The Sick Draft script

 Script – Draft 1 FADE IN:

OPENING TITLES APPEAR ONSCREEN DURING FIRST SCENE

EXT. RURAL PATH – MORNING

A cold, sad morning in comfortable clothes, hoodie up hiding face for now  

(Amelia), 16-17 y/o student, comes to a pause and tugs her hoodie down.

The Sick - lyrics (VOICEOVER)

I hope your daddy’s done hating you. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,

Zoom in on her face, specifically her eyes and her mouth (possibly smoking..?)

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EXT. isolated alley way – noon

(Jay), dressed in casual clothes, leaning against wall – possibly smoking – being spoken to by her friend, trying to convince her to stop.

The Sick - Lyrics (VOICEOVER)

You think that shit you smoke saves you?

FRIEND (muffled)

You need to stop- what’s your issue!? Hello..? Are you even listening?

The sick - Lyrics (VOICEOVER)

But it won’t between you and me,

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Close up in eyes shutting then cut to open eye shot.

Jay to Amelia eyes.

 

The Sick – Lyrics (VOICEOVER)

And I think a part of you hated me, so all of me was surviving you.

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EXT. empty bedroom

JAY or AMELIA in the depths of the room struggling by themselves -> also not seeking help.

The Sick – Lyrics (VOICEOVER)

There’s nothing better I could be,

I love the sick because I have to

 

Amelia/Jay approaches the mirror, zoom in to face in the mirror (flashback/past self) looking back at person..?

The Sick – Lyrics (VOICEOVER)

You were wrong for what you did to me-

 

Amelia / Jay, walking behind a group -> isolation fence

group, slowly being ostracised.

The Sick – Lyrics (VOICEOVER)

But I was sick for kinda liking it-

 

Front shot of her in between the shoulders, focusing on her expression -> finding comfort in her own shadows

 

The Sick – Lyrics (VOICEOVER)

Oh, it all goes bad eventually

 

She’s beginning to lose her friends, as she is no longer trying anymore.

 

Flashback to younger selves – olden days filter thing to show its in the past – Amelia and Jay messing around together in a park/skate park

 

I’ve loved the sick since I knew how to breathe

I’m pretty sure that you’re using again

Oh, you don’t know what that does to me

Well, I guess I could never save you

Amelia and Jay give each other matching lighters which the two are seen fiddling with throughout the rest of the MV

 

I’ve loved the sick since I knew how to breathe

Since I knew how to-

 

No longer with that olden day filter – Amelia and Jay maybe seen fighting with each other – maybe matching with the lyrics – completely opposing the earlier scene of the two playing around together – maybe actual physical fight – use makeup to show split lip / black eye

 

I hope you settle with that girl you love

And get that shitty job I know you need

I think that she might be enough to save you

And I’m sorry that that want me

 

Amelia and Jay seen in two different rooms after the fight – maybe ‘sitting back to back’ but with a wall between them – regretful and upset with almost a grey background behind us and then on Jays side a white light/gradient fades in while Amelias side has a black light/gradient

But I think a part of you hated me

So, all of me was surviving you

There is nothing better I could be

I love the sick because I have to

(I have to, I have to)

 

Jay is getting professional help, and trying to mentally get healthy, juxtaposing with Amelia being ‘shouted’ at by her parents and then scenes after where Amelia is isolating herself with maybe a “mirage” of Jay next to here, constant flash shots almost as though she’s there even though she isn’t.

You were wrong for what you did to me

But it all goes bad eventually

I’ve loved the sick since I knew how to breathe

I’m pretty sure that you’re using again

Oh, you don’t know what that does to me

Well, I guess I could never save you

I’ve loved the sick since I knew how to breathe

 

Someone (therapist) says “you need to get rid of the memories” and Jay is seen fiddling with a lighter.

Since I knew how to-

 

Jay sets things on fire but the focal point is the trousers, outdoors.

Well, your pants are on fucking fire

 

Maybe film a bit where Amelia is holding a lighter in front of the mirror in a black room – only the light of the fire to light up their face but then the lighter snaps shut into darkness.

And you use them like a goddamn lighter

 

Camera pans down from the night sky onto Jay (darkness from last scene turns into the night sky), where people have found her with the burnt trousers and almost comfort her.

And you say it’s not my fault

But I don’t believe you at all

 

Amelia alone in the dark room slumped against the wall, faint light from somewhere – maybe in the dorms where she can see a razor on the bathroom counter (cutting implied)

If you loved me, then why did you never call?

 

Shots flick back and forth between Jay getting help and Amelia suffering alone, Jay with a lighter background, Amelia in a darker background. (Neutral vs bedroom setting)

You were wrong, you were wrong

You were wrong, you were wrong

You were wrong, you were wrong

You were wrong, you were wrong

 

Amelia takes her own life, slumped against a wall. WRIST CUTTING. Jay and/or others run into the room to find Amelia dead.

Piece of paper with the lyrics written can be seen now tainted with blood -> written by Amelia, released by Jay in her honour

But I was sick

 

 

FADE TO BLACK

(Suicide audio begins to play: https://open.spotify.com/track/1slWhO9FYMHp4mSFIxnCwt?si=admnX5rQS0KCCeZ6AldM8w) possibly overlapping the last lyrics

 

Black out screen to telling audience to not be afraid to ask for help if you’re struggling.