The Scene
In the bar.
Johnny and Miss Sun have just discovered the now gentle D'Argo.
What
went wrong!
ANTH: I am
no warrior. I've been a prisoner now and a fugitive longer than
I was ever a warrior. Don't you feel it's time I stopped lying
to myself about who I really am? Here, my efforts have purpose.
There comes a time in every Luxan's life, where he just has to
say enough is enough...
BEN: Er, big
guy, not in the script.
ANTH: (Not
even pausing for breath) ...you see, once I was this lumbering
fool, who went around all day doing the wrong thing all the time.
But I've changed. Can you see it? I'm not the same man I used
to be, and I think it's for the better....
DIRECTOR: Cut!
ANTH: ...it
makes me want to sing! I have a song! Do you want to hear it?
EVERYBODY:
NO!!!
ANTH: Good....(Breaking
into song) 'There once was a Luxan man....he lived in a Luxan
world....but wherever this Luxan went....trouble was sure to
follow...'
CLAUDIA: Please
stop! It doesn't even rhyme.
ANTH: '...he
tried so hard not to be...but in the end he always was....a Luxan
man in a Luxan world....a Luxan man in a Luxan shell...'
DIRECTOR: Cut!!!!
Cut! Cut!
KEMPER: Get
the tranquilizer gun.
ANTH: 'Oh
to be a Luxan man....a Luxan man to be....oh to see the fields
of home....a Luxan home for me....'
CLAUDIA: (Crying)
Make him stop! Please! In the name of all that's good and holy!
BEN: (Laughing)
Ha! A weakness Miss Black!
ANTH: '...to
see the Luxan homes....the Luxan trees...the Luxan cars...the
Luxan bees...'
ROCKNE: Hey,
that rhymed!
BEN: (Singing)
'....Oh a Luxan man to be....'
CLAUDIA: (Screaming)
ANTH AND BEN:
'....it's a Luxan life for me....a Luxan life by the sea....a
Luxan life by a tree...I love those Luxan bees....'
CLAUDIA: (Collapses)
ANTH AND BEN:
'....I'm a Luxan, and I'm okay...I work all night, and sleep
all day...a Luxan life for me....'
DIRECTOR: Screw
it! (Singing) '....Oh a Luxan life for me!'
EVERYBODY,
EXCEPT CLAUDIA: '....Oh a Luxan life for me!'
CLAUDIA: (gibbers)
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