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Clips from The French Dispatch

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"(MACHINE WHIRRING)"
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"(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)"
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"(CLOCK TICKING)"
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"{\an8}(BELL TOLLING)"
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"{\an8}(HORN HONKS)"
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"(BICYCLE BELL RINGS)"
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"FEMALE NARRATOR: It began as a holiday."
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"Arthur Howitzer, Jr., college freshman,"
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"eager to escape a bright future on the Great Plains,"
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"convinced his father, proprietor of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun,"
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"to fund his transatlantic passage as an educational opportunity"
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"to learn the family business"
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"through the production of a series of travelogue columns"
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"to be published for local readers in the Sunday Picnic magazine."
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"(KIDS CHATTERING AND LAUGHING)"
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"(SHOOING IN FRENCH)"
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"(KIDS YELLING)"
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"FEMALE NARRATOR: Over the next ten years, he assembled a team"
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"of the best expatriate journalists of his time"
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"and transformed Picnic into The French Dispatch,"
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"a factual weekly report on the subjects of world politics,"
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"the arts, high and low, fashion, fancy cuisine, fine drink,"
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"and diverse stories of human interests set in faraway quartiers."
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"He brought the world to Kansas."
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"(BELL TINKLES)"
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"His writers line the spines of every good American library."
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"{\an8}Berensen,"
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"Sazerac,"
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"Krementz,"
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"Roebuck Wright."
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"One reporter known as the best living writer"
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"in quality of sentences per minute."
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"One who never completed a single article,"
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"but haunted the halls cheerily for three decades."
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"One privately blind writer who wrote keenly through the eyes of others."
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"(WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)"
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"FEMALE NARRATOR: The uncontested crackerjack"
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"of grammatical expertise."
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"Cover illustrations by Hermès Jones."
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"Famously gracious with his writers,"
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"Arthur Jr. was less courteous with the rest of the magazine's staff."
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"ARTHUR: Oh, no, what's that?"
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"I need a turkey."
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"Stuffed and roasted on a table with all the trimmings and pilgrims!"
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"FEMALE NARRATOR: His fiscal management system"
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"was convoluted but functional."
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"ARTHUR: Give her 150 francs a week for the next 15 years"
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"against five American cents per word, minus expenses."
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"FEMALE NARRATOR: His most repeated literary advice,"
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"perhaps apocryphal, was simply this..."
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"ARTHUR: Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose."
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"FEMALE NARRATOR: His return to Liberty"
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"comes precisely 50 years after his departure,"
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"{\an8}on the occasion of his funeral,"
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"{\an8}by which time the magazine's circulation exceeds"
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"{\an8}half a million subscribers in 50 countries."
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"{\an8}A willow hamper containing umpteen pins,"
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"{\an8}plaques, and official citations"
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"of the highest order is buried at his side,"
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"along with an Andretti Ribbon-mate"
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"and a ream of triple bond, Egyptian cotton typing stock."
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"He received an Editor's burial."
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"In his will, he stipulated that"
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"immediately upon his death, quote..."
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"ARTHUR: (ON SPEAKERS) The presses will be dismantled"
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"and liquefied."
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"The editorial offices will be vacated and sold."
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"The staff will be paid ample bonuses and released from their contracts,"
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"and the publication of the magazine will permanently cease."
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"FEMALE NARRATOR: Thus,"
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"the publisher's obituary will also serve as that of this publication."
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"All home delivery readers will, of course, be refunded, pro rata"
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"for the unfulfilled portion of their subscriptions."
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"His epitaph will be taken verbatim from the stenciled shingle"
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"fixed above the door of his inner office."
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"Berensen's article. The Concrete Masterpiece."
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"Three dangling participles, two split infinitives"
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"and nine spelling errors in the first sentence alone."
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"ARTHUR: Some of those are intentional."
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"(MEN MURMURING)"
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"ALUMNA: The Krementz story, Revisions to a Manifesto."
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"We asked for 2,500 words, and she came in at 14,000,"
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"plus footnotes, endnotes, a glossary, and two epilogues."
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"ARTHUR: It's one of her best."
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"(MEN MURMURING)"
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"-Sazerac? -Impossible to fact-check."
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"He changes all the names and only writes about hobos, pimps, and junkies."
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"ARTHUR: These are his people."
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"(MEN MURMURING)"
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"How about Roebuck Wright?"
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"His door's locked, but I could hear the keys clacking."
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"-ARTHUR: Don't rush him. -(MEN MURMURING)"
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"The question is, who gets killed?"
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"There's one piece too many even if we print another double-issue,"
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"which we can't afford under any circumstances."
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"(MEN MURMURING)"
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"-(KNOCK AT DOOR) -(DOOR OPENS)"
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"A message from the foreman. One hour to press."
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"You're fired."
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"(WHIMPERING) Really?"
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"Don't cry in my office."
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"Shrink the masthead, cut some ads, and tell the foreman to buy more paper."
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"I'm not killing anybody."
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"(ALL MURMURING)"
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"FEMALE NARRATOR: Good writers. He coddled them."
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"He coaxed them. He ferociously protected them."
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"What do you think?"
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"WAITER: For myself?"
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"I would start with Mr. Sazerac."
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"FEMALE NARRATOR: These were his people."
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"-(BICYCLE BELL RINGS) -(BICYCLE WHEELS WHIRRING)"
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"{\an8}(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)"
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"SAZERAC: Ennui rises suddenly on a Monday."
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"(DOG BARKS)"
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"(INDISTINCT CHATTER)"
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"(MUSIC PLAYING)"
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"Through the time machine of poetic license,"
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"let us take a sight-seeing tour."
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"A day in Ennui over the course of 250 years."
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