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Now, as we build
step by step to the climax,
the music soars.
And there, totally oblivious
of the torrential rain
pouring down upon them,
the two fall happily and tenderly
into each other's arms.
And as the audience drools
with sublimated sexual pleasure,
the two enormous and highly paid
heads come together
for that ultimate
and inevitable moment.
The final, earth-moving,
studio-rent-paying, theatre-filling,
popcorn-selling...
..kiss.
Fade out. The end.
That's it. 138 pages. Why make it
longer? We'd only have to cut later.
- Mr Benson...
- Yes?
This screenplay,
when does it have to be finished?
Well, let's see, today is Friday.
My friend and, in this case, patron
and producer Mr Alexander Meyerheim
arrives in Paris from Cannes
at ten o'clock on...
..Sunday morning.
Which happens to be Bastille Day.
Perfect! 10:
01 we hand himthe completed script,
and then you and l celebrate. Drink
champagne, dance in the streets,
whatever they do on July 14th.
You're very kind but l have a date.
You haven't written anything at all?
You have a date?
You mean this entire movie
has to be done in two days?
Miss Simpson, if you aren't up to
your part of thejob, tell me now.
- l can find someone else.
- No, l didn't mean that.
lt's just that it's,
well, rather unusual, isn't it?
Not for me.
a great deal of thought.
No, l haven't.
So what have you been doing?
What any red-blooded
American screenwriter
would or should have been doing
for the first 19 and a fraction weeks
of his employment.
Water-skiing in St Tropez,
lying in the sun in Antibes,
studying Greek.
Greek?
There was this starlet
representing the Greek film industry
at the Cannes Festival.
Then, of course,
a few weeks unlearning Greek,
which involved
a considerable amount of vodka
and an unpremeditated trip to Madrid
for the bullfights,
which fortunately, since
l can't bear the sight of blood,
had long since gone on to Seville.
Weeks 17 and 18 were spent
in a somewhat ill-advised attempt
to win enough money
to buy back my $5,000-a-week,
plus expenses, contract
from my friend, employer and patron,
Mr Alexander Meyerheim,
thus not having to write the picture
at all. Take a note.
For the textbook l will someday do
on the art of screenwriting,
never play 13, 31
and the corners thereof
for any serious length of time for
any serious money. lt doesn't work.
And now l have to. Shall we begin?
An Alexander Meyerheim production.
Caps, quotes. The Girl Who Stole
the Eiffel Tower.
You do like the title?
Oh, yes,
it certainly sounds intriguing.
lt intrigued Meyerheim, too.
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