Wild At Heart Page #3

CU of Marietta’ eyes as she thinks back.

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26. INT. BAY ST. CLEMENT HOTEL - BALLROOM - NIGHT

We see Marietta standing in a carpeted hallway above the ballroom.

Dance band music can be heard in the distance. Sailor appears coming up

the hallway - slightly drunk - he carefully sets his drink on the carpet

outside the MEN’S ROOM.

Marietta’s POV of Sailor entering the MEN’S ROOM.

CU of Marietta’s glazed eyes and smiling face.

Marietta’s POV of walking toward MEN’S ROOM.

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27. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - DAY

MARIETTA:

Maybe I was there, but I didn’t see

anythin’. All I know’s that trash

killed a man with his bare hands.

Hands which are now prob’ly all

over my baby!

JOHNNIE:

Marietta, settle down now darlin’...

I want what’s best for her, too -

Like I said, I’ll do what I can to

bring her home.

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28. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY

Lula is standing in the bathroom of their room at the Hotel fooling with

her hair in front of the mirror. Sailor can see her through the doorway

from where he lays on the bed.

LULA:

Sailor, you are somethin’ else,

honey... When I was fifteen, Mama

told me that pretty soon I’d be

startin’ to think about sex, and

I should talk to her before I did

anything about it.

SAILOR:

But honey, I thought you told me

your Uncle Pooch raped you when

you was thirteen.

LULA:

That’s true. Uncle Pooch wasn’t

really an uncle. He was a business

partner of my daddy’s? And my mama

never knew nothin’ about me and

him - that’s for damn sure. His real

name was somethin’ kind of European,

like Pucinski. But everyone just

called him Pooch. He came around the

house sometimes when Daddy was away.

I always figured he was sweet on

mama, so when he cornered me one

afternoon, I was surprised more’n

a little.

SAILOR:

How’d it happen, peanut? He just

pull out the old toad and let it

croak?

Lula brushes away her bangs and frowns. She takes a cigarette from the

pack on the sink and lights it, then lets it dangle from her lips while

she teases her hair.

LULA:

You’re terrible crude sometimes,

Sailor, you know?

SAILOR:

I can’t hardly understand you when

you talk with one of them Mores in

your mouth.

Lula takes a long, slow drag on her More and sets it down on the edge of

the sink.

LULA:

I said you can be too crude sometimes?

I don’t think I care for it.

SAILOR:

Sorry, sugar. Go on and tell me how

old Pooch done the deed.

LULA:

Well, mama was at the Busy Bee havin’

her hair dyed? And I was alone in

the house.

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29. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY

We see what she talks about.

LULA:

(voice-over)

Uncle Pooch came in the side door

through the porch, you know? Where

I was makin’ a jelly and banana

sandwich? I remember I had my hair

in curlers cause I was goin’ that

night with Vicki and Cherry Ann, the

DeSoto sisters. Uncle Pooch must have

known nobody but me was home, cause

he came right in and put both his

hands on my butt and sorta shoved me

up against the counter.

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30. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY

SAILOR:

Didn’t he say somethin’?

Lula shakes her head. She picks up her cigarette, takes a puff and

throws it into the toilet.

ECU of cigarette in toilet.

LULA:

Not really. Least not so I recall now.

Lula flushes the toilet and watches the More come apart as it swirls

down the hole.

ECU of cigarette coming apart as it swirls.

SAILOR:

So how’d he finally nail you? Right

there in the kitchen?

LULA:

No, he picked me up.

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31. INT. FORTUNE HOUSE - KITCHEN/MAID’S ROOM - DAY

We see what she talks about.

LULA:

(voice-over)

He was short but powerful. With

hairy arms? Anyway, he carried me

into the maid’s dayroom which nobody

used. We did it there on an old bed.

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32. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY

SAILOR:

‘We’ did it? Whattaya mean? Didn’t

he force you?

LULA:

Well, sure. But he was super-gentle,

you know? I mean, he raped me and

all, but I guess there’s all

different kinds of rapes. I didn’t

exactly want him to do it but I

suppose once it started, it didn’t

seem all that terrible. It was over

pretty quick, and after Uncle Pooch

just stood there and pulled up his

trousers and left me there. I

stayed in bed till I heard him drive

off. Then I just went back into

the kitchen and finished makin’ my

sandwich.

SAILOR:

And you never told nobody about it?

LULA:

Just you. Uncle Pooch never acted

strange or different after. And he

never did anything else to me. I

always got a nice present from him

at Christmas, like a coat or jewelry?

(pause)

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33. TWO LANE HIGHWAY - DAY

One hundred twenty decibels - head on collision of a ’54 Ford Pick-Up

and a ’64 Chevy Station Wagon. No survivors. Balls of flame and

grinding metal.

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34. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - DAY

LULA:

Uncle Pooch died in a car crash three

years later while he was holidayin’

in Myrtle Beach. They still got way

too much traffic there for my taste...

And another thing, baby... That

government of ours should be keepin’

us separated from outer space...

SAILOR:

Here she goes again...

LULA:

Sailor, that ozone layer is

disappearin’. Seems to me the

government could do somethin’ about

it. One of these mornings the

sun’ll come up and burn a hole clean

through the planet like an X-Ray.

Lula strikes a match and lights another cigarette.

SAILOR:

(laughs)

That ain’t never will happen, honey.

Least not in our lifetime.

Somewhere in the hotel a woman laughs. It is a kind of wild, crazy

laugh, and for the few seconds it lasts, Lula’s face goes pale.

SAILOR:

You okay, honey?

LULA:

That woman’s laugh creeps me out.

I heard somethin’ like that...

somewhere before... Sound’d like

the wicked witch...

SAILOR:

Just sounded like an old gal havin’

a good time to me... You ready to

dance?

LULA:

I’m always ready to dance. But I

need me a kiss first, honey. Just one?

Lula and Sailor kiss. In the middle of the kiss, the woman’s

creepy/crazy laugh is heard again in the distance and Lula’s eyes snap

open with a kind of fear.

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35. EXT. FORTUNE HOUSE - BACKYARD - LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING

Marietta is escorting MARCELLO SANTOS and two stiff drinks to a table in

her backyard.

SANTOS:

I knew you’d want it again...

MARIETTA:

That’s not why I called.

SANTOS:

Oh yeah - sure ... okay.

MARIETTA:

Santos... It isn’t.

SANTOS:

Have it your way... But you want it.

MARIETTA:

Lula’s gone off with Sailor.

SANTOS:

What do you want me to do about it?

MARIETTA:

I want you to take care of Sailor, so

he won’t ever be able to bother my

baby again.

SANTOS:

Take care of him?

MARIETTA:

Yes.

SANTOS:

What does take care of him mean?...

Do you want me to give him food or

some clothing?

MARIETTA:

What’s with you?... You know what

take care of him means. I don’t

call Santos except for one big reason.

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