Harold and Maude Page #3
- PG
- Year:
- 1971
- 91 min
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18INT. PSYCHIATRIST'S OFFICE - DAY
Harold is lying on the couch.
HAROLD:
(a reasoned
assessment)
I don't think I'm getting through
to Mother like I used to.
PSYCHIATRIST:
Does that worry you?
HAROLD:
(pause)
Yes. It does.
PSYCHIATRIST:
Why?
HAROLD:
I put a lot of effort into these
things.
PSYCHIATRIST:
Ah, yes.
HAROLD:
And a lot of time.
PSYCHIATRIST:
I'm sure. But what else do you
do with your time? Do you go to
school?
HAROLD:
No.
PSYCHIATRIST:
What about the draft?
HAROLD:
My mother spoke to my Uncle Victor.
He's in the Army and he fixed it up.
PSYCHIATRIST:
Oh. Well, how do you spend your
day?
HAROLD:
You mean when I'm not working on a...
PSYCHIATRIST:
Yes. What kind of things do you do?
19EXT. AUTOMOBILE JUNKYARD - DAY
Cranes, auto smashers, bulldozers, and mountains of rusting
cars and other junk. Very noisy and very fast cut. A
little essay on destructive machinery at work with Harold
looking on in rapture.
20INT. PSYCHIATRIST'S OFFICE - DAY
PSYCHIATRIST:
I see. Junkyards. What is the
fascination there?
HAROLD:
I don't know.
PSYCHIATRIST:
Is it the machines? The noise?
The people?
HAROLD:
No. It's the junk. I like to
look at junk.
PSYCHIATRIST:
What else do you like?
Harold pauses.
21INSERT - STOCK
A giant steel ball crashes into a building. We watch it
fall noisily into dust and rubble.
22INT. PSYCHIATRIST'S OFFICE - DAY
PSYCHIATRIST:
That's very interesting, Harold,
and I think very illuminative.
There seems to be a definite pattern
emerging.
(taking copious notes)
Your fondness for useless machines
and demolitions seems indicative
of your present emotional state,
your self-destructive urges and
your alienation from the regular
social interaction. What do you
think? And of course this pattern
once isolated can be coped with.
Recognize the problem and you are
half way on the road to its
solution. But tell me, what do
you do for fun? What activity
gives you a different sense of
enjoyment than the others? What
do you find fulfilling? What
gives you that certain satisfaction?
HAROLD:
I go to funerals.
23EXT. CEMETERY - LONG SHOT - DAY
showing a small group of mourners around a grave. A nearby
bench by a tree is empty. The coffin is slowly being
lowered into the ground.
24EXT. CEMETERY - DAY
CLOSER SHOTS of the mourners sobbing and the priest pray-
ing. We come to Harold who has a look of gentle fascina-
tion. The service is concluding. Harold looks up across
the grave. A hundred yards away on the cemetery bench
sits an old woman eating a tangerine. This is MAUDE.
Harold stares at her. She seems to be having some kind of
happy picnic. She looks over towards him. He quickly
returns his attention to the burial.
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