Asylum
EXT - PRAGUE STREET - NIGHT
A luxury police vehicle travels along a downtown street in Prague with
Western advertisements displayed. Car stops at traffic lights.
INT - POLICE CAR - PAVEL/MIRA/DRIVER - NIGHT
Mira and Pavel are in the rear seats with uniformed Driver up front.
Mira turns to look out of window.
(Pavel Blazek:
45 yr-old Czech Police Chief, smartly attired)(Mira:
Czech man 50+ yrs, heavy set)INT\EXT - POLICE CAR - MIRA - NIGHT
Mira notices an unattended Prague Echo newspaper stand which reads,
"FIRE DESTROYS OLD SECRET POLICE H.Q._ It also displays the slogan,
"The Echo - Prague_s English language paper._
INT - POLICE CAR - MIRA/PAVEL - NIGHT
MIRA:
(Subtitles)
Why are there still such headlines?
PAVEL:
(Subtitles)
This press we cannot control.
Americans, I think.
MIRA:
(Subtitles)
You know everyone can be controlled Pavel.
Where are you storing the personnel files?
PAVEL:
(Subtitles)
In a building belonging to the
University in the Old Town.
MIRA:
(Subtitles)
You are quite sure it's secure?
PAVEL:
(Subtitles)
The files are in a sealed room and the
University are under strict orders to
stay away.
MIRA:
(Subtitles)
The storage facility will be ready
within a week, I'll call you then.
Pavel nods and Mira taps the Driver on the shoulder. Mira takes a
envelope out of his inside pocket and hands it to Pavel.
EXT - PRAGUE STREET - PAVEL/MIRA/DRIVER - NIGHT
Show the police car pull up. Across the road is the "ROKOKO_
nightclub with neon sign. Mira climbs out of the car. The police car
drives off. Mira crosses the street away from Rokoko. Show the
entrance to the Rokoko club. TWO armed foot-patrol Police OFFICERS
casually walk past the club.
INT - NIGHTCLUB - DOUG/KATKA/CHRIS/JOSH/HOLLY - NIGHT
A poetry evening is in progress in the dimly lit lounge of Rokoko
nightclub. At the front-centre of the lounge is an overhead red lamp
and a bar stool, beside which is standing Lawrence.
(Lawrence:
Hip-looking American in early-twenties)LAWRENCE:
....... and yes she wore your bathing
suit, clad and clinging round her sex
and yes I thought of you, when you
were still a bubble of breath and
hope and love,
Show trendy young Western people conversing in groups and drinking
wine & beer. It is crowded with all couches occupied and many people
lying/sitting on the floor. To one side is a PHOTOGRAPHER and
ASSISTANT with equipment set up.
LAWRENCE(OS)
for those that died and never lied;
to your face or heaving breasts
I dream of nightly between damp sheets,
as I run from you and think of Joleen.
Show audience's enthusiastic applause. Katka weaves through the crowd
carrying two beers and a cocktail. A young MAN blocks her path
momentarily and they exchange smiles as she passes by.
(Katka:
19yr-old beautiful Czech girl)ON LAWRENCE:
LAWRENCE:
Okay....The next one I'd like to share
with you is called, "Revisited."
A camera flashes. Lawrence blinks a few times, shaking his head as he
thumbs through loose papers, dropping one. Show the Photographer
working with equipment.
LAWRENCE (OS)
Old Town Square a maze of cafes
Change shops offer souvenirs
Moving-walks span Charles Bridge
Charging a dollar a ride
Fairy tale castle on the hill
Licensed to Disneyland
And occupied by a dreamer
Directing from an ivory tower
Built from sweat, tears and fear
LAWRENCE (Cont_d)
As part of his inheritance
Not content with money and mortar
Pen, paper and wife
To carry on and tell the tale
He must aspire to greater things
Follow Katka back to a couch and table where DOUG and CHRIS are
sitting.
(Doug:
30yr-old Englishman with rugged, good looks)(Chris:
24yr-old American, overweight)Their table is a mess of empty beer bottles, half-full ash tray &
Czech cigarettes. Chris is playing with a baseball. Doug finishes
off a beer and grabs one of the new beers brought by Katka.
FADE LAWRENCE TO BACKGROUND SOUND
DOUG:
Lawrence is getting derogatory again.
KATKA:
Shhhhh, I'm concentrating!
DOUG:
(to Chris)
I think he's jealous of Havel.
CHRIS:
He_s the closest we've got to an intellectual.
DOUG:
What's that? A Democrat with an attitude!
ANGLE a female audience member who is enthraled.
ON LAWRENCE:
LAWRENCE (Cont'd)
And from the dungeon climb
To take a place still warm
Exchanging iron clasps for gold
Rags for riches
Stories yet to scribe for him
A camera flashes.
LAWRENCE(Cont'd)
King of scribes
Were it a monarchy, but no
He must preside
Over and over again
A nation of ungodly saints
Born again with time to die
The death of a thousand evils
And by their hand they'll claim
Others guided a destiny once more
Enthusiastic applause and yells, some people clapping. Lawrence moves
off centre. M.C. gets up from a nearby couch and goes to the front
and checks his clipboard.
(M.C:
Slight-figured American in early-twenties with goatee)M.C.
Great piece Lawrence. Okay next up is...
Holly.
ANGLE Holly and Josh sitting at a table on which are two glasses of
wine & Western cigarettes. Holly rises from her seat and moves past
Josh.
(Holly:
27yr-old American girl with understated looks)(Josh:
All-American guy in early thirties)FOLLOW Holly down to the front as M.C. moves off. Holly sits on the
bar stool back under the red light.
HOLLY:
I'd like to read some prose, it doesn't
have a title yet.
Holly flicks through her notebook.
ANGLE DOUG/CHRIS/KATKA
DOUG:
(to Chris)
Here comes her life story all twenty
something years of it.
CHRIS:
Let's hope it don't take that long to
read.
HOLLY:
As the dawn brings the sun and life to
her body made limp by sleep and the
pleasures of his passion she awakes, and
feels her nakedness against the world and
his body lying still, next to her. Stained
bed sheet and a pillow, heavy from sweat,
are all that remains to validate his
valour in night time combat. But she was
not his foe, that unseen enemy he forced
his might against last night; she was but a
cushion for his blows.
ANGLE DOUG\KATKA\CHRIS & FADE HOLLY SOUND TO BACKGROUND
HOLLY(OS)
No act of love but willing violence
demanded by one and begged by the other.
As life turned to fantasy and reality to
ecstasy a need, so deep no light could
reach, surfaced like a nocturnal creature
unearthed for momentary and glorious
display. Left alone in a rose-tinted
afterglow dimming fast she tasted the
moisture of her body and wondered why
light came to day and such desires to
her pale-skin body.
DOUG:
(to Chris)
Well she sure isn't normal.
CHRIS:
Fresh from the shrink I'd say!
DOUG:
Yeah, group bloody therapy time.
KATKA:
So why don't you get up and speak something,
then we will see who is crazy.
DOUG:
Ooh, well excuse me.
ON HOLLY:
HOLLY:
And now as the window lace filters out
a darkened past she reaches for her body
once more. Her hand glides from breast
to thigh as thoughts of times flow by.
Her nipples awake and race after a conscious
thought of lustful moments in grassy fields
in time to see reality reap the earth and
leave it barren.
ANGLE DOUG/KATKA/CHRIS
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