While We're Young Page #17

108.

JOSH:

Yeah, you’re right, it is my thing.

I have a f***ed up relationship with

success. I want it and I don’t have

it. But what you have scares theshit out of me. You’re not

uncomfortable at all.

JAMIE:

Why should I be uncomfortable?

JOSH:

See, that I just find weird.

JAMIE:

You’re the only person who is weirdabout this. I asked you to co-direct -JOSH

Yeah, because you knew I’d say, No!

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78 INT. DINING HALL. NIGHT 78

Breitbart’s speech.

BREITBART:

Now people have criticized me andsome of my colleagues saying that wewere pretending to be objective whenthere is no objectivity.

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79 INT. LOBBY. NIGHT 79

Josh and Jamie.

JAMIE:

Jeez, Joshy. Everyone does this kindof thing.

JOSH:

I don’t. I don’t do something likethis. I’m trying to make movies tofigure out the truth.

JAMIE:

(incredulous)

Really?

109.

JOSH:

Yes!

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80 INT. DINING HALL. NIGHT 80

Breitbart.

BREITBART:

Okay, we were trying to capturetruth, but the truth of experience,

of being in the moment, of seeingsomething as it happens.

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81 INT. LOBBY. NIGHT 81

Josh and Jamie.

JOSH:

(sadly)

I do know that documentaries are

over.

JAMIE:

Are you kidding? It’s what everyoneis doing.

JOSH:

(indicating Breitbart)

His documentaries are over. What

you’re doing is something else. If

everyone is filming everything,

what’s a documentary anymore? It has

no meaning, it’s just sh*t yourecorded! Is that old man talk?

Maybe it is. You kids have been told

you can do anything. You can’t.

(beat)

Well, you, Jamie, can, but mostpeople can’t.

Jamie shrugs. Josh, annoyed, imitates him by shrugging back.

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82 INT. DINING HALL. NIGHT 82

Breitbart.

110.

BREITBART:

What we were trying to say asfilmmakers is that what we were

filming was more interesting than we

were...

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83 INT. LOBBY. NIGHT 83

Josh and Jamie.

JOSH:

You think everything is out there foryou to have. It’s not.

JAMIE:

Nobody owns anything. If I hear a

song I like, or a story, it’s mine.

It’s mine to use. It’s everybody’s.

JOSH:

No it isn’t! That’s not sharingJamie, that’s...stealing.

JAMIE:

That’s old man talk.

JOSH:

I am an old man!

Applause as Breitbart finishes his speech. Josh, emboldened,

turns to Jamie.

JOSH:

I can’t let Cornelia and Leslie walk

down this road with you. I want youto go in there and tell them whatyou’ve done. If you won’t, I’ll doit for you.

For a brief moment, Jamie’s face elicits what looks likefear. It passes.

JAMIE:

Okay.

JOSH:

I’m sorry, kid. But there are

standards, there are...standards.

INT. DINING HALL. NIGHT

111.

Josh walks with purpose toward the table. Jamie trails

behind him.

CORNELIA:

Josh!

JOSH:

Sorry I’m late.

(to Breitbart)

Leslie, I caught your speech from thelobby, though and it was reallyinspiring, spot on...

BREITBART:

Are you okay, son? Do you want tosit down?

JOSH:

Jamie has something he wants to tellall of you.

Josh takes a seat and crosses his legs comfortably.

JOSH:

Go ahead.

They all look at him and then Jamie blankly.

JAMIE:

Not all of the stuff in my moviehappened exactly as I said it did.

(sighs)

I played around with some of the time-

line.

BREITBART:

Okay.

JAMIE:

(humbly)

Yeah...

JOSH:

“Yeah?” And...

JAMIE:

And what?

JOSH:

You did a lot more than that, come

on.

Josh stands back up. He says to the table:

112.

JOSH:

He didn’t even know Kent. Darby did.

And Darby’s mother died of ovarian

cancer. Jamie’s mom is probablyalive and kicking in Idaho.

He sits back down.

BREITBART:

(trying to put an end toit)

Josh, this is kind of my night -

JOSH:

You just need to hear this.

JAMIE:

That’s basically it.

Josh leaps back up.

JOSH:

No, that’s not basically it! You

knew that Kent had tried to kill

himself...

JAMIE:

Right.

JOSH:

Say it!

BREITBART:

Josh, come on, let him speak.

JAMIE:

The gist is the same. I authored a

bit of how we came to it. I mean,

I’m not that good a writer. If I

made it all up, I’d be the bestwriter in Hollywood and...and Kentwould be Marlon Brando.

Breitbart laughs. Hedge Fund Dave laughs harder.

JOSH:

I never said it was amazing. I justsaid it was faked.

JAMIE:

And some of the time-line was

adjusted -

113.

JOSH:

Stop with the time-line crap!

Josh pulls out his video camera and gestures with it.

JOSH:

Jamie knew that Kent tried to kill

himself. That he’d been in

Afghanistan. We didn’t just stumbleupon it. It was rigged. Jamie

invented the whole Facebook thingbecause he knew it would play better.

HEDGE FUND DAVE:

Kent wasn’t in Afghanistan?

JOSH:

No, Kent was in Afghanistan.

HEDGE FUND DAVE:

So, what’s the problem?

JOSH:

It’s...it’s...the way, the way hesaid that he found him is not true.

HEDGE FUND DAVE:

Kent served our country, you’re beingoffensive.

Breitbart looks at Jamie.

BREITBART:

Is what Josh is saying true?

JAMIE:

Well...I did know, but I don’t thinkit really matters though, the movie’snot about that.

JOSH:

Of course it matters. Leslie,

explain...

BREITBART:

I don’t know that it matters totallyin this case.

JOSH:

(shocked)

What?

Dave leans in from the next table.

114.

HEDGE FUND DAVE:

I don’t care.

JOSH:

(dismissive)

I didn’t expect you to care.

(quickly back to Leslie)

Leslie, are you kidding me? You

don’t care? You just gave a speechabout authenticity!

HEDGE FUND DAVE:

(thinks about it again)

Yeah, I don’t care.

BREITBART:

I just think the movie works on manylevels, the happenstance of it, to behonest, I find the least interestingpart.

Josh sputters, practically stomps his foot.

JOSH:

I can’t believe it! This movie isn’t

worth the...RAM...it’s...stored on.

(pointing at Jamie)

He’s a con artist. Leslie, yourgeneration of sit-ins and protestersand...pack rats would be horrified bythis...demon!

BREITBART:

You’re hysterical, Josh.

JOSH:

(hysterically)

I’m not hysterical!

He swings his arm, gesturing, knocking a tray full of foodand glasses out of a waiter’s arms. It goes crashing to theground.

JOSH:

Sh*t, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

He helps the waiter pick up the plates. Everyone at thetable waits. Josh finally gets back up.

JOSH:

Cornelia...

115.

CORNELIA:

I don’t know. I think he’s an

a**hole, but the movie’s pretty good.

And I’m sorry I think that.

Jamie takes a seat and starts eating the dessert that wasplaced in front of him.

JOSH:

This is so frustrating! I’m going toget no satisfaction here, am I? This

guy’s just going to win no matterwhat.

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