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Kitty's BIRTHDAY VIDEO
Black screen. Dramatic retro music cues up, not unlike the start of Pineapple Express. A dramatic male voice says, “And now, a story to thrill and delight! The Life and Times of Kitty Pryde!” The title appeared on the screen just as the narrator said it aloud. But then the the camera zooms past the words, the Star Trek theme music starting up. We are panning around the Academy, Bobby’s voice chiming in.
“Eighteen. The final frontier. This is the journey of the powered teen, Kitty Pryde. Her lifelong mission: to turn eighteen, to seek out new mischief and new adventures, to boldly go where no man has gone before. ”
The music picks up again and we’re outside Pierce, where Kitty is goofing around with Bobby and Sam. At a generic looking park, little Kitty engages in a fake swordfight with Little Bobby. Next, teenage Kitty destroys someone in a fencing match. In a school play, Kitty very obviously elbows the boy next to her. The clips continue through the music, recounting Kitty’s antics through clips from the last semester as well as a smattering of home-movies obviously acquired via Bobby. As the music fades out, we are suddenly taken to a black backdrop. Sam sits in front of it, artfully rendered in black and white.
“What can ya say about Kitty?” He says thoughtfully, and then grins, “She’s one of a kind.”
We cut to some footage of Kitty when she’s not paying attention to the camera. In one, she is animatedly lecturing someone whose back is to the camera. In the next, a toothless young Kitty regards herself in the mirror. In another, she appears just a few years younger, faking suaveness and bouncing her eyebrows at someone off-camera.
Another voice-over has picked up: “Katherine Badonkadonk Pryde was born in the Illinois town of Gotham. Her parents were shocked when, at the age of three, she read an entire set of encyclopedias. By five, she’d built her first time machine. Her journeys through time solved numerous wars and disasters that the world no longer remembers, since they never happened.”
Kitty is shaking hands with a student who is dressed up like George Washington. Another, dressed as Abe Lincoln, is texting in the background.
“As a child, she met the first love of her life.”
Young Kitty scrunches up her face as young Bobby ostentatiously kisses her cheek.
“Bobby Drake.” A return to the black backdrop, where Bobby sits now. He grins. He recounts the tale of first meeting Kitty, interspersed with clips of them together. He tells it as if they are two halves of the same person, dramatic exaggeration coloring his voice.
“It was with Bobby Drake that she battled Batman.” At a school event, costumed Bobby and Kitty are racing a couple other kids, one of whom is dressed as Batman. The end of the race is in slow-mo, Kitty finishing just before Bobby, winning the race. Melodramatic triumphant music begins to play, underneath the VO.
“Growing up, young Kitty distinguished herself as a genius both intellectually--” For the first time, a clip of Kitty speaking. At nine, she addresses the camera with sarcastic plainness, explaining a scientific principal in wildly fantastical terms.
“--and comically.” Again, Kitty speaking, this time as an seven year old, telling the punchline to a joke that isn’t at all funny out of context.
“The revelation of AMAZING POWERS--” Kitty phasing through various objects plays now, “--changed Kitty’s life as she was whisked away to Hogwarts to master her abilities.”
Kitty, dressed as a wizard, is phasing candy out of the wrappers. There is a maniacal gleam in her eye. Kitty, with a giant glitter wand, waving it benevolently over the heads of several nervous-looking students.
“It was there that she met the second love of her life--Sam Guthrie.”
We return to Sam, in front of the black backdrop. He tells the story of their first meeting as clips of Kitty and Sam play. In one of them, she swoons dramatically into his arms.
Back to Sam, who begins to delve into more subjective details about Kitty. His tone of voice is warm and admiring. Upbeat music begins to play underneath his voice. A few slowed-down clips of Kitty and Bobby play, reaching normal speed as Sam’s VO ends and the lyrics of the song come in. It’s like a music video of Kitty at her best, the clips synced perfectly to the beat. Most of her friends appear, even if only for a moment. The song ends on a shot of Kitty with her hands on her hips, beaming. Then we’re back to Bobby. There’s no music, just his voice. He appears tearful, dabbing at his eyes with a giant handkerchief.
“She’s just,” He begins, then takes a moment as if to keep from sobbing, “She’s just the best person I know.
A photo of Sam, Bobby, and Jubilee appears, obviously taken the same day as their ‘performances.’ They’re holding a sign that reads HAPPY BIRTHDAY KITTY. It fades to black as The Beatles’ Birthday begins to play over the credits, which thank everyone imaginable including Kitty herself, ‘for eighteen years of awesome and more to come.’
Black screen. Dramatic retro music cues up, not unlike the start of Pineapple Express. A dramatic male voice says, “And now, a story to thrill and delight! The Life and Times of Kitty Pryde!” The title appeared on the screen just as the narrator said it aloud. But then the the camera zooms past the words, the Star Trek theme music starting up. We are panning around the Academy, Bobby’s voice chiming in.
“Eighteen. The final frontier. This is the journey of the powered teen, Kitty Pryde. Her lifelong mission: to turn eighteen, to seek out new mischief and new adventures, to boldly go where no man has gone before. ”
The music picks up again and we’re outside Pierce, where Kitty is goofing around with Bobby and Sam. At a generic looking park, little Kitty engages in a fake swordfight with Little Bobby. Next, teenage Kitty destroys someone in a fencing match. In a school play, Kitty very obviously elbows the boy next to her. The clips continue through the music, recounting Kitty’s antics through clips from the last semester as well as a smattering of home-movies obviously acquired via Bobby. As the music fades out, we are suddenly taken to a black backdrop. Sam sits in front of it, artfully rendered in black and white.
“What can ya say about Kitty?” He says thoughtfully, and then grins, “She’s one of a kind.”
We cut to some footage of Kitty when she’s not paying attention to the camera. In one, she is animatedly lecturing someone whose back is to the camera. In the next, a toothless young Kitty regards herself in the mirror. In another, she appears just a few years younger, faking suaveness and bouncing her eyebrows at someone off-camera.
Another voice-over has picked up: “Katherine Badonkadonk Pryde was born in the Illinois town of Gotham. Her parents were shocked when, at the age of three, she read an entire set of encyclopedias. By five, she’d built her first time machine. Her journeys through time solved numerous wars and disasters that the world no longer remembers, since they never happened.”
Kitty is shaking hands with a student who is dressed up like George Washington. Another, dressed as Abe Lincoln, is texting in the background.
“As a child, she met the first love of her life.”
Young Kitty scrunches up her face as young Bobby ostentatiously kisses her cheek.
“Bobby Drake.” A return to the black backdrop, where Bobby sits now. He grins. He recounts the tale of first meeting Kitty, interspersed with clips of them together. He tells it as if they are two halves of the same person, dramatic exaggeration coloring his voice.
“It was with Bobby Drake that she battled Batman.” At a school event, costumed Bobby and Kitty are racing a couple other kids, one of whom is dressed as Batman. The end of the race is in slow-mo, Kitty finishing just before Bobby, winning the race. Melodramatic triumphant music begins to play, underneath the VO.
“Growing up, young Kitty distinguished herself as a genius both intellectually--” For the first time, a clip of Kitty speaking. At nine, she addresses the camera with sarcastic plainness, explaining a scientific principal in wildly fantastical terms.
“--and comically.” Again, Kitty speaking, this time as an seven year old, telling the punchline to a joke that isn’t at all funny out of context.
“The revelation of AMAZING POWERS--” Kitty phasing through various objects plays now, “--changed Kitty’s life as she was whisked away to Hogwarts to master her abilities.”
Kitty, dressed as a wizard, is phasing candy out of the wrappers. There is a maniacal gleam in her eye. Kitty, with a giant glitter wand, waving it benevolently over the heads of several nervous-looking students.
“It was there that she met the second love of her life--Sam Guthrie.”
We return to Sam, in front of the black backdrop. He tells the story of their first meeting as clips of Kitty and Sam play. In one of them, she swoons dramatically into his arms.
Back to Sam, who begins to delve into more subjective details about Kitty. His tone of voice is warm and admiring. Upbeat music begins to play underneath his voice. A few slowed-down clips of Kitty and Bobby play, reaching normal speed as Sam’s VO ends and the lyrics of the song come in. It’s like a music video of Kitty at her best, the clips synced perfectly to the beat. Most of her friends appear, even if only for a moment. The song ends on a shot of Kitty with her hands on her hips, beaming. Then we’re back to Bobby. There’s no music, just his voice. He appears tearful, dabbing at his eyes with a giant handkerchief.
“She’s just,” He begins, then takes a moment as if to keep from sobbing, “She’s just the best person I know.
A photo of Sam, Bobby, and Jubilee appears, obviously taken the same day as their ‘performances.’ They’re holding a sign that reads HAPPY BIRTHDAY KITTY. It fades to black as The Beatles’ Birthday begins to play over the credits, which thank everyone imaginable including Kitty herself, ‘for eighteen years of awesome and more to come.’