Amélie Seceplay by BUILLAUME LAURANT & JEAN-PIERRE JEUNETScene 1 - ext. & int. VOICE OVER "On the third of September, 1975, at Twelve Twenty- Eight and Thirty-Two seconds, a small gnat of the rciponyia family, one of Nature's minor mizacles, capable of 62,670 wing-beats per minute, landed on the road to Banon, in the Alps of Haute Provence..." (Suddenly, a car appears from behind and squashes it...) "...At that exact moment, on the terrace of 2 restaurant, in a small village on the Greek island of Kalymnos, the wind ballooned 2 tablecloth and sent the glasses waltzing. There were no witnesses to this event." (The glasses sway on the rippling tablecloth as if by magic) "at the very same second, in New York, at the southern tip of Manhatten island, Joseph Polonski, returning from the burial of his best friend Wendell Curtis, erased the name from his address book..." (The old man sadly blows away the eraser dust) "and still at Twelve Twenty-Eight and Thirty-Two seconds, a spermatozoon, marked with an X chromosome belonging to Mr. Raphaé! Poulain, broke away from the pack and reached the ovum belonging to Mrs. Poulain, née Anandine Fouet." (Scientific images of racing spermatozoa ~ one in red.) them is circled "Nine months later came the birth of : Amélie Poulain." (A midwife's hand holds up a slimy baby.) TITLESScene 2 - int. & ext. "amélie's father, a former army doctor, now works at the spa of Enghien-les-bains." We close in on his ight-lipped, sign of (Raphaé] Poulain poses as if for a picture mouth as an inscription and arrow appear a lack of feelings.” "Raphaél Poulain dislikes Pissing in public -Lurching in train aisles -Coming out of the water and feeling his swimming trunks sticking to him " Raphaél Poulain likes: -Speeding straight down a winding road without braking -Lining up his shoes and carefully shining them -Enptying the tool box, cleaning it, and putting everything back in order." Scene 3 - int. 6 ext “amélie's mother, Amandine Fouet - a primary school teacher from Gueugnon - has always been rather nervous and unstable." The mother too poses as if for 2 photo. We close in on her lickering eyelid as the following appears : "slight nervous tic, sign of neurotic agitation”) "amandine Poulain dislikes -Hot baths that wrinkle her fingers jomeone she doesn't know brushing agai in the morning, the imprint of the sheet on "Amandine Poulain likes: -Speeding straight down 2 winding road without braking (She’s sitting next to her husband and is actually shrinking, terrorised, into the passenger seat! "Shining wooden floors by wearing slippers all day. -Emptying her handbag completely, cleaning it, and