Wind: A Musical Ressurection Fable

Wind: A Musical Ressurection Fable
Ernest Samuel Llime

John Davidovitch
Growing up with a love for sax -
Room full of posters, LP's etc - John Coltrane, Rahsaan Kirk, Steve Lacy, John Zorn, Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan, David Bowie, Clemmons Carter - posters and clips (if do-able) of Eddie & the Cruisers -

Since there is a Johnny Ace - (picks) Johnny Deuce

School bands - R'n'R bands - Jazz clubs

Band has minor hit - gets signed to the majors - gets very big - without Johnny -

Johnny gets T.B. - in this day and age? - how? - anyway his blowing days are over - or are they?

Long recovery period - show struggle with sax - inability to blow/sing -

Johnny's fall -
Alcohool - drugs (coke/crack/smack) - easy women/hookers - brawls - go down all the way -

At the bottom -
Johnny works in porn dump - show some scuzz - guys jerking off in vid / live sex booths - Johnny cleans up scum - guy screwing hooker in booth - Johnny gets to kick 'em out gets scratch from girl, bottle to head from guy -

Caprice (Letitia) -
Booth stripper - major alcohoolic / druggie - exotic lineage (indian/philippine/chinese/jamaican ?) - occasional trick for money / drugs - sex for mistaken intentions / apathy -

After work -
Many nights / days hanging out at an east Village type dump (Dan Lynch / Aztec / Pyramid) - some real lows - vag. change pick-up / pissing on barstool / floor - gets Caprice roughed / kicked out / raped -

Johnny takes her home one night - she has no place to go - so she stays - ugly period - more drugs / alcohool / sex / impotence / puking/etc., - Johnny can't sleep - watching Caprice he visualizes the beauty in her - he starts writing music again -

The music deals with beauty & garbage - heaven & hell - death & re-birth

The music builds them up slowly - he drags her with him - they stop drinking - both get jobs in same 24 hour store but on different shifts - things are looking up - Caprice finds his music - she buys a cheap keayboard and plays / sings the stuff

Caprice works days - the owner knows her from the porn joint / screwed her a few times - he gave them the job so he can have her whenever he wanted - she does not want to anymore - he threatens - she says no again so he frames Johnny for theft - Johnny beats him up - gets arrested -

Out on bail - it's X-mas eve - he has no job / no money - can't face Caprice - goes to the old club/bar - and manages to bum a few drinks - drunk cop drops his gun - Johnny picks it up -

He goes out with vague intention of killing himself - in a dark doorway he eats gun - while nerving himself to pull trigger he sees poster of his old band on billboard across the street - points gun at band making bang noises - bartender calls Caprice -

He gains admission to the Garden - Security guy / Johnny's friend (who let him in) calls Caprice -
They are playing a second sold out show - the house is transported by the music -

Johnny takes out gun - forces his way on stage - the lead singer / old time best friend stalls security / cops - passes Johnny a mike - Caprice walks into the Garden -

Johnny reads his last song - Warm Suicide - Caprice gets behind keyboard unseen by him - she starts playing the melody - somebody passes him a sax he starts blowing - badly but improving - (work in a priori doctor saying his lungs are fine - so we don't know why he can't play) - Floodlight on Caprice toasting "Good bye Johnny" out of a flask - She segues into "Hope for the Wretched" and starts singing - Johnny is blowing better than ever -
The music HAS to incorporate "The Pirate's Song" (the entire song.)

Ending:

1. to a standing ovation Johnny drops the gun and is taken into custody - Johnny and Caprice being interviewed on court house stairs - Newspaper / magazine covers with: "Johnny gets his wind back" "A wind named Caprice" etc...

2. The music lifts Johnny into the air - thunder lightning & electric effects - he fades into the rafters ... END CREDITS start
Switch to shot (from the back so the audience is not 100% sure it is the two of them) of Johnny and Caprice walking away into the rainy night holding his jacket over their heads

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