[Movie Script]Mechanic, The

                              THE MECHANIC




Written by


Karl Gajdusek & Lewis John Carlino


                                             DRAFT: 07/17/2009




"Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name

But what's puzzling you, is the nature of my game."

The Rolling Stones, 1968


          1.



          INT. BISHOP'S STUDY - NIGHT



CLOSE on the needle of a precision-weighted 33rpm turntable.

It comes down, touches vinyl. The Rolling Stones "Sympathy

for the Devil" purrs out...

ARTHUR BISHOP (40's) Sitting in a comfortable wooden chair,

stares right through us. Lean, hard, in perfect physical

shape. In this moment, carrying the stillness of someone

utterly in balance. For all we know, he's been sitting this

way for hours.


          BISHOP (V.O.)




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[Movie Script]Mean Streets

                                   MEAN STREETS




Written by


Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin & Ethan Edwards


Ah, get born, keep warm

Short pants, romance, learn to dance

Get dressed, get blessed

Try to be a success

Please her, please him, buy gifts

Don't steal, don't lift

Twenty years of schoolin'

And they put you on the day shift


                          BOB DYLAN

           Subterranean Homesick Blues


          (SUPERED OVER BOTTOM OF SCREEN LIKE A TV NEWS BULLETIN)



          (THE FILM IS IN COLOR UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.)



A darkened diffused image of a man lying on the ground. A

tree is above him. The image is more diffused on the edges.

It is black and white, and appears to be coming from a

television. The body of the man is practically totally in

shadow.


                          ANNOUNCERS VOICE




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