Maria Full of Grace

Maria Full of Grace by Joshua Marston Registered WGAe #129546-00 © 2001 Joshua Marston FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT IN A SMALL TOWN TO THE NORTH OF BOGOTA, COLOMBIA... EXT. HILLSIDE, BEHIND A SMALL BUILDING — DAY The landscape is a poor neighborhood of narrow, unpaved roads etched into the side of a hill overlooking a small Colombian town. The buildings are all low - one and two-story — made of poured concrete and cinder-block with lines of laundry stretching from one to the other. In back of a building, MARIA, 17 with black wavy hair and dark eyes, is making out with JUAN, 19 and skinny as a rail. Their lips are absolutely locked. Juan puts one hand behind her waist and presses her up against the wall. As he moves from kissing her lips to her cheek, Maria opens her eyes - looking rather unenthusiastic. Juan buries his face in her neck, but Maria is staring up at the pattern of a TV aerial at the top of the building. (NOTE: ALL DIALOGUE IS IN SPANISH) JUAN Let's go to your house. MARIA I don’t want to go to my house. JUAN Where do you want to go then? MARIA I don't know. Someplace else. Maria gazes up at the top of the building and smiles. MARIA (CONT'D) How about up there? JUAN (looks up) On the roof? Why do you wanna go up there? MARIA Why not? ... Come on. It’s not that high. JUAN What are you crazy? (CONTINUED) 2. CONTINUED: MARIA (fixes him) See how you treat me? You’re a drag. JUAN Let’s not get started with this, OK? MARIA If I go up there will you follow me?