Marina26's Scripts
Here's the list of scripts submitted by marina26 — There are currently 38 scripts total — keep up the great work!
 | SIRENS. LOUD. THEN: EXT. BOSTON - CITY STREETS - NIGHT A POLICE CRUISER flings itself down a city block, sirens screaming, tailing a GRUNGY SEDAN. The two do their best stock car impressions, hopping in and out of traffic, jockeying to gain the upper hand -- The sedan gambles on a ski... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | INT. RUBY SUE’S ROOM - MORNING Three outfits laid out on a bed: shoulder pads, bright colors, crazy patterns. All very 90s. RUBY SUE CONWAY (17) twirls her hair as she ponders which one to wear. Flawless skin, perfect body, piercing eyes - she’s every boy’s dream. RUBY SUE (to herself)... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | THE SKY Still. Blue. Scattered clouds below 35,000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL An AIRBUS A380 roars past MINUS 62° FAHRENHEIT And then it's gone. The sky frenzied in its trail ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE 3.4 PSI We’re descending rapidly now Breaking through clouds Plummeting faster Towar... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | EXT. MOUNT VERNON, BALTIMORE - SEPTEMBER 17, 1984 - DAY Framed in a blue sky, a marble effigy of GEORGE WASHINGTON is perched atop a stone-white column above red-brick row-houses. Beneath, FRANK CORDEN (mid 20s, curly hair cut into a preppier ‘do) does his door-to-door civic duty. COURTN... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | AN SUV RACES UP TO- EXT. LOUISIANA GAS STATION - 2007 - EVENING -- SPRAYING GRAVEL EVERYWHERE. The driver’s side door FLIES OPEN before the engine’s even cut off--- BANG!--- the SUV is too close and the door slams into the pump. It doesn’t matter. There’s no stopping this driver, a woman ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN: INT. U.S. CONGRESS - WAITING ROOM - DAY ELIZABETH SLOANE (48) stares at us contemptuously. Articulate, quick-witted and direct: ELIZABETH Lobbying is about foresight. About anticipating your opponent’s moves and devising countermeasures. The winner plots one step ahead of the ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | A CHYRON OVER BLUE: Innerdepartmental Psych Evaluation, United Nations Intelligence Division. 10/07/2037 Subject: Webber, M. Evaluator: Jacobs, S. ON VIDEO WEBBER, 40ish, tired. A therapeutically bland backdrop. WEBBER I guess if we’d been true People ofthe Earth - farmers or Indians or ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | HARD CUT IN: EXT. GRAYLING MICHIGAN, FOREST - DAY The wind breathes through a suffocating forest in the fall. We stalk through the decaying trees. The mud. The dead leaves. We come to a hill top. The wind sifts the dead leaves to the right, the left. One area staying still as the wind ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | EXT. DENSE WOODS (SAN JUAN ISLAND) - EARLY MORNING (1985) A LARGE BUCK walks amongst the trees, golden sunlight highlighting its short brown fur. It stops, noses a tree trunk, tearing off the bark, chewing. OFF TO THE SIDE: an ELDERLY COUPLE on an early morning stroll talk QUIETLY, pointing... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN: CLOSE ON - A ROLLED UP NEWSPAPER Swinging in the HAND that carries it. Behind the paper aMARBLE FLOOR becomes an ELEVATOR FLOOR. The carrier taps the paper against his leg as the elevator moves. The elevator floor becomes a CARPETED HALLWAY. The hand drops the paper in front of... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN ON: AN OIL WELL - AFTERNOON A tall wooden OIL DERRICK reaches up into the sky. Stones bounce off the surface of it. WE PAN DOWN TO REVEAL the source. Three young boys using it for target practice. Two brothers MIKE and PAUL WALLACE, 11 and 9, and another more delicate-looking boy ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN: EXT. APPALACHIAN WILDERNESS - ESTABLISHING - DAWN Trees blanket the rolling mountains. A lone CABIN dots the autumn landscape. INT. CABIN - SAME CHARLIE NASY (42) and his son WILL (15) sleep in parallel twin beds in the bare bones, one-room cabin. As the sun peeks in a wind... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | EXT. JENSEN HOUSE BACKYARD (1993) - DAY A backyard BBQ party in full swing. Family. Friends. “HAPPY 21ST MIKE!” Laughter, drinking, children running around, playing with a Labrador puppy. We pick up details as we move through it all. TOM (V.O.) At the end of the day, what are the things t... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | UNDER THE OCEAN - NIGHT Ribbons of moonlight pierce the dark ocean from above as we glide forward underwater with embodied, animal purpose. OBJECTS begin to fall into view ahead: various shapes sinking from the surface as we move between them... AN AMMO BOX, A CHAIR, PIECES OF TWISTED META... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul, Where I’ll end up, well I think, only God really knows...” --Cat Stevens, THE WIND Authors Note: This script is about Inuits (Eskimos) of long ago. It was written to be an extremely visual story-telling experience. As such, all characters speak in... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | 1 1 EXT. UNZEN HOT SPRINGS DAY 1 The faces of FIVE MEN appear out of a thick cloud of mist rising off a seething lake of boiling water. They look like pale phantoms. Terrified. We HEAR the voice of FATHER CHRISTOVAO FERREIRA. Strong. Resolute. FERREIRA (V.O.) (reading) "Good... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | BLACK SCREEN TITLE: AUGUST WILSON’S FENCES The screen remains black. The sound of a truck rumbling along a street. Two men are heard talking: bono (v.o.): Troy, you ought to stop that lying! troy (v.o.): I ain’t lying! The nigger had a watermelon this big. Talking about . . . “What wat... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | 1 EXT. SMALL FARMHOUSE - NIGHT 1 Crickets. A spring night in rural Virginia. MILDRED(18) seems nervous. Her eyes cast down. She’s beautiful. A slender, light skinned black woman. High cheekbones hint at a mix of Native American ancestry. She picks her head up and takes a deep breath. Her... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS 1/92 (0100 PRO) PROLOGUE BLACK A child’s whispered voice HISSES through the darkness... CHILD’S VOICE (V.O.) If you must blink, do it now! A full moon fills the screen like a giant, unblinking eye. * An eerie wind HOWLS through the night sky, and a ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | 1 INT. MICHELLE’S HOUSE - HALLWAY -- DAY 1 The eyes of MARTY, a cat, indifferently observe some rathernoisy struggle. Male GRUNTS. A woman’s SMOTHERED SCREAMS. TheSHATTERING of glass. After a few moments, the cat gets bored and wanders away. Looking down a tastefully decorated hallway, a MAL... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | 1 INT. MORROW GALLERY, LOS ANGELES. PRESENT DAY. EVENING. 1 Red frizzy hair flies across our screen in slow motion. Glimpses of tinsel, and a transparent peignoir momentarily hide a large pair of sagging breasts swinging from side to side and bouncing up and down. Dead silence as the moveme... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | . FADE IN EXT. DISMAL SWAMP - NIGHT 2 Moonlight sifts through the tall pines, illuminating the fog- blanketed marsh. CHILD’S VOICE (V.O.) But the white man, he catched her. Catched her an’ throwed her to the ground... Through the boscage, two shrouded figures emerge, pacingstealthily ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN: EXT. HYANNIS BEACH -DAY JACKIE KENNEDY. Jet-black bouffant, regal bearing, perfectsymmetrical features. But the light behind her eyes has gone out. She walks alone, shuddering against a frigid wind. FADE TO BLACK. SUPER: Hyannis Port, Massachusetts 1963 FADE IN: INT. KENNEDY C... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN: EXT. CHICAGO STREETS - DAWN Ah, it’s Fall. Not in a cozy, peaceful way. In that slushy miserable Midwest way. Strong winds bend the trees of Lakeshore Drive. Grey rain drips from the Magnificent Mile storefronts to the street signs of the suburbs. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. PORTOKALOS... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | 1. INT./EXT. TRAIN, ARDSLEY-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK - MORNING We hear a train’s mournful clatter as trees flash by and then the train itself passes in a silvery streak. A woman draws an “x” on her foggy window-- looking out through it directly at us: This is RACHEL and she is THE GIRL ON TH... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | 1 EXT. AUSCHWITZ. DAY EXT. AUSCHWITZ. DAY 1 Dawn. Mist. Drizzle. Watchtowers, ruined structures, bare trees, fences. Through the rain, the sound of feet shuffling, children’s voices crying, metal doors clanging. Then, in sharp contrast, the sound of a large audience laughing heartily at the ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | SHOOTING SCRIPT. 1 1 OMITTED 1 1A EXT. LONDON. DAY. 1A Sweeping aerial shot of London, establishing the city in all its glory. 1AA EXT. SOUTHWARK BRIDGE. DAY. 1AA We swoop down the Thames to find a svelte figure on the bridge hailing a taxi. 2 INT. CHURCH. DAY 2 SHAZZER, e... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN SOUND INT. CONFESSIONAL - NIGHT DISTANT, BEAUTIFUL VOICES Male voices. A Gregorian chant. We fade in on a crucifix in the apse of the church: a suffering Christ. We cut to a close shot of a small silver cross on a rosary. The rosary is held in a man's lap next to a mouse-gr... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | EXT. REDWOOD FOREST - SOUTH - DAY Mounds of white powder, as far as the eye can see. Winter consumes the land. Titan trees with trunks of red, break through the glittering snow-scape and stretch into the sky. Their needles, strong and green against the elements. BRAUN (V.O.) In days o... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | BLACK We hear the clink of cutlery, convivial noise, then... FADE IN: INT. MAYFLOWER HOTEL - DAY ...on ALDRICH HAZEN AMES, watchful eyes behind thick glasses. He’s at the bar, smoking and nursing a vodka, several empties in front of him. The busy restaurant is reflected in a wall- ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | EXT. DIKE ROAD - NIGHT A pair of FINE LEATHER SHOES, soaking wet, SQUISH along a gravel road. With each step, water seeps through the tongue, reflecting the amber hues of a nearby porch light. Distant at first, the faint sounds of strained breathing growinto loud gasps for air. Glimpses of a... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN: A CIRCUS FLIER Floating in the night air like a falling Autumn leaf. “Shiv” is the name of the KNIFE THROWER, written in sharp, gleaming font. A stylish illustration depicts a hooded man hurling knives at us, blades reflecting a cheering crowd. A sharp WHISTLE - the poster TE... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | INT. FOXFIELD FOREST OFFICES - CONFERENCE ROOM - MORNING ERIC DAVIDSON (30) scribbles a realistic sketch of a stoic bald man in a suit. This man, an HR REP (50s), sits across a conference table from Eric. Surrounding them are several cardboard cut-outs of cartoon foxes, deer, and moose. The... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN: EXT. ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA -- VARIOUS ANGLES -- WINTER NIGHT A middle-class, blue-collar suburb outside Philadelphia. In WIDE EXTERIOR SHOTS we see: CONCHESTER BOWLING ALLEY. A KMART. A PATHMARK grocery store. Their parking lots filled with American-made cars. COCO’S PIZZERIA. Fa... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN: EXT. WASHINGTON D.C. - DUSK The sun sets as 4,500 BRITISH REDCOATS march onto Washington. TITLE: AUGUST 24, 1814 The British soldiers are a sight to behold. Professional, well-trained, orderly. Several haphazardly-dressed AMERICANMILITIA run from the capital, not even bothering ... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | BLACK FRAME - TEXT APPEARS “Violence alone does not render bloodsports interesting. Lovers of cockfighting take no pleasure in seeing livestock butchered in slaughterhouses. Only violence in the context of fair combat affords genuine displays of fortitude and honor. The ability to accept... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | OVER BLACK: “Let us build a tower that reaches to the heavens. So that we may make a name for ourselves.” - Genesis 11:4 The following is based on a true story. To protect thesurvivors, names have been changed. CUT TO: A CELL PHONE SCREEN. Badly cracked. On it, a video plays: EVAN LAN... | added by marina26 6 years ago |
 | FADE IN: A GREAT MAZE looms below us: a labyrinth of tangled alleyways. We DESCEND toward it and into the dark heart of an ancient city. INT. CAMPO DEI FIORE, ROME -- NIGHT The streets of Rome are locked in a 3AM traffic jam. MUSIC spills from cafes and discotheques. We DESCEND further.... | added by marina26 6 years ago |