Aviv's Scripts Page #22

Sugar and Spice

FADE IN: INT. POLICE STATION - WITNESS VIEWING ROOM - DAY PAN ACROSS the frightened faces of NINE WITNESSES, eyes fixed straight ahead. A POLICE OFFICER walks slowly past each - FOOTSTEPS ECHOING in their fear. OFFICER Take your time. Take a good loo...

– by Mandy Nelson

The Stunt Man

FADE IN: EXT. ROADSIDE DINER - EARLY MORNING A strip of two-lane highway runs through a tall pine forest. There is a truck-stop coffee shop beside the roadway. A few 14-WHEELERS are scattered across the big dusty parking lot. Morning sunlight glints off their chrome stacks. It bakes the as...

– by Richard Rush

Stuart Little 2

FADE IN: 1 EXT. NEW YORK CITY - DAWN 1 A look at how birds live in the city, emphasizing thescavenging nature of their existence. We see birds eatingoff the ground, out of trash cans, even swooping down tosteal a piece of donut out of the hand of a sleepy citizenjust leaving his house. The...

– by Bruce Joel Rubin

Stalag 17

FADE IN: BARBED WIRE AGAINST A WINTRY NIGHT SKY Beyond it, more barbed wire. Ice has formed on the strands. Now and then searchlight beams crisscross the pattern. As the CAMERA SLOWLY MOVES along the double fence, SUPERIMPOSE - ...

– by Billy Wilder

Simone

FADE IN: ON BRIGHT, OUT-OF-FOCUS, OVAL-SHAPED COLORS. The colored shapes dart around the screen -- the impression of looking through a kaleidoscope. As the image comes into sharp focus, we discover that we are inside a CANDY BOWL. A MAN'S FINGERS are frantically removing all the cherry-flavor...

– by Andrew Niccol

Rear Window

FADE IN: INT. JEFFERIES' APARTMENT - DAY - LONG SHOT Although we do not see the foreground window frame, we see the whole background of a Greenwich Village street. We can see the rear of a number of assorted houses and small ...

– by John Michael Hayes

The Omega Man

FADE IN: WIDE ANGLE MED. LONG SHOT WE SEE a palm-lined richly attractive street in a Los Angeles suburb. The houses are set back from the street; the street itself is quiet, empty -- except for a few cars parked in front of the houses. While the camera takes no notice, the tires are down on the...

– by John William Corrington

Never Been Kissed

FADE IN: CLOSE UP ON A GIRL'S FACE It's Josie Geller, 25, cute, blonde and scared out of her wits. We hear the chanting of a crowd. CROWD Josie! Josie! Josie! ...

– by Marc Silverstein

Badlands

FADE IN: INT. BEDROOM The time is 1959. HOLLY SARGIS, the 15-year-old heroine, sits on her bed, petting her dog. The CAMERA DOLLIES BACK as she talks on VOICE OVER. HOLLY (V.O.) ...

– by Terrence Malick

The Big Blue

FADE IN: EXT. GREEK ISLAND - SUNSET CREDIT SEQUENCE: The image is in black and white. The sun disappears behind arid cliffs which cast giant shadows on the sea. A little boy around 8 years old -- tann...

– by Luc Besson

Ed Wood

FADE IN: INT. HAUNTED MANSION PARLOR - NIGHT We move through a spooky shrouded parlor, as a storm rages outside. THUNDER roars, and lightning flashes in the giant windows. in the center of the room lies an oak coffin. Suddenly the lid starts to creak open. A hand cra...

– by Larry Karaszewski

Enemy of the State

FADE IN: EXT. SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, SCENIC VIEW LOT - MORNING Shenandoah mountains. A cold dawn. TWO BLACK TOWN CARS sit side by side, facing a view of a farming valley below. Two MEN in dark suits and long coats stand near the cars, casually on the lookout. If we ...

– by David Marconi

Excalibur

FADE IN: EXT. FOREST - NIGHT Darkness. The sound of battle cries and the clang of metal upon metal. The forest lights up with huge sparks flying from sword and ax as armored knights hack and swing at each other. Mount...

– by John Boorman

The Distinguished Gentleman

FADE IN: 1 A FLASH OF LIGHT 1 A radiant shiny something dazzling in EXTREME CLOSEUP. BEGIN TITLES. CAMERA very slowly PULLS BACK. The sparkling surfaceturns out to be a lot of carats. WE SEE the stone, then the ring, then suddenly, in b.g., something HUGE SWEEPSby. REVEAL a mechanical cl...

– by Marty Kaplan

Conspiracy Theory

FADE IN: INT. MANHATTAN STREETS - CAB - DAY Behind the wheel: JERRY FLETCHER. Flat-out handsome if not for his eyes. Someone rash, someone making an uninformed decision might call them crazy eyes. He stops across from an apartment building, TOOTS his ...

– by Brian Helgeland

Cruel Intentions

1 EXT. MANHATTAN SKYLINE - DAY 1 We circle around the island of Manhattan moving closer and closer till we're looking down on Fifth Avenue. As the melody continues to play we MOVE towards a building and ZOOM into a window. 2 INT. THERAPIST...

– by Roger Kumble

The Devil's Advocate

FADE IN: 1 INT. FLORIDA COURTROOM - DAY 1 Northern Florida in the midst of a heatwave. Air conditioners fighting a losing battle. The gallery is full. The JUDGE a stern, old hand. The PROSECUTOR, an efficient man with a good case. The witness is BARBARA. She is maybe 13. She is a witness ...

– by Jonathan Lemkin

Drop Dead Gorgeous

FADE IN: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - MINNESOTA - DAY Vintage black and white stock footage of some farms and farmhouses. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - DAY Color footage of cotton fields passing by. We FREEZE and FADE TO BLACK. TITLE WIPES IN: 1995 MARKED THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATI...

– by Lona Williams

Braveheart

FADE IN: EXT. THE SCOTTISH COUNTRYSIDE - DAY Epic beauty: cobalt mountains beneath a glowering purple sky fringed with pink, as if the clouds were a lid too small for the earth; a cascading landscape of boulders shrouded in ...

– by Randall Wallace

Collateral Damage

FADE IN: 1A INT./EXT. NYFD FIREHOUSE - VARIOUS SHOTS - NIGHT One A.M. on a hellish summer night in Spanish Harlem. 1A 1B FIREFIGHTER 1B snores like a chainsaw in the upstairs sleeping quarters. 1C INT. LIVING AREA 1C A FAN WHINES as a firefighter channel surfs. 1D TRUCK BAY 1D A rookie f...

– by David J. Griffiths

The Cell

FADE IN: A SPECK OF DUST Grains of sand dance in the wind. As we glide over a VAST DESERT, the speck of dust becomes a HORSE AND RIDER. CATHERINE YOUNG straddles the beautiful black animal, her mesmerizing eyes scanning the horizon. A curious breeze blows across her exquisite face and she dr...

– by Mark Protosevich

Thunderheart

FADE IN: EXT. THE GREAT PLAINS SOUTH DAKOTA - DAWN Something is rising from the Black Hills. A sphere of light, too red to be the sun. A sphere of contained fire, undulating in crimson and ochre, and rising slowly, majestically, to ...

– by John Fusco

What Lies Beneath

FADE IN: Moving through a murky haze. Dark blues and greens, shafts of prismed purple. A pale shard appears in the distance. Gliding closer, a group of tiny fish dart before the camera. We're UNDERWATER. Arriving at the form, it fina...

– by Clark Gregg

SliTHER

FADE IN: INT. HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM -- DAY CLOSEUP: A slender woman's hand writes on a chalkboard, in teacherly cursive. We PULL BACK to REVEAL STARLA GRANT, a stunningly beautiful Southern woman in her twenties, as she finishes writing out, "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST"...

– by James Gunn