Midnight Express Page #2
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- Year:
- 1978
- 121 min
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The GUARDS again.SOUND of Billy's in a tattered olive
GUARD:
Passport!
BILLY PASSPORT. The Guard's tobacco-stained FINGERS take
it open it. Basic information on Billy: Birth Date April
17, 1949. Birth Place: Babylon, Long Island. No wife, no
minors. Signature.
GUARD gives it back to BILLY.
GUARD:
Bag!
BILLY opens his shoulder bag, proffers it. The GUARD tosses
it, pushing aside books, grabbing a white plastic dish.
GUARD:
Nebu?
BILLY:
(Understand the
Turkish expression,
"What's this?")
It's a frisbee.
GUARD:
Nebu?
BILLY:
A Frisbee.
(makes a throwing
gesture of the
wrist)
You throw, catch it. Game!
Curious, one of the other GUARDS ambles over looking at
the frisbee.
BILLY tightens. Cursing the frisbee. Sweat now runs his
sideburns again. HEARTBEAT up.
2ND GUARD
American game. Baseball.
GUARD:
Ah!
(puzzled, turns the
Frisbee around and
around)
THE SECOND GUARD studies BILLY curious about the sweat.
Suddenly reaches up, indicates the eyes.
GUARD:
Take off the glasses.
BILLY understanding the gesture rather than the words,
removes his glasses. His eyes. Straight, staring at the
GUARD without trying to look away. A long moment.
FIRST GUARD stuffs the frisbee back into the bag. Scowls.
Takes a puff on his cigarette, coughs. Phlegm rattles around
in his throat.
Reads the International Herald Tribune, seated on a crowded
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