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

The clip Sully wants to make an important picture from Sullivan's Travels (1941) with Joel McCrea, Robert Warwick

You see? You see the symbolism of it?
Capital and Labor destroy each other.
It teaches a moral lesson. It has social significance.
Who wants to see that kind of stuff? It gives me the creeps.
Tell him how long it played in the Music Hall.
It was held over a fifth week.
Who goes to the Music Hall? Communists!
Communists? This picture's an answer to Communists!
It shows we're awake...
and not dunking our heads in the sand like a bunch of ostriches!
I want this picture to be a commentary on modern conditions.
Stark realism. The problems that confront the average man.
But with a little sex.
A little, but I don't want to stress it.
I want this picture to be a document.
I want to hold a mirror up to life.
I want this to be a picture of dignity...
a true canvas of the suffering of humanity.
But with a little sex.
With a little sex in it.
How about a nice musical?
How can you talk about musicals at a time like this,
with the world committing suicide?
With corpses piling up in the street,
with grim death gargling at you from every corner,

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