[Movie Script]Malcolm X

Malcom X

Fourth draft (1991)

Screenplay by James Baldwin, Arnold Perl and Spike Lee

Based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
	FADE IN:



1  	EXT. ROXBURY STREET - THE WAR YEARS - DAY



It is a bright sunny day on a crowded street on the black side of

Boston. PEOPLE and KIDS are busy with their own things.
SHORTY bops his way down the street. He is a runty, very dark

young man of 21 with a mission and a smile on his face. He wears

the flamboyant style of the time: the whole zoot-suit, pegged legs

and a wide brim hat with a white feather stuck in the hat band.



2 	OMIT



3 	OMIT



4 	OMIT



5 	EXT. STREET - DAY



FOLLOW SHOT. Shorty dodges through the crowd with his packages.

His smile is one of anticipation. He nods to a PAL without

stopping; eyes a COUPLE OF CHICKS dancing on the street, but is

not dissuaded.



6	INT. BARBER SHOP - DAY


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