Moonstruck Page #12

RONNY:

I like it well done.

LORETTA:

You'll eat this bloody to feed your

blood.

INT. RONNY'S APARTMENT -DINING ROOM - DAY

CU of Ronny's artificial hand, holding a fork stuck in a

steak. With his right he is cutting his steak. He switches

hands and eats hungrily. Loretta watches.

RONNY:

This is good. Uhh...

LORETTA:

Loretta.

RONNY:

Where'd Johnny find you?

LORETTA:

He knew my husband who died.

RONNY:

How'd he die?

LORETTA:

Bus hit him.

RONNY:

Fast.

LORETTA:

Instantaneous.

RONNY:

When you get engaged?

LORETTA:

Yesterday.

Ronny drops his knife and fork and turns away. Loretta is

not surprised and does not move.

RONNY:

Why?

LORETTA:

Why what?

RONNY:

I don't know.

LORETTA:

(smiles)

So. Five years ago your hand got cut

off and your woman left you for

another man. No woman since then?

RONNY:

No.

LORETTA:

Stupid.

RONNY:

When your husband get hit by the

bus?

LORETTA:

Seven years ago.

RONNY:

How many men since then?

LORETTA:

Just Johnny.

RONNY:

Stupid yourself.

LORETTA:

No. Unlucky. I have not been lucky.

RONNY:

I don't care about Luck, you

understand me? It ain't that.

LORETTA:

What? Do you think you're the only

one ever shed a tear?

RONNY:

Why you talking to me?

LORETTA:

You got any whiskey? How 'bout giving

me a glass of whiskey?

EXT. STREET NEAR BAKERY - DAY

SHOT OF COSMO & MONA IN THE BUICK

The car has just come to a stop. We see Cosmo & Mona kiss.

She exits car. Cosmo glances around with a slightly guilty

look and pulls away.

LORETTA AND RONNY AT THE TABLE WITH A BOTTLE OF WHISKEY

Camera is close on Scotch being poured into two glasses.

Loretta picks up her glass and swallows a healthy dose.

RONNY:

She was right to leave me.

LORETTA:

You think so?

RONNY:

Yes.

LORETTA:

You really are stupid, you know that.

Loretta pours herself another shot.

RONNY:

You don't know nothing about it.

LORETTA:

I was raised that a girl gets married

young. I didn't get married until I

was twenty-eight. I met a man. I

loved him. I married him. He wanted

to have a baby right away. I said

no. Then he got hit by a bus. No

man. No baby. No nothing! I did not

know that man was a gift I could not

keep. I didn't know... You tell me a

story and you think you know what it

means, but I see what the true story

is, and you can't.

(she pours them both

another drink)

She didn't leave you! You can't see

what you are. I can see everything.

You are a wolf!

RONNY:

I'm a wolf?

LORETTA:

The big part of you has no words and

it's-a wolf. This woman was a trap

for you. She caught you and you could

not get away.

(She grabs his wooden

hand)

So you chewed off your foot! That

was the price you had to pay to be

free.

(throws his hand down)

Johnny had nothing to do with it.

You did what you had to do, between

you and you, and I know I'm right, I

don't care what you say. And now

you're afraid because you found out

the big part of you is a wolf that

has the courage to bite off its own

hand to save itself from the trap of

the wrong love. That's why there has

been no woman since that wrong woman.

You are scared to death what the

wolf will do if you make that mistake

again!

RONNY:

What are you doing!

LORETTA:

I'm telling you your life!

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