FIGHT CLUB
by
Jim Uhls
based on a novel by
Chuck Palahnuik
2/16/98
SCREEN BLACK
JACK (V.O.)
People were always asking me, did I
know Tyler Durden.
FADE IN:
INT. SOCIAL ROOM - TOP FLOOR OF HIGH RISE -- NIGHT
TYLER has one arm around Jacks shoulder; the other hand
holds a HANDGUN with the barrel lodged in JACKS MOUTH.
Tyler is sitting in Jacks lap.
They are both sweating and disheveled, both around
Bull Durham
In baseball, you dont know nothing.
--Yogi Berra
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Whoever wants to know the heart and
mind of America had better learn
baseball.
--Jacques Barzun
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You could look it up.
--Casey Stengel
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Titles over--
FADE IN:
A series of still photos. Black and white. Ancient.
BABE RUTH SWINGS -- An icon of American history. His giant
upper body balanced delicately on tiny ankles and feet. Th
His is the only one still occupied, and it doesnt look that permanent. In the window is a cardboard, handwritten sign that reads "Kwans Shaolin Kung Fu". What remains visible behind the poster and the security grate is an IMPRESSION of people moving and milling around.
INT. WORKOUT AREA - SAME NIGHT
ESTABLISHING SHOT OF KWANS SHAOLIN KUNG FU SCHOOL.
The students are doing their own thing, and the
We are moving through a small airfield full of parked light planes. There are no people around. We move through the cluster of planes towards a hangar on the edge of the field.
INT. HANGAR - DAY
We are still moving through light planes, but now we are inside the hangar. Some of the planes have their engine covers open, parts strewn around. Others are partially covered with tarps or have sections
Memoirs Of A Geisha Script
A story like mine should never be told.
For my world is as
forbidden as it is fragile.
Without its mysteries it cannot survive.
I certainly wasnt born
to the life of a Geisha.
Like so much in my strange life
I was carried there by the current.
The first time I knew
my mother was sick,
was when my father threw
the fish back into the sea.
That night we went hungry, to
und
BLACK RAIN
by Craig Bolotin & Warren Lewis
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A BLACK SCREEN:
Various voices: "Big six"... "Thats six the hard way"...
"Seven or eleven"... "Play two"...
FADE IN:
EXT. UPPER EAST SIDE - NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT
One of the pristine blocks of brownstones where even the
garbage seems gift wrapped. The VOICES continue over as
we move in on a particular building where a DOORMAN is
holding open the door f
Under gloomy sky a huge fortress looms on a volcanic mountainside. From within WE HEAR the agonizing scream of a woman giving birth.
INT. NOCKMAAR CASTLE - DAY
The scream continues as WE MOVE THROUGH the grim corridors of the castle TOWARD stairs leading down to a dungeon.
INT. DUNGEON - DAY
Silhouetted in sadows, three Nockmaar MINIONS stand guard. In a jail cell, sex fully pregnant WOMEN watch
WHITE SQUALL
by
Todd Robinson
FADE IN:
SUPER: A TRUE STORY - MYSTIC HARBOR CONNECTICUT 1994
CREDITS OVER
Wind on the water. Soaring gulls and sand pipers glide
over the pilings and sagging bulkheads.
OLDER CHUCK (V.O.)
Though I hadnt seen or spoken to
Sheldrake in over thirty years, it
seemed impossible that his heart was
the thing that had finally failed
him...
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INT. LATE MODEL CAR - SAME
CHUC
CHARADE
FADE IN (BEFORE TITLES)
1. EXT. FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE -- DUSK
Silence -- complete silence for the urbanite, though the
oncoming darkness is punctuated by the sounds of farm
country -- a few birds, a distant rumble of thunder from
some heavy clouds on the horizon, a dogs barking.
CAMERA PANS the green, squared-off flatland, lit only by
a fine sunset in its final throes. Then, gradually,
start
Then huge CLOSEUP of EYES opening, gazing into mirror, HAND applying makeup, sudden BLACKNESS, then -
PRINCE (CONTD)
Thats right... a world of never-ending happiness,
You can always see the sun -
Day or night.
BURN IN MAIN TITLE: "PURPLE RAIN"
PRINCE (CONTD)
So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills,
You know the one - Doctor
Everythingll Be Alright -