Big Fish：他乡遇故友
二战后，爱德华成为了推销员并逐渐扩展自己的业务。当他在银行存款时却遇到了来此抢劫的诺德，一位曾驰名艾许镇和丰都镇的诗人。
Norther: Edward? Edward Bloom! It's me, Norther Winslow.
Edward: I don't believe it.
Edward: I was astonished to see the greatest poet of both Ashton and Spectre all the way out in Texas.
Norther: I want you to know, when you left Spectre, it opened my eyes. There was a whole life out there that I was not living. So I traveled. I saw France, Africa, half of South America. Every day a new adventure. That's my motto.
Edward: That's great, Norther. I'm happy for you. And what are you doing now?
Norther: I'm robbing this place. All right, everybody down! Hey, just slide that over. Would you mind grabbing that?
Edward: What?
Norther: The gun. I'm gonna be cleaning out the cash drawers and my associate here is gonna handle the vault. All right, you! You help my friend, ok? Let's go!
Edward: I'm sorry, ma'am, I am. I really just don't want anyone to get hurt.
Bank Clerk: It's not that. It's just...There's no money. We're completely
bankrupt. Don't tell anybody.
Edward: It turned out that the savings and loan had already been robbed, not by armed bandits, but by speculators in Texas real estate.
Norther: All right, let's go!
Edward: Norther!
Norther: Yeah. There's gotta be close to 400$ here! And that's just from the drawers. Let's see what you got from the vault. This is it? The whole vault?
Edward: I'm afraid so.
Norther: Edward, it's got your deposit slip on it.
Edward: Well, I just didn't want you leaving empty-handed. Look, there's something you should know. The reason the Savings & Loan doesn't have any money...
Edward: I told Norther about the vagaries of Texas oil money and its effect on real estate prices and how lax enforcement of fiduciary process had made savings and loans particularly vulnerable. Hearing this news, Norther was left with one conclusion...
Norther: I should go to Wall Street. That's where all the money is.
Edward: I knew then that while my days as a criminal were over...
Norther: Edward, thanks for the hand!
Edward: Norther's were just beginning. When Norther made his first million dollars, he sent me a check for 10,000. I protested, but he said it was my fee as his career advisor. It was enough to buy my wife a proper house with a white picket fence. And for that, it was all the riches a man could ever want. |
