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FEELING SEXY SCRIPT Screenplay by Davida Allen
© 7 May 1998
1. INT VICKI'S STUDENT BATHROOM DAY
A woman, VICKI, is in the bath. We watch her from behind. She is pulling her pubic hairs out and lining them one by one along the bath rim.
VICKI
(v/o)
He loves me/he loves me not/
he loves me/he loves me not/
He loves me.Finish on a line of pubic hairs along the rim of a bath.
2. TITLES OVER BATH.
3. INT ANATOMY ROOM DAY
GREG, a mild mannered young medical student, is totally absorbed as he carefully takes apart a plastic model of the brain on the bench in front of him. A class has just ended.
Cutting a swathe through the departing students, VICKI marches into the room, delicately holding aloft an object which is tiny but obviously of immense importance. She approaches Greg from behind and places onto his notebook her cargo: one curly pubic hair. Without turning, Greg sighs and flicks the hair off his page.
GREG
Gidday Vicki.As Greg tries to make notes, Vicki plonks down on a chair beside him, leans across to sketch in his notepad, strokes his earlobe, rocks in her chair, finally picking up one of the jigsaw pieces of plastic brain.
VICKI
Which bit's the imagination?
He sighs, puts down his pen and points to his head.GREG
(exasperated)
It's the bit that wonders will I ever get a medical degree while you're around.Vicki smiles, jumps up and struts around Greg, adopting a fantasy persona: she speaks in a husky, low voice with a very bad French accent.
VICKI
Ooooh, Professeur L'Amour ees very worried about her student. He work very very hard - and hard is good - but vot about ze uzzer parts of his life, eh?As a DEPARTING STUDENT grins at Vicki's antics, Greg tries to ignore her and maintain concentration on his work.
VICKI
Zere are udder parts of ze anatomy zan the brain, no?The eyes of TWO DISPERSING STUDENTS are on Vicki. Greg is cracking, but still keeps up the pretence of concentration on his work.
VICKI
Zere are ze arms . . .She strokes down the length of one of his arms seductively.
VICKI
Zere is ze stomick . . .She slides a finger between two buttons of his shirt near his belt. Embarrassed, Greg puts down his pen. Vicki tickles Greg's tummy. He convulses, then jumps up, surrendering. He hugs her awkwardly. ECU Vicki's sparkling eyes.
Vicki's Imagination Theme Music begins.
4. INT VICKI'S FANTASY PARIS STUDIO DAY
SUPER SLOW MOTION:
A heavenly, beautiful studio room is filled with hundreds of unpainted stretched canvases. VICKI, the artist, is at her easel painting. GREG, immaculately dressed in a tuxedo, dramatically enters the room. He strides determinedly toward her. He takes her in his arms, kissing her and whispering sweet nothings in her ear. His hand moves to her breast...5. INT VICKI'S STUDENT STUDIO/BEDROOM NIGHT
VICKI and GREG lying on Vicki's bed, kissing as early, hesitant, tentative lovers. As the kiss progresses, so does their passion. Vicki eagerly whips off her t-shirt, and makes a bee line for Greg's fly. Greg stops her, stuttering:
GREG
No.Vicki, slips her hand under the pillow...
VICKI
No, it's OK!and triumphantly produces a packet of contraceptive pills! Greg looks confused.
VICKI
I'm on the pill!GREG
No. It's not that.VICKI
(taken aback)
Well, what?
GREG
(hesitant, embarrassed)
Oh God.... sex between two people who love each other... it's a sacred and wonderful thing... Vicki can't believe this.
GREG
It's not just for the heat of the moment. I want it to be something special......6. INT VICKI'S STUDENT STUDIO/BEDROOM NIGHT VICKI's teeth at the lid of a tube of paint, twisting the top open violently. With her paintbrush, she slashes at the canvas.
VICKI
(derisively)
"...a SACRED and WONDERFUL thing. ...not JUST for the HEAT of the MOMENT... I LOVE you VICKI this PROBABLY sounds old fashioned...,
As she speaks, she calms, and starts to think about Greg's words. She rolls them over in her mouth.VICKI
"I LOVE you. I love you.. I love you..
but I think we should wait."7. INT VICKI'S MUM'S DREADFUL SUBURBAN BEDROOM DAY
VICKI is dressed in a white wedding dress. Her hair is done up in an outlandish style with flowers in it! Her MUM dotes from the doorway.
Vicki hoists a leg up onto the bed (and into frame) which sports an outlandish knee-high white buccaneer boot covered in red hearts. Mum winces - a long-suffering sigh.
Vicki proceeds to lace the boot.
VICKI
I want my life to be EXCITING!8. EXT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT
TITLE: TWO YEARS LATER
Still of the front of the house. No moon. Sound of a screaming BABY RUBY.
9. INT LONG EMPTY SHOPPING MALL CORRIDOR DAY
WHEELS far away at other end of a long corridor, are moving down towards the camera... but seem to be taking ages to come... image almost to a standstill... giving a feeling of LEAD Heavy. Eventually wheels get closer to camera, becoming clear as PRAM WHEELS. VICKI's hair is in a practical ponytail! Her face shows sheer frustration and tiredness; her hands are glued onto the handles of a wicker cane pram, pushing it. Sound of a screaming BABY is now excruciating.
10. INT A MOTHERS' ROOM DAY
VICKI's POV
The pram pushes open the door of a mothers room to reveal FIVE BREASTFEEDING MOTHERS. Their FIVE BABIES' mouths are being attached to and already attached to their swollen nipples. Sound of screaming babies... Plural.
THE FIVE BREASTFEEDING MOTHERS look up from feeding their babies and smile "Join the club" smiles, shuffling along to make room for VICKI.
11. INT HOSPITAL WARD DAY
GREG is one of a group of THREE MEDICAL STUDENTS doing a ward round with a PROFESSOR. The group move from one patient to the next, but Greg lags behind, stopping to talk to a YOUNG MOTHER feeding her BABY. He sits on a chair next to her.
MOTHER
I never thought she'd do so much defec... defec...GREG
Pooing.MOTHER
Yeah. I mean she only eats milk.GREG
(beaming)
Yeah, their digestive system's an extraordinary piece of engineering.Greg coos at the baby, fondling its tiny foot.
12. INT BEDROOM, GREG AND VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT
Greg is studying at a desk. His desklamp is the only light in the room. VICKI is asleep in bed. Soft sound of baby just starting to cry. Vicki sits awake at sound of baby crying, then flops back down on the pillow, exasperated. Greg looks at Vicki and smiles.
GREG
(good naturedly)
Who's idea was this?!Greg as he gets up from desk
GREG
My turn..Greg leaves room making goo goo sounds.
13. INT BEDROOM GREG AND VICKI'S HOUSE MOMENTS LATER
Big CU of SIX MONTH OLD RUBY gurgling happily. GREG is fast asleep in bed, whilst VICKI is beside him ...kissing and sucking the feet of Ruby.
14. EXT VICKI AND GREGS HOUSE DAY
TITLE: TWO YEARS LATER
Over a still photograph of VICKI, standing in front of the house, holding NINE MONTH OLD BABY TOBY. TWO AND A HALF YEAR OLD RUBY, is on her tricycle, just out of frame. The house is a humble and somewhat rundown Queensland wooden cottage on wooden stilts.
15. INT VICKI'S HOME STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY RUBY is a happy two and a half year old year old going round and round Vicki's easel on her tricycle. The LONG WHITE SOCKS of GREG enter the studio with the NINE MONTH OLD crying TOBY under one arm and doctor's white coat and stethoscope under the other.
GREG
I'm late again. Here...Greg forces TOBY into VICKI's wetpaint hands.
VICKI
Yeah, sure. You can't wait to leave.GREG
(pecking a goodbye )
For God's sake Vicki, not this morning... GREG exits.Vicki, exasperated, dumps crying TOBY in the pram, paintbrush in hand. Ruby still going round and round.
CU of the wet paintbrush in Vicki's hand as the hand grabs the pram handle and pushes the pram in and out of frame.
16. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DUSK PRAM WHEELS back and forth, back and forth. Sound of Modern Business Management Radio programme. VICKI is in the bath: she has one hand over the bath rim, holding onto the handle of the pram, dementedly pushing it to and fro, OUT OF and INTO the FRAME.
17. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DUSK Rain is hitting the window pane. A line of wet washing outside: nappy, long white sock, nappy, long white sock, nappy, long white sock... VICKI is holding the sleeping NINE MONTH OLDTOBY in her lap as she gazes out the window. Vicki's FACE: crying as she looks out the window, the sound of kid's TV droning in background.
18. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT Greg's clothes are dumped where he took them off: shoes and long white socks and shirt and shorts. GREG and VICKI in their pyjamas are on the bed. Greg is cutting his toenails. "Clip... clip... clip..." Vicki is becoming more and more pissed off as he skites about his exciting day at the hospital.
GREG
..the resident had taken a chest X Ray but it didn't look right. You know; something not quite right. ...it showed a well expanded right lower lobe with some slight mediastinal shift to the left! That is, the heart and stuff had moved a bit to the left. You won't believe this, but it was staring us all in the face: the left markers they stick on X Rays had just been ignored! Vicki is unresponsive.
GREG
You see, we were just looking at the bloody thing the wrong way round...Vicki jumps off the bed suddenly and stomps out of the room.
GREG
... It was staring us in the face..., you wouldn't believe it19. INT VICKI'S STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI marches into the studio and sets up a canvas on her easel. GREG enters and leans against the doorway. Vicki ignores him, blubbering all the while, as she furiously sets about as if to start a painting.
VICKI
(blubbering)
It's so lonely all day in the house without you... I can't DOOO ANY-thing. My days are the same: day in, day out. ......I HATE THE KIDS!GREG
(oozing empathy and compassion)
Maybe if you tried doing something creative with them...something you could all do together..VICKI
Oh yeah, like what?GREG
(pissed off)
I dunno. You're the one with the imagination.VICKI
(screams)
That's a joke.. I haven't got an imagination anymore! The kids have made sure of that!! Greg steps up to Vicki, and holds her tightly.GREG
Hang on, hang on... You've got more imagination than anyone I know.VICKI
(sobbing)
Yeah, that's just words. You don't understand what it's like! Greg steps back angrily from the embrace.GREG
No but I do understand what it's like to do 14 hours a day in casualty AND be on call all night AND do the study AND come home to a wife who does nothing but moan and groan about how hard life is for HER! I've just about had it.He heads for the door.
She watches him go, surprised.
20. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE MORNING
SCISSORS at VICKI's HEAD snipping hair off. (Hands are not seen. Just sharp ends of scissors.) Hair falls onto the floor beside little table and chair. CUT TO:
Vicki, WITH A LOP SIDED HAIRCUT, and TWO AND A HALF YEAR OLD RUBY are sitting at child size table, Vicki's HANDS gluing her hair onto the head of a just-made RAG DOLL whilst Ruby's LITTLE HANDS paint a face on it. Dummy in mouth, NINE MONTH OLD TOBY is crawling at Vicki's feet under the table. DISSOLVE TO:
21. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY
VICKI, WITH NEW SHORT HAIR CUT, is decorating hot pink coloured patty cakes with bright yellow icing. TWO AND A HALF YEAR OLD RUBY is helping with a spoon and NINE MONTH OLD TOBY is in high chair at the table. CU Toby's little hands mashing cake on high chair tray. There is a large glass container of smarties on the table. Vicki starts decorating iced patty cakes with the smarties. As Vicki's hand leaves the jar and her attention moves to the cakes, Ruby's little hand pushes the jar a little way towards the edge of the table. This happens again, and then again, until the base of the jar overhangs the edge of the table. Ruby's hand finally gives the jar its final tiny push. The jar smashes on the floor.
VICKI
Shit!22. INT FRONT VERANDAH AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY
VICKI, TWO AND HALF YEAR OLD RUBY, NINE MONTH OLD TOBY and rag doll all dressed up in red heart-spotted clothes, sitting at child-size table. There is a sewing machine and pile of red heart spotted fabric on the verandah. Ruby pours tea from a child-size teapot. Vicki sips from child-size teacup.
23. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY
VICKI, covered in paint, is kneeling at the fridge with CHILDREN, also covered in paint, applying little handprints to the fridge door. Phone rings. Vicki exits kitchen.
24. INT HOSPITAL CORRIDOR DAY
CU GREG at phone in busy hospital corridor.
GREG
(with a very bad French accent)
Eet ess possible for Madame La Professeur to geev me une private interview this evening...? I can come immediately....25. EXT GREG AND VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT
The moon shines over Greg and Vicki's house in its suburban street.26. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT
GREG (still in workclothes) mopping the floor and VICKI, kneeling scrubbing Ruby's handprints from kitchen walls.
27. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI enters the bedroom to find GREG flaked out on the bed, sound asleep. She leans against the doorway, totally despondent.
28. INT SUPERMARKET DAY
VICKI hits NINE MONTH OLD TOBY's LITTLE HAND 100 times! and puts a mangled chocolate lolly back onto the shelf. Toby is whingeing on Vicki's hip. TWO AND A HALF YEAR OLD RUBY's legs stick out from the trolley. She manoeuvres her trolley around a giggling and flirting TEENAGE COUPLE in order to take her place at the end of a checkout queue. Exhausted and manic, with Toby lurching from her hip, Vicki is second in the queue behind a very LARGE WOMAN with a very full trolley. The large woman starts putting her groceries onto the counter. Another GIRL LOVER is ravenously kissing her BOY LOVER as they take up their place behind Vicki in the queue. Vicki looks away awkwardly. Her POV through the supermarket shopfront: yet another pair of NEW YOUNG LOVERS are pashing on wildly outside. Vicki stares.
RUBY
(whingeing)
Mummy Mummy I've gotta do a wee-wee.CUT TO:
29. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT
VICKI, feeding NINE MONTH OLD TOBY a gooey orange concoction, talks to GREG in towel as he shaves in the doorway.
VICKI
(theatrically)
"Could you tell me where the toilets are please?"30. INT SUPERMARKET DAY
The young CHECKOUT GIRL at the register.CHECKOUT GIRL
They're on the third floor.Teetering with indecision, VICKI surveys the scene: TWO AND HALF YEAR OLD RUBY's HANDS desperately holding her crutch; the Checkout Girl's HAND punching numbers on the cash register; groceries moving along the checkout conveyor belt; another trolley joining the three customers already behind her in the queue.
RUBY
MUMMY!!!VICKI looks desperate.
31. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT Vicki is still feeding NINE MONTH OLD TOBY.
VICKI
(grinning while acting it out)
"I won't be a moment. I seem to have forgotten Toby's rusks." GREG in his undies now, is hanging on every word.32. INT SUPERMARKET DAY
VICKI, NINE MONTH OLD TOBY on hip, is dragging TWO AND A HALF YEAR OLD RUBY like an old dog toward the far aisle. Encouraged along by Vicki, Ruby squats down behind a stacked pallet, lifting her skirt. Vicki stands guard.
A WEE WEE RIVER emerges from behind the stack and heads for Vicki's feet.33. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG is laughing, buttoning up his white shirt.
VICKI
(still feeding TOBY)
"There's been an accident in the far aisle. Someone will have to find a mop!"34. INT SUPERMARKET DAY
Vicki reclaims her place in the queue behind her trolley... children in tow.VICKI
(to the queue of shoppers)
I've decided against the rusks.
35. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG, laughing, is now ready for work and on his way out of the kitchen. He kisses VICKI domestically.
Vicki's HAND grabs Greg's WHITE SHIRT to stop him leaving.VICKI
Take a sickie....
GREG
(shaking his head)
I can't. It's casualty.
Vicki watches as the door closes after Greg. CU NINE MONTH OLD TOBY's MOUTH spits out a glob of ORANGE GOO.36. EXT GREG AND VICKI'S HOUSE DAY
TITLE: ONE YEAR LATER
Still photograph of front of house: a rainy day, nappies and little girl's dresses hang drying under the eaves of the verandah. The sound of toddlers fighting.
37. INT LOUNGEROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI in nightie, sits dejectedly channel surfing. Every channel is showing some kind of romance or sex scene.38. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT Sound of distant washing machine.
GREG comes in and sits down at his place at the table, already set with a plate of cold meat and salad. VICKI, still in her nightie and looking tired and dreadful, storms in and drops a nappy full of poo right in the middle of the lettuce.VICKI
Was your day exciting too?
Greg looks nonplussed.
Vicki storms out.
39. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT The washing machine is going full throttle... GREG enters and empties the contents of the nappy down the toilet. VICKI is vigorously cleaning her teeth, OOZING DISCONTENT. Greg deposits the nappy in the laundry tub and turns the washing machine off. He turns to look at Vicki.VICKI
This is not the life I want.Greg plonks down on toilet seat.
GREG
Well, what sort of life do you want, Vicki? Do you know what you want?VICKI
(scrubbing her teeth
...of course I know what I want...She starts crying, toothpaste dribbling down her mouth.
VICKI
(snivels)
Ohhhh, I don't KNOW what I want!!!!40. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT Greg and Vicki are in bed.
Vicki is sound asleep.
CU Greg, wide awake and staring at the ceiling.41. EXT BACKYARD AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE EARLY MORNING Vicki is resentfully hanging clothes on the line. The family cat sleeps in the sun.
42. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE EARLY MORNING At the kitchen table GREG circles an advertisement in the middle of the Employment page of a newspaper: PART TIME ART TEACHER
43. EXT BACKYARD AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY GREG comes up behind VICKI, thrusts the open newspaper under her nose.GREG
Look at this!
Vicki takes the paper from him sharply.
Greg marches off: mission accomplished!
Vicki angrily throws the paper onto the ground, finishes pegging the nappy in her hand. Then she glances down at the newspaper, becoming increasingly interested in what she reads.44. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI, in dressing gown, is at the kitchen table in the quiet house, the newspaper ad and a writing pad in front of her. She is writing the job application.
GREG, in pyjamas, comes yawning into the kitchen and leans over Vicki to see what she is doing. Vicki leans into him.
VICKI
I've gotta get this...
He kisses her sleepily on the head.
GREG
(still yawning)
For your sake and mine.
I know... but it's late. Come to bed.
45. EXT HOUSE AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE MORNING The songbirds are tuning up as the sun rises.46. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE MORNING Greg enters room in a flap , dressing , running late for work.
GREG
Definitely chickenpox!!
VICKI, in her dressing gown, is sitting at the end of the bed, leg in the air putting on bright red stockings. She abruptly stops humming along to the Play School Song.VICKI
(crestfallen)
But it's my first day at work!?!
GREG grabs his stethoscope, and kisses her quickly on the head. GREG
Just ring them and explain. It happens all the time... kids getting sick and Mum can't get to work. He exits.
She is paralysed for a moment then quickly moves to put the other stocking on, a new breath of determination.47. EXT CHILDCARE HOUSE DAY
FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY's LEGS boasting a dozen Band-Aids follow VICKI through the gate of a childcare centre past a sign reading: CHILDREN WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES
MUST BE KEPT AT HOME.
Vicki, with TWO YEAR OLD TOBY on hip, exchanges an interested glance (a moment of frisson) with an extremely handsome YOUNG FATHER as they pass on the pathway.48. INT ART CLASSROOM DAY
VICKI, in red stockings, skirt and top, is holding a ridiculously too big pile of books, is standing in the doorway, looking into the art room. It is full of easels with EIGHT STRAGGLY ART STUDENTS smoking and lounging about. TWO STUDENTS, talking about the new term, pass Vicki in the doorway. They ignore her. She follows them into the room and dramatically dumps her pile of books on a desk. With her hands on her hips, she looks at the students. They haven't noticed her. Vicki's fingers unzip her skirt and stripper-like, she wriggles out of it, exposing the matching red suspender belt, red stockings and red panties. She dramatically drops her skirt to the floor as she scans the student crowd for a reaction. Her eyes suddenly lock onto:
HUGO, a handsome looking hippy-type student sitting amongst the classroom crowd. Hugo's eyes lock onto Vicki. The whole class has noticed her now and goes silent, gawping at her.VICKI
I'm the model for today's class!
49. INT LOUNGEROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG with a delighted beaming face.
GREG
You didn't!
VICKI
(with a mouthful of chips, giggling)
I did!
VICKI and Greg are on the couch, eating chips. She is not wearing pants - just red stockings, red suspender belt and a red bra. We see her pubic hair. Her legs are draped across Greg's lap. He caresses her leg, smiling, enthralled. His hand goes down to her pubis.GREG
Really?
Vicki with a mouthful of chips AND being touched off.VICKI
Yes. Really...
RUBY
(o/s)
Muuummmyyy!!!
VICKI
I knew it was too good to be true.
50. INT ART CLASSROOM DAY
HUGO the art student, is beautiful and sexy! He is standing behind his easel, ogling VICKI. She moves from one student to another, discussing their work. She notices Hugo and sucks her pencil nervously.51. INT CHILDREN'S BEDROOM GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI, still dressed in her art teacher's clothes, checks on her sleeping FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY AND TOW YEAR OLD TOBY and exits.
52. INT LOUNGE/BEDROOMGREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT Walking to the bedroom, VICKI starts to undress eagerly. She finds GREG flaked out asleep on bed, still dressed in his work clothes! Naked, she snuggles up to him and tries to seduce him awake. He will not wake up. CUT TO:
Vicki back on her side of the bed lies awake staring at the ceiling.53. INT ART CLASSROOM MORNING
VICKI is discussing HUGO's painting on his easel. He stares at her whilst she points to an interesting part. Hugo whispers something in her ear. Vicki smirks and giggles like a schoolgirl as he continues whispering.54. EXT ART SCHOOL CARPARK AFTERNOON
VICKI and a sunglass-wearing HUGO walk towards their vehicles. Hugo's van and Vicki's car are parked ridiculously close together - so close that it is impossible to open both driver's doors simultaneously. They try, but bump into each other in a clumsy fashion: keys, art books and stuff falling everywhere. They laugh at their own foolishness. Standing close now, giggling and trying to sort the mess out, Hugo stares at Vicki's face and points to his chin. Vicki looks closely. Hugo shakes his head, no, no, no, and points at her chin. She scratches at her chin and bits of paint flake off. Hugo licks his finger, reaches to her chin and finishes the job. Vicki's giggling stops. A split second of indecision, then she kisses him quickly on the lips and gets in her car.55. EXT VERANDAH AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DUSK VICKI sitting on the verandah happily guzzling into a huge piece of watermelon. Sound of GREG and KIDS playing horsey from inside. FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY
(v/o)
My turn... My turn...
TWO YEAR OLD TOBY
(v/o)
Giddy up! Giddy up.
The LONG WHITE SOCKS of Greg, backing in on all fours, arrive on the verandah Greg as horsey goes up to Vicki's feet, neighing and carrying on and nuzzling her legs. Vicki laughs and joins him on the floor to nuzzle him back.56. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE MORNING VICKI, dressed for art teaching, is rushing to organise everything for breakfast. The kettle is whistling. The TV is on. The washing machine is rumbling, children screaming catchy in another room. Vicki the superwoman fills Toby's bottle of milk, cuts vegemite fingers of toast, arranges them on a plate, makes Greg's coffee. GREG's LONG WHITE SOCKS and SHOES enter kitchen.
VICKI
Can you drop the kids?
57. INT ART CLASSROOM AFTERNOON
VICKI is moving around the classroom. There is a student at every easel. Vicki notices Hugo is not at his easel. As she moves from student to student, she looks around and her gaze is sudenly caught by HUGO sticking his head in and out of the rear storeroom doorway, beckoning and carrying on in an impish fashion. She pretends to ignore him for a while, but finally gives in; laughing in a private delight. Hugo, having won a reaction, slides back to his easel.58. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE MORNING CU GREG smiles with a MOUTHFUL of cornflakes.
GREG
(nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
I can get off early today...
VICKI in her pyjamas, is cutting and wrapping sandwiches in greaseproof paper.VICKI
Can you?
GREG
Yeah... Maybe I can get the whole afternoon... Vicki puts the milk away and stays as long as she can behind the fridge door, fumbling.VICKI
Um... I can't really... not today.
She vigorously wipes down the bench.
VICKI
...there's a student meeting this afternoon... Greg taking last gulp of coffee, gets up from the table, domestically kisses Vicki on head.GREG
(a little disappointed)
Oh right. Ok. Right.
59. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI in bra and pants unwraps a shopping parcel and takes out two new dresses: both the same colour as Hugo's van.60. EXT MT COOT-THA LOOKOUT CARPARK DAY
Hugo's VAN is parked in the middle of the carpark. VICKI walks towards the van. The back of the van with door handles in middle of screen. Vicki's HAND opens door. Vicki enters van.
61. INT VAN DAY
HUGO is in jeans and no shirt lying on a kapok mattress. His eyes are locked on VICKI. She unbuttons the front of her dress. Her hands reach the waist button... MATCH CUT TO:
62. INT LOUNGE ROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI's hands are in her lap, turning the page of a children's story book. She is still in the same dress. The children, in their pyjamas, TWO YEAR OLD TOBY, is leaning across the book to stroke it. Children's fingers point to the pictures in the book. VICKI, RUBY, TOBY
... and then the fairy godmother turned the pumpkin into... RUBY, TOBY
...a golden carriage with ten white horses!63. EXT RIVERBANK DAY
Hugo's VAN is parked overlooking the Brisbane river.64. INT VAN DAY
VICKI is wearing a different dress, kneeling on the kapok mattress. HUGO's HAND goes up under her dress.
Vicki sighs sexually.
The sound of RUBY and TOBY in the bath intrudes... CUT TO:
65. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DUSK Water splashes onto GREG's bare feet at the radio on the bathroom floor. FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY and TWO YEAR OLD TOBY move from one side of bath to the other, playing with their containers. Greg turns the radio on and adjusts the dial to a football station - a game is starting. He looks at his watch.66. INT VAN NIGHT
VICKI and HUGO are both naked lying on the kapok mattress. She takes his arm to check his watch.VICKI
Oh shit!!
67. EXT SUBURBAN STREET BY RIVERBANK NIGHT VICKI races breathlessly down the street, buttoning her dress, not looking for cars as she darts across the road.... She trips and has a near miss with an oncoming Holden.68. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG is barechested, reading in bed.
Sound of front door.
VICKI
(v/o)
I'm home.
She passes the bedroom door.
VICKI
Be in in a minute.
69. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI quickly takes her panties off as she turns on the hand basin tap. She wets a face washer, lifts her dress and sluices between her legs. She flushes the toilet as she leaves, and dumps her knickers in the washing machine.70. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI slides onto the bed next to GREG, draping her arm around him.
VICKI
Were the kids good?
He puts his book down.
GREG
Well, they're asleep.... at last.
Smiling, he turns toward her and starts unbuttoning her dress.GREG
(in a seductive, Frenchy whisper)
...And how many night classes will Madame le Professeur be doing this term? Vicki giggles and rolls over on top of him, kissing him all over. She can't believe her luck!! Their lovemaking intensifies. RUBY
(v/o)
(from other room)
My tummy's hurting Mummy....
FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY's tubby little body waddles up to the bed and climbs in.71. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DUSK Sound of children playing in the next room. HUGO in his sunglasses enters through the kitchen door. VICKI is standing against the kitchen table, eyes glued to Hugo. He steps up to her, and starts seductively kissing her. Vicki can't get enough. Passion rules! She lies back against the table as he feels up under her dress. His hands pull her dress up to her waist, exposing her underpants. Hugo's hands all over her like a rash.
She sighs.
Vicki's eyes wander to the wall above Hugo's head. The kitchen clock says 6 o'clock!
VICKI
Oh shit!
72. EXT GREG AND VICKI'S STREET DUSK
HUGO's van, pulling out from its parking spot on the street outside the house, momentarily blocks GREG from pulling in to the driveway.73. INT KITCHEN at GREG & VICKI's HOUSE DUSK A white mouse is in a little perpex cage on the kitchen table. LONG WHITE SOCKS enters kitchen doorway.
GREG
Hot, eh?
VICKI
(v/o)
Yeah.
GREG goes to fridge, gets a stubby and sits down at table.GREG
What sort of day did you have?
VICKI
Oh, same old thing...
The mouse is moving about inside its cage frantically. Vicki looks to the table, where amongst the other kitchen table debris she sees Hugo's sunglasses. Under the cover of clearing the mess from the table, she quickly and seamlessly removes Hugo's sunglasses and hides them in a drawer.GREG
I thought you'd start painting with this job... you know... get excited about things... get STIMULATED...VICKI
Nup.
GREG
How come?
VICKI
(shrugs)
I just haven't felt like it, that's all... (madly thinking up an excuse)
Haven't had time!!!!
74. EXT HUGO'S STUDENT HOUSE DAY
FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY and TWO YEAR OLD TOBY are half out the window of Vicki's CAR in the street outside Hugo's hilltop house. Hugo's van is parked in the driveway. HUGO and VICKI are pashing on in the front doorway. Vicki's car starts moving very slowly down the road. RUBY AND TOBY
(v/o)
Mummy!!!!
CU Vicki looks up and freezes, horrified, watching: The car rolling slowly backwards until it hits another little car with a quiet 'tink!' and miraculously comes to a harmless halt. CUT TO:
75. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG is happy in bed, totally relaxed and absentmindedly stroking VICKI' hair. Smouldering under the sheet next to him, Vicki has her back to him. Suddenly, as if bitten by a spider, she leaps out of bed.VICKI
(cracking)
Oh God... I NEARLY KILLED THE KIDS TODAY.... Greg looks up startled.
GREG
(laughs)
You what??
VICKI
There was NO student meeting!
GREG
What?
She grabs her dressing gown from the end of the bed and struggles to put it on, blurting out half sentences that don't come easily.VICKI
I don't know how it happened...
GREG
How what happened?
She paces around the room, always avoiding Greg's eyes, tourniqueting a finger with her dressing gown cord.VICKI
...I don't know how it happened... It's not that I love him or anything... It was fun, I felt... free... Anyway it's over, I don't know why I did it, it was just, you know...GREG
Are you saying...?
Greg's face agonisingly perplexed.
VICKI
...there wasn't a Saturday lecture. I was with him, in his van... Kicked in the guts, Greg is paralysed.
The stubby drops from his hand and the beer dribbles onto the bed. VICKI
I didn't mean to hurt you. It was just a stupid thing. I just wanted to be free again...I felt sexy He closes his eyes and draws his knees up under his chin. He looks old and frail. She goes to touch him. Greg holds up his hand defensively.GREG
(hard)
Don't touch me, Vicki.
Vicki backs off momentarily then starts moving in again...VICKI
Gr-e-e-g...
GREG
DON'T. COME. NEAR. ME.
VICKI
(anguished)
I didn't mean to...
She goes to hug him.
At first touch, Greg violently flings her off and we hear Vicki hit the wall with a sickening thud. CUT TO:
76. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG is ejaculating. He is on top of VICKI. She is his prisoner: her hands pinned above her head under his... Vicki's eyes are at his ear. She is crying silently, not resisting. Sound of a building crashing down.
77. INT CHILDREN'S BEDROOM GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY's FOOT sticking out from the blankets on her bed. VICKI reaches up from the makeshift bed she has made for herself on the floor to cover Ruby's foot. Then she lies back, awake, staring at the ceiling. The room is in darkness and silence.
The strange sound of muffled weeping.
78. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSENIGHT GREG is sitting on the toilet seat, his face in his hands, weeping agonisingly. Sound of his weeping grows louder.
79. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE MORNING CU: black coffee being stirred.
VICKI, in dressing gown, is sitting at the kitchen table lifelessly stirring her coffee, staring into the cup. GREG opens the bathroom door and enters the kitchen. He is dressed for work. He briskly goes to the fridge, drinks from the bottle of milk, then slams the fridge door closed and exits without as much as a glance to Vicki. Sound of children's tv programme coming from lounge room. TV COMPERE
(v/o)
If you're happy and you know it
Clap Your Hands,
If you're happy and you know it,
then you really ought to show it ...
Sound of FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY and TWO YEAR OLD TOBY in the next room are laughing and clapping. Vicki stares into her cup like a zombie. CU of spoon going round and round in coffee.VICKI
(v/o on phone)
....I won't be able to finish the term. You'll have to find a new teacher. I don't want to talk about it now. Thanks for everything. Bye. Phone clicks off.
80. EXT ART SCHOOL DAY
HUGO heads away from the school building towards his van. He throws his bag in the back, gets into the drivers seat, closes the door and winds down the window. A man's hand suddenly flashes towards him through the window and grabs him by the neck. Hugo is terrified.GREG
Do you know who I am? Think about it MATE!! Hugo wheezes.
GREG
(squeezing harder)
Do you know who I am???
HUGO indicates he does.
GREG
You don't go near my wife or kids ever again. GET IT? Hugo indicates he does.
Greg relaxes his grip on Hugo's neck.
GREG
Good. Right. Right then. Thanks. Right.
Greg turns away.
Hugo, panting, tries to regain his composure. He watches Greg walking away, then fumbles for his keys. He starts the engine and is about to put the van into gear when: SMASH!!!!!! A tyre brace smashes into his windscreen, which dissolves in a crashing wave of crazed cracks, obscuring Hugo COMPLETELY!!!81. INT HOSPITAL OPERATING THEATRE ANTEROOM DAY GREG in full surgical outfit is scrubbing his hands relentlessly at a basin.
82. EXT FRONT STAIRS AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY GREG's LONG WHITE SOCKS and SHOES are leaping up the front steps two at a time. Dangling from his waist, the LEGS of a BULL-TERRIER.
83. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI is washing up at kitchen sink.
Exaggerated sound of BULL TERRIER's panting. Vicki turns around.
CU Dogs Face. Its TONGUE hangs out, salivating. It appears eager to leap out of GREG's hold and destroy everything in sight. RUBY
(v/o)
A doggy!!! ...Where's it gonna sleep? Can it sleep with me Dad? Toby's got the gold fish... TOBY
(v/o)
Meeeee!!!! I want him...
Framed in the kitchen doorway, GREG is smiling triumphantly holding a BULL-TERRIER firmly under his arms.GREG
Cute little feller, eh?
84. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT The BULL-TERRIER, sitting on a chair beside GREG, peers over the dinner table, grinning. Greg with much gusto, cuts up one of his chops and eats heartily, stacking his fork with a generous mouthful of mashed potato and peas, enjoying his food. VICKI has a single chop on her plate and although she is holding her knife and fork, she is not eating. Her gaze does not leave the bull-terrier's grin. Greg notices Vicki is not eating. He points to the chop on Vicki's plate.GREG
Do you want that?
Vicki shakes her head no.
Greg reaches across the table, takes the chop from Vicki's plate and hands it to the BULL-TERRIER. The dog takes the chop in its mouth and tears it apart right at the table.85. EXT BACKYARD AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY The BULL-TERRIER tears VICKI's dress from the clothes line and rips it to shreds. Full attack mode!
86. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT Both bedside lights are on.
GREG and VICKI are far apart in bed, their backs facing. Most of the bed is left as space between them. Both are awake. Sound of BULL-TERRIER barking, followed by sound of cat screeching. Greg and Vicki pretend to sleep.
87. EXT BACKYARD AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY The children squeal joyfully as they play with the rag doll and the cat in the sand pit. FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY is holding the rag doll; TWO YEAR OLD TOBY is holding the cat. VICKI finishes removing washing from the clothes line and walks towards us carrying a ridiculously full basket of clothes. Sound of BULL-TERRIER snarling.
Vicki looks with alarm towards the sand pit, drops her clothes basket and starts running. CUT TO:
RUBY is tightly holding the rag doll.
The BULL-TERRIER's MOUTH is growling.
Vicki's FOOT goes to kick the dog but she misses. The Bull-Terrier slinks away with rag doll in its mouth.88. EXT BACK STEPS AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY's MOUTH dripping chocolate. TWO YEAR OLD TOBY's HANDS covered in chocolate Paddle Pop, bothwalking up back steps.. VICKI's arms heavily laden with groceries. Vicki stops dead as she nears the top of the stairs and drops her bags. CUT TO:
A decapitated CAT'S HEAD DRIPPING BLOOD hangs out of the BULL-TERRIER's mouth at the top of the steps.VICKI
(to children behind her)
Get back. Go on. Go. Quickly. Down the stairs. Vicki's and children's FEET all shuffling quickly down the back steps. RUBY
(v/o)
YUCKY! Yucky. What's Mister Dog got in his.....VICKI
(v/o)
Come on. We'll go and see Mrs Smith next door. Cat's head in BULL TERRIER's mouth.
CHILDREN
(v/o - giggling with sheer delight)
WHOOPEEE.. Jelly Beans!!...
Mrs Smith 'll give us lollies!
DISSOLVE TO:
89. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DUSK GREG's LONG WHITE SOCKS stop in the bedroom doorway as he surveys the scene: The RAG DOLL's head lies next to the headless cat's body on a blood-stained bed. The pillows have been ripped to shreds.
Blood-stained sheets. A bedside light is smashed. The BLOODY FOOTPRINTS of a BULL-TERRIER track over a SMASHED MIRROR. And in a corner, a dazed VICKI is huddled in a heap. Greg crouches beside her, puts his arms around her and hugs her. She is lifeless in his hold, her arms hanging limp. He picks up her loose arms and puts them around his neck, holding her tightly. Vicki's MOUTH fumbling words between tears: VICKI
(blubbering)
Can't it be over. I'm Sorry... I'm sooo sorry. I never meant to hurt you. Greg kisses her, straightening her hair away from her blubbering mouth. She surrenders into his hold, two figures in the ruins of the room.90. EXT HOUSE AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAWN GREG in his pyjamas hammers a huge sign into the front lawn:
BULL-TERRIER FOR SALE.
91. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI flaps out a bright, heart-patterned bedspread as she makes the bed.92. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY With eager anticipation, VICKI walks slowly around a new canvas on the easel. She sits with a cup of tea, contemplating it. After a couple of moments, she minutely adjusts the position of the canvas and sits again.
93. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI's hand with toilet brush energetically cleaning the toilet bowl.
94. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI is sitting in front of a blank canvas fidgeting with a paint brush.
95. EXT BACKYARD AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI is pegging clothes on the clothes line.
96. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI sits next to the easel flipping desultorily through the pages of an art book.
97. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI cleans out the vegetable crisper of the fridge.
98. INT STUDIO at GREG & VICKI's HOUSE DAY VICKI sits still, her arms folded, staring at the blank canvas, willing a painting to appear!
99. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY The washing machine is going full throttle, getting LOUDER and LOUDER. VICKI is picking up children's shoes and clothes scattered on floor. She lifts lid of washing machine and throws EVERYTHING in!
100. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI sits in front of the canvas blankly eating teaspoons of sugar straight from the packet. The canvas is still blank.
101. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG and VICKI are in bed in their pyjamas, Vicki on her back, her eyes closed, and Greg lying facing her. Greg beetles his finger over her face, down over her lips, down her neck, across her breasts... Vicki is not particularly aroused.
Greg slowly unbuttons her pyjama top, feeling her nipples. Vicki's eyes open to him.
VICKI
I just don't feel very sexy...
Greg flops back, his hands behind his head, frustrated.102. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE EARLY MORNING VICKI is pouring coffee for a pensive GREG. They are still in night-clothes.
VICKI
It's not like it used to be, is it. I mean... it's not RAMPAGINGLY SEXY between us every minute of the day anymore. Is it? Greg sighs patiently.
GREG
It can't be like it was in the beginning. that's just not the way it is... marriage can't be passionate every minute of the day.VICKI
(as she stands)
Well that's what I want... PASSION!!
I just want to feel ALIVE....
Greg pushes aside his untouched coffee.
GREG
Are you at all capable of thinking of anyone but yourself? I'm going to work. He leaves for the bedroom.
VICKI
I just want that butterflies in the stomach feeling.103. EXT GREG AND VICKI'S HOUSE DAY
TITLE: ONE MONTH LATER
Still photograph of sunny day. FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY and TWO YEAR OLD TOBY are sitting on steps in full swimming regalia. TOBY
v/o
Me too?
RUBY
v/o
You're too little.
104. EXT SWIMMING POOL ENTRANCE DAY
RUBY's FLIPPERED FEET flap through the swimming pool turnstile, followed by VICKI wearing shorts and top, loaded up with goggles, towels and kick board. They pass a sign:
UNDER FIVES SWIMMING CLASSES
with MRS ANDERSON
MORNING AND AFTERNOON CLASSES
105. EXT SWIMMING POOL DAY
VICKI is sitting on a bench loaded up with the children's swimming things. She looks bored stiff, gazing absently towards the pool. Vicki's POV:
Out of focus SWIMMERS busy in and out of pool. From the crowd, FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY's FEET emerge, running towards her.VICKI
How many times do I have to tell you NOT to run around the pool... You'll slip one day and break your leg. Ruby runs away.
No sooner has she left than a beautiful sun-tanned GREEK GOD OF A MAN in SILVER speedo togs and sporting a HUGE TATTOO on his thigh comes into sight. He walks slowly from one side of the pool to the other in front of Vicki (No face of Greek God-Man.) Vicki sits up with new energy, gasping and smiling, her eyes locked onto Greek God-Man.106. INT SERVICE STATION DAY
VICKI is in a slow line of customers waiting to pay for petrol. She gazes absently at the magazine rack beside her, where her eye is drawn by a row of Tattoo Magazines: "Australian Tattoo", "International Tattoo Art" and "Tattoos Down Under" among others. She begins to flip through them. CHECKOUT GIRL
(v/o)
Next please.
Unable to choose and slightly self-conscious, she takes the lot to the checkout desk.VICKI
(half under her breath)
Could I have these in a paper bag please?107. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI in her pyjamas is reading a tattoo magazine in bed while GREG clips his fingernails next to her. Greg looks over her shoulder at a photograph of a woman with a tattoo on her face.
GREG
A plastic surgeon's dream!
Vicki laughs. He kisses her on the cheek.108. INT SWIMMING POOL DAY
VICKI in shorts strolls around the pool amongst the other bathers, looking all around. As she reaches one end of the pool, she stops and stares: GREEK-GOD MAN is sitting on his towel on the lawn. He is dressed in white Speedos and is applying tanning oil to his burnished body. Vicki settles herself down on her towel at some distance but in direct view of this Adonis. Once settled, she looks up and perves at him. Imagination music....
109. EXT EMPTY SWIMMING POOL NIGHT
SUPER SLOW MOTION:
The moon's reflection glistens on the swimming pool. From out of the water emerges GREEK GOD-MAN. His WET, HAIRY, GLISTENING CHEST.
110. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG's WET HAIRY CHEST steps out of the bath. No sooner does he have towel in hand than VICKI's HANDS enter frame and start caressing his chest. Then her face comes into frame kissing his chest and lower still. Greg's FACE: amused and liking every bit of it.GREG
(sighs, groaning an erection)
What's made you so sexy?
111. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI is organising the studio, cleaning the surfaces and rearranging her desk. She sets up her sewing machine along with a pile of beautiful fabrics.112. EXT SWIMMING POOL DAY
Vicki gets organised: General chair setting up, adjusting to comfortable position for drawing, checking for good sightlines, cool drink at hand, supply of pencils at the ready, etc etc. She begins to draw (we don't see drawing), looking up, then looking back down to her pad. As she draws, camera moves to reveal her subject: the GREEK GOD-MAN, lying on his belly by the side of the pool, his BUTTOCKS in the air. Imagination theme music...
113. EXT SWIMMING POOL NIGHT
SUPER SLOW MOTION:
Moonlight glistens on the water of the swimming pool. The naked GREEK GOD-MAN swims across the pool, his TATTOOED BUTTOCKS facing the camera.114. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG's buttocks face the camera. He is moving slowly and erotically over VICKI who is in a pair of togs. Vicki sighs heavily, her eyes closed. Greg's HANDS go to pull down her tog straps at shoulders. Vicki stops him.
VICKI
(v/o whisper)
Noo... leave them on.
Greg's and Vicki's TONGUES play an erotic dance. They are lying side by side facing each other, kissing slowly, sexily. Imagination Theme Music....
115. EXT SWIMMING POOL NIGHT
SUPER SLOW MOTION:
VICKI and the tattoo-covered GREEK GOD MAN tongue kissing in the middle of the deserted pool.116. EXT SWIMMING POOL DAY
VICKI adjusts a pair of wonderful togs as she walks through the turnstile. A pair of binoculars hang from her neck. She takes her binoculars and searches the pool. Through her binoculars:
The busy swimming pool, with out of focus SWIMMERS in and out of the pool. She focuses on the tattoo of the GREEK GOD-MAN. Then our view slowly moves to his lumpy speedos. RUBY's clear little voice:
RUBY
(v/o)
Watch me MUM. MUM...
Vicky's binocular view rises slowly back up the body of Greek God-Man...VICKI
(v/o)
I AM watching ...
...right up to his eyes, which look straight at Vicki. She quickly drops the binoculars and turns away.117. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI sits at her desk, cutting up her tattoo magazines. She is happy and industrious. Her desk is covered with sketchbooks, bearing covers of pinking sheared magazine cut-outs of tattooed men.
118. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAWN GREG turns over in bed, goes to cuddle up to Vicki but wakes up with NO VICKI. The sound of a car starting up.
GREG jumps out of bed and goes to the window.119. EXT STREET OF GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAWN GREG's POV:
VICKI in Greg's car driving away from house.120. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAWN Greg at window, looks puzzled.
121. EXT SWIMMING POOL MORNING
The pool boasts a few EARLY MORNING SWIMMERS. On the lawn is one sitting on his towel: the GREEK GOD-MAN. VICKI, in a new pair of togs, spreads her towel in very close proximity and then displays herself on it. She sneaks a glance at him.
122. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE MORNING Sound of kids watching TV in next room.
VICKI in togs and with wet hair hurries in. She enthusiastically kisses GREG. He is dressed for work and not impressed by his late, wet wife.GREG
(annoyed)
Ward rounds started ten minutes ago.
VICKI
(carefree)
Sorry...
Greg rushes out the door with his work things. Vicki yells after him.VICKI
(with a guilty smirk)
You'd better put some petrol in it!
123. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI is wildly stirring a huge can of blue paint on the floor. Paint flies everywhere as she hurries to complete the task. She smiles.
Imagination theme music....
124. EXT SWIMMING POOL DAY
SUPER SLOW MOTION:
CU Swimming pool water.
125. INT LOUNGEROOM /HALL AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI, dressed in her paint clothes, smeared with blue paint from head to toe, is manoeuvring a ladder, with a lot of difficulty, through the lounge room and into the studio doorway. Through the doorway we see snatches of a bright blue wall. Sound of distant kids.
Vicki manages to get the ladder through the studio door. She closes and locks the door and puts the key in her pocket.VICKI
(as she locks door)
Come on kids... time to go.
126. EXT CHILDCARE CENTRE DAY
TOBY in goggles, floaties and shark ring round his waist waves goodbye to VICKI from childcare centre fence. Normally dressed children on either side of him stare at his outfit.127. INT SWIMMING POOL ENTRANCE DAY
VICKI and RUBY line up to pay at the entrance counter. The GREEK GOD-MAN comes up to the counter to serve them. Vicki, her heart pounding, passes the money into his hand, her hand lingering on his for just a moment too long. This is their first touch.128. INT/EXT AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE HOUSE DAY GREG's LONG WHITE SOCKS bound up steps. Carrying wrapped fish and chips, he walks through the house looking for Vicki and kids. He walks through a really untidy lounge room into the bedroom, where the bed is not made;
into the kitchen where the washing up is piled up untidily on the sink; and back into the lounge room.
He goes to open the studio door but finds it locked. CUT TO:
He sits in the kitchen dejectedly eating his fish and chips.129. EXT SWIMMING POOL STREET DAY
GREG, a little pissed off, is driving along the swimming pool street. He slows to a crawl and stares out towards the pool.130. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI at stove in her blue paint spattered jeans. GREG in work clothes enters, grabs a beer from the fridge and moves irritably to the table.
GREG
I came home at lunch time. Where were you? Vicki steps up to him, runs her hands through his hair, and takes a swig of his beer.VICKI
(carefree)
What time? I took the kids to the pool this morning... Oh hang on a sec, yeah, it would have been about lunchtime... Greg looks at her inquisitively.
131. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI is pacing along a blue painted wall of her studio, humming as she goes. She is wearing yet another pair of new togs. The wall behind her has been painted blue. A sleep-rumpled GREG appears in the doorway.GREG
It's three o'clock in the morning.
VICKI
I'm just working something out.
Greg shakes his head and leaves.
Vicki sits down at her desk, takes a sketch book and opens at a new blank page. Imagination theme music....
132. EXT SWIMMING POOL DAY
SUPER SLOW MOTION
VICKI is sitting on the edge of the pool, her legs dangling in the water. The Greek God-Man walks towards her and swoops down, his strong tattooed arms lifting her into his embrace.133. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAWN GREG is asleep in bed without Vicki.
134. INT KITCHEN AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE MORNING GREG and FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY and TWO YEAR OLD TOBY, all in pyjamas, are at table eating breakfast. VICKI still in togs bounds into the kitchen. She has wet hair and a towel tied round her waist.GREG
I've done breakfast. AGAIN.
She goes up to Greg and drapes herself over him, hugging him.VICKI
You're wonderful...
She takes a mouthful of his toast.
VICKI
(as she eats)
...and I had a wonderful swim. You should see the tattoos on this swimmer at the pool. They're absolutely incredible.. Greg huffs disbelief and exits room.
135. EXT SWIMMING POOL DAY
In his long white socks, his hands awkwardly in his pockets, Greg wanders around the pool, looking for evidence. Two dripping-wet boisterous kids run past him, showering him with pool water. He reaches a vantage point and surveys the scene. No sign of a tattoo.136. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG, dressed in pyjamas and dressing gown, is standing at the hand basin, washing his hands. FOUR YEAR OLD RUBY is sitting on the toilet, her underpants round her legs. RUBY
Jack Roberts is my best friend at swimming.GREG
Are you liking your swimming lessons?
RUBY
Mrs Anderson lets Jack and me in the middle.GREG
Has Mummy got a special friend at the pool too? RUBY
(v/o, importantly)
I've done a poo.
137. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT The studio is like an Aladdin's cave. All four walls are a painted blue. There are magazine pages all over the floor and desk, a large blue primed canvas leaning against the wall, sketchbooks with collage covers of tattooed men, paint brushes are in jars. VICKI is behind a canvas on the easel. She is throwing paint on the canvas energetically. She stands back to assess her work.
VICKI
(frustrated)
Damn!!
138. EXT SWIMMING POOL DAY
VICKI in a new pair of togs walks towards the pool. She sees her GREEK GOD-MAN sitting on the edge of the pool, his legs dangling in the water. She strides up to him and sits down right beside him! He doesn't react. Vicki's POV:
Two pairs of legs dangling in the water. Vicki's legs swish dangerously close to the big brown calves of Greek God-Man. Imagination music...
139. INT SWIMMING POOL SHOWER DAY
SUPER SLOW MOTION:
Vicki, naked, is being ravished by naked Greek God-Man as shower rains down upon them.140. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG is in the shower.
A naked VICKI gets into the shower with him VICKI
You're SOO sexy!
Greg scoffs disdainfully.
Vicki determined, slides down his wet body onto her knees. Vicki's face... water at her mouth... her eyes watching Greg watching her. Vicki starts to suck him off.
GREG
For God's sake Vicki...
Greg reluctantly yields to the physical pleasure.141. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG, in pyjama bottoms, places two pillows down the middle of the double bed, dividing it into two halves. He gets in, his back to the pillow divider, and turns the light off. CUT TO:
Greg is asleep in the dark room. VICKI enters, dressed in her pyjamas.. She lies down on what little space has been allowed her, staring at the ceiling. CUT TO:
VICKI tosses and turns.
CUT TO:
Another angle: Vicki tries to sleep.
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Vicki, lying on her back now, suddenly sits bolt upright in bed.VICKI
I've got it!
CUT TO:
142. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY VICKI, elated, is holding a large bucket of paint in one hand and a big paint brush in the other. She is balancing on the very top rung of the ladder in a corner of the room, her head crinked upwards to a blue ceiling. She is putting the finishing touches of thick red, yellow and pink paint onto the already painted bright blue ceiling. The phone starts to ring.
Vicki hesitates, then starts manoeuvring her way as quickly as possible down the ladder. The ringing stops as her feet reach the floor. With a sigh she heaves herself back up the ladder to start work again.143. INT HOSPITAL WARD DAY
Phone ringing at nurses station. GREG is writing up notes, standing at the desk. Nurse answers phone and hands it to Greg. NURSE
(confidentially)
Excuse me doctor, it's for you. It's the swimming pool. Greg takes the handset, and listens with a worried look..GREG
(worried)
Who's looking after her..? (pause) Where's her mother?144. INT/EXT CAR/HOSPITAL GROUNDS LATE AFTERNOON RUBY's thigh-high plastered LEG pokes through from the back seat into the front of the car between VICKI and GREG. Vicki comforts her by stroking her toes. Greg is driving. The atmosphere is icy between Vicki and Greg.
VICKI
...it would have happened even if I had been there. I don't know how many times I've told her not to run on the wet cement... For God's sake. I was only away for... Greg, looking straight ahead, interrupts.GREG
Who?
VICKI
Who what?
GREG
Who IS it?
VICKI
Who is What?? What d'you mean?
Greg turns towards Vicki.
GREG
(slowly, mechanically)
I would... like... to... know... the name of the person... you have been... having SEX with. Vicki stares at Greg like a stunned mullet.145. INT BATHROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG is brooding, seated on the toilet lid. He stares at Vicki. Feeling his icy gaze, Vicki, mid-toothbrushing, turns to face him.
VICKI
You couldn't be more wrong. I can explain everything.GREG
Give us a break, Vicki. I wasn't born yesterday.VICKI
No, I can explain. Really. I didn't think to explain...GREG
(laughs sarcastically)
That'd be right. You didn't think. You didn't think about me last time either. Who is it this time, eh? WHO IS IT? She stops cleaning her teeth and spits out.VICKI
It's REALLY not what you think...
She moves to take Greg's hand but he pulls away.VICKI
Come with me. I've got something to show you. She moves to the door. Greg stays put.
VICKI
Come on.... Please...
GREG stares after her as she leads the way out of the room.146. INT LOUNGEROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI arrives at the open studio door, turns and waits for Greg. He is padding grim-faced behind her. Vicki stands aside to let him in.
147. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT GREG makes his way tentatively in.
Greg's POV:
The walls, floor and ceiling are painted bright blue. Exploding from the blue background, in huge, thick, multicoloured textured paint, written all around the four walls is a letter in Vicki's handwriting: Dear Mr Tattoo man,
We will never meet.
Continuing onto the second wall:
I love my husband.
I am feeling sexy for you.
The line of Vicki's handwriting in paint continues onto the third wall. It makes me feel sexy for my husband.
Aren't I lucky I can paint about it?
With love from Vicki.
Greg's eyes are drawn to the ceiling on which: It's nice feeling sexy
It's nice feeling sexy
It's nice feeling sexy
is written over and over and over in the same huge graphic handwriting.VICKI tip-toes nervously around the room behind GREG, so close behind him that she is almost on top of him.
VICKI
(whisper)
Do you get it now?
GREG
(hopefully)
...sort of...
148. EXT HOUSE AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAWN The first rays of the sun touch the house.149. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAWN Vicki wakes up in bed. Greg is not there. She gets out of bed quietly and tiptoes towards the studio. Being careful not to make any noise, Vicki spies through the half-open studio door.
150. INT STUDIO AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAWN GREG is in his pyjamas eating a bowl of cereal at Vicki's desk, flipping through her pile of Greek God-Man sketchbooks, smiling and laughing to himself.
151. EXT AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE DAY
TITLE: THREE YEARS LATER
Still of GREG standing proudly in front of new car parked on lawn of house.152. INT/EXT CAR/SERVICE STATION DAY
GREG, dressed for work and reading a newspaper, is in the passenger seat of the new car beside VICKI, who is at the wheel. Vicki turns towards Greg as if to speak but sees that he is engrossed in his newspaper so turns to the windscreen again. The yellow bonnet closes to reveal a GARAGEMAN in orange overalls. He has a huge moustache. VIcki watches him go past her car door . He is whistling. She reaches to the rear vision mirror and adjsuts it for a better view of GARAGE MAN.153. INT/EXT CAR/SERVICE STATION DAY
In the rear vision mirror we see a flash of orange and a CU of Vicki's eyes. Imagination theme music begins.
154. INT/EXT FANTASY CAR/SERVICE STATION DAY SUPER SLOW MOTION
The greasy hands of GARAGEMAN start unbuttoning his flourescent orange overalls exposing his chest and stomach hairs. A huge, huge, hundred times larger than reality erect penis shape can be seen distorting the shape of his overalls. He goes about his business of filling the car with petrol. Imagination theme music....
Grinning MOUSTACHED MOUTH of Garage man. His fingers are curling the ends of an extraordinary, theatrical moustache.155. INT/EXT CAR/SERVICE STATION DAY
GREG looks up casually from his newspaper to VICKI whose neck is positively crooked, staring into the rear vision mirror. Greg frowns and turns around to look for himself through back window of car. As he does so, the orange overall-ed shape walks around to Greg's car door. SERVICE STATION MAN's moustached FACE pokes in through Greg's car door window. GARAGE MAN
Oil's a bit low.
Greg looks up reluctantly from his newspaper.GREG
Oh, is it?
Vicki is gazing at MOUSTACHED FACE totally engrossed. GARAGE MAN
I'd keep an eye on it - check 'er for leaks in the morning. He starts to clean the windscreen.
GARAGEMAN
Crikey, ya windscreen's as filthy as a bull's arse in springtime!!! Garage man laughs at his crude joke as he cleans. Greg goes back to his newspaper. Vicki is transfixed. Imagination theme music begins....
157. EXT CAR/SERVICE STATION DAY
SUPER SLOW MOTION:
Vicki is lying back on the bonnet of car, being ravished by the GARAGE MAN, whose orange overalls are unbuttoned to reveal naked chest to pubic hairs. He is feeling Vicki up!
158. INT/EXT CAR/SERVICE STATION DAY
VICKI is still in fairyland. GREG is folding up the newspaper loking at the approaching GARAGEMAN who bobs down to Vicki's window. GARAGEMAN
That'll be eight bucks for the petrol
Vicki is startled back to reality at the sound and sight of him so close.. Caught out, she fumbles hopelessly for money. Greg looking hard at the now embarassed Vicki, competently hands the money past her to the waiting Garageman.GREG
Thanks mate
Garageman walks toward the shop as Greg looks fondly at his incorrigible wife GREG
Oh not not again
The two of them smirk at each other as if with a shared secret.159. INT BEDROOM AT GREG & VICKI'S HOUSE NIGHT VICKI is taking off her clothes and getting into her nightie at her side of the bed. Vicki turns down the bed covers and is just about to get into bed, when Greg jumps up from under the bed.. on his side of the bed.
GREG, sporting a huge plastic moustache, and wearing a brand new pair of bright orange pyjamas.GREG
Oooh how ravaging my Madame La Professeur is looking this evening.VICKI squeals surprise and delight and jumps into bed with Greg. She whips off her nightie.
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Vicki is lying on her back, her eyes closed. Greg is lying on his side next to her, kissing Vicki on her face with lots of little soft kisses, his hands fondling her neck and breasts and bum softly. Vicki opens her eyes and turns to face Greg to slowly unbutton his pyjama top. She ever so slowly and seductively kisses Greg's chest as she undoes each button, kissing him slowly and tortuously lower and lower down his orange pyjama-ed-leg body. CU Greg's face groans an erection
In the orange glow of the room, naked Vicki climbs on top of Greg. CU Vicki and Greg's mouths, a slow, deep tongue kiss. Fade to black. Titles commence over160. EXT UNIVERSITY BUILDING DAY
Still photo of bespectacled GREG, in mortar board and academic gown and holding a rolled and ribboned degree while VICKI at his side looks up at him proudly.161. INT SCHOOL HALL NIGHT
Still photo of a concert row of BALLERINAS in TUTUS with EIGHT YEAR OLD RUBY the baby ballerina stepping on tip toe at the front.162. INT SCHOOL HALL NIGHT
Still photo of VICKI and GREG smiling and clapping in audience. Sound of audience clapping.163. EXT FOOTBALL GROUND DAY
Boys football match: GREG's LONG WHITE SOCKS kicking the football to SIX YEAR OLD TOBY out front of teammates in full footy clobber. TOBY
(v/o)
Come on Dad... Kick it here.
164. EXT BEACH DAY
Still photo of GREG's face, bearing a huge grin. The rest of him is covered up with sand. VICKI and the children laughing all around him. VICKI with different hairdo!
SIX YEAR OLD TOBY wears glasses! and has a bright green ZINC strip across his nose. EIGHT YEAR OLD RUBY is in a bikini and her hair in piggie tails with fluorescent bows! Sound of their laughter over photo and credits.165. EXT ART GALLERY DAY
Still photo of VICKI being handed a giant cheque by an ART GALLERY DIRECTOR type in a suit with bow tie and non-matching socks, both smiling at camera. A banner behind them reads "Mountbatten Art Prize".166. EXT BUSHLAND CLEARING NIGHT
Starry starry night. A little two man tent. A naked GREG and VICKI stand arm in arm, stargazing into the night. Fade to black. Roll titles.
Screenplay by Davida Allen© 7 May 1998
BINNABURRA FILM CO PTY LTD
PO BOX 2124
CLOVELLY NSW 2031
AUSTRALIAFeeling Sexy (May 7 1998 Draft) 1
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