toward violence.
TRAVIS GETS A JOB
Film opens on...
EXT. MANHATTAN CAB GARAGE
Weather-beaten sign above driveway reads, "Taxi Enter Here". Yellow cabs scuttle in and out. It is WINTER, snow is piled on the curbs, the wind is howling.
INSIDE GARAGE
Are parked row upon row of multi-colored taxis. Echoing SOUNDS of cabs idling , cabbies talking. Steamy breath and exhaust fill the air.
INT. CORRIDOR
row of kicked-down sandcastles. Wind blows through the desolation,
keening with the sound of ten million dead souls. It scurries the ashes
into drifts, stark white in the moonlight against the charred rubble. A
TITLE CARD FADES IN:
LOS ANGELES, July 11, 2029
3 ANGLE ON a heap of fire-blackened human bones. Beyond the mound is
a 3 vast tundra of skulls and shattered concrete. The rush hour
crowds
Gattaca
A Screen Play
by Andrew M. Niccol
FADE IN
A white title appears on a black screen.
"As night-fall does not come at once, neither
does oppression...It is in such twilight that
we all must be aware of change in the air
- however slight - lest we become victims of
the darkness."
Justice William O. Douglas
The title fades off, replaced by a second title.
"I not only think that we will tamper
Row and Lovers Dilemma.
It is Lucky Arrow... hes lost it by
a head. Purple Shadow by a head,
and Stopwatch moving
fast on the outside.
Its Lucky Arrow, Purple Shadow
and Stopwatch neck and neck.
Its Lucky Arrow, Purple
Shadow and Stopwatch...
(crowd roars)
Purple Shadow second by a head,
Lucky Arrow third by a length
and Southern Star finished fourth.
(narrator) Waiting for the race
to become off
row of the balcony, a YOUNG RED-HEADED
MAN (DARYLL LEE CULLUM) leans forward, resting his tattooed
arms on the railing. He smiles intimately at HELEN.
HELEN cuts her eyes to the left. She sees:
Backstage, an overweight COP in plain clothes. Instantly
alert to HELENS alarm, he jumps up, comes within an inch of
exposing his presence to the audience. A SECOND COP, in the
wings on the other side of t