GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source
GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source
GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source
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2.<br />
A BARREN, EMPTY LANDSCAPE<br />
Next to descend from the sky, a torrent of firewood. One<br />
shower after another, crashing to the plain. Enough chopped<br />
lumber to fuel a thousand hearths.<br />
A BARREN, EMPTY LANDSCAPE<br />
DISSOLVE TO:<br />
Joining the rest of the debris is a deluge of slate - sheets<br />
of shale from a great unseen quarry in the sky come slamming<br />
to earth. Some of the pieces shattering, some rebounding<br />
into the air until the granite litters acres of landscape as<br />
far as the eye can see.<br />
TITLES ARE SPACED APPROPRIATELY THROUGHOUT THE PRECEDING<br />
SEQUENCE. THE FINAL TITLE READS:<br />
<strong>The</strong> camera commences a long, slow pull-back from the pile of<br />
elephant tusks. Gradually they are revealed as human<br />
fingernails magnified many hundreds of times.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tree trunks are mere hair follicles. <strong>The</strong> firewood,<br />
whiskers. <strong>The</strong> slate, flakes of skin.<br />
INT. INCINERATOR. EARLY MORNING.<br />
A naked MAN, thirties, seen in profile, is crouched upon a<br />
metal floor inside a small, brushed stainless steel tank,<br />
rubbing his skin raw with a wire brush. JEROME MORROW.<br />
Having completed his scrupulous ablutions, Jerome arches his<br />
lean frame through the small, oval door of the metal room<br />
with practised ease.<br />
Securing the thick, fireproof windowed door behind himself,<br />
he turns a switch to release gas into the vacated chamber.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gas instantly ignites in what is now revealed to be a<br />
gleaming modern stainless-steel custom-made incinerator.<br />
We refocus on a MAGNIFIED CLOSE UP of his exfoliated flesh in<br />
the incinerator as it blackens, curls and burns.<br />
Jerone covers himself with a silk robe and steps into a pair<br />
of backless slippers.<br />
INT. EUGENE'S CONDOMINIUM. EARLY MORNING.<br />
JEROME emerges from the incinerator room into a large,<br />
luxurious loft-style condo containing a bizarre assortment of<br />
equipment -arranged somewhat like a production line.