FADE
IN:
INT.
BEDROOM - AFTERNOON
We see a child's bedroom. The window is slightly cracked open. Hot Wheels and action figures lie on the floor. Lint is floating through the air. There's a carpet, twin sized bed, dresser, cubbies for toys, and a television set on top of the dresser.
The bedroom is quiet. Nobody is in the room. Then the door opens.
An eight-year old boy in jeans and a white Bob Marley shirt with a backpack on his shoulders opens the door.
The boy comes through the door and drops his backpack onto the carpet.
The boy grabs his television remote off his bed and sits down (crisscross applesauce) onto the carpet in front the television.
As the boy flips through channels we see his surroundings including blue painted walls.
We see the television channels change, then the boy flipping them.... 1 (click and channel change), 2(click and channel change), 3(click and channel change), and 4 (stops).
The boy stops and stares, then leans in a bit closer towards the television.
He sees a tall, cool looking, hippie African-American guy holding a white Fender Stratocaster.
The boy zeroes in. It's the film "Woodstock."
The hippie African-American guy holding the white Stratocaster starts playing his Stratocaster.
MUSIC IN: THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - VOODOO CHILD (LIVE WOODSTOCK 69')
The boy gets CLOSER to the television and turns the volume up using the buttons on the television.
The look on the boy's face is like he's mesmerized watching this crazy hippie dude SHREDDING on his guitar with his TEETH.
At the climax of the song, the screen goes black, and we hear a reverberated echo of the very last note.
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TITLE CARD: "FIVE YEARS LATER"
FADE IN:
INT. GUITAR CENTER - DAY
We see Josh, the same boy from earlier, five years later, wearing a Black Flag shirt and jeans with slightly messy/spiked hair inside Guitar Center at the register being helped by a Guitar Center employee.
The store isn't very busy, nor is it crowded.
We see in the background a random customer, a great looking young female, playing a Gibson ES-335 with a beautiful Antique Tea Burst finish, plugged into a VOX AC15C1 TUBE AMPLIFIER.
This random female is playing a slow note-by-note cover of "Since I've Been Loving You" by Led Zeppelin.
The tone coming out is purely luscious. The mood in the building is mellow and chill.
Josh has just finished purchasing an all-black Epiphone Les Paul Jr. guitar. The Guitar is out of its box and looks new and glossy.
The transaction wraps up.
GUITAR CENTER EMPLOYEE
Have a good one!
JOSH
You too.
(About to leave)
The random female customer is still playing the guitar.
Josh leaves. The random female customer's guitar playing gets louder and harder.
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FADE
IN:
INT. BEDROOM - AFTERNOON
We see Josh in his bedroom, which is slightly different from the last time we saw it. New furniture: Queen sized bed, new dresser, 32-inch TV, new posters, etc.
Josh pulls his newly purchased guitar off of his guitar stand and puts his new strap on it.
The
strap is black and has cartoon blackjack cards of promiscuous women.
Josh puts the guitar around his shoulder with his strap and plugs it into a small Marshall 15 watt guitar amp.
Josh turns on the amp and immediately: loud, ear-cringing feedback rings out.
Josh immediately turns the distortion effect off the amp and turns the volume down.
Josh sits on the carpet, puts his guitar in his lap and starts hitting random strings slowly.
Then, Josh put his finger on the low E string and runs it up and down the neck.
The strings are very out of tune.
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FADE
IN:
INT. BEDROOM - AFTERNOON
We see Josh on at his black desk on his laptop looking up guitar tutorials on YouTube.
Josh watches a tutorial on how to play "Voodoo Child" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He can't comprehend it. The Video seems too hard for Josh to understand.
Josh gets irritated and changes the video to "I Just Want Something To Do" by the Ramones.
MUSIC IN: I JUST WANT SOMETHING TO DO BY THE RAMONES
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TITLE CARD: "2 MONTHS LATER"
INT. BEDROOM - AFTERNOON
We see Josh playing along to "Something to do by the Ramones." He's rocking out to the tune, and right on the last note of the song, a string pops and breaks.
The song ends. Josh stares at his broken string with a confused face.
Josh puts the guitar on the stand with the worn-out broken string flinging all over the place.
Josh walks out the bedroom door and shuts it.
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INT. BEDROOM - AFTERNOON
We
see the door exactly the same way it was in the last sequence.
TITLE CARD (ON SCREEN): "2 DAYS LATER"
Title Card disappears and suddenly Josh opens and walks through and closes the door.
Josh is holding a small plastic Guitar Center bag like an excited little girl who just bought a Barbie. He places it on his desk and pulls out two hot pink packs of Ernie Ball Super Slinky Electric Guitar strings.
Josh gets a pair of wire cutters and lays them down onto his bed along with his guitar.
Josh unwinds and pulls his old strings out of the guitar and puts the first of his new pack into the tuning machine. Josh starts to wind it up with the tuning machine slowly, annnd.... SNAP! the string pops and breaks in his face.
Josh... Again, with the confused look on his face.
JOSH
Sh$t!
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INT.
BEDROOM - AFTERNOON
Josh finishes up re-stringing his guitar.
TITLE CARD (ON SCREEN): "2O MINUTES LATER"
Josh has finally and successfully restrung his guitar and is tuning it with the tuning app on his phone.
After tuning, Josh starts to play a half-a$sed cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love."
"DOOM-DOOM-DOOM-DOOM *Josh screws up* DUN-DUN-DUN DA-DA-DOOM *Josh screws up*-DOOM
Josh strugles to get the first two measures of the song right.
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INT. BEDROOM - DAY - NIGHT
We see a super cool montage of Josh reading song tabulators, learning scales, learning from YouTube videos, listening to new music, and practicing playing his guitar in his bedroom all day and all night.
The
montage ends with a super cool explosion.
EXPLODE TO BLACK:
TITLE
CARD: "2 YEARS LATER"
FADE IN:
MUSIC IN: SANTANA – “BLACK MAGIC WOMAN”
INT. BEDROOM - DAY
We see a CLOSEUP of a new white Stratocaster being played along to the intro of "Black Magic Woman" by Santana.
The CLOSEUP fades out and we see Josh playing the crap out his shiny white Stratocsaster along to the song note by note.
Josh looks super cool and into it...
Then we hear some old African-American guy's voice.
His voice sounds like an old Blues-Man from down South who smokes a lot.
OLD MAN
It looks like the two years
of practicing has paid off for Josh. This leaves you thinking "Is this guy
going to be in a band one day?""Is he going to get all the chicks at
school?""Is he going to be the biggest, baddest cat around?" The
answer is...
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TITLE CARD: "NOT YET THE END"
