Richard Linklater - Before Sunrise & Before Sunset

She continues reading while taking an occasional bite of a chocolate bar. Sitting four rows back and on the other side of the aisle, JESSE , also mid-twenties, is engrossed in Klaus Kinskis memoir, All I Need Is Love. Casually good-looking but a little scruffy, he dresses in the jeans and T-shirt mode. Suddenly a couple, two fortyish types who have been arguing semiquietly in the seat behind CELINE , start yelling at each other in German. The WIFE takes a swipe at the newspaper the HUSBAND has been screening himself behind. WIFE Will you put down that damn newspaper and listen to me? HUSBAND Whatve I been doing the last thirty minutes? Would you shut up for Chrissake? WIFE You shut up! How dare you tell me to shut up! Its the same damn thing all over again! I cant believe HUSBAND I said shut up! Im putting down my newspaper and telling you to shut up. CELINE suddenly gets up, grabs her bag, and starts looking for another seat.

A few rows back, she finds a seat across the aisle from JESSE . Before sitting down, they make brief eye contact and kind of shake their heads and smile at the tension. Just as she settles in and goes back to her book, the WIFE gets up and storms down the aisle. JESSE and CELINE follow her with their eyes, and as she passes them they find they are looking right at each other. He makes a funny uh-oh face. JESSE Do you have any idea what theyre arguing about? Do you speak English? CELINE Yes. But no, I dont know. (a beat) Have you ever heard that as couples get older they lose their ability to hear each other? JESSE Really? CELINE Supposedly men lose their ability to hear higher-pitched sounds and women eventually lose hearing on the low end. (a beat) Have you ever heard that as couples get older they lose their ability to hear each other? JESSE Really? CELINE Supposedly men lose their ability to hear higher-pitched sounds and women eventually lose hearing on the low end.