Kill Your Darlings

your crushes, your juvenile metaphysics. 422 00:29:31,004 --> 00:29:32,665 None of them belong on the page. 423 00:29:33,073 --> 00:29:36,634 It is the first principle of good creative work, 424 00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:40,271 a work of fiction you will deliver as your final exam. 425 00:29:42,216 --> 00:29:43,513 Look. 426 00:29:43,584 --> 00:29:46,952 Whitman junior graced us with his presence today. 427 00:29:53,093 --> 00:29:54,583 "The new vision. 428 00:29:54,661 --> 00:29:57,323 "Extraordinary men propel us forward. 429 00:29:57,397 --> 00:30:00,697 "It is our duty to break the law." 430 00:30:01,835 --> 00:30:03,667 Fantastic. 431 00:30:03,737 --> 00:30:05,569 There's more life in those five pages 432 00:30:05,639 --> 00:30:08,472 than in the dozens of bad sonnets we've read in this class. 433 00:30:10,811 --> 00:30:12,745 You want life? 434 00:30:12,813 --> 00:30:14,713 You want the world on fire? 435 00:30:16,183 --> 00:30:18,242 The war awaits. 436 00:30:21,822 --> 00:30:23,415 What will it be? 437 00:30:27,428 --> 00:30:30,523 "The Rose that scents the summer air 438 00:30:30,597 --> 00:30:33,294 "grows from my beloved's hair." 439 00:30:33,667 --> 00:30:35,829 Keep going. That's my sonnet for Steeves. 440 00:30:35,903 --> 00:30:37,632 We have the map. 441 00:30:37,705 --> 00:30:39,537 We have the manifesto. 442 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,569 We need the work. 443 00:30:46,713 --> 00:30:48,010 I was wrong. 444 00:30:50,851 --> 00:30:53,445 Maybe you're not up for this after all. 445 00:30:56,890 --> 00:30:58,619 Show me your fucking map. 446 00:30:58,692 --> 00:30:59,682 Mmm! Stop. 447 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,091 No, there's nothing here 448 00:31:01,161 --> 00:31:02,961 because David's not here to write it for you. 449 00:31:03,030 --> 00:31:04,293 It's complicated. 450 00:31:04,431 --> 00:31:05,660 I love complicated. 451 00:31:12,773 --> 00:31:16,038 He is a professor working as a janitor 452 00:31:16,110 --> 00:31:18,477 so he can be near his precious Lu-Lu. 453 00:31:18,545 --> 00:31:21,981 He is a goddamn fruit who won't let me go. 454 00:31:25,119 --> 00:31:26,348 A fruit? 455 00:31:26,887 --> 00:31:28,377 A queer. 456 00:31:42,836 --> 00:31:44,326 Then... 457 00:31:46,173 --> 00:31:49,609 You know, let's get rid of him. 458 00:32:01,321 --> 00:32:05,019 Right now, I just need you to write us something beautiful. 459 00:32:07,961 --> 00:32:09,986 First thought, best thought. 460 00:32:51,505 --> 00:32:53,166 (Speaking gibberish) 461 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,038 Allen in wonderland. 462 00:33:09,990 --> 00:33:11,480 <i>Pervitin.</i> 463 00:33:12,893 --> 00:33:16,488 The Germans called it the "wunderdroge." 464 00:33:17,598 --> 00:33:20,431 Prescribed for superhuman feats. 465 00:33:34,581 --> 00:33:36,879 <i>But beware of the side effects</i> 466 00:33:36,950 --> 00:33:38,816 which include sudden bouts of blindness, 467 00:33:38,886 --> 00:33:40,718 diarrhea, heart palpitations 468 00:33:40,788 --> 00:33:44,156 and a severe decline in moral standards. 469 00:33:52,666 --> 00:33:54,600 Unbloomed stalwart. 470 00:33:55,936 --> 00:33:56,960 (Speaking gibberish) 471 00:33:57,037 --> 00:33:58,937 Come out and play. 472 00:34:01,475 --> 00:34:02,965 What the Hell are you doing? 473 00:34:03,610 --> 00:34:05,100 Writing. 474 00:34:06,547 --> 00:34:08,037 <i>But the words...</i> 475 00:34:10,284 --> 00:34:11,752 Oh, the words. 476 00:34:15,656 --> 00:34:16,646 Yeah. 477 00:34:18,258 --> 00:34:20,056 Lu, it's very rough. 478 00:34:24,498 --> 00:34:25,659 Oh. 479 00:34:26,333 --> 00:34:28,165 The vision at last. 480 00:34:28,769 --> 00:34:29,998 Can I see? 481 00:34:30,938 --> 00:34:31,962 Where's Lu? 482 00:34:32,105 --> 00:34:33,095 He's out. 483 00:34:34,708 --> 00:34:38,611 With a senior football player. 484 00:34:39,613 --> 00:34:41,240 A writer. 485 00:34:41,315 --> 00:34:43,283 And handsome, too. 486 00:34:44,017 --> 00:34:45,280 James? 487 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:48,518 Jack. There it is. 488 00:34:48,889 --> 00:34:49,913 Jack. 489 00:34:51,425 --> 00:34:52,625 You're not allowed to be here. 490 00:34:53,794 --> 00:34:56,263 That's odd since I'm the only thing keeping him here. 491 00:34:56,964 --> 00:34:58,090 Not anymore. 492 00:35:04,838 --> 00:35:06,431 Piece of advice. 493 00:35:08,876 --> 00:35:10,469 You don't know Lu. 494 00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:14,478 As soon as you think you do, he'll find someone else. 495 00:35:15,849 --> 00:35:17,647 Maybe he already has. 496 00:35:23,757 --> 00:35:25,725 What, are you moving in? 497 00:35:30,431 --> 00:35:32,331 Where have you been? 498 00:35:32,700 --> 00:35:34,498 I found a real writer. 499 00:35:36,303 --> 00:35:39,637 Already a million words under his belt before Columbia. 500 00:35:40,641 --> 00:35:42,47...