Wild At Heart
- R
- Year:
- 1990
- 125 min
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And now the story of Sailor and Lula.....
A MAN rides a screaming massive Japanese motorcycle - wound out to
maximum R.P.M. up the street.
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The sign reads “KIDS PLAYING - SPEED BUMPS”.
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With a whine from hell, the front tire of the motorcycle hits a speed
bump.
The motorcycle becomes airborne and on the way up slices itself in half
as it scrapes along the full length of a Datsun Kingcab.
In the air, the rider and motorcycle twist violently as they fly by.
The motorcycle bounces off a black ’66 Chevrolet and makes a sound like
the end of the world.
The rider hits the same Chevy a moment later. Like a broken ragdoll
shot from a canon, the man punches through the back window blowing glass
for a block. He stops somewhere under the front seat and a bubble of
blood forms out his nose.
The motorcycle continues on sliding and spinning with an ear-piercing
howl for one entire city block.
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4. EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS - VACANT LOT - DAY
Two rabid dogs fight ferociously in a vacant lot - ripping each other’s
flesh. An OLD COUPLE, both with walkers, inch painfully along nearby.
OLD WOMAN:
Oh my God! ... Why they doin’ that?
OLD MAN:
Who the hell knows. What you have
in your mouth?
The old woman begins to turn away, covering her mouth with her hand.
OLD MAN:
Spit it out!!! ... Pull your teeth
out ... doctor said. What you
The Old Man grabs the Old Woman by the neck and squeezes. Out comes a
tangled and sticky ball of hard fruit candies.
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5. WASP NEST
A thousand wasps hover threateningly in the air around the nest. A
SMALL GROUP OF HARDENED CRIMINAL NINE-YEAR OLDS sporting hideous grins,
bat the nest violently to and fro with sticks. One kid busies himself
shooting a large can of Black Flag garden spray into a crack in the
nest. Another stomps half-dead wasps up and down the sidewalk. All the
kids are making animal noises of one sort or the other.
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The telephone rings. MARIETTA PACE FORTUNE, a rich Southern woman
around fifty, carries her Martini and Rossi sweet vermouth drink across
the livingroom and answers the phone.
MARIETTA:
Hello... Who is this?...
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7. INT. PEE DEE COUNTY WORK FARM - DAY
A GUARD stands by as SAILOR RIPLEY, twenty-three years old - lost
somewhere between the cool long-gone generation and a used-car salesman
- speaks on a prisoner phone in a green cement cubicle with one bench.
SAILOR:
(into phone)
...Sailor Ripley... Can I talk
to Lula?
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MARIETTA:
There’s no way in hell you can speak
to her and...
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7A. INT. PEE DEE COUNTY WORK FARM - DAY
SAILOR:
What?...
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MARIETTA:
...Yes you heard me... Don’t ever
call back here again.
Marietta hangs up the phone as LULA PACE FORTUNE, Marietta’s twenty-year
old daughter, comes quickly down the stairs.
LULA:
Mama???
MARIETTA:
You know who it was and you know
you aren’t, and I mean ARE NOT
gonna see him EVER... End of story.
LULA:
(quietly)
Like hell.
Marietta, her hand still on the telephone, grips the receiver so hard
her knuckles turn white.
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8. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - LULA’S ROOM UPSTAIRS - DAY
Lula enters her room and cranks up her stereo. Speed metal music jumps
up to around one hundred twenty decibels.
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9. INT. PEE DEE COUNTY WORK FARM - DAY
The guard escorts Sailor away from the telephone and back to his cell.
The iron bars of the door slide across Sailor’s face and close with a
bang.
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10. EXT. THE MUSIC BAR - NIGHT
A beat-up, red ’64 Ford Falcon station wagon filled with insane
TEENAGERS on speed and PCP race out of control down the street past the
club - leaning out the car in every direction. They scream out to the
desolate-looking passerby.
TEENAGERS:
EAT SH*T MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!
The camera cranes up to the neon club sign and gets lost among the hot
pink neon, the frantic moths and the intense electric buzz.
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11. INT. THE MUSIC BAR - NIGHT
Lula and her friend, BEANY THORN, sit at a table drinking rum Coca-Colas
while watching and listening to a white blues band called THE BLEACH
BOYS. The group segues smoothly from Elmore James’s “Dust my Broom”
into Robert Johnson’s “Me and the Devil” and Beany lets out a snort.
BEANY:
I can dig this music... But not
that singer.
LULA:
Why?... He’s right in the groove.
BEANY:
He’s so ugly. Guys with beards and
beer guts ain’t quite my type.
LULA:
(giggles)
Seein’s how you’re about as thick as
a used string of unwaxed dental floss,
don’t know how you can criticize.
BEANY:
Yeah, well, if he says that all that
flab turns into dick at midnight,
he’s a liar.
Lula and Beany laugh and swallow some of their drinks.
BEANY:
So, Sailor’s gettin’ out soon, and
you’re gonna see him?
Lula nods and crushes an ice cube with her back teeth and chews it.
LULA:
Meetin’ him at the gate. That phone
call this afternoon was the signal.
My deranged mama’s hid the keys to
my car. But of course, I know
exactly where they are.
BEANY:
I didn’t hate me so much, I’d feel
better wishin’ you luck.
LULA:
Can’t all husbands be perfect, and
your Elmo prob’ly wouldn’ta ever
got that second one pregnant, you
hadn’t kicked his ass out.
BEANY:
So you’re gonna be needin’ the
“blue-bird” pretty soon?
LULA:
Real soon ... I’ll be makin’ the swap
tomorrow, and thanks again, Beany.
The Bleach Boys kick into some kind of Professor Longhair swamp mambo.
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12. EXT. BAY ST. CLEMENT - DAY
Plumes of smoke from fires rise in the distance.
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An empty livingroom. The smoke from the city fire appears during the
course of the DISSOLVE to be in the livingroom - then it disappears.
An empty hallway.
An empty stairway.
13A. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - MARIETTA’S BEDROOM - DAY
Feet (Lula’s) was across carpet.
A closet door opens.
A hand (Lula’s) reaches into the pocket of a coat in her mother’s
closet. The hand comes out clutching car keys.
13B. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - STAIRWAY - DAY
Lula races down the stairs and through a door into the garage.
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The electronic garage door opens and Lula drives her ’80 Black Camaro
out and away. The garage door closes automatically.
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Lula drives fast up a neighborhood street. She turns a corner and
disappears.
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16. INT. BEANY THORN’S GARAGE - DAY
Lula throws her car keys under the front seat and goes around to Beany’s
’67 dark blue Thunderbird convertible - fishes around under the T-Bird’s
front seat for the keys - finds them - jumps in and takes off.
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Marietta leaves her Cadillac Seville in her driveway and enters the
house. We can hear her calling out for Lula in the distance. The
calling changes - it becomes angry. The garage door opens and Marietta
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