Excerpts from films I appreciate
The best ending in film history?
Catchline
Get busy living or get busy dying.
That is goddamn right.
296 EXT -- TRAVELING SHOT -- DAY (1967) 296
A gorgeous New England landscape whizzes by, fields and trees
a blur of motion. ANGLE SHIFTS to reveal a Greyhound Sceni-
Cruiser barreling up the road, pulling abreast of us. CAMERA
TRAVELS from window to window, passing faces. We finally come
to Red gazing out at the passing landscape.
RED (V.O.)
I find I am so excited I can barely
sit still or hold a thought in my
head. I think it is the excitement
only a free man can feel, a free
man at the start of a long journey
whose conclusion is uncertain...
297 THE BUS 297
ROARS past camera, dwindling to a mere speck on the horizon.
RED (V.O.)
I hope I can make it across the
border.
I hope to see my friend
and shake his hand.
I hope the
Pacific is as blue as it has been
in my dreams.
I hope...
298 EXT -- BEACH -- WIDE PANORAMIC SHOT -- DAY (1967) 298
A distant boat lies on its side in the sand like an old wreck
that's been left to rot in the sun. There's someone out there.
299 CLOSER ON BOAT 299
A MAN is meticulously stripping the old paint and varnish by
hand, face hidden with goggles and kerchief mask.
Red appears b.g., a distant figure walking out across the
sand, wearing his cheap suit and carrying his cheap bag.
The man on the boat pauses. Turns slowly around. Red arrives
with a smile as wide as the horizon. The other man raises his
goggles and pulls down his mask. Andy, of course.
ANDY
You look like a man who knows how
to get things.
RED
I'm known to locate certain things
from time to time.
Red shrugs off his jacket and picks up a sander. Together,
they start sanding the hull as we
FADE OUT
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