Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Script For Hills Like White Elephants


G:‘What should we drink?’ 
M:'It’s pretty hot,’ 
G:‘Let’s drink beer.’
M:‘Dos cervezas,’ 

Waitress:‘Big ones?’
M:‘Yes. Two big ones.’



G:‘They look like white elephants,’ she said.
M:‘I’ve never seen one,’ the man drank his beer.
G:‘No, you wouldn’t have.’
M:‘I might have,’ 'Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.’ 

G:‘They’ve painted something on it,’ ‘What does it say?’
M:‘Anis del Toro. It’s a drink.’
G:‘Could we try it?’
M:‘Listen’
Waitress: ‘Four reales.’

M: ‘We want two Anis del Toro.’
Waitress:‘With water?’
M:‘Do you want it with water?’
G:‘I don’t know,’‘Is it good with water?’
M:‘It’s all right.’
Waitress:‘You want them with water?’
M:‘Yes, with water.’
G:‘It tastes like liquorice,’
M:‘That’s the way with everything.’
G:‘Yes, everything tastes of liquorice. Especially all the things you’ve waited so long for, like absinthe.’
M:‘Oh, cut it out.’
G:‘You started it, I was being amused. I was having a fine time.’
M:‘Well, let’s try and have a fine time.’
G:‘All right. I was trying. I said the mountains looked like white elephants. Wasn’t that bright?’ 

M:‘That was bright.’
G:‘I wanted to try this new drink. That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?’
M:‘I guess so.’

G:‘They’re lovely hills, they don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the colouring of their skin through the trees.’
M:‘Should we have another drink?’
G:‘All right.’


M:‘The beer’s nice and cool.'
G:‘It’s lovely.'
M:‘It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig. It’s not really an operation at all. 
I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in. I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural.’
G:‘Then what will we do afterwards?’
M:‘We’ll be fine afterwards. Just like we were before.’
G:‘What makes you think so?’
M:‘That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.’
G:‘And you think then we’ll be all right and be happy.’
M:‘I know we will. Yon don’t have to be afraid. I’ve known lots of people that have done it.’
G:‘So have I and afterwards they were all so happy.’
M:‘Well, if you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.’
G:‘And you really want to?’
M:‘I think it’s the best thing to do. But I don’t want you to do it if you don’t really want to.’
G:‘And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me?’
M:‘I love you now. You know I love you.’
G:‘I know. But if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you’ll like it?’
M:‘I’ll love it. I love it now but I just can’t think about it. You know how I get when I worry.’
G:‘If I do it you won’t ever worry?’
M:‘I won’t worry about that because it’s perfectly simple.’
G:‘Then I’ll do it. Because I don’t care about me.’
M:‘What do you mean?’
G:‘I don’t care about me.’
M:‘Well, I care about you.’
G:‘Oh, yes. But I don’t care about me. And I’ll do it and then everything will be fine.’
M:‘I don’t want you to do it if you feel that way.’
G:‘And we could have all this and we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.’
M:‘What did you say?’
G:‘I said we could have everything.’
M:‘We can have everything.’

G:‘No, we can’t.’
M:‘We can have the whole world.’
G:‘No, we can’t.’
M:‘We can go everywhere.’
G:‘No, we can’t. It isn’t ours any more.’
M:‘It’s ours.’
G:‘No, it isn’t. And once they take it away, you never get it back.’
M:‘But they haven’t taken it away.’
G:‘We’ll wait and see.’
M:‘Come on back in the shade, you mustn’t feel that way.’
G:‘I don’t feel any way, I just know things.’
M:‘I don’t want you to do anything that you don’t want to do -’
G:‘Nor that isn’t good for me, I know. Could we have another beer?’
M:‘All right. But you’ve got to realize – ‘
G:‘I realize. Can’t we maybe stop talking?’
M:‘You’ve got to realize, that I don’t want you to do it if you don’t want to. I’m perfectly willing to go through with it if it means anything to you.’
G:‘Doesn’t it mean anything to you? We could get along.’
M:‘Of course it does. But I don’t want anybody but you. I don’t want anyone else. And I know it’s perfectly simple.’
G:‘Yes, you know it’s perfectly simple.’
M:‘It’s all right for you to say that, but I do know it.’
G:‘Would you do something for me now?’
M‘I’d do anything for you.’
G:‘Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?’
M:‘But I don’t want you to,’ he said, ‘I don’t care anything about it.’
G:‘I’ll scream,'

Waitress:‘The train comes in five minutes.’
G:‘What did she say?’ asked the girl.
M:‘That the train is coming in five minutes.’
M:‘I’d better take the bags over to the other side of the station,

G:‘All right. Then come back and we’ll finish the beer.’
 

M:‘Do you feel better?’ he asked.
G:‘I feel fine. There’s nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.’ 

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