Wild At Heart Page #5

LULA:

Oh, you know exactly what I mean,

honey? It’d make the future so simple

and nice.

SAILOR:

At Pee Dee, all you think about is

the future, you know? Gettin’ out?

And what you’ll do and what you’ll

think about when you’re on the

outside again.

LULA:

I just think about things as they

come up. I never been much of a planner.

SAILOR:

It ain’t altogether terrible just to

let things go along sometimes.

Lula, I done a few things in my life

I ain’t too proud of, but I’ll tell

ya from now on I ain’t gonna do

nothin’ for no good reason. All I

know for sure is there’s more’n a

few bad ideas runnin’ around loose

out there.

ECU of match girding along the strike pad and bursting into flame.

Lula lights her cigarette.

LULA:

You know there’s somethin’ I ain’t

never told you about, Sailor, and

this here’s a story with the lesson

that there’s a right time and a

wrong time for things to happen...

When I was almost sixteen I got pregnant.

Sailor looks her in the eyes.

SAILOR:

Musta been a lesson tellin’ ya it

was the wrong time... What did you

do, your mama find out?

LULA:

(nods)

She got me an abortion...

CUT TO:

38. INT. ABORTION CLINIC - MIAMI - DAY

ECU of dying fetus with one hundred twenty decibels Lula’s scream over.

The fetus twitches in its little pod of blood.

ECU of pulsing vein in Lula’s neck - LOUD VIOLENT HEARTBEAT SOUND - LIKE

A DOUBLE-PEDALED KICK BASS DRUM.

ECU of Lula’s forehead covered in sweat running down to her eyes - open

wide and WILD.

ECU of fetus into medical trash can.

ECU of bloodied abortion instruments.

The DOCTOR leans across the abortion table.

LULA:

(voice-over)

...from some old doctor with the

hairiest nostrils and ears I ever seen.

ECU of doctor’s nose and ears ... HAIR!

LULA:

(voice-over)

Afterwards... Momma says...

We see Marietta standing next to the doctor.

LULA:

(voice-over)

...I hope you appreciate my spendin’

six hundred dollars, not countin’

what it cost us to get here and

back... This man’s the best damn

abortionist in the South.

CUT TO:

39. INT. CAPE FEAR MOTEL - NIGHT

SAILOR:

You tell the boy who knocked you up?

LULA:

It was my cousin, Dell, done it? His

folks used to visit with us summers.

SAILOR:

What happened to him?

LULA:

Oh, nothin’. I never let on to mama

about Dell bein’ the one. I just

flat refused to tell her who the

daddy was? I didn’t tell Dell, neither.

He was back home in Chattanooga by then,

anyhow, and I didn’t see the point.

Somethin’ terrible happened to him,

though. Six months ago.

SAILOR:

What’s that, peanut?

LULA:

Dell disappeared. Dell was learnin’

a hard lesson. What I learned from

observin’ Dell is I think people who

are frightened want to disappear.

He’d startin’ behavin’ weird? Like

comin’ up to people every fifteen

minutes and askin’ how they were

doin’?

CUT TO:

40. EXT. CITY STREET - CHATTANOOGA - DAY

DELL, wearing a soiled double-knit suit stops a LADY in the street, and

smiling about the fact that earlier that morning he’s placed a cockroach

on his anus, he speaks to the woman.

DELL:

How’re ya doin’?

CUT TO:

41. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT

LULA:

And just seemin’ real spacey and

actin’ funny.

SAILOR:

Actin’ funny how?

LULA:

Well, like mama told me, Aunt Rootie,

Dell’s mama? She found cockroaches

in Dell’s underwear.

CUT TO:

42. INT. AUNT ROOTIE’S HOUSE

CU of Aunt Rootie - unfolds a pair of dirty jockey shorts and several

cockroaches fall out.

CUT TO:

43. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT

LULA:

One time, Aunt Rootie caught Dell

puttin’ one big cockroach on his anus?

SAILOR:

Hell, peanut...

LULA:

One time - real late - like about two

thirty a.m.? She found Dell up in

the black of night all dressed and

makin’ sandwiches in the kitchen.

CUT TO:

44. AUNT ROOTIE’S HOUSE - KITCHEN - NIGHT

In the dark kitchen, AUNT ROOTIE finds Dell making sandwiches - slicing

them on the diagonal.

AUNT ROOTIE:

What’re ya doin’?

DELL:

Makin’ my lunch!!!

LULA:

(voice-over)

Dell told her he was makin’ his

lunch and goin’ to work. He’s a

welder? And she made him go back

to bed.

We see Aunt Rootie cross the kitchen - take the knife away from Dell and

lead him out of the kitchen.

CUT TO:

45. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT

LULA:

Then he’d carry on about the weather?

Talk about how rainfall’s controlled by

aliens livin’ on earth. Also how men

wearin’ black leather gloves...

CUT TO:

46. INT. AUNT ROOTIE’S HOUSE - DELL’S ROOM - NIGHT

Dell, crying uncontrollably, is in the center of the room squatting like

an indian in his jockey shorts. He has a long ruler stretched out in

front of him which he’s using to press down on the top of a lone black

glove on the floor.

LULA:

(voice-over)

...are followin’ him around.

SAILOR:

Prob’ly the rain boys from Outer Space.

CUT TO:

47. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT

LULA:

It ain’t so funny now, though. December

before Christmas? Dell disappeared

again and Aunt Rootie hired a private

eye to find him. He was missin’ for

almost a month before he wandered back

in the house on mornin’ dressed in some

filthy Santa Claus suit.

48A. EXT. AUNT ROOTIE’S HOUSE - DAY

Dell walking to house.

CUT TO:

48. INT. AUNT ROOTIE’S HOUSE - DAY

Dell enters the front door in a Santa Claus suit so filthy you can

hardly see the red through the black. He walks right past Aunt Rootie

and goes back into the kitchen. There he immediately does a spread-

eagle on the floor and violently scratches his left ankle.

LULA:

(voice-over)

The private eye cost Aunt Rootie over

a thousand dollars? Then a little

while later Dell ran off a third

time to some place he said would

“give him peace of mind.” Nobody’s

seen him since.

CUT TO:

49. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT

SAILOR:

Sound like ol’ Dell’s more’n just a

little confused, peanut... Too

bad he couldn’t visit that ol’

Wizard of Oz and get some good advice.

LULA:

Too bad we all can’t, baby... One

thing about Dell?

SAILOR:

What’s that?

LULA:

When he was about seventeen, he

startin’ losin’ his hair.

SAILOR:

So?

LULA:

He’s twenty-four now? A year older

than you? And must be ’bout bald.

SAILOR:

There’s worse things that can happen

to a man, honey.

LULA:

Yeah, I suppose. But you know somethin’

baby, hair does make a difference.

Lula turns to study Sailor.

LULA:

I sure am glad they didn’t give you

no prison haircut...

(sexual whisper)

Gives me somethin’ to grab hold of

while we’re makin’ love?

They kiss passionately.

DISSOLVE TO:

50. INT. CAPE FEAR HOTEL - NIGHT

Sailor gets up from the bed and begins putting on his clothes. Lula is

painting her toenails red.

SAILOR:

Let’s go dancin’, peanut. I’m

ready.

LULA:

We gotta be careful, honey, my mama’s

gonna have Johnnie Farragut on us

like a duck on a june bug, and he’s

one clever detective? You know how

clever? He once told me that he

could find an honest man in Washington.

My toenails gotta dry first anyways,

Sailor.

SAILOR:

One thing puzzles my mind, sugar...

You’re twenty years old - aren’t

you ever curious why your mama has

this fixation on keepin’ us apart?

Puttin’ a detective on us. I’ll tell

ya Lula... Well... It’s more’n me

killin’ Bob Ray Lemon...

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