RURAL FACES coming down off the passenger train. FORMS being set out on the folding tables. HANDS straightening pens and pencils and ink pads and stamps.
CLERKS (V.O.)
몭 When your name is called go over there 몭
take this over to that table 몭
TYPEWRITER KEYS rapping a name onto a list. A FACE. KEYS typing another name. Another FACE.
CLERKS (V.O.)
몭 you몶re in the wrong line, wait
Mystery, Alaska Script
Oh, Skank!
Fuck me!
Hey.
What did you say?
You teach him that?
He heard it
in the locker room, Dad.
- From who?
- Everyone.
You know what its like
in there.
He shoots.
He scores!
Wouldnt start again?
- Was it the gas line?
- I dont know. Ill ask Tinker.
- Mmm.
- Mmm.
Take the sled, will ya?
I wanna wait for the mail.
- The magazines supposed to be here, express.
- Okay. Bet
WAG THE DOG
by
David Mamet
FADE IN:
A CARD, WHITE ON THE BLACK SCREEN, READS
Why does a dog wag its tail?
BENEATH IT, THE NEXT LINE FADES IN:
Because a dog is smarter than its tail.
CROSS-FADE TO THE NEXT CARD, WHICH READS:
If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog.
DISSOLVE
FADE IN:
EXT THE WHITE HOUSE NIGHT
A VAN FULL OF PEOPLE STOPS AT A SIDE ENTRANCE.
ANGLE INT THE WHITE HOUSE
AT T
lines and street
lights above the humble VINYARD household. A black FORD
BRONCO rests in the driveway.
EXT. WET STREET - A GRAY TRANS AM
TUPACS rapping builds. The window-tinted drive-by
slowly heads down the residential street, cruises past
the Bronco in the driveway, and slows to a stop. The
music stops and TWO BLACK MEN spring from the car.
They move with purpose. The larger figure, crowbar in
impact we cut to:
A PICK
splitting a rock.
As the chant continues, wider angles show the chain-gang at work. They are black men in bleached and faded stripes, chained together, working under a brutal midday sun.
It is flat delta countryside; the straight-ruled road stretches to infinity. Mounted guards with shotguns lazily patrol the line.
The chain-gang chant is regular and, it seems, timeless.
borders at first light.
REPORTER 2: As a Saudi national,
Osama bin Laden offered his services
to the Royals.
REPORTER 3:
He told them he could
bring his army
from Afghanistan
to repel the Iraqi invaders
from Kuwait.
NARRATOR 10: But the Saudis
had a better offer.
A half-million troops
from the United States.
His offer rejected,
Osama took to the streets
and mosques to denounce the U.S. ,
the Roya
line
News Desk. His report is supported with photos, file footage,
and the best graphics available.
NEWS READER
This just in...
(beat)
An American Scientist involved in the
UN Peacekeeping force inspecting Iraq
for possible violations of the
International ban on manufacturing
chemical and biological weapons was
kidnapped off the streets of Basra on
the Iraqui border today by a team of
masked gunm
bordering the sunken school
yard looking down as the tough cap and gowners seen earlier
cuff Aaron around.
CLOSER IN
Aaron feeling from a blow -- his lip bleeding -- his teeth
covered with blood...as he gets to his feet. He is livid --
something primal triggered by this brutality.
AARON
Go ahead, Stephen -- take your
last licks.
(points at his
face)
But this will heal -- what Im
going to say to y
border
and switched sides, I got sick.
But I tried to stay on the left
as much as possible to avoid vomiting.
One more time.
And how is Isak?
He sure regrets joining
that Swedish research project.
Dont move.
It cant hurt for him
to meet some new people.
- I have trouble getting him in here.
- I can imagine.
Youre fit as a fiddle.
Disappointed?
Let the Swedish
camping season begin.
- Here he comes
line
is being driven out
into the bloodstream.
The second jolt
now seizes the pacemaker
a second time.
Theres now no adrenaline left
to restart the pacemaker.
The person is dead.
If the voltage does not exceed
volts...
throughout the execution,
the individuals pacemaker
is not permanently seized.
In some minutes later
the individuals heart
restarts itself on its own...
and the person
is now alive