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That explains what the American harridan is doing here. Pearce’s tax bill currently stands at $743.7 million dollars. The money travels from America to the Cayman Islands… They “succeed” in winning the case and the casino pays the shell company an enormous settlement. The Cayman Islands company files a lawsuit against the casino, claiming copyright infringement or some other complaint. Pearce sets up two companies: one is a Casino in Arizona for example and the other is a shell company in the Cayman Islands.

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He clicks through a series of flashy Powerpoint slides illustrating Pearce’s financial dealings. His greatest innovation: The False Lawsuit. Quiet simply, he has turned money laundering into an art form. There is nothing common about Alexander Pearce. You’ve assembled quite a task force to catch a common money launderer, Mr. He speaks with the crisp accent of a man who is fluent in several languages. That, in turn, involved him with some rather unsavory people and ultimately led him to put his financial genius to work in his true calling: money laundering. After a year in the training program at Goldman Sachs, he decided that gambling suited him better than working for a living. What started as school pranks eventually became something much more serious. He didn’t fix his test scores he fixed the scores for all the girls in the class. Your mastermind couldn’t pass his exams on his own? JEAN LUC (French Interpol liaison) looks up skeptically. Which he used to hack into a computer and fix the test results his final year at school. The only thing remarkable about his childhood was a preternatural gift for numbers.Īckerman clicks a slide projected on a large screen behind him: a fuzzy photo of a British schoolboy with a shy grin. British citizen, born in London into an ordinary middle class family. Suited bureaucrats and officers from all over Europe listen to Ackerman as he leads the meeting from the podium. INTERPOL CENTRAL BRIEFING ROOM, PARIS – EVENINGīehind the ornate, 17th century doors is a high-tech amphitheater style briefing room. Ackerman, the head of the investigation, gives a Power Point presentation which reveals details about Alexander’s childhood, his money laundering schemes, his theft from Russian crime lord Ivan Demidov…and the grotesque amount of taxes he owes to the government.

Key Expository Information: Alexander owes the US government almost $750 million dollars in taxes.Įxposition in the screenplay: the information was presented through a security briefing at Interpol. Exposition Example #1: The skinny on Alexander Pearce

You might want to print it first and read it later. Also, I’m including dialogue from the screenplay as much as possible, which makes this article rather long.

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To really learn from this post, I highly recommend you watch the movie first. Examining the differences should help you develop your own strategy for writing exposition. So in each of the examples below, you’ll see how the screenplay approached expository information and then how the movie handled it. While well-written, the movie significantly improved upon the screenplay template, especially with respect to exposition. The screenplay draft I found was first written by Julian Fellows (creator of Downton Abbey and Gosford Park), with revisions by William Wheeler and Jeffrey Nachmanoff…based on Jerome Salle’s Anthony Zimmer. This post is to help you get started in the right direction by providing examples of exposition from the slow-burning thriller, The Tourist, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. With a little bit of practice, you’ll be able to turn clunky exposition into dulcet dialogue. Done wrong, your expository dialogue will be clunky and boring…causing even the most forgiving reader to disengage from your script.įortunately, bad exposition is easy to identify. Your exposition will have to come out in dialogue, and unfortunately it isn’t easy. George Lucas got away with quite literally spelling out all the details of his fictional world in 1977, but you won’t be able to get away with that anymore. The famous expository title crawl in STAR WARS

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