The lonely sound of a buoy bell in the distance. Water slapping against a smooth, flat surface in rhythm. The creaking of wood.
Off in the very far distance, one can make out the sound of sirens.
SUDDENLY, a single match ignites and invades the darkness. It quivers for a moment. A dimly lit hand brings the rest of the pack to the match. A plume of yellow-white flame flares and illuminates the bat
Broadcast News
by
James L. Brooks.
FADE IN
EXT. CITY STREET - DAY
A restaurant supply truck is curbside, near a small
restaurant. GERALD GRUNICK, forty-one, is closing the back
door of his truck, feeling good about the world, a common
state for him. He moves towards the cab of the truck and gets
inside as we SUPER:
KANSAS CITY, MO. - 1963
INT. TRUCK - DAY
As he sits down beaming over his recen
Malloy sits over a table fiddling with the tape. He is young, half-shaven, dressed in T shirt and jeans. He looks too --
LOUIS, who stands by the window, looking out on the streeet, with his back to Mallowy. Louis is dressed in an old-fashioned suit.
LOUIS
So you want me to tell you the story of my life...
MALLOY
Thats what I do. I interview people. I collect lives. F.M. radio. F.F.R.C. I just
Miami Blues Script
Oh, thank you very much.
Uh, may I trouble you
for a pillow?
Sure.
Great. Thank you.
Excuse me.
I guess were going
to be a while.
Ha ha ha!
Youre funny.
The temperature in Miami...
is currently degrees
and muggy.
We will be starting
our descent for landing...
in just a few moments.
Herman Gotlieb...
Gotlieb.
Please remain seated
with your seat belts on...
until the captain has
THE INSIDER
written by
ERIC ROTH & MICHAEL MANN
11/5/99
FADE IN:
All we can see is black filling the screen... Black on
black...
INT. A JEEP, LEBANON - DAY
And were in a speeding SOVIET JEEP... Two men in front,
shouldering assault rifles. HEZBOLLAH SOLDIERS... And there
are three MEN in the back. A middle-aged Man wearing a tired
suit and tinted sunglasses trying to hold on. And on either
side o
X-Men
By
Ed Solomon
Revisions:
Chris McQuarrie
Tom DeSanto
Bryan Singer
February 24, 1999
BLACK
Sounds of a train rolling to a halt, a shrill whistle.
EXT. CAMP - DAY
UP ON the door of a weathered cattle car as a German
soldier steps into frame wearing that familiar gray of
the all-too familiar era.
He throws the door to reveal a mass of huddled and
frightened people inside.
The words are not nec
conscious. And it
goes like this-Im paraphrasing: Uh ...
"I would never wanna belong to any club
that would have someone like me for a
member." Thats the key joke of my adult
life in terms of my relationships with
women. Tsch, you know, lately the
strangest things have been going
through my mind, cause I turned forty,
tsch, and I guess Im going through a
life crisis or something, I dont know.
I,
Rolls into FRAME. A bauble of green and blue and white swirls of cloud cover. The eerie clip and whistle of cosmic rays is drowned out by static and someone singing 몵MY WAY몶 - in Russian.
2 MOVING INTO FRAME - A SOVIET CAPSULE
Gleaming white. Black letters on its side, CCCP. A Russian COSMONAUGHT in his space suit is outside, repairing radio antenna. He몶s the one singing.
3 INSIDE THE CAPSU
Security men and porters are loading wagons for a convoy. As they work, we see across the lake a lone horseman entering the village. One of the men recognizes him.
WORKER
Master Li is here!
ANGLE ON LI MU BAI, thirties, powerful and handsome.
In the background, old AUNT WU, at the sight of Li Mu Bai, drops her parcels and runs excitedly into the building.
INT. YUAN HALLWAY - DAY
Aunt Wu runs hurr
WITNESS
??
Screenplay by
EARL W. WALLACE
WILLIAM KELLEY
??
from a
story by
WILLIAM KELLEY
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REVISED DRAFT
APRIL 23, 1984
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1 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
f