Carnage Page #7

Synopsis: Carnage is a 2011 black comedy-drama film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the Tony Award winning play God of Carnage by French playwright Yasmina Reza. The screenplay is by Reza and Polanski. The film is an international co-production of France, Germany, Poland, and Spain. It stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 7 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
R
Year:
2011
80 min
$2,200,000
Website
6,042 Views


NANCY:

You stuffed your face!

NANCY rises. ALAN steps back to let her clean her face at

the sink.

ALAN:

Look at my day! I have to get some

food in me some time!

43.

After gargling, NANCY sits back down on the edge of the tub.

ALAN puts his shirt back on.

NANCY:

Oh God. What the hell are we doing

here?

ALAN:

(beat, in utterdisbelief:)

I hope you’re kidding!

NANCY:

Why do you argue with her? We’d have

been out of here a long time ago if

you didn’t bicker over every word.

ALAN:

You’d rather I was a sheep, like her

husband?

NANCY:

You think it was the cobbler?

ALAN:

Of course it was! A little warm Coke

and bang!

20 INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY 20

In the living room, MICHAEL and PENELOPE are finishing the

restoration of the books.

PENELOPE:

What a freaking nightmare!

MICHAEL:

He better watch it, he's got me right

on the edge.

PENELOPE:

She's horrible too.

MICHAEL:

Less.

PENELOPE:

She's so fake.

MICHAEL:

She doesn't bother me that much.

PENELOPE:

They're both horrible. Why do you

take their side?

She sprays the tulips.

44.

MICHAEL:

I don't take their side. What is that

supposed to mean?

PENELOPE:

You mitigate. You're trying to

reconcile everything.

MICHAEL:

I am not!

PENELOPE:

You are. You had your gang and you

were the leader, and they can do

whatever they want with their son.

Their son is a threat to homeland

security! When a kid is a menace to

society it's everybody's business. I

can't believe she barfed all over my

books!

She sprays the Kokoschka.

MICHAEL holds the Dolgans book so she can spray it, too.

PENELOPE (CONT'D)

When you know you're going to toss

your cookies, you take precautions.

MICHAEL holds up the Foujita.

PENELOPE (CONT'D)

(whimpering)

The Foujita!

She sprays everything, including herself.

PENELOPE (CONT'D)

Disgusting.

MICHAEL:

I was right on the edge with that

toilet flushing sh*t.

PENELOPE:

You were incredible.

MICHAEL:

I held my own, right?

PENELOPE:

Incredible. Jamaica, Queens was

genius.

MICHAEL:

Little piece of sh*t. What does he

call her?!

45.

PENELOPE:

Doodle.

MICHAEL:

Yeah right, Doodle!

PENELOPE:

Doodle!

They both laugh out loud as Alan appears, holding the blow

dryer.

ALAN:

Yes, I call her Doodle.

PENELOPE:

Oh, I'm sorry. We didn't mean

anything. It's just so easy to make

fun of other people's pet names. Like

what do we call each other, Michael?

I'm sure it's worse!

ALAN:

You wanted the blow dryer?

PENELOPE:

Thank you.

MICHAEL:

Thanks.

(taking the blow-

dryer:
)

We call each other darjeeling, like

the tea. Ask me, that's a lot more

embarrassing!

MICHAEL plugs in the dryer and starts trying to dry the

books. The blow dryer’s electric cord is relatively short -

he has to bring the books over to work on them.

PENELOPE smooths the wet pages of the Kokoschka catalog.

MICHAEL (CONT'D)

Smooth it out, smooth it out.

As she smooths out the pages, she raises her voice to be

heard over the dryer.

PENELOPE:

How is she? Is she better? The poor

thing.

ALAN:

Better.

PENELOPE:

I reacted badly. I'm ashamed of

myself.

46.

ALAN:

No.

PENELOPE:

I rubbed it in, about the catalog. I

can't believe I did that.

MICHAEL:

Turn the page. Pull it taut. Nice

and taut.

ALAN:

It's going to tear.

PENELOPE:

He's right. Michael, that's enough,

it's dry. You get so absurdly

attached to these things, you don't

even really know why.

MICHAEL closes the catalog and the two of them pile some

heavy books on top of it.

MICHAEL dries the Foujita, the Dolgans, etc.

MICHAEL:

There! Good as new. So where does

Doodle come from? Yankee Doodle?

Cheese Doodle?

ALAN:

No, it's a song from Guys and Dollsthat goes, Doodle oodle oodle oo.

MICHAEL:

I know that! I know that!

(singing:
)

I love you a bushel and a peck, you

bet your pretty neck I do. Doodle,

oodle, oodle, doodle, oodle, oodle...

Ha, ha! Ours is from our honeymoon in

India. I called her darjeeling

instead of darling. So stupid.

PENELOPE:

Should I maybe go check on her?

MICHAEL:

Go ahead, darjeeling.

PENELOPE walks to the door. She bumps into NANCY, on her way

back to the living room.

PENELOPE:

Oh Nancy! I was getting worried. All

better?

47.

NANCY:

I think so.

ALAN:

If you're not sure, stay away from

the coffee table.

NANCY:

I left the towel in the bathtub. I

didn't know where to put it.

PENELOPE:

Perfect.

NANCY:

I see you cleaned up. I'm so sorry.

MICHAEL:

Everything is just fine. All is

well.

PENELOPE:

Nancy, I'm sorry. I wasn't really

there for you. I was so focused on my

Kokoschka.

NANCY:

That's all right.

PENELOPE:

I reacted very poorly.

NANCY:

Please.

Awkward silence.

NANCY (CONT'D)

In the bathroom I was thinking.

PENELOPE:

(as nicely as shepossibly can:)

Yeah?

NANCY:

Maybe we glossed over the... Well I

mean...

MICHAEL:

What is it, Nancy? What?

NANCY:

Name-calling is a kind of abuse.

MICHAEL:

Sure.

48.

PENELOPE:

Depends.

MICHAEL:

Well, it depends.

NANCY:

Zachary has never been a violent

child. He must have had his reasons.

ALAN:

Like getting called a snitch!

His cell phone vibrates.

ALAN (CONT’D)

Excuse me.

He walks away, making apologetic gestures to NANCY.

ALAN (CONT’D)

Yes, Walter.

WALTER (O.S. - TEL)

CNN is inviting me for a panel

discussion. What do I do?

ALAN:

As long as there are no victims on

the panel. No victims. I don't want

you sitting down with victims.

WALTER (O.S. - TEL)

And I deny...

ALAN:

Deny, deny, deny. And if we have to,

we'll sue the Journal.

WALTER (O.S. - TEL)

And the press release?

ALAN:

We'll e-mail you the draft of the

press release, Walter. I got to go,

sorry.

(hangs up)

Call me a snitch, it gets a rise out

of me.

MICHAEL:

Unless it's true.

ALAN:

What?

49.

MICHAEL:

I mean if the shoe fits.

NANCY:

My son is a snitch?

MICHAEL:

Come on, I was joking around.

NANCY:

So is yours anyway.

MICHAEL:

What do you mean so is ours?

NANCY:

He snitched on Zachary.

MICHAEL:

We coaxed it out of him!

PENELOPE:

We're completely off point here.

NANCY:

Maybe you coaxed, but he did snitch

on him.

ALAN:

Nancy.

NANCY:

Nancy what?

(to MICHAEL:
)

You think my son is a snitch?

MICHAEL:

I don't think anything.

NANCY:

Well if you don't think anything then

don't say anything. Don't make

insinuations.

PENELOPE:

Nancy, let's not lose our cool here.

I mean Michael and I have gone out of

our way to be conciliating and fair-

minded...

NANCY:

Not so fair-minded.

PENELOPE:

Oh really? How's that?

NANCY:

Superficially fair-minded.

50.

ALAN:

Doodle, I really have to go.

NANCY:

So go. Coward.

ALAN:

Nancy, right now I'm in danger of

losing my most important client. So

this caring parent crap and the

bickering that goes along with it...

PENELOPE:

My son lost two teeth. Two incisors.

ALAN:

Right, yeah. I think we got that.

PENELOPE:

One of them permanently.

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Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage. Many of her brief satiric plays reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. more…

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