the meeting screenplay draft 3 by andrei allen

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THE MEETING

Written by

Andrei Allen

Draft 3Draft dated: October 19, 2013

UCA - Broadcast MediaMaidstone StudiosMaidstone

01622 - 620151


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EXT. ROCHESTER KENT MART LOCAL SHOP - AFTERNOON

We are watching a live mobile video recording of a GANG of 4rebellious teenaged boys, aged between 15-17 wearing theirschool uniforms; loitering around outside the KENT MART LOCALSHOP after school, with cars driving past in the background.

The mobile phone camera operator, KASH, a black 15 year oldteenager, talking in a northern accent, introduces himself.

KASH (O.S.)Yo yo yo, dis is K mans recordingsright about now!.... Posted upoutside da shop, Shaun tell demwhagwarn fam.

We see Shaun,(17), white, cocky teenaged boy step away fromthe GANG towards us, BOPPING in a boisterous manner looking

left and right SWAYING his right arm.

SHAUNYea.... mans out hear...... Shoutout to world star.

The remaining GANG of the 3 teenaged boys SHOUT out in thebackground behind Shaun as he is speaking.

GANGBrap! Dun kno! World star!

SHAUNPosted up... Gotta lil prank cammans gonna run today.....Watch....

A tall, black; chubby, male school kid wearing a rucksack;holding both shoulder straps, walks in the direction of theKENT MART LOCAL SHOP. As he approaches the shop, SHAUN walkstowards him.

SHAUN (CONTD)Yes Phillip.... Whagwarn you good?

PHILLIP, (15) SIDESTEPS SHAUN and continues to walk on. Shaunturns around, JOGS a few steps, catches up to Phillip andSLINGS his left arm around the back of phillips neck perchinghis hand on Phillips shoulder as if theyre long timefriends. Phillip SHRUGS his shoulder in an attempt to relieveit of Shaun's hand.

SHAUN (CONTD)Come on Fam.... There's no need tobe like that... Look how long I'veknown....

SHAUN, with his left arm around the back of PHILLIPS neck,GRABS Phillips shoulder and PULLS him into a HEADLOCK.


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SHAUN (CONTD)Quick! Grab him!

SHAUN; TUSSLING with PHILLIP, RESTRAINS Phillip as the GANGCHARGES in quickly towards them LAUGHING.

PHILLIP(IN A DISTRESSED MUFFLED VOICE)

Oi!... What are you doing? Get off me!

The GANG WRESTLE with PHILLIP, GRAB Phillip by both arms andhis rucksack and DRAG him over to the railing on the pathwayopposite the shop and begin to DUCT TAPE Phillip to therailing.

SHAUN(In an excited frantic voice)

Come! Quick before he breaks free.

INT. PHILLIPS BEDROOM. NIGHT. LATER

We see minimal detail of PHILLIPS DARK LIT room, with hisdesk lamp, opened bed room door and laptop screen LIGHTINGthe room. We're watching him from his side sitting in aslouched position in his chair leaning on his hand with hiselbow on the desk as hes watching the footage of himselffrom earlier continuing where it left off from, on YOUTUBEwith a title that reads Fat kid duct taped to a pole lol onhis Apple Mac LAPTOP.

SHAUN (V.O.)Ayo, Dont let his hands go.

PHILLIP (V.O.)AARGH! Low it! Come man! Get offme!

GANG (V.O.)Oi Shut up! Stop screaming cuz!

PHILLIP (V.O.)Please man, im begging you, low it!

Suddenly PHILLIPS attention is drawn away from his laptop bythe sound of PHILLIPS MOM CALLING after him from downstairs.

PHILLIP MOM (O.S.)Philliiip! Come get your clothesfrom the tumble dryer and put themaway. Make sure youre clothes areironed for school tomorrow as well.

PHILLIP CLOSES his laptop while the footage is playing,switches off the desk lamp and exits the room CLOSING thedoor.

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INT. PHILLIPS BEDROOM. MORNING

PHILLIP, woken up by his RINGING alarm clock, LIES in hissingle bed STARING at the ceiling as his alarm continues toring. PHILLIPS MOM, from down stairs shout out for him.

PHILLIP MOM (O.S.)PHILLIP! Wake up! Your going to belate for school!

PHILLIPIm awake mom!

PHILLIP MOM (O.S.)Im going to be back from work latetonight so put yourself on somedinner.

PHILLIPS MOM SLAMS the door behind her as she exits thehouse. We hear Phillips mom OPEN her car door, SLAM it shutand DRIVE OFF. PHILLIP STOPS the alarm clock and SITS up,motionless for a brief moment. He then STEPS out of bed andWALKS out his bedroom CLOSING his door behind.

EXT. OUTSIDE PHILLIPS HOUSE - SIR EVELYN ROAD. MORNING

PHILLIP, dressed for school, exits his front door SLAMMING itshut and sets off on his usual route for school.

EXT. KENT MART LOCAL SHOP. MORNING

SHAUN and his GANG are LOITERING about outside the KENT MARTshop, SMOKING and KICKING around a tennis ball. The tennisball ROLLS away from the gang. KASH CHASES after the ball,STOPPING it from rolling into the main road. AS Kash stopsthe ball he sees PHILLIP WALKING up the road. Kash SIGNALSto Shaun that Phillip is coming, THROWING the ball at Shaunand JOGGING towards him.

PHILLIP, approaching the shop front is SURROUNDED by SHAUNand his GANG.

SHAUNYES super star... i see mans isblowing up on the internet! 500thousand views, you must feelfamous now init?

PHILLIP is silent, to scared to speak.

SHAUN (CONTD)So what. Im not going to get athanks nah?

PHILLIP, nervous, trembling with fear UTTERS a few words toSHAUN.

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PHILLIPLook, leave me alone.

SHAUNS crony EJ, (17), tall skinny black youth with shortcropped dreadlocks dangling around his shoulder, LAUGHS atShaun.

Ej Taunts SHAUN

EJHahaha, fam dont have it.

The rest of the GANG HECKLE word of menacing encouragement toSHAUN.

SHAUN GRABS PHILLIP by his coat collar.

SHAUN

So fat boys getting brave yea?

SHAUN THRUST his fist into PHILLIPS stomach winding him.

SHAUN (CONTD)Dont ever in your life think youcan answer back to me. Oi you man,check his pocket.

SHAUNS crony LEE, (17), tall slim mixed race boy, goes tocheck PHILLIPS pocket. A tall Mauritius male passingcivilian, ASH, 21, walking his vicious dog, walks over to theGANG.

ASHOI! What do you think your playingat?

ASH, DRAGGED by his blood lusting dog approaches the GANG.SHAUN and his GANG, weary of the dog; back away from Phillip.

SHAUNTodays your lucky day bruv!

SHAUN and his GANG walk away from PHILLIP as ASH gets closer.

ASHYou alright mate?

PHILLIPYea im fine thanks.

PHILLIP goes to WALK off but ASH STOPS him.

ASHLook mate, take this here.

ASH TAKES out his wallet and HANDS PHILLIP a martial artsbusiness card.

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ASH (CONTD)My little brother was gettingbullied as well until he took upMartial arts. Make sure you checkit out yea..

PHILLIP takes the business card.

PHILLIPYea ok, thanks again.

PHILLIP walks on his way to school.

EXT. OUTSIDE PHILLIPS HOUSE. NIGHT

PHILLIP, returning from school walks up the road towards hishouse. He opens his front door and walks inside.


PHILLIP enters his bedroom and walks over to his desk DUMPINGhis rucksack on the floor. He SITS DOWN at his desk andSWITCHES on his desk lamp and opens up his laptop. He OPENSup a GOOGLE CHROME browser. From his shirt pocket he PULLSOUT the business card that he was given earlier, reads it fora brief moment and TYPES in the web address.

MMA SURGE (V.O.)Welcome to MMA SURGE

The laptop plays MUSIC Showing a montage of clips for theintro. PHILLIP interested by this, CLOSES his laptop andtakes it with him as he exits his bedroom.

INT. GARAGE. NIGHT. LATER

PHILLIP ENTERS his garage. He walks over into the corner andSWITCHES the lamp on. The garage, POORLY LIT, Phillip pullsout a tattered punch bag from a heap of garage clutter andHANGS it up in the corner. Lying down on his garage floor,

PHILLIP OPENS up his laptop, continuing to watch the tutorialwhere it left off.

MMA SURGE (V.O.)So your interested in learning MMA,youve came to the best place onthe internet. By the end of this 5series beginner training video,well have you brimming withconfidence and ready to walk intoany gym to train.

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MONTAGE

INT. GARAGE. NIGHT

PHILLIP is nervously PUNCHING the punch bag with very poor

technique barely moving it. He hurts his hand SHAKING it inagonising pain.

PHILLIP tries to KICK the punch bag. He KICKS it with hisshin and HOPS around on the spot in pain.

PHILLIP tries to do PRESS-UPS but fails FALLING FLAT on hisface. He decides to do sit-ups instead but does a worse jobthen his press-up attempt barely completing 3 Sit-ups.

EXT. KENT MART LOCAL SHOP. MORNING 2

PHILLIP WALKS past the KENT MART shop, SHAUN and his GANGhurl abuse at Phillip and SPIT at him.

EXT. PHILLIPS BACK GARDEN. NIGHT 2. LATER

PHILLIP is PUNCHING the punch bag with more confidence butstill barely moving it.

PHILLIP manages to do 5 PRESS-UPS but FALLS FLAT on his faceon the 6th.

PHILLIP KICKS the punch bag correctly and SLIGHTLY MOVES it.


PHILLIP is WALKING past the shop, SHAUN HIDING behind thefence, TRIPS Phillip up as KASH is filming it on his mobilephone.

INT. GARAGE. NIGHT 3. LATER

PHILLIP is using an arm curl bar PUMPING iron.

PHILLIP is ROUND HOUSE KICKING the punch bag, we can see aslight improvement in his technique as the punch bag isSWINGING from left to right RATTLING the chains that areholding it up.

PHILLIP is doing PRESS-UPS, he does 10 in succession.


PHILLIP is walking towards the shop, SHAUN and his GANG THROWsweets at Phillip.

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INT. PHILLIPS BEDROOM. NIGHT 4

PHILLIP is SHADOW BOXING while sitting on his chair watchingthe tutorial on his laptop. He stands up and walks over tothe corner of his room continuing to SHADOW BOX, we can see agreat improvement in his technique as his shadow is mimics

his moves against the wall.

EXT. KENT MART LOCAL SHOP. MORNING. 5

PHILLIP is walking towards the shop. SHAUN HIDING behind thefence, SLAPS Phillip in the back of his head as KASH isFILMING it on his mobile phone.

INT. GARAGE. NIGHT 5

PHILLIP is DANCING around on his toes throwing a string ofboxing combos to the punch bag. He GRABS the punch bag in aCLINCH and start THRUSTING HIS KNEE into it, one afteranother, after another. The punch bag is VIOLENTLY SWINGINGback and forth chains RATTLING as its taking a succession ofknees. Phillip backs up and throws a ROUND-HOUSE-KICK at thepunch bag sending it SWINGING high into the air and CRASHINGback down as it swings left and right to a halt.

BACK TO SCENE

PHILLIP is lying down in his poorly lit garage gym, stomachfirst, on the messy floor with training equipment scatteredall over the place leaning on his elbows watching thetutorial on his laptop.

He turns up the volume and concentrates on the screen.

MMA SURGE (V.O.)So yea... That wraps it up.Hopefully completing this short 5series course, will improve yourself-defense skills and give youmore confidence if push comes to

shove! if you want check out ouradvanced training series and takeyour training to the next level.

The tutorial comes to an end. Phillip, NODDING his head inacknowledgement closes the laptop.

PHILLIPS BEDROOM. MORNING

PHILLIP, woken up by his RINGING alarm clock, LIES in hissingle bed STARING at the ceiling as his alarm continues to

ring. PHILLIPS MOM, from down stairs shouts out for him.

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PHILLIP MOM (O.S.)PHILLIP! Wake up! Your going to belate for school!

PHILLIPIm awake mom!

PHILLIP MOM (O.S.)Im going to be back from work latetonight so put yourself on somedinner.

PHILLIPS MOM SLAMS the door behind her as she exits thehouse. We hear Phillips mom OPEN her car door, SLAM it shutand DRIVE OFF. PHILLIP stops the alarm clock and SITS up,motionless for a brief moment. He then STEPS out of bed andwalks out his bedroom CLOSING his door behind.

EXT. OUTSIDE PHILLIPS HOUSE - SIR EVELYN ROAD. MORNING

PHILLIP, dressed for school, exits his front door SLAMMING itshut and sets off on his usual route for school.

EXT. KENT MART LOCAL SHOP. MORNING

PHILLIP, strolling down the busy main road on his way toschool; see's SHAUN and his GANG LOITERING around outside theKent Mart Local Shop. Shaun also spots Phillip in thedistance at the same time, with their eyes locking for abrief moment, acknowledging that theyre both aware of eachother. Shaun TURNS to KASH.

SHAUNyo Kash! Run the cam, Phillipscoming.

KASH ACTIVATES his mobile phone camera. We are now watching alive video recording of SHAUN and the GANG.

KASH (O.S.)Yo yo yo, dis is K mans recordings

right about now!.... Posted upoutside da shop, Shaun tell demwhagwarn fam.

SHAUNYea.. Mans out here, been hittinggym.

Shaun holds his right coat sleeve and removes his arm fromit. Lifting up the coat from his waistline, he pulls his armfrom underneath it. Shaun raises his arm and FLEXES his smallbiceps for the camera.

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SHAUN (CONTD)Can see mans looking kinda Denchn dat... Gonna test out dis rightan give mans dat world star

classic.

GANGWoooorld staaaar.

PHILLIP, approaching the GANG tries to avoid them by walkingon. SHAUN Backs up into the front of Phillips pathway andBANGS a sly left hook with great accuracy into Phillipsstomach, knocking the wind out bringing Phillip to a HALT; asPhillip is COUGHING and GASPING FOR AIR.

SHAUN

Yo fam, where do you think yourgoing? How you gonna walk pastwithout saying hello.

Phillip slowly regains his breath.

PHILLIPLook, leave me alone!

The GANG laughing at SHAUN being spoken back to begin totaunt him.

EJDont have it, he thinks your aprick Shaun.

PHILLIP tries to walk past SHAUN. Shaun side steps blockingPhillips path way; and PUSHES Phillip in his face. The pushSPLITS the corner of phillips lip.

GANGGO ON FAM! BANG HIM!

SHAUN DANCES around on his toes in a boxing stance and THROWSa left jab to PHILLIPS face. But the jab does not amuse

Phillip, he PARRIES it with little effort.

SHAUNS GANG, eager to see a knock out punch, egg Shaun onHECKLING words of savaging encouragement.

SHAUN, trying to catch PHILLIP off guard THROWS two LEFTFEINT JABS. Phillip, still holding his hand high, tries toparry Shauns jabs. Not waiting for the open opportunityShaun confidently takes his chance SWINGING his right fist atPhillips face. Phillip, seeing Shauns body exposed, CHARGESinto him head first, blocking the punch and grabbing Shaunshis head putting him into a CLINCH, dragging Shaun down and

off balance.

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LEE (V.O)Fuck off you fat cunt!

Holding SHAUN, PHILLIP WRAPS his hands around Shauns waistand LIFTS him up off the ground. Phillip slams Shaun, sidefirst onto the concrete paving. Shaun, lying on the ground;

everyones silent watching in amazement UMMING and AHING.Shauns Crony LEE, upset with the outcome, nervously walkstowards Phillip.

CRONYFuck off you fat cunt! Fuckingidiot!

PHILLIP backs away from SHAUN looking down at him. Shaunslowly stands up, almost FALLING OVER as LIMPS away fromPhillip.


We see minimal detail of Phillips DARK LIT room, with hisdesk lamp, opened bed room door and laptop screen LIGHTINGthe room. We're watching him from his side sitting in aslouched position in his chair eagerly leaning on his handwith his elbow on the desk as hes watching the footage ofhimself from earlier continuing where it left off from, onYOUTUBE on his Apple Mac LAPTOP. This time with a title thatsays VICTIM PAWNS BULLY.

Suddenly Phillips attention is drawn away from his laptop bythe sound of him mom CALLING after him from downstairs.

PHILLIP MOM (O.S.)Philliiip! Come get your clothesfrom the tumble dryer and put themaway. Make sure youre clothes areironed for school tomorrow as well.

Phillip closes his laptop while the footage is playing,switches off the desk lamp and exits the room closing thedoor.

FADE TO BLACK.

THE END

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