Friday, December 23, 2011

Wedding Reception Song and Dance Scene from the Native American Screenplay


Nokosee & Stormy: Love & Bullets is the sequel to Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole. The novels can be found on Amazon.com. Both are based on screenplays. This is the wedding reception in the swamp scene from the screenplay. Pregnant 18-year-old Stormy decides to dedicate a song to her new teenage husband Nokosee standing in a clearing at the foot of a chickee hut-cum-stage. Although the "New Seminole" (NS) are eco-terrorists and have rejected the "Outside," they have no problem using anything from the Outside they can use against it or anything that will make their lives easier living on-the-run in the swamp including solar energy devices to power their TVs, recharge their smart phones and electrify their rock band, The New Seminoles. The band, sheltered by the chickee hut, will back-up Stormy as she steps up to the mic. Once a blue-eyed, blond punk rock chic from Milltown, NJ, Stormy has transformed herself into a punk rock Indian princess with a Mohawk and feathered spears tattooed on each side of her head. Wearing "love paint" across her eyes and a Seminole vest with nothing under it, she has paired it with a metallic miniskirt she repurposed as a loincloth. She's got flowers in her Mohawk including the fabled Ghost Orchid pinned to hang from her hair just over her eyes where it forms a natural "heart." Feathers dangling from arm bands and deerskin knee-high boots decorated with more feathers, turquoise and silver medallions make her look like a dance contestant at one of the annual Native American Pow Wows.

STORMY
Nokosee, thanks for making me crazy. And pregnant.

Nokosee, looking up at her and smiling, turns away and laughs uneasily.

So do the NS gathered around him since they know Stormy hasn't been accepted by Nokosee's family.

Demaris Osceola, Nokosee's mother, shakes her head and rolls her eyes. She's sitting next to her husband Busimanolotome Osceola, the charismatic and quite crazy leader of the NS who sits rigid, revealing nothing. Their 14-year-old daughter Jerriragni is sitting next to him. She's the only one who likes Stormy and looks on with anticipation. The family, and most of the NS, are wearing the traditional Technicolor coat-dresses of the Seminole, a fashion not seen in a hundred years.

STORMY
And happy. This song's for you.

Stormy clicks off the mic on the stand, pushes the button on her wireless transmitter attached to her metallic loincloth and jumps down from the stage onto the dusty ground in front of Nokosee. She adjusts the small mic hanging off her ear curving toward her mouth and starts to sing A Group Called Smith's version of "Baby It's You."


Thumping Nokosee on his chest and looking up at him with unwavering heartfelt fearlessness, she sings with the same emotion 19-year-old Gayle McCormick did way back in 1969.

Demaris
Nokosee didn't stand a chance.

She looks at Busimanolotome. Tears are welling up in his eyes as he watches Stormy proclaim her love for his son, the First of the New Seminole.

Stormy starts pulling off Nokosee's Seminole jacket so she can see his muscles while she sings and dances around him.

During the bridge, Stormy starts hopping up and down and turning in circles Pow Wow style around Nokosee.

Hell, even the "toughest teenager in the world" is welling up.

When she's done, Nokosee grabs her up and gives her one long kiss.