Barton Fink Page #2
- R
- Year:
- 1991
- 116 min
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POPPY:
Well I don't pretend to be a critic, but Lord, I have a gut,
and it tells me it was simply marvelous.
RICHARD:
And a charming gut it is.
POPPY:
You dog!
RICHARD:
(baying)
Aaa-woooooooo!
Barton turns to look for the source of an insistent jingling. We swish pan
off him to find a busboy marching through the restaurant displaying a page
sign, bell attached, with Barton's name on it.
A distinguished fifty-year-old gentleman in evening clothes is nursing a
martini, watching Barton approach.
PULLING BARTON:
As he draws near.
BARTON:
I thought you were going to join us. Jesus, Garland, you
left me alone with those people.
GARLAND:
Don't panic, I'll join you in a minute. What's you think of
Richard and Poppy?
Barton scowls
BARTON:
The play was marvelous. She wept, copiously. Millions of
dollars and no sense.
Garland smiles, then draws Barton close.
GARLAND:
We have to talk a little business. I've just been on the
phone to Los Angeles. Barton, Capitol Pictures wants to
put you under contract. They've offered you a thousand
dollars a week. I think I can get them to go as high as
two.
BARTON:
To do what?
GARLAND:
What do you do far a living?
BARTON:
I'm not sure anymore. I guess I try to make a difference.
GARLAND:
Fair enough. No pressure here, Barton, because I respect
you, but let me point out a couple of things. One, here
you make a difference to five hundred fifty people a
night - if the show sells out. Eighty-five million people
go to the pictures every week.
BARTON:
To see pap.GARLAND
Yes, generally, to see pap. However, point number two: A
brief tenure in Hollywood could supprt you through the
writing of any number of plays.
BARTON:
I don't know, Garland; my place is here right now. I feel
I'm on the brink of success-
GARLAND:
I'd say you're already enjoying some.
Barton leans earnestly forward.
BARTON:
No, Garland, don't you see? Not the kind of success where
the critics fawn over you or the producers like Derek make
a lot of money. No, a real success - the success we've been
dreaming about - the creation of a new, living theater of,
about, and for the common man! If I ran off to Hollywood
now I'd be making money, going to parties, meeting
the big shots, sure, but I'd be cutting myself off from the
wellspring of that success, from the common man.
He leans back and chuckles ruefully.
. . . I guess I'm sprouting off again. But I am certain of
this, Garland:
I'm capable of more good work. Maybebetter work than I did in Choirs. It just doesn't seem to
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