electronic position board, a graphic representation of the contours of
the steep-walled canyon, a symbol for the Montana, and converging with it, an
amorphous trace, representing the bogey.
CAPTAIN
What the hell is it?
EXEC
Ill tell you what its not, its not one of
ours.
BARNES
Sir! Contact changing heading to two-one-four,
diving. Speed eighty knots! Eighty knots!
EXEC
Eighty knots...
BARNES
Sti
DARK STAR
A SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE
A Screenplay
by
John Carpenter and Dan OBannon
OPEN ON BLACK SILENCE.
The sound of electronic music rises, hollow, metallic.
FADE IN on a long TRACKING SHOT through the universe.
As the NARRATOR speaks we move through galaxies, nebulae,
solar systems, moving from the infinite slowly down to
a particular planetary system deep within a maze of
suns.
NARRATOR
(o
THE MATRIX
by Larry and Andy Wachowski
FADE IN:
ON COMPUTER SCREEN
so close it has no boundaries.
A blinking cursor pulses in the electronic darkness like a
heart coursing with phosphorous light, burning beneath the
derma of black-neon glass.
A PHONE begins to RING, we hear it as though we were
making the call. The cursor continues to throb,
relentlessly patient, until --
MAN (V.O.)
Yeah?
Data no
electronic clicking )
Morning.
Good morning, Nelson.
How you doing?
I am high-quality.
So tonights the big night, huh?
Huge. Nervous?
-No. -Liar.
Decided what youre going to wear tonight?
Uh, no.
Dont overthink it.
Relax. Ill give you a tip.
She likes to be called Chancie
and when you get right up next to her
cup her right buttock in your hand
and jiggle it really fast.
She loves that.
( chucklin
and gentlemen,
please take your seats
for the demonstration of the aircraft.
What you are about to see is Europes
answer to the electronic battlefield:
the first working prototype
of the Tiger helicopter.
Uniquely manoeuvrable, the Tiger
not only uses Stealth technology,
it is hardened against all forms
of electronic interference,
radio jamming
and electromagnetic radiation.
I have a small sur