Costume Designer Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
Music Bill Stafford
Executive Producer Gus Van Sant
Co-executive Producer Allan Mindel
Producer Laurie Parker
Screenplay Gus Van Sant
Additional dialogue by William Shakespeare
Director Gus Van Sant
Produced by New Line Cinema
VIEWS OF THE CITY OF Portland Oregon digressing into the seedy
areas of the small city.
ARCADES, and yellow storefronts, of PORNOGRA
costume fixed.
O.k. Well show this guy how to do it.
Whoa!
Aah!
Oh.
Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho!
Merry christmas to all,
and to all a good night.
Sir! Excuse me.
- Hello. I-Im Dorey walker.
- Oh.
Director of special projects for
c.f. Coles department store.
My pleasure. As a matter of fact,
I was looking for you.
Theres no doubt you saw
your Santa Claus is inebriated.
I know. He has created
such a terri
costume, honey.
No, I dont want to.
I wanna show him the goldfish.
OK.
What is this?
Little Red Riding Hood?
No. Its nothing
to do with anything.
Its just another weird dream.
Oh, no. Not like the one you had
before my mother died, is it?
- No.
- Good.
Not like that one.
This one, it keeps coming back.
Theres an orchard
and this little girl.
That little girl,
shes being led through it.
- The litt
costume was exquisite.
And those earrings, are they Javanese?
No, they are from India.
Theyre so intriguing. May I?
Andriani wants to see you at the Pavilion
at once. Its very important.
- Glad you like them.
- Thank you.
Do you think...? Could you introduce me?
My dear boy, one doesnt meet Mata Hari
on the spur of the moment like that.
esides, Im late now.
- Do you mind if I stay for a while?
-
costume?
Take it off at once, do you hear?
Lmmediately.
Why, you...
Take that off.
Take off that dress, do you hear me?
You dumb idiot.
You do what I say, or Ill break your neck!
Do you hear me? Take off that dress.
If I get my hands on you,
youll never hear the end of this!
Youre no longer my dresser,
youre fired! Get out!
Get out, do you hear me? Out you go.
And dont come back in here again.
Do
costumes are great.
For your entrance, weve picked red velvet.
- She looks wonderful in it. - I know...
Theres another good song in the score for Lilli. "I Hate Men."
Now, heres what we had in mind for the wedding scene.
- Pretty, isnt it? - Its certainly tempting.
- Then youll do it? - Its difficult to refuse.
Ill tell you what Ill do, Ill... Well...
- Expecting someone? - No.
Yes, though not ju
AND REVEALS THE inside of a domed city honeycombed with fantastic arches. The city is inhabited by young beautiful people in luxurious but simple costumes.
THE CAMERA ROAMS through the City, observing some people seated at a kind of cafe sipping drinks and relaxing; other people are in some kind of exercise class doing beautiful graceful movement; and finally a class of five year old children lis
costumes,
Orient-inspired head adornments.
The tricorn is of Venetian origin.
In contrast to the straight course
of the young men -
animated turns - anticlockwise -
directed by a ringmaster - clockwise.
A playground is the pleasure garden
of the sons, an infantile idyll.
Nature, sex,
eroticism in chaste playfulness -
like the water in the fountain:
A transparent dome
masking a statue of a siren.
costumes. - Why?
- Its just so... Mom. - Human?
- So what have you guys been up to? - God!
- Ooh. Mm-hmm. - Its writing and deadlines.
Take me away.
- Okay. - Oh, wait!
Somebody just finished summer school, didnt he? Congratulations!
- Actually, I didnt finish. - Thats great!
What?
I, Brian Gulden...
son of Mr. American Literature and the romantics, failed American Literature.
Youre serious?
- Ye
costumes.
You see, Im a playwright and an actor.
So these poor things...
couldnt possibly be of any use to you.
Oh, no, wait!
Youll break it!
Take them! Take them!
Oh, no, Don Miguel!
No. Take them, I say.
Only leave me this.
Heavy. Valuable?
Only to me.
Ill let you ransom it.
I have no money.
How unfortunate.
Paper!
Manuscript.
Still worthless!
No! Wait!
You said a trial!
By your own words, I de