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This was an old Genie post, my reaction to the success of AIR FORCE ONE (the film about the American President who behaves like an action hero)
Shot 1: An elegant castle somewhere in England. Lots of International Political types debarking from helicopters and stretch limousines. Grim, pulsating music.
NARRATOR: "It is the turn of the millennium. And here, in this top secret location, the heads of the world's most powerful countries are gathered for a conference that will change the course of history. Only something goes VERY WRONG..."
Shot 2: Massive fireball. Explosion throws down a brick wall, in bursts many paramilitary types with machine guns, firing. More grim music.
Shot 3: The panicked reaction among the diplomatic types. Bodies somersaulting through the air propelled by more explosions.
Shot 4: DAVID BOWIE (sneering international terrorist) "The rulers of the world are mine!"
Shot 5: MORGAN FREEMAN: (as NATO commander-in chief) "It's World War Three if we don't get them out in time!"
Shot 6: COLM MEANY (director of the CIA) "He's got the entire castle wired with explosives! THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO!"
Shot 7: NARRATOR: "But the terrorists have forgotten one little thing..." One of the terrorists is suddenly yanked off his feet by a garrote. We see him falling over the high parapet, the camera zooms in on the person standing there...EMMA THOMPSON: (sneering) "Not in my Country, you don't!"
NARRATOR: "...the Queen of England!"
Shot 8: TERRORIST: "She's taken out half the strike force! We can't seem to stop her!"
BOWIE: (Proving his insane nature by shooting his own man): "Pity she looked so... helpless...on the paper money."
Shot 9: Another explosion
Shot 10: NATO Command Center. Clom Meany arguing with Morgan Freeman.
MEANY: "We don't even know if she's still alive! We have to send in the troops!"
FREEMAN: "Dammit no! I know this woman! She's the best there is! WE HAVE TO GIVE HER MORE TIME!"
Shot 11: Thompson battling Bowie in a flaming conference room: both are bloody and bruised, clothing in tatters:
NARRATOR: "Because whoever called her 'just a powerless figurehead'...
(Thompson karate kicks Bowie over the table)
"...never met this lady!"
Shot 12: Closeup of Bowie, face twisted in hatred.
BOWIE: "Prepare to be...DEPOSED!"
Shot 13: Closeup of Thompson, bleeding from the lips but smiling. She takes a wicked, serrated knife from her royal gown:
THOMPSON: "We don't THINK so..."
Shot 14: TITLE CARD: "THE CROWN"
Directed by Richard Donner.
Original score by John Barry, available on EMI records.
NARRATOR: "Because the Sun never sets on the British Empire."
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