SCENE ONE (and an explanation of what the hell is going on with these posts)
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SUNSHINE’S NIGHT OF DARKNESS
Synopsis: It’s Sunshine’s first day of work in security at the P.U.R.E Corporation and all she wants to do is make it through orientation, but first she’s got to fill out a name tag requisition form, fit her uniform, meet a cute computer geek … oh, and save her fellow employees from genetically-mutated, blood-lusting vampires.
Notes: All work is registered with the WGC & the WGA.
This week’s excerpt opens with a montage:
– Scene Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen & Fourteen –
INT. ACCOUNTING, OFFICE LEVEL, P.U.R.E CORPORATION – LATER
DATA TRANSLATORS crunch numbers into computers.
INT. PUBLIC RELATIONS, OFFICE LEVEL – CONTINUOUS
A GRAPHIC DESIGNER mocks up a P.U.R.E magazine advertisement: with the byline: it’s young, it’s fresh, it’s the newest you.
INT. HUMAN RESOURCES, OFFICE LEVEL – CONTINUOUS
An ASSISTANT slices bundles of paper in a hefty cutter and then binds them into information booklets.
INT. HALLWAY, OFFICE LEVEL – CONTINUOUS
Irma leads the group as they pass by various administration offices filled with EMPLOYEES.
IRMA
Administration is the heart of the P.U.R.E CORP, without it the facility would cease to function –
A sweet-looking man, LIONEL, 35, wanders passed with a coffee.
LIONEL
Hi Irma.
IRMA
Lionel, from accounting. We just visited your office, Lionel.
LIONEL
Too bad I missed you.
He nods to the group and moves on down the hallway.
Irma pauses at a gold-brushed wooden box mounted by a door.
IRMA
The suggestion box. A mainstay of human resources, we want to hear from you! Oh, but this is not to be used for payroll inquires, correspondence, or form submission. Suggestions, only.
CALLIE
Will there be a test? Because no one else is taking any notes and I didn’t realize –
IRMA
No test, Callie. Just the accumulation of knowledge for knowledge’s sake –
CALLIE
Not grades?
Irma spins away, swipes her ID by a computer panel and, when the door opens, crosses into Human Resources. Callie, having deliberately wound Irma up, smirks.
CALLIE (CONT’D)
She really shouldn’t frown like that, it mars.
SUNSHINE
People’s personalities can’t be contained within a constructed façade forever.
CALLIE
(almost gleeful)
You think she’s had work done? No, you’re right. It’s better to radiate, be radiant, you know, see the good inside parts on the outside.
RASHID
Bottle that and you’d put P.U.R.E out of business.
HUXLEY
Can’t be done, unless we lock all the good people up and continually harvest them to medicate the bad.
RASHID
And a virulent virus always overwhelms wholesome cells, unless you have huge quantities at inception.
SUNSHINE
And who would decide? Who was good enough?
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SUNSHINE’S NIGHT OF DARKNESS – a screenplay by Meghan Ciana Doidge
SCENE SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN
SCENE ELEVEN, TWELVE, THIRTEEN, & FOURTEEN (above)
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