Loitering with Intent

Ooh yeah

Oh shit. Hey man, I gotta get to Brooklyn, I gotta get to work,

open the bar, I gotta work on this audition for the morning.

What're you going in on?

Now is this scene before or after you saw your own leg off?

I've seen slaves breaking their backs in the fields. Have you?

Pardon me, pardon me, I'm very sorry. No, we should head out. We gotta be there at four.

That's enough, from both of you. And you... wait. That's enough.

We need you up there, kid.

I'll be right up.

Brother, prepping an audition or doing an audition, or resting from an audition.

You can never commit, because you never know,

you might get a job, but you never do get a job.

Sorry, but you don't.

Okay, who needs what?

These three here, we need two Ripostos one Fellini.

I don't know what he wants, and that freak down there, I'm not certain.

Oh shit, is that Raphael?

I was a gay on the Woody Allen movie you did.

I'm gonna be right with you. Just kidding.

I knew you had a small part but you were great.

Thought you were gonna be huge!

What happened?

When I headed for that door I realized

if I went out, I would never come back.

I didn't want to never come back

but I couldn't come back out onto the stage, so

there wasn't anything left so I went up the ladder.

You're The King. The King. You're Joe Strummer.

- I'm Joe Strummer. - You're a sonic producer.

I'm a sonic producer!

I think I liked it. If you don't mind I wanna sit for the second scene.

Sure, no. What you did, really good.

Really good. Very good, thanks.

I don't know what else to tell you. You're in an age void.

Would you like a Peroni?

I want you to change your attitude, chief.

I want you to ask me again, and this time, with a smile.

Go fuck yourself! Get the fuck out!

Yeah, we will get the fuck out of here!

Look at me, look at me.

Dude I can't do this anymore. I'm gonna fucking kill someone.

- In an age void. - What?

They don't know what to do with me. That's the problem.

Look, it's Lincoln Center. It's a cultural superstore.

It's white boy business, I mean, you getting that part is a long shot, come on!

Well what's the point then, Raph?

Please, tell me, I mean it's the same five directors,

the same 10 writers, the same 20 actors,

they just do everything! It's not good for theaters, it's fucking boring.

Look, it's a tight circle, we're not part of it.

You know the days of Joe Papp, off the street, the living theater, that's done!

Who's off the street? I'm trained, well trained.

- I know you're trained. - I went to conservatory!

Yeah but you didn't go to Juilliard, and that's what this is all about, right?

What big shows you were in, who saw you do it,

my dad is Edward Albee, all that kind of stuff.

- Edward Albee doesn't have kids. - I know.

- He's gay. - Doesn't mean he doesn't have kids.

- But he doesn't. - Hey, Dom! Who's this, your pimp?

Hey, how you doing, what a sight!

You look fantastic. Look who it is, Kaplan!

Hey don't mind us. We were running a scene right now...

I can't believe I'm running into you maniacs, you guys have been on my mind all week!

- Was it in a naughty way? - Take it easy.

It's always a little naughty with you, Raphael.

Tell us the less naughty parts for now.

All right. That was an amazing night at your bar last month.

We've had so many amazing nights at the bar with you, Kaplan.

No, we were talking movies with your writer friend, Jonathan.

- You had those leather pants on! - We love those pants.

Wasn't Jonathan talking about doing some low budget Raymond Chandler detective story thing?

- No. - That was our idea.

Who was mentioning the Sweet Smell of Success?

- "Match me, Sidney" - Match me.

I love that movie.

What's Jonathan up to? I love his show.

Can you get me in touch? I promised my boss I'd find something interesting

for him to produce for under 300 grand,

he's looking to shuffle some money around on a tax credit thing.

I don't know what Jonathan' up to, but we wrote that script.

- It's written, it's done. - What script?

The Raymond Chandler thing.

We're burning down the cultural superstar rasta.

Wow, look at you guys, that's great. Did you write parts for yourselves?

- Of course. - Yeah, we're the leads. We play brothers.

Okay, well what's it about?

Don't be shy, Dominic. Tell Kaplan what it's about.

It's, uh, well, basically, um...

- Well, we play brothers. - Yeah, I got that.

And, you know, we own a detective agency.

- And it's a noir. - Absolutely.

Uh, you know, basically...

Well, it's an elevated genre film. At least that's how aunt Carrie described it.

- Aunt Carrie read it? - Yeah, she loved it.

How the hell did you get aunt Carrie to read it?

- No offense. - None taken.

- We know some people. - Yeah, we're tapped in.

Well, what'd she say?

She said, what did she say, Raph?

- Said it was raw. - Yeah, oh yeah.

She said it was really raw and original,

and that she'd love to get her hands on it.

It's called "The Blackmailers Don't Shoot."

- Or maybe "The Black Mask." - Yeah, I like that one.

What the fuck, is it low budget? You guys think you can make it for under 300 k?

- Oh, yeah. - Super low. Really low.

- Less than that. - This sounds perfect.

My boss is looking for something new. I get to produce this project.

Show me the script, let's do this.

No wait, hold on a minute, you know...

We're doing rewrites, we're swamped, you know, we can't.

This money goes away in two weeks, we don't have to jump through any hoops with them.

- I just need to see the script. - I'm gonna be honest with you.

Look I get you guys, I always have.

I can give you ten days, that's it. But we're meeting with other writers, so get it to me.

How you gonna get out of this. We don't even know aunt Carrie.

I auditioned for her once.

- You can't write a script in ten days. - Yes, but we can.

We, together.

Come on, we've been talking about doing this for years.

I have an idea. What do writers do?

They go to the country.

We'll go to the country. To my sister's house. We'll have it all to ourselves.

Peace, quiet, no distractions...

Let's just get there, get down, and do it.

Photosynthesis baby.

Oh, I forgot how peaceful it is in the country.

Nature will flip you, Dominic.

Flip you for real, remember that.

Yeah!

Police activity, people. stay back.

- Dominic, grab the bags. - Oh, yeah.

That's very cute. Very cute.

To Gigi's country manor.

Starting tomorrow, I think we should cleanse it out.

No booze.

I saw this documentary on Ingmar Bergman

- at the Film Forum. - I love the Film Forum.

He said the demons want you to stay in bed with cold feet.

So the first thing he does is he gets up in the morning and he takes a walk.

And then he writes.

You want some gross character of a woman!

That means power makes you more masculine, and masculine means you're ugly.

Well shame on you, you macho shithead!

All right, fuck this. Eureka!

Yes, that's it! It's a simple missing persons case.

Gets more evolved when we find the girl.

- Recognize! - It's a character piece,

- masked as a noir, - Wonderful.

Wonderful, wonderful!

Maybe a dubonnet with a twist.

It's a secret!

Corruption that echoes the world in which they live.

Yes, uh, dark shame.

It could be a double cross.

Could be, a double cross.

- Genius! - Yeah!

Maybe she joins a group, a cult, like the Source Family.

A cult could be fun.

It's a period piece, but maybe we make it a mash up.

Set in Los Angeles over a 24 hour sequence.

Some dialog, dancing but heavy,

like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

- I love that movie. - Okay, so, dancing...

- In a noir. - Yep.

That's good, right, we haven't seen that! That's good.

Okay, so, she...

Who's... who's that?

That's what I wanna know.

- Hello. - Hi.

How you doing?

- You must be Dominic. - How do you know who I am?

I've seen pictures of you.

Er... Where?

In Gigi's store. I used to work there, I'm Ava.

Oh, yeah. How is it we've never met?

- I guess we've just never seen each other. - You don't look like an Ava.

What does an Ava look like.

You change your name?

Let me see your ID. Got your passport?

Some outfit you have on. Is your name Lawrence by any chance?

Of Arabia? Close, Raphael, of Brooklyn.

You wanna borrow this? I got this one in Marrakesh,

Okay, Ava, Ava, here's the, um...

Raphael, Brooklyn and I, we really need to be alone.

So, um...

What you doing here?

Planting flowers. I'm doing Gigi a favor.

My friend Carl is going to do a shoot here in a couple of weeks.

Okay, Gigi, she didn't tell me anything about this.

Don't worry about it. We're the king of this castle.

Something wrong?

Here's the thing, Ava. We're up here to write.

- We've been contracted to write a screenplay. - We have nine days to finish.

I'll be very quiet. Like a mouse.

Like a mouse.

I'm staying out in the trailer.

Well, why you doing that?

- Why not? - Okay, see. I just wanna set the right tone.