Malcolm X Page #3

Shoes-off, Malcolm steps into the tight-fltting peg-legged

pants... dons a wide-brimmed hat with a bright blue feather...

Finally, fully outfitted, he leans forward toward his new

image in the full-length mirror, twirling a long, dangling

key chain.

SHORTY:

Well, all right, then.

MALCOLM:

Well, all reet, then.

The transformation is complete. The two laugh and slap hands.

EXT. ROXBURY STREET - DAY

Malcolm and Shorty come strutting down the street: two conked,

zoot-suited sharpies. Hometown boy has departed. And the

CHICKS on the street notice them, especially Malcolm, the

taller of the two, the lighter-skinned, the more dominant.

They walk imperiously past, fully aware of their impact.

CLOSE SHOT - MALCOLM

FREEZE FRAME. He becomes a STILL.

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

When my mother was pregnant with me,

she told me later, a party of Klansmen

on horseback surrounded our house in

Omaha.

ANGLE. KLAN on horses in front of house.

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

They brandished guns and shouted for

my father to come out. My mother

went to the door where they could

see her pregnant condition...

ANGLE. A pregnant Louise Little on porch.

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

...and told them my father was in

Milwaukee, preaching.

ANGLE. The Klan breaks all the windows in the house then

rides off into the glorious D.W. Griffith _Birth of a Nation_

moonlit night.

CLOSE - LOUISE LITTLE

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

The hooded Klansman said the good,

white Christians would not stand for

his troublemaking, and to get out of

town.

ANGLE. The terrified Little children look out a broken window

at their mother.

ANGLE. AN OLD FRAME HOUSE IN OMAHA

VOICE OF MALCOLM X

They broke every window with their

rifle butts before riding off into

the night, their torches flaming.

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