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Jean and Benny are outside the entrance to Gina's building. Jean carries two huge bags overflowing with groceries and flowers. He buzzes. There's no answer.
BASQUIAT
I'll be right back.
He produces a key and lets himself in.
He enters the building.
INT. GINA'S APARTMENT – DAY
Jean sets the groceries on the counter and leaves.
We notice the Bugspray painting on the wall, along with more of
Jean's work and supplies.
EXT. GINA'S APARTMENT – DUSK
Jean rejoins Benny in front of Gina's building.
As they're leaving, Gina comes up the street.
(to Benny)
Check you later, man.
BENNY
Hi Gina.
GINA
Hi.
INT – GINA'S APARTMENT –
DAY
Flowers and groceries are strewn on the counter.
FADE TO BLACK
FADE IN:
Over the following MONTAGE we HEAR:
RENE (O.S.)
... 'APT 20'... The church bells would ring at noon
and six a.m.. 24 strokes:
How many times we counted them.
We called our bed the cloud.
And there we'd float.
The bathtub was in the kitchen
and took forever to fill up.
We'd bathe together afterwards.
Oh the countless cigarettes and
take out Chinese food...
The bed was so narrow
Three years we made it fit.
The sheets were green the
sheets were pink the sheets
white linen from the past.
Little home, farewell,
The broken windows
and the bodega on the corner.
Now from my balcony
I look out over all New York...
INT. GINA'S APARTMENT –
NIGHT
Jean and Gina are sleeping.
SERIES OF DISSOLVES: As they're turning together in their sleep.
FADE TO BLACK
FADE UP:
INT. KITCHEN / LIVINGROOM
(GINA'S APARTMENT) – DAY
Filled with Jean's paintings.
SERIES OF DISSOLVES: Paintings and objects fill the room.
FADE TO BLACK
SUPER: "A YEAR AND A HALF LATER EAST 9TH ST."
FADE UP:
INT. GINA'S APARTMENT –
DAY
Jean watches "The Little Rascals" on TV in the living
room. The sound is turned off and a record player PLAYS Gypsy music loudly.
Rolled up in a large drop cloth, Gina is asleep on the floor. Next to her, Jean works on all fours, drawing figures, crowns, and houses.
Working feverishly, he writes "HEY, HEY, HEY" in big
clusters, then writes other words: SHARK, IMMORTALITY, JOHN THE REVELATOR,
FAME, INK, TEETH, HAWAII SUPERMARKET, POLE STAR, BABOON and TAR.
He has an acoustics manual and Bible open on the floor. He copies
the technical blueprints from the manual. He reads the Bible, following the
text with a dirty finger. It seems that he watches TV, draws, listens to the
music and reads at the same time.
He mixes Liquitex paints and puts some colors on the drawings. He
draws a long blue line and carries it over onto the floor. Up the wall. Through
the fridge. Across the window.
He takes off his paint-covered clothes and changes into Gina's black
slip. He rummages around the room, gathering pieces of his and Gina's clothes.
He spreads the clothes on the floor, and selecting wide brushes with
long bristles, picks up the cans of Liquitex paint.
When paint spills on the clothes, he spreads it into shapes.
Gina wakes up. She reaches for one of the painted shirts.
(in disbelief)
Basquiat, those are my best clothes!!! What are you doing?
BASQUIAT
C'mon, baby, I painted them for you. They're beautiful
now.
GINA
I'm going to my parents this weekend. What am I going
to wear?
(she begins to cry)
How could you do that to me?
Jean wipes his hands off on his thighs and puts his arms around Gina, holding her.
BASQUIAT
... I'll buy you some new ones.
GINA
You don't have any fucking money..
Jean lets her cry for a moment, then notices the music playing on the stereo – a Gypsy song sung in Spanish.
BASQUIAT
Do you know what he's saying?
GINA
What who's saying?
BASQUIAT
Manzanita....
(translating song)
... if one day I die, and you read this piece of
paper, I want you to know how much I love you. Although I'll never see you
again, Gypsy, Gypsy, your hair, your hair, your face, your face'
Gina looks up at him.
BASQUIAT (CONT'D)
'Even though you were never mine
And you never will be
You have a piece of my heart
You have, you have, you have...'
(he reaches down, wiping off Gina's face)
'Gypsy, Gypsy, your hair, your hair, your face, your
face.'
No longer crying, Gina leans her head against Jean.
We HEAR a CALL from the window:
BENNY (O.S.)
Willie Mays!!! Willie Mays!!!
BASQUIAT
(at the window)
Come on in!
CUT TO:
Benny and two GUYS come barreling into the apartment. Immediate chaos. Benny holds up a
packet of drugs and jiggles it temptingly. They make themselves at home. Jean
sits with them and starts to chop up the drugs.
Gina gives Jean a look. She stands, still wrapped in the drop cloth.
She lets it fall to the floor. She's wearing only her underwear. She walks to
the bedroom. Benny watches her.
BASQUIAT
Gina, don't you want any of this? You could use some.
Gina doesn't respond. She comes out of the bedroom with a small suitcase.
GINA
See you later.
She leaves.
Silence.
GUY #1
Nice underwear...
They start to laugh.
INT. GINA'S APARTMENT –
LATER
Kneeling on the floor, Jean covers the surface of the refrigerator
door with fast, rushing strokes. He mixes paint in a large soupbowl and dips
his hair in the bowl. Pressing his head to the door, he paints with his hair.
He stops to examine the marks.
He HITS his head against the door harder and harder.
FADE TO WHITE
INT. GINA'S APARTMENT –
MORNING
CAMERA PULLS BACK: Revealing Jean's eyes. They're open and motionless. His head is
tilted toward his chest.
OFF SCREEN WE HEAR the sounds of Gina coming home:
The LOCK turns. The door OPENS.
Gina comes in and drops a bag on the floor.
GINA
Basquiat?
Silence. She picks up the mail from under the door and walks into the room. There's a lump on the floor. It's Jean.
GINA (CONT'D)
Wake up! I'm back!
She shakes his arm. No result. She lifts his head, revealing his
painted hair.
She shakes him harder. His body is totally limp.
The whites of his eyes are red; his pupils slowly float up,
vanishing.
Jean, what did you do to yourself?
She listens to his breath, then to his heart.
GINA
(panicking)
Jesus Christ!
She finds heroin sprinkled into some pot on the floor near him.
GINA
(slapping his face)
Don't do this to me.
She shakes him until his eyes unglue. His pupils float into their proper place.
BASQUIAT
... What's the matter?
GINA
(furious)
Oh, God, Basquiat, you scared the shit out of me. How
the fuck could you do that to yourself?
BASQUIAT
You're back.
GINA
It's Monday morning.
BASQUIAT
It's not Sunday? I missed you. You shouldn't leave me
alone.
GINA
You're blaming me? I had to go see my family.
BASQUIAT
I'm your family.
GINA
Basquiat, what did you take?
Jean tries to pick himself up from the floor. He gets up stiffly, like Pinnocchio. The long sleep made his limbs wooden.
BASQUIAT
Nothing special – just some weed.
He finds an old joint and lights it up.
GINA
Basquiat, don't lie.
(holds up powder)
This is smack.
BASQUIAT
You want some?
He offers her the joint.
EXT. ST. MARK'S PLACE – NIGHT
Jean and Benny walk along, sharing a beer in a brown paper bag.
They approach a DRUG DEALER and exchange money for dope.
Jean finds a discarded window frame in a pile of trash and carries
it with him.
They sit down on a stoop. Jean rolls up a dollar bill, empties the
dope onto the window, and splits it into two lines. He hands the rolled up bill
to Benny, who snorts the line.
Benny shakes his head involuntarily, making a violent face, as
though the dope burned a hole in his sinus.
BENNY
We got beat.
BASQUIAT
For real?
Jean takes a taste with his finger... He tastes his tongue and makes
a face..
He snorts part of his line, anyway, to make sure.
He frowns.
They continue onwards. Jean still carries the window.
You gonna carry that around all night?
BASQUIAT
Yeah... I'll paint on it.
INT. PARTY – NIGHT
The party's winding down – hip-hop kids, Lower East Side types. Jean
and Benny pass through the room, ignoring the two or three clusters of people –
maybe fifteen in all...
Jean encounters a familiar face: an enormous red-haired dealer – ROCKETS (35). They greet each other as friends.
Rockets leads Jean aside. They stand near a wall where a painting
hangs ("Flats Fixed"). It bears Jean's three-point crown.
ROCKETS
You did that, didn't you?
Jean shrugs.
BASQUIAT
I gave it to Maripol. She let me stay here for awhile.
Jean hands him twenty dollars. Rockets hands him two dime bags. As if thinking better, he hands the bill back to Jean.
ROCKETS
Do one for me and it's free. How's that?
Jean re-pockets his money. He gestures to Rockets as if to say
"fine – it's a deal."
He and Benny sit down across the room and split a bag onto the
window, as before. This time, it's good. They lean back into it, slumping down
into the couch.
Nearby, Rene sits on a couch with THREE
STREET KIDS – artists (who we've seen at
Milo's opening). They sit on their knees looking out a window passing
binoculars back and forth.
ARTIST #1 looks through the window with a pair of BINOCULARS. He points down towards the street, trying
to get Rene's attention.
ARTIST #1
Check this out, Rene.
Rene lunges towards the window. The stereo BLARES (Curtis Blow's "Survival")
RENE
(singing along)
"The name of the game is survival, You learn it
in jail upon your arrival!"
Another ARTIST (#2) a young black man, runs up and tries to turn down the volume.
Rene grabs his crotch.
ARTIST #2
Chill, man! Be cool! This isn't even my apartment!
RENE
Oh man, you a FINE nigga! You know that?
ARTIST #2
Cut it out, man! And don't be callin' me that shit!
ANGLE ON:
Benny is now alone on the couch. He nods out.
RENE
(noticing him)
Oh my, there goes the neighborhood. Who's house is
this, anyway?
Artist #2 is still mad at Rene.
RENE (CONT'D)
(to Artist #2)
That's what I like about you straight boys. You're so
sensitive!!!
(resumes singing)
"The name of the game is survival, Survival!
Survival! only the strong survive"
ARTIST #1
Rene! Come here, man!
