Frankenweenie Page #5

DAD:

I sell dreams. I tell people, you

can sail to Italy. You can do the

hula in Hawaii.

VICTOR:

Will you sign my form?

DAD:

I'm getting to that.

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VICTOR:

Okay.

Dad picks up two long fondue forks, using them to

illustrate his point.

DAD:

In my job, sometimes you have

people who don't want quite the

same thing, right. Say the

husband wants to play golf in

Scotland, but the wife wants to

paddle down the Amazon. Alright

you’ve got two conflicting ideas

here.

(holding forks apart)

And it's my job, Victor, to help

them meet halfway. Say,

Scottsdale, Arizona. He gets to

golf, she gets Indians.

MOM:

But there's no river. And no

jungle.

VICTOR:

Nobody gets what they want.

DAD:

Exactly. And wrong. They both

get what they want because they

compromise.

Dad skewers meat on his forks, continuing his metaphor.

Victor is shrimp; Dad is beef.

DAD:

You'd like to do this science

fair. And that’s great. I'd like

you to try a sport. Say, I don’t

know, baseball. Science fair,

baseball. Science fair, baseball.

How do you choose? Guess what?

You don’t have to. No reason you

can't do both. You meet in the

middle.

(bringing forks

together)

Everyone's happy.

EXT. BASEBALL FIELD - DAY

Victor is stood on the side of the baseball field with

his Dad who is head coach. Sparky is there aswell to

support Victor.

Toshiaki is pitching. Nassor is catching.

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DAD:

Look at what Toshiaki's doing.

Keeping his eye on the target.

Never losing his concentration.

Toshiaki pitches and the batter misses. Nassor catches

the ball.

GYM TEACHER:

Strike three! Next Batter!

Camera PANS to find Mr. Rzykruski -- who is simply in

Victor's imagination.

MR. RZYKRUSKI

I want you to concentrate on your

project for the science fair.

We continue to pan past Mr Ryzkruski and come back onto

Victor trying in vain to keep focused on the game.

Toshiaki winds up for the pitch.

EXT. BASEBALL FIELD - DAY

Victor’s Mom is in the stands for the big game -- along

with all the kids we’ve met so far, and many of the

adults. Sparky is completely taken by the ball and his

eyes follow it around the field.

MOM:

Come on honey!

Toshiaki pitches again and as Victor swings to hit the

ball Sparky leaps up catching the ball mid jump. The

other kids snigger.

TOSHIAKI:

Nice catch Sparky.

DAD:

Come on Victor, please. Tie Sparky

up and get your head into the

game.

GYM TEACHER:

Time out!

Victor takes Sparky to the bleachers and ties him up.

VICTOR:

Sorry boy.

He walks back onto the field.

Elsa arrives at the bleachers with Persephone.

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