Slow West Page #3
JAY rides behind SILAS through the forest, brushing theremaining ash from his hair and suit
JAY:
What’s your name?
SILAS snaps
SILAS:
Drop back, single file
SILAS leads, JAY follows, staying single file as instructed
JAY (SHOUTS)
Why you headin’ West?
SILAS does not respond
JAY (CONT’D)
You care not why I’m headed West?
No response
9.
JAY (CONT’D)
There was an accident - My girl andher father fled from Scotland,
settled out West. It was all myfault
SILAS (TO HIMSELF)
Take a hint kid?
JAY:
We love each other
SILAS (TO HIMSELF)
Sure you do, kid
They ride on in silence
Close up of JAY, sound of waves breaking - Another memory ofRose
11
EXT -SCOTTISH SAND DUNES - FLASHBACK - DAY 11
Moody grey sky
Large waves crash onto a sandy beach, the beach becomes sand
dunes
JAY stands at the top of a large dune
ROSE, standing at the bottom, shouts up to JAY
ROSE:
JAY! A thousand ways to die, choose
one
JAY:
Bow and arrow
She pulls a pretend arrow from a pretend quiver and pretendfires it at JAY
JAY pretends to be shot in the heart and falls dramatically
He rolls down the dune to ROSE’s feet and lays still, face
up, eyes shut, tongue out
ROSE jumps on top of JAY and smiles. (This is the moment wesaw in JAY’s first memory at the beginning of the film)
JAY’S eyes are shut, ROSE places her hand on JAY’S chest andleans in, her ear to his chest, continuing the charade bychecking if JAY is breathing
JAY places his hands on Rose’s hands
10.
ROSE smiles, but pulls away, breaking the moment, pushesJAY’s head to the side
ROSE:
Silly boy
ROSE jumps up
Runs up the dune, shouting
ROSE (CONT’D)
My turn
JAY looks up to the sky
12
Low light, long shadows
Distant echo of a pretty acapella song emanates from the
trees ahead
JAY head slumped, the music stirs him from his daydream
Three AFRICAN MEN, clothed in dusty ragged Union soldier
suits, sit in a circle, one in a makeshift wooden wheel
chair, one on crutches, wounds from the Civil War
They sing a beautiful Congolese song. (They’re Congolese)
SILAS rides straight past, JAY stops to listen
SILAS stops, grumps, spits, and turns
SILAS wolf whistles, JAY ignores
SILAS shakes his head, turns and trots off
The band smile, singing for the pleasure of singing. The songends and the man on crutches looks up at JAY
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