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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
0:30: Joe sees a beautiful hitchhiker. He pulls over, offers her a | |||
ride. She refuses, accuses him of wanting to take advantage of her. | |||
Joe drives back, watches. She refuses dozens of offers for rides. | |||
That night, she drives her Ferrari to an apartment building. | |||
5:00: Joe checks into the hotel opposite her building. With | |||
binoculars her watches her, nude, writing a summary of her day's | |||
offers on a computer. She noticed Joe, watching. Joe sees that all | |||
the windows of the hotel are occupied by people watching the | |||
'hitchhiker'. | |||
7:10: She blows up the hotel. Joe remembers events from his life: | |||
eating cookie dough his mother made; his cousin Jasper pushing him | |||
down the stairs on a bicycle, into the street, being struck by a car; | |||
that he was adopted. | |||
11:10: 'Notes on women in bed': 'Women with long, painted | |||
fingernails', 'Women with frizzy hair', 'Left-handed women', 'Women | |||
who love animals', 'Women who are screamers', 'Women who wear lots of | |||
perfume', 'Women with enormous breasts'. | |||
16:10: Joe tells about his father, who wrote books in France, won the | |||
last Nobel prize in literature. Ingmar Bergman filmed the festival | |||
given in his honor. Bergman later dressed as a female member of a | |||
1938 Berlin cabaret troupe, singing art songs. (Thunderstorm in the | |||
background) | |||
19:20: Joe is missing something in his life, can't feel fulfillment. | |||
20:20: He thinks of taking up sailing, then remembers Frederick and | |||
Josephine who did, became incapable of living on land, ended up in | |||
Willowfern. | |||
24:50: He thinks of singing madrigals, then remembers how that turned | |||
out for Spiderbaum. | |||
25:30: He thinks of taking up martial arts, learning to turn people's | |||
sarcasm and hostility back upon them. This turned out badly for | |||
Furstenmacher, who attacked everyone verbally. He retired to a stone | |||
compound in the forest, talks to no one, developed a split personality | |||
that argued with itself. | |||
28:50: Joe wonders why others at the office mistreat him, then other | |||
odd thoughts. | |||
31:10: Joe likes to imagine he's a driver at the Indianapolis 500. He | |||
wins in glory. | |||
37:50: Joe describes the rain, how it makes people feel. | |||
40:00: Joe tells of a man who, while watching the rain, has decided | |||
that his wife is a stranger to him, he has to leave. He packs books | |||
and clothes while his wife alternately pleads with him to stay and | |||
curses his misbehavior. He walks out in the rain. He realizes he's | |||
forgotten his medicine. He stays in a decrepit motel. The rain | |||
stops; his nausea comes on.<ref>re-used in [[The Box]]</ref> | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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* Joe watches an attractive fake hitchhiker. | * Joe watches an attractive fake hitchhiker. | ||
* Notes on women in bed. | * Notes on women in bed. | ||
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* Joe is a race car driver. | * Joe is a race car driver. | ||
* Monologue on rain - man knows he has to leave his wife before the rain ends. | * Monologue on rain - man knows he has to leave his wife before the rain ends. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{El Lamento de los Ayatollah (Roberto Musci - Giovanni Venosta)}} [Intro] | {{El Lamento de los Ayatollah (Roberto Musci - Giovanni Venosta)}} [Intro] | ||
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*The beginning of this show is the premise of Joe's Playboy Video [[The Hitchhiker_(Short_Film)|The Hitchhiker]] | *The beginning of this show is the premise of Joe's Playboy Video [[The Hitchhiker_(Short_Film)|The Hitchhiker]] | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||