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
As presentation credits begin, we hear Johnny Cashs "Home of the Blues." Then we see Allisons name, under it Alexs, under that Roberts, under that Quentins, then under that the title logo for Four Rooms, followed by "Starring Tim Roth as the Bellboy." Then "The Guests" listed in alphabetical order of all the actors playing guests. After the actors names, we...
FADE UP ON A WALL
The camera pans
The credits have that depressing, shitty, this is going to be one of those lousy black and white movies from the 1950s look. This is going to be one of those cheap teen sci-fi movies about a creature
MUSIC. When the female stars name appears, Borodins theme, which will later become adapted into "Strangers In Paradise," plays. Then we return to the stormy part, which subsides as:
THE CREDITS END
T
Grainy but unmistakably a man and woman making love. Photograph shakes. SOUND of a man MOANING in anguish. The photograph is dropped, REVEALING ANOTHER, MORE compromising one. Then another, and another. More moans.
CURLYS VOICE
(crying out)
Oh, no.
INT. GITTES OFFICE
CURLY drops the photos on Gittes desk. Curly towers over GITTES and sweats heavily through his workmans clothes, his breathing prog
- The “new world” that Columbus boasted of to the Spanish monarchs in 1500 was neither an expanse of empty space nor a replica of European culture, tools, textiles, and religion, but a combination of Native, European, and African people living in complex relation to one another.
- The Native cultures Columbus found in the New World displayed a huge variety of languages, social customs, and cr
painter Paul Gauguin
who said,
"The ugly may be beautiful...
but the pretty, never."
I dont suppose that means
very much to you.
Im not stupid.
Theres nothing about your past,
present or future...
that your hands
do not know.
And there is nothing
about your hands
that Madame Zoe
does not know.
I, Madame Zoe...
er...
Jesus-fucking-Christ!
Husband...
is she gonna find
a husband?
Oh...
I see men in
Die Hard
Screenplay by Jeb Stuart
Steven E. de Souza
Produced by Lawrence Gordon
Joel Silver
Directed by John McTiernan
Cast List:
Bruce Willis John McLane
Bonnie Bedelia Holly McLane
Reginad Vel Johnson Sgt. Al Powell
Paul Gleason Dwayne T. Robinson
Alan Rickman Hans Gruber
De몶Voreaux White Argyle
William Atherton Thornburg
Hart Bochner Ellis
James Shigeta Takagi
Alexander Gudunov Karl
FADE I
Fierce Creatures Script
Im here to see Rod McCain.
Willa Weston.
Im not gettin an answer.
Youll have to wait, maam.
Im starting work here today,
and I cant be late.
Can I help?
I dont think so.
Could you try Mr. McCains assistant
again, please?
I already did, maam.
You sure I cant help?
Am I not on the list?
Dont worry, Bill. Ill take her up.
Shes from the White House.
Whatever you say, Mr. McCai
MAN ON THE MOON
FADE IN:
INT. VOID - DAY
Standing in a nonexistent set is ANDY KAUFMAN, looking a bit
nervous. Wide-eyed, tentative, he stares at us with a
needy, unsettling cuteness. His hair is slicked-down, and
he wears the "FRIENDLY WORLD" costume from the Andy Kaufman
special.
Finally, Andy speaks -- in a peculiar FOREIGN ACCENT.
ANDY (AS FOREIGN MAN)
Hallo. I am Andy. Welcoom to my
movie.
(
THE MASK
Revised by Chuck Russell
Third Draft
April 21, 1993
SHOOTING DRAFT
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: WAGNERS "GOTTERDAMMERUNG" (Twilight of the Gods)
SUPERIMPOSE: THE TENTH CENTURY A.D.
EXT. BOW OF THE SHIP - DAY
Viking explorer LEIF ERICSON carefully studies his fob compass as he