The Congress

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Robin .

Look at me, Robin.

Do you believe when I say I love you?

How long has this been going on?

24 years? 25?

I've always been there for you.

Always, in any situation.

To all your... choices, all your fears...

all that...

... enslavement here, anxieties, I was there.

All the irrational walkouts,

always when... shooting was

just about to start.

"Do me a favor, Al, get me out of this,

get me out of that".

"Get me out clean",

"without burning any bridges".

"Aaron needs me at home."

But Aaron is just an excuse.

Lousy choices.

That's your whole story, Robin.

Lousy choices.

Lousy movies,

lousy men, friends you couldn't trust.

Even the one thing you can't choose,

your mother

You made a lousy choice there, too.

You had it all, Robin.

Movie queen at 24.

All them big studios came crawling.

Maybe I was too soft on you...

...like everyone says.

I don't know.

Maybe I really was.

But you were just a kid.

You were scared.

You made that choices,

you made them all on your own.

And you slammed all the open doors,

crushed all the dreams.

And now...

Now...

And now what, Al?

Talk to me, what are they offering?

I've no idea that they offer,

I wish I knew.

They called this morning

and yelled at me for 20 minutes,

about how they're sick of us.

Said it was a "final offer",

that this proposal won't be on a table again.

A quotation:
"That won't be on the table again."

And what do you think it is?

How on Earth would I know?

One thing I do know: they won't be back.

They never spoke to me that way, Robin.

Ever.

Sorry of that, Mom.

I think you need to go now.

What happened ?

Airport security called. No pressure,

same as usual.

Aaron!

If [...] kite goes over property fence,

you know what' gonna happen.

- I know.

I know, I'm sorry,

it's not going to happen again.

So what was that [air]?

United 435 from Rochester?

Actually, no.

- What was it then?

- Um...

United... but not Rochester.

Let's see...

Wednesday, 6 p.m.

Fort Lauderdale?

I know, Minneapolis.

- That's not what matters.

- What matters then?

That the wind was blowing from the west,

There my lady feel like a Queen

over the runways...

...and that it looked like a match made in Heaven.

I thought that any minute

they were gonna unite.

Those colors!

That red,

that white

and the black clouds.

So really powerful.

OK, but guess what?

- It's not gonna happen anymore,

you know that, right?

- Why not, why do you care ?

- Because he's not gonna go there,

that's why it's not gonna happen.

All right ? Because the next time

the line goes over the fence,

we gonna have to pack

everything in the house

we gonna have to move to

a lousy neighborhood in the city,

where will be no sky for me to see, or kites.

I'd rather live in some lousy neighborhood

in the city than this sh*t.

Oh, that's not new.

You know, I saved you today.

You saved me? From what?

From Al's proposal.

What was he offering so sweetly?

Tell her, Mom.

- What did he offer?

- I DON'T know, I don't know.

Sci-Fi? Graphic novel?

Holocaust? I don't see WHY you won't

do a Holocaust flick?

Every B-grade actress that does Holocaust [...] something in.

You could play both sides.

What do you mean, both sides?

Well, look at you.

Nazi and victim.

You're one-side purpose

for a Holocaust flick.

-You know what?

-What?

You could even play a collaborator

if they needed one.

How many actresses have THA [...] talent these days?

Yeah, I remember. I remember when you

first came to the studio.

I was a... young number-crutcher,

down the hall.

Everybody said:
"Here she comes!"

"She is beautiful, she is sexy,

She's got brains, power and ability

modesty, wildness, fantasy."

And she's one of us, goddam'it, she's...

She's from Texas!"

She's not some-some... some actress

that comes from the middle of Australia

that grew up on some distant farm,

that she rode a hundred miles

to get to closest movie

where the projector runs on bunker fuel!

I remember, standing in the hallway...

... watching you walk in.

And you were so beautiful.

You were "Princess Bride" - Buttercup.

I imagined switching your face

for that of Grace Kelly's.

the "Rear Window" poster. That was a good idea.

You were the future, Robin.

You were the promise, the answer.

You were the whole package.

And now I'm...

...I'm in this situation.

Exactly what situation are you in, Jeff?

The situation of offering of the last contract

that you'll ever have.

The last?

Already? I'm not even 45.

Things are changing quickly.

Very soon, this whole structure

we all love so much

... will be gone.

What [...] Miramount?

God forbid!

I mean the structure around the actor:

the agents, the managers,

all that [...] the trailer

the drugs, the Coke, the depression, the...

breakups, and lovers, and sexual kinks,

the broken contracts,

terrible legitimization of tasteless scripts,

the post-failure blues, the skipping out on PR

begging for forgiveness.

All that... can be gone.

Get my drift ?

No, not really.

We at Miramount, want to...

...want to scan you.

All of you - your body, your face,

your... emotion,

your laughter, your tears,

your climaxing, your happiness,

your depressions, your... fears, longings.

We want to sample you, we

want to preserve you, we want...

...all this, this...

...this thing, this thing called...

"Robin Wright".

What will you do with this... thing ?

That you call Robin Wright?

Will do all the things that

your Robin Wright wouldn't do.

Like what ?

Like all the movies that you missed [...]

because of your LOUSY choices.

You gave in, you gave up, you fled, you quit,

God knows what you did!

And you did it the last minute,

you clogged our productions

and you cost us MILLIONS!

How old are you?

What difference does it make how old I am,

if you're gonna create

me at any age at your computer! What difference

does it make to you if I am 16 or 60?

It doesn't.

I need Buttercup from "Princess Bride".

I need Jenny from "Forrest Gump."

I need a... what was her name?

from "A State Of Grace"?

That's what I need, I don't need you.

I need you only for your... for your history.

A history paid with lousy choices

you just said so yourself.

Yes. For the last 15 years, yes, sure.

[All your movies tanked, no-not one... ]

could keep it's head above water.

But I can save you, Robin.

I can save you.

- From what?

- From yourself! From yourself!

You knew about this?

Knew about what?

about all this crap he's offering me?

Oh, he doesn't know anything, he still thinks

that cameras run on bunker fuel.

On what?

A bunker fuel, that's crude oil.

Never mind. He is from the Stone Age.

Your career is almost over.

You fell off the Top-O

In the economy of scanned actors, um...

...you are not worth... 2 bucks.

We are at war, Robin.

Any actor who doesn't sign within

the next 6 months is dead. Gone.

Characters erased from the screen forever.

You'll be back on all fours,

begging me to sample you.

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