Gus...
Did you get those story ideas
that I left on your desk?
Morning, Mr. Strauss.
Yes, the blind foster home mother.
That was good.
I got Kahune on it.
Oh, yeah. Kahune. He큦 good.
Geller, we큩e been through this.
You큥e a great copy editor.
You큥e maybe my best copy editor.
You큥e not a reporter.
You큩e used of my ideas.
Gus, please.
Every Tom, Dick, and Harry
thinks he can write,...
bu
expression -- as he rips a
tie from around his neck and throws it down in the gutter. He
starts across the street, now peeling off his suitcoat and
dropping that, too, right there on the asphalt as we then...
WHIP PAN OVER TO REVEAL: A BANK ACROSS THE STREET
As Foley goes inside, we then...
CUT TO: A PRINTED BROCHURE THAT READS...
LOOKING FOR MONEY?
YOUVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.
We then PULL BAC
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 PORNOGRAPHIC BOOKSHOPS.
A FEW YOUNG MEN LOITER IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE BOOKSHOPS
SOLIC
who continue to believe in themselves despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This is GUS GORMAN.
Behind the teller몶s wicket is a middle-aged female CLERK with the requisite officious manner and heart of stone common to her profession. As the MAN ahead of GUS finishes his turn and walks away, she barks out:
CLERK
Name?
GUS
(as he tries to
untangle his
yo-yo string)
Gus Gorman.
expressing exasperation.
[ Rejection of authority generates humor. This allows the audience to
vicariously experience superiority over policemen, and releases repressed
feelings of resentment that expresses itself in laughter. The policeman is
a "traffic cop" that is being ignored; a deviation from normal patterns of
behavior. The policeman becomes frustrated. The audience finds the
exasperation