旅行终点 The End of the Tour Movie Script

Jay McInerney called it “something like a sleek Vonnegut chassis wrapped in layers of post-millennial Zola.” David Foster Wallace, welcome to our show.

DAVID:

Thank you, glad to be here.

He exchanges looks with Lipsky outside the booth.

NPR GUY:

You have said that you saw yourself as - quote - “a combination of being incredibly shy, and being an egomaniac, too.”

DAVID:

I think I said “exhibitionist, also.”

NPR GUY:

Meaning?

David glances at Lipsky.

DAVID:

Well, I think being shy basically means being self-absorbed to the extent that it makes it difficult to be around other people.

NPR GUY:

Difficult for you, or difficult for the other people?

DAVID:

I suppose a little bit of both.

77 I/E. PATTY'S CAR/MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO - ST PAUL - 1996 -77

DAY:

Patty waits outside her car as the Davids join her.

PATTY:

That was wonderful! I listened to the whole show! So interesting! I may have to buy your book and read it!

DAVID:

Sorry about that.

David and Lipsky climb in.

55.

PATTY:

So, you have the rest of the day free.

Where would you like to go?

DAVID:

Do you know where the Mall of Americais?

79 E./I. MALL OF AMERICA/VARIOUS SHOPS - MINNESOTA - 1996 - DAY 79 They discover the vast courts at each corner of the mall.

They walk through the amusement park; ride a roller coaster; ride a carousel. In a mirror maze, they make their waythrough, trying not to bump into the walls. They try flightsimulators, play mini-golf, and walk through the underwatertunnels of the aquarium. They stare blankly at Build-a-Bearbear parts which stare blankly back at them.

80 INT. MALL OF AMERICA/FOOD COURT - MINNESOTA - 1996 - DAY 80 David and Lipsky sit over lunch, the recorder running on thetable between them. They watch SHOPPERS.

DAVID:

I wanted to write something that hadkind of the texture of what life was like in America right now: Thisenormous tsunami of stuff comin’ at you. And also - it’s not unfun.

LIPSKY:

Not at all. It is sort of heavy, though. I mean weight-wise.

DAVID:

My friend said when it hit the porch, it sounded like a car bomb going off.