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Tin Men Page #6
- R
- Year:
- 1987
- 112 min
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TILLEY:
(as he smashes,
wildly)
He'll get a lot of air... won't
be too stuffy in this car when I'm
finished.
GIL:
(calling from Tilley's
Cadillac)
Quick, Tilley... let's get out
of here.
Tilley runs back to his car and drives away.
CUT TO:
41 INT. SUPERIOR ALUMINUM SIDING OFFICE - TIGHT SHOT - DAY 41
Of a map of a 15 block area of Baltimore. Colored pins
are in place indicating various homes that have been
provided with aluminum siding. Another pin goes into
place.
BAGEL (O.S.)
That was a good sale, Double B.
Just got a call on a loan...
we're in business.
CUT TO:
ANOTHER ANGLE:
We see BAGEL. He's a little guy with a black Fedora and
baggy pants held up with suspenders. BB stands with him.
BAGEL:
This whole section has been very
fertile for us.
CUT TO:
(CONTINUED)
36.
41 CONTINUED:
41ANOTHER ANGLE:
Moe, Looney and Carly are talking to STANLEY FRANKS, a
young guy in his early 20's. He is dressed in the "Ivy
League" look of the times.
MOE:
(to Stanley)
Sure you wanna get into the tin
game?
STANLEY:
Money's good, I understand.
LOONEY:
Lot of crazy people you're gonna
run into when you're knocking on
those doors. Hermits that don't
see the outside world, Jehovah's
Witnesses that try and sell you
the Bible at the same time you're
trying to sell them tin. People
that are just lonely and want to
have conversations.
CARLY:
Every time you step in that door,
you've got to be fast on your feet.
STANLEY:
Interesting.
MOE:
(quizzing Stanley)
What's the best way to qualify
a mark?
STANLEY:
What?
MOE:
How do you know if you can get the
upper hand? How do you know if
you're dealing with a guy who's in
an inferior position to you, or
superior position? How do you
know?
Moe puts Stanley on the defensive.
STANLEY:
You just have to talk and feel
your way.
(CONTINUED)
37.
41 CONTINUED:
(2) 41MOE:
Quick way... get a book of
matches out of your pocket to
light your cigarette... you drop
the matches on the floor.
STANLEY:
(looks puzzled)
Yeah.
MOE:
Guy bends down to pick up the
matches for you, you got a mark...
you got this guy in your pocket.
If he looks to you to pick it up,
you've got a long, hard, tough
sell on your hands.
BB walks over to the guys, having just poured himself
some coffee.
BB:
You want to get in good with these
people... you want to win their
confidence? Good thing to try...
get a five dollar bill, take it
out when the guy's not looking,
drop it on the ground. Guy looks
back, pick it up, hand it to him
and say, 'Mr. Blah blah, you
musta dropped this five dollar
bill on the ground.' Two things
happen... he says, 'It's not
mine,' you say, 'Musta been, 'cos
it's certainly not mine,' or the
guy is thinking you must be one
hell of a nice guy... you're in.
You start chipping away... you
start getting inside those people.
Stanley is quite taken by their information. BB puts
his cup down and grabs his coat.
BB:
Come on, Moe, let's split.
LOONEY:
(to Stanley)
Yeah, we'd better go, too. Come
on, Stanley.
(to Carly who is
hanging behind)
Me and Stanley. It's like a first
date.
CUT TO:
38.
42 EXT. SUPERIOR ALUMINUM SIDING BUILDING - DAY 42
BB and Moe approach BB's Cadillac. He sees that all the
windows have been smashed in. Moe looks to BB. Looney
walks up from behind.
LOONEY:
What? You got a special bargain
when you bought this car? They
BB reaches into the car and picks up a handful of broken
glass. He tosses it up and down in his hands.
BB:
This guy's looking to play tit
for tat. That's not my game.
I'm gonna play hardball.
BB throws the glass down on the ground.
STANLEY:
(to Looney, quietly)
What's going on?
Looney just nods for them to go, and they start to walk
over to Looney's Cadillac.
BB:
I'm gonna find out everything
about this son of a b*tch, and
then I'm gonna find the one thing
that cuts him to the quick.
MOE:
Let's go inside... make some
calls.
BB nods and they start back inside.
CUT TO:
43 INT. POOL HALL - TIGHT SHOT 43
of a pool ball ricocheting off an eight ball. The eight
ball drops into the pocket. Tilley throws down his pool
stick. We see his partner is Mouse. Gil sits in a chair
against a wall.
TILLEY:
Damn it! Damn it! I can't believe
it... I can't believe I did that.
(CONTINUED)
39.
43 43
CONTINUED:
MOUSE:
Well, then, believe it. There's
because you did it... so believe
it. That's twenty more... you
owe me sixty.
TILLEY:
You think I can't add?
He goes to rack to re-set. Mouse goes over and puts a
nickel in the juke box. A RECORD slips into position,
and Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song" begins. Mouse,
in unison with the record, sings, and is totally caught
up in the song.
MOUSE:
'Dayo!... da, da, da, da, day.
Daylight come and he wanna go
home...'
He sings very loudly, especially on the chorus.
GIL:
(facetiously)
Oh, this is going to be good.
MOUSE:
'Dayo!... da, da, da, da, da, da,
da.'
(he hits his pool cue
on the ground for
emphasis)
'Daylight come and he wanna go
home...'
CUT TO:
44 INT. ROOM OFF MAIN POOL HALL 44
Sam is going through some papers on a desk, and comes
across an IRS letter addressed to Tilley. He notices
that it hasn't been opened. He looks at the postdate
mark -- it's five weeks old, dated January 3, 1963.
SAM:
Jesus Christ!
We can hear the "BANANA BOAT SONG" through the door, with
MOUSE SCREECHING along with it. Sam takes the letter and
goes through the door to the pool hall.
40.
He approaches Tilley who's just finished racking the
balls.
SAM:
Tilley.
He nods for Tilley to go over to him. They start to
walk together through the darkened areas of the Pool
Hall.
SAM:
Found this on your desk while I
was going over some papers.
He hands the letter to Tilley.
TILLEY:
From the IRS. I never even
remember seeing it. I must have
left it with my other bills. I
wonder what it is?
SAM:
Maybe it's a refund check.
Tilley opens the envelope and looks at the document.
TILLEY:
Hum... says here that they haven't
received my 1962 taxes. They seem
to be saying that they didn't
get my check for four thousand
dollars.
SAM:
What? It must be a clerical
error.
TILLEY:
I can't believe they spend all
that time and energy to write to
me... to single me out.
SAM:
What are you talking about? You
didn't pay your taxes?
TILLEY:
I probably forgot... people
forget their taxes all the time...
just slipped my mind... I got so
many things on my mind.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
41.
45 CONTINUED:
45TILLEY (CONT'D)
I figured they could wait a few
years... it's not like they need
my money to build a bomber. You
think they're waiting for my money
before they dig a new road? Are
they all sitting there saying,
'Well, it's time we went to see
that guy on Pimlico Road... can't
run this government without his
four thousand dollars.'
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