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Ninotchka Page #21
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- 1939
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NINOTCHKA:
Bring me something simple. I never
think about food.
PÈRE MATHIEU
(horrified)
But, madame! If you don't think about
food what do you think about?
NINOTCHKA:
The future of the common people.
PÈRE MATHIEU
(sagely)
That also is a question of food,
madame. I'll bring you a nice little
lunch à la Père Mathieu.
(he exits)
Leon leans toward Ninotchka with mock humility.
LEON:
Pardon me for addressing you but you
insulted him, you know that. You
hurt his feelings. It was just like
telling a musician you don't like
music. That good old man believes in
food as you believe in Karl Marx.
You can't go around hurting people,
Comrade Yakushova, but maybe you can
make it up to him. Do you know how?
(He changes to the
chair at his table
which is closest to
her table)
By eating everything with relish, by
drinking everything with gusto, by
having a good time for the first
time in your natural life!
NINOTCHKA:
I don't like your following me.
LEON:
I didn't follow you.
NINOTCHKA:
Then how did you get here?
LEON:
I always eat here.
NINOTCHKA:
This is a place for workmen.
LEON:
(laying it on thick)
But my dear child, I am most at home
among working men. I hate the places
where you circulate -- the Hotel
Clarence... This is my natural
element. After all, what are any of
us? Workingmen! At least, those of
us who are worth our salt. Hyah?
He waves off scene to a truckman.
TRUCKMAN:
He is in the middle of an enormous gulp of food. He registers
surprise, winks at his companion, and then, deciding to humor
a drunk, waves back energetically at Leon in greeting.
CUT BACK TO:
CLOSE SHOT -- LEON AND NINOTCHKA
Leon has been so successful with the truckman he tries it on
another.
LEON:
Hyah!
Another truckman responds with equal exuberance.
LONG SHOT -- RESTAURANT
Leon, intoxicated with his success, waves to the whole room.
LEON:
Hyah, fellows!
He gets a wonderful response from all. They realize that a
LEON AND NINOTCHKA
LEON:
(boastfully)
They are all my friends. They're a
swell bunch!
Père Mathieu enters the shot and serves a plate of soup to
Leon and one to Ninotchka.
LEON:
(trying his bluff on
Père Mathieu)
Ah, my friend! I'm happy to see you
again!
PÈRE MATHIEU
I'm always glad to meet a new
customer, and I hope this first visit
will not be your last.
He exits out of shot.
Ninotchka, her suspicion confirmed, looks at Leon.
LEON:
Just an old man. His memory is getting
weak.
NINOTCHKA:
What are you after?
LEON:
Must one always be after something?
NINOTCHKA:
Your tactics are useless. My name is
neither Buljanoff, Iranoff, nor
Kopalski.
LEON:
Oh, Ninotchka, who wants to talk
business. If you win the suit, fine.
If we win the suit, better. You do
me an injustice.
(He moves over to her
table, leaving the
soup at his table)
When we went to my apartment did I
have the slightest idea that you had
any connection with this deal?
NINOTCHKA:
But you have now, and I know now
that you are a man who employs
business methods which in Russia
would be punished by death.
LEON:
Death! Death! Always so glum! What
about life, Ninotchka! Do Russians
never think of life? Of the moment
in which we are living? The only
moment we really have? Don't take it
all so seriously, Ninotchka. Nothing
is worth it. Please... relax... I
beg you, Sergeant... smile!
NINOTCHKA:
(astonished)
What?
LEON:
Will you smile?
NINOTCHKA:
Why?
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