Denial Page #2

12 INT & EXT. ENTRANCE & AUDITORIUM. DAY 12

The legs of the THREE MEN as they come into the building,

then along a polished corridor to the auditorium. One of them

is carrying the big black case. The THIRD has shopping bags.

They turn into the hall. DEBORAH is at the front giving an

interview to STUDENT JOURNALISTS.

DEBORAH:

One thing I’ve noticed about these

events you always sell 37 books.

Regardless of the size of the

audience. 500 people, 37 books. 50

people, 37 books. I’ve started to

wonder if it’s all fixed.

The students are laughing at her jokes. She is in her element

and doesn’t notice as one of the MEN opens the case, takes

out a tripod, and sets it up close to a column. Meanwhile, at

the back, the third MAN’S hand, unidentified, picks up

DENYING THE HOLOCAUST. More STUDENTS file in. DEBORAH sits,

waiting. GLORIA stands to introduce her.

13 INT. CORRIDOR. DAY 13

Back outside the hall, the third MAN’S fingers opening the

book, finding the index. Running a finger down until coming

upon ‘Irving, David, 8, 14, 111, 161-163, 170’.

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14 INT. AUDITORIUM. DAY 14

The last object from the box - a video camera is taken out by

a hand from the box, and put on top of the tripod.

15 INT. CORRIDOR. DAY 15

The MAN’S fingers are rifling through the book to check the

references as from inside the hall he hears:

GLORIA (V.O.)

Everyone, it’s my pleasure to

introduce the holder of the Dorot

Chair in Jewish and Holocaust

studies at Emory University, and

author of Denying the Holocaust:

the Growing Assault on Truth and

Memory, Deborah Lipstadt.

The sound of applause. It’s DAVID IRVING outside.

16 INT. AUDITORIUM. DAY 16

DEBORAH is at the microphone, well into her speech.

DEBORAH:

We have to accept there’ll be many

reasons why people may be deniers.

When you look closely, they often

have some agenda which they don’t

own up to. In any field, denial may

just be a pick to undo the lock and

open the door to something else.

A girl MEG, 18, in the audience puts up her hand.

DEBORAH (CONT’D)

Yes?

MEG:

Somebody told me you don’t debate

with people who say the Holocaust

didn’t happen.

DEBORAH:

I don’t, it’s true. Like I don’t

talk to people who say Elvis is

alive.

There is laughter. The SECOND MAN deep in the audience looks

across to the FIRST MAN who is working the camera.

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