The Draughtsman's Contract Page #8
- R
- Year:
- 1982
- 108 min
- 2,002 Views
...when Mr. Neville
had finished with it.
When your speech is as
coarse as your face, Louis...
day as you perform by night.
Night and Day your
behaviour has been coarse...
...and is no down in
corresponding black and white...
...for all the world to peer
at, whether the sun shines...
...or the wind blows, hot or cold.
Your speech, Louis, is
becoming meteorological.
Explain your conceit.
It is no conceit but
Mr. Neville's drawings.
I was sure you believed Mr. Neville
incapable of complicated meaning.
What has he done now?
It is mostly what he has undone.
It seems to be your person.
I have no control over
Mr. Neville's drawings.
He draws what he pleases.
He is not paid to draw for his own
pleasure, nor for yours.
What makes you think he has done that?
The way it looks.
- How does it look?
The way the world sees it.
- The world!
There cannot be that many
people who have seen these drawings.
Who are these people
that represent the world?
Seymour, Noyes, the Poulencs.
What do they see?
Enough to delight them...
...to exercise their
tongues, to discuss patrimony.
Or the lack of it.
They see then what they
have long been searching for.
Do you think?
And that means?
An opportunity to braid
you for not producing an heir.
Woman, it takes two.
It does indeed, Sir.
You amaze me.
What has that to do with Mr. Neville?
I could ask you that.
- You did not. You asked Mr. Noyes.
It was he who pointed it out to me.
With his long nose he could point
you in any way he wishes.
Madam...
...you'll look at those drawings...
...and you'll explain to me...
...why a ladder is
placed under your window...
...and why your revolting little dog
is outside the bath-house...
...and why your walking-clothes
casually decorate...
...the bushes of the yew-walk.
Your inventory,
Louis, is unlimited...
...like you long,
clean, white breeches.
substance in either of them.
Let me ask you.
Perhaps you can explain what your
boots were doing in the sheep-field.
They were not my boots.
- Why was your undershirt idling...
...on a hedge near
the statue of Hermes?
It was not my shirt.
Can you not see...
...the drift of this
domestic inquisition?
You are answering me
You cannot deny it is your dog.
And whereas, with
your final accusation.
You pursue the ambiguity
of an abandoned sunshade.
You are complete on paper...
...in a borrowed hat
and a borrowed coat...
...and a borrowed
shadow I shouldn't wonder.
Posing with your knees tucked in...
...and arse tucked out...
...and a face like a Dutch fig...
...and a supercilious Protestant
whistle, I shouldn't wonder...
...on your supercilious smug lips.
And Louis...
...you have always said that
Mr. Neville has no imagination.
He draws what he sees.
Whose patrimony were
you apeing then?
My father's?
The world knows that he is dead...
...and is not certain who killed him.
at those drawings...
...and ask what conspiracy
of inheritance...
...did Mr. Neville have for you.
You are disreputable.
You side with a tenant-farmer's son
against your husband.
You have married the grand-daughter
of an army victualler.
There is nothing that I have said
that suggests I side with Mr. Neville.
I hope you will agree that
he has been useful to us all.
What have you done with his drawings?
I've bought them for 600 guineas
and plan to destroy them.
It would be a pity to destroy them.
You are concerned that posterity...
...will know of your duplicity.
Louis...
...they contain
evidence of another kind.
A kind more valuable than that
seized upon by those titillated...
...by a scandal
that smears your honour.
Evidence that Mr.
Neville may be cogniscent...
...to the death of my father.
Good morning, Madam.
Mr. Neville.
Good morning, Sir.
Good morning.
Though the summer suddenly seems
past and the weather less than good.
What has brought you back
to Anstey so soon?
I thought our humble
estate had seen the last of you.
the Duke of Lauderdale...
...and have come at the
invitation of Mr. Seymour...
...to find that curiously he is
out and most of his house is shut up.
Mr. Seymour is in
Southampton with my husband.
The funeral was three days ago
and they are discussing property.
It would seem then that
May I ask after the
health of your mother?
Although my mother was
understandably disturbed...
...by my father's
death, she is now...
...from the knowledge that
her affection for my father...
...can never be reciprocated...
...at ease.
And what of yourself?
I am very well, Mr. Neville.
And we are thriving.
Mr. Van Hoyten is to
consider for us a new management...
...of the grounds in an
entirely fresh approach.
He has come at our
request to soften the geometry...
...that my father
found to his taste, and to...
...introduce a new ease
and complexion to the garden.
Mr. Van Hoyten has
worked in The Hague...
...and he has presented
Mr. Talmann with some novel...
...introductions which we
will commence next spring.
He is a draughtsman too.
Mr. Neville has come, Mother...
...as we both believed he might.
He has brought with him
a rare gift from Radstock.
Three pomegranates from
Lauderdale's gardener...
...reared in English
But with the help of one
hundred panes of glass...
...and half a year's
supply of artificial heat.
Thank you Mr. Neville.
We must see what we
can do for you in return.
I was about to take Mr.
Van Hoyten to the river.
He has plans to make a dam...
I will no doubt see
you later, Mr. Neville.
Flooded fields, Madam?
Do you plan to join Anstey to the sea?
We are to have an ornamental lake.
My son-in-law has ambitions
for his countrymen.
It is probably you
that has opened his eyes...
...to the possibilities
of our landscape.
Why is this Dutchman
waving his arms about?
Is he homesick for windmills?
Who knows?
He's a man with new ideas.
New ideas demand
new methods, perhaps.
How was Radstock?
Fine enough, Madam...
...but dull after the
excitements of Anstey.
Have you now come here
That would be presumptuous.
It would indeed.
All contracts have been honoured...
...and the body has been buried.
That was blunt.
I remember that you were blunt...
...in your dealings with me.
I was glad to see Mrs. Talmann...
...and in all truth, put as
much a possibility as I could...
...to see that a meeting
I was curious to see
To see what appearance they'd put on
after this week of changing weather.
But I admit that it was
out of curiosity to see you...
...was behind the
reason for my wishing...
...to be invited to
Mr. Seymour's house.
Curiosity...
...dies bit sound a very
0 fans
Submitted on August 05, 2018
Translation
Translate and read this script in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"The Draughtsman's Contract" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 19 Nov. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/the_draughtsman's_contract_20113>.
Discuss this script with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In