The bullets over Broadway

Tyreek 2022-01-07 15:54:20

Interior view·Day view·Helen Sinclair’s house


* Helen: "My ex-husband used to say: Even if you go downhill, you have to go with the top people."
* West Germany: "Which ex-husband?"
* Helen: "Oh, I I can't remember. The bearded man."



* "I never play sloppy and virgins."



* West Germany: "Let me tell you that in the last few years, your reputation is more of a slut and a drunkard. ...I don’t mean to be disrespectful when I say this.”
* Helen: “I haven’t had a drop of wine since New Year’s Eve.”
* West Germany: “You mean Chinese New Year’s Eve, right?”
* Helen: “Of course. . It’s also two days, West Germany, do you know how long this is for me?"


Location · day scene · on a park bench
(Helen Sinclair and David sit side by side)


* Helen: "This is the park My favorite corner of it. In winter, when the park is covered with snow, at about 4:30 in the afternoon, the day turns dark. When the street lights first turn on, everything is foggy, and then you can see the outline of the Manhattan skyline. , Greeted my eyes through the bushes...like magic, magic."
* David: "Helen, I think I am in love with you."
* Helen: "No."
* David: "I don't know I can Do you restrain yourself."
* Helen: "David, please, we have to be strong."
* David: "I have suppressed my feelings for you for a long time, but I still want to say a lot to you."
* Helen: "Oh, words. What are words."
* David: "Oh, my god."
* Helen: "Davy, things that are truly meaningful are hard to explain. They, they are more primitive than words."
* David: "I'm not sure I did not understand."
* Helen: "Oh, be silent. Be silent. Let's just sit here and leave our thoughts to ourselves. Don't divulge them. Be silent. Keep the singing. To the birds, keep your heart in your heart."
* David: "You are amazing."

Interior · Night Scene · Helen Sinclair

(Helen finished reading David's revised script)


* Helen: "This dialogue! Better than Eugene O’Neal! Maxwell Anderson will never compare to you!"
* David: "So you like it?"
* Helen: "It's full of passion! It's full of life!"
* David : "I hope it sublimates the whole story."
* Helen: "How much improvement is this compared to the first draft! At that time you haven't found yourself. Ideas are already there, but they are not yet formed. You need them to come." Summon you, now they are here. This is no longer a tepid script. It is full of life! Full of passion! It is full of erotic moisture! It finally has power."

* "The world is like one. It greets you like a big oyster. Oh no, the world opens to you like a vagina."


Interior view·Night view·Bar

(David talks to Fred about his relationship status)


* David: "Listen to me, Flender, I’m totally messed up. Ellen, Ellen, I love her. She has always been to me. She follows me and I know if she would live better in Pittsburgh. Our relationship has always been very good. I I love her very much, but..."
* Flender: "Yeah, okay, let's get to the point. What's the matter? You love Alan, this has always been clear."
* David: "Me and Helen. Sinclair hooked up, and I regret it. But I can’t hold on to myself. She is so charming, smart and beautiful. I mean she is a real artist and-we have a common language."
* Flender : "You are guilty."
* David: "I'm guilt-ridden."
* Flender: "You are too guilty, too guilty."
* David: "I can't sleep well."
* Flender: "Guilty is petty bourgeoisie ." Clichés, artists can create their own ethics."
* David: "I know, I know."
* Flender: "What's the problem then? Well, I want to give you some advice. It's me for a long time. The advice that others gave me when I was in the same crisis before."
* David: "The same crisis?"
* Flender: "Yes, yes."
* David: "What is it?"
* Flender: "What should I do? Whatever you do."

Interior · Night Scene · David's House
(David confesses to Allen)


* David: "I fell in love with Helen Sinclair. And I lied to you that day, you probably know it too. I want you to know that it’s not what I wanted to be like this, it happened naturally."
* Allen: "I’m not surprised at all, she is excellent."
* David: "You are the same, it’s all my fault. "
* Allen: "I have something to confess to you."
* David: "You know it's all my fault, but you are so kind that I can't tell you the truth."
* Allen: "No No, I'm dating Sheldon Flender."
* David: "What did you...say?"
* Allen: "We've been hacking together."
* David: "You mean Sheldon Flender?"
* Allen: "Yes, I have been with him for a long time. Have you heard of his theory? In other words, art is like an interaction between an artist and an audience. He feels sexual It’s the same.”
* David: "Sex?"
* Allen: "Yes. Between two well-matched people, sex can be an art form."
* David: "You mean you and Flender sublimate coitus to Artistic level?"
* Allen: "It's not just copulation, but also foreplay."
* David: "My friend, a playwright who has never been in a play?"
* Allen: "He has been chasing me for a long time." .You don’t seem to want to marry me, so one night we went out together and drank two glasses. Then we started discussing art and literature, Freud and Nietzsche. In order to explain to me one of the Greek etymology Argument, he took off his..."
* David: "Don't don't! Please! I don't need to listen anymore."
* Allen: "But he is an important genius, you said so yourself. Hundreds of times. With such profound wisdom, you can create your own ethics."

Exterior Scene·Night Scene·Sheldon Flender Downstairs
(David shouted upstairs and asked to talk to Flender Talk, Flender in pajamas opens the window)


* Flender: "Haha! See who is coming, Broadway successful people! I don't write best-selling plays, I write all art, and I deliberately made them impossible to stage. "
* David: "Is Ellen there?"
* Flender: "No, she's not here."
* David: "I think she is there."

(Ellen, who also wears pajamas, appears beside Flender. )



* Allen: "Congratulations on your success, David. I already knew you would succeed."
* David: "Oh, this, you are wrong. I have to, I have to ask you a question."
* Allen: "What?"
* David: "Do you love me as an artist or me?"
* Allen: "Both."
* David: "So if I tell you, I am not really an artist?"
* Allen: "I can love a man who is not an artist, but I will not love an artist who is not a man enough."
* Flender: "This, this is too academic. She is with me now."

* (turns to Alan)

* "You are with me now."


* David: "You really want to talk to Fred?"
* Fren De: "Yes!"
* Allen: "Hey! Fred Kung fu is first-rate."
* David: "Oh."

(The opposite window opens, and a woman sticks her head out)


* Woman: "Hey, I also talk to Fr. Lund slept, he was just so."
* Allen: "Really?"
* Flender: "Rita, what is this! What are you talking about! That happened many years ago when I was single. "
* Allen: "I think we are interactive, I think he is great."
* Rita: "Ha, it's really interesting, are you talking about pure technology?"
* Allen: "His skills are amazing Admire."
* David: "Awesome? You confuse sex and love."
* Rita: "No, for me, love is deep. Sex, as long as it has a few inches Enough."
* Flender: "You, you all missed the point. The point is, I can give it many times a day."
* Rita: "Oh come on, Flender, is quantity and quality related?"
* Flender: "Quantity affects quality."
* David: "Who said that?"
* Flender: "Karl Marx."
* Rita: "Oh, it's economics again."
* Flender: "Sex is economics."
* David: "Allen down, I want to talk to you. I love you, I want to meet You, come down."
* Allen: "Okay."
* Flender: "Hello, hello, okay? What do you mean? What should I do?"
* Allen: "You are great, Flender, but It’s useless, I can’t forget David. Can’t you see that every time I climax, I yell: David! David!
* Flender: I thought it was: "Fuck Do it! Do it!"

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