Behind the Scenes with Blake Edwards' 'The Great Race' Page #7

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My compliments, Mr. Leslie.

You handle the foil very well.

Thank you, Baron. So do you.

Personally, I prefer a man's weapon.

How are you with a saber?

There's only one way to find out.

Surround him!

Look out! Look out!

Oh, the smoke!

Running away, Baron?

As a very wise English gentleman

once said:

"He who fights and runs away,

may live to fight another day."

So until another day, Mr. Leslie.

Please excuse me. I have a boat waiting.

Faster!

Professor, the jig is up.

Your Highness.

Your Royal Highness.

Your Royal Highness!

Wait, Your Royal Highness! My prince!

Out of the way!

Your Highness.

Your Highness,

we've got to get out of here!

You wouldn't dare!

Please!

Wait for me. Wait for me.

- Your Majesty.

- Hi, there.

Brandy!

Throw more brandy.

More brandy.

Brandy. Throw more brandy.

Rum. I never mix my pies.

I want to play, too.

Miss Dubois!

Hey, Professor!

Hey, Professor.

Hey, Professor!

You. You're the cause of it all.

It was your idea.

No, Your Highness.

It was Baron Von Stuppe.

I don't care. You're banished!

I'm getting a new tucker-inner.

Banished, banished!

Miss Dubois!

Hey, Professor!

- Hey, Professor, where are you?

- Right here, you idiot.

Terrific. Let's go. I got the car.

More pies! More pies!

Oh, Leslie! Leslie!

Goodbye. Farewell, you good Leslie, you.

I hope you win. I hope you win!

I'll miss him. Oh, there it is!

General?

E Flat.

I think I better go and fix the car.

- Miss Dubois.

- Yes?

I believe the time has come for us

to resolve our differences.

Good.

As you know, I've steadfastly maintained...

...an uncompromising position about

women's rights and the equality of sexes.

As have I.

Therefore, it is safe to assume that

has been the principal area of our conflict.

No doubt about it.

Therefore,

in the interest of progress and harmony...

...I am willing to concede

to your point of view.

Concede?

You are an emancipated woman,

Miss Dubois.

And I am an emancipated man.

Come back here.

You are the most unreasonable,

inconsistent female...

- I'm unreasonable? I'm inconsistent?

- Yes.

What about you? Talk about inconsistent.

- Inconsistent!

- And unreasonable.

- Unreasonable!

- And arrogant.

- Arrogant!

- Yes, arrogant!

All right, Miss Dubois,

let's discuss arrogance for a moment.

All right, Mr. Leslie. Let's.

Any woman who has the unmitigated

arrogance to consider herself man's equal.

Any man who has the arrogance

to consider himself better than a woman.

- Any fool knows that a woman cannot...

- That's right! Any fool!

- You know what's the matter with you?

- I know what's the matter with you.

What did I tell you?

She's going to win the race for us.

The buffalo-headed vixen!

- I tried to kiss you.

- I know what you tried.

You're the one

that's been preaching emancipation.

We're going to win, Max.

We're going to win!

I think you turn right at the next corner.

- You're not talking about equal rights.

- I know what I'm talking about.

You're talking about

some convenient feminine utopia...

...that has all of the advantages

and no responsibilities.

- Responsibilities?

- Yes!

Look who's talking about responsibilities.

Turn right.

- Go back and turn right.

- We do not turn right.

- I know Paris.

- So do I.

You have to turn right

in order to get to the Eiffel Tower.

If we turn right back there,

we'd end up on the Montmartre Steps.

You talk a good fight,

but when it comes down to it...

...you're as emancipated

as a confirmed spinster in a knitting bee.

How would you know?

You're a suffragette. You're the one

who wanted to bring sex out in the open.

So I brought it out into the open and

I got slapped in the face for my trouble.

Your interpretation of bringing sex out into

the open and mine are two different things.

Well, will you please tell me

what your concept of sex is?

Gladly!

You and your stupid map!

She's still with him. You said

if she was with him, we couldn't lose.

Shut up!

And because I consider myself sexually free

and morally emancipated...

...l'm a responsible, discriminating woman

who doesn't intend to jump into bed...

...with the first muscular egocentric male

who thinks he can seduce me...

...by agreeing with some of the things

I believe in.

- I only wanted to kiss you.

- Why?

Because I love you, that's why.

- You don't believe me?

- I do not.

- What are you doing?

- Proving that I love you.

You'll lose the race.

Can you think of a better way to prove it?

Max, I won!

- I won!

- We won!

- I won!

- We won!

- I am invincible!

- We won!

I have beaten Leslie at last.

The world is mine!

You lost.

Only the race.

I am king!

I am the king.

No, I'm not! I didn't beat him.

He let me win!

I can't win this way.

I can only win one way:

My way! They let me win!

I can't win your way. You cheated.

You cheated.

You cheated! You cheated!

You cheated. I hate you.

I refuse to accept!

I won't win any way but my way.

You ruined my reputation!

Do you hear? You, I hate!

You with your hair that is always combed.

Your suit is always white.

Your car is always clean.

I refuse to accept.

I challenge you to another race.

- Get off my hood.

- Another race!

Come on, Professor, go!

Come on, go, go!

Relax, this time

I'm going to win it my way.

Push the button, Max!

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