Brooklyn (2015)

James DiGiacomo: Frankie Fiorello

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• Frankie Fiorello : So, first of all, I should say that we don't like Irish people.

  [general cries of outrage around the table] 

  Frankie Fiorello : What? We don't. That is a well-known fact.

  Eilis : Why, Frankie?

  Frankie Fiorello : 'Cause a big gang of Irish beat Maurizio up and he had to get stitches. And because all the cops around here are Irish, nobody did anything about it.

  Maurizio : There's probably two sides to it. I might have said something I shouldn't. You know, I... I can't remember now.

  Frankie Fiorello : No, because they beat you up.

  Maurizio : Anyway, they probably weren't all Irish.

  Frankie Fiorello : No, they just had red hair and big legs.

• Tony : You wanna go see the Dodgers on Saturday?

  Frankie Fiorello : Sure.

  Tony : Okay. Will you do something for me?

  Frankie Fiorello : What?

  Tony : If you laugh or you say anything about this to anybody in the family, you don't get to go see the Dodgers on Saturday or any other day of the season. Also, you get a beating.

  Frankie Fiorello : Maybe it's just better if I don't get involved.

  Tony : I really need your help, Frankie. You know you're the best writer and reader in the family?

  Frankie Fiorello : Yeah.

  Tony : I'm trying to write to Eilis. And I want it to be... I don't know.

  Frankie Fiorello : You've wrote before already about five times.

  Tony : Yeah, but they're no good, Frankie, and... she's only written back once. Look, she's never read my writing before. I'm worried I'm putting her off me.

  Frankie Fiorello : Listen, I'm eight years old. I don't know anything about kissing.

  Tony : You don't need to know anything about kissing. You need to know about spelling and... and...

  Frankie Fiorello : Grammar.

  Tony : Yeah.

  [offering the letter] 

  Tony : Will you look?

• Mrs Fiorello : So, Tony tells me you go to college.

  Eilis : Oh, just night classes. I want to be a bookkeeper. I like working in the shop well enough, but I don't want to be there forever.

  Frankie Fiorello : [coming back with his father]  I'm sorry, Eilis. I'm an idiot.

  [Mr. Fiorello flicks his ear] 

  Frankie Fiorello : I'm a rude idiot.

• Tony : Dear Eilis. I hope that you are doing well in Ireland. I hope that your mother's feeling less sad. It will not be long before your friend gets married and you can come home. This week, it's like the whole world's basements are flooding. I've fixed three. I've been working hard. I've been saving money. And evrybody asks me about you all the time.

  Frankie Fiorello : You missed out an "E", I think. It's "everybody".

  Tony : Anyway, I think that is all my news. Mom and Dad and all my brothers, they all say hello. I think about you most minutes of most days. Even when I go see the Dodgers, I do not concentrate on the games. With love, your Tony.