While We're Young Page #4

Tim looks at him, totally skeptical.

JOSH:

When the rest of the grant moneycomes in, we’ll reshoot me asking thequestions along with the trip toIstanbul.

TIM:

Hey, Josh, I hate to bring this up,

but I’m gonna need a little money

soon.

JOSH:

No, I know, you’ve been patient. I’m

just waiting for the rest of thislast grant money.

TIM:

But soon?

JOSH:

Yeah, I’ll get you.

Goes into his wallet.

JOSH:

You need anything now?

He hands Tim a couple of twenties.

JOSH:

You know, get Maggie some flowers

or...

TIM:

I’m going to use it to buy food.

JOSH:

Oh, yeah, yeah...good idea.

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5 INT. NEW SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. LATE DAY 5

A room with about fifty chairs, about seven of them occupiedby people over 50. Josh stands at a lectern with a lap top.

A blank TV screen behind him.

JOSH:

“Le documentaire, c'est ce qui arrive

aux autres, la fiction, c'est ce qui

m'arrive . moi.” “Documentary is

about someone else. Fiction is about

me.”

(glances out at the smallcrowd, having made itthrough the French part)

This is a quote from Jean-Luc Godard.

Now, what do we think about this?

Can a documentary be personal?

Documentaries, I want to say to youtoday, can and should be about me.

Josh hesitates. A guy in the audience wearing a porkpie hatis filming him with a portable camera. Josh is momentarilydistracted.

JOSH:

Me meaning all of us.

(to the room)

Lights.

(pause)

Frank, can you just hit that switch?

An elderly gentleman obliges. Josh hits a button on his laptop.

JOSH:

This is an image from -

Nothing happens on the screen behind him. Josh presses thebutton again. Nothing.

JOSH:

Well...sh*t...this should be an image

of seal hunting from “Nanook of The

North.”

CUT TO:
Josh collects his things from a chair at the foot ofthe stage. A squat woman, 50’s, who runs the lecture series,

shrugs and smiles tightly at him.

SQUAT WOMANSorry.

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JOSH:

(suddenly paranoid)

About what?

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The guy, 25, who was shooting Josh, comes forward. He wears

his mussed hair under his porkpie hat, an old plaid shirthanging out over slacks, and beat up boots. This is Jamie.

JAMIE:

Hey. Beautiful class.

JOSH:

Oh...thanks. I don’t know why thepower point didn’t work, but...

JAMIE:

I loved what you said about “hyperreality.”

I’m Jamie.

JOSH JAMIE:

Josh Srebnick. This is my wife, Darby.

A girl, 23, in a high waisted dress and lace up boots comesforward.

DARBY:

Hi. Nice to meet you. It was

interesting.

JOSH:

Thanks. I’m not sure why the powerpoint didn’t work... How did you getin here?

JAMIE:

We’re auditing your class.

JOSH:

It’s a continuing education class,

you can’t audit a continuingeducation class.

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