Luyện nghe bài hát Because The Internet Screenplay - Part 4

[VISUAL "DEATH BY NUMBERS"]

SONG "FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR" AT THIS POINT]*******

INT. - DAY

The Boy wakes up. He's in a gown. His eyes feel heavy. The TV is on in his room. "Golden Girls" to be specific. One of the ladies just something funny cause there's a lot of laughter
Sitcom laughs always freaked him out. Because most of those people are dead. Those are ghost laughs. Laughs that are supposed to be gone forever on earth after every mid 90s joke about teenage sex or someone saying "don't go there". Looking for their mouths, never finding them because they're gone. The laughs don't feel good because they're dead laughs. Those laughs aren't what they stood for anymore. They've been reappropriated. Now they're just sounds monkey descendants make when amused to cue other monkey descendants when to make the sounds at home

...my eyes feel

A nurse in

       WHITE GUY NURSE: Hello Mr.[EDIT]. How are you
       THE BOY: Like I'm about to get to by someone about- (gestures) All this

Nurse a "yep" look

       WHITE GUY NURSE: friends brought you in-
       THE BOY: They're not my
       WHITE GUY NURSE: I don't think they'd like you that
      BOY: Doesn't matter. It's the truth. But also, they know. We're not friends. There's a mutual benefit to our relationship, but I can't trust them for shit
       WHITE GUY NURSE: why save you?
       THE BOY: Cause their are far easier with me around. It's survival
       WHITE GUY I think you should talk to someone
       THE BOY: We're
       WHITE GUY NURSE: A
       THE BOY: Why? You don't care. not gonna make sure I do. (then) Our lives aren't precious, man

Silence. The Nurse begins to up

       WHITE GUY NURSE: You
       THE BOY: I was to be
       WHITE GUY NURSE: No you weren't. Cause, guess It's not hard to do

leaves

INT. ROOM - LATER THAT DAY
The Boy out of the double doors. Steve, Swank, and Fam are sitting there. They look up wearily

       THE BOY: I don't wanna talk. just go be awkward and quiet together at Chipotle. Alright?

They all just stare. Swank up slowly and walks over

       SWANK: Man...we didn't know if we wait or tell you later, man

The Boy makes a ["WHAT?" EMOJI]

      (CONT'D): Man...your pops died, man. Got the call

       THE Okay

(hum of a jet engine...)

*******[PLAY SONG "ZEALOTS OF STOCKHOLM" AT POINT]*******

INT. JET - EVENING
The Boy lays his against the plane window, the oil from his hair leaving grease smudges all over the window
His father died in Stockholm. A family member was needed. Didn't realize that they were each other's only family til this very moment. When you lose that, you basically lose most of your memories, at the accuracy of your own memories
He wanted to be
The Boy didn't really know anyone in Stockholm, but he also didn't to be in his hotel room with his father for a day. Even if he was just ashes. So he decided to search through his followers for someone from Sweden

Some girl named "Hello_Pity_" Dm'd him back and they were supposed to meet up after all the whatever he had to do. Her profile bio said she was half french. She looked pretty in her avi: an inverted Hello Kitty. But that really doesn't mean anything at all, especially since her instagram was blocked, is something he's learned not to trust at all
So he looked her tweets, figured out a night she went to a club, used one of his dummy profiles and pretended that they'd met at the club that night. She had trouble remembering because, according to her feed, she was "fuckin turnt, [CRAZY TONGUE OUT EMOJI] lol". She added this made up dude as a friend on Facebook. Now The Boy could see her pictures
The rest of her confirmed she was indeed pretty
This girl loves Justin Bieber though. New Justin Bieber. The "fuck you" Bieber. She loves Justin Bieber in the way you love that girl on Maury who's like "my favorite flavor popsicle is DICK!", is close to sincere love, but nowhere near it at the same time

INT. STRANGE OFFICE -
The Boy is sitting at a desk, across from a solemn man. An urn sits on the side of the desk
The man it over to The Boy

       SOLEMN MAN: I'm for your loss

Silence. Don't you have to ask someone before you cremate their father? I don't how these things work

       SOLEMN MAN (CONT'D): These were found him

He The Boy a large brown paper bag

INT. ROOM - NIGHT
The Boy vapes on the foot of his bed. He's DMing back and forth with "Hello_Pity_" whose name is Alyssa

      where u at
       Hello_Pity_: bar called box. u here?
       thegoldmolar:
      u should meet my boyfriend. he loves you

       thegoldmolar:
       Hello_Pity_: [CRYING LAUGH EMOJI] LOL. Don't worry. not like that
       thegoldmolar:
       Hello_Pity_: [CRAZY TONGUE OUT EMOJI] see u

He his phone down

EXT. STREETS - NIGHT
There's a buzz going on. Very pretty people walk hand in hand on the street. There are people saying things, giving opinions, feeling interesting. Everyone has a purpose tonight. It's a great
A walk by:

       SUPER HANDSOME GUY: Swedish blah blah blah wetsuit hahahaha!
       SUPER PRETTY GIRL: blah blah, swedish blah roscoe's wetsuit!

The Boy walks up to a pink, glowing, but very discreet sign that says "box". a big bald guy standing outside with no hat. There's steam coming off his head
A girl is standing outside smoking, at least trying to. She can't seem to get the cigarette lit. Alyssa

      BOY: Hey
       ALYSSA: Ah! you

She gives him a kiss on both

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): meeting you like this, huh?
       THE BOY: I don't know you mean

She puts out her cigarette. two big puffs

      Let's go
       THE BOY: you want me to meet your boyfriend?
       ALYSSA: That guy?

She points to a corner of the building, a few steps from the front. A guy with long blonde hair (her boyfriend?)is making out with a in the cold

       THE BOY: What am I getting
      Nothing. You're getting into nothing

CUT TO:
EXT. STOCKHOLM STREETS -
The Boy and walk slowly through the streets. It's very cold, so they're the only ones doing that

      What made you DM me?
       THE BOY: I don't anyone here
      Then why are you here?
      BOY: My dad died. I have to pick him up
      R O U G H. How?
      BOY: Doesn't matter at this point
       ALYSSA: I know right? It's "how'd he die?" Like if you know all the ways, you'll avoid it. Silly

She

      (CONT'D): I don't believe in small talk. What's the longest relationship you've been in?
       THE BOY: Five
       ALYSSA: Wow. What
       THE I'm still in it
      Oh?
       THE BOY: She private web shows. We're not together. But it's a relationship, for sure
       ALYSSA: I get it
       THE BOY: I to watch her online a while back. Then she quit and started doing private shows. Then it just started turning into talking. Mostly
       ALYSSA:
      BOY: Wha?
      You're paying her to be your girlfriend or friend or whatever
       THE Yes. But most people are paying for friends one way or another
      No
       THE BOY: Your boyfriend is making out with girl right now. You don't really have room to judge
       ALYSSA: I trust that I can never him. We're clear on that
       THE BOY: Then why him at all?
       ALYSSA: Because he's honest. And I like that. He doesn't lie to of us. That's special to me

INT. ROOM - NIGHT

The two are sitting on the bed at the urn on the table

       ALYSSA: So that's dad
       THE That's my dad. That's what's left of him
       ALYSSA: You close?
      BOY: No
       ALYSSA: You wanna talk it
       THE No

       THE BOY (CONT'D): I'm going to a drink
      Alright

The Boy gets up and goes into the living room. While he's in there, Alyssa gets up, takes the urn, and walks out of the room. The Boy the door slam

       THE Alyssa?

CUT TO:

*******[PLAY SONG "URN" AT POINT]*******

EXT. HOTEL -
The Boy out of the front doors. His breath, clouding in the night. He looks both ways and catches Alyssa turning a corner. He runs to the corner and meets her on the other side

      BOY: What's going on
      Let's get rid of it. It's just bad for you
       THE BOY: You have a TON of nerve judging me and my father's relationship, so much so, you just walk out with his ashes? I feel like what you're doing is against the law, but much like the fact he was before I arrived, I don't know if it's illegal. I'm still pissed though
       ALYSSA: We're do this together

The Boy is pissed. He's trying not to up

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): I had a sister. I did this she died
      BOY: Yes. That gives you the right

Alyssa digs in her pocket and pulls out her phone. She turns it on and the background is Alyssa and a that looks exactly like her. The Boy takes the phone

      BOY (CONT'D): Twins
      Yes
       THE I know we agreed that it's dumb to ask since we're all headed that way anyway, but-
       ALYSSA: cancer. It was bad

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): So

She LOLs. They're still walking this entire time. stop at the water. They stand there making small clouds for a moment

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): You to say something?

The Boy

       ALYSSA (CONT'D):
       THE Wait

The urn almost tips over the edge. She waits for him. He walks over and takes the urn and just holds it for a moment. Then he kinda hugs it. Laying his on it, but turning his head so she can't see what he says:

       THE BOY (CONT'D, whisper): I'm sorry we're

He out the ashes. He's gone

       ALYSSA: How do you feel?
       THE I feel...the same
      HEY!

Alyssa and The Boy turn around. It's boyfriend

      What the fuck, bro?
       ALYSSA: Oh, so you now you give a

She pushes him back as he takes swipes at The Boy. The Boy is mildly annoyed. all yelling at each other

       BOYFRIEND/THE BOY/ALYSSA: You're dead ass-hole!/ Relax, nothing Would you stop!

The boyfriend breaks free her

       BOYFRIEND: Do you who the fuck I am?

       ALYSSA: Please don't. Please don't do
       THE Nah, man. I don't know who you are
       BOYFRIEND (CONT'D, scream): DOES THE FOX SAY! (silence) I. Wrote. That. That's my shit. I'm the nigga dressed like a fox. That's all me
       THE BOY:

The starts making the noises a fox makes in the song

      That!
       ALYSSA (resigned, to The Boy): Like the and video
       THE BOY: never heard of it
      AND BOYFIREND: What/wha?
       ALYSSA: I you "were the internet"?
       THE BOY: That's a tagline. No one is the actual internet. I just missed it when it was popular
       BOYFRIEND: Uh, by "when it was popular" do you mean, uhhh, RIGHT THE NOW?!
       THE Relax
       BOYFRIEND: Two hundred and twenty million views on Youtube. Two hundred and million. That's most of the earth
      BOY: Not true
       BOYFRIEND: An African village to me-
       THE The whole village did?
       BOYFRIEND: told me that my song taught them about foxes. They don't have foxes there. I introduced the idea of a fox to an entire continent...(then) And you wanna fuck my girl?

      BOY: I do not wanna fuck your girl. I don't want to be here. I am going home now

The Boy walks away. Alyssa and her boyfriend a boring argument in the cold as he disappears

CUT TO:
INT. LA RESTAURANT - NIGHT
Fam, another girl, and The Boy sit in a booth at the restaurant. Fam and the girl are talking. The Boy is silent. Don't know if he's just bored or jet lagged Sweden. Either way he's bumming everyone out

       ANOTHER GIRL: My friend should be soon

The Boy doesn't say anything. Fam and the girl on
A girl walks up to the table. The Boy looks up. the girl from the party

      Hi

The Boy doesn't say

       ANOTHER This is Naomi. (then) Hello?
      He's dumb. You should just sit and ignore him

She down

       NAOMI: You're the guy almost hit my arm
      BOY: Yes
      You guys order?
       THE BOY: No. I hate vegan. I think she's us eat here
       NAOMI: I'm the vegan. I asked to eat

       THE BOY: I hate
      (saying it dumb): Duhh, "I hate vegan"

In his head, he was lol-ing. In real life, he just looked down

       NAOMI (CONT'D): What's the deal. Why you always act your parents died

The Boy

       THE BOY: did

Awkward.

       ANOTHER I'm so sorry

Fam and The Boy stare at each for a moment. Then laugh. Another Girl and Naomi do not

      (to The Boy): Your parents are dead, man
       THE My parents are dead yo

They stop laughing. Naomi thinks The Boy is weird. But she doesn't run

INT. - NIGHT
Fam and Another Girl are sitting on the swings smoking and talking something they will never remember and don't really care about
and The Boy sit in the living room

      What did he do?
       THE BOY: I don't
      How'd he afford all this?
       THE I don't know
       NAOMI: Then how can you afford all this? He leave you a
       THE BOY: Creditors were after him. I don't know if he had left. I'm not concerned. (serious) I'm gonna sell drugs

Naomi

      Whaaaaaat
       THE BOY: Fam can hook me up. I've been watching him for a minute. He runs out of already
       NAOMI: I don't think you need me to you you're an awful dealer
       THE BOY: How would you even
       NAOMI: You make everything feel awkward. You can't connect with anyone. How is anyone supposed to feel like they can trust
       THE BOY: Yeah, that's what drug are known for. Their comfort
       NAOMI: They are, dumb-ass. You gotta know how people work. You're good with people online

He slowly turns to her. "how she know that?"

       NAOMI (CONT'D): I you up
       THE BOY: After the or just now
       NAOMI: Just now. I'm a too
       THE BOY: Oh
       NAOMI: Yup. And I know I'm good people keep stealing my shit

She the vape

       NAOMI (CONT'D): I tweeted this. (holds up her phone) Is that not my verbatim? I posted them together. This nigga just rapped this like it was his
       THE BOY (looking at her phone): Your first mistake is being a past the year 1974, by the way
       NAOMI: That's how my shit is. I'm bringing the whole form back
       THE BOY: cocky when you're high
       NAOMI: No. I'm talkative I'm high. I'm cocky all the time, but I'm silent for most of it...like you

He looks up. She lifts an eyebrow. He doesn't smile. She cross-eyed. No response. She stops, then sighs

       NAOMI (CONT'D): You ever think we're in hell? This is all hell. Living on earth and being the only ones aware that it's all slowly

       THE No
       NAOMI: I something that said more than likely we all just do this all again. It's all a cycle
       THE BOY: I like that
      Yeah. (then) See? You're not such a lonely boy

She LOLs and mushes his with her hand. The Boy smh, but smiles