Luyện nghe bài hát Because The Internet Screenplay - Part 4

[VISUAL "DEATH BY NUMBERS"]

*******[PLAY SONG "FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR" AT THIS

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 said 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 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 heavy

A nurse in

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

Nurse gives a "yep"

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

Silence. The Nurse begins to up

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

Nurse

INT. WAITING - 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 talk. Let's just go be awkward and quiet together at Chipotle. Alright?

They all just stare. Swank gets up slowly and over

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

The Boy makes a ["WHAT?" EMOJI]

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

       THE Okay

(hum of a jet engine...)

*******[PLAY SONG "ZEALOTS OF STOCKHOLM" AT THIS

INT. JET - EVENING
The Boy lays his head against the plane window, the oil from his hair leaving 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 til this very moment. When you lose that, you basically lose most of your memories, at least the accuracy of your own memories
He to be cremated
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 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 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, which is something he's learned not to trust at all
So he looked through her tweets, figured out a night she went to a club, used one of his dummy 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 of her pictures confirmed she was indeed pretty
This girl loves Justin Bieber though. New Justin Bieber. The "fuck you" Bieber. She loves Justin in the way you love that girl on Maury who's like "my favorite flavor popsicle is DICK!", which 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 man. An urn sits on the left side of the desk
The man slides it to The Boy

      MAN: I'm sorry for your loss

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

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

He gives The Boy a large paper bag

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

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

      sure
       Hello_Pity_: [CRYING LAUGH LOL. Don't worry. It's not like that
      wdym
       Hello_Pity_: [CRAZY TONGUE OUT see u soon

He puts his phone

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

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

The Boy walks up to a pink, glowing, but very discreet 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 trying to. She can't seem to get the cigarette lit. It's

      BOY: Hey
      Ah! It's you

She gives him a kiss on cheeks

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): Fancy meeting you like this,
       THE BOY: I don't know what you

She puts out her cigarette. two big puffs

       ALYSSA: go
       THE BOY: Didn't you want me to your boyfriend?
       ALYSSA: Who? 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 a girl in the cold

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

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

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

She

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): I don't believe in talk. What's the longest relationship you've been in?
       THE BOY: Five
       ALYSSA: Wow. What
      BOY: I'm still in it
      Oh?
       THE She does 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. she quit and started doing private shows. Then it just started turning into talking. Mostly
       ALYSSA:
       THE Wha?
       ALYSSA: You're paying her to be your girlfriend or or whatever
       THE BOY: Yes. But most people are paying for friends one way or
      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 trust him. 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 - NIGHT

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

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

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

The Boy gets up and goes into the living room. While 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 "URN" AT THIS 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 What's going on
       ALYSSA: Let's get rid of it. 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 like the fact he was cremated 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 not to blow up

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

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

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

      (CONT'D): So crazy

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

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

The Boy

       ALYSSA (CONT'D):
       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 head so she can't see he says:

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

He out the ashes. He's gone

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

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

       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 annoyed. They're all yelling at each other

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

The boyfriend breaks free her

       BOYFRIEND: Do you who the fuck I am?

      Please don't. Please don't do this
       THE 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 BOY:

The starts making the noises a fox makes in the song

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

       THE BOY: I do not wanna fuck 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 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 GIRL: My friend should be soon

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

      Hi

The Boy doesn't say

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

She sits

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

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

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

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

The Boy

       THE BOY: did

Awkward.

       ANOTHER GIRL: I'm so

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

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

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

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

      What did he do?
      BOY: I don't know
       NAOMI: How'd he all this?
       THE I don't know
       NAOMI: Then how can you all this? He leave 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 gonna drugs

LMAOs

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

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

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

She the vape

       NAOMI (CONT'D): I this. (holds up her phone) Is that not my poem verbatim? I posted them together. This nigga just rapped this like it was his
       THE BOY (looking at her phone): Your first mistake is a poet past the year 1974, by the way
      That's how good my shit is. I'm bringing the whole form back
       THE BOY: cocky when you're high
      No. I'm talkative when 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 goes cross-eyed. No response. She stops, then

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

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

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