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br>From “The Dilettantes”
WILLIS uses a flash to take a picture of an Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup painting. The SECURITY guard re-enters from the darkness.
SECURITY #2
Sir, I said no flash, please.
WILLIS
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I thought I turned it off. Sorry.
(The SECURITY guard goes back to the chair. WILLIS looks at his LCD screen.)
Look at this.
(They both sit on the bench and admire the picture on the camera’s LCD screen.)
HARRISON
That is an amazing picture.
WILLIS
It’s unbelievable how well I captured that painting.
HARRISON
I think your flash helped.
WILLIS
You think so?
HARRISON
Your flash made that painting way better.
WILLIS
And they didn’t want me to use the flash.
HARRISON
The nerve.
WILLIS
The nerve! Maybe that’s OK for Comrade Rothko’s geometry lesson but I’m an American, and if I want to take pictures of cans of American soup with a flash, then by god, I’m going to use flash to take pictures of American soup!
HARRISON
You know, some of that soup will keep for four years before it goes bad.
WILLIS
That’s amazing.
HARRISON
I mean, can you imagine that? Having something that in four years is still good to eat?
WILLIS
Blows my mind.
HARRISON
Preservation is a gift from God best served cold.
WILLIS
I’ll bet I won’t even have this picture in four years.
HARRISON
Why not?
WILLIS
The hard drive in my computer tends to crash once every two years.
HARRISON
That’s horrible.
WILLIS
I know, I know.
HARRISON
You ever do a back-up?
WILLIS
Crashes are unpredictable, so why bother?
HARRISON
True, true.
WILLIS
It’s not like I have anything important.
HARRISON
So why bother.
WILLIS
That’s what I say.

