CHERRY FALLS
SCREENPLAY BY KEN SELDEN
FIRST DRAFT
FEBRUARY 14, 1998
FADE IN:
EXT. TOWN - NIGHT
The hanging sign says Entering Cherry Falls, Ohio
We see Cherry Falls - A small town in rural Northeastern Ohio. This is
Norman Rockwell land, red barns on dirt roads, a square in the center of
town. But things are hidden here. The barns are locked, the shades are
drawn.
Dissolve to:
EXT. LOVERS LANE
A
The World Is Not Enough
GUN BARREL LOGO OPENS ON
GENEVA SWITZERLAND, an unnaturally clean city that melds old
Europe with new money of both dubious and legitimate source.
INT. HALLWAY OFFICE BUILDING - DAY
An engraved brass plaque announcing the name of the 몷private
banking institute몸 within.
INT. PENTHOUSE BANK OFFICE - GENEVA - DAY
JAMES BOND, dressed impeccably as ever, is being FRISKED by
The remorseless drought had lasted now for ten million years, and would not end for another million. The reign of the terrible lizards had long since passed, but here on the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for survival had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight. In this dry and barren land, only the small or the swift or the fierce could
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
It is 7:14 P.M., Monday, September 22, 1975, and we are watching the network news programs on CBS, NBC, ABC and UBS-TV, the network of our story. The AUDIO is OFF; and head shots of WALTER CRONKITE, JOHN CHANCELLOR, HOWARD K. SMITH and HARRY REASONER, and of course, the anchorman of our network, HOWARD BEALE, silently flit and flicker across the four television screens, interspersed with the news
Absolute Beginners Script
I remember that hot, wonderful summer...
when the teenage miracle
reached full bloom...
and everyone in England stopped
what they were doing...
to stare at what had happened.
The Soho nights were cool in the heat...
with light and music in the streets.
And we couldnt believe
that this was really coming to us at last.
Nobody knew exactly why.
But after so many dreary year
La Dolce Vita Script
THE SWEETNESS TO LIVE
But it is Jesus!
What is it?
Where do you take it?
They take it at the Pope.
Our telephone number.
To the table
what did they eat?
The prince ate some snails.
And did they drink..?
Forgiveness... I saw, me.
The princes?
They drank the Valpolicella.
We say:
snails, Valpolicella.
Let me take a photo!
Impossible...
Why all this money?
I am
disastrous second marriage.
So if youre the kind of person
looking for romance or escapism...
or some fantasy figure to save the day,
guess what?
- You got the wrong movie.
- Thats great.
So now you got four takes. You ought
to be able to patch one together from there.
Right? Lets go to the next one, all right?
Hold on a second.
Do you want some water or something?
- No, I got lots of orange.
- D
PLEASANTVILLE
A Fairytale by Gary Ross
October 7, 1996
"He was part of my dream of course
but then I was part of his dream too."
- Lewis Carroll "Through the looking glass"
FADE IN:
INT. HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. DAY.
A college counselor stands at the Podium lecturing the high
school seniors about their future.
COLLEGE COUNSELOR
... For those of you going on to college
next year, the chance of fin
-- TERMINATOR 2 SCRIPT --
1 ext. city street - day 1
Downtown L.A. Noon on a hot summer day. On an EXTREME LONG LENS the
lunchtime crowd stacks up into a wall of humanity. In SLOW MOTION they
move in herds among the glittering rows of cars jammed bumper to bumper.
Heat ripples distort the torrent of faces. The image is surreal,
dreamy... and like a dream it begins very slowly to
dissolve to:
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