Slow West Page #2

Synopsis: A bounty hunter (Michael Fassbender) keeps his true motive a secret from the naive Scottish teenager (Kodi Smit-McPhee) he's offered to serve as bodyguard and guide while the youth searches for his beloved in 1800s Colorado.
Genre: Western
Production: A24 and DIRECTV
  6 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
2015
84 min
Website
847 Views


6.

SILAS points JAY’S gun at the OFFICER and pulls the trigger,

but the gun is empty and clicks

The officer smiles at this, but quick as a flash, SILASraises his own gun up and shoots the officer between the eyes

Dead before he hits the ground

Without taking his eyes off the officer, SILAS throws JAY’Sgun him

SILAS:

Clean it. Oil it

JAY fumbles the catch

SILAS walks over to the officer and crouches down

Pulls out a large knife and cuts a pouch from the officersbelt

JAY looks on

JAY:

What do you want?

SILAS checks the contents of the pouch and stuffs it into hisbelt

JAY (CONT’D)

He was an Officer

SILAS looks through the man’s pockets and finds a tin

SILAS:

Wearin’ a dress don’t make her a

lady

SILAS pockets the tin

SILAS (CONT’D)

They ain’t soldiers. Least no more.

Indian slayers

SILAS moves round and removes the OFFICER’s boots and

addresses JAY without looking up

SILAS (CONT’D)

Keep headin’ West solo you’ll be

dead by dawn. How you made it thisfar is a miracle

JAY:

I take care of myself

7.

SILAS:

Sure kid. You need chaperonin’ and

I’m a chaperone

SILAS gets up and walks towards JAY

JAY takes a step back, still holding his gun

SILAS walks past JAY and towards JAY’s horse

JAY:

Safer to travel with a killer?

SILAS:

That’s right

SILAS checks out JAY’s laden horse. Too many bags and casesfor a small pony to carry

SILAS begins to cut the bags free

SILAS (CONT’D)

First lets save your pony’s life

SILAS cuts a case free and it drops to the ground

SILAS (CONT’D)

I counted a dozen of them bastards

attack them Indians back there.

Minus three that leaves.. too many

JAY’s turns and looks into the woods in all directions

SILAS, now down on his knees, rakes through JAY’s case.

Tosses out a kettle, throws a useless box over his shoulder.

Tosses boots and a shirt

Finds a book, looks at the cover and holds it up to JAY

JAY reads the title

JAY:

‘Ho for the West. A traveller and

Emigrants Hand-book

SILAS keeps looking at JAY

JAY (CONT’D)

To Canada and the North West States

of America’..

SILAS keeps staring

JAY (CONT’D)

..By Edward Hepple Hall

SILAS throws the book over his shoulder

8.

SILAS:

Well ho for the West

SILAS casts the whole case aside, gets up and walks towardsJAY

SILAS (CONT’D)

Dollars. Fifty now, fifty when wesplit

JAY turns his back to SILAS and fumbles in his wallet

Turns back around and hands SILAS fifty dollars

JAY:

Until we reach a forest called

Silverghost

SILAS snatches the cash, counts it, and walks off

SILAS:

Lets drift

JAY runs around and picks up his ‘Ho for the West’ book,

grabs the reins of his pony and follows SILAS

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John Maclean

ohn Maclean studied BA drawing and painting at Edinburgh college of Art and MA at The Royal College of art in London. After graduating, he formed The Beta Band with friends, 1997 to 2004 and The Aliens 2005 to 2008. John made many of the band's music videos. In 2009 John made Man on a Motorcycle, a short film starring Michael Fassbender, filmed ... more…

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