Today, I decided to go in a completely different direction, and write a monologue for Austin's blow up at the funeral/wake. It starts off with him doing the speech he promised the Gold's he would do, but then Jimmy walks in, holding hands with a girl.
AUSTIN: Um. Thank you all for coming today? I've never really done one of these before, so ignore the awkwardness of this speech I guess. Uh, I'm sure it would have meant a lot to Dani knowing that each of you came. This whole thing kind of makes me think of Dani and I's favorite musical. There was this one scene, it was the funeral scene, and the lead guy Sam was watching his funeral. After the show, Dani said that when she... when she dies.. she only wants one thing, which was to see who came to her funeral. To see who didn't. (Pause) To see who cried. She..
(As Austin is speaking, Jimmy walks in quietly, holding a girl's hand that Austin has never seen before)
AUSTIN: She also would have loved to see the idiots that actually had the balls to show up here tonight. I hope she's here somehow and see's the asshole who just walked in with yet, another girl.
MR. GOLD: Austin, just relax.
AUSTIN: I'm sorry, but with all do respect Mr. and Mrs. Gold, you told me to speak on Dani's behalf, and you know for a fact that she would be saying this right now. That guy broke your daughters heart, okay? And you are just going to let him walk in with another girl? That's a complete disrespect to her memory! He needs to leave! All of you! All of you that have ever hurt her need to leave right now!
MRS. GOLD: Austin, please just relax.
Austin looks around at everyone. Most of them are looking at him like he's crazy, others look as if they feel bad for him. Austin runs out of the funeral home.
Reflection: I think I deserve a 100 for this post. I think I actually made progress with what I got done today. I will go back and edit in the near future, but for right now, I like it. It needs to have more length, and a lot more depth. This is going to be the climax of the film, and it needs to be a lot bigger, i'm just not sure how to dot that right now.
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