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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Abridged)
By Levi
03 December 2007
(ABRIDGED - A spoof script of a bad film.)

So here we are at number two. Again, written when the (genuinely awful) film was

originally released, it spoils the plot for the movie and contains strong language.


EXT. SPACE. NIGHT

Levitating TV screens ROTATE and BRIEFLY EXPLAIN the first film that everyone in the AUDIENCE has already SEEN and DISLIKED.


INT. HIVE ENTRANCE. DAY

The GOVERNMENT MEN from ET arrive and open a large DOOR using TECHNOLOGY.

ZOMBIES emerge and everyone PREDICTABLY acts SURPRISED.


INT. POLICE STATION. DAY

Chubby COPS try to restrain the UNDEAD with HANDCUFFS and POLITE WORDS. JILL walks in and acts VERY UNPROFESSIONAL by SHOOTING UP THE PLACE.

COP
Jill, you’re crazy! And nothing like your video-game character!

JILL
I know. Check my bad self. When this nonsense is over, I’m staying out till eleven.


EXT. ROAD BLOCK. NIGHT

THOUSANDS of PEOPLE struggle to flee the CITY in an ORDERLY SINGLE FILE.

ANTOINE
We’re sick of this! Everyone go home! I’m going to count to three!

Nearly at the front, JILL sighs and acts UNCHARACTERISTICALLY CRASS.

JILL
Buggering shit-fuck. Well, off to church.


EXT. ALLYWAY. NIGHT

UNCONVINCING ZOMBIES blurrily shift around the foreground being as SCARY and THREATENING as KITTENS. ARMED GOVERNEMENT AGENTS are occasionally EATEN through their notable LACK of FORESIGHT.


INT. CHURCH. NIGHT

JILL plus a plethora of CHEESY CHARACTER CLICHÉS point guns around. MILLA JOVOVICH enters STUPIDLY on a MOTORBIKE and gets her MURDER ON.

RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE decides it's THE MATRIX for a bit.

JILL
Who the fuck are you? (seriously)

MILLA
Sorry, I’m too naked and forgetful to tell you anything right now. Also, have you seen my career? I left it somewhere around the Fifth Element.


EXT. STREET. NIGHT

Funky BEATS play. A wise-cracking racial stereotype stamps COMIC RELIEF on his forehead then CRASHES his CAR while admiring NAKED DEAD PROSTITUTES.

He gets out and has YET MORE GUNS pointed at him.

COMIC RELIEF
Motherfuck.

ARMY CANNON-FODDER
Pardon?

COMIC RELIEF
I said motherfuck, you motherfuck. I’m the funny, see. This language appeals to the kids. Tits.

The ONCE-SCARY ABOMINATION from Resident Evil 3 APPEARS and shoots BULLETS from his ELBOWS. Everyone except the annoying COMIC RELIEF guy PERISHES.


EXT. CEMETARY. NIGHT

Unexplained MIST makes the FILM seem SILLY.

JILL and MILLA exchange PLEASANTRIES whilst pointing GUNS at each other. Predictably, ZOMBIES, which are not once REFERRED to by NAME, are PRESENT so the CAST must ELUDE them by QUIETLY LEAVING.


EXT. BRIDGE. NIGHT

MILLA is DISTRACTED by something unseen owing to an UNEXPLAINED INCREASE in her SPATIAL and SUPERNATURAL AWARENESS.

A ROCKET blows SHIT UP. MILLA has a few FLASHBACKS and RANDOMLY decides to fight this FOE with GUNS and her HANDS.

MILLA and NEMESIS do FIGHTS.

It ENDS by MILLA shooting her way down a WASTE CHUTE and NEMESIS firing ROCKETS and MILLA overturning a SKIP and being SAFE from the ROCKETS in the SKIP. It is as NONSENSICAL as it reads on PAPER.


INT. SCHOOL. NIGHT

A MORONIC REPORTER is EATEN by CHILDREN and very few people in the AUDIENCE give a SHIT. JILL happens upon a PLOT DEVICE in the form of a DIRE CHILD ACTOR.

The BRAT follows JILL’S ill-advised LEAD into DANGER and DOGS are made DEAD. Soon, MILLA arrives to SAVE THE DAY McGyver-style, using FOIL and a CIGARETTE.

BRAT
To the helicopter depository!


EXT. SOME ROOF. NIGHT

MILLA MURDERS more PEOPLE with STEALTH, thus winning the HEART of the film’s generic macho LOVE INTEREST. EVERYONE else is promptly CAPTURED.

EVIL MAN
Milla! You must kill your/our/the Nemesis whom was ironically crafted from your half-baked feaux-husband from the original film.

A SERIES of PAINFULLY CONTRIVED FLASHBACKS ensure everyone in the AUDIENCE is on the same TEDIOUS PAGE.

MILLA proceeds to KILL the MONSTER. But DOESN’T.

MILLA
I can’t kill him! I love him! Or feel sorry for him. It’s all the same when you change expression as rarely as me.

NEMESIS repays the courtesy by SHOOTING more THINGS. MILLA does some ROLLY POLIES and REINACTS various SCENES from the GAME’S FMV.


INT. HELICOPTER. DAWN

The SIX or SEVEN lead characters ESCAPE while a NUKE destroys the CITY.

The HELICOPTER WOBBLES and MILLA is STABBED by ALTRUISM.


INT. UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LAB. NIGHT

MILLA wakes in the same CONTRIVED and NAKED way she did exactly ONE film AGO. She OPENS her EYES and UTTERS the FILM’S TAGLINE. AGAIN.

MILLA MURDERS some more SCIENTICIANS, occasionally with VIOLENCE but at least ONCE with just her EYES.


EXT. RESEARCH LAB. NIGHT

JILL and the REST arrive looking DAPPER. MILLA is BUNDLED into a CAR where it is OBVIOUSLY REVEALED she is EVIL.

The FILM ENDS with the same LACK of CLOSURE as the ORIGINAL.

The AUDIENCE has meanwhile LEFT, having felt INSULTED by the SHAMELESS BASTARDISATION of a once-entertaining FRANCHISE.

Reviews
A very good piece.
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 5th December 2007
First off I have to say I like this. Its the right blend of scurrilous lampoon of adolescent skin flick special effect dross. Its dialogue is minimalist but acutely to the point and soooooo nonsensical. It gets things off the chest without a boring rant -- and sends itself up into the bargin. [ Always a good touch ]. The over the top apocalyptic farce is good too. Nice business. In fact the best piece of business I have seen on Comedy for quite some time. 
 
But what do you plan to do with it? It probably won't get too many reviews here as it is a bit too subtle for general comment and emphatically not to even the more catholic taste of the generous GW reviewer. I maybe wrong. I'm guessing. But that would be my instinct.  
 
You need a ProCo, not an assessment. Thanks for your PM. I will have a think and reply. 
 
Slan!

Written by coosh (868 comments posted) 12th February 2008
This roller-coasts its way through a series of fascinatingly surreal images accompanied by amusing description. Unfortunately, I have never seen the film (but remember Milla from those Italian magazines and the Fifth Element). Consequently, many references are probably over my head, but I read it as a sort of satire of a video game.  
 
Particularly enjoyed the line " I can’t kill him! I love him! Or feel sorry for him. It’s all the same when you change expression as rarely as me"... Whilst the direction is fun to read on paper, as it were, I wondered just how effective and expensive it would be to translate to the screen. However, a relentlessly entertaining read.

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