Continental Divide (1981) Written by Lawrence Kasdan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1pJJOaKdiQ PORTER: Come to say goodbye? SOUCHAK: Huh? PORTER: Goodbye. SOUCHAK: Miss Porter, believe me, if I could go on my own, I would. PORTER: I just can't have you here two weeks. Look, if a hiker passes by, Mister Lewis passes by...even an eagle...please hitch a ride and go with them. SOUCHAK: You think I like it here, for christsake? I got no liquor, nine cigarettes and a greasemonkey for company. I want to stay here only marginally more than I want to die trying to escape. (Porter laughs.) Are you laughing in there or crying? Well, I'm crying. PORTER: I suppose two weeks isn't that long. SOUCHAK: Oh no? PORTER: What? SOUCHAK: Thank you. Thank you. PORTER: On one condition... SOUCHAK: No story. PORTER: Not...one...word. (A short time later, inside the cabin. Souchak is writing.) SOUCHAK: (V.O.) Aloof, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, surprisingly attractive, could use some make-up---christ, my mind is going. Sound like Rona Barrett. It's so quiet up here you could hear a mouse get a hard on. A touch arrogant, maybe frigid. That might explain things. When she goes out--- PORTER: Mister Souchak, would you--- (Souchak startled, screams) PORTER: Sorry, I startle you? SOUCHAK: Un, no, no. It's not you, it's, uh, it's cigarettes. They kinda make me jumpy. PORTER: Ah. SOUCHAK: I'm on strict rations. PORTER: I'm gonna take a shower now. SOUCHAK: Good, good, that's always nice. (Porter points to the outside.) Ah, sorry. (He turns away.) How's this? (Porter points to the other outside.) Right. Why don't I just slide outside? PORTER: Maybe you can have a cigarette out there, then you'll be down to seven. SOUCHAK: (Laughs) What time we leaving in the morning? PORTER: We? Look, I thought we had an agreement. SOUCHAK: I just want to see what you do, that's all. PORTER: It's not easy up there, you know. SOUCHAK: I'll manage. I had a cousin in the Boy Scouts. DIALOGUE ON DIALOGUE: Writers write, regardless of the situation; journalists even more so. Ernie Souchak is a reporter come to the Rocky Mountains to write a profile about Nell Porter, only Porter has no intention to be profiled, so Souchak has to do his writing on the sly.