Monday, February 23, 2009

A scene from the movie Facory Girl

Andy bites his nails nervously, his pasty complexion is intensified by make-up he wears to cover his adult acne. He sits at the bottom of a grand wooden staircase covered with piles and stacks of books at various heights. Andy's bleach blond hair reflects the sunlight peering through the windows that provide the only light in the room. He stops biting his nails to twirl the phone cord around his fingers, "I Wonder if people will remember us?" he said in his monotone-like voice. "What, when were dead?" Edie replies, she's back at her loft in New York adjusting her crystal chandelier. Her eyes are covered in a massive amount of brown eyeshadow, her eyebrows intensified with a similar hue, although she is wearing too much make-up she still looks beautiful and glamorous. "Yeah," the monotone voice responds."I think people will talk about how you changed the world," Edie says, her voice is raspy, yet sexy and intriguing. "I wonder what they'll say about you in your obituary. I like that word." Edie lets out a small giggle at Andy's insignificant admiration of a word, has a seat and lites a cigarette smoking it as glamorous as possible. "Nothing nice I don't think." .. "Come on it would say Edith Minturn Sedgwick, beautiful artist and actress..." ..."And all around loon!" Edie interrupts with a small laugh. Andy continues, "Remembered for setting the world on fire..".."And escaping the clutches of her terrifying family..."...."Made friends with evveeerrry body and anybody.."..."By creating chaos and uproar wherever she went. Divorced as many times as she married, she only leaves good wishes behind," Edie laughs at her last installment and takes a drag from her cigarette,"that's nice isn't it?" "Well I hope I die first because I would be too sad if you died before me," Andy responds in a winy voice. Edie smiles again, unaware of how close her life is to the end.

6 comments:

  1. I like the descriptions you have at the beginning. It sets the scene and makes it visible to the reader.

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  2. Very good description. I feel like I have a really clear picture of what's happening.

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  3. I have never scene the movie but with your descriptive writing I can see each person and their attitudes.

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  4. Nicely done. I too haven't seen this movie, but you did a great job with the images. I also liked the ending.

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  5. Your imagery is amazing! i can see the whole scene perfectly.

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  6. Excellent back and forth between the two characters. The parallelism is fabulous.

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