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EXT. SUNSET. FOGGY FOREST SETTING. EARLY SPRING
BEGIN TITLES.
The fog is slowly moving across the forest floor.
We hear a heart beating and soft breathes of air.
*This next part will be shot with just still frames*
The camera starts to pan deeper and deeper into the forest, the camera constantly zooming in and out. Deeper and deeper with every heart beat.
*Every few seconds the beats will stop and the camera will cut to a tree where the credits of the film will show.
Deeper and Deeper into the forest we go, and in the distance we can kind of make someone out.... it's a girl. With every step closer into the forest we go, the more we can see the girl. We can now see she's wearing a white dress.
Faster and faster the breathes go and closer and closer we get, she's still in the distance but we can sort of maker her out, then BOOM. The breathes stop and we get a full shot of the girl.
END TITLES
We stop full frame, clear view as she dances in her beautiful white dress to some soft ballet music. Behind her we can see a small wooden table with a vintage record player playing this music.
*The music changes to something soft and classical changing the entire mood from the tense breathing we felt before.
Softly and elegantly we watch the girl dancing in the forest to soft classical piano music. We get a shot of her face as she focuses, her arms as she twirls, her legs as she steps across the floor and some nice slow motion shots as her body moves the smoke across the leafy ground she dances on. Her hair is well put together and she's wearing makeup fit for a queen. At this point the girls beauty starts to hypnotize the viewer along with the classical music.
She continues to dance until we hear a loud shrill scream. AAAAHHHHH!!!!
With this scream the camera pulls back very rapidly and far away. Zoooom. Then we see a giant rotating seashell hinting to the audience that this is where the scream came from. The mood changes, the music stops, then everything is quiet.
CUT TO. Girls face curiously looking in the distance. quiet.
Another screem. AAAAHHHHHH!!!! The girl holding her ears closed from how intense the shrill is.
She quickly turns her head the opposite direction and we quickly pan away from her . Whooosh. We spot another shell in the distance rotating and making a low humm noise.
She turns to the first shell, then the second....
She starts walking towards the first one. Stepping over branches and fallen trees.
She's very close to the shell, still rotating. You can see it out of focus in the distance.
Then another scream. AAHHHH!!!! She closes her eyes and holds her ears closed because this one is even louder then the first two.
High pitched ringing noise.
CUT TO. Close up of girls face, then a quick pull out. Only this time when the camera pulls out we see that girl is in her bed. Breathing heavily. Eyes still closed as she is asleep.
INT. BEDROOM. TOP VIEW LOOKING DOWN.
Girl is in her bed breathing heavily, next to her is a boy. The camera quickly pulls into his face. Whooosh
For a second all we hear are random noises and blurred images as if we're passing through some sort of portal or dimension.
Slowly the images come into focus and the noises stop.
Then we cut to a forest, only this one is much brighter sunnier and is near a larger open field.
EXT. FOREST. SUMMER DAY. CLEAR SKYS. BIRDS CHIRPING. GREEN GRASS
We hear a typewriter and some mumbling in the distance between a boy and a girl but we can't make it out because it's too far.
Through the tree's in the distance we see a boy on a wooden desk concentrating on his typewriter and a yellow bird in a cage mounted on top.
We hear the Type, Type, Type, Typing of the machine as we get shots of the surrounding green area and trees
CUT TO. close up of his hands typing.
CUT TO Then we cut to Full frame shot of the boy behind his desk typing.
CUT TO. Scruffy boy on wooden desk typing on a vintage typewriter. Newtons Cradle on the top going somewhat with the repetition of the typewriting. Yellow bird in white birdcage.
Close up of the boys eyes just over the typewriter concentrating on what he's doing.
Type, Type, Type.
Cut To. Close up of the beautiful yellow bird in it's cage.
Type, Type, Type.
CUT TO. Newtons Cradle
(beat)
Type, Type, Type. Scroll
BOY
(finishing his typing)
There! I'm finally finished! What do you think Sylvestor?
Boy looks at the bird with a proud face and smiles...
Silence...
BOY
What? Now you have nothing to say about it? You were running off at the mouth a few minutes ago.
Bird tilts it's head and looks at the boy curiously the way any animal would when you talk to it.
Bird then turns and looks at what's on the typewriter (which still hasn't been revealed to the audience) then looks back at the boy.
The boy tears the piece of paper off the typewriter and places it on a miniature easel on the desk. The paper is revealed to the camera.
It's not a piece of literature, in fact it's a Mona Lisa painting.
BOY
There! I've written the perfect Meditative Rose by Salvador Dali! Do you like it?
Boy looks at the bird. Bird stares back
BOY
::Takes a deep breathe:: No Opinion? :::Breathes out unsatisfied::
Oh well...
BIRD
(in a female english accent) It's quite nice actually. I love it! I don't think Dali could of done it better himself!
The boy looks at the bird and smiles
BOY
Oh?
The boy gets closer to the bird to hear what else it has to say and they both look at the painting together.
BOY
Did you ever notice the two beings at the bottom? I've always wondered who they were...
Well, it doesn't matter because this is now my painting and in my painting those two being are her and myself.
Why give a girl a rose when you can give her a painting of a rose, right?
Cut to. Close up shot of the painting, and the details he mentions.
BIRD
Yes. She'll love it! I'm so excited! I can't wait til we show her!
When will she be here? Did she tell you when she was coming? I can't wait!
The bird starts hopping around in it's cage because of it's joy.
BOY (smiling)
Should be any minute now. In fact...
We hear a noise in the distance and sounds of soft winds approaching.
BOY
There she is...
A completely naked woman in a white mask approaches softly from the distance.
The boy quickly gets up and cleans himself up.
When the boy is in her presence he is mesmerized and hypnotized by her beauty.
BOY (weakly)
He.. hey
WOMAN IN MASK (in a very dreamy voice)
Hello
BIRD
You have to look at this! Look at what we've made for you
BOY
I wrote you a painting today... I hope you love it. I think I have all the sentences just right.
The woman slowly walks over to the other side of the desk and picks up the painting. Stares at it through her mask. Then without much excitement walks over to the boy holding the painting.
WOMAN IN MASK (unenthusiasticly)
I love it...
She then uncaringly sets the painting down on the desk and kisses the boy with her mask still on.
WOMAN IN MASK
Would you like to take a walk with me?
BOY
Yes
The boy grabs a leather bag from the table and puts on his coat.
BOY
I'll be back before you know it Sylvestor!
BIRD
Goodbye!
EXT. Dirt pathway lined with trees.
The woman and the boy are walking side by side across the pathway
WOMAN IN MASK
Have you told her what we discussed the other day?
BOY
No... I haven't found the right words to say just yet..
WOMAN IN MASK
You have to tell her, you have to do the right thing. We talked about this already
The boy looks down almost ashamed
BOY
But it doesn't make any sense
WOMAN IN MASK
I've told you again and again that I'm just as real as her. You see me every night for atleast 5 hours a day, which is just as long as a day job.
When you run in your dreams, don't you wake up sweating?
When we make love, don't you wake up satisfied?
BOY
You're right
WOMAN IN MASK
When you die in your dreams you die in your waking life. This world is just as real as the outside world and
if you don't leave her I'll be your worst nightmare.
The boy looks intimidated.
BOY
But you're NOT real.....
Why would I leave the girl in my real life for the girl in my dreams? Explain that to me?
we get flashes of his girlfriend from the foggy forest setting we experienced earlier.
The girl in the mask stops walking aside from the boy and stops while he continues walking.
WOMAN IN MASK
Do you think she loves you more then I do?
The boy looks back at her.
BOY
Yes...
WOMAN IN MASK
Do you love her more then me?
silence...
The masked woman walks towards the boy until they are close up and face to face.
WOMAN IN MASK
Do you love her more?
BOY
I...
Yes.
(with confidence)
Yes. Of course, You're not even real.
WOMAN IN MASK
Very well... tell her how much you love her yourself then...
The girl points behind the boys back.
The boy turns around and we see there's a river in front of him
From across the river we see his girl walking through the foggy forest area.
CUT TO. Short scene of the girl still walking towards the rotating sea shell. As she walks closer to it in the distance out of the girls view we see dark cloaked masked beings pop out of the bushes.
CUT BACK TO. The boy staring across the river
BOY
Maryam!!!
WOMAN IN MASK
She can't hear you
BOY
Maryam!!!! Stop!!! Behind you!!!
CUT TO. Shot of the boy from other side of the river. We can see he is yelling as loud as he can but we don't hear anything.
CUT TO. Boy.
BOY
Maryam!!!
Boy turns to Masked woman.
BOY
What do I do?!?! Help me!!
WOMAN IN MASK
Save her...
The boy quickly walks to the edge of the river and yells out one more time in hopes that Maryam will hear him.
BOY
Maryam!! Stop walking!! Behind you!!
Maryam!!!
With that one last shout the boy jumps daringly into the river.
CUT TO. Dark underwater abyss.
Silence, then Plunge! as the boy enters the water from above.
EXT. Underwater. Spotlight shinning on boy from above while he is in a dark watery abyss.
The camera is upside down and sideways, to show that the boy doesn't know which way is up. He has a very scared look on his face.
He starts to swim up and he breaks through to the waters surface
BOY
Maryam!!!
As he looks around him, he sees that he is completely surrounded by water. He looks all around and there's nothing in sight. After a few seconds of looking around and contemplating the boy has a depressed look on his face and he begins to panic.
BOY
Maryammm, nooo.. Maryam!!!
CUT TO . EXT. Maryam in the foggy forest walking closer to the rotating shell and
As she is about to approach it, she hears a twig snap and turns behind her to see what it is.... Nothing
She turns back and the shell is gone.
The other shell is still in the distance rotating and making a low hum noise.
Anxiously she runs off camera to chase after the rotating shell as fast as she can.
EXT. Wide angle shot of the boy in the large bed of water
BOY
(tired)
Maryam...
He looks in the distance and he sees a small canoe type boat.
He swims off camera and onto the boat.
Once on the boat he sets his leather bag down and takes out a pair of binoculars, steers the boat in the right direction then lays down flat from exhaustion.
CUT TO.
Maryam is now full force running towards the rotating shell. In the background we still see the hooded creature stalking her. The closer she
gets the louder the humming noise gets.
She approaches the shell as is now face to face with it.
She plucks it from thin air, then the loud humming noise stops.
Silence.
She turns around after hearing a noise in the bushes.
Nothing.
Out of curiousity she starts to inspect the seashell. Rotating it, shaking it, then finally she puts the shell up to her ear.
The loud scream blast out of the seashell so hard that she drops to shell and shuts her ears.
Blood starts coming out of the fallen seashell.
She quickly recovers and turns around and the masked being is directly in front of her.
Another loud screeech, then she runs.
CUT TO. Water Abyss
The boy is now rowing full force and finally lands on a beach. He doesn't hesitate and darts out of the boat in full force.
CUT TO. Foggy Forest
Maryam is now running for dear life from this masked being.
CUT TO . Boy running through forest
BOY
Maryam!! Where are you!!!!
The boy looks off into the distance and can spot Maryam running from the dark creature. He runs after her.
* The running scene will be shot using a snorri cam to give it a more drastic effect.
He's getting closer and closer to her but he can see that the hooded creature is getting closer to her as well. Closer and closer he approaches her running as fast as he can with all his strength.
CUT TO. The creature quickly approach Maryam just seconds away from her
CUT TO. Maryam now standing still from shock
CUT TO. The boy (Snorri cam) from behind. In front of him you can see Maryam and the creature approaching her from another angle.
CUT TO. Maryam still standing
silence...
then BOOM! The boy grabs her and she is thrown to the ground.
CUT TO. Close up of Maryams face on the ground with her eyes open the camera zooms out to reveal that she is now in her bed and awake.
She gets up breathing heavily and soaking wet from sweat. Looks over to her left to see the boy silently asleep next to her, she's now realizing that this was all a bad dream.
INT. Bedroom. Nighttime
Maryam gets up and out of bed to get a glass of water and recover herself. She walks off camera and we are focuses on the boy, who is still in bed sleeping silently.
We don't notice at first but when the camera starts to pull in closer to him we see that he is breathing very rapidly. The camera zooms in closer until we pass through the same dreamy portal we passed through before.
INT. Dark empty room. In the middle we see the boy is tied down to a chair with his mouth duct taped and a spotlight directly above him.
He is surrounded by a circle of the same masked beings we saw earlier in the forest chasing after the girl and they're all making a hypnotizing ambient humming noise, almost like a chant.
Out of the crowd a being in a clearly different mask steps out and stands in front of the boy. The chanting increases in volume.
CUT TO. INT. In the real world the girl is in the background drinking her water in the background still while the boy breathes heavily.
CUT TO. INT. The masked being gets closer to the boy and takes out a large knife from under it's cloak.
The being then opens it's cloak to reveal a nude womans figure (Making it obvious to the audience that it's the woman he was with earlier)
The boy lets how a huge scream from under the duct tape in hopes that someone will hear him.
CUT TO INT. In the real world the boy lets out a soft moan which catches the attention of the girl and she gets into bed while drinking her water.
CUT TO. INT. The naked woman plays with the boys head by rubbing the knife on his face and tilting her head.
We hear in the background flashbacks of their earlier conversation and how "When you die in your dreams, you die in the real world"
The boy struggles even more and the Chanting increases even more in volume
CUT TO . INT. The boy moves around slightly in bed and the girl looks over to him.
CUT TO. INT. The chanting gets louder and louder and as this happens the masked woman raises her knife in the air. At this point the chanting gets so loud it's almost unbearable.
Close up. Boys face
Close up. The knife
Close up. The womans face
Chanting increases in volume
until...
The woman raises her knife slightly more then with all her strength throws it down and out of cameras sight.
The screen goes black and the chanting stops.
Then all of the a sudden we see the boys eyes open up and the camera pulls out
We now see that he's awake thanks to the girl waking him up.
He gets up breathing heavily and full of sweat takes a look at the girl with relief and the give each other a big hug.
The camera pulls out slowly during their embrace.
THE END