И сцена у камина. Как же они прекрасны.
FLASHBACK - INT. GEORGEʼS HOUSE - STUDY. NIGHT (1961)FLASHBACK - INT. GEORGEʼS HOUSE - STUDY. NIGHT (1961)
Jim and George are stretched out on the small sofa reading with their heads at opposite ends. A fire is burning in the fireplace. There is a beer on the floor at Jimʼs end and a scotch on the floor at Georgeʼs end. The female dog is tucked up between them and the male is stretched out on the floor as a record ends and starts to scratch back and forth.
GEORGE
Itʼs your turn to change it.
JIM
Iʼm not changing it. Itʼs your turn. You wonʼt like what I put on anyway.
GEORGE
Oh, please, please. Come on. Iʼll give you five dollars if you change it. Please. I donʼt want to. Iʼm too old to get up.
JIM
Youʼre only old when itʼs convenient for you to be old. What are you reading?
George flashes the cover of Kafkaʼs Metamorphosis at him.
JIM
Oh no. Not that depressing crap again.
GEORGE
Itʼs for my class. And what highbrow work of fiction might you be reading?
Jim flashes the cover of Breakfast at Tiffanyʼs.
GEORGE
Hmmm.
JIM
Donʼt be so smug.
The dog on the floor sits up.
JIM
(to the dog)
And just what do you want?
GEORGE
He wants to go out.
JIM
Of course he does. What a life he has. Donʼt you envy him?
GEORGE
Why, because he gets to sniff anyoneʼs ass he wants to?
JIM
Nice. I envy him because he just does what he wants. Like yesterday I was standing in the front yard,and Susan came over to talk for a minute and that little brat of hers, Christopher came running over with that damned gun of his. Well, our little dog walked right up, looked straight ahead, hiked his leg and peed all over Christopherʼs new tennis shoes. And all over Christopher actually. He and his mother both started shrieking and I had to act like I was upset, when it was all I could do to keep from laughing. It was so perfectly executed after all the times those kids have tortured that poor dog. I wish you had seen it.
They both laugh and look at the dog who knows that he is being spoken about.
JIM (CONTʼD)
You should take a lesson from him. He doesnʼt stay up all night worrying. Heʼs figured out how to get the two of us to do exactly what he wants. They are both basically very sophisticated little parasites when you think about it.
GEORGE
Well, the dumbest creatures are the happiest. Just look at your mother.
JIM
Youʼre an ass. What I mean is, he really just lives in the moment. Like now. What could be better than this? Tucked up here with you. If I died right now it would be OK.
GEORGE
Well, it wouldnʼt be OK with me so shut up and go change the record.
JIM
Good answer.
Jim starts to get up.
JIM (CONTʼD)
I was going to take them with me to Denver next week if itʼs OK with you. My mom loves them. Itʼs probably that recognition of a similar mind.
Jim kisses George on the forehead.
JIM (CONTʼD)
Oh, you stay there old man. You owe me five bucks.