Five Easy Pieces
- R
- Year:
- 1970
- 98 min
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TITLE SEQUENCE:
The Bach-Vivaldi A-Minor Concerto for Four Pianos
PLAYS OVER a series of family album photographs.
Written in careful penmanship beneath each are
names identifying family members:
1ST PHOTO:
A man stands in front of the raisedsounding board of a piano, playing the viola.
Seated on the piano bench, accompanying him, is a
woman in a maternity dress:
"Isabelle and Nicholas"
2ND PHOTO:
A boy of 11, wearing conductor's tailsand holding a raised baton in his right hand as if
about to gesture a downbeat:
"Herbert Kreutzer Dupea"
3RD PHOTO:
Another boy of approximately 9, in theact of playing the violin:
"Carl Fidelio Dupea"
4TH PHOTO:
The two boys are now poised behind thepiano. Seated on its bench is a girl of 6, her
hands resting on the keyboard. Written beneath:
"Elizabeth Partita Dupea"
5TH PHOTO:
The above family group, seated on theporch of the Dupea home. All eyes but Isabelle's
are faced toward the camera. She beams upon a 3
year-old asleep in her arms, his head resting
against her bosom. His figure is encircled by the
pen's marking and preceding his name is the
configuration of a small heart:
"Robert Eroica Dupea"
INT. MUSIC ROOM - DUPEA HOME - DAY
BACH-VIVALDI OVER:
A 7-year-old BOBBY sits in a chair, his feet
dangling in absent-minded rhythm to a chamber piece
played by his father, his two brothers and his
sister.
CLOSE ON a metronome, marking a slow etude rhythm.
The CAMERA MOVES from it to Bobby, on the piano
bench beside his mother. As she patiently
demonstrates the etude for him, he places a thumb
in his mouth and leans against her arm.
ON THE METRONOME at an andante rhythm. CARL and
TITA, now in their teens, are seated side by side
on the piano bench, playing four-hands with
dazzling virtuosity.
The CAMERA MOVES from them to a framed newspaper
article on the music-room wall. Below a photograph
of a 20-year-old young man are the words: "Herbert
Kreutzer Dupea - Seattle's Youngest Guest
Conductor."
INT. RECITAL HALL GREEN ROOM - NIGHT
BACH-VIVALDI OVER:
Bobby, at 10, wearing a dress suit. His mother
combs his hair with maternal concentration.
CLOSE-UP of a program announcing a Dupea family
recital. The CAMERA SCANS down the bill, over:
Sonata in C Major for Two Violins - Bach - Played
by Nicholas and Carl Dupea.
Like As a Lovelorn Turtle - Hendel - Sung by
Isabelle Dupea.
Rondo Alla Turca - Mozart - Played by Elizabeth
Dupea.
Piano Sonata, Opus 110 - Beethoven - Played by
Herbart Dupea.
Five Easy Pieces - Grebner - Played by Robert
Dupea.
Five Easy Pieces, played haltingly OVER the torsos
of a line of people moving slowly down the chapel
aisle.
ANOTHER ANGLE:
shows a solemn procession of the above, filing by
an open casket holding Isabelle Dupea.
The CAMERA PANS from NICHOLAS, seated on the aisle,
to the four adult children seated next to him and
COMES TO REST on Bobby. His gaze is cast down to
his lap, as he refuses to look at:
The pale profile of his mother's face resting
within the satin folds of the casket lining, and...
... as the last of the "family friends" pay their
respect:
Nicholas steps out into the aisle and,followed by Tita, Carl and HERBERT, moves down
toward the casket.
Bobby rises from his seat and makes his way toward
the aisle, where he hesitates briefly, then turns
and walks up the aisle and out the chapel doors.
TITLES END:
EXT. SIGNAL HILL OIL FIELD - DAY
TAMMY WYNETTE'S "STAND BY YOUR MAN" OVER:
The toothed bucket of a back hoe trenches into the
earth, then lifts up into the air, revealing Bobby
in hard-hat and heavy gloves, operating the levers.
As the hoe swings off to the side and deposits a
load of earth into the rear of a truck...
... a SERIES OF SHOTS begins, showing Bobby and a
fellow hard-hat (ELTON) engaged in the dirty and
dangerous task of working "crew" with a team of
TOOL-PUSHERS on the derricks of Signal Hill.
Functioning as servants of the well and its pumps,
the PULL rods, MAKE and BREAK joints on the rig
floor, WELD tubing, CARRY pipes, CLIMB the "tour,"
and PLAY THE DOZENS on beer wagon breaks.
INT. BOBBY'S CAR - SIGNAL HILL - NIGHT
ABOVE SONG OVER:
Bobby, still in his hard hat, as he drives. Out
through the window, the derricks of the Hill can be
seen, their night-work lights on.
EXT. BOBBY'S CAR - NIGHT
SONG OVER:
FOLLOWING ON the car as it moves off the Hill into
the seamy districts adjacent to it, passing by fast
food joints, liquor stores, all-night porno parlors
and neon-lighted bars.
INT. BOBBY'S CAR - NIGHT
SONG OVER:
ON BOBBY'S FACE:
as he stares out through the windshield, his eyes
distant, dwelling in an oblivion that blanks both
the present and past.
EXT. BOBBY'S CAR - NIGHT
SONG OVER:
The car pulls onto a low-rent residential street
and comes to a stop in front of a small bungalow.
Bobby exits the car, moves up the walkway to the
house and disappears inside.
INT. RAYETTE'S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
SONG OVER:
Bobby, seated on the couch, a can of beer in hand,
staring morosely across the room, to:
A PORTABLE STEREO,
playing the song:
WYNETTE (V.O.)
"And if you love him/Oh be proud of
him/For after all, he's just a
man..."
RAYETTE DIPESTO,
in a waitress's uniform with a bowl of beer nuts.
After placing them on the coffee table in front of
him, she leans down and kisses him. Challenged by a
less than reciprocal response, she kisses him more
fervently. As she moves her lips from his ear to
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