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Dialogue Route 66

  • Writer: Stephen Hornsby-Smith
    Stephen Hornsby-Smith
  • Oct 24
  • 7 min read

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S -She spent 6 years in a psychiatric ward just to get the job?

R - Grissley isn't unique!

S- There are wards just for Entrepreneurs too?

R- And front-line sociopathic captains of industry

S-Dive and live hive

R- But psych wards are where we get most of our great and successful actors! RADA trains all its pupils here, well in the secure unit!

S- And Larry was from Broadmoor?

R- Absolutely!

S-And of course 'no dramas' claim they were here first?

R- Right again!!

S- Welcome to Australia

R- But we have also produced serious Directors and Producers too!

S- Psych consultants were...?

R- .....................................heavily invested in Lear

S-...........................................................................now that will never do!

R- As Rome burns, we also have our composers too! I understand Mr Williams is doing quite well?

S- And? Rome burning?

R- Our skilled pyromaniacs are

S- Bringing the house down?

R- No, that is the work of trained killers, assassins, mercenaries...

S- Okay I get it! You are ruining my cynicism with mind bending distortion!

R- The CGI people!

S- Extras, there has to be extras?

R- Non vegetative stand-up comedians have a low esteem, they are great for being a silent in the pub type!

S- How degrading! How exploitative! No doubt any other cliches and ignorant harm you want to do to those with mental health challenges?

R- Well Schizophrenics often have the emotional range of tragic/ comic lead roles, and ..

S- Enough!

R- At least we also train Bank managers, mortgage lenders and estate agents to be Iago types, natural born hit men!

S- I thought you only train killers in a specific bespoke way?

R- The cleaners!!

S- Yes, the cleaners!

R- The bank managers etc

S- The housing shortage has offered a new revenue stream as long as they can lie, the more they service the need to sell more properties, the world needs our service! They literally tread the boards.

S- ...walking the plank on construction sites hasn't stopped the world getting into mortgages that they can't afford!

R- I know right?!! Aren't they just great?!!

S- Don't brag about it!! So how about the Photography and the script writers?

R- Writers block actually allows us to by-pass their impasse

S- How?

R- By removing their toe and fingernails as well as a bit of water- boarding.

S- How can you just do a bit of water boarding?

R- Now you sound like our spin Doctors

S- You do politics too?

R- The PTSD types?

S- Can anyone get misdiagnosed?

R- Well we offer a sort programme for parents who go on holiday and don't want their kids around

S- Of course, you babysit! Any pet sanctuary too?

R- Well we use the kennels for our human patients, but we have tortured pets too!

S- Tell me you have success stories other than Olivier

R-Alfie Hitchcock liked torturing actresses into hysteria

S- ............................................................................and that's a success story?

R- Dropping names and terror too

S- However we do do snuff movies if you like .................hardship?

S- For example?

R- The great escape. Well, it was a cover story for the original film about women trapped in a totalitarian convent

S- Too non-commercial?

R- Never stood a chance! Plus they ended up killing each other, and the snag was 15th century Hollywood were trying to illegalise female intelligence by imprisonment in and outside marriage

S- Hollywood existed in the 15th century?

R- Don't sound surprised

S- Too moral by women actually doing it for themselves

R- Yes, but blood and guts, bigotry and misogyny and sadism were a little too close to home for Hollywood's liking.

S- I can see why they didn't want to distract from the witch trials etc

R- Too right!

S- The 15th century was a little sluggish about women's rights too...

R- Not a fan myself

S- You wouldn't want your two daughters being trapped in a snuff movie, even if it is retro?

R-Trapped in a convent with killer nuns and prevented from making it a financial money spinner! Who would have made that up???

S- Well if the money's right

R- You're missing the business opportunity here

S- Am I? Because I can't see it?

R- All actors dead means no wages that have to be paid, and if the Director follows suit? No egos and reputations either !

S- A budget movie , that's not too much, just snuff !

R- A cult film that no one is going to see !!

S- Or people get paid to see it by an 'anonymous benefactor'!!??

R- Drive ins are the worst ! Not many people get out of those drive-ins to see this unique picture and , what with a well positioned hose and the motor running....

S- A snuff movie within a reality TV snuff movie ?

R- Breaks boundaries and hearts of their family !!

S- Breaks boundaries of taste too !

R- I hope you're not saying ...

S- No I'm not ! 

R- Imagine there is a town that is known as the suicide capital of the West, where people congregate for such situations !!?

S- Voyeurs and victims of them !

R- A spectator sport as well ?

S- The world is a cruel place especially when we are impotent to stop this filth

R- Did you know that locally you can buy strawberry or blackcurrant flavour exhaust fumes, as if you are buying popcorn ? 'Snap crackle and off you pop' ...

S- ...................................................................................Fuck-off Rndall ! How can you sensationalize such a trauma ?

R- It must be the only town where the population rises and falls so drastically overnight !

G- Diminishing returns doesn't actually do it does it !

R- Try and be a little more sensitive about this issue, please !

S- Well there's a switch !

G- So, no Mexican stand-offs then ?

R- Don't be facetious! But how did you know that all the actors and the Director and Producer had to be Mexican?

S- A snuff cartel of a Mexican film with snuff disrespect?

R- How did you know that the Mexican Cartels, drug Lords paid and staged the movie?

S- just unlucky, I guess!

R- They will be thrilled that they'll get full credit for the movie!

S- The RADA drug enforcement agency that only is open to Mexicans

R- No! That would be discrimination against

S- Colombians?

R- Always Painter

S-Well that's Cartelesian logic! And the blockbuster 'The Great Escape'?

R- When there is a Hollywood blockbuster, just remember that it is a cover for a snuff movie

S- Noted So who got all the money for the Snuff movie being a B-movie apart from Grissley?

S- Call me old fashioned but those female actors were murdered for something they didn't consent to, something they didn't ask for 'something they didn't provoke because there are the Grissley's of this world, and 15th century Hollywood needs to clean its act up before the 21st century hits you! Or will nothing change?? Well Randall?

R- Fat chance!

G- But there is money to be made out of it

R and S -" Shut up Grissley !!"

G- But failure and controversy pays...

R- In ways we can't possibly imagine!!!

G- No! just financially, just like making the most out of inheritance hunters

S- Do you think families should pay to precipitate a parents death  to access the inheritance?

G- No !! That's a despicable practice...even if it's a lucrative one !

S- You have moral rules Grissley ? It's rhetorical, just in case you don't have any...

G- But there is a market for blackmailing all parties

S- And there you have it There she is, my dinosaur!

G- But white collar right ?

R-  But the Post Cold War 'Leveradge Report at its finest !!??!!

S-Isn't bribery available?

G- That's the safety net !

S- Are you the banks Grissley

R- There's no denying it, Mother says she's  only scared of one person except herself, and that is Grissley ! Of course she is the banks !

G- Any more and I will make you bankrupt !

R- 'Me I'm touchie, touchie too !'

R- Ever ask the big 'G' about recessions?

G- So I make a recession or two, more perhaps ..okay I  make multiple recessions.. and yes I am 'Dona Corleone' i..................in my own unobtrusive way.

R- You have globalized the internationalizing of extremes of Rich and poor Grissley ! You have expanded the poverty market portfolio ! You are Dr  Covid to our global economy !

G- And i couldn't have done it without your help Randall !

S- Just tell us : How many people have you 'helped' from above the poverty line to beneath the poverty line ?  

 R- Why have the rich got to pay taxes but the super rich get even richer ? 

S- And what about the poor ?

G-Who? Never heard of him !

R- You are the Capital of the Hunger games Grissley !

G- And may the wods always be out of favour !

R- Hunger Games too ..

G- ...........Inefficient ! But may the odds always be in your flavour

S- Back to the Drive-ins already ? 

R- Even if drive-ins may kill you,feel reassured that it'll cost you to tow away your vehicle

S- Someone could still be paying bills after they've died ??!!

G- But thanks to their 'social environmentalism'.........

R- ........................................................She means when it's all over

G- You'll still be doing meaningful work by making a  substantial financial contribution....You see it's not all gloom and doom !

S- NO ! It actually is obscene !

G- Who doesn't like 'Got to pick a pocket or two' then ?

Rand S "Fuck off Grissley !"

S- I want to review the situation

G- You don't get to do ever so umble ! Cut the umble chord now !

S- Next you'll want to cut our vocal chords as well !

G- No one's recession proof ! even if that's inappropriate...........................

 whereas the NHS should be subjected to cuts...and bruises, 

S- ..........and a duty of care to run the whole economy !

G- That is inappropriate, and  so is free speech ! 

G- You want your telephone call Mr Anderson ,or can't you speak right now ? And what if you can't write either Mr Anderson ?

G -Hello, my real name is Agent spliff,

Group- Hi agent Spliff !'

G -And I'm a recessionaholic! 

Group- (Clapping  )

G- I've been free of the Matrix for 6 months !

Group- (Cheering ) That's right !...................

G- I will never again be a servant or slave to their agenda !

Group - stand up and clap and cheer

G- The Matrix is not my friend !

Group- cheer and whistle !

The group supervisor says 'Take the Matrix down ?'

G- Well let's not go overboard love !!??!!

 
 
 

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