The Day the Clown Cried Page #4
- Year:
- 1972
- 90 min
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Helmut hears it all and it sounds so good and right.
HELMUT:
I will go now and see Schmidt ...
I will tell him I won't take any
more degradation ... I will tell him
I am a "clown" not a stooge ...
A "clown" ... A special person ...
Ada happily gets his hat.
ADA:
(placing the hat on his head)
Go, my love ... Go and fight for what
you know is right ... I will warm your dinner
and wait for you to come home.
She kisses him, opens the door for him and he goes.
DISSOLVE TO:
The low key light and the silence of the circus is almost
ominous and a little frightening for Helmut as he walks
across the empty arena ... with a small light burning from
up high. All the equipment is tied off. Slight ANIMAL
SOUNDS in the deep background ... and the faintest SOUND of
circus music is heard. Helmut is now center of the main
ring and stops and looks around.
CLOSE SHOT - HELMUT
His face tense, then eases as he looks around.
HIS POV:
The stands are full, the lights come up, and the
audience is standing, applauding thunderously!
MED. CLOSE - HELMUT
In his clown outfit bowing and acknowledging the ovation.
as they stop applauding and sit down.
WIDE SHOT:
Helmut -- the chair and the trombone --
THE TROMBONE PANTOMIME
As the completion of the "Trombone Pantomime" Helmut walks
away from the position he was in with the trombone and bows
and milks the crowd for reactions and as he bows the second
time ... WE SHIMMER:
BACK TO:
CLOSE - HELMUT
In bowing position as he looks at the crowd.
CLOSE - HELMUT
His face shows signs of utter despair and dejection ... the
dream is gone and the memory of what was really hurts deep
down. He looks around making sure he hasn't been noticed by
anyone and takes that deep sigh and strolls towards the back
of the circus tent area on his way to find Schmidt.
WIDE ANGLE:
TRUCK WITH HIM, HOLDING the many empty seats in the b.g. as
he walks ... trying to muster up the courage he's going to
have to call ... something that has now become totally
foreign to him.
We see Helmut as the tiny figure he feels like, walking out
of the tent area and into the backstage section.
CUT TO:
Helmut enters the section of the circus where Schmidt has
his "Temp" office quarters. It is a tent-like arrangement
with the canvas flap as his door and we see light streaming
from the half open canvas flap.
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