MarilynThe Eagle wasn't always the Eagle. The Eagle, before he became the Eagle, was Yucatangee, the Talker. Yucatangee talked and talked. It talked so much it heard only itself. Not the river, not the wind, not even the Wolf. The Raven came and said "The Wolf is hungry. If you stop talking, you'll hear him. The wind too. And when you hear the wind, you'll fly." So he stopped talking. And became its nature, the Eagle. The Eagle soared, and its flight said all it needed to say
[Joel stops the duel between Maurice and Nikolai]
Hold it, hold it, hold it! This is ridiculous! Hey, we play to a very sophisticated television audience. They know Maurice is not going to kill Nikolai, and they definitely know that Nikolai is not going to kill Maurice.
Wait a minute, Fleischman. You can't just take it upon yourself to step out of character. Nobody yelled 'cut'.
Joel's right. The duel is stupid.
Can we just stick to the matter at hand?
How about the fifth revision? Where Nikolai's abscessed tooth starts acting up, and, well, he just cancels.
Glib and textually unwarranted.
NNikolai
What if Maurice trips and kills someone else by mistake?
Oh, great, so I'm a klutz now, huh?
Look, if there's not a duel, then what is the point of this whole story?
What's the point? The point is - man's tendency to war, but Joel here is asking us to step outside of certain events and say enough. Am I right?
Listen, whatever, it's getting cold out here.
Marilyn
Why don't we go on to the next scene? It's a pretty good one.
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