The Stunt Man Page #5

CAMERON - MOVING SHOT

Glancing back through the stalks as he runs, Cameron sees a STAKE

TRUCK barreling toward the sight of the accident. In the back,

THREE MEN are frantically putting on black wet-suits. They look,

from this distance, like little black toys tumbling against each

other. Cameron runs on.

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EXT. BLUFF - OVERLOOKING SEASHORE TOWN

A few hotels, like a cluster of old Victorian gingerbread, surround

a sandy cove beyond which is the sea. There is a fishing pier,

boardwalk, hot dog stands, pizza parlors, all swarming with

sunbathing TOURISTS. The town's bucolic, turn-of-the-century charm

might even survive these, if not for a monstrous yellow CONSTRUCTION

CRANE, which juts ten stories into the sky from the center of the

sandy cove. Cameron appears on the bluff.

ANGLE ON CAMERON

Surveying the town -- expressionless, a jungle beast going to

survive no matter what -- at least for a few more hours. He reaches

down and rips off his trouser legs at the thigh, turning them into

cutoffs a vacationing bather might wear. He pulls off his worn

boots and flings them into the brush, his eyes never leaving the

town below. There are crowds to get lost in down there. He

unbuttons his sleeve and looks at the handcuff still encircling his

wrist. Stopping beside a large rock, he smashes the bracelet

against it. It won't open. Grimacing in pain, he re-buttons the

sleeve, opens his shirt and begins descending the palisades toward

the town.

EXT. BOARDWALK

The SCREEN is yellow and on it are the words: 'HAVE A NICE DAY.'

THE ANGLE WIDENS and we realize the words are on the back of a

YELLOW HAT that jiggles as its wearer walks. It is Cameron. Beyond

him we see the tide of tourists in oils and ointments flirting with

the sun. Teenage girls at portable toilets adjusting their bikinis.

The boardwalk cops in white shirts, looking like ice cream vendors,

whom Cameron deftly avoids. Then, he looks up at the sky,

perplexed:
the helicopter from the bridge is overhead, circling.

Cameron watches it warily as he walks.

ANGLE ON BOARDWALK

A BIG CROWD has formed at the railing of the pier. Many of the

people with CAMERAS CLICKING at the sand below. Cameron notices the

helicopter is now sharing the sky with a brightly painted open

cockpit BIPLANE. It is a WORLD WAR I FIGHTER with BRITISH INSIGNIA.

ANGLE ON BOARDWALK AND SKY

Cameron works his way through the crowd. All eyes now look upward

at the plane. A LOUD VOICE is HEARD coming through an electric

BULLHORN.

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VOICE:

All right, people. Quiet! We're

losing the sun! This is a take!

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