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POR LUIX FLOW
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
“FADE IN”
EXT. FRONT OF A HOUSE - DAY
Naked foot of a woman is moving... shows pieces of grass and dirt from the yard behind
NARRATOR (VO)
MARIA MAGDALENA, dreams are simple...
she wants to lived in a beautiful country hill house with a view to
the Arizona red desert...
Young woman’s feet crawling away from someone, raged t-shirt and old jeans face the ground few feet away from an old garage door.
NARRATOR (VO)
She wants no neighbors of any kind,
just the passing by insects and
creatures of the desert...
Her long legs keep on crawling while her hand trembles trying to reach out for something unknown.
NARRATOR (VO)
But Maria Magdalena never lived in a
house for a long time...
Lips eat dust occasionally, while a sound of music grabs feelings of solitude...
NARRATOR (VO)
She is been on the road for more
than 15 years, since her mother hits
the streets of Chihuahua for the
benefits of given herself away...
Her blond hair moves as it cleans the dirt off the ground when wind blows slowly through desert sunny afternoon.
NARRATOR (VO)
At five, Maria Magdalena began her
school of life between El Paso and
San Diego’s walls of shame, the great
line south of the US border...
Her face hides from noises and voices she hears behind her anxieties, noises of a she dog barking out her anger, protecting a floor full of meat bones and scattered food that falls off all the time
NARRATOR (VO)
She had the misfortune of meeting
a selected field of coyotes along
the US and Mexican border...
The end of her nose shows up between her hairs, at the tip of it... shines a tear that reflects the sun and a bird, a big bird flying above.
A man’s boot raises from behind the silhouette of her naked arms, the sound of the music slows down...
(B&W)
She surveys the boots owner and finds a young caucasian man sitting and staring at her, JONI MALLOX a bad seed from the under world, he resembles a young inmate on US holyday center for bad boys in Chatsworth, Georgia.
NARRATOR (VO)
She used to love once an outlaw
named DEATH TUNNEL, whom loves to
rob banks along the border...
one day he and his body Joni
were caught by local police...
but DT escapes with the money
and the blond honey.
Lost wild eyes of Joni looking at MM’s sky blue eye balls while a big bird flies above looking at how they both exchange hard inside feelings... everything freezes around them while music dissolves, just the soft wind moves...
JONI
JONI
Rise up woman…
your sins had been forgotten...
She tries to gets up slowly, but she can’t, while big bird watches her from above, it sees how she slowly crawls to Joni and extends her hand forward... with an angry face showing hate in her eye...
(EYE IN COLOR)
(BACK TO COLOR)
MARIA MAGDALENA
MARIA MAGDALENA
(grabbing some grass)
Fuck you man...
I am here on my own, and...
(cleans her throat and spits out)
don’t need your sympathy.
Somebody from behind Joni, pulls out a Magnum 44 into the frame, it shows its marks and man knows it’s been used a lot... finger in the trigger has some food.
Before he shots her down, JONI extends his hand into the frame... rings and polished nails show up.
(B&W)
(B&W)
JONI
JONI
(smiling)
(smiling)
Hold your horses,
this woman deserves to live...
don’t you know?
(turns to gunman)
she was DEATH TUNNEL’s girl...
before...
(turns head back to MM)
he enters paradise…
(laughs hard)
leave her alone...
let’s have red berries cake
for dessert instead.
SHOT of a colorful red cake.
Joni turns around and disappears... people at the distance celebrates...
are Joni friends sitting at the last supper’s table.
(COLOR)
Maria Magdalena looks up at the sky... sees the big bird flying on circles, the side of her head is been shaved and two skull silver earrings shine with the sunlight. She moves away and crawls hard up to the left edge of a garage door, music increase in volume and intensity, her right foot carries pieces of the green grass where Joni party goes wild.
NARRATOR (VO)
Joni stays in prison for 9 years,
3 month, 2 days, 3 minutes and 1
second... DT never went up there
to say hi... so Joni boy hired
12 “beautiful” boys from both sides
of the border to hunt his old
pal DT down.
B&W
Joni’s friends are at the last supper’s table, 12 bastards of criminal features, tough voices and foul language at party. Nice outfits on the old cow-boy way.
Food flies over hats, classic environment, wild and sometimes wrecked.
They talk and throw food, nobody understands a word... somebody tries to sing a Kris Kristoferson tune.
(FRAME SPLITS)
(ONE SIDE)
Last supper of bad boys goes on, while Maria Magdalena crawls in opposite direction.
(COLOR)
(OTHER SIDE)
A woman hand rising up is trying to get hold on a garage door corner, her hand is dirty and still trembling.
NARRATOR (VO)
She looks sometimes for abandoned
houses on the desert to squads them
and feels at home...
(END SPLIT)
Astonishment blurs her vision as she finds no house behind the garage door, but a desert... a sad eye gets bigger, and she looks down in desperation…
MARIA MAGDALENA
(grabbing a handful of sand)
Noooo... please God... help me!!!
She scans up, and stops her gaze at a guy standing cool against the garage door; he holds a camera in his left hand, while right hand feels the door.
Photographer touches the door without anxieties and looks slowly at MM’s sad eyes as she comes up slowly...
EXT. NARCO HOUSE – NIGHT
(B&W)
(FILTERED)
Death Tunnel; forties, bulky,
enters his house in a hurry,
runs looking for the stairs with a
fear in his eye, smokes a cigar that
throws on the floor, his men wonder
as he passes by.
He pursuits to meet death at no
cheap price, music from hell hits
the walls of the house.
Everybody make a move toward him,
he doesn’t speak his mind yet,
he keeps on running up the long stairs
to get something out of his safe box…
DEATH TUNNEL
DEATH TUNNEL
(Terrified and screaming)
Everybody outside…
they’re coming!!!
After the yell, he runs into a big door
behind him, opens it and as he passes
slams it and crosses the room.
He surveys his sordid office,
stopping at the safe box, slowly opens it,
after his trembling fingers rolled left and
right searching for the combination bottom.
Safe box is black, and when it finally
opens up, a sequence of animated strips came
from inside in a wild spiral...
(ANIMATION in COLOR)
MM arrives at ARMAGIDO valley
with all his Death angels dressing
black and riding hell bike… not
just any type of bike… those bikes
fuel live poison of death Sulfuric
Acid that feeds up 2/1000cc engine
heads each, bikes frames are red.
Drawing of a black dragon spiting
fire from its mouth on one side of
the tank with a sign on the other...
the sign of ancient times… painted on the
silver tank, that sign that it’s the
number of a man... let him whom has
eyes, see the number and know what
it means, because it’s the number
of the beast...
Music explodes with the colors,
bikes expel drops of an acid rain
from behind, infecting everything
in a slowly decomposition until all
melts into the same dark colored river
that follows them...
(CONT’D)
The bikes of MM swim in and out of
that fetid sticky substance.
This time MM is short for MARTIN MURIETTA
a Mexican killer hired by the council of
the united churches and religions of
the world, known as the UCRE 6… to kill,
destroy and erase from the surface
of the planet, that gang of bastards
from DEATH TUNNEL...
The contract was paid in golden coins,
the 99 golden coin of CORTEZ hidden
treasure from old time, that one under
the sea.
Lots of different types of music spitting
sounds through out the screen in
desperation, going along with the crazy
wild party moving around...
Bikers show skulls with long hairs, not
distinction of gender, bones at ride
and huge smiles… their long hairs
show the annihilation of the natural color,
died green was covering their new
presentation … anyway the troop
head up to DT’s gang on top of the hill ,
his new location… house shows a
missing garage door…
ENDS ANIMATION
CUT TO
BACK TO B&W
INT. DIM ROOM – INSIDE A HOUSE
DT’s corner of his right
high stoned eye, shows a sense of
knowing that a bad thing was coming
down on him…
BACK TO ANIMATION
He turns his head abruptly and looks
beyond to scan the valley… sees
a river from the abysm like a river
of a volcano lava snaking its track on
an empty and big desert… turns his
head fast and yells a “STOP” in an
agonic scream… a bunch of words
come out of his mouth with
those 4 letters in death colors…
ENDS ANIMATION
BACK TO B&W (filtered)
CUTS into same scene with
real people…
EXT. OUTSIDE DT HOUSE - DAY
The party music stops…
all creature freeze… a condor
cross the sky slowly, outside the
big window… DT eyed the bird,
and focus his eyeball and zoomed
into it to delight the view…
BACK TO ANIMATION
The condor hits down to earth in
an amazing free vertical falling …
heading to something it has
eyed before… DT follows… and
then screams again
DT
DT
See that ?…
you bastards can’t see shit
JESSE… you should learn
from the condor
it’s the most amazing hunting bird
on earth…
JESSE looks astonished in
surprise, he doesn’t know
what the boss is talking about
… actually, nobody knows
just DT…
JESSE resembles for a second
somebody’s known from old times
back in old West, those times of
robbing banks of the famous outlaw…
(CONT’)
DT
DT
Argggggg… forget it…
you bunch of idiots...
Dirty teeth of his mouth comes in scene
DT
(cont’)
I don’t really know myself, making
always same mistakes… over and
over again… picking up the wrong
flock of seagulls… same as picking
up my dreams… always the wrong
dream!… Fuck!!!
(stops his murmur monolog
and yells again)
to your weapons bunch of assholes
What is in front of DT backs up (like scared of the yell)
(cont’)
can you fools see what is about
to happens?… we will be destroyed by
the enemy of freedom of speech
what are you looking at…
bad fuckers,
move!!!!!!!!!!
Everybody jumps fast in one
second out of their original positions…
grab their guns artillery from a
pile of weapons and ammos
on middle of the big lobby
and they feel ready for
action… they all look at their
boss eyes… and as he turns his head
their faces follow around getting
out of the house… as they all jump
DT begins to smile… a smile showing
ugly teeth and fucked up face.
Music comes back slowly…
DT men faces pass one by one,
first the big & ugly bad ones:
JESSE at front, they all
resemble the bunch of well
known faces at the wild supper…
DT got his big magnum out and a box of
ammo in front of him, he smiles
and whispers a “yeah… come…” in
silence to himself…
heaven is full outside of colors
of an hallucinated universe in a
different dimension… the desert seems
green from here, down there is like
a desert, and the serpent began to
get closer… fast… in a second
they will be here, as a wife to a kiss,
the deathly river and the bikes
floating in hell speed…
MM behind the scene OS
yelling words of hate and death to
his army… music blasts, he wears a MM t-shirt
Before anything, DT’s gang spit out
their ammos store on motion… burritos
and tortillas spills all over against their
enemies, MM fricks out, bikers freeze up…
the smelling river dries up with the chili…
and the enemy begins eating up all the
food from DT’s gang… they eat so
much, that their bellies started to grow,
and grow and grow so much up to
a point that they exploded, bones
of skeletons flee all over the place
and MM send his last look of
desperation and gluttony to DT…
DT just smiled at him and waved good bye!
ENDS ANIMATION
CUTS BACK TO REALITY in B&W
INT. NARCO HOUSE - SUNSETS
DEATH TUNNEL finds was he was
looking for, the title deed of a property
up on the hills, the seal of the
state department got dirt on top…
he grabs it and with a red ribbon
(ribbon in color), fastens
it… he runs back into the balcony
of the second floor of his hill’s
house… yells something unclear
at his people, makes signs
indicating something…
EXT. OUTSIDE DT’S HOUSE – SUNSET
DT hand fast disappears, then he goes OS
and yells shit, 5 seconds later
he shows up on the front door
still yelling, it is hard to
understand him, far away at
the distance a flower blooms fast,
is getting dark
but she stands beautifully alone…
silence is the company of the wind
languid silhouettes move at the distance
CUT TO
EXT. AT WHITE GARAGE DOOR - SUNSET
BACK TO COLOR
Blond woman at back of white
garage door, tries to stand
up, feels the door, thinks is a
house grabs the edge and rise
up a lit, looks back, sees nothing
JONI’s gang is gone only the dog and the
dirty table remains, she turns back
into the corner of the garage and
finds that somebody behind
the white door sees the cool photographer
and Blondie calls on him: “HEY!”
he is spacing out and turns
his head to the woman
PHOTOGRAPHER
What?
MARIA MAGDALENA
It used to be a house here
PHOTOGRAPHER
The house was stolen by DT
and brought up into a hill
MARIA MAGDALENA
Now the asshole of TUNNEL is
coming down here again for sure
PHOTOGRAPHER
Who is this TUNNEL character?
MARIA MAGDALENA
Nobody… (she stops and thinks)
CUT TO B&W
INT. BED – INSIDE LIGHTS
a couple makes love
is MM blonde and DT…
CUTS BACK to COLOR
EXT. AT WHITE GARAGE DOOR - SUNSET
And she continues her phrase…
MARIA MAGDALENA
Someone ready to die
PHOTOGRAPHER
Are all those people gone?
MARIA MAGDALENA
Yeah gone for good…
just you and me babe
don’t be scared…
give me your hand
PHOTOGRAPHER
Oh… nothing… just hidden
taking pictures here,
I help you...
MARIA MAGDALENA
Yeah, right… oh, thanx...
is that pick-up yours?
An old pick up from the 50’s lays back
there, color green, but
in many places man can’t see color
engine runs perfect, restored and
got a 6L cylinders inside
PHOTOGRAPHER
Yes, you need a ride somewhere?
MARIA MAGDALENA
No, silly,
I need to take a pic of it,
give me the keys… let get out
of here… help me out
MARIA MAGDALENA is been helped
by photographer guy into his pick up
truck… she grabs the keys and jump slowly
in front of the wheel, pick up explodes in agony as the music does too,
she gas it up, her feet is inside the lens of
photographer, in a second he pulls
his gun out and starts shooting pix from
outside, his long Cannon lens zoomed
the valley into next hills and find inside
his camera the reflection of DEATH
TUNNELS’ (in B&W) desperation eyes
looking at him, he let goes of his camera
and look at the woman as she turns her
blue eye back to him and give him
a dirty look…
MARIA MAGDALENA
He is next…
CUT TO
BACK TO B&W
EXT. NARCO HOUSE – NIGHT
JONI’s gang abruptly brakes at
DEATH TUNNELS house, they
killed all mother fuckers that
show up, with a huge gun the house has
on top of the roof, it shines the lights
up like in a party night.
ESCOBAR and LEDER were at front inside
a war tank, LEDER drove it while ESCOBAR
spits out death with a big machine
gun glued to the top of the tank
the Invisible Men were attacking
from behind with their machinery,
but a furious resistance stops them
and they started to fall down one
by one, all of the invisible guys
massacred to the ground.
The RODRIGUEZ bros attacked the
west side while GRIYO and
SHULETA were taking the east
side… after killing the invisible men,
the DEATH TUNNELS guys
behind, split into both sides of the
house and begin the contra-attack to
JONI’s men… but ESCOBAR
fast grabs the death machine
gun with hate and with a smile
on his face and let LEDER drives
like a maniac all the way back ’round
the house and kill all ugly men of
DEATH TUNNEL…
When the RODRIGUEZ
and the other two guys arrived, a
carpet of 20 men where laying on
the green grass all over. After that
outside of the house were taken,
the men waited on JONI's orders
JONI walks slowly from the front
of the path of the hill house to the
main door, ESCOBAR and LEDER
were on the ground waiting on him
on one side, and on other side of the house
SHULETA and GRIYO wait… while
the RODRIGUEZ bros on the back
run into the back door of the house
JONI
I want this house for myself…
don’t destroy it
I need the document in good
fucking conditions
and I don’t care about everybody
else inside
Explodes a scream of joy from
the men… they just went wild
into the house.
JONI stays outside with
his eyes close, watching with
his inner eye the dance of lights
and the sound of death falling…
music of a metal ballad
CUT TO
INT. HOUSE OF THE HILL – LIGHTS
BACK TO COLOR
A hand of a dead body moves
holding the document of the house,
the red of the blood plays together
with the red ribbon that keeps the
paper together… another hand
gets inside the frame and takes
the document before it wets up
with the blood of the death body
BACK TO B&W
CUT TO JONI’S FACE
His golden (ONLY TOOTH IN COLOR)
tooth lights up the reflection
of the house illumination, a smile
of dirty proportion covers the
whole frame… OFF SCREEN
voices of jubilee sing
then a dirty look in JONI’S
eyes, remains JONI’s men
that is time to shut up…
JONI thinks, he knows that
now that he has the house
and the documents, with DT
death, that bitch of MM will
be trying to fall on him for
revenge and thirsty for the
country house on the hill…
he looks at the stupid faces
of his men and yells
JONI
what are you fools waiting for
start cleaning up… I want this
house to be my headquarters
be all ready because we might
expect an unpleasured visit from
that bitch of Maria Magdalena
LEDER
But she is only a woman
and alone… sir
JONI
Shut up, who asked you to
open your mouth
LEDER face freezes inside his
human complexes, and backs up
fast into the cleaning operation;
all men are moving inside the
house up and down… JONI seems
at the distance worried, he knows
that MM is a smart bitch trained
by those gurus from the east and
knows lots of tricks, he murmurs
words of panic and hate at same time…
CUT TO
BACK TO COLOR
EXT. DESERT – DAY
INT. INSIDE PICK UP - DAY
A new day crosses the entire desert
morning, far away Cannon Camera
sees the shape of a man walking
and the vapor of the desert makes
his figure moves like it was an illusion…
in front of the C-CAMERA an animal
past by fast, C-CAMERA details the
desert flowers around… while the
man at the distance is getting closer
and trembling like he was about to fall…
after a minute, he passes by the
CAMERA and in second he really falls
down, his old fucked up rock-climbing
boots is all that stand by the C-CAMERA,
the big bird flies the blue without
clouds sky, a sound of a music starts
to be heard… the screen frame divides
in two and in that second frame
appears the falling man… nothing
moves in that frame… the whole
screen got a small sound of music
following the sequences of frames…
a third frames shows up with a
fast old pick-up truck on the move
where MM girl drives crazy through
a desert without name… the music
changes abruptly into that old song
“A HORSE WITH NO NAME”…
Whole screen is now of
MM’s dirty shoe gassing the p-up
truck… an insect climbs her foot
up her leg and the…
SCREEN DISSOLVES
into B&W and hits the photographer
face shooting his CANNON-C-gun
into the desert surface…
SWITCH
TO PHOTOGRAPHER pix in B&W
In the zooming
he finds inside his viewer a man falling
on the ground… his CAMERA clicks fast
into falling man and freeze in a picture
the scene… the music stops
BACK TO COLOR
PHOTOGRAPHER
Saw a death somebody over there
MARIA MAGDALENA
Where?
He points at the distance, her
face grabs the eyes of the
photographer in a dirty second
and she turns the p-up fast into where
the finger points out, and yells a “SHIT”
in intervals while she forwards through
rocks and branches, and she stops
hard the vehicle, bodies inside
bounce hard from the reaction
once car stops… photographer
jumps outside, she stays and
looks from inside through the
shield how the photographer moves
now in SLOW MOTION to the
corps, the wide desert looks empty…
a snake fizzes the shoe of photographer
as it moves on the dirt in SM
B&W
Photographer reaches his hand down to
the body and turns him around,
we see the snake still there
aggressively fizzing the eye of a lens
The face of man on the ground is
really a mess, and the
ground around him match the color,
while some water fall in man’s face,
he opens his eyes and shakes his head
BACK TO COLOR
The blond woman inside the p-up
is watching suspiciously, her face
shows signs of getting tire of that
action, honks and the photographer
turns his head to her in signs of
reproaching her action, raises his hand
as a stop and goes back to
help the man
CUT TO
EXT. ON THE HILLS – DAY
A young girl horseback riding in
same hills where JONI’s men are…
her free hair shows that she
doesn’t really knows what’s going
on in the hill house, she stops
and look at the house from the
hill-top, jumps down and sits
on a rock there is silence and
nothing moves…
She stays staring with her yellow eyes
the house, moves the eyes fast and scans
the area around her, she sees
nothing down there, hears nothing.
Amongst the hills couple of falcons
search for food, the girl has brown
hair, dresses like a farmer’s daughter;
decides to go into the house to
check it out, jumps onto the no-saddle
horse again and rides slowly
to the house
DISSOLVE
TO B&W DESERT VIEW
INT. PICK UP TRUCK – DAY
COLOR
The man sits in the middle of the sit,
on one side the photographer helps
him holding the water container
and passes water to him once
in a while, while blond woman
begins talking to him
MARIA MAGDALENA
What the fuck u doing out there
at this time of day man?
MAN
My name is ARIZONA FISH
I am from Australia
I don’t have any idea
how did I got here
PHOTOGRAPHER
Take it easy man… here, drink again
(passes the bottle and the water makes a sound as it passes through)
ARIZONA
Thanx man… (Glu-glu-glu)
I’ll appreciate what u doing
PHOTOGRAPHER
No worries man, take it easy
MARIA MAGDALENA
Shut the fuck up both of ya,
those silly conversations
make me sick…
ok?
(they both look at each other and face that expression of “what’s her problem man?”)
MARIA MAGDALENA
I got a mission…
and I have to do…
something really serious … ok?
ARIZONA
What is that mission, serious girl
MARIA MAGDALENA
Oh, now we have sarcasm uh?…
well Mr. smart ass, to answer to
your curiosity, I have to bring
something into a top of a hill
but that hill is now being taken
by ugly mother fuckers
ARIZONA
Wow, Mr. photographer,
this girlfriend of you
have a trip inside her head, isn’t?
MARIA MAGDALENA
Well Mr. sarcasm, for your info
I am nobody’s girlfriend ok?
ARIZONA
Well that explains it all
(the photographer laughs behind)
MARIA MAGDALENA
Oh man… is impossible here, where
can I drop ya both of you
PHOTOGRAPHER
Hold on ma’am, seems that
I am still the owner of the wheels,
got it?
MARIA MAGDALENA
Never mind here…
ARIZONA
Why don’t you let us help you with that mission?
CUT TO
B&W
INT. HOUSE OF THE HILL – DAY
Everybody still sleeping inside,
JONI’s men are all spread out
around the first floor, different
bottles of hard alcohol are all over
the place, the center table is full
of wet cigarettes; papers and
weed accompanies the decoration.
A white dust coats a mirror
seems like the boys went hard wild
after the untamed killing…
(COLOR)
A face of a girl is looking through
from the outside window,
she got her big eyes wide open in surprise
GIRL (murmurs)
I thought it was no house here before
and its missing the garage door…
weird… !
She sneaks under the window’s
frame and moves from one
window to the next one looking
always in astonishment for what
she sees… seems like
the top flat hill was her place
to camp, watch the desert
or chills…
She was so gone into her thoughts,
that she didn’t realize when I man
hand touches (HAND IN B&W)
her shoulder and she screams hells out,
tries to jump backward from
him… but too late girl, a firm hand
holds on her arm and brings her
close to him very fast…
(B&W)
ESCOBAR
Whaya tink u doing hir pelada
GIRL
What kinna language you speak mister?
ESCOBAR
One my mama never tolt me… whazap?
GIRL
What is this house doing here,
wasn’t here before
ESCOBAR
Tu mucho tokin… vamos a mi boss
(ESCOBAR grabbing the girl
from the arm brings her inside)
GIRL
Let me go man, I haven’t done
anything… yet
(in the action of pulling her into
the house, ESCOBAR leaves
a space open between his legs,
and she places her riding boots
hard into his privates making the
big guy fall in screams and pain
while she runs wild into the trees
where her horse is waiting)
CUT TO
COLOR OUTSIDE HOUSE
B&W INSIDES
EXT/INT. DESERT –DAY
The three friends arrive to an old
desert hut that seems empty, she
knocks on the door and an
old man shows up, seems
like a shaman to me, but is
not, his name is LIZARD and he
ask them to follow him inside
the pad, invite them to sit
LIZARD
Drink anything?
But nobody wants to drink anything.
From outside the house and from the
inside comes a noise… the place looks
like it floats around them… they
look little from the roof…
There are no glasses on the windows
more than windows they look
like holes on clay walls.
Something is trying to get inside
the hut, the wind moves,
some energy flies around like
watching the scene from above, the
energy runs in circles from the
window holes trying to catch up
with the four people sitting on the
ground drinking something.
The old man looks like a
chief Indian, but he’s a white man
talks and talks and his hands
move a lot, after long minutes
the four people inside stands up
and go towards the main door
of the house.
LIZARD
There is a shield outside the hut
He says it like expecting something,
outside is colorful…
a tune from Australia accompanies,
all of the sudden, a reporter woman
with a mic in her hand appears,
when they show outside, she
approaches fast and surprise them…
SWITCH TO REPORTERS CAMERA
CAMERA frame with “Rec” light on
REPORTER (OS)
There are rumors that you guys
are bringing the Hill Cross
back to its place…
MARIA MAGDALENA looks at
her with hate, slaps her on the face
and kicks the mic away, approaches
the camera man but he backs up
as she comes, he hits a rock (OS)
and falls down, his CAMERA drives a
circle on the sky for ¼ of a second
and then falls among small desert rocks…
stays put for a while… OS voices are heard
MARIA MAGDALENA
Fucking reporters, blood suckers!
CAMERA from reporter stays put
the steps of people walking are around it
also the opening of a car door, and
seconds later the slam of 2 doors
a woman reporter says something
to cameraman… some apologizes
and stuff not really clear
DISSOLVES into inside p-up truck
INT. PICK-UP TRUCK – DAY
PHOTOGRAPHER
What’s going on… what she
said back there?
MARIA MAGDALENA
Nothing photographer, your
job, if you want to stay alive is
to take pix of everything or
every fucking place wherever
we go, andddd be quiet… ok?
(she moves her head offensively
towards him)
ARIZONA
Take it easy girl, what Mr.
yoga said is real
MARIA MAGDALENA
What u mean…?
ARIZONA
(while Mr. photographer clicks out)
JONI’s men are in the
house and well armed how are
we gonna defeat them and why
we have to blow the house up?
PHOTOGRAPHER
Yes!
MARIA MAGDALENA
(looking again to Mr. photographer)
What is your name anyway Mr. shut up?
PHOTOGRAPHER
Lukas
MARIA MAGDALENA
Well Mr. Luke, do your job…
I need the pix
LUKAS
My name is Lukas not Luke
CUT TO
EXT. HILLS – DAY
A girl runs fast, she knows
the area, at the distance JONI’s
men are already awake and
machine gun bullets search the
forest hill scanning for living flesh…
in SM bullets drive through trees…
a girl hides behind one of them
and she is not afraid…
we heard the yelling of the “precious”
voice of JONI…
B&W
JONI
Motherfu*****
bring me that chick alive…
stop the shooting!!!!!!!
stupid assholes
Lots of trees passed by the girl, then she
moves into a different location,
stops in a place and stays put… listening,
seconds’ later figures of armed men pass
through the forest, quietly.
CUT TO
The big bird flies above her, it elevates
from where it floats, elevates more and more
amongst the big trees of the forest;
all of the sudden we heard those same men
noises as they run through the forest
to a point where the trees are gone…
she scans the heavens at horizon, sees a
blue beautiful empty sky, then as she
turns, sights the above part of the same
hill and discovers an old pick up truck
and dust coming down… she tries to figure
fast and discovers who is driving
BACK TO COLOR
INT. PICK-UP – DAY
MARIA MAGDALENA
Got this weird feeling
LUKAS
What type of feeling
MARIA MAGDALENA
You supposed to say, what kind…
not what type, fool…! Anyway,
its just a weird feeling,
that I get when some
(CONT’D)
(CONT.)
energy… somewhere far or nearby
from here, is trying to do
something… I am not sure
if it’s against me directly,
or once gets around, it
involves me in a way…
LUKAS
Its that energy about or
inside some person in particular?
MARIA MAGDALENA
Wow… u are not that stupid
after all… Luke…
(she looks at him in a different way)
well, yeah…
(and smiles)
most of the time involves people’s
thoughts
LUKAS
And a thought goes before
an action…
MARIA MAGDALENA
Exactly… boy!
MM girl had that look in her eyes
corners, seems like she began to
be interested in talking to that boy…
MARIA MAGDALENA
Now… we stop the car
and ya guys wait for me here…
you Luke… use the zoom a lot!
Blond MM jumped outside the pick
up truck, and immediately she fast got
into some bushes and hides… quick
runs into the forest near by
trees… and disappears
CUTS INTO
B&W
EXT. FOREST - DAY
The young girl is running wild… goes
through a labyrinth path between
the trees, those that animals use to go
their ways… she sees a falling rotten
tree and tries to avoided it by jumping
it over… but as she jumps over & up
two hands from inside the other
side, grab her from the waist and
bring her down… we heard a
SSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH!
The forest remains silent
as the empty space left by the girl
as she disappeared, stills…
OS sounds of people draw near,
heavy breathings approach
slowly a cowboy hot shows up,
then a body, is LEDER
the German dude…
CUTS INTO
COLOR
MARIA MAGDALENA is on her
knees, under the rotten falling tree,
she hides a girl behind her and
covers her mouth gentle as in
sign of quietness… the girl is
not scare she shows brave eyes,
and she is restless, but lows her
eyes in approval… MM awaits protective
and patiently as a cat…
The rotten tree makes with the
uneasy landscape some sort of a cave,
from there a tough sole of a boot on
top shows up… on MM head, pieces of
rotten tree keep falling on her…
OS a strong woman hand passes fast
through and grabs the owner of the
boots and brings him down on
the ground around her… an insect follows
the fall, and the fast move of MM
as she applies her two fingers of
her right hand into some area of
the neck, and the man stops
living immediately… MM hides
the body, as she murmurs an
SSHH to the girl.
Young girl astonished
by her speed, knows that woman
deserves respect… helps her with
the body and both hide the corps
behind them… young girl grabs the
machine gun… searches the
body and finds a silencer and ammo…
gets the ammo into her side pockets,
and squeezes the silencer in proper
place on the machine gun…
MM looks at every thing she does,
and is admired for the silence placed
on the action and the how fast she did it…
after girl finish, looks at MM’s blue
eyes and they both agree in what
they both find of each other…
a partner in the conflict
CUT TO
LUKAS camera is being working all
this time with the zoom and it shows a
selection of his job while the girls were behind the fallen tree.
B&W pix pass in front of the screen…
and stop when he sees inside his camera another guy approaching them…
INT. PICK-UP TRUCK - DAY
INSIDES OF LUKAS CAMERA IN B&W
He follows, and then clicks three times…
tags on until the man gets right
before the fallen tree, he turns his head
to ARIZONA in worry, then LUKAS sees
the scary face of one of
the RODRIGUEZ brothers…
we heard LUKAS voice OS murmuring…
“The lit brother must be near”
CUT TO
COLOR
EXT. FOREST - DAY
In pure silence… MM is trying to
figured out what is going on beyond
her position… she knows where
RODRIGUEZ is by now… then she hears a
broken leave in a short distance,
that brings her attention… she
raises her fist close… then lifts
one finger… then a second one…
and looks at the young girl.
Now she knows what is outside,
grabs her m-gun with both hands,
an insect lays on her fingernails
all polished in black, she gets out of
her nest… insect tries to follow her
and finds the girl’s legs, her overalls,
fast she makes a move with her hands
bringing the big toy out there, jumps…
and OS is hear two small dry squishes
and fast she goes back under to meet MM…
INSERT
FLASHES OF B&W PIX OF LUKAS FROM THE ACTION
The face of the girl has a pale pink skin,
brown hair, yellow eyes and
round face, looks like a school girl
GIRL
Now, we can get out Ma’am
MARIA MAGDALENA
Were only three?
GIRL
Yap!
As the two advance outside
their hidden spot, MM congratulates
for the help the girl has done…
the big bird is above them and sees the
action from above as they both
walk away with their healthy hairs
and female movement of their bodies
MARIA MAGDALENA
You are good with those toys
GIRL
My name is DORA GUEVARA…
I learned this stuff by being
next to my fathers back in Bolivia
before he got murder
MARIA MAGDALENA
Uhmm… clever
DORA
What… u don’t believe me?
MARIA MAGDALENA
On the contrary, I do believe you…
I’m sorry, but I am in the middle
of a personal war here,
and it feels very clever to me
that you just showed up
like falling from the heavens.
DORA
U better start believing in
miracles woman
MARIA MAGDALENA
Ok Dora… here is the situation…
The two women are sitting on the clear
part of the forest, talking… they seemed
like they were having a picnic instead,
sitting comfortable on the ground chatting
while the big bird watches…
EXT. OUTSIDE JONI’S HOUSE – DAY
B&W
SHULETA, GRIYO and ESCOBAR
were outside the hill house… searching
on the distance for a sign, GRIYO
had some binoculars and he scans
the hills while ESCOBAR is eating
something in his disgusting
way, getting rid of food…
SHULETA
One thing for sure… heard nothing
GRIYO
Shut up!
ESCOBAR
(mumbling)
Smell like ded again…
GRIYO
Shut up, I said!
CUT TO
INT. INSIDE A HOUSE – DAY
JONI is sitting in the big front hall,
the living room starts moving around
him on about 6 feet above the floor.
The screen divides in two halves, on
the opposite half, are those thoughts
of JONI… pix in COLOR of him and a blond
woman making love with nice background music… the progression of the pix seems
to be taken by a photo booth machine with
flash, the sequence of the passing pix
are in one by one coming slowly, same as
those inside a photo booth… after some
takes later, the face of the woman, and surprise, she looks like MARIA MAGDALENA…
COLOR
MM girl’s face is broken, her eyes show deep sadness, on the corner of her right
side lip, a tear pass by… the song stops,
the sequence of pix too…
CUT TO
(in COLOR the two women)
EXT. BY THE HOUSE - DAY
MARIA MAGDALENA and DORA are now close
to the house, they came from behind it,
and see in a far away corner, those
three men from JONI up at front… and fast
the two women get to the back of the house,
MM looks through a window in ¼ of a
second and sees what she needs to know…
goes down and tells something
in the ear to DORA…
DORA goes the other direction and disappears
on the corner of the house… MM stays
against the wall… gets down and
from the bottom corner of the window
takes a look again… she sees nobody.
Inside JONI had moved… that’s a
bad sign, MM thinks…
INSERT chat’s sign: “oh, my God!” to MM
She gets a lit bit anxious,
and explores the idea of getting
inside the house… she makes a
move, but it’s too late… a 44 magnum
head was pointing to her brain wishing
in blowing the insides all over the walls…
JONI
Looks who is here…
my dear Maria M. again
thought I left you in agony
and free u from death
into eternity
MARIA MAGDALENA
You killed DT!
JONI
So… u here for revenge or what
MARIA MAGDALENA
Actually, I am here to place the cross back, but I found a stolen house
in the wrong place,
and… inside… the wrong man
JONI
Oh, Maria, Maria M., let me introduce
you to my new house, in my new land
hahaha… but, let’s stop the chat
and move inside, please… be my guest
BACK TO NORMAL COLOR
INT. INSIDE THE HOUSE - DAY
Both walk inside the house, JONI aware
of MM abilities, showed some precautions
and stayed at a distance… always pointing
the 44 gun to her… they sat in center
of the big hall… she picks a single pillow on the ground, and he went for the only sofa of the room…
JONI
Life changes a lot dear Maria
MARIA MAGDALENA
I know…
She looked in a short second through the
front window and saw nobodies…
JONI
Guys, guys, come back here,
the woman showed up
(looking to Maria)
and her name is Maria Magdalena
MM remains in silence, the house was
quiet, she knew that by now,
those three men were already death
and sort of the existence of JONI,
was also coming into a death end road…
MARIA MAGDALENA
Feeling lonely?
JONI
What had u done to my men!
MARIA MAGDALENA
Nothing baby, is just happens that I
believe in miracles now…
JONI
Shut up bitch!
JONI went up to the front window and what he sees are three death men on the grass outside, and a big piece of whatever ESCOBAR was eating, in his disgusting way, laying on the green lawn… the piece of meat looks really sick.
When he turns back looking for MM,
she was gone and a voice from OS
MARIA MAGDALENA
Hello baby… looking for me?
I got a nice surprise for you
(While JONI’s 44 spits fire everywhere)
JONI
I am gonna kill you bitch like a
I killed DT
MARIA MAGDALENA
Sorry asshole, think you are
already death
B&W
ANIMATION
In SM a bullet drives fast
the empty area of the big room… searches
and wants to destroy JONI’S brain,
finds JONI’s head on the way…
the trembling music of a sequenced
musical note and looped noises are heard…
the bullet finds her destination
and in SM the body of JONI
falls death in a swimming pool
of red blood (only blood in color)
MM was in the second floor of the inside
and on first floor, DORA blows the smoke out of the gun…
ENDS ANIMATION
CUT TO BLACK
EXT – HILL HOUSE – DUSK
COLOR
The fucked up pick up truck of
LUKAS was parking outside, the four
friends kick back in front of it…
A big bird flies above and watches the
scene, is the bird’s favorite place to watch people.
From up the road, a herd of wild horses
ride down, DORA waves them in
ARIZONA
Are those yours woman?
DORA
Nope, their my friend’s friends
LUKAS
She got horses… wow, they even
better than a pick up
MARIA MAGDALENA
May be they are useful to
bring the cross up here…
ARIZONA
And the garage door, woman
(MM turns her head and smiles)
The big bird watches the herd coming
down in how they get closer to DORA,
she gives a hug to one of the horses
at front, while the rest of them spread
around the house…
CUT TO
ANIMATION
EXT. DESERT - DAY
Four guys are running down the hill,
the sky is red and purple… inside there
is a planet that looks like Uranus
with its rings… it’s blue and a bunch
of yellowish stars are ’round it
Dust goes up from the shoes of
the guys as the run on desert landscape,
big cactus play they roll, LUKAS CAMERA
waits down the hill on a tripod, and
it sees the house above and the four guys
getting closer
FLASHES OF LUKAS PIX IN B&W
LUKAS CAMERA remains still and waits,
MM is getting closer and closer,
and closer until she hit the lens
and with her lips kisses it and goes
away OS… everybody passes by and goes
afterwards OS… they send voices
of jubilee
ENDS ANIMATION
CUT TO BLACK
EXT. BY A RIVER – LATE AFTERNOON
The four friends are sitting next to
a river while horses are in the back eating
the green grass, they talk…
ARIZONA
So where is this cross of you…
LUKAS
Yeah, and why it needs to go on top
of the hill
DORA
Hey guys, hold your horses, ok?
give the lady some air
(suspense)
MARIA MAGDALENA
(coming back from deep thoughts)
No big deal, but thanx girl…
…long ago, on that hill,
it was a cross, brought it up there
by the first pilgrims in sign of
protection against bad spirits
and bad Indians…
but… it happened that the Indians
thought, that it had a negative energy,
and an ugly element for the view
so they burned down… after some years,
some other native people wanted to
build a cross above on the hills
to protect them from bad spirits,
but a crazy cleric from local
church said to them, that the
Lord had been already resurrected,
and the cross was a sign
of primitive human religions…
LUKAS
Interesting arguments, crossing with
each other…
DORA
So why you want that on the hill
if they say that the Lord had
already been resurrected from death
LUKAS
Yeah, he is not hanging on
the cross any more…
MARIA MAGDALENA
Well...
(She walks toward the river
takes her boots off, and gets inside the refreshing water, feels the element
and splashes some on her face, drops
of crystals go down her nose…
she turns around and continues…)
MARIA MAGDALENA
it’s a matter of keeping a promise…
LUKAS
A promise to whom!
DORA and ARIZONA
(at the same time)
Yeah… whom…
(silence… music ends)
MARIA MAGDALENA
To a lover I had…
LUKAS
Don’t tell us that the lover was
one of the death bodies left behind
(silence…)
A fly passes by her face she lows down her eyes and glimpses as the river flows…
fishes inside stream move around her feet…
she raises her head, and sees above
a shining red sun and a big bird flying by…
(and MM murmurs low)
MARIA MAGDALENA
Yeah…
DORA
Ok, no more question guys,
she is tired, ok?
DORA walks towards MM, and as she comes out
of the river, they hug each other as sisters
CUT to SEPIA
ANIMATION
EXT. DESERT - NIGHT UNDER THE MILKY WAY
A fire goes somewhere in that desert
two persons are close to it…
one cooks something, the other
watch the sparkles that the fire makes…
On the horizon… MM is talking with
LUKAS, their faces are really relaxed…
MARIA MAGDALENA
…I know, I have to give up to the idea
LUKAS
For your own sake and our own
health, please…
MARIA MAGDALENA
Thanx LUKAS… you know what…
I need to apologize for my nasty
behavior towards you all this time
I was just a bitch…
LUKAS
No worries woman… I understand
let’s go to the fire place…
But MM got really this look in her eyes, gets closer to LUKAS, and gives him a nice soft
lips kiss to him… looks at his eyes and smiles. LUKAS was surprised, but smiles back, and as she turns back and goes slowly towards the fire, LUKAS watches from where he stands, how she beautifully moves her silhouette away…
her hair waves good byes to him… but her shoulders are calling him closer…
LUKAS takes the last suggestion, and walks ahead to her, when they got closer, grabs her hand and says…
LUKAS
“THANK YOU…”
She smiles…
END ANIMATION
EXT. OUTSIDE COUNTRY - NIGHT
FILTERED COLOR
A wild herd of horses runs on an
open field… among them 4 riders.
A big bird flies the night, from above,
the whole scene of dust left behind by
them as they ride on, goes up and towards
the big bird.
From the cloudy view, big bird sees now a wooden cross laying down on the ground… it looks as black and dark as some of the horses…
The cattle have black and white colors… the two women are at front… blond hair and dark hair are in contrast with the dusty yellowish of then ground…
Music sounds from the background explodes… is simple but is wild, is not noisy, but is hard…
The two guys follow and they pass around the
wooden huge cross on the ground, the whole herd pursues, and the frame makes a twist and the view from the big bird flying above looks like a bulky eye moving around a yellow skin…
Images freeze
CUT TO
FLASHES OF B&W PIX OF LUKAS
“FADE OUT”
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