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
Trucks are parked on the parking lot of an ice rink. Flemish technicians, grips and electricians, talk together while unloading the equipment, lamps, cables, tracks. They spread it out on the parking lot, take some lamps into the rink. The four technicians all wear the same black T-shirt with an inscription in Dutch.
A few cars arrive, belonging to the film crew (cinematographer, sound engineer).
Jakob The Liar Script
Hitler goes to a fortuneteller and asks:
"When will I die?"
And the fortuneteller replies:
"On a Jewish holiday. "
Hitler then asks,
"How do you know that?"
And she replies:
"Any day you die will
be a Jewish holiday. "
So you ask me, as a Jew:
"How could you tell a joke
like that at a time like that?"
Thats how we survived.
Those were some of the
things that kept us going.
E
Predator
Written by
Jim Thomas and John Thomas
FADE IN
1 EXT. OUTER SPACE 1
The infinite blackness punctuated by a billion stars.
As we slowly DESCEND through the varied shades of blue
of the Earths atmosphere, we HEAR the first strains of
a haunting, Central American FLUTE, joined by a swelling
background of JUNGLE SOUNDS. We descend further,
through a lush JUNGLE CANOPY, backlit by a setting su
G.I. JANE
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by
David Twohy
FIRST DRAFT
August 6, 1995
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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
Kagemusha Script
He looks like me.
Precisely like you.
I have impersonated you for
a long time but he is a miracle.
Where did you find him?
At the execution grounds.
He was going to be crucified.
I thought he would be useful
as a double for you.
What did he do?
They found him sneaking around
the grounds. Hes a thief.
A thief?
And a tough one.
Torture failed to make him talk.
Possibly, aside from
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
Jarhead Script
A story.
A man fires a rifle
for many years...
and he goes to war.
And afterward,
he turns the rifle in
at the armory...
and he believes
hes finished with the rifle.
But no matter what else
he might do with his hands...
love a woman, build a house...
change his sons diaper...
his hands remember the rifle.
You are no longer black,
or brown, or yellow or red!
You are now green!
You a
Before Sunset Script
Do you consider the book to be
autobiographical?
Well, I mean,
is anything autobiographical?
We all see the world through
our own tiny keyhole, right?
I mean, I always think of
Thomas Wolfe, you know,
if you ever seen that little
one page note to reader
in the front of "Look Homeward, Angel",
you know what Im talking about?
Anyway, he says that we are
the sum of all the momen
The Manchurian Candidate Script
- Joint raided!
- No, no.
Its just our Raymond,
our loveable Sergeant Shaw.
All right, lets go, you men! Come on!
- Lets go!
- Come on, Sarge. Gertrude buy you beer.
Whats the matter him?
Im afraid our Saint Raymond,
he dont approve.
Well, maybe hes got a girl
back home or something.
Him? Our Raymond? Are you kidding?!
- Silvers, how about the robe?
- What do you m