gropes
for meaning.
MINISTER
I didnt know Richard Sheldrake
personally, but his many friends who
knew and worked with him, wanted to
make sure that he was returned home,
here, to be remembered with his
beloved wife...
Chuck gazes out at the sleepy harbor, the ministers voice
fading away. The afternoon wind is coming up with the
tide. He quietly heads towards the water. Drifting,
drawn, lost.
OLDE
grades are
your only ticket through. By the year
Two Thousand ...
INT. HIGH SCHOOL. HEALTH CLASS.
A different teacher lectures a different class of students.
HEALTH TEACHER
... The chance of contracting HIV from a
promiscuous lifestyle will climb to one
in one hundred and fifty. The odds of
dying in an auto accident are only one
in twenty-five hundred.
(beat)
Now this marks a drastic increase ...
Shawshank Redemption, The
- By Frank Darabont.
1 INT -- CABIN -- NIGHT (1946)
A dark, empty room.
The door bursts open. A MAN and WOMAN enter, drunk and
giggling, horny as hell. No sooner is the door shut than
theyre all over each other, ripping at clothes, pawing at
flesh, mouths locked together.
He gropes for a lamp, tries to turn it on, knocks it over
instead. Hell with it. Hes got mor
grade.
Big deal. Im a year younger.
Theyre Im .
Arent I ?
I also put you in first grade when you were five, and I never told you.
So Im how old?
Youre .
- Eleven? - So you skipped fifth grade.
-Theres too much padding in the grades. -Eleven?
This explains... so much.
Youve robbed him of an adolescence.
Adolescence is a marketing tool.
Honey, I know you were expecting puberty...
but you뭨e just g
grades?
Im Paulie... Oster.
Mary Bedford.
Mouse really.
They call me.
Id rather call you
"Shithead" than "Mouse."
So youre rooming
with me and Tory, huh?
Yeah. Thats what Miss Vaughn said.
Well, I guess she didnt like us
up there all by our lonesome.
Ive neve been
to a boarding school before.
Well, now youre one of the
Lost Girls. Welcome to the club.
Come on.
Help me spike the punch.
Lets get th