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Fleishacker:
You know, I'm fairly new out here. Do I understand you to say you expect to gross a half a million *short* of your budget? Monroe Stahr:
It's a Quality picture. Fleishacker:
Quality picture? What the hell are we? Monroe Stahr:
We've played safe for two years now. It's time we made a picture that isn't meant to *make* money. Pat Brady is always saying at Academy dinners that we have a certain duty to the public. Okay. It's a good thing for the company to slip in a picture that will lose money. Write it off as good will
You know, I'm fairly new out here. Do I understand you to say you expect to gross a half a million *short* of your budget? Monroe Stahr:
It's a Quality picture. Fleishacker:
Quality picture? What the hell are we? Monroe Stahr:
We've played safe for two years now. It's time we made a picture that isn't meant to *make* money. Pat Brady is always saying at Academy dinners that we have a certain duty to the public. Okay. It's a good thing for the company to slip in a picture that will lose money. Write it off as good will
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You know l'm fairly new out here
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Do l understand you to say that you expect to gross
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a half a million short of your budget
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lt's a quality picture
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Quality picture
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What the hell are we
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We've played safe for two years now
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lt's time we made a picture that isn't meant to make money
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Pat Brady is always saying at Academy dinners
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that we have a certain duty to the public
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Okay
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lt's a good thing for the company
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to slip in a picture that'll lose money
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write it off as good will
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Movie Summary
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
