The hole in the wall
First shot: the room. Small, bombed out, windowless room. Music in the background from the PC speakers. One can se one wormed out couch, one messed up coffee table, some other platform in the corner with some sort of PC on it. Somebody is laying on the couch.
Seconds shot: The coffee table. Ashtray filled with cigarette buds, some empty beer cans, other generic trash laying around. The somebody’s leg on the couch in the background.
Third shot: The PC. Old, dirty piece of junk. CRT display. The keyboard is more an ashtray than a keyboard. Some booze around, only the cheapest, and some plastic cups.
Fourth shot: Guy laying on the couch (showed in profile), careless, absorbed by the music.
a shout from a distance
Jules
ANDYYYYYYYY!!!!
Andy (the guy on the couch) looks around surprised.
ANDY
what the fuck…
again, from a distance
Jules
ANDYYYYYYYY!!!!
ANDY
YEAH! What?!
JULES
Can you come here my friend? I need your help…
Andy reluctantly gets off the couch
ANDY
… fuck me…..
New shot: narrow corridor, small door at the end. Jules is on the other side of the door. Andy is standing by, annoyed.
ANDY
Yeah, I’m here… What do you want?
JULES
Great, my friend! Say, do you have any paper?
ANDY
Paper?
JULES
Yeah, like toilet paper, or… or paper towels… Maybe kleenex. Yeah, kleenex
will do. Do you have some my friend?
(in the mental box – ANDY: this “my friend” verbal tic of Jules is really annoying. Everybody hates it. But he thinks its cool for some reason. Than again, he never was the smartest guy around. Or any kind of smart, for that matter…)
ANDY
NO, I do not have an paper. What is this anyways?
I thought you’ve been gone for hours…
JULES
Yeah, well, I needed to take a dump, and I there’s
no toilet paper in here and I didn’t see that…
ANDY
Idiot. And what, you have been sitting inside there for hours?
JULES
I fell asleep…
ANDY
(baffled)
You ARE an idiot!
JULES
Ah, man! Come on! Help me out! My friend?
ANDY
Sorry, pal. Can’t help ya out.
(looks at his watch)
Anyways, I’ve got to split. Smell ya later.
JULES
(desperate)
My friend! Come on! Don’t be lame! You can’t just leave me in shit!
What am I supposed to do now?
ANDY
(easily amused)
You can take a nap!
END SCENE
SCENE
Shot: Andy standing in the tram station, waiting for the next tram. He checks his watch, while nodding his head to the beats of the music blasting from his ear buds. A girl walks up to him.
KRISTA
Yo Andy!
(no reaction)
KRISTA
Earth to Andy! Hello! Batman at eleven a clock!
ANDY
Huh? Oh, sorry Krista, didn’t noticed you there.
KRISTA
You don’t say…
ANDY
So, what’s new?
KRISTA
Mercury is in retrograde.
ANDY
Come again?
KRISTA
Its something that one of my room mates said from the dorm.
Imagine, they have synced they’re periods, so now,
once a month, the three besties are one beastly pain in the ass.
Guess in which week are we right now?
ANDY
Wow. Synchronized periods? How do you even do that?
KRISTA
I don’t know. I did asked one of them. She said,
“Mercury is in retrograde” and then winked. So, there you go.
ANDY
Well, isn’t she all mysterious…
KRISTA
Yeah… Say, this reminds me. Is the hole in the
wall free these days? I really don’t want to be in
my dorm room while Mercury is in whatever.
ANDY
(smirking)
Huh, retrograde? I guess its free. Not like we
do reservations over there. But better buy a
couple rolls of toilet paper for Jules
on your way if you want to crash there.
KRISTA
How so? What did he do this time?
ANDY
He took a dump in the toilet without checking if
there is toilet paper, which of course there wasn’t,
and he choose to solve this problem by sleeping it off.
KRISTA
(baffled)
Your kidding, right?
ANDY
Nope. Scouts honor. But why do you ask “what
did he do THIS time”? Was there another time?
KRISTA
Oh, yeah…
ANDY
Hmmm, do tell!
KRISTA
Couple of weeks ago, there was this lecture. For some
reason Jules has picked up this philosophy course.
He is failing but he can’t drop it either. Anyways,
during this lecture, the professor went on and on
about how misleading religion really is. And of
course, he had to brought up Nietzsche
and his famous quote of “God is dead”.
ANDY
Ok…
KRISTA
Well, one kid in the audience, some born again
Christian, did not take it so well, because right
after the quote he said out loud to the professor
the God had disproved that argument, seventeen
years later by saying “Nietzsche is dead”.
ANDY
Well, who would have thought… A cheeky born again Christian.
KRISTA
I know, right? Well, the two started to really hit of,
and about a half an hour in the debate, Jules
intervenes with an argument meant to help
out the professor by discrediting the kid.
ANDY
Jules intervened in a philosophical debate?
Whit an argument? This must be good.
KRISTA
He said that the kids arguments are invalid since he
isn’t really a follower of God. How can he be a follower
of God if, and I quote, “he doesn’t have a twitter account?”.
Moment of silence, cricket sounds in the background
ANDY
And they say that population control is an abomination…
KRISTA
yeah…
ANDY
I am curious though…. Who has won
the debate? The kid or the professor?
KRISTA
The kid, eventually.
ANDY
Yeah? How so?
KRISTA
He brought his older sister to the next lecture.
Tall, blonde, great wrack, matching behind, all
packed in a summer dress. Now, the professor is singing
in church every Sunday, right next to the blonde bomb shell.
ANDY
Huh…What a hypocrite. Big time university professor loses
his conviction at the slightest chance of tail. Makes you wonder
about all that money spent on your education. Still, that kid
is going places.
KRISTA
I wouldn’t be so sure.
ANDY
Why do you say that?
KRISTA
He only has ONE sister.
END SCENE
