They get in the van and get
ready to go. Bill and Ted wonder how Napoleon is doing with Deacon.
Cut to bowling alley. Deacon
and Napoleon are playing with Bobby and Jeff. The boys make fun of Napoleon as
he bowls. They boys sneak out of the bowling alley.
BOBBY
Your brother'll
kill you!
DEACON
I don't care. Napoleon's a dick.
Confrontation with the bowling
manager the same, except the bowling manager throws the blonde wig out after
Napoleon.
Bill and Ted arrive at the
castle, the same Tudor castle they visited briefly at the start of the time
traveling. Bill and Ted are excited . . . this is their last stop and they know
this is where the babes are.
Ext. Castle - Two young noblemen are moving
toward the castle gates. We HEAR a "PSSST" from the nearby trees.
The
two young noblemen stop, turn, and go examine this. Then we HEAR a THUD, and
we cut to:
SAME - MOMENTS LATER
And Bill and Ted step out of
the trees wearing the two young noblemen's garbs, their boxers coming out the
backs of the pantaloons. They step onto the path and begin walking toward the
castle. At the gate, they get in line, second and
third behind a DUKE of some sort.
GUARD
(announcing)
The Duke of
Westphalia!
And the Duke enters the
castle, leaving Bill and Ted to step up to the GUARD, who stares at them. There
is a pause.
BILL
How's it goin'? We are guests of the
King. I am the Earl of Smith.
TED
And I am the
Duke of Ted.
The Guard eyes them dubiously,
then turns toward the courtyard.
GUARD
(announcing)
The Earl of
Smith. The Duke of Ted.
Ext. Courtyard - Scattered pockets of
PARTYGOERS adorn the courtyard, which is lavishly decorated with plants and
flowers and an elegant, well-stocked buffet table. Seated on a slightly elevated
deck at the other end of the courtyard are the KING and QUEEN, and their two
daughters - the two beautiful young princesses we saw earlier - JOANNA and
ELIZABETH.
ANGLE ON BILL AND TED who are now entering the
courtyard, quite impressed with the party they are crashing. As they enter, the
scattered chatting stops, and all the attention turns toward them, including the
attention of Joanne and Elizabeth, who nudge each other,
recognizing them as the two they saw the other day. Bill and Ted stop, realizing that everyone
has fallen silent and is looking at them. Beat.
TED
How's it goin'?
BILL
Party on,
dudes.
On the floor, the party gradually gets back
to normal as the partygoers go back to their own affairs. Bill and Ted weave their way
through the crowd, heading toward the buffet table, all the while staring at the
two young Princesses, who glace at them and smile.
TED
Dude. Those are
two of the most
beautiful babes I have ever seen.
BILL
Remember Ted,
this is strictly a business trip.
TED
(nevertheless
enamored)
I know, I know
-
And, not watching where they're
going, Bill and Ted bump right into two HUGE FAT MEN who turn abruptly and glare
at them.
TED
(quickly)
Whoa - ugly
dudes.
(to them)
So . . . you
own land or what?
Bill starts to pull Ted away
as The King stands and faces the crowd, a
courtier behind him ringing a bell. He clears his throat. Everyone is silent and facing
the King, who smiles, then addresses the crowd.
KING
As you know,
today is a very special day. Would the Dukes
of Northumberland and East Anglia
please join me over here.
The two Huge Fat Men (whom Ted
bumped into a moment ago) proudly make their way through the crowd to the
platform.
KING
The purpose of
this special occasion, it may now be known,
is to announce my acceptance of the
offers of engagement to
my two daughters, Joanna and Elizabeth -
Joanne and Elizabeth, caught
by total surprise, are horrified when they hear:
KING
- to these
two fine Dukes!
The crowd applauds politely, but Bill
and Ted are not so pleased.
BILL / TED
Bogus!
ANOTHER ANGLE - The Dukes approach the
mortified Princesses as the King motions to a BAND of MUSCIANS.
KING
And now, for
the first dance of the evening, my
daughters will dance with their future
husbands.
And the crowd continues to
applaud as everyone backs off the floor, making room for the repulsive Dukes,
who lead the Princesses down the steps, passing right by Bill and Ted. The girls
look at Bill and Ted, desperately, as they pass.
MUSIC PLAYS and the dance
begins.
TED
(to Bill)
We have to do
something.
Bill nods, and he and Ted
begin to weave their way out onto the dance floor where they approach the two
couples. The crowd is shocked as Bill and Ted tap the Dukes on the shoulders.
BILL
Excuse us,
Duke-dudes.
TED
Mind if we cut
in?
The girls are pleasantly
surprised but the Dukes, outraged, look up at the King who is stunned by this
effrontery. He gestures to his HENCHMEN, and points down to the dance
floor where Bill is now dancing with
Joanna and Ted with Elizabeth (note, they switch the girls around later in the
script). Bill and Ted, of course, have no clue how to dance. As the Henchmen are
now approaching them from the King's platform, there is very little time for
the following:
JOANNA
You're the
ones we say in the garden, aren't you?
TED
Yah.
ELIZABETH
Why are you
here?
BILL
It's a long
story.
TED
But mostly we've
come to rescue you.
JOANNA
(happily)
You have?
BILL
Yah, I guess
so.
The Henchmen approach.
BILL
But Ted - how
are we gonna do it?
TED
I dunno - but
we're gonna.
The Henchmen get closer.
The
four separate.
ELIZABETH
Meet us in our
chambers at nine.
BILL
We're there,
babes.
TED
Catch ya later.
And, as the Henchmen make a
grab for Bill and Ted, they dart under the buffet table where they scurry under the
length of it, arriving at the end and continuing, crawling under TWO OLD STUFFY
LADIES' dresses. The ladies yelp, and Bill
and Ted scoot on all fours past the
legs of guests, causing havoc as they crawl toward a door which they manage to slither
through undetected. Bill and Ted get up and bound off, into the
castle somewhere.
BILL
Way to go,
dude! We got dates!
TED
Excellent!
AIR GUITAR. And as their
voices trail off as they pound away we dissolve to:
The scene of them in armor
starts the same, then:
BILL'S VOICE
(echoing)
Ted.
TED'S VOICE
(same)
What?
BILL
I feel like the
dude in the Wizard of Oz.
TED
The straw dude?
BILL
No, not that
dude. ‘If I only had a heart . . . ‘
The scenes continues with them
fighting as the Star Wars characters. Plays out same except two guards plunge
their swords into the suit.
Scene of Bill over Ted the
same except after "Don't be dead, dude" . . .
BILL
S'long, Ted.
(overcome)
I . . . love
you, dude.
(quickly, to
himself)
Fag.
Bill calls henchman a medieval
dick. Ted hits the henchmen with a lance, not a bone. The fag line when they hug
each other stays the same.
ANOTHER HALLWAY
Bill and Ted knock on a DOOR.
It opens, REVEALING Elizabeth and Joanna, happy to see them.
TED
We have come to
rescue you!
ELIZABETH
We thought you
were dead.
BILL
Us, dead?
TED
(a la a
swashbuckler)
Ah ha ha ha ha
ha!
JOANNA
Shhh! We have
to hurry. This way.
INT. PRINCESS' CHAMBERS
The girls lead Bill and Ted
toward the window, where they toss a makeshift ladder through the window and
over the wall.
EXT. CASTLE - NIGHT
The four climb down the castle
wall and land on the ground, where they see twenty henchmen surrounding them, swords
drawn. Beat.
TED
How's it goin'?
CUT TO:
EXT. COURTYARD - THE NEXT DAY
Bill and Ted, in chains and
their 1984 clothes, stand before the King. The Princesses are there, near tears.
The Dukes flank the King. Members of the kingdom are also present.
KING
(to everyone)
Today, these
two demons will be killed.
He looks at his daughters,
sadly.
KING
Tomorrow, my
daughters, who have
consorted with them, will be killed.
Murmurs from the crowd. Girls
bite their lips, fight tears.
KING
(to Bill and
Ted)
Demons. Have
you any final words?
BILL
Yah, we do.
(thinks)
Joanna and
Elizabeth do not want to
marry these two old fat dudes.
TED
They don't
love them.
BILL
Yah.
TED
And love is, is
. . . eternal. Otherwise, you end
up getting divorced, like Bill's parents.
BILL
Shut up, Ted.
TED
Although Bill's
new mom is pretty cute.
BILL
Shut up,
Ted.
TED
But she makes
really bad grilled cheese sandwiches.
BILL
At least my mom
isn't fat.
TED
It's a
glandular problem.
BILL
Yah, she has
fat glands . . .
KING
(fed up)
Torture them!
The Iron Maiden jokes comes
here.
The execution scene proceeds
the same, except the van comes screeching into the scene at the last second.
Socrates and Billy the Kid get Bill and Ted into the van and it takes off with
the executioner hanging onto the back. As the van drives away:
Ted cranes his head out the
window of the accelerating van -
TED
Elizabeth! Joanna!
We'll be back!
Bill pulls Ted
back inside -
BILL
Get in, buddy!
And the van disappears.
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