Boxed Flowers

X: What’s with the camera?

Y: Just act naturally.

X: I am acting naturally. It’s perfectly natural to ask someone sticking a camera in your face what he’s up to (beat) What’s with the camera?

X: I’m making a video.

Y: No kidding?

X: Do something.

Y: Smacks camera

X: Don’t hit the camera.

Y: I was acting natural.

X: I refuse to believe you have a violent nature.

Y: Believe it.

X: No.

Y: Believe It! (threatening)

BOXED

Next shot is of opposite character. Camera is out of focus looking around.

Y: (talking from behind camera): How do you work this thing? What’s this do.

X: That’s the zoom. Don’t touch that…..

Picture comes to rest at a box of books at the foot of X.

Y: What’s with the box?

X: Books.

Y: I can see that, but where are you going with them?

X: Going to sell them so I can buy more tape. The book is dead. Video is the new novel.

USED BOOKS.
X has camera again as Y digs through the box of books in front of a bookstore

Y: I can’t believe you’re going to sell this (Maybe Gatsby). It’s a first edition.

X: It’s not a first edition. It’s a copy of the first edition from the fifties.

Y: It’s old.

X: I’ve read it.

Y: It’s a beautiful copy.

X: They’re all beautiful copies…. But it’s worthless.

Y: How can you say that?

USED BOOK STORE.

Clerk: I’ll give you two bucks for Gatsby.

X: Fine.

Y: Two bucks? Are you nuts. It’s a first edition.

Clerk: No. It’s a reissue from the fifties. But it has a nice binding. That’s why I’m offering two bucks.

X: Fine.

Y: I’ll give you five.

X: You want it?

Y: I’ll give you ten bucks (pulls out a twenty)

Clerk: I’m not going to give you ten bucks for the whole box.