The Sting Page #4
- PG
- Year:
- 1973
- 129 min
- 2,022 Views
MOTTOLA:
I just made the world's easiest
five grand.
He takes the bundle out from inside his pants in order to
gaze upon his new-found fortune. He unties the handkerchief.
It's full of toilet paper. Mottola looks like he's just
been shot.
CUT TO:
EXT. ALLEY - DAY - THE STRANGER AND BLACK MAN
hightailing it down the street, two newly solvent con
artists on the lam. It's hard to run they're laughing so
hard. The stranger chucks his suitcase in a trash can and
pulls the real handkerchief out of his pants.
BLACK MAN:
Jesus, what a bundle. Did you know
he was that loaded?
STRANGER:
Hell no, I just cut into him. I
woulda settled for pawning one of
them shoes.
As they split off, music begins, and we go into a
TITLES SEQUENCE:
Done to a driving Chicago blues, the sequence is designed to
establish somewhat the milieu of the stranger, known to
friends and enemies alike as Hooker. We see the following:
EXT. PAWNSHOP - LOOKING INSIDE - DAY
Hooker is getting a radio and well-worn suit out of hook.
It's like seeing old friends again. All pantomime.
INT. HOOKER'S ROOM - DAY
A shabby little place he rents above a cigar store. We pick
him up in a jerry-built outdoor shower, which he's rigged up
on the fire escape. The rinse water drips down through the
landing into the grimy alley below.
HOOKER:
(singing)
'With plenty of money and you-oo-
oo,
Oh baby, what I wouldn't do-oo-
oo...'
jauntily carrying a magnum of champagne and some flowers,
obviously on his way to see someone special.
IN A BURLESQUE HOUSE
Hooker stands in the wings holding the flowers and champagne,
watching his date for the evening, a 6'3" stripper named
Crystal, do her routine.
Crystal finishes up and comes off the stage.
CRYSTAL:
(tired)
Hi, Hooker, you gettin' married or
somethin'?
HOOKER:
Come into a little dough. You
wanna get outa here tonight?
CRYSTAL:
Can't. I got a 10 o'clock show. I
need the five bucks.
HOOKER:
Crystal looks at him a second and starts to giggle. We're
pretty sure she's gonna get outa here tonight.
COMING INTO A POOR MAN'S GAMBLING JOINT
Little more than a reconverted brick basement, the place
contains three shoddy, homemade roulette tables. Hooker,
accompanied now by Crystal, nods a greeting to the doorman
and proceeds to a table where there are already several
other people laying their bets for the next spin. Hooker
knows the wheel man, an old-timer named Jimmy.
JIMMY:
(glad to see him)
Hooker!
HOOKER:
How ya doin', Jimmy.
JIMMY:
(collecting bets and
paying off the winners)
Ain't seen you in months, boy.
Thought maybe you took a fall.
HOOKER:
Naw, just a little hard times,
that's all. It's all over now.
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