This isn't ever gonna not suck...
Anyway I got a special request to look for this scene so here it is- as inaccurate as possible.
BRENDA NARRATING O.S.
After the sentences were read out in court, Sandra,
Squeaky, Michael and myself just pulled up stakes...
EXT. BRENDA’S HOUSE IN STOCKTON – DAY
An establishing shot.
BRENDA NARRATING O.S. cont.
… and set up shop in
what we always did… We set out on a life of
crime and pretended we’d live forever in perfect
bliss… We manufactured speed… We robbed…
We stole… And sometimes we killed…
INT. BRENDA’S HOUSE – DAY
Brenda, Michael and a MALE and FEMALE COUPLE with a BABY are sitting at the table cutting SPEED. The woman has some very distinctive TATTOOS ON HER HAND.
BRENDA NARRATING O.S.
We lived the criminal’s fantasy and when reality
impinged on our little world of criminal make
believe, we’d take drugs so we could continue the
fiction that the life we were living would never end…
(beat)
But of course, just below the surface we all knew
how it was going to end... Even if we weren’t
able to admit it to ourselves…
EXT. HIGHWAY – NIGHT
A POLICE CAR rolls down the highway.
INT. POLICE CAR – SAME MOMENT
A single COP sits behind the wheel, when he passes something OFF CAMERA that gets his attention.
COP’S POV – as he passes a deserted construction area off the side of the highway, where an old CHEVY SEDAN without any lights on is stirring up dust around an enormous, 30 TON EARTH MOVER with SOMEONE SITTING IN THE OPERATOR’S SEAT.
BACK TO SCENE
The Cop slows down in preparation for making a U-Turn.
EXT. CONSTRUCTION SITE – MOMENTS LATER – NIGHT
Brenda sits in the operator’s seat of the EARTH MOVER, fiddles around with the controls, while her latest boyfriend, Michael Montfort, stands below looking impatient.
MICHAEL
(annoyed)
I thought you said you knew how to work this
thing!
BRENDA
This one’s kind’a big, okay?!
INSERT ON CONTROLS – as Brenda pushes a button, making THE ENGINE TURN OVER and START UP..
BACK TO SCENE
MICHAEL
Okay, okay! Let’s get this thing moving!
BRENDA
Just hold on, goddamnit! I’m doing the best I can!
MICHAEL
Just hurry the fuck up!
Brenda pulls one of thirty levers.
WIDER – as the SHOVEL lurches upward.
MICHAEL
Now dig that fuckin’ hole!
BRENDA
Okay, okay!!!
Suddenly the entire area is lit up by intensely bright light.
ANOTHER ANGLE – Brenda and Michael are illuminated by a bunch of COP LIGHTS.
Two COPS put Michael in handcuffs.
ANOTHER ANGLE – as a handcuffed Brenda is brought around to the rear of the Chevy as another COP pops the trunk.
INSERT ON TRUNK – the BODIES of TWO MEN are stuffed into the trunk.
COP O.S.
Looks like they were killed with a shotgun...
BACK TO SCENE
COP
(to Brenda)
What, you were just gonna bury these guys on
the side of the road?
COP 2 O.S.
Call an ambulance! This one’s still alive!
ANOTHER ANGLE – as a barely breathing MAN is pulled from the trunk and laid on the ground.
INT. SMALL HOUSE IN
Brenda and Michael Montfort sit at the kitchen table with their hands cuffed behind their backs, while COPS move in and out all over the place.
COP O.S.
(calling)
Got something here!
INT. BASEMENT – SAME MOMENT
A bunch of COPS have set up lights and are digging in the dirt.
ANGLE ON DIRT – as a WOMAN’S HAND with the same DISTINCTIVE TATTOOS as the woman seen cutting speed with Brenda and Michael is uncovered.
ANOTHER COP O.S.
We’ve got a body down here... Looks pretty
fresh...
BRENDA NARRATING O.S.
Altogether, because of a technicality, I ended
up serving a little over three years for being an
accessory after the fact to four murders, while
Michael got life...
5 comments:
We already have seen this one, no?
have we?
sigh
Well I hadn't. Thanks Col, for giving me a good laugh. I mean you couldn't invent it.
Sorry, I forgot. They did.
But laughs apart, surely this has to be actionable .. ?
Frank
Actionable legally?.. no, not likely. That's what all the disclaimers are for(this film is based on fact, some characters and scenes have been dramatized & fictionalized for dramatic purposes..etc..on & on,lawyers etc). Actionable against bad taste..poor writing..for sure! But not yet legislated,here in Canada nor the States (as far as I know). 'Lil
I know! We'll set the "Manson Girls" movie to the peppy music of a defunct 70s Swedish pop band. We'll film it on a Greek island. We'll hire a bunch of British actors like Pierce Brosnan who can't sing! "here we go again, my my, how can I resist ya?" And then we'll... wait a minute... You claim that the concept has already been DONE?!?
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