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stage, he sees a giant paper-mache dragon laying curled around
the pagoda.

Now, the dragon's eyes light up, its nostrils exhale smoke and
its enormous jaws open. Out of the dragon's mouth walks the star
of the stage show:

WILLIE SCOTT, a dreamy beauty singing a sultry solo white the or-
chestra wails the accompaniment.

But Short Round's not here to ogle crooning dames. He surveys
the rich Chinese, American and European revelers. Jewels flash
and champagne flows. Short Round finally spots a table of
somber-looking Chinese men in suits.

Short Round chews gum and stares at the men. Then he turns to
go. WU HAN, a waiter with a scar across his cheek, watches Short
Round leave.

4. INT. CLUB ENTRANCE 4.

As Short Round hurries toward the exit, he bumps into a man in a
tuxedo entering the club. Short Round looks up at the man, but
we don't see his face.

Then Short Round is grabbed by the scruff of his neck and a door-
man hustles him out the door, Short Round yelling insults all the
way.

A maitre d' apologizes to the man in the tuxedo and two hat-check
girls smile at him familiarly as he continues into the ballroom.
We notice something incongruous: the man in the tuxedo is wear-
ing work boots caked with mud.

5. INT. THE BALLROOM 5.

The man in the tuxedo stops to watch Willie Scott singing sexily
on the stage. Then he looks around and sees the table of somber
Chinese men that Short Round spotted earlier.

As the man in the tuxedo walks toward the table, he removes a
cigarette from a silver case. He arrives at the table just as
the chorus and orchestra reach a crescendo --

And on the stage, a glistening, muscular slave swings a huge ham-
mer toward an enormous brass gong --

The man in the tuxedo leans to receive a light from a cigarette-
girl and, as the GONG BOOMS, the match flares to reveal his face
for the first time: