The Wife (Drama) ( 2017) 100 Minutes © 2020 by Frank Mc Girr

The Wife (Drama) ( 2017) 100 minutes © 2020 by Frank Mc Girr This document is copyright protected.Please report any copyright infringement to Frank Mc Girr, Bremen Volkshochschule. English Film Club 1 NOTE: FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY! The Wife (Drama) ( 2017) Major Characters Joseph Castleman.........................................................................................Jonathan Pryce Early 70's. A handsome, ageing writer turned literary giant Joan Castleman.....................................................................................................Glen Close Married to Joseph. She feel in love with her then professor while a student at Smith College. An elegant, educated, deeply self- possessed women who once had ambitions of being a writer. David Castleman ..................................................................................................Max Irons The Castlemans oldest child. An aspiring writer, desperately needing his father's approval only to meet with constant criticism of his work Susannah Castleman .............................................................................Alix Wilton Regan The Castlemans daughter. She is heavily pregnant and expecting her first child Nathaniel Bone.............................................................................................Christian Slater A biographer with a taste for scandal. He tries to ingratiate himself with the Castlemans on their flight to Stockholm Linnea Karin .....................................................................................................Franz Körlof A young photographer assigned to take pictures of Castleman while in Stockholm Elaine Mozell ......................................................................................Elizabeth McGovern An embittered minor author who advises young Joan to forget her literary ambitions Young Joseph.....................................................................................................Harry Lloyd Young Joan........................................................................................................Annie Starke 2 The Wife (Drama) ( 2017) The Wife is a 2017 drama film directed by Björn L. Runge and written by Jane Anderson, based on the novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. It stars Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, and Christian Slater, and follows a woman who questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her narcissistic husband, who is set to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. The film premiered on September 12, 2017, at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the United States on August 17, 2018 by Sony Pictures Classics. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with Close's performance garnering high praise; she won the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress for her performance, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress. ©Wikipedia Plot After nearly forty years of marriage,Joan and Joe Castleman are complements Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe's literary star has blazed since he and Joan first met in the late 1950s. The Wife tells the story of a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love. © Sony Pictures Classics The following dialogue was transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of the film The Wife 3 Dialogue Castleman Bedroom, Connecticut–Night, October 1992 [first lines] Joan: Joe, what are you doing? Joe: I'm hungry. Joan: Don't eat sugar. It will keep you awake. Joe: If this thing doesn't happen, I don't want to be around for the sympathy calls, okay? So what we're gonna do, we're gonna get out of here. We're gonna rent a cabin in Maine, stare at a fire. Joan: That sounds cheerful. [he gets back into bed] Don't. Joe: Mmm? Don't what? Joan: Don't pretend you're interested in sex just because you're climbing the walls. Joe: Come on, just a quickie. It will help us sleep. Joan: I was asleep. Joe: Well, you shouldn't be. It's not natural. Come on. You don't have to do anything. Just lie there. Joan: Oh, God. Joe, this is pathetic. Joe: Yeah. Pathetic. In the real sense of the word. Pathos... Eros. Joan: Okay, fine. Go ahead. Joe: Just imagine I'm some young, inarticulate stud who's found you lying naked on the beach. [slips his hand under her nightdress ] His big hand is tan, blond knuckle hair, his middle finger gently probing. [she groans] Now he takes out his huge, swaying tumescent cock. Joan: Oh, God, Joe, enough! [both laugh] Castleman Bedroom. – Early Dawn Arvid: [on the phone] Hello? Am I speaking to Mr. Joseph Castleman? Joe: Yes, yes. [sits up] Arvid:This is Mr. Arvid Engdahl from the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden Joe: [chuckles] Uh, this is not a joke, I take it? Arvid: No, Mr. Castleman, I assure you. If you like I will give you the phone number here, and you can call back. Joe: No, no. That won't be necessary, thank you. Joan: [listening in] Oh, my God! Joe: Listen, before you go on, I'd like my wife to get on the extension. Would that be all right? ..................................................................................continued 4 Arvid: Yes, of course, I'll wait. Joan: [in the office] Hello? I'm on. Arvid: Mr. Castleman, are you still on as well? Joe: [anxiously] Yes, yes, I am. Arvid: It is my great honour and pleasure to tell you, Mr. Castleman, that you have been chosen to receive this year's Nobel Prize in literature. Joe: Thank, thank you. Thank you very much. [Joan remains very still] Arvid: Mr. Castleman, we are so delighted to be giving you this prize. Your career has a truly remarkable span to it. Not only do you write with extraordinary intimacy, wit and depth, you have also challenged the novelistic form in ways that will affect generations of writers to come. Joe: [chuckles] Well, I, um...should be getting something for all the grey in my beard. Arvid: Indeed, yes. And thank you for doing so on the world's behalf. [to Joan] Mrs. Castleman. You should know that your husband will be fending off the press today, so what I advise is that you monitor his calls, as it does get quite exhausting. Joan: Yes, I'll take good care of him. Castleman House. Celebration Party Dusty: So you're going to Stockholm? When? Joan: December. Dusty:[shudders] It'll be freezing there. Joe buying you a fur? Joan: No, I think I'll be like any decent First Lady and get by with a good cloth coat. Joe: Joanie, get over here. Come. Joan: Hello, Hal. Hal: Hello, Joan. You're looking lovely as always. Joan: Thank you, Hal. That's very sweet. Joe: [to Joan] The New York Times is here. [to his publisher] Tell her. Hal: They're giving your husband the cover of the Sunday Magazine. They're knocking out a story about Bill Clinton for him. Joe: Is this going to be like one of those Avedon shots? With all the pores showing? Hal: Every brilliant one of them, my friend. [he leaves] Joe: [to Joan] Oh, God, this is so unreal, huh? How do I look? Joan: You're fine. Joe: No crumbs? Nose hairs? Joan: No. All good? All good. Joe: Oh, Joanie, tell me this isn't some great, big, fat joke. Joan: It's all real, darling. Breathe 5 Castleman House. Celebration Party–Kitchen Joan: [kissing Susannah’s belly] Hello, my baby's baby. [to Susannah] I need a nap. Susannah: Mmm. Poor Mommy. Joan:[to David] Well, lamb. There you are. David: Yeah, I'm sorry I'm late. I was looking for some decent cigars to give to Dad. Susannah: Oh. I didn't get him anything. Was I supposed to? Joan: Oh, darling, no. He's been lavished enough. ...David. David: Hmm? Joan: I've been wanting to tell you. Your father showed me your short story. David: Yeah? Joan: I think it's beautifully written. David: What did he say? Joan: We haven't discussed it yet. [later] Joe: David, you just got here? David: Yeah. Congrats, Pa. Joe: What's this? David: They're Maduros. Joe: Oh, my God. These are spectacular. David: No problem. Joe: What a lovely gift. Thank you, David. Oh, you're still smoking, I see. David: You care? Joe: Of course I care. I'd like to see you outlive me. David: So, did you read my piece? Joe: Yes, yes. We'll talk. David: So it is a piece of shit, huh? Joe: Why do you do that? David: Because you're clearly avoiding the subject. Joe: No, I'm clearly distracted at the moment. Look, we'll talk when the time is appropriate. Okay? Joe: Yeah, okay. Please, go and help your mother. 6 Castleman House. A Toast Joe: To quote from the Meditations of Quixote: "I am I, plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself." Today, I'm the happiest of men. I have my health, give or take a few bypasses. [they laugh] I have you, my wonderful friends, my ever-curious students, my son, David, my beautiful daughter, Susannah, and a future grandchild, who at this moment is happily floating in her mother's amniotic fluid. Finally... Finally, I have my beautiful wife, Joan, the love of my life. Joan, come here. The love of my life. Without this woman, I am nothing. In fact, my greatest achievement is, well, persuading this woman to marry me. Concord – Mid flight to Stockholm Flight Attendant: Excuse me, Mr. Castleman. There's a gentleman in the back that says he knows you and would like to say hello. Nathaniel Bone? Joan: Tell him... Nathaniel: [joining] Sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to say congratulations. Joe: Hello, Nathaniel. I take it you're not flying to Stockholm purely for the pickled herring.

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