legend be maintained.
Without a James Bond
no one would have respected us.
Him and his wretched g-gadgets.
We must make use
of the weapons of our time.
So I observe.
You, Ransome, with your trick carnation
that s-spits cyanide.
You ought to be ashamed.
The Russians started it.
And you, Smernov, with an armoury
concealed in your grotesque boots.
Listen to them tinkle.
And you, Le Grand, with a di
Magnolia Script
In the "New York Herald..."
November 26, year... 1911...
there is an account
of the hanging of three men.
They died for the murder
of Sir Edmund William Godfrey...
husband, father, pharmacist...
and all-around
gentleman resident of...
Greenberry Hill, London.
He was murdered
by three vagrants...
whose motive was simple robbery.
They were identified as...
Joseph Green...
Stanley Be
Man Bites Dog Script
MAN BITES DOG
(IT HAPPENED IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD)
Ive just finished
ballasting the corpse, see?
That means you fill it
with certain things because...
You may not be aware that
a corpse under water
swells up with air, see?
So it tends to float
to the surface.
You have to load it
with ballast so it sinks.
You weight it down with stones
and other heavy stuff.
Theres a ballast rat
JFK
FADE IN:
Credits run in counterpoint through a 7 to 10 minute sequence of
documentary images setting the tone of John F. Kennedys Presidency and
the atmosphere of those tense times, 1960 through 1963. An omniscient
narrators voice marches us through in old time Pathe newsreel fashion.
VOICE
January, 1961 - President Dwight D. Eisenhowers
Farewell Address to the Nation -
EISENHOWER ADDRES
TRAIN WHEELS grinding against track, slowing. FOLDING TABLE LEGS scissoring open. The LEVER of a train door being pulled. NAMES on lists on clipboards held by clerks moving alongside the tracks.
CLERKS (V.O.)
몭 Rossen 몭 Lieberman 몭 Wachsberg 몭
BEWILDERED RURAL FACES coming down off the passenger train. FORMS being set out on the folding tables. HANDS straightening pens and pencils and ink