Wild At Heart Page #2

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18. INT. “SOUTHERN TIME” BAR - DAY

Marietta enters the bar on the run. She calls out to the BARTENDER...

MARIETTA:

Where’s Johnnie? He’s not in his office.

BARTENDER:

Haven’t seen ’im yet today, Marietta.

MARIETTA:

(slightly hysterical)

Well I gotta find him - right this

minute!

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19. EXT. PEE DEE COUNTY WORK FARM - DAY

Sailor is waiting out front as Lula pulls up in her T-Bird - throwing

out a cloud of dust. They’re both smiling.

LULA:

Hey baby...

SAILOR:

Peanut...

They kiss tenderly and then Sailor walks around the car to get in while

Lula opens up a suitcase and gets out his snakeskin jacket.

SAILOR:

Hey, my snakeskin jacket... Thanks,

baby... Did I ever tell you that

this here jacket for me is a symbol

of my individuality and my belief

in personal freedom?

LULA:

’Bout fifty thousand times. I got

us a room at the Cape Fear, and

guess what?... I hear Powermad’s

at “The Hurricane.”

SAILOR:

(smiling)

Stab it and steer.

Lula tromps it and throws out an even larger cloud of dust.

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20. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY

Sailor and Lula lay on the bed in the Cape Fear Hotel listening to the

fan creak.

LULA:

Did you ever think somethin’ like

about the wicked witch of the east

comin’ flyin’ in?... Did you ever

think somethin’ and then later think

you’ve said it out loud to someone?

SAILOR:

I really did miss your mind while I

was out at Pee Dee, honey. The

rest of you, too, of course. But

the way your head works is God’s own

private mystery. What was it you

was thinkin’?

LULA:

Well, I was thinkin’ about smokin’

actually... My mama smokes Marlboros

now, used to be she smoked Kools?

I stole ’em from her beginnin’ in

about sixth grade. When I got old

enough to buy my own, I bought those.

Now I’ve just about settled on Mores,

as you probably noticed? They’re longer.

SAILOR:

I guess I started smokin’ when I was

about six... My mama was already

dead from lung cancer...

LULA:

What brand’d she smoke?

SAILOR:

Camels, same as me... Guess both

my mama and my daddy died of smoke

or alcohol related illness.

LULA:

Gee, Sailor. I’m sorry, honey. I

never would have guessed it.

SAILOR:

It’s okay. I hardly used to see

them anyway. I didn’t have much

parental guiding. The public defender

kept sayin’ that at my parole hearin’.

He was a good ol’ boy, stood by me...

Even brought me some cartons of

cigarettes from time to time.

LULA:

I’d stand by you, Sailor ... through

anything.

SAILOR:

Hell, peanut, you stuck with me after

I planted Bob Ray Lemon. A man can’t

ask for more than that.

Lula pulls Sailor over to her and kisses him soft on the mouth.

LULA:

You move me, Sailor, you really do.

You mark me the deepest.

Sailor pulls down the sheet, exposing Lula’s breasts.

SAILOR:

You’re perfect for me, too.

LULA:

You remind me of my daddy, you know?

Mama told me he liked skinny women

whose breasts were just a bit too

big for their bodies. He had a long

nose, too, like theirs. Did I ever

tell you how he died?

SAILOR:

In a fire, as I recall.

LULA:

Started he couldn’t remember things?

Got real violent? Mama kept tellin’

me it was on account of lead poisoning

from cleanin’ the old paint off our

house without usin’ a mask... But

I don’t know. Seems like his brain

just fell apart in pieces.

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21. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - KITCHEN - NIGHT

CLYDE FORTUNE tears a door off the kitchen cabinets and strews the

cabinet contents all across the counter and floor. He puts his fist

through the kitchen window. He leaps on the counter and bats the

kitchen ceiling light - smashing it. He kicks over the refrigerator.

CLYDE:

F***IN’ B*TCH!!!!

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22. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY

Lula’s eyes look off, remembering.

LULA:

Finally in the middle of the one

night, with me and mama asleep

upstairs ... he poured kerosene over

himself and lit a match.

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23. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - LIVINGROOM - NIGHT

Clyde Fortune, completely engulfed in fire, races across and back the

livingroom until he collapses in a fifties modern armchair. The drapes

behind him burst in flames.

LULA:

(voice-over)

Near burned down the house. We

got out just in time.

The whole livingroom goes up in flames.

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24. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY

CU the red hot ash of Lula’s cigarette as she inhales deeply. As she

exhales a cloud of smoke she turns to Sailor.

LULA:

It was a year before I met you.

Sailor takes the cigarette out of Lula’s hand and puts it into the

ashtray by her bed. He pulls her to him and kisses her throat.

SAILOR:

You have such a pretty, long neck,

like a swan.

LULA:

Grandmama Pace had a long, smooth

white neck. It was like on a

statue it was so white?

Sailor drifts his thumb over Lula’s left nipple then cups her breast in

his hand. They kiss.

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25. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY

Marietta pours JOHNNIE FARRAGUT another shot of scotch.

MARIETTA:

I knew this would happen. Soon as

that piece of filth got out of

Pee Dee, I knew there’d be trouble.

He’s just got some kind of influence

over her I can’t decipher. There’s

somethin’ wild in Lula I don’t know

where it comes from. You gotta find

’em, Johnnie.

JOHNNIE:

He served his time for what he did.

Another thing... If Lula went with

him of her own volition - willingly,

that is - there ain’t much can be

done about it.

MARIETTA:

Don’t talk down to me, Johnnie

Farragut. I know what volition means,

and that’s why I want Sailor Ripley

off the planet! He’s pure slime and

it’s leakin’ all over my baby.

Maybe you could push him into makin’

some kinda move and then kill him

dead. You’d only be defendin’

yourself, and with his record,

nobody’d fuss.

Johnnie pours himself another tumblerful of Walker Black Label.

JOHNNIE:

I’ll locate Lula, Marietta, and if

she’s with the Ripley boy, I’ll

give him a talkin’ to and try to

convince her to come back with me.

That’s about all I can do.

He takes a long swallow from the tumbler. Marietta begins to cry. She

blubbers for a few seconds, and then stops as abruptly as she’d started.

Her grey eyes glaze over.

MARIETTA:

I’ll hire a hit man if you don’t want

to help me stop this thing. I’ll

call Marcello Santos.

JOHNNIE:

Now, Marietta, I am goin’ to help you.

And don’t be gettin’ carried away.

You don’t want to be bringin’ Santos

and his people into it.

MARIETTA:

You’re just jealous of Santos cause

he’s sweet on me.

JOHNNIE:

Darlin’, you ain’t seein’ Santos

again, are ya?

MARIETTA:

Oh, Johnnie Farragut... Don’t you

trust your very own Marietta?

JOHNNIE:

Sorry, sweetheart. Bein’ in love

with you like I am brings out that

ugly jealous side.

MARIETTA:

Well stop worryin’ about me and

start worryin’ about how you’re

gonna get that Lula back here and

away from that murderer.

JOHNNIE:

Sailor ain’t a murderer. You got to

get off that kick. And far’s I can

tell, Sailor was entire clean prior

to that involvin’ Lula. Even there

he was protectin’ her. You oughta

be thankin’ him for that. That Bob

Ray Lemon they say was comin’ after

the both of ’em. Why am I tellin’

you this, you was around that night.

You ought to know just exactly what

happened. Sailor just got a little

too forceful is all... You remember

that night...

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