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FADE IN:
EXT. MARINA DEL REY - DAY
It's raining lightly in the harbor and the
water around the moored boats looks dirty and
cold.
We PICK UP a sad excuse for a boat sitting in
an end slip.
It's a sea-gull-shitcovered, thirtyfoot cabin
cruiser that hasn't cruised in a long, long
time. A ratty looking unpainted plywood
addition has been nailed to the top of the
cabin. It's partially covered with a blue
plastic tarp.
SUPERIMPOSE: MARINA DEL REY, CALIFORNIA -
FALL
The tarp moves and SHANE FALCO's half-naked
torso emerges from under it. Shane is late
twenties, golden boy handsome, but quickly
going to seed. He looks hung over.
Shane glances up at the sky and rain. He
pulls on the top part of an old patched wet
suit and zips it up. He shivers.
EXT. MARINA DEL REY HARBOR - DAY
We're BUZZING around the harbor with Shane in
an old Zodiac inflatable DINGHY.
Shane has pulled up the attached rubber hood
to his wet suit so that only the white, pasty
oblong of his face is visible.
It's still raining as he steers the little
boat around the sailboats and yachts.
He pulls up to a fiftyfoot sailboat and CUTS
the ENGINE.
With practiced moves, he ties the dinghy to
the rear rail of the sailboat and clips a
bill for services rendered on the sailboat's
stern line.
He slips on a weight belt, puts on a pair of
old gaffer taped goggles, jams the end of a
air-hose in his mouth, and falls backward out
of the dinghy and into the water.
EXT. UNDERWATER - DAY
It's dark, dirty and murky. Suddenly, Shane
floats INTO FRAME and comes AT us with a long
spatula.
ANOTHER ANGLE
He attacks the underside of the sailboat
which is covered with green algae muck that
hangs a foot off the bottom of the boat.
The spatula scrapes away the green mess
revealing the pure white underside of the
boat.
CLOSE ON SHANE
As he scrapes. Muck from the boat floats
past him. This doesn't look like fun.
As he works, he happens to look down and
notices something on the bottom.
SHANE'S POV
Amidst the beer cans and other trash,
something golden is sitting on the bottom.
BACK TO SCENE
Shane takes a deep pull on his hose, lets it
go and drifts down.
A shaft of sunlight penetrates the murky
water and reveals a broken trophy half-buried
in the mud. Shane kneels over it and picks
it up.
The trophy is almost a full-size football
rendered in bronze attached to a broken base.
Shane turns "the ball" over in his hands. He
grips the seams like he's done this before.
Then he holds the football out in front of
him.
Suddenly, he starts barking garbled signals
to an imaginary offense. He turns to his
running back as he yells something like "Blue
31!" It comes out in bubbles
He cocks his left leg and his wide receiver
goes in motion.
Then on the "snap" he turns and starts a five
step drop.
He moves in slow motion because hey... he's
underwater! He executes a perfect play
action fake on the third step of his drop,
and looks "down field" for his receivers.
But there's a blitz! He steps up in the
pocket but a linebacker's arm almost takes
his head off. He dodges, he bobs, he weaves
in a kind of delicate ballet.
He rolls left and keeps looking for the open
man.
Suddenly he points down field, pulls up and
cocks his arm.
The "ball" comes behind his ear and snaps
forward in a perfect release.
The trophy spins OUT OF FRAME but we HOLD ON
Shane as he watches his pass. Suddenly, he
throws both arms up in a touchdown signal.
We STAY ON him as he freezes in this pose of
victory, fifteen feet underwater, on the
trash-covered, muddy bottom of Marina Del
Rey.
CUT TO:
EXT. EDWARD FRANCIS O'NEIL STADIUM (WASHINGTON,
D.C.) -
DAY
Bam! A Miami Dolphin linebacker crushes a
Washington Redskin running back and lands on
his throat, elbow first.
It's a beautiful fall day in November and
Miami is beating the Skins in front of
seventy-six thousand crazed Washington fans.
The Redskins are at their home stadium better
known as "The Big O."
INT. CONTROL BOOTH - DAY
JOHN MADDEN and PAT SUMMERALL are calling the
game in shirtsleeves.
SUMMERALL
That play, my friends,
sums up the Redskins'
running game all day
long. Now Washington
calls their last time
out.
Madden leans over to do his diagram that
shows up on your TV screen. We STAY ON him
as he draws and explains.
MADDEN
Hey, the Dolphins do
this as good as
anybody. See, in a
four, three, two, two,
you got the guards...
boom!... Plugging up
the middle, then the
corners... boom and
boom! Are free to
box... leaving the
middle linebacker to
cut off the trap
here... boom!
SUMMERALL
Third and twenty-two,
but forget the first
down with eight seconds
showing and the Skins
down by a touchdown.
MADDEN
Could be the last play.
SUMMERALL
Could be the last play
of the season if the
players go out.
EXT. SIDELINES - DAY
Redskin quarterback EDDIE MARTEL is
conferring with Redskin head coach BUD TILDON
near the bench. Madden and Summerall
continue OVER.
MADDEN (V.O.)
Take it all in, people.
This could be it for
2,000.
We MOVE TO veteran Redskin center REESE
EVANS, 38, standing on the sidelines, uniform
totally clean.
He looks near tears.
SUMMERALL
(V.O.)
Once again, if you
haven't heard, it was
announced during
halftime that the
N.F.L. Players
Association will hold a
press conference
immediately following
this game -- that would
make it about five
o'clock Eastern time --
and it is expected that
the players' union will
announce a strike
effective immediately.
ON REDSKINETTES
Twelve striking-looking women dressed in
burgundy and gold are doing some inane
chatter to a section of fans that ignore
them.
The girls are led by pretty ANNABELLE
FARRELL, a bundle of manic energy inside a
body from heaven.
MADDEN (V.O.)
It's all about money,
folks. More money, of
course and ain't it
always? The shame of
it is the big losers
are you out there, the
fans.
ON MARTEL
The Redskin quarterback moves to the huddle.
SUMMERALL
(V.O.)
Here we go: Third
down, eight seconds to
play, ball on the
Dolphins' thirty-three
yard line. Skins down
by a touchdown.
The huddle breaks and Martel sets up over the
center.
MARTEL
Green 48! Green 48!
Hut! Hut!
The ball is snapped and Martel drops back.
He looks for a receiver and doesn't see
anybody.
He steps up in the pocket, sees an opening
and takes off running down field.
Looking for something? Whatever it was you seek, it isn't here. While I've got you here, please enjoy the shooting script for the 1999 Keanu Reeves movie "The Replacements"
FADE IN:
EXT. MARINA DEL REY - DAY
It's raining lightly in the harbor and the
water around the moored boats looks dirty and
cold.
We PICK UP a sad excuse for a boat sitting in
an end slip.
It's a sea-gull-shitcovered, thirtyfoot cabin
cruiser that hasn't cruised in a long, long
time. A ratty looking unpainted plywood
addition has been nailed to the top of the
cabin. It's partially covered with a blue
plastic tarp.
SUPERIMPOSE: MARINA DEL REY, CALIFORNIA -
FALL
The tarp moves and SHANE FALCO's half-naked
torso emerges from under it. Shane is late
twenties, golden boy handsome, but quickly
going to seed. He looks hung over.
Shane glances up at the sky and rain. He
pulls on the top part of an old patched wet
suit and zips it up. He shivers.
EXT. MARINA DEL REY HARBOR - DAY
We're BUZZING around the harbor with Shane in
an old Zodiac inflatable DINGHY.
Shane has pulled up the attached rubber hood
to his wet suit so that only the white, pasty
oblong of his face is visible.
It's still raining as he steers the little
boat around the sailboats and yachts.
He pulls up to a fiftyfoot sailboat and CUTS
the ENGINE.
With practiced moves, he ties the dinghy to
the rear rail of the sailboat and clips a
bill for services rendered on the sailboat's
stern line.
He slips on a weight belt, puts on a pair of
old gaffer taped goggles, jams the end of a
air-hose in his mouth, and falls backward out
of the dinghy and into the water.
EXT. UNDERWATER - DAY
It's dark, dirty and murky. Suddenly, Shane
floats INTO FRAME and comes AT us with a long
spatula.
ANOTHER ANGLE
He attacks the underside of the sailboat
which is covered with green algae muck that
hangs a foot off the bottom of the boat.
The spatula scrapes away the green mess
revealing the pure white underside of the
boat.
CLOSE ON SHANE
As he scrapes. Muck from the boat floats
past him. This doesn't look like fun.
As he works, he happens to look down and
notices something on the bottom.
SHANE'S POV
Amidst the beer cans and other trash,
something golden is sitting on the bottom.
BACK TO SCENE
Shane takes a deep pull on his hose, lets it
go and drifts down.
A shaft of sunlight penetrates the murky
water and reveals a broken trophy half-buried
in the mud. Shane kneels over it and picks
it up.
The trophy is almost a full-size football
rendered in bronze attached to a broken base.
Shane turns "the ball" over in his hands. He
grips the seams like he's done this before.
Then he holds the football out in front of
him.
Suddenly, he starts barking garbled signals
to an imaginary offense. He turns to his
running back as he yells something like "Blue
31!" It comes out in bubbles
He cocks his left leg and his wide receiver
goes in motion.
Then on the "snap" he turns and starts a five
step drop.
He moves in slow motion because hey... he's
underwater! He executes a perfect play
action fake on the third step of his drop,
and looks "down field" for his receivers.
But there's a blitz! He steps up in the
pocket but a linebacker's arm almost takes
his head off. He dodges, he bobs, he weaves
in a kind of delicate ballet.
He rolls left and keeps looking for the open
man.
Suddenly he points down field, pulls up and
cocks his arm.
The "ball" comes behind his ear and snaps
forward in a perfect release.
The trophy spins OUT OF FRAME but we HOLD ON
Shane as he watches his pass. Suddenly, he
throws both arms up in a touchdown signal.
We STAY ON him as he freezes in this pose of
victory, fifteen feet underwater, on the
trash-covered, muddy bottom of Marina Del
Rey.
CUT TO:
EXT. EDWARD FRANCIS O'NEIL STADIUM (WASHINGTON,
D.C.) -
DAY
Bam! A Miami Dolphin linebacker crushes a
Washington Redskin running back and lands on
his throat, elbow first.
It's a beautiful fall day in November and
Miami is beating the Skins in front of
seventy-six thousand crazed Washington fans.
The Redskins are at their home stadium better
known as "The Big O."
INT. CONTROL BOOTH - DAY
JOHN MADDEN and PAT SUMMERALL are calling the
game in shirtsleeves.
SUMMERALL
That play, my friends,
sums up the Redskins'
running game all day
long. Now Washington
calls their last time
out.
Madden leans over to do his diagram that
shows up on your TV screen. We STAY ON him
as he draws and explains.
MADDEN
Hey, the Dolphins do
this as good as
anybody. See, in a
four, three, two, two,
you got the guards...
boom!... Plugging up
the middle, then the
corners... boom and
boom! Are free to
box... leaving the
middle linebacker to
cut off the trap
here... boom!
SUMMERALL
Third and twenty-two,
but forget the first
down with eight seconds
showing and the Skins
down by a touchdown.
MADDEN
Could be the last play.
SUMMERALL
Could be the last play
of the season if the
players go out.
EXT. SIDELINES - DAY
Redskin quarterback EDDIE MARTEL is
conferring with Redskin head coach BUD TILDON
near the bench. Madden and Summerall
continue OVER.
MADDEN (V.O.)
Take it all in, people.
This could be it for
2,000.
We MOVE TO veteran Redskin center REESE
EVANS, 38, standing on the sidelines, uniform
totally clean.
He looks near tears.
SUMMERALL
(V.O.)
Once again, if you
haven't heard, it was
announced during
halftime that the
N.F.L. Players
Association will hold a
press conference
immediately following
this game -- that would
make it about five
o'clock Eastern time --
and it is expected that
the players' union will
announce a strike
effective immediately.
ON REDSKINETTES
Twelve striking-looking women dressed in
burgundy and gold are doing some inane
chatter to a section of fans that ignore
them.
The girls are led by pretty ANNABELLE
FARRELL, a bundle of manic energy inside a
body from heaven.
MADDEN (V.O.)
It's all about money,
folks. More money, of
course and ain't it
always? The shame of
it is the big losers
are you out there, the
fans.
ON MARTEL
The Redskin quarterback moves to the huddle.
SUMMERALL
(V.O.)
Here we go: Third
down, eight seconds to
play, ball on the
Dolphins' thirty-three
yard line. Skins down
by a touchdown.
The huddle breaks and Martel sets up over the
center.
MARTEL
Green 48! Green 48!
Hut! Hut!
The ball is snapped and Martel drops back.
He looks for a receiver and doesn't see
anybody.
He steps up in the pocket, sees an opening
and takes off running down field.
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