The Script

Untitled
by
Lian Furness
Lian Furness
Dani Howard
South Island School
Hong Kong

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1
OPENING. SCENE- CHRISTIE’S APARTMENT
Interior of Christie’s apartment living room. All three char-
acters are standing up. Both Teresa and Luca are shot in slow
motion, shouting at a shocked Christie who is standing still,
motionless. The shouting is muted, to convey a sense of shock
from Christie’s POV. She is positioned in a way that shows
some detail of her apartment, for example a few photo frames,
an empty bottle of wine, a TV. There is several seconds of
Christie looking at the camera, without speaking.
CHRISTIE
Eye spy, with my little eye. I tried
to have it all, but I didn’t care
why. I stand here and stare, what
more can I do? I didn’t want one, I
had to have two.
0:12

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2
SCENE- CHRISTIE’S APARTMENT
There is a frustrated and loud knocking at the door, Christie
runs out of the bedroom, and goes and thrusts open the front
door. Luca is standing there.
LUCA
Who’s Teresa?
CHRISTIE
Wha-how’d...
LUCA
How’d I Know?
Christie looks down to her side, and taps her pocket, and
looks back up.
CHRISTIE
You took my phone? Earlier... didn’t
you, you took my phone!
Luca reaches into his pocket and takes out Christie’s phone.
LUCA
“You make me feel like nothing ever
before.”
Christie tries to get phone, Luca puts hand to stop her.
LUCA
“I love you too”
CHRISTIE
I can’t believe you would take my
phone...
LUCA
I’m glad I did. You sent a message
at 12:43. You were with me at 12:43.
With me. In bed.
CHRISTIE
Luca, seriously just listen!
LUCA
I’m done listening.
Luca leaves back through the front door, Freeze-Frame on
Christie’s face.
0:42

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3
SCENE SHOT MONTAGE
The following voice overs will be accompanied by appropriate
images suiting the visuals, for example, Teresa in a cell,
Luca in his bedroom, Luca at work etc...
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
Let me explain. I met two people
this year... Luca. The sweetest guy
you could think to meet. He’s Mr.
Society. He follows the rules. After
getting a degree from Cambridge in
Economics, he worked in an orphanage
for two years in Thailand, as he
wanted to do something meaningful.
He now works in Hong Kong for a
Bank, but deals largely interna-
tional charity relations. He plans
to get married before thirty, have
three beautiful but mischievous
children, retire to Australia, grow
old and die.
1:12
Then you have Teresa. The party
girl, cares about social status,
drinking and having fun. Teresa left
home at seventeen and moved to Hong
Kong in what was a role of the dice,
flip of the coin sort of decision,
but it worked; she loved it. She has
been to prison once, for drunk driv-
ing. She spent three months there,
where she played cards excessively,
gambling and winning money of other
inmates. Now twenty-three, she bar
tends, and with the exception of a
better understanding of the social
clockwork, she is not that different
from before.
1:40

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4
SCENE- CHRISTIE’S APARTMENT
Back to Christie and Luca.
CHRISTIE
Luca, seriously just listen!
LUCA
I’m done listening.
CHRISTIE
Luca!
LUCA
Do you want to know why I stole your
phone?
Pause.
CHRISTIE
Why?
LUCA
Because for some strange reason, I
was gonna put your ringtone for me
as ‘Our Song.’
Pause, Luca starts to walk off again.
CHRISTIE
Babe...
Luca turns back round to face her.
LUCA
Thought it’d be romantic. Then your
phoned beeped. ‘New Message: Teresa-
Hey, coming to yours at around
seven?’ Funny that, as you were
meant to be working that night, so I
read the rest.
Another freeze-frame of Luca looking at her.
2:05

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5
MEETING LUCA. SCENE- A DIFFERENT APARTMENT
Christie and Luca are sitting on a sofa at night time, the
lamp is on, and they both have a glass of wine in their hands.
Their body language is leant into each other, both are smil-
ing. There are post-meal empty plates on a table.
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
He really was the sweetest guy. I
first met him through a friend, they
fixed us up on date, and it was
pretty awkward, but hey, I thought
I’d see how it went.
LUCA
You don’t think you want kids?!
CHRISTIE
Haha, it’s not that I don’t like them!
It’s just, I see them as very compli-
cated.
Luca looks away, smiling.
CHRISTIE
You really want kids huh?
LUCA
Yeah. Since I was little, I’ve always
wanted to have children knowing that
I’ve given life to someone would...
CHRISTIE
Yeah?
LUCA
It would be amazing.
CHRISTIE
You big softy!
LUCA
Shut up...
CHRISTIE
So how many kids do you want?
LUCA
Well three! Two boys and a girl.

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CHRISTIE
Yeah? How come?
Conversation is shown to continue.
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
He really was the sweetest guy.
2:38

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7
SCENE- CHRISTIE’S APARTMENT
Back to Christie.
Luca leaves, and Christie leaves the door slightly ajar. She
turns and you she goes into the bedroom, where Teresa is sit-
ting on the bed. She looks annoyed.
CHRISTIE
I’m sorry.
TERESA
You said it was over...
CHRISTIE
I know, it’s just...
TERESA
Come on. What do you take me for?
CHRISTIE
Well what did you expect? We were
gonna get married? Have three kids,
grow old in Australia or something?
TERESA
What?
CHRISTIE
It’s just...
TERESA
You know what? I was changing who I
was for you. But this was obviously
just for fun.
2:55
Another freeze-frame of Teresa looking at her.
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
But it was all fun. I don’t know if
I’d say just for fun, but Teresa was
different. It could be fun and seri-
ous at the same time. I met her when
I was already dating Luca. She was
fresh, exciting. I wanted her.
3:10

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8
MEETING TERESA. SCENE- HONG KONG PARK
Christie and Luca are overlooking the pond on the bridge in
Hong Kong Park. He looks at his watch, kisses her on the
cheek, and leaves. She remains on the bridge, looking at the
water. She walks around the corner, where she sees Teresa
looking through the bush, behind a ‘no climbing’ fence.
CHRISTIE
You alright there?
Teresa stands up, and smiles. She has a colourful single hair
extension in her hair.
TERESA
Just looking for stuff.
CHRISTIE
What kinda stuff?
TERESA
Anything.
CHRISTIE
In a bush?
TERESA
Yeah a bush.
CHRISTIE
How come?
TERESA
Well, the way I see it. The sort of
people that climb over fences that say
not to are the sort of people that do
before they think. Trying to impress
girlfriends, boyfriends, mates and
stuff. Those sort of impulsive people
usually don’t check things, like their
pockets for example. Hence, me in a
bush.
Pause- takes time to digest.
CHRISTIE
Makes absolute sense... Want some
help?
3:39

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Muted, Christie climbs in to help Teresa to look in the
bushes. Shake hands and start laughing. Banter!
TERESA
I’m Teresa.
CHRISTIE
Amen.
TERESA
Funny!
CHRISTIE
I’m Christie.
TERESA
How’d you do?
CHRISTIE
Are you from the 1930’s.
TERESA
I like to be polite.
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
She was really cool, I quite liked
her, she was so different to Luca
though. She seemed to not care about
the rules, and live in the moment,
not always planning the future. The
opposite to him, almost.
3:51

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