Rhinoceros (The Sleep)

by Tmyers1922@aol.com

As Drew pondered his life, or what was left of it in the cell he resided
in,
someone 
came inside his cell carrying what looked to be a hypodermic needle.  He
must

have been making more noise than he thought.  The man grabbed Drew's arm
and 
rubbed alcohol on it.  Drew didn't care.  He was at his wit's end.  Who
knows?  Sleep sometimes kills the pain......temporarily anyway.

(Opening Music)-As the man injects Drew, Drew almost immediately nods
off,
mouth opening very slowly, very slowly falling back on the bed as if in
slow
motion.  Yes, the pain was gone.......pain was gone........was
gone......gone....(Drew sleeps)
(Shot of band playing in what seems to be a mix of water and air at the
same
time)

"Planned a show, trees and balloons"
-(Drew's Dream:  flashback, one year earlier)-Show's Drew and his
girlfriend
at the time, planning their marriage, looking at all kinds of
decorations.
 It's December.

"Ice cream snow, see you in......."
-Drew looks outside to see that the snow on the ground looks like
it...well,
has a pink color to it.  'My imagination', he thinks. (As he thinks that,
camera pans over to a calendar which slowly flips from December to June.)

"June."
-Days on the calendar begin to disappear.  Disappearing all around their
wedding date to be, June 3.

"Your way, she knows......"
-Drew starts to have this fear all of a sudden.  Like....betrayal. 
'Betrayal
of what?', he thinks.  He begins to have this eerie(sp?) feeling, that
almost
terrorizes him.  A feeling of deja-vu, like he's done this before and
it's
being slightly altered in some way.  Altered by his feeling
of....betrayal?
 'Is that it?', he thinks again.  Meanwhile, his girlfriend is seen still
looking through decorative ideas, not a thought or care in her. 

(Guitar Interlude)
(Shot of band playing again in the misty water/air scene.  As James
plays,
it's as if
you can see the notes he plays flow in the air in a wavy, watery motion.)

"Colors show, after the moon."
-(Shot of the moon above Drew's house began to disappear into the clouds.
 Colors, of all kinds began to show all over the house in vibrant colors.
 Then a shot of Drew in his cell moving uncomfortably in his sleep.)

"I should go, see you in June."
-(Shot of Drew and his girlfriend holding each other in fear of the
colors.
Drew knows his feelings of fear and betrayal are true, 'But why? Why?',
he
contemplates.

"Your way"
-(Shot of calendar again with the days disappearing until the 3rd is the
only
day left.  But when Billy sings 'way' it disappears.  Then Drew and his
girlfriend look at each other, they look at each other as if....they
don't
know each other anymore.)

"She knows, she knows, she knows, etc.etc..."
-Drew begins to back away from her, and she the same, scared, almost
paranoid
in the fact that their not alone.  A wind picks up in the room.

(Guitar Solo)-(Shot of the band again, focusing on Billy's solo.  Now the
notes that Billy plays out of the guitar are bright with color and
resonance,
his eyes shut in total concentration and emotion of the solo, hair in his
face.  Then a shot of Drew in his cell struggling, struggling to wake up.
 More shots of James, D'arcy, and Jimmy almost in one with each other,
the
rhythm is so wrapped up about them.

"Open your eyes, to these must I lie?"
-Now shows Billy in the cell pleading this question to him.  Drew still
struggles.
(Shot of Drew's house again in chaos, things flying through the room,
colors
becoming so bright and blinding, they both can hardly see.

"Open your eyes, to these must I lie?"
-As the light fades, he finds he's at the wedding chapel, standing in
front
of the priest, with his bride to be, who speaks the vows to him.  Those 7
words hammering his brain until he can't take anymore and runs out.

"Your way"
-Billy speaks this part in the cell in disappointment, as if he knew what
was
going on in the dream.

"She knows....."
-(Girlfriend looks back at her soon-to-be husband running away, looking
in
disbelief  and a tear rolls down her face.)

(Last guitar part)-(Drew runs and runs far away from the church, far away
from his betrayal.  Yes!  He knows his betrayal now.  And that somewhat
relieves his pain.  Enough to run away, just anywhere but back
there....anywhere but back there....but back there....back
there....there...)
On the last guitar chord, he wakes up in an upright position.  'When will
it
be over!!', he screams to himself.  He gets up to look out the window. 
It's
dark.  But he still sees something, the light of the moon shines 
on his face.  'It's him!' (Billy), Drew thinks.  He looked to be riding
away
on something, something very large.  He looked back once, with a crack of
a
smile or is that a smile upside down?  "It's not over.", he mumbles and
rides
off in to the darkness.

"Bury Me" is next.  This one will be tough, but there isn't nothing like
a
challenge to make a man think.  I'll mail probably Sat. or Sun.