FADE IN: JENNY #4 DECK, DAY
GUMP
Lt. Dan, I know I am not a smart man, but I think you may be trying to
pull a fast one on me.
LT. DAN
Gump, what are you talking about?
GUMP
Remember when I suggested we get into the eel business and you totally quashed
the idea?
LT. DAN
GUMP
And, you said that my idea about moving out of the shrimp business would be insane?
LT. DAN
Yeah, I b'lieve I do.
Your point is?
GUMP
My mama always said, stupid is as stupid does.
LT. DAN
GUMP
I think it means that your latest secret effort to use our profits to start some
type of bug spray business is so unlike a box of chocolates, I don't even have
an appropriate analogy.
LT. DAN
Gump, I'm not sure what you mean, but when I saw the opportunity to buy into
this small-time fumigation outfit, I took it.
GUMP
But you used my money too, right?
LT. DAN
I thought I had carte blanche to do whatever I thought could increase our
bottom line. So, I used our money.
GUMP
I'm not a smart man, but I would like to know: Has that bug spray business done well?
LT. DAN
What if I told you we have the Orkin folks shaking in their boots?
GUMP
Should I think that was a good thing?
LT. DAN
Well, I do. In fact, I am about to sign an agreement to just sell all of our shrimp
boats and business to some organization named Shigosowi Ltd. It's a Chineese conglomerate.
A holding company, if you will.
GUMP
Lt. Dan, I repeat: I am not a smart man. If I will what?
LT. DAN
Shigosowi will take over Bubba Gump and we just sit back and watch each of our stock portfolios
swell to the size of a your old friend, Bubba.
GUMP
Lt. Dan, it's not nice to make fun of the departed.
LT. DAN
Sorry, Gump. I thought he was purely old news by now.
GUMP
(laughing)
How could there be old, news, Lt. Dan? Old, new. See my point? You lost me.
FADE OUT:
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