While We're Young Page #18

Everyone at the table stares at Josh. His says withcertainty:

JOSH:

This is not how the world works.

We MOVE in on Josh. His face fills with emotion.

BREITBART:

Why does it have to be one thing oranother? Things change. Different

things matter now.

JOSH:

Forget ethics then. What about me?!

You played me. I was played.

JAMIE:

(under his breath)

But you acted in it.

JOSH:

Only because I thought it was real!

(pause, with genuinefeeling)

I loved you.

JAMIE:

I like you too! We’re friends.

JOSH:

(sadly)

I really believed it.

(his throat full of

sadness)

I was a bet!

BREITBART:

Are you okay, son?

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Josh wipes his face.

JOSH:

I’m not crying. I’m not.

Josh’s attention goes to a tiny camera in Jamie’s lap aimedright at him.

JOSH:

Are you filming this?!

BREITBART:

Josh, your sleeve is on fire.

Josh’s sweatshirt has dipped into the flame of a candle onthe table and is indeed on fire. Jamie stands, grabs apitcher of water and douses Josh.

Josh drips, soaked. He shakes his head like a wet dog and,

dejected, moves to leave. He hesitates and turns to Breitbart:

JOSH:

I took your note by the way. I cut

the stuff on Turkish politics out ofmy film. You were right, I don’tneed it.

BREITBART:

I’m glad to hear that, son.

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CLOSE:
Kent, in his magician outfit, speaks to the camera.

DELETE? comes up on the SCREEN. YES is selected. The file

is deleted.

Josh puts the video camera back in his tote. He sits on the

steps with his roller blades and whiskey bottle. Cornelia

arrives. She holds a plate with a napkin covering it. She

hands it to Josh.

CORNELIA:

It doesn’t matter that it’s faked.

(Josh nods)

It doesn’t matter because it’s not

about Afghanistan and it’s not aboutKent it’s about Jamie.

JOSH:

(sighs)

In my head, when I was blading over,

I swept in here and exposedeverything. I was such a hero.

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He lifts the napkin on the plate to see a piece of chocolatecake drizzled with chocolate sauce and a fork.

JOSH:

Thanks.

Cornelia takes a swig from the bottle.

CORNELIA:

When we first started seeing eachother I was so jealous. I would getso upset when you’d talk to anothergirl at a party.

JOSH:

I know! I liked that...

CORNELIA:

I was so sure you’d fall in love withsomeone else and leave me.

JOSH:

Did you want me to?

CORNELIA:

I think I wanted to know that I

wasn’t your only option. But youdidn’t fall in love with someone

else. Until you did. And then it

was two people.

(beat)

I’m so sorry I kissed him. I reallydid think it was you at first...thenI kind of kissed him again. I don’t

know why I did it. I wanted to like

him as much as you did.

Josh starts to eat the cake.

JOSH:

(mouth full)

I wanted so badly...I wanted to beadmired. I wanted a protege.

CORNELIA:

I know.

JOSH:

He looked at me like I was a real

grown-up person. Someone who has

done things. For the first time in

my life I stopped thinking of myselfas a child imitating an adult.

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CORNELIA:

You feel that way too?

JOSH:

(nods)

I’m forty-four and there are things Iwill never do. Things I won’t have.

(pause)

What’s the opposite of “the world’syour oyster?”

Cornelia’s eyes water. She nods.

CORNELIA:

I think I stopped taking you in.

JOSH:

Am I a failure?

CORNELIA:

You’ve never failed me.

JOSH:

But am I a failure?

CORNELIA:

I feel like I failed you. I wish we

could go back and meet each other allover again.

JOSH:

I’d present myself differently. So I

didn’t get your hopes up. Maybe notuse the expression “conquer theworld” so often.

CORNELIA:

You said that a lot.

JOSH:

I think it’s hard for me to have

something be great every day and toacknowledge it.

(smiles at her)

I have something great every day. If

we were different people, I’d ask youto renew our vows.

CORNELIA:

I think it’s nice to renew vows.

JOSH:

Maybe we are different people.

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Silence.

CORNELIA:

What are you thinking about?

JOSH:

Twenty years ago I was twenty-four.

In twenty years I’ll be sixty-four.

BLACK:

86

INT. CAR/EXT. JFK AIRPORT. DAY 86

CLOSE on Willow, a year older, in a car seat.

TITLE:
A YEAR LATER

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Fletcher drives, Marina in the passenger seat. Josh and *

Cornelia in the back with Willow. Fletcher pulls up to theterminal.

MARINA *

Call when you get there!

CORNELIA:

We will, Fox.

Josh and Cornelia get out of the car and grab the bags fromthe trunk. Marina joins them. Fletcher steps out of the *

car, but hangs by the door.

MARINA *

You’re going to be such greatparents.

FLETCHER:

The guy is waving at me, we have tomove, Marina! They changed the *

rules.

(to Josh and Cornelia)

See you when you get back.

Marina hugs both of them. *

MARINA *

Oh, Fox, I’m going to cry.

FLETCHER JOSH:

The cop is coming, Marina! We’ll be back in a week. *

MARINA *

Send pictures of the little man! We

love you guys.

CORNELIA:

We love you too!

JOSH:

I love you, Fletcher.

FLETCHER:

I love you too but I’m not gettingarrested for you. Marina! *

INT. AIRPORT TERMINAL. DAY

87 87

CLOSE:
An airplane departure screen. JFK to Port-au-Prince,

Haiti.

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Josh sits outside the gate, bags at his feet. He plays agame on his phone. Cornelia sits down next to him with a

stack of magazines. She hands Josh a yogurt.

JOSH:

Thanks.

(re:
her stack ofmagazines)

You really need ten?

CORNELIA:

It’s three and half hours to Port-au-

Prince.

Cornelia slides a photo of a Haitian baby out from betweenthe pages of a hard cover book. She smiles.

CORNELIA:

I can’t believe it.

JOSH:

Me neither.

He takes the photo from her. He gazes happily at it. She

opens a magazine.

CORNELIA:

Oh...look who it is.

She presents the magazine for Josh to see: CLOSE on a PHOTOof Jamie at Sundance.

CLOSE on the PULL QUOTE:

“Are you a hipster?”

“Well, I’m of a certain age and I wear tight jeans.”

CUT TO:

88 INT. HOTEL LOBBY - SUNDANCE 88

Jamie, in a black trenchcoat and a knit cap, is beinginterviewed by a cute interviewer in a parka.

JAMIE:

But I’m just about out of the cool-

age demographic.

INTERVIEWER:

What happens when you exit the cool-

age demographic?

Jamie thinks about this.

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JAMIE:

I enter the power-age demographic.

We MOVE down to Jamie’s lap. He holds a small video camera

trained on the interviewer.

89 INT. AIRPORT TERMINAL. DAY

Josh hands the magazine back to Cornelia.

CORNELIA:

It’s out there. The evil is

unleashed.

JOSH:

No, you were right, he’s not evil.

He’s just young.

CORNELIA:

I heard from Darby, she Facebooked

me.

90 EXT. TAMPA ECO PARK. DAY

CUT BACK TO:

89

CUT TO:

90

Darby, her hair in a braid, a name-tag on her shirt which hasa parrot on it, runs a net through mud. A motorboat behind

her.

CORNELIA (V.O.)

She’s an eco-tourguide at a wildliferefuge.

DARBY:

This mud is filled with organisms.

She sticks her hand in the mud and pulls out a worm-likething.

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