design, built for the sole purpose of blasting German planes
out of the skies.
SUPER "FRANCE 1917"
JACK DRISCOLL and his buddy, MATT HAMON are flying two of the CAMELS at
the rear of the formation. An UPTIGHT BRIT - McKECKNIE, is flying along
side them. Hes as JUMPY AS HELL, scanning the skies for enemy planes.
MATT looks around furtively. None of the other pilots are looking in
their direction.
Designer"
- or "mastermind."
- I know what it means.
He must have,
uh, planned the assassination.
- I see.
- Could mean mastermind of anything.
You see that?
Burned out right there.
I can only imagine how difficult
this must be for you.
- May l, Mr...?
- Wilkinson.
Ill see if this new page
matches the Booth diary.
This is an outrage.
Youre calling my grandfather a liar.
With respect, now youre ca
design here!
lf I dont go, Im dead.
Yeah. And its difficult
to have a relationship
if Im stuffed with formaldehyde.
- Now, if anyone is being selfish...
- Oh! Now you blame-shift?
- You are blame-shifting?
- Stop analysing!
Im calling a time-out!
Ah!
All right...
Jerry, I want you to acknowledge...
that my needs mean nothing to you
and youre selfish.
- Oh, my God!
- Jerry, acknowledge.
I... OK.
I
Designer GERRY SCOTT
Dorothea is sitting on a round cement ring on the beach.
Editor JOHN STOTHART
Director of Photography JOHN HOOPER
Thelma is peeking in the exposed corner of a window of a
boat shed where her brother Richard is with Miss Marissa,
who is stroking his face and begins taking his shirt off.
Music by LAURENCE JUBER
Screenplay by ANTHONY SIMMONS
Thelma takes her paper bag of groce
design. Jerome wheels
Eugene to a bedroom and, with some difficulty, hauls the larger
man onto the bed. Through his alcoholic fog, Eugene feebly co-
operates - his paralyzed legs a particular dead weight.
After covering Eugene with a blanket, Jerome enters a bathroom
containing a surgically-clean stainless steel basin, sink,
shower and toilet.
Beside the toilet stands a large, industrial-style st
designed to assist
us in every area of life...
We see that the completed form is man-like, heroic and muscular,
wearing a form of flexible armor. The face is calm, handsome and
intelligent. As the voice continues, the form becomes rounded by
the computer until it appears three dimensional and begins to rotate.
VOICE (CONT.)
In a world-wide network of electronics,
they travel through miles of circ
backwards.
CONRAD
More fun?
DEAKINS
Sand traps.
Conrad shrugs, pulls a telescoping probe-stick from a D-ring,
clicks it open and sweeps the sand in front of them.
SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!
Bear trap-like devices clamp shut like mouse traps. The
probe gets stuck in one of them.
CONRAD
Should have made a couple of those.
(CONTINUED)
3.
??
DEAKINS
Who knew?
CONRAD
Let me see... What have I got?
Conrad pulls
A beautiful golden sun is setting. The sky is on fire. The CAMERA starts to move downwards. A large neon sign rises into shot. It rests on top of a skyscraper and fills the frame. The building is neither past nor future in design but a bit of both.
Slowly we pan downwards revealing the city that spreads below... A glittering conglomeration of elevated transport tubes, smaller square buildings wh
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
backwards again. - Its a stupid song, Dede.
Dede says I dont have a dad. She says Im the lmmaculate Conception.
Thats a pretty big responsibility for a little kid.
His allergies might be getting better, but I see no improvement in the stomach.
Has he been following the diet?
Fred just doesnt like baby food. He never liked it.
Does he like havin an ulcer? Dede, if he doesnt follow the diet...
...h