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The interior of Rapture has been decorated as the Halls of Hell,<br />
in stylish black and red. The crowd is equal to its<br />
surroundings.<br />
We find LYDIA standing very near the stage area, surrounded by<br />
half a dozen of her old friends from New York.<br />
They are watching one of the evening Talent Acts, which is a<br />
MAGICIAN performing the coffin and swords trick to the thrashing<br />
pre-recorded music of Motorhead. A YOUNG WOMAN enters an upright<br />
coffin and the door is shut, in a way that leaves her face<br />
exposed. The MAGICIAN plunges, one after the other, five swords<br />
through slits in the coffin. He holds up the sixth and final<br />
sword, and then plunges it straight through the young woman's<br />
breast.<br />
The YOUNG WOMAN screams, and a LONG ARC OF SPURTING BLOOD spews<br />
out into the audience, spraying LYDIA's friends. On stage, the<br />
MAGICIAN withdraws the six swords, and opens the coffin. The<br />
YOUNG WOMAN, with a bloody gash in her breast spills out onto the<br />
stage.<br />
The crowd applauds madly as the stage goes completely black. In<br />
the audience, LYDIA wipes the stage blood from her face.<br />
FRIEND #1 turns to FRIEND #2.<br />
LYDIA<br />
This stuff is so lame.<br />
None of it's real.<br />
FRIEND #1<br />
If she mentions those<br />
goddamn ghosts of hers<br />
one more time I'm going<br />
to puke in her cleavage.<br />
LYDIA<br />
I have touched the other<br />
side, you people. And if<br />
you don't believe me just<br />
wait till next Saturday<br />
night.<br />
Suddenly, t<strong>here</strong> is the very loud and very eerie violin obliggato<br />
coming from everyw<strong>here</strong>.<br />
Then, on the blackened appear TWO YELLOW SNAKE'S EYES. Then, a<br />
moment later, we see shape of a violin outlined in white neon.<br />
The lights come up gradually and luridly, to reveal BEETLE JUICE<br />
/ DANNY DEATH, alone on the stage with his electric neon violin.<br />
He has been transformed into the ultimate DEATH ROCKER. For a<br />
few moments, the eerie solo violin continues to play, bringing a<br />
surprising hush over the audience. Then, in a hugely amplified<br />
version of his own voice, we hear him recite the following poem,<br />
to the accompaniment of his violin.<br />
BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH<br />
Young soul, put off your flesh and come<br />
With me into the quiet tomb.<br />
Our bed is lovely, dark and sweet<br />
The earth will swing us as she goes<br />
Beneath our coverlid of snows<br />
And the warm leaden sheet.<br />
By this time he is at the front of the stage, before an<br />
enthralled audience. No one however is more enthralled than<br />
LYDIA, for it becomes apparent that BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH is<br />
directing his words solely to her.<br />
BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH<br />
Dear and dear is their poisoned note<br />
The little snakes of silver throat<br />
In mossy skulls that nest and lie<br />
Ever singing, "Die, Oh die!"<br />
FRIEND #3<br />
He wants your body.<br />
LYDIA<br />
Shhh!<br />
Like a demonic Bruce Sprinsteen, BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH pulls<br />
LYDIA up onto the stage, and in his own voice, repeats the final<br />
chorus directly to her.<br />
BEETLE JUICE / DANNY DEATH<br />
Sweet and sweet is their poisoned note<br />
The little snakes of silver throat