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The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (Vera Lynn).
Int. a hotel in Los Angeles, today
A maid is vacuum cleaning a long hotel corridor.
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Title-credits.
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When The Tigers
broke Free, part one
Int. a trench somewhere in the European war zone, WW2
Pinks father is sitting in a trench cleaning his gun. Sounds of
bombs and war. The camera zooms in on his paraffin lamp. Dissolve
to...
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Ext. a field in England, the fifties.
A boy (Pink) is running towards the camera.
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The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (Vera Lynn).
Int. a hotel in Los Angeles, today
The maid is knocking on the door to Pink's hotel room Inside the
room Pink is sitting in his armchair. He doesn't react on the knocking
but the sound makes him think back... The maid is rattling
her keys and tries to open the door. But there is a chain on the
inside.
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In The Flesh?
Stadium Concert, L.A., today
A wild crowd of fans are forcing a big gate to open. They run out,
shouting. Police use brutal methods when they try to get control. The scene is in a montage
with violent scenes from the war zone, WW2.
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A balcony, today or future vision
'Nazi-Pink' is stepping out on the balcony at a concert-gig or fascist-rally.
He is dressed in his uniform with all hair shaved off. He is making
a speech to the crowd of young audience
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Ext. War zone, WW2
Planes are attacking. Pink's father is trying to call for help,
but is killed by a diving plane.
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Ext. Mum's House, England, WW2
Back home in England Pink's mother is sitting in the garden still
not aware what has happened. Pink is only a baby sleeping in his
baby carriage. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and everything
is in contrast to the war. There is crosscutting to the dead father.
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The Thin Ice
Ext. Pool at a penthouse-room in a Los Angeles hotel, today
Pink is floating in a rooftop pool. There is blood in the pool coming
from a cut in Pink's wrist. He has tried to kill himself and is
now floating with the arms out in a crucifixion position. Cut to
a church with the white cross in the Union Jack.
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Another
Brick In The Wall, part one
Int. Church, England, the fifties
Pink (boy) is in church with his mother. She is crying. Pink is
playing with a toy fighter-plane.
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Ext. Playground, England, the fifties
Pink is on the playground. He is alone, missing his father. He is
looking at the other boys playing with their fathers.
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The Tigers
Broke Free, part two
Int. Mum's house, England, late fifties
Pink is a little older now. He is coming home from school, taking
something to eat in the kitchen and then sneaking in to the mothers
room. In a drawer he finds his fathers uniform, razor, some bullets
and a letter from 'kind old King George'. He is putting on the uniform
and sees the fathers reflection in the mirror.
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Goodbye Blue Sky
Ext. Mum's House, England, WW2
In the garden. Pink is crying in the baby-carriage. A white dove
is flying away to avoid a cat.
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Animated sequence
The dove is transforming to a black eagle and then to a metal bird
and a deadly fighter plane Other bombers are transforming to white
crosses on the sky. A soldier is dropping dead. The British flag
is falling apart and turns to a bloody cross.
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Ext. Around the railway, England, the fifties
Pink (boy) took some bullet cartridges from the drawer at home.
Together with some other boys he wants to put them on the rails,
to make them explode when the train passes. Pink is the last one
to run away just a second before the train comes. He is trapped
in a tunnel and pressed against the wall when the train passes.
He is scared. Arms and hands are reaching towards him from the train
as a parallel to the German transport of Jews during WW2. The persons
in the train has no faces. Also Pink's face disappears. As he looks
away he sees the schoolteacher.
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The
Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Int. School, England
The school's teachers is marching like soldiers to their classes.
The schoolteacher is making a fool of Pink(boy) in front of the
class. He is reading a poem ('Money')
that Pink wrote, laughing at it and beating Pink on his fingers.
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Int. The Teachers home
Teacher is having dinner with his wife. He is being humiliated by
the wife, and he dreams about punishing the kids in school.
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Another
Brick In The Wall, part two
Int. the school
Faceless students is on an assembly line. The teacher is commanding
them around like small soldiers. The pupils are singing, but all
of them goes down a huge mincing machine. Suddenly the pupils are
making rebellion. They drop the masks and starts smashing up the
school.
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Int. a hotel in Los Angeles, today
Pink is in his hotel-room. The phone rings, but he doesn't answer.
After a while he makes a call, which nobody replies.
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Mother
Crosscut sequence:
Pink hugs his pillow/his wife/his mother.
Pink (boy) is send to the school head teacher.
Pink (boy) is smoking cigarettes in his room and watching a woman
undress in the opposite house.
The wife of Pink (man) comes home and finds him after smoking hash.
Pink (boy) is sick. He stays in his mothers bed.
Pink (man) is rejected by his wife.
Pink (boy) finds a skeleton next to mother in the bed.
Pink (man) is getting married in the city hall.
The wife is coming home and can't reach Pink through the drugs.
She leaves again.
Rock star Pink is in an American airport with his manager.
The wife is depressed.
In the hotel room: Pink is crashing a glass with his foot. He calls
home to England,
but the wife is attending a demonstration against nuclear-weapon.
Pink (boy) is at a dancing class. He is dancing with a big girl
reminding of the mother.
The wife is flirting with a anti-nuclear-man at the demonstration.
Pink is suffering on the bed in the hotel room.
He calls home from a phone booth in the U.S. The wife is sleeping
with the nuclear-man. The man hangs up the phone, when it is ringing.
Pink goes down next to the phone booth.
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What Shall We
Do Now?
Animated sequence
Two flowers are "mating", but it turns into a bloody fight
between dragons and sexes. The Wall. Guitars. Machine-guns. Violence.
A hammer hits against the camera-lens.
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Ext. a street in England, today
A shop window has been crashed. The thieves are violently arrested
by police, while old ladies steels from the shop.
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Young Lust
Int. a concert hall, Los Angeles, today
There is a backstage party after one of Pink's performances. Some
groupies trick the guards and roadies to give them, backstage passes.
Pink is watching the party through his dark sunglasses, then he
goes back into his dressing room. One of the groupies follows him
and attempts to take of the sunglasses.
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One Of my Turns
Int. Penthouse Hotel room, Los Angeles, today
Pink and the groupie are entering the room. The girl is talking,
but Pink throws himself in front of the TV showing the same old
war film (The Dam Busters from 1954). Suddenly Pink goes crazy and
starts throwing everything around him. He is chasing the scared
girl and throws the TV out of the window. He almost makes the jump.
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Don't Leave Me
Now
Ext. Pool at a penthouse-room in a Los Angeles hotel, today
Pink is in the pool after cutting his artery.
Flashback: He is sleeping with his wife.
Pink is now sitting in the armchair. Blood is still dripping from
his hand. A shadow on the wall transforms into a vagina-monster.
He is scared a tries to run for cover in a corner of the room.
Flashback: The wife is sleeping with the nuclear-man.
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Another
Brick In The Wall, part three
int. hotel-room in Los Angeles, today
Pink is crashing a TV-set repeating a Deborah Kerr/Stewart Granger
film kiss from 'King Solomon's Mines' (1950).
Flash backs: The wife, the war, the school riots, the playground,
the parents, the wedding, police, TV and... the wall.
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Goodbye Cruel
World
int. hotel-room in the Los Angeles, today
Pink is in his chair, totally lost from this world.
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Ext. a field in England, the fifties.
Pink (boy) is running. He stops and finds something in the grass.
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Is There
Anybody Out There
Ext. The wall
Without luck Pink tries to crash the wall or get over it.
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Int. hotel-room in Los Angeles, today
Pink is in the room. He is on the floor playing with all the things
that he broke. He goes to the bathroom and shaves away all hair
and eyebrows. He splashes water on his body and breaks the razor
blade with his fingertips. He steps out transformed to the fascist
Pink.
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Nobody Home
Int. hotel-room in the Los Angeles, today
Nazi-Pink is zapping around on the TV. He stops for a moment when
he sees a deep film kiss. He hits the remote control and the phone
and destroys it. We are seeing the wedding photo.
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Ext. field, England
Barbed wire with hammers.
Pink is sitting on the English field watching TV. Suddenly it is
the boy Pink sitting in the armchair. He gets up and walks
around passing the barbed wire and the hammers. He enters some deserted
factory buildings. In a corner he finds the grown up Pink very frightened
and mad-looking. Pink (boy) is scared a runs back across the field.
He is now walking around in a trench during the war. All the soldiers
are dead. He is watching Pink (man) who is still watching
TV on the field.
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Vera
Ext. train station, England, 1945
Soldiers are returning home after the war. Families and wifes are
welcoming them home. Pink is looking for his father, but he is not
there.
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Bring The
Boys Back Home
Ext. train station, England, 1945
Children and soldiers sing. Only Pink is alone. Everybody leaves
and only Pink is left on the station watching TV.
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Int. Hotel room, Los Angeles, today
Pink is sitting in what is left of his room, watching TV. The maid
is knocking on the door and trying to get in.
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Comfortably Numb
Int. hotel room, Los Angeles, today
The manager, a doctor and the hotel manager is entering the
room finding Pink unconscious.
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Crosscut sequence:
Pink (boy) is running on the field, finding a sick rat. He takes
it home and shows it to his mother, who yells at him. He hides it
from her.
The mother, the father, the doctor and some soldiers is passing
Pink (boy) in the trench.
At home: Pink (boy) is sick.
Hotel: Pink (man) is given an injection and starts waking up a little.
Worms.
Pink (boy) is well again and runs out to find that the rat is dead.
He throws it away.
Hotel: Pink (man) is dragged out of the hotel and put into a big
black car. He transforms through the worms to the nazi-Pink in a
black uniform.
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In the Flesh
Int. the concert hall/fascist-rally
The nazis are marching to the stage. The skinhead audience is screaming
when Pink appears and he kisses the small children and old ladies
as another Hitler. Banners with the hammer-symbol is hang everywhere.
There are guards with dogs and the fans are wearing "hate"
T-shirts. Pink is making his song/speech and starts the trial against
the 'wrong' and week people.
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Run Like Hell
Ext. "City of fascism", UK
The Fascist worms are marching in the streets and hunting the people
who doesn't "fit". Violence is total and people are hanged.
A girl is being raped.
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Waiting For
The Worms
Ext. "City of fascism", UK
The fascists are marching. The hammer flags are rising everywhere
and Pink is shouting his orders.
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Animated sequence:
Marching hammers.
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Stop
Int. Toilet at concert hall, Los Angeles.
A guard finds a pretty lousy Pink on one of the toilets. Pink
is 'singing' words which would later become part of Your
Possible Pasts. After this he sings Stop
and his breakdown is total.
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The Trial
Animated sequence:
The prosecutor is preparing for trial and enters.
First witness is the school teacher.
Second witness is the Mother
Third witness is the wife.
The judge is finding Pink guilty and demands that the wall should
be taken down.
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Flash backs:
The wall is crashing and we see quick flash backs from the whole
movie.
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Outside The Wall
Ext. streets, "the day after"
Some kids are playing around trying to make some order in the mess.
A boy is tasting and pouring the content of a molotov cocktail.
The image is frozen.
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End credits.
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