Donnie Darko Page #4

INT. HOLIDAY INN, ROOM 615 - NEXT

Rose and Eddie lie awake in the dark.

ROSE:

So let me get this straight. No

airline will claim ownership of the

engine. So we have to wait for the

FAA to decide who fixes my roof.

(beat)

F*** that. We're taking the money

out of savings.

EDDIE:

(quoting Rod Serling)

You are entering a new dimension of

sight and sound...

Rose begins to laugh.

INT. HOLIDAY INN, ROOM 614 - NEXT

SAMANTHA:

Why do I have to sleep with Donnie?

He stinks.

DONNIE:

When you fall asleep tonight, I'm

gonna fart in your face.

SAMANTHA:

(walking to the door)

I'm telling Mom.

ELIZABETH:

Samantha, don't go over there.

INT. HOLIDAY INN, ROOM 615 - LATER THAT NIGHT

EDDIE:

Frankie Feedler.

ROSE:

What?

EDDIE:

Frankie Feedler. You remember him

from high school?

ROSE:

(long beat)

He was a year ahead of us?

EDDIE:

He died, remember? On the way to the

prom.

(beat)

He was doomed.

Rose lies there silently.

EDDIE:

Jesus Christ. They could have said

the same thing about Donnie. Our

Donnie.

(beat)

But he dodged it. He dodged his

bullet, Rose.

Rose rolls over to embrace him.

EDDIE:

That's my boy.

Moments later, the door to the adjoining room opens. It is

Samantha.

SAMANTHA:

Mom, Donnie said he's gonna fart in

my face.

TITLE CARD:

OCTOBER 3 1988

EXT. BUS STOP - MORNING (MONDAY MORNING, 7 A.M.)

Rose drops Donnie and Samantha off at the corner.

ROSE:

Ms. Farmer will pick you up from

recital. Bye, now.

She pulls of in the Taurus.

Already waiting at the bus stop is Joanie James (eleven).

Also Cherita Chen (fifteen).

SAMANTHA:

Hi, Cherita.

CHERITA:

Chut up.

Also there are Donnie's two best friends, Sean Smith (sixteen)

and Ronald Fisher (fifteen)

RONALD:

(raising his hands in

victory)

DARKO CHEATS DEATH! Man... you're

famous! I called you, like, a jillion

times last night!

DONNIE:

We went to a hotel.

RONALD:

My dad said he found you on the golf

course. Are you sleepwalking again?

DONNIE:

I don't wanna talk about it.

SEAN:

Now that you're famous, you gotta

have a smoke.

Sean hands Donnie a Marlboro Red and he takes it, looking

over at Samantha and Joanie.

DONNIE:

What happens if you tell Mom and Dad

about this, Samantha?

SAMANTHA:

You'll put Ariel in the garbage

disposal.

JOANIE:

So... grody.

Sean, Ronald and Donnie light up. Ronald is the most amateur-

looking.

SEAN:

Hey, Cherita... want a cigarette?

CHERITA:

Chut up.

RONALD:

(mimicking)

Chut up!

SEAN:

Go back to China, b*tch!

DONNIE:

Leave her alone, man.

Cherita looks over at Donnie... her quiet devastation poorly

hidden.

EXT. / INT. MIDDLESEX RIDGE SCHOOL - MORNING (8 A.M.)

The following montage is three long Steadicam shots in the

main school hallway and courtyard.

We follow Donnie and his friends as they pour out of the

back of the emergency exit of the school bus to 'Head Over

Heels' by Tears for Fears.

We pick up teachers Karen Pomeroy (twenty-seven) and Dr.

Kenneth Monnitoff (thirty) and Kitty Farmer (forty-two),

with Jim Cunningham, as they make their way through the

hallways.

Swarms of girls surround Donnie as he makes his way to his

locker. There is a huge smile on his face.

We reveal Gretchen Ross (fifteen)... we see Principal Cole

(thirty-eight) and then Samantha's dance team (Sparkle Motion)

practising their routine in the courtyard.

We follow Ms. Pomeroy into English class... then time-lapse

dissolve through the doorway...

INT. ENGLISH CLASS - DAY (8:30 A.M.)

Ms. Pomeroy has been reading from "The Destructors" by Graham

Greene.

MS. POMEROY

"There would be headlines in the

papers. Even the grown-up gangs who

ran the betting at the all-in

wrestling and the barrow-boys would

hear with respect how Old Misery's

house had been destroyed. It was as

though this plan had been with him

all his life, pondered through the

seasons, now in his fifteenth year

crystallised with the pain of

puberty."

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