词汇：backwards
adv. 向后；倒；逆
相关场景
- NEIL:
- You’re bleeding. Let me take a look – SUDDENLY THEY HEAR THE BUILDING WHINE OF JET ENGINES. The Protagonist YANKS up the handle, THROWS OPEN THE DOOR – EXT. APRON, OSLO AIRPORT – CONTINUOUS Onto PANDEMONIUM – FIRE CREWS BATTLE the blaze, chunks of metal on the ground IGNITE, SHUDDER and LEAP ONTO THE AIRFRAME... STREAMS of water RISE up onto the plane – The Protagonist HURRIES BACKWARDS, PULLING THE GURNEY towards the plane, steering around debris that might suddenly – A SHEET OF FLAMING METAL SPINS off the ground, shearing into them, KNOCKING the GURNEY – they duck, HOLDING ON TO THE GURNEY, the metal FLIES into the air, SLAMS into its hole on the side of the plane... the Protagonist spots a line under the fuselage, between flames, towards the breach... Come on!>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- INT. SAME – NIGHT The Protagonist is at the peephole – the ground is WET. CLEAN- UP CREWS and INVESTIGATORS swarm backwards over the scene.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- EXT. CARGO SHIP – LATER Close on the hull, we see the water UNSPLASHING at the bow and SUCKING UNDERNEATH the stern as the ship steams majestically backwards through the cold North Sea... INT. SHIPPING CONTAINER – LATER BANGING wakes the Protagonist – Neil is at a peephole.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- Every law of physics operates the same forwards and backwards, except one. Entropy... The Protagonist moves to the back of the container, pulls out his phone, checks Neil’s attention is on Kat...>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- PROTAGONIST:
- He can see the Mercedes up ahead, weaving through traffic... EXT. HIGHWAY, TALLINN – CONTINUOUS The Mercedes races back up the off-ramp – the Saab follows, weaving through traffic which faces him, but travels backwards – As the Saab gets within a couple car lengths, his phone cuts in with audio from his Bluetooth bug in the Mercedes –>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- He checks the phone – a blinking dot half a mile away – he GUNS it, FISHTAILING unexpectedly... EXT. HIGHWAY – CONTINUOUS We see the fire fight from before IN REVERSE – Neil laying down fire from between cars, Kat carried ‘back’ to the Audi... Behind Neil, Sator, MOVING FORWARDS, checks the glove compartment of the BMW... NOTHING. FUMING, he heads back to the Mercedes, DUCKING behind cars, bullets FLYING... INT./EXT. SAAB – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist pulls onto a busy highway where the cars are FACING HIM, BUT MOVING IN HIS DIRECTION... The Saab races along, the only normal-looking car on a road full of cars SPEEDING BACKWARDS... On the phone, the flashing dot is CLOSER... Slowing, the Protagonist spots the ORANGE CASE lying empty by the side of the road. He PULLS OVER some distance away – JUMPS out of the car – pulls out his BLUETOOTH EARPIECE and WEDGES it between the foam padding and the orange plastic... The Protagonist heads back to his car, checks the signal from his phone... PEERS at the case... The case SHUDDERS TO LIFE – LEAPS INTO THE WINDOW OF A PASSING CAR – THE MERCEDES – The Protagonist PEELS OUT, DUST FLIES UP IN CLOUDS THAT DON’T FULLY BLOSSOM as expected, but CONTRACT... The Protagonist STRUGGLES with the wheel, trying to keep the car on the road with its unaccustomed handling... Christ!>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- Neil hands him a phone. The Protagonist sticks a Bluetooth earpiece in his ear, passes into the airlock – Wheeler shuts it behind him. Then opens the OUTER DOOR... EXT. YARD, TALLINN FREEPORT – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist emerges into a strange world – the air feels different, the friction of his feet on the asphalt feels different. He looks up at birds flying backwards... at steam contracting... at a pile of dust sucking itself bigger... In the yard he spots the SAAB... he runs over, finds the keys sitting on the front tyre – INT./EXT. SAAB – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist LOOKS in the glove box – NOTHING – LOOKS in the wheel well – NOTHING – the back seat – NOTHING. He gives up – starts the engine... pulls out, gently, feeling out the strange handling of the vehicle... INT./EXT. SAAB, TALLINN STREETS – MOMENTS LATER The Protagonist steers the car around BACKWARDS-MOVING TRAFFIC and BACKWARDS-WALKING PEDESTRIANS, MARVELLING... People STARE at the car as it approaches, as if they already know a backwards-driven car is heading their way (which, of course, they do).>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- PROTAGONIST:
- I’m going backwards – that’s the ball I have to follow. Give me the reader.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- The Protagonist looks through the glass to where he and Ives now appear to be moving backwards... The Medic tends to Kat.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- IVES:
- (points) Yeah... The Protagonist turns to see HIMSELF on the other side of the glass, MOVING IN REVERSE, wheeling KAT ‘TOWARDS’ THE VAULT DOOR – Let’s go! IVES (CONT'D) Ives OPENS the door – the Protagonist takes one last look at his backwards self ‘entering’ the machine, then STEPS INSIDE – We follow him in as the door SHUTS behind him – he puts his back to the wall – the machine starts CLANKING like an MRI – the door opens on the other side – he STEPS OUT... To see Ives struggling with Kat – he moves to help – Neil is already there (first in, last out).>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- IVES:
- A pincer movement. But not in space – in time. Half his team moves forwards through the event – he monitors them, then attacks from the end, moving backwards. Knowing everything.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- Sator GRABS his respirator from the hook, PULLS Kat to her feet – DRAGS her backwards through the door, down a corridor into an AIRLOCK, pulls off her respirator, puts his on... INT. TURNSTILE, TALLINN FREEPORT – THE PRESENT The Protagonist looks through the glass at Kat – FEMALE PARAMILITARY She’s been shot! PARAMILITARY SERGEANT Get her this side! Respirator-clad Paramilitaries pull Kat out of the room. The Paramilitary Sergeant turns to the Protagonist.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- SATOR:
- I believe you... Sator puts his GUN to the Protagonist’s forehead – SATOR (CONT'D) (indicates Kat) You wanted her here. I hope you’ll be happy together – Sator C*CKS his weapon – BLAMBLAMBLAM! – the double doors behind the Protagonist SMASH open – PARAMILITARIES BURST IN, GUNS BLAZING – the two guards are SHOT – Sator JUMPS FOR THE VAULT – HITS A BUTTON – On the other side of the glass, INVERTED SATOR runs backwards towards the other vault door – BOTH SATORS JUMP INSIDE AND ARE GONE – A Paramilitary SERGEANT enters, gun drawn – Clear! PARAMILITARY SERGEANT The Protagonist looks at the empty vault –>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- Sator listens to this played backwards...>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- The Protagonist looks into Kat’s frightened eyes... between them, embedded in a whirl of cracked glass, is a BULLET... Sator TURNS to meet the Protagonist’s gaze – his movements have the surreal edge of backwards motion as he places his GUN AGAINST KAT’S HEAD and pulls out his phone... He holds his PHONE up and plays a recording IN REVERSE –>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- On the other side of the glass, lit by BLUE LIGHT, Sator ‘ENTERS’ BACKWARDS, ‘PULLING’ Kat, who is now in a respirator. Sator ‘SHOVES’ her hard into a chair, removes his own respirator, ‘FLIPPING’ it up onto a hook on the wall.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- PROTAGONIST:
- What cavalry?! SMASH!!! The Protagonist and Kat are THROWN LIKE RAG DOLLS across the car – the Mercedes has SWIPED the nose of the Audi – Volkov lays down COVER FIRE, pinning Neil as Sator’s men descend on the CRASHED Audi and pull the PROTAGONIST out of the car – shoving him around the back of the Mercedes. Kat is pulled from the wreck and put into the Mercedes – As they put the Protagonist INTO THE TRUNK, he sees Sator MOVING BACKWARDS behind the line of cars, from the BMW... EXT. DOCKSIDE AREA, EDGE OF TALLINN – MOMENTS LATER The TRUNK OPENS – the Protagonist is PULLED OUT. Marched towards an entrance, he sees, through a steel fence dividing the yard in two, SATOR, IN RESPIRATOR, WALKING BACKWARDS, PULLING KAT, FORWARDS, TOWARDS A DIFFERENT ENTRANCE... The Protagonist passes a stack of SHIPPING CONTAINERS, several of which are marked OSLO FREEPORT... INT. STORAGE FACILITY, TALLINN FREEPORT – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist is taken past the table of weapons, through a large door, and through RED DOORS with a PORTHOLE... INT. TURNSTILE, TALLINN FREEPORT – CONTINUOUS Into A LONG CHAMBER DIVIDED IN TWO BY A GLASS WINDOW – A MUCH BIGGER VERSION OF THE ROTAS VAULT. The Russians push the Protagonist into a chair. This side is lit by RED LIGHT.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- PROTAGONIST:
- Pull up alongside... Neil looks back at the receding Mercedes, followed by the BACKWARDS SAAB... he turns – RACING to pull alongside the runaway backwards Audi, the Protagonist OPENS his door... – Ahead, a LOGJAM of traffic... The Protagonist FUMBLES to open the Audi door.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- PROTAGONIST:
- He left her in the car! Neil looks forward to the backwards Audi, SPEEDING AWAY – INT./EXT. BACKWARDS AUDI – CONTINUOUS NO ONE IS AT THE WHEEL as the car continues to accelerate – Kat lies in the back, breathing, groaning, but unconscious... INT./EXT. BMW, TALLINN STREET – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist stares ahead at the backwards Audi –>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- NEIL:
- It’s worse, goddammit! Both cars race towards the crashed Saab, which starts SHAKING as they approach – as they pass, THE CRASHED SAAB ROLLS VIOLENTLY OVER AND OVER between them until it is on its wheels, RACING BACKWARDS ahead of them, UNDAMAGED – Neil regains his line, looks over at Sator who holds up his LAST FINGER... the Protagonist looks ahead to the Saab, STRUCK BY AN IDEA... the Protagonist looks at Sator – Then TOSSES the orange case at him – The Saab brakes, CUTTING BETWEEN THE TWO CARS... THE ORANGE CASE GLANCES OFF ITS WINDSHIELD, INTO SATOR’S HANDS... A forwards-driving Mercedes pulls up alongside the backwards- driving Audi. Sator opens the rear door – he and the Audi driver climb BACKWARDS into the Mercedes – LEAVING KAT IN THE ACCELERATING BACKWARDS AUDI – the Mercedes DROPS FAR BEHIND the BMW, Neil WATCHES – NEIL (CONT'D) He’s getting away!>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- NEIL (CONT'D) The BACKWARDS-RUNNING AUDI flies at them, CLIPPING the wing mirror, ‘HEALING’ its crack. Behind them it SPINS AROUND, to CHASE them, still running BACKWARDS... The BMW DODGES around traffic, trying to lose the backwards Audi, which pulls up to the back bumper – then ALONGSIDE – in the back is Sator, black eyes peering over a RESPIRATOR, a gun to Kat’s head. She is BOUND and GAGGED, eyes TERRIFIED – Sator rolls the rear window down, holds up his hand, FINGERS EXTENDED. He C*CKS the gun at Kat’s head then starts COUNTING DOWN on his fingers... the Protagonist looks down at the BLACK METAL SHAPE in the case... NEIL (CONT'D) You can’t give it to him! The Protagonist LIFTS the closed case, LOWERS the window...>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- NEIL:
- It’s not Estonian, it’s... backwards – Up ahead, an Audi is weaving through traffic, towards them, BACKWARDS... Neil STARES... The hell?>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- NEIL:
- You mean reverse chronology. Like Feynman and Wheeler’s notion that a positron is an electron moving backwards in time.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- The Protagonist STEPS onto the Figure’s injured arm... PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) Who sent you?! The Figure’s reverse screaming gets louder – the Protagonist KICKS its arm, HARD, AGAIN AND AGAIN – PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) HOW DID YOU KNOW WE’D BE HERE! A BOOM! from outside – AIR starts BLOWING ACROSS the Backwards Figure, SUCKING underneath the broken roller door – the Backwards Figure SLIDES impossibly across the floor and underneath the door which SLAMS shut, unbroken behind him.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script
- Neil looks at the Protagonist, quizzical – A LOUD HUM STARTS UP from the revolving door... the Protagonist looks down – MOVEMENT beneath his feet – the DEBRIS – SMOKE GATHERS – the revolving doors ROTATE, OPENING – a BLACK-CLAD FIGURE in a GAS MASK LEAPS BACKWARDS from the tube – reaching behind itself to GRAB the stripped automatic in the Protagonist’s hand – On Neil’s side an identical BLACK-CLAD FIGURE LEAPS out FORWARDS – knocks Neil over, moving for the vault door – A SLIDE jumps into the Backwards Figure’s hand – he REASSEMBLES the gun in the Protagonist’s hand – a MAGAZINE jumping up to LOAD IT – BLAM! A bullet is SUCKED OUT OF THE WALL – THROUGH THE GLASS – ‘HEALING’ THE BULLET HOLES – the Protagonist STRUGGLES with the Backwards Figure – whose REVERSE MOVEMENTS seem ALIEN and IMPOSSIBLE – Neil gives chase – RACING out of the vault door – The Backwards Figure pulls the Protagonist sideways, lining up his head with the next bullet hole – BLAM! GLASS FLIES UP as the shot JUST MISSES the Protagonist’s head – INT. CORRIDOR, FREEPORT – CONTINUOUS Neil CHASES the Forwards Figure down the corridor – INT. ROTAS VAULT – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist STRUGGLES – the Backwards Figure PUSHES him towards the next bullet hole, STRANGE REVERSE GROANING building in its throat, behind the black gas mask, the GROAN PEAKING AS the Protagonist takes his PICK and STABS the Backwards Figure in the arm and SMACKS the Figure’s gun out of its hand – it BOUNCES out the door – The Figure RISES into the Protagonist’s arms – PULLS him backwards – we can’t tell if it’s PUSHING or the Protagonist is PULLING as they move backwards through the door – INT. CORRIDOR, VAULT – CONTINUOUS The Figure PUSHES/PULLS the Protagonist down the corridor – INT. CORRIDOR, FREEPORT – CONTINUOUS Neil RACES around a corner, GRABS the Figure’s MASK, which COMES OFF – he looks, SURPRISED, at the Figure’s face, WHICH WE CANNOT SEE, then TURNS, RACING back the way he came... INT. CORRIDOR, FREEPORT – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist and the Backwards Figure struggle into – INT. VAULT 2, FREEPORT – CONTINUOUS They SMASH into the racks and crates – the Protagonist GRABS the gun – raises it to the Figure’s head – NEIL (O.S.) NO! Don’t kill him! The Protagonist freezes – Neil steps up, DESPERATE – NEIL (CONT'D) We need to know if you’re compromised.>> 信条Tenet Movie Script