Intent
Through this script I want to convey the narrative of the story, I also want the audience to be sympathetic towards the little boy.
Because I want to aim it at a younger audience, by using humour I lighten the mood at the end of the film.
My script could also be interpreted as having a moral that anyone can be a hero.
Characters
Girl
Boy
Bully 1
Bully 2
Bully 3
Plot
A young boys teddy is stolen by three older bullies, a young girl notices them teasing him and tries to help save the teddy. In the young childrens imagination the situation is changed into a fantasy fairytale where the teddy is a baby and the three bullies are a three headed hydra, the boy a knight and the girl a princess. The girl slays the Hydra and saves the teddy and returns it to the boy.
Script
(Boy is alone, playing with his teddy. Three older boys see him and approach him, joking and laughing to each other)
Bully 1: (to young boy) Hey, is that your sisters?
Bully 3: Yeah teddys are for girls, are you a girl?
Boy: (quietly) N-n-no
Bully 2: (to other bullies) I bet he's given it a name.
Bully 1: Here I think it looks like a (snatches teddy from boy, looks at it) Mr. Buttons!
Bully 2: (takes teddy from bully 1 and holds it up above his head)
Boy: (reaching up, still quietly) Please... no!
(All the Bullies laugh and tease, they pass the teddy around. The young boy still quietly asking them to stop and give the teddy back)
Bully 1: (in a mocking baby voice) Oh do you want Mr. Buttons back?
Bully 3: Haha, I think he's gonna cry!
Bully 1: Cry baby
(All the Bullies start teasing and calling names, you see the boy become more scared and recline within himself)
All: Little girl, cry baby, ...
(Around the corner a young girl hears the Bullies, she goes and stands behind them with her arms crossed and a brave face)
Girl: (loudly and confidently but still scared) Give him the teddy back now!
(All the Bullies stop and turn to look at her)
Bully 2: (to other Bullies) Are you kidding me? (to girl) Go home.
Bully 3: (Mockingly) Does your Mummy know where you are?
Girl: (not quite so confidently) Give it back.
Bully 1: Don't be a silly little girl, what could you even do?
(the bully tries to tear off the teddys ear)
Boy: (reaching out) No!
Girl: (with renewed confidence) GIVE. IT. BACK.
(woooooooooooooooooooooooo fantasy time, the boy turns into a knight, the girl turns into a princess, and the three bullies into a three headed hydra and the teddy wrapped up like a baby)
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