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  • 4/27/2025
In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book | dG1feFBGYktiQ1djV2c
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00:00Dick! Good to see you.
00:07Good to have you here, Mr. Green.
00:09I see they dragged our script backwards through the hedge.
00:12Cut!
00:13This is just so brutal.
00:15Intentionally so.
00:17How will your cause be served by a play
00:19that an audience will never accept or even understand?
00:22It's two hours of horrific, unrepentant violence.
00:25They'll be offended.
00:27I'm willing to offend them.
00:29Green and I disagree on the ending of the play.
00:32Why did you hire him?
00:33He's a fine playwright.
00:35And yet, I intend to burn the entire machine down and stir the ashes.
00:42Jesus Orson!
00:43Would you like to have a turn at it, Mr. Wright?
00:45It's quite good fun.
00:46Making people nervous is Dick's specialty.
00:48I'm getting nervous myself.
00:53Who bought your book by the hundreds of thousands?
00:55Who granted you all these honors?
00:57America disenfranchises me.
00:59Humiliates me.
01:00Corners me.
01:01Discredits my very humanity at every turn.
01:05I'm only proposing to do my best on your behalf.
01:07Well, my behalf is the problem.
01:10The right to tell a story has to be earned.
01:13What more could I do to earn it?
01:15When I killed that girl, Mr. Max, I didn't mean to kill her.
01:19I'm trying to help you, one rider to another.
01:22You never forced your audience into the mind of a man who can't be saved.
01:26The right to tell a story has to be uneth mesied.
01:27We want you to be a better girl.
01:28You never�ished dad or dead, his faulty.
01:29The right one, looked at my man who spent such time together.
01:30If there were notших on name, he knew that he's gone.
01:31The right to tell a story deals crazy around me.
01:32For the reason as a book for the policeist,
01:33the right to tell a story.
01:34The right to tell a story is that those people have stopped since the pandemic and saw the
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01:36The right to tell a Аджちょ wild rap will look like,
01:37I see an жизнь there.
01:38The hinaiser is a true grammar,
01:39and there's not a better way for knowing it.
01:40Things are missing.
01:41Yeah, it's a true lugar that people Folk.
01:43And I can succeed.
01:45Whether you're in a tremendous hein.

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