Raising Arizona Page #4
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1987
- 94 min
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HI:
You bet I do.
REVERSE:
Over their shoulders, the minister.
MINISTER:
Okay then.
FLASH:
On the newlyweds smiling at the camera.
FLASH:
On the newlyweds smiling at each other, profile to the camera.
In the middle of a vast expanse of desert.
VOICE OVER:
Ed's pa staked us to a starter home
in suburban Tempe...
INT. MACHINE SHOP
Hi is working the drill press, wearing goggles and sweat-
stained overalls.
VOICE OVER:
...and I got a job drilling holes in
sheet metal.
Next to him idly stands Bud, a veteran of the shop, with a
grimy face and a pair of goggles pushed up on his forehead.
BUD:
So we was doin' paramedical work in
affiliation with the state highway
system-not actually practicin',
y'understand - and me and Bill's
patrollin' down Nine Mile -
HI:
Bill Roberts?
BUD:
(barking)
No, not that motherscratcher! Bill
Parker! Anyway, we're approachin'
the wreck, and there's a spherical
object arestin' on the highway...
He pauses to blow and pop a bubble with his chewing gum.
BUD:
...And it don't look like a piece a
the car.
VOICE OVER:
Mostways the job was a lot like
prison, except Ed was waitin' at the
end of every day...
CASHIER'S WINDOW
Hi is scowling at his paycheck. Behind the barred window a
fat cashier grins.
VOICE OVER:
...and a paycheck at the end of every
week.
CASHIER:
Gummint do take a bite, don't she?
EXT. TRAILER
Hi sits in a lawn chair in front of the trailer. Ed sits on
his lap, his arms around her. Both are wearing sunglasses,
looking at the setting sun. The scene is suffused with a
warm yellow light.
VOICE OVER:
These were the happy days, the salad
days as they say...
As the sun sets, the light is turning from yellow to amber.
Hi and Ed watch, their heads following its slow downward
arc.
VOICE OVER:
...and Ed felt that having a critter
was the next logical step. It was
all she thought about.
The amber is turning to a more neutral dusky light as the
sun has set. Hi and Ed continue to stare at the point where
it disappeared.
VOICE OVER:
...Her point was that there was too
much love and beauty for just the
two of us...
The dusk is slipping away into darkness.
VOICE OVER:
...and every day we kept a child out
of the world was a day he might later
regret having missed.
We are by now holding on pitch black. Crickets chirp. From
the darkness:
ED:
That was beautiful.
A CALENDAR:
Ed is crossing off the last day on the calendar before a day
circled in red.
VOICE OVER:
So we worked at it on the days we
calculated most likely to be
fruitful...
INT. TRAILER
Hi is wearily entering after a long day at work, clutching
his lunchpail.
VOICE OVER:
...and we worked at it most other
days just to be sure.
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