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SIn
City
Frank Miller's
SIN CITYOpening Scene
The Customer is always right
I didn’t come here for the party. I came here for you.I’ve watched you for days. You’re everything a man could ever want. It’s just not your faceYour... figure, Or your voice. It’s your eyes
All the things I see in your eyes. I see a crazy calm.You’re sick of running. You’re ready to face what you have to face
But you don’t want to face it alone
Care for a smoke?
She shivers in the wind like the last leaf on a dying tree...I let her hear my footstepsShe only goes stiff for a moment.....
Sure. I’ll take one Are you as bored by that crowd as I am?
What is it you see in my eyes?
No... I don’t want to face it alone.....
The Salesman
The wind rises electric. She’s soft and warm and almost weightless. Her perfume is sweet promise that brings tears to my eyes.
I tell her that everything will be alrightThat I’ll save her from whatever she’s scared of and take her far far away.
........I tell her... I love her.......
The silencer makes a whisper of the gunshot.....I hold her close until she’s goneI’ll never know what she’s running from.
I’ll cash her check in the morning.
SIn
City
Frank Miller's
FontsAn ode to noone
Feast of Flesh 88
Arial
Baron Kuffner Narrator in red
SIN CITYScene 1
Just a hour to go.
My last day on the job.
Early retirement. Not my idea.
Doctor's orders. Heart condition
"Angina", he calls it.I'm polishing my badge and getting myself
used to the idea of saying "Goodbye" to it.
It and the years of protecting and serving and
tears and...blood and terror, triumph that represents.
I'm thinking of Aileen's slow smilabout the thick fat
steak she picked up at the butcher's today.
I'm thinking about the one loose end I haven't tied up.
A young girl who's out there somewhere
helpless in the hands of a drooling lunatic.
Damnit, Hartigan I won't let you do this,
you're going to get yourself killed.You're going to get us both killed. I won't let you. I'm warning you.
Let go of my coat, Bob.
You're draggin me down with you. I'm your partner
They can kill me too. I ain't putting up with that.
I'm getting on the horn and calling for backup.
Sure, Bob. We'll just wait.
Sit on our ass while that sick Rourk brat gets
his sick thrills with victim number.( Hartigan punches Bob in the face and starts to talk to himself )
Victim number
Nancy Callahan, age...
And she'll be raped and slashed to ribbons
and that backup that we're waiting on
will just so happen to show up just late enough
for Rourk to get back to his U.S. Senator daddy.
Take a deep breath, Hartigan.
You're pushing and you got a bum ticker.
You ain't saving anyone
Settle down and
think straight.
Got a great attitude, Bob.
Real credit to the force, you are.
Aileen's home waiting for you.
Think about Aileen.
Heck, Bob.
Maybe you are right. I'm glad to hear you are finally
talking sense. Hell of way to end a partnership.
Hell of a way to start my retirement.
Nancy Callahan, age....
For all I know, she is dead already.
Half way to the warehouse where Weevil said
they took her and it hits. Wicked spot of
indegestion. At least that's what I pray it is.
You’ve been a very good, Nancy. You’ve been very quiet. Don’t be scared. We’re going to be taking you home really soon but first, we’re going to introduce you to somebody. He’s a very nice man.
(Voice)
I seek only the most lighthearted and momentary degressionThe briefest indulgement in automotive pleasure
...for cheap thrills. Such shortlived durability, Mr. Shlubb
This Jaguar you so pinheadedly covet temporarily remanded to our customer, though it may be remains the property of the son of Senator Rourk.
A single dent, the mearest scratch, thereupon on the before mentioned consequences of which I so recently made mention shall surely be afford us.
(Douglass Klump)
(Mr. Shlubb)
Catch your breath.Give your heart time to slow down
But it won't slow down. Get over it,
She needs you.
(Douglass Klump)
a Got to keep this quiet.take them down fast.
You would risk engendering an ill will on
the part of our employers Burt Shlubb and
Douglass Klump. any-job-there-is thugs with dellusions
of eloquance.
(Douglass Klump)
We're all done here, BennyLet's give them some time together.Give them some privacy.
Be with you in a minute, Lenny.I’m just making sure they get along really wellWhat kind of beast couldn’t get along with a pre-cious little girl like this.
(Lenny)
(Benny)
(Lenny and Benny leave room and Rourk comes into the dark room to talk to Nancy.)
Let the girl go!
You can’t do a goddamn thing to me, HartiganYou know who I am.You know who my father is.You can’t touch me, you piece-of-shit cop.Look at you. You can’t even lift that cannon you’re carrying.
Sure I can.Cover your eyes, NancyI don't want you watching thisI mean it baby. Cover your eyes right now.
(Roark)
You must be awfully scared nowBut you got nothing to be scared ofAll we’re going to do is have a nice little talk That’s all. Just a nice talk,
just you and me Don’t you cry now Doctor said it’d be like this Just take the pill he gave you No need to play it quiet. Not anymore.
On your feet, old man
frozen in their last horrible moment
of living.No screams...Either I’m just in time or I’m way too late.
It’s nothing, Barely a flesh wound.
Breath steady old man. Prove you’re not
completely uselessWhat the hell. Go out with a bang
He likes to hear them screamI’ve seen his victims and their twisted little
faces; all wide-mouthed and bug-eyed,
(Roark)
I take his weapons away.
Both of them.
(Bob comes from behind and shoots Hartigan in the shoulder)
Hell of a way to end a partnership.
For God’s sakes, don’t make it any worse.
Don’t make me kill you!
I'm Doing fine, Bob.Never better.Ready to kick your ass.
Keep it talking.
By time.
Just a few more minutes until backup gets here.
Sit down and stay down.
I’ll kill you if I have to.
Keep his mind off the girl.
Skinny little nancy
Can't kill her once the backup gets here.
(Hartigan jumps Bob on the dock)
Run Nancy,Run for you life.
Hey. Don’t listen to him, he’s a crazy man.
A tough man you are, huh?
You stay right where you’r at.
You shoot your partner in the back.Then you try to scarea little girl.
Later, I’ll pull my spare rod. Plug you a couple
times.We could’ve worked something out, but
you’ve blown that.
Sit down or I’ll black you in half.
you’re so slow, you’ll never stop me.
(Hartigan tries to make a move on Bob)
Keep I finally sit down, Just like you told me to.
The sirens are close now, She'll be safe.
Things go dark...I don't mind much.
Getting sleepy. It's OK, She'll be safe.
An old man dies,
Little girl lives.
Fair Trade.(Fade to black. Scene ends)
The Hard Good-ByeScene Two
The night is hot as hell.It's a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town.
I'm staring at a goddess.She's telling me she wants me.
I'm not going to waste one more second
wondering how I've gotten so lucky.
She smells like angels ought to smell.
The perfect woman...The goddess
hours later and my head's feeling several sizes too bigand that cold thing happens to my stomach and I realize Goldie is dead.Not a mark on her.You'd have to check her pulse to notice those perfectbreasts of hers aren't moving like they would if she was breathing She was murdered and I was right here when it happened
Lying next to herstone drunk, just like she was
Damnit Goldie. Who are you and who wanted you dead?
Who are you besides an angel of mercy giving a -time loser
like me the night of his life
It sure wasn't my looks
So why the sleazy salloon
Why the kindest Goldie
The copsThey're telling me too much
Showing up before anybody but me and the killer could
know there's been a murder
Somebody paid good money for this frame
No reason at all to play it quiet
No reason to play it any way but my way
Whoever killed you is going to pay, Goldie
I need you Goldie.She says her name is Goldie
Open up. Police!
I'll be right out(Marv)
(SWOT police)
(Marv Kicks in his door and jumps down the stairway shooting)
I don't know why you died, Goldie
I don't know why and I don't know how. I never even
met you before tonight
But you were a friend and more when I needed one
And when I found out who did it
it won't be quick and quiet like it was with you
It'll be loud and nasty. My kind of kill
And when his eyes go dead, the Hell I send him to will
seem like Heaven after what I've done to him
I love you Goldie
Claire?Don't worry, Lucille. I was just grazedGot any beers around this place?
No way I'm giving you any alcoholBesides, it's not what you came here for anyway, is it?
NO.
Thanks. Your the west
Go ahead. It works without them.
Lucille's my parole officer.She's a dyke, but God knows why With that body of her's, she could have any man she wantsThe pills come from a girlfriend who's a shrink.She tried to analyze me once, but she got too scared.Haven't seen you like this in awhile.Had a fight with some cops
Didn't happen to kill any of them, did you?Not that I know of.
But they know they've been in a fight, that's for damn sureHow the hell do you suppose I'm going to
square this with the boardThere ain't no squaring it, not this timeThis isn't no barroom crawl! or somecreep with a gas can trying to torch someone.
Hey hey, this is big.Settle down, Marv. Take another pillHey, there isnt no setting down.This is blood for blood and by the gallons.
This is the old day, and the bad days, and all or nothing days. they're back.There's no choices left. and i'm ready for war.
Prison was hell for you Marv. It’s going tobe life this time.
How's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.
But I'm out now..It took somebody who was kind to me. Getting killed to do it.
But I'm outI know exactly what I got to do.So you were scared, weren't you GoldieSomebody wanted you dead and you knew itSo you hit the salloons, the bad placesLooking for the biggest meanest lug around,and finding meWell I'm going to find that son of a bitch
that killed you.and I'm going to give him the hard good-bye.Walk down the right back alleyin sin city.and you can find anything.
Take offHe's new here marv. He didn't know.
Katie's my kind of joint.
Nancy's just getting started with her gig, but already the
crowd's breathing hard. Plenty of nights I've drooled over
Nancy. shoulder to shoulder with all the other losers like me.
But that's not what I'm looking for tonight
What will it be Marv.?
A shot and a brew, Shellie,
and keep it coming.Sure, honey. You take it slow now.
Most people think Marv is crazy.He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong centuryHe’d be right at home on some ancient battlefield, swinging an axe into somebody’s face or in a Roman arena taking a sword to other Gladiators like him.They’d have tossed him girls like Nancy back then.Show’s over, dickwaDrink up.
Now that's one fine-looking coat
you're wearing there.
You're killing days are over,
you over-the-hill do-gooder
son of a bitch.I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad.
Take it off.What?
Fine coat like that, and you're bleeding all
over it.Alright, it’s all yours.
Who was it you loosers who killed
Goldie? The guy who did that ... he
knew what he was doing
So tell me, man, who sent you?
I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of
my mind. If you so much as talk to her or
even think her name, I'll cut you in ways
that'll make you useless to a woman.
* You made a big mistake yourself...
you didn't flush.
I don't hear you giving me any names
So I guess when I shot you in the belly,
I aimed a little too high
You keep holding out on me like
this, and I'm going to have to
get really nasty.It’s Telly. Telly Stern... passed me the order.He runs the tables over at the Triple Ace Club.
Thanks Again.Now the damnedest thing
happens
For a second I smell the angel
's smell that
belonged to my Goldie
Just need my medicing is all.
BastardYou're going
to pay for what you did
to me.
I’ll cut you in ways that’ll
make you useless to a
woman!
If you so much as talk to her or even think her name,
Its alright. take a nice slow breath. Just look at the heads on the
wall. The heads on the..Son of a bitch. He kept smiling, Made me
watch him...suck the meat of my fingers
Scott NohlBook DesignSpring 2011Michigan State University
I didn’t scream, HartiganNot onceI didn’t scream I know it, baby You grew up strong
By the time I get her to the car, Nancy stops shakingHer skin is warm againShe’s herself againThanks for remembering my coatAnd for all the little thingsLike saving my life... twice You better get rolling
You’re not coming along? No. I have friends on their way
To collect evidence. I’m going to blow this
whole sick mess wide open
I’m going to clear my name. I
’m going to put Senator Roark behind bars,
where he belongsCan’t lose you. Not again You’ll never lose me, Nancy
Nancy Callahan. The love of my lifeShame to lie to her. I hope she forgives me for itGet Senator Roark behind bars? Sure. And maybe after I’ve pulled off that miracle,
I’ll go and punch out GodThere isn’t a prosecutor in the state who’ll go after Senator Roark
I killed his only son. The bloodline is cutRoark’s lost his goddamn legacyHe’ll use all his power to get revenge on meHe’ll go after me through NancyHe’ll find her again. There’ll be no end to it
She’ll never be safe. Not as long as I’m aliveThere’s only one way to beat himAnd old man dies. A young woman livesFair trade
Uh-huh... yes
I love you, Nancy
THE END