Blood Simple Page #27
- R
- Year:
- 1984
- 99 min
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BACK TO ABBY:
Staring at the door. We hear the laughter subside, to leave
the sound of labored breathing. Finally:
VISSER (O.S.)
...Well ma'am...
BATHROOM:
Visser lies on his back, his head underneath the bathroom
sink.
His good hand is pressed against his belly, which rises and
falls with his heavy breathing. Blood seeps out between his
fingers.
He is smiling.
VISSER:
...If I see him, I'll sure give him
the message.
HIS POV:
The underside of the sink, its convoluted chrome works beading
moisture.
VISSER:
Looking, with mild interest.
HIS POV:
A condensed droplet trickles down the chrome.
Directly overhead, it hangs for a moment from the lowest
joint of the pipe.
It fattens, wavers, wavers--and falls, spelling...
FINIS.
[DELETED SCENE FROM 1st. DRAFT]
"...In an early draft of the script, Ray, the befuddled
bartender who for want of a more compelling character served
as our story's hero, fled the scene of the tale's protracted
central murder and checked into a motel outside of San
Antonio:
"MOTEL LOBBY DAY:
DUSTY RHODES, a lean man with a weathered face and large
Adam's apple, stands behind the Formica check-in counter.
KYLE, a heavyset man of thirty wearing a feed cap, sits in
the lobby's one piece of furniture, a beat-up leatherette
sofa. He sips from a can of soda.
Ray, begrimed and haggard, enters out of the glare of the
noonday sun.
RHODES:
Hey there, stranger! What can I do
you for?
RAY:
I need a room.
Calling out from the divan:
KYLE:
He needs a room, Dusty.
RHODES:
I reckon I can hear him...
(to Ray)
...Room rate's eight sixty-six a day
plus sales tax, plus extra for the
TV option.
RAY:
How much extra?
KYLE:
(calling out)
He wants the TV option, Dusty.
RHODES:
I reckon I can hear him. TV option,
that's a dollar twenty, makes nine
eighty-six plus tax.
KYLE:
(calling out)
Tell him the channels, Dusty.
RHODES:
Channels, we got two and six. Two
don't come in so hot.
RAY:
Just a room then.
KYLE:
(calling out)
He don't want the option, Dusty.
RHODES:
RAY:
(after shooting Kyle
an irritated glance)
Does he work here?
KYLE:
(calling out)
Sure don't.
RHODES:
See, Wednesday's the special on RC
Cola. I don't know if I explained
about the TV option. If there's a TV
in the room, you got to pay the
option.
KYLE:
(calling out)
And how many room got TV, Dusty?
RHODES:
Ever durned one.
RAY:
(gamely)
Okay, I'll take the TV option.
RHODES:
Well see the thing about that is,
we're booked.
"Looking at this scene now, years later, it strikes us that
revising it out of existence, as we did, constituted too
much rewriting. Indeed, the more prosaic scene we replaced
it with, involving Ray stopped at a traffic light, can be
found in the finished script but not in the finished movie.
It was shot but then deleted in order to more quickly get to
the carnage, which was the picture's raison d'^etre..."
JOEL & ETHAN COEN
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