Sing Street
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2016
- 106 min
- $3,233,839
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Card over Black:
“The ‘60s never really happened in
Ireland. So the ‘80s will be the
‘60s. And the ‘80s will make the
‘60s look like the ‘50s.”
AN ALCOHOLIC.
Pre-title:
EXT. SYNGE STREET SCHOOL - DUBLIN CITY - MORNING
Two FIFTEEN year-old BOYS stand outside this rough, inner
city school on a cold, rainy morning. They are CONOR and
DARREN. Conor is a middle class kid with a posh accent.
Darren is a local boy, with a tough Dublin accent.
They are elbowed by passing STUDENTS entering the school
gates. Some of them mince past them, implying that they are
gay.
These two are outsiders.
Conor will be handsome when he grows up. While most of the
other boys have standard issue tight haircuts, Conor’s is
long and tousled. He sports two black eyes, making him look
like a panda. Darren has acne, buck teeth, braces and
bifocals. His face is a mess.
They are both looking across the road. We don’t see at what.
CONOR:
Who’s she?
DARREN:
I don’t know. She’s always there.
CONOR:
She’s beautiful.
DARREN:
Yeah. Good luck. She doesn’t speak
to anyone. Stuck-up cow.
CONOR:
Who says?
DARREN:
Ciaran Mackie from third year said
he tried to get her digits.
CONOR:
(confused)
You mean her number?
(CONTINUED)
2.
DARREN:
Yeah. No luck. He said she has a
boyfriend who’s a drug dealer.
She’s not interested any of the
boys in the school.
CONOR:
Oh yeah? Why’s she standing there
then?
Darren shrugs. Conor takes a breath, sets off, crossing the
road.
EXT. SYNGE STREET SCHOOL - MORNING
We track with him over his shoulder, arriving at a 16 year-
old GIRL, who is standing on the stoop of a HOUSE, an unlit
cigarette dangling from her purple lips. Conor stands in
front of her.
She has a great look: lots of black. Good makeup. Back-combed
hair. Early ‘80s teen-chic. She’s ahead of her time, and
anything but ordinary.
CONOR:
Need a light?
GIRL:
No. I’m trying to give up.
CONOR:
Cool. I don’t have any matches
anyway.
Silence. He doesn’t go away.
CONOR:
Why aren’t you at school?
GIRL:
I don’t go to school.
(beat)
I’m a model.
CONOR:
Cool. Like, for magazines, and
stuff?
GIRL:
I’m going to London soon. Just
waiting for my portfolio shots.
There’s no real work for models in
Dublin, you know.
CONOR:
Yeah. I know.
(CONTINUED)
3.
He thinks.
CONOR:
Oh yeah, I meant to ask- do you
want to be in a video? For my band?
GIRL:
You’re in a band?
CONOR:
Yes. And we need a girl for it.
There’s like a story. It’s called a
“Story-Board” video. You could be
the girl. In the story. If you’re
free. Have you been in a video
before?
GIRL:
No.
(beat)
Is that a problem?
CONOR:
I hope not. I’ll ask the producer.
GIRL:
Who’s the producer?
CONOR:
That kid behind me.
She looks over his shoulder, pulling onto Darren, who waves
nonchalantly.
GIRL:
When are we shooting? I’m pretty
busy.
CONOR:
Saturday after next. I can call you
with the details. If I had your
digits.
She puts the cigarette away, taking out her pen. He produces
his journal, handing it to her. She flicks through it, it’s
full of thoughts and drawings.
CONOR:
Lyrics.
RAPHINA:
So if you’re in a band, sing me a
song.
CONOR:
I’m not singing here.
(CONTINUED)
4.
RAPHINA:
What, you’ll have to sing in front
of thousands of people. I’m just
one. Sing.
CONOR:
What?
RAPHINA:
Sing anything off the radio.
He reluctantly sings a hesitant but tuneful few lines from a
popular song. She smiles. She writes down her number on the
cover. He smiles, turning back. Score.
INT. SYNGE STREET SCHOOL - MORNING
We track back with him across the street as he approaches
Darren, who can’t believe what he’s seen.
CONOR:
We need to form a band...
Freeze Frame. A loud, energetic punk song crashes in on the
track.
SONG and titles run over:
TITLE SEQUENCE - MONTAGE
A montage of news stories, rock videos, magazine covers,
headlines. It's the early eighties, and it's Ireland. Midway
through the worst recession since the 1950s.
TITLE SEQUENCE - MONTAGE
Across the Irish sea, in London, news reports see Thatcher
waving to the crowds. City boys talk into early mobile
telephones, getting into sports cars. Armani suits, and gold
cuff links.
TITLE SEQUENCE - MONTAGE
But back in Ireland: bombs in the North, petrol queues in the
South. Deserted building sites, bricked-up buildings. More
black and white, than London’s Technicolor.
INT. CONOR’S KITCHEN - DAY
We start to PULL OUT from an old TV set. The 9 o’clock news
is on. The volume turned down low.
5.
INT. CONOR’S KITCHEN (CONTINUOUS) - DAY
We find ourselves in a large kitchen. High ceilings and
rattling sash windows, in what 100 years ago was a fine
Georgian home. Now, things are a little faded. The room is
cold and unwelcoming. Very little on the shelves. A family on
a budget.
Sitting around the kitchen table are: Conor (no black eyes
yet), and his parents, PENNY and ROBERT, both in their mid
forties. They’ve just finished a meal of Spag Boll. Though
it’s more Spag than Boll. Penny fills up her glass of cheap
supermarket wine. Robert picks his teeth with a toothpick.
He is drinking a whiskey and smoking. Penny checks her watch.
They are sitting in silence, as if waiting for something to
happen. Conor is wearing a woolly hat, and his coat, indoors.
Card:
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