KUNDUN
Melissa Mathison
16 October 1992
Cast of Characters
(in order of appearance)
Reting Rinpoche ... Regent of Tibet, served in the years between
the death of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and the discovery
of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. A monk.
Lama of Sera ... Keustang Rinpoche A high lama.
Lhamo Dhondrup ... The Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Also known
as Tenzin Gyatso.
Lobsang Samten ... The Dalai Lam
In Dreams Script
(Man shouts )
(Woman ) Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
whos the fairest of us all?
(Girl) Youre the fairest in
this hall, but Snow White is the...
(Chuckles ) Come on, Rebecca.
Forget its a play.
Just say it
like youre saying it to me.
Snow Whites the fairest of them all
And again. Mirror, mirror, on the
wall, whos the fairest of us all?.
- Youre the fairest in...
- Wrong.
You are.
PAN DOWN TO A ROW OF 몷TELLERS몶 CAGES몸 with long lines of PEOPLE waiting to collect their unemployment checks. A sign above the first window says 몷A - F몸, the second window is designated 몷G - L몸 and so on.
CLOSE ON THE SECOND WINDOW -- Waiting his turn at the head of the line is a BLACK MAN in his early 30몶s. He kills time by trying to make a beat-up old wooden yo-yo perform the ba
STAR WARS : EPISODE 1
THE PHANTOM MENACE
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."
A vast sea of stars serves as the backdrop for the MAIN TITLE,
followed by a ROLL UP, which crawls up into infinity.
"EPISODE 1 THE PHANTOM MENACE"
"Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of
trade routes to outlaying star systems is in dispute. Hoping
to resolve the matter with a blockad
"THE GRADUATE"
Screenplay by
Buck Henry
FINAL DRAFT
March 29, 1967 Property of:
Lawrence Turman, Inc.
Mike Nichols
5451 Marathon St.
Hollywood, California
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1 EXT. AMPHITHEATRE - DAY
SHOT - HELICOPTERS POV -
Moving through clouds. The clouds separate and, far below, we can
see a giant outdoor amphitheatre. There i
Last Tango In Paris Script
Fucking God!
- A phone token, please.
- No tokens. At the end, on the left.
Maman? Yes, its Jeanne.
Ive found a flat to rent in Passy.
Im going to see it.
Then Ive got to go to the station
to meet Tom. I promised him.
OK, see you later. Bye!
Ive come to see the flat. I saw the sign.
- The sign?
- Yes.
Its always the same!
Nobody ever tells me anything.
- Id like to see
A womans face BACKS INTO SHOT, her head resting against grimy wallpaper. She is tense, sweaty, wide-eyed with concentration. This is CLARICE STARLING - mid-20s, trim, very pretty. She wears Kevlar body armor over a navy windbreaker, khaki pants. Her thick hair is piled under a navy baseball cap. A revolver, clutched in her right hand, hovers by her ear. She raises a speedloader, in her left hand,
Slow motion. Armed troops in black uniforms pour out of unmarked vans and swarm across a lawn in a middle class residential neighborhood. Yuppie neighbours look on in shock, confused. Two of the troops carry a battering ram to the front door of a white two-storey house. A leashed Rottweiler snarls and barks. In position, their comrades point M-16s into first-floor windows, ready to be ambushed. P
JFK
FADE IN:
Credits run in counterpoint through a 7 to 10 minute sequence of
documentary images setting the tone of John F. Kennedys Presidency and
the atmosphere of those tense times, 1960 through 1963. An omniscient
narrators voice marches us through in old time Pathe newsreel fashion.
VOICE
January, 1961 - President Dwight D. Eisenhowers
Farewell Address to the Nation -
EISENHOWER ADDRES
We are floating up a steep scrubby slope. We hear male voices gently singing "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and a deep, affable, Western-accented voice - Sam Elliots, perhaps:
VOICE-OVER
A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he