BANG!
Screenplay by Andy Toomey
1. Black
Fade into:
2. shot of baby being born
VO: “Man is born”
Cut to:
3. shot of casket at altar, closed
VO “Man dies.”
Crossfade to:
4. A different shot of baby being born
VO: “Man is born”
Crossfade to:
5. A man getting out of a limousine with beautiful wife and children
(what a lame image of success!)
VO: “Man succeeds…”
Cut to:
6. A shot of casket being carried
VO: “…and dies anyway.”
Cut to:
7. A third shot of baby being born
VO: “Man is born”
Cut to:
Shot of prison doors slamming on a dejected looking inmate
He is staring at the wall, facing right.
“fails”
Cut to:
Shots of shadows of a pastor doing funeral rights
VO; “and dies anyway.”
(beat)
VO: ”Sometimes on purpose.”
Cut to shots of suicide.
1. A man hanging 2. A man is eating a gun. 3. A wrist slashed. 4. A bottle of pills and booze on a nightstand. 5. A body is falling from a bridge. 6. Car crash
Cut to:
Title shot – black background with letters cut out.
Bright light swirling around behind the cutout
(all first person…camera is the actor/character’ viewpoint throughout
Cut to:
Sun rises - 8 beautiful shots of the lovely
Cut to:
Sun through window
Cut to:
Med shot; A peacefully sleeping
protagonist.
Cut to:
C/U of beside table – clock says
Cut to:
C/U of phone – the phone rings. Once…twice…third time…
Cut to:
POV of Andy lying in bed – horizon sideways – bedside table
Me: “OK, OK, OK!” Grabs phone.
“Hello?”
POV Andy sitting up.
VO the boss. “Toomey?
You better get your ass in here! If you’re late for this meeting you’re fired!
*click*
VO Andy “Shit!”
Cut to:
Andy in mirror looking shot. Monologue over morning routine.
“I have this fucking problem. “
Cut to: Brushing teeth
“My life looks like B movie…”
Cut to:
A different angle of shaving
“…a bad actor in a bad film with a bad plot that ends badly.”
Cut to wide angle shot of Andy getting dressed.
VO ”This is what I do…”
Cut to different angle of getting ready
VO” This is where I am”
Cut to different angle of getting ready
VO: “Life sucks.”
Cut to:
POV Andy turning car key
Three times until battery dies - Car won’t start.
VO “Fuck!”
Cut to:
Calling taxi sequence
Pacing back and forth on the phone
“Hi I need a cab at..”
“We have nothing available. Sorry.”
…fail fail fail
(repeat)
Successively quicker/closer cuts showing increasing frustration
Succeed!
“Yea he’ll be there in 5 minutes”
Cut to:
View of cab driver’s back over the TZ Bridge (checking
views)
Dialog with cab driver … life sucks
This dialog is the important part…
“If I could only win the lottery…but I don’t play.”
Cut to:
Traffic jam!
Cutting to watch every N seconds
Fuck it! Pay driver hurriedly and jump out.
Running sequence – voice over bitching about life…life sucks
There’s the office
Made it!
Scene 6 - Some unexpected delay with the secretary =
security…whatever
Cut to boss on speaker phone
Client: We’ve been waiting ten minutes on the phone from
Boss: I’m Sorry, I told you he’d be here this time! He‘ll be
here!
Client: No! That’s it! I’m tired of waiting around for you
people! I’ll give our 5 million dollar account to xxxxx!”
Boss: “No, wait !”
Client: “Click”
Scene 7 - Too late!!!!
Boss is pissed…Boss monologue - you’re fired.
Scene 8 – You’re Fucked - Just trying
to get back home to bed
Clean out desk/ Walking monologue
Calling taxi sequence…fail fail
Succeed!
Shit, look in wallet...no money left...fuck it…no call back
Hitchhiking
Picked up by freak and mentally tortured (dialog)
Girlfriend calls on cell phone…
Breaks up with you on the phone (while freak tortures you)
“SHUTUP!!!!!!” to cabbie and girl
Traffic Jam AGAIN
Get out and walk AGAIN (go straight to jump off bridge? Then
jump off bridge sequence?)
Walking monologue
Scene 9
Beaten and robbed by teenagers!
Scene 10
Crawling home in the door
Monologue over evening wash up routine
Looking at gun
Lay down in bed “Everything will be fine tomorrow.”
Turn out light
“BANG!”
Sad song…credits roll…
Sudden wake up with loving girlfriend comforting you from
nightmare
Close up of protagonist,,
“Shit.” (gotta
lay off the pepperoni pizza before bed” ?
Phone rings..
Big look
Big electronica musical outro with
final (farcical?) credits
FIN