Penggunaan Beat, CONT'D dan MORE

Ada aku jumpa banyak perkataan "beat" dan "CONT'D" dalam skrip filem Hollywood. Apa yang aku faham, beat bermaksud "pause" iaitu berhenti seketika dalam beraksi ataupun berdialog. "CONT'D" pula adalah singkat perkataan CONTINUED, maksudnya sambung semula..

Contoh 1..

Anna stirs sugar in her coffee as Malcolm sits in the seat across from her. She gently stops stirring, but doesn't look up. Beat.

MALCOLM

I thought you meant the other Italian

restaurant I asked you to marry me in.

Anna isn't laughing. Not even close.

MALCOLM (CONT'D)

I'm so sorry.

(beat)

I can't seem to keep track of time.

Contoh 2..

   on page 31

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MALCOLM

April or March of Eighty-seven. Two

weeks into sessions with Vincent

Gray. I was treating a couple, Donald

and Robin Wagner, who had lost their

child to Leukemia. They were waiting

with Vincent in the reception room

of the downtown clinic.

(MORE)

   on page 32

MALCOLM (CONT'D)

They were alone together maybe fifteen

minutes. When I entered the room,

all three were crying. The Wagner's

progress from that afternoon was

dramatic and sudden .... As if some

door had been opened for them.

(beat)