Pacino-Salomé-Wilde

Robert, 

The Producer :

The Public are furious. 

Estelle's been attacked by members of The Public yesterday. 

Pacino :

Why?

Robert, The Producer :

A couple going out of the theatre —

Because it wasn't A Production. 

(Pacino) 

They said I should be 

ashamed of myself 

for putting it on. 

(Robert, The Producer) 

It wasn't clear to me whether they were really upset about The Play or about the fact that it was A Reading, I couldn't really tell. 

(Pacino) 

Reading. They don't understand that. 

(Robert, The Producer) 

No, they didn't get it. 

(man) 

Are you getting that feeling from the audience? 

(Barry) 

What, that they feel like they're being ripped off? Yeah. Yeah. 

(Pacino) 

Sometimes it just stops for me, you know, 

and I just don't know what I'm doing,

I don't know why I'm doing it —

I think, more importantly, 

I don't know why. 

Something is pushing me forward and... and... and I'm saying, 

"Well, they're gonna get The Movie." 

And you say,

"Well, what are they gonna get in The Movie that they're not getting in The Play?" 

“How is The Movie going to make The Play...”

Because it's not a movie about A Play. 

It's a movie about... 

Inspiration. 

It's A Movie about Inspiration. 

There's something about my struggle that's not CLEAR….

Something HAPPENED to Me when I saw This Play —

I felt as though I had 

found A Friend, 

someone I wanted to know, someone that was prophetic, because he was expressing 

His Own DESTINY 

in this play. 

It was as though he KNEW 

What Was Gonna Happen 

to Him. 

(bell rings)