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Chasing Amy Page #10
- R
- Year:
- 1997
- 113 min
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HOLDEN:
Just toss one.
Alyssa picks up a ball, squints to aim, and whips it
overhand. It pops off one of the circles and shoots back
at them, missing them as they duck. An OC knock and an
"OW!" is heard. Holden reacts as Alyssa laughs.
HOLDEN:
(to OC guy)
I'm sorry, man. She's new at this.
Holden ducks as the ball comes sailing back at his head.
He gets up.
HOLDEN:
(to OC)
Thank you.
Underhand. Throw it underhand.
ALYSSA:
This is where you take straight chicks
on dates?
HOLDEN:
It's like Spanish Fly. This'll
probably be the first time I don't
score afterwards.
ALYSSA:
I don't know. I'm starting to get a
tingle in my bottom.
(tosses a ball)
Ten.
HOLDEN:
(grabs a ball)
So what'd you do last night?
(prepares to throw)
ALYSSA:
Got laid
Holden whips the ball in surprise. It ricochets off the
ceiling and through the glass of an old pinball machine.
Alyssa laughs. Holden looks around, nervously.
ALYSSA:
Some more of that skill you were
telling me about?
HOLDEN:
Maybe we should just leave before
somebody gets hurt.
ALYSSA:
No way. I want a cheap prize.
(throws a ball)
So your friend's quite the homophobe.
HOLDEN:
He just feels left out, I think.
ALYSSA:
I'm not talking about his infantile
hang-up with me. I'm talking about
when you two were playing that game.
Everytime he swore - when his players
messed up, he called them cocksuckers,
he referred to the players as queers,
he called you a cock-teaser...
HOLDEN:
I thought he was talking to you.
ALYSSA:
I know you think it means nothing, and
it may in fact be unintentional, but
it's ugly all the same.
HOLDEN:
He was just pissed he was losing.
ALYSSA:
So he slams the gay community?
HOLDEN:
C'mon. Don't get all p.c. on me.
ALYSSA:
I'm not. But what is that saying?
HOLDEN:
It says he gets too easily frustrated.
ALYSSA:
It's passive/agressive gay-bashing.
HOLDEN:
How do you figure?
ALYSSA:
How casually did it roll off his
tongue? And that's how he expresses
his anger? By calling people faggots?
HOLDEN:
I think you're reading too much into
it.
ALYSSA:
I think you're just so used to it that
it rolls off your back. I've heard
the two of you play your little rank
out game where one insists the other
is gay.
(as the boys)
"You're a f*ggot. No, you're a
f*ggot." It's cute and all to watch
you go at it like grade-schooler, but
it's also offensive - labeling and
ducking the label of being gay as if
it were the scarlet f***ing letter.
HOLDEN:
You're blowing this way out of
proportion. We live in a more
tolerant age now. You refer to
yourself as a dyke. Hooper calls
himself a f*ggot all the time...
ALYSSA:
Yeah, but that's what's known as
empowerment/disempowerment. I call
myself a dyke so it's not too
devastating when some throwback
screams it at me as I'm leaving a bar
at night.
Same for Hooper - by calling himself a
f*ggot, he steals the thunder away
from the mouthy jerks of this world
who'd like to beat him to it. But the
difference between us having it and
your friend saying it is miles wide.
We say it to mask the pain - you say
it for lack of a better expression at
any given moment. No Holden, we do
not live in a more tolerant age. And
if you think that's the case, then
you've been in the suburbs way too
long to be resuscitated.
Holden kind of sulks. Alyssa notices.
ALYSSA:
But you know what?
(picks up his face)
I have more faith in you than that.
(rips her tickets off)
Come on - I want my cheap prize.
INT STUDIO - NIGHT
Holden enters. Banky's still playing Sega. Holden sits
next to him.
HOLDEN:
(off screen)
How bad do you suck!
BANKY:
How was your pseudo-date?
HOLDEN:
Leave it alone.
BANKY:
That chick bugs me.
HOLDEN:
(rubs his head; in baby-talk)
Aww. Everyone bugs you.
BANKY:
Get off.
(off game)
F***ing f*ggot! Did you see that?!
Your dyke courting ass just got me
scored on!
HOLDEN:
(beat)
You know, you should watch that. If
you're going to get all bent out of
shape while playing the game, so much
so that you need to curse the t.v.,
try not to gay-bash it, alright.
You're nor that kind of guy.
(gets up)
And don't call her a dyke, alright?
She's a lesbian.
Holden goes to his drawing table and takes off his coat.
Banky sits there, shocked. He puts the controller down
and crosses to the drawing table.
BANKY:
What the f*** is going on here?
HOLDEN:
(pulling out pencil)
I'm starting a new page.
BANKY:
(smacking pencil away)
Not with this sh*t! With you. What
the f*** is going on with you and that
girl?
HOLDEN:
We're friends.
BANKY:
She's programming you.
HOLDEN:
I beg your pardon? Programming?
BANKY:
Yeah. And apparently, you don't even
realize it. What does it matter if I
refer to her as a dyke, or if I call
the Whalers a bunch of faggots in the
privacy of my own office, far from the
sensitive ears of the rest of the
world?
HOLDEN:
It's passive/aggressive gay-bashing;
and I know you're not really
prejudiced at heart. You should just
find some other way to express your
anger, is all I'm saying.
Holden starts drawing. Banky stares at him. Then he
grabs the pencil out of Holden's hand and shoves him to
the side. He starts drawing something.
HOLDEN:
What the f*** are you doing!
BANKY:
Bear with me here. I just want to put
you through this little exercise.
(drawing feverishly)
Okay, now see this? This is a four
way road, okay?
Banky draws a four-way stop. He illustrates according to
his voice-over.
BANKY V.O.
And dead in the center, is a crisp,
new, hundred dollar bill. Now at the
end of each of the streets, are four
people, okay? You following? Up
here, we got a male-affectionate, easy-
to-get-along-with, no political agenda
lesbian. Okay? Now down here, we
have a man-hating, angry-as-f***,
agenda-of-rage, bitter dyke. To this
side, we got Santa Claus, right? And
over to this side - the Easter Bunny.
Banky finishes drawing. Holden's shaking his head
BANKY:
Which one's going to get to the
hundred dollar bill first?
HOLDEN:
What is this supposed to prove?
BANKY:
I'm serious. This is a serious
exercise. It's like an S.A.T.
question. Which one's going to get to
the hundred dollar bill first - the
male-friendly lesbian, the man-hating
dyke, Santa Claus, or the Easter
Bunny?
HOLDEN:
(beat; then pissed)
The man-hating dyke.
BANKY:
Good. Why?
HOLDEN:
I don't know.
BANKY:
(wildly crossing out the
other three)
BECAUSE THESE OTHER THREE ARE FIGMENTS
OF YOUR F***ING IMAGINATION!
Holden storms away. Banky follows.
HOLDEN:
I don't need this. I'm going home.
BANKY:
She's f***ing with your mind, man!
She knows you've got this schoolboy
crush and she's using it to sway your
way of thinking!
HOLDEN:
And why would she need to do that?
What is she Mata f***ing Hari?! What
does she gain?
BANKY:
Maybe she thinks you'll get her comic
picked up by Contender. Or maybe she
thinks you'll change the content of
our book to something more political
and message oriented. Or, gee - I
don't know - maybe because that's just
what dykes like to do: f*** around
with straight guys' heads, just so she
can go back to her little rug-muncher
club and have a good laugh with all
her man-hating harpy cronies about how
f***ing stupid and easily duped men
are!
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