Fanny Page #4

Maybe I'm getting thinner.

You should wear a belt.

Oh, all right.

I'll buy one.

You have a good appetite.

Not bad.

Your reading makes

you hungry, huh?

You know, Marius, a woman's

honor is like a match.

You can use it once.

There, a little present

from Fanny's mother.

It will save you the trouble

and expense of buying a new one.

Come on.

Come on!

Oh, no.

Don't, Mama, don't.

Here is the good woman now.

You can thank her in person.

Oh, Marius!

Marius!

Hm!

There they are Cesar!

Romeo and Juliet.

You will ask her to marry you

right now, or I get a pistol

And kill you.

Oh, Mama, don't.

Please.

Madame, if I ask your

daughter to marry me,

It won't be because

of your threats,

But because I love her.

If?

If?

What do you mean if?

Don't worry, Honorine.

He's just saving face.

I'll help him out.

Madame Cabernice, may I ask for

the hand of your daughter Fanny

For my son Marius?

I'll have to think it over.

Perfectly understandable.

You'll want to do a little

face-saving, yourself.

Fine with me.

Well, Sit down, Honorine.

I'll get some

paper, pen, and ink.

What for?

Well, the dowry.

The dowry you're

giving your daughter.

We'll want everything in

black and white, won't we?

Very

well, pen and ink.

And while you're at

it, a bottle of wine!

We'll drink to it, too!

He's a scoundrel, your son.

Ha, ha.

Quite a reader, too.

You haven't got much time.

She's going to sail.

I'm not going.

Not going?

No.

Now, what are you

giving your child?

All the shellfish in the shop.

If she looks after

it, she can make

As much as 40 francs

a day, net profit.

And you?

What will give them?

Well, uh, Marius can help

me in the bar until I retire.

Look.

After I die, Marius will have

this bar all for himself.

Ha, ha, ha.

By that time, he

should be able to make

A decent lemon pecan coureso.

They'll have a

wonderful life, Norine.

I've been very happy

behind this bar.

And Marius will have a

fine life behind it, too.

If you don't sail

on the Malazee,

You will be stuck here

the rest of your life.

Hey!

We're going to have a show!

Cappy!

Oh, how exciting.

Oh, thank you.

Go back a little more.

Go.

Cesar!

Cesar!

Look it!

Think what you're giving up!

Hey, Marius!

I'm going to see that ship sail.

You take care of the bar.

The scoundrel!

Come on!

How long do you think

you will keep him?

He will clean baths, wash

bottles, breed children,

And grow to hate the woman

who tied him to this life.

He will never hate me.

You wait and see.

Ha!

Monsieur the Captain,

distinguished scientists,

Ladies and gentlemen...

Some scientists.

We are

all here today...

Ha, ha.

Not one a day over 35.

No beards!

Not even eyeglasses!

It is going on

the scientific expedition

To the far corners of the earth.

We will stay here in

our humble surroundings

And spell out our

hum-drum lives,

While you sail the seven seas,

smell the perfumes of Arabia,

Plunders depths

of the Coral Seas.

What's the matter?

I saw your face when my

mother and your father

Were planning your life.

Why talk about it?

It's settled.

Do you really want

to marry me that much?

Marriage is for ones

who love, you know?

I know that.

Are you sure you

love me enough?

Look, there's the Malazee.

All you have to do

is cross the cape.

Don't tempt me, Fanny!

You heard what I told

the Admiral, I'm staying.

For how long?

If you help me, forever.

Marius, I don't

want you to stay

Because you think you have to.

You don't owe me anything.

I ran after you.

What are you trying

to do, force me to go?

No!

I just want you to be happy.

I want you to do what

you really want to do.

I don't understand you, Fanny.

If you really, really loved me,

you would try to hold me back

With every ounce of your

strength, wouldn't you?

What's changed you since last?

Alexandria!

Do... don't tell me

you're... you're sorry

Now you said no to Panisse?

Oh!

Are you?

Are you sorry?

Marius, while Cesar are my

mother were planning your life,

They were planning mine, too.

And I couldn't help it.

A different sort of life

was flashing before my eyes.

A beautiful home, not to

belong behind a bar and a maid

And dresses and everything.

Then it's true.

You are sorry you

said no to Panisse.

And I wasn't just

thinking of myself.

My mother is getting

old and tired.

There are other things to

life than love, aren't there?

Are there?

Last night meant nothing to you?

Were you lying to me last night.

Oh, no.

I wasn't lying to

you last night.

Well, Th... then

you're lying to me now.

Oh, god help me!

Help you?

Help you?

Help me make you understand.

Last night there was

moonlight on the water,

There was... there was music

from the boats... there

Was the fresh

scent from the sea.

Today... today,

there's only the smell

Of... of dishwater

and fish stalls.

The smell of money, you mean!

Marius?

Oh, Marius, go, before we say

things to each other that...

When I was... when I was

struggling with myself,

You were only thinking

of all the things

That go with Panisse!

Marius, go!

Go!

Hurry!

Leave me alone, will you?

Fanny, only you can stop me.

Now tell me that you

love me, and tell me now.

Marius, I tell you,

you are free to go.

All right, then it's settled!

Each to his love.

You marry Panisse's money,

and I will marry the sea!

Ha, ha!

will profit

by this important mission.

Gentlemen, we salute you.

We wish you well.

Come back when your noble

mission is accomplished.

Cesar, can I speak

to you a minute?

Of course.

Ha, ha, ha.

Fanny, my daughter-in-law.

Ha, ha.

Ah, it's happened.

Now, what is it you wanted

to talk to me about?

Cesar...

Marius, oh please, hurry!

Marius and I will

have to find an apartment.

What do you mean?

You... you will

both live with me.

Huh!

I don't to live alone.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

So long now.

Have you seen my

big room upstairs?

Ah, come!

I'll show it to you.

Just a little money, and some

taste, it can be fixed up.

Brum brum bum bum

bum bum bum bum bum

Brrum brum brump

a bum bum bum bum.

Brump a bum, brump a bum.

Cesar!

Brum brum

brum bum bum bum

Brump a bum brum bum brum brum.

Ha?

Quite a view from that window.

Ha, ha.

I'll take Marius' room, and

you two can have this one.

Cesar!

Cesar!

I'm here.

I'm up here.

Listen, Fanny, uh,

just one thing.

Leave the bed where it is.

Marius was born there and

his mother died there.

Cesar!

Well, what is it?

The Malazee's sailing.

Did you know that...

Is that what you

ran all the way for?

Now, look, Fanny.

You see this little door?

It leads to a little room.

Ah, if you like... ha, ha,

ha, it would please me...

You could put a

little bed in there.

Oh, not a very big bed.

You know, a tiny one.

In fact... Fanny!

Marius, Marius!

My god, where is he?

I'll get some rags.

Marius!

Marius!

Marius, where are you?

Marius?

Marius!

Kick it!

Kick it!

Shh!

Uh!

Pstt!

A tourist.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes