SERENITY
Written byJoss Whedon
April 18, 2004
EXT. CLASSROOM - DAY
It's a group of twelve-year-olds, serious and well dressed.
They sit on their heels under a sparsely elegant tent, small
wooden desks with embedded screens in front of them. The
tent is on a lawn surrounded by lush foliage. People walk
about and vehicles glide quietly overhead. A utopian vista.GIRL
Now that the war's over, our
soldiers get to come home, yes?TEACHER
Some of them. Some will be
stationed on the rim planets as
Peace Enforcers.BOY
I don't understand. Why were the
Independents even fighting us?
Why wouldn't they look to be more
civilized?TEACHER
That's a good question. Does
anybody want to open on that?GIRL
I hear they're cannibals.ANOTHER BOY
[Movie Script]Sense and Sensibility
"SENSE AND SENSIBILITY"Screenplay by
Emma Thompson
Based on the novel by
Jane Austen
EXT. OPEN ROADS - NIGHT - TITLE SEQUENCE
A series of traveling shots. A well-dressed, pompous-looking
individual (JOHN DASHWOOD, 35) is making an urgent journey
on horseback. He looks anxious.EXT. NORLAND PARK - ENGLAND - MARCH 1800 - NIGHT
Silence. Norland Park, a large country house built in the
early part of the eighteenth century, lies in the moonlit
parkland.INT. NORLAND PARK - MR DASHWOOD'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
In the dim light shed by candles we see a bed in which a MAN
(MR DASHWOOD, 52) lies his skin waxy, his breathing laboured.
Around him two silhouettes move and murmur, their clothing
susurrating in the deathly hush. DOCTORS. A WOMAN (MRS
DASHWOOD, 50) sits by his side, holding his hand, her eyes
never leaving his face.MR DASHWOOD