"KISS, KISS, BANG, BANG" (2005) You'll Never Die In This Town Again by Shane Black NOVEMBER Revisions November 21, 2003I stood upon a high place And I saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, And cavorting in sin. One looked up, grinning, and said, “Comrade! Brother!" -- Stephen Crane The entrance to the Denton Towers was clegged with police cars and curiosity seekers. “Wonder what’s wrong there?” Liddell asked. The cabby grunted. “Some dame probably gave herself the deep six. The joint’s full of kepties and every so often they come out of those windows like leaves in a rainstorm.” 1 Frank Kane, BARE TRAP, 1952FADE IN: ECU of PAPER; you can see the pulp texture. Pause... Another shape appears, bright RED and huge. A THUMBNAIL. CAMERA begins, slowly, to pull back... A PEN POINT. It begins WRITING gracefully: NO ONE WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M GOING TO DO TONIGHT. THAT'S OKAY. Pulling back. Feminine HANDS now, in view. MY DECISION, HOWEVER, IS A RATIONAL, COGNATIVE ONE. I CAN NO LONGER Stops. Finger taps the page thoughtfully. Reaches off -- re-enters with a DICTIONARY. Flips through it. COG-NI-TIVE, adj. She scratches out the word COGNATIVE. COGNITIVE in its place. Sets aside the dictionary. Continues: I CAN NO LONGER PERSERVERE. IT MAY COMFORT MY FATHER TO KNOW THAT MY SUICIDE Grabs the dictionary. Flips through... PERSEVERE, v. PERSERVERE wrong; PERSEVERE, that's got it... ‘TO KNOW THAT MY SUICIDE IS DUE ONLY PARTIALLY TO HIM. A pause, then, as an afterthought: YOU THINK I'M STUPID, DADDY BUT I'M NOT BLACK SCREEN. Pause... then we SUPER: DAY ONE - TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS EXT. HOLLYWOOD HILLS ~ NIGHT ‘The CAMERA roams the canyons west. Starts high in the night air. DIPS toward the road, free-falling... Whooooosh..! Falls into line, alongside fast-moving CARS, all rushing uphill... To an opulent HOUSE. . LIMOS rolling in, as we HEAR: