Aviv's Scripts Page #6

Kalifornia

EXT. - NIGHT It's raining like hell. Flashes of lightning reveal momentary glimpses of a decayed urban/industrial landscape. Far below us, a mysterious glistening wet rock lies engulfed in the drowning earth. We descend toward the rock. Sporadic flashes of lightning distort our perspective o...

– by Tim Metcalfe

Kafka

PRAGUE - MORNING The Old Town is quiet. It's very early in the twisted streets of this ancient ghetto. Dark corners casting a medieval spell over a modern century oblivious to their romance and mystery. The River is the dividing line. Elegant gardens on the opposite bank embracing the monoto...

– by Lem Dobbs

Joe Versus the Volcano

GREY SCREEN The TITLE appears in white letters - JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO MUSIC. Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances," Chicago Symphony Orchestra, begins to play. The stormy part. The CREDITS ROLL. The credits have that depressing, shitty, this is going to be one of those lousy black and...

– by John Patrick Shanley

The Jazz Singer

TITLE 1:The New York ghetto, the daily life of which throbs to the rhythm of music that is as old as civilization. FADE IN 1. EXT. NEW YORK STREET LONG SHOT It is a typical East Side business street at the height of the day's activities, a street that is lined with pushcarts, sidewalk vendo...

– by Alfred A. Cohn

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

OVER BLACK WE SEE: CHYRON A long time ago, in front of a convenience store far, far away-- EXT. QUICK STOP YEARS AGO--DAY We FADE IN on the block of stores (Quick Stop/RST), from sometime ago, In fact, RST isn't RST; it's THE RECORD RACK -- a 45's store with head shop paraphernalia in the win...

– by Kevin Smith

Jacob's Ladder

EXT. VIETNAM - DUSK A swarm of helicopters swoops out of a yellow sky and deposits an army of men over a Vietnamese hillside. The SOLDIERS scramble over the terraced rice paddies for the protection of the jungle. Falling into coulmns, like strands of soldier ants, seventy-five men, at combat r...

– by Bruce Joel Rubin

I Walked with a Zombie

The RKO trademark FADES OUT, to reveal a road lined with palm trees, spectrally long and straight like a vista in a Dali painting. Along this road and from a far distance two tiny figures advance toward the camera. Over this scene the TITLE and CREDITS are SUPERIMPOSED. The two figures continu...

– by Curt Siodmak

I Am Sam

INT. STARBUCKS - 7:30 A.M. We're watching a pair of hands arrange white sugar packets, blue Equal packets, and pink Sweet and Low into small containers. With precision and lightning speed, the mixed up colors and crumpled packets are transformed into neat little color-coded rows. Wait, this co...

– by Kristine Johnson

The Ice Storm

EXT. TRAIN - DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN Suburban Connecticut, outside of New York City, 1973. The still after a terrible storm. Trees dripping, their branches torn, the air warming just before the break of a new day. The train lies dark and motionless, a few flashing yellow emergency lights up front, ...

– by James Schamus

It's a Wonderful Life

FADE IN �� NIGHT SEQUENCE Series of shots of various streets and buildings in the town of Bedford Falls, somewhere in New York State. The streets are deserted, and snow is falling. It is Christmas Eve. Over the above scenes we hear voices praying: GOWER'S VOICE I owe everything to George Ba...

– by Albert Hackett

Hard Rain

FADE IN RAIN Falls from low grey clouds. Down below we see... THE RIVER Muddy, slow and powerful, overflowing its banks. In the near distance is... THE RESERVOIR Filled to the maximum, water thundering out of two open gates. We close in on... THE DAM There's a Dam Control Office in the ...

– by Graham Yost

Harold and Maude

FADE IN: 1INT. THE CHASEN'S DEN - DAY The CAMERA is at floor level. A young man enters but we see only his shoes and the cuffs of his pants. We TRACK with him as he walks across the room and stops at a record player. Pause. We HEAR a record drop and begin playing a light classical melody. The S...

– by Colin Higgins

Happiness

1.EXT. HAPPY'S RESTAURANT - NIGHT.1. The sign is illuminated. 2.INT. HAPPY'S RESTAURANT - NIGHT.2. Pretty, 30ish JOY JORDAN and teary-eyed STUART sit opposite each other. He is trying to resist bursting into tears as they finish dessert. JOY Stuart?� Are you okay? STUART Yeah. Sure. I'm ...

– by Todd Solondz

Hellboy

OMIT INT. DARKROOM - INTERVIEW 1 In a photographic DARKROOM: old optical enlargers, porcelain trays, timers, and stills hanging out to dry. GEORGE MATLIN, a slightly obese, nearsighted man in his seventies. OLD MATLIN Is he real? Oh yeah -- Absolutely. Super: CPL. GEORGE MATLIN, combat photo...

– by Guillermo del Toro

The Hustler

EXT. SMALL TOWN MAIN STREET - AFTERNOON An old Packard coup� pulls up to a roadside gas pump. Two men get out and stretch their legs. The older man, Charlie Burns, a balding, desiccated man in his mid-forties, shambles toward the bar across the street. Eddie Felson remains behind to speak to the...

– by Sidney Carroll

The Goonies

(Interior Jailhouse) (A jail guard unlocks a cell block to call the inmates out for their lunch.) Guard: Lunch time. (The Inmates exit their cells and are talking to each other.) Guard: The longer you animals bark the colder your lunch gets. Come on, move it out!(Looks toward the last cell) You t...

– by Chris Columbus

Grand Hotel

Berlin. Season is March. Action of the picture takes place in approximately 36 hours. Picture commences at approximately 12:35 in the day. Time: The Present. EXTERIOR REVOLVING DOOR Show general natural action of people going in and people coming out but in it is the definite inference o...

– by William A. Drake

The Graduate

EXT. AMPHITHEATRE - DAY SHOT - HELICOPTER'S POV - Moving through clouds. The clouds separate and, far below, we can see a giant outdoor amphitheatre. There is no SOUND but the WIND. As we move closer to the amphitheatre, we can hear SNATCHES OF WORDS and PHRASES as though from a public address...

– by Calder Willingham

Get Shorty

BLACK MAN'S VOICE Looks fuckin' cold out there. EXT. VESUVIO'S RESTAURANT -- MIAMI DAY It is cold. People walk by hugging themselves, pulling up their collars, etc. INT. VESUVIO'S RESTAURANT -- SAME TIME CHILI PALMER, late thirties, sits in a booth with TOMMY CARLO, a low level mob type. Chi...

– by Scott Frank

G.I. Jane

FADE IN: INT. SENATE HEARING ROOM - CAPITOL BLDG. - DAY Blinding in their white uniforms, naval flag officers sit in the audience, showing their support for THEODORE HAYES, a 50-year-old civilian. This is his confirmation hearing. Reading from prepared material: HAYES ... last few years have...

– by David Twohy

Fatal Instinct

FADE IN ON: EXT. SANTA MONICA PIER - NIGHT The sultry dampness of a blistering summer hangs in the night air. People stroll the boardwalk looking for a cool breeze. The soft rhythms of a jazz concert float from the band shell. CLOSE SHOT - A PAIR OF SEXY HIGH HEELS and a woman's shapely leg...

– by David O'Malley

Four Rooms

MAIN TITLES As presentation credits begin, we hear Johnny Cash's "Home of the Blues." Then we see Allison's name, under it Alex's, under that Robert's, under that Quentin's, then under that the title logo for Four Rooms, followed by "Starring Tim Roth as the Bellboy." Then &q...

– by Allison Anders

The Fugitive

FADE IN: EXT. CHICAGO - AERIAL - NIGHT CREDITS BEGIN OVER: Snow swirls around the tall buildings of downtown Chicago. EXT. CHICAGO HOTEL - NIGHT Cars, taxis, limos line the street. A cab pulls up and MAN in tuxedo moves into: INT. CHICAGO HOTEL - BALLROOM - NIGHT THROUGH arriving guests we...

– by Jeb Stuart

Final Destination

Awaiting......each of us; a cold...dark...lonely place. Deny its finality. Dride it's totality. Dread the enescapable invitability......it will arrive. The BLACK SILENT SCREEN senses this moment before a distant blues harp introduces a contemporary band's cover of Blood, Sweat, and Tears' campy...

– by Glen Morgan