Ellen Musikant at 2013-09-09 08:19:33:

The subtext is everything. Casablanca: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch (screenplay); Murray Burnett and Joan Alison (play) Trivia: Casey Robinson, who re-wrote the romantic scenes between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, was offered screen credit but turned it down because at the time he was only taking credit for scripts he wrote entirely by himself. By declining credit, he did himself out of an Academy Award. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_a57ZNlU6o Ilsa: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met... Rick: Was La Belle Aurore. Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris. Rick: Not an easy day to forget. Ilsa: No. Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.

Aarthi Ramanathan at 2013-09-09 10:28:38:

Hi Scott, here is an unconventional one without dialogue, directly from the original shooting script (clearly the rafiki piece with 'it's time' was added in the movie or this might be an earlier version of the script). The Lion King Writers: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton http://www.imsdb.com/Movie%20Scripts/Lion%20King,%20The%20Script.html LONG SHOT - PRIDE ROCK Rain falls, drenching the flames. NALA helps Sarabi up. TIMON, PUMBAA and ZAZU stand up with the lionesses. Nala and Sarabi reunite. All look up to see: SIMBA Limping, slowly making his way through the rain up Pride Rock. SIMBA looks out over his kingdom. SUMMIT OF PRIDE ROCK - CONTINUOUS Simba lets out a magnificent ROAR. LIONESSES look up from below and answer back with JOYOUS ROARS. Dialogue takeaway: This scene is a moving reunion like none other - Simba's coming-of-age, his return to his family and to his calling to his ultimate purpose: the Lion King. Unites him with his want - to be with his family and need: to serve his land.

Aarthi Ramanathan at 2013-09-09 10:48:10:

The original ending of the script online is different from what ended up on screen. This is from a transcript. Gladiator (2000) Written by: David Franzoni http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72uwmHsFSAg MAXIMUS Quintus, free my men. Senator Gracchus is to be reinstated. There was a dream that was Rome, it shall be realized. These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius. QUINTUS Free the prisoners, ...go! Maximus stands, unsteady, as the vision of the wheat field once again comes to him, his wife and son waiting for him. Suddenly he falls hard like a tree, to the ground. Lucilla runs into the arena, dropping to her knees at his side. LUCILLA Maximus! MAXIMUS Lucius is safe. LUCILLA Go to them. With her hand, she closes his eyes, his face calm and at peace as he leaves this world. LUCILLA You are home. Dialogue takeaway: Maximus, a ruthless warrior unable to be killed by his enemies, leaves the world to reunite with the son and wife he has lost, but only after he has spent his last leg of life to unselfishly set things right like a true hero. A great hero who leaves on his own terms.

John Arends at 2013-09-09 12:40:58:

THE BIG CHILL (1984) Lawrence Kasdan, director/writer, Barbara Benedek, writer The Funeral Procession -- Car Conversation #1 Nick (William Hurt): It's pretty strong stuff. Mary Kay (Meg Jones): Ugh. I feel terrible. Nick: Yeah. Mary Kay: The last time I spoke with Alex, we had a fight. I yelled at him. Nick: (deadpan) That's probably why he killed himself. They share a look. Nick smiles faintly. The funeral processional rolls through main street of the small town. William Hurt: What was the argument about? Woman: I told him he was wasting his life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1q4mgXrYo4 The Funeral Procession -- Car Conversations #2 Michael (Jeff Goldblum): I write for PEOPLE magazine. (turns to Sam, who's driving) I can't believe you're still mad about that thing. Sam (Tom Berenger): Michael, this isn't the time. Let's just drop it. Michael: Yeah, well, I will if you will. You know on this day most of all we should remember we're friends. Sam: Right, right. Chloe (Meg Tilly): (to Sam) And you're an actor? Sam: Uh-huh Michael smirks loudly in the back seat. He and Sam share a look. The procession rolls past the ruins of a centuries-old church, now just a roofless, hollow shell. CUT TO: Another car, where husband and wife RICHARD and KAREN BOWENS are following the hearse. Richard (Don Galloway): I mean, nothing like you described. Not at all. Not one of those people looks like I thought they would. I can't believe these are the same people you've been talking about all these years. Really. (Derisive snort). I'd love to hear you describe me to them. He snorts another self-absorbed laugh as Karen (JoBeth Williams) gazes out the passenger window, her eyes tell us, "No, you wouldn't love to hear that…" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYqcad3cIW0 BONUS: Car Conversation -- Later Harold (Kevin Kline): So what happened to your partner? Michael (Jeff Goldblum): He wasn't my partner. He just had the original idea for the club. He's out of it now. We weren't conducive. We'd get together and hyper ourselves into a frenzy. Then his wife left him for another woman, he couldn't make love, until he was hospitalized for being such a nerd. Harold: So he's out of it. Michael: Yeah, he's out. It's just me. Looking for investors, really. Chloe: Alex and I made love the night before he died. It was fantastic. The guys all share a look. Nick: He went out with a bang, not a whimper. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y730EOsa9Q THE BIG CHILL (1984) Lawrence Kasdan, director/writer, Barbara Benedek, writer Lawrence Kasdan was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar. It's clear to see why, right at the top of the picture. He effortlessly introduces both characters and relationship dynamics during the funeral procession, dropping us mid-conversation into various cars following the hearse. Then he hooks us with irony, humor, surprise and great acting -- all underscored and heightened by a killer soundtrack. One of the best, by one of the best.

NB at 2013-09-09 15:21:59:

This is from "His Girl Friday", with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. It's a spectacular set-up for the rest of the movie--it tells you everything you need to know about why these two married and why they're divorced. It's part of a scene where Burns learns he needs an ace reporter to cover a story and this excerpt here is followed by Hildy telling Burns she's quitting the biz to get married. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVCQTd6DTI(first 3:30) MED. CLOSE SHOT BURNS AND HILDY HILDY May I have a cigarette, please? Burns reaches into his pocket, extracts a cigarette and tosses it on the desk. Hildy reaches for it. HILDY Thanks. A match? Burns delves into pockets again, comes up with matchbox, tosses it to Hildy, who catches it deftly, and strikes the match. BURNS How long is it? Hildy finishes lighting her cigarette, takes a puff, and fans out the match. HILDY How long is what? BURNS You know what. How long since we've seen each other? HILDY Let's see. I was in Reno six weeks -- then Bermuda... Oh, about four months, I guess. Seems like yesterday to me. CLOSEUP BURNS BURNS (slyly) Maybe it was yesterday. Been seeing me in your dreams? MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT THE TWO HILDY (casually) No -- Mama doesn't dream about you any more, Walter. You wouldn't know the old girl now. BURNS (with conviction) Oh, yes I would. I'd know you any time -- He grows lyrical and, rising from his seat, is about to start toward her, as he continues: BURNS AND HILDY (together) -- any place, anywhere -- He sits. HILDY (half-pityingly) You're repeating yourself! That's the speech you made the night you proposed. (she burlesques his fervor "-- any time -- any place -- anywhere!" CLOSE SHOT HILDY AND BURNS BURNS (growling) I notice you still remember it. HILDY I'll always remember it. If I hadn't remembered it, I wouldn't have divorced you. BURNS You know, Hildy, I sort of wish you hadn't done it. HILDY Done what? BURNS Divorced me. It sort of makes a fellow lose faith in himself. It almost gives him a feeling he wasn't wanted. HILDY Holy mackerel! Look, Walter, that's what divorces are for. BURNS Nonsense. You've got the old-fashioned idea that divorces are something that last forever -- till 'death us do part'. Why, a divorce doesn't mean anything today. It's only a few words mumbled over you by a judge. We've got something between us nothing can change. HILDY I suppose that's true in a way. I am fond of you, Walter. I often wish you weren't such a stinker. BURNS Now, that's a nice thing to say. HILDY Well, why did you promise me you wouldn't fight the divorce and then try and gum up the whole works? BURNS Well, I meant to let you go -- but, you know, you never miss the water till the well runs dry. ANOTHER ANGLE HILDY A fellow your age, hiring an airplane to write: (she gestures above to indicate sky- writing) 'Hildy: Don't be hasty -- remember my dimple. Walter.! It held things up twenty minutes while the Judge ran out to watch it. BURNS Well, I don't want to brag, but I've still got the dimple -- and in the same place -- I just acted like any husband who doesn't want to see his home broken up. HILDY What home? WALTER What home? Don't you remember the home I promised you? HILDY Oh, yes -- we were to have it right after our honeymoon -- honeymoon! BURNS Was it my fault? Did I know that coal mine was going to have another cave-in? I meant to be with you on our honeymoon, Hildy -- honest I did.

plinytheelder_t at 2013-09-10 04:26:54:

The first of many reunions for Phil and Ned... Groundhog Day (1993): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqSYC_vwhDg EXT. MAIN STREET -KPUNXSUTAWNEY - CONTINUOUS There are a lot of people on the street for this hour. Traffic is so heavy in fact, the pedestrians are moving faster than the cars. Everyone seems to be going in the same direction, making the annual trek to see the groundhog. An OLD BUM is sitting on the sidewalk leaning against a storefront. Someone throws him a coin. Phil walks by without taking any notice. MAN (O.C.) Hey, Phil! A big pie-faced man, NED RYERSON, comes huffing and puffing right up to him. There is something about this guy that makes us dislike him on sight. NED Phil! Phil Connors! I thought that was you! Phil looks at him vaguely. PHIL (at a loss) I 'm sorry. Have we-- uh-- NED My oh my! Phil Connors. Don't say you don't remember me, 'cause I sure as heckrfire remember you. Well? Phil stares, trying to remember. NED Ned Ryerson? Needlenose Ned? Ned the Head. Come on, buddy. Case Western High? PHIL Ned? NED I see you clicking through that brain of yours. Click-click, c li ck- cli ck, click-click--Bing! Ned Ryerson, did the whistling trick with my belly button in the talent show. Bing! Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior ^year^ almost didn't graduate. Bing again! Ned Ryerson, went out with your sister Mary Pat a couple of times-- 'til you told me not to anymore. Well? PHIL (Resigned) Ned Ryerson. NED Bing! PHIL So what're you doing with yourself, Ned? NED Phil, I sell insurance. PHIL (sorry he asked) No kidding. NED Do you have life insurance, Phil? 'Cause if you do, I bet you could u s e more-- who couldn't?--but I got a feeling you don't have any. Am I right? PHIL You know, Ned, I ' d love to talk to you but I really have to-- Phil starts to walk away,,but Ned won't take the hint. NED That's okay. I'll walk with you. When I see an opportunity, I charge it, like a bull. Ned the Bull, that's me now. Some of my friends live and die by actuarial tables, but I think it's all just a crap shoot anyhoo. Ever heard of single .premium life? That could be the ticket for you, buddy. God, it's good to see you! Hey, what're you doing for dinner? PHIL Dinner? Umm, I don't think that's going to work for me. As they continue walking, Phil steps into what looks like a shallow puddle and ends up ankle deep in wet slush. Ned laughs like a donkey. NED Hey, look out for that first step! It's a doozy! Phil looks at him with murderous contempt.