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ParaNorman 7.

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Norman is watched dubiously by the occasional passer-by

as he shouts amiable greetings to people who simply

aren’t there.

NORMAN:

Good morning! Hey Bruce! How’s it

goin’? Not much. I’m kind of late

for school. I need to go. Hi, nice

to see you guys. Good morning.

Sorry I gotta run. Excuse me.

Pardon me. See ya.

At one street corner, Norman bends over a gutter. He is

watched curiously by a man retrieving his morning paper

across the other side of the street.

MAN’S POV - Norman crouches over the flattened remains of

raccoon road kill.

NORMAN (CONT’D)

Hey there little buddy! C’mere!

He realizes he is being stared at and slowly turns to

face the onlooker, then hurries away.

Though no one else sees them, to Norman’s eyes, a whole

host of ghosts are meandering through the streets.

NORMAN (CONT’D)

Yeah, good to see you! How you

doin’? Hi Mrs Hardman. You look

nice today. I like what you’ve

done with your hair.

HAIRDRYER GHOST:

Does anyone smell burning?

HIPPY GHOST:

Hey, peace, man.

NORMAN:

Totally.

CIVIL WAR GHOST:

As you were, soldier.

NORMAN:

Sir, yes sir!

GREASER GHOST:

Yo Norman, you playin’ hookie?

NORMAN:

No no, I’m just late for school.

Sorry, I gotta go.

(to Mobster Ghost)

How you doin’?

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MOBSTER GHOST:

Hey, how you doin’?

A little further along Norman nods pleasantly to theghost of a parachutist impaled in the branches of aroadside tree.

NORMAN:

Hi! How’s it hanging?

PARACHUTIST GHOST

Ho ho! Haven’t heard that one

before. Well, it’s a nice day.

11 EXT. MAIN STREET - MORNING 11

Its industrial days now rusted behind it, Blithe Hollowhas become a run-down tourist town, celebrating itsheritage with lame fetes and crass knick-knacks. Amassive billboard beside the main square reads “BLITHE

HOLLOW - A GREAT PLACE TO HANG!” illustrated by a group

of waving Puritans beside an equally cheerful witchhanging from a gallows. Across the street a huge bannersuggests this year is particularly important for thetown; “BLITHE HOLLOW - 300 BEWITCHIN’ YEARS!”

The town center is lacking in charm; its historicalbuildings subsumed into a vulgar modern thoroughfare withgaudy witch-themed shop fronts and cracked sidewalks.

Everywhere Norman walks, the witch theme is prevalent.

Cars have bumper stickers that extol such witticisms as“MY OTHER CAR IS A BROOM”. There’s a dingy bar, the BARGENTO, and a greeting card store called BEST WITCHES.

Norman hurries past SHERIFF HOOPER, a heavyset blackwoman, and DEPUTY DWAYNE, lanky and awkward and lookinglike he’d rather be elsewhere.

SHERIFF HOOPER:

Watch and learn. “Parking

violation” is my middle name.

DEPUTY DWAYNE:

Really? I thought it was Rhona.

They glance up disdainfully as Norman passes by. Clearlyin this town Norman has something of a bad reputation.

12 EXT. SCHOOL ENTRANCE - MORNING 12

Norman walks up a tree lined path that leads to a squatschool building. Out front, the name “BLITHE HOLLOW

MIDDLE SCHOOL” is carved into an ugly hunk of granite.

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