Slow West Page #11

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SILAS is struck by ROSE’s beauty - even just the smallglimpse of an eye..

64.

SILAS (CONT’D)

Rose..

Another burst in the paper window below the eye hole and agun barrel seductively slides out

SILAS holds his hands up and takes a step back and another

SILAS (CONT’D)

Easy .. I’m a friend

ROSE’s eye moves, she was looking at SILAS, now her gazeshifts to something behind and to the left of SILAS

The barrel of the gun also shifts round away from SILAS

SILAS turns to see what ROSE now looks and aims at

It is VICTOR in the field. And he is aiming his rifle at

SILAS:

VICTOR shoots

SILAS is hit on the shoulder and falls to the ground

ROSE’s eye disappears from the hole on the paper window

SILAS struggles to his feet and scrambles round the left hand

side of the house and falls

VICTOR quickly reloads

SILAS slumps against the wall of the house

VICTOR can still see SILAS’ legs sticking out

VICTOR shoots SILAS in the leg

SILAS gasps and shuffles along the wall so he is completely

out of sight

VICTOR again reloads

The scarecrow, about twenty feet behind VICTOR, is made of a

cross of wood, with a ragged coat and a large hat

VICTOR aims his rifle, waiting for SILAS to reappear

The scarecrow lifts its head and lowers its arms

It is PAYNE, now wearing the hat of the scarecrow

PAYNE casually walks towards VICTOR and shoots him in the

back

VICTOR falls down dead

PAYNE takes aim high

65.

He aims at the Native American weather vane that sits on top

of the house

PAYNE shoots, the vane pings and spins

Settles WEST

PAYNE is happy about this and turns to shout an order to his

posse

PAYNE:

Kill that house!

The posse pop up from all around him, like whack-a-mole,

Shooting up the house

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79 EXT - TREE EDGE OF PLAIN - DAY - (JAY) 79

JAY stops rubbing and listens to the distant gun shots ,

starts to rub again faster than ever

CUT TO:

80

INT - PIONEER HOUSE - DAY 80

ROSE is crouched below the paper window, holding her pistol

Gun shots explode from outside

ROSE lifts herself up and looks out of the hole in the paper

she made with the gun barrel

Through the hole we see the posse pop up and down as theyfire at the house

KOTORI runs to ROSE and hauls her down from the window, just

as a bullet explodes on the window frame inches from whereROSE was

Dust and splinters rain down on ROSE and KOTORI

The inside of the house is being peppered by bullets

Bullets pepper the back wall. A lamp is smashed off the wall

81

EXT - WHEAT FIELD - DAY 81

PAYNE stands still while his men pop up and down around him

PAYNE takes his hat of his head and holds it against his

chest in honor of the house near dead

66.

82

INT - INSIDE PIONEER HOUSE - DAY 82

Bullets whizz through the paper windows

Plates are smashed from the dresser

83

EXT - SIDE OF HOUSE - DAY 83

SILAS inspects his shoulder wound then his leg wound

BULLETS whizz by him, hitting the wall by his head, but SILAS

does not flinch

In fact he smiles

84

INT - PIONEER HOUSE - DAY 84

More objects smash

A glass bottle of water

A porcelain statue

A jug of milk

A book (Pilgrims Progress)

An apple on a shelf

85

EXT - TREE ON EDGE OF PLAIN - DAY 85

A few strands left then a snap as JAY breaks the rope andfrees himself

He jumps up and runs towards the house

86

EXT - SIDE OF HOUSE - DAY 86

SILAS places a cigar in his mouth and digs into his pocket

He pulls out his last match which is used and dead

This upsets SILAS more than the whizzing bullets and bleeding

wounds

87

INT - PIONEER HOUSE - DAY 87

KOTORI moves to the door and brings down JOHN ROSS’s rifle,

then bolts the door

ROSE sits under the window holding her pistol

67.

Above ROSE a shadow of a large knife rests against the oiled

paper

An eye appears at the hole - the eye of the CHINESE MAN -

TATTOO MAN:

The eye looks around the room, ROSE out of sight below him

TATTOO MAN walks along the porch to the door and tries thehandle

Then passes along the porch to the other window

ROSE moves into the middle of the room

She aims at TATTOO MAN’S silhouette and fires

TATTOO’S bloody head bursts through the paper, and slides

down, leaving a bloody snail trail

ROSE runs back to below the window and ducks down

88

EXT - MIDDLE OF PLAIN - DAY 88

JAY runs fast towards the house

89

EXT - SIDE OF HOUSE - DAY 89

POSSE member - THE KID - slinks around the corner where SILAS

slumps, but does not see SILAS

THE KID loads his gun

Bullets from the shooters in the field spray the walls around

him

THE KID:

I’ll show em how to do the job

right - yes sir no sir three bags

full of.. Shhh

THE KID finally notices SILAS, slumped, unarmed, unlit cigarhanging out of his mouth

THE KID lifts his gun

SILAS resigned to death

A bullet whizzes from the field, meant for the house but hits

the KID in the back

THE KID slides down the wall and rests next to SILAS

Lets out his last breath

68.

90

INT - PIONEER HOUSE - DAY 90

The silhouette of PEYOTE JOE passes the far window on theopposite side of the house

KOTORI spots him

He’s heading for the back door

KOTORI moves towards the back door

The door opens and KOTORI fires, blasting PEYOTE JOE dead

JOE lies on the porch but immediate rigor mortis has frozen

his hand to the handle of the door

KOTORI can’t shut the door with JOE attached to the handle

ROSE joins KOTORI and the pull the door

As the door closes JOE is dragged along the back porch until

his trousers snag on a nail

ROSE and KOTORI heave the door shut and JOE’S trousers are

pulled down

ROSE and KOTORI run back to their positions below the windows

at the front of the house

91

EXT - SIDE OF HOUSE - DAY 91

SILAS roots through the pockets of THE KID and finds a box ofmatches

92

EXT - MIDDLE OF PLAIN - DAY 92

JAY running, slower due to exhaustion, gunfire getting louderas he nears the house

93

INT - PIONEER HOUSE - DAY 93

The gunfire suddenly stops

KOTORI looks out of the window at the field

The field looks completely peaceful and empty (the remaining

men are lying low)

It is a strange moment of quiet mid battle

ROSE sobs

KOTORI looks at ROSE, then moves to her, props his rifle next

to her and walks towards the back door

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ROSE turns

ROSE:

Kotori!

ROSE thinks KOTORI is abandoning her, and slumps back downbelow the window

SILAS is slumped behind the wall to ROSE’s left

SILAS starts to sing and ROSE hears through the wall

SILAS (SINGS)

I shall be carried to the skies,

on flowery beds of ease

ROSE listens, half scared, half relieved SILAS is still alive

94 EXT - SIDE OF HOUSE - DAY 94

SILAS strikes a match and lights his cigar

SILAS:

While others fight to win the prize

and sail the bloody seas "Am I a

Soldier of the cross?": Isaac Watts

hymn

95 INT - PIONEER HOUSE - DAY 95

The moment of calm ends as the remainder of PAYNE’s possebegin to shoot again

ROSE takes a second to compose herself, then empties the deadcartridges from her gun and reloads fresh bullets

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