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FADE IN:
INT. MOVIE PROJECTION ROOM -- NIGHT
It is dark and still, but very much alive, the projection room is--with it's spinning platters, each holding a 35 mm print, projecting it onto the ten movie screens throughout the theater, sending shafts of projected light out and into the room like rotating sunbeams bursting out of the side of the projectors.
JACK (V.O.)
All movies are the same. No matter
how you cut them. It doesn't matter
if the filmmakers show you the end
first, or the middle, if the
protagonist is a good guy or a bad
guy, if the antagonist is a person,
monster, an idea, alcohol, or even
the hero.
All movies are the same. No matter
how you cut them. It doesn't matter
if the filmmakers show you the end
first, or the middle, if the
protagonist is a good guy or a bad
guy, if the antagonist is a person,
monster, an idea, alcohol, or even
the hero.
JACK (28), THE PROJECTIONIST splices the new movies together for the following morning.
JACK (V.O.)
Nothing is original. Name any movie,
and whether I've seen it or not,
I'll tell you what happens.
Nothing is original. Name any movie,
and whether I've seen it or not,
I'll tell you what happens.
He frames the recently projected movies. Threads the next movies to start through the projectors.
He is at work, and it's second nature to him.
JACK (V.O.)
Fifteen minutes in--Harry meets Sally.
He points his finger, like a gun, at his own reflection, and in his best James Bond impersonation, shoots himself.
JACK (V.O.)
Elliot meets E.T. Neo gets a phone
call from Morpheus.
Sitting down on at a desk at one end of the very long room, he throws his feet up and begins to read a book on screenwriting, when something at the other end of the room--
MOVES.
Jack gets up to investigate.
JACK (V.O.)
In movies, one things happens
because of another. It's not like
the real world...
The hum of the projectors almost drops away as Jack moves through the room, listening, searching. He gets to the other end of the room and peaks around a small corner--
JACK (V.O.)
Where things just...happen.
Nothing, then--
Something behind him moves.
He turns around quick.
Jack can't see them, but--
JACK
Hello?
He listens.
JACK
Who's there?
Pulling himself together.
JACK
I know you're there...show yourself.
Nothing. He turns around and--
HE'S SURROUNDED BY NINJAS! Five of them, all armed to the teeth, and ready to kill. One of them, the NINJA LEADER, steps forward.
NINJA LEADER
We have sought you out across time
and space to kill you before you
can take the thrown of Juran.
Jack takes a step back and makes a fist.
NINJA LEADER
It's funny--I'd thought you'd be taller.
JACK
Enough talk.
NINJA LEADER
Agreed.
JACK
Enough talk.
NINJA LEADER
Agreed.
The battle commences--ducking, dodging, deflecting, Jack grabs one of the Ninjas, disarming him and taking his NINJA SWORD for himself, he throws him into the others, who flip out of the way and continue their attack.
Jet Li, eat your heart out--Jack knows how to kick ass, and cut Ninjas in half.
He charges and cuts them all down to size and just as he's about to decapitate the Ninja Leader he turns and see's MORGAN (20), his co-worker, standing at the top of the stairs.
He puts down his BROOM, which he was using as the ninja sword in his imaginary fight with ninjas, who are no longer there.
MORGAN
The foods here; you eating with us?
JACK
Um...yeah.
BLACK FRAME.
TITLE CARD: THANKSGIVING
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~T² out
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