Anchorman Script
There was a time,
a time before cable,
when the local anchorman
reigned supreme,
when people believed
everything they heard on TV.
This was an age when only men
were allowed to read the news.
And in San Diego, one anchorman
was more man than the rest.
His name was Ron Burgundy.
He was like a god
walking amongst mere mortals.
He had a voice that could
make a wolverine purr,
and su
Local people and religious types dont like.
Condom and all, you know, hanging from the rose bushes.
Good, good. Final decoration is done.
Here well be having my sons getting-engaged party.
Hes marrying Madelaine... Madelaine Fingerhut... the top policemans daughter.
He impressed her no end.
This restaurant, sir, belongs to my friend Fizzy.
There, that fattish one.
[Chuckles] We came together to t
music calm you down.
Newspaper Stand
CUSTOMER
Dog Fancy please...Why thank you. Thank you
very much.
TRUMAN
Ohhh. Get a paper there, will you, Harold?
Oh, and uh...one of these - for the wife.
Loves her fashion mags.
HAROLD
Will that be all for you, Truman?
TRUMAN
Thats the whole kit n caboodle.
HAROLD
Catch ya later.
TRUMAN
Of course. Yeah...
In Front of Chicken Ad
TRUMAN
Good morning.
RON OR DO
music.
Lets do it right now.
EXcuse me, do you have a light?
If you wanna look down my dress,
you should grow a few inches.
- Wanna dance?
- The twist?
No, thank you.
- Well, we dont have to twist.
- "No" meant "no".
- "No" wasnt a figure of speech?
- No.
- Youre pretty impressed with me.
- No.
Yes, you are.
Stoli, straight up.
So I was impressed.
- Want a drink?
- Same.
Make it two.
Are you one
local took a little doing.
There were rough fellas in the way. They gave me this to remember them by.
He kept his hand over his throat to stay alive and he still went after them.
I know whats eating you.
I got dues-paying members in this local, thats $ a year legitimate.
When each one of them puts in a couple of bucks a day just to make sure...
...the works steady, well, figure it out.
Thats just
Music Bill Stafford
Executive Producer Gus Van Sant
Co-executive Producer Allan Mindel
Producer Laurie Parker
Screenplay Gus Van Sant
Additional dialogue by William Shakespeare
Director Gus Van Sant
Produced by New Line Cinema
VIEWS OF THE CITY OF Portland Oregon digressing into the seedy
areas of the small city.
ARCADES, and yellow storefronts, of PORNOGRAPHIC BOOKSHOPS.
A FEW YOUNG MEN LOITER
Music in: J.S. Bach - St Matthew Passion.
Aces body comes flying in - extreme slow motion. His body twists and turns through the frame like a soul about to tumble into the flames of damnation.)
MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE.
INT. TANGIERS CASINO FLOOR - NIGHT
Vignette of ACE: through rippling flames, we move in on ACE ROTHSTEIN overseeing the casino. He lights a cigarette.
ACE: (Voice-over) Before I eve
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music people.
lm gonna get into recording.
Tour?
You may get hastled.
Why? - Dont you read the papers?
The Park murder is all over the Post!
Mariah Rangel, -year-old Barnard
co-ed bitch, dead in Turtle Pond.
Coked to the fucking gills. Suddenly
theyre hot after mid-level dealers.
You know her?
Who knows?
Thanks for the warning.
You pick up from Jealous? - Yeah,
l had to make trips last night.
Wer
music.
Its because it is about drugs and promiscuous sex.
Simon and Garfunkel is poetry.
It is the poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex.
Honey, theyre on pot.
First, it was butter. Then it was sugar and white flour.
Bacon, eggs, bologna, rock n roll, motorcycles.
Then, it was celebrating Christmas on a day in September...
when you knew it wouldnt be commercialized.
- What else are you gonna ban? -