Cry-Baby, Written and Directed by John Waters, Starring Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords -- Illustrated Screenplay

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CRY-BABY -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY

Well, I'm a lonely king who needs a queen

Yeah, you're the sweetest lump of sugar that I've ever seen

Ain't got a ring or crown for you
Well, if I had your love
I'd lose these cry-baby blues

[DRAPES] [singing] She's the queen
She's the queen

[RAMONA] Go on up there, honey.

[BELVEDERE] Go on.

[DRAPES] [singing] She's the queen

[ALLISON] [singing] Well, let people talk, I don't care

Let me prove to you daddy that I ain't no Square

[WADE] [singing] You'll be my queen and I'll be your king
Yeah, but if you leave my hive, you're gonna feel my sting
'Cause you're my queen

[DRAPES] [singing] Queen cry-baby

[ALLISON] [singing] You're the king

[DRAPES] [singing] King cry-baby

[ALLISON] I'll be the queen

[DRAPES] Cry-cry baby

[WADE] A king cry-baby with a queen by my side

[WADE & ALLISON] And if you mess with us, man you're gonna cry, oh baby cry

Baby cry, baby cry, oh baby cry
Cry, baby cry, baby cry, baby cry
Cry, baby cry, baby cry, baby cry
Cry, baby cry, baby cry, baby cry

[DRAPES] [applauding]

***

[Cherry by The Jive Bombers playing] Cherry
Cherry

[WADE] Kiss me. Kiss me hard.

[thunder clapping]

[ALLISON] I've never given a French kiss before.

[WADE] Watch. It's easy.
You just open your mouth,

and I open mine,
and we wiggle our tongues together.

And it feels real sexy.

[ALLISON] I won't get mononucleosis, will I?

[WADE] No, Allison. Just try it.
If you don't like it, I promise I'll stop.

***

[Song playing] I'll get you yet

Someday, Cherry

You'll be my pet

Right now
Cherry

The day is set

***

[DRAPES MUST DIE!]

[I HATE DRAPES]

[BOY] Break the window.

[SQUARES] [laughing]

***

[WADE] I'm sorry, Allison.
It's just that you are so beautiful.

[ALLISON] I want to let you, but I can't.

For my parents' sake.
Cry-Baby, they're both dead. I'm an orphan.

[WADE] I'm sorry, Allison.
But no wonder we're together, honey.

I'm an orphan, too.

[ALLISON] You are?

[WADE] Yes.
And orphans have special needs.

[ALLISON] Just on the outside of the shirt, okay?

[WADE] Is it okay with you?

[ALLISON] Yes. Oh, yes!

Oh, my parents were, they were good people and they -- they loved me.

[WADE] I want you. I need you.
I love you, too, Allison.

[ALLISON] They had to go on a business trip together.
It was their first airplane ride.

Oh, Cry-Baby, your fingers feel so good.

[WADE] I've been saving it up for a girl like you, honey.

[ALLISON] Mommy and Daddy took separate planes for safety, you know,
In case one plane crashed, I would still have a living parent.
but, Cry-Baby, both planes crashed
and I never saw my parents alive again.

[thunder cracking]

[WADE] Goddamn! Lightning!

[ALLISON] What's the matter, Cry-Baby?

[WADE] Everything is the matter.

[ALLISON] It's just a thunderstorm. Heat lightning.

It's sexy.

[WADE] It's not sexy.

Electricity makes me insane.

[ALLISON] Why, Cry-Baby? Why?

[WADE] Here's why. Electricity killed my parents.

[ALLISON] They died in the electric chair?

[WADE] That's right, Allison.
My father was the Alphabet Bomber.
He may have been crazy, but he was my pop.
The only one I ever had.

[ALLISON] God. I heard about the Alphabet Bomber.
Bombs exploding in the -- the airport, the barbershop.

[WADE] That's right, all in alphabetical order.
Carwash, drugstore.
I used to lay in my cradle and hear him scream in his sleep.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G
[mimics explosions]

[ALLISON] But your mom?

[WADE] My mother tried to stop him.

She couldn't even spell, for Christ's sake, but they fried her, too.
But I'll pay them all back, Allison.
And that's why, every day, I gotta do
something rotten for my parents' sake
and I cry for what I have to do.
But not much, though.
One single, salty tear