Magnolia Page #31

Jimmy, without a real trace of coordination walks from the

living room and into

THE KITCHEN:

He moves to a drawer and removes a REVOLVER. His hand is shaking

and his hand/eye coordination makes it very hard to grasp

hold, but he finally does....he's shaking and tearing....

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EXT. BILLINGSLEY'S PARKING LOT - THAT MOMENT

CAMERA tracks with Jim Kurring to his car. He gets behind the wheel.

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EXT. INTERSECTION - MOMENTS LATER

CAMERA overhead as Jim Kurring's car drives past the Magnolia/Tujunga

intersection....

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INT. JIM KURRING'S CAR - MOVING - THAT MOMENT

CU - Jim Kurring driving. HOLD. He drives past Solomon and

Solomon Electronics.....

JIM'S POV - THAT MOMENT - MOVING

he sees the parked Buick Regal and Donnie (in shadow) get out

and head for the back door....

CU - Kurring. He registers what he saw.

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EXT. SOLOMON AND SOLOMON/LOADING DOCK AREA - THAT MOMENT

CAMERA moves with Donnie over to the back door...he reaches

down to his KEY CHAIN and sees:

The BROKEN KEY....it's snapped off the key chain....one half

remains....the other half is on the other side of the door in the

lock....

DONNIE:

F***.

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INT. JIM KURRING'S CAR - THAT MOMENT Sequence J

Jim Kurring drives a few more feet....slows down...then starts

to make a u-turn to go back to the store....

JIM'S POV - MOVING - THROUGH THE WINDHSIELD.

The car starts to turn 180 degrees......as soon as it is headed

going back the opposite direction....

........CRACK........

From the sky, out of the blue, a large GREEN FROG lands on Jim Kurring's

windhsield.

CU - Jim Kurring. Scared shitless.

POV - Another GREEN FROG slams on the HOOD OF THE CAR.

CU - Brake. Jim's foot SLAMS ON THE BRAKE.

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EXT. MAGNOLIA BLVD. - THAT MOMENT

CAMERA holds a wide angle as Jim Kurring's CAR SLAMS AND SKIDS TO

A STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EMPTY STREET.

CLOSER ANGLE, PUSH IN ON THE DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW.

Jim is scared and sweating.....he looks up, out the driver's side

window....

JIM'S POV - LOOKING STRAIGHT UP.

It's dark and empty sky.....

....hold on him....he looks at the Frog that has landed on

the windshield....it's dead and splattered.....

SUDDENLY:

The SOUND of ANOTHER FROG FALLING FROM THE SKY AND SLAMMING

ON THE ROOF OF THE CAR.

Jim jumps.....looks up again....

....from straight out of the sky comes ANOTHER FROG falling

DIRECTLY INTO THE CAMERA....it SPLATS....

...then another and another and another.....

WIDE ANGLE. THE STREET.

It starts to RAIN FROGS in the middle of Magnolia Blvd.

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INT. CLAUDIA'S APARTMENT

CU - Claudia snorts a line of coke off her coffee table.

She comes up and INTO FRAME. Outside the window, behind her....

...a FROG FALLS straight past.....

She hears the sound and turns around....sees nothing...

CU - Profile on Clauida....through the other window...another

FROG falls past, through the tree outside on it's way down.....

She turns her head again sees nothing....

BEAT.

Another FROG FALLS...she looks...she walks to the window....

.....A dozen FROGS FALL IN VERY QUICK SUCCESION.....

She jumps back from the window...stumbles a bit...knocks

over a lamp, which SMASHES to the floor.....her apartment

goes DARK....except for street light...more FROGS FALL and

we hear the sound and see them through the window in glimpses.....

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EXT. CLAUDIA'S APARTMENT/STREET - THAT MOMENT

The FROGS are falling sort of heavy now....Rose's JAGUAR comes

through it....skids and SMASHES into a PARKED CAR....

CAMERA DOLLIES over to her....she looks up at them....they FALL

STRAIGHT INTO CAMERA AND ONTO THE HOOD, WINDSHIELD AND ROOF....

..Rose puts the Jaguar in reverse and tries to back away from the

smashed parked car.....the bumper's are stuck....

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INT. EARL'S HOUSE - THAT MOMENT

The CAMERA holds on Earl and Frank. Frank has his head buried

in Earl's bed holding his hand, crying....it's very quiet....

CU - Phil. He's crying a bit standing off to the side.

He looks out the window's and the glass doors and sees the FROGS

come raining down. His mouth drops and he can't speak.

Frank doesn't notice. The FROGS fall in the backyard and into THE POOL.

PHIL:

There are frogs falling from the sky.

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EXT. WHITSETT/NORTH HOLLYWOOD MED. CENTER - THAT MOMENT

The PARAMEDICS are driving real fast down the street.....

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INT. AMBULANCE - MOVING - THAT MOMENT

Linda is on life support stuff in the ambulance. Looking past her,

we see the view of the road through the windshield -- the amubulance

driver going real fast and just about to pull into the hospital

emergency entrance....

FROGS START PELTING THE WINDSHIELD.....THE DRIVER SWERVES...

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EXT. STREET/AMBULANCE - THAT MOMENT

A WIDE ANGLE where we see the FROGS falling onto the moving,

swerving Ambulance....one FROG lands so hard on top of the

red lights on the ambulance that it CRACKS....

...the FROGS in the middle of the road start to act as a

lubricant on the already wet/damp street and the Ambulance

starts to SKID SIDEWAYS....

...it FALLS ON IT'S SIDE.

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INT. AMBULANCE - POV

As it falls on it's side and skids a bit....over the Frogs...

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EXT. EMERGENCY ROOM ENTRANCE - THAT MOMENT

Ambulance skids right up to the emergency room entrance.

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INT. JIMMY'S HOUSE - KITCHEN - THAT MOMENT

Jimmy with the Revolver to his head...he c*cks it back...

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EXT. SKY/INT. HOUSE - THAT MOMENT

CAMERA above Jimmy's house, looking straight down and MOVING

towards a SKYLIGHT above the kitchen...a FROG enters FRAME,

falling straight towards this skylight --

Inside the house,

Jimmy about to pull the trigger...SOUND DROPS OUT.

The falling FROG comes STRAIGHT THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT, SMASHING

THROUGH....

...falls straight down onto Jimmy's head....the GUN GOES OFF

WILDLY.....SMASHES the TELEVISION.......

Jimmy falls to the ground....GLASS FALLS from the broken skylight....

...more FROGS continue to fall through it and into the kitchen

and around Jimmy.....

...the BULLET into TELEVISION has sparked something and the SOCKET

it's plugged into CATCHES FIRE.....

CU - INSIDE THE WALL, NEAR THE SOCKET.

Camera moves in and sees some SPARK and FLASH and FIRE started....

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EXT. SOLOMON AND SOLOMON ELECTRONICS - THAT MOMENT

Donnie starts to climb up a ladder attached to the side

of the building....near the loading dock area....

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EXT. STREET NEARBY - THAT MOMENT

Jim Kurring is in the middle of the Frog Rain...he puts his

car into gear and drives down the street....

....about twenty yards later and he's out of it....

...he pulls into the parking lot behind Solomon and

Solomon.....it's not raining frogs here.....

Kurring's HEADLIGHTS catch a glimpse of Donnie starting to climb...

...Donnie gets scared and FREEZES....

...Kurring is oblivious to Donnie for the moment. He looks in

his REARVIEW MIRROR and sees the FROGS FALLING....

...Donnie looks past Kurring and now sees the FROGS FALLING

in a 50 x 50 area in the street....

...Donnie looks up...

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