Afraid of flying?
You shouldn't be. It's really safe. Except in that movie.
They had this, like, creature on the wing of the plane.
Heard they based that on a true story.
Planes crash all the time.
They cover it up, buy off the witnesses.
Where the hell are the flight attendants?
It's all based on the aerodynamics of hydrometeorology.
Hey. Ever heard of the Mile High club?
come on.
He's sick.
come on.
I don't know if we should do this.
Oh, you think?
No. We should.
Get over here!
"You're going down."
I sure am, baby.
No. Rob!
Stop!
What the fuck's going on? Let's go! Go, go!
Oh, God!
Mayday! Mayday!
Mayday!
Mayday! Mayday!
cut!
Hey, guys! When I say "cut," that means stop!
Thank you.
Sandra. You're not supposed to fly the plane.
Jesus! Vanessa.
Thanks for getting the boom in the shot again.
Poor Sandra.
He whines like a real director.
I'm sorry. You know, who are we kidding?
She's no Jamie Lee curtis, right? But she'll get better.
Young man, that woman's acting would be wretched in a porno film.
He's right. I've seen her in a couple of them. She's really bad.
-I thought there was-- -Shut up, scrote.
Get me a cup of coffee.
Hi, Amy.
Let's try something new this time:
Why don't you get it right, or I'll kill you?!
Let's try it again. Back to one.
Take 41.
Effects up.
Effects up. Effects up!!
-Roll sound. -Soundspeed.
-Roll camera. -Rolling.
Scene 1 6, take 41.
Fucking action.
As chairman of the film department...
...I want to wish you all the best as you return for the spring semester...
...and remind you that yours is the honor and the privilege to attend...
...the greatest film school that ever existed.
So let's try and not burn the place down.
Mr. Solomon?
Did everyone have a nice, toasty holiday?
I'd like to personally welcome Melvin Zarcoff...
...who joins us after a distinguished Hollywood career.
Welcome.
Mr. Zarcoff...
...is a veteran of over 50 films...
Ten bucks he croaks before the end of the semester.
You don't have ten bucks. You spent it on your shitty movie.
come on. A little courtesy?
Yeah, shut the fuck up.
You're so mean.
clive Lavey will be offering a new super-8 course.
Action!
Which is required before you go on to the video workshops.
He the one that did Vampire Cheerleaders?
No, that was Nick LaVey. clive did the Splattertown sequels.
Not enough blood for me.
Some of you have yet to submit your screenplays.
At the end of the semester, you may submit your thesis films...
...to be considered for the prestigious Hitchcock Award...
...which not only carries with it, as you all know, a $1 5,000 stipend...
...but, I'm proud to say, has become a springboard to Hollywood success...
-...for such alumni as-- -cecily Spector.
Josh Bouvet.
chip Voelker.
...and chip Voelker.
Young lady!
come here! come here. What are you doing out here in the dark?
I was going to the library.
Alone? At this hour? In this weather?
Girl, get in this car. I'll drive you.
So cold.
No "Show me your badge," no "can I see some lD?"
can I see some lD?
I got no lD.
-Where you going? -Over the bridge to the--
Library, right.
Good for you, baby.
My name's Reese. What's your name, sugar?
I'm Amy.
Nice lion. You ever hide a gun in there?
-What makes you say that? -I'm a film student.
I had a class last semester where we saw Pam Grier.
She had this film where she hides a gun inside a lion like that.
Coffy.
That's one of my favorite films of hers.
I even have my gun trimmed in gold like hers.
Look at that.
I've always been partial to Foxy Brown.
"That's my sister, baby.
And she's a whole lot of woman!"
You'll do action movies like Coffy?
I don't know. I have to make a thesis film. I can't think of a good story.
I got a good story.
Yeah, it's about a campus serial killer who murders eight students...
...but nothing happens because the prestigious university covers it up.
I heard this one. It supposedly happened at Pendleton.
It was just an urban legend.
You didn't let me finish.
After the murders, the chief of security...
...who refused to go along with the cover-up, is fired.
Spends the entire year looking for work.
Finally lands an entry-level position at another university.
Thanks for the ride.
-Oh, yeah, baby, any time. -Have a good night.
Urban legend, my ass.
A lot of film historians don't seem to be able to gauge...
...the impact of mise en scene on cinema verite storytelling.
On the other hand, it could be argued mise en scene or staging...
...are two examples that are basically mutually exclusive.
What is cinema verite if not...
...the absence of staging?
-And so on. -come in.
-Godard's victims... -Sorry. I'll come back later.
...draped in the trees in the French countryside.
I just had an idea for my thesis film so....
come in. Sit down.
Hi, Dr. Fain.
So...
...the movie is about a serial killer...
...whose murders are all based on urban legends.
That's pretty cool.
But not exactly what we've come to expect from a Mayfield.
I know, but I think I'm ready for a work of fiction.
I think you are too. You mind, Richard?
You can get the door...
...on your way out.
What do you think?
Horror or suspense?
A little bit of both.
Just like Hitchcock.
Hitchcock's themes might serve you well.
Paranoia, fear of imprisonment, wrong man accused...
...how the lines blur between fantasy and reality.
So you think it's okay?
It's great.
Travis Stark.
Who would've thought you'd be the next Spielberg?
-Yeah, right. -come on.
Enjoy it. Next year you'll be in the real world.
Here's to unemployment.
Here's to you for saving my ass again.
Two more.
Do I get a private screening when I get back?
We'll have to see.
I worked my ass off on your film.
-And every film you've done. -I know, and I love you for it.
Thanks.
Here's to loving me for it.
Drink up.
Don't you have a plane to catch?
Wasted is the only way to fly.
I've got to go finish working on my film. So have a safe trip.
See you when you get back.
That guy's a real spaz.
You know, I'm a director too.
Really?
Directors make a lot of money?
Pretty much.
Then you won't mind paying for these.
Excuse me.
Hello?
911. Please state your emergency.
I just woke up in a tub of ice--
-Don't tell me. Your kidney's gone. -Yes.
Honey, I got Princess Di on line four. I got to go.
What?
So check it out.
It's a tradition during finals week.
Everybody's up late studying...
...and, at midnight, everyone screams as a release of tension.
At the same time, between midnight and 1 2:01...
...a coed is brutally attacked.
Her screams go unnoticed, drowned out by the screams of those around her.
True story, right?
Yeah, I heard it happened at Harvard.
No.
It's an urban legend.
Like that girl who eats a burrito with the pregnant roach...
...and the eggs hatch inside of her nose?
Or like that girl who takes a bite of a chicken sandwich...
...and discovers that the mayonnaise is really pus from a chicken tumor?
There's that guy who has crabs, unzips his fly....
Okay!
You definitely have the idea.
But I have my thesis film.
There a role in it for me?
You can scream, can't you?
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
Mayday! Mayday!
You guys scared the shit out of me.
We're movie monsters.
-Want to be the count? -The count sucks.
Get it?
Travis Stark, film genius.
-What are you doing? -Looking for her.
She was looking through the window. Trying to get her mack on.
Totally.
Sorry.
Let's play hopscotch.
Anyway....
-ls this your thesis film? -Yeah, but it's not done.
I'm sure it's a mess right now.
I wouldn't call it a mess.
Right. I mean....
I just got my script approved for my film, and thought...
...maybe you'd want to take a look at it.
Why don't you come by Tuesday night and we'll talk about it?
Okay.
I'll call you about it.
On the phone.
I hear cell phones give you brain cancer.
That's an urban legend.
Too bad.
This is what we're going to film.
Here's a twenty. Go wash my car.
Go ahead.
You know he's a P A., not a slave, right?
Same difference. The guy's applied to film school three times now.
Well, there's this girl...
...who's afraid of the dark.
She puts her hand down, and if her dog licks her hand...
...she knows everything's okay.
can I be the dog? Because I'm a great licker.
That's what Dirk told me.
So anyway, when she wakes up in the morning...
...she walks into her bathroom and sees her dog hanging from the shower rod.
-And a message.
Latex and cornflakes. We can do that.
Latex and cornflakes? One call to my old man, and we can go digital.
Digital sucks. Latex rules.
That's not what your god George Lucas says.
Yeah, well, fuck George Lucas.
-You're going to Hell, man. -I know.
I need to talk to you, Mayfield.
In private.
Be right back.
-Where were you? -This is a nice script, Mayfield.
Nice horror script.
It seems similar, but I'm going for a paranoid--
That is bullshit. Mayfield, you stole my fucking genre.
-Trust me, I'm not stealing anything. -Trust you?
Yeah, I should trust you.
To steal a Hitchcock from me.
Nobody is going to steal a Hitchcock from me.
Especially you, little girl.
Find yourself another D.P.
Are you all right, Travis?
I got graded on my film today.
c fucking minus.
How could that happen?
So much for the Hitchcock.
You don't need that.
You're better than that.
You're the most talented filmmaker at this school.
Amy, I have no money.
I have no connections.
I feel really awful asking this now...
...but I'm kind of desperate.
Toby dropped off my crew today.
You know another D.P. I could use?
Yeah. His name is Simon.
He shot my film.
I can give him a call if you want.
It's going to be okay.
I'll see you.
Hey, guys.
-Anyone seen Sandra? -Naked, you mean?
Anyone not seen her naked?
I heard that!
-Watch out! -Oh, my God!
She's....
Oh, my God.
Got you.
She's one hell of an actress, ain't she?
Movie magic.
Oh, my God.
Was I in the moment?
What were you doing?
Rehearsing.
I got an audition to play a coma patient on ER.
-With help from Graham's daddy. -lt was nothing.
Thank you, baby.
Let's go watch her clean up.
You hear a noise while you're in the bedroom. You come in here.
The camera follows you from the doorway. comes in.
You see the dog, you turn...
...you see the message, then the killer. You scream.
And that's it. Got it?
Picture's up.
Everybody shut up! Picture's up.
Okay, roll sound.
-I'll see you later. -Graham, hello!
can you hold on a minute?
Speed.
Pardon me?
Is this the set of Amy Mayfield?
Yeah, I'm Amy.
Listen, I need a reservation for two for tonight. 8:45.
I'm Schorm Jabuscko.
Travis says you need director of photography.
Travis. Yeah.
Thank you for coming. Unfortunately...
...this camera is all we have...
...Schorm.
You can call me Simon.
Don't worry.
I bring my own.
This is my baby...
...baby.
You know, you're a very beautiful woman.
Well, you're pretty cute too, camera boy.
If you were a girl, I would definitely fuck you.
-Really? -Yeah.
-Hey, baby. -Hi, doll-face.
can I give you a lift?
You already have.
Shit!
Jesus!
Idiot, Sandra. Idiot.
All right. Keys, keys. Where would l be if I were keys? Keys, keys.
Goddamn it. Keys.
Hello. Where are you? Keys.
A mess.
Disgusting. Goddamn it.
Yes.
Cut.
-She sucks. -Urban Legends, scene 3, take 28.
-Dog looks good. -lt does.
Action.
-You could turn it into a comedy. -Scene 3
Take twenty-fucking-nine.
Okay, action.
Cut. Please cut.
What the...?
-This isn't us, is it? -Wrong reel.
Oh, that's Sandra.
-What is she doing? -That's Sandra's best angle.
That's definitely Sandra's ass.
Gratuitous ass shot.
Dude, that looks so real.
Right there. Get her.
They slash a major artery and that's all the blood?
O.J. Ieft more blood on the Bronco.
It was all right.
The dog was good.
Did you guys do this?
I didn't. Did you?
Simon?
No.
But I like it.
Where's the reel that was on this?
I don't know.
You swear you didn't do this?
Yeah, Dirk and I could do much better.
You don't think it was real?
No. Not enough blood.
come on. This is classic Sandra.
-She probably staged it for her reel. -Then, who shot it?
Guys. Travis Stark, he...
...he's dead.
By now, most of you have heard the news.
For those of you who haven't...
...Travis Stark took his life last night.
It's just hard to know what to say.
He blew his head off in the campus tower. I mean, literally blew it off.
-Dental records wouldn't help. -It's important for us...
...to celebrate who he was...
...and, what I believe, he could've become.
He was a gifted filmmaker who raised the bar for all of us.
But not only did he let himself down he let us all down.
Everybody goes through a time when they feel alone and helpless.
We need to go easy on ourselves...
...and remember we're just doing the best we can.
You know, in the movie Day for Night...
...Truffaut asked the question:
"ls film more important than life?"
He was a hell of a talent.
Are you okay?
No.
Have you seen Sandra?
Sandra's in a coma, Amy.
On ER in LA.
You should let me help you, too.
I know you're not hitting on me now.
With my dad's connections, I can get your film done tomorrow.
I'd like to try it for myself.
That is hypocritical bullshit.
I know about you.
You're a Hollywood kid, like me.
What? I grew up in chicago.
Not before 1 992, you didn't.
You were 1 3 years old when you and your mama moved from Beverly Hills.
After your daddy, Taylor Mayfield died...
...while shooting the same nature crap that you do.
Don't look so surprised.
It's in your admissions file.
Being the daughter of an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker...
...didn't hurt your chance of getting into this school.
Why don't you cut the girl-next-door crap?
You need to make it to save face...
...just as bad as I do.
Maybe worse.
I'll see you on the set...
...darling.
I heard he blew his head off up in the campus tower.
Hello? Who's there?
Travis?
They told me you killed yourself.
You knew him?
What?
My brother. You knew him?
I don't understand.
I'm Trevor Stark.
I'm his brother.
I didn't know that Travis had a brother.
When was the last time you saw him?
I saw him a couple of days ago.
Was he upset?
He was depressed because of the grade he got on his thesis film.
He thought he'd lost his chance at the Hitchcock Award.
I thought that's why you...
...he...
...killed himself.
Is that what everyone thinks?
Wait. Please.
If you're not Travis, why are you here?
Please.
My brother didn't kill himself.
Trust me. He wouldn't do that.
What are you saying? You think he was murdered?
I know that's what happened.
-Have you said anything to the police? -I can't.
Why not?
I just can't. Listen...
...don't tell anybody you saw me here.
Please.
Something happened to my brother, and I'm going to find out what.
Three, two, one, midnight.
And cut.
Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, we're done.
You can go home. That's a wrap.
-Sorry it was so late. -What's going on?
Nothing.
There's something wrong.
Nothing. Just.... Hang on. Hey, guys.
I need help with these wild tracks.
Great. They're gone.
I'll do it.
No, I just need a wild track of them screaming. Get some sleep.
-You sure? -Yeah, I got it.
I'll talk to you later.