Rear Window Page #8

She relaxes.

STELLA:

Okay -- but I'm going to spread some

common sense on the bread. Lisa

Fremont's loaded to her fingertips

with love for you. I'll give you two

words of advice. Marry her.

JEFF:

(Smiles)

She pay you much?

Stella leaves for the kitchen in a huff. Jeff turns his chair

to the window.

INT. JEFF'S APARTMENT - DAY - SEMI-CLOSEUP

Jeff now looks out to see what has happened to the old lady,

and the man with the flowers.

EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - DAY - SEMI-LONG SHOT

The elderly lady is now asleep in her deck chair, her face

covered with the Herald Tribune. There is no sign of the man

with the flowers.

INT. JEFF'S APARTMENT - DAY - CLOSEUP

Jeff's eyes travel up to the ballet dancer's window.

EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - DAY - SEMI-LONG SHOT

She is sitting near the window looking into an upright mirror.

Dreamily, and methodically, she is brushing her long copper-

colored hair.

INT. JEFF'S APARTMENT - DAY - CLOSEUP

His eyes are suddenly turned in another direction, sharply

to his left.

EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - DAY - SEMI-LONG SHOT

He is now looking at the windows of the apartments nearest

to him. A shade has gone up, and a man, obviously a caretaker

is raising a window with some effort. Having accomplished

this, he turns back into the room, and we now see him approach

a young man and woman who are standing just inside the

doorway. He hands a key to the young man, and then obligingly

brings in two suitcases which he places on the floor beside

them. He gives them a studied, but agreeable nod, then

departs.

We now see that the girl has a small hat with a veil, and an

ornate corsage pinned to her light blue tailored suit. The

boy, who like the girl is perhaps twenty years old, wears a

dark blue serge suit and a grey felt hat. He takes off the

hat, and scales it over to a nearby chair. Quickly they are

in each other's arms, kissing passionately, crushing the

girl's corsage and pushing her hat back a little. They part,

the boy laughs nervously, and takes a furtive glance out

toward the corridor. He looks back into the room, and beckons

her to come out. She follows him wonderingly. For a moment,

both are lost from sight. When they reappear, he is carrying

her in his arms, over the threshold. He sets her down, closes

the door, and they kiss again.

They part, still holding hands and looking into each other's

eyes. Then slowly, and significantly, she looks toward the

open window. He releases her hands, goes to the window and

pull down the shade, as she is reaching upward with both

hands to unpin her hat.

INT. JEFF'S APARTMENT - DAY - SEMI-CLOSEUP

There is a soft, understanding look on Jeff's face, and he

gives an involuntary sigh. He is unaware that Stella is now

standing behind him.

STELLA:

(Quietly)

Window shopper.

He freezes, turns slowly to look up at her.

FADE OUT:

FADE IN:

EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - NIGHT - SUNSET - LONG SHOT

The CAMERA makes a short sweep around the neighborhood showing

that some of the rooms are now with their lights on.

The CAMERA PULLS BACK into Jeff's apartment until his head

fills the screen. He is asleep. A shadow of some other person

creeps over his face. His eyes start to open. He looks up.

INT. JEFF'S APARTMENT - SUNSET - CLOSEUP

The screen is filled with the eyes, nose and mouth of a woman

coming nearer and nearer to the CAMERA to kiss Jeff. The

face is more or less in shadow, a faint light coming onto

the profile from the window. It moves down until the lips

move out of her bottom of her screen, and just the remain

for fill the screen.

INT. JEFF'S APARTMENT - SUNSET - CLOSEUP

The two big profiles filling the screen. The girl kisses

Jeff firmly, but not passionately. Then her head moves back

an inch or two. She speaks.

LISA:

(Softly)

How's your leg?

JEFF:

Mmmm -- hurts a little.

LISA:

And your stomach?

JEFF:

Empty as a football.

LISA:

And you love life?

JEFF:

Not too active.

LISA:

Anything else bothering you?

JEFF:

Uh-huh.

She gives a low. Warm laugh, and the CAMERA PULLS BACK to

show that Lisa has been bending over Jeff's wheelchair from

the side. As she straightens up, it PANS her swiftly over to

the corner of the room, keeping her in big closeup. She turns

on a low, hanging light.

We see her full facial beauty for the first time. It is a

warm, intelligent face.

LISA:

(As she moves)

Reading from top to bottom --

(Light on)

Lisa --

The CAMERA FOLLOWS HER quickly to another lamp. She gets a

little farther away from us so that we now see her down to

her waist. She turns on the second lamp and the light shows

us that her beauty is not alone in her face.

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