Luyện nghe bài hát Because The Internet Screenplay - Part 4

[VISUAL "DEATH BY NUMBERS"]

*******[PLAY "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 said something 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 feel

A nurse in

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

Nurse gives a "yep"

       WHITE GUY NURSE: You're friends you in-
       THE BOY: They're not my
       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 to our relationship, but I can't trust them for shit
       WHITE GUY NURSE: Then why 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
       WHITE GUY NURSE: A
      BOY: Why? You don't care. You're not gonna make sure I do. (then) Our lives aren't precious, man

Silence. The begins to clean up

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

Nurse

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

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

They all just stare. Swank gets up and walks over

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

The Boy makes a ["WHAT?" face

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

       THE Okay

(hum of a jet engine...)

SONG "ZEALOTS OF STOCKHOLM" AT THIS POINT]*******

INT. JET PLANE -
The Boy lays his head against the plane window, the oil 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 only family 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 search 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 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 as a friend on Facebook. Now The Boy could see her pictures
The rest of her pictures confirmed she was indeed
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 "my favorite flavor popsicle is DICK!", which is close to sincere love, but nowhere near it at the same time

INT. STRANGE - NIGHT
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 for your loss

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

      MAN (CONT'D): These 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 name is Alyssa

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

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

He puts his down

EXT. STOCKHOLM - NIGHT
There's a 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 time
A walk by:

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

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

       THE Hey
       ALYSSA: Ah! you

She gives him a kiss on cheeks

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

She puts out her cigarette. After two big

      Let's go
       THE BOY: Didn't you me to meet 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: am I getting into?
       ALYSSA: Nothing. You're into nothing

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

      What made you DM me?
       THE BOY: I don't know anyone
       ALYSSA: why are you here?
       THE BOY: My dad died. I have to him up
      R O U G H. How?
      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 small talk. What's the relationship you've been in?
       THE BOY: Five
      Wow. What happened?
       THE I'm still in it
      Oh?
       THE BOY: She does private web shows. We're not together. But it's a relationship, for
      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 into talking.
      Wooooaah
      BOY: Wha?
      You're paying her to be your girlfriend or friend or whatever
       THE BOY: Yes. But most are paying for friends one way or another
      No
       THE BOY: boyfriend is making out with another girl right now. You don't really have room to judge
       ALYSSA: I trust that I can never trust him. clear on that
       THE Then why have him at all?
       ALYSSA: Because he's honest. And I like that. He doesn't lie to either of us. special to me

INT. HOTEL - NIGHT

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

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

EXT. HOTEL -
The Boy runs 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 and meets her on the other side

       THE BOY: What's 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 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 pissed though
       ALYSSA: We're gonna do this

The Boy is pissed. trying not to blow up

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): I had a sister. I did this she died
       THE BOY: Yes. gives 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 stand making small clouds for a moment

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): You want to say

The Boy

       ALYSSA (CONT'D):
       THE BOY:

The urn almost tips 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 what he says:

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

He pours out the ashes. He's

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

Alyssa and The Boy turn around. Alyssa's boyfriend

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

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

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

The boyfriend breaks from her

      Do you know who the fuck I am?

       ALYSSA: don't. Please don't do this
       THE Nah, man. I don't know who you are
      (CONT'D, scream): WHAT 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 What?

The boyfriend starts the noises a fox makes in the song

      That!
       ALYSSA (resigned, to The Boy): Like the song and
       THE BOY: never heard of it
       ALYSSA AND What/wha?
       ALYSSA: I 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, THE FUCK NOW?!
       THE Relax
      Two hundred and twenty million views on Youtube. Two hundred and twenty million. That's most of the earth
      BOY: Not true
       BOYFRIEND: An village wrote to me-
       THE BOY: The whole did?
       BOYFRIEND: -and told me that my song 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?

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

The Boy walks away. Alyssa and her boyfriend start a 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 bored or jet from Sweden. Either way he's bumming everyone out

      GIRL: My friend should be here soon

The Boy say anything. Fam and the girl look on
A girl walks up to the table. The Boy looks up. It's the from the party

      Hi

The Boy doesn't say

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

She sits

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

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

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

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

The Boy

       THE They did

Awkward.

       ANOTHER GIRL: I'm so

Fam and The Boy stare at each other for a moment. Then laugh. Another 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 smoking and talking about something they will remember and don't really care about
and The Boy sit in the living room

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

LMAOs

      Whaaaaaat
       THE BOY: Fam can hook me up. I've been watching him for a minute. He out of here already
       NAOMI: I think you need me to tell you you're an awful dealer
       THE How would you even know?
       NAOMI: You make everything feel awkward. You connect with anyone. How is anyone supposed to feel like they can trust you?
       THE BOY: Yeah, what drug dealers are known for. Their comfort
       NAOMI: They are, dumb-ass. You gotta 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 After the party or just now
      Just now. I'm a writer too
       THE Oh really
       NAOMI: Yup. And I know I'm good cause people stealing my shit

She hits the

       NAOMI (CONT'D): I tweeted this. (holds up her phone) Is that not my poem verbatim? I posted them together. This nigga 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: how good my shit is. I'm bringing the whole form back
       THE You're 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 cross-eyed. No response. She stops, then sighs

       NAOMI (CONT'D): You ever 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 just do this all again. all a cycle
      BOY: I like that theory
       NAOMI: Yeah. (then) You're not such a lonely boy

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