roll
down the sand berm.
"I Just Want to Celebrate" by Rare Earth comes on LOUD.
Troy walks away holding his temple in pain; SOLDIERS gather
to stare at the dead Iraqi, getting their cameras out.
EXT. IRAQI DESERT ROAD - AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN COMBAT GEAR
dance on a road in the desert. "I Just Want to Celebrate"
BLARES as the CAMERA DOLLIES THROUGH the soldiers.
DOLLY INTO TENT TOWN, past bare ches
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
roll, okay?
Beth
Pat, Now?
Patty
Come on, just two shots! By the lilacs.
Itll take just a second.
Beth
All right, sweetheart, look at Daddy.
Patty
I know, I know the photographer hates
having her picture taken. Everybody say
meatball!
INT. INSIDE THE CAR TO CHICAGO
Beth
Benbo, bologna is for eating not washing
windows.
Vincent
Your seatbelts loose.
Ben
Mom, sing me that bunny song.
V
uh-
Its my wife, Tessa.
Sandy.
Come on.
Tessa.
My God, what a surprise.
Howd you get in?
Take me to Africa with you.
What? Roll you up in a rug?
Pack you in a tea chest?
Very funny.
Id have to smuggle you in
as illicit goods.
I couldnt declare you.
Oh, listen. I could put you
in one of these plant boxes, and-
Youd be very comfortable
wrapped up in a little piece of, uh-
I could label you. "T
rolls.
Suppose all you ever had
was onion rolls.
Now, all of a sudden, in walks a bagel.
So you take a look at it and say,
"What is that?"...
...until you tried it.
Thats my trouble.
Whats your trouble?
Im a bagel on a plate
full of onion rolls!
Nobody recognizes me. Listen:
Come on.
Oh, sure. Lets go.
Hey!
- No autographs, please.
- What? Whatd she say?
You think beautiful girlsll
stay in style
rolls
who arent likely to vote for you.
You can usually tell them
by the color of their skin.
Then make sure your side fights
like its life or death.
This talk about legitimacy
is overblown.
President Bush! President Bush!
And hope the other side
sits by.
And even if numerous independent
investigations...
... prove that Gore got the
most votes...
If there was a statewide recount,
Gore won the ele
rolling a huge canvas tent, gardeners fashioning topiary and
adding landscaping of their own, crews setting up platforms,
speakers, lights. Ubiquitous is ALLISON, 35, Parrishs
older daughter, foremen competing for her attention and she
relishing every moment.
A Painter approaches.
PAINTER
The big tent, Miss Allison --
ALLISON
Paint is rust and moss green.
Medieval colors -- Daddys like
an old kni
rolls?
- Medicare meetings.
- The Eiffel Tower.
- The Eiffel Tower.
- Id love to see the Eiffel Tower.
- OK, then.
Great.
Charlie. Im not supposed to leave the
country until my immigration interview.
- Im taking that.
- No, youre not.
You can make something up.
Theyll never know.
Say your cousin Bridget fell in the Seine.
Theyll find out I dont have
a cousin Bridget and deport me.
Its like the on
On another screen
we see them cut to STOCK NEWS FOOTAGE: regular cockroaches,
crawling on garbage.
ANCHORMAN
Blattida Germanica. The common
cockroach.
DIRECTOR
(To a RUNNER)
Tell them were ready for a live feed.
EXT. OUTSIDE VAN - CITY HALL - DUSK
The runner exits the News Van. Other such vehicles parked
nearby. A CROWD of ONLOOKERS, REPORTERS and a gaggle of
PROTESTERS with handpainted
Lost Highway
The Screenplay
Typed (well, scanned actually) by Mike Dunn
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A 21st Century Noir Horror Film.
A graphic investigation into parallel
identity crises.
A world where time is dangerously out
of control.
A terrifying ride down the lost highway.
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David Lynch
21 June 1995
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AS CREDITS ROLL
EXT. TWO-LANE HIGHWAY - NIGHT
We see a clean moving POV illuminated by head