旅行终点 The End of the Tour Movie Script

LIPSKY:

I don’t?

DAVID:

(A beat. He smiles.) Send my best to “Jann.” David shuts the door. Lipsky starts the car and pulls away while David returns to scraping his car.

115 I/E. CAR/DAVID'S HOUSE - BLOOMINGTON - 1996 - DAY 115 Lipsky watches David in the rearview mirror get smaller and smaller until he disappears from view without ever having looked back at his visitor. From the barren, grey, mid- western landscape we hear traffic sounds and SMASH CUT TO: 84.

116 EXT. LIPSKY'S W 77TH ST APT - NYC - 1996 - DAY 116 The urban landscape of Central Park West, near the Museum of Natural History. Lipsky walks along the sidewalk.

117 INT. LIPSKY'S W 77TH ST APT/LIVING ROOM - NYC - 1996 - DAY 117 Lipsky is typing at his keyboard. The doorbell buzzes.

118 INT. LIPSKY'S W 77TH ST APT/LIVING ROOM - NYC - 1996 -118 MOMENTS LATER: Lipsky beholds a parcel. The return address is “Dave Wallace.” What could it be? He excitedly slices open the box and peels away newspaper to reveal: A SINGLE LOAFER. And a message written on a post-it: “Yours, I presume?” Accompanied by a smiley face. Nothing on the reverse.

Nothing else in the box. That’s all. Huh. Lipsky smiles in bemusement at the lone loafer.

LIPSKY (V.O.) When I think of this trip...

CUT TO:

119 INT. BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE - NYC - 2010 - NIGHT 119 Lipsky reads from his published book, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, to a nice-sized crowd (including Sarah and Bob, his editor).

LIPSKY:

(reads) ...I see David and me in the front seat of the car.

INTERCUT:

119A I/E. CAR/OUTSKIRTS - BLOOMINGTON - 1996 - DAY 119A Flashes back to the car ride, as described. We see them talking but cannot hear them; all we hear is the sound of tires on the road.

LIPSKY (V.O.) We are both so young. He wants something better than he has; I want precisely what he has already. Neither of us knows where our lives are going to go. It smells like chewing tobacco, soda, and smoke. And the conversation is the best one I ever had.

85.

120 INT. DANCE HALL - BLOOMINGTON - 1996 - SUNSET 120 Lipsky imagines, in slow-motion, David dancing joyously, sweating like crazy, with members of the church the night Lipsky left, the night that began the rest of his life.

LIPSKY (V.O.) (CONT’D) David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely. If I could, I’d say to David that living those days with him reminded me of what life is like -- instead of being a relief from it... and I’d tell him it made me feel much less alone.

The screen suddenly goes black.

THE END:

123 CODA - INT. DAVID'S HOUSE/LIVING ROOM - 1996 - NIGHT 123 “OUTTAKE” Replay of Scene 38 (when Lipsky excused himself to spit out the chewing tobacco).

LIPSKY:

You mind if I use your uh... David points the way to the bathroom.

DAVID:

All yours.

Lipsky goes, leaving David with the tape running. This time, instead of following Lipsky, we break form and stay on David:

DAVID:

(into the recorder) Now it’s just me and the tape recorder sittin’ here.

Drone’s lookin’ at the floor, I’m smokin’, having said I wasn’t going to smoke, I’m smokin’. Just me and your your tape recorder.

The SCREEN GOES WHITE.