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(Exterior: Long Shot: Pan across a vast sea of rusted mobile homes stretching all the way to the horizon. As the camera moves in for a closer view, we see a ragged band of dirty children playing hop scotch in the dusk. We hear a shot fired in the distance. The children stop playing and listen attentively as more shots are fired. Soon, we see rockets flaring up in the sky, sparkling and twisting into fantastic shapes and colors of red, white, and blue.)

CHILD ONE: Oooh, pretty!

CHILD TWO: Pretty lights! Pretty lights!

(The children dance in a circle, delighted by the noise and fanfare. The camera cuts to the door of a mobile home. A grizzled, gray haired man and woman step outside to admire the fireworks. They are dressed in cheap cotton pants and shirts. Across the front of their shirts are stitched the same words: “Coca Cola is Motherfucking Good! Drink the Goddamn Coke, Yo!”)

GRANDPA JOAD: Yep, the fourth of JU-ly. Mighty good to see the country celebrating.

GRANDMA JOAD: Reckon the gov’mint will give us our three gallons, Pa?

GRANDPA JOAD: Hope so. They promised us three gallons a gas at Christmas. Wouldn’t do to lie on Jesus birthday, now would it?

Medium Shot: Two children run toward GRANDPA and GRANDMA JOAD: They are carrying something in a bag; they are very excited.

PANASONIC JOAD (he is a boy of about fourteen): Look what we found, Grandpa! (he dumps the bag upside down and several corroded cell phones and Ipods fall on the ground). Ain’t these the talking machines, Gramps?

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