The Last Tycoon (1976)

Ray Milland: Fleishacker

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• Pat Brady : [after a film screening]  What's Eddie, asleep? Jesus. Goddamn movie even puts the editor to sleep.

  Assistant Editor : He's not asleep, Mr. Brady.

  Pat Brady : What do you mean, he's not asleep?

  Assistant Editor : He's dead, Mr. Brady.

  Pat Brady : Dead? What do you mean, he's dead!

  Assistant Editor : He must have died during the...

  Pat Brady : How can he be dead? We were just watching the rough cut! Jesus, I didn't hear anything. Did you hear anything?

  Fleishacker : Not a thing.

  Assistant Editor : Eddie... he probably didn't want to disturb the screening, Mr. Brady.

• Pat Brady : I was just saying, they'll never get the writers unionized. You know why? Because they hate each other's guts. They'd sell each other out for a nickel.

  Monroe Stahr : This man from New York seems pretty set on doing it, the one who's coming out to see me. What's his name?

  Fleishacker : Brimmer.

  Monroe Stahr : Brimmer.

  Pat Brady : Communist, yeah?

  Popolos : You mean a *real* communist?

  Pat Brady : Yeah, sure, a real one.

  Popolos : I mean, some of these guys are just jokers who call themselves communists. And mostly they are fairies, too.

• 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.

• Popolos : This is the greatest country in the world. Everybody stands a chance in this country. There's not going to be a revolution. The only people who want a revolution are the Communists.

  Pat Brady : And the fairies.

  Fleishacker : What kind of a revolution do the fairies want?

  Popolos : A Communist one.

  Pat Brady : What else?

  Fleishacker : Do you think Stalin likes homosexuals?

  Popolos : Homosexuals, eh? Let me tell you something. You know "homo" is a Greek word. I come from Europe, I'm Greek.

  Pat Brady : That's why he knows so much about Stalin.

  Fleishacker : But Stalin ain't Greek.

  Popolos : You're damn right he ain't!

  Pat Brady : He's a fairy.

  Popolos : He's a bastard Communist Russian fairy, that's what he is!