1974
D R A C U L A
cast
Dracula.................Jack Palance
Jonathan Harker.........Murray Brown
Lucy Westenra............Fiona Lewis
Mina Murray..........Penelope Horner
Arthur Holmwood...........Simon Ward
Van Helsing..........Nigel Davenport
Mrs. Westenra...........Pamela Brown
M A Y 1 8 9 7
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
LATE EVENING
An Inn in Bistritz
Enter Jonathan Harker
HARKER: My name is Harke
an exchange student.
Sweetheart, if there are any complications,
psychological or physical, well handle it.
Shes got us. My best friends a doctor.
Besides, I play racquetball with a couple of good shrinks.
Youre such a wise guy.
Shes beautiful.
Its okay.
Oh, shes beautiful.
Bye, bye.
Bye.
Hush, little baby Dont say a word
Mommys gonna buy you a mockingbird Want to go to sleep?
Shh!
Quiet,
an Elinor Hoyt Wylie poem.
It means... Excuse me.
It means stay away from the crowds
of common, ordinary people...
- and do your own thing.
- No.
It means dont compromise yourself
for women. It aint gonna do you no good.
Get away from them as soon as you can.
I aint got no woman now.
- Im living like the stoic bird, man.
- Its the only way to live, son.
Look at that fool there.
Probably listening
an odd camouflage pattern. He looks to the right; he looks to the left; he looks INTO CAMERA, and slowly sinks back into the swamp, disappearing completely.
Our VIEW HOLDS, We begin to HEAR natural, though unrecognizable JUNGLE SOUNDS, far off in the distance. We PAN TO REVEAL a clump of logs half submerged in the swamp; and part of what seems to be a Falstaff beer can in the mud. A hand reaches
Misery Script
Still got it.
Whats that?
An old friend.
I was rummaging through a closet
and it was just sitting there.
Its nice, Paul.
Its got character.
When I wrote my first book
I carried it in this...
..while I was looking for a publisher.
- I was a writer then.
- Youre still a writer.
Havent been a writer
since I got in the Misery business.
Its not a bad business.
And it would still be growi
an important A &R guy
coming down and you fucked me! You know what? Youre
outta here! Youre canceled! Forget it!
JOHNNY
No, you cant...Hey, wait!
MAN
Wait for what? Till you learn to sing?
JANE
Whats up with him? What did he want?
JOHNNY
You wanna know whats up with him? That son-of-a-
bitch just fucked us!
SCENE 3
JANE
You know, this town is dead for me anyway. We got
that gig in L.A., well j
an
eight month vacation, so ease up on
the sad sack stuff.
CHUCK
Its not a vacation, its private
school.
WILL
I thought this was your dream come
true.
CHUCK
Thats not why hes sending me.
WILL
Why then.
CHUCK
Because it looks good.
Chuck looks out, yearning. Will considers him, troubled.
CHUCK
Im just not like you. Ya know?
Im never going to go to Yale. Im
never going to be "William".
WILL
Nobody
an auto accident are only one
in twenty-five hundred.
(beat)
Now this marks a drastic increase ...
INT. HIGH SCHOOL. SCIENCE CLASS.
Same angle. Different teacher.
SCIENCE TEACHER
... From just four years ago when ozone
depletion was at ten percent of its
current level. By the time you are
twenty years old, average global
temperature will have risen two and a
half degrees. Even a shift of one
degr
an avalanche?
SYLVIE (to JEAN-LOUIS)
Va jouer, mon ange.
JEAN-LOUIS scampers off, content to have gotten off so
lightly. SYLVIE notices REGGIEs lunch which consists of
cold chicken, potato salad, rolls and butter, wine and
coffee.
SYLVIE
When you start to eat like this something
is the matter.
No answer from REGGIE. SYLVIE begins reading a magazine
as REGGIE continues eating.
REGGIE
Sylvi
an
intelligent and intense man. He informally salutes,
GENERAL H.L. PHILIPS, 55, hardened, close-cropped graying
hair, his nameplate and insignia identifying him as a
member of an elite commando unit in the U.S. Army. He
clasps Schaefer warmly on the shoulder.
PHILIPS
(with affection)
Youre looking well, Dutch.
SCHAEFER
Its been a long time, General.
They walk up the stairs, entering the palapa,