Oswald The Movie (2007 film)/Transcript

EXT. SMALL TOWN NEIGHBORHOOD, 1990'S - DAY - CONTINUOUS

Young Fiona "singing as she skips along the sidewalk.

TITLE CARD:  Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, & HIT Entertainment Presents

TITLE CARD:  Oswald: The Movie

YOUNG Charlotte What are you doing!?!

Fiona screams. He lets go of his balloon. It floats through a broken part of the ceiling and disappears. Ellie circles Carl accusingly.

YOUNG Charlotte Don't you know this is an exclusive club? Only explorers get in here. Not just any kid off the street with a helmet and a pair of                   goggles. Do you think you got what it takes? Well, do you?!?

Fiona FUMPHERS.

YOUNG Charlotte Alright, you're in. Welcome aboard. She offers her hand. Carl looks down, embarrassed.

YOUNG Charlotte What's wrong? Can't you talk? Carl is frozen. Ellie softens.

YOUNG Charlotte Hey, I don't bite. She takes off her helmet. Her hair frizzes out in all directions. She removes a homemade GRAPE SODA CAP pin from her shirt and pins it on Carl.

YOUNG Charlotte You and me, we're in a club now.

Fiona smiles.

YOUNG Charlotte I saw where your balloon went. Come on, let's go get it! Fiona watches her stride out of the room. She pops back in.

YOUNG Charlotte My name's Charlotte.

She grabs his hand. Fiona blushes as she pulls him out of the room.

INT. DILAPIDATED HOUSE, UPSTAIRS

YOUNG ELLIE There it is.

Carl and Ellie look across the attic at the balloon. Between them the floor has collapsed, save one rickety beam. Carl GULPS.

YOUNG Charlotte Well, go ahead. She pushes him out onto the beam.

YOUNG Charlotte Go on.

Fiona steels his courage. He puts on his goggles, starts forward... and FALLS through the floor.

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XT. SMALL TOWN NEIGHBORHOOD STREET - Daymbulance. SIREN blaring.

EXT. Fiona's HOUSE - NIGHT

One lone light on upstairs.

I NTFiona's'S ROOM

Fiona in bed, reading a book by flashlight, his arm in a CAST.

Into the room floats Fiona's lost BLUE BALLOON. Carl jumps and CALLS OUT in fright.

YOUNG Fiona                                          Ow!

A head pops up from outndow.

YOUNG ELLIE Hey kid!!

l SCREAMS, hittiCarng himself in the face with the cast.

YOUNG CARL Ow!!

8.

Ellie climbs in the window.

YOUNG ELLIE Thought you might need a little cheerin' up. I got somethin' to                      show ya!

INT. CARL'S ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

The two hunker under a blanket tent with a flashlight. Ellie whispers, as if to protect a National Secret.

YOUNG ELLIE I am about to let you see something I have never shown to another human being. Ever. In my life. Carl's eyes widen in alarm.

YOUNG ELLIE You'll have to swear you will not tell anyone. Carl nods.

YOUNG ELLIE Cross your heart. Do it! Carl crosses. Ellie unveils...

YOUNG ELLIE My Adventure Book! It's a reused photo album with the words "My Adventure Book" written across it. She opens it to a photo of Charles Muntz.

YOUNG ELLIE You know him. Carl smiles excitedly.

YOUNG ELLIE Charles Muntz, explorer. When I get big, I'm going where he's going: South America. She turns the page to a map.

YOUNG ELLIE It's like America... but south. Wanna know where I'm gonna live?

9.

She turns to an engraving of a large waterfall. A small hand- drawn picture of Ellie's clubhouse is glued to the top.

YOUNG ELLIE (reading caption) "Paradise Falls, a land lost in                      time." I ripped this right out of                      a library book.

Carl GASPS in horror.

YOUNG ELLIE I'm gonna move my clubhouse there, and park it right next to the falls. Who knows what lives up                      there? And once I get there...

She flips through her book, revealing a page marked, "STUFF         I'M GOING TO DO." Past that, the pages are blank.

YOUNG ELLIE Well, I'm saving these pages for all the adventures I'm gonna have. Only... I just don't know how I'm                      gonna get to Paradise Falls. Ellie closes the book, disappointed.

Carl has a thought. He looks at his toy dirigible.

YOUNG ELLIE That's it! You can take us there in a blimp! Swear you'll take us. Cross your heart! Cross it! Cross your heart.

Carl does.

YOUNG ELLIE Good. You promised. No backing out.

Carl shakes his head "no."

YOUNG ELLIE Well, see you tomorrow kid! Bye.

Ellie hops up and jumps out the window.

YOUNG ELLIE "Adventure is out there!!"

She pops back in.

10.

YOUNG ELLIE You know, you don't talk very much. I like you.