In black, we hear a chain-gang chant, many voices together, spaced around the unison strike of picks against rock. A title burns in:
O muse!
Sing in me, and through me tell the story
Of that man skilled in all the ways of contending...
A wanderer, harried for years on end...
On the sound of an impact we cut to:
A PICK
splitting a rock.
As the chant continues, wider angles show the chain-gang at w
American Pie
by
Adam Herz
WHITE REVISION: 7/7/98
NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS
AND SOME "SCENE OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR
THIS SOFT COPY.
INT. JIMS BEDROOM - NIGHT
PAN across details in a bedroom...we see discarded
shirts...pants...socks...and hear
PORNO-CHANNEL CHICK (V.O.)
Oooh, yeah. Oh, baby, youre so good.
JIM (O.S.)
Yeah, Im the best, baby.
Now w
One True Thing Script
Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
Let go! Let go! Stop!
Damn. Richard Ellespeare died.
- He was a professor of mine at Harvard. - No!
- He was a novelist, humanitarian. - Hey, hey, back there.
- Published eight novels, including the best seller... - Stop it! Quit it!
Hopes Way, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.
- What kind of man was this? - A man who pursues excellence and noth
POINT BREAK
by James Cameron & Kathryn Bigelow
From the Screenplay by
W. Peter Iliff
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FADE IN:
We are in the belly of a wave.
Light refracts in a constant collision of water.
SLOW MOTION, the hallucinatory prisms, like liquid
diamonds taking flight, dreamlike...
??
EXT. OCEAN - DUSK
Backlit against a flaming sun a solitary SURFER glides
across the green glassy peak. TIME IS STRETCHED until h
The Night of the Hunter
by
James Agee,David Grubb
& Charles Laughton
FULL SHOT -- THE STARLIT SKY
VOICE
And he opened his mouth and taught them,
saying...
FADE sky to DAY.
LAP DISSOLVE TO
LONG SHOT -- HELICOPTER -- OHIO RIVER COUNTRY
High over the country, CENTERING the winding river.
VOICE
Beware of false prophets....
LOWER LONG SHOT -- HELICOPTER -- RIVER COUNTRY
We approach a riverside villa
Great Falls
by
Adam Herz
WHITE REVISION: 7/7/98
NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS
AND SOME "SCENE OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR
THIS SOFT COPY.
INT. JIMS BEDROOM - NIGHT
PAN across details in a bedroom...we see discarded
shirts...pants...socks...and hear
PORNO-CHANNEL CHICK (V.O.)
Oooh, yeah. Oh, baby, youre so good.
JIM (O.S.)
Yeah, Im the best, baby.
Now we
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels Script
Three card brag
is a simple form of poker.
You get three cards only.
And these you cant change.
If you dont look at them,
youre a blind man,
you only put in half the stake.
Three of any kind
is the highest,
but the odds are -
against getting any three.
Then theres a running flush,
all the same suit, all in order,
then a straight
and a flush and a pair,
a
The time is 1959. HOLLY SARGIS, the 15-year-old heroine, sits on her bed, petting her dog. The CAMERA DOLLIES BACK as she talks on VOICE OVER.
HOLLY (V.O.)
My mother died of pneumonia when I was just a kid. My father had kept their wedding cake in the freezer for ten whole years. After the funeral he gave it to the yardman... He tried to act cheerful, but he could never be consoled by the little
Lords Of Dogtown Script
Im gonna rip your head off!
Donnie...
...youre not in Vietnam.
Man, you scared the shit out of me.
Yeah, take my board. Yeah.
- Hey, Mom.
- Hi, baby.
Hey!
Morning.
Youre going to school today,
right, Tony?
Dont worry about it, Dad.
Im just gonna get wet.
I dont want my son
to be a ditchdigger.
I got him, Dad, okay?
Dont ever go outside
dressed like that again.
One, two, th
The Unforgiven
Original Screenplay
by
David Webb Peoples
PRODUCTION DRAFT
April 23, 1984
INT. ALICES ROOM - NIGHT
NIGHT IN ALICES ROOM. A little bit of moonlight coming in
through the tiny window might make a highlight here and
there but thats about all. Words begin to crawl across the
screen:
WRITTEN WORDS (crawl)
Of good family, albeit one of
modest means, she was a comely
young woman and not w