While We're Young Page #5

JAMIE:

(shrugs)

I’m a fan. And hey, I really lovedyour film, Power Elite.

JOSH:

(taken aback, can’t hidehis pleasure)

You’ve seen it? Hey...thanks.

JAMIE:

It’s everything I aspire to and youmake it look so easy.

JOSH:

Do you make documentaries?

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JAMIE:

I shoot stuff, you know, withfriends, yeah. Nothing like you’redoing.

DARBY:

He’s always shooting.

JOSH:

Um, don’t take this the wrong way,

but how did you see Power Elite?

JAMIE:

I found a VHS on Ebay. I paid likesixty dollars for it. You know what

was great, was that scene with thedogs around the garbage? How did youstage that?

JOSH:

Oh...those dogs were just there and Isaid, “Hey shoot those dogs.”

(not a great story)

And...we did.

JAMIE:

(claps his hands together)

Beautiful.

JOSH:

I’ve been working on this other onefor...about eight years now but Ithink I’m zeroing in on it.

JAMIE:

I’d love to see it.

DARBY:

When I was a child my dog was killedin front of me by two rottweilers.

(she starts to laugh)

I don’t know why I’m laughing. It’s

not funny. I was five. My dad and Iwere walking our poodle which I hadnamed Toto and these two rottweilers

came bounding out of an open gate andjust attacked. My dad flagged down apassing car and we climbed in theback and he covered my eyes so Icouldn’t see Toto get mauled.

She covers her face, she’s still laughing.

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JOSH:

(hesitates)

I’m sorry to hear that.

JAMIE:

You want to come get a bite with us?

JOSH:

Oh...I’m meeting my...wife around thecorner at this Chinese place.

JAMIE:

Hey, my wife and I are going to thesame goddamn place!

6 INT. CHINESE RESTAURANT. EVENING 6

Josh and Cornelia sit next to each other. Josh is in the

middle of talking to Jamie and Darby who face them across thetable.

JOSH:

...I’ve learned along the way thatyou can discover more by not knowingthe answers, by allowing yourself tobe surprised by what you encounter.

Jamie nods with great interest.

JAMIE:

Yeah, yeah.

JOSH:

Sometimes that means waiting yearsfor something to happen. I don’t

know. I could go on about this stufffor days.

JAMIE:

How did you start out, like whoinfluenced you?

JOSH:

Oh, I steal from everyone, you know,

Maysles, Wiseman, Pennebaker... Myfirst job out of graduate school wasworking for Leslie Breitbart.

JAMIE:

(impressed)

Jeez Louise.

15.

JOSH:

That’s also incidentally how I metCornelia. He’s her dad.

JAMIE:

What?!

CORNELIA:

This is before they hated each other.

JOSH:

We don’t hate each other. Cornelia

produces her dad’s films.

JAMIE:

He’s amazing.

CORNELIA:

Yeah, he’s kind of annoying me rightnow, but...yeah.

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