The Magic Circus The Magic Circus - Scene 23
The Magic Circus - Scene 23
Monday, 08 December 2008 23:39
Monk looks up from page. The Marks and Bilge are huddled over a large computer screen. Clarice reclines in a bean bag chair across the room talking on her mobile.
Clarice - Honey, do what grandma says, OK. (Pause) Just eat it, please eat it for me. (Pause) Tell grandma to serve it with apple sauce, yeah, there's some in the back of the fridge. Does that sound good? (Pause) OK. (Pause) Yeah, I love you, too, Hon. Be good. OK, bye-bye.
Monk walks over. She tosses him a box of Milk Duds, which Monk bobbles, but catches.
Clarice - How did it go?
Monk - Good. How're they doin'?
Clarice - (screams) Marks! How ya' doin'?
Mark1 - This is gonna be bloody beautiful, but we have a big problem.
Monk - Uh-oh.
Clarice - Every problem has a solution. (Stands up) Now let me take a look.
She walks over. The Marks twirl around in their chairs. Bilge sits on a desk.
Clarice - (looking at screen behind them) What is it?
Mark2 - It's not there.
Clarice - The problem's not there?
Mark2 - The problem is the script
Clarice - What're ya' talkin' about? THERE IS NO SCRIPT! We only have images. All you gotta do is make 'em move.
Mark2 - The images are great, sort of. The problem is they're all derivitive. What's worse, there are a bunch of characters from other studios, Pixar, Universal, Fox. We'll get our asses sued off it we try to make this.
Clarice - Oh, baloney. Everything's derivitive.
Mark2 - Take a look. (He spins around and starts opening files. A monkey like Curious George. Rat like Templeton. Elephant like Dumbo. Fritz the Cat.
Mark1 - It's like Separated at Birth. (Flips from original to what Monk drew).
Clarice - Hmm...No problemo. We can fix that.
Marks look at her suspiciously. Bilge hops off desk, walks to Monk's drawing board.
Bilge - Let's see what ya' got 'ere now.
Bilge picks up the pages Monk just finished, flips through, stops.
Bilge - Uh-oh.
Monk - What?
Bilge - This.
Bilge holds out the picture resembling Bruce the Shark from "Finding Nemo." Clarice takes it.
Clarice - (to Monk) Is this shot important to the story?
Monk - Um, it IS the story. THAT shot explains everything.
Clarice - Shit. (pause) Not ALL caps SHIT, though. (paces, thinks) Hmm...OK, we're going to need Chinese.
Mark1 - IN or OUT.
Clarice - Better make it in. This could take some time. I'll order, you jigger with that shit (to Monk) No offense.
Monk shrugs. His phone rings, he looks at number, frowns.
Monk - Hello.
Kent - Hey, where the hell are ya'?
Monk - Burbank.
Kent - Where's Burbank
Monk - Just past Glendale.
Kent - Where's Glendale?
Monk - What's the Budster doing?
Kent - The Budster's sleeping.
Monk - Well, I guess you're gonna have to wake 'em up then, ain't ya'?
Clarice pulls a Chinese menu off the wall. Nel, who has been quietly reading a book on the history of cartooning, feet kicked up on another desk, reclined on Herman Miller chair, looks over at Clarice.
Nel - Get something with tofu. I'm a vegetarian.
Bilge - (snaps his head at Nel) Since WHEN?!
Monk - (to Clarice) And ask them if they can pick up a pack of Marlboro Lights.
End scene