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THE IMAGINARIUMOF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
byTERRY MCKEOWN AND CHARLES GILLIAM(Based on A PAINFULLY ORIGINAL IDEA)26/05/07
LONDON 2007.. NOW
EXT NIGHT URBAN TERRACE11A row of rundown terrace houses. Some are boarded up. Not allthe street lights work. Those that do cast shadows of parkedvehicles glistening in the rain.A front door opens and DON appears with rubbish which he putsin a bin. He hears something and looks up to see four bighorses pulling a hulking great wagon down the middle of thestreet. The wagon is a gigantic windowless box. The horsesare harnessed and there are reins but no sign of a driver.It’s a very weird sight. DON, unable to take his eyes offthis amazing apparition shouts back into the house from wherelight from a TV flickers.DONCarol!... Carol!CAROL (V.O.)What?DONCome here! Quick!CAROL (V.O.)What is it?DONQuick!CAROL (V.O.)(irritated)I’m trying to watch this! It’s thelast episode!DON(annoyed)Come here!!!CAROL appears in the doorway.CAROLWhat is it?But the wagon and horses have gone.DONIt’s gone!(CONTINUED)
CAROL, disgusted, swats him on the head with the flat of herhand and goes back inside.EXT/INT NIGHT PARKED CAR IN STREET22A YOUNG COUPLE are snogging in the back of a parked car.Music is playing on the radio.They are interrupted by heavy vibrations and the terrifyingsight of the huge looming horse-drawn box as it trundlespast.EXT NIGHT THE TOWN HALL CLOCK33The clock shows and strikes 2am.EXT NIGHT A DINGY BACK STREET44The wagon has stopped. The back begins to open, top, bottom and sides, like a dark menacing flower unfolding its petals.Shadowy FIGURES manoeuvre the side panels and begin to raisethe roof.While this is happening THE CAMERA tracks around to reveal agarishly lit club across the street.A group of DRUNKEN YOUTHS emerge from the club, staggering,laughing, shouting, drinking, breaking bottles, and throwingup. The LADS grope the GIRLS. Everyone’s having “a greattime”.They see the wagon and stop, unsteadily, in their tracks.MARTINWhat the...!We now see what they see. The wagon has been converted into astage. We’re looking at an old fashioned and very shabbytravelling theatre. Electric footlights are powered by aclanking generator. The pediment above the stage carries the words: THE ASTONISHING IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS.PERCY, a dwarf, dressed as a medieval demon and rigged out asa one-man band plays a fanfare introducing a young man(ANTON, 18-19 years old) who emerges from the back of thestage dressed as MERCURY, the messenger of the gods, with wings on his helmet and sandals.2.CONTINUED:11(CONTINUED)
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