Klondike Page #2
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- 2014
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BILL (V.O.)
My whole life:
planned out for me.Fast-tracked to get me to the
Promised Land. My father told me
not to complain, because guys like
Byron Epstein...didn’t have that
same sort of opportunity...
And we see:
Epstein’s house--as he moves for it--slightlybetter than a hovel.
5.
INT. UNIVERSITY - DAY
Quick hits:
tracking from other students reading math texts,business texts....to a COLLEGIATE BILL flipping through
“travel lit”, 1890’s-style--Bret Harte’s accounts of the
California Gold Rush, W.L. Stevenson’s south seas stories-
BILL (V.O.)
They prepared me, all right. For 10
years, I read every book under the
sky.
Quick hits:
Epstein in the broad-shouldered industrial worldof American cities in the 1890s...
BILL (V.O.)
And while I was reading...Bill was
living. He saw the world. The
unvarnished one that was not in
books.
Epstein:
exiting a Loan Shop with a turn-of-the-centuryversion of a payday loan in hand--PROPRIETOR emerging behind
him, watching him go with the eyes of a shark...
BILL (V.O.)
The one filled with bank failures,
with families being tossed out of
homes, 4 million men wandering the
continent looking for work...
As Epstein stands in an impossibly long unemployment line:
BILL (V.O.)
This couldn’t be it. There was no
possibility in it. There had to be
nothing but possibility.
INT. BALLROOM - DAY
A banner fills frame: CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 1897! Camera
booms from this down to a coat-and-tie affair. A bit stiff,
if we may call a spade a spade. It’s “May 1, 1897.”
We find Bill here, newly graduated, being introduced to
various movers-and-shakers by an enthusiastic COLLEAGUE.
COLLEAGUE:
Captains of industry everywhere you
look. Guy over there’s in the
horseless carriage game. Guy over
there:
telephones. Supposedly he’sfigured out how to lower rates so
the common man can afford it. And
if the common man can afford
it...sky’s the limit. Those are the
games we wanna be in.
6.
While all of this is going on, we are with Bill: amicable, if
uncomfortable. These people: the 1%. Not, at the end of the
day, his people. Colleague, noticing:
COLLEAGUE (CONT'D)
I’m not detecting ambivalence am I?
Misinterpreting Bill’s silence:
COLLEAGUE (CONT’D)
God, of all people, you shouldn’t
be nervous. Your dad’s been pulling
strings with all of these people.
Candidly, I’m a bit jealous...
Bill’s demeanor changes when he does spot one of his people.
Arguing with the Concierge at the door.
A scruffy guy with a poor suit. Epstein.
BILL:
Excuse me.
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