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Hero Page #19
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2002
- 107 min
- 2,130 Views
BUBBER:
Uh, er... I...
GALE:
(amused and charmed)
You were saying you don't want a
million dollars.
BUBBER:
(blurting)
Well, I'm not entitled to a million
dollars. I... I... didn't expect...
I didn't expect...
GALE:
All the adulation? It makes you
feel like a fake, doesn't it?
BUBBER:
Uh, actually... yes... I... should
never have come forward and
presented myself as --
Just then a distinguished MILLIONAIRE on the way to his table
barks gruffly at BUBBER...
MILLIONAIRE:
You're a credit to the goddamn human
race. Coulda been me in that plane.
Or my family.
BUBBER:
Uh, thank you.
GALE:
Instant celebrity is overwhelming
to anybody. You've known John
Bubber all your life, you're used
to him, you know you're the same
human being you were before all the
excitement. So you feel like a
fraud...
BUBBER:
Yes.
GALE:
...unworthy of the adoration. We
all do.
A bluehaired MATRON, extravagantly bejeweled, pauses to loom
over BUBBER on her way out.
MATRON:
I'm going to donate a half million
to charity in your name. Would
small animals be all right?
BUBBER:
(startled)
Uh, "small animals"?
MATRON:
(delighted)
I knew a man like you would adore
small animals. God bless you,
Mister Bubber.
(to Gale)
And you, my dear, you do so much
for women.
And then she's gone in a swish of silk, leaving BUBBER stunned.
BUBBER:
Is she... serious? A half a million
dollars? In my behalf?
GALE:
You're a celebrity, John. People
are going to want to please you...
or use you... or both.
Bubber hears this, digests it, considers it. He takes a bite
of food, thinking.
EXT. RESTAURANT - NIGHT
As the door to the restaurant opens, BUBBER finds himself
blinded by winking electronic flashes and sun guns. A CROWD
OF FANS and MEDIA engulf him and GALE. It's overwhelming. WE
SEE EAGER FACES and BLINDING FLASHES from BUBBER'S P.O.V. and
HEAR the CACOPHONY OF QUESTIONS.
GALE too is adrift in a churning sea of MEDIA and ONLOOKERS.
POLICE OFFICERS move close to help guide GALE and BUBBER to a
waiting limo.
ANGLE ON BUBBER'S P.O.V.
Again we see the chaos from BUBBER'S P.O.V., A POLICEMAN is
reaching to help him. Just then BUBBER glimpses something
else... beyond the CROWD in the fringes... HOMELESS PEOPLE in
the shadows, some applauding him, too shy to come forward. In
particular, BUBBER'S eyes fall on an ungainly MAN, his own age,
dressed in rags and carrying a big garbage bag and another net
sack full of cans. IT'S A STUNNING IMAGE! It's as though
BUBBER is looking at himself!
The door to the limo is open. GALE and several POLICEMEN are
trying to get BUBBER into the limo and out of the clutches of
the enthusiastic CROWD.
GALE:
Come on, John.
But BUBBER isn't paying attention to her. He's turning to face
the eager CROWD, raising his arms.
BUBBER:
Hey, hey, uh, take it easy.
ANGLE ON GALE:
looking alarmed, then amazed.
The CROWD is still alive and buzzing, but they're respecting
BUBBER'S space as he accepts an autograph book from a young
woman, SYLVIA, and speaks shyly.
BUBBER:
You, uh, want me to sign this? Uh,
what's your name?
SYLVIA:
(weak in the knees,
smitten)
S-sylvia.
BUBBER:
(almost shy)
Hey, if I sign this, will you do
me a favor?
Her COMPANIONS are already teasing her as they thrust pieces of
paper, magazines at him to sign.
ANGLE ON GALE:
watching in disbelief.
ANGLE ON BUBBER:
signing one after another as he addresses all those close to
him.
BUBBER:
What I'd like is...
(addressing the group)
-- maybe some of the rest of you
could help Sylvia here -- what I'd
like is if you'd scrounge up some
blankets -- used ones, fifty maybe
-- and take 'em to the folks down
at the corner of Fifth and Grand.
Pass 'em out.
Cameras are rolling, GALE watches, amazed.
FAT KID:
Fifth and Grand!
SKINNY KID:
He means the homeless people. The
bums.
BUBBER:
It gets cold down there at night.
And you'll feel warmer for every
person you give a blanket to.
GALE'S knits her brow, trying to reconcile this performance with
the apparent yokel she had dinner with a short time ago.
INT. LIMO/MOVING - MOMENTS LATER
BUBBER looks back at the CROWD as the limo pulls away.
BUBBER:
I'll bet they do it. I'll bet they
get some blankets.
GALE looks at BUBBER, reevaluating him.
INT. HOTEL LOBBY - LATER - NIGHT
As BUBBER and GALE cross the luxurious lobby, again the center
of attention, a GORGEOUS BLONDE, very leggy, practically
plasters her plunging neckline against BUBBER.
GORGEOUS BLONDE:
Uplifting! What you did was so
uplifting! You're a saint, John
Bubber!
BUBBER has trouble untangling his eyes from her tits.
BUBBER:
Uh, no. But I, uh, wonder if you
could up support... support a
program to help the needy and...
GALE:
(hackles raised)
John, I'm sure she could support
just about anything.
(steering him away)
I think I'll see you to your room.
A sort of bodyguard. Make sure no
harm comes to you.
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