Pawn Sacrifice Page #3

Synopsis: American chess legend Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) and Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber) enthrall the world with their intense battle of wills and strategy during the 1972 World Chess Championship.
Production: Bleecker Street
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PG-13
Year:
2014
115 min
$1,696,603
Website
801 Views


Yellow Revision 10-11-13 8.

Bobby stares at the window -- is the man still out there?

We feel his anxiety building as he LISTENS INTENTLY to the

sound of the shade SLAPPING against the window sill.

Suddenly, he sits up, opens a drawer. He works fast -- like

someone breaking the rules -- lights a candle -- rolls the

wax into balls and stuffs them into his ears.

The laughter outside is muted.

Bobby stuffs a ball into his other ear. With both ears

blocked -- a sudden and wonderful silence!

Bobby carries the candle to a CHESSBOARD. In absolute silence

he stares at the chessboard. In his hand is the NOTEBOOK.

CLOSE on Bobby's face, candlelit, a study in intensity.

As Bobby stares at the chessboard, everything else in the

room literally begins to disappear. The bed, the crummy

dresser -- until all that is left is a boy and a chessboard.

12 THE CHESSBOARD 12

Pieces move on their own. Multiple exposures. A move yields

hundreds of options. The counter offers thousands more.

CLOSE on Bobby's face. Ethereal Music. Bliss. Then...

13 THE DOOR TO HIS BEDROOM IS FLUNG OPEN 13

Light floods in. Harsh SOUNDS. The spell is broken. The

two open-mouthed kissers are looking for a place to f***.

KISSING MAN:

Whoopsee-daisy...

(sees Bobby)

Sorry, kiddo.

BOBBY:

Get out of my room. GET OUT!

Regina appears behind them.

REGINA:

Bobby! Those are our guests!

(sees his chessboard)

Jesus, enough already with the chess!

She reaches for the board. Pieces fall, ruining the game.

REGINA (CONT'D)

(calling out)

Joan--!

Yellow Revision 10-11-13 9.

Joan appears.

REGINA (CONT'D)

Put him to bed, will ya?

As Regina returns to the party. Joan kneels to pick up the

fallen pieces. Bobby looks up at her.

Please...?

BOBBY:

Okay.

JOAN:

One game.

She sits beside him on the bed and sets up the board.

14 INT. BROOKLYN JEWISH HOSPITAL - WAITING ROOM - DAY 14

Bobby, Joan and Regina sit in a waiting room. Regina smooths

Bobby's hair.

REGINA:

Now Bobby, don't suddenly start acting

normal and make me look ridiculous...

15 INT. DR. MENGARINI'S OFFICE - LATER 15

On DOCTOR MENGARINI's desk is a LARGE WOODEN CHESS SET.

Across the desk we find Bobby. The game is fifteen moves

old. Smoke from Megarini's pipe wafts among the chess pieces.

MENGARINI:

So Bobby, you go to the movies?

(Bobby nods without

looking up)

You like Westerns? Bang, bang?

Bobby nods again. Mengarini glances at Regina.

REGINA:

Bobby, have you ever been to the

Moon on the subway?

Bobby nods and moves a piece. He's in a kind of trance.

REGINA (CONT'D)

Once I poured a glass of water over

his head...

Mengarini studies Bobby as Bobby studies the board.

REGINA (CONT'D)

If I take the pieces away he just

plays in his head. Day and night.

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Steven Knight

Steven Knight was born in 1959 in Marlborough, England. He is a writer and producer, known for Eastern Promises (2007), Peaky Blinders (2013) and Locke (2013). more…

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