" By the end of the week, she is renamed Vicki Lester - she learns of her new screen name when she receives her first paycheck.The rowdy, sweaty, tired group pops foam-spraying beer cans and carouses with drinking songs until quieted by the soft piano-playing of John - the proprietor of the bar.[This is the first stage of fetal, reproductive life imagery: copulation and conception.]The first spoken words in the film occur here, about 25 minutes from the film""s beginning.Floyd is notified by the pink-uniformed Space Station attendant/receptionist that their elevator has come o its proper level:"Here you are, sir.The Irishman hero/vagabond, strolling in the streets of New York City, tells the audience in his first line (with a wry, brogue accent), a flashback, that he has made a stupid fool of himself:When I start out to make a fool of myself, there""s very little can stop me.