Yentl Page #4

You have a lovely home, Mrs Vishkower.

Such beautiful things,

the silver, the dishes, the tablecloth.

Thank you, Anshel.

It's nice of you to notice.

Oh! I'm sorry.

It's all right.

You, erm, you come from a big family?

- No.

- No brothers or sisters?

- No.

- Your father never remarried?

- No.

- Esther.

I'm just curious. Who took care of them?

If I knew Talmud the way my wife

knows everybody's business,

I'd be the sage of all sages.

(Esther) Don't you pay any attention.

No wonder he loves her

No wonder at all

The moment she sees him

Her thought is to please him...

Horseradish is good for you.

Before he even knows that he's hungry

She's already there with his plate

Before his glass is even empty

she's filling it up

God forbid he should wait...

Before he has the chance to tell her

he's chilly she'll go put a log on the fire

Fulfilling his every desire

No trouble

No bother...

- Carrots?

- No, thank you.

No wonder

She's pretty

What else should she be?

She hasn't a worry

And why should she worry?

When she gets up, her biggest decision

Is figuring out what to wear

To pick a blouse, a skirt,

and then there's the problem

Of what should she do with her hair

And later as she stands

and studies a chicken

The question's to roast

or to not roast

Or better yet, maybe a pot roast

Tomatoes?

No...

- Potatoes.

- Mm.

No wonder

He likes it

It's perfect this way

Who wouldn't want someone

who fusses and flatters

Who makes you feel

that you're all that matters

Whose only aim in life is to serve you

And make you think

she doesn't deserve you?

- No wonder...

- It's all right.

- ... he loves her...

- It happens.

- What else could he do?

- All the time. Ha-ha!

If I were a man

I would too

- (Esther) Let's try dessert.

- Yes, Mother.

Good, hm?

(Both chuckling)

Let's go this way.

- She makes the best almond cakes.

- Mm.

- I thought it was pneumonia.

- Hm?

- Your brother.

- It was.

- Vishkower said consumption.

- Did he?

They were very impressed with you.

"Beautiful dishes, beautiful home. "

I didn't open my mouth

the first two months except to eat.

Is she always that nervous?

She's a girl...

in Love. What do you expect?

She doesn't say very much.

What does she have to say?

Don't you ever wonder

what she's thinking?

No.

- What could she be thinking?

- (Yentl laughs)

I don't need her to think.

I can do that with you.

Wrong. The Hebrew for rib

never meant rib, it meant side.

Rib, side, what's the difference?

Adam was created male and female.

- Where's that written?

- Genesis, chapter five.

If God took one side of Adam and created

woman, that means we're all the same.

You've never been with a woman.

I mean they share masculine

and feminine qualities.

- Look, can you do that?

- What?

Create Life, give birth to sons?

When you can, then tell me we're the same.

Another interpretation,

the true story of Adam and Eve -

God wouldnt make her from Adam's ear

Lest she be an eavesdropper.

Nor from his heart, lest she be jealous.

But from a hidden part of the body,

so she be modest.

- In other words, the rib!

- No, no, not the rib!

- Side!

- Rib!

- Side!

- Rib. Admit you're wrong.

- Admit it. Admit it!

- I will not! I'm not wrong!

- Admit it!

- Get off! I can't breathe!

I can't breathe. I can't breathe.

Come on.

- Where are you going?

- Come on!

Avigdor, wait!

- Avigdor!

- (Children laughing)

- Avigdor, where are you?

- Over here!

- Come on in.

- Oh, my God.

(Men chatting, indistinct)

- Come on in!

- No! Er...

There's a passage here that, erm...

- It's the only way to cool off!

- No, it's all right.

I'II, er... I'll watch the clothes.

(Man) Don't throw me in the water.

(Indistinct shouting)

Shimmele, come on in!

(Lively shouts)

(Laughter and chatter)

- (Man) How's the water?

- It's good. It's fun.

It feels wonderful. Whoo!

- You're really missing something.

- Am I?

- (Sighs) The water's perfect.

- Is it?

- Here, your pants.

- What a day.

- Put on your pants.

- What a pleasure!

- It must be a sin.

- It couldnt be.

Anshel! Come on in!

- That's enough studying!

- No, no, it's too cold.

- The water's warm.

- No, I catch cold easily.

That's not the reason.

Why didn't you tell me?

- What?

- You can't swim.

I can't swim. That's right. I can't swim.

I can't swim!

Neither can I.

That's why I stay where it's shallow.

- Come on, I'll teach you.

- No.

- Don't be afraid.

- No! I don't Like swimming!

- Take off your clothes.

- No! Stop it! Please, stop it!

- Are you ashamed? Embarrassed?

- I don't want to!

- All right!

- I don't want to!

All right, all right. If you're that scared...

I'm not going to force you.

- Next time.

- Sure.

When you're ready.

There's no chill

And yet I shiver

There's no flame and yet I burn

Im not sure what Im afraid of

And yet Im trembling

There's no storm, yet I hear thunder

And I'm breathless, why, I wonder

Weak one moment

then the next I'm fine

I feel as if I'm falling

every time I close my eyes

And flowing through my body

is a river of surprise

Feelings are awakening

I hardily recognise as mine

What are all these new sensations?

What's the secret they reveal?

I'm not sure I understand

But I Like the way I feel

La la, la la

Oh, why is it that

every time I close my eyes he's there?

The water shining on his skin,

the sunlight in his hair

And all the while I'm thinking things

That I can never share with him

I'm a bundle of confusion

Yet it has a strange appeal

Did it all begin with him

And the way he makes me feel?

I Like the way

He makes me feel

(Sighs)

(Man) Which is the greater crime,

stealing by day or by night?

- (2nd man) By day.

- By night.

- What's wrong?

- That's what I wanna know.

Every morning, you exhaust

the five books of Moses

and the entire mystery of

the universe. This morning, nothing.

- What's wrong?

- Nothing.

Just Like my brother. In a world of your

own, not speaking your mind, moody.

- Who's moody?

- Worried about something?

- No.

- Studies?

I'm your study partner. Tell me if you are.

With me sitting next to you, why worry?

I know. I'll take you to the matchmaker.

- I'm not going to any matchmaker.

- Shell give you something nice.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

Thank you, Sophie.

Avigdor, please.

My future father-in-Law wants to see me.

- We're going tonight.

- No, now.

- What for?

- Dowry, wedding ceremony...

- the wedding night!

- Why do you keep grabbing me?

What?

You're always grabbing me.

- No, I'm not.

- Yes, you are.

So? Everything has to have a reason?

The wedding night!

(Bell ringing)

Hello, Sophie. Is Avigdor here?

Erm, he, er...

Excuse me.

(Muffled sobbing)

What's... what's wrong?

- (Sobbing)

- What's the matter?

Anshel, I'm sorry. You're still welcome,

no matter what's happened.

Sophie will get you something to eat.

- (Sobbing)

- Where's Avigdor?

Excuse me, Reb Alter, but...

(Esther) Hadass, sweetheart,

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