Hardcore Page #25
- R
- Year:
- 1979
- 108 min
- 1,689 Views
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Jake's rental car pulls into a San Francisco Travel Lodge.
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Niki places a call from a phone booth. Jake watches the
passing denizens of North Beach.
The familiar sordid tableau is played out before his eyes:
massage parlors, peep shows, strip joints, sex shops.
NIKI:
(hangs up phone)
Tod'll meet you at the bookstore at
Eddy and O'Farrell tomorrow noon. I
told him you were a 'specialty'
customer.
JAKE:
Why can't I meet him now?
Niki, cocky, walks next to Jake. She is in her element. She
calls out to a pimp:
NIKI:
I hope your prick falls off.
Jake, surprised, turns away from the pimp's cold stare.
JAKE:
Why can't I meet him now?
Niki brazenly calls out to a strutting hooker:
NIKI:
Rot in hell, honey.
(to Jake)
He's busy now.
JAKE:
Where does he live.
NIKI:
Just a second. It's my ass I'm
risking. You better do it my way.
These f***ers don't mess around.
Niki walks off. Jake follows.
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Jake's rental car is parked outside his motel room.
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INT. JAKE'S ROOM - NIGHT
Jake sits on the edge of his bed, studying the crease in his
trousers.
His shirt is partiallly open.
Niki, swigging a Coke sits squatted atop the built in desk.
JAKE:
I must have been in more motel rooms
this week than in the rest of my
life. At least it feels that way.
NIKI:
I know what you mean. After a while
they all look the same.
JAKE:
They are the same.
NIKI:
Do you live in a house back in
wherever.
JAKE:
Grand Rapids? Of course.
NIKI:
On your own land?
Jake nods.
NIKI:
(continuing)
Just you and your daughter?
Jake nods.
NIKI:
(continuing)
Look, I really don't know your
daughter but...
JAKE:
But what?
NIKI:
I wouldn't expect too much. I mean
about her coming back. Once a girl
gets into the life.
JAKE:
What makes you so sure?
NIKI:
(changing the subject)
You wife isn't dead is she?
Van Dorn surprised, turns around.
JAKE:
Why do you say that?
NIKI:
Just a guess. She ain't dead though
is she?
Jake shakes his head "no."
NIKI:
(continuing)
She left you right?
JAKE:
Yeah.
(a beat)
She was the one called Joanne. How'd
you find that out?
NIKI:
Just a guess. Did you have it good
with your wife? You know, sex.
Jake resents Niki's forwardness: what business of hers is
this?
JAKE:
I don't blame you, Niki. Really I
don't. It's this culture, where
everything's based on sex, sold on
sex...
(starts to get angry)
...magazines, music, TV. It's
destroying everything. Buy this 'cause
of sex, use this 'cause of sex. Kids
think it's normal. They think they're
supposed to talk dirty, wear scanty
clothes...
NIKI:
(interrupting)
Don't get upset. I lied too. I don't
make no five hundred dollars a week.
Everything I make goes to Granville.
JAKE:
Granville?
NIKI:
My man. 'Pimp.' I split 'cause he
don't treat me for sh*t. Thinks he's
so cool 'cause he's black. I once
tried to take my clothes but he says,
'You can't take 'em 'cause they're
my clothes -- I bought 'em.' Yeah,
with my f***ing money...
Jake doesn't want to get involved with Niki's problems:
JAKE:
Look, Niki, this really isn't my
business. I don't know anything
about...
NIKI:
So I guess we're both f***ed, huh?
But at least you get to go to heaven.
I don't get sh*t.
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