'Gran Torino' (dir. Clint Eastwood) - screenplay 'Sacrifice' sequence



Evening – It is dark. 
Low level shot of gang’s flats. Virtually Walt’s point of view.
Reverse shot of Walt approaching flats.
Sound of crickets, dog barking and people within buildings.
Closer shot of flats. Blind moves. Smokie exits door to top of steps, followed by Spider.
Smokie and Spider’s point of view shot of Walt. 
 
          WALT
           Any swamp rats in there?
Long shot from behind Walt
          SMOKIE
          I didn’t think your ass would have came...
          WALT
          Shut up, gook!
 
Medium shot of Smokie and Spider
Low angled long shot of Walt. Reverse shot – another door opens. Back to low angle reverse shot of Walt.
          
          WALT
          I got nothing to say to you, shrimp d**k midget like you.
 
Walt’s point of view of Smokie and Spider. Spider pulls his PISTOL.
Shot of someone watching from shadows of a balcony.
Low angle long shot of Walt.
 
          WALT
          Yeah, yeah. Watch out for your boyfriend 
 
Walt’s POV of Smokie, Spider and other gang member on porch
          
          Because it was either he or you or whoever 
 
Low angle medium shot of Walt
          
          raped one of your own family. Your own blood, for Christ's sake.
 
Walt’s POV of Smokie, etc.
Low angle medium shot of Walt pointing.
 
          WALT
          Go ahead, pull your pistols, just like miniature cowboys.
 
Walt’s POV of Smokie, etc.
 
          SMOKIE
          Where's Tao at, that pussy mother fu……. (Hard to hear)
 
Low angle medium shot of Walt
          
          WALT
          Don’t worry about Thao. Thao’s got not one second for you.
 
Reverse shot.
Shots of neighbours coming to windows
        
          SMOKIE
          What the f**k you goin to do, old man?
 
Low angle long shot of Walt. Quiet, but threatening rumble of timpani drums, as Walt reaches for a pocket. As he takes his hand out of his pocket, we see reverse shot as Smokie and other gang member draw guns.
Walt slowly puts a cigarette in his mouth. Even this slight movement has the gang waving their pistols around.
Low angle long shot of Walt.
          
          WALT
          Kinda jumpy, aren’t we?
 
Reverse shot
 
          SPIDER
          Shut the f**k up!.
 
Low angle medium shot of Walt, lifting his finger as a ‘pistol’.
 
          WALT
          No you shut the f**k up!
 
Military drum beat is heard – as in earlier sequences.
Reverse shot of porch.
Low angle medium shot of Walt, lifting his finger as a ‘pistol’ and pointing it in different directions. 
Walt’s point of view shots of several balconies.
Low angle medium shot of Walt, lifting his cigarette to his mouth.
       
          WALT
          You got a light? 
Reverse shot of porch.
Long shot of respectable looking woman beckoning her husband to a window to witness what is happening.
Low angle medium shot of Walt putting cigarette in mouth and lifting his right hand. Zooming slightly. Orchestral strings play to raise tension. Volume increasing.
          
         WALT 
          No? Me, I’ve got a light.
 
Walt’s POV of porch.
Low angle medium shot of Walt lifting his right hand. Zooming in slightly.
Walt’s POV medium shot of Smokie and Spider on porch.
 
          WALT
         (quietly)Hail Mary, full of grace.
 
Walt putting hand inside jacket.
Close up of hand going into jacket.
Reverse shot.
Close up of hand going into jacket.
Reverse shot.
Medium shot of Walt pulling hand quickly from jacket.
Reverse shot of gang firing guns repeatedly. Music stops. Only sound is gunfire.
Medium shot of Walt’s torso taking bullets. Medium shot of Walt’s back as the bullets exit.
Shots of other gang members firing too.
Slightly longer shot of Walt shaking as the bullets enter.
Slow motion medium shots of Walt falling. Shooting stops. 
As Walt falls, strange ‘whoosh’ sound and sound of his body hitting the ground in slow motion.
Medium shot of Walt from ground level. He is lying on his back. Camera to Walt’s rhs. He makes final sigh. Hand in foreground opens. His army lighter is revealed by his opening hand and a drop of blood drip out of the end of his sleeve. He had no gun. 
High angle shot of hand, then camera pans across him and twists upwards to some height. During this, mournful, haunting ‘Gran Torino’ theme(piano and male voice) is heard.
As the camera rises above Walt, we see that he is lying in a ‘crucifix’ position. He has ‘sacrificed’ himself. It is almost as if the rising camera is lifting with Walt’s ‘spirit’ to heaven.
The sequence ends with the flashing lights of a police car attending the scene shortly afterwards.




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