[00:00.325] JOE:
[00:01.010] Girl meets boy
[00:02.890] That's a safe beginning
[00:04.446] BETTY:
[00:04.783] It's nearly closing
[00:07.186] I thought you weren't going to show
[00:09.566] JOE:
[00:09.751] So did I
[00:11.946] I felt it might be kinder
[00:13.629] BETTY:
[00:13.803] What are you saying?
[00:16.240] JOE:
[00:16.404] Come on, Miss Schaefer, you know
[00:19.050] BETTY:
[00:19.189] What?
[00:19.805] JOE:
[00:20.003] Every time I see some young kid
[00:22.544] Dreaming they'll produce a masterpiece
[00:25.564] I just want to throw them on the next train home
[00:30.184] BETTY:
[00:30.428] Never thought
[00:32.691] You'd be so condescending
[00:35.269] JOE:
[00:35.606] Sorry, Miss Schaefer
[00:37.846] I didn't come here to fight
[00:40.006] BETTY:
[00:40.262] Girl meets boy
[00:43.720] If that's how you want it
[00:46.321] She's a young teacher
[00:48.468] He's a reporter
[00:50.942] It's hate at first sight
[00:53.508] JOE:
[00:53.820] It won't sell
[00:56.166] These days they want glamour
[00:58.546] Fabulous heiress meets handsome Hollywood heel
[01:03.643] The problem is
[01:05.627] She thinks he's a burglar
[01:08.182] Would you believe it?
[01:10.225] A wedding in the last reel
[01:13.325] BETTY:
[01:13.521] It doesn't have to be so mindless
[01:15.983] You should write from your experience
[01:19.281] Give us something really moving;
[01:22.067] Something true
[01:24.006] JOE:
[01:24.202] Who wants true?
[01:26.722] Who the hell wants moving?
[01:29.183] Moving means starving
[01:31.784] And true means holes in your shoe
[01:34.164] BETTY:
[01:34.500] No, you're wrong
[01:36.961] They still make good pictures
[01:39.666] Stick to your story
[01:41.907] It's a good story
[01:44.682] JOE:
[01:45.379] O.K., Miss Schaefer
[01:47.700] I give it to you
[01:50.823] BETTY:
[01:51.381] What do you mean?
[01:52.367] JOE:
[01:52.681] Just what I said. I've given up writing myself. So you write it.
[01:56.500] BETTY:
[01:56.779] Oh, I'm not good enough to do it on my own.
[01:59.263] But I thought we could write it together.
[02:02.584] JOE:
[02:02.978] I can't. I'm all tied up.
[02:05.881] BETTY:
[02:06.241] Couldn't we work evenings? Six o'clock in the morning?
[02:08.400] I'd come to your place.
[02:09.444] JOE:
[02:09.979] Look, Betty, it can't be done. It's out.
[02:11.836] Look, let's keep in touch through Artie.
[02:13.856] That way if you get stuck, we can at least talk.
[02:15.784] Write this down
[02:17.397] I'll give you some ground rules
[02:21.078] Plenty of conflict
[02:23.237] But nice guys don't break the law
[02:26.138] Girl meets boy
[02:27.997] She gives herself completely
[02:31.038] And though she loves him
[02:33.082] JOE & BETTY:
[02:33.475] She keeps one foot on the floor
[02:35.856] BETTY:
[02:36.064] No one dies except the best friend
[02:39.119] No one ever mentions communists
[02:41.962] No one takes a black friend to a restaurant
[02:46.595] JOE:
[02:46.816] Very good.
[02:49.323] Nothing I can teach you.
[02:51.982] We could have had fun
[02:54.478] Fighting the studio
[02:56.242] BETTY:
[02:57.542] Yes, Mr. Gillis
[02:59.562] That's just what I want.
[03:02.117] ARTIE:
[03:02.302] What a nightmare
[03:03.637] Good to see you
[03:04.740] Come to my new year's party
[03:06.761] JOE:
[03:06.980] Last year it got out of hand
[03:09.477] ARTIE:
[03:09.662] Guaranteed bad behaviour
[03:12.101] JOE:
[03:12.239] See you then
[03:13.238] BETTY:
[03:13.541] Don't give up
[03:14.875] You're too good
[03:15.677] JOE:
[03:16.464] Thanks.