Running on Empty Dreams Page #7

I have to go alone.

I need to get started on my script.

Hey.

Listen, I didn't tell you before,

but I have an agent who

wants to represent me.

Yeah, and a Hollywood producer

made me an offer on my script.

Oh, my God! Sydney, this is huge!

I know.

Well, even though they took the first one,

they want me to write

another one, and babe,

I gotta knock their f***in'

socks off on this one,

or I'm totally screwed.

Oh, why wouldn't they like it?

Oh, come on.

Hollywood's not exactly female friendly.

They don't really take women seriously.

Oh, bullshit.

They don't know you.

Oh, my God!

Oh, babe, you feel so good.

Mm.

I'm in love with you.

What?

Are you serious?

Yeah.

A dog.

Is it a dog or a monkey?

A monkey.

It says to go down.

Hit pause, Matt.

Hello.

Yeah.

Yes.

What's going on here?

THIS WOMAN!

This woman...

What?

Oh.

Corey, man.

It's not your story.

You gotta let it go.

You have to forgive 'em.

She was your wife, man.

She wrote her ending.

You gotta stand up like

a man and write yours.

What!?

What are you looking at?

A frightened child.

Oh, you don't know me.

Oh, come on, come.

None of you know me.

You look at me and you just see one thing.

She looked at me and saw everything!

Everything I could be, and all that I am,

and everything I could be.

None of you idiots could see

what people could be...

I can't do this.

Oh.

Oh, baby. We didn't have enough time.

I needed you to stay

because we didn't have enough time.

There must be some kind of mistake.

My wife and I never had life insurance.

We couldn't even afford health insurance.

Well, Mr. Harris.

It says here that she's had it since 1977,

a year after she was born.

She requested you and your

son be the beneficiaries

just a few months ago.

But her, her thyroid cancer.

The policy

covers all causes of death,

Mr. Harris, with the exception of suicide.

We apologize for the delay

in getting your check.

There was actually a matter with

the Sedona police department

that needed to be squared away first.

The police?

Hey, babe.

It feels so good to be up here.

I mean, I really feel at home.

Like I'm at your home.

It was amazing.

I was down by the creek

writing the other day,

and, God, it felt so good.

I mean, it was really, really good,

and I just want you to know,

I really appreciate you understanding

why I had to come up here.

You'd be so proud of me, babe.

I finished the screenplay.

What if on my laptop, right now,

is the next Academy

Award-winning screenplay?

Can you imagine?

Hm. I know it

seems silly, but it's me.

I mean, I wanna believe in

what seems like the impossible

or what Corey likes to call pipe dreams.

All I ever wanted

was for you to believe in my career, Corey.

You know, for you to believe in me.

I don't know if would

have changed anything,

but it would have been nice.

I love her.

I'm in love with her, and I know it hurts,

but I can't lie to you and to Matt,

and I cannot lie to myself.

I don't want to say goodbye like this.

What?

Before she left,

did you think she was

going to kill herself?

What are you talking about?

Sydney, her character

in her script kills herself,

and the movie, the screenplay

just f***in' ends.

I, my character goes his way,

your character goes hers.

No, she wouldn't kill herself.

Samantha cuts her apple

Ugh.

Samantha is Sydney.

Samantha cuts her apple into fours,

eating each piece slowly

like it's her last.

Finishing her last bite,

Samantha lays in the middle of her bed

with the knife, holding

it up to her wrists,

and slits herself.

Blood squirts everywhere, she dies.

Bravo!

Sydney's a brilliant screenwriter.

She made up all that bullshit

to impress producers.

She died because the cancer

spread, and you know that.

You wouldn't have gotten

any insurance money

off a suicide anyway.

How did you know I...

No, no, no.

They claimed they traced the cause of death

back to the cancer.

Her body was found in her cabin,

in the middle of the bed.

I don't believe you.

She wouldn't have killed herself.

She was happy.

She loves me, and I love her.

Why don't you spare me

the Hallmark greeting card, okay?

Oh, f*** you, Corey.

I mean, it's not like she

can be with me anymore.

What do you want from this?

What the f*** do you want?

Because if she killed herself,

it's because she was hurting.

She was miserable, and she was lonely,

even with you.

Death, or death was her only way out.

She was none of those things.

Rest in my love.

Oh, rest in my love.

Jane Smith?

There a Jane Smith here?

Hi.

Is this your first interview

with Trendy Cards?

Rest in my love.

Rest in my peace.

Oh, rest in my peace.

While the world goes spinnin' round.

Rest in my peace.

The world keeps

changin', and life rearrangin'

Are you scared?

No, just daydreaming.

So rest in my love.

Oh, rest in my love.

While the world goes spinnin' round,

rest in my love.

Rest in my love.

Wanna be alive, wanna be alive.

Yo, yo, I wanna

live my life another day.

I wanna live my life without pain.

I wanna live my life without shame.

Just wanna stop

runnin' and runnin' away.

Just a fan, that's a hearthrob.

Promiscuous female seed,

which is why I'm a lonely man

waiting for life

to tire of her affair.

I wanna chance to

hold her, to kiss her,

to smell her hair.

Action.

Cut!

Corey is a disciplined guy.

Has a lot of pride.

He's a Marine.

He's moving his wife and son to Arizona

for a fresh start from the East Coast.

Once his wife gets sick,

and she has this medical illness,

he has to deal with that

on top of everything else,

which is already a strained relationship,

and then on top of that,

with Corey being gone a lot,

his wife happens to meet a neighbor,

and they fall in love.

My role is, name's Tony,

and he is one of the sons of Jane.

Playing Jane has been very fun

because she's a lot like me.

I had a rough childhood in some aspects,

and so I've drawn on a lot of those things

that have happened to me,

that are very similar

to Jane's experiences.

So I have put a lot of me into the role,

a lot more me than I normally get to do.

Jane Smith's character,

played by Rachel Owens,

she's more Bohemian, free-spirited girl.

She's also into, like, Tarot cards

and Buddha, and all that,

so I used real warm, earthy colors,

a lot more textures, softer textures,

more round edges.

Action!

Ask God, and allow

him to order your steps,

and watch what happens! Ha ha!

Well, Pastor Rita, she actually came from

the rough side of town.

She had quite a problem with drugs,

and she really pulled herself up

through going to church and

changing her life around,

and she's tough.

She's straightforward, no nonsense.

She tells it like it is.

My character is

Staff Sergeant Maverick,

and he is the soldier in

lead of our lead actor,

another supporting actor.

Stop the bleeding!

Get your goddamn

sh*t together, jarhead!

F***in' move!

And I am just really a little jerk.

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