THE TOOKIE WILLIAMS STORY
(Screenplay Proposal)
Opening scene: Tookie (portrayed by someone with “edge” – Samuel L. Jackson is my suggestion, Sid) lies strapped to a gurney .He is helpless,and all kinds meshuggina tubing is hooked up to him.
Cut to clock: It’s almost midnight. You can see second hand creeping aound….slowly-slowly-slow-ly .
Racist Redneck-looking Prison Guard : “You gonna git the JUICE,boy ! You gonna feel the LOVE !”
Tookie: (Sadly)” I pity you, my good man ! “( Turns head away.)
Cut to Spectators: (They are a multi-ethnic mix,except,maybe you might want to leave Orientals out this time, Sid. Maybe use a Native American medicine man – all tricked out with beads and shit.) All are clearly moved by the spectacle of brave Tookie,meeting his fate with patience and courage. A few glycerine tears ; some audible sobbing.
Cut to clock: That second hand is creeping closer to the top ! It’s time for —
FLASHBACK !!
Young Tookie: ( You want to get some really cute little schvartzer for this, Sid ! Maybe that kid does the commercials for NY MTA. Somebody like him.)
You got the idea,Sid. We show little Tookie getting beaten up by white teachers and cops, and his poor Mama getting disrespected by the landlord –(only,don’t make him look too ethnic, if you catch my drift.Armenian is okay.)
Next we show him as a Young Revolutionary : big bushy Afro, Black Power posters, Malcom X, the whole schmear .
Then he goes into a store, and the vicious,racist Oriental owner comes at him with a shotgun. There’s a struggle,and a loud bang ! The owner falls dead.
Tookie is stunned. Tears come to his eyes ! He’s so blinded by tears,he accidentally shoots the store keeper’s wife. It’s heartbreaking, Sid !
Tookie had come in to the store to break a five dollar bill, so he goes to the cash register to get change-but there’s NO SINGLES in the till !
(Go figure !) So, he just blindly scoops up a handful of money and runs out – still carrying the shotgun.
So, let’s see: Tookie realizes he has taken too much money, so he goes into another store, like an honest fellow, looking for some way to give it back-but the storekeeper misunderstands, and comes flying out waving –I dunno. Maybe a big cleaver ? Cause he’s a secret member of the Tong ?
Tookie is so scared, he blasts this guy too. He looks in the register,but there’s STILL no singles in there,so,tears streaming down his cheeks,he grabs whatever bills he can see…
How do you like it so far,Sid ? Sid ?
(Sound of gagging from Executive Washroom)
Okay ! Okay ! I guess it needs a little work !
Sheesh ! Everybody’s a critic !
Cut to Witnesses:
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