Opus 40: The Master-Work of Environmental Artist Harvey Fite

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(WAVES CRASHING)

(UP-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS)

(MEN SHOUTING)

You know how you

get rid of crabs?

MAN:
- How?

- You got to shave one testicle.

All the crabs go over

to the other testicle,

you got to light the hair

on fire on that one.

When they all go scurrying out, you take

an ice pick and you f***ing stab

- every single last one of them.

(MAN LAUGHING)

(MEN CHUCKLING)

(MACHINERY WHIRRING)

MAN:
(OVER RADIO) The Allied

armed forces have been ordered to

suspend offensive action.

The proclamation of V-J Day

must await upon

the formal signing

of the surrender terms by Japan.

MAN 2:
(OVER RADIO) The Japanese

delegation lines up on the opposite side

of the surrender table

from the Alliance.

A war which had entered its

eighth terrible year in China,

which had raged for three years and

nine months for America and Britain,

which was the brutal, costly,

eastern half of the most horrible

worldwide war in human history,

is now within minutes

of ending for good.

General MacArthur speaks.

MACARTHUR:
Let us pray that peace

be now restored to the world,

and that God will

preserve it always.

- These proceedings are closed.

(MURMURS INDISTINCTLY)

MAN 2:
Swarms of

United States aircraft

fly in formation overhead

as the ceremony ends.

The final United Nations

victory has been won.

The war is over, peace is here.

(MEN WHISTLING, SHOUTING)

MAN:
Move it in.

Move it in.

Next table, next table.

Move it in. Move it in.

Move it in.

MAN:
You men are blessed

with the rejuvenating

powers of youth.

The responsibilities of peacetime

must now be considered.

You can start a business:

filling station,

grocery or hardware store.

Get a few acres of land

and raise some chickens...

...go back to school.

Undoubtedly, there will be

people on the outside

who will not understand

the condition you men have,

or will think it

a rather shameful condition.

If the average civilian

had been through

the same stresses that

you have been through,

undoubtedly they too would have

developed the same nervous conditions.

Freddie, I'm going to show you

a series of pictures.

I want you to tell me the first

thing that comes to your mind.

There's no right or wrong answers.

Tell me what you see.

Well, that's a p*ssy,

a lady's p*ssy.

What about this one?

Looks like cock

going inside of a p*ssy.

All right, let's try it again.

Tell me what you see, Freddie.

That looks like...

That's just like a cock,

actually, upside down.

Thank you.

MAN:
You've had episodes

of enuresis?

(CHUCKLES)

Yes, that's right.

My kidneys were all tore up

from it all over there,

and it came on strong.

And what's this about

a crying episode?

What crying episode?

It says here you had a severe headache,

and a crying spell.

I didn't have a crying spell.

It was brought on by a letter

I received from a girl I knew once.

I think I...

I believe I suffered what,

in your profession,

you call nostalgia. (laughs)

It was nostalgia that was

brought on by a letter I received.

From your sweetheart?

No, sir, not my sweetheart.

The kid sister of a girl...

The kid sister of a friend of mine

I knew from back home.

I received this letter, and...

(STAMMERS, LAUGHS)

I received a letter and I read it.

According to the history here,

I notice that you say

- you saw a vision of your mother.

- Now, it wasn't a vision.

- It was a dream.

- Well, tell me about the dream.

Why?

- I need to know.

- Why do you need to know?

This will help in your treatment.

You can't help in my treatment,

you don't even know...

Well, it was my mother

and my father and me...

...back home.

We were sitting around a table...

...having drinks.

Laughing-

And it just sort of ended there.

Thanks for the help.

(CAMERA CLICKING)

FREDDIE:

Now, you have such pretty eyes,

I want the light to catch it.

Look more this way.

Chin up a little. OK.

(ELLA FITZGERALD:

"GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN")

FREDDIE:
And just look at me.

And smile.

- Beautiful.

(CAMERA CLICKS)

Ready?

Well, give a good smile.

Three, two, one.

Beautiful.

Only $49.99. Handmade.

Handmade imported mink.

Only $49.99.

Forty-nine, ninety-nine.

Only $49.99.

- You have a break coming?

- I hope so.

- When?

- Ten minutes.

(CHUCKLING)

- Ugh.

- Oh...

- Taste good?

(GROANING, CHUCKLING)

I have an apricot belly,

want to see?

Yes.

(GROANING)

(WOMAN LAUGHS)

I'm really a very good girl.

Where do you get

this idea about me?

Maybe we think the same

things at the same time.

Oh, my goodness.

I think we do.

What else do you

want to see, these?

Yes.

(GROANS)

- Are they nice?

- Yes.

- Handmade.

- Yes, they are.

- That's enough now.

- Oh...

Want to go out tonight?

Yeah, sure.

- Are you married?

MAN:
- Uh, yes.

- This for your wife?

- Pardon me?

- This for your wife?

- Uh, yes.

(BABIES CRYING)

Don't move. Just stay still.

It's a little warm.

It's hot.

I'm starting to sweat.

You need to shut up.

You need to move the God...

You need to shut up.

You need to back off.

Sit down.

I'm very sorry.

I'm trying to get

the lighting right.

You must understand,

I want to get the lighting right.

(LAUGHING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(PEOPLE SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Oh.

- That's enough.

MAN:
- Little bit.

(SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Drink that.

One gulp.

(CHUCKLES) - What's your name?

- Frank.

Frank.

You look like my father.

(CHATTERING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

FREDDIE:
Need some water.

We need to give him some water.

- I didn't put anything in his drink.

- Did you give him poison?

- No, everybody had the same thing.

- No, you're lying.

- I didn't lie, he's dehydrated.

- No, you poisoned him.

- No, I didn't poison him.

- No, you poisoned him.

- No. He took it, he took it himself.

- No. You poisoned him.

No, he needs some water.

- Move, move.

- No, no, you poisoned him.

- He needs some water.

- You poisoned him, you poisoned him.

Take it easy. Take it easy.

I didn't poison him.

I didn't do anything.

Please take your hands off me.

- I didn't poison him.

- You poisoned him.

I didn't do anything wrong, OK?

He took the drink himself,

he took it.

I didn't do anything.

(MEN SHOUTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(PANTING)

(UP-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS)

(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

WOMAN:
Good morning.

Are you all right?

Who are you?

Where am I?

WOMAN:
You're safe,

you're at sea.

Here. Come with me.

Come on.

Here.

All right.

All right.

Is this your ship?

I am its commander, yes.

Where is it going?

New York City,

through the canal.

You're a seaman.

Yeah. How did I get down here?

You were acting aggressive

because you drank too much alcohol.

No, I don't think so.

You told me you were an able-bodied

seaman, and you were looking for work.

I told you?

Yeah, well, you have any?

Why all the skulking

and sneaking?

Work cannot be that

difficult to come by.

That depends on when

you're ready to go.

- You shouldn't work in your condition.

- No, I can work.

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