Unforgiven Page #4

DAVEY:

He ain't m-m-mangy, ma'am, he...

SLOP. Davey gets it in the face with a big gob of mud as

Alice resumes fire and SPLAT, the paint gets it.

Faith and Silky and Kate hesitate just a moment... and then

they dig in and start jeering and throwing again and Little

Sue bends down slowly and picks up some mud and then she

just stands there with it, almost crying, and watches the

cowboy turn away under a barrage of mud and mount his pony

and ride out, mud hitting him all over and the women jeering

and running after him in the muddy street.

VIEW ON DELILAH:

Hanging clothes up on the hill and she can hear the shouting

in the distance and she turns and looks down with the

beautiful eyes and sees the cowboy riding out of town slowly,

chased by the jeering women.

INT. SOD HUT - DAY

CLOSE on a photograph of CLAUDIA in Munny's hands. He is

inside, kneeling on the floor beside an open trunk and he is

studying reverently the old photo of Claudia, smiling

radiantly in her best dress. Finally Munny puts the picture

down and digs in the trunk among folded dresses that belonged

to her until he feels something metal and he sees the blue

steel among the white cloth and then he pulls it out... an

old Starr .44 Pistol.

EXT. SOD HUT - DAY

CLOSE on a Mojav coffee tin as Munny places it on the fence

behind his sod hut. Munny has the Starr in his right hand

and he turns and walks back toward the house 15 yards away.

Will and Penny are watching. They know something is going

on, but they don't know how to ask what it is.

Munny faces the coffee tin and solemnly extends his pistol

arm straight out and carefully sights along the barrel.

BAM! A burst of flame and a puff of black smoke from the

gun.

The Mojav tin hasn't moved.

Slowly, carefully, Munny raises the gun again and aims with

great deliberation.

BAM! The coffee tin doesn't move.

Munny shakes his head slowly in disgust and aims again.

BAM! Missed again.

Munny gives a quick sheepish glance in the direction of the

children. There is a lot of smoke. He aims again and BAM!

He misses.

Munny is irritated and he aims and fires hastily and flame

bursts from the gun and smoke and The tin is unmoved.

Will looks at his feet, embarrassed, not wanting to meet his

father's eyes.

Munny stuffs the pistol in his waistband and disappears into

the house.

Will and Penny look at one another nervously, wondering what's

happening.

PENNY:

Did Paw used to kill folks?

Will doesn't answer and then he looks up because Munny steps

out of the house again, a sawed off Remington 10 gauge shotgun

in his hands.

Munny raises the double barreled weapon to his shoulder and

aims carefully and...

BARRRROOOOOM! The can flies away in pieces and some of the

fence, too.

EXT. SHADE TREES - DAY

HEADSTONE. IT SAYS:

"CLAUDIA FEATHERS MUNNY Born, March 11, 1849 Died, August 6,

1878, aged 29 years, in the full enjoyment of that love which

constrained her to leave all for Christ and heathen souls

Lo, we have left all and followed thee: What shall we leave

therefore. 19:
25"

The headstone is under a couple of shade trees fifty yards

from the sod hut.

MUNNY is sitting on a rock under the trees looking at the

headstone and he has on a cheap black suit now. He twists

the hat, tormented... and he starts to say something out

loud but he can't because men don't talk to stones. So finally

he gets up, slumped in defeat, and he puts a little bouquet

of flowers on the grave and he turns away unhappily.

EXT. SOD HUT - DAY

The ALBINO MARE snorting and shying, anxious to lose the

saddle. Will has her by the halter, holding her with effort,

in front of the house.

WILL:

She ain't hardly a saddle horse no

more, Paw. She ain't used to the

feel.

Munny walks up and puts his hand on Penny's head fondly.

MUNNY:

Them flowers, Penny, I could tell

your Maw liked them, hear?

(turning to Will)

Take care of your sister, son. You

can kill three chickens if you need,

not no more. Keep the hogs that got

fever separate if you can. An' if

you need help, go see Sally Two-Trees

over to Ned Logan's.

Then he turns to the mare and shoves a foot in the stirrup

to mount but the horse shies and Munny goes down in the dust

looking very undignified.

And Penny is horrified and humiliated for her father whom

she worships and Will's eyes are big because Munny's coat

came open and he caught a quick glimpse of the Starr pistol

stuck in the waist band.

MUNNY:

(brushing himself

off, embarrassed)

Ain't felt a saddle in a while myself.

Then Munny has one foot in the stirrup and the horse starts

to shy and Munny has to hop around with one foot stirruped

and the other not... and when he tries to swing aboard he

falls back...

MUNNY:

Easy old gal, easy...

And he still can't make it, so to cover his embarrassment he

talks to the kids while he hops around desperately trying to

mount.

MUNNY:

Now this here horse is gettin' even

on me... hold on gal... for the sins

of my youth... In my youth... before

I met... your dear departed mother...

I was weak an' givin' to mistreatin'

horses an' such. An' this here

horse... an' that ole pig, too, I

guess... is my comeuppance for my

cruelty...

At last he is in the saddle and takes a deep breath.

MUNNY:

Used to be I could cuss an' hurt an

animal... til your departed mother,

God rest her, showed me the error of

my ways.

Munny turns the Albino mare and starts out the gate going

Weat toward the fields.

MUNNY:

(over his shoulder)

I won't be no longer than a couple

of weeks. Remember how the spirit of

your departed maw watches over you.

Will and Penny are watching him go and Will is fighting back

the tears but Penny has lost the battle and she is crying

and the horse whinnies.

VIEW ON MUNNY:

Twenty yards away getting up off the ground and trying to

catch the shying, prancing horse on foot, his dignity a

shambles.

INT. ALICE'S ROOM - NIGHT

Alice IN PAIN because Skinny is twisting her arm and they

are in Alice's room... it is still night... and the other

whores are there, scared, nervous.

SKINNY:

(furious)

Where'd you get the money, huh?

ALICE:

(in pain)

We ain't got it. We ain't got no

money.

SKINNY:

You told them cowboys you had it.

ALICE:

We was... lyin'.

SKINNY:

(lets her go)

What you gonna do when somebody comes

to collect?

(yelling)

F*** 'EM? F*** 'EM A THOUSAND TIMES?

(goes to door, then

stops)

The kind of people who'll come after

that thousand, they won't tolerate

if you don't have it. They won't

just cut your face up a little.

(screaming)

STUPID C*NTS!

EXT. LITTLE BILL'S HOUSE - DAY

VIEW on HOT SUN blazing down.

BANG BANG BANG, HAMMER ON NAIL and the fingers holding the

nail are swollen and purple and then... WHUP Hammer on flesh.

LITTLE BILL:

Oh, sh*t, sh*t an' damn, oh f*** my

mother and my father, o damn an'

jesus.

Little Bill is hopping around in his hat and boots and nothing

else in front of his brand new one story, four room, frame

house that hasn't been painted it's so new and doesn't have

a porch yet, though that is being begun... sort of. In fact...

the house doesn't look quite right... looks a little lopsided.

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