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If you have the guts to be yourself...other people'll pay
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your price.
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- RABBIT ANGSTROM
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John Updike, "Rabbit, Run"
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1 1. 1
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Run it under a harsh green fluorescent light. CLOSE ON AN
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ANGRY BLONDE PUNK, his head flying in and out of frame.
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Hard against SOME GIRL'S face. Banging against a dirty
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mirror. Sweating. Moaning.
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GIRL
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Jim. Jim. Jimmy. Jimmy. Jimmy, oh
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god. Fuck me. Rabbit. Rabbit, yes,
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oh yes. Jimmy. Rabbit. Fuck. Fuck.
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Fuck.
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He's fucking her on top of a nasty sink. Fast. And furious.
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Her short skirt hiked up high around her waist - A wool cap
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pulled down tight over his face. This is Jim, James, B,
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Bunny, Rabbit, B-Rabbit & Jinny Smith Jr. To us he's just
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plain JIMMY.
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GIRL
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Oh, Rabbit, fuck yes, oh yes.
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They're in a desolate bathroom. Wet. Full of noise. Beats
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thumping through the walls. Fists banging on the door.
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The girl moan-moaning. It’s all so fucking loud. CLOSE ON
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JIMMY, catching sight of himself bouncing up & down in the
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mirror. Ignoring the girl, he's somewhere else. Gone.
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Always moving. We hear her coming. Jimmy stops. Stares. The
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harsh light crowns his head, a burning halo. He doesn't
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look so good, cold sweat.
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JIMMY
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- I gotta run.
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She jumps off the sink, yanks down her skirt.
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GIRL
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(pissed)
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Why? You still nervous? You’re
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lucky I ran into you 'cause I'm
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tryin' to help calm you down. But
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it's like you ain't even fuckin'
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here -
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2.
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JIMMY
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(pulls up his pants;
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distracted)
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- What? Wasn’t it good for you?
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GIRL
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Yeah. You know I love the way you
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fuck me, Rabbit. Why do you always
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gotta ask?
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Before Jimmy can answer a queer look crosses his face. He
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rushes for a dirty stall and we hear him puking his fucking
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brains out.
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2 2. 2
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Jimmy, leaving the bathroom. Still a little green. No sign
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of the girl. A line of guys waiting outside.
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They scream, shout, Jimmy just laughs and gives 'em all the
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finger. Heads down the corridor alone into the darkness.
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3 3. 3
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An underground hip-hop club, THE SHELTER. A basement cave.
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You can see the noise and the heat. Wall-to-wall kids, all
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that sex. Mashing to the beat. Mostly black. Some white.
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Whatever. Jimmy wipes his mouth, slips on headphones,
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getting back into character. We hear his music, the song
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being pumped into his head. Angry. Defiant. Beautiful.
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He makes his way through cue crowd, a hip-hop gladiator.
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Walking tall. All attitude. Everybody around him dancing to
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a different beat. We're sampling Tony Manero strutting down
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the block from the opening of "SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER."
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Jimmy (Tony) checks out the girls, smiles their way,
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heading backstage. But this ain’t no fucking disco. Before
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he gets far some BIG RAD DUDE stops him-- Shines a
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flashlight in his face. Hollas some shit at him. Jimmy
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tears off his headphones. The song cuts out--
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JIMMY
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(yells over the music)
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- Yo what the fuck you call me?
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BIG BAD DUDE
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Where ya goin', dawg - you ain't
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backstage, are ya?
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3.
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JIMMY
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What you say about me?
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(gets right up in the big
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man's face)
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Do you even know who I am?
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The big dude shines the light bright back in Jimmy's face.
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He's security.
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BIG BAD DUDE
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Fuck no. You wanna go backstage or
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what?
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JIMMY
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I ain't goin' nowhere 'til you tell
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me what the fuck you said, man -
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Before the big guy can respond, a skinny black superstar
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pulls Jimmy away. It's THE FUTURE aka Future, Fuche & David
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Porter. Also in his 20s, the Future's all good.
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FUTURE
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(to the Big Bad Dude)
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It's all good, brotha. He's with me
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-
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Future drags Jimmy past the big guy backstage. Laughing at
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him with love.
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FUTURE
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- You crazy muthafucka. Why didn't
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ya just tell 'im you backstage for
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the battle, Jimmy?
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JIMMY
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He said some shit -
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(pulls away from Future;
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spots something on his
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shirt)
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Fuck.
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4 4. 4
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Outside the club. Downtown Detroit. Bleak winter night.
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Cold, as hell. A mess of kids waiting to get in. Jimmy
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hustles up some stairs. Future right on his tail.
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FUTURE
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Where ya runnin' to?
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JIMMY
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I fuckin’ puked on my shirt.
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4.
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FUTURE
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(laughs)
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First timers always crazy -
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youknowhatlmsayin'? Didn't fucking
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Mary calm you down?
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A needy white guy in his late 20s with a big head,
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"CHEDDER" BOB ZUROWSKY aka Head, standing near the top of
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the line sees Jimmy & Future heading in the opposite
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direction. He’s slow.
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CHEDDER BOB
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Hey Rabbit - where ya--?
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Jimmy turns, gestures "one-minute-I'll be-right back" and
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keeps walking away. Future laughs, follows.
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Chedder Bob grabs two black guys huddled against the wall
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smokin' dope; a short roly-poly freak in his early 20s
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named SOL GEORGE aka Mista Kingpin & Mista and his laid-
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back older brother. DJ IZ aka Israel George, Izzy & Iz, a
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pseudointellectual with dreads and glasses.
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They’re Jimmy £ Future's crew, RU466 ("Real Unforgiven For
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Killin" - also the abortion pill).
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CHEDDER ROB
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C'mon. Rabbit an' Future're goin'
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without us -
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5 5. 5
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Jimmy & Future head into a dark alley next to the club.
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The crew follows. We can still hear the music booming
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through the walls. A lone spotlight pierces the gloom.
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Jimmy stops at a dumpster near the back.
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SOL
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- T'night's the night, boy. You on
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your way up, yo. Next stop - Deal.
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DJ IZ
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(goes to hug Jimmy)
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No doubt no doubt - S'up, brotha?
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JIMMY
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(pulls back)
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Puked on my shirt.
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Cheddar Bob tries to get a closer look at Jimmy's T-shirt.
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5.
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CHEDDER BOB
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Lemme see -
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JIMMY
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(pushes him away)
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Puck off, Chedder Bob -
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Jimmy scrapes the dumpster away from the wall. Grabs a
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trash bag hidden behind it.
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SOL
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(laughs)
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Now listen, Bunny - if you battle
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that muthafucka Papa Doc, nigga was
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talkin' some serious shit, yo -
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Jimmy opens the trash bag, starts rooting around inside.
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All the guys stop and stare.
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JIMMY
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(pulls out some clean
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clothes front the bag)
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Fuckin' Janeane an' I jus’ broke up
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an' shit, an' she took the house
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an' the goddamn car -
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FUTURE
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- Again?
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DJ IZ
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Maybe it’s 'cause you keep fuckin’
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all those other girls for a minute
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SOL
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Yeah, Rabbit -
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CHEDDER BOB
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No you just need to forget that
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Janeane bitch. Rabbit. Just think
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about all the fine bitches you
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gonna get t'night after you win -
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JIMMY
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(looking through the
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garbage bag)
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She says she’s pregnant, whatever,
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yo -
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A long beat.
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FUTURE
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6.
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- Now that's the heaviest influence
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in that movie right there, man.
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CHEDDER BOB
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I bet that bitch is lyin'. Rabbit.
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SOL
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(to Chedder Bob)
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Lemme ask you a question, bitch - I
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bet you probably never even bust in
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a bitch before. Have you?
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CHEDDER BOB
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(turns red; to Jimmy)
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You gonna stay at your mom’s?
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JIMMY
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- fuck. Bob.
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(pulls out a clean T-
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shirt from the bag)
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Yo can I please get some privacy
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here, please -
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The three guys acquiesce, walk toward the lit mouth of the
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alley. The Future stays.
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JIMMY
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(laughs)
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- my lucky shirt.
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(peels off the dirty
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shirt; shivering in the
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cold)
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It's my birthday in a couple weeks,
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Fuche - An' it's like, I gotta do
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somethin', ya know? Somethin' real.
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(puts on the clean T)
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- I mean all I ever wanted to do
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was rap, yo - be an emcee. But I
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know they ain't gonna like me in
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there -
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FUTURE
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If you rap, you rap muthafucka. It
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don't matter. You just gotta stop
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givin' a fuck what other people
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gonna say, Jim -
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Jinny hides the garbage bag back behind the dumpster.
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JIMMY
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- People can't talk shit about me
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like that, yo.
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7.
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FUTURE
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Just wreck those mics an’ gain some
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respect, youhearwhatlmsayin'?
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JIMMY
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It's like do or die time for me
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now. Fuche.
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FUTURE
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(laughs)
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I know whatchya sayin' - I'm tryin'
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to get straight with the Lord these
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days.
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They both head back up the alley toward their friends and
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the light.
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JIMMY
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Are you high?
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FUTURE
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You're B-Rabbit, yo. I believe in
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you thoroughly.
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(jumps; shouts out)
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B-RABBIT, yo - youknowhatlmsayin'?
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B-RABBIT! B-RABBIT!
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They meet up with the rest of the crew. And they all shout
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out, jumping, laughing, barking, 'B-RABBIT! B-RABBIT! B--
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SLAM TO:
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6 6. 6
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CLOSE ON A FREESTYLE BATTLE, up on fit age in the club.
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Spotlights glare. DJ spins. Two emcees squaring off. One-
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on-one. Two 60 second scoreboard clocks tick down... It's
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Fight Music. And right now one very short brother named
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LIL' TIC (Little Lunatic) is battling Jimmy. Up in his
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face.
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He's spittin' about--
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1. Jimmy's name - B-Rabbit.
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2. Jinny's skin color - White.
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3. Jimmy's inexperience - 1st battle.
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Jimmy just stands there, his wool cap pulled down tight.
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Bouncing a little to the beat. Shaking out the nerves.
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8.
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Lil' Tic's killin' him. The clocks hit o. Time. The CROWD
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goes crazy. Judge and jury. Future takes center stage, he's
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hosting the battle.
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SPLIT SCREEN;
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CUT SPLIT SCREEN:
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CUT SPLIT SCREEN:
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Future hands him the mic. All eyes on Jimmy, Under the
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blinding hot lights. The beat kicks in. The clocks start...
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CLOSE ON JIMMY, bobbing his head up & down collecting his
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thoughts, opens his mouth to rap and--
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People start booing him right away.
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Calling him names. Booing. Booing.
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Booing Jimmy. And nothing comes out of his mouth.
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Mute. Burning up under the lights. Failure.
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Jimmy freezes.
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And the picture FREEZES.
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REWINDS. And PLAYS again-
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Jimmy opens his mouth to rap and nothing comes out. Freeze.
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Failure. Rewind. Play. We're SCRATCHING the film.
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Back & forth.
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Forth & back.
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SLAM TO:
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MAIN TITLE:
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fight music
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We still hear the scratching which leads us into our title
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song, the song we first heard playing in Jimmy’s
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headphones...
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7 7. 7
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9.
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Poor Detroit. Jimmy runs through the diseased streets of
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his life past all the crack whores and dead ends. Holding
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onto his garbage bag full of clothes, headphones back on
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his head. His breath visible in the night air. He and it
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the only white around. We still hear our title song.
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Jimmy runs. Runs through a busy intersection, right on by
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the entrance of a ratty trailer park, running down a side
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street. Running up to a big vacant field down at the end.
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Urban blight. Lying grass. A graveyard for shopping carts,
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broken appliances, used needles & other shit.
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Jimmy stops.
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And screams out at the top of his lungs.
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Loud and long.
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Then he runs to a chain link fence at the edge of the
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field, looks both ways making sure no one sees him, and
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hops over it.
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8 8. 8
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Jimmy makes his way through the maze of trailers. Up to a
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drab double-wide mobile home. A beat-to-shit big-ass '79
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Lincoln abandoned in front. Down. And out.
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9 9. 9
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Jimmy lets himself in. Drops the garbage bag. He's cold,
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blowing on his hands trying to warm himself up. The place
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is a dump. All white trash.
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The title song still blaring in his headphones and on our
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soundtrack.
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JIMMY
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Mom?
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He heads for his man's bedroom. As he gets closer, we hear
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some noise. Moans. And grunts. A breathless scream.
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We hear sex. Raw. And loud.
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Not Jimmy. All he hears is music.
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JIMMY
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Mom?
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10.
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He slides open the flimsy vinyl bedroom door and sees his
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mom fucking some guy.' On top. Riding away--
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Jimmy pulls off his headphones. The title sang ends.
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JIMMY
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(in shock)
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Mom!?!
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STEPHANIE
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Rabbit?
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10 10. 10
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Later. Jimmy's eating cereal in the lousy kitchen, dry no
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milk. A small TV, beer bottles & comic books litter the
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countertops. A rusty electric space heater vibrates heat.
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It's almost quiet for the first time in the movie.
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His mother, STEPHANIE, slinks in wearing an oversized
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"Osborne High" sweatshirt and little else. Her hair's a sex
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mess, she slurs her words a little maybe a little drunk.
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She's a young 40, small & sexy in that bleached blonde
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trailer trash sorta way.
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STEPHANIE
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You okay, baby - Wan'me ta make ya
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somethin' ?
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(ruffles his hair)
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- Dontchya think maybe ya shoulda
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knocked or maybe called first or
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somethin'?
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JIMMY
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Yo - the phone's disconnected.
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STEPHANIE
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(defensive)
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Yeah I know, Rabbit. I know, I jus'
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gotta run down to the - um - the
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phone place tomorrow -
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JIMMY
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(mouth full of dry
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cereal)
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- An' there's no milk. Ever.
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STEPHANIE
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Hey - I been busy, ya know.
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JIMMY
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11.
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Still goin1 to bingo or get a job
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yet?
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A thick lame white dude. GREG MINOR, stumbles into the
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kitchen on one good leg like he owns the place. Just a few
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years older than Jimmy, all Grog's got on is a two-day
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beard, pair of "Osborne High" sweatpants, and a shit-eatin’
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grin.
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GREG
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(slaps Jimmy on the back
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of his head)
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Rabbit - what the fuck you doin'
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here? How 'bout knockin'?
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Jimmy doesn't react. Too tired to fight. It's clear that
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Greg makes him uncomfortable. Makes him feel like he's back
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in high school. Jimmy seems to shrink when he's around.
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JIMMY
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(turns to his mom)
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Janeane an' I broke up -
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STEPHANIE
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None of those girls are right for
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you, baby. She say she's pregnant?
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Jimmy nods.
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STEPHANIE
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Right. I bet she took the car too -
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JIMMY
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(doesn't want to talk
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about it; gets up)
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- I gotta work in the mornin'.
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STEPHANIE
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- You and Future still at that
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Little Caesars in Warren?
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She lights a cigarette. Greg takes it from her, smokes.
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JIMMY
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No I - ahh - I--
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GREG
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C'mon, man, you got fired from
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Little Caesars? Nobody gets fired
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from Little Caesars -
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JIMMY
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- yo I'm too tired for this shit-
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12.
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STEPHANIE
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You stayin' here, baby?
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JIMMY
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- just for a few weeks 'til I save
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enough to get my own place.
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|
|
|
GREG
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|
Just like Bob Zurowsky. All your
|
|
friends still livin' at home -
|
|
aren't they, Rabbit?
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Guys're a bunch a fucking losers -
|
|
|
|
Without skipping a beat Jimmy grabs a beer bottle £ fires
|
|
it at Greg's head! It just misses, smashing against the
|
|
wall--
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|
|
|
Greg bolts up, cigarette still stuck in his mouth--
|
|
|
|
Jimmy instinctively takes a step back.
|
|
|
|
Violence about to break.
|
|
|
|
Stephanie jumps in the middle--
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|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(screams at Jimmy)
|
|
YOU STOP IT! JAMES SMITH JUNIOR!
|
|
STOPIT NOW!
|
|
|
|
Just then a sleepy little angel appears in the doorway of
|
|
the kitchen, six-year-old LILY, Jimmy’s little half-sister.
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|
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|
She lights up when she sees Jimmy. Runs to him.
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|
|
|
He gives her a big hug. Violence broken. Greg laughs, gets
|
|
himself a cold beer from the 'fridge instead.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yo - shouldn't you be sleepin',
|
|
Lily?
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|
|
|
LILY
|
|
You woke me up ya know.
|
|
(whispers to him)
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|
- will you sing to me?
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|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
C’mon - back to bed. It's late.
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|
|
|
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|
11 11. 11
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13.
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|
|
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|
Jimmy carries Lily into her little girl bedroom. Neat,
|
|
clean. A mountain of scuffed animals on her bed. As he puts
|
|
her down, we hear him quietly sweetly lovingly rapping to
|
|
her. And he's good. Real good. Suddenly they hear Stephanie
|
|
shout out from the kitchen --
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE (OS)
|
|
Rabbit Ya Better Clean AllthisShit
|
|
Upinhere Or I'll KickYouout For
|
|
Good!
|
|
|
|
Jimmy & Lily look at each other, share a laugh.
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|
|
|
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|
12 12. 12
|
|
|
|
Later. Jimmy's picking up the broken beer bottle in the
|
|
tiny kitchen. Stephanie stands in the doorway watching.
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|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
- Rabbit, if you're gonna stay here
|
|
you better get along or--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What'd I do? Yo he started this
|
|
shit -
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
- don't fuck this up for me, baby.
|
|
You're not in high school anymore,
|
|
okay?
|
|
|
|
Rabbit pushes the last bits of broken glass against the
|
|
wall with his foot. It’s been a long night.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(sarcastic)
|
|
Forget it, whatever. I love Greg.
|
|
Can I get a ride to work in the
|
|
mornin’?
|
|
|
|
Stephanie goes over to the kitchen table, grabs her car
|
|
keys and tosses them to Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- you're lettin' me take the car?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Nope. I'm givin' it to ya - It's
|
|
your birthday present.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
14.
|
|
|
|
|
|
- thanks. My birthday's not for two
|
|
weeks, yo -
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(laughs; almost
|
|
flirtatious)
|
|
You're still my lil' Rabbit, right?
|
|
|
|
|
|
13 13. 13
|
|
|
|
The next morning, cold & clear outside the trailer. Jimmy,
|
|
trying to start the big-ass '79 Lincoln. Click. Nothing.
|
|
|
|
Click. Click. It's dead.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(jumps out, checks his
|
|
watch)
|
|
Shiiit -
|
|
|
|
He's late, Jimmy pops the hood, looks underneath. Just then
|
|
a chubby charismatic white hipster named WINK EPSTEIN aka
|
|
3rd Person, ambles up. Early 20s, soul patch, and the
|
|
harmonies of hip-hop verbalization.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Yo Bunny you back home -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- ain't my home, Wink. How the fuck
|
|
you know I was here?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(smiles)
|
|
Please. Who ya'think you talkin'
|
|
to?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(slams down the hood)
|
|
Don't tell nobody, okay?
|
|
(checks his watch; dirty
|
|
hands)
|
|
Yo I gotta run - gimme a ride to
|
|
work? I'm gonna be fuckin' late -
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
My mow's got the car -
|
|
(kicks the Lincoln)
|
|
Yo you should just blow this shit
|
|
up, B.
|
|
15.
|
|
|
|
|
|
14 14. 14
|
|
|
|
Jimmy hops the fence at the edge of the dirty trailer park.
|
|
|
|
Wink hot on his heels.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- Why we goin' this way?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(just gives him a look)
|
|
Yo where were you last night?
|
|
|
|
They head through the vacant field together.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
I heard ya got caught out. People
|
|
sayin' some fucked up shit, boy.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy stops before he hits the street, wipes his dirty
|
|
hands on his pants, wanting to run away from Wink and last
|
|
night and the trailer park and everything else in his
|
|
fucking life.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- like what?
|
|
|
|
He checks up & down the busy intersection making sure no
|
|
one sees him, and hustles away from the trailer park, wink
|
|
follows.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
You just gotta bounce wit' Wink, B.
|
|
You tha franchise, baby. They just
|
|
jealous, like Janeane -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
You talked to ’er?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Forget it. An' fuck battlin' down
|
|
at the Shelter, yo. Justa bunch a
|
|
losers who ain’t got deals.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- What else am I gonna do?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Stay home, Bunny. You ain’t goin'
|
|
nowhere down at that club. And you
|
|
know 3rd Person's gotchya -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
16.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Who?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
3rd Person.
|
|
(laughs; pounds his
|
|
chest)
|
|
Wink's all 3rd Person now. 'Bout to
|
|
blow up, for real. An' I'm takin'
|
|
you wit' me, B.
|
|
|
|
They make it to the bus stop, a few people waiting.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- how we gonna do that? I'm bakin'
|
|
the fuckin' bus to work, man.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy anxiously looks down the street for his bus.
|
|
|
|
Wink puts his arm around Jimmy's shoulder, bringing him in
|
|
close.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Don't tell no one, but I jus'
|
|
recorded a demo up at Paisley Park.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Paisley Park?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
With Prince. The Artist. 3rd
|
|
Person? Prince gave me that name.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
You're full a shit, yo - How the
|
|
fuck you know Prince?
|
|
|
|
Wink pulls out an envelope from his pocket.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- He's friends with Lee Darucher,
|
|
man. Serious. I just recorded at
|
|
Paisley Park, yo.
|
|
|
|
Wink opens the envelope, shows Jimmy some photographs.
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON PHOTOGRAPHS OF WINK & PRINCE, hanging out in a
|
|
giant studio control room. The massive console all lit up
|
|
with bright bright lights.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(impressed)
|
|
Shiiit. That's really Prince. You
|
|
ain't lyin' -
|
|
17.
|
|
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Yeah an' I'm takin' a song down to
|
|
96.3. try to get it on. They
|
|
playin' one local demo every Friday
|
|
night now -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy's bus finally arrives. Belching black exhaust.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(puts away the
|
|
photographs)
|
|
- And yo you got next, Bunny. For
|
|
real. Recordin' at Paisley Park -
|
|
we can both fly outta here. Right?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy on the bus, looking out the window. Poverty. Hard
|
|
times & pain. He slips on his headphones, pulls out a pen
|
|
and starts writing on his dirty hand.
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY’S HAND, letters.
|
|
|
|
Words.
|
|
|
|
Rhymes.
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY'S face, closing his eyes.
|
|
|
|
And we hear the opening lines to the song, a cappella.
|
|
|
|
And then a beat kicks in, the bass line, and a groove.
|
|
|
|
And as the words & music come together in a song, Jimmy's
|
|
set free. He opens his eyes...
|
|
|
|
The bus, the poor, Detroit, it's all ANIMATED. By E. Crumb.
|
|
And Jimmy, he's a Superman. Costume, muscles, the whole
|
|
deal. SUPERJIMMY. He's rapping the song for all to hear.
|
|
Jumps up & bursts through the window of the bus, flying
|
|
away for good. Escaping his earthly bonds & dull reality.
|
|
|
|
SuperJimmy flying & rapping over the animated bad streets
|
|
of Detroit heading up toward the sun, leaving the earth
|
|
behind, flying Icarus high. He flies up up around & around
|
|
the globe faster & faster. A blur. Going BACH IN TIME to
|
|
last night.
|
|
|
|
LAST NIGHT. SuperJimmy flies onstage in the Shelter, grabs
|
|
the mic from LIL' TIC with one hand & with the other
|
|
squeezes Tic's animated head right off. Blood gushing
|
|
everywhere as SuperJimmy just freestyles cool to the crowd.
|
|
18.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The rhymes and the blood flowing fast. The audience
|
|
applauds screaming - going crazy - loving all of SuperJimmy
|
|
and his music. He finishes & waves goodbye, flying off BACK
|
|
INTO THE FUTURE, heading for the suburbs and the nice part
|
|
of town...
|
|
|
|
TODAY. The nice part of town. SuperJimmy flies over a five-
|
|
star hotel. Up-scale, grand. Still singing his song. He
|
|
darts down toward the back of the hotel and heads through a
|
|
big open window, flying into a locker room in the basement.
|
|
|
|
He dives at a locker changing super fast out of his
|
|
costume. And into his uniform... Shirt. Tie. Vest.
|
|
|
|
Becoming JIMMY THE BELLMAN. RACE TO REALITY (film). He
|
|
takes off his headphones, glancing at his reflection in a
|
|
locker room mirror, the song cutting out--
|
|
|
|
|
|
16 16. 16
|
|
|
|
Jimmy hurries up to the front of the fancy hotel lobby, his
|
|
tie’s a mess, collar askew. He's late.
|
|
|
|
Slides into position next to his friend Chedder Bob, and a
|
|
thin black bellman in his early 30s named PAUL, who's
|
|
greeting guests at the door. Classical music plays in the
|
|
background.
|
|
|
|
PAUL
|
|
(to Jimmy)
|
|
Mr. Springer wants to see you in
|
|
his office, James -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(to Paul)
|
|
Fuck you, homo -
|
|
(straightens out Jimmy’s
|
|
tie & collar)
|
|
You okay?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Axe you drunk?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(he is)
|
|
Shhhhhh. You okay about last night?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck last night, bitch -
|
|
|
|
|
|
17 17. 17
|
|
19.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY, taking shit. Pissed off. Beat.
|
|
|
|
MR. SPRINGER (OS)
|
|
- is that why you were late again,
|
|
Mr. Smith? Well?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy doesn't say anything just looks down at his hands...
|
|
They’re still smudged dirty, lyrics scrawled all over them
|
|
like strange tattoos. He shifts in his seat and hides his
|
|
hands under his legs.
|
|
|
|
MR. SPRINGER (OS)
|
|
What do you have to say for
|
|
yourself, Mr. Smith?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy and his boss, MR. SPRINGER, a dark-skinned white man
|
|
in his late 40s with a mustache, are sitting right across
|
|
from each other in a cramped basement office. The door
|
|
behind Mr. Springer’s desk isn't closed all the way.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- You can call me Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
MR. SPRINGER
|
|
Okay. Jinny. You know we were
|
|
hesitant to take you on in the
|
|
first place, Jimmy, because you're
|
|
friends with Mr. Zurowsky. But,--
|
|
Are you sure you can cut it here,
|
|
Jimmy?
|
|
|
|
Before Jimmy can answer that bullshit question the phone
|
|
rings. Mr. Springer snaps it up.
|
|
|
|
MR. SPRINGER (INTO THE PHONE)
|
|
Rooms division -
|
|
(some air goes out of
|
|
him; whipped)
|
|
- Yes, hon, I'll be home at
|
|
seven... Yes...Yes, of course I
|
|
will...Yes?
|
|
|
|
As Mr. Springer continues to tolerate his wife, Jimmy
|
|
notices a girl sitting down outside the office. He shifts
|
|
in his seat trying to get a better look through the door.
|
|
|
|
And catches sight of a HONEY-DIPPED GIRL, maybe 18 or so,
|
|
so sexy and indifferent she’s obscene, impossible. Short
|
|
hair. Long legs. Oh God...
|
|
|
|
Mr. Springer hangs up the phone, all business. Jimmy can't
|
|
keep his eyes off of the girl, the girl.
|
|
20.
|
|
|
|
|
|
MR. SPRINGER
|
|
Okay, Mr. Smith. I have another
|
|
meeting now so - If you're late
|
|
again we’re gonna have to let you
|
|
go. You have to do better,-- I know
|
|
you can be a better bellman -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy snaps out of it. Gets up. Shoves his dirty hands in
|
|
his pockets and heads out. Time to eat more shit.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yes, sir. I will -
|
|
|
|
When he gets to the door he turns back to Mr. Springer.
|
|
|
|
The girl's now standing right behind him in the doorway.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
I guess it's not the right time to
|
|
ask for extra shifts, Mr. Springer.
|
|
Is it? But I - ahh - really need
|
|
the money.
|
|
|
|
MR. SPRINGER
|
|
- I'm sure you do, but let's just
|
|
see how this week works out first,
|
|
Jimmy, Okay?
|
|
|
|
MH. SPRINGER
|
|
(motions the girl in)
|
|
Miss?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy leaves humiliated, still managing to smile at the
|
|
girl as she enters the office. Heading out, he turns back
|
|
around pulling his dirty hands from of his pockets & throws
|
|
up a middle finger in the direction of Mr. Springer’s
|
|
office--
|
|
|
|
The Honey-Dipped Girl looks up as she closes the door, sees
|
|
Jimmy flipping her off. And gives him the finger right
|
|
back!
|
|
|
|
|
|
18 18. 18
|
|
|
|
Dusk. Darkness falling visible on the ratty trailer park.
|
|
Jimmy’s working under the hood of the Lincoln. The Future’s
|
|
kickin' back in the front seat. They hear LYNYRD SKYNYRD's
|
|
’Sweet Home Alabama’ drift out of the mobile home.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
21.
|
|
|
|
|
|
- yo you shoulda seen this girl.
|
|
Future. She was,-- I mean. Shit.
|
|
She's perfect, yo.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Perfect? Perfect got a name?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy shrugs, puts up the hood on his hooded sweatshirt.
|
|
It's getting cold. They hear Greg inside the trailer start
|
|
singing along with Lynyrd Skynyrd.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- Who the fuck is that?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
That dude Greg Minor’s practically
|
|
livin' with my mom, yo. Met at
|
|
Bingo up in Windsor. Neither of 'em
|
|
ever fucking win -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- we went to school with 'im,
|
|
right?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
He was a senior with Chedder Bob,
|
|
man. I save some money an' get the
|
|
fuck outta here, yo -
|
|
|
|
They listen to Greg sing; he's terrible. Hear him turn up
|
|
the stereo inside. And Future starts singing along at the
|
|
top of his lungs, off-key, making up the words as he
|
|
goes... Then he begins to freestyle over the rock & roll
|
|
beat. Jimmy takes a turn. Rapping over “Sweet Home
|
|
Alabama." They go back & forth spittin' out verses over the
|
|
music.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- Yo there’s another battle next
|
|
week, Jinny. Winner's takin' my
|
|
place as host. I'm signin' you up -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Don't.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
You gotta come down, ride those
|
|
mics, youknowhat I'm sayin'? Keep
|
|
workin’ at it. That's the only way
|
|
you gon get any betta’.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
22.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Don't sign me up, yo. I'm just
|
|
gonna play it by ear -
|
|
(goes back to work under
|
|
the hood)
|
|
Try it now -
|
|
|
|
Future tries to turn the car over. Click. Click. Shit.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy keeps working on the car.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
You gotta let those people know you
|
|
ain't playin', youknowhatlmsayin'?
|
|
Ya know they say, that man, "Ill,
|
|
ill, ill, ill."
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck, I don't wanna get booed
|
|
again, Fuche. It's gonna kill me.
|
|
An' anyway, Wink says he knows
|
|
Prince - Says I can record a demo
|
|
up at Paisley Park an' shit, yo -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(busts out laughing)
|
|
Wink says he knows Prince? What the
|
|
fuck does Prince gotta do with our
|
|
music, Jimmy? Wink’s jus' talk.
|
|
There will be no action, only
|
|
talking,
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Na, he had pictures, yo. This
|
|
could be a real opportunity for me
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
Greg limps out of the trailer singing 'Sweet Home Alabama'
|
|
to himself, sees Jimmy and Future working on the car. They
|
|
throw him a look. He just laughs and heads back inside
|
|
singing his ass off.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- yo, that dude mentally ill?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Car accident, man. S'pposed to get
|
|
some big settlement soon -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Fuck. Hear what Wink‘s callin'
|
|
himself now?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
23.
|
|
|
|
|
|
3rd Person.
|
|
(motions to the car)
|
|
Try it again -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
3rd Person? Shit. I don't wanna
|
|
bring too much negativity towards
|
|
my positive, but he is not a good
|
|
rapper. That muthafucka's weak. I'd
|
|
rather listen to funky ol’ Greg
|
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sing -
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Future tries to start the car. It groans. Sputters. Spits.
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And starts. Jimmy smiles, he fixed it. The Future's up.
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FUTURE
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Yo son, we goin' out t'night!
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JIMMY
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(slams down the hood)
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- I dunno, people talkin' shit, yo
|
|
- ya know about last night an'--
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|
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FUTURE
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Fuck last night.
|
|
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JIMMY
|
|
I thought you wanted to start
|
|
gettin' straight with the Lord.
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|
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FUTURE
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|
C'mon it's Saturday night, yo -
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19 19. 19
|
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|
Night. The whole gang's riding in the big-ass '79 Lincoln.
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Jimmy and Future up front, hip-hop thumping from the car's
|
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shitty radio, tinny speakers tuned to 96.3. Sol, DJ Iz and
|
|
Chedder Bob in the back seat gettin' high.
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|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
Yo boy, this is your mom's birthday
|
|
present? If it was me I’d--
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|
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JIMMY
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|
(cute him off; on edge)
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Don't fuckin' start, Izzy -
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|
Sol smokes, exhales.
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SOL
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24.
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|
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|
we betta' than this, fellas - we
|
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gotta get us a deal - Go platinum,
|
|
get cheesed out.
|
|
|
|
Chedder Rob pulls out a bottle of vodka from inside his
|
|
coat.
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|
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|
FUTURE
|
|
- Stealin' from your mom again,
|
|
head?
|
|
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|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
She don't notice, she's too lit up
|
|
most a the time. Where's Wink?
|
|
|
|
He takes a drink and passes the bottle to Sol who hands him
|
|
the joint.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
- meetin' us there. Fuck, we need
|
|
to be Elidin' in Navs, 600s an'
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|
Double Rs.
|
|
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|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Yeah an' get us all the hot bitches
|
|
-
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|
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|
DJ IZ
|
|
- no we gotta save up, put our
|
|
money into Savings Bonds every week
|
|
if we wanna make it. No doubt. Keep
|
|
stackin' it, an’ then build our own
|
|
studio. Cut a demo an' get it on
|
|
96.3 -
|
|
|
|
Beat. What? Bonds?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
What the fuck you talkin’ 'bout,
|
|
Iz?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
(to DJ Iz)
|
|
Lemme ask you a question - How the
|
|
fuck're we brothers? Nigga we need
|
|
a muthafuckin' deal, fine women an'
|
|
cars - not no muthafuckin' Savings
|
|
Bonds, fool.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck. That's all you motherfuckers
|
|
ever do is talk bullshit -
|
|
(mimics Sol)
|
|
25.
|
|
|
|
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|
"We gotta get us a deal - "
|
|
(mimics Chedder Bob)
|
|
"Get us all the hot bitches - "
|
|
(mimics DJ Iz)
|
|
"Put our money into savings bonds-"
|
|
(in his own voice)
|
|
Just shutthefuckup. I'm tired of
|
|
everything. None a you ever do shit
|
|
about nothin' - WE ALL STILL BROKE
|
|
AS FUCK LIVIN' WITH OUR MOMS!
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Right, Fuche?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Now hold on there, Bunny -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Yo, I'm jus' tryin' to get straight
|
|
with the Lord.
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
And big titties. I'd like to get
|
|
straight with that Big Titty Mary,
|
|
man youknowhatlmsayin'?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
I hit that -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
- I heard she got VD.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
So what, nigga - I'd still fuck--
|
|
|
|
Before Sol can finish the car goes black. Cuts off. The
|
|
radio. The lights. The steering wheel. The brakes.
|
|
Everything, dead. All the power's gone. Jimmy tries to
|
|
maintain control of the car. The guys are screaming.
|
|
|
|
The ’79 Lincoln gently coasts to the side of the road.
|
|
|
|
|
|
20 20. 20
|
|
|
|
Later. Dark side of the road. Silhouetted against the sky,
|
|
the guys stand around the car like hunters examining kill.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
That was crazy -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy hops in, starts up the car. Lights.
|
|
|
|
The car running.
|
|
26.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Jus' must be a short in the
|
|
electrical system, yo, whatever.
|
|
Let’s go -
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Uh-uh. I'm not gettin' back in that
|
|
piece a shit -
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
(quiet so Jimmy can't
|
|
hear)
|
|
- it's a fuckin' deathtrap. I think
|
|
his mom must be tryin' to kill 'im.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(laughs; whispers)
|
|
You think Rabbit's mom's tryin' to
|
|
kill 'im?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy's ears are so good he hears everything. He jumps back
|
|
out of the car--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What you say?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Nothin’, Rabbit -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
I hear everythin', yo - my mom
|
|
ain't tryin' to kill me. Fuckin’
|
|
kill your own self, bitch -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
- Hey I don't wanna die. Rabbit.
|
|
(thinks about it)
|
|
I mean, I dunno what the fuck I'm
|
|
livin' for, but I really don't
|
|
wanna die.
|
|
|
|
|
|
21 21. 21
|
|
|
|
They pull into the crowded parking lot of a seedy Chinese
|
|
restaurant, STANLEY'S CAFE. Red neon. Kids banging out
|
|
talking groping and getting high. Noise and hip-hop fill
|
|
the air. Jimmy gets out of the car first, keeps moving. The
|
|
other four slip out with attitude and head for the
|
|
restaurant.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy leads the way. Future right behind him, a few steps
|
|
in front of Sol & DJ Iz, Chedder Bob pulling up the rear.
|
|
27.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY, looking around the parking lot. Outside
|
|
himself. Stops.
|
|
|
|
His friends catch up to him.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
You okay, Jim?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Yeah c'mon, B. Where ya goin' -
|
|
|
|
They all keep moving. Jimmy stays there for a minute.
|
|
Throws up his sweatshirt hood, hiding. And finally follows
|
|
after them.
|
|
|
|
They pass by a group of kids hanging out under a
|
|
streetlight at the edge of the parking lot. Kids spittin'
|
|
out verses. Kickin' some rhymes. In a circle. This is a
|
|
cipha. It's not competitive, just people checking each
|
|
other out. Free. And easy.
|
|
|
|
RU486 joins in, Future leading the way.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy still trailing behind.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
RU486 is here, my people - Let us
|
|
show you the way -
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Gonna kick some serious shit -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Yeah, Mista.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy looks out from under his hood. Checks the crowd.
|
|
Future joins in the cipha, spits some alien shit. He is a
|
|
motherfucking star. Finishes. Now Sol's up (Mista Kingpin).
|
|
A freak.
|
|
|
|
A bigger crowd gathers. Bouncing. We see Wink hustle up,
|
|
smiling and handing out flyers.
|
|
|
|
Future pulls off Jinny's hood, pushes him forward. His
|
|
turn. CLOSE ON JIMMY, starting out slowly, unsure,
|
|
hesitant. Working into it. Faster. Quicker. Forgetting the
|
|
crowd. The words flow setting him free. Easily the best.
|
|
The Future laughs, he knows.
|
|
|
|
While Jimmy's rapping, we see the Honey-Dipped Girl from
|
|
work join the crowd. She's with a group of hip young kids.
|
|
They all listen to Jimmy. He doesn't see her.
|
|
28.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jimmy finishes. DJ Iz steps up & smooths out some rhymes.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy spots two guys heading in his direction; a solid
|
|
black dude with a baseball cap pulled down tight over his
|
|
face named PAPA DOC, aka Papa, and his sidekick LC LYCKETY-
|
|
SPLYT aka LC & Lyckety-Splyt, a very skinny black clown.
|
|
They’re both part of RU486'S rival crew, LEADAZ OF THA FREE
|
|
WORLD, aka tha Free World. Aka the enemy.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy looks for someplace to run.
|
|
|
|
LC Lyckety-Splyt jumps onto the hood of a car near the
|
|
middle of the cipha--
|
|
|
|
LC LYCKETY-SPLYT
|
|
(hyping; screaming)
|
|
LISTEN UP NOW - LEADAZ OF THA FREE
|
|
WORLD IN THA MUTHATUCKIN’ HOUSE an’
|
|
shit! ME AN' PAPA DOC - WE’LL
|
|
BATTLE ANY MUTHAFUCKAS HERE -
|
|
|
|
Papa Doc steps up on the car with Lyckety Splyt. They now
|
|
have everybody’s full attention. Cipha over, Jimmy takes a
|
|
step back into the crowd. His friends all up in arms--
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Yo, told y'all - Papa Doc an' LC
|
|
Lyckety-Splyt been talkin' shit -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Fuck tha Free World, man -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOR
|
|
(yells out)
|
|
Yeah, Man. Fuck ’Em.
|
|
|
|
LC Lyckety-Splyt looking for someone to challenge, still
|
|
working the crowd over, eyes Jimmy and his crew.
|
|
|
|
LC LYCKETY-SPLYT
|
|
Yo all you muthafuckas are weak an'
|
|
shit - Lookit RU486, boy -
|
|
(points to Sol)
|
|
Mista Kingpin -
|
|
(freestyles a few rhymes
|
|
about him; points to the
|
|
Future)
|
|
The Fu--
|
|
|
|
Before LC can even say his name Future points right back at
|
|
him £ yells out--
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
29.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shut Up Bitch -
|
|
|
|
Papa Doc takes a step toward the Future.
|
|
|
|
PAPA DOC
|
|
(menacing)
|
|
What tha fuck you gonna do about
|
|
it?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy stands up for his friend.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah? C'mon motherfucker -
|
|
|
|
LC LYCKETY-SPLYT
|
|
(points to Jimmy)
|
|
Yo Rabbit - B-Rabbit - You don't
|
|
wanna battle me, white boy - You
|
|
should be afraid. Caught your act
|
|
at Shelter last night -
|
|
(opens his mouth &
|
|
nothing comes out & does
|
|
it again, then falls over
|
|
on the car, choking)
|
|
AAAAAAAAAAAAH -
|
|
|
|
Some people in the crowd laugh. Humiliating Jimmy. And he
|
|
just fucking loses it, all that anger.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy yanks LC Lyckety-Splyt off the car by his neck
|
|
slamming his head hard into the ground. The violence real.
|
|
Ugly. Loud. Fast. Starts kicking him in the face—
|
|
|
|
Papa Doc dives off the hood, tackling Jinny to the ground—
|
|
Jimmy shoves him away, gets up ready to fight. Future, Sol
|
|
and DJ Iz run up getting Jimmy's back-- Chedder Bob trying
|
|
to act all tough and shit just stands over Lyckety-Splyt.
|
|
|
|
And Wink jumps right into the middle of it all-- Pushing
|
|
Papa Doc away from the fight, staying in the middle.
|
|
Breaking it up. It's clear from the way Wink talks to Papa
|
|
Doc they know each other. They're friends.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- Yo what tha fuck. Papa? Please.
|
|
LC's full a shit, yo - Actin' up
|
|
like that -
|
|
|
|
PAPA DOC
|
|
Stay outta this. Wink. It’s none a
|
|
your fucking business -
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
30.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Just chill, yo -
|
|
|
|
Papa goes over to help up Lyckety-Splyt. Future drags Jimmy
|
|
away from the fight.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(insane with anger)
|
|
Fucking Motherfuckers! I’ll fucking
|
|
kill those fucking pussies -
|
|
|
|
Sol, DJ Iz and Cheddar Bob help to hold Jimmy back, trying
|
|
to calm him down.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- Not here, Jim. Don’t worry. We'll
|
|
rush 'em later,
|
|
youhearwhatlmsayin'?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Fuck yeah.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
- they don't even know who they
|
|
talkin' to, do they?
|
|
|
|
|
|
22 22. 22
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY, bouncing up & down. Still wired, on edge.
|
|
It's later. He’s inside Stanley's Cafe. Old-school Chinese.
|
|
Red. Crowded. Hip-hop music. We hear Sol talkin’ on & on in
|
|
the background.
|
|
|
|
SOL (OS)
|
|
- This gon be your only opportunity
|
|
to blow the both of us. 'Cause
|
|
after we go platinum, you won't
|
|
even be able to get to me an' the
|
|
Future, baby -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy's standing next to Sol & Future, both sitting on one
|
|
side of a booth, a real PRETTY GIRL squeezed in between
|
|
them.
|
|
|
|
Cbedder Bob alone on the other side. Chinese take-out's
|
|
open. Restaurant's closed. Red booths line the mirrored
|
|
walls, tables cleared out for a DJ and a dance floor.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(to Jimmy)
|
|
- do you think I got a big head?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
31.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
PRETTY GIRL
|
|
(flirting with Future)
|
|
And why’re you the Future?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
I had a lotta names, baby - the
|
|
most jealous names. I used to be
|
|
called Maximum, Brimstone,
|
|
Godfather D, Devastating D,
|
|
Everlasting D - None of 'em worked,
|
|
youknowhatImsayin'? 'Til one day
|
|
someone said I was the future of
|
|
hip-hop in Detroit. And that was
|
|
it. You gotta find your name.
|
|
Sometimes it finds you an' shit -
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
(to the Pretty Girl)
|
|
- Let's jus' go an' make this
|
|
happen so ya can hurry an' tell all
|
|
your friends our names. Say ya blew
|
|
both the Future and Mista Kingpin!
|
|
|
|
Future laughs. And the girl cracks up too. Wink walks up to
|
|
the table. All the guys look at him. Beat.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- Yo yo I’m sorry fellas, ya know I
|
|
didn't know Papa an' LC were such
|
|
muthafuckas till tonight. And I
|
|
dunno what to say, I'ma - ahh -
|
|
(pulls out a flyer from
|
|
his jacket, hands it to
|
|
Jimmy)
|
|
And I'm promotin' a show with them
|
|
next week ya know - and -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Tha fuckin’ Free World?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(to Jimmy)
|
|
Hear what I'm sayin'?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy reads the flyer. Chedder Bob looks at it over his
|
|
shoulder.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(straight to Jimmy)
|
|
32.
|
|
|
|
|
|
- If ya wan' I'll pull outta tha
|
|
show. You're my friend, yo. And I
|
|
don't wantchya bein' mad at me -
|
|
|
|
Jinny looks up and sees the girl, the Honey-Dipped Girl,
|
|
the girl (wearing a sexy little concert T-shirt) on the
|
|
other side of the crowded dance floor... He can't believe
|
|
it. She disappears into the crush. Jimmy balls up the flyer
|
|
and throws it away.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuckit, whatever -
|
|
(looks over to Future)
|
|
A’ight?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
- yeah, whatever. Fuckit.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(to Wink)
|
|
That okay wit' you, Benedict
|
|
Arnold?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Hey fuck you, man -
|
|
|
|
The Future laughs. Jimmy starts to walk away.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Where ya goin', Rabbit?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(keeps walking, looking
|
|
out for the girl)
|
|
You gotta see this girl, she's -
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(follows after him)
|
|
Yeah?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Yo Jimmy, slide us your car keys -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(stops)
|
|
What for?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
We gon be famous!
|
|
|
|
|
|
23 23. 23
|
|
33.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jimny, Wink and Chedder Bob snake their way through the
|
|
mess of bodies packing the dance floor tight. All bumpin' &
|
|
grindin'. Booming music. They have to shout to be heard--
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- I Dunno Why Future Don't Like Me.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(looking for the girl)
|
|
It's Not Like That - Ya Know, He
|
|
Just Thinks sometimes You Talk Some
|
|
Bullshit -
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Who Tha Puck Is He To Say What's
|
|
Real? Just ’Cause He Hosts Those
|
|
Batties? I Know He's Your Friend, B
|
|
- But The Guy’s Still Fuckin’
|
|
Workin* At Little Caesars.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
So?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
You Still Wanna Record At Paisley
|
|
Park Or What?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah. But I'm Gonna Need To Get
|
|
Some Songs Together First.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Cool. Have Sol & DJ Iz Bring Their
|
|
Shit Over to My House -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(to Jimmy)
|
|
- Will You Teach Me Howta Write
|
|
Rhymes Like You, Rabbit? That's A
|
|
Way To Get The Ladies - Right? I
|
|
Mean I Wanna Be An Emcee Like,--
|
|
(points into the dance
|
|
floor)
|
|
Shiiit, Is That That Bitch Janeane?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck Off -
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Where?
|
|
34.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob points again. Jimmy spots his ex-girlfriend
|
|
JANEANE GASKELL, a pretty 20 something bombshell smoking £
|
|
drinking on the edge of the dance floor.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Thought She Was Pregnant, yo -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy turns around. Starts heading the other way.
|
|
|
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JIMMY
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- I Gotta Go.
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WINK
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What About Your Other Girl, Bunny?
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|
Jimmy stops. Gives another quick look over the dance floor.
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|
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Sees the Honey-Dipped Girl dancing with her friends right
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near Janeane. He turns back around, lowers his voice.
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|
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JIMMY
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Fuck. There she is, man - that girl
|
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in the concert T next to Janeane -
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Whaddaya think?
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WINK
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|
(checks her out; wow)
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|
Yeah.
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|
(leans in)
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Don't worry - Wink's gotchya.
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|
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JIMMY
|
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What?
|
|
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|
WINK
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I'ma go invite her & her friends to
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an after hours party, yo -
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|
JIMMY
|
|
Where at?
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|
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|
WINK
|
|
My house, dawg.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- what about your mom?
|
|
|
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WINK
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Please. She's workin' nights now.
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Just meet me outside - I'll take
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care a the whole thing for ya, B -
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35.
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24 24. 24
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|
Later. Jimmy, DJ Iz and Chedder Bob standing in front of
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the restaurant, off to the side. In the bitter cold. The
|
|
joint's closing, kids streaming out.
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|
|
|
DJ IZ
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|
Shit it's sold. Where the fuck's
|
|
Wink wit' your girl, yo?
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|
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|
Jimmy throws up his hood keeping his head low. Hiding.
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|
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|
JIMMY
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(to Chedder Bob)
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|
- You seen Janeane yet?
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|
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CHEDDER BOB
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|
Nope.
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|
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|
Wink walks out with the Honey-Dipped Girl, three of her
|
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girlfriends and a couple guys. They're all very young, arms
|
|
around each other, high on Ecstasy. Touching, in love.
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|
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|
WINK
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Yo Jimmy is it okay if some of us
|
|
ride wit' you?
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JIMMY
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(hides a smile under his
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|
hood)
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Yeah.
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|
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25 25. 25
|
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|
Jimmy and his friends, the girl and one of her girlfriends,
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all walk up to the big-ass ‘79 Lincoln. The windows all
|
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steamed up.
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
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|
C’mon, Let's go, I'm cold -
|
|
|
|
Just then a naked foot slides against the foggy rear window
|
|
smudging a view. A girl's ass flashes into frame, a head
|
|
bobbing up 4 down, hands grabbing. A scream.
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|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Are they killin’ that bitch or
|
|
what?
|
|
|
|
DJ Iz opens the back door, a pretty naked leg spills out.
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
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|
36.
|
|
|
|
|
|
- She ain’t dead yet.
|
|
|
|
DJ Iz jumps right in. More screams—
|
|
|
|
SOL (OS)
|
|
What the fuck, yo? Can't you knock
|
|
first?
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ (OS)
|
|
It's a car, nigga - An' it's
|
|
muthafuckin' cold out -
|
|
|
|
While Sol & DJ Iz argue, everybody starts piling into the
|
|
car. Jimmy and the Honey-Dipped girl suddenly find
|
|
themselves standing next to each other. Alone. Eyes meet.
|
|
Time for names. She’s ALEXANDRA LATOURNO, Alex & Al, and
|
|
she shivers just a little bit in the cold.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(slips off his hood)
|
|
- hey.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(big eyes; fucked up)
|
|
You're Jimmy Smith Jr. - right?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(smiles; flattered she
|
|
knows his name)
|
|
Yeah -
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
You went to Osborne with my older
|
|
sister, Janice Latourno -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(no idea who she is)
|
|
- yeah I think I remember her.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
My name's Alex.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- yo you don't look like an Alex.
|
|
|
|
She smiles at him. Oh god, she smiled at him.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(smiling at him)
|
|
It's Alexandra. But nobody ever
|
|
calls me that ya know. Sounds like
|
|
an old actress or whatever -
|
|
37.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alex slides into the Lincoln. Before Jimmy gets in he hears
|
|
someone call out "Hey Rabbit!" from across the parking lot.
|
|
It's Janeane. He jumps into the car,
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(laughs, shouts out from
|
|
the back seat)
|
|
Quick. It’s the baby mama drama!
|
|
|
|
And Jimmy peels out before Janeane gets close --
|
|
|
|
|
|
26 26. 26
|
|
|
|
Fast car flying. Nine people packed inside tight. Future &
|
|
Sol with their girl on their laps playing around in the
|
|
back seat next to DJ Iz & Chedder Bob squeezed together. Up
|
|
front. Wink flirting with Alex's girlfriend, Alex on her
|
|
lap sittingthisclosetoJimmy driving.
|
|
|
|
It's crazy, loud. 96.3 on the radio. Fighting, tickling,
|
|
laughing, singing. Everybody doing their own thing. Jimmy
|
|
trying to stay cool. So close. To her. It’s agony.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(low under the music)
|
|
- So you work at the hotel? That
|
|
Springer guy always such a dick -
|
|
or ya know just with you?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy laughs, shrugs his shoulders.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
What are you, like a bellboy -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
No, yo - bell man.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(smiles)
|
|
- Whatever. I'm justa tea girl. Not
|
|
for long ya know -
|
|
|
|
There's a commotion in the back between Sol and DJ Iz
|
|
jockeying for position.
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
- yo what kinda shit you pullin',
|
|
Sol?
|
|
|
|
PRETTY GIRL
|
|
Who's Sol?
|
|
38.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Future grabs the girl and starts kissing her in the jam.
|
|
Sol pushes DJ Iz.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Shut up, Izzy -
|
|
|
|
Sol and DJ Iz fight in close quarters. Chedder Bob sees
|
|
Future and the girl gain' at it hands all over each other.
|
|
He starts barking. Chaos.
|
|
|
|
Everybody in front turns to see what's going on in the
|
|
back. Alex leaning even closer to Jimmy when she looks, her
|
|
face brushes against his, her hand on his shoulder,
|
|
steadying. Oh... Jimmy swerves the car
|
|
|
|
She falls against him, on him. Over him. He straightens it
|
|
back out trying to concentrate on the road. She leans over,
|
|
a short distance, almost kissing his face.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
- Lucky you rap better than you
|
|
drive, Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Huh?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
I heard you were a real dope
|
|
rapper.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(giving her shit)
|
|
- "dope rapper?"
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(pushes him; joking)
|
|
Shit yeah -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(hides a smile)
|
|
- ya know.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
So are you like signed or anything,
|
|
whatever yet? Ya know what's your
|
|
deal?
|
|
|
|
SPLIT SCREES:
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
39.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Not yet, but he's recordin' with me
|
|
& Prince at Paisley Park. He jus'
|
|
needs to get some songs together -
|
|
- Really?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Well - I dunno -
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
- Really?
|
|
|
|
CUT SPLIT SCREEN;
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Yeah. It's cool.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(touches Jimmy's arm)
|
|
Prince?
|
|
|
|
CUTSPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
FUTURE (OS)
|
|
(calls out from
|
|
underneath the Pretty
|
|
Girl)
|
|
- Did I hear one a you muthafuckas
|
|
say Prince?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(looks down at Alex
|
|
touching his arm)
|
|
Well I - um -
|
|
|
|
CUT SPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Yo don't be jealous, Future - I’m
|
|
3rd Person now, man -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE (OS)
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Jealous? You crazy, muthafucka?
|
|
Fuck Prince -
|
|
|
|
CUT SPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(squeezes the Pretty Girl
|
|
out of the way; to Alex)
|
|
- If you really wanna see Jimmy
|
|
trip, baby, c'mon out to the next
|
|
battle -
|
|
40.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- yo, man, whatever.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(leans in, drunk)
|
|
Yeah he's gonna kill those Free
|
|
World muth-er-fuck-ers -
|
|
|
|
CUT SPLIT SCREEN;
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yo shut-up, Bob -
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
When's that?
|
|
|
|
CUT SPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- Next weekend.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Yeah? Shit, Jimmy - all that and
|
|
Prince too?
|
|
|
|
CUT SPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(looks like he wants to
|
|
run; stuck)
|
|
|
|
END SPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
Jimmy looks like he wants to run, but he's stuck between
|
|
Wink and Future's plans for him, going nowhere.
|
|
|
|
So he just hits the gas, he can't run but he can drive
|
|
faster. Kick it into HIGH SPEED. He hear another song,
|
|
letting us into Jimmy's head--
|
|
|
|
|
|
27 27. 27
|
|
41.
|
|
|
|
|
|
HIGH SPEED. Speeding up & down the streets of Detroit,
|
|
driving into a neighborhood of small two-story brick
|
|
houses, parking in front of Wink‘s room’s house, a bunch of
|
|
other kids parking heading inside smoking laughing drinking
|
|
yelling cranking music dancing partying inside. Sol making
|
|
out with Pretty Girl while Wink leads a little girl past DJ
|
|
Iz who’s all over some other girl in the corner near
|
|
Chedder Bob hanging out drunk alone watching a bunch of
|
|
young girls dancing in the living room in front of a big
|
|
picture window, including Alex who's moving slow & sexy
|
|
playfully touching her friends and herself kissing them
|
|
laughing high on E.
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON ALEX, moving slow & sexy playfully touching her
|
|
friends and herself kissing them laughing high on E-- Jump
|
|
to REGULAR SPEED.
|
|
|
|
Say it again. Alex moving slow & sexy, playfully touching
|
|
her friends and herself, kissing them, laughing high on E.
|
|
Jimmy & Future hanging out drinking on the couch, watching
|
|
Alex dance. They talk over the music never taking their
|
|
eyes off of her.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yo Fuche - Why'd you say that shit
|
|
in the car?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Damn - you weren’t fuckin’ around,
|
|
were ya, James - she is perfect, yo
|
|
- What’s her name?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- I told you I ain't gonna battle,
|
|
yo.
|
|
|
|
Sol walks by holding hands with the Pretty Girl, laughing.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
She really blow the both of ya?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Hell yeah - I'ma sinner, James.
|
|
What’s your girl's name?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Alex.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
You sho as hell gonna battle if
|
|
Alex is there, boy - you gon care
|
|
what she says, youknowhatlmsayin’?
|
|
42.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- I dun no.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Youknowhatlmsayin' -
|
|
|
|
They sit and watch Alex dance sexy with her friends. Course
|
|
he knows what he's saying.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
You know what I'm sayin'.
|
|
(lights up a cigarette)
|
|
We all weak in the flesh, yo -
|
|
That's the devil right there, ain't
|
|
it?
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Just like wink. Tryin' to keep us
|
|
all in division an' shit wit' all
|
|
his Paisley-fuckin'-Prince talk.
|
|
You gotta come to church with me in
|
|
the mornin', yo -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(shakes his head no)
|
|
- You ever meet Wink's mom?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Uh-uh. I don't think she exists,
|
|
man. No one's ever seen 'er -
|
|
right?
|
|
|
|
They look at each other and crack up laughing. All of a
|
|
sudden they see Chedder Bob race across the room and jump
|
|
into the middle of all the young girls dancing spilling his
|
|
drink barking, jumping & dancing like a freak.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy & Future hop up off the couch and join Chedder Bob
|
|
and the girls jumping & dancing a laughing. And then Sol &
|
|
DJ Iz join in. And Wink. And before ya know it the whole
|
|
crew's loving each other and dancing and Alex moves closer
|
|
to Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
Moves in and starts kissing him hot & heavy so high needing
|
|
to touch him and then they're all over each other and --
|
|
|
|
CUT TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
28 28. 28
|
|
|
|
Morning. Jimmy getting cut of the skinny trailer shower,
|
|
singing PRINCE'S "Sexy M.F." to himself. Grabs a towel.
|
|
Dancing silly and sexy, motherfucker.
|
|
43.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Suddenly he hears his mother scream out "No!" Hears the
|
|
front door slam shut!
|
|
|
|
|
|
29 29. 29
|
|
|
|
Jimmy runs out of the bathroom, towel wrapped around his
|
|
waist. His mother’s holding onto a piece of paper. Freaking
|
|
out. Lily's on the couch. The TV on.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What's the matter?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
- I just got served, goddamnit.
|
|
We’re gettin’ evicted. Why me?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(leans against the wall;
|
|
trying not to cry)
|
|
Shit -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(uncomfortable)
|
|
C'mon, not in front a ya know -
|
|
|
|
He motions to Lily, leads his mom toward her bedroom.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- How many months late're you?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
- oh God Greg can't find out-
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck Greg -
|
|
|
|
They walk into her bedroom. It's a mess. He slides the
|
|
flimsy vinyl door shut.
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Shit - Okay,-- Three months late -
|
|
(losing it)
|
|
So we got - what - thirty days to
|
|
come up with the money, right -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Whaddaya mean "we?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(snaps)
|
|
- Hey you need to start chippin'
|
|
in, Rabbit, if you're livin' here.
|
|
44.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck that, yo I'm savin' money to
|
|
get the fuck outta here, Mom.
|
|
When's Greg gettin' his settlement
|
|
check? Get the money from him -
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
No I think he might ask me an' Lily
|
|
to move away with him someplace
|
|
nice, and I just don't wanna freak
|
|
him out, baby, and--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yo I don't need this. I got a lotta
|
|
shit goin' on right now. I'm goin'
|
|
to Paisley Park. Maybe even
|
|
recordin' with Prince an' shit.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(starts to smile)
|
|
- Really? Prince?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah. Maybe.
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(still smiling; gives him
|
|
a big hug)
|
|
I knew you were a genius. We gonna
|
|
be rich. Rabbit!
|
|
|
|
|
|
30 30. 30
|
|
|
|
Jimmy the bellman, unloading luggage from a cart into a
|
|
suite. A hip guest in his early 30s named MR. LEONARD is
|
|
across the room talking on the phone like Jimmy isn't even
|
|
there.
|
|
|
|
MR. LEONARD (INTO THE PHONE)
|
|
- I didn't sleep with her. I’m in
|
|
love with you...of course I think
|
|
you're beautiful...Hold on -
|
|
(puts his hand over the
|
|
phone; to Jimmy)
|
|
Hey busboy -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy stops, did the guy just call him "busboy?" Jimmy
|
|
holds his tongue, continues unloading the luggage cart. Mr.
|
|
Leonard snaps his fingers, motions him over--
|
|
45.
|
|
|
|
|
|
MR. LEONARD
|
|
Busboy -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Excuse me - my name is Jimmy, Mr.
|
|
Leonard. And I'm a bellman, not a
|
|
busboy -
|
|
|
|
MR. LEONARD
|
|
(doesn't give a shit)
|
|
Sorry - can you get me a pack a
|
|
Marlboros, man?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Sure, Mr. Leonard -
|
|
|
|
MR. LEONARD (INTO THE PHONE)
|
|
- sorry, sweetie, I just gotta find
|
|
some money for the busboy...You
|
|
sure you're okay?
|
|
|
|
Mr. Leonard turns his back on Jinny, looking around the
|
|
nightstand for cigarette money.
|
|
|
|
Jinny closes his eyes; we hear an angry song thump on the
|
|
soundtrack. He opens up...
|
|
|
|
The roan is ANIMATED. SuperJimmy flies at MR. LEONARD.
|
|
Grabs the phone out of his hand. Starts strangling him to
|
|
death with the chord, rapping out about calling him a
|
|
busboy.
|
|
|
|
Mr. Leonard turns cartoon blue. And dies. SuperJimmy just
|
|
picks him up & throws him out the window still spitting.
|
|
Mr. Leonard crashes down to the ground.
|
|
|
|
Ana SuperJimmy flies up up & away into the sky.
|
|
|
|
|
|
31 31. 31
|
|
|
|
BACK TO reality (film). Jimmy, wheeling the cart back to
|
|
the front lobby. Pissed off. Runs into EARL, a quiet old
|
|
bellman in his 60s, tired. Classical music in the
|
|
background.
|
|
|
|
EARL
|
|
What’s the matter?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Some fuckin’ guest just called me a
|
|
busboy -
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|
46.
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|
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|
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|
EARL
|
|
- Huh?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(raises his voice)
|
|
Some Sonuvabitch Called Me A
|
|
Busboy, A Busboy, Earl. And now I'm
|
|
gettin' 'im cigarettes -
|
|
(laughs, leans in closer)
|
|
Lemme ask you, man, how you put up
|
|
with all this shit for like 30
|
|
years?
|
|
|
|
Just then, Mr. Springer walks by. Slows down. Checking up
|
|
on Jinttry and Earl.
|
|
|
|
MR. SPRINGER
|
|
(already knows the
|
|
answer)
|
|
On time today, Mr. Smith?
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|
JIMMY
|
|
Yessir -
|
|
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|
Mr. Springer smiles, continues on his way.
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|
|
|
And Jimmy flips him off behind his back.
|
|
|
|
EARL
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|
(takes the cart from
|
|
Jinny)
|
|
- sometimes it helps to be hard a
|
|
hearing, Jim.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah -
|
|
|
|
EARL
|
|
(smiles)
|
|
Or ya could just rip out their
|
|
vocal chords.
|
|
|
|
What? Earl walks off with the cart. Jimmy watches him for a
|
|
moment. Shakes his head, gets moving.
|
|
|
|
He passes by the lobby lounge and sees Alex shadowing an
|
|
older woman, getting trained. Serving tea to wealthy old
|
|
ladies, mothers & daughters. It’s formal afternoon tea, and
|
|
Alex is a "tea girl' dressed in a short black skirt, black
|
|
hose, black shoes, and white blouse. Sexy in that French
|
|
maid way.
|
|
|
|
Alex looks up and sees Jimmy.
|
|
47.
|
|
|
|
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|
She smiles and discreetly gives him the finger. Flirting.
|
|
|
|
He laughs.
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|
|
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|
32 32. 32
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|
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|
Jimmy, heading into the hotel's gift shop.
|
|
|
|
He hears someone call out "Rabbit!"
|
|
|
|
Shit. It's Janeane.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy looks around. No place to run. No place to hide.
|
|
|
|
Janeane finally catches up to him.
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
Why haven't you called?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yo Janeane - shit, I can’t talk now
|
|
- I’m working -
|
|
(to the salesperson)
|
|
Can I get a pack a Marlboros?
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
- I don't care. I'm your
|
|
girlfriend. Rabbit.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(looks around; lowers his
|
|
voice)
|
|
Keep your voice down. Shit. I work
|
|
here, yo.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy pays for the cigarettes and heads out of the store.
|
|
Janean follows after him.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- An' you're not my girlfriend
|
|
anymore. We broke up.
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
But you took off this time without
|
|
even sayin’ a word. We weren't even
|
|
fighting -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
At least I left you the car an’
|
|
shit.
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
48.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Was it 'cause I said I was
|
|
pregnant?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy heads down the hallway back toward the front lobby.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(getting pissed)
|
|
I can't talk now, Janeane - You
|
|
gotta get the fuck outta here -
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
I just wanna be your girlfriend.
|
|
Rabbit -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- you're gonna get me fired.
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
(stops; starts to lose
|
|
it)
|
|
- Just tell me why you left,--
|
|
What'd I do, What'd I do - tell me,
|
|
an’ I’ll leave you alone, Rabbit -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy pulls Janeane aside, fast. Trying to calm her down.
|
|
He looks over to the lounge to see if anybody's watching
|
|
them. Alex is working. No one notices him & Janeane.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(keeping an eye on Alex;
|
|
talks fast)
|
|
- you didn't do anything, Janeane.
|
|
It's my shit. I just had to get
|
|
out,-- I felt all trapped an' shit
|
|
- ya know the dishes were pilin'
|
|
up, you were always outta
|
|
cigarettes, an’ the TV was always
|
|
goin' - and, and, and I knew you
|
|
weren't pregnant, you jus' told me
|
|
that shit to get me to stay, but -
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
(pushes him away)
|
|
Fuck You, you ain't willin' to do
|
|
the work, Rabbit - what're you
|
|
runnin' from?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Nothin'.
|
|
|
|
And Jimmy just walks away. The classical music playing in
|
|
the background. Janeane keeps up the fight, eyes red--
|
|
49.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
(calls after him)
|
|
Why do you always gotta run away?
|
|
|
|
He doesn't answer, keeps walking.
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
RABBIIIIT!
|
|
|
|
Everyone in the place looks over at Janeane. Jimmy turns
|
|
red. He hurries back, putting his arm around Janeane and
|
|
quickly leads her out toward the front door, desperately
|
|
trying to avoid any further embarrassment.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Janeane, you gotta go -
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
I'm your girlfriend, Rabbit - you
|
|
can't do this to me -
|
|
|
|
Everybody’s now watching them.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy hustles her outside, out into the cold.
|
|
|
|
Storm clouds loom overhead. It's gonna rain, maybe snow.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
C'mon, baby, go home -
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
- Ya know everybody's callin' you a
|
|
loser from the other night.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Who told ya that?
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
(she grabs his arm;
|
|
holding on)
|
|
I heard ya got booed off stage at
|
|
the Shelter. Froze up. They're all
|
|
talkin' about it -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(yanks his arm away;
|
|
hard)
|
|
Fuck you, Janeane. Go home.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy heads straight back inside.
|
|
|
|
Alex is waiting for him by the door, standing next to Paul,
|
|
the other bellman.
|
|
50.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Is everything, ya know, okay?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(keeps walking; head
|
|
down)
|
|
Yeah -
|
|
(quiet so Paul can't
|
|
hear)
|
|
- Did everybody hear that shit or
|
|
what?
|
|
|
|
Alex looks at him.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(hides a smile)
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy just shakes his head, walks to the elevators.
|
|
|
|
Alex follows after him.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Was that your girlfriend?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
No -
|
|
|
|
Alex just laughs.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Hey, can you gimme a ride home or
|
|
whatever after work?
|
|
|
|
|
|
33 33. 33
|
|
|
|
After work. Pouring rain. Dark, it's getting darker,
|
|
Jimmy’s car is parked in an empty lot near the hotel. He
|
|
and Alex are inside the Lincoln. Out of uniform. Jimmy
|
|
can’t get the car started. Click. Click. Dead.
|
|
|
|
He looks over at Alex. He’s still fucked up from his fight
|
|
with Janeane. The windows fogging up. It’s the first time
|
|
they’re all alone. Silence. Tension. Are they gonna kiss?
|
|
|
|
Alex lights up a cigarette, inhales deeply. Jimmy tries
|
|
again. Click. Nothing. Exhales.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- I think there’s an umbrella in
|
|
the trunk, yo.
|
|
51.
|
|
|
|
|
|
And we hear a more upbeat jazzy version of our opening
|
|
title song...
|
|
|
|
|
|
34 34. 34
|
|
|
|
Jimmy & Alex walking in the rain, sharing an umbrella.
|
|
Heading for a crowded bus stop. Bright headlights
|
|
intermittently cut the darkness. Jimmy's lost in his own
|
|
world. We still hear the song.
|
|
|
|
A car drives by and splashes a puddle all over Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck -
|
|
(looks down at his wet
|
|
clothes)
|
|
Fuck fuck fuck fuck -
|
|
|
|
Alex cracks up. Jinny throws a fit.
|
|
|
|
Which make Alex laugh even harder.
|
|
|
|
We hear the song.
|
|
|
|
He looks at her laughing, pulls away the umbrella and into
|
|
a puddle, splashing Alex.
|
|
|
|
She’s soaked. Kicks water right back at him.
|
|
|
|
We hear the song.
|
|
|
|
They make their way down the street jumping and kicking
|
|
water back & forth at each other...
|
|
|
|
And Jimmy starts singin’ in the rain, just singin’ in the
|
|
rain. Showing off for Alex. Trying to impress her. Singing
|
|
along to the song. Splashing in puddles. Playing with the
|
|
umbrella.
|
|
|
|
Singin' and dancin' in the rain, just sampling some old
|
|
fucking movie.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy finishes the song just as the bus pulls up. They run
|
|
to make it, drenched and laughing.
|
|
|
|
|
|
35 35. 35
|
|
|
|
Jimmy and Alex on the crowded bus. Standing up, packed
|
|
tight. Dripping wet. And cold.
|
|
52.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(leans into him)
|
|
- I hate the bus, ya know, it’s
|
|
such a drag. Makes me look like a
|
|
laser. But I'm saving up my money
|
|
so -
|
|
|
|
Swinging back & forth, Alex grabs onto Jimmy for support -
|
|
She shivers a bit. Turning him on. He shoves his hands into
|
|
his pockets, covering. Excited riding the bus.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- How was work?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Ya know. Serving tea to rich ladies
|
|
and their daughters all dressed up,
|
|
thinking they're better than me -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy smiles. He knows.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
- And I know that look, 'cause I
|
|
used to have this “I’m better than
|
|
you attitude" that made me like a
|
|
real bitch. But I’m not gonna be
|
|
doing this that long ya know. I can
|
|
hardly wait to get outta this
|
|
shithole before I kill somebody -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
- you know where ya goin'?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
New York or Germany - I won this
|
|
modeling contest and this guy was
|
|
all, “Hey would ya like to come to
|
|
New York?" And I was all like sure
|
|
why not - I just gotta put my book
|
|
together.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What if the guy's full a shit, yo?
|
|
Then what?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
- Hey, I'm not an idiot. He's with
|
|
Elite. And I just know I wanna get
|
|
famous. If I don't make it as a
|
|
model, I'll just become an actress
|
|
or whatever -
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
53.
|
|
|
|
|
|
- It's gotta be exciting for you -
|
|
recording with Prince and
|
|
everything.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
I dunno about Prince. But Paisley
|
|
Park sounds cool.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
When’re you goin'? I wanna come -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
I dunno, yo. Soon.
|
|
(leans in closer)
|
|
- You wanna do somethin' tomorrow
|
|
night?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(raises her voice;
|
|
fucking with him)
|
|
You asking me out on a date, Jimmy?
|
|
|
|
People look over at them. Listen in. Eye Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(looks around)
|
|
Yeah -
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Okay.
|
|
|
|
He smiles.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
- But I can't tomorrow night.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Why not?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Wink invited me to his show.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
The Free World show?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(nods her head yes)
|
|
- Ya know I saw you fight those
|
|
guys in the parking lot the other
|
|
night at Stanley's Cafe.
|
|
54.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(surprised)
|
|
- You were there?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Yeah. Me and all my friends - They
|
|
think you're crazy.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(snaps)
|
|
They don't even fuckin' know me -
|
|
|
|
Alex just looks at him.
|
|
|
|
An awkward beat.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(trying to stay cool)
|
|
- and you heard all that shit
|
|
Lyckety-Splyt said?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
|
|
The bus pulls over for a stop, the doors open.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy wants to go.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- This's my stop, yo.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(looks out the window)
|
|
Nice neighborhood.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy heads out the door. In a hurry.
|
|
|
|
Hurting Alex's feelings.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Thanks, I'll see ya later, yo.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy gets off the bus in the rain, stays on the sidewalk.
|
|
Waits for it to drive away. And then screams out. Angry.
|
|
Loud.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
|
|
36 36. 36
|
|
55.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Later. Chedder Bob driving Jimmy and Future in some old
|
|
beater. He's a terrible driver. The rain has let up. The
|
|
world is grey, blue.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(hard; on edge)
|
|
- head down to the Shelter, Bob.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
I thought we were goin' to Wink's,
|
|
mom's house.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
I wanna jump those Free World
|
|
motherfuckers first - It's time
|
|
they got theirs.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(looks at Jimmy)
|
|
But Sol & DJ Iz're already settin'
|
|
up all their shit at Wink's.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob almost rear-ends the car in front of them.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Watch the road, fool! Where'd ya
|
|
get this car from anyway?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Stole it from my sister.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(shakes his head at
|
|
Jimmy)
|
|
Yo I can't believe you’re takin'
|
|
this Wink bullshit serious, Jim.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Back off, yo -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(to Future)
|
|
Maybe you jus' jealous - like Wink
|
|
keeps sayin’.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Yo I don't give a tuck what any man
|
|
says. I only need God. I went back
|
|
to church the other day -
|
|
(to Jimmy; pointed)
|
|
56.
|
|
|
|
|
|
YouhearwhatImsayin’?
|
|
|
|
|
|
37 37. 37
|
|
|
|
The car's parked across the street down from the Shelter.
|
|
|
|
The guys are sitting low, staking out the joint.
|
|
|
|
Jinny and Future not talking. Still tense.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(to Future)
|
|
Ya know Rabbit's gonna teach me
|
|
howta write rhymes, yo -
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
You?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
MC Bob.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
That a good name, homes?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What's the matter with Chedder Bob?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
I dunno. I like MC Bob -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
How about Big Fat Head Bob?
|
|
|
|
They see a white van pull up in trout of the Shelter and
|
|
park. Papa Doc, LC Lyckety-Splyt and the rest of THA FREE
|
|
WORLD (two black guys and a white guy named E) pile out.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
About time.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Yeah, dawg.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(to Chedder Bob)
|
|
57.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You ready?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(nods; serious)
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
(pats his belt)
|
|
I’m ready.
|
|
|
|
They all slide out of the car.
|
|
|
|
|
|
38 38. 38
|
|
|
|
Jimmy and Future walk up to the club. Chedder Bob a step
|
|
back. Tha Free World's unloading equipment for their show.
|
|
Stacking speakers and mixers and turntables.
|
|
|
|
They all stop when they see Jimmy and Future. Jimmy just
|
|
walks right up to Papa Doc. Shoves him--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
C'mon motherfucker. Lets go.
|
|
|
|
PAPA DOC
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
You're gonna fuck wit' us?
|
|
|
|
LC Lyckety-Splyt jumps in, talking trash.
|
|
|
|
LC LYCKETY-SPLYT
|
|
Yeah, boy - you don't wanna fuck
|
|
wit' us! You can't even battle us -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Get the tuck outta here -
|
|
|
|
He shoves Lyckety-Splyt, wheels and punches Papa Doc in the
|
|
face. It's on. Future grabs E--
|
|
|
|
The other guys close in.
|
|
|
|
All hell's about to break loose and--
|
|
|
|
Bang! A gunshot!
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- What the fuck?
|
|
|
|
Everybody freezes. Turns around.
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob is standing there, holding a .38 up in the air.
|
|
58.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Everybody checks.
|
|
|
|
Nobody was shot.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(waving the gun in the
|
|
air; hysterical)
|
|
Yeah fuck with us - huh? You wanna
|
|
fuck with us? Yeah?
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|
|
|
Tha Free World just stands there.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy and Future stare at Chedder Bob.
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|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
They bear police sirens in the distance.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
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You don't wanna fuck with us!
|
|
(to Jimmy; panicked)
|
|
We-should-go-now -
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob backs away, keeping the gun on Cha Free World.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy just shakes his head. He and Future follow after
|
|
Chedder Bob. The sirens getting closer.
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|
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They make a run for the car.
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39 39. 39
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|
Speeding in Chedder Bob's sister's car. He's still holding
|
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onto the gun. Jimmy in the front seat. Future in the back-
|
|
Pumped up. And freaking out-
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(yelling at Chedder Bob)
|
|
Where the fuck ya get that, man?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
- it's my dad's.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
You know how to use it?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Just point an' shoot, homey.
|
|
|
|
He points the gun into the back seat.
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|
59.
|
|
|
|
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|
FUTURE
|
|
(leans out of the way)
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|
- Yeah, well, don’t be pointin' it
|
|
at me, "homey."
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(slaps Chedder Bob on the
|
|
head)
|
|
Put that shit away, fool - Before
|
|
you fuckin' shoot one of us!
|
|
|
|
Suddenly the white van appears behind them.
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|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Oh shit!
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|
|
|
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|
40 40. 40
|
|
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|
The old car whips around a turn. Chedder Bob weaving in and
|
|
out of traffic. Driving like a maniac. The white van still
|
|
on their tail.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(panicking)
|
|
Fuck fuck fuck -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What'd ya think was gonna happen?
|
|
You pulled a gun on ’em -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(looks at Jimmy)
|
|
I dunno -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Watch the fucking road. Head!
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob takes another turn fast. Almost hits a car.
|
|
Speeds up.
|
|
|
|
The van still there. Gaining. Gaining.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(hands Jimmy the .38)
|
|
Here. Shoot at 'em.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
I ain't gonna shoot at anybody, you
|
|
idiot! Just fucking drive -
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob floors it. A light up ahead changes from yellow
|
|
to red.
|
|
60.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob doesn't slow.
|
|
|
|
Runs the red light--
|
|
|
|
Zigzags fast between two cars!
|
|
|
|
The van follows--
|
|
|
|
A horn beeps!
|
|
|
|
The van brakes! Skids just missing an oncoming car--
|
|
|
|
And sideswipes a parked car! Crashing to a stop.
|
|
|
|
The guys look back. See tha Free World jump out of their
|
|
car. Up in aims.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Turn the car around, Chedder Bob -
|
|
turn the fuck around.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Why?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Just do it -
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob whips a U-turn, speeds back toward tha Free
|
|
World.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy grabs the wheel from him, heads straight for Papa
|
|
Doc.
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob freaks.
|
|
|
|
Papa Doc doesn't move.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy just keeps his hand on the wheel. Playing chicken.
|
|
|
|
Gonna run him right over--
|
|
|
|
And Papa Doc jumps out of the way just in time!
|
|
|
|
Jinny spins the car around, takes his hand off the wheel
|
|
and leans out the window--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yo -
|
|
|
|
He smiles. And gives them all the finger.
|
|
61.
|
|
|
|
|
|
41 41. 41
|
|
|
|
Jimmy, Future and Chedder Bob walk up to Wink's mother's
|
|
house. Laughing. All hopped up.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
We fuckin’ showed those guys -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- That shit was crazy.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(beside himself)
|
|
Yeah, I can hardly wait to tell
|
|
everybody!
|
|
|
|
Jimmy stops -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck. Don’t say shit to Wink, Bob.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Why not?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy checks inside the big picture window.
|
|
|
|
Doesn’t see anybody.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
You know -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Yeah, you don’t wanna fuck up your
|
|
chances with 'im - is that it?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck you, Ruche -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(shakes his head)
|
|
- I can't believe you give a shit
|
|
what that little bitch is gonna
|
|
think, Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
|
|
42 42. 42
|
|
|
|
Inside Wink's mom's house, Jinny, Future and Chedder Bob
|
|
make their way down some dark stairs, descending into the
|
|
fluorescent lit basement. Panelled walls, couch, card
|
|
table, shitty TV.
|
|
62.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sol and DJ IZ are setting up equipment. A crate of records,
|
|
a mixer, two turntables £ a microphone. Wink's got his arm
|
|
around some pretty YOUNG GIRL, carrying on.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- Yo where the fuck you guys been?
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(looks at Future)
|
|
Around.
|
|
|
|
Future sits down on the couch, smokes a cigarette. Pissed
|
|
off.
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
(hooking up the mixer)
|
|
We're almost all hooked up here.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Yeah. An' Wink was jus' cellin’ us
|
|
how he got in wit' Prince.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOE
|
|
Isn’t he just called the Artist
|
|
now?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Naw he’s Prince again, dawg - And
|
|
he's friends wit Lee Darucher.
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
Isn't that Moochie?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Moochie is Lee Darucher?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
No. Lee Darucher's a concert
|
|
promoter, man. He’s tight with
|
|
those guys down at 96.3 - And yo he
|
|
says they're gonna play some 3rd
|
|
Person this Friday. Said they
|
|
flipped over my songs an' shit.
|
|
|
|
Everybody stops,
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(impressed)
|
|
63.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shiiit. They’re gonna play it on
|
|
the radio?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
So? Doesn’t even raise my fuckin'
|
|
eyebrow.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(to Future)
|
|
C'mon, man it's 96.3 -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Prince is a faggot.
|
|
|
|
YOUNG GIRL
|
|
- Prince isn't gay. Michael Jackson
|
|
is gay.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Michael Jackson is not gay. Maybe
|
|
Tito -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Tito?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Hell, yeah. But not Michael - No.
|
|
You see, Michael just never had a
|
|
childhood or nothin', yo -
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
(going through his stack
|
|
of records)
|
|
- no no, Michael has some serious
|
|
self-image issues, man.
|
|
(pulls out MICHAEL
|
|
JACKSON'S "Thriller")
|
|
He used to be black. Now he's just
|
|
tryin' to make himself white to
|
|
please White America. Get that
|
|
white love an' shit - no doubt no
|
|
doubt.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
What the fuck're you talkin' about?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- It’s always easier for a white
|
|
man to succeed in a Black man’s
|
|
medium -
|
|
(looks straight at Wink;
|
|
fucking with him)
|
|
YouknowhatImsayin'?
|
|
64.
|
|
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(to Future)
|
|
Why do you always gotta give me
|
|
shit? Just 'cause you host those
|
|
battles? Like that’s some big
|
|
fucking deal -
|
|
|
|
Future jumps up off the couch, gets right in Wink’s face.
|
|
|
|
Right between all the equipment (turntables t microphone) -
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
DC IZ
|
|
- Be careful, yo. That shit cost us
|
|
a fortune.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Why else you think we still livin’
|
|
at home, dawg?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(laughs at Wink)
|
|
- If you’re so good why don’t you
|
|
spit for us right now, 3rd Person?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
Future grabs the mic and hands it to Wink.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
You couldn’t freestyle if your life
|
|
depended on it, bitch - C'mon. Rap
|
|
somethin' for us. You're gonna be
|
|
on the radio -
|
|
|
|
Future flips on the turntables. Puts on Michael Jackson
|
|
"Wanna He Startin’ Somethin'."
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(puts down the mic)
|
|
You’re psycho, man -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Am I? Just ’cause you recorded at
|
|
Paisley Park don’t mean you any
|
|
good. Anybody can record at Paisley
|
|
Park if you got the money, right?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy steps in between the two. Michael Jackson singing in
|
|
the background.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
65.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Leave 'im alone, Fuche. This is
|
|
bullshit. I’m fuckin’ sick a you
|
|
two always talkin’ shit about each
|
|
other - Just tryin' to pump your
|
|
own, selves up. Ya know?
|
|
(walks away)
|
|
I'm outta here -
|
|
|
|
|
|
43 43. 43
|
|
|
|
It's late. But Jimmy's still going home the back way.
|
|
Through the field. Over the fence.
|
|
|
|
|
|
44 44. 44
|
|
|
|
Inside the trailer, Jimmy walks past the kitchen.
|
|
|
|
Stephanie’s at the table all alone watching TV.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Hey, didya win at bingo tonight?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
- no. Did you hear from Prince yet?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
No. Fuck -
|
|
(shakes his head)
|
|
You guys never win.
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(whispers)
|
|
Shhh - Greg's sleepin’. I know you
|
|
don't like him an' he don’t like
|
|
you but -
|
|
|
|
Stephanie sits there. Beat.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(whispers)
|
|
You alright?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(whispers)
|
|
I’m havin' a, a - ahh - a problem
|
|
with Greg -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(whispers)
|
|
What. Did he find out about the
|
|
eviction?
|
|
66.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stephanie shakes her head no.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(whispers)
|
|
His settlement check‘s not comin*?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(belligerent)
|
|
No. No. It's coming. It's me and
|
|
Greg's sex life. It's good, I mean,
|
|
ya know, real good, but the--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yo I don't wanna hear this shit -
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(just keeps talking)
|
|
But see the problem is Greg doesn't
|
|
like to go--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(cutting her off)
|
|
Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom I don't
|
|
wanna hear it yo -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy heads for the bathroom. Getting ready for bed. He
|
|
peels off his shirt. Stephanie follows after him.
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Hey you've got a nice body, Rabbit
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(stops)
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Greg won't go down on me.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Mom!
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(whispers)
|
|
He won’t go down on me. I mean I
|
|
keep askin' him an' like I have no
|
|
problem goin' down on —
|
|
|
|
Jimmy puts his hands over his ears, running into the
|
|
bathroom--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Mom, stop, I'm not hearin' this -
|
|
67.
|
|
|
|
|
|
He closes the door in her face.
|
|
|
|
|
|
45 45. 45
|
|
|
|
Early morning, behind the hotel. Jimmy's getting out of
|
|
Sol' s mother's shitty car. Sol drove him to work. Garbage
|
|
bags line the filthy alley. Sun rising. Harsh reality.
|
|
Jimmy pauses for a moment before he closes the door.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Hey Sol, ya ever wonder at what
|
|
point ya just say “fuckit." When ya
|
|
know ya gotta stop livin' up here -
|
|
(gestures over his head,
|
|
then drops his hand down
|
|
low)
|
|
And start livin' down here.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
(looks at him half
|
|
asleep)
|
|
- It's fuckin' 6:30 in the morning,
|
|
dawg.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Thanks for the rider yo - and thank
|
|
‐
|
|
your mom for tendin' you the car
|
|
l'll see ya after work.
|
|
|
|
|
|
46 46. 46
|
|
|
|
Hours later. Jimmy the bellman, finishes loading luggage
|
|
into a brand spanking new Porsche parked in front of the
|
|
hotel. Everything's SILENT. Except we hear Jimmy rapping a
|
|
song to himself. Quiet. Simple. Poetry.
|
|
|
|
He closes the trunk and quickly looks around, never
|
|
stopping his music. Everything else still silent. Jimmy
|
|
slips into the sports car. Checking out the interior.
|
|
Suddenly the passenger side door swings open, SOUND
|
|
crashing back--
|
|
|
|
And Alex jumps in, holding onto her "French maid" uniform.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy can't believe his eyes. He looks again. She's still
|
|
there.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
68.
|
|
|
|
|
|
C'mon, let's get outta here -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Where to?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Anywhere in this car -
|
|
|
|
She leans over to give him a kiss, all turned on. Looks up.
|
|
|
|
And stops.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Uh-oh -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy follows her eyes...
|
|
|
|
A chubby guest, MR. KOSKO, is standing there watching them
|
|
about to kiss in his new Porsche. Alex just laughs, gets
|
|
out of the car and heads for the hotel leaving Jimmy
|
|
behind.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy quickly jumps out--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
I can explain, Mr. Kosko - I--
|
|
|
|
MR. KOSKO
|
|
(dismissive)
|
|
Don't. You're just a terrible
|
|
bellman -
|
|
|
|
A frantic woman. Mr. Kosko’s wife, hurries up to the car.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(trying to stay cool)
|
|
- Your wife's luggage is all loaded
|
|
up, sir. Will there be anything
|
|
else?
|
|
|
|
Mr. Kosko's cell phone rings.
|
|
|
|
MR. KOSKO
|
|
There's a blue suit in my room I
|
|
need dry cleaned. Do you think you
|
|
can handle that?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(forces a smile)
|
|
- Yessir. Room 722, right?
|
|
69.
|
|
|
|
|
|
47 47. 47
|
|
|
|
Jimmy, running back into the hotel. Looks for Alex. Chedder
|
|
Bob and Paul are in the middle of an argument--
|
|
|
|
PAUL
|
|
Call me a faggot again and I'll
|
|
beat your ass -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER’BOB
|
|
But you're gay -
|
|
|
|
PAUL
|
|
(hard)
|
|
So?
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob backs down.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Yo Chedder Bob, didya see Alex come
|
|
in -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOE
|
|
MC Bob.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Whatever. Didya see her?
|
|
|
|
Cbedder Bob points down the hall.
|
|
|
|
|
|
48 48. 48
|
|
|
|
Jimmyy runs down the hallway. Catches up to Alex. She's
|
|
walking backwards, still holding onto her uniform. A
|
|
crooked smile pasted on her face.
|
|
|
|
ALES
|
|
Hey. Why'd ya take off like that
|
|
yesterday?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- It was jus' my stop, yo. And then
|
|
I hadda show those Free World
|
|
motherfuckers what was up -
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(impressed)
|
|
You did?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah I did.
|
|
70.
|
|
|
|
|
|
She turns back around. They head down the hall together.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
- Ya know we shoulda just stolen
|
|
that fucker's Porsche.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
You ever steal a car before?
|
|
|
|
ALEK
|
|
No. But I figure you have, right?
|
|
And then we coulda just taken off
|
|
for good, whatever -
|
|
|
|
She turns down another hallway, toward the hotel’s giant
|
|
kitchen, waiters & waitresses busy coming & going.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Where ya goin', yo?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Pickin’ up a little somethin1 for
|
|
tonight, "yo" -
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49 49. 49
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In the kitchen. Busy & bright. Alex walks up to a thin
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white prep cook, pulls him aside to the comer and whispers
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into his ear. Jimmy talks to the other prep cook, CLIO, a
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cool black chick. A cheap boom box whines in the
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background.
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JIMMY
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- Clio, can you make me a
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hamburger?
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CLIO
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Sure thing, Rabbit.
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Alex makes her way over, slipping some pills (E) into her
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front pocket -
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ALEX
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- Hey why do some people call you
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Rabbit?
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JIMMY
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That's jus’ one a my names ~
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CLIO
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(laughs)
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71.
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'Cause he's fast - and likes to
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fuck a lot.
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ALEX
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Yeah?
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JIMMY
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- Yeah.
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Alex smiles.
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CLIO
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Tell ya what, Rabbit - I'll battle
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ya for the hamburger -
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Some of the other kitchen help overhear. Get excited.
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Jimmy notices. Unsure.
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JIMMY
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Oh I dunno -
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ALEX
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(pushes him)
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C'mon, "Rabbit" -
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Jimmy looks at her. He cares what she says.
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JIMMY
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A'ight, a’ight -
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Some of the other cooks and dishwashers pipe in. A couple
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of 'em start banging on the counters getting a beat
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together. Gathering around Jimmy and Clio. And Clio goes
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first, battling Jimmy.
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Freestyling about--
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1. Jimmy being a bellman.
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2. Always late.
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3. And white.
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She's pretty good. Finishes. Now it’s Jinny's turn.
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Alex watching. He looks at her.
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Opens his mouth to spit and he goes off, freestyling like
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mad.
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He's fast and clear.
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72.
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Words flowing, focused, kicking Clio’s ass.
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Showing off in front of Alex.
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He finishes. The kitchen goes crazy. He looks over to Alex.
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And she's hot. In love.
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By now, more waiters & waitresses are hanging around
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getting into it, clapping, dancing. Someone turns up the
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boom box, more music. Can anyone say "Hot Lunch" - shit,
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we're sampling "FAME."
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A teenage PUERTO-RICAN DISHWASHER jumps in to battle Jimmy.
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Everybody clapping and moving, whooping and hollering.
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Music everywhere.
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Jimmy battles the dishwasher.
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Back & forth.
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The rhymes flow.
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It's all good.
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50 50. 50
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Jimmy & Alex leave the kitchen. She's exhilarated.
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He's wolfing down his hamburger.
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ALEX
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That was,-- Ya know, that was
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amazing -
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Jimmy smiles as they head down the hall, a bounce in his
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step.
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ALEX
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You're definitely gonna make it.
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Not like all those losers back
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there.
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JIMMY
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They're not really losers, yo -
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ALEX
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They're not recording with Prince -
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JIMMY
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73.
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(between bites)
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I should probably get back to work
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an' shit -
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ALEX
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No I think me & you should--
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Alex sees the older woman we saw training her the other
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day, the tea director, her boss, heading their way.
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ALEX
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Shit. There's my boss, I'm late -
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C'mon -
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She grabs Jimmy's free hand, turns around and takes off
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running in the opposite direction--
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Running together, Jimmy still with a mouthful of hamburger,
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running down the hall.
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They turn down another hallway, hauling ass and see--
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Mr. Springer getting off an elevator.
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They screech to a stop.
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Searching for an escape route, nowhere left to run.
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Or hide. Caught between two authority figures.
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Mr. Springer sees them, waves and heads in their direction.
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Alex checks around for her boss. Jimmy stuck with a
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mouthful of food. Chews hard, fast to swallow.
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Mr. Springer getting closer.
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Jimmy doesn't knew what to do with the hamburger in his
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hand.
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Puts it behind his back.
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Mr. Springer walks up. And Jinny stuffs the sandwich into
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his back pocket.
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MR. SPRINGER
|
|
Mr. Smith, Miss Latoumo -
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ALEX
|
|
Hey, Mr. Springer -
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|
Jimmy smiles, swallowing the last of his food.
|
|
74.
|
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|
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|
MR, SPRINGER
|
|
(to Jimmy)
|
|
I just wanted to say, Mr. Smith,
|
|
you’ve been doing a much better job
|
|
-
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JIMMY
|
|
- thanks. So how 'bout those extra
|
|
shifts?
|
|
|
|
Alex catches a glimpse of her boss turning the corner.
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|
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|
ALEX
|
|
(so innocent)
|
|
Excuse me, Mr. Springer - But I
|
|
gotta go change for work. I don't
|
|
ya know wanna be late -
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|
MR. SPRINGER
|
|
And where are you going, Mr. Smith?
|
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|
JIMMY
|
|
I'm running an errand for a guest,
|
|
sir.
|
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|
MR. SPRINGER
|
|
(looks at both of them)
|
|
Okay. Well, get to work -
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|
They walk slowly away from Mr. Springer, Jimmy keeping his
|
|
hands behind his ass covering the hamburger in his pocket.
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|
|
|
They round the next corner, then take off running again--
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|
Down the hall. Take a turn.
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|
Up to another bank or elevators.
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|
|
They jump into an open elevator, just as the doors close.
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51 51. 51
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|
In the elevator, Jimmy & Alex catching their breath.
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|
|
It's empty.
|
|
|
|
They look at each other and start laughing.
|
|
|
|
Their eyes meet.
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|
|
|
Still out of breath.
|
|
75.
|
|
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|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(crooked smile)
|
|
- what do you think we should do
|
|
now?
|
|
|
|
ALRX
|
|
What do you think we should do?
|
|
|
|
He leans in closer. Both of them having a hard time
|
|
catching their breath. Excited, turned on.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
You know -
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
- yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah I think
|
|
you should fuck me.
|
|
|
|
He slides his hands down her pants. She moans.
|
|
|
|
They kiss, still out of breath, pulling at each other's
|
|
clothes--
|
|
|
|
|
|
52 52. 52
|
|
|
|
Jimmy, opening the door to room 722. He pulls her inside
|
|
and they fall in on and all over each other. Breathing
|
|
heavy.
|
|
|
|
He pushes her up against the door. Pulls up her shirt.
|
|
|
|
Her face hot and red.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(whispering)
|
|
I want it all!
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- yeah.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Everything.
|
|
|
|
She pulls down her pants. No underwear.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(slowly)
|
|
I wantchya to do everything to me
|
|
Jimmy. Take me everywhere. Promise.
|
|
|
|
She kisses him.
|
|
76.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Fucking promise me, Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
She moans.
|
|
|
|
And he fucks her, hanging against the door in rhythm with
|
|
their breathing and moaning.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
How does this feel, do you like it?
|
|
|
|
Fucking her harder.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Yes yes yes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
53 53. 53
|
|
|
|
Sitting down, against the door. Both sweaty, hot & wet.
|
|
|
|
Disheveled. Happy. Alter sex. He looks at her.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(stands up, pulling up
|
|
his pants)
|
|
- I gotta get back to work, yo.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Uh-uh, Rabbit.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Why? Wasn't that good for you?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Yeah. But -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(sits back down)
|
|
- oh this is the part where I'm
|
|
supposed to like open up an' share
|
|
same shit with you - right?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(smiles)
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
But I don’t want to -
|
|
77.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Like why dontchya wanna battle on
|
|
Stage again? Wink says the last
|
|
time you tried you--
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(snaps)
|
|
Fuck. I don't want people talkin'
|
|
shit about me no care - what's so
|
|
fuckin' hard to understand about
|
|
that? You ever been booed before,
|
|
have a whole crowd label you?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
No -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Well it sucks. And I got enough to
|
|
worry about - if I'm ever gonna
|
|
really do anything, ya know - I'ma—
|
|
(beat)
|
|
I'm just tired a - ahh - I -
|
|
|
|
Before Jimmy can finish, he hears someone talking at the
|
|
door. Good ears. He motions to Alex to be quiet.
|
|
|
|
It's Mr. Kosko.
|
|
|
|
They look at each other. Shit.
|
|
|
|
Grab their clothes, hop into the closet fast.
|
|
|
|
|
|
54 54. 54
|
|
|
|
Inside the closet, trying to stay quiet. Darkness.
|
|
|
|
They hear Mr. Kosko come into the room, arguing on the
|
|
phone.
|
|
|
|
Upset.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(mouths to Alex)
|
|
Oh fuck - fuck.
|
|
|
|
Alex’s eyes go wide. A naughty smile.
|
|
|
|
They can still hear Mr. Kosko babbling away on the phone.
|
|
|
|
And Alex leans over and quietly goes down on Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY, biting onto his bottom lip.
|
|
78.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Having to stay quiet.
|
|
|
|
It's so fucking good.
|
|
|
|
Alex's head bobbing in and out of frame.
|
|
|
|
Up & down.
|
|
|
|
|
|
55 55. 55
|
|
|
|
After work, late afternoon. Jimmy fixing his car in the
|
|
hotel parking lot. He can't stop smiling.
|
|
|
|
Future, Sol and DJ Iz hanging out.
|
|
|
|
Sol's sitting on the hood of his mother’s car in the middle
|
|
of telling a story--
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
- you won't believe what happened
|
|
ta me this mornin', yo.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Bitch, it ain’t gonna beat what
|
|
happened to me -
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Yo lemme finish, dawg. So I was up
|
|
6:30 in the mornin' with my mom's
|
|
car an’ nuthin’ to do, so I decide
|
|
to do laundry.
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
(ignores him)
|
|
79.
|
|
|
|
|
|
- An’ there was this girl in the
|
|
laundromat, an' she wasn't that
|
|
good lookin' - not ugly - just not
|
|
good lookin’, ya know what I mean?
|
|
So we get to talking an' we hit it
|
|
off. I’m talkin' all this shit an’
|
|
she’s givin' it right back to me,
|
|
ya know we're really gettin1 into
|
|
it. An1 then she says a good man
|
|
like me must have a good woman
|
|
somewhere, an' I tell her the
|
|
truth, I tell her that me an’ my
|
|
woman just broke up - an' she asks
|
|
why, an' I say that she did me
|
|
wrong ya know. An' she says she
|
|
know women like that. But that’s
|
|
not her, that‘s not how she treats
|
|
her man. An’ then she says she's
|
|
lookin’ for a good man.
|
|
|
|
Sol jumps off the hood of the car, and starts talking to it
|
|
like it was the woman in the laundromat.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
(all cool an' shit)
|
|
- So I say, “What would you do with
|
|
a good man?" An' she tells me, I
|
|
mean she tells me exactly what she
|
|
would do with a good man. And I
|
|
mean it includes muthafuckin'
|
|
everything - everything, man - anal
|
|
sex, everything.
|
|
(moves his hips back &
|
|
forth, humping the car)
|
|
So man, I know this's the girl for
|
|
me, yo. 6:30 in the mornin' at the
|
|
laundromat an' I'm talkin' about
|
|
fuckin' this girl in the ass -
|
|
shit, she wasn't that good lookin'
|
|
man, but she wasn't ugly either-
|
|
Know what I mean, Future? Maybe me
|
|
& you can both do 'er -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
C'mon, Mista - I'm tryin’ to flip
|
|
the script with that shit. You know
|
|
that -
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
(to Sol)
|
|
So what happened?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
80.
|
|
|
|
|
|
(stops humping the car)
|
|
- I got 'er number an' finished my
|
|
laundry.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
That's it? C'mon, Guess who I
|
|
fucked at work this afternoon?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Chedder Bob?
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Alex.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Get the fuck outta here -
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
She's so fucking het, dawg. We
|
|
should share her -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(shakes his head no)
|
|
She's on me, yo. We fucked this
|
|
afternoon in this dude’s room. An'
|
|
then he came back. An' we hid in
|
|
the closet, an' get this - She
|
|
sucked my dick until he left.
|
|
Serious. I'm in love -
|
|
|
|
The guys all gather around, whooping and hollering high-
|
|
fiving Jinny. He’s the man.
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
Shit. When ya gonna see 'er again?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- I think she's goin' to Wink's
|
|
show tonight. Hopefully I'll see
|
|
'er after that.
|
|
|
|
|
|
56 56. 56
|
|
|
|
The sun goes down. Jimmy parks the newly-fixed Lincoln in
|
|
front of the drab double-wide mobile home. Slips on his
|
|
headphones. Getting lost in his own world.
|
|
|
|
|
|
57 57 57
|
|
81.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jimmy hurries into the trailer, tuning out. Walks past the
|
|
kitchen. Sees Alex and Wink hanging out drinking cheap
|
|
champagne with Stephanie.
|
|
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy pulls off his headphones. Horrified.
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
- Hey, Rabbit - C'mon in we're
|
|
havin' a party! Greg’s settlement
|
|
check's comin' in tomorra! Our
|
|
luck's changin' -
|
|
(pours Wink more cheap
|
|
champagne; flirting)
|
|
Dontchya love the car I gave Rabbit
|
|
for his birthday, Wink? I love
|
|
being generous -
|
|
|
|
She grabs Wink's hand. He smiles at her.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(to Stephanie)
|
|
You call him Rabbit too?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(hisses)
|
|
- I gave 'im that nickname. When he
|
|
was little he had these buck teeth
|
|
and big ears and he was so cute,
|
|
wike a wittle wabbit -
|
|
(to Jimmy)
|
|
Right, baby?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy turns red, turns back around. And leaves.
|
|
|
|
|
|
59 58. 59
|
|
|
|
Jimmy, walking away from the trailer. Fast. It's almost
|
|
dark. Walking through the trailer park.
|
|
|
|
Getting the fuck outta there.
|
|
|
|
Out toward the field.
|
|
|
|
Wink runs out after him. Catches up to him at the chain
|
|
link fence.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Yo where ya goin’, B - What's the
|
|
matter?
|
|
82.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(grabs Wink & throws him
|
|
up against the fence)
|
|
- I thought I fucking told you not
|
|
to tell nobody I was living here!
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
You got nothin1 to be embarrassed
|
|
about, B. And I didn't think ya’d
|
|
mind if it was Al -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy pushes Wink harder up against the fence.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- Shit, yo. We were goin’ to my
|
|
show an' she said we hadda come get
|
|
you. What was I supposed to do?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy's so fucking angry it looks like he's gonna cry.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
C'mon, Bunny. Chill out. Al really
|
|
likes you, man - Really, I’m
|
|
helpin' 'er find a photographer for
|
|
her book that's all -
|
|
|
|
A long beat.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- Did Chedder Bob really shoot at
|
|
those guys yesterday?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuckit.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy lets him go and turns around, heading back to the
|
|
trailer. Wink follows after him.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- I got some good news, yo. Spoke
|
|
to Lee Darucher today. We can get
|
|
into Paisley Park on Monday if you
|
|
can get your shit together in time
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
Jimmy stops.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
This Monday?
|
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WINK
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(smiles)
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Yeah, dawg - you got four days.
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83.
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Jimmy softens. Thinks.
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JIMMY
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Yeah - yeah, I can do that -
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Jimmy sees Alex heading their way.
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Too late to run. Alex walks up. Looks to Wink.
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Then Jimmy.
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Beat.
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ALEX
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Everything okay?
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Jimmy can’t look at her. Caught in a lie. So embarrassed.
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JIMMY
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|
(looks down)
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Yeah.
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ALEX
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(uncomfortable)
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|
Do you hafta stay home tonight?
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JIMMY
|
|
(still staring at the
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|
ground; dying)
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- Yeah I should work on some songs
|
|
for my demo an' shit. Wink jus'
|
|
told me we‘re goin' to Paisley Park
|
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on Monday, so -
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ALEX
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|
Okay.
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JIMMY
|
|
(finally looks up at her)
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|
Yeah.
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|
|
|
Okay. It’s awkward.
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|
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|
Beat.
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WINK
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|
(to Jimmy)
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|
Yo B - don't forget, tomorrow night
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|
we’re all goin’ down to 96.3,
|
|
right?
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|
JIMMY
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|
Yeah okay -
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84.
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The three of them stand there for a moment.
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Beat.
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59 59. 59
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|
CLOSE ON A PENCIL, scratching on a wall. Words. Flying fast
|
|
& furious. Rhymes pouring out about all the shit Jimmy
|
|
sees.
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|
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|
Jimmy and Lily are hanging out in her little girl room.
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|
Stuffed animals. She's drawing. He's a giant. Both in their
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|
own worlds. He shakes his right fist back & forth, in
|
|
rhythm. And quickly scribbles some more shit on the wall
|
|
above her bed, puking out his feelings.
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|
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|
CLOSE ON JIMMY'S FACE, closing his eyes. We hear the song
|
|
he’s working on. Opens his eyes...
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|
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|
The trailer park is ANIMATED. Back to the Adventures of
|
|
Super Jimmy by R. Crumb. He flies out the window, rapping
|
|
the song, flying up over dirty Detroit, heading for the
|
|
Shelter, the place where he cartoon kills. Storms into the
|
|
club, sees WINK sitting with ALEX. And somebody else...
|
|
It's animated PRINCE!
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|
LEADAZ OF THA FREE WORLD are playing on stage. PAPA DOC, LC
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LYCKETY-SPLYT, R and the other two guys. When they see
|
|
SuperJimmy enter they make a run for it! SuperJimmy chases
|
|
after them--
|
|
|
|
Running through the club, Lyckety-Splyt grabs Alex hostage.
|
|
Papa Doc pulls out an animated gun and holds it to her
|
|
head. Wink covers. SuperJimmy stops. He’s still rapping the
|
|
song. It's a standoff.
|
|
|
|
SuperJimmy makes eye contact with Prince. They exchange
|
|
smiles. And Prince starts singing along with him. A super
|
|
duet.
|
|
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|
Tha Free World can’t help themselves. The song’s too good.
|
|
Getting into the beat. Bouncing. Papa Doc lovers the gun--
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|
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|
And Super Jimmy rushes then. Beating them all to the
|
|
ground. Prince jumps in and helps out.
|
|
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|
They beat the shit out of tha Free World. Blood everywhere.
|
|
|
|
And SuperJimmy grabs Alex, rescuing her. Taking her away.
|
|
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|
They fly out the door and into the dark alley-
|
|
85.
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|
|
|
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|
She can’t keep her hands off of him, kissing him.
|
|
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|
Pulling at his costume.
|
|
|
|
He pulls off her shirt and yanks down her animated jeans
|
|
and starts fucking her up against the wall, super fast and
|
|
super hard--
|
|
|
|
Suddenly we hear someone shout out--
|
|
|
|
GREG (VO)
|
|
You are such a fucking LOSER!
|
|
|
|
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|
60 60. 60
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY, startled awake. BACK TO REALITY (film). The
|
|
next day. He's under a blanket, on the ratty couch. Greg
|
|
and Stephanie are in the middle of a fight--
|
|
|
|
GREG
|
|
- Just like Rabbit was in high
|
|
school, Jesus, the both of ya are,
|
|
ya know - fucked -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy sits up.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yo did you just call me a loser?
|
|
|
|
Greg laughs yeah, limps up to Jimmy showing him the
|
|
eviction papers.
|
|
|
|
GREG
|
|
Didjya know your mom’s gettin'
|
|
evicted?
|
|
|
|
Stephanie fellows after him, holding Lily in her arms.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(grabs the papers from
|
|
Greg)
|
|
That's none a your fucking
|
|
business, Greg -
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Stay outta this, Rabbit -
|
|
(puts Lily down; to Greg)
|
|
Don't worry, baby - I'm gonna take
|
|
care a it - it's gonna be okay -
|
|
Okay?
|
|
|
|
She goes to hug him. He shoves her away. Hard.
|
|
86.
|
|
|
|
|
|
GREG
|
|
- You're so fucking stupid
|
|
sometimes!
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(jumps off the couch)
|
|
Keep your fucking hands off my mom,
|
|
asshole!
|
|
|
|
Jimmy jacks Greg up against the wall--
|
|
|
|
Greg shoves him away.
|
|
|
|
GREG
|
|
Get off me -
|
|
|
|
Stephanie pulls Jimmy away from Greg.
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Rabbit! Stop it!
|
|
|
|
Beat. Jimmy looks at his mom. He wants to kill Greg.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(to Stephanie)
|
|
How can you let him do that to you?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(pleading with Jimmy)
|
|
Don't do this. Please -
|
|
|
|
GREG
|
|
- How the fuck can I go out with
|
|
someone who's homeless?
|
|
|
|
Lily starts to cry.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(to Stephanie)
|
|
Are you just gonna let 'im talk to
|
|
you like that?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Stay out of it, Rabbit -
|
|
|
|
She goes to calm Lily down,
|
|
|
|
GREG
|
|
- With two homeless fucking kids.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(flips him off)
|
|
Fuck you. I'm outta here -
|
|
87.
|
|
|
|
|
|
61 61 61
|
|
|
|
Grey skies. Storm clouds overhead.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy walks up to Wink’s mother’s house. Still wired.
|
|
|
|
Looks inside the big picture window.
|
|
|
|
Wink’s passed out on the couch, the TV blaring.
|
|
|
|
|
|
62 62. 62
|
|
|
|
Wink and Jimmy descending into the basement. Wink’s still
|
|
half asleep. It's dark down there.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- It went good last night - that
|
|
shit was sold out - but they ain’t
|
|
as good as you, Bunny -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- did Alex like it?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Yeah. A lil' bit, ya know - but she
|
|
was kinda drunk so. Where the
|
|
fuck's everybody else?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Sol's mom's droppin1 'em all off
|
|
an' shit on her way to work -
|
|
|
|
Wink turns on the light. The equipment's still all set up.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Even Future?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah. Why?
|
|
|
|
The doorbell rings.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
- ‘Cause I heard he signed you up
|
|
to battle this weekend.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(surprised)
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
88.
|
|
|
|
|
|
He's killin' you, yo. Runnin’ your
|
|
life an' shit, B - You don't wanna
|
|
he a loser your whole life workin'
|
|
at some Little Caesars when you're
|
|
like 40, now - Do you?
|
|
|
|
Wink runs back up the stairs, leaving Jimmy behind.
|
|
|
|
Starts pacing the room...
|
|
|
|
Getting more and more agitated.
|
|
|
|
He sees the photographs of Wink & Prince on top of DJ Iz's
|
|
records. Picks one up. Hears the guys upstairs.
|
|
|
|
SOL (OS)
|
|
Where's your mom, dawg?
|
|
|
|
WINK (OS)
|
|
Workin' -
|
|
|
|
Wink leads Sol, DJ Iz and Future down the stairs.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy stuffs the photograph into his front pocket.
|
|
|
|
As soon as he sees Future, Jimmy speaks up.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(angry)
|
|
- yo did you fucking sign me up to
|
|
battle down at the Shelter this
|
|
weekend?
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
You heard me. Did you sign me up -
|
|
|
|
Future walks down to the bottom of the stairs.
|
|
|
|
Looks at Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Jimmy, you gotta come down. You
|
|
gotta come down. That's the only
|
|
way you gon get over the other
|
|
night, youknowhatlmsayin'? An' the
|
|
winner takes my place as host, yo -
|
|
That’s instant respect -
|
|
89.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jimmy picks up one of the records and wings it at Future--
|
|
|
|
He ducks. It misses.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy walks up in his face.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck the other night. I'm fuckin'
|
|
tired of you always tellin' me what
|
|
to do, always thinkin' you know
|
|
what's best for me. Well Fuck You.
|
|
I told you not to sign me up -
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
You wanna fight me? Is that it?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy pushes him.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Why not? You ain't the future a
|
|
shit, bitch. You're just David
|
|
fuckin' Porter -
|
|
|
|
Future looks at him.
|
|
|
|
Turns and walks away.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Do whatever the fuck ya want, man -
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
- I don't give a shit about what
|
|
you & Prince gonna do.
|
|
|
|
Future leaves.
|
|
|
|
The guys all just stand there.
|
|
|
|
That was heavy.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Shit.
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
What are we gonna do now?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
I wanna go get high -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(turns away)
|
|
90.
|
|
|
|
|
|
- No let's do some fuckin' work.
|
|
|
|
Kick into HIGH SPEED, as the guys start making music. We
|
|
hear some song play over--
|
|
|
|
|
|
63 63. 63
|
|
|
|
HIGH SPEED. Writing lyrics back & forth fucking around in
|
|
the make-shift basement studio bouncing beats and hooks and
|
|
shit all off each other bobbing their heads together
|
|
getting it right all perfectly choreographed like a dance
|
|
or a symphony running faster £ faster until they're all
|
|
just a blur of non-stop music.
|
|
|
|
Suddenly Wink jumps in the middle of it all.
|
|
|
|
Puts up his hands. Stop. Stop.
|
|
|
|
STOP-- Jump to REGULAR SPEED.
|
|
|
|
The song ends.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Al jus' called from work, yo - She
|
|
needs a ride to this photographer I
|
|
set 'er up with.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Does she want me to pick 'er up?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
I dunno.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Can we come?
|
|
|
|
|
|
64 64. 64
|
|
|
|
It's gonna rain soon. Jimmy and Wink sit in the front seat
|
|
of the car parked at the hotel. Chedder Bob's ducking
|
|
through the rear window, dressed in his bellman's uniform,
|
|
rapping for Sol & DJ Iz. He sucks.
|
|
|
|
Wink leans over to Jimmy, who's keeping an eye out the
|
|
window for Alex. Fidgety. Embarrassed.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
You comin’ to 96.3?
|
|
91.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(distracted)
|
|
Yeah -
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Cool. But the radio DJ was at the
|
|
show last night an’ she invited
|
|
Papa Doc & Lyckety-Splyt up. So ya
|
|
know they might be there.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(sees Alex leaving the
|
|
hotel)
|
|
Fuckit then -
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(defensive)
|
|
Yo there was nuthin' I could do
|
|
about it, B -
|
|
|
|
Before Jimmy can respond Alex walks up to the car, holding
|
|
onto a garment bag. All the guys quiet down.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
- Gotta go, homes. Ya know ya can't
|
|
leave old Earl all alone for long.
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob hustles back to the hotel. Wink pops out of the
|
|
car, letting Alex into the front seat. Then sits right back
|
|
down next to her.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy throws him a look.
|
|
|
|
It starts to rain.
|
|
|
|
|
|
65 65. 65
|
|
|
|
Rain spits. Jimmy, driving next to Alex and Wink. He can't
|
|
even look at her. Doesn’t know what to say. Music low.
|
|
|
|
Alex lights up a cigarette, excited. Sol and DJ Iz lean in.
|
|
|
|
She’s the center of attention--
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
- I saw this model on a TV show and
|
|
she was sayin' that looks alone
|
|
don't mean anything if you don't
|
|
have confidence and self-esteem. Ya
|
|
know like a confidence in yourself
|
|
that you're you and everything.
|
|
92.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jimmy finally looks at her. And Wink smiles.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Yeah, Al. And this guy's gonna help
|
|
you do that.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(to Wink; excited)
|
|
- yeah I just wish I had more time
|
|
to ya know,-- I mean if I had known
|
|
it was today r wouldn't have gone
|
|
out drinkin' last night -
|
|
|
|
Wink turns up the stereo, making sure it's on 96.3.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Don't worry, yo. I'm sure there’ll
|
|
be make-up & hair people there.
|
|
This is a professional photo shoot
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
Sol leans forward, all smooth and shit.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
So how soon we gonna see this
|
|
pictorial in a magazine, Alex?
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
Pictorials are Playboy, yo. In
|
|
fashion it's called an editorial,
|
|
Sol.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Shut up, Iz. Who gives a fuck -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(yells at Sol; on edge)
|
|
It’s just for her book, fool - so
|
|
she can get a job-
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
- Damn. That's one book I'd read.
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
No doubt.
|
|
|
|
Alex laughs. Jimmy’s still uncomfortable.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(to Sol £ DJ Iz)
|
|
Alex won a modeling contest and
|
|
this guy from Elite asked 'er to
|
|
come to New York City -
|
|
93.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
It's no big deal -
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
(impressed)
|
|
You won a contest? For Elite? I
|
|
heard a them. Shit - that's the big
|
|
time, yo. Who were the judges?
|
|
Anybody famous?
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(points out the window)
|
|
Hey it's right over here, B -
|
|
|
|
|
|
66 66. 66
|
|
|
|
Still spitting rain. Downtown Detroit, bleak industrial
|
|
buildings. Fog. Lonely & blue. Alex crossing the street to
|
|
a run-down warehouse, leaving the guys behind in the car.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy jumps out and catches up to her.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Is everything okay?
|
|
|
|
Alex doesn't stop walking.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
With what?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Us -
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(without skipping a beat;
|
|
cold)
|
|
Yeah. But I really gotta go -
|
|
|
|
They walk together.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
You want me to come up -
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
No that's okay.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- You sure everything's okay?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
94.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'm justa little hungover from last
|
|
night or whatever and ya know I'm
|
|
worried that I won't photograph
|
|
good. This is really important to
|
|
me - Okay?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy stops.
|
|
|
|
And she just keeps walking up to the building.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(calls out after her)
|
|
Am I gonna see you later?
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
You goin' to the radio station?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- No.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
(not listening!)
|
|
Okay. I'll see ya later then -
|
|
maybe we can talk about goin' to
|
|
see Prince next week.
|
|
|
|
He stands there, watching her go. And we hear a some kinda
|
|
remake of THE WHO's "Love Reign O'er Me."
|
|
|
|
|
|
67 67. 67
|
|
|
|
The sun dies in the sky. Jimmy standing in the drizzle, out
|
|
in the fog covered field next to the trailer park.
|
|
|
|
Headphones on. White out. You can’t see any trash.
|
|
|
|
It's almost beautiful. Otherworldly. And SILENT.
|
|
|
|
All we hear is "Love Reign O'er Me’ in Jimmy's head.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy closes his eyes and screams.
|
|
|
|
But we don't hear it, only the song.
|
|
|
|
He screams loud and long.
|
|
|
|
Screams his fucking heart out.
|
|
|
|
He opens his eyes and sees a giant shape emerge from the
|
|
fog...
|
|
95.
|
|
|
|
|
|
It's a HORSE.
|
|
|
|
A big brown horse.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy can't believe it's real.
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The horse looks at him, and then begins to graze in the
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field.
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Another horse appears from the fog.
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And then another.
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And another. One of them has a blue blanket on, "DETROIT
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MOUNTED POLICE."
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Jimmy stands there. With the horses, snorting and pulling
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up dead grass in the fog.
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Jimmy takes off his headphones, SOUND comes rushing in.
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The song fades away. He hears police sirens off in the
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distance. Jimmy walks up to the big brown horse. It looks
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back up at him.
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Jimmy's now face to face with the horse. The horse goes
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back to grazing. Jimmy rubs its head. The police sirens
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getting closer. Darkness closing in.
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Jimmy just keeps patting the horse's head.
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The song's playing.
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The sirens wailing.
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68 68. 68
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Later. Still wet and foggy. Jimmy walks up the trailer.
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Sees his mom passed out on the front steps.
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He steps. The song ends.
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He looks at her for a moment.
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Then puts an arm under her, struggles to help her up to her
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feet. You can tell he's done this before.
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STEPHANIE
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(coming to; mumbles)
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Greg left me -
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96.
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JIMMY
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what?
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Jimmy drags his mom inside.
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STEPHANIE
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We're gonna go to bingo but, he
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came over and said now that he had
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money he, that he couldn’t be with
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someone like me -
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69 69. 69
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Jimmy, putting Stephanie down in her unmade bed. Goes to
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take off her wet shoes.
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She gets back up.
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STEPHANIE
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- I gotta go to bingo it's Friday
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night. Maybe he'll be there -
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JIMMY
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You ain't goin' nowhere, Mom -
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(gently pushes her back
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down)
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And you're better off without 'im.
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STEPHANIE
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(snaps)
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Yeah ya know Rabbit it’s your fault
|
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he left me -
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Stephanie stumbles out of bed.
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STEPHANIE
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You ruined it, you fuckeditallup -
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that's why Greg really left, it's
|
|
'cause a you, an' now what? Who's
|
|
gonna want me? Where we gonna live?
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we got not money. What about
|
|
Prince?
|
|
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|
JIMMY
|
|
What?
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|
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|
STEPHANIE
|
|
You an' Prince. We can be rich -
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JIMMY
|
|
(shakes his head;
|
|
disgusted)
|
|
97.
|
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|
|
|
|
why does everybody keep bringin' up
|
|
Prince all the fuckin' time - ya
|
|
know?
|
|
(beat)
|
|
- shit. Fuck him and fuck Greg too.
|
|
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|
STEPHANIE
|
|
No no no. I don't have anybody now,
|
|
James. Why did ya do this to me?
|
|
Why?
|
|
(pushes Jimmy out)
|
|
Just get the fuck out!
|
|
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|
JIMMY
|
|
It's pouring rain -
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|
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|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(screaming; pushing)
|
|
I DON'T CARE I WANT YOU OUT OF MY
|
|
FUCKING HOUSE GET OUT GET OUT GET
|
|
OUT GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT OF MY
|
|
FUCKING HOUSE!
|
|
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|
She keeps pushing Jimmy out the door.
|
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|
70 70. 70
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|
Night. Jimmy, driving in the rain. A downpour.
|
|
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|
He turns on 96.3. They're playing Wink's song...
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|
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|
And it's terrible. Bad rhymes. Weak voice.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy stares at the radio.
|
|
|
|
He shakes his head.
|
|
|
|
Can't help but laugh to himself. Future was right.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy shuts off the radio.
|
|
|
|
Suddenly the car goes black. Cuts off.
|
|
|
|
The lights. The steering wheel. The brakes. It's dead.
|
|
|
|
Again.
|
|
|
|
The Lincoln silently coasts to the side of the road.
|
|
|
|
Stops.
|
|
98.
|
|
|
|
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|
And Jinny just sits there, in the dark.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuck -
|
|
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|
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|
71 71. 71
|
|
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|
Jimmy, walking down the dark side of the road. Pouring
|
|
rain. Empty neighborhood. Pouring rain.
|
|
|
|
He walks up to Wink's mother's house. Soaking wet. Pears
|
|
voices. Pouring rain. Takes a quick look in the window
|
|
before he heads inside.
|
|
|
|
Sees Wink on top of some naked girl.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy takes a closer look. Pouring rain wherever he goes.
|
|
|
|
The naked girl rolls on top of Wink.
|
|
|
|
It's Alex.
|
|
|
|
The girl is Alex.
|
|
|
|
Alex.
|
|
|
|
SPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
CUT SPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
CUT SPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
END SPLIT SCREEN:
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(staring into the sun;
|
|
drowning)
|
|
|
|
|
|
72 72. 72
|
|
|
|
Jimmy, busting into Wink'k mother’s house. Enraged.
|
|
Surprising Wink & Alex on the couch--
|
|
|
|
She screams covering herself up.
|
|
|
|
Wink pulls up his pants, gets tangled up with Alex.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
Yo, B - I can--
|
|
99.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jimmy grabs Wink up off the couch, and slams him onto the
|
|
ground. Starts hitting him. All that rage.
|
|
|
|
It isn't a fight. It's a beating.
|
|
|
|
Alex stands on the couch, freaking out.
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
Leave him alone - STOP IT!
|
|
|
|
Jimmy pounding Wink. Over. And over. And over again.
|
|
|
|
It's loud. Wild. And out of control.
|
|
|
|
Blood splatters on Jimmy's shirt.
|
|
|
|
Alex jumps off the couch, screaming, crying.
|
|
|
|
Tries pulling Jimmy off of Wink--
|
|
|
|
ALEX
|
|
LEAVE HIM ALONE! Just fuckin' get
|
|
out! Get out! GET OUT!
|
|
|
|
Jimmy gets up, out of breath. Worked up. Looks at her.
|
|
|
|
Beat. Beat.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
Is he gonna fucking hit her?
|
|
|
|
We hear CONTROL MACHETE bang out ”Si Senior.”
|
|
|
|
And Jimmy takes off. Running away.
|
|
|
|
|
|
73 73. 73
|
|
|
|
Jimmy running down the dead streets of Wink's mother's
|
|
neighborhood in the cold rain. We still hear the song
|
|
pumping --
|
|
|
|
JUMP CUT:
|
|
|
|
Jimmy running, crores the street. Almost gets hits by a
|
|
car, slamming on its brakes. Jimmy just keeps running--
|
|
|
|
JUMP CUT:
|
|
|
|
Running through another shitty neighborhood--
|
|
100.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JUMP CUT:
|
|
|
|
92-
|
|
|
|
Jimmy runs up to a plain old house on a street called
|
|
Novaro. Falling apart porch. Lights on inside. The song
|
|
blasting on the soundtrack. Jinny knocks on the door,
|
|
screams. Out of breath.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Janeane - fuckin’ Janeane let me in
|
|
- I’M FUCKING SORRY - LET ME IN,
|
|
PLEASE LET ME IN -
|
|
|
|
He knocks again.
|
|
|
|
Janeane cracks open the door.
|
|
|
|
JANEANE
|
|
- What are you doing here, Rabbit?
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(catching his breath)
|
|
I dunno. I was runnin' and, and
|
|
this is just where I ended up - and
|
|
I'm sorry, Janeane -
|
|
(beat)
|
|
You were right and, I'm really
|
|
sorry.
|
|
|
|
She looks at him for a moment -
|
|
|
|
And shuts the door in his face.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy just stands there.
|
|
|
|
He puts his hands in his pockets. Cold. And wet. Feels
|
|
something in one of them...
|
|
|
|
Pulls out the photograph of Wink & Prince.
|
|
|
|
And rips it up into little pieces.
|
|
|
|
Throwing it in the air.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy sits down on the porch steps. Out of the rain.
|
|
|
|
Exhausted.
|
|
101.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The song finishes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
74 74. 74
|
|
|
|
Later. Jimmy still sitting on the porch. Shivering, And
|
|
cold. The rain's letting up. The white van pulls over in
|
|
front of the house. Dented side. Stereo booming, bass
|
|
thumping. Bright lights shine in Jimmy's face.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy just sits there.
|
|
|
|
Papa Doc, LC Lyckety-Splyt and the rest of tha Free World
|
|
jump out of the van. They all walk up toward the porch.
|
|
|
|
Papa Doc leading the way, his hat pulled down over his
|
|
eyes.
|
|
|
|
PAPA DOC
|
|
Yo wassup, man. You ready to go
|
|
down?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy gets up. Sees Alex and Wink get out of the van.
|
|
|
|
Wink's a mess. Broken nose. All bloody and shit.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy takes a few steps toward Papa Doc.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(never taking his eyes
|
|
off Alex)
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
Papa and the rest of tha Free World surround Jimmy. Wink
|
|
makes his way over, blood all over his shirt.
|
|
|
|
Alex stays near the van.
|
|
|
|
PAPA DOC
|
|
You heard me. You ready to go?
|
|
|
|
Before Jimmy can respond, E, the white guy, hits Jimmy in
|
|
the back of the head.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy falls onto his knees.
|
|
|
|
LC LYCKETY-SPLYT
|
|
C’mon, Rabbit, get back up - Get
|
|
up, bitch -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy gets up, turns around and smashes E.
|
|
102.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Then takes a swing at Lyckety-Splyt--
|
|
|
|
Papa Doc kicks Jimmy in the balls.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy falls onto his knees again. Papa hits him in the
|
|
face.
|
|
|
|
PAPA DOC
|
|
You like talkin’ shit? Huh? You
|
|
fuckin' faggot! You like it?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy falls to the ground. And then they're on him like
|
|
animals. Wink too. All six of 'em. Kicking him. Yelling at
|
|
him.
|
|
|
|
LC LYCKETY-SPLYT
|
|
Fuck you muthafucka!
|
|
|
|
PAPA DOC
|
|
Yeah, faggot -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy tries to get back up.
|
|
|
|
Alex just stands there watching. Silent.
|
|
|
|
WINK
|
|
(holding his nose;
|
|
kicking Jinny in the
|
|
ribs})
|
|
You're gonna fuck with Wink, huh?
|
|
You don't know who you're fucking
|
|
with! You fucking loser -
|
|
|
|
The light inside the house goes off. It's now almost pitch
|
|
black. The front lawn lit up only by the van's highbeams.
|
|
|
|
Jinny tries to get up again. Drops. Falling.
|
|
|
|
Giving up. The ground.
|
|
|
|
Going down.
|
|
|
|
Letting go.
|
|
|
|
Falling, falling.
|
|
|
|
CUT TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
75 75. 75
|
|
|
|
The sun rises. The rain's stopped.
|
|
103.
|
|
|
|
|
|
It's a new day. The next morning. Light.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy limps up to the trailer park. His eye black.
|
|
|
|
His body beat.
|
|
|
|
Instead of running past the entrance like he always does,
|
|
Jimmy just walks right in through the front gate.
|
|
|
|
At the busy intersection.
|
|
|
|
For the whole fucking world to see.
|
|
|
|
|
|
76 76. 76
|
|
|
|
Jimmy limps into the trailer. He looks like shit. Bloody
|
|
shirt. Hurt ribs. Face a mess. Stephanie is in the kitchen,
|
|
pouring milk for Lily's cereal.
|
|
|
|
They both look up at him. Horrified.
|
|
|
|
And run to him.
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Ohmygod -
|
|
|
|
LILY
|
|
Jimmy!
|
|
|
|
Lily grabs him around the waist. Stephanie hugs him,
|
|
smothering him.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(winces in pain)
|
|
- Easy, easy, I'm okay. I’m a'ight.
|
|
I gust came by to pick up my stuff
|
|
an1 shit like you wanted -
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Ohmygod - What happened to you?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
I fell -
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
What happened?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(stronger)
|
|
I fell.
|
|
104.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stephanie looks at him. He fell,
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
Okay. Okay. Siddown. I'll make ya
|
|
some breakfast -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
I'm makin' breakfast -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy goes to the sink to wash up, clean off the blood.
|
|
|
|
Lily doesn't leave his side.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(to Stephanie)
|
|
What’s gotten into you? I thought
|
|
you wanted me out.
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
- Do you want some goddamn cereal
|
|
or not?
|
|
|
|
She holds up the milk.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Why the fuck're you in such a good
|
|
mood?
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
I went to bingo last night -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Shit
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
And I won. $3200!
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
You're fucking kiddin1 me -
|
|
|
|
STEPHANIE
|
|
(tries not to smile;
|
|
can't help it)
|
|
Nope. We’re good -
|
|
|
|
No eviction.
|
|
|
|
Jinny looks at her.
|
|
105.
|
|
|
|
|
|
And busts out laughing.
|
|
|
|
Laughing. Laughing so hard he’s almost crying.
|
|
|
|
|
|
77 77. 77
|
|
|
|
Later. Jimmy, making his way through a crowded bus.
|
|
|
|
There’s one empty seat between two older black women.
|
|
|
|
Jinny sits down between them.
|
|
|
|
He just sits there looking off, stuck between the two
|
|
women.
|
|
|
|
We’re sampling the "5:15" scene from "QUADROPHENIA."
|
|
Jimmy’s weary. And in pain. Riding the bus.
|
|
|
|
No fantasy. No music. No love.
|
|
|
|
Just reality.
|
|
|
|
Sitting on the bus.
|
|
|
|
Looking straight ahead.
|
|
|
|
|
|
78 78. 78
|
|
|
|
The hotel's basement locker room. Jimmy taking off his
|
|
shirt, getting ready for work. Purple black & blue covering
|
|
his body. Bruised ribs. Chedder Bob’s standing next to him,
|
|
changing out of his uniform. Done for the day.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(staring at Jimmy's
|
|
bruises)
|
|
- Ya know that fuckin' bitch didn’t
|
|
show up for work. Rabbit. I bet
|
|
she’s gonna get fuckin' fired.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy doesn't respond.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
And didya hear old Earl strangled
|
|
some guest yesterday?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
106.
|
|
|
|
|
|
He tried to kill some dude who kept
|
|
snappin' his fingers at 'im -
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob tries to get a closer look at Jimmy's ribs.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(pushes him away)
|
|
Fuck off, Chedder Bob -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
C'mon, homes - MC Bob.
|
|
(points to Jimmy’s black
|
|
eye, bruised body)
|
|
And that's some fucked up shit
|
|
right there, Rabbit. You shoulda
|
|
just come by my house. I'da grabbed
|
|
my gun and -
|
|
(mimes shooting off a gun
|
|
in each hand)
|
|
Bam! Bam! Bam! Shoot that Alex
|
|
bitch right in the fuckin' stomach,
|
|
yo - Just like tha Free World got
|
|
it.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy ignores him, starts putting on his uniform.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
- Ya know there's a battle tonight.
|
|
Rabbit. A big one.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
I also heard you got into a fight
|
|
with Future.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
|
|
He finishes getting dressed.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
You gonna go down there anyway or
|
|
whatever?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy glances at himself in the locker room mirror.
|
|
|
|
Sees his black eye.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Yeah.
|
|
107.
|
|
|
|
|
|
(looks back at Chedder
|
|
Bob)
|
|
What the fuck.
|
|
|
|
|
|
79 79. 79
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY THE BEULMAN, working the front with Paul. He
|
|
looks over to the tea girls serving. Alex isn't there.
|
|
Classical music plays in the background. Alex isn't there.
|
|
|
|
Fuckit. Jimmy turns back and opens the door for some
|
|
guests, forcing a smile. Welcoming them to the hotel.
|
|
|
|
Mr. Springer walks up.
|
|
|
|
MR. SPRINGER
|
|
- Can I talk to you, Mr. Smith?
|
|
|
|
|
|
80 80. 80
|
|
|
|
Mr. Springer's cramped basement office. Jimmy winces when
|
|
he sits down.
|
|
|
|
MR. SPRINGER
|
|
Is everything okay, Mr. Smith?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah. I just fell down some stairs
|
|
an' shit -
|
|
|
|
Mr. Springer stares at him.
|
|
|
|
Seat.
|
|
|
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MR. SPRINGER
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Well, you've been on time all week.
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JIMMY
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- Yeah?
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(laughs)
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What can I tell ya, it‘s been one
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helluva long week, Mr. Springer -
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MR. SPRINGER
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(smiles)
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I don't know if you heard but,
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there was a, an incident with Earl
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-
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JIMMY
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108.
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Yeah. Did he really try an' kill
|
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somebody for snapping their fingers
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at 'im?
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Beat.
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MR. SPRINGER
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- do you really wanna be doing this
|
|
for the rest of your life, Mr.
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Smith?
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JIMMY
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Not really. But I need the money -
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MR. SPRINGER
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Okay then. You can have Earl's
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shifts. You've earned it -
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Jimmy nods his head yes. Hides a smile.
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MR. SPRINGER
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Good. I need you to work tonight.
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JIMMY
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Tonight?
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The phone rings. We hear CURTIS MAYFIELD & LAURYN HILL sing
|
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"Here But I’m Gone" on the soundtrack.
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MR. SPRINGER
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Do you want the extra shifts or
|
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not, Mr. Smith?
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81 81. 81
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Later. Jimmy's leaving a room on the 7th floor with the
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luggage cart, stuffing some money into his pocket. The
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guest closes the door behind him. We still hear Curtis &
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Lauryn.
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Jimmy walks down the hall...
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Passes by room 722.
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The room he fucked Alex in.
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The door's open.
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Jimmy stops. Takes a peek inside.
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The maid is cleaning the bathroom, just out of sight.
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109.
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The closet doors are all open.
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Empty.
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82 82. 82
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CLOSE ON jimmy, riding the elevator.
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Going down. The song plays on.
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83 83. 83
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Jimmy walks outside of the hotel. Out into the cold night.
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Paul’s leaning against the wall waiting for a ride,
|
|
checking up & down the street, smoking a cigarette. The
|
|
song ends.
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|
JIMMY
|
|
- Big plans tonight?
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|
PAUL
|
|
Just goin' fencing with some
|
|
friends. But they're late - Why're
|
|
you still here?
|
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|
JIMMY
|
|
I'm pickin' up Earl’s shift -
|
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PAUL
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Crazy what happened, huh?
|
|
|
|
Paul snaps his fingers, Jimmy laughs, stands there for a
|
|
moment. You can see their breath white in the cold.
|
|
|
|
Paul offers him a drag off his cigarette.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy takes it. Smokes.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Yo Paul - You ever get tired of
|
|
takin’ shit from everybody, people
|
|
always tryin1 to label you?
|
|
|
|
Hands the cigarette back to Paul.
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|
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|
PAUL
|
|
Nah. I don't give a shit what
|
|
anybody says.
|
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110.
|
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|
|
|
|
(beat)
|
|
Except for Chedder Bob. That guy
|
|
drives me nuts -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(laughs)
|
|
Yeah. Me too -
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
PAUL
|
|
- Were you in a fight or something?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yeah. These six fucking guys jumped
|
|
me. Kicked my ass, whatever.
|
|
|
|
PAUL
|
|
That's fucked. You gonna get 'em
|
|
back?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Shit yeah. But they down at the
|
|
Shelter tonight and I wanna battle
|
|
'em first, ya know - rip those
|
|
motherfuckers from head to toe -
|
|
|
|
Paul finishes his cigarette. Flicks it away,
|
|
|
|
PAUL
|
|
Hey if ya want, I'll cover for ya.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Really?
|
|
|
|
PAUL
|
|
Yeah, Lucky for you, my friends are
|
|
late, so -
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(looks at Paul; smiles)
|
|
- Thanks, man. Just for a couple
|
|
hours, yo - I'll come right back.
|
|
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|
|
|
84 84. 84
|
|
|
|
Jimmy hustles down the street to the Shelter. Back in his
|
|
own clothes. Out of breath. In pain. There's a mob scene
|
|
out front waiting to get in. Twice the size of the last
|
|
crowd.
|
|
111.
|
|
|
|
|
|
He passes by Sol, DJ Iz and Chedder Bob, who's drinking
|
|
from a brown paper bag.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(sees him; calls out)
|
|
Yo Rabbit - wait up!
|
|
|
|
Jimmy doesn't stop. Keeps on moving, heading down the dark
|
|
alley next to the club.
|
|
|
|
The other guys follow after him.
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Damn, B - We gon fuck up Wink or
|
|
what? I heard he's sayin' you blew
|
|
up 'cause they didn't want you down
|
|
at Paisley Park -
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
(to Sol)
|
|
- but all our shit’s still at
|
|
Wink's house, yo. If we had our own
|
|
studio we wouldn't need Prince and-
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Just shutthefuckup, Iz.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Don't worry. Rabbit - I got your
|
|
back, I know the real reason you
|
|
blew up, right?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(snaps)
|
|
- I don't wanna hear any more a
|
|
that shit!
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Yo what's the matter, Rabbit?
|
|
|
|
They're at the back door. Jimmy stops. Looks at his
|
|
friends.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- Can't I ever get any fuckin'
|
|
privacy?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
Yeah. Cool -
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Yeah. Can I come?
|
|
112.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(looks at Chedder Bob for
|
|
a moment; smiles)
|
|
- sure, "MC" Bob.
|
|
|
|
|
|
85 85. 85
|
|
|
|
Jimmy, sitting backstage on a cheap folding-chair dissin'
|
|
Chedder Bob. Practicing his freestyle. Making fun of him.
|
|
People coming & going all around them in the small
|
|
backstage area.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy's flowing, Chedder Bob just sits there drinking,
|
|
taking it- Loving it. Seeing how Jimmy rhymes.
|
|
|
|
He takes a break.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(drunk)
|
|
- Ya know I love you, Rabbit.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Yo, stop. I don't wanna hear that.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Hey whaddaya want for your
|
|
birthday?
|
|
|
|
Papa Doc, LC Lyckety-Splyt, E and the other two guys from
|
|
tha Free World walk backstage. They stop when they see
|
|
Jimmy and Chedder Bob.
|
|
|
|
Chedder Bob jumps to his feet. Jimmy doesn't.
|
|
|
|
He just sits there. Cool.
|
|
|
|
LC LYCKETY-SPLYT
|
|
Looky who it is - You really goo
|
|
try an' battle us, black eye bitch?
|
|
You should be afraid, very afraid -
|
|
|
|
Jimmy nods his head, smiles a little. Like a guy who knows
|
|
something. Doesn't say shit.
|
|
|
|
LC LYCKETY-SPLYT
|
|
Didn't you already die out there on
|
|
stage?
|
|
(opens his mouth fc
|
|
nothing comes out;
|
|
choking)
|
|
- Didn't he, E? Looks dead to me.
|
|
113.
|
|
|
|
|
|
E
|
|
Got a black eye.
|
|
|
|
PAPA DOC
|
|
Yo, some guys jus' like gettin'
|
|
their ass kicked - right, Rabbit?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(still sitting down)
|
|
- Yeah that's why it took six a you
|
|
motherfuckers. What kinda pussy
|
|
shit is that?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Yeah. And how's your car?
|
|
|
|
The Future comes backstage.
|
|
|
|
Papa Doc just walks away.
|
|
|
|
PAPA DOC
|
|
(laughing at Jimmy)
|
|
We'll see you on stage, faggot -
|
|
|
|
The rest of tha Free World follows after him.
|
|
|
|
Future looks at Jimmy's face.
|
|
|
|
Shakes his head.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(to Future)
|
|
- I gotta get some fuckin' privacy.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy and Future hanging in the desolate bathroom.
|
|
|
|
Sack where we started.
|
|
|
|
|
|
86 86. 86
|
|
|
|
Under the harsh green fluorescent light.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- You know I didn't! like that
|
|
wthafucka Wink from jump, yo.
|
|
Fucking backstabber. That Judas'll
|
|
get his, youknowhatlmsayin' -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
114.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah. An1 I'm sorry about all that
|
|
shit I said before. You know I
|
|
didn't mean it - I just,-- ya know
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Yeah. I know. I didn’t even trip,
|
|
yo. I’m all about forgiveness now.
|
|
Let's go fuck ’em up -
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
Fuckit. I'm gonna battle ’em first
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(smiles)
|
|
- We gon flip the script on this
|
|
shit for real now, Jimmy - Aren’t
|
|
we?
|
|
|
|
Jimmy nods his head- He knows what time it is.
|
|
|
|
He slips on his headphones, bounces up & down to the music.
|
|
|
|
Bouncing.
|
|
|
|
Bouncing.
|
|
|
|
Bouncing.
|
|
|
|
Bouncing.
|
|
|
|
Bouncing.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(Lights a cigarette)
|
|
- Yo you got Lyckety-Splyt in the
|
|
first round. You okay wit' that?
|
|
|
|
Bouncing.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
- I don’t give a fuck who it is. Ya
|
|
know?
|
|
|
|
|
|
87 87. 87
|
|
|
|
Jimmy walks on stage. Under the toxic glare of the lights.
|
|
115.
|
|
|
|
|
|
People crowded along the edges. The DJ spinnin'. The big
|
|
scoreboard clocks on the wall set at 60. LC Lyckety-Splyt's
|
|
already there, standing next to Future. Shit-eating grin on
|
|
his skinny little face.
|
|
|
|
We see the crowd from Jimmy's point of view. It's a mob
|
|
scene. Rowdy. Overflowing. Electric. People get ready.
|
|
|
|
Jinny sees Alex hanging out with Wink (white bandage over
|
|
his nose), Papa Doc and the other two Free world black
|
|
guys.
|
|
|
|
Everybody looking at him.
|
|
|
|
Future smiles Jimmy's way and introduces Lyckety-Splyt.
|
|
|
|
He's going first.
|
|
|
|
The DJ lays down a beat -
|
|
|
|
And LC Lyckety-Splyt's all over Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
Freestylin' about--
|
|
|
|
1. Jimmy's failure in the last battle.
|
|
|
|
2. Jimmy being white.
|
|
|
|
3. Jimmy's black eye.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy just bobs his head to the beat, looking down, not
|
|
reacting to a thing Lyckety-Splyt spits.
|
|
|
|
The clocks tick down to 0. The crowd shouts.
|
|
|
|
Lyckety-Splyt laughs.
|
|
|
|
It's now Jimmy's turn. All the lights are on hint.
|
|
Blinding.
|
|
|
|
The Future hands him the mic.
|
|
|
|
Some people start booing.
|
|
|
|
Yell shit at him.
|
|
|
|
Booing Jimmy.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy bounces, collecting his thoughts, tuning out the
|
|
world.
|
|
|
|
Not hearing it. This is it. It's just him.
|
|
116.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The beat.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
And Jimmy just goes off —
|
|
|
|
All the anger pouring out of every muscle in his body.
|
|
|
|
Into this moment. Forgetting about his pain.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy's spitting fire.
|
|
|
|
Right up in Lyckety-Splyt's face.
|
|
|
|
Ripping into him.
|
|
|
|
Destroying him.
|
|
|
|
Cutting him.
|
|
|
|
If words could kill.
|
|
|
|
He's so good.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy finishes.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
And the crowd goes fucking crazy. Much louder than they
|
|
were for LC Lyckety-Splyt, Vocal. Approving. Screaming.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy won the round!
|
|
|
|
The Future laughs.
|
|
|
|
And Jinny just walks off stage, passing by the Big Bad Dude
|
|
from the beginning of the movie. They pound fists.
|
|
|
|
The dude knows who he is now.
|
|
|
|
|
|
88 88. 88
|
|
|
|
Jinny makes his way through the noise and the crush,
|
|
heading toward the bathroom. He sees Alex still with Wink,
|
|
Papa Doc and the other guys.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy and Alex make eye contact through all the bodies in
|
|
traffic.
|
|
|
|
Beat. A moment.
|
|
117.
|
|
|
|
|
|
She smiles at him, awkward. And gives him the finger.
|
|
|
|
Flirting.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy just laughs at her. Puts on his headphones.
|
|
|
|
And walks away.
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY, walking away. Laughing.
|
|
|
|
Never looking back.
|
|
|
|
Holding his head up, black eye and all.
|
|
|
|
CUT TO:
|
|
|
|
|
|
89 89. 89
|
|
|
|
Later. Jimmy, battling E on stage.
|
|
|
|
In a zone. Fast. Flowing.
|
|
|
|
Clear & strong.
|
|
|
|
Touching a higher self.
|
|
|
|
Time up.
|
|
|
|
The crowd fucking loves it.
|
|
|
|
He exchanges pounds with Future, who takes the mic and
|
|
hands it to E.
|
|
|
|
E's up.
|
|
|
|
Starts freestyling--
|
|
|
|
And Jimmy sits down on the stage.
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY, just sitting there. Quiet. Looking out at
|
|
all the people. Ignoring E's rap. Not hearing it.
|
|
|
|
Not listening. Not caring. We stay on Jimmy the whole time.
|
|
|
|
E finishes. Scattered applause. Jimmy won again.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy gets up, walks off.
|
|
|
|
Sol, DJ Iz and Chedder Bob greet him at the edge of the
|
|
stage. They all gather around him.
|
|
118.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Future runs up.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
- You are a fucking genius, man.
|
|
You in the finals, Jim. You an'
|
|
Papa Doc. Yessir, it's a fucking
|
|
blessing, youhearwhatImsayin'?
|
|
|
|
SOL
|
|
You're gonna whoop that nigga's ass
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
DJ IZ
|
|
He ain’t got no vocabulary.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy nods his head, game face on.
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
(still drunk)
|
|
- You worried about what he's gonna
|
|
say, Rabbit?
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
What?
|
|
|
|
CHEDDER BOB
|
|
Like about Wink & that Alex bitch
|
|
gettin' it on ya know - And ya know
|
|
you not goin' to Paisley Park and
|
|
them heatin' you up and ya know
|
|
givin' you a black eye and shit -
|
|
|
|
Beat. Jimmy doesn't respond,
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
(pushes Chedder Bob)
|
|
Yo - shutthefuckup, fool!
|
|
|
|
|
|
90 90. 90
|
|
|
|
The finals. The crowd's in a frenzy.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy vs. Papa Doc.
|
|
|
|
Both of them on stage.
|
|
|
|
Neither one looking at the other.
|
|
|
|
The showdown.
|
|
|
|
This is it.
|
|
119.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Future hypes the championship.
|
|
|
|
FUTURE
|
|
Give it up y'all - The championship
|
|
round, for the right to take my
|
|
place as host on all the open mic
|
|
battles. That's the sweetest part
|
|
about it, youknowhatlmsayin'?
|
|
|
|
CLOSE ON JIMMY, head already down. Staring at the floor.
|
|
|
|
Lost in his own world. Total concentration on his face.
|
|
|
|
He hears Future finish. Jimmy looks back up.
|
|
|
|
People scream. Shout. Ready for blood.
|
|
|
|
And Future introduces him.
|
|
|
|
Jimmy's up first--
|
|
|
|
The DJ lays down the beat...
|
|
|
|
And Jimmy pauses.
|
|
|
|
He stares at Papa Doc.
|
|
|
|
Long,
|
|
|
|
And hard.
|
|
|
|
Suddenly a smile comes to Jimmy’s face. A shining sun.
|
|
|
|
Beat.
|
|
|
|
And Jimmy freestyles about himself, from his side--
|
|
|
|
1. About not going to Paisley Park - how it's not real.
|
|
|
|
2. About getting his ass kicked - by 6 guys.
|
|
|
|
3. About Wink fucking Alex - and how she blew him in a
|
|
closet.
|
|
|
|
About all the bullshit.
|
|
|
|
Making fun of it all.
|
|
|
|
Taking away all of Papa Doc’s material.
|
|
|
|
And turning it back on himself.
|
|
120.
|
|
|
|
|
|
He's a genius.
|
|
|
|
Letting everybody know he just doesn’t give a fuck.
|
|
|
|
About anything.
|
|
|
|
He's found his true voice.
|
|
|
|
He kills. Finishes.
|
|
|
|
JIMMY
|
|
(yells out at the
|
|
audience, giving them all
|
|
the finger)
|
|
Fuck you - You dunno who I am? I
|
|
know who I am -
|
|
|
|
The crowd goes nuts. Bouncing off the walls. High-fiving
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and screaming joy. All horn again.
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Future can't stop laughing. He hands the mic to Papa Doc.
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Papa Doc just stands there. The beat goes on.
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The crowd still wild over Jimmy.
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And Papa Doc just stands there.
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Stares out at the crowd.
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Freezes.
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He's got nothing.
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He knows he‘s already beat.
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It's over.
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91 91. 91
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The lights come up. Hight over. Jimmy and his friends walk
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through the crowd. They're jumping up fc down all around
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him, so excited. Shouting his name out loud, laughing,
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barking, "B-RABBIT! B-RABBIT’ B-RABBIT?"
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Everybody else reaching out wanting to congratulate Jimmy,
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tell him how good he is, loving him, basking in his glow.
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Jimmy just keeps walking out. Not getting caught up in it
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all.
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121.
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92 92. 92
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The crowd flowing out of the club. Hanging outside.
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Freezing. Buzzing, Jimmy and his crew make their way
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through all the people,
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CHEDDER BOB
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Yo where we headed, Rabbit?
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DJ IZ
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You on your way, hoy -
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SOL
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Gonna get that big deal now fa sho
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-
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CHEDDER BOB
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Yeah. Fuck Wink. Fuck Prince. Fuck
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tha Free World, RU486 IS THE
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FUCKING SHIT!
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Jimmy heads off, leaving the crowd and the club behind.
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The guys follow.
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JIMMY
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I gotta get back to work, yo -
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SOL
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(laughs)
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C'man, dawg. I told that girl from
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the laundromat who wasn’t that good
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lookin' we'd meet up with her later
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- I need a second opinion, yo -
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CHEDDER BOB
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(excited)
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Yeah. We gonna get all the hot
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bitches now you won, Rabbit!
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FUTURE
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Cool that, cool that. That was some
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alien shit ya did back there, man -
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youknowhatimsayin' ?
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DJ IZ
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No doubt, no doubt, he's the new
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host -
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JIMMY
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(keeps walking)
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Fuckit.
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122.
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(to Chedder Bob)
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MC Bob, you can be the new host.
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I’m late for work, yo. I'll see you
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guys tomorrow -
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The guys stop. Don’t know what to say.
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Jimmy just keeps walking down the street into the winter
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night.
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Beat.
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Future runs after him. Catches up.
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FUTURE
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- You okay, Jimmy?
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JIMMY
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Yeah - I’m just done wit' all the
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bullshit, ya know what I'm sayin'?
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FUTURE
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- yeah. I think I do.
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Jimmy and Future walk down the street together:
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JIMMY
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- Yo Fuche, you ever seen a horse
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before?
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FUTURE
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You mean like the four legged kind?
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JIMMY
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Yeah -
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FUTURE
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Why?
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Beat.
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JIMMY
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Fuckit, man - I gotta run.
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Jinny says goodbye to the Future, and takes off running
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down the street. On his own.
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Away from his friends.
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Away from the crowd.
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Away from the club.
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123.
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Running by himself down the dirty streets of Detroit.
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Heading in the opposite direction of everybody else.
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Sweet wind licks his face. Cold breath slips his mouth.
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We hear our closing credit song.
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And the scene beings to ANIMATE.
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But this tine he isn't a superhero flying up in the sky.
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This time he's just plain Jimmy. Running.
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A little smile comes to Jimmy's face.
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He runs, feet solid on the ground.
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Faster.
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Lighter.
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Free.
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He runs, Jimmy runs.
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