英语话剧剧本：火柴男人改编

Matchstick Men
华纳兄弟公司(Warner Brothers, USA)2003年发行
主演：
尼古拉斯-凯奇(Nicolas cage)
萨姆-罗克韦尔(Sam Rockwell)
艾莉森-洛曼(Alison Lohman)
布鲁斯-亚特曼(Bruce Altman)
导演：雷德利-斯科特(Ridley Scott)
类型：剧情片
罗伊(Roy，尼古拉斯-凯奇扮演，Nicolas cage)与弗兰克(Frank，萨姆-罗克韦尔扮演，Sam Rockwell)是两个下三流的骗子。

结局出人意料，最后证明女孩、Frank、心理医生都是骗子，因Frank赃款分配不公女孩退出而洗手，Roy娶了那个超市售货员，Roy在卖地毯的公司上班时碰到了和男朋友一起来买地毯的女孩，Roy原谅了她。

火柴男人改编的英语话剧剧本

INT. ROY’S CAPRICE – DAY 102
Cruising down the freeway. Angela brings a notebook out
of her backpack full of laundry.
ANGELA
Where we going?
ROY
Rule number one. Never work near
where you live.
ANGELA
(writing)
‘Don’t… shit… where… you…’
ROY
(grabs, throws
notebook)
Rule number two. Don’t write
anything down.

62.

103 EXT. 7-ELEVEN – DAY 103
Roy exits the Caprice, enters the 7-Eleven. Angela
follows.
ROY
Stay in the car.
(as she still follows)
Stay in the car.
She still follows. Roy gives up.

104 INT. 7-ELEVEN – DAY 104
Roy marks a lottery ticket as Angela watches: four of
the five numbers — 6, 18, 22, 49, 60 — which (a
prominent sign displays) won the day before. To the
CASHIER:
ROY
I want to play this for the
drawing on the twenty-second.
CASHIER
You know the odds of the lottery
hitting the same numbers in the
same month, the same numbers ever?
ROY
That’s why I changed one.
CASHIER
You’re wasting your dollar.
ANGELA
You his financial advisor?

CASHIER
No.
ANGELA
No. You’re a cashier at a 7-Eleven.
Take his dollar and give him a
ticket for the twenty-second.
The Cashier hops to it. Roy considers Angela, amused.
ROY
You sure you’re ready for this?
 
; ANGELA
I was born ready.
ROY
I’m glad I missed that day.

63.

105 INT. ROY’S CAPRICE 105
Roy crumples up his lottery ticket, rolls it in his hand,
scratches hard at it with his fingernail. Angela,
sipping on a Big Gulp, takes it from him.
ANGELA
I’ve got longer nails.
Roy watches her scratch away with all her might.
ROY
Just the… right.
(beat)
Okay. Most important thing you
have to understand about this game
is: ninety percent of it is
variable. No matter how good your
plan is, you almost always get
thrown a curveball. So you have
to be flexible, prepared to roll
with anything. The one thing you
can control, though, is who your
mark is. That’s your ten percent.

106 EXT. LAUNDROMAT – DAY 106
Angela enters, backpack on her arm. She cases the joint.
A single man, black, sits reading Tolstoy.
ROY (V.O.)
Never play someone who’s not
buying what you’re selling. What
you’re selling is you.
An elderly couple separates whites and colors.

ROY (V.O.)
The older the better, but beware
of couples. You don’t want anyone
whispering in your mark’s ear but
you.
A boy in his teens returns her interest.
ROY (V.O.)
And, for God’s sake, make sure the
person you’re conning isn’t
conning you.
Angela gives him a get-lost look, then turns to a middle-
aged HOUSEWIFE loading three machines. Angela
approaches.
(CONTINUED)

64.

106 CONTINUED: 106
ANGELA
(re: washer beside her)
That taken?
HOUSEWIFE
No.
&nbs
p; ANGELA
Sure you don’t need it? You’ve
got a lot.
HOUSEWIFE
This is nothing. You oughta catch
me during Little League season.
Three boys.
ANGELA
Any of ‘em cute?
The Housewife smiles, and Angela smiles back: she has
her mark. She sets her bag down, stealthily planting the
lottery ticket beneath it.

107 SAME SCENE – LATER 107
Angela and the Housewife transfer their laundry to
dryers.
HOUSEWIFE
Simon’s about your age, but you’d
never guess; he’s so hyper. You
know, girls really do mature much
faster than boys.

ANGELA
That’s what I keep telling my
brothers.
HOUSEWIFE
They don’t go to Fremont, do they?
ANGELA
Central.
Her dryer full, Angela picks up her backpack to go.
ANGELA
I’m gonna get a Coke across the
street. Do you want anything?
(CONTINUED)

65.

107 CONTINUED: 107
HOUSEWIFE
No thanks, honey.
Angela starts off, and the Housewife notices the lottery
ticket left behind.
HOUSEWIFE
Honey, you dropped something.
She holds it for her to see.
ANGELA
It’s not mine.

HOUSEWIFE
You sure?
ANGELA
Gotta be eighteen to play.
HOUSEWIFE
Huh. Looks like someone put it
through the wash by accident.
It’s for yest
erday’s drawing.
That says the second, don’t you
think?
Angela inspects it, too: thanks to her and Roy’s
handiwork, the date looks like the second, not the
twenty-second.
ANGELA
Probably a loser.
The Housewife nods, and Angela continues on her way. But
on second thought:
HOUSEWIFE
We should at least see if it hit.

ACROSS LAUNDRY
A man reads a newspaper. The Housewife approaches with
Angela.
HOUSEWIFE
Excuse me, sir? Could we borrow
your paper a sec? We’re looking
for lottery results.
The newspaper drops. The man is Roy.
(CONTINUED)

66.

107 CONTINUED: (2) 107
ROY
Sure. I think it’s Metro…
Roy hands her the section. The Housewife opens it,
passes Angela the ticket. Roy rises to feed a dryer
(whose clothes are inside is anybody’s guess).
HOUSEWIFE
Ready? Six, eighteen, thirty,
forty-nine, sixty.
ANGELA
Wait, wait. Six, eighteen, what?

HOUSEWIFE
Thirty, forty-nine, sixty.
ANGELA
Thirty? You’re sure?
(as Housewife nods)
Missed by one.
HOUSEWIFE
You’re joking.
ANGELA
Look!
HOUSEWIFE
You mean we missed by one
number — ?
She looks — it’s true! They laugh, a little breathless,
a little crestfallen. Then, it’s back to the wash.

HOUSEWIFE
Story of my life.
ANGELA
Mine, too.
ROY
&n
bsp; (as he returns)
Any luck?
ANGELA
Four out of five, can you believe
it?
ROY
Four out of five pays, you know.
(CONTINUED)

67.

107 CONTINUED: (3) 107
Angela and the Housewife share a look, astonished.
HOUSEWIFE
It does?
ROY
Call the number on the ticket.

108 EXT. LAUNDROMAT – DAY 108
The Housewife’s on a pay phone. Angela hovers nearby.
HOUSEWIFE
(into phone)
Uh-huh, uh-huh. Thank you very
much.
She hangs up.
ANGELA
What’d they say?
HOUSEWIFE
(face erupting)
We won six hundred dollars!
ANGELA
Holy –
She cups her mouth: oops.
HOUSEWIFE
– shit! Six hundred dollars!

ANGELA
Holy shit!
Roy watches from inside as they laugh and hug.
HOUSEWIFE
The woman on the phone said we
just have to take it in for
verification. And then they’ll
mail me a check.
(quickly)
I’ll give you half, sweetie, don’t
worry.
ANGELA
You don’t have to…
(CONTINUED)

&nb
sp; 68.

108 CONTINUED: 108
HOUSEWIFE
No, no, we’re fifty-fifty in this.
In fact, we should call your mom
and we can all go down there
together.
Angela pulls back.
ANGELA
She works. Pretty late.
HOUSEWIFE
How ’bout your dad?

ANGELA
(ashamed)
He — he doesn’t live with us
anymore. You know, it’s okay.
I’m supposed to be home anyway.
HOUSEWIFE
No, no, no. We’re in this fifty-
fifty.
The Housewife stops to think — what to do? Then she
turns to see a bank ATM across the street.

109 EXT. BANK ATM – SECURITY CAMERA POV 109
The Housewife uses the ATM; Angela’s feet are barely IN
FRAME behind her. Angela very consciously keeps OUT OF
the CAMERA’S RANGE.

110 EXT. ACROSS STREET 110
Roy watches from inside his Caprice.
ROY
Good girl, watch the cameras.

111 AT ATM 111
The Housewife hands Angela three crisp $100s.
HOUSEWIFE
That’s three hundred. Don’t spend
it all at the coin-op. And hide
it when you get home. Don’t let
those brothers of yours anywhere
near it.
(CONTINUED)

69.
MATCHSTICK MEN – Rev. 7/17/02
111 CONTINUED: 111
ANGELA
(touched)
Thank you.
HOUSEWIFE
&nb
sp; Thank you, sweetie.
They hug again.

112 EXT. LAUNDROMAT 112
Angela exits with her backpack full of laundry, waves
goodbye once more to the Housewife, then rounds a corner
to find Roy waiting for her, out of sight.
ANGELA
Did I do good?
ROY
You did very good.
She leaps in the air.
ANGELA
Mom was wrong: I didn’t just get
your elbows.
ROY
One last thing…
ANGELA
Uh-huh?
ROY
Go give her her money back.
ANGELA
What?!
ROY
I told you I’d teach you a con, I
didn’t say I’d let you get away
with it.
ANGELA
C’mon! You’re joking.
ROY
(shakes his head)
Now.
(CONTINUED)

70.
MATCHSTICK MEN – Rev. 7/17/02
112 CONTINUED: 112
ANGELA
(can’t believe it)
This is so…
Roy points: go. Petulantly, Angela stalks back inside.
Roy watches through a glass wall as she hands the money
back to the Housewife, utterly befuddled.

113 INT. CAPRICE – DAY 113
Driving Angela home.
ROY
I have one question for you. And
I want you to think before
answering.
(as she nods okay)
Did you feel better when you took
her money, or when you gave it
&
nbsp; back?
(before she answers)
Think first.
Angela thinks.
ANGELA
I thought we were partners.
ROY
I’m not your partner. I’m your
father.
Angela puts her feet up on the dash. Roy doesn’t mind.

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