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"I searched for myself."

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<i>Heraclitus, VI century B. C.</i>

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- That won't do. It sticks out.
- What does?

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A floppy collar
doesn't go with a tie.

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And change your socks!

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Come on...

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Draw the curtains.

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That sick guy will ogle you.

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He's terminal, deserves a treat.

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Will this do?

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Red and black...
It's like Jeanne Mas.

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Who's she?

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An 80s look.
Like Mitterrand.

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I'm not sure I want that job.

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We spent a year abroad

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to escape him.

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I'm not ready to dive back in.

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Don't forget.

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As always. Be cool.

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A bit snobby and cool.

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You teach that to your pupils?

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So?

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It's OK.

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But will it wow them?

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It'll do.

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As long as you feel at ease.

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I have an appointment
with Alexandre Taillard de Vorms.

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The Minister.

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My name's Arthur Vlaminck.

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Excuse... You understand?

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No one speaks Italian
in this Ministry?

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I understand, but no speak.

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It's unbelievable!

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Good fortuna...

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Mr. Vlaminck? Follow me, please.

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Thanks.

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Come in.

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I'm here to see the Minister.

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- Mr. Vlaminck?
- Yes.

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Mind waiting.
He's winding up a meeting.

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Agnes will show you in.

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How are you, pal?

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You're a hard guy to find!
You dodging me?

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Even harder than Commander Massoud!

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Don't deny it! You're a lefty,
and to you I'm a...

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See that?

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Mitterrand's birthplace
is on that globe!

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We're on a sinking ship.

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And when a ship sinks,

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where's the right, where's the left?

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- Tell me.
- It's true, the left...

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May I pour you a glass?

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A modest red Burgundy. Interesting.

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You love books.
Look what my son just gave me.

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Your hands clean?

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Watch out, it's a first edition.

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See that?

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Bottom of page 80.

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Read.

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You see it?

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No.

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"Where there's a will
there's a way."

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Oh, yes.

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Mao took it from Lenin,

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who got it from Hazlitt,

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who stole an English proverb
that came from...

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China.

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Full circle!

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I need a team, Arthur.

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A commando.

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Responsive people,
who move 24 hours a day.

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A commando!

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The world's 50-year balance
has been shattered.

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9/11 made the Americans aware

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of both their power
and their weakness.

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As we speak,

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the neoconservatives
are honing a "security" doctrine.

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The doctrine of preventive war.

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You hit someone,

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"sniffing out"
he poses a threat.

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Preventive action.
Pit bull tactics.

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Dangerous.

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Right now,
America is isolating itself.

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And because of that,

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it's in danger of going blind.

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One country obsesses the US:
Lusdemistan.

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A dictatorship?

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Sure it is,
with an arms program, rumors...

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But is that a reason to attack
and blow them to hell?

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Sir,

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the Prime Minister is on the line.

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Tell him I'll call back.

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He wants to discuss
his news channel

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to resettle our tuna-fishermen
in the Seychelles.

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Sorry?

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Where were we?
Talking about serious matters!

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Ah, yes. America.

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There, the hawks think
they understand the world.

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But they don't.

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Unlike the French,
the British, or even the Belgians,

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they don't understand Africa,
or China,

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or the Arab world.

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Or know who invented
zero in maths.

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We have to avoid all the pitfalls.

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The pitfall of fear,

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of resignation,

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and worst of all:

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the pitfall of ignorance.

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The US Secretary of State

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has a team of 80 people.
With huge resources.

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We're barely a dozen.
It's a very small ship.

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It's not even a ship,
it's a barge, a canoe...

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a raft.

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But on this raft, I've chosen the best.

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You're young, but your fine mind
is highly praised.

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Don't let me down.
I have faith in you,

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and I need you on board.

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I'm very honored, but...

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I'm entrusting you
with what's most important.

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Language!

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Evening.

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He already gave you a night off?
You tamed him?

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Were you cool and snobby?

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So what did he offer you?
Honduras?

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Why Honduras?

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Our favorite vacation spot.
You told him?

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He offered me "language".

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Language?

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What's that?
Teaching them elocution?

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Language means...

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Using the right words.

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A minister can't spout anything.
One word can set off a world crisis.

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They'll explain it all to me.

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Can you stand a right-wing guy?

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He's for the general good.

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And his chief of staff is a lefty.

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He wants to stand up to the Americans.

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So he's perfect. Superman.

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Handsome to boot.

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Is he as sexy as on TV?

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Well... That's not the problem.

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He's a man with a vision.
Who's searching.

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You're like an early Christian.

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Or a guy who never had a dad.

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You'll be brilliant.

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You'll find things for them to say.
So they needn't do them.

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Things that are smart...

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Funny...

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Perverse...

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Perverse?

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Yes.

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"Struggle is the father of all things."

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<i>Heraclitus, Fragment No. 129</i>

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So you're our new language guy?

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I'll check if Mr. Maupas can see you.

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Not another

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question about the Gaza Strip?

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Mr. Maupas can see you.

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Deputies' questions
have become an ordeal!

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We spend more time
explaining than working.

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To hell with these extra questions.

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Specially from the right.

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They harp about the 1967 borders

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but don't know
where they begin and end.

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Mr. Maupas?

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The President's on the line.

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Yes, it's me. Put him on.

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Every Wednesday
since I took this job

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I haven't had a sandwich.

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Now we'll have Tuesday questions,

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and soon the Senate on Thursdays.

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They want us to lose weight.

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Arthur,
I'm so glad you've joined us.

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Alexandre said
you'd be handling language.

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You'll be our only functioning brain.

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All of ours are already fried.

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I think what's most urgent

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is putting you on
the Minister's speech to the UN,

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and the Berlin and Grad school ones.

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I warn you,
he doesn't want traditional speeches.

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He says they need
"groundbreaking thrust".

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Groundbreaking?

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Yes.

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Not easy to cook up,
but good practice.

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<i>Mr. Maupas?
I'll put on the President.</i>

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This is Sylvain Marquet,
our man for Europe,

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who can fill you in a bit.

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Sylvain.

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Meet the overworked Stéphane Cahut,
our Middle East man.

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Overworked, but underfed,
Mr. Marquet.

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I praised you to the boss.
A pre-emptive action.

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Worm your way fast into his software.

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But wear a suit
with matching pants and jacket.

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Avoid black ones, black ties
and square-toed shoes.

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That's a bodyguard look.

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Another thing.

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If anybody mentions NATO,

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say: NATO, No Action Talk Only.

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That's pro talk.

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Or Nato-rious for useless.
It's a running gag.

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OK...

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But what's next?

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Finding you an office.
None are vacant. And a contract.

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- You're not a bureaucrat?
- Not especially.

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This won't be easy.

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You'll head a "mission": an occult one.

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Occult?

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Invisible, undetectable,
proven non-existent.

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Not part of the formal team.

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Or we'll exceed our quota of advisors.

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As for your diplomatic passport,

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they're getting very fussy.

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But where do I go right now?

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To see the Head of Staff,
who'll say no to you.

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- No, to what?
- To everything.

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The Head of Staff? Maupas?

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No, he's the Chief of staff.
This guy's logistics and stewardship.

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That's administrative.

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No, admin is something else.

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It's geographic: Europe, Asia, etc.

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Above are a feuding Policy Head
and General Secretary.

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And also independent
non-geographic divisions:

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Economic Affairs, Strategic Affairs,

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Cultural Affairs...

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Thanks. It's getting crystal clear.

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Fuma? Any news from Mayotte?

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Odile?

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Feels better when things calm down.

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A first: an advisor on my turf.

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I'm "occult", Odile.

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Act as if you can't see me.

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That'd be a shame.

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When can I see Maupas?
I don't know our position on this...

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Are we pro or con
Germany in the UN Security Council?

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A chocolate?

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You didn't stress ecology enough!

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Conglomerates get the subsidies.
Our farming is intensive...

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Not exactly.

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Blue and green boxes calculate
environmental compensations.

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Can we talk about real issues now?

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Know how many died
in the Ephron attack?

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Sorry, can I see you
about the speech?

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Sure, Arthur.
I'll call you as soon as I can.

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Help yourself, Cahut.

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Can I talk to the Director
of Strategic Affairs?

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<i>Yes.</i>

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Hello, sir!

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I'm Arthur Vlaminck, I'm preparing
the Minister's Berlin speech.

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<i>He asked me to do that.
So there's two of us...</i>

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Yes... Maybe we should chat?

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<i>Got any talking points?</i>

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<i>You available in 2 hours?</i>

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<i>Who are you?
Where are you calling from?</i>

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Sir, about Germany...?

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What's this crap about NATO?

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By the way, sir...

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"As French Minister
of Foreign affairs,

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"it is my solemn conviction...

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"that Germany

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"must now have its place...

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"a fundamental place"...

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Have a cake, I made them.

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You eat nothing.

266
00:16:18,460 --> 00:16:19,835
Patricia, a cake?

267
00:16:34,251 --> 00:16:38,251
Your predecessor
said the first draft was for martyrs.

268
00:16:40,751 --> 00:16:42,001
Whose cat is that?

269
00:16:42,168 --> 00:16:43,543
Mr. Maupas' cat.

270
00:16:43,710 --> 00:16:46,001
Actually, his predecessor's cat.

271
00:16:46,376 --> 00:16:47,501
And he kept it?

272
00:16:47,668 --> 00:16:48,585
Yes.

273
00:16:48,751 --> 00:16:51,460
With the furniture, the furnishings...

274
00:16:52,335 --> 00:16:53,793
And his sneakers.

275
00:17:00,460 --> 00:17:02,460
Can he call me back in 5 minutes?

276
00:17:02,585 --> 00:17:04,126
Please...

277
00:17:06,626 --> 00:17:07,793
Well...

278
00:17:08,668 --> 00:17:10,501
Arthur, yes...

279
00:17:10,626 --> 00:17:12,835
it seems very good to me.

280
00:17:13,835 --> 00:17:15,460
When will you show it
to the Minister?

281
00:17:15,585 --> 00:17:19,251
You should show it to him yourself.

282
00:17:19,418 --> 00:17:22,293
He's very anxious to see it.

283
00:17:26,001 --> 00:17:27,751
Good luck, Arthur.

284
00:17:31,710 --> 00:17:33,501
Go on in, Mr. Vlaminck.

285
00:17:40,418 --> 00:17:41,751
- Sir...?
- C'm in!

286
00:17:50,251 --> 00:17:52,210
The speech, sir.

287
00:17:56,293 --> 00:17:57,501
Thanks, pal.

288
00:18:03,126 --> 00:18:04,043
You're way off.

289
00:18:04,543 --> 00:18:06,876
A huge amount of work is needed.

290
00:18:07,085 --> 00:18:10,710
Like mentioning
the Great Lakes conflict in Africa.

291
00:18:10,876 --> 00:18:12,793
That's an explosive affair.

292
00:18:13,001 --> 00:18:14,460
Everybody's dodging it.

293
00:18:14,585 --> 00:18:16,168
But that's on page 10, sir.

294
00:18:16,335 --> 00:18:18,585
We have to talk about it!

295
00:18:18,751 --> 00:18:20,501
It needs structure!

296
00:18:20,626 --> 00:18:23,001
There are 3 key principles today.

297
00:18:23,168 --> 00:18:25,626
We don't stress them!
We all neglect them!

298
00:18:26,210 --> 00:18:27,501
Responsibility.

299
00:18:27,793 --> 00:18:28,876
Unity.

300
00:18:29,085 --> 00:18:31,293
Efficiency. That's action.

301
00:18:31,460 --> 00:18:34,043
But Germany and the Security Council...

302
00:18:34,210 --> 00:18:38,043
Don't be like diplomats
with a broom up their ass!

303
00:18:38,210 --> 00:18:39,376
You're above that.

304
00:18:39,918 --> 00:18:41,085
Yes, but what do we say?

305
00:18:41,251 --> 00:18:45,043
See Maupas.
But redo it from scratch.

306
00:18:45,293 --> 00:18:49,501
The Great Lakes conflict
is on page 10. Didn't he read it?

307
00:18:49,876 --> 00:18:54,751
Let's solve the problem calmly,
Arthur, huh?

308
00:18:56,751 --> 00:19:00,543
Put the Great Lakes on page 1.

309
00:19:01,251 --> 00:19:02,918
That way he'll be happy.

310
00:19:04,668 --> 00:19:05,793
But...

311
00:19:07,001 --> 00:19:08,168
Will he read it?

312
00:19:09,001 --> 00:19:10,126
He reads?

313
00:19:16,001 --> 00:19:16,918
It's better.

314
00:19:19,126 --> 00:19:20,460
What about Lebanon?

315
00:19:20,710 --> 00:19:23,085
- We must talk about it.
- It's on page 8.

316
00:19:23,460 --> 00:19:26,501
We must talk about it.
I said: we need structure.

317
00:19:26,668 --> 00:19:28,418
Legitimacy. Lucidity.

318
00:19:28,543 --> 00:19:29,376
Efficiency.

319
00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:33,001
You said: "Responsibility,
Unity, Efficiency."

320
00:19:34,210 --> 00:19:36,543
In fact, that's what we're doing.

321
00:19:36,710 --> 00:19:40,460
Take page 1, that's legitimacy.

322
00:19:40,585 --> 00:19:42,918
Page 5 and page 6, are unity.

323
00:19:43,126 --> 00:19:46,168
And the end
is the whole question of efficiency.

324
00:19:47,335 --> 00:19:50,460
Yes...
No! Everything is on page 1!

325
00:19:50,585 --> 00:19:53,043
After that your speech
goes round in circles!

326
00:19:53,210 --> 00:19:56,210
It needs to pound things!
Hammer in the nail.

327
00:19:56,376 --> 00:19:58,085
All this is soft matter.

328
00:19:58,251 --> 00:20:01,501
On Lusdemistan,
all heads of state will be in New York.

329
00:20:01,668 --> 00:20:04,251
They're idiots.
With no time to think.

330
00:20:04,418 --> 00:20:05,335
So:

331
00:20:05,543 --> 00:20:06,501
Legitimacy!

332
00:20:07,460 --> 00:20:08,251
Unity!

333
00:20:09,335 --> 00:20:10,335
Efficiency!

334
00:20:11,835 --> 00:20:13,626
Or it means war!

335
00:20:14,335 --> 00:20:18,793
It's why we must let Germany
into the Security Council.

336
00:20:19,001 --> 00:20:20,585
We should make a gesture.

337
00:20:21,210 --> 00:20:24,335
The British are against us
on Lusdemistan.

338
00:20:24,543 --> 00:20:28,335
You committed to it
with the Chancellor in Frankfurt.

339
00:20:29,710 --> 00:20:32,501
Then we must back them.
If we committed.

340
00:20:33,085 --> 00:20:36,835
But you also committed
to the Greeks and Slovaks.

341
00:20:37,460 --> 00:20:40,918
We can't let
the Greeks and the Slovaks in.

342
00:20:42,460 --> 00:20:43,751
Let's not back anyone.

343
00:20:43,918 --> 00:20:47,168
What matters is the Middle East,
hence America.

344
00:20:47,335 --> 00:20:51,210
Drop your European fricassee.
It makes no sense.

345
00:20:51,710 --> 00:20:54,835
But you must discuss it
with the President,

346
00:20:55,293 --> 00:20:57,043
if you're dropping Germany.

347
00:20:57,210 --> 00:20:58,126
The President...

348
00:20:58,293 --> 00:21:01,335
He called me 3 times
re a cultural attaché in Fiji.

349
00:21:02,876 --> 00:21:04,835
At least talk to the Germans,

350
00:21:05,043 --> 00:21:07,668
to warn them. Out of courtesy.

351
00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:11,085
You're right, Claude.
Call them for me.

352
00:21:11,835 --> 00:21:13,210
Thanks for your help.

353
00:21:13,376 --> 00:21:16,626
Not at all, you did very well.

354
00:21:16,876 --> 00:21:19,335
Is that bit about Germany true?

355
00:21:19,585 --> 00:21:22,168
I'll eventually convince him.

356
00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:25,168
The Greeks and Slovaks,
we'll see later.

357
00:21:25,335 --> 00:21:27,126
So I leave that part blank.

358
00:21:27,293 --> 00:21:29,918
But I didn't stress Africa.
How far can I go?

359
00:21:30,126 --> 00:21:33,126
For that, go and see nice Valerie.

360
00:21:33,293 --> 00:21:36,210
She'll give you
the good talking points.

361
00:21:36,501 --> 00:21:38,418
While you're at it,

362
00:21:38,543 --> 00:21:41,251
check what the other advisors
think of the speech.

363
00:21:41,418 --> 00:21:42,626
It'll make their day.

364
00:21:47,585 --> 00:21:51,460
I told the Minister
your thing was fine, to do you a favor.

365
00:21:51,876 --> 00:21:53,876
In fact, there are problems.

366
00:21:54,085 --> 00:21:56,626
Legitimacy, Unity, Efficiency.

367
00:21:56,793 --> 00:21:59,876
Between us, it's hot air.
He wants concrete things.

368
00:22:00,085 --> 00:22:02,293
And you overindulged
in the verb "to be".

369
00:22:02,460 --> 00:22:05,001
That verb doesn't "speak" to him.

370
00:22:05,168 --> 00:22:06,543
He likes active verbs.

371
00:22:09,793 --> 00:22:11,168
Mr. Ambassador,

372
00:22:11,335 --> 00:22:13,876
this file is a big mess.

373
00:22:14,085 --> 00:22:16,501
On paper
it looks very smart

374
00:22:16,626 --> 00:22:20,168
to put pressure on the Jordanians
to get at the Saudis.

375
00:22:20,335 --> 00:22:22,543
I too love 3-cushion billiards...

376
00:22:22,710 --> 00:22:26,126
If everyone's playing on the same table.

377
00:22:26,293 --> 00:22:29,501
They haven't been
on speaking terms for ages.

378
00:22:30,126 --> 00:22:33,585
Even wart hogs know that.

379
00:22:33,751 --> 00:22:34,835
So...

380
00:22:40,793 --> 00:22:44,210
Dickie,
you'll have to redo your speech.

381
00:22:45,210 --> 00:22:46,668
Mind if I call you Dick?

382
00:22:47,085 --> 00:22:48,210
No.

383
00:22:49,793 --> 00:22:52,293
Seriously, is what I wrote OK?

384
00:22:52,460 --> 00:22:56,460
Seriously,
he'll make you rewrite it ten times.

385
00:22:56,585 --> 00:22:59,043
So you might as well get cracking.

386
00:23:00,126 --> 00:23:02,543
- Got yourself an office?
- Yes.

387
00:23:03,251 --> 00:23:05,460
- Where?
- In the wing opposite.

388
00:23:06,710 --> 00:23:08,710
The Germans are doing a wait-and-see.

389
00:23:08,876 --> 00:23:11,793
The US, mostly the neo-cons, want a war.

390
00:23:12,001 --> 00:23:14,293
The Brits, as always,

391
00:23:14,460 --> 00:23:16,376
follow them like sheep.

392
00:23:16,501 --> 00:23:18,543
The Lusde Embassy confirmed it.

393
00:23:22,751 --> 00:23:27,085
You know, Arthur, Africa is special.
It requires physical contact.

394
00:23:27,251 --> 00:23:30,876
But you, somehow,
figured out what's essential.

395
00:23:31,085 --> 00:23:32,835
Your speech covers all the basics.

396
00:23:33,043 --> 00:23:35,668
You just got here, and you're an ace.

397
00:23:36,418 --> 00:23:38,293
Dunno, I just...

398
00:23:40,126 --> 00:23:42,085
The Great Lakes, what did I forget?

399
00:23:42,251 --> 00:23:45,918
Nothing.
You handled the Great Lakes very well.

400
00:23:48,543 --> 00:23:50,710
What doesn't work is this:

401
00:23:51,585 --> 00:23:53,460
that collar...

402
00:23:53,793 --> 00:23:55,335
the rumpled jacket...

403
00:23:55,501 --> 00:23:56,835
And your shoes.

404
00:23:57,460 --> 00:24:00,168
They're weird and don't shine.

405
00:24:01,210 --> 00:24:03,210
I brushed them 15 minutes
this morning.

406
00:24:03,376 --> 00:24:04,751
Fatal error.

407
00:24:05,001 --> 00:24:08,251
Diplomats don't use a brush.
They spit-and-polish them.

408
00:24:08,418 --> 00:24:11,418
Here, form and content
are one and the same.

409
00:24:11,543 --> 00:24:13,210
Your toecaps

410
00:24:13,376 --> 00:24:15,418
should be my makeup mirror.

411
00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:23,835
We don't work that way,
without head or tail.

412
00:24:24,043 --> 00:24:27,668
A UN speech is a bigger deal
than a panty raid.

413
00:24:27,835 --> 00:24:29,876
For the Middle East,
he'll consult me.

414
00:24:30,085 --> 00:24:33,460
Or simplify it all,
and set off a new conflict.

415
00:24:33,585 --> 00:24:37,418
The Lusdemenites are many
ethnic groups and religions.

416
00:24:37,543 --> 00:24:40,001
Type that up and make 10 copies.

417
00:24:40,876 --> 00:24:42,501
It stinks. It won't do.

418
00:24:42,668 --> 00:24:46,335
What Arthur wrote is fine.
That's not the problem.

419
00:24:46,501 --> 00:24:50,793
It's trying to cover it all in 10 pages,
in Arial 16, for the blind,

420
00:24:51,001 --> 00:24:52,668
bold, double-spaced...

421
00:24:53,043 --> 00:24:56,335
Cahut, you're an expert,
who knows all the bends in the river.

422
00:24:56,710 --> 00:25:00,876
In New York,
I'm speaking to heads of state.

423
00:25:01,085 --> 00:25:04,293
They won't tolerate that many clichés.

424
00:25:04,626 --> 00:25:06,251
The African stuff is way off.

425
00:25:06,418 --> 00:25:09,376
There are gaps,
errors, approximations.

426
00:25:09,501 --> 00:25:12,001
On the Great Lakes conflict,

427
00:25:12,751 --> 00:25:14,335
the truisms will cause smiles.

428
00:25:15,418 --> 00:25:18,626
No truisms!
They kill a speech. You're right.

429
00:25:19,085 --> 00:25:21,376
You should've consulted her, Arthur.

430
00:25:21,668 --> 00:25:24,085
We must rebuild it from scratch.

431
00:25:24,251 --> 00:25:27,335
It lacks structure.
I've told you endlessly!

432
00:25:27,876 --> 00:25:29,876
1) Responsibility.

433
00:25:30,085 --> 00:25:32,043
A crisis must be answered.

434
00:25:32,210 --> 00:25:33,668
2) Unity.

435
00:25:33,835 --> 00:25:36,293
No country can solve them alone.

436
00:25:36,751 --> 00:25:39,126
3) Efficiency. Why?

437
00:25:39,501 --> 00:25:41,626
Because our duty is action.

438
00:25:41,793 --> 00:25:43,835
The world is interdependent,

439
00:25:44,043 --> 00:25:45,918
so we must all act with the UN.

440
00:25:46,126 --> 00:25:47,793
That's what matters.
The rest is bunk.

441
00:25:48,001 --> 00:25:51,126
Sir, you're right.
Legitimacy, unity, efficiency,

442
00:25:51,501 --> 00:25:53,251
and then we move on.

443
00:25:53,418 --> 00:25:54,543
Claude, what do you say?

444
00:25:54,710 --> 00:25:57,251
All this stuff about action

445
00:25:57,418 --> 00:26:00,335
and interdependence is fine.

446
00:26:01,168 --> 00:26:05,335
The most important thing
is dealing with Germany.

447
00:26:06,585 --> 00:26:09,376
Germany is a partner, who we need

448
00:26:09,501 --> 00:26:12,418
in the current situation,
like it or not.

449
00:26:12,668 --> 00:26:15,876
And in every major one,
if you look carefully.

450
00:26:16,085 --> 00:26:18,543
Absolutely.
In any event we'll back Germany.

451
00:26:18,710 --> 00:26:22,085
Who, anyway,
will never get enough votes.

452
00:26:23,918 --> 00:26:26,251
All that is your slop to dish up.

453
00:26:26,543 --> 00:26:28,668
Which is a great pity.

454
00:26:28,835 --> 00:26:32,543
Europe shouldn't be run
by sordid usury schemes,

455
00:26:32,710 --> 00:26:34,835
board of directors' ploys,

456
00:26:35,043 --> 00:26:38,751
bureaucrats fretting over fish stocks
and raw-milk cheese!

457
00:26:38,918 --> 00:26:39,793
Europe

458
00:26:40,001 --> 00:26:43,376
must be a vision and symbols!

459
00:26:44,043 --> 00:26:47,293
I totally agree. We'll deal with it.

460
00:26:50,376 --> 00:26:52,251
You see,

461
00:26:52,418 --> 00:26:56,418
I said your speech was headed
for multiple rewrites.

462
00:26:56,585 --> 00:26:59,751
You can spread the pages
in your new office.

463
00:27:00,293 --> 00:27:01,710
That is bigger than mine!

464
00:27:01,876 --> 00:27:03,460
Dumontheil's a weirdo!

465
00:27:03,585 --> 00:27:06,335
I showed her the speech:
she OK'd it all.

466
00:27:06,501 --> 00:27:09,210
Demolishing you
in front of the Minister,

467
00:27:09,376 --> 00:27:11,418
is a way of screwing with you.

468
00:27:13,501 --> 00:27:16,585
I'm serious.
That's ministerial sex life.

469
00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:19,626
You'll get to enjoy it too.

470
00:27:19,835 --> 00:27:23,126
When you shaft someone,
you don't mean any harm.

471
00:27:23,293 --> 00:27:25,501
It's an amorous gesture.

472
00:27:25,626 --> 00:27:29,126
And if they're good,
they'll shaft you right back.

473
00:27:29,626 --> 00:27:32,668
It's like a caress,
you're making love...

474
00:27:33,251 --> 00:27:35,543
<i>Ream my little triangle</i>

475
00:27:35,710 --> 00:27:38,085
<i>Tweak my dewy rosebud</i>

476
00:27:38,251 --> 00:27:40,210
<i>It's time for jingle-jangle</i>

477
00:27:40,376 --> 00:27:42,793
<i>I'm longing for a stud</i>

478
00:27:43,210 --> 00:27:45,668
<i>Those tufts you love to crimp...</i>

479
00:27:46,543 --> 00:27:48,251
I tell you, you'll get to like it.

480
00:27:48,418 --> 00:27:51,001
<i>Fondle that little shrimp...</i>

481
00:27:55,626 --> 00:27:57,626
The usher downstairs is cool.

482
00:27:58,501 --> 00:28:00,210
- Here.
- Thanks.

483
00:28:01,751 --> 00:28:03,710
Hey, your new office is nice.

484
00:28:04,210 --> 00:28:06,001
A bit messy, but...

485
00:28:06,376 --> 00:28:09,418
Got a secretary? What's she like?

486
00:28:09,543 --> 00:28:12,043
Virile. He's a guy.

487
00:28:12,335 --> 00:28:14,710
He said here dirty tricks

488
00:28:14,876 --> 00:28:16,918
are how they make love.

489
00:28:17,126 --> 00:28:18,335
Really?

490
00:28:18,710 --> 00:28:20,918
If you do her, will she become nice?

491
00:28:21,126 --> 00:28:23,335
Introduce us. I'll know if she's cool.

492
00:28:24,335 --> 00:28:28,626
The guy who told me that
sang a crazy song to me...

493
00:28:28,793 --> 00:28:30,793
<i>When they stuff my...</i>

494
00:28:31,001 --> 00:28:32,126
No...

495
00:28:32,293 --> 00:28:34,210
<i>My peninsula needs reaming</i>

496
00:28:34,376 --> 00:28:36,126
<i>Guess what's hot and steaming?</i>

497
00:28:36,293 --> 00:28:38,710
<i>I'm longing for a stud...</i>

498
00:28:39,543 --> 00:28:40,710
Not bad,

499
00:28:40,876 --> 00:28:42,626
I'll teach it to my pupils.

500
00:28:47,168 --> 00:28:47,918
Mr. Minister?

501
00:28:48,126 --> 00:28:49,543
Arthur, where do we stand?

502
00:28:51,418 --> 00:28:53,085
Coming along, sir...

503
00:28:53,251 --> 00:28:55,001
I'd say plodding along.

504
00:28:55,168 --> 00:28:57,460
I know how to fix your hodgepodge.

505
00:28:57,585 --> 00:28:59,460
You know Hector Marlier?

506
00:28:59,626 --> 00:29:01,793
The great poet. "Solitude Reversed".

507
00:29:02,001 --> 00:29:04,085
We're friends. He'll call you.

508
00:29:04,251 --> 00:29:06,751
He'll add some zip to your thing.

509
00:29:07,376 --> 00:29:09,668
Go to it, pal.

510
00:29:09,835 --> 00:29:12,335
You could've sung him that song.

511
00:29:13,501 --> 00:29:14,293
Excuse me.

512
00:29:16,001 --> 00:29:19,460
<i>Mr. Vlaminck? Hector Marlier, here.</i>

513
00:29:19,585 --> 00:29:20,793
Hey, Hector Marlier!

514
00:29:21,418 --> 00:29:23,668
Alexandre said you were in deep shit,

515
00:29:23,835 --> 00:29:26,043
his words, and I could help.

516
00:29:26,210 --> 00:29:29,835
I don't need glory, just trying to help.

517
00:29:33,543 --> 00:29:35,210
Hector Marlier...

518
00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:38,251
Check him on the internet!

519
00:29:38,543 --> 00:29:40,335
No internet here.

520
00:29:40,501 --> 00:29:41,876
Really? You have no internet?

521
00:29:42,085 --> 00:29:45,251
Even my grade school does! In the burbs!

522
00:29:45,418 --> 00:29:48,043
Nope, we're not allowed to have it.

523
00:29:48,501 --> 00:29:52,210
We have our own communication
system operated by "Le Chiffre".

524
00:29:52,835 --> 00:29:55,543
"Le Chiffre"? You in a Bond flick?

525
00:29:55,710 --> 00:29:59,543
No, the number guys,
the encryptors, are down there!

526
00:30:00,585 --> 00:30:01,668
Under the yard?

527
00:30:02,501 --> 00:30:04,501
No, on the other side.

528
00:30:04,668 --> 00:30:07,543
Under the garden.
Under the fountain.

529
00:30:07,710 --> 00:30:08,876
Under the fountain?

530
00:30:09,085 --> 00:30:12,501
They encode all messages
with "safe" algorithms.

531
00:30:12,626 --> 00:30:16,918
Just for today,
here's what I got from them.

532
00:30:17,126 --> 00:30:20,751
Every Minister here tried and failed
to get rid of this system.

533
00:30:20,918 --> 00:30:23,293
It's an ultra-powerful union.

534
00:30:24,335 --> 00:30:27,376
We're the only world-institution
without the web.

535
00:30:28,251 --> 00:30:31,751
The Finance and the Interior
ministries have it... Not us.

536
00:30:40,043 --> 00:30:42,085
My speech, corrected by that idiot!

537
00:30:42,251 --> 00:30:43,210
Let me see.

538
00:30:43,376 --> 00:30:46,460
"In darkness, peace never dies."
Hector Marlier.

539
00:30:46,585 --> 00:30:50,126
"The pilgrim, ferryman to the future."
Hector Marlier.

540
00:30:50,293 --> 00:30:52,710
Product placement!
He's quoting himself!

541
00:30:52,876 --> 00:30:55,251
"On river banks, lie stranded hopes."

542
00:30:56,460 --> 00:30:58,793
Marlier, you're reaming our rectangles!

543
00:30:59,001 --> 00:31:01,793
Shit, how do I get out of this one?

544
00:31:02,085 --> 00:31:03,501
It's a problem...

545
00:31:05,543 --> 00:31:08,251
Just include a few of his quotes.

546
00:31:08,876 --> 00:31:11,085
Like which? The pilgrim?

547
00:31:11,668 --> 00:31:13,210
The pilgrim's fine.

548
00:31:17,585 --> 00:31:18,335
Claude?

549
00:31:18,501 --> 00:31:20,501
Can I help you, Arthur?

550
00:31:20,668 --> 00:31:23,668
I have a problem.
A friend of the minister's.

551
00:31:24,251 --> 00:31:25,501
At this hour?

552
00:31:26,043 --> 00:31:27,126
Hector Marlier.

553
00:31:27,293 --> 00:31:28,210
Yes.

554
00:31:29,168 --> 00:31:32,918
I put two quotes from him at the start.

555
00:31:33,835 --> 00:31:35,210
You're learning fast.

556
00:31:35,751 --> 00:31:39,918
Re Germany, it's OK.
We're backing them. It's definite.

557
00:31:40,126 --> 00:31:41,876
I talked to the minister again,

558
00:31:42,085 --> 00:31:43,918
who had enjoyed his meal.

559
00:31:44,126 --> 00:31:46,668
"One can mutate, restfully."

560
00:31:49,501 --> 00:31:52,043
So Hector, what do you think?

561
00:31:53,668 --> 00:31:55,168
Listen, Alexandre,

562
00:31:55,335 --> 00:31:57,626
there are two texts in the text.

563
00:31:57,793 --> 00:32:01,376
The part you wrote is excellent.
The whole beginning.

564
00:32:01,501 --> 00:32:02,626
As for the rest,

565
00:32:02,793 --> 00:32:06,085
your guy cobbled something

566
00:32:06,251 --> 00:32:09,460
<i>out of his "unity, efficiency" thing.
It's not like you.</i>

567
00:32:09,585 --> 00:32:11,001
Thanks, Hector.

568
00:32:11,168 --> 00:32:13,251
<i>About my Legion of Honor medal?</i>

569
00:32:15,501 --> 00:32:17,460
You got it?

570
00:32:18,876 --> 00:32:22,376
Take the second part of the speech,
cut out all the fat.

571
00:32:22,501 --> 00:32:25,918
All we need is sinew,
tendons and nerve tissue.

572
00:32:27,668 --> 00:32:30,126
The opposite of mutton stew.

573
00:32:33,876 --> 00:32:35,876
- "Attitude". Add an "s".
- Where?

574
00:32:36,085 --> 00:32:38,751
There. "Attitudes."

575
00:32:44,543 --> 00:32:45,835
An extra crease.

576
00:32:46,043 --> 00:32:47,501
It's not an extra one.

577
00:32:47,751 --> 00:32:49,668
It's the cut of the pants.

578
00:32:56,085 --> 00:32:58,876
Should I wear this or that?

579
00:32:59,085 --> 00:33:01,293
That's prettier.

580
00:33:02,668 --> 00:33:03,793
But I like red.

581
00:33:11,543 --> 00:33:12,460
You look great.

582
00:33:12,585 --> 00:33:15,001
Very good. It's less dicky!

583
00:33:18,001 --> 00:33:18,876
Unity. Efficiency.

584
00:33:19,501 --> 00:33:20,918
Hello, Arthur.

585
00:33:25,418 --> 00:33:28,501
<i>Don't expel the Jingoulou family!</i>

586
00:33:41,543 --> 00:33:43,585
We need more parent support.

587
00:33:43,751 --> 00:33:45,668
- They're grandparents?
- Yes.

588
00:33:46,085 --> 00:33:50,251
Let's get moving:
we've got lots to do today.

589
00:33:51,335 --> 00:33:54,835
The Minister wants
a statement on Turkey fast.

590
00:33:55,043 --> 00:33:58,335
As it's Wednesday,
we'll try to find

591
00:33:58,501 --> 00:34:01,293
a quick question that'll suit the House.

592
00:34:01,460 --> 00:34:04,251
Yesterday no lunch:
the Bahrain question.

593
00:34:04,418 --> 00:34:07,043
It's getting to be a pain.

594
00:34:07,501 --> 00:34:11,293
By now
our fabulous Parliamentary attaché

595
00:34:11,460 --> 00:34:14,710
will have convinced a deputy
to ask a question.

596
00:34:15,501 --> 00:34:18,376
It's all the majority is good for.

597
00:34:18,835 --> 00:34:20,126
Hi!

598
00:34:20,626 --> 00:34:23,085
So, Miss Normandy,
how many did you wow?

599
00:34:23,251 --> 00:34:26,585
Cut out the Miss Normandy crap!

600
00:34:26,751 --> 00:34:28,626
Were you actually Miss Normandy?

601
00:34:28,793 --> 00:34:30,376
Find a new gag, OK?

602
00:34:31,376 --> 00:34:33,501
I got you a sucker
for your Turkey question.

603
00:34:33,751 --> 00:34:36,335
Here we go, no lunch again.

604
00:34:36,501 --> 00:34:38,835
And tomorrow we'll have the Senate.

605
00:34:39,043 --> 00:34:41,710
So who's the stooge of the day?
Maxime Dubos?

606
00:34:41,876 --> 00:34:43,543
No, the majority had qualms.

607
00:34:43,710 --> 00:34:45,876
I did better, I found you

608
00:34:46,501 --> 00:34:47,876
a bonus gift...

609
00:34:48,460 --> 00:34:50,043
A Commie, Jacques Duferrand.

610
00:34:50,918 --> 00:34:54,543
Communists are easy to convince.
They adore Taillard.

611
00:34:55,251 --> 00:34:57,835
Stéphane, give us ideas
for the Minister's reply,

612
00:34:58,043 --> 00:34:59,918
and Arthur you polish it all,

613
00:35:00,126 --> 00:35:01,585
on a single

614
00:35:01,751 --> 00:35:02,710
A5 card.

615
00:35:03,668 --> 00:35:05,001
The way he likes it.

616
00:35:05,251 --> 00:35:07,918
I'm due back at the bar.
The House's hotspot.

617
00:35:08,335 --> 00:35:10,501
Duferrand agreed to ask the question,

618
00:35:10,668 --> 00:35:13,335
but wants it written out.
Who's the lucky guy?

619
00:35:13,876 --> 00:35:15,126
Arthur!

620
00:35:15,501 --> 00:35:17,460
Since you're writing the answer,

621
00:35:17,585 --> 00:35:19,085
write the question.

622
00:35:19,251 --> 00:35:22,210
Punch it up a bit, so it rings true.

623
00:35:22,376 --> 00:35:25,376
It's time we quit playing this game,

624
00:35:25,501 --> 00:35:28,210
where the same guy, mostly me,

625
00:35:28,376 --> 00:35:31,418
writes the question and the answer.

626
00:35:31,543 --> 00:35:33,835
First it makes a sham of democracy,

627
00:35:34,043 --> 00:35:36,168
and it's also starving us.

628
00:35:36,793 --> 00:35:38,793
In my tiny attic office,

629
00:35:39,293 --> 00:35:41,460
and I mean tiny,

630
00:35:41,585 --> 00:35:43,876
you can't get in a sandwich.

631
00:35:44,085 --> 00:35:47,210
Even a "club", a thin, triangular one.

632
00:35:47,376 --> 00:35:49,876
All club sandwiches are triangular.

633
00:35:50,085 --> 00:35:51,793
See, I've forgotten.

634
00:35:52,543 --> 00:35:54,793
Glad I finished the speech last night.

635
00:35:55,001 --> 00:35:58,585
Well, don't be too optimistic.

636
00:35:59,501 --> 00:36:02,251
This morning,
he called Jean-Paul Brizon.

637
00:36:02,668 --> 00:36:03,876
His philosopher pal,

638
00:36:05,001 --> 00:36:06,668
"Resilience in the Projects",

639
00:36:06,835 --> 00:36:10,126
the concept he peddles
in every flavor on TV.

640
00:36:10,626 --> 00:36:14,168
Now we'll get swamped with "resilience".

641
00:36:14,335 --> 00:36:16,876
I don't know what it means,
but we'd better be ready.

642
00:36:17,085 --> 00:36:18,793
"Resilience in the Projects"

643
00:36:19,001 --> 00:36:22,043
is sheer vacuity, pure mush.

644
00:36:22,210 --> 00:36:24,751
Trendies call it "Soft knowledge".

645
00:36:24,918 --> 00:36:29,251
Quit ladling this soppy stuff.
We've had it to here.

646
00:36:29,543 --> 00:36:32,793
The question was feeble.
The answer got by.

647
00:36:33,001 --> 00:36:35,210
On paper. But not orally.

648
00:36:35,376 --> 00:36:37,251
You've never spoken in the House!

649
00:36:37,418 --> 00:36:39,835
Your words don't fly.
They stay grounded.

650
00:36:40,043 --> 00:36:41,460
Look at the Mayor of Paris,

651
00:36:41,585 --> 00:36:44,085
he needs no notes, his words fly.

652
00:36:44,335 --> 00:36:46,293
Excellent statement, Minister.

653
00:36:46,460 --> 00:36:48,501
Orally, you're the best.

654
00:36:48,626 --> 00:36:49,918
Thank you, Bruno.

655
00:36:50,501 --> 00:36:51,876
What did I say?

656
00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:56,335
"A fool who must orate
is frozen with fear."

657
00:36:59,918 --> 00:37:04,543
Tell the Emir, he should "be aware of"
French expertise in radar.

658
00:37:04,710 --> 00:37:08,918
Say his kingdom will play
a leading role in the Middle East.

659
00:37:09,126 --> 00:37:11,251
You know that our radars are the best.

660
00:37:11,418 --> 00:37:15,918
Your kingdom would greatly benefit
from France's expertise.

661
00:37:16,543 --> 00:37:19,501
Your area can't depend
on the United States.

662
00:37:21,793 --> 00:37:24,168
You're bogging me down
in pissass stuff!

663
00:37:24,335 --> 00:37:25,793
I'm not an arms dealer!

664
00:37:26,001 --> 00:37:27,710
I'm breaking my butt for peace.

665
00:37:27,876 --> 00:37:29,751
You make me peddle guns

666
00:37:29,918 --> 00:37:31,085
like neckties or dildos!

667
00:37:31,251 --> 00:37:35,543
Please translate exactly
what the Minister said!

668
00:37:35,835 --> 00:37:36,710
Mr. Minister,

669
00:37:36,876 --> 00:37:39,835
if we don't regain a foothold there,
all your fine speeches...

670
00:37:40,293 --> 00:37:41,751
This isn't to do with speeches!

671
00:37:42,376 --> 00:37:43,793
It's politics!

672
00:37:44,293 --> 00:37:47,293
Shit! Your bullshit made me hang up!

673
00:37:47,751 --> 00:37:50,210
Martine, call back that idiot!

674
00:37:50,710 --> 00:37:51,835
Sorry.

675
00:37:52,293 --> 00:37:55,001
Martine! I haven't got all day!

676
00:37:55,168 --> 00:37:58,460
They're not picking up.
I can't force them to.

677
00:37:58,626 --> 00:38:02,085
Listen, pal. I was setting up
the basics of our negotiation.

678
00:38:02,251 --> 00:38:04,335
That's been done.
So now you're in charge.

679
00:38:04,501 --> 00:38:05,835
Stuck in your goo.

680
00:38:06,043 --> 00:38:07,876
Arthur, what's with this speech?

681
00:38:08,085 --> 00:38:11,085
We must discuss
the Israel-Palestine roadmap.

682
00:38:11,251 --> 00:38:12,668
In Lusdemistan the Brits are...

683
00:38:12,835 --> 00:38:14,001
It's better!

684
00:38:14,168 --> 00:38:16,335
There, we should hone a few things

685
00:38:16,501 --> 00:38:18,543
on the Lusdemistan crisis.
And emphasize...

686
00:38:18,710 --> 00:38:20,876
So emphasize, Cahut! It's urgent!

687
00:38:22,418 --> 00:38:25,168
Last week's work
can't wait until tomorrow.

688
00:38:25,751 --> 00:38:27,460
I have to do it all myself.

689
00:38:27,585 --> 00:38:30,251
Your fantasy speeches
will kill me.

690
00:38:30,418 --> 00:38:33,168
In this lowly world,
don't settle for comfort.

691
00:38:33,335 --> 00:38:36,043
Urgency is the backbone of action.

692
00:38:40,710 --> 00:38:41,501
Alexandre,

693
00:38:43,085 --> 00:38:44,710
we have a rather urgent problem.

694
00:38:44,876 --> 00:38:46,543
Can I see you a minute?

695
00:38:47,793 --> 00:38:49,293
Not your Germans again?

696
00:38:50,251 --> 00:38:54,043
A ship manned by our guys
is burning in Lusdemistan waters.

697
00:38:54,210 --> 00:38:56,668
With 200 tons of fuel in the hold.

698
00:38:57,126 --> 00:39:00,585
Our ambassador says the ship
is drifting to Lusde.

699
00:39:00,751 --> 00:39:03,168
4 million inhabitants. Ready to explode.

700
00:39:03,335 --> 00:39:04,751
Are terrorists involved?

701
00:39:05,126 --> 00:39:08,293
No, it seems to be a dumb human error.

702
00:39:08,501 --> 00:39:11,460
Dumb? Couldn't they have
done it off Corsica!

703
00:39:11,710 --> 00:39:13,710
All the Neocons want is

704
00:39:13,876 --> 00:39:17,293
an incident in Lusdemistan
to send in their Marines.

705
00:39:17,585 --> 00:39:21,376
We can't let World War Ill
be started by a cigarette!

706
00:39:22,835 --> 00:39:24,293
Let's concentrate.

707
00:39:25,376 --> 00:39:27,626
We must regain control of that ship.

708
00:39:28,460 --> 00:39:31,626
You must alert the President.
And the Minister of Defense.

709
00:39:32,001 --> 00:39:33,126
Shit, not her!

710
00:39:34,376 --> 00:39:36,293
I'll make a few phone calls.

711
00:39:36,460 --> 00:39:39,543
We have operatives in the area.
I know them well.

712
00:39:44,876 --> 00:39:46,335
Is something wrong?

713
00:39:46,501 --> 00:39:50,168
You know what'll happen.
After your phone call,

714
00:39:50,418 --> 00:39:52,585
the Defense minister
will want to take over.

715
00:39:52,751 --> 00:39:55,626
She'll make waves
and complicate matters.

716
00:39:56,501 --> 00:39:58,668
We'd better handle this tactfully.

717
00:39:58,835 --> 00:39:59,835
You know her.

718
00:40:00,043 --> 00:40:02,876
Only press conferences interest her!

719
00:40:04,626 --> 00:40:06,501
Make a deal with her.

720
00:40:07,085 --> 00:40:09,251
Let her do the communicating,

721
00:40:09,418 --> 00:40:12,876
if she gives us a free hand
for one hour.

722
00:40:13,751 --> 00:40:18,043
If I haven't controlled it by then,
she can take over.

723
00:40:18,835 --> 00:40:21,376
Let that dodo do the communicating?

724
00:40:23,001 --> 00:40:26,293
I need an hour without interference.

725
00:40:26,460 --> 00:40:28,085
The US State Department,

726
00:40:28,251 --> 00:40:30,251
anyone want to chat with them?

727
00:40:30,418 --> 00:40:31,793
Before advising the US,

728
00:40:32,001 --> 00:40:35,126
let's talk
to the Lusdemistan ambassador.

729
00:40:35,626 --> 00:40:37,293
I have some info,

730
00:40:37,460 --> 00:40:40,668
but I must see you alone.
They need an answer in 10 minutes.

731
00:40:43,001 --> 00:40:46,126
This is a decisive moment
where the cabinet

732
00:40:46,293 --> 00:40:48,335
needs the help of the administration.

733
00:40:49,710 --> 00:40:52,251
Bertrand Castela, Strategic Director.

734
00:40:53,418 --> 00:40:54,543
Maybe you don't know,

735
00:40:55,626 --> 00:40:59,043
but a ship's on fire
off Lusdemistan.

736
00:40:59,585 --> 00:41:01,918
But don't worry, I'm monitoring

737
00:41:02,126 --> 00:41:04,168
the situation very closely.

738
00:41:07,501 --> 00:41:10,876
Listen, what would really help me,

739
00:41:11,085 --> 00:41:14,043
is if you did nothing for the next hour.

740
00:41:14,210 --> 00:41:17,210
I need to concentrate a bit.

741
00:41:18,251 --> 00:41:21,293
Meanwhile, try to move
forward on other issues.

742
00:41:21,460 --> 00:41:23,335
Between us, there's no lack of them:

743
00:41:23,501 --> 00:41:24,918
There's Turkey,

744
00:41:25,585 --> 00:41:27,751
the Great Lakes conflict,

745
00:41:28,126 --> 00:41:30,085
the West Bank,

746
00:41:30,376 --> 00:41:32,835
the Seychelles' tuna fishermen,

747
00:41:33,043 --> 00:41:36,710
the anchovy war with Spain.

748
00:41:37,793 --> 00:41:42,376
If someone handled
the Maronite Patriarch

749
00:41:42,501 --> 00:41:45,210
for me for one hour...

750
00:41:45,751 --> 00:41:47,376
Who...?

751
00:41:48,251 --> 00:41:49,376
Valerie maybe?

752
00:41:49,918 --> 00:41:51,793
The Maronite Patriarch?

753
00:41:53,293 --> 00:41:55,585
Thanks, Claude. Just what I needed.

754
00:41:58,501 --> 00:42:02,085
Odile, put me on the encrypted line.

755
00:42:02,251 --> 00:42:06,001
Make sure no one
sets foot in this office.

756
00:42:07,710 --> 00:42:09,626
Arthur, you dodging me?

757
00:42:11,210 --> 00:42:13,710
Sing us that song? How does it go?

758
00:42:13,876 --> 00:42:16,085
The triangle and the rosebud?

759
00:42:17,085 --> 00:42:19,668
<i>Ream her little triangle</i>

760
00:42:19,835 --> 00:42:22,210
<i>Tweak her dewy rosebud</i>

761
00:42:23,376 --> 00:42:25,501
Huh, Valerie? Tweaking the rosebud?

762
00:42:25,626 --> 00:42:28,585
I just adore macho ribaldry!

763
00:42:28,751 --> 00:42:30,501
With you, France is in good hands.

764
00:42:30,626 --> 00:42:33,460
Try harder,
and you may reach puberty!

765
00:42:34,543 --> 00:42:36,251
Don't be miffed at me.

766
00:42:36,418 --> 00:42:40,168
If it's because
we disagreed on that speech...

767
00:42:41,710 --> 00:42:43,168
You can do better.

768
00:42:43,335 --> 00:42:46,085
I showed it to you:
you said it was perfect.

769
00:42:46,668 --> 00:42:47,585
Listen,

770
00:42:47,751 --> 00:42:50,668
"Water that boils, never forgets."

771
00:42:50,835 --> 00:42:53,126
Gabonese proverb. Think it over.

772
00:42:53,293 --> 00:42:55,418
You people OK? Not overworked?

773
00:42:55,543 --> 00:42:58,543
Racing your motors? Don't burn out!

774
00:42:59,543 --> 00:43:00,835
Come, Arthur!

775
00:43:04,835 --> 00:43:06,543
Claude, where do we stand?

776
00:43:06,710 --> 00:43:10,293
We're at the controls.
I hope we make it out of this shit.

777
00:43:10,460 --> 00:43:12,293
That's all I can say.

778
00:43:12,460 --> 00:43:13,293
Yes?

779
00:43:17,126 --> 00:43:20,293
Robert... So it's all up to you now...

780
00:43:22,918 --> 00:43:27,335
The problem is,
it takes retroactive homothetics.

781
00:43:32,543 --> 00:43:34,876
Arthur,
I want a press release on that.

782
00:43:36,293 --> 00:43:38,751
We made a deal
with the Ministry of Defense!

783
00:43:38,918 --> 00:43:42,835
We can't let those creeps get
the credit, when we do the work!

784
00:43:43,126 --> 00:43:47,918
It's still pretty fucking explosive.
We need to be cautious.

785
00:43:49,793 --> 00:43:51,376
Yes, Bernard.

786
00:43:51,501 --> 00:43:52,751
How are you doing?

787
00:43:52,918 --> 00:43:54,501
- Arthur?
- Mr. Minister?

788
00:43:54,626 --> 00:43:57,418
Is my speech to the Grad school good?

789
00:43:57,543 --> 00:43:59,335
Yes, sir.

790
00:44:00,918 --> 00:44:03,418
You see how things happen. Here! Now!

791
00:44:04,793 --> 00:44:08,543
One needs an innate
sense of action, of urgency.

792
00:44:09,043 --> 00:44:10,751
Talleyrand's days are over.

793
00:44:10,918 --> 00:44:14,126
Today diplomacy isn't
done in palace backrooms.

794
00:44:14,293 --> 00:44:16,543
Where they pissed in the stairwell!

795
00:44:16,710 --> 00:44:19,918
It means being ever ready
for world crises.

796
00:44:20,126 --> 00:44:21,210
We must say that.

797
00:44:21,626 --> 00:44:24,001
Sir, the Danish Foreign Minister
awaits you.

798
00:44:24,168 --> 00:44:27,585
Shit, I have to deal with that Dane!

799
00:44:27,751 --> 00:44:29,251
This job is pure crap!

800
00:44:29,418 --> 00:44:32,418
Him and his bicycle.
We've got nothing to say.

801
00:44:32,543 --> 00:44:34,501
You should meet with him.

802
00:44:34,626 --> 00:44:37,376
He's important:
he has clout in Brussels.

803
00:44:37,751 --> 00:44:39,418
Yesterday I had the Slovenian!

804
00:44:40,210 --> 00:44:42,543
Claude, my boy, do your best.

805
00:44:45,668 --> 00:44:47,043
What a dumb language!

806
00:44:48,918 --> 00:44:51,043
Hello, Stanislas... Yes.

807
00:44:51,668 --> 00:44:53,501
How long will it take?

808
00:44:56,043 --> 00:44:58,043
- Is he in?
- No, no! Mr. Castela!

809
00:44:58,626 --> 00:45:00,126
- He's busy?
- Yes.

810
00:45:03,376 --> 00:45:05,210
<i>Odile, come in.</i>

811
00:45:05,751 --> 00:45:08,251
My counterpart at Defense

812
00:45:08,418 --> 00:45:10,293
was shocked he wasn't told.

813
00:45:10,751 --> 00:45:12,418
As no one's informing us...

814
00:45:12,543 --> 00:45:15,751
You're essential to this whole affair.

815
00:45:15,918 --> 00:45:19,293
I'll inform you first,
as soon as I hear.

816
00:45:19,835 --> 00:45:22,085
Odile, please.

817
00:45:22,251 --> 00:45:24,126
It can be sent now.

818
00:45:28,710 --> 00:45:29,543
Thanks.

819
00:45:30,668 --> 00:45:33,168
<i>Claude, we're headed for a disaster!</i>

820
00:46:16,710 --> 00:46:20,126
The Minister's father
is here to see you.

821
00:46:20,293 --> 00:46:21,668
Say I'm in a...

822
00:46:24,460 --> 00:46:26,001
Attorney, what a nice surprise!

823
00:46:26,168 --> 00:46:27,335
Where is my son?

824
00:46:27,501 --> 00:46:29,668
With the Dane, Attorney.

825
00:46:30,418 --> 00:46:32,751
Not "Attorney", Claude.

826
00:46:33,168 --> 00:46:36,418
I said call me Antoine.

827
00:46:36,543 --> 00:46:37,501
Yes, sir.

828
00:46:39,335 --> 00:46:40,543
Tell me...

829
00:46:42,501 --> 00:46:45,460
the kid's speech in New York,

830
00:46:46,626 --> 00:46:48,793
will it be original at least?

831
00:46:49,001 --> 00:46:50,710
Because we have

832
00:46:51,376 --> 00:46:55,293
many flaws in our family,
but we've never

833
00:46:55,460 --> 00:46:59,126
lacked guts or originality...

834
00:47:00,460 --> 00:47:03,210
He mustn't spout
technocratic mishmash,

835
00:47:05,168 --> 00:47:06,876
especially in New York.

836
00:47:07,418 --> 00:47:11,043
It was there, in the Hotel Astor,
that De Gaulle said:

837
00:47:11,543 --> 00:47:13,251
"I applaud New York,

838
00:47:13,751 --> 00:47:16,418
"the center of exchanges

839
00:47:16,543 --> 00:47:19,626
"between our old, yet young, continent

840
00:47:20,251 --> 00:47:21,710
"and your New World,

841
00:47:21,876 --> 00:47:24,460
"which is already old
in the history of mankind."

842
00:47:24,918 --> 00:47:27,210
Our old continent...

843
00:47:27,668 --> 00:47:28,751
That took guts.

844
00:47:32,835 --> 00:47:34,168
No, no...

845
00:47:37,501 --> 00:47:39,085
Leave the details

846
00:47:39,751 --> 00:47:42,793
to the bureaucrats.
Right, Claude?

847
00:47:46,710 --> 00:47:47,626
Listen,

848
00:47:48,043 --> 00:47:51,460
I wanted to be of more help
on this New York business.

849
00:47:51,585 --> 00:47:54,918
But you'll have to figure it out
yourselves.

850
00:47:55,710 --> 00:47:57,835
I'm less listened to these days,

851
00:47:58,626 --> 00:48:00,335
I'm shriveling up,

852
00:48:01,293 --> 00:48:02,835
disappearing,

853
00:48:04,126 --> 00:48:06,710
swept away in the shipwreck
of old age.

854
00:48:07,710 --> 00:48:09,376
But I'm with you...

855
00:48:13,210 --> 00:48:17,835
Inside us all,
is an old man fiddling on.

856
00:48:20,376 --> 00:48:21,710
Thank you, sir.

857
00:48:21,876 --> 00:48:23,126
Where's my boy?

858
00:48:23,293 --> 00:48:25,126
Put Stanislas back on.

859
00:48:29,335 --> 00:48:30,626
You OK, Claude?

860
00:48:35,085 --> 00:48:39,168
The ship's nearing the coast.
We may not make it.

861
00:48:40,501 --> 00:48:45,460
Listen, I need 5 minutes
without a single soul.

862
00:49:06,793 --> 00:49:08,501
I'm sorry, sir...

863
00:49:09,335 --> 00:49:11,418
I'll pick them up for you.

864
00:49:11,835 --> 00:49:13,376
I'll put them back in order.

865
00:49:14,418 --> 00:49:15,793
There...

866
00:49:16,168 --> 00:49:18,418
It's weird, I can't find page 4...

867
00:49:18,710 --> 00:49:22,626
Take your time,
we're not managing any crisis here.

868
00:49:22,918 --> 00:49:24,210
We're totally cool.

869
00:49:24,376 --> 00:49:25,418
There it is...

870
00:49:26,126 --> 00:49:27,501
The war can wait.

871
00:49:32,293 --> 00:49:33,376
That'll do.

872
00:49:34,460 --> 00:49:35,543
There.

873
00:49:38,918 --> 00:49:40,876
Well, where do we stand?

874
00:49:41,085 --> 00:49:42,210
I'm waiting for news.

875
00:49:42,376 --> 00:49:46,043
In 2 days, I leave for Berlin
and for New York in a week.

876
00:49:46,210 --> 00:49:47,751
A week means tomorrow!

877
00:49:47,918 --> 00:49:50,501
Those speeches just won't do!

878
00:49:50,668 --> 00:49:53,876
I won't spout techno-junk
even to grad students.

879
00:49:54,460 --> 00:49:57,585
I'll look ridiculous! This job is crap!

880
00:49:57,751 --> 00:50:00,668
And the New York speech is worse.

881
00:50:01,126 --> 00:50:02,460
That's where,

882
00:50:02,585 --> 00:50:04,835
in the Hotel Astor, De Gaulle said:

883
00:50:05,335 --> 00:50:08,293
"I applaud New York,
the center of exchanges..."

884
00:50:15,001 --> 00:50:16,210
Take it.

885
00:50:22,210 --> 00:50:24,085
19 degrees,

886
00:50:24,543 --> 00:50:25,793
21 minutes...

887
00:50:27,085 --> 00:50:28,251
You want my death?

888
00:50:30,126 --> 00:50:31,876
This highlighter doesn't work.

889
00:50:32,168 --> 00:50:34,251
Martine! Tell me:

890
00:50:34,418 --> 00:50:37,460
why buy me highlighters
that don't work?

891
00:50:37,668 --> 00:50:40,501
Look, the felt tip is mushy.

892
00:50:40,668 --> 00:50:43,876
This crisis
could become World War Ill.

893
00:50:44,543 --> 00:50:49,001
I can't face the U.S. State Department
with a mushy highlighter!

894
00:50:49,168 --> 00:50:51,918
You said you'd rewrite
the speech yourself.

895
00:50:52,126 --> 00:50:54,085
So I bought you a brand new pen.

896
00:50:54,418 --> 00:50:56,501
A "Roller Tendol", fine point, No. 3.

897
00:50:56,668 --> 00:50:59,501
Martine you understand nothing

898
00:50:59,626 --> 00:51:01,543
about writing.

899
00:51:01,710 --> 00:51:03,835
It's gathering.

900
00:51:04,043 --> 00:51:06,126
Like a bee from many flowers.

901
00:51:06,293 --> 00:51:09,210
For that one needs a highlighter.

902
00:51:09,543 --> 00:51:12,835
Don't trust eggheads with leaky pens.

903
00:51:13,043 --> 00:51:14,293
They write crap.

904
00:51:14,918 --> 00:51:17,460
One has to see things clearly.

905
00:51:18,126 --> 00:51:19,043
By highlighting!

906
00:51:20,876 --> 00:51:25,585
We can't let the Lusdemenites
intercept that ship,

907
00:51:26,210 --> 00:51:29,335
or our Ministry of Defense
send in their louts.

908
00:51:29,501 --> 00:51:33,501
To the Lusdemenites,
it'll be an act of war.

909
00:51:33,626 --> 00:51:34,835
Look at this:

910
00:51:35,710 --> 00:51:38,626
you can tell this book's a dud.

911
00:51:38,793 --> 00:51:40,418
No highlighting.

912
00:51:42,043 --> 00:51:44,293
Here, I highlighted the whole book.

913
00:51:45,126 --> 00:51:47,168
Now that's a good book. Heavy!

914
00:51:54,126 --> 00:51:55,751
Full of hard concepts.

915
00:51:55,918 --> 00:51:57,126
All yellow now.

916
00:51:57,751 --> 00:52:00,626
To know if a book's any good,

917
00:52:00,793 --> 00:52:04,043
I hardly read it,
I highlight it intuitively.

918
00:52:04,418 --> 00:52:06,085
Know the problem?

919
00:52:07,710 --> 00:52:11,501
Your worn highlighters!
The yellow ink trickles out.

920
00:52:11,668 --> 00:52:14,668
See, when I highlight,
the paper gets wavy.

921
00:52:14,835 --> 00:52:16,918
The better the book, the wavier it is.

922
00:52:17,126 --> 00:52:18,710
And that bugs me!

923
00:52:22,126 --> 00:52:24,418
Arthur's Berlin speech...

924
00:52:24,835 --> 00:52:27,835
It isn't wavy, not one bit.

925
00:52:28,043 --> 00:52:29,668
That means it's lousy!

926
00:52:30,210 --> 00:52:32,501
I'm managing
a crisis in Lusdemistan...

927
00:52:32,668 --> 00:52:34,501
I came to see the Minister.

928
00:52:34,876 --> 00:52:36,626
He's all yours, sir.

929
00:52:37,501 --> 00:52:40,626
...while the President frets
about a fugitive bear...

930
00:52:42,501 --> 00:52:44,793
The ship was diverted from its path

931
00:52:45,001 --> 00:52:47,876
before entering Lusdemistan waters.

932
00:52:48,085 --> 00:52:50,460
Our guys got evacuated.

933
00:52:50,710 --> 00:52:53,751
And the fire is under control.

934
00:52:56,210 --> 00:52:58,168
We're lucky to have you, pal.

935
00:52:58,335 --> 00:53:02,543
"If all things became smoke,
the nostrils would know them."

936
00:53:09,793 --> 00:53:10,626
There's nothing.

937
00:53:10,793 --> 00:53:15,210
Here you're quoted. 3 paragraphs.
The Minister of Trade gets 3 lines.

938
00:53:15,376 --> 00:53:18,460
"Tom Cruise"!
3 more than he deserves.

939
00:53:18,751 --> 00:53:22,168
You saw?
Things are heating up in Ubanga.

940
00:53:22,335 --> 00:53:25,668
It'll blow up on us.
Fine, we're not busy:

941
00:53:25,835 --> 00:53:28,710
just a threat of war in Lusdemistan,
Palestine,

942
00:53:28,876 --> 00:53:31,626
nuclear tests in North Korea.
Peace and quiet!

943
00:53:33,001 --> 00:53:36,335
So in Berlin, what do I say?

944
00:53:37,126 --> 00:53:40,168
That damn ship grabbed our time.
I'm bareassed.

945
00:53:40,335 --> 00:53:43,626
Ship or no ship, I always am.

946
00:53:44,251 --> 00:53:45,710
I'll have to start waffling...

947
00:53:46,710 --> 00:53:48,335
Then what?

948
00:53:48,501 --> 00:53:50,335
Vlaminck's a nice guy,

949
00:53:50,668 --> 00:53:53,126
with his square-toed shoes,

950
00:53:53,543 --> 00:53:55,376
but where are my talking points?

951
00:54:10,418 --> 00:54:11,585
Who's he?

952
00:54:11,751 --> 00:54:13,501
The minister's encryptor.

953
00:54:13,626 --> 00:54:15,460
The guy under the fountain?

954
00:54:15,835 --> 00:54:17,585
Le Chiffre, who encodes wires.

955
00:54:17,751 --> 00:54:18,668
Why's he here?

956
00:54:18,835 --> 00:54:21,751
He follows the Minister,
so we can send wires.

957
00:54:21,918 --> 00:54:23,293
You send them often?

958
00:54:23,460 --> 00:54:24,501
Never.

959
00:54:29,501 --> 00:54:33,460
This speech has been force-fed.
Why Lusdemistan, if it's on Europe?

960
00:54:33,585 --> 00:54:34,876
He wanted it there.

961
00:54:35,210 --> 00:54:36,710
Learn to say no.

962
00:54:37,585 --> 00:54:39,168
The Minister wants to see you.

963
00:54:48,126 --> 00:54:49,793
Show me your goulash.

964
00:54:53,501 --> 00:54:55,460
I won't read it on that thing.

965
00:54:55,585 --> 00:54:58,460
I was integrating
your corrections.

966
00:55:00,501 --> 00:55:03,335
It didn't start that way.
Where's the beginning?

967
00:55:04,460 --> 00:55:05,835
Higher up.

968
00:55:06,876 --> 00:55:09,001
Higher than what?
It's not on the screen!

969
00:55:09,168 --> 00:55:10,710
No, wait I'll...

970
00:55:10,876 --> 00:55:12,501
That's not it: it's lost!

971
00:55:12,626 --> 00:55:15,460
You did paper-and-paste,
the machine ate it.

972
00:55:15,585 --> 00:55:17,001
No, it's been saved...

973
00:55:17,168 --> 00:55:20,001
You're useless on your gizmo!

974
00:55:41,793 --> 00:55:43,043
What's going on?

975
00:55:43,210 --> 00:55:44,835
An accident, it seems.

976
00:55:45,043 --> 00:55:48,293
We can't spend all night.
Come, Arthur.

977
00:55:58,710 --> 00:56:00,668
I do the work, you guys goof off!

978
00:56:01,001 --> 00:56:03,501
On the plane back,
I want the new Grad speech

979
00:56:03,668 --> 00:56:06,168
and the new NY one on the risk of war.

980
00:56:06,335 --> 00:56:08,001
Go to it! Action!

981
00:56:08,376 --> 00:56:10,501
Think the Americans loaf like you?

982
00:56:10,668 --> 00:56:12,668
They're a team of 30 people! And I'm...

983
00:56:12,835 --> 00:56:15,876
I'll do whatever you ask,
but I need an office.

984
00:56:16,460 --> 00:56:19,210
Mr. Ambassador, you have a spare one?

985
00:56:34,710 --> 00:56:35,460
Yes, Claude?

986
00:56:44,085 --> 00:56:47,251
Not a great speech.
The Homeric metaphors fell flat.

987
00:56:47,418 --> 00:56:49,001
Ancient Greece isn't big here.

988
00:56:49,168 --> 00:56:51,543
A load of shit's hit the fan.

989
00:57:02,043 --> 00:57:03,126
So, is it ready?

990
00:57:05,085 --> 00:57:06,335
Sorry.

991
00:57:09,668 --> 00:57:13,001
I had Maupas on the phone.
A hostage-taking.

992
00:57:13,168 --> 00:57:13,835
Where?

993
00:57:14,043 --> 00:57:16,710
Africa, the Great Lakes.
A reporter disguised as an NGO.

994
00:57:16,876 --> 00:57:18,543
We advised him not to go.

995
00:57:18,918 --> 00:57:22,085
Dammit!
I'm not the Good Shepherd...

996
00:57:22,793 --> 00:57:25,085
rounding up his flock!

997
00:57:26,751 --> 00:57:29,793
The guy was doing his job.
We must get him out.

998
00:57:30,001 --> 00:57:33,460
Find me an office and a secure phone.

999
00:57:34,501 --> 00:57:36,876
I still haven't peed all day.

1000
00:57:37,376 --> 00:57:40,710
Luckily, nobody
gave me a glass of water.

1001
00:57:42,168 --> 00:57:44,043
Your speech is ground meat!

1002
00:57:44,210 --> 00:57:46,710
Beyond its shelf life! It's old hat.

1003
00:57:46,876 --> 00:57:49,126
It needs depth,

1004
00:57:49,293 --> 00:57:52,001
historical references, heart.

1005
00:57:52,168 --> 00:57:54,501
Quote the great builders,
great unifiers,

1006
00:57:54,668 --> 00:57:56,085
Euripides, Montaigne,

1007
00:57:56,251 --> 00:57:57,501
Erasmus, Jaures,

1008
00:57:57,668 --> 00:57:58,876
Zidane!

1009
00:57:59,085 --> 00:58:01,001
It needs muscle, not mush.

1010
00:58:01,251 --> 00:58:04,126
Beware of the Germans' reaction,

1011
00:58:04,293 --> 00:58:07,585
who dislike any reference
to the Nazis,

1012
00:58:07,751 --> 00:58:10,085
especially if it's blatant.

1013
00:58:11,043 --> 00:58:14,835
Say the same thing, but more positively.

1014
00:58:15,043 --> 00:58:16,543
- No, that's no good.
- It isn't?

1015
00:58:16,710 --> 00:58:18,501
No, he sounds Belgian.

1016
00:58:20,376 --> 00:58:22,210
To me you've never looked cuter.

1017
00:58:27,210 --> 00:58:28,335
Jogging time.

1018
00:58:31,418 --> 00:58:32,251
Run! Grenade!

1019
00:58:42,335 --> 00:58:45,626
To upset the Russians,
slam the Iranians.

1020
00:58:46,126 --> 00:58:49,376
To upset the Iranians,
call them Arabs.

1021
00:58:49,835 --> 00:58:52,918
To raise hell in the Middle East,

1022
00:58:53,418 --> 00:58:55,376
bring up Lusdemistan.

1023
00:58:55,501 --> 00:58:58,168
The Americans do all three at once.

1024
00:58:58,335 --> 00:59:00,543
We're caught in the landslide!

1025
00:59:00,710 --> 00:59:02,668
- That's Cahut?
- Yeah.

1026
00:59:02,835 --> 00:59:05,501
The amazing one
is Maupas, Chief of Staff.

1027
00:59:06,085 --> 00:59:08,793
If I got it right,
when he says "Good luck, Arthur,"

1028
00:59:09,001 --> 00:59:10,918
it means "You're in deep shit."

1029
00:59:11,126 --> 00:59:14,585
"Bravo, Valerie" means
"Once more, you're fired."

1030
00:59:15,043 --> 00:59:16,918
When you're right, what does he say?

1031
00:59:17,126 --> 00:59:18,043
Nothing.

1032
00:59:18,210 --> 00:59:20,210
How does Maupas
stand the Minister?

1033
00:59:20,376 --> 00:59:23,251
To him, Taillard's
like a noisy upstairs neighbor.

1034
00:59:23,418 --> 00:59:26,293
Disrupting, but you can function.

1035
00:59:26,585 --> 00:59:28,251
Is he for a Palestinian state?

1036
00:59:28,710 --> 00:59:31,085
Nope, no oil in Palestine.

1037
00:59:31,251 --> 00:59:34,626
But Lusdemistan has tons,
so Taillard likes 'em.

1038
00:59:35,168 --> 00:59:38,001
Wait, you on a neocon payroll?

1039
00:59:38,168 --> 00:59:39,460
You must think

1040
00:59:39,585 --> 00:59:42,085
there are weapons of mass destruction

1041
00:59:42,251 --> 00:59:43,876
under Lusdemistan's palace.

1042
00:59:44,085 --> 00:59:44,876
Why not?

1043
00:59:45,085 --> 00:59:47,043
Under the bedroom is safest.

1044
00:59:47,501 --> 00:59:48,543
Why not?

1045
00:59:49,251 --> 00:59:52,418
Or under the bed.
Sleeping on a warhead is fab.

1046
00:59:52,543 --> 00:59:54,335
Does wonders for sex!

1047
00:59:54,626 --> 00:59:55,918
No, but really,

1048
00:59:56,126 --> 00:59:58,418
Taillard doesn't give
a hoot about oil.

1049
00:59:58,543 --> 01:00:01,585
Just between us.
He's a ham. Don't say he isn't.

1050
01:00:01,751 --> 01:00:02,918
I will.

1051
01:00:03,126 --> 01:00:05,126
He's the exact opposite.

1052
01:00:05,293 --> 01:00:08,668
An actor takes a text,
finds a way to say it.

1053
01:00:09,293 --> 01:00:10,251
But for Taillard,

1054
01:00:10,501 --> 01:00:14,418
I must find his kind of words,
or it gets dumped.

1055
01:00:15,085 --> 01:00:16,876
Goof, and the world's ablaze?

1056
01:00:17,376 --> 01:00:18,085
Sure.

1057
01:00:19,001 --> 01:00:22,335
You're cute.
He's not as sincere as you.

1058
01:00:23,001 --> 01:00:24,335
He's not an actor.

1059
01:00:24,835 --> 01:00:26,376
He's an anti-actor.

1060
01:00:26,710 --> 01:00:29,210
Does your anti-actor
make anti-decisions?

1061
01:00:29,710 --> 01:00:33,168
Can your anti-actor
do anything concrete?

1062
01:00:46,043 --> 01:00:48,210
- Arthur!
- Sir?

1063
01:00:50,376 --> 01:00:52,585
I want to be
on the 8 PM news tonight.

1064
01:00:55,626 --> 01:00:56,835
Latest, by tomorrow.

1065
01:01:01,918 --> 01:01:04,335
Re the anchovy-fishing war
with Spain.

1066
01:01:04,501 --> 01:01:07,293
I'm sick of idiots
clogging our airwaves.

1067
01:01:08,918 --> 01:01:11,668
It's a very technical subject.

1068
01:01:11,835 --> 01:01:15,585
Both sides are guilty,
we may trip ourselves up.

1069
01:01:15,751 --> 01:01:16,668
The problem is

1070
01:01:16,835 --> 01:01:19,460
the Prime Minister has screwed up again

1071
01:01:19,585 --> 01:01:22,585
with asinine and confusing comments.

1072
01:01:22,751 --> 01:01:24,626
We must elevate the issue.

1073
01:01:24,793 --> 01:01:26,835
People who watch TV

1074
01:01:27,043 --> 01:01:30,085
must realize we see this world
as it should be.

1075
01:01:31,168 --> 01:01:32,543
We must soar higher.

1076
01:01:32,918 --> 01:01:34,543
Anchovies aren't the problem.

1077
01:01:35,168 --> 01:01:38,126
The world's problem is fear.

1078
01:01:40,585 --> 01:01:42,043
It's all in here.

1079
01:01:42,626 --> 01:01:43,918
Heraclitus:

1080
01:01:46,210 --> 01:01:48,210
"Lightning rules everything."

1081
01:01:50,251 --> 01:01:52,585
That's a crystal clear statement!

1082
01:01:52,751 --> 01:01:56,126
Arthur, dig into it.
Make it a weighty argument.

1083
01:01:57,293 --> 01:01:59,418
It says it all. Lightning!

1084
01:02:03,793 --> 01:02:06,335
I don't get this anchovy war.

1085
01:02:07,460 --> 01:02:11,085
The French said their fishermen
were oceanographers?

1086
01:02:11,251 --> 01:02:13,543
By-passed the anti-fishing rules?

1087
01:02:13,710 --> 01:02:14,918
It's a load of crap.

1088
01:02:15,126 --> 01:02:16,918
It's complex to explain.

1089
01:02:17,501 --> 01:02:20,501
At this point,
knowing our minister as you do,

1090
01:02:20,668 --> 01:02:23,626
if I were you,
I wouldn't be too technical.

1091
01:02:26,626 --> 01:02:28,376
Instead, can't you

1092
01:02:28,793 --> 01:02:30,918
find a few quotes

1093
01:02:31,251 --> 01:02:32,918
from Heraclitus

1094
01:02:34,626 --> 01:02:38,876
and cook up something
that sounds fairly normal?

1095
01:02:41,210 --> 01:02:42,210
Right.

1096
01:02:48,668 --> 01:02:51,501
"Among monkeys, the handsomest is ugly."

1097
01:02:55,210 --> 01:02:59,543
"Pigs prefer mud to clear water."

1098
01:03:01,543 --> 01:03:02,751
What?

1099
01:03:03,585 --> 01:03:05,501
As Heraclitus said,

1100
01:03:05,626 --> 01:03:08,585
anchovies prefer swimming
in Spanish waters

1101
01:03:08,751 --> 01:03:11,501
to ending up in French trawlers.

1102
01:03:13,251 --> 01:03:14,876
"Character is man's demon."

1103
01:03:15,085 --> 01:03:17,460
Character is man's anchovy.

1104
01:03:17,918 --> 01:03:19,168
"All men wish for

1105
01:03:19,335 --> 01:03:21,668
"self-knowledge and good thinking."

1106
01:03:21,835 --> 01:03:23,835
All anchovies wish for...

1107
01:03:24,043 --> 01:03:26,710
self-knowledge and good thinking.

1108
01:03:31,710 --> 01:03:32,585
How are we doing?

1109
01:03:34,126 --> 01:03:36,376
Go ahead! Enjoy!

1110
01:03:36,543 --> 01:03:38,918
I'll have to lay out the basics again.

1111
01:03:39,126 --> 01:03:41,876
But I won't highlight it all for you!

1112
01:03:43,210 --> 01:03:44,585
At random!

1113
01:03:44,751 --> 01:03:46,168
This one is for you:

1114
01:03:46,335 --> 01:03:48,418
"A fool who must orate,

1115
01:03:48,543 --> 01:03:50,710
"is frozen with fear."

1116
01:03:50,876 --> 01:03:53,001
Frozen! Like an anchovy.

1117
01:03:54,626 --> 01:03:57,085
"When present, they're absent."... OK.

1118
01:03:58,460 --> 01:04:02,710
"Men whose wishes come true,
feel no better."

1119
01:04:02,876 --> 01:04:05,251
Like fishermen. Bigger catches,

1120
01:04:05,501 --> 01:04:07,251
mean fewer anchovies left.

1121
01:04:08,793 --> 01:04:11,668
"Extinguish excess more than fire."

1122
01:04:12,043 --> 01:04:14,626
Hear what Heraclitus says?

1123
01:04:15,043 --> 01:04:18,668
"Extinguish excess more than fire."

1124
01:04:21,501 --> 01:04:22,626
Dear sir,

1125
01:04:23,168 --> 01:04:24,585
let me tell you this:

1126
01:04:24,751 --> 01:04:29,085
what's true for Spanish fishermen
is also for French ones.

1127
01:04:29,251 --> 01:04:31,793
We should reach out to one another.

1128
01:04:32,168 --> 01:04:35,335
Look beyond our interests.
Overcome our fears.

1129
01:04:35,585 --> 01:04:37,126
Control the fire.

1130
01:04:37,293 --> 01:04:41,085
There Arthur,
you lead into the fear that plagues us.

1131
01:04:41,335 --> 01:04:43,668
Each topic lets us soar higher.

1132
01:04:43,835 --> 01:04:46,668
Like Ignatius Loyola's
spiritual exercises.

1133
01:04:46,835 --> 01:04:48,460
That's how you rule the world.

1134
01:04:48,585 --> 01:04:51,835
With thoughts. By forging a vision.

1135
01:04:54,168 --> 01:04:55,793
It's a spiral.

1136
01:04:56,668 --> 01:04:59,085
No need to be a rocket scientist!

1137
01:06:10,085 --> 01:06:11,418
Bye, Marie!

1138
01:06:13,168 --> 01:06:17,418
We'll have a meeting
to go over our schedule.

1139
01:06:17,543 --> 01:06:20,835
We'll try and keep it
shorter than usual.

1140
01:06:21,418 --> 01:06:24,501
Let's start with today. 9 AM:

1141
01:06:24,668 --> 01:06:27,626
Bilateral with the Chilean.

1142
01:06:28,210 --> 01:06:31,043
They must be here, and have started.

1143
01:06:31,793 --> 01:06:33,126
10 AM Cabinet Meeting.

1144
01:06:33,293 --> 01:06:36,585
Everything ready?
The Minister's files up to date?

1145
01:06:36,751 --> 01:06:38,668
Yes, he got it all last night.

1146
01:06:38,835 --> 01:06:42,501
I meant to tell you,
I got a call from him.

1147
01:06:42,626 --> 01:06:45,001
It's always the same thing...

1148
01:06:45,168 --> 01:06:47,335
He wants to reduce his talking points:

1149
01:06:47,501 --> 01:06:50,793
the President wants them shorter
at the meeting.

1150
01:06:51,001 --> 01:06:53,168
Less than 3 minutes.

1151
01:06:53,335 --> 01:06:55,210
They're down to the essentials.

1152
01:06:55,585 --> 01:06:59,376
Make it the quintessence
of the essentials.

1153
01:06:59,501 --> 01:07:03,001
Focus on a few topics
that are hot in the media.

1154
01:07:03,168 --> 01:07:05,876
Only that interests them
in cabinet meetings.

1155
01:07:06,085 --> 01:07:08,626
No point in bringing up arcane stuff.

1156
01:07:08,793 --> 01:07:12,210
Then at 11 AM:
start of the Geneva sequence,

1157
01:07:12,376 --> 01:07:14,043
the NATO meeting.

1158
01:07:14,585 --> 01:07:18,168
There we must be super-prepared:
it may be tricky.

1159
01:07:19,168 --> 01:07:22,335
Wait! There's a lunch date
at 1 PM in his private agenda.

1160
01:07:22,501 --> 01:07:25,501
Molly Hutchinson,
Nobel Prize for Literature.

1161
01:07:25,626 --> 01:07:27,418
Are you sure?

1162
01:07:27,793 --> 01:07:29,335
That won't be possible!

1163
01:07:29,501 --> 01:07:32,293
Yes, it will!

1164
01:07:33,085 --> 01:07:35,085
It's in blue ink, highlighted.

1165
01:07:35,251 --> 01:07:37,126
Do as you please.

1166
01:07:37,293 --> 01:07:38,460
It's rock-solid.

1167
01:07:38,585 --> 01:07:40,918
Yes. Between us, Martine,

1168
01:07:41,126 --> 01:07:45,126
I know it's important
to lunch with a Nobel Prize winner,

1169
01:07:45,293 --> 01:07:47,835
but, anyway,
the Minister is a minister,

1170
01:07:48,251 --> 01:07:50,626
and the NATO problem is also

1171
01:07:50,793 --> 01:07:52,210
very important.

1172
01:07:52,376 --> 01:07:56,001
We have to tell him nicely
to postpone his lunch.

1173
01:07:56,501 --> 01:07:58,710
Shit, took me 3 months to set it up.

1174
01:07:59,210 --> 01:08:01,376
I wanted to meet Molly Hutchinson.

1175
01:08:01,501 --> 01:08:03,085
Is there a problem?

1176
01:08:03,751 --> 01:08:04,710
No...

1177
01:08:08,543 --> 01:08:12,126
So until 6 PM we're in Geneva,
then back to...

1178
01:08:16,418 --> 01:08:17,085
Arthur?

1179
01:08:17,751 --> 01:08:20,626
My talking points
for Molly Hutchinson?

1180
01:08:21,418 --> 01:08:22,585
You wanted talking points?

1181
01:08:22,751 --> 01:08:24,418
Get to work, pal.

1182
01:08:24,751 --> 01:08:27,751
Meeting a Nobel Prize winner,
what do I say?

1183
01:08:29,668 --> 01:08:31,793
I need brilliance, inspiration.

1184
01:08:32,001 --> 01:08:34,251
Or else, why make me meet people?

1185
01:08:34,418 --> 01:08:36,335
Yes, Alexandre,

1186
01:08:36,501 --> 01:08:38,085
this lunch is a problem.

1187
01:08:38,251 --> 01:08:41,876
As you know, there's the NATO matter...

1188
01:08:42,210 --> 01:08:44,543
NATO... Nato-rious, useless!

1189
01:08:44,710 --> 01:08:47,168
Yes, whatever you say.

1190
01:08:47,335 --> 01:08:49,501
But with this mess
in the Balkans and Kosovo...

1191
01:08:49,668 --> 01:08:52,710
NATO, "No Action, Talk Only!"

1192
01:08:53,210 --> 01:08:55,501
In fact, we're trying to figure out

1193
01:08:55,668 --> 01:08:58,835
how to switch your lunch
with the Nobel lady.

1194
01:08:59,626 --> 01:09:00,585
Not a chance!

1195
01:09:01,501 --> 01:09:03,751
Yes, but I thought...

1196
01:09:03,918 --> 01:09:07,376
Next Monday
you're seeing the Croatian,

1197
01:09:07,626 --> 01:09:11,668
we cancel that,
and replace it with Polly Wortington...

1198
01:09:11,835 --> 01:09:13,085
Molly Hutchinson!

1199
01:09:15,126 --> 01:09:16,751
Cancel the Croatian...

1200
01:09:16,918 --> 01:09:20,126
You're grabbing me by my feelings!

1201
01:09:21,876 --> 01:09:22,793
No way!

1202
01:09:23,001 --> 01:09:24,876
We've postponed the Croatian 7 times.

1203
01:09:25,085 --> 01:09:27,460
Tell you what: we cancel the Croatian

1204
01:09:27,585 --> 01:09:29,835
and we keep Molly Hutchinson.

1205
01:09:30,376 --> 01:09:32,918
I want my cards
before the Cabinet meeting.

1206
01:09:33,710 --> 01:09:37,376
I'm so bored,
with those idiots rattling on.

1207
01:09:37,501 --> 01:09:40,418
While they spout,
I reread my index cards.

1208
01:09:40,543 --> 01:09:42,501
You got me a highlighter?

1209
01:09:42,626 --> 01:09:45,293
- With a decent tip?
- It's on your desk, sir.

1210
01:09:45,751 --> 01:09:48,418
Ready for your next writing session.

1211
01:09:49,085 --> 01:09:49,793
OK, pals!

1212
01:09:51,001 --> 01:09:51,751
Action!

1213
01:09:54,335 --> 01:09:56,043
NATO shmato!

1214
01:09:56,501 --> 01:09:58,001
Arthur, keep this lunch

1215
01:09:58,168 --> 01:09:59,918
short and sweet.

1216
01:10:00,126 --> 01:10:02,376
We leave at 1:30 PM latest.

1217
01:10:04,543 --> 01:10:07,168
Sir... Your cards for Molly Hutchinson!

1218
01:10:09,001 --> 01:10:10,751
Mr. Minister...

1219
01:10:10,918 --> 01:10:14,460
I prepared you a NATO card.
Read it in the meeting.

1220
01:10:14,585 --> 01:10:15,835
I can't read that.

1221
01:10:16,043 --> 01:10:18,793
It's rumpled.
Like out of a swimming pool.

1222
01:10:19,001 --> 01:10:21,168
I'm not a lifeguard.

1223
01:10:26,210 --> 01:10:27,168
There.

1224
01:10:27,335 --> 01:10:28,501
Thanks.

1225
01:10:29,418 --> 01:10:30,793
Need anything else?

1226
01:10:31,001 --> 01:10:32,543
No, I'm fine.

1227
01:10:36,501 --> 01:10:38,876
Thank God the Cabinet meeting's over.

1228
01:10:39,085 --> 01:10:41,085
A whole batch of new laws.

1229
01:10:41,251 --> 01:10:44,126
Read them,
give them to an aide, whatever.

1230
01:10:44,293 --> 01:10:45,835
It's a pile of shit.

1231
01:10:46,460 --> 01:10:47,751
Otherwise, nothing to report.

1232
01:10:47,918 --> 01:10:52,043
The President re-briefed the PM,
who re-briefed the Finance Minister.

1233
01:10:52,210 --> 01:10:55,501
That dumb bear who bolted
came up again.

1234
01:10:55,668 --> 01:10:59,460
Other than that, same old shit.
It's pathetic.

1235
01:10:59,793 --> 01:11:01,210
But guess

1236
01:11:01,376 --> 01:11:04,251
who I'm lunching with?

1237
01:11:04,418 --> 01:11:08,543
I know.
We rescheduled everything for it.

1238
01:11:08,876 --> 01:11:10,001
Want to come?

1239
01:11:10,585 --> 01:11:14,043
If it'll help get your mind on NATO.

1240
01:11:14,210 --> 01:11:15,293
Why not?

1241
01:11:24,210 --> 01:11:26,501
Bravo for that Nobel Prize!

1242
01:11:26,626 --> 01:11:29,168
For once, poetry is in the spotlight.

1243
01:11:29,418 --> 01:11:32,876
With you,
they chose an all-round artist.

1244
01:11:33,918 --> 01:11:36,293
Let's say I try to keep my eyes open.

1245
01:11:36,460 --> 01:11:39,501
Your eyes open...
And your ears pierced!

1246
01:11:40,460 --> 01:11:41,543
Let's have lunch.

1247
01:11:41,710 --> 01:11:43,085
How did I get trapped?

1248
01:11:43,251 --> 01:11:45,001
You'll be fed!

1249
01:11:45,793 --> 01:11:47,501
To your Nobel Prize!

1250
01:11:48,793 --> 01:11:50,543
Your cards corrected, sir.

1251
01:11:50,710 --> 01:11:53,793
What cards?
Don't stalk me with that NATO stuff.

1252
01:11:54,251 --> 01:11:55,543
You have cards on me?

1253
01:11:56,085 --> 01:11:57,251
Not at all,

1254
01:11:58,085 --> 01:12:00,835
I don't need index cards.

1255
01:12:01,251 --> 01:12:02,835
I hate them.

1256
01:12:03,043 --> 01:12:06,501
What's this, the Jingoulou family?

1257
01:12:06,626 --> 01:12:08,001
Urgent?

1258
01:12:08,793 --> 01:12:10,251
It's a mistake, sir.

1259
01:12:11,585 --> 01:12:15,835
I have a first edition of Rimbaud's
"The Drunken Boat", I love poetry.

1260
01:12:16,126 --> 01:12:18,460
Your poetry, your sensitivity,

1261
01:12:19,001 --> 01:12:20,501
your power.

1262
01:12:20,626 --> 01:12:23,251
Literature is all about power,

1263
01:12:23,418 --> 01:12:25,751
the alliance of courage and cunning,

1264
01:12:25,918 --> 01:12:28,668
of the comic and the tragic,
the robe and the sword...

1265
01:12:28,835 --> 01:12:29,835
That matters,

1266
01:12:31,210 --> 01:12:33,043
and today one can see it clearly.

1267
01:12:33,335 --> 01:12:35,543
After 3 000 years of civilization,

1268
01:12:35,876 --> 01:12:40,085
we face the most troubled period
in human history.

1269
01:12:40,460 --> 01:12:43,251
Mankind is about to destroy Mankind.

1270
01:12:43,418 --> 01:12:44,751
Nuclear crises,

1271
01:12:45,085 --> 01:12:46,876
fratricidal wars...

1272
01:12:47,293 --> 01:12:49,918
And what do those hacks brazenly do?

1273
01:12:50,335 --> 01:12:52,085
Those wart hogs?

1274
01:12:52,460 --> 01:12:53,585
I'll tell you, Molly,

1275
01:12:53,918 --> 01:12:55,460
they write index cards:

1276
01:12:56,001 --> 01:12:57,668
dream up talking points.

1277
01:12:59,376 --> 01:13:02,585
They flitter around,
chat, listen, indulge themselves,

1278
01:13:02,918 --> 01:13:04,835
while war rages.

1279
01:13:05,043 --> 01:13:08,585
It's raging in the Middle East,
in Africa,

1280
01:13:08,835 --> 01:13:11,501
soon it may rage in Lusdemistan.

1281
01:13:12,376 --> 01:13:15,335
It rages all around you.

1282
01:13:15,793 --> 01:13:16,668
In you.

1283
01:13:17,001 --> 01:13:18,751
Hence in the world.

1284
01:13:20,668 --> 01:13:23,668
What really matters in literature,

1285
01:13:23,835 --> 01:13:26,460
what writers should say
before writing...

1286
01:13:28,668 --> 01:13:30,835
The sacred fire within you,

1287
01:13:31,043 --> 01:13:33,585
lets you decipher the world
like a child.

1288
01:13:35,001 --> 01:13:36,751
<i>Let her get a word in.</i>

1289
01:13:38,418 --> 01:13:41,460
What do you think of all this, Molly?

1290
01:13:41,751 --> 01:13:45,043
That one must be consistent

1291
01:13:47,168 --> 01:13:48,543
with one's words.

1292
01:13:48,710 --> 01:13:51,085
I enjoy listening to you,

1293
01:13:51,501 --> 01:13:54,751
but why does France back
Total Oil in Burma?

1294
01:13:55,251 --> 01:13:57,876
It's like backing the junta.

1295
01:13:58,085 --> 01:14:01,251
They imprisoned a woman,

1296
01:14:01,418 --> 01:14:02,501
Aung San Suu Kyi,

1297
01:14:02,876 --> 01:14:04,543
who was lawfully elected.

1298
01:14:04,876 --> 01:14:06,418
There, Molly,

1299
01:14:06,876 --> 01:14:07,835
Total Oil,

1300
01:14:08,043 --> 01:14:10,668
the less oil they sell,
the better I feel.

1301
01:14:15,168 --> 01:14:18,085
If I wasn't trapped
in this diplomatic ruckus,

1302
01:14:18,251 --> 01:14:20,585
I'd write 5 books a year.

1303
01:14:20,751 --> 01:14:23,460
Writing! That's really living!

1304
01:14:25,501 --> 01:14:27,251
I see them all around me,

1305
01:14:27,418 --> 01:14:29,001
trying to snare me,

1306
01:14:29,668 --> 01:14:32,085
all those who are ruled by fear.

1307
01:14:32,668 --> 01:14:35,835
The enemy in politics,
as in literature, is fear.

1308
01:14:36,043 --> 01:14:39,001
It's the ploy of the weak...
The ploy of NATO.

1309
01:14:39,168 --> 01:14:40,376
Even in Turkey.

1310
01:14:40,626 --> 01:14:41,626
Yet...

1311
01:14:42,585 --> 01:14:46,585
Who delivers the words of wisdom
in Voltaire's "Candide"?

1312
01:14:50,043 --> 01:14:51,501
I'll tell you.

1313
01:14:53,168 --> 01:14:54,543
The dervish.

1314
01:14:54,876 --> 01:14:57,501
The Turkish dervish! Think of it.

1315
01:14:58,501 --> 01:15:01,460
Right, I don't understand why the US

1316
01:15:01,585 --> 01:15:04,210
wants NATO to intervene
in the Middle East.

1317
01:15:04,376 --> 01:15:05,335
You see, Claude,

1318
01:15:05,751 --> 01:15:07,501
I don't get it either.

1319
01:15:07,918 --> 01:15:09,293
NATO,

1320
01:15:09,460 --> 01:15:12,460
I'll die before I know why we need it.

1321
01:15:13,376 --> 01:15:14,585
I won't go to Geneva.

1322
01:15:15,751 --> 01:15:17,460
They can have their meeting

1323
01:15:17,585 --> 01:15:19,085
without yours truly!

1324
01:15:21,418 --> 01:15:24,168
Chatting with you
was more constructive

1325
01:15:24,335 --> 01:15:27,293
than being stuffed
with the war on Taylorism...

1326
01:15:27,460 --> 01:15:29,085
Terrorism...

1327
01:15:30,335 --> 01:15:33,001
The Taylorism of terrorism...

1328
01:15:33,168 --> 01:15:34,501
Arthur, take it down.

1329
01:15:36,918 --> 01:15:38,501
Remember, Molly:

1330
01:15:38,626 --> 01:15:42,501
what matters in literature,
is the sacred fire.

1331
01:15:45,751 --> 01:15:47,335
Malraux said:

1332
01:15:47,501 --> 01:15:51,710
"Only two things matter for mankind:
courage and culture."

1333
01:15:51,876 --> 01:15:53,585
You already have the culture.

1334
01:15:54,835 --> 01:15:56,168
You know, Molly,

1335
01:15:56,710 --> 01:16:00,376
inside us all,
is an old man who fondles on.

1336
01:16:01,751 --> 01:16:03,168
Fondles on?

1337
01:16:05,126 --> 01:16:07,918
You're the champ. You get the Oscar.

1338
01:16:08,126 --> 01:16:12,251
Misplacing the Jingoulous
in your cards. Not very wow!

1339
01:16:13,001 --> 01:16:14,751
You owe me another stab at it.

1340
01:16:16,168 --> 01:16:20,043
The parents aren't in France,
the grandparents are being expelled...

1341
01:16:21,126 --> 01:16:23,793
Say you won't forget.

1342
01:16:24,126 --> 01:16:25,501
Promise!

1343
01:16:28,043 --> 01:16:31,710
You should've insisted.
Your guy goofed.

1344
01:16:31,876 --> 01:16:35,418
You were too nice.
We'll get nowhere, like that.

1345
01:16:35,543 --> 01:16:39,085
Besides, he can ask him a favor,
it's no big risk.

1346
01:16:39,251 --> 01:16:42,251
Listen, Arthur and I
evaluate our own risks.

1347
01:16:47,918 --> 01:16:50,043
Anyway, there's only 2 choices:

1348
01:16:50,210 --> 01:16:53,460
his job will make my life hell,

1349
01:16:53,585 --> 01:16:56,376
he'll get home late,
cancel dinners and vacations.

1350
01:16:56,501 --> 01:16:59,126
Or I agree to share
my life with Tutankhamen.

1351
01:16:59,293 --> 01:17:03,335
He'll live with us, breakfast with us,
move into our living room...

1352
01:17:03,918 --> 01:17:06,085
And I make sure Arthur and I have fun.

1353
01:17:06,251 --> 01:17:08,001
Wait, I can't do everything.

1354
01:17:08,168 --> 01:17:10,835
Go to New York, save the Jingoulous,

1355
01:17:11,043 --> 01:17:14,335
attend diplomatic dinners.
At least one thing too many.

1356
01:17:14,710 --> 01:17:16,293
Yeah, going to New York.

1357
01:17:17,126 --> 01:17:19,585
About that dinner,
I only said it was iffy!

1358
01:17:19,751 --> 01:17:22,501
They'll be with wifey,
you the only bachelor?

1359
01:17:22,918 --> 01:17:27,001
I can't help it,
it says "with their spouses".

1360
01:17:27,168 --> 01:17:28,835
It's about cabinet unity.

1361
01:17:29,043 --> 01:17:30,543
Are we a couple or not?

1362
01:17:30,835 --> 01:17:34,668
Most couples who live together
aren't married!

1363
01:17:35,585 --> 01:17:37,251
They should know that!

1364
01:17:40,626 --> 01:17:42,751
There's a simple solution.

1365
01:17:44,501 --> 01:17:46,126
We get married.

1366
01:17:46,626 --> 01:17:49,501
So you can come to the dinner.
We have 2 weeks.

1367
01:17:49,668 --> 01:17:51,126
You're nuts.

1368
01:17:53,710 --> 01:17:57,585
Take me to the dinner,
then ask me to marry you.

1369
01:17:58,626 --> 01:18:01,793
"Wisdom: speak the truth,
act like nature."

1370
01:18:06,001 --> 01:18:08,501
3 days is 3 shirts, plus one.

1371
01:18:08,626 --> 01:18:11,085
3 ties plus one. 3 shorts plus one.

1372
01:18:11,251 --> 01:18:12,501
And my rubber ducky.

1373
01:18:12,668 --> 01:18:15,668
I'll pack a sweater too.
New York can be icy.

1374
01:18:16,126 --> 01:18:18,293
In this one,
you hardly see the holes.

1375
01:18:18,710 --> 01:18:20,460
Poor baby.
Then we can throw it out.

1376
01:18:20,585 --> 01:18:22,501
No, it's my favorite.

1377
01:18:22,793 --> 01:18:24,626
Is there any more room?

1378
01:18:25,043 --> 01:18:26,918
I still have

1379
01:18:28,501 --> 01:18:30,585
3 reams of paper.

1380
01:18:30,835 --> 01:18:33,585
There'll be a dozen
rewrites of the speech...

1381
01:18:33,751 --> 01:18:37,418
You're a VIP now.
Can't you get paper in New York?

1382
01:18:37,543 --> 01:18:39,835
It's not the same size.

1383
01:18:40,043 --> 01:18:43,251
Shorter and wider.

1384
01:18:43,418 --> 01:18:46,710
He could make me
redo the whole speech.

1385
01:18:46,876 --> 01:18:49,585
You figured you'd do it 15 times,
anyway.

1386
01:18:52,293 --> 01:18:54,168
3 days'll seem an eternity.

1387
01:18:55,876 --> 01:18:57,210
Don't worry.

1388
01:18:57,751 --> 01:19:00,460
Let's make them seem even longer.

1389
01:19:07,376 --> 01:19:10,418
Minister, any news on the runaway bear?

1390
01:19:14,793 --> 01:19:17,918
Reporters: the 8th plague of Egypt!

1391
01:19:23,710 --> 01:19:25,710
My friend Jean-Paul François.

1392
01:19:25,876 --> 01:19:26,585
Delighted.

1393
01:19:26,751 --> 01:19:28,793
He may get the Goncourt Prize.

1394
01:19:29,001 --> 01:19:32,126
I read your latest book,
"A World in Tears".

1395
01:19:32,293 --> 01:19:33,543
The last but one!

1396
01:19:33,710 --> 01:19:36,835
We've got some time.
We can rewrite it all.

1397
01:19:37,043 --> 01:19:38,043
Jean-Paul?

1398
01:19:38,210 --> 01:19:39,793
Sit down.

1399
01:19:40,085 --> 01:19:42,501
What bothers me is...

1400
01:19:42,626 --> 01:19:45,210
Is a vision... Sorry, thanks...

1401
01:19:45,376 --> 01:19:48,626
a too hasty vision of America...

1402
01:19:48,793 --> 01:19:51,501
The US is a rich, complex country.

1403
01:19:51,626 --> 01:19:54,335
Don't talk of US policy, but policies.

1404
01:19:54,501 --> 01:19:57,376
Or reduce all Americans to the neocons.

1405
01:19:57,501 --> 01:20:00,501
Lincoln, a Republican,
abolished slavery.

1406
01:20:01,293 --> 01:20:04,793
The US has many heritages,
a "double inspiration".

1407
01:20:05,001 --> 01:20:06,460
Sit down, Jean-Paul.

1408
01:20:07,168 --> 01:20:08,085
Like Baudelaire.

1409
01:20:08,876 --> 01:20:09,710
Jot it down.

1410
01:20:09,876 --> 01:20:13,335
Sir, it's a speech to the UN,
not a PhD oral!

1411
01:20:13,501 --> 01:20:15,543
The Civil War or New Deal won't fit!

1412
01:20:15,710 --> 01:20:18,085
Why not? You need History,

1413
01:20:18,251 --> 01:20:19,876
depth, to move people.

1414
01:20:20,085 --> 01:20:23,418
Americans must understand I love them.

1415
01:20:23,543 --> 01:20:26,710
Even more than they love themselves.

1416
01:20:26,876 --> 01:20:29,376
How could they?

1417
01:20:29,501 --> 01:20:31,376
30% eat in their cars.

1418
01:20:31,501 --> 01:20:33,085
Jot it down! We must say that!

1419
01:20:33,251 --> 01:20:36,710
Sir, it's not the subject
of your speech, you said so!

1420
01:20:36,876 --> 01:20:40,835
We're addressing 191 UN member states
on specific issues:

1421
01:20:41,043 --> 01:20:42,501
Lusdemistan, the danger of war.

1422
01:20:42,626 --> 01:20:45,418
Precisely. The speech must have heart!

1423
01:20:45,543 --> 01:20:48,126
Via a story, an anecdote.
Suddenly, wham!

1424
01:20:49,126 --> 01:20:51,543
We say we won't back their scam.

1425
01:20:51,710 --> 01:20:55,418
France won't commit
to Republican blowhards.

1426
01:20:56,168 --> 01:20:58,543
But you can't ram them head on.

1427
01:20:58,710 --> 01:21:02,085
It's a rich, complex country.
Each state is different.

1428
01:21:02,543 --> 01:21:05,668
Like Vermont and Kansas.
Take lowa, for instance...

1429
01:21:05,835 --> 01:21:08,126
Where all U.S. presidential elections
start.

1430
01:21:08,543 --> 01:21:10,418
- Every primary.
- That's it.

1431
01:21:11,751 --> 01:21:14,793
"The Bridges of Madison County"
was shot there.

1432
01:21:15,501 --> 01:21:17,251
That's a unifying concept.

1433
01:21:17,543 --> 01:21:19,001
Got it? Get going!

1434
01:21:19,168 --> 01:21:22,126
Sir, if we change lines,
we should consult Cahut.

1435
01:21:22,293 --> 01:21:24,710
Cahut, fine. Call Cahut.

1436
01:21:29,710 --> 01:21:33,793
I hope I'm not invading
young Vlaminck's turf.

1437
01:21:34,001 --> 01:21:34,668
No.

1438
01:21:35,085 --> 01:21:37,251
Is he related to Vlaminck, the...?

1439
01:21:37,585 --> 01:21:38,835
Distantly.

1440
01:21:39,168 --> 01:21:41,460
A conventional painter. Too much sky.

1441
01:21:41,835 --> 01:21:42,876
Buckle up, Jean-Paul.

1442
01:21:44,293 --> 01:21:45,251
Mr. Minister?

1443
01:21:45,418 --> 01:21:49,835
Dear Stéphane, I asked Arthur
to mellow the New York speech.

1444
01:21:50,043 --> 01:21:54,251
Anyway, it's dense and lopsided.
It doesn't hit the mark.

1445
01:21:54,918 --> 01:21:56,376
Sit down, Cahut!

1446
01:21:59,501 --> 01:22:00,210
And buckle up.

1447
01:22:00,376 --> 01:22:02,126
I never do.

1448
01:22:02,293 --> 01:22:05,251
Buckle up.
We're taking off! It's a safety measure.

1449
01:22:06,001 --> 01:22:08,251
You'll become a human cannon ball.

1450
01:22:10,168 --> 01:22:12,376
We must hit the mark.
Tell me:

1451
01:22:12,501 --> 01:22:14,710
what precisely, offends you?

1452
01:22:14,876 --> 01:22:16,585
Sir, offends, no.

1453
01:22:16,751 --> 01:22:19,918
Anything you add,
will worsen the problem.

1454
01:22:20,126 --> 01:22:22,918
Like reading the Talmud to condo-owners.

1455
01:22:23,293 --> 01:22:26,293
These are the rules:
191 States, 191 Ministers,

1456
01:22:26,460 --> 01:22:29,668
191 speeches. Ten minutes each.

1457
01:22:29,835 --> 01:22:33,085
Precisely, every minute counts!

1458
01:22:33,251 --> 01:22:35,251
They must be weighty, deep...

1459
01:22:35,793 --> 01:22:36,585
Complex!

1460
01:22:45,501 --> 01:22:46,751
Watch your head...

1461
01:22:48,085 --> 01:22:50,085
Diplomacy is a bitch.

1462
01:22:51,210 --> 01:22:54,376
I hope there's no turbulence.
I get airsick.

1463
01:22:56,876 --> 01:22:59,918
No, not that!
It's off-topic and too long!

1464
01:23:00,126 --> 01:23:03,668
But he wanted it.
Damn, he's the one who'll say it!

1465
01:23:03,835 --> 01:23:04,710
Sorry...

1466
01:23:04,876 --> 01:23:07,085
The Lusdemistan bit is OK, no?

1467
01:23:07,251 --> 01:23:09,543
The analysis of internal imbalances?

1468
01:23:10,001 --> 01:23:13,293
Yes, it's simplified, but accurate.

1469
01:23:13,460 --> 01:23:17,335
And I know: I was our number 2 man
in Lusde for 4 years.

1470
01:23:17,501 --> 01:23:20,376
This speech's problem
is the tone: it's a monster.

1471
01:23:20,501 --> 01:23:23,376
Frankenstein talking
to Snow White's 7 dwarfs.

1472
01:23:24,501 --> 01:23:28,043
But what matters
isn't what's said on the podium,

1473
01:23:28,210 --> 01:23:29,918
but behind the scenes.

1474
01:23:30,126 --> 01:23:31,376
Impressive,

1475
01:23:31,501 --> 01:23:35,251
all that energy for a speech
nobody will listen to.

1476
01:23:35,418 --> 01:23:36,918
A wasted SWAT team. Bravo.

1477
01:23:37,126 --> 01:23:40,835
Thanks.
Your good spirits are contagious.

1478
01:23:41,043 --> 01:23:43,251
He could demoralize an anthill!

1479
01:23:43,418 --> 01:23:46,126
My wife is fed up with this crap.

1480
01:23:46,293 --> 01:23:48,501
You're lucky, you have no family.

1481
01:23:49,460 --> 01:23:52,585
Now I've stained my pants
with their damn mayo.

1482
01:23:53,376 --> 01:23:55,168
Seen "The Bridges of Madison County"?

1483
01:23:56,751 --> 01:23:58,251
Meryl Streep!

1484
01:23:59,543 --> 01:24:01,043
- Hi, Christian
- Hi, Sir.

1485
01:24:01,210 --> 01:24:02,668
Come, Jean-Paul.

1486
01:24:03,501 --> 01:24:06,501
- Where's Picasso?
- Vlaminck is slated for vehicle 2.

1487
01:24:06,626 --> 01:24:10,085
He can print in the car.
I need the text at the hotel.

1488
01:24:10,585 --> 01:24:11,501
Get in the front.

1489
01:24:11,668 --> 01:24:14,001
Thanks, I'm a bit nauseous.

1490
01:24:14,460 --> 01:24:16,876
Vlaminck can't go
in the 2nd car with me.

1491
01:24:17,085 --> 01:24:20,501
It's my place.
I won't share it with a cub-advisor.

1492
01:24:20,668 --> 01:24:23,335
The 3rd car's embassy,
the others full...

1493
01:24:23,501 --> 01:24:26,001
Stick him on the bus with the press.

1494
01:24:26,376 --> 01:24:27,710
Where's the bus?

1495
01:25:16,918 --> 01:25:18,543
A page is missing.

1496
01:25:29,335 --> 01:25:31,626
"The flutter of a butterfly's wings."

1497
01:25:31,793 --> 01:25:34,001
Is that to impress them?

1498
01:25:34,168 --> 01:25:35,543
Right.

1499
01:25:36,251 --> 01:25:39,043
The elevator makes me queasy.

1500
01:25:41,501 --> 01:25:43,251
Look at that, Jean-Paul!

1501
01:25:43,418 --> 01:25:44,335
I'm here...

1502
01:25:44,501 --> 01:25:47,168
They don't deserve to be in my speech.

1503
01:25:47,335 --> 01:25:49,251
Mr. Minister? There's a hitch.

1504
01:25:52,376 --> 01:25:54,126
Wait, Jean-Paul. Thanks.

1505
01:26:00,126 --> 01:26:02,251
Bravo, Castela. Nice start!

1506
01:26:02,501 --> 01:26:03,710
There's been a leak.

1507
01:26:03,876 --> 01:26:06,335
A reporter got a page of my speech.

1508
01:26:06,501 --> 01:26:08,835
And those slobs distorted it all.

1509
01:26:09,043 --> 01:26:10,710
I never had it.

1510
01:26:10,876 --> 01:26:13,501
He opted for the reporters' bus.

1511
01:26:13,668 --> 01:26:15,751
A speechwriter can't do that.

1512
01:26:15,918 --> 01:26:17,210
I didn't.

1513
01:26:17,501 --> 01:26:19,626
Why not hold a press conference?

1514
01:26:19,793 --> 01:26:22,251
- I was sent there.
- We have to redo it!

1515
01:26:22,751 --> 01:26:24,835
Because of you, or thanks to them!

1516
01:26:25,043 --> 01:26:28,585
Anyway, leak or no leak,
it was lousy, we had to redo it.

1517
01:26:28,751 --> 01:26:29,835
Let's get going!

1518
01:26:30,043 --> 01:26:34,126
Cahut! I want a clear summary
of the last 20 years in the Middle East.

1519
01:26:34,293 --> 01:26:36,293
Using simple words, for once.

1520
01:26:36,460 --> 01:26:38,335
Christian! Answer that asshole!

1521
01:26:39,293 --> 01:26:40,793
One paragraph, maximum.

1522
01:26:41,001 --> 01:26:42,126
Castela!

1523
01:26:42,626 --> 01:26:45,793
One scalpel-hewn paragraph,
on the role of the UN.

1524
01:26:46,001 --> 01:26:47,043
Get to work!

1525
01:26:47,210 --> 01:26:49,335
Jean-Paul will goose you.

1526
01:26:49,501 --> 01:26:52,376
So there's some brains up your asses.

1527
01:26:52,501 --> 01:26:53,501
Some complexity...

1528
01:26:53,668 --> 01:26:56,085
Arthur, you put it all in your blender.

1529
01:26:56,543 --> 01:26:59,251
Make sure it's watertight!

1530
01:26:59,418 --> 01:27:01,501
Let's do it!

1531
01:27:07,335 --> 01:27:09,835
Arthur, come. We'll go pee.

1532
01:27:14,168 --> 01:27:16,293
Sir, I didn't opt for the bus...

1533
01:27:16,460 --> 01:27:18,335
I know that, Arthur.

1534
01:27:18,835 --> 01:27:20,585
Arthur, one day

1535
01:27:20,876 --> 01:27:23,168
the President said something...

1536
01:27:23,418 --> 01:27:24,626
fundamental:

1537
01:27:26,126 --> 01:27:29,668
"In the lives we lead,
you do things as they come.

1538
01:27:30,251 --> 01:27:32,251
"You have time to eat, you eat.

1539
01:27:32,418 --> 01:27:34,251
"Time to fuck, you fuck.

1540
01:27:34,418 --> 01:27:36,376
"Time to piss, you piss."

1541
01:27:37,043 --> 01:27:38,001
Full stop.

1542
01:27:38,168 --> 01:27:40,710
Sir, I wanted to mention something.

1543
01:27:40,876 --> 01:27:44,668
A family, nice people,
are in trouble at my fiancée's school.

1544
01:27:44,835 --> 01:27:47,001
The Jingoulu? Urgent?

1545
01:27:47,168 --> 01:27:48,293
There.

1546
01:27:48,460 --> 01:27:49,751
Good old Molly.

1547
01:27:51,168 --> 01:27:52,793
It's all in there.

1548
01:27:53,126 --> 01:27:55,001
Stick it in my pocket.

1549
01:27:55,460 --> 01:27:59,126
I'll look into it.
We'll try, by and by!

1550
01:28:00,793 --> 01:28:02,543
So you have a fiancée?

1551
01:28:02,876 --> 01:28:04,543
I wanted to stress "horror".

1552
01:28:04,710 --> 01:28:06,876
No. You have 2 important words:

1553
01:28:07,210 --> 01:28:09,210
fear and suspicion.

1554
01:28:09,376 --> 01:28:11,460
Friends, we just got the news.

1555
01:28:11,585 --> 01:28:15,710
The US gave up unilateral action,
to go via the UN.

1556
01:28:16,168 --> 01:28:17,293
We won.

1557
01:28:17,460 --> 01:28:21,293
Hardly. They'll go to war,
but with UN approval.

1558
01:28:21,460 --> 01:28:23,751
I rewrite page 2
to congratulate them?

1559
01:28:23,918 --> 01:28:27,043
This means a resolution
in the Security Council.

1560
01:28:27,210 --> 01:28:29,501
No time to poke 'em
with a sharp stick.

1561
01:28:29,626 --> 01:28:32,626
We must applaud those creeps,
act phony.

1562
01:28:33,210 --> 01:28:34,168
Such pleasure!

1563
01:28:34,335 --> 01:28:36,710
Do we revamp the speech?
Not easy.

1564
01:28:40,210 --> 01:28:41,793
Not coming to the speech?

1565
01:28:42,001 --> 01:28:45,876
I get cramps at his speeches.
I'll wait in the hallway.

1566
01:28:46,085 --> 01:28:48,501
You're right. Take a nap.

1567
01:28:48,626 --> 01:28:50,335
And ask for a cushion.

1568
01:28:59,126 --> 01:29:00,501
For your records.

1569
01:29:03,043 --> 01:29:04,501
That was Frankenstein.

1570
01:29:08,251 --> 01:29:09,460
I told you:

1571
01:29:09,585 --> 01:29:13,585
heads of State are like
condo-owners, not philosophers.

1572
01:29:13,751 --> 01:29:17,293
Interested in the stairwell,
not the world's future,

1573
01:29:17,460 --> 01:29:19,501
wary you're out to get them.

1574
01:29:19,626 --> 01:29:21,668
The Americans scrubbed the facade,

1575
01:29:21,835 --> 01:29:24,501
dazzling us,
even if they blow up the city.

1576
01:29:24,668 --> 01:29:25,876
It's the pits for us!

1577
01:29:26,085 --> 01:29:28,501
They'll invade Lusdemistan
as they want,

1578
01:29:28,626 --> 01:29:31,043
but, worse, make the UN legitimize it.

1579
01:29:31,210 --> 01:29:34,043
While we wrote an ode to autumn leaves.

1580
01:29:34,210 --> 01:29:35,668
We've been sidelined.

1581
01:29:35,835 --> 01:29:38,126
- Exactly.
- Exactly what, Cahut?

1582
01:29:38,293 --> 01:29:41,876
No, our flatfooted speech
had one virtue:

1583
01:29:42,085 --> 01:29:45,418
it set out our position, our stand.

1584
01:29:46,043 --> 01:29:48,001
Now we drive in the nail:

1585
01:29:48,626 --> 01:29:51,001
we won't set one toe
in Lusdemistan.

1586
01:29:51,501 --> 01:29:54,710
I'll tell you:
contrary to what you believe,

1587
01:29:54,918 --> 01:29:58,585
we're a step ahead of them.
We drew a line.

1588
01:29:58,918 --> 01:30:02,085
On one side there's spirit, vision,

1589
01:30:02,251 --> 01:30:04,626
on the other, oil, vested interests,

1590
01:30:05,418 --> 01:30:06,460
the neocons.

1591
01:30:09,418 --> 01:30:11,043
You've read Tintin comics?

1592
01:30:12,168 --> 01:30:13,501
You read Tintin?

1593
01:30:14,293 --> 01:30:15,585
Remember them?

1594
01:30:16,335 --> 01:30:19,710
Why do you?

1595
01:30:20,460 --> 01:30:22,418
In Tintin, the stakes are huge.

1596
01:30:22,543 --> 01:30:24,543
The moon, America, black gold...

1597
01:30:24,835 --> 01:30:27,668
But Tintin is the rhythm.

1598
01:30:30,251 --> 01:30:31,918
One panel leads to another.

1599
01:30:32,126 --> 01:30:33,835
Reaching the right side,

1600
01:30:34,043 --> 01:30:36,251
you're led on.
Until the end of the page.

1601
01:30:36,501 --> 01:30:38,001
The bearded guy...

1602
01:30:38,293 --> 01:30:39,085
Capt. Haddock?

1603
01:30:39,251 --> 01:30:41,043
He trips on the pipes,

1604
01:30:41,210 --> 01:30:42,210
bumps his head,

1605
01:30:42,376 --> 01:30:44,793
jumps into the jeep...
On to the next page!

1606
01:30:45,001 --> 01:30:46,835
You can't help it.
And then...

1607
01:30:47,751 --> 01:30:49,335
On a whole page

1608
01:30:49,626 --> 01:30:51,168
is a rocket...

1609
01:30:51,585 --> 01:30:52,460
It's gigantic.

1610
01:30:53,293 --> 01:30:55,168
Red and white. 100 meters high.

1611
01:30:55,543 --> 01:30:57,918
We're doing the same.

1612
01:30:59,043 --> 01:31:00,460
A speech, people listen.

1613
01:31:01,335 --> 01:31:02,335
Take sides,

1614
01:31:02,501 --> 01:31:03,793
they soar.

1615
01:31:05,668 --> 01:31:08,126
They're facing the world.

1616
01:31:12,168 --> 01:31:15,251
I'm dizzy.
Get me off that rollercoaster!

1617
01:31:15,418 --> 01:31:18,335
It's not that, it's the Ghost Train.

1618
01:31:18,501 --> 01:31:19,501
Exactly!

1619
01:31:20,001 --> 01:31:21,835
The Ghost Train:

1620
01:31:22,460 --> 01:31:23,543
it scares you.

1621
01:31:23,835 --> 01:31:25,210
You're terrified!

1622
01:31:25,376 --> 01:31:28,751
In front of you, there's a nation:
the Lusdemenites.

1623
01:31:28,918 --> 01:31:31,335
Nuclear threats.
Want to ram them?

1624
01:31:31,793 --> 01:31:32,918
Not me.

1625
01:31:33,126 --> 01:31:37,043
The first thing I do,
is sit down at a table

1626
01:31:37,501 --> 01:31:38,501
and look the guys

1627
01:31:38,668 --> 01:31:40,085
straight in the eye...

1628
01:31:40,876 --> 01:31:44,585
Sorry to interrupt.
There's been a coup in Ubanga.

1629
01:31:44,918 --> 01:31:47,501
80,000 resident French nationals.

1630
01:31:47,626 --> 01:31:48,501
Get me Maupas.

1631
01:31:48,626 --> 01:31:49,668
We'll wake him up.

1632
01:31:49,835 --> 01:31:51,085
No, he never sleeps.

1633
01:31:51,251 --> 01:31:52,626
What's the time there?

1634
01:31:53,001 --> 01:31:56,043
10 AM here, means 3 AM there.

1635
01:31:56,210 --> 01:31:58,376
It's winter time.
6 hour difference.

1636
01:31:58,501 --> 01:32:01,251
With both on winter time,
it's not 7, it's 5.

1637
01:32:02,043 --> 01:32:03,126
No, 6.

1638
01:32:03,376 --> 01:32:05,043
Right now it's 6 hours.

1639
01:32:05,210 --> 01:32:07,001
- It's 5.
- No, 6.

1640
01:32:09,543 --> 01:32:11,085
Who cares!

1641
01:32:11,251 --> 01:32:12,376
Call him!

1642
01:32:12,501 --> 01:32:13,918
So it's 4 AM.

1643
01:32:15,585 --> 01:32:16,710
I've got him.

1644
01:32:18,710 --> 01:32:21,251
<i>Things are moving fast.</i>

1645
01:32:21,418 --> 01:32:23,835
<i>Oscarville airport
is cut off by the rebels.</i>

1646
01:32:24,251 --> 01:32:28,543
<i>It's out of control.
I may bring you home sooner.</i>

1647
01:32:29,251 --> 01:32:30,626
I'm leaving early.

1648
01:32:30,793 --> 01:32:35,501
"Wanderers in the night: sorcerers,
revelers male and female."

1649
01:32:41,460 --> 01:32:44,501
Right now, any excesses are possible.

1650
01:32:44,668 --> 01:32:46,876
The rebels
are marching on the capital.

1651
01:32:47,085 --> 01:32:49,835
The government says France
is behind it.

1652
01:32:50,168 --> 01:32:51,710
We can't stay out of it.

1653
01:32:52,585 --> 01:32:54,376
It'll blow up in our faces!

1654
01:32:54,626 --> 01:32:56,210
Had a good trip?

1655
01:32:56,376 --> 01:33:00,376
If it's Banshis versus Tanas,
it looks glum.

1656
01:33:00,501 --> 01:33:04,210
Off the record,
shouldn't we talk to the Americans?

1657
01:33:04,543 --> 01:33:07,876
Unless you already did having fun in NY.

1658
01:33:08,335 --> 01:33:10,501
At the UN.
But the UN's almost the US.

1659
01:33:10,668 --> 01:33:13,293
The US is out of it. They won't help.

1660
01:33:13,460 --> 01:33:17,918
In an hour, the media will attack us.
On Africa, they're specially dumb.

1661
01:33:18,126 --> 01:33:21,293
We should feel out the President.
This is about Africa.

1662
01:33:21,460 --> 01:33:22,501
By the way,

1663
01:33:22,668 --> 01:33:25,418
I spoke to him, he tried to reach you.

1664
01:33:25,543 --> 01:33:28,543
He's worried about the runaway bear,

1665
01:33:28,793 --> 01:33:30,168
right now.

1666
01:33:30,501 --> 01:33:32,835
It's still lost in our Pyrenees.

1667
01:33:33,418 --> 01:33:36,585
We can't wait for a bear,
to stop a civil war!

1668
01:33:40,835 --> 01:33:43,460
Sir, the President's busy
with the Canadian.

1669
01:33:49,543 --> 01:33:51,293
It's beginning to stink.

1670
01:33:51,460 --> 01:33:54,793
The Ubangans
are slaughtering civilians.

1671
01:33:56,418 --> 01:33:59,668
Get the President out of that Canadian!

1672
01:34:03,376 --> 01:34:04,418
He's on the line.

1673
01:34:04,543 --> 01:34:08,460
Mr. President,
we must put out a fire before it blazes.

1674
01:34:08,585 --> 01:34:12,376
<i>Is that Heraclitus?
I hear you're an expert.</i>

1675
01:34:12,501 --> 01:34:13,585
It relaxes me

1676
01:34:14,168 --> 01:34:15,668
between two bear hunts.

1677
01:34:16,460 --> 01:34:17,335
<i>Listen to me,</i>

1678
01:34:17,501 --> 01:34:20,293
<i>you want to talk Banshis versus Tanas.</i>

1679
01:34:20,460 --> 01:34:22,001
<i>I'm aware it's serious.</i>

1680
01:34:22,168 --> 01:34:23,918
<i>But how will it end?</i>

1681
01:34:24,335 --> 01:34:25,168
<i>Play for time.</i>

1682
01:34:25,335 --> 01:34:28,293
But Mr. President, time is against us.

1683
01:34:28,501 --> 01:34:32,418
I know N'Bika,
he'll burn his country to stay in power.

1684
01:34:32,876 --> 01:34:34,835
To avoid a Rwanda-type genocide,

1685
01:34:35,043 --> 01:34:38,168
we must send UN troops
to freeze the conflict.

1686
01:34:38,501 --> 01:34:39,543
At once!

1687
01:34:39,710 --> 01:34:42,835
<i>That means bringing in the US.
Bad timing.</i>

1688
01:34:43,043 --> 01:34:44,001
It's urgent, Martine.

1689
01:34:44,668 --> 01:34:46,585
President N'Bika is on the line.

1690
01:34:47,501 --> 01:34:50,668
Paul, you know France
is a friend. Be lucid.

1691
01:34:50,835 --> 01:34:52,876
You want to set all Africa on fire?

1692
01:34:53,710 --> 01:34:56,001
We should evacuate French locals now!

1693
01:34:56,710 --> 01:34:58,501
Know what that entails?

1694
01:34:58,668 --> 01:35:01,918
Given the number of French,
we can't handle it.

1695
01:35:02,126 --> 01:35:05,418
Let's help those who want to get out.

1696
01:35:05,543 --> 01:35:08,210
Without making alarming statements.

1697
01:35:08,543 --> 01:35:11,710
Let's go to the House.
Try and calm them.

1698
01:35:12,168 --> 01:35:15,168
France must live up to its duty!

1699
01:35:18,085 --> 01:35:19,085
But...

1700
01:35:20,710 --> 01:35:22,626
Beyond our own citizens,

1701
01:35:23,418 --> 01:35:26,876
we can't ignore our historical ties!

1702
01:35:29,751 --> 01:35:32,501
France has a duty toward Ubanga.

1703
01:35:34,376 --> 01:35:37,460
That's why, under a UN mandate,

1704
01:35:37,668 --> 01:35:41,126
troops must be sent to Ubanga.

1705
01:35:41,918 --> 01:35:44,668
Soldiers will be sent to Oscarville!

1706
01:35:45,168 --> 01:35:47,418
<i>President N'bika's faction</i>

1707
01:35:47,543 --> 01:35:50,251
<i>is holding anti-French rallies.</i>

1708
01:35:50,418 --> 01:35:53,251
<i>In Oscarville there are pillages,
looting...</i>

1709
01:35:55,001 --> 01:35:57,918
To hell with their criticisms.

1710
01:35:58,126 --> 01:36:00,835
Me a colonialist? Let me laugh!

1711
01:36:01,126 --> 01:36:04,668
To lighten the mood,
there's some good news, sir.

1712
01:36:04,835 --> 01:36:06,585
Lusdemistan gave in:

1713
01:36:06,751 --> 01:36:10,501
they sent the UN
a full report on their weapons program.

1714
01:36:10,710 --> 01:36:13,793
The bad news is it's 12,000 pages long.

1715
01:36:15,085 --> 01:36:16,626
I glanced through it

1716
01:36:17,210 --> 01:36:21,210
late last night and early this morning.
It's interesting.

1717
01:36:21,376 --> 01:36:23,210
There's a bit of everything:

1718
01:36:23,501 --> 01:36:27,210
how to build a plane,
suras from the Koran,

1719
01:36:27,376 --> 01:36:31,501
Lusdemistan train schedules,
the price of museum tickets.

1720
01:36:32,001 --> 01:36:35,460
Probably even the recipe for apple-pie.

1721
01:36:36,668 --> 01:36:38,168
Armed strife has begun.

1722
01:36:38,335 --> 01:36:42,210
People are panicking.
And the UN troops haven't dug in.

1723
01:36:43,835 --> 01:36:47,460
We must calm things down.
Have an aircraft readied.

1724
01:36:48,043 --> 01:36:50,501
But the airport is under mortar fire!

1725
01:36:50,626 --> 01:36:54,335
I don't give a damn.
Have UN soldiers protect the airport.

1726
01:36:54,501 --> 01:36:56,043
We have to keep moving.

1727
01:36:56,210 --> 01:36:58,376
We mustn't fear the flame.

1728
01:36:58,501 --> 01:37:00,043
I shall enter the flame.

1729
01:37:01,043 --> 01:37:02,335
I'll become a flame!

1730
01:37:02,501 --> 01:37:03,751
Take it down, Arthur.

1731
01:37:22,543 --> 01:37:24,835
Keep moving, whatever happens.

1732
01:37:25,126 --> 01:37:26,293
Are you sure?

1733
01:37:49,626 --> 01:37:50,918
The door!

1734
01:38:05,501 --> 01:38:07,543
I came peacefully to Ubanga.

1735
01:38:07,835 --> 01:38:10,293
To solve problems, not create them.

1736
01:38:10,543 --> 01:38:12,085
Let me talk to them.

1737
01:38:25,501 --> 01:38:28,835
These people back President N'Bika.
I came to talk to him.

1738
01:38:29,043 --> 01:38:30,418
I'm ready to talk to them.

1739
01:38:30,543 --> 01:38:33,168
Sir, it's bad timing.
Get in your car.

1740
01:38:34,043 --> 01:38:35,710
You'll be safer in your car.

1741
01:38:35,876 --> 01:38:39,585
Let my car through.
I'm going to see President N'Bika.

1742
01:38:47,251 --> 01:38:49,668
STOP TAILLARD THE MICROBE

1743
01:38:50,501 --> 01:38:54,460
You got a cease-fire in Ubanga
after an eventful visit.

1744
01:38:55,043 --> 01:38:58,293
I met President N'Bika
at the presidential residence.

1745
01:38:58,460 --> 01:39:01,293
I also met Commander Bokolo
in Oscarville.

1746
01:39:01,460 --> 01:39:04,043
Both agreed to go along with us,

1747
01:39:04,210 --> 01:39:06,043
the only responsible path.

1748
01:39:06,876 --> 01:39:09,376
- I just spoke to Valerie.
- I know.

1749
01:39:18,793 --> 01:39:20,501
Yes, Mr. Minister.

1750
01:39:21,876 --> 01:39:23,501
I'll put him on, sir.

1751
01:39:23,626 --> 01:39:24,668
It's him.

1752
01:39:26,585 --> 01:39:30,001
<i>Now we have a cease-fire,
we must mediate.</i>

1753
01:39:30,168 --> 01:39:31,876
Yes. Mediate, Alexandre.

1754
01:39:32,085 --> 01:39:34,876
<i>Banshis and Tanas live
in the nearby countries.</i>

1755
01:39:35,085 --> 01:39:37,626
<i>We must contact other heads of state.</i>

1756
01:39:37,793 --> 01:39:39,085
<i>No more bilateral stuff.</i>

1757
01:39:39,251 --> 01:39:41,501
<i>We stick 'em in a room
till they agree.</i>

1758
01:39:41,876 --> 01:39:42,835
Enjoy, Arthur.

1759
01:39:44,418 --> 01:39:46,251
Very well, thanks.

1760
01:39:46,918 --> 01:39:49,876
Get me the Prime Minister of Zambara,
please.

1761
01:39:50,835 --> 01:39:53,210
Get me the President of Baruna.

1762
01:39:53,543 --> 01:39:56,251
I want to talk to Hercule Banzi,
in Kiruana.

1763
01:39:56,876 --> 01:39:58,501
How are you, Tabo?

1764
01:39:59,585 --> 01:40:02,501
Like us, you want peace in Africa.

1765
01:40:03,168 --> 01:40:06,376
"Weariness is
slaving over the tasks you began with."

1766
01:40:13,793 --> 01:40:17,210
Hi guys!
Your wives well? Holidays good?

1767
01:40:17,376 --> 01:40:19,751
All set for Extra Vacation Time?

1768
01:40:20,460 --> 01:40:21,668
Let me tell you.

1769
01:40:22,668 --> 01:40:26,543
We've got the method.
Now we stretch the antagonism.

1770
01:40:26,710 --> 01:40:29,210
It's in Heraclitus. I highlighted it:

1771
01:40:29,460 --> 01:40:32,751
"They do not understand
that what opposes you

1772
01:40:32,918 --> 01:40:35,001
"is what you are for."

1773
01:40:36,710 --> 01:40:39,460
We need a handbook for crisis solution.

1774
01:40:39,585 --> 01:40:42,418
There's handbooks
for making friends, beef stew,

1775
01:40:42,543 --> 01:40:45,126
writing books, a ghastly thought!

1776
01:40:45,293 --> 01:40:46,876
Books one writes alone.

1777
01:40:47,085 --> 01:40:49,543
A clear handbook for crisis solutions:

1778
01:40:52,626 --> 01:40:54,501
a universal handbook.

1779
01:40:54,626 --> 01:40:57,793
Get on to it tonight,
while it's fresh in your mind.

1780
01:42:22,751 --> 01:42:26,626
"The aim is to improve
the situation of French citizens..."

1781
01:42:26,793 --> 01:42:28,335
I think it's fine now...

1782
01:42:35,626 --> 01:42:40,126
"... that they'll only agree to
upon reaching the solution."

1783
01:42:55,001 --> 01:42:58,501
"On the terrain, around a table,
under UN supervision,

1784
01:42:58,668 --> 01:43:00,626
"can we solve all conflicts..."

1785
01:43:02,751 --> 01:43:05,626
"and reach universal peace", OK.

1786
01:43:06,418 --> 01:43:09,918
"revive the fire of civilizations..."
Nothing less!

1787
01:43:11,001 --> 01:43:13,293
Your parents need a cease-fire.

1788
01:43:14,085 --> 01:43:16,710
We'll invite them both to dinner.

1789
01:43:17,043 --> 01:43:19,335
We lock 'em up
till they make peace.

1790
01:43:20,460 --> 01:43:23,793
Under UN supervision?
You'll need extra chairs.

1791
01:43:26,043 --> 01:43:27,585
You got the cheese?

1792
01:43:28,251 --> 01:43:29,418
Guess not.

1793
01:43:30,126 --> 01:43:34,251
I couldn't find a title,
so I called it "Anti-handbook".

1794
01:43:37,626 --> 01:43:40,335
They're not anti-fragments!
But fragments!

1795
01:43:40,501 --> 01:43:44,085
Neocons aren't anti-idiots.
They're idiots.

1796
01:43:44,251 --> 01:43:46,210
But Malraux wrote his "Anti-memoirs".

1797
01:43:46,376 --> 01:43:48,376
Was he an idiot or not?

1798
01:43:50,126 --> 01:43:51,085
OK, pal!

1799
01:43:51,418 --> 01:43:54,251
Keep at it. This is useful.

1800
01:43:54,418 --> 01:43:56,043
We're moving a heavy load.

1801
01:44:05,043 --> 01:44:08,335
I'm a big bearer
of good tidings in this office:

1802
01:44:08,501 --> 01:44:12,335
UN arms inspectors
may now re-enter Lusdemistan.

1803
01:44:12,501 --> 01:44:16,001
But things are sure to go
as wrong as possible:

1804
01:44:16,168 --> 01:44:19,293
the Lusdemenites will hide
their equipment bit by bit,

1805
01:44:19,460 --> 01:44:21,501
even if it's Lego pieces.

1806
01:44:21,626 --> 01:44:23,835
Inspectors will be shown empty rooms.

1807
01:44:24,043 --> 01:44:26,460
The US will make unacceptable demands,

1808
01:44:26,585 --> 01:44:29,085
like inspecting
all the king's underwear.

1809
01:44:29,251 --> 01:44:32,460
So it's under control,
and may explode any minute.

1810
01:44:32,585 --> 01:44:36,668
Don't say that, if one shot is fired,
he'll want to head there.

1811
01:44:36,835 --> 01:44:39,168
He'll charge in through the bullets...

1812
01:44:39,335 --> 01:44:42,626
I confirm that.
He's immune to danger, he's mystical.

1813
01:44:42,793 --> 01:44:46,085
He's become an African sorcerer.

1814
01:44:55,751 --> 01:44:59,460
<i>Arthur, where do we stand?
We're off to New York in 2 days.</i>

1815
01:44:59,585 --> 01:45:01,085
I'll put him on.

1816
01:45:02,585 --> 01:45:04,210
It's the Minister.

1817
01:45:04,376 --> 01:45:06,918
<i>New York's in 2 days.
You realize?</i>

1818
01:45:15,751 --> 01:45:19,501
We'd cut that in the old version.
Why's it back?

1819
01:45:19,668 --> 01:45:22,085
But the new one's already old.

1820
01:45:22,251 --> 01:45:25,626
The new-new one,
has bits from the old-old one.

1821
01:45:25,793 --> 01:45:29,585
Look, I did a summary of part 2.
On UN inspectors.

1822
01:45:29,751 --> 01:45:32,835
The old first one?
Weren't you rewriting it?

1823
01:45:33,043 --> 01:45:35,835
No, I'm concluding the 3rd part.

1824
01:45:37,085 --> 01:45:40,293
We must keep that.
Or we can't pick up there...

1825
01:45:40,460 --> 01:45:42,918
I found the same bit twice,
here and here.

1826
01:45:43,126 --> 01:45:44,751
Only twice? You're lucky.

1827
01:45:44,918 --> 01:45:46,251
Some idiot has stuck

1828
01:45:46,418 --> 01:45:49,668
"tweaking the rosebud"
in the bit on Lusdemenite religions.

1829
01:45:51,085 --> 01:45:53,668
And that line about France,
an "old country".

1830
01:45:53,835 --> 01:45:55,543
It's suicide. Help!

1831
01:45:55,710 --> 01:45:58,043
No, he definitely wants that.

1832
01:45:58,210 --> 01:45:59,085
Don't yield!

1833
01:45:59,251 --> 01:46:01,418
I know how badly he wants it.

1834
01:46:01,543 --> 01:46:05,251
Let him decide,
once we've done all the rest.

1835
01:46:05,918 --> 01:46:08,085
Come on, next!

1836
01:46:09,710 --> 01:46:11,501
Concentrate, everyone!

1837
01:46:12,751 --> 01:46:15,293
How must I tell you?

1838
01:46:15,460 --> 01:46:18,376
In Morse code?
Semaphore? Aramaic?

1839
01:46:18,501 --> 01:46:21,793
I don't want a speech.
I want to fly to the points.

1840
01:46:22,001 --> 01:46:23,918
No sentences,
you're writing sentences.

1841
01:46:24,251 --> 01:46:25,626
Don't wax lyrical.

1842
01:46:26,001 --> 01:46:26,835
Words.

1843
01:46:27,043 --> 01:46:27,835
Principles.

1844
01:46:28,043 --> 01:46:29,210
Facts.

1845
01:46:29,501 --> 01:46:32,043
We're talking
before the Security Council.

1846
01:46:32,543 --> 01:46:34,043
To the world!

1847
01:46:44,668 --> 01:46:46,043
What's going on?

1848
01:46:46,210 --> 01:46:47,335
It's to thank you.

1849
01:46:47,501 --> 01:46:48,585
For what?

1850
01:46:48,751 --> 01:46:50,543
They got a residence permit.

1851
01:46:51,376 --> 01:46:53,251
The family I told you about.

1852
01:46:53,835 --> 01:46:57,085
Your anti-actor scored points,
dunno how you did it...

1853
01:46:57,460 --> 01:46:58,543
Lucidity,

1854
01:46:58,918 --> 01:47:00,876
efficiency, fraternity!

1855
01:47:03,501 --> 01:47:05,501
Why didn't he tell me?

1856
01:47:06,918 --> 01:47:10,293
It makes me really happy.
Both things do.

1857
01:47:11,168 --> 01:47:12,293
It's soft.

1858
01:47:13,376 --> 01:47:14,460
Thanks.

1859
01:47:22,251 --> 01:47:23,168
Guys!

1860
01:47:23,876 --> 01:47:28,001
It's now or never.
If you have to lob a grenade, lob it!

1861
01:47:30,251 --> 01:47:31,876
Did you write that?

1862
01:47:39,376 --> 01:47:41,460
No! This time don't swipe my car.

1863
01:47:41,585 --> 01:47:43,043
You have a lovely scarf.

1864
01:47:43,210 --> 01:47:48,085
A gift from my first ex-mother-in-law,
40 years ago. So I treasure it.

1865
01:47:48,251 --> 01:47:51,251
His first ex-mother-in-law?
I don't get it.

1866
01:47:51,418 --> 01:47:55,335
Right now nothing's easy.
Watch your step.

1867
01:48:00,043 --> 01:48:02,501
A premature military intervention

1868
01:48:03,043 --> 01:48:06,293
would harm the international
community's unity

1869
01:48:06,668 --> 01:48:08,460
and undermine

1870
01:48:08,710 --> 01:48:11,876
the legitimacy of its action
and, in the long run,

1871
01:48:12,168 --> 01:48:13,751
its efficiency.

1872
01:48:14,710 --> 01:48:16,918
In this temple of the United Nations,

1873
01:48:17,501 --> 01:48:19,710
we are the guardians of an ideal,

1874
01:48:20,710 --> 01:48:23,418
the guardians of a conscience.

1875
01:48:25,251 --> 01:48:27,501
The heavy responsibility,

1876
01:48:28,043 --> 01:48:30,543
and the great honor which are ours,

1877
01:48:30,793 --> 01:48:34,085
spell out giving priority

1878
01:48:34,251 --> 01:48:36,710
to peaceful disarmament.

1879
01:48:38,376 --> 01:48:41,626
And it is an old country, France,

1880
01:48:42,376 --> 01:48:45,626
from an old continent like mine, Europe,

1881
01:48:46,043 --> 01:48:48,001
that tells you that now.

1882
01:48:48,793 --> 01:48:51,460
One that has known wars,

1883
01:48:51,710 --> 01:48:53,251
occupation,

1884
01:48:53,876 --> 01:48:55,376
barbarism.

1885
01:48:56,418 --> 01:48:58,251
A country that doesn't forget

1886
01:48:58,751 --> 01:49:01,710
its debt to the freedom fighters

1887
01:49:01,876 --> 01:49:04,793
who came from America and elsewhere.

1888
01:49:06,168 --> 01:49:09,126
A country which has always stood up

1889
01:49:09,543 --> 01:49:11,085
in the face of History,

1890
01:49:11,418 --> 01:49:13,085
and before Mankind.

1891
01:49:14,501 --> 01:49:16,251
Faithful to its values,

1892
01:49:16,876 --> 01:49:18,751
it wants to act resolutely

1893
01:49:19,376 --> 01:49:22,710
with the whole international community.

1894
01:49:23,501 --> 01:49:24,751
It believes

1895
01:49:25,376 --> 01:49:28,543
in our joint capacity to build

1896
01:49:28,835 --> 01:49:30,543
a better world.

1897
01:49:31,543 --> 01:49:32,626
I thank you.

1898
01:50:01,418 --> 01:50:05,085
Could Demosthenes have done that
with pebbles in his mouth?

1899
01:51:42,043 --> 01:51:43,501
He's called Pol Pot!

1900
01:51:54,376 --> 01:51:55,585
Where do we stand?

1901
01:52:17,251 --> 01:52:19,210
We must act, unafraid of the flame.

1902
01:52:19,376 --> 01:52:20,460
What idiots!

1903
01:52:20,585 --> 01:52:21,793
I enter the flame.

1904
01:52:22,335 --> 01:52:23,210
Dumb door!

1905
01:52:23,376 --> 01:52:24,418
I become the...

1906
01:52:24,543 --> 01:52:25,710
The flame!

1907
01:53:49,626 --> 01:53:51,043
Subtitles: A.Whitelaw

1908
01:53:51,210 --> 01:53:53,001
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