Genius

479 00:34:35,062 --> 00:34:35,795 Point taken. 480 00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:42,501 Now, to begin, on page one. 481 00:34:42,503 --> 00:34:45,438 Oh, lord. Page one? 482 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,474 Now, look here, you've given 80 pages to Eugene 483 00:34:48,476 --> 00:34:51,243 on the platform before the train arrives. 484 00:34:51,245 --> 00:34:55,281 That is, perhaps, gilding the Lily a bit as to suspense? 485 00:34:55,283 --> 00:34:56,315 I mean, I'll only wait so long for a train. 486 00:34:59,352 --> 00:35:01,720 Those three sections to me... Here you are, Mr. Perkins. 487 00:35:04,858 --> 00:35:09,328 When he meets the girl, you've written this. 488 00:35:09,330 --> 00:35:11,831 "As Eugene's eyes became accustomed to the haze 489 00:35:11,833 --> 00:35:15,267 "of the cigarettes and cigars swirling miasma-like, 490 00:35:15,269 --> 00:35:18,370 "he saw a woman, in serge 491 00:35:18,372 --> 00:35:21,207 "and gloves that crept like living tendrils 492 00:35:21,209 --> 00:35:23,609 "up her normally ivory arms, 493 00:35:23,611 --> 00:35:26,645 "but now sun-kissed as a blush 494 00:35:26,647 --> 00:35:30,149 "as the incarnadine discovery inside a conch shell 495 00:35:30,151 --> 00:35:32,718 "seen for the first time by a bewildered zoologist 496 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:36,489 "as he is undone by its rosy, promising pinkness. 497 00:35:38,258 --> 00:35:39,592 "Those were her arms. 498 00:35:41,261 --> 00:35:43,429 "But it was her eyes that stopped his breath 499 00:35:43,431 --> 00:35:45,598 "and made his heart leap up. 500 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,300 "Blue they were. 501 00:35:48,302 --> 00:35:50,836 "Even through the swirling vapors of pompous chesterfields 502 00:35:50,838 --> 00:35:52,671 "and arrogant lucky strikes, 503 00:35:52,673 --> 00:35:56,675 "he saw her eyes were a blue beyond blue, like the ocean. 504 00:35:57,777 --> 00:35:59,745 "Blue beyond blue. 505 00:36:01,214 --> 00:36:04,383 "A blue he could swim into forever 506 00:36:04,385 --> 00:36:07,386 "and never miss a fire-engine red or a cornstalk yellow. 507 00:36:09,256 --> 00:36:10,623 "Across the chasm of that room, 508 00:36:11,558 --> 00:36:14,193 "that blue, those eyes 509 00:36:14,195 --> 00:36:17,463 "devoured him and looked past him and never saw him 510 00:36:17,465 --> 00:36:20,499 "and never would, of that he was sure. 511 00:36:22,669 --> 00:36:24,670 "From that moment, 512 00:36:24,672 --> 00:36:29,475 "Eugene understood what the poets had been writing about these many years. 513 00:36:29,477 --> 00:36:32,845 "All the lost, wandering, lonely souls who were now his brothers. 514 00:36:34,781 --> 00:36:36,882 "He knew a love that would never be his. 515 00:36:38,351 --> 00:36:40,219 "So quickly did he fall for her 516 00:36:40,221 --> 00:36:42,721 "that no one in the room even heard the sound. 517 00:36:42,723 --> 00:36:45,724 "The whoosh as he fell, 518 00:36:45,726 --> 00:36:47,760 "the clatter of his broken heart. 519 00:36:49,396 --> 00:36:52,231 "It was a sure silence 520 00:36:52,233 --> 00:36:53,866 "but his life was shattered." 521 00:36:55,936 --> 00:36:57,303 End of chapter. 522 00:37:05,445 --> 00:37:06,745 You don't like it? 523 00:37:07,547 --> 00:37:08,747 You know I do. 524 00:37:10,617 --> 00:37:11,584 That's not the point. 525 00:37:14,487 --> 00:37:18,791 So he sees a girl and he falls in love for the first time, yes? 526 00:37:18,793 --> 00:37:20,960 Does his mind go to deep-sea marine life? 527 00:37:22,329 --> 00:37:23,529 At that moment, yes. 528 00:37:23,531 --> 00:37:25,431 I don't believe it. 529 00:37:25,433 --> 00:37:28,300 I think you fell in love with the images, not the girl. 530 00:37:28,302 --> 00:37:31,737 So we cut the zoology and the cigar brands. 531 00:37:31,739 --> 00:37:32,938 I'll do it. And the ruminations on pink? 532 00:37:32,940 --> 00:37:35,307 No. No! 533 00:37:35,309 --> 00:37:37,576 The adjectives are true. He's a man who thinks that way. 534 00:37:37,578 --> 00:37:40,246 Pink is never just pink. 535 00:37:40,248 --> 00:37:44,316 It's a thousand other things, all profoundly important to him. 536 00:37:44,318 --> 00:37:48,954 All variations on his psychological state. 537 00:37:48,956 --> 00:37:52,858 Every image and the sound of every word matters. 538 00:37:52,860 --> 00:37:53,926 No, it doesn't. Nonsense. They're vital! 539 00:37:53,928 --> 00:37:55,861 You're losing the plot. Vital! 540 00:37:55,863 --> 00:37:57,930 He's falling in love. 541 00:37:57,932 --> 00:37:59,965 What was it like the first time you fell in love, tom? 542 00:37:59,967 --> 00:38:02,868 Was it cornstalk yellow and pompous chesterfields? 543 00:38:02,870 --> 00:38:04,903 It was a lightning bolt. 544 00:38:04,905 --> 00:38:06,872 And that's what it s...