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Paper Man Page #5
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- Year:
- 2009
- 110 min
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one that wouId taIk to you
for a long time?
- l know, but
- He doesn't love you.
lf that's what you think,
you're wrong.
- What do you want me to say?
- l could so move
to California.
You shouldn't just assume
l'll always be around,
'cause one day
maybe l won't
- Stop it
- ls that what you want?
- l don't have much of a story,
do I?
- lt's all relative, l suppose.
- Exactly.
Other people seem
to have had events.
Things have happened to them,
life-altering occurrences.
- l used to do things.
Remember?
- This isn't about you.
- Amazing things.
[inhales deeply]
What do you want me to say?
- l don't know.
- No, no, no, no.
Tell me what you want me to say,
IiteraIIy,
'cause, frankly, at this point,
l got nothing.
- [whispering]
- But you have touched
several lives, Richard,
through your work.
lt's not about your happiness
but the happiness you've brought
to others.
[phone ringing]
[answering machine beeps]
- Hey, look,
it's the fund-raiser
for the children's hospital
tomorrow night.
And l was thinking of donating
that bottle of wine,
the '71 Chteau Petrus.
l know we were saving it
for a special occasion,
but, well,
it's for a good cause.
So what do you think?
[phone ringing]
[machine beeps]
Richard, did you drink
that wine,
that $5,000 bottle of wine?
lt's not in the rack.
lt was for the children.
Will you call me, please?
[tape crackling]
[knocking at door]
- Come in.
- Whoa.
Check out the couch.
- You like?
- [laughs]
- l made it with these.
- All right!
That's awesome.
- Yeah, sit
sit, sit, sit, sit, sit
- Uh!
- Huh?
- lt's nice.
- Oh, those
just ideas for titIes.
- For your new book?
- Mm-hmm.
- Cool, what have you got?
- Uh...
Cloudscape,
Death and Desolation,
The Daffodil.
- [laughs]
- Memoirs of an Amnesiac,
Bolero.
- Bolero?
- Okay.
Ad Nauseam,
Balm of Silence.
No?
Old Miss Ptarmigan's
Blackberry Wine?
- Whoa.
- Let's forget it
Titles are impossible.
[paper crinkling]
- Paper Man.
[laughs softly]
- You seem a lot more
interesting than me.
- l'm not
It just seems that way
because l have a dead sister.
[door creaking]
- Where you been all day?
- l don't know.
- Whatever.
So the party's off this weekend.
Turner's mom busted him.
- So what about the cove?
- lt's f***ing cold out there.
- Big deal.
So the party's off.
- What kind of party?
- What do mean
"What kind of party?"
A f***ing party.
- Just nothing.
- You could use my place.
- What?
- Seriously?
- Yeah, why not?
This weekend's not so good.
My wife's back.
But you know,
we could do next week.
Friday?
- Friday is cool.
- Really?
- Yeah, l'll get a keg.
- Nice!
Nice.
- What else do you guys need?
Appetizers, you know,
paper plates and stuff?
- No, no, no.
We're okay.
We've got it covered.
- Great, we're on.
- Righteous.
Thanks, man.
- You didn't have to do that
- Ah, it'll be fun.
[slurping]
- Richard!
Richard?
Richard, please.
- Hi.
- [booming voice]
When the world is in peril,
when evil surrounds you,
when dange
[door slams]
Okay.
- Richard, help me.
- You don't like it?
- All the furniture is outside.
And what the hell is this?
- You seem disappointed,
going off your body language.
- You don't pick up the phone
once this week.
You don't call me once.
l drive all the way out here,
and there's this.
Richard, say something.
- [stammering]
- [sighs]
What's this?
- What's what?
- This.
Whose is this?
- Will you just tell her?
- Claire?
- Yes?
- Are we unhappy,
or are we just pretending
to be unhappy?
- What do you mean?
- Are we just pretending
to be unhappy
to add drama to our lives
so that we seem somehow
more substantial?
Our lives
are embarrassingly easy.
We've got plenty of money.
We got friends.
Well, you've got friends.
There are people out there
who have real problems,
you know,
real reasons to be unhappy.
l mean, l could be a coal miner
dying of black lung
or something.
You could be a Cincinnati
crack whore on food stamps.
- What?
- l don't know.
Doesn't it feel like
we're faking it,
our unhappiness?
- No.
No, it's real.
lt's very real.
l'm going home now.
l think you think
this is still charming.
We're not 23 anymore.
You need to pull it together.
Pick up the phone this week.
[door unlatching]
And bring the f***ing furniture
in from the Iawn.
[door slams]
- Norwood regarded his solitude
as something
Norwood, Norman, Richmond?
Richmond, Richmond.
- Richmond regarded his solitude
as something
Ew!
Richmond.
Hitchmond.
Shmichmond.
[crashing]
- Richmond regarded his solitude
as something...
- Unbearable!
- Unbearable!
- Richmond regarded his solitude
as something unbearabIe.
- Ptoo!
[bicycle squeaking]
[knocking at window]
Come on.
Scalpel.
- No, you're starting too high.
You need to go down at the base
of the chin.
- Oh.
And then cut up from there.
Good.
Careful, careful, careful.
[laughs]
Let me help you.
All right
Ready?
- Yeah.
- And there.
Good, good, good, good.
Okay, would you rather
always walk backwards
or stub your toe every time
you took a step?
- Why would l want to do either?
- lt's a game.
Just pick one.
- Ah!
- Oh, drop that in the pan.
[sizzling]
Beautiful.
You are really good at this.
- My wife reattached
a Ieg today.
- Oh.
a fishmonger.
l could have, you know,
mongered some fish.
- Okay, which one is it?
ls it walk backwards
or stub your toe?
- Well, could l just design
a special kind of shoe
- Mm-mm. No.
Oh, wait Here.
Flip that in a minute.
Gently, gently, gently.
- I guess I wouId
walk backwards.
l'm not good with pain.
You?
- l like to see where l'm going.
Okay, come here.
You hold this end.
- Ahh, paper men.
- You know, for your book.
- Oh, yes!
Oh.
l got something for you too.
Yeah, close your eyes.
- Oh!
A camel.
A peacock.
- lt's the swan,
the beautiful, graceful swan.
- Oh, sorry.
[laughs]
Aw.
- And I know
what it means to you
And I know
what it means to you
And I know
who l want to be
[knocking at door]
- Come in.
- Whoa.
Oh.
- We look good.
- Yeah.
Wow.
You really went all out
- Yeah, too much?
- No, mm-mm.
No, it looks great
Party town.
- Mm-hmm, the keg's in here.
And l put the hors d'oeuvres
in the kitchen.
l think it will flow well
that way.
- Yeah, oh.
That's a piata.
- Yeah, l went for the donkey.
You know, go classic.
- [laughs]
You don't reaIIy
do parties much, do you?
- No, l'm a little nervous.
- [laughs]
Well, relax.
lt will be fun.
- Okay.
- [laughs]
No.
Hey.
- Hey.
- Sh*t
- Yeah, l know.
- Where's the freak?
- Don't be an a**hole.
- What a dickweed.
- Hey, Bryce.
What's up, man?
[laughs]
- Where do l put these?
- Kitchen.
- What about the box?
- Whatever, man.
Whatever feels right, you know.
Mi casa, you know.
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