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PECULIAR IMPERFECTION
Written By
Victor George Alexandru
Based on characters from the story "THE KIDNAPPING"
written by Victor George Alexandru
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OVER BLACK: BACKGROUND STREET NOISE
BLACK FRAME
QUATE APPEARS:
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks,
he becomes." - Gandhi-
EXT. MIDDLE OF THE STREET - DAY
FAR SHOT WITH BOTH OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE RIGHT OF THE
FRAME
Two men looking at each other in the middle of the street.
It's summer. One is in the opposite side of the other.
Only a background sound can be heard. Both of them are
tall. One of them is named LANE MOODY and the other is
always called by the name of CHIEF. They look almost the
same. Lane, the one a little bit taller, approaches Chief.
When the distance between the two people gets shorter, an
effect caused by Lane, Lane ceases to start the
conversation he wanted to begin. After that he gets back
to the spot where he was sited.
FADE TO:
TITLE CARD: ACT ONE
FADE TO:
EXT. MIDDLE OF THE STREET - LATER
BOTH OF THE CHARACTERS FIT PERFACTLY IN THE FRAME
Still Lane and Chief who are looking at each others are
being watched by the viewers.
CHIEF
Let's look for him.
LANE MOODY
You lost him.
CHIEF
Maybe he lost himself.
LANE MOODY
Look, Mr Winky never ceases to
have the orientation where he is
or where he's been. I'm aware of
that, you're aware of that and
so is everybody else, all in
all, that's not subject to doubt
about nor it is a one to talkof.
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CHIEF
You know what happened?
LANE MOODY
Yeah... I know what happened.
CHIEFGood, 'cause we're gonna go look
for him, right?
LANE MOODY
Wrong.
CHIEF
I'm sorry.
LANE MOODYDY
I said wrong.
CHIEF
Why is it so?
LANE MOODY
'Cause we ain't gonna go after
him.
CHIEF
No?
LANE MOODY
No.(Nodding his head.)
Lane and the Cheif look at each other.
CHIEF
Let's go.
LANE MOODY
Where? You still wanna finish
the job?
CHIEF
Yeah.Lane and Chief look at each others for a few more quite
seconds. After that, they turn their backs at the camera
and start walking the road. So on, the title credits begin
to roll. The text goes from the right side of the screen
to the left.
FADE TO BLACK.
TITLE CARD: ACT FOUR
FADE TO:
EXT. ON AN EMPTY LANDSCAPE - AFTERNOON
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THE CAMERA CHANGES ITS PERSPECTIVE DEPENDING ON THE PERSON
WHOS TALKING AFTER GETTING A WIDE ANGLE WITH BOTH OF THE
CHARACTERS IN THE FRAME
Chief holds a gun in his hand while pointing to Lane. In
his other hand he has a suitcase.
So, this it, you gonna shot me.
CHIEF
You know I need it.
LANE MOODY
So all this was planed. Little
by little, and in the very end,
this. This referring to shooting
me.
CHEF
Yeah.
LANE MOODY
You know something; if I were
you, yeah, I think I'll take the
prize, leave me in this kind of
situation, but one thin's sure,
if I were you, I wouldn't pull
the trigger on that gun.
CHIEFWhy? Is it 'cause... you'll be
too violent? Well let me tell
you a thing here: I'd like to
bealive that in my following
actions there won't be any trace
of sadism. But this is only what
I would like, the truth is that,
right now, at this very
moment,... this is me at my most
masochistic...
FADE TO BLACK.
Gunshot.
TITLE CARD: ACT TWO
FADE TO:
EXT. ON THE STREET - DAY
THE CAMERA SHOOTS THE SCENE FROM THE FRONT OF THECHARACTERS, WHEN ONE TALKS, THE CAMERA QUICKLY PANS TO HIM
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Lane and Chief walk on the street at a rapid pace. They
want to arrive somewhere.
LANE MOODY
So you got any idea of who this
guy is?
CHIEF
Nah man, I heard that he's
pretty good in doing jobs like
the one we're dealing with.
LANE MOODY
Hope so, 'cause I ain't gonna
bust myself again like the last
time we dealt with this kind of
people.
CHIEF
Think we're ever gonna see Winky
again?
LANE MOODY
I'm not looking forward for it
to happen.
CHIEF
Whatcha wanna do after?
LANE MOODYAfter what?
CHIEF
After we finish with this
guys...
LANE MOODY
Don't know. Maybe go home. What
else? You?
CHIEF
Didn't really thought aboutthat. I guess I'll see where
things'll take me to.
LANE MOODY
Yeah, I guess so.
FADE TO:
TITLE CARD: "AFTER A FEW MINUTES"
FADE TO:
EXT. NEAR A HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER
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The two people arrive in front of the house.
LANE MOODY
You ready?
CHIEF
Oh,oh,oh what are you doing?
LANE MOODY
What do you mean what am I
doing, you're aware of what I'm
doing.
CHIEF
Well, remember what Mr Winky
said?
LANE MOODY
Yeah, of course I remember; wego in, we question this guy, if
he's cool, we won't waste any
more money on bullets and if
he's not, we'll pop a cap in his
head, take the package and
leave. That's what he said.
CHIEF
No man, that ain't exactly what
the before to be kidnaped man
said; he told us to be here at11:09.
And you know what time it is?
LANE MOODY
It ain't 11:09.
CHIEF
Well, you're right, it ain't
11:09; it's 10:58.
LANE MOODY
So, whatcha you wanna do?
CHIEF
I don't know. Wait.
LANE MOODY
I ain't waiting.
Lane leaves into the direction of a small restaurant.
CHIEF
Where you going?
LANE MOODY
I'm getting a drink. Ya' wanna
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come?
LANE MOODY (CONT'D)
CHIEF
O.K I'm coming.
CUT TO:
EXT. OUTSIDE PLACE FOR A RESTAURANT - MOMENTS LATER
Chief and Lane sit down with their drinks in their hands.
Chief has a Cola and Lane has Sprite.
LANE MOODY
You know, that thing ain't good
for you.
CHIEF
And why's that?
LANE MOODYWell that's thing's got
caffeine.
CHIEF
So what?
LANE MOODY
Caffeine's a drug. Drugs don't
do good. Caffeine's that type of
drug that they call a
psychoactive stimulant. Ya'
wanna know what a psychoactive
stimulant is?
CHIEF
Yeah, tell it.
LANE MOODY
Psychoactive stimulants are a
kind of drugs which induce
temporary improvements in either
mental or physical function, or
both. That means that in a fewminutes you'll feel good, but
after that you'll feel worse
that right now. So I advise you
to take a sprite instead.
CHIEF
Coffee's got caffeine as well.
LANE MOODY
I never said I drink coffee or
ever will. Coffee's bad for your
heart. You wanna know why?
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CHIEF
Why?
LANE MOODY
'Cause it got caffeine; that's
why. What have we been talking
about?
CHIEF
My beverage is delicious.
LANE MOODY
That's my point. They put drugs
in it.
CHIEF
If drugs didn't exist you'll be
out of this business.
LANE MOODY
No, if drugs didn't exist
something else would and that
would be my money maker.
CHIEF
Say what you want, but I'm
drinking this.
Chief takes a sip from his drink.
Come on it's getting late. Wegotta be there in 3 minutes.
FADE TO:
TITLE CARD: "AFTER 2 MINUTES AND 01,02... SECONDS"
FADE TO:
EXT. NEAR A HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER
CHIEF
Who does the "Hello, How are
you, Fine thank you" thing?
LANE MOODY
I will.
CHIEF
Take it easy on this guy, I
ain't expecting that he's got
something. It's 11:09, let's
go.
LANE MOODY
You know me.
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Lane knocks on the door. An "almost wake up kind of guy"
answares the door.
LANE MOODY (CONT'D)
You Verny Grahms?
VERNY GRAHMSYeah, why?
LANE MOODY
I'm Lane Moody, may we come in?
VERNY GRAHMS
Yeah.
Chief and Lane go in the house.
INT. IN THE HOUSE - SECONDS LATER
THE CAMERA STAYS AT THE GROUND LEVEL
The three men go sit down at a desk. Verny is sitting in
the main chair and the others in the guest chairs.
VERNY GRAHMS
Yeah, what?
LANE MOODY
You don't know what? Well, I'll
tell you what; the thing is that
you got something we want, and
that something that me and myfriend want, belongs to you; but
I ain't having any illusions
that you don't know that already
and I didn't come down here to
tell you something you already
knew; I came here to tell you
something you didn't. And the
thing that you didn't, is that
if you don't give me a good
excuse why you don't have what
we want, it'll be either "To beor not to be". Got that?
Verny looks as he has heard that before but can't figure
it out.
What, don't know where you heard
that before? Well I'll tell
where you heard it, but first
let me tell you who wrote it and
who said it; it was Shakespeare,
presuming all that you have
heard of him, and he wrote it in
his play, which he used the nameof "Hamlet" to call it with. And
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ZOOM OUT AT EYES LEVEL
While playing the song "IMMIGRANT SONG" by "LED ZEPPELLIN"
Chief and Lane walk side be side in a very dramatic way.
This shot continues to stay on the screen 'till they get
out of the building and while they're walking on the
sidewalk, where Lane puts on his black, common american
sun-glasses.
CUT TO:
EXT ON THE SIDEWALK - CONTINUOUS
THE CAMERA MOVES FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET AT A
PACE A LITTLE SLOWER THAN THEIRS
The two humans walk ready for anything. The scene is very
epic even through we still don't know what is up.
FADE TO BLACK.
TITLE CARD: "ACT THREE"
FADE TO:
EXT. OUTSIDE - MOMENTS LATER
CHIEF
So... what is it written on the
note?
LANE MOODYAn address.
CHIEF
An address; what address?
LANE MOODY
The one we're suppose to be at,
I think.
CHIEF
Can I see it?
LANE MOODY
Yeah here...
Lane passes over the piece of paper to Chief. He looks at
it but remains confused.
CHIEF
I only see numbers.
LANE MOODY
It's a code. See every pair of
numbers are either impair or
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pair and if you add every pair
LANE MOODY (CONT'D)
of numbers which are impair and
divide their sum with the sum of
every pair numbers which are
pair will give this address
which is 9958.
CHIEF
Yeah.
Chief looks at him with lack of understanding about what
Lane said.
LANE MOODY
Let me tell you something here
about the situation: the people
living at this address, right
now, are experiencing their
last breaths on this planetcalled Earth. Got that? Once we
help to the ceasing of
everyone's life, we take what we
came for and leave like two bad
guys who's parents didn't teach
any manners to.
CUT TO:
EXT. FRONT OF A HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER
While they are walking, Lane and Chief look a the housethey've just arrived at. It's address is 9958.
CHIEF
We're here.
LANE MOODY
We do as I told you to, OK?
CHIEF
Yeah.
The two characters approach the house door. They go at the
door where they are trying to listen if people are inside.
LANE MOODY
On three.
Lane is gesturing with his fingers as how he was counting
to three. On the third fingers reveals itself, Lane and
Chief break in the house and shoot the first person they
see, they do the same with the second and the third...
While they are doing this, "BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER
SIDE" by "THE DOORS" is being listened by the viewers.
They get to the last guy...
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CHIEF
Where is it?!
BAD GUY
What?
CHIEFDon't play stupid with me! Where
is it?!
The bad guy points towards the bed. Chief shoots the guy
anyway before going to grab the suitcase. He is followed
by Lane.
We got it.
LANE MOODY
You gonna wait for it to pop out
open, or you gonna speed that
up?Chief opens it. everything is cool in it, like they
expected. We can see that inside they are small packs of
drugs.
CHIEF
We cool, don't think about
worrying.
This almost dead guy who is lying on the floor starts to
say a few words which nobody can understand. Chief and
Lane look at him and go near him.
Why d'you took the suitcase from
Verny ah?
LANE MOODY
Leave him, we got it anyway.
CHIEF
Leave him? The man tried to kill
me and you're saying me to leave
him be?
LANE MOODYYeah. He was defending himself,
but as you can see, he failed.
What would you do if a guy came
in like we did and started
shooting everybody he sees?
CHIEF
Yeah man, you're right.
Chief shoots the man again. This time in the head.
The two man leave the building.
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today...Today...Yeah...At
CHIEF (CONT'D)
6...Well not am... Okay... Yeah
I'm bringing it... OK...See you
at 6... Yeah...Okay.Bye.
Hangs of the phone.
LANE MOODY
We cool.
CHIEF
Yeah man, we cool.
LANE MOODY
What'd the guy said?
CHIEF
The man said it's chill.
LANE MOODY
Good, 'cause I'm hungry now.
CHIEF
Where we goin'?
LANE MOODY
Same place as this morning. It
was pretty neat. Don't like it,
say it 'cause once we there we
stay there and we eat the food
there is.
CHIEF
Right. But after today, I wanna
eat somewhere good. You know
like the places those guys on TV
eat. That's the place I wanna bechewing on my food.
LANE MOODY
Don't worry but ya' gotta stop
thinking about the future; it'll
come soon enough.
CHIEF
Einstein. Right?
LANE MOODY
Yeah. The guy said it and nowI'm saying it to you after 55
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years.
LANE MOODY (CONT'D)
CHIEF
I know. I don't think someone'll
say in 55 years from now one
what a guy from today said.
LANE MOODY
By the way... You're aware of
what Einstein invented, right?
CHIEF
The relativity thing...
LANE MOODY
Yeah. The theory of relativity.
But the thing is do you know how
it works?
CHIEF
Yeah, the special one and the
general one...
LANE MOODY
Right.
CHIEF
...and the thing that everything
has another dimension called
space-time and how this guy,named Isaac, to who an apple
fell on his head a few hundred
years ago, was suddenly hit by a
untrue idea about gravity.
LANE MOODY
Yeah... You got your sources.
CHIEF
You know what E=mc2 means? Since
we're on the subject?
LANE MOODY
Yeah I know. I'm the one who
brought all this up, remember?
CHIEF
So what does it mean?
LANE MOODY
It means that Energy, capital
"E", is equal to the mass of an
object, "m", times the square of
lightspeed,"c".
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CHIEF
Yeah... but do you know what it
is used for?
LANE MOODY
It's not used for anything. It's
only theoretically proven. But
it's goal is a way to find out
how much energy you extract from
an object.
CHIEF
Right.
LANE MOODY
You're not the only one with
sources. But have you ever heard
about a time paradox?
CHIEF
What's that got to do with
anything?
LANE MOODY
Well let's say for a minute here
that time travel is possible and
that I have access to a time
machine. I enter the time
machine and go back in time at a
date to which I didn't exited
and I change something which
will cease the fact that I wasever born. So, if I was never
born I would never go back in
time and change something; but
if I never go back in time and
change something, it means that
I will be born and I will go
back in time and change a thing
or two and so on... Get it?
CHIEF
So that's a time paradox.
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LANE MOODY
Exactly.
FADE TO BLACK.
TITLE CARD: "INTERMISSION"
FADE TO:
TITLE CARD: ACT FOUR - ENTR'ACTE
FADE TO:
EXT. OUTSIDE PLACE FOR A RESTAURANT - LATER
The two humans sit outside the restaurant with the food in
front of their faces.
CHIEF
So, tell me again about themovie.
LANE MOODY
You didn't watch it?
CHIEF
Nah, don't really watch that
many movies?
LANE MOODY
But you said you watch TV,
right?
CHIEF
Yeah, but that doesn't mean I
watch movies.
LANE MOODY
Well let me tell you... This
movie is about two guys who go
after this suitcase and they get
into some trouble...
CHIEFThat sounds like us.
LANE MOODY
Yeah, man that's my point.
CHIEF
Your point? And what may that
be?
LANE MOODY
It's that we're in a movie.
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CHIEF
How can we be in a movie?
LANE MOODY
I don't know we're some
characters who are played by
someone. I mean we killed six
people this morning and we don't
have a scratch on. Now that's
stuff that happens only in
movies. If this was real life
there would be cops searching
for us all over the place. And
by the way, I've seen this movie
poster with two guys who look
just like us.
CHIEFIs the movie out yet?
LANE MOODY
No, 'cause the movie ain't
finished shooting.
CHIEF
So we're in a movie?
LANE MOODY
Yeah man.
CHIEF
I think you're right. But I
don't wanna be in a movie.
LANE MOODY
You think I wanna be in one? No.
But it could happen to anybody.
CHIEF
But we won't even get paid.
LANE MOODYGet paid for what? It's the
actors who get paid. After the
movie ends we will cease to
exist. You done eating?
CHIEF
As you can see I am not.
LANE MOODY
It's getting late man, we gotta
leave in a few minutes.
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CHIEF
Eating to fast ain't a good
thing to do for you metablism.
LANE MOODY
I'm waiting...
One of those awkward silinces reaveal.
THE CAMERA SHOWS A VERY CLOSE SHOT OF HOW CHIEF IS EATING
A person comes near them.
STRANGE MAN
You people got any money on you?
LANE MOODY
Money? Yeah we got money, why?
'Cause hear me now I ain't
giving you any.
The strange man pulls out a gun on them.
STRANGE MAN
Give me all your money now!
Stand up! I said stand up!
Lane does as the man told him to do.
LANE MOODY
I'm up, I'm up.
Lane stands near Chief and suddenly takes Chief gun which
was holded by him in his pocket. He points it at the man's
head.
What's wrong with you man
pulling a gun like that on
somebody. Go home and think a
little bit about your life. Get
a job or something. Go on.
CHIEF
Funny little guy.
LANE MOODYThe guy almost shot me. Look man
I gotta go at the bathroom. This
guy scared me.
CHIEF
Do what you got to do.
Lane leaves and Chief looks up to the thief.
You still here. Ya' wanna know
what I did this morning?
The thief runs.
After a while Lane comes back.
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Ya' think that was part of the
script?
LANE MOODY
Of course it was part of the
script. If it wouldn't be part
of the script, it wouldn't be
happing in the movie, right?
CHIEF
Yeah. But ya' wanna know what?
LANE MOODY
What?
CHIEF
I don't know. But it was part of
the script so I gotta say,
right?
LANE MOODY
Yeah.
CHIEF
Forgot my at ya'
LANE MOODY
Here.
CHIEF
Come on, man. I finished eating.
The two leave.
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EXT. ON AN EMPTY LANDSCAPE - LATER
LANE MOODY
Ya' think we gonna die?
CHIEF
Die. No man. Why?
LANE MOODY
I don't know, feels like we're
close to it. You know, I mean
this guy's Samoan, have you ever
seen a Samoan in real life?
CHIEF
No. But I heard they're big.
LANE MOODY
Yeah man, they're really big.
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CHIEF
Ya' know something.
LANE MOODY
What.
CHIEFI'm taking the package.
LANE MOODY
I'm sorry?
Chief pulls out a gun. He is pointing it at Lane in a
Western Movie way. He is orbiting around Lane.
So, this it, you gonna shot me.
CHIEF
You know I need it.
LANE MOODY
So all this was planed. Little
by little, and in the very end,
this. This referring to shooting
me.
CHEF
Yeah.
LANE MOODY
You know something; if I were
you, yeah, I think I'll take the
prize, leave me in this kind of
situation, but one thin's sure,
if I were you, I wouldn't pull
the trigger on that gun.
CHIEF
Why? Is it 'cause... you'll be
too violent? Well let me tell
you a thing here: I'd like to
bealive that in my following
actions there won't be any traceof sadism. But this is only what
I would like, the truth is that,
right now, at this very
moment,... this is me at my most
masochistic...
FADE TO BLACK.
Gunshot.
FADE TO:
EXT. ON AN EMPTY LANDSCAPE - CONTINUOUS
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The two people stay in the same place. Chief falls.
CUT TO
INT. OUTSIDE PLACE FOR A RESTAURANT - BEFORE
Lane goes at the bathroom.
CHIEF
Do what ya' gotta do.
Lane leaves.
CUT TO:
INT. IN THE BATHROOM - BEFORE CONTINUOUS
Lane inserts a blocker in Chief's gun.
CUT TO:
EXT. ON AN EMPTY LANDSCAPE - CONTINUOUS
Lane approaches him. Looks down to him. Clears his voice.
As Lane talks we can see fades of images of how he is
walking towards the camera on the same landscape and how
Chief lies dead where he is right now.
LANE MOODY
I'm sorry. You were
saying...But, by all means,
please continue. You know, it
was planed out. As I said;
little by little and in the end
this. But if you remember
clearly, I said: this, referring
to you shooting me. Ah! But I
was wrong. You did not shoot me
did ya'? That was a way of me
proving to you what the word
"imperfection" means. Surprise!
You got shot. I did tell you
we're in a movie. But I did nottell you what it said on the
poster. I knew how the movie
ends.
Funny when you think about it.
But all in all, I shall repeat
myself saying that we're in a
movie; and in movies anything is
possible.
Shoots Chief in the head.
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EXT. ON AN EMPTY LANDSCAPE - SECONDS LATER
Lane walks with the suitcase in his hands towards the
camera. Chief is sited where he left him. THE DOORS -
FEAST OF FRIENDS is playing and when Lane almost arrived
near the camera....
FADE TO BLACK.
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