旅行终点 The End of the Tour Movie Script

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.

LIPSKY:

That is such bullshit.

DAVID:

Believe me: I’m not just “Aw-shucks, I’m just in from the country, I’m not a real writer, I’m just a regular guy.” I’m not trying to lay some kind of sh*t. And I’m

LIPSKY:

You just did it again! You flatter me, but are you just being patronizing?

DAVID:

I just think to look across the room and automatically assume that somebody else is less aware than me, or that somehow their interior life is less rich, and complicated, and acutely perceived than mine, makes me not as good a writer.

LIPSKY:

Why?

DAVID:

Because that means I'm going to be performing for a faceless audience, instead of trying to have a conversation with a person. If you think that's faux, then you think what you want. I've got a serious fear of being a certain way. And a set I think of like, real convictions about why I'm continuing to do this, why it's worthwhile. Why it's not just an exercise in basically getting my dick sucked. And, you know what?, this is a very clever tactic of yours:

LIPSKY:

Tactic, what tactic?

DAVID:

Get me a little pissed off, a little less guarded, I’m gonna reveal more.

让我有点生气，少一点戒备，我会透露更多。

68.

Yes, it's true: I treasure my regularguy- ness; I've started to think it'smy biggest asset as a writer, that I'mpretty much just like everybody else.

是的，这是真的：我珍惜我的常客；我开始认为这是我作为一名作家最大的财富，我和其他人一样印象深刻。

(A beat.) You know what? I’m not doing any kind of faux thing with you; I'm not gonnasay it again.

LIPSKY:

Okay, but the faux thing - what youjust said - is an example of the faux thing. You don't want to take the risk of giving the full you.

DAVID:

Look, I don’t know if you’re a very nice man or not. It’s very clear that you don’t believe a word I’ve said.

LIPSKY:

All your protesting... “I’m just a regular guy.” You don’t crack open a thousand-page book ‘cause you heardthe author’s a regular guy. You read it because the author is brilliant.

Because you want him to be brilliant.

So who the f*** are you kidding?

DAVID:

I don’t have the brain cells left to play any kind of “faux” games with you.

Fine.

LIPSKY:

David presses stop on the tape recorder.

95 EXT. HIGHWAY/GAS STATION - CENTRAL ILLINOIS - 1996 - AFTERNOON: 95 In nasty weather, Lipsky fills the tank, leaving the cap onthe roof. David runs around to the other side of the car to take over driving duty from Lipsky. They drive away.

96 I/E. CAR/OUTSKIRTS - BLOOMINGTON - 1996 - AFTERNOON 96 Closer to home. Lipsky glances over at David, at the wheel, who seems faraway and depressed.

LIPSKY:

What are you thinking?

69.

DAVID:

Tour’s over.