Beetle Juice

BEETLE JUICE (2nd Draft) by Michael McDowell based on a story by Michael McDowell & Larry Wilson A Pecos Production For The Geffen Company 1 June 1985 EXT: WINTER RIVER, CONNECTICUT -- DAY Abucolic New England town,but rather too clean and neat to be entirely real.There is no visible population. Ominous, vibrating music. On Main Street, a banner proclaims: COME TO THE INDEPENDENCE DAY PICNIC ON THE GREEN WINTER RIVER, CONNECTICUT Thecamera,flyingoverdowntownandseveraldifferent neighborhoods,sweepsover a rickety bridge crossing arapidly flowingstream,andthen up a hill toalargeold-fashioned house.Thehouse stands alone on this prominence,overlooking the rest of the town.The camera lingers. SUDDENLY A GIANT DADDY LONGLEGS SPIDER -- mountsthecrest of the hill behind thehouse,pausesfora moment,andthen starts to climb over the Victorian house ina very menacing manner. ADAM (v.o.) You're a big fellow. A HAND -- perfectlystupendous -- reaches down out of the sky,lies flat, palm up,in the yard next to the house,and the DaddyLonglegs climbs into it.The hand the yard next to the house,and the DaddyLonglegs climbs into it.The hand rises into the sky again. INT: ATTIC AND MINIATURE TOWN -- DAY A new angle reveals Winter River as a miniature town,whilethe DaddyLonglegsand the hand holding it are perfectly normalin size.Above the model are a complicated mechanism of sun, moon, clouds,and stars -- a whole,tiny mechanical universe to track the hours of the day.