Magnolia Page #5

CAMERA moves in on the PARENTS then over to some DETECTIVES and OFFICERS

who are making sense of this, they nod to each other as if to say,

"well we know what we have to do..."

NARRATOR:

So Fay Barringer was charged with the

murder of her son and Sydney Barringer

noted as an accomplice in his own death...

CAMERA moves towards the little EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY as he watches

the older couple CRY and SCREAM as detectives begin to cuff them --

NARRATOR:

...and it is in the humble opinion of this

narrator that this is not just "Something

That Happened." This cannot be "One of those

things..." This, please, cannot be that.

And for what I would like to say, I can't.

This Was Not Just A Matter Of Chance.

CAMERA pushes in towards the MOTHER as she screams and screams and the

officer's fight to regain control of her -- in the scuffle, the

apartment door is shut directly in the face of the CAMERA.

CUT TO BLACK.

NARRATOR:

Ohhhh. These strange things happen all the time.

Main title que begins, then carries over following until noted:

TitIe Card:
New Line Cinema presents

Title Card:
a Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production

Title Card:
a P.T. Anderson picture

CUT TO:

CAMERA DOLLIES IN Super Quick on a flower.(time lapse,bud blooms)

Freeze Frame, continue w/optical Zoom and rotate 360 degrees;total blur.

Flash title card:

M a g n o l i a

CAMERA keeps moving in further and farther until the image

gets incredibly blurry, then:

CUT TO:

INT. SUBURBAN HOME - DAY (Present Day, 1998) Sequence A

CAMERA DOLLIES IN QUICK towards a TELEVISION in a living

room. It is playing an infomercial, shot on video with a

hot shot guy FRANK T.J. MACKEY (30s) looking into the LENS.

FRANK:

In this big game that we play it is

not what you find and it's not what

you deserve - It's What You Take.

I'm Frank T.J. Mackey, Master of the Muffin

and author of the Seduce and Destroy System

of audio and videocassettes that will

teach you the techniques to have any

hard-body blonde dripping to wet your dock!

CAMERA moves INTO THE TELEVISION, QUICK DISSOLVE TO:

INT. BAR SET/LOCATION - THAT MOMENT

We are in the video (paneled 1.33) sales pitch/infomercial.

Various settings: The bar, a supermarket, a bedroom, a parked car.

Each has a few semi-geeks talking to a bunch of sexy young girls.

FRANK (contd.)

Bottom line? Language. The magical key

to unlocking any woman's analytical ability

and tap directly into her hopes, wants,

fears, desires and panties.

"Seduce and Destroy," creates an immediate

sexual attraction in any muffin you meet.

Learn how to make that lady - "friend" your

sex-starving-servant. Create an instant,

money-back guaranteed trance-like state

that'll have any little so and so just

begging for it.

I don't care about how you look, what car

you drive or what your last bank statement

says:
"Seduce and Destroy," is gonna teach

you how to get that naughty sauce you want - fast!

(dramatic stop, then:)

Hey -- how many more times do you need

to here the all too famous line of:

"I just don't feel that way about you."

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