The Aviator Script
Q-U...
...A- R...
...A- N-T...
...l- N-E.
Quarantine.
Q-U-A-R...
...A- N-T...
...l- N-E.
Quarantine.
You know the cholera?
Yes, Mother.
Youve seen the signs on
the houses where the coloreds live?
Yes, Mother.
You know the typhus?
I do, Mother.
You know what they
can do to you?
Yes, Mother.
You are not safe.
You may be directing this movie,
but what youre asking, we cant do.
Don
quarantined. This outbreak is outta
control --
THEIR POV - THE FRIGHTENED VILLAGERS
Meager belongings, hungry children, terrified.
TO JOHNSON
JOHNSON
(in French)
How far to Yambuku?
Silence. The Police Captain approaches menacingly.
CAPTAIN
(in French)
You dont want to go there, Doctor.
There is nothing but death there.
People are dying all along the
river --
SISTER GENEVIEVE, a Belgian Catholic
quarantined in a camp not ten miles
from the town here. You can imagine
how the people around here felt
about that. But once they were
releases from the camp and we got a
chance to know them, we saw what
nice, quiet people they really are...
WIDER
revealing a MASSIVE ALIEN FIGURE in a filthy white
busboys uniform. His back is to us as he picks up two
trays from the counter. The bartender is dwarf
quarantine?
-Go make me some money.
-No way!
I take my three inches elsewhere.
So l thought I come over here
and make a killing.
Got myself a houseboat, some whores.
The only thing a woman love
more than a man-whore...
-...is a floating man-whore.
-Makes sense.
Then all these man-whore
murders started.
My he-bitches got too scared
to go to work.
What kind of world do we live in...
...where the st
13 DAYS
DARKNESS. As the MAIN TITLES BEGIN, the theater thrums with
a subsonic HISS which mounts in all the rattling power of
THX, and we...
BURN IN, BRIGHT LIVING COLOR:
EXT. STRATOSPHERE - DAY
The glory of stratospheric dawn. The engines of a silver
Lockheed U-2F rasp upon the trace oxygen here at 72,500 feet.
Scattered cloud formations hang over the blue brilliance of
sea far, far below. In t