November 18, 2007
MY GODFATHER-THEMED BREAKFAST WITH ANDRE
SCENE NO. 1: INTERIOR, MORNING. A 12-year-old boy eats breakfast as his father cleans the kitchen.
BOY: [sings] Daaaaaa da da daaaaaaaa da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
FATHER: Is there a reason you're singing the "Godfather" theme?
BOY: I just remembered something.
FATHER: What's that?
BOY: Last year, at lunch one day ...
FATHER: Wait. You're telling me a story about something that happened a year ago?
BOY: Yes.
FATHER: See, this is what I mean when I ask you every day, "So, what happened at school today?"
BOY: [laughs] I know.
FATHER: Not, "So, what happened at school last year?" What happened today.
BOY: Okay ...
FATHER: You weren't listening to me.
BOY: Yes I was. Okay, so last year at lunch one day ...
FATHER: [goans]
BOY: ... Victor banished me from the lunch table.
FATHER: Victor? For what?
BOY: It's not important.
FATHER: Of course it's important.
BOY: No, it's not.
FATHER: Any time you're banished from something, the reason you're banished is usually important.
BOY: Well, it wasn't. So, Victor banished me ...
FATHER: [feigns disgust] Okay.
BOY: So I go sit at another table with some other people.
FATHER: Victor has this kind of power?
BOY: No, I was just doing it as a joke.
FATHER: Okay.
BOY: So, I go to the other table ...
FATHER: And?
BOY: Everyone from Victor's table came over and sat with me.
FATHER: Ah.
BOY: [sings while holding up wrist and kissing it] Daaaaaa da da daaaaaaaa da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
FATHER: [stifling laughter] So, you're saying you're Michael Corleone?
BOY: [continues singing while holding his wrist at his father to kiss] Daaaaaa da da daaaaaaaa da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
FATHER: You bring that wrist over here and it will be the last thing you get kissed.
BOY: [laughing while singing, now standing in front of his father] Daaaaaa da da daaaaaaaa da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
FATHER: [taking his son's hand and bowing toward the wrist, he instead wipes his nose on the boy's sleeve]
BOY: [laughs] I certainly didn't see that one coming.
FATHER: [impersonating the heavy voice of Luca Brasi] And I hope your first child will be a masculine child.
PREVIOUS MOMENTS WITH ANDRE:
Waiting in car line with Andre.
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