Crank
FADE IN:
VIDEO SCREEN:
1
EXTREME CU:
PACMAN, from the old video game, just a yellowball with a mouth, fills the screen in all it's lo-res glory.
The camera tracks along as it rolls along a tight corridor,
gobbling dots.
2 CUT TO:
EXTREME CU:
A RED GHOST follows, in hot pursuit.CUT TO:
EXTREME CU:
PACMAN gives it the slip, cuts down and gobbles abig dot.
CUT TO:
EXTREME CU:
RED GHOST transforms into BLUE GHOST, changesdirection and runs. PACMAN chases ...
P.. but just before he catches up the BLUE GHOST transforms
back to RED and changes direction again. PACMAN barely
escapes.
CUT TO:
PACMAN flees, but at every turn he is confronted by another
ghost. The CAMERA pulls out in a series of jump cuts to
reveal that unlike the old arcade game, this game screen goes
E forever, an infinite maze ... and instead of the original
on four there are thousands of ghosts at all sides, closing in.
The sound of the game redoubles, reverberates, deafening ...
CUT TO BLACK.
SOUND:
A HEART BEATS SLOWLY IN THE DARK.FADE IN:
INT CHEV'S BEDROOM, MORNING 2
This scene plays out as a continuous POV shot, right up
until CHEV's face is revealed for the first time.)
CHEV CHELIOS, wakes up in his apartment to a RINGING CELL
PHONE, groggy, vision doubled ...
1 .. from his POV we see him examine his hands, which don't
feel right, don't want to move right.
(CONTINUED)
5
2.
CONTINUED:
The CELL PHONE, coming from some other room, plays the PACMAN
theme in beeps:
BEE-DEE-DEE-DEEE-DEE-DEEE-DEE-DEE-DUM ...He tries to get out of bed, HITS THE GROUND. Plush rug,
ultra modern bed frame, night stand, high tech stereo, the
works.
He crawls/stumbles into ...
INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS
3 3
... the living room, decked out by Kostabi paintings and
glass furniture then into...
INT CHELIOS KITCHEN, CONTINUOUS 4
... the kitchen, with a black marble island and hanging
copper.
He jams his head under the Fossil sink and runs the water.
He steadies himself against the matching black marble
counter, staring at his hands ...
.. tries to lift them and BANG! He's back on the floor,
stunned...
All the while we hear the faint sound of his HEARTBEAT...
... slow:
LUBDUB... LUBDUB... LUBDUB.He begins crawling back into...
5
INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS
... the living room, toward the telephone where he spots a
plain black VHS tape propped up in front of a plasma screen
TV with police ribbon wrapped around it, tied in a bow, like
a present.
CHELIOS:
(barely comprehensible)
Whathufuck?
He grabs the thing, fumbles to unwrap it, shoves it into the
VCR and pushes PLAY.
INT. TV SCREEN
5A 5A
It's RICKY VERONA on the SCREEN, a young, irritatingly slick
EASTERN EURO ... little to no accent - fast talking,
sarcastic, a complete dick ...
(CONTINUED)
3.
CONTINUED:
We see him sitting on CHEV'S bed ... CHEV is visible in the
frame, unconscious behind VERONA. Pale nicotine sunlight
filters in through the blinds. There are HOODS loitering
around the room. It was apparently shot only hours before.
(
The discernible sound of CHEV'S heartbeat will subliminally
increase in speed and volume throughout VERONA'S monologue -
the cell phone continues to ring, somewhere.)
VERONA:
What's shaking, douchebag? Thought I'd
give you the heads up. You're dead.
On the TV - VERONA points into the CAMERA.
VERONA (CONT'D)
Yeah, that's right, you little b*tch ...
if you're watching this tape it means
that I somehow resisted the urge to
dismember you and shove the pieces down
the garbage disposal ... opting instead
to poison you in your sleep. Yeah, you
heard me...
We stay with CHEV'S POV as he flashes a frantic glance around
the room. The LUBDUB of the HEARTBEAT is much LOUDER AND
FASTER NOW; we really begin to notice it.
VERONA (CONT'D)
... I f***ing poisoned you in your sleep.
How sick is that?... for the satisfaction
of watching you squirm out your last
minutes knowing it was me that did it to
you, and there's nothing you can do about
it...
Cut to high angle view from a hidden lipstick camera; CHEV is 5
on his knees in front of the set, looking around ... we still
don't see his face clearly.
VERONA (CONT'D)
5A 5A
... that's right, you're on candid
camera, try not to embarrass yourself...
Cut back to CHEV'S POV. He holds his head down over the 5
carpet and shoves a finger in his mouth, GAGGING.
VERONA (CONT'D)
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