Imaginary Portrait

Excerpt from The Life and the Agony, a film which you may or may not get to see in the next year or two.

EXT. vacant BEACH - late summer night

Andrews and Julie lie with one another under a blanket, looking at the stars.

ANDREWSThis is still insane to me.

JULIEWhat is?

ANDREWSYou and me. I can't believe that I'm lying here with you and just so comfortable. If I was any better I'd feel guilty.

JULIEI wish I could say things like you do. I'm so bad at expressing my feelings. The most I can say is that I love you.

ANDREWSWell, I'll take that.

JULIEI think that's why I like art so much. Words aren't needed.

ANDREWSWell, how about you draw me how you feel in the air and then tell me about the picture.

JULIEHeh, OK.


Julie, playfully serious, paints an imaginary portrait in the air as Andrews looks on.

JULIEAlright, I'm done.

ANDREWSTell me about it. Being a simple man I find it too hard to understand what the artist is trying to say.

JULIEWell, it's abstract and being so makes it extremely emotional. The artist chose to use brown and yellow primarily.

ANDREWSMeaning?

JULIEWell, the colors are likely important. Yellow traditionally means happiness or exuberance, and the brown could be the inevitable - the color that results when too many emotions are mixed. Together they blend beautifully, but it begs to ask if yellow is conquering brown or being absorbed by it.

ANDREWSWhat do you think?

JULIEWell, look for yourself.

A Somehow Semi-Autobiographical List of Movie Film Quotations

1.) This is a simple story... but not an easy one to tell.

2.) How does an asshole like Bob get such a great kitchen?

3.) I'll bet my writing's more of a voice of our generation than his.

4.) I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.

5.) Ned, I would love to stay here and talk with you... but I'm not going to.

6.) You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.

7.) Maybe I'm spending too much of my time starting up clubs and putting on plays. I should probably be trying harder to score chicks.

8.) Harold quickly calculated the odds of making an ass of himself, in ratio to the amount of time he stayed to chat.

9.) I had a wonderful evening. I don't need a genius to have a good time.

10.) Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?

11.) Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26.

12.) If the cardiologist decides that you are too old and decrepit and ugly to be at all lovable, I am available to tolerate you in your golden years.

13.) I've looked at so many women. I've seen everything, and felt nothing. But when I look at you, it hurts.

14.) Will you marry me when you are seventy? You'd have nothing to lose.

15.) We are a couple that doesn't touch.

16.) How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Some day they may be scarce.

17.) I lost my friend.

18.) I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

19.) It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine. It's a life.

20.) This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs.