[Movie Script]Manchurian Candidate, The

                      THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

By
Dean Georgaris

Based on the novel by Richard Condon
and the screenplay by George Axelrod

Current revisions by
Daniel Pyne, August 18, 2003


IN BLACK:

1 Restless bodies. Scuffing of feet. Somebody coughs. 1

MARCO'S VOICE

Approximately sixty four hundred hours
before Desert Storm, we were on a routine
recon inside Iraqi-controlled terrain,
assessing troop strength for what Saddam
Hussein promised to be the mother of all
wars ... but turned out to be just a
little warm up for the whomping he got a
few years later.

FADE IN:

2 EXT. DESERT - NIGHT 2

PROWLING ACROSS undulating land dotted with BURNING OIL
WELLS that give the vague impression of, well, hell. The
inky sky is awash with stars.

ON THE CREST OF A DUNE

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[Movie Script]Man Who Wasnt There, The

The Man Who Wasn’t There

"THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE"

BY

Ethan Coen & Joel Coen



Black.

ED (V.O.)
Yeah, I worked in a barbershop. But
I never considered myself a barber...

We track back from a barber's pole.

ED (V.O.)
...I stumbled into it--well, married
into it more precisely...

We track back from a shopkeeper's bell triggered by an opening
door. The pull back and tilt down show the top of the head
of a customer entering in slow motion.

ED (V.O.)

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