Troy, wearing a checked Arab headdress is paraded on WIDE, HIGH ANGLE DOLLYING CRANE OF BIG TENT CITYĭissolve to POV from chopper - night - of twinkling lights of I don't want you helping other reporters, goddamn it.įive soldiers chant Lee Greenwood's anthem, "Proud to Be An SMASH TO: Rowdy soldiers mug for Smithson's camera.Īrchie is walking off with CATHY DAITCH a young reporter. Special Forces Captain on CRUTCHES with a broken leg.Ĭlose up: portrait of a sheik on a Rolex.Ĭould I have some help over here, for Chrissakes? Jacket over Desert Storm fatigues, cleaning his eye nearbyĪ cluster of ROWDY SOLDIERS who are mugging into the camera.ĭOLLY TO ARCHIE GATES, 55, Lieutenant Colonel, Specialįorces, wearing sunglasses, talking to HAVICHON, a FRENCH PAN PAST CNN REPORTER BILL SMITHSON, 45, in white safari Stripped Iraqi soldiers lying face down in undershorts. MORE DANCING SOLDIERS, as music continues -ĭOLLY AROUND the dancing soldiers to see: hundreds of Iraqi on the road, a chopper hovering in the distance, to Soldier taking a makeshift foxhole desert bath, past a dead Storage mattresses DOLLY OUT OF THE TENT TOWN, past a Weights jogging in formation sunbathing on big water "I Just Want to Celebrate"īLARES as the CAMERA DOLLIES THROUGH the soldiers.ĭOLLY INTO TENT TOWN, past bare chested soldiers pumping free IRAQI DESERT ROAD - AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN COMBAT GEARĭance on a road in the desert. To stare at the dead Iraqi, getting their cameras out.ĮXT. Troy walks away holding his temple in pain SOLDIERS gather "I Just Want to Celebrate" by Rare Earth comes on LOUD. Vig shoves the soldier away and the two wrestle as they roll SOLDIER #7 bends next to the corpse and holds his camera out Soldiers get their cash out, Troy takes it. The Iraqi's head pops three feet into the air.Ĭarl Weathers arm is shot off and keeps firing. Troy turns, upset, murmurs "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys. Wearing Army issue glasses, out of breath. ![]() PAN TO CONRAD VIG, 18 or 20, wiry, intense, deep south, ![]() Holds the SCREAMING BABY aloft, proud and happy. DAYĪ WHITE BABY GIRL, covered in blood and placenta, is pulledįrom between the legs of Troy's WIFE, DARLENE. He is looking up at Troy, who looks down at him.įANTASY - INT. Rasping, a flag is clasped in one hand a rifle in the other. All we hear are his footsteps and breathing. Troy's LOUD BREATHING as he walks toward the big berm, and up The Iraqi soldier stands there, then his neckĮxplodes like a sack of blood. PAN BACK TO Troy, faces the CAMERA, CLOSE, scared, then turns If they surrender, don't shoot, if they don't surrender, then shoot. His head tilted back while SOLDIER #3 looks into his eye.ĬAPTAIN VAN METER, 37, crab-like, is in the far distance. PAN TO 100 yards away - ZOOM IN - SOLDIER #2 stands with TWO OTHER SOLDIERS put out their hands and get pieces of gum. SOLDIER #1 unwraps a stick of gum and puts it into his mouth. PAN TO THREE SOLDIERS 40 yards away - ZOOM IN. Turns around, we see his face for the first time. Over his head, then puts it down and picks up a gun. Troy stops in his tracks, out of breath, and staresĪt the figure on the berm. Suddenly, on the sand berm 100 meters ahead, an IRAQI SOLDIER On his helmet isĪ photo-button with a photo of a newborn baby. The back of his helmeted head and his uniformed shouldersĪPPEAR in the BOTTOM of the FRAME, running. sounds: SOLDIER'S EQUIPMENTĬLANKING, BOOTS RUNNING ON SAND. ![]() THE CAMERA is running forward, toward a big sand berm in theĭistance. WIDE ANGLE POV of wide open desert, flat grey sky. "Three Kings", shooting draft, by David O Russell THREE KINGS
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