The Ice Storm Page #3
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- Year:
- 1997
- 112 min
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PAUL:
(stoned)
-- because I've been reading
Kerouac and Ginsberg and those guys
were creating beat culture and
traveling and sleeping wherever,
and, of course, with all kinds of
people, but when you read carefully
the various contemporary accounts
of their lives, and, uh, these guys
didn't bathe much, I mean they were
really filthy, with like genital
crabs, lice, exceptionally strong
body odor...
Libbets smiles through her yawn.
EXT. SCHOOL BENCH. NIGHT
Paul sits alone on the bench, freezing cold, eating a donut.
Some kids from across the lawn yell good-night to him.
INT. DORM ROOM. EVENING.
Paul is at his desk. Francis enters, wrapped in a towel,
fresh from the shower.
PAUL:
How can you do that man?
FRANCIS:
Do what?
PAUL:
Sleep all day. I mean, look, it's
already getting dark outside, and
you're just getting up.
FRANCIS:
(beat)
Um, Libbets Casey.
PAUL:
What?
FRANCIS:
PAUL:
What do you mean?
FRANCIS:
Am I right or am I right?
PAUL:
Sh*t. You're not planning --
FRANCIS:
My man, I speak to you solely as a
comrade in arms offering
unconditional aid. I've been giving
this one a lot of thought, and I
believe that the two of you
together might just reach that
higher ground that --
A knock at the door.
STUDENT (O.S.)
Hood, telephone.
Paul rolls off his bed, opens the door.
PAUL:
Don't mess with Libbets. I mean it!
INT. DORM HALLWAY. NIGHT
Paul walks to the pay phone at the end of the hall.
PAUL:
Hello?
INTERCUT - HOOD HOUSEHOLD. NIGHT
It's a modern (shag carpet, geometric-patterned wallpaper,
etc.) suburban house.
Ben Hood talks on the phone, a drink in his hand.
BEN:
Paul?
In the background, we can see Wendy watching Richard Nixon on
TV.
PAUL:
Hi dad.
BEN:
Hey guy. Things ok up there? You
all right?
PAUL:
I'm fine dad.
BEN:
Well good. Just confirming. You'll
be on the 3:
50 Wednesday afternoon.PAUL:
Well dad, actually I thought I'd
Thanksgiving -- got a lot of
studying, papers, you know, lab
experiments --
BEN:
Lab experiments? Right smart guy --
Paul, you know your mother's gonna
be disappointed not to see more of
you -- In fact, let me make this
more than a simple request guy, I
think you should...
IN THE BACKGROUND:
NIXON:
(on TV, from San Clemente
press conference)
Well, with regard to the questions
as to why Americans feel we were
wrong to make the tapes, that is
not particularly surprising. I
think that most Americans do not
like the idea of taping
conversations and, frankly, it is
not something that particularly
appeals to me...
BEN:
Hold on for a second.
(turning)
Wendy, you want-to say hi to your
brother?
She frowns.
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