Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: film starts with truck driving at night, Fact2: rescuers cover people killed mainly, Fact3: Cullen and Joker flee through difficult terrain and weather with brief stop at turpentine camp, Fact4: Sam persuades onlookers turn them in next morning, Fact5: she and Joker drive off in car
Output (English): The film starts with a truck driving at night. It swerves to miss another truck and crashes through a barrier. The rescuers clear up the debris and cover the people killed... mainly prisoners in the back. It is revealed that two are missing: a black man shackled to a white man, because the warden had a sense of humor. They are told not to look too hard as they will probably kill each other in the first five miles. Nevertheless, a large posse and many bloodhounds are dispatched the next morning to find them. The setting is in the American South, the men are the black Noah Cullen Poitier and the white John Joker Jackson Curtis. Despite their mutual loathing, they are forced to cooperate, as they are chained together. At first their cooperation is motivated by selfpreservation but gradually, they begin to respect and like each other. Cullen and Joker flee through difficult terrain and weather, with a brief stop at a turpentine camp where they attempt to break into a general store, in hopes of obtaining food and tools to break the chain that holds them together. Instead, however, they are captured by the inhabitants, who form a lynch mob; they are saved only by the interference of Big Sam Chaney, a man who is appalled by his neighbors bloodthirst. Sam persuades the onlookers to lock the convicts up and turn them in the next morning, but that night, he secretly releases them, after revealing to them that he is also a former chaingang prisoner. Finally, they run into a young boy named Billy. They make him take them to his home and his mother Williams, whose husband has abandoned his family. The escapees are finally able to break their chains. When they spend the night there, the lonely woman is attracted to Joker and wants to run off with him. She advises Cullen to go through the swamp to reach the railroad tracks, while she and Joker drive off in her car. The men agree to split up. However, after Cullen leaves, the woman reveals that she had lied—she sent Cullen into the dangerous swamp to die to eliminate any chance he would be captured and perhaps reveal where Joker had gone. Furious, Joker runs after his friend; as he leaves, Billy shoots him. Wounded, Joker catches up to Cullen and warns him about the swamp. As the posse led by humane Sheriff Max Muller Bikel gets close, the escapees can hear the dogs on their trail. They also hear a train whistle and run toward it. Cullen hops the train and tries to lift Joker aboard, but is unable to do so. Both men tumble to the ground. Too exhausted to run, they realize all they can do is wait for their pursuers. The sheriff finds Cullen singing defiantly and Joker lying in his arms.