MARCEL (V.O.)
                         But sometimes you just have to disregard those rules and think, well, actually the rule is that I want to be having a good life and stay alive, and not just survive, but have a good life.
  
       He climbs out of the ball and clomps over to a PULL CORD dangling from the window shade.
  
    He hops onto it, yanking the cord downward and activating its PULL MECHANISM-

ZIIIP! The cord, with Marcel on it, flies up out of frame 
 
as THUNK! The blinds themselves drop and
UGH!! Marcel LEAPS off the cord as it arrives beside the windowsill. Ta-da: A perfect makeshift elevator.
MARCEL marches to the other side of the windowsill.