Adeus, Frank Pierson, mestre roteirista
Ana Maria Bahiana
Frank Romer Pierson, 12 de maio de 1925 – 23 de julho de 2012
SONNY
Mom. Mom. There are some things a
mother shouldn’t say in front of
her son.
VI
If she comes down here, so help me
I’m gonna mash her brains in.
Everything in your life was sunlight
and roses until you met her.
Since then, forget it.
SONNY
She doesn’t have anything to do with it!
You understand that? Mother? This is me!
VI
I know you wouldn’t need Leon if
Heidi was treating you right. The
thing I don’t understand is why you
come out and sleep with Heidi
anyway? You got two kids on
welfare now. What’re you goin’ to
bed with her, you don’t have enough
with one wife and two kids on
welfare, you want a wife and three kids on welfare?
SONNY
(this is old stuff)
Not now, Mom, please.
VI
What’ll you do? Come out.
SONNY
(patiently – I told you
a hundred times)
I can’t, Mom. If I come out Sal
will kill them.
VI
Oh.
(she thinks for a moment)
Run.
SONNY
What the hell for? Twenty-five
years in the pen?
VI
Maybe…
SONNY
Maybe! Aw Christ, what dreams you
live on! Maybe what?
She stares at him.He talks slowly and carefully to her.
SONNY
I’m a fuckup and an outcast. There
isn’t one single person in my life
I haven’t hurt through my love.
You understand that? I’m the most
dangerous person in the world,
because if I love you, watch out,
you’re gonna get fucked, fucked
over and fucked out!
(Roteiro de Um Dia de Cão/Dog Day Afternoon, 1975)