The Butler Page #4
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EXT. ALLEY WAY - LATE AFTERNOON - 1933
On a break, Cecil and Maynard sit on the kitchen stoop. Both
smoking. It’s raining.
MAYNARD:
(to workers)
Don’t forget to save me chitlins.
CECIL:
Why do you like chitlins so much?
MAYNARD:
It’s good eating.
(To Cecil)
The manager of the Excelsior in DC,
he came by yesterday. He offered me
a job as a butler.
Both are quiet. Cecil looks up sadly.
CECIL:
They must be paying you top dollar,
huh boss?
MAYNARD:
Yeah... I was thinking about taking
it... But I dunno, I’m too old to
be leaving North Carolina. I’m just
fine right here. I told them to
hire you.
Surprised, Cecil looks up at Maynard.
CECIL:
I’m just now finding my way ‘round
this hotel. I’m not ready for those
high falootin’ white people with
Maynard laughs.
MAYNARD:
Cecil, we got two faces. Ours, and
the one we got to show the white
folks. Now to get up in the world,
we have to make them feel
nonthreatened. Go on and use all
them fancy words that I taught you.
White folks up north love them some
uppity coloreds.
Cecil ponders all of this. Smiles. He’s grown fond of this
old man.
10.
EXT. WASHINGTON, DC SKYLINE - NIGHT
SEQUENCE:
ESTABLISHING SHOTS of 1950’s Washington DC endingon the gorgeous Excelsior Hotel.
CECIL V.O.
When I took that job up in
Washington, DC it was the most
beautiful hotel I had ever seen.
INT. EXCELSIOR HOTEL - LOBBY - NIGHT - 1954
A WEALTHY COUPLE, 50’s, white, he in top hat, she in mink,
walk into the stunning lobby. Waiting to greet them is:
Cecil Gaines, now 36. Wearing a black vest and bow tie, he
looks like a different person - filled out, handsome, exudes
class and refinement.
Holding a silver tray with a tumbler of scotch and a glass of
champagne, he gives the wealthy couple an elegant head bow.
CECIL:
I hope I wasn’t too presumptuous to
have prepared a few spirits after
your long journey in from Buffalo.
INT. EXCELSIOR HOTEL - STUDY - NIGHT - 1954
Older men in three piece suits are crammed in the hotel’s
study smoking cigars, drinking bourbon. An elegant 36 yearold
Cecil walks in with a tray of martinis.
A LOUD PATRON talking politics sits across from a man with a
CREW CUT, Cecil’s age, he holds a cigar. The Crew Cut Man
searches his pockets for matches.
LOUD PATRON:
Best decision that court ever made
was to slow this whole mess down.
N*gger boys in school with white
girls?! Who ever heard of such a
thing? Next thing you know they’d
be fornicatin’. Gentlemen, this
could start another Civil War.
He sets his scotch down close to the table’s edge. Cecil
glances at it, noting how full the other glasses are.
11.
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