The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) Gattaca

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LAMAR For future reference-- (a brief glance to where Jerome has just zipped his fly) --righthanded men don't hold it with their left. It's just one of those things. Never lookig at the screen, Lamar presses a button marked, "VALID". LAMAR (knowing smile) Have a safe trip, Vincent. Jerome exits up a long enclosed escalator, realizing that Lamar has known all along. We focus on JEROME's face - seeing little if any of the craft. Jerome's eyes are closed. His head is still - alarmingly still. Could the launch itself have been too much for him? He hear the thoguhts in his head. JEROME (VO) We came from the stars so they say, now it's time to go back. If I was conceived today, I would not get beyond eight cells, and yet here I am. In a way they were right, I don't have the heart for this world. (pause) The question is, why am I having so much trouble dying? Jerome's eyes blink open. He holds the letter from Eugene in his hand. It contains no words, merely a lock of EUGENE'S hair - for once preserved solely for its sentimental value. The hair, weightless, floats off the page. We focus on a porthole looking out upon a starscape. A STARSCAPE As we pan across the constellations, a title is superimposed upon the starscape: In a few short years, scientists will have completed the Human Genome Project, the mapping of all the genes that make up a human being. After 4 billion years of evolution by the slow and clumsy method of natural selection, we have now evolved to the point where we
can direct our own evolution. The first title is replaced in the heavens by a second title. If only we had aquired this knowledge sooner, the following people would never have been born: A succession of portraits and photographs of RENOWNED and HISTORIC FIGURES fades in and out of the constellations - the accompanying titles list their affliction rather than their accomplishments. HOMER Blind from birth NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Epileptic COLETTE Arthritic LOU GERHIG Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gerhig's Disease) RITA HAYWORTH Alzheimer's Disease HELEN KELLER Blind and deaf STEPHEN HAWKING Lou Gerhig's Disease JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE Asthmatic CHARLES DARWIN Chronic invalid The face of Charles Darwin fades off and another title appears out of the stars. Even Charles Darwin, the man who told of the survival of the fittest, numbered amongst our frailest. The title fades off and is replaced by one final title in the night sky. Of course, the other birth that would surely never have taken place is your own. CUT TO BLACK
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