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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