Beetlejuice Page #33
- PG
- Year:
- 1988
- 92 min
- 10,409 Views
CATHY holds out her left hand.
BARBARA suddenly materializes, holding CATHY's hand.
DELIA, CHARLES, OTHO, and LYDIA's eyes widen to the fullest
possible extent.
OTHO:
This is it, Delia.
OTHO pushes DELIA forward, and BARBARA reaches out her hand.
After a tiny moment's hesitation, DELIA takes it. She shudders.
CATHY:
As flies the lizard / Serpent fell;
As goblin vizard / At the spell
Of pale wizard / Sinks to hell;
The buried, dead, and slain
Rise again.
CATHY holds out her right hand. ADAM materializes, holding it.
CHARLES is already there, and grasps ADAM's hand, after giving
him a quick, appraising glance in the face. Immediately OTHO and
LYDIA complete the circle around BEETLE JUICE.
BEETLE JUICE:
Clever people. Who's been
reading the manual? You,
fat boy? I could make you
rich and thin.
OTHO quivers a moment with hesitation, then he stands up
staunchly.
OTHO:
Delia, I'd better be in
your will.
BEETLE JUICE flaps his wings, and a wind begins to blow inside
the house, in a clockwise direction. His seven opponents have to
strain to keep the circle together.
All the guests have fled. The sculptures lie in ruin. The wind
blows ever harder, in a counter-clockwise direction, around the
house.
The wind is even stronger inside the room. The wind is breaking
up the furniture, and spinning around crazily and dangerously.
But the circle remains as if at the eye of a hurricane.
BEETLE JUICE, in an uncustomary moment of panic, throws himself
at the perimeter of the circle, but is hurled back by a bolt of
colored electricity. He's burned.
BEETLE JUICE:
I know more tricks than you.
Here, girlie, want to see
what your friends really
look like?
He grins.
ADAM and BARBARA shudder in pain, and at once begin to transform
into mouldering corpses. Their clothing rots, their skin
discolors and peels, mould encrusts their features.
At the same time, the lighting in the center of the circle
continues, and BEETLE JUICE does a spastic dance trying to avoid
the charges. He is burned repeatedly.
DELIA and CHARLES, finding that they are holding hands with
corpses, pull away repulsed and horrified.
CATHY:
Don't break the circle.
CHARLES and DELIA screw up their courage, and maintain their
grips on the corpses' hands.
The lightning intensifies inside the circle. Outside the circle,
the wind is like a hurricane, and the rest of the living room is
only a blur.
CATHY, growing weak, starts to faint.
BARBARA CORPSE:
(Groaning) Nowwwwww .
Having said this, BARBARA's jaw falls off.
CATHY:
Today is a thought
A fear is tomorrow
And yesterday is our sin
And our sorrow
And life is a death.
Dear ghosts, so to die
Is to live --
And like is a worthless lie,
Then we weep for ourselves,
and wish you goodbye.
ADAM and BARBARA's corpses turn a last, lingering glance on
CATHY.
BEETLE JUICE screams in frustration and pain. One last terrific
bolt of colored lightning envelops him, and causes his wings to
burst into lurid flame. He leaps high into the air, smashing
through the ceiling.
BEETLE JUICE, howling, crashes through the floor, and then
through the ceiling here as well.
he crashes through the attic floor, and then out through the
roof.
BEETLE JUICE is A BALL OF FIRE at the top of the whirlwind
surrounding the house. He explodes like a massive display of
fireworks.
Almost instantly, the wind calms down.
The downstairs walls of the house have been completely
obliterated, leaving only the frame. There is nothing whatever
left of the furnishings. Moonlight shines down through the
vertical holes BEETLE JUICE blasted through the house.
CHARLES:
Is everybody all right?
Cathy?
CATHY has collapsed between two small piles of dust and bones and
scraps of cloth, all that is left of ADAM and BARBARA. DELIA
raises a limp CATHY, and after a tense moment, CATHY's eyes
struggle open.
OTHO:
There are doors man is not
meant to open. There are
places man is not meant to
tread. I guess Connecticut
is one of them.
LYDIA:
They gave up their lives
to save us and the house.
DELIA:
They were already dead.
(Beat) But you're right,
they did sacrifice themselves.
CATHY:
They can't be dead!
She runs for the stairs.
OTHO is standing beneath the holes in the ceiling, looking up at
the moon.
OTHO:
skylight.
But the DEETZs have already started up the stairs, after CATHY.
INT:
ATTIC -- NIGHTIn shadows, CATHY stands over the model. Some of it survives,
some it was sheered off in BEETLE JUICE's ascension.
LYDIA, CHARLES, and DELIA come silently into the room, and stand
together, looking at the miniature version of their own home.
CHARLES:
We have two choices.
We can stay and try to
put this house together
again. Or we can move
back to New York.
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