Only few people know that the script of a popular movie “4 rooms” originally contained 5 rooms. It’s just that the authors decided to get rid of the part I wrote. I, however, think that it has the right to exist.
Five rooms
Suit 47. A Hall in Capulet’s House
A small room. Near the right wall stands a bed covered with a red blanket. Against the wall there is a window with red curtains and an optimistic collection of teddy bears. Under the window there’s a political world map. The computer table stands next to the window. Two posters above it are “Good Charlotte” and the detailed timeline of the reign of all British dynasties for the past ten centuries. On the left stands the drawer, lost under stocks of red photo frames. A big mirror finishes the picture. As we see, the room is decorated in the best traditions of a ball.
The party is on. Guests, dressed in costumes of crows, are hopelessly looking for drinks on the computer table, somewhere between the books of Murakami and Tolkien. Hosts, dresses like a crow and a soroka, try to sit still on the only chair in the room. Juliet, wearing a costume of a dove, is sitting under the window and looking for the city of Yixian on the map. Just for fun.
In comes the Bellhop and notices her right away.
Bellhop:
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Tybalt:
This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Rushes to the door, slipping on the polished floor. Capulet rises.
Capulet:
Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?
Tybalt:
Uncle, this is a Bellhop, our foe.
Capulet:
I would not for the wealth of all the town
Here in my house do him disparagement:
Therefore be patient, take no note of him:
It is my will, the which if thou respect.
Tybalt:
I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
Cost you more than a computer Dell.
Meanwhile, Juliet is chatting with a guest. They talk about the importance of education, and Juliet is against uneducated bellhops. At the same time, the Bellhop approaches her. To stay unnoticed, he pretends to look at the pictures hanging on the wall. They are drawn with the pencil and demonstrate a deer, and eagle, and a house in the woods. Signed by someone called Anna Bay. The Bellhop is waiting for the perfect moment to come. Finally, the guest leaves to look for food in a neighboring suit that belongs to a sweet couple of old Germans. Juliet stays alone, and the Bellhop immediately appears next to her. Let’s not forget that he’s wearing a costume of a bellhop on a masquerade, and, therefore, he’s unrecognizable.
Bellhop:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet:
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this…
And, looking modestly, she starts to play pensively with the switcher of a lamp shaped like a globe. Bellhop kisses her lips myjestvenno and nenaviaz4ivo, and suddenly notices Tybalt. Blagorazymno he prefers to hide behind the door. Juliet is confused, so she sends the Nurse to find out who the mysterious stranger is. While waiting, she looks through the pile of CD’s on the computer table: “Buzz Lightyear of star command”, “Driver’s Ed”… but he’s oh her mind. Finally returns the Nurse and whispers.
Nurse:
His name is Bellhop. And he’s the bellhop.
Juliet:
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
On this pathetic note the lights suddenly go out, and we will never find out how the story ended. Unfortunately…
Anna Bay, ex-best friend of Quentin Tarantino, Alexander Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez
No comments:
Post a Comment