Ordinary People Page #4

analysis of it all.

How do you make sense of that

crap, anyway?

LAZENBY:

You read the crap!

DICKIE VAN BUREN

Oh, sh*t! When was the last time

you read something?

STILLMAN:

Yeah. Right! We swim our ass

everyday, when are we supposed to

study, uh?.

LAZENBY:

I swim and I study.

(CONTINUED)

13.

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STILLMAN:

Get a sense of reality, Lazenby.

(to Conrad) )

What you reading?

DICKIE VAN BUREN

(to Lazenby and

Stillman)

Meditation!

CONRAD:

Hardy.

DICKIE VAN BUREN

You guys tried meditation?

STILLMAN:

Meditation?

LAZENBY:

It's just like thinking, Stillman.

No, I don't do it too often.

STILLMAN:

(to Conrad)

Ain't that junior English? You got

all junior classes this year? They

didn't pass you on anything?

LAZENBY:

Stillman, you know they don't

pass you on... breathing in that

dump if you don't take the final.

DICKIE VAN BUREN

Hey, man, get something on that

radio, really. You know, I gotta

study.

Conrad stares at the barrier, then away.

DICKIE VAN BUREN (cont'd)

Get something lighter for your

head.

Car stops at railroad crossing.

DICKIE VAN BUREN (cont'd)

(OS)

I hope it's a long train. I've

got to get the stuff down. I'm

gonna flunk this test.

LAZENBY:

We're going to be late.

(CONTINUED)

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Train passes, Conrad stares through it and as in a zoetrope

sees glimpses of a graveyard.

.../...

Car slows down near school.

LAZENBY (cont'd)

Does my hair look like sh*t,

doesn't it?

DICKIE VAN BUREN

Yeah.

LAZENBY:

Yes, it looks like sh*t. Thanks.

STILLMAN:

Hey, hey, hey! Hey, there's Pratt.

DICKIE VAN BUREN

Look at that ass!

STILLMAN:

Let me out, I need a jump.

LAZENBY:

No dirty stuff out of the window.

DICKIE VAN BUREN

No dirty stuff?

(to Janine, outside)

Pratt! You have nice ...knees!

Conrad looks at Jeannine seriously.

STILLMAN:

Hey. Interested in something.

Jarrett?

She looks back.

21 SCHOOL ­ MORNING 21

A crowd of students entering school.

22 INT. SCHOOL, CLASSROOM ­ MORNING 22

Conrad seems to be day-dreaming, looking outside. Female

literature teacher questions about the character of Jude in

the story of Jude the Obscure, written by Thomas Hardy.

TEACHER:

How about we discuss some theory,

here? Conrad, what's your theory on

Jude Fawley? Conrad?

(CONTINUED)

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Conrad comes back to it

TEACHER (cont'd)

What's your theory on Jude Fawley?

CONRAD:

Uh...

TEACHER:

Do you think he was powerless in

the grip of circumstances... or

could he have helped himself?

CONRAD:

I don't... Uh...Powerless? I guess he

thought he was, yeah.

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