Boy and Girl on the Ridge, Pt. I

This is one of the other scenes I'm in love with...there are two parts. This is part one. It actually involves all eight of the actors, as all the men speak the BOY lines and all the women speak the GIRL lines and they moved about in the space, each staring off into different directions, each mirroring and echoing eachother.

The effect is a little haunting, to say the least, but very cool.


KRONOS
Imagine out in the desert. A boy. A girl. They are sixty-five miles from Vegas. It is almost midnight and another day at the office for the scientists working on the test site. Another day. Another explosion.

SOUND of the wind, which has died down to a low whistling. GIRL and BOY looking out to the desert, boy sitting in chair, girl standing.

GIRL
What are we waiting for?

BOY
Look over there.

They stare out. Time passes for what seems like ages.

GIRL
Let’s go.

BOY
It’s almost time.

A far off SIREN wails. They both look off to the desert.

GIRL
What’s that noise?

BOY
Hold on.

BRIGHT LIGHT and SOUND of EXPLOSION.

GIRL
Oh my...

BOY
Yeah...

Pause.

GIRL
That was...

BOY
It was...

GIRL
Something.

BOY
Yeah, something.

Pause. She gasps. Something seems physically wrong with her. BOY doesn't look at her, keeps staring straight ahead.

BOY
You all right?

GIRL
I think I’m gonna be sick.

BOY
What’s the matter?

GIRL
It’s like the Garden of Eden...Tasting from the tree of knowledge, knowing that...knowing the world is different...being cast from paradise.

BOY
Paradise is the desert.

GIRL
Aren’t you afraid?

He looks at his watch.

GIRL
Aren’t you afraid?
(he looks at his watch)
Aren’t you afraid?
(he looks at his watch)
Aren’t you afraid?