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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Bauby, Bauby\'s, French entitled The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
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conversations.value: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film): The first third of the film is told from the main character\'s, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), or Jean-Do as his friends call him, first person perspective.\nThe film opens as Bauby wakes from his three-week coma in a hospital in Berck-sur-Mer, France.\nAfter an initial rather over-optimistic analysis from one doctor, a neurologist explains that he has locked-in syndrome, an extremely rare condition in which the patient is almost completely physically paralyzed, but remains mentally normal.\nAt first, the viewer primarily hears Bauby\'s "thoughts" (he thinks he is speaking but no one hears him), which are inaccessible to the other characters (who are seen through his one functioning eye).\nA speech therapist and physical therapist try to help Bauby become as functional as possible.\nBauby cannot speak, but he develops a system of communication with his speech and language therapist by blinking his left eye as she reads a list of letters to laboriously spell out his messages, letter by letter.\nGradually, the film\'s restricted point of view broadens out, and the viewer begins to see Bauby from "outside", in addition to experiencing incidents from his past, including a visit to Lourdes.\nHe also fantasizes, imagining beaches, mountains, the Empress Eugénie and an erotic feast with one of his transcriptionists.\nIt is revealed that Bauby had been editor of the popular French fashion magazine Elle, and that he had a deal to write a book (which was originally going to be based on The Count of Monte Cristo but from a female perspective).\nHe decides that he will still write a book, using his slow and exhausting communication technique.\nA woman from the publishing house with which Bauby had the original book contract is brought in to take dictation.\nThe new book explains what it is like to now be him, trapped in his body, which he sees as being within an old-fashioned deep-sea diving suit with a brass helmet, which is called a scaphandre in French, as in the original title.\nOthers around see his spirit, still alive, as a "Butterfly".\nThe story of Bauby\'s writing is juxtaposed with his recollections and regrets until his stroke.\nWe see the mother of his three children (whom he never married), his children, his mistress, his friends, and his father.\nHe encounters people from his past whose lives bear similarities to his own "entrapment": a friend who was kidnapped in Beirut and held in solitary confinement for four years, and his own 92-year-old father, who is confined to his own apartment, because he is too frail to descend four flights of stairs.\nBauby eventually completes his memoir and hears the critics\' responses.\nHe dies of pneumonia ten days after its publication.\nThe closing credits are accentuated by reversed shootings of breaking glacier ice (the forward versions are used in the opening credits), accompanied by the Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros song "Ramshackle Day Parade".
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conversations.value: Delete the first sentence.
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conversations.value: \nThe film opens as Bauby wakes from his three-week coma in a hospital in Berck-sur-Mer, France.\nAfter an initial rather over-optimistic analysis from one doctor, a neurologist explains that he has locked-in syndrome, an extremely rare condition in which the patient is almost completely physically paralyzed, but remains mentally normal.\nAt first, the viewer primarily hears Bauby\'s "thoughts" (he thinks he is speaking but no one hears him), which are inaccessible to the other characters (who are seen through his one functioning eye).\nA speech therapist and physical therapist try to help Bauby become as functional as possible.\nBauby cannot speak, but he develops a system of communication with his speech and language therapist by blinking his left eye as she reads a list of letters to laboriously spell out his messages, letter by letter.\nGradually, the film\'s restricted point of view broadens out, and the viewer begins to see Bauby from "outside", in addition to experiencing incidents from his past, including a visit to Lourdes.\nHe also fantasizes, imagining beaches, mountains, the Empress Eugénie and an erotic feast with one of his transcriptionists.\nIt is revealed that Bauby had been editor of the popular French fashion magazine Elle, and that he had a deal to write a book (which was originally going to be based on The Count of Monte Cristo but from a female perspective).\nHe decides that he will still write a book, using his slow and exhausting communication technique.\nA woman from the publishing house with which Bauby had the original book contract is brought in to take dictation.\nThe new book explains what it is like to now be him, trapped in his body, which he sees as being within an old-fashioned deep-sea diving suit with a brass helmet, which is called a scaphandre in French, as in the original title.\nOthers around see his spirit, still alive, as a "Butterfly".\nThe story of Bauby\'s writing is juxtaposed with his recollections and regrets until his stroke.\nWe see the mother of his three children (whom he never married), his children, his mistress, his friends, and his father.\nHe encounters people from his past whose lives bear similarities to his own "entrapment": a friend who was kidnapped in Beirut and held in solitary confinement for four years, and his own 92-year-old father, who is confined to his own apartment, because he is too frail to descend four flights of stairs.\nBauby eventually completes his memoir and hears the critics\' responses.\nHe dies of pneumonia ten days after its publication.\nThe closing credits are accentuated by reversed shootings of breaking glacier ice (the forward versions are used in the opening credits), accompanied by the Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros song "Ramshackle Day Parade".
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conversations.value: Provide the first long scene for the screenplay.
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conversations.value: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  
  DISSOLVE TO:
  INT. REHAB CENTRE - DAY JEAN-DO on the vertical board in the upright position reflected in a mirror. The room is more or less empty but for one young man with an artificial leg exercising. Somewhere, music is playing: an aria from Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'. 
  JEAN-DO'S VOICE The feeling of doom wouldn't leave. It took what I can only describe as a miracle to lift my spirits. It's dangerous to believe in personal miracles. They tend to make one feel self-important. Nevertheless, I must report that I believe something miraculous did occur -
  EXT. A FIELD OF W ILD FLOWERS - DAY The sun is setting as the BUTTERFLY comes to rest on a flower, its wings fluttering. The wings make a beating sound like a drum or a heartbeat, loud and insistent. 
  JEAN-DO'S VOICE I began to sing.
  INT. REHAB CENTRE - DAY JEAN-DO reflected full on in a mirror, SANDRINE and BEATRICE either side of him. In the background, patients and nurses. 
  SANDRINE & BEATRICE sing with him, softly and sweetly. 
  JEAN-DO (singing not really intelligibly) 'The Kangaroo escaped the Zoo. 
  "Goodbye zoo!" cried Kangaroo, Cleared the wall with one clean jump, Leaped across with a great big thump. ' He pants. They beam at him. 
  BEATRICE Isn't that the most beautiful song in the world? JEAN-DO grunts, then twitches a smile.
  INT. ELEVATOR, NAVAL HOSPITAL - EVENING A MALE NURSE and JEAN-DO descending. He can see himself in the mirror. Faint, the sound of what may be a drum beat. 
  JEAN-DO'S VOICE Swimming up from the mist of a coma, I can grunt. I can sing. My hearing isn't great and sometimes I think I hear my heart beating but I ell myself it's the sound of butterfly's wings. Yes, I am making indomitable progress and I may even have butterfly hearing. I can look forward to the future. Soon the summer will come to an end and I will begin my first autumn in this hospital. Nowhere else.
  INT. LONG HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - EVENING THE MALE NURSE wheels JEAN-DO down the corridor, their reflections in the glass-fronted cupboards. The sound of pop music from somewhere. 
  JEAN-DO'S VOICE My life is here. A constant repetition. In this place. 
  INSERT SHOTS OF ROOM 11 9. 
  HIS BED. 
  THE REHAB CENTRE HIS WHEELCHAIR. 
  THE CORRIDORS. 
  JEAN-DO'S VOICE (cont'd) Had I been blind and deaf, or does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person their true nature? Their images in the glass-fronts flicker by.
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conversations.value: Provide another scene.. End with the sentence ' 
  JEAN-DO (awkward) Hello.'.
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conversations.value: JEAN-DO gets out. Almost immediately, from the house rush CELESTE and THEOPHILE with a backpack. 
  CELESTE & THEOPHILE Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop - They run into his arms and he hugs them tightly. He glances up. 
  SYLVIE stands in the doorway. 
  JEAN-DO (awkward) Hello.
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conversations.value: Provide the last medium length scene.. Start with the sentence 'SUPERIMPOSE CAPTION Two days after the publication of '' in 1996, Jean- Dominque Baubydied'.
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conversations.value: SUPERIMPOSE CAPTION Two days after the publication of '' in 1996, Jean- Dominque Baubydied. 
  THE BUTTERFLY disappears. The flowers sway. The heart beat of the wings becomes silent. 
  FADE OUT