They are shooting. Ed watches offcamera as Bela acts a somber scene
with an actor playing PROFESSOR STROWSKI, a threatening European.
STROWSKI
'Our government wants you to return... to continue your
experiments there. Where you can have everything at your
disposal.'
BELA (as VORNOFF)
'My dear Professor Strowski, twenty years ago I was banned from
my homeland. I was classed as a madman - a charlatan- outlawed
in the world of science which previously honored me as a genius!'
(he gets very subdued)
'Now here in this forsaken jungle hell, I have proven that I am
alright.'
STROWSKI
'Yes, the authorities have learned how correct your findings were.
So I an here - sent to bring you home.'
>BELA (impassioned)
'Home. I have no home. Hunted... despised... living like an
animal - the jungle is my home! But I will show the world that I
can be its master. I shall perfect my own race of
people - a race of atomic supermen that will conpquer the world!
It's an incredible performance of crowning tragedy. Bela is totally
drained.
