Wild At Heart

And now the story of Sailor and Lula.....

1. EXT. CITY STREET - DAY

A MAN rides a screaming massive Japanese motorcycle - wound out to

maximum R.P.M. up the street.

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2. SIGN BY ROADSIDE

The sign reads “KIDS PLAYING - SPEED BUMPS”.

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3. EXT. CITY STREET - DAY

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

tryin’ to do? SPIT IT OUT!!!

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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6. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY

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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6A. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY

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:

(feeling a smile coming on)

What?...

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6B. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY

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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13. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY

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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14. EXT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY

The electronic garage door opens and Lula drives her ’80 Black Camaro

out and away. The garage door closes automatically.

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15. EXT. CITY STREETS - DAY

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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17. EXT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY

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

comes storming out. She leaps in her Caddy and peels out.

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