.
381 00:33:58 Bill, if I'm imposing, you should say so.
382 00:34:03 I know you're very busy.
383 00:34:05 I just wanted to ask you a favor.
384 00:34:10 Have you ever written a wrestling picture?
385 00:34:16 You are drippin', sir.
386 00:34:19 Mr. Fink, they have not invented a genre of picture
387 00:34:22 that Bill Mayhew has not at one time or other been invited to essay.
388 00:34:26 Well, what...
389 00:34:27 Yes, I have taken my stab at the wrestling form,
390 00:34:29 as I have stabbed at so many others
391 00:34:31 and with as little success. How do...
392 00:34:33 I gather that you are a freshman here, eager for an upperclassman's counsel.
393 00:34:37 However, just at the moment, I have drinking to do.
394 00:34:40 Why don't you stop by my bungalow, number 15, later on this afternoon
395 00:34:44 and we will discuss wrestling scenarios and other things literary.
396 00:34:51 Sons of bitches!
397 00:35:00 Honey? Where's my honey?
398 00:35:04 The water's lapping up on me, honey!
399 00:35:13 I can't... I'm trying to help you.
400 00:35:17 Can I help you?
401 00:35:19 I'm sorry, I... Why, damn it?
402 00:35:21 My name is Fink. Where's my honey?
403 00:35:23 Bill asked me to drop by this afternoon. Is he in?
404 00:35:31 Mr. Mayhew is indisposed at the moment. Where's my honey?
405 00:35:37 Is he okay?
406 00:35:38 He'll be fine.
407 00:35:43 Mr. Fink, I'm Audrey Taylor, Mr. Mayhew's personal secretary.
408 00:35:46 Where's my honey? I know this all must sound horrid.
409 00:35:51 I really do apologize. Where are you, damn it?
410 00:35:56 When he can't write, he drinks.
411 00:35:59 It's so embarrassing.
412 00:36:02 How about you? Will you be all right?
413 00:36:05 I'll be fine.
414 00:36:08 Are you a writer, Mr. Fink? Yes. I'm working on a wrestling...
415 00:36:11 Please, call me Barton.
416 00:36:14 I'll tell Bill you dropped by.
417 00:36:16 I'm sure he'll wanna reschedule your appointment.
418 00:36:19 Perhaps you and I can get together at some point, also.
419 00:36:23 I'm sorry if that sounds abrupt, I just...
420 00:36:27 I don't know anyone here in town.
421 00:36:32 Perhaps the three of us, Mr. Fink. Please, Barton.
422 00:36:36 Barton.
423 00:36:39 You see, Barton,
424 00:36:41 I'm not just Bill's secretary.
425 00:36:44 Bill and I are
426 00:36:47 in love.
427 00:36:50 Where's my honey?
428 00:36:53 I know this must look
429 00:36:57 funny.
430 00:36:59 Bastard-ass sons of bitches! I'm sorry.
431 00:37:02 Please, don't judge us, Mr. Fink.
432 00:37:06 Bastard-ass sons of bitches, the water's lapping up!
433 00:37:10 Honey!
434 00:38:42 Howdy, neighbor. Charlie, how are you?
435 00:38:46 Ah, Jesus, I hope I'm not interrupting you again.
436 00:38:50 Heard you walking around in here, figured I'd drop by.
437 00:38:53 Yeah, come on in. Have a seat.
438 00:38:55 I hadn't really gotten started yet.
439 00:38:59 What happened to your ear? Yeah, an ear infection.
440 00:39:02 Chronic thing. It goes away for a while, then it comes back.
441 00:39:06 I gotta put cotton in it to stanch the flow of pus.
442 00:39:09 Don't worry. It's not contagious. Have you seen a doctor?
443 00:39:12 Doctors. What's he gonna tell me? Can't trade my head in for a new one.
444 00:39:16 Yeah, I guess you're stuck with the one you got.
445 00:39:19 I'd invite you over to my place but it's a goddamn mess.
446 00:39:24 You married, Bart? No.
447 00:39:27 I myself have yet to be lassoed.
448 00:39:30 Hey, Bart.
449 00:39:33 Ouch!
450 00:39:40 Got a sweetheart? No.
451 00:39:44 I guess it's something about my work. I get so worked up over it.
452 00:39:48 I don't really have a lot of attention left over,
453 00:39:52 so it would be a little unfair.
454 00:39:54 Yeah, ladies do ask for attention.
455 00:39:57 In my experience, they pretend to give it
456 00:39:59 but it's generally a smoke screen for demanding it back with interest.
457 00:40:03 How about family, Bart? How're you fixed in that department?
458 00:40:06 My folks live in Brooklyn with my uncle. Mine have passed on.
459 00:40:11 It's just the three of us now. What's that expression?
460 00:40:14 Me, myself and I. Sure.
461 00:40:17 That's tough.
462 00:40:20 But in a sense, we're all alone in the world, aren't we, Charlie?
463 00:40:24 I'm often surrounded by family and friends but...
464 00:40:32 You're no stranger to loneliness, then.
465 00:40:35 I guess I got no beef, especially where the dames are concerned.
466 00:40:39 In my line of work, I get opportunities galore,
467 00:40:41 always on the wing, you know what I'm saying.
468 00:40:43 I could tell you stories to curl your hair but it looks like you've already heard them.
469 00:40:48 That's me in Kansas City, plying my trade. That was taken by one of my policy holders.
470 00:40:53 They're more than just customers to me, they appreciate what I have to offer them.
471 00:40:57 You see, her hubby was out of town at the time, and they were carrying fire and life.
472 00:41:01 The third quarter payment was way past due...
473 00:41:04 You know, in a way, I envy you, Charlie.
474 00:41:05 Your daily routine, you know what's expected.
475 00:41:08 You know the drill.
476 00:41:12 My job is to plumb the depths, so to speak,
477 00:41:16 dredge up something from inside.
478 00:41:19 Something honest.
479 00:41:21 I gotta tell you, the life of the mind,
480 00:41:24 there's no road map for that territory.
481 00:41:27 Exploring it can be painful.
482 00:41:32 A kind of pain most people don't know anything about.
483 00:41:37 This must be boring you. No, it's damned interesting.
484 00:41:41 Yeah.
485 00:41:43 Probably sounds a little grand from someone writing a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery.
486 00:41:47 Beery? You got no beef there. He's good! A hell of an actor.
487 00:41:50 Though for my money, you can't beat Jack Oakie.
488 00:41:54 A stitch, Oakie. Funny stuff, funny stuff.
489 00:41:57 But don't get me wrong. Beery, wrestling picture, could be a pip.
490 00:42:03 I wrestled myself some, back in school. I guess you know the basic moves?
491 00:42:06 No, I never even watched any. I'm not that interested in the act itself.
492 00:42:10 Okay. But hell, you should know what it's about.
493 00:42:12 I can show you the wrestling basics in about 30 seconds.
494 00:42:16 You're a little out of your weight class but just for the purposes of demonstration.
495 00:42:20 That's all right, really.
496 00:42:21 Not a bit of it, compadre. Easiest thing in the world.
497 00:42:25 You just get down on your knees to my left here,
498 00:42:27 slap your right hand here, your left hand here.
499 00:42:30 Come on, champ, you can do it. Come on.
500 00:42:33 Come on. Come on.
501 00:42:36 Come on.
502 00:42:42 Okay, right there.
503 00:42:46 All right.
504 00:42:47 When I say, "Ready, wrestle," you try and pin me and I try and pin you.
505 00:42:51 And that's the whole game, got it? Yeah, okay.
506 00:42:54 Ready, wrestle!
507 00:42:56 Hup, two, three.
508 00:42:58 Damn, there I go again, gonna wake up the downstairs neighbors.
509 00:43:02 I didn't hurt you, did I? It's okay.
510 00:43:05 That's all wrestling is,
511 00:43:07 except usually there's more grunting and squirming before the pin.
512 00:43:09 It's your first time and you're out of your weight class.
513 00:43:12 Jesus, I did hurt you.
514 00:43:15 I sure do apologize. I'm just a big, clumsy lug.
515 00:43:18 I sure do apologize. You sure you're okay?
516 00:43:22 I'm fine, really.
517 00:43:24 Actually, it's been helpful.
518 00:43:30 But I guess I should get to work.
519 00:43:33 Well, it wasn't fair of me to do that.
520 00:43:35 I'm pretty well-endowed physically.
521 00:43:38 Don't feel bad, though.
522 00:43:40 I wouldn't be much of a match for you at mental gymnastics.
523 00:43:44 Give me a holler, if you need anything.
524 00:44:21 If I close my eyes, I can almost smell the live oak.
525 00:44:26 That's chicken fat, Bill.
526 00:44:29 My olfactory's turning womanish on me, lying and deceitful.
527 00:44:34 Still, I must say, I haven't felt a peace like this
528 00:44:37 since the grand productive days.
529 00:44:40 Don't you find it so, Barton?
530 00:44:44 Ain't writing peace?
531 00:44:47 Well...
532 00:44:51 Actually no, Bill.
533 00:44:57 No, I've always found that writing comes from a great inner pain.
534 00:45:03 Maybe it's a pain that comes from a realization
535 00:45:06 that one must do something for one's fellow man
536 00:45:09 to help somehow ease the suffering.
537 00:45:12 Maybe it's personal pain.
538 00:45:16 At any rate, I don't believe good work is possible without it.
539 00:45:22 Well, me, I just enjoy making things up.
540 00:45:26 Yes, sir, escape.
541 00:45:30 It's when I can't write, can't escape myself,
542 00:45:33 that I wanna rip my head off and run screaming through the street
543 00:45:36 with my balls in a fruit-picker's pail.
544 00:45:41 This'll sometimes help. That doesn't help anything, Bill.
545 00:45:45 That's true. I've never found that to help my writing.
546 00:45:48 Your writin'?
547 00:45:50 Son, have you ever heard the story of Solomon's mammy?
548 00:45:53 Barton, you should read this, I think it's Bill's finest or among his finest, anyway.
549 00:45:58 So, now I'm supposed to roll over like a bitch dog getting my belly scratched?
550 00:46:02 Look, maybe it's none of my business
551 00:46:05 but don't you think a man with your talent,
552 00:46:08 that your first obligation is to your gift?
553 00:46:11 Shouldn't you be doing whatever you have to do to work again?
554 00:46:14 And what would that be, son? I don't know exactly,
555 00:46:17 but I do know what you're doing with that drink,
556 00:46:19 you're cutting yourself off from your gift and from Audrey,
557 00:46:21 and from your fellow man and from everything your art is about.
558 00:46:24 No, son. I'm building a levee.
559 00:46:27 Gulp by gulp, brick by brick.
560 00:46:31 Puttin' up a levee to keep that ragin' river of manure from lappin' at my door.
561 00:46:35 Maybe you'd better too, Barton,
562 00:46:37 before you get buried under his manure.
563 00:46:39 My honey pretends to be impatient with me, Barton, but she'll put up with anything.
564 00:46:42 Not anything, Bill. Don't test me.
565 00:46:46 You're lucky she puts up with you as much as she does.
566 00:46:48 Am I? Maybe to a schoolboy's eye.
567 00:46:52 People who know about the human heart, maybe they'd say,
568 00:46:54 "Bill over here, he gives his honey love and she pays him back with pity."
569 00:46:59 The basest coin there is. Stop it, Bill.
570 00:47:02 Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay
571 00:47:09 Gone are my friends
572 00:47:12 From the cotton fields away
573 00:47:16 Gone from the earth
574 00:47:19 To a better land I know
575 00:47:23 I hear their gentle voices callin'
576 00:47:27 Old Black Joe
577 00:47:31 I'm comin', I'm comin'
578 00:47:35 Though my head is bending low
579 00:47:40 I hear their gentle...
580 00:47:45 The truth, my honey, is a tart that does not bear scrutiny.
581 00:47:49 Breach my levee at your peril.
582 00:47:52 Gone are my friends...
583 00:47:56 Son of a bitch. That son of a bitch!
584 00:48:00 Don't get me wrong, he's a fine writer.
585 00:48:02 From the earth to a better land...
586 00:48:05 Are you all right?
587 00:48:08 Audrey...
588 00:48:09 I hear their angel voices...
589 00:48:11 You can't... Go, Barton.
590 00:48:12 You can't put up with this.
591 00:48:14 Old Black Joe
592 00:48:17 I feel so sorry for him.
593 00:48:19 What? He's a son of a bitch.
594 00:48:23 No, no...
595 00:48:24 I'm coming...
596 00:48:27 He, sometimes just...
597 00:48:31 I hear their angel voices...
598 00:48:33 Well, he thinks about Estelle.
599 00:48:36 His wife still lives in Fayetteville.
600 00:48:39 Old Black Joe...
601 00:48:40 She's
602 00:48:44 disturbed.
603 00:48:46 Really?
604 00:48:49 I'll just walk on down to the Pacific and from there I'll improvise.
605 00:48:55 He'll wander back when he's sober and apologize. He always does.
606 00:49:00 Okay, but that doesn't excuse his behavior. Silence upon a hill in Darien.
607 00:49:05 Empathy requires understanding.
608 00:49:07 I'm comin'...
609 00:49:09 What? What don't I understand?
610 00:49:12 Though my head is hangin' low
611 00:49:17 I hear their gentle voices calling
612 00:49:22 Old Black Joe
613 00:50:51 I hope these are your shoes. Charlie?
614 00:50:55 Because that would mean they gave you mine.
615 00:50:58 Yeah. As a matter of fact, they did.
616 00:51:03 Come on in. Jesus, what a day I had.
617 00:51:08 You ever had one of those days?
618 00:51:10 Seems like nothing but, lately. Jesus, what a day.
619 00:51:14 Felt like I couldn't have sold ice water in the Sahara.
620 00:51:17 Jesus. Okay, so you don't want insurance. Okay, so that's your loss.
621 00:51:21 But, God, people can be rude.
622 00:51:24 Feel like I have to talk to a normal person like you
623 00:51:27 just to restore a little of my...
624 00:51:29 It's my pleasure. I could use a little lift myself.
625 00:51:34 Little lift, yeah.
626 00:51:36 Good thing they bottle it, pal?
627 00:51:39 Did I say rude? People can be goddamn cruel.
628 00:51:44 Especially some of these housewives.
629 00:51:46 Okay, so I have a weight problem.
630 00:51:49 That's my cross to bear. I don't know.
631 00:51:53 It's a defense mechanism. Defense against what, insurance?
632 00:51:56 Something they need? Something they should be grateful to me for offering?
633 00:51:59 A little peace of mind.
634 00:52:04 Finally decided to knock off early.
635 00:52:07 Take your advice. Went to see a doctor about this.
636 00:52:10 He told me I had an ear infection, $10, please.
637 00:52:13 I says, "Hell, I told you my ear was infected. Why don't you give me $10?"
638 00:52:18 Well, that led to an argument.
639 00:52:25 Listen to me bellyaching.
640 00:52:27 As if my problems amounted to a hill of beans.
641 00:52:31 How goes the life of the mind?
642 00:52:33 Well, it's been better.
643 00:52:35 I just can't seem to get going on this thing.
644 00:52:38 The one idea, the one that lets you get started,
645 00:52:42 I still haven't gotten it.
646 00:52:44 Maybe I only had one idea in me. My play.
647 00:52:47 Maybe once that was done, I was done being a writer.
648 00:52:51 Christ. I feel like a fraud.
649 00:52:53 Sitting here, staring at this paper.
650 00:52:56 Those two lovebirds next door driving you nuts?
651 00:53:02 How do you know about that?
652 00:53:04 Know about it? I can practically see how they're doin' it.
653 00:53:07 Brother, I wish I had a piece of that.
654 00:53:11 Seems like I hear everything that goes on in this dump.
655 00:53:14 Pipes or somethin'. Yeah, but...
656 00:53:17 You'll lick this picture business, believe me. You got a head on your shoulders.
657 00:53:20 And what is it they say? Where there's a head, there's hope.
658 00:53:23 Where there's life, there's hope. See, that proves you really are a writer.
659 00:53:28 There's hope for you, too, Charlie.
660 00:53:30 Tomorrow, I bet you sell a half-dozen policies.
661 00:53:33 Thanks, brother, but the fact is I gotta pull up stakes for a while.
662 00:53:43 You're leaving? In a few days.
663 00:53:44 Out to your stomping ground, as a matter of fact, New York City.
664 00:53:47 Things have gotten all balled up at the head office.
665 00:53:52 I'm truly sorry to hear that, Charlie. I'll miss you.
666 00:53:54 Well, hell, buddy, don't pull a long face.
667 00:53:57 This is home to me. I keep a room here and I'll be back, sooner or later.
668 00:54:01 And mark my words,
669 00:54:03 by the time I get back, your picture'll be finished, I know it.
670 00:54:06 New York can be pretty cruel to strangers, Charlie.
671 00:54:09 If you need a home-cooked meal, you just look up Sam and Lillian Fink.
672 00:54:14 They live on Fulton Street with my Uncle Maury.
673 00:54:30 Christ.
674 00:54:32 Your room does that, too.
675 00:54:35 I guess the heat's sweating off the wallpaper.
676 00:54:39 What a dump.
677 00:54:41 I guess this must seem pretty pathetic to a guy like you.
678 00:54:46 Well...
679 00:54:47 But it's pathetic, isn't it?
680 00:54:50 I mean, to a guy from New York?
681 00:54:53 What do you mean?
682 00:54:56 This kind of heat. Pathetic.
683 00:54:59 I guess you pick your poison.
684 00:55:01 So they say.
685 00:55:04 Don't pick up and leave without saying good-bye.
686 00:55:06 Course not, compadre.
687 00:55:08 You'll see me again.
688 00:56:30 Bango, you're dead, you're a corpse. You got me.
689 00:56:33 Okay. Go, go. You son of a gun.
690 00:56:35 Yeah. Fink.
691 00:56:41 Come in, come on.
692 00:56:45 What do you got for me? What the hell happened to your face?
693 00:56:48 Nothing. It's just a mosquito bite.
694 00:56:50 Like hell it is. There are no mosquitoes in Los Angeles.
695 00:56:52 Mosquitoes breed in swamps. This is a desert. What do you got for me?
696 00:56:55 Well, I...
697 00:56:56 On the Beery picture. Where are we? What do you got?
698 00:56:59 Well, I'm having a little trouble getting started.
699 00:57:02 Getting... Christ Jesus, started? You don't have anything yet?
700 00:57:05 Well, not much. What the hell do you think this is? Hamlet?
701 00:57:08 Gone With The Wind? Ruggles Of Red...
702 00:57:11 It's a goddamn B-picture. Big men in tights. You know the drill.
703 00:57:14 I'm afraid I don't really understand that genre.
704 00:57:16 Maybe that's the problem.
705 00:57:17 Understand shit. I thought you were gonna consult another writer on this.
706 00:57:21 Well, I've talked to Bill Mayhew. Bill Mayhew?
707 00:57:23 Mayhew? Some help! The guy's a souse.
708 00:57:26 He's a great writer. A great souse!
709 00:57:27 You don't understand. Souse!
710 00:57:28 He's in pain because he can't write. Souse!
711 00:57:30 Souse! He can't write.
712 00:57:32 He manages to write his name on the back of his paycheck every week.
713 00:57:35 But I thought no one cared about this picture.
714 00:57:36 You thought? Where the hell did you get that from? You thought.
715 00:57:39 Listen, I don't know what the hell you said to Lipnick,
716 00:57:42 but the son of a bitch likes you.
717 00:57:43 You understand that, Fink? He likes you. He's taken an interest.
718 00:57:48 Never make Lipnick like you. Never!
719 00:57:51 I don't understand.
720 00:57:53 Are you deaf? He likes you! He's taken an interest.
721 00:57:56 What the hell did you say to him?
722 00:57:58 I didn't say anything. Well, he's taken an interest.
723 00:58:00 That means he'll make your life hell, which I could care less about.
724 00:58:03 But since I drew the short straw to supervise this turkey,
725 00:58:05 he's gonna be all over me, too.
726 00:58:07 Fat-assed son of a bitch called me yesterday to ask me how it's going.
727 00:58:11 Don't worry, I covered for you.
728 00:58:12 I told him you were making progress, we were all very excited.
729 00:58:15 I told him it was great.
730 00:58:19 Understand that? So now my ass is on the line.
731 00:58:21 He wants you to tell him all about it tomorrow.
732 00:58:25 I can't write anything by tomorrow.
733 00:58:27 Who said write? Jesus, Jack can't read.
734 00:58:29 You gotta tell it to him. Tell him something, for Christ's sake.
735 00:58:35 What do I tell him?
736 00:58:43 Yes, Mr. Geisler. Projection.
737 00:58:46 Jerry. Jerry! Ben Geisler here.
738 00:58:47 Hi, Ben. Yeah.
739 00:58:48 Any of the screening rooms free this afternoon?
740 00:58:50 Yeah, I think... Good! Book it for me.
741 00:58:51 I got a writer here, Fink.
742 00:58:52 He's coming in. You're gonna show him wrestling pictures.
743 00:58:55 Which ones? I don't give a shit which ones.
744 00:58:57 Wrestling pictures!
745 00:58:58 Wait a minute. Isn't Victor Sjoderberg shooting one now?
746 00:59:00 Yeah, he's... Well, show him some of the dailies on that.
747 00:59:02 Okay, Ben, I'll show him...
748 00:59:04 All right. This'll give you some ideas.
749 00:59:07 8: 15 tomorrow morning at Lipnick's house.
750 00:59:14 Ideas.
751 00:59:16 Broad strokes.
752 00:59:20 Don't cross me, Fink.
753 00:59:23 Devil On The...
754 00:59:26 Devil On The Canvas. 12-apple, take one.
755 00:59:28 Action!
756 00:59:29 I will destroy him!
757 00:59:31 Cut, cut, cut, cut!
758 00:59:33 Devil On The Canvas, 12-apple, take two.
759 00:59:36 Action!
760 00:59:37 I will destroy him.
761 00:59:39 Cut, cut!
762 00:59:42 Rolling! Devil On The Canvas, 12-apple, take four.
763 00:59:45 Action!
764 00:59:46 I will destroy him!
765 00:59:49 Cut! Cut! Cut!
766 00:59:50 Devil On The Canvas, 12-apple, take five.
767 00:59:52 I will destroy him!
768 00:59:55 12-apple, take six. I will destroy him!
769 00:59:59 12-apple, take seven.
770 01:00:00 I will destroy him!
771 01:00:02 12-baker, take one.
772 01:00:04 I will destroy him.
773 01:00:17 12-Charlie, take one.
774 01:00:22 Take two.
775 01:00:24 One, two...
776 01:00:27 Take seven.
777 01:01:06 Orphan? Dame?
778 01:01:12 Front desk. Hello, Chet?
779 01:01:14 This is Barton Fink, in room 621.
780 01:01:16 Could you try a number for me in Hollywood?
781 01:01:17 Sure. Slauson, 64304.
782 01:01:21 Right away, sir.
783 01:01:25 Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
784 01:01:27 Hello? Audrey, I need help. I know it's late.
785 01:01:29 And I shouldn't be calling you like this.
786 01:01:30 Believe me, I wouldn't have if I had any other alternative.
787 01:01:33 But I'm sorry... Listen, how are you? I'm sorry. You doing okay?
788 01:01:38 Who is this?
789 01:01:39 Barton! I'm sorry. It's Barton Fink.
790 01:01:42 Barton, I'm afraid it's not a good time.
791 01:01:45 I'm sorry, I just feel like I need...
792 01:01:48 I know I shouldn't ask. I just need some kind of help, I just...
793 01:01:52 I have a deadline tomorrow.
794 01:01:56 All right, Barton. I'll see if I can slip away.
795 01:01:58 If you could, I'd be... lf I can.
796 01:02:01 He gets jealous.
797 01:02:04 I need help, Audrey.
798 01:02:07 I'll try to slip out if he quiets down, passes out.
799 01:02:12 I'm afraid he thinks...
800 01:02:15 Well, he said you were a buffoon, Barton.
801 01:02:17 Uh-huh.
802 01:02:18 He becomes irrational.
803 01:02:21 Uh-huh, uh-huh.
804 01:02:22 I'll see if I can slip away.
805 01:02:24 Who is that!
806 01:02:43 Audrey, thank you for coming.
807 01:02:46 Thank you.
808 01:02:47 Hello, Barton. I'm sorry to be such a... Such a...
809 01:02:54 Thank you. That's all right, Barton.
810 01:02:58 Everything's gonna be all right.
811 01:03:00 Yes. Thank you.
812 01:03:02 Thank you. Yes. Thank you.
813 01:03:08 How's Bill?
814 01:03:10 He's...
815 01:03:12 He drifted off. He'll sleep for a while now.
816 01:03:19 What is it you have to do, exactly?
817 01:03:21 Well...
818 01:03:22 I have to come up with an outline, I guess you'd call it.
819 01:03:26 The story. The whole goddamn story.
820 01:03:29 Soup to nuts. Three acts. The whole goddamn...
821 01:03:32 That's all right, Barton. You don't have to write actual scenes.
822 01:03:35 No, but the whole goddamn...
823 01:03:41 Audrey,
824 01:03:43 have you ever read any of Bill's wrestling scenarios?
825 01:03:46 Yes, I'm afraid I have.
826 01:03:49 What are they like? What are they about?
827 01:03:52 Well, usually they're simple morality tales.
828 01:03:59 There's a good wrestler and a bad wrestler whom he confronts at the end.
829 01:04:04 In between the good wrestler has a love interest
830 01:04:06 or a small child he has to protect.
831 01:04:09 Bill would usually make the good wrestler a backwoods type or a convict.
832 01:04:14 And sometimes, instead of a waif,
833 01:04:17 he'd have the wrestler protecting an idiot man-child.
834 01:04:21 The studio always hated that.
835 01:04:24 Some of the scripts were so spirited.
836 01:04:32 Barton...
837 01:04:35 Look, it's really just a formula. You don't have to type your soul into it.
838 01:04:39 We'll invent some names, a new setting. I'll help you. Won't take any time at all.
839 01:04:43 I did it for Bill so many times.
840 01:04:46 You did what for Bill?
841 01:04:49 Well, this.
842 01:04:52 You wrote his scripts for him?
843 01:04:57 Well, the basic ideas were frequently his.
844 01:05:01 You wrote Bill's scripts?
845 01:05:05 Jesus, you wrote his...
846 01:05:07 What about before that?
847 01:05:09 Before what? Before Bill came to Hollywood.
848 01:05:12 Bill was always the author, so to speak.
849 01:05:15 What do you mean "so to speak"?
850 01:05:18 Audrey, how long have you been his secretary?
851 01:05:24 Barton, I think we should concentrate on our little project.
852 01:05:27 I wanna know how many of Bill's books you wrote.
853 01:05:29 Barton... I wanna know!
854 01:05:30 Barton, honestly.
855 01:05:36 Only the last couple.
856 01:05:38 And my input was mostly editorial, really.
857 01:05:43 After he'd been drinking.
858 01:05:44 I'll bet.
859 01:05:46 Jesus, the grand productive days.
860 01:05:50 What a goddamn phony.
861 01:05:52 W.P. Mayhew. William goddamn Phony Mayhew.
862 01:05:57 All his guff about escape. I'll say he escaped!
863 01:06:04 Well, we don't have much time.
864 01:06:10 It'll be fine.
865 01:06:12 Don't judge him, Barton.
866 01:06:17 Don't condescend to him.
867 01:06:20 I help Bill most by understanding him,
868 01:06:24 by appreciating him.
869 01:06:28 We all need understanding, Barton.
870 01:06:32 Even you, tonight.
871 01:06:35 It's all you really need.
872 01:10:01 Barton?
873 01:10:15 Barton, are you all right?
874 01:10:16 No, I'm fine, thank you.
875 01:10:18 Are you sure? No, no.
876 01:12:33 Barton, are you all right?
877 01:12:36 No. Can I come in?
878 01:12:38 Let's go to your room.
879 01:12:40 Charlie, I'm in trouble. You gotta help me.
880 01:12:43 Get a grip on yourself, brother.
881 01:12:45 Whatever the problem is, we can sort it out.
882 01:12:47 Charlie, I'm in trouble. Something horrible's happened.
883 01:12:50 I gotta call the police. Will you stay with me till they get here?
884 01:12:55 Don't worry about it, Barton. We can work it out.
885 01:12:58 Before you go in, I didn't do this.
886 01:13:01 I don't know how it happened, but I didn't...
887 01:13:05 I want you to know that.
888 01:13:14 Okay.
889 01:13:42 Jesus, Barton, what the hell is this? What are we gonna do?
890 01:13:46 I gotta call the police. Hold on. Hold on.
891 01:13:48 I didn't do this, I did not do this. Hold on.
892 01:13:50 Hold on. Hold on! Stop.
893 01:13:53 Take a deep breath now.
894 01:13:55 Tell me what happened. I passed out. I don't know.
895 01:13:58 Won't the police be able to... Stop with the police!
896 01:14:00 Wake up, friend! This does not look good! They hang people for this.
897 01:14:03 But I didn't do it. Don't you believe me?
898 01:14:06 I believe you, I know you. Why should the police?
899 01:14:12 Did you...
900 01:14:14 Barton, between you and me, did you have sexual intercourse?
901 01:14:21 Jesus, they can tell that.
902 01:14:23 They gotta believe me.
903 01:14:26 They gotta have mercy.
904 01:14:28 You're in pictures, Barton.
905 01:14:31 Even if they cleared you, eventually, this would ruin you.
906 01:14:36 Come on, wait in the bathroom.
907 01:15:02 Oh, Lord. Oh, Lordy. Oh, my Lord.
908 01:15:23 You passed out.
909 01:15:27 Where's Audrey?
910 01:15:29 She's dead, Barton.
911 01:15:31 She's dead, if that was her name.
912 01:15:33 Barton, listen to me. You gotta act as if nothing has happened.
913 01:15:36 Put this totally out of your head.
914 01:15:38 I know that's hard, but your play from here on out
915 01:15:40 is just to go on about your business as usual.
916 01:15:42 Give us some time to sort this out.
917 01:15:54 Bart! So happy to see you.
918 01:15:58 Sit, talk. Relax for a minute, then talk.
919 01:16:02 Drink?
920 01:16:04 Ah...
921 01:16:05 Yeah.
922 01:16:07 Rye whiskey?
923 01:16:08 Boy, you writers work hard, play hard.
924 01:16:11 That's what I hear, anyway. Lou!
925 01:16:14 Anyway. Ben Geisler tells me things are going along great.
926 01:16:17 Says we got a real winner in this one.
927 01:16:19 Let me tell you something, I'm counting on it.
928 01:16:21 I've taken an interest. Nothing to fear, mind you.
929 01:16:24 Hardly seems necessary in your case. A writer, a storyteller of your stature.
930 01:16:29 Give it to me in bold strokes, Bart.
931 01:16:32 Give me the broad outlines.
932 01:16:34 I'm sitting in the audience, the lights go down.
933 01:16:36 Capitol logo comes up.
934 01:16:38 You're on.
935 01:16:43 Yeah. Okay.
936 01:16:49 Well...
937 01:16:52 We fade in.
938 01:16:57 It's a tenement building on the Lower East Side.
939 01:17:00 Great. He's poor, this wrestler. He's had to struggle.
940 01:17:06 And then...
941 01:17:09 Well...
942 01:17:13 Can I be honest, Mr. Lipnick?
943 01:17:14 Can you?
944 01:17:17 Jesus, you damn well better be.
945 01:17:19 If I wasn't honest in my business dealing...
946 01:17:21 Well, of course you can't always be honest,
947 01:17:22 not with the sharks swimming around this town.
948 01:17:24 But you're a writer, you don't think about those things.
949 01:17:26 If I had been totally honest,
950 01:17:27 I wouldn't be within a mile of this pool unless I was cleaning it.
951 01:17:30 But that's no reason for you not to be.
952 01:17:33 Honest, I mean. Not cleaning the pool.
953 01:17:48 To be honest, uh,
954 01:17:51 I'm never really comfortable discussing work in progress.
955 01:17:55 I got it all worked out in my head, but sometimes,
956 01:17:59 if you force it into words prematurely,
957 01:18:03 the wrong words,
958 01:18:05 well, your meaning changes in...
959 01:18:07 Changes in your own mind and you never get it back.
960 01:18:10 So I'd just as soon as not talk about it.
961 01:18:19 Mr. Fink, never mind me, never mind how long I've been in pictures.
962 01:18:23 Mr. Lipnick has been in pictures just about since they was invented.
963 01:18:26 He practically invented them.
964 01:18:29 I think if he's interested in what one of his contract employees is doing,
965 01:18:33 that employee should be able to tell him,
966 01:18:36 if he wants to stay an employee.
967 01:18:39 Right now, the contents of your head are the property of Capitol Pictures.
968 01:18:46 If I was you,
969 01:18:48 I would speak up and pretty goddamn fast.
970 01:18:55 You lousy kike
971 01:18:58 son of a bitch.
972 01:19:01 You're telling this man, this artist, what to do?
973 01:19:06 Mr. Lipnick, I... This man creates for a living.
974 01:19:08 Thank him for it, you son of a bitch, or you're fired.
975 01:19:11 Mr. Lipnick, that's really not necessary. Get down on your knees, you son of a bitch.
976 01:19:15 Get down on your knees and kiss this man's feet.
977 01:19:19 Mr. Lipnick, please.
978 01:19:20 Kiss this man's feet!
979 01:19:27 Get out of here! You understand me?
980 01:19:30 You're out of here. You're fired. Get out of my sight.
981 01:19:42 I... I apologize, Barton.
982 01:19:44 No, no. Mr. Breeze actually has been a great help.
983 01:19:46 You don't have to cover for him. It's very noble of you.
984 01:19:48 These things happen in business.
985 01:19:49 I really would feel much better if you'd just reconsider.
986 01:19:52 Forget it, kid. I want you to put it out of your head.
987 01:19:54 If that son of a bitch wouldn't apologize to you, then goddamn it, I will.
988 01:19:57 I respect your artistry and your methods.
989 01:20:00 And if you can't fill us in yet, well, hell,
990 01:20:01 we should be kissing your feet for your fine efforts.
991 01:20:07 You know...
992 01:20:12 In the old country we were taught as very young children
993 01:20:15 that there's no shame in supplicating yourself when you respect someone.
994 01:20:20 On behalf of Capitol Pictures, the administration,
995 01:20:23 and all of the stockholders,
996 01:20:25 please accept this as a symbol of our apology and respect.
997 01:20:58 Barton, can I come in?
998 01:21:13 Jesus, you're leaving?
999 01:21:16 I have to, old-timer, just for a little while.
1000 01:21:19 Jesus. Charlie, I...
1001 01:21:22 Everything's okay, believe me.
1002 01:21:24 I know it's rough, mentally, but everything's been taken care of.
1003 01:21:29 Charlie, I got no one else here.
1004 01:21:32 You're the only person I know in Los Angeles
1005 01:21:36 that I can talk to.
1006 01:21:47 I feel like I'm losing my mind, like I'm going crazy.
1007 01:21:52 I don't know what to do.
1008 01:21:55 I didn't do it, believe me, I'm sure of that, Charlie, I...
1009 01:22:00 You gotta get a grip on, brother.
1010 01:22:03 You just gotta carry on, just for a few days till I get back.
1011 01:22:06 Try and stay here, keep your door locked, don't talk to anyone.
1012 01:22:09 We gotta keep our heads and we'll figure it out.
1013 01:22:13 Okay, but what if... Don't argue with me.
1014 01:22:15 You asked me to believe you and I do. Now don't argue with me.
1015 01:22:21 Look, pal, can you do something for me?
1016 01:22:25 Keep that for me till I get back.
1017 01:22:28 It's just a lot of personal stuff, but I don't want to drag it with me.
1018 01:22:31 And I'd like to think it's in good hands. Funny, huh.
1019 01:22:35 When everything that's important to a guy,
1020 01:22:37 everything he wants to keep from a lifetime,
1021 01:22:41 and he can fit it all into a little box like that.
1022 01:22:45 I guess...
1023 01:22:48 I guess it's pretty pathetic.
1024 01:22:50 It's more than I've got.
1025 01:22:54 Well, keep it for me, maybe it'll bring you good luck.
1026 01:22:56 Yeah, it'll help you finish your script. You'll think about me.
1027 01:22:59 Make me your wrestler, then you'll lick that story of yours.
1028 01:23:02 Thanks, Charlie.
1029 01:23:04 Yeah, yeah, sure.
1030 01:23:06 I'll see you soon, friend. You'll be fine.
1031 01:23:08 And you'll be back?
1032 01:23:10 Don't worry about that, compadre. I'll be back.
1033 01:26:11 Have you read the Bible, Pete?
1034 01:26:15 The Holy Bible?
1035 01:26:19 Yeah.
1036 01:26:22 Yeah, I think so.
1037 01:26:25 Anyway, I've heard about it.
1038 01:26:41 Fink? Yeah.
1039 01:26:44 Detective Mastrionotti. Detective Deutsch.
1040 01:26:47 LAPD.
1041 01:26:49 Uh-huh.
1042 01:26:50 Got some questions we want to ask you.
1043 01:26:52 Just routine. Sit down.
1044 01:26:55 What do you do, Fink?
1045 01:27:00 I write.
1046 01:27:02 Yeah? What kind of writing?
1047 01:27:03 Well, as a matter of fact, I write for the pictures.
1048 01:27:06 Big fucking deal. Want my partner to kiss your ass?
1049 01:27:08 Would that be good enough for you?
1050 01:27:09 No, I didn't mean to sound... What did you mean?
1051 01:27:13 I got respect for working guys like you.
1052 01:27:15 Jesus, ain't that a load off?
1053 01:27:17 You live in 621? Yeah.
1054 01:27:20 How long you been up there, Fink?
1055 01:27:22 A week. Eight, nine days.
1056 01:27:23 Is this multiple choice? You know this slob?
1057 01:27:37 Yeah, he lives next door to me.
1058 01:27:39 That's right, Fink.
1059 01:27:41 He lives next door to you. You ever talk to him?
1060 01:27:46 Once or twice.
1061 01:27:48 His name is Charlie Meadows.
1062 01:27:49 Yeah, and I'm Buck Rogers.
1063 01:27:52 His name's Mundt. Karl Mundt.
1064 01:27:54 Also known as Madman Mundt.
1065 01:27:56 A little funny in the head.
1066 01:27:59 What did he... Funny,
1067 01:28:00 as in he likes to ventilate people with a shotgun and then cut their heads off.
1068 01:28:04 Yeah, he's funny that way.
1069 01:28:05 He started in Kansas City. A couple housewives.
1070 01:28:08 A couple of days ago we got the same MO out at Los Feliz.
1071 01:28:11 Doctor. Ear, nose and throat man. All of which is now missing.
1072 01:28:14 Well, some of his throat was there. Physician, heal thyself.
1073 01:28:17 Good luck with fucking no head. Anyway.
1074 01:28:19 Hollywood Precinct finds another stiff yesterday.
1075 01:28:22 Not too far from here. This one's better looking than the doc.
1076 01:28:26 Female Caucasian, about 30 years old. Nice tits, no head.
1077 01:28:31 Ever see Mundt with anyone fits that description?
1078 01:28:33 But, you know, with the head still on.
1079 01:28:38 No. I never saw him with anyone else.
1080 01:28:40 So you did talk to Mundt. What about?
1081 01:28:44 Nothing really. He said he was in the insurance business.
1082 01:28:48 Yeah, and he's Buck Rogers.
1083 01:28:49 No reputable company would hire a guy like that.
1084 01:28:53 Well, that's what he said.
1085 01:28:54 What else?
1086 01:28:58 I'm trying to think.
1087 01:29:00 Nothing, really. He...
1088 01:29:04 He said he liked Jack Oakie pictures.
1089 01:29:09 You know, ordinarily we say anything you might remember could be helpful.
1090 01:29:16 But I'll be frank with you, Fink, that is not helpful.
1091 01:29:19 Notice how he's not writing it down?
1092 01:29:23 Fink?
1093 01:29:25 That's a...
1094 01:29:28 A Jewish name, isn't it?
1095 01:29:29 Yeah.
1096 01:29:33 I didn't think this dump was restricted.
1097 01:29:36 Mundt has disappeared, I don't think he'll be back.
1098 01:29:42 But give me a call if you see him.
1099 01:29:46 Or if you remember something that isn't totally idiotic.
1100 01:31:35 "Fade in.
1101 01:31:38 "A young hussy opens the door
1102 01:31:44 "to the burlyman's apartment.
1103 01:31:49 "If you were a man,
1104 01:31:52 "a real man, you'd slap me.
1105 01:31:58 "I've put my mark on you.
1106 01:32:02 "Yours... Indelibly...
1107 01:32:10 "Me, I come out feeling sick.
1108 01:32:13 "That's it, that's it, champ.
1109 01:32:15 "Fade in. Maury's house.
1110 01:32:19 "Painted women. In the air, the burlyman...
1111 01:32:22 "Bright blue oyster...
1112 01:32:23 "With one light move...
1113 01:32:28 "The burlyman... She's a good woman.
1114 01:32:30 "I don't care what
1115 01:32:32 "people say, life must...
1116 01:32:35 "Tell Burlyman we have to deduct those expenses from his purse.
1117 01:32:40 "I don't care. It's lonely after all these years..."
1118 01:32:46 Hold the line, sir, I have your call.
1119 01:32:48 Hello, operator? I can't...
1120 01:32:51 Oh, God.
1121 01:32:57 Hello? Garland, it's me.
1122 01:32:58 Barton? What time is it? Are you all right?
1123 01:33:03 Yeah, I'm fine. I have to talk to you, Garland.
1124 01:33:07 I'm calling long distance.
1125 01:33:09 What is it, Barton? Are you okay?
1126 01:33:11 Yeah, I'm fine, Garland, but I have to talk to you.
1127 01:33:14 It's about what I'm writing.
1128 01:33:16 I think
1129 01:33:18 it's really...
1130 01:33:21 I think it's really big.
1131 01:33:24 What do you mean? Not big in the sense of large,
1132 01:33:27 although it's that, too. I mean important.
1133 01:33:32 This may be the most important work I've ever done.
1134 01:33:36 Barton, is everything okay?
1135 01:33:38 You sound a little...
1136 01:33:40 Sound a little what?
1137 01:33:42 You sound a little...
1138 01:33:45 Thanks, Garland. Thanks for all the encouragement.
1139 01:33:52 Nitwit.
1140 01:35:27 Excuse me, buddy. Mind if I cut in?
1141 01:35:31 This is my dance, sailor.
1142 01:35:32 Hey, come on, buddy, I'm shipping out tomorrow.
1143 01:35:37 I'm a writer, celebrating the completion of something good.
1144 01:35:42 Do you understand that, sailor? Beat it, creep.
1145 01:35:45 Come on, buddy, give the navy a dance.
1146 01:35:48 Let somebody else spin the dame.
1147 01:35:50 Step aside, four eyes.
1148 01:35:51 Hey, 4F, take a hike.
1149 01:35:53 Suck an egg. Go sit on a tomato.
1150 01:35:56 I'm a writer, you monsters. I create.
1151 01:35:59 I create for a living!
1152 01:36:02 I'm a creator! I am a creator!
1153 01:36:05 He's screwy. This is my uniform.
1154 01:36:09 This is how I serve the common man. This is where I...
1155 01:36:15 Get 'em, boys.
1156 01:36:52 "Where is my little boy?
1157 01:36:56 "He left this morning.
1158 01:36:58 "Said he had a job to do.
1159 01:37:01 "There was something in his eyes. Something new.
1160 01:37:05 "Mother: What's to become of him?
1161 01:37:10 "Father: We'll be hearing from that crazy wrestler,
1162 01:37:16 "and I don't mean a postcard.
1163 01:37:19 "Fade out. The end."
1164 01:37:26 I thought you said you were a writer.
1165 01:37:27 Now I don't know, Duke. I kind of liked it.
1166 01:37:29 Keep your filthy eyes off of that.
1167 01:37:33 You made the morning papers, Fink.
1168 01:37:35 Second one of your friends to wind up dead.
1169 01:37:38 You do get around, don't you, Fink?
1170 01:37:40 You didn't tell us you knew the dame. Sixth floor too high for you, Fink?
1171 01:37:44 Give you nosebleeds?
1172 01:37:48 Just tell me one thing, Fink. Where'd you put the heads?
1173 01:37:53 Charlie. Charlie's back.
1174 01:37:56 No kidding, bright boy. We smelled Mundt all over this.
1175 01:38:01 Was he the idea man?
1176 01:38:02 Tell us where the heads are. Maybe they'll go easy on you.
1177 01:38:05 Only fry you once.
1178 01:38:06 Could you two come back later?
1179 01:38:07 It's just too hot, my head is killing me.
1180 01:38:10 All right, forget the heads. Where's Mundt, Fink?
1181 01:38:14 He teach you how to do it? You two have some sick sex thing?
1182 01:38:17 Sex?
1183 01:38:19 He's a man. We wrestled.
1184 01:38:25 You're a sick fuck, Fink.
1185 01:38:27 Charlie's back.
1186 01:38:29 It's hot, he's back.
1187 01:38:57 Fred.
1188 01:39:04 Sit tight, Fink.
1189 01:39:11 Why is it so goddamn hot out here?
1190 01:39:16 Duke.
1191 01:39:46 Mundt!
1192 01:39:52 Mundt! Show yourself.
1193 01:40:17 There's a boy, Mundt.
1194 01:40:21 Put the policy case down and your mitts in the air.
1195 01:40:35 He's complying.
1196 01:40:41 Look upon me!
1197 01:40:43 I'll show you the life of the mind!
1198 01:40:51 Look upon me!
1199 01:40:53 I'll show you the life of the mind! I'll show you the life of the mind!
1200 01:40:59 I'll show you the life of the mind!
1201 01:41:02 I will show you the life of the mind!
1202 01:41:34 Heil Hitler.
1203 01:41:49 Barton.
1204 01:41:54 Brother, is it hot.
1205 01:41:58 How you been, buddy?
1206 01:42:02 Don't look at me like that.
1207 01:42:04 It's just me, Charlie.
1208 01:42:07 I hear it's Mundt. Madman Mundt.
1209 01:42:11 Jesus, people can be cruel.
1210 01:42:15 If it's not my build, it's my personality.
1211 01:42:24 They say I'm a madman, Bart, but I'm not mad at anyone.
1212 01:42:28 Honest, I'm not.
1213 01:42:31 Most guys I just feel sorry for.
1214 01:42:35 It tears me up inside to think about what they're going through,
1215 01:42:39 how trapped they are.
1216 01:42:43 I understand it.
1217 01:42:46 I feel for them.
1218 01:42:51 So I try and help them out.
1219 01:42:53 Jesus.
1220 01:42:57 Yeah. Yeah.
1221 01:43:01 I know what it feels like when things get all balled up at the head office.
1222 01:43:06 It puts you through hell, Barton.
1223 01:43:10 So I help people out.
1224 01:43:15 I just wish someone would do as much for me.
1225 01:43:21 Jesus, it's hot.
1226 01:43:29 Sometimes it gets so hot I want to crawl right out of my skin.
1227 01:43:34 But, Charlie, why me?
1228 01:43:37 Why... Because you don't listen!
1229 01:43:49 Jesus, I'm dripping again.
1230 01:43:55 Come on, Barton.
1231 01:43:59 You think you know pain?
1232 01:44:02 You think I made your life hell?
1233 01:44:07 Take a look around this dump.
1234 01:44:09 You're just a tourist with a typewriter, Barton, I live here.
1235 01:44:12 Don't you understand that?
1236 01:44:21 And you come into my home,
1237 01:44:26 and you complain
1238 01:44:28 that I'm making too much noise.
1239 01:44:44 I'm sorry.
1240 01:44:53 Don't be.
1241 01:45:43 I'll be next door if you need me.
1242 01:45:50 Oh,
1243 01:45:51 I dropped in on your folks in New York and Uncle Maury.
1244 01:45:57 Good people.
1245 01:46:05 By the way, that package I gave you,
1246 01:46:08 I lied. It isn't mine.
1247 01:47:15 Fink. Samuel or Lillian Fink. 85 Fulton Street.
1248 01:47:20 I under... Or Uncle Maury.
1249 01:47:21 I understand that, sir, but there's still no answer.
1250 01:47:23 Mr. Fink!
1251 01:47:25 Shall I check for trouble on the line?
1252 01:47:34 Fink.
1253 01:47:36 Mr. Lipnick?
1254 01:47:38 Colonel Lipnick, if you don't mind. Sit down.
1255 01:47:41 I was commissioned yesterday in the Army Reserve.
1256 01:47:43 Henry Morgenthau arranged it. Dear friend.
1257 01:47:46 Congratulations.
1258 01:47:47 Well, actually it hasn't officially gone through yet.
1259 01:47:49 I had wardrobe whip this up.
1260 01:47:51 You gotta pull teeth to get anything done in this town.
1261 01:47:53 I can understand a little red tape in peacetime,
1262 01:47:55 but now it's all-out warfare against the Japs.
1263 01:47:57 Little yellow bastards. They'd love to see me sit this one out.
1264 01:48:00 Yes, sir. They...
1265 01:48:01 Anyway. I had Lou read your script for me.
1266 01:48:06 I gotta tell you, Fink.
1267 01:48:09 It won't wash.
1268 01:48:11 With all due respect, sir, I think it's the best work I've done.
1269 01:48:14 Don't gas me, Fink.
1270 01:48:15 If your opinion mattered, I guess I'd resign or let you run the studio.
1271 01:48:18 Well, it doesn't and you won't.
1272 01:48:20 Now, the lunatics are not gonna run this particular asylum,
1273 01:48:22 so let's put a stop to that rumor right now.
1274 01:48:26 Yes, sir.
1275 01:48:27 I had to call Beery this morning,
1276 01:48:30 tell him we're pushing the picture back,
1277 01:48:31 after all I'd told him about quality, about that Barton Fink feeling.
1278 01:48:35 How disappointed we were.
1279 01:48:36 Wally was heartbroken, the man was devastated.
1280 01:48:40 He was...
1281 01:48:41 Well, I didn't actually call him, Lou did.
1282 01:48:43 But that's a fair description, isn't it, Lou?
1283 01:48:44 Yes, Colonel.
1284 01:48:46 Hell, I could take you through it step by step explaining why your story stinks.
1285 01:48:51 But I won't insult your intelligence. Well, all right.
1286 01:48:53 First of all, this is a wrestling picture.
1287 01:48:57 The audience wants to see action, adventure, wrestling and plenty of it.
1288 01:49:01 They don't want to see a guy wrestling with his soul.
1289 01:49:04 Well, all right, a little bit for the critics.
1290 01:49:05 But you make it the carrot that wags the dog.
1291 01:49:08 Too much of it, they head for the exits. I don't blame them.
1292 01:49:10 There's plenty of poetry right inside that ring, Fink.
1293 01:49:13 Look at Hell, Ten Feet Square.
1294 01:49:15 Blood, Sweat and Canvas. Blood, Sweat and Canvas.
1295 01:49:18 These are big movies, Fink, about big men, in tights!
1296 01:49:21 Both physically and mentally.
1297 01:49:24 Especially physically.
1298 01:49:26 We don't put Wally Beery in a fruity movie about suffering.
1299 01:49:30 I thought we were together on that.
1300 01:49:34 Sorry if I let you down.
1301 01:49:35 You didn't let me down, Fink, or even Lou.
1302 01:49:37 We don't live or die by what you scribble. You let Ben Geisler down.
1303 01:49:41 He liked you, trusted you. And that's why he's gone, he's fired.
1304 01:49:45 That man had a heart as big as the all outdoors and you fucked him.
1305 01:49:49 He tried to convince me to fire you, too, but no, that'd be too easy.
1306 01:49:52 Now, you're under contract. You're gonna stay that way.
1307 01:49:54 Anything you write is gonna be the property of Capitol Pictures
1308 01:49:57 and Capitol Pictures is not gonna produce anything you write.
1309 01:50:00 Not until you grow up a little.
1310 01:50:02 You ain't no writer, Fink, you're a goddamn write-off.
1311 01:50:11 I tried to show you something beautiful.
1312 01:50:16 Something about all of us.
1313 01:50:20 You arrogant son of a bitch.
1314 01:50:24 You think you're the only writer that can give me that Barton Fink feeling?
1315 01:50:28 I got 20 writers under contract I can ask for a Fink-type thing from!
1316 01:50:33 You swell-headed hypocrite, you just don't get it, do you?
1317 01:50:36 You think the whole world revolves around
1318 01:50:38 whatever rattles inside that little kike head of yours.
1319 01:50:43 Get him out of my sight, Lou.
1320 01:50:45 I want him in town, though. He's still under contract.
1321 01:50:48 I want you in town, Fink, and out of my sight.
1322 01:50:53 Now get lost.
1323 01:50:55 There's a war on.
1324 01:51:55 It's a beautiful day.
1325 01:51:57 Huh?
1326 01:52:05 I said it's a beautiful day.
1327 01:52:08 Yes. It is.
1328 01:52:14 What's in the box?
1329 01:52:17 I don't know.
1330 01:52:20 Isn't it yours?
1331 01:52:27 I don't know.
1332 01:52:36 You're very beautiful.
1333 01:52:43 Are you in pictures?
