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(re:
volume)

Now I’m yelling, right?

Beca smiles. Jesse takes off the headphones.

JESSE (CONT’D)

How’d you know they’d go together?

Beca shrugs. Jesse holds up a DVD.

JESSE (CONT’D)

I brought this over ‘cause I want

to watch you watch the end of this

movie. Then I can die a hero.

Jesse inserts a DVD into his computer and turns off the

lights. Beca and Jesse are now lit by the screen.

57.

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(CONTINUED)

BECA:

You have this habit of making

yourself at home, did you know

that?

57A.

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(CONTINUED)

Jesse playfully puts a couple of his fingers on Beca’s mouth.

JESSE:

Ssssshhhhh.

(then)

“The Breakfast Club.” 1985.

Greatest ending to any movie ever.

Jesse cues it to the end where Simple Minds’s “Don’t You

(Forget About Me)” plays.

JESSE (CONT’D)

This song launched Simple Minds in

the U.S. It could have been a Billy

Idol song but he turned it down.

Dummy. Perfectly sums up the movie -

equally beautiful and sad.

BECA:

Wow. Amazing. What does Judd

Nelson like to eat for breakfast?

JESSE:

Like all misunderstood rebels, he

feeds on hypocrisy. And black

coffee. Helps with his morning

dumps.

BECA:

You’re an idiot.

JESSE:

It’s true. I’m full of fun facts.

BECA:

You should let other people tell

you they’re fun.

ON THE SCREEN:
We see each character getting picked up, and

as the song crescendos, John Bender raises a defiant, joyful

fist. Jesse, so into it, can’t help but do a smaller version

of it, too. Beca looks at him, more amused by what he’s

doing than the movie. He turns to her.

JESSE:

You’re missing the ending.

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Inches away from each other’s faces, Jesse makes a move.

Freaked out, Beca shuts the laptop.

The lights come on. ANGLE ON: Kimmy Jin and several Koreans

at the door, holding take-out.

KIMMY JIN:

(to Korean friends)

The white girl is back.

Jesse hangs his head.

JESSE:

And I’m out.

As he leaves...

JESSE (CONT’D)

Always a pleasure, Kimmy Jin!

Jesse exits with several “excuse me’s” as he makes his way

past all of the Koreans. In leaving abruptly, he forgot his

DVD. Beca reacts, shaking “what just happened” off.

53 INT. DORM ROOMS - DAY 53

BEGIN TIME LAPSE MONTAGE/SINGING TELEGRAMS SEQUENCE:

A dorm room with a skeleton on it, opens, revealing Cynthia

Rose, dressed as COUNT CHOCULA.

CYNTHIA ROSE:

(singing)

LYRICS TBD:

LYRICS TBD:

ANGLE ON:
A couple of STUDENTS, staring at her blank-faced.

A door opens, revealing Lilly, dressed in an oversized

PILGRIM costume.

LILLY:

(singing)

LYRICS TBD:

LYRICS TBD:

Her Pilgrim hat-buckle begins to droop over her face.

A WREATHED door opens, revealing Stacie, in a barely-there,

sexy REINDEER costume, with snow falling around her.

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STACIE:

(weird singing)

LYRICS TBD:

LYRICS TBD:

ANGLE ON:
STUDENTS, not knowing what to think.

A door opens, revealing Fat Amy, bursting out of a too-small

pink CUPID’S costume. Beca, also in costume, awkwardly holds

a bow and arrow. REVERSE REVEAL: It’s for Benji and Jesse.

FAT AMY/BECA

(singing)

LYRICS TBD:

LYRICS TBD:

END TIME LAPSE MONTAGE/SINGING TELEGRAMS SEQUENCE.

54 INT. BELLAS REHEARSAL ROOM - SEVERAL DAYS LATER - EVENING 54

The Bellas rehearse “Turn The Beat Around.” Chloe solos.

THE BELLAS:

TURN IT AROUND! TURN IT AROUND!

CHLOE:

TURN IT AROUND!

Chloe misses a high note. Aubrey winces as they hit their

final pose. The ladies look exhausted.

FAT AMY:

(out-of-breath)

I should have taken that cardio tip

more seriously.

AUBREY:

How much have you done?

FAT AMY:

You just saw it.

AUBREY:

Ladies, that was better but we have

a long ways to go before Regionals.

Chloe, you have to be able to hit

that last note.

CHLOE:

I can’t. It’s impossible. Because

of...

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(CONTINUED)

CHLOE (CONT’D)

My nodes.

ALL:

Your nodes.

AUBREY:

Well if you can’t, then someone

else needs to step up and solo.

LILLY:

I think Beca should sing it.

CHLOE:

Me too.

AUBREY:

You too, what?

CHLOE:

Beca should take my solo.

FAT AMY:

Beca could nail that sh*t!

All but Aubrey agree with, “Yeah!” and “Do it, Bec!”

AUBREY:

She’d never want to.

BECA:

Oh, I’ll solo. On one condition.

We pick a new song and I get to do

the arrangement.

A direct challenge to Aubrey. The girls shift, uneasy.

AUBREY:

That’s not how we do things here.

CHLOE:

Aubrey, maybe Beca’s right. Maybe

we should try something new.

AUBREY:

Aca-what?!

(to Beca)

You will be singing “Turn the Beat

Around” and that’s the last I want

to hear of this.

BECA:

That song’s tired. We won’t win

with that song. Look, if we pulled

samples from different genres --

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(CONTINUED)

AUBREY:

Let me explain this to you because

you still don’t seem to understand.

Our goal is to get back to the

finals. These songs will get us

there. So excuse me if I don’t

take advice from some alt girl with

her Mad Lib beats when she’s never

even been in a competition. Have I

made myself clear?

BECA:

(a beat)

Crystal. I guess I won’t solo.

AUBREY:

Fine. Fat Amy?

FAT AMY:

(perks up)

Yes, sir?

AUBREY:

You’ll solo.

Fat Amy fist pumps, “Yes!” then pulls an “air didgeridoo” out

from behind her back and plays it.

55 INT. CAMPUS RADIO STATION - A FEW DAYS LATER 55

Jesse and Beca are stacking cd’s. Luke’s in the booth. We

see a PHYSICAL CAT & MOUSE GAME: THE STACKING OF CD’S. JESSE

TRYING TO MAKE BECA LAUGH. Luke shakes his head, “What

dummy’s.” After a while -

JESSE:

(to Beca)

This is getting exhausting.

Luke enters from the booth.

LUKE:

Hey, Jesse, I’m starving so...

JESSE:

You want me to get you lunch. You

should lay off the burgers though.

(re:
Luke’s tight abs)

You won’t be twenty-two forever.

Luke lifts his shirt.

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LUKE:

I think I’m good.

BECA:

(”on board”)

He’s good. He’s real good.

Jesse looks Luke in the eyes.

JESSE:

And the chess match continues.

Jesse reluctantly goes. Beca grabs a memory stick off the

desk and hands it to Luke.

BECA:

Here. This is my latest mix.

Maybe you’ll play this one?

LUKE:

Yeah, okay, thanks. I’ll put it

with the others.

OMIT 56 - 57

58 INT. BECA’S DORM ROOM - DAY 58

Beca, already dressed, stands in front of her mirror. With

less make-up on and the jacket covering her tattoos, she

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