Jackie Brown

OPENING CREDITS:

INT. LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – DAY

We hear the rhythm of funky seventies SOUL MUSIC.

Then SHE steps into FRAME.

She is JACKIE BROWN, a stewardess dressed in her CABO AIR

uniform. (A little shuttle airline that flies from Los Angeles

to Cabo San Lucas. Approximate flight time: forty five

minutes)

Jackie stands still as a people-mover slowly inches her

through the airport. The CREDITS APPEAR and DISAPPEAR in

front of her.

Jackie Brown is a very attractive black woman in her mid

forties, though she looks like she's in her mid-thirties.

The people-mover reaches the end of the line, she steps off.

She breezes through Customs and we follow her with a STEDICAM

as she strides through the airport... She gets to her gate,

disappears inside the plane for a moment, comes back out

sans flight bag, picks up the microphone.

JACKIE:

(into mike)

Flight 710 Cabo San Lucas, now

boarding Gate 12, first class only.

With a smile on her face, she collects passengers' boarding

passes as they board the plane.

FADE TO BLACK:

TITLE CARD:

"ORDELL ROBBIE"

FADE UP ON:

EXT. FIRING RANGE – DAY

VIDEO:

A chorus line of six beautiful bikini-clad women, all holding

different automatic weapons, BLASTING away.

The cheap VIDEO TITLES to:

"CHICKS WHO LOVE GUNS"

Play over this image.

One bikini beauty is singled out. She's a gorgeous brunette

named SIDNEY. Sidney stands facing camera holding a TEC-9

and describing it.

SIDNEY:

(to camera)

Hi, I'm Sidney. And I love to TEC-9.

The popular TEC-9 is advertised by

its makers as being tough as the

toughest customer.

SIDNEY'S STATISTICS: Age, height, measurements, date of birth,

appear at the bottom lefthand corner. As Sidney continues

her sales pitch/demonstration, a BLACK MAN'S VOICE begins

talking over the video.

BLACK MAN (O.S.)

That's a TEC-9. It's a cheap ass

spray gun outta South Miami.

After a CLOSEUP of the TEC-9, Sidney FIRES the weapon.

BLACK VOICE:

Cost three-eighty retail. I get them

for two hundred and sell 'em for

eight.

INT. MELANIE'S BEACH APARTMENT – NIGHT

The Black Voice belong to forty-five-year old ORDELL ROBBIE.

Ordell wears clothes nice and likes wearing nice clothes.

Stylish, athletic wear (Reebok), heavy, black leather jackets

(Hugo Boss), warm-colored berets and baseball caps to cover

his balding head are Ordell's "look." At this moment Ordell's

wearing an open silk shirt.

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