Conflict

Conflict

  • Submitted By: areegs3
  • Date Submitted: 02/02/2015 6:12 PM
  • Category: English
  • Words: 1512
  • Page: 7

SCREENPLAY ASSIGNMENT: FINAL DRAFT
COPING

Credit sequence starts black with sound of a phone’s text ringtone repeating over and over. Fade into a cell phone on a table, continually receiving texts. Time on phone shows 10:30 P.M. Hand appears in frame to pick up phone. Pan upward to see four boys sitting in a room.

INTERIOR. BASEMENT. Four boys, 17 years of age, all wearing t-shirts and gym shorts, two sitting on one couch, the other two sitting on another. Table in front of both couches. Close up on each of the boys’ faces, first one, DANIEL, wearing a baseball shirt, with a worried and puzzled look on his face, looking to his left at other boys. ADAM, TOMMMY and BOBBY all shown with blank stares.


BOBBY
Lymphoma..?

DANIEL
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. It’s a cancer of the lymph system

TOMMY
How bad is it?

Daniel
It’s stage three.

TOMMY
So it’s bad..?

(phone ringing)

ADAM
The stage doesn’t tell us how bad it is. Just how much cancer there is.

BOBBY
Yeah, but stage three still isn’t good. That means there is a lot of it right?

TOMMY
Obviously. We’d much rather have stage one or even two.


ADAM
Yeah Dan what the fuck? Why couldn’t you pick stage one or two?

BOBBY
Seriously, how selfish can you be?

(group laughter)

DANIEL
(laughing) I hate you guys.

TOMMY
So when do you start like chemo and all that shit?

(phone ringing)

DANIEL
I start chemo two weeks from Friday. I don’t know if they are gonna be putting me through radiation or not yet.

BOBBY
Well… let’s try and think of some positives of this situation.

TOMMY
Yes. Let’s think of the bright side of our friend having cancer you fucking moron.

(phone ringing)

ADAM
No. He’s right. You’ll never get detention for your hair being too long.

BOBBY
You can eat whatever you want, you’ll just throw it up during chemo.

TOMMY
Your hat collection is going to like double and will be fucking sweet

BOBBY
You guys are missing the point. What...

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