Badlands Page #3

His forwardness surprises her.

EXT. DOWNTOWN STREET IN FT. DUPREE

They are walking through the downtown area. Kit kicks a paper

bag that someone has discarded on the sidewalk.

KIT:

Somebody dropped a bag on the

sidewalk.

She appears nervous about being seen alone with him.

KIT:

Everybody did that, the whole town'd

be a mess... Hi.

He greets a passing stranger.

KIT:

You're a redhead.

HOLLY:

I know.

KIT:

Anybody ever call you "Red"?

HOLLY:

Yeah, but I don't like it.

KIT:

Why not?

HOLLY:

Just don't... I've got a headache.

KIT:

Yeah?

He steers her toward his car, a customized Mercury. As she

gets in, he asks her:

KIT (O.S.)

Can I come around and see you

tomorrow?

HOLLY:

(startled)

Okay.

EXT. FEEDLOT – SERIES OF ANGLES

We see Kit at work at the feedlot. Throwing hay to the cattle,

feeding them pills, etc.

HOLLY (V.O.)

Kit went to work in the feedlot while

I carried on with my studies. Little

by little we fell in love... As I'd

never been popular in school and

didn't have a lot of personality, I

was surprised that he took such a

liking to me, especially when he

could've had any other girl in town

if he'd given it half a try.

The MONTAGE includes a shot of Holly running toward Kit's

car for some rendezvous.

HOLLY (V.O.)

He said that I was grand, though,

that he wasn't interested in me for

sex and that coming from him this

was a compliment. He'd never met a

fifteen-year-old girl who behaved

more like a grownup and wasn't giggly.

He didn't care what anybody else

thought. I looked good to him, and

whatever I did was okay, and if I

didn't have a lot to say, well, that

was okay, too.

EXT. TREE BESIDE RIVER

Kit and Holly are sitting under a tree. playing cards on a

blanket.

Holly surveys the area.

HOLLY:

What a nice place.

KIT:

(absorbed in game)

Yeah, the tree makes it nice.

HOLLY:

And the flowers... Let's not pick

them. They're so nice.

KIT:

It's your play.

SERIES OF ANGLES

Holly's father paints a picture, using a stereopticon to

help with his backgrounds.

TRACK with Kit driving down a street in his Mercury. Holly

sits watching football practice.

HOLLY (V.O.)

Of course I had to keep all this a

secret from my dad. He would've had

a fit, since Kit was ten years older

than me and came from the wrong side

of the tracks, so called. Our time

with each other was limited and each

lived for the precious hours when he

or she could be with the other away

from all the cares of the world.

EXT. UNDERNEATH BLEACHERS

Kit and Holly are necking underneath some bleachers. In the

distance we hear the NOISE of the football practice.

HOLLY:

My stomach's growling.

KIT:

There's an old Fudgesicle over there.

You want it?

HOLLY:

No.

Kit laughs, and starts her laughing, too.

KIT:

Somebody else is going to get it.

HOLLY:

I don't care.

KIT:

Kids eat that kind of stuff in Korea.

At this her expression turns serious.

SERIES OF ANGLES

Kit in CLOSEUP at a fence in the feedlot, an intense look on

his face.

VARIOUS ANGLES of the cattle in their pens. They look numb

and morose.

TIGHT SHOT of Holly necking with Kit.

HOLLY (V.O.)

In the stench and slime of the

feedlot, he'd remember how I looked

the night before, how I ran my hand

through his hair and traced the

outline of his lips with my fingertip.

He wanted to die with me, and I

dreamed of being lost forever in his

arms.

EXT. HOLLY'S BACK YARD

TIGHT SHOT of Holly's pet catfish in a bowl.

CUT TO WIDE SHOT of Holly with gloves on carrying the fish

through the garden in back of her house. She looks around

warily, then throws it out among the melons.

HOLLY (V.O.)

The whole time, the only thing I did

wrong was throwing out my fish when

he got sick. Later I got a new one,

but this incident kept on bothering

me and I turned to Kit.

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