
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
FADE IN:
INT. "THE DRAGON" NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT
A Chinese GONG SOUNDS and the glittering doors of an art
Deco pagoda slides open to reveal a mammoth silver stairway
down which rows of beautiful women start descending.
BEGIN MAIN TITLES
The lovely ladies are a mix of races and they sing a strange,
haunting melody -- one might think them a heavenly choir, if
it weren't for their sexy, clinging lamé gowns.
INT. CLUB ENTRANCE
From the ethereal beauties, we cut to a street urchin's dirty
face:
SHORT ROUND is a ten-year-old Chinese kid wearing abeat-up American baseball cap.
Sneaking into the club, Short Round weaves past the fancy
gowns and silk suits, heading toward the music in the main
ballroom.
INT. THE BALLROOM
Short Round enters and stares across the smoky nightclub. On
the stage, he sees a giant paper-mâché dragon laying curled
around the pagoda.
Now, the dragon's eyes light up, its nostrils exhale smoke
and its enormous jaws open. Out of the dragon's mouth walks
the star of the stage show:
WILLIE SCOTT, a dreamy beauty singing a sultry solo while
the orchestra wails the accompaniment.
But Short Round's not here to ogle crooning dames. He surveys
the rich Chinese, American and European revelers. Jewels
flash and champagne flows. Short Round finally spots a table
of somber-looking Chinese men in suits.
Short Round chews gum and stares at the men. Then he turns
to go. WU HAN, a waiter with a scar across his cheek, watches
Short Round leave.
INT. CLUB ENTRANCE
As Short Round hurries toward the exit, he bumps into a man
in a tuxedo entering the club. Short Round looks up at the
man, but we don't see his face.
Then Short Round is grabbed by the scruff of his neck and a
doorman hustles him out the door, Short Round yelling insults
all the way.
A maitre d' apologizes to the man in the tuxedo and two hat-
check girls smile at him familiarly as he continues into the
ballroom. We notice something incongruous: the man in the
tuxedo is wearing work boots caked with mud.
INT. THE BALLROOM
The man in the tuxedo stops to watch Willie Scott singing
sexily on the stage. Then he looks around and sees the table
of somber Chinese men that Short Round spotted earlier.
As the man in the tuxedo walks toward the table, he removes
a cigarette from a silver case. He arrives at the table just
as the chorus and orchestra reach a crescendo --
And on the stage, a glistening, muscular slave swings a huge
hammer toward an enormous brass gong --
The man in the tuxedo leans to receive a light from a
cigarette-girl and, as the GONG BOOMS, the match flares to
reveal his face for the first time:
It's INDIANA JONES. Elegant in a tuxedo -- dressed to kill.
The TITLES END and over this a legend appears on the screen:
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