Return to Eden: Script Page 7 - Fin

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WS of the CAPTAIN as he turns to look back towards the ship. He shakes his head and then looks back towards ADAM and EVE. He looks at his blade and continues toward them.

Plants shoot out like tentacles and wrap around the CAPTAINS legs.

The CAPTAIN looks down in fear and amazement. He then hacks at the plants with his machete to try and free himself.

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CAPTAINS POV as plants wrap around his arms. He struggles with the rapid growth that is engulfing him.

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CAPTAIN

(Screams off screen)

MS of ADAM and EVE as they react startled to the CAPTAINS screams.

ADAM and EVE jump up.

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WS of the topiary that is now where the CAPTAIN used to be. The only thing left of him is his machete sticking out of the tall, dense group of plants.

ADAM and EVE enter from the left and look around. Their eyes rest on the machete.

EVE turns and buries her head in ADAMS' chest. ADAM clenches her eyes shut and averts them.

CREW

(Large number of screams off screen, then silence)

ADAM and EVE look anxiously toward the landing area. They exit the scene to the left in a hurry to see what has happened.

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EWS of the ship and the encampment as ADAM and EVE emerge from the woods. The entire camp and ship are engulfed completely in vegetation. There are people shaped topiaries and machinery. The ship is completely covered in vegetation.

ZOOM IN to a TWO SHOT of ADAM and EVE as they look around in bewilderment. They slowly realize that they had been spared to live.

ARCH camera around 180 degrees and track ADAM and EVE as they take each other by the hand and walk off into the woods. The plants close the opening to the woods behind them.

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PLANTS

(High pitched screams)

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CU of the CAPTAIN as he weighs the decision to investigate the screams or continue on towards ADAM and EVE.

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WS of ADAM and EVE making love with branches and leaves blocking any vital areas from view. Plants turn toward them as if watching.

ADAM and EVE

(Playful giggling kissing sounds)

PLANTS

(Very warm low-pitched wiring buzz sound)

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MS of the CAPTAIN as he stops at the edge of the clearing. He moves a branch out of the way to watch ADAM and EVE.

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MS of bulldozer and it's driver as the surrounding vegetation turns sharply.

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CU of a group of flowers turns sharply towards the bulldozer.

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CU of the CAPTAIN as he looks on at ADAM and VE with an angry look on his face. He looks at his blade and then to ADAM and EVE. He then starts to move toward them.

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WS of ADAM and EVE making love. The plants surrounding them turn their attention away to the right, in the direction of the CAPTAIN.

CREW

(Distant Screams off screen)

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MS of ADAM and EVE playing in the woods. ADAM is getting closer to catching EVE. As they go, the plants part way to let them go through and then turn as if to look at them. This goes unnoticed by either one of them.

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EWS of the crew and machineries starting to cut down trees to make a larger clearing.

PLANTS

(Buzzing sounds get high pitched)

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MS of the CAPTAIN as he trudges through the woods. The plants don't move out of his way but make his passing more difficult. The CAPTAIN uses his machete to hack and cut his way through the plants.

PLANTS

(Very high-pitched buzzing with each cut)

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MS of ADAM and EVE as ADAM catches her in a small clearing. ADAM takes EVE down on a bed of moss.

ZOOM IN as they kiss.

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CU of the CAPTAIN with a very determined look on his face as he moves forward.

CREW

(Very high-pitched screams off screen)

The CAPTAIN stops and looks back toward the ship and encampment.

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WS of a bulldozer knocking over some trees. There are other felled trees in the area.

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FBS of the CAPTAIN emerging from the ship. He surveys the activity and then out of the corner of his eye he notices ADAM and EVE entering the woods.

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WS of ADAM and EVE entering the woods.

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ECU of the CAPTAIN'S face in shame and then anger. The CAPTAIN shakes his head to clear his thoughts and then climbs a run latter to the top of the ship to watch his crew set up.

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CAPTAINS' POV of people with supplies and machinery of loading and beginning to set up camp.

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WS of ADAM and EVE running in, out and around trees with ADAM trying to catch EVE. EVE is playfully toying with ADAM.

ADAM and EVE

(Laughing sounds)

PLANTS

(Buzzing takes a deeper tone)

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CU of a flower as EVE runs past. The flower's head truns as if watching EVE.

FLOWER

(Warm buzzing sound)

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OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT of the CAPTAIN looking at the progress made by his crew setting up camp. People are setting up tents and small portable shacks. They are loading them with supplies.

The CAPTAIN looks back over his shoulder at the camera with an evil smile.

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FADE OUT

FADE IN

EXT. PLANET SURFACE

EWS panoramic view of a beautifully lush green planet with dashes of reds and yellows. Colors used here are warm with full saturation.

PLANTS

(Barely audible buzzing sound for duration of film)

The ship flies past (above) the camera darkening the view within it's shadow.

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BIRDS EYE VIEW of the ship landing on a plateau with forest covering ¾ of it and all around the base as far as the eye can see.

PLANTS

(Pitch of buzzing gets slightly higher)

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WS of the base of the ship on the ground. Several gangplanks are lowered with bursts of steam/smoke. Dozens of people start streaming out of each opening with supplies and machinery.

PLANTS

(Pitch of buzzing gets slightly higher)

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ZOOM IN to a MS of ADAM and EVE as they emerge from the ship.

ARC camera around to an OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT between ADAM and EVE.

ARC camera around 180 degrees to a TWO SHOT of ADAM and EVE as they get a playful look in their eyes. EVE runs down the plank playfully looking back over her shoulder at ADAM.

ZOOM OUT to a FULL BODY SHOT and TRACK ADAM as he follows eagerly in a game of “I'm going to get-cha.”

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CU of the CAPTAINS' face as his attention is diverted from the clipboard to someone entering the bridge.

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MS of ADAM and EVE entering the bridge. ADAM and EVE are bathed in warm light, more top lit than the other as if in devine light. EVE looks at the main screen and gets giddy with excitement and hugs ADAM. ADAM looks proudly at the screen and then lovingly at EVE.

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ECU of CAPTAINS' face casting an agitated look toward th couple. He is obviously trying to hide his feeling and control his expression.

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MS of ADAM as he turns right to look at the CAPTAIN whose features change quickly to a smile just before he turns away.

TRACK ADAM as he walks over to the CAPTAIN for a TWO SHOT.

ADAM embraces the CAPTAIN with a brotherly hug. The CAPTAIN returns the gesture while looking over ADAM'S shoulder at EVE.

ADAM and the CAPTAIN step back from each other and ADAM pats the CAPTAIN on the back while gesturing toward the screen. ADAM is obviously happy for the CAPTAIN.

The CAPTAIN gives an annoyed glance over his shoulder at the back pat. The CAPTAIN nods at the gesture to the screen and then turns his back to ADAM to continue reviewing the information that was brought to him.

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MS of ADAM as he looks over to EVE who has a concerned look on her face. EVE

'S expression turns to a smile quickly.

TRACK ADAM as he walks back over to EVE. They look at each other fondly and then back to the screen. EVE briefly glances over at the CAPTAIN, Looses her smile, and then looks back at the planet on the screen. She smiles again but not as big as before.

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POV of ADAM/EVE looking at the view screen. A lush green and blue planet with red and yellow highlights fill the screen as the ship begins it's orbit.

FADE OUT

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No Such Animal Studios
Ph'Kaki Entertainment
Edward Patrick Ezju kranz
06.25.01
Rough Draft
Last to Edit: Ezju
07.26.01

Return to Eden

FADE IN:

INT. BRIDGE OF STAR SHIP

ESTABLISHING SHOT

The bridge of the ship is set up like a modern nuclear submarine with tight quarters. The crew is at their respective stations. It is dark and dank with cool low saturated blue and green ambient light. Most of the lighting is coming from the monitors and main view panel. Everyone seems bottom lit.

ALARM
An alert sounds off

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MS of HELMSMAN as she checks her instruments and then with an excited look gives the thumbs up that this is the planet they have been looking for.

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MS of the SCIENCE OFFICER looking at his monitor.

ARC the camera around to an OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT of the SCIENCE OFFICER looking at the monitor.

ZOOM OUT as the SCIENCE OFFICER turns toward the camera. He is smiling and nodding in agreement as he looks over to the CAPTAIN.

PAN LEFT to the CAPTAIN gesturing for the HELMSMAN to take the ship in.

Zoom OUT to WS of the bridge alive with excited activity as an OFFICER brings the CAPTAIN some information to review.

Return to Eden Starting Monday July 13th 2009

Return to Eden is a 8 - 10 minute scrip I wrote back in 2001. This is the original rough draft. This was intended to become a short animation piece for my portfolio and with some adjustments and feed back from everyone it may just become that some 8 years later.

There will be 7 pages to this script posted one a day from July 13th through the 19th.

On the 20th there will be a PDF available on http://www.prose.nosuchanimal.net for download. Much easier to read complete and in order. All of my writings will be posted at this address.

Enjoy!

- Ezju

Stirn: Page 3

Now at four o'clock in the morning, early summer, 60 miles from Seattle, Stirn read a book to keep "dead or alive" off his mind. He couldn't sleep. Not that he slept much in the first place. The book was just occupying his mind until sun up which was coming soon. He could see light now through the canopy though it was about an hour earlier then he had expected.

The light, getting brighter by the moment came crashing down through the canopy with a tremendous crack and stopped two hundred yards away from Stirn and his book. Looking up from the book, Stirn forgot about "dead or alive."

On the fairy . . .
Pfleshie the 3AM Man was the title. Stirn had found this juvenile attempt at low brow comedic adult fiction along side rout 8 some 10 miles outside of Port Angeles, WA. The cover was deceptively will designed with a film noiresq scene of the hero, Pfleshie, masked in the warehouse shadows watching men unload an ominous crate to the dock. It had the distinct feel of a Mickey Spelain novel. Pfleshie was clad in a black cap and yellow raincoat.

Not the type of reading material Stirn usually enjoyed on the extremely rare occasion he had the time but it was there on the roadside and free. He picked it up and read the cover flaps while keeping a standard army cadence stride.

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Stirn learned some other interesting facts at a visitor center near the Hall of Mosses, a short, popular trail. The Hoh is protected from commercial exploration though between the park boundary and the Pacific Ocean, 48 km of river; nearly all of the forest has been logged within the last century. By comparison to the rest of the year, summers in the Hoh are relatively dry with an annual precipitation raging from 3.6 to 4.2 m (12 to 14 feet). Floods in the late fall, winter and spring cause the Hoh River regularly erodes it's banks, changes it's course, and deposits freshly traces of alluvium that are soon colonized by Red Alder.

Stirn loved the Pacific Northwest with its lush green foliage and moody weather that seemed to match his soul. The mountains, volcanoes, temperate rainforests, access to the ocean, lakes, and valleys in the region provided a peaceful retreat from his life in New York. Despite all of the serenity Stirn missed two things most of the Northwest lacked. Peek fall colors and fireflies.

As a kid, Stirn would read comic books to a full jar of adjusted lightning bugs much like he’s reading a book now with a flashlight. Not as romantic but then again Stirn was not necessarily in the Ho Rainforest due to romantic ideas. He was there hiding from someone. Someone who was very good at her job and her job was to find Stirn dead or alive. While being a spy makes for a very romantic notion in the movies the "dead or alive" aspect of it negated any thrill Stirn got from his job.

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"Lavishly entangled words of enlightenment, the eloquence of deceit." These were the first words of the new book Stirn was reading. Stirn thought the writer, an obscure Northwest self-proclaimed artist and author, chose these words deliberately to grab the readers attention. Not so different than Charles Dickens did in his 1858 novel A Tale of Two Cities with the opening "It was the best of times it was the worst of times . . . "

Little did he know, the writer did exactly that. He had written those very words some 20 years earlier with the intention of using them in a poem. At the time, 20 years ago, the writer had no idea where to go with the quote. Like so many great ideas the poem was shelved and eventually forgot until the writer needed an attention grabbing opening for the book Stirn was now reading at four o’clock in the morning somewhere beneath the temperate Hoh Rain forest canopy.

The Hoh Rain Forest, located in the Olympic National Park on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington is one of the few temperate rainforests in the world. Native fauna such as Roosevelt elk, Northern Spotted Owls, Black bears, Raccoons, and the Pacific Tree Frog find refuge among the dominant Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock. Other species providing homes throughout the forest are the Coast Douglas-fir, Western Redcedar, Bigleaf Maple, Red Alder, Vine Maple and Black Cottonwood.