Sunday 16 May 2010

More of the script from 'The Compound and The Heart'

This is the simply amazing opening scene to the 'JC' movie.

The Compound and the Heart
Scene 01, page 01
San Francisco, Mid 70's. A stocky gay man is walking down a crowded and lively street in the heart of the gay community. The camera pans around, but sticks on the man, strolling effeminately. The Man suddenly stops, his laces on one of his shoes has come undone. He bends down to do them up.
Party Man: Hey fella, what'ya doing.
Man: My laces keep coming on done, what does it look like!?
Party Man: Oh chill, man. Just being nice. I like you, girlfriend. See'yah around.
Man: Will do, Partyman. Ladyboyz on Friday night, 9 sharp.
Out of nowhere a scary wild-eyed man approaches the man doing his laces up. He is holding a sign 'HOMOSEXUALS BURN IN BOILING PIT OF SEWAGE AFTER DEATH- FOLLOW THE NEW REVELATION'.
JB: You must rebuke satan and gayness, my child. Follow my new revelations, son and you will be saved.
The man looks up as JB speaks, he has seen him before.
Man: Huh, Jonathan, that you. It is you! I ain't see you in the longest. What you doing man.
JB Oh, Nathaniel. My god. I don't have these insultations!
The preacher runs away, throws his placard into the street and heads towards a group of people dressed in blue uniforms with with the words 'New revelations against Faggotry' on, across the chest.
JB: People! Attention! People.... Men! Woman! Attention! There is no hope for them, we must Leave, at once! If not we risk being contaminated by these vile urchins of evil. They are all satan incarnate! At once, back in the bus, we must flee for our lives! Our eternal souls depend on it.
The group following JB are terrified, as if running from a volcano or bomb, they flee towards a bus. It roars, and then speeds away with JB driving. Out of control and in a fit of pure rage JB runs down the man, he knew, Nathaniel. Nathaniel's body is thrown through the air in a spectacular specials effects shot. The body then lies slumped on the ground, lifeless, with blood forming a puddle. A horrified and curious crowd circles the body and the camera the pans up into the heavens above. The bus can still be seen in this shot, speeding away. The title of the film shows 'THE COMPOUND AND THE HEART - A TRUE STORY'
Flashback sequence, Two years earlier. Two men are cavorting in a pubic park. They have just picked each other up. They are roaming homosexuals - Cottagers.
Handsome Charlie: So my friend, what's you name.
Johnathan: Er, John. People call me 'The Cowboy' back home though.
Handsome Charlie: Oh, I've had a few - Cowboys, sweetheart.
Jonathan: Oh, haha. Your pretty funny.
The two embrace and kiss. An onlooking father shields his sons eyes from the sight of the two men. Charlie takes offence to this.
Handsome Charlie: Hey asshole, this in a public park in San Francisco, never seen a queer or two before!
Johnathan: How dare you! You're a rude man!
Johnathan gets up and walks away, leaving handsome Charlie alone, sitting in the park.
Some months later.
Nathaniel: Hey, Cowboy, what's up.
Johnathan: Stop calling me that. I'm Johnathan Benjamin Weston JR II, Or JB. As of today, I head back to IDAHO. I shall walk back home and set up my ministry.
Nathaniel: Ministry! Ministry for fags, like us!
JB: NO! I am DISGUSTATED! God has spoken to me, I am to write his new book, the new revelations and the new new commandments.
Nathaniel: You're fucking weird, man. I don't need this shit. I had shit day and you start joking with this shit. Fuck you, cowboy! Fuck you!
JB: Goodbye, FAGTHANIEL! See you next, when I push you into the boiling pit of shit! You Satanist!
What follows in a long series of takes (montage) showing JB walking back to Idaho, getting back and building his compound, preaching to strangers, bringing in disciple and on up to the present day. [music]Cusco's INCA DANCE plays during montage.
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Thanks to Joey Smith.

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