I saw this movie the other evening (as a lead in to a couple of Willaim Powell movies) and I thought it very strange (drug culture in the early teens?) and also funny. My question concerns the second ending. Fairbanks is seen leaning over a studio boss's shoulder when the boss tells him that he is not a scenario writer but should stick to script writing. What is that in reference to?
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I didn't really have a problem with it. It may have been their way of saying that the film was fiction, that 'Coke Ennyday' didn't exist. It's also a cheap laugh at Fairbanks expense. Or maybe a cop out if people didn't like the film!
It reveals the story as one Fairbanks (in "real" life) is trying to interest the studios in. But after he "tells" the story (i.e., what we view is actually his telling of the "proposed" movie), the studio boss tells him, basically, that he should stick to acting because his story is no good.
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