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Ninotchka Page #19
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- 1939
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Leon is disappointed.
BULJANOFF:
And Leonitchka! What she said about
us...!
IRANOFF:
And they might believe her in Moscow.
BULJANOFF:
What do you mean they might -- they
will!
KOPALSKI:
We don't blame you, Leon, but when
we came from Russia we believed in
simplicity...
IRANOFF:
We avoided luxury and extravagance
and today... well, if you were to
offer us a glass of champagne, we
wouldn't say no.
Leon is so engrossed in his thoughts that he overlooks the
hint.
LEON:
Well, boys, I'd like to help you but
what can I do? Yesterday I waited
six hours in the lobby!
KOPALSKI:
She doesn't leave her room! She has
been locked in for the last two days
with lawyers and law books!
LEON:
All right, then make an appointment
with her so I can see her!
KOPALSKI:
We can't... but you are so ingenious,
Leon...
IRANOFF:
You found your way to us and we
weren't easy to reach, were we?
LEON:
No, no.
BULJANOFF:
Didn't we put up a strong resistance?
LEON:
Oh, yes, yes.
KOPALSKI:
You must help us, Leon... if you
don't win her over we're on our way
to Siberia!
BULJANOFF:
Or it might be the firing squad!
KOPALSKI:
Or we can't go back to Russia!
An idea dawns on Iranoff.
IRANOFF:
What's wrong with that?
Kopalski and Buljanoff seize on the same idea.
BULJANOFF:
Yes! We could stay with Leon!
IRANOFF:
Leon, how would you like to have
three lifelong friends?
LEON:
Boys, boys... don't forget Russia is
your mother country. Three sons
walking out all at once... that's
too much for any mother.
BULJANOFF:
Well, if your mother turns against
you, you have to look for someone to
adopt you.
Swana's voice comes from the next room.
SWANA:
Leon! Just a minute...
Leon goes back to the other room.
LEON'S BEDROOM -- CLOSE SHOT, shooting toward the door of
the living room.
Swana stands putting on her gloves.
SWANA:
I'm leaving, dear. I'm lunching at
Fouquet's if you can make it, and...
Leon, remember, a man should think
it over twice before he decides to
become a mother.
She kisses him lightly and walks out.
LIVING ROOM -- ROYAL SUITE -- MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT -- AT THE
DESK:
It is piled deep with law books and papers. Ninotchka sits
at it, conferring with two Lawyers.
FIRST LAWYER:
(uncertainly)
I seem to remember some additional
injunctive provision dealing with
the property of foreigners residing
in France.
NINOTCHKA:
(with the precision
of a machine)
You are referring to paragraph 59b,
section 25f of the Civil Code.
The Lawyers exchange a glance of surprise at her knowledge.
One of them takes up one of the law books and as he starts
to look up the case, Ninotchka speaks.
NINOTCHKA:
Page eight hundred twenty-four.
Again the Lawyers exchange a glance of astonishment.
NINOTCHKA:
And do not fail to read the three
footnotes. While you are studying it
I will eat.
(She picks up the
telephone)
Food please.
A LITTLE CORNER IN THE ROOM SERVICE PANTRY
Rakonin is answering the telephone.
RAKONIN:
(into phone)
Room service... Just a moment please.
He beckons to someone out of the scene. Leon enters the scene
and takes the telephone.
LEON:
(with an assumed French
accent -- into phone)
Room service speaking.
CLOSE SHOT -- NINOTCHKA -- AT THE PHONE
NINOTCHKA:
(into phone)
Send me a plate of raw carrots and
beets, beets predominating on a ratio
of sixty-forty... What? There is a
strike in the kitchen? Good! Will
you assure the strikers of my hearty
sympathy in their cause. I hope they
will not weaken in their demands and
tell them to put no dressing
whatsoever on my vegetables... What?
You won't serve me either? Now look
here, Comrade, I think it is a fine
idea to let the capitalists go without
luncheon but when you keep food away
from me you're weakening the people.
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