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OFFICE - DAY\n2\nKazi sits at a corner desk.\nKAZI\nIn the United States, Costco is like a\nSunday activity for big families.\n3\nEXT: COSTCO PARKING LOT\n3\nMontage begins\nA - A crowded parking lot of Costco customer.\nB - More Costco customers crossing from the cross walk.\nc - Birds eye of the parking lot.

DAY\n1\nProject name.\nDAINE (V.O)\nBefore you start I haven't renewed my\nCostco card.\n2\nINT.

You see cars, and people\nmoving in the space.\nD - Experimental, car driving through Costco world.\n4\nEXT: COSTCO - DAY\n4\nBirds eye we see car coming in and out of the parking lot.

We\nalso see various types of cars putting gas into their car.\nERIC (V.O)\nI shop at Costco all the time, but\nmostly because I get gas there for my\ncar.\n5\nINT.

BERKELEY CITY COLLEGE\n5\nJustine sits at work study job in the film equipment room.\nJUSTINE\nThey have a furniture section, they\nhave a book section. So you could just\nlike grab a book and like, sit down on\none of their couches and like, start\nreading.\n2.\n6\nINT.

DAY\n6\nAn animation character wears his I love Costco T shirt.

Stop\nmotion paper plates.\nALAN (V.O)\nIf I have a party 100%, I go to Costco\nto shop for it. Some people are\ndiehard Costco, you know, So I'm just\nnot a a diehard.\nGRANT (V.O)\npeople love Costco,they love the hot\ndogs or they love the,\nDIANE\nbathroom tissue, paper towels. Paper\nplates,\nGRANT (V.O)\nThe free samples, the gas,\nALAN (V.O)\nPaper plates.\nARTA (V.O)\nToilet paper. Toilet paper utensils.\npaper plates\nDIANE(V.O)\nThe chicken.\nALAN (V.O)\nyeah, which is everything.\nDIANE (V.O)\nCar battery, tires.\nJAMIE (V.O)\nEggs.\nALAN(V.O)\nYou know, alcohol.\n7\nINT.

COSTCO PARKING LOT - DAY\n7\nPeople leave the Costco store with there carts full of stuff.\nGRANT (V.O)\nBut it is this like this big\ncommercial establishment about buying\n3.\nlots of things. And so it's like, you\nknow, if Costco represents American\nculture, it also represents\n8\nINT. BERKELEY CITY COLLEGE\n8\nJustine sits at work study job in the film equipment room.\nJUSTINE\nConsumerism and overconsumption. And,\nyou know, it's like we don't really\nneed to be buying all of this stuff,\n9\nINT.

COSTCO MEAT SECTION - DAY\n9\nCustomers wait in a line for the rotisserie chicken to come\nout.\nJAMIE (V.O)\nyeah, like they're chicken.\nRotisserie, like the bulk chicken that\nthey have.\n10 INT.

OFFICE - DAY\n10\nKazi sits at a corner desk.\nKAZI\nIt serves a need.

There's a lot of\nfamilies who have food scarcity and\n4.99 chicken that's roasted already.\nSo it's like if you're a busy mom or\ndad or, you know, single parent, for\nexample, and you just got off work and\nyou had to pick up your kids from\nschool, well, you don't have a whole\nlot of time to yourself.\n11 INT. COSTCO MEAT SECTION - DAY\n11\nA normal day in Costco meat section.\nERIC C. (V.O)\nPeople don't make a lot of money\nanymore. I mean, the amount of money\npeople make, you know, in comparison,\nit's got to be really, really hard. I\nsay Costco exist because it's really\nhard to feed 350 million people three\ntimes a day.\n4.\n12 INT .

COSTCO EGG SECTION -DAY\n12\n1000's of eggs fill the wall.\nJAMIE (V.O)\nwhen there was an egg shortage, we\njust run out of eggs.\n13 INT.

OFFICE - DAY\n13\nKazi sits at a corner desk.\nKAZI\nMy dad, he would always go to Costco\nand buy a massive box of like 100\neggs, and we would just, like, store\nthem in the fridge. So I always knew\nI'd always have eggs if I'd ever get\ngo hungry or something.\n14 INT/EXT.

COSTCO - DAY\n14\nMontage:\nA - Man on his bike pulling up to Costco\nB - A women and young child eat hot dogs.\nC - Large items\nD - POV, Cart perspective\nE - Costco security car driving around the parking lot.\n15 INT.

BERKELEY CITY COLLEGE\n15\nA person sits with a group of friends for lunch.\nSAYLUM\nFrom like, an outsider's perspective,\nit's kind of like buying in.

Like,\nit's also like the whole American\nthing about money and, like, saving\nand so on.\n16 INT COSTCO - DAY\n16\nMeat section, we see the range of different backgrounds, a\nwomen crosses to get in line.\n5.\nGRANT (V.O)\nInstead of thinking about Costco as\nthis store, you think of Costco as\nthis like shared cultural experience,\nthen it actually is something that\ncrosses a lot of cultural and racial\nand socioeconomic lines.\n17 INT. OFFICE - DAY\n17\nKazi sits at a corner desk.\nKAZI\nI come from an immigrant background\nand many of my friends there are also\ncoming from immigrant backgrounds and\nthey have big families, so they do\ngroceries just about every week. And\nthey would get out in their big van\nwith kids and go to Costco on Sundays.\n18 INT. BERKELEY CITY COLLEGE\n18\nJustine sits at work study job in the film equipment room.\nJUSTINE\nYou know, as far as, like the lines\ngo, you know, people can be very maybe\nsnappy and like trying to get their\nway in the line. But aside from that,\nI do think there's like a sense of\ncommunity, I guess, within Costco.

And\nI think that just a tests to like the\nnature of humans.\n19 INT COSTCO - DAY\n19\nPeople just moving in the costco space.\nGRANT (V.O)\nIf you talk to a lot of these people,\nI think there actually is this sense\nof shared experience and like love for\nthe same thing.\n20 INT.

BERKELEY CITY COLLEGE\n20\nA women shares a story.\nMYSTERY PERSON\nReally good friend from South India\n6.\nthey were going to visit in law\nparents for the first time, from here\nall the way to Michigan. And her\nhusband goes to Costco and buys this\nlike, you know, some bottle sort of\nfancy like large bottle of like of\nalcohol, he like carries it all the\nway to Michigan and then they meet\neach other. So he brings out his\nliquor and then and then the other guy\nsmiles at him. and he's like, wait a\nsecond and goes to get his gift. And\nturns out they bought the same bottle.\nA match made in Costco.\nSALUM\nWe need fancy and pretty large bottle\nof alcohol, but not to expensive.\nEND"}

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