Home Alone

"She's right, Kev."

"Excuse me puke breath. I'm a lot smaller than you. I don't know how to

pack a suitcase."

Another girl walks down the hallway. "Hey, I hope you didn't just pack

crap, Jeff."

"Shut up, Linnie."

"You know what I should pack?" Kevin asks Jeff.

"I already told you, cheese face. Toilet paper and water."

"Listen, Kevin, what are you so worried about? You know that Mom is going

to pack your stuff anyway. You are what the French call Les Incompetent!"

says Linnie.

"What?" says Kevin.

[ Characterization of Kevin as incompetent; completely helpless ]

Jeff throws a packed bag down the staircase. "BOMBS AWAY!" The bag lands at

the feet of the policeman.

[The audience laughs because of the near-miss of a disaster. The built up

tension is released through laughter. This is an instance of a relief

theory of laughter. ]

Linnie continues talking to Kevin. "P.S. You have to sleep on the

hide-a-bed with Fuller. If he has something to drink, he's going to wet the

bed."

[ This is the most babyish of all actions, and Kevin will have to sleep in

the wet bed. Disgusting situations also generate laughter.]

Kevin stands alone on the balcony. "This house is so full of people it

makes me sick. When I grow up and get married, I'm living alone. DID YOU

HEAR ME? I'M LIVING ALONE!!!" Kevin shouts as he jumps up and down.

[Humor generated be the contradiction of "being married" and "living

alone", plus the exaggerated reactions of Kevin jumping up and down in a

tantrum. ]

The policeman, in amazement and with mouth agape, watches Kevin as he jumps

up and down.

[ This character's reaction is how the director wants the audience to

respond. ]

INT: BUZZ'S BEDROOM: NIGHT

A young boy wearing glasses taps on a glass aquarium that contains a large

tarantula. "Whose going to feed your spider while you're gone?"

"He just eat a load of mice-kettes," says Buzz. "He should be good for a

couple of weeks. Is it true that French babes don't shave their pits."

[ Gross, coarse characterization of Buzz. Deviant character type. ]

"Some don't."

A picture of a nude playgirl hangs on the wall, near a rifle and a poster

of a baseball player.

[ Standard images associated with an adolescent male. ]

"But they got nude beaches," says Buzz.

"Not in winter."

Kevin enters the room and timidly approaches Buzz. "Buzz."

"Don't you know how to knock, phflemwad."

Buzz is ferociously antagonistic.

[None of the other children either help or seem to like Kevin, which

generates empathy for him, because he's just a small child who needs help

to pack his suitcase. ]

"Can I sleep in your room. I don't want to sleep in the hide-a-bed with

Fuller. if he has something to drink, he'll wet the bed."

"I wouldn't let you sleep in my room if you were growing on my ass,"

replies Buzz.

Suddenly they hear rustling outside their window.

"Check it out! old man Marey," says Buzz.

The three boys run to the window.

"Who is he?" asks the boy with glasses.

Outside they see an old man drag a metal garbage can down a snow covered

walk. He carries a metal shovel in his free hand.

"You ever hear of the South Bend Shovel Slayer?" asks Buzz.

"No," responds the boy with glasses.

"That's him," says Buzz. "Back in'58 he murdered his whole family and half

the people on the block with the snow shovel. Been hiding out in this

neighborhood ever since."