SPEED RACER by Larry & Andy Wachowski lst Draft 1-4-07INT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM - DAY ~ PAST A battered sneaker tattooed with doodles of speeding cars and checkered flags and the words “Start Your Engines!” Beats up and down, a sewing machine needle of anxious, restless, adolescent energy. A pencil fills in the oval of a standardized test form, then hesitates, twitching with the speed of a humming bird wing caught between two fingers, then is quickly erased as a different answer is chosen. ‘The form sheet is filled with smudges of uncertainty. A ten year old boy stares at the next question. ‘TEST QUESTION Grace buys a bag of 240 jellybeans. There are 35 yellow ones, 52 red ones, 63 green ones, 26 white ones, 41 blue ones and 40 black ones. If Grace wants to eat one of each while keeping her eyes closed, what is the minimum number she will have to eat? His mouth tries to makes sense of the question but it’s not working. He looks around at the other students quietly, diligently ling in their ovals while he fidgets, his leg beating, his pencil fluttering, a pot jiggling its lid, about to boil over. k. Chinese. Meaningless. He reads the question again. Gr He looks up at the clock. The second hand sweeps towards the 12. Then back at the test. Something suddenly clicks. He stares at the clock, pencil poised, waiting until the second hand hits the 12 and he’s o1 Filling in the ovals faster than it seems he could possibly be reading the questions. INT. TEACHER'S OFFICE - DAY - PAST Mrs. Racer sits across the desk from Speed's teacher. MOM DistractedCONTINUED: TEACHER No, that’s not exactly right. Your soh seems to be interested in only one thing. Mom knows what’s coming. TEACHER (CON'’D) All he talks about, all he seems capable of thinking about 4: automobile racing. MoM Well you know, his father designs racing cars. TEACHER And where is your husband? MOM He's...working. He couldn’t make ee TEACHER Perhaps the apple hasn’t fallen very far from the tree. Mom jg uncomfortable with that truth while the Teacher glances back to her records TEACHER (CONT’D) Is your husband’s name Rex? MoM No, Rex is his older brother. why? TEACHER This is the test he turned in last week. She holds up the Scantron test that Speed was working on. ‘The bottom "GO REX GO half of the ovals are filled in to spell. out: INT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM - DAY - PAS't Speed has pictures i He is draw. finished filling in the test and is now drawing n the corner of the test booklet. ing little race cars. He flips a few of the pages and we see a quick moment of his animation as two cars colli de.