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. in a gown. His eyes feel heavy. The TV is on in his room. "Golden Girls" to be specific. One of the ladies just said 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 linger 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 just sounds monkey descendants make when amused to cue other monkey descendants when to make the sounds at home

...my feel heavy

A nurse in

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

Nurse gives a "yep"

       WHITE GUY You're friends brought you in-
       THE BOY: They're not my
       WHITE GUY NURSE: I don't they'd like you saying that
       THE 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 for shit
       WHITE GUY Then why save you?
       THE BOY: Cause their lives are far easier with me around. survival
       WHITE GUY I think you should talk to someone
       THE BOY: We're
      GUY NURSE: A professional
       THE BOY: Why? You don't care. You're not gonna sure I do. (then) Our lives aren't precious, man

Silence. The Nurse begins to up

      GUY NURSE: You done?
       THE I was trying to be
       WHITE GUY NURSE: No you weren't. Cause, guess what? not hard to do

leaves

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

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

all just stare. Swank gets up slowly and walks over

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

The Boy a ["WHAT?" EMOJI] face

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

       THE BOY:

(hum of a jet engine...)

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

INT. JET PLANE -
The Boy lays his head against the plane window, the oil from his hair leaving grease 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 very moment. When you lose that, you basically lose most of your memories, at least the accuracy of your own memories
He wanted to be
The Boy didn't really know anyone in Stockholm, but he also didn't want 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 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 was blocked, which is something he's learned not to trust at all
So he looked through her tweets, figured out a night she 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 pictures confirmed she was 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!", which is close to 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 left of the desk
The man it over to The Boy

       SOLEMN MAN: I'm sorry for your

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

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

He gives The Boy a large paper bag

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

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

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

He his phone down

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

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

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

       THE Hey
       ALYSSA: Ah! you

She gives him a kiss on both

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

She puts out her cigarette. two big puffs

       ALYSSA: go
      BOY: Didn't 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 (her boyfriend?)is making out with a girl in the cold

       THE BOY: am I getting into?
       ALYSSA: Nothing. getting into nothing

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

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

She

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

INT. HOTEL ROOM -

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

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

       THE BOY (CONT'D): I'm going to make a
       ALYSSA:

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

      BOY: Alyssa?

CUT TO:

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

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

       THE BOY: going on
       ALYSSA: 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 cremated before I arrived, I don't know if it's illegal. I'm still though
      We're gonna 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
       THE Yes. That gives you the right

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

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

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): So

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

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): You want to say

The Boy

      (CONT'D): Alright-
       THE BOY:

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 head on it, but turning his so she can't see what he says:

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

He pours out the ashes. He's

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

Alyssa and The Boy around. It's Alyssa's boyfriend

       BOYFRIEND: What the fuck,
       ALYSSA: Oh, so you now you a fuck

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

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

The boyfriend free from her

       BOYFRIEND: Do you who the fuck I am?

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

The starts making the noises a fox makes in the song

      That!
      (resigned, to The Boy): Like the song and video
       THE BOY: I've heard of it
       ALYSSA AND What/wha?
      I thought you "were the internet"?
       THE BOY: That's a tagline. No one is the actual internet. I just must've missed it when it was
       BOYFRIEND: Uh, by "when it was popular" do you mean, uhhh, THE FUCK NOW?!
       THE BOY:
       BOYFRIEND: Two hundred and twenty million views on Youtube. Two hundred and twenty million. most of the earth
       THE BOY: Not
      An African village wrote to me-
       THE The whole village did?
       BOYFRIEND: -and told me that my song taught them about foxes. They don't have foxes there. I the idea of a fox to an entire continent...(then) And you wanna fuck my girl?

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

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

CUT TO:
INT. LA VEGAN RESTAURANT -
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 or jet lagged from Sweden. Either way he's bumming everyone out

       ANOTHER My friend should be here soon

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

      Hi

The Boy doesn't say

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

She sits

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

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

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

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

The Boy

      BOY: They did

Awkward.

       ANOTHER GIRL: I'm so

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

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

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

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

       NAOMI: did he do?
       THE I don't know
       NAOMI: How'd he afford all
       THE BOY: I know
       NAOMI: Then how can you afford all this? He you a lot?
       THE BOY: Creditors were after him. I don't know if he had anything left. I'm not concerned. (serious) I'm 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 tell you an awful dealer
       THE BOY: How would you know?
       NAOMI: You make everything feel awkward. You can't connect with anyone. How is supposed to feel like they can trust you?
       THE Yeah, that's what drug dealers 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
      BOY: After the party or just now
       NAOMI: Just now. I'm a too
      BOY: Oh really
       NAOMI: Yup. And I know I'm good cause people keep stealing my

She hits the

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

He looks up. She an eyebrow. He doesn't smile. She goes 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 that it's all ending slowly

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

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