Daily Dialogue — October 26, 2012
INT. POLICE STATION. WAITING ROOM
Jeanie’s sitting on a wooden bench with a WASTED TEENAGE BOY in a Triumph t-shirt, long hair, torn jeans, creepers, studs and chains. He’s studying her.
BOY: Drugs?
JEANIE: No, thank you. I’m straight.
BOY: I meant, are you here for drugs?
Jeanie stares at him.
JEANIE: Why are you here?
BOY: Drugs.
JEANIE: I don’t know why I’m here.
BOY: Then why don’t you go home?
JEANIE: Why don’t you put your thumb up your butt?
The boy stares at her.
BOY: You want to talk about your problem?
JEANIE: With you? Are you serious?
BOY: Yeah, I’m serious.
JEANIE: Blow yourself.
Jeanie turns away. The boy crosses his legs. Jeanie looks back at him.
JEANIE: You really want to know what’s wrong?
The boy shrugs.
JEANIE: Alright. If you’ve got the time, I’ve got the troubles. In a nutshell, I hate my brother. How’s that?
BOY: That’s cool. Did you shoot him or something?
JEANIE: No, not yet.
The boy nods. He understands the emotion.
JEANIE: I went home to confirm that the shithead was ditching school and a guy broke into the house and I called the cops and they picked me up for making a phoney phone call.
BOY: What do you care if your brother ditches school?
Jeanie stares at the boy.
JEANIE: Why should he get to ditch school when everybody else has to go?
BOY: You could ditch.
JEANIE: I’d get caught.
BOY: So, you’re pissed at him because he ditches and doesn’t get caught?
JEANIE: Basically.
The boy nods knowingly.
BOY: Then your problem is you.
JEANIE: Excuse me?
BOY: Excuse you. You oughta spend a little more time dealing with yourself and a little less time worrying about what your brother does. It’s just an opinion.
Jeanie stares angrily at him. Partly because he’s so bold and partly because he’s so right.
BOY: There’s somebody you should talk to.
Jeanie stares at him threateningly.
JEANIE: If you say Ferris Bueller, you lose a testicle.
BOY: You know him?
CU. JEANIE’S HAND
It curls into a fist.
— Jeanie (Jennifer Grey), Boy (Charlie Sheen), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), written by John Hughes
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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is sibling rivalry, suggested by Traci Nell Peterson. Today’s suggestion by Teddy Pasternak.
Trivia: In an early draft of the script Ferris had two additional younger siblings and Jeanne was to be the middle child.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary from Teddy: “When you need something explained to your character it’s a good idea to bring in a third party; a character who is detached emotionally from the main characters and doesn’t have a stake in the situation at hand; someone who can speak freely without fearing any repercussions. In this scene we learn that the rivalry between Jeanie and Ferris stems from jealousy. Jeanie would perhaps like to live her life as carelessly as her brother but knows she wouldn’t be able to pull it off. It takes Tiger Blood here acting as a psychologist and mentor to make Jeanie realize her way of thinking is wrong.”
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