Hello all. This is a silly thing I wrote for a competition on another website (DIDNT WIN), just had another look over it and quite liked it, though it might make a funny litle animation or something. Anyway, . . .
EXT. STREETS-DAY
MONTAGE
We cut between shots of everyday life, everything seems normal, except for the odd robot walking around.
DEEP VOICE
OVER) It’s the near future, perhaps as little as seven years from now, perhaps more, its hard to say; but one thing is for certain-a woman is screaming.
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INT. HOSPITAL DELIVERY ROOM-DAY.
C.U. on the screaming, sweaty face of a woman; we cut back to reveal that the woman is giving birth.
DEEP VOICEOVER) Tish Gurnst is squeezing out a baby, but this will be no ordinary baby . . .
The doctor has the freshly born baby in his arms, he looks at TISH in shock, TISH looks concerned. We see the baby for the first time, it seems normal, except for the extra hand it has growing out of its forehead.
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INT. HOSPITAL ROOM-NIGHT.
TISH is looking down at her new born son in its cot, a doctor enters.
DOCTOR:Mrs Tish Gurnst?
TISH:Miss Gurnst.
DOCTOR:I wont judge, though that does make the child a bastard.
TISH:That bastard has a name, and its Ralph, Ralph Gurnst.
DOCTOR: Ive done extensive tests on your freak baby and have come to the conclusion that Ralph is the first of a newly evolved strain of human, Human Plus, or Human Point 2; we haven’t really decided on an official name yet.
TISH:What does all-(STOPS)-Person Mark 2?
DOCTORWRITING IN PAD) Ill add it to the list.
TISH:What does all this mean doctor?
DOCTOR: That Ralph Gurnst is a threat to society as we know it and must be disposed of- (DOCTOR PULLS OUT GUN AND POINTS IT AT BABY)-and Ive got a gun.
Suddenly RALPH sits forward, his forehead hand snatching the gun from the doctor and turning it on him.
DOCTOR:No!
RALPH shoots him six times, as the doctor slides down the wall he slaps the alarm button. TISH panics, grabs RALH in her arms and jumps head first through the window.
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MONTAGE
Various shots of TISH and RALPH, at different stages of his childhood, lurking in shadows, in the sewers, on a TV game show.
DEEP VOICEOVER) And so Tish and Ralph Gurnst skulked in the shadows, terrified of discovery and gun death. And all went smoothly for 32 years, until Tish expired shortly after consuming effluent at a hens party.
We see TISH dead on the floor of a club, surrounded by hens and a male stripper in a thong.
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RALPH GURNST on his own in the street, adjusting the stupidly large head wear hes using to try and hide his head hand.
DEEP VOICEOVER) Now the next stage of human evolution was on his own-or was he? In some ways yes, in yet other ways-no.
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MONTAGE
See others walking around with forehead hands, being mocked and abused, pointed to ‘EVOLVEDS ONLY’ water fountains, etc.
DEEP VOICEOVER) For although Ralph Gurnst was the first, he was by no means the last. Others like him were now being born at an increasing rate; hated, feared, mocked; forced to take jobs as waiters.(SEE ONE WITH HANDS FULL OF PLATES IN CAFÉ, INCLUDING ONE CLUTCHED WITH FORHEAD HAND) Now they looked towards the original of their species to lead them towards freedom.
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EXT. ALLEY-NIGHT.
Several of the evolved are advancing slowly down the alley towards a desperate looking RALPH, who backs away.
RALPH: Please! Leave me be! Im just a 32 year old man with a hand in the middle of his freaking forehead! Im not Jesus! Im not Buddha!
DEEP VOICEOVER) So what does the future hold for Ralph Gurnst? Danger?
See RALPH racing away from a baker with a machine gun, who is firing and laughing maniacly.
DEEP VOICEOVER) Ladies?
See RALPH using his forehead hand to awkwardly unzip a woman from her dress.
DEEP VOICEOVER) Killer dance moves?
See RALPH and a robot dancing frantically.
DEEP VOICEOVER) One thing is for certain . . . (ECHO) ‘RALPH GURNST HAS EVOLVED!’
THE END
I can see a whole sixties ,The Invaders' style paranoid adventure series growing form this!! Or perhaps not.
