The Big Bang - A Film by Ben Kurns

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The Big Bang –

A Film by Ben Kurns

(by c. wayne owens)

© C. Wayne Owens

(Title Cards: The Big Bang then A Film By Ben Kurns)

(Second Title Card: “Before the Beginning”)

(Open on totally blank screen.)

Narrator

If you went back, to just before it all began, you would find nothing.

(Continued blackness. Beat. Cut to Old Man sitting in room)

Old Man

Yeah, you couldn’t find a damn thing. You could look over here, you could look over there. Nothing. Not even a cat! And they are usually everywhere, whether you want them or not.

(Cut to blackness)

Narrator

All the energy and matter was grouped in one incredibly dense ball, somewhere lost among the nothingness.

(Cut to Old Man)

Old Man

Well, if it was out there I never saw it. I didn’t see nothing.

Narrator

That ball of energy was growing denser by the moment.

(Cut to Professor. Title comes beneath his picture: “Professor Gnoittal – University”)

Professor

This roiling ball of energy would soon explode to become everything that now exists. It would become force and matter and time itself. There was not even time before the big bang.

(Cut to Old Man)

Old Man

How do you know? Was you there? I didn’t see you.

(Cut to Blackness.)

Narrator

The emptiness wasn’t instantly filled after the bang, it has continued to be filled by the expanding universe, the expanding universe that was the result of the big bang.

(Newspaper Headline: “Something Happens. Finally”)

This made all the papers.

(Blackness returns)

The emerging of everything was in early formation. But still, there were no planets, no stars and certainly no people to witness it.

(Cut to Old Woman, now sitting next to Old Man)

Old Woman

Witness? What, now it was a crime?

Old Man

They’re just talking. They don’t know nothing about the Big Bang.

Old Woman

So, you know, Old Man? Don’t take credit for it, cause you never had anything to do with any big bang.

Old Man

Why you got to talk that way in front of everybody?

(Back to blackness. Now fade to galaxy appearing. Title Card: “The Beginning of the Beginning”)

Narrator

Out of the darkness some things started to form. The Cosmos began.

(Cut to old woman and old man)

Old Woman

(dreamy-eyed)

Yeah, I remembered Cosmo. Now there was a big…

(Cut to sky full of stars)

Narrator

Now things in the sky that we might recognize began to come into view.

(Cut to Female Professor, with title: “Selina Beeyez, Associate Professor of Celestial Stuff, Online University”)

Beeyez

The star stuff was the first formation that we would be able to identify in terms of what exists today. Nothing even close to planets had come into being.

(Cut to Old Man)

Old Man

Hello Professor…

(Old Woman smacks him. Cut to darkness again. Fade into new Title Card: The Argument. Cut to Professor Takinoff in cluttered scholarly cubicle)

Narrator

What happened next is a grounds for argument among many scientists

(Identity caption: Dr. Hugo Takinoff, Universanti das Technicough, Pasha, Durnicory)

Takinoff

(Gibberish)

(Caption: “Speaking Foreign Language”)

(Cut to swirling galaxies.)

Narrator

Planets began to form from swirling masses of molten mass. Those soon began to get cooler.

(Cut to stock footage of John Coltrane or Charlie Parker. Then fade to title card: “The Beginning of the End”)

This was the beginning of the end. Our next episode will sum up that change.

(Title Card: “The End of the Beginning or The Coming of Fondue”)

(A shot of a comet passes, then fade out.)

THE END