Romeo Juliet

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO & JULIET ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN BY CRAIG PEARCE AND BAZ LUHRMANN FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT October 6, 1995 EXT.HIGHWAY.AFTERNOON. A ribbon of freeway stretching into a blue and pink late afternoon sky. A huge dark sedan, windows tinted gold, headlights blazing, powers directly for us. CUT TO: A heavy, low-slung, pickup truck traveling toward the sedan. WIDE SHOT: Sky, freeway, the cars closing. TIGHT ON: The sedan. TIGHT ON: The pickup. Like thunderous, jousting opponents, the cars pass in a deafening cacophony of noise. INT.TRUCK.AFTERNOON. TIGHT ON: The fat face of GREGORY, yelling at the disappearing sedan. GREGORY A dog of the house of Capulet moves me! He and the pimply-faced front-seat passenger, SAMPSON, explode with laughter. The red-haired driver BENVOLIO, keeps his eyes on the road. EXT.EXIT RAMP.AFTERNOON. The truck spirals down an exit ramp and screeches into busy driveway of a large gas station. EXT.GAS STATION.AFTERNOON. Attendants immediately run to the truck.Two clean windshields and duco, the third fills the gas tank. INT.TRUCK.AFTERNOON. Gregory in the back seat is boasting outrageously. GREGORY A dog of that house shall move me to stand.I will take the wall of any man or maid of Capulets. Sampson, sarcastically. SAMPSON That shows thee a weak slave.For the weakest goes to the wall. GREGORY 'Tis true; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall.