Get Out Page #8

CHRIS:

Wow. Um..

LISA:

(to Rose)

I’m being too forward?

ROSE:

We’ll talk later.

CHRIS:

Oh, will you now?

EXT. BACKYARD - LATER

Chris and Rose talk to PARKER DRAY, 60, and APRIL DRAY, 57.

They are an overweight, rose-cheeked tipsy wasp couple. Chrisand Rose try to mask boredom and annoyance.

APRIL:

Who even cares about skin color?

My God.

CHRIS:

Right. I mean-

PARKER:

The world cares, April. But it’snot a question of physicalsuperiority, it’s “What skin coloris more culturally advantageous?”

As Parker drones on Chris looks around the party. Deanschmoozes animatedly with two couples. He quickly scans theparty, finds Chris and points him out. The two couples waveand smile giddily. They had all just been talking about him.

Chris pretends to not see this.

ROSE:

“Advantageous?”

Suddenly, Chris sees another black guy walking through thecrowd. Relief. It is Andre, the jogger from the first scene,

but he’s very different than before.

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He seems glazed-over with the same frozen smile as Walter andGeorgina, and wears a particularly square ascot and golfinghat.

PARKER:

Fairer skin is has been in favor’

the last couple of thousands ofyears, but the pendulum has swungback again hasn't it..?

CHRIS:

I’m sorry. I’m going to getanother drink.

Chris walks away.

PARKER:

I didn’t mean to offend him.

ROSE:

Really? ‘Cause you have yet to sayanything that’s not a blanketstatement about race.

PARKER:

Now, Rose.-

EXT. BACKYARD - MOMENTS LATER

Andre stands by the bar and makes himself a Martini. Chrisapproaches him.

CHRIS:

It’s good to see another brotheraround here.

Andre turns to face Chris neatly. Andre’s voice is completelydifferent from the first scene. There is no longer any traceof an urban dialect. He speaks in a lower pitch and slow,

enunciating his words precisely.

ANDRE:

Yes, of course it is.

Chris expects Andre to engage more. He doesn’t. He just staresat him smiling.

CHRIS:

Who do you know?

ANDRE:

Why, the Armitage’s of course.

We’re friends of the family.

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PHIL, 65, a craggy effeminate man with manicured eyebrows,

cuts between them.

PHIL:

(to Andre)

There you are. Here, put thissomewhere.

Phil hands his napkin to Andre who pockets it obediently. Philplaces his hand on Andre’s back possessively.

PHIL (CONT'D)

(to Chris)

Oh, hello. I’m Phil... and youare...?

CHRIS:

Chris. Rose’s boyfriend.

PHIL:

Fantastic. Logan and I know Rosevery well.

ANDRE:

I’m sorry, where are my manners.

Logan, Logan King.

(To Phil)

Chris was just telling me that hefelt more comfortable with mybeing here.

Chris is let down. Andre isn’t what he had hoped.

PHIL:

That’s nice. Logan, I hate to tearyou away, dear, but the Wincott’swere asking about you.

ANDRE/LOGANAh, well it was nice meeting youChris.

CHRIS:

Sure.

Chris holds out his fist for Andre/Logan to bump. Andre/Loganshakes Chris’ fist and then, realizing his error fist bumpshim like it’s the first time.

Andre/Logan and Phil laugh and walk away. They join a smallgroup of people who applaud Andre’s arrival. Andre does alittle spin showing off his clothes.

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EXT. BACKYARD - MOMENTS LATER

Chris comes back to Rose. He is more creeped out and agitated.

ROSE:

Where’s your drink?

CHRIS:

What? Oh, I forgot.

Dean projects over the crowd.

DEAN:

Hello!

Everyone applauds and gives Dean their attention.

DEAN (CONT'D)

Achem! Once again, I want to thank

you all for coming. Words cannot

express how much it means to us

that after all these years we can

all still get together and share.

I’m reminded of stories of how the

knights of old would gather in

honor of a new crusade...

EXT. GAZEBO. DAY.

During Dean’s speech, Chris wanders away from the group.

JIM:

Ignorant sh*t...

Chris hadn’t seen Jim Hudson, the blind man, who sits in the

gazebo with his seeing eye dog. He is close to Chris, but farenough away from the group that no one else hears them.

CHRIS:

Who?

JIM:

All of them. Ignorant a**holes.

They have no idea what real people

go through.

CHRIS:

I guess people only see what’s in

front of them.

Chris notices his faux pas.

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CHRIS (CONT’D)

I mean...

JIM:

Heh. No, you’re right. And usuallynot even that much. That’s people.

Jim holds a glass up. Chris fist bumps the glass.

JIM (CONT’D)

Jim Hudson.

CHRIS:

Chris-

JIM:

I know who you are. I’m an admirerof your work; you have a great

eye...

CHRIS:

Wait. Jim Hudson... of Hudson

Galleries?

Jim smiles.

JIM:

The irony of being a blind artdealer isn’t lost on me.

CHRIS:

How do you do it?

JIM:

I have an assistant describe work

to me. You’ve got something... Theimages you capture... so brutallymelancholic. Powerful stuff.

CHRIS:

Thank you. Yeah, I just likefinding the beauty in abandonedthings.

JIM:

I used to dabble myself.

Wilderness mostly. I submitted toNat Geo 14 times before realizingI didn’t have “the eye” for it;

Began dealing. And then, ofcourse, my vision went to sh*t.

CHRIS:

Damn.

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JIM:

I know. Life can be a sick joke.

One day you're working in a darkroom, and the next day - BAM. Youwake up in the dark. Geneticdisease.

CHRIS:

Sh*t ain’t fair, man.

JIM:

Yeah.

Jeremy comes over with his preppy friend, Derrick, 29.

JEREMY:

Chris, we need you...

CHRIS:

Yeah, sure.

(to Jim)

Nice to meet you.

JIM:

Stop by the gallery some time.

Bout time you had a solo show.

CHRIS:

Really? Wow, okay. Thank you. Thatwould be a game changer.

JIM:

I think we could do wonderful

things together.

EXT. BACKYARD - LATER

Chris and Rose play badminton against Jeremy and Derrick. Agaggle of party guests watch, entertained. Chris is actuallyhaving fun. He swings big but misses the shuttlecock.

JEREMY:

HA! Come on. You can do better

than that!

CHRIS:

Not my game, what can I say.

JEREMY:

Yeah, I see that.

ROSE:

Shut up Jeremy.

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JEREMY:

I’m just saying, if your boy isn’tgonna bring his ‘A’ game, we mightas well bring Mom up here.

CHRIS:

Whoa, whoa, okay. Now we talkin’smack huh?

Chris serves the shuttlecock hard. The following rally islong, captivating the crowd. Chris ends it with an impressivediving swat. Derrick misses the return and the crowd goeswild. Chris throws his arms up in celebration.

CHRIS (CONT’D)

Boom!

ROSE:

Yay, baby!

JEREMY:

See, that’s what I’m talkingabout!!! Okay, again!

Chris is about to serve. He scans the crowd of beaming faces.

Everyone is rooting for Chris. They love him. Chris scans thecrowd. It’s too much.

CHRIS:

Hold up. Here.

ROSE:

Where are you-

CHRIS:

I’m gonna go to the bathroom.

Chris gives his racket to Gordon Greene.

INT. ARMITAGE HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY

Chris walks through the kitchen.

INT. ARMITAGE LIVING ROOM - DAY

Chris slips past several small groups of guests mingling. Hegoes up the stairs to the second floor.

As soon as he are out of sight and earshot, the minglingguests stop in mid-conversation. Everyone in the room waitsand listens to CHRIS’ FOOTSTEPS above.

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