cured.
First Doctor: Leave it all to us, youll never know what hit you.
First and Second Doctors: Goodbye, goodbye! Drips up! Injections.
Second Doctor: Can I put the tube in the babys head?
First Doctor: Only if I can do the epesiotomy.
Second Doctor: Okay.
First Doctor: Now, legs up.
[The legs are put in the stirrups, while the Doctors open
the doors opposite.]
First and Second Doctors: Come on
THE GREEN MILE
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Screenplay by
Frank Darabont
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from the novel by
Stephen King
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We each owe a death, there are no exceptions...
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A SONG BEGINS, distant as a faded memory on an old Victrola:
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Once I built a railroad, made it run... Made it race against
time...Once I built a railroad, now its done...Brother, can
you spare a dime...
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Opening credit sequence
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plays against footag
sequence.
Did you actually read the script?
No. A little bit.
Just to check the construction.
You know, how the piece was constructed.
I didnt read it word for word.
Do you feel weird saying this stuff?
No, I dont feel weird saying it.
I dont know how long
my voice is going to hold out.
Doc, you gotta help me, man.
My old ladys dumping me
cause I cant talk.
She says Im a social embarrassment.
Now
PHILADELPHIA
by RON NYSWANER
September 21, 1992
FADE IN:
VARIOUS SHOTS OF PHILADELPHIA EXTERIORS (EXT./DAY) ...
which may include the Liberty Bell, the Italian Market,
scenes along the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers,
Independence Square, the Russian Orthodox neighborhood, the
ghettos of North Philly.
MAIN TITLES PLAY OVER THIS SEQUENCE which culminates in a
SHOT OF...
CUT TO:
PHILADELPHIAS GLORIO
SEQUENCE. THE FINAL TITLE READS:
T H E N O T - T O O - D I S T A N T F U T U R E
The camera commences a long, slow pull-back from the pile of
elephant tusks. Gradually they are revealed as human
fingernails magnified many hundreds of times.
The tree trunks are mere hair follicles. The firewood,
whiskers. The slate, flakes of skin.
INT. INCINERATOR. EARLY MORNING.
A naked MAN, thirties, seen in pr