FIVE-MINUTE DAREDEVIL, PART 1
EXECUTIVE: Mr. Arad? Sir? Weve got someone who wants to do a Daredevil movie.
AVI ARAD: Oh really? Whats his credentials?
EXECUTIVE: Well, he wrote Grumpy Old Men and directed Simon Birch.
AVI ARAD: Hmm, sounds like a really bad choice. Who's the other guy?
AVI ARAD: Ahhh! Give the job to Mark Steven Johnson! No WAY am I hiring this... Quentin Black fellow.
We open on
a really fake-looking rat. It crawls around and a drop of blood falls in a puddle. We pan up a cathedral for about fifteen minutes until we see that Daredevil has paused from his exhaustive attempts to stay alive to pose for a Creed poster. A spotlight shines over him.
DAREDEVIL: Okay, just gotta zip-line down to the floor. Just gotta hold on to this here baton, despite my stupendous loss of blood
Ugh!
PRIEST: My son! Are you alright? What happened?
DAREDEVIL: A good question. It all started billions and billions of years ago, with a great explosion of energy scientists call the Big Bang
PRIEST: Ahem!
DAREDEVIL: Oh yeah. And on the seventh day, God rested
PRIEST: Im sorry, I was just thinking you should skip ahead some.
DAREDEVIL: Right. Well, when I was a little boy
***
BLOOD: Drip!
BULLIES: Were mean.
MARK STEVEN JOHNSON: Look! See how the blood is dripping into a puddle and his eye and Matt is reflected in it! It's that KEWL?
FANS: No, not really.
***
MATT: Ah, my dad's a drunken failure. See how EDGY and MATURE this is compared to Man-Spider? But I still love him, especially since he isn't a thug for some crime lord. So dad, what did you do before you got drunk?
DAD: Ummm... I got DRUNK!
MATT: That's my dad!
***
MATT: Keep on skateboarding, keep on skateboarding... Dad!
DAD: Matt? Ummm... How did this intimidated extortion victim's neck fall into my hands?
MATT: Well, maybe we can find out toge... wait a minute! That tears it, I'm going to run in front of this toxic chemical!
***
PRIEST: So, your exposure to the chemical blinded you but amplified your remaining senses, as well as giving you a kind of radar sense.
DAREDEVIL: Couldn't have put it better myself. Anyway, my dad got his act straight and joined an 11-step program. The eleventh step was not give in to people who want you to throw boxing matches and they'll back down. In retrospect, that may have been a bad idea. Anyway, I taught myself kung-fu...
PRIEST: Wait a minute! You can't just teach yourself kung-fu, supersenses or no supersenses.
DAREDEVIL: Oh really?
***
MATT: Hey, Neo, I need to borrow your computer for a minute.
NEO: Sure thing.
MATT: I know kung-fu!
NEO: Whoa! Well, you've got crappy movies to make, I've got crappy movies to make...
MATT: Ahem, crappy COMIC BOOK movie to make.
NEO: You've never heard of Hellblazer, have you?
***
BULLY: Matt, I DARE you to fight me. I DARE you. Do you realize I'm DARING you? I'm having a DEVIL of a time doing it...
MATT: HI-yah!
BULLY 1: Ouch!
MATT: Whoo-paw!
BULLY 2: Gak!
MATT: Mint!
BULLY 3: Argh!
MATT: Hehehe...
***
PRIEST: So, you beat up your tormenters. For some reason, I'm having trouble picturing that.
DAREDEVIL: Well, think of the similar scene in Spider-Man, only much, much stupider.
PRIEST: Like, say, using your cane as a kendo stick?
DAREDEVIL: Bingo!
***
CRIME BOSS: Matt's dad, I want you to throw this fight.
DAD: Never! I've redeemed myself and I'm never going to do anything you say again!
CRIME BOSS: Okay, I want you to win this fight.
DAD: Screw you! Just for that, I'm going to lose it!
***
MATT: C'mon dad, notice how I'm cheering for you? God, I'm a bad actor. Yeah! Woo!
DAD: That's it, I'm not throwing this fight!
DON KING: Only in America!
***
KINGPIN: Hi there. Beating heart.
DAD: What beating heart? GAK!
KINGPIN: Exactly.
ROSE: Notice me, I'm a plot point!
MATT: Oh, I notice alright...
***
PRIEST: So, it turns out that your family was murdered by your arch-nemesis. Just like in Bat...
DAREDEVIL: Shh!
***
MATT: Your honor, the defendant is guilty! Wait a minute, I'm a lawyer. Why am I prosecuting this case?
RAPIST: Beats me. By the way, it was consensual.
MATT: What? That's the stupidest defense ever? Why don't you have Kingpin's thugs manufacture you an alibi (which I could beat them into recanting in my guise as Daredevil, the relentless red-garbed foe of evil)?
RAPIST: Sorry, I didn't catch that last bit. Something about a relentless red-garbed foe of evil?
MATT: The defense rests, your honor.
JUDGE: You're the prosecutor.
MATT: Oh, right. In that case, the rapist is a big liar and it wasn't consensual.
JURY: Well, Kingpin's leaning on us, so... Not guilty!
MATT: Yes, I got another client off!
JUDGE: We've been through this.
***
PRIEST: Whoa, the mysterious Kingpin of Crime has even corrupted the justice system. It seems like justice needs an avatar, someone to stand for truth in a city of rats.
DAREDEVIL: That's just what I was thinking!
PRIEST: So, you exposed the jury tampering, got a mistrial, and convicted his ass?
DAREDEVIL: No, that would make too much sense. Instead...
***
DAREDEVIL: Look! My cane turns into a baton! And now it's nunchucks! And now it's a staff! And now it's a...
***
RAPIST: Ahh, nothing like a good drink after beating a rap. God, I love being evil!
DAREDEVIL: Oh yeah? Well, now I've cornered you!
RAPIST: Daredevil! I'm gonna kill you!
DAREDEVIL: Yeah? You and what army?
BAR FULL OF THUGS: Grrr...
DAREDEVIL: I'm not very smart, am I?
BAM!
POW!
SMACK!
***
PRIEST: I'm sorry, but I can't tell what's going on. You started fighting the entire bar full of thugs, then you just started waving your arms around and making fight noises.
DAREDEVIL: The real thing was much harder to follow. But eventually...
***
RAPIST: Run away! Run away! Hey, a subway tunnel! He'll never find me there!
DAREDEVIL: Gotcha! Now, I'm going to beat a confession out of you. And even when you give up, I'm gonna keep beating you, because I'm so close to Crossing The Line.
RAPIST: Okay, that sounds reasonable.
MOVIE BATMAN: Psst! Kill him! Trust me, it's fun.
RAPIST: Don't listen to him, Daredevil would never kill anyone.
DAREDEVIL: Sorry, but given a choice between faithfulness to the comics and ripping off a successful movie...
SUBWAY TRAIN: LOUD!
DAREDEVIL: Argh! My ears! That train is cursing in Trainese!
RAPIST: Drat, now I'll never know what choice he was gonna make.
DAREDEVIL: All better.
RAPIST: Gak!
DAREDEVIL: Now you're soundly defeated. I had no choice but to defend myself, tragically resulting in...
RAPIST: Umm, a little help here?
DAREDEVIL: Don't interrupt. Just like in Spider-Man, which is a stupid kiddie picture that isn't as good as my movie, you brought this on yourself by accident.
RAPIST: No, really, if you could just help me up...
DAREDEVIL: Why? Why do men turn to crime! Oh, truly, crime does not pay. Alack! Alas!
RAPIST: DO SOMETHING!
DAREDEVIL: Like gloat over the man I'm going to murder in cold blood? Don't mind if I do!
***
PRIEST: So you killed someone just because you lost to them in court? That's pretty low, Daredevil.
DAREDEVIL: He was a rapist.
PRIEST: Still, you can't take the law into your own hands. If you do, you're not aiding it, but actually sabotaging...
DAREDEVIL: Lalalala! Not listening! Lalalalala!
To be continued...