One Chance Page #4
PAUL:
I got a job.
10.
ROLAND:
What, that bloody musical down the
community centre?
PAUL:
Mobile phone shop in Bridgend.
ROLAND:
Oh... Well done... So, you’ll be getting
your own place then?
PAUL:
Actually, um, I’ve been saving up for
opera lessons...in Italy.
ROLAND:
You’re twenty-nine years old, Paul.
Singing lessons can wait.
They turn up the path to their home. Paul hesitates a
moment letting Roland go up the steps ahead of him.
Furious, he opens his mouth to speak, but loses his
nerve...
Music is heard - Pavarotti singing “Che Gelida Manina”
from La Boeme.
CUT TO:
AN LP COVER; PAVAROTTI IN FULL CLOWN (CANIO FROM
PAGLIACCI)
INT. PAUL’S BEDROOM - NIGHT
TRACK ACROSS walls plastered with posters and downloaded
print-outs of images from the opera world: The Three
Tenors; Caruso; a program from La Traviata in Rome; and
finally a virtual shrine to Pavarotti, his great hero...
ENDING ON:
Pointed skyward, quivering slightly in anticipation...
Then slicing and waving through the air as Paul angrily
“conducts” the music as the refrain kicks in.
Gradually, Paul is enveloped and the thrashing needles
slow and subside and finally slip to the ground as,
panting, he stops the record, revealing a muffled BANGING
coming from downstairs.
11.
INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT
As Paul makes his way down the stairs and into the kitchen
where Roland is already at the table.
ROLAND:
Always with the bloody violins. Won’t
shed a tear when they’ve packed and gone.
YVONNE:
(serving dinner)
What do you mean gone? Paul, are you
going somewhere.
PAUL:
Venice.
ROLAND:
Oh no, this singing rubbish has gone on
long enough. He’s got a job, he can get
his own flat.
YVONNE:
Pish-posh.
(to Paul)
Stay forever darling. Here you are.
As she places an enormous plate in front of Paul.
ROLAND:
Christ, Yvonne, He can hardly fit through
the door as it is.
PAUL:
(to Roland)
Look, I get it. I’m never going to be a
professional singer. I just... It’s the
only thing that makes me-- Let me go to
Venice and I’ll move out when I get back.
Yvonne looks at Roland, eyes pleading Paul’s case.
CUT TO:
INT. STIARWELL - DAY
As Paul, gasping and sweating and carrying two moving
boxes, climbs several flights up the increasingly narrow
staircase until he reaches the top floor and the door to-
12.
INT. A TINY STUDIO APARTMENT - DAY
Where he drops the boxes alongside several others. The
room is partially unpacked with his pictures of Pavarotti
and Toscanini already hung with prominence, and his
computer has been set up atop a “desk” made from several
other boxes.
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