The Player Page #15
- R
- Year:
- 1992
- 124 min
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- The D.A. is at a moral crossroads.
- Tom! Jesus Christ.
We open outside
the largest penitentiary in California.
It's night. It's raining.
A limousine comes through the gate...
...past demonstrators holding
a candlelight vigil.
The candles under the umbrellas
glow like Japanese lanterns.
That's nice. I haven't seen that before.
That's good.
A lone demonstrator, a black woman,
steps in front of the limousine.
The lights illuminate her
like a spirit.
Her eyes fix upon those
of the sole passenger.
The moment is devastating
between them.
He's the D.A. She's the mother
You're good!
I told you he's good.
Go on.
The D.A. Believes
in the death penalty.
And the execution is a hard case.
Black, 19, and definitely guilty.
The greatest democracy in the world, and
36% of people on death row are black.
Poor, disadvantaged black.
He swears the next person
he sees to die...
will be smart, rich and white.
- You, me, whoever.
- What a hook! Beauty hook.
Cut to the chase.
Cut from the D.A. To an up-market
suburban neighborhood.
A couple have a fight.
He leaves in a fit, gets in a car.
It's the same rainy night.
The car spins out
and goes into a ravine.
The body is swept away.
When the police examine the car, they
find the brakes have been tampered with.
It's murder, and the D.A. Decides
to go for the big one.
He's going to put the wife
in the gas chamber.
But the D.A. Falls in love
with the wife.
Of course! But he puts her
in the gas chamber anyway.
Then he finds that the husband
is alive.
That he faked his death.
The D.A. Breaks into the prison,
runs down death row...
...but he gets there too late.
The gas pellets have been dropped.
She's dead.
I tell you,
there's not a dry eye in the house.
She's dead?
She's dead. She's dead
because that's the reality.
The innocent die.
- Who's the D.A.?
- No one.
No one?
No stars on this project.
We're going out on a limb on one.
like what's-his-name.
- Why?
- Why?
This story is too damned important to
risk being overwhelmed by personality.
That's fine for action pictures,
but this is special.
We want real people.
We don't want people coming
with any preconceived notions.
- We want 'em to see a district attorney.
- Bruce Willis.
Not Bruce Willis or Kevin Costner.
This is an innocent woman
fighting for her life.
- Julia Roberts.
- If we can get her.
We can!
If I'm perfectly honest,
this isn't even an American film.
- It's not?
- No. There are no stars.
No pat happy endings,
no Schwarzenegger, no stickups...
...no terrorists.
This is a tough story, a tragedy
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