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Clips from Mank

"Oh, I wouldn't have thought"
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"you'd be that keenly interested in the honoring of words."
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"What's so funny?"
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"I'm just surprised that a vaunted muckraker like yourself"
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"sees Hollywood's future as such a shiny penny."
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"Back to one."
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"Times are changing, Mr. Mankiewicz,"
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"and I'm not just referring to this Depression."
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"All that bother."
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"And when all this is over,"
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"picture-makers are gonna have to service this new entertainment."
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"I intend to make pictures with the help of real literary minds."
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"Mm, I support that."
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"Instead, what do most studios give us? Gangster flicks, zanies."
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"Too true."
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"Now, how many gangsters do Americans meet in a lifetime?"
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"How many families are like the Marx Brothers?"
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"You mean besides my own?"
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"Very good. Have him seated next to me."
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"Miss Davies, Mr. Hearst would like Mr. Mankiewicz seated"
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"to his left at dinner."
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"Oh, Pops likes you."
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"Why is it when Houseman edits,"
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"everyone ends up speaking like a constipated Oxford don?"
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"Hello?"
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"Yes, he is. No, not at all."
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"Please hold on. It's Poor Sa..."
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"I'm sorry. It's your wife."
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"- Schnutz. - I heard that."
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"Hermie,"
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"Joe called four times in the last three days."
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"- He wants your number up there. - So give it to him."
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"Knock it off!"
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"The boys are remodeling."
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"He seemed concerned about something. Is everything okay?"
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"If I could swim, I'd be doing swimmingly."
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"And don't mind Joe."
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"- He's a worrisome old woman in disguise. - Well, he wants to offer you work."
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"Baby Joe offering me?"
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"Well, if he calls again, give him this number, Schnutz."
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"I've gotta run. Kiss the offspring."
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"I say…"
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"a letter from the gallant "leftenant"?"
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"Now, let's hope it makes more sense than the last."
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"Fighters off the decks of aircraft carriers."
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"- Whoever had that idea? - It's not good?"
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"Not good?"
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"German U-boats are starting to hunt in packs,"
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"and a Stuka dive-bomber can drop one down your stack from 500 feet."
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"What's our valiant laddie have to say for the cause..."
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"It's not from her husband."
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"His ship's been sunk off Norway."
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"Presumed lost at sea."
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"Always the smartest guy in the room."
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"You're right, of course."
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"Aircraft carriers are a shitty idea, but I don't appreciate the callousness."
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"I expect more of you."
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""Presumed" means they don't know, so I choose to believe he's alive until…"
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"Mank."
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"Mank!"
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"Mr. Mankiewicz?"
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"He's all right. Just sleeping."
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"Well…"
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"I shouldn't wonder."
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"There's enough Seconal in those bottles to bring down a bull elephant in heat."
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"Young Orson doesn't believe in chance."
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"Houseman, you sly thing. You slipped me a Mickey."
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"So we did."
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"How you managed to reach it so early in your rehabilitation,"
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"I cannot imagine."
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"How was it? Mother's milk?"
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"On balance, better than nothing. I plan to use it as a nightcap."
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"As you Yanks say, "He went out like a light.""
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"I couldn't have put it better myself, which may be why I write for the movies."
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"Will you stop?"
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"You write for the movies because you're super at it."
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"Excuse me, you two, I've masses of typing to do."
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"Seventy-six pages."
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"By the time she translates your red chicken scratches,"
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"it'll be less than 40."
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"At this rate, you'll never finish."
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"What I wanna know is what you think of it."
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"The writing is first-rate, but you know that."
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"His lust for power,"
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"your exquisite evocation of his hunger for love"
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"from those who fear his worst side, but..."
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"The dreaded yet foreseeable "but.""
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"You're asking a lot of a motion picture audience."
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"- All in all, it's a bit of a jumble. - Did you say "jumble" or "jungle"?"
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"A hodgepodge of talky episodes."
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"A collection of fragments that leap around in time,"
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"like Mexican jumping beans."
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"Welcome to my mind, Old Sock."
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"The story is so scattered, I'm afraid one will need a road map."
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"You mean it's a mess."
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"Would you consider simplifying?"
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"As Pascal once said,"
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""If only I'd had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.""
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"All I am saying is no one can write like that."
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"But I can write like that, Houseman. I have."
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"The narrative is one big circle, like a cinnamon roll,"
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"not a straight line pointing to the nearest exit."
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"You cannot capture a man's entire life in two hours."
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"All you can hope is to leave the impression of one."
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"But nobody expects Shakespeare."
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"People aren't spending their hard-earned 25 cents to see Macbeth."
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"Maestro the Dog-Faced Boy did Macbeth."
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"Voodoo Macbeth. Don't be fooled. He's a showman."
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"Busker reveling in sleight of hand."
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"Save yourself the trouble, be done in 60 days."
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"He'll get this, and the audience will too."
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"Stop worrying. Have a pickle."
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"No, thank you. I'm not hungry."
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"Haven't been since we got here."
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"Cheerio."
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"Write hard. Aim low."
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"Where were we, chief?"
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"What are you gonna do?"
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"- About what? - He's right."
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"You won't be done till Christmas."
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