Life As A House

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La vivienda popular, el significado, la casa el deposito de los sueos, la

informalidad, el proyecto de vida, la oportunidad


Construye la casa conmigo,

GEORGE
Everything about you is my business.
What you smoke, what you swallow, what
you sniff, it's all my business.
Sam slams his fists against his own chest, maddened.
SAM
I've been using since I was twelve!
You're all so unbelievably stupid. You
didn't give a shit about anything I did
until now!
GEORGE
I'll apologize for everything but
today...Today I give a shit.
SAM
You're too fucking late.
GEORGE
The gloves on the table are for you.
SAM
You can't make me do a thing.
GEORGE
Sit down for a second.
No.

SAM

George gently guides Sam back onto the bed.

Sam hops up

mad.
SAM (CONT'D)
I'll call the cops if you touch me again!
George sets Sam back onto the bed, not so gently this
time.

Sam is less eager to hop up in defiance.


SAM (CONT'D)
Oh, so you're in the big shit now! Child
abuse. People go to prison for what you
just did to me.
GEORGE
My dad used to play a game. I never
really understood what it was until after
he was gone.
Sam appears immensely disinterested.

SAM
I was holding for someone.
even mine.

That wasn't

GEORGE
The game was to make me smaller than he
was. No matter what. He could be almost
invisible as a human being, but I had to
be smaller. So if I got good grades, I
was a pussy for not playing football. If
I cut my hair for him, it wasn't short
enough. If I shaved it, I looked like a
psycho. I never won the game. Not once.
And if he couldn't make me smaller with
words...
Tears well in George's eyes.
what

Sam is caught up enough in

his father has to say that he has to feign his lack of


interest.
SAM
I'll have to pay him back.
GEORGE
I won't ever hit you.
(beat)
I don't want you smaller. I want you to
be happy. You're not. Not here with me.
Not home with your mother. Not up in
Tahoe. Not alone. Not anywhere.
(beat)
You're what I was most of my life, Sam.
I see it in your eyes. In your sleep.
In your answer to everything. You're
barely alive.
SAM
I'm not even listening.
GEORGE
You know that great thing, though? Is
that change can be so constant you don't
even feel the difference until there is
one. It can be so slow that you don't
even notice that your life is better or
worse, until it is.
(beat)
Or it can just blow you away. Make you
something different in an instant. It
happened to me.
George walks to the garage door as he wipes his eyes.
stops and turns back around to face Sam.
GEORGE (CONT'D)
Build this house with me.
George walks out leaving Sam on the bed to think.
EXT. GEORGE'S BEACH SHACK - AFTERNOON

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