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Clips from Mank

"- What? - You made a promise."
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"- I did what? - Sixty days is two weeks from now."
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"Where were we?"
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"Bernstein's speech, the young woman on the ferry boat."
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"Read it back, please."
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""A white dress she had on, and she was carrying a white parasol,"
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"and I only saw her for one second, and she didn't see me at all.""
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""But I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.""
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"A snapshot from the Mankiewicz family album?"
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"You might say that."
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"It really is a gorgeous..."
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"Spot to get stuck?"
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"Is Bernstein meant to be Louis Mayer?"
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"If form follows function."
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"Mayer is the same pathetic sort of lap dog to our Charles Foster?"
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"Bernstein is a far nicer character."
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"You don't much like Mayer."
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"If I ever go to the electric chair, I'd like him to be sitting in my lap."
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"$750 a week? That's half what you make, Herman."
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"- You're a junior writer, Joe. - So?"
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"So, you're only half the wit your big brother is."
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"- How many half-wits make that? - Herm, how do I look?"
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"- You look like you. Fine. - What should I be expecting?"
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"You're related to me. He already thinks you're a genius."
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"Enough."
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"The job will be yours if you can do two things."
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"One, don't roll your eyes. Two, try not to fall asleep."
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"This isn't Gower Gulch."
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"You want I should make a picture about a prostitute?"
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"What's wrong?"
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"My mother was nothing but a whore."
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"You would talk about your own mother that way?"
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"The woman who gave you life?"
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"You ungrateful bastard! I ought to cut your balls off!"
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"Do it, you fucking junk dealer! I'll still be the better man!"
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"L.B., this is my brother, Joe."
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"Nice to meet you, Joseph. I'm Louis Mayer."
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"I can't tell you what this means to him, Louis."
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"- They're all there, Mr. Mayer. - On my way. Joe, walk with me."
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"My boy, there are three work rules at this studio."
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"Rule number one. Ars gratia artis, art for art's sake."
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"How you doing?"
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"One million dollars a year we spend on stories we never even film."
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"Why not? I'll tell you. They don't make me cry."
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"What makes me cry? Emotion."
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"Where do I feel emotion?"
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"Here, here, and here."
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"Rule number two."
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"You may have heard MGM has more stars than there are in the heavens."
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"Do not believe this."
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"Hiya. We have only one star. That is Leo the Lion."
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"Never forget that."
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"Many stars have, and now they twinkle elsewhere."
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"Rule number three."
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"People think MGM stands for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer."
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"It does not."
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"It stands for Mayer's gantze mishpokhe, Mayer's whole family."
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"Never forget that."
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"You got a problem, come to Papa."
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"This is a business where the buyer gets nothing for his money but a memory."
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"What he bought still belongs to the man who sold it."
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"That's the real magic of the movies, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"I find myself in a horrendous position, and I come to all of you on bended knee."
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"We are suffering, as all Americans are,"
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"from our country's terrible economic woes."
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"Good people, everyday people, can't afford to go to the movies."
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"So even our preeminent dream factory…"
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"is in grave financial difficulty."
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"I am asking everyone in the MGM family to take a painful step."
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"I am asking to roll back salaries."
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"I don't want to,"
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"but for this hallowed place to continue to exist, I am forced to."
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"I won't break up this family over something like money."
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"- How long are you asking for? - Shouldn't be long."
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"- How much are you asking for? - Half."
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"- Half? - Could be less."
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"Is everybody going to be pitching in? Are you, Mr. Mayer?"
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"Real families root for each other in the good times,"
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"take care of each other in tough ones."
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"We're with you, L.B."
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"You may be, Mr. Barrymore,"
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"but a 50% pay cut for grips and electricians..."
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"Eight weeks, my friends, eight short weeks."
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"As soon as FDR reopens the banks, you'll get back every penny."
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"On that, you have the sacred word of L.B. Mayer."
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"Well, I vote yes."
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"- I do as well. - Me too."
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"- How'd I do, Ben? - It was great, Mr. Mayer."
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"Ah."
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"Not even the most disgraceful thing I've ever seen."
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"Good."
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"Okay."
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"- Yeah? - Oh, yeah."
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"Yeah? Okay."
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"Maybe a little bit left?"
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"- Yeah? - Yeah."
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"Here?"
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"- Ooh, yeah. - I've got to get typewriter ribbon."
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"- Here are this morning's pages. - Dreck. It's all dreck!"
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"Don't flagellate. At least you're writing again."
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"None of it sings. None of it. Not a note."
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"You're not writing an opera."
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"Hello?"
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"But I am writing an opera."
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"It's for you."
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"- Yeah? - Herman, it's Joe."
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"Hey, hey, kid. What's up?"
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"- Checking in. How are you getting around? - Gingerly."
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"- Any rest? - Haven't seen a sunrise yet."
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"You've never seen a sunrise."
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"- Sara said you wanted this number. - Just to hear your voice."
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"Oh. She said you had some work you wanted to talk about."
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"Ah. I was thinking about that old play, The Wild Man of Borneo,"
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"the one you wrote in the Ice Age."
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"One never remembers one's disasters. It's considered gauche."
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"A play is never a disaster"
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"till the movies say it is."
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"I brought it to my people at the studio."
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"We want W.C. Fields."
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"- We want you to adapt. - I'm kind of on something right now."
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