Final Script of Revenge
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Fade in from logo
(High angle, C/U puddle)
Moon and bamboos mirror the image in a puddle, a foot steps on it and breaks the silence, few seconds later, another foot steps on it as well.(Foot steps in water S.F.X)
(Low angle, below the waist)
The 1st man (Lee) jumps over a rock, after a few seconds, the 2nd man (Loung) jumps over.(camera pans with the 2nd man) (Footsteps from far to close S.F.X)
(Camera pans)
Two shadows (silhouette) are running in the bamboo forest, one is chasing the other.
(C/U Lee’s face)
Without any panic, Lee is running and turning his head slightly back irregularly peeking at Loung (reserve shot over shoulder and zoom in fast to the eyes of Loung) Loung’s eyes are stuck on Lee, burning with enormous anger. Suddenly, Lightning flashback.(fade to white) (Footsteps S.F.X)
Flash back into Loung’s memory
(kid Loung’s POV, L/S)
(camera shakes showing the kid’s frightened) Loung stares at the window with his nervous breath and irregular sobbing, Loung (gently)
“ah..ah…woo…”
there’s shadow reflecting on the window: a man raises a knife and kills someone,
Victim
“oha…a…”
the blood splash on the window and the scream make him even more scared.
He starts looking around (Camera pans fast to show the tensity) and then stops on a box about his size beside the door.
(kid Loung’s POV, L/S)
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looks out the door through the gap. Suddenly, a hand breaks the window and fumbles for the latch,(breaking paper-window S.F.X.) the blood on the hand make the hand-tattoo more obviously. Loung closes the box lid.(lid closed S.F.X.)
(C/U Loung’s eyes)
Loung opens his eyes, which is bloodshot and the pupil extend widely. Suddenly he shoots a glance.(O.S.)
(Loung’s POV)
Zoom in first to a small rock, then to a couple of bamboos far away.
(C/U Loung’s eyes) Loung’s eyes turned back, and he runs to the side of the road slightly. (camera pulls back to the other side to take full-size shot of Loung) Loung kicks the small rock, (camera crash zooms in and track in the rock) the rock flies toward the bamboos, hits and breaks them. Bamboos fall and will block the path.(Stone flying and bamboos break down S.F.X.)
(M/C/U Lee)
Lee realises it is too late to stop, so he jumps and somersaults in the air,(camera in birds-eye looks straight down over the falling bamboos, slow motion) lands and slides in a clearing area surrounding by bamboos, facing backwards in crouching pose.(camera tracks in)(Sound of sliding S.F.X)
(C/U Lee’s hand)
There’s tattoo on Lee’s hand as the same one in Loung’s memory. Lee stands up slowly looking around him,(camera pulls back to M/S in low angle, then cut2 camera pans in bird-eye) (Wind S.F.X)
Fight Scene starts
Suddenly, a bamboo flies towards Lee, Lee dodges and jumps away, at the same moment he lands, Loung is stabbing him from behind with another bamboo, but Lee dodges and rolls forwards,
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and picks up the first bamboo, then they fight.
(C/U, the faces)
Lee pushs Loung into corner with two bamboo-weapon interlaced, and asks:
“What do you want from me?”
Loung pushs back instead of saying a word. They both lose their weapons in following movements, then they fight with bare hand.
When Loung attacks, Lee is trying to block, suddenly, Lee sees a fragrant bag tying on Loung’s belt,(slow motion) it is so familiar that reminds him something, he hesitates for a flash. With this chance, Loung knocks him down. There’s a bamboo sticking on the ground with sharp cut, Lee falls on it, and the bamboo goes through his body. (lightning and thunder SFX)
(M/C/U, Loung)
Loung is trying to catch his breath after this fight, says:
“You killed my family 10 years ago.”
Then he turns and walks away.(footsteps S.F.X)
(C/U the bloody bamboo, focus shifts From the bamboo and the hand to the view of Loung’s back as he walks away.)
A hand raises with a fragrant bag covered by blood,
Lee (painfully)
“em…woo..”
Loung stops and turns around.(over shoulder shot to M/C/U)
(camera in bird-eye looks down, L/S)
Loung picks up the bag. He opens it and takes out a letter covered by Lee’s blood. He reads the letter(low angle focus through the letter on the face) and suddenly he becomes very nervous, his eyes is moving word by word(C/U,the eyes)
After a white flash, get into the world which the letter tells, with a lady’s voice over.(M/S)
A woman(Liu) is carrying a heavy pail filled with water, there’s a baby swaddle tie up on her back. A man(Gao) walks
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in with a face of sorriness, he speaks to the woman, the woman suddenly drops the pail and burst into tears. Gao takes t Liu’s hand and walks away. (towards camera fade in black, then fade out) the same couple walks in (from camera, the view of their back)wearing webbing costume, towards house decorated in red.
“Dear husband, I am sorry that I married Gao, it is only because Gao lied to me that you died in the war 1 month after you join in the army. At that time, our boy only 2 month old, I have to find a man to raise us.”
(shot through a door gap, L/S)
One night, Gao walks out of the gate with another woman snuggling by the side. (Camera pulls back, Liu’s face gets in from side) Liu turns her face with tear back, and looks at the baby in her arms. (C/U the sleeping baby)
“but Gao didn’t treat us well after, he got some other women out side, but for our boy’s good, I have to bear on it,”
(M/S, Liu’s back view)
Liu sits by the table writing the letter, soon she finishes. Then she hangs herself. (L/S, camera pans from the beaty body to the sleeping baby on bed with the letter and a fragant bag by the side)
“Now I know you are still alive, I fell so guilty that I have to end my life. No matter how our little boy is going to be in future, that’s his destiny. If you have a chance to see him, his name is loung, I give him the fragrant bag as same as the one I gave to you with his name on it, and that could be the evidence for your meeting. So long, my love.”
after white flash
(C/U Loung’s eyes)
Loung is shocked, suddenly he notices something: he takes out his fragrant bag and compares with the bloody one, (camera pulls back, C/U Loung’s face, lens zoom out to the fragrant bag at the front of his face) they are exactly the same apart from the Chinese characters on them. (C/U, high angle,the fragrant bags)(Lightning S.F.X)
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(camera H/U with last scene, zoom lens focus on Lee’s raised hand) over the fragrant bags, Loung seea Lee’s raised hand, and he also notice Lee is trying to say something. Loung crouches, takes the hand (C/U the hands) and listens to what Lee says(camera switchs between their faces):
“Boy, I am sorry, I was too angry and lost my mind after I received the letter, I become a murderer. I never thought I would see you again, you have your mother’s eye, be strong to live, my son.”
Then Lee closes his eyes and dies.(C/U Lee’s face)
(C/U Loung’s face)
Because of the dual identities of Lee, Loung cann’t feel any success after killed his enemy who actually is his real father… but the most strange thing is that there’s tear coming out from Loung’s eyes, even though he doesn’t feel any sorrow.(camera focus on the tear, pans with with it) the tear drops on the holding hands mixes with blood, then drops on the ground. (fade in black)
END
