[Movie Script]Jacobs Ladder

"JACOB'S LADDER"



by
Bruce Joel Rubin
EXT.  VIETNAM - DUSK



A swarm of helicopters swoops out of a yellow sky and deposits an army

of men over a Vietnamese hillside.
The SOLDIERS scramble over the terraced rice paddies for the protection

of the jungle. Falling into coulmns, like strands of soldier ants,

seventy-five men, at combat readiness, assemble on the edge of a

sweltering wilderness.
It is dusk. The mood is lazy, soporific. Members of one platoon huddle

close to the ground smoking a joint.



				JERRY

		Strong stuff.
				ROD

			(to JACOB, a soldier

squatting several yards

away)

Hey, Professor, how many times can

you shit in an hour?
				GEORGE

		Don't bug 'im.
				DOUG

		Where are those gooks already?
				FRANK

		Some offensive. I don't even think

they're out there.
				PAUL

		Jesus, this grass is something else.
JACOB SINGER returns to the group, pulling up his pants.
				ROD


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