Joker Page #3

FROM ACROSS THE BUSY CITY STREET, we see Joker. He's dressed

as a sad-faced HOBO CLOWN. This is his job.

Dressed in tattered clothes, dark five o'clock shadow painted

on his face, big bulbous red nose, his mouth's outlined in

white, turned down at the corners.

He's holding up a sign in front of Kenny's Music Shop that

reads, "EVERYTHING MUST GO!" A banner above the store reads,

"GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!" Behind him, an OLD MAN plays a piano

on the street. Both of them there to draw attention to the

big sale going on in the store.

Joker's doing a little Charlie Chaplin like waddle to the

music. Most people walk right past, ignoring him. A few bump

into him by mistake.

JOKER SEES A GROUP OF FIVE BOYS, no more than 15-years-old,

walking toward him. He moves out of their way. They crack up

laughing when they see him. Start making fun of him.

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Joker ignores them, tries to do his job the best he can while

maintaining some dignity. Keeps dancing and holding up the

sign.

One of the kids knocks the sign out of Joker's hands--

KID #1

Suck my dick, clown.

The kids laugh. Joker doesn't say anything. Just bends over

to pick up the sign--

Another kid kicks him in the ass--

KID #2

Whoops.

Joker falls face first onto the sidewalk. Oddly, the old man

playing the piano picks up the pace of the music--

The kids crack up. One of the boys grabs Joker's sign and

takes off running across the street--

The other kids follow, weaving through traffic--

Joker gets up and gives chase. He needs his sign back.

He almost gets hit by a taxi, spinning out of the way just in

time-- Spinning right into another taxi that stops just short

of hitting him.

Joker keeps running through traffic. People stare. A clown

barreling down the street has got to be a joke--

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The five boys are booking it down the crowded street laughing

and whooping it up. At the last second they take a sharp

right turn down a cross street--

Joker almost overshoots the corner, slip-sliding in his big

red shoes--

He rights himself and heads down after them--

Sees them running up ahead--

WHAP! Out of nowhere Joker gets hit in the face!

He falls to the ground.

One of the kids was hiding between parked cars and hit Joker

with the "EVERYTHING MUST GO!" sign, splintering it in two--

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