"BATMAN RETURNS"
1 INT. A STUFFY MANSION--A NIGHT ABOUT FORTY YEARS AGO 1
The viewer floats through an overbearing mansion and
up its sweeping staircase to where a stern man in
conservative dress is pacing back and forth, smoking a
cigarette in a cigarette holder. He is the FATHER. The
throes-of-labor pants and moans of the MOTHER can be
heard from down the hall.
Now, eerie Gaas and Goos chill th
other and have
a million laughs together.
And my stepbrother Scott,
who very smart...
but he in trouble with the family
because he a Republican...
which made my stepfather have
a stroke, since wee Democrats.
How do you expect people on
welfare to develop initiative?
You mean someone who can
work should just be discarded?
Welfare does not work. It
the same liberal fantasy world...
as not allowing
other house, remember?
Its my turn tomorrow night.
But shell be here in the morning, okay?
- [Smacks Kiss] Okay.
- Are there any mice in this house?
Hmm. Everyone has mice.
Mice are everywhere.
See you in the morning, Ruthie.
[Electric Typewriter Clacking]
[Typewriter Motor Shuts Off]
[Turn Signal Clicking]
[Ships Horn Blowing]
[Children Laughing]
Eddie? Eddie?
Mrs. Cole?
Marion.
Come.
You can dr
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.
Cell
FADE IN:
A SPECK OF DUST
Grains of sand dance in the wind. As we glide over a VAST
DESERT, the speck of dust becomes a HORSE AND RIDER.
CATHERINE YOUNG straddles the beautiful black animal, her
mesmerizing eyes scanning the horizon. A curious breeze
blows across her exquisite face and she drinks it in, as if
the wind itself were telling something to her...
Catherine sees a FLICKERING LIGHT