Living in Oblivion Page #4

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WALKIE (V.O.)

kkkkkssst... sttttss yes.

WANDA:

Is that a real lock-up?

WALKIE (V.O.)

ssssssssssssppppkkss.

WANDA:

OK, right away. Picture's up. Roll

sound.

SOUND:

Speed!

WANDA:

And, roll camera!

AC:

Rolling!

CLAPPER:

Scene six, take four.

(hits the sticks)

NICK:

Action.

INT. SET APT. THE SCENE: TAKE 4. COLOR

NICOLE:

Dad hit me first and knocked me down.

It didn't hurt that much but I started

crying anyway, hoping he would leave

me alone. He went over and started

hitting Danny.

CORA:

Ellen, I have no memory of this

whatsoever.

NICOLE:

You were just standing there looking

at me. Then you pulled --

Suddenly the BOOM drops into frame again.

INT. SET APT. DAY. B/W

WOLF:

Boom's in.

NICK:

Jesus Christ.

BOOM:

Where?

WOLF:

The whole left side of frame, Les.

WANDA:

Alright, can we please get a

motherfucking frame line please?!

BOOM:

The frame keeps changing.

WOLF:

That's the idea, Les.

SOUND:

May I make a suggestion? Is it

possible to maybe break the shot

down? Maybe two shots instead? Might

make it easier for Les.

NICK:

No.

SOUND:

Then I need ten minutes to switch to

radio mikes.

WANDA:

Your call, Nick.

NICK:

There won't be any other sound

problems?

SOUND:

No more boom problems.

NICK:

Switch to radios.

WANDA:

That's a ten-minute break. Release

the lock-up. Stand by.

WOLF:

(to the AC)

Get me a coffee. Half milk.

INT. SET APT. DAY. B/W

Nick looks for Nicole but sees only Cora standing by the

couch. Les has both arms up the back of her dress, running

the wire to her radio mike. She's wearing stockings rolled

down to just above her knees.

Nick turns and spots Nicole by herself in a dark corner of

the set and walks over to her.

INT. SET APT. A CORNER. DAY. B/W

NICK:

I'm sorry about all this, Nicole.

NICOLE:

It's not your fault, Nick. Is there

a way to use some of the earlier

takes?

NICK:

Not unless I change the shot; do a

cutaway of Cora or something and

intercut the takes. I don't want to

do that. It's a really nice shot and

what you're doing is incredible.

NICOLE:

Thanks, Nick.

NICK:

The radio mikes are going to make

everything easier. So, look. Take a

moment. Let all this sh*t go. We

don't roll till you're ready.

NICOLE:

OK.

Nick moves back to the set, leaving Nicole in the shadows.

Camera stays on her as she begins emotionally preparing

herself once again.

SCRIPT (V.O.)

How was she in that Richard Gere

movie?

CYBIL (V.O.)

So-so.

Camera slips halfway through an open bedroom door, holding

Nicole on one side of the frame while revealing PAM the Script

Supervisor and CYBIL sitting on the floor smoking. Though

separated by the wall, Nicole hears everything the two women

say.

SCRIPT:

Her career really took off, didn't

it?

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