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(sotto voce)
Hey – did you get anything?
REPORTER
(sotto voce)
Dark wind, blah blah.
PHOTOGRAPHER
It’s some atmospheric hooey.
Or electrical.
GRAVES moves up the steps of the now-ruined building. He examines the destruction, curious, alert.
REPORTER
Hey – you thirsty?
PHOTOGRAPHER
Nah, I’m on the wagon. Promised Martha I’d lay off.
The wind begins to pick up, swirling around the building, accompanied by a high-pitched screeching. GRAVES alone looks interested.
A sudden series of bangs at street level. All turn to look for the source of the sound: a wall cracks, the rubble on the floor begins to shake before exploding like an earthquake, ripping out of the building and down through the middle of the street. The movement is violent, rushed – people and cars go flying.
The mysterious force then flies up into the air, swirling through the city, diving in and out of alleyways, before crashing down into a subway station.
CLOSE ON GRAVES, as he examines the destruction of the street.
A mingled roar and howl emanates from the bowels of the earth.
SCENE 6
Watching NEWT walk, we see in him an unselfconscious Keatonesque quality, a sense of a different rhythm to those around him. In his hand he clutches directions on a small piece of paper, but he still shows a scientist’s curiosity about this alien environment.
SCENE 7
NEWT, intrigued by the noise of shouting, approaches a rally of the New Salem Philanthropic Society.
MARY LOU BAREBONE, a handsome mid-western woman in a 1920s version of Puritan dress, charismatic and earnest, stands on a small stage at the steps to the City Bank. Behind her stands a man parading a banner emblazoned with the organisation’s symbol: hands proudly grasping a broken wand amid bright yellow and red flames.
MARY LOU
(to the assembled crowd)
… this great city sparkles with the jewels of man’s invention! Movie theatres, automobiles, the wireless, electric lights – all dazzle and bewitch us!