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Innocent Abroad - Paris
Innocent Abroad - Paris
man: Awa Old lady: Awa Hotel receptionist *Awa Tourist guide 1 - *KK / Nisha Tourist guide 2 - *Ain Tourist guide 3 [Billfinger/Ferguson]- Sha
SCENE 1: Setting: Arriving in Marseilles. At the dock. Setting: Dan, jack and doctor walked to the dock. Want to cross to shore but couldnt. Met a boatman. Jack: Excusez-moi. Est-ce que nous pouvons marcher travers cette et tape Terre ? O vastu? Boatman: Je ne vous comprends pas Jack: Est-ce que nous pouvons marcher travers cette et tape Terre ? O vas-tu? Boatman: Je ne vous comprends pas Doctor: Est-ce que nous pouvons marcher travers cette et tape Terre ? O vas-tu? Boatman: Je ne vous comprends pas! Dan [Yell]: Oh, go to the pier, you old fool! Thats where we want to go! Doctor and Jack calmly reasoned with Dan. Jack: [Tone- Calm] It is useless to talk with him in English. He doesnt speak our language. Doctor: His right. Just let we handle this in France so that this stranger does not know that you are not highly educated.
Dan: [Kinda sulking] Well, go on. Go on. Dont mind me. It just that, if you keep telling him in YOUR KIND [Stressed] of French, he will never find out where we want to go. That is what I think. Jack: Youre not the one to talk! You dont even know French! [Tone: angry] Boatman: allez, Je vais la douane. Doctor: There now, Dan! He says he is going to allez to the douain. Means he is going to the hotel. Oh, certainly we dont know the French language. [despair] Move to the shore. Follow the boatman to the building. Dan: Hotel? This is just a customhouse!
Doctor and Jack were kind of ashamed. Dan trying hard to hide his giggle.
Jack: Alphonse Henri Gustave de Hauteville Dan: Call him Ferguson Jack and Doctor looked at Dan. Doctor: We go with that! Ferguson walked in. Jack: Ferguson, why dont you take us to a restaurant? We would like to have our breakfast. Ferguson nodded and start walking to a restaurant. Jack: You should join us together. Ferguson: No! I shouldnt! [begged and bow] It is not proper. I would sit in ze another table. Dan: Sit with us! Billfinger gave up and obey. Order lots of food and it surprised the travelers. Dan:[While walking] I was thinking about buying some silk dress patterns as presents. Ferguson: Look at Dan cunningly. Walk and stop at a building. Jack: Whats this? Ferguson: Zis is ze finest silk magazine in Paris. Ze most celebrate. Jack: What did you come here for? We told you to take us to the palace of Louvre. Ferguson: I suppose ze gentleman say he wish to buy some silk [pointing at Dan] Doctor: You are not require to suppose things for the party, Ferguson. We do not wish to tax your energies too much. We will bear some of the burden and heat of the day ourselves. We will endeavor to such supposing as is really necessary to be done. Go on. Walk again for awhile and then stop.
Doctor: Ah, the palace of the louvre! Beautiful, beautiful building! [Enchanted] Does the Emperor Napoleon live here now, Ferguson? Ferguson: Ah, Doctor! You do jest. This is not ze palace. We come there directly. But since we pass right by zis store, where is such beautiful silk Doctor: Ah, I see, I see. I meant to have told you that we did not wish to buy any silks today, but I forgot it. I also meant to tell you we wished to go directly to the Louvre, but I forgot that also. However, we will go there now. Pardon my carelessness, Ferguson. Moving on. Walk again and stop. Doctor: [Amazed] At last! How imposing the Louvre is, and yet how small! How exquisitely fashioned! How charmingly situated! Venerable, venerable pile Ferguson: Pairdon Doctor, zis is not ze Louvre it isDoctor: What is it? Ferguson: I have ze idea. It comes to me in a moment. Zat ze silk in zis magazine Doctor: ferguson, how heedless I am. I am fully intended to tell you that we did not wish to buy any silks today and I also intended to tell you that we yearned to go immediately to the palace of the Louvre, but enjoying the happiness of seeing you devour four breakfast this morning has so filled me with pleasurable emotions that I neglect the commonest interest of the time. However, we will head to the Louvre now, Ferguson. Ferguson: But, Doctor [excitedly] it will take not a minute! Not but one small minute! Ze gentleman need not to buy if he not wish tobut only look at ze silk look at the beautiful fabric. [pleading] Sair, just only one leetle moment! Dan: Confound the idiot! I dont want to see any silks today, and I wont look at them. Go on! Doctor: We dont need no silks now, Ferguson. Our hearts yearn for the Louvre. Let us journey on. Let us journey on.
Ferguson: But doctor! [desperate] It is only one moment. One leetle moment. And ze time will be save, entirely save! Because zere is nothing to see now. It is too late. It want ten minute to four and ze Louvre close at four. Only one leetle moment, Doctor! [begging] Jack: That cunning guide! After swallowing four breakfasts, he served us such a scurvy trick. We got no sight of the countless treasures of art in the Louvre galleries that day. Dan: Well, at least, he failed to sell any silk dress pattern! Laugh.
You see me: So, what do you think about these videos? Can you see the irony in the story? Overall, they had a very high expectation about France. The part with the old lady in caf showed their stereotype image that French people didnt knew English. But in the end, the old lady scolded them and called their French a plague. Fufufu~ thats one interesting old lady right? Sounded like my grandma. [Laugh]. The same goes when they wanted to choose the guides. Wonder what will happened if they chose the other guy besides Ferguson. Perhaps they had saved most of their money, now. Since they will save the expense from Fergusons food money. [Laugh] and they mightve seen the Louvre. Poor Doctor. Dont worry, Doctor! I bring you to see Louvre, next time.