Thursday, October 18, 2007

Screenplay for Analysis

The Librarian

INT: LIBRARY - DAY

Lippy, a librarian, scuttles down an aisle of books. She’s thinking about where she should place a book in her hands.

She passes by an eight year old boy. He’s reading a book. Ohhh, I’m going to get this kid, she thinks.

She walks up to the kid.

LIPPY
Now young man, you know you aren’t allowed in
the adult section of the library.


BOY
But there’s nothing good in …

LIPPY
No lip from you, sonny. Get out!

She throws the boy out. He tumbles down the outside steps of the library.

Lippy growls and adjusts her glasses.

LIPPY
Now to get that book where it belongs.

She walks down another aisle and runs into a short man with glasses a mustache. He’s reading the same book the little kid had been reading. She looks hard at the short man and then grabs the book out of his hand.

The man jumps back. He’s thinking, oh no, she caught me. Lippy snatches the glasses off, revealing the little boy. He snuck in again! She chases him around the library, upstairs downstairs, through the museum. And finally she catches him.

She takes him by the ear and throws him out the door.

LIPPY
And don’t you come back!

INT: LIBRARY – NIGHT

The library is empty. LIPPY walks down another aisle and finally finds the shelf for her book. But it’s way high up. She stands on her tip toes, but still can’t reach. She climbs up the book shelves.

Suddenly the shelves start to teeter.

LIPPY
Oh no!

The shelf tips over and dumps books all over her. An especially large book falls last, knocking Lippy on the head. Her eyes close. She’s unconscious.

A man walks by. He’s very tall. He has glasses and a mustache.

MAN
(in an unusually high voice)
Are you OK?

Lippy doesn’t answer because, of course, she’s knocked out and unconscious people can’t talk.

The man takes off his pants, revealing long stilts underneath. Then he whips off his glasses and mustache. It’s the little boy!

He jumps down from the stilts and takes the books off of Lippy.

Lippy’s eyes flutter open. Where am I?

BOY
Are you OK, Mrs. Librarian?

LIPPY
You saved me!

The boy blushes.

BOY
It was lucky I walked by when I did.

INT: LIBRARY CIRCULATION DESK – NIGHT

Lippy signs a card and hands it to the boy. The card says

CARD
ADULT LIBRARY CARD

The little boy smiles at her. He places a book on the counter. It title says:

BOOK
Great Librarians Throughout the Ages.

Lippy beams at the boy and runs the book under the scanner.

The End.