RONIN
an original screenplay by
J.D. Zeik
DRAFT: May 20, 1997
A BLOOD RED SCREEN - A JAPANESE DRUM starts to play, softly,
but tinged with a desperate edge, growing louder, joined by
other DRUMS as a BLACK LEGEND scrolls up: In feudal Japan,
the warrior class of Samurai were sworn to protect their
liege lords with their lives. Those Samurai whose liege was
killed suffered a great shame, and they
CHERRY FALLS
SCREENPLAY BY KEN SELDEN
FIRST DRAFT
FEBRUARY 14, 1998
FADE IN:
EXT. TOWN - NIGHT
The hanging sign says Entering Cherry Falls, Ohio
We see Cherry Falls - A small town in rural Northeastern Ohio. This is
Norman Rockwell land, red barns on dirt roads, a square in the center of
town. But things are hidden here. The barns are locked, the shades are
drawn.
Dissolve to:
EXT. LOVERS LANE
A
red and yellow with the
coming of autumn.
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On the horizon, the hills rise to meet the Endicott
Mountains, a great fortress wall of granite so sharp and
jagged that snow cannot stick to its face. This is how all
North America once looked -- raw, indomitable.
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Then, abruptly coming into the SCENE is a colossal etching
across the landscape too deliberate to be of natural origin.
Bisecting
red tee shirt)
Orange Red. Thats your 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
THELMA & LOUISE
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by
Callie Khouri
FADE IN:
INT. RESTAURANT - MORNING (PRESENT DAY)
LOUISE is a waitress in a coffee shop. She is in her
early-thirties, but too old to be doing this. She is very
pretty and meticulously groomed, even at the end of her
shift. She is slamming dirty coffee cups from the counter
into a bus tray underneath the counter. It is making a
lot of RACKET, which she is oblivi
RED DOT
appears on his chest...another window SHATTERS as a bullet
zings through and pierces the henchman in the heart.
Bond looks back once at the shattered window, then heads out.
INT. BANK - GENEVA - DAY
Bond appears on the top floor of the grand old building, by
the elevator. Looks over the balcony, sees figures on the
stairs. Hears the elevator cage start from below.
Thinking fast, he wrench
shift of one
degree can cause such catastrophic
consequences as typhoons, floods,
widespread drought and famine.
REVERSE ANGLE. STUDENTS.
They stare back in stunned silence. One of them, DAVID
WAGNER, sits in the front row with a pencil in his mouth.
Nobody moves ...
SCIENCE TEACHER
(chipper classroom tone)
Okay. Who can tell me what famine is?
CUT TO:
1958.
Birds are chirping. The sun is shining
RED sphere of a setting tropical SUN,
heading slowly towards us, floating, as if suspended by
the rising heat of the jungle.
Continuing to approach, the shimmering object resolves
into a MILITARY ASSAULT HELICOPTER, its rotors strobing
in the fading sunlight. Drawing closer, the SOUND of
powerful TURBINES, throbbing in the heavy air, becomes
dominant, overpowering.
Guided by COLORED SMOKE and LAN
state-of-the-art computing systems flash. Surveillance screens monitor news and police FREQUENCIES. Crimes worst nightmare.
Batman strides towards the rising steam-obscured pedestal which bears the sleek, redesigned Batmobile.
ROBIN appears in the door of his costume vault, dressed in the black and red of his Nightwing costume.
Two dark avengers stand suited, ready to take back the night.
red eyes
compassionlessly sweep the dead terrain, hunting.
TERMINATOR 2 - Rev. 9/10/90 2
4 The SOUND of ROARING TURBINES. Searchlights blaze down as a 4
formation of flying HK (Hunter-Killer) patrol machines passes
overhead. PAN WITH THEM toward the jagged horizon, beyond which
we see flashes, and hear the distant thunder of a pitched battle in
progress.
5 ext. battlefield - night 5
THE BATTLE. H