Posted by ImprovGuy at 162.115.100.198 on March 20, 2003 at 10:46:19:
In Reply to: Chasing Amy: The Abridged Script posted by PussyGalore on March 20, 2003 at 10:38:38:
: ---As much as I feel I shouldn't, I can't help but find this funny. Anyone read it before?
: CHASING AMY: THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT™
: By Peter Rauch
:
: FADE IN:
: Another comicky CREDITS SEQUENCE, this time featuring art
: by Mike Allred and roughly 12,000 in-jokes relating to
: Clerks and Mallrats.
: INT. COMIC CONVENTION
: ETHAN SUPLEE, in a startlingly accurate portrayal of most
: superhero comic fans, makes a complete idiot of himself.
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: What the hell was that?
: MALE AUDIENCE MEMBERS
: Get to the lesbians already!
: WRITER/DIRECTOR KEVIN SMITH
: (smoking)
: Hold on, I'll fucking get to it.
: In a smaller room, DWIGHT EWELL delivers a racially charged
: monologue that is far more risque than anything else in the
: movie, or the trilogy, for that matter, yet offends NO ONE.
: BEN disputes him on one point, leading to an extended debate
: about racism in Star Wars. This is the second-greatest
: moment in film history.
: DWIGHT EWELL
: (smoking)
: Black rage!
: He shoots JASON.
: JASON LEE
: (smoking)
: ...
: Everyone leaves except BEN, JASON, DWIGHT and the CHICK
: WHOSE FACE WAS PLASTERED IN CLOSE-UP ON EVERY GODDAMN PIECE
: OF PUBLICITY RELATED TO THIS MOVIE. But we'll call her
: JOEY.
: MALE AUDIENCE MEMBERS
: Hey, isn't that the chick who
: fucked Bud on Married with Children?
: She's hot now. What an interesting
: development.
: FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBERS
: GOD her voice is annoying.
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: (smoking)
: Hi.
: BEN immediately falls deeply in love with her. JASON
: develops a deep-seated hatred that will outlast his
: lifetime.
: INT. SOME BAR SOMEWHERE
: DWIGHT and JASON, while smoking, have a heated argument
: about homoerotic subtexts in Archie comics. This is the
: third-greatest moment in film history.
: MALE AUDIENCE MEMBERS
: Dude...lesbians. We paid seven
: bucks. Throw us a bone here.
: WRITER/DIRECTOR KEVIN SMITH
: (smoking)
: Oh, fine.
: INT. MEOW MIX
: BEN and JASON have been invited, sort of, to what the
: aforementioned audience members are hoping will be some sort
: of lesbian orgy. JOEY gets up and sings something that
: would have been on the SOUNDTRACK, but KEVIN SMITH is EVIL
: and didn't arrange to release one. At about this time
: CARMEN LEE shows up for no obvious reason.
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: (smoking)
: I'd like to dedicate that song to
: that certain special someone,
: someone whose identity can be
: expressed in vague enough terms that
: an egotistical and naive guy I met
: at a comic convention will think I'm
: talking about him despite the fact
: that I've only known him for a few
: days, and as all of you know from
: the trailer I'm gay anyway.
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: She loves me.
: JOEY, while smoking, leaps down from the stage and starts
: passionately sucking on CARMEN'S face.
: MALE AUDIENCE MEMBERS
: This is the best movie ever!
: The MALE AUDIENCE MEMBERS' DATES get up and leave in
: disgust. Meanwhile, the director's girlfriend and one of the
: actors' wife, both of whom are straight, continue making out
: for several minutes.
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: So, um...
: (uncomfortable pause)
: Hi.
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: Mmrrmph.
: EASILY AMUSED LESBIANS IN AUDIENCE
: Hey! I'm in the movie!
: EXT. SWINGSET
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: (smoking)
: Ben, I like you, more than I've
: liked any guy in a long time.
: You're the first guy I've met in a
: while that didn't immediately fall
: into some stereotype. To reiterate,
: our friendship hinges entirely on
: your ability to not digress into
: stereotypically male behavior.
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: Cool.
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: So if you have any questions, I'd
: rather not listen to all the awkward
: subtle hints.
: BEN AFFLECK
: Are you a virgin?
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: What the fuck!? Have you been
: paying attention at all?
: BEN AFFLECK
: But according to the stereotypical
: guy bullshit, loss of virginity is
: defined by penetration.
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: That's a bunch of crap.
: BEN AFFLECK
: So you've never been with a guy?
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: I didn't say that.
: BEN AFFLECK
: But you answered the virgin
: question with another question.
: That obviously was to be interpreted
: as a yes.
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: Ben, I've been with guys.
: BEN AFFLECK
: (not listening)
: I mean, otherwise you would have
: just answered yes, right?
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: Ben! I HAVE HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
: WITH MEN! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
: BEN AFFLECK
: This is convenient, since my
: ability to deal with this situation
: will crumble if I find out that
: you're not a ‘virgin.,' should I
: ever profess my love for you on some
: rainy, overly symbolic eve. Thank
: god you've never been with a guy!
: INT. BEN'S CAR ON SOME RAINY, OVERLY SYMBOLIC EVE
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: I love you.
: JOEY, smoking, exits the car in a fit of rage. Seconds
: later she runs back and leaps into BEN'S arms.
: VARIOUS SHOTS OF BEN AND JOEY DOING SHIT PEOPLE PRESUMABLY
: DO WHEN THEY'RE IN LOVE, BESIDES FUCKING
: INT. BEN'S APARTMENT
: JASON LEE
: (smoking)
: Hey. Heard something interesting
: today.
: BEN, smoking, looks up from the OBLIGATORY HOCKEY VIDEO
: GAME to listen.
: JASON LEE (cont'd)
: Remember Rick Derris?
: BEN AFFLECK
: Sure. He's been mentioned thirty
: times in every one of these movies.
: JASON LEE
: Apparently Joey used to fuck him.
: And Coey London, another guy from
: high school. And Willam the Idiot
: Manchild, from the earlier movies.
: And her sisters Tricia and Heather.
: And her cat, Muffy. And former vice
: president Spiro Agnew. And...
: BEN, smoking, beats the shit out of JASON.
: AUDIENCE
: It's about damn time.
: INT. JOEY'S APARTMENT
: JOEY and various NOT-AT-ALL STEREOTYPICAL LESBIAN
: CHARACTERS work on the distribution angle of the comic.
: EASILY OFFENDED LESBIANS IN
: AUDIENCE
: Dammit!
: Unlike the White Hatin' Coon monologue, this scene offends
: damn near everyone.
: INT. HOCKEY ARENA
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: By the way, Joey, have you ever,
: um..
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: (smoking)
: YES! YES, GODDAMN YOU! I FUCKED
: RICK DERRIS! AND COEY! AND THE GUY
: FROM THE PUBLISHERS' CLEARING HOUSE!
: AND THE ENTIRE LPGA TOUR WHEN THEY
: PASSED THROUGH NEW YORK!
: BEN AFFLECK
: Actually, I was going to ask if you
: had ever thought about signing with
: one of the bigger indie labels like
: Vertigo or Image. But your question
: seems much more interesting, I
: agree.
: They BREAK UP.
: INT. THE DINER
: JAY and SILENT BOB enter.
: KEVIN SMITH FANS IN AUDIENCE
: (smoking)
: It's about fucking time!
: SILENT BOB
: (smoking)
: Ok, here's what you need to do.
: Forget about all this shit, it isn't
: relevant to the person you're in
: love with. Repeat, none of it
: matters, she was a different person
: then. Do NOT hatch some idiot plan
: involving Jason.
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: Yeah. Whatever.
: INT. BEN'S APARTMENT
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: Ok, we all need to have sex.
: JASON LEE
: (smoking)
: Didn't they try that in Threesome?
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: Shut up.
: JASON LEE
: And doesn't this go against what
: the Writer/Director, whose
: experiences are clearly NOT the
: basis for this storyline, told you
: in the previous scene?
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: (smoking, crying)
: Screw you guys, I'm going home.
: JASON LEE
: Me too. Stay the hell away from
: me, dude.
: INT. COMIC CONVENTION, ONE YEAR LATER
: ETHAN SUPLEE humiliates himself. Again. He also advances
: the plot, specifically the fact that BEN and JASON ended the
: comic and haven't spoken since. BEN flashes JASON a comic
: and gives him a thumbs-up from across the room, indicating
: that apparently there's still hope for their friendship. He
: then walks over to JOEY.
: BEN AFFLECK
: (smoking)
: Hi. I wrote something based on our
: experiences together, a none-too-
: subtle attempt to communicate that I
: now understand what Silent Bob was
: talking about in that seen.
: JOEY LAUREN ADAMS
: (smoking)
: Aww, how sweet.
: PETER RAUCH
: By the way, this actually works in
: real life. No one knows why.
: BEN AFFLECK
: So, I've fucked up the two most
: important relationships in my life,
: but there's hope that I may be able
: to deal with these things now and
: regain my closest friends.
: AUDIENCE
: Wait a minute. Didn't that happen
: in Clerks?
: WRITER/DIRECTOR KEVIN SMITH
: (smoking)
: Yeah. See, Clerks' focus was
: irony. This one's realism. The
: point is that life more often
: reflects the bizarre than the
: predictable. This is why Mallrats,
: which was based in idealism, ended
: with the protagonist taking over
: hosting duties on the Tonight Show.
: AUDIENCE
: Whatever. You just couldn't think
: of an ending.
: WRITER/DIRECTOR KEVIN SMITH
: Oh, and endings are SO IMPORTANT to
: you, right? You, the assholes who
: made The Blair Witch Project the
: most profitable movie of all time?
: AUDIENCE
: Ok, ok, sorry.
: WRITER/DIRECTOR KEVIN SMITH
: Besides, this is new!
: ILLEANA DOUGLAS, upset at having her scene deleted, wastes
: the entire cast and crew with a machinegun.
: AUDIENCE
: No, that also happened in Clerks,
: you just deleted the scene.
: WRITER/DIRECTOR KEVIN SMITH
: Fuck!
: END