The Big Blue Page #25

JACQUES:

(after thinking

about it)

... Yes.

ENZO:

(smiles)

I give you this. You're stubborn...

Dumb, but stubborn.

JACQUES:

(taking it as a

compliment)

Thank you.

INT. CAPSULE - DAY

The technician fiddles with a few knobs.

TECHNICIAN:

Minus 800 feet. End of descent.

INT. DIVING CAPSULE

The diving capsule ends its descent. The COMMANDER turns

to ENZO and JACQUES who is still staring out the porthole.

NOIREUTER:

(with a Mickey Mouse

voice)

You have enough air for 15 minutes.

ENZO bursts out laughing.

ENZO:

(with Donald Ducks

voice)

What's with the voice?

NOIREUTER:

It's nothing. It's just the helium,

because of the air pressure.

ENZO:

(worried)

And... does the voice come back?

NOIREUTER:

For others, yes... For you, who

knows?

ENZO:

(still a little

worried, to Jacques)

Try speaking to me?

JACQUES:

(with Daffy Ducks

voice)

I don't find this funny. We were

having a serious conversation.

ENZO and JACQUES burst out laughing. They keep these same

voice till the end of the scene.

ENZO pulls out a tiny silver flask out of his pocket.

ENZO:

(to Jacques)

Here, give me your finger.

ENZO taps a drop onto JACQUES' finger, then on his own.

Then NOIREUTER blows up.

NOIREUTER:

(in a panic)

Is that alcohol? Are you out of

your mind? Alcohol is strictly

forbidden.

ENZO:

(loosing his temper)

Hey! D'you have any other

complaints? Just make a list and

we'll stick it on the porthole!

Okay?

ENZO pours a second drop on his own finger.

ENZO:

Go on, suck your finger.

JACQUES hesitates. ENZO has no qualms about it and sucks

his own finger. NOIREUTER is petrified.

NOIREUTER:

Are you crazy? At this pressure?

JACQUES:

It's very deep down here.

ENZO:

Come on, suck your finger, you'll

be seeing mermaids everywhere!

JACQUES, convinced sucks his finger too. ENZO smiles.

The alcohol has an immediate effect on them.

ENZO:

(to Jacques)

A thousand commanders and we get a

Belgian from Alcoholic's Anonymous.

UNDERWATER:

ENZO gets out of the diving capsule,

head first.

He is connected to the capsule by a number of cables.

JACQUES, who follows him, gets completely tangled up in

them. They are both hilariously drunk.

INT. DRILLING PLATFORM - CONTROL ROOM

The SUPERINTENDENT hears them laughing through the control

room speakers. He flips a communication switch.

SUPERINTENDENT:

Can you hear me? What's going on?

(to the technician)

Are you sure you're on the right

channel?

The technician nods back to him.

UNDERWATER:

The two divers have gotten to the

spot they are supposed to be working

on. They have their arms around

each other and are dancing.

NOIREUTER watches them through the porthole. He shakes

his head in complete disbelief.

INT. CONTROL ROOM

We hear the two friends humming the tune of a Viennese

waltz.

SUPERINTENDENT:

If those guys are playing a radio

down there they'd just better watch

out!!

INT. JOHANA'S APARTMENT

SALLY is talking away, pointing around the apartment.

SALLY:

... And if we repaint the walls,

we'll need new curtains, you put

the painters on you Visa and I'll

do the curtains on American

Express... for the couch there's

Bloomingdales... or are you still

over your limit?

JOHANA:

(flatly)

Way past it.

SALLY:

Does that have a hidden meaning?

JOHANA:

No. I'm just depressed.

SALLY:

You look it too. You haven't been

working out, you haven't been taking

your vitamins! You haven't been

drinking your herbs, you haven't

been...

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