American Hustle Page #3
INT. PLAZA HOTEL SUITE FOYER - CONTINUOUS
Irving continues to pace back and forth in the hall waiting
for the elevator.
8.
IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.)
Did you ever have to find a way tosurvive and you knew your choiceswere bad?
Irving walks over and hits the elevator button again.
IRVING ROSENFELD
I learned how to survive when I was
a kid.
7 CUT TO:
7IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.) (CONT’D)
My father had a glass business.
28 IRV AS KID SMASHES PLATE GLASS WINDOWS OF BRONX STOREFRONTS 28
Drumming up business for his father.
EXT. ROSENFELD & SON GLASS REPAIR CO. - DAY 1940’S
Young Irving and his Father and Mother standing outside thefamily's glass repair shop in the Bronx as some toughcontractors march up to them.
IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.)
I would rather be on the takingside than the getting taken sideany day of the week, especiallyafter I saw how my father gottaken. I mean, seeing that scarredme for life.
EXT. UNDISCLOSED STREET - DAY 1940’S
Young Irving runs by a store front as he throws a rockthrough each window on the store, smashing them all.
IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.) (CONT’D)
I took it upon myself to drum upbusiness. I became a different kind
of guy than my father. I became acon artist -- from the feet up, forreal.
CUT TO:
THE BRONX:
STOREFRONT WITH SMASHED WINDOW. - DAY - PRESENTIrv shakes his head, surveys the damage.
9.
IRVING ROSENFELD
I was gonna survive no matter what.
I still had the glass business and
a few dry cleaning stores on the
side.
7G INT. IRV’S DINGY OFFICE - DAY 7G
Irving paces around his office smoking a cigar and talking on
the phone. What looks to be stolen art sits on the floor all
around him.
IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.)
And I did some art dealing on the
EXT./INT. POOL PARTY - LONG ISLAND HOUSE - DAY
Chicago’s “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” fades
up. Jamming early 70s HOLIDAY party -- LONG ISLAND LADIES IN
BIKINIS WITH HUGE HAIR IN FUR COATS SMOKING OUTSIDE THE GLASS
ENCLOSED POOL -while inside steamed glass SHINY BIKINI
CANDIDATES FOR NOSE JOBS; A FEW OTHERS WHO ARE LARGE, SEVERAL
GUYS WHO LOOK MOBBED UP, pale, out of shape, gold chains, in
swim trunks, EVEN MORE BURT REYNOLDS TYPE GUYS, slim, hairy,
chains.
IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.)
So, one January I go to my friends
pool party in Long Island.
Irving sits holding court with some friends by the pool when
he turns and sees Sydney for the first time.
PUSH IN ON:
Irving. He looks up, they lock eyes across theparty.
SYD REACHES FOR A SLICE OF FRUIT ON HIGH SET PLATE WHEN
IRVING’S HAND GRABS HER ARM -- she turns, taken aback
IRVING ROSENFELD
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