My Cousin Vinny Page #6

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BILL:

Wait till you meet him!

EXT. WAHZOO CITY SQUARE

It's a typical, small town Alabama courtyard - a colonial-style

courthouse in the middle, surrounded by grass

(CONTINUED)

A cannon, or a statue of Rober:: E. Lee

The streets around the courthouse have all the little stores

that service the small community of 2000; Western Auto, EZ

Finance company, a single floor, 3000 square foot department

store, a "package" store (liquor store). Many of the signs are

done in hand lettering

Some of the stores are so run down it's hard to tell if they've

been abandoned or not. There are a few people walking past

The setting is quiet, benign, serene. We HEAR BIRDS CHIRPING

It is small town in every way

THEN, WE HEAR.IN THE DISTANCET HE BASS FROMA HIGH-POWEREDC AR

STEREO (THUMPAT HUMPAT HUMPA). An obese woman in a floral-print

dress stops and turns toward the sound. It is unusual indeed

She watches unapprovingly as she sees ••

••• a perfectly-restored, but muddied-around-the-wheels

Cadillac coupe de Ville convertible. As the car approaches,

we can identify the music - hip-hop - it's Tone Loc's Funky cold

Medina. The car parks in front of the courthouse and stops

Silence. The driver's door opens and out steps VINCENT L

GUARDIAG AMBONEa, tough New York Italian-American. He's been

up driving for twenty hours straight and he looks it - unshaven,

wrinkled clothes and bloodshot eyes. He looks unquestionably

tough - you'd want him on your side in a gang fight. He's

wearing Ray-Bans, and a weathered black leather blazer. He

carries a deck of cards in his shirt pocket

Getting down on his knees, he checks out the front end of the

car for something is wrong

The passenger door opens and LISA, Vinny's girlfriend, gets' out

and stretches. Lisa's pretty, with perfectly-coiffed, jet-black

hair. She's more appropriately dressed for a New York club than

the deep south, which in these parts, looks downright trampy

She's got a small, instant-everything camera - and she takes

pictures of anything that looks interesting

VINNY:

(thick Brooklyn accent)

Boy, do you stick out

LIS:

(same accent)

Me? What about you?

VINNY:

I fit in more than you ••

She walks 'round the car into view - wearing~ short black

skirt, black tights and shoes, she's got long legs

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VINNY:

.•. I'm wearing cowboy boots

LIS:

(dryly)

Oh yeah, you 'blend',

As Vinny looks around the car, Lisa glances around at the

neighborhood, taking pictures

LIS:

I bet the Chinese food here is

terrible

VINNY:

(sarcastic to death)

Oh yeah, you're gonna 'blend

perfectly

Getting up, indicating car's front suspension

VINNY:

Nothing out of whack as far I see

LIS:

It feels like the wheels went out

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