Sullivan's Travels (1941): Sully Wants to Make an Important Picture Part 2

The clip Sully wants to make an important picture Part 2 from Sullivan's Travels (1941) with Robert Warwick, Porter Hall

with people slaughtered like sheep!
Maybe they'd like to forget.
Then why did they hold this one over for a fifth week? For the ushers?
It died in Pittsburgh.
Like a dog.
What do they know in Pittsburgh?
They know what they like.
If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh.
If you pandered to the public, you'd still be in the horse age.
You think we're not? Look at Hopalong Cassidy.
You look at him!
We'd still be making Keystone chases, bathing beauties, custard pie...
And a fortune.
A fortune.
Of course I'm just a minor employee here, Mr. LeBrand...
He's starting that one again.
I wanted to make you something outstanding... something you could be proud of,
something that would realize the potentialities of film...
as the sociological and artistic medium that it is.
With a little sex in it. Something like...
Something like Capra. I know.
What's the matter with Capra?
Look, you want to make O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Yes.
Now, wait a minute!
Then go ahead and make it!
For what you're getting, I can't afford to argue with you.
That's a fine way to start a man out on a million-dollar production.
You want it, you've got it!
I can take it on the chin. I've taken it before.
Not from me you haven't.
Not from you, Sully, that's true.
Not with pictures like So Long Sarong,
Hey, Hey, In the Hayloft, Ants in Your Plants of 1939...
But they weren't about tramps, lockouts, sweatshops,
people eating garbage in alleys and living in piano boxes and ashcans.
And phooey!
They're about nice, clean young people...
who fell in love... with laughter and music and legs.
Now take that scene in Hey, Hey, In the Hayloft...
But you don't realize conditions have changed.
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.

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