red and white wine.
PAUL BOWMAN, fortyish, sits in a chair off to the side,
reading. MRS. BOWMAN, painfully thin, with the perpetually
surprised look of a woman whos had her eyes done more than
once, supervises the settings of the table.
She looks up and sees a little girl, CATHY, seven or eight
years old, wandering off down the beach.
MRS. BOWMAN
Cathy! Dont wander off!
Cathy keeps wandering.
MR
red, then indigo.
WOMAN (VO)
And that day, your father
got better. He named you Lhamo.
"The Protector."
BOY (VO)
I know.
Silence.
The noblemen and monks surround Reting as he steps out of
the palanquin.
One man stands out here, a monk, a high lama in fact, with a
kind face and fantastic, mesmerizing eyes. He is the LAMA
OF SERA.
WOMAN (VO)
Go to sleep, Lhamo.
Reting stares at the lake.
The water
red and yellow sweater and a weird hat pulled over his scarred
face lunges at her. And its his fingers that are tipped with
the long blades of steel, glinting in the boney light and giving
the hulk the look of an otherworldly predator.
TINA dodges away, her legs suddenly elephantine and slow. The
MAN seizes the trailing hem of her nightgown and hauls her back.
The MUSIC shrieks as TINA manages to
has pulled to a stop at a red light.
Suddenly a hand thumps against the glass next to Sykes
head... and alien hand. Sykes jumps. Its a NEWCOMER
DERELICT standing there, weaving, mumbling in his own
language. In one filthy hand holds a quart carton of
milk. We know immediately what he wants. Sykes rolls
down the window.
SYKES
Take a hike.
Sykes gets a whiff of the derelicts breath as the light
ch
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
SEA -- a distant emerald island. A
40-foot sloop APPEARS -- shapes on deck -- we are about to SEE --
BLACK -- MORE TITLES -- then
SHARKS -- underwater -- rip something into a bloody cloud.
END MAIN TITLES.
FADE TO:
EXT. BLUE BAY SCHOOL - DAY
A place of money and privilege. White coral buildings surround
an open yard. Tile roofs rise among banyan trees and banana
palms, shimmering before a blue bl
Overboard Script
Dock five, the Immaculata?
Its over there!
Oh!
I cannot, I repeat, cannot
sit in this cesspool by the sea
with nothing to do.
So, while you repair your silly boat
engines, I will do some remodelling.
- Ive sent for a carpenter.
- Whatever, diddums. Im shooting skeet.
Hello!
Mr Stayton? Anybody home?
- Hello!
- State your purpose!
- Nice-looking Wetherby you got.
- Its a very expe
Moulin Rouge Script
[ORCHESTRA TUNES INSTRUMENTS]
[APPLAUSE]
[FANFARE SOUNDS]
[MUSIC PLAYS]
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC SINGS:
There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far
Very far
Over land and sea
PREACHER:
Don t be fooled! Evil!
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC SINGS:
A little shy
Turn away from this village of sin!
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC SINGS:
And sad of eye
But very wise...
...was he
And then
Red Delicious.
- Tuppence apiece while they last.
We... They wont last long
the way youre eating them.
Hey. Im creatin scarcity.
Drives the prices up.
Rizzo...
Hello! Welcome to
The Muppet Christmas Carol.
- I am here to tell the story.
- And I am here for the food.
- My name is Charles Dickens.
- And my name is Rizzo the Rat.
Hey. Wait a second.
Youre not Charles Dickens.
- I am too!
- No.
A blu
Limbo Script
Welcome to Americas last frontier...
... where the final lumbering
remnants of the lce Age...
... the massive and
awe-inspiring glaciers...
... calve cathedral-sized
icebergs into the sea...
... where natures bounty unfolds
in a panoply of flora and fauna...
... the like of which is seen
nowhere else on the planet.
From the ocean depths,
plumbed by ageless cetaceans...
... to azure s