Timeless Frames

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   FADE IN

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3. Act 1

5. INT. LIVING ROOM - 15:15

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7. Filled with memorabilia. The TV is on. PETER talks to his WIFE.

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9. PETER: The film "Echoes of the Rainbow (歲月神偷)" will be shown on TV tonight. Should we watch it?

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11. Pressing a remote control, Peter's wife checks the TV programmes.

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13. WIFE: The broadcast won't end until 11pm. We've to greet our younger daughter at the Airport by then.

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15. His wife searches the Disney Channel and couldn't find the film.

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17. WIFE (Cont'd): When it was first released, we watched the film in cinema.

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19. PETER: Did we? The film title is particularly catchy to me now.

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21. Searching YouTube, Peter finds the full moivie. Soon, the movie unfolds on the TV screen. We hear a band singing: Five, four, three, two, one...We'll be dancing on the moon...

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23. PETER (V.O): Yesterday, I was hooked by the melody in a TV advert. I first listened to the 1963 version when I was nine years old.

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25. Act 2

27. INT. LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS

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29. A shoe-buying scene on screen.

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31. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): I can still remember the vivid moments when I walked barefoot from Tin Sum to Hung Shui Kiu.

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33. A barber shop scene. A babar is blowing a boy's hair.

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35. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): The scene depicts the look and feel fully. I was fearful of the heat from the blower.

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37. Then, we hear a character singing: I wanna be free...

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39. PETER (Singing):... like the bluebirds flying by me, like the waves out on the blue sea, if your love has to tie me, don't try me, say goodbye...

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41. Then, we see a fish-tank scene.

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43. PETER: Are those southern platyfish?

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45. WIFE: No, they don't have pointed fins...

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47. PETER: Only the males have them...I raised some.

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49. Then, a scene on cinema-going.

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51. PETER (V.O): In those days, it's possible to admit three persons with two tickets...and I'd bring my younger brother.

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53. Pausing.

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55. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): We watched the cheap 5:30pm show of coloured movies. But the cinemas we went smelt like toilets.

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57. Recalling.

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59. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): An auntie took me to a decent one to see a black and white film "The Magic Cup (夜光杯)" . After viewing, I remarked that I 'd like Law Yim-hing (羅艷卿) to be my wife.

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61. Then, a scene on keeping celebrity cards.

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63. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): Yes, I bought chewing gums to collect those cards. But I wasn't able to exchange any gift eg a basket ball with them.

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65. Then, we see the young characters carrying "PanAm" bags.

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67. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): Those were trendy "school" bags. I carried one too.

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69. Recalling.

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71. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): My Dad got paid on the 5th day of the month. I felt embarrassed every time the classmaster asked me when I could settle the school fees.

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73. Then, a scene on quiz competitions among DBS, Ying Wah and St Stephen's.

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75. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): I was from Shung Tak. In 1966, I represented the college in a speech competition and got tongue-tied.

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77. Pausing.

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79. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): My brother-in-law was a graduate of DBS, Sharon of Ying Wah and our son of St Stephen's.

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81. Then, a scene about learning English or Chinese, and good jobs.

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83. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): The young all learned English...My family wanted me to become a Police Inspector.

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85. Then, a scene on guitar playing.

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87. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd):When I earned my first $30 as a private tutor, I'd no hesitation to buy a guitar...In 1968, I attempted to write my first song: Don't Treat Me So Cruel.

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89. Then, a typhoon scene.

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91. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): I feared typhoons as they could blow roofs away.

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93. Then, a hospital scene.

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95. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): I tried to do a somersault at home but my head hit the floor. While being hospitalized, I learned some children patients had to treat the ward as their home.

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97. Then, a cemetery scene.

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99. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): When my maternal grandfather died, my Dad made the tombstone and we took it to Chai Wan by bus.

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101. Act 3

103. INT. LIVING ROOM - 19:00

105. Peter inserts an AI drawing titled: "Timeless Frames..." to a draft on his laptop.

107. PETER (V.O): Memories are the timeless frames of my life, capturing moments that never fade.

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109. Thinking.

111. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): The older I get, the more I see life as a series of timeless frames - each one a story, each one a lesson.

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113. Reflecting.

115. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): Time moves forward, but the timelese frames remain - reminders of what I've loved, lost and lived.

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117. FADE OUT

119. THE END