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SimplyScripts Screenwriting Discussion Board / Short Western / Gunslinger
Posted by: Don, November 9th, 2008, 3:39pm
Gunslinger by Xavier Gonzalez - Short, Western - An old hitman cowboy takes a out bartender and now faces another problem. 11 pages - doc, format 8)
Posted by: Xavier, November 10th, 2008, 7:46pm; Reply: 1
sup, i wrote this script a year ago but just decided to post it, it's a violent story of a Cowboy/hitman who is hired to kill a bartender in the old west. i wrote it after finally watching the 'El Mariachi' movie.
Posted by: CindyLKeller, November 12th, 2008, 12:16pm; Reply: 2
Hey Xavier,
Just finished reading your gunslinger script.
Just like your script, and your quote...
"People don't change, the times do"
I felt that this script could be a modern-day script instead of an older western...
Which isn't a bad thing, but I'm not sure that is what you were going for,
Why do I say that?
Well, where is the old western slang?
You know, words like yellowbelly, sasbarella (sp?).
You can do a google search for 'old western slang". I think it would improve your script a great deal.
It may be just me but, you threw me with the Fedora hat.
When I think Fedora, I think a detective's hat. They were felt...
When I think cowboys, I think cowboy hat, made out of suede or leather...
Also some type o's grate - great,
I taught - I thought.
Something in his drink that ate away the guy's face???
I know there was gunpowder back in the day, they had fist fights used guns and knives, but I don't know about acid.
It just didn't seem right to me.
You had a strong first page. I really liked it, but I think the rest of the script still needs some spit and polish.
Let me know if you do a rewrite.
Cindy
Posted by: Xavier, November 19th, 2008, 3:00pm; Reply: 3
Thanks, Cindy, i just want you to know that i didn't really have enough time to go over the gunslinger's background story, maybe he wears a Fedora because he's not from the west, maybe he's a city htiman who was sent down to the desert.
the whole slang thing, i didn't really want to go to far into that because it was a short action, if i was writing it a little longer i probably would have written in those words.
and the whole acid thing, i just wanted to make my script as violent as a Robert Rodriguez or Quentin Tarantino story.
anyways, thanks for the comment, and I'm glad that you like my script, i hope you're able to read more of my scripts to come.
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