Week 4 Tute task

In order to get your head around screen writing our task this week was to download a script from www.script-o-rama.com and outline in detail the 3 basic elements of Act 1. The script I chose was "Enemy of the State". This was a movie I had seen before though I was interested to see how different the script was from the actual movie. Basically, within the first 30 pages (or 30mins) the movie sets up characters, setting, and the direction the movie is going. It begins with an "off the cuff" meeting between Hamersley, a member of the US senate, and Reynolds, a corrupt CIA officer. They are discussing a contraversial bill that Reynolds wants to get through congress and allow him to put camera's everywhere in order to fight terrorism. Hamersley is appauled by this and refuses. This pisses Reynolds off and he sets him up to be killed. The death is made to look like an accident and Reynolds has another obstical out of the way. However, Daniel Zavitz is a nature documentarer and gets the whole ordeal on film. He is inadvertantly thrown into the thick of things and realises what he has stumbled across. The CIA chase him and try to steal the footage back, but Zavitzevades them and runs into an old friend Robert Dean (Will Smith). Dean is an honest union lawyer. Family orientated, he is good at his job and when confronted by Zavitz, notices the fright in his eyes. Zavitz, overwhelmed by fear as the Agents pursue him, he secretly puts the films into Deans bags. Zavitz escape ends as he runs out of the department store and is destroyed by a bus. And so begins Deans pursuit on trying to find out why his life is being de-railed by the CIA and what the videos he found in his bag are all about...