Interlude Final Draft blog re Ms. Halley

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scene 1 blueprint

LOCATION - SUNSET

The truck in the turnout off the highway surrounded by grassland. Wyoming plates, aimed at the sun setting on the distant Snowy Mountains west of Laramie.  Driver and passenger snuggled together in the middle, driver’s arm over passenger’s shoulders.

INT. TRUCK

Meet Tom and Wanda in square dance attire, gaze aimed at the sunset.

WANDA: Should we do a cruise?

TOM: Well hon’, what is it they say about when you’re in Rome?

WANDA: Do as the Romas do.

TOM: Heck, I’m halfway thinkin’ about takin’ a surfin’ lesson. 

WANDA: I’d pay to see that.

TOM: Won’t have to. Got ‘em down the beach from our hotel. You just pull up under an umbrella with your Mai Tai, stick your toes in the sand, and watch me hang ten.

Wanda smiles. 

WANDA: Maybe I’ll learn the hula dance.

Tom smiles.

TOM:  You’ll find me front and center for that.

A lull.

TOM (CONT.):  You and Daisy gonna do anything in particular?

Yes, Clem’s ashes into a biodegradable urn in form of goose on a pond in the Medicine Bow Wilderness, where he and Tom fished. A Clem story. Sun eclipsed by mountains.

Start engine, the turn onto highway, tail-lights away.