slide moves along. arriving under a long-lensed microscope.
IN MICROSCOPIC PERSPECTIVE, a thin needle pierces the bug and delicately removes a fragment of tissue.
PINCERS snare the fragment, dropping it into a narrow tube. The tube SPINS, faster and faster until it is a BLUR on the screen.
THE SCREEN FLOODS with an INFRA-RED LIGHT. Gray, oval shapes rock in a neutral mist.
WASH OUT TO:
HOT SUN
screen illuminates SEBASTIAN CAINE, late twenties with
the shabby good looks of a perpetual grad-student. Wiry
framed and wearing only boxer shorts, Sebastian sips
coffee from an Einstein coffee mug. He peers at a
complex computer rendered molecule displayed on his
screen. He pecks a few keys and the molecule shifts
slightly, then falls apart.
Sebastian pulls a twinkie from a hostess box, u
screens is the face of Mr. Helpmann - the Deputy Minister of Information. He is being interviewed. No-one bothers to listen to Helpmann.
INTERVIEWER
Deputy minister, what do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
HELPMANN
Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old fashioned virtues. They just cant stand seeing the other fel
A disheveled young man in a gaily colored Hawaiian shirt is launched into frame by someone offscreen.
He holds a printed paddle that reads "NO. 1468-6 NOV. 29 79."
The hatch marks on the wall behind him are apparently height markers.
VOICE OVER
... The first time I met Ed was in the county lock-up in Tempe, Arizona...
FLASH
As his picture is taken.
CLOSEUP
On the paddle: "NOV. 29 79."
VOICE OVER
THE LOST WORLD
JURASSIC PARK
screenplay by
David Koepp
EXT. TROPICAL LAGOON - DAY
A 135-foot-luxury yacht is anchored just offshore in a
tropical lagoon. The beach is a stunning crescent of white
sand at the jungle fringe, utterly deserted.
ISLA SORNA
87 miles southeast of Nublar
Two SHIP HANDS, dressed in white uniforms, have set up a
picnic table with three chairs on the sand and are carefully
Screen. L-Ron
joins him, holding a containment unit.
BRAINIAC
The cosmic irony, L-Ron -- I who have
destroyed a world am now forced to
subsist like a parasite. Once, infinite
power was my manifest. Now look at the
pride of Colu -- feeble attempts to
maintain even this meager anthropomorphic
form!
L-RON
At least you have what passes for legs.
Brainiac gives L-Ron a withering look.
BRAINIAC
What di
screen time, theyre the
best six minutes of the movie.
BEN
Heh heh I bet they are babe. I bet they are.
Look, my batterys dying . . .
But of course, we notice Bens battery is fine, hes just trying to cut the
conversation short.
CHRISTINE(O.S.)
Alright Hon, talk to you when the lights go down.
Ben smiles.
BEN
Sure thing.
Ben hangs up. He reclines back in his seat. Camera slowly pans out the
wind
ALIEN NATION
??
Original Screenplay by Rockne S. OBannon
Rewrite by James Cameron
??
October 1987
FADE IN:
EXT. MOJAVE DESERT - DAY (TELEVISION IMAGE)
A LONG LENS SHOT of a far distant metallic object hovering
just above the ground -- maybe two or three miles away.
The heat waves and the light refraction off the desert-
scape make the object undulate rhythmically, keeping its
true shape and appea
screening in some
psychoanalysts apartment
and everybody
watched and smoked dope.
Oh, yeah.
I dreamed I was
in a Hollywood movie
That I was the star
of the movie
This really blew my mind
(Dr. Westheimer)
I thought, Fantastic.
This is going to change
the climate
of talking about
issues of sexuality
in these United States.
Spill the wine
and take that pearl
(Dick Cavett)
Im one of the handful
of pe
Bamboozled
by
Spike Lee
BLACK SCREEN
We HEAR the voice of MALCOLM X.
MALCOLM X (V.O.)
Youve been hoodwinked. Youve
been had. Youve been took.
Youve been led astray, run amok.
Youve been bamboozled.
His followers ROAR.
CUT TO TITLE:
"BAMBOOZLED"
CUT TO CRAWL:
WHITE LETTERS ON BLACK
WE HEAR the VOICE of PIERRE DELACROIX.
DELACROIX (V.O.)
Satire. 1a. A literary work in
which human vice or folly is
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