Codeword: 4 Guillotined Clones
11 mins.
Outfits/ Props:Props:Guillotine Set upright, + basket Outfits: Generally, skirt, spandex shorts that are very short, (reveals glutes, when kneeling,crotch from rear). Bright Colors: red; black; blue; green; lavender
Synopsis:Not knowing theCodeword, 4 clones are Guillotined, to find the culprit of an assassination. The original, removes her cloths, is put in the Guillotine– reveals the Codeword; is spared– fails in trying to seduce the Executioner.
Script:( 6 pages)
Act I: Clones
Scene: Enter Room.
Camera: Establishing Shot – 10 feet space left of prop – for C1 & E to walk in
C1 dragged into room, resisting, ( feet pushing, rear leaning back, clattering heels) E pushes. Path is 10 feet from guillotine, on right. Come to stand, left of guillotine; no basket.
C1, resistant, frowning, anxiously, looks from device to E, who is on left.
C1: “ You’re going to cut off my head?” Angrily.
[Dialogue variation: For Repeat:
C2: “ I’m going to lose my head?”
C3: (Incredulous, verge of tears) “I’m to be beheaded!?”
C4: (Unashamed) “ You beheaded the other clones? ” ]5 secs
Camera: Profile View A: Tight shot of Profile view of Upright Guillotine.
C1 stands three fourth front view, on the left of the guillotine* – E to her left, has hand on her shoulder. He takes a small cord, from his pocket.
Scene: Tie Wrists
Camera Rear View:
C1 seen 3 inches below buttocks, and at least up to scapula, as her wrists are tied – her hands grip, open; agitated. 5 secs
Scene: Basket Placed
Camera Profile View A:
C1 stomps, leans forward, emphatically. “ What if I’m the original?”
[C2: “Stop, I know the code!”
C3:( terrified) “ You can’t do this, .. It’s not Fair !! ”
C4: “They were innocent!” ( accusingly)]
E walks over, attaches basket. C1 desperate, wants response, to delay.5 secs
Scene: Test Blade
E, ignores C1, raises blade – C1wide eyed, terror, staring at blade
E: “ What’s the Codeword?” 5 secs
E makes blade fall. C1 flinches away – self pity. E walks over to C1. C1 leans back, to back away. E puts hand on her shoulder, brings her to prop. 5 secs
C1 looks horrified at lunette. 2.5 secs
Scene. Guillotine
Camera: Rear View.
Behind C1, above, looking down into lunette, C1‘s back. Frame: 3 inches below buttocks to entire upper body. C1 resists, bound wrists.
C1 looks at lunette (3 secs), turns to E (on left), ( profile of C1 face: 5 secs
C1: “ I forgot ”
[C2:( Con-artist tone) “Yes! I know the code.”
C3: ( Admonishing tone) “Only one of us guilty.”
C4:” I did it!” ]
C1 looks back, E pushes C1 45 degrees toward the lunette. C1 muscles resist. 5 secs
Scene: Lunette Locked
Camera Front 3/4 view.
C1 lowered toward lunette, 30 degrees from being on it. 2.5 secs
Camera RearView.
C1 lowered all the way onto the lunette. 2.5 secs
C1 positioned looking down, hair pushed away from neck.2.5 secs
C1 turns head to left ( profile of face; wrist and muscles on back resist).2.5 secs
C1: “Wait. I’m the original! I forgot the code!!”
[C2: “,.. I wrote the code down!”
C3: “Its not right, to execute me! ”
C4: “ But you executed the innocent.” ]
Top of lunette is lowered into position.5 secs
Camera Basket view.
Looking up at C1‘s face.2.5 secs
Camera Profile View:
C1 in guillotine. 5 sec
E on basket side, moves hair away from neck 2.5 secs
C1 bends knee (kicking up heel). 2.5 secs
resists bound wrists flexing against; bucking against the bonds: leaning back, pulling back.2.5 secs
C1 bend knee. Tilt head back, twice- grunting: “ ungh!”2.5 secs
Camera Basket view:
2.5 secs
Camera Rear view:
Legs and upper back in guillotine. Resist wrists. Buttocks flex , pushing back leaning to right, pulling, for a second, resting for several secs – pulling, twisting to other side.
5 secs
C1:“ I know who did it”
[C2:“ Please, let me up,… I’ll get the codeword,..”(sobbing, pleading).
C3: “You have no proof!”
C4: “ I am not ashamed. ” (defiant) ] 5 secs
Camera Executioner Eye view:
E eye view, from left side of guillotine, a foot in front of basket, looking down on C1– view of upper body on guillotine, basket.2.5 secs.
Scene : Key Sfx
Camera Profile view:
C1 resists, frantically- flexing of legs, buttocks: head tilting back, as though trying to shake it. 2.5 secs
Sfx of blade , and head fall – maintaining camera view: cgi remove head. Body goes slack.7.5 secs
E walks around looking at body on guillotine. Touching bound wrists, shaking. Touch mid thigh, bending leg at knee, removing each heel.7.5 sec
E removes basket. Sets it down,2.5 secs
Reaches in, gathering hair to raise out head. 2.5 secs
Camera Close view Severed Head:
Tight shot head held. leans 30 forward, and tilts head down, touching chest ( black cloth mid neck). Bob head, coordinated with E’s hand, simulate gravity, severed head dangling. 5 secs
Camera Profile view:
E, raises lunette. Pulls body, left, sliding body, 5 small increments, smooth straight line – till shoulders are at edge of bench. ( Sfx. Cgi remove. Black sheet background, black bag over head)5 secs
Camera view, top down on body.
Full figure. sfx remove head.5 secs
Act I: Total 2 minutes.
End Act I
Clone sequence:
Repeat Act I, with C2. C3. C4 – ( SubTotal 8 mins)
C2: ( Hair: high pony tail. Outfit: different, color)
C3: Top bun. Different color.
C4: low pony tail. “
Scene: Row of headless bodies
Camera view, top down.
Full figure – Sfx remove head. C4’s body is placed 1 foot from C3’s body, next to C2, and C1 ( sfx, superimposed ) 5 secs x 4 = 20 secs.
Cumulative sfx: Till all four in a row.
Original (O): C1 costume ( hair loose, long).
Act II: Original
Scene: Enter Room
O dragged into room, E pushes. Path is 10 feet from prop. Coming to stand , next to prop.
O, amused, repressing smile. Curiously looks from device to E.
O: ( bright, unscared) “ You guillotined the clones?”
Repeat Act I – through Wrist Tie scene.
E: ( hesitant) “ Unless you know the code, .. you’re next.”10 secs
Scene: Nude Basketless
Camera Profile View:
O, fascinated, Looking up and down prop.
O: “Can you not use the basket this time?” E,opens lunette, approaches O. O excited – like carnival ride.
O: ( mischievous) “ Let me take off my clothes. “O takes off clothes, seductively, a teasing, while entering prop. 15 secs
O leans over prop, 2.5 secs
Places head under lunette top board.
Camera Front 3/4 view.
O in lunette, 30 degrees from being on it. 2.5 secs
Scene: Guillotine
Camera RearView B.
O showing off her rear, looks around to E. Seductive.
O: “ Is this right?”
E lowers lunette top board.7.5 secs
Camera Basket view.
Up at O mischievous face
E: (distracted ) “ Uh, .. Yes.”5 sec
Camera Profile View:
O in prop, E on basket side, moves hair away from O’s neck. 5 secs
O behaves foreplay tone.
O: ( mistress, asking her submissive, to confess ) “ You like me in this position? ”
E: “,… uh,,.. it’s my job to,.. “5 secs
Camera Basket view:
O smiles. 5 secs
Camera Rear view:
Buttocks flex , leaning to right, then left; sway hips suggestively.
O: ( innocent tone) “Oh,.. nothing,..I just thought you seemed,… aroused. ” 5 secs
Camera Executioner Eye view:
E, left of prop, in front of basket, looking down on O
E: “ Well, you are naked,,.. and very beautiful .. watching you bend over,…”
O: “ Come here, I want to whisper something into your ear,..”5 sec
Scene: Codeword
Camera Profile View:
E, leans down, holds his hand ear. O lifts her head, whispers (inaudible). E leans back, surprised. hand on his chin – pacing. Pondering.
E: “ Why didn’t you use the Codeword earlier?” 5 secs
Camera Basket View:
O is smiling, pixyish tone of girl who played prank, amused.
O: “ I’ve never been in a guillotine.” 5 secs
Camera Profile View:
O: “ While I’m in here, I thought,,.. maybe,,. “
She sways her hips, suggestively.7.5 secs
Camera Rear view:
O: ( turning head sideways, looks to E, standing in front of her on left. Courteous, bashful) “,.. if you’re interested,..”
She sways her buttocks to either side, and flexes them twice., nodding her head to the left twice; pointing him in that direction.7.5 secs
Scene: Proposal Denied
Camera Profile View:
E: ( eyes widen, looks at her buttocks) “ You want me to,..”
E: (bashful, shy,.. smiling, closes his eyes,. Looks up) “ I can’t,.. or I will be fired.”
E unlocks the lunette, O gets up. She is angry, stands there, looks at him, as he exits left. Olooks with narrow, annoyed eyes, offscreen, pouty.10 secs
O looks at prop: up down.5 secs
Looks at clothes on the ground. Picks them up.
O: “ Hummp!” O storms off left. 7.5 secs
Scene: Severed Heads
Camera shows the panorama of 4 severed heads ( side by side, sfx, superimposed. Towel wrapped under neck) sitting on a long table ( close up, against sheet). 15 secs
Scene: Headless Bodies15 secs
Fade out.
Total Act II: 2 mins 25 secs+ 20 secs Grand total: 10 mins 45 secs
The End.