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IanEye · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 2230

FADE IN:

1 INT. CHANCE'S ROOM - DAWN

A large-screen color TV dominates a room sparsely decorated
with expensive furniture of the twenties. There are no
books, magazines, newspapers to be seen. A man, CHANCE, is
in bed, sleeping. His eyes slowly open, and, with no change
of expression, he sits up and turns on the TV with a remote
control. He reaches for a pocketwatch on the bedside table,
and, as he looks at it, the watch chimes. He gets out of
bed, crosses to the closet, his eyes never straying from the
TV. Chance puts on a bathrobe and leaves the room.

2 INT. POTTING ROOM - DAWN

The room is filled with the tools of a gardener. Chance enters
and turns on a 1940's black and white TV that sits on a shelf.
A wheel with colored gels spins in front of the set, giving
an early form of color television. He waters a few of the plants
in the potting room as he watches TV.

3 INT. GARAGE - DAWN

Chance, with a dust rag and feather duster, cleans off a 1935
limousine, in perfect condition.

4 INT. CHANCE'S ROOM - DAWN

Chance takes off his robe, hangs it in the closet, changes
channels on the TV, then goes into the bathroom.

5 EXT. GARDEN - MORNING

A light snow is falling in a garden between a three-story
brick townhouse and a one-story rear building, guarded on
either side by a high brick wall. The door to the rear
building opens, Chance peeks out, then goes back inside. A
moment passes and Chance reappears, this time with an
umbrella. Smartly attired in suit and tie, Chance, with an
eye on the garden, crosses to the townhouse.

6 INT. TOWN HOUSE - REAR ENTRANCE/HALLWAY - MORNING

Chance enters, hangs his umbrella on a door knob, then
crosses through the hall. As he goes, we reveal that the
furniture in the house is covered with sheets.

7 INT. TOWN HOUSE - DINING ROOM - MORNING

A large table, covered with a sheet except for two place-
settings. A TV is on the table. Chance comes into the
room, sits and turns on the television. He watches the
screen for a moment, then turns, as if expecting someone.
No one appears, so he turns back to the TV. After a time.
footsteps are heard and Chance smiles. LOUISE, an elderly
Black maid, hurries into the room, visibly distraught.

CHANCE
Good morning, Louise.

LOUISE
(out of breath)
He's dead, Chance! The Old Man's
dead!

CHANCE
(flatly, turns
back to TV)
...I see.
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erosoplier · Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 1235

Sorry to begin the discussion with a technical issue...

I've wanted to watch this movie ever since Morris Berman mentioned it in one of his books, but video stores in the southern hemisphere simply don't do movies like this, as far as I'm aware, and Secret's Rapidshare link doesn't work for me...

Anybody got any ideas? Has anyone successfully used that Rapidshare link? Is it just me?

Seamus OBlimey · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2623 Location: Gods own country

Rapidshare worked fine for me. Did you copy and paste the links, wait the required time, enter the code and click all the right butttons?

I'd like to know what happened to my last post on the other thread.

IanEye · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 2230

brainpanhandler · Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 2073

Seamus,

I figured it was some cryptic nonmessage message. Maybe you somehow picked white as a font color? It is an option and a fun one.
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Jeff · Site Admin Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 6776

Seamus OBlimey · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2623 Location: Gods own country

That's the one, Ian.

It was an image with a link to a youtube clip, just a hat-tip to Pan as thanks for a great tale. It worked fine last night then I come home today to find a blank post. WTF? It's not a broken link as not even an image holder shows. Have I upset someone (again)?. I dunno, but if I'm being censored I'd like to know why.

I know I can be cryptic at times but this is RI right?

erosoplier · Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 1235

Seamus OBlimey · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2623 Location: Gods own country

Seamus OBlimey · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2623 Location: Gods own country

erosoplier · Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 1235

Thanks Seamus!

§ê¢rê†§ · Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 880 Location: Cascadia

Rapidshare worked for me... if you are impatient to wait, you can 1) Close all your browser windows 2) Delete all your cookies 3) Reset your Internet broadband modem (or dial in). Then you'll have a new IP and won't have to wait. When you are all done, you will need Winrar to unpackage (which can be found as a free, basically unlimited trial - no spyware). And the provided password, which is just "demy" (without quotes or word CODE). Finally, if you have trouble playing the file, try VideoLan, a freeware video player that will play anything.

I watched it and really enjoyed it. Haven't seen it since High School. Will try and write something up soon.

erosoplier · Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 1235

I can't seem to avoid the waiting period, but I'm up to number 5 now...I just hope it'll play for me after all this effort!

streeb · Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 615 Location: Vancouver, BC

The very first thing Sellers does is a couple of seconds of Goonish mugging when he first wakes up. I've probably watched Being There about half a dozen times over the years, and I'm an enormous Peter Sellers fan (I was quite obsessed with him for a while), and it never occurred to me before that he might be signaling his departure from the expected with that little sequence ie. don't count on a typical Sellers performance from here in. Check his expression just before he stands up to brush his hair.

Not exactly the type of observation that's going to lead anywhere, but it leapt out at me and I wanted to mention it.

IanEye · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 2230

this pdf file has some interesting thoughts on the cinematic relationship between Kubrick and Ashby:

http://www.jeffreyscottbernstein.com/kubrick/images/BeingEWS.pdf