The Artist Page #4

12 INT. GEORGE & DORIS’ HOUSE - DAY 12

The very same newspaper is being read by an elegant woman

sitting at a sumptuous breakfast table. We are in the large

dining room of an ultra-luxurious Hollywood villa. All around

her are magnificent furniture, superb paintings and objets

d'art, including a beautiful trio of monkeys, one hiding its

eyes, one with hands clasped to its ears and the third

obscuring its mouth. George comes into the room and kisses

his wife. She responds with cold indifference. You could cut

the atmosphere with a knife. The woman hands George the

newspaper. He knows what's up but tries to laugh it off. She

doesn't find it funny, is as cold as stone and barely looks

at him. She is obviously extremely annoyed with him. George

picks up his dog and puts it on the table. Jack drops his

head to one side and his big eyes implore seem to implore her

forgiveness. It's the exact expression of someone asking to

be loved, but Doris is implacable. She gets up, walks away

and does not turn back. Left on his own, George has a closed

expression on his face. He seems unhappy to have hurt his

wife's feelings. Then he realizes that Jack is on the table

in a ridiculous pose, and signals to him to get down. The dog

obeys. George looks at the paper, the cause of his problems.

13 EXT. HOLLYWOOD STREET BUS - DAY 13

Thirteen white letters placed on a hillside.

HOLLYWOODLAND.

Below, in town, a bus.

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14 INT. BUS (DRIVING)/HOLLYWOOD - DAY 14

Inside the full bus is the young woman from the day before. Her

name is Peppy Miller. She is proudly holding "The Hollywood

Reporter" with her face on the front page, and is more or less

discreetly making suggestive glances, hoping that someone

recognizes her. But the people around her - from working and

middle class backgrounds - are visibly on their way to work and

remain impervious to her game.

She - carefully - puts the paper away in her bag, in which four

or five copies of the newspaper are already carefully tucked

away, then gets off the bus at the next stop.

15 EXT. KINOGRAPH STUDIOS - DAY 15

She goes through the main gates of Kinograph Studios, and

heads towards where they hire extras.

In a courtyard, fifty-odd people are waiting, some sitting on

wooden crates, others standing. There are mums with kids,

guys with animals, men dressed as cowboys, etc. Peppy is

among them, sitting next to a man of about sixty who is

dressed in a highly stylized fashion. His job is obviously

that of a butler. Peppy proudly shows him the picture in the

newspaper. The man leans to take a closer look, unfolds the

newspaper, sees the headline, smiles and then folds it back

up again and returns it to Peppy text-side-up, highlighting

the headline:
Who's that girl ?

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