The Adventures of Buckaroo...

BUCKAROO BANZAI by Earl Mac Rauch SHOOTING SCRIPT Revised Third Draft March 30, 1983 Becherman/Canton-Richter BUCKAROO BANZAI CARD OVER...WHITE LETTERS ON A DARK BACKGROUND: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT Classified File #2TC1695 Dept. of Defense 3-1-50 thru 8-31-53 Re:Project Sawtooth FADE IN: EXT.SMALL TEXAS TOWN - DAY 1 Beside a 1950 Ford, a quartet of elite intellectuals poses playfully...dressed in the local custom of boots and cowboy hats, the TOW ORIENTAL MEN, A CAUCASIAN MAN, AND A CAUCASIAN WOMAN squint into the hot sun and then down at the jiggling home movie camera, the operator lopsided... NARRATOR The advent of the Soviet nuclear capability ushers in a dangerous phase of the Cold War as the decade of the 1950s looms.Stung by this Soviet challenge and the rapid race to develop ever more sophisticated weapons, the United States resurrects maverick Professor Toichi Hikita's work in electromagnetic particle acceleration...despite the dismal record of failure that has dogged the project. TOICHI HIKITA, one of the group, walks forward, taking the CAMERA from its present operator, a four-year-old child...A LITTLE BOY IN CHAPS AND COWBOY HAT who now joins the other adults, in particular Caucasian woman and the elder Oriental man who pick him up and hug him... NARRATOR Doctor Masado Banzai, preeminent Japanese quantum theorist, declares himself anxious to work for the Allies.