color. Few
can carry it off. Now please. Help
me find your brother.
ANNABELLE
You lost Ben?!
RACHEL
Of course not. Does he look lost to
you?
(big breath)
BENNNNN!!!
INT. SUBURBAN EXTREMELY WELL-STOCKED KITCHEN - EARLY MORNING
Rachel, smoking a cigarette and drinking a diet coke, FLINGS open
pantry doors, closet doors -- looking for Ben -- attempting to put
stone hard butter on toast at the sam
distance. We PAN TO REVEAL a clump of logs half submerged in the swamp; and part of what seems to be a Falstaff beer can in the mud. A hand reaches out, and the beer can disappears. As we TILT UP, we NOTICE that the log is hollow and houses the rear of a M-60 machine gun, hand painted in a paisley design.
Now the VIEW MOVES AWAY, ACROSS the ancient growth, PAST the glimmer of what seems to be ano
toward violence.
TRAVIS GETS A JOB
Film opens on...
EXT. MANHATTAN CAB GARAGE
Weather-beaten sign above driveway reads, "Taxi Enter Here". Yellow cabs scuttle in and out. It is WINTER, snow is piled on the curbs, the wind is howling.
INSIDE GARAGE
Are parked row upon row of multi-colored taxis. Echoing SOUNDS of cabs idling , cabbies talking. Steamy breath and exhaust fill the air.
INT. CORRIDOR
distance, the
echoes of singing masts. Shrouds and canvas softly ping.
The small boats of Mystic tug restlessly at their
moorings.
OLDER CHUCK (V.O.)
He had taken us to worship, where,
what was for him, the holiest of
holies. And, for us too by the
end...
??
EXT. DOCTORS OFFICE - LATER
Chuck stands silently on the periphery of a gathering of
people. They surround a small building, a neighborhood
COLOR)
DAVID WAGNER sits on his couch watching this entire action on
a sleek new Sony T.V. He stares riveted at the set with a big
smile on his face. David wears black shoes, black pants,
black t-shirt and a black baseball cap, not a nerd exactly
... He reaches next to him into a huge bag of Doritos, never
taking his eyes off the show.
GEORGE (OS)
(on T.V.)
Hey, Pumpkin! Whats that smell?
(sniffi
colored parasols, sun bathers.
One of the latter is REGINA LAMPERT, a lovely young girl.
She is, besides taking in the sun, involved in her favorite
activity -- eating.
Then -- a dark, ominous shape intrudes in the f.g. FOCUS
CHANGES to bring into sharp relief a revolver -- shining,
black and ugly in the sunlight.
REGGIE, unaware of her danger, continues to eat.
The finger tightens around the tri
COLORED SMOKE and LANDING LIGHTS, the chopper
looms hard INTO VIEW, pitching forward and settling to
the ground, kicking up a maelstrom of dust and vegetation
2-A INT. COMMAND POST - DAY (MAGIC HOUR) 2-A *
Where a MAN wearing a military UNIFORM watches through
the large open windows the helicopter as it continues
to approach. Before the skids have even touched down he
SEES the first of the MEN, d
colored by the late sunlight.
BREMOND
(overly cheerful)
Good afternoon, Bonaparte.
Napoleon ignores him.
BREMOND
What are you reading?
No reply. Dufour moves behind Napoleon.
BREMOND
(angling his head to
read the title)
Dear me, arent we in an unfriendly
mood. Caesars conquest of Gaul.
Arent we terribly conscientious
about our studies? By the way, did
the supervisor give you permission
to take th
color picture...
right before your very eyes
without commercial interruption.
Fellow taxpayers
and stockholders in America,
on the first Tuesday
in November...
we have to make some vital decisions
about our management.
Let me go directly
to the point.
Im for doing
some replacing.
Ive discussed
the Replacement Party...
with people
all over this country,
and Im often confronted
with the statement:
colored Buick from an
Isuzu dealer next to some railroad tracks. The notice in the
cars passenger side window reads AS IS NO WARRANTY, NO
WARRANTY. Dorothea tears the notice down from inside the car
as Robert starts the car and the rental employee shuts
Dorotheas door, and they leave as a train passes by.
with JACK GILPIN
ANN McDONOUGH
ROSE PARRAH
CLAUDE BROOKS
GARY BASARABA
Thelma is immers