Sequence 3 02

SEQUENCE 3_02 - "MOUNTAIN"

3_02_01 EXT. OZ – BADLANDS - DAY

The sun hangs in the sky, huge and merciless.

TIN OWL, STRAW BEAR, GREEN MONKEY, and TIN GIRL trudge across a strange, DESOLATE LAND. They walk in silence, each contemplating their own situation.

3_02_02 STRAW BEAR 263 Well, we have escaped the big woman, to be sure but we still wear these awful forms that the cruel Yookoohoo gave us.

3_02_03 GREEN MONKEY 263 How are we going to become ourselves again?

3_02_04 STRAW BEAR

     "Endeavor to preserve." I heard that in a movie once.

3_02_05 TIN OWL, STRAW BEAR, GREEN MONKEY, and TIN GIRL are confronted by a titanic mass of jumbled rocks that stretches across their path.

3_02_06 TIN OWL standing on TIN GIRL’s shoulder, looks up at the huge pile.

TIN OWL Uh, uh. There's no way around. I guess, eh, we'll have to climb over it?

TIN GIRL (perky)

    Over it, it is!  Come on.

TIN OWL glances at TIN GIRL, smiles.

3_02_06a "Can It Be True?" song

3_02_07 TIN OWL, STRAW BEAR, GREEN MONKEY, and TIN GIRL start climbing up the jumbled barrier.

3_02_08 STRAW BEAR (hopefully)

    Ah... At least... Ah, it's not slippery... And no rain in sight.

3_02_09 A large raindrop splats down on TIN OWL's head. He looks annoyed.

TIN OWL Right as rain, straw-head.

3_02_10 STRAW BEAR smiles sheepishly.

3_02_11 TIN OWL, STRAW BEAR, GREEN MONKEY, and TIN GIRL continue to climb over the rocks.

3_02_12 GREEN MONKEY 264 I’m hungry.

3_02_13 TIN OWL hovers over STRAW BEAR and GREEN MONKEY.

TIN OWL 264-02 Think of something else.

GREEN MONKEY 264-03 Like what?

STRAW BEAR 264-04 Like... Like something to take your mind off of your problems.

TIN OWL 264-05 For instance?

3_02_14 A moment, while STRAW BEAR grasps an idea.

STRAW BEAR 264-06 Where does straw come from?

3_02_15 A moment of silence while TIN OWL and GREEN MONKEY ponder Straw Bear's suggestion.

3_02_16 GREEN MONKEY 264-07 I’m hungry.

3_02_17 TIN OWL, STRAW BEAR, GREEN MONKEY, and TIN GIRL trudge on across bleak landscape.

3_02_18 TIN OWL, perched on TIN GIRL’s shoulder, has his eyes shut against the sun. OS Straw Bear makes a disconsolate sound.

TIN OWL (not opening his eyes) 264-08 What?

3_02_19 STRAW BEAR 264-09 Nothing.

3_02_20 TIN OWL opens his large, round eyes.

TIN OWL 264-10 Are you sure? I thought that you...

3_02_21 STRAW BEAR 266 Eh... Eh... Y'know... I was just thinking that I was once the handsomest Scarecrow... And am now I⿿m condemned to be a scrubby, no-account beast whose only redeeming feature is that he’s full of straw.

3_02_22 TIN OWL 267 That's not all you're full of... And what about me?

3_02_23 TIN OWL looks longingly at TIN GIRL.

TIN OWL I don't want to be a tin owl. I want to be myself!

3_02_24 GREEN MONKEY 268 Consider my case, please. The cruel giantess has made a monkey of a boy!

3_02_25 STRAW BEAR 269 I think your color’s rather attractive. I have never seen a pea-green monkey before.

3_02_26 GREEN MONKEY 270 What if I have to stay like this forever!?

3_02_27 A melancholy mood settles over TIN OWL, STRAW BEAR, GREEN MONKEY, and TIN GIRL.

3_02_28 STRAW BEAR 271 Dear me. What unhappy thoughts we have, to be sure.

3_02_29 GREEN MONKEY 271-01 What’s that supposed to mean?

3_02_30 STRAW BEAR 271-02 This is simply proof that born brains cannot equal manufactured brains, for my brains dwell only on facts and never borrow trouble.

3_02_31 STRAW BEAR (CU) 271-04 When there is occasion to think, I think, but I would be ashamed of my brains if they kept shooting out thoughts that were merely fears and imaginings, such as do no good, but are likely to do harm.

3_02_32 TIN OWL looks longingly at TIN GIRL but she does not know he is looking.

TIN OWL 272 For my part, I do not think at all, but allow my heart to guide me at all times.

3_02_33 STRAW BEAR 273 Thoughtless people are not unusual, but I consider them more fortunate than those who have useless or wicked thoughts and do not try to curb them.