GAS



24    INT. OFF-SHORE OIL RIG

      A GENERATOR HUMS. DAVID WARNER and a CURIOUS
      BYSTANDER, both tied at the feet, hang upside-down
      from meat hooks while all around them small
      CRUSTACEANS are spontaneously turning into copies of
      Shakespeare's FIRST FOLIO.

                             DAVID WARNER
                    (slightly drunk)
                You have to know... what "big"
                really means... in order to
                know... just how big this is.

                            CURIOUS BYSTANDER
                    (nonplussed)
                Oh. I see... well... how big
                IS this?

                            DAVID WARNER
                    (stares into middle
                    distance, then looks
                    up - with conviction)
                It's really, really BIG.

                            CURIOUS BYSTANDER
                     (impressed)
                Whoa.

      The lights fail. The HUMMING decreases in pitch until
      it is inaudibly low.

      Suddenly BLACK AND WHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY as TWO
      LEOPARDS leap out of a cupboard.

                            A LEOPARD
                Young and old, gather round!

                            ANOTHER LEOPARD
                Everybody hail the new king in
                town!

      FUNK ROLL.

      BLACKOUT.