It's a Wonderful Life Page #2
- PG
- Year:
- 1946
- 130 min
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EXTERIOR MAIN STREET �� BEDFORD FALLS �� SPRING AFTERNOON
MEDIUM SHOT �� Five or six boys are coming toward camera, arm in
arm, whistling. Their attention is drawn to an elaborate
horsedrawn carriage
proceeding down the other side of the street.
MEDIUM PAN SHOT �� The carriage driving by. We catch a glimpse of
CLOSE SHOT �� the boys watching the carriage.
GEORGE:
Mr. Potter!
CLARENCE'S VOICE
Who's that �� a king?
JOSEPH'S VOICE
That's Henry F. Potter, the richest and meanest man in the
county.
The boys continue until they reach Gower's drugstore. The
drugstore is old-fashioned and dignified, with jars of colored
water in the windows and little
else. As the kids stop:
GEORGE:
So long!
BOYS (ad lib)
Got to work, slave. Hee-haw. Hee-haw.
INTERIOR DRUGSTORE �� DAY
MEDIUM SHOT �� George comes in and crosses to an old-fashioned
cigar lighter on the counter. He shuts his eyes and makes a wish:
GEORGE:
Wish I had a million dollars.
He clicks the lighter and the flame springs up.
GEORGE (cont'd)
Hot dog!
WIDER ANGLE �� George crosses over to the soda fountain, at which
Mary Hatch, a small girl, is seated, watching him. George goes on
to get his
apron from behind the fountain.
GEORGE (calling toward back room)
It's me, Mr. Gower. George Bailey.
CLOSE SHOT �� Mr. Gower, the druggist, peering from a window in
back room. We see him take a drink from a bottle.
GOWER:
You're late.
MEDIUM SHOT �� George behind soda fountain. He is putting on his
apron.
GEORGE:
Yes, sir.
WIDER ANGLE �� Violet Bick enters the drugstore and sits on one
of the stools at the fountain. She is the same height as Mary and
the same age, but
she is infinitely older in her approach to people.
VIOLET (with warm friendliness)
Hello, George.
(then, flatly, as she sees Mary)
VIOLET:
'Lo, Mary.
MARY (primly)
Hello, Violet.
George regards the two of them with manly disgust. They are two
kids to him, and a nuisance. He starts over for the candy
counter.
GEORGE:
VIOLET:
She was here first.
MARY:
I'm still thinking.
GEORGE (to Violet)
Shoelaces?
VIOLET:
Please, Georgie.
George goes over to the candy counter.
VIOLET (to Mary)
I like him.
MARY:
You like every boy.
VIOLET (happily)
What's wrong with that?
GEORGE:
Here you are.
George gives Violet a paper sack containing licorice shoelaces.
Violet gives him the money.
VIOLET (the vamp)
Help me down?
GEORGE (disgusted)
Help you down!
Violet jumps down off her stool and exits. Mary, watching, sticks
out her tongue as she passes.
CLOSE SHOT �� George and Mary at fountain.
GEORGE:
Made up your mind yet?
MARY:
I'll take chocolate.
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