Quiero Aprender

"Twelve Monkeys", by David Webb Peoples and Janet Peoples









TWELVE MONKEYS

An original screenplay by

David Peoples
&
Janet Peoples

Inspired by

LAJETEE, a Chris Marker Film





Production Draft
June 27, 1994








FADE IN:

INT. CONCOURSE/AIRPORT TERMINAL - BAY

CLOSE ON A FACE. A nine year old boy, YOUNG COLE, his eyes wide
with wonder. watching something intently. We HEAR the sounds of
the P.A. SYSTEM droning Flight Information mingled with the
sounds of urgent SHOUTS,running FEET, EXCLAMATIONS.

YOUNG COLE'S POV: twenty yards away, a BLONDE MAN is sprawled on
the floor, blood oozing from his gaudy Hawaiian shirt.

A BRUNETTE in a tight dress, her face obscured from YOUNG COLE'S
view, rushes to the injured man, kneels beside him, ministering
to his wound.

ANGLE ON YOUNG COLE, flanked by his PARENTS, their faces out ofview, as they steer him away.

FATHER'S VOICE (o.s.)
Come on, Son --this is no place for us.

YOUNG COLE resists momentarily, mesmerized by the drama.

YOUNG COLE'S POV: intermittently visible through a confusion of
FIGURES rushing through the foreground, the BLONDE MAN reaching
up and touching the cheek of the kneelingBRUNETTE in a gesture
of enormous tenderness, a gesture of farewell, while the P.A.
SYSTEM continues its monotonous monotone...

P.A. SYSTEM
Flight 784 for San Francisco is now
ready for boarding at inmate number
66578, Greely.

INT. PRISON DORMITORY/FUTURE - ETERNAL NIGHTPRISON P.A. SYSTEM
--number 5429, Garcia -- number 87645, Cole...

COLE, late thirties, dark hair, comes awake in a bunk cage, one
of many stacked four high along both sides of a long dim
corridor. He blinks in the near dark, shaken, disoriented.

Then, as he "recovers" from his very vivid dream, WE GET OUR
FIRST LOOK AT HISENVIRONMENT...A WINDOWLESS UNDERGROUND WORLD OF
ETERNAL NIGHT SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE...AN ALMOST COLORLESS
"REALITY" OF BLURRED EDGES AND ECHOEY SOUNDS, MUCH MORE
"DREAMLIKE" THAN HIS DREAM.

Flashlights glare. In the half-light, COLE sees spooky figures,
GUARDS, moving among the locked bunk/cages.

COLE turns and whispers to the occupant of the next cage, JOSE...COLE
Ssssst! Jose, what's going on?

JOSE's face is almost lost in shadow. What there is of it is
youthful. He's just a scared Puerto Rican kid!

JOSE
"Volunteers" again.

JOSE immediately rolls over and feigns sleep as SCARFACE, a
menacing guard with a jagged scar runningdown his cheek, looms
close to COLE's cage and unlocks it.

SCARFACE
"Volunteer duty".

The PRISONERS in the other cages watch silently with narrowed eyes.

COLE
I didn't volunteer.

SCARFACE
You causing trouble again?COLE
(controls his temper)
No trouble.

INT. EQUIPMENT ROOM - ETERNAL NIGHT

COLE's alone, struggling to get into what looks like a space suit
in a room where suits hang like ghosts with blank eyes.

TITLES BEGIN SUPERED OVER THE SCENE

COLE has the torso of the suit on now and is trying to...