Awakenings Page #2
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1990
- 121 min
- 1,957 Views
Kaufman can't believe it, but is sent back a look that says,
We have no choice. The Director gets up out of his chair, and,
smiling broadly, extends his hand to Sayer. Which unsettles
Sayer. Which in turn unsettles the Director.
DIRECTOR:
(not far from v
begging)
You do want the job, don't you?
Sayerisn'tsosure. Hethinksaboutitlongandhard. ..
8. INT. CORRIDOR -BAINBRIDGE -DAY 8.
Moving along a corridor crowded "with patients, some ambulatory,
some in wheelchairs, "living people" living with profound
neurological disease.
ANTHONY O.S.
Spent much time in chronic
hospitals, doctor?
A patient approaches, and, passing Sayer and the orderly who's
escorting him (ANTHONY), offers
FEMALE PATIENT 1
Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello...
REV.12/15/89 (GREEN) pg.7
8.C0NT. ANTHONY 8.
(to Sayer)
You'd remember.
SAYER:
I guess not.
As they pass an old patient in a wheelchair
ANTHONY:
Hey, how you doing?
(calling to someone
down the hall)
Dr. Sullivan.
Staying on the old patient, he eventually manages, too late
OLD PATIENT:
Fine...
Down the hall in an alcove, Dr. Sullivan glances up long
sufferingly from-a.patient~with'.an .Ouij a-board who !.s mumbling, *
complaining, unintelligibly. Anthony and Sayer arrrive.
ANTHONY:
Dr. Sullivan, this is Dr. Sayer;
'':
:' ' -'.There's a kind a "deadness" in Sullivan's eyes and voice; he's
been here too long.
SULLIVAN:
Not the neurologist, that'd be
asking too much. You're not the
neurologist.
SAYER:
I think I am.
Sayer extends his hand. Instead of shaking it
SULLIVAN:
Well, come on, Anthony, get him a
coat for Christ's sake.
-Sullivan thrusts his clipboard into Sayer's hand.
9. OMITTED 9.
10. INT. DAYROOM (A) -DAY 10.
A woman in a wheelchair uttering high-pitched screams (FEMALE
PATIENT 2). Sayer in a lab coat trying to calm her.
REV.12/15/89 (GREEN) Pg.7
10.CONT. SAYER . 10.
They're just pencils, pens.
He tries to prove it to her by removing one of them from the
pocket of his white coat. Screaming louder at the sight of it,
she tries to protect her face with her hands like a boxer being
beaten senseless.
11. INT. DAYROOM (B) -DAY v 11.
A man in his sixties confronts Sayer with an announcement in a
loud commanding voice
MALE PATIENT 1
X was born in I911f in
Kinasbridae, New York. I came
here in July of 1955. Prior to
July of 1955. I resided a£ the
Brooklyn Psychiatric Centerf
Brooklyn. New York. Prior to
thatP I was a person. And you.
sir.-i Who the* hell >are.*v.ou? .
12. INT. DAYROOM (C) -DAY 12.
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