skin from his
feet on up to his eyes. The man starts to moan and cry out in pain
as the camera pans upwards leaving us in darkness.)
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NORTH TEXAS, PRESENT DAY
(The darkness is now the view from underneath a boy, Stevie, as he
falls through the earth, landing in an underground cavern. His three
friends look down upon him.)
KID 1: Hey, Stevie, you ok?
(DW NOTE: Kid 1 is called Jeremy, and Jason i
skin is split raw from the
cold.
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His hands are too numb to hold the matches. After several
attempts at striking one, he slumps down next to the pile of
wood, exhausted and frustrated.
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DISSOLVE TO:
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The snow has covered the pile of branches. Eric still sits
next to it, partially covered in snow himself.
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ERIC
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His face is a death mask: eyes half-open and dull, lips a
pur
ear, flips
through an IKEA catalog. Theres a stack of old Playboy
magazines and other catalogs nearby.
JACK (V.O.)
Like everyone else, I had become a
slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.
JACK
(into phone)
Yes. Id like to order the Erika
Pekkari slip covers.
Jack drops the open catalog on the floor.
MOVE IN ON CATALOG -- ON PHOTO of COFFEETABLE SET...
JACK (V.O.)
If I saw something like clever coff
Bull Durham
In baseball, you dont know nothing.
--Yogi Berra
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Whoever wants to know the heart and
mind of America had better learn
baseball.
--Jacques Barzun
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You could look it up.
--Casey Stengel
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Titles over--
FADE IN:
A series of still photos. Black and white. Ancient.
BABE RUTH SWINGS -- An icon of American history. His giant
upper body balanced delicately on tiny ankles and feet. Th
skin. -You can with a Magna-Brush...
...or a fingerprint cam or an iodine gun and silver transfer sheets.
You dont have the discipline to commit a murder.
Is that right?
Lets see.
Bang!
Youre dead.
What took you so long? Ive been waiting.
No, I have something better.
-What is it? -Absinthe. Wormwood-infused alcohol.
The molecular structure is almost identical to tetrahedral chlorine.
Tetra what?
skin
This is Halloween, everybody scream
Wont ya please make way for a very special guy
Our man Jack is king of the pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now
EVERYONE
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
CORPSE CHILD TRIO
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
EVERYONE
La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween! (etc.)
EVERYONE
[ap
skin.
- Really? You promise?
- You will look like me when you are older.
- Yes.
- Come close.
- Im close, Mom.
- But dont crush my hair.
- Say cheese.
- I wont.
- Cheese!
- Cheese!
- Cheese!
Ying Ying, take this.
-My mother died four months ago.
-...$ . .
I realized for the first time,
they wanted me to take my mothers place.
So I sat down on the East,
where things begin...
with my mothers best f
skin like his mothers.
Although the cancer
had been removed...
by acid dropped
onto her tender skin...
- she had died anyway.
- Papa!
Papa!
Papa!
Go!
Go! Go!
Leave me!
Papa!
Go!
- Oscar!
- Papa! Aah!
Little Oscar.
The sea, from then on,
would always smell of death to Oscar.
It shall be a day
like any other of the Almightys days.
There will be no mockery
of the Almighty with pagan rituals.
Others
PHILADELPHIA
by RON NYSWANER
September 21, 1992
FADE IN:
VARIOUS SHOTS OF PHILADELPHIA EXTERIORS (EXT./DAY) ...
which may include the Liberty Bell, the Italian Market,
scenes along the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers,
Independence Square, the Russian Orthodox neighborhood, the
ghettos of North Philly.
MAIN TITLES PLAY OVER THIS SEQUENCE which culminates in a
SHOT OF...
CUT TO:
PHILADELPHIAS GLORIO
Mohicans.
Pflash as he runs. One carries a flintlock musket. Sweat on the mans skin. A calico shirt is gathered at the waist with a wampum belt of small white beads over a breechcloth. He wears leggings to protect his legs. A long-handled tomahawk is stuffed in his belt.
CUT TO ...
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST - MASSIVE WAR CLUB - DAY
in the hand of another running man. Hes heavier, older ...