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You want to see what it takes to make real magic- go to the Tenley.There's a Chinaman there who's got what it takes.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Chung Ling Soo.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 24 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Tickets are pricey.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 25 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I know a lad on the door.\tYou two watch his show- whoever tells me how he does his goldfish bowl trick gets the prize.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 26 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Which is?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 27 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Ten minutes onstage in front of my old friend, Mr.Ackerman.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 29 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Who's Ackerman?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Julia", "order": 31 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The most powerful theatrical agent in London.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 32 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I saw you drop the knot again, Borden.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 34 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I think I had my wrist turned-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Julia", "order": 35 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(ignoring Julia)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Some nights you just can't get it, can you?\tIf that knot slips when Julia's on the hoist she'll break a leg.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 36 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(defensive)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It's the wrong knot.\tA Langford double would hold tighter.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 37 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The Langford double's not a wet knot it's too dangerous. 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Borden is in the middle of a passionate rant-", "order": 0 }, { "content": "They turn.\tCutter stands in the doorway, counting out money.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Cutter hands Angier some money.", "order": 12 }, { "content": "Cutter looks at Borden, thoughtful.", "order": 20 }, { "content": "Cutter gives a sly smile.", "order": 28 }, { "content": "Angier and Borden prick up at the name.", "order": 30 }, { "content": "Cutter holds out money to Borden, who reaches for it- Cutter grabs his wrist.\tSerious.", "order": 33 }, { "content": "Julia glances at Angier.", "order": 42 }, { "content": "Borden stares at Cutter.\tLeaves.\tAngier watches him go.", "order": 44 }, { "content": "Angier nods.\tFair enough.", "order": 47 }, { "content": "Julia kisses Angier.\tCutter rises.", "order": 58 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 477, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.028305785123966934 }, { "verbosity": 316, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 1403, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.03962962962962964 }, { "verbosity": 179, "name": "Julia", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Angier", "Cutter", "Julia" ], "story_order": 1, "heading": "INT. 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Virgil takes the flower from his lapel, covers it with the shawl, and SNAPS it away- the flower has become the CANARY.The audience bursts into enthusiastic APPLAUSE, but the little boy is still CRYING INCONSOLABLY.\tVirgil takes bows andwalks off, handing Borden the canary as he passes backstage. As the audience leaves, Borden climbs off the stage and hols the bird in front of the boy.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden is at a loss.\tHe turns to the young woman.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Borden smiles back.", "order": 6 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 52, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.2857142857142857 }, { "verbosity": 24, "name": "Boy", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 11, "name": "Young Woman", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Boy", "Young Woman" ], "story_order": 2, "heading": "INT. THEATRE, CONVENT GARDEN -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1008, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Theatre Convent Garden -", "sentiment": 0.0782814407814408, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 29, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're the lucky one tonight.Borden walks to a wall of DOZENS of bird cages -- each one with an identical canary.\tHe puts the bird into its cage and returns to the cart props.\tHe taps on the top of the", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden gently strokes the bird's feathered head.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "TABLE- a panel POPS open, revealing the FLATTENDED BIRD CAGE.Borden insefts a ROD into the bird cage and PRIES it apart. A TRICKLE of BLOOD emerges, dripping into a bucket below.Borden SLAPS the cage.And the FLATTENED CARCASS of the ORIGINAL BIRD slides out and SPLASHES into the bucket.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 201, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.41666666666666663 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 3, "heading": "INT. WORKSHOP -- LATER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 536, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.2816666666666666, "time": "Later" } }, { "narrative_order": 30, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(to the brother)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Are you watching closely?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Look closer.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's got two heads.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Boy", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Never.\tShow.\tAnyone.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "They'll beg you and flatter you for the secret- but as soon as you give it up you'll be nothing to them.Understand?\tNothing.\tThe secret impresses no one- the trick you use it for is everything.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Where do you two live?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He lives with Mum.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And you?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 12 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden exits.\tThe young woman, SARAH, is there with her brother.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden reaches to the Boy's ear.\tCasually produces a coin. The Boy marvels as he takes the coin then looks at Borden.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Sarah smiles.\tBorden crouches to address the Boy, grave.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "The Boy looks at him, a little afraid.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Borden looks into the boy's staring eyes.\tThen SMILES and pets him on the head.\the stands.\tSarah smiles at him.", "order": 9 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 280, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": -0.4 }, { "verbosity": 19, "name": "Boy", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 18, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Boy", "Sarah" ], "story_order": 4, "heading": "EXT. STAGE DOOR -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 719, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Stage Door -", "sentiment": -0.2775, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 31, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Enough to keep me out?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I think so.\tWil I see you again?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 2 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Sarah lingers at the top of the stairs to her flat.\tBorden tries to KISS her, but she pushes him back.\tHe tests the LOCK of the open door.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden SHRUGS and turns to go back down the stairs.\tSarah looks after him, about to change her min.\tHesitates.", "order": 3 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 22, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 32, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Sarah" ], "story_order": 5, "heading": "INT. STAIRWELL -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 302, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stairwell -", "sentiment": 0.027430555555555552, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 32, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "She closes the door and LOCKS it, smiling.\tAfter a moment she pads through living/kitchen area, draws back the curtain to her bedroom and SHRIEKS:Borden is there, smiling.\tSarah moves towards him, giggling.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 6, "heading": "INT. SARAH'S FLAT -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 206, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Sarah'S Flat -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 33, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Onstage, CHUNG LING SOO, 60's, wearing a long silk robe, HOBBLES painfully to the center of the stage.\tClearly CRIPPLED.\tIn the audience, Borden and Angier watch intently. Soo lays a silk SHAWL and a BARE TABLE.\tHe WHIPS it up, revealing a BOUQUET OF ROSES.\tSo repeats the trick again and again, producing a different object each time.Finally, with a drum roll, Soo whips the shawl aside to reveal a MASSIVE GOLDFISH BOWL, complete with GOLDFISH.To THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE, Soo bows and HOBBLES off the stage. Angier, clapping, shakes his head, utterly baffled.\tHe turns to Borden.\tWho has a small, knowing, smile.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 7, "heading": "INT. TENLEY THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 610, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Tenley Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.05, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 34, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're wrong.\tIt can't be.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It is.\tHe carries the bowl between his knees for the entire performance.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "but look at the man!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(points)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "This is the trick.\tThis is why no one detectes his method.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(looks at Angier)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Total devotion to his art...Utter self-sacrifice.\tIt's the only way to escape this.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 6 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden and Angier watch Soo being helped down from his carriege by HANDLERS who treat him with great gentleness.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Soo hobbles into the restaurant, frail, and fragile.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Borden SLAPS the bricks of the wall behind them.", "order": 7 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 46, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.625 }, { "verbosity": 213, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Borden" ], "story_order": 8, "heading": "EXT. RESTAURANT -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 496, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Restaurant -", "sentiment": -0.04259259259259259, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 35, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I can barely lift this thing and it's not even filled with water.\tOr fish.\tHe must be strong as an ox.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(incredulous)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "He's been preteding to be an cripple for years?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Julia", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Any time he's in public.\tAny time he goes out.\tIt's unthinkable.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Borden saw it at once.\tI couldn't fathom it- living your whole life pretending to be someone else.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're pretending to be someone else.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Julia", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I don't think changing your name compares.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not just your name- who you are, where you're from...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Julia", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I promised my family I wouldn't embarrass them with my theatrical endeavors.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I came up with a name for you... \"The Great Danton\"", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(Angier frowns)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You don't like it?\tIt's sophisticated.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Julia", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's French.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 12 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Julia, in bed, watches Angier, SHEET wrapped around him like a robe, HOBBLING. He pulls up the sheeyt- between his knees is a goldfish bowl.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier puts the bowl down with a flourish.\tClimbs into bed.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier cuddles up to Julia.", "order": 10 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 394, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.15476190476190474 }, { "verbosity": 226, "name": "Julia", "sentiment": 0.65 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Julia" ], "story_order": 9, "heading": "INT. BEDSIT -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 874, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Bedsit -", "sentiment": 0.2159722222222222, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 36, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alfred?!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We have our routine for Ackerman!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(cold)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "We haven't had the pleasure.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr.Fallon is my ingeneur-Where did yo get all of-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Begged, borrowed\tand don't ask. Mr.Fallon's an enterprising soul.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I need talk to you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We can't afford to pay him-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We'll start making money once we have our audience-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And until then?\tWhat I earn is barely enough for us.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(shrugs)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I'll give him half of my food.Sarah looks meaningfully at Borden.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're already going to be sharing it with someone else.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're...?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Having a baby.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What's this?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The trick to wake up Ackerman at the end of my audition.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Your great trick?\tThe \"masterpiece that will make our fortunes\"?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 22 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No. The world isn't ready for that one, yet.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "This is merely a run-of-the-mill daring and spectacular bullet catch-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 25 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm not letting you get shot.Borden RAMS the bullet and charge down then removes the RAMROD and hands the pistol to Sarah.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 27 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's perfectly safe.\tShoot me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 28 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Show me.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(Borden shakes head)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Then you're not doing it.\tI can't raise a child on my own, Alfred.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 30 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The bullet goes in the gun.\tThen comes the ramrod.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 32 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And voils-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 34 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The buller's not even in the gun when the charge is fired.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 36 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Once you know it's so obvious.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 38 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Yes, well, people still get killed perfoming it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 40 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 41 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Sme smart-arse drops something down the barrel.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 42 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Such as?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 43 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A penny, or a button.\tOr, of course, a bullet.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(off worried look)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "But don't fret-Borden embraces her, putting his hand on her belly.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 44 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm not letting anything happen- I love you too much.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 45 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Say it again.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 47 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I love you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 48 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(matter-of-fact)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Nope.\tNot today.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 49 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 50 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiles)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Some days, it's not true.\tTodaytyou don't mean it.\tMaybe today you're more in love with magic than me.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(off look)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It's alright.\tI like being able to tell the difference- it makes the days it is true mean something.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 51 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Sarah unlocks the door, but has to PUSH against MAGICAL PROPS stacked against it- the bedsit is FILLED with DEVICES.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Sarah surveys the confusion- spots Borden across the flat deep in conversation with another man.\tBorden spots her-", "order": 2 }, { "content": "The other man turns- it is Fallon.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Fallon nods.\tBorden comes over, holding a DUELING PISTOL.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Fallon slips past Sarah with a nod to Borden.\tExits.\tSarah looks at Borden.\tTENSE.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Borden looks at her, confused.\tThen realizes.", "order": 16 }, { "content": "Borden freezes. Then SMILES, taking her in his arms.\tShe FLINCHES against the gun he is holding.", "order": 19 }, { "content": "Borden moves to the bureau and starts LOADING the gun. Pouring in SHOT, then WADDING...", "order": 24 }, { "content": "Borden drops the BULLET into the barrel...", "order": 26 }, { "content": "Sarah looks at Borden then down at the pistol.\tShe aims at Borden.\tThen sims off, at a mirror beside him.BANG.\tBorden's hand SNAPS out to \"catch\" the bullet.\tThe mirror is intact.Borden looks at Sarah, grave, as he reveals the bullet in his hand.", "order": 29 }, { "content": "Borden looks at her.\tTakes the bullet from her and places it on the bureau.", "order": 31 }, { "content": "He takes the RAMROD and PUSHES it down onto the bullet, which disappears.", "order": 33 }, { "content": "He points the ramrod at Sarah- she pulls the bullet out of the HOLLOW TIP.", "order": 35 }, { "content": "Sarah looks at ramrod with disdain.", "order": 37 }, { "content": "Borden BRISTLES slightly.\tTakes the bullet back.", "order": 39 }, { "content": "Sarah grabs his face, looking at his eyes, smiling.", "order": 46 }, { "content": "Borden shakes his head, grinning.", "order": 52 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 749, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0.2328703703703704 }, { "verbosity": 866, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.17777777777777776 } ], "characters": [ "Sarah", "Borden" ], "story_order": 10, "heading": "INT. BEDSIT -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 3009, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Bedsit -", "sentiment": 0.12407407407407406, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 40, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A particular awful significance...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Which of you brave souls is willing bind this lovely young woman?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Milton", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How often I've fought with my self over that night .. one half of me swearing bling that i tied a simple slip knot... the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double.\tI suppose I'll never know for sure-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Onstage, A SIMILAR TANK FILLED WITH WATER.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Julia stands next to the tank.\tMilton adresses the audience.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Milton gestures to Julia- the crowd goes wild.\tJulia makes a show of deciding.\tShe picks up Angier and Borden, who are made up to look different from the last performance.\tAsthey leap up onto stage, Borden makes eye contact with Cutter in the wings- Cutter's is a WARNING GLANCE.As Angier ties Julia's ankles he can't resist tickling just under her toes- she KICKS him in the chin.Borden starts to wrap the rope around Julia's wrists in a particular fashion.\tStops.\tReconsiders.\tJulia NODS at him, encouring.\tBorden starts RETRYING the knot.Cutter watches.\tHis hand checking for the axe handle.Borden tests the rope- it is tight.\tJulia gives him thesign with her eyes- he steps back.\tAngier rises to his feet, grinning at Julia.\tAs she raises her arms to the hook, she can't quite hide her smile back at him.Milton gives the sign and Julia is HOISTED into the air. Cutter slips his STOPWATCH out of his pocket as Milton moes the tank under Julia's bare feet.Angier looks up at Julia.\tProud.\tShe stares out over the audience, preparing herself.\tLooks down at Angier, smiling...Julia PLUNGES into the tank- Milton SLAMS the lid shut- Cutter checks his stopwatch, hand caressing the axe handle...Milton raises the curtain around the tank, then circles it, working his \"magic\".\tAngier shifts a little.\tTime passing... Milton looks at Cutter- TOO MUCH TIME...Cutter GRASPS his axe and SPRINT at the tank- Milton RIPS the curtain down- Julia, one arm free, is CONVULSING...Angier and Borden look on in HORROR as Cutter SWINGS his axe into the glass- which CRACKS... cutter SWINGS again and again- the web of crackes GROWING, Julia's convulsions SLOWING, her eyes PLEADING with Angier's, until-CRASH- the glass gives way, FLOODING the stage- Cutter and Angier GRASP at Julia- FULL her onto the stage- Cutter ELBOWS Angier out of the way to POUND on Julia's chest- Borden wacthes, stunned, as Julia FLOPS, LIFELESS, onto the boards. Cutter looks up at Angier, stricken.Angier takes Julia in his arms, looking down at her staring eyes.\tHe desperately BRUSHES water from Julias cheeks and forehead.\tBorden looks on, shen.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 34, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.4166666666666667 }, { "verbosity": 65, "name": "Milton", "sentiment": 0.41250000000000003 }, { "verbosity": 211, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.006944444444444457 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Milton", "Borden" ], "story_order": 11, "heading": "INT. THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 2523, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.06643217893217894, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 41, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How can be not know?!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He must know what he did.\tHe must.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier looks up from Borden's journal, despairing.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier FLINGS Borden's journal across the room.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 55, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 12, "heading": "INT. HOTEL ROOM, COLORADO -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 152, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hotel Room Colorado -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 47, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier has his head SUBMERGED in a sink full of water.\tHe BURSTS FREE, GASPING- COLLA`PSES to the floor, SOBBING.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 13, "heading": "INT. BATHROOM, LONDON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 113, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Bathroom London -", "sentiment": 0.375, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 48, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier lays out MAKE-UP SUPPLIES.\tHe takes out a BULLE. Places it on the sink next to a FALSE MOUNSTAGE.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 14, "heading": "INT. BATHROOM -- LATER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 104, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Bathroom -", "sentiment": -0.20000000000000004, "time": "Later" } }, { "narrative_order": 49, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Get out your gun, Professor!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Voice", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A volunteer.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Are you man enought, sir?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(quiet)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Yes.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Moustache", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiles)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I think not.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Rough. Unwelcoming. Crowded. A small \"stage\" at one end: Borden works his way through the Chinese rings. The crowd is JEERING.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Someone BURLS a bottle at the stage- it narrowly misses. Borden GLARES out into the audience.\tPulls out his GUN.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "The crowd SURGES forward with EAGER VOLUNTEERS.\tFallon scans the crowd, passing over too-eager and too-drunk before settling on a MOUNSTACHED MAN and bringing him up onstage.Borden LOADS the pistol, hands it to Moustache and steps backwards, pulling his coat apart, CHALLENGING.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Something in Moustache's tone makes Borden looks closely- behind the moustache... Angier.\tQUIVERING WITH TENSION.Borden looks at the trembling gun.\tThen at Angier.\tSpreads his hands, inviting.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Angier purses his lips, straining to pull the trigger. INSERT CUT: JULIA'S FACE, SCREAMING BUBBLES...Angier's eyes are almost closed as he SQUEEZES the TRIGGER-Fallon HITS Angier JUMPS to Borden's side, GRABBING his BLEEDING HAND.\tThe DROWS is SCREAMING, PUSHING for the door,os STRAINING for a closer look at Borden. Aniger, SHOCKED, melts into the crowd.", "order": 9 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 28, "name": "Voice", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 49, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 4, "name": "Moustache", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Voice", "Borden", "Moustache" ], "story_order": 15, "heading": "EXT. PRINCE'S ARMS BAR AND THEATRE", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1160, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Prince'S Arms Bar And Theatre", "sentiment": -0.27499999999999997, "time": null } }, { "narrative_order": 50, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Never thought I'd find an answer at the bottom of a pint glass.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Hasn't stopped you looking.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(Angier sits)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I heard about a booking.\tNice little theatre.\tGood up-and-coming magician.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Who?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You got me a booking? Why?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(looks up at Angier)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Because I want to keep working...And who's going to hire the ingeneur who killed Julia McCullough in front of a sellout crowd at the Orpheum?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Someone who know that it wasn't your fault.\tSomeone who knows Alfred Borden and his repertoire of exotic knots.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Heard he had a spot of bad luck doing a bullet catch South of the river.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "To die like that.\tLocked in water... lungs screaming...", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(shakes head)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "What did she go through, Cutter?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I knew an old sailor.\tTold me about a time he got pulled over the side tangled in the sheets... they dragged him out, but it was five minutes before he coughed...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He said it was like... going home.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Which knot did Borden tie that night?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He wouldn't say.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Wouldn't say?!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It was as if... as if he didn't know.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 21 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier sits at the bar.\tStaring.\tHe raises his pint glass. Downs it, then STOPS, looking at the bottom- there is a PLAYING CARD.\tHe loos around. Cutter is sitting at a table with two fresh pints in front of him.\tAngier heads over.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Cutter looks down into his beer.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Angier looks back at Cutter.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Angier looks down at the liquid in his glass.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Cutter watches Angier's distress.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Angier stares at Cutter.\tHanging.", "order": 15 }, { "content": "Angier considers this.\tCollects himself.", "order": 17 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 342, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.625 }, { "verbosity": 567, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.052083333333333336 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 16, "heading": "INT. PUB -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1396, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pub -", "sentiment": 0.07285353535353538, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 51, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We'll have to whitewash the windows to cofound the more curious members of your audience...", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks around)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "But this should do.We should see about an assistant.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've made arrangements.\tHave you settled on a name?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Yes, I have.\tThe Great Danton.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Hmm.\tBit old-fashioned?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No. It's sophisticated.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier and Cutter isspect a large empty room.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier smiles gently at Cutter.", "order": 5 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 217, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.2 }, { "verbosity": 53, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.65 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Angier" ], "story_order": 17, "heading": "INT. WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 360, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.2523809523809524, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 52, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What's so hard about this?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "In here, Miss Wenscombe.\tNo point meeting Mr.Angier unless you fit.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Breathe as little as possible.Cutter closes the lid over her and walks over to Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not much experience , but she knows the basics.\tShe knows how to present herself and a pretty assistant's the most effective from of misdirection.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiles)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I suppose I should let her out.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 8 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier is sitting at a worktable, pensive.\tHe is moving one hand across the other, making a ROSE appear and disappear.The windows have been WHITEWASHED and the room has filled with an array of magical apparati: cabinets, costumes, props.On the other side of the room Cutter watches as OLIVIA WENSCOMBE, 20s, equal parts grace and mischief, squeezes herself into a tall cabinet, looking past Cutter to Angier.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Cutter leans into the cabinet and pops up a TRICK PANEl in the floor, revealing a tiny chamber.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Olivia shrugs and hands Cutter her hat, then her thick skirts, and folds herself into the bottom of the box.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier nods.\tThere is a small SNEEZE from inside the cabinet.", "order": 7 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 26, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": -0.2916666666666667 }, { "verbosity": 330, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.2270833333333333 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 18, "heading": "INT. ANGIER'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1036, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Angier'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.08946078431372549, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 207, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Nothing easy about two men sharing one life.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Both Bordens are standing at the workbench. One brother is gripping the other by his wrist and placing a CHISEL on his finger.He checks the placemen of the chisel against his own mutilated fingers, adjust the chisel's position, them picks up the hammer.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The second brother SWIGS from a gin bottle, then BITES down a padded stick as the first brother BRINGS DOWN THE HAMMER-", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 44, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.43333333333333335 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 19, "heading": "INT. WORKSHOP -- EVENING -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 416, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Workshop -- Evening -", "sentiment": 0.16840277777777773, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 53, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I don't understand, Alfred.\tHow can it be bleeding again?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What have you been doing to it?\tIt looks as had as the day it happened. We need to get the doctot back-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(snaps)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "We can' afford the doctor back!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You've woken her.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm sorry.\tI just need this to heal so I can het back to work.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alfred, you have to face things. What tricks could you peform with this kind of injury?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(leans forward, excited)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Some of the card pulls, prop tricks...And the trick I've been telling you about.\tThe trick they'll remember me for.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 10 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Sarah is frantcally REDRESSIN Borden's injured hand.\tBLOOD has SEEPED trough the bandages.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "She examines the wounds: 2 1/2 FINGERS ARE MISSING.\tThe injuries are black, but wet and fresh.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "A BABY STARTS CRYING in the bedroom.\tSarah glares at Borden.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Sarah looks at Borden.\tReluctantly.", "order": 8 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 264, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0.6 }, { "verbosity": 208, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": -0.25 } ], "characters": [ "Sarah", "Borden" ], "story_order": 20, "heading": "INT. SARAH'S FLAT -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 782, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Sarah'S Flat -", "sentiment": -0.08095238095238096, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 54, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The bird cage can't be our climax- everybody knows it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not like this, they don't.And I don't want to kill doves.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(snaps)(glares at Angier)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Then stay off the stage.You're a magician, not a wizard- you have to get your hands dirty to achieve the impossible.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You sound like him.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(holds up cage)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Put your hands on the sides...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier and Cutter at the workbench, examine a BIRD CAGE. Cutter is wearing a strange LEATHER HARNESS over his shirt it has LARGE SPRINGS and small PULLEYS on the back.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 73, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.4 }, { "verbosity": 203, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.6 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 21, "heading": "INT. ANGIER'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 483, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Angier'S Workshop -", "sentiment": -0.047619047619047616, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 56, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Hang on, hang on...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "There we go.\tNow you tell the volunteer to put his hands here...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Now Angier is wearing the harness.\tHe places a dove in the cage and picks it up.Close on: HOOKS concealed on Angier's palm slip into CATCHES on the bars of the cage.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Cutter reaches in and slips a NOOSE around the bird's ankle...", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Cutter pleases his hands on the TOP and BOTTOM of the cage...", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 83, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 22, "heading": "INT. ANGIER'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 371, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Angier'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.5, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 58, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...THREE!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Bloody marvelous, Cutter.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And the best part...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Thought you said I had to get my hands dirty.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Someday, perhaps you will.\tI needed to know that you can.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier and Cutter have their hands on the bird cage.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The bird cage BREAKS APART, WHIPPING UP ANGIER'S FOREARMS. WHERE SLEEVES WOULD BE, YANKED BY THE HARNESS.\tAngier smiles.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Cutter reaches to Angier's armpit... pulls up the DOVE, HANGING BY ITS ANKLE, ALIVE.", "order": 5 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 79, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.2 }, { "verbosity": 77, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 1 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 23, "heading": "INT. ANGIER'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 412, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Angier'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.7000000000000001, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 55, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I need a volunteer.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A heavy, disinterested man slouches in the third row of the empty theatre with a newspaper- MERRIT, the stage manager. Onstage, Angier energetically YANKS coloured handkerchiefs from a hat and TOSSING them into the air.\tOlivia, in the glamorous, revealing costume of Magician's Assistant, darts back and forth PLUCKING the handkerchiefs from the air.Angier finishes with a flourish.\tMerrit shrugs.\tAngier places an ORNATE CAGE onto the table.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Merrit rolls his eyes.\tClimbs to his feet.\tAngier produces a DOVE.\tPlaces it in the cage.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 19, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 24, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 550, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.07500000000000001, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 57, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You'd beat not be intending to hut this animal, Mr.Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Of course not.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And one, two... THREE!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Merrit places his hands on the TOP and BOTTOM of the bird cage.\tAngier's hands are on the sides.\tOlivia reaches around Merrit to place her hands on the remaining two sides.\tMerrit looks up at Angier\tover his glasses.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier raises and lowers their hands in a rythm... The bird cage, and the dove, VANISH.", "order": 3 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 58, "name": "Merrit", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 36, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Merrit", "Angier" ], "story_order": 25, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 397, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.5, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 59, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Very nice.\tVery nice indeed.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiling)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I haven't had a chance to compliment you on your beautiful theatre yet, Mr.Merrit.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A lot more beautiful when it's full, Mr.Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Don't worry.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You all say that. Why sould I worry? If your tricks don't get 'em in, someone else's will.\tMaybe someone willing to do a bullet catch or a water scape.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "cheap thrills, Mr.Merrit. People hoping for an accident- and quite likely to see one, too.\tWhat would that do for your business?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(shrugs)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You've got a week.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 8 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Merrit nods, impressed, stepping backwards.\tAngier REACHES into Merrit's pocket.\tRemoves a dove.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Olivia packs up the props.\tCutter approaches from the wings.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 326, "name": "Merrit", "sentiment": 0.6228571428571429 }, { "verbosity": 12, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 128, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.2 } ], "characters": [ "Merrit", "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 26, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 639, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.5955555555555556, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 60, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "A line a PATRONS runs from the box office to the street.The marquee above the theatre reads: \"THE GREAT DANTON PERFOMS FEATS OF MISTERY AND IMAGINATION\"", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 27, "heading": "EXT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 152, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.4, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 61, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You sir, in the hat.\tCould you show us your handkerchief?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "This isn't mine.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Man", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Perhaps you'd be so good as to return it to the other man.\tHe has yours.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier is perfoming to a good crowd. He steps forward.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "A MAN in the audience STANDS and pulls a HANDKERCHIEF from his pocket.\tHe stares at it, CONFUSED.\tThe audience LAUGHS.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Another man stands and pulls out a handkerchief. APPLAUSE. Angier dows and walks quickly off the stage, past the squad of DANCING GIRLS who run on to entertain in the break.", "order": 5 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 129, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.2875 }, { "verbosity": 16, "name": "Man", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Man" ], "story_order": 28, "heading": "INT. THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 491, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.1597222222222222, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 62, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm so nervous- I'm sorry, I'm making mistakes.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The audience doesn't seem to be responding much, Cutter.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "This is a grand theatre with a sophisticated audience-\t\tThey've seen most of these tricks before. But not this next one.\tYou'll see.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You!\tPiss off out it!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Wish us luc, Cutter.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiling)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I'll have the champagne ready.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 10 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter and Olivia are waiting for Angier as he comes off.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Cutter quickly REMOVES Angier's coat...", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Cutter puts he LEATHER HARNESS over Angier's arms...", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Cutter checks the SPRINGS of the harness and replaces Angier's coat.\tHe spots a STAGEHAND poking his head around the flies.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "The dancers are wrapping up.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Angier, followed by Olivia, steps out onto the stage.", "order": 11 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 47, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": -0.5 }, { "verbosity": 76, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.2 }, { "verbosity": 183, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.33999999999999997 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia", "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 29, "heading": "INT. BACKSTAGE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 667, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Backstage -", "sentiment": 0.21904761904761902, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 63, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You've seen this one before?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Seen 'em all before, mate!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Heckler", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Well, I'll make it a little harder, shall I?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Two volunteers, please.\tA lady and a gentleman to hold this cage with me...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'll perform this feat in a manner never before seen by yourselves or by any other audience anywhere in the worth...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Any magician can make this cage disappear... that's why I'll ask this good lady and fine gentleman to place their hands firmly on the cage...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...to ensure that no trickery whatsover is employed.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 12 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier steps to the table center stage.\tPulls out the bird cage.\tThere are one or two groans from the audience.\tAngier SMILES as he produces a DOVE with a FLOURISH.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Laughter.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "In the wings, Cutter smiles and nods at Angier's showmanship.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Hands go up.\tOlivia pulls an ELEGANT LADY from the audience.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Olivi brings Elegant Lady onto the stage along with a RED- BEARDED MAN.\tThe audience is getting interested.\tAngier is on role...", "order": 9 }, { "content": "Olivia guides Elegant Lady's hands onto the sides of the cage.\tRed-beard places a hand underneath the cage.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Angier RAISES the bird cage.\tThe audience is RAPT.Red beard's other hand appears on the top of the cage- it is MUTILATED, missing fingers.Angier FREEZES- looks up at Red Beard... IT IS BORDENBorden SMILES as he WORMS his little finger into the cage mechanism...SNAP!\tHALP THE CAGE WHIPS UP ANGIER'S SLEEVE- THE OTHER HALF COLLAPSES ON THE DOVE AND THE ELEGANT LADY'S FINGERS- SHE SCREAMS- BIRD BLOOD SPLATTERS ONTO THE THREE OF THEN- THE AUDIENCE GOES CRAZY-Borden smiles at Angier through his blood-spattered fake beard and retreats into the chaos surrounding the Elefant Lady who is still SCREAMING as Angier tries to free her fingers from the mechanism.", "order": 13 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 456, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.08402777777777777 }, { "verbosity": 26, "name": "Heckler", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Heckler" ], "story_order": 30, "heading": "INT. STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1667, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage -", "sentiment": 0.09144021739130433, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 64, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I should've spotted him.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You had a lot of plates spinning.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Don't suppose they'll let us do this one again.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "So what's the climax of our show?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Show?\tYou don't have a show.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr.Merrit, we have a week's engagment-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "To perform magic- not butcher birds and break my costomer's fingers!Clear out, anything here in the morning gets burned.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr.Merrit-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's done, John.\tI've hired a comedian.\tYou know I hate comedians, which should indicate the may I felel about your friend's future as a stage magician.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "There are plenty of good theatres... if we can come up with another trick and change the name of the act-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The name stays.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Right.\tWell, the new trick will have to be irresistible, then.\tI've a couple of methods to try out, but we'll need a fresh angle on the presentation.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "If you need inspiration, there's a technical exposition at the Albert Hall this week.\tScientists and engineers.\tThat sort of thing captures the popular imagination.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 19 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier and Cutter watch the STAGEHANDS clear the stage.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier looks down at the harness in his hands.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Cutter puts his hand on Merrit's arms.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Cutter nods.\tMerrit leaves.\tCutter turns to Angier.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Cutter sees Angier's resolve.", "order": 16 }, { "content": "Angier nods.", "order": 18 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 157, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 464, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.3472727272727273 }, { "verbosity": 300, "name": "Merrit", "sentiment": -0.10000000000000002 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Cutter", "Merrit" ], "story_order": 31, "heading": "INT. BACKSTAGE -- LATER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1152, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Backstage -", "sentiment": 0.13808080808080808, "time": "Later" } }, { "narrative_order": 65, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The large concert hall is surrounded by crowds and covered in banners advertising a Technical Exposition.\tAngier makes his way past a giant STEAM ENGINE and into the building.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 32, "heading": "EXT. ROYAL ALBERT HALL -- AFTERNOON", "scene_metadata": { "size": 175, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Royal Albert Hall -", "sentiment": -0.008928571428571432, "time": "Afternoon" } }, { "narrative_order": 66, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Would you like to know the future, sir? The man who kill change the world is speaking right now.Continents divided no more.\tFree, clean power. The mysteries of the world solved.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ticket Hawker", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "THe lobby if filled with displays and models.\tAngiers pokes around, looking thouroughly disinterested until he comes to an information booth plastered with illustrations of electrical bolts.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The posters show a tall, handsome man bathed in lightning and standing astride the world like colossus.\tIn bold print it says:THE WONDERS OF \"ALTERNATING CURRENT\"...NIKOLA TESLA", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 177, "name": "Ticket Hawker", "sentiment": 0.1604761904761905 } ], "characters": [ "Ticket Hawker" ], "story_order": 33, "heading": "INT. ALBERT HALL -- AFTERNOON", "scene_metadata": { "size": 544, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Albert Hall -", "sentiment": 0.22619047619047622, "time": "Afternoon" } }, { "narrative_order": 67, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "With a system like this I could have the entire city electrified whitin two years.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr. Edison's direct current system is flawed and dangerous.\tWith my alternating current devices-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(yells)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Fraud.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Audience Member", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The hall is completely darkened, but bright blue FLASHES illuminate ANGIER as he pushes his way to a seat.On the stage, a tall rod capped with a steel ball is transmitting a steady, sparking stream of electricity onto a matched ball across the stage.A FIGURE walks around from behind the machine and the audience GASPS as a shower of sparks bounce off of his immaculate evening wear.\tThis is TESLA- but Angier is too far from the stage to get a good look at him.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The audience breaks into LAUGHTER.\tThe spell is broken. Tesla must be a lunatic.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Someone from the audience chimes in:", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier turns to look.\tThe man who called out is leaving he's not alone.\tAngier FREEZES, staring down at aisle-Borden is sitting there, RAPT, lit by FLASHES from the machinery on stage.\tAs tesla continues his demonstration, Angier STARES at Borden.", "order": 6 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 178, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": -0.16666666666666666 }, { "verbosity": 6, "name": "Audience Member", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Tesla", "Audience Member" ], "story_order": 34, "heading": "INT. 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Borden meets Sarah, pushing a PRAM.\tBorden looks down at the baby then up at Sarah.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Sarah smiles.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier watches Borden kiss wife then his baby.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 11, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.5 }, { "verbosity": 22, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0.35 }, { "verbosity": 17, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Sarah", "Angier" ], "story_order": 35, "heading": "EXT. 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My wife for a couple of his fingers? He has a child now. And he's perfoming again.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(bitter)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Borden is out there, living his life just as he always intended.\tAs if nothing had happened.\tAnd look at me.\tI'm alone.\tAnd no theatre will touch me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Us.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're going to need a better disguise.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 14 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A NEWSPAPER on the makeup table.\tAngier sits at the mirror.He hubs BROWN PASTE into his hair and then combs it out. Then he chooses a beard, seats it on his chin and begins to adjust it.\tHe drops the BOTTLE of spirit gum as he looks in the mirror and sees OLIVIA standing behind him.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Olivia shifts.\tEmbarrassed.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier slips the newspaper from the table.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Olivia moves closer.\tAngier is quiet.", "order": 9 }, { "content": "Olivia moves towards him.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Olivia reaches for Angier's beard.", "order": 15 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 381, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 313, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0.39999999999999997 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Olivia" ], "story_order": 36, "heading": "INT. ANGIER'S WORKSHOP -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1169, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Angier'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.19999999999999998, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 73, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I need a volunteer.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "As you can see , it's just a rubber ball.\tBut it's not normal at all.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Thank you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(to audience)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You're not impressed?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's a magic ball.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What happened?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 11 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier, almost unrecognizanle as a blonde, slips into the back of the theatre, which is as rough and unwelcoming as Borden's last venue. On the small raised stage, Borden works through his way through the Chinese rings with GLOVED HANDS to hide his damaged fingers.\tThe tough crowd is JEERING AT HIM.Borden puts the rings down on a table and PICKS UP a bag.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier takes a few steps towards the stage. Borden produces a RUBBER BALL.he TOSSES the ball to Angier.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier examines the ball.\tHands it back to Borden who shows no sign of recognizing Angier.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier notices that two TALL BLACK CABINETS are standing twenty feet apart on the stage.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Borden BOUNCES the BALL on the ground and catches it.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Borden continues to BOUNCE the ball on the floor.\tThe audience looks bored, waiting for something to happen.", "order": 10 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 137, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.2125 }, { "verbosity": 14, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Olivia" ], "story_order": 37, "heading": "INT. TINY, GRUBBY THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 963, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Tiny Grubby Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.09543650793650794, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 75, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It was the greatest magic trick I have ever seen.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Now it's CUTTER standing in the audience, watching.\tOnstage, Borden BOUNCES the ball over and over again.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden walks to one side of the stage and OPENS the door to one of the cabinets.\tIt's empty.\tHe CLOSES it again and crosses the stage, BOUNCING the ball the whole way.At the far cabinet, Borden repeats the process, OPENING the door to the empty cabinet.\tThis time, however, he leaves the door open.He steps forwards and GENTLY BOUNCES the ball SIDEWAYS, across the stage...Borden STEPS into the CABINET behind him, CLOSING the door.With no one on stage, the audience watches as the ball continues to BOUNCE across the stage. BOUNCE. BOUNCE. BOUNCE. The ball loses seep and height...Just as reaches the second cabinet, something IMPOSSIBLE happens.THE DOOR TO THE SECOND CABINET OPENS AND BORDEN STEPS OUT, CATCHING THE BALL.Cutter FLINCHES, then studies Borden.\tThe audience is BEMUSED.\tFinally, a trickle of applause.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 49, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.75 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 38, "heading": "INT. 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STAGE -- EVENING -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 188, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage -- Evening -", "sentiment": -0.13333333333333333, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 204, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We took turns.\tThe trick is where we would swap...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A stagehand wheels the two stage cabinets into the dressing room and leaves.\tBorden holts the door after him.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden opens the first cabinet and pulls up the false bottom. His TWIN BROTHER, in indentical stage clothes, uncurls himself from the hidden compartment and hauls himself out.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 50, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 40, "heading": "INT. DRESSING ROOM -- EVENING -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 334, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Dressing Room -- Evening -", "sentiment": -0.10555555555555558, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 205, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Fallon and Borden are seated at the makeup table.\tFallon begins removing pieces of his costume and makeup and handing them to the other brother.\tAs we watch,\tTHEY SWITHC INDENTITIES.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 41, "heading": "INT. DRESSING ROOM -- LATER -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 182, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Dressing Room -- Later -", "sentiment": -0.125, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 77, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier is disguise, starts CLAPPING loudly, FIRMLY, as if he can't help it, LEADING the applause.Borden BOUNCES the ball once again, then BOWS deeply.\tThe APPLAUSE peters out.\tBorden walks off the stage.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 42, "heading": "INT. TINY, GRUBBY THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 203, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Tiny Grubby Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.1, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 74, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What happened, Robert?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He had a new trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Was it good?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier still in disguise, is slumped in an armchair, drink in hand.\tHe is SMILING, remembering.Olivia, sitting on the workbench, waits for him to continue.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier looks at her...", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 34, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0.7 }, { "verbosity": 19, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.13636363636363635 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia", "Angier" ], "story_order": 43, "heading": "INT. ANGIER'S WORKSHOP -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 230, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Angier'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.13636363636363635, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 76, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Did they applaud when you saw it?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not very enthusiastically.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 2 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier is talking to Cutter.\tOlivia is watching.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 33, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 26, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.1 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 44, "heading": "INT. ANGIER'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 107, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Angier'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.2, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 78, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The trick is too good -- too simple- the audience harly knows what they've seen.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He's a dreadful magician.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He's a wonderfull magician- he's a dreadful showman.\tHe doesn't know how to dress it up, how to sell the trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How does he do it?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He uses a double.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(shakes head)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It's not that simple.\tThis is a complex illusion.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You think that because you don't know the method.\tIt's a double who comes out at the end.\tIt's the only way.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've seen his perfom ir three times now, Mr. Cutter- the Prestige is the same man-It's not-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "ANGIERThe same man comes out of the second cabinet.\tI promise you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It is the same man.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He wears padded gloves to hide his damaged fingers, but if you look closely you can tell.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He doesn't know how to sell his trick to an audience.\tBut I do.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(nods)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It would give us our climax.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The man stole my life.\tI'm going to steal his trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We'll have to find someone who can look like you on a stage.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He doesn't use a double-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(impacient)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I don't know how Borden does it, Robert.\tSo either you wait for Borden to retire and buy his secret, or you can listen to how I would do this trick.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(Angier nods)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Ang the only way I know is to find you a bloody good double.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Take a good look-\tlet's get out there and find me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 21 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier turns to Cutter.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "They both turn to look at Olivia.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Angier looks at Cutter.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Angier smiles.\tTurns to Olivia, pointing to his face.", "order": 20 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 678, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.06666666666666667 }, { "verbosity": 372, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.12000000000000002 }, { "verbosity": 108, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Angier", "Olivia" ], "story_order": 45, "heading": "INT. ANGIER'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1333, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Angier'S Workshop -", "sentiment": -0.0823529411764706, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 82, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(to tramp)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Gerry?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr. Angier, Mr. Cutter, I would like you\tto meet Mr. Gerald Root.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A pleasure to meet you fine gentlemen.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(whisper)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Would you like for me to tell you a little joke?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(yelling)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Are you laughing?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He's out of his mind.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He's an out-of-work actor- of course he's out of his mind.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He's perfect. A little work, mind you, but when I'm done with him he could be your brother.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I don't need him to be my brother. I need him to be me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 13 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The club is warm and dark. Olivia, Cutter and Angier make their way to the bar.\tOlivia points to the far end of the bar, to a TRAMP in tattered clothing, curled over a pint.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The tramp sees Olivia, hoists himself up and spills his way down the bar to them.\tAs he draws closer, we understand why Olivia has brought them here.Underneath the filth and matted hair, this man is SPITTING IMAGE of Robert Angier- HE IS PLAYED BY THE SAME ACTOR", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier is staring a little too much.\tRoot throws an ARM over Angier's shoulder and draws him in.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Angier smiles unconfortably.\tSunddely Root WRAPS this hands around Angier's neck and begins to THROTTLE him.Cutter breaks it up and pushes Root back.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Angier is shaken.\tRoot picks up his hat off the bar and disappears onto the street.", "order": 9 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 129, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 103, "name": "Root", "sentiment": 0.11458333333333334 }, { "verbosity": 76, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 91, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.40625 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia", "Root", "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 46, "heading": "INT. GREEN ROOM DRINKING CLUB -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1190, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Green Room Drinking Club -", "sentiment": 0.1316919191919192, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 83, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Would you like to see a magic trick?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What is this for?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "When I asked last week you said we couldn't afford.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You caught me in the wrong mood.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But you want through all the-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Sarah,\tI'm allowed to change my mind, aren't I? The act is taking off, maybe soon I'll get us into a bigger theatre.\tThings will work.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden escorts Sarah and their TODDLER, a girl, up the three lined street.Borden stops abruptly.\tCrouches to his daugther.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden reaches up and pushes a wayward LOCK a her hair over her ear.\tWhen his hands returns, it's holding a KEY.He stands, places the key in Sarah's hand.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Borden takes her gently by the shoulders and turns her around until she's facing a modest two-story HOUSE.\tShe looks down at the key in her hand.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Sarah turns and embraces her husband.", "order": 9 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 202, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 97, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Sarah" ], "story_order": 47, "heading": "EXT. NORTH HILL -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 757, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "North Hill -", "sentiment": 0.001944444444444443, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 84, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You walk through this one- then...?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The auditoruim is empty.\tTwo doors is simple frames have been erected in the middle of the stage.\tAngier fiddles with one, opening it, walking through it.\tOlivia is watching.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier stands Olivia in front of the door.he pushes the door all way open.\tSuddenly, a TRAP-DOOR set into the floor POPS open. Angier JUMPS through it-", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 35, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia" ], "story_order": 48, "heading": "INT. EMPIRE THEATRE", "scene_metadata": { "size": 360, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Empire Theatre", "sentiment": -0.016666666666666666, "time": null } }, { "narrative_order": 85, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Olivia gathers up her skirts and DROPS through the hole-", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 49, "heading": "INT. EMPIRE THEATRE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 56, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Empire Theatre -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 86, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Oof.\tCouldn't you find a softer one?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiles)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It's not for sleeping on.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And Root goes up through there?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's going to be amazing, Robert.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It has to be.\tBorden's trick is getting noticed.\tThe place was packed today.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You went and saw his show again?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You becoming obsessed, Robert.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Ready to meet yourself, Mr. Robert.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 12 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "-LANDING beside Angier on the straw matterss.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Olivia looks around the below stage area.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "She gestures\tat a LIFT twenty feet away with a TRAP DOOR MECHANISM above it.\tAngier nods.\tOlivia looks at Angier.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Olivia looks at him strangely.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Angier looks away, embarrassed.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Angier and Olivia look up to see Cutter at the trap door.", "order": 13 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 162, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0.18333333333333335 }, { "verbosity": 101, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 35, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.2 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia", "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 50, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE EMPIRE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 623, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Empire Stage -", "sentiment": 0.1375, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 87, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "All I have to do is keep myself stinking drunk all the time and no one will be able to tell the difference.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A little faith, sir.\tCould you favor us with a perfomance. Mr. Root?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You would drink, too, if you know the world half so well as I do.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Did you think you were unique, Mr. Angier?\tI have been Cassar.\tI have been Faust.\tHow difficult could it possibly be to play 'The Great Danton?'", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You can go back to being yourself. Root.\tFor free..", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'd rather be him, for now.\tI find it amusing.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Root has to keep a low profile-- anyone sees him the game's up.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(watching Root)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I don't know how you do these things, Cutter.\tI'm not sure I want to know.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Have you thought about what we should call the trick?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No point being coy.\tBorden calls his trick 'The Transported Man'?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 14 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier and Olivia sit in the front row.\tCutter beckons Root onstage.\tHe's been clened up and dressed in Angier's stage costume.\the TRIPS on his way across the stage.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Root picks himself up and dusts himself off. Suddenly, ROOT HAS BECOME ANGIER.\the is channeling everything from his facial expressions to his walk.\tAngier nods,starting to believe this might work.\tThe illusion is PERFECT -- till he opens his mouth.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Angier hops up onto stage, examining Root from different angles.\tRoot starts APING his every movement.\tOlivia starts laughing.\tAngier is getting uncomfortable.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Root looks challengingly at both men.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Root WAVES his hands across his chest, in the same manner that Angier does onstage.\tHe produces a bottle of Gin from thin air, and takes a long swallow and jumps down to Olivia.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Cutter nods.", "order": 15 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 246, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.08333333333333333 }, { "verbosity": 235, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.146875 }, { "verbosity": 255, "name": "Root", "sentiment": 0.18472222222222223 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Cutter", "Root" ], "story_order": 51, "heading": "INT. EMPIRE THEATRE -- MOMENTS LATER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1549, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Empire Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.026917989417989417, "time": "Moments Later" } }, { "narrative_order": 88, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The enormous MARQUEE of the Empire Theatre:'The Great Danton perfoms THE NEW TRANSPORTED MAN'Beneath it, a CROWD.\tFallon amongest them.\tSTARING up at the sign.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 52, "heading": "EXT. LEICESTER SQUARE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 159, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Leicester Square -", "sentiment": 0.31212121212121213, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 89, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Ladies and gentlemen, much of what you've seen tonight can be termed illusions.\tEntertaining trifles of the sort you may have seen other magicians perform.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alas, I cannot claim this next feat as illusion.\tWatch carefully- you will see no trickery, for no trickery is being employed. Merely a techique familiar to certain citizens of the orient and various holy men of the Himalyas.\tIndeed, some of you maybe familiar with this technique, but for those of you who aren't, do not be alarmed, what you are about to see is considered safe...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier is onstage, nearing the end of his show, SMILING BROADLY as he pulls dozens of FLOWERS from thin air and tosses them to the crowd.\tAPPLAUSE fills the theatre.The DOORFRAMES are wheeld out on either side of the stage. Angier approaches the edge of the stage to address the audience with a suddenly SOLEMN demeanor.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier puts on a TOP HAT.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier gracefully TURNS and heads upstage to the right-hand door, opens it, SLAPS it to show that is sold.Then strolls through crossing the stage--to the other door, which he opens, SLAPPING to show its solidity, then walking trough the frame.Angier removes his TOP HAT and THROWS it high into the air. It sails back down to him and he catches it.Angier THROWS the HAT again, even harder this time, and it disappears uo into the rafters. After a beat, it is clear it's not coming back down.LAUGHTER.\tAngier snaps his fingers and the hat is dropped back down to him.\tHe catches it.Angier movies to the first door and THROWS HIS HAT in a HIGH ARC across the stage.\tHe OPENS the door- steps behind it...The second DOOR, FAR ACROSS THE STAGE, IMMEDIATELY opens and ANGIER/ROOT EMERGES, REACHING UP TO CATCH THE HAT.BOTH DOORS SLAMS SHUT behind him. He puts on the hat.The AUDIENCE ERUPTS- A STANDING OVATION, Fallon the only one in his seat as Angier/Root takes his BOWS.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 536, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.13084415584415585 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 53, "heading": "INT. EMPIRE THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1849, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Empire Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.03340885816692268, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 90, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier, hearing the MASSIVE APPLAUSE, climbs off the straw mattress, PEERING up through the cracks in the floorboards.Smiling, Angier turns to the unseen audience and BOWS.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 54, "heading": "INT. UNDER THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 172, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Under The Stage -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 91, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(toast)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "To our achivement.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The manager said he's never seen a reaction like it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "At least he got to see it.\tI spent the ovation hidden under the stage. No one cares about the man who disappears, the man who goes into the box.\tThey care about the man who comes out the other side.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I care about the man in the box. Angier turns to Olivia, raises his glass.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Thank you.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(to Cutter)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Maybe we could switch before the trick.\tThat way I could be the Prestige and Root ends up below stage.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(shakes head)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "The antecipation of the trick is everything- it needs your showmanship to built suspense.\tIf Root openshis mouth, it's all over- he can't introduce the trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "of course I can.\tI'm the Great Danton.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Root, you bloody fool, get that costume and makeup off right now, anyone could walk in here!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Congratulation, all.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I suppose I should get more rest.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Life is not full of these moments, Robbie.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We've worked hard for this, and we need to celebrate properly.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What's wrong?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It is your wife?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The trick isn't good enough.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Didn't you see the audience?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 25 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 26 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Well, they loved it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 27 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's not as good as his trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 28 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Borden's trick is nothing compared to ours.\tHe doesn't have any style-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 29 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He doesn't have to spend the finale hiding under the stage.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 30 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I need to know how he does it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 32 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 33 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "So that I can do it better.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 34 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I need you to go and work for him.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 36 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Work for him?\tAre you joking", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 37 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You'll be my spy.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 38 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(taken aback)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "We just got our start and you want me to leave?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 39 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's how we advance.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 40 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Think of it, Olivia... we've got people excited about Cutter's version of the trick- imagine what we could do with the real illusion. We'llhave the greatest magic act anyone's ever seen.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 42 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(frustated)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "He knows I work for you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 43 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Exactly why he'll want to hire you. He'll want my secrets.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 44 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why would he trust me?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 45 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Because you're going to tell him the truth.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 47 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier, Olivia, and Cutter are CELEBRATING their sucess. Empty bottles of champagne line the makeup table.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "They drink.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier smiles, rueful.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "They turn.\tRoot is lying behind a trunk, still in costume.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Cutter is SLAPPING Root to his feet.\tHe grabs his collar and turns to Angier and Olivia.", "order": 12 }, { "content": "Cutter DRAGS Root out.\tOlivia slides onto the makeup table.", "order": 14 }, { "content": "Olivia pours him some more champagne.", "order": 17 }, { "content": "Angier looks up at her with a gentle smile.\tShe pulls him in closer and they KISS.\tShe wraps her legs around him.They kiss again. Angier pulls back.", "order": 19 }, { "content": "Angier shakes his head, distracted.", "order": 22 }, { "content": "Olivia stares at him.", "order": 24 }, { "content": "Angier rises, turning out of her embrace.", "order": 31 }, { "content": "Angier turns to her.\tLooks her in the eye.", "order": 35 }, { "content": "Angier moves to Olivia, placing his hands on her shoulders.", "order": 41 }, { "content": "Angier thinks for a second.\tThen smiles.", "order": 46 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 452, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0.07777777777777777 }, { "verbosity": 322, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.2571428571428572 }, { "verbosity": 878, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.29848484848484846 }, { "verbosity": 38, "name": "Root", "sentiment": 0.8 }, { "verbosity": 16, "name": "", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia", "Cutter", "Angier", "Root", "" ], "story_order": 55, "heading": "INT. DRESSING ROOM -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 2528, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Dressing Room -", "sentiment": 0.1870600414078675, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 93, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(looking around)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Interesting workshop.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We make do.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "My name is Olivia Wenscombe.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I know who you are.\tAre you here to steal the rest of my show?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No.\tI'm here to give your show what is missing.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And what might that be?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(to Fallon)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Wasn't I just saying that, Bernard? A woman's touch.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've left Angier.\tI want a job.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I know you have no reason to trust me-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why on earth shouldn't I trust you? The mistress of my enemy.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "Mr.Borden- Alfred.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "OLIVIAAlfred.\tI'm going to tell you the truth.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia Borden", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Ah.\tThe truth.\tA slippery notion in our life of work, Miss Wenscombe.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm here because he sent me here.He wants me to come and work for you and steal your secret.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What does he need my secret for? His trick is top notch.\tThe Great Danton vanishes and isntantly reappears on the other side of the stage --\tmute, overweight, and, unless I'm mistaken, rather drunk.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Tell me, Olivia.\tDoes he like taking his bows under the stage?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No.\tIt's killing him.\the's obsessed with discovering your method.\tHe thinks of nothing else, and takes no pleasure in our sucess.\t\tI've had enough.\tThere's no future with him. He sent me here to steal your secrets, but I've actually come to offer you his.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He has no secrets from me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 24 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And this is the truth?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 26 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A small, disused shop off an arcade, crowed with tools, cabinetry and props, windows plastered with playbills.\tBorden is sitting at a workbench, sleeves rolled up, working a lathe.Fallon enters, Olivia behind him.\tBorden looks back at her, turns back to the table, instinctively putting on his gloves.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Olivia sees one of the theatrical notices that litter the shop: \"THE GREAT DANTON BREAKS RECORD WITH HIS ASTONISHING NEW TRICK\"", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Fallon leaves, closing the door.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Borden sits there.", "order": 12 }, { "content": "Olivia is taken aback.\tChanes tack.", "order": 15 }, { "content": "Borden rises, moves closer to Olivia.", "order": 20 }, { "content": "Olivia meets his gaze.", "order": 22 }, { "content": "Borden stares at her, unsure.", "order": 25 }, { "content": "She gives Borden a challenging smile/shrug.", "order": 27 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 515, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": -0.049999999999999996 }, { "verbosity": 604, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.19375 }, { "verbosity": 46, "name": "Olivia Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia", "Borden", "Olivia Borden" ], "story_order": 56, "heading": "INT. BORDEN'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1836, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Borden'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.09270334928229665, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 123, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "His assistent come to us with a proposition...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Obviously Angier has sent her, and told her to admit as much...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Tell me Olivia.\tDoes he like taking his bows under the stage?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No.\tIt's killing him.\tHe's obssessed with discovering your method.\the thinks of nothing else, and takes no pleasure in our success.\tI've had enough.\tThere is no future withhim.\tHe sent me here to steal your secrets, but I've actually come to offer you his.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He has no secrets from me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "This is the \"truth\" you spoke of?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No. This is what he told me to tell you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The truth is that I loved him.\tAnd stood by him.\tAnd he sent me to you like he'd send a stagehand to pick up his shirts.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks him in the eye)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I hate him for that.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I can spot Angier's methods from the back of the theatre. What could you possibly have to offer me?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You may know he does his tricks... but you can't understand why no one can see that yours are better.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You hide this.\tI had to look closely to spot it when you performed the Transported Man.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks into his eyes)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "But this makes you unique... it shows the audience that you aren't using a double;\tYou musn't hide it, you", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks at hand)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "must display it proudly...I'm sure it takes great skill to perform illusions with one good hand.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(quietly)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It does.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Then let people know.\tYou can be so much more then he is.\tI can show you how.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I think she is telling the truth.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 22 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden turns to see Fallon show in Olivia.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "They start to speak as Borden's V.O. continues.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Olivia meets his gaze.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Borden stares at her, unsure.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "She gives him a sly smile.Beat.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "They sit there in silence, appraising each other.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Olivia smiles, moves to Borden, reaching for his gloved hand. Borden flinches, surprised.", "order": 15 }, { "content": "She tenderly PEELS OFF his padded glove revealing his mutiladed hand.", "order": 17 }, { "content": "Borden looks into her eyes.", "order": 21 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 369, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 903, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0.25625000000000003 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Olivia" ], "story_order": 57, "heading": "INT. BORDEN'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1744, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Borden'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.21964285714285717, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 124, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I think we cannot trust her.\tBut I love her.\tI need her.\tWe need her.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How could he send you away?\tHe must be blind, deaf and dumb.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Robbie's blinded by his jealosy. He'd do anything for you secret. Sending me away was the least of it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Trust is not the point- love is the point... who have we ever trusted?To open myself to such a relationship,", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 6 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden and Olivia are in bed together.\tIt is raining outside.He watching her get out of bed and moves to the window to smoke a cigarette.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "She smiles quietly at this.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Borden considers this.", "order": 5 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 237, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.1 }, { "verbosity": 102, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": -0.35 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Olivia" ], "story_order": 58, "heading": "INT. BEDROOM, BORDEN'S WORKSHOP -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 525, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Bedroom Borden'S Workshop -", "sentiment": -0.025, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 125, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...to the dangers of such an affair... I need assurances of fidelity.\tOf love.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But how to be sure when truth is layered like the skin of an onion?I know a way... she must help me rid ourselves of Angier. It is the only way to kow her mind.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Olivia makes her way past crowed MARKET STALLS.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Fallon is SHADOWING her from a distance.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 238, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.16666666666666666 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 59, "heading": "EXT. NARROW ALLEYWAY -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 325, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Narrow Alleyway -", "sentiment": 0.0625, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 99, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...and his account suggests a reason.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "To what do I owe the pleasure of this rather welcome pint of ale?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You are the Great Danton, aren't you?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Of course I am.\tBut don't advertise it- I'll be mobbed with fans.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(grins at Borden)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "And who might you be?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Just a humble admirer.\tAnd fellow practitioner.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Ah, very good.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Another?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "If you insist.\tI'm not perfoming tonight.\tWell, only one show, and, to be frank, my people pretty much run things these days.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You could probably do it blindfolded.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Bloody good idea.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Have it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Thanks.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Actually, there's something I might warn you about.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Oh?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Well, it's your Transported Man illusion.\tNow, I'm noit claiming to know your method... but I had a similar trick in my act- and I used...", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks around, whispering)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "...a double.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Oh, I see, very good.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "At first.\tThen it went bad.\tYou se,\tI hadn't counted on the fact that once I incorporated this bloke into my act, he had complete power over me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Complete power, you say?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 22 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(nodding gravely)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Weel, he was the secret, you see. And the more successful I became, the more outrageous his demands became.\tHe practically backrupted me.\tIn the end I had to stop performing the illusion completely.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks at Root)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You must be very careful about giving someone that power over you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Thanks for the warning.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 25 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The bar is dark and seedy, packed with an unpromising lot.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Root is hanging precariously from his barstool, head lolling towards his empty glass.\tHe is in his own clothes, but cleaned up to look like Angier.A full PINT arrives in front of him. Root turns to face his benefactor- BORDEN. Root takes several large GULPS, staring at Borden. Suppresses a belch.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Root gestures silence, glancing around them.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Root DOWNS the rest of his new pint, placing the empty glass in front of Borden with an emphatic THUNK.", "order": 9 }, { "content": "A new pint arrives.\tRoot sips.", "order": 16 }, { "content": "Root looks at Borden.\tDrunken whells spinning.", "order": 24 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 37, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 385, "name": "Root", "sentiment": 0.33571428571428574 }, { "verbosity": 746, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.039166666666666676 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Root", "Borden" ], "story_order": 60, "heading": "INT. TAVERN -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1822, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Tavern -", "sentiment": 0.1395361781076067, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 94, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Best be getting changed for the martinee, sir.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(sniffs)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "ROOT!\tYou're late.And even more drunk than usual.\tGet yourself below stairs, right away!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No?!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We need to have a chat, Mr.Cutter.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Root", "order": 7 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter is fixing a prop mechanism.\tAngier approaches, in his undershirt, looks over his shoulder.\tCutter glances up.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "- Angier nods.\tCutter REALIZES.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Root looks at Cutter with genuine malice.", "order": 6 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 138, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.22142857142857145 }, { "verbosity": 37, "name": "Root", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Root" ], "story_order": 61, "heading": "INT. BACKSTAGE -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 371, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Backstage -", "sentiment": 0.23928571428571424, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 95, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We have a problem, Cutter.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He'll be perfoming right across the street.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We have a bigger problem.\tRoot.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Don't tell me he fell over again.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Worse.\tHe realized he can make demands.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He's blackmailing us?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "In a word, yes. I'm surprised, to be honest- it usually takes them a lot longer to figure it out.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How much does he want?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It makes no difference- we have to stop doing the trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(wields paper)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Stop doing the trick?\tLook at this.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Look at yesterday's.\tAnd last week's, where they called you \"London's premiere stage performer\", not \"magician\" mind.\tPerformer.\tOf any kind.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What's the point?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "My point, Robert, is that you've climbed too high to get away with any kind of professional embarrassament.\tWe're not doing any tricks we can't control.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Pay him whatever he wants, for now. We keep doing the trick till Borden opens, then we'll phase it out.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 16 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier is applying his makeup.\tCutter enters.\tAngier looks at him through the mirror.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "He holds up the paper, folded to an advertisement:PANTAGES THEATRE- FROM NEXT WEEK- THE PROFESSOR WILL DEMONSTRATE THE ORIGINAL TRANSPORTED MAN- ACCEPT NO CHEAP IMITATIONS!!!", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier considers this.\tNods.\tThinking.", "order": 15 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 300, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.22857142857142856 }, { "verbosity": 516, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.16375 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 62, "heading": "INT. DRESSING ROOM -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1127, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Dressing Room -", "sentiment": 0.15505102040816324, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 96, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(hisses)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Get up there!!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Root smokes a cigarette.\tPULL BACK to reveal he is standing on the LIFT beneath the stage...The trapdoor OPENS and Angier DROPS onto the straw mattress. He looks over to see Root finishing his cigarette.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Root smirks at Angier- TOSSES the cigarette and CATAPULTS up-", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 14, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 63, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE EMPIRE STAGE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 286, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Empire Stage -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 97, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Get it down!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Cutter was always surprised how fast Root turned bad.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "-onto the stage and STEPS/STUMBLES out from behind the door to LOUD APPLAUSE. Root has a SLOPPY GRIN as he STRUTS acroos the stage, milking the applause from every angle, blowing kisses, winking... loving it.\tHe turns to Cutter in the wings.\tBlows him a kiss. Cutter GLARES.\tThen TURNS to a stagehand.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The stagehand starts LOWERING THE CURTAIN.", "order": 3 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 12, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.19444444444444448 }, { "verbosity": 53, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.13333333333333328 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Angier" ], "story_order": 64, "heading": "INT. STAGE, EMPIRE THEATRE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 408, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage Empire Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.030555555555555558, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 13, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "That's why every magic trick has a third act.\tThe hardest part..,", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The MACHINE sputters to a stop.\tAngier is GONE.\tThe audience sits, WAITING.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 65, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.25 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 65, "heading": "INT. SCALA THEATRE, ONSTAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 140, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Scala Theatre Onstage -", "sentiment": 0.25, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 15, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...The Prestige.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The Prestige...?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Prosecutor", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden LIGHTS another match.\tStares in HORROR-", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Inside the tank, ANGIER IS DROWNING. His rolling EYES fixeson BORDEN, he POUNDS desperately on the thick glass, SCREAMING BUBBLES... The screen fades to BLACK.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 16, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 16, "name": "Prosecutor", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Prosecutor" ], "story_order": 66, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE STAGE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 237, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Stage -", "sentiment": -0.35555555555555557, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 100, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...some of you may be familiar with this technique, but for those of you who aren't, do not be alarmed, what you are about to see is considered safe...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier is almost all the way through his act.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier takes his time, confident, MILKING IT.\tHe throws his HAT into the air, catches it.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 151, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.4375 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 67, "heading": "INT. STAGE, EMPIRE THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 285, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage Empire Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.4375, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 101, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier DROPS ten feet to the concrete floor.\tBut there is NOTHING to break his fall-He SMASHES painfully to the ground.\tCLUTCHING his leg in AGONY, he looks up and sees SOMEONE standing on the lift twenty feet away... BORDEN.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 68, "heading": "INT. UNDER THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 225, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Under The Stage -", "sentiment": -0.18333333333333332, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 102, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The first door slams shut.\tThe audience turns their attention to second door.The door remains closed.\tThe HAT falls\tgently to the floor. SILENCE, broken by a COUGH in the audience.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 69, "heading": "INT. STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 180, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage -", "sentiment": -0.010000000000000009, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 103, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "BORDEN bows to Angier- the LIFT ROCKETS BORDEN UP THROUGH THE STAGE FLOOR.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 70, "heading": "INT. UNDER THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 74, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Under The Stage -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 104, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The second door OPENS, and BORDEN steps through, looking all around, CONFUSED, as if he doesn't know where he is.\tHe looks back at the door, then picks up the HAT...", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 71, "heading": "INT. STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 165, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage -", "sentiment": -0.13333333333333333, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 105, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier looks at his leg- a nasty COMPOUND FRACTURE.\tAs he chokes on pain he can hear LAUGHTER from the AUDIENCE.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 72, "heading": "INT. UNDER THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 112, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Under The Stage -", "sentiment": -1, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 106, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Great Danton, I must apologize!\tI simply had too much magic for my stage at the Pantages!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Pardon my intrusion!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "As Borden mugs with the hat, trying it on and finding it too small, something is LOWERED from the flies above:ANGIER/ROOT, BOUND AND GAGGED, HANGS from a chain.\tA sign around his neck reads: \"OPENING AT PANTAGE- THE PROFESSOR\"Borden looks up behind him.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The Great Danton comes to rest three feet above the stage.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Borden places the top hat and ANGIER/ROOT at a JAUNTY ANGLE.THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE and LAUGHTER.\tBorden BOWS, hops down off the stage, and walks up the aisle, bowing, enjoying it all the way.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 109, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.5416666666666666 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 73, "heading": "INT. STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 608, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage -", "sentiment": 0.24944444444444444, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 107, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I don't see how Borden found him- I had him under wraps, I was careful.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Well, he did.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Sit, do you think it might be her? Olivia?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No.\tI don't. Cutter gestures at Root.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Shall we cut him down?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He's the Great Danton.\tLet him cut himself down.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter crouches over Angier, fixing a LONG SPLINT to his broken leg.\tBehind them, Root still hangs above the stage, groaning in protest.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Cutter helps Angier to his feet.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Angier stops to look at Cutter.", "order": 5 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 135, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.15555555555555559 }, { "verbosity": 98, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.32222222222222224 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Angier" ], "story_order": 74, "heading": "INT. STAGE -- LATER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 432, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage -", "sentiment": -0.010000000000000009, "time": "Later" } }, { "narrative_order": 108, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Need tickets, sir?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Scalper", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier, thinly disguised, leg in long metal brace, pushes through the crowd outside the box office.\tThe marquee: The Professor Performs His Masterpiece- THE ORIGINAL TRANSPORTED MAN!!On the box office: SOLD OUT THRU SUNDAY.\tAngier STARES.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier turns to the SCALPER.\tNods.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 18, "name": "Scalper", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Scalper" ], "story_order": 75, "heading": "EXT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 290, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.018750000000000003, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 109, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier slumps into a seat at the back of the PACKED theatre. ONSTAGE: Borden works through his show with a SUPERIOR DEGREE OF SHOWMANSHIP, even cracking a smile when called for.Working WITHOUT GLOVES, he makes much of performing tricks ONE-HANDED.\tHe is assisted by Olivia, who looks STUNNING.Borden performs ths Transported Man.\tBorden HAS DRESSED IT UP WITH ELECTRICAL APPARATUS.\tTwo large glass balls transmit SPARKS between one cabinet and the other along BARE WIRES.Another watches,\tanger rising as he watches Olivia's close RAPPORT with Borden.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 76, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 550, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.07991071428571428, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 110, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You weren't expecting me?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I was expecting you sooner, Robbie. Your message said \"afternoon\".Well, it takes a bit for me to get around these days...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He's taken everything from me.\tMy wife, my career...\tnow you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What do you mean?\tYou sent me to- Angier takes her by the shoulders, ROUGHLY.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I sent you to steal his secret- not to improve his act-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "That's my job-!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Or to fall in love with him!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You abandoned me to him!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I did everything you asked.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(challenging)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Yes?\tThen how does he do it?!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Cutter was right- it's a double.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Of course Borden said that-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He didn't say anything- he'd never say.\tI've seen things- make-up, glasses, wigs.\tWe don't use any of it for the show, but I've found it hidden backstage.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(scorn)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It's misdirection- he leaves those things lying around to make you think he's using a double.All the time?\tHe doesn't know when I'm looking-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "All the time, Olivia- that's who he is, that's what it takes- he lives his act, don't you see?!", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(beat)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "And just because you're sleeping with him doesn't mean he trusts you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You thing you can see everything, don't you?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But the Great Danton, is a blind fool.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 22 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "His notebook.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 24 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You stole it?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 26 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I borrowed it for tonight.\tI thought you'd be able to translate some of it, but now I realize-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 27 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I can't.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(scorn)", "type": "Parenthetical" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 28 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You can't.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 29 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(studies pages)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Olivia, no one could-It's a cypher- with a transposition that probably shifts every day of the diary.\tEven with the keyword it would take months to decode...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 30 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And without the keyword?Perhaps never.\tWe'll see.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 31 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No, we won't- if I don't get that back tomorrow morning, he'll know I took it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 33 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You can'r possibly think I'd let this go?\tThis is his diary, Olivia. All of his secrets are right here, in my hands.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 35 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(pleading)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Don't do this do me, Robert!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 36 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(shrugs)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Leave him.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 37 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He knows where I live!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 38 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I need to know his method.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 39 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(desperate)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It won't get your wife back, Robert.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 40 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I don't care about my wife- I care about his secret!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 41 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Look, I'll go to his workshop and stage a break-in-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 43 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He'll know it was you-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 44 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Yes, me, not you.\tUnderstand?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 46 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Robert?\tI have fallen in love with him.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 48 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Then I know how hard this had been hard for you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 50 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Olivia enters in to the darkness bedroom.\tShe strikes a match and lights one of the gaslights......and SCREAMS as the gaslight illuminates Angier, sitting in an armchair, cane leaning against the arm of the chair.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier RAPS his leg brace with his cane.\tHOISTS himself up.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Angier SLAPS her.\tShe shakes her head at him.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Angier shakes his head, furious.", "order": 14 }, { "content": "Olivia glares athim,\ttears forming in her eyes.", "order": 19 }, { "content": "She moves to her bed, REACHING below the mattress.", "order": 21 }, { "content": "Olivia tosses something at Angier: a CARDBOARD-BOUND NOTEBOOK.", "order": 23 }, { "content": "Angier starts leafing desperately through pages.", "order": 25 }, { "content": "Angier puts the cardboard-bound notebook into his pocket. Olivia, worried, holds out her hand for the notebook.", "order": 32 }, { "content": "Angier looks at her, incredulous.", "order": 34 }, { "content": "Angier stops, realizing what he said.\tCalms himself.", "order": 42 }, { "content": "Angier puts his hands GENTLY on her shoulders.", "order": 45 }, { "content": "Olivia nods, crying.\tStill scared.\tAngier drags his leg to the door.\tShe watches him go, torn.", "order": 47 }, { "content": "Angier looks at her, sympathetic.", "order": 49 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 1039, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.07287414965986395 }, { "verbosity": 923, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0.12294973544973546 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Olivia" ], "story_order": 77, "heading": "INT. APARTAMENT -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 2964, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Apartament -", "sentiment": 0.02482142857142857, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 111, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Notebook.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Then he's just getting started.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "CLOSE ON: SHATTERED GLASS, BROKEN PROPS AND CABINETRY. Borden and Fallon survey the WRECKAGE of their shop.\tBorden looks at Fallon.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Fallon nods.\tBorden sighs.\tWeary.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 40, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 78, "heading": "INT. BORDEN'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 204, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Borden'S Workshop -", "sentiment": -0.4, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 112, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm walking tonight, gentlemen.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Let him come.\tI don't care.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A small CROWD of autograph SEEKERS crowd the stagedoor. A BODYGUARD steps through the door and begins unshering them away as Fallon and Borden follow him through the door.The bodyguard hold the door to a carriage open and Fallon steps up.\tBorden stops at the door.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Fallon looks concerned.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Borden doffs his hat and walks onto the crowd street.Fallon steps down, reaches into the bodyguard's jacket and pulls out a PISTOL.\tHe checks that it's loaded and slips it into his own jacket.\t\tThen he sets off after Borden.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 58, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 79, "heading": "EXT. STAGEDOOR, PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 569, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Stagedoor Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.048611111111111105, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 113, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Fallon continues to follow Borden at a distance.\tBorden steps into a tobacconist's.\tFallon stops and idles at the street corner.As Fallon watches, acrooss the street, another man STOPS. Fallon slips back around the corner and looks:It's Angier, leaning on his cane.Borden emerges from the tobacconist and continues down the street, a cloud of pipe smoke drifting after him.Fallon waits for Angier to set off after Borden, then follows both men from a distance.Borden crosses to the same side of the street as Angier. Fallon picks up his pace and tries to cross the street but is HELD UP for a second by passing traffi.As he reaches the other side, Borden is gone, but he sees Angier dissappear down and alleyway.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 80, "heading": "EXT. STREETS, WEST END -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 712, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Streets West End -", "sentiment": -0.0670138888888889, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 114, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Fallon rounds the cornder and stops.\tThe alleyway is EMPTY.\t-- he has lost them.\tFinally, he sees an open, darkned doorway towards the end of the alleyway.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 81, "heading": "EXT. ALLEY -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 155, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Alley -", "sentiment": -0.03333333333333333, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 115, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Fallon stops at the doorway, his gloved hand gripping te doorframe.Angier stands at the other end of the hallway, watching him.Fallon takes a step towards him and CRASHES through the rotten floor to the basement below.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 82, "heading": "INT. HALLWAY -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 218, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hallway -", "sentiment": 0.1875, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 116, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'll live.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(to coffin)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You save me the trouble to making you an air hole!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Fallon drops heavily into an almost-vertical OPEN COFFIN.DISORIENTED, Fallon just glimpses CUTTER DROP THE LID INTO PLACE, shutting him in.\tCutter starts NAILING it down.A GUNSHOT TEARS through the lid of the box.\tCutter falls back, but is caught by Angier.Angier rolls Cutter off to one side.\tHe is clutching at a BLOODY WOUND on his arm.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angie picks up the hammer and continues NAILING.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 60, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.25 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 83, "heading": "INT. BASEMENT -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 458, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Basement -", "sentiment": -0.24000000000000005, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 117, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm impressed.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why's that?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're finally getting your hands dirty. This is what a good trick costs, Angier. Risk. Sacrifice.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The sacrifice, I'm afraid, is all going to be yours.\tUnless you give me what I want.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Which is?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Your secret.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "My secret?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Your method for the Transported Man. Fallon wouldn't tell me.\tIn fact, he doesn't talk at all.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(shrugs)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You have my notebook.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Useless without the keyword.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Write down your method Mr. Borden. Describe it in full.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I want the method not the keyword- I don't even know if the secret is in you notebook.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The keyword is the method.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Where is my ingeneur?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Is he", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How fast can you gid?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 23 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden picks up his way through the overgrown cemetary.\tHe hears a KNOCKING and turns: Angier is behind him, RAPPING on a broken headstone with the head of his cane.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden tries to gauge Angier's expression.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Angier pulls a sheaf of writing paper and a pencil stub from his pocket.\tHe offers them to Borden.", "order": 12 }, { "content": "Borden takes the paper and pencil and stares Angier in the eye, gauging him.Beat.Borden writes a SINGLE WORD on the top page and folds it up.", "order": 14 }, { "content": "Borden looks at Angier with a glint in his eye.", "order": 16 }, { "content": "Angier reaches for the folded paper, which Borden lifts out of reach.", "order": 18 }, { "content": "Angier pulls a SHOVEL free from a pile of dirt beside him. He STAKES it into a fresh pile of dirt in front of Borden. Borden looks at Angier, CONCERNED.", "order": 20 }, { "content": "Angier plucks the folded paper from Borden's hand.", "order": 22 }, { "content": "Angier movies away through the headstone, leaning heavily on his cane.\tBorden begins to DIG.", "order": 24 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 205, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.033333333333333326 }, { "verbosity": 391, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.23888888888888887 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Angier" ], "story_order": 84, "heading": "EXT. HIGHGATE CEMETARY -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1460, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Highgate Cemetary -", "sentiment": -0.04543650793650793, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 118, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How's the arm?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Still attached.\tDid you get your answer?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Our answer, Cutter.\tI haven't looked yet,\tI wanted you to share this.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I already know how he does it, Robert. The same way he always has, the same way we do.\tYou just want it to be something more.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Well, let's find out, shall we?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Cutter frowns, confused.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "T E S L A", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What does it mean?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(excited)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It means, Cutter, that we have a journey ahead of us.\tTo America.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(gentle, but definite)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Robert, listen to me.Obssession is a young man's game, I can't follow you any farther in this.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Then the rest is up to me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 16 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter is slumped in a chair by the wall, his arm bandaged. He smiles up at Angier, who sits down next to him.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier holds up the folded paper.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Cutter looks curiously at Angier.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Angier looks at Cutter, uneasy.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Angier opens the piece of paper.\tA large GRIN spreads across his face.\the turns it to Cutter- it reads-", "order": 9 }, { "content": "Cutter watches Angier's excitement.\tAwkward.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Angier looks at Cutter, uncomprehending.\tHe considers saying something.\tStops.\tRestraining himself.", "order": 15 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 205, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 277, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.07500000000000001 }, { "verbosity": 24, "name": "T E S L A", "sentiment": -0.4 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Cutter", "T E S L A" ], "story_order": 85, "heading": "INT. HOSPITAL -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 990, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hospital -", "sentiment": -0.04265873015873016, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 119, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I didn't know we'd be joined for dinner.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Absolutely.\tWe're celebrating.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Miss Wenscombe.\tMr.Fallon.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(to wine waiter)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Champagne.\tYour finest", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What are we celebrating, dear?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Well, we've hit upon a new trick, haven't we, Fallon?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What trick, Freddy?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(brittle)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Yes, \"Freddy\".\tWhat trick?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(loud)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I'm going to bury myself alive. Every night.\tThen someone's going to come along and dig me up!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(to waiter)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I'm not sure my husband needs-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Who are you to tell me what?!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Perhaps-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Perhaps, Mr.Fallon, you might escort Miss Wenscombe home.\tMy husband's being a bore.\tI see no reason for the two of you to suffer as well.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Good-night, Mrs.Borden.\tGood-night, Freddy.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "\"Freddy\"?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 22 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's my name.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not at home.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 24 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm not always at home.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 25 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alfred, why are you being like this?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 27 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Sarah, I had a terrible ordeal today. I thought I'd lost something very precious to me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 29 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 30 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I see.\tMore secrets.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 32 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Secrets are my life, Sarah.\tOur life.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 33 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "When you're like this, Alfred, I'm not seeing the real you.\tYou're treating me like your audience.Performing.\tI can't live with that.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 35 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Sarah sits by herself at a table for two.\tBorden ENTERSwith a swagger, Olivia beside him, Fallon behind.\tThe MAITRE D' hurries over, signaling WAITERS.\tSarah looks up.UNCOMFORTABLE.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The Waiters spirit another table and chairs to join Sarah's. Borden pulls out a chair for Olivia.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Olivia smiles cheerfully.\tFallon nods, embarrassed.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "The WAITER presents a bottle of champagne.\tBorden nods without looking at it.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "OTHER DINERS are glancing over.\tThe waiter uncorks the bottle with a muffled POP and pours champagne into Borden's glass.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Awkward silence.\tOlivia shifts in her seat.", "order": 16 }, { "content": "Fallon is on his feet, pulling back Olivia's chair.", "order": 19 }, { "content": "They leave.\tBorden glares at his wife.", "order": 21 }, { "content": "Sarah is clearly on the verge of tears.", "order": 26 }, { "content": "Borden, seeing her fistress, softnes.", "order": 28 }, { "content": "Borden looks at her speechless.\tShrugs helplessly.", "order": 31 }, { "content": "Sarah brushes away a tear.", "order": 34 }, { "content": "Borden just sits there.\tOffering nothing.", "order": 36 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 505, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0.1465909090909091 }, { "verbosity": 388, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.017272727272727283 }, { "verbosity": 70, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Sarah", "Borden", "Olivia" ], "story_order": 86, "heading": "INT. ELEGANT RESTAURANT -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1857, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Elegant Restaurant -", "sentiment": 0.04772727272727273, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 19, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...Borden's cypher is simple- unraveled by a single word. Now it takes only patience.\tAnd a passion to know his mind.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Aniger, with a SIGH, closes a CARDBOARD-COVERED NOTEBOOK. OPENS his LEATHER-BOUND JOURNAL.\tStarts to write.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier lloks up at his own reflection in the train window.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 117, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.023809523809523808 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 87, "heading": "INT. TRAIN, MOUNTAINS -- DUSK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 282, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Train Mountains -", "sentiment": 0.13214285714285715, "time": "Dusk" } }, { "narrative_order": 20, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr.Angier? Welcome to Colorado Springs.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Voice", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(disbelief)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "The whole town has electricity?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "No platform, no office, no sign.\tJust an electric streetlight which, as Angier watches, FLICKERS ON.\tAngier, leaning heavily on his cane limps over to the light and stares up at it as he's never seen one before.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier looks back and smiles.\tA driver is looking down expectantly from atop a STAGECOACH.\tAngier hands his cane up to the driver nd , with some difficulty, hitches his way up to the roof of the rig.\tAs he does, the town of Colorado Springs rises into view, a few hundred yards down the road, lit brightly with ELECTRIC STREETLIGHTS.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "The driver nods and WHIPS the horses into action.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 39, "name": "Voice", "sentiment": 0.8 }, { "verbosity": 31, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.2 } ], "characters": [ "Voice", "Angier" ], "story_order": 88, "heading": "EXT. TRAIN STATION -- DUSK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 674, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Train Station -", "sentiment": 0.1488888888888889, "time": "Dusk" } }, { "narrative_order": 21, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The Stagecoach flies along, inches from a precipitious drop. It rounds a corner and pulls to a halt in front of the CLIFF HOUSE INN, equal parts log cabin and crystal palace.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 89, "heading": "EXT. ROAD, PIKE'S PEAK -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 174, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Road Pike'S Peak -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 22, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Quit a reception.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're our first guest of the season, Mr.Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(opens guest book)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Your telegram didn't indicate how long you would be staying with us.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Manager", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(signs book)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "As long as it takes.I'll need a coach tomorrow to take me up the mountain.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The peak is closed, sit.\tFor scientific experimentation.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Manager", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiles)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "That's why I'm here.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The lobby\tis cavernous and immaculate.\tThe entire STAFF of the hotel - BELLBOYS, MAIDS, COOKS, and GARDENERS - are lined up along the sides like a regiment of soldiers. Angier reaches the reception desk and the smiling MANAGER.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 111, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.05 }, { "verbosity": 172, "name": "Manager", "sentiment": 0.03333333333333333 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Manager" ], "story_order": 90, "heading": "INT. CLIFF HOUSE INN -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 548, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cliff House Inn -", "sentiment": 0.010000000000000004, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 23, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You have to walk the reat, I'm afraid, sir.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Driver", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A stagecoach rumbles along a dirt track,\tThe driver pulls on his reigns and the coach pulls to a stop.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier nods.\tLowers himself down to the roadway.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 43, "name": "Driver", "sentiment": -0.6 } ], "characters": [ "Driver" ], "story_order": 91, "heading": "EXT. ROAD, PIKE'S PEAK -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 193, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Road Pike'S Peak -", "sentiment": -0.37777777777777777, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 24, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm amazed at how many of you newspaper writers can't read mu sign.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Shotgun", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not the welcome I was expecting.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I know you. You're that magician-the Great Danton.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(helps Angier up)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I'm Alley.\tI saw your show.\tIN London.\tSeven times- you guessed every object the audience had in their pockets.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Shotgun", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm sorry about the fence.\tPeople keep interfering with our work.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've come to see Tesla.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Beat.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've come a very long way.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Impossible, I'm afraid.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've brought a lot of money.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm sorry, Mr.Angier.\tI simply can't help you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'll be staying at the hotel. Indefinitely.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What am I holding?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Your watch.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 21 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier comes through the trees to find a wire fence with a sign: EXTREME DANGER- NO TRESPASSINGBeyond the fence is a COMPOUND of three BARNS.\tRising from the center barn is a 200ft steel TOWER capped with a GIANT STEEL BALL.\tGIANT ARCING BOLTS of electricity run down the tower from the ball.\tThe windows of the building RADIATH with BLUE EXPLOSIONS.Angier stops forwards, entranced, and threads his fingers through the fence.He is sent FLYING backwards -- the fence has been electrified.The tower is SHUT OFF- a door opens and a stout little MAN, shotgun under one arm, MARCHES up to the fence.\tHe uses a RUBBER PAD to pry open the fence and stands over Angier, who is CURLED on the ground, GROWNLING in pain, trying to stand.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Shotgun picks up Angier's cane and hands it to him.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Shotgun RECOGNIZES Angier, AMAZED.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier leans on his cane and gently brushes off the dirt.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "He built a machine for a- for a colleague of mine.\tA long time ago. Can you get me a meeting with him?", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Alley pulls the fence closed.", "order": 16 }, { "content": "Alley watches Angier walk away.\tHe pulls something from his pocket.", "order": 18 }, { "content": "Angier doesn't look back.", "order": 20 }, { "content": "Alley GRINS, opening his hand.\tHe is holding a gold watch.", "order": 22 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 228, "name": "Shotgun", "sentiment": 0.65 }, { "verbosity": 142, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.8 }, { "verbosity": 156, "name": "Alley", "sentiment": -0.3333333333333333 }, { "verbosity": 26, "name": "", "sentiment": -0.065 } ], "characters": [ "Shotgun", "Angier", "Alley", "" ], "story_order": 92, "heading": "EXT. CLEARING, PIKE'S PEAK -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1719, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Clearing Pike'S Peak -", "sentiment": 0.03629084967320262, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 25, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "April 3rd, 1893... a few days after he first met me...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We were too young men at the start of a great career...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier sits, the cardboard-bound notebook on the table in front of him. He makes a notations in his own journal as he deciphers Borden's words.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier runs his finger along the first line, translating...", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 54, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.016666666666666663 }, { "verbosity": 55, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.45 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Borden" ], "story_order": 93, "heading": "INT. HOTEL ROOM, COLORADO -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 311, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hotel Room Colorado -", "sentiment": 0.2571428571428572, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 37, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Borden writes as if no one but he understood the true nature of magic...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier closes Borden's notebook.\tHe looks across at a photograph of julia on the table.\t\tReaches for his own diary.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 72, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.425 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 94, "heading": "INT. HOTEL ROOM, COLORADO -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 187, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hotel Room Colorado -", "sentiment": 0.475, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 45, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mind if I join you?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Voice", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Tesla sends me down here during the storms.\tPerfect excuse to come shere a drink with the Great Danton.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Have you tried our Bourbon yet, Mr. Angier?\tIt matches the scenery nicely.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(to waiter)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Two of 'em.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(to Angier)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Beautiful, isn't it?\tI do miss New York, though.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why are you here?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The lightning lives here.\tAnd noit much else- our work is secret.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A cypher?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "My profession also deals in secrets.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's a rotating transposition that shifts every day of the dairy.\tSimple but time-consuming to translate once you have the five-letter keyword.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Which is?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We magicians have a circle of trust.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You have a circle of trust with someone whose dairy you stole?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Maybe I bought it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Magicians sell their secrets?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's how we pay for our retirements and how greats tricks outlive us.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're hoping to find a great secretin there?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 22 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've already found it.\tThat's why I'm here.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Tesla built one for another magician.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 25 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why would you want the same thing?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 26 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Call it a professional rivalry.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 27 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Tesla has built unusual machines for unusual people, but he would never talk about it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 28 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I understand discretion.\tI just want the machine.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 29 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Finish your drink.\tYou'll have a special appreciation for our work.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 31 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I thought it was a secret.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 32 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiles)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You're a magician.\tWho's going to believe you?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 33 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier stares down at the NOTEBOOK, making notes on a napkin. Through large windows a THUNDERSTORM batters Pike's Peak.Angier is the only guest in the hotel's massive dining room.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier looks around.\tAlley is standing by the table.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Alley sits, gesturing to a waiter.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Alley glances down at the notebook and Agier's scribbles.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Angier nods as Alley lifts the cardboard notebook.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Alley looks at the gibberish on the pages of the notebook.", "order": 12 }, { "content": "Angier smiles as he reaches for the notebook.", "order": 15 }, { "content": "Alley considers this.\tTaps the cover of the notebook.", "order": 21 }, { "content": "Angier reaches in his pocket and removes his own, leather- bound journal.\tHe tears a PAGE from it and hands it to Alley. Who unfolds it ans stares at it.", "order": 24 }, { "content": "Alley looks at Angier.\tThinking.", "order": 30 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 19, "name": "Voice", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 688, "name": "Alley", "sentiment": 0.3170864489046308 }, { "verbosity": 505, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.10000000000000002 } ], "characters": [ "Voice", "Alley", "Angier" ], "story_order": 95, "heading": "INT. DINING ROOM, CLIFF HOUSE INN, COLORADO SPRING -- DUSK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1955, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Dining Room Cliff House Inn Colorado Spring -", "sentiment": 0.2153223969013443, "time": "Dusk" } }, { "narrative_order": 46, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We do our tests when the townspeople are asleep- Mr.Tesla doesn't want to scare anyone.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not long now.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Our equipment requires a great deal of current.\tTesla eletrified the whole town in exchange for using the generators when we need to.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Where are the wires?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Exactly.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Where's the generator?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You saw it last week.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But that must be ten miles from here.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Fifteen.\tAnd I have to ride all of them before I get to bed.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(turns to leave)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I'll send word for you in a few days, Mr.Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 13 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The storm has abated.\tAngier's cane into the muddy ground as he follows Alley through the moonlit field.There are large glass GLOBES pushing out of the soil as if planted all around them.\tThey stop in the middle of the field, looking down at the electric LIGHTS of the town.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Alley checks his wacth by the moonlight.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "As they watch, the lights of Colorado Springs DISAPPEAR.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "The field around them EXPLODES with DAZZLING LIGHT.\tAngier laughs out in surprise- the field is full of a thousand large LIGHTBULBS, all glowing together.\tAlley bends down and picks up the nearest lightbulb -- as he does, the light in it extinguises.\tHe tosses the bulb to Angier. Except for the size, it's a normal lightbulb.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Angier bends and gently PUSHES the lightbulb into a random spot in the wet soil.\tThe lightbulb FLICKERS on again.", "order": 9 }, { "content": "Angier bends to pick up his lightbulb.\tAs he does, the light FADES in all of them, and the lights in town come back on.Angier is alone.", "order": 14 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 370, "name": "Alley", "sentiment": 0.125 }, { "verbosity": 79, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Alley", "Angier" ], "story_order": 96, "heading": "EXT. FIELDS, COLORADO SPRINGS -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1409, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Fields Colorado Springs -", "sentiment": 0.13261183261183263, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 69, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...hapiness that should have been mine.\tBut I was wrong.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Reading his account I realize that he never had\tthe life I envied.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The family life he craves one minute he rails against the next, demanding freedom.\tHis mind is a divided one...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier writing in his leather-bound journal.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier glances at Borden's notebook sitting on the desk.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier flips open the notebook.\tStaring at the coded writing.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 233, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 97, "heading": "INT. HOTEL ROOM, COLORADO -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 394, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hotel Room Colorado -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 79, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier, swinging his cane, walks slowly up the mountain road.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 98, "heading": "EXT. ROAD, PIKE'S PEAK -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 61, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Road Pike'S Peak -", "sentiment": -0.30000000000000004, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 80, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's perfectly safe.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "So this is the Great Danton.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr. Alley has effused about your act to me on any number of occasions.Something you did with pockets?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I saw a lecture you gave in London, several years ago.\tI'm flattered you agreed to see me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What's conducting the electricity?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Our bodies, Mr. Angier, are quite capable of conducting, and indeed, producing energy.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Have you eaten, Mr. Angier?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 12 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier stops, fearful. The lab is illuminated by thirty fot STREAMERS of electrical DISCHARGE that pour from the base of the tower.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "As Angier stares, a MAN begins to emerge from the very center of the CONFLAGRATION.Bolts SNAP and TRAIL after the man as he walks, in SILHOUETTE, towards Angier.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Tesla emerges from the ball of electricity, dressed as if he were on his way to the opera.\tHe brushes SPARKS from the sleeve of his jacket as he extends a band to Angier.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier returns the handshake.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Tesla keeps hold as Angier's hand.Angier, confused, does so.\tAlley hands him a lightbulb, which starts to glow as he grasps its metal base.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Tesla release Angier's hand. The bulb goes out.\tAlley takes it from the Angier who looks at the palms of his hands.", "order": 11 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 20, "name": "Alley", "sentiment": 0.5 }, { "verbosity": 242, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": 0.5 }, { "verbosity": 124, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Alley", "Tesla", "Angier" ], "story_order": 99, "heading": "EXT. TESLA'S LABORATORY -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1131, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Tesla'S Laboratory -", "sentiment": -0.028749999999999998, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 81, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alley has explained that you require a very interesting device.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I need something impossible.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're familiar with a phrase 'Man's reach exceeds his grasp'?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(off his look)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It's a lie. Man's grasp exceeds his nerve.\tThe only limits on scientific progress are these imposed by society.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The first time I changed the world I was hailed as a visionary.\tThe second time I was asked politely to retire.The world only tolerates one change at a time.\tAnd so here I am.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(gestures at laboratory)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Enjoying \"retirement\".", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looking at Angier)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Nothing is impossible, Mr. Angier. What you want is simply expensive.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alley says you are a stage magician. If a built you this device, you would be presenting it only as an illusion?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "If people thought the things I did on stage were real, they wouldn'tclap- they'd scream.\tThink of saving a woman in half.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr.Angier, the cost of such a machine-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Price is not an object.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Perhaps not.\tBut have you considered the cost?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm noit sure I follow.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I can make your machine, Mr. Angier. But I can also give you some advice...", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(pointed)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Go home.\tForget this thing.\tI can recognize an obsession.\tAs Mr. Alley could tell you, I myself an given to one now and then.\tIt will not doyou any good.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Have your obsessions done you no good?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "At first.\tBut I've followed them too long- I am their slave.\tTheir whipping boy. And one day they may choose to destroy me.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "if you understand an obsession then you know you won't change my mind.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiles)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "So be it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Will you build it?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I have already begun to build it, Mr. Angier. I hope you enjoy the mountain air.\tThis will take time.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 22 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier, Alley and Tesla are seated around a table on a decl overlooking a spectacular view.\tThey are eating sandwiches.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Tesla looks out at the mountains.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Tesla rises, washing his hands in a basin on a side table.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Tesla nods.\tConsidering.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Angier looks into Tesla's eyes.", "order": 18 }, { "content": "Tesla disappears into the lab.", "order": 23 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 1159, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": 0.07202380952380952 }, { "verbosity": 321, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.35 } ], "characters": [ "Tesla", "Angier" ], "story_order": 100, "heading": "EXT. DECK, LABORATORY -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1849, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Deck Laboratory -", "sentiment": 0.13578431372549019, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 92, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You must be curious to see what so much money had bought you, Mr. Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Fitting that you should be here for the maiden voyage.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Your hat.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You might want to stand back.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No, no.\tIt will be fine.\tMr. Alley, please proceed.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I don't understand-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Perhaps it would be best if you left us to it.\tWe'll see you next week?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 12 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Alley shows Angier in.\tTesla is sitting, reading.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Tesla RISES.\tLeads Angier to a back corner at the room and pulls a SHEET from a ten-foot tall apparatus- the ELECTRICAL MACHINE Angier used on stage in the opening of the film.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Alley FIRES a GENERATOR connected by thick cables to the machine. It RUMBLES into life, smoke pouring from the slats.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier takes off his hat and tries to hand it to Tesla.Alley intercepts the hat and lays it on a chalk hasmark directly underneath the machine.\tHe returns to the controls.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Without further ceremony, Alley FIRES the machine.Nothing happens.\tThen, as they watch, the GLOBE on top of the tripped FLASHES whits hot.\tBOLTS shooting out of it,wrapping themselves around the legs of the tripod.\tThe CHARGE reaches a FREEZY and then emits a loud BANG, as if it has broken the sound barrier.Suddenly the room is still.Tesla walks forward.\tLooks down into the pit.Alley joins him at the edge of the pit.\tAngier,\tlimping, is the last to arrive, locking into the pit--at the TOP HAT, which hasn't moved an inch.", "order": 9 }, { "content": "Tesla STARES at the hat as if trying to melt it with CONCENTRARION.\tAlley pulls Angier away from the pit.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Angier begins to protest but Alley gestures towards the door.", "order": 13 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 187, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": 0.17222222222222225 }, { "verbosity": 100, "name": "Alley", "sentiment": 0.3333333333333333 }, { "verbosity": 19, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Tesla", "Alley", "Angier" ], "story_order": 101, "heading": "INT. TESLA'S LABORATORY -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1511, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Tesla'S Laboratory -", "sentiment": 0.1269005847953216, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 98, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We paid him enough to keep him in beer- you wouldn't expect him to rock the boat.\tToday I learned Borden's view on the episode...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier sits with Borden's dairy.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 129, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 102, "heading": "INT. RESTAURANT, CLIFF HOUSE INN -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 161, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Restaurant Cliff House Inn -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 120, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier walks up to the hotel.\tA MOTORCAR is parked in front and TWO MEN are unloading it.\tOne of the men STARES at Angier as he enters the hotel.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 103, "heading": "EXT. CLIFF HOUSE INN -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 145, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Cliff House Inn -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 121, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I thought I had the place to myself.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Unexpected guests.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks out the window at the men)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Not very polite.\tA lot of questions. At first I thought they might work for the government.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Manager", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(lowers voice)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Worse.\tThey work for Thomas Edison.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Manager", "order": 4 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier walks to the reception desk.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier starts out the windo at the men unloading equipment.", "order": 5 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 39, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 144, "name": "Manager", "sentiment": 0.18333333333333335 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Manager" ], "story_order": 104, "heading": "INT. CLIFF HOUSE INN", "scene_metadata": { "size": 324, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cliff House Inn", "sentiment": 0.225, "time": null } }, { "narrative_order": 122, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Today, a most curious development...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier sits at the desk, deciphering Borden's diary.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 36, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.2 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 105, "heading": "INT. HOTEL ROOM, COLORADO -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 88, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hotel Room Colorado -", "sentiment": 0.2, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 126, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Today my mistress proves her truthfulness. Not to me, you understand.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I have been convinced since she led me to Root... today, Olivia proves her love\tfor me to you, Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Yes, Angier.\tShe gave you this noteboook at my request.\tYes, she led me to Root, and yes, Tesla is merely the key to my dairy, not to my trick. Did you really think I would part with my secret so easily after so much?\tGood-bye, Angier, may you find solace for your thwarted ambition back in yout American home.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier looks up from Borden's diary.\tPale. He flips pages and pages forward TO THE LAST ENTRY...", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier looks up from the notebook.\tMind reeling.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Angier STARES at the pages, unblinking.\tJUMPS to his feet...", "order": 5 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 481, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.09393939393939395 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 106, "heading": "INT. HOTEL ROOM, COLORADO -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 685, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hotel Room Colorado -", "sentiment": 0.08023809523809525, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 127, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "TESLA!", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(nothing)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "TESLA!!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "ALLEY, GET OUT HERE AND LET ME IN!!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier STRIDES up to the fence.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier takes his cane and starts running its METAL TIP across the eletrified fence- causing SPARKING and CRACKLING.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Alley emerges from the building, consufed.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 48, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 107, "heading": "INT. TESLA'S LABORATORY -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 245, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Tesla'S Laboratory -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 128, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've veen played for a fool!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Who by?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Tesla never made a machine like the one I asked for.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We never said he had.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You let me believe that he had, Alley!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You stole my money because your funding\twas cut off- you've been shooting sparks at my top hat, laughing at me all along while you use my money to stave off ruin.I've\tseen Edison's men-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Where?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "In the hotel.\tI've every mind to bring them up here myself-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "That would be unwise, Mr.Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It is true, sir, that you are your one remaining financier.\tBut we have not stolen your money...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Sir, my cat?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "When I told you I could make your machine I spoke the simple truth. Science is just a name for the art of rendering the exotic mundane.\tIt has no boundaries- its very purpose is to destroy boundaries.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Then why isn't the machine working?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Because exact science, Mr.Angier, is not an exact science.\tThe machine simply does not operate as expected. It needs continued examination.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Where did my top hat go?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Nowhere.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We've tried the damn thing a dozen times.\tAnd the hat went nowhere.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Which is why we need to rey a different material.\tIt may provoke a different result.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 22 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You don't expect me to handle the thing myself?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 24 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You are responsible for whatever happens to this animal, Doctor.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 26 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'll go.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 28 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Alley opens the door-\tAngier BURSTS IN past him, ENRAGED.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Tesla is holding a cage containing a large tabby CAT.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Tesla silences Alley with a tiny GLANCE.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Tesla gives Angier the slightest of smiles.", "order": 16 }, { "content": "Alley points to the top hat, which is sitting on a workbench.", "order": 20 }, { "content": "Tesla opens the cage and points the open end at Alley.", "order": 23 }, { "content": "Alley reluctantly reaches into the cage and pulls out the TERRIFIED CAT.\tHe jumps down into the pit and secures the animal bu its collar to a eye-hook sunk into the ground.", "order": 25 }, { "content": "Alley pulls himself out of the pit, and Tesla CHARGES the generator.The cat stares up at the machine around it and HISSES.Without ceremony, Tesla FIRES the machine.\tAs before, large BOLTS spew from the head of the machine, down towards the unseen cat.\tThe machine build to a DEAFENING ROAR, then sputters out.Silence.\tThe three men begin edging towards the pit.Suddenly, a terrifying SCREECH.\tThe cat is still there, still tied to the hook.Alley breathes a sigh of relief and starts to free the car. Tesla looks frustated.\tSuddenly, the cat bursts free of Alley and ROCJETS through the open side door of the lab.", "order": 27 }, { "content": "Angier limps after the cat.", "order": 29 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 429, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.5 }, { "verbosity": 385, "name": "Alley", "sentiment": 0.0888888888888889 }, { "verbosity": 398, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": 0.10714285714285714 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Alley", "Tesla" ], "story_order": 108, "heading": "INT. TESLA'S LABORATORY -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 2331, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Tesla'S Laboratory -", "sentiment": 0.08752834467120182, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 129, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier sees the cat disappearing along the edge of the building and into the forest beyond.Angier follows.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 109, "heading": "EXT. TESLA'S LABORATORY -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 106, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Tesla'S Laboratory -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 130, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Here, kitty, kitty.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier pushes his way through the dense undergrowth, trying to keep up, but the cat has disappeared.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Suddenly, a HORRIBLE SCREECHING reaches Angier.\tHe begins to follow the noise.He stops at the opening of a tiny GLADE, no more than ten feet across.Two IDENTICAL CATS are fighting viciously in front of Angier. He tries to separate the two animals, and succeeds in grabbing one.\tThe other cat RACES off.Angier takes a few steps after it, then FREEZES, staring at-TOP HATS.\tClustered in a small glads.\tThe first cat slinks its way through them.The SECOND BLACK cat jumps from Angier's hands- RACES into the glade, HISSING, SPITTING, CHASING the first cat into the woods beyond-Angier is left alone in the clearing, staring at the pile of dozens of IDENTICAL TOP HATS.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 19, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 110, "heading": "EXT. FOREST -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 784, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Forest -", "sentiment": -0.08697916666666666, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 131, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "So the machine was working?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I never bothered to check the calibration.\tThe hat never moved.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Alley", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "These things never quite work as you expect them to, Mr. Angier.\tThat's one of the principal beauties of science.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We'll need a couple of weeks to iron out the-", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks at hats)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "-problems with the machine.\tI'll send word when it's ready.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Don't forget your hat.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Which one is mine?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "They are all your hat, Mr. Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 10 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The top hats are in a pile on the dark.\tTesla is at the table, measuring two HATS with a pair of Calipers.\tAngier and Alley are watching.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Tesla looks carefully at the hat in his hands.\tIt has a tiny TEAR on the inside of the brim.\tHe picks up another hat.\tIt has the same TEAR.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier, still dazed, takes his cane and heads for the door.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Angier stops and looks at the pile of hats.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Tesla smiles at him.", "order": 11 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 45, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 63, "name": "Alley", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 273, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Alley", "Tesla" ], "story_order": 111, "heading": "EXT. PORCH, TESLA'S LABORATORY -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 794, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Porch Tesla'S Laboratory -", "sentiment": -0.041666666666666664, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 219, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...you want to be fooled.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A cat slinks its way through a pile of top harts, knocking one over as it disappears into the forest beyond.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "We are left alone in the glade, staring at the top hats- FADE OUT.CREDITS. END.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 25, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 112, "heading": "EXT. FOREST -- DAY -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 212, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Forest -- Day -", "sentiment": 0.3333333333333333, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 0, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Are you watching closely?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "T\tH\tE\tP\tR\tE\tS\tT\tI\tG\tE.TOP HATS.\tClustered in a small glade.\tAs we SUPER TITLES,a BLACK CAT slinks its way through them.\tAs TITLES END-", "order": 0 }, { "content": "A SECOND BLACK CAT races into frame, HISSING, SPITTING,CHASING the first cat into the woods beyond and we-", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 25, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 113, "heading": "TITLE:PRESTIGE", "scene_metadata": { "size": 265, "setting": "Titleprestige", "location": null, "sentiment": 0, "time": null } }, { "narrative_order": 142, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But I seem to have outstayed my welcome in Colorado.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The extraordinary is not permitted in science and industry.\tPerhaps you'll have more luck in your field, mystified.\tAs to the use of the machine...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Under cover of night, a group of FIGURES ransack the laboratory.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The figure begin setting FIRE to the sides of the laboratory.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 199, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": 0.5444444444444444 } ], "characters": [ "Tesla" ], "story_order": 114, "heading": "EXT. TESLA'S LABORATORY -- NIGHT -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 324, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Tesla'S Laboratory -- Night -", "sentiment": 0.5444444444444444, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 144, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "-Destroy it.\tDrop it to the bottom of the deepest ocean.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Such thing will only bring you misery.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Alley holds open the door to a coach. Tesla steps up intoit and looks back from the coach's open door, up the mountain.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "High on the mountain, the laboratory is ABLAZE.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Tesla folds himself into the coach, shutting the door as it moes off down the mountain.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 94, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": -0.1 } ], "characters": [ "Tesla" ], "story_order": 115, "heading": "EXT. COLORADO SPRINGS -- NIGHT -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 348, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Colorado Springs -- Night -", "sentiment": -0.05925925925925927, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 132, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Are we going to the zoo this afternoon, daddy?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Jess", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Daddy's got some business this afternoon.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But you promised.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Jess", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Did I?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Then go to the zoo we shall.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(gestures to newspaper)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Who's that?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "That's you, daddy?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Jess", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Daddy has some errands to run.\tI'll be back before you know it, so get ready.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We each have our vices.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Sarah.\tWhatever you may think, your only competitions for my affections is my little girl.\tI love you.\tI will always love you, and you alone.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You mean it today.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Absolutely.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "That makes it so much harder when you don't.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 20 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden's daughter, JESS, now four, runs into the room and tries to hop up into his lap.\tLaughing, he helps her up.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Jess nods at him, solemly.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Borden holds the newspaper open for her to look at.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "A large advertisement features a picture of Borden: The Professor- England's premiere magician!", "order": 9 }, { "content": "Borden picks up the girl off of his lap and stands.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Borden walks to the door.\tAs he does, Sarah enters, avoiding his eyes, then ducking him as he tries to kiss her.She reaches for the sherry decanter.\tHe watches her pour. Sarah looks at him, eyes red from crying.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Borden moves to her, gentle concern in his eyes.", "order": 15 }, { "content": "She looks into his eyes.\tFascinated.", "order": 17 }, { "content": "She turns from him.\tBorden watches her sadly.\tLeaves.", "order": 21 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 81, "name": "Jess", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 315, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.1625 }, { "verbosity": 85, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": -0.20625 } ], "characters": [ "Jess", "Borden", "Sarah" ], "story_order": 116, "heading": "INT. BORDEN'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1189, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Borden'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.008163265306122451, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 133, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "More shopping.\tShe doesn't like the smell of money, doesn't she?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The little lady wants to visit the Zoo, I thought you could take her. I'll do it tomorrow, if not.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks at his feet)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Sarah... she knows.\tAt least, she knows things aren't right.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks at Fallon, pleading)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Help me with her.\tTry and convince her that I love her.\tPlease.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden walks along a disused strecth of industrial canal that snakes through the poorer neighborhoods of the city. Borden wanders into a tunel.\tAnother man is waiting for him -- Fallon.Fallon hands Borden a folded piece of paper.\tHe studies it.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Fallon looks away.\tBorden tears up the paper.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Borden, embarrassed, pats Fallon on the shoulder and makesoff down the path.\tFallon sets off in the opposite direction.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 285, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.1425 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 117, "heading": "EXT. CANAL -- AFTERNOON", "scene_metadata": { "size": 739, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Canal -", "sentiment": 0.07956349206349204, "time": "Afternoon" } }, { "narrative_order": 134, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What is it. Freddy?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Please don't call me that.\tIt's nothing, just... sometimes things seem... wrong.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Freddy, I've told you before.\tWhen you're with me, you're with me.Leave your family at home where they belong.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm trying, Olivia.\tPlease.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'll get dressed.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I saw Fallon hanging around my house again, after you left.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "There's something about him I don't trust.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You trust me?", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(off her look)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Then trust Fallon- he protects the things I care about.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 11 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Olivia, barely wearing a dressing gown, answers the door to Borden.\tShe pulls him in, trying to draw him into a kiss, but he backs away.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Olivia looks at him.\tCold.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Borden watches her move down the hall.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Olivia comes back in, half-dressed.", "order": 9 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 247, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 175, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia", "Borden" ], "story_order": 118, "heading": "INT. OLIVIA'S APARTMENT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 671, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Olivia'S Apartment", "sentiment": -0.035185185185185194, "time": null } }, { "narrative_order": 135, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier walks out from the lobby.\tThe two MEN he saw before are loading up their automobile.\tSmiling, laughing.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 119, "heading": "EXT. CLIFF HOUSE INN -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 110, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Cliff House Inn -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 136, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The coach pulls to a stop.\tAngier and the driver look up. A plume of SMOKE is rising from further up the hill.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 120, "heading": "EXT. ROAD, PIKE'S PEAK -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 110, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Road Pike'S Peak -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 137, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier rounds the bend in the road and comes into view of the laboratory.\tHe FREEZES.The fence has been TORN DOWN.\tBeyond it, the LAB has been BURNED TO THE GROUND.\tThe metal tower is in SMOLDERING PIECES.\tEverything else is gone.Angier notices a piece of metal lying in the road near him, and, using his cane, flips it over.\tIt's Alley's sign warning trespassers to keep out.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 121, "heading": "EXT. CLEARING, PIKE'S PEAK -- MOMENTS LATER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 376, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Clearing Pike'S Peak -", "sentiment": -0.02777777777777779, "time": "Moments Later" } }, { "narrative_order": 138, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier takes down the picture of Julia from the mantel.\tHe studies it a second then puts it in the top of his packed suitcase.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 122, "heading": "INT. ANGIER'S ROOM, CLIFF HOUSE INN -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 126, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Angier'S Room Cliff House Inn -", "sentiment": 0.11481481481481481, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 139, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We're sorry to see you go, Mr. Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Manager", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We are sorry to see Mr. Tesla leaveas well.\tHe was very good to Colorado Springs.\tA very generous man.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Manager", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr. Angier?", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(Angier turns)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I didn't feel it was necessary to tell the other men about the box.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Manager", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The BELLBOYS wrestle with Angier's cases as Angier walks to the reception desk.\tThe manager smiles up at him.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier takes out his wallet and begins laying down bills.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier smiles up at him, absently and begins to leave.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier stops.What box? The manager smiles.", "order": 6 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 218, "name": "Manager", "sentiment": -0.0025000000000000113 }, { "verbosity": 0, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Manager", "Angier" ], "story_order": 123, "heading": "INT. LOBBY, CLIFF HOUSE INN -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 494, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Lobby Cliff House Inn -", "sentiment": -0.024365079365079378, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 140, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We never use these rooms in the off - season.\tIt's a shame.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Manager", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier follows the manager down a darkened hallway.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The manager stops at a set of DOUBLE DOORS and unlocks them. He pushes them open and ushers Angier through.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 59, "name": "Manager", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Manager" ], "story_order": 124, "heading": "INT. HALLWAY, CLIFF HOUSE INN -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 217, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hallway Cliff House Inn -", "sentiment": -0.051851851851851864, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 141, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "My dear Angier, you will find what you were looking for in the box.\tI apologize for leaving without saying goodbye...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier steps into the massive, elegant room.Standing on the dance floor is an ENORMOUS SHIPPING CRATE. Stencilled on one side \"COLORADO SPRINGS\"Angier walks up to the huge crate, awestruck.An envelope addressed to him has been stuck to the front. Angier stops it and begins to read.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 117, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Tesla" ], "story_order": 125, "heading": "INT. BALLROOM, CLIFF HOUSE INN -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 399, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Ballroom Cliff House Inn -", "sentiment": 0.22500000000000003, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 143, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alley has written you a thorough set of instructions.\tI add only one suggestion on using the machine-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Tesla", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The open crate sits empty at the side of a derelict stage. Angier, in shirt sleeves is running cables to the MACHINE, which is standing center stage.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 101, "name": "Tesla", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Tesla" ], "story_order": 126, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 250, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.05, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 145, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Tesla's warning is as unheard as he knew it would be.\tToday I tested the machine...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Taking precautions in case Tesla hadn't ironed out the kinks in its operation...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...if it went wrong I would not want to live like that for long...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But here, at the Turn,\tI must leave you, Borden...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier moves to one side of the stage where he makes a hash mark with a piece of chalk.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "He loads A GUN and places it next to the machine.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier THROWS THE SWITCH.\tThe machine GROANS into LIFE- SPARKING and GLOWING as it gets up to full power.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier closes his eyes for an instant, listening to its power, then THROWS HIMSELF INTO THE MACHINE.\tHE IS CONSUMED BY LIGHT...", "order": 6 }, { "content": "The WHITS becomes handwriting an a page and we are-", "order": 8 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 279, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.18181818181818182 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 127, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 698, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.0027272727272727336, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 148, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Stop it!\tJust stop it!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Deny it all you want- I know!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 2 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Jess sits at the foot of the stairs, listening to her parents SHOUT at each other in the living room.\tShe is CRYING.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 22, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 29, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Sarah" ], "story_order": 128, "heading": "INT. BORDEN'S HOUSE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 167, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Borden'S House -", "sentiment": -0.1625, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 149, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Sarah, it's not true!\tI've told you Olivia means nothing to me!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'll go yo her!\tI know what youreally are, Alfred!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(quietly firm)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Sarah.\tYou can't do that.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Sarah is WILD, eyes red, hair a mess.\tUtterly DISTRAUGHT Borden is trying to calm her.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 88, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": -0.21875 }, { "verbosity": 50, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Sarah" ], "story_order": 129, "heading": "INT. LIVING ROOM, BORDEN'S HOUSE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 238, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Living Room Borden'S House -", "sentiment": -0.10807291666666664, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 150, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'll do what I have to!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Sarah, you can't talk like this!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Jess looks up. Fallon is standing above her.\tListening.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Jess reaches up a hand.\tFallon takes it in his.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 23, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 32, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Sarah", "Borden" ], "story_order": 130, "heading": "INT. HALLWAY, BORDEN'S HOUSE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 157, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hallway Borden'S House -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 151, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I can't live like this!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(angry)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "What do you want from me!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(quiet)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I want you to be honest with me.\tNo tricks, no lies, no secrets.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Do you love me?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not today.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(whispers)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Thank you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sarah", "order": 10 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Sarah turn to face Borden.\tDeperate.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Sarah pauses.\tCatches her breath.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Borden calms.\tLooks into her eyes.\tNods.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Borden looks into her eyes.\tSincere.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Sarah takes this in.\tBorden watches, helpless.", "order": 9 }, { "content": "Borden watches her turn away from him.", "order": 11 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 112, "name": "Sarah", "sentiment": 0.4121212121212121 }, { "verbosity": 35, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Sarah", "Borden" ], "story_order": 131, "heading": "INT. LIVING ROOM, BORDEN'S HOUSE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 400, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Living Room Borden'S House -", "sentiment": 0.4121212121212121, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 152, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Jess reaches up to Fallon with her other hand.\tHe takes her gently in his arms.\tWe stay on Jess's tear-stained face over Fallon's shoulder as he carries her up the stairs.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 132, "heading": "INT. HALLWAY, BORDEN'S HOUSE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 171, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Hallway Borden'S House -", "sentiment": 0.037500000000000006, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 153, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "CLOSE ON A POSTER: Borden, in costume, looking intense: THE PROFESSOR- MASTER OF DARK FORCES.\tAs we PULL BACK we hear a GENTLE CREAKING... PULL BACK past a hanging PAIR OF FEET, one shoe missing... wider shows up that it is SARAH, HANGING BY HER NECK FROM A BEAM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SHOP.\tGently swinging.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 133, "heading": "INT. BORDEN'S WORKSHOP -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 306, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Borden'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 154, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter is finishing his meal at the bar. He goes to take a swig from his pint and FREEZES- at the bottom of the glass: A PLAYING CARD.\tHe looks around the bar.\t\tNo one he recognizes.\tHe reaches into the glass.Cutter pulls out the card- an ADDRESS is written up one side.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 134, "heading": "INT. PUBLIC HOUSE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 270, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Public House -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 155, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter\twalks along labyrinthine streets. Stops at an ABANDONED THEATRE. He looks up at the building, then enters.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 135, "heading": "EXT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 113, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 156, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Who's there", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Male Voice", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I- I'm looking for an old friend-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I heard about a booking...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Nice little theatre.\tGood up-and- coming magician.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You came back.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's a good to see you, John.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Good rehearsal space.\tBlind stagehands.\tI like it-", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(knowing smile)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You always had an eye for publicity.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I need your help,\tJohn.\tMy last show.\tA limited engagement.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Your last show?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A wise man once told me that obsession was a young man's game.\tI'm almost done.\tOne thing left...", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(points at crate)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "The real Transported Man.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You want to design a show around it?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "i don't want you backstage,\tI need you front of house, managing.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "i need you calling in any favours and connections you have left to get us the right booking for the run.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What sort of booking are you after?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The sort that Borden can't ignore.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 20 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter makes his way past the tattered box office and into the derelivt auditorium. In the middle of the room is the CRATE.\tCutter stands and stares at it.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Cutter turns.\tAngier is behind him, leaning on his cane. Beside Angier is a SECOND BLIND STAGEHAND.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Cutter sizes Angier up.\tLooks around the theatre.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Angier sits in one of the stalls.\tCutter follows suit.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Cutter stares at the crate.", "order": 14 }, { "content": "Cutter considers this.\tUncertain.", "order": 17 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 11, "name": "Male Voice", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 219, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.13333333333333333 }, { "verbosity": 488, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.18425324675324675 } ], "characters": [ "Male Voice", "Cutter", "Angier" ], "story_order": 136, "heading": "INT. ALBERT HALL -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1167, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Albert Hall -", "sentiment": 0.025093984962406026, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 157, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "This is the address, sir.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Driver", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A long, expensive CARRIEGE creeps out to a halt outside the abandoned theatre, and the confused driver pulls over.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The carriage opens, an imposing man in his 50's steps out, looks the place up and down, then heads inside.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 25, "name": "Driver", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Driver" ], "story_order": 137, "heading": "EXT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 245, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.22111111111111112, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 158, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr.Ackerman.\tIt's an honor to see you again, sir.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "When you said you only wanted to show me one trick it piqued my interest.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's a very special trick. Mr.Ackerman.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Ackerman.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Likewise, I'm sure.\tLet's get on, shall we?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(down to stage)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Turn it on, please.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Very pretty.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "That's it, Cutter?\tHe simply disappears?\tThat's not a trick.\tHe has to come back.\tThere has to be a-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "-a Prestige?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Voice", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Exactly-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(quiet, haunted)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Pardon me.\tIt's very rare to see... real magic.\tit's been many years since I've seen...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Are you interested in helping us?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(nods)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Yes. But you'll have to dress it up a little.\tDisguise it.\tGive them enough reason to doubt it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 20 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The man enters the auditoruim and stares downat the BRIGHTLY LIT STAGE.Cutter moves quickly up the aisle, hand outstretched.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Ackerman shakes Cutter's hand.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier has appeared.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Angier smiles.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "After a moment, the machine SPARKS INTO LIFE.\tELECTRIC BOLTS CASCADE from the GLOBE and SPLASH on the stage.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Angier smiles at Cutter and head back down the stage.\the STEPS himself into the machine and DISAPPEARS.The machine SPUTTERS out and is silent.", "order": 12 }, { "content": "Ackerman begins to turn around- then STOPS- ANGIER IS STANDING DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM.Ackerman is dumfounded.\tHe looks back down at the stage.", "order": 16 }, { "content": "Anckerman steadies himself;", "order": 18 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 107, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.4642857142857143 }, { "verbosity": 418, "name": "Ackerman", "sentiment": 0.21694444444444447 }, { "verbosity": 67, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.375 }, { "verbosity": 12, "name": "Voice", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Ackerman", "Angier", "Voice" ], "story_order": 138, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1245, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.16605599647266317, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 159, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(surprised)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Mr. Ackerman.\tWhen they said...I didn't think you'd be here in person.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I have an act for your venue.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(flustered)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Well, of course, sir...But I'm afraid I'm booked.\tThe Moscow Ballet.They're playing through next year.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Get rid of them.\tThis is a magical act.\tAn excellent one.\tI believe you booked his first engagement several years ago.\tThe Great Danton.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You really want me to- Ackerman stands.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'll do it.\tOf course.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Merrit", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiles)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "There will be one hundred performances.\tNo more, no less. Five perfomances a week.\tNo matinees, no weekends.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiles)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "And that's what you'll be charging for each ticket.\tGood day.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Ackerman", "order": 11 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Merrit sits eating a sandwich.\tThe door to his office opens and ACKERMAN strides in.\tMerrit STRUGGLES to his feet.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Ackerman sits without being asked to.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Ackerman picks up a pen and paper from Merrit's desk.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Ackerman scribbles onto the paper and hands it to Merrit.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Ackerman sweeps out of the room, leaving Merrit dumbfounded, staring at the scrap of paper in his hands.", "order": 12 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 233, "name": "Merrit", "sentiment": -0.13333333333333333 }, { "verbosity": 334, "name": "Ackerman", "sentiment": 0.38541666666666663 } ], "characters": [ "Merrit", "Ackerman" ], "story_order": 139, "heading": "INT. STAGE MANAGER'S OFFICE, PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 970, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage Manager'S Office Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.24393939393939396, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 160, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You haven't spopken about her, Freddy. Not once.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Who?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Don't be cruel.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why would I talk about her to you?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Because she was part of your life and now she's gone.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "She wanted to meet me the day before she killed herself.\tSaid she had something to tell me about you.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks away)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I was such a coward, I couldn't bring myself to face her.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks at Borden)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "What would she have said, I wonder?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(snaps)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You want the truth about me, Olivia?", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(she nods, wary)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I never loved Sarah.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(appalled)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You married her, had a child with her-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Part of me loved her.\tBut part of me didn't.\t\tThe part that found you. The part that's sitting here now.\tI love you.\tThat is the truth that matters.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You could be sitting in some other restaurant talking to some otherwoman about me that way.\tIt's unhuman to be so cold.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "By the way, have you seen who's opened at the Pantages?", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(Borden shakes head)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "The Great Danton.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He's back?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "After two years.\tAnd he has a new trick.\tThey're saying it's the best that London's ever seen.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "If you could see the look on your face, Professor.\tYou should go to him- you deserve each other.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Olivia", "order": 18 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Olivia and Borden are seated across from each other, finishing their meal.\tOlivia watches Borden eat.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden says nothing.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Olivia tosses her napkin on her plate.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Borden watches her rise from the table.\tShe looks at him.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Borden cannot hide his reaction.", "order": 17 }, { "content": "Olivia smiles at him and leaves.", "order": 19 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 728, "name": "Olivia", "sentiment": 0.21704545454545454 }, { "verbosity": 252, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.2125 } ], "characters": [ "Olivia", "Borden" ], "story_order": 140, "heading": "INT. RESTAURANT -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1342, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Restaurant -", "sentiment": 0.23512396694214874, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 161, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Ladies and gentlemen, my first trick of the evening is one that involves considerable risk.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(removes his coat)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Anyone in the audience who would be irrevocable damaged by seeing a man drown should leave now, for when I tell you that the young lady who taught performing it, you will understand the seriousness of the danger involved.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden, in disguise, takes his seat halfway along the aisle. The lights dim.\tCurtains RISE on a simple stage.\tBare except for a WATER-FILLED GLASS TANK.Borden STIFFENS in his seat, perplexed.Angier limps onto the stage.\tAddresses the audience.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden watches the hook descend from the flies.\tRemembering.INSERT CUT: Borden STARES as Angier desperately BRUSHES the water from Julia's face.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 312, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.15 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 141, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 717, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 162, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "In my travels I have seen the future, and it is a strange future indeed. The world is on the brink of new and terrifying possibilities.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Man's reach exceeds his IMAGINATION!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier steps forward as another curtain is drawn up behind him, revealing TESLA'S MACHINE.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The audience RECOILS in terror as the MACHINE is STARTED and BOLTS fly from it.\tSMOKE drift over the audience.Borden inches forward in his seat.\tAngier stands in front of the machine, silhouetted by the FRENZY of electricity behind him.\tHe TOSSES his cane to his assistant and steps into the machine.The audience SCREAMS as large bolts BLAST from the machine and wrap themselves around ANGIER'S ARMS and legs.Borden is watching very carefully.\tAngier is almost impossible to see as the machine builds to a climax, but, just before it does; Borden catches a glimpse of ANGIER'S BODY FALLING THROUGH A TRAP DOOR.The machine sputters out.\tAngier has DISAPPEARED.\tThe lights are dim.\tA FOLLOW SPOT FIRES into the BOXES, audience looks up with a gathering commotion-ANGIER IS STANDING ON THE RAIL OF THE ROYAL BOX, thirtyfeet above stalls. He smiles down at the audience.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "The audience breaks into a MASSIVE STANDING OVATION.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 171, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": -0.18272727272727274 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 142, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- LATER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1179, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.10343819143819144, "time": "Later" } }, { "narrative_order": 163, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why only 100 performances?\tDo his methods dictate it, or is it simply a publicity move?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Fifty yards in a second.\tAnd all I know is that he uses a trapdoor.What's going on under that stage?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Fallon is at the workbench, staring at a sketch of Tesla's machine.\tBorden paces, AGITATED.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden walks back and stares at the sketch.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 187, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 143, "heading": "INT. BORDEN'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 321, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Borden'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 164, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The theatre is closed, and tree BLIND STAGEHANDS are wreastling a TARP-WRAPPED BOX onto a cart in the alleyway behind the theatre.Fallon is watching from the shadows.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 144, "heading": "EXT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 166, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.3333333333333333, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 165, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Fallon shadows the cart as it slowly makes its way.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 145, "heading": "EXT. LABYRINTHINE STREETS -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 51, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Labyrinthine Streets -", "sentiment": -0.30000000000000004, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 211, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not knowing if I'd be the Prestige....", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Or the man in the box...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A drowing tank, identical to the one we have already seen. A blind stagehand sits behind it, smoking.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Suddenly, a trap door flashes open as Angier falls from the stage door and SPLASHES into the tank.\tThe lid snaps shut.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Angier pounds on the glass, frantic.\tThe blind stagehand continues smoking.\tOblivious.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 62, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 146, "heading": "INT. UNDER THE STAGE -- EVENING -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 367, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Under The Stage -- Evening -", "sentiment": -0.35, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 212, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Two hands SLAM shut on the lid of a birdcage. The blind stagehand are wrestling a LARGE CRATE onto a cart in the alleyway behind the theatre.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 147, "heading": "INT. WORKSHOP -- DAY -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 141, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Workshop -- Day -", "sentiment": -0.22857142857142856, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 166, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Fallon watches from further down in the alley as the Blind Stagehands unload the box onto a dolly and wheel it through the stage door. He moves closer, then STOPS. Seeing something. CUTTER has emerged from a nearby doorway and slipped through the stage door.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 148, "heading": "EXT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- LATER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 258, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.21851851851851853, "time": "Later" } }, { "narrative_order": 167, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "WHO'S THERE!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Blind Stagehand", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's Cutter.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What do you want?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Blind Stagehand", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm looking for Angier.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You found him.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I told you, John- I don't want you backstage on this one.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What are they doing?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Disposing of the Prestige materials.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What's down there? Angier looks at him, serious.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Perhaps not.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 14 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The blind stagehand wheel the tarp-covered box to two LARGE METAL DOORS in the floor of the auditorium and start hooking it up to a winch.\tThe metal doors open with a metal HOWL... Cutter slips down the aisle.\tWATCHING.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The man turns precisely to Cutter, flasing his white eyes.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Cutter turns.\tAngier approaches.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Cutter looks down at the BLACK HOLE in the floor.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Do you really want to know? Cutter considers Angier's grave tone.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Cutter leaves by the stage door.", "order": 15 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 29, "name": "Blind Stagehand", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 115, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.15555555555555559 }, { "verbosity": 107, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Blind Stagehand", "Cutter", "Angier" ], "story_order": 149, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 706, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.031904761904761894, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 168, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "They do this every night.\tAfter each performance?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We're done.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(turns to Fallon)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Let him have this trick.\tYou're not to go back there.\t\tI don't need to know his secret.\tLeave him alone.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden sits at his work bench.\tFallon fiddles with his howler hat.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Fallon nods.\tBorden gets to his feet with a sigh.\tTurns to a POSTER on the wall- \"The Great Danton Perform THE REAL TRANSPORTED MAN- 100 SHOWS ONLY\" He studies the image of Angier.\tThere is a small DEVIL looking over his shoulder.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Fallon puts on his hat with a shrug.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 164, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": -0.2 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 150, "heading": "INT. BORDEN'S WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 513, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Borden'S Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.05833333333333335, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 169, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "A packed house.\tMany hands raised.\tMove in on a BEARDED MAN, his gloved hand tentatively rising into the air. IT IS BORDEN. A GLAMOROUS ASSISTANT beckons Borden from the aisle.\tHe shuffles along his row towards her.\tEmbarrassed.Borden and four other VOLUNTEERS follow the Assistant down towards the stage...On which stands Angier, leaning on his cane, smiling.\tLooming over him is the large and complex ELECTRICAL MACHINE.\tBorden STARES at the machine as he mounts the stage.Borden, FASCINATED, and the other volunteers look over the vast machine.\tAs Angier GESTURES theatrically at the various features of the metal and glass apparatus.As the Assistant leads the Volunteers to the side of the stage, Borden slips through the gas at the side of the curtains-", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 151, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 758, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.0009700176366842999, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 170, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Where'd you think you're going?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Stagehand", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm part of the act, you fool!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Who was that?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "-looks around, disoriented, then darts for some stairs leading below stage where he runs into a burly STAGEHAND.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden pulls off his beard.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "The Stagehand raises his eyebrows and steps aside.\tBorden RACES down below the stage.\tCutter approaches the Stagehand.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 31, "name": "Stagehand", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 30, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 13, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Stagehand", "Borden", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 152, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE, BACKSTAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 331, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre Backstage -", "sentiment": -0.15555555555555559, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 171, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier throws switches on his machine.\tAs it GROANS into life, SPARKING and CRACKLING, Angier gares at it, forgetting his audience.\tEntraced.\tPossessed.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 153, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE, ONSTAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 152, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre Onstage -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 172, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden fumbles through the darkned area, lit by flashes and sparks through gaps in the boards of the stage above.\tHe GASPS as a flash illuminates a STAGEHAND with SOLID WHITE EYES sitting nearby.\tBorden waves a hand in front of the Stagehand's face.\tHe is BLIND.\tBorden moves on.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 154, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 279, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Stage -", "sentiment": -0.125, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 173, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier, facing the audience, steps backwards into the machine. He looks up at the electricity sparking just above him.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 155, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE, ONSTAGE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 118, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre Onstage -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 174, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden lights a MATCH.\tIn front of him is a LARGE GLASS TANK FILLED WITH WATER, ITS LID PROPPED OPEN.\tBorden frowns.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 156, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 116, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Stage -", "sentiment": 0.20476190476190478, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 175, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "BOLTS of electricity draw inwards, wrapping Angier in a ball of LIGHTING which CRACKS-", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 157, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE, ONSTAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 86, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre Onstage -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 176, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The ROOM fills with lIGHT as a TRAPDOOR snaps open and a BODY DROPS INTO THE TANK.\tThe lid of the tank and trapdoor above SNAP SHUT, leaving the tank, and Borden, in complete DARKNESS.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 158, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 184, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Stage -", "sentiment": 0.125, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 177, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The Machine sputters to a stop.\tAngier is GONE.\tThe audience sits, WAITING.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 159, "heading": "INT. PANTAGE'S THEATRE, ONSTAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 75, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Pantage'S Theatre Onstage -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 178, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What did you do?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden the tank, ANGIER IS DROWING.\tHis rolling EYES fixedon Borden, he POUNDS desperetely on the thick glass, SCREAMING BUBBLES...Borden, HORROFIED, tries forcing the lif ot the tank open. It's sealed shut. He leaves the tank and begins searching around under the stage. He finds a SPANNER.Borden SMASHES again and again at the glass of the tank, which spiders, then CRACKS, and finally GIVES WAY.WATER bursts from the tank, sweeping Angier's body into Borden, and both of them onto gournd.Above them we can hear YELLING.\tBorden rolls Angier onto his side and POUNDS on his back.\t\tWater and blood OOZE from the man's lungs.\tHis eyes are dilated and lifeless:ANGIER IS DEAD.Borden is frozen, unable to move.Cutter appears behind him, SHOCKED by what he sees.\tBorden turns to look at him, his eyes wild with confusion.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 16, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 160, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE STAGE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 834, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Stage -", "sentiment": -0.2111111111111111, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 2, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...or a man.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He show you this object, and pledges to you its utter normality...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Perhaps he asks you to inspect it...Bearbed Man, FASCINATED, and other Volunteers look over the vast machine.\tAs angier GESTURES theatrically at the various features of the metal and glass apparatus.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...to see that it is indeed real...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...unaltered...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 8 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A packed house. Many hands raised. Move in on a BEARDED MAN, his gloved hand tentatively rising into the air.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "A GLAMOROUS ASSISTANT beckons Bearded Man from the aisle. He shuffles along his row towards her. Embarrassed.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Bearbed Man and four other VOLUNTEERS follow the Assistant down towards the stage...On which stands the magician, leaning on his cane, smiling. This is ROBERT ANGIER, 35, an American. Looming over him is a large and complex ELETRICAL MACHINE.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "As the Assistant leads the Volunteers off the stage, Bearded Man slips through the gap at the side of the curtains-", "order": 7 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 327, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.025 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 161, "heading": "INT. SCALA THEATRE, LONDON -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 902, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Scala Theatre London -", "sentiment": 0.0007936507936507908, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 3, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...normal.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Where'd you think you're going?!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Stagehand", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But, of course, it probably isn't...Bearded Man pulls off his beard, revealing the face of ALFRED BORDEN, mid 30's.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm part of the act, you fool!The Stagehand raises his eyebrows and steps aside.\tBorden RACES down below the stage.\tCutter approaches the Stagehand.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Bearded Man", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Who was that?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "-looks around, DISORIENTED, then darts for some stairs leagind below stage where he runs into a burly STAGEHAND.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 138, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 32, "name": "Stagehand", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 148, "name": "Bearded Man", "sentiment": -0.15555555555555559 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Stagehand", "Bearded Man" ], "story_order": 162, "heading": "INT. STAGE THEATRE, BACKSTAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 430, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Stage Theatre Backstage -", "sentiment": -0.07777777777777779, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 4, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "As the machine GROANS to life. SPARKING and CRACKLING, Angier gazes at it, forgettig his audience.\tEntranced.\tPossessed.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 163, "heading": "INT. SCALA THEATRE, ONSTAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 120, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Scala Theatre Onstage -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 5, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden fumbles through the darkned area, lit by flashes and sparks through gaps in the boards of the stage above.\tHe GASPS as a flash illuminates a STAGEHAND with SOLID WHITE EYES sitting nearby. Borden waves a hand in front of the", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 164, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 231, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Stage -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 7, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The magician takes the ordinary something...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier, facing the audience, steps into the machine.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 44, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.25 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 165, "heading": "INT. SCALA THEATRE, ONSTAGE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 96, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Scala Theatre Onstage -", "sentiment": -0.25, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 8, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...and makes it do something extraordianry.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden lights a MATCH. In front of him is a LARGE GLASSTANK FILLED WITH WATER, ITs LID PROPPED OPEN. Borden frowns.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 43, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 166, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 160, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Stage -", "sentiment": 0.20476190476190478, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 10, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But you won't find it...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Bolts of electicity draw inwards, wrapping Angier in a ball of light which CRACKS-", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 24, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 167, "heading": "INT. SCALA THEATRE, ONSTAGE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 106, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Scala Theatre Onstage -", "sentiment": 0.4, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 11, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Because of course, you're not really looking...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...you don't really want to know.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The ROOM fills with light as a TRAPDOOR snaps open and a BODY DROPS INTO THE TANK.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The lid of the tank and trapdoor above SNAP SHUT, leaving the tank, and Borden, in complete DARKNESS.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 80, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.05 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 168, "heading": "INT. BENEATH THE STAGE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 263, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Beneath The Stage -", "sentiment": 0.09999999999999999, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 16, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And did Robert Angier, the Great Danton, your employer, get to that final part of his trick that night?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Prosecutor", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No, sir. Something went wrong.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What went wrong?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Prosecutor", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I saw a someone head below the stage... I followed... and I found Borden-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "-watching Mr. Angier drown in a tank.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Would you describe your occupation to the jury please, Mr.Cutter?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Prosecutor", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm an ingeneur. I design illusions and construct the apparatus necessary for perfoming them.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "And for how long had you been Mr.Angier's \"ingeneur\"?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Prosecutor", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Eight years.\tI was privvy to the secrets of his entire act.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "So, Mr.Cutter, was this water-filled tank beneath the stage part of Mr.Angier's illusion- the illusion billed as \"THE REAL TRANSPORTED MAN\"?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Prosecutor", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No, sir. The tank had been used for the first trick, then taken offstage. Borden must have put it under the trap door after the interval.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How large was this tank?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Defender", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The sort of tank used for underwater escapes- four or five hundred gallons.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How do you think Mr.Borden was able to move the tank under the trap door without anyone noticing?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Defender", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Ask him- he's the magician.Titters from the gallery.\tThe Defenser turns to the JUDGE.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(impatient)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I ask again that this man explainthe mechanics of Mr.Angier's illusion.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Defender", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(angry)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "If I reveal my magician's secrets here in open court, I'll be unemployable and the secrets will be worthless.\tThe Real Transported Man is the most sought-after illusion in the business and I have te right to sell it on.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr.Cutter, I see your predicament but we are talking about a capital offence- Alfred Borden's life hangs in the balance.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "If you were prepared to disclose the details to me in private, I might be able to judge their relevance to the case.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(addresses lawyers)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Might this be an acceptable compromisse?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 23 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The PROSECUTOR turns to face the witness in the box: Cutter.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Cutter points at the dock: Borden is there, CHAINED TO THE FLOOR. FLANKED BY GUARDS. Cutter POINTS.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Cutter looks across at Borden, who is absently tapping his hand against the rail- it is MUTILATED, MISSING 2 1/2 FINGERS. The DEFENDER STANDS.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "The Judge considers this.\tHe looks at Cutter.\tSympathetic.", "order": 20 }, { "content": "Cutter looks down.\tQuiet.", "order": 22 }, { "content": "Amid murmurs of\tassent, the Judge ADJOURNS the proceedings.As the Guards begin the complex ritual of unlocking Borden's chainsa from the floor, Borden's looks across the courtroom:The LITTLE GIRL from the opening stands in the gallery, looking back at him.\tBorden gives her a little WAVE.\tShe waves back, then is GUIDED OUT by a man wearing GLOVES and BOWLER HAT- this is FALLON.\tHe nods at Borden.", "order": 24 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 377, "name": "Prosecutor", "sentiment": 0.2375 }, { "verbosity": 808, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.05446428571428571 }, { "verbosity": 192, "name": "Defender", "sentiment": 0.35714285714285715 }, { "verbosity": 276, "name": "Judge", "sentiment": 0.25 } ], "characters": [ "Prosecutor", "Cutter", "Defender", "Judge" ], "story_order": 169, "heading": "INT. COURTROOM -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 2472, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Courtroom -", "sentiment": 0.0682367149758454, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 39, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(pointing)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It's all laid out down the end, you honour.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Policeman", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What's in there?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Angier's machine.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You built this, Mr.Cutter?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(shakes head)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Oh\tno. This wasn't built by a magician... it was built by a wizard.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(off look)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "A man who can actually do the things a magician pretends to...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "your honour, what will happen to these things when the trial is over?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "They've benn sold to a Lord Caldlo. An avid collector, apparently very interested in the case.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Don't let him take this.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Why ever not?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's dangerous.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm sure beneath its bells and whistles it's get some simple and disappointing trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The most disappointing of all- it has no trick.\tIt's real.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "This is the tank Angier drowned in?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "This lets the performer's hands reach the trick padlock...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A standard magical apparatus for escapes?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "With one important difference...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 24 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "This isn't a trick lock... it's been switched out for a real one.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 26 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What a way to kill someone.\tWhy in God's name go to such lengths?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 28 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "These are magicians, you honour. Showmen.\tMen who live by dressing up plain and sometimes brutal truths to amaze. To shock.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 29 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Even without and audience?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 30 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(looks at Judge)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "There was and audience.See, the water tank had a particular signinficance for the two men...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 32 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A POLICEMAN opens the door for the Judge and Cutter.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The Judge NODS.\tThe Policeman exits, LOCKING them inside.The Judge follows Cutter, approaching a collection of magical apparatus, including a MASSIVE CRATE.\tCutter looks up at it with AWE, touching the side where it says\t\"COLORADO SPRINGS\".", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Cutter OPENS it, revealing metal and glass MACHINERY within.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Cutter closes the crats.\tThe JUDGE turns to other props.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "The Judge is staring at a large glass tank.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "The Judge looks over.\tCutter is touching the crate.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "The Judge looks at Cutter.\tSmiles indulgently.\tTurns.", "order": 18 }, { "content": "Cutter turns to look at the empty, smashed glass of the tank.Nods.\tCutter indicates the top of the tank, where there is a PADLOCK.\tCutter pushes down on a panel of the lid-", "order": 20 }, { "content": "-a small section POPS open.", "order": 22 }, { "content": "Cutter grabs the PADLOCK.\tRattles it.", "order": 25 }, { "content": "The Judge stares at the tank, appaled.", "order": 27 }, { "content": "Cutter stares at the tank-INSERT CUT: ANGIER SCREAMING BUBBLES.", "order": 31 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 43, "name": "Policeman", "sentiment": -0.15555555555555559 }, { "verbosity": 401, "name": "Judge", "sentiment": 0.09722222222222222 }, { "verbosity": 682, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.03180615680615681 } ], "characters": [ "Policeman", "Judge", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 170, "heading": "INT. EVIDENCE ROOM, WARHOUSE -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 2067, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Evidence Room Warhouse -", "sentiment": 0.06723063973063974, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 43, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alfred Borden, you have been found guilty of the murder of Robert Angier. You will, in one month's time, be hanged by the neck until dead.\tMay the Lord have mercy on your soul.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter sits in the CROWDED GALLERY.\tBorden, in the dock, SCANS the crowd.\tFinally SPOTS Fallon pushing to the front- he is alone.\tBorden stares at him.\tFallon shakes his dead.Borden is prompted to stand by two GUARDS as the Judge enters. The JUDGE has a piece of black cloth draped over his wig.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden barely reacts.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 176, "name": "Judge", "sentiment": -0.35 } ], "characters": [ "Judge" ], "story_order": 171, "heading": "INT. COURTROOM -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 492, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Courtroom -", "sentiment": -0.1633333333333333, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 179, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alfred Borden, you have been found guilty of the murder of Robert Angier...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A MORTICIAN pulls back a sheet draped over a CORPSE.Angier's lifeless eyes stare up at us.\tCutter looks at Angier, the up at the Mortician.\tNods.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 75, "name": "Judge", "sentiment": -0.5 } ], "characters": [ "Judge" ], "story_order": 172, "heading": "INT. MORQUE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 220, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Morque -", "sentiment": -0.25, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 180, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You will, in one month's time, be hanged by the neck until dead.\tMay the Lord have mercy on your soul.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Judge", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "borden stands chained to the dock.\tThe JUDGE has a piece of black cloth draped over his wig.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 102, "name": "Judge", "sentiment": -0.2 } ], "characters": [ "Judge" ], "story_order": 173, "heading": "INT. COURTROOM -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 194, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Courtroom -", "sentiment": -0.18333333333333335, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 181, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr.Cutter?", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(Cutter turns)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Owens.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Thank you for coming, Mr.Owens. It's fallen to me to dispose of Mr.Angier's equipment.\tLooking at the manifest, it's cleat that Lord Caldlow has purchased the bulk of the items.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Mr.Cutter, if you needed to know where to deliver the items you surely could have just-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's not just that, Mr.Owens.\tThere is a particular item", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(turns to crate)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "This time, in fact, that I wish to... well, that is to say, I want to-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You wnat to buy it instead.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I suppose so, yes.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(off look)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "This is the machine?I'm afraid Lord Caldlow was adamant about procuring this particular item.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Perhaps if I dould talk to Lord Caldlow in person.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Out of the question, I'm afraid.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "of course, I suppose... if, in the course of your delivery arrangements your paths were to cross... I can't stop you from speaking your mind.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 13 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "A POLICEMAN shows Owens into the room, walking him past all of the equipment to the far end where Cutter stands staring at the MACHINE'S CRATE.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "They shake hands.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Owens moves closer to the crate.\tSees the COLORADO SPRINGS stencil.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Cutter nods.\tOwens starts to walk away.\tTurns.", "order": 12 }, { "content": "Cutter nods.", "order": 14 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 396, "name": "Owens", "sentiment": 0.03333333333333334 }, { "verbosity": 371, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.16666666666666666 } ], "characters": [ "Owens", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 174, "heading": "INT. EVIDENCE ROOM, WAREHOUSE -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1092, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Evidence Room Warehouse -", "sentiment": 0.022916666666666672, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 17, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm going to have to ask you to turn out your pockets.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Captain", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Not my idea, sir.\tThe Warden saw his show in Manchester last year where he vanished into thin air- he's convinced he'll try an escape.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Captain", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I told him the only way Borden's going to disappear is if I leave him out with the others immates.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Captain", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(to warders)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Check the locks.\tTwice.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Captain", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "My name is Owens- I'm a solicitor.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I represent Lord Caldlow, and accomplished amateur magician and historian of magic-How much?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "OWENSLord Caldlow is interested in-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(cold)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "How much for my tricks?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Five thousand pounds.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Talk to Fallon, my ingenuer- the money's for him.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 15 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I did.\tHe offered to sell all of your tricks... except the most valuable one - The Transported Man.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'd never forgive myself for selling my greatest trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Even for your daughter?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "If the newspapers are right, and you're for the drop, your daughter's going to need looking after", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Fallon can take care of-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 22 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Bernard Fallon? A man with a past even more obscure than your own?The court have already motioned to have the girl removed from his \"care\". No, the girl is to be an orphan.I've been to the work house...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's better than this.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 25 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm offering you a way to warp up your affairs with dignity, and I'm offering your daughter a future.\tAs Lord Caldlow's ward she will want for nothing.\tEver.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(hands him a card)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Think it over.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 27 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Lord Caldlow wanted you to have this- (produces a leatherbound JOURNAL)As a show of good faith.\tHe thought it might be of interest.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 29 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Robert Angier's diary... It includes the time he spent in Colorado learning your trick...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 31 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Angier never learned my trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 33 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Really?\tWhen he returned from Colorado he mounted a version of the Transported Man that the papers said was better, even...", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(with relish)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Than your original.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 34 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(acid)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "If you want Angier's secret you can dig him up and ask him for yourself.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 35 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(louder)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I want your secret, Mr.Borden...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 37 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "OWENS, 50's a lawyer, stands at the entry gate. The CAPTAIN of the guard walks out to greet him.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Owens raises his eyebrows.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Owens smiles as he hands over his pocket watch ans wallet. They walk along a hall wrought iron fence.\tThe PRISON looms over them.A door in the prison opens and Borden emerges, trussed absurdly in chains held by two WARDERS.\tThe other INMATES begin cattle-calling and whistling as BOrden is paraded up to a WOODEN SECTION of the fence.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "At the fence, the Warders lock the ends of their chains to a thick eye hook set into the ground.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "They check the locks.\tThen retreat to allow privacy.\tThe Captain marches away.\tBorden looks at Owens.\tBored.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Borden says nothing.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Borden signals the Wardens to come and unlock him.", "order": 18 }, { "content": "Borden looks up.\tOwens moves closer, quietly assertive.", "order": 20 }, { "content": "Owens looks around the prison yard.\tShrugs.", "order": 24 }, { "content": "Borden looks at Owens, hard.\tThe Warders unlock Borden.", "order": 26 }, { "content": "Borden absently VANISHES the card as a REFLEX.", "order": 28 }, { "content": "A SULLEN WALDER TALKS the journal, flicks through it.", "order": 30 }, { "content": "Sullen hands the journal to Borden.\tBorden takes it.", "order": 32 }, { "content": "Borden TURNS, dragging the Warders with him.", "order": 36 }, { "content": "Consider your daughter!", "order": 38 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 309, "name": "Captain", "sentiment": -0.13333333333333333 }, { "verbosity": 1155, "name": "Owens", "sentiment": 0.18214285714285716 }, { "verbosity": 288, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.26249999999999996 } ], "characters": [ "Captain", "Owens", "Borden" ], "story_order": 175, "heading": "EXT. PRISON YARD, NEWGATE PRISON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 2916, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Prison Yard Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": 0.0618452380952381, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 18, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A cypher.\tAn enigma...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden, on the bed, opens Angier's JOURNAL.\tStarts to read...", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 22, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 176, "heading": "INT. CELL, NEWGATE PRISON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 83, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cell Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 38, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...but what does he know of self- sacrifice more than the rest of us?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Bloody fool.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden sits on his cot reading Angier's journal.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden looks up from Angier's journal. Borden TOSSES the book across the cell.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 69, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.5 }, { "verbosity": 12, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": -0.8 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Borden" ], "story_order": 177, "heading": "INT. CELL, NEWGATE PRISON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 207, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cell Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": 0.5, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 42, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(starts lauhing)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "\"How can be not know?!\"Because, Angier, life is complicated, people are complicated, knots are complicated-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Shit it, Professor, or I'll shut it for you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Prisoner", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How could I not know?\tHow can you read my story and not understand?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden smiles as he reads Angier's dairy.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden quiets.\tLooking at the journal.", "order": 3 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 174, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": -0.5 }, { "verbosity": 44, "name": "Prisoner", "sentiment": -0.2 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Prisoner" ], "story_order": 178, "heading": "INT. PRISON CELL -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 313, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Prison Cell -", "sentiment": -0.5, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 44, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(Fallon nods)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "They took her away?To the workhouse?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(off look)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Tell him I've reconsidered.It's for the best.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden stands at the fence with Fallon", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Another slow nod.\tBorden closes his eyes with despair. Then opens them and hands Fallon OWENS' CARD.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 81, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 1 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 179, "heading": "EXT. PRISON YARD, NEWGATE PRISON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 242, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Prison Yard Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": -0.30000000000000004, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 70, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "His soul restless.\tHis wife and child tormented by his fickle and contradictory nature...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Guard!\tGuard!!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What do want, Professor?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Guard", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Paper and pencil.\tPlease.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 6 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden sits on his cot.\tReading Angier's journal.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden is crying.\tHe puts the journal down and jumps to his feet BANGING on the cell door.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "The viewing slot slides open.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 89, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 39, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 24, "name": "Guard", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Borden", "Guard" ], "story_order": 180, "heading": "INT. PRISON CELL -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 320, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Prison Cell -", "sentiment": -0.11851851851851854, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 71, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Let me see?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sullen", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm going to know all of the Professor's secrets.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sullen", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(smiling)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Only if I teach you how to read.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Just stupid tricks, right?\tHaven't helped you get out of here-", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(tugs chains)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Have they?\tOr can't you open reallocks, Professor?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sullen", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Perhaps I'm just biding my time. Perhaps one day I'll just hold up my hand-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "-get you attention.\tThen quietly say-", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(whispers)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "\"are you wacthing closely\"... perhaps say a magic word or two... then I'll be gone.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "How'd you get so famous, then?Borden STANDS.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sullen", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Magic.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Oi, Borden, get back here!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sullen", "order": 14 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Te library is long and titled, with two long tables.\tIt looks as if it used to be a latrine.Borden sits at a table.\tWriting on a stack of notepaper. His arms have been unbound, but long chains runs from his ellbows to where Sullen Gaurd sits smoking, craning his nek to read Borden's writing.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Sullen SNATCHES up the papers.\tBorden makes no move to stop him.\tThe top sheet is a sketch of a cabinet.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Sullen mashes the papers into a ball and drops them.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Borden produces a RUBBER BALL in front of Sullen's face. Sullen stares.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Borden VANISHES the ball, but FUMBLES it, it drops to Borden's feet.\tSullebn LAUGHS as Borden SCRABBLEs around his anklesto retrieve the ball.", "order": 10 }, { "content": "Borden TURNS, NO LONGER CHAINED.\tSullen JUMPS to his feet to follow, but HIS ANKLE IS CHAINED TO THE TABLE.\tThe other PRISONERS are LAUGHING and CHEERING.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Sullen FUMBLES with his keys as Borden takes a BOW.\tAnother warder CRACKS Borden over the head with a TRUNCHEON.\t\tSullen, now free, KICKS Borden in the ribs.CLOSE ON AN ADVERTISSIMENT: \"the professor has DEFIED DEATH to return with a new SPECTACULAR!\"\tPull wider-", "order": 15 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 242, "name": "Sullen", "sentiment": -0.002857142857142847 }, { "verbosity": 233, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.25 } ], "characters": [ "Sullen", "Borden" ], "story_order": 181, "heading": "INT. PRISON LIBRARY, NEWGATE PRISON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1585, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Prison Library Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": 0.13313852813852814, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 146, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Yes, you, Borden.\tSitting there, in your cell, reading my diary.\tAwaiting your death.\tFor my murder.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden STARES at Angier's journal in disbelief.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden SLAMS the journal shut.\tStaring at it.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 100, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 182, "heading": "INT. PRISON CELL -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 192, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Prison Cell -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 147, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Lord Caldlow was happy to hear that you'd reconsidered his offer.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Angier's journal, the \"gesture of good faith\"?\tIt's a fake.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(surprised)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I assure you it's not.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It has to be-\tit refers to events that happened after his death.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Clever predictions, I'm sure.\tThe provenance of the journal is clear and under no doubt.\tIt's written in Angier own hand, of which we have numerous examples.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks at Borden)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "What makes you think it's a fake?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It doesn't matter.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "My tricks.\tAll of them.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Including the Transported Man?\tLord Caldlow will be very pleased.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No he won't.\tThey're not complete- you only have the Pledge and Turn for each.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 11 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Without the Prestige for each trick these are wothless.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Owens", "order": 13 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You'll get the rest after you bring my daughter here.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I want to say goodbye.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 16 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "BORDEN stands at the fence again.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden looks away, uncomfortable.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Borden leans forward and stuffs ROLLED PAPERS through the fence.\tOwens takes them carefully.", "order": 8 }, { "content": "Owens leafs through the papers, annoyed.", "order": 12 }, { "content": "Owens looks at Borden.", "order": 15 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 397, "name": "Owens", "sentiment": 0.3666666666666667 }, { "verbosity": 317, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.21666666666666665 } ], "characters": [ "Owens", "Borden" ], "story_order": 183, "heading": "EXT. PRISON CELL, NEWGATE PRISON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 962, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Prison Cell Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": 0.3166666666666667, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 182, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(sardonic)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Still here, Borden?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sullen", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "For now.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Got a visitor.\tLord Caldlow.\tWith a little girl.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Sullen", "order": 4 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden is sitting quietlt in a large cell. Sullen opens the door.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden looks up.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Borden HURRIES to his feet.", "order": 5 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 67, "name": "Sullen", "sentiment": -0.1875 }, { "verbosity": 8, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Sullen", "Borden" ], "story_order": 184, "heading": "INT. CONDEMNED MAN'S CELL, NEWGATE PRISON -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 193, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Condemned Man'S Cell Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": 0.013392857142857137, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 183, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Jess, how are you?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Are you alright?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've missed you.\tFallon's missed you.\tWe both have.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Can I come in there, Daddy?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Jess", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Everything's going to be okay.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You must be Lord-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(English accent)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Caldlow.\tYes, I am.\tI always have been.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I saw you die.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "They flatter you with all those chains, Alfred.\tDon't they know you can't escape without your little rubber ball?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "All I wanted to do was prove that I was the better magician.\tBut you couldn't leave me alone.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You were always afraid to get your hands dirty...", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(looks down at his Jess)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Not anymore.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 19 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No.\tNot anymore.\tAnd I win.\tBecause no one cares about the man in thebox, the man who disappears.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You win.\tBut don't take my little girl...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I know how hard it is to have someone so precious taken away, don't I", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Borden? But you can't take her with you know, can you? She'll be looked after. Good-bye, Professor.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 24 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Wait.\tDon't you want this?\tYou paid for it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 26 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Your secret.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 27 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You always were the better magician, Borden.\tWe both know that.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 29 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But whatever your secret was, you'll have to agree-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 31 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(victorious)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "-mine is better.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 33 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Angier!\tLet me say good-bye.\tPlease.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 35 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "When are you taking me home, Daddy?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Jess", "order": 37 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Soon.\tI promise.\tSoon.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 38 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "For God's sake, Borden.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 39 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Daddy's coming, I promise.\tI promise. Here-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 40 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I promise.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 42 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You think this place can hold me, Angier?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 44 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Angier!", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 46 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden, clutching an envelope, is escorted across the yard, PEERING at the fence.\tHe catches a glimpse of this daughter waling beside a man on the wooden section.As Borden reaches the fence he CROUCHES to greet his little girl, forcing the Sullen and the other Warder to crouch to undo his chains.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Jess SMILES at him and reaches through the fence.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "She nods.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Borden drinks in her gace, her hair.\tShe grasps the fence.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "It is only then that he notices the HAND ON HER SHOULDER. He rises to come face-to-face with Lord Caldlow-", "order": 9 }, { "content": "-who is ROBERT ANGIER.\tRisen from the dead.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Borden STARES at Angier.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Angier just SMILES.", "order": 15 }, { "content": "Borden says nothing.", "order": 17 }, { "content": "Angier looks at Borden.\tBitter", "order": 22 }, { "content": "Angier gently pulls Jess back from the fence.\tShe PROTESTS Desperate,\tBorden holds out the envelope.", "order": 25 }, { "content": "Borden nods.\tAngier steps up, takes the envelope.", "order": 28 }, { "content": "HE TEARS the envelope in half.\tThen again.\tAnd again...", "order": 30 }, { "content": "He tosses the peices on the ground.", "order": 32 }, { "content": "Angier TURNS.", "order": 34 }, { "content": "Angier stops.\tLets Jess come to fence.\tShe is crying.", "order": 36 }, { "content": "Borden PRODUCES his RUBBER BALL.\tJess looks at it.", "order": 41 }, { "content": "Borden VANISHES the rubber ball.\tANgier pulls Jess back from the fence and starts walking away.\tBorden rises.", "order": 43 }, { "content": "Angier continues walking Jess away.\tShaking this head.", "order": 45 }, { "content": "Borden is alone.\tHe watches as the wind scatters the pieces of his prestige over the muddy yard.", "order": 47 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 450, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": -0.06213107638888887 }, { "verbosity": 62, "name": "Jess", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 676, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.17760416666666667 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Jess", "Angier" ], "story_order": 185, "heading": "EXT. PRISON YARD, NEWGATE PRISON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 2509, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Prison Yard Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": 0.01758680555555555, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 184, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier steps out of an ornate carriage with Jess.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 186, "heading": "EXT. LARGE COUNTRY ESTATE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 49, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Large Country Estate -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 185, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(to Angier)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Come here, love. Sir, there's gentleman waiting.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Housekeeper", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier steps inside with Jess.\tThe HOUSEKEEPER comes to take her.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier looks at her, surprised.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 48, "name": "Housekeeper", "sentiment": 0.5 } ], "characters": [ "Housekeeper" ], "story_order": 187, "heading": "INT. LARGE COUNTRY ESTATE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 155, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Large Country Estate -", "sentiment": 0.3, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 186, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Dead God.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Captain", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Hello, Cutter.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You're alive.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(Angier nods)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You're Lord Caldlow.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(Angier nods again)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "How?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(shrugs)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I learned an American accent from-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(Angry)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "How are you alive, Robert?!\tI saw you on the slab, for God's sake.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I magician never reveals his secrets. The Housekeeper appears with Jess at her side.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 7 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Go on, child.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Housekeeper", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Good night, Jess.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 10 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Who's the girl?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 12 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I've seen her.\tI've seen her in court with Fallon...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 14 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(quiet)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "What have you done?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 16 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "She needs looking after-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 17 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "She needs her father, but you're letting him hang.\tAnd I helped you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 18 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I came here tonight to beg Lord Caldlow to let me destroy that machine.\tBut I won't beg you for anything.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 20 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You don't have to.\tI'm going to make sure the machine. is never used again.", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(shrugs)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "A good magician never repeats his tricks.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 21 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Then, Lord Caldlow, where would like me to deliver it?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 23 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "My theatre.\tIt belongs with the Prestige materials.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 24 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I once told you about the sailor who described drowing to me...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 26 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "He said it was like going home.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 27 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I was lying. He said it was agony.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 28 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter is in the drawing room, looking at the carriage clock on the mantle.\tAngier enters.\tCutter spots his reflection.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier fixes Cutter with a steady gaze.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Angier smiles kindly at her.", "order": 9 }, { "content": "They leave.", "order": 11 }, { "content": "Angier says nothing.", "order": 13 }, { "content": "Cutter, realizing, looks at Angier, SHOCKED.", "order": 15 }, { "content": "Cutter moves to the door.\tIn a daze.\tPauses.", "order": 19 }, { "content": "Cutter considers this.\tMakes a decision.", "order": 22 }, { "content": "Cutter lookd at Angier.\tSad.", "order": 25 }, { "content": "Cutter opens the door.\tAngier watches him go.", "order": 29 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 9, "name": "Captain", "sentiment": -0.2 }, { "verbosity": 371, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.39999999999999997 }, { "verbosity": 513, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.037500000000000006 }, { "verbosity": 13, "name": "Housekeeper", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Captain", "Angier", "Cutter", "Housekeeper" ], "story_order": 188, "heading": "INT. DRAWING ROOM, COUNTRY ESTATE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 1386, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Drawing Room Country Estate -", "sentiment": 0.21145833333333336, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 187, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We go alone now- both of us.\tOnly I don't have as far to go as you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You were right.\tI should've lefthim to his damned trick... I'm sorry. I'm sorry for so many things.\tFor Sarah.\tI didn't want to hurt her.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Don't cry.\tNot for me.\tGo live your life in full.\tFor both of us.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden is at the fence.\tFallon is on the other side.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden looks down at his feet.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Fallon wipes tears from his face.\tBorden looks at him.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Borden pulls the RUBBER BALL from his pocket and BOUNCES it up and down. He TURNS to be led back into the prison, DROPPING the ball. The ball bounces gently past the fence.\tFallon catches it.", "order": 6 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 269, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.04650974025974025 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 189, "heading": "EXT. PRISON YARD, NEWGATE PRISON -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 596, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Prison Yard Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": -0.024156399156399166, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 188, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(quiet)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Are you watching closely?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden is led along the empty corridor, braced by six guards.The procession stops at a large windowless metal door, sunk deep into the wall.\tSullen opens the door and Borden is led inside.\tAs Borden passes Sullen he leans in to his ear-", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Sullen stares back at him, terrified.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 25, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden" ], "story_order": 190, "heading": "INT. PRISON CORRIDOR, NEWGATE PRISON -- MORNING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 305, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Prison Corridor Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": 0.028571428571428567, "time": "Morning" } }, { "narrative_order": 189, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The room is low and small. Two parallel beams, eight feet high, run from one wall to the other.\tHanging from the center of the beams is a chain.\tBelow the chian is a trap door. Sullen locks the door to the chamber.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 191, "heading": "INT. DEATH CHAMBER, NEWGATE PRISON -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 214, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Death Chamber Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": -0.0525, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 190, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Jess is playing in the grounds.\tA NURSEMAID some distance off chats to a GARDENER. Jess looks up from playing.\tSomeone is there. Cutter.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 192, "heading": "EXT. LARGE COUNTRY ESTATE -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 136, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Large Country Estate -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 193, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "The warders remove Borden's chains and shackles and replace them with strong leather belts that bind his feet together and his hands to his sides.They shuffle him forward onto the trapdoor.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 193, "heading": "INT. DEATH CHAMBER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 189, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Death Chamber", "sentiment": 0.4333333333333333, "time": null } }, { "narrative_order": 197, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden is held in place by the trapdoor by two warders.\tThe HANGMAN walks up behind him and attaches a NOOSE to the chain hanging above Borden.\tHe slips the other end of the noose over Borden's neck.\tPositions it under Borden's jaw.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 194, "heading": "INT. DEATH CHAMBER, NEWGATE PRISON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 233, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Death Chamber Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": -0.17500000000000002, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 199, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Alfred borden, on this day, in the name of the King and the high court of England, you will meet your end. Do you have anything to say for yourself.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Warden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(whisper)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Abacadabra.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "They WRDEN looks at Borden.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden saus nothing.\tThe Warden gestures to the HANGMAn who begins to PULL the lever.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "The trap DROPS from under Borden and he FALLS into the room below. His rope SNAPS to a halt-", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 148, "name": "Warden", "sentiment": 0.16 }, { "verbosity": 11, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Warden", "Borden" ], "story_order": 195, "heading": "INT. DEATH CHAMBER, NEWGATE PRISON -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 372, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Death Chamber Newgate Prison -", "sentiment": 0.16, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 209, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(confused)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "It didn't work.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Yes it did.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Voice", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(horrified)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "No, wait!\tI'm the-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Second Angier", "order": 4 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier stands in front of Tesla's machine.\tLoading the pistol.\tHe places the pistol by the machine...Angier takes off his jacket and steps towards the HISSING machine.\tBOTLS curl themselves around him.ANGIER HURLS HIMSELF INTO THE LIGHT.This time we do not cut away.The machine sputters out.ANGIER IS STILL STANDING BENEATH IT.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier turns...ANOTHER ANGIER is standing on the chalk hashmark, STEAM rising off his shoulders.The first Angier lunges for the pistol and levels it at the second Angier.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "BANG!\tBANG!\tThe firt Angier FIRES TWO SHOTS and, grim- faced, drops the pistol.\tSHOCKED.\tHe stumbles back, in a daze, clothes still steaming.", "order": 5 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 15, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 11, "name": "Voice", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 18, "name": "Second Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Voice", "Second Angier" ], "story_order": 196, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- DAY -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 703, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -- Day -", "sentiment": -0.29, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 191, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "A CART pulls up to the side of the theatre.Cutter and two WORKMEN step down from the cart and move to the back of it. Cutter pulls the tarp off the back of the cart. Underneath it is the MACHINE's CRATE.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 197, "heading": "EXT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 204, "setting": "Ext.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.051851851851851864, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 192, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Thank-you gents.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Where do you want it?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Workman", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Don't worry.\tSomeone's coming to help.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The crate is sitting on the dolly in the auditorium.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The workmen levae.\tCutter looks at the crate. Angier emerges from the darkness.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 54, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 21, "name": "Workman", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Workman" ], "story_order": 198, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 206, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 194, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'm bringing this over after we're done.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Cautions as ever, Cutter.\tNo one's going to use the place.\tI own it.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier and Cutter load the crate onto a platform suspended by a rope.\tAngier pulls open the two metal doors sunk into the floor.Cutter begins turning a WHICH, lowering the crate into the HOLE.\tAngier indicates a pile of bricks and a bag of sand.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 40, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 68, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.6 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Angier" ], "story_order": 199, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 353, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.3, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 195, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "No room left- you couldn't have acommodated 100 performances.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It's a good thing I retired early then.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We'll put it down the end.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "I'll go mix the cement.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Take a minute to consider your achiviement.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Cutter, I tried not to involve you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 10 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier slowly climbs down a ladder from the hole to join Cutter in the darkness below.Cutter is standing next to the platform and the crate.\tThe only night comes from a LANTERN Angier is carrying.\tWe can see only a small flicker of the high moldy walls of the cellar, but it is a large open space.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier puts the lattern and his cane on the lif of the crate and the two men heft ir off the platform.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Angier and Cutter move into the darkness with the crate. From the small pool of light afforded by the lattern, we can see that they are navigating their way through a large space filled with LARGE GLASS BOXES.They arrive at the end and set the crate down.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Cutter looks at Angier, cold.", "order": 7 }, { "content": "Cutter turns.", "order": 9 }, { "content": "Cutter looks at Angier.\tNods.\tThen disappears into darkness.", "order": 11 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 127, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 100, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.2148148148148148 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter", "Angier" ], "story_order": 200, "heading": "INT. CELLAR, ABANDONED THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 983, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cellar Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.07176366843033509, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 196, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter comes across the stage and up through the auditorium. Fallon is coming in the other direction. As they pass they nod gravely at each other.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 201, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- MOMENTS LATER", "scene_metadata": { "size": 146, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.125, "time": "Moments Later" } }, { "narrative_order": 198, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(whisper)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "No one cares about the man in the box.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(calling)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Cutter?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier is alone bather in the lgiht of the lantern.\tHe turns to the nearest glass box and smoothes a hand along its face.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Behind him, a NOISE.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "No responses.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 45, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 202, "heading": "INT. CELLAR, ABANDONED THEATRE -- CONTINUOUS", "scene_metadata": { "size": 217, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cellar Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Continuous" } }, { "narrative_order": 200, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(tense)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "CUTTER?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(weak)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You- you died.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A brother.\tA Twin.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier PEERS down the row of glass boxes with the lantern.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier FREEZES.\tHe can hear a small THUD, THUD, THUD getting closer, approaching from the darkness...Angier FLINCHES as a RUBBER BALL bounces into the light-Angier DROPS his cane to CATCH the ball.\tHe turns it around in his hands, confused.Light EXPLODES around him as a GUNSHOT rings out.Angier stands for a moment, confused, staring at the ball, then COLLAPSES to the ground, clutching at his stomach.Fallon's BOWLER HAT breaks into the circle of light.\the is holding a smoking pistol...Angier drops the ball and it rolls across the floor, coming to rest at Fallon's feet.\tBut it is not Fallon's gloved hand that picks up the ball--it is a MUTILATED HAND, WITH 2 1/2 FINGERS MISSING.\tAngierlooks up:ALFRED BORDEN REMOVES THE BOWLER HAT AND TAKES A BOW.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Borden shakes his head. Realization sweeps over Angier like a nightmare.", "order": 4 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 39, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 203, "heading": "INT. CELLAR, ABANDONED THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 936, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cellar Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.10092592592592593, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 201, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You were Fallon.\tThe whole time...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Fallon DROPS into the coffin.\tAs fallon stares up at us, WE SEE, FOR THE FIRST TIME,\tSOMETHING FAMILIAR IN HIS FACE -- FALLON IS REALLY BORDEN IN DISGUISE.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Fallon/Borden's face disappears as Cutter seals his coffin.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 34, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.2 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 204, "heading": "INT. BASEMENT -- CONTINUOUS -- FLASHBACK", "scene_metadata": { "size": 248, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Basement -- Continuous -", "sentiment": 0.25625, "time": "Flashback" } }, { "narrative_order": 202, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We were both Fallon.\tAnd we were both Borden.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Were you the one who went into the box-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden smiles.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier considers this.\tMinds spinning.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 45, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 39, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Angier" ], "story_order": 205, "heading": "INT. CELLAR, ABANDONED THEATRE", "scene_metadata": { "size": 136, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cellar Abandoned Theatre", "sentiment": 0, "time": null } }, { "narrative_order": 206, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Cutter knew.\t But I told him it was too simple.\tToo easy.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Simple, maybe. But not easy.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier stares up at Borden.\tAppalled.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 57, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.21666666666666667 }, { "verbosity": 28, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": -0.10833333333333334 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Borden" ], "story_order": 206, "heading": "INT. CELLAR, ABANDONED THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 122, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cellar Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.4, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 208, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "What about Olivia?\tAnd your wife?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "We each loved one of them.\tWe each had half a full life.\tEnough for us, but not for them.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 2 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Sacrifice, Robert- that's the price of a good trick.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 4 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 6 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(very quiet)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "I've made sacrificies.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 8 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It takes nothing to steal someone else's work.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 9 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It takes everything.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 10 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden stares at his mutilated hand clasping the rubber ball.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden puts the ball in his pocket.\tTears in his eyes.", "order": 3 }, { "content": "Borden looks down at Angier with contempt.", "order": 5 }, { "content": "Angier is dying.\tHe opens his mouth to talk, but his voice is so wak that Borden has to stoop to hear him.", "order": 7 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 75, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 }, { "verbosity": 240, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": 0.31666666666666665 } ], "characters": [ "Angier", "Borden" ], "story_order": 207, "heading": "INT. CELLAR, ABANDONED THEATRE -- EVENING", "scene_metadata": { "size": 590, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cellar Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.23796296296296293, "time": "Evening" } }, { "narrative_order": 210, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(weaker)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "Do you want to see what it cost me? You didn't see where you are, did you?\tLet me show you.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It took courage to climb into that machine every night...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier looks down, a slight smile on his face.\tHe gestures to the lantern.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier slumps to the floor as he tries to reach for the lantern.\tHe can't his hand to obey him.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 148, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Angier" ], "story_order": 208, "heading": "INT. CELLAR, ABANDONED THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 325, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cellar Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.030555555555555565, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 213, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "(scorn)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You spent a fortune.\tYou did terrible things... and all of it for nothing. You went halfway around the world.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Borden", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Nothing?\tYou never understood, id you?\tWhy we did this?", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(coughs)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "The audience knows the truth- that the world is simple.\tMiserable.Solid all the way through.\tBut if you could fool them, even for a second, you could make them wonder. Then you got to see something very special...", "type": "Dialogue" }, { "content": "(coughs, looks up)", "type": "Parenthetical" }, { "content": "You really don't know?", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "It was the look on their faced.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Angier", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Angier stops trying tomove and leans back, resigned.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier looks up at him with his last spark of competitiveness.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Borden just stares at Angier.\tWho smiles.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Angier's body TOPPLES over, KNOCKING over the lantern.\tBorden steps back as the oil spreads, flamming, fro the lantern.", "order": 6 }, { "content": "Borden watches Angier for a moment, then turns to leave.", "order": 8 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 109, "name": "Borden", "sentiment": -0.55 }, { "verbosity": 321, "name": "Angier", "sentiment": 0.1 }, { "verbosity": 53, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.5 } ], "characters": [ "Borden", "Angier", "Cutter" ], "story_order": 209, "heading": "INT. CELLAR, ABANDONED THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 846, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cellar Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": -0.020000000000000018, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 215, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The second part is called the Turn. I take the ordinary something...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The burning lamp oil SPREADS LIGHT through the cellar...", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Angier lies in his pooling blood.Angier's eyes move around, looking at the shapes around him increasing illuminated by the hellish light...", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 68, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.125 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 210, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 263, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.1375, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 217, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Now you're looking for the secret...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But you won't find it...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...because you don't really want to know...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Borden STOPS at the ladder.\tHe notices the shadows from the burning oil playing on the walls...", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Borden turns slowly to look back into the cellar,\tPEERING into the flickering light of the burning lamp oil.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Borden stares back into the cellar.\tWhat he sees puts a look on his face that is beyond words:LARGE GLASS TANKS.\tDOZENS OF THEM.\tROW AFTER ROW STRECHING INTO THE CAVERNOUS CELLAR.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "FLOATING IN BACH AND EVERY TANK, DRESSED IN ROTTING STAGE CLOTHES, IS YET ANOTHER ROBERT ANGIER.", "order": 6 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 103, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.2 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 211, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- NIGHT", "scene_metadata": { "size": 581, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0.06, "time": "Night" } }, { "narrative_order": 218, "conversations": [], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter spreads MORTAT on the last BRICK of the wall he has built in the opening to the cellar.He places the brick in the wall, sealing it up.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [], "characters": [], "story_order": 212, "heading": "INT. ABANDONED THEATRE -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 141, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Abandoned Theatre -", "sentiment": 0, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 1, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Every magic trick consists of three part, or acts...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The first part is called the Pledge...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...the magician shows you something ordinary-", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "A deck of cards, ar a bird...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 7 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Moving along a row of CANARIES in CAGES.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Stop at a cage.\tWeathered HANDS envelope the canary.\tHands and voice belongs to a man in his 60's- CUTTER.", "order": 2 }, { "content": "A LITTLE GIRL pershes on a chest in the workshop, watching.", "order": 4 }, { "content": "Cutter moves to a small ORNATE CAGE resting on a prop table.", "order": 6 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 164, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.375 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 213, "heading": "INT. CLUTTERED WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 429, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Cluttered Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.078125, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 6, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The second act is called the Turn...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter gently places the canary into the ornate cage.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 36, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 214, "heading": "INT. WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 89, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.1, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 9, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Now you're looking for the secret.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter places a SILK SHAWL over the cage. Then SLAMS his hands down on the shawl, which FLATTENS- The Little Girl FLINCHES. Then STARES, FASCINATED.", "order": 0 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 34, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": -0.4 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 215, "heading": "INT. WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 183, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Workshop -", "sentiment": -0.17152777777777778, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 12, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...you want to be fooled.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But you couldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough... you have to bring it back.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter WHIPS the shawl from the table.\tCage and bird have DISAPPEARED.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "The Little Girl stares, EXPECTANT.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 129, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 216, "heading": "INT. WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 233, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Workshop -", "sentiment": -0.09375, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 14, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "...the part we call...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter forms a fist.\tDrapes the shawl over it.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Cutter WHIPS\tthe shawl away to reveal- the CANARY.\tThe Little Girl CLAPS.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 22, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 217, "heading": "INT. WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 141, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Workshop -", "sentiment": -0.1875, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 214, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "The first part is called the Pledge.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "The workshop from the opening of the film. We now recognize it as Borden's. Cutter performs the bird cage trick for the Little Girl we now know as Jess.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Cutter is showing far the canary.", "order": 2 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 36, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0.25 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 218, "heading": "INT. WORKSHOP -- DAY", "scene_metadata": { "size": 221, "setting": "Int.", "location": "Workshop -", "sentiment": 0.05416666666666667, "time": "Day" } }, { "narrative_order": 216, "conversations": [ { "dialogue": [ { "content": "But you wouldn't clap yet.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 1 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "Because making something disappear isn't enough...", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 3 }, { "dialogue": [ { "content": "You have to bring it back.", "type": "Dialogue" } ], "character": "Cutter", "order": 5 } ], "actions": [ { "content": "Cutter WHIPS the shawl away-\tcage and bird have disappeared.", "order": 0 }, { "content": "Jess stares, EXPECTANT.\tCutter hols up his handkerchief- covered hand...", "order": 2 }, { "content": "Cutter whips the handkerchief from his hand, revealing a canary.\tJust then, Jess SEES something and JUMPS off the chest, running past him...", "order": 4 }, { "content": "BORDEN IS IN THE DOORWAY- JESS LEAPS INTO HIS ARMS.\tBordenholds her tight.\tLooks at Cutter, who is putting on his coat.\tNods.\tCutter leaves.Borden reaches into his pocket and hand Jess his rubber ball. She smiles, then buries her head in his neck.", "order": 6 } ], "character_metadata": [ { "verbosity": 102, "name": "Cutter", "sentiment": 0 } ], "characters": [ "Cutter" ], "story_order": 219, "heading": "INT. 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