% Demo file for using ScriptTex 1.03%version

% This isn't a particularly exciting script, but it is demonstrative of what
% you can do with ScriptTex.

\input ../screenplay.tex

% optional \twoside
% optional \jlbrooks

\TV % or \movie (\TV is default)
\proof % or \manuscript or \shoot  (\proof is default)

\series{}  % Optional
\title{Alice} % used on title page and in \proof footlines
\author{Joseph Mack} % used on title page and in \proof footlines
\basedon{from scenes where Guy ends by weeping.}
\draft{Second draft} % used only if \proof is in force
%\date{25-OCT-1991}  % defaults to \today
\showcopyright{\number\year}
\address{5112 Longwood Dr \\
         Durham, NC, 27713-8010 \\
         (919) 401-2047\\
         jmack@wm7d.net}

\maketitle % creates a title page

%%%%
%%%% Main script begins here.
%%%% For the first part of this script, I won't take advantage of any synonyms
%%%% or shortcuts.
%%%%

%\act % 


\stage

\introduce{Alice} confident 8yr old girl. 
She is an empowered young girl. 
She speaks the way she does because she's empowered,
not because she's foulmouthed streetwise trailer trash.
You can think of her as an adult in a girl's body.
I want her to say the things that an empowered, unfraid woman would say.

\introduce{Suzy} Alice's little sister. 6 yrs old. says nothing

\stage
Alice and Suzy remind me of Jacie (talks all the time) and Daphne (never says a word).

\introduce{adult man} He's not creepy. He acts as if his request is reasonable.
This piece is not about fear or creepiness; it's about power reversal.

\introduce{Mother of Alice and Suzy} again like Alice, she is an educated, unafraid
normal woman, not trailer trash.

\act % 

\scene{ext.\ day}

\stage

\stage
two girls playing ({\it e.g.} pat-a-cake or some hand clapping game).
Adult man approaches.

\dialog{Adult Man} Want some candy little girl?

\stage

\dialog{Alice} 
\paren{indignant and not afraid.
said as if she's an empowered and unafraid adult woman.} 
My name's Alice, mister! and this is my little sister, Suzy! 
You just want me to SUCK YOUR COCK!

\dialog{Adult Man} 
\paren{abashed} 
Well yes. Isn't candy enough now-a-days?

\dialog{Alice} No way! I want a princess doll and so does my little sister!

\dialog{Suzy} 
\paren{looks hopefully at the man}

\dialog{Adult Man} Ah ... well ... OK.

\stage
man gives a follow-me gesture. starts to walk off

\dialog{Alice} 
\paren{stays where she is}
You better hold my hand ... and Suzy's too 
... or someone will think you're a pervert, abducting us.

\stage
man obediently takes their hands. All walk off.

\scene{int.\ day}

\stage
the girls are looking enthusiastically through dolls at a retail store. 
Holding them up to each other
and plunking them in the shopping cart.
Man looks around to see if anyone sees him with the girls.
Man looks to girls, 
as if expecting recognition for what he's doing for them,
but gets none.

\dialog{Alice} 
Oh! (squeal) look Suzy. 
Disney sparkle Princess Sacagawea with Musical Dancing Palace pets.
This will go with my Princess Pocahontas and her frozen Kingdom Dream Castle,
with trampoline and swimming pool 
and a cabana covered in fancy flowers with a swing.
Here ... this one's for you; 
a Made-to-Move Steppin' Out Barbie,
with straight blond hair
and parallel balance beam gymnastics with dance set.
And here's Fashionista Ken, wearing stone-washed, tie-died, 
dashing denim skinny jeans
with cool colour-blocked, hip hoodie and Ray Ban shades. 
Would you like that?

\dialog{Suzy}
\paren{nods in assent takes the doll in her hands, 
holds it to her chest and looks happy}.

\dialog{Alice} 
\paren{to Suzy}
And here, for Ken, is a chrome outdoor gas fired BBQ grill 
with built in speakers and light show for outdoor dancing.

\stage
Mother enters, looking relieved. Suzy looks happily to Mom.

\dialog{Alice} 
Hi Mom!

\stage
Man looks alarmed.

\dialog{Mother} 
Oh there you are. I've been looking all over for you.

\dialog{Alice} 
\paren{holds up doll}
This nice man is giving us some dolls. 

\dialog{Mother} Oh you naughty little girl. 
You're being really mean to that poor man. 
You're never going to suck his cock. 
Come along now, leave him alone.

\stage
Alice, Suzy, Mother exit stage together. 
The girls hold up their dolls excitedly to the mother.

\dialog{Alice} 
Look Mom! Sacagawea with a Royal Ribbon Salon, Flower Shower bathtub. 
Suzy has a Wonder Woman Barbie 
with a gymnastic set for Video Game Hero, Sweet Talking Ken.
We can make them all play together.
Barbie looks so pretty ... 
I want to be just like Barbie when I grow up.

\stage
The whole piece has been a setup for this.
Adult man stands on stage alone weeping. 
(starts off sad and then downcast and then weeps)
Let the man be on stage for at least 10secs before dimming lights.

\fadeout
\theend

%%%% Always end with \bye.
\bye % cleans up and exits
