Brooklyn Page #2
MISS KELLY:
I shall want to train a new girl up
straight away.
EILIS:
But I could help.
MISS KELLY:
No, thank you.
She starts to turn her back on Eilis, but she has one last
thing to say.
MISS KELLY:
Your poor sister.
EILIS:
(surprised)
My sister?
MISS KELLY:
Oh, mothers are always being left
behind in this country. But
Rose...That’s the end for her,
isn’t it? She’ll be looking after
your mother for the rest of her
life.
This time she does turn her back and walk away.
6 EXT. NANCY’S HOUSE. NIGHT 6
Eilis is knocking at the door of a house not dissimilar to
her own. She scarcely has time to complete a second knock,
and the door flies open.
(CONTINUED)
'Brooklyn' YELLOW Script Dated 24th April 2014 5.
6 CONTINUED:
6Her friend NANCY, already wearing her coat, smiles at Eilis,
pulls the door shut behind her, and starts walking off down
the street with Eilis trailing in her wake.
7 EXT. STREET. NIGHT 7
Nancy and Eilis walking arm-in-arm down the street. Now we
can get a chance to look at Nancy properly: she’s
staggeringly pretty, film-star pretty. It helps that she’s
dressed up and made up to go out - Eilis looks a little wan
by comparison, even though she’s made an effort too - but
even so, she’s a stunner.
EILIS:
You look beautiful, Nancy.
NANCY:
Thank you.
EILIS:
You look so beautiful it makes me
despair of this place.
Nancy laughs.
NANCY:
Why?
EILIS:
You’re the prettiest girl in County
Wexford. You should be able to
choose any man you want. And we’re
hoping that George Sheridan from
the rugby club looks your way.
The scornful way she emphasises the social institution
suggests that she doesn’t think he’s much of a catch.
NANCY:
(sufficiently excited to
miss the point)
Do you think he might?
EILIS:
Of course he will. I know you like
him, Nancy, but he’s not Gary
Cooper, is he? And those boys, with
their hair-oil and their blazers..
She shudders her distaste.
NANCY:
He has beautiful eyes.
(CONTINUED)
'Brooklyn' YELLOW Script Dated 24th April 2014 5A.
7 CONTINUED:
7EILIS:
And he’s going to come into a
beautiful shop in the Market
Square.
NANCY:
(changing the subject)
Why didn’t you wear your blue
dress?
Now it is Eilis’s turn to look a little discomfited.
EILIS:
Are you asking why I didn’t make
more of an effort?
(CONTINUED)
'Brooklyn' YELLOW Script Dated 24th April 2014 6.
7 CONTINUED:
7They have reached the small hall where the dance they are
attending is taking place. They join a small queue to get in -
all girls.
NANCY:
What if one of the boys from the
rugby club asked you to dance?
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