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Hero Page #14
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2002
- 107 min
- 2,130 Views
GALE:
What did he look like?
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - LATER (DAY)
MR. SMITH is being interviewed in his bed. He's emotional...
MR. SMITH
It was just this face, all dirty,
it just appeared. I really thought
I was going to die.
GALE:
Did he say anything to you?
MR. SMITH
He... asked if I was "Fletcher."
INT. OFFICE/CARPET CARE - DAY
A man named ROBINSON, fifty, sloppy, screams apoplectically...
ROBINSON:
ONE WORD! ONE WORD, LAPLANTE, AND
YOU'RE FIRED! GOT THAT? ONE WORD!
Exhausted, shoeless BERNIE follows ROBINSON in the cluttered
Carpet Care Office...
BERNIE:
Bill, I...
ROBINSON:
DON'T SAY "BILL," BERNIE! DON'T
SAY ONE WORD! DIDN'T I SAY "ONE
WORD AND YOU'RE FIRED?"
BERNIE:
I...
ROBINSON:
YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE IT'LL BE AN
EXCUSE! IT'LL BE "BERNIE LAPLANTE
EXCUSE NUMBER FOUR THOUSAND ONE
HUNDRED AND SIX." NO, FOUR THOUSAND
ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE. THAT'S HOW
MANY EXCUSES YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, I
KEEP TRACK OF THEM ELECTRONICALLY.
BERNIE:
Bill, I got some legal problems and
I...
ROBINSON:
THAT'S IT! YOU TALKED! YOU'RE
FIRED! OUTTA HERE! GET OUTTA HERE!
BERNIE:
Bill, listen...
ROBINSON:
OUT! I TOLDJA. JESUS CHRIST, I
GOT CUSTOMERS WAITING! AN' YOU WERE
GONNA GO OUT LIKE THAT? AN' MEET
THE PUBLIC IN STOCKING-F***ING-FEET?
BERNIE:
Bill, I got financial problems
and...
ROBINSON:
I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS,
I'M GONNA THINK ABOUT MY PROBLEMS.
YOU'RE ONE A MY PROBLEMS. GET OUT!
OUT! OUT!
EXT. CITY STREET - MINUTES LATER (DAY)
BERNIE is trudging wearily up the busy sidewalk, dirty, tattered
and shoeless, BERNIE doesn't notice BUBBER staring in the window
of an electronics store where dozens of television screens show
the burning fuselage of Flight 104.
INT. LIVING ROOM/FLETCHER HOME - DAY
CHUCKY shoots over GALE'S shoulder as she interviews FLETCHER
in his living room.
GALE:
He was asking for Mr. Fletcher...
FLETCHER:
My son and I got separated in the
confusion and smoke. The very
courageous stewardess at the exit
told me my boy had got out so I got
out too. But my son had already
told this... man that I was still
in there.
EXT. APARTMENT HOUSE/CITY STREET - DAY
Disheveled, in stocking feet, BERNIE trudges wearily up the
front steps of the shabby apartment house where he lives,
enters.
INT. RICHIE'S ROOM/FLETCHER HOME - MINUTES LATER (DAY)
Posters, youthy icons. CHUCKY shooting GALE interviewing RICHIE.
RICHIE:
I thought my dad was still... still
in there. So I asked the man to save
my father.
GALE:
What did the man say, Richie?
RICHIE:
He said... uh... he said...
(not sure, thinking,
then... )
"I'll save him." He said, "I'll
save your father."
INT. BERNIE'S APARTMENT - DAY
The door opens and BERNIE enters. He pulls the contents of
GALE'S wallet from his pocket and tosses them on a table... the
plastic windows full of credit cards and cash. Then he pulls
off his jacket, ruefully inspecting a tear in the muddy sleeve.
He's about to toss it on the ratty sofa when he notices it felt
funny. He reaches in another pocket and pulls out the Silver
Mike Award, considers it for a moment. What's it worth?
Sitting on the sofa, he leans back... and starts to doze off.
VIDEO IMAGE/EXT. "EXPLODING" PLANE - NIGHT
FRAME BY FRAME the image inches forward, sweeping off the fire
that fills the screen to the riverbank... frame by frame... fire
... fire... fire... then faster as the riverbank is darkening
the frame and then LESLIE and the THIRD FIREMAN sweep into the
foreground as the camera discovers them... the dramatic shot we
remember of them coming up the riverbank.
GALE'S VOICE (O.S.)
Back. Go back. You missed it.
Zip zip zip the image highspeeds back to the exploding plane.
Again the screen is filled with fire...
GALE'S VOICE (O.S.)
Now. Go forward again.
Frame by frame the blossom of fire blooms consuming the plane.
GALE'S VOICE (O.S.)
Keep going.
REVEAL:
GALE in an editing bay at Channel Four, peeringintently at the fiery scene on the video monitor while the young
tape editor, JOAN, operates the controls.
CONKLIN, DEAKINS, PARKER, CHUCKY flank GALE.
GALE:
There! Right there.
ON THE SCREEN (EXT. AIRPLANE - NIGHT)
A tiny silhouetted FIGURE appears in the far right corner of
the frame. Then, as one more frame clicks off, the FIGURE
appears near the center of the next frame of the pan.
The picture freezes there, a startling dramatic image of an
UNRECOGNIZABLE FIGURE (BERNIE) in silhouette, dwarfed by the
gigantic explosion. IT'S AN AWESOME IMAGE. NO ARTIST OR AD
MAN COULD DO BETTER... A TINY, ANONYMOUS FIGURE, ALONE, AGAINST
A GIGANTIC MOUNTAIN OF PURE FIRE. AND FROM NOW ON IT WILL BE
DEAKINS:
That's him?
GALE:
Who else? We've accounted for
everyone else. That's our hero!
She stares at "The Image." It's powerful, stirring.
CHUCKY:
I didn't see the guy when I shot
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