EXT. ALLEY NIGHT
RUBY SHOWGIRL dances into camera and out of frame
B&W EXT. COUNTRYSIDE DAY
DOROTHY’S feet walking, the camera frames the edge of her gingham dress
B&W EXT. COUNTRYSIDE DAY
DOROTHY loiters on some railings outside a telephone box
Fade to Black
INT. CHURCH DAY
MADELAINE sits alone in a pew, close up of the back of her head
and her French twist.
EXT. FENLAND DAY
Wideshot of Fenland
INT. HOTEL DAY
A desk with writing materials and photographs of the countryside
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
JUDY in violet sits against a black wall.
INT. CHURCH ALTAR DAY
DOROTHY lies asleep on the red carpet beneath the altar.
INT. CHURCH DAY
Zoom into MADELAINE’S French twist.
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
JUDY in Violet kicks the black wall and then holds her body against it.
EXT. CHURCH TOWER DAY
MADELAINE runs into the church.
INT. CHURCH STAIRWELL DAY
Feet wearing high heel shoes run up the narrow twisting stairwell.
EXT. EMPTY RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
JUDY IN VIOLET walks towards a lamppost and leans against it
INT. CHURCH BELFRY DAY
MADELAINE at the top of ladder is looking up towards the belfry tower
VOICE OFF Man screams
INT. HOTEL DAY
JUDY in Green lies on a bed covered with a poppy bedspread
EXT. CHURCH SPIRE DAY
The spirit of DOROTHY walks down the street looking around her, she is vulnerable to unseen realities.
A montage of hotel signs and ghostly voices drift
VOICES OF TWO GIRLS
‘She gets them back after Dorothy goes home’
She’s dead actually
After Dorothy killed her
Oh, Second murder
VOICE WOMAN
I haven’t got a clue who lives next door to me…
He’s like God you just believe in him
VOICE MAN
A so called red light district.
Everything has a spark of light.
You thieve everything to try to understand, but why did you make no effort to escape
It’s not a very pretty place to come and find answers
VOICE WOMAN
I ran away when I was twelve
B&W EXT. COUNTRYSIDE DAY
DOROTHY turns her finger in the air, jumps off the railings and runs into the telephone box
VOICE WOMAN
There is a children’s Czech story, if there was no wind in their seat, then that was there place
I’m homeless because home is not here and home is not there
INT. HOTEL DAY
Zoom into JUDY’S eye
FADE TO BLACK
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS DAY
ORPHAN GIRL twirls a poppy smiling mischievously.
EXT. EMPTY RAILWAY LANDS DAY
ORPHAN GIRL runs up the road, she surprises the TRAMP/YOUNG MAN by coming up behind him and covering his eyes with her hands he turns and she says excitedly
INTERTITLE: I’ve found us a home
INTERTITLE: It’s paradise
EXT. YARD DAY
A young girl sits in her cardboard home
V/O DOROTHY SONG
When living for my life was everything a girl could want to do
EXT. TRAIN STATION
DOROTHY arrives and disappears amongst all the other people
V/O DOROTHY SONG
I could never see tomorrow
But I was never told about the sorrow
EXT. STREET. DAY
DOROTHY walks along and a Japanese witchey girl sits on the railings and smiles
V/O DOROTHY SONG
And how can you mend a broken heart
MONTAGE of VIDEO street scenes of young girls standing around and sitting on railings
EXT. CAFÉ WITH SIGN FARM MEALS DAY
A waiter comes out of café and says to camera
WAITER
Hello, Are you Alright?
EXT. BUSY STREET DAY
A starving girl sits on the street with her head down wrapped in a red blanket
EXT. SQUARE DAY
Girl walks along street being followed by a man.
Girl asleep on bench
EXT. CHURCH DAY
GRAFFITI ON CHURCH WALL reads
‘You are not allowed to sleep here’
EXT. ROAD DAY
ORPHAN GIRL and TRAMP are asleep on the road
INT. HOTEL DAY
JUDY in Green lies on a poppy bedspread
EXT. CHURCH STEPS DAY
A Homeless man lies asleep on the steps looking like the Scarecrow
INT. HOTEL DAY
C/U Face of JUDY in Green lying on a poppy bedspread
CROSS CUTTING between homeless man and zoom into JUDY’S eye
EXT. POPPY FIELD DAY/SUPERIMPOSED SNOW FALLING
DOROTHY opens her eyes
VOICEOVER JAPANESE DOROTHY:
I am detached because I don’t belong, I feel I exist just physically
EXT. STREET NIGHT
Mrs Miller walks into the alley
V/O JAPANESE SPIRIT OF DOROTHY
I’m really detached from society I don’t live in the world, mentally I just live in my head
EXT. YELLOW WALL DAY
DOROTHY smoking
EXT. POPPY FIELD DAY
C/U DOROTHY asleep
EXT. RAILWAY LANDS BUILDINGS DAY
Pan of buildings up to sky and close up of opium poppy growing through a crack in the pavement.
EXT. RAILWAY LANDS DAY
ORPHAN GIRL and TRAMP wake up and ORPHAN GIRL gets up and runs off.
EXT.CHURCH DAY
Zoom into flowerseller
INT. CHURCH DAY
MADELAINE sits in a pew
INT. CHURCH DAY
Images of stained glass windows
VOICE OVER JAPANESE DOROTHY
I came to this city when my dog died and I wanted to be able to think
SEQUENCE OF IMAGES OF WOMEN THINKING
EXT. YARD DAY
A young Girl lies on the doorstep of her home
EXT. SQUARE DAY
HOLLY sits on a park bench
EXT. ALLEY NIGHT
RUBY SHOWGIRL stands thinking
EXT. SCALA CINEMA TWILIGHT
Pan down to street and young woman standing
INT. HOTEL DAY
JUDY in Green turns to look out the window
VOICE OVER TRAMP
Where do you live?
VOICE OVER ORPHAN GIRL
No place
EXT. CROSSROADS DAY
DOROTHY stands at the crossroads with the Tinman and the scarecrow
V/O DOROTHY
Emerald City
EXT. CROSSROADS DAY
A man in a yellow tracksuit (the lion) enters the frame playing football kicking the ball around DOROTHY
V/O DOROTHY
I wanted to be part of telling stories and I wanted everyday to be an adventure
Dorothy looks at the lion
EXT. STREET DAY
A woman rides past on the bike
V/O WOMAN
I came from a place called Twenty on this fen road miles from anywhere,
Images of a woman and a girl riding bicycles
V/O WOMAN
it is the end of the world, it’s very flat, you can see for ever and ever,
There’s nothing there
EXT. ALLEY NIGHT
Mrs Miller walks through the alley
JAPANESE DOROTHY VOICEOVER
My favorite film was the Wizard of OZ and now it’s Last Tango in Paris, I liked the ending
she killed him because it couldn’t be real
INT. ALLEY NIGHT
RUBY SHOWGIRL dances
SONG LYRICS
all the people at this party they’ve got a lot of style they’ve got stamps from many countries they’ve got passport smiles
Some are friendly, some are cutting, some are standing in the centre giving to get something
INT. BELFRY DAY
A crystal ball fills with smoke and the image of the RUBY SHOWGIRL’S skirt being lifted revealing the words NO PLACE
V/O
DOROTHY! DOROTHY
B&W INT. FARM KITCHEN KINGS LYNN NIGHT
DOROTHY sits on the counter in the kitchen playing her tape recorder with cardboard cutouts of movie stars (Marilyn Monroe & James Dean) in the background.
V/O WITCH
Who killed my sister?
INT. HOTEL ROOM DAY
JUDY in Green walks towards the camera
JUDY IN GREEN
You don’t look like Jack the ripper
INT. STAIRWELL DAY
A Man walks down the stairs looking back as he goes
VOICEOFF and gathering sound of cyclone
Aunty Em Aunty Em
B&W EXT. OPEN ROAD DAY
An empty road leading to the horizon.
EXT. CHURCH SPIRE DAY
INT. BELFRY DAY
MADELAINE climbs the ladder in the belfry and looks back down
V/O DOROTHY
you give up part of yourself to play that person and it’s kind of like a sacrifice and there’s something slightly spiritual about it.. (cont)
INT. CRYSTAL BALL DAY
The crystal ball fills with a series of images of the spirit of DOROTHY
INT. HOTEL DAY
JUDY in green looks at the camera
V/O DOROTHY (cont)
you never know what’s going to happen…(cont)
EXT. PARK BENCH DAY
HOLLY on a park bench sits thinking
V/O DOROTHY (cont)
But you have an adventure..(cont)
INT. CAT SANCTUARY DAY
FAYE tends to the stray cats
V/O DOROTHY (cont)
you could get hurt, humiliated, or you could get abused but you put yourself up for it,
So you have a certain amount of control
in a way
EXT. FENLAND DAY
Dorothy falls out of frame
INT. CRYSTAL BALL C/U EYE
C/U the eye of DOROTHY the smoke inside the ball has become luminous green and finally black
V/O DOROTHY
Cos you think fantasy is your own but its like nothing’s your own it’s just what got in
your head and you can’t control what got in your head and so when you look at
something you think you are really looking at something but actually your seeing what
you already know and if you don’t already know, your not really seeing it
EXT. BUS STOP DAY
DOROTHY walks past JUDY in violet standing at the bus stop
EXT. STREET DAY
Mounted police on horses trot along the street
EXT. STREET DAY
Zoom into tailor’s window
EXT. BLUE SKY
EXT. SPIRE DAY
V/O TONY/GREEK TAILOR
Soon as I came after six months I married.
V/O DIRECTOR
Did you marry an English woman?
V/O TONY laughing:
No I marry a Greek woman.
EXT. STREET DAY
DOROTHY/HOLLY’S feet walk and skip along a yellow line
EXT. SIGN COMFORT HOTEL DAY
EXT. STREET DAY
A young couple sit together on a step
EXT. PARK BENCH DAY
DOROTHY/ HOLLY sits on a park bench her mobile phone rings with a Vertigo ringtone
DOROTHY/HOLLY
I’m not coming back Doc, you can’t love a wild thing, you’ll end up looking at the sky
Ext. RAILWAYLANDS DAY
ORPHAN GIRL points to graffiti on the wall that says OZ
EXT. PARK BENCH DAY
DOROTHY/Holly is speaking on her mobile phone
DOROTHY/HOLLY
What’s that Doc? You love looking at the sky.
EXT. CONSTRUCTION WORKS DAY
A big Truck drives through the frame obscuring blue sky.
INT. HOTEL ROOM DAY
JUDY in Green sits writing at her desk
V/O DIRECTOR
Can you tell me what your book is about?
Is it a love story?
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS DAY
ORPHAN GIRL and TRAMP walk out of frame together
EXT. DAY
Cherry Blossoms and Blue sky.
EXT. STREET DAY
A Japanese Woman stands against a yellow wall
V/O JAPANESE DOROTHY
Is Love True?
EXT. ALLEY NIGHT
RUBY SHOWGIRL dances
INT. HOTEL DAY
JUDY in green rips up her letter
EXT. RAILWAY LANDS NIGHT
JUDY in violet kicks the blackened wall
INT. HOTEL DAY
JUDY in Green’s empty desk
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
JUDY In violet lies on the railings
Screen fills with red and the crystal ball is superimposed. MADELAINE appears and disappears in a cloud of green smoke
V/O DOROTHY
I’m the girl, the one who was driving home that night with my friend in the car, I didn’t
mean to kill her
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
A green and familiar witchey girl appears wearing a poppy headdress
V/O DOROTHY
What is death?
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
DOROTHY comes across a car with a yellow illumined interior. A pair of stripey legs poke out from under it, the legs suddenly disappear,
EXT. DAY. YARD
YOUNG GIRL sweeps the yard with a broom
EXT. DAY. YARD
A YOUNG GIRL turns to face the wall and hide in the corner
FADE TO WHITE
O/S BONNIE PRINCE BILLIE LYRICS
Bound in blankets and blonde hair
INT. HOTEL DAY
JUDY lies on a poppy bedspread
INT. CHURCH HALL NIGHT
A woman sits holding a can of lager talking to camera
DOROTHY/PROSTITUTE
I ran away when I was twelve
EXT. DAY
Dorothy walks along street beside a truck
INT. CHURCH HALL NIGHT
DOROTHY/PROSTITUTE
and I was living on the streets
They used to sit me in the corner, I was thirteen
and they used to sell me
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
SADAKO sits in a car looking out the window
INT. CHURCH HALL NIGHT
DOROTHY/PROSTITUTE
I don’t understand why people are so mean and so nasty to each other?
V/O
It’s a twister! Dorothy! Dorothy!
INT. CHURCH DAY
Zoom into MADELAINE’S French twist
VOICEOVER
Dorothy! Dorothy!
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
SADAKO climbs out of the car window
VOICEOFF
A man screams
VOICEOFF
Is that the drunk fella?
B&W EXT. COUNTRYSIDE
An open road leads towards the hrizon
DOROTHY walking in haystacks and singing longingly
DOROTHY
How can you mend this broken man how can a loser ever win please help me mend this
broken heart and let me live again
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
JUDY in violet leans against lamppost as if she is dead
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
SADAKO staggers towards the camera
EXT. RAILWAYLANDS NIGHT
SADAKO crawls along the ground reaching towards the ruby slippers
DOROTHY is wearing
DOROTHY/PROSTITUTE
I hallucinated one time I was milking a cow, that’s the truth
EXT. EMPTY SHOPPING CENTRE NIGHT
A man leans against a pillar under a full moon
EXT. CONSTRUCTION WORKS NIGHT
Zoom into tunnel
EXT. TUNNEL NIGHT
DOROTHY walks into tunnel with WITCH behind her
WITCH
My sister! who killed my sister?
INT. CHURCH DAY
MADELAINE runs into the church to climb up to the belfry
V/O WITCH
Who Killed my sister HA!
EXT. CHURCH BELFRY TOWER DAY
INT. CINEMA
DOROTHY presses play on her tape recorder and Donnizetti’s opera Lucia Di Lammermoor plays
V/O WITCH
Was it you?
EXT TUNNEL NIGHT
The WITCH cuts off DOROTHY’S plaits
V/O DOROTHY
They gave up on me
V/O DIRECTOR
Because you were wild, you said you were wild
V/O DOROTHY
They gave up on me they shouldn’t have given up on me but they did
They stuck me in the corner
INT. STAGE
DOROTHY clicks the ruby slippers together
EXT. NO PLACE NIGHT
DOROTHY crying over her hair, gradually she looks up…
EXT. GRAVEYARD FULL MOON NIGHT
a young girl appears luminous in the darkness wearing a pale pink poppy headdress she looks calm and serene as if she has been there a long time it is DORTHY transformed into TARA WHITE WITCH.
EXT. GRAVEYARD STEPS NIGHT
A tap dancer dances to a song by Ethel Merman
O/S SONG LYRICS
got no diamonds got no pearls
Still I think I’m a lucky girl
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night
Got no mansion got no yacht still I’m happy with what I got
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night
EXT. GRAVEYARD NIGHT
DOROTHY and the WITCH have a standoff. The TARA WHITE WITCH turns her back and the other witch recedes rapidly into the night.
O/S SONG LYRICS
Sunshine gives me a lovely day
moonlight gives me the milky way
got no cheque book, got no banks
still I’d like to express my thanks
INT. CRYSTAL BALL
DOROTHY on stage
DOROTHY
It’s about me killing myself in the end
VOICE OFF LYRICS LAZARUZ BLACK
I could never do that ‘cos decisions that I make make me Lazarus the Black
O/S DOROTHY SINGING
I can still feel the breeze the rustle in the trees the misty memories of days gone by
INT. HOTEL DAY
Zoom out of JUDY’S EYE
EXT. POPPY FIELD DAY
DOROTHY wakes up and looks up at the blue sky
INT.CHURCH DAY
DOROTHY notices a woman sitting alone and her hairstyle in the shape of a cyclone, she walks on stopping at the intercession book
DOROTHY writes in the book of intercession.
TEXT
I am not religious but I think of you always my loving mummy…….’
INT. STAIRWELL TO BELFRY
DOROTHY climbs the stairs towards the belfry
VOICE OFF DIRECTOR
Is it a love story?
V/O DOROTHY
No it’s about freindship
INT.BELFRY DAY
The witch is sweeping in the corner and MADELAINE who is standing at the top of the ladder turns to look down.
V/O
Dorothy! Dorothy!
DOROTHY enters the Beflry and is drawn to the crystal ball illumined from within. She looks into the ball and sees the image of a young girl closing her umbrella as she enters the front door of her home with her small dog.
INT. CINEMA DAY
DOROTHY stops her tape recorder and takes the tape out and disappears.
EXT.YARD DAY
A young girl stops hiding in the corner and walks to join the girl she has been playing with and they walk off screen together.
TITLE NO PLACE
REF
There are many embodiments of tara but the best known are the peaceful compassionate white tara who protects and brings health long life and peace and the fierce dynamic green tara who brings fertility to the earth overcomes obstacles and saves us from physical and spiritual danger.
Tara appeared to the Buddha when he beheld the suffering of the world she was born from a lotus blossom in the lake that his tears had formed and because of her goodness she was granted the right to be incarnated as a man but she elected to be a woman.
Homage Tara swift heroic!
With a glance like flashing lightning born from a blooming lotus sprung from the tears on the face of the Lord of the World
EMERALD CITY
The jewel of hermes who presides over transitions and borders
The jewel of clairvoyance
REFERENCES
There are many embodiments of Tara but the best known are the peaceful compassionate white Tara who protects and brings health long life and peace and the fierce dynamic green Tara who brings fertility to the earth overcomes obstacles and saves us from physical and spiritual danger.
Tara appeared to the Buddha when he beheld the suffering of the world she was born from a lotus blossom in the lake that his tears had formed and because of her goodness she was granted the right to be incarnated as a man but she elected to be a woman.
Homage Tara swift heroic!
With a glance like flashing lightning born from a blooming lotus sprung from the tears on the face of the Lord of the World
EMERALD CITY
The jewel of hermes who presides over transitions and borders
The jewel of clairvoyance
TARA from the root to cross
