
Bamboozled
INT. APARTMENT - MORNING
WE are in the living quarters of PIERRE DELACROIX. The
windows overlook the Brooklyn Promenade and the majestic
lower Manhattan skyline.
DELACROIX (V.O.)
Bonjour, my name is Pierre Delacroix.
I'm a television writer, also a
showrunner, a creative person.
We see a tall figure move in and around the space.
DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)
I'm one of those people responsible
for what you view on your idiot box.
CLOSE ON:
Monogrammed cuff sleeve - the initials P.D.
2.
DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)
The problem is not enough of you
have been watching.
CLOSE ON:
Monogrammed shirt pocket - the initials P.D.
DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)
With the onslaught of the internet,
video and interactive games, nine
hundred channels to choose from and
whatnot, our valued audience has
dramatically eroded.
CLOSE ON:
Razor cuts a path through a white foam on a black face.
DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)
To put it in much more simple
terms...
Delacroix YELLS.
DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Like rats fleeing a sinking ship.
CLOSE ON:
The handsome face of Pierre Delacroix.
DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)
People tuning out by the millions.
Delacroix turns to the CAMERA and addresses US.
DELACROIX (CONT'D)
Which is not good.
EXT. TENEMENT - LOWER EAST SIDE - MORNING
The tenement building is boarded up, condemned, bombed out,
but a home, a shelter nonetheless.
INT. TENEMENT - MORNING
People to our surprise live in here. It is a commune. The
homeless, people who have been left out, forgot about,
written off, and don't matter. The fringes of society.
CHEEBA, a skinny Puerto Rican male, tries to wake a
slumbering body under a mass of old newspapers.
3.
CHEEBA:
Yo, let's get to it. You don't
dance, we don't eat. Simple as that.
The mass begins to move.
CHEEBA (CONT'D)
That's right. We slow. We blow.
We snooze. We lose.
MANRAY, a young African-American dread-lock male, and Cheeba
are getting set up in front of the entrance to the
CONTINENTAL NETWORK SYSTEM building. CNS is one of the
fledgling, upstart new networks, trying to battle with ABC,
NBC, CBS, FOX, WB, and UPN.
ANGLE ON:
Entrance. Cheeba is putting the portable floor down on the
sidewalk. Manray sits on the curb, taking the sneakers off
and putting on his tap shoes; bottle caps are on the soles
of the shoes instead of real taps.
CHEEBA:
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
I know everybody is in a hurry to
work, ready to begin another day in
this rat race. But don't sleep us.
I'm Cheeba and I introduce to you
the world renown MANRAY, the man
with the educated feet.
Manray takes a small bow. A few, not many, people have
stopped to look.
CHEEBA (CONT'D)
As we continue our world wind tour,
we would like to give you a little
somethin', somethin' before you go
off to make that money. I give you
Manray.
CLOSE ON:
Manray, who starts to do his thing, and when he starts doing
his thing attention must be paid.
ANGLE ON:
Crowd, as Manray gets busy, people gather to watch.
ANGLE ON:
4.
Delacroix, he is about to walk into the CNS building but
stops to check out Manray.
CLOSE ON:
Manray, he pounds out some intricate steps and freezes at
the end of the move.
ANGLE ON:
Crowd, who applaud as Cheeba unfolds a brown shopping bag
and holds it out in front of them.
CHEEBA (CONT'D)
Thank you very much but please
don't go without giving us some
cheddar, cheese, money. We prefer
two's than fews.
People are digging into their pockets.
CHEEBA (CONT'D)
I would like to add that both of us
are homeless. Not that it means
anything.
A WOMAN is about to dump some change in the brown paper bag.
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