Initial Scripts
The plot of the animation varied drastically during the early stages of pre-production process, many characters, scenes and ideas were later changed - Here are some of the earlier version of the script.
SCRIPT
(Duncan hiccups regularly throughout)
INT. NEWS SET or EXT. BENCH IN FRONT OF BLOCK OF FLATS –
GREY AFTERNOON
INTERVIEWER
So, im here with Duncan Roy whos been hiccupping now for… how long Duncan?
DUNCAN ROY
Thirty *Hic* nine years. Or SAYS NOTHING?
INT. DUNCANS FLAT
Duncan sat slumped in his armchair with a cigarette and bottle of vodka in hand. The interview (above) on the TV but the audio alters. Duncan goes to swig from his bottle but hiccups and spills it on himself.
He throws the bottle on floor where it smashes spilling flammable liquid everywhere. Camera zooms in to
the puddle for a second.
Duncan stands up and climbs on top of the table in the background.
(Camera moves to side view) Duncan looks up to the light fitting, drops the cigarette into the puddle below but does not notice and
proceeds to tie the end of his tie to the light fitting. Smoke starts to rise from below.
Camera zooms to puddle where it ignites.
Duncan steps of table, hangs for a second and chokes until he feels the heat rising from below.
DUNCAN
Aaaaaah, ouch, shit,….hic.
Duncans legs are burning slightly. The light fitting breaks in the struggle and Duncan falls through the floor into the room below.
INT. OLD COUPLES FLAT
Duncan falls to the floor burning in a lump surrounded by bits from the ceiling. An old couple are on the bed bonking doggystyle.
Duncan stands up. The old man turns around to look at Duncan but does not stop.
Duncan leaps out of the window but his foot gets caught wound up in a electric cable from the floor below the window.
EXT. FLAT BLOCK
Duncan flies out an open window still on fire but the cable round his ankle causes him to stop falling and swing crashing through a window below.
INT. FAT MANS FLAT
Duncan picks himself up from the floor covered in glass shards and still burning and runs past the fat man jumping into the bath where he sighs with relief for a second. A woman in a towel walks in and screams in shock.
Duncan climbs out of the bath, runs into the kitchen and looks around. He spots the toaster and picks it up.
Toast springs out into his face making him slip up and the toaster flies out of his hands into the sink where it smokes and causes a power cut.
BLACKNESS
*SMASH SOUND*
Flash of woman smashing chair over Duncan as he’s hunched on the floor.
*DOGS BARK*
Flash of dog biting his leg.
*GUN RELOADING SOUND*
Flash of fatrman in chair with gun.
BLACKNESS
Eyes blink open to reveal a life support machine with heartbeat line thing.
Hic ..beep.. hic..beep.. hic.. beep ..fart hic ..beep.. fart
Duncan lays in a hospital bed bandaged up and legs, arm and neck supported trying to reach the off switch.
Fade out
(Possible additions – Duncan pees into his toilet, hiccups and misses the toilet.
- Duncan goes to swig from his bottle but hiccups and spills it on himself.
(Duncan hiccups regularly throughout)
INT. NEWS SET or EXT. BENCH IN FRONT OF BLOCK OF FLATS –
GREY AFTERNOON
INTERVIEWER
So, im here with Duncan Roy whos been hiccupping now for… how long Duncan?
DUNCAN ROY
Thirty *Hic* nine years. Or SAYS NOTHING?
INT. DUNCANS FLAT
Duncan sat slumped in his armchair with a cigarette and bottle of vodka in hand. The interview (above) on the TV but the audio alters. Duncan goes to swig from his bottle but hiccups and spills it on himself.
He throws the bottle on floor where it smashes spilling flammable liquid everywhere. Camera zooms in to
the puddle for a second.
Duncan stands up and climbs on top of the table in the background.
(Camera moves to side view) Duncan looks up to the light fitting, drops the cigarette into the puddle below but does not notice and
proceeds to tie the end of his tie to the light fitting. Smoke starts to rise from below.
Camera zooms to puddle where it ignites.
Duncan steps of table, hangs for a second and chokes until he feels the heat rising from below.
DUNCAN
Aaaaaah, ouch, shit,….hic.
Duncans legs are burning slightly. The light fitting breaks in the struggle and Duncan falls through the floor into the room below.
INT. OLD COUPLES FLAT
Duncan falls to the floor burning in a lump surrounded by bits from the ceiling. An old couple are on the bed bonking doggystyle.
Duncan stands up. The old man turns around to look at Duncan but does not stop.
Duncan leaps out of the window but his foot gets caught wound up in a electric cable from the floor below the window.
EXT. FLAT BLOCK
Duncan flies out an open window still on fire but the cable round his ankle causes him to stop falling and swing crashing through a window below.
INT. FAT MANS FLAT
Duncan picks himself up from the floor covered in glass shards and still burning and runs past the fat man jumping into the bath where he sighs with relief for a second. A woman in a towel walks in and screams in shock.
Duncan climbs out of the bath, runs into the kitchen and looks around. He spots the toaster and picks it up.
Toast springs out into his face making him slip up and the toaster flies out of his hands into the sink where it smokes and causes a power cut.
BLACKNESS
*SMASH SOUND*
Flash of woman smashing chair over Duncan as he’s hunched on the floor.
*DOGS BARK*
Flash of dog biting his leg.
*GUN RELOADING SOUND*
Flash of fatrman in chair with gun.
BLACKNESS
Eyes blink open to reveal a life support machine with heartbeat line thing.
Hic ..beep.. hic..beep.. hic.. beep ..fart hic ..beep.. fart
Duncan lays in a hospital bed bandaged up and legs, arm and neck supported trying to reach the off switch.
Fade out
(Possible additions – Duncan pees into his toilet, hiccups and misses the toilet.
- Duncan goes to swig from his bottle but hiccups and spills it on himself.
EXT. GREY CITYSCAPE – LATE AFTERNOON
Pan
INT. PUB – LATE AFTERNOON
Music. In the background. Few people standing at the bar. Camera from in front of bar, then behind bar at an angle from corner of room..pans to a birds eye view of the newspaper oin the bar and zooms in.
EXT. BENCH IN FRONT OF BLOCK OF FLATS – GREY AFTERNOON
INTERVIEWER
So, im here with Duncan Roy whos been hiccupping now for… how long Duncan?
DUNCAN ROY
Thirty *Hic* nine years. Or SAYS NOTHING?
INT. PUB – LATE AFTERNOON
Duncan looks depressed and looks at bottle. Profile view of drinking and hiccupping spilling his drink all over himself. Front view now of him in an attempt to open a packet of peanuts, flinging them into a busty womans cleavage who is sitting next to him.
EXT. GREY CITYSCAPE – LATE AFTERNOON – RAINING
Duncan slowly and heavily walks home hiccupping. When he arrives at his block he walks up the stairs and opens the door and walks in.
INT. BLOCK OF FLATS – GREY
Lift scene?
INT. DUNCANS FLAT
Key sound and door opens. He walks in past the pictures of his wife, does not look but camera lingers. Opens the fridge spilling light into the kitchen. Takes a bottle, closes door, turns around and slides down the fridge slumping on the floor.
INT. DUNCANS BATHROOM
Duncan is urinating as he hiccups and pisses everywhere. Close up as eye twitches.
INT. LIVING ROOM
Duncan looks at he rope in his hand..
Stood on a chair with the rope tied up on the light fitting he puts his head through the noose. He kicks the chair and hangs for a second before the light fitting breaks and he falls to the floor falling through to the underneath flat.
INT. NEIGHBOURS FLAT
Duncan slumped in a pile on the floor is looking at an elderly couple going at it doggy style on the bed. The old man turns to look then turns back and carries on. Duncan jumps out the window.
EXT. SIDE OF FLAT BLOCK
Duncan falls in slo-mo
EXT. BOTTOM OF FLAT BLOCK IN STREET
A girl in a wheel chair and a chavvy kid are in a tug of war over her handbag.
(The last two scenes repet twice more)
Duncan lands on the chavvy kid killing him and saving himself, the girl in the wheelchair is grateful and love hearts appear or looks longingly?? Duncan gets up and walks away.
EXT. STREET – GREY AFTERNOON
Duncan vacantly walks across a busy road. A car swerves to miss him and crashes.
INT. CAR
Man flies through windscreen in slo-mo.
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS – GREY AFTERNOON
Duncan walks over and lays on the tracks. The train passes but only chops his feet off. Blood everywhere.
INT. HOSPITAL- BRIGHTNESS
Duncan now farts every time he hiccups too. He lies in bed bandaged up trying to reach the plug to the life support machine.
FADE OUT
(Out-takes?)
Pan
INT. PUB – LATE AFTERNOON
Music. In the background. Few people standing at the bar. Camera from in front of bar, then behind bar at an angle from corner of room..pans to a birds eye view of the newspaper oin the bar and zooms in.
EXT. BENCH IN FRONT OF BLOCK OF FLATS – GREY AFTERNOON
INTERVIEWER
So, im here with Duncan Roy whos been hiccupping now for… how long Duncan?
DUNCAN ROY
Thirty *Hic* nine years. Or SAYS NOTHING?
INT. PUB – LATE AFTERNOON
Duncan looks depressed and looks at bottle. Profile view of drinking and hiccupping spilling his drink all over himself. Front view now of him in an attempt to open a packet of peanuts, flinging them into a busty womans cleavage who is sitting next to him.
EXT. GREY CITYSCAPE – LATE AFTERNOON – RAINING
Duncan slowly and heavily walks home hiccupping. When he arrives at his block he walks up the stairs and opens the door and walks in.
INT. BLOCK OF FLATS – GREY
Lift scene?
INT. DUNCANS FLAT
Key sound and door opens. He walks in past the pictures of his wife, does not look but camera lingers. Opens the fridge spilling light into the kitchen. Takes a bottle, closes door, turns around and slides down the fridge slumping on the floor.
INT. DUNCANS BATHROOM
Duncan is urinating as he hiccups and pisses everywhere. Close up as eye twitches.
INT. LIVING ROOM
Duncan looks at he rope in his hand..
Stood on a chair with the rope tied up on the light fitting he puts his head through the noose. He kicks the chair and hangs for a second before the light fitting breaks and he falls to the floor falling through to the underneath flat.
INT. NEIGHBOURS FLAT
Duncan slumped in a pile on the floor is looking at an elderly couple going at it doggy style on the bed. The old man turns to look then turns back and carries on. Duncan jumps out the window.
EXT. SIDE OF FLAT BLOCK
Duncan falls in slo-mo
EXT. BOTTOM OF FLAT BLOCK IN STREET
A girl in a wheel chair and a chavvy kid are in a tug of war over her handbag.
(The last two scenes repet twice more)
Duncan lands on the chavvy kid killing him and saving himself, the girl in the wheelchair is grateful and love hearts appear or looks longingly?? Duncan gets up and walks away.
EXT. STREET – GREY AFTERNOON
Duncan vacantly walks across a busy road. A car swerves to miss him and crashes.
INT. CAR
Man flies through windscreen in slo-mo.
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS – GREY AFTERNOON
Duncan walks over and lays on the tracks. The train passes but only chops his feet off. Blood everywhere.
INT. HOSPITAL- BRIGHTNESS
Duncan now farts every time he hiccups too. He lies in bed bandaged up trying to reach the plug to the life support machine.
FADE OUT
(Out-takes?)