filmed LIVE ON A SOUND STAGE. The
title card sits on an easle. The female legs are paper
mache props manipulated by two HUMAN CREW MEMBERS. Wearily,
they lean the legs up against the stage wall. A human
DIRECTOR, wearing a tweed jacket and baggy pleated pants,
steps onto the set. From the equipment and the dress of the
crew, we can tell its the 1940s. Baby Herman throws his
cookie down in disgust
FILM CREW WAS SENT TO
A SMALL TOWN IN MINNESOTA
TO COMMEMORATE THIS OCCASSION.
INT. PAGEANT AUDITORIUM - MOUNT ROSE - DAY
Vintage blue-toned stock footage of a teenage beauty
pageant contestant. LEGS WIPE IN.
MALE PAGEANT ANNOUNCER
(O.S.)
Sarah Rose knows youre a beautiful
person....
Blue-toned stock footage of a long row of beauty pageant
contestants on stage.
MALE PAGEANT ANNOUNCER (contd
film when were done.
Oh, yeah, thats right, honey. We need the room.
You did not tell me you wanted to use the room in my house, Eva.
Well, Im telling you right now, Timothy.
And it is half my sisters house too.
Community property.
See, cause I want Kareenah to make a good impression on the book club.
Dont you? No!
- Excuse me? - Yes.
Look, we were here first, Eva.
Yes, but certainly the temporal
AVATAR
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THE SOUND OF DRUMSfrom a great distancegrowing louder.
FADE IN:
WE ARE FLYING through
film The Fog
and that fog shifts it.
I thought, "Thats Hollywood -
fog moving fast."
But your fog is that speed.
Busy, busy, busy.
It could be late
to get in someones face somewhere.
It runs down the road, doesnt it?
Boom! Whoosh! Nyyyaoum!
Faster than the fucking taxis!
Of which there are five.
(Laughter, cheering and applause)
I dont know what thats about.
Youre a no-taxi city, arent you?
Five