http://www.eslmoviescenes.blogspot.com/ A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN. SCENES 1 AND 2 FILM
A little bit of Heaven
MOVIE SCENE
Fighting cancer ……. And love
SCENE LENGTH
SCENE 1: 00:05:20 SCENE 2: 00:04:19
ACTIVITIES
SCRIPT
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LANGUAGE
English
LEVEL
Upper-intermediate / Advanced.
SCRIPT SCENE 1 MARLEY: Where the hell am I. WHOOPI: Hello, Marley. MARLEY: Wait a minute, Oh, my God. I mean... Are you God? WHOOPI: Not really. This is just the way you wanted to see me. MARLEY:Well, I love Whoopi, so that's probably why. WHOOPI: Yeah, me too. Oh, have a seat. MARLEY: Wow! I can't believe this, WHOOPI: Guess what? You're dying. MARLEY: I am not dying. I'm just a little stressed, that's all. WHOOPI: Marley? You're dying, but I'm gonna give you three wishes. MARLEY: Then I want to fly. WHOOPI: Okay. Done. MARLEY: Wait a minute. This is for real? I want a million bucks. WHOOPI: Alright, but I just have to warn you that that million is only gonna be 500,000 after taxes. MARLEY: You just took away half just 'cause I didn't say 'tax free'? WHOPPI- Even I don't mess with the IRS. MARLEY: That sucks. WHOOPI : Third wish? MARLEY: Okay. Let me think, WHOOPI : Tic-toc, baby. MARLEY: Don't rush me. Jesus. WHOOPI: Hey, hey, MARLEY: Oh. WHOOPI: Wow. MARLEY: I'm sorry. WHOOPI: You said it, didn't you? MARLEY: Yeah, I did. WHOOPI: Wow. MARLEY: I don't know. I don't know what I want. WHOOPI: You know. You just don't want to admit it. But I'm pretty sure that if you give it some thought, you'll figure it out. Marley.
http://www.eslmoviescenes.blogspot.com/ ----- ( Cut to hospital. Marley is in bed) DOCTOR: Marley. Marley, wake up, It's over. WHOOPI: What's over? Where am I? Where's Whoopi? DOCTOR: The procedure went fine. We're going to move you to the recovery room now. I took some biopsies. We should get results in a few days. ------- ( cut to friends’s dinner) HUSBAND: I think it's delicious. PETER: I agree. HUSBAND: It's crunchy and chewy. Peter, I'd like to share mine with you. PETER: Here, Pop. I'll go. Hey, behave. HUSBAND: Geez, what the hell? MARLEY: Okay. Alright, alright. I forgot to cook the noodles first. ALL: Ohhh. PETER: There's noodles in this? HUSBAND: Do not feed this to Stanley. Take it. FRIEND: No. I got all this on my plate. MARLEY: I have cancer. I went to the doctor last week. Remember? I said I was fine and that I was just stressed, but I'm not. WIFE: What are you talking about? MARLEY: I have, um, colon cancer. FRIEND: How does one get that, you might ask. MARLEY: Because I did, And, um, he said... ( CUT TO HOSPITAL) DOCTOR: We don't know. MARLEY: Of course you don't. Everyone is dying of cancer these days. Why would you try to figure it out and put yourself out of a job? DOCTOR: Marley, I know this is rough, but we need to talk about what to do next. I'm going to consult with the head of the oncology department, Dr Sanders. MARLEY: Can, can, can you just take it out, so I can go on with my life? DOCTOR: No, unfortunately we can't. It's already spread throughout the entire colon, making surgery impossible at this point. MARLEY: And this other guy would have a better idea? DCOTOR: Dr Sanders? Yes. He's one of the best in the country for-- late stage cancers. Marley, at this point you only have two options. Either you start treatment immediately, or you'll die. MARLEY: Okay Dr G., I'm gonna give you a little free advice. Don't use the 'D' word. It's a bit of a downer. And if you're trying to sell me treatment, I would rethink the 'B' option, because dying isn't an option. Maybe try something like: 'Try our new and improved chemo, because the alternative will leave you breathless.' When your 2:30 walks in here and you have to tell him that he's dying, just try it with a little more feeling. ……… ( back to the dinner) Anyway-- who wants dessert? SCENE 2: MARLEY: ( cycling in front of a car) : Shut up! I hear you! Really? Asshole. ( she’s hit by the car and finds herself again up on the clouds, i.e heaven ) God! I'm scared. I'm scared to death. WHOOPI: Of what? MARLEY: Of dying. WHOOPI: Everybody dies. What are you really afraid of? MARLEY: I didn't have enough time to do all the things I wanted to do. WHOOPI: Like what? MARLEY: Buy a house! Have a baby. Find somebody who loves me. WHOOPI: You have that. Or, you had it. MARLEY: How do you know? He could just have said all that stuff because he felt sorry for me. WHOOPI: He doesn't strike me as someone who loved you out of pity. You should try again. MARLEY: I don't know what his issues are.
http://www.eslmoviescenes.blogspot.com/ WHOOPI: I don't care what his issues are. Do you love him? MARLEY: - Um... WHOOPI: Do you love him? Do you? MARLEY: I do, I do, I do. WHOOPI: Say it in a complete sentence. MARLEY: I love him. I love him. I-- love him. I really do. I really love him. WHOOPI: Maybe you should go back down and tell him. MARLEY: I can't go back down. I'm dead. WHOOPI: You're not dead. The car didn't actually hit you. Aside from a little headache, you should be fine. ( Back to the road on her bike, the car swerves and she falls down) MARLEY: Ah! Oop. Ohh! Ohh. ( cut to hospital. Marley accompanied by her mother) MOTHER: Oh look, he's right here. MARLEY: Mom? Hey, MOTHER: Right. Okay, I'll wait for you outside. MARLEY: Thank you. Hi. DOCTOR: Hi. What happened to you? MARLEY: A street hit me in the face. DOCTOR: - What? MARLEY: Can I talk to you? DOCTOR: Yeah. MARLEY: Okay. Come on. ( in the elevator. Nurses and doctors get in, but she goes ahead as if she didn’t care at all about the others listening) My whole life I've been so afraid of guys lying to me, not being there for me and ending up shafted like my mother. Somewhere along the line I decided to take charge of my life, and to never let anybody ever get close enough to hurt me. Ever. DOCTOR: Okay. Okay. MARLEY: And then you come along. With your nose in your books and your yo-yos and your spouting off ridiculous jokes like: "My Mom sat on my-- face." So you can see how I missed it. DOCTOR: What? What? You missed what? MARLEY: You're my third wish. I love you.
