Not real butter

INT. STUDY – EARLY EVENING

Joanna is scrolling through a calendar app. Gyles is nearby, precariously balancing a massive tub of popcorn on his knee.  
It threatens to tip with every small movement.

                         JOANNA
           Do you realise *Tomorrowland* came out nearly ten years ago?

                         GYLES
           Did it?

                         JOANNA
           That means Cineplex hasn’t added Dolby Vision to a single theatre  
           in ten years.  
           Not one.

                         GYLES
           I always liked the popcorn there.  
           Extra butter. Not real butter, of course, but...  
           something cheerful.

[The tub lurches. He adjusts it again, gently.]

                         JOANNA
           I can get Dolby Vision at Best Buy.  
           Off a loop.  
           With colour and luminous fidelity un-dreamed of at Cineplex.

                         GYLES
           I once spent forty minutes in Best Buy trying to locate someone  
           to explain what a dongle was.

                         JOANNA
           The future was the subject of the film.  
           Meanwhile, the projection tech hasn’t moved an inch.

[The tub lurches again.]

                         GYLES
           I miss the layered ones. You know—half caramel, half salt.  
           You eat them in alternating moods.

                         JOANNA
           This isn’t a snack conversation.

                         GYLES
           I know.  
           But they’ve stopped stirring it.  
           Now the butter just... sits.

                         JOANNA
           Much like Cineplex.

[A pause.]

                         GYLES
           What *is* a dongle?

[The tub tips. Popcorn spills everywhere.]

[Joanna rolls her eyes.]

FADE OUT.