The French Dispatch (2021) Subtitles

00:01:03,804 --> 00:01:07,www.titlovi.com

00:01:10,804 --> 00:01:12,It began as a holiday.

00:01:17,102 --> 00:01:19,Arthur Howitzer Junior,
college freshman...

00:01:19,604 --> 00:01:22,eager to escape a bright future
on the Great Plains...

00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,convinced his father, proprietor
of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun...

00:01:26,152 --> 00:01:29,to fund his transatlantic passage
as an educational opportunity...

00:01:29,906 --> 00:01:31,to learn the family business...

00:01:31,533 --> 00:01:34,through the production of a series of
travelogue columns...

00:01:34,286 --> 00:01:38,to be published for local readers
in the Sunday Picnic magazine.

00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,Over the next ten years,
he assembled a team...

00:01:53,430 --> 00:01:55,of the best expatriate journalists
of his time...

00:01:55,974 --> 00:01:59,and transformed
Picnic into The French Dispatch...

00:02:00,478 --> 00:02:04,a factual weekly report
on the subjects of world politics...

00:02:04,566 --> 00:02:08,the arts, high and low, fashion,
fancy cuisine, fine drink...

00:02:08,944 --> 00:02:13,and diverse stories of
human interests set in faraway quartiers.

00:02:15,201 --> 00:02:17,He brought the world to Kansas.

00:02:22,417 --> 00:02:26,His writers line the spines
of every good American library.

00:02:27,672 --> 00:02:28,{\an8} Berensen...

00:02:30,008 --> 00:02:31,Sazerac...

00:02:32,594 --> 00:02:33,Krementz...

00:02:35,472 --> 00:02:37,Roebuck Wright.

00:02:38,308 --> 00:02:40,One reporter known
as the best living writer...

00:02:40,393 --> 00:02:42,in quality of sentences per minute.

00:02:43,521 --> 00:02:45,One who never completed
a single article...

00:02:45,607 --> 00:02:48,but haunted the halls
cheerily for three decades.

00:02:49,486 --> 00:02:53,One privately blind writer who wrote
keenly through the eyes of others.

00:02:54,908 --> 00:02:58,The uncontested crackerjack
of grammatical expertise.

00:03:00,538 --> 00:03:03,Cover illustrations by Hermès Jones.

00:03:03,833 --> 00:03:05,Famously gracious with his writers...

00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,Arthur Junior was less courteous
with the rest of the magazine's staff.

00:03:09,673 --> 00:03:11,Oh, no, what's that?

00:03:11,591 --> 00:03:13,I need a turkey.

00:03:13,176 --> 00:03:16,Stuffed and roasted on a table
with all the trimmings and pilgrims!

00:03:16,304 --> 00:03:19,His fiscal management system
was convoluted but functional.

00:03:19,641 --> 00:03:22,Give her 150 francs a week
for the next 15 years...

00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,against five American cents per word,
minus expenses.

00:03:25,563 --> 00:03:29,His most repeated literary advice,
perhaps apocryphal, was simply this...

00:03:29,651 --> 00:03:33,Just try to make it sound
like you wrote it that way on purpose.

00:03:33,363 --> 00:03:37,His return to Liberty comes precisely
50 years after his departure,

00:03:37,576 --> 00:03:39,{\an8} on the occasion of his funeral...

00:03:39,786 --> 00:03:41,{\an8} by which time the magazine's
circulation exceeds...

00:03:41,997 --> 00:03:44,{\an8} half a million subscribers
in 50 countries.

00:03:45,417 --> 00:03:49,{\an8} A willow hamper containing umpteen pins,
plaques, and official citations...

00:03:49,546 --> 00:03:51,of the highest order
is buried at his side,

00:03:52,048 --> 00:03:53,along with an Andretti Ribbon-mate...

00:03:53,758 --> 00:03:57,and a ream of triple bond,
Egyptian cotton typing stock.

00:04:01,308 --> 00:04:04,He received an Editor's burial.

00:04:06,646 --> 00:04:08,In his will, he stipulated that...

00:04:08,857 --> 00:04:11,immediately upon his death, quote...

00:04:11,693 --> 00:04:14,The presses
will be dismantled and liquefied.

00:04:14,404 --> 00:04:16,The editorial offices will be vacated
and sold.

00:04:17,114 --> 00:04:20,The staff will be paid ample bonuses
and released from their contracts...

00:04:20,452 --> 00:04:23,and the publication of the magazine
will permanently cease.

00:04:24,247 --> 00:04:25,Thus...

00:04:25,707 --> 00:04:29,the publisher's obituary will also serve
as that of this publication.

00:04:31,129 --> 00:04:34,All home delivery readers will, of course,
be refunded, pro rata...

00:04:34,341 --> 00:04:37,for the unfulfilled portion of
their subscriptions.

00:04:39,846 --> 00:04:42,His epitaph will be taken verbatim
from the stenciled shingle...

00:04:42,974 --> 00:04:45,fixed above the door of his inner office.

00:04:45,393 --> 00:04:47,Berensen's article.
The Concrete Masterpiece.

00:04:47,270 --> 00:04:48,Three dangling participles,
two split infinitives...

00:04:49,105 --> 00:04:50,and nine spelling errors
in the first sentence alone.

00:04:51,149 --> 00:04:52,Some of those are intentional.

00:04:53,902 --> 00:04:55,The Krementz story,
Revisions to a Manifesto.

00:04:56,112 --> 00:04:58,We asked for 2,500 words,
and she came in at 14,000...

00:04:58,907 --> 00:05:01,plus footnotes, endnotes,
a glossary, and two epilogues.

00:05:01,284 --> 00:05:02,It's one of her best.

00:05:04,246 --> 00:05:06,-Sazerac?
-Impossible to fact-check.

00:05:06,289 --> 00:05:09,He changes all the names and only writes
about hobos, pimps, and junkies.

00:05:09,417 --> 00:05:10,These are his people.

00:05:12,295 --> 00:05:13,How about Roebuck Wright?

00:05:13,463 --> 00:05:15,His door's locked,
but I could hear the keys clacking.

00:05:15,548 --> 00:05:16,Don't rush him.

00:05:17,634 --> 00:05:18,The question is, who gets killed?

00:05:19,052 --> 00:05:21,There's one piece too many
even if we print another double-issue...

00:05:21,388 --> 00:05:23,which we can't afford
under any circumstances.

00:05:25,892 --> 00:05:28,A message from the foreman.
One hour to press.

00:05:29,646 --> 00:05:30,You're fired.

00:05:31,856 --> 00:05:32,Really?

00:05:33,525 --> 00:05:35,Don't cry in my office.

00:05:42,867 --> 00:05:46,Shrink the masthead, cut some ads,
and tell the foreman to buy more paper.

00:05:46,705 --> 00:05:48,I'm not killing anybody.

00:05:50,208 --> 00:05:52,Good writers. He coddled them.

00:05:52,669 --> 00:05:55,He coaxed them.
He ferociously protected them.

00:05:56,172 --> 00:05:57,What do you think?

00:05:57,632 --> 00:05:58,For myself?

00:05:59,634 --> 00:06:01,I would start with Mr. Sazerac.

00:06:02,304 --> 00:06:04,These were his people.

00:06:21,948 --> 00:06:24,Ennui rises suddenly on a Monday.

00:06:51,519 --> 00:06:53,Through the time machine
of poetic license...

00:06:53,939 --> 00:06:55,let us take a sight-seeing tour.

00:06:55,857 --> 00:06:59,A day in Ennui over
the course of 250 years.

00:07:00,028 --> 00:07:03,The great city began as a cluster
of tradesman's villages.

00:07:03,949 --> 00:07:06,Only the names remain unchanged.

00:07:06,785 --> 00:07:08,{\an8} The Bootblack District.

00:07:11,873 --> 00:07:13,{\an8} The Bricklayer's Quarter.

00:07:16,795 --> 00:07:18,{\an8} The Butcher's Arcade.

00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,{\an8} Pick-pocket Cul-de-Sac.

00:07:27,138 --> 00:07:29,{\an8}On this site, a fabled market...

00:07:29,224 --> 00:07:31,{\an8}vending all forms of
victuals and comestibles...

00:07:32,102 --> 00:07:36,{\an8}under a single vast,
glass-and-cast-iron canopy...

00:07:36,189 --> 00:07:38,{\an8}later demolished, as you can see...

00:07:38,441 --> 00:07:42,in favor of a multi-level shopping center
and parking structure.

00:07:43,613 --> 00:07:45,Like every living city...

00:07:45,198 --> 00:07:48,Ennui supports a menagerie
of vermin and scavengers.

00:07:50,912 --> 00:07:54,The rats which colonized
its subterranean railroad.

00:07:55,041 --> 00:07:58,The cats
which colonized its slanty rooftops.

00:07:59,713 --> 00:08:03,The anguillettes which colonized
its shallow drainage canals.

00:08:05,468 --> 00:08:08,After receiving the Host,
marauding choirboys...

00:08:08,346 --> 00:08:11,half-drunk on the Blood of Christ,
stalk unwary pensioners...

00:08:11,891 --> 00:08:13,and seek havoc.

00:08:15,353 --> 00:08:18,In the Flop Quarter, students.

00:08:18,231 --> 00:08:20,Hungry, restless, reckless.

00:08:21,651 --> 00:08:22,In the Hovel District...

00:08:23,111 --> 00:08:24,old people.

00:08:28,283 --> 00:08:31,Old people who have failed.

00:08:34,079 --> 00:08:35,The automobile.

00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:37,A mixed blessing. On the one hand...

00:08:38,083 --> 00:08:41,the honking, skidding, speeding,
sputtering, and backfiring.

00:08:41,254 --> 00:08:44,The emission of...