Broadcast News Page #3
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- Year:
- 1987
- 133 min
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JANE'S ROOMThe Filofax book is almost an additional character -- a crucial
hand-fashioned tool of Jane's trade. She flicks at a page --
takes down a typewritten sheet scotch-taped to it showing the
room number of her crew and reporter.
ON JANE:
As she dials one room number.
JANE:
(into phone)
Hi...It's me...
INT. DUPLICATE MOTEL ROOM - DAY
ANGLE ON CAMERAMAN -- his equipment in evidence though
essentially asleep holding his bedmate's hand, as he listens
to Jane.
JANE'S VOICE
(voice over)
It's thirty minutes before you have
to meet me in the lobby -- nudge
your wife.
BACK TO SCENE:
JANE:
There's probably no time to eat...
but there's a cafeteria at the bus
depot once we get down there. I
love working with you two...It
saves me a call.
She dales.
Where Aaron is switching his TV from station to station,
monitoring the early morning news. His PHONE RINGS.
AARON:
Hi. Turn on your TV...
Good Morning America, the
Morning News and Today are all
about to talk to Arnold
Schwarzenegger and I think he's
live on at least two of them.
BACK TO SCENE:
JANE:
At six o'clock on the wake-up
news they used the wrong missile
graphic.
AARON:
(Austrian accent)
Now listen, Arnold just said that
he's been making three million a
movie now. But he's not ever
gonna change. He's still the same
person when he was making two
million dollars a movie. He feels
no different. He also bought a brand-
new condo with Maria, they gonna
furnish tastefully.
JANE:
A half hour in the lobby.
AARON:
(Austrian accent)
Okay, I'll see you in the lobbies [sic].
She hangs up -- takes the phone off the hook and lays it on the
bed for a moment's solitude. She sits stiffly, palms on top of
her legs. It looks like someone with unusually good posture,
waiting for something, and now we BEGIN TO SEE the first signs
redden and she begins to cry. Now she sobs -- then miraculously
shakes it off and exits quickly to the bathroom. This crying
episode is clearly part of her morning routine.
Jane standing behind her husband-wife - camera-sound team
as they train their attention on Aaron; who is getting ready to
do a stand-up. There is a DERELICT off to one side. Aaron holds
his microphone at the ready.
AARON:
Ready.
CAMERAMAN:
Your hair's a little funny.
AARON:
It's an ethnic curl, I can't do
anything about it.
CAMERAMAN:
In front of a little -- it's a bit...
You want a mirror?
AARON:
No -- Don't worry about it. Let's
do this.
Jane nods her assent.
CAMERAMAN:
Okay.
AARON:
In other times, for other purposes,
there might be a band and bunting
here at the bus depot for J.D. Singer's
return from war. He...
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