Lesson 11

[Jeremy Kirk]

Subject line: Jeremy Level 2 Action Emotions

What I learned doing this assignment is these emotions are essential for action scripts.

Jackie just saved Shelly from the clutches of Letha and her Guardian Angel, they attempt to make a getaway.

CAR
Jackie pushes the Trans Am hard.
Shelly is in the back seat with the money. Yael in the passenger.
SHELLY
Drop me off! Drop me off right now.
JACKIE
No can do Shell Bell. We’ve got professional killers on our trail.
SHELLY
I don’t want to be part of your sick world.
JACKIE
Don’t I know it. Let me get you somewhere safe, give you the money and get you gone.
SHELLY
Gone, I’m not going anywhere. That’s my house. My father’s house.
Shelly looks around at the damaged vehicle.
SHELLY
What’d you do, take this out to the desert and shoot it?
JACKIE
What are you talking about? This vehicle is vintage?
Shelly can see there are no windows in the vehicle, including the windshield.
Yael looks back and sees a young child-like Guardian Angel PURIEL sitting next to her Principal Shelly. She is plucking Skittles from a bag of candy.
YAEL
Hello, what is your name?
PURIEL
Puriel.
YAEL
Puriel, I’m Yael, Jackie’s Guardian.
PURIEL
Shelly doesn’t like him. Wishes he was dead.
YAEL
Right now, I think allot of people wish him dead.
PURIEL
You want the green ones? I don’t like the green ones.
Yael offers his hand and Puriel dumps only green Skittles into his palm.
JACKIE
Did I hear Letha correctly? Did she say I have a Guardian Angel?
SHELLY
It would explain many things.
Jackie fishes out the divine weapon and hands it back to Shelly.
JACKIE
Check out this gun. It was sent to me. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Shelly takes the Angelic firearm.
YAEL
Great, give a gun to the woman who hates your guts.
PURIEL
I don’t think hate is a strong enough word.
Just then, through the blown out windows, the sound of an engine revving.
Headlights flash through the blown out back window. (Suspense)
The vehicle moves to the opposite lane.
A motorcycle with twin cars attached to either side cruises up next to the Trans Am.
Jackie waves for the vehicle to pass.
The rider, turns, pulls the zipper on the spiked leather masochists hood and frees his mouth. (Surprise)
JOHNNY
Bonjour.
In the sidecar is a hunched over man chained to the leather clad driver.
Johnny unclips the chain from one of the ringlets that run down his leather corset.
He drops the chain and the “slave” begins to stir.
The man stands completely naked, except for a pair of spiked thongs. Are the spikes only on the outside?
The man leaps and crouches on the hood of the Trans Am.
He raises his leather clad head. He has a claymore mine strapped across his mouth like a ball-gag. (Surprise)
FRONT TOWARD ENEMY.
Jackie’s head snaps back at the motorcycle rider. Johnny raises the clacker.
Yael spins around and fully opens his wings.
CLICK. (Suspense)
The claymore detonates and blast seven hundred steel bearings traveling at MACH-3 right into Yael’s back and wings. His body is blown apart like a piñata placed downrange on a redneck’s property.
A torrent of flame – seconds before the car rips through it.
The “slave” is blown apart becoming a wet pink mist. The gore is sucked through the traveling car and splatters across Jackie and Shelly’s face. (Shock)
Puriel calmly pulls a finger from her Skittles bag and tosses it out the window.
The motorcycle backs off and drops behind Jackie’s car and swings to the opposite side.
Smoke rises from the burnt crater left on the hood, but the Trans Am is still rolling.
Yael’s back and wings are shredded. His spine and ribs are exposed – several holes blown through his bird wings.
PURIEL
I know we don’t feel pain, but that looked like it hurt.
Yael flops himself on the front seat, just as the motorcycle creeps up next to the passenger side.
Yael can see Johnny’s Guardian Angel on the back of the bike. It wears a gas mask and a latex jump suit. Even the Angel’s wings are wrapped in leather latex.
Johnny unhooks the chain attached to another “slave” in the sidecar.
The “slave” stands wearing a leather dog mask. He reaches up for two live grenades that have been pierced through the man’s nipples. (Shock)
Dog boy pulls one and tosses it through the passenger side window.
Yael flaps a wing to deflect it.
The grenade falls through one of the many holes and lands on Yael’s lap. (Surprise)
YAEL
Oh shit.
PURIEL
I know we don’t have genitals, but a grenade exploding there may still feel uncomfortable.
Yael grabs the explosive and throws it out the window. (Suspense)
The grenade falls into the sidecar. Dog boy looks down between his legs and sees the bomb rolling around.
The sidecar EXPLODES!
Debris, flame and dog boy’s body, SMASH into the side of the Trans AM.
The blast pinballs the motorcycle across the road and into the back of a parked Cadillac.
The front end collides and crumples, sending Johnny over the handlebars and through the back window.
The Trans Am tears down the road.
INT. TRANS AM
Jackie looks back at Shelly, who just stares, blood covered and catatonic. (literal Shock)
JACKIE
You see what I mean, when I say professional killers on our trail?
No response from Shelly.
PURIEL
I think she may be in shock. I’m pretty sure I saw the man’s bowel slap her across the face. His butthole may of still been attached but I’m not sure. (Shock)
JACKIE
Shelly, hey Shell Bell.
Jackie waves a hand in front of her face. No response.
PURIEL
I’ll handle this.
The Angel turns and full on SLAPS Shelly across the face.
She suddenly comes to. A hand goes to her face.
SHELLY
What the hell man, why’d you hit me?
Jackie with both hands on the wheel.
JACKIE
I didn’t. I’m taking you to a safe house.
Shelly look around at the bullet holes, blood, chunks of flesh, glass.
SHELLY
Ok, I’ll go. But you’re still an asshole.
YAEL
She’s never been wrong.