Saturday, February 23, 2019

The July 1986 Script -- 7

Continued from -- The beginning of this series

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Page 38
Johnny wants Baby to fail to learn how to dance.

The music is a Latin number -- a ballad.

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Page 39

Johnny wants Baby to fail because he wants to humiliate her.

Baby is practicing alone on "the arcade" outside the hotel's dining room.

While Baby is practicing, Neil approaches her, carrying a plate full of food.

Baby enters the restaurant and sits down at the family's table.

Baby lies that she has been at the swimming pool. The original script included swimming-pool scenes.

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Page 40
Baby asks Neil to lie to her parents about her whereabouts.

Neil agrees to lie to her parents. He says that her parents will be happy that she is with him, because he is "the catch of the county".

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Page 41
The dance montage continues.

Johnny still wants Baby to fail as a dancer. However, Baby is a wonderfully natural dancer, with great will and determination. She learns to dance a mambo with the radiance of a truly gifted amateur.

A scene -- Scene 40 -- is omitted from the original script.

Then, there is Scene 41, where the family is in a room while it's raining.

Lisa finds that her lipstick is smeared on her merry-widow corset with a push-up bra.

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Page 42
Lisa has blamed the hotel maid for spoiling her lipstick and corset. Baby counters Lisa's accusation against the maid. Lisa insinuates that Baby is defending the maid only because the maid is an ethnic minority (i.e. Negro).

Marjorie wants Baby and Lisa to be friends. Marjorie always had wanted to have a sister to be her friend.

Baby leaves the room, saying she intends to play charades in the hotel lobby. (In the final movie, Baby goes to Johnny's cabin, but in this script she still has not become sexual with Johnny.)

Lisa declares that she does not believe that Baby is going to play charades in the lobby. Their father defends Baby, saying that Baby does not lie.

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A merry-widow corset with a push-up bra

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