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BEDROOM - PREDAWN In a Simi Valley housing tract. It's dark. CLOSE ON ALARM CLOCK 4:59 AM. WIDER ANGLE: Eyes glisten in the clock's shine, patiently watching the time. BZZZZ! The ALARM SOUNDS. A hand that's been hovering over the clock drops. Silence. JAKE HOYT, a fit young man, rolls over, throws an arm over his sleeping wife -- JAKE It's time. -- she's not there, just empty blan |
Boyle
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EXT. STREET. DAY
Legs run along the pavement. They are Mark Renton's.
Just ahead of him is Spud. They are both belting along.
As they travel, various objects (pens, tapes, CDs, toiletries, ties,
sunglasses, etc.) either fall or are discarded from inside their jackets.
They are pursued by two hard-looking Store Detectives in identical uniforms.
The men are fast, but Renton and Spud maintain the |
The Roman Empire has fallen.
The land lies in ruins, divided amoung feuding tribes.
To the west, Ireland has flourished untouched by the Romans,
protected by the sea.
Led by their powerful and ruthless King, the Irish have subdued
the Britons.
Knowing that if Ireland is to prosper, the tribes must never
be allowed to unite. |
June 12, 2009
White letters on a black screen:
The wicked flee when none pursueth.
The quotation fades.
A woman's voice:
Voice-Over
People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave
home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's
blood, but it did happen. |
appears on a black screen.
"One doesn't discover new lands
without consenting to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time."
Andre Gide
The title fades off, replaced by a second title.
"We're all in this alone."
Lily Tomlin
INT. A WOMB. DAY.
A fiber optic camera observes a five-month-old MALE |
SHOOTING DRAFT
February 11, 2008
FADE IN:
1 EXT. RAIN FOREST, OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, WASHINGTON - DAWN
Moss-draped. Shadow-drenched. Tortured tree trunks twist
upward, reaching for rare sunlight.
BELLA (V.O.)
I'd |
A FULL MOON FILLS THE FRAME -- Luminous, tinged with gold.
Slowly, a penumbral shadow begins to spread across the
moon's surface, darkening it from left to right...
BELLA (V.O.)
"These violent delights have violent
ends..."
... until the moon is enveloped in shadow; a new moon...
which disappears into the darkness. |
David Lynch and Bob Engels
Typed By: Deep Thought
Lynch/Frost Productions
Shooting Draft
FADE IN:
1. EXT. WIND RIVER, WASHINGTON - DAY
On screen it reads:
"1988, WIND RIVER,
DEER MEADOW, WASHINGTON"
TERESA BANKS' body wrapped in plastic floating through Hells Canyon, |
all to his SON. The boy swings, connects,
sends the ball flying. DAD smiles.
BRANDON LANG'S VOICE
That's me. Five years old. I remember that day. Believe it
or not, I remember that hit. I remember it because of the smile
that spread over my dad's face...
EXT. HOME MOVIE - 1983 - DAY
BRANDON shooting hoops. DAD drinks a Bud, frowns as he miss |
and
Richard Rutowski & Oliver Stone
NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS
AND SOME "OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS
SOFT COPY.
EXT. SOMEWHERE IN THE DESERT SOUTHWEST - DAY
BEGIN TITLES OVER:
It is early morning and already hot. INSECTS drone, crackle,
and scurry for shade. PRAIRIE DOGS burrow to escape the sun.
We can see the heat shimmering off the surface of th |
LOGO DE « UFA COMACICO »
Le logo de « UFA Comacico » représente un éléphant de cirque
devant un rideau de scène. Il lève la patte et la trompe, et il
barrit.
TIGREVILLE - PLAGE - EXTÉRIEUR JOUR
Plan d'une portion déserte de la plage. Une ponton en béton part
de la plage et s'avance dans l |
m.night.shyamalan
INT. CLOTHING STORE - AFTERNOON
Women's casual wear department. J.C. Penny.
Legend "1961"
An African-American man carrying two J.C. Penny shopping bags is ushered past the
department store managers and security guards on walkies that have gathered at
the entrance to the woman's dressing rooms.
CUT TO:
INT. DRESSING ROOM - AFTERNOON
A bed has been formed by a chair and thr |
SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA
EXT. GRASSY PLAINS - DUSK
BIRDS ARE FLUSHED FROM HIDING. A soldier carrying an automatic
weapon rises up out of the grass and looks around. A mortar
shell explodes nearby. There are no sound effects. He seems
unperturbed.
Several more explosions in the field. The soldier motions
with his arm and:
FIFTY M |
02.10.09
FADE IN:
INT. PASSENGER JET - EARLY MORNING
Sleepy thick fatigue, the end of a red-eye flight. Most
passengers still asleep, a few read, or stare blankly.
In business class, A HUSBAND and WIFE, mid-30's. He's awake,
reading a document. She sleeps nestled against his shoulder.
He's trim, sharp, good looking in an academic way. Even in |
NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
"Movietown News" presents...
Spotlight on Adventure!
The mysterious SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE. A massive waterfall
cascades down a gigantic, flat-topped mountain.
NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
What you are now witnessing is
footage never before seen by
civilized humanity: a l |
ruction
1.
A SPOTLIGHT reveals RYAN BINGHAM standing at a PODIUM.
He unzips a BACKPACK and sets it down beside him.
RYAN
How much does your life weigh?
Ryan pauses to let us consider this.
RYAN (CONT'D)
Imagine for |
FADE IN:
In the darkness, we hear a voice, a woman's voice. Her name
is Evey.
EVEY (V.O.)
"Remember, remember, the fifth of
November, the gunpowder treason and
plot. I know of now reason why the
gunpowder treason should ever be
forgot."
Her voice has a stre |
of the German Reich, and
that I shall at all times be prepared, as a brave
soldier, to give my life for this oath.
1 BLACK 1
And from out of the blackness a voice. A man speaking
in German - faint at first, crackling over the radio.
Subtitles translate the voice of Adolf Hitler.
HITLER (V.O.)
My comrades. Once again - I don't
know how many times it has been now |
ss. THIRTY PEOPLE and an
inexpensive bier SEEN from the back of the hall.
ANGLE
A MAN's back FILLS the SCREEN. He is dressed in a black suit;
his hands are clasped behind him. ANOTHER MAN stands next to
him. The Second Man reaches behind the First Man's back and
puts a discreetly folded ten-dollar bill into his hands.
ANGLE
These Two Men from the front. Both |
his
modestly furnished Colonial house. He is holding a glass of
wine and peering out through the drapes.
After a few moments an OLD CAR pulls up. A slightly
overweight WOMAN gets out of the car. She starts to walk up
to the house.
Walter steps back from the window and waits. The doorbell
rings. Walter takes a last sip of wine and sets the glass
down on the end table. And then he goes t |
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medium without the prior written consent of Warner Bros.
July 27, 2000
WARNER BROS. © 2000
4000 Warner Boulevard WARNER BROS.
Burbank, California 91522 All Rights Reserved
BLACK
A young man's V.O.:
ADULT LANDON (V.O.)
I was born in Beaufort, North
Carolina. A place where |
We home in on a boat coming in to shore. Off walks a man, he
is carrying a backpack and wearing shades.
EXT. TOWN
He walks through a town, passing various stores and the general
bustle of the people there. He notices a baby in a pram left
out on the sidewalk, then sees the mother is in an alleyway doing
what looks like a drug deal.
EXT. LU |
/87
Rev. 4/15/87
Rev. 4/20/87
Rev. 4/23/87
EXT. WALL STREET - EARLY MORNING
FADE IN. THE STREET. The most famous third of a mile in the
world. Towering landmark structures nearly blot out the
dreary grey flannel sky. The morning rush hour crowds swarm
through the dark, narrow streets like mice in a maze, all in
pursuit of one thing: MONEY... CREDITS RUN.
INT. SUBWAY PLATFORM - EARLY MORNING
We hear the ROAR of the trains pulling out of the station.
Blurr |
traction... the Federal Reserve created more paper
reserves.
The excess credit spilled over into the market triggering a
fantastic speculative boom... "
EXT. CLINTON CORRECTIONAL FACILITY - DAY
It's a summer day. The heat floats above the pavement.
A cab waits in the lot.
The large gates of New York's largest prison open and today's
group of newly released emerge.
They pass a guard wh |
"Out there, there's a world outside of Yonkers..."
More stars.
Distant galaxies, constellations, nebulas...
A single planet.
Drab and brown.
Moving towards it.
Pushing through its polluted atmosphere.
"...Close your eyes and see it glisten..."
EXT. PLANET'S SURFACE - CONTINUOUS
A range of mountains takes form in the haze.
Moving |
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
BLACK SCREEN
PRIMITIVE WAR DRUMS POUND OMINOUSLY... as a LEGEND BEGINS:
Fifteen years ago, a scientific experiment gone wrong gave RISE to a species of
intelligent apes... and destroyed most of humanity with a virus that became known as the
Simian Flu.
The word "RISE" lingers, moving toward us as it FADES...
With the DAWN of a new ape civilization led by Caesar, the surviving humans |
The bucolic magnificence of the Devon countryside. We fly
low over the high, thick hedges untouched for hundreds of
years. The thick verdant countryside in all its splendor,
ancient woodlands, fields of corn, and finally a paddock in a
typical Devonshire dale.
We come to rest beside three farmers standing over a pregnant
mare. The mare is in distress - she is about to give birth.
The farm |
limpse of sunlight desperately tries to force its way
through a gray sky before being obliterated.
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A MAN, sunburned and bearded, lets himself fall from the edge
of a boat and into the ocean.
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UNDERWATER, through shafts of light, white limbs are
FLAILING. The MAN struggles, alone. Bubbles stream upward.
He breaks the surface and gasps for air.
He begins to swim. His massive arms and shoulders grab at the |
EXT. PITTSBURGH, PA - TWILIGHT
A beautiful blue-collar city approaching nightfall. Bridges.
Rivers. Churches. The working class poetry of the `Burgh.
EXT. ST. MARY'S CHURCH - SAME
PADDY CONLON (60) exits the doors of a run-down church
holding a 12-STEP BOOK. He is followed by a cluster of other
PEOPLE in the pr |
An upstate New York town. A CIRCUS is being dismantled...The
Big Top falls and is gathered up by workmen...Trucks are
being loaded with animals.
EXT. PARKING LOT - CIRCUS GROUNDS - CONTINUOUS - NIGHT
AN ELDERLY MAN , JACOB JANKOWSKI - 93 year old - stands
alone, with a walker in the middle of the empty parking lot.
His shirt is stained with sweat - as if it took great effort
for him to get there. As he |
1 AERIAL PANORAMA - DAY TO NIGHT 1
A slow, steady, downward view. The camera seemingly
floats as the curve of the globe passes beneath.
Beginning in the green jungles of Sikkim in Northern
India it crosses the Himalayas, down into Tibet and
beyond to China - the zigzag line of the Great Wall
clearly visible. Then the Gobi desert is flowing
beneath, and as the lig |
L: A CEMETERY in the
foreground. TOMBSTONES blend into a NEVER-ENDING SEA OF
MIDDLE-CLASS ROW HOUSES in the distance, and nothing seems
to separate the two. A NEWLY DUG GRAVE is in the LOWER
LEFT-HAND CORNER of our FRAME.
MILITARY DRUMS. HUNDREDS of POLICEMEN, in their DRESS
BLUES, ENTER from FRAME RIGHT. A FEW COPS CARRY a COFFIN.
SUPERIMPOSE ON THE SCREEN'S LEFT SIDE: THE FOLLOWING WORDS |
Gliding closer, a group of tiny fish dart before the camera.
We're UNDERWATER. Arriving at the form, it finally sharpens
into focus. It's a WOMAN'S BODY submerged in dark water,
arms floating lazily at her side. The face is obscured by
flowing hair. All that is visible is a pair of COLD, STARING
GREEN EYES, which blink closed...
MORPH TO:
...then open as BLUE EYES, as a DIFFERENT FACE emerges from
water. CLAIRE SPENCER awakens |
December 20, 2006
MAP GRIDS
From the pages of a Thomas guide converge, overlap and re-
configure across the screen. The endlessly ironic names of
American suburbs parade before us, their violet territories
marching forward like a bruise into dark green patches of
forest and wilderness.
Closer in on one last map grid which fades into a
transparency of itself overlaid across the actual location of
the suburb. The name of |
GIRL'S VOICE (O.S.) (UKRAINIAN)
I can't see anything... Are you there?
Silence.
GIRL'S VOICE (O.S.) (UKRAINIAN) (CONT'D)
Are you there!?
Giggling. LUBA, 15, dangerous, flicks a lighter, sparking a
cigarette, and grins in the flickering flame.
LUBA (UKRAINIAN)
God I'm drunk... Where's this damn door?
She scans the space with the lighter. Illuminating... |
E VILLA - MORNING 1
Stare at my broken face in a gilded mirror. The breaks
occurred a lifetime ago, healed uneven. I wear a white
tropical button-down, a Republican-gold Rolex, a pirate-patch
over what was my left eye.
ME (V.O.)
I'm old. And all I have left is the
will to remember...
I reach into a dresser drawer, pull out a yellowed black &
white picture of HER: this beatif |
horse. We can't see his face.
Only his boots, spurs, whip, the taut reins, the horse's
foamy mouth, the movements that steer the animal.
We watch him for a while and hear the SNORTS of the
horse, the dull SOUND of THE HOOVES on the ground, the
fast-uttered COMMANDS of the rider. Then we start to
hear a gentle voice:
NARRATOR (o.s.):I don't know if the story that I
want to tell you, reflects the truth in every
detail. Much of it I only know by hearsay, and a |
REDITS OVER
Wind on the water. Soaring gulls and sand pipers glide
over the pilings and sagging bulkheads.
OLDER CHUCK (V.O.)
Though I hadn't seen or spoken to
Sheldrake in over thirty years, it
seemed impossible that his heart was
the thing that had finally failed
him...
INT. LATE MODEL CAR - SAME
CHUCK GIEG, 49, thin, windswept and handsome, is behind
the wheel. He pulls down a narrow cobble ston |
Greg Rucka
December 22, 2006
SCROLL OVER BLACK:
Antarctica. Six million square miles of ice. The
coldest place on earth.
Forty-six countries have competing claims and maintain
outposts. The Antarctic Treaty holds these claims in
check.
There is no regular law en |
Japanese motorcycle - wound out to
maximum R.P.M. up the street.
CUT TO:
2. SIGN BY ROADSIDE
The sign reads KIDS PLAYING - SPEED BUMPS.
CUT TO:
3. EXT. CITY STREET - DAY
With a whine from hell, the front tire of the motorcycle hits a speed
bump.
The motorcycle becomes airborne and on the way up slices itself in half
as it scrapes along the full length of a Datsun Kingcab.
In the air, the rider and motorcycle twist violently as they fly by. |
MANDALAY ENTERTAINMENT January 21, 1997
1202 West Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
FADE IN:
MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE -- BLACK
INTERCUT -- QUICK FLASH-FORWARDS
INSIDE A STEAMY SHOWER -- A wet naked woman and man wrapped
around each other in ecstasy -- legs, arms, hair, mouths.
BLACK -- MORE TITLES -- then
Moonlight reflects on a vehicle's shiny surface. FISTS THUD |
flawless DIAMONDS,
glinting in the morning sun.
Tounted on crushed velvet, the identical diamonds are on a glass
covered pedal stool in the middle of a vast, marble MUSEUM HALL.
The stunning beauty of the stones is matched only by the
breathtaking beauty of the young woman who's admiring them. MARIE
CLIFFORD's creamy seventeen year old skin is dappled in the
cornucopia of colors emanating from t |
esolate. In the far off distance a man is jogging. He banks
around the end of a small pond and runs right at us. This is
MIKE FLAHERTY, FORTY-TWO. He is running hard. Or at least as
hard as he can.
Suddenly TWO JOGGERS blow past him.
INT. HOUSE, BEDROOM - SAME.
A HOME MADE STAIN GLASS ANGEL hangs on a window. It falls to |
EXT. LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. COUNTRYSIDE DAY
TITLE SEQUENCE
The faces of several young children are presented in CLOSEUP,
as they walk TOWARD US across a ploughed field. On the SOUND
TRACK, the haunting SOUNDS OF A GREGORIAN FUNERAL CHANT. The
CAMERA PANS UP to the faces of older brothers and sisters,
then to parents and grandparents. These are not familiar |
DS appear, twisting and vaguely transparent,
reflected on the window GRADY TRIPP stands before as he
reads from a sheaf of NEATLY-TYPED PAGES.
GRADY
'The young girl sat perfectly still in the
confessional...
1 INT. CLASSROOM - UNIVERSITY - AFTERNOON
Grady--45-year-old novelist, professor, and insomniac--is
in the midst of reading a story to the dozen college
STUDENTS who make up his Advanced Writing Workshop.
GRADY
...listening to her father's boots s |
Winner 1st Prize 2001 Slamdance Screenplay Competition
July 30, 2002
BEGIN TITLES - OPENING SEQUENCE MONTAGE
Over black we HEAR the rhythmic sound of machinery. This
sound will continue throughout the title sequence as other
sounds fade in and out. We move forward and back in time. |
FADE IN:
MUSIC: DEF LEPPARD - "ROCK ROCK (TILL YOU DROP)"
Over OPENING CREDITS, a montage of OLD WRESTLING-MAGAZINE
PHOTOS. Action shots of RANDY "THE RAM" ROBINSON taking on a
keffiyeh-wearing heel named THE AYATOLLAH before 20,000
screaming fans at Madison Square Garden.
The sounds of a SCREAMING, CHEERING CROWD overwhelm us. |
INT./EXT. A CAR (MOVING). NIGHT
The shifting lights from the odd passing car play over the
faces of MR. and MRS. PRESCOTT, a pleasant-looking couple in
their late thirties, dressed up for a night out. Mr. Prescott
drives them along a dark hilly two-lane highway.
MRS. PRESCOTT
Why do they always put braces on
teenage girls at the e |
deep HEAVING BREATHS. Moist
FLESH FLAPPING accompaniment. Someone is beating off.
A pause as the someone turns the page of a magazine.
The beating off resumes at a quickened pace. The SQUEAKING of
bed springs joins in.
Another page is turned. Feverish THUMPING until a MALE VOICE
lets out a quiet MOAN.
The breathing gradually slows to normal and lets out a
relieved sigh of finality. |
We hear the actual recorded emergency calls made by World
Trade Center office workers to police and fire departments
after the planes struck on 9/11, just before the buildings
collapsed.
TITLE OVER: SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
We listen to fragments from a number of these calls...starting
with pleas for help, building to a panic, ending with the
caller's grim acceptance that help will not arrive, that the
situati |