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"Venus in fur"

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"Venus in fur" auditions here

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no, she doesn't exist

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I mean, a sexy young woman

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with classical training

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and a scrap of brain in her skull

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who can say “inextricable” without a coach

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listen...

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Honey, in vanda's day, at her age,

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she'd be married with
5 kids and tuberculosis

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she'd be a woman

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these days, they sound like
ten-year olds on helium:

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It was like, totally like wild

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like totally awesome

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I've seen 35 idiot actresses

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half dressed like hookers, half like dykes

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I'd make a better vanda

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just put me in a dress and a pair of heels

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honey?

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Damn it

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knock-knock!

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Am I too late?

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Shit, I'm too late

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fuck!

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For "Venus in fur", everyone's left

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I'm so sorry, I was way across town

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my phone died

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I broke a heel in a sewer cover

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see what I mean?

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Then this guy on the train

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rubs up against my ass

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then it starts to pour

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fuck! Just my luck

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shit, shit, fuck!

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Maybe I can rustle up some valium...

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Nah, just my usual luck

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thank you, god, for all the help

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by the way, I'm vanda jourdain

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vanda?

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See what I mean? I've even got her name

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you know many vandas?

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I'm made for the part,
the train breaks down

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some guy tries to fuck me

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- and you are? - Thomas novachek

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hi

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Hey, wait a minute!

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You wrote this

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yes, I did. Well, I adapted it

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and you're directing?

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Within an inch of its life

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I love your plays!

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The ones I know, "anatomy of shadows"

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amazing, I saw it twice

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that's not mine

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my bad

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I mean the other one

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this is awkward

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anyway, this one's
awesome. The parts I read

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pretty wild stuff. Really sexy

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or, like, erotic if
humiliation's your thing

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I'm not usually in leather and a dog collar

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I'm really demure and shit

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just thought I'd get into the part

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it's sandm?

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The play?

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Not exactly, and it's set in 1870

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oh, right

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I guess this isn't too 1870

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not really

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maybe back then

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sandm-ers dressed like this

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my headshot and resume

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great, thanks

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where is that...

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It's kinda skimpy

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but I'm good. I'm made for this part

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they said I was amazing as hedda gabler

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"the u rinal theatre"?

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I somehow missed their season

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you had an appointment?

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Yeah, two-fifteen

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hours ago, right?

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Vanda...?

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Jourdain

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people always ask "is it a stage name?"

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I don't see your name

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really?

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My agent said it was set up

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I'm not on it? Two-fifteen?

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Shit

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thanks again, god

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but now I'm here...

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Wait! What are you doing?

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I got a costume!

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I found this great dress...

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Really, don't bother

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what? You mean don't read?

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I mean don't read

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I'm here so let's give it a go

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there's no one to read with you

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you can read with me

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it'd be an honor to read with the author

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adapter

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it'd be cool, straight
from the horse's mouth

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to tell you the truth, miss...

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Vanda

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we're looking for somebody... different

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what're you looking for?

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Someone... how can I put it?

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| get it

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save your breath. Someone who's not me

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I'm too short, too tall, too old, too young

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my resume is crap

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ok, I get the message

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Wait...

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This sucks

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it's ok

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this really sucks

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what a shitty day

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we'll schedule more auditions soon

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but I'm here now, save me another trip

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look, vanda

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I've had a bad day too

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I saw a bunch of freaks. One with braces!

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You don't want to audition now

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I need to relax

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my dinner's waiting

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I understand. Dinner

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it'll be better when I'm fresh

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thanks for coming

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love the outfit, very striking

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I'll see you soon

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I doubt it but thanks anyhow

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you seem nice

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it's just this goddam business

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plus 30 Euros for the fucking dress

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it's real 18-whatever, huh?

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Very 18-whatever...

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It's her, right? Total vanda

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she'd have a long dress.
They hated their butts back then

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that's a misconception...

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Let me show you how I look in it

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pretty please

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- yes! - Thank you

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not you. Someone just walked in

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I'll pick up some Sushi on my way

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can you do me up, please?

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Reading with Thomas novachek!

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You're not doing yourself any favors

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I'm not an actor

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you're perfect, the ideal Kowalski

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kushemski!

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You're kushemski

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not exactly

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at your service, sir

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where do we start? You choose

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let's try the first scene

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you have your sides?

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They got messed up

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who gave you the whole script?

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Idunno

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my agent sent it

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how did he get hold of it?

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What's the problem?

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It's top secret or something?

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Doesn't matter

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have you read it?

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I flipped through it on the train

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it's like based on something

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the Lou Reed song?

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It's based on an Austrian
novel, "Venus in fur"

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by Leopold Von sacher-masoch

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I bet

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you read it in actual Austrian!

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We”, more or less

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the book was a huge scandal in 1870

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I bet it was, it's sandm porn

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it's not sandm porn

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it's not porn?

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Or porn-ish?

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For medieval times, like, 18-whatever?

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"Venus in fur" is a great love story

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it's a central text of world literature

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yeah?

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Looks like porn to me

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I know my sadomasochism

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I'm in the theatre

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masochism comes from
sacher-masoch because of this book

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masochism, masoch, I shoulda seen that

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so sandm is named after the guy?

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That wasn't his goal

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sure, he called it serious,
people called it porn

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and you milked the book?

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I adapted the book

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made up the lines, the scenes

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there's a lot of me in it

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fantastic

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so where are we, like?

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"Like" at an inn

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somewhere on the edge
of the austro-Hungarian empire

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the austro-Hungarian empire... remind me

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it's complicated

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so it's a fancy inn, huh?

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Yes, a health spa for the wealthy

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very luxurious

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at curtain-up, kushemski
is reading in his room

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with his morning coffee

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and knock-knock, vanda enters

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and that's "symbolic" for his character?

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He's reading

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people still read books

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books made of actual paper

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ouch, you got me

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so this guy... what's his name?
Sevran, savrine...

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Severin Von kushemski

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right!

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What is he, what's he into?

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Throw me some adjectives

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a rich idler of his times

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intelligent, well-traveled, cultivated

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a nerd

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if you will

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"if you will." I love it!

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When did I last hear that?

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Distinguished, like you

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want to know about her?

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I know her inside out but...

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Sure, if you want

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I'd say

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she's a young woman of her time

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despite her professed principles

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despite what?

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Her professed principles

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at first sight, she's very proper,
poised and cultivated

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no kidding, nothing else?

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Anything I don't know?

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Like...

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That's cool, I'll manage

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mind if I change the lights?

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The lights?

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Kinda glary, right?

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Oh please, make yourself at home!

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How's that?

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Notbad

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hold on...

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I wouldn't know which button to push

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much, much better

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I guess this is the divan

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yes, that's the divan

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a desk

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the book she brings back

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the postcard, great

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And what's this?

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A phallic symbol?

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It's from the last show here

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a Belgian production

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"stagecoach" as a musical

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where do I stand?

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Wherever's comfortable

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Not so center

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stage left or stage right?

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Left

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do you want to read the scene over?

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Nah, let's wing it

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how far?

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To the end of page 3

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and then you kick me out?

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Let's try that

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in other words, yes

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I nearly forgot...

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These words on page zero...

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This quote, like

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the epigraph?

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Yeah

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"and the lord hath smitten him
and delivered him into a woman's hands"

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it's quoted in the novel

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from the book of Judith

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that's the Bible?

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The apocrypha, yes

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I'm pretty dumb

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it's pretty sexist, huh?

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"And the lord hath smitten him
and delivered him into a woman's hands"

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I'm only quoting sacher-masoch's novel

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yeah, but you put it on page zero

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00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:52,350
never mind, none of my business,
I'm just an actress

286
00:14:53,768 --> 00:14:55,311
I forgot the fur

287
00:14:55,645 --> 00:14:58,356
- she wears a stole? - That's right

288
00:15:06,489 --> 00:15:08,741
Fur... fur...

289
00:15:09,325 --> 00:15:10,868
Soft fur...

290
00:15:11,786 --> 00:15:13,663
Ok, that's good

291
00:15:16,207 --> 00:15:17,333
maybe it's not...

292
00:15:34,308 --> 00:15:35,560
Ready when you are

293
00:15:51,409 --> 00:15:52,410
Knock-knock!

294
00:15:52,702 --> 00:15:53,702
Come in

295
00:15:57,999 --> 00:16:00,710
herr doktor severin Von kushemski?

296
00:16:03,713 --> 00:16:05,882
I'm sorry to disturb you

297
00:16:06,424 --> 00:16:08,426
I'm vanda Von dunayev

298
00:16:09,051 --> 00:16:11,179
I'm staying in the room above yours

299
00:16:12,513 --> 00:16:14,515
I found this book last night

300
00:16:14,724 --> 00:16:16,225
a copy of "faust"

301
00:16:16,893 --> 00:16:18,936
with your bookplate inside

302
00:16:19,687 --> 00:16:23,024
it was in the birch grove
by the statue of Venus

303
00:16:28,112 --> 00:16:29,655
Thank you so much

304
00:16:30,198 --> 00:16:33,117
I had just asked the maid about it

305
00:16:33,618 --> 00:16:35,495
I would have sent it but I found

306
00:16:35,620 --> 00:16:38,539
this provocative postcard inside

307
00:16:39,499 --> 00:16:41,667
a titian, isn't it?

308
00:16:41,792 --> 00:16:42,792
Yes

309
00:16:43,419 --> 00:16:46,088
"Venus with mirror", a favorite of mine

310
00:16:46,214 --> 00:16:48,591
your Venus seems as well-thumbed

311
00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:50,593
as your book

312
00:16:51,886 --> 00:16:53,095
is she faithful?

313
00:16:54,263 --> 00:16:55,556
I'm sorry?

314
00:16:55,681 --> 00:16:56,933
To the original

315
00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,895
yes, it's a faithful copy of the painting

316
00:17:01,103 --> 00:17:05,066
I understand your fascination,
the picture's ravishing

317
00:17:05,942 --> 00:17:08,819
thank you for returning it

318
00:17:09,237 --> 00:17:12,740
I couldn't help noticing
the odd poem on the back

319
00:17:13,533 --> 00:17:16,410
"to Venus in fur." Did you write this?

320
00:17:16,536 --> 00:17:18,579
It's just a bit of doggerel...

321
00:17:18,704 --> 00:17:20,665
Doggerel, really?

322
00:17:23,251 --> 00:17:26,879
"To love and be loved

323
00:17:27,588 --> 00:17:30,299
"ah, what bliss

324
00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:32,843
"yet there exists a greater joy

325
00:17:33,469 --> 00:17:35,096
"the torment of that woman's kiss

326
00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:36,806
"who makes of me her slave

327
00:17:36,931 --> 00:17:38,641
"her cur, her toy

328
00:17:38,766 --> 00:17:40,893
"I speak of her

329
00:17:41,143 --> 00:17:43,563
"my goddess, my dictator

330
00:17:43,980 --> 00:17:45,731
"my Venus in fur"

331
00:17:48,234 --> 00:17:50,194
interesting sentiments

332
00:17:50,861 --> 00:17:52,363
if I were you

333
00:17:52,488 --> 00:17:54,615
I'd guard this bookmark well

334
00:17:55,825 --> 00:17:58,286
I appreciate your discretion

335
00:18:03,708 --> 00:18:06,419
Would you like to sit down, frau dunayev?

336
00:18:06,544 --> 00:18:07,544
Thank you

337
00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:10,590
may I take your fur?

338
00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,508
That's very kind

339
00:18:17,513 --> 00:18:19,473
It's tartar, isn't it?

340
00:18:19,599 --> 00:18:23,185
Caucasian sable, probably from Kazakhstan

341
00:18:23,311 --> 00:18:26,689
Caucasian sable from Kazakhstan, precisely

342
00:18:27,898 --> 00:18:30,651
kushemski stares at the fur in his hands

343
00:18:33,654 --> 00:18:36,449
you're trembling, herr kushemski!

344
00:18:37,867 --> 00:18:40,119
Yes, please forgive me

345
00:18:41,454 --> 00:18:43,205
may I ring for something?

346
00:18:43,331 --> 00:18:46,125
A coffee would be lovely

347
00:18:46,459 --> 00:18:48,002
have some of mine

348
00:18:48,127 --> 00:18:49,295
how kind of you

349
00:18:49,962 --> 00:18:51,631
two sugars, please

350
00:18:51,756 --> 00:18:53,674
he pours her coffee...

351
00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:11,150
I hope I don't disturb you,
trodding in my heels up there

352
00:19:11,442 --> 00:19:12,777
not at all

353
00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:16,113
trod in your heels to your heart's content

354
00:19:16,906 --> 00:19:19,116
so you're a poet, herr kushemski

355
00:19:19,575 --> 00:19:20,993
just an amateur

356
00:19:21,369 --> 00:19:23,746
and a trained lover of fur

357
00:19:24,747 --> 00:19:26,540
the love of fur is...

358
00:19:27,083 --> 00:19:28,292
I'll skip that line

359
00:19:28,417 --> 00:19:30,503
no, read it!

360
00:19:31,462 --> 00:19:33,756
The love of fur is innate

361
00:19:34,131 --> 00:19:36,092
it's a passion that nature gives us all

362
00:19:36,217 --> 00:19:38,386
come on, get into it!

363
00:19:41,222 --> 00:19:44,058
The love of fur is innate

364
00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:46,811
it's a passion that nature gives us all

365
00:19:47,103 --> 00:19:50,189
to caress a thick, soft fur

366
00:19:50,356 --> 00:19:53,442
that peculiar tingle, that electricity

367
00:19:53,734 --> 00:19:58,280
I suspect there's more here
than a gift of nature

368
00:19:58,781 --> 00:20:02,993
perhaps your mother swaddled
you in sable as a baby?

369
00:20:03,411 --> 00:20:04,829
I'm sorry, I'm prying

370
00:20:05,162 --> 00:20:06,831
please forgive me

371
00:20:08,332 --> 00:20:09,417
actually...

372
00:20:10,459 --> 00:20:14,171
I had an aunt who was passionate about fur

373
00:20:14,296 --> 00:20:16,424
that explains everything

374
00:20:16,966 --> 00:20:19,635
we're all easily explicable

375
00:20:19,844 --> 00:20:20,928
yet remain inextricable

376
00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:23,180
"inextricable"?

377
00:20:23,764 --> 00:20:24,765
What do you mean?

378
00:20:24,890 --> 00:20:26,851
Life makes us what we are

379
00:20:26,976 --> 00:20:28,352
end of page 3!

380
00:20:34,942 --> 00:20:36,944
So it is

381
00:20:38,612 --> 00:20:40,781
that was good, vanda

382
00:20:40,906 --> 00:20:42,950
I was just stumbling around

383
00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:45,119
you didn't seem to be

384
00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:49,582
that's good actin' for ya!
I tell you, I'm a pro

385
00:20:49,707 --> 00:20:52,084
it was very good

386
00:20:52,209 --> 00:20:53,294
I'm blushing

387
00:20:53,461 --> 00:20:54,461
it wasn't perfect

388
00:20:54,503 --> 00:20:55,629
no. Sure

389
00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:58,549
let's read on a little

390
00:20:59,008 --> 00:21:02,219
then kushemski has his big speech

391
00:21:02,344 --> 00:21:03,971
and we can skip to...

392
00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:07,224
No, read it! It'll feed my character

393
00:21:07,349 --> 00:21:10,102
- you're good, Thomas - I'm faking it

394
00:21:10,227 --> 00:21:12,480
no, you're really good

395
00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:14,315
who's your kushemski?

396
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,317
I have a few possibilities

397
00:21:16,442 --> 00:21:17,818
you should play him

398
00:21:18,778 --> 00:21:21,197
I mean it, you'd be terrific

399
00:21:21,322 --> 00:21:22,531
it's hard

400
00:21:22,656 --> 00:21:24,283
and I put actors through this!

401
00:21:24,408 --> 00:21:27,912
You're the director,
it's your job to torture actors

402
00:21:28,037 --> 00:21:29,455
first-time director

403
00:21:29,580 --> 00:21:31,165
you'd never know

404
00:21:31,290 --> 00:21:33,667
directors never understand my work

405
00:21:33,793 --> 00:21:35,294
never get it right...

406
00:21:35,419 --> 00:21:36,670
That's why you're perfect

407
00:21:36,796 --> 00:21:39,423
you can make it right

408
00:21:39,799 --> 00:21:41,550
I have it all in my head

409
00:21:41,967 --> 00:21:44,970
I'll use alban berg's
"lyric suite" for transitions

410
00:21:45,095 --> 00:21:46,138
great idea!

411
00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:47,306
You know it?

412
00:21:47,431 --> 00:21:49,475
No! But you see?

413
00:21:49,683 --> 00:21:52,311
You know it inside out, characters and all

414
00:21:52,645 --> 00:21:54,939
for kushemski, off the top of my head

415
00:21:55,064 --> 00:21:56,106
try something...

416
00:21:56,232 --> 00:21:58,359
An accent or something

417
00:21:58,484 --> 00:21:59,777
he's upper-class

418
00:21:59,902 --> 00:22:00,902
upper-class, exactly

419
00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:03,948
with a hint of something aristocratic

420
00:22:04,073 --> 00:22:08,077
is this upper-class enough?

421
00:22:08,452 --> 00:22:09,495
Or is it idiotic?

422
00:22:09,620 --> 00:22:12,581
It is, but it's great

423
00:22:12,706 --> 00:22:15,668
you didn't bring a smoking jacket, did you?

424
00:22:15,793 --> 00:22:16,961
I did

425
00:22:18,629 --> 00:22:20,005
I was kidding

426
00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:21,298
wanna try it on?

427
00:22:22,299 --> 00:22:24,927
It'll help you. I bet it fits

428
00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,139
it's beautiful

429
00:22:30,099 --> 00:22:30,891
is it real?

430
00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:32,601
They said it's vintage

431
00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:35,729
"siegfried Mueller,

432
00:22:35,855 --> 00:22:37,064
"Vienna,

433
00:22:38,232 --> 00:22:40,901
"1869..."

434
00:22:42,653 --> 00:22:44,488
I didn't notice

435
00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:46,490
40 Euros, not bad, huh?

436
00:23:04,133 --> 00:23:07,803
Looks like it was made for you!
How's it feel?

437
00:23:07,970 --> 00:23:09,096
It feels good

438
00:23:09,722 --> 00:23:11,181
a perfect fit

439
00:23:12,016 --> 00:23:14,852
sure looks good on you

440
00:23:19,982 --> 00:23:21,483
Hello, gorgeous!

441
00:23:21,901 --> 00:23:24,111
How much was the dog collar?

442
00:23:24,236 --> 00:23:26,739
It's from when I was a hooker

443
00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:31,201
just kidding!

444
00:23:31,327 --> 00:23:33,287
Let me give you a run-up

445
00:23:38,751 --> 00:23:43,088
Perhaps your mother
swaddled you in sable as a baby?

446
00:23:43,339 --> 00:23:46,425
I'm prying, please forgive me

447
00:23:46,634 --> 00:23:50,346
actually, one of my aunts
had a passion for fur...

448
00:23:50,512 --> 00:23:51,680
This is hard for him

449
00:23:52,014 --> 00:23:52,848
obviously

450
00:23:52,973 --> 00:23:54,975
so go for it!

451
00:23:56,644 --> 00:23:59,939
I'm prying, please forgive me

452
00:24:02,483 --> 00:24:03,483
actually

453
00:24:04,068 --> 00:24:07,863
one of my aunts had a passion for fur

454
00:24:07,988 --> 00:24:10,491
that explains everything

455
00:24:11,241 --> 00:24:13,619
we're all easily explicable yet...

456
00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:15,537
We remain inextricable

457
00:24:15,663 --> 00:24:17,373
"inextricable"?

458
00:24:17,748 --> 00:24:18,832
What do you mean?

459
00:24:19,041 --> 00:24:21,710
Life makes us what we are

460
00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:23,963
in an unforeseen instant

461
00:24:25,965 --> 00:24:27,383
how's the coffee?

462
00:24:27,508 --> 00:24:30,260
I've hardly tasted it
but it's excellent so far

463
00:24:31,261 --> 00:24:34,264
that's symbolic, right? He's the coffee

464
00:24:34,390 --> 00:24:37,434
one sip and she's already hooked

465
00:24:37,726 --> 00:24:39,937
damn, you saw right through me

466
00:24:42,690 --> 00:24:46,110
have you had an
"unforeseen instant, herr kushemski?"

467
00:24:46,235 --> 00:24:47,736
Actually, I have

468
00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:50,114
but I don't wish to bore you

469
00:24:50,447 --> 00:24:52,366
far from it, I'm enthralled

470
00:24:52,658 --> 00:24:54,785
it's like an English mystery novel

471
00:24:55,577 --> 00:24:58,914
I await the mysterious
aunt who was fond of fur

472
00:25:00,374 --> 00:25:02,042
we can skip the next speech

473
00:25:02,167 --> 00:25:03,836
no, read it, I want to hear

474
00:25:04,420 --> 00:25:07,589
I await the mysterious
aunt who was fond of fur

475
00:25:08,424 --> 00:25:11,010
I was an impossible child

476
00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:13,721
spoiled and cruel

477
00:25:13,846 --> 00:25:15,347
tormenting the servants

478
00:25:15,472 --> 00:25:16,682
and our cat

479
00:25:17,307 --> 00:25:20,978
I was also very rude to an aunt of mine

480
00:25:21,562 --> 00:25:23,897
the countess was a regal woman

481
00:25:24,023 --> 00:25:25,691
voluptuous and

482
00:25:25,816 --> 00:25:27,234
terrifying

483
00:25:27,651 --> 00:25:28,651
what's wrong?

484
00:25:28,944 --> 00:25:29,944
Nothing

485
00:25:29,987 --> 00:25:32,740
feels strange,
hearing out loud words I wrote

486
00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:34,992
on a screen at 2 am

487
00:25:35,117 --> 00:25:37,411
but you're doing fine

488
00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:39,371
what did your aunt do?

489
00:25:40,622 --> 00:25:42,624
One night, she took her revenge

490
00:25:45,335 --> 00:25:47,588
she came into my room

491
00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:53,177
wearing a long cape
of Russian black fox fur

492
00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:55,971
in her hand, she carried a birch cane

493
00:25:56,096 --> 00:25:57,723
freshly cut

494
00:25:57,848 --> 00:26:02,394
she was followed by the cook and the maid

495
00:26:03,479 --> 00:26:07,024
she threw off her fur
and rolled up her sleeves

496
00:26:08,192 --> 00:26:10,069
I tried to escape

497
00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:12,696
but the other two women grabbed me

498
00:26:13,072 --> 00:26:17,284
pulled down my pants
and flung me onto the fur

499
00:26:19,036 --> 00:26:22,081
they held me down
while my aunt laid into me

500
00:26:22,206 --> 00:26:24,083
with the cane

501
00:26:25,834 --> 00:26:29,379
my naked backside and thighs were on fire

502
00:26:30,631 --> 00:26:33,717
the servant women urged her on

503
00:26:34,051 --> 00:26:37,387
and mocked me, calling me a little girl

504
00:26:37,763 --> 00:26:39,223
I struggled

505
00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:41,600
but my aunt kept whipping me

506
00:26:42,518 --> 00:26:45,437
until I begged her to stop

507
00:26:45,562 --> 00:26:46,605
out of mercy

508
00:26:46,939 --> 00:26:48,315
when she finally stopped

509
00:26:50,901 --> 00:26:53,237
she forced me to thank her on my knees

510
00:26:53,362 --> 00:26:55,405
she made me kiss her foot

511
00:26:55,823 --> 00:26:58,117
then she left the room...

512
00:26:59,409 --> 00:27:01,495
Threatening to return

513
00:27:02,371 --> 00:27:06,416
all this witnessed by the two servants

514
00:27:06,792 --> 00:27:08,502
and our cat

515
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,588
from that time on

516
00:27:11,713 --> 00:27:15,592
for me, a fur was neverjust a fur

517
00:27:15,717 --> 00:27:18,053
nor a birch cane a simple switch

518
00:27:18,929 --> 00:27:21,265
in that brief moment, she made me

519
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,392
the man I am now

520
00:27:26,812 --> 00:27:28,188
did she return?

521
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,151
In my dreams, yes,
with her black fur and her cane

522
00:27:32,651 --> 00:27:35,279
she still visits me each night

523
00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:37,823
you poor, poor man

524
00:27:37,948 --> 00:27:38,948
poor?

525
00:27:40,325 --> 00:27:43,495
She taught me the most precious thing

526
00:27:43,620 --> 00:27:45,289
she taught you what?

527
00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:46,999
That nothing is more sensuous

528
00:27:47,166 --> 00:27:48,041
than pain

529
00:27:48,167 --> 00:27:50,878
nothing more pleasurable than degradation

530
00:27:51,587 --> 00:27:53,755
the countess did her work well

531
00:27:54,381 --> 00:27:56,758
she became my ideal

532
00:27:57,092 --> 00:27:59,595
I've sought her replica ever since

533
00:27:59,803 --> 00:28:02,055
and when I meet that woman

534
00:28:02,556 --> 00:28:03,556
I shall marry her

535
00:28:03,765 --> 00:28:06,059
Thomas, that speech is awesome!

536
00:28:06,185 --> 00:28:08,770
Thank you. It took a lot of work

537
00:28:09,771 --> 00:28:11,398
so, actually

538
00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:14,651
this play is, like, all about child abuse

539
00:28:18,989 --> 00:28:20,115
are you crazy?

540
00:28:20,908 --> 00:28:24,077
What does child abuse have to do with it?

541
00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:26,830
This goddam mania these days!

542
00:28:26,955 --> 00:28:29,458
Everything's a stupid social issue!

543
00:28:29,583 --> 00:28:30,983
Child abuse isn't exactly stupid...

544
00:28:31,084 --> 00:28:33,045
I know but don't be so trite!

545
00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:35,672
This isn't anthropology or sociology

546
00:28:35,881 --> 00:28:37,633
it's a play

547
00:28:37,758 --> 00:28:38,842
yeah, but...

548
00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:41,303
There's a lot more here

549
00:28:41,428 --> 00:28:42,763
than corporal punishment!

550
00:28:42,888 --> 00:28:44,681
Ok, sorry

551
00:28:44,806 --> 00:28:48,727
this impoverished world we live in!

552
00:28:48,852 --> 00:28:51,271
Why do we always diminish things?

553
00:28:51,563 --> 00:28:53,273
What's next on your list?

554
00:28:53,398 --> 00:28:56,068
Sexism, racism, the class struggle?

555
00:28:56,193 --> 00:28:59,029
You are quite unique, herr kushemski

556
00:29:00,155 --> 00:29:02,449
if I were you, I'd be careful

557
00:29:03,033 --> 00:29:06,662
your ideal woman may
be crueler than you care for

558
00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:08,538
I'm willing to risk that

559
00:29:09,081 --> 00:29:13,085
I know what you are. A supersensualist

560
00:29:13,293 --> 00:29:15,295
an ascetic voluptuary

561
00:29:15,545 --> 00:29:18,882
and you, frau vanda Von dunayev,
who or what are you?

562
00:29:19,007 --> 00:29:20,509
I'm a pagan

563
00:29:20,968 --> 00:29:23,762
meaning I'm young, beautiful, rich

564
00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:26,223
and plan to make the most of that

565
00:29:26,765 --> 00:29:28,517
I'll deny myself nothing

566
00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:31,395
I respect your principles

567
00:29:31,561 --> 00:29:34,481
excuse me, I don't need your respect

568
00:29:34,731 --> 00:29:38,777
I'll love a man who pleases me and
please a man who makes me happy

569
00:29:38,986 --> 00:29:40,946
but only as long as he makes me happy

570
00:29:41,196 --> 00:29:43,532
then I'll find another

571
00:29:43,657 --> 00:29:46,410
nothing is crueler
than a woman's infidelity

572
00:29:46,535 --> 00:29:48,161
for a woman there is

573
00:29:48,370 --> 00:29:50,038
enforced fidelity

574
00:29:50,872 --> 00:29:51,999
can I move?

575
00:29:52,124 --> 00:29:53,959
Sure, move around

576
00:29:59,339 --> 00:30:00,716
In our society

577
00:30:01,049 --> 00:30:02,801
a woman's only power

578
00:30:02,926 --> 00:30:04,344
is through a man

579
00:30:04,678 --> 00:30:06,263
I'd like to see what woman will be

580
00:30:06,388 --> 00:30:08,056
when she becomes man's equal

581
00:30:08,307 --> 00:30:10,058
when she becomes herself

582
00:30:11,101 --> 00:30:15,355
little vanda's way ahead of her times

583
00:30:15,564 --> 00:30:16,564
vanda...

584
00:30:17,566 --> 00:30:19,067
How do you know the lines?

585
00:30:19,192 --> 00:30:20,360
I dunno, I learn fast

586
00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:23,113
you know the play by heart!

587
00:30:23,238 --> 00:30:25,741
You said vanda's very proper...

588
00:30:25,866 --> 00:30:27,034
Despite what?

589
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:28,368
Her professed principles

590
00:30:28,493 --> 00:30:29,493
right

591
00:30:30,162 --> 00:30:32,331
she doesn't believe all this?

592
00:30:32,456 --> 00:30:33,707
She says so

593
00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:35,375
women's rights, blahblah...

594
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:36,500
So it's all an act?

595
00:30:36,543 --> 00:30:39,838
Why "professed principles"
and not just "principles"?

596
00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:44,009
I liked the alliteration,
"professed principles"

597
00:30:44,134 --> 00:30:45,594
I see

598
00:30:45,886 --> 00:30:48,472
you sold your soul for alliteration

599
00:30:48,597 --> 00:30:50,932
guilty as charged

600
00:30:51,183 --> 00:30:54,353
between you and me,
Thomas, you're a bad boy

601
00:30:55,771 --> 00:30:57,981
if I may be so bold, I'd say

602
00:30:58,106 --> 00:31:00,984
you're more than a pagan, you're a goddess

603
00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:02,736
really? Which one?

604
00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:03,861
Venus

605
00:31:04,154 --> 00:31:06,573
vanda is Venus or am I crazy?

606
00:31:06,782 --> 00:31:08,992
She's Venus in human form

607
00:31:09,117 --> 00:31:10,744
come down to bust his balls

608
00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:12,954
not really

609
00:31:13,372 --> 00:31:14,539
or not exactly

610
00:31:14,664 --> 00:31:18,293
ok, I take it back. You
wanted it ambivalent

611
00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:20,045
- ambiguous - right

612
00:31:20,629 --> 00:31:22,923
it's the same story as "the bacchae"

613
00:31:23,298 --> 00:31:24,298
exactly!

614
00:31:24,633 --> 00:31:26,009
What's "the bacchae" again?

615
00:31:26,259 --> 00:31:28,053
Just kidding. An old play, right?

616
00:31:28,178 --> 00:31:30,097
A very old play, yes

617
00:31:30,430 --> 00:31:31,973
citizens of corinth!

618
00:31:32,099 --> 00:31:34,059
Behold this mortal man, testiculus

619
00:31:34,226 --> 00:31:37,396
cursed for his offenses by the gods

620
00:31:37,521 --> 00:31:40,690
and totally fucked for all eternity!

621
00:31:41,066 --> 00:31:41,858
That kinda play?

622
00:31:41,983 --> 00:31:43,276
More or less

623
00:31:43,985 --> 00:31:46,029
dionysus comes down

624
00:31:46,154 --> 00:31:49,282
and reduces the proud king of thebes

625
00:31:49,408 --> 00:31:50,659
to a quaking jelly in a dress

626
00:31:50,784 --> 00:31:51,910
sounds hot!

627
00:31:52,035 --> 00:31:52,911
After that

628
00:31:53,036 --> 00:31:56,373
the crazed women of thebes,
the bacchae tear him to pieces

629
00:31:56,665 --> 00:31:58,500
dionysus leaves triumphant

630
00:31:58,708 --> 00:32:00,502
yeah, I think I saw it

631
00:32:00,627 --> 00:32:03,380
here it's not dionysus, it's Aphrodite

632
00:32:03,505 --> 00:32:04,798
and she is...?

633
00:32:05,340 --> 00:32:06,883
The Greek Venus

634
00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:09,261
- same person? - Same goddess

635
00:32:09,636 --> 00:32:11,763
hail, Aphrodite!

636
00:32:12,055 --> 00:32:13,640
Hail, Aphrodite!

637
00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:15,308
Am I insufferably pedantic?

638
00:32:15,517 --> 00:32:17,686
Yeah, but it's kinda cute

639
00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:25,109
What're we doing?

640
00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:30,365
You are a goddess

641
00:32:31,450 --> 00:32:32,450
really?

642
00:32:32,826 --> 00:32:33,827
Which one?

643
00:32:34,161 --> 00:32:35,162
Venus

644
00:32:36,121 --> 00:32:38,915
but Venus could only rule over slaves

645
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,293
so I should find myself one

646
00:32:41,918 --> 00:32:45,130
would you be my slave,
herr doktor kushemski?

647
00:32:45,380 --> 00:32:46,548
I already am

648
00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:51,720
I've been your slave
since you entered this room

649
00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:52,970
what?

650
00:32:53,263 --> 00:32:54,764
Already in love with me?

651
00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:56,600
Profoundly

652
00:32:57,225 --> 00:33:00,187
I'm suffering as if I'd
known you all my life

653
00:33:00,854 --> 00:33:02,105
subjugate me

654
00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:04,316
stand up and step away from me

655
00:33:05,192 --> 00:33:07,152
I must say you do intrigue me

656
00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:10,489
I like your frankness,
your clarity of thought

657
00:33:11,114 --> 00:33:13,492
physically, you are not unattractive

658
00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:16,953
but when a man submits
to me, I sense a trick

659
00:33:17,078 --> 00:33:20,040
this is no trick. Love me!

660
00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:22,918
You see? Orders already

661
00:33:23,043 --> 00:33:24,211
marry me

662
00:33:24,961 --> 00:33:27,255
I'm a frivolous woman, herr kushemski

663
00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:30,926
you'd have to be very brave to love me

664
00:33:31,051 --> 00:33:32,677
I explained my principles

665
00:33:32,802 --> 00:33:35,055
I don't care, I want you for my wife

666
00:33:35,180 --> 00:33:36,264
you don't know me

667
00:33:36,389 --> 00:33:38,517
- dominate me - it's absurd

668
00:33:38,767 --> 00:33:41,853
I give you all power over me, eternally

669
00:33:42,229 --> 00:33:44,981
unconditionally. Do with me what you will

670
00:33:45,106 --> 00:33:48,026
dominate me, beat me if you like

671
00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:50,612
this is certainly novel

672
00:33:51,696 --> 00:33:53,240
stand over there

673
00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:55,492
stand in the center

674
00:33:55,951 --> 00:33:56,951
I'm fine here

675
00:33:56,993 --> 00:33:59,829
you should be there, you're taking power

676
00:33:59,955 --> 00:34:02,541
so take a power position

677
00:34:05,043 --> 00:34:06,043
try it again

678
00:34:10,590 --> 00:34:12,801
this is certainly novel

679
00:34:12,968 --> 00:34:13,760
it doesn't work

680
00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:15,804
try it again

681
00:34:16,179 --> 00:34:18,348
I give you all power over me, eternally

682
00:34:18,473 --> 00:34:20,850
unconditionally. Do with me what you will

683
00:34:21,434 --> 00:34:22,434
dominate me

684
00:34:22,477 --> 00:34:23,770
beat me if you like

685
00:34:24,271 --> 00:34:26,189
this is certainly novel

686
00:34:26,314 --> 00:34:28,149
you're not trying

687
00:34:28,275 --> 00:34:31,069
you wanted me here,
here I am. I said my line

688
00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:32,696
it's only an audition

689
00:34:32,821 --> 00:34:33,863
I want to see

690
00:34:33,989 --> 00:34:36,074
if you can take direction

691
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:38,159
so do as I say and stand there

692
00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:41,162
I give you all power over me, eternally

693
00:34:41,288 --> 00:34:43,248
unconditionally. Do with me what you will

694
00:34:43,373 --> 00:34:44,373
dominate me

695
00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:46,293
beat me if you like

696
00:34:46,418 --> 00:34:48,753
this is certainly novel

697
00:34:49,588 --> 00:34:50,922
it is better!

698
00:34:51,047 --> 00:34:52,047
Keep going

699
00:34:54,509 --> 00:34:56,595
what do you want deep down?

700
00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:58,722
To be your possession

701
00:34:58,888 --> 00:35:01,266
vanish into your sublime essence

702
00:35:01,558 --> 00:35:03,893
dress and undress you

703
00:35:04,019 --> 00:35:07,647
hand you stockings, put shoes on your feet

704
00:35:07,772 --> 00:35:09,107
have no will of my own

705
00:35:09,232 --> 00:35:10,984
you call that love?

706
00:35:11,234 --> 00:35:12,777
The only kind

707
00:35:12,902 --> 00:35:15,488
in love as in politics

708
00:35:15,614 --> 00:35:17,157
one partner must rule

709
00:35:17,282 --> 00:35:20,285
one must be the hammer, the other the anvil

710
00:35:20,410 --> 00:35:22,329
I willingly accept being the anvil

711
00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:27,750
enough

712
00:35:28,835 --> 00:35:31,296
no, keep going, I love it!

713
00:35:31,671 --> 00:35:34,799
Thomas, the insight, especially about women

714
00:35:34,924 --> 00:35:36,635
you really understand women

715
00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:39,095
yes, years of study

716
00:35:40,722 --> 00:35:43,099
- where was I? - Being an anvil

717
00:35:44,726 --> 00:35:45,726
vanda

718
00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:49,397
I seek pain and you pleasure

719
00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:51,608
you mustn't defer to anyone's feelings

720
00:35:51,858 --> 00:35:56,071
use your lover as he'd use you

721
00:35:56,905 --> 00:35:58,990
rule him, wring him dry

722
00:35:59,115 --> 00:36:00,367
you're incredible

723
00:36:00,533 --> 00:36:03,578
if I can't be your husband,
take me as your slave

724
00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:06,498
treat me with divine cruelty

725
00:36:07,082 --> 00:36:08,458
mistreat a man who loves me?

726
00:36:08,583 --> 00:36:11,753
- I'll worship you even more
- I don't want that

727
00:36:11,878 --> 00:36:14,422
all women want
worshipping, like our creator

728
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:15,547
create me

729
00:36:15,632 --> 00:36:16,632
ruin me

730
00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:18,176
annihilate me

731
00:36:21,554 --> 00:36:22,597
excuse me

732
00:36:40,699 --> 00:36:43,368
No, I'm still here

733
00:36:44,786 --> 00:36:48,540
everything's good

734
00:36:50,125 --> 00:36:51,125
I don't know

735
00:36:51,626 --> 00:36:54,337
in a few minutes, I guess

736
00:36:55,004 --> 00:36:56,506
I'll call when I leave

737
00:36:57,841 --> 00:37:00,719
me too, honey, take care

738
00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:02,344
yeah, fine

739
00:37:03,012 --> 00:37:04,012
sorry

740
00:37:06,266 --> 00:37:08,351
the audition? We'll see

741
00:37:09,978 --> 00:37:13,064
I'm at the temp agency,
they've got something

742
00:37:14,274 --> 00:37:18,027
typing. A night job in a law firm

743
00:37:18,153 --> 00:37:20,530
they need the contract tomorrow...

744
00:37:21,614 --> 00:37:23,283
Idunno!

745
00:37:23,825 --> 00:37:25,785
We'll see. That's life

746
00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:28,204
that's life, ok

747
00:37:30,331 --> 00:37:31,374
incredible...

748
00:37:31,958 --> 00:37:33,042
Your other half?

749
00:37:33,168 --> 00:37:34,294
People still say that?

750
00:37:34,669 --> 00:37:38,006
- What's “other half" now?
- I dunno..."Asshole"?

751
00:37:38,381 --> 00:37:39,632
Ok...

752
00:37:40,091 --> 00:37:41,760
You wonder why I lied

753
00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:43,303
it's none of my business

754
00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:48,641
what does vanda say?
I'll deny myself nothing

755
00:37:48,850 --> 00:37:50,077
I got other fish to fuck, so to speak

756
00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:52,228
so you're the hammer, he's the anvil

757
00:37:52,353 --> 00:37:53,521
what should I say?

758
00:37:53,646 --> 00:37:55,565
"Whatever, baby?"

759
00:37:55,732 --> 00:37:57,025
This isn't love, it's sex

760
00:37:57,150 --> 00:37:58,860
you want sex, you take the rest

761
00:37:59,152 --> 00:38:00,820
that's what the play's about

762
00:38:01,571 --> 00:38:02,571
is it?

763
00:38:02,864 --> 00:38:04,282
Are you kidding?

764
00:38:05,867 --> 00:38:06,951
I don't know, am I?

765
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:08,536
Will you stop!

766
00:38:09,078 --> 00:38:10,830
Say what you think for once

767
00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:13,208
quit pussyfooting around

768
00:38:13,333 --> 00:38:14,918
shall I make some coffee?

769
00:38:16,711 --> 00:38:19,380
- What? - Are you coming on to me, Tom?

770
00:38:19,506 --> 00:38:20,632
Certainly not

771
00:38:20,757 --> 00:38:23,009
I'm just offering you coffee

772
00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:24,427
symbolic coffee?

773
00:38:24,803 --> 00:38:26,930
Not at all, real coffee

774
00:38:27,514 --> 00:38:30,850
would your wife like you
offering me "real" coffee?

775
00:38:32,393 --> 00:38:33,393
I'm not married

776
00:38:34,103 --> 00:38:35,688
I thought from the call...

777
00:38:36,898 --> 00:38:38,024
My fiancee

778
00:38:38,191 --> 00:38:40,485
same thing. What would fiancee think?

779
00:38:40,693 --> 00:38:44,447
Didn't you once say,
“theatre's a great way to get laid?“

780
00:38:44,656 --> 00:38:46,533
you actually read that!

781
00:38:46,908 --> 00:38:49,619
I was young, it was my first interview

782
00:38:50,161 --> 00:38:51,454
never been married?

783
00:38:52,205 --> 00:38:53,205
Never

784
00:38:54,707 --> 00:38:56,334
still living with mom?

785
00:38:56,793 --> 00:38:58,503
I'm twisted but not that twisted

786
00:38:59,045 --> 00:39:01,005
so fox fur's your thing?

787
00:39:01,506 --> 00:39:02,715
No, love is

788
00:39:03,007 --> 00:39:04,509
you really are twisted

789
00:39:04,634 --> 00:39:07,011
and my woman must be my muse

790
00:39:07,554 --> 00:39:10,348
so fiancee has wings and everything?

791
00:39:10,557 --> 00:39:11,766
The way I see love

792
00:39:11,891 --> 00:39:13,476
you take the plunge...

793
00:39:13,601 --> 00:39:14,936
Jump right in

794
00:39:15,186 --> 00:39:16,354
head first

795
00:39:16,479 --> 00:39:19,566
with fireworks, lightning and thunder

796
00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:23,403
coffee or no coffee?

797
00:39:25,238 --> 00:39:28,908
I could only give myself to
one man for life if he enslaved me

798
00:39:29,659 --> 00:39:33,246
we're not a very good match, herr kushemski

799
00:39:33,663 --> 00:39:35,331
we cancel each other out

800
00:39:35,540 --> 00:39:38,835
I say we're made for each other

801
00:39:39,127 --> 00:39:40,837
don't you feel that, vanda?

802
00:39:41,337 --> 00:39:43,214
Don't you feel it too?

803
00:39:43,423 --> 00:39:45,341
I propose a trial period

804
00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:48,219
a contract. Call it a business deal

805
00:39:48,845 --> 00:39:52,140
you have one year
to prove you're the man for me

806
00:39:52,265 --> 00:39:54,642
- a year is long... - Let me finish

807
00:39:54,767 --> 00:39:56,269
I beg your pardon

808
00:39:56,686 --> 00:40:01,107
I'll draw up a contract
saying you're my slave for a year

809
00:40:02,567 --> 00:40:05,278
so she had this all planned

810
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:07,655
she set it up before she came in

811
00:40:08,197 --> 00:40:09,240
you think so?

812
00:40:09,574 --> 00:40:11,576
C'mon, you wrote it

813
00:40:11,701 --> 00:40:15,121
I'm not sure she had this “planned"

814
00:40:15,997 --> 00:40:17,165
I'm not being coy

815
00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:19,834
so you wanted it ambivalent

816
00:40:20,126 --> 00:40:21,544
- ambiguous - right

817
00:40:21,711 --> 00:40:24,088
maybe she's just a horny bitch

818
00:40:24,213 --> 00:40:26,966
I never considered that angle

819
00:40:27,216 --> 00:40:28,551
maybe it's even more twisted

820
00:40:28,718 --> 00:40:31,304
be my slave for a year,
then you can fuck me

821
00:40:31,554 --> 00:40:34,515
- ambivalent again? - Ambiguous

822
00:40:34,641 --> 00:40:37,560
for me, well, for kushemski

823
00:40:37,685 --> 00:40:40,647
you're his last chance, his only chance

824
00:40:40,772 --> 00:40:42,440
really? To do what?

825
00:40:43,358 --> 00:40:44,358
To live

826
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,528
he wants to know if she's into whips

827
00:40:47,654 --> 00:40:51,032
- he's auditioning her
- she's auditioning him too

828
00:40:51,157 --> 00:40:52,283
he's a perv

829
00:40:52,408 --> 00:40:55,370
and she's an object like
every woman in 18-whatever

830
00:40:58,373 --> 00:41:02,210
who are you really, frau vanda jourdain?

831
00:41:02,418 --> 00:41:03,211
I'm a pagan

832
00:41:03,336 --> 00:41:04,712
no, I'm serious

833
00:41:04,921 --> 00:41:06,714
you're coming on to me again

834
00:41:07,215 --> 00:41:09,425
where are you from, what's your story?

835
00:41:11,803 --> 00:41:14,514
I'm an army brat, I grew up everywhere

836
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:17,225
where, what cities, what countries?

837
00:41:18,685 --> 00:41:23,064
I'll draw up a contract
saying you're my slave for a year

838
00:41:25,650 --> 00:41:26,818
your wish is my command

839
00:41:26,943 --> 00:41:27,943
give me your hand

840
00:41:29,237 --> 00:41:30,822
they shake hands...

841
00:41:49,048 --> 00:41:51,134
There's a Greek officer at the inn

842
00:41:51,634 --> 00:41:52,634
a Greek?

843
00:41:53,803 --> 00:41:55,013
He's from Athens

844
00:41:55,596 --> 00:41:59,726
he rides a snow-white stallion
and wears black leather boots

845
00:42:00,143 --> 00:42:02,353
I want you to get his room number

846
00:42:02,687 --> 00:42:04,480
but, vanda...

847
00:42:04,605 --> 00:42:07,025
Resisting already?

848
00:42:07,275 --> 00:42:09,110
Forgive me

849
00:42:10,278 --> 00:42:14,115
wait for me tomorrow in the birch grove
by Aphrodite's statue

850
00:42:15,533 --> 00:42:16,533
at what time?

851
00:42:16,659 --> 00:42:19,203
Wait until I decide to arrive

852
00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:20,413
very well

853
00:42:21,164 --> 00:42:24,500
and don't come without
the Greek's room number

854
00:42:26,919 --> 00:42:28,171
now kiss my foot

855
00:42:28,921 --> 00:42:30,631
he kneels and kisses her foot

856
00:42:32,884 --> 00:42:35,595
I love that bit. Bang! "Kiss my foot"

857
00:42:37,430 --> 00:42:39,098
now put my fur on me

858
00:43:03,498 --> 00:43:04,498
Sevenn...

859
00:43:05,458 --> 00:43:07,293
Where will all this end?

860
00:43:08,211 --> 00:43:12,090
That depends on you,
frau vanda Von dunayev

861
00:43:12,215 --> 00:43:13,341
not on me

862
00:43:14,383 --> 00:43:17,053
thank you for the coffee, slave

863
00:43:18,888 --> 00:43:20,348
yeah, I'd like some now

864
00:43:20,765 --> 00:43:22,308
coffee, I mean

865
00:43:23,768 --> 00:43:27,480
pretty intense.
The handshake was, like, electric

866
00:43:28,022 --> 00:43:31,067
the joys of a repressed age

867
00:43:31,275 --> 00:43:33,486
conversation itself was erotic

868
00:43:33,611 --> 00:43:36,280
conversation was all they got

869
00:43:36,948 --> 00:43:39,117
that's not how the book starts

870
00:43:40,660 --> 00:43:41,494
the book?

871
00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:43,454
Where's the first scene?

872
00:43:43,663 --> 00:43:46,582
Venus naked in a fur by the fire

873
00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:48,626
you know the book?

874
00:43:49,210 --> 00:43:51,295
You've read “Venus in fur"?

875
00:43:51,629 --> 00:43:52,630
I took a look

876
00:43:52,755 --> 00:43:55,842
when you said,
"what's it based on?" You were lying

877
00:43:55,967 --> 00:43:58,136
ok, to get ahead!

878
00:43:58,219 --> 00:44:00,138
Why didn't you keep that scene?

879
00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:02,974
How could I fit it in?

880
00:44:03,099 --> 00:44:06,185
At the start, before he meets vanda

881
00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:09,147
you can't do “Venus in fur" without Venus

882
00:44:09,397 --> 00:44:11,274
same actress playing both

883
00:44:11,399 --> 00:44:14,235
naked on stage? For you, no extra charge

884
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:15,778
I'll think about it

885
00:44:16,362 --> 00:44:18,739
let's improvise, maybe
you'll get some ideas

886
00:44:20,158 --> 00:44:21,325
the lights

887
00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:22,827
where are we, top of the play?

888
00:44:23,202 --> 00:44:25,997
Kushemski's room

889
00:44:26,372 --> 00:44:28,749
at night. Ok, middle of the night, 2 am

890
00:44:30,001 --> 00:44:31,460
let's tone this down

891
00:44:36,465 --> 00:44:40,386
A fire going, stage left

892
00:44:40,845 --> 00:44:41,846
very nice

893
00:44:45,641 --> 00:44:49,270
let's see, kushemski is doing what?

894
00:44:49,770 --> 00:44:52,315
I don't know. Reading

895
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:53,191
yeah, right

896
00:44:53,316 --> 00:44:55,902
no? Too cliché'd?

897
00:44:56,027 --> 00:44:58,321
He's already reading when he meets vanda!

898
00:44:58,446 --> 00:45:01,824
We're not the city library

899
00:45:03,034 --> 00:45:05,870
he can be writing his diary

900
00:45:05,995 --> 00:45:07,246
I like it

901
00:45:58,923 --> 00:46:00,508
Ok, I'm Venus

902
00:46:02,802 --> 00:46:04,095
what the hell...

903
00:46:07,181 --> 00:46:09,517
- Imagine me naked

904
00:46:09,642 --> 00:46:11,435
you're a big boy

905
00:46:11,602 --> 00:46:13,479
pretend I'm fiancee and improvise

906
00:46:13,688 --> 00:46:15,606
I've never done it before

907
00:46:15,898 --> 00:46:17,316
all the girls say that

908
00:46:17,566 --> 00:46:18,901
but it's true

909
00:46:19,068 --> 00:46:21,279
the fire flickers

910
00:46:22,113 --> 00:46:23,864
we see Venus naked

911
00:46:23,990 --> 00:46:25,908
draped sensually in a fur

912
00:46:26,701 --> 00:46:28,786
so drape me in my fur

913
00:46:29,328 --> 00:46:30,913
you're the director

914
00:46:38,004 --> 00:46:40,006
Sensually, I said

915
00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:53,185
Now sit at your desk

916
00:47:06,824 --> 00:47:08,784
In character!

917
00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:14,165
Write in your diary

918
00:47:19,337 --> 00:47:20,713
Write for real

919
00:47:20,838 --> 00:47:21,964
I am

920
00:47:22,089 --> 00:47:24,884
out loud! How else do we know who you are?

921
00:47:25,634 --> 00:47:27,136
It's the start of the play

922
00:47:27,970 --> 00:47:30,181
the lights are coming up

923
00:47:30,931 --> 00:47:38,773
all we hear is the sound of an old clock

924
00:47:45,529 --> 00:47:49,200
October 22nd, 1870

925
00:47:49,867 --> 00:47:51,535
2:00 am

926
00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:57,208
I am staying at a health spa

927
00:47:58,042 --> 00:48:01,379
ringed by forests and mountains

928
00:48:01,462 --> 00:48:02,922
there's no moon tonight

929
00:48:03,047 --> 00:48:06,300
darkness and silence reign

930
00:48:07,301 --> 00:48:09,303
no, wait, I hear...

931
00:48:10,346 --> 00:48:11,013
A sparrow

932
00:48:11,138 --> 00:48:12,138
a nightingale

933
00:48:12,181 --> 00:48:14,016
a nightingale

934
00:48:17,561 --> 00:48:19,772
the howl of a cat in heat

935
00:48:22,733 --> 00:48:24,026
I feel

936
00:48:24,485 --> 00:48:26,320
so terribly alone

937
00:48:27,613 --> 00:48:29,115
unhappy

938
00:48:29,657 --> 00:48:31,117
unfulfilled

939
00:48:32,993 --> 00:48:33,619
what...

940
00:48:33,744 --> 00:48:35,538
Have the Germans invaded again?

941
00:48:36,580 --> 00:48:39,333
I hope I do not disturb

942
00:48:41,961 --> 00:48:43,337
not at all

943
00:48:49,385 --> 00:48:51,554
Hail, Aphrodite

944
00:48:51,929 --> 00:48:53,973
20, you haff not forgotten me?

945
00:48:54,432 --> 00:48:55,432
Forgotten you?

946
00:48:55,724 --> 00:48:57,059
My dearest

947
00:48:57,810 --> 00:48:59,353
and oldest enemy?

948
00:48:59,478 --> 00:49:01,313
You are 20 sveet

949
00:49:02,022 --> 00:49:05,234
Von't you kiss my hand?

950
00:49:16,537 --> 00:49:18,914
Zat's better, but Thomas...

951
00:49:19,039 --> 00:49:20,708
Did I say Thomas?

952
00:49:22,084 --> 00:49:26,046
Ja, but seferin, it's 20 cold in here

953
00:49:26,755 --> 00:49:31,135
effry time I visit you I am catching cold

954
00:49:31,635 --> 00:49:34,221
you zee? Already I have pleggum in ze tubes

955
00:49:34,346 --> 00:49:37,141
but you always strut around naked

956
00:49:37,266 --> 00:49:40,603
but I am fenus, I must be all ze time naked

957
00:49:40,728 --> 00:49:42,521
it comes mit ze job

958
00:49:43,147 --> 00:49:46,108
Von't you take off those scratchy clothes

959
00:49:46,442 --> 00:49:48,986
and come cuddle mit me?

960
00:49:49,653 --> 00:49:52,406
There's room here, under my fur

961
00:49:52,740 --> 00:49:54,700
no, thank you

962
00:49:55,576 --> 00:49:58,496
I brought zis mink especially for you

963
00:49:58,662 --> 00:50:02,082
>from Olympus. It's heavenly

964
00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:05,169
see ze label? "Made in Olympus"

965
00:50:05,294 --> 00:50:06,294
why would I

966
00:50:06,378 --> 00:50:08,214
be interested in your fur?

967
00:50:10,257 --> 00:50:12,760
I know your little quirk

968
00:50:13,135 --> 00:50:15,262
women don't interest you

969
00:50:15,596 --> 00:50:17,348
their fur does

970
00:50:17,806 --> 00:50:19,266
you should marry a raccoon

971
00:50:19,391 --> 00:50:23,687
better a raccoon than most women I've met

972
00:50:23,854 --> 00:50:27,316
but if I open my thighs unter my mink

973
00:50:28,025 --> 00:50:29,902
you vouldn't vant some love?

974
00:50:30,027 --> 00:50:32,112
Is it love you're offering?

975
00:50:32,238 --> 00:50:35,157
No, it's power

976
00:50:35,282 --> 00:50:36,742
you dare to resist me?

977
00:50:36,867 --> 00:50:37,867
I dare

978
00:50:37,952 --> 00:50:42,206
I'll make you crawl at my feet

979
00:50:42,456 --> 00:50:43,541
I'll make you beg

980
00:50:43,666 --> 00:50:44,708
never

981
00:50:45,459 --> 00:50:47,294
you're mine already

982
00:50:47,419 --> 00:50:50,130
and you'll be mine for all time

983
00:50:50,256 --> 00:50:51,382
never!

984
00:50:51,632 --> 00:50:55,636
I'll be back

985
00:50:57,137 --> 00:50:58,764
then, poof, she vanishes!

986
00:51:00,891 --> 00:51:01,891
Not bad, huh?

987
00:51:03,394 --> 00:51:05,604
You could write it up
and stick it in, so to speak

988
00:51:05,729 --> 00:51:07,606
in theory anyhow

989
00:51:08,774 --> 00:51:09,650
I thought

990
00:51:09,775 --> 00:51:13,028
I'd add a little Marlene Dietrich

991
00:51:13,153 --> 00:51:14,905
yes, great, works beautifully

992
00:51:15,030 --> 00:51:18,075
it shows another side of kushemski

993
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,869
yeah, with Venus at night, he says

994
00:51:20,995 --> 00:51:22,413
"no, you bitch“

995
00:51:22,538 --> 00:51:24,081
next morning with vanda

996
00:51:24,206 --> 00:51:25,374
"take me, please!"

997
00:51:25,499 --> 00:51:29,211
We could bring the lights down,
then back up

998
00:51:29,378 --> 00:51:31,088
it's morning, knock-knock

999
00:51:31,213 --> 00:51:34,341
and Venus reappears disguised as vanda

1000
00:51:34,466 --> 00:51:37,553
- to get revenge - brilliant

1001
00:51:38,304 --> 00:51:39,346
so is it you?

1002
00:51:40,097 --> 00:51:41,097
What?

1003
00:51:42,433 --> 00:51:43,559
He's you

1004
00:51:43,851 --> 00:51:46,770
kushemski-novachek, novachek-kushemski

1005
00:51:46,895 --> 00:51:48,731
he's not me

1006
00:51:48,856 --> 00:51:50,691
you said there's a lot of you in it

1007
00:51:51,233 --> 00:51:53,277
maybe you're vanda

1008
00:51:53,402 --> 00:51:55,362
the play has nothing to do with me

1009
00:51:55,487 --> 00:51:57,197
you're just the writer

1010
00:51:57,448 --> 00:51:59,033
sorry, "adapter"

1011
00:51:59,158 --> 00:52:01,702
like, "if a critic says
it's me, I'll kill him"

1012
00:52:02,328 --> 00:52:04,371
I can invent characters

1013
00:52:04,496 --> 00:52:06,457
sure, herr doktor novachek

1014
00:52:06,582 --> 00:52:08,959
and you happened to find them

1015
00:52:09,084 --> 00:52:10,544
in an old sandm novel

1016
00:52:10,669 --> 00:52:12,796
it's a famous book

1017
00:52:12,921 --> 00:52:15,466
you didn't have an "unforeseen instant"

1018
00:52:15,591 --> 00:52:17,217
at age 12?

1019
00:52:17,676 --> 00:52:19,011
In the library?

1020
00:52:20,220 --> 00:52:21,220
No

1021
00:52:21,388 --> 00:52:22,931
With a cat?

1022
00:52:26,810 --> 00:52:27,810
No

1023
00:52:28,646 --> 00:52:31,023
You're still waiting for your...

1024
00:52:31,357 --> 00:52:32,816
"Great moment"?

1025
00:52:33,525 --> 00:52:34,860
I'm not waiting for anything

1026
00:52:34,985 --> 00:52:38,906
I find the characters' relationship
absolutely fascinating

1027
00:52:39,114 --> 00:52:41,450
very complex, very rich

1028
00:52:41,575 --> 00:52:42,368
of course

1029
00:52:42,493 --> 00:52:45,287
I love the characters' emotional depth

1030
00:52:45,704 --> 00:52:48,582
no one experiences this
kind of thing nowadays

1031
00:52:48,707 --> 00:52:51,377
we no longer see this kind of rage

1032
00:52:51,502 --> 00:52:53,504
meet some of my friends

1033
00:52:54,296 --> 00:52:55,881
ok, fine,

1034
00:52:56,924 --> 00:53:00,427
I don't understand a thing

1035
00:53:01,929 --> 00:53:06,433
when you get home,
fiancee doesn't tie you up and whip you?

1036
00:53:06,850 --> 00:53:07,850
No

1037
00:53:08,394 --> 00:53:11,021
Ask her, see if fiancee is up for it

1038
00:53:11,146 --> 00:53:13,357
stop calling her “fiancee"

1039
00:53:13,649 --> 00:53:14,649
sorry

1040
00:53:14,692 --> 00:53:17,236
what does your
"other half" think of the play?

1041
00:53:18,070 --> 00:53:19,113
She's not keen

1042
00:53:19,238 --> 00:53:21,949
people might think it's you or her

1043
00:53:22,074 --> 00:53:24,368
it isn't me or her

1044
00:53:24,535 --> 00:53:28,414
but let me guess about your...

1045
00:53:29,498 --> 00:53:30,666
Marie-cecile

1046
00:53:30,916 --> 00:53:32,418
Marie-cecile

1047
00:53:32,793 --> 00:53:36,130
I bet she's younger than you. Good family

1048
00:53:37,005 --> 00:53:39,633
probably grew up in a pretty home

1049
00:53:39,758 --> 00:53:42,094
on the coast

1050
00:53:44,555 --> 00:53:45,848
near la baule

1051
00:53:46,890 --> 00:53:48,642
nantes, actually

1052
00:53:49,351 --> 00:53:52,688
but I bet her family
spent weekends at la baule

1053
00:53:53,147 --> 00:53:55,315
in a villa with a garden

1054
00:53:57,067 --> 00:53:58,444
she sails

1055
00:53:59,653 --> 00:54:01,905
she loves seafood

1056
00:54:02,197 --> 00:54:03,197
correct

1057
00:54:04,032 --> 00:54:04,908
she's tall

1058
00:54:05,033 --> 00:54:08,036
a little bossy, in a nice way

1059
00:54:08,454 --> 00:54:10,748
lots of hair

1060
00:54:11,290 --> 00:54:12,791
longlegs

1061
00:54:12,916 --> 00:54:15,753
and a nice pair of...

1062
00:54:16,295 --> 00:54:17,295
Eyes

1063
00:54:18,297 --> 00:54:19,882
a fine mind

1064
00:54:20,048 --> 00:54:21,925
prep school in Paris

1065
00:54:22,092 --> 00:54:24,303
excellent grades, a degree

1066
00:54:24,678 --> 00:54:25,679
a master's?

1067
00:54:26,138 --> 00:54:27,139
Am I close?

1068
00:54:27,264 --> 00:54:29,683
She has a master's

1069
00:54:29,933 --> 00:54:31,018
she has a ph. D.

1070
00:54:31,393 --> 00:54:33,228
She's doing a thesis in sociology

1071
00:54:33,562 --> 00:54:36,023
she has a dog, let's see...

1072
00:54:36,148 --> 00:54:38,692
Maybe a labrador

1073
00:54:39,693 --> 00:54:40,903
named...

1074
00:54:41,153 --> 00:54:43,947
He has an intellectual's name

1075
00:54:44,698 --> 00:54:45,698
bourdieu?

1076
00:54:45,866 --> 00:54:47,075
Derrida

1077
00:54:47,785 --> 00:54:49,119
you're very cultivated

1078
00:54:49,787 --> 00:54:51,079
I bet she's loaded

1079
00:54:51,205 --> 00:54:53,832
a crappy theatre, a Belgian cactus...

1080
00:54:53,957 --> 00:54:55,918
It's not the comédie francaise

1081
00:54:56,126 --> 00:54:58,003
her family's rich

1082
00:54:58,545 --> 00:54:59,545
am I right?

1083
00:55:00,047 --> 00:55:01,673
Of course I'm right

1084
00:55:02,466 --> 00:55:04,718
but, hey, you're an artist

1085
00:55:04,968 --> 00:55:08,597
she loves that about you,
loves your sensitivity

1086
00:55:09,139 --> 00:55:13,435
maybe you're the first really
sensitive guy she ever met

1087
00:55:14,228 --> 00:55:17,606
she loves books, opera, ballet, that shit

1088
00:55:17,731 --> 00:55:20,984
at night, a foreign
movie, you discuss novels

1089
00:55:21,193 --> 00:55:23,195
before a nice quiet copulation

1090
00:55:23,570 --> 00:55:27,366
nothing like some quiet
copulation to help you relax

1091
00:55:27,533 --> 00:55:30,327
but a voice rumbles
in the back of your mind

1092
00:55:30,494 --> 00:55:32,996
calling for something else

1093
00:55:33,455 --> 00:55:36,041
I don't know what but it rumbles

1094
00:55:43,674 --> 00:55:45,259
But, hey, you're happy

1095
00:55:45,759 --> 00:55:48,846
you're very, very fond of her

1096
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:51,223
you'll have a nice quiet life

1097
00:55:51,348 --> 00:55:54,101
watching foreign movies, discussing novels

1098
00:55:54,393 --> 00:55:57,104
and then you'll have kids

1099
00:55:57,229 --> 00:55:59,022
and then you'll die

1100
00:56:01,817 --> 00:56:02,901
shall we read on?

1101
00:56:07,072 --> 00:56:08,740
Yes, let's read on

1102
00:56:10,450 --> 00:56:12,369
the next day in the birch grove?

1103
00:56:12,494 --> 00:56:13,494
All right

1104
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,624
here's our statue of Venus

1105
00:56:18,292 --> 00:56:20,252
hail, Aphrodite!

1106
00:56:20,836 --> 00:56:22,963
Hail, Aphrodite...

1107
00:57:26,568 --> 00:57:29,071
Do you want to read the scene over?

1108
00:57:29,655 --> 00:57:30,864
No, severin

1109
00:57:31,365 --> 00:57:33,533
it's not right

1110
00:57:34,034 --> 00:57:36,411
all this talk of slavery and domination

1111
00:57:36,954 --> 00:57:39,247
you've corrupted me with your words

1112
00:57:40,374 --> 00:57:43,794
I think deep down you'd enjoy
controlling a man

1113
00:57:43,919 --> 00:57:44,544
no

1114
00:57:44,670 --> 00:57:46,171
Or even torturing him

1115
00:57:46,296 --> 00:57:47,296
no

1116
00:57:47,714 --> 00:57:48,882
Admit it

1117
00:57:49,132 --> 00:57:50,300
that's not me

1118
00:57:50,425 --> 00:57:53,887
- can't I reason with you?
- Reason be damned

1119
00:57:54,096 --> 00:57:55,138
don't you see?

1120
00:57:55,597 --> 00:58:00,644
You'll never be safe in
the hands of a woman

1121
00:58:00,852 --> 00:58:02,020
of any woman

1122
00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:05,107
that line is so sexist

1123
00:58:05,232 --> 00:58:06,358
I could scream!

1124
00:58:06,483 --> 00:58:08,944
What's sexist about it?

1125
00:58:09,069 --> 00:58:11,071
You'll never be safe in
the hands of a woman

1126
00:58:11,196 --> 00:58:12,280
it's in the book

1127
00:58:12,406 --> 00:58:13,824
so the book is sexist!

1128
00:58:13,949 --> 00:58:16,118
No, it's not!

1129
00:58:16,243 --> 00:58:17,285
On the contrary, it's...

1130
00:58:17,411 --> 00:58:21,665
A central text of world literature?

1131
00:58:21,915 --> 00:58:23,166
I didn't mean that

1132
00:58:23,792 --> 00:58:24,792
and this?

1133
00:58:25,627 --> 00:58:27,421
That ain't titian, babe

1134
00:58:27,546 --> 00:58:29,840
it's sandm porn

1135
00:58:31,258 --> 00:58:33,176
the whole thing's one big cliche

1136
00:58:33,301 --> 00:58:34,386
in what way?

1137
00:58:34,594 --> 00:58:37,472
He gets spanked and suddenly he's into sandm?

1138
00:58:37,597 --> 00:58:38,741
It happened to sacher-masoch!

1139
00:58:38,765 --> 00:58:40,350
- Did it happen to you?
- No!

1140
00:58:40,475 --> 00:58:42,019
So what do you know?

1141
00:58:42,686 --> 00:58:45,856
For me, it's a play about
two people united forever

1142
00:58:45,981 --> 00:58:47,774
they're handcuffed at the heart

1143
00:58:47,899 --> 00:58:49,317
by perversion

1144
00:58:49,443 --> 00:58:51,236
no, by passion

1145
00:58:51,361 --> 00:58:52,361
his passion!

1146
00:58:52,404 --> 00:58:54,865
This is a chemical reaction

1147
00:58:54,990 --> 00:58:56,908
it's a sex and class war

1148
00:58:57,034 --> 00:58:58,910
vanda is a sweet innocent

1149
00:58:59,036 --> 00:59:00,662
who meets a total pervert

1150
00:59:00,787 --> 00:59:02,664
you don't understand a thing

1151
00:59:02,831 --> 00:59:04,583
she says, "you've corrupted me"

1152
00:59:04,708 --> 00:59:07,794
maybe she always had
this thirst for domination

1153
00:59:07,919 --> 00:59:09,880
maybe kushemski brought it out

1154
00:59:10,005 --> 00:59:11,923
maybe she's just a woman

1155
00:59:12,049 --> 00:59:14,634
the play's like an old anti-female tract

1156
00:59:15,052 --> 00:59:17,137
he makes her play along, then blames her

1157
00:59:17,262 --> 00:59:19,181
- it's not that at all - it is!

1158
00:59:19,306 --> 00:59:20,306
How?

1159
00:59:20,348 --> 00:59:23,185
Take the ending: She
gets the Greek to whip him

1160
00:59:23,310 --> 00:59:25,228
she dumps kushemski, dick in hand

1161
00:59:25,353 --> 00:59:27,981
and it's her fault when he wanted it?

1162
00:59:28,106 --> 00:59:32,194
I think old kushie's hot for the Greek

1163
00:59:32,861 --> 00:59:35,197
how can you be so stupid?

1164
00:59:35,322 --> 00:59:40,452
How can you play her so well
and be so fucking stupid about her?

1165
00:59:40,577 --> 00:59:42,412
And all the rest!

1166
00:59:42,537 --> 00:59:45,165
Fucking idiot actress!

1167
00:59:45,373 --> 00:59:46,373
Dumb bitch!

1168
00:59:46,792 --> 00:59:47,792
Fucking idiot!

1169
00:59:52,506 --> 00:59:53,506
Pain in the ass!

1170
01:00:09,106 --> 01:00:10,232
I'm sorry

1171
01:00:10,690 --> 01:00:11,690
what?

1172
01:00:11,858 --> 01:00:14,694
I'm sorry, I got a little carried away

1173
01:00:15,362 --> 01:00:17,364
what's said is said

1174
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:21,243
I guess the play says
beware what you wish for

1175
01:00:21,701 --> 01:00:23,578
because she could come knocking

1176
01:00:24,412 --> 01:00:27,582
don't fuck with a goddess,
that's what it says

1177
01:00:27,791 --> 01:00:29,209
if you will

1178
01:00:30,168 --> 01:00:31,461
if you will...

1179
01:00:32,879 --> 01:00:35,966
What's modern for "if you will"?

1180
01:00:37,592 --> 01:00:38,718
"Whatever"

1181
01:00:40,303 --> 01:00:41,513
if you say so

1182
01:00:42,931 --> 01:00:44,808
good thing goddesses don't exist

1183
01:00:45,225 --> 01:00:46,810
or you'd be fucked

1184
01:00:50,188 --> 01:00:54,234
fine, you're right, I take all your points

1185
01:00:57,445 --> 01:00:58,655
can we read on?

1186
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:08,790
Please, vanda

1187
01:01:27,142 --> 01:01:31,271
Don't you see you'll never be safe
in the hands of a woman?

1188
01:01:31,938 --> 01:01:33,023
Of any woman?

1189
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,359
You and I are adventurers, vanda

1190
01:01:36,484 --> 01:01:39,154
exploring the limits of human nature

1191
01:01:39,738 --> 01:01:40,906
you're sick

1192
01:01:41,823 --> 01:01:45,410
the countess poisoned you,
behold the effects

1193
01:01:45,535 --> 01:01:48,121
- you love the effects, as I do - no

1194
01:01:49,289 --> 01:01:51,082
you love having power over me

1195
01:01:51,208 --> 01:01:52,208
no

1196
01:01:52,626 --> 01:01:54,711
Your desires will be my orders

1197
01:01:55,587 --> 01:02:00,217
I'll beg, I'll crawl. Make
of me what you will

1198
01:02:00,550 --> 01:02:03,595
you're a mad visionary, a fanatic

1199
01:02:03,803 --> 01:02:06,056
you'll do anything to attain your dream

1200
01:02:06,181 --> 01:02:08,099
you are my dream

1201
01:02:08,767 --> 01:02:12,270
break off with me,
severin, before it's too late

1202
01:02:14,731 --> 01:02:15,857
do you love me?

1203
01:02:16,149 --> 01:02:17,150
I don't know

1204
01:02:17,734 --> 01:02:21,488
then find out,
do something to persuade yourself

1205
01:02:22,822 --> 01:02:23,865
how?

1206
01:02:24,366 --> 01:02:26,826
By doing what all lovers do

1207
01:02:27,786 --> 01:02:29,246
make me suffer

1208
01:02:29,579 --> 01:02:30,705
I find that repulsive

1209
01:02:31,248 --> 01:02:32,832
and I despise playacting

1210
01:02:33,708 --> 01:02:36,169
I am not your countess-aunt. I am I

1211
01:02:36,294 --> 01:02:38,338
try that again, defy him

1212
01:02:38,546 --> 01:02:41,591
I am not your countess-aunt. I am I

1213
01:02:41,716 --> 01:02:42,884
again, stronger

1214
01:02:43,009 --> 01:02:44,469
what do you want, Thomas?

1215
01:02:44,594 --> 01:02:47,472
I'm not your fucking aunt!
I am I, what do you want?

1216
01:02:47,597 --> 01:02:48,348
I don't know

1217
01:02:48,598 --> 01:02:50,600
this isn't about the play now

1218
01:02:50,725 --> 01:02:52,018
I just want more

1219
01:02:52,143 --> 01:02:55,480
I'm not her!
I'm some stupid cunt who needs a job!

1220
01:02:55,689 --> 01:02:57,857
I'm not your aunt, I am I

1221
01:02:58,191 --> 01:02:59,192
how's that?

1222
01:03:00,694 --> 01:03:02,654
That's good, very good

1223
01:03:04,281 --> 01:03:07,033
I can't play this part,
it's too hard for me

1224
01:03:07,575 --> 01:03:09,577
don't go, vanda, please stay

1225
01:03:13,373 --> 01:03:14,666
beg me

1226
01:03:16,376 --> 01:03:17,752
I beg you

1227
01:03:18,837 --> 01:03:19,879
you're evil

1228
01:03:20,005 --> 01:03:23,341
don't you see you have me in your power?

1229
01:03:24,134 --> 01:03:25,176
Liar

1230
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,222
you're not in my power, I'm in yours

1231
01:03:29,723 --> 01:03:32,517
you say you're my slave but you dominate me

1232
01:03:32,934 --> 01:03:33,934
that's true

1233
01:03:34,602 --> 01:03:37,856
he says she has power
but he has it, not her

1234
01:03:37,981 --> 01:03:41,109
the more he submits,
the more he controls. Weird

1235
01:03:41,234 --> 01:03:42,277
it's complicated

1236
01:03:51,161 --> 01:03:53,288
Here's the contract we discussed

1237
01:03:53,997 --> 01:03:58,293
it states that you will
show me absolute submission

1238
01:03:58,668 --> 01:04:00,086
you'll be my slave

1239
01:04:00,503 --> 01:04:03,214
you'll renounce your identity completely

1240
01:04:03,757 --> 01:04:05,842
your body, your soul

1241
01:04:05,967 --> 01:04:08,845
your honor will be mine forever

1242
01:04:11,598 --> 01:04:12,807
sign

1243
01:04:16,061 --> 01:04:17,061
well?

1244
01:04:17,896 --> 01:04:20,190
It was supposed to be one year

1245
01:04:20,315 --> 01:04:23,360
so you're dictating the terms?

1246
01:04:23,485 --> 01:04:24,694
May I read it?

1247
01:04:24,819 --> 01:04:26,946
Why? Don't you trust me?

1248
01:04:27,572 --> 01:04:28,572
Sign

1249
01:04:42,128 --> 01:04:43,128
Good

1250
01:04:47,550 --> 01:04:49,636
henceforth you'll call me "madame"

1251
01:04:49,761 --> 01:04:52,764
and you'll speak only when I let you

1252
01:04:59,896 --> 01:05:01,439
You'll serve me my meals

1253
01:05:01,856 --> 01:05:04,317
and wait in the hallway for my orders

1254
01:05:06,152 --> 01:05:09,072
you'll dress me in the morning,
undress me at night

1255
01:05:09,364 --> 01:05:12,283
hand me my stockings, put on my shoes

1256
01:05:12,575 --> 01:05:14,077
I'll call you "Thomas"

1257
01:05:14,202 --> 01:05:16,204
- it's Gregor in the script
- I've changed it

1258
01:05:16,454 --> 01:05:18,540
henceforth I'll call you "Thomas"

1259
01:05:19,749 --> 01:05:22,669
you'll wear a footman's livery

1260
01:05:22,794 --> 01:05:23,503
as a gentleman...

1261
01:05:23,628 --> 01:05:26,297
As a gentleman you'll keep your word

1262
01:05:26,881 --> 01:05:29,968
didn't you sign a contract to be my slave?

1263
01:05:30,093 --> 01:05:31,719
Your slave, not your valet

1264
01:05:31,845 --> 01:05:33,263
I fail to see the difference

1265
01:05:34,097 --> 01:05:35,598
is this a game?

1266
01:05:35,723 --> 01:05:37,308
This is what I am

1267
01:05:37,517 --> 01:05:39,519
I'm stubborn, willful and greedy

1268
01:05:39,644 --> 01:05:42,313
when I start something, I finish it

1269
01:05:42,689 --> 01:05:44,983
the more you resist, the more I insist

1270
01:05:45,150 --> 01:05:47,360
but at heart you're of a noble nature

1271
01:05:48,528 --> 01:05:51,698
what do you know of my nature
apart from your imaginings?

1272
01:05:51,823 --> 01:05:54,784
Please forgive me, I'm despicable

1273
01:05:55,326 --> 01:05:57,495
give me your passport and your money

1274
01:06:02,292 --> 01:06:03,292
give them to me!

1275
01:06:10,300 --> 01:06:12,302
We leave tomorrow for Florence

1276
01:06:13,970 --> 01:06:17,182
I'll travel in first class, you in third

1277
01:06:17,307 --> 01:06:18,308
third class?

1278
01:06:18,725 --> 01:06:21,561
You'll eat and sleep in
the servants' quarters

1279
01:06:23,271 --> 01:06:25,148
well, Thomas, what is it?

1280
01:06:25,356 --> 01:06:27,108
Where will all this end?

1281
01:06:27,525 --> 01:06:30,236
End? We haven't even started

1282
01:06:31,321 --> 01:06:32,614
but, vanda...

1283
01:06:32,739 --> 01:06:33,781
She slaps his face

1284
01:06:36,409 --> 01:06:37,952
she kisses him

1285
01:06:41,623 --> 01:06:43,291
she strokes his cheek

1286
01:06:44,501 --> 01:06:46,503
did that hurt, darling?

1287
01:06:47,378 --> 01:06:49,214
Yes, exquisitely

1288
01:06:49,339 --> 01:06:50,339
good

1289
01:06:56,429 --> 01:06:58,473
What have you learned
about the handsome Greek?

1290
01:06:59,265 --> 01:07:02,018
His name is Alexis, he's a count

1291
01:07:02,519 --> 01:07:04,312
he's beautiful, isn't he?

1292
01:07:04,479 --> 01:07:05,813
H e's very attractive

1293
01:07:05,939 --> 01:07:08,441
I told you kushemski's hot for the Greek

1294
01:07:14,364 --> 01:07:18,451
Get me a box near his at the opera tonight

1295
01:07:20,036 --> 01:07:22,747
I'll let count Alexis seduce me

1296
01:07:25,667 --> 01:07:26,667
but...

1297
01:07:27,460 --> 01:07:28,670
What's the matter?

1298
01:07:29,254 --> 01:07:31,506
Am I not free to do as I like?

1299
01:07:32,465 --> 01:07:33,466
You electrify me

1300
01:07:33,591 --> 01:07:34,634
silence, you dog

1301
01:07:35,093 --> 01:07:37,595
bring me a birch cane

1302
01:07:50,733 --> 01:07:51,943
He brings her a cane

1303
01:07:57,115 --> 01:07:58,616
Do you hear that whistle?

1304
01:07:59,033 --> 01:08:01,661
It makes my nerves vibrate

1305
01:08:01,911 --> 01:08:02,996
like a tuning fork

1306
01:08:03,121 --> 01:08:04,789
I want to hear you whimper under the lash

1307
01:08:04,914 --> 01:08:08,793
to hear herr doktor kushemski cry,
cry like a little girl

1308
01:08:09,043 --> 01:08:11,087
my heart pounds in my breast

1309
01:08:11,212 --> 01:08:12,547
the air is on fire

1310
01:08:12,672 --> 01:08:14,632
what have you done?

1311
01:08:14,757 --> 01:08:16,676
Blah, blah, blah

1312
01:08:16,801 --> 01:08:18,595
what, blah, blah, blah?

1313
01:08:18,803 --> 01:08:21,723
Suddenly she's the wicked witch?

1314
01:08:21,806 --> 01:08:24,767
The air is on fire, my
nerves are tuning forks

1315
01:08:25,226 --> 01:08:28,104
why not lightning and drumrolls too?

1316
01:08:30,690 --> 01:08:32,734
Listen, Tom, I really like you

1317
01:08:32,859 --> 01:08:36,571
but this is way too corny

1318
01:08:36,946 --> 01:08:37,946
corny?

1319
01:08:38,948 --> 01:08:41,492
Corny how? This is the play

1320
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:43,286
my play!

1321
01:08:43,536 --> 01:08:44,912
It's a great play!

1322
01:08:45,038 --> 01:08:47,707
No one will make me think otherwise

1323
01:08:47,832 --> 01:08:49,626
you know nothing

1324
01:09:00,011 --> 01:09:03,097
I won't let anyone demolish my work

1325
01:09:03,348 --> 01:09:05,725
whether you're in it or not! Fuck you

1326
01:09:05,850 --> 01:09:07,560
ok, it's your call

1327
01:09:09,896 --> 01:09:12,231
she holds a knife to his throat

1328
01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:19,697
God, I despise you

1329
01:09:21,157 --> 01:09:23,201
what are you doing, what is this, vanda?

1330
01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:26,079
You think I don't understand your game?

1331
01:09:26,287 --> 01:09:29,082
You think you can use me, subjugate me?

1332
01:09:29,207 --> 01:09:31,334
I want no such thing

1333
01:09:31,584 --> 01:09:34,879
if you knew how delicious this feels

1334
01:09:37,256 --> 01:09:38,257
you know what?

1335
01:09:38,883 --> 01:09:40,510
I'll call actors' equity

1336
01:09:40,635 --> 01:09:43,304
since you won't say if I've got the part

1337
01:09:43,429 --> 01:09:44,597
I'd love to give you the part

1338
01:09:44,722 --> 01:09:48,267
you say that now.
Will you put it in writing?

1339
01:09:52,980 --> 01:09:55,233
Screw you, Marie-cecile!

1340
01:09:55,525 --> 01:09:58,194
I'm still finishing up here

1341
01:09:58,319 --> 01:10:00,446
he's fucking me, Marie-cecile!

1342
01:10:00,905 --> 01:10:02,782
Fucking me up the ass

1343
01:10:02,907 --> 01:10:03,907
no idea, soon

1344
01:10:03,991 --> 01:10:06,160
banging me like a labrador!

1345
01:10:06,994 --> 01:10:12,083
Go ahead and eat, I'll be there soon

1346
01:10:14,711 --> 01:10:17,880
isn't there some lamb left from yesterday?

1347
01:10:19,549 --> 01:10:21,759
I'll call you when I leave

1348
01:10:22,176 --> 01:10:23,845
see you later

1349
01:10:42,572 --> 01:10:43,781
Yeah, fine

1350
01:10:45,992 --> 01:10:47,243
I don't know

1351
01:10:48,411 --> 01:10:50,371
I'll be home when I'm home

1352
01:10:51,539 --> 01:10:53,791
go fuck yourself

1353
01:10:55,543 --> 01:10:56,543
sorry

1354
01:10:56,669 --> 01:10:58,713
there was nobody there, right?

1355
01:10:59,213 --> 01:11:00,213
What?

1356
01:11:00,965 --> 01:11:03,593
You were pretending to talk to someone

1357
01:11:03,718 --> 01:11:05,219
that was my other half

1358
01:11:06,512 --> 01:11:09,724
- who is this guy?
- Who said it's a guy?

1359
01:11:12,643 --> 01:11:14,645
Why did you do that?

1360
01:11:15,229 --> 01:11:16,355
Why do you think?

1361
01:11:17,648 --> 01:11:20,735
You didn't like me answering my phone

1362
01:11:20,902 --> 01:11:23,446
like female revenge, or something?

1363
01:11:23,571 --> 01:11:26,032
Something like that, like

1364
01:11:27,742 --> 01:11:30,536
any other director woulda jumped me by now

1365
01:11:30,995 --> 01:11:33,414
I'm not any other director

1366
01:11:33,539 --> 01:11:34,539
bullshit

1367
01:11:34,874 --> 01:11:37,585
if you thought you
could, you'd have done it

1368
01:11:37,877 --> 01:11:38,877
wrong

1369
01:11:40,546 --> 01:11:42,298
what if I let you?

1370
01:11:45,718 --> 01:11:48,429
How do you know
so much about Marie-cecile?

1371
01:11:49,430 --> 01:11:51,224
I met her at the gym

1372
01:11:51,557 --> 01:11:52,557
sure...

1373
01:11:53,226 --> 01:11:55,061
She seemed real nice

1374
01:11:55,478 --> 01:11:57,855
gorgeous too. Really

1375
01:11:59,232 --> 01:12:02,026
we got talking while we were undressing

1376
01:12:02,151 --> 01:12:04,362
girl talk, like

1377
01:12:05,738 --> 01:12:08,616
I said I gave up acting to be a private eye

1378
01:12:08,741 --> 01:12:10,910
or try to be

1379
01:12:11,786 --> 01:12:13,371
she told me about her boyfriend

1380
01:12:14,205 --> 01:12:16,666
a mysterious guy, a writer

1381
01:12:17,792 --> 01:12:20,628
she paid me to look into you

1382
01:12:21,337 --> 01:12:25,049
find out who you are,
see if you really love her

1383
01:12:25,967 --> 01:12:28,094
a premarital fact-finding mission

1384
01:12:30,221 --> 01:12:33,724
your criminal record,
financial situation...

1385
01:12:42,650 --> 01:12:43,943
I'm supposed to meet her

1386
01:12:44,402 --> 01:12:45,945
at the hotel later

1387
01:12:46,821 --> 01:12:49,240
for a complete report

1388
01:12:49,949 --> 01:12:52,577
great body, by the way, congratulations

1389
01:12:53,536 --> 01:12:55,246
you're incredible

1390
01:12:56,581 --> 01:12:59,166
when a man says that, I sense a trick

1391
01:12:59,292 --> 01:13:00,418
touche

1392
01:13:05,214 --> 01:13:07,884
Marie-cecile never showers at the gym

1393
01:13:08,175 --> 01:13:09,175
really?

1394
01:13:10,177 --> 01:13:11,512
She sure was wet

1395
01:13:13,639 --> 01:13:14,765
shall we finish?

1396
01:13:16,434 --> 01:13:17,434
Yes

1397
01:13:18,477 --> 01:13:19,477
put this on

1398
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:51,260
Thomas, you kept me waiting

1399
01:13:51,594 --> 01:13:53,095
I'm sorry, madame

1400
01:13:53,220 --> 01:13:54,722
I was polishing the silver

1401
01:13:55,473 --> 01:13:58,434
you look very elegant in livery

1402
01:13:58,559 --> 01:13:59,602
thank you, madame

1403
01:13:59,894 --> 01:14:00,895
turn around

1404
01:14:03,064 --> 01:14:04,064
oh, yes

1405
01:14:04,148 --> 01:14:06,317
quite irresistible

1406
01:14:07,652 --> 01:14:10,196
I could forget you're just a footman

1407
01:14:11,989 --> 01:14:14,075
but something is missing

1408
01:14:14,241 --> 01:14:16,035
hold on, that's not in the...

1409
01:14:16,285 --> 01:14:17,411
I'm improvising

1410
01:14:18,079 --> 01:14:20,331
something is missing

1411
01:14:34,887 --> 01:14:38,808
Very fetching, the cherry on the cupcake

1412
01:14:39,517 --> 01:14:40,517
feels nice?

1413
01:14:40,977 --> 01:14:43,020
It feels very nice, madame

1414
01:14:43,437 --> 01:14:47,066
I might fall in love with you,
dressed like that

1415
01:14:47,483 --> 01:14:49,151
might fall...?

1416
01:14:49,694 --> 01:14:51,237
So you don't love me?

1417
01:14:51,362 --> 01:14:53,781
You bore me, whimpering all the time

1418
01:14:53,906 --> 01:14:54,906
you bore me

1419
01:14:55,241 --> 01:14:56,492
is it the count?

1420
01:14:56,867 --> 01:14:58,285
Are you in love with him?

1421
01:14:58,619 --> 01:15:00,496
Is it my fault he followed me here?

1422
01:15:00,621 --> 01:15:03,749
He doesn't love you.
He wants you like a thousand others!

1423
01:15:03,874 --> 01:15:06,377
Insolent swine! How dare you?

1424
01:15:06,961 --> 01:15:08,295
Bring me my boots

1425
01:15:08,879 --> 01:15:09,880
yes, madame

1426
01:15:12,216 --> 01:15:13,676
not there, in the bag

1427
01:15:14,552 --> 01:15:15,552
idiot

1428
01:15:15,886 --> 01:15:16,886
yes, madame

1429
01:15:17,555 --> 01:15:20,725
and call me "mistress," it's more degrading

1430
01:15:21,100 --> 01:15:22,560
yes, mistress

1431
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:39,618
Do you like my boots?

1432
01:15:41,579 --> 01:15:42,955
Yes, mistress

1433
01:15:43,581 --> 01:15:45,041
would you like to put them on?

1434
01:15:46,375 --> 01:15:48,169
Yes, mistress

1435
01:15:49,170 --> 01:15:50,880
I mean on me

1436
01:15:51,672 --> 01:15:53,507
yes, mistress

1437
01:17:34,066 --> 01:17:36,485
Tomorrow, I might tie you

1438
01:17:36,610 --> 01:17:38,028
to the fig tree in the garden

1439
01:17:38,154 --> 01:17:41,073
and prick you with my golden hairpin

1440
01:17:43,951 --> 01:17:44,994
or...

1441
01:17:45,786 --> 01:17:48,164
Harness you naked to a plow

1442
01:17:48,289 --> 01:17:50,416
and drive you with a whip

1443
01:17:55,045 --> 01:17:56,839
would you like that?

1444
01:17:57,798 --> 01:17:59,216
Oh yes, mistress

1445
01:18:00,593 --> 01:18:02,678
I'm very pleased with you, Thomas

1446
01:18:03,637 --> 01:18:05,681
maybe I'll give you a candy

1447
01:18:07,474 --> 01:18:09,602
is there anything else, mistress?

1448
01:18:09,727 --> 01:18:11,270
Yes, one last thing

1449
01:18:12,146 --> 01:18:15,274
call Marie-cecile, say you won't be home

1450
01:18:16,609 --> 01:18:17,610
I can't do that

1451
01:18:17,776 --> 01:18:18,776
really?

1452
01:18:20,446 --> 01:18:21,446
You can't?

1453
01:18:22,656 --> 01:18:23,782
No, I can't

1454
01:18:39,673 --> 01:18:41,634
No phony excuses

1455
01:18:48,474 --> 01:18:50,392
Marie-cecile, it's me

1456
01:18:50,643 --> 01:18:52,353
I won't be coming home

1457
01:18:52,937 --> 01:18:54,438
I won't be coming home

1458
01:18:54,563 --> 01:18:55,563
no excuses

1459
01:18:56,023 --> 01:18:57,316
I can't tell you why

1460
01:18:57,441 --> 01:18:58,441
say goodbye

1461
01:18:58,734 --> 01:18:59,734
goodbye

1462
01:19:00,736 --> 01:19:02,446
now turn it off

1463
01:19:09,578 --> 01:19:10,788
Isn't it wonderful?

1464
01:19:12,331 --> 01:19:14,708
The two of us alone here

1465
01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:18,254
this place is so nice

1466
01:19:18,796 --> 01:19:20,130
so secluded

1467
01:19:20,798 --> 01:19:22,758
I hardly know where I am

1468
01:19:23,676 --> 01:19:24,677
come

1469
01:19:25,803 --> 01:19:28,305
a new life lies before you, before us

1470
01:19:28,847 --> 01:19:30,057
just the two of us

1471
01:19:33,269 --> 01:19:35,854
the two of us and your friend the count

1472
01:19:36,814 --> 01:19:38,983
I wish you'd stop harping on him

1473
01:19:40,150 --> 01:19:42,611
I don't punish you enough,
that's the problem

1474
01:19:43,487 --> 01:19:46,365
just as I was about
to take you in my arms

1475
01:19:47,616 --> 01:19:48,616
you were going to?

1476
01:19:49,451 --> 01:19:50,202
Really?

1477
01:19:50,369 --> 01:19:51,369
Come

1478
01:19:52,413 --> 01:19:53,413
come here

1479
01:20:02,715 --> 01:20:03,882
Put your arms around me

1480
01:20:08,178 --> 01:20:09,178
you see?

1481
01:20:10,347 --> 01:20:13,809
For an hour I can let you
imagine you're free again

1482
01:20:14,059 --> 01:20:15,644
you simpleton

1483
01:20:16,895 --> 01:20:20,274
you'll realize you're what I want you to be

1484
01:20:20,733 --> 01:20:21,942
an animal

1485
01:20:22,735 --> 01:20:23,777
an object

1486
01:20:24,445 --> 01:20:26,822
a void for me to fill

1487
01:20:29,325 --> 01:20:31,577
I won't accept it

1488
01:20:32,077 --> 01:20:34,538
I won't do it! I refuse

1489
01:20:34,663 --> 01:20:35,663
I beg your pardon?

1490
01:20:36,790 --> 01:20:38,208
I've written you a letter

1491
01:20:38,375 --> 01:20:39,418
a letter?

1492
01:20:40,044 --> 01:20:42,421
To break off with me, perhaps?

1493
01:20:42,921 --> 01:20:46,800
The degradation you craved
is too much to bear?

1494
01:20:47,634 --> 01:20:50,012
The degradation you craved...

1495
01:20:50,596 --> 01:20:52,181
I don't know how to play this line

1496
01:20:52,306 --> 01:20:53,515
what do you mean?

1497
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:56,560
It's pretty straightforward

1498
01:20:56,685 --> 01:20:59,897
how do you hear it?

1499
01:21:00,189 --> 01:21:02,941
It's when... what's the cue line?

1500
01:21:03,067 --> 01:21:04,693
I've written you a letter

1501
01:21:04,818 --> 01:21:05,819
a letter?

1502
01:21:06,737 --> 01:21:09,615
To break off with me, perhaps?

1503
01:21:10,282 --> 01:21:12,326
The degradation you craved...

1504
01:21:12,451 --> 01:21:13,494
Lie down

1505
01:21:15,954 --> 01:21:18,040
the degradation you craved

1506
01:21:18,165 --> 01:21:20,334
is too much to bear?

1507
01:21:21,251 --> 01:21:23,337
You've probably carried it for days

1508
01:21:23,921 --> 01:21:26,382
afraid to show it to me

1509
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:27,840
well then?

1510
01:21:28,300 --> 01:21:31,553
Where is it? Show me this masterpiece

1511
01:21:33,639 --> 01:21:35,974
I could use some entertainment

1512
01:21:36,809 --> 01:21:39,686
that's great, Tom, that's awesome!

1513
01:21:40,521 --> 01:21:41,814
You should play vanda

1514
01:21:42,106 --> 01:21:43,106
no, uh-uh

1515
01:21:43,982 --> 01:21:45,609
you should

1516
01:21:46,276 --> 01:21:47,569
be vanda

1517
01:21:49,863 --> 01:21:51,865
you understand her better than I do

1518
01:21:52,074 --> 01:21:55,119
you created her, you know her inside out

1519
01:21:55,828 --> 01:21:57,121
I don't know her lines

1520
01:21:57,246 --> 01:21:59,206
of course you do

1521
01:22:03,377 --> 01:22:04,795
be careful, severin

1522
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:06,505
I'm doing my best, mistress

1523
01:22:06,630 --> 01:22:09,216
as usual, your best is not good enough

1524
01:22:23,814 --> 01:22:25,524
Bring me my fur

1525
01:22:25,816 --> 01:22:27,151
yes, mistress

1526
01:22:29,319 --> 01:22:32,197
prepare a bottle of
champagne and two glasses

1527
01:22:32,322 --> 01:22:34,616
count Alexis will be here soon

1528
01:22:34,741 --> 01:22:35,617
but, mistress...

1529
01:22:35,742 --> 01:22:38,537
If you don't like it, leave!
Get out of my sight

1530
01:22:40,164 --> 01:22:42,541
your fur, mistress

1531
01:22:48,630 --> 01:22:51,091
Will you marry count Alexis, mistress?

1532
01:22:51,925 --> 01:22:55,721
I won't lie to you, severin,
that man makes me tremble

1533
01:22:56,597 --> 01:22:57,639
fantastic

1534
01:22:58,474 --> 01:22:59,474
hold on...

1535
01:23:00,767 --> 01:23:01,767
Sit down

1536
01:23:07,983 --> 01:23:09,693
He dwells in my thoughts

1537
01:23:11,695 --> 01:23:13,489
I can't shut him out

1538
01:24:04,790 --> 01:24:06,166
He dwells in my thoughts

1539
01:24:06,291 --> 01:24:07,751
and I can't shut him out

1540
01:24:10,462 --> 01:24:11,713
he makes me suffer

1541
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:12,880
magnificent!

1542
01:24:13,006 --> 01:24:14,383
I love this pain

1543
01:24:14,508 --> 01:24:16,552
stand up and cross down

1544
01:24:32,609 --> 01:24:33,402
If he asks me to be his wife

1545
01:24:33,527 --> 01:24:36,697
I will say yes from the bottom of my heart

1546
01:24:37,239 --> 01:24:38,490
you're terrific!

1547
01:24:42,327 --> 01:24:44,663
You know he's jealous of you?

1548
01:24:46,999 --> 01:24:49,334
I've told him all about us

1549
01:24:49,918 --> 01:24:52,254
he probably threatened to kill you

1550
01:24:53,714 --> 01:24:54,715
he did

1551
01:24:55,132 --> 01:24:56,550
did he strike you?

1552
01:24:57,175 --> 01:24:57,968
Yes

1553
01:24:58,093 --> 01:24:59,428
and you let him?

1554
01:24:59,636 --> 01:25:01,430
Yes, and it was sublime

1555
01:25:01,555 --> 01:25:02,639
more!

1556
01:25:06,518 --> 01:25:09,813
Yes, and it was sublime

1557
01:25:09,938 --> 01:25:12,107
go on, throw it in his face

1558
01:25:12,232 --> 01:25:13,232
yes!

1559
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:14,860
And it was sublime!

1560
01:25:16,403 --> 01:25:17,613
I'll kill you both

1561
01:25:17,946 --> 01:25:20,365
I'll rip out your hearts
and feed them to the dogs!

1562
01:25:21,617 --> 01:25:24,911
God damn you

1563
01:25:25,037 --> 01:25:27,581
yes, kill me, severin!

1564
01:25:27,914 --> 01:25:30,167
I can't bear this game anymore

1565
01:25:30,334 --> 01:25:32,878
game, what game?

1566
01:25:33,587 --> 01:25:35,464
How can you love me?

1567
01:25:35,631 --> 01:25:38,467
I've been awful to you, don't you see?

1568
01:25:38,842 --> 01:25:41,678
I did all this to save you, to cure you

1569
01:25:41,803 --> 01:25:43,805
to show how much I love you

1570
01:25:46,391 --> 01:25:47,768
so none of that was true?

1571
01:25:48,018 --> 01:25:49,436
None of it

1572
01:25:50,062 --> 01:25:52,230
it was just a game, an act?

1573
01:25:53,023 --> 01:25:54,232
What of the contract?

1574
01:25:54,399 --> 01:25:56,318
The contract...

1575
01:25:58,362 --> 01:26:01,323
My sweet little fool

1576
01:26:06,078 --> 01:26:10,165
severin, I've loved
you since I first saw you

1577
01:26:10,874 --> 01:26:14,503
I couldn't tell you I'm not what you think

1578
01:26:14,628 --> 01:26:17,631
I'm so weak, so lost, you see

1579
01:26:17,798 --> 01:26:18,798
notbad

1580
01:26:19,716 --> 01:26:21,718
you should subjugate me

1581
01:26:22,344 --> 01:26:25,013
you should tie me up, whip me

1582
01:26:25,514 --> 01:26:28,642
I'll tie you to the statue
with your stockings

1583
01:26:28,934 --> 01:26:30,352
you want that, don't you?

1584
01:26:30,477 --> 01:26:32,896
Oh, yes, I beseech you

1585
01:26:37,067 --> 01:26:40,070
do with me what you will

1586
01:26:41,238 --> 01:26:43,532
promise me you'll never leave me

1587
01:26:43,657 --> 01:26:46,243
I'll never leave you, I swear

1588
01:26:56,962 --> 01:26:58,088
Stand up!

1589
01:27:14,938 --> 01:27:15,938
Hands!

1590
01:27:20,777 --> 01:27:22,738
I've dreamed of this

1591
01:27:22,863 --> 01:27:24,322
since I first met you

1592
01:27:24,448 --> 01:27:26,533
stronger! More!

1593
01:27:27,117 --> 01:27:28,368
Humiliate me

1594
01:27:29,035 --> 01:27:31,496
degrade me, subjugate me!

1595
01:27:33,206 --> 01:27:35,125
That's good, Tom

1596
01:27:35,292 --> 01:27:37,419
really very good

1597
01:27:37,753 --> 01:27:38,920
brilliant

1598
01:27:39,379 --> 01:27:40,797
know what the problem is?

1599
01:27:41,298 --> 01:27:43,216
Whatever you say,
whatever you do, this play

1600
01:27:43,341 --> 01:27:44,885
is degrading

1601
01:27:45,093 --> 01:27:47,971
an insult to women, pornography!

1602
01:27:48,096 --> 01:27:49,639
What are you talking about?

1603
01:27:49,931 --> 01:27:50,974
Just look at you

1604
01:27:51,558 --> 01:27:52,934
a damsel in distress

1605
01:27:53,059 --> 01:27:54,936
a helpless, submissive cunt

1606
01:27:55,061 --> 01:27:56,813
beat me, hurt me, I'm a woman!

1607
01:27:56,938 --> 01:27:57,981
Fuck!

1608
01:27:58,648 --> 01:27:59,775
Fucking hell!

1609
01:28:01,985 --> 01:28:03,528
Strong emotions

1610
01:28:04,070 --> 01:28:05,322
that's good

1611
01:28:05,530 --> 01:28:07,699
we no longer see this kind of rage

1612
01:28:08,074 --> 01:28:09,201
vanda...

1613
01:28:10,827 --> 01:28:11,912
Thank me

1614
01:28:13,538 --> 01:28:14,538
thank you

1615
01:28:15,707 --> 01:28:16,708
thank you what?

1616
01:28:17,417 --> 01:28:19,544
Thank you, mistress

1617
01:28:20,504 --> 01:28:23,340
you thought you could
dupe some idiot actress?

1618
01:28:23,507 --> 01:28:25,759
Use her to satisfy your sick needs?

1619
01:28:26,134 --> 01:28:28,929
Create your own female
Frankenstein monster?

1620
01:28:29,054 --> 01:28:31,181
Use me, humiliate me?

1621
01:28:31,306 --> 01:28:33,058
No, vanda, I swear

1622
01:28:34,226 --> 01:28:36,061
thank you, mistress

1623
01:28:36,186 --> 01:28:38,021
thank you, goddess

1624
01:28:38,688 --> 01:28:39,898
thank you...

1625
01:28:40,565 --> 01:28:41,775
Goddess

1626
01:29:19,437 --> 01:29:20,437
Shit!

1627
01:29:46,631 --> 01:29:50,844
Berries of the cadmea

1628
01:29:50,969 --> 01:29:55,682
dance for dionysus!

1629
01:31:19,808 --> 01:31:24,229
And the lord hath smitten him...

1630
01:31:25,021 --> 01:31:29,734
And delivered him into a woman's hands