The Classroom
Written by Bert McCoy
February 2017 Draft
FADE IN:
1 EXT.
A coastal town somewhere on the west coast where the sun descends gloriously over the sea. A sense of timeless presence envelopes the perfect summer day as We PAN slowly along the beach to find several families collecting their beach towels, belongings, and walk barefoot to their respective cottages.
On the porch facing the sunset a small family is overly absorbed as the last slice of sunset falls over the sea.
We PAN slowly across the sandy beach with small stylish cottages. Next, we pan to the many wood planked cottages were we see several small families also watching the sun dropping away. The sky is beautifully splashed with reds, mauve, orange, and yellows. Local beach people are walking along the beach and just past the teacher's cottage waving hello.
The teacher and wife both wave and smile and the sun and daughter give an affirmative nod. the father and mother both look to their kids with a loving smile.
All the neighbors on this beach know of each other. They all know that they have been sentenced here to work on specific character flaws.
The father/high school teacher is a kleptomaniac stealing plastic spoons, pens, Etc,..
The mother/nurse is a liar
The daughter is vain
The son is overly angry???
All of the beach dwellers on this small cove have all have sentenced to the planet Earth to re-condition themselves by serving others. They come here to serve!
FADE IN:
2 INT:
Dad, Mom, Daughter, and Son all prepare dinner. nothing but fruits and vegetables blended for easy digestion. a news headlineon the TV showing
2 INT.
Camera close up of the teacher removing large contact lens away from his eye, then he begins wiping away the skin tone make-up from his face and hands to reveal an albino skin tone and brilliant blue crystalline eyes.
We PAN DOWN TO:
2 INT. DRIVING RANGE - LATE DAY 2 A man, JOSE, is on the roof, wrestling with a rickety satellite dish, stringing wire, trying to get it to work. (We get glimpses of him throughout the scene as he struggles with what is assuredly a pirate operation.) Four of six floodlights nailed to the roof cast pools of yellow into the gathering darkness. ROY "TIN CUP" McAVOY stands under the swarm of moths crowding the brightest light, hitting golf balls. THWOCK...! Launching them, really, into the deepening night. There's a beer between his legs. Behind him: A group of men forms a semicircle, facing away from Tin Cup. These men are the range regulars: CURT, CLINT, EARL, and DEWEY. Each man has money in one hand and his preferred libation in the other. They're all looking back and forth between the bug lights hung on the back wall, and muttering what sounds like bets to: ROMEO POSAR -- a smaller man, he stands at the center of the group with a handful of cash. Romeo is a part-time bookie and full-time driving range man. Born across the river in Mexico, Romeo is Tin Cup's caddie, confidante, best friend. ROMEO Okay, all bets are down! Their eyes rivet on the bug lights, edgy, hopeful, until... ZAP! A BUG is ELECTROCUTED. And Dewey cheers triumphantly while the other regulars mutter curses about how they woulda, coulda, shoulda bet. 2. ROMEO Number one is the winner! Dewey has the winner. Pays five to two! Romeo quickly pays Dewey and more quickly takes money from the losers. It's fast-paced, inane, time-killing gambling. Tin Cup looks over. TIN CUP Don't you shitheels ever get bored? The regulars flap dismissive palms and mutter in the negative as they turn back to Romeo and the action at the bug lights. TIN CUP ... 'Cuz I got a riddle. Tin Cup leads the regulars inside. CUT TO: A3 INT. DRIVING RANGE - LATE DAY A3 Tin Cup holds court. TIN CUP Takes about two ounces of brains to figure it out. Anyone think they got a brain with two ounces of brains in it? The regulars silently look at each other, reluctant to reveal the heft of their brains. TIN CUP For Chrissakes, boys! A little self-confidence from the players' gallery. We ain't talking long division. EARL (timidly) How much we gotta lose? TIN CUP You want to liven things up, Earl? That's a hell of an idea. Say everyone puts in twenty bucks and the pot goes to whoever solves the riddle. DEWEY You going to get the riddle, Tin Cup? 3. TIN CUP (patiently) Dewey. I'm the one asking the riddle. I already know the answer. I don't getta guess. Although... We could say if I get to five hundred bounces and no one gets the riddle, I get the pot. And I know what you're thinking. It's an impossible riddle. Well, It's not. It's an easy riddle. And if somehow by the grace of fluke luck I win, and you all don't agree it was an easy riddle, hell, I'll refund your money. EARL, CLINT & ALL I'm in... We're in... Count us in... etc... TIN CUP Okay, a man's driving down the road with his son and they get in a crash. Two ambulances come and take the man and his son to different hospitals. Son goes into the operating room, the doctor looks at him and says, 'I can't operate on this boy. He's my son.' How's that possible? (beat) The clock's ticking boys... Tin Cup begins bouncing a ball on the face of his wedge. EARL Father didn't sneak back in, right? He's still at the other hospital? TIN CUP It ain't 'Star Trek,' Earl. No one beamed him aboard. That eliminates the most plausible theory in their minds. The men think harder. EARL Well... if the father married the son's daughter -- TIN CUP It's a family riddle, Earl. Think clean thoughts. 4. The regulars puzzle some more. CLINT Give us a little hint. MOLLY (O.S.) The doctor's a woman. All heads turn to take in the arrival of: 3 MOLLY GRISWOLD 3 Standing just inside the door -- she's a fresh-faced beauty in her early thirties, and she's got all new everything the sport of golf requires: new bag, new clubs, new shoes, new clothes, new visor... she looks like she stepped out of an ad in Golf Digest. And all the men are asking themselves the same question: what's she doing here? The silence invites Molly to supply the riddle's answer. MOLLY The doctor is the son's mother. Feminists pose the riddle to reveal how deeply our sexual stereotypes run. (directly to Tin Cup) I take it you're a feminist? Tin Cup misses the ball he's been bouncing, breaking the spell. The regulars wait for Tin Cup's response. TIN CUP Ma'am, I've been called a lot of things -- but no one's ever saddled me with that one. MOLLY You might try being saddled sometime -- the smell of leather, the sting of a whip... The regulars snicker, enjoying her one-upmanship. TIN CUP (slightly taken aback) I'm just a humble golf pro... MOLLY You're Roy McAvoy the golf pro? I pictured something... different. I have a seven o'clock lesson. TIN CUP I thought I had a Doctor Griswold 5. at seven. They hurry out to the range, Tin Cup oblivious to his gaffe. And the regulars gather to look out the window -- 4 THEIR POV - THROUGH WINDOW 4 To the range, where Molly is stretching and Tin Cup is discreetly waving to the regulars to get lost. CUT TO: 5 EXT. DRIVING RANGE - NIGHT 5 The lesson begins. Tin Cup can be slightly condescending in these situations, though she's got him a little wary. TIN CUP The first thing you gotta learn about this game, Doc, is it ain't about hitting a little white ball into some yonder hole. It's about inner demons and self-doubt and human frailty and overcoming all that crap. So... what kinda doctor'd you say you were? MOLLY I'm a psychologist -- in layman's terms call me a neo-Jungian, postmodern Freudian, holistic secularist. TIN CUP Damn. She begins unpacking one of her bags, pulling out every golf gimmick on the market -- swing aid straps to pull your elbows together, a ball pendulum that hangs from your hat, a metal contraption for your feet, etc. MOLLY Inner demons and human frailty are my life's work. I used to practice in El Paso but I've moved here now... TIN CUP What're those? MOLLY I ordered these from the Golf Channel.
Written by Bert McCoy
February 2017 Draft
FADE IN:
1 EXT.
A coastal town somewhere on the west coast where the sun descends gloriously over the sea. A sense of timeless presence envelopes the perfect summer day as We PAN slowly along the beach to find several families collecting their beach towels, belongings, and walk barefoot to their respective cottages.
On the porch facing the sunset a small family is overly absorbed as the last slice of sunset falls over the sea.
We PAN slowly across the sandy beach with small stylish cottages. Next, we pan to the many wood planked cottages were we see several small families also watching the sun dropping away. The sky is beautifully splashed with reds, mauve, orange, and yellows. Local beach people are walking along the beach and just past the teacher's cottage waving hello.
The teacher and wife both wave and smile and the sun and daughter give an affirmative nod. the father and mother both look to their kids with a loving smile.
All the neighbors on this beach know of each other. They all know that they have been sentenced here to work on specific character flaws.
The father/high school teacher is a kleptomaniac stealing plastic spoons, pens, Etc,..
The mother/nurse is a liar
The daughter is vain
The son is overly angry???
All of the beach dwellers on this small cove have all have sentenced to the planet Earth to re-condition themselves by serving others. They come here to serve!
FADE IN:
2 INT:
Dad, Mom, Daughter, and Son all prepare dinner. nothing but fruits and vegetables blended for easy digestion. a news headlineon the TV showing
2 INT.
Camera close up of the teacher removing large contact lens away from his eye, then he begins wiping away the skin tone make-up from his face and hands to reveal an albino skin tone and brilliant blue crystalline eyes.
We PAN DOWN TO:
2 INT. DRIVING RANGE - LATE DAY 2 A man, JOSE, is on the roof, wrestling with a rickety satellite dish, stringing wire, trying to get it to work. (We get glimpses of him throughout the scene as he struggles with what is assuredly a pirate operation.) Four of six floodlights nailed to the roof cast pools of yellow into the gathering darkness. ROY "TIN CUP" McAVOY stands under the swarm of moths crowding the brightest light, hitting golf balls. THWOCK...! Launching them, really, into the deepening night. There's a beer between his legs. Behind him: A group of men forms a semicircle, facing away from Tin Cup. These men are the range regulars: CURT, CLINT, EARL, and DEWEY. Each man has money in one hand and his preferred libation in the other. They're all looking back and forth between the bug lights hung on the back wall, and muttering what sounds like bets to: ROMEO POSAR -- a smaller man, he stands at the center of the group with a handful of cash. Romeo is a part-time bookie and full-time driving range man. Born across the river in Mexico, Romeo is Tin Cup's caddie, confidante, best friend. ROMEO Okay, all bets are down! Their eyes rivet on the bug lights, edgy, hopeful, until... ZAP! A BUG is ELECTROCUTED. And Dewey cheers triumphantly while the other regulars mutter curses about how they woulda, coulda, shoulda bet. 2. ROMEO Number one is the winner! Dewey has the winner. Pays five to two! Romeo quickly pays Dewey and more quickly takes money from the losers. It's fast-paced, inane, time-killing gambling. Tin Cup looks over. TIN CUP Don't you shitheels ever get bored? The regulars flap dismissive palms and mutter in the negative as they turn back to Romeo and the action at the bug lights. TIN CUP ... 'Cuz I got a riddle. Tin Cup leads the regulars inside. CUT TO: A3 INT. DRIVING RANGE - LATE DAY A3 Tin Cup holds court. TIN CUP Takes about two ounces of brains to figure it out. Anyone think they got a brain with two ounces of brains in it? The regulars silently look at each other, reluctant to reveal the heft of their brains. TIN CUP For Chrissakes, boys! A little self-confidence from the players' gallery. We ain't talking long division. EARL (timidly) How much we gotta lose? TIN CUP You want to liven things up, Earl? That's a hell of an idea. Say everyone puts in twenty bucks and the pot goes to whoever solves the riddle. DEWEY You going to get the riddle, Tin Cup? 3. TIN CUP (patiently) Dewey. I'm the one asking the riddle. I already know the answer. I don't getta guess. Although... We could say if I get to five hundred bounces and no one gets the riddle, I get the pot. And I know what you're thinking. It's an impossible riddle. Well, It's not. It's an easy riddle. And if somehow by the grace of fluke luck I win, and you all don't agree it was an easy riddle, hell, I'll refund your money. EARL, CLINT & ALL I'm in... We're in... Count us in... etc... TIN CUP Okay, a man's driving down the road with his son and they get in a crash. Two ambulances come and take the man and his son to different hospitals. Son goes into the operating room, the doctor looks at him and says, 'I can't operate on this boy. He's my son.' How's that possible? (beat) The clock's ticking boys... Tin Cup begins bouncing a ball on the face of his wedge. EARL Father didn't sneak back in, right? He's still at the other hospital? TIN CUP It ain't 'Star Trek,' Earl. No one beamed him aboard. That eliminates the most plausible theory in their minds. The men think harder. EARL Well... if the father married the son's daughter -- TIN CUP It's a family riddle, Earl. Think clean thoughts. 4. The regulars puzzle some more. CLINT Give us a little hint. MOLLY (O.S.) The doctor's a woman. All heads turn to take in the arrival of: 3 MOLLY GRISWOLD 3 Standing just inside the door -- she's a fresh-faced beauty in her early thirties, and she's got all new everything the sport of golf requires: new bag, new clubs, new shoes, new clothes, new visor... she looks like she stepped out of an ad in Golf Digest. And all the men are asking themselves the same question: what's she doing here? The silence invites Molly to supply the riddle's answer. MOLLY The doctor is the son's mother. Feminists pose the riddle to reveal how deeply our sexual stereotypes run. (directly to Tin Cup) I take it you're a feminist? Tin Cup misses the ball he's been bouncing, breaking the spell. The regulars wait for Tin Cup's response. TIN CUP Ma'am, I've been called a lot of things -- but no one's ever saddled me with that one. MOLLY You might try being saddled sometime -- the smell of leather, the sting of a whip... The regulars snicker, enjoying her one-upmanship. TIN CUP (slightly taken aback) I'm just a humble golf pro... MOLLY You're Roy McAvoy the golf pro? I pictured something... different. I have a seven o'clock lesson. TIN CUP I thought I had a Doctor Griswold 5. at seven. They hurry out to the range, Tin Cup oblivious to his gaffe. And the regulars gather to look out the window -- 4 THEIR POV - THROUGH WINDOW 4 To the range, where Molly is stretching and Tin Cup is discreetly waving to the regulars to get lost. CUT TO: 5 EXT. DRIVING RANGE - NIGHT 5 The lesson begins. Tin Cup can be slightly condescending in these situations, though she's got him a little wary. TIN CUP The first thing you gotta learn about this game, Doc, is it ain't about hitting a little white ball into some yonder hole. It's about inner demons and self-doubt and human frailty and overcoming all that crap. So... what kinda doctor'd you say you were? MOLLY I'm a psychologist -- in layman's terms call me a neo-Jungian, postmodern Freudian, holistic secularist. TIN CUP Damn. She begins unpacking one of her bags, pulling out every golf gimmick on the market -- swing aid straps to pull your elbows together, a ball pendulum that hangs from your hat, a metal contraption for your feet, etc. MOLLY Inner demons and human frailty are my life's work. I used to practice in El Paso but I've moved here now... TIN CUP What're those? MOLLY I ordered these from the Golf Channel.
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Published on Oct 6, 2016Nephilim? Annunaki? Beings from Planet X? Fallen Ones? Is this an Angelic message? or Demonic warning? Has our government been hiding the fact that they have made contact with extraterrestrials? The cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact is the corpus of changes to terrestrial science, technology, religion, politics, and ecosystems resulting from contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. Although closely related to it, the study of the cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact is distinct from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), which attempts to locate intelligent life as opposed to analyzing the implications of contact with that life.
The potential changes from extraterrestrial contact could vary greatly in magnitude and type, based on the extraterrestrial civilization's level of technological advancement, degree of benevolence or malevolence, and level of mutual comprehension between itself and humanity. The medium through which humanity is contacted, be it electromagnetic radiation, direct physical interaction, extraterrestrial artifact, or otherwise, may also influence the results of contact. Incorporating these factors, various systems have been created to assess the implications of extraterrestrial contact.
The implications of extraterrestrial contact depend on the method of discovery, the nature of the extraterrestrial beings, and their location relative to the Earth. Considering these factors, the Rio Scale has been devised in order to provide a more quantitative picture of the results of extraterrestrial contact. More specifically, the scale gauges whether communication was conducted through radio, the information content of any messages, and whether discovery arose from a deliberately beamed message (and if so, whether the detection was the result of a specialized SETI effort or through general astronomical observations) or by the detection of occurrences such as radiation leakage from astroengineering installations. The question of whether or not a purported extraterrestrial signal has been confirmed as authentic, and with what degree of confidence, will also influence the impact of the contact. The Rio Scale was modified in 2011 to include a consideration of whether contact was achieved through an interstellar message or through a physical extraterrestrial artifact, with a suggestion that the definition of artifact be expanded to include "techno signatures", including all indications of intelligent extraterrestrial life other than the interstellar radio messages sought by traditional SETI programs.
Various protocols have been drawn up detailing a course of action for scientists and governments after extraterrestrial contact. Post-detection protocols must address three issues: what to do in the first weeks after receiving a message from an extraterrestrial source; whether or not to send a reply; and analyzing the long-term consequences of the message received. No post-detection protocol, however, is binding under national or international law, and Dominik and Zarnecki consider the protocols likely to be ignored if contact occurs.
A separate "Proposed Agreement on the Sending of Communications to Extraterrestrial Intelligence" was subsequently created. It proposes an international commission, membership of which would be open to all interested nations, to be constituted on detection of extraterrestrial intelligence. This commission would decide whether to send a message to the extraterrestrial intelligence, and if so, would determine the contents of the message on the basis of principles such as justice, respect for cultural diversity, honesty, and respect for property and territory. The draft proposes to forbid the sending of any message by an individual nation or organization without the permission of the commission, and suggests that, if the detected intelligence poses a danger to human civilization, the United Nations Security Council should authorize any message to extraterrestrial intelligence. However, this proposal, like all others, has not been incorporated into national or international law.
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The potential changes from extraterrestrial contact could vary greatly in magnitude and type, based on the extraterrestrial civilization's level of technological advancement, degree of benevolence or malevolence, and level of mutual comprehension between itself and humanity. The medium through which humanity is contacted, be it electromagnetic radiation, direct physical interaction, extraterrestrial artifact, or otherwise, may also influence the results of contact. Incorporating these factors, various systems have been created to assess the implications of extraterrestrial contact.
The implications of extraterrestrial contact depend on the method of discovery, the nature of the extraterrestrial beings, and their location relative to the Earth. Considering these factors, the Rio Scale has been devised in order to provide a more quantitative picture of the results of extraterrestrial contact. More specifically, the scale gauges whether communication was conducted through radio, the information content of any messages, and whether discovery arose from a deliberately beamed message (and if so, whether the detection was the result of a specialized SETI effort or through general astronomical observations) or by the detection of occurrences such as radiation leakage from astroengineering installations. The question of whether or not a purported extraterrestrial signal has been confirmed as authentic, and with what degree of confidence, will also influence the impact of the contact. The Rio Scale was modified in 2011 to include a consideration of whether contact was achieved through an interstellar message or through a physical extraterrestrial artifact, with a suggestion that the definition of artifact be expanded to include "techno signatures", including all indications of intelligent extraterrestrial life other than the interstellar radio messages sought by traditional SETI programs.
Various protocols have been drawn up detailing a course of action for scientists and governments after extraterrestrial contact. Post-detection protocols must address three issues: what to do in the first weeks after receiving a message from an extraterrestrial source; whether or not to send a reply; and analyzing the long-term consequences of the message received. No post-detection protocol, however, is binding under national or international law, and Dominik and Zarnecki consider the protocols likely to be ignored if contact occurs.
A separate "Proposed Agreement on the Sending of Communications to Extraterrestrial Intelligence" was subsequently created. It proposes an international commission, membership of which would be open to all interested nations, to be constituted on detection of extraterrestrial intelligence. This commission would decide whether to send a message to the extraterrestrial intelligence, and if so, would determine the contents of the message on the basis of principles such as justice, respect for cultural diversity, honesty, and respect for property and territory. The draft proposes to forbid the sending of any message by an individual nation or organization without the permission of the commission, and suggests that, if the detected intelligence poses a danger to human civilization, the United Nations Security Council should authorize any message to extraterrestrial intelligence. However, this proposal, like all others, has not been incorporated into national or international law.
Do you believe people are being contacted by aliens? If so, what are they trying to tell us? Do you think if we ever encountered aliens from a distant galaxy that they would be friendly are would they try and destroy us as a civilization?
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