Awakenings Page #13

Sayer, taken aback, glances back to Anthony, whose look says,

There you go.

SAYER:

I'd thought about the opera house.

Do you think they'd prefer that?

ANTHONY:

The opera house?

SAYER:

The Botanical Gardens?

Anthony looks to Miss Costello and rolls his eyes.

SAYER:

Well, where else is there?

137. INT. ROSELAND -LATE AFTERNOON

Roseland's Big Band belting out "That Old Black Magic."

On the dancefloor, the post-encephalitics dance with one

another amidst "normal" middle-aged and older couples, all

having a great time.

At the bar, Sayer tries to get the attention of a young

bartender busy mixing drinks. Watching, it slowly dawns on

Rose that something is "wrong" here. More to herself

ROSE:

It's legal again?

MISS COSTELLO:

(pause)

For some time now.

Rose is delighted; she can hardly believe it. She gets the

bartender's attention.

ROSE:

A Rob Roy on the rocks.

P:

P:

137.CONT. .

The young bartender has to think a moment. Rose turns back to

watch the action on the dance floor. Gesturing to Rose, Miss

Costello whispers to the bartender MISS

COSTELLO:

A Shirley Temple.

138. INT. LOBBY, BAINBRIDGE -LATE AFTERNOON

Leonard and Paula crossing toward the front doors. She's just

chatting but he's taking it seriously.

PAULA:

Things happen, people are late.

LEONARD:

They won't be angry.

PAULA:

Oh, they'll be angry. What're

they going to do, fire me?

He doesn't realize she's not asking him. He has to shrug that

he doesn't know.

,

(U*T

PAULA _ :

I'll just take the graveyard.

Her look to him says, Right? He has no idea what she means,

but finally nods in agreement.

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LEONARD:

Okay.

They're almost to the doors.

PAULA:

(pause)

Bye.

She offers her hand to him.

He shakes the hand gently, lets it go.

Bye.

LEONARD:

PAULA:

Thanks for talking to me. •

She steps away toward the door.

LLEEOONNAARRDD:

He knows.

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138.CONT. 138

She glances back at him. She's not sure what he means.

• LEONARD

Your father. He knows you visit

him.

Whether he's saying it just to be nice doesn't matter to her.

It's what she wants to believe. She smiles gratefully. .

*

PAULA:

I'll see you.

She leaves.

138A. OMITTED 138A.

• 139. INT. ROSELAND -LATER -EVENING 139.

The band in the middle of "You Hade Me Love You."

Atthebar

ROSE:

Is he betrothed, do you know?

Miss Costello doesn't know who she could possibly mean. She

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Sayer sitting alone.

MISS COSTELLO:

Not that I know of. I kind of

doubt it.

Rose gets up and crosses toward Sayer. Seeing her coming, he

smiles ... but the smile slowly begins to fade as she sings to

him:

ROSE:

You made me love you

I didn't want to do it •

I didn't want to do it . ..

Singing as she does it, she pulls him out of his chair.

Embarrassed, he resists, but she finally gets on the dance

floor. Never more mortified in his life (it seems as if

everyone is watching) he "dances . .."

And the band finishes the song. '

'(")

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(continuity only)

140. OMITTED . 14

141. INT.-CORRIDOR & LEONARD'S WARD 14

Returning from their night out, happy and satisfied, the postencephalitics

come down a quiet corridor, trailed by their

chaperons.

Passing the examination room, Sayer hears faint typing, and

slows.

142. INT. EXAMINATION ROOM -MOMENTS LATER -NIGHT 14

Sayer steps into the room to find a figure hunched over his

typewriter in a pool of lamplight. Glancing over to the door,

the figure is revealed to be Leonard.

CONTINUED:

1442

LEONARD "

Everybody have a good time?

Leonard doesn't wait for the answer, returns to his typing.

Sayer comes closer.

SAYER:

What are you doing?

He peers over Leonard's shoulder to read what he's typing, and

a slow smile crosses his face.

SAYER V.O.

"One -typewriters and writing

supplies in all dayrooms at all

times...

143. INT. BOARD ROOM -DAY 143

Drifting slowly across the faces of Kaufman, the director and

the other board members as Sayer reads to them from a

typewritten sheet of paper —

SAYER:

;

"... Two -musicanddance

classes for those patients who

desire them. Three -technical

courses for those who wish to

learn a trade. Four -patients'

grievance committees. Five -the

same food in the patients'

cafeteria as in the staff's. Six

..." andIhappentothinkthisis

an excellent idea, "the

establishment of a permanent

hospital library. And "Seven

televisions that work."

Sayer sets the paper down on the table —

SAYER:

"Respectfully, Leonard Lowe."

— and listens to the silence. It's a long one.

144. INT. BASEMENT -BAINBRIDGE -DAY 144.

Rumbling furnaces. The boiler room. Exposed conduit and pipes

and ducts on the ceiling like tangled roots of an enormous

metal tree.

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144.CONT.

His mother tries to comfort him, to hold him, tears coming to *

her eyes, too.

LEONARD:

I'msorry. .. I'msosorry. ..

MRS. LOWE

I'msorry. .. I'msorry. ..

Frank, kneeling to the floor, gathers the pieces of the broken *

library model.

196A. (NOW SC. 196C) 196A.

196B. INT. LEONARD'S DAYROOM -LATER -DAY 196B.

Moving slowly across Josef's work table where he and Frank are . *

rebuilding the library model.

LUCY'S VOICE

„ There's a song at twilight ,

J When the lights are low

,

(\_y

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196B.CONT. 196B.

Her voice CONTINUES the verse OVER: Rose, her sad strange

china doll face.

ROSE:

You'd never know it now, but I

used to be so pretty, Dr. Sayer,

even you would've thought so.

SAYER:

I do think so.

She shakes her head 'no.1 She knows what she looks like.

MAGDA O.S.

What if he's just had enough

of it?

Sayer glances to Magda, nearby with a group of other patients,

some of them looking off toward the sunroom where Leonard,

alone, at a window, stares out.

FRANCIS:

What if it's just a matter of

time for all of us?

SAYER:

There's no reason to think :

anyy of this will happppen to yyou.

You're individuals. And you're

all well.

(pause)

Aren't you?

Most nod, but it's without great conviction.

BERT:

He's the strongest of us.

Close on Lucy/ across the room with Miss Costello, finishing

the song:

LUCY:

Comes love's old song

Comeslove's oldsweet song ...

Her voice trails into silence.

MISS COSTELLO:

That was lovely. '.

LUCY:

I learned that song a long, long

time ago.

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196B.CONT. 196

She glances across to the sunroom, to Leonard, still at the

o

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window, unaware, or so it seems, of her and the others.

LUCY:

I know what year it is . . .

I just can't imagine being older

than twenty-two, I have no

experience at it.

(pause)

I know it's not 1926 . . . I just

need it to be.

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