"Neargh"
- Archie
Movie Scripts
Anna turns slightly towards Archie and looks slightly annoyed that he’s talking whilst she’s on her cell. She gives him a disapproving look whilst still talking away. Archie doesn’t notice and tried to make sense of his new tattoo. He gets up and walks to the window of his apartment, overlooking a bustling street and begins running his fingers through his hair.
Cut to panoramic view of city, with Archie’s reflection in the window.
Below him are people living their normal lives, living the same 24 hours, day after day, year after year. There are suits everywhere overtaking the grid locked yellow taxis. It’s rush hour and the people look like ants bustling around the metropolis.
Archie (muttering to self): “Stupid city.”
Archie turns around to see Anna still on the phone, turns back to the window and begins to do a voice over. He reaches out for his high-powered binoculars and looks down on the city. He focuses on his workplace a few blocks down, as his company’s VP.
Archie (mildly amusing himself): “And as the drones of the work force head off to their designated jobs, the Queen revels in the luxury life, maintaining the style and grace of a balding stuffed bear.”
Archie’s VP is helped into his limousine by his chauffer and then drives off. Archie begins to pan to the left and right slowly and he soon comes across what looks like a fight.
There is a tramp walking against the tide of people. They walk into him. They knock him over. No one cares, no one looks back and no one will help. Suddenly, the tramp stops dead in his track and looks up directly at Archie. He begins pointing at him, and staring with wide eyes like he’s just seen the answer to everything. He starts mouthing something incomprehensible.
Archie, a little taken aback by what he has just seen and lowers his binoculars. He recoils in confusion and looks once more. The tramp can no longer be seen anywhere, like he was never there.
Things are just not getting any easier for Archie, nor are they starting to make any more sense. Archie makes his way back to his bedroom and gets changed. Nothing special, just a his typical work attire that has found his way back into his wardrobe, washed, yet still baring signs of his attempt at the bridge. It’s full of sand that the back of his car brought up as he travelled down the highway, but that’s the least of Archie’s worries as he just leaves Anna mid-conversation and goes for a walk.
He gets in the lift and then walks out of the building. Ext. outside his apartment building. It’s a fine day but he contemplates driving, only to realise his car is covered in flyers and parking fines. The missing wheel and the fact it is wrapped around a lamp post is an added bonus. He walks down the street passing people, the whole time remaining in a world of his own, unaware of his surroundings.
Archie (talking to himself, agitated): “This makes no sense. I should be dead, not walking down the road. I jumped, I know I did. This can’t be heaven, this can’t be hell. Then again, it’s not real. Something is ... different. If I only knew what. All of a sudden Anna cares, I’ve got a tattoo (clutches arm) and I get tramps checking me out!? That’s a Twilight Zone episode right there. All I need now is a god damn alien invasion and then we’ve got the whole freak-fest. Hell, maybe I’ll come across Bigfoot selling hotdogs in the park.”
As Archie approaches the park, he unwittingly passes a newsstand with a billboard headline reporting on the recent train disaster that took hundreds of lives only a few days ago.
Archie (continuing): “Even if I did survive, how the hell did I get home? I couldn’t have drove back, yet my rust-bucket is parked ever so carefully outside. How long have I been out gone? I don’t even know what date it is. What’s happened lately? Something is wrong with people. They all look like they’ve been...oohhh I get it! (sarcastically) The aliens! They probed them all with their little instruments.”
Archie walks into the park, passing more people, including a reasonably attractive blonde, complete with a tattoo similar to Archie’s. She gives a few moments of her time in Archie’s direction. He turns her head, but doesn’t realise what he did, and she soon walks away. The camera focuses on Archie the whole time, and merely just hints at things to come.
Archie (continuing): “Damn – I guess I’ll have to go back to work now. Ah God, that’s not going to be easy after the whole deal with Dave and the monkey. (laughs a little) I doubt I’ll ever work in this city again after what it did to him. I didn’t even know someone could actually do that. (he sighs) Why can’t ever anything be easy?”
He comes to an empty bench, and sits down, facing the camera. He holds his head in his hands and continues talking to himself.
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