Moonstruck Page #13

RONNY:

Stop it!

LORETTA:

No!

RONNY:

Why are you marrying Johnny? He's a

fool!

LORETTA:

Because I have no Luck!

RONNY:

(pounding on the table)

He made me look the wrong way and I

cut off my hand. He could make you

look the wrong way and you could cut

off your whole head!

LORETTA:

I am looking where I should to become

a bride!

RONNY:

A bride without a head!

LORETTA:

A wolf without a foot!

Ronny stiff-arms everything off the dining table and grabs

Loretta. They kiss passionately. He pulls her up on the table

and over the table to him. They are in each other's arms.

They are on fire. Loretta pushes him away, gasping for air.

LORETTA:

Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

She changes her mind and lunges into another kiss. They stop

again after a long moment. They really haven't breathed.

They both suck in air and look at each other in wonder and

fear and passion.

RONNY:

It's like I'm falling! It's like I'm

in the ocean!

They kiss again. When they pull apart again, Loretta is

crying.

LORETTA:

I have no Luck!

He picks her up in his arms.

RONNY:

Son of a b*tch!

LORETTA:

Where are you taking me?

RONNY:

To the bed.

LORETTA:

Oh. Oh God. I don't care about

anything. I don't care about anything!

Take me to the bed.

He carries her away, into the bedroom.

MUSIC:
"O SOAVE FANCIULLA", from "La Boheme." The MUSIC

CONTINUES THROUGH THE NEXT SCENE.

INT. RONNY'S APARTMENT - BEDROOM

Ronny is laying her down in the bed. He is over her. They

look into each other's eyes.

RONNY:

I can't believe what is happening.

LORETTA:

Me neither.

RONNY:

I was dead.

LORETTA:

I was dead, too.

They kiss. When they part there is a drop of blood on

Loretta's lips.

RONNY:

Your blood.

LORETTA:

All my life I have never reached a

man. I knew that I would reach my

husband, but I took my time and he

was dead. Ronny.

RONNY:

Loretta.

LORETTA:

I want to cut you open and crawl

inside of you. I want you to swallow

me.

RONNY:

I've got you.

LORETTA:

Get all of me. Take everything.

RONNY:

What about Johnny?

LORETTA:

You're mad at him, take it out on

me, take your revenge on me! Take

everything, leave nothing for him to

marry! Hollow me out so there's

nothing left but the skin over my

bones. Suck me dry!

RONNY:

Alright. Alright. There will be

nothing left.

Their eyes are boiling with fierce animal tears. They have

opened their souls to each other and they are coming together.

The MUSIC SWELLS to a terrible triumph.

EXT. THE CASTORINI HOUSE - NIGHT

Dog whines over exterior.

INT. THE CASTORINI HOUSE - AN UPSTAIRS BEDROOM - NIGHT

With five beds for dogs. Four of the beds are empty and on

the fifth Judas is whining. He looks around at the other

beds. Where is everybody? He goes out the bedroom door.

THE CASTORINI STAIRCASE - NIGHT

Judas is running down the stairs and into the hall. We FOLLOW

HIM down the hall. The hall is only dimly lit. He finds the

four other dogs. They are crowded at a narrow doorway.

From the doorway comes a golden light.

INT. THE CASTORINI HOUSE - DINING ROOM - NIGHT

THE PLEASED FACE OF COSMO THROUGH A VEIL OF STEAM

The CAMERA PULLS BACK.

We are in the Castorini dining room. Cosmo sits at the head

of the table, a napkin tucked into his shirt.

Rose has just laid down a massive platter of steaming baked

fish. Already on the table is a platter of pasta, loaves of

bread, a big bowl of salad, two bottles of wine, and an

appetizer plate of salami and pimento. Seated at the table

is COSMO, the Old Man, and RAYMOND and RITA CAPPOMAGGI.

Raymond is rotund, moon-faced, bald, somewhere in his fifties.

He has a pencil-thin mustache over his small mouth. His wife,

Rita, looks very like him, except she has hair on her head

and none on her lip. Raymond is Rose's brother. There are

two empty places at table, for Rose and Loretta.

COSMO:

Where's Loretta? We're gonna start

without her.

ONE OF THE ENTRANCE WAYS TO THE DINING ROOM

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