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All the King's Men Page #9
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2006
- 128 min
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Jack kisses Anne on the cheek. Anne comes over and shakes
Willie's hand.
ANNE:
I'm very glad to have met you.
FADE OUT:
FADE IN:
Interior:
Hotel Lobby (State Capital), DayPeople stand before the election return board in the hotel
lobby. Camera pulls back, revealing a newspaper picture of
Willie, and the headline
STARK ELECTED GOVERNOR
WILLIE WINS:
DISSOLVE TO:
Exterior:
Street Outside Willie's Hotel Balcony, NightA crowd stands below Willie's hotel window, chanting together:
CROWD:
We want Willie! We want Willie!
A high angle from the balcony shows Anne, Jack, and Adam in
the center of the excited crowd, looking expectantly upward.
Some of the people around them are carrying torches. Arc
lights play over the dome of the state capitol in the
background. In response to the chants, Willie appears on the
balcony. With him, standing on the balcony, are Tom and Lucy.
The crowd erupts into cheers as he steps outside.
WILLIE:
(raises his hands for
silence)
This is not a time for speechmaking.
I should get on my knees and ask God
to give me strength to carry out
your will.
Loud cheers. Adam watches Anne. She applauds. Willie looks
down at the crowd and continues his speech.
WILLIE:
This much I swear to you. These things
you shall have. I'm going to build a
hospital. The biggest that money can
buy... and it will belong to you.
That any man, woman, or child who is
sick or in pain can go through those
doors and know that everything will
be done for them that man can do. To
heal sickness. To ease pain. Free.
Not as a charity, but as a right.
And it is your right that every child
shall have a complete education.
That any man who produces anything
can take it to market without paying
toll. And no poor man's land or farm
can be taxed or taken away from him.
And it is the right of the people
that they will not be deprived of
hope...
The crowd applauds, and Willie waves. We see Anne, face aglow,
turn to Jack.
ANNE:
Does he mean it, Jack? Does he?
STANTON:
(as he walks away)
That's his bribe.
Anne and Jack watch Adam as he leaves.
FADE OUT:
FADE IN:
Montage:
Willie Becomes GovernorWillie, Sadie, and Jack leaving their old campaign
headquarters.
Willie, Sadie, Jack, and others going upstairs in the
governor's mansion. The ousted politicians are just packing
up and leaving.
JACK:
(voice over)
What if it was his bribe! He swept
the old gang out of office. What if
they hollered like stuck pigs? He
jammed through bill after bill and
the people got what they wanted.
Willie yelling at the legislators during a session.
WILLIE:
I demand that this bill be passed.
Nobody's going to tell me how to run
this state.
Road excavation -- a bulldozer clears away dirt.
A huge crane maneuvers over a dam site. Men are seen working
on the girders of a large power plant.
JACK:
(voice over)
He started to build the roads, the
schools, the power dams, to change
the face of the state from one end
to the other... His methods?
Shots of uniformed policemen roughing up citizens. Willie
and Sugar Boy move in on a man being held by cops.
Willie looks on as Jack thumbs through his little black book.
JACK:
(voice over)
Politics is a dirty game... and he
played it rough and dirty. Willie's
little black book was a record of
sin and corruption. And me, Jack
Burden? I kept the book and added up
the accounts.
Willie in a nightclub, surrounded by some show girls. A
photographer takes a picture of Willie with a girl balanced
on his knee.
Willie leads a marching band out onto a football field.
JACK:
(voice over)
Clown, show-off, playboy, they yelled
at him. Building football stadiums.
Fiercely proud of his son who played
in them.
Shot of Tom in football uniform running across the field
with the ball. Willie, in the stands, hugs Lucy.
WILLIE:
Oh, look at him go. He's going to be
All-American.
Willie makes an inspection of the police. He stops to adjust
an officer's tie.
JACK:
(voice over)
They said he was building up a private
army. But he was building, always
building...
Sign at building excavation reads HERE ON THIS SITE WILL BE
ERECTED THE GOVERNOR STARK HOSPITAL -- "TO HEAL SICKNESS. TO
EASE PAIN. FREE. NOT AS A CHARITY -- BUT AS A RIGHT"... WILLIE
STARK.
JACK:
(voice over)
Always playing up to the crowd.
Letting them trample on tradition.
Well, tradition needed trampling on.
A square dance at the governor's mansion. Willie dances with
Anne.
JACK:
(voice over)
The crowd loved it... Willie loved
it... and so did I.
FADE OUT:
FADE IN:
Interior:
Executive Office Corridor, DayJack walks down the corridor on the way to Willie's offices.
Interior:
Willie's Executive Offices, DayAs Jack enters from the corridor, Sadie is coming out of
Willie's private office.
SADIE:
(through open door)
You low-down, no-good redneck...
She slams the door hard. We hear Willie laugh.
JACK:
(to secretary)
What goes on here?
SECRETARY:
That's what Sadie wants to know.
(she shows Jack
newspaper containing
photograph of Willie
at the nightclub)
The boss poses for too many pictures.
Jack grins, then walks into Sadie's office.
SADIE:
I'll kill him.
JACK:
Why, Sadie, I'm surprised at you.
SADIE:
I'll kill him.
She goes to the door to yell to the secretary.
SADIE:
I hate all women.
She slams the door again, and returns to her desk.
SADIE:
Was she pretty?
Jack shoves the paper at her. She ignores it.
SADIE:
Was she pretty?
JACK:
If I met her on the street I'd never
recognize her.
SADIE:
Was she pretty?
JACK:
How should I know? I wasn't looking
at her face... Look, if it's going
to cause all this grief, why don't
you let him go?
SADIE:
Let him go? I'll kill him. I'll drive
him out of this state.
JACK:
Just because a guy's sitting with a
couple of girls on his knees in
public...
SADIE:
Public or private... I know him. How
about what happened in Chicago? That
girl on skates... and the time you
both went to St. Louis... There's a
new invention, you know, Photography
and newsreels. Willie Stark in a
nightclub... Willie Stark with a
blonde.
JACK:
You could always bleach your hair.
SADIE:
I could also break every bone in his
neck. After all I've done for him...
Now he goes two-timing me.
JACK:
He's been two-timing Lucy. So there's
another kind of arithmetic for what
he's doing to you.
SADIE:
Lucy?
(laughs)
If she had her way he'd be back in
Kanoma City slopping the hogs right
now. And he knows it. He knows what
she'd do for him. She had her chance.
JACK:
You seem to think Lucy's on her way
out, don't you?
SADIE:
He'll ditch her... Give him time.
JACK:
You ought to know.
She slaps his face.
JACK:
Hey, you got the wrong guy. I'm not
the hero of this piece.
The door to Willie's office bursts open and Willie dashes
out.
WILLIE:
All right, come on, both of you.
Let's go, hurry it up.
They go out through the reception room, pick up Sugar Boy,
and head down the corridor.
WILLIE:
Come on. Pillsbury put his hand in
the pork barrel and got caught. You
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