Excuse me.
Character 1: The thing about Mamet is, is the context turns on a fucken' dime...
Character 2: On a fucken' dime.
Character 1: Right, on a fucken' dime, but it's clear as day what everybody's state of mind is.
Character 2: Bullshit.
Anyway, you've got two producers who seem to be pleased with their work-- they're making a good deal on a movie project!
Boom. Nope, they're only excited about the money.
Boom. Nope, what they really want is to shove the money in the faces (or up the asses) of everyone who stood in their way.
Karen walks in, and the guys start showing off by being more vulgar than before. What they actually want is sex-- but they're mostly insecure about it. Enchanting.
At Gould's place, Karen makes her pitch (though she is unable to make the one-sentence pitch a movie deal requires.) It doesn't work.
Boom. She switches to seduction. Gould doesn't notice.
In the office, Fox is livid. (Actually, he goes through Denial, Anger, and Bargaining in about a page and a half). He's actaully been jealous of Gould his whole career, but was willing to hide it as long as he could be dragged upward with him.
Ultimately, the movies are a business where everybody claims to be producing art, while in actuality it's entirely built on power plays. "It's about people." Still a half-truth.
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