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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Reel Life Films, by Samuel Kimball Merwin
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+Title: Reel Life Films
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+Author: Samuel Kimball Merwin
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+    _At least a contributing factor to the current cycle of science
+    fiction movies being made in Hollywood is the touchiness of
+    minorities having their nationals being portrayed as villains.
+    Cinema-makers are now trying to avoid further boycotts by using
+    space aliens for villains. But suppose some of our Extraterrestrial
+    neighbors are also a bit touchy?_
+
+
+  reel
+  life
+ films
+
+ _by ... Jacques Jean Ferrat_
+
+
+ Pity the poor purveyor of mere entertainment in today's world.
+ He can't afford to offend a soul, yet must have a villain.
+
+
+Twenty-five years ago Cyril Bezdek and E. Carter Dorwin would have met
+in a private railway car belonging to one of them. They might even have
+met in a private train. At any rate they would have met in absolute
+privacy. But it being the present, they had to be content with a series
+of adjoining rooms taking up less than one half of a car on the
+Super-Sachem, fastest coast-to-coast train in the country.
+
+Their meeting in private was very important. Upon its results hinged the
+future of Gigantic Studios, one of Hollywood's big three production
+companies.
+
+Dorwin was the powerful plenipotentiary of the Consolidated Trust
+Company of Manhattan and backer of Gigantic's multimillion-dollar
+productions. He was on his way West to make sure that the interests of
+his bank were being adequately served by the studio.
+
+Bezdek was Gigantic's supreme production boss. Former office boy,
+writer, prop man, assistant-director, director, producer, and story
+editor, he was the works--unless Dorwin decided otherwise during this
+meeting and pulled the props out from under him. He had thought Dorwin's
+trip sufficiently important to fly to Kansas City and get aboard the
+Super-Sachem to be with the banker during the remainder of his trip.
+
+They had dined in the privacy of Dorwin's suite--Bezdek as befitted his
+tortured duodenum on yogurt and Melba toast--Dorwin on caviar, consomme,
+a thick steak with full trimmings, and a golden baked Alaska accompanied
+by Armagnac.
+
+"How do you manage to keep thin?" Bezdek asked him, honestly envious.
+"Polo, tennis? Golf would never do it."
+
+"I haven't exercised in ten years," said the banker, biting off the end
+of a Havana Perfecto. He studied the little movie-maker over the flame
+of his lighter. Outside, the flat expanse of Kansas rushed past through
+the night at close to a hundred miles an hour.
+
+"Some people are lucky," said Bezdek, adjusting the broad knot of his
+hand-painted Windsor tie. He was remarshaling his thoughts and ideas. It
+was very important that he and Dorwin be in perfect accord before they
+reached Hollywood.
+
+The banker, who was new to the movie-making branch of his business,
+spoke first. "I presume," he said finally, "that you're aware of the
+current feeling in our New York office?"
+
+The movie magnate gestured carelessly with a Saxony gun-club sleeve,
+revealing a platinum wristwatch strap. "We hear rumors now and again,"
+he said. "It's about our science fiction films." Bezdek avoided making
+it a question. He was far too shrewd for that.
+
+The banker, finding himself thus at a disadvantage, said amicably, "It's
+not that the fantasy series isn't making money, understand." He paused,
+looking faintly distressed. "It's just that, frankly, we feel they're
+getting too far away from reality. Trips to Mars and Venus--strange
+creatures.... It's not real--it's not dignified. Frankly, we question
+whether an institution like ours can afford to be connected with
+anything so--so ephemeral. After all ..."
+
+He paused as sounds of a scuffle in the corridor penetrated the room and
+something or somebody was banged hard against the door. Bezdek,
+frowning, jumped up nervously and went to the door, opened it, looked
+out.
+
+"What's going on out there?" he inquired tartly. "_Ty!_"
+
+"Sorry, Mr. Bezdek," said Ty Falter, the mogul's private secretary,
+bodyguard and constant companion. He was leaning against the far wall of
+the corridor, mopping a cut lower lip with a bloody handkerchief. He was
+a tall, deceptively sleepy-looking young man who virtually never slept.
+
+At the end of the corridor two lesser aides were half-dragging a tall
+figure between them. Bezdek frowned as he caught a glimpse of a nodding
+head in half profile--a near-perfect profile which showed no sign of a
+bruise.
+
+"How did that creep get in here?" he snapped. "That's the same character
+who tried to nail me at the K.C. airport."
+
+"Yes, sir," said Ty Falter apologetically. He glanced at his skinned
+knuckles. "It was like hitting a brick," he said. He shook his head,
+added, "Sorry, Mr. Bezdek. I don't know how he got in here."
+
+"Your job is to keep crackpots like that away from me," said the mogul.
+He turned and went back inside the compartment. Dorwin was still sitting
+as before.
+
+"Eavesdroppers?" the banker inquired with unruffled poise.
+
+"Not likely," said Bezdek, dropping into his seat. "Probably a
+movie-crazy kid trying to chisel a screen test."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The incident had brought back his heartburn. He wanted to take a couple
+of his pills but not in front of Dorwin. The banker might think he was
+cracking up. These damned New Yorkers had no idea of the pressure under
+which he labored. He sipped a glass of flat soda water.
+
+"Where were we?" Dorwin said quietly. Somehow to Bezdek he gave the
+impression of remorseless rationality. "Oh, yes, these fantasy
+movies--we're a little worried about them."
+
+"I thought you might be," said Bezdek, leaning forward and using the
+full magnetism of his personality. Now that the issue was out in the
+open his discomfort was eased. "Actually we don't think of our
+interplanetary cycle as fantasy, Dorwin. We think of them as forecasts
+of the future, as prophecy."
+
+"They're still a far cry from reality, or even the usual escapism," said
+the banker. "Confidentially, I happen to _know_ that it will be
+years--perhaps decades--before we make any live contact with the other
+planets. Our national interests demand that we prevent atomic power from
+superseding older methods before investments have realized on their
+holdings to the fullest extent. And it is upon development of atomic
+power that space-flight hinges at present."
+
+"Certainly I understand that--sound business," said Bezdek with his
+one-sided smile. "I hope they wait for many years."
+
+Dorwin looked faintly astonished. "From these pictures of yours I must
+confess I had derived a totally different impression of your theories,"
+he said slowly, flicking two inches of pale grey ash into the silver
+tray at his elbow.
+
+"Listen to me," said the movie-maker, again leaning toward his
+vis-a-vis. "We're making these pictures now because when the first man
+or men come back from other planets our science fiction cycle is
+finished. It will cease to be _escape_. We will then be faced with the
+reality of what they really find--and that's bound to be a great deal
+different from the sort of thing we're feeding them now."
+
+"It's a point I hadn't considered," said the banker, reaching for the
+brandy. He nodded to himself as he poured it, then looked up at Bezdek
+and asked, "But why this--space opera is the colloquial term, I believe?
+Why not stick closer to real life?"
+
+Bezdek sat back and the slanting smile creased his features again.
+"Minorities," he said. "That's why. Crackpot minorities object loudly at
+being portrayed in films they don't like. We don't want to tread on
+anybody's toes--there's trouble enough in the world as it is. People
+want villains. But unless we make our villains--even minor
+villains--people from nowhere we get boycotted somewhere by somebody.
+And that costs us money."
+
+"Yes, of course," said the banker, "but I fail to see--"
+
+"It's simple." Bezdek was in full cry now and interrupted openly.
+"People like conflict in their movies. If it's a Western they want their
+heroes to fight Indians or Mexicans or rustlers. The Indians and
+Mexicans object to being the villains and they've got big sympathetic
+followings. Okay, so we use rustlers or renegade white men and we still
+make Westerns--but not many. No plot variety."
+
+He sipped more soda water. "It's the same with everything else. Unless
+we're in a war with a legitimate enemy to hate we can't use villains.
+It's almost enough to make a man wish--"
+
+"Not with the H-bomb, Bezdek," said Dorwin frigidly.
+
+"Of course not--I was only speaking figuratively," said the movie-maker
+hastily. "I'm as much against war as anyone. But that's what makes these
+interplanetary movies great stuff. We can run in all the villains we
+want--make them just as bad as we want. Audiences really like to have
+someone they can hate."
+
+"I see," said Dorwin. He permitted himself to look faintly pleased.
+"After all, a Martian can hardly protest what we do with him. I see your
+point now."
+
+"You've got it," said Bezdek, beaming now. He leaned forward and added,
+"Furthermore, we've got four new pictures in the works for the space
+cycle that are really going to--"
+
+He broke off, interrupted by a knock at the door. He stared at the
+banker, seeking someone to share his annoyance, found Dorwin staring out
+the window, frowning.
+
+"The train seems to have stopped," said the banker.
+
+Bezdek turned to the window. It was true. The night was clouded and
+dark but he could make out a single tree in faint silhouette and it was
+not moving. The knock on the stateroom door came again.
+
+"I'd better see who it is," said Bezdek, rising. "Maybe something is
+wrong."
+
+He opened the door quickly--all but fell back into his seat. The tall
+young man with the too-perfect features--the man who had tried in vain
+to speak to him at the Kansas City airport, who had been forcibly
+evicted earlier from the car--stood there!
+
+The young man smiled and it was much too cold to be ingratiating if that
+was its intent. He said, looking down on both men, "I think you will
+wish to talk to me now."
+
+The sheer effrontery of it rendered Cyril Bezdek speechless for the
+first time in years. Looking past the intruder through the angle of the
+open door he could see Ty Falter sitting on the corridor floor, leaning
+against the wall. His eyes were closed, his head canted at an odd angle.
+
+It was Dorwin who first found words. "Who are you?" he inquired. "What
+do you want?"
+
+"I am from Mars," said the stranger. "I have come here to enter a
+protest against the manner in which Mr. Bezdek's motion pictures are
+portraying my people."
+
+The movie-maker's mouth dropped open. He closed it quickly, glanced
+across at the banker, saw equal bewilderment on that usually poker-face.
+On impulse, Bezdek reached for the buzzer that would summon aid and
+pressed it firmly several times.
+
+"No one will answer," said the intruder in a voice remarkable not for
+its accent but for its lack of any. "We have been forced to--to
+immobilize this train in order to see you. It has been very difficult to
+reach you, Mr. Bezdek, I am sure through no fault of your own. But the
+people of my planet feel very strongly about this matter and I must get
+some satisfaction for them."
+
+"So help me," said the mogul, his thin face purple with anger, "if this
+is a gag I'll see you jailed for it! And before you're jailed you're
+going to have a very unpleas--"
+
+"No, Mr. Bezdek--Mr. Dorwin--this is not a joke. We of Mars are proud of
+our culture, our civilization. We do not like being portrayed as evil
+and ridiculous creatures. We're not like those filthy Venerians. We
+Martians have a great self-respect."
+
+"_Ostrich feathers!_" Bezdek roared at the dead-panned intruder. "You
+may not be aware of it but there are severe penalties for holding up a
+train on this--in this country. You can't go around slugging people
+either. Look at Ty out there."
+
+"Your servant will be all right," said the intruder, "as will the others
+aboard this train. I can release them whenever you agree that my mission
+is to be taken seriously."
+
+"All right," said Bezdek, whose mind was nothing if not acrobatic.
+"Suppose you are from Mars. Tell me why your people object to our
+movies. Surely they aren't seeing them on Mars?"
+
+"No. But your Earthmen will reach our planet soon and your opinion of us
+will be shaped in some degree by these movies they have seen. And since
+the relationships of the near-future are of vital import to us now we
+must not be represented as other than we are. Such misconceptions could
+breed interplanetary war." He shuddered.
+
+"I think you're crazy!" said Bezdek. He turned to the banker, who was
+again staring out the window.
+
+"There's something out there--look," said Dorwin.
+
+"That is our ship," the intruder told them blandly. "That is why we
+stopped the train here. It is the only flat area sufficiently unsettled
+for our landing and departure without detection. We must return at once
+or lose perihelion."
+
+"Let me see," said Bezdek. He peered through the window. There _was_
+something out there--something black and vague and shaped like an
+immense turtle with jagged projections. He tried to tell himself he was
+seeing things, failed.
+
+"Amazing!" said E. Carter Dorwin. "It's utterly amazing!"
+
+"Incredible is the word for it," Bezdek said wearily. He faced the
+intruder, said bluntly, "Very well, you say you're from Mars. And I say
+to your face that you aren't!"
+
+"You seem remarkably sure, Mr. Bezdek."
+
+"And why not?" The movie-maker was in his element now, delivering the
+clincher in an argument. "Our scientists have proved conclusively that
+Earthmen cannot exist on Mars without space-suits. You say you're a
+Martian. Yet you look like one of us. So if you can live on Mars, how
+can you live in our atmosphere without a space-suit of some sort?
+There's one for you to answer!" He chortled.
+
+"But I _am_ wearing protection--a protective suit arranged to give the
+impression that I am an Earthman." A flicker of something akin to
+distaste passed over his singularly immobile face.
+
+"I'd like to see what you _do_ look like," said Dorwin, suddenly
+entering into the eerie conversation.
+
+Something like a sigh escaped the intruder. Then he said, "Very well. It
+is important that you believe me, so--" His hands went to the top of his
+scalp and deliberately he peeled the life-like mask slowly from the
+hidden features of his thoroughly Martian face!
+
+It was a very odd face--not at all human. It reminded Bezdek a little of
+an immutably sad Bassett Hound he kept in his Hollywood kennel. It made
+Dorwin think of his mother-in-law. It was not a frightening face and the
+single eye in the center of the forehead held them with its mournful
+regard, held them, held them ...
+
+When they were thoroughly under its hypnotic spell the Martian began to
+speak softly ...
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Ty Falter was slow in waking up. But when he realized that he was lying
+there in the corridor he came to with a start. If Bezdek ever found out
+about this he'd be cooked as far as Hollywood went!
+
+He got to his feet, his unsteadiness helped not at all by the fact that
+the train chose that moment to start with a jerk. He grabbed at the wall
+as a meteor flashed through the dark of the Kansas night outside the
+window.
+
+Funny, he thought, the damned thing was going _up_, not _down_. But he
+forgot about the meteor as he heard the voices coming from the stateroom
+he was being paid to guard. He reeled over to the partly opened door and
+listened.
+
+Bezdek was talking volubly, enthusiastically as he did when he spoke of
+the actual making of a picture. "... so we'll only have to reshoot a few
+sequences, Dorwin. The cost will be nothing compared to the returns.
+Think of it! Our space-pilot hero crashes on _Venus_. He has to fight
+horrible slimy swamp creatures--we can make them look like crocodiles
+with six or eight legs--to reach the mountaintop where the girl is
+hiding ..."
+
+He paused and Dorwin said gravely, "I'm glad, since these space operas
+seem to be necessary, that you have decided to locate them on a _real_
+planet like Venus rather than a _fictitious_ one like Mars. If minority
+pressure groups force us to use fantasy then it is as well to stay as
+credible as possible."
+
+"Right, Dorwin! Right on the nose!" cried Bezdek. "And we can make real
+villains out of these Venerians, real bang-up nasty heavies!"
+
+The banker's voice came through the door again. He said doubtfully, "But
+how can we be sure about the Venerians ..."
+
+"Because I can feel it _here_!" cried the movie-maker. The thump that
+accompanied his final word told Ty that his boss had smote himself
+dramatically over the heart as he delivered the climactic line.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _Fantastic Universe_ May 1954.
+    Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
+    copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
+    typographical errors have been corrected without note.
+
+
+
+
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