American Hustle Page #3

INT. PLAZA HOTEL SUITE FOYER - CONTINUOUS

Irving continues to pace back and forth in the hall waiting

for the elevator.

8.

IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.)

Did you ever have to find a way tosurvive and you knew your choiceswere bad?

Irving walks over and hits the elevator button again.

IRVING ROSENFELD

I learned how to survive when I was

a kid.

7 CUT TO:
7

IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.) (CONT’D)

My father had a glass business.

28 IRV AS KID SMASHES PLATE GLASS WINDOWS OF BRONX STOREFRONTS 28

Drumming up business for his father.

EXT. ROSENFELD & SON GLASS REPAIR CO. - DAY 1940’S

Young Irving and his Father and Mother standing outside thefamily's glass repair shop in the Bronx as some toughcontractors march up to them.

IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.)

I would rather be on the takingside than the getting taken sideany day of the week, especiallyafter I saw how my father gottaken. I mean, seeing that scarredme for life.

EXT. UNDISCLOSED STREET - DAY 1940’S

Young Irving runs by a store front as he throws a rockthrough each window on the store, smashing them all.

IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.) (CONT’D)

I took it upon myself to drum upbusiness. I became a different kind

of guy than my father. I became acon artist -- from the feet up, forreal.

CUT TO:

THE BRONX:
STOREFRONT WITH SMASHED WINDOW. - DAY - PRESENT

Irv shakes his head, surveys the damage.

9.

IRVING ROSENFELD

I was gonna survive no matter what.

I still had the glass business and

a few dry cleaning stores on the

side.

7G INT. IRV’S DINGY OFFICE - DAY 7G

Irving paces around his office smoking a cigar and talking on

the phone. What looks to be stolen art sits on the floor all

around him.

IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.)

And I did some art dealing on the

side. Stolen or forged art.

EXT./INT. POOL PARTY - LONG ISLAND HOUSE - DAY

Chicago’s “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” fades

up. Jamming early 70s HOLIDAY party -- LONG ISLAND LADIES IN

BIKINIS WITH HUGE HAIR IN FUR COATS SMOKING OUTSIDE THE GLASS

ENCLOSED POOL -while inside steamed glass SHINY BIKINI

CANDIDATES FOR NOSE JOBS; A FEW OTHERS WHO ARE LARGE, SEVERAL

GUYS WHO LOOK MOBBED UP, pale, out of shape, gold chains, in

swim trunks, EVEN MORE BURT REYNOLDS TYPE GUYS, slim, hairy,

chains.

IRVING ROSENFELD (V.O.)

So, one January I go to my friends

pool party in Long Island.

Irving sits holding court with some friends by the pool when

he turns and sees Sydney for the first time.

PUSH IN ON:
Irving. He looks up, they lock eyes across the

party.

SYD REACHES FOR A SLICE OF FRUIT ON HIGH SET PLATE WHEN

IRVING’S HAND GRABS HER ARM -- she turns, taken aback

IRVING ROSENFELD

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