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Advanced Directing Scene Flashcards

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GAIL: … So anyway… the squab looks good. What do you think?

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LYNETTE: I need to have an affair.

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GAIL: Hmm? Did you say something?

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LYNETTE: I said, Gail, that I need to have an affair.

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GAIL: You don’t mean that.

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LYNETTE: Yes I do.

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GAIL: An affair?

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LYNETTE: Yes.

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GAIL: You?

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LYNETTE: Uh-huh.

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GAIL: But you and Richard-

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LYNETTE: I know.

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GAIL: Then I don’t understand.

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LYNETTE: Neither do I.

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GAIL: So basically you’re sitting here telling me for no good reason that you want to—

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LYNETTE: Not want. Need. Capital N. The big guns.

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GAIL: Why?

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LYNETTE: I don’t know. An overwhelming biological necessity for alternate body types. I don’t know.

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GAIL: I don’t think this is the place we should be discussing this.

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LYNETTE: This is exactly the place. You are exactly the person. Gail. If I don’t sleep with someone other than my husband very soon, I won’t be responsible for myself.

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GAIL: Lynette.

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LYNETTE: Time bomb. Tick. Tick. Tick.

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GAIL: Don’t you think you’re being a little overdramatic?

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LYNETTE: No. Tick.

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GAIL: Have you met someone?

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LYNETTE: No. Although when you get right down to it, everybody’s a candidate.

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GAIL: You’re kidding, right? All right, joke’s over, very funny, ha ha, you’re kidding.

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LYNETTE: Gail, you don’t know what it’s like. I can’t work. I can’t sleep. All I know is I want a hot roll in the hay. That’s the extent of my cognizant abilities.

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GAIL: I think you should try to show a little control.

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LYNETTE: Yesterday I looked at a clock. I forgot how to tell time.

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GAIL: What are you drinking?

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LYNETTE: I’m losing my mind.

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GAIL: You certainly are. Richard-

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LYNETTE: Is sweet and kind and good, I know. He adapts no matter how crazy I am. “You’re right honey, I’ll be more careful, I’ll try not to let my heels touch the floor in that irritating manner anymore.” I could tell him I want to chuck it all for a sugar cane farm in Borneo and he’d be researching farming techniques and plane fares within the hour.

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GAIL: So it seems to me you have nothing to complain about.

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LYNETTE: I’m not complaining. But God, if I don’t find someone to sear me to the bones I am going to explode. Little pieces of me flying out my office window and over New York, settling on some old ladies in the park. Explode.

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GAIL: I don’t know what to say. You’ve put me in a difficult position. I love Richard.

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LYNETTE: I do too.

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GAIL: He and George are best friends.

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LYNETTE: Like brothers.

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GAIL: And you’re my best friend—

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LYNETTE: Yes?

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GAIL: Yes what?

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LYNETTE: I’m your best friend.

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GAIL: Yes.

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LYNETTE: You’d do anything for me.

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GAIL: Of course I would, you know that. What are you driving at?

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LYNETTE: Sleep with me.

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GAIL: What?!

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LYNETTE: Sleep with me, Gail. Make love to me until I beg you to stop.

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GAIL: You can’t be serious.

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LYNETTE: I couldn’t live with myself if I did it with another man, not to mention what it would do to Richard if he found out. But you—

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GAIL: Are astonished.

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LYNETTE: You’re a woman, Gail. It wouldn’t be cheating. It would be experimenting.

28
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GAIL: You’re out of your mind.

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LYNETTE: Will you do it?

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GAIL: Of course not.

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LYNETTE: Why not?

30
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GAIL: In the first place, no offense, but I’m not physically attracted to you.

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LYNETTE: Liar.

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GAIL: What did you call me?

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LYNETTE: You’re lying. You’ve wanted me from the day we met.

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GAIL: Oh, now I agree with you, Lynette, you have gone over the deep end.

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LYNETTE: You stare at me. You watch my mouth when I speak. When we kiss hello you let your nose linger in my hair a little bit longer than necessary and you breathe in.

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GAIL: I can’t really have this conversation anymore, okay? Can we order? I think you should see a doctor.

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LYNETTE: You’re angry.

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GAIL: I’m not, I’m flabbergasted. To think that after all these years of what I thought was a close friendship you would suddenly come up with this insane notion that I— that we— I’m married, Lynette.

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LYNETTE: I know.

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GAIL: And I love George. Not to mention I’m one hundred percent heterosexual.

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LYNETTE: I’m going out of my mind.

36
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GAIL: I wish I could help you. I really do.

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LYNETTE: You love me.

37
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GAIL: Of course I do. But that doesn’t mean I desire you in a sexual manner.

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LYNETTE: What about New Year’s Eve?

38
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GAIL: What about it?

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LYNETTE: New Year’s Eve, 1991. The four of us spent it together. I drank too many peach margaritas.

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GAIL: I remember.

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LYNETTE: I got sick. Richard ended up carrying me into the bathroom and you stayed to help.

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GAIL: You were so sick. Richard was so angry.

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LYNETTE: I thought I’d never stop throwing up. When I finally did, I laid down on the bathroom floor, closed my eyes, and you kissed me. On the mouth.

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GAIL: I didn’t.

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LYNETTE: You did. For a good long time.

42
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GAIL: You must have dreamt it, Lynette, I think I would remember—

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LYNETTE: I remember thinking “how soft her mouth is”. You held my lower lip for an extra second. Then you let go and the air hissed out of me like a balloon.

43
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GAIL: I did not kiss you, Lynette. I mean, I may have given you a peck on the cheek because I felt sorry for you, but beyond that you are mistaken.

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LYNETTE: I felt your tongue.

44
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GAIL: Lynette! This is really inappropriate.

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LYNETTE: Why are you so against this? You have me, I have my fling— everybody wins.

45
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GAIL: Except Richard, and George.

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LYNETTE: We don’t tell them. This is a secret between friends. Inviolable.

46
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GAIL: It’s not that simple.

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LYNETTE: Why not?

47
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GAIL: Lynette, look— do you want me to fix you up with someone? There are a lot of lesbians in the music business.

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LYNETTE: I want you.

48
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GAIL: No you don’t.

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LYNETTE: I do. You’re my friend, I can trust you, there’s no danger of falling in love. I was going to say you’re honest but you can’t even admit to kissing me when we both know—

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GAIL: All right, all right, I kissed you, I kissed you! I’d had a little to drink myself that night— Can I help you?

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LYNETTE: You were stone cold sober. The antibiotics, remember?

50
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GAIL: You looked so pretty. Lying there with your hair spread out over the mat. So vulnerable and so… beautiful, actually.

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LYNETTE: Sleep with me, Gail.

51
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GAIL: I can’t.

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LYNETTE: Why not?

52
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GAIL: Because I’m in love with you.

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LYNETTE: What?

53
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GAIL: I’m in love with you, Lynette. You think I go around kissing drunken smelly women on the mouth because it’s a thing of mine?

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LYNETTE: But I thought—

54
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GAIL: That my heart couldn’t possibly leap every time I see you? That I don’t feel profound jealousy when you and Richard reach for each other like any other happily married couple? That my feelings can’t be real?

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LYNETTE: No, I mean…

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GAIL: What, Lynette? What did you think?

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LYNETTE: I don’t know. A harmless crush. Like schoolgirls.

56
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GAIL: Not exactly.

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LYNETTE: No. So where does this leave us?

57
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GAIL: I don’t know.

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LYNETTE: Maybe I do drink too much.

58
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GAIL: Maybe.

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LYNETTE: I have a problem.

59
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GAIL: Yes.

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LYNETTE: And you have a problem.

60
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GAIL: Yes.

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LYNETTE: What do you think we should do?

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GAIL: I think we should order.

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