[Movie Script]Lord of War

                                LORD OF WAR


Written by
Andrew Niccol
     FADE UP



CLOSE UP on the face of YURI ORLOV.
Late-thirties, maybe the wrong side of forty, cigarette dangling

from his fingers, wearing a conservative suit and tie.
Black smoke wafts in front of his face.  He speaks matter-of-factly,

directly into camera.
                             YURI

                 There are over 550 million firearms in

worldwide circulation.  That's one firearm

for every twelve people on the planet.  The

only question is...

(taking a draft and stubbing out

the cigarette)

...how do we arm the other eleven?
The camera zooms away from his face, revealing:
Yuri alone on a battlefield surrounded by the charred carcasses of

armored military vehicles and other equipment, discarded weapons and

ammunition, desert floor stained with what appears to be blood.
The faint sound of gunfire, some distance away, carries to us on the

wind.
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