Straight Outta Compton Page #3

Dre holds Verna’s gaze a moment longer, then turns and calmly

walks back past her, into his room. He picks up his

headphones, pull-out car stereo. Heads for the door, opens

it...

7.

VERNA (CONT’D)

(regret)

Andre --

But he’s already closed the door behind him.

5 INT./EXT. VERNA’S HOUSE - DRIVEWAY - DAY 5

Dre bounds over to a battered BLUE & WHITE DATSUN B-210

parked in the DRIVEWAY, regret settling in. He looks up to

see Tyree ambling closer, carrying a bundle of errantly-

selected clothes, a crate of records.

TYREE:

Grabbed some of your stuff, man.

DRE:

Good lookin’ out.

Dre takes the clothes. Tosses them in the back.

TYREE:

When you comin’ back?

DRE:

I don’t know. Gotta figure some

things out.

TYREE:

Can I come with you?

DRE:

You been fightin’ for your own room

this whole time and now you wanna

come with me?

They share a CHUCKLE. Then -

TYREE:

You know she’s just want the best

for you.

DRE:

I know, T. I want the best for me

too -- that's way I gotta go.

Him and Dre have special brother-to-brother embrace. Then Dre

hops into his car.

DRE (CONT’D)

When I get set up right, I'mma have

you come with me. Don't worry about

it. It's gonna be sooner then you

think.

8.

Tyree sullenly nods.

Dre triggers the ignition, MUSIC BLASTING, and PEELS away -

DRE (CONT’D)

Call you later.

6 INT./EXT. DRE’S CAR - COMPTON - MINUTES LATER 6

Dre rolls along in that ugly-ass Datsun. It’s still early,

but the STREETS are starting to FILL UP. Dudes in doorways,

on the corners, clocking him as he passes. An LA SHERIFF’S

DEPT. SQUAD CAR slides past, disappears around a corner.

WE HEAR a HELICOPTER SOUND, as WE GO WIDE -

7 EXT. LOS ANGELES - WAY UP IN THE SKY - DAY 7

Flying high over the city, it’s quiet up here, only the sound

of WIND. BELOW, we see the tight grids of SOUTH LOS ANGELES,

and the densely-packed TRAFFIC heading north along the 110

FREEWAY, as it angles toward the SKYSCRAPERS of DOWNTOWN L.A.

We move NORTH and there’s DODGER STADIUM plunked at the

southern tip of ELYSIAN PARK, and the LA RIVER twisting

snakelike up into GRIFFITH PARK -

And NORTHWEST past the mountains of Griffith, descending into

the VALLEY, where we suddenly DIVE DOWN into WOODLAND HILLS

and settle upon the low-slung sprawl of -

8 INT./EXT. YELLOW BUS - TAFT HIGH SCHOOL - DAY 8

We track backward through a school bus full of STUDENTS.

Almost exclusively black and Latino kids. Late 80’s fashions.

All the way in the BACK ROW we settle on O’SHEA JACKSON, who

we now know as --

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