Appaloosa Page #4

Synopsis: Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his longtime friend and partner Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) travel the 1880s Southwest, bringing justice to lawless towns desperate enough to hire them. In the mining town of Appaloosa, malevolent rancher Randall Bragg and his cronies ride roughshod over the frightened citizens. As Cole and Hitch work to end Bragg's reign of terror, an unconventional widow (Renee Zellweger) arrives, complicating the job and threatening their bond.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  4 wins.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
R
Year:
2008
115 min
$20,157,730
Website
1,104 Views


MAY:

They been living off us like

coyotes live off a buffalo carcass.

COLE:

Everything eats meat likes a dead

buffalo.

The men just look at Cole who doesn’t meet their pondering

gaze...

RAINES:

The good people who stayed here did

so because they want to live here,

work, and raise their families in

peace. We want our town back and

we are ready to pay your price.

HITCH:

Who makes the laws in this town?

RAINES:

We do... the Board of Aldermen.

COLE:

(to Everett)

What do you allow?

HITCH:

It’s what we do.

(CONTINUED)

"APPALOOSA" GREEN REVISIONS 10/30/07 10.

11 CONTINUED:
11

COLE:

It is, ain’t it.

RAINES:

Then you’ll do it?

COLE:

Sure.

OLSON:

Thank God.

Cole nods to Hitch...

HITCH:

Cole ‘n me will do the gun work but

we’re going to button the town up

tighter than a nun’s corset. We

need you to make laws so we can

enforce them.

RAINES:

We got laws.

HITCH:

You’re gonna have more. We need a

lot of laws to make it all legal.

RAINES:

Well, sure, I mean... if it seems

reasonable we’ll put them right in

the bylaws.

COLE:

No.

MAY:

No what?

Hitch pulls out a piece of paper and hands it to Raines.

HITCH:

What it basically says is, what

Virgil says is law.

MAY:

Christ, that would mean you was

running the town.

COLE:

It would.

RAINES:

We can’t have that.

(CONTINUED)

"APPALOOSA" GREEN REVISIONS 10/30/07 11.

11 CONTINUED:
11

Cole is silent.

RAINES (CONT’D)

I mean, you’re asking us, so to

speak, to turn the town over to

you.

HITCH:

Far as I can see you’re gonna turn

it over anyway, us or Bragg.

The doors connecting the parlor to the saloon swing open.

TILDA, a small round faced Swedish waitress, hurries over.

TILDA:

Mr. Raines?

RAINES:

Not now Tilda.

TILDA:

Trouble in the bar, Mr. Raines.

RAINES:

Tilda!

TILDA:

It’s Mr. Bragg’s men!

OLSON:

Oh, Jesus God.

Raines just looks at Cole and Hitch.

TILDA:

There’s four of them. They have

guns.

HITCH:

Space for your signature down there

at the bottom. On the right.

Raines is frozen... looking at Cole’s rules.

OLSON:

Oh for God’s sake, give me that.

Olson signs the paper and passes it to May. After a beat May

signs it. Olson grabs the paper and shoves it back to

Raines.

OLSON:

Sign the damn thing Abner, so these

men can do what they came here to

do.

(CONTINUED)

"APPALOOSA" GREEN REVISIONS 10/30/07 12.

11 CONTINUED:
11

After Raines signs the paper, Cole waves it a moment to drythe ink, folds it and puts it in his pocket.

Cole nods Hitch to the FRONT DOOR. Hitch exits.

12 EXT. BOSTON HOUSE - CONTINUOUS - SUNSET 12

Hitch crosses from the hotel entrance to the Saloon doors.

As he enters...

13 INT. SALOON - CONTINUOUS - SUNSET 13

Cole enters from the LOBBY.

Bronc and Chalk are trying to piss into a spittoon from adistance.

TWO more of Bragg’s men are leaning against the bar laughing.

COLE:

Button ‘em up.

BRONC:

Who the f*** are you?

COLE:

Virgil Cole.

BRONC:

Virgil Cole? No sh*t? Hey Chalk,

Virgil Cole wants us to button up.

Chalk turns toward Cole with his penis hanging out.

follows suit.

Bronc

CHALK:

Step a little closer, Virgil Cole,

and I’ll piss in your pocket.

COLE:

I’m the new City Marshal.

away or lose it.

Put it

CHALK:

Hey, Bronc, they got a new CityMarshal.

Bragg’s other Two Men leaning against the bar, move apart.

BRONC:

Didn’t they have another Marshal,

‘while back?

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Ed Harris

Edward Allen "Ed" Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is known for his performances in films such as The Right Stuff (1983), The Abyss (1989), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Radio (2003), A History of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), The Way Back (2010), Man on a Ledge (2012), Gravity (2013), and Run All Night (2015). Harris is set to star in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's upcoming Starz drama series The One Percent. more…

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