Sullivan's Travels (1941): Sullivan Pitches Film Part 2

The clip sullivan pitches film Part 2 from Sullivan's Travels (1941)

There isn't any work. There isn't any food.
These are troublous times.
What do you know about trouble?
What do I know about trouble?
Yes, what do you know about trouble?
What do you mean, what do I know about trouble?
Just what I'm saying.
You want to make a picture about garbage cans...
When did you eat your last meal out of one?
What's that got to do with it?
He's asking you.
You want an epic about misery...
you want to show hungry people sleeping in doorways.
With newspapers around them.
You want to grind 10,000 feet of hard luck,
and all I'm asking you is, what do you know about hard luck?
Yes!
What do you mean? Don't you think I've...
No.
What?
You have not.
I sold newspapers till I was 20,
then I worked in a shoe store and put myself through law school at night.
Where were you at 20?
I was in college.
When I was 13 I supported three sisters, two brothers and a widowed mother.
Where were you at 13?
I was in boarding school.
I'm sorry.
You don't have to be ashamed of it, Sully.
That's the reason your pictures have been so light, so cheerful, so inspiring.
They don't stink with messages.
That's why I paid you 500 a week when you were 24.
750 at 25.
1,000 when you were 26.
When I was 26, I was getting 18.
2,000 at 27.
I was getting 25 then.
3,000 after Thanks for Yesterday.
4,000 after Ants in Your Plants.
I suppose you're trying to tell me I don't know what trouble is.
Yes!
In a nice way, Sully.
You're absolutely right. I haven't any idea what it is.
People always like what they don't know anything about.
I had a lot of nerve wanting to make a picture about human suffering.

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