Pain & Gain
1
(GRUNTING)
I'm strong!
I'm big!
(GRUNTS)
(GRUNTS)
I'm hot!
I'm big!
(SIRENS WAILING)
F***!
(SIRENS CONTINUE)
(OFFICERS YELLING INDISTINCTLY)
(PANTING)
Sh*t!
Hey, where you going?
(INAUDIBLE)
DANIEL:
My name is Daniel Lugo.And I believe in fitness.
ED". The events you are about to see
took place
in Miami, Florida, between
October 1994 and June '95.
Unfortunately, this is a true story.
DANIEL:
We all start out equal,little blobs of blood and muscle.
It's a setup of awesome potential.
Most people never
develop that potential.
- I knew early on I was not most people.
-(GRUNTING)
There you go. There you go!
(LAUGHING) Yes!
Come on, big man.
Work it, baby. Come on!
Let's go!
Because if you're willing to do the work,
you can have anything.
That's what makes the US of A great.
When it started,
America was just a handful
of scrawny colonies.
Now, it's the most buff,
pumped-up country on the planet.
- That's pretty rad.
- (G R U N TS)
That's it?
- Work harder.
- Sh*t!
-(LAUGHS) Oh! Adrian's on the juice!
- Word up, DL!
Most people say
they want to look better.
Not everyone is willing
to do whatever it takes to achieve it.
All of my heroes are self-made.
Rocky, Scarf ace,
all the guys from The Godfather.
They all started out with nothing
and built their way to perfection.
The way to prove yourself
is to better yourself.
That's the American dream.
(PANTING)
I have no sympathy
for people who squander their gifts.
It's sickening.
It's worse than sickening.
It's unpatriotic.
Greatest day of my life.
Arnold-f***ing-Schwarzenegger,
am I right?
I was never a big fitness guy.
I know it's important,
but you know what
I really don't like about weights?
What's that?
They're so heavy!
(CHUCKLES) Am I right?
Can you lift this?
(GRUNTS)
I spot people for a living,
when you get right down to it.
Gives the client security
to push themselves harder.
(ROARING)
To me, a cigarette boat was a thing
drug dealers had, you know?
But we got it anyway. Cost a fortune.
Named her Puppy Luv.
L-U-V. But when I'm out on it,
depending on the day, I either fantasize
I'm a drug smuggler eluding the DEA,
or I'm the DEA
chasing after a drug smuggler.
(GRUNTS) I'm turning into a stud here.
You get any exercise currently?
Eh... Besides shtupping?
I got a three mil McMansion
next to a private jogging path,
but it's all homos and housewives.
You spend most of your day at a desk?
You know that Schlotzsky's Deli
near the airport'?
That's mine.
NO kidding? Oh, I like that place.
I never kid, Yudo.
- Lugo.
- Yeah.
We make a nice sandwich, Lugy.
You ever try our oven-toasted
roast beef and cheese?
- Give an anorexic an appetite.
- What else do you do?
Do some stock trading, real estate.
Own a few greyhounds for racing.
But for some crazy reason,
I'm proudest of the sandwiches.
I hang at the house.
Got a hot Cuban housekeeper
makes a waffle don't
even need maple syrup.
I'm a self-made man, Dennis.
And my self is not ashamed to
say it's made a lot of money.
Maybe your self
ought to spend some of it on a salad.
You know who invented salad?
Poor people.
DANIEL:
This all began becauseit was time to push myself harder.
To maximize results.
And I was tired of clients petting me.
Sh*t, otherwise
I was looking at another 40 years
of wearing sweatpants to work.
BARBARA ANN:
And that was it!He just dumped me by phone.
DANIEL:
That's cold!It makes you question
the whole relationship.
DANIEL:
You set high goals for yourselfand nail every one.
But the hardest thing
about changing yourself
is changing how other people see you.
Being a personal trainer
is just that. Personal.
I'm not going to lie.
When a client doesn't
feel the same way,
it hurts.
What next?
Well, I mean, if you wanted,
you know, if it seems
like it would be fun to you,
maybe we could go for a drink
or a dinner or a coffee or water.
I meant what exercise is next.
DANIEL:
ll' really f***ing hurts.(LAUGHING) I know that!
I was joking. Come on!
Daniel! I see you got some new meat.
What have I always said, John?
The key to repeat business...
ls new business. You cannot build
a muscle mecca without muscle.
(SNIFFS)
Well, I want to turn this place
into an internationally renowned mecca.
- What do you bench?
- Squat?
- More like five.
(SIGHS)
Why should I hire you?
You have a lot of elderly members, sir.
I want to pump
some new blood into this place.
That pool's a very slippery surface
and that elderly woman
with the shower cap,
she looks like she's going to croak
right there in the pool, sir.
And Gold's is going to crush you.
If I don't triple your membership
in three months, I will quit.
Triple it in three months.
That's pretty ambitious.
I read a lot of biographies, sir.
And the one thing that unites great men
is their reach always
exceeds their grasp.
One thing...
I recently had some trouble with the law.
They call Florida "God's waiting room,"
all the half-dead senior citizens
turning brown on the beach.
Sh*t, you ask me, that's kind of mean.
I like older people.
They're very generous.
So, you really guarantee
I can triple
my investment in three months?
Well, if I didn't, would I have
put my name on the company?
Let me confer with my partner.
Are they good?
- You're approved.
- Wow! (CHUCKLES)
You know, I get so much joy
from making people money.
I'm going to make
you guys a lot of money.
You have such beautiful hair.
Look at those eyes. Wow!
I, Daniel Lugo, hereby
acknowledge my guilt.
I know what I did was wrong
and there is no substitute for hard work.
And I am a hard worker!
And it will never happen again.
For I used my superior intelligence
for wrong actions to justify a good end.
And that was wrong.
And, if you let me,
I believe I can learn from my mistakes
and I believe I can help others
no shortcut to the American dream.
This is America, land of the brave
and home of the second chances.
That's my one ask,
that you give me a second chance
and allow me to go free today.
JUDGE:
Guilty.I know I'm guilty. That's what I said
in the beginning of my statement.
I said, "I'm guilty."
But what about my second chance?
(CELL DOOR RATTLING
AND CLOSING)
(SCOFFS)
That's nothing. Welcome aboard.
Thank you, sir. I will not disappoint you.
DANIEL:
Three weeks after I signed on,Sun Gym did triple its membership.
I'ma make you Kobe beef, baby.
One more!
I gave free body waxing
for everybody at sign-up.
It was kind of disgusting.
You have to do whatever it takes
and have no fear.
Ooh. Wow. Bushy.
You want to trim that thing
down a little bit?
I even came up with genius.
Free membership
for strippers. Delicious.
Boosted membership 75%
within two months.
Look like a big sirloin steak, baby!
I like that!
I did make it a muscle mecca.
I made it a destination.
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