Midnight Express Page #4
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- Year:
- 1978
- 121 min
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BILLY:
(smiles)
You're right.
Bus stops suddenly. BILLY changes expression.
THROUGH FRONT WINDSHIELD we see TURKISH SOLDIERS in several
HALFTRACKS drawn up in a semicircle blocking the bus. The
Pan American PLANE is directly behind. Also JEEPS and a
POLICEMAN waving the bus down.
BUS BOOR opens and the Turkish Police OFFICER hops aboard
briskly:
OFFICER:
Attention please, Ladies and
Gentlemen. For your own safety
we're conducting a security check
before you board your airplane,
Kindly file out the back. Women
and children in one line. Men in
another.
PASSENGERS. A confused hum.
VARIOUS PASSENGERS
What's he saying? I don't know...
Marian. Hey Marian, what the
hell...
The Turkish-speaking PASSENGERS are gathering together
their items and beginning to exit as:
POLICE OFFICER repeats, in ENGLISH
POLICE OFFICER:
Idem.
CLOSE BILLY. The POLICE OFFICER is only beginning the
speech.in English but already Billy realizes, And it's
panic. Silent panic. That horrendous cold feeling all
over his back:
Oh God what have I done, what can I do now?He freezes.
MOVE TO SUSAN rising, fetching her things, irritated.
SUSAN:
Jesus, they do everything ass
backwards in Turkey.
Behind her we see the other AMERICAN PASSENGERS beginning
to disembark with the usual chorus of overlapped
conversations, expletives, including:
PASSENGERS:
They're checking for hijackers.
Any Palestinians aboard? Hey Harry,
get rid of your grenades...
Laughter is returned from several of the American
contingent, but we MOVE BACK to BILLY in foreground; all
of a sudden he is on his knees trying to crawl under the
seat.
SUSAN (OFF)
Billy, what's the matter?
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