A WESTERN SCENE

I had to shoot a two person scene for a class and instead of finding source material I like to do my own stuff if I can manage too.  I did and felt good about it, however the shoot was a disaster.  the dialogue is really comic bookey, but I like how it sounds.  It's in the format that I shot it on, but I also had story boards too.  Anyways here it is...  ENJOY

EXT. TOWN OF HARMONY – MID DAY

CLETUS DAY IS RIDING AWAY ON HIS HORSE, ON THE WAY OUT OF TOWN HE PASSES SAM, THE SALOON OWNER, WHO IS CHASING HIM ON FOOT, WHO SOON GIVES UP. 

SAM

You wont get away with this you thieving son of a bitch!

HE TURNS AND RUNS OVER TO THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE.

INT.  DANIEL CASSIDY’S OFFICE – MID DAY

SAM BURSTS INTO DANIEL’S OFFICE.

SAM

He took her!  Cletus took Isabelle! He’s headed west toward the Apache lands!  You gotta go get her back.  She’ll be killed out there!

IN THE MIDDLE OF SAM’S RANTING DANIEL SLOWLY LOOKS UP

DANIEL

Hold yer horses Sam.  You know I can’t do nothin’ ‘bout a man that’s left town.  I can’t go anywhere I damn well please and hold the law because I got a badge.  I protect this town, outside its limits I’m no more entitled to protect than the next man.

SAM

But Cletus kidnapped Isabelle in THIS town.

DANIEL

And he’s gone; you’ll need a Bounty Hunter… all I can do is set a price and put his mug on a poster.

SAM

No bounty hunter in town don’t got the stones, not by the way he took off outta here, shot every man stood in his way, every woman too…

THIS LAST BIT HONES INTO DANIEL.  HE KNOWS THAT HE CAN’T SIT AROUND AND DO NOTHING

SAM

…No tellin’ what he’ll do to her…  Word is you were fierce gun… after your wife-- 

DANIEL

You keep that talk down, y’ hear.  I don’t want any wives tales getting’ spun in my town. Shoots SAM a mean stare Deputy Wade!

THE DEPUTY COMES IN FROM THE BACK WIPING HIS HANDS.  HIS SLEEVES ARE ROLLED UP FROM CLEANING THE JAIL CELL.

DEPUTY

Yeah Sheriff?

DANIEL THROWS HIS BADGE DOWN ON THE TABLE

DANIEL

I’m goin’ to take care of somethin’.  If I’m not back by break of mornin’ you put that badge on and do your best.  To SAM Next time that man come Rollin’ into town you get the good sense to come and tell me ‘stead uh servin’ him.  You know who and what he is.  I ain’t gonna do this again.

DANIEL GOES OUTSIDE AND CLIMB’S ON HIS HORSE; HE LOOKS OVER TO THE SALLOON AND SEE’S THE TRAIL OF VIOLENCE OUT THE DOOR LEADING TO A HORROR SCENE INSIDE.  HE KICKS THE HORSE A BIT AND RIDES ON OUT OF TOWN.  THE DEPUTY AND SAM COME OUTSIDE TO SEE HIM OFF.

EXT. CLETUS’ CAMPFIRE CAMP - DUSK.

DANEIL CASSIDY, the new sheriff in town chases down CLETUS DAY who has taken a prostitute, ISABELLA; he won in a poker match.  The new sheriff has come to take her back because she is a person and cannot be won; CLETUS argues the opposite.

DANIEL

You all right ma’am? 

ISABELLA is afraid and looks to CLETUS 

DANIEL

You’ll be back home safe in a minute ma’am. 

CLETUS

She’s already on her way home.  Safe and sound. 

DANIEL

Homes the other way.

CLETUS

Not anymore. 

DANIEL

She ain’t somethin’ a man puts up for a bet… or takes as winnings.  I’m here to take the girl home.

CLETUS

S’not winnin’s. What Sam loses on or off the tables ‘is own fault. 

DANIEL

Sam didn’t lose a thing.  I’m here for the girl, and whether you want her to or not, she’s leaving with me.

CLETUS

Just ‘cause you got a shiny tin badge pinned to your chest don’t make you the law’s right hand, besides, your town ended a few miles back, and out here the law gets settled not with ink on parchment, but by the man who can get his point across quickest. *Drawing his gun and spins the spindle* Now you can go back to your village, or I’ll give you six reasons to prove she’s leaving with me.

DANIEL

You’re right, shiny little star don’t mean a damn thing out here.  But kidnapping women’s a law of the land, a law that men live by, and one you’ll die by ‘f you don’t hand the lady over. 

CLETUS

Ain’t kidnappin’ cause I didn’t take her anywhere she don’t wan’ to go. 

DANIEL

You wanna live like a dog?  I’ll put you down like one.  Hand the lady over and you can go back to livin’ with the rest of the vermin out here, now

  I ain’t gonna ask you again’. 

CLETUS

That’s good cause she stays with me.  So why don’t you stroll back to town and play sheriff for those crooked railroaders.

DANIEL

Not without the girl.

CLETUS

I’ll be dead before she goes back.

DANIEL

Fine by me.

THE TWO COWBOYS DRAW GUNS AND FIRE ON EACH OTHER