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Hero Page #15
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2002
- 107 min
- 2,130 Views
DEAKINS:
Any chance we could do some kind
of electronic enhancement, you
think? Get a clear picture,
identify him?
JOAN:
(peering closely at the
screen)
There's no face really, nothing to
work with. Big dots, that's all
you'll get.
GALE:
Look at the guy! He just saved fifty
people. Now he's going to disappear.
Who is he?
INT. BERNIE'S APARTMENT - DAY
UUUUHHHHOOOOOOOW! BERNIE snores loudly, asleep on his sofa,
still in his rumpled, torn clothes. He SNORES again.
MONTAGE:
TELEVISION SCREENS IN CARS, HOMES, TV STORESVIDEO IMAGE:
INT. RICHIE'S BEDROOM - DAYON THE SCREEN, RICHIE is talking directly at the CAMERA, the
interview in his room on videotape...
RICHIE/TV
He said... uh, he said... "I'll save
your father."
VIDEO IMAGE:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - DAYLESLIE appears ON SCREEN, her interview...
LESLIE/TV
-- all of a sudden, this...
civilian... He rushed into the
plane.
VIDEO IMAGE:
FREDDY'S HOSPITAL ROOM - DAYFreddy appears talking directly at the CAMERA...
FREDDY/TV
I woke up in an ambulance. Leslie,
the other flight attendant, told
me the guy dragged me to the exit.
VIDEO IMAGE:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - DAYLeslie appears ON THE SCREEN again...
LESLIE/TV
"Here, give this guy a hand," he
said. The next thing I knew, he
was going back in there, into all
that smoke...
VIDEO IMAGE:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - DAYMR. SMITH appears ON THE SCREEN...
MR. SMITH/TV
I was crawling around on the floor.
I thought I was a goner!
OFF THE SCREEN/MONTAGE
YOUNG PEOPLE, OLD PEOPLE, RICH PEOPLE, POOR PEOPLE, CONVICTS,
DENTISTS, BLACK PEOPLE, BROWN PEOPLE, WHITE PEOPLE, CHINESE
PEOPLE are watching the report in...
-HOME
-BARBERSHOP
-ELECTRONICS SHOWROOM
-JAIL CELL
-SHADOW LOUNGE
CHICK watching the report.
-CLASSROOM
JOEY watching the report in a classroom.
-EVELYN'S KITCHEN
EVELYN watching the report in her kitchen.
-ALLEY
BUBBER is listening to the report on a radio in an alley.
ON THE SCREEN:
VIDEO IMAGE:
INT. TV STUDIO - DAYGALE, bandaged, casted, stands in front of a BLUE SCREEN.
GALE/TV
-- out of the darkness... out of
the smoke and the fear... came a
man with no name... no uniform...
but an abundance of courage.
The CAMERA ZOOMS IN SLOWLY on GALE and simultaneously DISSOLVES
SLOWLY TO... "THE IMAGE". It fills the screen as GALE narrates
VOICEOVER...
GALE'S VOICEOVER/TV
A man who was thinking not about
himself but about others, risking
his own life for ours...
(a beat then...)
He's out there now somewhere...
and... whoever you are, I, and the
other survivors of Flight 104, say,
"Thank you! God bless!"
MUSIC SWELLS as the CAMERA ZOOMS IN on "THE IMAGE" emphasizing
the tiny FIGURE alone in the frame surrounded by fire...
INT. DEAKINS' OFFICE - DAY
Flanked by GALE and CHUCKY, DEAKINS is watching the preceding
material on the monitor.
DEAKINS:
Not bad. But if you gotta wear a
cast, you oughtta feature it more
it's parta the story.
(seeing Wallace enter
the room)
Network's taking everything we give
'em. They wanta feed off our six
o'clock whether we find the mystery
guy or not. We're very big
nationally.
WALLACE:
It's a wonderful piece. Emotional.
I love it.
DEAKINS:
We're gonna feature Gale's cast
more. The trick is gonna be keeping
the upper hand on this piece.
As long as we have Gale and there's
no mystery guy, we're the center
of the story. But if he shows up
and somebody else gets him first
or exclusive...
WALLACE:
What about a reward for coming
forward?
DEAKINS answers a RINGING phone. GALE frowns, frets.
GALE:
something like that Mister Wallace.
What if...?
DEAKINS:
(into phone)
Everybody looks at DEAKINS.
INT. LIVING ROOM/EVELYN'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Ignoring the open schoolbook on the floor in front of him, JOEY
is sprawled on the floor, eyes on the TV screen.
ON THE SCREEN:
EXT. CRASH SITE - NIGHTA CLOSE-UP of a muddy shoe WIDENS to REVEAL the shoe nestled
in GALE'S sling on top of her cast. She addresses the camera
from a spot directly in front of the crash site while behind
her WORKMEN comb the wreckage under bright halogen lights.
GALE/VOICEOVER/TV
A phone check with survivors has
confirmed that the shoe does not
belong to any of the crew or
passengers of Flight 104. Several
witnesses recall the mysterious
man who saved fifty-four people
referring to his missing shoe.
The conclusion; the unknown hero,
know to many as "The Angel of
Flight 104," wears a size 10B shoe.
EVELYN'S VOICE (O.S.)
Joey! Dinner! Now! Turn that
thing off.
INT. EVELYN'S HOUSE - NIGHT
ELLIOT is at the table with EVELYN as JOEY joins them.
JOEY:
He lost a shoe!
EVELYN:
Who lost a shoe? Wash your hands.
JOEY:
The "unknown hero." They found his
shoe right beside the plane crash.
ELLIOT:
Superman, you mean? Lost a shoe!
What next?
EVELYN:
Elliot! The man saved hundreds of
people!
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