분야
hwp Blue Moon against a black sky.
Blue house silhouette against a black sky.
The house recede into the background, getting smaller and smaller.
EXT: LARGE HOME: NIGHT
Upper middle-class home with Christmas decorations. Very noisy. Sounds of
many people talking at once. "Wheres my suitcase?"
INT: LARGE HOME: NIGHT
A policeman, with his back to the camera, stands in the hallway. He tries
to get someone two pay attention to him, but everyone ignores him. Two
small girls walk down the staircase. A third girl walks up, a fourth girl
walks down. They all walk past the policeman as if he didnt exist. He
stands alone, with his hands on his hips, expressing exasperation.
[ Rejection of authority generates humor. This allows the audience to
vicariously experience superiority over policemen, and releases repressed
feelings of resentment that expresses itself in laughter. The policeman is
a "traffic cop" that is being ignored; a deviation from normal patterns of
behavior. The policeman becomes frustrated. The audience finds the
exasperation of an authority figure to be amusing. ]
INT: PARENTS BEDROOM: NIGHT
Kevins mother is on the phone, talking to a friend. She packs clothes on
the bed, while her husband is in the bathroom. A small boy, KEVIN, walks
into the room.
"Mom, Uncle Frank wont let me watch the movie. But the big kids can. Why
cant I?"
"Kevin, Im on the phone," responds his mother.
"Its not even rated R. Hes just being a jerk."
"Kevin, if Uncle frank says no, then it must be really bad."
[ Common empathy structure of a young child being ignored by his parents or
guardians. Elliott in E.T. and Dorothy in WIZARD OF OZ. ]
Kevin jumps on the bed. His mother tells him to get off, but he ignores
her. Kevin picks up a book that is a travel guide to France. "Hang up the
phone and make me, why dont you.
[Resentment at being ignored]
Kevins father, wearing a blue shirt, walks into the room. he talks to his
wife.
Hey, by any chance, did you pick up a voltage adapter thing?"
"No, I didnt have a chance."
"How am I supposed to shave in France?"
"Grow a goatee."
"Dad, nobody will let me do anything?" says Kevin.
"You want to do something, you can pick up those micro-machines in the
hall. Aunt Leslie stepped on one and almost broke her neck."
"He was in the garage again playing with the glue gun," says the mother.
Kevin makes a grim face and signals to his mother to stop talking by
cutting his throat with hand.
"Didnt we talk about that?" says his father.
Kevin replies, with an attitude. "Did I burn down the joint? I dont think
so. I was making ornaments out of fish-hooks."
"My new fish-hooks?" replies the father.
"I cant make ornaments out of the old ones, with dry worm guts stuck on
them."
[Humor generated from the clash of two opposing points of view, each
understandable or expressing a truth from their perspective. Kevins
behavior is appropriate from his perspective, but inappropriate from the
fathers perspective. ]
Kevins dad picks him up and starts to carry him out of the room.
Aunt Leslie enters and says "Peter, Kay, do you guys have a voltage
adapter?"
[ Effective way of naming father and mother, with a repetition of the
voltage adapter request. Incompetence factor. No one has thought of getting
the tool that they will need to use their appliances in France.
Incompetence generates laughter. ]
"Heres a voltage adapter," says Peter as he places Kevin in Aunt Leslies
arms.
"Oh, youre getting heavy. Go pack your suitcase."
"Pack my suitcase?"
[ Terror strikes Kevin. He is incompetent, helpless, vulnerable. He cant
take care of himself. This generates empathy for him, especially when his
sisters and brothers refuse to help him, and instead ridicule him. ]
INT: DINING ROOM: NIGHT
A girl walks by a young boy sitting at the dining room table.
"Do you know where the shampoo is, Fuller?"
"I dont live here," replies Fuller.
"I dont believe that in a house with this many people there is no
shampoo."
The policeman stops her.
"Pardon me, are youre parents home?"
"Yeah, but they dont live here," she says, as she walks away.
[ Humor generated by a literal response to a question which states a truth,
but doesnt give the answer that the questioner desired. This is a
deviation from expected patterns of communication. The norm is that if a
person asks a question, you should attempt to satisfy his information
request, not make a true statement that is irrelevant to his needs. An
instance of miscommunication. ]
A girl, wearing a Northwestern tee shirt, comes down the staircase. She
speaks with another girl. "Tracy, did you order pizza?"
"Roz did."
"Excuse me, Miss. Are your parents here?" asks the cop.
"My parents are in Paris. Sorry."
The policeman grabs a little girl by the shoulder. "Hi, are your parents
home?"
"Yeah."
"Do they live here?"
"No."
"No. Why should they. All kids, no parents. Probably a fancy orphanage."
[ Humorous, because this is a unexpected, yet plausible, interpretation of
the situation. ]
INT: BEDROOM:
