The Croods Page #8

GRUG:

Hold her still. Use a rock. Ugga wouldyou just hit her legs.

Guy LEAVES. Eep chases him and pins him down.

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EEP:

Why are you rolling away?

GUY:

Owww! I just want something to eat.

EEP:

You have bug for dinner. Plenty of bug!

GUY:

Please... I’ll let you help me hunt.

EEP:

Really?

THUNK:

Ahhh! They’re all over me... Tell my

story...

EXT. GRASSLANDS - AFTERNOON

Guy lays a snare in the low grass. He WALKS to the base

of a rotund, spikey tree, unwinding more rope as he goes.

He TIES the rope around the base of the tree. Then he

hands the loose end to Eep. Belt stretches his arms

WIDE. Guy STOPS jumping and points up to the top of the

tree.

Eep takes the cue. She LEAPS up and grabs the leaning

top of the tree. Her weight gently BENDS the tree topdown to the ground.

GUY:

Okay.

Guy carefully SETS the trigger.

EEP:

What do you call this?

GUY:

A trap.

EEP:

What does it do?

Guy makes sound effects to get his point across as he

describes the trap.

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GUY:

(explains with sounds)

*soft whistle* Raargh, Thump thump thump,

thubububububub *soft whistle* poom!

Tadaaaaaa!

EEP:

How long have you been alone?

Belt opens his arms wide showing Guy has been alone a

long, long time.

EEP (CONT’D)

... So what do we do?

Guy pulls out a weird miniature TURKEY FISH PUPPET.

GUY:

How’s your acting?

ON THE TURKEY FISH getting ready to eat the TRIP-GERBILS.

The Turkey LIFTS the creature to his mouth to DEVOUR it,

but he’s INTERRUPTED by a WHISTLING sound. He TURNS to

see the silly little puppet dancing about. The TurkeyFish DROPS his meal and cautiously APPROACHES the puppet.

ON GUY AND EEP working the puppet. Eep is having the

time of her life.

GUY (CONT’D)

Oh, you’re good at this.

They are so into what they are doing, they accidentallyget TANGLED UP.

GUY (CONT’D)

Oh, sorry, I...

EEP:

Just move your arm... no, your other arm.

Oh, that one’s mine.

In their struggle to UNTANGLE themselves, Eep and Guy

inadvertently insult the Turkey Fish. It CHARGES. Eepand Guy don’t notice.

The Turkey Fish MISSES the snare, LEAPS the rock and

SNATCHES the fake bird off of Guy’s head, THRASHING it.

EEP (CONT’D)

Uh... It didn’t step in your trap-y,

thing.

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GUY:

Yeah, I noticed.

Eep BOLDLY STANDS in front of the bird. The Turkey Fish

grabs Guy and tosses him high across the open field. He

goes flying through the air, screaming.

ON GRUG - hearing the commotion. Guy lands back in the

log.

GRUG:

Where’s Eep?

Eep is in full parkour as she runs from the Turkeyfish.

GUY:

She’s awesome.

Grug STEPS FORWARD. He’s going to SPRING the trap.

GRUG:

Eep!

EEP:

Dad, no!

She LEAPS the snare, PUSHING Grug DOWN.

The Turkey Fish HITS the trigger. The snare TRIPS. The

bird BITES at the cavemen, but comes up short. The

Turkey Fish WHOOSHES BACKWARDS into the air. He FLIES a

couple hundred feet up...

... and CRASHES down in a cloud of feathers.

DISSOLVE TO:

SEQ. 900 - BBQ/CAPTIVATING CAPTIVE

EXT. BARBECUE

ON THE TURKEY ROASTING over an open fire. It looks golden

and juicy. Grug is agitated. The Croods are devouringthe Turkey Fish.

THUNK:

It’s an avalanche of flavor.

THE CROODS are eating like wild animals. Theypractically MAUL each other for scraps. HOWLS and

SNARLING fill the night air. Guy is amazed and shocked

at how the Croods are wolfing it down.

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Guy sits to the side, his ankle roped to a heavy rock.

Guy and Belt share a concerned LOOK as they politely eattheir meal. Eep comes over and sits next to Guy.

GUY:

(to Belt)

Looks like we won’t be having anyleftovers.

EEP:

What are “left-overs?”

GUY:

(confused)

You know, when you have so much food toeat you have some, left over.

EEP:

We never have that much food.

Grug is struck by Eep’s words. Ugga sees Grug is hurt.

Guy and Belt are struck by this as well.

UGGA:

Grug, how about a story?

GRUG:

That’s a good idea. How about a story

huh?

THUNK:

Yeah a story, tell us a story!

Croods gather around Grug.

GRUG:

Once upon a time there was a little tiger

who lived in a cave with her family.

There were a lot of rules, but the big,

simple one was to never leave the cave at

night. And the door was so heavy, you’d

think it would be easy to remember.

THUNK:

So easy to remember!

GRUG:

I know! But, while everyone was asleep,

she went out anyway.

CROODS:

No!

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GRUG:

Yes! And no sooner than she did, her

cave was destroyed and everyone had to go

on this long, sucky walk, with some

weirdo they met, and died! The end.

GUY:

Whoa! I did not see that coming. Twist

ending. My stories never end like that.

THUNK:

Yes! Two stories in one night!

The Croods LEAVE Grug and GATHER around Guy. Guy is

uncharacteristically dumbstruck.

A BEAT -

GUY:

Okay. But it won’t be as good as Grug’s.

Um, once upon a time, there was a

beautiful tiger. She lived in a cave

with the rest of her family. Her father

and mother told her, “You may go anywhere

you want but never go near the cliff, for

you could fall.”

GRUG:

And die. Good story.

Thinking the story is over, the Croods begin to get up.

As Guy begins talking again they settle back down.

GUY:

But when no one was looking, she would go

near the cliff, for the closer she came

to the edge, the more she could hear, the

more she could see, the more she could

feel. Finally, she stood at the veryedge, and she saw a light. She leaned

out to touch it, and slipped.

GRUG:

And she fell.

GUY:

And she flew.

CROODS:

*gasp*

THUNK:

Where did she fly?

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GUY:

Tomorrow.

EEP:

Tomorrow?

GUY:

A place with more suns in the sky than

you can count.

THUNK:

It would be so bright.

GUY:

A place not like today, or yesterday, a

place where things are better.

GRUG:

Tomorrow isn’t a place, you can’t see it!

GUY:

Oh yes, yes it is. I’ve seen it. That’s

where I’m going.

Grug studies Guy. Is he crazy? Eep though is entranced.

Eep and Guy lock eyes. There is something growing between

them. Grug and Belt see it too. Grug is not thrilled.

GRUG:

Well, WE are going to shut our eyes and

sleep. And when we wake up we’re going

to find the place that has everything we

want.

EEP:

Tomorrow?

GRUG:

A cave.

Grug stuffs Guy neatly back inside the log. Grug CURLSUP by the fire with the LOG TUCKED UNDER HIS ARM far away

from Eep.

DISSOLVE TO:

ON GRUG’S FACE.

GRUG:

*snoring, tossing and turning*

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Morning light kisses Grug’s cheeks. He’s sound asleep.

PULL OUT to reveal that Guy’s log is now teetering over a

cliff edge - there was another subduction during the

night, and half of the Croods’ sleeping platform has sunk

two hundred feet. Grug is still grasping Guy’s log,

which now hangs over the fresh abyss, and the still-

asleep Guy is now SLIPPING out of one end. In the nick

of time, Grug SHIFTS position, inadvertently TURNS the

log, and Guy starts slipping out the OTHER end. GuyWAKES UP, looking down.

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