GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source

5.
INT. GATTACA AEROSPACE CORPORATION. DAY.
JEROME strides purposefully up to the entranceway with
hundreds of other GATTACA EMPLOYEES. He carries himself with
a certain arrogance, a cool detachment. All employees wear
similarly unconventionally-cut suits, short coiffed hair and
robust tans. The Gattaca employees are a seemingly equal
split of men and women and a diverse range of ethnicities.
They filter through a row of channels supervised by SECURITY
GUARDS. Each channel contains a computerized security
device, featuring a slim groove in which the employee places
a finger under the watchful eye of a Security Guard.
Jerome gives a polite nod to a Guard as he places his index
finger in the groove. His fingertip is jabbed with the
finest of needles and a minute blood sample taken.
The blood specimen confirms Jerome's identity - an ID
photograph appearing on a computer screen.
Out of the corner of his eye, Jerome spies a young woman
entering through the adjacent channel. She is also sneaking
a glance in his direction - IRENE. Catching each other
looking, they both quickly avert their eyes.
As Jerome enters the computer facility of Gattaca Aerospace
Corporation he furtively glances at the pin-prick puncture in
his fingertip sachet.
SOMEWHERE IN DEEP SPACE
A GATTACA spacecraft skirts an asteroid. Taking advantage of
the rock's gravitational pull, the craft slingshots deeper
into the black void. Then abruptly the craft and the
asteroid freeze in mid-space, suddenly reverse direction and
proceed forward again - the spacecraft taking a slightly
adjusted course.
We pull back to reveal that the journey is merely a highly
realistic graphic representation on a GATTACA computer screen
operated by JEROME.
Appearing simultaneously alongside the computer animation is
a seemingly never-ending column of computer instructions for
this celestial navigation - the incomprehensible language of
the computer programmer.
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