Smokin' Aces Page #3

DUPREE (V.O.)

Buddy Israel, nicknamed "Aces" Born

a bastard, mom Laverne chased the

pipe dream from a Dairy Queen in

Kansas City to the Vegas stage. Two

months after stepping off a Greyhound,

she gets knocked up by some hood.

CUT TO SCENE:

INT. DRESSING ROOM -- NIGHT (PAST)

A row of chorus girls, gilded like gold-flaked flamingos,

rubbing coca-butter on bare midriffs. THE CAMERA FINDS Buddy's

mother LAVERNE, prominent bulge, seriously pregnant, she's

arguing with her employers, trying to suck in her belly,

yelling "bullshit, you just have to light it right..."

DUPREE (V.O.)

Biological abandons her and the

showgirl thing goes sideways so she

winds up working as a magician's

assistant to make extra cash.

CUT TO SCENE:

INT. CLUB -- NIGHT (PAST)

Second rate dive bar. Laverne Israel assists a pompadour-

maned MAGICIAN on stage. In the lounge, sitting on a

stripper's lap, a young Buddy plays with a deck of cards.

CUT TO:

INT. POOL HALL -- NIGHT (PRESENT DAY)

Bamboo-style ceiling fans circulate cigar smoke and shitty

attitudes. At a billiard table in the back: JACK DUPREE,

40's, third generation Bail Bondsman, talks with HOLLIS

ELMORE, 30's and "PISTOL" PETE DEEKS, 30's, ex-Vegas vice

cops. As Dupree speaks, WE SEE the scenes behind the story:

DUPREE:

...And young Buddy learns everything

about cards from this Mandrake

motherf***er his mom is working for...

CUT TO SCENE:

The magician being brutally beaten -- pelted with poker chips,

kicked in the chops, pissed on, the works.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes