Punch-Drunk Love Page #11

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JUMP CUT TO:

INT. WAKIKI STREET/PHONE BOOTH - MOMENTS LATER

Barry on the phone;

HOTEL OPERATOR:

Sheraton Wakiki, how may I direct

your call?

BARRY:

Lena Leonard's room please.

HOTEL OPERATOR:

I'll connect you.

BEAT. A MAN answers the phone;

MAN'S VOICE

Hello?

BARRY:

Hello. Is Lena there?

MAN'S VOICE

You have the wrong room.

He hangs up. Barry dials the number again.

HOTEL OPERATOR:

Sheraton Wakiki, how may I direct

your call?

BARRY:

I just called, I got connected to

the wrong room. I'm looking for

Lena Leonard and there shouldn't be

a man in the room I'm calling.

BEAT. He's put on hold a moment, then it rings, then:

LENA:

Hello?

BARRY:

Lena?

LENA:

Yeah?

BARRY:

It's Barry.

LENA:

HI. WHERE ARE YOU? ARE YOU HERE?

BARRY:

Yes.

LENA:

OH WOW. YEAH. THAT'S GREAT. YOU

CAME, YOU CAME. What are you doing?

BARRY:

I'm calling you, I'm standing in my

hotel room, I came because I have

my business trip --

LENA:

Well let's do something do you want

to do something, can you meet me?

BARRY:

You don't have a boyfriend or

anything do you?

LENA:

No. What do you mean?

BARRY:

I just wanted to know. When was the

last time you had a boyfriend?

LENA:

About six months ago. Why?

BARRY:

I just wanted to make sure.

LENA:

When was the last time you had a

girlfriend?

BARRY:

Where you married?

LENA:

yeah.

BARRY:

Ok. So you were married for how long?

LENA:

Do you want to meet me and talk

about this stuff?

BARRY:

Ok. Where are you from originally?

CUT TO:

INT. ROYAL HAWAIIAN/LOBBY - LATER

Barry is standing, waiting....HOLD....he looks across the

lobby and sees:
Lena....she's walking towards him with a

smile on her face....

...Barry smiles and walks towards her....

...she walks towards him....

...he extends his arm out for a handshake as they get

closer.....

....she opens her arms for a hug as they get closer....

...They shake/hug/kiss on the cheek.....then on the mouth.

They start making out in the lobby of the hotel.

CUT TO:

EXT. ROYAL HAWAIIAN - PATIO/BAR AREA - MAGIC HOUR

CAMERA roams through the Mai Tai bar on the beach and finds

them; (Ladies K playing here.)

LENA:

You got me out of my hotel room.

You came and got me out of my room.

BARRY:

Yeah......yeah.....

LENA:

It's so nice.

BARRY:

This really looks like Hawaii here.

They look at each other. HOLD, THEN:

ANGLE, MOMENTS LATER.

They walk back towards the hotel. CAMERA (STEADICAM) behind

them as they move --

CUT TO:

INT. ROYAL HAWAIIAN/HALLWAY - MOMENTS LATER

CAMERA follows behind them as they walk......IRIS into their

hands.....she reaches over and holds his hand.....

CUT TO:

INT. ROYAL HAWAIIAN HOTEL ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

They're in bed making out with their clothes on and a light

on....they hold a second....

BARRY:

Do you wanna have sex?

LENA:

Yeah.

They take their shirts off.

LENA:

Press together. It feels good.

She cups his face with her hands and tenses;

LENA:

Oh my god, you are so adorable. I

just....god dammit.

BARRY:

What's that? What is that that

you're doing?

LENA:

I just...your face is so adorable

and your cheek and your skin, I

wanna bite it....I wanna bite your

cheek and chew on it....god damn

cute....f***....

BARRY:

I know what you mean, I know what

you mean, I get this feeling --

LENA:

...what...?

BARRY:

IIIIIIIIIII don't want to hurt

anything ever, but what I'm talking

about is -- have you ever held a

little puppy or a little kitten and

it's just the cutest, softest, most

precious thing in the world and out

of the blue you get this feeling in

your gut and all you wanna do is

squeeze it. Just f***in squeeze the

sh*t out of it. To take a little

puppy and smash its skull...just so

precious, so beautiful. Just so god

damn wonderful and cute you wanna

smack it and kick it and love it.

F***. I don't know. I don't know.

And you, you.....I'm looking at you

and I just....your face is so

beautiful I just wanna smash it,

just smash it with a sledgehammer

and squeeze it...you're so pretty.

They kiss and kiss and kiss;

LENA:

I know. I know. I know. I just

wanna chew your face and scoop out

your beautiful, beautiful eyes with

an ice cream scooper and eat 'em

and chew 'em and suck on 'em. F***.

BARRY:

This is funny.

LENA:

Yeah.

BARRY:

This is nice.

They kiss and make out some more, then: DRUM ROLL into SNARE

HIT THAT LANDS ON THE FOLLOWING SCENE:

CUT TO:

INT. TOYOTA - MOVING - DAWN

CAMERA on Mike D and Nate driving. HOLD. Martin rumbles out

of a half sleep and says;

NATE:

That guy had more money to give up.

JIM and DAVE wake up a bit in the back seat and listen;

NATE:

Long way to drive just for seven

hundred something bucks. Dean

doesn't have to know.

HOLD. SILENCE for a moment.

MIKE D:

We're not that far....I mean, if

we're going to, we're not that far....

CUT TO:

EXT. HIGHWAY - NIGHT (BLUE SKY - CRACK OF DAWN DEAL)

The Toyota exits the freeway -- CAMERA TRACKS right with it

as it makes a turn at the base of the off ramp...

....goes under a bridge and then makes a turn getting back

onto the freeway heading in the opposite direction.

CUT TO:

INT. HAWAIIAN HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT/NEAR DAWN - LATER

It's dark and Barry and Lena are asleep in bed together.

Barry gets up, in a haze....Lena moves and opens her

eyes....She watches him as he gets up and casually goes to

the corner of the room and starts talking gently to the

wall....

BARRY:

(sotto, calm)

You know you're not supposed to do

that. Because I told you. Seriously.

Please. Not that day. Ok.

LENA:

Barry?

He doesn't respond. He's asleep. He moves to the closet and

gets one of the HOTEL ROBES and puts it on and then he looks

right at her and says:

BARRY:

I was talkin' to you last Thursday

about that.

He gets the robe tied tight around his waste and then gets

the COMPLIMENTARY SLIPPERS and puts them on. Then he gets

back into the bed and closes his eyes.

CUT TO:

INT. KAHALA HOTEL - MORNING

CAMERA pushes in slow towards Lena as she's on the

phone....CAMERA pushes in on Barry as he sits across the

room, listening in his robe....They stare at each other the

whole time.....

ELIZABETH (OC)

They need to see the new 484's to

make sure it works with their OC....

LENA:

Ok. What should I do about Eric?

ELIZABETH (OC)

Just tell him to call me.

LENA:

Ok.

ELIZABETH (OC)

So...did my brother call you?

LENA:

No.

ELIZABETH (OC)

I have no idea what he's doing then.

I'm sorry that didn't work out.

LENA:

It's fine.

ELIZABETH (OC)

You wouldn't want to go out with

him anyway, honestly, he's such a

freak sometimes.

LENA:

He did seem a little strange.

ELIZABETH (OC)

Well...he's not that strange, don't

say that.

LENA:

I'm sorry. You're right.

ELIZABETH (OC)

I think he's weird, but that's me.

LENA:

Should I call you later?

ELIZABETH (OC)

I'll just see you when you get back

here.

LENA:

Ok.

They hang up and Lena looks to Barry and smiles.

LENA:

Where do you have to go?

BARRY:

For what?

LENA:

For work.....

BARRY:

I don't have any business here. I

came here for you, I didn't have

any business.

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