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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