recede and a DOOR SLAM. Roger turns confidently
back to his charge. But the little tyke is already squeezing
through the playpen bars.
BABY HERMAN
Baby bye-bye...
Roger makes a dive for him, misses, and gets his head stuck
between the bars. He pleads with the Baby in a voice that
resonates of Huntz Hall in "The Bowery Boys".
ROGER RABBIT
Hey, come back! You heard what your
mother said!
BABY HERMA
recedes, fading into the darkness. Whatever it
was...its gone now.
MAIN CREDITS ROLL.
We hear CELLOS. Four of them. Weaving an intricate melody.
And now the visuals. BRIGHTLY COLORED SHAPES spinning in. Equally
intricate, matching the music. They grow and flourish, like flowers
opening up in time lapse photography.
FRACTALS...
is what theyre called. The visual manifestation of geometric formulas.
OPENING SEQUENCE
Blue Moon against a black sky.
Blue house silhouette against a black sky.
The house recede into the background, getting smaller and smaller.
EXT: LARGE HOME: NIGHT
Upper middle-class home with Christmas decorations. Very noisy. Sounds of
many people talking at once. "Wheres my suitcase?"
INT: LARGE HOME: NIGHT
A policeman, with his back to the camera, stands in the hallway. He tr
receded back
across the ocean
and never came again.
But it is told by the fishermen
and their fathers and grandfathers
that when the fog returns to Antonio Bay,
the men at the bottom of the sea,
out in the water by Spivey Point,
will rise up
and search for the campfire
that led them to their dark, icy death.
Twelve oclock.
The st of April.
Its midnight and weve just started
into the witching hour
that sadness of mine that you know.
Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?
The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.
Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.
(Pablo Neruda)