PAGE ONE.
1.1:
We’re
looking at an OLD WOMAN standing by a window in a CHURCH. The church is
decorated with flowers, streamers, and rice on the floor. There’s just been a
wedding in the church. The woman is ELEANOR RIGBY.
1. CAPTION: Eleanor
Rigby picks up the rice where the wedding has been.
1.2 CUT TO:
A JAR by the window, there’s a
set of TEETH in there.
2. CAPTION: All
the lonely people, where do they all come from?
3. CAPTION: Where
do they all belong?
1.3 BACK TO:
The church and the wedding. Take
this from the perspective of Rigby as she watches the BRIDE AND GROOM get into
a limousine and all of wedding guests cheering them on—showering them with rice
and flowers.
4. CAPTION: Father
McKenzie, writing the words of the sermon no one will hear.
1.4:
Father
McKenzie—a fairly young priest in the sense that his eyes shine with idealistic
opportunity. He’s standing at the altar of the church, reciting from his
sermon. Eleanor Rigby is the only person in the church.
5. CAPTION: No
one comes near.
1.5 INSET:
Same as
previous. Eleanor Rigby teeters over and dies right there in the church pew.
NO DIALOGUE.
1.6:
On Father
McKenzie’s hands—he’s wiping dirt from them down towards the glass coffin with
Eleanor Rigby in it.
6. CAPTION: Eleanor
Rigby was buried along with her name. No one was saved.
1.7:
McKenzie
walks towards us, and away from the gravestone that features Rigby’s birth date
and death date, no epitaph.
The credits
can hang at the bottom of the page.
7. CAPTION: All
the lonely people, where do they all belong?
8. CREDITS: Written
by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, performed by The Beatles.
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