Rough Script

FADE IN:

INT. SMALL STUFFY ROOM - MIDNIGHT

(slow camera pan on wall, Long Shot)
Lou is in a room vigorously playing violin as the camera pans through a wall of plaques and photos of the Atwater Mob’s menacing of the city. The camera then slowly pans through newspaper articles that notate Lou, and his violin Rita, winning several Atwater Classical festivals. The camera then finally settles on the intense passion of Lou’s face as he plucks away at Rita. Drifting away from Lou playing, the title screen is shown.

CUT - (Close-up):
Lou abruptly stops at the sound of a door slamming shut and the booming voices of those in the next room.

CUT - (Medium Shot):
Lou slowly sets down his violin next to his case and quickly heads over to the wall to place his ear upon.

CUT - (Close up, XCO)
Lou over hears his brother, Big Boss exclaiming that an old man nosing around the harbor saw something he shouldn’t have.

BIG BOSS (OS)

Some Old Man just saw something he shouldn't have!

LANKY (OS)

That was just Ester, a local violin teacher and he ain't nothing to worry about boss.

BIG BOSS (OS)

Well, tonight, Ester will be swimming with the fishes! Wasn’t that old man Lou’s violin teacher? Have Lou dispose of him. Lou has the connections to get the job done.


CUT - Medium Shot:
(Lou hears footsteps coming nearer and scrambles into the chair as the door opens. Lanky appears in the doorway as a silhouette)

LANKY (OS)

Lou, did you hear that? You know what you have to do

CUT - (Close-up)
(Lou nods as the door shuts behind Lanky. Lou is left beside himself.)

CUT - (XCO)
(Painful flashbacks flush before Lou’s eyes on his relationship with Ester.)

CUT - Long Shot
(Pushing the feelings aside, Lou slowly gets up and walks to a table that holds Rita (his violin), a violin case, and a Tommy gun.)

CUT - Close-up
Lou slowly reaches for the Tommy gun.

CUT - Medium Shot
He stops abruptly and begins to put the Tommy gun back in its place after some hesitation.

FADE CUT - Long Shot facing door
(Lou’s figure silhouetted on the floor in front of an open doorway with case in hand)

He enters the hallway and the camera pans to where the case once sat. On top of the Tommy gun is a police report signed by Ester and Lou with a photo attached of Big Boss smuggling drugs within the harbor. With a few seconds hesitation for the audience to read the police report, the paper is lit with the red and blue of the police car that resides outside. The police finally caught him.

FADE OUT:
(The animation fades as Lou is heard playing his violin upon the street below with a conversing different sounding violin assumed to be Ester. Credits begin to roll.)