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EXT – THEATER PARKING LOT – NIGHT

JOHN, JEFF and EVETTE exit the theater and begin walking to the car.

JEFF (V.O.)

I should kick myself.  Why didn’t I put my arm around her?  Things are not looking well.  This was not my sort of movie.  Why didn’t we see High Fidelity?  Argh!  I want to speak first, but I don’t want to sound too negative in case Evette loved it.  Okay, here goes…

JEFF (CONT’D)

That was a strange movie!

JOHN

Now you see why I wanted to go back!

EVETTE

I wish those kids would have been a little quieter.  Did they have to keep asking their parents every time there was dialogue?

JOHN

Well they looked too young to read.

JEFF

Yeah John, you never told me it had subtitles.

EVETTE

I want to know how they could fly so effortlessly.

JOHN

It’s Qing China, baby— a time when miracles were credible and spirits and gods were present in man’s world!

JEFF

I want to know how they could fly at all! It is a bit exaggerated, don’t you think?

JOHN

No, in Qing China there were Ninjas who taught themselves to fly just like that.  It’s part of the martial arts mindset.  Even today, in the most remote parts of Burma, Zen warriors float through the air, skim the water and battle in trees and rooftops.  There’s a lot of stuff going on in the Far East that you Westerners will never grasp.

JEFF

(laughing)

You Westerners?  John, you’ve never been any farther East than Pendleton.

EVETTE

I think it’s the opium!

JOHN

Okay, prove me otherwise!

EVETTE

I’m with Picasso on this one.  You can train all you want, but you are never going to be able to defy gravity.

JEFF

(to EVETTE)

You called me Picasso again.

EVETTE

I admire artistry when I see it.

JOHN opens the passenger side door, then swings around to the driver side and gets in.

JEFF

(to EVETTE)

Sorry you have to sit in the back.

JOHN

So where to?

JEFF

Since John’s on his whole Qing China kick, why don’t we go to that karaoke bar?

EVETTE

Except Karaoke is Japanese.