Moonstruck Page #16

LORETTA:

What did I do?

RONNY:

You ruined my life.

LORETTA:

That's impossible! It was ruint when

I got here! You ruint my life!

RONNY:

Oh no I didn't!

Loretta emerges from the closet, tucking in her blouse.

LORETTA:

Oh yes, oh yes you did! You've got

those bad eyes like a gypsy! Why

didn't I see it yesterday! Bad Luck!

Is that all I'm ever gonna have? Why

didn't I just pick up a stone and

kill myself years and years ago? I'm

gonna marry him!

RONNY:

What?

LORETTA:

Last night never happened, you hear

me? I'm gonna marry him anyway and

last night never happened, and you

and I are gonna take this to our

coffins!

RONNY:

I can't do that!

LORETTA:

Why not?

RONNY:

I'm in love with you!

Loretta stares at him in alarm, slaps his face, then studies

his face to see the effect of the slap. She is dissatisfied

and slaps him again.

LORETTA:

Snap out of it!

RONNY:

I can't!

LORETTA:

Alright. Then I must never see you

again. The bad blood will have to

stay there between you and Johnny

for all time. You won't come to the

wedding.

RONNY:

I'll come to the wedding.

LORETTA:

I'm telling you you can't.

RONNY:

But he wants me to come!

LORETTA:

But that's cause he don't know!

RONNY:

Alright. I will not come. Provided

one thing.

LORETTA:

What?

RONNY:

That you come with me tonight. Once.

To the Opera.

LORETTA:

What are you talking about?

RONNY:

I love two things. I love you, and I

love the Opera. If I can have the

two things that I love together for

one night, I will be satisfied to

give up the rest of my life.

LORETTA:

Alright.

RONNY:

Alright. Meet me at the Met.

LORETTA:

Alright. Where's the Met?

CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LITTLE ITALY - DAY

Camera moves from stained glass windows to confessional.

Loretta is next in line of THREE SINNERS waiting to go into

the confessional. A FORGIVEN WOMAN emerges from the curtained

booth and walks off to pay her penance. Loretta goes into

the booth.

INT. CHURCH - CONFESSIONAL - DAY

Loretta kneels. The slide opens and an OLD PRIEST'S FACE can

be seen in outline through the screen.

LORETTA:

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

It's been two months since my last

confession.

PRIEST:

What sins have you to confess?

LORETTA:

Twice I took the name of God in vain,

once I slept with the brother of my

fiancé, and once I bounced a check

at the liquor store -- but that was

really an accident.

PRIEST:

Then it was not a sin. But what was

that second thing you said, Loretta?

LORETTA:

I... a... slept with my fiancé's

brother.

PRIEST:

That's a pretty big sin.

LORETTA:

I know.

PRIEST:

You should think about this.

LORETTA:

I know.

PRIEST:

Alright. This is your penance. Say

two rosaries and... be careful,

Loretta. Reflect on your life.

LORETTA:

Alright.

PRIEST:

I absolve you in the name of the

Father, and of the Son, and of the

Holy Spirit, Amen.

INT. CHURCH - DAY

Loretta comes out of the confessional and enters a pew. She

crosses herself. Then she recognizes the back of a woman's

head a few pews down. She gets up, walks down the aisle, and

kneels down next to her mother, Rose.

LORETTA:

Hi.

ROSE:

(looking up from her

prayers)

Where you been?

LORETTA:

I don't wanna talk about it.

ROSE:

Just like your father. I lied to

him. He thinks you came home last

night.

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