Chozen Page #4

INT. CHUCK E CHEESE/GAME AREA -CONTINUOUS

We follow a BALL whizzing up a SKI-BALL RAMP. It jumps thelip and lands in the 1000 POINTS HOLE.

CHOZEN (O.S.)

Booo yaaaa!

Pull back to see Chozen, pockets dripping with tickets. Hedances around 3 ANGRY LITTLE KIDS.

CHOZEN (CONT’D)

I be owning y’all tonight! Youcan’t see me! You can’t see me!

Chozen looks down, puts his hand out.

CHOZEN (CONT’D)

Alright Devin, that’s 20 tickets.

You talked a big game but you donegot smacked down. Pay up son !

DEVIN (6, Sour faced, pudgy) starts bawling.

CHOZEN (CONT’D)

Oh come on now, don’t be gettin’all childish.

(BEAT)

You got a daddy? Step daddy?

Devin, sniffling, nods his head “no.”

DEVIN:

I don’t have a daddy.

Chozen kneels down, face to face with Devin.

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CHOZEN:

(sarcastic sweetness)

Well, tell yo mama if she learnthow to keep a man her son wouldn’tbe such biyatch.

Devin starts crying even louder.

CRISCO (O.S.)

Yo Choze!

Chozen turns to see Crisco and Ricky standing in the hall.

CHOZEN:

About time fellas.

INT. CHUCK E CHEESE/DINING AREA - CONTINUOUS

Crisco and Ricky sit on one side of a table, Chozen on theother, flanked by 2 HUGE STUFFED BEAR PRIZES. Ricky andCrisco keep looking around, nervous again.

TIM, the waiter, enters.

TIM:

What can I get you guys tonight?

CHOZEN:

3 Mr. Pibbs please, (whisper) extraicey.

Tim turns to leave, Chozen smacks him on the ass. Tim whipsaround.

TIM:

Hey, not cool.

CHOZEN:

Sorry dog, the bears be feelin’frisky. (growling sounds)

Tim leaves in a huff. Crisco and Ricky are weirded out.

RICKY:

Hey, why are we here Chozen?

CHOZEN:

Ease up Rrricky. It’s been a longtime, lots of emotions up in thisChuck E. Cheese’s.

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CRISCO:

You be lookin different yo.

RICKY:

Yeah dog, I was gonna say the sameshit.

CHOZEN:

Yeah, well, jail changes a man. Ify’all had been cool friends andreached out to a brother you mightknow that.

RICKY:

I got to mass bro. Sunday’s are forthe Lord, not the incarcerated.

CRISCO:

It was Phantasm man. After he sewed

you up on them bullshit chargesthings got ugly.

RICKY:

Bro, we knew that you wereinnocent, and we were ready to goto the cops, and then boom,

Phantasm found out.

CRISCO:

He tell us we gotta stay out thegame, stay away from you. He waskicking it with these rough necksman. Real hood sh*t.

RICKY:

Gangster sh*t.

CHOZEN:

Y’all are playing right now.

Phantasm ain’t no gangster. We onlylet that fool in the group cuz hishairs is white.

CRISCO:

Nah dog, he changed. RememberRicky’s cat, Reginald?

CHOZEN:

Oh yeah, that black muthafucka wascool as hell.

FLASHBACK TO:

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INT. HOUSE

We see a black cat grabbed by a hand with a 4 finger ringthat reads “PLAYAH.”

RICKY:

Reggie disappeared one night, andthe next day I get a letter.

CHOZEN:

Oh no, not a letter!

CUT TO:
Hands fumble to open a letter. The letter, written incat fur and glue reads “I like your p*ssy, keep your mouthshut!”

RICKY:

It was written in hairs

bro...(starting to break) He wasprobably cold dog...so cold dog!

BACK TO PRESENT:

Ricky sobs.

CRISCO:

I got a DVD delivered to my house.

I played that sh*t and seen my Mamalaying on a table. She up at thatmassage place she go to for herFibromyalgias.

RICKY:

That wha?!

FLASHBACK TO:

CUT TO:
Video Cam POV- Hands rubbing a large black woman. Shemoans. Phantasm’s face comes into frame.

PHANTASM (INTO CAMERA)

I learnt how to use You tube, the

rap game is mine, zip yo lipsnigga!

BACK TO PRESENT:

Crisco puts his head down defeated.

RICKY:

What if he found out we were makingmusic again, or talking to you? Whoknows what he’s capable of!

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CHOZEN:

Man, you done let that fool get upin your head space. Homeboy is softyo. I spent years with some realtough brothers, and Phantasm ain’tcaca. I know fools who’d be playinghis butt-hole like a saxophone.

Chozen mimes blowing into a butt, makes saxophone noises.

Ricky and Crisco nonplussed.

CHOZEN (CONT’D)

Jazzmatazz fo’ dat ass.

(Beat)

John Hole-Pain.

(Beat)

Kenny G. But with an a**hole.

Guys still non-plussed.

RICKY:

But the culo is like, really closeto the balls-

CHOZEN:

It’s like this. Phantasm stole

something from all of us. I mean,

he stole a lot more from me than

you guys, but still! We gotta showthat punk ass what time it is!

Chozen slides a burned CD over the table.

CHOZEN (CONT’D)

I booked a show. I’m taking backwhat’s mine, and you can too.

Redemption fellas, redemption.

Ricky and Crisco look to each other for a beat, cautiously.

CRISCO:

Look bro, it’s good to see you andall that, but we got a good thinggoing.

RICKY:

We’re kind of hot on the partycircuit right now, but we’re stilllike small enough to fly under theradar of Phantasm. We’re not rock

stars and sh*t, but, it’s

something.

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CRISCO:

Sorry dog.

Crisco and Ricky hop up and head for the door. Chozen stands.

Calling after them.

CHOZEN:

Oh ayight, I see how it be then,

y’all wanna live like little scaredbabies? Fine! Enjoy them birthdaycakes! When I blow up Phantasm’sspot I’ll be sure to send him yourway. D*cks!

EXT. COLLEGE/DORM BUILDING - NIGHT

Chozen walks towards the dorm with the stuffed bears, he has

a brown bag bottle of booze, he’s hammered. He drunkenlymumbles to himself. He kicks the bears into A FOUNTAIN.

CHOZEN (*CUE 4)

(drunk rapping to himself)

Sometimes yo friends let you down,

Take your dreams, and smash em’ onthe ground. What do I do, turn thepage?

WE SNAP INTO THE MUSIC VIDEO IN CHOZEN’S HEAD. THE BEARS TURN

INTO MUSCLED OUT DUDES WHO HIP HOP DANCE. HOOCHIES BLAST

CHAMPAGNE. CHOZEN SNAPS THE NECK OF ONE OF THE BEAR-MEN.

Uh uh, hell no I’m goin’ channel myrage and spit, rhymes of horror,

unspeakable things, from deepinside me the darkness sings Murdermurder, sex sex, murder murder,

murder murder, sex...

Back to reality. Chozen is in the fountain, humping one ofthe bear dolls. It’s head falls off. A few kids on the stepsof the dorm get up and run off.

INT. TRACY’S DORM/LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

Tracy is having a get together. A WANNABE DJ works the tuneson a laptop. Other HIPSTER COLLEGE KIDS mill about, partying.

Chozen drunkenly opens the door, he surveys the scene, asmile crosses his face.

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CHOZEN:

Yo Tracy, you ain’t tell me we washaving a party. Let’s get weirdy’all!

Chozen drops the bear and jumps onto the DJ table, pushinghis body up into a plank, he looks to the people at the partywhile holding the position and then moves to am impossibleone handed iron cross type position.

CHOZEN (CONT’D)

Yo fellas, peep the upper body

strength.

SMASH! The table breaks and he goes crashing to the ground.

Tight on Tracy

TRACY:

Sh*t.

INT. TRACY”S DORM? LIVING ROOM - LATER

Chozen wanders through the guests, drunkenly looking everyoneup and down, he sees a college kid, JEREMY, sitting alone ona bean bag chair. Chozen comes and stands directly in frontof him.

CHOZEN:

What’s up, you go to school here?

JEREMY:

(smart-ass tone)

Uh, yeah.

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