Cascade Falls (exerpt)
Written By:
Seth Oberle
EXT. ESTABLISHING SHOTS OF NORMAL LIFE STYLE, PEOPLE DRINKING COFFIE, CONVERSEING WITH ONE ANOTHER ECT…
Narrator:
Your hands begin to tingle, the sensation moves up and down from your fingertips to your palms.
Your legs feel as if they have turned to swollen noodles as you begin to stand up.
You let a roar like a screaming banshee in pure unbridled joy.
This is the feeling a person gets when they win the lottery. You would like to think that by chance you are the lucky winner, but your wrong. This isn’t something that just, happens.
How a person drives their car, they way one takes their coffee, or even waiting to catch the 5:00 bus.
Welcome to Gold Hill Valley* where I control the when, where and the why.
This is he place where the mundane is truly extra ordinary.
You can’t stop after the first domino falls….
EXT: BUS STOP*
MED SHOT OF BUS IN FULL FRAME PULLS OUT, TWO PEOPLE STANDING SIDE BY SIDE WITH ONE ANOTHER ONE MAN ONE WOMAN.
Narrator:
Meet John Gold** and Mary Hill** they have never meet before in their entire life’s.
INT: SHOTS OF MARY DANCING IN A STUDIO, VERY DRAMATIC LIGHTING.
Narrator:
Mary is a dancer at the Academy of the Arts and is in high regard for her Ballet, but at times is very klutzy.
INT: SHOT OF MARY TIRPPING FOR FALLING OVER ON SOMETHING.
Narrator:
In her free time she enjoys watching films with Clive Owen, she has a tiny Yorkshire terrier named Scruffy* and she has a deathly allergic reaction to foods with peanuts in it. She has plans to meet her best friend Cindy at HALIFAX AVE.*
EXT: SHOTS OF MARY PREFROMING TASKES ABOVE.
Narrator:
John is an avid hunter and enjoys collecting guns form different periods.
INT: JOHNS APARTMENT
Narrator:
He enjoys the crunch snow under his feet when he walks down the street. And has an irrational fear of dogs.
EXT: SHOTS OF JOHN PREFORMING TASKS ABOVE
CUT BACK TO SHOT OF THE TWO CHARACTERS STANDING AT THE BUS STATION AWARKDLY NEXT TO ONE ANOTHER.
Narrator:
(Beat)
Mary is going to die.
(John checks out her Butt almost bluntly)
Narrator:
John is going to be the cause of her death.
(John reaches in his pocket to revile a coin and flips it, the coin lands tails.)
Narrator:
I ask you this question
(BEAT)