Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Tales from the Old New Land - Scene 2 first half Middle Draft

(Hard cut to Scene 2)


(4 of Reb Yaakov's sons smoking cigarettes in the Jewish cemetary)

Gad: (imitating his father) They do the mitzvahs, they go to shul, they work so hard, they help their Mameh, they help your Mamehs...

Asher: Oh we help their Mamehs... (they all laugh)

Dan: Hey, roll me one too. 

Naphtali: You sure? Every time I roll you a papiros sound like you're gonna huss out Rabbi Schkop! 

Asher: How do you know we didn't ground der Rebbe into tabacco?

Gad: His headstone's right there! Why don't you ask him? 

Asher: Why don't I? 

(hear a fly unzip, Asher pishes on the Rebbe's headstone)

Dan: Oh don't fucking pish on the Rebbe!

Gad: Don't curse in the cemetery! 

Naphtali: Who's gonna hear us?

Gad: You don't wanna tempt the evil eye. 

Asher: What evil eye? You ever see it?

Gad: Mameh's in labor! Just don't do it today, wait to do drek like this tomorrow! 

Asher: I'm not shitting I'm pishing! 

Gad: Alright take a shit in the fucking ocean. 

Asher: (proud) Ha! There's my tzaddik. 

Dan: You still haven't rolled me a papiros. 

Asher: You still haven't told us what this schlock is with that kadokhes Dreyfus. 

Dan: You can read it for yourself!

Naphtali: Asher doesn't read. 

Asher: Shtup ir, of course I read, I just don't like to. 

Naphtali: He says the words look backwards. 

Dan: Wow, we're worried about tempting the evil eye but Asher is the evil eye. 

Asher: And you're gonna get it in your evil eye if you don't tell us what that newspaper says. 

Dan: It's just more drek about that nochschlepper Dreyfus. 

Asher: What's happening to him?

Dan: Bupkes! Like always happens! He's sitting in jail, his rich brother's giving money for him...

Asher: (interrupting) Are we sending him money?

Dan: What money?! 

Asher: We have money!

Naphtali: We had money. Uncle Ezra sends less every year. You know this! 

Gad: It's that apikores wife of his. She always hated Tateh. 

Dan: And Uncle Ezra always hated her!

Naphtali: He did?

Dan: You heard what Shimon said. Apparently he goes to bed with a different shiksa from the factory every night. 

Gad: Levi told me that when he went to help Uncle Ezra he saw kielbasa in the kitchen. 

Naphtali: (sighs, stunned) What the shtup....

Dan: Did you really think Ezra was a Yiddisher kop?

Naphtali: I thought he was like any of us, only rich. 

Dan: We did pretty well for a while there. 

Gad: Yeh, cuz we have a reicher for an uncle! 

Naphtali: Doesn't Tateh have anything saved away?

Dan: He had eleven children! 

Naphtali: Well, I guess we mazel'd out. Uncle Ezra cut the funds just as we got Bar Mitzvah'd and could go work. 

Gad: Some work we're doin' here.

Dan: This is arbeit! We're here trimming the grass cemetery. 

Gad: This is bupkes! We should have been home two hours ago! 

Dan: What does it matter? Who's hiring right now? When you have eleven brothers there are only jobs for sev...

Asher: (interrupting) Who's this picture of? (holds up newspaper to Dan)

Dan: That? That's Dreyfus! 

Asher: That meeskait is Dreyfus? 

Dan: Ye, that's... who Tateh's been talking about every day since we were in Kheyder. 

Asher: Look at the shmattehs on him! 

Dan: Yeah, he... looks like a shaygetz. 

Gad: That guy's as Jewish as the shtupping Pope! 

Naphtali: Look at the stripes on his fucking hoot!

Gad: And what the shtup is that mustache?

Naphtali: How can a Yid who dresses like that not be guilty?

Dan: And what's with the fucking knepls on his shirt? 

Asher: Dan. Is there any way of telling from the picture what colors his uniform are?

Dan: Well, you're not gonna believe this but I once saw the French uniform on a stamp. It was red, white and blue. 

Asher: Ret, veis, un bleu?! How the fuck do these zelners go into the field without other soldiers knowing where to shoot them a hectare away? 

Naphtali: Even a feinschmeker like this guy shouldn't go to a barber and say "Make my mustache look like the hair over my putz!' 

Asher: Seriously, why the fuck do all these alter trombeyniks give a dreck about some French faygaleh?









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