DON'T WORRY DARLING
By
The Van Dyke Brothers
disclaimer: The names in the movie are definitely going to different than they are here, and this is the original screenplay so a lot of this is obviously gonna be changed in the movie. Some of the things and elements in this is maybe going to be in the film, so I guess, SPOILERS AHEAD!
FADE IN
SCISSORS cut through a piece of newspaper--
A 1950s ADVERTISEMENT showing a cartoonish, 1950s housewife in a housedress.
SCISSORS CUTTING around the advertisement. Carefully.
THE HOUSEWIFE bent over the oven. Taking a pie out. Grinning.
HER CARTOON HUSBAND standing crudely behind her. Grinning bigger.
THE AD'S HEADLINE scrawled big and bold across the bottom of the ad--
Successful marriages start in the kitchen!
THE AD is cut free from the newspaper.
A MAN'S HANDS handling it with painstaking care.
THE AD is placed onto a worktable alongside a dozen other 1950s ADVERTISEMENTS. Each more sexist and vile than the last. Women slaving away for their husbands. Suggestive. Cooking. Cleaning.
THE HEADLINES just as sickening as the pictures-- "Slip down her chimney this Christmas with a Hoover!"
"How to make her do what you want!"
"So easy even a woman can do it!"
All of them sick and twisted and ridiculous.
But to the man collecting them, whose face we never see-- IT'S LIKE A DEPRAVED FANTASY.
Off his hands, running his fingers over the ads, over the women depicted in them, we--
JUMP TO BLACK.
YOU ARE READING
Don't worry darling
Non-Fictionthe don't worry darling film screen play, I did not write this (obviously)
