Same old syndrome. It's Friday night. I'm at work (I work Friday nights from 8pm to 8am). Thus far, it's a particularly slow night. Trouble is, ILX slows the fuck down on Friday nights too....(everyone's out having a life, I guess). If things don't pick up, I'll be forced to start a lot of dumb threads on ILM like
Album Covers with Veal Parmesan On'em or
Vanilla Ice: POX.
What I'm saying is: what do you do when ILX isn't the buzzing hive of amusing activity it is earlier in the day?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 September 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)
FADE IN:
1. EXT. NEW YORK - LIBERTY ISLAND - DAY
The STATUE OF LIBERTY stands watch at the mouth of the Hudson. Over
scene, we SUPER TITLE:
NEW YORK CITY - JULY 1976
2. JERSEY CITY PIER - DAY
A live news update. Network correspondent CINDY CHAN stands at the
edge of the dock, the statue plainly visible in the distance behind
her.
CINDY
-- insist that the situation is under control. Authorities have just
agreed to the release of nine Radical Front prisoners in hopes of
freeing the hostages.
(adjusting her hair)
We repeat: terrorists have taken Liberty Island, and are holding some
forty hostages -- including tourists and maintenance workers --
captive in the Statue of Liberty itself.
3. FERRYBOAT - DAY
The ferry -- one of six anchored a half-mile off Liberty Island --
has been commandeered by a fully-armed SWAT TEAM. The SWAT CAPTAIN,
who's in charge of negotiations, speaks to the terrorists via
walkie-talkie.
SWAT CAPTAIN
Your demands have been met. The prisoners and the money are on their
way. If you tune your TV to Channel 4 you'll see the copters
preparing for takeoff.
4. INT. STATUE - THAT MOMENT
The screen of a portable TV shows THREE HELICOPTERS lifting off from
Laguardia. We're in the OBSERVATION ROOM inside the statue's head.
A TERRORIST holds a crowd of SQUEALING TOURISTS -- men, women,
schoolchildren -- at bay with an automatic rifle. Two others stand
by the windows, scanning the harbor for signs of a double-cross; and
a fourth, the RINGLEADER, speaks into a walkie-talkie.
RINGLEADER
Good. We got forty innocent people here. One false move . . . and
we blow her brains out.
SWAT CAPTAIN (O.S.)
(filter; from walkie-talkie)
Blow whose brains out?
5. EXT. STATUE - THAT MOMENT
TIGHT on the ring of OBSERVATION WINDOWS situated just below the
jutting spikes of the CROWN. CAMERA PULLS BACK rapidly to take in
the whole of the statue's head.
RINGLEADER (O.S.)
(a nasty laugh)
Lady Liberty, my friend. Lady Liberty's brains!
6. EXT. FERRY - THAT MOMENT - DAY
MOUNTING TENSION among the SWAT TEAM on deck.
SWAT COP
Sons of bitches.
SWAT CAPTAIN
Relax. We'll nail 'em on the transfer. Let's get those hostages out
first.
SWAT COP II
Captain . . . what the hell is that?
All eyes turn upward. In the distance, a TINY SPECK descends from
the clouds and drops, in a perfectly vertical line, toward the head
of the statue. The SWAT CAPTAIN hoists a pair of binoculars:
SWAT CAPTAIN
Shit. Shit fire!!
SWAT COP
Sir! What is it?
7. POV SHOT - THROUGH BINOCULARS
A magnified view of the SPECK, which turns out to be a futuristic,
blimplike HOVERCRAFT -- the OWLSHIP.
SWAT CAPTAIN (O.S.)
Christ almighty, it's the goddamned Watchmen!
― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 11 September 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)
Friday nights rarely seem slow to me, though maybe the reason why that's so is because from Monday - Thursday I don't spent the amount of time here on ILX that I'd like to spend. Oh yeah, and because I'm also usually flipping back and forth between this and whatever's on TV that catches my fancy. And I don't have all night to spend on this. So I guess it's nothing like your situation.
Plus, you've been here a lot longer than I have, so you would probably not get as excited over an old thread that suddenly gets revived as I usually do. Hm. Hmm. Hmmmm.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 11 September 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)