de Teimour » Mercredi 29 Août
Apparemment personne n'a encore parlé d' Humphrey Bogart (Steve Morgan) : voyez un peu ce qui arrive à Lauren Bacall (Slim) quand elle croit l'avoir rendu jaloux… un régal, comme tout le film !
Le port de l'angoisse (To Have And Have Not) - 1944
They both find themselves thirsty but broke at a bar: "No money, those guys cleaned me out." Slyly and alluringly, Slim suggests: "Maybe I can do something. It's been a long day and I'm thirsty," promising to rendezvous with Morgan afterwards. In her accustomed role as a slinky pickpocket, she selects a French officer as her prey in the barroom (by asking for a cigarette light for the cigarette that she had just borrowed from Harry) and begins dancing with him.
Later, she knocks on Morgan's hotel room door, victoriously holding a liquor bottle in her grasp. In this private encounter filled with monosyllabic, simple phrases, she questions his mood when he sneers at her for having been so successful with another man:
Slim: You're sore, aren't ya?
Steve: Why should I be?
Slim: I didn't behave very well, did I?
Steve: You did all right. You got the bottle, didn't you?
Slim: You're sore, aren't ya?
Steve: Now look, get this straight. I don't care...
Slim: I know, I know. You don't give a 'whoop' what I do, but when I do it, you get sore. After all, you told me to, you know.
Steve: I told you?
Slim: You said 'go ahead,' didn't ya?
Steve: Oh yeah, that's right, I-I guess I did. You were pretty good at it too.
Slim: Thanks! Would you rather I wouldn't?
Steve: Wouldn't what?
Slim: Do things like that.
Steve: Why ask me?
Slim: I'd like to know.
Steve: Well, of all the screwy...
Slim: All right, all right, I won't do it anymore.
Steve: Look, I didn't ask you...
Slim: I know you didn't. Don't worry. I'm not giving up anything I care about. It's like shooting fish in a barrel anyway - men like that. They're all a bunch of...(she catches herself) I'm a fine one to talk. The pot calling the kettle. (He hands her a drink.)
And then he begins to ask her about her background, assuming that he knows all about her past. She is offended by his insinuations:
Steve: How long have you been away from home?
Slim: This is about the time for it, isn't it?
Steve: The time for what?
Slim: The story of my life. How do you want me to begin?
Steve: I've got a pretty fair idea already.
Slim: Who told you?
Steve: You did. That slap in the face you took.
Slim: Yeah, what about it?
Steve: You hardly blinked an eye. It takes a lot of practice to be able to do that. Yeah, I know a lot about you, Slim.
Slim: The next time I get slapped, I'd better do something about it. (She storms out.)
Steve: Hey, you forgot your drink.
Slim: I don't want it.
Steve: Who's sore now?
Slim: I am. (She slams the door behind her.)
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