Wednesday, December 5, 2012

exercise 12

Here is a screenplay adaptation of Strays by Mark Richard. I didn't really understand the purpose of the story but I did enjoy it, I took several liberties in shortening it but didn't try and get too radical. ignore and poor formatting in my screenplay format I had a few technical difficulties.


FAde In:
Master Shot 1 Zoom In pan house
Ext-Frontyard/house-day

The camera cues in on the rickety old and disheveled home of a white trash family, impoverished and stricken with lunacy. Two boys are playing in the yard by some stray dogs, which are hiding under the shade of the house floorboards. Boy 1 is older and more aggressive than boy 2. They walk towards the stray dogs. Boy 1 stomps brashly.
Boy 1
Look at that durn dog, Lets catch it and train it.
Boy 2
Ok. Lets git’ it!
Boy 1
(Boy 1 runs after the dog and a car is seen coming nearer to the house from a distance. The car is rickety and almost out of gas, fuming and smoking grossly.)

Scene 2.
The janky car pulls up to the house and crashes over some window screens as it pulls up. The windows of the house are all open so the father of boy 1&2 runs out and starts hollerin’ aggressively at the impudent UNCLE TRASH.
Ext-doorway/yard-mid afternoon
              

Father
WHAT IN THE HERRLLL ARRRE YOU DOIN’ WOMAN
Total chaos, dogs bark wildly the boys yell and uncle trash stands there confused and answers quickly.
uncle trash 
I brought yer the car. Sorry about runnin’ over that stuff.
Father
IVE HAD IT!!!
(he runs inside and grabs a bottle)
Wife
Whuts goin’ on out there-e

Uncle trash
I brought the car Darlin’
(Father and his wife make a commotion in the house the BOTTLE breaks and Wife comes crashing out of the house with a hobo sack and a broken bottle that she throws onto the ground.
The Wife runs out into the cornfields and disappears in seconds. The father gets in the car and the tires squeal as he rides off leaving clouds of black smoke. Uncle trash goes into the bedroom and passes out snoring raucously. The boys are left standing in the yard by themselves.
Scene 3 isolation with the Uncle
Ext-yard-day

Uncle Trash
Booys’ where are ya? you got any cards?
     Boy 1
Running around wrecklessly
          I got some cards, lets play nickel poker
               Boy 2
          I’ll go get some money from inside
(The camera pans to them playing cards on the stoop of the rickety home, Uncle Trash grins and laughs while the boys groan and cover their faces. Uncle Trash takes all their money and laughs)
Uncle Trash
Well boys I guess I’m off to the bar, Don’t burn the house down while I’m gone.
(Camera cuts to shot of the sun going down and then cuts to the dogs rustling as the kids play and try and capture a dog.)
EXT-Montage-Dusk
(Two Months pass, Bluegrass cover of “just the two of us” plays in the background while the children run wild alone in the middle of bufu Kansas just being raised like stray dogs who live under hillbilly hovels.)
Ext-Yard-day
fades out and in upside down to boy1 standing over boy2 laying on the ground
Boy1
Lets catch that dog
(He kicks boy2 in the shoulder
Boy2
AARYYY uffgh.
(grunts and rolls and pops up) Lets Do IT!! ARARAHHH
BOY1
GET THE DUMB ONE
The boys sprint to the dogs and tackle one

Boy two grabs a rope before the stinky dog can get away and then he hogties it.
  BOY2
          IT’S STINKKY!!
                     BOY1
          We should wash it
BOY1 runs to get something from inside the house. He runs back out while Boy2 fashions a leash onto the stray dog and they prepare to wash it.
                     BOY1
     All we got is bugspray so lets warsh him with this.
(they wash h
im with the bugspray as the matted and dirty hair lathers into a foam)
                     BOY2
          Now he’s clean but he don’t smell good
(Uncle trash is seen walkin drunkenly stumbling up to the ratty yard by the house.
UNCLE TRASH
          Hey Boys, yall kids wanna play some poker again
          Go get your piggy bank.
The Boy1 runs inside to go get their money. Uncle Trash flicks his cigarette but near the dog and it tries to lick it when in it immediately bursts into flames
The dog sprints like a fireball under the house and the house explodes into flames. Flaming stray dogs jart around yelping and then camera zooms out.
Fade Out:
The End

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