FRENCH SUBTITLED FILM
Exterior large rubbish dump. Wobbly hand-held camera tracks to girl in simple white dress with red hair fourteen foot long, who is sitting on a chair holding a cabbage in her hands. After a time Stig, in white jeans, shirt and scarf enters shot and stands around uneasily.
Stig: (T.J.)
Bonjour.
Subtitle: 'GOOD
MORNING'
Girl: (C.C.)
Bonjour.
Subtitle: 'GOOD
MORNING'
Pause.
Stig looks uneasy, glancing at camera.
Stig: II fair beau
ce matin.
Subtitle: 'IT'S A
NICE DAY'
Girl: Oui, oui.
Subtitle: 'YES,
YES'
Stig: D'accord...
Subtitle: 'HEAR
HEAR'
Stig: Venez-vous
ici souvent?
Subtitle: 'DO YOU
COME HERE OFTEN?'
Girl: Oui.
Subtitle: 'YES'
Stig: Ah. Bon. Bon.
Subtitle: 'GOOD,
GOOD'
Pause.
Stig: Je vois que
vous avez un chou.
Subtitle: 'I SEE
THAT YOU HAVE A CABBAGE'
Girl: Oui.
Subtitle: 'YES'
Stig
starts to laugh falsely, and then the girl joins in. It is a miserable attempt
to capture joy and togetherness. The girl stops laughing before Stig does.
Stig: Certainement
il fair beau ce matin.
Subtitle: 'IT
CERTAINLY IS A LOVELY DAY ALL RIGHT'
Stig
wanders out of shot but is very obviously pushed back into the picture.
Stig: Je suis
revolutionnaire.
Subtitle: 'I AM A
REVOLUTIONARY'
Girl: Oh.
Stig: Qu'est-ce que
vous avez dit?
Subtitle: 'WHAT DID
YOU SAY?'
Girl: J'ai dit
'oh'.
Subtitle: 'I SAID
"OH"'
Stig: Ah. Très
interessant.
Subtitle: 'AH. VERY
INTERESTING'
Cut
to pimply youth in studio.
Phil: (E.I.)
Brian Distel
and Brianette Zatapathique there in an improvised scene from Jean Kenneth
Longueur's new movie 'Le Fromage Grand'. Brian and Brianette symbolize the
breakdown in communication in our modern society in this exciting new film and
Longueur is saying to us, his audience, 'go on, protest, do something about it,
assault the manager, demand your money back'. Later on in the film, in a
brilliantly conceived montage, Longueur mercilessly exposes the violence
underlying our society when Brian and Brianette again meet on yet another
rubbish dump.
Different part of
same dump, but not very different. Girl is still on chair but this time with a
head of lettuce. Then Stig enters shot.
Stig: Bonjour
encore.
Subtitle: 'HELLO
AGAIN'
Girl: Bonjour.
Subtitle: 'GOOD
MORNING'
Stig: Je vois que
aujourd'jui vous avez une co-laitue.
Subtitle: 'I SEE
YOU'VE GOT A WEBB'S WONDER TODAY'
Girl: Oui.
Stig: Bon.
Subtitle: 'GOOD'
Intercut
quick shot from war film: machine-gunner in plane.
Stig: Il fair beau
encore.
Subtitle: 'IT'S A
LOVELY DAY AGAIN'
Shot
of Paris riots and clubbing.
Girl: Oui.
Subtitle: 'YES'
Stig: Bon.
Subtitle: 'GOOD'
Shot
of Michael being struck on head with a club by John.
Stig: Vous pouvez
dire ça encore.
Subtitle: 'IT
CERTAINLY IS A LOVELY DAY ALL RIGHT'
Shot
of collapsing building, then a man at a piano (G.C.); the lid slams on his
hands.
Stig: Certainement
il fair beau ce matin.
Subtitle: 'IT
CERTAINLY IS A LOVELY DAY ALL RIGHT'
Shot
of aeroplanes bombing. Shot of chef receiving arrow in chest. Shot of girl
kicking tall man on shin. Shot of rockets being fired from plane.
Girl: Oui.
Subtitle: 'YES'
Shot
of hydrogen bomb.
Stig: Il fait beau
bier. Ha ha ha.
Subtitle: 'IT WAS
LOVELY YESTERDAY. HA HA HA'
Shot
of ack ack gun. Shot of man receiving a punch in the head from a boxing glove.
Shot of nun kicking a policeman in the crutch.
Girl: Ha ha.
Subtitle: 'HA HA.
HA HA. HA HA.'
Shot
of Spitfire. Shot of Korean soldier; then man being beheaded.
Stig: Quel surprise
de vous voir encore.
Subtitle: 'WHAT A
SURPRISE TO SEE YOU AGAIN'
Shot
of Paris riots. Shot of man having his foot stamped on. Shot of blazing
building. Shot of man being poked in the eye with an umbrella. Shot of
battleship firing broadside. Shot of man in underpants having a bucket of water
thrown over him. Shot of soccer violence. Shot of man bring knifed by a Greek
Orthodox priest.
Girl: Je t'aime.
Subtitle: 'I LOVE
YOU'
Stig: Je t'aime.
Subtitle: 'I LOVE
YOU'
They
smile at each other happily for a moment. Then they hear something ticking. They
listen carefully for a moment and then both start to look fearfully at the cos
lettuce. After a moment of terror the cos lettuce explodes, in slow motion,
blowing them apart. As tatters and pieces of cos lettuce float through the air
in slow motion, the camera pans down to some autumn leaves. Freeze frame.
Superimposed caption: 'FIN'