The Day the Clown Cried Page #6

HELMUT:

(continuing)

And that goes for you too ... Mine Fuhrer ...

He shoves his right arm up and out at the photograph of

"Hitler".

HELMUT:

(continuing)

... you, too, are a fool. You allow yourself

to think you have "loyal" followers ...

Ha! Wait until they've had it with you ...

You'll get yours ... all the smiling, bowing,

heel clicking idiots will shaft you too.

And you will deserve it because if

you allow people like Herr Schmidt

to got about his business of lying,

and cheating, and being disloyal,

one day all the Schmidts in Germany

will turn on you and you will finish

as the dumb little corporal you started as,

and never know what hit you ...

During the above dialogue, two S.S. men along with two

Gestapo men walk into the bar and sit at a table unseen by

Helmut, and as they sit, Helmut continues:

HELMUT:

He really has to be stupid --

(indicating Hitler)

I could help him by telling him

about the people he thinks are

good Germans ... Ha!

The two S.S. men and the two Gestapo ment just happened to

stop in the pub, they can't really believe what they are

hearing, and the two S.S. men make a move to get up and

secure Helmut. The head Gestapo man nods to them to stay

seated and wait and listen. Helmut continues his rave and

gets more violent as he goes on. Clause, the bartender,

would love to tell him the Germans are there, but chooses to

go about his business.

Helmut is really getting the effects of the booze now and is

bordering on flipping his lid, completely.

(He does the stagger routine trying to get to the table on

the other side of the bar furthest away from where the S.S.

men and Gestapo men are sitting) ... We play this for visual

humor, but at the same time showing just how swacked he

is!!! Helmut finally reaches the table he has been trying

desperately to get to and falls into it, exhausted and

emotionally drained. He looks around at the few people who

have been watching him, most of which are frightened at what

he has said, trying vainly to stay out of it. Helmut

catches the eyes of the four men (S.S. and Gestapo) just

looking at him.

HELMUT:

(continuing; angrily)

What are you staring at? Didn't

you ever see a man drink before?

The four men just stare at him with no answer.

HELMUT:

(continuing)

What's the matter? Haven't you

guys got a sense of humor?

You must have! Look how you're

dressed! Grown men in their

little soldier suits ... And the black

coats and gloves ... Like in a movie ...

Helmut gets up and walks over to their table ... mumbling,

and staggering as he goes ...

HELMUT:

(continuing)

Real cloak and dagger stuff ...

Didn't you Gestapo guys ever know

that everybody can spot you a mile away?

(leaning over and whispering)

Listen, if you really wanted to be unnoticed ...

You should dress like plain people, then

nobody would know you ... You might even

wear straw hats and shorts ...

(he hears this and gets hysterical laughing)

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