第六感生死缘Meet Joe Black Movie Script

DREW:

The train's left the station, pal, and you're aboard. Would you like to hear the silver lining? Check that, gold. I've been working with John Bontecou all along. We had a game plan -- acquire Parrish Communications then break it apart and peddle it piece-by-piece to the highest bidder. I set it up for him, he smacks it out of the park. Quince is struck dumb. DREW (cont'd) Don't you know what this'll mean? You'll be rich. You'll sell your stock, you can stop kissing ass -- What'll it feel like to be a man?

QUINCE:

I don't want to get rich this way -- I'm going to expose you.

DREW:

Go right ahead. Tell William Parrish how you betrayed him at a secret Board meeting. And tell Allison how you got her father fired -- and he lost his company.Quince goes ashen. DREW (cont'd) It's just life, Quin-cee. Drew hails an employee across the hall. DREW (cont'd) (to Quince) Wake up and smell the thorns. Drew joins the employee as Quince slumps against the wall. INT. FOYER, PARRISH TOWNHOUSE - DAY Parrish enters, Joe right behind him, Coyle takes their coats, disappears. Parrish hesitates for a moment, shrugs as if he has a thought he doesn't want to share, then heads upstairs with Joe. He is trudging a bit, Joe senses his mood.

JOE:

I'm sorry, Bill --

PARRISH:

That's okay.

JOE:

What's okay?

PARRISH:

Just a manner of speaking. Joe seems puzzled.

PARRISH:

(cont'd) What 'okay' is, it's 'okay' it's over. We've got bigger fish to fry, don't we, Joe?

JOE:

'Fish'?

PARRISH:

Never mind. I'm tired. I'm going to take a nap. A moment. PARRISH (cont'd) Are you hungry? Coyle will have Luisa fix you something to eat.

JOE:

I'm not hungry.

PARRISH:

Then I can't help you. Parrish turns into his bedroom, closing the door gently behind him. Joe continues down the hall, enters the guest wing. INT. GUEST SUITE, PARRISH TOWNHOUSE - DAY Midday sunlight streams into the sitting room, Joe passes through to his bedroom, sits tentatively on the bed, feels the edge of the silk spread, touches the pillow, then rises again, crosses back to the sitting room. Susan appears in the doorway, Joe suddenly senses her, turns around.

SUSAN:

You're here?

JOE:

I am. He stands, they regard each other for the moment. JOE (cont'd) May I take your coat? She doesn't answer, starts to take off the coat herself, Joe comes around her to help, Susan senses him breathing in the scent at the back of her neck.

SUSAN:

I just thought I'd drop by, scrounge a little lunch, I was in the neigh- borhood --

JOE:

How beautiful. He starts to hang Susan's coat up.

SUSAN:

Just throw it on the chair. Joe holds her coat carefully on the chair. An awkward moment, the two of them shifting from foot-to-foot. SUSAN (cont'd) When I called, they said that you and Daddy had just left the office.

JOE:

He's taking a nap.

SUSAN:

He must be tired -- this Bontecou thing --

JOE:

Yes, he's tired. I believe so. A moment. JOE (cont'd) You must be hungry? Susan sits on the couch.

SUSAN:

No, not anymore. Are you? Joe hears the question but doesn't answer, sits down on the couch beside her. SUSAN (cont'd) (after a moment) Are you cold?

JOE:

...No.

SUSAN:

It's so wonderful to make love to you. It's like making love to some- one who has never made love before. Joe senses an opportunity not only to admit to what she has said, but to tell her more, even the truth about himself. He weighs, then resists, the impulse.

JOE:

Thank you. Her head nestles underneath his arm, she has a sense of his comforting her without knowing that he is doing so.

SUSAN:

Did you like making love to me?