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Synopsis: Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial presidents in USA history, chronicling from his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and role in the oil business, his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years, and his 2004 re-election campaign.
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Production: Lionsgate
  1 win & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
PG-13
Year:
2008
129 min
$25,517,500
Website
755 Views


and promise never to come back.

Which is okey-dokey with me.

Don't work that way, Junior.

Not to me, not to this family.

Now, I'm getting you out of this,

this time.

I don't wanna get

any more phone calls like this again.

Ever.

- You hear me?

- Yes, sir.

- Where is your grease gun?

- It's up there.

Quit messing with me.

- Manuel.

- Get your butt back in here.

I thought you just wanted me

to go up there just now.

Sh*t.

- What happened?

- I think the bearing stopped.

- Hey, watch this for me, will you?

- Okay.

- Watch it.

- Okay.

Hey, Miguel.

- Is that too hot?

- Yeah.

Damn.

I need some help out here.

Bush, what you doing off the floor?

Shift's not over till 1800.

I'm having a drink, sir.

Get back there.

The motor's overheating.

I need every swinging dick I got.

Yeah, I know that.

But, sir, you see, I'm about parched.

You know, I just need

a couple of minutes here.

You already had your break. This ain't

some fancy-ass lvy League school.

Now, haul that butt of yours

back out to your motor...

...before something else happens.

All right. You know, sir...

...I think this butt of mine just quit.

- That the way you want it?

That's fine with me.

Get your ass off my rig.

I'll just get the next coach out.

Thank you.

Look, how many times

do I gotta tell you? You are my gal.

I mean, I'm as happy as a rabbit

in a carrot patch with you.

But you never say the words.

What words?

The L word.

The L word? What, lesbian?

You're no lesbian.

What future are we gonna have

if you're always joking?

Come on, Fran, I'm crazy about you.

Okay?

We're gonna go back to Houston.

We're gonna have a big church

wedding. All the trimmings. All of it.

What kind of church?

I grew up Episcopalian.

I grew up Presbyterian...

...and then

I turned into Episcopalian.

Well, I'm a Baptist.

Episcopalian, Baptist,

what the hell does it matter?

You're gonna be one of us, a Bush.

How does that sound, sweetheart?

You mean it? You swear it?

Look, then we're gonna move

to New York. You ever been there?

Bright lights, big city.

It's even bigger than Dallas.

I'm gonna work on Wall Street.

I got an uncle who's gonna set me up.

Told me, "Just say the word."

You gotta picture

a boatload of money.

We're gonna be on a big boat

with lots of money.

- New York?

- Yup.

I never dreamt of that.

Start dreaming now.

- George.

- Yeah?

Are you proposing to me?

If I had a rock big enough,

I'd give it to you right now.

Freddie Mac, here we go,

two more shots.

Oh, I love this song. Come on, honey.

- Come on. Get on up here, girl.

- What are you doing? You're crazy.

Come on, baby.

Yeah.

Come on, my boy.

Damn right, brother.

- See you later, George. Tell Barbara hi.

- Junior.

- Thanks for coming.

- W.

Hey, guys.

Tell him... Tell him that I won't be able

to do that till 3.

No, that's the soonest I can do it.

And hold my phone calls.

Let's see now. Sit down.

If I remember correctly, you didn't like

the sporting-goods job...

...or the oil-rig job.

Working in the investment firm

wasn't for you either.

That ranch-hand thing, Arizona.

That sure didn't last long.

Didn't exactly finish up...

...with flying colors

in the Air National Guard, Junior.

We're still not out of that one.

Now this gal, Suzie. Shooting off

her mouth about you knocking her up.

- Wait. How did you know about that?

- Word gets around, boy.

That's a danged lie, Poppy.

I used a condom. I'm not dumb.

What are you cut out for?

Partying, chasing tail, driving drunk?

What do you think you are?

A Kennedy?

You're a Bush. Act like one.

You can't even hold a job.

We always worked for our living.

It's time you joined the rest of us...

...and decided what it is

you're gonna do with your life.

I know, Poppy.

I'm just having a devil of a time

trying to figure it out.

Well, then figure it out soon, Junior.

Your brother Jeb

graduates Phi Beta Kappa.

What did you get? Cs?

You only get one bite at the apple.

Well, Jeb's not me

and I don't wanna be Jeb, Poppy.

Look, what I'd really love...

I mean, what I'd really love to do

is to find something in baseball.

What? You can't play.

Coach? You're fishing

for the moon in the water.

Something real.

I started out in the oil fields.

I was hoping that...

No, I'll try harder, Poppy, I promise.

No, I can do it.

Can you? Can you really?

You agreed to work

for a period of time...

...and you haven't

kept your word once. Not once.

In our family, the Bush family...

...we honor our commitments.

I'll take care of this...

...young woman.

You disappoint me, Junior.

Deeply disappoint me.

Is that it?

Yeah.

Almost three minutes behind, Rafael.

Pick up the pace.

My running times are better than ever

since the Afghan invasion.

I'm back down from 7-minute miles

to the 6:
45s.

I mean, honestly, I'm probably

the fastest president in history.

I heard your father

was a pretty good runner too.

Yeah, second fastest, maybe.

He had endurance,

but not my kind of speed.

What about Clinton?

My mother waddles faster

than that lardass.

And my pulse is only 35I 40.

You need to get in shape, Vice.

We need you around.

Three heart attacks is three too many.

Thank you.

Mr. President...

...if there was an E. coli breakout

in a produce farm in Maryland...

...would you take the chance of eating

the lettuce in that sandwich?

Why are you bringing this up?

I mean, you know I got tasters

in the kitchen.

If there was a 1 percent chance

of you dying, sir...

...would you eat the lettuce

in that sandwich?

One percent?

No. Probably not.

Most people wouldn't, sir.

And that's the dark side.

The 1 percent chance of a nuclear

attack, or an anthrax epidemic...

...or God help us,

a smallpox outbreak.

We'd have 200 million Americans

dead on our hands.

Why are you

bringing this up at lunch?

Vice, I mean, you know

I agree with you on this.

Because I'm more worried now

than I was on 9l11.

And you know

how disorganized we were.

I just wanna know

where you're going with this.

Mr. President...

...this is a fulcrum point in history.

Your presidency.

The Middle East, 9l11,

homeland security.

Everything is coming together

like a perfect storm.

Now, with all due respect, sir...

...I don't think this executive branch

is ready for that.

- Didn't we get the Patriot Act through?

- Doesn't go far enough, sir.

All right, Vice, so, what do you want

me to do that I haven't already done?

I mean, look, we're on top of the

banks, the telecoms, the databases...

...these Internet carriers.

We're tracking, what,

a billion phone calls a day?

- We got this Guantanemera open.

- Guantanamo.

Nobody's gonna be hearing

from those people for a long time.

Sir, I served your father.

And he was an able

and honorable man.

And he won the Iraq war.

But he, myself and Powell...

...we let that momentum slip away.

And if we hadn't...

...we wouldn't be looking down

the barrel of another 9l11.

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Stanley Weiser

Stanley Weiser is an American screenwriter. He was born in New York City. He is a graduate of the NYU Film School. His screen credits include Wall Street and W., both directed by Oliver Stone. He also wrote the 20th Century Fox film, Project X. He is credited for creating characters in the sequel to Wall Street: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. In addition, he served as script consultant on Oliver Stone's Nixon and Any Given Sunday. Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television. Murder in Mississippi, a chronicle of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the lives and deaths of Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman, the three young civil rights workers who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan, which aired on NBC in 1990. It was nominated for four Emmys and won the Directors Guild of America Award for best TV movie. Freedom Song, a semi-fictional account of the early SNCC movement in Mississippi, was co-written with Phil Alden Robinson, who also directed. They shared a Writers Guild of America Award and Humanitas nomination for the 2000 TNT film. Weiser also adapted the novel, Fatherland, by Robert Harris, for HBO. It was nominated for three Golden Globe awards and Miranda Richardson won for best supporting actress in a TV or cable movie. He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series Witness to the Mob in 1998, which was produced by Robert De Niro. He also wrote Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, for which he received a Writers Guild of America nomination for best TV movie. As of 2012, he wrote a biopic on the life of Rod Serling, the writer and The Twilight Zone creator. Weiser began his career as a production assistant for Brian De Palma on Phantom of the Paradise, and as an assistant cameraman on the Martin Scorsese documentary, Street Scenes. He is married and lives in Santa Monica, California. He is a founding member of the West Los Angeles Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center. more…

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