beams
of light which cut through the smoke like a Renaissance
laser show.
DA VINCI
(silencing authority)
Basta vapore.
The apprentice throws a lever. A shunt near the furnace
turns. Steam escapes upwards. The machine immediately
slows down. Da Vinci oh-so-gently coughs and moves for-
ward with tongs.
A LITTLE TROUGH - IN THE MACHINES INNARDS
comes to a trembling, mystical halt. Right behind this
encasing them.
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CUT TO:
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3 LONG SHOT 3
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as the cycles take off. We see that each leaves a solidifying laser
trail behind it. One turns abruptly, creating a wall in front of the
other.
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CUT TO:
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4 REAL WORLD 4
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Screen of a video game, the Real World version of light cycles,
as we see one of the lines smash into another and disappear.
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5 THE REAL WORLD 5
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We see teenagers, strangely
beam.
PRIEST
Good, good. And your sister...
Catherine -- shes still your best
friend?
JEANNE
Oh yes, my sisters just... shes...
wonderful.
FLASH: Jeannes sister CATHERINE (18) sits near her
mother, spinning wool.
PRIEST
And what about your other friends...
you dont like playing with them?
JEANNE
Oh yes, I play with them... lots...
FLASH: Jeanne is battling against some reeds with a
wooden stick u
The X-Files "Fight The Future"
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(The classic fanfare from Alfred Newman plays as the 20th CENTURY FOX
logo is shown all over the the big screen. Fade to black - Silence.
(DW NOTE: Enough time to Take your greatest fear and multiply it by X:)
NOW, Mark Snows thrilling new movie-version of The X-Files theme song
begins to play. Seas of blackoil fill the screen then text in white letters runs in.
Its magnified and deeply revealed. Flecks of green and yellow in a field of milky blue. Icy filaments surround the undulating center.
The eye is brown in a tiny screen. On the metallic surface below, the words VOIGHT-KAMPFF are finely etched. Theres a touch-light panel across the top and on the side of the screen, a dial that registers fluctuations of the iris.
The instrument is no bigger than a