Barry Lyndon Page #2
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- 1975
- 185 min
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INT. BALLROOM AT FENCIBLES - NIGHT
Dorothy and Roderick entering.
RODERICK (V.O.)
Once, the officers of the Kilwangen
regiment gave a grand ball to which
Dorothy persuaded my to take her.
Several cuts depicting the evening.
Dorothy ignores Roderick; dances, chats, laughs, drinks
punch, and finally, strolls outside with Captain Best.
Roderick makes a half-hearted try at dancing with Miss
Clancy.
RODERICK (V.O.)
I have endured torments in my life,
but none like that. Some of the
prettiest girls there offered to
console me, for I was the best
dancer in the room, but I was too
wretched, and so remained alone all
night in a state of agony. I did
not care for drink, or know the
dreadful comfort of it in those
days; but I thought of killing
myself and Dorothy, and most
certainly of making away with
Captain Best.
EXT. FENCIBLES BALLROOM - DAWN
The guests leaving and saying their goodbyes.
RODERICK (V.O.)
At last, and at morning, the ball
was over.
EXT. ROAD - DAWN
Dorothy and Roderick on horseback together.
DOROTHY:
Sure it's a bitter night, Roderick
dear, and you'll catch cold without
a handkerchief to your neck.
To this sympathetic remark, from the pillion, the saddle
made no reply.
DOROTHY:
Did you and Miss Clancy have a
pleasant evening, Roderick? You
were together, I saw, all night.
To this, the saddle only replies by grinding his teeth,
and giving a lash to Daisy.
DOROTHY:
Oh! Mercy, you make Daisy rear and
throw me, you careless creature,
you.
The pillion had by this got her arm around the saddle's
waist, and gave it the gentlest squeeze in the world.
RODERICK:
I hate Miss Clancy, you know I do!
And I only danced with her because
-- because -- the person with whom I
engaged the whole night.
DOROTHY:
I had not been in the room five
minutes before I was engaged for
every single set.
RODERICK:
Were you obliged to dance five times
with Captain Best, and then stroll
out with him into the garden?
DOROTHY:
I don't care a fig for Captain Best;
he dances prettily to be sure, and
is a pleasant rattle of a man. He
looks well in his regimentals, too;
and if he chose to ask me to dance,
RODERICK:
But you refused me, Dorothy.
DOROTHY:
Oh! I can dance with you any day,
and to dance with your own cousin at
a ball as if you could find no other
partner. Besides, Roderick, Captain
Best's a man, and you are only a
boy, and you haven't a guinea in the
world.
RODERICK:
If ever I meet him again, you shall
see which is the best man of the
two. I'll fight him with sword or
with pistol, captain as he is.
DOROTHY:
But Captain Best is already known as
a valiant soldier, and is famous as
a man of fashion in London. It is
mighty well of you to fight farmers'
boys, but to fight an Englishman is
a very different matter.
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