La trampa

Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor 1999

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126886/

La vida de un maestro da un revés mientras intenta arruinar la campaña de un estudiante para ser presidente de la clase.

	ELECTION by Alexander Payne & JIM Taylor
	
	Third Draft July 22,1997
	
	Based on the novels by Tom Perotta
	
	
	EXT. MILLARD HIGH -- DAWN
	
	The school stretches out before us, slumbering in the overcast morning 
	air.
	
	Along the front sidewalk, a lone JANITOR trundles a garbage bin filled 
	with overstuffed hefty bags.
	
	A weathered FORD ESCORT pulls into the empty PARKING LOT and comes to 
	a stop near the athletic field.
	
	A TEENAGE GIRL'S VOICE -
	
					TRACY (VO) 
			None of this would have happened if Mr. 
			McAllister hadn't meddled the way he 
			did.  He should have just accepted 
			things as they are instead of trying to 
			interfere with destiny.  You see, you 
			can't interfere with destiny.  That's 
			why it's destiny.  And if you try to 
			interfere, the same thing's going to 
			happen anyway, and you'll just suffer.
	
	JIM MCALLISTER, a teacher in his mid to late-thirties, emerges from 
	the car in running clothes and carrying a briefcase, gym bag, and 
	coffee mug.  On his way to the field, he crosses paths with the 
	janitor.
	
					JIM
			Morning, Lowell
	
	Lowell nods, hoists a bag and tosses it into a dumpster.
	
	EXT. ATHLETIC FIELD -- DAWN
	
	JIM CIRCLES THE TRACK, sweating and panting.
	
	ON THE GROUND JIM does sit ups
	
					JIM
			Twenty-one... twenty-two.
	
	He collapses onto his back.  His head rolls to one side, and he 
	glances past the fence at --
	
	THE PARKING LOT
	
	Where a sec