An early draft of the SCHRODINGER'S BEDROOM script

Last night on my blog at TheLot.com (how many blogs can one man have, I wonder), I posted an earlier draft of the script for Schrodinger's Bedroom. It seemed like a neat thing to do, to publish the original plan for the movie and then compare that to the eventual final product. Quite a few things had to be cut between this and the sixth draft, which was the one we filmed from. A lot of the underlying science background, and a few double entendres that I was especially proud of, had to be removed so that the running time could be made to fit within 5 minutes (the maximum allowed by the rules of On The Lot).

Here's an example of the original script:

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QUANTUM MECHANICS LABORATORY – DAY

DELIA
Of course not. Humane society would be all over our butts if we endangered any animals. So we use people.

TYLER
All set for this afternoon’s run Delia.

DELIA
Thanks Tyler. Gary, where you are standing is the first ever attempt to prove Schroedinger’s Cat. But instead of atomic particle decay we use something much more unpredictable: human psychology. When we first started eighteen months ago we got negligible results from a subject locked in a walk-in closet. Then we got grant money and were able to afford a bathroom. That yielded some surprising finds: we are almost finally ready to say that ANYTHING could be going on inside the bathroom when someone is using it. And then, we decided to get REALLY bold… Gary, meet Ned and Maria.

NED and MARIA enter scene

MARIA
Hi!

NED
Glad to meet you.

DELIA
Ned and Maria are newlyweds: only been married three months. They’ve graciously volunteered to be the subjects in this afternoon’s experiment.

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QUANTUM PHYSICS BEDROOM

Gary unconsciously takes off his jacket

GARY
It’s warm in here.

DELIA
Yeah, it needs to be. We do everything we can to excite everything, quantum or otherwise. This bedroom is completely enclosed. Ned and Maria will go inside and they close the door. Our instruments will then begin to detect any quantum fluctuations that emanate from the room.

GARY
So the moment these two lovebirds go to the bedroom… anything and everything happens behind the door at the same time?

DELIA
You got it.

GARY
No, not yet… my brain is still trying to wrap itself around it.

DELIA
Well, we’d better go. Want to watch… or rather, NOT watch?

GARY
Sure, why not.

Gary doesn’t realize that he’s left his jacket lying on the bed

Click here for the complete text of the second draft for Schrodinger's Bedroom.