Luyện nghe bài hát Because The Internet Screenplay - Part 4

[VISUAL "DEATH BY NUMBERS"]

*******[PLAY SONG "FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR" AT 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 linger on earth after every mid 90s joke about teenage sex or someone saying "don't go there". Looking for 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 comes in

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

Nurse a "yep" look

       WHITE GUY NURSE: You're brought you in-
       THE BOY: not my friends
       WHITE GUY I don't think they'd like you saying 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: Then why save
       THE BOY: their lives are far easier with me around. It's survival
       WHITE GUY I think you should talk to someone
       THE We're talking
       WHITE GUY NURSE: A
       THE BOY: Why? You 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
      BOY: I was trying to be
       WHITE GUY NURSE: No you weren't. Cause, guess what? It's not to do

leaves

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

all just stare. Swank gets up slowly and walks over

       SWANK: Man...we know if we should wait or tell you later, man

The Boy a ["WHAT?" EMOJI] face

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

       THE BOY:

(hum of a jet engine...)

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

INT. JET - EVENING
The Boy lays his head 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 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 followers for 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 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 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 solemn man. An urn sits on the side of the desk
The man it over to The Boy

       SOLEMN MAN: I'm sorry for loss

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

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

He The Boy a large brown paper bag

INT. HOTEL ROOM -
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
       Hello_Pity_: bar called box. u here?
      yeah
      u should meet my boyfriend. he loves you

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

He puts his down

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 walk by:

       SUPER HANDSOME Swedish blah blah blah roscoe's wetsuit hahahaha!
       SUPER PRETTY GIRL: blah blah, swedish 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 seem to get the cigarette lit. It's Alyssa

       THE Hey
      Ah! It's you

She gives him a kiss on both

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

She out her cigarette. After two big puffs

       ALYSSA: go
       THE BOY: Didn't you want me to meet 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 out with a girl in the cold

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

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

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

She

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): I don't in small talk. What's the longest relationship you've been in?
       THE BOY: Five
       ALYSSA: Wow. happened?
       THE 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 to watch her online a while back. Then 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 friend or
       THE BOY: Yes. But most people are paying for one way or another
      No
       THE BOY: Your boyfriend is making out with another right now. You don't really have room to judge
      I trust that I can never trust him. We're clear on that
       THE BOY: Then why have him at
       ALYSSA: Because he's honest. And I like that. He doesn't lie to of us. That's special to me

INT. HOTEL - NIGHT

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

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

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

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 SONG "URN" AT THIS

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

       THE BOY: What's on
       ALYSSA: get rid of it. It's just bad for you
       THE BOY: You have a TON of nerve 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 pissed though
       ALYSSA: We're gonna do together

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

      (CONT'D): I had a sister. I did this when 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 girl that looks 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. They stop at the water. They stand there making small clouds for a

       ALYSSA (CONT'D): You want to say

The Boy

      (CONT'D): Alright-
      BOY: 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. he kinda hugs it. Laying his head on it, but turning his head so she can't see what he says:

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

He pours out the ashes. gone

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

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

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

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

       BOYFRIEND/THE BOY/ALYSSA: You're dead ass-hole!/ Relax, happened/ Would you stop!

The breaks free from her

      Do you know who the fuck I am?

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

The boyfriend starts the noises a fox makes in the song

      That!
       ALYSSA (resigned, to The Boy): Like the and video
      BOY: I've never heard of it
       ALYSSA AND What/wha?
       ALYSSA: I you "were the internet"?
       THE BOY: That's a tagline. No one is the actual internet. I just must've it when it was popular
       BOYFRIEND: Uh, by "when it was popular" do you mean, uhhh, THE FUCK NOW?!
       THE Relax
       BOYFRIEND: Two hundred and twenty million views on Youtube. Two hundred and million. That's most of the earth
       THE Not true
       BOYFRIEND: An village wrote to me-
       THE BOY: The whole did?
       BOYFRIEND: -and 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 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. and her boyfriend start a boring argument in the cold as he disappears

CUT TO:
INT. LA RESTAURANT - NIGHT
Fam, another girl, and The Boy sit in a at the restaurant. Fam and the girl are talking. The Boy is silent. Don't know if he's just bored 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 girl on
A girl walks up to the table. The Boy looks up. the girl from the party

      Hi

The Boy say anything

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

She down

       NAOMI: You're the guy almost hit my arm
       THE Yes
      You guys 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
      (saying it dumb): Duhh, "I hate vegan"

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

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

The Boy

      BOY: They did

Awkward.

      GIRL: I'm so sorry

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 BOY: My are dead yo

They slowly 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 about something they will never and don't really care about
and The Boy sit in the living room

       NAOMI: did he do?
      BOY: I don't know
       NAOMI: he afford all this?
      BOY: I don't know
       NAOMI: how can you afford all this? He leave you a lot?
       THE BOY: Creditors were after him. I know if he had anything 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 don't think you need me to tell you 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 know how people work. You're only with people online

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

       NAOMI (CONT'D): I you up
       THE BOY: After the or just now
       NAOMI: now. I'm a writer too
       THE 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 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 good my shit is. I'm the whole form back
       THE BOY: cocky when you're high
       NAOMI: No. I'm talkative when I'm high. I'm cocky all the time, but I'm 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, sighs

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

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

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