To show how two men living in an environment of decadence can cause the breaking of their relationship.
Will elaborate more in my critical commentary and then update this blog with a continuation of the DV.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Our BBOX MEETING and stuff done after that.
Alright, we met on Saturday, 23rd May 2009. We finished our lighting, our stage movements and our our timing. We now have to bring our props to school and get mor epractice.( Cursed be that SDEA and Prelims!!!!)
Other than the above, we worked on our line delivery. We made sure our timing was right and our delivery and speech patterns fitted into our characters persona.
HOMEWORK
According to the sources we've looked up and the different portrayals of Felix and Oscar, there're many diverse ways to portray both characters characteristics. For one, is the racial stereotypes, for e.g. oscar as an African American and Felix as a A man who grew up in the southside bronx(which generally means that he's from Italian descent). There's also the usage of a difference in height and build, to show a 'petite unmanly' man and a burly broad shouldered stoic like man.
We have decided to work with Felix as an effeminate character and Oscar as a slobby 'apemanlike' character which would allow us to effectively bring out the contrast in the characters in accordance to our DV which Suryadi will be posting up as soon as he picks up his phone!!!!!!!!!!
Oh well thats all for today!
Other than the above, we worked on our line delivery. We made sure our timing was right and our delivery and speech patterns fitted into our characters persona.
HOMEWORK
According to the sources we've looked up and the different portrayals of Felix and Oscar, there're many diverse ways to portray both characters characteristics. For one, is the racial stereotypes, for e.g. oscar as an African American and Felix as a A man who grew up in the southside bronx(which generally means that he's from Italian descent). There's also the usage of a difference in height and build, to show a 'petite unmanly' man and a burly broad shouldered stoic like man.
We have decided to work with Felix as an effeminate character and Oscar as a slobby 'apemanlike' character which would allow us to effectively bring out the contrast in the characters in accordance to our DV which Suryadi will be posting up as soon as he picks up his phone!!!!!!!!!!
Oh well thats all for today!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Reflections on our first FACE to Face Meeting! Part 1
Well everything went well. We were able to come up with our props, finalize our set design( minor shifts and proximity changes ).
In terms of acting, we've done quite a bit of our movements and have come to percieve the entities as 2 polar opposites( as presented in the play ). We've started on our memorisation and are currently affixing in the body language of the character.
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In terms of acting, we've done quite a bit of our movements and have come to percieve the entities as 2 polar opposites( as presented in the play ). We've started on our memorisation and are currently affixing in the body language of the character.
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Prop Lists
For the duologue we will need some props:
-poker cards
-vacuum cleaner
-table cloth
-rag
-newspaper
-cigar
-couch pillows
-wooden match
-ashtray
-tray
-steaming dish of spaghetti(to be confirmed)
-aerosol spray
-keys
-wallet + some cash
currently these are the required props.
-poker cards
-vacuum cleaner
-table cloth
-rag
-newspaper
-cigar
-couch pillows
-wooden match
-ashtray
-tray
-steaming dish of spaghetti(to be confirmed)
-aerosol spray
-keys
-wallet + some cash
currently these are the required props.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Combined Subtext
Felix:(pushing the spaghetti away)All right, how much longer is this gonna go on?
-Ugh how much longer is this buffoon gonna keep treating me like this!?!
Oscar:(reading his newspaper) Are you talking to me?
-Finally he wants to talk to me. Let me disturb him for a while.
Felix: That’s right, I am talking to you.
- Is anyone else in the room???
Oscar: What do you want to know?
-All right, I shall act stupid, and a suck-up.
Felix: I want to know if you are going to spend the rest of your life not talking to me.
-How long are you going to ignore me???
Because if you are, I am going to buy a radio. (no reply)
-Alright if this goes on then you cn forget about talking to me
Well? ( no reply) I see.
-So??? What're you gonna do???
You are not going to talk to me. (no reply) All right. Two can play at this game. (Pause)
-Ok then, see how you like it when I ignore you!
If you are not going to talk to me, I am not going to talk to you.(no reply) I can act childish too, you know. (no reply) I can go on without talking just as long as you can.
-See see I can do it too!!!
Oscar: Then why the hell don’t you shut up?
-So irritating.You wanna buy what radio then buy lah, why ask me. So noisy!
Felix: Are you talking to me?
I'm sorry.... But i'm ignoring you...
Oscar: You had your chance to talk last night. I begged you to come upstairs with me. From now on I never want to hear a word from that shampooed head as long as you live. That’s a warning, felix.
-Funny ah..trying to play this trick on me.Fine! Trying to act smart right?! All right you better watch out.
Felix: (stares at him) I stand warned. Over and out!
-Oooh so scary!!!!
Oscar: (gets up, takes a key out of his pocket and slams it on the table) There’s a key to the back door. If you stick to the hallway and your room, you wont get hurt. (he sits back down on the couch)
Felix: I don’t think I gather the entire meaning of that remark.
- What're you trying to say?
Oscar: Then I’ll explain it to you. Stay out of my way.
-Good that you understand! But I will elaborate more, Idiot!
Felix: (picks up the key and moves to the couch) I think you are serious. I think you are really serious. Are you serious?
-He's just acting.... He is right???
Oscar: This is my apartment. Everything in my apartment is mine. The only thing here that’s yours is you. Just stay in your room and speak softly.
-What the hell you asked me that for. Just mind your F***** business. And who said you can touch those keys and sit on the couch!
Felix: Yeah, you are serious. Well, let me remind you that I pay half the rent and I’ll go into any room I want. (He gets up angrily and starts towards the hallway)
-Oh DAMN! Ok well I pay part of it too so you jolly well have to deal with me staying here!!!
Oscar: Where are you going?
-He thinks he pay half the rent, so he can do whatever he wants by going into my ROOM!? WTF!
Felix: I am going to walk around your bedroom.
I pay half the rent so I can do as much as you can
Oscar: (slams down his newspaper) you stay out of there.
-How Dare HE!!!! Who the hell he thinks he is?!
Felix: (Steaming) Don’t tell me where to go. I pay a hundred and twenty dollars a month.
-Who the HELL does HE think he is!!!
Oscar: That was off-season. Starting tomorrow the rates are twelve dollars a day.
-You pay so what? Big deal?
Felix: All right. ( He takes some bills out of his pocket and slams them down on the table ) There you are. I am paid up for today. Now I am going to walk in your bedroom. ( He starts to storm off)
-Think i'm poor!?! Trying to get rid of me huh???
Oscar: Stay out of there! Stay out of my room! ( He chases after him. Felix dodges around the table as Oscar blocks the hallway.)
-Hey! How can you! You pay half the rent too, but I got pay too! And that’s my room!!!
Felix: (Blocking away, keeping the table between them) Watch yourself! Just watch yourself , Oscar!
-I swear to god you touch me and i'll scream!!!
Oscar: (with a pointing finger) I am warning you. You want to live here, I don’t want to see you, I don’t want to hear you and I don’t want to smell your cooking. Now get this spaghetti off my poker table.
-I am the boss here. You listen to me! I don’t want to have anything to do with you as long as I am in this house!
Felix: HA! Ha, Ha!
- HAHAHAHAHA The stupidity!!!
Oscar: What the hell is so funny?
-How the hell he dare laugh and mock at me? And whats so hilarious?
Felix: Its not spaghetti. Its Linguini! ( Oscar picks up the plate of Linguini, crosses to the hallway and hurls it into the kitchen.
-Even a hobbo with a sandwich would know that!!!
Oscar: Now its garbage! ( he paces by the couch)
-Fine! Wanna laugh at me,I will play with you! Eat your stupid spaghetti in the garbage!
Felix:(Looks at Oscar unbelievingly: what an insane thing to do) You are crazy! I am a neurotic nut, but you are crazy!
-Who throws food!!! What a neanderthal!!!
Oscar: I am crazy, heh? That’s really funny coming from a fruitcake like you.
-WOW! You can say that I am crazy. That’s so funny yeah?
Felix: ( Goes to the kitchen door and looks in at the mess. Turns back to Oscar.) I am not cleaning that up.
-I refuse to do what that pig wants me to do!
Oscar: Is that a promise?
-Wow, little Felix trying not to do the house chore, which he ALWAYS love to do. How incredible!
Felix: Did you hear what I said? I am not cleaning it up.
-Oh god...... I hope I can hold out....
Its your mess. ( looking into the kitchen again) Look at it. Hanging all over the walls.
- I think i'm gonna puke....
Oscar: ( Crosses to the landing and looks in the kitchen door) I like it. (He closes the door and paces around)
-I don’t care. I know you wouldn’t dare leave them dare just like that either. I know you hate dirt! Stupid.
Felix: (Fumes) You’d just let it lie there, wouldn’t you? Until it turns hard and brown and …Yich, its disgusting. I am cleaning it up. ( he goes into the kitchen. Oscar chases after him. There is sound of a struggle and falling pots.)
-I can't take it anymore!!!
Oscar: Leave it alone! You touch one strand of that linguini-and I am gonna punch you right in your sinuses.
-How dare he! One moment didn’t want to clean that up and now he says he want to clean it up! I shall go against your will!
Felix:(Dashes out of the kitchen with Oscar in pursuit. He stops and tries to calm Oscar down) Oscar, I’d like you to take a couple of Phenobarbital.
-Maybe then he'd die....
Oscar: (points) Go to your room! Did you hear what I said? Go to your room!
-What the hell you tell me that for????!!!!!!!!! Get lost!!!
Felix: All right, let’s everybody just settle down, heh? (he puts his hand on Oscar’s shoulder to calm him but Oscar pulls away violently from his touch)
-Alright alright let's talk like civilised men now shall we....
Oscar: If you want to live through this night, you’d better tie me up and lock your doors and windows.
-trying to be the little angel now are you Felix? Great huh..?
Felix: (sits at the table with a great pretense of calm) All right, Oscar ,I’d like to know what’s happened?
-Ok whats wrong says Felix the shrink
Oscar: (moves toward him) What’s happened?
Stop pretending to be so kind and angelic. Cut the act!
Felix: (hurriedly slides over to the next chair) That’s right. Something must have caused you to go off the deep end like this. What is it? Something I said? Something I did? Heh? What?
-My friend what have i done to offend you?
Oscar: (pacing) Its nothing you said. Its nothing you did. Its you!
-Wow.You don’t even know that you are the main cause of everything!
Felix: I see. Well, that’s plain enough.
-I'm hurt...
Oscar: I could make it plainer but I don’t want to hurt you.
-You know I am mean,I am just acting to be sarcastic and less mean.
Felix: What is it? The cooking ? The cleaning ? The crying?
- What is it that i've done to make you feel this way???
Oscar: (moving towards him) I’ll tell you exactly what in your sleep, it’s the moose calls that open your ears at two o’clock in the morning. I cant take it anymore, Felix. I am crackin up. Everything you do irritates me. And when you’re not here, the things I know you’re gonna do when you come in irritate me. You leave me little notes on my pillow. I told you a hundred times, I cant stand little notes on my pillow. ‘We’re all out of Corn Flakes.F.U.’ It took me three hours to figure out that F.U was Felix Ungar. Its not your fault, Felix. It’s a rotten combination.
-All right! I will tell you all the things I hate about you!!! You sucker!!!! Its all about your terrible behavior and way of living. So annoying.
Felix: I get the picture.
-I get it....
-Ugh how much longer is this buffoon gonna keep treating me like this!?!
Oscar:(reading his newspaper) Are you talking to me?
-Finally he wants to talk to me. Let me disturb him for a while.
Felix: That’s right, I am talking to you.
- Is anyone else in the room???
Oscar: What do you want to know?
-All right, I shall act stupid, and a suck-up.
Felix: I want to know if you are going to spend the rest of your life not talking to me.
-How long are you going to ignore me???
Because if you are, I am going to buy a radio. (no reply)
-Alright if this goes on then you cn forget about talking to me
Well? ( no reply) I see.
-So??? What're you gonna do???
You are not going to talk to me. (no reply) All right. Two can play at this game. (Pause)
-Ok then, see how you like it when I ignore you!
If you are not going to talk to me, I am not going to talk to you.(no reply) I can act childish too, you know. (no reply) I can go on without talking just as long as you can.
-See see I can do it too!!!
Oscar: Then why the hell don’t you shut up?
-So irritating.You wanna buy what radio then buy lah, why ask me. So noisy!
Felix: Are you talking to me?
I'm sorry.... But i'm ignoring you...
Oscar: You had your chance to talk last night. I begged you to come upstairs with me. From now on I never want to hear a word from that shampooed head as long as you live. That’s a warning, felix.
-Funny ah..trying to play this trick on me.Fine! Trying to act smart right?! All right you better watch out.
Felix: (stares at him) I stand warned. Over and out!
-Oooh so scary!!!!
Oscar: (gets up, takes a key out of his pocket and slams it on the table) There’s a key to the back door. If you stick to the hallway and your room, you wont get hurt. (he sits back down on the couch)
Felix: I don’t think I gather the entire meaning of that remark.
- What're you trying to say?
Oscar: Then I’ll explain it to you. Stay out of my way.
-Good that you understand! But I will elaborate more, Idiot!
Felix: (picks up the key and moves to the couch) I think you are serious. I think you are really serious. Are you serious?
-He's just acting.... He is right???
Oscar: This is my apartment. Everything in my apartment is mine. The only thing here that’s yours is you. Just stay in your room and speak softly.
-What the hell you asked me that for. Just mind your F***** business. And who said you can touch those keys and sit on the couch!
Felix: Yeah, you are serious. Well, let me remind you that I pay half the rent and I’ll go into any room I want. (He gets up angrily and starts towards the hallway)
-Oh DAMN! Ok well I pay part of it too so you jolly well have to deal with me staying here!!!
Oscar: Where are you going?
-He thinks he pay half the rent, so he can do whatever he wants by going into my ROOM!? WTF!
Felix: I am going to walk around your bedroom.
I pay half the rent so I can do as much as you can
Oscar: (slams down his newspaper) you stay out of there.
-How Dare HE!!!! Who the hell he thinks he is?!
Felix: (Steaming) Don’t tell me where to go. I pay a hundred and twenty dollars a month.
-Who the HELL does HE think he is!!!
Oscar: That was off-season. Starting tomorrow the rates are twelve dollars a day.
-You pay so what? Big deal?
Felix: All right. ( He takes some bills out of his pocket and slams them down on the table ) There you are. I am paid up for today. Now I am going to walk in your bedroom. ( He starts to storm off)
-Think i'm poor!?! Trying to get rid of me huh???
Oscar: Stay out of there! Stay out of my room! ( He chases after him. Felix dodges around the table as Oscar blocks the hallway.)
-Hey! How can you! You pay half the rent too, but I got pay too! And that’s my room!!!
Felix: (Blocking away, keeping the table between them) Watch yourself! Just watch yourself , Oscar!
-I swear to god you touch me and i'll scream!!!
Oscar: (with a pointing finger) I am warning you. You want to live here, I don’t want to see you, I don’t want to hear you and I don’t want to smell your cooking. Now get this spaghetti off my poker table.
-I am the boss here. You listen to me! I don’t want to have anything to do with you as long as I am in this house!
Felix: HA! Ha, Ha!
- HAHAHAHAHA The stupidity!!!
Oscar: What the hell is so funny?
-How the hell he dare laugh and mock at me? And whats so hilarious?
Felix: Its not spaghetti. Its Linguini! ( Oscar picks up the plate of Linguini, crosses to the hallway and hurls it into the kitchen.
-Even a hobbo with a sandwich would know that!!!
Oscar: Now its garbage! ( he paces by the couch)
-Fine! Wanna laugh at me,I will play with you! Eat your stupid spaghetti in the garbage!
Felix:(Looks at Oscar unbelievingly: what an insane thing to do) You are crazy! I am a neurotic nut, but you are crazy!
-Who throws food!!! What a neanderthal!!!
Oscar: I am crazy, heh? That’s really funny coming from a fruitcake like you.
-WOW! You can say that I am crazy. That’s so funny yeah?
Felix: ( Goes to the kitchen door and looks in at the mess. Turns back to Oscar.) I am not cleaning that up.
-I refuse to do what that pig wants me to do!
Oscar: Is that a promise?
-Wow, little Felix trying not to do the house chore, which he ALWAYS love to do. How incredible!
Felix: Did you hear what I said? I am not cleaning it up.
-Oh god...... I hope I can hold out....
Its your mess. ( looking into the kitchen again) Look at it. Hanging all over the walls.
- I think i'm gonna puke....
Oscar: ( Crosses to the landing and looks in the kitchen door) I like it. (He closes the door and paces around)
-I don’t care. I know you wouldn’t dare leave them dare just like that either. I know you hate dirt! Stupid.
Felix: (Fumes) You’d just let it lie there, wouldn’t you? Until it turns hard and brown and …Yich, its disgusting. I am cleaning it up. ( he goes into the kitchen. Oscar chases after him. There is sound of a struggle and falling pots.)
-I can't take it anymore!!!
Oscar: Leave it alone! You touch one strand of that linguini-and I am gonna punch you right in your sinuses.
-How dare he! One moment didn’t want to clean that up and now he says he want to clean it up! I shall go against your will!
Felix:(Dashes out of the kitchen with Oscar in pursuit. He stops and tries to calm Oscar down) Oscar, I’d like you to take a couple of Phenobarbital.
-Maybe then he'd die....
Oscar: (points) Go to your room! Did you hear what I said? Go to your room!
-What the hell you tell me that for????!!!!!!!!! Get lost!!!
Felix: All right, let’s everybody just settle down, heh? (he puts his hand on Oscar’s shoulder to calm him but Oscar pulls away violently from his touch)
-Alright alright let's talk like civilised men now shall we....
Oscar: If you want to live through this night, you’d better tie me up and lock your doors and windows.
-trying to be the little angel now are you Felix? Great huh..?
Felix: (sits at the table with a great pretense of calm) All right, Oscar ,I’d like to know what’s happened?
-Ok whats wrong says Felix the shrink
Oscar: (moves toward him) What’s happened?
Stop pretending to be so kind and angelic. Cut the act!
Felix: (hurriedly slides over to the next chair) That’s right. Something must have caused you to go off the deep end like this. What is it? Something I said? Something I did? Heh? What?
-My friend what have i done to offend you?
Oscar: (pacing) Its nothing you said. Its nothing you did. Its you!
-Wow.You don’t even know that you are the main cause of everything!
Felix: I see. Well, that’s plain enough.
-I'm hurt...
Oscar: I could make it plainer but I don’t want to hurt you.
-You know I am mean,I am just acting to be sarcastic and less mean.
Felix: What is it? The cooking ? The cleaning ? The crying?
- What is it that i've done to make you feel this way???
Oscar: (moving towards him) I’ll tell you exactly what in your sleep, it’s the moose calls that open your ears at two o’clock in the morning. I cant take it anymore, Felix. I am crackin up. Everything you do irritates me. And when you’re not here, the things I know you’re gonna do when you come in irritate me. You leave me little notes on my pillow. I told you a hundred times, I cant stand little notes on my pillow. ‘We’re all out of Corn Flakes.F.U.’ It took me three hours to figure out that F.U was Felix Ungar. Its not your fault, Felix. It’s a rotten combination.
-All right! I will tell you all the things I hate about you!!! You sucker!!!! Its all about your terrible behavior and way of living. So annoying.
Felix: I get the picture.
-I get it....
Felix's Subtext
Felix:(pushing the spaghetti away)All right, how much longer is this gonna go on?
-Ugh how much longer is this buffoon gonna keep treating me like this!?!
Felix: That’s right, I am talking to you.
- Is anyone else in the room???
Felix: I want to know if you are going to spend the rest of your life not talking to me.
-How long are you going to ignore me???
Because if you are, I am going to buy a radio. (no reply)
-Alright if this goes on then you cn forget about talking to me
Well? ( no reply) I see.
-So??? What're you gonna do???
You are not going to talk to me. (no reply) All right. Two can play at this game. (Pause)
-Ok then, see how you like it when I ignore you!
If you are not going to talk to me, I am not going to talk to you.(no reply) I can act childish too, you know. (no reply) I can go on without talking just as long as you can.
-See see I can do it too!!!
Felix: Are you talking to me?
I'm sorry.... But i'm ignoring you...
Felix: (stares at him) I stand warned. Over and out!
-Oooh so scary!!!!
Felix: I don’t think I gather the entire meaning of that remark.
- What're you trying to say?
Felix: (picks up the key and moves to the couch) I think you are serious. I think you are really serious. Are you serious?
-He's just acting.... Right???
Felix: Yeah, you are serious. Well, let me remind you that I pay half the rent and I’ll go into any room I want. (He gets up angrily and starts towards the hallway)
-Oh DAMN! Ok well I pay part of it too so you jolly well have to deal with me staying here!!!
Felix: I am going to walk around your bedroom.
I pay half the rent so I can do as much as you can
Felix: (Steaming) Don’t tell me where to go. I pay a hundred and twenty dollars a month.
-Who the HELL does HE think he is!!!
Felix: All right. ( He takes some bills out of his pocket and slams them down on the table ) There you are. I am paid up for today. Now I am going to walk in your bedroom. ( He starts to storm off)
-Think i'm poor!?! Trying to get rid of me huh???
Felix: (Blocking away, keeping the table between them) Watch yourself! Just watch yourself , Oscar!
-I swear to god you touch me and i'll scream!!!
Felix: HA! Ha, Ha!
- HAHAHAHAHA The stupidity!!!
Oscar: What the hell is so funny?
-How the hell he dare laugh and mock at me? And whats so hilarious?
Felix: Its not spaghetti. Its Linguini! ( Oscar picks up the plate of Linguini, crosses to the hallway and hurls it into the kitchen.
-Even a hobbo with a sandwich would know that!!!
Felix:(Looks at Oscar unbelievingly: what an insane thing to do) You are crazy! I am a neurotic nut, but you are crazy!
-Who throws food!!! What a neanderthal!!!
Felix: ( Goes to the kitchen door and looks in at the mess. Turns back to Oscar.) I am not cleaning that up.
-I refuse to do what that pig wants me to do!
Felix: Did you hear what I said? I am not cleaning it up.
-Oh god...... I hope I can hold out....
Its your mess. ( looking into the kitchen again) Look at it. Hanging all over the walls.
- I think i'm gonna puke....
Felix: (Fumes) You’d just let it lie there, wouldn’t you? Until it turns hard and brown and …Yich, its disgusting. I am cleaning it up. ( he goes into the kitchen. Oscar chases after him. There is sound of a struggle and falling pots.)
-I can't take it anymore!!!
Felix:(Dashes out of the kitchen with Oscar in pursuit. He stops and tries to calm Oscar down) Oscar, I’d like you to take a couple of Phenobarbital.
-Maybe then he'd die....
Felix: All right, let’s everybody just settle down, heh? (he puts his hand on Oscar’s shoulder to calm him but Oscar pulls away violently from his touch)
-Alright alright let's talk like civilised men now shall we....
Felix: (sits at the table with a great pretense of calm) All right, Oscar ,I’d like to know what’s happened?
-Ok whats wrong says Felix the shrink
Felix: (hurriedly slides over to the next chair) That’s right. Something must have caused you to go off the deep end like this. What is it? Something I said? Something I did? Heh? What?
-My friend what have i done to offend you?
Felix: I see. Well, that’s plain enough.
-I'm hurt... Or am I....
Felix: What is it? The cooking ? The cleaning ? The crying?
- What is it that i've done to make you feel this way???
Felix: I get the picture.
-I get it....
-Ugh how much longer is this buffoon gonna keep treating me like this!?!
Felix: That’s right, I am talking to you.
- Is anyone else in the room???
Felix: I want to know if you are going to spend the rest of your life not talking to me.
-How long are you going to ignore me???
Because if you are, I am going to buy a radio. (no reply)
-Alright if this goes on then you cn forget about talking to me
Well? ( no reply) I see.
-So??? What're you gonna do???
You are not going to talk to me. (no reply) All right. Two can play at this game. (Pause)
-Ok then, see how you like it when I ignore you!
If you are not going to talk to me, I am not going to talk to you.(no reply) I can act childish too, you know. (no reply) I can go on without talking just as long as you can.
-See see I can do it too!!!
Felix: Are you talking to me?
I'm sorry.... But i'm ignoring you...
Felix: (stares at him) I stand warned. Over and out!
-Oooh so scary!!!!
Felix: I don’t think I gather the entire meaning of that remark.
- What're you trying to say?
Felix: (picks up the key and moves to the couch) I think you are serious. I think you are really serious. Are you serious?
-He's just acting.... Right???
Felix: Yeah, you are serious. Well, let me remind you that I pay half the rent and I’ll go into any room I want. (He gets up angrily and starts towards the hallway)
-Oh DAMN! Ok well I pay part of it too so you jolly well have to deal with me staying here!!!
Felix: I am going to walk around your bedroom.
I pay half the rent so I can do as much as you can
Felix: (Steaming) Don’t tell me where to go. I pay a hundred and twenty dollars a month.
-Who the HELL does HE think he is!!!
Felix: All right. ( He takes some bills out of his pocket and slams them down on the table ) There you are. I am paid up for today. Now I am going to walk in your bedroom. ( He starts to storm off)
-Think i'm poor!?! Trying to get rid of me huh???
Felix: (Blocking away, keeping the table between them) Watch yourself! Just watch yourself , Oscar!
-I swear to god you touch me and i'll scream!!!
Felix: HA! Ha, Ha!
- HAHAHAHAHA The stupidity!!!
Oscar: What the hell is so funny?
-How the hell he dare laugh and mock at me? And whats so hilarious?
Felix: Its not spaghetti. Its Linguini! ( Oscar picks up the plate of Linguini, crosses to the hallway and hurls it into the kitchen.
-Even a hobbo with a sandwich would know that!!!
Felix:(Looks at Oscar unbelievingly: what an insane thing to do) You are crazy! I am a neurotic nut, but you are crazy!
-Who throws food!!! What a neanderthal!!!
Felix: ( Goes to the kitchen door and looks in at the mess. Turns back to Oscar.) I am not cleaning that up.
-I refuse to do what that pig wants me to do!
Felix: Did you hear what I said? I am not cleaning it up.
-Oh god...... I hope I can hold out....
Its your mess. ( looking into the kitchen again) Look at it. Hanging all over the walls.
- I think i'm gonna puke....
Felix: (Fumes) You’d just let it lie there, wouldn’t you? Until it turns hard and brown and …Yich, its disgusting. I am cleaning it up. ( he goes into the kitchen. Oscar chases after him. There is sound of a struggle and falling pots.)
-I can't take it anymore!!!
Felix:(Dashes out of the kitchen with Oscar in pursuit. He stops and tries to calm Oscar down) Oscar, I’d like you to take a couple of Phenobarbital.
-Maybe then he'd die....
Felix: All right, let’s everybody just settle down, heh? (he puts his hand on Oscar’s shoulder to calm him but Oscar pulls away violently from his touch)
-Alright alright let's talk like civilised men now shall we....
Felix: (sits at the table with a great pretense of calm) All right, Oscar ,I’d like to know what’s happened?
-Ok whats wrong says Felix the shrink
Felix: (hurriedly slides over to the next chair) That’s right. Something must have caused you to go off the deep end like this. What is it? Something I said? Something I did? Heh? What?
-My friend what have i done to offend you?
Felix: I see. Well, that’s plain enough.
-I'm hurt... Or am I....
Felix: What is it? The cooking ? The cleaning ? The crying?
- What is it that i've done to make you feel this way???
Felix: I get the picture.
-I get it....
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Oscar's Subtext
Oscar’s subtext:
Oscar:(reading his newspaper) Are you talking to me?
-Finally he wants to talk to me. Let me disturb him for a while.
Oscar: What do you want to know?
-All right, I shall act stupid, and a suck-up.
Oscar: Then why the hell don’t you shut up?
-So irritating.You wanna buy what radio then buy lah, why ask me. So noisy!
Oscar: You had your chance to talk last night. I begged you to come upstairs with me. From now on I never want to hear a word from that shampooed head as long as you live. That’s a warning, felix.
-Funny ah..trying to play this trick on me.Fine! Trying to act smart right?! All right you better watch out.
Oscar: (gets up, takes a key out of his pocket and slams it on the table) There’s a key to the back door. If you stick to the hallway and your room, you wont get hurt. (he sits back down on the couch)
-All right I will tell you exactly what I want.
Oscar: Then I’ll explain it to you. Stay out of my way.
-Good that you understand! But I will elaborate more, Idiot!
Oscar: This is my apartment. Everything in my apartment is mine. The only thing here that’s yours is you. Just stay in your room and speak softly.
-What the hell you asked me that for. Just mind your F***** business. And who said you can touch those keys and sit on the couch!
Oscar: Where are you going?
-He thinks he pay half the rent, so he can do whatever he wants by going into my ROOM!? WTF!
Oscar: (slams down his newspaper) you stay out of there.
-How Dare HE!!!! Who the hell he thinks he is?!
Oscar: That was off-season. Starting tomorrow the rates are twelve dollars a day.
-You pay so what? Big deal?
Oscar: Stay out of there! Stay out of my room! ( He chases after him. Felix dodges around the table as Oscar blocks the hallway.)
-Hey! How can you! You pay half the rent too, but I got pay too! And that’s my room!!!
Oscar: (with a pointing finger) I am warning you. You want to live here, I don’t want to see you, I don’t want to hear you and I don’t want to smell your cooking. Now get this spaghetti off my poker table.
-I am the boss here. You listen to me! I don’t want to have anything to do with you as long as I am in this house!
Oscar: What the hell is so funny?
-How the hell he dare laugh and mock at me? And whats so hilarious?
Oscar: Now its garbage! ( he paces by the couch)
-Fine! Wanna laugh at me,I will play with you! Eat your stupid spaghetti in the garbage!
Oscar: I am crazy, heh? That’s really funny coming from a fruitcake like you.
-WOW! You can say that I am crazy. That’s so funny yeah?
Oscar: Is that a promise?
-Wow, little Felix trying not to do the house chore, which he ALWAYS love to do. How incredible!
Its your mess. ( looking into the kitchen again) Look at it. Hanging all over the walls.
Oscar: ( Crosses to the landing and looks in the kitchen door) I like it. (He closes the door and paces around)
-I don’t care. I know you wouldn’t dare leave them dare just like that either. I know you hate dirt! Stupid.
Oscar: Leave it alone! You touch one strand of that linguini-and I am gonna punch you right in your sinuses.
-How dare he! One moment didn’t want to clean that up and now he says he want to clean it up! I shall go against your will!
Oscar: (points) Go to your room! Did you hear what I said? Go to your room!
-What the hell you tell me that for????!!!!!!!!! Get lost!!!
Oscar: If you want to live through this night, you’d better tie me up and lock your doors and windows.
-trying to be the little angel now are you Felix? Great huh..?
Oscar: (moves toward him) What’s happened?
- Stop pretending to be so kind and angelic. Cut the act!
Oscar: (pacing) Its nothing you said. Its nothing you did. Its you!
-Wow.You don’t even know that you are the main cause of everything!
Oscar: I could make it plainer but I don’t want to hurt you.
-You know I am mean,I am just acting to be sarcastic and less mean.
Oscar: (moving towards him) I’ll tell you exactly what in your sleep, it’s the moose calls that open your ears at two o’clock in the morning. I cant take it anymore, Felix. I am crackin up. Everything you do irritates me. And when you’re not here, the things I know you’re gonna do when you come in irritate me. You leave me little notes on my pillow. I told you a hundred times, I cant stand little notes on my pillow. ‘We’re all out of Corn Flakes.F.U.’ It took me three hours to figure out that F.U was Felix Ungar. Its not your fault, Felix. It’s a rotten combination.
-All right! I will tell you all the things I hate about you!!! You sucker!!!! Its all about your terrible behavior and way of living. So annoying.
Oscar:(reading his newspaper) Are you talking to me?
-Finally he wants to talk to me. Let me disturb him for a while.
Oscar: What do you want to know?
-All right, I shall act stupid, and a suck-up.
Oscar: Then why the hell don’t you shut up?
-So irritating.You wanna buy what radio then buy lah, why ask me. So noisy!
Oscar: You had your chance to talk last night. I begged you to come upstairs with me. From now on I never want to hear a word from that shampooed head as long as you live. That’s a warning, felix.
-Funny ah..trying to play this trick on me.Fine! Trying to act smart right?! All right you better watch out.
Oscar: (gets up, takes a key out of his pocket and slams it on the table) There’s a key to the back door. If you stick to the hallway and your room, you wont get hurt. (he sits back down on the couch)
-All right I will tell you exactly what I want.
Oscar: Then I’ll explain it to you. Stay out of my way.
-Good that you understand! But I will elaborate more, Idiot!
Oscar: This is my apartment. Everything in my apartment is mine. The only thing here that’s yours is you. Just stay in your room and speak softly.
-What the hell you asked me that for. Just mind your F***** business. And who said you can touch those keys and sit on the couch!
Oscar: Where are you going?
-He thinks he pay half the rent, so he can do whatever he wants by going into my ROOM!? WTF!
Oscar: (slams down his newspaper) you stay out of there.
-How Dare HE!!!! Who the hell he thinks he is?!
Oscar: That was off-season. Starting tomorrow the rates are twelve dollars a day.
-You pay so what? Big deal?
Oscar: Stay out of there! Stay out of my room! ( He chases after him. Felix dodges around the table as Oscar blocks the hallway.)
-Hey! How can you! You pay half the rent too, but I got pay too! And that’s my room!!!
Oscar: (with a pointing finger) I am warning you. You want to live here, I don’t want to see you, I don’t want to hear you and I don’t want to smell your cooking. Now get this spaghetti off my poker table.
-I am the boss here. You listen to me! I don’t want to have anything to do with you as long as I am in this house!
Oscar: What the hell is so funny?
-How the hell he dare laugh and mock at me? And whats so hilarious?
Oscar: Now its garbage! ( he paces by the couch)
-Fine! Wanna laugh at me,I will play with you! Eat your stupid spaghetti in the garbage!
Oscar: I am crazy, heh? That’s really funny coming from a fruitcake like you.
-WOW! You can say that I am crazy. That’s so funny yeah?
Oscar: Is that a promise?
-Wow, little Felix trying not to do the house chore, which he ALWAYS love to do. How incredible!
Its your mess. ( looking into the kitchen again) Look at it. Hanging all over the walls.
Oscar: ( Crosses to the landing and looks in the kitchen door) I like it. (He closes the door and paces around)
-I don’t care. I know you wouldn’t dare leave them dare just like that either. I know you hate dirt! Stupid.
Oscar: Leave it alone! You touch one strand of that linguini-and I am gonna punch you right in your sinuses.
-How dare he! One moment didn’t want to clean that up and now he says he want to clean it up! I shall go against your will!
Oscar: (points) Go to your room! Did you hear what I said? Go to your room!
-What the hell you tell me that for????!!!!!!!!! Get lost!!!
Oscar: If you want to live through this night, you’d better tie me up and lock your doors and windows.
-trying to be the little angel now are you Felix? Great huh..?
Oscar: (moves toward him) What’s happened?
- Stop pretending to be so kind and angelic. Cut the act!
Oscar: (pacing) Its nothing you said. Its nothing you did. Its you!
-Wow.You don’t even know that you are the main cause of everything!
Oscar: I could make it plainer but I don’t want to hurt you.
-You know I am mean,I am just acting to be sarcastic and less mean.
Oscar: (moving towards him) I’ll tell you exactly what in your sleep, it’s the moose calls that open your ears at two o’clock in the morning. I cant take it anymore, Felix. I am crackin up. Everything you do irritates me. And when you’re not here, the things I know you’re gonna do when you come in irritate me. You leave me little notes on my pillow. I told you a hundred times, I cant stand little notes on my pillow. ‘We’re all out of Corn Flakes.F.U.’ It took me three hours to figure out that F.U was Felix Ungar. Its not your fault, Felix. It’s a rotten combination.
-All right! I will tell you all the things I hate about you!!! You sucker!!!! Its all about your terrible behavior and way of living. So annoying.
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