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SUPERIMPOSE: "1998"
FEMALE NARRATOR
Forces hostile to the United States grow
strong in the late 20th Century.
A DARK TABLEAU - CITY STREET - LOS ANGELES - NIGHT
Graffiti-smeared walls. Fire... |
VOICE
In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent.
GRAPHIC -- Line-graphic of New York, MANHATTAN ISLAND highlighted.
VOICE
The once-great city of New York becomes the one maximum-security prison
for the entire country.
GRAPHIC -- MANHATTAN ISLAND lights up. The word "Prison" is... |
DE IN:
DE LAURENTIIS ENTERTAINMENT GROUP LOGO
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
RENAISSANCE PICTURES LOGO
FADE OUT.
00 BLACKNESS ... |
DE IN:
DE LAURENTIIS ENTERTAINMENT GROUP LOGO
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
RENAISSANCE PICTURES LOGO
FADE OUT.
00 BLACKNESS ... |
elephant. Noah's Ark going round... and round... and
round...
EXT. GRIFFITH PARK CAROUSEL - DAY
Disjointed CALLIOPE MUSIC as the wheel of fate and
fortune goes around until we PULL BACK to reveal:
JON ARCHER (30) rising winged Pegasus. On the adjacent
unicorn is his son MAT... |
se
by
Valerie Plame
SFX: SHALLOW, DESPERATE BREATHING.
Extreme close ANGLES ON
a figure kneels in a cell, in tight stress position. Bound.
... |
Shooting Script
FADE IN:
CLOSE ON A MASSIVE STEEL HEAD
Our first thought: DR. DOOM? But it's not moving. A
welder's torch sparks into frame in the hands of a sculptor
on scaffolding. This is art, an epic 20 foo... |
EXT. DESERT -- DAY
The white sun beats down on the rocky terrain. There's not a
cloud in the blue sky and the wind is at a standstill.
Far in the distance, a MEDIUM SIZED FLAT-BED TRUCK makes its
way to the entrance of a large cavern opening. Two VUL... |
e desert.
CREDITS ROLL
WRITTEN: EGYPT 1913
OMAR and his mule zigzag along the bottom of sun scorched dunes.
2 EXT. TEMPLE EXCAVATION - DAY
The mule and the boy finally reach a camp. A few tents dwarfed by a huge
temple door jutting out of the sand. The camp is deserted except for
some kids by ... |
king me, did I
know Tyler Durden.
FADE IN:
INT. SOCIAL ROOM - TOP FLOOR OF HIGH RISE -- NIGHT
TYLER has one arm around Jack's shoulder; the other hand
holds a HANDGUN with the barrel lodged in JACK'S MOUTH.
Tyler is sitting in Jack's lap.
They are both swea... |
arkness, then the rising sun paints in an
endless savanna from horizon to horizon. We hear savage drums
beating in the distance coming from some unknown place.
The sun clears the horizon. Suddenly it changes amazingly:
the white disc goes through a ... |
of CHILDREN CHANTING increases.
DREAM CHILDREN
(in chorus)
One... two... Freddy's coming for
you.
On "you" there is a RUMBLE and a flash -- like quick
lightning only evil. (Choice flashes from Nightmare on
Elm Street 1 & 2).
Meagan turns at 1665. A beautiful white, two-story
house, thic... |
DIRECTOR: William Friedkin
PRODUCER: Philip D'Antoni
EXT. LE VALLON
Opening shot - High angle on Lincoln along small bay with
boats.
Ext. Bar - Waist to full figure Pan Right to Left. Detective
comes out eating pizza, looking around. He crosses street
and stops against wall of impasse Michael.
... |
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Cast List:
Quentin Tarantino Richard Gecko
George Clooney Seth Gecko
Brenda Hillhouse Hostage Gloria
Harvey Keitel Jacob
Juliette Lewis ... |
the street. A cab pulls up and MAN
in tuxedo moves into:
INT. CHICAGO HOTEL - BALLROOM - NIGHT
THROUGH arriving guests we PICK UP the Man climbing stairs
to the ballroom.
ANGLE - COAT CHECK
The Man hands his coat to coat check woman and thanks her.
When he turns we get our first view of DR. RIC... |
the street. A cab pulls up and MAN
in tuxedo moves into:
INT. CHICAGO HOTEL - BALLROOM - NIGHT
THROUGH arriving guests we PICK UP the Man climbing stairs
to the ballroom.
ANGLE - COAT CHECK
The Man hands his coat to coat check woman and thanks her.
When he turns we get our first view of DR. RIC... |
OOM - CAPITOL BLDG. - DAY
Blinding in their white uniforms, naval flag officers sit
in the audience, showing their support for THEODORE HAYES,
a 50-year-old civilian. This is his confirmation hearing.
Reading from prepared material:
HAYES
... last few years have brought man... |
following words sear onto screen:
Whenever a new breed of evil
emerges, a new breed of solider
must fight it.
-- GENERAL CLAYTON "HAWK" ABERNATHY
EXT. THE BASTILLE - PARIS - NIGHT
A HEAVY NIGHT MIST swirls around the imposing stone walls of
... |
want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
- Eurythmics
Some years from this exact moment...
1 INT. TRAIN - DAY 1
DARKNESS - NOW
The beautiful CHIMING SOUNDS OF SPACE TRAVEL ... |
) 1971
Turner Entertainment Co
All Rights Reserved.
Copyright (c) 1971
Mike Hodges
All Rights Reserved.
FADE IN:
EXT. PENTHOUSE APARTMENT - LONDON - NIGHT
Framed in the large pict... |
FADE IN:
CARD OVER: SANDERSON PRISON
EXT. PRISON YARD - TITLES OVER - DAY
DOC McCOY IS BEING WALKED ACROSS THE COMPOUND BY A UNIFORMED
GUARD, carrying a riot gun. Other Prisoners around the yard
turn and stare as the two men head for the main building.
INT. PRISON CORRIDOR
DOC WALKS DOWN THE BLEAK HALL... |
er)
This is the most famous true story
of Africa. It happened a hundred
years ago, but even now, when
children ask about it, you do not
tell them at night.
(The FIGURE continues
to grow)
It began with the race to build a
railroad across Africa.
(beat)
But this is not about building ... |
April 11th, 2001
EXT. HIGH PLAINS - HILLSIDE - DAY
A COYOTE lopes through shimmering heat waves. The sky above
is a cloudless blue.
WOMAN (V.O.)
My Father used to say that the only way
Evil came into your life was if ... |
FADE IN
INT. BARGE - DAY
Crewman EPPS (29), wearing a life vest and tool belt, jumps
down into the darkness. She stands in a great hollow cavern,
oily, wet, resonant with the sound of creaking, rusty steel
and WATER MOVING OVER ITS HULL on the other side.
INT. BARGE - LATER - DAY
Epps comes to ... |
harbor, OVER the
Battery and Lower Manhattan to Greenwich Village.
EXT. EAST 77TH STREET - DAY
A car is being hoisted up by a municipal tow truck while its owner is
having a terrible screaming arguement with a parking enforcement officer.
DANA BARRETT comes home pushing a baby buggy, struggling with two full
... |
-- the World."
Byron
FADE IN:
EXT. FOREST - DAY
Germania. The far reaches of the Roman Empire.
Winter 180 A.D.
Incongruously enough, the first sound we hear is a
beautiful tenor voice. Singing. A boy's voice.
CREDITS as we hear the haunting song float through dense
forests. We fin... |
FADE IN:
An iguana...
Crawling off its nest, leaving its eggs exposed.
1 EXT. MORUROA ATOLL ISLANDS, FRENCH POLYNESIA - PACIFIC 1
Grainy, Kodak color, nineteen sixties documentary
footage of a beautiful Polynesian island. We SEE quick
shots of Kimono Dragons, Gila Monst... |
it. As the familiar sound broke forth, the old
passion seized on Toad and completely mastered him,
body and soul ... He increased his pace, and as the
car devoured the street, he was only conscious
that he was Toad once more, Toad at his best and
highest. And he sped he knew not whither, fulfilling
his inst... |
NDY" by LOOKING GLASS PLAYS.
EXT. FORD COBRA MUSTANG - DAY
SUPER: MISSOURI
EARTH
1980
OVERHEAD SHOT: A `79 Cobra winds alongs... |
residential neighborhood. Yuppie neighbours look on in
shock, confused. Two of the troops carry a battering ram
to the front door of a white two-storey house. A leashed
Rottweiler snarls and barks. In position, their comrades
point M-16s into first-floor windows, ready to be
... |
0.)
I saw a severed head once. Except for the,
paleness, it looked healthy, well-fed.
The end came abruptly you could tell
'cause the mouth froze in mid-sentence.
"Shh. ," the curled lips attempted. Like
it started saying "shucks" or "Shirley"
... |
en the
sound of breathing. The soft footfall of a person running.
HANNA, fourteen years old, long hair, eyes like blue ice,
glides through the trees, a bow strapped to her shoulder. She
is dressed in animal skins and fur shoes. She blends almost
completely into the... |
Falls from low grey clouds. Down below we see...
THE RIVER
Muddy, slow and powerful, overflowing its banks. In the near
distance is...
THE RESERVOIR
Filled to the maximum, water thundering out of two open gates.
We... |
Steven McKay
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
FINAL DRAFT
February 17, 1989
Converted to PDF by SCREENTALK
www.screentalk.org
FADE IN:
EXT. HOLLYWOOD HILLS HOUSE - EARLY EVENING
A modest but handsome home in the foothills above Gower.
SUPERIMPOSE: "1983"
A young boy... |
Steven McKay
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
FINAL DRAFT
February 17, 1989
Converted to PDF by SCREENTALK
www.screentalk.org
FADE IN:
EXT. HOLLYWOOD HILLS HOUSE - EARLY EVENING
A modest but handsome home in the foothills above Gower.
SUPERIMPOSE: "1983"
A young boy... |
ds. A bus pulls in on
Beverly. NEIL McCAULEY and a nurse get off. Neil carries
a paper bag and wears white pants like a hospital attendant.
Neil is an ice-cold professional: very big, very tough.
At 42 his short black hair is graying. He spent eight
years in McNeil and three in San Quentin. He got out and
hit the... |
at glistens in the morning sun.
As the camera skims overtop, titles start to roll. Ahead
of us an odd-looking service van comes into view, sputtering
along a dirt road. Getting closer, we can see the driver, a
thin, bookish man with a neat mustache. This is AUSTIN GRIMALDI.
The truck pulls up to a strange Vic... |
M - INTERVIEW 1
In a photographic DARKROOM: old optical enlargers, porcelain
trays, timers, and stills hanging out to dry.
GEORGE MATLIN, a slightly obese, nearsighted man in his
seventies.
OLD MATLIN
... |
.
Park Avenue in mid-December. On the lampposts, Xmas lights
sparkle over streets slick with slush and rain. Limousines
line up for a public function.
2 EXT. BLACKWOOD BUILDING - NIGHT 2
SUPERIMPOSURE:
BLACKWOOD'S AUCTION HOUSE
Under b... |
leaning
against an alley wall.
He is waiting.
Another silhouetted FIGURE appears and approaches the first.
They size each other up as best they can.
FIRST MAN
MacLeod.
The second nods.
The first without hesitation raises a swo... |
hat shroud a land still
in its infancy. Cathedral spires of granite. Cradled lakes. A solitary vastness.
VOICE (cont'd)
WE HAVE BEEN WORSHIPPED AS GODS MISTAKEN FOR DEMONS AND REVILED'AS WITCHES. WE ARE THE SEEDS OF A MILLION LEGENDS BUT OUR TRUE ORIGINS ARE UNKNOWN. WE SIMPLY ARE.
ANCIENT CASTLES dot the landsca... |
low whup-whup-whup of an LAPD
helicopter flashing through the frame, here and gone.
LAPD radio transmissions crackle like static electricity
around a dirty clapboard bungalow that looks like the
puckered asshole of Eagle Rock.
A man's terrified voice screams invisibly from the house --
... |
May 5th, 2014
EXT. OPEN SEA - DAY
Hiccup and Toothless BLUR PAST, leaving a wake that leads...
EXT. BERK - DAY
(Sequence 0200 - New Berk)
... |
ers
Based on an original idea by
Bruce Willis & Robert Kraft
A Silver Pictures/Flying Heart Films June 14, 1990
Production
NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS
AND SOME "SCENE OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE B... |
MIKAHIL, GORBACHEV AS WELL AS
POLITBURO MEMBERS YAVOLEV,
MENDVENDEV AND BIRKOVO.
DEFENSE MINISTER ULINOV ASSUMED
THE ROLE OF CHAIRMAN. KGB HEAD
LIGACHEV BECAME PREMIER VOWING
"A RESTORATION OF DISCIPLINE."
WESTERN LEADERS BRACED ... |
ts in this film are real.
Names and places have been changed to protect the Lorien Six,
who remain in hiding.
Take this as your first warning. Other civilizations do exist.
Some of them seek to destroy you.
... |
..YELLOW...as we realise...It's FIRE...
A SOUND. Something SHATTERING...
Then. A DISEMBODIED VOICE. Muted. We can't quite make out
What it's saying. As it gets LOUDER. And LOUDER. When we
finally. Understand...
DISEMBODIED VOICE
You are in danger...
... |
im LIFT his head to see: a LITTLE
BLONDE BOY crouching, back towards us, watching the tide eat
a SANDCASTLE. A LITTLE BLONDE GIRL joins the boy. The Bearded
Man tries to call them, but they RUN OFF, FACES UNSEEN. He
COLLAPSES.
The barrel of a rifle ROLLS the Bearded Man onto his back. A
JAPANESE SEC... |
he
castoff remains of the Apollo mission. Slowly the discarded
equipment begins to RATTLE and SHAKE.
AN ENORMOUS SHADOW creeps towards us blotting out the horizon,
a loud RUMBLE is heard.
Suddenly we are covered in DARKNESS as the SHADOW engulfs us.
Only the lonely image of our EARTH hangs in the air, ... |
MENNO MEYJES
FADE IN:
EXT. DESERT OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST - DAY
A mountain peak dominates the landscape.
TITLES BEGIN.
Riders on horseback cross the desert. From this distance they appear to be a
company of Army Cavalry Soldiers.
CLOSER ANGLES ON THE RIDERS
reveal only detail... |
EXT. PERU - HIGH JUNGLE - DAY
The dense, lush rain forests of the eastern slopes of the
Andes, the place known as "The Eyebrow of the Jungle". Ragged,
jutting canyon walls are half-hidden by the thick mists.
The MAIN TITLE is followed by this:
... |
GLORIA KATZ
TM* & (c) Lucasfilm Ltd., 1984
--------------
FADE IN:
1. INT. "THE DRAGON" NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT 1.
A Chinese GONG SOUNDS and the glittering doors of an art Deco pa-
poda slide open to reveal ... |
FIRST DRAFT
2/10/95
UNDERWATER - CLOSE-UP: A brightly colored FLY, attached to a dangling,
fishing line. A large SALMON swims to the fly. The salmon EXAMINES the
fly, deciding whether or not to bite.
... |
ancy, France (what the
French call cow country).
We Read a SUBTITLE in the sky above the farm house;
CHAPTER ONE
"ONCE UPON A TIME IN...
NAZI OCCUPIED FRANCE"
This SUBTITLE disappears, and is replaced by another one;
"1941
O... |
ancy, France (what the
French call cow country).
We Read a SUBTITLE in the sky above the farm house;
CHAPTER ONE
"ONCE UPON A TIME IN...
NAZI OCCUPIED FRANCE"
This SUBTITLE disappears, and is replaced by another one;
"1941
O... |
more apartments, above and
below, the tiers linked by ramps and crosswalks. It might be a
prison cellblock but there are no guards apparent. Indeed, the
residents move freely, all notably male, all clad in shearlings,
polo shirts and slacks. It is just another day in Sector Four.
3 INT. NUTRITI... |
ember 21, 2001
FADE IN:
EXT. THE PORT OF GENOA, ITALY - NIGHT
Forklifts RUMBLE. Workers WIPE FRAME. All the bustle and
cacophony of a major seaport.
We FIND ourselves focusing on ONE LARGE CRATE. With the
... |
The 13ths.
AGAIN, DARKNESS.
OPEN ON:
The year is 2455. The place is Old Earth. Barren, void of life, a
hazardous and violent planet. The sky is blood red with spiked clouds of
dark gray. It is beautiful, but frighteningly foreign.
BLUE LIGHTNING CRACKLES as several figures rush through a... |
I/E. BACKYARD - SUBURBAN HOUSE - JUDY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
POV of a HOME VIDEO CAMERA shooting into the window of
teenage girl's bedroom.
The door inside opens. In walks JUDY OAKS-KELLEN (18), a
blond haired, mousy girl, wearing only a T-shirt and panties... |
T. THE COUNTRYSIDE - ESTABLISHING - EARLY DAY
SUPER: ARDMORE, PENNSYLVANIA
A verdant landscape of rolling hills, lush countryside, and
ambient peace.
EXT. THE WICK HOME... |
March 17, 1994
JUDGE DREDD
FADE IN:
BLACK SCREEN.
NARRATOR
In the third millennium, the
world... changed.
1 MONTAGE (STOCK - IF DESIRED) 1
Vicious e... |
SCOTCH MARMO
3/14/92
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EXTREME CLOSEUP of glowing honey-colored stones. Their shapes ABSTRACT
as THE CAMERA EXAMINES air bubbles and crystalline patterns.
MOVING UP AND OVER this amber abstractio... |
EXT. BOAT - DAY 2
Illegal Costa Rican parasail operator ENRIQUE CARDOSO helps
Americans BEN HILDEBRAND and twelve-year-old ERIC KIRVY --
already wearing life-vests -- strap themselves into a two-
person PARASAIL HARNESS.
3 EXT. BOAT - DAY 3
Ben and Eric clamber onto a makeshift PLATFOR... |
escent of white
sand at the jungle fringe, utterly deserted.
ISLA SORNA
87 miles southeast of Nublar
Two SHIP HANDS, dressed in white uniforms, have set up a
picnic table with three chairs on the sand and are carefully
laying out luncheon service -- fine china, silver, crystal
decanters with red a... |
Edgar Wallace
1.
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - DAY
CLOSE ON: A scrawny MONKEY scratches.
ANGLES ON: Defeated, listless ANIMALS, in the bleak en... |
L - DAY 2
We're in a kindergarten classroom of 25 SIX YEAR OLDS. All
sitting on the floor, legs crossed. Sitting in front of the
kids is Little KEVIN FLEURY, flanked by his mom LYLA FLEURY
and his dad RONALD FLEURY, in a dark suit.
Little Kevin has a large cardboard square... |
1.
EXT. VALLEY -- DAY
A MYSTERIOUS WARRIOR treks across the rugged landscape.
NARRATOR (V.O.)
Legend tells of a legendary warrior
whose Kung Fu skills were the stuff
... |
ic CRY of a LOON.
SLOWLY FADE IN TO:
EXT. BLACK LAKE - NIGHT
The loon continues its hypnotic call, as the steamy mist lifts
off the dark water, which doesn't even ripple. The loon
continues her nocturnal cry, as we savor the beauty of the lake,
the elegance of the bird, and ... |
S
Copyright 2004 All Rights Reserved
BLACK. THE SOUND OF CHANNELS BEING TURNED ON A TV. TITLE UP:
"SOME TIME AGO".
NEWSCASTER (O.S.)
It's hard for us... |
worst thing, the most despicable thing, the
thing it would never even cross their minds
to do. Then assume they've already done it
twice.
Joseph R. Hallenbeck
Private Investigator
When you consider that a career in pro foot-
ball means maybe ten yea... |
Logan
Revisions by
Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz
1.
Fade In:
A BRIGHT BLUE TIGER
Surrounded by a pack of dogs, ten of them snarling and gnashing their ... |
"Come, ye children, listen to me. I will teach you
the fear of the LORD."
PSALM 34:11
THE MOJAVE DESERT - DUSK
Vast. Barren. No signs of life.
A BLOOD RED SUN is sinking behind the d... |
he LEGO Corporation
FADE IN:
On the awesome WB LOGO made of LEGO bricks. We PUSH
through it and find ourselves in a STARFIELD.
A COMET streaks towards us. We FOLLOW as it blasts past.
The ... |
USINE DE MONTAUBAN - EXTÉRIEUR NUIT
Le ciel gris du jour qui va bientôt se coucher, au-dessus de la
cour de l'usine de matériel de Travaux Publics de Fernand Naudin à
Montauban. Une pelleteuse à chenilles sort lentement d'un hangar,
avec le godet en... |
USINE DE MONTAUBAN - EXTÉRIEUR NUIT
Le ciel gris du jour qui va bientôt se coucher, au-dessus de la
cour de l'usine de matériel de Travaux Publics de Fernand Naudin à
Montauban. Une pelleteuse à chenilles sort lentement d'un hangar,
avec le godet en... |
USINE DE MONTAUBAN - EXTÉRIEUR NUIT
Le ciel gris du jour qui va bientôt se coucher, au-dessus de la
cour de l'usine de matériel de Travaux Publics de Fernand Naudin à
Montauban. Une pelleteuse à chenilles sort lentement d'un hangar,
avec le godet en... |
FINAL SHOOTING DRAFT - August 23, 2016
AN LCD BILLBOARD WITH DEFECTIVE PIXELS
A BEAUTIFUL COUPLE dance on a giant can of a Red-Bull-like
drink-- HYPNO! The label morphs to different flavors.
... |
OTE THE CRYSTAL WILL BE USED IN THE
LEFT HAND OF ALL CHARACTERS.
FADE IN:
BEFORE AND DURING TITLES
1 EXT. - SKY NIGHT
The moon and stars are visible, but as CAMERA looks down, the SCREEN
fills with dark, billowing clouds. CAMERA moves into the clouds and
just as they blank out ... |
Assaulted from without by SNOWFLAKES. Wind tossed.
INSIDE, a bed, dappled with moon shadow. A LITTLE GIRL, fast
asleep. The wind whistles and sighs outside. She DREAMS...
Eyelids closed, eyes roving beneath... then suddenly they
SNAP open. A stifled c... |
pocket watch. Open. Ticking. Swinging from a chain.
Held by a young man named JOE in a clearing beside a Kansas
corn field. Sky pregnant with rain.
Waiting. He checks the watch, removes his earbud headphones,
stands.
Without much ceremony a BLOODIED MAN in a suit a... |
mathon ne nen,
han mathon ne chae...a han noston ned
wilith."
(English:)
The world is changed: I feel it in the
water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it
in the air...Much that once was is lost,
for none now live who remember it.
SUPER:... |
A WingNut Films Production
BLACK SCREEN:
EXT. RIVER ANDUIN - DAY
ANGLE ON: SMEAGOL and his cousin, DEAGOL, sit in a SMALL
CORACLE, their FISHING LINES draped over the side . . . SUNSHINE
glinting off the surface of the water.
An idyllic image.
SUDDENLY . . . DEAGOL's FISHING ROD BENDS under the weight ... |
Transcription credits
Accela, Aina, Bad burn, Bridget Chubb,
Brionn Equus (Lochrann), Drusilia, Elf
Lady, Éowyn Unquendor, Feanari, Finafyr,
Flourish, Galadriel, Heri, Julamb, JustinsIce(Mdjasrie),
... |
ADE IN ON:
THE DESERT. Sizzling dunes. Harsh. Unforgiving.
Afghanistan - Three Years Ago
We hear faint SCREAMS. A man BEGGING...
MAN (O.S.)
No... please...... |
iangular CARGO SHIP descends from the dark of space.
PILOT (OVER)
Mars mining base, this is Grissom One,
Request final descent vector.
REVERSE ANGLE
EXT.-MARS
A row of giant red mountains and beneath, on the planet's surface, the
spires of A MINING BASE. Illumi... |
of garbage scatter, stray dogs scramble.
INT. FEDERALE CAR, MOVING - DAY
MACHETE (MEXICAN FEDERALE OFFICER CRUZ) drives with ROOKIE
OFFICER ERHMAN riding shotgun. A rosary swings back and forth
o... |
ers
FINAL SHOOTING DRAFT
9/30/2010
This is true...
EXT. VILLAGE - NIGHT - (2003)... |
BLACK AND WHITE ACADEMY FORMAT
THE WASTELAND. DAY.
Flurries of dust and sand swirl around us as we move
through an eerie, barren land. The only sound is the
howl of a rising wind.
Ahead something looms out of the storm. As we approach
we see that i... |
FIRST DRAFT
September 18, 1995
FADE IN:
From the BLACKNESS before the first images, we hear a young
woman's tortured SCREAM, muffled by her own will. We see her
mouth, open in agony; her face, beaded with sweat. Her name
is ANNE, and she is Queen of Franc... |
1.
"Man On Fire"
OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE
EXT. MEXICO CITY - DAY
High over the city on a bright Sunday morning, the sun
pounding its way through the orange haze of smog. As we
descend toward the clots of traffic blocking the streets:
the sounds of a Mass being sung.
A CATHOLIC CHURCH
The big wood... |
ing a greasy bag of fast food.
INT. JAIL LOBBY - DAY
The Officer enters the lobby, tosses the bag of food to his
PARTNER who is sitting at a desk. He grabs a tin cup and
walks over to barred entrance to Block A. Twenty or so
CRIMINALS, from drunks to drug dealers are sleeping
peacefully in their cell on Block... |
EXT. HIGH SEAS - DAY
The dragonhead prow of an ancient Viking ship cuts through the
thick fog of the rough North Atlantic Sea.
MUSIC EXPLODES: WAGNER'S "GOTTERDAMMERUNG" (Twilight of the Gods)
SUPERIMPOSE: THE TENTH CENTURY A.D.
... |
s of water.
Finally the picture settles into a high, wide shot of the
ocean and an adjacent coastline.
In a corner of the screen, the last rays of sunlight touch a
small, dark shape causing it to glow in the gathering
darkness: A three-masted sailing vessel.
2. THE SHIP - DUSK
[ ] ... |
sail, like a glider, over the black atmosphere.
We DIVE DOWN into the murkiness, through the clouds, into the darker
world of the dead surface of Earth, the desert of the real. The
rotted skeleton of a massive city is sprawled everywhere. We approach
a fissure in the Earth's crust, and as we do, we hear... |
sing with phosphorous light, burning beneath
the derma of black-neon glass.
A PHONE begins to RING, we hear it as though we were
making the call. The cursor continues to throb,
relentlessly patient, until --
MAN (V.O.)
Hello?
Data now slashes across the screen, information flashing
faster ... |
MAX'S VOICE
C
I don't believe in heaven, but I have
this idea about it. Something I heard in
a song.
FADE IN:
White.
... |
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