As he makes his way up the mountain.
BARTENDER (V.O.)
You want a drink, or what ...?!
The CRACK of a weapon. Sonny ducks, then swings his weapon toward CAMERA. More GUNFIRE and ANGRY SHOUTS over FREEZE FRAME. A SIREN WAILS. SLOW ZOOM TO CU of SONNY as OFF SCREEN SOUNDS disappear. Then nothing. Silence ... abruptly shattered by the CLANG of METAL GATES.
SMASH CUT TO:
SONNY'S MUG SHOT
as Bruce Springsteen and his E String Band STRIKE UP "Born In The U.S.A."
DISSOLVE TO:
MONTAGE - UNDER DRIVING HARD ROCK
SERIES OF QUICK CUTS AND DISSOLVES of Sonny in prison: toiling in the fields -- planting and harvesting crops. Bundled up for the winter -- waiting to donate blood. Stripped to the waist for the summer -- pumping iron in the yard. Short hair, long hair. Clean shaven, mustached. MONTAGE should show a passage of time - from 2007, to ...
ANGOLA STATE PRISON - LOUISIANA
MUSIC ENDSas Sonny waits for a set of metal gates to part in front of him. Walking toward CAMERA Sonny moves through the prison corridor -- past inmates scrubbing floors, guards escorting prisoners, from one gate to the next, while underneath ...
One out of every four Vietnam Vets have gone to prison since coming home.
PRISON CAFETERIA
Rows of formica tables filled with inmates. A catwalk with armed guards above. Additional guards at the front and rear of the room, as well as at all exits. Barred windows.
MAN'S VOICE (O.S.)
At the back of the room, Sonny Barrow watches with a jaundiced eye as ...
GREG CUSAK
dressed in Safari pants, vest and shirt, continues his spiel from the front of the room.
GREG
We did a tour of duty. You're doing four. We had a home to come back to. Your's are being repossessed.
Behind Greg, seated at another table facing the room, TED CRAIN (Picture Steve Buscemi) takes notes. Greg pauses to let his words sink in.
GREG (CONT'D)
(beat)
STOP LOSS... PCS, IEDs...,
ANGLE ARMED GUARD
Leaning over the catwalk as...
GUARD
Acceptable loses.
Greg silently acknowledges the guard, then begins to walk down the center aisle, pausing here and there to play the audience. Eyeballing an inmate in front of him:
One to five ...
INMATE #1
Five to ten ...
INMATE #2
Fuckin' life, man!
SONNY
(To himself)
No parole.
OPEN SHOT as THE BEAR - a six-foot-one, wild-eyed mountain-man type, calls Greg out.
BEAR
What the fuck you talkin' about, man?
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