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SUEDE GARNER GAL (#1 CONTENDER)
MI MI CONNER JEWEL, ROCKY, STACY (THE GIRLS)
GRANDMA CODY (HAND)
DAN (BOUNCER & HAND) ANDY (BARTENDER & HAND)
CHASE (DOCTOR) ROSS (REBEL)
SMILEY (REBEL CLUB OWNER) LUCKY (CLIFF’S RIGHT HAND MAN)
BRAD KNIGHT/THE COWBOY CLIFF (SPONSOR & OWNER/LAZY BULL)
SILKY ROBINSON (THE BUS DRIVER) PEARLIE (CONTESTANT)
TY (THE SHERIFF) FRANK (HAND)
THE OUTSIDERS (BAND) AUSTIN (OLD TIMER)
FADE IN
INT. OUR STORY BEGINS ON A SMALL FARM IN ALICEVILLE, AL WHERE A BEAUTIFUL BLACK GIRL IS IN THE COW PASTURE ATTEMPTING TO RIDE A MEAN BRAHMA BULL.
SUEDE
I guess you’re wondering what I’m
doing riding a bull. I’m a country girl.
I’ve lived in Aliceville, AL all of my
life. The population around here isn’t
quite 800 families. You see I’ve got
this dream of being the Bull Riding
Queen of the Yellow Horn Rodeo in
Houston, TX. I’m 22 years old and
in the spring of the year I’m headed
for Tuscaloosa, AL where they’re having
a big rodeo every year the winner of the
rodeo gets to go to Houston, TX, to earn
the title of Bull Riding Queen of the Yellow
Horn Rodeo. I’m the baddest cowgirl this
side of the Mississippi. Excuse my manners,
Suede’s the name and I’m going to show
you how to ride a bull bama style.
GRANDMA
Suede!
HOLLERING TOWARD THE COW PASTURE
SUEDE
WAVING BACK
Yes Granny!
GRANDMA
Get off my bull child! We just got him
and we can’t afford for you to kill him
yet! That gals crazy, whoever heard tell
of a girl riding and roping bulls, that just
ain’t right it ain’t even lady like, Suede!
SUEDE
RUNNING OUT OF THE PASTURE OUT OF BREATH
yes mame.
GRANDMA
Listen to me child, you’re too pretty
of a gal to be spending all of your time
out there in the pasture playing wit them
bulls. People goina start talking they can’t
see why such a pretty girl like you spends
your time with bulls and not looking for
you a man. Between you and Mi Mi with
yawl crazy ways yawl goina kill me.
SUEDE
Mi Mi IS MY COUSIN, SHE’S A MIDGET, BUT SHE’LL GIVE A BULL HELL TOO!
SUEDE
Awe grandma, you worry too much I
can handle any bull around here and
I ain’t worryin about no man either,
you see grandma I’ve got this dream
of bein the baddest cowgirl around.
I’m going to make all kinds of money
ridin and ropin bulls so you won’t have
to rake and scrape to make ends meet
no more.
GRANDMA
Child I ain’t worried bout no money I’ve
been rakin and scrapin change together
since I took both you and Mi Mi in after
yawl momma’s got citified and left home.
You and Mi Mi keep me happy and alive
child. And anyway I’m more worried
bout my bull than you. He ain’t goina be
fit to mate when time comes if you keep
ridin him back and forth in that pasture
you’re goina brake his spirit.
SUEDE
I love you grandma
SHE GIVES HER A KISS AND A HUG
GRANDMA
THROWS HER ARMS AROUND SUEDE
Awe girl get outta here and I know why
you don’t won’t no man he couldn’t
stand the smell of bull on ya all the time,
now get outta here and stay off my bull!
SUEDE
LAUGHING
Yes mame, grandma I’m going down
by the Tombigbee River with Mi Mi.
GRANDMA
Ok baby, yawl just get in here fore
it gets too dark.
SUEDE
Yes mame
THE TOMBIGBEE RIVE IS THE PLACE WHERE MI MI AND I GO TO MAKE OUR BIG PLANS AND SOMETIMES JUST TO GET AWAY FROM EVERYBODY ELSE.
SUEDE
Hey Mi Mi
MI MI
Hey cous, you’ve been ridin grandma’s
bull again.
SUEDE
Yes I have.
MI MI
Girl I’m glad you stop talking country,
and you’re going to kill grandmas new
bull!
SUEDE
May be so
SHE LAUGHS
and you know grandma likes me talking
country, she thinks you’re being smart if
you talk to her proper like she’s old
school she’s almost ninety and has never
left Alabama.
MI MI
I know, I love her too she took us in
when she could have said no but listen
up guess what I saw!
SUEDE
What!
MI MI
The Rebel Barn has a new mechanical
riding bull.
SUEDE
Naw girl friend!
MI MI
Yup, I saw them unloading it today
while I was in town.
SUEDE
Who’s talking country now cous, but
you know I’ve got to ride it, if I can
lick that bull; I know I’m going to the
Rodeo in Tuscaloosa.
MI MI
Well cous you might just get your
wish, and don’t worry about how I talk.
SUEDE
What are you talking about Mi Mi?
MI MI
The owner of The Rebel Barn has been
passing out these flyers all day and it
say’s whoever can ride his bull the
longest will win $2000 in prize money.
SUEDE
That’s all I need to know, I’m going to
go to Tuscaloosa for the rodeo for sure now!
MI MI
I thought you’d enjoy that little bit of
news but now how are we going to
get into The Rebel Barn? Ain’t no
black folks I know of ever been inside.
SUEDE
Well cous, times are changing and The
Rebel Barn is got to go with the flow.
I’m 22 years old and I’m going to ride
that bull Saturday night and win the prize
money honey so The Rebel better get
ready for a smooth chocolate philly!
MI MI
Well you know I’ve got your back Suede
but we might need a little help up there at
The Rebel just in case trouble jumps off.
But I’ll straddle that machine like a man
THEY SMACK EACH OTHER’S HAND
SUEDE
Don’t’ say that too loud, you know
grandma still thinks we’re virgins.
MI MI
Suede who’s going to hear us way out
here on this creek and who told grandma
we were virgins?
SUEDE
Grandma still thinks of us as her little
babies, she still wants us in before midnight.
MI MI
You need to stop playing grandma stupid,
grandma had seventeen head of children
and she’s out lived most of them. She
wants us in at midnight cause in six more
hours she’s up and out and she doesn’t
want us so tired we can’t do our chores.
SUEDE
You maybe right about granny I learned
along time ago don’t count her out and
don’t put anything pass her. Because you
remember the other night when we came
out here with the Johnson twins, the news
beat us back home and there wasn’t anybody
out here but us.
Mi Mi
You need to stop that superstitious shit, hell
I’m still wondering how she found that out!
BOTH GIRLS START LOOKING AROUND TO SEE IF THERE IS ANYONE THERE.
INT. THE REBEL BARN IS A REMODELED BARN WITH NEONBEERLIGHTS HANGING OUTSIDE ITS FRONT. IT HAS ONLY ONE BIG WINDOWAT THE ENTRANCE. A LOT OF CARS ARE LINED OUTSIDE THE BUILDING IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER. THE MUSIC FROM THECARS AND TRUCKS LINED UP OUTSIDE WAS VIBRATING THROUGH THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING. THE INSIDE OF THE BARN WAS DUSTY FILLED WITH THE AROMA OF STALE BEER, WHISKEY, AND CHEAP CIGAR SMOKE. THE BAR WAS MADE UP LIKE AN OLD WESTERN STYLE CIRCIULAR BAR. THERE WERE WOODEN ROUND TABLES ON THE FLOOR WITH POOL TABLES IN THE CORNER BY THE BATHROOMS. THERE WAS A DARTBAORD, A HUGE DANCE FLOOR THAT HAD TINY GAPS BETWEEN EACH PLANK. THE WALLS AHD STUFFED DEER HEADS WITH LONG HORNS, STUFFED TURKEYS AND PICTURES OF OLD COWBOYS RIDING WILD HORSE. OVER IN THE OTHER CORNER OF THE BAR WAS THE BRAND SPANKING NEW MECHANICAL BULL, THERE WAS FOAM MATS ON THE FLOOR ALL AROUND THE BULL. THE OWNER OF THE REBEL BARN WAS SITTING AT A TABLE IN FRONT OF THE BULL TRYING TO CONVINCE SOMEBODY TO RIDE THE BULL. EVERYONE WAS AVOIDING THE MACHINE LIKE A BAD COLD. THE REBEL BARN GOT ITS NAME BECAUE OF THE DECORATIONS HANGING ALL OVER THE BARN. THERE WERE REBEL FLAGS EVERYWHERE.
ROSS
Hey Smiley
THE REBEL BARNS OWNER
Where did you get that thang from?
SMILEY
I bought it in Texas boy! It’s got
three speeds and the third ones a
mother
HE TURNS THE BULL ON
hey come on, anybody, come and try
the machine. Sign up to ride the bull
you can’t beat the purse of $2000 dollars
to the winner!
ROSS
You must be crazy Smiley, are you going
to pay for my broken bones?
SMILEY
Hell, you get your bones broke getting
up and down off that bar stool all the
time with your drunk ass.
SUEDE AND MI MI ARE OUTSIDE THE BAR DRESSED IN SOME OF THE BADDEST RIDING CLOTHES. SUEDE HAS ON A RED LEATHER RIDIN OUTFIT WITH RED TALSELS, A RED STESTON HAT WITH RED LIZARD SKIN COWBOY BOOTS. MI MI IS JUST AS SHARP AS SUEDE SHE’S DRESSED IN ALL BROWN
MI MI
Suede are you sure you want to go
through with this?
SUEDE
Mi Mi I’m not going to waste grannies
money she gave us to have these outfits
made for me to back out now. I’m
going make good of this chance.
MI MI
Don’t BS me, hell I know you can’t
wait till you get on that cold steel between your
thighs and stir it up!
SUEDE
You’re dam right! I’m going to heat that
steel bull up tonight and no one or nothing
is going to stop me from that even a little fear.
THE TWO GIRLS ENTER THE BARN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE BARN LOOK AT THE TWO WOMEN VERY STRANGELY, CONSIDERING THEY ARE THE ONLY TWO BLACK PEOPLE INSIDE OF THE BARN. THEY MAKE THEIR WAY THROUGH THE CROWDED BAR TO THE SIGN UP TABLE, SMILEY’S IS DISGUSTED THAT HE CAN’T GET ANYONE TO SIGN UP TO RIDE HIS NEW BULL.
SMILEY
HE LOOKS UP AT THE TWO FEMALES FROM ACROSS THE ROOM AND SMILES. HE WALKS OVER TO THE NEW STRANGERS
can I help you two pretty ladies?
SUEDE
Yes sir, my name is Suede Garner and
this is my cousin Mi Mi Conner and I
want to sign up to ride the bull for the
prize money.
SMILEY
BEGINS TALKING LOUD SO EVERYONE CAN HEAR HIM
See you chicken ass son of a guns, I’ve
got a pretty lady here ready to ride the
bull. Now little missy you know that
when you ride you ride at your own risk.
SUEDE
No problem sir, I’m game.
MI MI
Me too!
SMILEY
The rules are like this; whoever can stay
on the bull the longest wins the purse.
But you have to ride all three speeds and
so far you are the only ones signed up.
Why don’t you ladies so sit a spell and
have a beer on the house. I’ll call you
when it’s show time.
THEY BOTH WALK OVER TO AN EMPTY TABLE NOT TOO FAR FROM THE BULL AND TAKE A SEAT AND LOOK AROUND.
SMILEY
Hey Brad, fix the ladies a drink on me!
ROSS
Hey Smiley what’s this shit, I didn’t
Know this was a mixed bar!
SMILEY
Well man, you learn something new
every day and watch what you call
yourself saying those are the best
looking mix bar customers I’ve seen
around here and the midget is real
sassy. She makes me wanta put on my
Sunday go to meetin hat and boots!
MI MI
Hey Suede
SUEDE
What Mi Mi
MI MI
The man over there at the bar has been
eyeballin you
BOTH WOMEN LOOK AT THE BAR AND THE MAN SITTING AT THE BAR STARTS WALKING OVER TO THEIR TABLE.
Awe shit, I thinks he’s coming over here
he better not be ready to start no shit,
I’ve got my shank!
SUEDE
I’ve got mine too if he doesn’t ask for
anything but a dance I’ve got a surprise
for him.
MI MI
I’ve got your back cous don’t be worried
about nothing!
A NICE LOOKIN WHITE MALE ABOUT 35 YEARS OLD MUSCULAR BUILD, VERY HAIRY, BLACK LEVI JEANS, BLACK LIZARD SKIN BOOTS, BLACK HAT STARTS TO WALK TOWARD THE TABLE BUT IS INTERRUPTED BY ANOTHER WHITE MALE WITH BLUE JEANS, AND A DEMI SHIRT, COWBOY BOOTS SANDY HAIR, GOOD BUILD AND GREEN EYES
BRAD
Where the hell do you think you’re
going buddie?
ROSS
Over to the table to get a closer look
at Smiley’s black stallions!.
BRAD
Man you’ve had enough to drink and
the lovely black stallions are busy.
ROSS
Them black stallions at doin nothing but
takin up good drinkin space.
SMILEY THE OWNER IS WATCHING FROM HIS TABLE AND GETS UP AND CONFRONTS ROSS TOO
SMILEY
Now buddie I ain’t havin that shit in
here tonight. You can take that
drunk talk home or outside somewheres
don’t make me give Brad the ok
to whip your ass!
ROSS
The signs read The Rebel Barn I ain’t
never met a rebal nigga, so you’ve
gone nigga fide too!
SMILEY
The sign reads Smiley’s Rebal Barn and
I’m Smiley and you have talked yourself
up on a ass whippin, Brad that’s it throw this
piece of shit outta here and if there’s anybody
else here who’s got a problem with my guess
get the hell out too!
BRAD
BRAD THROWS THE MAND OUT AND LOOKS AROUND TO SEE IF ANYONE ELSE IS STANDING UP. A FEW MORE OF THE PEOPLE LEAVE BUT NOT EVEN ENOUGH TO BE NOTICED. BRAD YELLS AT THE MAN AND THE OTHERS WHO LEFT TO STAY OUT!
Andy make sure our unhappy customers find
their way off the lot
ANDY IS THE SECURITY GUARD OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING WATCHING THE PARKING LOT
ANDY
Sure thing Brad.
BRAD
Now excuse me ladies for that pitiful interruption,
the name is Brad McKnight, I’m known as