First, a sky over chimney pots and church towers, with masses of thundercloud and a black cloud moving toward the sun.
Cut to:
Piccadilly Circus, London. Flower sellers (women in shawls with baskets) seated round the base of the Eros monument. Among them Liza Doolittle, the only young one. The rest are elderly or middle aged. All, including Liza, are too poorly clad and dirty to be attractive. L
We are moving through a small airfield full of parked light planes. There are no people around. We move through the cluster of planes towards a hangar on the edge of the field.
INT. HANGAR - DAY
We are still moving through light planes, but now we are inside the hangar. Some of the planes have their engine covers open, parts strewn around. Others are partially covered with tarps or have sections
Much Ado About Nothing Script
"Sigh no more, ladies
"sigh no more
"Men were deceivers ever
"One foot in sea
"and one on shore
"To one thing constant never
"Then sigh not so
"but let them go
"And be you blithe
"and bonny
"Converting all
"your sounds of woe
"Into Hey
"nonny, nonny!
"Sing no more ditties"
More, more, more!
"Sing no more
"Of dumps
"so dull and heavy
"The fraud of men
"was ever so
"Si
CHARADE
FADE IN (BEFORE TITLES)
1. EXT. FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE -- DUSK
Silence -- complete silence for the urbanite, though the
oncoming darkness is punctuated by the sounds of farm
country -- a few birds, a distant rumble of thunder from
some heavy clouds on the horizon, a dogs barking.
CAMERA PANS the green, squared-off flatland, lit only by
a fine sunset in its final throes. Then, gradually,
start
H A N N I B A L
Screenplay
by
Steven Zaillian
Based on the Novel
by
Thomas Harris
Revision
February 9, 2000
INT. PANEL VAN - DAY
Clarice Starling is dead, laid out in fatigues across a bench
in the back of a ratty, rattling undercover van. Three other
agents sit perched on the opposite bench, staring at her
lifeless body.
BURKE
How can she sleep at a time like this?
BRIGHAM
Shes on a jump-out squ
Note: Hows this for a change from the finished product?!? ... and NO mention of the powerful Opening Vistas! This is how the script begins ...
[FADE IN]
The screen is a microcosm of leaf, crystal drops of precipitation, a stone, emerald green moss. Its a landscape in miniature. We HEAR the forest. Some distant birds. Their sound seems to reverberate as if in a cavern. A piece of sunlight refracts
G.I. JANE
??
by
David Twohy
FIRST DRAFT
August 6, 1995
??
FADE IN:
INT. SENATE HEARING ROOM - CAPITOL BLDG. - DAY
Blinding in their white uniforms, naval flag officers sit
in the audience, showing their support for THEODORE HAYES,
a 50-year-old civilian. This is his confirmation hearing.
Reading from prepared material:
HAYES
... last few years have brought many
advances in the interests of women
The dense, lush rain forests of the eastern slopes of the Andes, the place known as "The Eyebrow of the Jungle". Ragged, jutting canyon walls are half-hidden by the thick mists.
The MAIN TITLE is followed by this:
"PERU"
A narrow trail across the green face of the canyon. A group of men make their way along it. At the head of the party is an American, INDIANA JONES. He wears a short leather jacke
My Fair Lady Script
Freddy, go and find a cab.
Do you want me to catch pneumonia?
Dont just stand there, Freddy.
Go and find a cab.
All right, Ill get one.
Look where youre goin, dear.
Look where youre goin!
Im so sorry.
Two bunches o violets trod in the mud.
A full days wages.
-Freddy, go and find a cab.
-Yes, Mother.
Hes your son, is he?
If youd done your duty
as a mother should...
...you would
resistible. Like a wet
dream.
An office slogan behind her reads, "Play It Straight!"
OFFICER
It will hurt you day and night and
tie you in knots. Youll figure it
a thousand ways and when you think
you know it inside and out you will
jump.
She does not look at him, but she hears what he says.
OFFICER
If you hear one thing in this
office, hear this: no matter how
smart you are, no matter how
carefu