For fun, I punched up the beginning to a hypothetical Dragonball script in a few minutes. This is what I ended up with. What does everyone think of this?
EXT. FOREST DAWN
As the opening shot fades in, we can see little else besides a few vague outlines of some trees and a mountain vista out in the distance. It is still dark outside. All is silent save for the subtle CHIRPING of the morning crickets in the thick, cold air and the RIBBITING of frogs.
There is first a steadily intensifying glow of soft red outlining the mountain, and then the first glimmers of sunlight spill over the peak. What we see becomes increasingly clearer as the sun continues to birth itself from the snowcapped mountaintop, and slowly revealed from behind the darkness is GOKU, a small boy in a blue keikogi with eccentric hair, sitting without movement atop a long red pole facing the mountain with his back to the camera. BIRDS can now be heard.
After the sun has fully emerged from behind the great earthen monolith before us, we hear the voice of GRANDPA GOHAN from a distance away echoing as in a spacious cavern.
His mind appearing to be concentrated completely inward, Goku is oblivious to his grandfathers call. He remains motionless on his perch like a flower delicately crowned on its stem.
Goku!! I need you for a moment!!
Goku remains undisturbed.
Goku, please answer. You know Im starting to get on in age and all this yelling is harsh on my throat. Goku!!
Goku begins to snore; it is now apparent the real reason he isnt responding is because he has fallen fast asleep on top of the pole.
Still no response.
Ive got a giant bowl of dumplings and another one of noodles on the table waiting for you!!
His generous appetite aroused by this prospect, Goku finally awakens. Disoriented, he wobbles on his pole and then begins to fall over backward, the pole getting caught in the back of his pants in the process. He is now hanging upside-down from the pole by his pants. We see his face for the first time, his wide-eyed gentleness illuminating his animated, delicate features.
Goku pauses for a moment as if to make sense of what he just said.
In the joy of his revelation, Goku kicks his feat up, slipping out of his pants onto the ground. Sparing no time, he takes a bound of preternatural size upward off the camera, which has thus far remained fixed on the same picture, along the way snatching his pants from the pole. When he descends back down into view, he is again fully clothed. He retrieves the pole from the burrow in the ground keeping it in its upright position. It shrinks in size and he puts it in a holder on his back.
GOKU POV
Goku races through the forest at a speed far exceeding what a normal person can achieve. After a few dizzying maneuvers through a veritable labyrinth of trees and plants, we come upon the house from where Gohan had been calling Goku earlier. Too eager for his meal, Goku does not even bother to stop and open the door, instead simply SMASHING through it as if it were made of cardboard.
INT. KITCHEN IN GOHAN AND GOKUS COTTAGE IN THE WOODS MORNING
He slows not once until precipitously stopping to sit in a chair at the kitchen table. He makes an audible panting noise in anticipation of his food. However, there is no bowl of dumplings or noodles to be found anywhere around him. As Goku looks left and right, he comes to realize this and the panting subsides.
BACK TO SCENE
Im sorry, Goku, but if I hadnt lied a little, you would have never come.
Goku is visibly disappointed.
Grandpa Gohan turns around to inspect the shattered door. A cloud of woodchips in the air still dances like a swarm of gnats between Goku at the table and where the door was broken.
Ill have to remember to keep it open next time.
Oh, Grandpa, I didnt mean to
Oh, no, no, Im probably more responsible for this in my indiscretion of lying to you than you were in not watching where you were going. Dont be upset. Well just have to fix it a little later; thats all. First though, I need to show you something.
Grandpa Gohan starts to make his way to the other room, motioning Goku to come along with him. Goku gets up to follow him into the next room.
Well, may we eat after this?
Sure, Ill make the biggest feast weve ever had!
(looking over at the door)
Although maybe we should board up the door quickly first just to keep the animals from coming in when they smell the food.
But thats for later. Come.
You should help The Kid with his thing.
