EXT. SAN FRANCISCO -
(Street noise, and street people. The Camera moves along the streets of San Francisco, then it scans upward at a window in an apartment building. There is a person in shadows standing at the window.)
INT. ROOM-NIGHT (San Francisco) -
A small bare room, illuminated only by the streetlight coming through
the window. A hand presses a cassette into a recorder and fiddles with
a small microphone. Malloy sits over a table fiddling with the tape. He
is young, half-shaven, dressed in T-shirt and jeans. He looks too -- Louis,
who stands by the window, looking out on the street, with his back to Malloy.
Louis is dressed in an old-fashioned suit.
Louis (L):So you want me to tell you the story of my life.
Interviewer-Malloy (I): Like I said, (*Music ends) That's what
I do, I...ah interview people I'm a collector of lives. FM radio KFRC.
L: (quietly interrupting) You would have to have a lot of tape
for my story.
I: That's no problem, I've got a bag full of tape right here.
L: You followed me here didn't you.
I: I suppose I did. You seem very interesting, this is where you live?
(Light cigarette)
L: No, just a room.
I: Now what you say we get started? (Playfully, almost teasing)
So what do you do?
L: I'm a vampire.
I: (Malloy laughs) hu, That's something I haven't heard before,
you ah you mean this literally I take it.
L:Absolutely, I was waiting for you in that alley way, watching you
watching me, then you began to speak.
I: Oh, What a lucky break for me.
L:Perhaps lucky for both of us.
I:(Smoke) You ah said you where waiting for me, what where you
going to do, kill me, drink my blood? All that stuff?
L:Yes, but you needn't be concerned of that now.
I:You really believe this don't you? That you're a vampire.
L: (Still in shadow he turns from the window and approaches the table.)
We can't begin this way, let me turn on the light.
I: I thought vampires didn't like the light.
L: We love it. I only wanted to prepare you.
(With super fast speed, Louis cross the room flipping the switch
to the overhead lamp. Louis sits down in his chair again. LOUIS' FACE-appears
inhumanly white, eyes glittering. Inhuman or not alive. the effect is subtle,
beautiful and ghastly.).
I: Christ!
(The Malloy jumps from his chair. He struggles to suppress fear and
understand.)
L: Don't be frightened, I want this opportunity.
I: How the hell did you do that?
L: Same as you do. A series of simple gestures, only I move to fast
for you to see. I'm flesh and blood,
but not human. I haven't been human for 2 hundred years, please (offer
hand). How can I put you at ease, shall we begin, like david copper field,
I am born I grew up, Or shall we begin when I was born into darkness as
I call it.(The Interview sits down. Malloy is speechless, frightened
yet enthralled. )
L: That's really where we should start, don't you think?
I: Your not lieing to me are you?
L: Why should I lie.
 |
 |