Eyes Wide Shut
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INT BILL & ALICE'S APT - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT It is a week before Christmas. The tree is decorated and Christmas cards stand open everywhere in the comfortable Central Park West apartment. Settled in the couch in the living room, watching TV, are seven year-old , HELENA, and the BABY-SITTER, a young college girl. BEDROOM BILL and ALICE HARFORD, an attractive couple in their thirties, are in evening clothes preparing to leave for a party. ALICE (looking in mirror) How do I look? BILL You look great. ALICE My hair okay? BILL Perfect. ALICE You're not even looking at it. Bill kisses her neck. BILL It's absolutely beautiful. You always look beautiful. ALICE Oh, shut up... OK, let's go. They walk into the living room. The baby sitter gets to her feet. BABY-SITTER Oh, you look so-ooo lovely, Mrs. Harford. ALICE (laughs) Thank you, Roz. (to Helena) All ready for bed? HELENA Yes, Mommy. I took my bath and brushed my teeth. BABY-SITTER What time do you want Helena to go to bed? HELENA Please, Mommy, can I stay up late tonight and watch “The Nutcracker” Ple-eease. ALICE When is it on? HELENA Ten-thirty. ALICE Okay, darling, but just for tonight. HELENA Thank you, Mommy. The house intercom rings. BILL goes to answer it. DOORMAN (VOICE) Doctor Harford? BILL Yes. DOORMAN The car is here. BILL OK, we'll be right down. Bill returns to sitting room. BILL OK the car's here - let's go. (to Baby-sitter) Roz, we might be late tonight but I'll hold the car to take you home. BABY-SITTER Oh, that's great, Doctor Harford. Thanks very much. BILL and ALICE exit the car and enter the house. INT ZIEGLER MANSION - NIGHT Big party already in progress. Sound of a dance band off. Many guests still arriving. Two ladies seated at a table confirm that Doctor and Mrs Harford are on the invitation roster. Their coats are taken. The hosts, VICTOR ZIEGLER, a fit, sun-tanned, man in his mid-fifties, and his wife, ILLONA, a Hungarian beauty, stand to one side greeting their guests in the large entrance hall. ZIEGLER (speaking above the noise) Bill!...Alice!... I'm so glad you could come. It's wonderful to see you both, ZIEGLER And Alice, my dear, forgive the pitiful understatement but you look totally beautiful. ZIEGLER And Bill, that osteopath you sent me to? He was wonderful. You should see my serve now. BILL Yes, he's the top man in the world. ANOTHER FABULOUS ROOM - A LITTLE LATER BILL and ALICE, carrying champagne glasses make their way through the glitterati. They stop to admire the 17 foot Christmas tree trimmed with colored lights and antique ornaments. BALLROOM - BILL & ALICE DANCING BILL's attention is caught by one of the musicians on the bandstand. BILL I don't believe it. ALICE What? BILL The guy at the piano. That's Nick Nightingale, I went to medical school with him. ALICE He plays pretty good for a doctor. BILL He's not a doctor. He dropped out. I'm going to have to say hello to him. ALICE Okay, I'll go and get us some more champagne. BILL I'll see you at the bar. BILL walks over to the bandstand as they finish a set. BILL Nick!.. Nick Nightingale! NICK Hey! Bill Harford! What a surprise. How the hell are you? BILL God, how long has it been? NICK Ten years? BILL And a couple. NICK How's life been treating you? BILL Not too bad. And you've become a pianist. NICK My friends call me that. BILL (laughs) And how do you happen to playing here tonight? NICK I know my Cole Porter and I work cheap. They both laugh. NICK How about you. Still in the doctor business? BILL You know how it is, once a doctor, always a doctor. NICK In my case, never a doctor, never a doctor. You don't know how that is. BILL I never did understand why you walked away. NICK No? It's a nice feeling. I do it a lot. The BAND LEADER comes over and gives NICK a nod and BILL a polite smile. NICK Okay, we're off again. Listen, if I don't catch you later, I'm down in the Village for the next two weeks, at the Cafe Sonata. Come by if you get a chance. BILL (nods) Cafe Sonata, right. Okay, and listen, it was great seeing you again. NICK Same here. Take care. The band starts up again. The ballroom is crowded and BILL starts to make his way around the dance floor to the bar. ALICE is at the bar waiting for him. She reaches absently for her champagne glass... and finds she is holding - or touching - a man's hand. ALICE (smiles) I think that's my glass. SZABO I'm absolutely certain of it. SZABO is a handsome man, in his mid-forties with a slight Central European accent. He drinks slowly from ALICE'S glass and looks directly into her eyes as he does so. SZABO Did you ever read the Latin poet Ovid on The Art of Love? ALICE Didn't he wind up all by himself, crying his eyes out in some place with a very bad climate? SZABO But he also had a good time first. A very good time. SZABO By the way, my name is Sandor Szabo. I'm Hungarian. ALICE Pleased to meet you. My name is Alice. I'm American. SZABO Would you like to dance, Alice? ALICE notices BILL across the room talking to two beautiful models. ALICE Why not? - Sandor. ALICE is dancing with the Sandor. He holds her close to him. SZABO What do you do, Alice? ALICE Well, actually, I'm looking for a job at the moment. I was an editor at a publishing house but they went broke. SZABO Perhaps I can be of some help. I know a few people in publishing. Alice doesn't reply to this. SZABO And you're married? ALICE shows him her wedding ring. SZABO And you're here tonight with your husband? ALICE I am, indeed. SZABO How sad. Alice makes a that's-life face. SZABO But of course I should have guessed that. If you weren't with your husband tonight you wouldn't be so careful. ALICE laughs. SZABO May I ask why a beautiful woman who could have any man in this room wants to be married? ALICE Why not? SZABO You know why women used to get married, don't you? ALICE Why don't you tell me. SZABO It was the only way they could lose their virginity and be free to do what they wanted with other men. The ones they really wanted. ALICE Fascinating. SZABO Victor and Illona have a fabulous art collection. ALICE They do, don't they. SZABO Have you ever seen the Impressionist stuff upstairs? ALICE I don't think so. SZABO There are a couple of magnificent Bonnards up there. ALICE Are there? SZABO Do you like Bonnard? ALICE Yes, I do. SZABO Would you like me to show them to you? ALICE Well, maybe not just right now. SZABO We won't be gone long. ALICE smiles and shakes her head. VOCABULARY absently- nieobecnie actually - rzeczywiście, faktycznie antique- zabytkowy bandstand- estrada, podium dla orkiestry catch one’s attention- przyciągnąć uwagę come by - wpaść z wizytą, odwiedzić, zajść (w jakieś miejsce) confirm - potwierdzać cry one’s eyes out - wypłakiwać sobie oczy drop out (of school, university, etc) - porzucać szkołę, uczelnię editor - redaktor entrance - wejście fabulous - bajeczny, fantastyczny get to one’s feet - wsta ć, podnieść się, zerwać się na nogi glitterati- osobistości in progress - w toku intercom - domofon magnificent - świetny, wspaniały make one’s way through - przechodzić ornament - ozdoba osteopath - osteopata, kręgarz pitiful - żałosny publishing house - wydawnictwo roster - lista, spis nazwisk serve - serw stay up - nie kłaść się spać, być na nogach sun-tanned - opalony trim - ozdabiać, przystrajać understatement - umniejszenie walk away - odchodzić, porzucać wind up - (pot.) skończyć gdzieś, skończyć jako (ktoś) GRAMMAR Konstrukcja „used to + czasownik” odnosi się do czynności lub zdarzeń, które miały kiedyś miejsce, ale od pewnego czasu nie zdarzają się. Stąd „ women used to get married …” przetłumaczymy jako “Kobiety kiedyś wychodziły za mąż…”. Zdanie „Sally used to smoke ten cigarettes a day.” oznacza natomiast, że Sally kiedyś paliła 10 papierosów dziennie, ale w chwili obecnej już tego nie robi. TEST
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