The Player

00:40:10,478 --> 00:40:13,022 - Were you breathing hard? - Excuse me, Walter. 710 00:40:13,106 --> 00:40:17,610 Um, Joel, Griffin still isn't in, but I really think we have to start this meeting. 711 00:40:17,694 --> 00:40:19,863 Okay, Celia. Thank you. 712 00:40:22,532 --> 00:40:24,868 You remember a movie called DOA? 713 00:40:24,951 --> 00:40:27,203 Sure I do. Eddie O'Brien and Pam Britton. 714 00:40:27,287 --> 00:40:30,457 Disney did a remake in '87 or '88. 715 00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:33,460 Yeah, well, I think we got pretty much the same situation here. 716 00:40:33,543 --> 00:40:35,754 Keep our noses clean, Walter. 717 00:40:36,379 --> 00:40:37,922 I can see you're flush. 718 00:40:40,008 --> 00:40:42,927 It's a shame to waste the picture. It's a great picture. 719 00:40:43,011 --> 00:40:46,389 Who said we're wasting the picture? Where did that come from? 720 00:40:46,473 --> 00:40:49,392 You know what's interesting. We're all too busy to go see movies. 721 00:40:49,476 --> 00:40:52,312 Griffin, you're really late. They're, like, waiting inside. 722 00:40:52,395 --> 00:40:54,522 - Here's your meeting agenda. - You oughta try it sometime. 723 00:40:54,606 --> 00:40:57,525 Actually rub shoulders with the great unwashed. 724 00:40:57,609 --> 00:41:00,987 We need to give them the kind of pictures they want, 725 00:41:01,070 --> 00:41:03,198 not the kind these writers want to give them. 726 00:41:03,281 --> 00:41:06,618 I know you guys spend a lot of time with writers. 727 00:41:06,701 --> 00:41:10,497 Believe me, you have my deepest sympathy, but - 728 00:41:10,580 --> 00:41:13,708 - Hello. Sorry I'm late. - You certainly are. 729 00:41:15,043 --> 00:41:17,545 - Jan, talk to you for a minute, please? - Yeah. 730 00:41:17,629 --> 00:41:20,924 - Just a couple minutes in your office is fine. - Sure. How you doing? 731 00:41:21,007 --> 00:41:23,384 Griffin, you missed the formal welcoming ceremony this morning. 732 00:41:23,468 --> 00:41:25,220 You know Larry Levy. 733 00:41:26,387 --> 00:41:27,806 Of course. 734 00:41:27,889 --> 00:41:30,433 - Hi, Larry. - Hi, Griffin. 735 00:41:30,517 --> 00:41:33,186 Larry was able to get out of Fox a week earlier than he thought 736 00:41:33,269 --> 00:41:35,396 and has come aboard as of this morning. 737 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,024 Great. Let's, uh - Let's start. 738 00:41:39,192 --> 00:41:41,444 In fact, Larry was just in the middle of something. 739 00:41:41,528 --> 00:41:43,696 Oh, no. I wasn't. I was just killing time waiting for Griffin. 740 00:41:43,780 --> 00:41:45,698 Oh. Well, no. Finish. 741 00:41:45,782 --> 00:41:47,700 What were you saying? 742 00:41:47,784 --> 00:41:51,538 I was just saying that I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, 743 00:41:51,621 --> 00:41:54,582 and we have a tendency to treat them like that. 744 00:41:54,666 --> 00:41:57,126 Not at this studio. 745 00:41:57,669 --> 00:41:59,796 A million, million and a half for these scripts. 746 00:41:59,879 --> 00:42:01,923 It's - it's nuts. 747 00:42:02,006 --> 00:42:04,342 And I think avoidable. 748 00:42:04,425 --> 00:42:05,844 Let me ask you something. 749 00:42:05,927 --> 00:42:08,096 When was the last time you bought a ticket to see a movie? 750 00:42:08,179 --> 00:42:11,182 - You actually paid your own money to see it? - Last night. 751 00:42:12,225 --> 00:42:14,310 In Pasadena. The Bicycle Thief. 752 00:42:14,394 --> 00:42:17,939 - You went to see The Bicycle Thief? - I love that film. it's a great film. 753 00:42:18,022 --> 00:42:20,817 It's an art movie. It doesn't count. We're talking about "movie" movies. 754 00:42:21,651 --> 00:42:23,111 Jesus, people. 755 00:42:23,194 --> 00:42:25,655 All I'm saying is, there's a lot of time and money to be saved 756 00:42:25,738 --> 00:42:28,491 if we came up with these stories on our own. 757 00:42:28,575 --> 00:42:30,493 Where are these stories coming from, Larry? 758 00:42:30,577 --> 00:42:32,829 Anywhere. Anywhere. It doesn't matter. Anywhere. 759 00:42:32,912 --> 00:42:35,748 The newspaper. Pick a story. Any story. 760 00:42:35,832 --> 00:42:37,375 All right. 761 00:42:39,252 --> 00:42:42,422 "Immigrants Protest Budget Cuts in Literacy Program." 762 00:42:42,505 --> 00:42:45,967 Human spirit overcoming economic adversity. Sounds like Horatio Alger in the barrio. 763 00:42:46,050 --> 00:42:49,762 Put Jimmy Smits in it and you got a sexy Stand and Deliver. Next. 764 00:42:49,846 --> 00:42:52,223 - Come on. - Larry, this isn't my field. 765 00:42:52,307 --> 00:42:55,268 Marty, it doesn't matter. Just give it a shot. You can't lose here. 766 00:42:55,351 --> 00:42:57,937 Okay. 767 00:42:58,021 --> 00:43:02,191 How about, uh, "Mud Slide Kills 60 in Slums of Chile." 768 00:43:02,275 --> 00:43:06,070 That's good. Triumph