The Comedian

“The Comedian”

By

Dale Tice

 

Act I

Opening Image

 

“Ridiculous,” was the word that came to the comedian’s mind as he rode in his limousine toward the studio.  “Absurd,” was another word he wanted to write down in a notebook somewhere, but he knew he would never write anything like this down because it would be a betrayal in the eyes of the leaders of the new world order.  Instead, he just thought these thoughts even though he was not sure if they couldn’t read them.  He laughed about this because surely, they couldn’t read hiss thoughts “you are being mad,” he insisted. 

The limousine pulled up to the studio and Ding Dong got out of the limousine, where he was greeted by hundreds of masked policemen and the sounds of cheering fans that he could not see.  It was like this every day, cheering from speakers set up inconspicuously around the studio when he arrived.  It was in contract, “cheering and applause,” when he arrived so they met him everyday with the same cheering and applause even if it were artificial government approved cheers. 

Ding Dong remembered a time there were people there to meet him, but as the government cracked down on the people and the tyrannical monster that hid below the surface of the new world order showed its real face, then the people were banned from gathering outside his studio and greeting him, the few that did show up anymore.  Even then his jokes had lost a lot of their humor as those he joke about slowly disappeared from the face of the earth.  Then there was nobody to greet him at all. 

Ding Dong always thought he was smarter than many people, eventually he became so popular he even began to think he was smarter than people who were smart, like scientist and writers, now he realizes he was nothing more than a fool.  He was not even sure there were anymore scientist in the world, if they were, they were probably in some prison camp located in a remote area of the country.  Sadly, Ding Dong knew the state of the world was his fault because he was paid to make jokes about the enemies of the comics, like conservatives and religious people, but one day, the jokes that he and his writers wrote, no longer could be spoken on tv until they were approved by the government, then the writers were taken away, and Ding Dong wasn’t allowed to write anymore, and the jokes were written by the government and handed to him to say on air.  Ding Dong didn’t like this, but he did it anyway because telling jokes, even jokes that were not funny and were nothing more than propaganda, gave him a nice life of luxury that many others didn’t have and he wasn’t about to give that up for no amount of freedom. 

 

Theme Stated

 

Ding Dong set down on a seat in front of a mirror and the people began to cover his face in a mask of makeup.  Slowly he saw himself change from Rutherford Aaron Jones to the comedian everyone knew as Ding Dong. 

In the early days Ding Dong put on his own make up, however when he was hired to do the Late Show with Ding Dong, he had people who would apply his make up and make sure his suit was show ready at all times.  He no longer had to worry about little things like that anymore and was able to relax more and think about the writing part of it, which he liked. 

Ding Dong was at one time nothing more than a guest on one of these late shows which propelled him to stardom.  Ding Dong put on the make up of a clown however his jokes were always political.  He never liked the conservative politicians and people who would stand by two-hundred-year-old documents that would hold back the government from doing the good by the people.  It made no sense to him back then, but no, he saw why the documents were there for.  “It was too late to think about them now.  Those documents were burned, and their thoughts outlawed.” He thought as they put his make up on.  “A little free speech would be nice right now,” he thought. 

He thought of about the last President of the United States and how he basically drummed him out of office with his jokes and rebel rousing.  “He was a good man,” I see that now.”  He told himself. 

The people that gave him the host of the Late Show were secretly Comics too who believed in a Funny world, and they always had Ding Dong sign out with the words “and the jokes on you.’  He wished he knew what they saw in him was not funny but useful.  He was a tool for the rise of the Ollie Garchy where the superrich wielded the power of the government down on the people. 

“The Jokes was one me,” he thought to himself. 

Set Up

Ding Dong reflects on how things were before the Clown becomes the leader of the world. 

Catalyst

Ding Dong has had enough of being told what to do by government handlers and wants to tell his own jokes.

Debate

          “Do I want to lose my individualism for millions of dollars and power?” 

          “I knew what they were up to a long time ago,” Ding Dong tells himself.  “Remember Walter Stevens?” 

Act II     

Break Into two

     Walter Stevens was a black historian who had went up against the government insisting Blacks were one time held in slavery in this country.  “You lie.  There’s no proof,” and he was so determined to prove himself right that he came on the show and argued with Ding Dong about slavery.  Ding Dong made him look like a fool.  Ding Dong hated to do this to Walter but he got paid to do it.  He knew Walter was telling the truth that there was slavery once in the past but they couldn’t prove it because the Ollie Garkie and his bunch erased it from the memories and from the history books and nobody learned about it anymore.  They only learned about socialist things and socialist ideas and equality and how everyone had the same history.  They even rewrote some history.  “We all got on boats together to escape the capitalism of the east to create our utopian socialist paradise and live equally together. 

He who control the past, controls the future.  He who control the present, controls the past.” 

               Walter was carried away from the show and after that he no longer heard from Walter anymore.  The idea of blacks once being slaves of the whites was erased from the minds of all the people. 

“What people?” Ding Dong thought.  “What people?”  He didn’t even see people anymore.  Except for the policemen, the government handlers, the behind the scenes personnel, there were no people.  There wasn’t even people in the stadiums anymore.  Everyone was gone and what fans he had he wasn’t sure.  “Apparently I have some use or I would be dead by now.”  He said. 

         

B Story

     The Rise of the Clown and the Support of Ding Dong

                  

                   The history of the Comics Government of the Funny begin when the circus came to the country in the form of clowns juggling golden coins.  They arrived in Washington in helium balloons and rather than rising up against the clowns the people found them hilarious and fell down laughing surrendering themselves to the power of the clowns.  Some of the people who did stand up against them were mocked and laughed at and eventually they too set back down and surrendered their freedom. Nobody was happy or sad anymore, they were just emotionally empty. 

It was a day of empathy, as they called it. Those who noticed it were empathetic toward what was taking place.  Freedom was just a word to many of the young who focused on more important things like games and debates about Star Wars characters. 

 

It took some time for the people to even notice the change in the ways the Clowns took care of business and when they did, they didn’t even care much. Everyone continued to paint that government issued smile on their empty emotionless face and continued on with their daily lives. Some did stop to watch the colorful balloons descending in the fields outside their city. The clowns even painted a pretty little raincloud in the blue sky and nobody thought to think that there was no rain to make a rainbow. It was digitally enhanced with superior graphics with many colors that would capture the glance of anyone looking its way.

But can you really blame the Moronians? What they saw marching through their streets were just funny comedic clowns piled into little cars with big red noses and oversized shoes in colorful polka dotted clown suits. They threw flowers at the people and pales of confetti instead of guns and bullets.

Standing in the heat of the sun took too much effort and did not feel good against the Moronians fair skin so instead going outside and standing by the streets the citizens just watched it from their cell phones and computers. Some even watched the invasion from their big screen high definition television sets. They watched with glee and laughed at their hilarious looking

Tyrants who entertained them and their reporters who asked no questions but instead just reported word for word what the clowns had to say. It made their jobs easier if they did it that way.

The clowns danced and skipped their way as they rushed toward the main government in their little ears and tricycles and some on unicycles while juggling these bowling balls and bowling pins and some even juggled live grenades but when they exploded they exploded into colorful bouquets. It was quiet a hilarious site and everyone laughed with them.

The story got high ratings in all the media who were happy for high audience number because now they could charge more for the commercials to advertisers who were constantly trying to convince Moronians that their brand was the best one to buy. Most products these days though had little competition so the people were pretty much branded already. Commercials were more of reminders and entertainment between the entertainment.

When the Clowns scaled the walls of government they found everyone, who were elected to handle crisis to be on vacation so there was nobody to take prisoner, except the the Secretary to the President of Moronia, who faxed the abdication form to the Bahamas for the President to sign and fax back to them. The President did so quickly so she could get back to playing her video games, which the clowns had bombarded the city with. Al sorts of entertainment the Clowns knew they could use as a weapon to control the minds of their mindless nation. The people rushed out to get their free games then rushed back inside to play them.

As for the President she declared it a national holiday on most days so she didn’t have to make difficult decisions. Individual spending was the highest it has been in all the history of Moronia under her leadership. She got the people off their couches and reaching into their savings with the logo “buy more and save less.” Patriotism died long ago in the heart of all Moronians. Material wealth became their religion and their politics. Entertainment was the opiate of the masses, which also included shopping.

The head of the Clown army was a Charlie Chaplinesque figure who waddled through the streets in a bowler hat and cane who walked like a duck. His name was Ollie “Fats” Garky the Clown. He was a big belly creature who bounced down the street on top of a bouncing ball. The people cheered his athleticism. He was followed by a list of Marxist comedic clowns who fingered the ashes off their cigars and raised their eyebrows in very comical ways.

“Hello Moronia,” Ollie screamed into his megaphone. “Let’s have a laugh and a good time under my rule.”
         

Those who took time to pull themselves from their phones and games and computers and television sets cheered for their new leader, Fats. All Moronia laughed. All Moronia roared. They danced to the kazoo music that was blaring from the mouths of the clowns.They Clowns were celebrated as saviors of Moronia. But what the Moronians did not realize that the Clowns wore mask and what was hidden
below those smiles and tears and polka dots were not clowns. They were in fact Jack-in-a-box creatures that would pop out of their box eventually and put a fright in the Moronians when the time came.
Until then the people were happy. The women screamed “we love you Fats.” They jostled each other to get into his baggy pants.

Then came the day the Clowns finally put the noses away. They stripped out of their baggy uniforms and took off their over large suits and put their red hair away and what was behind it wasn’t pretty. Most of them were just greasy pig faced fat men in suits. Fats had his hand in everything in Moronia until their was no escape from his influence.

Slowly the Clowns divided the citizens of Moronia based on their taste in entertainment. A nation divided against itself cannot stand. Fats knew this. The people stopped believing in themselves, that the power was the people, instead they believed in the power of the clowns and particularly of Fats. Fats took care of them. They didn’t have to think for themselves. When they needed a drink they asked Fats, “what do I want to drink?” And a government issued image of Fats would answer. “Kool-Aid” or “lemonade,” or “soda, tea or coffee.”

The popular place to shop was the NandOutMart. The NandOutMart was so popular that Fats tore down the old government buildings and put them in retail stores so the people could feel close to their government. Fats knew that he could hold on to rule if he destroyed their society but not touch the NandOutMart where the people rushed in on pay day to spend their money on cheap plastic temporary goods.

Fats knew a day would come when Moronian’s love of cheap plastic goods would help him own everyone in the country by using the techniques that the NandOutMart used to become the dominant retail store. “Undercut everyone with the promise of low, low prices everyday.” Fats knew he could take some losses with low, low prices but he would get the money back on the backside once he owned the country lock, stock, and barrel.

Fats told his cabinet that “materialism is Moronia’s disease. It spreads faster than an airborne virus but the symptoms aren’t life threatening so we do not have to worry about large

Numbers of sick people gathering in one location. Feed them cheap plastic goods and entertainment and let the media eat itself and in the end there will be no possible way the Morons of Moronia can ever take down the Clown.” His cabinet laughed and gave each other high fives upon hearing this. They were
all invested into the power of Ollie Garky and they knew they would benefit greatly, only if they stayed faithful to the ideology.

Fats put his face as the face of all monetary institutions. When people tuned into their TV stations they saw not Moronians but Clowns and they laughed and laughed at these silly alpha humanoids.

When people walked into the NandOutMart they could smell low prices and taste cheap plastic goods. It was even in the food that the official government sponsored fast food joint served. Most people who worked in Moronia worked at the NandOutMart because they could get discounts on their entertainment and cheap plastic goods for a low, low wage, everyday.

Eventually the roar of enthusiasm for Ollie Garky died away. People became dissatisfied with the way things were. They began to talk about the way things use to be. They began to whisper to each other about the abuses of power by Fats. They questioned “what happened to the old leaders?” They did not realize that the old leaders were dead. They were shot in the head while they played their government issued video games.

But it takes ambition to organize an revolution to bring down the oppressive Clown rule and that is one of the things that the people had forgot long before the clowns came. They had no ambition, no drive, no passion. They didn’t even know what these things were anymore. The only emotion they had a name for was FEAR and they feared the clowns. They feared the cigar smoking pig man named Fats the Clown. Fats had got word of the talk of revolution in the air so he used his Marx brothers to put those caught whispering of revolution into camps where they would be re-educated or eradicated. Most were eradicated.

The entertainment became less entertaining. Movies were the same movie over and over again. Part I,2,3,4, 5, 6, and so forth. Nothing changed in the film. It took awhile for the people to realize they were being fooled but they did catch on. It got so bad that they didn’t even want to play their video games anymore. But they did not know what to do. They did not know how to articulate their feelings. They did not know how to write down their thoughts on paper to share with each other. They only knew they were unhappy but that was not enough.

Huge furnaces were erected as the Morons became less disenfranchised with Ollie and the clowns. The furnaces would blow smoke day in and day out. It was the smoke from the ashes of the hapless Morons who had lost their enthusiasm completely. Those who did show enthusiasm were only faking it by this time in Ollie’s rule.

Fats would go on TV and announce “all’s great in Moronia. Production was up. Economy is booming. Interest rates were their lowest in years.” But things were not like he said they were. Everything was down. Fats owned everything. He was the only one who benefited from the tyranny of the material life.

With out any kind of intellectual defense the Moronians became victims of their own self indulged ignorance. They were apathetic to the suffering of their fellow citizens and so self centered that they couldn’t view things from another’point of view. Ignorance and passive indifference is the greatest weapon that Ollie Garky had at his disposal to imprison Morons or Moronia. If the Morons would have stood up for the things most important in society then they wouldn’t of been blindly led willingly into the machines that made morons into fertilizers for flowers and food for the clowns.

 

Fun and Games

         

Midpoint

Bad Guys Close In

     Government handlers.

All is Lost

     Ding Dong loses control of his show and act. 

Dark Night of the Soul

     “You can’t turn back now.”

Act III

Break into Three

          Ding Dong writes his own joke. 

Final

          Ding Dong show is cut.

Finale Image

Ding Dong is taken back of the show and shot and another Ding Dong stands in. 

 

Denouement

 

In a dark windowless room in the bottom of the world, with a vague light and shadows, Ding Dong is put to his knees and stares up at the lunatics that he supported and helped get to where they were and now the are the ones that put he gun to his head.  There is no speeches, no long goodbyes, no cries, no shouting, no protesting, prostrating, begging, cheering or anything of the sort.  It’s just shadows and a gun and bullet.  What they would do with the body, he didn’t give a fuck.  It was over, he created this circus and today the circus eats him.  Like all fools, Ding Dong, turned on the dream that help make a reality and as his last breath of freedom exhales from his body, he knows it is he who has led the children of the free into the arms of tyranny and only him to blame. 

 

 

 

ACT. I

Opening Shot - Power lines and TV transmission with some shots of policitican.

Ext. Old Mad Man in Forest - Night

An old poet/scientist, about 100 years old, is in his laboratory studying.  He is standing up looking through a telescope, up at a place near the moon. His office is surrounded by vines of wood and on his table sits a TV and a old typewriter.

He sets down and at his desk and starts to write a few lines.

Cut:

Int. Picture of a book with words superimposed on a page.

Superimposed

Werbungdamon, does not this word stir the images of a million mindless commercials? Dare not think, for then the pictures of life become real in the mind of the zombie creatures who stare into the blue eye of the cyclopes. And then the Werbungdamon will rise from her nest and feed on the blood of your imagination.

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Ext. Court room on another planet - day

A judge is giving his judgement on the accused, a half spider, half clown, named Ollie Garkie.

Judge

Guilty.  You will be exiled from our planet and ordered never to be returned.

Several men grab the accused and throw him into a space ship.

Ollie Garkie

You will see how wrong you are about me. You will beg me back when you see my theories to be correct.

The space ship is sent off into space.

Cut:

Ext. Voice Over - Night

Voice Over

Broken and madcap; a visionary cosmic space glider

Announcing his arrival while zooming further away

Out into the cold lifeless heartbeat of outer space

Leaving behind a vapor trail of bright shiny particles

As it blew through the porous wall of fire and ice

int. Spaceship - Night

Ollie Garkie, half clown - half arachnid, zooms across the vast emptiness of outer space looking for a planet, he could rule.

Ollie Garkie

They have driven me from my home, calling my ideas mad. But soon I will find a planet where I can work without the constraints of laws and then they will see, for once and for all, the greatness of my mind.

Cut:

Ext. mad Man in Forest - Night

Mad man writing.

Poet

Faster than the speed of light; further from the sun. In a coat of silver, the blur bursts across the night

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Int. Spaceship - Night

He eventually comes across a beautiful blue planet inhabited by humanoids.

Ollie GARKIE

Interesting place. Let's check out their history to see if they are worth studying.

Montage of historical pieces.

Ollie Garkie

Oh my.  What a wonderful species to experiment on.

Ollie Garkie starts setting up his transmission.

Ollie Garkie

Now, let's start transmitting our frequency to test the strength of the human mind.

Cut:

Ext. forest of Madness - night

The poet reads his messages. He then writes in his book.

Poet (Writing)

As the cold set in on the third planet from the sun we started to pick up a weird signal being sent from outer space.

Cut:

Int. Radio station - Night

A man reading a paper sets with a cigar.  A man with a radio transmitter sits at his side.  In the back a man on his knees saluting something in the sky.  The transmitter man gives the aristocrat a piece of paper and the aristocrat reads it.

Aristocrat

Nonsensical garbled mess.

Cut:

Ext. Forest - Day

Leanna, 18, is sitting in a forest reading her book.  She is peaceful and doesn't suspect anything.

Cut:

Int. Spaceship - Night

Ollie Garkie sees Leanna.

Ollie Garkie

Oh my what a strong mind on this one with such a vivid imagination.  She could be the one that will hex the people of Earth and make them my slaves by use of their television sets.

Ollie Garkie does and evil laugh. He then pushes a few buttons.

Ollie Garkie

Now time to start transmitting.

He hits a huge button and waves start raining down on Leanna.

Cut:

Ext. Old Man in the strange twisted Forest - night

Poet

With strange signals came primitive transmissions. Poetic rumination and phantasmagorical conditions.

cut:

Ext. Forest - Day

Leanna stops reading and looks into the forest.

Cut to shot of empty forest.

Cut to shot of Leanna's face looking concerned.

Leanna suspects something is out there.  She puts up her book and starts running for her life. She looks back at an empty forest.  There is nothing but there is something there and she knows it.

Cut:

Int. Leanna's House - Day

Dixie, 40, and husband Lee, 40, are sitting on a couch watching TV.  Dixie and Lee seem to be uninterested in what is on TV.  Dixie suddenly seems concerned about something.

Dixie

Where is Leanna?

Lee

In her room reading as usual.

Dixie

No, she went out side a few hours ago and hasn't returned.

Lee

Go check in her room.  I bet she is there.

Cut:

Ext. forest - Day

Leanna foot hits a mud hole as she runs.  We see her running past the camera.

Close up of her face sensing danger.

Cut:

Int. House - Day

Dixie goes to Leanna room. There is nobody there. She goes to Mattie, 16, room, and asks about Leanna.

Dixie

Where is Leanna?

Mattie

Sorry, I haven't got a app for keeping up with my sister.

Dixie

Go outside and see if you can find her.

Mattie goes by Dixie with an angry look on her face.

Cut:

Ext. Forest - Day

Leanna runs along the side of a pond along a path.  She falls.  She looks back and can feel some paranormal force getting closer.

Leanna gets back to her feet. She runs toward her house.

Cut:

Ext. Family in front of house - Day

Dixie, Lee, Mattie, and Mindi, 10, are standing outside the house and they see Leanna running up.

Mattie

There she is.

Dixie

Something is wrong.

Cut:

Int. Spaceship - Day

In a space ship high above Earth Ollie Garkie, is transmitting evil messages to Leanna.

Ollie Garkie

You are the one who will teach the people of Earth my message.

He hits a button and starts to laugh.

Cut:

Ext. Family in front of House - Day

Dixie, Lee, Mattie, and Mindi fall to their knees writhing in pain from the sudden shock of the wave Ollie Garkie shoots at Leanna.

Cut:

Ext. Leanna - Day

Leanna is frozen in time and slowly evaporates.

Cut:

Ext. Family in front of HOuse - Day

Dixie cries out.

Dixie

Leanna.

She is crying. The rest of the family comes and comforts her.

Dixie

What happened to Leanna.

Camera closes in on Mattie's face and she looks determined.

Mattie

Don't worry momma.  I will find Leanna and bring her home.

Cut:

Ext. Carnival - Day

A mad carnival man is riding along.  He is contacted by Ollie Garkie in space. He jumps from his wagon and then cries out.

Grandmaster

I am at your service, Evil One.

Cut:

ACT. II (Werbungdamon v Humanity)

Int. Restaurant - Day

A door to the restaurant open up.  In walks Madison in her suit. Everyone looks at the strange creature but they they all start to laugh. Mattie stars back at them.

Mattie

You will not be laughing when you discover out your minds are being used for evil purposes.

Stupid Man

Get on girl.  You are the foolish one here.

Old Woman

T.V. is life.  T.v. is life.

Madison and the woman eye meet but then she goes on reading her signs. Madison follows the old crazy woman to a back room.  The old woman opens a box and in the box is a gun.

Old Woman

This is what you will need if you want to get your sister back.

Mattie

How did you know?

Old Woman

I can read the earth below our feet and it trembles in fear of whatever it is up there that is coming to take our planet from us.

Mattie looks at the weapon.

Mattie

A gun.  I am not going to shoot my sister with a gun?

Old Woman

This isn't a regular gun. It shoots electromagnetic pulses.  Not bullets.

Mattie

What good will that do?

Old woman

It will destroy the signal that has made your sister into a slave to whatever power controls her.

Mattie

I see.

Cut:

Int. Lair of the Werbungdamon - Night

A closed cabinet with flowers around it sits in the background.  There are TVs everywhere lined up on the walls. We get closer to the cabinet.  Inside we can see Leanna's pale face asleep.

Cut:

Int. Space ship - night

Ollie Garkie is reading the signs of Leanna.

Ollie Garkie

Time to wake my monster and start making these humans my slaves.

Int. Lair of the Werbungdamon - night

The Werbungdamon opens the cabinet and out she steps.  She heads out of her Lair.

Cut:

Ext. Two men sitting and talking in forest - Night

Man #1

I haven't had a job since.

Man #2

They are hard to come by these days.

There is movement in the background.  They both turn to see the Werbungdamon coming.

Man #1

What is that?

Man #2

Just a freak wandering the park at night. We should scare her off when she gets near us.

The Werbungdamon walks up on the men. The men stand up.

Man #1

Get out of here freak.

The Werbungdamon stares at the two men. She then sends a signal from her antenna and strikes Man #1.  The Man starts to change from regular man into robot.

Man #2

What did you do to him?

Werbungdamon stares at Man #2 and Man #2 stares back.  The Werbungdamon opens its mouth and the man sees silver teeth and electricity.  He takes off running.  The Werbungdamon starts to chase him.

Cut:

Chase seen until the Werbungdamon catches the man. (Brandon)

Cut:

We see that both men have been turned to Robots.

Cut:

Ext/Int. Dead House - Night

Madison enter a dead house where the lights flicker. She goes around the corner and enters a room where there is a TV on with static in the air. There is a little girl who is tethered to the screen by her head.  Madison observes the wires.  Behind her the girls eyes spring open and grabs Madison by the neck.  Madison has to use her weapon to get the little girl off her.

There is laughing coming from the Television set and a faint face.

Poet (V.O.)

During last night's broadcast on the late, late show, his excited voice could be hard through the distortion.

Madison gets down on her knees and looks into the TV.

Madison

Let go of my sister.

Ollie Garkie laughs even louder. Madison turns and runs out of the room.

Cut:

Ext. The River - Day

Madison stands on a side of the river in a weird space suit. On the other side of the river is Werbungdamon.  In between them, in the river sets the weird old poet.

Poet

As we stand on opposite sides of the neon river. Looking into the empty space below the moon

Mattie goes to shoot at Leanna but behind her step two robots and they have to fight.  They are trying to get her but Mattie is able to fight them off and then she uses her weapon to shoot the two robots. They immediately stop working.

When Madison has seen she has defeated the two robots she turns her attention back to the Werbungdamon but there is nothing on the other side of the river.

Cut:

Ext. Old House - night

Madison comes across a old house at night.  She walks into the house and she finds people on their knees in front of their TVs with a IV sewn into their heads feeding them images.

Mattie

What madness is this.

Poet (v.O.)

Tuned into the all night radio show that plays the songs that bubble beneath open wounds.

Shot c/u of Mattie's hand checking out the need's tube and the bubbles in them.

Poet (V.O.)

Feeding the wet spongy mind with lucid images as darkened thoughts rained down from those broken skies.

Madison turns and she notices spiders on the windows.  Then she looks beyond the window and notices the moon and flicker of light beside the moon.

Mattie

What sort of witchcraft is this you have woven over this planet, demon?

Cut:

Int. space ship - Night

Ollie Garkie is laughing.

Ollie Garkie

I think it is time that I go and take my place at the head of my legions.

Ollie Garkie goes to land his space craft.

Cut:

Ext. Old House - Night

The people in the house are now robots. They rise from their knees and they attack Madison.  Madison is able to fight them off and freezes them as she shoots them with her EMP Weapon.

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Ext. Streets of Moronia - Day

Ollie Garkie enters the streets of Moronia juggling hand grenades while dancing to Jack Benny tunes. But nobody cared to noticed that tyranny was spreading across the land through the guise of entertainment and information.

Nobody stood up to stand against them so the Government of Moronia drafted a Declaration of Surrender and handed it to Ollie Garkie then went on about their business of being entertained.

Standing in the heat was too much to ask the Moronians. So they watched as Ollie Garkie changed the face of their government over night through their cell phones, computers, and high definition television sets.

Tyrants who entertained them and their reporters who asked no questions but instead just reported word for word what the clowns had to say. It made their jobs easier if they did it that way.

The story got high ratings in all the media who were happy for high audience number because now they could charge more for the commercials to advertisers who were constantly trying to convince Moronians that their brand was the best one to buy. Most products these days though had little competition so the people were pretty much branded already. Commercials were more of reminders and entertainment between the entertainment.

Where the people resisted through alternative entertainment Ollie Garkie sent his Werbungdamon.

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Ext. Carnival - night

Ollie Garkie gathers people to witness his freak show. When he opens the curtain it is the Werbungdamon who then turns all the people in attendance into a robot.

Cut:

Ext. Government Building - day

People are lined up in front of a building.  Their faces are lifeless and zombie like. They slowly march into the building.

Cut:

Int. Government factory Building - Day

The people are changed into robots.

Cut:

Ext. Government Factory Building - Day

The people march out on the opposite side like robots.

Cut:

Ext. City Skyline - Night

Madison scans the city skyline until she comes across a building with many satellites on top of it.  She figures this must be the lair of the Werbungdamon.  She heads inside the lair.

Cut:

Int. The Lair of the Werbungdamon - Night

Madison enters the lair and finds people attached to television sets.  She walks pass them and heads toward what looks like a coffin.  She opens it up and finds Leanna inside.

Madison

Leanna.

Madison checks her gun.

Madison

I am sorry I am going to have to do this.

Madison gets ready to shoot her EMP weapon when suddenly a hand grabs her from behind. Madison has to fight several robots.  Leanna awakes. Madison tries to convince her to help her but Leanna doesn't move.  Madison finds her weapons and shoots Leanna. Leanna is stunned. The robots take her weapon.  Leanna then approaches Madison ready to make her into another robot.  But then at the last moment, Leanna comes too and together they destroy the robots.

They turn their attention to destroying Ollie Garkie.

Leanna

You freed me.

Madison

Now we have to defeat Ollie Garkie.  He has taken over the world.

Leanna

Then there is no time to waste.

Together Leanna and Madison leave the lair together to go search for Ollie Garkie.

ACT. III (Werbungendamon Redeemed)

Ext. The White House - night

Madison and Leanna contemplate on how to get in without being seen.  They go in as planned.

Cut:

Int. The oval office - night

Madison and Leanna enter the oval office.  They see the president of the United states sitting behind his desk. They enter.

Madison

Where is Ollie?

The president doesn't move.  Madison and Leanna move over to where the President sits and finds that it is just a marionette doll.

They suddenly hear laughing.  They turn and find they are being attacked by robots.

They fight the robots off and head off to find the secret lair where Ollie is hiding.

Cut:

Int. Underground Bunker - Night

Madison and Leanna fight through the robots and find Ollie Garkie hiding in an underground bunker.

They fight through the robots and take on Ollie Garkie and defeat him.

After Ollie Garkie is defeated aliens come and take Ollie Garkie away.

oLLIE GARKIE

Let me show you that my beliefs aren't madness.  It can be future of thought.  We do not have to have our own beliefs and own thoughts... We can think as one.

Ollie Garkie is loaded and the ship takes off.

Cut:

Ext. The Poet in the Forest - Night

Poet

He confirmed the languid sadness that made him turn and rush back into the darkness where even the cold burns

cut:

Ext. Matherville home - day

Madison and Leanna return home and they are hugged by their parents.

Cut:

Ext. The poet in the trees - Night

poet

Then silence returned as the empty noise chattered on. The air buzzed as dilated faces redrew happy emoticons.

It is only now we see the strangers who walk at our sides knowing it's the first time to feel the wet tooth's poisoned bite

Fade Out:

Denouement

Int. Living Room - day

Leanna and Madison are sitting watching the television set together.  They are watching a political debate.  The TV camera pulls back and a familiar face appears on the screen.  It is Ollie Garkie.  They look at each other.  They hear sirens in the distance.  Police enter their house and take them into custody.

Hillary, Obama, and many other political figures and media figures laughing.

Cut:

Ext. The Old Poet in the Forest - Day

The old poet sits in the forest and writes one last line.

Poet

Hear these words my fellow human souls. Beware of the shadows of power and do not let their foul spirit enchant your soul.

Fade Out:

The end:

Notes:

madison has to go to a high place with lots of antennae to find her sister. 

Madison finds Ollie Garkie in the basement of a government building.  she finds a puppet in the oval office of the white house.