philosophy paper text

Author: Bradley

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+INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S LIVING ROOM - DAY
+
+	The room is filled with penned and unpenned animals of all
+	kinds: snakes, lizards, birds, a dog, cats, etc. Craig sits
+	on the couch and looks at the want ads, the TV is on in the
+	background. Elijah, the monkey, sits next to Craig holding
+	his stomach and moaning weakly. On the TV, Derek Mantini is
+	working a 60 foot high marionette from the top of a water tower.
+	The assembled crowd is enthralled.
+
+
+				 TV ANNOUNCER
+		    The crowd is enthralled as Derek
+		    Mantini, arguably the greatest
+		    puppeteer in the history of the
+		    world, performs "The Belle of
+		    Amherst" with his 60 foot Emily
+		    Dickinson puppet, directed by the
+		    inimitable Charles Nelson Reilly.
+
+	Charles Nelson Reilly floats by in a hot air balloon.
+
+				 CHARLES NELSON REILLY
+		    Beautiful, beautiful! Nyong-nyong.
+
+				 CRAIG
+		    Gimmicky bastard.
+
+	Craig switches off the TV. He comes across an ad for a
+	female puppeteer to teach at a girls school. Craig rubs
+	his chin in thought, then stands with great determination.
+
+
+	MUSIC IN: TRIUMPHANT
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S BEDROOM - DAY
+
+	Craig searches through Lotte's closet, looking for the
+	right dress.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S BATHROOM - DAY
+
+	Craig waxes his body, shaves his face.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S BEDROOM - DAY
+
+	Craig paints his nails while he chats on the phone. Craig
+	pulls stockings and underwear from Lotte's drawer. Craig
+	picks a wig from a mannequin head on Lotte's dressing table.
+
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S LIVING ROOM - DAY
+
+	Craig, at the sewing machine, is sewing padding to go onto
+	his chest and around his hips.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S BATHROOM - DAY
+
+	Craig applies make up in the bathroom mirror.
+
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S BEDROOM - DAY
+
+	Craig, now looking very much like a woman, admires himself
+	in the full length mirror.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	EXT. STREET - DAY
+
+	Craig hails a taxi in his get-up. Men on the street turn
+	and leer at him.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. HEADMISTRESS’S OFFICE - DAY
+
+	Craig and the headmistress chat over tea. Craig is quite
+	animated and charming. The admiring headmistress smiles
+	and nods her head in approval.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CLASSROOM - DAY
+
+	Craig instructs a class of uniformed girls. He draws
+	complex diagrams of puppets on the blackboard. The
+	students are transfixed, except for one troubled girl who
+	eyes Craig sullenly from the back of the room as she plays
+	with a switchblade.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. THEATER - DAY
+
+	Craig guides the hands of the troubled teenage girl, who
+	is trying to manipulate a marionette. The girl looks up
+	at Craig. Her tough facade crumbles and she smiles. Craig
+	smiles back.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	EXT. SCHOOL GROUNDS - DAY
+
+	The girls carry Craig on their shoulders. Everyone is joyous.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - DAY
+
+	Craig leads the girls in a bike race. Everyone is laughing
+	and screaming. One of the girls notices that Craig is
+	riding a man's bike.
+
+	MUSIC OUT.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. JAIL CELL - NIGHT
+
+	Craig sits in a holding cell with several other men. He is
+	still in the dress, but the wig is in his lap and the
+	make-up is smeared off. Lotte appears with a cop outside
+	Craig's cell. The door is opened, and Craig, Lotte, and
+	the cop head down the hall.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CAR - NIGHT
+
+	Lotte drives. Craig looks out the window. Both are silent.
+
+				 LOTTE
+			    (finally)
+		    Is the trial date set?
+
+				 CRAIG
+		    May 11th.
+
+       More silence.
+
+				 LOTTE
+		    Why'd you do it, Craig?
+
+				 CRAIG
+		    I'm a puppeteer.
+
+	They drive in silence.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S LIVING ROOM - MORNING
+
+	Craig sits on the couch in his bathrobe and studies the
+	want ads. He sees an ad for a company called "WOMYN-TEERS",
+	looking for "an African-American, Lesbian Separatist
+	Puppeteer for Community Outreach." Craig rubs his chin in
+	thought, stands with determination.
+
+
+	MUSIC IN: SAME AS BEFORE.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S BATHROOM - MORNING
+
+	Craig applies a dark pancake make-up to his face.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S BEDROOM - MORNING
+
+	Craig pulls an afro-style wig off a mannequin head on
+	Lotte's dressing table.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	EXT. STREET - MORNING
+
+	Craig, now made up to look like a black, lesbian
+	separatist, hails a cab. Women look at him longingly.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CAR - NIGHT
+
+	Craig, dressed as the black lesbian and beaten to a pulp.
+	sits in the passenger seat. Lotte drives.
+
+				 LOTTE
+			    (finally)
+		    Why, Craig. why?
+
+				 CRAIG
+			    (through fat lip)
+		    I... puppeteer.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE'S LIVING ROOM - DAY
+
+	Craig reads the paper. He comes across an ad: "Female
+	puppeteer wanted for nudist colony marionette staging of
+	'Oh, Calcutta!'"  Craig rubs his chin.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CAR - NIGHT
+
+	Craig sits in the passenger seat. He is made up as a
+	woman and wears a full-body rubber "naked woman" suit.
+	Lotte drives.
+
+				 LOTTE
+			    (finally)
+		    You know, maybe you should speak to
+		    someone about this.
+
+									CUT TO:
+
+	INT. CRAIG AND LOTTE' S LIVING ROOM - DAY
+
+	Craig sees a personal ad: "Male puppeteer looking for
+	attractive female puppeteer for friendship, travel, and
+	much much more."  Craig rubs his chin, then thinks better
+	of it and sighs. He finds a want ad calling for a
+	"short-statured file clerk with unusually nimble and
+	dexterous fingers needed for speed filing."  Craig writes
+	down the address.