THE MISADVENTURES OF A MASSEUR NAMED: WAX ON CHONG

AN ANIMATED SHORT FILM SCRIPT

INT. RESTAURANT - DAY

MOVE IN ON iPad.

The screen FLASHES alive and a FaceTime message POPS up.  The face of a powerful gorilla, RUFF RUFFSKIN, 45, EXPLODES on the screen.  His huge head is covered in thick black hair.  His eyes pierce the screen.  He licks his lips and has long, fang-like yellow teeth.

He SCREAMS.

RUFF
I want massage!  I want massage, NOW!

A large, bald featherless wing covers the screen.

INT. RESTAURANT - DAY

WAX-ON CHONG, 23, a young featherless duck, with smooth white skin, ice-blue almond eyes, and a wingspan almost quadruple the size of a “normal” duck, sits at a table across from his landlord, MRS. LATCHKEY, 55. 

She is a little hard of hearing, and wears huge hearing aids attached to each side of her head.  

She has wire-rimmed spectacles perched on her beak, and beautifully rich, forest green feathers flowing from her elegant frame.  

They drink tea directly from the teacups by dipping their beaks, SUCKING noisily, then lifting their heads back and up, GARGLING the tea back like another might rinse with Listerine. 

This exchange repeats throughout the scene, when appropriate.

Wax-On covers his iPad with his featherless wing.

WAX-ON
(to himself)
Oh, no, not you again.

His startled wing SMASHES a WAITER with a full tray of drinks, sending him ZOOMING back through the swinging kitchen door.

MRS. LATCHKEY
What did you say, my dear boy?
What was that awful noise?

Wax-On is silent. 

Wax-On’s almond eyes widen into huge circles and his white skin grows a rosy shade of pink. 

His enormous, featherless wings FLUTTER uncontrollably, KNOCKING over a table behind him, SPILLING food over the two startled PATRONS. 

His deaf, blind landlord does not notice.