Last Action Hero Script
This is one hell of a way to spend Christmas.
- Mulcahey! - Sir.
Secure the sidewalk. No one gets in or out.
{y:i}I have a present for you! {y:i}Pigs!
Let the children go! Damn you, Ripper!
Slater!!
Do no even think it, Slater. Wait for the hostage negotiator.
Goddamn it, Jack, I am talking to you!
The last time you pulled this jive, jitterbug, tough gonad shit -
- people
bandoned except there are TWO MEN inside.
INT. POLICE SEDAN - DAY
Two Mexican men, State Police officers, JAVIER RODRIGUEZ,
30s, and MANUEL "MANOLO" SANCHEZ, 20s, wearing jeans,
knock-off Polo shirts, and cowboy boots, wait patiently in
the car.
JAVIER
I had that dream again.
A long pause.
MANOLO
Which one?
Another long pause.
JAVIER
Where my mothers suffocating.
They continue to wait until there
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
A VIDEO IMAGE FLICKERS TO LIFE. A ruggedly handsome man with dark, haunted eyes. Eyes that have seen hell.
NEVILLE
My name is Robert Neville. Today is October 17th,
the year 2002. I was born in 1960, on this very day,
so that makes today my birthday. (remembering)
Every year for my birthday, my wife Ellen would throw
me a party. A kids party. Cake, ice cream, funny hats,
"Pin the Tail on the Donk
bandonment issues. My father
flew away when I was just a larva.
My mother didnt have much time for
me...when you have five million
siblings, its difficult to get
attention.
(pause)
I feel physically inadequate -- Ive
never been able to lift more than ten
times my own weight. Sometimes I
think Im just not cut out to be a
worker. But I dont have any other
options. I was assigned to trade
school whe
South Park:
Bigger, Longer and Uncut
By
Trey Parker
Matt Stone
&
Pam Brady
FADE IN:
Very happy, Disneyesque MUSIC swirls in.
PAN DOWN from a pretty blue sky, to a small quaint town
nestled in the hills. A wooden sign tells us this is South
Park.
EXT. SOUTH PARK AVENUE - DAY
Birds fly into the air, TOWNSPEOPLE smile to each other as
they walk by.
It is a scene reminiscent of, if not directly rippe
bandits handle BANK EMPLOYEES and customers--
Another PIG NOSE watches the door--
Pig Nose #1 moves behind counter, Uzi and canvas sack in
hand.
??
INT. SURVEILLANCE VAN
Dark. Monitors SHOW SLOW SCANS of the bank INTERIOR.
Two MEN wear headphones and black windbreakers with FBI
stenciled on the back. One watches with binoculars.
BINOCULARS
Bingo. Were on. Lets go.
Wheres the big college
quarterba
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:
EXT. CITY RUINS - NIGHT
Same spot as the last shot, bu
The Kingdom Script
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSIONS)
NARRATOR 1: After capturing
most of the Arabian Peninsula
with the help of
the Wahhabi Islamic warriors,
Ibn Saud establishes
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
NARRATOR 2: The Wahhabis
were fiercely anti-Western.
They want to
go back in time
to a pure Islam that wasnt
threatened by the West.
SAUDI RULER: It was by chance
that we discovered oil.
We we
bands side...
... while surgeons administered
an emergency blood transfusion.
But it was not possible
to save the Presidents life.
We will be...
Events that can change history
sometimes hang on tiny chances.
If I hadnt pulled to the curb
I wouldnt have caught the traffic light...
... nor seen the ambulance...
... never have heard of Salomon Tauber
or Eduard Roschmann.
Nor got involved with the ag