WRITTEN BYQuentin Tarantino
SCREENPLAY PROFILE
This page presents the Death Proof (2007) screenplay, written by Quentin Tarantino, as 40 navigable scenes across 127 pages. The source is identified as Final Draft — Valentine's Day 2006, 2006-02-14. Search the text, isolate a character’s dialogue, or link directly to any scene.
The car is driving fast down the road. A pair of female bare feet with a gold ankle bracelet lie propped up on the dashboard emanating from the passenger seat. A Good God Almighty rockabilly tune beats out of the car stereo, the feet tap to the beat.
The opening credits play out over this image. As the music continues
A tall (maybe 6ft) Amazonian Mulatto goddess walks down her hallway, dressed in a baby tee, and panties that her big ass (a good thing) spill out of, and her long legs grow out of. Her big bare feet slap on the hard wood floor. She moves to the cool rockabilly beat as she paces like a tiger putting on her clothes. Outside her apartment she hears a "Honk Honk". She sticks her long mane of silky black curly hair, her giraffish neck and her broad shoulders, out of the window and yells down to a car below.
This sexy chick is Austin, Texas, local celebrity, JUNGLE JULIA LUCAI, the most popular discjockey of the coolest rock radio station in a music town.
Two girls are getting out of a white Honda civic, that's parked across the street from Jungle Julia's apartment. One girl is SHANNA...
The other (the one with the sexy opening credit feet) is ARLENE.
All three girls are in their seven years after college phase (about twenty-eight).
The dynamic of the trio is as such, Julia, Shanna, and Arlene all went to the University of Texas together. Shanna being a Texas native. Julia being from Los Angeles. Arlene being from Brooklyn. After school was over, Arlene went back to New York, Julia got into the local Austin music scene, becoming a fixture on the scene, and ultimately becoming a drive time D.J. for the local oldies radio station Austin Hot Wax 505, and in the process turning into one of the most popular local celebrities since Stevie Ray Vaughn. Arlene's in town visiting for a week, and it's sorta fallin' on Shanna to take care of her. But since Julia's become a celebrity in the meantime, every plan arrangement, and girls night out is vaguely catered around Julia.
As Julia screams down to them, Arlene hurries across the street and screams up to her in her thick Brooklyn accent.
As Arlene and Shanna hurry up the stairs to Julia's apartment, the rockabilly on the soundtrack is cut off (by a needle being lifted) and a different song is put on the soundtrack.
Julia has just put on a new record and is dancing to the music.
Arlene enters the front door with an I gotta pee body language. Julia points in the direction of the bathroom. Arlene disappears behind the bathroom door. Shanna and Julia dance to the record while Arlene pees.
Arlene is sitting on the toilet, a horse race stream of piss can be heard emanating from under her. We slowly zoom into the pretty face of relief.
In slow motion, the three girls walk out of the apartment, and head for their car.
They climb into Shanna's car, and head off to their next exciting 3 girls 3 adventure. As the Honda drives away, A SUBTITLE APPEARS BELOW: The City of Austin, Texas
Shanna is behind the wheel, Arlene is in the passenger seat, and Jungle Julia lies sprawled out in the back seat, her feet out the car door window, like Cleopatra.
Arlene turning around in her seat to talk to the lying down Julia.
Julia smiles, she's not really mad anymore. Arlene takes it a little too seriously.
They both bust out laughing. Arlene guesses it's okay, and joins along.
Julia smiling.
Shanna to Arlene.
Arlene starts to recount last nights hook up with her tough girl way of talking.
The girls laugh.
The girls laugh and make gross noises.
Julia and Shanna say together;
They all laugh.
Arlene's trying to forget Julia just called her a dummy two seconds ago. She could be the hurt girl, or the cool dude chick and has decided in her last two days in Texas to be the dude chick.
Julia takes out her cell phone, pushes one button.
Steve is obviously these girls idea of a secret code for pot.
Julia rises to sitting position.
A billboard of Jungle Julia Lucai, the discjockey of the local classic rock station, AUSTIN HOT WAX 505. The billboard shows Julia dressed as a leopard spotted Julia of the Jungle, Tarzan type surrounded by stacks of records. Different styles of Jungle Julia billboards are all over town.
As the girls pass by it they scream. ...they pass by down the road...
...empty road, just billboard...
...then a menacing looking muscle car with a powerful thumping engine... passes by.
Out of the windshield of the powerful scary muscle car. Trailing the girls from way far back. The unseen DRIVER eyes, hidden behind dark glasses, glances up at Jungle Julia's billboard as it passes it.
A bluesy early seventies rock tune plays out his thumping speakers.
All we can see of the DRIVER is, he wears a Silver Satin Jacket with an embroidered "ICY HOT" patch on the back, wears his hair in a greasy halfassed pompadour, and he smokes Chesterfields like a chimney, indicated by the overflowing ashtray. As the music plays we see various INSERTS of the dash of this mechanical monster. Including one of the car keys in the ignition with a sparkplug keychain. His hood ornament is a muscle bound duck flexing.
The girls have stopped in front of the Mexican restaurant Guero's, and are piling out of the car. His heavy boot eases off the gas pedal. We see the arrow on the speedometer fall to a crawl. OVER THE DRIVER'S shoulder looking out the passenger side window, we see the girls bullshitting as they walk from car to front door.
DRIVER'S POV: SLOW MOTION shot of all the girls and each one individually. The girls Christian name and first initial of their last name appears beside each girl during their slow motion single. JUNGLE JULIA L.
SHANNA S.
ARLENE M.
We see rubber banded to the sun visor a Polaroid of Jungle Julia, Shanna, and Arlene, wearing different clothes. This stalking is not random. He didn't just find them today. This is one part of a longer process. CU The DRIVER Just as the music reaches a crescendo, we cut to a tight Sergio Leone CU of the Driver, smiling... then... ...the badass vehicle speeds off, making a thunderous racket.
Julia and Shanna oblivious, walk into the restaurant. But something makes Arlene stop, and give the muscle car an investigative gaze, as it hauls ass down the road. Like "the final girl" in a slasher film, her look says; "something's not right. But that's just silly". She shrugs it off, and enters the restaurant to catch up with her friends.
The three ladies sit at a big booth, post dinner, the dirty dishes have been taken away, but the table still shows the mess the girls made.
Shanna pours out the last of the margarita from their last pitcher.
The bill comes, already paid by Jungle Julia.
While they went back and forth about the check. Shanna's phone rang, she's answered it, talked and hung up.
Jungle Julia whips out her cell phone, and dials Christian Simonson's number. His voice mail picks up, and an outgoing message, that Chris made while sitting at the Hemingway bar in the St. Regis hotel in Paris. In fact, you can hear Colin the bartender, explaining a drink in the background.
Julia leaves her message.
She puts away her cell phone. Shanna picks up her drink, and proposes a toast their last margarita before moving on to "Huck's". With their glasses raised, Julia looks across to Arlene. Arlene smiles sweetly and obliviously. Julia gets a devilish smile. She looks over to Shanna, who looks over to Julia, and does her famous Shanna giggle, as Julia spreads her devilish smile.
It's obvious they're both in on something that Arlene is in the dark about.
Arlene sees this too, and puts her glass down.
As Shanna uncontrollably giggles, she manages to say;
As she giggles;
The other girls laugh.
Arlene continues with her mock concern.
This stops Arlene's momentum just a little.
She takes a sip of her very good margarita.
Jungle Julia grabs her friend's hand and says;
Arlene slides her margarita over to Julia, who now has two.
Arlene salutes.
Jungle Julia gets all cool guy approaching a girl.
Arlene busts out laughing.
Jungle Julia extends her hand like a him.
Arlene folds her hand femininely into Julia's big hand.
They both turn to Shanna and say; SSSHHHH!
The two girls turn back to each other and pick it up again.
She shakes her head sexually, "No".
Arlene leans in, and says confidentially;
Using both of her hands spread wide for emphasis. Julia breaks character -
Shanna laughs and raises up her hand.
Shanna and Julia high five.
She slides it over.
Jungle Julia raises her glass to toast, Arlene does too, then Julia says looking Arlene dead in the eye, with glasses raised;
They stand up to leave.
We see POV from the Driver in the muscle car, the three girls walk out of Guero's. The same bluesy rock number that was playing as the girls went in is still playing as they walk out.
One of the girls trips a little bit on the steps going down. Indicating they've polished off a few margaritas. We hear the Driver laugh off screen. FADE TO BLACK: OVER BLACK As the song continues... The TEXT APPEARS: "Two Hours later at Huck's"
A different billboard of Jungle Julia, this time dressed up as a roller derby queen, holding a record player, and placing the needle on a spinning L.P. "AUSTIN HOT WAX 505". Then we see "Huck's"; it sure as hell's a dive, but in the words of Julia, "a fucking cool dive". Maybe the audience notices the girls white Honda and the Driver's muscle car in the parking lot, maybe they don't.
The song from before continues on Huck's extremely cool vintage jukebox.
Jungle Julia, pint of beer in one hand and lit cigarette in the other, does a very sexy dance to the bluesey rock classic. For the audience in Huck's as well as the movie theatre she's putting on a one-ho-show. Our three fox posse, has collected some stray sniffing dogs. The aforementioned NATE and OMAR and PETE. Omar's talking up Shanna at their beer spilled, peanut shelled strewn table. Pete's drinking Shiner Bock beer from a pitcher, admiring Julia's dance. Arlene and Nate are dancing together (he's holding her from behind and their pelvises are moving together). Which shows Arlene's not a goody two shoes, she's out to party, she's just not clear about the new dynamic with her old college pals. Needless to say, everybody's drunk. The song ends, and Warren, the owner operator of Huck's, yells to Julia;
Every one in the place laughs. Julia rolls her eyes to heaven, blows out a dramatic stream of smoke (ala Joan Crawford), and bitchy grinds out her cigarette in the table top (ala Bette Davis)
Nobody's mad at anybody, they're just giving each other shit.
Julia sits down next to Pete.
She takes out her cell phone, and pushes a button calling Lanna-Frank.
She hangs up the phone, and hits TEXT MESSAGE. She quickly texts; "I can't wait to see you. Hurry!!!!!!" Goes to the name Chris Simonson, and hits send. "Your message has been sent" appears on her screen. Shanna schools Omar as she drinks a humongous Long Island Ice Tea.
Julia's phone rings with a text message. She hits the menu, and it says a message from; Chris Simonson. She opens up the electronic mail. It reads; "Me Too". She smiles and texts back; "XOXO J.J." She hits send.
Pete arrives with shots of Cabo Wabo tequila.
Everybody groans, but they do them. We see CU's of all three girls knocking back the tequila, and making faces, and having an alcohol tremor. Arlene stands up, and takes out a pack of cigarettes called; "CAPITOL W - Lights".
Arlene walks outside by herself to the front porch of Huck's.
Upon hitting the night air, Arlene immediately sees it's fuckin' pissin' cats and dogs.
Arlene turns towards the voice, she sees a pretty girl, late twenties, (same age as the other girls) sitting on a porch swing, smoking a cigarette. Even though they won't get around to introducing themselves to each other for awhile, this angelic looking, blonde haired sassy little hippy chick, is named PAM.
Pam was venting and doesn't like how that makes her sound.
Pam puts out her cigarette;
They open the door to peer in, but when Pam looks towards her table, new people are sitting at it, and her date is nowhere to be seen.
She looks around in time to see her dates car leaving the restaurant parking lot.
She starts walking towards the car, but stops because of the rain.
The car takes off...
... leaving her stranded at the bar.
She yanks out her cell phone and angrily dials Scott. We lose Arlene at this point, and stay with Pam. The other end of the cell phone picks up.
She hangs up. She storms back inside the bar. She goes up to the bartender,
She can't believe it, her cell phone rings. She lifts it to her ear;
There's silence...
Then...
She hangs up the phone.
BACK TO ARLENE on the porch Arlene's by herself on the porch swing smoking her cigarette...
When...
Her eyes land on the muscle car from earlier, sitting in the parking lot. Her face shows she recognizes the car, that seemed suspicious before.
Something about this car makes her uneasy. A hand comes up behind her touching her shoulder and making her jump.
It's Nate, he laughs at her reaction.
Nate, palms out, pleading his case.
She tosses her cigarette out in the rain.
He takes out an umbrella that opens on cue.
She gives him a look.
Nate smiles.
She still gives him a look.
She contemplates for a moment... Nate waits for his fate to be decided...
As she gets under his umbrella, and they walk in the rain, she says;
BACK IN HUCK'S
Pete and Omar stand up to get more drinks.
Pete pointing cool like at Julia;
Julia nods her head approvingly.
As a new 45 falls on the vintage turntable... and the needle lowers... We go behind a Customer sitting at the bar. Using both hands, he's eating the Huck's Huckin' Nacho Grande platter. Which comes with double everything, sour cream, melted cheese, queso sauce, enchilada sauce, and chili sauce. While the Customer is not wolfishly devouring it, yet, using both of his bare hands, he's eating it in a way that expresses his hearty appetite. And apparently these nachos are finger licking good. Due to the Silver Satin Icy Hot Jacket we can tell the Customer and the Driver are the same. But we can tell more now about him. He appears middle fifties, but actually might be older. His body is in good, if well-worn, shape. He wears a beat up pompadour in place of a beat up cowboy hat, which he keeps afloat with a healthy mixture of Aqua Net and Tres Flores pomade. His body language carries that certain breed of redneck elegance, that only Rodeo Riders and Professional Stuntmen have. He listens to the music on the jukebox as he eats his nachos, and drinks his glass of clear liquid. We have yet to see him full on, but one more thing we can tell...
...he has a big scar running down his face. Pete and Omar show up at the bar next to the Customer/Driver.
Arlene and Nate make out, as the car radio plays, and the rain splashes against the windows. As they kiss, in the backseat, Arlene raises her ass off the seat a little bit to slide her shorts off her crotch and down to her knees.
She takes his hand, as they kiss, and puts it between her legs.
They kiss longer... ..............till...
...She breaks the kiss and the mood by saying;
She irradiatedly waves him away.
She slides her pants back up. Nate's window of opportunity has slammed shut.
The Customer/Driver eats his nachos near the two young men without either looking or even glancing in their direction. Omar in pussy pointers mode.
Arlene and Nate walk back in the bar. The Customer/Driver looks over his shoulder, at Pete and Omar handing the Long Island ice tea and the gin and tonic to the ladies.
Arlene notices Pam at the bar, drinking a drink out of a glass cowboy boot.
Arlene takes it.
Pam takes a look over at their table, sees Jungle Julia, and says;
Arlene and Nate sit back down at their table.
Julia meows.
Everybody at the table laughs.
The old pop and crackly 45 continues it's revolutions on the vintage jukebox. The bass heavy speaker at the bottom, booms.
Referring to the record on the jukebox, the bartender Warren, yells out;
Julia holds up her gin and tonic, and says;
Everybody at the table raises their glass.
Julia and the girls are responding negatively to Omar's idea.
The girls laugh.
She puts her hand on Pete's shoulder.
Arlene glass cowboy boot in hand, turns and catches eyes with Pam glass cowboy boot in hand. They smile and silently cheers each other across the room. Pam turns away, to Warren the bartender.
The key to the muscle car with the sparkplug attached is tossed onto the bar in front of her with a loud thud. She looks up and sees the Driver seated one seat away. We see him clearly now, no more obscure bullshit. He has a big scar on his face from what looks like a previous accident. But the scar doesn't make him look grotesque. It makes him look kinda cool.
Icy Hot flirting, but not putting the bite on Pam, he's just being flirtatiously intriguing.
She laughs.
Pam turns to Warren.
Our girls table shouts for Warren;
Six shots of Wild Turkey shots are poured by Warren on the bar. Stuntman Mike notices it and Pete and Arlene coming to the bar to pick up the shots. Arlene comes up to Pam.
Pam looks over at the table and sees Julia and Shanna.
As Pam tells her this, Arlene notices Stuntman Mike, on the barstool next to Pam. She instantly knows he's the Driver of the muscle car from before and the one parked right outside.
He smiles at Arlene. A chill runs through her.
Arlene realizes she just spaced out.
Arlene carries the shots back to her table. Everybody takes them.
After Arlene does her Wild Turkey shot, her eyes come up on Stuntman Mike by the bar. He's looking right at her, watching her do her whiskey shot. He turns casually and continues talking to Pam. This character makes Arlene feel more and more uneasy. BACK TO PAM
INSERT A finger punches a button with the symbol of a phone on it. CELL PHONE SCREEN it says; "dialing Chris Simonson"
BACK TO PAM
Their drinks arrive, Stuntman Mike takes a sip of the tall foamy white cocktail.
Looking like she was caught out in the rain, white trash pot dealer LANNA-FRANK, followed by two other BADASS LOOKING GIRLS, (no college kids these) walk through the door.
Julia, Shanna and the guys greet them with a big cheer. Lanna-Frank walks over to the bar to give Warren some love. She even knows Pam, and kisses her, then heads to Julia's table.
Stuntman Mike looks over in the tables direction and sees Lanna-Frank and her friends being introduced to Arlene and joining the table. She takes a bag of weed out of her pocket, and shows it to the table. Stuntman Mike clocks all of this. Pam says to Stuntman Mike looking over at Julia's table;
She raises her glass to toast J.J..
JUNGLE JULIA and ARLENE
All three of the guys stand up.
Pete is crestfallen.
Julia, Lanna-Frank, her friends, and the boys head for the door.
INSERT: The lever of a cigarette machine is pulled out. A pack of Red Apple cigarettes falls to the machines catch- all.
Julia takes it and leads her little entourage to the porch when a female BAR PATRON approaches her.
Peg holds up a silver digital camera.
Peg and Julia pose smiling, while Lanna-Frank fumbles around with the digital camera.
Lanna-Frank takes the photo.
The rain comes down pissing. INSERT: Oil imbedded in the highway is being brought up by the rain.
Stuntman Mike, now outside having a smoke, watches the rain, and the wet highway, as he smokes his Chesterfield. You can tell he's really enjoying the rain. Julia and Lanna-Frank sit on the porch swing. The guys hover around them, sharing the joint. Stuntman Mike turns in her direction.
Stuntman Mike gets up and moves toward the pot smoking crowd.
Julia turns to Lanna-Frank.
Arlene and Shanna talk in the ladies room.
They both burst out laughing, and say in unison;
Obviously a private joke only they get.
They laugh again.
BACK ON THE PORCH
Julia takes a hit on the porch swing, her long legs out in front of her, her bare feet up on the wood porch rail, the rain is splashing on them. Stuntman Mike stands up and heads over to them again. Julia says to the group.
Lanna-Frank laughs.
Lanna-Frank and her friends laugh. Stuntman Mike gets cold. Looks at them, then to Julia.
Stuntman Mike gets a little scary.
She comes back the same.
He looks at her.
A moment passes between the two. Then Stuntman Mike turns back into the flirtatious old fool.
This makes Julia laugh.
She holds out her hand.
He kisses it, till she yanks it away.
BACK IN THE BAR Pam's bullshitting with Warren, Stuntman Mike rejoins them.
Pam shakes her head no.
She apologetically shakes her head "no".
Warren approaches.
Stuntman Mike and Pam laugh.
Stuntman Mike notices Arlene and Shanna walk out to the porch.
He smiles and slides off the barstool.
BACK ON THE PORCH The rain suddenly stops, they all notice it except Julia who's busy texting on her cell phone. INSERT: TEXT MESSAGE SCREEN "Your a asshole". Then... "Your message has been sent". Julia and Pete sit on the porch swing, surrounded by their posse, passing a joint.
Lanna-Frank leans close to Julia, and whispers in her ear,
Julia says, louder than she needed to;
Arlene and Shanna walk out on the porch. Julia slaps Pete on the arm, and says;
Pete stands up.
Arlene sits next to Julia on the porch swing, and hugs her waist, putting her head on J.J.'s shoulder. Jungle Julia wraps her long arm around her, talking low to Arlene like a lover.
Arlene exaggeratedly nods her head yes.
She nods her head, yes.
Arlene squeezes Julia tighter;
Then two beers come into FRAME.
Both Julia and Arlene take the beers without looking up. We in the audience notice the hand offering the beers wears a black leather glove.
They look up to cheers, and see; Stuntman Mike, sitting on his haunches.
Stuntman Mike looks at Arlene, she's still a little frightened of him.
But for whatever reason, he's not as scary now. In fact there's something rather intimate about his manner, that actually has a strange effect on the drunk Arlene.
She doesn't want to give him a lap dance, she's still creeped by him, but for whatever reason, she can't bring herself to lie to him. So she doesn't answer at all. She just looks back at him, fragiley.
She nods her head yes.
She shakes her head, no.
Stuntman Mike smiles apologetically.
This makes Arlene smile.
This makes the pretty drunk girl smile.
He takes out a small little book.
He gets real quiet.
He smiles.
He nods his head, yes. BACK INSIDE Stuntman Mike puts a quarter in the jukebox. A cool fifties oldie comes from the vintage jukebox. He takes a chair, and puts it in the middle of the room... ...then sits down on it. Arlene struts up to him and as all eyes are on them, performs a smokin' lap dance. Her girls, and the bar, with the possible exception of Nate, cheer her on. Pam and Warren can't wipe the smiles off of their faces. By the end, Jungle Julia is taking photos with her instamatic, as Arlene and Mike do funny sexy poses. Before the song ends, Arlene finishes up, she doesn't give Mike a kiss, but very lovingly holds his face in her two hands, like the sweet Italian mama that she is. And as the song concludes, without another word, the girls, dance out the door of the bar and leave. Leaving Stuntman Mike smiling, sitting on his chair. When he stands, Warren and Pam applaud him.
Stuntman Mike leads Pam out of the bar, towards his car. In the b.g., the girls are arguing who's sober enough to drive, leaving their male admirers whining to go with them.
Lanna-Frank wins the I'm the less drunk argument, the most stoned, but less drunk. So she gets behind the wheel, and the other girls, Julia, Arlene and Shanna, pile in. But that's in the b.g.. We stay with Stuntman Mike and Pam. He leads her up to his wicked automobile. Pam is taken by the sight of the badass black muscle car.
She peers into the car to see the entire passenger side is enclosed in plexiglass.
He opens the door to the plexiglass box, offering Pam to climb in.
Pam climbs. Stuntman Mike shuts the door. As he walks around to the passenger side. He watches the other girls peel out, showering gravel. They make a left onto the highway, and disappear. He smiles after them as he climbs behind the wheel of his death proof vehicle.
Stuntman Mike is in the drivers seat. Pam is in the plexiglass box. A plexiglass wall with some holes to talk through, separate them.
Mike has a few different seat belts to snap in place for himself.
Pam doesn't even have a car seat. She has a post that sticks out of the floor, that you would attach a camera to, that she has to balance herself on.
Pam smiles.
Stuntman Mike smiles back through the plexiglass.
He yanks a homemade metal lever, that slides a metal bar into place, locking both doors. Then starts up his powerful machine. Pam smiles at the excitement of this trembling machine. He slides the car into First, and pulls up to the highway.
Thriller music sting happens on soundtrack. Still smiling.
Pam's smile fades away, as a look of Oh Shit terror replaces it. As the look of panic appears... Stuntman Mike jerks a hard left on to the road. She's maybe scared shitless, yet Pam is one tough chick, and she lets loose with a violent stream of curses aimed at the Driver.
He shuts her up, by turning up the radio real loud, and driving real crazy, tossing her helplessly around the plexiglass box, crashing like a rag doll from wall to wall.
He does things like drive straight towards telephone poles at full speed then narrowly miss them.
He slams on the brakes and Pam goes flying face first into the unpaved dashboard. Her face might as well have exploded.
Stuntman Mike busts a gut laughing.
Pam's nose is smashed across her face, her front teeth are knocked out, and her jaw is busted. But she's still conscious.
He speeds down the road.
Lanna-Frank is driving, Julia sits in the passenger side front seat stretched out with her bare feet up on the dashboard and pressed into the windshield. Shanna and Arlene sit in the back. Julia's on the phone.
The song Jungle Julia requested comes on the radio. The girls move and shake to the beat of the song. Stuntman Mike's car catches up with them... ...And then he passes them... ...Hitting the gas going even faster so he can pull ahead and leave them behind. We cut back and forth between the girls and Stuntman Mike driving, and Pam, whose nose is smashed, her jaw is broken, and part of her upper teeth are knocked out, but her eyes still work. She watches, and pleads to the Driver on the other side of the plexiglass box.
Then Stuntman Mike, makes a u-turn. The car stops, but the engine runs. He watches the girls car far off in the distance come forward. He turns off his headlights. He revs up the engine. He hits the gas. The girls move to the song obliviously. He heads towards them... Pam watches in terror.
The other girls are obviously oblivious of what's about to happen to them. They continue to chair dance. His car is almost on them...
Then...
He hits the headlights. The girls see the car.
He swerves head on into their lane going about a hundred and thirty. The Moment Before IMPACT
JULIA with her feet up on the windshield sees the grill of the car head right for her. Her face registers.
As she's bathed in fast harsh approaching headlights. LANNA-FRANK Sees Pam's blood face directly across from her heading for a collision.
STUNTMAN MIKE Lets out a heehaw type of yell, as he heads towards Julia and her feet.
SHANNA'S Smile disappears. ARLENE Sees Mike's face as she heads towards collision and softly closes her eyes. CRASH As much as we'll show the cars crashing in a horrible collision, we'll also cut back and forth what's happening inside the automobiles. It'll be a slow motion equivalent of the crash test dummies footage we've seen before, but with real people. The steering wheel is pushed through Lanna-Frank's chest as she folds around it. Jungle Julia is propelled feet first through the windshield. Like being shot from a gun out of a sharks mouth only to be squashed by the colliding car. Stuntman Mike's front tires tear into the roof of the girls car, and the spinning front tire hits Arlene square in the face, ripping her face off. STUNTMAN MIKE Just enjoys the ride.
Stuntman Mike crashed into the girls on the highway that was part of an overpass, so the two twisted wrecks tumble over the side crashing onto the highway below. Shanna looks up and sees Stuntman Mike's car falling on her, she's pulverized. Another car, also driven by a woman, sees the twisted cars fall into the road in front of her, it's too late to do anything. She crashes into both of them at seventy miles an hour. Destroying her car and herself.
AFTERMATH The highway is deserted except for the busted broken cars, and the blood and glass, and flesh and body parts that litter the highway. We see a tape put in a tape player. Mike alive and well and upside down in his car, comes down off his rush, as he rocks out to the music. No one's alive to witness his orgasm, but boy did he have a good god damn time.
We fade up on a hospital door. The door opens, we see two detectives questioning Stuntman Mike who's convalescing in a hospital bed.
Texas Ranger, EARL MCGRAW walks out of the room, he's joined in the hallway by his son, Texas Ranger EDGER MCGRAW.
We fade up on a Big Highway billboard that says "Welcome to Lebanon, Tennessee". A SUBTITLE APPEARS on the screen; "14 Months Later"
The subtitle fades off. We look at the sign for a moment... WHEN
from off screen. A new badass muscle car, makes a jump and CRASHES through the sign. The car lands on the highway, and just keeps on going.
Stuntman Mike, back in ship shape, in a brand new Death Proof muscle car, drives down a Tennessee road, blaring hillbilly music from the radio, on the hunt. He pulls the car into a "Circle A" convenience store parking lot. He turns the engine off as the radio continues.
When...
...in the parking space next to him... ...a yellow 2006 Mustang with black trim (Kill Bill colors) with three girls in their twenties pulls up in front of the Circle A.
These girls are part of a film crew that are shooting on location in Tennessee. Behind the wheel, is a pretty black girl with a solid athletic build, dressed in jeans and a tight green camouflage t-shirt, named KIM (a stuntwoman). Beside her in the passenger seat, is a young pretty starlet, LEE, who by the way just happens to be dressed in a cheerleader uniform. And laying down in the backseat, with her bare feet out the car door window, is the sleeping ABERNATHY (make up and hair).
It being early dawn, it's obvious these girls have been out partying all night, and have turned into vampires by the early morning light. Like somebody would watch fascinated, pretty colorful fish through the windows of an aquarium, Stuntman Mike watches his new 3 Girls 3 Posse through the windows of his automobile.
He watches them talk silently through the window, with only the sound of his tape players music. He turns off the music and rolls down the window a crack so he can hear them.
INSIDE The GIRLS CAR - MORNING
Kim turns to leave the car, to go into the store and get her coffee...
She opens the door...
The sleeping Abernathy, pipes in, without getting up or opening her eyes.
The two girls look to the back seat.
They laugh. Kim gets out, then say to Lee;
Kim goes, as Lee scoots over to the drivers seat.
He watches the cute black girl with the oh so fine behind, walk into the convenience store and do her business. His eyes go to the car next to him, Lee in the drivers seat, pluggin' her iPod earphones into her earholes. And the two bare feet sticking out of the back seat drivers side door. He looks intently.
Kim is by the cold drinks cooler, she gets the Sunny Delight, but they don't have sugar free Red Bull, so she walks to the front door, opens it, and yells to the car from where she is.
Lee turns to the eyes closed sleeping beauty reclining in the backseat.
Without opening her eyes, Abernathy says;
Kim hears this, gets the G.O. Juice, walks up to the counter, places the Sunny Delight on the counter, and asks the guy behind the counter;
The COUNTER GUY pulls down the bottles and the smokes, as Kim goes over to the coffee area and proceeds to make a big ass cup of coffee, called; "The Big A Cup of Coffee".
Stuntman Mike examines her through his windshield. His eyes then go to the two bare feet of the sleeping girl propped up on the car door window, and her friend in the drivers seat zoning out on her iPod. He steps out of his car, and approaches the two bare feet. Peering inside, he sees Abernathy dead to the world. He glances back at the store, Kim's not looking in this direction, too involved in creating the right mixture for her big ass cup of coffee. Lee, back to him, ear phones in her ears, singing along with her iPod. He looks back to sleeping beauty, and the pretty bare feet he's close enough to touch. Stuntman Mike removes the black leather glove from his burnt right hand. Taking his index finger, he runs it down the bare sole of Abernathy's foot. He watches her. She doesn't stir. He then takes his finger and lightly runs it up her bare sole, from heel to big toe. CU ABERNATHY the sleeping woman twitches,... CU TOES ...and curls her toes quickly, but doesn't wake up. CU STUNTMAN MIKE Smiles. He looks towards the store. The black girl inside still occupied... ...The girl directly in front of him, oblivious, singing out loud to the song on her iPod.... ...so far, so good. Time to press his luck. He takes his index finger and runs it across her toes. This makes Abernathy stir, and remove her feet from the window.
CU ABERNATHY her eyes pop open, and she sits up abruptly... Stuntman Mike has blasted pass and walks around the hood of his car to his driver side door. He doesn't hurry like he's guilty and fleeing, but like he's absentmindedly rushing to his car, and maybe he accidently brushed pass her feet on his way, as well as Lee's elbows that was sticking out the drivers side car door window. With ear phones still in her ears, she yells after him;
She turns around and see's Abernathy sitting up in the backseat. She smiles and removes the iPod from her ears.
Just then Stuntman Mike's muscle car, ROARS to life, he REVS IT UP, vibrating next to the two girls. Lee smiles and holds up her two fingers making a small pinch gesture to Abernathy in the back seat.
She smiles till she looks over at Stuntman Mike (for the first time) staring back at her, smiling. Upon seeing his face, her smile fades and she says to herself;
Her next cardoor neighbor, slams the car into reverse, and peels out of there layin' rubber out to the road.
She shakes her head, no.
Then they notice Kim standing at the store front door, yelling at them again.
Both Abernathy and Lee smile, saying to themselves quietly in unison.
Kim does.
Abernathy gets her money when her phone rings. It's whistling Bernard Herrmann's theme from "Kill Bill".
Abernathy looks out the window and see's Lee in the car talking to her on her cell phone.
She turns towards the Counter Guy.
An Allure magazine is tossed on the counter. The Counter Guy rings it up.
She turns her back to him and heads for the door... ...when he says to her back;
...she stops in her tracks... ...then slowly turns her head to look at him;
Listening to her iPod, when Abernathy comes out to her. She removes her headphones.
Abernathy, who was leaning into the car to speak with Lee, straightens ups to walk back in the store and sees Stuntman Mike's car parked down he road. When she looks directly at it, the automobile speeds away. This troubles the young lady but she's not sure why.
A group of passengers are disembarking from an airplane, and filing out into the airport. Kim, Lee, and Abernathy are watching them disembark, searching for a recognizable face. Which is what they see when the bouncy, athletic, and, cute as a bugs ear Kiwi, ZOÉ BELL, exits the airplane. Upon seeing the waiting friends, Zoé lights up, and bounces over to them, passing out hugs. It's also obvious that while Kim and Abernathy know Zoé, Lee doesn't.
It's also equally obvious that Zoé and Kim are very close, which will make sense when the audience realizes both gals are Stuntwomen.
After the girlfriends exchange hugs and greetings... Kim and Abernathy introduce their new location buddy Lee to Zoé.
Zoé shakes the actresses hand strong and vigorously, like a bloke, her New Zealand accent singing songing a greeting.
From a long distance away, we see the four women, complete with Zoé's baggage, exit the airport. We SNAP ZOOM to a medium of Zoé, then a CLICK SOUND off screen and the image of Zoé FREEZES. Sergio Leone CU of Stuntman Mike observing the girls through the shutter of his camera. SNAP ZOOM and FREEZE FRAME to each girl in turn. Stuntman Mike lowers the camera from in front of his face, smiles a shit eating grin (he's back in business).
He exits FRAME.
The four girls are packed in the car.
They all laugh.
The name Cecil is pronounced like Cecil Brown and rhymes with vessel. Not like "Beany and Cecil" and rhyming with diesel.
The girls laugh. Kim and Abernathy chant;
The girls laugh.
They laugh.
The other girls laugh.
They laugh.
The girls laugh.
Abernathy has stopped arguing, and sits back thinking a bit about what her friend said.
The girls laugh.
The girls bust up, especially Kim who does a Sam Jackson pimp laugh. Zoé and Kim give a high five.
They all cheers their coffee, and Abernathy continues her story.
The other girls laugh. Zoé takes their laughter like applause and bows.
The other girls laugh, Zoé acts miffed.
Zoé acts irate.
Zoe bends down and looks under the table. Kim lifts her left pant leg up and we see she wears a pistol in a ankle holster.
The other three look at her incredulously...
The girls laugh.
The girls bust out laughing.
She takes out a local newspaper.
Both Kim and Abernathy wince when Lee says the "A" word. Zoé acts mock angry.
Lee is confused.
Abernathy explains.
JASPER, the hillbilly who owns the tobacco road garbage farm (that seems to be the only thing that grows), that the girls have driven to, opens up the doors to his barn.
All four of the ladies take in the off screen sight. The other two are impressed, but the two motorheads are gobsmacked.
We see what they see; A totally bad ass White Dodge Charger straight out of the movie "Vanishing Point".
They pop the hood, we look up at the two girls. They like what they see. We see what they see, a beautiful engine, that, gearheads that they are, gets them wet. Back to the two girls.
Lee, in her short skirt cheerleader uniform, is asleep in a rusty patio furniture chair. Abernathy sits on three tires stacked on top of each other. An ugly dog who looks like he just escaped a Korean kitchen, walks through frame. Zoé and Kim are haggling with Jasper. Zoé says to Jasper.
Kim's entire demeanor changes.
Zoé opens her mouth to weasel out of it.
Kim holds up her hand.
Kim thinks about this a moment... then makes a deal.
They shake on it.
The two girls walk over to Abernathy, the sleeping Lee is in the b.g.
She makes a face...
...face goes away.
All three girls burst out laughing. Kim does her Sam Jackson pimp laugh.
Abernathy is happy, her cool friends are letting her play with them.
Abernathy walks over to the hillbilly.
She sticks her hand out, he shakes it.
She starts to continue...
She starts to continue...
She does kind of a ta-ta presentation of the sleeping Lee. Jasper looks.
She holds up the Allure Magazine, opened to Lee's article. Jasper takes it, looks at it, then at her, then to Abernathy.
Abernathy starts to say no, then changes it to;
INSERT a key is turned in the ignition. The Charger ROARS to life. Waking up the sleeping cheerleader - The three other girls are in the car.
Like that old commercial, Kim yells;
They peel out in a shower of gravel. Lee looks up at Jasper standing over her.
The Vanishing Point Charger drives down the lone country road, cutting through the forest. Inside are the three girls. Kim behind the wheel, Zoé in the passenger seat, and Abernathy in the back. Zoé begins preparing for "Ships Mast". Abernathy asks questions but is told to shut up. Zoé takes her belt off, and asks Abernathy for hers. She then wraps both belts around the car door window on both sides.
Then shimmies out of the passenger car door window up on to the Chargers roof. A shocked Abernathy starts to say something and Kim cuts her to the quick.
As Kim speeds down the road, Zoé sits on the roof. She then lowers herself down the windshield on to the hood. Kim drives looking past Zoé's ass. Zoé on the hood finds the belt on the passenger side and hangs on to it with her right hand. Then Kim helps her get a hold of the belt on the drivers side... ...then once Zoé has both belts in her hands, she lowers on her back all the way down the hood, till her knees are over the hood, and her heels rest on the fender... Then with her arms stretched out, and her legs spread eagle, laying flat on the Chargers hood like a human hood ornament, or a... "Ships Mast"... She nods her head forward...
...which Is Kim's cue to punch it... The muscle car speeds down the road with the crazy Kiwi on the hood, laughing her ass off...
CU STUNTMAN MIKE W/BINOCULARS he lowers the specks from his face. This is as close to flabbergasted as Stuntman Mike ever gets and the cause of his flabbergastation is the two bad ass stuntchicks who apparently like to play as rough as he does. He looks around...
...The girls know how to have an uninterrupted time... There's nobody around. They are in the middle of vast Nowheresville.
Stuntman Mike climbs in his car and starts her up. She ROARS to rumbling life. He buckles all his buckles, as... ...his foot revs the gas. When he's safe and secure, one hand goes to the gear shift and the other to the wheel...and...
...He takes off after them.
Back tires kicking up grass and sod as the tires spin to life, before connecting with asphalt. Once she hits the highway, she straightens out and power swims like a shark. Rubber to road like a fin through the water.
THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD coming up fast behind the girls car. THE GIRLS CAR the trio are oblivious.
ZOÉ is laughing in daredevil ecstasy. KIM is caught up in the adrenaline.
ABERNATHY can't believe what the fuck she's seeing, but after being frightened, she's slowly starting to let go and enjoy the moment. Her shocked mouth slowly turns into a smile.
STUNTMAN MIKE so is his.
The grill of his car coming up fast. ABERNATHY something makes her look behind her. ABBY'S POV Stuntman Mike's badass muscle car, coming at her at 120 miles an hour.
ABERNATHY sees it's the same car that was at the Party Store and the same guy who brushed her feet behind the wheel comin' up at 120 miles an hour, ...and they will crash.
KIM'S eye goes up to the rearview. REARVIEW MIRROR car speeding to ram from behind.
Stuntman Mike's grill CRASHES into the girls ass... ...BAM!
Stuntman Mike's car hits them with such force, that Abernathy is propelled from the backseat, through the space in the front seat between the driver and passenger seats, crashing hard into the dashboard. ZOÉ feels the car lurch and shake, but doesn't let loose of the belts.
STUNTMAN MIKE foot presses the brake.
We see from his windshield, the girls car shoot ahead. KIM sees in the rearview mirror the car fall back.
STUNTMAN MIKE'S foot hits the gas.
His car shoots forward heading for another crash on the girls ass. KIM watches it in the rearview. Waiting for impact. STUNTMAN MIKE yee hawing, waiting for impact. CRASH!
Zoé's hand is jerked loose from one of the belts. As she starts to slide off the hood, she quickly flips over on her belly, and grabs the frame between the hood and the windshield, like a cat on a tree. ZOÉ looks up and locks eyes with Kim.
Then she sees what's up. Stuntman Mike's car starts to pull along side the girls car. He swerves his car into theirs. Zoé is literally yanked from her perch, and does a 180 twirl and slide. She's now facing the opposite way, head towards the grill, feet towards the windshield. With no hand hold per sei, she begins to slowly slide towards the grill.
KIM and ABERNATHY in the front seat watch in horror, but there's not a goddamn thing they can do. STUNTMAN MIKE sees it, too. He knows the next hit will be the death blow, and he wants it to be just right. So he falls back much further this time.
KIM sees this, she knows what's coming. STUNTMAN MIKE hits the gas.
SPEEDOMETER jumps.
KIM he's coming up fast in the rearview. She has no choice... She's got to out race him She hits the gas... and the chase is on.
ZOÉ wind in her face, is trying to stop the slide, but she keeps inching closer to the edge...
KIM is doing the driving of her life, keeping the car steady so not to shake Zoé, and still keep ahead of Mike's car.
Kim screams to Abby;
As we cut back and forth between the two cars... ...Abby tries to reach the gun, but can't do it as Kim drives, without fucking her up.
STUNTMAN MIKE finds himself in a different situation. Both cars may looks bad ass, but the girls Charger has more under the hood than his.
And Kim just may be a better driver. He's chasing after her, he's on her ass, but he can't quite catch her to smash her.
ZOÉ has now reached the end of the hood...
...she sees the asphalt of the highway speeding under her. She grabs hold of the hood ornament, with one hand, and as her upper body begins to fold over the side, she braces herself by pushing against the fender with her other hand, thus stopping her slow slide.
Will she continue sliding off? No. Is her position precarious as hell? Yes. Will a slight bump send her over the side? Hell yeah! ABERNATHY both hands out in front, bracing themselves on the dash, a little blood trickling from her scalp, is literally petrified, with her front row seat view of Zoé hanging half on half off their car as it goes eighty miles an hour. Suddenly the paved road opens up into a big clearing. A barn is off to the side. A pile of rubbish. And a big field of tall grass. It opens up so wide, Stuntman Mike can get beside them, and clips them on the girls left side. The Dodge Charger SPINS OUT like a steel and chrome muscle dreidel, whipping around a full three revolutions. Zoé is sent flying from the hood. TALL GRASS Zoé as if shot from a gun that uses New Zealand women as ammo, sails over the grass, finally crashing deep in the brush. Her fall is obstructed from view. The Charger skids to a stop. For a moment the girls sit shell shocked.
Stuntman Mike has stopped, too. He looks at the girls. He's thinking maybe he should let these girls be. When Kim turns and sees him and his car stopped. She yanks the pistol out of her ankle holster, brings it up and FIRES at him.
The Bullet hits him right in the shoulder. He screams at the explosion in his body. Like a cowardly dog, he hits the gas and drives off. Both girls look straight ahead, their windshield pointing directly at the tall grass. Their hearts ready to explode over their friends fate. When...
...Zoé's figure way in the background, leaps up for a moment above the grass and she says;
KIM and ABERNATHY both break out in relieved laughter. Abernathy rolls her eyes, putting her hands up in the air.
Zoé walks out of the grass and up to the girls.
Kim and Zoé look at each other.
Zoé sees something.
She runs over to the junk pile, and pulls out a heavy duty piece of pipe. Then hops in the back. Kim speeds off after Mike. STUNTMAN MIKE stops his car. He's bleeding and hurting worse. He's been shot in the left shoulder, so he can't move his left arm. With his right hand he unbuckles his straps, wincing and grimacing with each movement. He struggles with his right arm to get at his glove box. He finally does and takes out a bottle of Four Roses whiskey. He spins off the cap with his thumb, and takes a big down the hatch swig.
As the neck of the bottle is in his mouth, his eyes go to the rearview mirror, and he sees Kim's Charger heading at his stopped car at full speed ...before he can remove the bottle...
...BAM!
No longer held tight by the restraints, his face smashes into the steering wheel with the bottle in the middle. Everything but the steering wheel shatters. The car is sent flying. Stuntman Mike screams in agony. With his face smashed and bleeding, with a glass sticking out of his face and neck, he sees Kim starting her stalled car to ram him again.
He frantically starts his car and peels out in fleeing terror.
The girls are hot on his trail.
GIRLS CAR in hot pursuit. Zoé in the back says:
Abernathy does.
Zoé starts wrapping it around her waist. Chase back and forth.
Once the belt's on;
She does.
Kim starts doing this. STUNTMAN MIKE sees the girls Charger, moving up along side of him on the right.
The two cars are parallel. Kim and Stuntman Mike share a look. Roles reversed, he's scarred and shaken, she's the cat playing with the mouse. The girls car pulls ahead.
Zoé opens the back seat car door.
Kim foot stomps on the brake. The tires lock.
STUNTMAN MIKE sees he's heading right for the back car door... ...WHAM...
...he takes it right off clean as a whistle. Zoé, who now hasn't any backseat car door, says to Abernathy;
Picking up the lead pipe, she says to Kim;
Kim pulls up along side of him. Zoé with the pipe raised like a whale harpoon, Abernathy with one hand holding onto to Zoé's belt, and the other arm wrapped around the seat.
The spinning back wheel of the Stuntman's car comes into FRAME next to the open backseat doorway.
Zoé HARPOONS the pipe into the wheel well, then quickly lets go. Stuntman Mike's right back tire locks up, and his tail, goes up in the air, and he FLIPS END OVER END down the highway, smashing the fucking shit out of the car. Kim stops the car, and the girls watch the show. INSIDE VEHICLE Stuntman Mike, now with an immobile right arm, and no longer wearing his seat belts, is tossed around the cab, BUSTING, CRASHING and SMASHING into everything. When the car finally stops, it's upside down. Inside the wrecked vehicle, Stuntman Mike isn't dead but he's totally busted, broken, and helpless. CU STUNTMAN MIKE upside down. He sees in upside down vision. The girls stopped car. Then he sees the doors open, then he sees the three girls feet climb out of the car and hit the pavement. Then he sees the three pair of feet walk towards him. He's completely helpless. They jerk his drivers side door open, and roughly yank his busted up ass out of the vehicle. Yanking him up on to his feet, while pounding music blares on the soundtrack, the three girls with their fists, beat him to death.
When he hits the red asphalt, Stuntman Mike is no more. Once he hits the ground, with the three girls standing over him...
The FILM FREEZE FRAMES like an old school Kung Fu film that ends at the death blow. A Cheesy White Optical "The End" pops up on the screen. And without anymore to do, "Death Proof" is over.