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EASTER PARTY
A televangelist, a powerful politician, a femme fatale media-personality --get what they want...
The flavor of the film (screenplay) is 'dark' comedy and the medium of choice would be black & white. The effect desired is one of reality (cinema verite') mixed with a deft exaggeration of style and character without being heavy-handed. The method is CAMERA as WITNESS and the film hopefully will be one of humor and substance.
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EASTER PARTY
(The Return Of Jesus)
-theFILM
Key: INT. means Interior scene, EXT. means Exterior
VO means voice over the picture.
*M.O.S. = Dialogue not audible. Supposedly from an early, German-American film director's instruction: 'Mit (sic) out sound.'
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Some time ago, in a nearly parallel universe…
INT. DAY PRIVATE OFFICE, '...MEDIA TELEVISION'
CONNIE, her sensuality unruffled, completes one phone conversation (M.O.S.) and initiates another. MUSIC. TITLES begin.
INT. DAY SMALL, CLUTTERED LIBRARY ROOM
STANLEY, examining a film-strip pauses to answer his phone. Awkwardly he knocks several manuscript pages to the floor. HE seems personable and intelligent though nervous. TITLES completes
INT. DAY LONG (WINDOWED) AIRPORT WALKWAY
Jet engine WHINE is HEARD. -CONNIE'S provocative shape is accompanied by STANLEY carrying a travel-bag. BOTH are followed dutifully by MARVIN the CAMERA-MAN who videographs this walk, focusing on CONNIE'S behind. A carnival-MUSIC interlude illustrates the comical tone of this procession.
EXT. DAY PALATIAL ESTATE
STANLEY pauses on a walkway approaching the house,
STAN
This is where Reverend Willy lives?
CONNIE
Sometimes. C'mon.
STAN
The wages of fighting sin are not humble- pie
.
CONNIE
Marvin…
(looks behind her)
Oh you shameless pig, Get a shot
of the house.
MARVIN tapes the house.
CONNIE
Give me the microphone.
You (Stan) come next to me,
Back a step, don't block the light.
STANLEY accepts CONNIE'S direction.
CONNIE
Start with just me,
--then zoom out a little.
Do you have the background?
--Are you ready?
(pauses)
Now?
CONNIE'S demeanor softens.
CONNIE
The nation's most prominent religious
leader, the televangelist Reverend
Clairbolt Willy, mentor and confidant to our
President has often said that too…
STAN
(interrupting)
Excuse me, are you going to ask me
something? I'm not prepared…
CONNIE
KER-IST!
(to Marvin)
Just get a shot of the house.
STAN
This isn't live is it?
CONNIE
No. Let's get inside.
STAN
(walking)
Why does he want to see me?
CONNIE
(walking)
To save you.
SHE stops and faces STANLEY
CONNIE
He'll probably make you an offer.
STANLEY LAUGHS gently, MARVIN surveys the grounds. A close cropped, plain-clothes SECURITY MAN stands in the sun. His eyes display an animal-like curiosity bereft of higher intelligence. The SECURITY MAN leans over and shoves a stick into an anthill, HE grins slightly. MARVIN walks to the house.
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