Screenplay Examples

Screenplay for Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino,1997) Opening Credits:

OPENING CREDITS

INT. LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DAY

We hear the rhythm of funky seventies SOUL MUSIC.

Then SHE steps into FRAME.

She is JACKIE BROWN, a stewardess dressed in her CABO AIR uniform.  (A
little shuttle airline that flies from Los Angeles to Cabo San Lucas.
Approximate flight time: forty five minutes)

Jackie stands still as a people-mover slowly inches her through the
airport.  The CREDITS APPEAR and DISAPPEAR in front of her.

Jackie Brown is a very attractive black woman in her mid forties, though
she looks like sheís in her midthirties.

The people-mover reaches the end of the line, she steps off.

She breezes through Customs and we follow her with a STEDICAM as she
strides through the airport.. She gets to her gate disappears inside the
plane for a moment comes back out sans flight bag picks up the
microphone.

JACKIE
(into mike)
Flight 710 Cabo San Lucas, now boarding Gate 12, first class
only.

With a smile on her face, she collects passengers' boarding passes as
they board the plane.

FADE TO BLACK



Screenplay for American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) 'Bar Scene':

INT. NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT

Bateman saunters toward the bar as "Pump Up the Volume"
plays in the background.

BATEMAN (to BARGIRL) Two Stoli on the rocks.

He hands her two drink tickets.

BARGIRL
It's after eleven. Those aren't good anymore. It's
a cash bar. That'll be twenty-five dollars.

Bateman pulls out an expensive-looking wallet and hands her
a $50.

She turns her back and searches the cash register for
change.

BATEMAN You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to
death and then play around with your blood.

The music muffles his voice. She turns around. He is
smiling at her. She gives him his change impassively.