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10:06:09 | OPERATOR V/O Thank you for holding. We are very busy at the moment and apologise for the delay. Your call will be answered as soon as possible. |
| TITLE SUPERED: ‘A FILM BY CHRIS PETIT’ |
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| CCTV: H/A WS 2ND STREET, GREGORY ENTERS L & CROSSES | 10:06:24 | |
Z/I AS THE BLONDE WOMAN CROSSES R-L |
10:06:31 | COMM The book, while ostensibly about stalking, is really about a question of faith, albeit misplaced faith. As faith usually is. |
| 10:06:53 | COMM She believes in him. |
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| EXT. NIGHT: MS LUCY ON PHONE, SEEN THRU WINDOW. Z/O TO WS AS SHE HANGS UP PAN R TO FOLLOW HER TO NEXT WINDOW |
10:06:54 10:06:55 |
COMM Fervently. |
| 10:06:59 | COMM And he, in turn, becomes obsessed with another woman. |
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| INT. NIGHT: MS LUCY PUTS DOWN BOTTLE OF BEER, LIGHTS A CANDLE & PACES THE ROOM | 10:07:11 | |
CU LUCY AT PARTY, LOOKS AROUND THE ROOM & DRINKS, PEOPLE PASS TO & FRO. NO ONE STOPS TO SPEAK |
10:07:15 10:07:35 |
COMM The book calls stalkers fundamentalists of love. A phrase that achieves a similar kind of detonation to the one used about their first meeting at a summer conference, where he learns a friend of hers has just died in a car crash. And quotes Elizabeth Bowen on the initial meeting of her lovers in her London Blitz novel, The Heat of the Day, which is described as quote: “the demolition of an entire moment” unquote. |
| BCU LUCY & MOMENTARY FREEZES | 10:08:09 | |
| EXT. DAY: H/A LS GREGORY APROACHES, PAN WITH HIM AS HE ENTERS SHOPPING ARCADE | 10:08:17 | MUSIC |
H/A WS PAN L WITH GREGORY & Z/I TO MS AS HE ENTERS BOOKSHOP |
10:08:31 10:08:32 |
LUCY V/O In your book you said you felt sorry for me. You said we embarked on a limited correspondence and a year went by before we met again. You make it all sound very distant, when you know it meant much more to us. I confided in you, told you about the frustrations in my life and you were the one who invited me down to London. |
| TRACKING SHOT OF WOMAN’S LEGS IN BOOTS WALKING ACROSS STATION CONCOURSE | 10:08:56 | MUSIC |
| 10:08:56 | TANNOY Next train will be the 14.53 South Eastern Trains service to Crystal Palace. Calling at London Bridge, New Cross, St ….. |
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| LS LUCY APPROACHES FROM PLATFORM, PAN R AS SHE ARRIVES AT TICKET BARRIER | 10:09:11 | |
| MS GREGORY WAITING FOR HER | 10:09:18 | |
| MS LUCY PASSES THRU TICKET BARRIER | 10:09:21 | |
| WS PAN R WITH LUCY AS SHE GOES TO GREGORY & GREETS HIM WITH A KISS. THEY WALK OFF TOGETHER | 10:09:24 | |
PAN L TO SOFT FOCUS STILLS OF THEM EMBRACING WS LUCY APPROACHES BARRIER AGAIN & FREEZE FRAME SLO-MO WS LUCY PASSES THRU BARRIER & GREETS GREGORY AGAIN B/W ANIMATION: LUCY KISSES GREGORY, FREEZE FRAME |
10:09:25 10:09:32 10:09:41 10:09:47 10:09:55 |
COMM A story of waiting. Hope, self-delusion, panic. Fear of violence on his part. Of misplaced emotion. Of no sex, of less than half a dozen meetings. Of modern technology, email, text, mobiles, answer machines. Whose armoury defines the urban stalker as it does the new terrorist. The methods duplicate. Irrational and targeted. |
| INT. DAY: MCU LUCY AT CAFÉ TABLE | 10:10:02 10:10:03 |
COMM A black valentine. |
CU MENU IN HANDS BCU LUCY |
10:10:09 10:10:17 10:10:25 |
COMM She tells him a man is romantically obsessed with her, plaguing her with invitations and demands however much she says she isn’t interested. When he tells her to break off all contact with the man she shakes her head and says, ‘it isn’t that simple.’ |
Chris Petit is a filmmaker and novelist. His latest book, The Passenger, is forthcoming in paperback.
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