RESPECT YOUR GODFATHER pages 1 to 5
Coveliers Johan
Hey hey
I got hold of this script which is supposedly an old Coens script they never
intended to direct themselves, can anyone tell me if this is indeed a Coens
script or whatever info you can give me on it...I'll give you guys the first
five pages of it ...
Thanks , Johan
RESPECT YOUR GODFATHER
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CU TV SCREEN BASEBALL GAME
We see a player shambling dejectedly to the plate, dragging the bat, his
head cast down
HOWARD COSSELL
Wockenfuss seems to have a problem today, not physically, but
attitudinally...
ITALIAN VOICE os (indignantly)
What'sa matter with his attitude, we payed fifty thousand bucks for
it
DON DRYSDALE
..........and we're still scorelessin the bottom of the nineteenth
inning here in the seventh
and deciding game of FALL CLASSIC.......Howard?
The camera has been pulling back off the TV screen to reveal a plush paneled
study. On the wall are portraits of John and Bobby Kennedy and Pope Paul VI.
The men lounigng around are wearing tennis shorts, Lacoste shirts and
shoulder holsters with snub-nosed .38s. The title fades in at the bottom of
the screen: DETROIT
A figure walks into the foreground: a fat, tanned middle-aged man wearing
nothing but a monogrammed towel around his waist and a gold crucifix around
his neck. He looks at the TV set. He is DON GIANNI PETRONIO
PETRONIO
Hey Nino, how much money we got onna K.C. ?
NINO
Otto cento mille dollari
Petronio nervously gasses back his wet hair.
PETRONIO
Hat'sa lotta bakshi!
He looks around at one of the goons.
....... Hey Joey, send Ma out for some more Bud.
BASSO PROFUNDO VOICE FROM BACK
Package of Twinkies too ,will ya ?
CUT TO:
CU ANOTHER TV SET
Again the camera is slowly pulling back. We are tuned to the same ball game.
We are now looking at the pitcher, who is lobbing an anemic fastball in the
general direction of home plate.
HOWARD COSSELL
Kaymeyer just can't seem to get any mustard on the fastball
today
JEWISH VOICE os
Not for what we're payin' him.
The camera is pulling back into another study. On the walls are portraits of
John and Bobby Kennedy and Menachem Begin. A title fades in at the bottom of
the screen: MIAMI
A fat, tan, middle-aged man enters the foreground of the frame. He is
wearing a skimpy bikini-brief swimming trunks, dripping wet onto the carpet.
This is MOE STEINBERG. Someone throws him a prayer shawl and he starts
toweling himself off, looking at the TV screen.
STEINBERG
How much money we got onna Phalluses?
GOON os
Phillies, boss
STEINBERG
SHADDUP !!
He glares briefly offscreen and then turns back towards the man he was
speaking to originally.
STEINBERG
How much money we got on them peckers?
ACCOUNTANT
Acht hunnert teusand dullurs.
STEINBERG
(nervously)
Hat'sa lotta shekels!........
He glances around as he starts to slip off his trunks.
...Hey Benny , t'row me my truss.
CU ANOTHER TV SET
Again the camera is pulling back.
DON DRYSDALE
The count is oh-and-two as Kaymeyer rocks and deals........
The pitcher throws an eraant lob. The batter gives a weak swing long before
the ball reaches the plate, for strike three, then turns and shambles
towards the dugout. On his way there, the pitch hits him in the back of the
head. The umpire points him to first base.
HOWARD COSSELL
(sadly)
Welp, there goes the perfect game.......
DON DRYSDALE
And it's too bad, Howard, I thought we were witnessing a
little baseball history in the making,
both pitchers perfect through nineteen innings --
KEITH JACKSON
And this Kaymeyer's first major-league game; the
youngsters was just called up from the Ozark League
last week...
We are pulling back into another study. On the walls are pictures of John
and Bobby Kennedy and Jimi Hendrix. The room is filled with muscle-bound
black men in sleeveless fish-net shirts and floppy hats. One black man,
sitting behind his desk, wears an African dashiki and carries a tiki cane.
He has a neatly-trimmed Van Dyke beard and purple sunglasses. This is ABDUL
MUHAMMAD. A title fades in at the bottom of the screen: NEWARK
MUHAMMAD
Fakir, inform our bookmaking agents that they are not to
honor any wagers on this particular test of
athelic prowess. It is all too obvious that someone has
intervened financially, with an eye to influencing
the outcome of this charade. (he pronoucnes it "shay-rod")
FAKIR
Say whaaaaaat?
On the television set in the background we see snow and then an anchorman.
Behind him is a Mod graphic: stylized drawings of a Tommy gun superimposed
over a Vegas slot machine.
ANNOUNCER
Flash! We interrupt the World Series to bring you this
special news bulletin, sponsored by Rice Chex,
the breakfast cereal that goes crunch, crunch, crunch.
ANCHORMAN
Good evening. Behind the elaborate gates and security
systems of a Long Island mansion,
a life-and-death drama is being closely watched by New
York City law enforcement authorities...
MUHAMMAD
(still talking to Fakir)
A charade, a sham, a pretense, an object worthy only of
mockery and scorn--
(suddenly noticing the TV set)
--Whoa, sheeeeeit !
ANNOUNCER
..... It is the home of Vito Genitalis, the alleged
"cappi di tutti cappi", or "boss of all bosses" in the
New York underworld. Although the authorities have long
believed that Genitalis is the ruling hand of the
underworld, he has never spent a day in jail. Tonight,
however, authorities are watching the Genitalis
compound with heightened interest, because Vito
Genitalis is on his deadbed. For more, we switch you
to our live eye in the sky, high over the Genitalis
compound.
CU TV SET
Now showing an aerial view of Long Island compuond.
LIVE EYE MAN
We can't tell a whole heck of a lot from up here,
Ernie, our informed sources say that The Godfather may
not last the night. Now this poses an important
question: Who the heck will inherit the Genitalis family
throne ?...
From the compound below, tracer bullets and anti-aircraft flak start
whistling up toward the helicopter.
....Now, the Genitalis family values its privacy, and
although some Genitalis associates have been
mentioned as possible successors, the likelihood is
that the Godfather's brother Guido Genitalis, will
come to America from his home in Italy to personally
assume control of the vast business interests
controlled by the family....
The anti-aircraft fire is growing more intense.
BACK TO THE JEWISH MOB IN MIAMI
Watching the same newscast. Moe Steinberg stands in front of the television
set, naked except for a golden
mezzuzah around his neck.
STEINBERG
Gevalt. This Guido's s'pose ta be one tough goyboy......
He glances around.
... Hey Benny, you found my truss yet?
The live-eye report continues as the camera pans off of the TV set and
tracks in towards a window of the study.
LIVE EYE MAN
......While no one here has ever seen Guido Genitalis,
it is believed by authorities that he has been
the driving force behind the Genitalis's rise to power,
and that he has masterminded the family's activities
from Italy, leaving the day-to-day operations to his
brother, the now ailing Vito.....
Now looking out the window, across the palm-tree-lined collins Avenue, we
see a large white institutional building. A sign over its door identifies it
as the "Two Tablets of Zion Nursing Home". From the TV set offscreen we hear
a high-pitched whine, a frantic "Goddamn" from the live-eye man, and then an
explosion.
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Huge Coen brothers fan. I know this is a shot in the dark, considering you posted this 18 years ago, haha. But, I would even pay to read the rest of this.