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All the King's Men Page #5
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2006
- 128 min
- 1,223 Views
DISSOLVE TO:
Interior:
Train Club Car, DayWillie, jacket off, works over a speech with Duffy as
Pillsbury and Sadie look on.
WILLIE:
Now right here... right here I'd
like to add something about last
year's taxes... eh?
DUFFY:
I wouldn't add a thing. Just give
them the facts.
PILLSBURY:
Yeah... and the figures.
DUFFY:
Great speech.
Sadie sips her drink.
DISSOLVE TO:
Exterior:
Street Corner (Upton), DayWillie stands on a platform, next to an American flag, reading
from his prepared speech.
WILLIE:
What this state needs is a balanced
tax program. Last year, last year
the state claimed to have spent on
roads...
Sadie turns and walks away, no longer able to listen. Jack
follows her toward the hotel.
Interior:
Hotel Lobby (Upton), DayAs Jack and Sadie cross the street, enter the lobby, and sit
down next to the front window. We can still see Willie and
his small street-corner audience in the background.
JACK:
Do you mind if I sit with you, Sadie?
SADIE:
(shrugs)
Stand... sit...
JACK:
Thanks... Tell me, what are you on
this merry-go-round for?
SADIE:
I take notes.
JACK:
For whom?
SADIE:
For those who pay me.
JACK:
Which is.
SADIE:
People.
JACK:
Smart people.
SADIE:
Oh, yeah. Anybody that pays me is
smart.
JACK:
You don't have to be smart to frame
a guy like Willie Stark.
SADIE:
No. No, brother, you don't.
JACK:
(lights a cigarette)
It is a frame, isn't it?
SADIE:
Why don't you give me a cigarette?
JACK:
(gives her the pack)
To split the vote and win the election
for Harrison, huh?
SADIE:
If you know, why do you ask?
JACK:
I just want to make sure.
SADIE:
Yeah.
JACK:
Look, why don't you tell the boys
back home to save their money. Willie
couldn't steal a vote from... from
Abe Lincoln in the Cradle of the
Confederacy.
SADIE:
I wish the poor... had enough sense
to have somebody give him a good
greasing for the beating he's going
to get. 'Cause this way all he gets
out of it is the ride.
(looks at Willie
through the window)
Hey, those speeches! Ain't they awful?
Ain't they just plain awful? Question
to you:
if somebody told him he wasa sucker, do you think he'd quit?
Willie has just finished his speech and is on his way over
to the hotel.
JACK:
I don't know, Sadie. I really don't
know.
WILLIE:
(as he comes into the
lobby)
Did it sound all right, Mr. Burden?
JACK:
Fine, Willie, fine.
WILLIE:
Thanks.
He and Jack go upstairs together. Sadie watches them.
DISSOLVE TO:
Interior:
Sadie's Hotel Room (Upton), NightSadie lies on her bed, listening to Willie in the next room,
rehearsing one of his speeches.
WILLIE'S VOICE
Now, friends, if you will bear
patiently with me for a few minutes,
I'll give you the figures. What we
need is a balanced tax program...
JACK'S VOICE
No, Willie, no.
Sadie pulls off a shoe and hurls it at the wall.
SADIE:
What I need is some sleep. Shut up!
Interior:
Jack's Hotel Room (Upton), Same TimeWillie lies on his bed. Jack finishes shaving in the bathroom
as he continues to rehearse him.
JACK:
(shouting back at
Sadie)
Shut up yourself!
(goes to bed, shakes
Willie)
Listen, Willie, try it on your feet
this time.
WILLIE:
Oh, no. Wait a minute. My feet are
killing me. Let me stay here, huh?
JACK:
All right... Look, Willie, you tell
'em too much. Just tell 'em you're
going to soak the fat boys and forget
the rest of the tax stuff.
WILLIE:
(pathetically)
That's what I say.
JACK:
But it's the way you say it. Willie,
make 'em cry. Make 'em laugh, make
'em mad, even mad at you. Stir 'em
up and they'll love it and come back
for more. But for heaven's sake don't
WILLIE:
(suddenly)
A man don't have to be governor.
JACK:
(surprised)
What?
WILLIE:
A man don't have to be governor.
Pause.
JACK:
Well, they haven't counted up the
votes yet.
WILLIE:
(quietly)
Oh, I'm going to lose, Mr. Burden. I
know that. Don't try and fool me.
I'm not going to lie to you. I wanted
it. I wanted it so badly I stayed up
nights thinking about it. A man wants
something so badly he gets mixed up
in knowing what he wants. It's
something inside of you. I would
have made a good governor. Better
There is a knock on the door.
JACK:
Come in.
WILLIE:
(almost to himself)
A great governor.
Sadie enters. She immediately spots the liquor, and pours
herself a drink.
SADIE:
Since you won't let me sleep you
might at least give me a drink.
WILLIE:
(muttering)
Build them highways... greatest system
of highways in the country.
JACK:
(to Sadie)
Help yourself.
WILLIE:
I'll build schools.
SADIE:
(to Jack)
What's up?
JACK:
Nothing... except Willie here has
been saying as how he's not going to
be governor.
SADIE:
(directly, to Jack)
So you told him.
JACK:
I don't tell anyone anything... I
just listen.
SADIE:
(goes to Willie)
Who told you?
WILLIE:
Told me what? Told me what?
SADIE:
That you're not going to be governor.
WILLIE:
(getting up)
Jack! Told me what?... Told me what?
Jack says nothing. Sadie gulps down her drink, bangs the
empty glass on the bureau top, and turns to face Willie.
SADIE:
(loudly)
All right! That you've been framed,
you poor sap.
Willie looks at her steadily for a moment.
WILLIE:
(quietly)
Framed?
SADIE:
And how! Oh, you decoy, you woodenhead
decoy! And you let 'em. You let 'em
because you thought you were the
little lamb of God. But you know
what you are?
(she waits for his
answer; he has none)
Well, you're the goat! You are the
sacrificial goat! You are a sap...
because you let 'em.
JACK:
Sadie! That's enough.
SADIE:
Enough? He didn't even get anything
out of it. Oh, they'd have paid you
to take a rap like that, but they
didn't have to pay a sap like you.
Oh, no, you were so full of yourself
and hot air, all you wanted was a
chance to stand up on your hind legs
and make a speech: my friends, what
this state needs is a good five-cent
cigar. What this state needs is a --
WILLIE:
(to Jack)
Is it true?
SADIE:
(prayerfully, to the
ceiling)
He wants to know if it's true.
WILLIE:
Is it true?
JACK:
That's what they tell me.
There is a long pause. Willie looks almost as if he is going
to cry. Sadie pours out another drink, a stiff one.
SADIE:
(handing it to him)
Here.
Willie drinks it all.
JACK:
Hey, lay off that. You're not used
to it.
SADIE:
(jeeringly)
He's not used to a lot of things.
Are you, Willie?
JACK:
(angrily)
Why don't you lay off of him, Sadie?
SADIE:
(ignores Jack)
Are you, Willie? Are you? Are you...
are you, are you, are you?
She shoves the bottle at him. He takes it and pours himself
a drink.
DISSOLVE TO:
Interior:
Sadie's Hotel Room (Upton), MorningWillie is snoring on the bed. Sadie's coat is thrown over
him. She is in the bathroom, applying lipstick. Jack enters.
SADIE:
Hi.
JACK:
Well, things seem to have quieted
down.
SADIE:
(laughs)
Yeah, I quieted him down.
JACK:
Yeah. How was he? Noisy?
SADIE:
Oh, he reared some. He's been telling
me all the things he's going to do.
He's going to do big things, this
fella. He's going to be President.
He's going to kill people with his
bare hands. I quieted him down...
Hey! Who's Lucy?
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