[Movie Script]Basquiat

BLACK

We HEAR "Waltzing Matilde," by Tom Waits.
INT. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - DAY (DREAM SEQUENCE IN GRAINY BLACK

AND WHITE)



Fade out music.
Silence.
A well-dressed black BOY and his MOTHER walk through several

galleries.
They stand before Picasso's "Guernica," holding hands.
The mother is disturbed. Crying.
The boy looks up, confused and frightened, concerned to see his

mother crying in public. She looks at him tenderly.
Her brow furrows. She stops crying. She stares just above his

eyes.
Something's happening: she looks with wonder at the top of his

head... his eyes roll upward, trying to see - it's a crown!
He raises his hands. He touches it.
A beam of light illuminates the crown, casting its glow on his

mother's face.
The beam gets whiter, the rest of the screen gets black.
INT. CARDBOARD BOX



Silence. In darkness, we hear a VOICE - imbued with a sense of

its own history:
                      VOICE (O.S.)


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