Get Him to the Greek Page #17

108.

Aaron pulls the phone cord from the wall and throws itagainst the wall. A piece of the phone hits Aaron in thehead. Aaron goes into the bathroom. On the mirror there’s a

note. He opens the envelope. The note reads:

ALDOUS (V.O.)

Dear Aaron. This is my last will

and testament. Since I have no

kids or wife or really anything I’m

leaving my estate to you. If you

want to see me off, I’ll be jumping

from the Hollywood sign at nine,

depending on traffic. I want my

body to be cryogenically frozen, to

be unfrozen when there’s a chemical

cure for addiction or heroin

becomes legal, whichever comes

first. Yours, Aldous. P.S. I’m

sorry for making love to your

girlfriend. That was done out of

self-anger. P.P.S. I do not know

if this last will and testament

will hold up in a court of law. I

apologize if it doesn’t. In fact,

the more I think about it the more

unlikely it seems that it will.

Sorry, mate.

Aaron takes a beat.

AARON:

F*** him.

Aaron throws out the note. He looks at a clock on the wall.

It’s 7:
00PM.

AARON (CONT’D)

No, f*** him.

INT. BATHROOM

Aaron takes a shower. The radio’s on.

NPR ANNOUNCER:

It’s 8:
00PM and now for your

traffic update.

AARON:

F*** him.

109.

INT. DENNY’S - NIGHT

Aaron’s at Denny’s. He orders a coffee. He looks at his

watch. It’s 8:
30PM.

AARON:

F*** him.

The waitress comes over.

AARON (CONT’D)

(chipper to the waitress)

Are the corn pancakes good?

WAITRESS:

If you like corn.

MOMENTS LATER Aaron waits for his food. He checks his watch.

It’s now 8:
35.

AARON:

F*** him.

The Waitress returns with the corn pancakes, eggs and bacon.

AARON (CONT’D)

Thank you so much. *

Aaron looks at his watch. It’s now 8:36.

AARON (CONT’D)

F*** him.

MOMENTS LATER:
Aaron’s reading LA Weekly. He looks at his

watch. It’s now 8:37.

AARON (CONT’D)

F*** him.

His cell rings. Aaron jumps. He looks and sees that it says“Daphne.” He hits it to voicemail. He reads the paper andsees an ad for Aldous Snow at the Greek. He looks at his

watch again. It’s still 8:37.

AARON (CONT’D)

F*** him.

A BUS BOY clearing a nearby table looks at Aaron. Aaron

looks at his watch again. He stares as it changes from 8:37to 8:38.

110.

INT. AARON’S CAR

Aaron is driving really fast.

AARON:

F*** him f*** him f*** him f*** him

f*** him f*** him -

His cell rings. It’s Sergio. He hits it to voicemail. *

MOMENT WHERE Aaron is pulled to the side of the road, verylaboriously putting in “Hollywood Sign” in his point ofinterest in his GPS device.

AARON (CONT’D)

F*** him f*** him f*** him...

Hollywood Tire... Hollywood DogTrack... Hollywood Sheepskin...

what the f***? Why doesn’t it justhave the Hollywood sign?

EXT. SUNSET BOULEVARD

Aaron pulls up alongside a TOUR BUS.

TOUR BUS DRIVER:

Who here’s a fan of the Governator? *

(the tourists clap) *

Hasta la vista, State House!

The people on the tour bus laugh.

AARON:

Excuse me, where’s the Hollywoodsign?

TOUR BUS DRIVER:

I’m sorry, you’ll have to pay forthe tour to learn that information -

AARON:

I said where’s the fuckingHollywood sign? I will ram my carinto your bus if you don’t tell meright the f*** now!

EXT. TOP OF THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN - NIGHT

Aaron pulls up in his car. The clock on his car reads

8:
57PM.

111.

AARON:

F*** him f*** him f*** him f*** him

f*** him f*** him!

Aaron jumps out of his car.

AARON (CONT’D)

F*** him f*** him f*** him f*** him

f*** him f*** him f*** him -

Aaron scrambles down the desert hill. He reaches a barbed

wire fence and tries to climb over it, getting caught in thebarbed wire. He jumps down from the fence.

AARON (CONT’D)

(while looking for anotheropening)

F*** him f*** him f*** him f*** him

Aaron’s phone rings. It’s Sergio. He hits send to *

voicemail. Aaron sees an opening in the fence. Someone has

clearly cut an opening out. He crawls through the hole.

EXT. HOLLYWOOD SIGN - CONTINUOUS

Aaron is now down at the Hollywood sign. He sees Aldous

standing on top of the “H.”

AARON:

Hey a**hole, don’t jump!

Aaron crawls down to the sign.

ALDOUS:

Why not? I’ve got nothing. I’m a

drug addicted nothing. My friendsare all addicts or yes men. I

can’t even write music anymore.

I’m not even sure if I even ever

could. Most of my songs are justripoffs of the Beatles and theClash. I’m the nugget of sh*t thathangs off the asshair of humanity.

AARON:

No you aren’t. You can have sex

with whoever you want whenever you

want.

ALDOUS:

Sex isn’t love. Sex has gottenboring.

(MORE)

112.

ALDOUS (CONT'D)

All I live for is getting high. If

I don’t die from this I’ll die from

an overdose. At least if I jumpI’m making the choice, not thedrink and the drugs. *

AARON:

Jumping’s for pussies. Jumping iswhat you do out of fear. You

really going to be a p*ssy? You

really going to throw away the onething God has given us, life, fornothing?

ALDOUS:

I didn’t know you were religious.

AARON:

I didn’t know it either until rightnow but I think I am and I think

what you’re doing is downrightimmoral. In my one week with youI’ve seen more of the world then I

have in my entire twenty three

years. Don’t throw it all away

man. Life is precious. Don’t justtoss it away like a used needle.

Instead, take that needle and shoot

up life instead.

*

ALDOUS:

Why’re you doing this?

me?

Do you love

AARON:

No, I don’t love you.

hate you.

I kind of *

ALDOUS:

Tell me you love me.

AARON:

I love you in the way one isrequired to love all humanity.

ALDOUS:

Tell me that you love me and mespecifically, not just the generalconcept of humanity.

Beat. Aldous moves to the edge of the “H.”

113.

AARON:

I love you... and you specificallynot just the general concept ofhumanity. I love you, Aldous Snow.

I love you.

ALDOUS:

I love you too, Aaron Greenberg. I

love you too.

Aldous, taking an intentional Christ like pose, JUMPS off the“H” and hits the dusty desert below with a resounding andsickening thud. He rolls down the hill.

AARON:

F*** you!

Aaron SCRAMBLES down the hill after Aldous.

EXT. BOTTOM OF THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN

Aldous rolls down the hill, crashing through a fence and --

EXT. HOLLYWOOD HILLS HOUSE POOL AND HOT TUB *

-- into a Hills house backyard, splashing right into a hottub. Aaron jumps down and sees Aldous floating in the hottub.

FULL SCREEN CHYRON: MINUS TWO HOURS SINCE THE CONCERT AT THE

GREEK WAS SUPPOSED TO START.

AARON:

F*** you, man! F*** you!

Aaron jumps into the hot tub and flips Aldous over.

AARON (CONT’D)

Aldous? Aldy? Aldous? Mr. Snow?

He pokes the body. No movement. He starts performing CPR onAldous, gingerly breathing into Aldous’s mouth and pumpinghis chest. Soon his CPR gets more and more vigorous.

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