chips, yeah?
Its for mum.
The time is on here, yeah.
Ok.
Thats how long
they have to stay in.
By the time theyre ready,
Ill be back.
She may already have
won ten thousand pounds.
Her name has been entered in a draw.
- All she has to do is...
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thank you.
Hands?
Other sides.
Lets go.
Come on!
Thats you.
Get your bags.
And your book bag, Damian.
Keyssss...
Now remember
its n
Yup.
SILENCE. PUSH IN ON Fisher몭
ANNOUNCER (V.O.):몷The Oakland Raiders have taken a 7 - 6 lead in a, tough, football game and this crowd is standing...몸
FISHER몶S VISION - GRAINY - OUT OF THE PAST
3 THREE RIVER STADIUM - DECEMBER 23RD, 1972 3
Playoff game between the Oakland Raiders and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Scoreboard reads: 22 seconds, 4th down, 10 yards to go, 4th quarter.
vision binoculars. He wears the uniform of
a guerrilla general, and a black beret. He is still amid running,
shouting techs and officers.
C.U. MAN, pushing slowly in as the battle rages O.S. He lowers the
binoculars. He is forty-five years old. Features severe. The left
side of his face is heavily scarred. A patch covers that eye. An
impressive man, forged in the furnace of a lifetime of war. The
vision -- I also told him that I would be delighted to work with the writers to execute another rewrite of this draft.
I subsequently spent the next year overseeing Ted and Terry, and reworking the writing to accommodate my directorial vision. They had already distilled the entire series of comics down to 120 pages (a near impossible task) and they just needed some continued focus to score a goal
Silent and endless. The stars shine like the love of God... cold and remote. Against them drifts a tiny chip of technology.
CLOSER SHOT
It is the NARCISSUS, lifeboat of the ill-fated star-freighter Nostromo. Without interior or running lights it seems devoid of life. The PING of a RANGING RADAR grows louder, closer. A shadow engulfs the Narcissus. Searchlights flash on, playing over the tiny ship
CHIPPING as they surround her.
CATHY (contd)
(terrified)
What do you guys want?
BACK ON THE BEACH,
the table is set. Mrs. Bowman calls out.
MRS. BOWMAN
Cathy, sweetheart! Lunch is ready!
From around the curve of the beach, a flock of birds bolts
from the jungle trees as Cathys shrill SCREAMS suddenly
pierce the air.
MRS. BOWMAN
PAUL!
She takes off, running down the beach, Mr. Bowman leaps out of
vision.
He sees a house - a small, stone, one-story, u-shaped house.
The house has a flat, tile roof and an unusual, wooden rain
gutter, with windows outlined in black and a prayer flag in
the courtyard. A spotted dog is in front of the house,
barking, though we cannot hear him. The vision becomes
completely clear, for an instant - clear enough to see the
face of a young boy at the window.
CLOSE
vision scope. The eerie green image lurches as he sweeps
the grounds, locating the boathouse.
6 EXT. BOATHOUSE - NIGHT
Concealed in the shadows, Harry is shucking out of his drysuit.
Underneath is he is wearing black tux pants, suspenders,
cummerbund and a formal shirt. He puts a tiny plug, like a
hearing aid, deep in his ear canal. A SUB-VOCAL TRANSCEIVER.
Very advanced.
HARRY
Switching to sub-v
chip
assemblers. The impressive, weird computer system HUMS as it
shifts programs, the unusual brain image changing colors.
THROUGH A LARGE WINDOW, we see into an ADJOINING ROOM within
which a HUMAN FIGURE hangs suspended in mid-air by a series
of cables designed to simulate flotation.
AT THE CONSOLE, Miriam uses a pen to hit specific areas of
the touch-sensitive screen, changing the complex CHE
chip.
Some experts predict
this modern marvel
might one day impact
our daily lives.
This is
homecoming day for Apollo .
The last round trip to the moon
Americans may take
in this century.
Thats right! Now anyone
can turn their ordinary TV
into a magic box of video games.
I, Gerald R. Ford, do solemnly
swear that I will faithfully...
We must whip inflation
right now.
What was called
peace with hon