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- 1939
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NINOTCHKA:
I will start with you.
LEON:
That's great. I'm thirty-five years
old. Just over six feet tall. I weigh
a hundred and eighty-two pounds
stripped.
NINOTCHKA:
And what is your profession?
LEON:
Keeping my body fit, keeping my mind
alert, keeping my landlord appeased.
That's a full-time job.
NINOTCHKA:
And what do you do for mankind?
LEON:
For mankind not a thing -- for
womankind the record is not quite so
bleak.
NINOTCHKA:
You are something we do not have in
Russia.
LEON:
Thank you. Thank you.
NINOTCHKA:
That is why I believe in the future
of my country.
LEON:
I begin to believe in it myself since
I've met you. I still don't know
what to make of it. It confuses me,
it frightens me a little, but it
fascinates me, Ninotchka.
NINOTCHKA:
You pronounce it incorrectly. Ni-
notchka.
LEON:
Ni-notchka.
NINOTCHKA:
That is correct.
LEON:
Ninotchka, do you like me just a
little bit?
NINOTCHKA:
Your general appearance is not
distasteful.
LEON:
Thank you.
NINOTCHKA:
Look at me. The whites of your eyes
are clear. Your cornea is excellent.
LEON:
Your cornea is terrific. Tell me --
you're so expert on things -- can it
be that I'm falling in love with
you?
NINOTCHKA:
You are bringing in wrong values.
Love is a romantic designation for a
most ordinary biological, or shall
we say chemical, process. A lot of
nonsense is talked and written about
it.
LEON:
Oh, I see. What do you use instead?
NINOTCHKA:
I acknowledge the existence of a
natural impulse common to all.
LEON:
What can I possibly do to encourage
such an impulse in you?
NINOTCHKA:
You don't have to do a thing.
Chemically we are already quite
sympathetic.
LEON:
(bewildered, and yet
completely intrigued)
You're the most improbable creature
I've ever met in my life, Ninotchka,
Ninotchka...
NINOTCHKA:
You repeat yourself.
LEON:
I'd like to say it a thousand times.
NINOTCHKA:
Don't do it, please.
LEON:
I'm at a loss, Ninotchka. You must
forgive me if I appear a little old-
fashioned. After all, I'm just a
poor bourgeois.
NINOTCHKA:
It's never too late to change. I
used to belong to the petty
bourgeoisie myself. My father and
mother wanted me to stay and work on
the farm, but I preferred the bayonet.
LEON:
(bewildered)
The bayonet? Did you really?
NINOTCHKA:
LEON:
Wounded? How?
NINOTCHKA:
I was a sergeant in the Third Cavalry
Brigade. Would you like to see my
wound?
LEON:
(dumfounded)
I'd love to.
(she pulls the blouse
off her shoulder and
shows him her scar)
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
NINOTCHKA:
A Polish lancer. I was sixteen.
LEON:
Poor Ninotchka. Poor, poor Ninotchka.
NINOTCHKA:
(readjusting her blouse)
Don't pity me. Pity the Polish lancer.
After all, I'm alive.
More and more puzzled and fascinated, Leon sits down close
to her.
LEON:
What kind of a girl are you, anyway?
NINOTCHKA:
Just what you see. A tiny cog in the
great wheel of evolution.
LEON:
You're the most adorable cog I ever
saw in my life. Ninotchka, Cogitska,
let me confess something. Never did
I dream I could feel like this toward
a sergeant.
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