
Straight Outta Compton
FADE UP:
ON;2 EXT. BROWN HOUSE - COMPTON - NIGHT 2
A bucket pulls up in front of a shitty-looking BROWN HOUSE
with ugly bars on the windows and doors. A rusted swing-set
leans sideways on the dirt/grass they call a front lawn.
SUPERIMPOSE:
COMPTON, CA 1986Inside the car is ERIC WRIGHT, 21, but you know him as -
SUPERIMPOSE:
ERIC WRIGHT AKA EAZY-EA man who is completely in his element -- comfortable and
poised, ready for anything.
He hops out of the car, moves quickly to the TRUNK -- pops it
open and reaches inside. With an electric screwdriver, Eazy
unscrews a CERWIN-VEGA sub-woofer. Grabs a bulging BROWN BAG
out of the speaker... and a 9mm -- SLAMS the trunk.
ON THE ROOF, a LOOKOUT clocks Eazy as he walks up to the
front door of the decrepit house...
Eazy KNOCKS BY CODE. A dude, TONE (20s), opens a slat in the
door. Gauges Eazy, EYES SKEPTICAL.
TONE:
Who is it?
EAZY:
Eric! Man, we been through this
shit a thousand times.
Multiple DEADBOLTS UNLOCK and an irritated Eazy enters -
EAZY (CONT’D)
What’s the use to having this dumb
ass knock if I gotta tell you my
name anyway?
2.
3 INT. BROWN HOUSE - MINUTES LATER 3
It’s not what you’d call “cozy.” The carpet is torn up,
stained, cigarette-burnt. Walls covered in TAGS. A PITBULL
stares menacingly from the kitchen.
In addition to Eazy and Tone, there are THREE other people
spread around the room: one GIRL lounges on a vinyl couch,
eyes glazed; another girl, TASHA, loudly SCRAPES soul food
onto the pitbull’s plate; and a JITTERY DUDE steady keeps an
EYE out the WINDOW, tense, occasionally clocking --
EAZY spreads the CONTENTS of the BROWN BAG before them on a
long TABLE:
three FREEZER BAGS each containing 10 ounces. Helooks up, ALL BUSINESS.
EAZY:
TONE:
Man, you heard what happen? My best
runner got cracked. They sent his
young ass to Y.A. --
EAZY:
The f*ck that got to do with me?
Tone turns to Tasha in the kitchen, nods.
TONE:
Tasha, get this dude a 40.
TASHA opens the fridge, grabs a 40oz. -
EAZY:
Do I look thirsty to you?
(beat)
Where my ends at?
-- hands it to Tone who CRACKS it open. Drinks...
TONE:
Why you so ruthless, Eric, damn!
You don’t want nothin’ to drink?
What you want --
(re:
the girls)-- you want some pussy?
EAZY:
Yep. But not from these strawberry
bitches you got right here.
3.
TONE:
So you just gonna disrespect my
house like that, Cuz?
EAZY:
Dumb ass, this a dope house! It's
already disrespected.
JITTERY DUDE:
(re:
Eazy’s drugs)Well f*ck it then -- You gonna have
to let us hold on to that right
there.
ON THE COUCH, the GIRL grabs a SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN FROM UNDER A
PILLOW. Levels it at Eazy, face grimaced, hard, strung out.
EAZY:
Yeah, do what you gotta do --
‘Cause I got my homies parked
across the street from your momma's
house. I don't show up. They show
out...
Eazy just stares right back at them. The tension’s like a
pressure cooker about to burst. Until -
A WHISTLE echoes in from outside (THE LOOKOUT) -
Suddenly, everyone notices a deep RUMBLING coming from
outside. Jittery Dude steps back from the window, eyes wide -
JITTERY DUDE:
Oh, shit --
Because there’s a MASSIVE ARMORED VEHICLE rolling down the
street toward them. 6 TONS of steel, with a 14-foot BATTERING
RAM mounted on the front. LAPD emblazoned on the side.
JITTERY DUDE (CONT’D)
Fuckin’ Batter-Ram!
Everyone in the room FLIES into action, STASHING the WEAPONS
and the MONEY into hidden STASH SPOTS all over the HOUSE:
Behind fake-panel LIGHT SWITCHES, hidden HATCHES beneath the
FLOORBOARDS, in a fake-panel inside the FRIDGE. It’s some
serious MACGYVER SHIT.
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