tickets spill from the outer compartment. ticket attached from the previous flight.ĮXTREMELY CLOSE - THE AIRLINE BAGGAGE MARKERĪs Barbara picks up the suitcase to place it on the floor. Barbara reaches in to tear off an airline baggage I.D.

Alex's father, KEN BROWNING, 48 appears, leaning against the door threshold, smiling enviously at his son.Īlex nods and buckles it. The Fighting Colonials!'Īlex's mother, BARBARA, 45, walks in, excited and a bit anxious.īarbara moves towards the suitcase to help him pack. One the wall amongst Yankee and Knicks posters, hangs a pennant of the MAIN TITLE.ĬAMERA ADJUSTS, to fully reveal Alex Browning as he turns toward the bedroom door. A pilgrim has spray painted 'This is the End.' Which in fact, it is. Jim Morrison's decorated tomb in the Cemetiere du Pere Lachaise. The boy's figure passes, blocking the breeze.

There is more of a hint of conincidence as the blades whirl and head swivels. Bonaventura.ĬAMERA CREEPS IN, teasingly on the dark faced corpse.

upon a Louvre masterpiece, Francisco de Zurbarans Lying-in-the State of St. The fan head swivels away, allowing the pages to settle. Alex's faint shadow continues moving about the room. Swivels, returning towards the guidebook on the bed.įLIP. Stop flipping, REVEALING A GULLOTINE from the Reign of Terror.Īs an American passport is dropped beside the guidebook. CAMERA PUSHES IN ON THE BOOK as the fan's breezes flip through the pages. The figure of a seventeen year old boy, ALEX BROWNING, packing for a trip, passing the fan.Ī Paris guidebook is tossed atop the plane ticket. Outside, a humid spring THUNDER STORM drops warm, ominous rain. 'And When I Die' Continues throughout the MAIN TITLES: New York City (JFK) - Paris, Charles de Gaulle (CDG.) Departure: Thursday 13May. ALEX'S BEDROOM - NIGHT - CLOSE - BEDĪn airline ticket is tossed INTO FRAME beside a suitcase 'EURO-AIR. The BLACK SILENT SCREEN senses this moment before a distant blues harp introduces a contemporary band's cover of Blood, Sweat, and Tears' campy, yet haunting, gospel, 'And When I Die.'Īs the Introduction closes, RESONATES. Awaiting.each of us a place.ĭeny its finality.

Final destination the devil