Joe Versus the Volcano Page #11

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ANGELICA (O.S.)

Here we are.

Now we see Angelica and Joe approach the dock and start

walking down it. We see them FROM the back and hear them

talking.

JOE:

Is that it?

ANGELICA:

Yeah.

JOE:

It's big.

They approach the yacht, which is called The Tweedle Dee.

It has on its hull a single arrogant eye that looks

haughtily at Joe. On the dock by the yacht are the four

steamer trunks. Sitting on a piling, staring balefully

at the trunks is a magnificent, athletic, truly feminine,

blonde, blue-eyed woman in her late twenties. This is

PATRICIA. On The Tweedle Dee two boat boys, MIKE and

TONY, ready the yacht for departure; they are young and

shining and strong. Joe and Angelica arrive at the slip.

Patricia looks just like Dede and Angelica. Joe does a

take.

JOE:

(to Angelica)

You say this is your half-

sister?

ANGELICA:

Yeah.

PATRICIA:

What's the trunks, Felix?

JOE:

They're my... My name's not

Felix, it's Joe.

PATRICIA:

I know.

(calling out)

Mike! Tony! Find a place for

these boxes.

Mike and Tony jump off the yacht and proceed to load the

trunks.

PATRICIA:

That outfit's wearing you,

Felix.

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JOE:

Why are you calling me Felix?

My name's Joe.

PATRICIA:

I'm calling you Felix because

I do what I want. Hello,

Angelica.

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ANGELICA:

Hello, Patricia.

PATRICIA & ANGELICA

(simultaneously)

Do you know where Daddy is?

PATRICIA (to Joe)

We never know where our father

is and we always suspect that

the other one knows. But it's

all phone calls and telegrams,

hey, Angelica?

ANGELICA:

Well, you're in a rotten mood.

PATRICIA:

It's the sunshine. It gets me

down.

The boat boys have finished bringing aboard the last

trunk.

ANGELICA:

Where are you going?

PATRICIA:

Can you believe it? Dad said

not to tell you. Goes with my

theory. Power makes you

paranoid.

Mike calls out from the yacht.

MIKE:

All set.

Patricia hops off the piling.

PATRICIA:

Well, get ready to heave,

Felix.

Joe gets angry.

JOE:

My name is Joseph or Joe.

Patricia deflates a bit.

PATRICIA:

Alright. Joe. Get ready.

We're leaving.

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Joe turns to Angelica and speaks to her privately.

JOE:

'Bye.

ANGELICA:

'Bye.

JOE:

Listen. Don't take drugs.

ANGELICA:

Okay.

JOE:

Wish me luck.

ANGELICA:

Good luck.

He takes her hand and gives her a little kiss on the

cheek. She notes his hand. She's puzzled.

ANGELICA:

You're shaking.

He smiles, examining his hand.

JOE:

Am I? A little.

(looks at the land in

the distance behind

her)

Yeah.

He runs up the gangway. Patricia has already boarded the

boat. The boat boys are casting off. Patricia takes the

wheel. But we are still WITH Angelica on the dock. She

stands there. Slowly, as the yacht pulls away, she

waves. Joe stands at the railing, the sails still furled

behind him. He waves back.

Now we are WITH Joe on the yacht, at the railing. He

waves a little, and then his eyes rove the shore.

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Joe looks at the flag on the stern of The Tweedle Dee. He

looks up from the flag at his departing homeland. A

ghost image of the flag follows his glance up so that he

sees the following through that image. He sees Angelica

on the dock, and then the boats behind her, and then the

parking lot behind that. And then the hills in the

distance off to his left. And the rich people's houses

off to his right.

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And cars on roads. And a smokestack. He sees all this

through the ghost image of that American flag. He sees

his homeland. Receding. He's leaving his homeland. He

will never see it again. And now we see again:

69JOE - AT RAIL - DAY 69

Staring, moved, determined. His clothes are a bit much,

but he almost fills them in this moment. A wind comes up

and sweeps his safari hat off his head, into the ocean.

He flinches slightly at the loss.

70HAT - DAY 70

swirling away into the wake. But now we see again:

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And after a glance, he gives up the hat without regret.

He continues to look after the receding land. Without

the hat he looks great. His hair blows in the wind and

he stares and stares.

72EXT. YACHT - FROM FEW HUNDRED YARDS AWAY - DAY 72

The Tweedle Dee has cleared the harbor and the boat boys

have started unfurling the sails. The huge, snowy sails

fill with a rich wind.

73INT. YACHT - GALLEY - DAY 73

The chef, a German named DAGMAR, is laying out lovely

nicoise salads. Tony awaits Dagmar's pleasure.

DAGMAR:

Have you put out the

sunflowers, yet?

TONY:

Yeah.

DAGMAR:

Good! Go.

Tony picks up the salads and exits.

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Which is shaded by a canopy. At the table sit Joe and

Patricia. On the table are place settings, white wine,

and glasses. Tony serves their plates and goes.

JOE:

Looks delicious.

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PATRICIA:

We eat well aboard The Tweedle

Dee.

JOE:

The Tweedle Dee?

PATRICIA:

That's the name of this boat.

JOE:

Oh.

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PATRICIA:

So we're going to the island

of Waponi Woo.

JOE:

I guess so.

PATRICIA:

Why?

JOE:

You don't know?

PATRICIA:

No.

JOE:

Have you ever been there?

PATRICIA:

No. All I know about Waponi

Woo is that the name means

'the little island with the

big volcano,' and that the

people, the Waponis, like

orange soda.

JOE:

They like orange soda.

PATRICIA:

(produces a book called

History of Polynesia)

Yeah. But here! I've got a

book. 'Eighteen hundred years

ago, a Roman galley with a

crew of Jews and Druids, got

caught in a huge storm off

Carthage. They were swept a

thousand miles off course, and

ended up on the wrong side of

the horn of Africa. Thinking

they were returning to Rome,

they sailed deep into the

South Pacific, and finally

ended by colonizing a lightly

populated, Polynesian island

which they named Waponi Woo.

Thus was born the Waponi

culture - a mixture of

Polynesian, Celtic, Hebrew and

Latin influences. The Waponis

are known throughout Polynesia

as having a peculiar love of

orange soda and no sense of

direction.

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JOE:

Why'd you talk to me so snotty

back on the dock?

PATRICIA:

Because you work for my

father. And I'm angry with my

father. But he's not around

to give him a shot. So you

work for him, I give you a

shot.

JOE:

Why you angry with him?

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PATRICIA:

Because he's never around.

JOE:

If you're angry with him, and

he's never around, why are you

working for him?

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