Broadcast News Page #2
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- Year:
- 1987
- 133 min
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SHOWING Jane's FATHER standing near the door.
JANE:
(voice over)
...am starting to get jealous.
I read in the newspapers about
the Italian strike and riots in
Milan. I hope you weren't...
FATHER:
(softly)
Honey?...
Jane SCREAMS, and grabs her heart, breathing heavily, babbles
nervously at her Dad.
JANE:
Oh God -- Daddy -- don't...don't...
don't ever scare me like that --
please.
We SUPER:
"FUTURE NETWORK NEWS PRODUCER"Her father is himself taken aback with the shock of her reaction.
Falling back towards the door:
FATHER:
Jane -- For God's sake...
(recovering)
Look, it's time for you to go
to sleep.
JANE:
I just have two more pen pals and
then I'm done.
FATHER:
You don't have to finish tonight.
JANE:
(he doesn't get in)
Nooo. This way the rotation stays
the same.
FATHER:
Finish quickly. I don't want you
things. Good night.
We REMAIN WITH Jane who has obviously become disconcerted and
troubled.
INT. HOUSE - NIGHT
As Jane moves to room at the other end of the hall -- a family
room where her Father reads the latest Rolling Stone of the
mid-60's -- Hunter Thompson, the New Journalism, the slim
Jann Wenner -- Jane bursts into the room.
JANE:
Dad, you want me to choose my words
so carefully and then you just throw
a word like 'obsessive' at me. Now,
unless I'm wrong and...
(enunciating)
...please correct me if I am, 'obsession'
is practically a psychiatric term...
concerning people who don't have anything
else but the object of their obsession --
who can't stop and do anything else. Well,
Here I am stopping to tell you this. Okay?
So would you please try and be a little
more precise instead of calling a person
something like 'obsessive.'
She advances furiously on her Father since even this strung out,
even with two additional pen pal letters to get off, she had
enough sense of duty to kiss him good night before storming from
the room. She exits the room INTO BLACK.
Stay on BLACK as we begin MAIN TITLES:
OVER EXT. SMALL MID-WESTERN CITY - DAY
Emerging from the blackness -- Jane Craig -- now a
twenty-eight-year-old woman -- a long speed walker wearing a
jacket to which reflecting stripes have been glued -- the kind
of gear only possessed by someone who runs at off-hours. The
Jacket itself is a wish-I-had-it souvenir from some important
news assignment, the sort of treasure you love about all else
yet never mention. She stops running as she feeds quarters into
the first of a phalanx of newspaper machines -- getting seven
different papers before moving on.
As she enters from the bathroom, having showered and dressed.
The sun is jus now rising. She sits next to her phone.
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