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A clock strikes.
LEON:
Do you hear that?
NINOTCHKA:
It's twelve o'clock.
LEON:
It's midnight. One half of Paris is
making love to the other half. Look
at the clock. One hand has met the
other hand. They kiss. Isn't that
wonderful?
NINOTCHKA:
That's the way a clock works. There's
nothing wonderful about it. You merely
feel you must put yourself in a
romantic mood to add to your
exhilaration.
LEON:
I can't possibly think of a better
reason.
NINOTCHKA:
It's false sentimentality.
LEON:
(trying desperately
to make her mood
more romantic)
You analyze everything out of
existence. You analyze me out of
existence. I won't let you. Love is
not so simple. Ninotchka, Ninotchka,
why do doves bill and coo? Why do
snails, coldest of all creatures,
circle interminably around each other?
Why do moths fly hundreds of miles
to find their mates? Why do flowers
open their petals? Oh, Ninotchka,
Ninotchka, surely you feel some slight
symptom of the divine passion... a
general warmth in the palms of your
hands... a strange heaviness in your
limbs... a burning of the lips that
is not thirst but a thousand times
more tantalizing, more exalting,
than thirst?
He pauses, waiting for the results of his speech.
NINOTCHKA:
You are very talkative.
That is too much for Leon. He takes her into his arms and
kisses her.
LEON:
Was that talkative?
NINOTCHKA:
No, that was restful. Again.
Leon kisses her again.
NINOTCHKA:
Thank you.
LEON:
Oh, my barbaric Ninotchka. My
impossible, unromantic, statistical...
The telephone rings.
LEON:
(continuing)
Glorious, analytical...
NINOTCHKA:
The telephone is ringing.
LEON:
Oh, let it ring.
NINOTCHKA:
But one of your friends may be in
need of you. You must answer.
Leon exits out of shot to answer telephone.
Leon enters, sits down, takes the telephone.
LEON:
(into phone)
Hello?... Yes... I'm sorry but I
couldn't make it. I ran into a friend
from the army... What?... The deal
is off! Are you crazy, Buljanoff?...
CLOSE-UP -- NINOTCHKA
She is startled by the name.
LEON -- AT TELEPHONE
LEON:
...A special envoy arrived... What?...
That sounds better. I'll be glad to
see her any time she wants... Oh,
she doesn't want to see me? What do
you know about that? Why?... Well,
I'll get in touch with her myself.
What's her name?...
(he takes a pencil
and a piece of paper)
...What?... Yaku... How do you spell
it?... Heavens! those Russian names!
(he starts to write
it down)
...I... Oh, Y...
Camera pulls back and Ninotchka enters the shot. She takes
pencil from Leon's hand, writes out the name, and leaves
again. At first Leon is not aware of the full significance
of her action. Then it dawns on him.
LEON:
(continuing)
Yakushova... Ninotch...
At last the situation is entirely clear to him.
LEON:
(into phone)
All right. Thank you.
He hangs up and stares at Ninotchka. She is putting on her
jacket.
LEON:
(camera panning with
him as he walks over
to her)
Ninotchka...
He takes her arm.
NINOTCHKA:
I must go.
LEON:
Ninotchka, or shall I say Special
Envoy Yakushova...
NINOTCHKA:
Let's forget that we ever met.
LEON:
I have a better suggestion. Let's
forget that the telephone ever rang.
Yakushova... you are Ninotchka... my
Ninotchka...
NINOTCHKA:
(firmly)
I was sent here by my country to
fight you.
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