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SCARFIAN 118
On the guitar break we conclude the animation, began
in Scene (10), The Germanic eagle crashes, leaving
behind a pile of decaying skeletons. We pan across
a devastated smoking city. Cut to C.U. Blood
trickles into a drain.
ANZ10. SK
A Stuka bomber dives towards the battle.
EXT. _AN21O. BATTLE. DAY
On the ground, the COMWANDER of a British platoon
cranks a field telephone.
EXT. _ANZIO. Sk
The Stuka continues its dive. We see the pilot's
P.O.V.
EXT. _ANZIO. BATTLE. DAY
Fear. PINK'S FATHER'S face. The borb explodes. We
flash cut to Scarfian screaming man. We freeze on
the bloody hand still holding the telephone. We hold
the shot until the hand gradually loses it's grasp
Loud explosions. F.X.
"In the Flesh’ concludes.‘THE THIN ICE
Maza loves her baby
And Daddy loves you too.
Aad the Sea may look warm to you babe
and the sky may look blue.
But Oooh babe,
Qoob baby blue,
Qoob babe.
Tf you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear stained eyes,
Don't be surprised shea a crack in the ice
appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear, flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice.18 aNr/exr, BLACK sceeeN
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‘nd Dasey Loves Fou too
he first note of ‘The Thin Ice’ we cut tos wide
2 shoring the afternath of the batzle st Anzio,
ao Slon1y fro0 the sea across the enculdering ruin
be battiefiend. Fe sce varsous horrific, bloody
or a the eecice tics up
LAVISH HOTEL SUITE. RIGHT
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Os the thin ice of modern
tise
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ache through the potel suite.
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'ustil we eventually see Bis bland, expressionless
s...yeu slip out of your
acpib, ane out of your
mind, vite your fear flowing
out bebind You, as you claw
the thin see)
tho guitar break the water fragments into night-
ish Searfin visions of impending madness
BRICK IN THE WALL
flown across the ocean,
just a menory.
shot in the family album,
what else did you leave for me?
sat d'ya leave behind for me?
all it was just a brick in the wall.
all it was all just bricks ia the wall.YGROUND. Day. 1946
“Daddy's flows across the
ocean. Leaving just » memory,
A snap shot ir the family
album that else did
you leave for me?..."
YOUNG PINK, now aged five, has been taken to @ play
by his MOTHER. She sits apart, separated from him b:
iron railings, knitting. Theré are other children, some
of whom are playing with their fathers, who are either
Still in uniform or in ill-fitting demob suits,
obviously Just out of the Services. YOUNG PINK
extremely jealous of these other children whose
have come home and atterpts to join in the play
one particular father and bis son. lie asks the
father to lift Lic up onzo the cvings and help him
up onto the slides. He follows the father aid son
around the playground. After a while the stranger
becomes irritated by this invasion upon hi
ship with bis oxn child, and makes it clear
PINK is not welcone. PINK goes off alone.
just manages to cl one of the swings, but
without help from = he can't make it go, and
rocks impotently back and forwards