Save Ralph - A short film with Taika Waititi

(beep)

-Ready?

We rolling?

(board clacking)

Okay Ralph, can you mark it please?

-Do you want me to click it now?

-Yep, go for it.

Go on.

(board clacking)

-Like that?
-Brilliant.

-Oh, it's like in the movies.

Alrighty, so, um, my name's Ralph.

Uhm... I'm a rabbit, as you can see.

I'm blind in my right eye

and uh... this ear,

can't hear nothin' but ringing now.

(Ralph beeping)

Yeah, it's annoying isn't it.

Yeah.

(Ralph brushing)

(water running)

So I had my fur shaved and

got chemical burns up and down my back.

Kinda stings, ey.

But it's not a big deal.

It only really hurts when I like...

breathe or move around or whatever.

(Ralph brushing)

Ah yeah, ow, yeah that hurts.

(tap squeaking)

But at the end of the day, I mean,

it's okay, we do it for the humans, right.

(Ralph scratching)

They're far superior to us animals.

They've even been to space.

Have you ever seen a rabbit
in a rocket ship?

Ahh, don't think so.

(Ralph brushing)

(chair scraping)

Point is, I'm not a space bunny.

I'm a tester.

My daddy was a tester,

my mum my brothers, my sisters,

my kids, all testers.

And they all died doing their job.

(Ralph crunching cereal)

Just like I will. But it's okay.

Testing is what we were born to do.

It makes us rabbit's happy.

Yeah.

(Ralph sighs)

(door knocking)

Oh, gotta get to work.

(ceiling crashing)

(lock clinking)

Now I know it looks bad,

but the way I see it, I'm doing my job.

If just one human can have the illusion

of a safer lipstick or deoderant, or uh...

-Hey Ralphy, psst, Ralphy,

What's with the camera crew bro?

-Oh, they're just following me around,

making a documentary or something.

(rabbits gasp)

-Can you ask them to get us out of here?

(rabbit's pleading)

Come on Ralphy, just ask them

to get us out of here.

I don't want to die, man, Ralphy!

-Okay guys, okay, I hear you.

you can edit that out right?

Oh, here we go.

-Don't touch him! Stop!

Ow, ow, ow, shit.

(bleeping)

(Ralph groaning)

So , uhh, so in closing,

I'd um, I'd just like to say that...

-Sorry Ralph, we're over here.

Can you, can you turn around?

-Oh, sorry.

-That's all right.

-Is this better?

-Yeah. Yep. Carry on mate.

Okay, so, yeah. I'd just like to say

to everyone out there

still buying animal tested cosmetics,

like, eyeliner, shampoo, sunscreen.

Pretty much everything in your bathroom.

Well, without you

and countries that allow animal testing,

I'd be out of a job, I'd be on the streets.

Well, not the streets.

More like a field, I guess.

You know like a normal rabbit.

But hey, ah, ahh.

(Ralph panting)

It's all good.