06-21-2005, 07:13 PM
The tangled mass of choking, biting, kicking, screaming
confusion flies through the door of Sal's out onto the
sidewalk.
CLOSE--EDDIE
The kid yells:
EDDIE
Fight! Fight!
CUT TO:
CLOSE--DA MAYOR
He looks up.
CUT TO:
CLOSE--MOTHER SISTER
She looks up.
CUT TO:
CLOSE--SWEET DICK WILLIE
He also looks up.
ANGLE--STREET
The people on The Block run to Sal's Famous Pizzeria to see
the STATIC.
ANGLE--SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA
Radio Raheem, Buggin' Out, Sal, Vito, and Pino are still
entangled, rolling around on the sidewalk, but now before an
entertained crowd of onlookers:
ANGLE--DA MAYOR
DA MAYOR
Break it up. This is crazy.
The fight continues. Da Mayor is smart enough not to get in
the middle of this war. We hear sirens, somebody has called
DA COPS.
ANGLE--STREET
80.
The cop cars come right through the crowd, almost running
over some people. The cops get out with nightsticks and
guns drawn. WE RECOGNIZE two of the faces, Officers Long
and Ponte. Any time there is a skirmish between a Black man
and a white man, you can bet the house on who the copes are
gonna go for. You know the deal! Buggin' Out is pulled off
first, then Vito and Pino, but Radio Raheem is a crazed man.
It takes all six cops to pull him off Sal, who is red as a
beet from being choked.
ANGLE--COPS
Handcuffs are put on Buggin' Out as he watches the other
cops put a choke hold on Radio Raheem to restrain him.
ANGLE--RADIO RAHEEM
Radio Raheem is still struggling, then he just stops, his
body goes limp and he falls to the sidewalk like a fifty-
pound bag of Idaho potatoes.
ANGLE--STREET
Officers Long and Ponte kick him.
OFFICER LONG
Get up! Get up!
Radio Raheem just lies there like a bump on a log.
ANGLE--CROWD
The crowd stares at Radio Raheem's still body. He's
unconscious or dead.
CLOSE--OFFICER LONG
OFFICER LONG
Quit faking.
ANGLE--STREET
The officers all look at each other. They know, they know
exactly what they've done. The infamous Michael Stewart
choke hold.
OFFICER PONTE
Let's get him outta here.
The officers pick up Radio Raheem's limp body and throw him
into the back seat. Buggin' Out is pushed into another car.
The cop cars speed off; in their haste to beat it, they have
left the crowd. It's at this point the crowd becomes an
angry mob.
81.
ANGLE--MOB
The mob looks at...
ANGLE--MOB POV
Sal still on the sidewalk, being helped to his feet by Vito
and Pino, who are in bad shape themselves.
ANGLE--MOB
The mood/tone of the mob is getting ugly. Once again they
have seen one of their own killed before their eyes at the
hands of the cops. We hear the murmurs of the folks go
through the crowd.
VOICES OF MOB
THEY KILLED HIM
THEY KILLED RADIO RAHEEM
IT'S MURDER
DID IT AGAIN
JUST LIKE THEY DID MICHAEL STEWART
MURDER
ELEANOR BUMPERS
MURDER
IT'S NOT SAFE
NOT EVEN IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD
IT'S NOT SAFE
NEVER WAS
NEVER WILL BE
The cops, in their haste to get Radio Raheem out of there,
have left an angry mob of Black folks with a defenseless
Sal, Vito, and Pino.
The mob looks at them.
VOICES OF MOB
WON'T STAND FOR IT
THE LAST TIME
FUCKIN' COPS
THE LAST TIME
IT'S PLAIN AS DAY
DIDN'T HAVE TO KILL THE BOY
HIGH ANGLE
Mookie looks at the crowd and notices he's on the wrong side.
He leaves Sal and his two sons.
ANGLE--STREET
Da Mayor walks in front of the crowd.
82.
DA MAYOR
Good people, let's all go home.
Somebody's gonna get hurt.
CROWD (OS)
Yeah, you!
DA MAYOR
If we don't stop this now, we'll
all regret it. Sal and his two
boys had nothing to do with what
the police did.
CROWD (OS)
Get out of the way, old man. You a
Tom anyway.
DA MAYOR
Let 'em be.
ANGLE--STREET
Mookie picks up a garbage can and dumps it out into the
street. He walks through the crowd, up to Da Mayor, Sal,
Vito, and Pino.
CLOSE--MOOKIE
He screams.
MOOKIE
HATE!!!!
SLOW MOTION
Mookie hurls the garbage can through the plate glass window
of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. That's it. All hell breaks loose.
The dam has been unplugged, broke. The rage of a people has
been unleashed, a fury. A lone garbage can thrown through
the air has released a tidal wave of frustration.
ANGLE--STREET
Da Mayor pushes Sal, Vito, and Pino out of the way as the
mob storms into Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
The people rush into Sal's Famous Pizzeria, tearing it up.
CLOSE--CASH REGISTER
The cash register is opened. WE SEE only coins, Sal has the
paper.
83.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--NIGHT
Da Mayor leads Sal, Vito, and Pino back to his stoop where
they watch in horror.
SAL
There it goes. Why?
DA MAYOR
You was there. First white folks
they saw. You was there.
PINO
Fuckin' niggers.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
Someone lights a match. WHOOOSH!
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
Sal's Famous Pizzeria is going up in flames and now it's a
carnival.
MOTHER SISTER
Burn it down. Burn it down.
One might have thought that the elders--who through the
years have been broken down, whipped, their spirits crushed,
beaten into submission--would be docile, strictly onlookers.
That's not true except for Da Mayor. The rest of the elders
are right up in it with the young people.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
CLOSE--PHOTOS ON WALL OF FAME
The photos of famous Italian-Americans are burning.
EXT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT--NIGHT
The mob now moves across the street in front of the Korean
fruit and vegetable stand. Sweet Dick Willie, Coconut Sid,
and ML stand at the head of the mob.
ML
It's your turn.
CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK
He's scared to death, as the mob is poised to tear his place
up too. The clerk wildly swings a broom to hold them off.
84.
KOREAN CLERK
Me no white. Me no white. Me
Black. Me Black. Me Black.
CLOSE--ML
ML
Me Black. Me Black.
The mob starts to laugh; they feel for him.
ANGLE--MOB
SWEET DICK WILLIE
Korea man is OK. Let's leave him
alone.
ML
Him no white. Him no white.
COCONUT SID
Him Black. Him Black.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--NIGHT
Sal, Vito, and Pino look on as Sal's Famous Pizzeria goes up
in smoke.
DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE--VITO
DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE--PINO
DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE--SAL
EXT: STREET--NIGHT
ANGLE--STREET
Jade is running through the mob, looking for her brother.
JADE
Mookie! Mookie!
ANGLE--MOOKIE
Mookie is running around with the rest of the mob.
ANGLE--STREET
85.
The wail of fire trucks and police sirens is now added to
the night.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
The mob moves back to in front of Sal's as the fire trucks
and police, in full riot gear, pull up in the street behind
them.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
Good people. Please disperse.
Please disperse.
The firemen rush to hook up their hoses, the police force
themselves between the crowd and the burning Sal's Famous
Pizzeria.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
Please disperse! Please disperse!
The mob doesn't listen, they will not be moved. The mob
will not be moved until they see Sal's Famous Pizzeria burn
to the ground.
ANGLE--SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA
The firemen douse the pizzeria, trying desperately to stop
the fire from spreading into the adjoining buildings.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
Good people, we're giving you one
more warning. Please go back home.
CLOSE--MOOKIE
MOOKIE
This is our home.
CLOSE--MOTHER SISTER
MOTHER SISTER
This is our neighborhood.
ANGLE--MOB
It will take force to move this mass of people.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
You've had your warning!
POW!
The hoses are turned on the mob.
86.
WE SEE Mookie, Mother Sister, Sweet Dick Willie, ML, Coconut
Sid, Jade, Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and Ella, etc., go down
before the powerful blast of the firehouse.
Now we've come full circle. We're back to Montgomery or
Birmingham, Alabama. The only thing missing is Sheriff Bull
Connor and the German shepherds.
It would take force to move them and that's exactly what the
mob got. People are trying to hold on to each other, cars,
railings, anything to keep from being swept away.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--NIGHT
Da Mayor, Sal, Vito, and Pino watch in disbelief. It's
unbelievable what is happening before their eyes.
CUT TO:
THE STREET--NIGHT
THEIR POV
People are screaming, kids and women are not being spared
from the brute force of the firehoses either.
EXT: WE LOVE STOREFRONT--NIGHT
WE SEE the reflection of the fire in the storefront window
as Mister Señor Love Daddy looks on.
EXT: STREET--NIGHT
ANGLE--JADE AND MOTHER SISTER
Jade and Mother Sister try to hold on to a streetlamp as a
gush of water hits them; their grips loosens, the water is
too powerful, and they slide away down the block and Da
Mayor runs after them.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
CLOSE--PHOTOS
Some burnt photos on the floor.
CLOSE--MICKEY MANTLE BAT
The Mickey Mantle bat burns.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM'S BOX
Radio Raheem's box has melted into a black mass of goo.
CLOSER--RADIO RAHEEM'S BOX
87.
As WE MOVE IN TIGHTER ON the melted box, we begin to hear
the rap song that we've hear throughout. All other sound
drops as the rap song gets louder and louder until it's
deafening.
ANGLE--SMILEY
Smiley sits up from where he hid during the burning and
looting of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. Smiley looks around and
goes directly to the smoldering Wall of Fame. He stands
there. Smiley pins one of his Malcolm X/Martin Luther King,
Jr., cards to the Wall of Fame.
CLOSE--PHOTO
CLOSE--SMILEY
We're on Smiley's face and a smile slowly travels across.
It's the first time Smiley has smiled in years and nobody is
there to see this event.
FADE TO BLACK
THE MORNING AFTER
FADE IN:
EXT: THE STREET--TO INT: RADIO STATION STOREFRONT--DAY
The CAMERA, FROM HIGH ABOVE, CRANES DOWN ON The Block. The
sidewalk is deserted, broken glass is everywhere, and it
looks exactly as how one expects it to look, the morning
after an uprising.
The CAMERA NOW MOVES IN ON the WE LOVE storefront where
Mister Señor Love Daddy is in his familiar place behind the
mike.
MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
My people. My people. What can I
say? Say what I can. I saw it but
I didn't believe it. I didn't
believe it what I saw. Are we
gonna live together? Together are
we gonna live? This is ya Mister
Señor Love Daddy here on WE LOVE
RADIO, 108 FM on your dial, and
that's the truth, Ruth.
CLOSE--MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
88.
MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
Today's weather.
(he yells)
HOT!
CLOSER--MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
He screams:
MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
WAKE UP!
CUT TO:
INT: TINA'S BEDROOM--DAY
Mookie jumps out of her bed; Tina sleeps by his side and
their son Hector is between them.
MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY (VO)
WAKE UP!
MOOKIE
Fuck! My money!
TINA
Where are you going?
MOOKIE
To get my money.
TINA
Mookie, you must think I'm stupid
or something. You're gonna run
outta here and I won't see your
black ass for another week.
MOOKIE
Tina, it's not like that.
Mookie is putting on his clothes.
TINA
You don't care about me and you
definately don't care 'bout your son.
MOOKIE
Tina, I'll be right back.
TINA
Be a man.
MOOKIE
I am a man.
89.
TINA
Act like one then. Be a man.
MOOKIE
Later.
TINA
You're to the curb. You better
step off. Get a life.
Mookie leaves.
MOTHER SISTER'S BEDROOM--DAY
Da Mayor wakes up in Mother Sister's big brass bed (she was
born in it). At first he has no idea where he's at, then
sees Mother Sister sitting down across the room smiling at
him.
MOTHER SISTER
Good morning.
DA MAYOR
Is it a good morning?
MOTHER SISTER
Yes indeed. You almost got yourself
killed last night.
DA MAYOR
I've done that before.
Da Mayor gets up out of her big brass bed.
DA MAYOR
Where did you sleep?
MOTHER SISTER
I didn't.
DA MAYOR
I hope the block is still standing.
MOTHER SISTER
We're still standing.
Da Mayor and Mother Sister both look out the parlor window
to see THE BLOCK and Mookie.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Mookie walks up to Sal's Famous Pizzeria as it still
smoulders in the morning light. Sal emerges from the
wreckage; he looks like he might have slept there.
90.
SAL
Whatdafuck do you want?
MOOKIE
I wants my money. I wants to get
paid.
Sal looks at Mookie in disbelief.
SAL
Mookie, I always liked you. Not
the smartest kid, but you're honest.
Don't make me dislike you.
MOOKIE
Sal, I want my money.
SAL
Don't even ask about your money.
Your money wouldn't even pay for
that window you smashed.
MOOKIE
Motherfuck a window, Radio Raheem
is dead.
SAL
You're right, a kid is dead, but
Mook, this isn't the time.
MOOKIE
Fuck dat. The time is fuckin' now.
Y'know I'm sorry 'bout Sal's Famous
Pizzeria, but I gotta live, too. I
gotta get paid.
SAL
We both do.
MOOKIE
We all know you're gonna get over
with the insurance money anyway!
Ya know da deal.
SAL
Do we now?
MOOKIE
Quit bullshitting.
SAL
You don't know shit about shit.
91.
MOOKIE
I know I wants to get my money.
Sal has had it.
SAL
How much? How much do I owe you?
MOOKIE
My salary. Two-fifty.
Sal pulls out a wad and quickly peels off hundred dollar
bills.
SAL
One, two, three, four, five.
Sal throws the "C" notes at Mookie, they hit him in the
chest and fall to the sidewalk.
SAL
Are you happy now? That's five
fucking hundred dollars. You just
got paid. Mookie, you are a rich
man, now ya life is set, you'll
never have another worry, a care in
the world. Mookie, ya wealthy, a
fuckin' Rockefeller.
Mookie is stunned by Sal's outburst. He picks up the bills.
SAL
Ya just got paid, so leave me the
fuck alone.
MOOKIE
You only pay me two-fifty a week.
(he throws two "C"
notes back at him)
I owe you fifty bucks.
SAL
Keep it.
MOOKIE
You keep it.
SAL
Christmas came early.
Both look at the two hundred-dollar bills on the sidewalk
and refuse to pick them up. It's a stalemate.
92.
MOOKIE
This is the hottest Christmas I've
known.
Mookie counts his money.
SAL
It's supposed to be even hotter
today.
MOOKIE
You gonna open up another Sal's
Famous Pizzeria?
SAL
No. What are you gonna do?
MOOKIE
Make dat money. Get paid.
SAL
Yeah!...I'm goin' to the beach for
the first day in fifteen years.
Gonna take the day off and go to
the beach.
MOOKIE
I can dig it. It's gonna be HOT as
a motherfucker.
SAL
Mookie?
MOOKIE
Gotta go.
SAL
C'mere, Doctor.
Mookie turns around and goes back.
SAL
Doctor, this is Sal talkin'.
MOOKIE
OK. OK.
SAL
Doctor, always try to do the right
thing.
MOOKIE
That's it?
93.
SAL
That's it.
Mookie thinks about it, looks at the two "C" notes still
smiling up at him. He quickly scoops them up.
MOOKIE
I got it.
EXT: STREET--DAY
HIGH ANGLE
As Mookie turns and walks away, Sal goes back into Sal's
Famous Pizzeria to salvage what is salvageable, and The
Block begins to awake from its slumber, ready to deal once
again with the heat of the hottest day of the year.
FADE OUT.
confusion flies through the door of Sal's out onto the
sidewalk.
CLOSE--EDDIE
The kid yells:
EDDIE
Fight! Fight!
CUT TO:
CLOSE--DA MAYOR
He looks up.
CUT TO:
CLOSE--MOTHER SISTER
She looks up.
CUT TO:
CLOSE--SWEET DICK WILLIE
He also looks up.
ANGLE--STREET
The people on The Block run to Sal's Famous Pizzeria to see
the STATIC.
ANGLE--SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA
Radio Raheem, Buggin' Out, Sal, Vito, and Pino are still
entangled, rolling around on the sidewalk, but now before an
entertained crowd of onlookers:
ANGLE--DA MAYOR
DA MAYOR
Break it up. This is crazy.
The fight continues. Da Mayor is smart enough not to get in
the middle of this war. We hear sirens, somebody has called
DA COPS.
ANGLE--STREET
80.
The cop cars come right through the crowd, almost running
over some people. The cops get out with nightsticks and
guns drawn. WE RECOGNIZE two of the faces, Officers Long
and Ponte. Any time there is a skirmish between a Black man
and a white man, you can bet the house on who the copes are
gonna go for. You know the deal! Buggin' Out is pulled off
first, then Vito and Pino, but Radio Raheem is a crazed man.
It takes all six cops to pull him off Sal, who is red as a
beet from being choked.
ANGLE--COPS
Handcuffs are put on Buggin' Out as he watches the other
cops put a choke hold on Radio Raheem to restrain him.
ANGLE--RADIO RAHEEM
Radio Raheem is still struggling, then he just stops, his
body goes limp and he falls to the sidewalk like a fifty-
pound bag of Idaho potatoes.
ANGLE--STREET
Officers Long and Ponte kick him.
OFFICER LONG
Get up! Get up!
Radio Raheem just lies there like a bump on a log.
ANGLE--CROWD
The crowd stares at Radio Raheem's still body. He's
unconscious or dead.
CLOSE--OFFICER LONG
OFFICER LONG
Quit faking.
ANGLE--STREET
The officers all look at each other. They know, they know
exactly what they've done. The infamous Michael Stewart
choke hold.
OFFICER PONTE
Let's get him outta here.
The officers pick up Radio Raheem's limp body and throw him
into the back seat. Buggin' Out is pushed into another car.
The cop cars speed off; in their haste to beat it, they have
left the crowd. It's at this point the crowd becomes an
angry mob.
81.
ANGLE--MOB
The mob looks at...
ANGLE--MOB POV
Sal still on the sidewalk, being helped to his feet by Vito
and Pino, who are in bad shape themselves.
ANGLE--MOB
The mood/tone of the mob is getting ugly. Once again they
have seen one of their own killed before their eyes at the
hands of the cops. We hear the murmurs of the folks go
through the crowd.
VOICES OF MOB
THEY KILLED HIM
THEY KILLED RADIO RAHEEM
IT'S MURDER
DID IT AGAIN
JUST LIKE THEY DID MICHAEL STEWART
MURDER
ELEANOR BUMPERS
MURDER
IT'S NOT SAFE
NOT EVEN IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD
IT'S NOT SAFE
NEVER WAS
NEVER WILL BE
The cops, in their haste to get Radio Raheem out of there,
have left an angry mob of Black folks with a defenseless
Sal, Vito, and Pino.
The mob looks at them.
VOICES OF MOB
WON'T STAND FOR IT
THE LAST TIME
FUCKIN' COPS
THE LAST TIME
IT'S PLAIN AS DAY
DIDN'T HAVE TO KILL THE BOY
HIGH ANGLE
Mookie looks at the crowd and notices he's on the wrong side.
He leaves Sal and his two sons.
ANGLE--STREET
Da Mayor walks in front of the crowd.
82.
DA MAYOR
Good people, let's all go home.
Somebody's gonna get hurt.
CROWD (OS)
Yeah, you!
DA MAYOR
If we don't stop this now, we'll
all regret it. Sal and his two
boys had nothing to do with what
the police did.
CROWD (OS)
Get out of the way, old man. You a
Tom anyway.
DA MAYOR
Let 'em be.
ANGLE--STREET
Mookie picks up a garbage can and dumps it out into the
street. He walks through the crowd, up to Da Mayor, Sal,
Vito, and Pino.
CLOSE--MOOKIE
He screams.
MOOKIE
HATE!!!!
SLOW MOTION
Mookie hurls the garbage can through the plate glass window
of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. That's it. All hell breaks loose.
The dam has been unplugged, broke. The rage of a people has
been unleashed, a fury. A lone garbage can thrown through
the air has released a tidal wave of frustration.
ANGLE--STREET
Da Mayor pushes Sal, Vito, and Pino out of the way as the
mob storms into Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
The people rush into Sal's Famous Pizzeria, tearing it up.
CLOSE--CASH REGISTER
The cash register is opened. WE SEE only coins, Sal has the
paper.
83.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--NIGHT
Da Mayor leads Sal, Vito, and Pino back to his stoop where
they watch in horror.
SAL
There it goes. Why?
DA MAYOR
You was there. First white folks
they saw. You was there.
PINO
Fuckin' niggers.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
Someone lights a match. WHOOOSH!
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
Sal's Famous Pizzeria is going up in flames and now it's a
carnival.
MOTHER SISTER
Burn it down. Burn it down.
One might have thought that the elders--who through the
years have been broken down, whipped, their spirits crushed,
beaten into submission--would be docile, strictly onlookers.
That's not true except for Da Mayor. The rest of the elders
are right up in it with the young people.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
CLOSE--PHOTOS ON WALL OF FAME
The photos of famous Italian-Americans are burning.
EXT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT--NIGHT
The mob now moves across the street in front of the Korean
fruit and vegetable stand. Sweet Dick Willie, Coconut Sid,
and ML stand at the head of the mob.
ML
It's your turn.
CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK
He's scared to death, as the mob is poised to tear his place
up too. The clerk wildly swings a broom to hold them off.
84.
KOREAN CLERK
Me no white. Me no white. Me
Black. Me Black. Me Black.
CLOSE--ML
ML
Me Black. Me Black.
The mob starts to laugh; they feel for him.
ANGLE--MOB
SWEET DICK WILLIE
Korea man is OK. Let's leave him
alone.
ML
Him no white. Him no white.
COCONUT SID
Him Black. Him Black.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--NIGHT
Sal, Vito, and Pino look on as Sal's Famous Pizzeria goes up
in smoke.
DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE--VITO
DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE--PINO
DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE--SAL
EXT: STREET--NIGHT
ANGLE--STREET
Jade is running through the mob, looking for her brother.
JADE
Mookie! Mookie!
ANGLE--MOOKIE
Mookie is running around with the rest of the mob.
ANGLE--STREET
85.
The wail of fire trucks and police sirens is now added to
the night.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
The mob moves back to in front of Sal's as the fire trucks
and police, in full riot gear, pull up in the street behind
them.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
Good people. Please disperse.
Please disperse.
The firemen rush to hook up their hoses, the police force
themselves between the crowd and the burning Sal's Famous
Pizzeria.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
Please disperse! Please disperse!
The mob doesn't listen, they will not be moved. The mob
will not be moved until they see Sal's Famous Pizzeria burn
to the ground.
ANGLE--SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA
The firemen douse the pizzeria, trying desperately to stop
the fire from spreading into the adjoining buildings.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
Good people, we're giving you one
more warning. Please go back home.
CLOSE--MOOKIE
MOOKIE
This is our home.
CLOSE--MOTHER SISTER
MOTHER SISTER
This is our neighborhood.
ANGLE--MOB
It will take force to move this mass of people.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
You've had your warning!
POW!
The hoses are turned on the mob.
86.
WE SEE Mookie, Mother Sister, Sweet Dick Willie, ML, Coconut
Sid, Jade, Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and Ella, etc., go down
before the powerful blast of the firehouse.
Now we've come full circle. We're back to Montgomery or
Birmingham, Alabama. The only thing missing is Sheriff Bull
Connor and the German shepherds.
It would take force to move them and that's exactly what the
mob got. People are trying to hold on to each other, cars,
railings, anything to keep from being swept away.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--NIGHT
Da Mayor, Sal, Vito, and Pino watch in disbelief. It's
unbelievable what is happening before their eyes.
CUT TO:
THE STREET--NIGHT
THEIR POV
People are screaming, kids and women are not being spared
from the brute force of the firehoses either.
EXT: WE LOVE STOREFRONT--NIGHT
WE SEE the reflection of the fire in the storefront window
as Mister Señor Love Daddy looks on.
EXT: STREET--NIGHT
ANGLE--JADE AND MOTHER SISTER
Jade and Mother Sister try to hold on to a streetlamp as a
gush of water hits them; their grips loosens, the water is
too powerful, and they slide away down the block and Da
Mayor runs after them.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
CLOSE--PHOTOS
Some burnt photos on the floor.
CLOSE--MICKEY MANTLE BAT
The Mickey Mantle bat burns.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM'S BOX
Radio Raheem's box has melted into a black mass of goo.
CLOSER--RADIO RAHEEM'S BOX
87.
As WE MOVE IN TIGHTER ON the melted box, we begin to hear
the rap song that we've hear throughout. All other sound
drops as the rap song gets louder and louder until it's
deafening.
ANGLE--SMILEY
Smiley sits up from where he hid during the burning and
looting of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. Smiley looks around and
goes directly to the smoldering Wall of Fame. He stands
there. Smiley pins one of his Malcolm X/Martin Luther King,
Jr., cards to the Wall of Fame.
CLOSE--PHOTO
CLOSE--SMILEY
We're on Smiley's face and a smile slowly travels across.
It's the first time Smiley has smiled in years and nobody is
there to see this event.
FADE TO BLACK
THE MORNING AFTER
FADE IN:
EXT: THE STREET--TO INT: RADIO STATION STOREFRONT--DAY
The CAMERA, FROM HIGH ABOVE, CRANES DOWN ON The Block. The
sidewalk is deserted, broken glass is everywhere, and it
looks exactly as how one expects it to look, the morning
after an uprising.
The CAMERA NOW MOVES IN ON the WE LOVE storefront where
Mister Señor Love Daddy is in his familiar place behind the
mike.
MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
My people. My people. What can I
say? Say what I can. I saw it but
I didn't believe it. I didn't
believe it what I saw. Are we
gonna live together? Together are
we gonna live? This is ya Mister
Señor Love Daddy here on WE LOVE
RADIO, 108 FM on your dial, and
that's the truth, Ruth.
CLOSE--MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
88.
MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
Today's weather.
(he yells)
HOT!
CLOSER--MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
He screams:
MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY
WAKE UP!
CUT TO:
INT: TINA'S BEDROOM--DAY
Mookie jumps out of her bed; Tina sleeps by his side and
their son Hector is between them.
MISTER SEÃOR LOVE DADDY (VO)
WAKE UP!
MOOKIE
Fuck! My money!
TINA
Where are you going?
MOOKIE
To get my money.
TINA
Mookie, you must think I'm stupid
or something. You're gonna run
outta here and I won't see your
black ass for another week.
MOOKIE
Tina, it's not like that.
Mookie is putting on his clothes.
TINA
You don't care about me and you
definately don't care 'bout your son.
MOOKIE
Tina, I'll be right back.
TINA
Be a man.
MOOKIE
I am a man.
89.
TINA
Act like one then. Be a man.
MOOKIE
Later.
TINA
You're to the curb. You better
step off. Get a life.
Mookie leaves.
MOTHER SISTER'S BEDROOM--DAY
Da Mayor wakes up in Mother Sister's big brass bed (she was
born in it). At first he has no idea where he's at, then
sees Mother Sister sitting down across the room smiling at
him.
MOTHER SISTER
Good morning.
DA MAYOR
Is it a good morning?
MOTHER SISTER
Yes indeed. You almost got yourself
killed last night.
DA MAYOR
I've done that before.
Da Mayor gets up out of her big brass bed.
DA MAYOR
Where did you sleep?
MOTHER SISTER
I didn't.
DA MAYOR
I hope the block is still standing.
MOTHER SISTER
We're still standing.
Da Mayor and Mother Sister both look out the parlor window
to see THE BLOCK and Mookie.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Mookie walks up to Sal's Famous Pizzeria as it still
smoulders in the morning light. Sal emerges from the
wreckage; he looks like he might have slept there.
90.
SAL
Whatdafuck do you want?
MOOKIE
I wants my money. I wants to get
paid.
Sal looks at Mookie in disbelief.
SAL
Mookie, I always liked you. Not
the smartest kid, but you're honest.
Don't make me dislike you.
MOOKIE
Sal, I want my money.
SAL
Don't even ask about your money.
Your money wouldn't even pay for
that window you smashed.
MOOKIE
Motherfuck a window, Radio Raheem
is dead.
SAL
You're right, a kid is dead, but
Mook, this isn't the time.
MOOKIE
Fuck dat. The time is fuckin' now.
Y'know I'm sorry 'bout Sal's Famous
Pizzeria, but I gotta live, too. I
gotta get paid.
SAL
We both do.
MOOKIE
We all know you're gonna get over
with the insurance money anyway!
Ya know da deal.
SAL
Do we now?
MOOKIE
Quit bullshitting.
SAL
You don't know shit about shit.
91.
MOOKIE
I know I wants to get my money.
Sal has had it.
SAL
How much? How much do I owe you?
MOOKIE
My salary. Two-fifty.
Sal pulls out a wad and quickly peels off hundred dollar
bills.
SAL
One, two, three, four, five.
Sal throws the "C" notes at Mookie, they hit him in the
chest and fall to the sidewalk.
SAL
Are you happy now? That's five
fucking hundred dollars. You just
got paid. Mookie, you are a rich
man, now ya life is set, you'll
never have another worry, a care in
the world. Mookie, ya wealthy, a
fuckin' Rockefeller.
Mookie is stunned by Sal's outburst. He picks up the bills.
SAL
Ya just got paid, so leave me the
fuck alone.
MOOKIE
You only pay me two-fifty a week.
(he throws two "C"
notes back at him)
I owe you fifty bucks.
SAL
Keep it.
MOOKIE
You keep it.
SAL
Christmas came early.
Both look at the two hundred-dollar bills on the sidewalk
and refuse to pick them up. It's a stalemate.
92.
MOOKIE
This is the hottest Christmas I've
known.
Mookie counts his money.
SAL
It's supposed to be even hotter
today.
MOOKIE
You gonna open up another Sal's
Famous Pizzeria?
SAL
No. What are you gonna do?
MOOKIE
Make dat money. Get paid.
SAL
Yeah!...I'm goin' to the beach for
the first day in fifteen years.
Gonna take the day off and go to
the beach.
MOOKIE
I can dig it. It's gonna be HOT as
a motherfucker.
SAL
Mookie?
MOOKIE
Gotta go.
SAL
C'mere, Doctor.
Mookie turns around and goes back.
SAL
Doctor, this is Sal talkin'.
MOOKIE
OK. OK.
SAL
Doctor, always try to do the right
thing.
MOOKIE
That's it?
93.
SAL
That's it.
Mookie thinks about it, looks at the two "C" notes still
smiling up at him. He quickly scoops them up.
MOOKIE
I got it.
EXT: STREET--DAY
HIGH ANGLE
As Mookie turns and walks away, Sal goes back into Sal's
Famous Pizzeria to salvage what is salvageable, and The
Block begins to awake from its slumber, ready to deal once
again with the heat of the hottest day of the year.
FADE OUT.