Adam's Adaptation

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JACOB IS DEFENDING HIS GOOD NATURE TO A JUDGE AT AN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS HEARING. TALKS ABOUT VOLUNTEEREING AT BATTERED WOMENS SHELTEr

Adam avoids jacob for months scared of his reaction to courtney kicking his balls

Courtney calls to apologize and Jacob rings her out over the phone.

JACOB JERKS OFF TO GIRLS HE DECIEVES ON CL HE PUNISHES HIMSELF BY BUILDING UP A RELATIONSHIP THAT HE WILL NEVER GO THROUGH WITH EVEN MEETING ONE OF THE GIRLS HE SEDUCES INSTEAD HE AND ADAM PURCHASE A HOOKER. DONT JUDGE ME WHEN YOU STONED AND ALONE ALL DAY IN YOUR ROOM DONT JUDGE ME

Ending adam drives off to cali on a motorcycle

SPLIT RENT ON BAD ASS PLACE THROW PARTIES

EXT. NEW YORK CITY- SUNRISE

Several shots of new york in the morning in black and white flash across the screen. A real tranquil song plays as the sounds of the city start to bustle. A man takes a deep breath.

JACOB

I don’t know why they call it the big apple much like I don’t know why they call New Orleans the big easy. I just never did the research. I dont give a shit about things like that.

INT. BROOKLYN APARTMENT- DAY

Average guy wakes up and hobbles into the kitchen then opens the freezer. He pulls out a bag of ice and begins to break it up with the handle of a knife.

JACOB V.O.

I wish I could say this is one of those great New York stories about struggling artist that gets his big break. Unfortunately the majority of this story will not even take place in New York.

Takes the bag of ice into his room and lays down on his bed propping up his foot. He puts the bag of ice on his foot.

JACOB V.O. (CONT’D)

I don’t even think this is going to be a happy story. I don’t know it might. I’m just saying I don’t think it has alot of potential to be so you might want to stop listening now if I’ve already started to bore you.

Gets up from his bed then room as he opens the apartment door he looks around before hobbling to a ladder leading up to a latched door to the roof.

JACOB V.O. (CONT’D)

This is where lose you.

He pulls himself up the ladder slowly then looks down at the long fall and imagines possibly slipping. He opens the door and crawls up to the roof.

JACOB

Finally I can stop talking in voice over.

Walking to the edge

JACOB (CONT’D)

Most people believe that they are capable of doing anything. The world is there oyster and mind an pearl.

walks to the edge of the roof.

JACOB (CONT’D)

I’m not that sure of myself. This world seems more like a mad clam than an oyster. My mind right now can’t stop thinking about the ultimate doom that lies ahead.

looks out at the New York skyline then down at the street.

JACOB (CONT’D)

I can imagine myself in the window of some sky scaper on black friday thinking I’m worth more dead than alive. Those guys did’nt care whether they lived or died they just knew everything of monetary value to them was gone. They had lost all their assets and that was enough to decide life was not worth living. I cant help but think just maybe they jumped becuase they could’nt bare the thought of not beign able to support their family.

JACOB (CONT’D)

If I cared that much about money I’d already jump.

backs away from the edge of the roof.

JACOB (CONT’D)

I’m too big of a pussy to ever kill myself. Being broke is just a fact of life for me. I’ve been in New York now for a year living paycheck to paycheck busting tables and bringing rich Italians their food before the gourmet microwaved plate cools off. I do that all for this.

looks on at the skyline.

JACOB (CONT’D)

The city of New York. A place of dreams and the meca of our civilization. I came here to sale a screenplay. Now I’ll just settle for getting laid. The perfume women wear on the subway now is more erotic than ever. I keep my head down most of the time but every now and then a woman will sit beside me with some kind of dark rich scent that makes my stomach grown and I imagine getting to know her on some whisicle reason then letting everyone of my words caress her lusting thoughts.

INT. JACOB’S ROOM- DAY

On his laptop looking at porn as his blanket moves up and down.

JACOB V.O.

Usually this is the part in the script where I start to grab your attention and reveal some of the plot.

becomes relaxed and lays his head back.

JACOB

Yeah we’ll get to that. First I have to masturbate to some internet porn. If I don’t do it I feel more alive and restless. The sweet release of a mans sperm is a brief moment in heaven. The orgasm is pure utopia but then the rest is like floating down a hill. Once you got to the top the journey wasnt worth the climb. I the view was enough to make a man sick to his stomach. Then you have to think about the factor that I have’nt tasted a woman in over seven years and the simple thought of falling in love right now seems so hard to. I’ve thought about paying a prostitute but, I would’nt be able to fuck her. Come to think of it I have spent too much money on every girl in return are bitter memories tucked in with a few fun times. just suffering and from a little bit of shell shock from her dose of medicine.

INT. ADAM’S BEDROOM- NIGHT

A can of Wintergreen Skoal Long cut sits on the table.

JACOB

Say boy you got a dip in there. After you just did a cannon ball. Are you trying to corner that wolverine.

Adam unwraps a box of “Popeyes Chicken”.

ADAM

No boy. This is a man’s can. Read the label... Wintergreen Skoal Long

cut.

Adam displays fried food.

JACOB

God Damn boy you got some golden nugz right there.

ADAM

Now you going to dip and eat at the same time.

JACOB

I’m going to do that and cannon ball this another time because right no I’m a man. Plus I’m going to show you how to write a screenplay.

ADAM

OK now. You sound like ric flair.

JACOB

I got it. Real men stay up.

Clip of Ric flair plays on Adam’s laptop

ADAM

Let’s have one character be like that sort of dominant monkey.

JACOB

Yeah we can make the one roommate who is all obsessed with conspiracy theories

JACOB (CONT’D)

Alright, excuse me it looks like you have upgraded from the longhorn.

ADAM

I think you should get you a pinch and be a man.

JACOB

You can keep your brain washed kitty litter to yourself. I’ll stick to my Jesus.

Jacob holds up his weed.

ADAM

Well now boy you have to let the little green men guide your thoughts. Let you know what’s wrong and right.

JACOB

I could picture someone taking out a magnifying glass and looking at a bowl of Crystals hanging off some Al Green.

ADAM

Dude that’s perfect we will put that in the screenplay. Is there some way you could put like some special effects in where Green martians are dancing on the top of the neon green leaves.

JACOB

Yeah dude there are editting programs that can do that. I will just youtube a video that shows you how.

ADAM

Ok cuz that’s badass.

Adam is laying down on the bed.

JACOB

Boy did you take that liper out already.

ADAM

I think that we should have these two bums say they collect trash. Let’s have those two guys get a slum one room apartment together.

JACOB

Like about two guys that are trying to write a screenplay. Yes the more they think about it the more the characters they are writing about actually start to control their ego.

ADAM

Like Heath Ledger in Batman.

JACOB

They will embody the ones they write about. The thing is we could talk about how to write it all day

ADAM

The writer becomes the story.

JACOB

So it should start with two guys sitting at a laptop.

Phone vibrates.

JACOB (CONT’D)

What? It’s fucking Boris. He wants to know if I’m in my room. It’s like he thinks we are married.

ADAM

Boy he misses you.

ADAM (CONT’D)

They are thinking of the begging of their screenplay.

JACOB

Which we will just use the one we discussed about reversing the motifs and alluding to the plot to Odd couple

ADAM

I don’t remember us talking about that but yeah whatever I like that,.

JACOB

Yeah trust me this will be like a revision of.

ADAM

Dam boy this ranch is good.

JACOB

I was thinking about having my character in the script and yours both runners for Windows of the world. That restaurant that was on top of the trade towers. That was in 2001.

ADAM

Boy take a look here. Hello you remember this little guy don’t you?

Adam pulls out his can of beer.

ADAM (CONT’D)

High gravity beer. It’s ten times cheaper and half the price of that cat piss mexican beer.

JACOB

That’s a man’s beer.

ADAM

Here is a song form 2001.

JACOB

This is a cool video from the top of the world trade towers.

ADAM

What’s this guy saying Abudha bob a cheello. Mama chello..

Adam attempts singing the lyrics of a song.

JACOB

I wonder if we have deid before. It’s got to be like telling yourself, I’m about to die God take me away from here.

ADAM

What brought that on?

JACOB

I was thinking about what it would be like to b stuck in the stairwell of the north tower as it was coming down. Having all your bones crushed. It’s got to be like going to sleep and entering a dream. It’s the only way your mind can forget about the pain.

ADAM

This is a sad song from 2001.

EXT. ENTRANCE WORLD TRADE TOWERS- DAY

Jacob stands at ground zero. He puts his hand on a fence.

JACOB

Sun comes up a beautiful day in march of 2000. Jacob heads up to the top of the world trade tower for another normal day at work.

Elevator dings at floor 92 people get out and Jacob stays on.

CONSTRUCTION WORKER

I’m taking this to the top. Where you getting off.

JACOB

Hundred and two.

CONSTRUCTION WORKER

You ever been to the very top.

JACOB

No.

CONSTRUCTION WORKER

You want to?

JACOB

Sure.

ADAM (O.S.)

You you tiger that yet?

INT. ADAM’S BEDROOM- NIGHT

ADAM

Go ahead now.

Adam holds out a red pipe full of weed.

JACOB

I’m writing about my character taking the elevator up to work and he meets a construction worker that takes him up to the very top of the North Tower.

Adam yawns and lays on the bed.

ADAM

That’s cool what time is it? I got head out at five.

JACOB

It’s only twelve fifty one.

INT. WORLD TRADE TOWER ELEVATOR- DAY

DING! Jacob walks out the elevator and enjoys his view from the top.

JACOB

Wow it’s nice.

CONSTRUCTION WORKER

Some kind of view.

JACOB

I wonder what it would be like to jump off?

CONSTRUCTION WORKER

You got a parachute.

Jacob is singing.

JACOB

Yeah right. Jumping like it used to..

CONSTRUCTION WORKER

What?

JACOB

You shouldn't be listening to that.

ADAM (O.S.)

Let it burn boy.

INT. ADAM’S BEDROOM- NIGHT

Leans up off the bed Jacob is still sitting at the desk typing.

ADAM

Yeah write that down how you grab for the pipe.

JACOB

Our character meet as runners at work but, they go to bars and kick it after work. That’s where you meet Courtney. That’s how we could introduce her character.

ADAM

Let me read that. I want to practice my character.

JACOB

Writing is very strenuous. You have to sit in one place and focus on taping little keys. I can’t even finish this sentence I have to lay down.

INT. BEAUTY BAR- NIGHT 2000

Jacob and Adam walk in the bar.

ADAM

Be lallaa. Just like a dream, never what it seem.

JACOB

Good song.

ADAM

We are into the nineties now boy. I like to time travel when I smoke.

Looks at a woman approaching the two guys.

JACOB

Who’s that?

ADAM

That’s Jules.

Jules, an older English woman wearing a fur coat and red lipstick.

JULES

Darling how and you. Darling I just got back from Miami and I had so much sex my pussy is sore. Where’s toto? Have you seen Toto Darling.

ADAM

He’s by the bar.

JULES

Toto!

Jacob looks at Adam.

JACOB

Who is Toto?

ADAM

Promoter for the bar.

Jules walks over to the bar.

ADAM (CONT’D)

One day he said Adam, can I fuck you?

JACOB

What?

ADAM

His girlfriend sucked my dick in the bathroom and nobody ever found out.

INT. ADAM’S BEDROOM- NIGHT

ADAM

Your right it was a controlled demolition dude. Because look they fell this way.

Adam shows a clip of a demolition of a building on his laptop.

JACOB

Yeah well, there were three that fell. Nobody really talks about that. The third one was’nt even hit.

ADAM

Dude, look at this two drinks ago you could have gotten yourself home. They bumps ago you would’nt have done this. Oh these people did there own. Two drinks ago you werent getting lucky.

They luagh.

ADAM (CONT’D)

Two drinks ago you would’nt have touched taco bell. Oh shit its Courtney's picture. Two weeks ago you would’nt of had sex for fifteen dollars. I got to send her that. That’s her meth picture they just photo copied it.

JACOB

I was just about to introduce her into the script.

Adam goes to the restroom and urinates loudly.

ADAM

Maybe this is cashed.

Adam reaches fro the pipe.

ADAM (CONT’D)

Two weeks ago sex for fifteen dollars was’nt normal.

ADAM (CONT’D)

Maybe she did know about. No she did’nt there is no way.

JACOB

Quit trying to convince yourself she’s not a whore.

Adam turns up the music. Jacob types.

INT. BEAUTY BAR- NIGHT 200

Adam looks across the bar at courntey.

JACOB

So what did Courtney say when she first met you.

ADAM (O.S.)

I don’t know man I was coked up.