Contempt Page #2

Synopsis: Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. But because he let his wife Camille drive with Prokosch and he is late, she believes, he uses her as a sort of present for Prokosch to get get a better payment. So the relationship ends.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard
Production: Rialto Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NOT RATED
Year:
1963
102 min
$39,199
2,597 Views


More amusing...

Ajoke.

Which one?

Sure, the one about Rama Krishna and his disciple.

Rama Krishna is a Hindu sage.

He has this disciple

who doesn't believe in his master's teachings.

He decides to study on his own.

So he goes away.

After 1 5 years, he comes back and says: "I've found it!"

Found what?

He tells the sage: "I'll show you."

He takes him to the riverbank.

The disciple walks back and forth across the water.

And he says:
"You see? I can cross without getting wet.

Now I know!"

So Rama Krishna replies:

"You fool! I did that 1 0 years ago with a rupee and a rowboat!"

Feel better now?

That's good.

What?

Call that washing your hands?

As you can see.

I was just telling her the joke...

I believe you already.

You're being an idiot.

Where can I pee?

Tell them we're leaving.

It's my husband who decides.

Like in the United Artists days.

He's crazy!

See that? He kicked her!

You change your mind fast. Monday you thought he was terrific.

Now I think he's a jerk.

I have a right to change my mind.

What happened in the past hour?

Nothing.

If you're happy, so am I.

Rio Bravo is playing in town.

So is Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life.

I'm not interested.

- I wrote it. - I know.

I phoned your mom's at lunchtime. There was no answer.

We ate here. I didn't feel like going out.

I prefer it here.

It's better than a hotel.

See? I was right.

What are they paying for the script?

$1 0,000. Six million lire.

We can finish paying off the flat. Isn't that great?

Yes, it's great.

When will you call your friend about the curtains?

I've about had it!

Once he's back from Spain.

Roberto said he'd be back Friday.

Red velvet. It's that or nothing.

Okay.

Set the table while I take a bath?

I wanted to take a bath, too.

You go first. I can do some work.

No, I'll go later, while it's cooking.

Is there any faggiolini left?

Don't like it? That's tough.

I can set the table.

I was just doing it.

I bought something today.

You'll tell me what you think.

What thing?

What thing?

Don't look yet.

You want to go to Capri?

What?

You want us to go to Capri?

I won't say no, but I won't say yes either.

It would be a vacation.

Besides, he didn't invite me.

What?

He invited you.

Not me.

Where'd we put the mirror?

Not at all. We were both invited.

Look.

Doesn't it suit me?

No, I prefer you as a blonde.

And I prefer you without a hat and cigar.

It's just to look like Dean Martin in Some Came Running.

- What a laugh! - What is?

You may want to look like Dean Martin,

but it's more like Martin's Ass.

Who's that?

Never read the adventures of Martin's Ass?

One day he goes to Baghdad to buy a flying carpet.

He finds this really pretty one,

Rate this script:4.8 / 4 votes

Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia (Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto moˈraːvja]; November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il Conformista (The Conformist), the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon or Contempt), filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris (Contempt 1963); La Noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio de Sica as Two Women (1960). Cedric Kahn's L'Ennui (1998) is another version of La Noia. Moravia once remarked that the most important facts of his life had been his illness, a tubercular infection of the bones that confined him to a bed for five years and Fascism, because they both caused him to suffer and do things he otherwise would not have done. "It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will." Moravia was an atheist. His writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie. It was rooted in the tradition of nineteenth-century narrative, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, "assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude" but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs". Between 1959 and 1962 Moravia was president of PEN International, the worldwide association of writers. more…

All Alberto Moravia scripts | Alberto Moravia Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "Contempt" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 23 Apr. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/contempt_5893>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.