BARRY AND ADAM AAHHHH! The tram passes under SIGNS READING: "Honex: A Division of Honesco: A Part of the Hexagon Group. " TRUDY Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco, and a part of the Hexagon group.
BARRY This is it! The Honex doors OPEN, revealing the factory. BARRY (CONT'D) Wow.
TRUDY We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. Honey begins when our valiant pollen jocks bring the nectar to the hive where our top secret formula is automatically color-corrected, scent adjusted and bubble contoured into this.
. .
Trudy GRABS a TEST TUBE OF HONEY from a technician. "Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 7.
TRUDY (CONT'D) . .
. soothing, sweet syrup with its distinctive golden glow, you all know as.
. .
EVERYONE ON THE TRAM (in unison) H-o-n-e-y. Trudy flips the flask into the crowd, and laughs as they all scramble for it.
ANGLE ON: A GIRL BEE catching the honey. ADAM (sotto) That girl was hot.
BARRY (sotto) She's my cousin. ADAM She is? BARRY Yes, we're all cousins.
ADAM Right. You're right.
TRUDY At Honex, we also constantly strive to improve every aspect of bee existence. These bees are stress testing a new helmet technology.
ANGLE ON: A STUNT BEE in a HELMET getting hit with a NEWSPAPER, then a SHOE, then a FLYSWATTER. He gets up, and gives a "thumb's up".
The graduate bees APPLAUD. ADAM (re: stunt bee) What do you think he makes? BARRY Not enough.
TRUDY And here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman. "Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 8.
BARRY Wow, what does that do? TRUDY Catches that little strand of honey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions.
ANGLE ON: The Krelman machine. Bees with hand-shaped hats on, rotating around a wheel to catch drips of honey.
Adam's hand shoots up. ADAM Can anyone work on the Krelman? TRUDY Of course.
Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot.
There are over 3000 different bee occupations. But choose carefully, because you'll stay in the job that you pick for the rest of your life.
The bees CHEER. ANGLE ON: Barry's smile dropping slightly.
BARRY The same job for the rest of your life? I didn't know that. ADAM What's the difference? TRUDY And you'll be happy to know that bees as a species haven't had one day off in 27 million years.
BARRY So you'll just work us to death? TRUDY (laughing) We'll sure try. Everyone LAUGHS except Barry.
"Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 9. The tram drops down a log-flume type steep drop.
Cameras flash, as all the bees throw up their hands. The frame freezes into a snapshot.
Barry looks concerned. The tram continues through 2 doors.
FORM DISSOLVE TO: SEQ. 175 - "WALKING THE HIVE" INT.
HONEX LOBBY ANGLE ON: The log-flume photo, as Barry looks at it. ADAM Wow.
That blew my mind. BARRY (annoyed) "What's the difference?" Adam, how could you say that? One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make.
ADAM Well, I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life.
BARRY But Adam, how could they never have told us that? ADAM Barry, why would you question anything? We're bees. We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth.
They walk by a newspaper stand with A SANDWICH BOARD READING: "Bee Goes Berserk: Stings Seven Then Self. " ANGLE ON: A BEE filling his car's gas tank from a honey pump.
He fills his car some, then takes a swig for himself. NEWSPAPER BEE (to the bee guzzling gas) Hey! Barry and Adam begin to cross the street.
"Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 10. BARRY Yeah but Adam, did you ever think that maybe things work a little too well around here? They stop in the middle of the street.
The traffic moves perfectly around them. ADAM Like what? Give me one example.
BARRY (thinks) . .
. I don't know.
But you know what I'm talking about. They walk off.
SEQ. 400 - "MEET THE JOCKS" SFX: The SOUND of Pollen Jocks.
PAN DOWN from the Honex statue. J-GATE ANNOUNCER Please clear the gate.
Royal Nectar Force on approach. Royal Nectar Force on approach.
BARRY Wait a second. Check it out.
Hey, hey, those are Pollen jocks. ADAM Wow.
FOUR PATROL BEES FLY in through the hive's giant Gothic entrance. The Patrol Bees are wearing fighter pilot helmets with black visors.
ADAM (CONT'D) I've never seen them this close. BARRY They know what it's like to go outside the hive.
ADAM Yeah, but some of them don't come back. "Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 11.
The nectar from the pollen jocks is removed from their backpacks, and loaded into trucks on their way to Honex. A SMALL CROWD forms around the Patrol Bees.
Each one has a PIT CREW that takes their nectar. Lou Loduca hurries a pit crew along: LOU LODUCA You guys did great! You're monsters.
You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it! SCHOOL GIRLS are jumping up and down and squealing nearby. BARRY I wonder where those guys have just been? ADAM I don't know.
BARRY Their day's not planned. Outside the hive, flying who-knows-where, doing who-knows-what.
ADAM You can't just decide one day to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that.
BARRY Right. Pollen Jocks cross in close proximity to Barry and Adam.
Some pollen falls off, onto Barry and Adam. BARRY (CONT'D) Look at that.
That's more pollen than you and I will ever see in a lifetime. ADAM (playing with the pollen) It's just a status symbol.
I think bees make too big a deal out of it. BARRY Perhaps, unless you're wearing it, and the ladies see you wearing it.
ANGLE ON: Two girl bees. "Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 12.
ADAM Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too? BARRY Distant, distant. ANGLE ON: TWO POLLEN JOCKS.
JACKSON Look at these two. SPLITZ Couple of Hive Harrys.