[Movie Script]Hotel Rwanda

                                        HOTEL RWANDA







Written by

Keir Pearson & Terry George










          FADE IN:

          SCREEN TYPE:    THIS IS A TRUE STORY





          EXT. KIGALI AIRPORT. DAY



          A burning white sun high in a clear blue sky,



                                                                     PAN DOWN TO:



          A rundown (sixties) airport, peeling in the heat.



          A mad traffic jam of cars, vans, motorbikes all stopped at a checkpoint

where a RWANDAN POLICEMAN blows his whistle, waves some and stops

others as bored Rwandan soldiers look on.



          CLOSE ON: A white van pulls out of traffic, a balls-out case of line

jumping. HORNS, OBSCENITIES.



          A HAND: Extends from the passenger side of the van, Rwandan francs

pressed neatly between thumb and palm.




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