LA Confidential.pdf - Screenplay.com
LA Confidential.pdf - Screenplay.com
LA Confidential.pdf - Screenplay.com
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
BUD<br />
(excited)<br />
Homicide? A detective?<br />
CHIEF<br />
Your talents lie elsewhere,<br />
Wendell. It's a muscle job and<br />
shooting job. You'll do what I<br />
say and not ask questions. Do you<br />
follow my drift?<br />
BUD<br />
(disappointed)<br />
In Technicolor.<br />
DUDLEY<br />
Will you work for me?<br />
BUD<br />
Of course... But how?<br />
DUDLEY<br />
How what, Wendell?<br />
BUD<br />
How'd you get them to retract?<br />
Dudley lays brass knuckles on the table. They're<br />
chipped, caked with blood.<br />
L.A. MONTAGE<br />
Over the pop song "STRANGER IN PARADISE."<br />
A) EXT. GRAUMAN'S CHINESE - NIGHT<br />
Frank Sinatra at the premiere of From Here to<br />
Eternity.<br />
B) INT. KLUB ZAMBOANGA - NIGHT<br />
Charlie "Bird" Parker makes magic before an<br />
appreciative, mostly black crowd.<br />
C) TORCH SONG TAVERN (RIVERSIDE) - NIGHT<br />
DISSOLVE TO:<br />
Nate Janklow exits with his latest flame. A mob<br />
lieutenant, Nate was last seen with Mickey Cohen<br />
outside the Federal Courthouse in the opening<br />
montage. A CAR SCREECHES up. TWO GUNS aim and Nate<br />
and his date do down in a proverbial HAIL OF LEAD.<br />
D) EXT. FREEWAY - DAY<br />
A groundbreaking. The Mayor scrapes at the ground
Change language