Bad Guy – Billie Eilish Script
SEQUENCE 1 CAR PARK – EVENING INT - PRISON CELL – NIGHT She’s running away from a crime scene and keeps looking behind her with the camera following her from the front, close-up on her face, sirens and blue lights in the background. Interchanging with her with blood on her hands at the crime scene with bodies on the floor behind her Instrumental White shirt now red my bloody nose SEQUENCE 2 CAR PARK – EVENING She gets handcuffed by two police officers pressed up against the police car and lip-syncing the words Sleeping, you’re on your tippy toes
SEQUENCE 3 PRISON HEIGHT CHART – INTERNAL She lip-syncs along to the song in front of a prison height chart as if she’s having her mugshot taken, mid-shot, dimmed and gloomy lighting Creeping around like no one knows Think you’re so criminal SEQUENCE 4 CAR PARK/IN FRONT OF BRICK WALL – DAYTIME The 4 police officers stand in a horizontal line, two of them holding her either side. She is handcuffed with her and lip-syncs to the song standing slightly in front of them. Wide shot. Bruises, on both my knees for you Don’t say thank you or please I do what I want when I’m wanting to My soul? So cynical SEQUENCE 5
PRISON CELL – INTERNAL She’s sat in the middle of her prison cell lipsyncing to the song looking smug and not very remorseful So you’re a tough guy Like it really rough guy Just can’t get enough guy Chest always so puffed guy SEQUENCE 6 CAR PARK – EVENING She’s sat on the ground next to one of the bodies with blood on her hands lip-syncing. Mid-shot. I’m that bad type Make your mama sad type Make your girlfriend mad tight Might seduce your dad type SEQUENCE 7 INT - DARK ROOM – NIGHT
She’s lip-syncing in a dark blacked out room with red lights, close up shot. On the ‘duh’ and instrumental bit after that it cuts to her back in front of the height chart getting her mugshot taken, camera’s flashing like a strobe in the background. Mid-shot. I’m the bad guy, duh I’m the bad guy SEQUENCE 8
INT - WHITE ROOM – NIGHT She’s in front of a white wall, bright lighting, wearing a white t-shirt, multiple hands in shot wiping blood all over the white t-shirt in time to the music whilst she is lip-syncing representing how she has blood on her hands and does not have a clean image. Mid-shot. I like it when you take control Even if you know that you don’t Own me; I’ll let you play the role I’ll be your animal
SEQUENCE 9 CAR PARK – EVENING She sits in the boot of a police car legs dangling out of the car and lip-syncing, mid-shot. My mommy likes to sing along with me But she won’t sing this song SEQUENCE 10 CAR PARK – DAY The 4 police officers stand in a horizontal line, two of them holding her either side. She is handcuffed with her and lip-syncs to the song standing slightly in front of them. Wide shot. If she reads all the lyrics She’ll pity the men I know SEQUENCE 11 PRISON CELL – INT - NIGHT She’s sat in the middle of her prison cell lipsyncing to the song looking smug and not very remorseful
So you’re a tough guy Like it really rough guy Just can’t get enough guy Chest always so puffed guy SEQUENCE 12 INT – WHITE ROOM – NIGHT She’s lip-syncing with blood on t-shirt with the white background, bright white lighting, Mid-shot I’m that bad type Make your mama sad type Make your girlfriend made tight Might seduce your dad type SEQUENCE 13 INT - DARK ROOM – NIGHT She’s lip-syncing in a dark blacked out room with red lights, close up shot. On the ‘duh’ and instrumental bit after that it cuts to her back in
front of the height chart getting her mugshot taken, camera’s flashing like a strobe in the background. Mid-shot. SEQUENCE 14 INT – PRISON CELL – NIGHT She lip-syncs in her prison cell, mid-shot, bright lighting I’m only good at being bad, bad SEQUENCE 15 She stands there facing one of the police officers Lip-syncing, red lighting, dark room, close up I like when you get mad I guess im pretty glad that you’re alone You said she’s scared of me? I mean, I don’t see what she sees But maybe its cause im wearing your cologne SEQUENCE 16 INT – WHITE ROOM – NIGHT
White shirt and blood scene, wipes blood on face whilst lip-syncing I’m a bad guy I’m a bad guy Bad guy, bad guy I’m a bad-