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Clips from Mank

"Cut. Do it again."
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"What'd you think?"
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"Truthfully, Shelly, if the performances were any better,"
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"you'd be ashamed of yourself."
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"Only half of 'em were actors."
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"It's got that raw newsreel feel, hasn't it?"
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"- But it isn't news and it isn't real. - I wasn't looking for an ethical debate."
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"- When did they cook this up? - At a meeting in production."
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"They were passing around a pamphlet Sinclair wrote called "Ending Poverty in…""
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""America's unemployed will invade the Golden State.""
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"- Mayer was giddy to use it against him. - Yeah, I bet he was."
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"It's enough to persuade me that a writer is more of a menace"
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"to an unsuspecting public than a party hack."
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"- Manky... - You okay?"
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"Just nerves."
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"If it's bothering you, Shelly, why get involved?"
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"They gave me a chance to direct."
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"You don't think anyone old enough to vote is gonna buy this shit?"
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"Only the ones who believe King Kong is ten stories tall"
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"or Mary Pickford a virgin at 40."
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"Thanks, Cedric. These are fine."
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"I've just watched our Sinclair films."
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"Ah. What did you think?"
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"With all due respect to Shelly, King Kong they ain't."
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"Though I do think footage"
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"of invading hobos has a certain xenophobic power"
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"when front-paged in the Times and backed by those tacky billboards."
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"Shelly got a chance to direct, and I canceled your $12,000 gambling debt."
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"I'd call that a fair return on a one-minute lecture"
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"for uninspired studio chieftains."
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"Your director's been stricken with a bout of conscience."
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"I'm sure he'll tell me himself."
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"Don't do this, Irving."
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"When I was just a boy passing out socialist leaflets in the Bronx,"
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"a couple Tammany goons came to show me the error of my ways."
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"And one of them crushed my testicles"
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"until I volunteered to distribute my wares into the East River."
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"That's politics. I didn't invent it, I don't apologize for it."
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"Mayer's not paying for this."
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"He never pays for anything."
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"Willie?"
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"- Marion might be interested. - Well, you're gonna have to hurry."
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"Mayer's over there now giving her the company kiss-off."
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"Oh, haven't you heard?"
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"She's taking her playpen to Warner Bros. Permanently."
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"Warner's?"
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"I wouldn't let her do Marie Antoinette."
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"Goldwyn's right for once."
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""A comedienne in that role is to laugh.""
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"Besides, her pictures haven't made a dime in a decade."
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"Congratulations, Irving."
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"I know what I am, Mank."
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"When I come to work, I don't consider it slumming."
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"I don't use humor to keep myself above the fray."
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"And I go to the mat for what I believe in. I haven't the time to do otherwise."
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"But you, sir,"
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"how formidable people like you might be if they actually gave at the office."
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"Close the door."
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"Oh, that's a beautiful shot right there."
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"Mank! Are you okay?"
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"No, that almost killed me. Where's Willie?"
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"Cairo, I think."
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"- Can you phone him? - I don't phone him, he phones me."
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"When's he due back?"
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"After November 6th. I'm joining him in Europe next week."
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"Marion, I need a favor. It's just a little joke on Willie."
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"Sure, Mank, anything."
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"I want you to go back and tell Mayer"
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"Willie wants the phony Sinclair films pulled."
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"Which phony Sinclair films?"
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"There isn't time to explain. I just need you to tell him that."
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"Oh, I couldn't, not even as a joke."
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"- Why not? - You know I don't lie."
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"And that's why he'd believe you."
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"Marion, please, you're not in convent school anymore."
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"- I'm sorry. I… I know it's silly, but... - But what? Why not?"
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"- Promise you won't laugh. - I promise I won't laugh."
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"- My exit. - What?"
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"I already made my exit."
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"- Manky! - Whatie?"
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"- It's an ash-throated flycatcher! - Congratulations! Best kind."
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"What can I say?"
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"She's my aunt."
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"- Oh, it's not about her, it's about him. - Oh?"
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"- Or rather, it's him, but it's not her. - It isn't?"
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"The lonely showgirl, trapped in a castle, doing jigsaw puzzles."
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"It's more, her as people who don't know her imagine her to be."
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"I see."
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"It's her as they imagine her, but it's him as you knew him."
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"- Damn it, Charlie. - You asked me out here."
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"I was honored to come and read your latest."
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"- Is this a test? - A test? Of what?"
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"- Friendship? Loyalty? - Oh, come now."
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"Or just your way of avoiding responsibility?"
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"What do you mean?"
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"Are you hoping I might absolve you of such a personal betrayal?"
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"I won't give you that."
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"Are you going to say anything?"
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"- I have to think about it. - Why?"
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"'Cause I haven't made up my mind how she might react."
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"What does instinct tell you?"
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"It's mighty strong medicine"
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"for a lifetime of starry-eyed self-absorption."
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"It's one of those cures that could be worse than the disease."
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"But you, of all people, should know about that."
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"He took the script?"
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"Uh-huh."
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"Will he show it to her?"
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"I don't know."
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"Do you want him to?"
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"I don't know."
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"Sinclair is yesterday's fishwrap."
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"Never stood a chance."
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"Make up your mind."
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"Are we home licking our wounds or here making the best of it?"
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"We're making the best of it."
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"- Good evening. Name? - Mankiewicz."
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"Sorry, what was that?"
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"M-A-N-K-I-E-W-I-C, and outta nowhere, a Z."
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"- Table 14. - Ends of the earth. Clean exit."
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