The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin
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The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin
About This Book
The brilliant screenplay of the Academy Award–nominated film The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Academy and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin's film dramatizes the 1969 trial of seven prominent anti-Vietnam War activists in Chicago. Originally there were eight defendants, but one, Bobby Seale, was severed from the trial by Judge Julius Hoffman—after Hoffman had ordered Seale bound and gagged in court.The defendants were a mix of counterculture revolutionaries such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and political activists such as Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, and David Dellinger, the last a longtime pacifist who was a generation older than the others. Their lawyers argued that the right to free speech was on trial, whether that speech concerned lifestyles or politics. The Trial of the Chicago 7 stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella, and Mark Rylance, among others, directed by Aaron Sorkin. This book is Sorkin's screenplay, the first of his movie screenplays ever published.
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THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
FADE IN: | |||
1 | LYNDON JOHNSON addresses a television camera (FILE FOOTAGE) | 1 | |
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MUSIC crashes in that will take us through the prologue--a | * | ||
nation coming off the rails. | * | ||
2 | INT. LOTTERY DRAWING - DAY (FILE FOOTAGE) | 2 | |
A few well-scrubbed young men from the Youth Draft Advisory Committee stand over a goldfish bowl containing capsules. One of the young men pulls a capsule and reads it as if someone’s won something--
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3 | INT./EXT MAILBOXES - DAY/NIGHT | 3 | |
We see a SERIES OF TIGHT SHOTS of different kinds of mailboxes being opened--rural, suburban, apartment building, etc., all of it under--
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4 | EXT. RURAL MAILBOX TREE - DAY | 4 | |
A line of mailboxes sit on the side of a rural road. One of them is open. We move down and see mail scattered at the feet of a young black man, 18, slumped down on the ground, his induction notice shaking in his hands.
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5 | INT. BALLROOM - NIGHT (FILE FOOTAGE) | 5 | |
KING continues--
And we HEAR the rifle shot that killed him RING OUT as we FLASH CUT TO: | |||
6 | FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPH--(FILE FOOTAGE) | 6 | |
Three men pointing in unison to where the shot came from. | |||
7 | EXT. CAMPAIGN RALLY - NIGHT (FILE FOOTAGE) | 7 | |
It’s pouring rain and Robert Kennedy is talking to a crowd of people who have just heard the news--
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