COWBOY KIDS
By
Fiona Stuart-Clark
Extended Practice
Leeds College of Art
ACT ONE:
FADE IN:
Ext. Dusty Roads - Cowboy Town - Dusk
3 Characters ride into the town, a montage of shots, including the town signage.
Followed by a long shot of the characters in the town from a second story building, wanted man shoots dad from this perspective. Shots include silhouetted figure, curtains flailing to his sides and a shot looking down the barrel of the gun at the three main characters.
Shot made by silhouetted figure followed by swirling camera pan of the dad falling from his horse - cut to black.
TITLE SEQUENCE - zoom in of faces and then character names & Vista shots of town? Handwritten type western style?
Tommy:
Pa… no! Don’t Die.
Verne:
This ain’t right! He din’t deserve this! That bastard killed him, Stone Cold Murder!
Tommy:
You can’t die!
Verne:
C’mon Verne, there’ll be time for tears, but now aint that time. Help me get Pa onto the back of this horse. We’ve got to see the undertaker.
Boys put the dad’s body on the back of the horse and begin to lead the horse out of the town, busy streets now desolate.Shot of Sheriff pearing from the jailhouse window, drinking whiskey, not assisting the boys. Wanted poster in shot of sheriff on jailhouse wall.
The boys ride around to the local graveyard to bury their father.
ACT TWO:
EXT: Graveyard, early nightfall hues of pinks to blues by the end.
Tommy is digging a hole when he hears a husky voice from afar:
SHERIFF:
Boys, I’m sorry for your loss, but I think I can help. I think I know who did this. A real low-life, real piece of work. There’s already a bounty for his arrest.
The Sheriff walks towards them and the scene is set up like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Sheriff Continued:
He’s name’s Roy Foreman. /// He’s wanted for petty theft, cattle rustling and, to top it all off, murder.
*hands boys a crumpled wanted poster*
Tommy Interrupts:
I heard he’s a lean mean killing machine.
Verne:
I’d pay for the day when he gets up in my grill.
Sheriff:
He’s a dangerous man. Nawh I don’t know what your pa did t’ upset this fella, but you better be careful round the town, we don’t know who he’s working with but he’s still in hiding from his last crime. The great train robbery of Santa Styles.
Tommy:
Pa musta known something about the missing gold dust.
Sheriff:
Probably kiddo. Anyways I gotta get back to the office, stick together boys, you better keep your wits about you.
The sheriff leaves, the boys proceed to bury their father. Verne once again plays his harmonica as Tommy puts the last of soil in and etches the wooden cross. The sun sets and the sky turns blue.
Over on the other side of the graveyard Fat Sam, the shady sidekick to Roy Foreman, appears to be grave robbing but is actually burying money.
Circumstance: The boys don’t want to be seen, Tommy stops Verne playing the harmonica and they see him acknowledge his presence, with a nod but decide to duck out.
Cuts to black.
ACT THREE:
Opens with Tommy and Verne tieing up their horses outside the Saloon, a girl is stood outside the door.
FRIDAY:
Howdy fellas. What you sayin’? You two boys here for the show tonight?
TOMMY:
We’re just passing through, been looking for someone, maybe you could help us find him.
FRIDAY: pulls them away from the saloon entrance.
Maybe I can and maybe i can’t. I’ll tell you what, you fellas come to the show tonight and I’ll help you out with this person you’re looking for.
Friday leaves the cowboy kids and heads inside to get ready for the show.
Verne: I don’t think she knows anything buddy, let’s get outta here.
Tommy: Not so fast Verne, I’m willing to bet my bottom dollar that Roy Foreman is a regular in holes like this. And I’ll bet that she knows where we can find him.
Eerily quiet when they enter the saloon, boots echo, spurs rattle.
Vista shot of the bar, man asleep in the corner, a few whiskey drinkers and Fat Sam sat at the table who glance at the kids who enter.
Bartender: Mexican tubby man, asks the boys what they’re drinking to ease tension and the boys approach the bar, bartenders only line, might make a bar joke or something.
Saloon girls put on a show. Piano man in the corner.
Roy Foreman stands from his table, draws both his pistols and approaches the boys, pointing a barrel towards the back of each of the boys’ heads.
ROY:
Time for you little bitches to meet your pop.
Pulls triggers, he’s all out of ammo. Tries again and again as if not believing his misfortune.
Boys turn around, with sunglasses (who knows where from) both sporting the people’s eyebrow.
Wrestling Fight Commences.
Mexican bartender has mexican wrestling mask and a mic falls from the ceiling for him to commentate the match.
BARTENDER:
In the blue corner, weighing in at a combined 294 pounds, with a record of 9 fights, 9 wins, Tommy and Verne, The Deadly Brothers!
(One of the whiskey drinkers smashes a drink into his forehead drinks some and sprays it (like Sandman)).
And in the red corner, the challenger, weighing in at 188 pounds, with a record of 56 fights, 44 wins, Roy ‘The Bullet’/// Foreman.
TOMMY:
It doesn’t matter what your name is!
DUDLEY BOYS 3D SMASH
Saloon girls start fighting amongst themselves, Friday cheering for the deadly boys.
Tommy does a moonsault off of Fat Sam, whilst he is trying to creep out of the saloon to avoid association, and takes down the wanted man, tommy and verne pin him whilst bartender counts to three.
Sheriff enters the saloon,
Look like you’re not getting the train back to Santa Styles.
With the help of some of the whiskey drinkers they carry off the wanted man to the jail.
Credits begin to roll during which: Drunken Man wakes up at the end of the fight. The wanted man is locked into the cell and the sheriff puts his feet on the table. Tommy and Verne go off to pay their respects to the dad
END OF CREDITS SCENE
Wanted man escapes from Jail, wanted man and Fat Sam go back to the unmarked grave to dig up what he buried.
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