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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Ben, Leslie, Jack entitled Captain Fantastic?
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conversations.value: Captain Fantastic (film): Ben Cash, his wife Leslie and their six children live in the Washington wilderness.\nBen and Leslie are disillusioned with capitalism and American life, and chose to instill survivalist skills, left wing politics, and philosophy in their children – educating them to think critically, training them to be self-reliant, physically fit and athletic, guiding them without technology, demonstrating the beauty of coexisting with nature and celebrating "Noam Chomsky Day" instead of Christmas.\nLeslie is hospitalized for bipolar disorder and eventually commits suicide.\nBen learns that his father-in-law Jack plans to hold a traditional funeral and burial, even though Leslie wished to be cremated.\nThey argue over the phone and Jack threatens to have Ben arrested if he attends the funeral.\nHe initially decides not to go and prevents his children from doing so, but then changes his mind, leading his children on a road trip into life outside the wilderness.\nThe family briefly stays at his sister Harper\'s house.\nShe and her husband try to convince Ben that his children should attend school to receive a traditional education; Ben argues that his children are better educated than Harper\'s own children.\nBen arrives at Leslie\'s funeral with his children and reads her will, which instructs her family to cremate her and flush her ashes down the toilet.\nIn response, Jack has Ben forcibly removed.\nBen\'s children also start doubting their father and his parenting skills.\nHis son Rellian accuses Ben of failing to treat Leslie\'s mental health.\nHis son Bodevan accuses his father of failing to equip them for the real world and shows him college acceptance letters from Ivy League schools that Leslie had helped him apply for.\nRellian wants to live with his grandparents, who want to take custody of them.\nWhen Vespyr tries to climb into a window to "free" Rellian from his grandparents, she falls from the roof and narrowly avoids breaking her neck.\nBen, shocked and guilty, allows Jack to take his children.\nThe children soon bond with their grandparents, but decide to follow Ben again when he departs.\nThe children honor Leslie\'s wish and convince Ben to help them, exhuming her corpse, burning it in a self-made pyre and flushing her ashes down an airport toilet.\nBodevan then leaves the family to travel and find his place in the world, while the rest settle on a farm.\nThe final scene is the family around the kitchen table with their father, waiting for the school bus to arrive.
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conversations.value: What is the first long scene for the screenplay?
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conversations.value: Captain Fantastic
  
  EXT. CASCADE MOUNTAIN RANGE. 
  WASHINGTON STATE. 
  DAWN. 1 1 In the early morning dawn, the Skykomish River in Washington State's Cascade Mountain Range pounds against the granite river rocks. Giant Fir branches in the lush forest undulate, almost dancing in the soft wind. A BLACK-TAILED BUCK makes its way through the dense woods. The deer walks to the bank, dips its mouth into the river , and drinks. Tall grass parts and out of the morning fog comes a young man, completely COVERED IN MUD, a massive, serrated hunting knife in his hands. This is BODEVAN. He's 18, with wispy hair down to his shoulders. The deer turns its head, sensing something. Bo freezes - perfectly camouflaged in the tall grass. The deer sniffs the air, but as Bo is covered in mud and animal skins, it smells nothing. It relaxes, drinking from the river again. Bo exhales, silently. In a flash, Bo leaps out of the grass and in one continuous motion, tackles the deer and slices the animal’s carotid artery. The deer does nothing more than flinch , blood spurts from it’s neck and it just folds, hemorrhagic shock taking over. It's a perfect kill. Bo watches and the animal takes its final breath. Then he signals and five KIDS glide into the clearing. They range in age from 14 to 6, all have long, unruly hair, dirty faces, and wear, over the usual kid's clothes of t-shirts and jeans, what looks like animal skins. They are: two twin 15- year old girls, KIELYR and VESPYR; RELLIAN, a boy of 13; ZAJA, a 8-year old girl; and lastly, NAI, a 6-year old boy. The other kids surround Bo, staring down at the fallen deer. 
  (CONTINUED)GREEN (9.2.2014) 1.Like some primordial warrior, his upper body camouflaged by mud, BEN CASH rises out of the grass. He's 45 and has a formidable beard, but his body is lithe and muscular, fit like a man half his age. Ben plunges his finger in the deer's throat. He paints a stripe of blood across Bo's face. 
  BEN Today. The boy is dead. And in his place. Is a man. Everyone pauses for the deep solemnity of the moment. Bo slits open the animal; its innards spill onto the earth. Ben raises his hands high in the air and - as if he's saying a prayer - closes his eyes. The IMAGE FREEZES - as the title comes up around him: 
  EXT. FOREST. 
  MORNING.2 2 Trailed by the rest of the family, Ben and Bo carry the deer - legs tied to a tree limb - through the thick forest.
  EXT. TIPI. 
  MORNING.3 3 While Ben and Bo attach the deer's feet to rope, swing the rope over a tree, and string it high off the ground, we get our first glimpse of their "home." In a clearing, hidden under a canopy of enormous Douglas Fir trees, next to a small greenhouse garden - a large Tipi sits behind a fire pit. A few of the kids jump on small wooden platforms, grab hanging rope, and pull themselves up on these little "elevators." Cascading high into the trees above the Tipi is a kid's paradise of funky tree houses, zip lines, rope bridges, hammocks, and observation platforms. Rellian strums on a guitar. He sings "Little Red Corvette" by Prince.CONTINUED:1 1 (CONTINUED)GREEN (9.2.2014) 2.BEN Training in one hour ! Ben watches as, in front of their Tipi, strung from a rope on a tree, the twins skin the deer that Bo shot: peeling off its hide with none of the squeamishness of 15-year olds and all the skill of experienced butchers. Behind them, 12-year old Rellian, with a flint that he extracts from a pouch on his belt, makes a fire in a large pit in front of the Tipi. 
  VESPYR Dad. Where's the boning knife? Zaja. Ben nods.
  EXT. TREE HOUSE. 
  DAY.4 4 Ben climbs up a wood ladder, ducking intricately woven branches to enter what looks like a massive bird's nest. Zaja sits on the floor, cleaning the skeleton of a small animal with a 6-inch boning knife. Inside, the tree house has been turned into some kind of grotesque Death Shrine. It's plastered with actual animal skeletons, magazine photographs of dead bodies from the Holocaust, and pictures of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. From the look on Ben's face, this is the first time he's seen Zaja's interior design. 
  BEN Jesus. Zaja looks at the photo on the wall. She shakes her head no. 
  ZAJA Pol Pot. Ben puts out his hand and Zaja passes him the boning knife.
  EXT. MOUNTAIN MEADOW. 
  MORNING.5 5 In a mountain meadow, Ben and the kids, their eyes closed, sit cross-legged in a circle. Silence. Apart from the rustle of the leaves as the wind blows through the trees, the occasional chirping of distant birds.CONTINUED:3 3 (CONTINUED)GREEN (9.2.2014) 3.Ben opens his eyes and says, "Okay." All the children jump up, wooden sticks in their hands, and Ben teaches them what looks like commando knife-fighting. This is not a suburban mall karate class. Bo slashes at Ben with his stick. In one swift movement, Ben deflects with his forearm and hip-throws Bo. Bo hits the ground hard, Ben's stick already pressing into Bo's throat. A kill strike, shocking in its sudden violence. The others watch, taking all of this utterly seriously, then break into pairs and practice the move. Rellian glares at his father, but makes no move to join. Ben watches Kielyr and Vespyr. They're attacking and defending like it's a choreographed dance. 
  BEN If you don't stab to kill. Really stab. For the liver. Or the kidneys. She'll never learn. 
  ZAJA Shouldn't we aim here? A knife in the lungs creates pneumothorax. Or next to the sternum, to penetrate the heart? That would be instant death. Ben looks over at his 8-year old, standing next to Nai. 
  BEN If it makes you happy, Zaj. Sure. Aim for the heart. Vespyr eyes her sister, but is still hesitating.
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conversations.value: What is another medium length scene?
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conversations.value: BEN (CONT’D) Zaja! Come here please! Ben turns to Harper and Dave. 
  BEN (CONT’D) Zaja just turned 8, by the way. 
  BEN (CONT’D) The Bill of Rights.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Zaja.
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conversations.value: BEN (CONT’D) Zaja! Come here please! Ben turns to Harper and Dave. 
  BEN (CONT’D) Zaja just turned 8, by the way. Zaja walks in. 
  BEN (CONT’D) The Bill of Rights.
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conversations.value: What is the last scene?
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conversations.value: BEN You both finish the "Madame Bovary" book report? KIELYR Plus Mr. Grant let us do "The Tin Drum" for extra credit. 
  VESPYR That shit is intense. Now Rell, Zaja, and Nai come in, each carrying a basket of freshly picked vegetables: broccoli, mesclun, romaine lettuce, peas, green beans, and squash. 
  BEN Bus is here in 10. They put the vegetable baskets on the counter - next to the their school backpacks - and sit down to eat breakfast. They also all read or work on their homework. Ben takes the lunch he’s made for his five kids - peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and apples - and places them into paper bags. He sets them out on the counter, each bag identified with their name. He stares at the lunch bags for a moment. Then he breaks some broccoli into stalks and places a piece in each bag. Ben sits down next to his kids, watching them eat. Without looking up from his book, Rellian pours cereal and milk into a bowl and passes it over to his dad. Ben smiles. And then - for an extended period of time - they all just continue to eat in silence. 
  THE END.CONTINUED:149 149GREEN (9.2.2014) 111.