WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
Written by
Richard Lagravenese
APRIL 16, 2009
EXT. MODERN CIRCUS GROUNDS - PRESENT DAY - NIGHT
An upstate New York town. A CIRCUS is being dismantled...The
Big Top falls and is gathered up by workmen...Trucks are
being loaded with animals.EXT. PARKING LOT - CIRCUS GROUNDS - CONTINUOUS - NIGHT
AN ELDERLY MAN , JACOB JANKOWSKI - 93 year old - stands
alone, with a walker in the middle of the empty parking lot.
His shirt is stained with sweat - as if it took great effort
for him to get there. As he watches the Circus disappear,
Jacob looks lost, bewildered and fragile.
CHARLIE, 50's circus manager, and RUSS, a tattooed teen with
rings through his eyebrows, approach him with a wheelchair.CHARLIE