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BOOKWARS - http://www.bookwarsmovie.comThe NYC street bookseller movie(Complete Transcript, Feature Version)TITLES:Shot of road through windshieldWS Empire State BuildingMS Black CatCU (S-8) Drawing of "Christ figure"Slow move across roomECU: Book Pages flutteringVO:You know...I'm free now, somehow . Heading away from that last chapterback East. It's my former life you know?My former life that I leave behind me back there in New York City.Yea I'd gone to school there. I got a scholarship. Took out some loans,got a degree.Despite the degree, I didn't have any luck finding a job. And I endedup...broke. Broke in the big city, and that's not a good feeling.Lemme tell you, I was living in a dark, strange place. And my roomate, whotook care of the rent, he also happened to be an addict. Well he wantedthe rent money--quick.So I made an inventory of everything--anything I had that I could sell topay the rent, get a bite to eat.
 
I had a lot of books...yea, books. During my college days I'd bought a lotof books on the street from a street bookseller, a smiling Southerner whosename I've now forgotten, I called him "The BookMan." I decided...I would dothe same.WS Narrator pushes cart and arrives at streetCU: Toss books onto sidewalkS-8 Shots of customers arriving, lookingFinally, I arrived at the spot that I'd secretly chosen on myreconnoiterings the day before.I pencilled in my prices and laid out my books.And, by God, they came! Readers from the nearby neighborhoods somehowsniffed out my books and descended upon them.I was saved. Snatched from the brink of destitution by my friends Goethe,Camus, Rimbaud, Heidegger.WS across W4th streetCU Emil3-shot Pete, Alan, SteveWS Everett approachesMontage (S-8)CU Rick performs magic trick2-shot Alan and customerMS: Paul at his bookstandWS Al Mappo arrives on the streetSlow pan to Joe on 3rd avenueSlow move up Boris' bellyCU Tomas looks into cameraMS Tomas walks back and forthMove into Pete Whitney tearing his booksPete with RadioCU Pete with Radio, Alan, Steve
 
WS Zach arrives at nightCU Tony nods, smokesSlow CU Emil gesturesMS Narrator asleep on carWell I set up again the next day, and again the next. And it wasn't longbefore I met others. Other booksellers from all over the city who had alsocome to West 4th street to set up shop.EMIL:Good morning, Sir.FILMMAKER:Ah, good morning.PETE:What the fuck is happening out here today, where is everybody at this hour.It's gonna rain, isn't it, soon?STEVE:It's gonna rain--ALAN:It's really gonna rain.VO:One of the first booksellers I met out there was Everett. Everett was anoutdoorsman, and he was impervious to the cold. He'd wear shorts andChinese slippers in all weather, every day of the year.Rick, Rick Sherman. Rick was into Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson. Sohe was trying to re-wire his consciousness...through sheer non-exertion.He was an aspiring magician. And he'd practice his magic tricks at thebookstand, help us pass the time.And then there was Alan. Alan had some of the best books around, but hewas a little bit tempermental.ALAN:
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