PRETTY WOMAN
BY
JONATHAN LAWTON
STEPHEN METCALFE
EXT. A HOUSE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS - NIGHT
The view of downtown Los Angeles from the enormous, ornate house
is extraordinary. A small outdoor dinner party is in progress.
A MAGICIAN is entertaining guests. Playing cards and coins
appear and disappear in his nimble hands.
INT. HOUSE STUDY - NIGHT
EDWARD HARRIS stands at the window, impassively loo
hand reaches in and TAKES HOLD of us.
The cage seems to fall away as she LIFTS us.
We can barely hear her voice over the blood pounding in
our ears.
She TURNS us OVER and we see an enormous hypodermic needle
that she uses to inject us with a sapphire-blue fluid.
We are then placed in a small air-tight tank. There is a
small Plexiglas window and several tiny holes. After a
moment we hear the HISS
Mafia! Script
Lifes an enigma, a puzzle, a confusing
struggle between right and wrong...
good and evil, truth and deceit.
You could drive yourself crazy
trying to figure it out.
But I know one thing for sure:
Youre just buying someone elses
headaches when you get a used car.
Stop that run! Stop that run!
Night and day
You are the one
Only you beneath the moon
Before I got myself blown up...
Antho
My Life Without Me Script
This is you.
Eyes closed,
out in the rain.
You never thought youd be doing
something like this.
You never saw yourself as,
l dont know
how youd describe it, as...
like one of those people
who like looking up at the moon,
or who spend hours gazing at
the waves or the sunset or...
l guess you know what kind of people
lm talking about
Maybe you dont
Anyway, you kinda you ki
hands down.
Put your hands down.
Just...
OK, pick up the...
Pick up the car keys.
Go ahead. Pick up the car keys.
All right.
- Wheres your car?
- Its the blue Mazda.
- OK, come on.
- OK, now, listen, if you want the car,
- you have the car.
- No. You understand?
- Gun. Do you speak English?
- Yes, yes, but...
- I want you to get into the car...
- No, no.
- OK, come on.
- Listen to me. If you want
hands and knees!
I hope thisll be a lesson to you.
Did we tell that baby?
- We dont need anymore of his lip.
- You told him, Pete.
I guess he knows now,
how I feel about his job.
I bet he does, too.
Is my chariot ready?
Your chariot awaiteth withouteth,
mighty King.
- Lead on, sire.
- Make way for the king.
Make way for the king.
Long live the king.
Philadelphia, all aboard!
Step down Marty, King
comes home pushing a baby buggy, struggling with two full bags of groceries, and trying to dig her keys out of her purse. The building superintendent FRANK, sees her struggling but pretends not to notice.
DANA
(exasperated)
Frank, do you think you could give me a hand with these bags?
FRANK
Im not a doorman, Miss Barrett. Im a building superintendent.
DANA
Youre also a human being, Frank.
hand appears and
spins the tumbler. The safe door opens. Inside, we see the
dazed rabbit with little TWEETING BIRDS circling his head.
VOICE (O.S.)
Cut, cut, cut!
The cartoon action stops abruptly, but the goofy CARTOON
MUSIC PLAYS ON. We begin a slow PULL BACK TO REVEAL that
this cartoon is being filmed LIVE ON A SOUND STAGE. The
title card sits on an easle. The female legs are paper
mache props
hand out.
I begged him to read it, so he slipped me a copy.
I called him back as soon as I had read it. It was an okay written script, that had executed one stroke-of-genius idea really well. The idea to integrate the best elements of the Sandman series of comic books. It had been written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio, the writers of "Aladdin" and "Puppetmaster" and, as of this writing, "The Mas
Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy Script
Hey! Hey! Hey! Show some respect you homeless piece of shit!
Smile! Its free!
Okay, I am going to tell you a story now about how people...
Iike that sad, pathetic prick back there, found happiness.
But it is not a happy story, oksa?
I mean, why do people think that life should always be happy? You Know?
Because when I was a little boy, my mother used to sing m