Big Love Flashcards
• GIULIANO: Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.
• ENTER: UPSTAGE RIGHT… TO CENTER… PAUSE… ANNOUNCE… DELIVER LINE→ Look we have more presents, are these for you girls?
• THYONA: We’re not accepting gifts.
• Not accepting gifts? Whoever heard of such a thing? Oh Leo, these girls! I suppose there just nervous before the wedding!
• OLYMPIA: “Yet”
• Oh, darling, don’t say that. There are so few occasions when people give you things & things are good!
• LEO: A bottle of champagne! Good Food!
• A handsome man. A sunny day. Life’s pleasures, you can’t have too many really.
• LEO: When you are young, you think nothing of it. But the older you get, the more you think: oh god, let me have more pleasures!
• Don’t take me away from the blessed earth and all it’s joys! A swim in the afternoon. Sex. A man with a nice nose, a good pair of shoulders, sky blue eyes—(remembering Leo) or chocolate brown eyes!
• THYONA: Who are you?
• House guests dear. Guests of Piero. Eleanor and Leo. Are you the brides?
• OLYMPIA: We’re still sort of thinking about it.
• How exciting for Piero to have a wedding, for us! To me, it just makes a perfect weekend.
• LEO: I always say: you need to embrace life.
• You need to let it in through every pore.
• LEO: … The key thing is, you’ll be wanting to let go of fear.
• Throw yourself into life
• THYONA: What is it with you Italian guys?… If I keep up this line of chatter, can I pinch a woman’s butt?
• Isn’t it the truth? And if you smile, or simply return a look- with a look, you find you’ve sealed your fate.
You’ve fallen into life way over your head. Nothing is held back, like a Roman fountain, all splash and burble and you find yourself carried off, or even to walk through a crowd, you’re in constant contact with all sorts of elbows and knees and souls and buttocks, touching and rubbing- everything that in another minute will all be naked. I just think everything is so shocking in Italy, and I’m not a puritan. I mean, of course, I am a puritan. I am alive. I love life. I take it in, its tomatoes, its sunshine.
• LEO: It’s olive oil
• It’s paintings. It’s men.
• LEO: everything is as though a giant mother were squashing you to her breast.
• In Italy, to go out is to come home.
• OLYMPIA: Oh! What did I say wrong?
• Come Leo. Let’s leave them alone (EXIT: DOWN RIGHT – BONN DOOR)
• CONSTANTINE: … to know who we are both of us together this is a gift that a man can give a woman
• ENTER CENTER RIGHT: with cake — Let’s put it here, dear, over here.
• OLYMPIA: Does it have candles?
• (STAND FAR AWAY FROM OLYMPIA) No dear, no. Usually it has a little bride and groom on top but this time we need fifty little brides and fifty little grooms so we will have them all around on all different tiers and it will be like a huge party. Like Carnival!
• OLYMPIA: I would like candles.
• Oh candles. You want candles. Yes. Of course, love. Think nothing of it. You’ll have candles if you want them.
• LYDIA: Did someone order a cake?
• It was delivered, to the house.
• PIERO: I ordered the cake. Thank you Eleanor.
• Anytime dear. I’m just going to get some candles for the cake. (EXIT) CENTER RIGHT
- LYDIA: yes
* OLYMPIA: yes.
• I’m going to help you girls get dressed for the wedding. (FIX UP THE GIRLS)
• OLYMPIA: Nothing seems to be working out I was hoping for a wedding dress form Monique Lhuillier, but back home in Greece… I don’t see why at least on my wedding day I can’t have things exactly the way I want them!
• Never mind dear you are going to love the way you look by the time we’re finished
What lovely faces you all have
I think myself If I had such a complexion, I’d have been married
Seven times by now… What I always say is
If you both are physically fit You should lay face downward on the bed Legs hanging over the edge and let him help you raise your legs and wrap them around his waist or shoulders, or if you like you can start on the floor and let him lift your ankles while you walk around the floor on your hands because I think you’ll find this makes for very deep penetration – some say the very deepest.
