A comedy about a man struggling with the idea of getting married. |
EXT. HOME - DAY DRIVER I don’t care what you believe. Leave me alone, I’m going for a drive! Slam door to the house and abruptly walk to the truck. INT. TRUCK - CONTINUOUS Start truck and spin tires out of driveway. CUT TO: TITLE DRIVER I can’t believe she thinks all I do is sit around and talk to myself. PASSENGER You do sit around and talk to yourself. DRIVER What do you mean? I don’t talk to myself. PASSENGER You are right now. I’m the person sitting in your truck and I am here to help you. DRIVER Are you my fairy god father? PASSENGER Do I look like a fairy god father to you? Do I have wings on my back? Am I holding a wand in my hand? Hold wand up in left hand. Okay so I have a wand in my hand. Still I am not your fairy god father. DRIVER What do you want with me? PASSENGER Well, you need to know how to get a woman the right way or what just happened to you will happen again. It’s the basic law of principles. DRIVER What principles? PASSENGER The principles laws of getting and keeping a woman. Don’t you know about the principles? DRIVER If I did I wouldn’t have asked now would I? PASSENGER I suppose not. DRIVER I really don’t know how you got in my truck. PASSENGER You really should stop fighting with her. Keeping the peace is one of the first principles you should maintain. STOP THE TRUCK QUICKLY AND GET OUT OF THE DRIVERS SEAT. WALK AROUND TO PASSENGER SIDE AND OPEN THE PASSENGER DOOR. DRIVER Enough of these principles now get out. PASSENGER You don’t have to be so rude about it. I’ll stop talking about principle laws of women. Passenger gets out of truck and stands out of shot. Driver walks back over to the drivers side and gets back in truck and drives away. Passenger suddenly appears back in passenger seat. PASSENGER (CONT’D) So, where are we off too now? DRIVER How did you get back in my truck? BACK SEAT He just got in when you drove away. Didn’t you see it? DRIVER Who are you? BACK SEAT Well, I’m... Driver raises hand. DRIVER Never mind. Don’t say it. Back seat belches. PASSENGER You are disgustingly rude. BACK SEAT Doesn’t bother me none. How about you? Back seat slams driver on the back. DRIVER All right that’s enough out of both of you. PASSENGER Admit it. It’s your fault for this thing in my ear (wiggle earring) and the blemish of a tatoo on my arm. If you had it your way we would be smoking that wrapped up cigar right now. BACK SEAT Don’t look at me he’s the one who won’t let me open it. PASSENGER That’s because women don’t like smoking. BACK SEAT Come on you don’t need this girl. All she is going to do is tie you down and make you into a couch potato. PASSENGER You don’t need her help with that you are already on your way to a successful career to couch potato-ing. BACK SEAT Listen to me, a girl is only good for fetching your slippers and making you dinner after a long day at work. Just remember you have to work those long days because of the extra mouth you have to feed. PASSENGER Don’t listen to him. You need to say something like, “Look through yonder window breaks, it is the east and Joliet the sun.” BACK SEAT Poetry? PASSENGER Not poetry Shakespeare. Every woman likes Shakespeare. BACK SEAT That’s where you are wrong because she is a tomboy. You know TOM BOY. PASSENGER I got it, flowers and candy. DRIVER No, she doesn’t really like flowers. BACK SEAT Yeah, and the candy will make her fat. (Belch) PASSENGER You are impossible. DRIVER Can both of you calm down so I can think? I would really appreciate it if you would keep quiet. PASSENGER (Humph) BACK SEAT Reaches from the back to play with the radio. PASSENGER Slaps the hand of the Back Seat person. What are you doing? You heard him he wanted you to be silent. BACK SEAT Well, I would like a little music. I can’t stand listening to you breath for more then a few seconds of my life. PASSENGER That’s longer then I can stand being around you. DRIVER You keep talking about me arguing, you should listen to yourselves. It’s been going on since you sat in my truck. Silence PASSENGER He’s right. BACK SEAT About what? PASSENGER You argue too much about everything. BACK SEAT Being around you anyone would argue. PASSENGER Are you going to make the commitment to her? DRIVER Who me? I really don’t know what you are talking about. BACK SEAT Yeah you do. Admit it you want to get cooped up in a prison sentence for the rest of your life never being able to be free to choose any other women in your life. All you will be with is just the woman. DRIVER That doesn’t sound so bad does it? PASSENGER No it’s not. BACK SEAT It depends on your perspective. HOUSE PASSENGER (O.S.) Ah, free the spirit and the mind and true love will fall behind. BACK SEAT You never been in love in your life. PASSENGER Yes I have, one time. Well, we weren’t really in love. BACK SEAT I know, I was there. Come on I will buy you a drink. PASSENGER I don’t drink. BACK SEAT Then I don’t mind if you watch me drink before the wedding. WEDDING Two people walk down the isle dressed the same. One with a top hat on and the other with a veil over their head. Music will be played for the wedding. Camera from behind preacher looks into the face of person with top hat on, it’s the person from the back seat with the cigar in his mouth. Camera from behind preacher looks into the face of person with veil on, it’s the passenger holding the wand. Picks up veil and winks at the camera. |