More Famous Writers As Children

Consumer Reporter

THE LEMONADE STAND - BY QUENTIN TARANTINO (AGE 7)

EXT. FRONT YARD - DAY

A shoddy lemonade stand made out of hastily nailed plywood
stands in front of an even shoddier house, the WINFIELD
RESIDENCE. A '93 Acura Integra sits motionless in the
driveway. Behind the counter of the Lemonade stand, there is
an 8 year old white boy. He wears overalls with no shirt
underneath. Approaching the stand is a similarly aged young
Spanish boy, who is wearing a black Batman t-shirt. Their
names are DAVID WINFIELD (white) and JAMES RODRIGUEZ
(Spanish).

DAVID
Anybody coming?

JAMES
Not for blocks. I don't get this. I
really don't get this, David.

James begins to chow down on a RED APPLE.

DAVID
Oh yeah?

JAMES
(chewing)
I can't understand how we're
sitting out here in the scalding
goddamn heat, mixing this delicious
lemonade, and we can't seem to find
one customer to sample our wares.

DAVID
You want a coke?

JAMES
Yes, please.

David reaches under the lemonade stand, to open a personal
cooler.

INT. COOLER - DAY

The lid of the cooler OPENS UP, and David reaches in,
grabbing a cola beverage.

DAVID
Did you try to find some customers
at the park?

EXT. FRONT YARD - DAY

David hands James the cola beverage.

JAMES
That's exactly the thing. The park
is full to the brim of thirsty
children. All of them have
approximately zero dollars to their
name. Something real interesting
happened over there, though.

DAVID
Explain?

EXT. PARK - MOMENTS EARLIER

JAMES RODRIGUEZ is talking to a large group of young girls.
They are all barefoot. He notices a black boy on a swing-set.

JAMES (V.O.)
You think I wasn't about to do
that? So I'm working over this gang
of girls. Real saucy numbers, all
of 'em. But then I notice,
something to the tune of 10 yards
to my right, this nigger boy, on
the swing-set. And he certainly
wasn't swinging. He was sitting
there, looking into empty space. It
was then I noticed something
peculiar about this young nigger
boy, sitting there on the swings,
looking into space.

EXT. FRONT YARD - DAY

Continued.

DAVID
What was peculiar about this young
nigger boy, sitting there on the
swings, looking into space?

JAMES
He was holding something in his
hand. Know what he was holding in
his hand?

DAVID
What was he holding in his hand?

JAMES
His fucking dick. He was fucking
masturbating there in the middle of
the goddamn park, as the goddamn
children run around him.

DAVID
And what did you do?

JAMES
I came back.

END OF PART ONE