The Croods Page #12

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GRUG:

Cave! Everyone inside. Come on! Hurryup, let’s go. Go, go.

The Croods don’t want to move.

EEP:

No.

UGGA:

(gently)

No more caves, Grug.

GRUG:

What?

GRAN:

We’re gonna jump on the sun and ride it

to Tomorrow with Guy.

GRUG:

Wait, so you’re all going to do this?

Silence from the Croods answers his question.

GRUG (CONT’D)

Thunk?

THUNK:

Sorry, dad.

Thunk joins the others. It’s the last straw.

EEP:

You have to stop worrying for all of us.

GRUG:

It’s my job to worry. It’s my job to

follow the rules.

EEP:

The rules don’t work out here.

GRUG:

They kept us alive.

EEP:

That wasn’t living, that was just, not

dying. There’s a difference.

GRUG:

Ugga, everyone, you have to listen to me.

Ugga doesn’t move.

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EEP:

We would be dead if we listened you.

Grug is STUNNED.

EEP (CONT’D)

We have to follow Guy now.

Grug slowly turns around to face Guy. He is smoldering.

GRUG:

Guy?

UGGA:

Guy, run.

Grug lunges toward Guy, SCREAMING.

GRUG:

AAAAAAAAAAUGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Grug ATTACKS Guy - they fall down an embankment.

CUT TO:

SEQ. 2100 - TAR PIT

Grug CHASES Guy across a TREMBLING landscape.

GUY:

This is pointless. We’re running out of

time. Everything is collapsing. You’re

being irrational and counterproductive.

GRUG:

Big words anger me. Keep talking.

GUY:

Countermeasures.

Belt THROWS fruit at Grug. The fruit HITS Grug square in

the face. He’s blinded. He doesn’t stop.

GUY (CONT’D)

Remember how you were this morning? You

changed, remember? Idea man? Modern

man?

Guy comes to a sudden stop - he’s stepped in a smallpuddle of TAR.

Grug wipes his eyes clean of fruit.

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GRUG:

I... am... a... CAVEMAN.

GUY:

No, no, no wait.

Guy and Grug do a slow-motion PLUNGE over a tar-fall. As

they descend Grug SWINGS at Guy, coating himself with

tar. Grug’s arms are held like glue. His punches stop

well short of Guy’s face. Guy and Grug arrive in a wide

pool of tar. They SINK slowly.

GRUG:

Hnnnnnngh! No. What is this stuff that

saves you from my punches?

GUY:

(hollow)

Tar.

The tone of Guy’s voice SINKS IN. Grug CEASES his

attack.

GUY (CONT’D)

Please Grug. You have to stop struggling.

GRUG:

No. I have to get back to them.

GUY:

Grug! Stop!

Grug looks to Guy.

GUY (CONT’D)

No one gets out of this. Believe me. I

know.

Grug gets it.

GRUG:

Your...?

GUY:

Family. Yeah.

GRUG:

Sorry.

Grug looks at Guy again - he needs more than that. Guytakes a deep breath - this is going to be hard.

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GUY:

I was little when it happened. The last

thing my parents told me was, “Don’t

hide. Live. Follow the Sun. You’ll

make it to Tomorrow.”

This resonates with Grug.

A thread of light trickles through the storm, falling

just near enough to Guy he can gather it in his palm.

GRUG:

You followed the light. My daughter is a

lot like you.

GUY:

No. She’s like you. She loves you but

always forgets to say it. Just like you

forget to tell her.

Grug ponders this. A CHANGE comes over Grug. He focuses

on Guy. This hits Grug hard.

GRUG:

(crushed)

I guess I was just busy keeping them all

alive.

Guy considers Grug.

GUY:

It’s okay. That’s what Dads do.

Grug smiles. He regards Guy in a different light. He

sees him not as a boy but a man. Someone good enough for

his little girl.

GRUG:

That’s right... but we can’t do that from

here. We need one of your ideas.

The music TURNS.

GRUG (CONT’D)

Come on. You can do it.

Buoyed by Grug’s encouragement, Guy swings into action

mode.

GUY:

Belt! Emergency Idea Generator,

activate!

Belt hits Guy in the head with a rock.

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GUY (CONT’D)

Ow!

(then)

I’ve got it!

CUT TO:

SEQ. 2250 - GRUG & GUY ESCAPE

We are tracking with the MACAWNIVORE. Suddenly, the big

cat stops. His eyebrows raise.

MACAWNIVORE’S POV - a FEMALE MACAWNIVORE PUPPET.

BELT:

Ta-daaaaa

GRUG:

Wow.

GUY:

Yeah, I know. But he’s doing the best

with what he has. Let’s go.

Grug and Guy are holding bones connected to the puppet.

Belt SIGNALS to Guy.

GUY (CONT’D)

There he is. Belt, I want romance, drama,

sincerity. Move me.

Belt makes music, which grabs the Macawnivore’sattention.

GUY (CONT’D)

Okay he sees us!

Belt plays a little melodramatic tune.

Grug halfheartedly moves the bones he’s holding.

GUY (CONT’D)

That’s our cue. Now work it!

The puppet starts shaking its tail.

GUY (CONT’D)

He’s not coming over. I don’t think our

puppet looks scared enough.

GRUG:

Scared? I’ll show you scared. Hand me

those acting sticks!

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Grug shakes the puppet and makes a frightening sound of

terror.

Suddenly, the Macawnivore leaps forward and jumps on the

puppet. He grabs it and pulls it up out of the tar,

bringing Grug and Guy along with it.

Grug and Guy hang on to the bones of the puppet frame.

The Macawnivore shakes the puppet, pulling it out of the

tar along with Grug and Guy.

GUY:

Hold on!

The puppet breaks apart, the Macawnivcore turns to Grug

and Guy. He is not pleased.

BELT:

Da da daaaaaa...

The Macawnivore dashes towards the pair. They try to runfrom him. The Macawnivore’s paws slip slowly backwards

into the nearby tar--he’s stuck. The tar snaps him back

and throws him far from Grug and Guy.

Belt blows a whistle signalling a field goal!

GRUG:

Yes. You did it!

Grug PATS Guy on the back. Grug realizes his hand isstuck to Guy’s back.

The Croods come running to help them.

UGGA:

Grug.

THUNK:

Dad!

Grug and Guy TURN to see the rest of the Croods. Grug

waves to the family with Guy stuck to his hand.

GUY:

Hey, we’re okay!

The family stops to take this in.

GUY (CONT’D)

Yeah, we’re okay.

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The ground shakes violently. Meteors stream across the

sky.

GUY (CONT’D)

Grug. Your call.

Grug knows his answer.

GRUG:

Take us to Tomorrow.

CUT TO:

SEQ. 2925 - TO TOMORROW

EXT. EDGE OF THE WORLD - EARLY EVENING.

ON THE CROODS:

RUSHING up the gun-sight into the bright rays of the sun.

GUY:

Hurry! Come on. We’re gonna make it!

When the Croods rush toward “Tomorrow,” it is a golden,

ethereal image created by a perfect alignment of sun,

clouds, and mountain. From the Croods POV it looks as if

they can cross a solid bridge of clouds and climb onto a

waiting sun.

EEP:

You were right.

GUY:

There it is. The sun. We can do it! We

can ride it to Tomorrow.

Even Grug is taken with the sight - it’s there after all.

The Croods stare at the open meadow across from them.

Tremors violently SHAKE the ground.

GUY (CONT’D)

Run!

When the rift OPENS in front of them, the hot gasses and

blasts of hot ash BURST the clouds from beneath. The

debris shades the sun, revealing a very Earthly landscapebeyond.

From the Croods perspective, Tomorrow vanished before

their eyes.

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A SHOCKWAVE knocks a large chunk of rock off the edge the

Croods are standing on blowing them backwards.

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