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Film By the Northern Rivers 2023 - 03. Alstonville Public School - The Cursed Compliment

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[upbeat music playing]

CLARICE: Emeline, your hair looks amazing today.

EMELINE: Thanks, Clarice. Gotta go order lunch. Bye.

CLARICE: Bye.

I bet Tom is going to absolutely beat Jim in that basketball game.

GIRL: I know.

ANNOUNCER: Could Clarice Bluewater please come to the principal's office, immediately.

GIRL: That does not sound good.

CLARICE: Guess I gotta go.

GIRL: Bye.

BOY: Ste-phen Cur-ry! Woo!

CLARICE: Oh my God, Emeline. What happened to your hair?

PRINCIPAL: Well, Clarice, I'm sure you can explain. Remember this morning when you complimented Emeline about her beautiful hair and now look how ugly it is? I think you're a witch. The date for the court trial is tomorrow.

EMELINE: We need a boat.

CLARICE: I don't see one.

EMELINE: Why don't we just swim to the island?

CLARICE: Are you serious? There could be sharks.

EMELINE: Better than a death sentence.

CLARICE: Fine. Let's go.

EMELINE: Come on.

Freezing.

CLARICE: Then go sit in the sunshine.

EMELINE: Like there's any.

CLARICE: I guess it is raining. What do we do now?

EMELINE: I don't know. I thought about getting to the island and keeping you safe. I didn't think about what we'd do when we got to the island.

CLARICE: OK.

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: Oh, shiver me [inaudible]. I see some [inaudible] on the island.

PIRATE SEADOG: Finally, someone to walk our plank.

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: Or we can make them [inaudible].

PIRATE SEADOG: Either way, we gonna catch 'em. They're on our land, our property.

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: What are we waiting for? [inaudible]. Let's get them.

PIRATE SEADOG: Let's do this. That's what's up.

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: It's wild.

PIRATE SEADOG: It's wild.

[upbeat music playing]

Get back here!

PIRATES: Gotcha.

CLARICE: Ah!

EMELINE: Let me go. Stop. Ah!

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: No chance.

PIRATE SEADOG: You're going to be stuck in our ship of Don--

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: Key--

PIRATE SEADOG: Forever.

CLARICE: No. Let Emeline go free. It's my fault we came here in the first place.

PIRATE SEADOG: Why are you here? We haven't have visitors in decades.

EMELINE: Clarice has a magical power. If she compliments anyone, the opposite of the compliment happens. She said my hair was beautiful and then it went blue and-- well, you can see.

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: You need a real lucky compliment to fix that.

PIRATE SEADOG: Eshay. Let you go on one condition, lad, that you compliment the [inaudible] on East.

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: Our eshay's come on our postcode. So he's richer than us and we can not let that stand. Dab me up.

PIRATES: It's wild.

CLARICE: I don't want to use my powers for bad.

EMELINE: Clarice, we have to.

RICHEST PIRATE: Oh ho, look who finally came to settle this, Captain Sea Puppy.

PIRATE SEADOG: I've got a special surprise for you.

CLARICE: Wow. You really are the richest person in the sea.

RICHEST PIRATE: Yes, I am. Would you like to come see my gold? What happened to my gold and all my clothes? All I can see is sand and, like, rags.

PIRATE SEADOG: Get in there.

EMELINE: I thought you were going to let us go.

CLARICE: You promised.

PIRATE SEADOG: We're pirates. What do you expect? You're going to be trapped in our ship, the Don--

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: Key--

PIRATE SEADOG: Forever.

CAPTAIN RALF RATTLEBONES: Now scrub the deck. Do you want a [inaudible]?

PIRATE SEADOG: Yes. I'd like.


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