Friday, October 14, 2011

Use Your Gift



     INT. CARNIVAL CARAVAN - NIGHT
     The Carnival barker, JUDGE STERNBULL, 50, sits in his unkempt trailer across from the wrestler HIRAM SKOVE, 20.

                                                                                    JUDGE STERNBULL
                                            Are you possessed of any religious constrictions, son?
                                            Because I believe the Supreme Bean gives every man one gift. 
                                                      (lifting his patch; peering closely with a milky eye)
                                            And you’ve sure-tainly been given yours.   But you must use it,
                                            or you’ll pay dearly.
                 
                                                                                             HIRAM
                                            Pay dearly? 

                                                                                     JUDGE STERNBULL
                                            With your very soul.  Gets eaten away bit by bit, if you don’t use your gift. 
                                             I use mine.   And Edward uses his... 

            IN THE CORNER, sits the SHE BEAST without make-up.  The She Beast, it  turns out, is a MAN named Edward 
            who is combing his long lustrous hair.

                                                                                   JUDGE STERNBULL
                                           Disfortunately, Ed’s not the man he once was.   Nor the woman.
                                                            (off Hiram’s stare)
                                           Don't be so gawk-eyed.   Ed’s what you call a “Her-n-him-frodite” with both
                                           penist and vaginny.    Which I showed to great interest in Kansas City... 
                                           before they shut me down.

           Dialogue from "The Magnificent Scuffler",  my screenplay about the advent of professional wrestling in the 1930's
 (Acrylic on board 22"x 22")

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