FLASH ON:
INT. GIRL'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
CAMERA DOLLIES AROUND a young GIRL (20s) on the phone.
GIRL
That sounds like fun, Frank.
I love seafood.
CUT TO:
INT. FRANK'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
Frank on the phone.
FRANK
So I'll see you about 7:30?
Great, then. Bye-bye, Cindy.
He hangs up.
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INT. GIRL'S HOUSE - ANOTHER NIGHT
CAMERA (HAND HELD) follows behind the GIRL as she walks from the kitchen
to the front door, shaking her head, huffing and puffing....
FRANK (VO)
You wait until about nine o'clock
and you ring the doorbell.
She opens the door and sees FRANK, crying and hysterical.
FRANK (VO)
She opens it up, pissed as hell, but
finds you sobbing your eyes out --
Frank looks up at her and says:
FRANK
...I can't believe what happened...
Frank and the Girl sit down on the couch together.
FRANK (VO)
You explain between sobs that you hit
a dog on the way over to pick her up
and you had to rush it to the animal
hospital but by the time you got there --
FRANK
...and it's paw was sticking out...
and it was too late. It was too late.
She moves in and hugs him.
GIRL
Ohhh, shhhh...shhh...Frank...
CUT TO:
INT. HOLIDAY INN/BANQUET ROOM - THAT MOMENT
Frank is cracking himself up. He continues.
FRANK
I can't believe I'm telling you guys this,
but the truly terrifying part is that: THIS WORKS.
Any girl that calls herself your friend is not
gonna let you be alone in a situation like that.
Technique #2: Staging a fight.
This is not knock down, drag out, crying
screaming, yelling -- this is a simple,
direct and subtle way of planting confusion
into a girl's mind. Remember we are using
reinforcement technique "G" with these women.
Here's how:
CUT TO:
INT. GIRL'S HOUSE - NIGHT
The Girl picks up her phone and presses some numbers...
FRANK (VO)
One day, she calls you up on the phone...
CUT TO:
INT. FRANK'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Frank picks up the phone.
FRANK
Hello?
GIRL
Hey, Frank. It's Cindy. I'm wondering
if you wanna grab a bite and see a movie?
FRANK (VO)
You very directly say:
FRANK
"I don't think I have anything to say
to you, Cindy."
Frank hangs up the phone.
CUT TO:
INT. GIRL'S HOUSE - THAT MOMENT
The Girl gets the dial tone. She looks completely confused and hurt.
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INT. HOLIDAY INN/BANQUET ROOM - BACK TO SCENE
Frank speaking to the group:
FRANK
Let her wonder what she did wrong.
CAMERA DOES A SLOW DOLLY IN. Frank's tone changes a bit, gets darker:
FRANK
This is the way...because they will
always wonder, "What did I do?"
"What could I have done different?"
"How should I behave to get this back?"
And if they think that way -- then they
are asking for you to hurt them and
That Is What You Must Do. That is what
you must do which is punish them many,
many times over.
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