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"Orson, come into the light. "
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Never stand in the shadows.
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You were made for the light.
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Always remember that.
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"Now, turn around"
and make a wish. Go on.
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You must blow out your candles.
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"One breath, now. "
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That's all you get.
One chance.
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Are you ready?
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Now.
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He came to the town
of magic and dreams...
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a flashing star blazing
through the firmament of illusion.
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"He was 24 years old,"
and his name was orson welles.
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"Sound the trumpets,"
"unfurl the banners, hollywood. "
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The boy wonder has arrived.
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"May 6, 1915."
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The prodigy makes his debut on
"the world stage in kenosha, wisconsin. "
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"May 7. he speaks his first words,"
"and they are, "i am a genius. "
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Subsequent developments
confirm this opinion.
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"At 18 he goes to new york,"
the cauldron of the world.
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"Watch out, cauldron. "
Orson has arrived.
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Like hannibal over the alps...
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the boy genius invades the great white
way with production after production.
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And then he takes to the airwaves...
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step two in his plan
for global domination.
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This is the end now.
They're running toward the east river
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"thousands of them,"
dropping in like rats.
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The war of the worlds broadcast...
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sends this nation into a frenzy.
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"Yes, the boy wonder has fooled us all. "
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We had no idea
any of this was happening.
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I feel just horrible.
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Mr. Welles~ mr. Welles~
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how long can it possibly be
before the sunny land of dreams.
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Tries to harness the combustible power
of this showman extraordinaire?
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The winner in the welles derby is
"george schaefer, head of rko pictures. "
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With a contract unimaginable
before the days of orson...
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"mr. Schaefer captures the whirlwind,"
snares the beast.
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Eyebrows raise and jaws drop
when terms of the deal come forth.
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"The boy wonder can write, direct"
and star in his own projects.
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The studio?
"Well, they just pay the bills. "
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So cometh orson.
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He met the biggest of the big
and charmed his way through the town.
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From the brown derby
to the copacabana.
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From louella parsons to hedda hopper...
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those rival maidens
of hollywood gossip.
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"And so today, almost a year"
after his arrival...
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we leave the boy wonder
still hard at work...
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developing his much-anticipated
first feature.
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"We're waiting, orson. "
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Genius?
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Who does that cocksucker
think he is?
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"Word is glory boy's all finished,"
mr. Mayer. Can't come up with a movie.
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They're laying bets at rko this deal
ends up with him never doing a picture.
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Back to new york he goes.
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"After rko boots him,"
let's pick him up cheap.
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Have him do that war of the worlds crap
as a feature.
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It's money in the bank for us
"and, bingo, no more genius. "
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"This is hollywood, junior. "
What did you expect?
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And you keep coming up
with the same elitist crap.
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"Enough, mank. "
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God~ i hear this from schaefer
and everyone else.
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I don't need to hear it from you.
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"Heart of darkness,"
million-dollar budget.
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No one wants to see that
"that's nonsense, and you know it. "
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What do you think movies are about?
"Don't start this, please. "
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I'm interested.
What do you think movies are about?
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Life's rich pageant.
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"Life's rich pageant, my ass. "
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People are sick to death of life.
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They want make-believe.
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"They want tarzan and jane,"
not tristan and isolde.
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You know what they want?
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Magic.
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You know what your job is in hollywood?
Put butts in seats.
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It's all about selling popcorn
and pepsi-colas.
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Not for me it isn't.
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Then you're about to become
the youngest never-was...
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in the history of hollywood.
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Better than the oldest has been.
Is it?
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What are we going to write?
I don't know. You tell me.
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You're the boy wonder.
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Well?
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Jesus christ. Come on.
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The old man
doesn't cotton to lateness.
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"Good evening, mr. Hearst. "
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My name is orson welles.
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"So we set traps everywhere, right?"
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"And every morning,"
the traps would be sprung...
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but there would be no mice.
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What?
So one night...
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i noticed pops here
getting out of bed...
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i've got it.
"'Sigmund freud, life and times. "
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That's a great idea. Just got
your ass kicked on joseph conrad
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and now it's the id
and the superego.
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I'll be goddamned if he
isn't springing the traps...
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and leaving cheese
for the goddamn mice.
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"You. You and that guy disney,"
in love with the damn rats.
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"Okay, then, manolete. "
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Who?
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"Manolete,"
the great spanish bullfighter.
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Imagine clark here
in a glittering suit of lights...
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on the andalusian plains.
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Mr. Welles
is attempting semaphore.
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"Bullfighting, miss davies. "
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Is dear mank your bull?
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"My factotum,"
"comrade-in-arms, ally. "
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"Flunky, pimp. "
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Writer.
That too.
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You fight many bulls in new york?
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"No, when i was a tender lad... "
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my father and i made a tour
of the grand boulevards of europe.
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When we were in spain...
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i had the good fortune
to sit at the knee of manolete...
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the greatest bullfighter
of the age.
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'What is the matador's
greatest enemy?" he asked me.
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"Of course, i naively responded,"
"the bull. "
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"No, the bull"
is merely his adversary.
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His greatest enemy
is his own fear.
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"You see, to kill the bull,"
one must first learn to think like him. "
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"Having said that, he strode forth"
gallantly into the ring.
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"He flourished, flourished again. "
Suddenly the bull charged.
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"It thundered towards him,"
its calamitous hooves...
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shaking the earth
beneath manolete's feet...
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"and as it was almost upon him,"
he stepped to the side...
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flourished again and struck.
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And when the dust cleared...
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the sword was gone...
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vanished in the bloody eye
of the beast.
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That is barbaric.
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Of all man's sadism...
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none is more depraved
than his cruelty to animals.
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"In spain, sir, the cruelty would be"
in denying the beast a fighting end
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"as in your magnificent zoo,"
for instance.
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"And who are you, sir?"
"Orson welles, sir. "
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"Ah, the actor. "
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And director.
I wish you luck.
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"In hollywood, the bull"
and the matador are both slaughtered.
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Why the crack about the zoo?
Why not just let it lie?
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Because he's a hypocrite.
So what?
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I like to come here.
I want to be asked back.
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Why? You have no place here.
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Because marion's my friend.
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Did you hear what he said to me?
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Preaching against man's cruelty
"to animals. I mean, come on~"
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come here.
I want to show you something.
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The old man owns the biggest
publishing empire in the world.
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"When you have all that,"
you can preach whatever you want.
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Like appeasing hitler.
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A lot of people agree with him.
He tells them what they want to hear.
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As if that was
something to be proud of.
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Can't smoke here.
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Of course.
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How could i forget?
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"No smoking, no drinking... "
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no moral vices whatsoever.
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I suppose keeping an alcoholic mistress
half your age...
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is considered a virtue here.
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The old man has his own way
of doing things.
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I'll say.
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"Oh, god,"
these parties are awful.
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"You need to get out of here,"
rapunzel.
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That's why he has the parties.
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He says it's like
bringing the world to me.
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But it's not so bad here. What girl
doesn't want to live in a castle?
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Mr. Welles certainly is
"a caution, isn't he?"
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"And attractive,"
in a hammy sort of way.
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Listen. Why don't you come down
and stay with us for a few days?
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Just tell the old man...
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he needs me here.
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How big is this monstrosity?
The estate?
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Half the size of rhode island.
You're kidding.
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No. It's the place god
would have built if he'd had the money.
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Hello.
Manky.
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Will you dance with me?
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I'll dance with you.
"Oh, good. Thank you. "
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You've been naughty.
Can you smell it?
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"So, are you ever"
gonna do a picture?
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"Not you too, carole. "
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"It's gonna be fine, orson. "
You're gonna do just great.
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You're just scared.
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Am i?
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"And what am i scared of, carole?"
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Of being found out.
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Of not being a genius.
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"Goddamn it, pops. "
You gotta do something.
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There's no need for such language.
Goddamn it.
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You missed the beat.
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I've got it.
I know what we're going to do.
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Imagine a man
who has shaped his time.
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A titanic figure
of limitless ambition.
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A man with an empire
at his feet...
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controlling the perceptions
of everyone beneath him.
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A modern feudal lord.
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"The great american biography,"
a journey into the heart of the beast.
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"Oh, no. "
Don't you see it?
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He's spent a lifetime
making entertainment...
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"out of other people's lives,"
and now we turn the tables on him.
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It's perfect.
It's perfectly suicidal.
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How long have i been looking
for the answer...
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when all this time it's been
right here under my nose?
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"Every day in the newspapers,"
on the radio...
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waiting for us
in that ridiculous castle~
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"orson, stop. "
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I've talked to arnie.
He says it's all right.
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He says he's a public figure who sought
"out that publicity, so legally... "
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"listen to me, you child. "
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He doesn't worry about legalities.
Do you know why?
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Because he has more power than you
could even begin to imagine.
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- All the more reason to do it~
because he insulted you at a party?
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Because he's a hypocrite.
Because he's a political turncoat.
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He claims to care
about the common man...
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when nothing could be
further from the truth.
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He's a journalist.
He owns hollywood.
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We're the shit on his shoes.
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You better go back to broadway.
I expected more from you.
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"Yeah, me too,"
but i got used to it.
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"How does that feel,"
getting used to it?
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"How does that feel, going up"
to the palace and amusing the lords
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and ladies with the same stories
they've heard a hundred times before?
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How does it feel being the ugly monkey
they keep around to amuse themselves?
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"I remember a man who wrote, a writer who"
dazzled me with his wit and insight
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who hasn't had a credit
in four years...
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because he's been so busy
wasting himself amusing his keepers...
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because he's a sycophant who's been
thrown out of every hollywood studio
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and no one will hire him
because he's a drunk.
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"I'm sorry, mank. "
You must be thirsty.
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Here. Have another. I wouldn't want
to stand in the way of progress.
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Do you honestly expect me
to believe you care about me?
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You don't give a fuck
about anyone but yourself.
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Hearst was right about you.
You're just another goddamn actor.
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I'm sorry.
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"Orson, i don't have it"
in me anymore.
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"I used to have dreams too,"
but that's over now.
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It doesn't have to be.
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No studio would hire me.
I'll hire you.
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I just know this is the story.
Everything in my life...
238
00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,240
"all the potential, all the promise"
has led to this moment...
239
00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:01,720
to you and me.
240
00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,440
"Orson, he will destroy us. "
241
00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:09,760
"Take my hand, mank. "
242
00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,400
We'll make history.
243
00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,000
We'll scorch the earth.
We will astonish them all.
244
00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,680
Notes for a novel.
My great modern tragedy.
245
00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,400
On hearst.
You're joking.
246
00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,360
I guess great minds think alike.
247
00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,520
You've never told me about this before.
I haven't looked at it in ten years.
248
00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,080
"More importantly,"
i never showed it to anyone else
249
00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,360
you know why?
Because i wanna go living
250
00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,040
time to let go
"of that ambition, old boy. "
251
00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:47,600
"Rosebud. "
252
00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:50,600
What?
253
00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,360
"Marion told carole lombard...
254
00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,240
that the old man's pet name for it
is 'rosebud. "'
255
00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:04,280
"My god, mank. He has a pet name"
for her pussy and you never told me?
256
00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,360
"Orson, you can't do a picture"
where you have a pet name for a pussy.
257
00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,880
"In fact, you can't do a picture"
where you have any name for a pussy.
258
00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,080
"Oh, i think we can find a way. "
259
00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,760
"You just don't get it, do you?"
260
00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,280
Why do you think
i scrapped all this stuff?
261
00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,400
You can't scrap this.
It's too good. This is gold.
262
00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,400
Gold. You want gold?
I'll give you some gold.
263
00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,320
This is a story you won't find
written down in there or anywhere else.
264
00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:30,320
It's 1924 or so...
265
00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:35,640
and hearst is giving a birthday party
for an old hollywood producer...
266
00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:36,920
called thomas ince...
267
00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:39,840
on his yacht.
268
00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:44,640
And all the usuals are there...
"charlie chaplin, louella, etcetera. "
269
00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,000
And at this time
marion was screwing everyone...
270
00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,160
and so she slips off
with chaplin.
271
00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:51,800
Hearst sees this.
272
00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:54,960
He goes absolutely nuts.
273
00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,160
He's there on the deck
with a revolver...
274
00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:00,080
just blasting away
like tom mix...
275
00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,480
and he hits thomas ince
"right in the chest, and he is dead. "
276
00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:04,840
Dead.
277
00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,360
The empire snaps into action.
278
00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,120
Ince is cremated lickety-split.
279
00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,120
No police. No inquest.
280
00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,440
The hearst papers
cover it up nice and quiet.
281
00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:21,120
"The next morning, hearst offers louella"
a lifetime contract...
282
00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,080
to keep her all hush-hush.
283
00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,000
Now you tell me.
284
00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,920
You still want to take a shaft
to a man like that?
285
00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,320
Are you kidding me?
More than ever.
286
00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:36,360
It's supposed to be siam...
287
00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:39,960
some kind of balinese temple.
288
00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,400
Does it look like
a temple to you?
289
00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,680
"Marion,"
i've spoken to millicent.
290
00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,240
She said no... again.
291
00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,160
She believes it would put
her soul in peril.
292
00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:06,040
"Divorce is a very serious sin,"
evidently.
293
00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,040
It's bullshit.
294
00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,640
It's bullshit. She just cares
"about the money, you know?"
295
00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,720
She thinks i'll make you
cut her out of the will.
296
00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,000
I do wish you wouldn't
use that language.
297
00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,400
"He's a monster,"
an unfeeling monster...
298
00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:20,520
like all great men.
299
00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,720
"Yeah, but how"
do we dramatize that?
300
00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,040
Say we say there was a time
when he was innocent.
301
00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,920
There was a time when he...
when he lost something.
302
00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:31,160
Something he loved?
303
00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,880
You're off there.
Men like hearst don't love.
304
00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,600
"All men love, orson,"
or have loved.
305
00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,240
What about marion?
306
00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,200
She's just another piece
in his collection.
307
00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,520
She's just like one
of the animals in his zoo.
308
00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,240
"To hearst, that is love. "i love you. "
I built you a beautiful cage. "
309
00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:57,720
Love on his own terms.
310
00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:01,480
No?
311
00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,640
Love on your own terms.
312
00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,040
Those are the only terms
anybody ever knows.
313
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,160
There's your tragedy.
314
00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,400
"Orson, i'm in. "
315
00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,360
What?
I'll write it.
316
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:57,120
"Mank, that is the sweetest thing"
you've ever said to me.
317
00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,320
I'll call george. I'll get a secretary.
"No, i'll get two secretaries. "
318
00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,320
We can get houseman.
Don't sit there. Start writing~
319
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,840
i just wanna know
when i'm gonna see a script.
320
00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,360
How about a month? Is that acceptable?
'Acceptable"? No.
321
00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,680
Anything more than three weeks
is totally unacceptable.
322
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:12,000
What do you want me to do?
323
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:13,960
"I've got new york on the phone,"
a fiscal quarter...
324
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,920
mank and houseman are writing already.
Who?
325
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,520
Herman mankiewicz.
Mank? That'd be a goddamn miracle
326
00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,560
"a toast, then, jedediah,"
to love on my own terms.
327
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,920
Because those are the only terms
"anybody has ever known, his own. "
328
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,640
Telegram from the christ child.
329
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:34,760
"Schaefer loves the idea. Stop.
330
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,560
Keep writing. Stop.
Stop drinking. Stop.
331
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,400
Did you work on the jigsaw puzzles?
Question mark.
332
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,400
Don't stop. Stop.
"Love you madly, orson. "
333
00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:44,840
Asshole. Stop.
334
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,440
So gregg toland plunks his oscar down
for wuthering heights and says...
335
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,400
"mr. Welles,"
i want to shoot your picture. "
336
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,360
"Mr. Toland," i said, "you are the"
finest cinematographer in hollywood.
337
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,920
Why would you want to work
with a stumbling neophyte?"
338
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:15,440
"Mr. Welles," he replied... "
339
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,040
"the only way
to learn anything new...
340
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,760
is to work with someone
who doesn't know a thing. "
341
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,200
Priceless.
342
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,960
"The whole point, hedda,"
is to use the language of cinema
343
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,040
as though it's never
been spoken before...
344
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,600
to challenge the audience.
345
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,320
Why does anyone go
to the movies in the first place?
346
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:31,240
To see themselves.
347
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,200
"To see their own bizarre, complex,"
fascinating and paradoxical lives...
348
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,600
"orson, talk english, will you?"
349
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,920
The most powerful narrative tool
ever invented...
350
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:41,840
and it's fallen
into the hands of bankers.
351
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,000
"Come on, louella. There's got to be"
something more to movies than money.
352
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,600
What's your favorite picture?
353
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,960
"Gold diggers, 1933."
354
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,280
So the transition
is somehow less painful...
355
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,760
as the audience leaves the theater
and returns to reality.
356
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,400
They feel as if their own lives
have been touched upon...
357
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,200
"that they have been given, well,"
at least a rendition of the truth...
358
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:03,960
that finally
they have been treated with...
359
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,960
this is all terribly interesting...
360
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,840
but what's all this i hear
about you and dolores del rio?
361
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,600
"Now, orson, you know,"
i'm just dying to see your picture...
362
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,520
and i know
it's gonna be boffo.
363
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,000
But the story's about a publisher.
"You're not doing hearst, are you?"
364
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,080
"Good god, no. "
365
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,120
Our character
"is more an amalgam, really... "
366
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,080
look into my eyes and tell me
you're not doing hearst.
367
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,040
I'm not doing hearst.
368
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,200
Well?
369
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:17,920
It's too long.
370
00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:22,000
Talk to houseman.
He's the one who wanted wide margins.
371
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,120
The flashback scheme
isn't working...
372
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,080
and keep susan and leland
separate at the end...
373
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,640
or there's no sense
of time lapse.
374
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,400
"If you do that,"
then the logic breaks down.
375
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,240
"Look, mank. "
It's a brilliant script.
376
00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:35,560
No question.
Absolutely brilliant.
377
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,480
"It needs some shaping, that's all. "
Yeah. Sure.
378
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,400
We should celebrate.
"Drinks, housey. "
379
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,880
I still have three weeks left
on my contract.
380
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,680
"If you prepare some notes,"
i'll do the revisions.
381
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,960
I don't have three weeks.
Schaefer wants it yesterday.
382
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:49,960
I'll send you the revisions.
And we need to change the name.
383
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,640
What? The title?
"No, no. "
384
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,600
It's a grand title.
"American. "
385
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,560
I was thinking more
the character name.
386
00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:01,880
Charles foster craig doesn't have the
'knives-out" poetry i was looking for.
387
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,120
I was thinking of "kane. "
388
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:06,880
As in "abel"?
389
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,720
K- a-n-e.
390
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,640
One strong syllable. Kane.
391
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,040
'Craig" is one syllable.
Yes...
392
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,600
but it's not a great syllable.
393
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:15,800
"Thanks, housey. "
394
00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,040
"No, i haven't been drinking"
since i started this.
395
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,160
To my invaluable comrades.
396
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,480
Good-bye.
397
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,280
"American"?
398
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,480
"It's an awful title, of course,"
but i can't think of anything better.
399
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,080
Someone came up with
"a sea of upturned faces"...
400
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,760
"which has a nice,"
sort of operatic ring to it.
401
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,120
I thought
"of"john citizen, u. s. a. "... "
402
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,200
but that struck me
as a bit warner brothers...
403
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,640
"or, god forbid, capra-esque. "
404
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,360
Citizen.
What?
405
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:05,640
"Citizen kane. "
406
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,640
That's your title.
407
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,320
"Citizen kane. "
408
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,040
A "z" and a "k. " wouldn't look half bad
"on a poster, would it?"
409
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,400
Don't get ahead of yourself.
410
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,840
These budget projections
i know.
411
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,160
I don't know what you want me to do.
I've cut the script down to the bone.
412
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,160
"Listen, and don't throw a fit. "
413
00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:27,520
I want you to seriously think
about doing war of the worlds.
414
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,440
"Oh, god, george, please, no. "
Do war of the worlds as a feature
415
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,480
and everybody will be happy.
416
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,080
Don't ask me to do this.
You're a 24-year-old novice director.
417
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,240
"This is difficult material,"
maybe impossible.
418
00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:41,960
And old man hearst is gonna
come down on us with all he's got.
419
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,280
Think of the free publicity.
"Oh, please~"
420
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,880
"look, george,"
every idea has its moment.
421
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,720
This one is right now.
If it's half as good as i think it is...
422
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,680
it's not a matter of good or bad.
At the end of the day...
423
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,720
why did you got into
"this business, george?"
424
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,240
Why?
425
00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:59,400
Wasn't there a time when making pictures
meant something to you...
426
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,080
that it mattered
just a little bit...
427
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,240
that they were worth
taking risks for?
428
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,320
If you look into my eyes right now and
tell me to go make war of the worlds
429
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,640
i will.
430
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:11,880
I'll make it.
431
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,400
"And, yes, it'll make you money,"
and i honestly...
432
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,160
i can't think of a reason why
you should let me make this picture
433
00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:20,200
except that you should.
434
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,640
"You know, i'd do anything"
to get you the hell out of my office.
435
00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:31,000
Here.
Go make the goddamn picture.
436
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:33,840
Tracking...
437
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,120
"medium shot, close-up. "
438
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:39,560
Reverse.
439
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,360
Medium shot.
440
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,240
Reverse. What lens is that?
- 24
441
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,280
open aperture.
442
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,280
We used it on long voyage.
443
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,560
Could you run
"that reel again, frank. "
444
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:04,720
That's the one there.
445
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,200
"I'm not sure, mr. Welles. "
"I'll try. Yeah, mr. Welles. "
446
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:45,760
You fuck.
447
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,760
You selfish fuck.
448
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,680
"A studio pal, if that's"
"not an oxymoron, sent it to me. "
449
00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:59,640
"I thought we did it together, orson,"
i thought it was the two of us...
450
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:05,280
"but, you see,"
citizen kane by orson welles.
451
00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:09,040
You took my name
off the fucking script?
452
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,480
It's a mistake. Some steno girl
obviously made a mistake.
453
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,760
You took my name off the script?
You can't do that.
454
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,640
I fucking well can. I own your goddamn
"script, and i can do anything i want~"
455
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,720
don't forget for one minute
that i took...
456
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,960
your 350 pages of drunken rambling
and made a movie out of them.
457
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,760
And now i've got to shoot
"the son of a bitch, so thank you"
458
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,320
"thank you very much,"
but i have all i need.
459
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,880
And stop calling me.
460
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:41,960
Today...
461
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,960
today we are beginning
a great adventure.
462
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,760
"Together, we're going to tell a story"
that i think is of some importance.
463
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:59,480
"Now, i won't lie to you. I have"
absolutely no idea what i'm doing.
464
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,400
Every one of you has had more time
on a soundstage that i have.
465
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,440
Every one of you
knows your job...
466
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,080
"and i, of course,"
am still learning mine.
467
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,080
I ask for your patience
and your help.
468
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,840
That you...
469
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,600
allow yourselves
to get a little lost with me...
470
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,920
to travel into the dark wood
of uncertainty...
471
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,480
to take a few wrong turns.
472
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,560
"Because along the way, I... "
473
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,080
i think we just might discover
something amazing together.
474
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,840
"That's swell, orson. Now, where"
do you want to put the camera?
475
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,640
It's a director's contract.
Why the hell did you sign this?
476
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,720
"This is a suicide note, george. "
The bastard's got us by the balls~
477
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,040
"i trust him, harry, deep down. "
478
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,400
- Have you seen 24?
- Yeah. I've never seen anythinglike 24
479
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:05,720
i don't believe it.
480
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:07,200
What?
481
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,760
"He shot three scenes,"
two with dialogue...
482
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:11,760
when he was only supposed
to be doing camera tests.
483
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,520
"George, the man is obviously"
an anarchist.
484
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:15,800
Yeah.
485
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,320
Who's two days
ahead of schedule.
486
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,320
Son of a bitch~ 281.
487
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,480
Look right in the lens. Don't take
"your eyes off it till i yell, " cut. "
488
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,040
"Thank you, darling. The lines aren't"
important right now. Sit right here.
489
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,000
See if you can get your...
she's fine~ thank you.
490
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,600
Look right into the camera and
you'll be fine. All right? Great.
491
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,360
I still think we should under-crank
and play it backwards.
492
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,240
"When i want your opinion,"
i'll ask for it.
493
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,520
"Collaboration, orson. "
"Make it fast, andy~"
494
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:46,760
"call it, kit~"
roll camera~
495
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:48,960
and action~
496
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,640
"thank you, ladies and gentlemen. "
That was terrific.
497
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,400
"Wonderful, dot, really. "
Really wonderful. Top-notch.
498
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,280
"On the next one, maybe you"
could close your mouth.
499
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,280
We can go for
a slightly more subtle version.
500
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:11,960
"Well done, though. "
501
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:14,960
Right.
502
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,760
Obviously we need to go again.
503
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,800
I'll be in makeup.
504
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,400
"Orson, you cannot just"
"destroy a camera, for chrissakes. "
505
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,520
You know what these things cost?
506
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,080
"I know, george. "
I feel terrible about it.
507
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,080
What about this one?
Black tie.
508
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,080
We borrowed one from next door.
"Stole it, really. "
509
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,120
I don't think
they'll notice till monday.
510
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,360
"Look, i need"
"perhaps this, mr. Welles?"
511
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,480
Try the other one. I'm sorry.
I need agnes for another day.
512
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,480
Do you think you could
fix it for me?
513
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,280
"Good. Thanks, george. "
I've got to run.
514
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,200
What?
515
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:02,560
Action.
516
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,440
Rosebud?
517
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,320
I'll tell you about rosebud.
518
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,280
Cut. Let's go again.
519
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:13,840
Action.
520
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,720
Rosebud?
521
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:16,680
Keep rolling.
522
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:17,880
Rosebud?
523
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,080
I'll tell you about rosebud.
524
00:32:23,115 --> 00:32:25,400
Cut. Again.
525
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,280
"Orson, you cannot shoot"
56 takes of one line.
526
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,520
It's the climax of the picture.
527
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,560
The audience has been waiting for
two hours to find out what rosebud is.
528
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,520
"If they don't believe they're about to,"
we've let them down.
529
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,440
The trick doesn't work.
The whole picture depends on it~
530
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:44,440
it's one line.
531
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,440
"Cut, print, end of story. "
532
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,080
Drunk. What do you care?
533
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,920
You don't care about anything
except you.
534
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,240
You just want to persuade people
that you love 'em so much...
535
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,280
that they ought
to love you back.
536
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,960
Only you want love
on your own terms.
537
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:50,600
Orson?
538
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:53,960
You want to cut?
539
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,560
"No, keep rolling. "
540
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:57,720
"Right. Sorry, joe. "
541
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,760
Anywhere in your speech.
542
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:04,360
Action.
543
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,080
Drunk. What do you care?
544
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,960
"And i'm looking at them,"
and they're looking back at me
545
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,920
waiting for something brilliant.
546
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,240
"The only thing is, so am i. "
547
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,200
Waiting for some moment of inspiration
that will finally convince them all
548
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:26,200
that i'm worth all the time and trouble
and money they've invested in me.
549
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,280
"But i'm not, am i, mank?"
550
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,600
I'm just a fraud who couldn't care less
about anyone except himself.
551
00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:36,880
Isn't that right?
552
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,400
I don't know.
Is that what you think?
553
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,120
I don't know what i think.
That's the problem.
554
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,280
I just know
that i miss you and...
555
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,120
i was wondering if you
might consider coming back.
556
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,360
First you wanted me out.
I'm out.
557
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,400
I'm sorry.
558
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,040
This is the shooting script
we've been using every day.
559
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,240
I thought you'd like to see it.
560
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,200
Did i ever tell you
about my father?
561
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,480
"He was a drunk, my dad. "
562
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,960
"When my mother died,"
i was obliged to accompany him
563
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,280
on his business trips...
"europe, china. "
564
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,200
"I suppose, in one sense,"
it was a way of seeing the world.
565
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,440
Richard head welles
and his amazing boy genius.
566
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,360
"But he would drink,"
and it would get embarrassing and...
567
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,240
"well, i began to resent him because"
"i was so sparkling, you see. "
568
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,000
So when we got home
and i went off to school...
569
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,240
i decided to cut him off.
570
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,200
I turned my back on him
because...
571
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,480
i couldn't have him
getting in the way of my genius.
572
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,320
He would write me letters
that i would never answer.
573
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,400
"He would call me,"
and i would ignore his calls.
574
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,880
"When he eventually visited me at school,"
i would manage to find myself...
575
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,800
conveniently indisposed.
576
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,320
"When i finally did see him again,"
he was in a coffin.
577
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:35,800
I was 15.
578
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,560
And...
579
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,880
"all of a sudden,"
he wasn't the...
580
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,680
the embarrassing drunk anymore.
581
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,160
He was my father.
582
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,280
He was the man
who showed me the world.
583
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,480
Have you shot
the beach scene yet?
584
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,240
Good. It occurred to me
the other day...
585
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,160
that we're starting that scene
completely incorrectly.
586
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,440
Closer.
587
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:30,600
Closer. Stop.
588
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,240
Can you see my shoes?
589
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,520
"Yeah, but we lose your head. "
590
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,640
Joe. Do me a favor
"and stand in here, will you?"
591
00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:52,040
"Look, gregg,"
it has to be lower.
592
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,760
This is the scene. We have
to look up at these two men...
593
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,760
as pillars soaring to the sky...
594
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,360
towering virtues in combat...
595
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,120
orson~
we've been through this.
596
00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:04,280
"We can't get the camera any lower,"
so find another goddamn shot~
597
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,880
what the fuck are you doing?
Looks like he's tearing out the floor
598
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,600
it's four in the goddamn morning.
599
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:42,800
"My favorite time of day, gregg. "
600
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,440
I've set back the sacred cause
"of reform, is that it?"
601
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,600
All right.
602
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,640
If that's the way they want it.
People have made their choice.
603
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,040
It's obvious the people
prefer jim gettys to me.
604
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,560
You talk about the people
as though you own them...
605
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,840
as though they belong to you.
606
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,200
"Orson, i'm so goddamn tired. "
607
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,200
"Keep rolling, gregg. "
I can't remember the lines.
608
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,560
"Come on, joe. You're drunk,"
you're angry. Use it.
609
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,920
We're not all hopped up on benzedrine.
Some of us humans need sleep.
610
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,760
That's good.
Now give me the goddamn line.
611
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,600
You've been waiting for weeks to say
something to me. Don't go soft now.
612
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,680
You don't care about anything
except you.
613
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,360
You just want to persuade people
that you love 'em so much...
614
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,360
that they ought
to love you back.
615
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:32,200
Only you want love
on your own terms.
616
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,280
"A toast, then, jedediah. "
617
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,040
To love on my own terms.
618
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,200
Those are the only terms
anybody ever knows.
619
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:42,400
His own.
620
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,200
Cut. Print.
"What's next, gregg?"
621
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:46,680
That's it.
We're done.
622
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:47,640
What?
623
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,040
We're done.
624
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,360
"How 'bout a real drink, then?"
625
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,720
"Mr. Welles,"
compliments of mr. Schaefer.
626
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,520
Daylight. Hey.
627
00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:39,060
Orson? Hedda here.
"Hedda, what a surprise. "
628
00:40:39,180 --> 00:40:40,980
You naughty boy.
629
00:40:41,180 --> 00:40:43,860
You told me that i would be the first
human soul to see your masterpiece
630
00:40:43,980 --> 00:40:46,860
and i read in the reporter there's
a screening for the magazines tonight.
631
00:40:47,820 --> 00:40:49,300
That's only a rough cut.
"Oh, rough cut. "
632
00:40:51,180 --> 00:40:54,500
"Been there, orson. Know the drill. "
See you tonight.
633
00:41:00,780 --> 00:41:03,300
This is awful. There's no music.
The sound isn't even synced.
634
00:41:03,420 --> 00:41:06,900
Relax. They've all seen
a rough cut before.
635
00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:08,900
"I know, but why hedda, george?"
The magazines are one thing...
636
00:41:09,020 --> 00:41:13,100
"if hedda says she's coming, you just"
mix up a batch of martinis and pray.
637
00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:47,340
What did that mean?
638
00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:51,220
"Oh, mr. Hearst~"
639
00:41:52,460 --> 00:41:56,020
hello. I am so delighted
you could take my call.
640
00:41:57,100 --> 00:41:58,980
I just wanted
to let you know...
641
00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:02,820
that i saw this orson welles picture
last night.
642
00:42:03,940 --> 00:42:06,660
"First screening ever,"
don't you know.
643
00:42:06,780 --> 00:42:10,500
"And, mr. Hearst, i just"
don't understand something.
644
00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:16,460
I do not understand
why louella has not told you...
645
00:42:17,980 --> 00:42:19,380
that it's all about you.
646
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:21,100
About me?
Yes.
647
00:42:21,260 --> 00:42:23,100
In detail?
Yes.
648
00:42:23,220 --> 00:42:26,020
Thank you for this information.
"No, it's my pleasure, sir. "
649
00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:32,420
Yes?
650
00:42:32,540 --> 00:42:34,860
"Mr. Schaefer,"
miss louella parsons is here.
651
00:42:35,020 --> 00:42:37,300
Here? As in right outside?
652
00:42:37,700 --> 00:42:38,340
"Yes, sir. "
653
00:42:38,460 --> 00:42:40,420
Tell her to wait a minute.
Yes
654
00:42:40,580 --> 00:42:41,620
shit~
655
00:42:53,940 --> 00:42:56,740
i gotta see this welles picture.
I was just fixing something to drink.
656
00:42:56,820 --> 00:43:00,300
You drink at 10:00 a. m.?
"No, i meant... "
657
00:43:00,420 --> 00:43:01,860
and i want to see
the picture today.
658
00:43:02,220 --> 00:43:05,420
That may be a tad difficult.
"Cut the malarkey, buddy. "
659
00:43:05,580 --> 00:43:07,980
The boss himself wants me
to see the picture today.
660
00:43:08,140 --> 00:43:11,060
He asked you personally?
That's right.
661
00:43:11,180 --> 00:43:12,100
Hearst?
662
00:43:12,220 --> 00:43:14,340
Bingo~
i'll be back at noon.
663
00:43:15,340 --> 00:43:16,820
"Oh, joy. "
664
00:43:16,940 --> 00:43:19,060
"Continue with your singing, susan. "
665
00:43:19,180 --> 00:43:22,020
I don't propose
to have myself made ridiculous.
666
00:43:22,340 --> 00:43:24,900
You don't propose
to have yourself made ridiculous?
667
00:43:25,220 --> 00:43:28,140
What about me? I'm the one
that's gotta do the singin'.
668
00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:31,540
I'm the one that gets the raspberries.
Why don't you let me alone?
669
00:43:31,660 --> 00:43:33,140
It's all you.
670
00:43:33,260 --> 00:43:37,180
"The war with pulitzer,"
"the castle, marion. "
671
00:43:37,300 --> 00:43:42,460
How so?
The jigsaw puzzles and the career.
672
00:43:42,580 --> 00:43:46,620
A man spending a fortune to make her
a star. Only it's opera and not movies.
673
00:43:47,820 --> 00:43:50,140
And
yes?
674
00:43:51,140 --> 00:43:52,740
The drinking.
675
00:43:56,540 --> 00:43:58,860
Go on.
The whole picture's a mess.
676
00:43:59,020 --> 00:44:01,860
Jumps all over the place.
Very arty.
677
00:44:02,020 --> 00:44:05,100
It's all built around this sled
called "rosebud" that the guy had
678
00:44:05,260 --> 00:44:06,540
when he was a kid.
679
00:44:06,660 --> 00:44:09,420
What did you say?
"Yeah, the guy's last words... "
680
00:44:09,540 --> 00:44:11,460
are about a sled he had as a kid
called rosebud.
681
00:44:11,620 --> 00:44:13,420
Makes no sense at all.
682
00:44:14,340 --> 00:44:16,180
Rosebud.
Yeah.
683
00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:24,220
"So, our life is the subject"
for mockery.
684
00:44:25,100 --> 00:44:27,300
All of it...
685
00:44:27,660 --> 00:44:29,580
every personal detail.
686
00:44:33,820 --> 00:44:35,660
Thank you for your time.
687
00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:39,140
"Thank you, sir. "
688
00:44:40,780 --> 00:44:42,620
Miss parsons...
689
00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:47,700
i have one additional question
for you.
690
00:44:47,900 --> 00:44:48,860
Sir?
691
00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:51,300
Why were we not informed
of this sooner?
692
00:44:53,060 --> 00:44:53,580
Sir?
693
00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:58,460
I pay you a good deal of money
to be my eyes and ears in hollywood
694
00:44:58,580 --> 00:45:00,420
do i not?
695
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:03,620
If you cannot provide this simple
"service, then you are of no use to me. "
696
00:45:03,780 --> 00:45:06,100
"But, sir"
"please, be quiet. "
697
00:45:07,980 --> 00:45:11,900
This young man has made
a motion picture detailing my life.
698
00:45:12,980 --> 00:45:17,060
This motion picture was made
at a not-insignificant studio...
699
00:45:17,220 --> 00:45:19,580
and you knew nothing about it.
700
00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:24,900
He lied to me. He looked me in the face
and told me it wasn't about you.
701
00:45:26,740 --> 00:45:29,700
And how do you feel
when you are lied to?
702
00:45:30,060 --> 00:45:31,860
I want blood.
703
00:45:31,980 --> 00:45:33,100
Good.
704
00:45:34,020 --> 00:45:35,860
Retain that feeling.
705
00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:38,700
Let it nourish you.
706
00:45:41,860 --> 00:45:43,660
It shall nourish us both.
707
00:45:44,780 --> 00:45:46,660
Randolph.
708
00:45:46,780 --> 00:45:49,780
Louie. I hope you don't mind
my popping in like this.
709
00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:51,740
Not at all.
Come on. Sit down.
710
00:45:55,060 --> 00:45:57,500
What a wretched place this is.
711
00:45:57,860 --> 00:46:00,820
I never come to town
without feeling filthy.
712
00:46:01,820 --> 00:46:05,620
You really must buy that piece of
property near the castle and come north.
713
00:46:06,540 --> 00:46:08,860
"I wish i could, but business. "
714
00:46:08,940 --> 00:46:10,980
Which is why i'm here.
715
00:46:11,340 --> 00:46:13,780
You've heard of
this citizen kane picture?
716
00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:16,620
Yeah. Rko.
717
00:46:18,540 --> 00:46:22,940
Evidently it details the exploits
of a newspaper publisher...
718
00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:24,180
much like myself.
719
00:46:25,740 --> 00:46:28,180
Entirely too much like myself.
720
00:46:29,900 --> 00:46:32,100
No one wants their private life
paraded about...
721
00:46:32,420 --> 00:46:34,660
for the curiosity
of the moviegoing public...
722
00:46:35,820 --> 00:46:37,780
if you catch my drift.
723
00:46:40,300 --> 00:46:44,020
I don't see how the release of this
"picture will do anyone any good, really. "
724
00:46:45,100 --> 00:46:48,860
So sue him.
That's what i'd do.
725
00:46:48,940 --> 00:46:50,780
"Thank you, louie. "
726
00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:53,540
I'll keep it in mind.
727
00:46:53,700 --> 00:46:58,340
"Say, while i'm in town, why don't we"
stop by the I.a. Country club...
728
00:46:58,460 --> 00:46:59,380
and play 18 holes?
729
00:47:03,540 --> 00:47:07,300
Maybe we could get mr. Warner
to join us...
730
00:47:07,380 --> 00:47:09,460
and mr. Cohn...
731
00:47:09,580 --> 00:47:11,420
and mr. Selznick...
732
00:47:11,500 --> 00:47:13,660
and mr. Goldwyn.
733
00:47:18,540 --> 00:47:20,100
The club is restricted.
734
00:47:20,540 --> 00:47:21,580
"Oh, so it is. "
735
00:47:23,420 --> 00:47:28,100
How silly of me. I sometimes forget
that you're all jews.
736
00:47:29,540 --> 00:47:31,460
Apparently quite a number
of people forget...
737
00:47:31,620 --> 00:47:33,540
if they ever knew.
738
00:47:38,220 --> 00:47:40,940
See what you can do
about this citizen kane picture.
739
00:47:41,060 --> 00:47:44,580
"Will you, louie?"
"That's right, fella. "
740
00:47:44,740 --> 00:47:47,300
Mr. Hearst has authorized me
to tell you that you're looking
741
00:47:47,420 --> 00:47:50,180
at the most beautiful lawsuit
in history if you release this picture.
742
00:47:50,340 --> 00:47:53,220
"He'll bleed your little studio dry,"
and you can all go back to new york
743
00:47:53,380 --> 00:47:55,220
and do shakespeare
with the boy wonder.
744
00:47:56,260 --> 00:48:00,140
Can i talk to hearst?
You are talking to him.
745
00:48:06,580 --> 00:48:09,620
The journal was particularly harsh
on roosevelt today.
746
00:48:09,740 --> 00:48:12,340
"You really oughta lay off him, pops. "
747
00:48:12,740 --> 00:48:14,740
"He is the president, you know?"
748
00:48:14,860 --> 00:48:17,460
He's a bolshevik.
749
00:48:17,540 --> 00:48:20,140
He'll have us at war with germany
within the year.
750
00:48:21,140 --> 00:48:23,300
I think i'll run that picture
of him in a wheelchair.
751
00:48:23,460 --> 00:48:24,780
Please don't.
752
00:48:27,660 --> 00:48:29,140
What do you think?
753
00:48:33,860 --> 00:48:36,660
"Sir, we got the call. "
754
00:48:42,340 --> 00:48:44,140
"Thank you, joseph. "
755
00:48:49,780 --> 00:48:53,540
"What is it, pops?"
Nothing for you to worry about
756
00:48:53,700 --> 00:48:55,540
what is it?
757
00:48:56,540 --> 00:48:59,860
The s. e. c. Has turned down my request
for relief on the debts.
758
00:49:01,340 --> 00:49:03,180
How much?
759
00:49:03,300 --> 00:49:05,380
It's not something
how much?
760
00:49:08,340 --> 00:49:09,900
$125 million.
761
00:49:10,060 --> 00:49:13,140
We're $125 million in debt?
762
00:49:14,700 --> 00:49:15,860
Yes.
763
00:49:19,460 --> 00:49:19,900
Wow.
764
00:49:21,860 --> 00:49:25,220
How does one get
$125 million in debt?
765
00:49:26,780 --> 00:49:30,060
One buys things.
766
00:49:51,620 --> 00:49:53,500
We open on monument valley.
767
00:49:53,620 --> 00:49:55,620
Towering stalagmites
reaching towards heaven...
768
00:49:55,940 --> 00:49:58,060
as we track in
"on a single, solitary figure. "
769
00:49:58,180 --> 00:50:00,340
A quiet man.
Come here.
770
00:50:00,460 --> 00:50:01,900
A lonely man.
771
00:50:02,060 --> 00:50:03,860
Who is he?
772
00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:07,700
I don't want a hot sound.
No vibrato.
773
00:50:09,540 --> 00:50:11,340
You wanna do the life of christ?
774
00:50:11,460 --> 00:50:13,860
"You have to admit,"
it has a built-in audience.
775
00:50:14,180 --> 00:50:16,620
We shoot it like a western...
"vibrant, stark, modern. "
776
00:50:17,580 --> 00:50:20,100
All on location in the mojave desert.
777
00:50:20,260 --> 00:50:22,060
His next picture.
He wants to play christ.
778
00:50:22,180 --> 00:50:24,980
I hope he's planning to start
with the crucifixion. You read louella?
779
00:50:25,900 --> 00:50:27,980
I am trying to work.
780
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:31,500
"Sorry, bernie,"
we'll take it outside.
781
00:50:31,620 --> 00:50:32,780
Sounds wonderful.
782
00:50:34,860 --> 00:50:38,140
"So, what am i today, a puny upstart"
or a spoiled dilettante?
783
00:50:38,260 --> 00:50:40,380
It wouldn't be that.
She probably can't spell dilettante.
784
00:50:41,420 --> 00:50:44,100
"And how is the country to feel
when this industry...
785
00:50:44,220 --> 00:50:47,380
continues to employ bedraggled
foreigners and swarthy refugees
786
00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:49,340
instead of real americans?
787
00:50:49,420 --> 00:50:51,900
Doesn't hollywood know
there's a depression on?
788
00:50:52,060 --> 00:50:55,460
Don't real americans
deserve work?"
789
00:50:55,580 --> 00:50:56,460
At least she's off kane.
Off kane?
790
00:50:56,580 --> 00:50:59,900
"Orson, this is code language"
to the studio bosses.
791
00:51:00,260 --> 00:51:03,140
"Bedraggled foreigners
and swarthy refugees. "
792
00:51:03,300 --> 00:51:06,500
Who do you think that could be?
I don't know. Peter lorre?
793
00:51:06,660 --> 00:51:10,740
Who owns this town?
Who runs every studio? Jews.
794
00:51:10,860 --> 00:51:13,740
"Okay, they're jews. So what?"
"They're jews, just like you. "
795
00:51:13,860 --> 00:51:17,540
"Listen, you idiot. "
This is just the first shot.
796
00:51:17,700 --> 00:51:20,020
"The next time, she will"
actually use the "j" word...
797
00:51:20,140 --> 00:51:23,940
and the studio bosses will do anything
to keep that word from going into print.
798
00:51:24,260 --> 00:51:25,420
And hearst knows it.
799
00:51:25,580 --> 00:51:29,060
"What are they gonna do, mank? Are they"
gonna kill me? Is that what you think?
800
00:51:29,180 --> 00:51:32,020
Why don't you ask thomas ince
that question?
801
00:51:32,420 --> 00:51:33,540
"Sorry, mr. Welles,"
we need to be able to hear.
802
00:51:42,660 --> 00:51:44,820
He knows. Do you understand
what that means?
803
00:51:44,940 --> 00:51:46,860
That he knows?
He knows.
804
00:51:47,020 --> 00:51:50,180
What are you afraid of? It's in the can.
There's nothing they can do.
805
00:51:50,220 --> 00:51:54,380
"Yeah, and it will stay in the can. "
That film will never come out.
806
00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:57,540
Hearst will not allow it.
The studio heads will not allow it.
807
00:51:57,860 --> 00:51:59,820
That film will never see
the light of day.
808
00:51:59,940 --> 00:52:02,020
"Are you on their side, mank?"
What?
809
00:52:02,140 --> 00:52:04,660
That's what it sounds like to me.
Are you on their side?
810
00:52:05,900 --> 00:52:08,420
"For chrissakes, you wrote the script. "
You fought for the credit.
811
00:52:08,580 --> 00:52:12,260
"That's right, and i told you"
"that this would happen, didn't i?"
812
00:52:12,380 --> 00:52:13,300
Didn't i tell you? Huh?
813
00:52:13,420 --> 00:52:17,340
"Right. Listen, i got my check. "
You got yours. Let's move on.
814
00:52:17,460 --> 00:52:19,300
I will not move on~
815
00:52:21,380 --> 00:52:23,460
"who are they, mank?"
816
00:52:23,780 --> 00:52:27,820
Who are these men you're so afraid of?
Who are these tiny little fucking men?
817
00:52:30,220 --> 00:52:32,580
They're accountants.
818
00:52:32,660 --> 00:52:34,620
We're ready.
You wanna hear it?
819
00:53:02,180 --> 00:53:03,780
Switch it off.
820
00:53:12,060 --> 00:53:13,660
Would everybody please leave?
821
00:53:30,300 --> 00:53:35,180
"They got us, didn't they, pops?"
"I mean, they nailed us, didn't they?"
822
00:53:36,460 --> 00:53:38,940
Crazy old man and his whore.
823
00:53:39,060 --> 00:53:41,620
Marion
bought and paid for...
824
00:53:42,020 --> 00:53:44,580
just like one of his
goddamn statues.
825
00:53:46,660 --> 00:53:49,220
"At least in the movie,"
he marries her.
826
00:53:50,860 --> 00:53:54,420
- That picture...
- i-i'm not that woman.
827
00:53:54,500 --> 00:53:57,980
"I know what i could've been, and i know"
what i gave up to be with you.
828
00:54:00,340 --> 00:54:04,220
"I mean, they've even got"
the goddamn jigsaw puzzles in there.
829
00:54:07,620 --> 00:54:10,820
Why did they do that to us?
Why would they do that to us?
830
00:54:16,260 --> 00:54:19,620
Has he no idea
of the power that controls him?
831
00:54:23,860 --> 00:54:26,660
Get me louella parsons.
Now.
832
00:54:28,300 --> 00:54:31,620
Fancies himself an artist.
That's not art.
833
00:54:31,780 --> 00:54:35,380
It's an abomination.
The man's a charlatan...
834
00:54:35,500 --> 00:54:38,500
gossipmonger and a fraud.
835
00:54:40,460 --> 00:54:41,980
Miss parsons.
836
00:54:43,140 --> 00:54:45,380
Use the file.
837
00:54:45,460 --> 00:54:47,900
"So, what have we got here, I.b.?"
838
00:54:49,220 --> 00:54:51,740
We got faggots
and commies and junkies.
839
00:54:52,100 --> 00:54:55,820
We got movie stars
screwing niggers and little girls.
840
00:54:55,940 --> 00:54:57,900
We got jews.
841
00:54:58,060 --> 00:55:03,180
"We got mgm, warner brothers,"
"columbia, disney and fox. "
842
00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:05,020
We got hollywood.
843
00:55:05,140 --> 00:55:07,300
What do you want?
Kill citizen kane.
844
00:55:07,460 --> 00:55:10,740
How?
I don't give a shit.
845
00:55:10,820 --> 00:55:13,820
"The boss has been working on some stuff,"
and i've been working on some stuff.
846
00:55:13,940 --> 00:55:17,540
Now i want all you boys
working on some stuff...
847
00:55:17,700 --> 00:55:20,540
'cause if it looks like this movie
is ever gonna come out...
848
00:55:20,660 --> 00:55:23,740
i start running down the street
with these pictures...
849
00:55:23,860 --> 00:55:27,620
like a screaming woman
"with her throat cut, you follow?"
850
00:55:39,180 --> 00:55:41,620
How bad is it?
851
00:55:42,500 --> 00:55:44,420
Ms. Davies
"come on, joe, how bad is it?"
852
00:55:45,820 --> 00:55:47,620
It's bad.
853
00:55:54,260 --> 00:55:57,500
I've been thinking about
the examiner in chicago.
854
00:55:57,580 --> 00:55:59,820
It's not making any headway
against the tribune.
855
00:56:00,460 --> 00:56:03,020
Circulation is way down.
856
00:56:03,380 --> 00:56:06,980
I think we should buy the tribune.
Eliminate the competition.
857
00:56:07,100 --> 00:56:11,940
And i'm starting a campaign against
mr. Welles and his tawdry little film.
858
00:56:15,420 --> 00:56:16,740
Yeah.
859
00:56:17,500 --> 00:56:19,300
"Sure, pops. "
860
00:56:21,220 --> 00:56:24,660
What do you want me to do?
No one's willing to open this movie.
861
00:56:24,780 --> 00:56:28,500
"So we open in dallas, detroit,"
kalamazoo. It doesn't matter.
862
00:56:28,700 --> 00:56:30,140
"For god's sakes,"
we could show it in a circus tent.
863
00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:32,100
"Come on, orson. "
We have to go public.
864
00:56:32,420 --> 00:56:35,380
"If they see kane, he's exposed. "
The film is our best defense.
865
00:56:35,780 --> 00:56:38,660
- If we get the press on our side...
- he is the press~
866
00:56:38,820 --> 00:56:40,620
goddamn it~
867
00:56:41,580 --> 00:56:43,060
"george, wait. "
868
00:56:45,340 --> 00:56:48,700
You don't understand. The stockholders
in new york are scared shitless.
869
00:56:48,860 --> 00:56:50,660
We start a publicity campaign
against hearst now...
870
00:56:50,780 --> 00:56:53,980
and he'll destroy every rko picture
that's out there.
871
00:56:54,100 --> 00:56:56,420
I'm about this far away
from being fired myself...
872
00:56:56,580 --> 00:56:58,380
and i'm the only friend
you have in the world.
873
00:56:58,500 --> 00:57:01,300
You must trust. I'll do what i can.
We have to fight them.
874
00:57:01,380 --> 00:57:05,380
We have to go on the radio...
radio? You think this is a game?
875
00:57:05,460 --> 00:57:07,860
You have any idea
how many people rko employs?
876
00:57:07,980 --> 00:57:09,900
"You wanna shoot yourself in the head,"
go ahead and do it.
877
00:57:10,020 --> 00:57:13,780
I can't stop you. But you're not gonna
drag this company down with you.
878
00:57:15,020 --> 00:57:18,660
We need to make a statement. We have to
tell people what's he's trying to do.
879
00:57:18,820 --> 00:57:21,780
There's not gonna be
any statements.
880
00:57:21,900 --> 00:57:25,340
I'm talking about jobs.
I'm talking about food on the table.
881
00:57:25,500 --> 00:57:28,140
"No, you're not. You're talking about"
letting them bury my picture.
882
00:57:30,020 --> 00:57:31,460
"My picture. "
"My picture. "
883
00:57:31,620 --> 00:57:33,940
I'm so sick and tired
of hearing you say that.
884
00:57:34,060 --> 00:57:35,820
It's my picture too~
885
00:57:36,740 --> 00:57:37,940
it's his life.
Did you ever think about that?
886
00:57:38,060 --> 00:57:41,220
"How can you defend him, george,"
after what he's done to us?
887
00:57:41,540 --> 00:57:43,700
"He's a monster,"
a soulless monster.
888
00:57:43,820 --> 00:57:46,580
"Oh, come on. "
"Who are you kidding, kid?"
889
00:57:46,660 --> 00:57:49,260
Huh? You're the soulless monster.
890
00:57:49,380 --> 00:57:51,780
"George, please. "
"George, listen to me. "
891
00:57:52,100 --> 00:57:53,260
It's all i've got~
892
00:58:03,780 --> 00:58:06,500
"it's all i've got, george. "
893
00:58:07,620 --> 00:58:09,460
Whose fault is that?
894
00:58:16,060 --> 00:58:19,900
Explain it to me then.
There is nothing to explain.
895
00:58:20,020 --> 00:58:23,820
Millions of dollars a year
on art and statues...
896
00:58:23,940 --> 00:58:25,860
and there's nothing to explain?
897
00:58:26,020 --> 00:58:27,820
I will not defend
my life to you.
898
00:58:27,940 --> 00:58:30,180
I'm not asking you
to defend anything...
899
00:58:30,500 --> 00:58:34,780
"but we're in a pickle here,"
and we need to talk about it.
900
00:58:34,940 --> 00:58:38,300
"We are in no "pickle,"
as you so euphemistically put it.
901
00:58:41,660 --> 00:58:44,860
"You gotta wake up now, pops. "
902
00:58:45,980 --> 00:58:47,940
There is nothing more to discuss.
903
00:58:48,900 --> 00:58:51,660
"You don't have any money left, okay?"
904
00:58:51,780 --> 00:58:54,500
That's what no one else will tell you.
You are broke. You spent it all.
905
00:58:54,660 --> 00:58:58,740
You cannot buy the goddamn chicago
tribune. You can't buy a goddamn thing.
906
00:58:58,860 --> 00:59:01,260
You are being
"excessively theatrical, marion. "
907
00:59:01,380 --> 00:59:04,100
"As it just so happens,"
i need the tribune.
908
00:59:04,220 --> 00:59:07,620
That's just it. You don't need it.
You don't need any of it.
909
00:59:07,940 --> 00:59:12,140
"I mean, that statue, for instance. "
How much did that cost?
910
00:59:12,220 --> 00:59:14,820
It's 17th-century from avignon.
That's in france.
911
00:59:14,940 --> 00:59:17,460
I know where fucking avignon is.
912
00:59:17,580 --> 00:59:19,940
There is no need for you
to use that kind of language with me.
913
00:59:20,100 --> 00:59:23,700
Did you need it?
Did you need any of it?
914
00:59:24,780 --> 00:59:27,140
I wanted it.
915
00:59:27,300 --> 00:59:30,980
And there is a difference
between want and need.
916
00:59:31,100 --> 00:59:33,220
Not to me~
917
00:59:34,020 --> 00:59:36,820
why? Just so you could show
what a big man you are?
918
00:59:36,940 --> 00:59:38,620
Is that it?
919
00:59:38,740 --> 00:59:42,500
That's right.
You've captured me exactly.
920
00:59:43,460 --> 00:59:44,420
So good night.
921
00:59:46,740 --> 00:59:49,500
Where are you go...
hey~
922
00:59:49,580 --> 00:59:54,180
"pops, you will... you will not"
walk out on me this time.
923
00:59:54,340 --> 00:59:57,100
You're repellent to me
when you drink.
924
00:59:58,380 --> 01:00:02,780
"Well, tough shit,"
because we have to talk about this.
925
01:00:02,900 --> 01:00:06,700
"You are crude, slovenly"
and unattractive...
926
01:00:06,820 --> 01:00:09,340
and this discussion
is at an end.
927
01:00:09,500 --> 01:00:11,300
"Fuck you, mr. Kane. "
928
01:00:15,260 --> 01:00:17,060
I will not have this in my home.
929
01:00:17,180 --> 01:00:19,940
- I'm just trying to understand...
"- no, you're not. "
930
01:00:20,020 --> 01:00:22,820
"You want to condemn me,"
like everyone else.
931
01:00:22,900 --> 01:00:25,380
You want to point your finger
at the pathetic old man...
932
01:00:25,700 --> 01:00:29,460
"grown lunatic with his spending,"
trapped in his ridiculous castle
933
01:00:29,580 --> 01:00:31,500
still fighting old battles
he will never win.
934
01:00:31,620 --> 01:00:33,780
"No, pops. "
There is nothing to understand
935
01:00:35,580 --> 01:00:36,900
only this:
936
01:00:38,300 --> 01:00:40,700
I am a man
who could've been great...
937
01:00:43,420 --> 01:00:45,100
but was not.
938
01:00:49,220 --> 01:00:53,940
I was 18 when he was 50.
Really?
939
01:00:54,060 --> 01:00:57,540
"I just saw that big old gold ring,"
and i just grabbed right on...
940
01:00:57,700 --> 01:00:59,540
'cause he was gonna make me a star.
941
01:00:59,620 --> 01:01:01,460
And he did.
942
01:01:01,540 --> 01:01:03,340
Yeah.
943
01:01:03,460 --> 01:01:06,180
I wanted to do comedies...
944
01:01:06,260 --> 01:01:08,220
"silly stuff, you know?"
945
01:01:09,580 --> 01:01:12,020
"But, pops... "
946
01:01:13,780 --> 01:01:16,100
he doesn't get comedies too good.
947
01:01:16,180 --> 01:01:18,860
He kept putting me
in those period pieces.
948
01:01:20,980 --> 01:01:25,780
"Carole, you know"
this citizen kane movie?
949
01:01:25,900 --> 01:01:29,420
The one that's supposed to be
about pops...
950
01:01:30,100 --> 01:01:34,900
and everything and the character of
susan alexander is supposed to be me?
951
01:01:35,300 --> 01:01:37,940
"Marion, everyone knows"
you're not like that.
952
01:01:38,060 --> 01:01:39,900
That's just the thing.
953
01:01:41,700 --> 01:01:43,540
I am like that.
954
01:01:46,700 --> 01:01:51,220
This little girl comes from nowhere
and meets this...
955
01:01:52,140 --> 01:01:54,380
this guy.
956
01:01:54,500 --> 01:01:57,020
"He rules the world, you know?"
957
01:01:58,060 --> 01:02:03,260
"And somewhere along the line,"
she gets lost.
958
01:02:06,020 --> 01:02:08,540
Thinking like that
is only gonna drive you nuts.
959
01:02:09,700 --> 01:02:11,860
You were a great star.
960
01:02:13,420 --> 01:02:15,260
You had a good run.
961
01:02:16,260 --> 01:02:18,580
That ought to be enough.
962
01:02:18,700 --> 01:02:20,940
"All of a sudden, it's not. "
963
01:02:23,780 --> 01:02:25,380
You know?
964
01:02:25,820 --> 01:02:30,500
It's hell when you
gotta look back and you say...
965
01:02:30,620 --> 01:02:31,940
"what i could've been. "
966
01:03:00,620 --> 01:03:02,460
Can i help you?
967
01:03:05,380 --> 01:03:06,940
My god.
968
01:03:08,100 --> 01:03:10,860
How much for all of it?
969
01:03:23,260 --> 01:03:26,340
...of the nazi weapons
of destruction.
970
01:03:26,420 --> 01:03:29,620
It is unmistakably apparent
to all of us...
971
01:03:29,740 --> 01:03:35,220
that unless the advance of hitlerism
is checked now...
972
01:03:35,340 --> 01:03:37,180
the western hemisphere...
973
01:03:52,500 --> 01:03:55,900
you got my memo.
What do we do?
974
01:03:56,020 --> 01:03:59,780
He's a fucking pisher.
Why does hearst give a shit?
975
01:03:59,860 --> 01:04:02,020
It's enough that he does.
Would louella really do it?
976
01:04:02,740 --> 01:04:05,140
In a new york minute.
I say to hell with louella and hearst.
977
01:04:06,220 --> 01:04:09,420
"This hits all of us. It's our business,"
and we can't take it lying down.
978
01:04:10,340 --> 01:04:11,820
We all didn't make
"gone with the wind, you know?"
979
01:04:11,940 --> 01:04:14,740
Some of us can't afford
your principles.
980
01:04:14,820 --> 01:04:17,340
We gotta look at this
checkbook-wise.
981
01:04:17,460 --> 01:04:20,260
Who isn't hurting already?
982
01:04:20,340 --> 01:04:22,780
All this jew talk?
983
01:04:22,900 --> 01:04:25,020
Now he's boycotting rko ads.
984
01:04:25,100 --> 01:04:28,260
"Next week, it's warners,"
"fox or columbia, right?"
985
01:04:28,580 --> 01:04:30,900
Goddamn right.
Got us nailed.
986
01:04:31,020 --> 01:04:35,460
"Dates, times, photographs,"
for god's sake.
987
01:04:35,620 --> 01:04:39,500
"I don't mean to be funny,"
but what could he have on mickey mouse?
988
01:04:39,620 --> 01:04:41,460
He's got you so tied in with
j. Edgar hoover and america first
989
01:04:41,540 --> 01:04:45,140
you might as well put on a brown shirt
and kiss those kiddies good-bye.
990
01:04:45,260 --> 01:04:48,100
"Relax, walt. At least he don't"
have you screwing snow white.
991
01:04:48,260 --> 01:04:50,300
I got fuckin' errol flynn
on my payroll.
992
01:04:51,580 --> 01:04:53,220
"You're a smart man, louie. "
993
01:04:53,500 --> 01:04:57,420
I suspect you didn't call us
all here without a plan.
994
01:04:57,540 --> 01:04:58,500
Give over.
995
01:04:58,660 --> 01:05:03,140
"We will buy this movie,"
and we will destroy it.
996
01:05:04,260 --> 01:05:06,620
We will assemble a fund between us...
997
01:05:06,980 --> 01:05:08,580
and we will go
to george schaefer...
998
01:05:10,020 --> 01:05:13,140
and we will buy the negative
and every print of citizen kane
999
01:05:13,260 --> 01:05:15,100
and we will burn them.
1000
01:05:16,740 --> 01:05:19,580
If i don't hear an objection to
this agenda in the next five seconds
1001
01:05:19,660 --> 01:05:21,980
i'll assume the motion is carried.
1002
01:05:27,620 --> 01:05:28,300
Very well.
1003
01:05:28,420 --> 01:05:32,180
What does it profit a man
to gain the whole world...
1004
01:05:33,140 --> 01:05:34,980
if he loses his soul?
1005
01:05:35,060 --> 01:05:37,860
"And john the baptist says,"
"a night with rita hayworth. "
1006
01:05:40,860 --> 01:05:42,700
Just the man we're looking for.
Look.
1007
01:05:43,660 --> 01:05:45,580
Not a single scene
shot in the studio.
1008
01:05:45,700 --> 01:05:48,740
You'll have to help me with account...
i think you should sit.
1009
01:05:49,540 --> 01:05:53,300
I don't want to sit down.
"All right, don't sit down. "
1010
01:05:53,420 --> 01:05:56,580
The bosses of the other studios...
1011
01:05:57,020 --> 01:05:58,020
"have made an offer of $800,000... "
1012
01:05:58,180 --> 01:06:01,620
to buy the negative
and all the prints to burn them.
1013
01:06:02,820 --> 01:06:05,740
They went to the stockholders
in new york. I've talked to swanbeck.
1014
01:06:07,940 --> 01:06:08,700
I think they're going to take it.
1015
01:06:25,780 --> 01:06:26,980
You shit.
1016
01:06:29,020 --> 01:06:30,900
You treacherous little shit.
1017
01:06:31,020 --> 01:06:33,940
"Orson, this isn't george's fault. "
Shut up.
1018
01:06:37,340 --> 01:06:40,140
"You wanna take my movie, george?"
1019
01:06:40,260 --> 01:06:43,140
Is that it?
Is that what you came here for?
1020
01:06:46,020 --> 01:06:50,300
Take it. Why not
"take it all, george, hmm?"
1021
01:06:50,660 --> 01:06:53,900
Why not take everything?
Jesus.
1022
01:06:54,580 --> 01:06:57,540
"Everything i am,"
everything i could be is in that film.
1023
01:06:57,700 --> 01:06:59,820
"Take it, george. "
Here. I offer it up to you.
1024
01:07:01,380 --> 01:07:05,140
"No, george, wait. Please. "
1025
01:07:05,540 --> 01:07:07,620
"George, i'm sorry. "
I'm sorry.
1026
01:07:08,060 --> 01:07:09,820
"Look, i am... "
1027
01:07:10,380 --> 01:07:13,220
"george, please just, just... "
1028
01:07:13,340 --> 01:07:15,660
give me one more chance.
1029
01:07:15,780 --> 01:07:18,540
"Let me go to new york. Please,"
let me go talk to the stockholders.
1030
01:07:19,460 --> 01:07:22,780
"I promise you... i promise you,"
you will never see me again.
1031
01:08:03,180 --> 01:08:05,780
Ace of spades.
1032
01:08:14,340 --> 01:08:16,100
Ace of spades.
1033
01:08:38,340 --> 01:08:40,140
Good afternoon.
1034
01:08:42,660 --> 01:08:48,180
"Today, a man from germany"
invaded greece.
1035
01:08:48,740 --> 01:08:52,060
He's already swallowed poland...
1036
01:08:52,180 --> 01:08:55,500
"denmark, norway and belgium. "
1037
01:08:56,100 --> 01:08:58,420
He's bombing london
as i speak.
1038
01:09:00,340 --> 01:09:04,100
"Everywhere this man goes, he crushes"
the life and freedom of his subjects.
1039
01:09:04,220 --> 01:09:07,140
He sews yellow stars
in their lapels.
1040
01:09:07,300 --> 01:09:09,100
He takes their voices.
1041
01:09:10,820 --> 01:09:14,340
"In this country,"
we still have our voices.
1042
01:09:15,700 --> 01:09:18,180
"We can argue with them,"
and we can sing...
1043
01:09:18,500 --> 01:09:22,660
"and we can be heard because we are,"
"for the moment, free. "
1044
01:09:26,660 --> 01:09:31,900
No one can tell us what to say
"or how to say it, can they?"
1045
01:09:33,380 --> 01:09:34,900
Gentlemen...
1046
01:09:36,300 --> 01:09:37,940
i am one voice.
1047
01:09:38,060 --> 01:09:41,620
That is all.
My picture is one voice.
1048
01:09:41,740 --> 01:09:44,540
"One view, one opinion,"
nothing more.
1049
01:09:46,780 --> 01:09:50,140
"Men are dying in europe now,"
and americans soon will be...
1050
01:09:50,300 --> 01:09:53,940
so that we can surmount
the tyrants and the dictators.
1051
01:09:55,420 --> 01:09:58,500
Will you send a message
across america...
1052
01:09:58,820 --> 01:10:03,300
that one man
can take away our voices?
1053
01:10:05,180 --> 01:10:07,420
So...
1054
01:10:07,580 --> 01:10:10,340
who is mr. Hearst...
1055
01:10:10,460 --> 01:10:13,220
and who is mr. Welles?
1056
01:10:13,300 --> 01:10:16,540
"Well, mr. Hearst built"
a palace of brick and mortar...
1057
01:10:16,660 --> 01:10:20,980
and little wars and corpses
piled high.
1058
01:10:22,260 --> 01:10:25,700
Mr. Welles built a palace
of illusion.
1059
01:10:26,900 --> 01:10:31,380
It's what we call
a matte painting.
1060
01:10:31,500 --> 01:10:33,460
It's a camera trick.
It's nothing.
1061
01:10:34,540 --> 01:10:36,420
Nothing but a dream.
1062
01:10:40,740 --> 01:10:42,100
Today...
1063
01:10:43,940 --> 01:10:46,380
you have the chance...
1064
01:10:46,500 --> 01:10:49,380
to let the dream triumph.
1065
01:10:51,100 --> 01:10:51,980
Thank you.
1066
01:11:14,780 --> 01:11:16,580
We open may 1.
1067
01:11:21,540 --> 01:11:24,700
"It was a pretty speech, orson,"
but you got lucky.
1068
01:11:25,780 --> 01:11:28,220
Hearst is going bankrupt.
It's all over the wire.
1069
01:11:31,980 --> 01:11:33,980
Pretty speeches
"change the world, george. "
1070
01:11:36,740 --> 01:11:37,220
"You meant it, right?"
1071
01:11:39,260 --> 01:11:41,500
Does it matter?
1072
01:11:51,620 --> 01:11:53,140
Yes~
1073
01:11:55,220 --> 01:11:57,060
it matters.
1074
01:12:07,140 --> 01:12:10,740
We will be immediately closing 12
of the papers and the wire services
1075
01:12:10,860 --> 01:12:14,660
and we will be liquidating
some other assets as soon as possible
1076
01:12:14,780 --> 01:12:19,460
and most of your land in mexico
and your art and antiquities.
1077
01:12:19,580 --> 01:12:22,900
Mr. Hearst spent his life
collecting this art.
1078
01:12:23,020 --> 01:12:24,860
We've been in touch
with gimbel's in new york...
1079
01:12:24,940 --> 01:12:27,140
and they've agreed to hold
a special sale.
1080
01:12:27,300 --> 01:12:29,740
They've given over an entire floor
to the merchandise.
1081
01:12:29,860 --> 01:12:33,860
You'll have to go there in person
"to sign the bill of sale, by the way. "
1082
01:12:35,940 --> 01:12:40,060
We don't know yet whether we'll
be able to retain the castle.
1083
01:12:40,180 --> 01:12:42,100
The land has some capital.
1084
01:12:42,220 --> 01:12:45,820
We might be able to keep it
on as an investment.
1085
01:12:45,940 --> 01:12:47,780
Maybe break it up into smaller units
for housing.
1086
01:12:50,340 --> 01:12:51,700
When will it come out?
1087
01:12:51,780 --> 01:12:54,660
"We can't keep it a secret, sir... "
1088
01:12:54,780 --> 01:12:57,740
once we announce the gimbel sale
and start liquidating the assets.
1089
01:13:06,380 --> 01:13:09,220
"Let it go, pops. "
Let it go.
1090
01:14:00,980 --> 01:14:03,580
"Mr. Hearst, i'm not sure"
if you remember who i am.
1091
01:14:03,700 --> 01:14:05,620
My name's orson welles.
I know who you are.
1092
01:14:09,700 --> 01:14:14,420
Then you probably also know that i've
got a picture opening tomorrow night.
1093
01:14:14,540 --> 01:14:17,420
Be happy to arrange some tickets
"for you, if you'd like to come. "
1094
01:14:26,100 --> 01:14:30,980
I wonder... have you any idea
the damage you've done?
1095
01:14:34,780 --> 01:14:35,660
Do you?
1096
01:14:36,540 --> 01:14:38,260
Intimately.
1097
01:14:38,380 --> 01:14:40,700
For every sin
you've placed on my head...
1098
01:14:40,780 --> 01:14:42,940
i could give you
a hundred others.
1099
01:14:43,940 --> 01:14:47,180
But i believe a man's private life
should not be made public property.
1100
01:14:47,300 --> 01:14:49,940
Despite what you may have read
in your papers...
1101
01:14:50,060 --> 01:14:53,740
i'd like to think that my film was more
than a cheap expose of one man's life.
1102
01:14:54,820 --> 01:14:57,340
And what would you call it?
1103
01:14:58,020 --> 01:15:02,140
My man gains the world
and loses his soul.
1104
01:15:02,260 --> 01:15:06,380
"I suppose, in some circles, that would"
be considered a fair exchange.
1105
01:15:11,980 --> 01:15:15,620
It's not my life you sabotaged
"with your film, mr. Welles. "
1106
01:15:16,700 --> 01:15:19,460
My battle with the world
is almost over.
1107
01:15:20,540 --> 01:15:23,460
"Yours, i'm afraid,"
has just begun.
1108
01:15:28,260 --> 01:15:30,060
"Good luck, mr. Welles. "
1109
01:15:38,220 --> 01:15:40,660
Kane would've taken the tickets.
1110
01:16:07,780 --> 01:16:12,180
It's my birthday this week.
"Do you know that, george? Twentysix. "
1111
01:16:12,380 --> 01:16:14,220
Happy birthday.
Ain't it the bee's knees...
1112
01:16:14,300 --> 01:16:18,580
to see all the high muckety-mucks dolled
up like aztecs for human sacrifice?
1113
01:16:18,700 --> 01:16:22,380
You gonna watch?
I know how it ends. Rosebud's the sled
1114
01:16:22,500 --> 01:16:25,100
mank.
Rosebud's the sled.
1115
01:16:25,220 --> 01:16:27,140
Come on. It doesn't matter.
They'll hate it anyway.
1116
01:16:27,300 --> 01:16:30,540
"Not enough close-ups,"
too many new york actors.
1117
01:16:30,620 --> 01:16:33,940
"Knock it off, mank. "
"Relax, kid. You made a great picture. "
1118
01:16:37,740 --> 01:16:40,340
Now we have to convince them.
1119
01:16:40,460 --> 01:16:42,580
"So, does this mean you're in"
for the life of christ?
1120
01:16:43,340 --> 01:16:45,060
I got the ax this morning.
1121
01:16:46,300 --> 01:16:47,020
"Oh, you're kidding?"
1122
01:16:47,140 --> 01:16:51,620
It's all right.
"I made my choices, same as you. "
1123
01:16:51,780 --> 01:16:54,900
This whole hearst nightmare
1124
01:16:55,020 --> 01:16:57,460
who's gonna remember it?
Nobody.
1125
01:16:59,300 --> 01:17:00,900
We'll be lucky if they remember
the goddamn movie.
1126
01:17:07,940 --> 01:17:09,820
What have i done?
Come on.
1127
01:17:09,940 --> 01:17:12,740
He'll land on his feet.
He always does.
1128
01:17:12,820 --> 01:17:14,660
Let's get a drink.
1129
01:17:29,260 --> 01:17:32,100
"We pulled it off,"
"didn't we, mank?"
1130
01:17:32,180 --> 01:17:34,500
Depends on what side you're on.
1131
01:17:38,660 --> 01:17:40,060
"Look, mank, i never meant to... "
1132
01:17:41,860 --> 01:17:46,500
sure you did.
"Anyway, was it worth it?"
1133
01:17:48,260 --> 01:17:48,700
I don't know.
1134
01:17:50,380 --> 01:17:53,100
I can't imagine doing it
any other way.
1135
01:17:53,180 --> 01:17:56,540
I suppose
it's just my character.
1136
01:17:56,900 --> 01:17:59,940
"It won't be easy,"
having made your masterpiece at 26
1137
01:18:01,180 --> 01:18:03,180
is that what you think?
1138
01:18:03,300 --> 01:18:07,860
That i'm just gonna burn out
at the ripe old age of 26?
1139
01:18:09,620 --> 01:18:13,220
"All stars burn out, orson. "
It's the flame that counts.
1140
01:18:20,140 --> 01:18:23,100
To the flame
to the flame
91401
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