embankment. The
MUSIC builds.
The Shinkai approaches the embankment. Slowly starts to glide up the
side. The Captain and Science Officers seem mesmerized by all the
lonely creepiness. They crest the embankment.
And the plexi-domed VIEW FILLS with an unimaginable horror. As far as
the eye can see, the entire murky landscape is filled with WHALE
BONES. A valley of death. Cluttered here and there, c
embankment and rolls crazily down to the bottom into the
thick underbrush alongside the tracks.
2. CLOSE SHOT -- BODY
It lies in the bushes, still, unmoving -- dead. CAMERA
PANS AWAY to the quiet peaceful countryside as the sound
of the train fades off until there is silence once more.
TITLE MUSIC begins with a crash.
(MAIN TITLES)
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4.) DELETED
5.)
6. FADE IN
EXT. MEGEVE -- DAY
A handsome and
RONIN
an original screenplay by
J.D. Zeik
DRAFT: May 20, 1997
A BLOOD RED SCREEN - A JAPANESE DRUM starts to play, softly,
but tinged with a desperate edge, growing louder, joined by
other DRUMS as a BLACK LEGEND scrolls up: In feudal Japan,
the warrior class of Samurai were sworn to protect their
liege lords with their lives. Those Samurai whose liege was
killed suffered a great shame, and they
ARCTIC BLUE
by Ross LaManna
FADE IN:
1 EXT. BOREAL FOREST - ALASKA - (AERIAL SHOT) - DAY
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Flying. Not at the intangible height of a jet, but at
spitting distance from the treetops. Were in central
Alaska, the Big Lonely, just north of the Arctic Circle.
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A thick forest follows the contours of mountain foothills
like a deep-pile carpet. Up at treeline the forest thins to
tundra, a grassy
The World Is Not Enough
GUN BARREL LOGO OPENS ON
GENEVA SWITZERLAND, an unnaturally clean city that melds old
Europe with new money of both dubious and legitimate source.
INT. HALLWAY OFFICE BUILDING - DAY
An engraved brass plaque announcing the name of the 몷private
banking institute몸 within.
INT. PENTHOUSE BANK OFFICE - GENEVA - DAY
JAMES BOND, dressed impeccably as ever, is being FRISKED by