apart. The NINE year old struggles
ferociously, SCREAMING and kicking like a mad man.
INT. HOSPITAL WARD - 1972 - DUSK
In the b.g. we see the Nine year old Boy sleeping. A DOCTOR
and the boys FATHER, a hard-looking MAN in his forties, walk
through the door. We MOVE with them down the hall.
DOCTOR
The pressures and demands players with
your sons abilities put on themselves
to win are incredible. T
structure that they had created, but refined some of their more Hollywood-ish ideas. Ted and Terry are incredibly gifted writers, but what the script really needed was a directors vision. I tinkered with almost every scene to reflect exactly what the film would look like.
I incorporated a concept that would ultimately result in my leaving the project over creative issues with Jon Peters. The conc
apart of you.
Yeah, and the best part too ! And Ill tell you something else, punk !
All these diplomas on this wall dont make up for the fact...
that you got a little Vienna sausage in your drawers.
- Is that why they call you a shrink ? - Shut up, fat a--
- Sorry.
Yeah, yes. Session got a little outta-- outta control.
You see, we all have a little Buddy Love inside us.
Yeah. But we cant let him
apart right and left by an enemy
seen only in disorientating glimpses.
JOHNNY
THIS WAY !
The group splits into two, and the CAMERA follows Johnny.
Something slices Kitten Smith, and he goes down screaming.
JOHNNY
KITTEN !
Johnny stops to help his comrade. A CLAW slashes into him.
??
JOHNNY
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !
Now something grabs the CAMERA, spinning it around.
We glimpse the hideous jaws of an ARA
apart?
Was it a kind of a power struggle
between you and him?
How did you manage
to solve this crisis?
Where in Gods name are you
getting this aggression from
on this new album?
Wheres it coming from?
Why did it take so long to release
an album with the new songs?
After years,
is it possible to retain the fire
that, you know, you guys once had
at the beginning?
Do you think the young generation o
structure of a young child being ignored by his parents or
guardians. Elliott in E.T. and Dorothy in WIZARD OF OZ. ]
Kevin jumps on the bed. His mother tells him to get off, but he ignores
her. Kevin picks up a book that is a travel guide to France. "Hang up the
phone and make me, why dont you.
[Resentment at being ignored]
Kevins father, wearing a blue shirt, walks into the room. he talks to his
INT. SOMERSETS APARTMENT -- NIGHT 8
The curtains are closed. The SOUNDS of the CITY are here as they
will be everywhere in this story. A CAR ALARM is SOUNDING,
shrill and clear. Somersets life is packed into moving boxes,
except for some clothing in a closet and hundreds and hundreds of
books on the shelves of one wall. Somerset is lying on the bed,
dressed only in his underwear.
He reaches t
Apartment? - Uh-huh.
- Roommate? - No. No roommate.
- Boyfriend? - Boyfriend.
- Honey, please let me explain. - Jordan, just get out of here.
- I dont want to see you anymore. - Come on. I got...
Im standing out here. I got wine, candles. I got the whole kit.
Just go away, Jordan.
El, can I just talk to you for five minutes, please? Ill explain everything.
- Go away! - We were together...
since s
APARTMENT - DAY
Through a snow covered window we see a pensive, sombre young
man in his mid-20s. This is ISHMAEL CHAMBERS, lost in
thought as he pulls on his coat. We see its left sleeve
pinned up at the elbow of his amputated arm. He tucks his
slim satchel under it.
TRANSITION TO:
EXT. STRAWBERRY FIELDS - DAY
...undulating strawberry fields of pure white, untouched and
flawless...beyond the fiel
apart. The boy is
dragged screaming his feet no longer touching the ground.
Two soldiers carry him as they follow the back of a large
column of children being led through a gate of barbed
wire so dense, it resembles wool.
The gate closes and the boy looks back to see his parents
- along with many others - being restrained by a number
of soldiers. The screaming is deafening.
And the boys can be he