Miracle on 34th Street (1994) Script
- Ask him.
- Shh.
- Ask him.
- Shh!
Look at him, grandpa.
Ask him!
Ryan, thats enough.
Uh, Im sorry.
He, uh...he thinks youre Santa Claus.
I am.
Merry christmas.
Uh, merry--Merry christmas.
Nuts.
I should have got his autograph.
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
Oer the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bobtail ring
Making spirits br
fresh new lamb.
What are you? ? ?
Some kind of brainiac?
Skipped a few grades?
Im Paulie... Oster.
Mary Bedford.
Mouse really.
They call me.
Id rather call you
"Shithead" than "Mouse."
So youre rooming
with me and Tory, huh?
Yeah. Thats what Miss Vaughn said.
Well, I guess she didnt like us
up there all by our lonesome.
Ive neve been
to a boarding school before.
Well, now youre one of the
Lost Gi
snow-white overnight, they say.
-Anyway, about the barrels.... -Yes, well, must be cheap.
First, must be cheap.
We can attend to your needs. Exactly how inexpensive?
-No more than tuppence apiece. -Tuppence?
What are you talking about? I cant turn out...
...a decent barrel for that price.
-Father, dont you think--? -Be sensible.
They only have to last until they get to the city.
I dont make barre
snow, twenty-four thousand feet high.
WOMAN (VO)
Your father had been very ill,
We thought he would die, and some
animals had died.
BOY (VO)
Cow.
Portrait of a mountain - Shishapangma - twenty-six thousand
feet high.
WOMAN (VO)
And a yak. And chickens. And we
had four years of bad crops, all
the farmers did.
Portrait of a mountain - Anye Machin II - twenty thousand
feet high and slightly obscured
snow #
# Where the rain dont fall, the wind dont blow #
# In the big rock candy mountains #
# In the big rock candy mountains #
# You never change your socks #
# And the little streams of alcohol #
# Come a-trickling down the rocks #
# The brakemen have to tip their hats #
# And the railroad bulls are blind #
# Theres a lake of stew and of whiskey, too #
# You can paddle all around em in a big ca
fresh.
Throw the fish away.
and it comes back to me.
- Get em while theyre fresh.
- Apples! Christmas apples!
- We got Mclntosh!
- Get your Christmas apples.
- 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.
-
GLADIATOR
by
David Franzoni
FIRST DRAFT REVISED
April 4, 1998
FADE IN:
EXT. NEAR THE GERMAN FRONT - 180 A.D. - DAWN
The rising sun unveils steep hills and luxuriant mountains
untouched by man. Snow flurries dart in the frigid air
and on the horizon CROWS gather.
EXT. DIRT ROAD
A column of Praetorian Cavalry flank two enclosed wagons
as they rattle along a rock and log accordion road. On
all sides
fresh.
"They moved their feet,
but were not walking", reads the novel.
The way people move or are moved
is always highly significant
throughout the film.
The Workers theme - a funeral march.
The night shift enters a cage...
the grate is raised,
the cage sinks, and with it the camera.
A title picks up the movement.
"Even the titles", the young Luis Buel
wrote in his review of the film,
"how they r
fresh air
- would do you good.
- Hello.
Im sorry,
its not a good day.
I dont think
shes up for anything.
Hello?
This is Duke,
hes come to read to you.
- Read?
- Mm-hmm.
No.
I dont know.
Oh, come on,
youll like him, hes very funny.
Ahh...
All right now,
where did we leave off?
Oh, yeah, yeah,
it was the night of the carnival.
"Noah, was there with his friends,
Fin and Sara."
- Noah?
- Thats where
FRESH ONE. THEY PASS BY A LARGE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BACK OF A MAN, BENDING TO
SHAKE HANDS WITH ONE OF A LINE OF GIRLSCOUTS. AMES GLANCES UP AT THE
PHOTOGRAPH AND SHARES HIS HEAD DEJECTEDLY.
INT WHITE HOUSE "SITUATION" ROOM. NIGHT.
A WOMAN WITH A STENOPAD, ARRANGING PADS AND PENCILS AT A SMALL CONFERENCE
TABLE. A SECRET SERVICE TYPE PUTS HIS HEAD IN THE ROOM, AND BOWS OUT, AND
NODS, BREAN AND AMES E