Before Sunset Page #6

What would you tell me?

- Well...

- That's hard, huh?

- No, no, I'll do it.

- Okay.

I definitely would

stop talking about my book.

- I would probably drop the environment.

- Okay.

But I would still want to talk about,

you know, the magic in the universe.

- I'd just want to do it from a...

- What?

...a hotel room, you know...

...in between sessions of us

wildly f***ing until we die.

Wow. Well, why waste time

with an hotel room?

Why not do it right there on a bench?

Come here, come here, come here.

Okay. We're not gonna die tonight.

All right. Too bad. I'm sorry.

That was an extreme example.

- I'm sorry.

- Okay.

What I... My point was, you know...

...to truly communicate with

people is very hard to do.

No, I know, most of our

day-to-day exchanges...

Yeah, no, I mean...

...not to bring everything back to sex...

- But why not?

No, this example, this friend of mine,

she was talking about...

- She and her boyfriend... Problems in bed.

- Right.

And how when they had been dating

for a year she started telling him...

...what he could do to please her more,

and it freaked him out.

- Why?

- Totally.

He thought it meant

he was a bad lover...

Maybe she shouldn't have

waited so long.

- After a year...

- But men are so easily offended.

- What, more than women?

- Definitely on that subject.

- You think so?

- Yeah, yeah.

Well, maybe it's because, you know...

...men are easier to... To please.

- To please?

- Well, I don't know.

- Yeah, they are. They're definitely.

Anyway, this friend,

she was telling me...

...next time she dates a man,

she's gonna make a little questionnaire...

...about what they like and dislike...

- What, written down, or out loud?

Yeah, mostly written down.

But it wouldn't be just yes or no.

It would be a bit more complex than that.

Like, for example, if the question is:

"Are you into S & M?"

The answer could be: "No, but a good

spanking once in a while doesn't hurt. "

Right, or like:

"Do you like talking dirty in bed?"

- That kind of thing?

- Yeah, but not just like any dirty talk.

Just "What specific word

would you like to hear?"

- What, me?

- Well, yeah.

For example what specific word

would you like to hear?

I don't know.

What do you feel about the word

"p*ssy"?

I love it.

Good.

It's amazing what perverts we've

become in the past nine years.

At least now we don't have to pretend

each new sexual experience...

...is, like, a life-altering event.

I know. By now, you've stuck it in

so many places it's about to fall off.

And I can't realistically expect you've

become anything but a total ho.

- Yeah, thank you.

- No, I'm s...

- That's true. What can you do?

- What can you do?

So, what kind of songs do you write?

I didn't know you did that.

- What kind?

- Yeah, sure.

- I don't know, just songs.

- Like?

Like, some are about,

you know, people.

Relationships. One's about my cat.

- Sing one.

- No, I can't. I don't have a guitar.

- Come on. A cappella.

- No, no, no.

I'm not singing a song without a guitar.

You're nuts.

Why not?

- No, okay. Not now. No.

- One.

If not now, when? You want to meet

here in six months with a guitar?

I'll fly all the way over here.

- You may or may not make the Mtro.

- Okay, that's funny.

- We've got to get back.

- We'll be all right.

- You're gonna miss your flight.

- All right.

We can walk down La Seine.

It's nice.

Okay.

- So you're flying back to New York?

- Yeah, yeah.

So I read in that article that

you're married with a kid. That's great.

Yeah, he's... He's 4.

- What's his name?

- Henry. Little Hank.

- He's so much fun.

- Oh, wow, I'm sure.

- Your wife, what does she do?

- She teaches elementary school.

- Do you have kids?

- Yes, two... Sh*t!

- What?

- I left them in the car!

With the windows up, six months ago!

Think they're okay?

No, I'm kidding.

No, but I want to have kids someday.

- I'm just not ready yet.

- No?

- I'm in a good relationship, though.

- Oh yeah? That's good.

- What's he do?

- He's a photojournalist.

He does war coverage.

He's away a lot, which is good

because I'm so busy.

But isn't that dangerous? Aren't a lot of

those guys getting killed these days?

He promises me he doesn't take risks,

but I often worry.

He goes in this trance when

he photographs something.

- What do you mean?

- Well, once we were in New Delhi...

...and we passed a bum on the...

- A bomb?

- A bum. A homeless.

All right, right.

He looked like he needed help, but his

first reaction was to photograph him.

He went really close to his face,

fixing his collar...

...totally detached from the person.

But don't you have to be like that

to be good at that job?

Yeah, I mean, I'm not...

I'm not judging him.

What he does is essential and incredible.

All I'm saying is that

I could never do it.

Let's get on that boat. Come on.

- No!

- Come on, it'll be fun.

- You don't have time!

- They're about to take off.

I've got 5 more minutes.

Do you have a cell phone?

- Yeah.

- All right, I've got that driver's number.

I can call him to pick us up

at the next stop.

I've never been on those boats.

It's for tourists, it's embarrassing.

Okay. All right.

No, I'll get it, I'll get it.

All right. All right, all right.

Thank you.

- So are you in love with that guy?

- What guy?

- The war photographer.

- Yes, of course.

So do you have that cell phone?

Oh, yeah.

- Okay, let's see...

- Okay.

What do I tell him?

Tell him to pick you up at

Quai Henri Quatre.

Oh, sh*t. Quai...?

Henri Quatre. Quai Henri Quatre.

Henri Quatre.

What's wrong with you? No, do you

want me to...? Henri Quatre.

- Henry Four?

- Yes!

- Come on, why didn't you say so?

- I'm sorry. Okay.

Yeah, is this Philippe?

Yeah. Philippe, this is Jesse Wallace.

Yeah.

Well, listen, I'm on

one of those boats, right?

And we're gonna arrive at Henry Four.

At Port Henry Four.

You know what that is?

All right, great.

And you have my bags, right?

Yeah, so we'll be there in...

I don't know, it's the next stop.

Okay. Au revoir.

- It's okay?

- Yeah, yeah.

Oh, wow.

- Notre Dame, man. Check that out.

- Oh, wow.

I heard this story once about when

the Germans were occupying Paris...

...and they had to retreat back.

They wired Notre Dame to blow...

...but they had to leave one guy

in charge of hitting the switch.

And the guy, the soldier,

he couldn't do it.

He just sat there, knocked out

by how beautiful the place was.

Then, when the Allied troops

came in...

...they found all the explosives

lying there and the switch unturned...

...and they found the same thing

at the Sacr-Coeur, Eiffel Tower...

...couple other places, I think.

Is that true?

I don't know.

I always liked the story, though.

Yeah, that's a great story.

But you have to think that Notre Dame

will be gone one day.

There used to be another church

at the Seine, right there.

- What, right in the same spot?

- Yeah.

You know, this is great.

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