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We've got to get out of here. DELIA This is my house. I'm not leaving. CHARLES is standing at the window. He glances out. CHARLES POV -- CHARLES Holy shit... DELIA What is it? DELIA's sculptures are arranged in a circle around the house. They rock back and forth impatiently on their sawhorse legs. The high wind blows their feathers frantically. BACK TO SCENE -- OTHO Delia, darling, it's all in here. (Indicates the Handbook). His name is Swallowtail. CATHY No, it's Beetle juice. LYDIA I don't know what his name is, but he's downstairs right now. And he just turned a canary into a dragon. DELIA But what does this Bottle Juice want with us? CATHY listens a moment to the invisible BARBARA and ADAM. CATHY He's going to destroy this house and kill everybody's who in it. DELIA Like hell he is. We're gonna fight. We paid cash for this house. OTHO I think you've figured out something you can do. But Cathy os going to have to convince her ghosts to help us. CHARLES Why should they help us? They've been trying to get rid of us since the day we moved in. CATHY listens a moment to the invisible ADAM and BARBARA. CATHY They'll help. Otho, tell us what to do. INT: LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT The GUESTS are fearful, and some of the women are weeping. BEETLE JUICE is still performing his tricks. He reaches over to a woman, on the verge of hysteria, and from her ear pulls the world's biggest and ugliest catterpillar. He drops it into her drink. BEETLE JUICE Hey, this is a party. Why isn't anybody having fun? I know. Let's dance. He looks at the DEETZs sound system. LOUD ROCK MUSIC comes on instantly. For a moment, everyone is still. BEETLE JUICE Dance, I said.
In the far corner of the room, two guests begin a spasmodic, frantic dancing. This continues in a wave across the room, until all the guests are participating in this physical insanity -- crarshing off one another, smashing againt the walls, some of them flying up to the ceiling and hitting their heads, nosediving along the carpets. BEETLE JUICE, with a wicked laugh and cackle, dances amongst them all. On the stairway appear, in this order, LYDIA, DELIA, CHARLES carrying CATHY, and OTHO bringing up the rear. BEETLE JUICE looks up at them. A wicked smile crosses his face. BEETLE JUICE Party's over. The MUSIC stops. The dancers collapse like puppets whose strings have been severed. BEETLE JUICE Everybody leave. The windows all shoot up in their frames, smashing frames and glass. The doors of the house fly open with crashes. EXT: HOUSE -- NIGHT One beat, and then from every door and open window, frantic GUESTS pour out of the house. They scatter in all directions in the yard, and chased by DELIA's lumbering sculptures, they race towards their cars. It is pandemonium. INT: LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT A deadly silence seems to have overtaken the house. BEETLE JUICE stands in the middle of the empty living room. The DEETZs just look at him. BEETLE JUICE I tell you, you guys sure know how to throw a party. BEETLE JUICE Come closer. I won't bite. CHARLES looks at OTHO. OTHO gives him the go-ahead. CHARLES cautiously comes closer, and puts CATHY in a chair immediately in front of, and facing BEETLE JUICE. CHARLES You don't have to do this. CATHY I do have to. This house belongs to us. All of us. CHARLES retreats. BEETLE JUICE grins. He sprouts an enormous pair of LEATHER WINGS. His face alters -- and become a truly malicious mirror of his twisted soul. CATHY doesn't answer. BEETLE JUICE Who are you, little girl? And what do you have to say to me? BEETLE JUICE Where are your friends? Hiding out in the attic, I suppose. Don't worry about them. Once I've done with you, I've got a few surprises in store for our ghosts. CATHY As sudden thunder / Pierces night; As magic wonder / Mad affright Rives asunder / Men's delight: Our ghost, our corpse, and we Rise to be.
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BEETLE JUICE (2nd Draft) by Michael
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three feet by two. BARBARA is decor
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JIMMY, the town paperboy, rides up
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ROCKET has just run out into the pa
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ADAM is nowhere. There's no ground,
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about "Rewards and Punishments" or
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ADAM It'll take us at least a hundr
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LYDIA You're such a weenie. A VIOLE
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OTHO I thought I saw something. DEL
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Is there much more of this? DELIA T
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As from a great distance she hears
Page 23 and 24: the window. BACK TO SCENE -- CATHY
Page 25 and 26: CHARLES I want you and Cathy -- As
Page 27 and 28: there to answer all her questions.
Page 29 and 30: ADAM looks at the book. ADAM (Readi
Page 31 and 32: Stunned, BARBARA and ADAM do as the
Page 33 and 34: She picks the sheets back up, puts
Page 35 and 36: BARBARA and ADAM continue down the
Page 37 and 38: LYDIA Oh God, Delia. They were ghos
Page 39 and 40: party tonight, and there's your cha
Page 41 and 42: INT: ATTIC ROOM -- NIGHT ADAM and B
Page 43 and 44: INT: MODEL WHOREHOUSE -- NIGHT Old-
Page 45 and 46: CATHY starts up the stairs. CATHY I
Page 47 and 48: BARBARA hover above him like titans
Page 49 and 50: In mossy skulls that nest and lie E
Page 51 and 52: Behind him, the DRY CLEANING RACKS
Page 53 and 54: are you doing here? BEETLE JUICE /
Page 55 and 56: need you, I know where to find you.
Page 57 and 58: EXT: WINTER RIVER TRAIN STATION --
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Page 61 and 62: OTHO falls back, but BEETLE JUICE /
Page 63 and 64: (To Cathy) It's a wonderful party,
Page 65 and 66: He pulls LYDIA into her own bedroom
Page 67 and 68: She hears the NOISE OF THE WIND in
Page 69 and 70: It was horrible. Oh God, it was the
Page 71 and 72: CHARLES #3 Is this cheap or what? D
Page 73: Oh, let's stay out here. Delia prob
Page 77 and 78: BARBARA CORPSE (Groaning) Nowwwwww.
Page 79: EXT: MODEL HOUSE -- DAY ADAM and BA
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