human
Hello! I have sure-enough crying need for all you strays, he exclaimed five minutes later, when they came upon the Flying TJ boys standing disconsolately at the head of the street
gpt
upon which carpenters were hammering and sawing and painters were daubing. Luck's eyes chilled as he took in the stereotyped
human
Western
gpt
Well, we sure need you--and need you bad, Pink retorted.
human
We want to know what town was peeled so they could set the rind up like that and call it a street? Between you and me, Luck, it don't look good to me, back or front. You walk into what claims to be a saloon, and come out on a view of the hills. They tell me the bar of that imitation saloon is away over there on that platform, and they say the bottles are all full of tea. That right?
gpt
Soon as they get the set up, it's going to be your privilege to come boiling out of that saloon, shooting two guns, Pink, he prophesied.
human
You'll have the fun of killing half a dozen boys that come down from this end shooting as they ride.
gpt
Ever read any of Bently Brown's stories? They wished a bunch of them on to me while I was gone and couldn't defend myself, he said, as one who breaks bad news.
human
I'm certainly sorry about this, boys. It's a long way from what I brought you out here to do; and if you want to, you can call the deal off and go home. Rip-snorting, rotten melodrama--cheap as ice in Alaska. Stuff I hate--because it's the stuff that cheapens the West in pictures.
gpt
What about our range picture?
human
Ah--they're married to the idea that this rot is what sells best. They don't know what a _real_ Western picture is: they never saw one. And they're afraid to take a chance. I was in hopes--but Mart's the big chief, you know. He'd gone and loaded up with this trash, and so he couldn't see my story at all. I get his viewpoint, all right; he's keen to pry off some real money, and he's afraid to experiment with new tools. But it does seem pretty raw to put you boys working on this cheap studio stuff after getting you out here to do something worth while.
gpt
We're to stay right here, then?
human
That's the present outlook, Luck confessed with bitterness.
gpt
I don't need real country for this junk. I was all primed to show him where I'd have to take my company to New Mexico, but I didn't say anything about it when he sprung this Bently Brown business. This will all be made right here at the studio and out in Griffith Park.