Daniel Brizuela 11/16/12 New York Film Academy 1st Year Screenplay
1st Quarter 3rd Film: First Semester.
Kung Fu Cards
1 INT. BUILDING-AFTERNOON 1
FADE IN
A MAN IS SITTING on a chair on a table, he’s reading a book while the chair in front of him is empty. Suddenly a hand grabbed the other chair and pulled it back.
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The first man looks at the the second man as the second man sits down on the chair. The second man then notices the first man looking at him.
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SECOND MAN
Are you ready?
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FIRST MAN
Of course---
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FIRST MAN
I am---
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FIRST MAN
You fool. Ha ha ha.
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The second man gets out UNO cards from his pocket and puts it in the middle of the table. The first man shuffles the deck of cards for a few seconds before setting it back on the table.
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The first man draws five cards from the deck.
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The second man draws five cards from the deck.
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FIRST MAN (dialogue not in synch)
Drawwww!
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The second man puts down a RED 7.
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The first man puts a BLUE 7 then a GREEN 7.
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The second man looks at his cards and doesn’t see any cards to put in the middle. He draws a card from the deck. The card is a BLUE 8. He draws again. The card is a GREEN DRAW 2.
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The second man laughs.
SECOND MAN (excited)
Youu! Aree! Doooomeed!
The second man puts the DRAW 2 down.
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Just as the DRAW 2 was put down, the first man immediately raised one of his hands with a YELLOW DRAW 2 in it. Lighting appeared out of nowhere.
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The first man puts the card down.
FIRST MAN (dialogue not in synch)
Enjoy the ice cream!
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The second man puts a card down. The first man draws twice, then he puts two cards in a row down.
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The first man puts a GREEN SKIP card down. The second man immediately puts a BLUE SKIP card to counter the first man’s skip.
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The first man looks at the other in anger. It looks like he’s about to yell at him but all that comes out of his mouth are lion roars.
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The two men are staring at each other. All of a sudden a stranger appears.
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The stranger looked at the two men with a smile.
STRANGER
So did, like, anyone order a pizza?
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SECOND MAN
No. But where’s the pizza?
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STRANGER
Like, I don’t know.
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The two men got up and after a few seconds lifter there hands as fist and got it near the stranger’s face.
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WORDS IN THE BLACK BACKGROUND
Due to the violent nature of the next few seconds, please enjoy this instead.
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WORDS
Almost done folks. Holly molly, oh the humanity. Oh God.
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WORDS
All right folks, I think it’s safe now to continue with the film. We are sorry for what happened,
but it is what it is.
CUT BACK TO WIDE SHOT OF TWO MEN PLAYING UNO
The two men were once again playing UNO, all without any signs of the stranger. The first man put down a card, then the second man put down another.
CUT TO POV SHOT OF SECOND MAN IN BLACK AND WHITE AND SILENT
The second man looks at the first. He tells the second something that is very long.
FIRST MAN (WHAT’S SHOWN IN TITLE CARD)
I’ll win!
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The second man looks at the first man, then at his cards, then he turns his eyes towards the side.
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The second man looks back at his cards.
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SECOND MAN (dialogue not in synch)
I.Will. Beat. Youuuu!
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The first man laughs and says something very short.
FIRST MAN (what’s actually heard)
You will lose! It’s in your nature! Pancakes!
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All of a sudden, the game starts to get really intense as they both put several cards down in a row, draw cards from the deck, and try to beat each other.
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Both of them keep on drawing and drawing from the deck, so much so that there are only a small amount of cards left to draw.
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As the stack of cards to draw is getting smaller, the stack of cards put down increases.
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The pile of cards put down is getting bigger and bigger as both men put one card after another. Eventually, they both end up with one card each.
FIRST AND SECOND MAN
Unoooo!
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The two men look at each other and then the cards they’re holding.
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They both decide to quickly put their cards down at the same time.
CUT TO CAMERA FOLLOWING THEIR HANDS IN SLOW MOTION
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Both the first and second man’s cards landed at the same time.
CUT TO REACTIONS OF BOTH FIRST AND SECOND MAN
CUT TO STOCK FOOTAGE OF AN ATOMIC EXPLOSION
FADE OUT
END.
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