Raising Arizona Page #4

HI:

You bet I do.

REVERSE:

Over their shoulders, the minister.

MINISTER:

Okay then.

FLASH:

On the newlyweds smiling at the camera.

FLASH:

On the newlyweds smiling at each other, profile to the camera.

HIGH WIDE SHOT TRAILER PARK

In the middle of a vast expanse of desert.

VOICE OVER:

Ed's pa staked us to a starter home

in suburban Tempe...

INT. MACHINE SHOP

Hi is working the drill press, wearing goggles and sweat-

stained overalls.

VOICE OVER:

...and I got a job drilling holes in

sheet metal.

Next to him idly stands Bud, a veteran of the shop, with a

grimy face and a pair of goggles pushed up on his forehead.

BUD:

So we was doin' paramedical work in

affiliation with the state highway

system-not actually practicin',

y'understand - and me and Bill's

patrollin' down Nine Mile -

HI:

Bill Roberts?

BUD:

(barking)

No, not that motherscratcher! Bill

Parker! Anyway, we're approachin'

the wreck, and there's a spherical

object arestin' on the highway...

He pauses to blow and pop a bubble with his chewing gum.

BUD:

...And it don't look like a piece a

the car.

VOICE OVER:

Mostways the job was a lot like

prison, except Ed was waitin' at the

end of every day...

CASHIER'S WINDOW

Hi is scowling at his paycheck. Behind the barred window a

fat cashier grins.

VOICE OVER:

...and a paycheck at the end of every

week.

CASHIER:

Gummint do take a bite, don't she?

EXT. TRAILER

Hi sits in a lawn chair in front of the trailer. Ed sits on

his lap, his arms around her. Both are wearing sunglasses,

looking at the setting sun. The scene is suffused with a

warm yellow light.

VOICE OVER:

These were the happy days, the salad

days as they say...

As the sun sets, the light is turning from yellow to amber.

Hi and Ed watch, their heads following its slow downward

arc.

VOICE OVER:

...and Ed felt that having a critter

was the next logical step. It was

all she thought about.

The amber is turning to a more neutral dusky light as the

sun has set. Hi and Ed continue to stare at the point where

it disappeared.

VOICE OVER:

...Her point was that there was too

much love and beauty for just the

two of us...

The dusk is slipping away into darkness.

VOICE OVER:

...and every day we kept a child out

of the world was a day he might later

regret having missed.

We are by now holding on pitch black. Crickets chirp. From

the darkness:

ED:

That was beautiful.

A CALENDAR:

Ed is crossing off the last day on the calendar before a day

circled in red.

VOICE OVER:

So we worked at it on the days we

calculated most likely to be

fruitful...

INT. TRAILER

Hi is wearily entering after a long day at work, clutching

his lunchpail.

VOICE OVER:

...and we worked at it most other

days just to be sure.

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