The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Page #3

Synopsis: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is a 1984 American science fiction romantic adventure comedy film directed and produced by W. D. Richter, and concerns the efforts of the multi-talented Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock musician, to save the world by defeating a band of inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids from Planet 10. The film is a cross between the action/adventure and sci-fi film genres and also includes elements of comedy, satire, and romance.
Production: Sherwood
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PG
Year:
1984
103 min
746 Views


BUCKAROO BANZAI:

You've got the God-given tools to be a success in any field of

endeavor, Dr. Zwibel. Ever thought about joining me full-time?

JEWISH PHYSICIAN (DR. ZWIBEL)

Are you serious? Have you have an opening?

BUCKAROO BANZAI:

Can you sing?

DR. ZWIBEL

A little. I can dance.

Buckaroo glancing at the clock on the wall...

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY22

PROF. HIKITA

Inertial Control positive. T minus seven zero and resume counting.

MISSION CONTROL:

All systems righteous. Professor Hikita says we have to go.

General Catburd and other VIPS happy to observe on their TV monitors

the sight of a MAN IN BLACK COMMANDO PARACHUTE SUIT, carrying a

BATTERED OLD BRIEFCASE, climbing into the cockpit of...THE JET CAR.

INT. JET CAR - DAY

THE DRIVER'S POV, a curious combination of airplane dials and switches

and personal touches like a big four-on-the-floor gear shift and a

snazzy pearlized Brodi knob with snowflakes and a coochi-coochi girl...

24

ANGLE ON the driver as he removes a strange GRYOSCOPIC DEVICE from his

briefcase, plugs it into a cradle near his head...

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY25

Professor Hikita standing at a special monitor as a light pops on,

indicating "Overthruster Armed"....he covers it with a hanky...

EXT. JET CAR - DAY26

...all quiet suddenly, the car poised, waiting...

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY27

General Catburd grabbing some coffee and doughnuts...the Secretary of

Defense peering out through a viewing slot...

GENERAL CATBURD:

I've got a budget meeting on the hill, John. What's this thing

supposed to do anyway?

SENATOR CUNNINGHAM

Three hundred miles an hour, General.

GENERAL CATBURD:

Senator, you are so fulla sh*t.

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

May not...

EXT. JET CAR - DAY28

The Jet Car undergoing an amazing transformation: TWO STABILIZER FINS

AND A JET ENGINE suddenly appearing on its rear deck...

INT. JET CAR - DAY29

CLOSE ON THE DRIVER TO REVEAL BUCKAROO BANZAI, world famous figure in

every field of endeavor as he withdraws a beautiful KAMIKAZE SCARF from

his flight suit...wraps it like a warrior's headband around his

helmet...

30

ANGLE ON Buckaroo's hand as his fingers flip a row of toggle switches,

THE PULSATING POWER OF THE JET ENGINE INCREASING DRAMATICALLY with each

successive switch...the vehicle a caged beast, taunting us, as Buckaroo

flips the last switch...

BUCKAROO BANZAI:

Final contact is made.

EXT. JET CAR - DAY31

No kidding. A TWENTY FOOT SHEET OF FIRE ROCKETING FROM THE BACK OF THE

JET CAR...THEN ANOTHER...THEN ANOTHER...

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY32

The Cavaliers at their monitors, calm...Hikita making minor adjustments

on his instrument bank...the Secretary of Defense and General Catburd

both now at viewing slots in the blockhouse wall...

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Earl Mac Rauch

Earl Mac Rauch is an American novelist and screenwriter. Rauch is best known for writing the screenplays for A Stranger Is Watching, New York, New York and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. more…

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