CHARADE
FADE IN (BEFORE TITLES)
1. EXT. FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE -- DUSK
Silence -- complete silence for the urbanite, though the
oncoming darkness is punctuated by the sounds of farm
country -- a few birds, a distant rumble of thunder from
some heavy clouds on the horizon, a dogs barking.
CAMERA PANS the green, squared-off flatland, lit only by
a fine sunset in its final throes. Then, gradually,
start
In The Name Of The Father Script
Come to me
Come lie beside me
Oh, dont deny me your love
[ Indistinct Commotion ]
Make sense of me
Walk through my doorway
Dont hide in the hallway oh, love
Step all over me
Ill follow you down
Ill follow you down
- [ Continues ] - [ Laughing ]
Hiya.
[ Bono Reciting ] ln the name of whiskey
In the name of song
You didnt look back
You didnt belong
In the n
Of glowing honey-colored stones. Their shapes ABSTRACT as THE CAMERA EXAMINES air bubbles and crystalline patterns.
MOVING UP AND OVER this amber abstraction, the CAMERA FINDS unusual shapes and imperfections caught in the glassy stone: flecks of dirt, hairs, cracks. STILL MOVING. STARBURSTS OF LIGHT ricochet off the different surfaces of the stones.
CAMERA TURNS along a creamy stretch of amber.
In black, we hear a chain-gang chant, many voices together, spaced around the unison strike of picks against rock. A title burns in:
O muse!
Sing in me, and through me tell the story
Of that man skilled in all the ways of contending...
A wanderer, harried for years on end...
On the sound of an impact we cut to:
A PICK
splitting a rock.
As the chant continues, wider angles show the chain-gang at w
Die Hard
Screenplay by Jeb Stuart
Steven E. de Souza
Produced by Lawrence Gordon
Joel Silver
Directed by John McTiernan
Cast List:
Bruce Willis John McLane
Bonnie Bedelia Holly McLane
Reginad Vel Johnson Sgt. Al Powell
Paul Gleason Dwayne T. Robinson
Alan Rickman Hans Gruber
De몶Voreaux White Argyle
William Atherton Thornburg
Hart Bochner Ellis
James Shigeta Takagi
Alexander Gudunov Karl
FADE I