Code: 18             as at 25/01/96

MIDDLE AGED PEOPLE AND THE MEDITERANNEAN CONDITION

DO THIS WITH RICH AND STEW DISCUSSING IT OVER FILM.  WE DISCUSS BRITISH MIDDLE AGEDNESS.  TAKE THE PISS A BIT...  BUT THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD WHERE THIS HAPPENS.

LIBRARY FOOTAGE OF MIDDLE AGED ENGLISH PEOPLE IN SWEATERS SHOPPING AND PLAYING GOLF AND WALKING AROUND ETC.  DOING MIDDLE AGED THINGS.

V/O British people.  Middle aged British people going about their daily business as they have every right so to do.  But, of all the peoples of the globe, the British alone are the only ones to actually undergo the phenomenon of "middle age", the stop gap between youth and senility.

LIBRARY FOOTAGE OF BEAUTIFUL YOUND MEDITERRANEAN BABES AND SLIM HIPSTER BOYS, AND THEN OLD STINKY BLACK CLAD HAGS AND BENT OLD MEN, CREEPIN' AN' SPLUTTERIN'

middle age doesn't exist.  old age

18/1    EXT, STREET, NIGHT

OUR FOOTAGE OF YOUNG, CLEAN-SHAVEN MAN AND BEAUTIFUL SLIM TALL SPANIARDISH WOMAN COMING HOME FROM DANCING, CARRYING ROSES BY LAMPLIGHT, KISSING, ENTERING HOME, AND GOING TO BED .....

18/2    INT, BEDROOM, NIGHT

LIGHTS FLASHING DURING THE NIGHT.  THE MAN IS NEARLY ROUSED BUT NOT QUITE.

18/3    INT, BEDROOM, DAWN

LIGHT COMING UP, MAN IN BED WITH FAT SHORT OLD WOMAN, LOOKS ACROSS, LOOKS RESIGNED TO HIS FATE.  STARTS TO SHAVE.  RAZOR IN HAND.  A KNOCK AT THE DOOR.  HE OPENS IT.  AN OFFICIAL,  OFFICIAL THROWS RAZOR INTO BIN BAG.  THE OFFICIAL HANDS OVER THE STUFF, SAYING IN ITALIAN WHAT EACH THING IS.  HE IS GIVEN SHABBY CLOTHES WHICH HE PUTS ON.  ALSO A HORRIBLE ROLLY CIGARETTE AND A SET OF DOMINOES.  A SMALL STOOL.  A COURDEROY CAP.  A THIN NARROW GLASS OF VERY STRONG COFFEE.

MAN GOES TO SQUARE WHERE HE IS WELCOMED INTO DOMINOES SCHOOL - A SMALL CIRCLE OF OTHER OLD MEN SITTING ON STOOLS AROUND A LOG.

HE IS SEEN SMOKING, DRINKING COFFEE, WAVING ARMS AROUND AND SHOUTING.

18/4    INT, BEDROOM, DAY

STEW While his once beautiful wife stays at home growing extremely long individual black hairs out of the centre of her cheeks.

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