Riding With Ruth, the Car Stories Continue
The Bronze Fury Screenplay
Scene1: EXT - PARKING LOT
Action: Looking at open car trunk lid.
RUTH
ACTION (Flashback) Driving near Boulder Montana.
Brand new light green Honda with Utah plates follows Fury on two lane paved road. School bus approaches. Stops, unloads passengers, Fury stops. Honda doesn’t. Honda slides under bumper of Fury. Makes a little dimple below Fury’s back bumper. The Honda - still drivable no longer pretty. Broken right headlights, front grill and right front panel splintered.
SCENE 2: INT - USPFO PURCHASING AND CONTRACTING DEPARTMENT
OFFICE
Wooden steps with handrail leads up to L shaped loft, with three conjoined rooms. Ruth’s desk in corner of loft, stage left - top of stairs. Auditors share one room, boss’s office is side room.
ACTION - Ruth working at desk .
ACTION - Auditor #1 starting up the stairs. Stops in mid step looks at Ruth with amazement.
RUTH
(sarcastic) Where else would I be?
RUTH
Action: Bronze Fury travels down the road - no visible driver.
Scene fades to black.
The Bronze Fury Screenplay
Scene1: EXT - PARKING LOT
Action: Looking at open car trunk lid.
RUTH
You can put half a house back here.
FRIEND
There’s room for 3 or 4 dead bodies in there, at least.
NARRATOR
The bronze Plymouth Fury is a very big “boat”. The trunk has more room than the box of some pickups. The ride is smooth and it flies low. Pilot’s license optional.
Ruth’s mother stood 5’4”. None of her girls got that tall. Ruth never got taller than 5’ 1”. Most of her adult life she hovers around 5’ 1/4”. Those quarter inches count when you are short!
The bronze Fury is massive. Ruth has a hard time seeing over the steering wheel. She takes bed pillows to sit on. The Fury is a powerful machine made of US steel. It is made to withstand the ravages of life.
ACTION (Flashback) Driving near Boulder Montana.
Brand new light green Honda with Utah plates follows Fury on two lane paved road. School bus approaches. Stops, unloads passengers, Fury stops. Honda doesn’t. Honda slides under bumper of Fury. Makes a little dimple below Fury’s back bumper. The Honda - still drivable no longer pretty. Broken right headlights, front grill and right front panel splintered.
SCENE 2: INT - USPFO PURCHASING AND CONTRACTING DEPARTMENT
OFFICE
Wooden steps with handrail leads up to L shaped loft, with three conjoined rooms. Ruth’s desk in corner of loft, stage left - top of stairs. Auditors share one room, boss’s office is side room.
ACTION - Ruth working at desk .
ACTION - Auditor #1 starting up the stairs. Stops in mid step looks at Ruth with amazement.
AUDITOR # 1
(surprised) “You’re here!”
RUTH
Yes, its a work day.”
AUDITOR # 1
(emphatic) “No. I mean you’re here.
RUTH
(sarcastic) Where else would I be?
AUDITOR # 1
(elucidating) Well I saw your car drive through the gates with no one driving. So I figured you weren’t here.
RUTH
(deadpan) Well I am here.
AUDITOR # 1
(confusion) Then who WASN’T driving your car? I mean you couldn’t see anyone behind the wheel. So I assumed you were driving. We never see you.
RUTH
My sister borrowed the car today.
AUDITOR # 1
(Skeptically) - “You mean there are two of you? And we can’t see either of you behind the wheel?”
BOTH
Laughter
Action: Bronze Fury travels down the road - no visible driver.
Scene fades to black.
