Annette (2021) Movie Script

(low audience chatter)
(audience chattering, laughing)
- (tapping microphone)
- (audience quiets)
NARRATOR:
Ladies and gentlemen,
we now ask for
your complete attention.
If you want to sing,
laugh, clap,
cry, yawn, boo or fart,
please, do it in your head,
only in your head.
(microphone feedback)
You are now kindly requested
to keep silent
and to hold your breath until
the very end of the show.
Breathing will not be tolerated
during the show.
So, please take a deep,
last breath right now.
(audience inhales deeply)
Thank you.
(record player hissing)
Underneath the moonlight.
My good friend Pierrot
(static crackles)
(static crackling)
(lighter clicking)
(electrical buzzing)
(amp humming)
(plays rock riff)
(drums play)
(saxophone and drums warming up)
(chords warbling)
- (guitars strumming)
- (woman vocalizing)
WOMAN:
Ah, ah.
Nastya, its going to start.
(female chorus warming up)
(guitars playing random chords)
So...
may we start?
RUSSELL:
So may we start?
RON:
High time to start
(cymbal roll plays)
One, two, three, four!
(piano plays upbeat rhythm)
(tambourine joins in)
So may we start?
- So may we start?
- So may we start?
Its time to start.
- High time to start.
- High time to start.
They hope that it goes the way.
- Its supposed to go.
- Its supposed to go.
Theres fear in them all
but they cant let it show.
Theyre underprepared
but that may be enough.
The budget is large
but still its not enough.
So may we start?
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
So may we start?
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
Its time to start.
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
High time to start.
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
Weve fashioned a world, a world.
Built just for you.
A tail of songs and fury.
- With no taboo.
- With no taboo.
Well sing and die for you.
- Yes, in minor keys.
- Yes, in minor keys.
And if you want us to kill, too.
- We may agree.
- We may agree.
So may we start?
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
So may we start?
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
Its time to start.
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
High time to start.
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
So close all the doors
and lets begin the show.
The exits are clearly marked.
Thought you should know.
The authors are here
so lets not show disdain.
The authors are here.
And theyre a little vain.
A little vain.
Now...
The music resounds
and all the flames are lit.
So, ladies and gents,
please shut up and sit.
The curtain of our eyelids.
Lazily rise.
But wheres the stage,
you wonder.
Is it.
Outside.
Or is it within?
- Outside? Within?
- Outside? Within?
Outside? Within?
So may we start?
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
So may we start?
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
Its time to start.
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
High time to start.
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
- So may we start?
- (saxophone joins in)
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
So may we start?
May we start, may we,
may we now start?
- Its time to start.
- May we start.
- May we, may we now start?
- (siren whoops)
- High time to start.
- May we start.
- May we, may we now start?
- (siren whoops)
OFFICER (over speaker):
Dont try to start.
- May we now start.
- OFFICER: Dont try to start.
- May we now start.
- May we now start
- (saxophone playing)
- May we now start.
- Bye, Henry.
- Bye, Henry.
- (motorcycle engine starting)
- May we now start.
Bye, Henry.
Good luck!
(car engine starting)
BOY:
Bye-bye. Bye.
- RUSSELL: Bye, Ann.
- RON: Bye, Ann.
Bon voyage.
- RUSSELL: Bon voyage.
- WOMAN: Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- Bye.
(horn honking)
Bye-bye.
(car engine humming)
(gentle,
intriguing music begins)
RUSSELL and CHORUS BOYS:
True love always finds.
Always finds.
- A way.
- A way.
- Afraid.
- But true love often goes.
- Afraid.
- Astray.
Astray
True love always finds.
Always finds.
- A way.
- A way.
But true love often goes.
Often goes.
Astray, astray
(chorus vocalizing)
(Ann vocalizing)
(low, audience chatter)
(grunting rhythmically)
(audience shouting, whistling)
(audience clapping rhythmically)
MAN:
Come on! Come on, Henry!
AUDIENCE (chanting):
Henry! Henry! Henry!
- WOMAN: Henry, I love you!
- Henry! Henry!
(dramatic music plays)
(audience laughing)
Yes, laugh, laugh, laugh.
(man talking low in distance)
(gentle music begins)
(breathes deeply)
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
One, two, three, four, five,
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
- Ladies and gentlemen,
- (upbeat music plays)
are you ready?
- AUDIENCE: Yeah!
- No.
No one is ever ready for
a mildly offensive evening
with...
The Ape of God.
(whistling, cheering)
Here for his triumphant
new show,
the world infamous
Henry McHenry!
(audience cheering loudly)
(audience continues cheering
loudly)
(applause, cheering, whistling)
- (Henry coughing)
- (cheering)
(whistling)
WOMAN:
Love you, Henry!
(Henry coughing)
(audience quiets)
(audience laughter)
(coughing)
- (coughing continues)
- (scattered laughter)
- (hawking loudly)
- (audience groans)
Oh, this smoke shit.
(scattered laughter)
(slurping liquid through teeth)
(laughter)
What is this fucking smoke
supposed to mean anyway?
I think Im getting
allergic to it.
Wish theyd use
laughing gas instead.
(scattered laughter)
Would make my life easier.
Or even better,
cyanide gas.
(laughter)
So... Im here to make
you laugh tonight.
(audience whooping, applauds)
Yes, laugh, laugh, laugh.
(scattered laughter)
Im not sure
I can do it tonight.
(audience aahing)
Not sure I should even try.
(audience groaning)
Making people laugh
is a disgusting...
(laughter)
...deceitful trick anyway.
Yes. Why should I activate.
Your ventromedial
prefrontal cortex.
So your 15 facial muscles
will contract.
So your fucking
zygomatic muscle will react.
While your epiglottis
half-closes your larynx.
Clap
(applause, cheering loudly)
Yes, why the fuck should I?
Why should I make you...
HENRY and CHORUS GIRLS:
Laugh, laugh, laugh.
But dont make me,
dont make me, dont make me.
Cant stand to hear you.
Laugh, laugh, laugh
Cause you bore me,
you bore me, you bore me.
Ill still make you.
Gasp, gasp, gasp.
But dont worry, dont worry,
dont worry.
You probably will not.
Choke, choke, choke.
Kick the bucket, kick
the bucket, kick the bucket.
- Kick the bucket.
- (raspy choking)
(cheering and whistling)
(audience quiets)
(exhales)
Huh.
(scattered chuckles)
Well, of course,
Ive heard the rumors, too.
They say my show kills.
(laughter)
But relax, see my contract?
Save your breath.
Says so here:
(nasally): "Mr. Henry McHenry
is not allowed
to make the public
laugh to death."
- (raspy choking)
- (laughter)
Cant make your alveoli
pop tonight.
No dislocated jaws,
no belly explosions.
- However, asthmatics,
- (upbeat music plays)
keep your inhalers in position!
- Okay?
- AUDIENCE: Okay!
- Ready?
- AUDIENCE: Ready!
Laugh.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha,
ha-ha, ha-ha.
Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha,
ha-ha-ha-ha.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha,
ha-ha, ha-ha.
Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha,
ha-ha-ha-ha.
Okay, shut up.
(orchestra plays dramatic music)
(music transitions
to gentle melody)
- (laughter)
- Yes.
Why did I become a comedian?
(echoing):
Why did I become a comedian?
To entertain some balding men?
To bring a touch of levity
to tragic times?
- Not me.
- (laughter)
To bring some joy
to those who have none?
To cast a skeptical eye
toward common knowledge?
- Uh-uh. - (echoing): Why did I
become a comedian?
To make you notice what youve
always surely noticed,
never noticing you noticed
until I ask you:
- "Have you ever noticed?"
- Why did I become a comedian?
- Sure, but not only that.
- Why did I become a comedian?
To convey with a smile
these deep-seated feelings
of hatred and humiliation
we all seem to be sharing?
- When...
- (upbeat music plays)
All the Catholics
hate the Muslims.
And the Muslims
hate the Catholics.
And the Tutsis hate the Hutus.
And... everybody
hates the Jews
(laughter and applause)
- MAN: So, why, Henry?
- WOMAN: Yes, why, Henry?
Why?
AUDIENCE: Yes, why did you
become a comedian?
- For the money?
- For the money?
Oh, no, no.
No, Ive come from poverty
and severity
and now have reached big money
and obscenity.
So why did you become
a comedian?
- For the fame?
- For the fame?
- Oh, no, no.
- (audience gasps)
Though fame is like a flame,
glorious,
superfluous.
So nice being famous
for being infamous.
Okay, but why did you become
a comedian?
- Fear of death?
- Fear of death?
Oh, no, no.
Cause you see, I have sympathy
for the abyss.
(murmuring): What did he say?
What is "abyss"?
A-B-Y-S-S!
You illiterates.
(scattered chuckling)
Thats why I must never...
never cast my eyes
towards the abyss.
Lady, thats quite an abyss
youve got.
- (high-pitch tittering)
- (audience laughing)
So why, why did you become
a comedian?
For the women?
Oh, no, well...
Okay, let me explain.
(piano plays gentle melody)
You see...
my serial pussy days are over.
(scattered chuckling)
Because, well...
Ive, Ive just met someone.
(audience whoops)
Someone so...
It all went so fast.
I just moved into her tiny
hidden palace,
cause, yes, shes a queen.
And now,
Im engaged.
(audience whooping, applauds)
I know, I know.
Marrying a girl when youre
as young and green as me,
its like...
swimming the Atlantic
with a concrete block
tied to your left testicle.
(laughter)
Well, yes, now, Im engaged.
Copped out in my early age.
So who, you ask, would marry me?
Who would be the least likely?
No, this aint a joke so far:
- Yes, Ann Defrasnoux,
- WOMAN: Oh, no!
- the opera star.
- (laughter)
What?
Whats wrong, lady?
Ann and me, you disagree?
What is it, blasphemy?
Why, is she too...
perfect?
AUDIENCE:
Yes, yes, yes.
And I, some loathsome insect?
Yes, yes, yes.
Okay, Ill accept that.
(scattered laughter)
(laughter fades)
(gentle melody plays)
HENRY (voice-over):
First time I fell in love...
...woke up next to the girl...
...rushed out to buy myself
the biggest motorbike
I could find
and escaped
fast and far.
(singing aria)
HENRY: But Ann the soprano
has changed me.
(singing aria)
I have changed.
How?
Im still not sure.
Time will tell.
What I see in her
is obvious.
What she sees in me,
hmm...
its a little more puzzling.
HENRY: Wish that she could
be here now.
But shes at the opera tonight.
Opera, where everything
is sacred.
Amen!
First she dies and dies and dies.
And then she bows
and bows and bows.
Shell be bowing now till dawn
Ann, dear, I love you so.
But all that bowings got to go.
Take a last bow, enough.
Make it seem more off the cuff
(scattered laughter, applause)
WOMAN:
But, Henry, you didnt answer:
why?
AUDIENCE: Yes, why did you
become a comedian?
So, why did you become
a comedian?
Yes, why did you
become a comedian?
Hey, Henry?!
Why?
Ill tell you why.
To disarm people.
(quietly):
Make them laugh.
Its the only way I know
to tell the truth
without getting killed.
Anyway, every fuckin...
- (automatic gunfire)
- (audience screaming)
- (gunfire, screaming continue)
- (man laughing loudly)
(gunfire stops)
- (man continues laughing)
- (scattered screams)
(audience exclaims)
- MAN: Oh, shit.
- (audience murmuring)
WOMAN:
Henry, you bastard!
- (murmuring continues)
- (man chuckles)
HENRY:
Ooh.
MAN:
Fuck you, Henry!
See, I, too, can die.
(scattered chuckles)
And then...
bow.
(cheering loudly)
Okay, well,
thats it for tonight.
AUDIENCE:
Oh, no, no, no!
Oh, yes, yes, cause Im sick
and tired of making you...
Laugh, laugh, laugh.
But dont leave me, dont
leave me, dont leave me.
Cant bear to hear you.
Laugh, laugh, laugh
Cause you bore me,
you bore me, you bore me.
But I need to hear you.
Clap, clap, clap.
Yes, Im cocky,
Im cocky, Im cocky.
Want each one of you to.
Clap, clap, clap.
Like a loony, like a loony,
like a loony, like a loony.
We promised that youd laugh.
We promised that youd laugh.
We promised that youd laugh,
laugh, laugh, laugh.
Laugh, laugh, laugh
Cause hes Henry,
hes Henry, The Henry.
He didnt make you
choke, choke, choke.
Or kick the bucket, kick the
bucket, kick the bucket
- (audience cheering loudly)
- He needs to hear you.
Clap, clap, clap
(cheering, whistling)
Cause hes Henry,
hes Henry, The Henry.
Wants each of you
to clap, clap, clap.
So lets hear it, lets hear it.
Lets hear it, lets hear it!
(song ends)
(applause and cheering)
(audience cheering,
shouting "Bravo!")
WOMAN:
Ann, we love you!
(people clamoring nearby)
(clamoring continues)
- Ann, please, look this way.
- Ann, please.
Give us a smile!
Over this way! Over this way!
- Ann, youre looking great!
- Thank you!
(clamoring continues)
(clamoring quiets)
(camera shutters clicking)
(crowd exclaims)
How did the show go?
I killed them...
destroyed them...
murdered them.
Good boy.
And your gig?
I...
I saved them.
(laughs softly)
Well, you die so magnificently.
Honey, youre always dying.
MAN:
Ann, Henry, how about a smile?
- Over here!
- How bout a smile, Ann?
- Give us a smile, Ann!
- How bout a smile, please!
Give us a smile, please!
Henry, please.
In the frame, in the frame.
- Henry.
- (shutters click rhythmically)
Helmet off, Henry.
In the frame, Henry.
Helmet off, Henry.
- How bout a smile, please.
- How bout a smile, please.
- Give us a smile, please.
- Give us a smile, please
Henry. your helmet.
- How bout a smile, please.
- Take off your helmet!
Give us a smile, please.
(birds chirping)
(lighter clicking)
(birds continue chirping)
(dramatic intro plays)
We love each other so much.
We love each other so much.
Were scoffing at logic.
This wasnt the plan.
We love each other so much.
We love each other so much.
We love each other so much.
Counterintuitive, baby.
And yet we remain.
We love each other so much.
Counterintuitive, baby.
And yet we remain.
We love each other so much
(driving rock beat plays)
We love each other so much.
We love each other so much.
So hard to explain it.
So hard to explain.
We love each other so much.
(song ends)
(turns off engine)
(coyotes barking in distance)
(distant thunder rumbling)
(gentle melody plays)
(frogs croaking)
We love each other so much.
BOTH:
We love each other.
So much.
(Ann gasps)
Speak soft when you say it.
Speak soft when you say.
We love each other so much.
Speak soft when you say it.
Speak soft when you say.
We love each other so much.
- So much, so much.
- So much, so much.
- So much.
- So much.
- So much, so much.
- So much, so much.
- So much, so much, so much.
- So much, so much, so much.
(song ends)
(crickets chirping)
Tickling time.
ANN:
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
(laughs)
Henry.
(breathlessly):
No, no, no.
Henry, please, not my feet.
Not my feet! Ah!
(laughing)
(continues laughing)
Stop it!
(laughing)
(continues laughing)
(laughing)
- (Ann grunts)
- (Henry growls)
(Ann gasping)
(both grunting)
(chuckling softly)
(Ann laughs)
(musical chiming)
- CHORUS: Tied the knot.
- Connie OConnor here.
- Tied the knot...
- for "Show Bizz News,"
bringing you the latest
on Ann and Henrys
whirlwind romance.
The two stars, both at the
pinnacle of their careers,
have officially tied the knot.
Tied the knot.
(instruments warming up)
(piano plays melody)
(instrument warm up continues)
Im an accompanist,
Im an accompanist.
Im an accompanist for Ann,
for Ann.
Anns the one with the genius,
the grace.
Im the one with
the technical expertise.
Ah, the tease, ah, the tease
of being so near, so far
from the star...
from the stars.
But someday
Ill join them cause.
Im a conductor,
Im a conductor,
Im a conductor,
conductor at heart.
Its a temp job Im doing.
This should only be seen
as a means to an end.
In the end, in the end.
- Ill lead orchestras,
- (audience applauds)
near and far.
Every bar, every bar
will bear my own signature,
but Im an accompanist
for the present
for Ann.
Thats what I do.
Im an accompanist.
For the present.
For Ann.
But now,
lets listen to her sing.
(gentle orchestral music plays)
(rhythmic whooshing)
(dramatic music plays,
cymbals crash)
(orchestra quiets)
(gentle melody playing)
ANN:
Theres a chill in the air.
On this night.
Where is the moon.
Where is the starlight?
Bearings lost, were adrift.
On this night.
Where is the moon.
Where is the starlight.
Tonight?
Afraid, dont know why.
Where is the moonlight?
Afraid, dont know why.
Where is the starlight?
Afraid, fraid of you.
- Something about the look.
- (rumbling)
In your eyes.
Hurry, dawn
I need help, I need light.
Cut short the night
I am in danger.
Though I thought that I knew him.
Im wrong
I dont know him.
He is a stranger.
Tonight.
Afraid, dont know why.
Where is the moonlight?
Afraid, dont know why.
Where is the starlight?
Afraid, fraid of you.
Something about the look.
In your eyes
(motorcycle engine revving)
- Hi.
- Hi.
ANN:
I am love.
A fickle thing, a finite thing
I am love.
Do not approach me.
(Ann screams)
I was love.
A gruesome thing,
a gruesome thing
I was love.
And now Im dying.
Dying, dying, dying, dying.
Dy... ing
(song ends)
(applause)
(applause continues)
(applause continues)
(applause continues)
(audience cheering,
shouting "Bravo!")
(applause, cheering continues)
(applause, cheering fades)
(musical chiming)
CHORUS:
Newborn girl.
CONNIE:
And, in "Show Bizz News,"
anonymous sources report
that the singing and laughter
around the Defrasnoux-McHenry
household
will soon be drowned out
by the cries
- of a newborn girl.
- (camera shutter clicking)
CHORUS:
Newborn girl.
(muffled heartbeat)
(muffled heartbeat)
(snip)
(muffled heartbeat)
(audience laughter)
(laughter continues)
- (laughter stops)
- (muffled heartbeat)
(gasping)
(moaning)
(shuddered breaths)
Shit.
(grunting)
NURSES: Breathe in,
breathe out, breathe in.
Breathe in,
breathe out, breathe in.
Breathe in, breathe out,
breathe in.
Breathe in,
breathe out, breathe in.
Breathe in, breathe out,
breathe in.
Breathe in,
breathe out, breathe in.
Breathe in, breathe out,
breathe in.
Breathe in,
breathe out, breathe in.
Push, Ann, push, Ann.
Thats it.
Push, Ann, push, Ann.
Thats it.
Push, Ann, push, Ann.
Thats it.
- Thats it.
- Thats it.
Doctor, am I doing everything...
right?
(laughing)
NURSE:
Yes, Ann, yes.
Keep on laughing, thats great.
DOCTOR:
Shes coming.
(exhales heavily)
- Shes coming!
- Breathe in, breathe out.
- Push, push, push, push,
push, Ann - Breathe in.
- Breathe in, breathe out,
breathe in - Thats it.
- Breathe in, breathe out.
- Push, push, push, push.
- Breathe in.
- Push, Ann.
- Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in.
- Thats it.
- Breathe in, breathe out.
- Push, push, push, push.
- Breathe in.
- Push, Ann.
- Breathe in, breathe out,
breathe in. - Thats it.
- Thats it. - Breathe in,
breathe out, breathe in.
- Thats it. - Breathe in,
breathe out, breathe in.
Shes almost there.
Shit, Ann.
She seems completely naked.
- (laughing)
- NURSE: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Laugh. Laugh, Ann, laugh.
DOCTOR:
Great, Ann. Keep on laughing.
- Laugh, laugh, laugh.
- Yes, Ann.
(laughing)
DOCTOR and NURSES:
There she is.
(Ann gasping)
(monitor beeping rhythmically)
(baby cries)
(snip)
(baby crying)
Shes out of this world.
Out of this world.
Welcome to the world, Annette.
Shes out of this world.
Out of this world.
Welcome to the world, Annette.
- Shes out of this world.
- Out of this world.
Welcome to the world, Annette.
- Shes out of this world.
- Out of this world.
Welcome to the world, Annette.
(birds chirping)
(baby chatters nearby)
(Annette grunting)
-
- (birds chirping)
HENRY (voice-over):
This is a baby.
This is my baby.
(crickets chirping)
HENRY (voice-over):
Tonight,
while shes singing and dying,
Im baby... sitting.
(echoing):
Sitting, sitting, sitting.
- (glass shatters)
- (audience laughter)
(laughter continues)
ANN:
Dy... ing.
(laughter continues)
- (laughter stops)
- (gentle music plays)
CHORUS:
Somethings about to break.
But it isnt clear.
Is it something we should cheer?
Is it something we should fear?
Somethings about to break.
But it isnt clear.
Is it something we should cheer?
Is it something we should fear?
(Annette coos)
Somethings about to break.
But it isnt clear.
Is it something we should cheer?
Is it something we should fear?
(music fades)
NEWSMAN (on TV): Crews faced
a major battle yesterday
in Simi Valley,
northwest of Los Angeles,
where flames came
dangerously close
to the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library
and to nearby neighborhoods...
ANN: Oscar,
I feel like sleeping now.
Please wake me up
before we get there.
OSCAR:
Sure.
NEWSMAN:
Judy, what do you see there?
NEWSWOMAN:
Well, good morning.
This fire is raging right now.
You can see the vortex
of flames,
smoke and wind blowing
in our direction.
Imagine what its like
for firefighters
to approach flames like that.
NEWSMAN:
Despite an all-out assault,
the flames still managed
to jump the freeway,
forcing nearby neighborhoods
to be evacuated.
The fire quickly consumed
this barn,
where volunteers helped
rescue animals...
-
- (newsman continues indistinctly)
(newsman continues indistinctly)
CHORUS:
Six women have come forward.
Each with a similar story.
Subjected
to Henry McHenrys abuses.
Witnesses to his violence.
REPORTERS: Why now?
Why now?
Each of us has come forward.
All with a similar story.
Subjected to his abuses.
Witnesses to his violence.
And his anger, his anger.
Six women have come forward.
Each of us have come forward.
- Each with a similar story.
- All with a similar story.
Subjected to his abuses.
Witnesses to his violence.
And his anger, his anger.
JOURNALISTS:
- But why? -Why only now?
- Why only now?
- Why come forward now?
- Yes, but why only now?
- Yes, why?
Why only now?
I, I fear for Ann.
She must be warned
McHenry is not.
Not what he seems.
- So charming that I.
- Why?
- A woman with sense.
- Why come forward now?
I quickly became.
A moth to a flame (sobs)
A moth to a flame.
- Six women have come forward.
- Each of us have come forward.
- Each with a similar story.
- All with a similar story.
Subjected to his abuses.
Witnesses to his violence.
- And his anger, his anger.
- (horn honking)
His anger.
- His anger.
- (horn honking)
His anger!
- (gasps)
- NEWSMAN: The cause of this fire
has not yet been determined,
but Southern California Edison
utility
did say that it started near
one of their power lines
and they had not returned power
at the time the fire started.
(newsman speaks indistinctly)
NEWSWOMAN: All right.
Thank you very much...
(crickets chirping)
(tenor singing)
(tenor and Ann singing)
(dramatic music plays,
cymbals crash)
(Ann singing)
(tenor singing)
- (dramatic music plays)
- (Ann singing)
(chorus singing
"Toreador Song" from "Carmen"
(Ann repeating note over sparse,
minor-key harmony)
(Ann singing dramatic aria)
- (coughs, gasps)
- (orchestral crescendo playing)
(coughing)
(music swells)
(music fades)
(motorcycle engine humming)
- (upbeat music plays)
- (audience whistling)
ANNOUNCER:
And now,
here in Vegas,
for the very first time...
The Ape of God,
Mr. Henry McHenry!
(audience cheering, whistling)
(coughing)
(coughing)
- (whooping)
- Henry!
Whoo! Yeah!
- MAN: Henry!
- (audience cheering)
HENRY:
Fucking idiotic smoke.
(scattered laughter)
(banging on door)
Have you no sense
of proportions?!
(scattered laughter)
(audience quiets)
Having to be funny here,
its like...
...trying to enjoy a blow job
in a gas chamber.
(laughter)
MAN:
Ah, man.
MAN:
That was not funny, Henry.
(audience quiets)
Youre right, not funny.
(sighs)
Im so...
...too fucking tired.
- (metallic squeak)
- (scattered chuckling)
I knew it. I shouldve cancelled
the show tonight.
AUDIENCE:
No, no, no!
Yes, yes, yes.
(laughter)
You see, my house was...
...broken into last night,
and, mm, bastards
stole all my jokes.
(laughter)
No, the truth is...
...now that I have
my own soprano
- (applause)
- and baby...
...Im not sure I have it
in me anymore
to make sad people laugh.
(audience exclaims)
No, the truth is, this morning,
something happened.
I-I... No, no, I cant say.
No, the truth is Im sick.
Being in love makes me sick.
Sick!
Well, the true truth is...
this morning...
I, um...
I killed... (low): my wife.
- What? What was that?
- (audience murmuring)
- WOMAN: Louder!
- MAN: Louder, Henry!
- Cant hear you back here.
- Your mic, Henry!
I killed my wife.
(audience exclaims)
Yes, laugh, laugh, laugh.
Laugh, laugh, laugh.
So, Ive said it:
I killed my wife.
(audience murmuring nervously)
I didnt mean to.
God knows I didnt mean to.
She woke up,
so beautiful.
-
- She looked at me and smiled.
That smile.
She is... was...
a very shy person, you see,
and I know,
I knew this shy smile
meant she wanted to fuck.
But this time,
I pretended not to get it.
And I kept on pretending
and so she said it,
ever so shyly:
"Please, Henry.
Fuck me, Henry."
And I could see the effort
in her smile,
for her to ask that,
to say those dirty words,
to be wicked and bold,
so out of character.
With that very shy smile
I loved so much.
But I couldnt answer,
I couldnt meet her desire.
Cause, yes,
being in love makes me sick.
Sick!
I had been sleepless
all night, you see,
suffocating, suffocated by love.
A wreck.
Absolutely no desire left.
WOMAN:
Come on, Henry, drop it, please!
- WOMAN: Yeah.
- (audience murmuring)
What? Am I letting you know more
than you care to know about me?
Mm-hmm.
About her?
Sex?
Death?
Yes, no desire left.
Zero.
So I was looking for something,
anything to change the subject,
to spare us both this horrible,
dreadful moment of rejection.
Thats when the idea came to me.
I remembered how extremely
ticklish she is... was...
especially on the soles
of her feet.
So I thought: Ill tickle her,
to change the subject.
So I grabbed her legs,
locked both of her feet
under my arms
and started to tickle them.
I could see in her eyes
she understood it all.
(grunting)
Why I was doing what I was doing
to change the subject.
(grunting)
And it seemed impossible
she would laugh this time.
She was hurt.
(grunting)
And ashamed. (grunting)
And sad and confused.
(grunting)
But I persisted,
I tickled gently...
(grunting)
"Stop it, Henry."
It wasnt working.
So I tickled stronger.
(giggling)
I tickled madly.
(laughing)
I tickled wild.
(grunting)
(laughing hysterically)
(screams)
Ann?
Ann.
Ann? Ann!
(breaths loudly into microphone)
No, no, no, Ann!
(panting rhythmically)
Ann!
Ann!
(sobs)
No!
(sobbing)
No, Ann!
No!
I had tickled her to death.
- (audience murmuring)
- (scattered applause)
(sobbing)
(audience quiets)
I then tried to kill myself.
The same way, tickling myself.
(scattered chuckles)
(gasping sobs)
(cries)
You know, but it didnt work.
(audience murmuring)
This is how I killed my wife.
WOMAN:
Enough. Im out.
MAN:
Youre sick!
(audience chattering, grumbling)
MAN:
Thats fucked up.
AUDIENCE:
That was sick!
Youre sick!
Poor Ann!
Poor Annette!
(shouting, whistling)
HENRY:
I sense some animosity.
Am I right, or is it me?
You mustve bitten something
bitter in your cradle!
Bitten, bitter, cradle!
So why did I become a comedian?
Youre not! Youre not!
Not anymore!
So why did I become a comedian?
Asshole! Asshole!
Sick, sick, sick!
- MAN: Asshole!
- Okay.
- Go home!
- Ready?
Laugh!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha,
ha-ha, ha-ha.
Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha,
ha-ha-ha-ha.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha,
ha-ha, ha-ha.
We promised that youd laugh.
We promised that youd laugh.
We promised that youd
laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh.
- Laugh, laugh, laugh.
- (audience booing)
Cause hes Henry, hes Henry...
Okay, everybody, thank you
very much, but enough already.
Have a good night!
Kick the bucket, kick the
bucket, kick the bucket.
He needs to hear you
clap, clap, clap
- (loud thud)
- (audience exclaims)
Cause hes Henry, hes Henry,
The Henry
(singing continues indistinctly)
(upbeat rhythm plays)
You used to laugh.
But now you sure aint laughing
at me no more.
You used to laugh
(rhythmic clapping)
But now you sure aint laughing
at me no more.
Whats your problem?
Whats your fucking problem?
Whats your problem?
Your fucking problem?
- Do you think I care?
- Henry, Henry, weve had enough.
Do you think I care
what you all think of me now?
- Do you think I care?
- Henry, Henry, weve had enough.
Do you think I care
what you wimps think of me now?
- Whats your problem?
- (buzzing)
Whats your fucking problem?
- Whats your problem?
- Henry, Henry, weve had enough.
- Your fucking problem?
- Henry, Henry, weve had enough.
My dear public.
Get off, get off,
get off the stage.
My dear public,
you fucking headless beast.
Youre makin me sick.
Get off, get off,
get off the stage.
- You ruthless.
- Get off, get off.
- Unpredictable beast.
- Get off the stage.
- Its your problem.
- Get off, get off.
- Fuck, its not my problem.
- Get off the stage.
Get off, get off,
get off the stage.
- Its your problem.
- Get off, get off.
- Get off the stage.
- Your fucking problem.
Get off, get off,
get off the stage.
Get off,
get off, get off the stage.
Get off, get off,
get off the stage.
Get off,
get off, get off the stage.
- Well, you better laugh.
- Get off, get off.
Get off the stage.
Or Ill get the hell
right off of this stage.
- If you dont laugh.
- Get off, get off.
Get off the stage.
- You gonna feel, feel, feel.
- Get off, get off.
- The fire of my rage.
- Get off the stage.
We used to laugh.
HENRY: Fuck off, fuck off,
fuck out of here.
- Fuck off, fuck off.
- Until we wised up.
- Fuck out of here.
- Man, youre sick as they come.
- Fuck off, fuck off.
- We used to laugh.
Fuck out of here.
- Fuck off, fuck off.
- But now we see you as you are.
- Fuck out of here.
- You are scum.
- You got a problem.
- Whats your problem?
- A big old problem.
- Whats your fucking problem?
- You got a problem.
- Youve got a problem.
A big old problem.
- A big old pro...
- (audience booing)
...blem!
(booing continues)
Ha, ha!
Ha, ha! Ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha!
Goddamn it! Fucking damn it!
Fuck!
God, fuck, damn it, fuck!
(birds chirping)
Henry, Im worried about you.
Im worried.
There was a girl.
From the middle of nowhere.
Utterly plain.
A little plump.
She sang alone.
In her bedroom.
Wild acclaim.
From those four walls.
But she didnt want to be there.
She didnt want to be there.
She didnt want to be there.
At all.
She had the voice.
Of a goddess.
Strings, winds and horns.
Inside her chest.
Hour after hour.
She would struggle.
Till her voice became.
Her royal realm.
She wanted just to be there.
Only wanted to live there.
Really wanted to live there.
Forever more.
She headed west.
The wild direction.
No longer plain.
No longer plump.
The men were on her doorstep.
Many men were on her doorstep.
Her voice had brought her beauty.
And set her free.
But she never listened
to those men.
- Who came and whispered:
- (toilet flushing)
"Youre a flame to me,
a flame to me.
A flame to me, a flame to me".
She was a queen,
didnt need a king.
Whod put her brand-new palace.
In jeopardy, in jeopardy,
in jeopardy.
A queen should never
be a moth to a flame
I have a wonderful gift,
and a beautiful child.
People adore me,
and I adore this man, but...
Somethings wrong.
(Annette grunts)
Annette.
(grunting)
Thats it, Annette.
Just keep right on walking.
One foot then the other.
(Annette grunts)
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la.
- La-la, la.
- (Annette giggling)
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
- La, la-la-la,
la-la, la-la, la - (giggling)
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la
- (giggling) -La, la-la-la,
la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la.
La, la-la-la, la-la, la-la, la
- (giggling)
- La, la-la-la...
Whoo!
(crickets chirping)
(kisses)
(Ann chuckles softly)
(kissing)
(coyotes barking in distance)
(kissing, chuckling)
(distant barking continues)
(dramatic music plays)
HENRY:
What goes up.
Must come down.
- My stars in decline.
- (clattering)
Hah!
Once profound.
For a clown.
My stars in decline.
- (Henry breathing heavily)
- (song ends)
(musical chiming)
Connie OConnor here
for "Show Bizz News"
with exclusive news that Ann,
Henry and Baby Annette
will be travelling
on their yacht next week.
Could it be in the hope of
saving the couples marriage?
And could the problems be due
in large part
to the growing discrepancy
between their
respective success?
CHORUS: Respective success,
respective success.
- CONNIE: We wish them the best.
- We wish them the best.
(wind howling)
(thunder crashing)
CHORUS: A storm is rolling in,
a storm is rolling in.
A storm is rolling in,
a storm is rolling in.
A storm is rolling in, a storm
is rolling in.
A storm is rolling in,
a storm is rolling in.
A storm is rolling in.
- A storm is rolling in.
- (toy rattling)
A storm is rolling in
(gentle melody plays)
I will calm the sea.
Baby, dont fear
I will stop the storm.
Sleep, baby, sleep.
The world revolves round you.
My little innocent.
Sleep a perfect sleep.
Im always here.
Dream a perfect dream.
- And never fear.
- (thunder crashing)
Thunder, rain nor lightning.
My little innocent.
All of the danger that I feel
I will dispel it with some magic.
Alakazam, Ill change the reel.
Look at the happy family dancing.
Well look back and laugh.
That crazy night.
As we walk a path.
Neath city lights.
The lights will shine on you.
My little innocent.
- Henry!
- (wood creaking)
Henry!
Henry, where are you?
(thunder crashing)
(wind howling)
Henry?
Henry?
- (gasps)
- Ann.
(dramatic intro plays)
Are you drunk, Henry?
Whoa.
Im not that drunk.
- Lets waltz.
- (thunder crashing)
But Ill kill my voice out here.
Henry, a storm is rolling in.
Im well aware of that, my dear.
Lets waltz in the storm!
CHORUS: A storm is rolling in,
a storm is rolling in.
A storm is rolling in, a storm
is rolling in
Henry, youre drunk.
- Henry, youre drunk.
- A storm is rolling in.
- Im not that drunk.
- A storm is rolling in.
- Im not that drunk.
- (thunder crashing)
Hey, wheres Annette?
Where did she go?
Annettes asleep,
shes safe below
Henry, youre not the man I know.
Im not that drunk.
Im not that drunk,
Im not that drunk.
- Im not that drunk.
- Henry,
youre not the man I know.
Well catch our death
in this rain.
Henry, stop fooling around.
We could slip, we could drown.
Whoa!
- Henry, dont fool around.
- (laughing)
Theres a storm, settle down.
Careful, hey! What if we fell?
- No one could survive
these swells - (scoffs)
Youre quite drunk,
lets calm down.
When were safe,
you can be a clown.
What has gotten into you?
- What has gotten into you?
- (thunder crashing)
With this storm and this sea
I feel scared, look at me.
Comfort me, hold me tight.
Oh, what a terrible,
terrible night
(thunder crashing)
(Ann coughing)
My voice, Henry.
Is nothing sacred to you?
Oh, God knows
everything is to you.
Always trumpeting values.
The sacred values.
- And then dying, dying.
- (thunder crashing)
Dying!
And then bowing, bowing, bowing.
(Ann gasping)
-
- (thunder crashing)
(whimpers softly)
ANN:
Henry, stop it, stop it now!
Were gonna fall, gonna die!
What has gotten into you?
Think of Annette!
(yells)
Henry, help me! Pull me out!
Where are you? Help!
(fading):
Henry, Im almost out of air!
Theres so little I can do.
Theres so little I can do.
Theres so little I can do.
Theres so little I can do
Theres so little I can do
(thunder crashing)
Theres so little I can do.
(somber music plays)
(music fades)
(water splashing)
(Henry breathing heavily)
(kisses)
HENRY (quietly):
We gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
(waves lapping on shore)
We washed ashore
Annette.
On some island.
Somewhere.
Your mothers gone, Annette.
Ill take care of you
(kissing)
Help is on the way
Annette.
Someones heard.
Our calls.
In the meantime.
Stars line up.
They line up for you.
(Henry panting)
(grunting, panting)
(waves lapping on shore)
(Annette vocalizing)
(panting)
(Annette continues vocalizing)
(continues vocalizing)
(chuckling)
- (gasping breaths)
- (continues vocalizing)
Somehow Im imagining
Annette is singing.
Just as the light of the moon
lit her beautiful face.
How foolish.
(continues vocalizing)
How very foolish I can be.
(audience laughter)
Now, I can hear the...
stars laughing at me.
In the morning Ill be...
free of all these
hallucinations.
(vocalizing stops)
(waves lapping on shore)
(ominous music plays)
I will haunt you, Henry.
For the rest of your life.
Through Annette, Ill haunt you.
Her voice will be my ghost
I am no longer love
I am now revenge
(waves lapping on shore)
(grunts quietly)
I will haunt you, Henry.
Ill die day after day after day
I will haunt you, Henry.
Night after night after night.
(waves lapping)
We are the police
and we have got.
- Some routine questions.
- (phone ringing)
Youre not suspected, but
we have to ask some questions.
It wont take long, how bout
some coffee with your questions?
It wont take long, we dont
have very many questions.
Not many questions.
Can you describe the night
and how your wife went missing?
There was a storm and I looked
up and she was missing.
And did you try at all
to dive in and to save her?
The sea was rough, and with
Annette, how could I save her?
The storm was very strong,
there was no way to save her.
And anyway, I had Annette,
I had to save her.
I had Annette.
We heard the rumors
that youre somewhat of a raver.
Were there some problems
between you that made you waver?
That is an insult, I loved Ann,
was always faithful.
How bout that comic piece in
which you said you killed her?
Was that a prank or
something more, an aspiration?
Everybody knows my acts
are full of provocation.
Well, that bout wraps it up,
we sure are grateful, Henry.
It now seems clear to us
there is no guilty party.
It was an act of God,
that is our firm conclusion.
It was an act of God.
- And pardon the intrusion.
- (song ends)
(indistinct
police radio chatter)
- (sirens wailing in distance)
- (people murmuring)
WOMAN:
Yeah, thats him.
Sure, Ive sinned
in all your eyes.
But one thing you cannot deny is.
Im a good father,
Im a good father.
Im a good father, am I?
My Annette will ask someday.
- "Where is my mother?"
- GIRL: Mommy! Daddy!
I will say that.
Im a good father.
Im a good father,
Im a good father.
But shes gone.
Im a good father.
Mother and father.
- Im a good father, am I?
- (song ends)
(Consuelo speaking Spanish
faintly)
Hi, Consuelo.
Hows my Baby Annette?
Much better. No more fever.
Oh, thank you so much.
Youre welcome, Mr. McHenry.
Uh... see you tomorrow?
Yes. Have a good evening.
You, too.
CONSUELO:
Bye-bye, my love.
(Henry gasps)
Look at what I got for you.
(Annette grunting softly)
- What is it?
- (opening package)
What is it, Annette?
(gasps)
What is that?
Look at that.
Are you excited?
(lamp playing gentle music)
Annette,
isnt it magical that...
(Annette vocalizing to music)
(music and vocalizing stop)
(gentle music resumes)
(Annette vocalizing to music)
Unbelievable.
Amazing.
Its really happening.
She sings.
Shes a miracle.
When the light shines on her.
Astounding.
Unbelievable.
Amazing
(continues vocalizing)
Its really happening.
Its really happening.
- To me.
- (song ends)
(crickets chirping)
(thunder rumbling softly
in distance)
(orchestra playing classical
music, chorus singing along)
Its a fast-changing world.
And I am now the conductor
of the citys finest orchestra.
No longer
the self-deprecating accompanist
from such a short while ago.
Ann would be proud of me.
I do have my suspicions, though,
about why she isnt alive.
And doubts, too,
about something else, but...
Excuse me a minute.
(music swells)
(music continues quieter)
Henry has invited me
to his place tomorrow...
...to discuss a matter that he
says concerns Annette and Ann.
As awkward as it is
for me to attend,
anything that concerns Ann
and the future of Annette
is something that concerns me.
Excuse me one more time.
(music swells)
(music continues quieter)
My love for Ann has never died.
Neither has my regret
that our affair
was only an affair.
I had been hoping for so long.
Then at a time when she was in
despair, we started an affair.
But the very next week,
she met Henry.
That was the end of it,
the end of me.
Ill always regret that.
I deeply miss her...
her warmth, her voice.
I miss Ann. Excuse me.
(music swells dramatically)
(music ends)
(crickets chirping)
THE CONDUCTOR:
Thank you.
Hey, Henry.
Thanks for coming by.
My Conductor friend.
Got something to show you.
That will blow your mind.
Follow me upstairs.
As a friend of mine.
You deserve to see this.
It will blow your mind.
Careful with the stairs.
Have no fear, my friend.
Im not gonna play.
Any trick of mine
- Henry, what are you do...
- Shh.
(lamp playing gentle music)
(Annette vocalizing to music)
(vocalizing continues)
Can you believe it?
I just cant believe it.
- Can you explain it?
- I cant explain it.
- Is it really happening?
- I dont know what to think.
Is it really happening?
I really dont know
what to think.
To us?
- How bout a drink?
- I need a drink.
(music stops)
A strong drink.
HENRY: Heres my plan,
my sweet Conductor.
We three travel round the world.
She performs with you conducting.
Backing her around the world.
All the world
deserves to see this.
Its our moral duty, right?
Well, what do you think,
Conductor?
Am I wrong or am I right?
If you would consent.
To be there for her.
Your fame will grow greater.
Two hundred percent.
We would tour the world.
Show her to the world.
Millions would go wild.
Cherishing the child.
This is really exploitation.
- No, not really.
- Sure it is.
This is really exploitation.
- No, not really.
- Sure it is.
You know what my future
looks like.
From a money point of view.
With the income from performance.
She could have a future, too.
- Youre exploiting her, Henry.
- No, not really.
- Youre exploiting Annette.
- No, not really!
Please make up your mind.
Please make up your mind.
Please, Conductor friend.
We cannot waste time.
(song ends)
- (crickets chirping)
- (coyotes barking in distance)
HENRY:
I have the same dream.
Every night.
Every night the same dream.
Adrift.
On an angry sea.
And in a moment of rage.
And stupidity.
I kill.
The one I love
Ann, forgive me
Ann.
I beg you
Ann.
Forgive me
I have the same dream.
Every night.
Every night the same dream.
Shes here.
Lying by my side.
An exercise.
In futility.
Did I kill.
The one I love?
Theres no forgiveness
Ann.
I beg you.
Theres no.
Forgiveness...
(screaming)
(door creaks)
(orchestra playing
dramatic music)
(dramatic music continues)
ANNOUNCER:
Youve read about her.
Youve heard about her.
But nothing will have
prepared you for.
What youre about to see.
Nothing will have prepared you.
For what youre
about to see and hear.
Tonight
- (cheering, applause)
- Tonight.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
To the premiere performance of.
Baby Annette.
Baby Annette.
I am Henry McHenry.
I am Henry McHenry
Cynics among you may doubt
that what youre about to see
is real.
That it is not faked
in some way.
Let me assure you it is real.
Annette is a miracle.
Miracles do exist.
Without further ado
- I introduce to you.
- (applause)
Baby Annette.
Baby Annette
(dramatic music pauses)
(orchestra playing gentle music)
(vocalizing to music)
(vocalizing continues)
(audience, murmuring)
(vocalizing continues)
(music builds)
(music and vocalizing
continue quieter)
(music swells)
- (cheering, applause)
- (people shouting "Annette!")
(cheering, shouting continue)
GIRL:
We love you, Annette!
- MAN: Exploitation!
- MAN: Its exploitation.
- (music fades)
- (cheering, shouting continue)
GIRL:
I love you!
- GIRL: Annette!
- GIRL: We love you!
GIRL:
Annette!
We love you, Annette!
(crowd chattering excitedly)
Annette and me.
And The Conductor are three.
Were traveling round the world.
Were traveling round the world.
Were traveling round the world.
Were traveling round the world.
Were traveling round the world.
Were traveling round the world
(jet engine whooshing)
PILOT: Ladies and gentlemen,
please make sure
your seats are
in the upright position.
Well be landing...
BOTH:
Shortly.
Here in Madrid.
CROWD:
We love Annette.
Here in Paris.
CROWD:
We love Annette.
- Here in London.
- (excited chatter)
We love Annette, we love Annette.
We love Annette.
- We love Annette.
- (applause, excited chatter)
We love Annette.
We love Annette, we love Annette.
- (Annette vocalizing)
- We love Annette.
We love Annette, we love Annette
(fading):
We love Annette...
(vocalizing continues)
(seagull chirping)
CROWD:
Bon voyage.
Bon voyage.
Bon voyage.
Bon voyage.
Bon voyage.
HENRY and CROWD:
Bon voyage.
Bon voyage.
Bon voyage
(cheering, shouting)
Were traveling round the world.
Were traveling round the world.
Were traveling round the world.
- Were traveling round
the world - (crowd cheering)
Were traveling round the world.
Bon voyage.
Here in Stockholm.
- We love Annette.
- Bon voyage.
Here in Cuba.
- We love Annette.
- Bon voyage.
Here in Tokyo.
- We love Annette.
- Bon voyage.
- We love Annette,
we love Annette -Bon voyage.
- We love Annette.
- Bon voyage.
We love Annette.
(song ends)
What a beautiful,
beautiful night, huh?
Hey, my friend, would you look
after Annette while I go out
and let off just
a little bit of steam?
Sure, Henry,
Ill look after Annette.
(kisses, blows)
(piano playing gentle melody)
We love each other.
So much.
So hard to explain it.
So hard to explain.
We love each other.
So much.
We love each other.
So much.
We love each other.
So much.
Speak soft when you say it.
Speak soft.
When you say.
We love each other.
So much.
(song ends)
- (dance music playing)
- (crowd cheering)
(chorus vocalizing)
All the girls I see.
Look so great to me.
What amazes me.
Is what they see in me.
All the girls I see.
In France and Italy.
Or here in Roppongi.
What do they see in me?
(women screaming excitedly)
Am I handsome? No.
Youre so handsome.
Charming? Well, so-so.
Youre so charming.
Im a foreign guy.
So exotic.
Rich and drunk, maybe thats why.
Hard to imagine.
All these fucking men.
Who hate themselves but.
Want us to love them.
- All the girls I see.
- (toilet flushes)
Look so great to me.
But will I ever be.
- Lovable again?
- (song ends)
(night birds calling)
(coyotes howling)
(crickets chirping)
(coyotes howling, barking)
(motorcycle approaching)
(howling)
(coyotes continue howling,
barking in distance)
Im feeling
just a little bit drunk.
Im feeling
just a little bit tipsy.
Shit.
Where, you might ask, did I go?
That would be
none of your business.
Whered I put my house keys?
So glad to be back at home
(door closes)
Hey, Mr. Conductor friend,
good to see you.
Thanks for watching Annette.
How is Annette?
Shes fine.
(small piano playing)
Theres my little Annette.
Theres my little Annette.
Hows my little Annette?
Hows my little Annette?
(small piano playing
"We Love Each Other So Much")
(Annette vocalizing to music)
How does she know that song?
You had no right.
You had no right
to teach her that.
You had no right.
You had no right at all.
You had no right.
You had no right
to teach her that.
You had no right.
You had no right at all.
That song was our song,
Anns and my song.
That was our song,
that song was our song.
Anns song and mine.
That was our song.
That was our song.
No!
No, Henry,
I wrote that song for Ann.
What?
So I had every right to teach it
to my star pupil, Annette.
HENRY:
Yeah, bullshit.
Youd think you were her father.
Youd think you were her father.
Youd think you were her father.
Maybe... I am.
I think I am.
This cant be true,
this cant be true.
Sorry, Henry.
You see, before you came along,
Ann and I...
This cant be true.
Could this be true?
No one must know this
or Ill lose my daughter.
No one must know this.
Or Ill lose my child
Well, lets put Annette to bed
and then go by the pool
and talk it over, okay?
(song ends)
(whispers):
Good night, Annette.
You see, my friend...
(grunts)
Henry, dont fool around.
The water must be freezing.
You wouldnt want me to...
drown, would you?
I dont know.
What was I about to say?
Shall we talk.
As youd asked?
I cant stay,
can you make it fast?
Not to be impolite.
But its been a long, long night.
Hey! Henry, no!
Stop fooling around.
Youre quite drunk.
Lets both sit down.
What is it you need to say?
Sit down, Henry.
Oh! Watch it! Hey!
Shh!
Okay, this isnt funny anymore.
- Not the least bit
funny anymore! -Shh!
- Get your hands off me.
- Shh!
Get your hands off of me.
What are you trying to do to me?
What are you trying...
What are you trying to do to me?
Stop it. Just stop it.
Just stop it, stop it, stop it.
Okay, okay. Okay, okay.
Stop it.
Oh! Stop, stop.
(grunting)
(gasping):
Henry, its freezing.
Hen... ry, Im going down.
I wont tell a single soul.
Even you cant be this cold
(coughs)
So it was you.
After all.
No.
(water splashes, then calms)
No.
(gasping)
If only
I had gotten Ann.
To love me more
(water splashes)
Theres so little I can do.
Theres so little
- I can do -THE CONDUCTOR:
If only Id gotten Ann.
- To love me more.
- Theres so little I can do.
If only I...
Theres so little I can do.
If only...
(song ends)
- (night birds calling)
- (crickets chirping)
Annette.
Youre awake.
(lamp crashes)
(whispering): Everything
will be all right now.
I promise, Annette.
(musical chiming)
- (chorus vocalizing)
- Connie OConnor here
- for "Show Bizz News"
- (cameras clicking)
with the shocking announcement
that Henry McHenry
has decided to end
Baby Annettes singing career.
CHORUS:
Never again...
CONNIE:
Before they move to Europe,
she will give
one last performance
to be announced shortly.
CHORUS:
Never again...
CONNIE: The baby will never
perform again after that.
CHORUS:
Never again.
- Never again.
- (song ends)
(crowd cheering faintly
in distance)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
CHEERLEADERS:
Welcome!
Welcome to
the Hyperbowl halftime show.
- Wow! -To the thousands
who are here in attendance.
- Welcome! -And the millions
who are watching at home.
At home!
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
- Welcome!
- (crowd cheering)
Welcome to
the Hyperbowl halftime show.
To the thousands
who are here in attendance.
Welcome!
And the millions
that are watching at home.
Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome our cherished.
Baby Annette.
(crowd cheering)
GIRL: I love you, Annette!
I love you!
ANNOUNCER:
As you all know by now,
this will be
her last public appearance.
So, ladies and gentlemen...
darkness.
Then a very sweet, soft light.
- (rock music begins)
- (crowd cheering)
And then, for all eternity,
Baby Annette!
(rock music
and cheering continue)
CHORUS:
Baby Annette.
Baby Annette
(chorus vocalizing)
(whistling)
- (music fades)
- (crowd cheering)
ANNOUNCER:
This is the largest audience
that Annette has ever
performed in front of,
so some nervousness is
completely understandable.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Baby Annette.
- (crowd cheering)
- (rock music begins)
CHORUS:
Baby Annette.
Baby Annette
(chorus vocalizing)
(music fades)
(crowd cheering, murmuring)
(Henry chuckling)
We ask for your patience.
Baby Annette is a baby
after all.
So please, once again...
Baby Annette!
(crowd cheering)
What the fuck is
that little bitch doing?
(rock music begins)
CHORUS:
Baby Annette.
Baby Annette
(chorus vocalizing)
(music fades)
(crowd cheering)
(Annette sighs into microphone)
ANNETTE:
Daddy...
Daddy killed people.
RUSSELL and CHORUS:
True love always finds.
- True love always finds.
- (light thumping, echoing)
A way.
But true love often goes.
True love often goes
- (distorted chuckle)
- Astray
(distorted laughing)
(light thumps)
(distorted chatter)
- (light thumping)
- (song ends)
(siren wailing)
(crowd clamoring outside)
MAN:
Henry! Henry!
CROWD (chanting rhythmically):
You are a murderer.
- A murderer.
- (pounding rhythmically)
MAN:
Murderer!
- CROWD: You are a murderer.
-
A murderer.
He is a murderer,
he is a murderer.
There is no doubt at all that.
- He is a murderer.
- MAN: Henry, you killed her!
- He is a murderer.
- Henry, you fucking asshole!
And he must pay the price and.
- Whether its first-degree.
- Henry, I hate you!
- Or less than first-degree.
- Fucking asshole!
- The point is moot to us cause.
- (shouting continues)
Hes still a murderer.
- And whether its death or jail.
- Goddamn murderer.
Well send him
far, far, far away.
- Murderer.
- WOMAN: Go to hell!
Murderer.
- Murderer.
- (shouting continues)
Hes a murderer.
You are a murderer.
Murderer.
- You are a murderer.
- Murderer.
You killed the one
that we all loved.
Nearly religiously.
Religiously.
- Nearly religiously.
- Religiously.
No more will she die for us.
Who will now die for us?
Will die for us?
- Who will now die for us?
- Will die for us?
No one can take her place.
- But you who despises us.
- (shouting continues)
Despises us.
- You who despises us.
- Despises us.
We will now tame,
break and destroy.
- Henry!
- Henry, over here!
- What you have to say?
- Public has the right to know!
CROWD (chanting):
Murderer!
Murderer! Murderer!
- Murderer!
- (song ends)
Please... raise your right hand.
Henry McHenry,
do you solemnly swear
that you will tell the truth,
the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
(sneezes):
Truth!
- (clerk gulps)
- Yes.
The truth is...
...you remind me so much
of my mother.
(gallery murmuring, chuckling)
(gavel bangs)
Mr. McHenry,
- (blows nose) -this court
wont tolerate effrontery.
- (clerk gulps)
- Clerk, please.
Once again please.
Please...
Henry McHenry...
do you solemnly swear
that you will tell the truth,
the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth,
so help you.
Go-o-o-o-o, o-o-d?
No.
Youll kill me if I do.
(shocked murmuring)
(gavel banging)
Stepping back in time.
Id pull Ann aside.
"Im so proud of you."
"Im so proud of you."
Stepping back in time,
Id pull Ann aside,
"Im so happy for you.
- Im so happy for you"
- (Ann vocalizing)
Id say, "Ann,
what gives me the most joy.
"Is to watch you.
- "Im a small boy.
- (Ann vocalizing)
"Wide-eyed in my awe
at your silken voice
"I admire you.
- Never tire of you"
- ANN: Never be tired of you.
Teary-eyed, shell say.
BOTH:
"Im ashamed to see.
"That we both cant be.
Where we ought to be".
HENRY:
Crying, you will say.
BOTH:
"Its so sad, you see.
"That we both cant be.
Who we ought to be".
HENRY: Stepping back in time,
I could step aside.
Not allow my rage
to be magnified.
To a dangerous point
where a rash act.
What an impact
I cant grab back.
- ANN: No, theres no more time.
- Theres no more time.
- What a shame.
- Oh, what a shame.
- That we both cant be.
- That we cant be.
- Where we ought to be.
- Where we ought to be.
- No, theres no more time.
- Theres no more time.
- Its so sad to see.
- So sad to see.
- That we both cant be.
- That we cant be.
- Who we ought to be.
- Who we ought to be.
- ANN (whispers): Henry.
- (gasps)
(wind blowing)
Henry.
She wont be the one
keeping you company in jail.
I will.
Day after day after day.
Night after night after night.
(doves cooing)
(bird squawks, wings flutter)
(bird squawking)
- (keys jingling)
- (men shouting in distance)
(lock clicking)
- (Henry muttering quietly)
- (distant footsteps)
- (footsteps echoing)
- (Henry muttering)
(buzzer sounds in distance)
(footsteps echoing)
HENRY (low):
Its incredible.
(Henry muttering)
(Henry continues muttering)
(footsteps echoing)
(low muttering)
(footsteps stop)
(door lock clicks, door opens)
(men shouting in distance)
(door closes)
(soft footsteps)
(buzzer sounds in distance)
(buzzer sounds in distance)
(ticking)
Annette.
Annette?
Youve changed so much, Annette.
ANNETTE:
Yes.
Yes, I have.
(clock ticking)
(low, shuddering breaths)
You, too, have changed.
But at least
youre safe here, yes?
You cant drink and you cant
smoke here, can you?
No. No, I cant.
And you cant kill here,
can you?
(soft laugh)
It was a joke.
Mm, you are my daughter
after all.
No.
No more killing.
Only time.
"Killing time."
Have you heard that expression?
No.
But now,
you have nothing to love.
Cant I love you?
No.
Not really.
(clock ticking)
Annette.
We dont have long.
Ill sing these words to you
I hope that theyll ring true.
Theyre not some magic chimes.
To cover up my crimes
Annette, of this Im sure.
Imaginations strong.
And reasons song.
Is weak and thin.
We dont have long
(music intensifies)
I stood upon a cliff.
A deep abyss below.
Compelled to look, I tried.
To fight it off.
God knows I tried.
This horrid urge to look below.
But half horrified.
And half relieved
I cast my eyes.
Toward the abyss.
The dark abyss
(music slows, distorts)
I heard a ringing in my ears
I knew my death knells
ugly sound
- (music resumes)
- The overbearing urge to gaze.
Into the deep abyss, the haze.
So strong the yearning
for the fall.
Imaginations strong.
And reasons song.
Is weak and thin.
We dont have long.
Ill never sing again.
Shunning all lights at night.
Ill never sing again.
Smashing every lamp I see.
Ill never sing again.
Living in full darkness.
Ill never sing again.
A vampire forever
Annette, no.
No, no.
Annette, Annette.
No.
I sang these words to you.
Can I forgive
what you have done?
I hope, that theyd ring true.
And will I ever forgive Mom?
Imagination is so strong.
Her deadly poison, I became.
And reasons song
is never strong.
Merely a child to exploit.
Imagination is so strong.
Forgive you both?
- And reasons song.
- Forget you both?
- So faint and shrill.
- To take that oath?
- I stood above the deep abyss.
- To take that oath?
Why should I now forgive?
Why should I now forget?
I can never forgive,
I can never forget.
Both of you were using me
for your own ends.
For your own ends.
Not an ounce of shame.
The two of you,
youre both to blame
I wish that both of you
were gone.
Wish you were gone.
- No, dont blame Ann.
- Wish you were gone.
- Annette, thats wrong.
- Wish you were gone.
- No, dont blame Ann.
- Both of you gone.
But is forgiveness the sole way.
This horrid urge to look below.
When all has gone so far astray.
God knows I tried
to fight it off.
- Extract the poison.
- Half horrified.
- From ones heart.
- And half relieved.
- And from ones soul.
- I cast my eyes
- I cant be sure.
- Down the abyss.
Forgive the two of you or not
- I take this oath.
- Sympathy for.
- Forgive you both?
- The dark abyss
- I take this oath.
- Sympathy for
- I take this oath.
- The dark abyss.
Forgive you both?
- Or forget you both?
- Dont cast your eyes
- I must be strong.
- Down the abyss
- I must be strong.
- Annette, please dont
(door lock clicking)
GUARD:
Times up.
(door closes)
No contact.
And now you have nothing to love.
Why cant I love you?
Cant I love you?
Now you have nothing to love.
Cant I love you, Annette?
No, not really, Daddy.
Its sad but its true.
Now you having nothing to love.
- Annette.
- (door opens)
My Annette.
Never cast your eyes
down the abyss.
HENRY:
Goodbye
Annette.
Goodbye
Annette.
Goodbye
Annette.
Goodbye
Annette.
(softly):
Goodbye.
Stop watching me.
(music fades)
(music ends)
("We Love Each Other So Much"
plays)
(song ends)
(coyotes barking in distance)
ANNETTE:
Action!
(gentle melody plays)
ALL:
Its the end.
So we bid you.
Good night.
Safe journey home.
Watch out for strangers.
If you liked what you saw.
- Tell a friend.
- ANNETTE: Tell a friend?
If youve no friends.
Then, tell a stranger.
Tonight.
WOMAN:
Ladies.
Three, four, one.
WOMEN:
Good night one and all.
MAN:
Men.
MAN and WOMAN:
Three, four, one.
MEN:
Good night one and all.
- WOMAN: Everyone.
- MAN: Come on.
Three, four.
ALL:
Good night.
One.
And all.
ANNETTE:
Get ready.
(Annette laughing)
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
- Three, four.
- ANNETTE: Ready?
ALL:
Good night one and all.
(Annette laughing)
ANNETTE:
Good night one and all.
WOMAN:
Toutes les femmes.
Three, four.
WOMEN:
Good night one and all.
MAN:
Tous les hommes.
Three, four.
MEN:
Good night.
ALL:
One.
And all!
(indistinct chattering and laughter)
(chattering, laughter continues)
(dogs barking)
(chattering, laughter fading)