Blue Velvet

"BLUE VELVET" Screenplay by David Lynch FADE IN: FOLDS OF BLUE VELVET UNDULATE EVER SO SLOWLY WITH TITLES DISSOLVE TO: EXT. BEAUMONTS' FRONT LAWN - DAY Blue skies. PAN SLOWLY DOWN to clean white picket fence, with beautiful red roses in front of it. Birds CHIRP in the distance. A faint sprinkler SOUND is heard. Very sweet MUSIC is playing. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. TREE - DAY A songbird SINGS in the tree. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. CROSSWALK - SHADY STREET - DAY A very clean uniformed, smiling POLICEMAN with arms outstretched allows clean happy SCHOOL CHILDREN to cross the street safely. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. SHADY STREET - DAY A bright red gorgeous fire engine is moving very slowly down the street. WE MOVE IN to see the happy face of a FIREMAN. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. FLOWER GARDEN - DAY Yellow tulips sway in a warm afternoon breeze. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. BEAUMONTS' FRONT LAWN - DAY The same white picket fence with roses in front of it. PANNING SLOWLY now away from the roses down to the rich green lawn and over to the sprinkler which goes around and around shooting water droplets sparkling in the light. This is slightly SLOW MOTION and DREAMY. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. BEAUMONTS' FRONT LAWN - DAY CLOSER ON WATER DROPLETS The water droplets are somewhat abstracted as they dance in the light. PAN DOWN now to the green grass, traveling along the grass. The MUSIC becomes fainter as we MOVE SUDDENLY under the grass, now as if in a dark forest. SLOWLY MOVING THROUGH. The grass is like great timbers.