Your screenplay sounds great, Stevie!
I completely agree with your assessment of She’s Leaving Home. I think for many it’s a song that may require a certain depth of life experience before it resonates. I heard it just tonight and thought how insightful these lyrics are, especially considering that the writer was only 24 years old!
The story of Paul’s inspiration for the song is pretty well known but this additional insight from Paul in 2021 was new to me:
“ In addition to the newspaper report, I’m pretty sure another influence was The Wednesday Play. It was a weekly television play that often addressed ‘big’ social issues. It’s the kind of thing people would be discussing at the bus stop on Thursday morning. It was a very important part of the week. One of the most famous of these plays was Cathy Come Home, directed by Ken Loach. It’s a play about homelessness that a quarter of the UK population watched the night it was broadcast in November 1966.
When we recorded ‘She’s Leaving Home’ it was almost like a shooting script for The Wednesday Play. ‘Clutching her handkerchief/Quietly turning the backdoor key’. On oner hand we have the narrator who’s describing the action (‘She’s leaving home’), and then there are a couple of people in the spotlight, a mini Greek chorus, who fade in and out (‘We gave her most of our lives’). There was a line in that style – ‘Is this all the thanks that we get?’ – which somehow didn’t make the final cut.” Paul McCartney, The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present
https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/shes-leaving-home/I’m kind of bummed that newspapers.com does not have The Daily Mail in its archives because I wanted to see the article in context, like Paul saw it, but I did find this:
https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/shes-leaving-home/That photo caption is interesting. Did she
really just happen to get that photo taken the same day that she she took off?