Sequence 2 8

SEQUENCE 2_08 ⿿ ⿿NIMMIE⿿S HOUSE⿝

2_08_02 EXT. PATH TO NIMMIE AMEE’S HOUSE - DAY

TIN WOODMAN, SCARECROW, and WOOT look onto to Nimmie Amee's House (OS).

SCARECROW 133 Well... From what we have been told: this is Nimmie Amee's house.

2_08_03 WOOT and SCARECROW look at TIN WOODMAN. He is tense.

TIN WOODMAN (plaintive) 134 So far, but no farther. I am now close to Nimmie Amee, whom I have come ever so far to seek. My cracked heart is aflutter.

2_08_04 SCARECROW nods.

SCARECROW

     I can almost hear it fluttering.

2_08_05 WOOT 135 Are you okay, Sire? Does love affect you so?

2_08_06 TIN WOODMAN 136 I don't know. I will tell you when Nimmie Amee marries me.

2_08_08 TIN WOODMAN starts off deliberately.

2_08_09 SCARECROW and WOOT run to catch up.

2_08_09a SCARECROW, WOOT, and TIN WOODMAN walk together towards NIMMIE AMEE'S HOUSE.

2_08_10 As do a few belligerent GEESE, who honk and nip at TIN WOODMAN.

2_08_11 TIN WOODMAN waves his arms at the GEESE, trying to shoo them away.

TIN WOODMAN

     Oh... Be quiet. Be quiet, you!

2_08_12 SCARECROW and WOOT watch.

SCARECROW

     Oh-oh... This'll make for a bad entrance...

2_08_13 TIN WOODMAN

     Oh, be quiet. Quiet! Quiet, you!

TIN WOODMAN struggles with the GEESE. SCARECROW and WOOT rush to his aid, but fare no better is shooing away the GEESE.

NIMMIE AMEE (OS) 137 Who’s there?

It’s a soft, innocent voice… but one that all but knocks TIN WOODMAN back off his feet. SCARECROW and WOOT barely manage to catch him in time to steady him.

2_08_15 WOOT 138 Uh... It is us... Ma'am.

2_08_16 NIMMIE AMEE peer out around the edge of the door.

NIMMIE AMEE 139 Are you friends, or foes?

2_08_17 SCARECROW and WOOT grip TIN WOODMAN in support.

ALL (in unison) 140 Friends!

2_08_18 TIN WOODMAN stares in awe.

TIN WOODMAN 141 Nimmie Amee…

2_08_19 NIMMIE AMEE 142 That's my name, but who can you be?

2_08_20 TIN WOODMAN 143 Nimmie… Do you? Do you not remember me? I am your old sweetheart.

2_08_21 NIMMIE AMEE is blank for a moment then she smiles.

NIMMIE AMEE 144 Well... Come in. Even sweethearts are forgotten after a time.

2_08_23 NIMMIE AMEE (OS)

     But you and your friends are welcome.

TIN WOODMAN moves for the door, and the others follow.

2_08_27 The GEESE crash into the door.

2_08_28 INT. NIMMIE AMEE’S HOUSE - DAY

TIN WOODMAN, SCARECROW, and WOOT enter cozy and comfortable NIMMIE AMEE⿿S ROOM, neatly furnished and well swept and dusted. CHOPFYT is seated in a chair before a fireplace.

2_08_29 CHOPFYT stares at them.

2_08_30 TIN WOODMAN stares back, angry.

2_08_31 CU: CHOPFYT

2_08_32 TIN WOODMAN points.

TIN WOODMAN 145 Impostor!

2_08_33 CHOPFYT frowns and looks angry.

2_08_34 TIN WOODMAN starts forward, but SCARECROW and WOOT hold him back.

SCARECROW 146 Gently, gently! Don’t be rude to strangers.

TIN WOODMAN 147 Rude?! Why that villain is wearing my own head!

2_08_35 CHOPFYT jumps up out of the armchair.

CHOPFYT

     Just a minute, tin can...

2_08_36 SCARECROW and WOOT struggle to hold TIN WOODMAN back.

WOOT 148 Sire... Sire... Wait... Don’t...

2_08_37 CHOPFYT and TIN WOODMAN confront each other nose-to-nose.

CHOPFYT 149 What’s the meaning of this? Who are you?

TIN WOODMAN 149-01 Who are we! Who are you?

2_08_38 NIMMIE AMEE 150 I must insist you be more respectful to my husband.

2_08_39 TIN WOODMAN 151 Your… husband?

2_08_40 NIMMIE AMEE goes to CHOPFYT and puts her arms around him.

NIMMIE AMEE 152 Yes. I married Chopfyt a long time ago.

2_08_41 TIN WOODMAN 152-01 But I...

2_08_42 NIMMIE AMEE 152-02 Left… Without a word.

2_08_43 TIN WOODMAN 153 But he is me!

SCARECROW (laughing) 154 Uh-uh, oh, you're quite wrong, old friend. You are yourself, and so Chopfyt must be someone else.

2_08_44

CHOPFYT 154-01 Now see here, you lot, what is this all about? If you’re looking to make trouble...

2_08_45 TIN WOODMAN 154-02 N-N-Nimmie is my—

2_08_46 NIMMIE AMEE 154-03 No I’m not!

2_08_47 TIN WOODMAN looks at NIMMIE AMEE in shock.

NIMMIE AMEE 155 I won't say he is a husband to be proud of, because he isn't always an agreeable companion. There are times when I have to chide him gently, both with my tongue and with my broomstick. But he is my husband...

2_08_50 NIMMIE AMEE 155-01 ... and I must make the best of him. He’s trained to draw water, and carry wood,

2_08_48 TIN WOODMAN recoils, in anguish.

2_08_49 SCARECROW and WOOT watch, not knowing what to anticipate.

2_08_51 CHOPFYT smiles smugly, picks up a mug of ale, and drinks. He belches.

NIMMIE AMEE (OS) 155-01 and hoe the cabbages and weed the flower-beds and dust the furniture…

2_08_52 TIN WOODMAN is aghast.

TIN WOODMAN 156 But... Wuh-wuh-wouldn’t you like to be... Empress of the Winkies?

2_08_53 NIMMIE AMEE looks at TIN WOODMAN. She puts a broom into CHOPFYT⿿S hands and he starts sweeping.

NIMMIE AMEE 157 Mercy, no. That would be a lot of bother… Wouldn't it? I mean... A new husband would have to be scolded... And gently chided until he learns my ways.

2_08_54 NIMMIE AMEE gently but firmly nudges CHOPFYT along as he sweeps the floor.

NIMMIE AMEE And I don’t care for society, or pomp, or posing. All I ask is to be left alone and not to be annoyed by visitors.

2_08_55 SCARECROW and WOOT shift their feet, uncomfortably.

SCARECROW 158 Oh. Eh... Sounds like it is time for us to go...

2_08_57 SCARECROW and WOOT exit. TIN WOODMAN remains a moment. SCARECROW comes back, takes TIN WOODMAN’S arm.

2_08_58 SCARECROW pushes TIN WOODMAN out the door.

SCARECROW

     Well… So long, Mister Henpeck... Eh, Mister Chopfyt.

SCARECROW exits.

2_08_59 CHOPFYT takes a swig of ale.

CHOPFYT

     Huh! Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say.

The door slams shut.

2_08_60 EXT. NIMMIE AMEE’S HOUSE - DAY

The GEESE immediately swarm around TIN WOODMAN, SCARECROW, and WOOT, honking.

2_08_61 TIN WOODMAN looks back at NIMMIE AMEE⿿S house.

TIN WOODMAN (forlorn) 160 Nimmie Amee... does not love me.

2_08_62 SCARECROW 161 Huh! Well... Be thankful it is not your fate to hoe cabbages and sweep the floors.

2_08_63 There’s a loud cracking sound inside TIN WOODMAN’S chest. He gasps, opens his chest door, and pulls out two halves of his HEART, now broken in two.

2_08_64 TIN WOODMAN 162 But my heart! I fear there is no end to this ache.

2_08_66 SCARECROW 163 Oh... Well, we are not wanted here… and we dare not go back through Loonville⿦ I say we travel on.

2_08_67 TIN WOODMAN suddenly hurls his AXE.

2_08_68 The AXE embeds itself in a tree.

2_08_69 The GEESE retreat OS.

2_08_70 TIN WOODMAN slumps down under a tree.

TIN WOODMAN (sorrowful) 164 Ohhh... Do what you will. I will lay here... And never move again.

2_08_71 SCARECROW and WOOT look at each other, alarmed.

2_08_86 TIN WOODMAN leans heavily against a TREE.

My heart is broken, My body too, My joints are stuck tight, I'll just stay like this forever.

2_08_87 Transition to sad flower.

My heart is broken, Can you feel my pain? It radiates out like moonbeams, To darken everything it touches.

2_08_88 TIN WOODMAN sitting under tree/Nimme Aimee in the Moon

My heart is broken, Life means nothing to me, Take me off your guest list, I won't be visiting anymore.

2_08_89 Lighting flash across the moon. It starts to rain.

My heart is broken, Who cares what happens to me, Just leave me here to rust, No one loves me anymore.

2_08_90 The rain is falling very hard on TIN WOODMAN so that he is barely visible.

My heart is broken, My spirit too? Nimmie Amee has struck my life away, Leave me be.

2_08_72 SCARECROW 165 Well… that’s a fine way to behave! It makes me very glad I have a brain and not a heart. At least my brain leaves me with dignity!

2_08_73 TIN WOODMAN looks sadly at SCARECROW.

2_08_74 SCARECROW frowns.

SCARECROW 165-01 It seems to me I remember a time when we were in similar straits… and the only thing that kept us going…

2_08_75 TIN WOODMAN 165-02 I know… was faith… and companionship. I remember…

2_08_76 WOOT hangs on the AXE, trying to pull it out of the tree trunk.

WOOT 166 I’ve never been in love, but someday I might be. Tell me what it feels like?

2_08_77 TIN WOODMAN signs heavily, looks up to WOOT⿿S dangling feet.

TIN WOODMAN 167 Ah... Young Woot, you will be sorry when I do, but if you insist?

2_08_78

WOOT (taken aback) 168 Uh, I don't really insist.

2_08_79 TIN WOODMAN gets up, easily pulls the axe, with WOOT hanging on it, from the tree.

TIN WOODMAN 169 Come, boy... I have so much heartache to pass on to you.

2_08_80 WOOT (ruefully) 170 Ohhhh… I... Uh...

2_08_81 TIN WOODMAN holds the axe aloft a moment, looks WOOT in the eye.

2_08_82 WOOT sighs, resigned to his fate.

2_08_83 WOOT, TIN WOODMAN, and SCARECROW walk down the trail into the sunset.

TIN WOODMAN 170-01 It begins with a yearning deep within your soul, and then there is a kind of murmuring, as though all your joints need oil, and cry out for it; yet you can still move! Alas, that is even worse…

2_08_84 SCARECROW rolls his eyes heavenward.

2_08_85 TIN WOODMAN, SCARECROW, and WOOT continue into the forest.