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- [ Screenplay: Burn Time ] [ By The GNN ]
-
-
- ____________________________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________________________
-
-
- BURN TIME
-
- Screenplay adapted from the short story "Gas Station" by The GNN
- (c) Underground eXperts United and Underground Motion Entertainment, 1996
-
- The Underground Motion Entertainment crew are
- Phearless, H.C Andersson, Martinique, Joseph, Knyttet and The GNN
-
- screen shots are available at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief
- or in uXu file 360
-
-
- (opening credits)
-
- FAST CUT TO:
-
- EXT. CROWDED HIGHWAY - MORNING
-
- (Dolly move: Lots of cars, roaring down the highway.)
-
- CUT TO:
-
- (opening credits)
-
- FAST CUT TO:
-
- EXT. TWO PARKED CARS BY THE HIGHWAY - MORNING
-
- (Passing car's POV: Two men are fighting violently with each other.)
-
- CUT TO:
-
- (opening credits)
-
- FAST CUT TO:
-
- EXT. HIGHWAY CRASH - MORNING
-
- (A car drives off the highway and into a tree.)
-
- CUT TO:
-
- (opening credits)
-
- FAST CUT TO:
-
- EXT. CROWDED HIGHWAY - MORNING
-
- DOLLY MOVE TO:
-
- EXT. OUTSIDE BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- (Camera follows MAN (CUSTOMER) who walks towards a gas station. The crowded
- highway is visible to the left. CUSTOMER enters station. BILL becomes
- visible behind the counter. Camera follows to...)
-
- INT. BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- BILL
- (by the counter)
- Hello there. How's it hanging?
-
- CUSTOMER
- Cash.
-
- (pause)
-
- BILL
- (confused)
- Ye' may pay in any way ye' like my friend.
-
- (CUSTOMER pulls out a gun from the back of his pants and aims it at BILL)
-
- CUSTOMER
- Your fucking cash man!
-
- (pause)
-
- BILL
- But...
-
- CUSTOMER
- (screaming)
- Fuck it! Cash! Come on!
-
- BILL
- I opened this store ten minutes ago, boy. How can ye' expect me to have any
- cash rock-n-ready for you?
-
- (CUSTOMER discharges the gun. BILL drops to the floor, dead.)
-
- CUSTOMER
- (sudden calmness)
- That's not my problem.
-
- (CUSTOMER head for the door, walking in a calm pace. He stops by the door,
- turns around, and talks to the dead BILL.)
-
- CUSTOMER
- ...and don't you ever call me 'boy', man.
-
- (CUSTOMER leaves. We see him run away from inside the station. Camera walks
- the station, ending up behind the counter. Close-up of BILL's face. Camera
- walks again, this time through the door to...)
-
- EXT. BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- (We see CUSTOMER flee in the background. A car stops by the station. A WOMAN
- steps out together with two KIDS. We see her enter the station, with the
- children.)
-
- INT. BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- (Camera does a 180 turn and follows WOMAN as she enters the station. The two
- KIDS are playing roughly with each other.)
-
- WOMAN
- (to playing kids)
- Calm down!
-
- (to station)
- Hello?
-
- KID ONE
- (laughing, to KID TWO)
- I'm gonna get you!
-
- WOMAN
- (to kids)
- Didn't I tell you to _shut up_, you two!
-
- (to station, angrily)
- Hello!
-
- (Camera follows WOMAN around in the store. She does not notice BILL. The
- kids are not in the picture at this moment. A loud crash is suddenly heard.
- WOMAN sighs, shakes her head and walks to the location of the crash. One
- of the kids has accidentally broken a few glass jars.)
-
- WOMAN
- (quietly, angrily)
- Oh no, shit!
-
- KID ONE
- (to WOMAN)
- Look what he did! Look what he did!
-
- KID TWO
- (to WOMAN)
- He did it! He did it!
-
- (WOMAN smacks both kids.)
-
- WOMAN
- Now, look what you've done! This mess is gonna cost mom a lot of dollars,
- you hear me?
-
- (The two kids are blaming each other.)
-
- WOMAN
- Lots of dollars! Lots! This means that there will be no dollars over to
- ice-cream, you hear me? You hear me?
-
- (She stops arguing and looks around in the seemingly empty store. The kids
- are still blaming and fighting with each other.)
-
- WOMAN
- (quietly, to kids)
- Let's go.
-
- (WOMAN grabs the two kids by their arms and leads them to the exit of the
- station. Camera follows.)
-
- WOMAN
- (irritated)
- Damn, damn, damn!
-
- (They leave the station. Camera follows to...)
-
- EXT. BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- (The WOMAN and the kids hops into the car and drives away. They almost
- crash into another car that is on its way into the station area.
- The other car honks. A teenager (YOUNGSTER ONE) screams to the woman
- from the other car.)
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- (screaming)
- Watch it, granny!
-
- (The car parks outside the station. The car with the WOMAN speeds away in
- the distance. Two teenagers jumps out of the car, clearly excited. There
- is also a DOG in the car.)
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- (yelling)
- Yeah, boye! Ain't no goddamn...
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- (chorus)
- ...hocus-pocus 'round this place!
-
- (They perform a little dance around the car, constantly yelling. They dance
- towards the entrance of the station. The dog remains in the car. Camera
- follows them into...)
-
- INT. BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- (loudly)
- Hey, hey, hey! Mister gas man! Service, bitte!
-
- (YOUNGSTER ONE walks to a pile of six-packs on the floor and begins to
- examine them.)
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- (annoyed with the fact that no one answered his request)
- Damn niggers...
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- Aww, fucking shit, why can't the petroleum industry get the point. There
- is just no market for Budweiser nowadays, I don't get it...
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- Fucking close to water? Huh.
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- We're young, strong, beautiful and sexy. Budweiser is just not the right
- thing for us. Two packs, ey?
-
- (YOUNGSTER TWO walks out of the picture, towards the counter.)
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- (off)
- Say what? Two? Man! Three, boye!
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- Coming up, dude.
-
- (YOUNGSTER ONE begins to stack three six-packs onto his arms. Suddenly,
- YOUNGSTER TWO screams in horror. YOUNGSTER ONE drops all three packs on
- the floor.)
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- (silently)
- Shit...
-
- (Camera pans to YOUNGSTER TWO who stands by the counter, keeping YOUNGSTER
- ONE in the picture.)
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- Whattafuck?
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- (frightened, excited)
- Oh man!
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- Problem?
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- It's a motherfucking corpse on the damn floor here! That's the
- motherfucking shitty, problem, damn! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
-
- (YOUNGSTER ONE rushes to the counter. Camera follows. BILL's corpse comes
- into view.)
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- Far out.
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- This is scary man! Really, really, scary!
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- (looking at the corpse)
- Indeed, man. Wow...
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- So?!
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- What?
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- So what the hell are we going to do?
-
- (Silence. They think.
- YOUNGSTER TWO grabs YOUNGSTER ONE and stares at him.)
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- Asshole!
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- Hey!
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- Where's the shotgun?
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- The what?
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- (babbling)
- The shotgun! Is it in the car? The little 'if-they-come-in-my-way-I-will-
- blow-their-heads-clean-off-device'? Is it in the trunk?
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- Well, uh, yeah, in the trunk... do you...
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- (interrupting)
- Christ! Let's get the fuck outta here! They will blame us for this mess!
- Come on, come on!
-
- (YOUNGSTER TWO rushes away, constantly babbling. Camera slowly follows him
- out of the station to...)
-
- EXT. BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- (YOUNGSTER TWO hops into the car, still babbling, and starts the engine.
- YOUNGSTER ONE enters the picture from behind, walking towards the car,
- carrying two six-packs.)
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- I don't believe it. You just couldn't resist it, could you? Idiot.
-
- YOUNGSTER ONE
- So?
-
- YOUNGSTER TWO
- Into the car! Now! Shit, shit, shit..
-
- (The cars speeds away in a cloud of smoke, almost crashing into a bus that
- is on its way into the station area. The bus honks. The bus stops by a
- gas pump. A BUS DRIVER and a dozen pensioners step out of the bus.)
-
- OLD MAN ONE
- Very nice, yes, very nice.
-
- OLD LADY ONE
- Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
-
- (The BUS DRIVER begins to fill up the bus. He lights a cigarette.)
-
- OLD LADY TWO
- (to BUS DRIVER)
- Now listen to me love; this is a gas station.
-
- BUS DRIVER
- (uninterested)
- Uh, huh.
-
- OLD LADY TWO
- ... and it's forbidden, really forbidden, to smoke at such places! Do I
- make myself clear! It's dangerous to smoke here, yes? Everything could
- just... explode! Explode! Boom! Bang! It's dangerous!
-
- BUS DRIVER
- Sure.
-
- (He does not put out the cigarette. OLD LADY TWO keeps on talking to the
- BUS DRIVER, while the camera do a 180 turn to the group of pensioners
- who are about the enter the station. Camera follows them into...)
-
- INT. BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- (OLD LADY THREE notices a destroyed pile of six-packs. She begins to pick
- them up, muttering. The rest of the group talks to each other while
- getting various needful things from the shelves.)
-
- OLD MAN TWO
- I remember 1942, oh, yes I do.
-
- OLD LADY FOUR
- I used to dance when I was younger...
-
- OLD MAN TWO
- Or was it 1934?
-
- OLD LADY FOUR
- ...it was no nice and charming.
-
- (The group keeps on talking, while getting more things from the shelves.
- Eventually, they arrive to the counter. Camera follows/pans/dolly the whole
- time. They end up silent by the counter, everybody stares at the corpse.)
-
- OLD LADY FIVE
- It's such a shame.
-
- OLD LADY FOUR
- Yes.
-
- (pause)
-
- OLD MAN THREE
- He looks so... young.
-
- OLD LADY FOUR
- He does.
-
- (pause)
-
- OLD MAN FOUR
- He could had done so much in his life. Now it's all.. spoiled.
-
- OLD MAN ONE
- (irritated)
- This is not good at all. Not good at all.
-
- OLD MAN FOUR
- What are we going to do?
-
- (Silence.)
-
- OLD MAN ONE
- Nothing.
-
- (The crowd reacts.)
-
- OLD MAN ONE
- (to the group)
- Listen to me. We did not create this mess, did we? We have nothing to do
- with the sad... faith... this young man met. Why should we be forced to
- take care of it? Why? We don't deserve this! We have worked out whole life!
- Now, when we finally get a well-deserved vacation, we end up in this!
- Not fair at all, I'll tell ya!
-
- (The group agrees. The camera walks away into the store. The pensioners get
- into the picture when they once again walk around in the store, getting
- more things from the shelves. They talk about how right their behavior
- is. Eventually, they head for the exit of the store. Camera follows, but
- stops by the door. The pensioners enter the bus, with the driver. The bus
- starts and drives away. Camera moves to...)
-
- EXT. BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- (The bus drives away.)
-
- PAN TO:
-
- EXT. HIGHWAY - MORNING
-
- (Cars driving fast on the highway. We see the bus drive away.)
-
- CUT TO:
-
- EXT. CAR PARKED BY THE HIGHWAY - MORNING
-
- (A man pukes by the side of the road. A woman sits in the car, bored.)
-
- CUT TO:
-
- EXT. CAR DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY - MORNING
-
- (Passing cars POV: KIDS playing violently in a car. The driver, WOMAN,
- shouts at them.)
-
- CUT TO:
-
- EXT. ACCIDENT ON THE HIGHWAY - MORNING
-
- (Two crashed cars on the highway. One of them is burning. YOUNGSTER TWO,
- dead, can be seen beside the other car. Beer cans are spread over the
- street, and a lonely dog licks up the beer from the street until another
- car runs it over.)
-
- CUT TO:
-
- EXT. BILL'S GAS STATION - MORNING
-
- (The camera turns 180 degrees. The whole station comes into the picture.
- The camera moves backwards, away. We see another car enter the station
- area and park.)
-
- (fade to black)
-
- (closing credits)
-
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