旅行终点 The End of the Tour Movie Script

LIPSKY:

I think it’s part of your whole social strategy.

我认为这是你整个社交策略的一部分。

DAVID:

In what way?

LIPSKY:

You still feel you’re smarter than other people.

DAVID:

Oh, really?

LIPSKY:

Yeah but you act like you’re in the kids’ softball game, but holding back your power-hitting, to try to make it more competitive for the little ones.

DAVID:

When?

LIPSKY:

Here, now, for the past three days, it’s part of your social strategy.

DAVID:

You’re a tough room, you know that?

LIPSKY:

You make a point of holding back - there’s something obvious about you holding back your intelligence, to be with people who are younger or maybe not as agile as you are...

DAVID:

That would make me a real a**hole, wouldn’t it? I don’t think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

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But I think one of the true ways that I have gotten smarter is, I’ve realized that I’m not much smarter than other people.

LIPSKY:

Yeah, right.

DAVID:

There are ways in which other people are a lot smarter than me. Like, I don’t know, it makes me feel kinda lonely...

LIPSKY:

What.

DAVID:

There’s certain stuff I’ve told you that’s really true and, frankly, I think it’s been brave of me.

LIPSKY:

Absolutely.

DAVID:

I’ve written enough of these “pieces” to know that you could present this in a hundred different ways. Ninety of which I’m really gonna come off as a monumental a**hole. But it seems like your read of this is, “Huh: what an interesting persona Dave is adopting for the purposes of this interview.”

LIPSKY:

That’s not what I’m saying.

DAVID:

If we’d done this interview through the mail? And I had access to a library, and could look stuff up?

My dream would be for you to write this up, send it to me, and I get to rewrite all my quotes - which of course you’ll never do. When I’m in a room by myself, alone, and have enough time, I can be really really smart.

Don’t get me wrong: I think I’m bright; I think I’m talented. I don’t mean to sound disingenuous.

LIPSKY:

(amused) Oh, no?!

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DAVID:

I am not an idiot. I mean, you know, I can talk intelligently with you about stuff. But I can’t quite keep up with you.