The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Page #4

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


PROF. HIKITA

Point of no return...five, four, three, two...

INT. JET CAR - DAY33

PROF. HIKITA'S VOICE

...one.

As Buckaroo Banzai twists his steering-wheel mounted TWIN ACCELERATORS,

the sudden forward lurch of the Jet Car slamming him back against the

headrest...

EXT. PROVING GROUNDS - DAY34

THE JET CAR BLASTING OFF! MORE FIRE! MORE SMOKE!

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY35

Technicians and VIPS eye their monitors.

36

AND SO DO WE:
the rugged JET CAR raising a cloud of dust, viewed from

high above us it blasts ahead!

ANGLE ON37

GENERAL CATBURD:

Too bad war ain't Indianapolis. It's fast, I'll give Banzai that.

SENATOR CUNNINGHAM

Perhaps an idea whose time has come, General? Scoot over.

Catburd moving aside as Senator Cunningham takes her turn with the

viewing device.

GENERAL CATBURD:

It'll never work. It's too simple.

INT. HELICOPTER - DAY38

HIGH OVERHEAD, manned by a TV NEWS CREW.

39

AN OVER-THE-CAMERAMAN'S SHOULDER POV as the JET CAR'S EXHAUST TRAIL

CHOKES THE LANDSCAPE BELOW...

INT. JET CAR - DAY40

BUCKAROO'S POV as the highway races underneath him...

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY41

ALL EYES glued to those TV monitors, Rawhide and Reno

watching...Perfect Tommy slapping his hand on the desk.

TV ANCHORWOMAN:

Now twenty seconds downrange...Perfect Tommy, how on earth is Buckaroo

able to keep that thing on the ground?

PERFECT TOMMY:

She's just a damn road hugger, Allison. Plus the man can drive.

EXT. PROVING GROUNDS - DAY42

Talk about a road hugger...the JET CAR SCREAMS PAST A BANK OF HIGH

SPEED CAMERAS...THE EARTH SHAKING...

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY43

PROF. HIKITA

Approaching thirty seconds downrange Three zero. Course steady. Speed

three one seven nautical-four hundred...

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

He's gonna do it! The man is gonna do it!

GENERAL CATBURD:

So what? Big deal. Anybody can drive fast in a straight line.

INT. JET CAR - DAY44

...as if in response to Catburd's comment, Buckaroo does an amazing

thing, NOW FLICKING HIS DIRECTIONAL SIGNAL...

EXT. JET CAR - DAY45

LEAVING THE PAVED SURFACE FOR OPEN TERRAIN! BEGIN INTERCUTTING

BLOCKHOUSE AND JET CAR...

INT. JET CAR - DAY46

A FIRE breaking out on a dashboard gauge, Buckaroo quickly snuffing the

SPARKS with his gloved hand...DANGER LIGHTS FLASHING!

EXT. JET CAR - DAY47

...as AWESOME PHYSICAL PRESSURES take their tool on car and driver...

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY48

PROF. HIKITA

Buckaroo, do you read?

MISSION CONTROL:

Advise you abort. Over. Repeat: advise abort.

INT. JET CAR - DAY49

BUCKAROO BANZAI:

That's a big "no can do".

INT. BLOCKHOUSE- DAY50

Buckaroo's voice through STATIC AND CRACKLE. Professor Hikita white-

knuckled...determined.

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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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