405 Days Later

FADE IN:

EXT. STREETS OF LOS ANGELES - DAY

"Cool Places" a song by the band Sparks begins.

We see a montage of empty streets, dead cars, vacant buildings, etc. Basic L.A. landmarks.

From a freeway overpass we see only a few vehicles and they’re not moving.

The Hollywood sign in need of cleaning.

Scraps of paper being blown along the Santa Monica pier.

A rather old set of corpses slumped at a bus stop.

Wilshire Boulevard, stretching all the way to the vanishing point with no one to be seen.

The empty parking lot of the Ralphs Market on Wilshire and Bundy.

Off in the distance we see a guy walking toward the store. He is wearing a black “Pinky and the Brain” baseball cap, a khaki hunter’s vest with lots of pockets over a black “Eraserhead” t-shirt, black pants, pink high top Converse basketball shoes with black laces, and headphones.

He is alone.

As he gets closer to the store he pulls a backpack off of his back and unzips it, taking out a gas mask. He takes off the headphones, puts on the gas mask, and then replaces the headphones. There are several shopping carts. He wheels one in through the shattered glass of the market’s doors.

CANNED FOOD ASILE

The shelves are almost empty.

He tosses cans of ravioli, tuna, and Spam into the cart.

Tosses in cans of mushrooms, carrots, corn, etc.

PRODUCE DEPT.

He passes fruits and vegetables that have rotted into nothingness months and months ago.

MEAT DEPT.

He passes rotted and decayed meat.

LIQUOR DEPT.

He loads a couple of half gallon bottles of Cap’t Morgan’s Spiced Rum into the cart.

BOTTLED WATER

He loads up the rest of the space in the cart with bottles of water.

EXT. AN ABANDONED CAR - DAY

A length of hose is inserted into the gas tank.

His mouth spits out some gas.

A five gallon gas can is being filled by the other end of the hose.

The rear window of the car is shattered by a crow bar.

He walks away from the car and up the street with the can of gas. Every car behind him still has a rear window. Every car he passes has the rear window shattered.

EXT. A BACKYARD - DAY

The gas can is filling a portable generator.

INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

He empties an envelope of punch flavored Kool-Aid into a jug of water and ads sugar, shaking the jug after replacing the cap.

We travel through the house in a single Steadycam shot.

There are cases of bottled water and canned goods in large stacks.

Cases of beer and malt liquor.

A large freezer that has the word "SMOKES" spray painted on it.

A huge professional stereo system with two turntables and giant speakers.

About three thousand vinyl records arranged in shelves.

The biggest goddamned plasma television everyone has ever seen takes up an entire wall.

He enters this room and moves to a shelf on which hundreds and hundreds of DVD’s are held. He takes one.

Sitting on a large comfy couch he presses "Play"

The Twentieth Century Fox fanfare plays followed by Rod Serling’s voice.

It’s "Phantom of the Paradise"

He smiles.

GUY
I love this movie!

He does a shot of rum, chasing it with the Kool-aid.

He lights up a cigarette as the song "Goodbye Eddie Goodbye" begins in the movie.


FADE TO BLACK