About East 17 Moment
Logline: A neurotic has an existential crisis after a date goes wrong
Type: Short Screenplay
Pages: 24
Genre: Dark Comedy
First Page
EXT. RIVERSIDE - DAY
A MAN is running on the riverside. It's peaceful. Too peaceful.
This man isn't running for exercise, nor for leisure. He runs like something's holding him back. But, he runs. Even if it's at the pace of a pitiful jog.
WE HEAR a balloon inflating.
A jagged rock appears on the ground. The man tumbles over it and SMACKS on the gravelly concrete. The man groans with pain, and slowly rolls onto his back. He flexes his knees up, and feels a sore spot. His left knee. It's grazed, like a child's. He touches it, and flinches.
Using the peak of his flexibiity, he stretches his neck over and kisses his knee. Like his Mother should. He kisses it again. Crumpled mess.
Unknown to him, a MAIDEN is approaching slowly. It's like she's been lifted from an old Wild West movie - wearing a lacy bonnet, pinstripe blouse and a long walking skirt.
MAN
(under his breath)
The world swims in its own sputum.
The maiden reaches him, and looks down.
WE HEAR the balloon inflate, again.
The man hasn't noticed.
MAIDEN
Deep down in the gutter, I see a
man with not a word to mutter.
MAN
The world swims in its own sputum,
Claudia.
MAIDEN
Not a word to mutter.
MAN
I'm above average, you know.
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