Baby Groot Voice Over Attempt
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017
Directed by James Gunn
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
INT. INSIDE BLAST HOLE - DAY Quiet. Blasts in the deep background. Rocket places a tiny bomb in front of Groot. It is a small, simple device with two switches and two buttons. He explains, very carefully:
ROCKET All right. First you flick this switch, then this switch. That activates it. And then you push this button, which will give you five minutes to get out of there. Whatever you do don’t push this button, because that will set off the bomb immediately, and we’ll all be dead. Now repeat back what I just said.
GROOT I am Groot.
ROCKET Uh huh.
GROOT I am Groot.
ROCKET That’s right.
GROOT I am Groot.
ROCKET No! That’s the button that will kill everyone! Try again.
Groot thinks.
GROOT I am Groot.
Rocket nods.
GROOT (CONT’D) I am Groot.
Rocket nods.
GROOT (CONT’D) I am Groot.
ROCKET That’s exactly what you just said! How is that even possible?! Which button is the button you’re supposed to push?! Point to it.
Groot thinks. And he points to the one that will kill everyone.
ROCKET (CONT’D) NO !!!
QUILL (O.S.) Hey, you’re making him nervous!
Rocket runs to see, at the end of the hole, a sliver of the outside as Quill peeks in while SHOOTING at envoys.
ROCKET Shut up and give me some tape! Does anyone have any tape out there!? I want to put some tape over the death button!
QUILL I don’t have any tape. Let me check.
Quill disappears from the hole. As Rocket waits, he hears, amongst the chaos, faintly
QUILL (O.S.) (CONT’D) Yo, Yondu, do you have any - ow! - do you have any tape?!
O.S. GUN BLASTS. We hear VOICES GRUMBLING. Rocket and Groot look around, waiting. Rocket is impatient. He coughs. Groot is like a bored kid in a waiting room. He shifts around and plays with the wires on the bomb. Quill reappears outside the hole, SHOOTING an envoy.
QUILL (CONT’D) No one has any tape.
ROCKET Not a single person has tape?
QUILL You have priceless batteries and an atomic bomb in your bag! If anyone has tape it would be you!
ROCKET That’s exactly my point! I have to do everything!
QUILL Dude, you’re wasting time!
Rocket turns back to Groot, who has already taken the bomb and is heading towards the hole. He makes a “WHEEEEEE” sound and smiles brightly as he HOPS into the hole and SLIDES down as if on a water slide. Rocket, heavy-lidded, watches him go.
ROCKET We’re all gonna die.