Wednesday, January 23, 2013

A Screen Play with some Gatsby



A screen play based off The Great Gatsby 
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FADE IN:

EXT. WILSONS STORE – MID DAY

In the cold snow of north Maine, a old run down garage with an open sign swinging in the wind.

DISSOLVE TO:
INT. WILSONS STORE – OUT SIDE - MID DAY

MICHEALIS, Greek, coffee shop owner, mid 20’s young, strolls over.


MICHEALIS, enters shop, now on main floor of the garage, finds George Wilson sick.

WILSON, white, garage owner, mid 30’s, really sick, sitting in his office chair.

MICHEALIS
Wilson, you should go to sleep.

WILSON
No… no, I can’t. I will miss a lot of business

From upstairs at CRASH and THUD on the floorboards. Micheals looks up—

WILSON points up.
WILSON
 I’ve got my wife locked in up there.  She’s going to stay there till the day after to-morrow, and then we’re going to move away.

MICHEALIS
Why what happened? Why does she need to be locked up?
WILSON stands up.

WILSON
Michealis what did you do at 6 o’clock on Tuesday? Or 7 o’clock on Saturday or Friday?

A WORK MAN walked past the garage door, on his way to MICHEALIS' shop.


MICHEALIS
Sorry but I have to go, Wilson. I will come back later.

MICHEALIS leaves the garage.

DISSOLVE TO:
INT. MICHEALIS STORE – OUT SIDE – DUSK

MICHEALIS go out of his store, and looks over at the garage.


MRS. WILSON (O.S)
Beat me! Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!

MRS. WILSON, white, wife of Wilson, late 20’s early 30’s.

MRS. WILSON, runs out of the garage, waving her hands.

Two cars come into view ( a yellow and black one)

WILSON, goes to the door.

DISSOLVE TO:
INT. WILSONS STORE – OUT SIDE

CARRAWAY (O.S)
The death car. as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then dis- appeared around the next bend.

People walking in and out of the frame, to see what happened.

POLICEMAN, talk to MICHAELIS.

MICHAELIS
I think it was a light green car…. But it was too dark to tell.

The other CAR was over to the left had it’s driver by MRS. WILSON’S BODY

MRS. WILSON lying on the ground, snow thick with blood around her.

FADE OUT:

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