ostentatious" mean?
Ed calmly waves his arms for attention. He tries to smile.
ED
Hey. Hey, its not that bad. You
just cant concentrate on the
negative. Hes got some nice things
to say...
(he scans the review)
See, "The soldier costumes are very
realistic." Thats positive!
Everyone kind of stares at their drinks, depressed. Ed
launches into an upbeat speech.
ED
Hell, Ive seen a lot worse reviews.
"BATMAN RETURNS"
1 INT. A STUFFY MANSION--A NIGHT ABOUT FORTY YEARS AGO 1
The viewer floats through an overbearing mansion and
up its sweeping staircase to where a stern man in
conservative dress is pacing back and forth, smoking a
cigarette in a cigarette holder. He is the FATHER. The
throes-of-labor pants and moans of the MOTHER can be
heard from down the hall.
Now, eerie Gaas and Goos chill th
In black, we hear a chain-gang chant, many voices together, spaced around the unison strike of picks against rock. A title burns in:
O muse!
Sing in me, and through me tell the story
Of that man skilled in all the ways of contending...
A wanderer, harried for years on end...
On the sound of an impact we cut to:
A PICK
splitting a rock.
As the chant continues, wider angles show the chain-gang at w