Q. What is so suggestive in the ruined birdcage and the dead canary wrapped in silk? What do these objects have to do with Minnie Foster Wright? What similarity do you notice between the way canary died and John Wright’s own death?
(This is the question I will deal with. I am going to explain suggestive meaning of the ruined birdcage and the dead canary wrapped in silk related to Minnie Fost
THE THING
Screenplay by
Bill Lancaster
From the story "Who Goes There"
by Don A. Stuart
SECOND DRAFT
March 4, 1981
CAST
MACREADY 35. Helicopter pilot. Likes chess. Hates
the cold. The pay is good.
GARRY 46. The station manager. Stiff. Ex-army
officer. Wears a handgun.
CHILDS 33. Six-four. Two-fifty. Black. A
mechanic. Can be jolly. But dont mess.
BLAIR 50. Sensitive. Intelligent. Unassuming.
An a
THE PATRIOT
by
Robert Rodat
March 26, 1999
FADE IN:
EXT. THE SWAMPS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - NIGHT
Dark. Ominous. Kudzu hangs from the swamps maples. A
dark and forbidding place. A bird CRIES EERILY in the
darkness. Insects HUM ominously.
SUPERIMPOSITION:
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
A detachment of French soldiers with several wagons makes
its way along a muddy road cut through the swamp. The
soldiers are w
A coffee shop somewhere in New Mexico. MICKEY KNOX, his back turned to us, is sitting at the counter finishing his meal. We hear the PING... BANG... of a pinball machine being played OFF SCREEN.
MABEL, a waitress, comes over and fills Mickeys coffee cup.
MICKEY
What kind of pies do you have?
MABEL
Apple, pecan, cherry, and key lime.
MICKEY
Which do you recommend?
MABEL
The key lime is great, but
The Crow
Screenplay by David J. Schow
John Shirley
Produced by Edward R. Pressman
Jeff Most
Directed by Alex Proyas
Cast List:
Brandon Lee Eric
Ernie Hudson Albrecht
Michael Wincott Top Dollar
Rochelle Davis Sarah
Michael Berryman Skull Cowboy
John Polito Gideon
David Patrick Kelly T-Bird
Angel David Skank
FADE IN:
EXT. CEMETERY - LATE AFTERNOON
BOOM! A crack of lightning illuminates the silhoue
clothes. So she opened the closet.
She was face to face with piles and piles and piles of unopened CDs. She was surprised to find all these CDs and she picked one up and sat down on the bed and she started to open one. Inside, there was a CD and as she took it out of the wrapper, out fell a piece of paper. The mother picked it up and started to read it. It said: Hi... I think U R really cute. Do
wrapped in a towel, with another on his head.
GOOFY
Mornin, son!
MAX
(embarrassed)
Dad!
Max reaches down, and pulls his pants up in a huff.
GOOFY
Oops! Sorry...I forgot...
Goofy backs out of the room and closes the door behind him. Immediately he
knocks on the door and without waiting for an answer, opens it again and
repeats:
GOOFY
Mornin, son!...came to see if you had any...dirty...clothes...
M
Clothes on a chair...
Puddles of water on the floor...
ANGLE ON SLEEPING EYES - Between waves of light they snap open and
dart about in confusion.
ON JONATHAN WALKER as he sits up. Water splashes. Hes in a tub
of long-cold water. His neck aches like hes been sleeping forever.
TIGHT ON WALKER - hes in his early thirties, dark featured.
HIS P.O.V. - looking around the room. Everythings strange,
unf