THE FOLLOWING IS A SCENE FROM YUMMY

TAKEN FROM SCRIPT TO ROUGH TO FINAL

 

INTERIOR – HOUSE

34-1 MONSTER, 25, Disciples minister, dressed in Chicago Bulls gear, smokes a cigarette and stares at Yummy.

The house looks abandoned. The crew stands menacingly behind him.

                                                            ROGER

                        Monster was the leader of the Black Disciple set called the 8 Balls.

                                                            MONSTER

You doing good for a shorty.

34-2 (Reverse angle) Little Yummy tries to stand tall and tough.

                                                                 YUMMY
                                     Tall enough.
What’s that got to do wit’ anything?

    MONSTER (off screen)
A tough shorty.
Big mouth too.

34-3 (medium shot) Monster SMILES.

                                                               MONSTER

I hear you take care of business better than some

of these fools.

He gestures at some of his older gangbangers.

34-4 (side angle) He leans in. Close.

MONSTER
You ready to take the Black Disciples Nation pledge?

35-1 (Close-up) Yummy stares at his feet.

  YUMMY

I guess so…

35-2 (Close-up) Monster scowls.  

MONSTER

Better guess again.

35-3 Yummy straightens up and looks at Monster.

YUMMY

I wanna be a Black Disciple!

35-4 Monster straightens up.

                                                             MONSTER

Alright, then, little man, let’s do it. Hold up your right hand.

35-5 Yummy raises his left hand.

MONSTER

Your other right hand.

                        ROGER

Pledging was the biggest honor for any shorty.

It meant you belonged.

35-6 Yummy switches hands.

35-7                                                     MONSTER

Say after me. I bow to the Universal Code of Laws for

 the Almighty Black Disciple Nation.

 

YUMMY

Say after me. I bow to the Universal Code of Laws for the

Almighty Black Disciple Nation.

 

36-(3-5) add: “I am what I am, a Black Disciple, and that I ain’t, I will never be.”

weaving through each frame, almost as if the gang members are chanting it in the background.

 

36-1                                                         MONSTER

I pledge my heart, soul, love and spirit to the BDN

     YUMMY

I pledge my heart, soul, love and spirit to the BDN

 

                                                      MONSTER

And will be a part of it,

      YUMMY

And will be a part of it,

36-2 Monster leans in close.

       MONSTER

Even in death.

Yummy gulps.

       YUMMY

Even in death.

36-3 Monster smiles and pulls out a BLADE. He grabs YUMMY’s hand.

36-4 the blade cuts Yummy’s hand.

36-5 Yummy bites his lip as Monster cuts his own hand.

36-6And he GRASPS Yummy’s hand with it.

       MONSTER

Now you one of us forever.