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By
Alexander (JOLEAF) Jolliffe
PIGEON FLIGHT (OPENING)
SPECIAL EFFECTS SHOT?
A pigeon flies into shot and meanders it’s way into a large
city revealing buildings as it goes.
(opening credits appear in
clouds)
It flies past a local independent coffee shop and eventually
ends up facing the Barista corporate coffee shop.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2.
CAROL
Next call grande mocha
TIM
Next call grande mocha
CAROL
Next call gigante cappuccino
TIM
Gigante cappuccino...
PACE SLOWS DOWN AS TIM LOVINGLY MAKES A CAPPUCINO.
CAROL
Next call, piccolo latte and
another piccolo latte.
Tim starts lovingly making a latte
TIM
Why not just say two small lattes?
(line said while he is
beautifully finishing off the
latte art)
The second latte is ready to pour.
CAROL
Because we don’t do small and god
can you hurry up! Ughhh.
She snatches the shot for the drink and sloppily pours the
steamed milk with a dollop of foam landing on top.
Tim hands out the two same drinks of different quality to
two separate stick man customers that are standing together.
The one with the shit latte lingers with a sobbing face. He
looks at his latte again then walks away.
Tim is making a drink
FOCUS ON TIM
ALICE
Hi, can I get a small latte and
maybe (picks up biscuits and
wiggles them) these ginger
biscuits?
TIMS POV
Tim glances over at Alice on first glance he sees a stick
man like the rest of the customers.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3.
CAROL
Yes, would you like any cakes or
pastries with that?
Tim double takes
RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Alice places her latte on the table and sits down. She puts
her hand into her bag and pulls out "Ghost World" by Daniel
Cowls, opens it up, and starts reading.
LONG SHOT OF ALICE FROM TIMS POV THAT TURNS IN TO A WIDE
SCREEN SHOT AS IT’S HELD.
TIM
(internal monologue)
I’m in awe. She is... she’s just...
Tim smiles, closes his eyes, and takes a deep breath in. Tim
enters a day dream.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 4.
goes to kiss her, and just before they kiss cut to out of
space!
Unchained melody is stopped by the sound of a laser gun.
Alice and Tim are back to back in awesome 1950’s sci-fi
style space suits fighting big headed green aliens. (With
music similar to the sound track of "Flash Gordon"). They
defeat all the aliens and embrace. They go to kiss but their
helmets prevent them.
Tim snaps out of the dream.
TIM
(internal monologue)
Fuck, play it cool.
CUT BACK TO ALICE
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5.
THE BUS
TIM
Single please...
Tim turns his head towards the rear of the bus.
TIM
Ohh fuck!
The bus is filled with all of his past lovers.
He begins walking to the rear of the bus; as he walks past
his exs’ labels pop up stating why they broke up.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 6.
VOICE OVER
As Tim stared down the bus to see
every girl he’d ever kissed he
thought to himself, do I really
want all this again? The heart
ache, the pain, the stress? Well
frankly its just something he can’t
avoid, for somewhere in our DNA it
is written it’s just something we
can’t avoid...
THE DATE
Tim enters the pub. Tim scans the room to see Alice sat on a
high seat reading "Chicken and Plumbs" by Majane Statrapi.
Tim walks over.
TIM
Hi? Alice?
ALICE
Hey. Aw you look nice out your
uniform.
Tim smiles.
TIM
Cheers, can I get you a...
Alice interrupts
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 7.
ALICE
Yes please, Archers and coke.
TIM
Is that even a drink?
ALICE
Ha, yes!
Tim fetches drinks.
They chat
They drink
The table begins to fill with drinks.
TehY cHAt
They move to a club
Many drinks later....
TIM
Er Kingsheath?
Alice drags him off.
WES ANDERSON STYLE SHOT
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8.
the door nearest to the taxi. Tim goes to his house next
door she runs back round. They go through the front door and
Alice starts to undress...
TIM’S HOUSE MATE
Hi?
Alice does her buttons back up. They run upstairs and jump
on to the bed fully clothed, kissing. She pulls off Tim’s
top. Alice catches something out the corner of her eye.
ALICE
Oh my god. Is that Spock!
TIM
Yeh. (Goes red)
ALICE
You are too cool!
Alice kisses Tim and jumps out of bed.
CAMERA IS PLACED BEHIND ALICE FACING TIM.
Tim enters the room with two cups of tea and toast. He gives
her a cup.
ALICE
So you don’t just make coffee?
TIM
I’m a man of many talents.
Alice looks at a clock.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 9.
ALICE
Shit!
Tim looks at a clock.
TIM
What?
ALICE
WORK!
TIM
Oh fuck! I don’t wanna go work.
Alice jumps out of bed and starts throwing clothes on.
ALICE
But your job’s so fun!
TIM
Umm not really. Tricking customers
into thinking that spending an
extra quid on a coffee is somehow
helping the environment, or the
ambiance of a generic, off-the-peg,
coffee shop is some how enriching
their lives.
ALICE
Hey, I’m one of those customers...
TIM
When really all you’re doing is
lining the pockets of some fat cat
Americans. Coffee should support
the local economy rather than
America’s fat cat monopoly of an
economy!
ALICE
Well then stop being part of the
problem, be part of the solution!
TIM
I’m guna stop wasting my time
earning money for the super rich!
Stop charging obscene amounts for
what is frankly wank coffee! I’m
guna quit my...
Cut to the sound of milk being steamed.
Then across the road to a pigeon. The pigeon takes off and
flies out of the city.
The credits roll.