Almost Famous Page #2
ELAINE:
That was an experiment. But I
understand -
ANITA:
What else are you going to ban?
ELAINE:
Honey, you want to rebel against
knowledge.
ELAINE (cont'd)
I'm trying to give you the Cliff's
Notes on how to live in this world.
ANITA:
(simple and direct)
We're like nobody else I know.
These are the words that sting Mom most.
ELAINE:
I'm a teacher. Why can't I teach my
own kids?
(pats chest)
Use me.
ANITA:
Darryl says you use knowledge to keep
me down. He says I'm a "yes" person
and you're trying to raise us in a
"no" environment!
ELAINE:
(immediately, can't help
it)
Well, clearly, "no" is a word Darryl
doesn't hear much.
Anita gasps. Ever the peacemaker, William weighs in. Nearby
is a poster - "No More War."
WILLIAM:
Mom --
ELAINE:
Everything I say is wrong.
ANITA:
I can't live here! I hate you! Even
William hates you!
WILLIAM:
I don't hate her.
ANITA:
(to William)
You don't even know the truth!
William looks vaguely confused.
ELAINE:
Sweetheart, don't be a drama queen.
Anita takes a breath and then out of her mouth comes the
strangled-sounding words of a kid swearing at her parent for
the first time.
ANITA:
Feck you! All of you!
ELAINE:
Hey!
Anita runs down the hall to her room. Elaine turns to William,
relating to him more as a fellow parent than a child.
ELAINE (cont'd)
Well, there it is. Your sister using
the "f" word.
WILLIAM:
I think she said "feck."
ELAINE:
(sputtering)
What's the difference?
WILLIAM:
(encouraging)
Well. The letter "u"...
Shot moves in on the kid, as we hear the opening strains of
The Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin."
7INT. SCHOOL DANCE/GYMNASIUM BATHROOM -- NIGHT7
Music continues. Shot moves along a row of very mature-looking
male teenagers, examining themselves in the bathroom mirror.
There's the kid with a very mature-looking moustache, the kid
proudly sporting full-blown hormonal acne (he slaps on some
Hai Karate), the guy to whom puberty has already delivered the
face of an adult, complete with long jutting sideburns... and
then a blank space at the mirror, as the shot moves down, down,
down to find William. He is so much younger, without a zit in
sight. Puberty is so very distant on his horizon.
8INT. DANCE -- NIGHT -- UNDER-CRANKED 8
Song continues as we see William's perspective of these much-
older looking kids. Girls now are visible, and they are even
more mature than the boys we've just seen. They flirt and
glow, arms trailing across the shoulders of the boys.
Whispering in each other's ears, none of them looking down.
It's a troubling experience, to be this close to the alluring
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