THE AMERICAN Screenplay by Rowan Joffe Based on the novel A ...
THE AMERICAN Screenplay by Rowan Joffe Based on the novel A ...
THE AMERICAN Screenplay by Rowan Joffe Based on the novel A ...
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"The American" June 21st, 2010 page 31.<br />
50 EXT. COUNTRYSIDE- DAY<br />
50<br />
A dirt track meanders downhill past a few small holdings and<br />
allotments.<br />
The CAR moves slowly.<br />
JACK pulls up beside a high chain fence.<br />
The DOGS <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r side start barking. This sets off o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
dogs in o<strong>the</strong>r scrap yards.<br />
JACK gets out of <strong>the</strong> car and approaches a makeshift hut<br />
beside <strong>the</strong> fence. Before he’s a metre from <strong>the</strong> door it opens<br />
and a tough, well-built, unshaven Italian man in his midtwenties<br />
looks him up and down.<br />
FABIO.<br />
JACK<br />
I have some damage to my car.<br />
FABIO (ITALIAN)<br />
Sorry, too busy.<br />
JACK<br />
S<strong>on</strong>o un amico di Padre Benedetto.<br />
Suspici<strong>on</strong> gives way suddenly to warmth:<br />
FABIO<br />
L’Americano?<br />
JACK smiles politely.<br />
JACK<br />
Bu<strong>on</strong> giorno.<br />
FABIO<br />
Ok, Ok, I fix.<br />
51 INT. WORKSHOP- DAY<br />
51<br />
The metal door slides open. FABIO leads JACK inside.<br />
At <strong>the</strong> back of <strong>the</strong> cluttered workshop is a blue ALFA ROMEO<br />
being resprayed white. Beside it, <strong>on</strong>e half of a LANCIA is<br />
being welded to ano<strong>the</strong>r.<br />
JACK knows better than to stare. He follows FABIO through<br />
to...<br />
52 INT. BACK OFFICE- DAY<br />
52<br />
Girly calendars, Italian style.
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