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5.
The Queen’s emissary puts a cigarette between his lips and is
about to light it when he remembers that smoking is not
permitted. He stammers out one last, lame attempt.
FIFTY-YEAR OLD EMISSARY
If I may, Maestro, the Queen might
take your refusal rather poorly,
she’s not used to being told no.
Fred Ballinger, who is reading the paper, interrupts ex
abrupto rubbing the candy wrapper.
FRED BALLINGER:
I’m sure she will come to terms
with it. There are far more
important things in life than my
Simple Songs.
The emissary is disconsolate.
FIFTY-YEAR OLD EMISSARY
conversation to the Queen. Good
day, Maestro.
The emissary takes his leave. His two assistants follow him.
When they get up, we see that there is a man sitting behind
them, who looks as if he has overheard the whole
conversation.
His name is Jimmy Tree. He’s thirty-four years old,
Californian, drop dead handsome, a Hollywood star. Though
it’s still early, he’s eating a steak and French fries.
Hiding behind sunglasses and a few days' razor stubble,
wearing an unflattering baseball cap and sloppy clothes, he
looks undone.
The three Englishmen are circumnavigating the pool on their
way out of the garden, when someone suddenly catches the
emissary’s attention.
This someone is floating in the pool: a man about fifty, only
his face above water. A puffy, South American face, hair dyed
a surreal yellow, full lips, tired features, dark,
intelligent eyes, and furrows far too deep for a man his age.
The emissary gazes at the South American and whispers to one
of his assistants.
FIFTY-YEAR OLD EMISSARY (CONT’D)
Do you see that man? Could it
really be him?
His two assistants turn to look at the man in the pool, and
recognize him immediately. They get all excited.
6.
FIRST ASSISTANT:
Why yes, it is!
SECOND ASSISTANT
Good god, it really is him.
The three Englishmen keep walking, but they can’t keep from
glancing furtively at the South American who, with the help
of a woman in her forties and three lifeguards, whom he leans
on like a dead weight, is getting out of the pool. He
struggles up the low stairs, which to him seem
insurmountable.
As he slowly emerges from the water, we see how
extraordinarily obese he is, and how much trouble he has
walking. Panting, this cumbersome yet charismatic creature
settles himself at the edge of the pool. His arms are
swarming with tattoos: faces of famous heroes from famous
revolutions.
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