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Lian Furness Dani Howard: Untitled
Lian Furness Dani Howard: Untitled
by
Lian Furness
Lian Furness
South Island School
Dani Howard Hong Kong
1
CHRISTIE
Eye spy, with my little eye. I tried
to have it all, but I didn’t care
why. I stand here and stare, what
more can I do? I didn’t want one, I
had to have two.
0:12
2
LUCA
Who’s Teresa?
CHRISTIE
Wha-how’d...
LUCA
How’d I Know?
Christie looks down to her side, and taps her pocket, and
looks back up.
CHRISTIE
You took my phone? Earlier... didn’t
you, you took my phone!
Luca reaches into his pocket and takes out Christie’s phone.
LUCA
“You make me feel like nothing ever
before.”
LUCA
“I love you too”
CHRISTIE
I can’t believe you would take my
phone...
LUCA
I’m glad I did. You sent a message
at 12:43. You were with me at 12:43.
With me. In bed.
CHRISTIE
Luca, seriously just listen!
LUCA
I’m done listening.
0:42
3
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
Let me explain. I met two people
this year... Luca. The sweetest guy
you could think to meet. He’s Mr.
Society. He follows the rules. After
getting a degree from Cambridge in
Economics, he worked in an orphanage
for two years in Thailand, as he
wanted to do something meaningful.
He now works in Hong Kong for a
Bank, but deals largely interna-
tional charity relations. He plans
to get married before thirty, have
three beautiful but mischievous
children, retire to Australia, grow
old and die.
1:12
1:40
4
CHRISTIE
Luca, seriously just listen!
LUCA
I’m done listening.
CHRISTIE
Luca!
LUCA
Do you want to know why I stole your
phone?
Pause.
CHRISTIE
Why?
LUCA
Because for some strange reason, I
was gonna put your ringtone for me
as ‘Our Song.’
CHRISTIE
Babe...
LUCA
Thought it’d be romantic. Then your
phoned beeped. ‘New Message: Teresa-
Hey, coming to yours at around
seven?’ Funny that, as you were
meant to be working that night, so I
read the rest.
2:05
5
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
He really was the sweetest guy. I
first met him through a friend, they
fixed us up on date, and it was
pretty awkward, but hey, I thought
I’d see how it went.
LUCA
You don’t think you want kids?!
CHRISTIE
Haha, it’s not that I don’t like them!
It’s just, I see them as very compli-
cated.
CHRISTIE
You really want kids huh?
LUCA
Yeah. Since I was little, I’ve always
wanted to have children knowing that
I’ve given life to someone would...
CHRISTIE
Yeah?
LUCA
It would be amazing.
CHRISTIE
You big softy!
LUCA
Shut up...
CHRISTIE
So how many kids do you want?
LUCA
Well three! Two boys and a girl.
6
CHRISTIE
Yeah? How come?
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
He really was the sweetest guy.
2:38
7
Back to Christie.
Luca leaves, and Christie leaves the door slightly ajar. She
turns and you she goes into the bedroom, where Teresa is sit-
ting on the bed. She looks annoyed.
CHRISTIE
I’m sorry.
TERESA
You said it was over...
CHRISTIE
I know, it’s just...
TERESA
Come on. What do you take me for?
CHRISTIE
Well what did you expect? We were
gonna get married? Have three kids,
grow old in Australia or something?
TERESA
What?
CHRISTIE
It’s just...
TERESA
You know what? I was changing who I
was for you. But this was obviously
just for fun.
2:55
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
But it was all fun. I don’t know if
I’d say just for fun, but Teresa was
different. It could be fun and seri-
ous at the same time. I met her when
I was already dating Luca. She was
fresh, exciting. I wanted her.
3:10
8
CHRISTIE
You alright there?
Teresa stands up, and smiles. She has a colourful single hair
extension in her hair.
TERESA
Just looking for stuff.
CHRISTIE
What kinda stuff?
TERESA
Anything.
CHRISTIE
In a bush?
TERESA
Yeah a bush.
CHRISTIE
How come?
TERESA
Well, the way I see it. The sort of
people that climb over fences that say
not to are the sort of people that do
before they think. Trying to impress
girlfriends, boyfriends, mates and
stuff. Those sort of impulsive people
usually don’t check things, like their
pockets for example. Hence, me in a
bush.
CHRISTIE
Makes absolute sense... Want some
help?
3:39
9
TERESA
I’m Teresa.
CHRISTIE
Amen.
TERESA
Funny!
CHRISTIE
I’m Christie.
TERESA
How’d you do?
CHRISTIE
Are you from the 1930’s.
TERESA
I like to be polite.
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
She was really cool, I quite liked
her, she was so different to Luca
though. She seemed to not care about
the rules, and live in the moment,
not always planning the future. The
opposite to him, almost.
3:51
10
Back to Christie.
Teresa walks out of the bedroom and walks to the living room,
picking up her coat from the coatrack. Christie follows her.
CHRISTIE
Where are you going?
TERESA
Home... I need to clear my head.
CHRISTIE
But you’re Miss Anti-conformist! Are
you really that bothered that I’m
still seeing him?
TERESA
It’s that you lied.
4:02
Christie sits down, and Teresa opens the door revealing Luca.
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
I stand here and stare, what more
can I do? I didn’t want one, I had
to have two.
4:32
Christie runs from the apartment, and now has a running mon-
tage. She runs for ages, using cool locations (perhaps Lamma
using chase scene skills?) Something signifies that time
passes, change of clothing, different hair, slowly slips into
a montage of Christie, showing some of her personality traits.
Show not tell. Through Central etc... Our song plays a little
bit. She’s walking and she sees a no climbing sign. She climbs
over and has a little think.
CHRISTIE
(v.o)
I knew it was probably too late but
the more I thought about it, the
more I realised that I didn’t want
my future planned. I liked the spon-
taneity. I liked the freshness and
the fun, I liked not knowing what
each day held.
4:45
CHRISTIE
Eye spy, with my little eye. I tried
to have it all, but I didn’t care
why. I stand here and stare, what
more can I do? I tried to pick one,
but they were a-two.
4:57