第六感生死缘Meet Joe Black Movie Script

JOE:

I am.

EASTER:

She knows you real self?

JOE:

She knows how she feel.

EASTER:

(scoffing) Rass!

JOE:

(irritably) Don' need you okayin'.

EASTER:

Schoolboy tings is you head. Badness for you, badness for her, badness for me, lyin' here tumor, big as breadfruit, poison my inners an' waiting.

JOE:

Brung you flowers and all I gettin's facety back.

EASTER:

(stubbornly) Only flowers I wan' see's one's over my peaceful self restin' in the dutty.

JOE:

Can do no right by people. Come to take, you wan' to stay, leave you stay, you wan' to go. Rahtid! Silence, Easter waits, watching Joe.

EASTER:

You not in you right place, mistah. Easter's response stops Joe cold, he looks away and then back at her, she had clearly reached him. EASTER (cont'd) I ain' either. No more. You come wi' me now. Take me.

JOE:

But I not lonely here. Somebody want me here. Easter considers Joe, she smiles sympathetically.

EASTER:

It nice it happen to you. It like you came to Cat Island and you had a holiday, sun didn't burn you red, just brown, sleep no mosquito eat you, rum no pound you head nex' day. But trut' is, dat bound to happen, you stay long enough. So tak dat nice picture home wi' you, but don' be fooled. We lonely here mostly, too. If we lucky, we got some nice pictures.Easter drifts into silence, her eyes and Joe's meet, a sense they understand each other. Easter shifts, trying hard to ease her discomfort.

JOE:

(gently) Got enough nice pictures, Easter. She looks at him and nods gratefully and closes her eyes. Joe watches her, now his eyes close. Easter exhales raspingly, falls still. The monitors flatline. A beeping alarm sound somewhere down the hall. Joe opens his eyes, takes a deep breath, he seems troubled. JOE (cont'd) G'bye, sistah. He slips out of the room. INT. LIBRARY, PARRISH TOWNHOUSE - LATE AFTERNOON Parrish is playing solitaire. The SOUND of the front door closing, HEELS crossing the foyer, he looks up, at the foyer door is Susan.

PARRISH:

Hello, honey. He starts to get up, she motions to him to stay, looks around now.

SUSAN:

Where's Joe?

PARRISH:

Joe? A silence. PARRISH (cont'd) Joe's not around.

SUSAN:

Where is he?

PARRISH:

I don't know. Susan seems distracted. PARRISH (cont'd) Why are you looking for Joe?

SUSAN:

Because I was sitting in a staff meeting, incredibly bored, my mind kept wandering and the only place it landed was -- Joe.

PARRISH:

I don't understand.

SUSAN:

Love. Passion. Obsession, all those things you told me to wait for. Well, they've arrived. Parrish blinks, stares down at his cards.

PARRISH:

This is crazy --

SUSAN:

Why? A man appears at your side, almost never leaves it, you clearly trust him, depend on him, I sense you value him deeply, why aren't those things good enough for me?

PARRISH:

You don't know anything about Joe --

SUSAN:

What are you afraid of, Dad? That I'll fall head over heels for Joe -- well, I have -- as you did with Mom. (a moment) That's always been standard, whether you like or not.Parrish tries to get hold of himself, changes gear now.