Rules Don't Apply Page #13

Synopsis: An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire, Howard Hughes, (Warren Beatty) for whom they work. It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen, songwriter, and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Warren Beatty
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
PG-13
Year:
2016
127 min
£3,647,836
Website
338 Views


- (stammers)

You've done a lot of great things,

and you've done a lot

of great things for me.

I think it is time

for you to go home.

And I think it's time

for me to move on.

What?

I'm quitting, Howard.

Where'd they go?

They kinda slipped out.

Keep an eye on him, Levar.

Frank?

Frank?

(laughing)

(sighs)

(indistinct chatter)

(dramatic music playing)

You think it's time

we give it a try?

(switch clicks)

Let's get Matt.

Hey, you know what?

I got a really good idea!

(tape rewinding and playing)

What's in those bottles?

That's water.

From Maine.

(Marla scoffs)

Water.

From Maine.

(tape rewinding)

(singing on speakers)

He thought for a moment

Then he answered

He said the rules

don't apply to you

He said it very simply

and quietly too

But as if there wasn't any

doubt at all that he knew

He gave me a gift

that I would treasure

He said the rules

don't apply to you

In the movies we see

In the shows on TV

And in anthems passionately sung

There's a message that you've got

To keep believing in yourself

But they generally

mean if you're young

ls it written in the air

as it seems to be

That we haven't long at all

to find our destiny

I'll always remember

to be grateful

That the rules don't apply to me

(piano music playing)

(choir singing)

One day I told my friend

I was terribly blue

Was it far too late to do

What I dreamed I could do?

He thought for a moment,

then he answered r

He said the rules

don't apply to you

He said it very simply

and quietly, too

That as if there wasn't any

doubt at all that he knew

He gave me a gift

that I would treasure

He said the rules

don't apply to you

In the movies we see

In the shows on TV

And in anthems passionately sung

There's a message that you've got

To keep believing in yourself

But they generally mean

if you're young

ls it written in the air

as it seems to be

That we haven't long at all

to find our destiny

I'll always remember

to be grateful

That the rules don't apply to me

I wouldn't lie

The rules don't apply

The rules don't apply

To you

(instrumental "Hooray

for Hollywood" playing)

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Warren Beatty

Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Aside from Orson Welles for Citizen Kane, Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with Reds. Eight of the films he has produced have earned 53 Academy nominations, and in 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Beatty has been nominated for eighteen Golden Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he was honored with in 2007. Among his Golden Globe-nominated films are Splendor in the Grass (1961), his screen debut, and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), Bulworth (1998) and Rules Don't Apply (2016), all of which he also produced. Director and collaborator Arthur Penn described Beatty as "the perfect producer", adding, "He makes everyone demand the best of themselves. Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring. He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen." more…

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