by Rolf De Heer
LITTLE GREG: Pssst!... Pop!
Buhhy looks around.
BIG GREG: [loud whisper'] Come here...
Buhhy stuffs the rest of the pizza in his mouth and gets up.
SCENE 124 INT. PUB CORRIDOR - NIGHT
Greg and Greg are guiding the still chewing Buhhy down the corridor.
BIG GREG: Have we got a surprise for you!
LITTLE GREG: We’ve got some people who’d really like to get to know you.
BIG GREG: C’mon, c’mon, c’mon.
They stop outside a door.
SCENE 125 INT. PUB BEDROOM - NIGHT
Buhhy is pushed into the slightly seedy bedroom The door closes after him.
LITTLE GREG: [whispers] Go get ‘em Pop!
There are odd hits and pieces belonging to the hand in the room - a
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couple of guitar casesy a spare cymbal standy some extension leads. Directly in front of Buhlry is a double bed. There are movements and giggles under the sheet.
SHANNON: [under the sheet] Is that you Pop?
BUBBY: [as Pop] Me be Pop.
The sheet is flung hack and two stark naked girlsy about eighteen or twentyy reveal themselves on the bed. They're attractivey with good figures and big grins.
SHANNON: Ta-ra! Pm Shannon.
SHARON: I’m Sharon. Won’t you join us? What do you think?
Buhhy looks at them. They get off the bed and come towards him. SHANNON: Do you like us?
Buhhy just looks at them. Sharon takes one of his hands and places it on her breast.
SHARON: I’ve never had a virgin before.
Shannon takes Buhhy's other hand and places it on one of her breasts.
SHANNON: Don’t be scared. We’ll show you what to do.
Buhhy squeezes the breasts his hands are ow, then the other oneSy
testing them like so much fruit at the greengrocer.
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BUBBY: [as Pop] Tiny tits.
SHANNON: Tiny? These aren’t tiny, they’re perfect thirty-sixes. Where did you come from?
BUBBY: [as Pop] Them not Angel tits.
SHARON: Who’s Angel?
SHANNON: I don’t know...
Buhhy turns and leaves the room.
SCENE 126 EXT. HANDICAPPED HOUSE GROUNDS -
SUNSET
The end of a little burial ceremony for Cat. Rachael and Pandy are in attendancey as are Buhhy and Angel. A small wooden cross has
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been placed in the ground at the head of the freshly filled grave, Angel is saying a few final words.
ANGEL: Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Goodbye Cat. There, she’s happy with God now.
She turns to Buhby.
There, she’s happy with God now.
Buhby looks at Angel quizzically. He speaks slowly^ carefully.
BUBBY: It is the duty of all human beings to think God out of existence.
ANGEL: [unfazed] Full of surprises, aren’t we?
SCENE 127 INT. PUB BACK BAR - NIGHT
Ids just about a full house as Buhby and the band perform. The place is rocking... not only is Buhby wearing Pop clothes, but some of the spectators are too, with a number more just wearing the addition of clerical collars.
Dan is in the audience, as is Angel. Buhby is beating a toy cat with a wooden spoon. The toy cat has been garrotted onto the back of a chair.
BUBBY: [singing, as Pop] Be still Kat!
Buhby beats the toy cat again.
I’ll beat you brainless by Christ!
Buhby picks up a gas mask and puts it on. He make a few sound effects whilst wearing it. He throws it off, collapses onto the ground, choking.
If the poison don’t get you, God will!
He crawls to the edge of the stage, falls off, gets up and goes to Angel. He takes her by the hand and walks spastically back up stage, dragging her with him. He sways and sings and moans in spastic in front of her. Some of the audience also sway spastically. Buhby squeezes AngeVs breast. The audience cheers. Buhby squeezes the other breast. The audience cheers again. Angel laughs and clutches her breasts.
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Them not tiny tits!
A few in the audience reply.
AUDIENCE: No!
BUBBY: singingy as Pop] Them great big whoppers of things!
More of the audience replies.
AUDIENCE: Yes!
BUBBY: [singings as Pop] Pop love ‘em tits!
There is an outburst of laughter and shouted comments^ ITeayP Yeay Popl You tell us Popl 'Show it like it is PopP.
SCENE 128 INT. HANDICAPPED HOUSE - NIGHT
The common room has no lights on inside it, although there are other lights on in other rooms. Rachael is sitting in her wheelchair in a comer of the room, staring intently at Buhby, who shifts uneasily.
After a long moment, Rachael starts to speak, almost a speech, hut with obvious passion. Bubby listens, increasingly alarmed.
BUBBY: No. No. That not be. Not be... sorry...
The tears come to RachaePs eyes and she begins to cry, a primal howling that comes deep from the soul. Bubby goes to her and picks her up out of her wheelchair. He sits down on the floor and cradles her in his arms, rocking her. She howls even more, then Bubby joins in with her. Together they howl until Angel emerges from the bathroom and comes to the doorway.
ANGEL: What’s the matter Bubby?
BUBBY: [as Bubby] Bubby crying with sadness for Rachael because Rachael have no Bubby. Rachael be loving Bubby...
Angel is overwhelmed by the intensity of it all. She squats down next to them. And he shrugs with the helplessness of it all. Angel kisses Rachael.
ANGEL: Oh my poor Rachael...
She looks at Bubby. The tears are pouring down his face. He struggles with the words...
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BUBBY: And Bubby be loving Angel.
Again he shrugs with the helplessness of it all.
ANGEL: Oh Bubby...
She kisses the tears from his face.
SCENE 129 EXT. HOUSE OF JUNK - DUSK
Bubby and Angel are walking down a footpath past a vacant loty towards a freestanding fihro house that is surrounded by a chaotic yard full ofjunk.
ANGEL: I only really visit when I have to. Always ends in a fight... and then I don’t go for a while and then they forgive me then we fight all over again. Bit of a mess... but Dad’s a collector, used to be his business.
Bubby points to AngeVs lips as they approach the front door.
BUBBY: Princess Pink.
Angel laughs. She knocks on the door.
ANGEL: Oh, this is going to be fun.
SCENE 130 INT. HOUSE OFJUNK-DUSK
The interior of the house is in complete contrast to the exterior. It is very formaly very clean and stifled by numerous religious pictures and ornaments. AngeVs mother is veryy very thiny over sixty and dressed formally. Angely Bubby and AngeVs parents are seated round a white-cloth tablcy eating dinner. Bubby watches carefully how they eaty and manages their formality almost better than they do.
MOTHER: How do you like your dinner, Mr Pop?
BUBBY: [as Pop] Pizza be better than this.
Angel smiles into her meal. Her mother catches her at it.
MOTHER: Our daughter has a healthy appetite, don’t you think? ANGEL: Mother! Don’t start...
FATHER: Be quiet! Let your mother speak uninterrupted.
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MOTHER: Thank you Dear. We tried to bring her up as best we could but she’s been rather a disappointment to us.
Angel slams down her knife and fork in protest.
FATHER: Be the first time you didn’t finish your dinner.
MOTHER: I find fat people so... so gross. So unfortunate of course, but so... ugly. What do you think Mr Pop?
BUBBY: [as Pop] Me think Angel be beautiful.
FATHER: She’s a fat slut.
MOTHER: Careful what you say Dear.
FATHER: Better he knows she’s a fat slut.
Angel starts to cry. Buhhy is very uncertain as to what to do or say.
MOTHER: If God had wanted us to be fat, He’d have made us all the same way, wouldn’t he? But He didn’t. God doesn’t like fat people. Fat people are an abomination in His eyes.
Buhhy looks up at some of the religious artefacts on the wall.
BUBBY: [as Pop] Fuck you God! Strike me down if you dare. Angel be beautiful. God be a useless cunt.
There is a stupefied silence around the table. AngeVs mother turns to Angel and slaps her in the face^ hard.
ANGEL: Noll
BUBBY: [as Pop] Why you be bad to Angel?
MOTHER: You can go now Mr Pop. We shall pray for you.
Buhhy doesn't move.
Get out of here!!
Buhhy gets up.
BUBBY: [as Pop] Angel come too?
Angel replies through her tears.
ANGEL: No Bubby.
Buhhy leaves.
SCENE 131 EXT. BOBBY’S SLEEPOUT - NIGHT
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Buhhy is rummaging around the rubbish at the dockyards where he slept previously. He finds a piece of clingwrapy straightens it and puts it in his pocket. He continues rummaging.
SCENE 132 EXT. FIELD/FACTORY - DAY
Buhhy and Angel are in a field next to a large industrial plant. They are watching a billowing plume of smoke rise from one of the factory chimneys. The sun is directly behind the smokey bathing the two of them in a warm glow of light of constantly changing
ANGEL: My parents were just waiting to die anyway Bubby. They were both riddled with poisons and cancers... asbestos from the brake linings, lead from the car exhausts, PCPs from the car seats, dioxins, parathidions, dieldrin, mercury, radioactivity... whoever did it just put them out of their misery.
BUBBY: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
They stand silently for a momenty watching the hack-lit plume of smoke.
BUBBY: That be nice.
ANGEL: That be poisoning us. That be poisoning the air that we breathe.
BUBBY: If the poison don’t get you, then God will.
SCENE 133 INT. HOUSES OF GOD - DAY
Steve sings a short burst of a muezzin's prayer. He is framed by an Islamic design. He lectures Bubby.
STEVE: Beautiful, isn’t it? Fantastic. And yet this mob have been trying for centuries to clingwrap this...
Steve's dialogue continues unbroken. The background at his feet has changed. There is a star of David and representations of the Jewish faith.
... mob, even though they share the same god. Mind you, this mob have been getting pretty good at clingwrapping lately. And this...
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Steve's dialogue continues unbroken. A Christian background.
... mob’s got the same god as well, but they’ve had a fair go at clingwrapping that first mob, they’ve been trying to clingwrap that second mob for a good couple of thousand years, and...
Steve's dialogue continues unbroken. The painted background depicts an Aboriginal camp.
... they’ve pretty well succeeded in clingwrapping just about all of this mob, who never did much clingwrapping to anyone but themselves. And then...
Steve's dialogue continues unbroken. A Hindu backdrop.
... there’s this lot. A different god altogether. You’d think that would help, but it doesn’t. See this mob clingwrapped about half a million of that first mob, forty or fifty years ago, and they’ve been at it ever since. They’ve all...
Steve now stands beside Bubby.
... done their fair share of killing or being killed, and it’s all pointless. The thing Bubby is, don’t be like them. No matter how mad you get at someone, don’t kill them... ever.
BUBBY: [as Pop] Bubby done clingwrap them. Me Pop now.
STEVE: Talking like that you’ll be running the country soon enough. No more excuses. No more clingwrapping. Okay.^... Bubby?
BUBBY: Okay.
STEVE: And don’t mention it to anyone. We look like all being rich and famous soon enough, so let’s not spoil it.
SCENE 134 INT. PUB BACK BAR - NIGHT
The place is jam-packed with people, many wearing Pop costumes, a few even wearing gas masks. The stage is currently empty of musicians, but above it hangs a newly painted banner... Top and The Clingwrap Killers*
Mark the roadie is pushing his way through the crowd, making a killing selling paper clerical collars.
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MARK: Collars! Yes mate?
FAN: How much that be?
MARK: That be five dollar.
AUDIENCE: Where be Pop! Where be Pop!...
FAN: When be them come on stage?
MARK: Them be there soon! Them be there real soon! Collars!
A chant starts up.
AUDIENCE: Where be Pop! Where be Pop! Where be Pop!
Suddenly the space is plunged into darkness. There is cheering. The stage lights are struck on to the sound of the first raw guitar chord, revealing Paul, Steve, Greg and Greg all with their faces covered with clingwrap, except for eye, nose and mouth holes. They launch into the number, then Buhhy comes staggering spastically onto the stage, wearing the gas mask.
The cheering almost drowns out the music, and the packed crowd immediately sets about copying Buhhy *s every movement. Buhhy wrenches off the gas mask and manages to make the Islamic chant ft the music. He clingwraps a toy cat and throws it out to the audience. He chokes and coughs and wheezes and puts the gas mask hack on.
A life-size, over-inflated blow-up dummy of a woman, dressed as Mom and also wearing a gas mask, comes rolling on a trolley onto the stage. Buhhy grabs her spastically and sings through the gas mask.
BUBBY: [singing as Pop] You be a sexy woman Flo!
The audience sings the line hack.
AUDIENCE: You be a sexy woman Flo!
BUBBY: [singing as Pop] Me see right down your dress!
He looks down the dummy's dress as he sings this.
AUDIENCE: Me see right down your dress!
BUBBY: [singing as Pop] You got great big whoppers Flo! AUDIENCE: You got great big whoppers Flo!
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BUBBY: singing, as Pop Me wanna see ‘em tits!
AUDIENCE: Me wanna see ‘em tits!
Buhby squeezes the dummy ^s breasts. In the audiencey people cheer and turn to each other and squeeze various breasts and chests. Buhby pulls the dress off the dummyy buries his face in the plastic tits. More cheering. He lies down with the dummy astride him and begins to make it screw him.
While this is going on, the opening organ chord of HandePs Xerxes Largo blends through the band^s music. Bubby puts his hand on the dummy*s breast and fondles it. The Largo takes over from the band music as...
SCENE 135 INT. HOUSE OFJUNK-NIGHT
...the dummy's breast is seen not to be the dummy's breasty but Angel's breast with Bubby's hand on it.
Bubby and Angel are making lovey with great tenderness and softness. Angel is beautifuly Bubby is experiencing true love for the first time. Handel's Largo continues to play.
Finally Angel's face reveals she is climaxing. Bubby's eyes are closed
with ecstasy. We travel down from a close-up of Angel's breasty
down the curve of her stomach to reveal...
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SCENE 136 INT. DELIVERY ROOM - DAY
...that Angel is giving birth to a child. Doctors and nurses fuss aroundy while Bubby is standing next to hery already cradling another baby in his arms. It's twins. Behind a glass partition a crowd of Pop-dressed fanSy newspaper photographers and television news units watch the event. As Handel's Largo continueSy Bubbyy tears of joy in his eyeSy looks down to Angel. She smiles lovingly at him.
SCENE 137 EXT. HOUSE OF JUNK-DAY
Handel's Largo continues to its end.
Bubby and Angel are in the front yard of the house of JUNK. The
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yard is an oasis of green surrounded by an industrial wasteland. Buhby is playing with the now four-year-old twinSy who have a hose and are attempting to squirt him. There is much laughter and squealing. As the credits roll the game continues.
End credits and music. Fade to black.
Film End Credits
Written & Directed by ROLF DE FIEER Produced by DOMENICO PROCACCI, GIORGIO DRASKOVIC, ROLF DE HEER Associate Producer DAVID LIGHTFOOT Production Collaborator PAUL AMMITZBOLL
Casting AUDINE LEITH/Film Editor SURESH AYYAR/Director of Photography MARTIN McGRATH/Production Designer MARK ABBOTT/ Costume Design BEVERLEY FREEMAN/Music GRAHAM TARDIFF/Sound JAMES CURRIE
Main cast in order of appearance: Bubby NICHOLAS HOPE/ Mom CLAIRE BENITO/Pop RALPH COTTERILL/Yobbo SYD BRISBANE/Screaming Woman NIKKI PRICE/Robbed Woman ULLI BIRVE/Fondled Salvo AUDINE LEITH/Cherie the Salvo NATALIE CARR/Pizza Waitress LUCIA MASTRANTONE/Angel CARMEL JOHNSON/Treelopper JIP DE HEER /Little JAMES AMMITZBOLL/Salesman GRANT PIRO/Woman in Mercedes CELINE O’LEARY/Cop #1/Warder DAVE FLANAGAN/Paul (band singer) PAUL PHILPOT/Little Greg (keyboards) TODD TELFORD/Big Greg (drummer) PAUL SIMPSON/Middle Greg (bass) STEPHEN SMOOKER/ Steve (guitarist) PETER MONAGHAN/Mark (roadie) MARK BROUGGY/ Young Man JAMES BONIFACIO/Violinist EMMA WEST/Dan BRUCE GILBERT/ Tarita OLLY ALICK/Cop n MICHAEL HABIB/Cop #3 ALAN HOLY/Gayle BETTY SUMNER-LOVETT/Vicki NELLIE EGAN/The Animal MICHAEL CONSTANTINOU/Prison Superintendant ALEC TALBOT/The Scientist NORMAN KAYE/Fondled Woman MICHELLE O’REGAN/Penniless Drunk GORDON POOLE/Number One Fan JAMIE NICOLAI/ Pandy PANDY TSIMBOULIS/Rachael RACHAEL HUDDY/ Maryla MARYLA GALUS/ Janet JANET KANDA/Heather HEATHER SLATTERY/Shannon FILLE DUSSELJEE/ Sharon STEPHANIE COOPER /Angel’s Mother BRIDGET WALTERS/Angel’s Father GRAHAM DUCKETT /Stunt Co-ordinator RICHARD BOUE
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Supporting cast: ANDY McPHEE/TIM MALONEY/GEOFF REVELL/ LINDSAY GROSE/SUSAN FERGUSON/JOSIE SCATTERGOOD/ALAN HUDDLESTON/LAUREL AIRD/PAUL AMMITZBOLL/FRAN O’DONOGHUE/ VINCENZO ANDREACCHIO/ CLEMENTE de SALAMANCA/RYDER GRINDLE/KRIS STEWART/JOE ROSSITER
Production: Production Managers PAUL AMMITZBOLL SHARON JACKSON GINA PLOENGES/Location/Unit Manager CHARLIE KIROFF/Production Co-ordinator GINA POENGES/Production Runner CHRISTOPHER GORIN/ Production Assistant PHIL HA YWARD-SURRY/Production Assistance CLAIRE BENITO/Production Attachment JOYA STEVENS/Production Accountant SHARON JACKSON/First Assistant Directors PAUL AMMITZBOLL DAVID WOLFE-BARRY/Second Assistant Directors FRAN O’DONOGHUE GEOFFREY KNIBBS/Continuity CARMEL TORCASIO/Catering MIEKE VANDENBOS SEAN REID/Unit Nurse GUY DAVIS/Legal Assistance GUILIA BERNARDI/Completion Guarantee provided by FIRST AUSTRALIAN COMPLETION BOND COMPANY PTY LIMITED
