The Rules Of Attraction

THE RULES OF ATTRACTION screenplay by Roger Avary based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis Available from: Draft Dated: www.avary.com March 3, 2001 Registered: WGA/w © Copyright 2001 "The Rules of Attraction" www.avary.com 2. 1 CONTINUED: 1 (CONT'D) and it's a story that might bore you but you don't have to listen because I always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, I think, in that last year, or, actually, weekend, really a Friday, in September, at Camden, and this was years ago when I was a different person, and I was so drunk that I ended up losing my virginity... A WIDE SHOT of Windham House dorm, filled shoulder-to- shoulder with PARTY-GOERS from ALL WALKS OF COLLEGE LIFE. There is a DRONING WAH-WAH of PEOPLE TALKING and drinking beer. Breaking through it is a SYNTHESIZED TOMANDANDY POP SONG. On a makeshift dancefloor a guy named STUART has taken off his shirt and is performing a wild solo dance. SUPERIMPOSE THE TITLE: THE END OF THE WORLD PARTY 2 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM 2 LAUREN is trying to be inconspicuous despite how shitfaced drunk she is -- using the walls gravitational pull to keep her from swaying and revealing her inebriated state. She lifts a big red plastic cup (the kind you buy by the hundreds at Price Club) to her lips and takes another sip of beer. LAUREN (V.O.) (continuing) ...