POINT BREAK
by James Cameron & Kathryn Bigelow
From the Screenplay by
W. Peter Iliff
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FADE IN:
We are in the belly of a wave.
Light refracts in a constant collision of water.
SLOW MOTION, the hallucinatory prisms, like liquid
diamonds taking flight, dreamlike...
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EXT. OCEAN - DUSK
Backlit against a flaming sun a solitary SURFER glides
across the green glassy peak. TIME IS STRETCHED until h
We hear voices: one male, the other female. From the tone of their speech and the accompanying music, we can tell we are entering a romantic scene.
FADE IN:
INT. FANCY NEW YORK APARTMENT - DINING ROOM - NIGHT
Where we see a romantic scene played out between a man and a woman. Both are white. The couple have just finished a candlelit dinner.
BRAD
You like your wine? Want smore?
She nods her approv
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels Script
Three card brag
is a simple form of poker.
You get three cards only.
And these you cant change.
If you dont look at them,
youre a blind man,
you only put in half the stake.
Three of any kind
is the highest,
but the odds are -
against getting any three.
Then theres a running flush,
all the same suit, all in order,
then a straight
and a flush and a pair,
a
Rolls into FRAME. A bauble of green and blue and white swirls of cloud cover. The eerie clip and whistle of cosmic rays is drowned out by static and someone singing 몵MY WAY몶 - in Russian.
2 MOVING INTO FRAME - A SOVIET CAPSULE
Gleaming white. Black letters on its side, CCCP. A Russian COSMONAUGHT in his space suit is outside, repairing radio antenna. He몶s the one singing.
3 INSIDE THE CAPSU
The credits have that depressing, shitty, this is going to be one of those lousy black and white movies from the 1950s look. This is going to be one of those cheap teen sci-fi movies about a creature
MUSIC. When the female stars name appears, Borodins theme, which will later become adapted into "Strangers In Paradise," plays. Then we return to the stormy part, which subsides as:
THE CREDITS END
T
As they travel, various objects (pens, tapes, CDs, toiletries, ties, sunglasses, etc.) either fall or are discarded from inside their jackets.
They are pursued by two hard-looking Store Detectives in identical uniforms. The men are fast, but Renton and Spud maintain their lead.
RENTON (V.O.)
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a fucking big television, Choose washi
DROP DEAD GORGEOUS
FADE IN:
EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - MINNESOTA - DAY
Vintage black and white stock footage of some farms and
farmhouses.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - DAY
Color footage of cotton fields passing by. We FREEZE and
FADE TO BLACK.
TITLE WIPES IN:
1995 MARKED THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE NATIONS OLDEST BEAUTY CONTEST...
THE SARAH ROSE COSMETICS AMERICAN TEEN PRINCESS PAGEANT
A DOCUME
Exodus Script
The island of Cyprus, madam.
World famous for beauty and long, tragic history.
Been conquered many times.
Conquered by Phoenicians, Assyrians, Persians, Macedonians.
Also conquered by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Turks.
Purchased from Turkey by your esteemed self, the British Empire.
All Cyprus most fond of the British.
Im an American.
Fond of Americans also. We Cypriots are fond of
THE MATRIX
by Larry and Andy Wachowski
FADE IN:
ON COMPUTER SCREEN
so close it has no boundaries.
A blinking cursor pulses in the electronic darkness like a
heart coursing with phosphorous light, burning beneath the
derma of black-neon glass.
A PHONE begins to RING, we hear it as though we were
making the call. The cursor continues to throb,
relentlessly patient, until --
MAN (V.O.)
Yeah?
Data no
RUSH HOUR
Original Screenplay
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RUSH HOUR
FADE IN:
EXT. LOS ANGELES - DAY
The whole dysfunctional megalopolis, beige and blurry in the
summer smog. If this is the American Dream, do me a favor and
wake me up.
EXT. LAX - DAY
The traffic loop outside the terminals is gridlocked -- mostly
with stretch limousines.
INT. LAX