Georgia'n Catacombs: Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

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Directed by Mike Figgis

Written by: Mike Figgis / John O'Brien (original novel)

Main Cast: Nicolas Cage as BEN and Elisabeth Shue as SERA

I have transcribed all these quotes myself except the very first one (which I found at The Internet Movie Database). I have been very careful to get exactly what they said and I have placed them in chronological order. Included are some descriptions of the situation.

Ben: (speaking into an audio tape recorder while waiting in line at a bank, he's imagening the teller who is an attractive young lady.)

Are you desirable? Are you irresistable? Maybe if you drank bourbon with me, it would help. Maybe if you kissed me and I could taste the sting in your mouth it would help. If you drank bourbon with me naked. If you smelled of bourbon as you fucked me, it would help. It would increase my esteem for you. If you poured bourbon onto your naked body and said to me "drink this". If you spread your legs and you had bourbon dripping from your breasts and your pussy and said "drink here" then I could fall in love with you. Because then I would have a purpose. To clean you up and that, that would prove that I'm worth something. I'd lick you clean so that you could go away and fuck someone else.

Sera: That was a red light. I walk, you stop. Your sorry?

Ben: Yeah.

Sera: Good. (walks away from his car and then she stops and shows him the 'Fuck you' sign)

(within a day or two; outside on a bench)
Sera: What's up?

Ben: I was looking for you tonight. I don't know if you have a boyfriend, or a girlfriend, but if you have some free time I thought maybe we could...some dinner.

Sera: Are you serious?

Ben: Oh, I think you know I'm serious.

Sera: (pause) No, I can't have dinner with you. (walks away from Ben)

Ben: (pause-doesn't see her leave) We could have prime rib. They got it on sale for $2.99. I love your dress.

Ben: (as she gets into his car) Sarah with an "H"?

Sera: With an "E", S-E-R-A, Sera.

(just after the drive, in his hotel room)

Sera: (with a straight, serious face) So for five hundred bucks you can do perty much what ever you want. You can fuck my ass.

Ben: (freaking out) Oh, my god.

Sera: You can cum on my face.

Ben: Oh. (shocked, shy)

Sera: What ever you want to do. Just keep it out of my hair.

Ben: Okay.

Sera: I just washed it.

(afterwards in bed)

Sera: I think that the tough times are finally behind me. I mean there will always be bad things, but my life is good. It is as I want it to be. It's good. It's good being here...with you.

(in a restaurant)

Sera: So why are you a drunk?

Ben: Why am I a drunk? Is that really what you want to ask me?

Sera: Yes.

Ben: Well, then this is our first date or our last. Until now I wasn't sure it was either.

Sera: First, it's our first. I, I just want to know why you're killing yourself.

Ben: Interesting choice of words. I don't remember. I just know that I want to.

Sera: Are you saying that your drinking is a way of killing yourself?

Ben: Or killing myself is a way to drink.

Sera: Very clever.

(later on that night at the hotel while they are in bed)

Ben: You're some kind of antidote mixes with the liqur and keeps me in balance, but that won't last forever.

Sera: Well, okay. Alright you go back to your hotel and I'll go back to my glamorous life of being alone. The only thing I have to come home to is a bottle of mouthwash to get the taste of cum out of my mouth. I'm tired of being alone. That's what I'm tired of.

Sera: Don't you like me Ben?

Ben: Se-ra, what you don't understand is...no, see, no...you can never, never ask me to stop drinking. Do you understand?

Sera: I do, I really do.

Ben: Yes. I'm nuts about you. Okay? (then purs himself another drink and drinks it)

(he spoke about paying the rent)

Ben: I'll tell you right now...I'm in love with you, but be that as it may I am not here to force my twisted soul into your life

Sera: I know that

Ben: We both know I'm a drunk and I know you're a hooker. I hope you understand that I'm a person who is totally as ease with this. Which is not to say that I am indifferent or that I don't care. I do. It simply means I trust and accept your judgement.

Sera: I was really worried about how that would be, but now I'm not, but you should know that included in the rent around here is a complimentary blow job.

Ben: Ah, yes, I suppose sooner or later we atta fuck.

Sera: What ever that means.

(in her apartment, they have been talking and she has brought him some bags of gifts)

Sera: That's nice talk Ben, keep drinking. between the one hundered and one proof breath and the occasional drool some interesting words fall from your mouth.

(a few minutes later as he's opening his second gift, it's a sterling silver hip flask bottle)

Ben: (rather stund) Well it looks like I'm with the right girl. I must say I'm impressed you would buy this for me. I'm gonna fill it right now.

(talk about going out and gambling)

Ben: Giving you money makes me want to cum.

Sera: (pauses)Then cum.

(in her bed after being kicked out of the casino because he freaks out, he asked her what happened since he doesn't remember anything after the casino, she tells him how she talked to them and got him home )

Ben: It's amazing, what are you? Some sort of angel visiting me from one of my drunk fantasies. How can you be so good?

Sera: (turns over in bed, away from him, hiding her face) I don't know what you're saying. I'm just using you. I need you.

(still in bed Ben starts to caress her back and he pushes her nighty aside and sees the nasty, long knife scar that Yurri, her former pimp gave her)

Sera: (trying to distract him) Ben, I'm working tonight.

Ben: (low and kinda sad) I know.

(in a nice restaurant, Ben gives her a pair of attractive earrings as a gift; she's having problems putting them on so he leans over to help)

Ben:(whispering into her ear) You'll be able to feel it sharp and hot under your ear, as one of the brothers is putting your head facedown in one of the penthouse pillows

(he pulls away and sits back, they stair at one another for some time, her sad and hurt and him dazed and sad; he gets up to leave) Sera: Ben! Wait!

( a stranger stops him before he leaves)

Stranger: Maybe you should wait, maybe.

Ben: Why?

Stranger: You can tell, she really wants you to.
Ben: (he looks back at her getting ready to join him and he pauses)

(just a bit later in her apartment, as she's getting ready for work; she steps out of the shower with wet hair, in a robe)

Ben: Wow! Maybe I should follow you around and ask one of your trix what it's like to sleep with you.

Sera: (dead pan) They wouldn't know. Maybe you should ask me sometime. I'd be happy to show you.

(just a bit later in her apartment, as she's about to go to work]

Sera: I'm going to be home around three (A.M.) if your back we can watch some TV or something. I guess what I'm saying is that I hope you'll be back when I get home. Be careful.

Ben: You be careful too. I'm going to miss you.

(the next day; outside by the pool in a motel in the dessert; Ben has just stumbled into a glass table and has shards of glass in his back)

Ben: I'm a prickly pear, ha, ha, ha, I'm a prickly pear.

(later at her apartment eating dinner, Ben is trying to eat some plain rice, the first ffod he's had in days)

Sera: I want you to see a doctor.

Ben: Se-ra. I'm not going to see a doctor. Maybe it's time I move to a hotel.

Sera: And do what? Rot away in a room. We're not going to talk about that. Fuck you. We're not going to talk about that. You're staying here, you're not going to any motel. I mean there's just one thing you can do for me, just one thing, that's all I ask. I've given you gallons of good will here, you can do this one thing for me.

Sera: (pause)I have to go to work.

(she leaves and Ben it trying to pick up an icecube from his glass with the chopsticks, he succeds and eats it)

(In a hotel room some time later, Ben called Sera up and she goes to him)

Sera: Your so sick, so pale. My love, your my love. Do you want help? Do you want my help?

Ben: No, I want to see you. Your my angel.

Sera: I'm right here, I'm right here.

Ben: (he looks at her and touches her bruised face from getting beaten and raped by three youths just before)What happened?

Sera: Something went wrong, but I'm okay, I'm okay.

Ben: I saw (mumbles something and takes a drink from a bottle)

Sera: Ben it's okay, it's okay.

Ben: (starts to masterbate under the covers)

Sera: Let me do it. (starts to masterbate him) There, there you go, there.

Ben: See how hard you make me angel?

Sera: (she rises above him and starts intercourse)

Ben: You know I love you, ya?

Sera: Ya, I know. (shushes him to be quiet) I love you, I love you.

(later on after they both slept a bit)

Ben: (he wakes up with Sera wraped by his side and looks at her, lets out a sound like WOW under his breath and dies quietly)

(in a room, Sera is talking to someone that we can't see or hear)

Sera: I think the thing is we both realized that we didn't have that much time and I accepted him for who he was and I didn't expect him to change and I think he felt that from me too. I liked his (sounds like "trauma" or "drama") and he needed me. I loved him (pause) I really loved him.

THE END