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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.

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