《返老还童》（本杰明巴顿奇事）英文剧本.docxVIP

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Written by Eric Roth Based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald 10/30/07 As all things do, it begins in the dark. EYES blink open. Blue eyes. The first thing they see is a WOMAN near 40, standing looking out a window, watching the wind blowing, rattling a window. A WOMANS (V.O.) What are you looking at? CAROLINE The wind, Mother... They say a hurricane is on its way... Youve been asleep... I was waiting to see you...1 INT. HOSPITAL ROOM, NEW ORLEANS - MORNING, PRESENT 1 Now we see were in a hospital room with layers of white enamel paint trying without success to hide the years... An old WOMAN, past 80, withered, still regal with a green turban around her bald head is propped by pillows, her blue eyes looking out at us from her bed... Shes connected to an intravenous for sustenance and a morphine drip... Her name, is DAISY FULLER. She speaks with a Southern lilt. DAISY If it wasnt for hurricanes we wouldnt have a hurricane season. CAROLINE Ive forgotten what the weather can be like here. Ive lived with four seasons so many years now. We see a young Black Woman, a caregiver, DOROTHY BAKER, in a corner, thumbing a magazine, with one eye at the window... DOROTHY BAKER I saw on the news theyre predicting trouble... DAISY 1928 they stacked people like firewood to close a hole in a levee. But Daisy has other things on her mind... murmuring... (CONTINUED) 2.1 CONTINUED: 1 DAISY (CONTD) It all runs together... like a fingerpainting... I feel like Im on a boat, drifting... CAROLINE (tenderly) Can I do anything for you, Mother? Make anything easier? DAISY Hmmm. There is nothing to do, Caroline. This is what it is... Im finding it harder to keep my eyes open... my mouth all filled with cotton... And agitated, feeling confined, she scratches at her nightgown as if it were sticking to her... she starts to take it off... Dorothy gets up and straightens it for her. DOROTHY