human
Well, what do you think of it?
gpt
Seems to lack action, don't it? he hazarded reluctantly.
human
Of course, this is a rough draft; I realize that. I suppose you'll strengthen up the plot, later on. Chance for some good cattle-stealing complications, I should think. But I'd boil it down to two reels, Luck, if I were you. There's a lot of atmosphere you couldn't get, anyway--
gpt
I can get every foot of that atmosphere,
human
Oh, I suppose--but you don't want that much. Too expensive, where it doesn't carry the action along. I'd put in some dance-hall scenes; you haven't enough interiors. Make your lead a victim of card sharps, why don't you, and have his sister come there after him? You could get some great dramatic action--have her meet the heavy there--
gpt
After the tried-and-tested recipe. Sure, Mart! We can take the middle out of that _Her-Brother's-Honor_ film and use that; and if you're afraid the public may recognize it, we'll run it backwards. Or we can mix it with some _Western-Girl's-Romance_ film, or take--
human
Now, Luck, wait a minute. Wait-a-minute! Martinson's hand went up in the approved gesture of stopping another's speech.
gpt
You can give it an original twist. You know you can; you always have.