Magnolia Page #32

....FROGS ARE FALLING STAIGHT AT HIM/CAMERA AND THEY KNOCK HIM DOWN

AND TO THE CEMENT.....he falls flat on his FACE...

...Jim Kurring turns his head and sees Donnie, fallen flat face

and bloody on the pavement....he gets out of his car and runs over

to Donnie, through the Frogs that rain down, and picks him/drags

him out of harm and under shelter in the LOADING DOCK AREA.

CUT TO:

INT. CLAUDIA'S APARTMENT - THAT MOMENT

CAMERA (STEADICAM) follows ROSE as she runs up the stairs to

Claudia's place and frantically BANGS ON THE DOOR...

Inside the apartment, Claudia JUMPS and SCREAMS at the sound....

ROSE:

HONEY, HONEY, CLAUDIA. IT'S ME.

IT'S MOM. MOM. OPEN THE DOOR.

OPEN YOUR DOOR HONEY.

Claudia jumps up and goes to her door in the darkness and

opens it up -- Rose comes in quick, scared shitless...they fall down

and hold onto each other, sweatin/crying/shaking....

CUT TO:

INT. EARL'S HOUSE - THAT MOMENT

Frank lifts his head and watches the FROGS FALL outside the house.

Earl looks to Frank....he musters something...Frank notices....

All SOUND DROPS OUT except for the breathing of Frank and Earl.

EARL:

You are not what you think you are.

Frank breaks down.

CUT TO:

INT. LAMPLIGHTER - THAT MOMENT

Stanley and Worm. CAMERA holds as all around...through the glass

windows...it RAINS FROGS....smashing to the ground.....hitting a couple

odd parked cars...they sit, watching, stunned...in a sort of daze.

Stanley seems almost happy. Worm shocked, scarred;

WORM:

What is that?

STANLEY:

It's frogs. It's raining frogs.

WORM:

...f*** you mean, it's raining frogs?

STANLEY:

It's raining frogs from the sky.

WORM:

....what the f***, what the f***....

STANLEY:

This happens....this is something that happens.

WORM:

What the f*** is goin' on, WHAT THE

F*** IS GOING ON?

CU - STANLEY. HOLD ON HIS FACE extremely tight.

In the reflection of his eye, we see the Frogs falling....

past the neon sign that reads "Fresh Coffee."

ANGLE, DIXON. He comes running into the Lamplighter and over to Worm

and Stanley....he's scarred shitless and frantic --

DIXON:

DADDY! DAD! DAD WHAT THE HELL IS GOIN' ON?

WORM:

Stay quiet...stay quiet, son --

DIXON:

LET'S GO, LET'S GO, LET'S GET HIS MONEY

AND GO -- DID YOU GET HIS MONEY? DID

YOU GET IT? DID YOU GET HIS MONEY, DAD?

WORM:

No, Son...be quiet...be quiet now...

DIXON:

C'mon, Dad. We gotta just GET HIS

MONEY AND GO, LET'S GO. Let's get the money --

WORM:

We're not gonna do that now. We're

not gonna do that now and that's over.

DIXON:

BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT, DAD WE NEED

TO GET HIS MONEY AND GO.

Dixon takes out a large POLICE ISSUED REVOLVER, AIMS at STANLEY'S FACE.

DIXON:

GIVE US YOUR MONEY MAN.

WORM:

Son, don't --

DIXON:

BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT DAD WE GOTTA GET

HIS MONEY --

WORM:

-- no.

DIXON:

(to Stanley)

GIVE US YOUR MONEY.

WORM:

Put the gun down, please, boy.

DIXON:

GIVE US YOUR MONEY, KID.

WORM:

Son, please, now....

DIXON:

DAD --

WORM:

Please, boy, put it down and it's ok.

Dixon starts to get nervous and well with tears...he shakes a

little....

WORM:

It's ok --

DIXON:

We gotta get his money so we can get

outta here -- we gotta --

WORM:

That idea is over now.

We're not gonna do that now.

Dixon starts crying and shaking and backing away --

DIXON:

DADDY, F***, DADDY, DON'T GET MAD AT ME.

DON'T GET MAD AT ME --

(to Stanley)

JUST GIMME YOUR MONEY.

WORM:

I'm not mad, son, I will not be mad

at you and it's ok and please put it

down and I won't be mad and I won't --

DIXON:

DAD.

Dixon starts to lower the gun a bit, crying and shaking....He lowers

the gun and hands it over to his Father....Dixon is sort of

flinching....the possibility that his Father may strike him...

...Stanley is frozen...Dixon is hyperventilating....

DIXON:

I - just - thought - that - I - didn't

want - I - didn't - I - didn't -

WORM:

It's ok, boy.

HOLD. Que. "Bein Green," by Kermit the Frog/Aimee

CUT TO:

EXT. LAMPLIGHTER/VENTURA BLVD. - THAT MOMENT Sequence K

CAMERA holds a wide angle on the Lamplighter Coffee Shop.

Frogs falling from sky onto and around the streets....

CUT TO:

EXT. THE SKY - THAT MOMENT

CAMERA up with the Falling Frogs....CAMERA is moving down with them...

it becomes almost musical....like Busby-Berkely-style coreography of

Frogs That Fall In The Sky...

MUSIC/KERMIT THE FROG

"It's not that easy bein' green...

Having to spend each day the color

of the leaves..."

CARRIES OVER CUT TO:

INT. JIMMY'S HOUSE - THAT MOMENT

It is on FIRE now....CU image of Jimmy on the floor of the kitchen

with shards of glass around him...and FROGS...a few of them

still alive and jumping around...the FIRE moving closer and closer...

CUT TO:

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

Jim Kurring and Donnie underneath the shelter area. Donnie's

MOUTH IS FULL OF BLOOD and his TEETH ARE BROKEN...

DONNIE:

My teeff...my teeef....

JIM KURRING:

YOU'RE OK...you're gonna be ok....

CUT TO:

INT. CLAUDIA'S APARTMENT - THAT MOMENT

Claudia cries to her Mom. Rose holds her and they rock back

and forth.... Claudia cries loud and over and over --

"Mommy...mommy...mom."

Rose calming her and petting her head, "It's ok."

CUT TO:

INT. EMERGENCY ROOM - THAT MOMENT

CAMERA is with Linda and DOCTORS as they PUMP HER STOMACH.

Follow the process and get to point where it's clear that

she is going to make it, she will not die.

CUT TO:

INT. EARL'S HOUSE - THAT MOMENT

CAMERA w/Frank and Earl and Phil. Earl's last couple

of breaths are short and quick...short and quick...short and

quick...and then he dies.....his eyes are open.....

CUT TO:

EXT. SKY - THAT MOMENT

CAMERA moves down straight towards the ground...towards the Magnolia

intersection with a LARGE FROG....right before it hits the pavement --

CUT TO BLACK.

Title Card Reads: So Now Then

- Replay Lumiere Footage from the opening of "Three Men Hung"

Green, Berry and Hill.

- Replay Delmer Darion in the tree and getting lifted out of the water.

- Replay Sydney Barringer jumping from building

NARRATOR:

And there is the account of the hanging

of three men....and a scuba diver and

a suicide.....

CUT TO:

INT. EARL'S HOUSE - DAWN

The door is opened by Phil and two MORTUARY MEN in suits

nod their heads. Phil lets them in.

NARRATOR:

There are stories of coincidence and

chance and intersections and strange

things told and which is which and who only knows...

CUT TO:

INT. EARL'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - THAT MOMENT

Frank and Phil watch Earl get covered in a sheet and put on

a stretcher. CAMERA moves around and finds the MORPHINE DOG

placed on a stretcher, covered in a sheet.

HOLD CU on PHIL and then Frank.

NARRATOR:

...and we generally say, "Well if that was

in movie I wouldn't believe it."

ANGLE, IN THE KITCHEN, MOMENTS LATER

Phil enters and answers the phone, "...hello...oh no...yes, yes..."

Phil looks to Frank --

CUT TO:

INT. HOSPITAL - DAWN

CAMERA looking down the long emergency room corridor as the doors

open and Frank enters and moves to the reception desk, asks some

information --

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