Aviv's Scripts Page #26

Dark City

INT. OPENING MONTAGE OVER BLACK a low rumble increases in volume. FADE UP: A GLOVED HAND wraps around a bulky scissor-switch, thrusts DOWN. SNAP! - Electricity arcs through darkness. OS SOUND of MACHINERY turning on. TITLES OVER MONTAGE OF CLOCKS...

– by Alex Proyas

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

The CAPITOL DOME at Washington fades in. It is night, and the dome is flooded in light. This view dissolves to the exterior of a Newspaper Office WINDOW, seen at night. The letters on the window, illuminated by a street light, are pi...

– by Waldo Salt

Midnight Cowboy

INT. TV STUDIO - DAY A Susskind-type MODERATOR is speaking into camera: MODERATOR Tonight we'll discuss a subject most of us seem to consider either bad taste or frivolous or funny. But if our experts are right, we face what might be called a masculinity crisis. Every fourth American man uptig...

– by Waldo Salt

Dragon Slayer

CASTLE - NIGHT Now comes the moon riding over the horizon. Upon a hill at the edge of the wood squats a castle, its crude stonework bathed in cold silvery light. Queer carvings and runes decorate the ponderous gate. Heavy vines are c...

– by Matthew Robbins

Wild At Heart

And now the story of Sailor and Lula..... 1. EXT. CITY STREET - DAY A MAN rides a screaming massive Japanese motorcycle - wound out to maximum R.P.M. up the street. CUT TO: 2. SIGN BY ROADSIDE The sign reads “KIDS PLAYING - SPEED BUMPS”. CUT TO: 3. EXT. CITY STREET - DAY With a whin...

– by David Lynch

Five Easy Pieces

TITLE SEQUENCE: The Bach-Vivaldi A-Minor Concerto for Four Pianos PLAYS OVER a series of family album photographs. Written in careful penmanship beneath each are names identifying family members: 1ST PHOTO: A man stands in front of the raised sounding board of a piano, playing the viola. Seated...

– by Bob Rafelson

Marty

Just east of Webster Avenue in the North Bronx, 187th Street is a predominantly Italian community and the commercial avenue of the neighborhood. Fruit and vegetable stands, pizzerias, butcher shops, bakeries, cleaners and dyers and bars flourish. ...

– by Paddy Chayefsky

Wag the Dog

FADE IN: A CARD, WHITE ON THE BLACK SCREEN, READS: Why does a dog wag its tail? BENEATH IT, THE NEXT LINE FADES IN: Because a dog is smarter than its tail. CROSS-FADE TO THE NEXT CARD, WHICH READS: If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog. DI...

– by Hilary Henkin

Wonder Boys

All IS A BLUR. . . ...then WORDS appear, twisting and vaguely transparent, reflected on the window GRADY TRIPP stands before as he reads from a sheaf of NEATLY-TYPED PAGES. GRADY 'The young girl sat perfectly still in the confessional... 1INT. CLASSROOM - UNIVERSITY - AFTERNOON Grady--45-y...

– by Steve Kloves

The Anniversary Party

FADE IN: TIGHT CLOSE - JOE THERRIAN - MORNING He's in his mid-thirties, his face relaxed in sleep, childlike. Nestled soundly a tangle in the arms of his wife. THE CAMERA STAYS CLOSE. SLIGHTLY BLURRED, SOFT, SLOWLY SWINGS ROUND TIGHT CLOSE - SALLY THERRIAN She's in her mid-thirties, with l...

– by Jennifer Jason Leigh

American Psycho

INT. PASTELS RESTAURANT- NIGHT An insanely expensive restaurant on the Upper East Side. The decor is a mixture of chi-chi and rustic, with swagged silk curtains, handwritten menus and pale pink tablecloths decorated with arrangements of moss, twigs and hideous exotic flowers. The clientele ...

– by Mary Harron

15 Minutes

FADE IN on the words CZECH AIRLINE. We are panning across the words on the side of the plane. INT. AIRPLANE ANGLE DOWN on a tray table. Crumpled Czech bills and coins are on it. Hands are counting the money. The airline hostess announces the arrival at JFK - in CZECH. A hand reaches into...

– by John Herzfeld

Thirteen Days

DARKNESS. As the MAIN TITLES BEGIN, the theater thrums with a subsonic HISS which mounts in all the rattling power of THX, and we... BURN IN, BRIGHT LIVING COLOR: EXT. STRATOSPHERE - DAY The glory of stratospheric dawn. The engines of a silver Lockheed U-2F rasp upon the trace oxygen here at...

– by David Self