Power
- R
- Year:
- 1986
- 111 min
- 690 Views
If you say "No"...
...oil wells will be ours...
...and we will decide
what to do with them!
Thank you.
If you say "No"...
...we won't sell out
to foreign interests...
...not even if they rub
their money in our faces,
as if they're having a feast
before starving people.
Ambulance!
Stay with him, stay with him!
Get the mic down.
Got a two-shot?
- Ambulance!
Keep down the mic, keep it down.
Keep shooting!
Somebody bring an ambulance!
Stay close. Watch out!
An ambulance, for Christ's sake!
Get this shot, right here!
Go away! Go away!
Keep shooting. Bring it around.
Go away!
Roberto, let's go.
It's dangerous out here, come on.
Not until an ambulance arrives.
The ambulance and a doctor
are already on the way.
- Are you sure?
- Yes, positive. Let's go.
- Are you sure?
- Let's go, let's go.
Roberto! Roberto!
Come on, hurry!
Cut, cut, cut!
So, who did it? The guerillas?
Maybe.
Christ, you were terrific!
It was an incredible moment!
I'm gonna cut the film
tonight in New York...
...and have it flown back
down tomorrow.
We're gonna take this thing.
We're gonna take it.
When are you coming back?
I don't know yet, but I've gone over
everything with Miguel.
He's gonna be handling...
...all the print contracts,
the billboards, the posters.
He also's gonna be having
the payroll,
which includes the reporters.
I gave him a list already.
From now until the election,
every speech, every appearance,
you're gonna wear this shirt.
You keep your jacket on
till just before the finish,
then slowly take it off...
...and you just stand there,
"They want to hurt us,
they want to destroy us,"
"but they'll spill our blood
before they defeat us."
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Nice trip, Mr. St. John?
- Tired?
- I can't tell yet.
for the rest of the night.
- Did you bring the film?
- Yeah, but I wanna clean up a bit.
I want you to stick around
when I do the cuts.
I assume you found some decent
talent for the voice-over.
No, I found some great talent.
He's an actor.
He does Spanish soaps here.
He used to be a radio announcer
in South America.
Mom, I hope you didn't wait up.
God, you look like sh*t.
And this is only March.
What will you look like
in November?
I don't know.
I had him talk to my friend
Patricia, and according to her,
he has a very sexy accent.
I advise you to wrap this thing up
early tonight because...
...Wallace Furman is coming
in the morning.
- For how long?
- Definitely, no longer than all day.
What did Ellen want?
She said some decent information,
for a change.
You're having dinner
tomorrow night with...
-...Senator Hastings and his wife.
- In Washington?
Yeah, the plane will be
at LaGuardia at 6:00.
Even with traffic, you should
get there by 8:
30.You pulled the file
from the last campaign?
Yeah.
Also the Stannard files.
Oh, Garber called last week.
We pushed your meeting
up to the 12th.
You'll go to Seattle
right out of D.C.
brief them on the new numbers.
You did good.
Syd, you are sensational!
No problem!
You're my kind of guy.
And what kind is that?
Temporary.
So, let us move ahead,
with energy,
with compassion, and...
...united by the vision
of what New Mexico can be...
...if only we dare
to make it so.
Darling,
you are so positive.
- No, I'm not.
- Your strength flows right off--
- Oh, no, please--
- I'm not just saying that!
- I was terrible.
- You're so strong...
...in a nice, understated way.
Now, granted,
I may be a bit biased, Mr. St. John,
but you have got to admit that...
...Wallace has just got
that certain-- you know.
Mrs. Furman, Wallace,
I'll be right down.
Are you sure you want to handle
this campaign?
- Why?
- Why?
If this guy were masturbating
his hand would fall asleep.
We have nothing to lose.
Anything that gets over 39%
makes us look good.
And it pays the overhead.
Wallace, you're running
for governor.
It's not gonna be easy.
What we're aiming for here,
the ideal,
is that you personify
the themes of the campaign.
That you make a statement
just by standing up. Now,
our themes are:
new ideas, new directions.
Change! Vigor!
No offense, but you look
too soft to change a tire...
- ...much less a state.
- That's ridiculous.
- What are you saying?
- He's saying you're a wimp.
What I'm saying is,
you've got to align
the perception with the reality.
We've got two immediate problems.
One, you were born into money.
Two, you did it out of state,
which wasn't too smart,
but these are turnable,
we'll manage this whole thing.
All right, I want you to go
on a high protein diet...
on a Nautilus,
three times a week,
minimum.
We also gotta work on punching up
this delivery of yours.
And energyze it, make it track
with the message. Okay?
- Yeah, okay.
- Now let's talk about colors.
Syd's gonna take you
to this guy on 57th Street...
...for a couple of dozen shirts,
once we get set on the shades.
I don't like you in blue or gray.
Too cold for you.
You're running
in New Mexico.
You look a little
washed out.
Don't you ever
get outside at all?
I've asked him
to stay out of the sun...
...because his family has
a history of skin cancer.
But you've never had it.
No.
Long-term exposure, right?
This is only going to be
for the next six months.
I don't see anything
to worry about.
Wait, I-I'm paying you,
you-you work for me--
You're trying
to run my life here!
Wallace, Wallace, Wallace...
You are paying me
to make you a new life!
Politics! And in order
for me to do that,
all the elements that go into it.
It's the only way I work.
That means, framing
the overall strategy...
...as well as deciding
all the specifics.
The look of the campaign,
the look of the billboards.
Bumper stickers, what colors
they're going to be?
It means the polling, the ads,
radio, TV, newspapers.
It means coordinating every piece
of information out of this office...
...to make sure it fits with
what a polling tells us...
...the people are
worrying about.
Or what they're
feeling good about!
But, aside from the campaign themes,
I want to address...
- ...some of my long-term plans!
- Yes, I'm sure they're great,
but they're not important.
See, my job is to get you in.
Once you're there,
you do whatever your conscience
tells you to do.
...before the largest crowd
of the campaign.
It now appears the bloody
terrorist attack succeeded only...
...in adding momentum
and conferring legitimacy...
...on the one-time
underdog Cepeda.
Well, Mr. Billings,
this is not good news.
It certainly is not,
Your Excellency.
Do you know
how it happened?
Well, we know that none of
our people were involved.
Perhaps, the guerillas.
I'll know more tonight.
How will the bombing
affect us?
It's hard to know.
Cepeda could gather
tremendous support.
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