LETS MAKE THE IGNORAMUS GREAT AGAIN - EXTRACT
page 8...
INT. THE OVAL OFFICE - THE WHITE HOUSE - DAY
President Donald Duck is wearing a red MALAKA baseball cap talking to the media...
PRESIDENT DONALD DUCK LOOKS LIKE DONALD TRUMP
PRESIDENT DONALD DUCK
I am putting great tarrifs on Germany. I am putting great tarrifs
on Brazil. I am putting greater tarrifs on China. Because they are
stealing our money. And making us Americans poorer. We have no
jobs. They are stealing our jobs. Let's take back our jobs. Let's make
America great again.
President Donald Duck signs three executive orders and shows them to the camera...
INT. THE WHITE HOUSE - PRESS CONFERENCE - DAY
Superimpose: March 2025
MARJORIE JAM head of Dodge (an organisation set up by the President to sort out America’s problems) is talking to a UK REPORTER holding a mic... A DODGE logo on the wall in the background.
MARJORIE JAM LOOKS LIKE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HEAD OF DOGE
UK REPORTER
Marjorie Jam, can you comment on the leaked, classified US war
plans from the President’s Twitter page.
MARJORIE JAM
Wait, what country are you from?
UK REPORTER
The UK.
Marjorie Jam looks very angry and starts pointing her finger at her and moving it around angrily...
MARJORIE JAM
Ok, we don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting.
Why don’t you go back to your country where you have a major
migrant problem...
UK REPORTER
Do you care...
MARJORIE JAM
No no no no you should care about your own borders.
UK REPORTER
Do you care about American lives being put at risk?
MARJORIE JAM
No no no no let me tell you something. Do you care about people
from your country? What about all the women that are raped by
migrants.
UK REPORTER
Do you care about...
MARJORIE JAM
No do you care? Ok your done...
Marjorie Jam puts her arm forward with the palm facing upward, fingers up, the hand gesture for stop...
UK REPORTER
Do you care about American lives being put at risk?
MARJORIE JAM
I... I don’t...
UK REPORTER
About service members fighting for your country...
MARJORIE JAM
I don’t care about your fake news. Do you have a relevant question?
An AMERICAN JOURNALIST is listening...
AMERICAN JOURNALIST (O.S.)
Yeah I would like to...
MARJORIE JAM
Yes thank you. This is an American journalist...
INT. PRESIDENT’S BEDROOM - THE WHITE HOUSE - NIGHT
Superimpose: February 2025
The President of the United States of America, President Donald Duck, can not sleep. Sleeping next to him is the DAISY DUCK ANIMATION his wife and First Lady.
DAISY DUCK ANIMATION IS FROM THE DISNEY CARTOON
PRESIDENT DONALD DUCK
I can’t sleep Daisy. I wonder what I should do. It’s 4am. I know
I’ll write an email to Marjorie.
He turns on the TV...
ON TV
The DONALD DUCK ANIMATION is on TV in the original cartoon. The Donald Duck Animation is with the Daisy Duck Animation, they are in conversation and they are quacking to each other over and over again.
DONALD DUCK ANIMATION
Quack quack, quack quack, quack quack, quack quack...
DASIY DUCK ANIMATION
Quack quack, quack quack, quack quack, quack quack...
DONALD DUCK ANIMATION AND DASIY DUCK ANIMATION IN THE DISNEY CARTOON ON TV
BACK TO SCENE
President Donald Duck turns on the computer and goes to the YAHOO.COM Website.
He picks up a hamburger on the table and takes a huge bite.
He accidently presses a button which takes him to his Twitter account...
He starts sharing files to everyone worldwide, he thought he was sending privately to Marjorie Jam, head of Dodge on Yahoo mail...
ON TWITTER
Hello Marjorie I can’t sleep. I’ve discussed it with JD, Petey and Tango we are planning a military strike on Yemen very soon. So the troops in the region must be ready. Don’t tell anyone. It’s top secret. Goodnight and goodluck.
DONALD DUCK ANIMATION (O.S.)
Quack quack, quack quack...
DASIY DUCK ANIMATION (O.S.)
Quack quack, quack quack...
END MUSIC
THE WORLD"S OLDEST PROFESSIONS - EXTRACT
page 18...
NEW ACT
FADE IN:
SUPERIMPOSE: PART 3 - COSMOCRATOR
EXT. THE UNIVERSE - ESTABLISHING SHOT
The black universe, stars, planets, a SpaceX spaceship.
MUSIC CUE: Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode
SUPERIMPOSE: I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
"Ozymandias", Percy Shelley, 1819
END MUSIC
FADE IN:
INT. ELON TUSK’S MANSION - UNKNOWN LOCATION - DAY
ELON TUSK is jumping up and down like a baby on a giant trampoline in a giant room.
ELON TUSK LOOKS LIKE ELON MUSK
EXT. ELON TUSK’S GARDEN - CONTINUOUS
In a giant garden there are many giant rockets.
The garden has green trees and beautiful plants and flowers.
The rockets all set off at the same time. Heading up to the blue, sunny sky. They start travelling in different
directions.
EXT./ INT. THE WHITE HOUSE - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - DAY -
CONTINUOUS
TRUMPISTAN LOOKS LIKE DONALD TRUMP
One rocket has arrived at the White House and it starts heading to the building fast. Just as it reaches the door at the front, it suddenly decreases in size to the size of a piece of rice, enters through the key hole and increases to the size of a football. The rocket travels quickly through the halls of the building till it finds the Oval Office where TRUMPISTAN is standing with the doors open playing golf. Hitting the ball into a gold cup. The rocket sticks into his ass and explodes. Trumpistan disappears.
EXT. ELON TUSK'S MANSION - CONTINUOUS
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT LOOKS LIKE DONALD TRUMP
The main door of the mansion opens and out walk Elon Tusk and the TRUMPISTAN ROBOT.
Crowds of journalists are taking pictures and video footage...
A JOURNALIST is there with a microphone stuck in the duo’s faces...
JOURNALIST
Folks. We are here with Elon Tusk
genius, inventor, billionaire. And
the President of America, Trumpistan...
How is your new partnership? How
are you going to change the world?
The Trumpistan Robot’s head starts moving erratically.
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
We are going to stop all the wars.
Something no human has ever done.
JOURNALIST
How are you going to do that?
Then the Trumpistan Robot freezes in mid sentence, his robot head static like a piece of metal...
Elon Tusk presses a button at the back of the robot’s head.
Then he begins operating again...
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
Win! Win! Win!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
ELON TUSK
What he means is we’re going to
make all the countries in the world
great again. Take the UK for example...
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
They need a kick up the backside.
We need Nigel Barage to start it
off with Reform. Brexit was just
the beginning.
ELON TUSK
We need to build more walls...
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
Big walls. To stop the immigrants
coming into our countries and
eating our cats and dogs for
Thanksgiving.
ELON TUSK
Win! Win! Win!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
JOURNALIST
(to Elon Tusk)
Are you a cosmocrator?
ELON TUSK
I...
THE PICTURE BECOMES A BIT BLURRY, SOUND DISAPPEARS APART FROM ELECTRONIC BEEPS AND EVENTUALLY FREEZES
INT. ELON TUSK’S MANSION - NIGHT
Elon Tusk is jumping up and down like a baby on a giant trampoline in a giant room.
EXT. TRUMPISTAN RALLY - STADIUM - DAY
The Trumpistan Robot is giving a speech to thousands of MAGA SUPPORTERS. Many wearing MAGA baseball caps and waving MAGA flags.
A bright, sunny day. Blue skies.
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
We won fair and square. Like we won
last time.
The MAGA crowds start CHEERING.
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT (CONT'D)
Unlike crooked Camel and sleepy
Joey. We’re going to make America
what it was meant to be. We’re
going to create jobs for everyone.
We’ll be a global force. Forget the
Chinese. Lets make America great
again.
A GUN SHOT RINGS OUT
Striking the Trumpistan Robot in the middle of the head. It falls down surrounded by security men and women.
The crowds are stunned. A loud hush surrounds the stadium. Suddenly the robot rises up, unharmed, with a hole through its head, fist pumping in the air...
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT (CONT'D)
Fight! Fight! Fight!
The crowds start CHEERING.
Elon Tusk appears out of nowhere, jumping up and down...
ELON TUSK
Fight! Fight! Fight!
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Exterminate!
The Trumpistan Robot starts doing a mechanical robot dance.
ELON TUSK
Folks. We all know what a great
comedian Trumpistan is. What a
great Doctor Who fan he is.
A GUN SHOT RINGS OUT
Striking Elon Tusk in the middle of the head. He falls down surrounded by security men and women.
The crowds are stunned. A loud hush surrounds the stadium. Suddenly Elon Tusk rises up, unharmed, with a hole through his head, fist pumping in the air...
ELON TUSK (CONT'D)
Fight! Fight! Fight!
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Exterminate!
The crowds start cheering.
MAGA SUPPORTERS
(all together)
USA! USA! USA!
EXT. WHITE HOUSE - DAY
MUSIC CUE: The American National Anthem
BUILDERS are building a huge wall around the White House.
A giant statue of Elon Tusk is being erected on the White House grounds.
EXT. WASHINGTON DC - SUNSET
Elon Tusk and the Trumpistan Robot are riding horses around
VLADIMIROFF SESSION 999 - EXTRACT
page 40...
INT. SUPERMARKET - MANAGER’S ROOM - CONTINUOUS
At a Disciplinary Meeting with the Manager, Dostoevsky gets a final warning and nearly gets sacked.
MANAGER
I heard you were swearing at someone.
DOSTOEVSKY
Yes because they have been bullying me for years.
MANAGER
She is a much loved member of our staff.
DOSTOEVSKY
Yes you like people who drive people mad and torture them.
MANAGER
This is a final warning. If you swear again you're out.
DOSTOEVSKY
Fuck you chump...
Dostoevsky picks up the table and throws it at him. The Manager catapulted backwards behind his desk on the floor. Dazed and confused...
MANAGER
You're out of here.
DOSTOEVSKY
So are you when I’m done with you.
MANAGER
Get out of here. You’re sacked.
DOSTOEVSKY
Aren’t you man enough to pull me out.
MANAGER
I’m calling the police.
DOSTOEVSKY
Good and I’ll tell them what’s been happening here all these years. I’m
hearing voices cause of all the abuse. Can’t leave the house.
MANAGER
Voices? You’re crazy.
DOSTOEVSKY
Crazy? You’re all crazy. You think you can get away with murder.
CUT TO:
EXT. NORTH LONDON HIGH STREET - DAY
MUSIC CUE: Pai Pai by Vicky Mosholiou
Dostoevsky and Vladimiroff are dancing the traditional Greek way and singing with the song.
DOSTOEVSKY/ VLADIMIROFF
(singing together)
...Pai pai pai pai. Pai pai pai pai. Pai pai pai pai. Kai then yirizi pia...
SUBTITLED: It’s gone gone gone gone. It’s gone gone gone gone. It’s gone gone gone gone. And it will never come back again...
The sun is shining brightly and warmly.
Passersby think they are crazy. Avoiding them and looking strangely.
Apart from the JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN dressed in big Russian hats who think it is very funny. And stay watching them. Clapping their hands in unison.
MARILYN'S LAST NIGHT - EXTRACT
page 16...
INT. MARILYN MONROE’S BRENTWOOD HOME BEDROOM - NIGHT
It’s a very hot night. 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood. Marilyn's bedroom.
Norma is watching The River Of No Return on TV. The scene where Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum and the boy are struggling in the wild river on their raft.
Norma felt cold, her eyes tired. No paintings on the walls, no chairs, a bedside table, a few books, a red diary. Half naked under the covers. Emptiness and dull. Her brunette roots grown out half an inch, but still blonde. Looks beautiful but aged, like a 36 year old approaching middle age.
NORMA LOOKS 36 NOW.
Norma is in bed drinking champagne, she can’t sleep. She phones people up...
WOMAN (V.O.)
(on the phone)
Hello, hello... Marilyn is that you, are you ok?
Norma hesitates, takes a deep breath and hangs up.
Drinks more champagne, vodka straight and takes sleeping pills. Takes antidepressants as well.
Then she phones up Joe, the man from the street.
NORMA’S VOICE IS THE VOICE OF THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, NORMA JEANE’S/ MARILYN MONROE’S VOICE BEFORE SHE BECAME FAMOUS - UNBREATHY VOICE
NORMA
(into the phone)
Hello Joe.
JOE (V.O.)
(on the phone)
Is that you Marilyn?
NORMA
Yes.
JOE (V.O.)
Whats wrong?
Her voice sounds SLURRED and full of fear.
NORMA
Nothing I just wanted to say goodbye.
JOE (V.O.)
Goodbye? Where are you going?
NORMA
Somewhere far away from it all. I need to sleep.
Can’t sleep. Can never sleep that’s why I take these pills.
JOE (V.O.)
Just close your eyes and dream of something beautiful far far away.
NORMA
I can’t sleep. But I’m dreaming and can’t wake up from this nightmare.
If I sleep forever maybe I’ll wake up from this nightmare.
JOE (V.O.)
Just try and get some sleep. I’ll see you tomorrow.
NORMA
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
JOE (V.O.)
Good dreams?
NORMA
Yes, good dreams.
NORMA
Ok goodnight. You’re a good man Joe. I never felt so close to anyone else, as I do with you.
JOE (V.O.)
Goodbye.
NORMA
Say goodbye to the President and say goodbye to yourself, because you’re a nice guy.
JOE (V.O.)
What do you mean?
NORMA
I don’t know what I mean anymore.
NORMA
One thing about this, the longer you last the less you care.
HER VOICE FADING like Silent Cinema.
NORMA
We’re all dying aren’t we. We’re not teaching each other what we really know, are we?
She removes the phone from her ear...
NORMA
(sadly)
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
Utter confusion. She is very depressed. Takes 50 sleeping pills with a glass of water. The only time she drinks water. Puts the empty glass on her bedside table.
She has to wait for the pills to take effect. The bottle of pills drops from her hands onto the floor, most pills not there, implying she took them, as she grows weaker...
NORMA
(her last words)
You killed me.
She drops unconscious.
CAMERA PULLS BACK and reveals her whole naked body face down, phone in her hand like Marilyn’s famous deathbed. Her dogs wander around the room.
TWO CONSPICUOUS MEN stand in the corner. With dark suits and well shined shoes. A red diary in their hand. A blood smudge on the wall. You can’t see their faces in the shadows. They look, and then open the door and leave into the garden.
Focus shifts to the bedside table. The bedside light on. No glass there anymore, just empty Nembutal pill bottles and an empty Channel No. 5 bottle, disappearing into the empty night. Clock says 12.30 am.
SUPER: ‘’August 5th, 1962, Fifth Helena Drive’’
CAMERA STAYS on Norma’s body. From hand clutching phone (the relationships she wished she had in her life),
PULLS BACK to reveal head, then nude torso (the sexuality that saw her rise to stardom but also destroyed her somewhere inside), then whole room. White bed sheets falling over her dying pale body. Head to the side
FACING THE CAMERA, still beautiful, immortalized in the flesh.
BRENTWOOD HOME GARDEN
CAMERA MOVES OUT OF THE BEDROOM DOOR, glass smashed, into the garden. Into the night. Like her death is seeping out of the room into the world. Then...
MUSIC CUE: ‘’River of No Return’’ sung by Marilyn Monroe
MARILYN MONROE SUICIDE - MONTAGE
A) House in Brentwood and street.
B) Hollywood Hills sign.
C) Marilyn Monroe.
D) The sky.
E) Cinemas.
F) Hollywood.
G) Marilyn Monroe’s deathbed.
H) Last shot of Marilyn smiling.
END MUSIC
INT. A LIVING ROOM - DAY
ON TV
First shot of TV reporting Marilyn’s death: (MEDIUM SHOT - To show bit of room)
NEWS PRESENTER (ON TV)
Marilyn Monroe is dead etc... the Hollywood superstar and blonde
bombshell died earlier this morning at 12.30am. The cause is thought
to be an overdose of sleeping pills. Initial reports say the actress who
had been acting erratically over the last few months might have committed
suicide. The troubled actress is survived by a few distant relatives. Her loyal
fans have been left distraught, that their idol who played in such hit
films as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot has passed away. Some
say they will be left dreaming forever...
BACK IN THE LIVING ROOM
Then CAMERA PULLS BACK to reveal the room of a Marilyn Monroe fan, a typical early 60s house. The news continues, but YOU HEAR SOMEONE CRYING O.S., they are not shown at first. In the room is a lone chair. A vase with flowers. A poster of Marilyn Monroe from the film Niagara. Celebrity magazines on a table. An ancient Greco-Roman Statue. The Myth of Sisyphus book by Albert Camus. A Clark Gable picture with a slouched hat and moustache. A white piano. There is a window with sunlight coming in. The clock on the wall shows 12.30pm.
Then we see THE FAN, a pretty girl next door type.
THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYS THE FAN ALSO PLAYS NORMA. BUT THE FAN IS POOR, WITH BRUNETTE HAIR, BAGGY CASUAL CLOTHES, NO MAKE UP. LOOKS IN HER 20S.
FADE TO BLACK.
END CREDITS
MUSIC CUE: ‘’I Wanna Be Loved By You’’ sung by Marilyn Monroe
THE END
LIFE ON THE ROAD - EXTRACT
page 62...
INT. NIGHT CLUB - LONDON - 7.30PM
Yiorgos is in the middle of the dance floor of the night club dancing by himself. But there is no music, Silence. He looks happy. For his age he can dance well and is full of energy for life.
YIORGOS WEARS OLD MAN CLOTHES.
MUSIC CUE: ‘’Titanium’’ sung by Sia
The music starts.
Disco lights circling and flashing, many colours.
He continues to dance by himself. He looks happier.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
CLOSE UP OF YIORGOS STILL DANCING TO TITANIUM.
AS THE CAMERA PULLS BACK... DOZENS UPON DOZENS OF WOMEN ARE DANCING WITH HIM.
Now dozens of happy, SEXY YOUNG WOMEN are dancing all around him. He is the only man, he looks ecstatic.
They continue to dance with him.
The women screaming with joy, surrounding him and looking at him, touching him sexually, he is nearly in orgasm.
The floor is almost shaking. Moving to the rhythm of the women and song.
EXT. NIGHT CLUB/ INT. CAR - LONDON - 8PM - CONTINUOUS
The red mist of sunset has taken over the non-existant blue sky, and the sun so low and large looming large, like an orange descending into the buildings... Like a painting. Everywhere nearly completely black and red.
He leaves the nightclub, falling over in ecstacy. Lifting himself up and smiling.
The blustery wind has ceased. But we are now at the end of winter. Cold.
THE TITANIUM SONG CONTINUING TO STILL PLAY OVER THIS SCENE
Yiorgos starts dancing and singing in the street, the ‘’Macarena’’ song that Helen did the striptease for him in the farm, memories abound.
A CRAZED AND CHAOTIC BUT FUNNY MIXTURE OF SONGS AND MUSIC
The streets full of people this late. A crazed memory of his first love. Bemused passers by either laugh or get disturbed. Some even join in dancing and singing ‘’Macarena’’ alongside him.
Soon a WHOLE CROWD has joined him, dancing and singing along the road to nowhere.
Yiorgos in the front, starts singing to a passing POLICEMAN (2). The policeman gets agitated, for the whole drama, is disrupting the peace.
Who, angry, grabs Yiorgos by the scruff of the neck, dragging him away.
Yiorgos sets himself free, running to his car, the same 70s Volkswagen classic convertible. Blue like the sky. His parents had.
He gets in and speeds off. VROOM VROOM. Down the central London streets.
END MUSIC: ‘’Titanium’’ song
In the distance the voices of the crowd still singing ‘’Macarena’’ all through the coming night...
Police SIRENS are heard in the distance...
CUT TO:
EXT. LONDON STREETS/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
The car is travelling along the road.
Yiorgos’s car is passing important moments of life. The red mist making everything look like a dream.
As he travels along the road he ages faster.
The police SIRENS are getting nearer.
First the children’s playground he played with his mother.
He slows down, and takes a look.
And continues travelling faster along the road.
The HUM of the car and the freedom.
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EXT. SCHOOL/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
Secondly, the school he was driven to by his father.
The police SIRENS are getting nearer.
He slows down and takes a look.
YIORGOS LOOKS 65. WRINKLES APPEARING ON HIS FACE.
And continues travelling faster along the road.
The HUM of the car and the freedom.
CUT TO:
EXT. AMERICAN STYLE DINER/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
Thirdly, the American style diner, where he ate with his parents and saw the sexy waitress.
The police SIRENS are getting nearer.
He slows down and takes a look.
YIORGOS LOOKS 70. COMPLETELY WHITE HAIR.
And continues travelling faster along the road.
The HUM of the car and the freedom.
CUT TO:
EXT. TRAFFIC LIGHTS WHERE HE MET HELEN/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
Fourthly, the traffic lights where he saw Helen for the first time and fell in love. The lights go red. He stops.
At first he doesn’t know where he is, but then realizes and turns to look at the spot, with a smile on his ageing face.
YIORGOS LOOKS 75.
The police SIRENS are getting nearer.
The lights go green and he continues travelling along the road.
Suddenly, the police are tailing him and he speeds off. They chase him.
Lots of police cars follow him along the streets of Central London. But he is too fast for them.
The HUM of the car and the freedom.
EXT. LONDON BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes London Bridge. Weaving in and out of the traffic.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. MILLENIUM WHEEL - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes the Millenium Wheel. Tourists abound.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. TOWER OF LONDON - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes the Tower of London. Empty.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. BIG BEN - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes Big Ben. As it strikes for 8pm... BONG... BONG
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes the Houses of Parliament. Protestors holding up EU banners.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. OXFORD STREET - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes Oxford Street. People Christmas Shopping.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. SOHO - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes the alleyways of Soho. People drinking outside pubs.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. COUNTRYSIDE - CONTINUOUS
And then the chase is in the open roads of the countryside. Nature all around.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
EXT. MOTORWAY/ INT. CAR - 8.30PM
Now the red mist disappearing and everything nearly completely black. Apart from the light from the sun still half showing in the horizon.
YIORGOS LOOKS 80. MANY WRINKLES.
Hunched on the wheel. Struggling to control the car. As it moves left and right along the motorway.
The police chasing still. SIRENS blasting.
THEY CONTINUE LIKE THIS FOR 30 SECONDS.
Then Yiorgos pulls off into a road which takes you to the countryside.
EXT. COUNTRYSIDE/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
Yiorgos is driving in the countryside roads, twisting and turning, avoiding the police, who after every turn disappear, but when the road straightens they appear again right behind him.
EXT. LAKE DISTRICT/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
All of a sudden they are right behind him. About to catch him. But as he enters the region known as the Lake District...
THEY MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR.
SILENCE. Only the sound of the car HUMMING, gliding along the road and the nature all around.
EXT. LAKE DISTRICT/ INT. CAR - DUSK - ESTABLISHING SHOT
The Lake District. Dusk. The sun is nearly set, just see a tiny bit. Spring. The weather looks less cold.
Nature all around barely visible, just about to turn completely dark.
A long distant road disappearing in the distance.
Birds are flying off into the distance, barely visible.
A large lake nearby full of the birth of life, barely visible.
THE SHOT STAYS LIKE THIS FOR 30 SECONDS.
Then a car appears travelling along the road far away.
As car comes closer. NOISE. A four seater 70s Volkswagen classic convertible. Blue like the sky. With the top down.
The car ZOOMS past as the CAMERA STAYS STILL and continues along the road to nowhere.
Yiorgos is driving in the countryside, silent, a long distant road ahead, no other cars, mountains and fields barely visible.
YIORGOS WEARS NO CLOTHES LIKE WINTER IS ENDING AND SPRING IS APPROACHING.
AS HE IS DRIVING HE AGES REALLY FAST IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA... MORE WRINKLES, LESS HAIR, WEARS GLASSES, HANDS CAN BARELY HOLD WHEEL, STOOPED, HUNCHED FORWARD, CAN’T LOOK IN FRONT AT ROAD... FROM 80 TO 81 TO 82 TO 83 TO 84 TO 85 TO 86 TO 87 TO 88 TO 89 TO 90. AND THE CAR IS SLOWING DOWN FAST TILL IT IS BARELY MOVING.
He looks really weak and...
He stops the car in the middle of the road, the same place he was born all those years ago, he stays tense for a few moments, flabbergasted, tears running down his face. Trying to say something...
He collapses and dies...
The sun sets... Complete darkness...
A BLACK SCREEN
NARRATOR (V.O.)
At first there was nothing...
And in the end there is nothing...
But in between there is life on the road...
A ROOSTER CROWS.
THE END
HER FINAL BOW - EXTRACT
page 22...
INT. NORMA’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT (BLACK AND WHITE)
Norma is in her living room. She turns ON THE TV showing the film Some Like It Hot. The scene of Marilyn SINGING ‘’I Wanna Be Loved By You’’ is on.
NORMA IS WEARING THE SAME SEXY SILVERY, FLESH BEARING DRESS FROM THE SCENE IN THE FILM.
Norma starts singing and dancing ‘’I Wanna Be Loved By You’’ around her room (at the same time as Marilyn Monroe is SINGING on the TV).
NORMA
(singing)
‘’I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you...’’
She is in a funny mood, copying Marilyn Monroe. Same voice, same sultry stare, same melancholic smile and moves in the same sexy way. Leaning on the white piano her mother gave her in her room.
Till Marilyn Monroe STOPS SINGING ON TV and starts looking around... Norma who has also stopped singing, collapses on the sofa in laughter when she sees the two actors from the film, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dressed in drag ON THE TV.
She drinks champagne and takes prescription pills with her drink.
CUT TO:
INT. WHITE HOUSE - CONTINUOUS ACTION (BLACK AND WHITE)
NORMA (V.O.)
I don’t need a publicist darling. I have Chanel no.5.
CIA Man and CIA MAN 2 laughing as they are listening to Norma through bugging equipment in a government building.
THE CIA MAN, NOW DRESSED AS A FRENCH MAN LIKE YVES MONTAND WITH A MOUSTACHE. A STRIPEY WHITE AND BLUE TOP, RED SCARF, A BERET AND SMART TROUSERS. HE WEARS SAME CLOTHES FROM NOW ON.
CIA MAN ONLY SPEAKS IN A FRENCH ACCENT FROM NOW ON TILL THE END OF THE SCRIPT, LIKE YVE MONTAND’S CHARACTER (JEAN-MARC CLEMENT) FROM THE FILM LETS MAKE LOVE.
CIA MAN 2
And why are you dressed like that and speaking in a French accent?
CIA MAN
Let’s make love, monsieur, let’s make love.
CIA MAN 2
Oh Marilyn, why, why?
NORMA (V.O.)
La di da di da...
CUT TO:
INT. NORMA’S LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS ACTION (COLOUR)
Anxious and disturbed, almost as if she is aware of the bugging, she takes all her paintings, Clark Gable picture, NIAGARA poster off the walls and throws a lot of her furniture and decorations out of the house. Her backyard is a rubbish tip, as it rains outside. Leaving a plain, empty living room. Empty walls. She leaves the white piano in her house. The lone chair. The TV.
BEDROOM
Takes off her make up too. Wears unglamorous clothes. Sitting down. Looks in the mirror, puts on glasses and tells herself...
NORMA
I’m Norma.
A brunette woman looking back at her in the mirror. But still in the lonely room is a blonde. She touches the mirror. Sparks fly. Thunder and lightening outside as she touches mirror.
She starts to HEAR IMAGINARY VOICES of her parents (MOTHER and FATHER).
MOTHER (V.O.)
Happy Birthday Norma Jeane.
FATHER (V.O.)
Happy Birthday Norma Jeane.
NORMA
Oh thanks Mum, thanks Dad, I love you.
The PARENT’S VOICES ANSWER in unison.
MOTHER/ FATHER (V.O.)
We love you too Norma Jeane. Now blow out the candles and make a wish.
Norma blows a kiss at the mirror and says...
NORMA
I wish I was Marilyn Monroe.
The brunette woman still looking back at her in the mirror. The blonde still in the room.
She gets up. Continues drinking. A glass of champagne, Dom Perignon. Puts on a romantic record at the same time as turning on the TV. John F Kennedy is on the news, but she seems oblivious to this. Still drinking. This time a glass of whiskey. Takes more pills. This concoction implies chaos.
She begins to cry.
Then she goes to bed to sleep. She can’t sleep. Takes sleeping pills, but still can’t sleep. She is cold and mystified staring up at the dizzying darkness in the ceiling.
Gets up and has another alcoholic drink.
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NORMA’S LIVING ROOM (COLOUR)
The same night. Her eyes closed as if asleep (maybe she is asleep, maybe she is not). She opens them. The TV is on but the transmission is over. She is naked now. Her hair still looks perfect and she has make up on now. She still looks perfect even though she hasn’t slept, implying the made up world of film.
NORMA
I can’t sleep. But I’m dreaming. I’m dreaming and I can’t wake up.
Starts HEARING VOICES all around. Answering her cries. Making her feel less alone, but more anxious and crazy.
EXT. NORMA’S DRIVEWAY (BLACK AND WHITE) - CONTINUOUS
SUPERIMPOSE: ‘’December’’
The same night. She goes out of the house and walks naked down the driveway with a perfect body. It has stopped raining. The weather outside seems unusually scorching hot for this time of the year. There is no one around. Gets inside her 1962 red Chevrolet Corvette convertible. The Marilyn Monroe of cars, the top is down.
Enters the car key. Puts her foot on the peddle. STARTS THE ENGINE. And heads off. Her watch on her arm holding the steering wheel shows 12.30am.
EXT. DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES/ INT. NORMA’S CAR - CONTINUOUS ACTION
SHOT OF REAR VIEW MIRROR. Norma’s eyes and the road in the mirror as if she is disappearing into the distance.
SHOT OF THE NIGHT SKY and the stars in the sky are twinkling in LA.
The weather appears too calm and hot for winter. No music, just silence and the SOUND of the CAR and the CITY. No talking for long period during this night drive. She drives on Sunset Boulevard.
She SCREAMS IN JOY to the night and her feelings of freedom in this naked drive in the twilight hours, taking her hands off the wheel and lifting them upwards, driving very fast.
She passes the ‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’ street sign.
The headlights of her car torching the road ahead. Passing cinemas showing Sweet Bird Of Youth with Geraldine Page, Tinsletown at its mightiest, and old run down cinemas. All night cafes and bars. Run down people. POLICE SIRENS. And the city lights. No one even noticed her, even though she was naked. She was obsessed with her journey, now her private life has become public.
The fake heaven in the urban jungle. The eternity that doesn’t really exist! The plastic humans, fake lights, concrete utopia, machinery chaos of the made up world.
Norma looks at the Some Like It Hot script next to her, for a long time, showing how fake driving is in the made up world of film. She PRACTISES SUGAR CANE’S LINES OUT LOUD. Then, suddenly the script gets caught up in the wind and flies to the back of the car and onto the road.
Norma looks in the rear view mirror...
NORMA
Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
Keeps driving and smiles from the front.
CUT TO:
A SHOT OF A CINEMA SIGN being lit up by neon lights sparkling outside her car.
COLOUR
As the bright sparkle COVERS THE SCREEN.
FADE TO:
EXT. DALLAS CITY CENTRE/ INT. OSWALD CAR/ INT. CIA CAR (COLOUR)
The bright sparkle of the night LA cinema fades into a sunny Dallas morning. Suddenly the sun is shining and there is colour. Even though it looks like a cold, crisp morning.
Oswald is driving his car in the centre of Dallas. Shown from the front, he has a stern face.
He is being followed by CIA Man and CIA Man 2 in their car. No dialogue from them. They wear conspicuous sunglasses.
Both cars drive along the famous JFK assassination road, known as Dealey Plaza. Oswald parks. The CIA park a few spaces behind Oswald and wait outside in their car. Oswald goes inside the famous Book Depository building.
The CIA, acting very serious, watch Oswald as he enters the building from the car.
CUT TO:
CIA MAN 2
What the heck are you doing? You’ll blow our cover. He’ll know we’re tailing him.
CIA MAN
This is America. We’re an honest bunch. If we like you we’ll show you we like you.
And if we chase you we’ll show you we’re chasing you.
CIA MAN 2
The land of the free I suppose.
CIA MAN
That’s right.
Two familiar people appear on the pavement and THE CAMERA LEAVES THE CAR AND CONCENTRATES ON THEM.
STOCK SHOT
Marilyn Monroe and YVES MONTAND walking down the street from the film Lets Make Love. Marilyn Monroe starts to jog. Yves Montand follows her and starts to jog.
STOCK FOOTAGE
Montage of photographs of Marilyn Monroe with her lovers, happy. First ARTHUR MILLER, then JOE DI MAGGIO, as the NOISE from the STREET continues O.S. The last picture will be Joe Di Maggio with Marilyn Monroe and it stays on screen for longer and we hear Norma saying...
NORMA (V.O.)
Joe, Joe, I love you.
CUT TO
INT. NORMA’S BEDROOM - MORNING (COLOUR)
Fan silent, eyes closed, her face in bed facing ceiling. Then, fan appears to wake up, and the first thing she utters as she opens her eyes is...
NORMA
Joe, Joe, I love you.
BEWARE BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH - EXTRACT
page 3...
EXT. NEW HADRIAN’S WALL - MIDDLE OF UNITED KINGDOM - DAY
On the north side of the wall CONSERVATIVELY DRESSED BREXITEERS terrorize the COOL DRESSED REMAINERS on the south side with Cliff Richard music PUMPING out of LOUD SPEAKERS. The Remainers drop their flags and run away in fear.
MUSIC CUE: ‘’Summer Holiday’’ by Cliff Richard
On the south side of the wall some CONSERVATIVELY DRESSED REMAINERS terrorize the COOL DRESSED BREXITEERS on the north side with Black Sabbath music PUMPING out of LOUD SPEAKERS. The Brexiteers drop their flags and run away in fear.
MUSIC CUE: ‘’Paranoid’’ by Black Sabbath
A BREXITEER with a loud speaker screams to the other side of the wall...
BREXITEER
We wanted to Brexit so we could kick you all out of the country.
A REMAINER on the other side proclaims with a loud speaker...
REMAINER
We voted to remain, so we could stay here long enough, to eventually
take over and kick you lot out of the country.
BREXITEER
Charming.
REMAINER
(desperate)
Hey Brutus, fancy some mousaka?
BREXITEER
(smug)
Nah, I’m happy with my fish and chips thank you very much!
EXT. HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT - DUSK
Remainers are handing out leaflets outside the Houses of Parliament to revoke Article 50.
A MAD MAN with a ‘’THE END IS NIGH’’ banner in BIG LETTERS, is smiling like a CHESHIRE CAT and laughing HYSTERICALLY out of madness.
INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - CONTINUOUS
Inside the Parliament the Ruling Elite are playing a game, instead of seriously sorting the countries problems out.
Smiling and singing in unison. Mimicking the movements of the song...
RULING ELITE
(all together)
You put your right foot in, You put your right foot out, You put
your right foot in, And you shake it all about, You do the Hokey Pokey,
and you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about...
EXT. NORTH ENGLAND FACTORIES/ WORK PLACES/ COAL MINES/ STREETS - MORNING
Factories are letting off a lot of smoke up north.
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WORKERS in lines entering work places.
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COAL MINERS descending into the unknown.
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ENGLISH PEOPLE are dancing in the streets and singing...
ENGLISH PEOPLE
(singing)
We’ve got our country back...
Union Jack flags on every street corner. People ecstatically happy.
INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - LIGHT DIMMING
Brutus and Cassius declare in unison for the whole universe to hear... The whole universe inside Parliament. The Ruling Elite listen on...
BRUTUS/ CASSIUS
(together)
We are British through and through. Proud to be British.
We would die for this country. Unlike Boris Karloff, he’s Romanian or a Turk or a vampire or something European.
RULING ELITE
(in unison)
Hear, hear!
INT. STRIP CLUB - NIGHT
A POLISH WOMAN is Pole dancing seductively in a strip club.
A group of INFATUATED MEN try to raid the stage. Stopped by the BOUNCERS. A fist fight ensues. The woman continues to Pole dance unmoved.
EXT. DOVER - MORNING
All the non-English/ non-Scottish/ non-Irish/ non-Welsh people in the UK are not kicked out, they decide to leave by their own accord. A mass exodus back to Europe and abroad, by ferry. Cars flood the port of Dover.
Some travel on small fishing boats, or even tiny boats with oars all the way to Europe.
Some travel to the Americas, to discover new lands, looking out at the horizon from their big old fashioned traditional ship, others sail this journey on fishing or rowing boats. Big American coloured sails and flags decorate their boats.
INT. TRADITIONAL BRITISH HOUSEHOLD - CONTINUOUS
The family is sleeping peacefully... The TV is still on... The News is on...
ON TV
At Dover. A European IMMIGRANT sailing home tells a journalist...
IMMIGRANT
(Italian accent)
The Romans are coming!
Another IMMIGRANT 2 shouts behind him.
IMMIGRANT 2
(Romanian accent)
The Romans are coming!
Someone from a boat screams...
IMMIGRANT 3 (O.S.)
The Romans are coming!
As they descend into the unknown and new horizons, there are voices all around, on shore and in the sea, first whispering then bellowing to the waves many times, over and over again. As their protestations echo throughout the eternal depths.
IMMIGRANTS
(in unison, over and over again)
The Romans are coming! The Romans are coming! The Romans are coming!...
EXT. PARK - SUNNY AFTERNOON
SUPERIMPOSE: Peace on Earth!
England is much quieter. There are less people in parks. But. People still drink tea, and eat fish and chips in the park cafe. Smiling. Everyone is English.
Others go for walks in the park and some play football in the beautiful green spaces. Familes and friends and romantic couples. Happy. Blue skies. Glorious sunshine.
INT. TRADITIONAL BRITISH HOUSEHOLD
The family have fallen off the sofa and are sleeping in foetal positions on the floor. One of them, the YOUNG BABY of the family, has woken up, and is staring perplexed at the TV.
ON TV
The Antiques Road Show is on. The PRESENTER of the show is talking whilst examining a priceless vase.
PRESENTER
Everything appears more peaceful, until...
The vase drops from his hands and SMASHES into a million pieces.
BACK TO SCENE
The family has woken up.
EXT. NEW HADRIAN’S WALL - MIDDLE OF UNITED KINGDOM - RAINY DAY
SUPERIMPOSE: Act 2 - The Ice Age
Remainer revolutionaries on either side of the wall are singing to each other, and anyone who cares to listen.
REMAINERS
(in unison)
We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when, but I’ll
know we’ll meet again some sunny day...
It is raining profusely.
Some Remainers on the north side, stuck on the wrong side of the wall, are trying desperately to escape and climb over the wall, but they are held back by THUG LIKE BREXITEERS.
Police sirens appear by chance. A street camera moves directions towards the scene. In the distance the sirens are flashing, getting closer.
The thug like Brexiteers, get inside a car and drive off. Suddenly, their car explodes. A REMAINER TERRORIST runs from nowhere, erecting a huge EU flag ontop of the dying ashes.
EXT. SCOTLAND - CONTINUOUS
A Pro-Brexit march is going on in Scotland, full of English people.
PRO-BREXIT DEMONSTRATORS
(shouting)
We want our country back... We want our country back...
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: A CLIP OF A BORIS KARLOFF DRACULA FILM
BACK TO SCENE:
In front of the march is a man called BORIS KARLOFF ( aka Boris Johnson). He is walking down the street with two women, one in each of his arms, many coins and notes in his bulging pockets, falling out of his pockets, scattering the streets, not only pounds but euros as well, like a never ending flow of money, they are drowning in money. A horde of women, like a harem following him and chasing him, many more follow, hundreds, almost thousands screaming in jubilation.
WOMEN
(all together)
Boris!
Ecstatically happy, both Boris and the women and the money, with a huge smile on all their faces.
From a distance everything else in the march has become non-existent.
INT. PUB - CONTINUOUS
Outside the march is going on. Inside. A man is face down on the pub bar. Throwing up profusely.
Then a few seconds later, downing another Bloody Mary.
DRUNK BRIT
I don’t care if I have no money. Just as long as I’m a free Brit.
EXT. NORTH SCOTTISH COAST - CONTINUOUS
The Brexiteers have left the farthest reaches of Scotland on Viking ships.
The MEN HAVE LONG BEARDS commanding the oars. The WOMEN ARE STANDING NAKED, with thick pubic hair. Hitting the men with Marie Claire magazines, so they keep rowing. The sun is setting and the moon is taking them home.
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: 1966 ENGLAND WINNING THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP
EXT. THE NORTH POLE - MORNING/ NIGHT/ DAWN
Morning gave birth to new horizons. The North Pole. Landing on ice was greeted with JUBILANT SCREAMS.
BREXITEERS
We’ve finally left Europe. Where can we watch Eastenders?
TRUTH OR DARE? - extract
Page 30...
...She takes him to the end of the platform, half hidden in the darkness and light where the tunnel begins and ends, kisses him. Moments later the police arrive at the platform and they start to have sex.
LANA (CONT'D)
If you love me. Kiss me. If you
love me. You gotta kill for me.
INT. THE BUENOS AIRES CASINO - DAY (BLACK AND WHITE)
The casino is closed. The Boss is arguing with Lana. Alone.
CAESAR
(raging)
Your a tramp. A low life. You been
with more men than the two World
Wars combined. Get out of my sight.
She turns to leave.
CAESAR (CONT'D)
You love Orson?
She walks back to him. And stands close so they are almost touching.
LANA
(confidently)
Yeah. I love him.
He SLAPS her. She bursts out screaming in agony.
CAESAR
You love him?
LANA
(whimpering)
I love him.
He strikes her with his fist. She cries in pain. Tears falling down from her eyes.
CAESAR
You love him?
LANA
I love...
Before she can say anything he hits her again. More violently this time. She falls to the floor FACING THE CAMERA with a huge grin on her tears ridden face.
INT. ORSON’S FLAT - NIGHT (BLACK AND WHITE)
Lana is cuddling up with Orson on the sofa. Watching TV.
LANA
I have two tickets. Just the two of
us. We can escape from it all
tomorrow. To that big yellow light
up there in the sky.
ORSON
I love you.
LANA
I love you too. More then I ever
loved anyone. We’re good together.
They fall asleep next to each other. Lana looking genuinely happy.
DREAM SEQUENCE
Daylight. The sun is shining. Lana and Orson riding on horses on the merry go round, going round and round in circles. Both joyous.
LANA (V.O.)
(repeated over and over
again like a stuck record)
I love you... I love you... I love
you... I love you...
DREAM SEQUENCE ENDS
FADE TO BLACK.
FADE IN:
EXT. ALLEYWAY/ INT. CINEMA AUDITORIUM - NIGHT (BLACK AND WHITE)
Orson coming out of the shadows, looking at his watch, waiting in the alleyway to murder Caesar, just like Humphrey had anticipated all those days ago.
ORSON WEARS A 1940’S FILM NOIR STETSON
HAT AND TRENCH COAT
The streetlights on the alleyway are working now. Lightly lighting the place. But there is still much darkness.
CUT TO:
‘’DOUBLE INDEMNITY’’ playing inside (Billy Wilder directed 1944). The scene when the Barbara Stanwyck femme fatale character reveals to the duped insurance salesemn, Fred MacMurray, that she never loved no one and shoots him in defiance. As lovers they had planned to murder her husband for his money. Caesar and Lana watching intently.
CUT TO:
Meanwhile in the alleyway...
ORSON (V.O.)
A love drug. I was hooked. I would
kill for her. Even kill myself for
her. The Millenium Wheel spinning
round and round this dizziness of
desire. I was walking a man
possessed. My feet heavy from the
exploitation. Each footstep
dragging me along the smoke rings
created by life, which went round
and round, again and again, but
then disappeared into thin air.
CUT TO:
The couple still watching the film.
ORSON (V.O.)
Puff the magic dragon indeed. Lived
by the sea. Here the river cut
through everything. Person and
place. Nature and object. I
inhaled. Exhaled. And then I threw
the cigarette down the gutter.
Below. That special place, where I
live with myself and you everyday.
The Thames like a monster leading
us all to the sea saw cemetaries.
Some freedom perhaps, from the sex
sex sex, guns guns guns and the
full flush.
CUT TO:
Orson looking at his watch.
ORSON (V.O)
Red faced from the cold fever.
Caught red handed between her
thighs. High stake poker and hold
em up as the police sirens left
this metropolis long ago to far off
galaxies millions of light years
away. The black and white night
flew shadows on street corners and
alleyways dangerous but sublime
picturing nonsensical minds. Was I
innocent? Was I guilty? The
director? The actor? The producer?
Or just a man possessed.
EXT. PICADILLY CIRCUS CINEMA - CONTINUOUS (BLACK AND WHITE)
Caesar and Lana leave the cinema arm in arm as if in love. They enter the alleyway. Silence, only their FOOTSTEPS. London silenced.
LANA WEARING A LITTLE BLACK DRESS, RED
STILLETOS AND A GREEN FELT TILT HAT
WITH DRAPED VEIL
CAESAR WITH A 1940’S TRENCH COAT AND FEDORA HAT
Suddenly another pair of FOOTSTEPS join the scene. Following them. All we hear is the CLIP CLOP of the various heels on the ground for a while.
MUSIC CUE: ‘’Suspense driven Classical music’’
Then Orson walks towards them from behind, just as he points his gun at Caesar getting ready to shoot...
Another man (CHANDLER, known before as the Writer) comes out of nowhere and SHOOTS Orson as the silence is interrupted by a LOUD BANG.
Orson falls to the ground, what appears like streams of notes of money falling out of his pockets scattering
(The Director outwitted by the Writer. Who is really pulling the strings in this story?)
CHANDLER WEARING MODERN CASUAL CLOTHES
Lana SCREAMS. Then her scream turns into an evil smile. Caesar remains silent, hidden in the shadows. The
streetlights emphasizing Lana and Chandler’s gentle features.
CHANDLER
(interesting, coherent,
gentle, mature,
storyteller voice)
I did it Lana, I did it cause I love
you. He can’t hit you no more.
LANA
Thank you Chandler, thank you, lets
get out of here before the police
turn up. Meet me tomorrow at
Leicester Square at 4 o’clock.
They disappear into the darkness.
EXT. LEICESTER SQUARE ODEON CINEMA - NIGHT (BLACK AND WHITE)
Chandler is waiting at Leicester Square for Lana. There is a premiere for a film called ‘‘TRUTH OR DARE?’’ in BIG LETTERS happening at the same time. Crowds are gathering. The hustle and bustle of typical Central London life continues all around, well into the night. He sits with others, behind the barriers, waiting for the premiere to begin. Time passes, he looks at his watch change from 4 to 5 to 6 o’ clock. Two hours have gone by and she still hasn’t come. The premiere begins. He still waits. Leans on the barrier and smokes. Then he tries to phone her mobile, but it appears as a wrong number. Just as he is about to leave, he thinks he’s been stood up, the police enter the scenario. The police corner him from all sides and rush towards him. He runs onto the red carpet to escape. The actors and director and media are there.
CHANDLER
(shouting, throwing his
arms to the heavens)
She set me up, she set me up.
Cameras are flashing and the police wrestle him to the ground. On the red carpet are two of the characters from this film dressed in tuxedos being interviewed by the press and signing autographs for their adoring fans: the actors who play Humphrey and Orson (the Actor and the Director). They look amused at this madman.
ATHENA'S JOURNEY - extract
page 1...
BLACK SCREEN:
SUPERIMPOSE: ‘’...And I recall Anaktoria, whose sweet step Or that flicker of light on her face,
I’d rather see than Lydian chariots Or the armed ranks of the hoplites... - Sappho poem’’
FADE IN:
EXT. ATHENA ACROPOLIS, PARTHENON - DUSK
Dusk. Winter chill. But sunny. Plenty of light in an unknown location. CAMERA IN FRONT OF A FIGURE appearing out of the shadows like a ghost from the forgotten past coming to life. A heavily pregnant GREEK WOMAN, wearing dirty modern expensive clothes, all in white like an Ancient Greek tunic, stumbling up the marble steps.
CAMERA PULLS BACK. In the distance below the city of Athena, the sun was setting, the sky was a beautiful red, yellow and blue. Getting slowly darker. The first house lights were slowly being lit. There is complete silence all around, only the sound of her heavy, tired breathing. She keeps going, now reaching the top of the steps and on the high ground.
CAMERA PULLS BACK MORE to reveal an ancient site, a temple’s large marble entrance recognizable. Walking through rougher terrain and remnants of a past culture, forged in marble and columns and statues.
SUDDENLY THE CAMERA IS BEHIND HER and we realize she is desperately trying to reach the Parthenon on the Acropolis. The beautiful, large imposing, architecturally superior Temple.
Stumbling, slower and slower. Then collapsing a metre away. Reaching with her hand to touch the Parthenon, but her fingers are inches away. As she dramatically dies in this holy pagan place. Then, as her water breaks, a new born baby comes out of her, like the Goddess Athena herself, CRYING on the ground, an umbilical cord still attached to the mother.
Suddenly darkness reigns, the woman and baby not visible, many stars in the sky and in the city below shining like prayers for an eternity, only the sound of the BABY CRYING, HOWLING like the mournful wind through the mysterious night.
EXT. ACROPOLIS PEAK - DAWN
The sun is rising. The Parthenon looks magical and beautiful in the light. Timeless. Everything appears normal until...
The blue and white flag of Greece flying in the wind.
The Greek Evzone FLAG GUARD (Konstantinos Koukidis) pulls down the flag, wraps it round his body and jumps off the Acropolis silently. Committing suicide. His fall seems to go on forever.
German Nazis, APPEARING IN SHOT for the first time, shocked behind him.
EXT. ATHENA/ ACROPOLIS/ PIRAEUS HARBOUR - DUSK
The Acropolis and Parthenon in the distance. A long road. German tanks entering the city. Reinforcements. Sun setting in the distance.
KONSTANDINOS STAVROPOULOS (V.O.)
(Athens Radio Station
announcer, Greek accent)
Attention! Attention! The capital
is falling into the hands of the
conquerors. On the Sacred Rock of
the Acropolis, the blue and white
is no longer flying proud. Instead,
it is replaced by the banner of
violence. The guard of our flag,
ordered to take it down to raise
the German flag, committed suicide
by jumping off the cliff at the
point where the blue and white was
flying. Long live Greece!
German fighter planes flying above the Acropolis in unison.
CHILDREN run out of their houses to see this sight fade away into the horizon.
The sky a violent red and yellow.
German battle ships entering Athena’s harbour from the Aegean sea. Reinforcements. Sun setting in the distance.
A GREEK FISHERMAN trawling up the nets full of fish, ignoring this picture. The smell of seawater fresh in the air.
EXT. KAFENION - DUSK
TWO VERY OLD GREEK MEN playing tavli (backgammon) on a table outside. Walking sticks resting on their chairs. The radio playing.
KONSTANDINOS STAVROPOULOS (V.O.)
(on the radio)
Attention! The Athena Radio Station
will no longer be Greek after a
while. It will be German and will
be broadcasting lies! Greeks! Do
not listen to it. Our war continues
and will continue until the final
victory! Long live the Nation of Greeks!
The radio broadcast stops for the last time. An eerie silence.
The two old men sipping ouzo, passing the time, happy, like they’ve seen all this before, and survived it.
One of them throws the dice, coughs loudly. The other scratches his head and MUMBLES something under his breath.
The street light comes on, as if something is still working.
The CAMERA BEGINS TO PULL BACK slowly until you see the whole street, then the whole area, finally until the whole of Athena is shown in SHOT like a beautiful dream, where everything is at peace.
EXT. ATHENA CITY STREETS - 11PM
The streets of Athena deserted. An eerie silence. Broken by...
A GUN SHOT. There is a German tank wandering around the streets. A TANK SOLDIER standing out of the opened hatch with a loud speaker.
TANK SOLDIER
(German accent)
This is a curfew. No one is allowed
out after 11pm until 6am.
The tank continues to wander around, delievering its message, but the voice of the loudspeaker is silently replaced by another radio broadcast.
NAZI CONQUERER (V.O.)
(Radio broadcast by the
Germans, German accent)
The Mayor of Athena, retaining all
the powers in the city of Athena
under German Occupation, announces
that today, Sunday, April 27th and
at eight o’clock am the German
troops entered the city of Athena
and took possession of it. Under
the German troops, unequivocal
assurances were given that the
population of Athena have nothing
to fear. We call everybody that
they behave orderly, with dignity
and courtesy. The Mayor of Athena
commands that, as of this time, the
normal life of the city resumes
smoothly.
EXT. THE ACROPOLIS, PARTHENON - DUSK
The Nazi flag has been erected on the top of the empty Acropolis, near the Parthenon, conquering Ancient Greek thought. It is being blown in the wind, there are no people.
EXT. ROAD NEXT TO OLYPMIC STADIUM - MORNING
SUPERIMPOSE: ‘’Winter, December 1941... The Great Famine was a period of mass starvation during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.’’
Morning. Cloudy and dark. There are a lot of anxious Greek men, women and children on the streets of Athena rushing around aimlessly. A strong angry wind, dust in the air creating a light mist. Germans in Nazi uniform driving around in army cars, a long line of tanks and others marching on foot like they are headed for war singing their battle hymns, shouting aggressively at the terrified Athenians.
CONSPIRACY DREAM ASSASSINATION - extract
Page 99...
The year 1963. Marilyn Monroe is dead. Or is she? A woman called Norma who is morphing into the famous movie star, is stalking the streets of Los Angeles...
EXT. LOS ANGELES STREET 1963 (BLACK AND WHITE)
The police have been chasing Norma's therapist who has gone crazy, he is running around the streets naked, head over heels in love with her. Meanwhile, Norma is ecstatic after her long therapy session, walking in the opposite direction, will their paths meet again...
page 8...
INT. THE OVAL OFFICE - THE WHITE HOUSE - DAY
President Donald Duck is wearing a red MALAKA baseball cap talking to the media...
PRESIDENT DONALD DUCK LOOKS LIKE DONALD TRUMP
PRESIDENT DONALD DUCK
I am putting great tarrifs on Germany. I am putting great tarrifs
on Brazil. I am putting greater tarrifs on China. Because they are
stealing our money. And making us Americans poorer. We have no
jobs. They are stealing our jobs. Let's take back our jobs. Let's make
America great again.
President Donald Duck signs three executive orders and shows them to the camera...
INT. THE WHITE HOUSE - PRESS CONFERENCE - DAY
Superimpose: March 2025
MARJORIE JAM head of Dodge (an organisation set up by the President to sort out America’s problems) is talking to a UK REPORTER holding a mic... A DODGE logo on the wall in the background.
MARJORIE JAM LOOKS LIKE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HEAD OF DOGE
UK REPORTER
Marjorie Jam, can you comment on the leaked, classified US war
plans from the President’s Twitter page.
MARJORIE JAM
Wait, what country are you from?
UK REPORTER
The UK.
Marjorie Jam looks very angry and starts pointing her finger at her and moving it around angrily...
MARJORIE JAM
Ok, we don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting.
Why don’t you go back to your country where you have a major
migrant problem...
UK REPORTER
Do you care...
MARJORIE JAM
No no no no you should care about your own borders.
UK REPORTER
Do you care about American lives being put at risk?
MARJORIE JAM
No no no no let me tell you something. Do you care about people
from your country? What about all the women that are raped by
migrants.
UK REPORTER
Do you care about...
MARJORIE JAM
No do you care? Ok your done...
Marjorie Jam puts her arm forward with the palm facing upward, fingers up, the hand gesture for stop...
UK REPORTER
Do you care about American lives being put at risk?
MARJORIE JAM
I... I don’t...
UK REPORTER
About service members fighting for your country...
MARJORIE JAM
I don’t care about your fake news. Do you have a relevant question?
An AMERICAN JOURNALIST is listening...
AMERICAN JOURNALIST (O.S.)
Yeah I would like to...
MARJORIE JAM
Yes thank you. This is an American journalist...
INT. PRESIDENT’S BEDROOM - THE WHITE HOUSE - NIGHT
Superimpose: February 2025
The President of the United States of America, President Donald Duck, can not sleep. Sleeping next to him is the DAISY DUCK ANIMATION his wife and First Lady.
DAISY DUCK ANIMATION IS FROM THE DISNEY CARTOON
PRESIDENT DONALD DUCK
I can’t sleep Daisy. I wonder what I should do. It’s 4am. I know
I’ll write an email to Marjorie.
He turns on the TV...
ON TV
The DONALD DUCK ANIMATION is on TV in the original cartoon. The Donald Duck Animation is with the Daisy Duck Animation, they are in conversation and they are quacking to each other over and over again.
DONALD DUCK ANIMATION
Quack quack, quack quack, quack quack, quack quack...
DASIY DUCK ANIMATION
Quack quack, quack quack, quack quack, quack quack...
DONALD DUCK ANIMATION AND DASIY DUCK ANIMATION IN THE DISNEY CARTOON ON TV
BACK TO SCENE
President Donald Duck turns on the computer and goes to the YAHOO.COM Website.
He picks up a hamburger on the table and takes a huge bite.
He accidently presses a button which takes him to his Twitter account...
He starts sharing files to everyone worldwide, he thought he was sending privately to Marjorie Jam, head of Dodge on Yahoo mail...
ON TWITTER
Hello Marjorie I can’t sleep. I’ve discussed it with JD, Petey and Tango we are planning a military strike on Yemen very soon. So the troops in the region must be ready. Don’t tell anyone. It’s top secret. Goodnight and goodluck.
DONALD DUCK ANIMATION (O.S.)
Quack quack, quack quack...
DASIY DUCK ANIMATION (O.S.)
Quack quack, quack quack...
END MUSIC
THE WORLD"S OLDEST PROFESSIONS - EXTRACT
page 18...
NEW ACT
FADE IN:
SUPERIMPOSE: PART 3 - COSMOCRATOR
EXT. THE UNIVERSE - ESTABLISHING SHOT
The black universe, stars, planets, a SpaceX spaceship.
MUSIC CUE: Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode
SUPERIMPOSE: I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
"Ozymandias", Percy Shelley, 1819
END MUSIC
FADE IN:
INT. ELON TUSK’S MANSION - UNKNOWN LOCATION - DAY
ELON TUSK is jumping up and down like a baby on a giant trampoline in a giant room.
ELON TUSK LOOKS LIKE ELON MUSK
EXT. ELON TUSK’S GARDEN - CONTINUOUS
In a giant garden there are many giant rockets.
The garden has green trees and beautiful plants and flowers.
The rockets all set off at the same time. Heading up to the blue, sunny sky. They start travelling in different
directions.
EXT./ INT. THE WHITE HOUSE - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - DAY -
CONTINUOUS
TRUMPISTAN LOOKS LIKE DONALD TRUMP
One rocket has arrived at the White House and it starts heading to the building fast. Just as it reaches the door at the front, it suddenly decreases in size to the size of a piece of rice, enters through the key hole and increases to the size of a football. The rocket travels quickly through the halls of the building till it finds the Oval Office where TRUMPISTAN is standing with the doors open playing golf. Hitting the ball into a gold cup. The rocket sticks into his ass and explodes. Trumpistan disappears.
EXT. ELON TUSK'S MANSION - CONTINUOUS
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT LOOKS LIKE DONALD TRUMP
The main door of the mansion opens and out walk Elon Tusk and the TRUMPISTAN ROBOT.
Crowds of journalists are taking pictures and video footage...
A JOURNALIST is there with a microphone stuck in the duo’s faces...
JOURNALIST
Folks. We are here with Elon Tusk
genius, inventor, billionaire. And
the President of America, Trumpistan...
How is your new partnership? How
are you going to change the world?
The Trumpistan Robot’s head starts moving erratically.
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
We are going to stop all the wars.
Something no human has ever done.
JOURNALIST
How are you going to do that?
Then the Trumpistan Robot freezes in mid sentence, his robot head static like a piece of metal...
Elon Tusk presses a button at the back of the robot’s head.
Then he begins operating again...
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
Win! Win! Win!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
ELON TUSK
What he means is we’re going to
make all the countries in the world
great again. Take the UK for example...
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
They need a kick up the backside.
We need Nigel Barage to start it
off with Reform. Brexit was just
the beginning.
ELON TUSK
We need to build more walls...
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
Big walls. To stop the immigrants
coming into our countries and
eating our cats and dogs for
Thanksgiving.
ELON TUSK
Win! Win! Win!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
JOURNALIST
(to Elon Tusk)
Are you a cosmocrator?
ELON TUSK
I...
THE PICTURE BECOMES A BIT BLURRY, SOUND DISAPPEARS APART FROM ELECTRONIC BEEPS AND EVENTUALLY FREEZES
INT. ELON TUSK’S MANSION - NIGHT
Elon Tusk is jumping up and down like a baby on a giant trampoline in a giant room.
EXT. TRUMPISTAN RALLY - STADIUM - DAY
The Trumpistan Robot is giving a speech to thousands of MAGA SUPPORTERS. Many wearing MAGA baseball caps and waving MAGA flags.
A bright, sunny day. Blue skies.
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
We won fair and square. Like we won
last time.
The MAGA crowds start CHEERING.
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT (CONT'D)
Unlike crooked Camel and sleepy
Joey. We’re going to make America
what it was meant to be. We’re
going to create jobs for everyone.
We’ll be a global force. Forget the
Chinese. Lets make America great
again.
A GUN SHOT RINGS OUT
Striking the Trumpistan Robot in the middle of the head. It falls down surrounded by security men and women.
The crowds are stunned. A loud hush surrounds the stadium. Suddenly the robot rises up, unharmed, with a hole through its head, fist pumping in the air...
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT (CONT'D)
Fight! Fight! Fight!
The crowds start CHEERING.
Elon Tusk appears out of nowhere, jumping up and down...
ELON TUSK
Fight! Fight! Fight!
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Exterminate!
The Trumpistan Robot starts doing a mechanical robot dance.
ELON TUSK
Folks. We all know what a great
comedian Trumpistan is. What a
great Doctor Who fan he is.
A GUN SHOT RINGS OUT
Striking Elon Tusk in the middle of the head. He falls down surrounded by security men and women.
The crowds are stunned. A loud hush surrounds the stadium. Suddenly Elon Tusk rises up, unharmed, with a hole through his head, fist pumping in the air...
ELON TUSK (CONT'D)
Fight! Fight! Fight!
TRUMPISTAN ROBOT
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Exterminate!
The crowds start cheering.
MAGA SUPPORTERS
(all together)
USA! USA! USA!
EXT. WHITE HOUSE - DAY
MUSIC CUE: The American National Anthem
BUILDERS are building a huge wall around the White House.
A giant statue of Elon Tusk is being erected on the White House grounds.
EXT. WASHINGTON DC - SUNSET
Elon Tusk and the Trumpistan Robot are riding horses around
VLADIMIROFF SESSION 999 - EXTRACT
page 40...
INT. SUPERMARKET - MANAGER’S ROOM - CONTINUOUS
At a Disciplinary Meeting with the Manager, Dostoevsky gets a final warning and nearly gets sacked.
MANAGER
I heard you were swearing at someone.
DOSTOEVSKY
Yes because they have been bullying me for years.
MANAGER
She is a much loved member of our staff.
DOSTOEVSKY
Yes you like people who drive people mad and torture them.
MANAGER
This is a final warning. If you swear again you're out.
DOSTOEVSKY
Fuck you chump...
Dostoevsky picks up the table and throws it at him. The Manager catapulted backwards behind his desk on the floor. Dazed and confused...
MANAGER
You're out of here.
DOSTOEVSKY
So are you when I’m done with you.
MANAGER
Get out of here. You’re sacked.
DOSTOEVSKY
Aren’t you man enough to pull me out.
MANAGER
I’m calling the police.
DOSTOEVSKY
Good and I’ll tell them what’s been happening here all these years. I’m
hearing voices cause of all the abuse. Can’t leave the house.
MANAGER
Voices? You’re crazy.
DOSTOEVSKY
Crazy? You’re all crazy. You think you can get away with murder.
CUT TO:
EXT. NORTH LONDON HIGH STREET - DAY
MUSIC CUE: Pai Pai by Vicky Mosholiou
Dostoevsky and Vladimiroff are dancing the traditional Greek way and singing with the song.
DOSTOEVSKY/ VLADIMIROFF
(singing together)
...Pai pai pai pai. Pai pai pai pai. Pai pai pai pai. Kai then yirizi pia...
SUBTITLED: It’s gone gone gone gone. It’s gone gone gone gone. It’s gone gone gone gone. And it will never come back again...
The sun is shining brightly and warmly.
Passersby think they are crazy. Avoiding them and looking strangely.
Apart from the JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN dressed in big Russian hats who think it is very funny. And stay watching them. Clapping their hands in unison.
MARILYN'S LAST NIGHT - EXTRACT
page 16...
INT. MARILYN MONROE’S BRENTWOOD HOME BEDROOM - NIGHT
It’s a very hot night. 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood. Marilyn's bedroom.
Norma is watching The River Of No Return on TV. The scene where Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum and the boy are struggling in the wild river on their raft.
Norma felt cold, her eyes tired. No paintings on the walls, no chairs, a bedside table, a few books, a red diary. Half naked under the covers. Emptiness and dull. Her brunette roots grown out half an inch, but still blonde. Looks beautiful but aged, like a 36 year old approaching middle age.
NORMA LOOKS 36 NOW.
Norma is in bed drinking champagne, she can’t sleep. She phones people up...
WOMAN (V.O.)
(on the phone)
Hello, hello... Marilyn is that you, are you ok?
Norma hesitates, takes a deep breath and hangs up.
Drinks more champagne, vodka straight and takes sleeping pills. Takes antidepressants as well.
Then she phones up Joe, the man from the street.
NORMA’S VOICE IS THE VOICE OF THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, NORMA JEANE’S/ MARILYN MONROE’S VOICE BEFORE SHE BECAME FAMOUS - UNBREATHY VOICE
NORMA
(into the phone)
Hello Joe.
JOE (V.O.)
(on the phone)
Is that you Marilyn?
NORMA
Yes.
JOE (V.O.)
Whats wrong?
Her voice sounds SLURRED and full of fear.
NORMA
Nothing I just wanted to say goodbye.
JOE (V.O.)
Goodbye? Where are you going?
NORMA
Somewhere far away from it all. I need to sleep.
Can’t sleep. Can never sleep that’s why I take these pills.
JOE (V.O.)
Just close your eyes and dream of something beautiful far far away.
NORMA
I can’t sleep. But I’m dreaming and can’t wake up from this nightmare.
If I sleep forever maybe I’ll wake up from this nightmare.
JOE (V.O.)
Just try and get some sleep. I’ll see you tomorrow.
NORMA
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
JOE (V.O.)
Good dreams?
NORMA
Yes, good dreams.
NORMA
Ok goodnight. You’re a good man Joe. I never felt so close to anyone else, as I do with you.
JOE (V.O.)
Goodbye.
NORMA
Say goodbye to the President and say goodbye to yourself, because you’re a nice guy.
JOE (V.O.)
What do you mean?
NORMA
I don’t know what I mean anymore.
NORMA
One thing about this, the longer you last the less you care.
HER VOICE FADING like Silent Cinema.
NORMA
We’re all dying aren’t we. We’re not teaching each other what we really know, are we?
She removes the phone from her ear...
NORMA
(sadly)
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
Utter confusion. She is very depressed. Takes 50 sleeping pills with a glass of water. The only time she drinks water. Puts the empty glass on her bedside table.
She has to wait for the pills to take effect. The bottle of pills drops from her hands onto the floor, most pills not there, implying she took them, as she grows weaker...
NORMA
(her last words)
You killed me.
She drops unconscious.
CAMERA PULLS BACK and reveals her whole naked body face down, phone in her hand like Marilyn’s famous deathbed. Her dogs wander around the room.
TWO CONSPICUOUS MEN stand in the corner. With dark suits and well shined shoes. A red diary in their hand. A blood smudge on the wall. You can’t see their faces in the shadows. They look, and then open the door and leave into the garden.
Focus shifts to the bedside table. The bedside light on. No glass there anymore, just empty Nembutal pill bottles and an empty Channel No. 5 bottle, disappearing into the empty night. Clock says 12.30 am.
SUPER: ‘’August 5th, 1962, Fifth Helena Drive’’
CAMERA STAYS on Norma’s body. From hand clutching phone (the relationships she wished she had in her life),
PULLS BACK to reveal head, then nude torso (the sexuality that saw her rise to stardom but also destroyed her somewhere inside), then whole room. White bed sheets falling over her dying pale body. Head to the side
FACING THE CAMERA, still beautiful, immortalized in the flesh.
BRENTWOOD HOME GARDEN
CAMERA MOVES OUT OF THE BEDROOM DOOR, glass smashed, into the garden. Into the night. Like her death is seeping out of the room into the world. Then...
MUSIC CUE: ‘’River of No Return’’ sung by Marilyn Monroe
MARILYN MONROE SUICIDE - MONTAGE
A) House in Brentwood and street.
B) Hollywood Hills sign.
C) Marilyn Monroe.
D) The sky.
E) Cinemas.
F) Hollywood.
G) Marilyn Monroe’s deathbed.
H) Last shot of Marilyn smiling.
END MUSIC
INT. A LIVING ROOM - DAY
ON TV
First shot of TV reporting Marilyn’s death: (MEDIUM SHOT - To show bit of room)
NEWS PRESENTER (ON TV)
Marilyn Monroe is dead etc... the Hollywood superstar and blonde
bombshell died earlier this morning at 12.30am. The cause is thought
to be an overdose of sleeping pills. Initial reports say the actress who
had been acting erratically over the last few months might have committed
suicide. The troubled actress is survived by a few distant relatives. Her loyal
fans have been left distraught, that their idol who played in such hit
films as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot has passed away. Some
say they will be left dreaming forever...
BACK IN THE LIVING ROOM
Then CAMERA PULLS BACK to reveal the room of a Marilyn Monroe fan, a typical early 60s house. The news continues, but YOU HEAR SOMEONE CRYING O.S., they are not shown at first. In the room is a lone chair. A vase with flowers. A poster of Marilyn Monroe from the film Niagara. Celebrity magazines on a table. An ancient Greco-Roman Statue. The Myth of Sisyphus book by Albert Camus. A Clark Gable picture with a slouched hat and moustache. A white piano. There is a window with sunlight coming in. The clock on the wall shows 12.30pm.
Then we see THE FAN, a pretty girl next door type.
THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYS THE FAN ALSO PLAYS NORMA. BUT THE FAN IS POOR, WITH BRUNETTE HAIR, BAGGY CASUAL CLOTHES, NO MAKE UP. LOOKS IN HER 20S.
FADE TO BLACK.
END CREDITS
MUSIC CUE: ‘’I Wanna Be Loved By You’’ sung by Marilyn Monroe
THE END
LIFE ON THE ROAD - EXTRACT
page 62...
INT. NIGHT CLUB - LONDON - 7.30PM
Yiorgos is in the middle of the dance floor of the night club dancing by himself. But there is no music, Silence. He looks happy. For his age he can dance well and is full of energy for life.
YIORGOS WEARS OLD MAN CLOTHES.
MUSIC CUE: ‘’Titanium’’ sung by Sia
The music starts.
Disco lights circling and flashing, many colours.
He continues to dance by himself. He looks happier.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
CLOSE UP OF YIORGOS STILL DANCING TO TITANIUM.
AS THE CAMERA PULLS BACK... DOZENS UPON DOZENS OF WOMEN ARE DANCING WITH HIM.
Now dozens of happy, SEXY YOUNG WOMEN are dancing all around him. He is the only man, he looks ecstatic.
They continue to dance with him.
The women screaming with joy, surrounding him and looking at him, touching him sexually, he is nearly in orgasm.
The floor is almost shaking. Moving to the rhythm of the women and song.
EXT. NIGHT CLUB/ INT. CAR - LONDON - 8PM - CONTINUOUS
The red mist of sunset has taken over the non-existant blue sky, and the sun so low and large looming large, like an orange descending into the buildings... Like a painting. Everywhere nearly completely black and red.
He leaves the nightclub, falling over in ecstacy. Lifting himself up and smiling.
The blustery wind has ceased. But we are now at the end of winter. Cold.
THE TITANIUM SONG CONTINUING TO STILL PLAY OVER THIS SCENE
Yiorgos starts dancing and singing in the street, the ‘’Macarena’’ song that Helen did the striptease for him in the farm, memories abound.
A CRAZED AND CHAOTIC BUT FUNNY MIXTURE OF SONGS AND MUSIC
The streets full of people this late. A crazed memory of his first love. Bemused passers by either laugh or get disturbed. Some even join in dancing and singing ‘’Macarena’’ alongside him.
Soon a WHOLE CROWD has joined him, dancing and singing along the road to nowhere.
Yiorgos in the front, starts singing to a passing POLICEMAN (2). The policeman gets agitated, for the whole drama, is disrupting the peace.
Who, angry, grabs Yiorgos by the scruff of the neck, dragging him away.
Yiorgos sets himself free, running to his car, the same 70s Volkswagen classic convertible. Blue like the sky. His parents had.
He gets in and speeds off. VROOM VROOM. Down the central London streets.
END MUSIC: ‘’Titanium’’ song
In the distance the voices of the crowd still singing ‘’Macarena’’ all through the coming night...
Police SIRENS are heard in the distance...
CUT TO:
EXT. LONDON STREETS/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
The car is travelling along the road.
Yiorgos’s car is passing important moments of life. The red mist making everything look like a dream.
As he travels along the road he ages faster.
The police SIRENS are getting nearer.
First the children’s playground he played with his mother.
He slows down, and takes a look.
And continues travelling faster along the road.
The HUM of the car and the freedom.
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EXT. SCHOOL/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
Secondly, the school he was driven to by his father.
The police SIRENS are getting nearer.
He slows down and takes a look.
YIORGOS LOOKS 65. WRINKLES APPEARING ON HIS FACE.
And continues travelling faster along the road.
The HUM of the car and the freedom.
CUT TO:
EXT. AMERICAN STYLE DINER/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
Thirdly, the American style diner, where he ate with his parents and saw the sexy waitress.
The police SIRENS are getting nearer.
He slows down and takes a look.
YIORGOS LOOKS 70. COMPLETELY WHITE HAIR.
And continues travelling faster along the road.
The HUM of the car and the freedom.
CUT TO:
EXT. TRAFFIC LIGHTS WHERE HE MET HELEN/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
Fourthly, the traffic lights where he saw Helen for the first time and fell in love. The lights go red. He stops.
At first he doesn’t know where he is, but then realizes and turns to look at the spot, with a smile on his ageing face.
YIORGOS LOOKS 75.
The police SIRENS are getting nearer.
The lights go green and he continues travelling along the road.
Suddenly, the police are tailing him and he speeds off. They chase him.
Lots of police cars follow him along the streets of Central London. But he is too fast for them.
The HUM of the car and the freedom.
EXT. LONDON BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes London Bridge. Weaving in and out of the traffic.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. MILLENIUM WHEEL - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes the Millenium Wheel. Tourists abound.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. TOWER OF LONDON - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes the Tower of London. Empty.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. BIG BEN - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes Big Ben. As it strikes for 8pm... BONG... BONG
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes the Houses of Parliament. Protestors holding up EU banners.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. OXFORD STREET - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes Oxford Street. People Christmas Shopping.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. SOHO - CONTINUOUS
The chase passes the alleyways of Soho. People drinking outside pubs.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. COUNTRYSIDE - CONTINUOUS
And then the chase is in the open roads of the countryside. Nature all around.
Birds pick up and fly off into the distance.
EXT. MOTORWAY/ INT. CAR - 8.30PM
Now the red mist disappearing and everything nearly completely black. Apart from the light from the sun still half showing in the horizon.
YIORGOS LOOKS 80. MANY WRINKLES.
Hunched on the wheel. Struggling to control the car. As it moves left and right along the motorway.
The police chasing still. SIRENS blasting.
THEY CONTINUE LIKE THIS FOR 30 SECONDS.
Then Yiorgos pulls off into a road which takes you to the countryside.
EXT. COUNTRYSIDE/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
Yiorgos is driving in the countryside roads, twisting and turning, avoiding the police, who after every turn disappear, but when the road straightens they appear again right behind him.
EXT. LAKE DISTRICT/ INT. CAR - CONTINUOUS
All of a sudden they are right behind him. About to catch him. But as he enters the region known as the Lake District...
THEY MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR.
SILENCE. Only the sound of the car HUMMING, gliding along the road and the nature all around.
EXT. LAKE DISTRICT/ INT. CAR - DUSK - ESTABLISHING SHOT
The Lake District. Dusk. The sun is nearly set, just see a tiny bit. Spring. The weather looks less cold.
Nature all around barely visible, just about to turn completely dark.
A long distant road disappearing in the distance.
Birds are flying off into the distance, barely visible.
A large lake nearby full of the birth of life, barely visible.
THE SHOT STAYS LIKE THIS FOR 30 SECONDS.
Then a car appears travelling along the road far away.
As car comes closer. NOISE. A four seater 70s Volkswagen classic convertible. Blue like the sky. With the top down.
The car ZOOMS past as the CAMERA STAYS STILL and continues along the road to nowhere.
Yiorgos is driving in the countryside, silent, a long distant road ahead, no other cars, mountains and fields barely visible.
YIORGOS WEARS NO CLOTHES LIKE WINTER IS ENDING AND SPRING IS APPROACHING.
AS HE IS DRIVING HE AGES REALLY FAST IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA... MORE WRINKLES, LESS HAIR, WEARS GLASSES, HANDS CAN BARELY HOLD WHEEL, STOOPED, HUNCHED FORWARD, CAN’T LOOK IN FRONT AT ROAD... FROM 80 TO 81 TO 82 TO 83 TO 84 TO 85 TO 86 TO 87 TO 88 TO 89 TO 90. AND THE CAR IS SLOWING DOWN FAST TILL IT IS BARELY MOVING.
He looks really weak and...
He stops the car in the middle of the road, the same place he was born all those years ago, he stays tense for a few moments, flabbergasted, tears running down his face. Trying to say something...
He collapses and dies...
The sun sets... Complete darkness...
A BLACK SCREEN
NARRATOR (V.O.)
At first there was nothing...
And in the end there is nothing...
But in between there is life on the road...
A ROOSTER CROWS.
THE END
HER FINAL BOW - EXTRACT
page 22...
INT. NORMA’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT (BLACK AND WHITE)
Norma is in her living room. She turns ON THE TV showing the film Some Like It Hot. The scene of Marilyn SINGING ‘’I Wanna Be Loved By You’’ is on.
NORMA IS WEARING THE SAME SEXY SILVERY, FLESH BEARING DRESS FROM THE SCENE IN THE FILM.
Norma starts singing and dancing ‘’I Wanna Be Loved By You’’ around her room (at the same time as Marilyn Monroe is SINGING on the TV).
NORMA
(singing)
‘’I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you...’’
She is in a funny mood, copying Marilyn Monroe. Same voice, same sultry stare, same melancholic smile and moves in the same sexy way. Leaning on the white piano her mother gave her in her room.
Till Marilyn Monroe STOPS SINGING ON TV and starts looking around... Norma who has also stopped singing, collapses on the sofa in laughter when she sees the two actors from the film, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dressed in drag ON THE TV.
She drinks champagne and takes prescription pills with her drink.
CUT TO:
INT. WHITE HOUSE - CONTINUOUS ACTION (BLACK AND WHITE)
NORMA (V.O.)
I don’t need a publicist darling. I have Chanel no.5.
CIA Man and CIA MAN 2 laughing as they are listening to Norma through bugging equipment in a government building.
THE CIA MAN, NOW DRESSED AS A FRENCH MAN LIKE YVES MONTAND WITH A MOUSTACHE. A STRIPEY WHITE AND BLUE TOP, RED SCARF, A BERET AND SMART TROUSERS. HE WEARS SAME CLOTHES FROM NOW ON.
CIA MAN ONLY SPEAKS IN A FRENCH ACCENT FROM NOW ON TILL THE END OF THE SCRIPT, LIKE YVE MONTAND’S CHARACTER (JEAN-MARC CLEMENT) FROM THE FILM LETS MAKE LOVE.
CIA MAN 2
And why are you dressed like that and speaking in a French accent?
CIA MAN
Let’s make love, monsieur, let’s make love.
CIA MAN 2
Oh Marilyn, why, why?
NORMA (V.O.)
La di da di da...
CUT TO:
INT. NORMA’S LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS ACTION (COLOUR)
Anxious and disturbed, almost as if she is aware of the bugging, she takes all her paintings, Clark Gable picture, NIAGARA poster off the walls and throws a lot of her furniture and decorations out of the house. Her backyard is a rubbish tip, as it rains outside. Leaving a plain, empty living room. Empty walls. She leaves the white piano in her house. The lone chair. The TV.
BEDROOM
Takes off her make up too. Wears unglamorous clothes. Sitting down. Looks in the mirror, puts on glasses and tells herself...
NORMA
I’m Norma.
A brunette woman looking back at her in the mirror. But still in the lonely room is a blonde. She touches the mirror. Sparks fly. Thunder and lightening outside as she touches mirror.
She starts to HEAR IMAGINARY VOICES of her parents (MOTHER and FATHER).
MOTHER (V.O.)
Happy Birthday Norma Jeane.
FATHER (V.O.)
Happy Birthday Norma Jeane.
NORMA
Oh thanks Mum, thanks Dad, I love you.
The PARENT’S VOICES ANSWER in unison.
MOTHER/ FATHER (V.O.)
We love you too Norma Jeane. Now blow out the candles and make a wish.
Norma blows a kiss at the mirror and says...
NORMA
I wish I was Marilyn Monroe.
The brunette woman still looking back at her in the mirror. The blonde still in the room.
She gets up. Continues drinking. A glass of champagne, Dom Perignon. Puts on a romantic record at the same time as turning on the TV. John F Kennedy is on the news, but she seems oblivious to this. Still drinking. This time a glass of whiskey. Takes more pills. This concoction implies chaos.
She begins to cry.
Then she goes to bed to sleep. She can’t sleep. Takes sleeping pills, but still can’t sleep. She is cold and mystified staring up at the dizzying darkness in the ceiling.
Gets up and has another alcoholic drink.
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NORMA’S LIVING ROOM (COLOUR)
The same night. Her eyes closed as if asleep (maybe she is asleep, maybe she is not). She opens them. The TV is on but the transmission is over. She is naked now. Her hair still looks perfect and she has make up on now. She still looks perfect even though she hasn’t slept, implying the made up world of film.
NORMA
I can’t sleep. But I’m dreaming. I’m dreaming and I can’t wake up.
Starts HEARING VOICES all around. Answering her cries. Making her feel less alone, but more anxious and crazy.
EXT. NORMA’S DRIVEWAY (BLACK AND WHITE) - CONTINUOUS
SUPERIMPOSE: ‘’December’’
The same night. She goes out of the house and walks naked down the driveway with a perfect body. It has stopped raining. The weather outside seems unusually scorching hot for this time of the year. There is no one around. Gets inside her 1962 red Chevrolet Corvette convertible. The Marilyn Monroe of cars, the top is down.
Enters the car key. Puts her foot on the peddle. STARTS THE ENGINE. And heads off. Her watch on her arm holding the steering wheel shows 12.30am.
EXT. DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES/ INT. NORMA’S CAR - CONTINUOUS ACTION
SHOT OF REAR VIEW MIRROR. Norma’s eyes and the road in the mirror as if she is disappearing into the distance.
SHOT OF THE NIGHT SKY and the stars in the sky are twinkling in LA.
The weather appears too calm and hot for winter. No music, just silence and the SOUND of the CAR and the CITY. No talking for long period during this night drive. She drives on Sunset Boulevard.
She SCREAMS IN JOY to the night and her feelings of freedom in this naked drive in the twilight hours, taking her hands off the wheel and lifting them upwards, driving very fast.
She passes the ‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’ street sign.
The headlights of her car torching the road ahead. Passing cinemas showing Sweet Bird Of Youth with Geraldine Page, Tinsletown at its mightiest, and old run down cinemas. All night cafes and bars. Run down people. POLICE SIRENS. And the city lights. No one even noticed her, even though she was naked. She was obsessed with her journey, now her private life has become public.
The fake heaven in the urban jungle. The eternity that doesn’t really exist! The plastic humans, fake lights, concrete utopia, machinery chaos of the made up world.
Norma looks at the Some Like It Hot script next to her, for a long time, showing how fake driving is in the made up world of film. She PRACTISES SUGAR CANE’S LINES OUT LOUD. Then, suddenly the script gets caught up in the wind and flies to the back of the car and onto the road.
Norma looks in the rear view mirror...
NORMA
Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
Keeps driving and smiles from the front.
CUT TO:
A SHOT OF A CINEMA SIGN being lit up by neon lights sparkling outside her car.
COLOUR
As the bright sparkle COVERS THE SCREEN.
FADE TO:
EXT. DALLAS CITY CENTRE/ INT. OSWALD CAR/ INT. CIA CAR (COLOUR)
The bright sparkle of the night LA cinema fades into a sunny Dallas morning. Suddenly the sun is shining and there is colour. Even though it looks like a cold, crisp morning.
Oswald is driving his car in the centre of Dallas. Shown from the front, he has a stern face.
He is being followed by CIA Man and CIA Man 2 in their car. No dialogue from them. They wear conspicuous sunglasses.
Both cars drive along the famous JFK assassination road, known as Dealey Plaza. Oswald parks. The CIA park a few spaces behind Oswald and wait outside in their car. Oswald goes inside the famous Book Depository building.
The CIA, acting very serious, watch Oswald as he enters the building from the car.
CUT TO:
CIA MAN 2
What the heck are you doing? You’ll blow our cover. He’ll know we’re tailing him.
CIA MAN
This is America. We’re an honest bunch. If we like you we’ll show you we like you.
And if we chase you we’ll show you we’re chasing you.
CIA MAN 2
The land of the free I suppose.
CIA MAN
That’s right.
Two familiar people appear on the pavement and THE CAMERA LEAVES THE CAR AND CONCENTRATES ON THEM.
STOCK SHOT
Marilyn Monroe and YVES MONTAND walking down the street from the film Lets Make Love. Marilyn Monroe starts to jog. Yves Montand follows her and starts to jog.
STOCK FOOTAGE
Montage of photographs of Marilyn Monroe with her lovers, happy. First ARTHUR MILLER, then JOE DI MAGGIO, as the NOISE from the STREET continues O.S. The last picture will be Joe Di Maggio with Marilyn Monroe and it stays on screen for longer and we hear Norma saying...
NORMA (V.O.)
Joe, Joe, I love you.
CUT TO
INT. NORMA’S BEDROOM - MORNING (COLOUR)
Fan silent, eyes closed, her face in bed facing ceiling. Then, fan appears to wake up, and the first thing she utters as she opens her eyes is...
NORMA
Joe, Joe, I love you.
BEWARE BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH - EXTRACT
page 3...
EXT. NEW HADRIAN’S WALL - MIDDLE OF UNITED KINGDOM - DAY
On the north side of the wall CONSERVATIVELY DRESSED BREXITEERS terrorize the COOL DRESSED REMAINERS on the south side with Cliff Richard music PUMPING out of LOUD SPEAKERS. The Remainers drop their flags and run away in fear.
MUSIC CUE: ‘’Summer Holiday’’ by Cliff Richard
On the south side of the wall some CONSERVATIVELY DRESSED REMAINERS terrorize the COOL DRESSED BREXITEERS on the north side with Black Sabbath music PUMPING out of LOUD SPEAKERS. The Brexiteers drop their flags and run away in fear.
MUSIC CUE: ‘’Paranoid’’ by Black Sabbath
A BREXITEER with a loud speaker screams to the other side of the wall...
BREXITEER
We wanted to Brexit so we could kick you all out of the country.
A REMAINER on the other side proclaims with a loud speaker...
REMAINER
We voted to remain, so we could stay here long enough, to eventually
take over and kick you lot out of the country.
BREXITEER
Charming.
REMAINER
(desperate)
Hey Brutus, fancy some mousaka?
BREXITEER
(smug)
Nah, I’m happy with my fish and chips thank you very much!
EXT. HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT - DUSK
Remainers are handing out leaflets outside the Houses of Parliament to revoke Article 50.
A MAD MAN with a ‘’THE END IS NIGH’’ banner in BIG LETTERS, is smiling like a CHESHIRE CAT and laughing HYSTERICALLY out of madness.
INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - CONTINUOUS
Inside the Parliament the Ruling Elite are playing a game, instead of seriously sorting the countries problems out.
Smiling and singing in unison. Mimicking the movements of the song...
RULING ELITE
(all together)
You put your right foot in, You put your right foot out, You put
your right foot in, And you shake it all about, You do the Hokey Pokey,
and you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about...
EXT. NORTH ENGLAND FACTORIES/ WORK PLACES/ COAL MINES/ STREETS - MORNING
Factories are letting off a lot of smoke up north.
CUT TO:
WORKERS in lines entering work places.
CUT TO:
COAL MINERS descending into the unknown.
CUT TO:
ENGLISH PEOPLE are dancing in the streets and singing...
ENGLISH PEOPLE
(singing)
We’ve got our country back...
Union Jack flags on every street corner. People ecstatically happy.
INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - LIGHT DIMMING
Brutus and Cassius declare in unison for the whole universe to hear... The whole universe inside Parliament. The Ruling Elite listen on...
BRUTUS/ CASSIUS
(together)
We are British through and through. Proud to be British.
We would die for this country. Unlike Boris Karloff, he’s Romanian or a Turk or a vampire or something European.
RULING ELITE
(in unison)
Hear, hear!
INT. STRIP CLUB - NIGHT
A POLISH WOMAN is Pole dancing seductively in a strip club.
A group of INFATUATED MEN try to raid the stage. Stopped by the BOUNCERS. A fist fight ensues. The woman continues to Pole dance unmoved.
EXT. DOVER - MORNING
All the non-English/ non-Scottish/ non-Irish/ non-Welsh people in the UK are not kicked out, they decide to leave by their own accord. A mass exodus back to Europe and abroad, by ferry. Cars flood the port of Dover.
Some travel on small fishing boats, or even tiny boats with oars all the way to Europe.
Some travel to the Americas, to discover new lands, looking out at the horizon from their big old fashioned traditional ship, others sail this journey on fishing or rowing boats. Big American coloured sails and flags decorate their boats.
INT. TRADITIONAL BRITISH HOUSEHOLD - CONTINUOUS
The family is sleeping peacefully... The TV is still on... The News is on...
ON TV
At Dover. A European IMMIGRANT sailing home tells a journalist...
IMMIGRANT
(Italian accent)
The Romans are coming!
Another IMMIGRANT 2 shouts behind him.
IMMIGRANT 2
(Romanian accent)
The Romans are coming!
Someone from a boat screams...
IMMIGRANT 3 (O.S.)
The Romans are coming!
As they descend into the unknown and new horizons, there are voices all around, on shore and in the sea, first whispering then bellowing to the waves many times, over and over again. As their protestations echo throughout the eternal depths.
IMMIGRANTS
(in unison, over and over again)
The Romans are coming! The Romans are coming! The Romans are coming!...
EXT. PARK - SUNNY AFTERNOON
SUPERIMPOSE: Peace on Earth!
England is much quieter. There are less people in parks. But. People still drink tea, and eat fish and chips in the park cafe. Smiling. Everyone is English.
Others go for walks in the park and some play football in the beautiful green spaces. Familes and friends and romantic couples. Happy. Blue skies. Glorious sunshine.
INT. TRADITIONAL BRITISH HOUSEHOLD
The family have fallen off the sofa and are sleeping in foetal positions on the floor. One of them, the YOUNG BABY of the family, has woken up, and is staring perplexed at the TV.
ON TV
The Antiques Road Show is on. The PRESENTER of the show is talking whilst examining a priceless vase.
PRESENTER
Everything appears more peaceful, until...
The vase drops from his hands and SMASHES into a million pieces.
BACK TO SCENE
The family has woken up.
EXT. NEW HADRIAN’S WALL - MIDDLE OF UNITED KINGDOM - RAINY DAY
SUPERIMPOSE: Act 2 - The Ice Age
Remainer revolutionaries on either side of the wall are singing to each other, and anyone who cares to listen.
REMAINERS
(in unison)
We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when, but I’ll
know we’ll meet again some sunny day...
It is raining profusely.
Some Remainers on the north side, stuck on the wrong side of the wall, are trying desperately to escape and climb over the wall, but they are held back by THUG LIKE BREXITEERS.
Police sirens appear by chance. A street camera moves directions towards the scene. In the distance the sirens are flashing, getting closer.
The thug like Brexiteers, get inside a car and drive off. Suddenly, their car explodes. A REMAINER TERRORIST runs from nowhere, erecting a huge EU flag ontop of the dying ashes.
EXT. SCOTLAND - CONTINUOUS
A Pro-Brexit march is going on in Scotland, full of English people.
PRO-BREXIT DEMONSTRATORS
(shouting)
We want our country back... We want our country back...
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: A CLIP OF A BORIS KARLOFF DRACULA FILM
BACK TO SCENE:
In front of the march is a man called BORIS KARLOFF ( aka Boris Johnson). He is walking down the street with two women, one in each of his arms, many coins and notes in his bulging pockets, falling out of his pockets, scattering the streets, not only pounds but euros as well, like a never ending flow of money, they are drowning in money. A horde of women, like a harem following him and chasing him, many more follow, hundreds, almost thousands screaming in jubilation.
WOMEN
(all together)
Boris!
Ecstatically happy, both Boris and the women and the money, with a huge smile on all their faces.
From a distance everything else in the march has become non-existent.
INT. PUB - CONTINUOUS
Outside the march is going on. Inside. A man is face down on the pub bar. Throwing up profusely.
Then a few seconds later, downing another Bloody Mary.
DRUNK BRIT
I don’t care if I have no money. Just as long as I’m a free Brit.
EXT. NORTH SCOTTISH COAST - CONTINUOUS
The Brexiteers have left the farthest reaches of Scotland on Viking ships.
The MEN HAVE LONG BEARDS commanding the oars. The WOMEN ARE STANDING NAKED, with thick pubic hair. Hitting the men with Marie Claire magazines, so they keep rowing. The sun is setting and the moon is taking them home.
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: 1966 ENGLAND WINNING THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP
EXT. THE NORTH POLE - MORNING/ NIGHT/ DAWN
Morning gave birth to new horizons. The North Pole. Landing on ice was greeted with JUBILANT SCREAMS.
BREXITEERS
We’ve finally left Europe. Where can we watch Eastenders?
TRUTH OR DARE? - extract
Page 30...
...She takes him to the end of the platform, half hidden in the darkness and light where the tunnel begins and ends, kisses him. Moments later the police arrive at the platform and they start to have sex.
LANA (CONT'D)
If you love me. Kiss me. If you
love me. You gotta kill for me.
INT. THE BUENOS AIRES CASINO - DAY (BLACK AND WHITE)
The casino is closed. The Boss is arguing with Lana. Alone.
CAESAR
(raging)
Your a tramp. A low life. You been
with more men than the two World
Wars combined. Get out of my sight.
She turns to leave.
CAESAR (CONT'D)
You love Orson?
She walks back to him. And stands close so they are almost touching.
LANA
(confidently)
Yeah. I love him.
He SLAPS her. She bursts out screaming in agony.
CAESAR
You love him?
LANA
(whimpering)
I love him.
He strikes her with his fist. She cries in pain. Tears falling down from her eyes.
CAESAR
You love him?
LANA
I love...
Before she can say anything he hits her again. More violently this time. She falls to the floor FACING THE CAMERA with a huge grin on her tears ridden face.
INT. ORSON’S FLAT - NIGHT (BLACK AND WHITE)
Lana is cuddling up with Orson on the sofa. Watching TV.
LANA
I have two tickets. Just the two of
us. We can escape from it all
tomorrow. To that big yellow light
up there in the sky.
ORSON
I love you.
LANA
I love you too. More then I ever
loved anyone. We’re good together.
They fall asleep next to each other. Lana looking genuinely happy.
DREAM SEQUENCE
Daylight. The sun is shining. Lana and Orson riding on horses on the merry go round, going round and round in circles. Both joyous.
LANA (V.O.)
(repeated over and over
again like a stuck record)
I love you... I love you... I love
you... I love you...
DREAM SEQUENCE ENDS
FADE TO BLACK.
FADE IN:
EXT. ALLEYWAY/ INT. CINEMA AUDITORIUM - NIGHT (BLACK AND WHITE)
Orson coming out of the shadows, looking at his watch, waiting in the alleyway to murder Caesar, just like Humphrey had anticipated all those days ago.
ORSON WEARS A 1940’S FILM NOIR STETSON
HAT AND TRENCH COAT
The streetlights on the alleyway are working now. Lightly lighting the place. But there is still much darkness.
CUT TO:
‘’DOUBLE INDEMNITY’’ playing inside (Billy Wilder directed 1944). The scene when the Barbara Stanwyck femme fatale character reveals to the duped insurance salesemn, Fred MacMurray, that she never loved no one and shoots him in defiance. As lovers they had planned to murder her husband for his money. Caesar and Lana watching intently.
CUT TO:
Meanwhile in the alleyway...
ORSON (V.O.)
A love drug. I was hooked. I would
kill for her. Even kill myself for
her. The Millenium Wheel spinning
round and round this dizziness of
desire. I was walking a man
possessed. My feet heavy from the
exploitation. Each footstep
dragging me along the smoke rings
created by life, which went round
and round, again and again, but
then disappeared into thin air.
CUT TO:
The couple still watching the film.
ORSON (V.O.)
Puff the magic dragon indeed. Lived
by the sea. Here the river cut
through everything. Person and
place. Nature and object. I
inhaled. Exhaled. And then I threw
the cigarette down the gutter.
Below. That special place, where I
live with myself and you everyday.
The Thames like a monster leading
us all to the sea saw cemetaries.
Some freedom perhaps, from the sex
sex sex, guns guns guns and the
full flush.
CUT TO:
Orson looking at his watch.
ORSON (V.O)
Red faced from the cold fever.
Caught red handed between her
thighs. High stake poker and hold
em up as the police sirens left
this metropolis long ago to far off
galaxies millions of light years
away. The black and white night
flew shadows on street corners and
alleyways dangerous but sublime
picturing nonsensical minds. Was I
innocent? Was I guilty? The
director? The actor? The producer?
Or just a man possessed.
EXT. PICADILLY CIRCUS CINEMA - CONTINUOUS (BLACK AND WHITE)
Caesar and Lana leave the cinema arm in arm as if in love. They enter the alleyway. Silence, only their FOOTSTEPS. London silenced.
LANA WEARING A LITTLE BLACK DRESS, RED
STILLETOS AND A GREEN FELT TILT HAT
WITH DRAPED VEIL
CAESAR WITH A 1940’S TRENCH COAT AND FEDORA HAT
Suddenly another pair of FOOTSTEPS join the scene. Following them. All we hear is the CLIP CLOP of the various heels on the ground for a while.
MUSIC CUE: ‘’Suspense driven Classical music’’
Then Orson walks towards them from behind, just as he points his gun at Caesar getting ready to shoot...
Another man (CHANDLER, known before as the Writer) comes out of nowhere and SHOOTS Orson as the silence is interrupted by a LOUD BANG.
Orson falls to the ground, what appears like streams of notes of money falling out of his pockets scattering
(The Director outwitted by the Writer. Who is really pulling the strings in this story?)
CHANDLER WEARING MODERN CASUAL CLOTHES
Lana SCREAMS. Then her scream turns into an evil smile. Caesar remains silent, hidden in the shadows. The
streetlights emphasizing Lana and Chandler’s gentle features.
CHANDLER
(interesting, coherent,
gentle, mature,
storyteller voice)
I did it Lana, I did it cause I love
you. He can’t hit you no more.
LANA
Thank you Chandler, thank you, lets
get out of here before the police
turn up. Meet me tomorrow at
Leicester Square at 4 o’clock.
They disappear into the darkness.
EXT. LEICESTER SQUARE ODEON CINEMA - NIGHT (BLACK AND WHITE)
Chandler is waiting at Leicester Square for Lana. There is a premiere for a film called ‘‘TRUTH OR DARE?’’ in BIG LETTERS happening at the same time. Crowds are gathering. The hustle and bustle of typical Central London life continues all around, well into the night. He sits with others, behind the barriers, waiting for the premiere to begin. Time passes, he looks at his watch change from 4 to 5 to 6 o’ clock. Two hours have gone by and she still hasn’t come. The premiere begins. He still waits. Leans on the barrier and smokes. Then he tries to phone her mobile, but it appears as a wrong number. Just as he is about to leave, he thinks he’s been stood up, the police enter the scenario. The police corner him from all sides and rush towards him. He runs onto the red carpet to escape. The actors and director and media are there.
CHANDLER
(shouting, throwing his
arms to the heavens)
She set me up, she set me up.
Cameras are flashing and the police wrestle him to the ground. On the red carpet are two of the characters from this film dressed in tuxedos being interviewed by the press and signing autographs for their adoring fans: the actors who play Humphrey and Orson (the Actor and the Director). They look amused at this madman.
ATHENA'S JOURNEY - extract
page 1...
BLACK SCREEN:
SUPERIMPOSE: ‘’...And I recall Anaktoria, whose sweet step Or that flicker of light on her face,
I’d rather see than Lydian chariots Or the armed ranks of the hoplites... - Sappho poem’’
FADE IN:
EXT. ATHENA ACROPOLIS, PARTHENON - DUSK
Dusk. Winter chill. But sunny. Plenty of light in an unknown location. CAMERA IN FRONT OF A FIGURE appearing out of the shadows like a ghost from the forgotten past coming to life. A heavily pregnant GREEK WOMAN, wearing dirty modern expensive clothes, all in white like an Ancient Greek tunic, stumbling up the marble steps.
CAMERA PULLS BACK. In the distance below the city of Athena, the sun was setting, the sky was a beautiful red, yellow and blue. Getting slowly darker. The first house lights were slowly being lit. There is complete silence all around, only the sound of her heavy, tired breathing. She keeps going, now reaching the top of the steps and on the high ground.
CAMERA PULLS BACK MORE to reveal an ancient site, a temple’s large marble entrance recognizable. Walking through rougher terrain and remnants of a past culture, forged in marble and columns and statues.
SUDDENLY THE CAMERA IS BEHIND HER and we realize she is desperately trying to reach the Parthenon on the Acropolis. The beautiful, large imposing, architecturally superior Temple.
Stumbling, slower and slower. Then collapsing a metre away. Reaching with her hand to touch the Parthenon, but her fingers are inches away. As she dramatically dies in this holy pagan place. Then, as her water breaks, a new born baby comes out of her, like the Goddess Athena herself, CRYING on the ground, an umbilical cord still attached to the mother.
Suddenly darkness reigns, the woman and baby not visible, many stars in the sky and in the city below shining like prayers for an eternity, only the sound of the BABY CRYING, HOWLING like the mournful wind through the mysterious night.
EXT. ACROPOLIS PEAK - DAWN
The sun is rising. The Parthenon looks magical and beautiful in the light. Timeless. Everything appears normal until...
The blue and white flag of Greece flying in the wind.
The Greek Evzone FLAG GUARD (Konstantinos Koukidis) pulls down the flag, wraps it round his body and jumps off the Acropolis silently. Committing suicide. His fall seems to go on forever.
German Nazis, APPEARING IN SHOT for the first time, shocked behind him.
EXT. ATHENA/ ACROPOLIS/ PIRAEUS HARBOUR - DUSK
The Acropolis and Parthenon in the distance. A long road. German tanks entering the city. Reinforcements. Sun setting in the distance.
KONSTANDINOS STAVROPOULOS (V.O.)
(Athens Radio Station
announcer, Greek accent)
Attention! Attention! The capital
is falling into the hands of the
conquerors. On the Sacred Rock of
the Acropolis, the blue and white
is no longer flying proud. Instead,
it is replaced by the banner of
violence. The guard of our flag,
ordered to take it down to raise
the German flag, committed suicide
by jumping off the cliff at the
point where the blue and white was
flying. Long live Greece!
German fighter planes flying above the Acropolis in unison.
CHILDREN run out of their houses to see this sight fade away into the horizon.
The sky a violent red and yellow.
German battle ships entering Athena’s harbour from the Aegean sea. Reinforcements. Sun setting in the distance.
A GREEK FISHERMAN trawling up the nets full of fish, ignoring this picture. The smell of seawater fresh in the air.
EXT. KAFENION - DUSK
TWO VERY OLD GREEK MEN playing tavli (backgammon) on a table outside. Walking sticks resting on their chairs. The radio playing.
KONSTANDINOS STAVROPOULOS (V.O.)
(on the radio)
Attention! The Athena Radio Station
will no longer be Greek after a
while. It will be German and will
be broadcasting lies! Greeks! Do
not listen to it. Our war continues
and will continue until the final
victory! Long live the Nation of Greeks!
The radio broadcast stops for the last time. An eerie silence.
The two old men sipping ouzo, passing the time, happy, like they’ve seen all this before, and survived it.
One of them throws the dice, coughs loudly. The other scratches his head and MUMBLES something under his breath.
The street light comes on, as if something is still working.
The CAMERA BEGINS TO PULL BACK slowly until you see the whole street, then the whole area, finally until the whole of Athena is shown in SHOT like a beautiful dream, where everything is at peace.
EXT. ATHENA CITY STREETS - 11PM
The streets of Athena deserted. An eerie silence. Broken by...
A GUN SHOT. There is a German tank wandering around the streets. A TANK SOLDIER standing out of the opened hatch with a loud speaker.
TANK SOLDIER
(German accent)
This is a curfew. No one is allowed
out after 11pm until 6am.
The tank continues to wander around, delievering its message, but the voice of the loudspeaker is silently replaced by another radio broadcast.
NAZI CONQUERER (V.O.)
(Radio broadcast by the
Germans, German accent)
The Mayor of Athena, retaining all
the powers in the city of Athena
under German Occupation, announces
that today, Sunday, April 27th and
at eight o’clock am the German
troops entered the city of Athena
and took possession of it. Under
the German troops, unequivocal
assurances were given that the
population of Athena have nothing
to fear. We call everybody that
they behave orderly, with dignity
and courtesy. The Mayor of Athena
commands that, as of this time, the
normal life of the city resumes
smoothly.
EXT. THE ACROPOLIS, PARTHENON - DUSK
The Nazi flag has been erected on the top of the empty Acropolis, near the Parthenon, conquering Ancient Greek thought. It is being blown in the wind, there are no people.
EXT. ROAD NEXT TO OLYPMIC STADIUM - MORNING
SUPERIMPOSE: ‘’Winter, December 1941... The Great Famine was a period of mass starvation during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.’’
Morning. Cloudy and dark. There are a lot of anxious Greek men, women and children on the streets of Athena rushing around aimlessly. A strong angry wind, dust in the air creating a light mist. Germans in Nazi uniform driving around in army cars, a long line of tanks and others marching on foot like they are headed for war singing their battle hymns, shouting aggressively at the terrified Athenians.
CONSPIRACY DREAM ASSASSINATION - extract
Page 99...
The year 1963. Marilyn Monroe is dead. Or is she? A woman called Norma who is morphing into the famous movie star, is stalking the streets of Los Angeles...
EXT. LOS ANGELES STREET 1963 (BLACK AND WHITE)
The police have been chasing Norma's therapist who has gone crazy, he is running around the streets naked, head over heels in love with her. Meanwhile, Norma is ecstatic after her long therapy session, walking in the opposite direction, will their paths meet again...
... Norma starts SINGING and dancing ‘’Runnin Wild’’ as she continues to walk off. Wearing the same black dress now, ukele in hand, as Marilyn Monroe did in the film Some Like It Hot.
EXT. LOS ANGELES STREET 2014/ INT. SHOP 2014 - CONTINUOUS ACTION (COLOUR)
As she stops singing, she walks off giggling and shaking sexily like she did in the film set at the beginning of the
film. Men from the 2014 present look at her and wolf whistle. The director in the real world says ‘’Cut’’. But she
continues giggling and walking down the road, walking off the film set...
DIRECTOR
Cut. I said cut woman. Cut. Cut.
Cut. God damn it...(here goes the
name of the actress playing Norma)
WE SEE: the same CINEMATOGRAPHER, DIRECTOR and CREW from the beginning of the film, now all dressed in modern 2014 clothes and fashions. Part of the 1960s style set used in the previous scene but different large modern 2014 movie camera. Cinematographer does not turn camera towards her departure, implying the film has stopped rolling, this is the real world.
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Look. She’s gone crazy. She thinks
she’s Norma Jeane.
ASSISTANT
Or Marilyn Monroe. She’s leaving
the film set. Going to meet the
public. Her adoring fans.
DIRECTOR
She’s left the set. My film. My
beautiful film. She’s ruining my
film.
CINEMATOGRAPHER
...(Actress name). Come back. We’ve
stopped filming. Its time for the
next scene... This is the real
world now. Christ...
Actress has walked off the film set and is still acting like Marilyn Monroe. We are in the present, everything looks like it’s Los Angeles in 2014. She goes inside a shop and buys some cigarettes. Cashier has a confused look on his face and scratches his head, looks at today’s newspaper to check the date, wondering why Marilyn Monroe is in front of him.
Actress keeps walking down the street blowing kisses to men. Women look jealous. Men smile. A woman asks her for her autograph and gives her the book Marilyn Monroe: My Story. The actress signs it as Marilyn Monroe. She continues her journey til she disappears in the distance into the busy modern city, full of 2014 people, cars, shops and noise.
EXT. DEALEY PLAZA - DAY (COLOUR)
A journalist is reporting that JFK will come to Dallas tomorrow.
SUPERIMPOSE: ''Thursday morning, November 21st, 1963''
She interviews the public on the street and they're all excited. One is not, Oswald, outside the Book Depository.
JOURNALIST
What do you think about the President?
PUBLIC 1
I can't wait to see him. I'll bring the whole family. Even film it.
I love JFK. Tomorrow's gonna be a glorious day.
JOURNALIST
Where are you going to stand?
PUBLIC 1
Right here by the grassy knowl. I'll always remember that day,
this place. It'll go down in history.
What do you think about the President?
PUBLIC 1
I can't wait to see him. I'll bring the whole family. Even film it.
I love JFK. Tomorrow's gonna be a glorious day.
JOURNALIST
Where are you going to stand?
PUBLIC 1
Right here by the grassy knowl. I'll always remember that day,
this place. It'll go down in history.
The journalist asks Oswald, his t-shirt nearly completely red...
JOURNALIST
How do you feel about seeing the president for the first time?
Oswald doesn't answer, instead starts SINGING the ''Russian National Anthem'' in Russian, in defiance.
JOURNALIST (CONT'D)
Must be a Dostoyevsky fan.
PUBLIC 2
Or he needs to be sectioned.
PUBLIC 3
(paranoically, angrily)
Get out of here. Get out of this country. Go to Russia. Communist.
You red fucker... Lock up your daughters. Your children. They've
invaded our country. They've turned our breakfast cereal into
Ushanka, Kubanka and Petushok hats. The Red Army has marched
into Times Square.
Some of the public are laughing. Others are angry with clenched fists, shouting. But most people walk past ignoring this scene.
Oswald stops singing and he shakes his body erratically and furiously. He then does the Communist Salute, right fist pumping, he did when he was arrested and led through the hallway of Dallas jail after the Kennedy assassination in 1963.
JOURNALIST
(To her cameraman)
Are you getting this?
WE SEE CAMERAMAN FILMING FOR THE FIRST TIME.
JOURNALIST (CONT'D)
This makes good TV. A man full of love for his country.
CAMERAMAN
Which country?
Oswald continues to SING the ''Russian National Anthem''.
EXT. FILM SET - DAY (COLOUR)
The set of Somethings Gotta Give.
SUPERIMPOSE: ''Hollywood studios. June 1963''
NORMA
(to herself)
Shit. I'm late.
Norma rushes to the film set, wearing the same flower dress and white coat Marilyn Monroe wears in the film. The same director and crew from before, back in character, now dressed in 1960s clothes.
DIRECTOR
Marilyn. You're always late. Always ill. What excuse is it
this time? I'm sorry but we'll have to stop filming. We're
going to find someone new.
NORMA
(in a Swedish accent)
I am Mrs Ingrid Tick. I'm Swedish. T... I... C. It Swedish name.
Mrs Duncan gave me position to take care of children.
The Director and crew with a bemused look on their faces.
NORMA (CONT'D)
(in a Swedish accent)
I have been stuck on deserted island for last 36 years, that
is why I always late.
DIRECTOR
Children? And where are these children?
CREW MAN
Its good. She's trying to get into character.
DIRECTOR
Will you shut up.
NORMA
(in a Swedish accent)
You are children.
DIRECTOR
Ok. Enough is enough. The producers are going to hit
the roof.
Director starts walking up and down frantically. Then stands still...
DIRECTOR (CONT'D)
(calmy)
Well, the clocks ticking Ingrid. I'm glad you've finally
made it back to humanity. You're fired.
NORMA
(in a Marilyn Monroe accent)
Somethings gotta give.
DIRECTOR
You aint kidding.
She turns and leaves in anger. Takes off her clothes and jumps into the pool naked, mirroring the naked scene with Marilyn in Somethings Gotta Give. Norma starts laughing, teasing them by leaning her full leg and arm on the edge of the pool, and when they go to grab her she swims away. The director and film crew start SHOUTING. She swims to the middle of the pool, dives down and doesn't come up again.
EXT. MELROSE AVENUE - DAY (COLOUR)
CLOSE UP of Melrose Avenue street sign.
Norma is walking around LA stark naked...
