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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Rachel, Tripod, Ray entitled War of the Worlds?
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conversations.value: War of the Worlds (2005 film): A narrator explains how humans were unaware that a race of extraterrestrials was making plans to occupy Earth.\nRay Ferrier is a divorced crane operator longshoreman who works at a dock in Brooklyn, New York and lives in Bayonne, New Jersey.\nRay is estranged from his children.\nHis former wife, Mary Ann, later drops off the children, 10-year-old daughter Rachel and teenage son Robbie, at Ray\'s house on her way to visit her parents in Boston.\nUnexplained changes in the weather occur, including lightning that strikes multiple times in the middle of an intersection and disrupts all electricity.\nRay joins the crowd at the scene of the lightning strikes, and witnesses a massive "Tripod" war machine emerge from the ground and use alien weaponry to disintegrate most of the witnesses, turning them to a grey dust and leaving only their empty clothes behind.\nRay collects his children, steals a car and drives to Mary Ann\'s home in suburban New Jersey to take refuge.\nThe next morning, he discovers that a Boeing 747 has crashed in the street.\nA news team scavenging for food explain that there are multiple Tripods that have attacked major cities including New York City, Paris, Washington,C, and London, and have force shields to protect them from human weapons.\nThey also explain that the lightning was how the aliens were able to enter the Tripods.\nRay decides to take the kids to Boston to be with their mother.\nThe three are forced to abandon the stolen car after a mob takes it by force.\nThey later survive a Tripod attack which causes a Hudson River ferry to sink.\nDuring a desperate battle betweenS.\nMarines and the aliens, Ray is forced to choose between being separated from Rachel and preventing Robbie from joining the fight; he lets Robbie go with the Marines, who are overwhelmed.\nWhile escaping, Ray and Rachel are offered shelter by Harlan Ogilvy, who presumes that the aliens had buried their technology on Earth millions of years ago and has delusions that they can fight against the aliens themselves by observing their operations, as they are right next to their camp.\nThe three remain undetected for two days, even as a probe and a group of the aliens themselves explore the basement.\nThe next morning, Ogilvy suffers a mental breakdown while witnessing a Tripod harvesting human blood and tissue to fertilize an alien vegetation.\nThe tripod\'s inject a tube into the humans and drain out their blood, in a very vicious manner.\nConvinced that Ogilvy\'s mad shouting jeopardizes his daughter\'s life, Ray reluctantly kills him.\nThe basement hideout is exposed when a second probe catches them sleeping.\nRachel is soon abducted by a nearby Tripod; Ray immediately allows himself to be abducted, being placed in the same cage with Rachel and other prisoners.\nAs the aliens select him for harvesting, Ray takes a belt of grenades into the machine, having pulled out the pins.\nThe Tripod is destroyed and releases the cage, with Ray and Rachel, and a number of other prisoners, making it out alive.\nRay and Rachel arrive in a devastated Boston, where the vegetation is dying and most of the Tripods have collapsed.\nRay notices birds landing on an active Tripod, indicating that its shields are off.\nRay alerts the soldiers escorting his refugee group and they shoot it down.\nAs the soldiers advance on the downed Tripod, a hatch opens releasing a liquid; a sickly alien struggles halfway out, and then dies immediately.\nRay and Rachel reach Mary Ann\'s parents\' house, where they are reunited with Mary Ann and, to their surprise, Robbie.\nThe closing narration reveals that the aliens were immune to man\'s machines but they and their vegetation were not immune to the microbes present on Earth and that "from the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed," finally quoting Wells himself, that given mankind\'s birthright "neither do men live nor die in vain".
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conversations.value: Do you know the first long scene for the screenplay? Start with the sentence 'War of the Worlds
  
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conversations.value: War of the Worlds
  
  EXT. DOCK - CARGO BAY - DAWN
  Ray (in his 30s, short hair, rough groomed, almost always wears his New York baseball cap, raggedly dressed, looks like he hasn't slept in days) is moving cargo boxes from the ship to ground loading brackets. Shots show him inside the control room operating the levers. As the last car is loaded, he is seen walking down the stairs.
  Ray!! Ferrier! Whoa!
  Ray turns away and laughs because he already knows what he is going to say.
  I need you back at 4:00 instead of 12:00 I got half of Korea coming in.
  No, no, no I can't. I'm on a 12 hour blow! Call Tadesko.
  Camera follows them walking down the street.
  Tadesko can't move 40 containers in an hour. I need somebody who can do double picks.
  I wish I could help you Sal. God damn union regulations.
  Come on, you remember the union regulations, Sal. 
  SAL
  Sal stops on one side of the street while Ray continues walking.
  EXT. RAY'S CAR - DRIVEWAY - DAWN
  Ray gets out and takes the last can of trash to the street as Tim (in his 30s, wearing expensive clothes, slicked sharp hair, extremely well groomed, looks like (and is) rich) and Ray's ex-wife Mary Ann (in her 30s, pregnant with maternity clothes on, hair hanging loose and rather unkempt) stand at their new car. Robbie (15, ragged, tough look, long hair, partially groomed, worn clothes (but looks in style), hip side pack with misc. objects in it.) and Rachel (10, still dressed in Barbie color scheme clothing, long unkempt hair in pigtails) are in the car.
  Is it 8:30? We say that?
  We said 8:00.
  Um-Huh. We'll be back by 9:30 on Sunday, depending on the traffic.
  Robbie gets out of the car, carelessly banging the door on the electrical pole. He is listening to his MP3 player at a loud enough volume for the camera (10' away to hear).
  There he is! You got a hug?
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conversations.value: Do you know another long scene? End with the sentence ' But you are not going to, are you?'.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Look at me. Look at me.
  Rachel and Ray are putting on their coats.
  You keep your eyes only on me, you understand?
  Rachel has her big eyes on him as she nods yes.
  Don't look down, don't look around me. I'm taking you to the car and you're gonna want to look around. But you are not going to, are you?
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conversations.value: Do you know the last long scene?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Screenshot of a germ in a water droplet on a bud on a tree
  From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God and his wisdom, put upon this earth. At the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, is right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges, for men do not live nor die in vein.
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