A Most Violent Year Page #13

INT. TRUCK CAB, 59TH STREET BRIDGE RAMP - DAY

JULIAN is close to getting off the bridge and is starting to

feel better. Just as the traffic in front of him starts to

clear up, out of the corner of his eye he sees something.

In his side-view mirror he sees LOUIS SERVIDIO getting out of

a random car behind him. His heart starts racing. He looks

over in the other mirror and there is THUG #2 walking up.

Again.

JULIAN thinks for a second then reaches for the CB RADIO.

JULIAN:

Cathy! They are coming again. Over.

Help. Help. On Bridge.

He then fumbles the CB and it drops to the floor of the cab.

He looks up into the mirrors again and sees that they are

still coming for him.

The camera now comes in tight on his face and he pauses for a

long second, and he then makes his decision. He reaches under

his seat and takes out a handgun. He doesn’t really seem to

know what he is doing with it.

But he opens the door of the truck and gets out. He aims the

gun at LOUIS SERVIDIO walking towards him. LOUIS SERVIDIO

sees him and is very surprised and stops.

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Take it easy

there.

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He glances over at THUG #2.

JULIAN:

Get the f*** away from me!

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Okay, man.

People in the cars behind the truck are starting to honk.

Then LOUIS SERVIDIO gives a nod signal to THUG #2 who is on

the other side of the truck, and JULIAN’S gun fires by

mistake. It totally misses THUG #2. He jumps out of the way

and is hiding behind the wheel.

LOUIS SERVIDIO (CONT’D)

Watch it now, man. You’re going to

hurt someone.

JULIAN is now in a total state of panic. He is hiding back in

front of the truck. The three men are basically doing a slow-

motion, very stressful hide-and-seek around the truck. The

two THUGS now have their guns out.

The honking has now reached a total insane level as traffic

is backing up.

Then THUG #2 makes one last play to take the truck. He tries

to climb into the cab and JULIAN goes into a rage. He quickly

fires three shots, missing THUG #2 with each one, but that

forces LOUIS SERVIDIO to shoot two shots of his own at JULIAN

to protect THUG #2. They miss as well, but one hits the main

section of the tank and a small but steady stream of heating

oil starts pouring out onto the roadway.

Just then we hear sirens starting to come closer in the

background. This adds a new element.

LOUIS SERVIDIO (CONT’D)

Where are you?

THUG #2

Over here.

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Where is he?

THUG #2

Over here.

JULIAN is just trying to decide what to do next. The sirens

are now getting much closer.

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LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Get the car!

THUG #2 takes off. This now leaves JULIAN and LOUIS SERVIDIO

all alone with the police coming. As JULIAN is hiding, trying

to figure out what to do next, LOUIS SERVIDIO goes running by

him. As he does:

LOUIS SERVIDIO (CONT’D)

Run for it!

JULIAN thinks for a second and then runs.

EXT. 59TH STREET BRIDGE - DAY

JULIAN runs all along the bridge and then sees LOUIS SERVIDIO

run through a small door into the body of one of the four

massive stone anchor structures that hold up the bridge.

INT. THE 59TH STREET BRIDGE, SUPPORT COLUMN - DAY

Once he is inside, there’s another set of stairs. He locks

the door behind him and starts racing down the stairs. As he

heads down he hears someone just in front of him.

He stops and looks down the center column of the stairs and

looking up at him about three flights away is LOUIS SERVIDIO.

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Oh, there he is. Had to be the hero

eh?

JULIAN:

F*** you.

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Couldn’t just let us take the

truck.

JULIAN:

F*** you!

JULIAN is screaming in a fit of panic at this point.

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Hey man relax... calm down. Did

they see you come in here?

JULIAN can’t stop breathing very heavy at this point.

JULIAN:

I don’t think so.

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LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Did they or not?

He thinks.

JULIAN:

No.

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Alright, there’s a door down here

about four more flights. Don’t go

out there, that’s the street. Go

down about two more flights after

that and you’ll come out below the

bridge. They won’t be there.

JULIAN:

F*** you!

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

You’re welcome.

Then LOUIS SERVIDIO’s head disappears and we can hear his

feet flying down the steps again.

JULIAN thinks for a beat, then he starts off down the stairs

again as well. The camera stays right where it was as JULIAN

heads down out of sight. We just hear the sounds of his feet

getting lower and lower.

INT. BRIDGE GROUND FLOOR - DAY

JULIAN comes to the first door and looks at it. We can hear

sirens in the distance on the other side of the door. He

keeps going.

Down two more flights, just as he said, there is another

doorway. JULIAN walks up to that door very carefully. He

listens on the other side but doesn’t hear anything but his

own breath.

INT. STAIR LANDING LOWEST LEVEL - DAY

Then we hear the door back up top fly open. JULIAN then

quietly opens the door in front of him and right in front of

his face is a woman in full jogging clothes running by him.

He looks around, and after a second to get himself

orientated, we see he’s on a riverfront esplanade where there

are many people jogging and walking, enjoying the evening.

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JULIAN looks at his hand and realizes he is still holding the

gun out in the open. He puts it away and then looks up at the

bridge that is hovering above him.

He knows he left his life as he knew it up on that bridge.

FADE TO BLACK.

Over the black we begin to hear the rumble of a very large

truck. It gets louder and louder.

INT. OF A VERY LARGE EMPTY DUMPSTER - DAY

We now see that SALES STUDENT ALEX is inside a massive, empty

construction dumpster. And as he looks around, we realize it

is on the back of a truck that is currently driving pretty

fast. With each bump that the truck goes over the noise

inside the dumpster is deafening. As the KID comes to his

senses he tries to stand up. As he does, we see that the

sides of the dumpster are at least eight feet tall and the

interior is very slick without anything to grab or stand on.

He is trapped.

Just then the truck goes over another huge bump and comes to

a stop. It idles for a minute then begins backing up. It

stops. A warning, beeping alarm is heard, and finally one end

of the dumpster begins rising. As it gets higher and higher

our KID tries to hold himself back, but he begins to slide

towards the low end. As he does he sees that the end that he

is heading towards is on a hinge and it is starting to swing

open. Finally the thing is at such an angle that he can’t

hold on any longer and he slides towards the opening.

As he falls out he/we see that he’s being dumped over the

edge of a cliff of some sort. He falls probably 10-12 feet,

into a pile of garbage. As he gathers himself and tries to

stand, we see he is standing in a massive landfill. He looks

around as the truck pulls away. He’s left totally alone.

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