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    Posted: May 13 2008 at 14:57
Scene I - Settings.
 
 A man sits comfortably on a chair beneth a streetligt. The street is empty. On his right side he has placed a black suitcase. What is he wearing on his head? A bowler hat? A beret? Nothing? Suggestions..?
"Oh, yes, sitting-the great leveler. From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?"
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The duck suddenly starts singing. And it's not just any song...
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but the timeless classic 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers'
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Surprised onlookers pass by. The man starts whistling along, tapping his foot. [Zoom foot; shadow under streetlight] 

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Beside his foot is a single coin, common currency, except that where the head of some world leader should be printed, there is the face of 
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the man himself. A sudden gust of wind breaks open the suitcase. Whirling paper spreads across the street. [The light dies, the song dies] [Zoom man's lower face] The man smiles.
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Great stuff! Now to make a few things clear; This manuscript will (hopefully) be used in a school project production and the reason why I'm posting this is not entirely because of creativ feedback. The angle here is for me to complete a short-film based on a fixed manuscript that wasn't (completely) written by me thus making the working process more realistic and demanding regarding solutions to certain problems.
 
I have one request and that is that you let me dictated the opening settings of every scene so this wont get out of hand so to speak. The scenes are not to be looked at chronologically (my problem)
 
Scene 2 - The end?
 
A body lies, seemingly lifeless on a road with its stretched-out arm ostensibly reaching for a black suitcase lying a few feet away. Footsteps are closing in out of frame.
 
 
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The suitcase is open, and paper drifts across the road.  The footsteps stop abruptly.

A male voice, generic in the extreme, says
1: Delusional. We've seen others like this.
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They come in clusters. And disappear just like their papers.
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1: And they always end up here.
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2.Peaceful. They all are perfectly peaceful. And the next morning all that is left is that coin.
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Scene 3 - The Chase
 
The man with the suitcase is walking on a bridge. A song is being panned in. It's "Satellite love" by Lou Reed. The man looks over his shoulder where he sees a man walking towards him with a stereo playing at full volume. The man with the suitcase initiates his escape from the man...
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The man passes a platinum blond woman who is lying on the ground with torn clothes. She grabs his legs and makes him stumble and fall.
I wanted to make it a bald woman first, but they are hard to come by LOL. And I would only play that woman if the legs she grabs are those of another woman LOLWinkTongue.


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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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The man with the suitcase stops, picks himself up, opens the suitcase and quickly gives the girl a sheet of blank paper. About to run off, he turns to the man with the stereo who now stands still, stereo cradled in his arms. The man with the stereo turns the volume up to it's loudest, the sound echoing throughout the cold, empty, lifeless, urban streets of the night. He sets the stereo aside on the the bridges cold stone railing and undoes his large grey jacket revealing a bright red t-shirt. He wraps the stereo inside the jacket and beginning to shiver, breath steaming off into the cold night's air, he ...

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....lurches towards the petrified man.
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