Age 26, lean, hard, the consummate loner. On the surface he appears good-looking, even handsome; he has a quiet steady look and a disarming smile which flashes from nowhere, lighting up his whole face. But behind that smile, around his dark eyes, in his gaunt cheeks, one can see the ominous stains caused by a life of private fear, emptiness and loneliness. He seems to have wandered in from a land
imagining.
SANCHEZ punctuates each word carefully.
SANCHEZ
From the beginning, Columbus proved
himself incapable of managing the
affairs of the island. He appointed
his brothers to important positions,
at once injuring the pride and
dignity of the nobles who had gone
with him. He promised to build a
city, the City of Isabel, named
after Your Majesty. What he
actually built was nothing but a
colle
Shawshank Redemption, The
- By Frank Darabont.
1 INT -- CABIN -- NIGHT (1946)
A dark, empty room.
The door bursts open. A MAN and WOMAN enter, drunk and
giggling, horny as hell. No sooner is the door shut than
theyre all over each other, ripping at clothes, pawing at
flesh, mouths locked together.
He gropes for a lamp, tries to turn it on, knocks it over
instead. Hell with it. Hes got mor
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
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by
Howard Franklin
Danilo Bach
David Seltzer
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Revisions by Danilo Bach
FADE IN:
INT. MIKES HOUSE - QUEENS - EARLY EVENING
Winter. A celebration. Close friends, cop friends,
family all here to celebrate patrolman MIKE KEEGANS
promotion to detective, NYPD.
The party spills through the house -- front room, dining
room, kitchen, with a small fenced backyard visible be
imagine how the children
in this neighborhood have been
made to feel. The pounding of
construction ringing in their
ears as this skyscraper, a
tribute to mankinds greed,
grows daily, casting an ominous
shadow over their lives, filling
them with dread even as they are
surrounded in a black, toxic
fog, blocking out the sun while
poisoning their lungs! And
Counselor calls it harmless?!
His back turn
HALLOWEEN
a screenplay by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
- - -
1 MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE
OPEN on a black screen. SUPERIMPOSE in dark red letters:
HALLOWEEN
FADE IN TO:
Darkness, with a SMALL SHAPE in the center of the screen. As MAIN
TITLES CONTINUE OVER, CAMERA SLOWLY MOVES IN ON the shape.
We get closer and closer until we see that the shape is a HALLOWEEN
MASK. It is a large, full-head platex rubbe
The Game
by
John Brancato & Michael Ferris
and
Larry Gross
and
Andrew Kevin Walker
2/8/96
HOME MOVIES from the 60s, SILENT and grainy:
EXT. MANSION -- DAY -- HOME MOVIES
A stately mansion. A perfect lawn. A BUTLER carries a
birthday cake with sparking sparklers...
Past wealthy MEN in crewcuts and thin ties, WOMEN in cat-eye
sunglasses. Everyone sings (silent) "Happy Birthday"...
CHILDREN follow t
SPHERE
BY
PAUL ATTANASIO
Based on the novel by
Michael Crichton
BARRY LEVINSON VERSION SHOOTING SCRIPT
FADE IN:
EXT. OCEAN FLOOR - DAY
BEGIN TITLES.
MOVING AMONG the hallucinatory variety of creatures --
barbaric, distorted, sublime -- that haunt the ocean floor.
All but unknown to man except in the deep preconscious brain
that houses the family album of the race... Where we remember
that they ar
SISTER ACT
by Paul Rudnick
July 19, 199l
Page 1.
SISTER ACT
FADE IN:
INT. ST. ANNES ACADEMY - AKRON, OHIO - CLASSROOM
We are in a parochial school classroom, in the late
Sixties. The children all wear uniforms and sit at little
desks. SISTER IMMACULATA stands at the front of the room;
she is a middle-aged nun, very severe. The children are
all terrified of her.
SISTER IMMACULATA
Who can name all
THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC
by
Andrew Birkin
and
Luc Besson
??
FADE IN:
EXT. CHURCH - DOMREMY - DAY
FADE UP on ripples on the surface of a puddle. Slow PAN
UP: the water becomes placid, and in it we see the
reflection of an inverted CROSS on the top of a small
church. We move across the little churchyard and in
through the open doors.
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INT. CHURCH - DOMREMY - DAY
Utter simplicity --